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TORTUANO, 8ATIRUAY, APRIL 4. 1B0.
THE I'KOBLbn OF DEMOCRACY.
Will municipal ownership of public
utilities be sueeessf ul ? Jt depends en
tirely on the character of the people,
:ind on the activity of honest and able
men in public affairs.
Note what lias happened in San
Krancisco. Note again what has hap
pened In Chicago: where the water
employes have robbed the city of im
mense sums.
It is not enough that democracy
should be better than autocracy, aris
tocracy, monarchy and olisrarchy. Jt
must be thoroughly honest. But to
work It lip to that point and keep it
there Is a labor indeed.
The main reason is that democracy
finds it as hard to get rid of favoritism
and of pi"fPi"s w''i fasten themselves
upon Government, as monarchy
and oligarchy have found it. Nay,
more difficult; for a single despot
could get rid of the person he wanted
to throw out. But a democracy often
finds it a more difficult undertaking;
for the "boss" has a "pull" on multi
tudes, who are attached to him by In
terests that are interwoven with the
whole, frame-work of the political
organization, and with its business in
terests, too.
Hut, it is easier to dislodge political
and party favorites, under democracy,
than under such government, for ex
ample, as that of Louis XV of France,
where the King and the Court were
everything: where the most potent
force in government was the King's
mistresses, and when one "Madame"
was out and another was to be chosen,
the nobility was vexed and felt itself
humiliated, because the King did- not
take his new mistress from their
ranks, but took Jeanne J'oisson, of
humble birih, and made her Madame
de Pompadour. But even this was a
triumph of democracy: for it helped
to bring on the Revolution.
The absolute necessity of de.mocrary
Is enforcement of honety and intelli
gence in government, and selection of
men who can he depended on for the
service. These mostly must come
from the htlmble and obscure classes;
for the so-called upper classes are dis
inclined to serve. They are willing
to take the A-hole Government and
"run" it; and then they will run it into
every kind of oppression, favoritism
and abuse. This has been the lesson
of aJl experience and history. Democ
racy Is open to the same or similar
abuses: for it runs into government
by managers, bosses, grafters and
favorites, who, however, may be more
easily dislodged than if their tenure
were held from the mistresses of
kings.
But democracy has Its faults and its
dangers. It is easily misled. Too
many of its members, moreover, are
self-seekers, and believe that graft Is
universal: therefore thev are entitled
to all they can extort from the public.
This, from the San Francisco Chroni
cle, is an expression of a sound Judg
ment, vir.: "The objection to municipal
ownership in the United States is based
on a disbelief that there would be either
competency or honesty in the manage
ment." Again, let it be said and re
peated, till It shall pass into the cur
rency of a proverb, that the success
of democracy depends on the charac
ter of the people. Here Is the problem
of democracy.
On second thought, the Trans-Faci-fic
Freight Bureau seems to have de
cided that a discrimination of tl per
ton against the Pacific Coast millers,
who had made possible establishment
of trans-Pacific lines, was ill-advised,
and they hastened to remove the ob
noxious differential. Low rates across
the Pacific quite naturally Increase the
profits of the wheaigrower, but when
they are used to the detriment of the
milling business, they are fully as
harmful to the farmer as they are to
the miller, for the milling industry is
steadily Increasing the price of wheat
In the Pacific Northwest. If the trade
is driven to China, where Orientals,
are employed In the mills, the advan
tages of a competitive milling demand
for wheat w-ill be lost to the farmers
who market their wheat at Portland
and Puget Sound.
POLITICAL, ALM-ANAC8.
During recent years Rev. H. L.
Barkley, Bishop of the Church of
United Brethren, has not been saying
much about politics, and perhaps do
ing less. Formerly he was very active
for a time, and once or twice was
elected to the Legislature. He was
professedly a Republican, but was
captivated by his own arguments for
free silver, which were as good as any
man ever made or could make, and
by his admiration of the brilliancy
displayed by Mr. Bryan in support of
that great article of economic, political
and financial philosophy free coinage
at the revealed ratio of sixteen to one.
Mr. Barkley Is an excellent speaker, a
good debater ready, nimble, argute:
and no one can wonder that he breaks
Into politics now and then. By it
Brother Barkley never brings the
cloth into disrepute,' for ho is a man
of unfailing good nature and always
talks interestingly without dropping
into uncharitable personalities about
hi opponents.
After long silence about politics Mr.
