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THE "BLUE SKY" LAW.
There is being drafted a blue sky
w, which will be put to the leg
islature for passage this coming win
ter. The bill provides tor such pun
ishment to those who offer worthless
stocks and bonds for sale, that It Is
Pelleted the result will be to drive
the promoter out of Oregon.
This is a move In the right dlrec-
9on for If there was a state that has
Seen loaded with humbugs it Is Ore-
But the law will be of no service
unless there is a provision made for
Its rigid enforcement and that provi
sion followed to the letter. We, as a
commonwealth, are too prone to make
few merely for the sake of making
tbem. Fewer laws and better en
forcement would be a splendid slogan
tor the coming legislature to adopt
and It would meet with the hearty
approval of the people in general.
The blue sky law would put out of
lusiness, if passed and enforced, all
the fake orchard companies, the fake
Irrigation schemes, the wildcat mining
ventures and a whole lot of the Port
Bind addition business. It would pro
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tect the man -who Is capable of pay
lug only ten per cent down aud ten
pur cent a mouth, cna would place
Oregon securities on a higher plane
than they are today.
This law would be a hard blow to
some of the high financiers of Port
land who have grown to believe that
it is mere business to misrepresent
their commodities and fool the inves
tor. It would also be a hard blow
on the company that pays a reason
able price on the physical valuation
of a property and inen siocks u mr
three times that physical valuation,
The enforcement of such a measure
Is the thing to look forward to and
not Us mere passage- -
, XURDEB IX OBEGOX.
From daily reports it would seem
that murder is on the increase In
1 Oregon. Hardly a week passes that the
state does not record a hu
man life taken. Tie thug Is abroad
in the Oregon country. The man who
is low enough to shoot at a party of
young men driving in an automobue
i u n,ith us Tho man who murders a
half dozen by strangulation has been
I In fratrrn Ifltolv.
Murder, murder, murder Is recorded
in Oregon constantly and often.
Is It because we have more people?
Is It because the thirst for blood si
Or, IS K Oecause OI uuoruur ucom
'lenient policy with criminals?
Wilt someone tell? :.
THE CAMPAIGN CIGAR,
Occasionally a legislature does
something that is worth while. This
does not happen so frequently that it
should escape mention. In Ohio the
legislature recently enacted a law
prohibiting a candidate from giving
away election or campaign cigars. By
passing that law the legislature earn
ed the expenses of tLa entire session,
for It Is a law that la eminently
worth while.
The campaign flgar, along with the
speeding automobile, the Turkish cig
arette, the tornado, the earthquake,
the Are damp, the yellow fever mi
crobes, the hookworm, the opium
Joint and the Gila monster Is a men
ace to civilization and domestic hap
piness. It has been allowed to be
come a habit and to spread Its odious
personality broadcast. It has worked
Itself into the life blood of our re
publican form of government, like
an insidious disease. There are times
during a campaign when a. wife
dreads to' have her husband come
home, for he comes laden with the
aroma which resembles a combina
tion between a second hand New Eng
land boiled dinner and the glue fac
tory, v
There is no candidate who la go
ing to spend much for the cigar he
gives away. He realizes that men do
not always vote as they smoke. If
they like a candidate they will vote
for him without the cigar. The chief
value of these cigars is to add a
sort of grim and lnconquerable politi
cal hatred. They are of rope filler
and brown paper wrapper and they
stir up a feeling of belligerency which,
not even a leaky campaign torch or a
two-hour campaign harangue can ac
complish. The campaign cigar Is a delusion
and a snare. They ruin the digestion
of theconstituent and create trouble
in his household and they detract di
rectly from the popularity of the can
didate. The Ohio legislature is to be
thanked by all parties concerned. -k
THE GAME.
It Is estimated that the people con
tribute something like $12,000,000 an
nually to baseball. ' This is a large
sum, but It is well spent.
The game draws office and store'
clerks and worklngmen out into the
fresh air and sunshine and, conse
quently, makes thetn. better folks and
more profitable to their employers.' It
draws the employers out thete, too,
away from their worries, and makes
them better employers. .
Americans ; work too fast, live too
fast. Brains or hands are under a
strain all the time. There Is more
relaxation and health on : si regular
bleacher seat than can be got In for
ty drug stores. Conservation of nat
ural resources, on which the nation
spends tens upon tens of millions of
dollars, la a great thing, but conser
vation of human energy Is a greater.
"Go to the game," Is sound medical
and moral advice. Never mind if you
don't understand the fine points. Go
out and eat peanuts and watch your
compatriots when they haven't any
thing pn hand but the glorious task
of "rooting. -
It Is such, a case as the Brazil cof
fee deal that makes people rise up in
righteous Indignation -at enormous
capital and wonder If there is no
way to regulate matters so a repeti
tion of such a game cannot be perpe
trated. Thus far there seems to be
no way. At least, our statesmen and
near statesmen have done nothing but
talk about preventing such things.
President Farrell, of the O, W. It. &
N.. is to give some handsome prizes to
the Union Horse show. He might Just
as well order prizes by , the gross
henceforth, for every town on the sys-
em is going to have a gala day of some
kind wherein prizes from a railroad
official . would look good.
Woodrow says he Is going to carry
New .Torsey, anyway. But Bryan i3
not worrying about New Jersey. He
has been in the game too long to let
an Atlantic coast mosquito bother him
Schmltz is back In politics down
in Frisco. The reform wave was not
strong enough to wash him across the
ba, after all.
THE PAXAMA CANAL.
