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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1890)
130 PU1LI1HID MMlWt iATURDAT. WEST SHORE. i.nhiuented-census. After puzzling their brains to revealed by the late alo lamen wonderful revelatioM of invent new theories to acioum, . iftl scientists will dis poser's work, the static m , F" won(Jer why chaw broadside after that their failure is due to the utterly chaw broaufiuo " ,egm that their failure 18 due to tne utterly annihilated. They m " ich 8peCulation8 are baBed. - valueless and inaccurate census npou WEST SHORE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER, U SAMUIL, 0nrl Manager, PORTLAND, OR., AND SPOKANE rALtAW AM in tK. Port Offic in Portland. Orem.fi tranmUrtm lhrmlh Ike matt, at nemd clou rata. IUMCMPTION RATIi--itrlotl In Adano. . ... Ii.oo I Throo Monthi, - The Wist Shom offer, the Boat Medium (or Advertiser, of any Tn" publication on the Paoino Coast. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 10. There will be no recount in Oregon. Organize an Oregon Exhibit Association. America'i effort to test the McKlnley bill by the apple crop is entitled to the leather medal. . The census superintendent has not produced much that is worth any thing, but he would make a splendid ex-Porter. For the next two weeks the colored cartoons on the last page will be compelled to give place to illustrations of the two great expos.t.ons now in progress at Portland and Spokane Falls. The AdtU, one of the two vessels now poaching in Be bring sea, and . .-t ... .u.naii.hut tin Rerlha to capture, is the same Wliicn Hie guvoruiuu, -i . .. , ., . . i:ur..u, vessel whose piratical voyage last fall was described and illustrated in Wwi Biiohi of June 7, last. U olvUliation has cried out against Siberian exile of Russians for polit ical offense, it must raise a stronger voice of protest against the same in human treatment of Jews for no offense whatever except being the victims of an Ignoble, barbaric, Inherited race prejudice. If those romantic people who dote on the silver moon and envy the heavens the possession of that luminary will only have a little patience they can have their desire gratified, for under present conditions we will soon have silver enough in this country to make a moon of our own. Whltecapsln Alabama expressed their virtuous Indignation and deep sated morality, by taking a woman suspected of looseness of habits from her house at midnight and dispatching her with buckshot. The kingdom of heaven is coming at a rapid rate In that enlightened community, and will doubtless catch the benighted residents of other localities unawares. If the American people can be convinced that the money will not be diverted from purely charitable to political uses, the response they will make to the appeal lor aid for famishing Ireland will be such an outpouring of gifts as the world has never seen. Let entirely trustworthy channels for the flowing of their charity be provided, and It will become a mighty stream. Oregonlans have a kindly feeling for Jessie Benton Fremont; not be cause she was the wile of the Pathfinder, but because she Is the daughter of Old Tom Benton, who did more to make Oregon free American soil than any man living or dead. They want a chance to help In the movement on foot to make his gifted daughter's remaining days free from care. Life Is not altogether dull and spiritless In the ramp of a railroad engi neering party, for It must be great amusement to stuff inquisitive news gathers. That Is the place where half the wild and senseless railroad rumors originate. A dispatch from some out-of-the-way point, saying that an engi neering party la working there and that the chief says it is an advance party of the W. X. Y. Z. road, ahould be taken with a whole sack of salt. The time Is at hand when papers, magaalnes and reviews will be filled with long dlnmleltiona upon the great changes in social and other conditions ..-.n. the motives that have induced the charitable founders, no oiio , B v jjome ,n aast roruana to unaertaxe supporters, and rTL d thankless, task; yet it is true that no and Frlo'mthe arduouB.an BuperviBion by such MM'" J rMen,ing the people. It ought to be incorpc 8ome constituted au honty "J'Jto supervision. This does ratei, as a state in vayltrIbute to lt9 ,np. zrs Muunmah Bhouid uke this matter in hand. .; inHi ereat daily paper condemning the duel as It I, rather surprsmgto TPP ta . means of "W'JfZ' B is nothing but private vengeance Honor cut. no figure m such, ca WrTi" CiVllUatin gle4mBl savages, but not where m i ug to murl C higher duty to society than to preach the It Oregon's display at the Centennial is to be pointed at as an evidence liuregouo u ? , wilkIng then, indeed, has his incapacity been 1 K M 555 a man of ability and desires to do well 7tn S?wl toKstlsTo doubt; but hi. oprtunlties, shut upas he has ten in Southern Oregon for year., to become famihar with the idea. of the great business world without, have been too limited to taJEiU Tbi. whole matter should be put in the and. b , nes. men who have had their idea, expanded by contact with the world, and who have not only the training necessary tc , enable them to , com prehend what must be done, but the experience that fits them for the task of accomplishing it. The director general of the World's Columbian Exposition has begun his duties well and sensibly by addressing a courteous letter to the press o the country asking for Its hearty and unreserved support. Certain local papers In Chicago violently opposed Mr. Davis before bis appointment and have soundly berated both him and the director, since, simply, ae it appears from their own statements, because he has been a successful political ma nipulator In the Interest of a party not their own. In opposing him for this reason they are themselves dragging politics into the question, the very ., i- T), tui-tn am that Geonte R. Davis is a push- ing, enterprising man, with large ideas and possessing great organizing and executive ability, and the papers opposing him in Chicago will do more good, both to the fair and their city, by stopping their snarling at the direc tor general and setting a good example to the outeide press by doing all in their power to assist him in accomplishing the most arduous task an Amer ican has yet undertaken. If " Clara Belle " has actually associated with some of the women she writes so Intimately about, or has witnessed or participated in some of the scenes she depicts for the delectation of her presumed lady readers, she must be hanging upon the ragged edge of the demi-monde. Some of her letters are the vilest slanders upon the ladies of New York, Blnce they credit them with the conduct of such people as no lady would stoop to recognize as associates. It is such stuff as this, in which the writer wanders as near the border of the absolutely indecent as possible, in order to make her letters " interesting," calling largely upon her Imagination for her facts, that is chiefly responsible for the growing belief that society ladies are leas pure and modest than they should be. Such letters, published in the Sun day and weekly pa;ers, going unreservedly into families, bearing the ap pearance of truth, and written in " chatty " and meretriciously suggestive language, do more harm than all the "indecent" books ever published. Doubtless many ladies are led to read them by reason of other tilings that attract their attention, but it is equally doubtless that their regular readers are those who are nearly as far from the pale of society and the charmed circle of true womanhood as the creatures whose actions she describes, and those of the opposite sex who are always upon the lookout for something " shady " to read. Truly, woman's greatest enemy Is woman. Nothing Is more typical of the condition Oregon has been In the past few years than Banyan's Slough of Despond, from which the struggling Christian was pulled by the strong hand of Helpful. The young and vigor ous F.uterprise is now pulling struggling Oregon from the Slough of Moss-