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About The Oregon mist. (St. Helens, Columbia County, Or.) 188?-1913 | View Entire Issue (March 2, 1906)
OREGON MIST iiiK ship sritsiin bill. lvutered at the Postoffiec nt St. Helens, OreRon, as second-class mail matter. lSSirKD KVHRV I'RIItAV Pv K. II. PLAGG, KmTOH AND I'KOl'KlKTOR. One copy, one year, in advance f 1 00 Six months. .' GO Lcjral notices 23 cents per line. FRIDAY, March 2, MOti. THE AKOIMENT IX KAVOU STATEMENT NO. 1. OF The dav when the American merchant maiine shall be restored to its former proud position in the deep-sea carrying Whoever disagrees with the Oregon ian in regard to "Statement No. 1 is, according to that paper, a fit subject foi the lunatic asy him. Tats style ot argu ment is not new, but possibly it has lost its force. The people are doing some thinking, and they may decline to accept the autocratic dictum of the great Port land daily. For many years there has been a de mand for election of the United States Senators by direct vote of the people, and Mr. Scott has at times written able arguments in favor of such a system ; yet, when an opportunity occurs to brii c about this reform he opposes it and turns His mud batteries loose upon any one who favors it. "Certainly," says Mr. Scott, "no Dem ocratic Legislature ever will elect a Re publican; no Republican Legislature will ever elect a Democrat." Prohahlv they will never be called upon to do fo ; but if Republican candidates for nomi nation refuse to sign Statement No. 1 it is possible that in Jannary, 1907, a Dem ocratic Legislature will elect a Demo cratic Senator, and as John M. Gearin would undoubtedly be the man it is also possible that the editor of the Oregon ian, who favors tariff reduction, might not grieve greatly over the result. The editor of the Oregoniau can not stay the tide. He is as impotent as the king of old who thought his mandate suffi cient to reverse omnipotence. The peo ple know the Senate of the United States does not represent theiu. It is the stronghold of the trusts and the corpora tions, and it never rill consent to a con Etitutionnl amendment providing for election by direct vote of the people un til it is compelled to do so. Statement No. 1 does not provide for election by di roct vote of the people, because under the present laws that can not be done but it does provide that the people shall express their choice for the Senatorship, and that expression of choice should have all the force and effect of an elec uage biepnen a. .Lowell, who it is (Mid will be a candidate for the position of United States Senator, has taken sides with the Oregonian and openly opposes Statement No. I. It is to be hoped that he will indorse Statement No. 2, which reads as follows: "During my term iu office I shall con aider the vote of the people for United States Senator in Congress as nothing more than a recommendation, which I j shall be at liberty to wholly disregard if the reason for doing so seems to me to be sufficient." At least, the Representatives who fa vor Mr. Lowell should sign Statement No. 2, and if they do not do so they will be guiity of evasion and dishonesty. Let ns have a square issue between the friends of Statement No. 1 and its ene mies, and let the people decide in the primaries on April 20th. There is nothing in the argument ad' vanced by Mr. Lowell and the Oregon ian that Statement No. 1 does away with healthy partisanship. The nomiuees to be voted for at the June election will represent their respective parties and the hght will be on party lines; but when the decision has been rendered by the people, partisanship will cease, and the Representatives will have nothing to do but to regi iter the people's choice. All the sophistries in the world can make no difference in the facts. The method of election is the same as for other offices and a plurality is enti tled to as much respect as a majority. Pluralities have repeatedly elected Pres idents of the United States; in fact Re publican rule in the Nation has gener ally been by the will of a plurality in stead of a majority. Statement No. 1 is the only hope the people have ever had of compelling the election ol United States Senator by a direct vote of the people, and the party that attempts to deprive them of it will meet with disaster. We would rather have a Democratic