The building of the Panama canal
is rapidly approaching completion
and with this comes many great ques
tions that demand a 'solution. . The
first great object of the waterway was
to benefit the American people as It
Is they who pay the bills. It Is dis
tinctly our own enterprise and a&such
our country should receive the first
and greatest benefit. That this canal
ia nlrendv helmr watched bv England,
France and Germany, who hope to con
trol the commerce of tne urient mere
can be no doubt, and It Is equally
certain that trouble la likely to arise
...I... h.a TTnitori dtntafl nntrol the
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matter with a strong hand. - It la all
very well to talk about international
agreements but it must not be forgot
ten that the sword has not yet been
beaten into pruning hooks. With fev
erish haste the German war lord Is
building up a huge navy and already
is seeking a naval base at some point
in the Caribbean sea. However
much we may desire a peaceful solu
tion of this matter, we shall have but
the future destiny
of the canal unless we are prepared
to hold it with a mailed hand. Econ
omy of administration Is an excellent
slogan for the self seeking politician
but in this age of commercial activity
parsimony can only mean a pusilanl
mous peace from which we should all
pray to be delivered.
Future complications can only be
avoided by a readiness to defend our
own Interests against all comers. The
very fact that we are so prepared will
be the surest guaranty of peace. No
foreign nation should ever be per
mitted to gain a foothold at any point
In the West Indies that threatens the
socurjty of the ? anal. Up to this time
the so called Monroe doctrine has
largely been a sentimental theory, but
It has now become a living fact. Not
only that, but it has become so Im
portant that the nations of the world
should have due notiqe that It will be
enforced to the letter by a government
amply able and prepared.
How can this best be done? First,
the canal Itself should be fortified
with the strongest and most impreg
nable batteries, and every approach
frnm olthpr nrpnn made dangerous bv
mines that could blow the most pow-
errui areaannutrnt into irngmenis.
Tfio nnw shnnM nlnn bA Venf nt the
highest point of efficiency and ever
ready to repel any attack. For several
years It has been our settled policy
in hntlri Iwn hnttlAshlns each Tear
and no parsimonious congress should
be permitted to dopart from this pre
cedent These have been the most
effective sea fighters that modern scl-
ence and art could produce and It Is
the' knowledge of this fact that has
restored the prestige of our navy. We
now stand second among the navies of
the world, but if this democratic con
gress is permitted to have its way
we shall" soon be reduced to fifth in
power.. It should not be forgotten
that only 14 years ago the rotten
squadron of Cervera sent a shiver all
over this, nation and at first we were
caught napping. Many of the strong
est ships were in the Pacific and the
Oregon was ordered by telegraph to
steam around Cape Horn with all pos
sible speed. . To reach the scene of
danger In Cuba required weeks of
delay as the distance was more than
mnnn mllua Vrv fortunately the
danger was not so great as at first
supii sed and Spain was too weak for
effective work. What would have hap
pened had we been dealing with Eng
land nr fiernianr at that time is a
possibility over which It Is not plea-
ant to linger.
It was that incident which deter
mined our government to build the
Panama canal. Had it been In exist
ence at . the time the Oregon could
have reached the scene of danger as
quickly as Cervera could have cros
sed the Atlantic and from that lack
of facilities for going from ocean to
ocean was born the determination nev
er nmta to be auhlected to such a
reign of terror. Then came" the project
of the canal and me upDuuaiug oi our
navy. .- ' -x.
Within the next three years the
Panama canal will be open and ready
for business. Who should reap the
most benefit from that enterprise the
men who pay the bills or the nation
with the heaviest guns?. Suppose that
Japan should menace San Francisco,
will we have a navy strong enough
to send through the canal to her de
fense? This is a question that' cannot
he lightly answered. When too late
xt-a nmttM nran tha narfllmnnv that
had allowed our. navy to lag In the
race, we cannot preparoyior wur al
ter war has been declared. The build
ing of dreadnaughts Is a matter of
j ears and that nation which bus them
ready will neve.- be attacked by a
foreign foe. We have once learned
what it means not to be prepared for
any emergency, and history leaches us
that the arrogant nation always
strikes when its . opponent Is
least ready to repel the assault. The
greatest assurance of peace Is to be
amply prepared for war. Woo to t'iat
political party that places us at tho
mercy of a foreign in vide r.
THIS DATE IX H:T3RT.
May 28.
1672 War declared In Bostn against
the Dutch; the-flrst Oaclaration
of war in the color.'.?3.
-Thomas Moore the famous Irish
poet, born.. Died Feb 25, 1852.
-Samuel D. McEnery, U. S. sen
ator from Louisiana 1897-1909.
born in Monroe, La. Died in
New Orleans, June 29, 1910.
-Noah Webster, the famous phil--Noah
Webster, the famous
7180-1837-
1843
1843
philologist, died in New Haven,
Conn. Born in Hartford, Oct.
16. 1758.
1866 Fourth regiment of Wisconsin
cavalry mustered out after a
service of five years and one
day, the: longest term on rec
ord of a volunteer organization.
1880-
-Forty lives lost In a tornado
that swept ,' Fannip county,
Texas. .
1898 r
Public funeral of Mr. Gladstone
', in Westminster Abbey.
-The Tobacco Trust lost Its case
In the supreme court of the
United States.
1911
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Cbarels Alphonso Smith.
Professor Charles Alphonso Smith,
the noted southern educator who was
the "Roosevelt professor" at the Uni
versity of Berlin two yeasr ago, was
born In Greensboro, N. C, May 28,
1864. His education -was received at
Davidson college and Johns Hopkins,
university. He served successively
as Instructor In English at Johns .
Hopkins as professor of English lan-
guage and literature at Louisiana !
State university and as dean of the j
graduate department of the Universtly
of North Carolina. He left the last
named Institution several years ago(
to Join the faculty of the University of j
Virginia. In 1904 Professor Smith
was elected president or. tne univer
sity of Tennessee, but declined.
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