Barkley appears again, this time with
the prediction that "Senator Fulton
will win the nomination for United
States Senator at the primary election
April 17, Governor Chamberlain will
beat him at the polls In June, and the
Legislature, 65 per cfmt of which will
be Statement No. 1 men, vill elect
Chamberlain Senator." Of the possi
bility of such programme, or a simi
lar one, others besides Mr. Barkley
have entertained an idea a good while:
yet some have substituted the name of
Mr. Cake for Mr. Fulton; which, how
ever, would not materially alter the
programme.
No one knows betteT than Mr.
Barkley for he Is a goodobserver
that there Is no principle of loyalty to
party or coherency for common and
definite objects, among the Repub
licans of Oregon. This knowledge is
the basis of his political clairvoyance.
But it is somewhat common property.
Our Democratic brethren are acting
upon it, in nearly all parts of the
state, and in particular In Multnomah
County, where they have declined to
offer a party ticket, but haveregls
tered as Republicans, in order that
they may call for Republican tickets
when they go to the primary election,
so they may vote for Statement No. 1,
or (possible) Chamberlain Repub
licans. But, after all, this will not
tend to the abolition of party, for
Chamberlain will always be a bed
rock Democrat.
But It's very well. Why not? There
Is no need of any concern about It.
Only let us not start out to get one re
sult, and through blindness and blun
der, get another, and very different
one. Prophets have long been In dis
repute, more or less; but that has been
a consequence of prophets not follow
ing their proper function, which is not
to foretell particular events, but to deal
with moral questions and their conse
quences. We do not range Brother
Barkley with the prophets, therefore,
but classify him with the forecasters,
whose announcements are worth con
sideration, though they don't always
correctly foretell " the weather. This
year there will be an unusual number
of makers of political almanacs.
THF WHITMAN ENDOWMKNT.
The endowment fund of J2, 000. 000,
which It Is proposed to ralsefor Whit
man College at Walla Walla, looks
large to us because we are accustomed
to small things educationally In this
part of the world. Compared with
the resources of most of our colleges.
It is enormous. Compared with the
endowment of Stanford or the Uni
versity of Chicago It Is insignificant.
The zealous promoters of the project
to raise $2,000,000 for Whitman ex
claim that this sum would make their
college "the Tale of the" West." The
West does not want a Yale. It wants
a university adapted to conditions
fundamentally different from those of
the Atlantic seaboard. But If we de
sired ever so eagerly to reproduce
Connecticut's ancient and aristocratic
scat of learning, two million dollars
would not bring us very near the goal.
In 1905 the endowment of Tale, ac
cording to an eminent authority, was
$7,317,000 and a little more. Since
then it has received Mr. Rockefeller's
million and other contributions, which
probably bring the amount up to
$9,000,000.
The proposed endowment of 12,000,-
000 would not transform Whitman
into a second Tale, but It might easily
make the 'flourishing and vigorous
college at Walla Walla the best center
of instruction north of the California
line. Even with its present very mod
est income Whitman holds its own in
competition with the state schools at
Mocsow, Pullman, Seattle and Eugene.
It seems to exercise great attractive
power over students and exhibits a
principle of vitality which promise
great things for the future. We should
not be surprised If within a year or
two Whitman College actually raised
the two million dollars. Much
stranger and more discouraging feats
nave oeen accompusnea Dy colleges in
other, parts of the world. In these
times of vast benefactions to educa
tion a. little well-directed persuasion
ought to secure the sum without much
delay.
If the fund Is raised one may ven
ture to hope that the plan to spend
half of it on new buildings will not be
carried out. It Is a mistake for a col
lege to invest more money in build
ings than it absolutely must, though
the mistake is often made. It is not
uncommon to see a thrtftless school
which has spent all its funds upon
fine buildings and has nothing left
wherewith to pay Its professors and
furnish a library. The first thought
of a wise faculty is to invest every ob
tainable penny In productive securi
ties. Buildings should be erected out
of income, newr, if it can be avoided,
out of capital. Handsome college
structures housing a faculty of starv
ing professors present a spectacle of
folly which no future endowment
should be permitted to repeat. When
the teachers have been made comfort
able and the library supplied with
books and two orx three modest lab'
oratories fitted out with first-rate ap
paratus, then it Is time to think of
expensive halls and sumptuous
chapels.
The truth is that a college which
has made a name for itself, as Whit
man seems In a fair way to do, can
depend upon special gifts to pay- for
new buildings as it needs them. Peo
ple In general who have money to
bestow like better to put it into a
dormitory, chapel or library, which
can bear the name of the donor, than
to merge it Into the general college
fund. Buildings come vastly easier
than books, apparatus and professors'
salaries. Hence, the college adminis
tration ought to seize eagerly upon
every cent It can beg or borrow, and
sink it without delay In the irreducible
productive endowment, trusting to be
reaved widows and kindly plutocrats
to erect -whatever buildings may be
needed from time to time. A well
paid faculty will do better teaching
In an old barn than a lean and hungry
horde of shivering professors can do
In a palace.
