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Fall argams New goods now in ' for fall and we offer special induce ments to early shoppers. Prices 36-incH half wool dress goods. All the feading col ors suitable for school wear etc. . 32 c Yard Two-Piece Tailored suits in all sizes for ladies and misses. Ex tra values offered now at. ' $25.00 Muslin Of all pillow prices Silks kinds, tubing, Sheeting, etc., at Very Low Complete stock of new, fall silks. Good quality Messa line, 27 inches wide, all shades, . $1.00 Yard Embroider Materials of every kind,, full line of Corticella .wash embroidery silks, 6 skeins 25c Linen Waists, plain tailored, stiff collars and cuffs. $1.50 We Fit CORSETS By JAMES A. EDGERTON. TONGRESS may have adjourned - and the president may have gone to Beverly, but the Coun try is not left without midsum mer topics. We yet have Mr. Glfford Pinchot and Mr. Richard Achilles Bal linger. who have put on the ' official gloves and will favor us with a few rounds to let us know that the gov ernment still lives; otherwise we might have concluded that It had gone a vacation along with its chief of ficials..- .- A- Mr. Pinchot is our head tree planter add' knows more "about forestry than Willis Moore thinks he knows about the weather. " Pinchot did not write "Woodman. Spare That Tree,", but might have done so if George P.. Mor had not beat 'him to it Pinchot has done more than write a poem. He has made forestry an applied science this land 'that never' did know what do with a piece of woodland except clear it off. He has taught us that the presence or absence of forests de termines the rain supply. In fact, he has made us look upon the tree as a friend and brother, not a mere awning or "'ornament'; Many people have re ed him as the most useful, man in the world.. That is what Roosevelt used to think when he wanted to play tennis .and could not find any other available partner.' . - Mr. .- Pinchot was always ready to take a band at the game and thus became a far shining figure in white flannels in the "tennis cabinet" He " has plenty of money and thus can afford to hold office In Washington. He has many other dis tinctions. " such as being an expert angler and a mighty hunter. Or per- THE WIS SHOP F. L. MILLER ' 142 Second Street Sister's Academy Opens Sept. 7th The Academy of Our Lady of "Perpetual Help will re-open on September 7th. "By means of the new addition and the remodeling of the building the school is now -equipped ; with all modern im provements, and with a corps -competent teachers may be de pended upon to do thorough work "both in the grades and high school -course.- -" For particulars apply to Sister Superior, 225 West Ninth, St -Albany, Oregon. 8-19 to 9-19. For Sale (Goal -farm of 161 acres; Twenty five acres of oak timber, ballance level and fine bottom land, 100 acres in cul -tivation,' remainder number one pas- .ture. Fair house and out buildings, torchard, two good wells also running -water. Two miles N. W. of Monroe, 1 1-4 miles'- of R. RJ' station, store, .school and church; on R. F. D; If sold by Oct. 1st $40 per acre. - A good bargain. Address .' . E. W. Howard, . S-20-w tf ' Brownsville, Ore. mi n pi Succeed when everything else faSsi in nervous prostration and female weaknesses tney are the supreme remedy, as thousands have testified. FOR KIDNEY. LIVER AND C STOMACH TROUBLE it' is the best medicine ever sold over a druggist's counter. 1 1 Of AND iiiin Impressions of the Two Principals, Who Differ as to the Method of Conserving America's ' Natural Resources: Side lights on the Controversy Involv. Ing the Chief . of. the Forestry, Bureau and the Secretary . of the' Interior. - one hand, and. on the other, a large collection of amiable gentlemen with greedy eyes and yawning pocketbooks. It was about this time that the gov ernors foregathered in Washington at the call of President "Roosevelt and de cided to take a hand in the conserving game. So they made speeches, adopted resolutions and appointed a commis sion with Mr; Pinchot at its head. Since that proud day the natural re sources of the country' have been able to sleep nights without the harrowing fear that they ' would be kidnaped be fore morning. In addition to alt his other " activities Mr. Plncliot was 'made a member, of the " country life commission, which went about 'asking questions of the American farmer and then returned and "told him what was" the matter with 1 him.-' It was ; this commission which made Uncle Joe Cannon grow real' sarcastic and say things that caus ed glee in the hearts of the scoffers and snickers on the back, benches. The only sort of "uplift" that Uncle Joe ever 'practiced is that of the front end of his cigar. ';;- , - Ballinger Once a Cowboy. Mr. Ballinger; the other end of this difficulty, has lived pretty much all over the face of the country. At one time he was a cowboy in Kansas' and rode seventy miles every week to recite -Latin. At an earlier age he was at the front with hfs father, who was colonel of a negro regiment.' The boy, though only five or six years old. was sur plied with a drum made out of a fig box. on which be hammered aWay for liberty. ; I-:'-' . After the iwar the elder Ballinger became a country editor in Illinois J-- , .iM wft3H-L'c' M PRINCIPALS IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER CONSERVING NAT URAL RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES. haps it is not strictly proper to speak of other Nimrods as "mighty hunters" since Bwana Tumbo got iuto the game.