trade of the world has been brought step nearer by the passing of the Ship Subsidy Bill by the Senate. Although the measure, as amended, does not under take to assist the merchant marine to the extent tint its friends had hoped, it should prove of enormous assistance in lifting the shipbuilding industry from the slough of despond into which it has fallen. The fate of the bill is now in the hands of thj House of Representatives, and if the generally-favorable attitude ol the individual members be sustained, it should become a law by the close of the present session. The history of the movement to resus citate our shipbuilding and deep-sea car rying interests shows that there has been a gradual education of the public to the true meaning of tte proposed subsidy, and to a realization of its absolute neces sity, if we are to carry out own imports and exports in American bottoms to say nothing of our shariug in the gencrul deep sea trade of the world. At the pres ent time the United States is paving out between 200 and S00 million dollars an nually to foreign shipping concerns, for carrying to and fro the foreign trade of this country. This immense revenue, logically and by righi, should be earned by American ships. That it is diverted to foreign nations is due to the fact that because of the higher wages and the higher ideas of living and comfort that prevail in the United States, it is impos sible either to build or to operate ocean going ships as cheaply as they can be built and operated by foreign countries. Although the cost of ship construction is being gradually reduced, it still costs considerably more per ton to build steamship in our own than it does in European shipyards; and the more gen erous wages paid to officers and crews, and the better class of fare provided, in crease the cost of operation of ships, if manned by Americans, 30 per cent above the cost of operating the same ships with European crews, and under European 2Mm Makes delicious hot biscuit, griddle cakes, rolls and muffins. p An afesolotely pore, cream of tartar powder.; BOYAk BAKING POWM CO, NIW VOM. . conditions. The Subsidy Bill is a proposal to have the government assist the merchant ma rine by paring to the owners of vessels a sum sufficient to make good the differ ence in cost of construction and operation between American -built -and -operated ships and those of foreign nations. In return for this the merchant marine gives a quid pr gat to the government by building certain of its ships to meet gov ernment requirements with a view to rendering them availuble as transports by assisting in the creation of a naval re serve both of officers and crews, and by holding their vessels at the disposal of the government, and liable to be taken up at short notice in the event of hostilities. In our issue of January 27 we dwelt upon the urgent necessity for the resusci tation of our merchant marine, if only to provide the government with a system of transport service that would be available, and instantly available, in case of hostili ties. We quoted certain figures taken from a report of the General Staff of the Army, showing bow completely paralyzed in the event of sudden war this nation would be if it attempted to transport a small army of, say 25,000 men across the seas. It was shown that for the transpor tation of such an army, either on the Pa cific or on the Atlantic Ocean, there should be afloat in our merchant marine no less than 228 vessels of a gross tonnage of 1,308,000 tons, all of them ranging from 5,500 to 6,500 displacement ; where as, as a matter of fact, in 1904, the whole American merchant marine included only 57 sea-going vessels of 4,000 tons and up ward, with a total of 400,000 gross tons. The argument for subsidizing, from the standpoint of the military necessities of the country, is simply unanswerable. Scientific American. iVITHYCOXBE'S PLATFORM. To F. I. Dunbar, Secretary of State of the State of Oregon, and to -the Repub lican party and the electors of Oregon in the State of Oregon : I, James Withycombe, reide nt Cor vallis, Benton County, Oregon, and my postoBkt) address is"CorvaIlis, Oregon." I am a duly registered member of the Republican paty. If I am nominated for the office of Governor, at the primary nominating election to lie held in the State of Oregon the twentieth dav of lie Sure