But fine buildings, it will be replied.
have great advertising value. What
do they advertise? Themselves and'
nothing else. Nobody can tell from
Its buildings what kind of teaching a
college does any more than he can tell
from a woman's gowns what her char
acter is. The only thing of any con
sequence in a school is the Instruction
it gives ant the influence that goes
with Instruction. This must speak for
itself. Magnificent paJaces can not
vouch for it. Neither numbers of
students nor athletic glory nor famous
specialists can make good its absence.
Most colleges are advertised too much.
An undue proportion of their energy
Is spent In attracting new students.
More of it should be consumed ' for
those who are already there. Facul
ties are Hike the big insurance com
panies, which deplete their funds to
obtain new business, while the old is
neglected. The Ideal seat of learning
is a college with not too many stu
dents and a large corps of instructors.
It is a place where the student can
come under the influence of strong
teachers year after year until they
have developed his soul In virile
thought and noble aspiration. "Book
learning " deserves all the contempt
which it receives from practical men.
It Is easy to get, easy to lose, and
worthless unless the possessor has
learned how to use it from contact
with living masters. We trust, there
fore, that Whitman will not try to be
a big college until bigness is forced
upon It, but will strive rather for that
excellence which Is measured by qual
ity inetead of quantity.
MISLEADING STATISTIC.
The subdued nature and Innate
modesty of a large number of Port
land people are reflected every day in
the city statistics. Perusal of these
statistics makes it decidedly noticeable
that the only time some of our people
seem to have a regard for accuracy is
In giving the age of persons who hve
died. It is, of course, of no great in
terest or value to the public to see
on the records that a marriage license
has been issued to John Smith, "over
twenty-one," or Jane Brown, "over
eighteen;" but we should like to see
building permits and real estate trans
fers recorded at approximalely their,
true value. Mention has frequently
been made of our grotesque local
regulations and charges for Issuing
building permits on a "valuation
basis, instead of at a flat rate, but our
contractors continue to take out $1000
permits for J2000 buildings, Jl'OOO
permits for $4000 buildings, and so
on throughout the scale.
The real estate transfers for Thurs
day, as printed In yesterday's Ore-
gonlan, reached the very satisfactory
total of $223,031, but even that figure
does not approximate the actual cash
value for which the property was sold.
Modestly sandwiched In between an
$8000 and a $35,000 transfer In yes
terday's Oregonlan was one for $10.
Of course It helped to Rwell the total,
and without it intending investors
from Los Angeles, Seattle or any other
up-to-date city would have noted that
our transfers were but $223,021. And
yet the property represented by that
insignificant $10 item was sold and
deeded to the new owner for a consid
eration of $20,000 cash.
There was a number of other trans
fers In which the consideration was
given as from $1 to $10. Had the
proper valuation been given, the total
on the day's business would have run
well about $250,000. This practice of
concealing our business Is misleading
to strangers who compare the totals
with those of other cities whose in
habitants are unafraid ofmaking too
favorable a showing. It would be in
teresting to know why this misrepre
sentation of values is continued. It
surely cannot be that the Assessor Is
deceived by it, and assesses $20,000
lots at $10 because that Is the only
consideration which may come under
his notice.
A DAUGKKOrS DRIR.
It appears that little Albert Clarke
was. undergoing an operation for the
removal of adenoids when he died
from the effect of the chloroform
which the doctors had piven him to
produce anaesthesia. For such sim
ple operations upon children careful
physicians do not as a rule like to use
chloroform, since it is well known that
the drug is dangerous. Ether is much
preferred. Indeed many physicians
dislike to administer chloroform
even to adults, for the peril which
may attend its use Is always present
when there is the slightest defect in
the heart's action.
Sometimes these defects are latent
and cannot be detected by ordinary
tests. In such a case the patient un
der the influence of chloroform will
suddenly show signs of collapse in
spite of every precaution and death
may follow Immediately. Physicians
have certain expedients to which they
resort when a patient manifests dan
gerous symptoms under chloroform,
but unless the heart is sound thev are
all liable to fall.