- Not wishing to be guilty-of leze majesty,' I withdraw the adjec tive and leave- it in solitary state upon the shoulders where it obviously and exclusively belongs.: Anyway. Mr. Pinchot is a hunter and has trophies nailed up all over the premises. . ; ' Father of Conservation Movement. More important than all, Pinchot has taught us how 'to conserve'.-' Now; the chief difference between him and Bal linger seems to be that the secretary of the" interior also wants to conserve. but be wants to be nice and legal about it,' while Pinchot doesn't give a hang how'" he 'conserves '"so long as' he does it' That shows that he was not a member vt the- Roosevelt -"tennis abfc net in vain. He saw the way his for mer chief did things and got the habit. Ballinger also was a membe'r' of "the "tennis cabinet' but he was a lawyer still eartterr which eomewfaat Tieutral ized the effects of that inspiring and perspiring experience. It is hard to teach'-on old lawyer new tricks, 'for the reason that he knows them all. Pinchot had nothing to restrain" him, and when he' got to conserving did it for all he was worth. -r .". President "Roosevelt said that Pin chot - started .tlhe conservation move ment,: and' that is glory enough to make a small man swell up. But Pin chot did not Swell. He' simply1 went oh conserving. He conserved hot only the forests, but' the water and the coal and everything else that he could .find that needed it and that had not been gobbled up by the trusts. This threw several kinds of rage into the lumber barons, the timber tbievfes, the coal trust, the power pirates and va rious other1 z malefactors of great Wealth r who wanted to " grab off the "natural resources of the country and sell them by the bushel., It left Pin chot standing all alone between the defenseless timber lands, coal lands and water sites of the nation, on the -and was appointed a postmaster. Those were the glad -and happy :days when "rival editors called each other horse' thieves, skunks; wind bags and other amiable names; and it was Colo nel Ballinger's proud :duty one day to kick his loathsome contemporary out of the ' post office. Young - Richard Achilles learned to set type; sell pa pers and tend sheep. Then he went to Kansas ' and ' besides punching cattle beca me " a clerk" and ' earned enough money to take him to college, i First he attended" the state university; but pn advice of John J. Ingalls went to Williams, from which he graduated at the age of twenty-sir.' In the class behind him was James ' R. Garfield, his" predecessor as secretary of j the interior.- : : ' Returning to Illinois, he Studied law, as his father had done before him. the elder Ballinger having read, with Abraham Lincoln. When admitted to thenar the young man went to Ala bama and started practice, but after few" years returned and hung' out his shingle to Washington and finally went to the State of Washington. There he became" judge of 'the Superior courtj.United States court commission er,1 mayor 'of Seattle anct finally com mlssioner of the" general land office at Washington. It was Garfield that' got hint" 'Into the last named Job, Jand ' Bal linger accepted against his wishes" He told President Roosevelt a story of his cowboy experiences in Kansas, which related' to three" rattlesnakes' be bad dispatched 'on ' the prairie 'one night before he could go to sleep. ' Roose velt convinced him that there were some snakes to kill in the land office, and that induced him to accept the place. - He held it inlf onei year, : but during that time he thoroughly reor ganized the office. His ' motto then and" probably now was, "I hate snake'." While 'mayor of Seattle Me Ballin ger concluded the town was too wool ly even for the wild west, so he took off some of the hair. Those were the Klondike , days, and everything was wide open. . Mayor Ballinger not only : closed the worst of the dives, but made Seattle a model city." HlB life was" threatened often, but that Is 'a tribute offered every man who does real work.. Ballinger's life was threat ened in Alabama also by a "colonel" who wanted to pull- a gun on him and was made to desist only by a little judicious choking. The secretary of the interior does not like to have these old 'Stories told of him now. it is Bald. But why did he get into the cabinet if he did not want to be. talked about? ' " v-,. The Point at Issne. Having introduced the two princi pals jn the "mill." it may be as well to tell, what the row Is all about Prima rily it is over one of the Roosevelt poli cies. Just before the ex-president left Office he withdrew nearly a. million acres of timber and water site lands from public entry; The ostensible rea son was to preserve the forests, but the real purpose was to protect the. water power sites on a portion of this domain. : Hardly had. Secretary Ballin ger entered office than be again threw th?s land open to entry., Mr. Pinchot thereupon appealed to President Taft.: with the result that 25,000 acres, con taining some of the most valuable wa ter sites, was a second time with drawn.'