To Krgisler. The direct primary should influence all citteens, and especially workiuginen, to register and take part at the primaries held April 20th. The registration books will bo open at the county court house of each comity until April 10th, and in the city n here the court holme is situated voters in that city must go to the court house in person and tegieter. In all other precincts of the county, voters can register before a notary or justice of the April, I'JOO, I will accept the nomination 1 11"- Not on,y H,,,)ulJ voters register, and will not withdraw, and if I am elected I will qualify as such officer. If I am nominated and elected I will, during my term of office, advocate and support: Taxation of franchises and gross earn ings tax on telegraph, telephone, express and sleeping car corporations. Uniform assessment and taxation of railroads. State regulation and examination of State and private banks, trust companies and savings banks. Protection of the State in its owner ship of public lands. out ass your neignoor if tie lias regis tered. If voters support the principles of Roosevelt, they mav register as Re publicans at the primaiy. Otherwise they can register u Democrataand vote at the Ik'uiocrutio primaries held on the yield averaged fifteen. aamo day. liut for the purpose ot the primary they must register either as Republicans or Democrats, aa those are the only two parties, under the law, oho can take part in primary elections, all other cltiiens of other parlies can and should register now. Remember that a registered voter has all the powers that a delegate to a county convention form- A Board of Coutrol for State institu- tr' "wised. He can vote on the no tions, miuee lor eacn omce, Iroin constable to One board for management of Norma' committeeman, from justice of the peace Schools. 10 governor, and Lnued States Senator. Improvement of the Columbia and i Ut tr" ,0 do ,uir duty- Register Will imette rivers and coast seaports. National ownership of the Oregon City locks. Constitutional amendment permitting the Governor or people to veto indivitl- tl items of appropriations. Form for nominating ballot "An lion est and fearless performance of public dutv." A gentleman from Portland, who has spent the past month traveling over pretty much all of Oregon, says: "I hare put in the past month or more in different sections of the State, and mv business ha brought me in contact with all kinds of people. Yon would be sur prised how rapidly James Withycombe is growing in favor as the coming Re publican candidate for Governor, even in the strongholds of the other aspirants. And I want to tell yon right here, and I am not alone in the opinion by a long ways, that James Withycombe, of Cor- vallis, is the only man mentioned np to date that can (-kin George Chamberlain to a finish in the race f ir Governor." and see that your neighbor registers. bxchange. DIRTY WORK. A Mr. Richard McCann, of Portland, is attempting to use the Oregon Devel opment Leagne in a dirty attempt to in jure the candidacy of II. M. Cake for the United Mates Senatorship. Mr. Mc Cann has sent to the editor of this paper a type written copy labeled "Special Correspondence." Mr. McCann is not a correspondent of this paper and we have no use for his stuff, ami when he at tempts to work the country press of Oregon to further his spite against Mr. Cake he will find that his efforts will re act in favor of, the man whom he is at tempting to injure. Accompanying the scurrilous article is the following note. Administration of the tax laws the country over demonstrates, beyond all question, the otter impossibility of reaching money by lifting it to individ ual owners. The bank deposits ol every State in the Union show vastlv more cash than do assessment rolls. Massa chusetts alone has adopted a practical method of taxing cash. She does not re quire her assessors to search the pockets of individuals for money. She simply requires her banks to report their an nual average deposits upon which she levies a tax of five mills per annum. Oregon would profit greatly by adopting the Massachusetts plan, even though Ihe tax rate upon deposits be made very low. Mrs. Mizncr has taken it buck again. Portland is having a gas investigation that threatens to end i an explosion. The Astorian assert that nil inex haustible supply of natural