No doctor who values his reputation
ever thinks of administering chloro
form to a patient, either young or old.
without making at least a mechanical
examination of the heart; but the re
sult of such a test is uncertain. Of
course, there are ways of detecting
almost every possible cardiac weak
ness, but some of them are tedious
and require expert knowledge. It is
hardly putting the matter too strongly
to say that in the present state' of
medical science a person who submits
to chloroform imperils his life. The
chances are, of course, that he will
return to consciousness unharmed, but
still he may not. There is a risk, and
while the number of deaths from the
drug Is not very great, yet It is great
enough to make patients cautious and
cause physicians to exercise extreme
care. Perhaps the death, of Albert
Clarke was unavoidable, but his
friends can hardly help feeling that If
the physicians had administered ether
Instead of chloroform he might still
be alive.
A new York dispatch says that
'there was little surprise expressed In
any quarter" over the announcement
that Mrs. Alfred vanderbllt had sued
her husband for divorce. Neither Is
It a surprise to the country at large
to learn that there was so "little sur
prise" expressed In New Tork. Mar
riage and divorce, with the attendant
scandal, have become sp much part
and parcel or life among the Idle rich
in gay Manhattan that respectable
people, with regard for the sacredness
of the marriage tie, long ago ceased to
express astonishment over any dis
closure made regarding Manhattan
morals. The disreputable foreigners
who land on our shores are not the
only "undesirables" whose deportation
would be of positive benefit to the
country.
William J. Bryan has great ora
torical power. Not Indeed so great
as that of Henry Clay but great.
Clay, however, never sard anything
worth remembrance. Neither does
Bryan. Nobody ever consults Clay's
speeches, or quotes them. Bryan
makes no speech that will be quoted
fifty, or even twenty, years hence.
Oratory Is a gift; It Is histrionic ac
tion; It doesn't depend at all on the
worth or weight of the matter, but on
the manner of delivery. The great
orations of history never had any
auditors. But they are read, through
all ages. Clay said nothing; Bryan
says nothing. But Clay could set peo
ple wild; and so can Bryan; In less
degree.
There la no need whatever of party.
That Is the order of the day. You
don't need to vote In the primary for
Cake or for Fulton, or for one man
or another for the Legislature, or for
the House of Representatives in Con
gress, because he's a party man. Cut
'em all out. Let's have a scrub race
on- candidates, without regard to
party. It's disreputable, under the
new dispensation, to profess attach
ment to party, or to have any political
principles. All this has been super
seded by the new light. It's been
coming for years; and that's the rea
son why The Oregonian withdrew, and
now tarries' at a distance, overlooking
the scene from the Delectable Moun
tains. There is no present objection to use
of the water of Bull Run, below the
city's Intaket by the Mount Hood
Railway & Power Company, or by
any other concern. The objection is
that after their power plant shall have
been established, and the city shall
find It necessary to take out more
water, as it surely will, these users
below will complain of the diminution
of their supply and hold the city up for
big money or forbid the diversion of
the water above. Before the city shall
grant any rights, this matter should
be settled by written stipulations of
the closest kind.
One of our fossils, a relic of a long
past age, quotes Daniel Webster
against The Oregonian. The idea, in
these new times, of quoting Webster
for or against anything! The new
spirit of these progressive times will
not have It. Even C. E. S. Wood says
he Is "not much In sympathy with any
generation being in bonds to the
dead." Yet we are grieved to see
him carry up to the court-room old
tomes, from which he reads prece
dents, to hold our progressive society
chained to the body of that death.
Weeks ago The Oregonian showed
how utterly unfit the Aldrlch currency
bill is, and gave the reasons why It
should not pas. But It has passed
the Senaie, and now the commercial
and industrial organizations of New
York and other Eastern cities "are
holding meetings to protest against it,
and sending resolutions to the House
which declare that there would better
be no currency legislation than this.
With the National banks of Chicago
opposing the Aldrich bill and the New
York Chamber of Commerce against
all measures, the people must look to
themselves for financial relief in
crises. This is precisely where we
started and where we shall always
stand. Congress cannot make a law
compelling scared depositors to put
their money back. Banks must wait
until the scare Is over.
In every county men are announcing
themselves, through the local papers,
as Republican candidates for divers,
sundry and various offices, but hardly
any as Democratic candidates. After
sn election or two more, men will not
he so anxious to obtain Republican
nominations. The new system will
fix 'em.
Two immense business blocks, one
to cost $400,000, the other twice as
much, round out unprecedented March
building operations in Portland. It is
gratifying in this connection to note
that a daily average of fifteen permits
for homes costing $1500 to $3000
keeps up steadily.
Miss Helen Gould has had to curtail
her list of benevolences, owing to the
financial stress; but Madame Anna
goes right ahead with her philan
thropic scheme for the improvement
of the material welfare of all appli
cants from the impecunious French
nobility.