....1 '--;- :.:'.'" At rhe national Irrigation convention recently held at . Spokane and at the transmlssissippl : congress, still more recently - In ' session, at Denver. ; Mr. Pinchot defended, bis conservation pol icy amid ' Immense enthusiasm- He was especially cheered when he assert ed that' conservation ' of natural re sources Is a Roosevelt policy that Taft' Is pledged to carry" out. In bis ' Spo kane address be boldly asserted that 'a power trust is ' being formed " in the country which is" seeking to obtain possession of the government water site lands, leaving the inference plain ! that Ballinger's action ' in throwing open these lands left the way clear for ' their acquisition by the trust. This was universally construed into an at tack on Ballinger. -At the same con vention ex-Governor Pardee of Cali fornia assailed the secretary of the In- terior openly for having played Into the "hands of - private . interests as against the public weal. ; ' - I . ' . The legal End of It. ' - The defense offered by the. friends of Mr. Ballinger is that he is himself an ardent conservationist, but that he is only trying to obey the law. They say that this is a lawyer's administration and that strict construction is the rale. Thus the difference Is more apparent than real, being one of method rather . than of principle. " - --v The opinion is expressed that this is the view President Taft himself takes of the matter. Rumors have been per sistent that he has" sought to make peacebetween -the two officials and in the'. main has succeeded. As the quesr tion -involves two opposing forces -and as the conflict between these two has in nowise abated. " such" a peace can scarcely ; be permanent. So long as there -Ms opposition between private selfishness and public "good so long will the movement for conservation of natural resources be endangered by combinations of capital that seek to exploit these resources for their own ends. . . ',.''--?: :r'--,-"'-v ; Of the great conservation crusade Gifford Pinchot . has been the virtual creator. ..Theodore Roosevelt became its ardent champion. . Despite legal technicalities . and the antagonism of special interests, it will go on, for the reason that it is meant to protect the rights of the people and to benefit the future. This nation is learning, as older nations have learned, that it can not eat its cake and have it,: that it cannot waste'its resources without im poverishing the unborn. In so 'mighty and meritorious a work individuals are nothing;- the cause is everything. It is above politics and above men."" : Coal Fields Also Involved. An interesting sidelight thrown on the question has come out of Alaska. There Immensely rich coal .fields were a . few . years ago discovered, ; and a number of individuals at once filed claims. It is now asserted that before making their entries these individuals organized- a syndicate, to which the lands would be turned over, a ' plan clearly against the law.' The case has been pending in the' interior depart ment since the" days of ' Hitchcock. After resigning from the general land office Mr. . Ballinger became the attor ney of these coal land claimants.. Now as secretary of the Interior he finds the case before him as Judge In which he was before' interested as counsel To his credit be it said that he has turned the, decision over to his assistant sec retary, but nevertheless the matter is being crowded to trial. It forms .'ono more of the complications in this na tion wide controversy, v i Discussion is rife as" to what action the president will finally take" la the matter, if any. '' The' general belief is that -he must stand by ., his secretary of the interior, but this view does not take into account . that he is also pledged to the Roosevelt conservation program. If he should "uphold! Bal linger, will that 'mean the dismissal ' of Pinchot? i Were the forester direct ly under the secretary of the interior it probably would, but as be belongs to the agricultural department Secre tary Wilson, who upholds Pinchot will have a word to say in the mat ter. . ,' . - ;";'X', " Frederick H, Newell, the head of the reclamation service, is : also In volved in the controversy and as he is directly under Ballinger it is cur rently reported that his removal has already been decided upon. Newell is a scientist, not a politician. He has stod between the public interests and the selfish grabbers, and he has been actively identified with the govern ment's Immense ' Irrigation projects from the beginning. .. - T HE SE COND ANN UAL Portland Fair Oregon's Biggest Show ! Sept; 20-25 1909 Admission 50 cts. 6 Horse Races Daily " . National Live Stock Exhibits Balloon Racing , Chariot Racing . . - y i , - . 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