eis has been discovered in the Nehalem Valley, and I proceeds to prognastieate as follows: ' It has a germinating power in the unfold ing of sequent mid nnnlag us ovr'.ions that is incalculable, and carries the promise of collateral advantages hard to measure from a primary ba such as this, but inherent to the discovery all the same." Mighty fine writing. Doctor are Puzzled. The remarkable recovery of Kenneth Mclver, of Vanceboro, Me., is the sub ject of much interest to the medical fra ternity and a wide circle of friends, lie say of his case: "Owing to severe in- Himmation of the throat and congestion M .1,.. I .1. - , . . ... mug, mree U'jcwrs gave me up locue, urien, ns a last resort, I was in duce.! to try Dr. King's New Discovery, and I am happy to say, it saved my li.'e." Cures the worst Coughs and Colds! Hron- chitis, Toiisiiitif, Weak Lungs, Hoarse ness and LaGrippij. Guaranteed at Per ry A Graham's, llonlton. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free. United States Senate elected by direct'eor're nT,"lr: '"C,l!!d. . , , , : , , ; - w mull tuic ui me pejpie or uy compliance with local organization ot the JOieon Devel Rosebnrg Spokesman : The direct pri mary law is confusing to the wily poli tician. He is like a shin at sea without a compass. He ran not find his bear- in", ins vocation is gone. lie is doomed to plod along in the even tenor of his way or else go to work and earn an honest living. He may roar and rant, and scheme and plan, but all to no 'ffect. A higher power has obtained control and he mnst retire into a state of innocuous desetude. the provisions of Statement No. 1 than the present aggregation where the mem bers of both parties are nothing but the creatures of the trusts and the corpora tions. A Senate elected under Statement No, 1 would pass President Roosevelt's rail road i ate bill without a moment's un necessary delay. Union Republican: His friends lie lieve there is no man in the Republican party more representive, having greater possibilities of usefulness, more deserv ing of honor, than is Dr. Withycombe. His high qualities of mind and charac ter have made for him many friend throughout the State. Thev regard his opinent League. I forward it to j ou be- cuoe .i may ue oi interest to you as news mailer, lours truly. Riciiaku McCann, it is not news matter in any sense of the word. It is headed "Protest from Portland," while, as a matter of fact, it natl never been brought to the attention of any of Portland's commercial bodies, ft is said that Mr. Tom Richardson is woraingiorttie success of Mr. Cake. We hope this is true, for nobody knows better than Mr. Richardson the good work Mr. Cake has done for the State of ()rr. las Mr. Richardson is Secretary of the Oreg'in Development League and under stands all about what it has accom plished through the aid of such men as II. M. Cake. Mr. Cake is also President Let us see: Portland claimed to have contributed $500,000 to the Lewis A Clark Fair and the State $500,000. Now it transpires that only $400,000 of the subscriptions were paid, and of this amount over $100,000 was returned to the stockholders. It looks as if the Slate got buncoed. Transcontinental main lines of rail roads in the State of Washington are assessed npon their road beds nt $14,620 per mile and the rolling stock at 3,108 per mile. This is about double what it was assessed at in lp04, and atill it is not one-third of the-real value. platform "as truly characteristic of the J ' Portland Commercial Club, and man, ever eager to recognize and aid the welfare and rights of all, an honest and fearless performance of duty. Thev do not consider him a party politician, but regard him as a Conscientious, progress ive and most honorable man, who seeks the office of Governor, not as cue depend ent upon a political position for a liveli hood, nor for any selPeh personal bene fit, but as a man appreciative of honor, and a champion for a greater and united Oregon. nas always been willing to dev.He his time to the upbuilding of the communi ty in which he lives. As there is no salary connected with the position and his work has been absolutely without compensation, it is perfectly fair thnt it should be considered by the voters of the Republiccn party when they cast their ballots in the primary election on Ihe 20ih of April. The more live men