At the Democratic love-feast in
Salem, our distinguished townsman,
Frederick Holman, urged not only
Statement No. 1, but the election of a
Democratic Legislature as well.
What's the use of a Democratic Legis
lature If we are to have Statement
No. 1?
Says a Portland banker exultantly:
"Oregon is not in bondage to the
East." Nor to any other point of the
compass. Our only bondage is right
here at home, and that in a limited
way to the late W. S. ITRen.
Mr. Vard'aman, of Mississippi, says
that Mr. Bryan, of Nebraska, is
"thrilled with a cosmic oneness."
Shouldn't wonder. But not slxteen-to-oneness",
this year.
Declaration of the usual quarterly
dividend of 1 per cent by the North
ern Pacific shows how hard the trans
continental lines were hit by the panic.
It may be regarded as certain that
President Paul Morton didn't get that
ptomaine poisoning from handling
tainted Insurance money.
SALKM HORSE SHOW ALL READY
Best llorseflesh In Northwest to Be
Exhibited for Cups or Prizes.
SALEM, Or., April 3. (Special.) Two
hundred of the best horses in the North
west will be lined up in the parade of
the Salem horses how at 10 o'clock to
morrow morning. Present Indications
are that one of the biggest crowds ever
gathered in Salem will be here to wit
ness the exhibition. The event will be
an important one in the affsirs of this
part of the state, for it will not only
demonstrate what horse breeders have
been dotnir for the livestock industry In
recent years, but will also-arouse a more
widespread Interest in good hossoflesh.
Realizing the value of this exhibition of
horses, the business men of Salem con
tributed $500 in cash premiums and 50
silver cups and other articles as prizes
to be awarded. No entry fee will be
charged.
The parade will start from the corner
of Court and Liberty streets at 10 A. M..
and will traverse the principal streets.
C. W. Yannke will be marshal of the
day. Premiums will be awarded as soon
after the parade as possible and at 3
o'clock there will be a parade of prize
winners. S. S. Bailey, of Seattle, and
Dr. James Withytrombe, of Corvallis,
will make the awards.
V. W. C A. CONVENTIOX BEGINS
Over 175 Delegates Fresent at Eu
gene From the Xorthwest.
UNIVERSITY' OF OREGON, Eugene,
Or., April 3. (Special.) The thirteenth
annual convention of the Y. W. C A. of
the Northwest opened this morning at
the University. Over 175 delenates are In
attendance from different educational in
stitutions of Oregon and Idaho. The day
sessions are held in VUlard Hall and to
day's programme there included the fol
lowing talks: Miss Frances Gage, on
"The Beatitudes and tne 20th Century ";
"Bible Study," by Dr. William F. Co
hum, of New York; President P. I Camp
bell. "Place of the Association In College
Life"; Miss Valentine Pritchard. -Settlement
Work": Mrs. Jessie M. Honey
man, of Portland, "Social Economics."
Tonight in the Methodist Church, Df.
Benjamin F. Young, pastor of the Taylor
street Methodist Church, of Portland,
spoke on "The Man of Nazareth." Miss
Francis Gage followed him with a talk
on "National and State Work," which
also was well received. The convention
will last until Sunday night. More dele
gates are expected tomorrow.
CARPENTER IS ELECTROCUTED
Holding Cable That Hits High Volt
age Wlres Body Burned Black.
COLFAX. Wash., April (Special.)
William 9. Jamieson. aged about 28 years,
home unknown, a bridge carpenter with
the C. M. & St. P., was electrocuted at
Rosalia Thursday afternoon. Jamieson
had been working on a trestle which
crosses the Spokane Inland Electric Line
when the accident occurred. He was
on the ground holding a cable wire, which
reached the trestle above the Inland
wires.
While baoking with the cable he became
entangled in thS wire and fell, the cable
struck the electric wires and BOO volts
passed through his body, burning it black.
His lingers snd feet were burned off.
Coroner Crawford, of Colfax, tnok charge
of the body. Several pictures taken at
Lindsay, Ontario, were in his possession,
also a credit slip for $2S9.50 on the Bank
of Montreal, of Spokane.
YARDS SHUT OFF CLOSES MILL
Wilson Bros.' Mill at Aberdeen Has
Been Idle for Month.
ABERDEEN. Wash., April 3. (Spe
cial.) Work at the Union and Amer
ican Mills will be resumed Monday,
after a suspension for two months.
The Wilson Brothers' Mill has been
closed for a month, owing to peculiar
conditions. During the engineers'
strike the mill was run at its full ca
pacity and there being no steamers the
docks became congested. Now, owing
to the location of the Wilson Brothers
vards In San Francisco, the repair of
a bridge' has shut them oft from'
trsftic. Inasmuch ns steamers cannot
get to the yards the congestion here
cannot be relieved, hence It was neces
sary to close the mill.