like Mr. Cake we can get into the United States Senate the better for Oregon. I The history of Oregon leads ni to be lieve that a Democratic Senator elected by the direct vote of the people would be preferable to a Republican Senator elected by the trusts and corporations The Oregonian concurs in Mr. Simon's lamons remark: "The present method of electing United Slates Senators exact ly suits Mr President." with the Oregonian to prescr'be our doty, there Is really no need for a -law. making body. Safe banks are in favor of laws will make banks safe. that The Awful Trades lulon. The Farmers' Union members nre tic sieged on al I sides by people who seem very anxious for their success, and who invariably say, "You will succeed if vnu nave noming to no with the trade un ions." The awful trade unions! They seem to worry a lot of people. Let's see what they arc and have been doing. They have freed hundreds, ave. thou- sands of little children from the sweat shops and put them in the schools. They have forced the employers to give workmen airy, comfortable workshop. and in this way reduced the mortality from consumption many per cent in some crafts lengthening the life of the mechanic 12 years, according to carefully kept statistics. They, in many branches of labor, forced the employers to pay women the same " men lor tne same amount of worn. They have given the country everv law in every State in the Union that stands for better condition of the masses even giving us the public school system. They decrease the hours of labor wher ever the number of unemployed iu any .,M lirn ,.!, ,.f 1.. I I . . .,.... ui u,WI increases to such an extent as to threaten the standard scale ot wages. They furnish employment for unem ployed. They furnish homes for the aired m,l disabled. They care for the lick. Furnish money to the unemployed. They bury the dead. Is there anything in the above for the members of the Farmers' Union to fight y oi or jor any other kind of person uj icar r union Manner (Agricultural), A Hclentlllu Wonder. The cures that ftund to its credit make Bucklen't Arnica Salve a scientifln ... der. It cured K. R. Mulford, lecturer for the Patrons of Husbandry, Waynes horn, Pa., of a distressing case of Pi I... It heals the worst Burns, Sores, Jlolls, Ulcers, Cuts, Wounds. Chilhla inn An, I i-an Kiiemn, Only 25c nt IWrv A, i: ham'p, llonlton. Learning the Poultry HuhImom. Last year I decided to go into the poul try business, although I had no practical experience whatever. January 10 I built a lran-to on the ham 8x8ls feet, II lv feet high, in rear and 4u feet in front. The cost, with u run 20x3(1 feet, whs $Jl I muclc it warm and comfortable, lining it with building pier, I put a hiugci dropping board three feet wide under the perches, which arc movable, 111 the duy time thev are lifted out of the way, the dropping board and the whole house con verted into a wind and water proof scratching shed, The floor was covered with four inches of fine, dry earth am sifted coal ashes. In a cornel of the yard is a scratching shed txl,1 feet. This was filled with all the broom straw it would hold. I started with one rooster, fifteen fUrred Plymouth hens, and nine Single Could White Leghorns. I had access to a ten pound pail of table scraps every day for the morning feed. At noon I scattered a handful of millet in the litter. I kept grit and oyster shells lie fore them and water in a galvanized fountain. April was a month of many lessons to me. got out my first brood of chicks, nine Laiigshima from twelve eggs. I fed these on bread and milk the first few days, then ou millet and crocked corn. For desert I made johnnvcake from equal parts of corn meal, bran and sifted oats, with powdered oyster shell to supply lime. The end of the month taw the flock vigorous and healthy. I set two hens, but they hatched only one chick. I am beginning to see that looking after silting heus is a bother and vexation of spirit. The table scrap con tained some lettuce, which nerved as green food. In the ultcrnooii 1 gave the birds free run outside the yard. The egg in Mine 1 got a sixty-egg incubator and a 120 egg sire outdoor brooder. The average egg yield for May was seventeen to each hen and the same for June. I loaded the incul tor July Oth with 5H Langshsn eggs. 47 of which hatched. The supply ol table scraps was then shut off, so I got a sack of bran, another of ground oats and 100 pounds of corn chop. I mixed these in the proportion of two quarts each ol bran and oats, one mnt of com choo and a large spoonful of oil uieul ami led it daily as a mush in the morning. In the full I fed table scraps again with lawn clippings at uoon, aa through the summer. The fowls resmudcd finely, reaching an average of 17 12 each, the Iwst so far. The Illack I..ihgi!mn pullet laid 24 egs in Octolwr and 21 in Novem ber. I began to sec tint to get lull and winter eggs one must previously hatch a 'ot of early pullets to produce them, l or green food 1 purchased five Imles of al falfa ami put one in each pen. The low l pick at this and take to it as readily as to the grit boxes. During the twelve months the fowls laid 3.VW eggs, credited as follows: An aver.igenf thirteen Plym outh Rock hens, I.V.tl; nine White Leg. Itorns, 10,0; twenty-one pullets, This gives the Plymouth Rock hens an average for the year of 121 eggs and the foghorns lid, ami each pullet in five months J2. The eggs brought f S4.I2 and the fowls, sold or eaten, $21.75, linking icctipu I10S.S7. The food rost f.ll '.XI. medicines, etc., $i.4o, and the labor was worth, nt 20 cents an hour, $24.40, or expenses of H5.8I and profit of $13.1X1. The scrubs or workers not only paid for their feed and that of other (owls, hut iictuully paid for their own first co-rt and also for their own first cost and also lor the original pen and house in which they we e con fined. I begun with a single pen of 1 nondescript Leghorns and flarred Plym outh Rocks and ended with two pens of extra fine Rocks, one trio of equally fine stock, and two pens of culls. I began with liunllv with an incutwtor. two brooders, a bone I cutler, and a stock ol tools and Ininle-lfc mcnts. Irrigon Irrigator. t JOB PRINTING IS OUR BUSINESS WE Imvc the host and imwt fully equipiMHl Job Print iiigOfllw in Columbia County J ml icv are prepared to do all hunts of J'ririthu on short notice and at most reasonable price. . 1 1 i . i A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE OREGON MIST WE WILL MOVE Man h 12 to 207 WaOunl.ui un 1 1 1 1 Third Sis., nnt to I'eldeiihrlmrr's Jcwclty Mors. KNIGHTS SiinuU anil YValk-4rr Kiorn Corner Fifth and Washington Strrrls PORTLAND, OKKOUN pmrmwmnmmmMimrfflw wmmMtfrnmiimMtMr I THE BIG STORE ! j DOW" BY THE DIG SAWMILL 1 3 I Rcccivhm New Goods Kvcrv Day! In llio Wi-pIc. llaaa Imputation of ,i,g Standing (or duly Ihe Pest In I General Merchandise: Dart & M tickle. Waoov For Sai.k-A Vi Mitchell ST St. HclpIM. wnttttt. lt,M.i.inl, , : i ... .1- r ....v- ,.. ,irc, nun a Hill net ol double harness for sale for ll)0. Have ha.l one year's use. W. V. Cooper, War ren, wr. (f ) ft. II. It. CM IT, PHYSICIAN & SURGKON 8T. HE1.KN3. UttKliON. I)R KDWIN IIOHU, PHYSICIAN & SURGFON 8T. HELENS, OltKuf 60 YEARS s Bij vsisai EXPERIENCE (cm. Omron.: iiiilUUiUiUiiiiUiiUUiUiiiiiiiU iUJUiUittJUittittiUiUiUilU The Oregon Mist and the Metropolitan and Rural Home, an Agricultural paper, one year for fi.oo. Ask (be Trayeler He will Tell yon That the ll..n.frlll!i,i,iM. Zc,l MlSnsniJ "'!f "nl,,k Mit rr. l'.l..t m. l,Vr H,".?." ""'"" .Scientific flimricaii. BBiKijas I'OR PORTLAND DAILY Steamer" Iralda C. I 1100GHK1HK, itantcr. Leaves Rainier daily, excerit finn,l Mr Portland, at ..a. ,nV, dSS St. Helens at 8 o'clock. R..ir " ' loves Portland at Sail : tit ir..i a. aw ' ' js aikiijuh HI 'J.I.J, ni., arriving t NORTH COAST LIMITED Electric Lighted, is the Crack Train of Them All for Comfort and Klc-gance. c0REC0N Shot Line AHoUiHioN pacific iKIoSTfiKWilT The Ticket Office at Portland I H lit 8 Morrison, Cor. 3d, Portland A. I). CHARLTON Auiitent Oiniral Pautngtr tgtnt PORTLAND. OREGON TRAINS TO TUB KAKT DAILY Old t)ai)ers for nil.. n , v,,w'i,, i Kvciiltig Telt I'LAGO, leyraiii, nt this Agent 'IIICAIIO. I'ull l i '5 V .. .i. ii "'' ..i,,g(,n. ri I'll it i v u rvirv. rj .."' Ni'Mli.m ATUNTiiritfiftKKH ' !" KmI via Hi,,,,. IIKl'ill. TURKIC 14 VT i'ny. :'ii'Tii HaJIf. I'nlljr, Arrlvna. i.s p. u: IMfly. M) A, M. 1'sil), fvrjrv Valljr. JAM.Y Tit AINU roii . ALL POINTS EAST. LOWKR COLUMMA RlVKR. Stx:y";r;rp'' -,... f'.r a.u", ' """lair 1U.W p. in ASftSl Or.. UTAItl.JfiaKp U7SI. IMt. JOHN A. BECK DKALtn IB Watches, Diamonds, Silverware, ...JEWELRY,,.. Keimirinjr a Hneclnltv. rrU,a .,.,.,,, 4 PORTLAND.