CHILD IS BCRXED TO DEATH
Little Boy Sets Fire to Baby Sister,
AVho Is Tied In Hlfrh Chair.
BROWNSVILLE, Or.. April 3. (Spe
cial.) The 2-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Tra TTull was so severely
burned at the family home near Craw
fnrrtsville yesterday morning that she
died soon after. The child, together with
her 4-year-old brother, were left In the
house while the mother went to the
barn. . During her absence the boy ob
tained some paper and. setting it on
flro from the stove, in some way Ignited
the dress of his HtUe sister, who wtis
tied In a hlghchair. When the mother
rushed to the scene the clothing of the
child was burned off. The little one
suffered great agony until death.
BOTH SIDES STAXDIf3 FIRM
Shingle-Weavers and Manufacturers
at Raymond Still at Outs.
RAYMOND. Wash.. April 3. (Special.)
TJo settlement has yet been reached be
tween the local shingle-manufacturers and
the striking shingle-weavers. Over 100
men are affected and three mlllB are
closed. The mlllowners are searching for
nonunion crews and say they will resume
operations sometime next week. The
manufacturers say that the present price,
of shingles is lower than the cost of
manufacturing and that it Is necessary
to reduce wages from the 1907 scale to
that of 1906, a reduction of about 12 per
cent, in order to make expenses. The
weavers are firm and are hopeful of win
ning the fight.
XORMAL STCDEXT'S FORTUXE
Falls Heir to $ 1 05,000 Will Con
tinue Course In School.
WESTON. Or.. April 3 (Special.) W.
W. Scales, a normal sophomore, is heir
to a fortune of Jlofi.AOO, this being his
share of an uncle's estate. Mr. Scales has
just returned from Rosehurg, where the
affairs of the estate were settled after
being in litigation, and has received his
legacy. He has decided to remain at the
normal and complete the course.
Mines Discharge Men.
JACKSONVILLE. Or., April 3.
(Special.) The Blue Ledge Copper
Mines, 40 miles southwest of Jackson
ville, have discharged 100 men. leav
ing 15 at work. This Is due. it is said,
to financial conditions in the East and
also to the fact that no further de
velopment can be done until a smelter
Is built The property Is looking well.
$60,000 Raised for Hotel.
THE DALLES, Or.. April 3. Spe
cal.) The citizens . committee has to
day completed the task of raising $60,
00ft, fhe amount requisite for the con
struction of a new modern hotel. The
subscribers met tonight to organize a
corporation as the initial step in the
enterprise.
COMPAVY IX GOOD CXJXpiTIOX
Oregon City Soldier Boys to Cele
brate Anniversary With Smoker.
OREGON CITY, Or., April 3. (Special.)
Company G, Third Regiment, Oregon
National Guard, Is arranging for the
celebration of the first anniversary of its
organization, and will give a smoker Mon
day evening. May 11. The company Is In
better shape than at any time since It
was organized, and there has been no
change in Its commissioned officers. In
indoor target practice, scores of 42 ittit
43 have been made out of a possible &0.
The equipment of Krag-Jorgenson rifles
Is being exchanged for the new Spring
fields. The company is going to tlm
maneuvers at American Lake, along with
the National Guard of Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho and Montana, and the Unit
ed States troops. Corporal Gaylord
Godfrey has been promoted to Junior
sergeant, passing the highest-examina
tion of any of the candidates. CJuartet-
master Sergeant Isador Price has been
transferred to The Dalles.
MEDFORD BOXDS FOR WATER
Majority of 373 for Isstte Results.
Hard Work Done.
MEDFORD. Or.. April 3. (Special.)
The city bond issue for the acquisition
of a water right and construction of a
pipeline to conduct water to this city
from Wasson Creek Spring, at the base
of ML Pitt, 18 miles distant from Med
ford. was voted upon today, resulting in
a majority of 373 In favor of the Issue.
Medford's promoters and boosters for a
greater Medford began early this morn
ing to get busy and by noon Indications
were proving that the. good and true cut
zens hfld an eye for the future welfare
of Medford. The bond Issue will beof
the denominations of $10,000 each, to be
disposed of as needed as the work of
construction advances.
RAILROADS
TO RETALIATE
Examine Kecords to 'Find AYtiat
X Farm Property Is Taxed.
SPOKANE, Wash.. April 3. (Special.)
Fop months the Northern Pacific haa
had a Rents examining the county records
for valuation and taxation of farm prop
erty along Us rifcht-of-Tvay in Eastern
"Washington -counties, to lay the founda
tion for a battle- to escape a portion of
the increased burden which the State
Tax Oommis&ion purposes to lay upon
the railroad. It finds farm lands that
pell for $5J an acre, or upon which loans
of $35 an acre are made, taxed at $13 an
acre. The railroad will demand either
that its assessment be redured .or that
the assessment on farms be raised.
T.ane County Fair.
EUGENR, Or.', April 3. The I-ane
County Agricultural Society filed its
articles of incorporation today, the In
corporators being: Albert Hampton,
Henry HoMpnbeck and David Link. This
is thfl organization that has been at work
for some time petting organized and
securing a fair site in the Huddleton
Addition In southwest Kupene. The
capital stock is $49,000, each share beinx
?300. "Work will begin on the new grounds
early in the Spring.
Lane Socialists Nominate.
RI'GENE, Or., April 3. (Special.) The
Lane County Socialists held an ail-dfty
convention here today. H. M. Manvllle
was chosen chairman of the convention
and E. C. Cole secretary. A full county
ticket was placed In the field. The
meeting was addressed by J. B. Osborne
and Mrs. Jessie Myers. On the county
ticket Mrs. Jessie Myers -was nominated
for County School Superln ten dent. Over
100 Socialists were in attendance from all
parts of Lane County.
Wants to Witfen Street.
MONTKSANO, "Wash.. April S (Spe
cial.) The City of Montesano haa tiled
suit In the Superior Court against the
property owners on both sides of Main
street, in this city, for a strip of land 10
feet wide. The city claims this strip of
land through the original deed of gift
whn the town was first laid out, hut that
it had never been used when the streets
were laid out. W, H. A hie is counsel
for the city and B. G. Cheney for the
property owners.
Coeur d'Aleno Allotments.
BPOK.ANB. Wash.. April 3. (Special.)
On the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, a few
ijriles from Tekoa. Wash., the first allots
luents In severally on the fajnous Coeur
D'Alene Indian Reservation were made
yesterday. The chief of the tribe semred
the flr.st allotment. The work will he
long-drawn out, as all the lands must be
surveyed and papers drawn up.
On Mine That Pays.
SPOKANE. Wash., April 3. (Specie! )
With the payment tomorrow of divi
dend No. 127, the Runker Hill & Sulli
van Mining & Concentrating Company,
the mines of which are at Wardner,
Idaho, in the Coeur d'Alnes, has paid
to its stockholders $tnno,ono. The divi
dends paid since January 1 total $255,000.
STERLING BILL IS AMEXDED
House Committee Reverse Itself on
Negligence Clause.
WASHINGTON. April 3. The Ster
ling employers' liability bill, to which,
in an amended form, the House judi
ciary committee agreed last Wednes
day by a vote of 10 to 7. was re
amended today, that committee by a
vote of 11 to reversing itself. It
was not a, party vote. Seven Demo
crats combined with four Republicans
to make up the majority ballot.
The clause amended today is that
relating to contributory negligence.
Last Wednesday the committee amend
ed the clause so as to conform with
the La Follette bill in Its original
form.
Today the committee changed the
section, so as to read that "contribu
tory negligence," instead of "slight"
contributory negligence, shall not be
a bar to recovery, but the jury shall
apportion tbe negliirpnce of the em
ployers and of the employes and allow
the employe such sum of money as
shall be in proportion to the ratio
which his negligence bears to the
negligence of the employer.
Representative Littlefield (Maine),
Parker (New Jersey) and Bannon
(Ohio) will file a minority report de
claring the section as amended today
to be unconstitutional.
REPORT ELKIXS KESOLdTlOX
Committee Recommends Suspension
Commodity Clause to 20 Month.
WASHINGTON. April 3. The Seriate
committee on Interstate commerce today
voted unanimously to report the Elklns'
resolution to suspend the commodity
clause of the present interstate commerce
law, but the time when the clause will
take effect was changed to January 1.
1910. making the extension 20 months
instead of two years.
The committee today received a letter
from the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion approving the resolution.
Advertising Talks
No. 6
CATO'S FOLLOW-UP
SYSTEM
By Herbert Kaufman
If a man lambasted you on the ptsj
and walked away and wnitpd a week
before he repeated the performance,
he wouldn't hurt you very b;ully. Be
tween attacks you would have an op
portunity to recover from the effeut
of the first blow.
But if he smashed you and kept
mauling, each impact of. his fist would
find you less able to stand the ham
mering, and half a dozen jabs would
probably knock you down.
Xow, advertising is. after all, a
matter of hitting the eye of the pnb
lie. If yon allow too great an inter
val to elapse between insertions of
copy, the effect of the first advertise
ment -will have worn away by the time
you hit again. You may continue
your scattered talks over a stretch of
years, but you will not derive the
same benefit that wnnld resuit from
a greater concentration. In other
words, by appearing in print every
day you are able to pet the benefit of
the impression created the day before,
and as each piece of copy makes its
appearance the result of your pub
licity on the reader's mind is more
pronounced you mustn't stop short
of a knock-dow n impression.
Persistency is the foundation of ad
vertising success. Regularity of in
sertion is just as important as clever
phrasing. The man who hangs on is
the man who wins out. Calo the El
der is an example to' every merchant
who uses the newspapers and should
be an inspiration to every storekeep
er who does not. For 20 years he
arose daily in the Roman Senate and
cried out for the destruction of Car
thnge. In the beginning he fonnd his
confreres very unresponsive. But, h
kept on every day, montjh after month
and year after year, sinking into the
minds of all the necessity of destroy
ing Carthage, until he set all the Sen
ate thinking upon the subject, and in
the end Rome sent an array across tbi
Mediterranean and ended the reign of
the Hannibals and Hamilears over
Northern Africa. The persistent ut
terances of a single man did it.
The history of every mercantile suc
cess is parallel. The advertiser who
does not let a day slip by without
having his say is hound to be heard
and have his influence felt. Every
insertion of copy brings stronger re
turns, because it has the benefit of
what has been said before, until the
public's attention is like an eye that,
has been so repeafedly struck that thn
least touch of suggestion will feel like
a blow.
Copyright. !.
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Xrhrnska nulnmia Han One Card
Which He Thinks Will win.
WashlnKton Dispatch to the Brooklyn;
EsKle.
"I have heen told," sa-ld a. prominent
Democratic politician, "that William
JenniiiRs Bryan has an miplayed card
up his sleeve on which he Is depending
for election, provided he is nominated fir
the Presidency. I further understand
that the final trick with which Bryan
hopes to win the Presidential same Is
strong prohihilion plank In the Demo
cratic platform.
I am Inclined to think that thre Is
something In this story. Only those who
travel aliout the country a good deal and
are close ohservcrs of the trend of sen
timent can appreciate the force of th
great temperance wave that is sweeping
over the nation. I think without doubt
it is the greatest moral movement of the
day. 1 can easily understand how it
might be made the leading campaign Is
sue In fact, the determining Issue of
the. Presidential campaign.
"Mr. Rryan Is peculiarly well fitted
to make a fight for National prohibition
by reason of his well-known temperate
habitd. The sentiment against the un
restricted sale of Intoxicating Honors is
spreading over the country like a prairie
fire.
"I have heard It asserted by competent
authorities that. Indiana, Ohio, Illinois:
and even Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
could be earrled by Rryan on a. prohibi
tion platform. This seems like queer
rea-soning to many persons who do not
know of the tremendous feeling that has
been developed on this subject In these
communities."
HE NEVER B l AM EI) BO07.I
fFTInted by Request )
He fitek a bottle up to bed.
Drank whisky hot each night;
lrank eerktafls in the morning.
But never rotlld get tight.
Jit phfverd In the evening.
And always bad the blue
Until he took a bowl or two
But he never blamed the boon.
His JNlnts were full of rheumatiz:
His appetite was slack:
He had pains between the shoulder;
Chills ran down tils bark.
He sutTered wlh Insomnia:
At night be routdn't sneers.
He said it was the climate
But he never blamed the booze.
Hts ronstitutlon was run down
(It was overwork, he said);
His legs were swelled eaeh mom'ns.
And he often had ewelleo head..
He tackled teer. wine, whisky.
And If they didn't fuse
He blamed It on dyspepsia
But he never blamed the booze.
He claimed he. hardly slept at nig
And always had bad dreams;
He claimed he often 'ay awake
Till ea.rly sunrise beams.
He thought It was malaria
Alas! 'twas but a ruse.
He blamed it on most everything
But he never blamed the booze.
His liver tieeded scraping.
And his kidneys had the gout;
He swallowed lots of bitters,
Till at last he cleaned them out.
His legs were awelled with dropsy.
Till he had to cut his shoes;
He blamed It on the doctor
But he never blamed the booze.
Then he had the tremens,
And he tackled Tats and snakes;
First he had the fever.
Then he hart tbe shakes.
At last he had a funeral.
And. to give him his Just dues.
The epitaph carved for him was-
"H never blamed tha booze.'