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7ORTLAND. MONDAY. MARCH 12. 1006.
MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP AND SOCIAL
ISM. In a sense, municipal ownership and
operation of public utilities looks like a
step 'towards Socialism. Still- it would
fell far short of Socialism as defined
by its own authorities. For Socialism,
in its essence, or quintessence, means
and Intends, the transformation of prl
'vate and competing: capitals, employed
In production and distribution, Into a
united collective capital under direction
of the state. In place of private capital
and competition, we should have -a
state-regulated organization of the la
bor of the country into a social labor
eystcm, equipped out of collective capi
tal in the hands and under the direc
tion of the state. The state would have
superintendence and direction of all
productions, it would collect, warehouse
and transport all products, and finally
would distribute them to individuals in
proportion to their registered account
of social labor, and according to a valu
ation of commodities exactly corre
sponding to their cost of production.
This is the theory of Socialism. It
cannot be supposed it ever will be re
duced to practice in this country; hard
ly in any other. Socialism, so defined,
does not mean that property is rob
bery, at least in the ordinary fense of
the phrase. Nor does it mean a period
ical distribution of private property,
though presently, under Socialism,
there would be very little private prop
erty. Nor does it mean that private
though It does mean that all such com
pensation must take the form of con
sumable goods, and therefore be ter
minable. It would, however, produce
radical changes in the whole structure
of society, and become the greatest
leveling process the world has ever
known. It is scarcely necessary to
think of the possibilities of it, on this
basis. Nor Is It necessary to think or
conclude that municipal or state own
ership of public utilities, though it has
. socialistic aspect, would land us as
a. people or nation in such conclusions.
It was noted the other day that Jo
seph Medill Patterson resigned the
office of Commissioner of Public Works
of Chicago because, in his opinion, in
auguration of municipal ownership of
public utilities, towards which progress
is now making In that city, would be
no cure for the ills under which the
Xfction suffers. Hence he declared him
self a Socialist his idea of Socialism
being that "the ownership from which
money (or profit) springs should be
vested in the whole community." Fur
ther, to explain himself, he gave the or
thodox -definition of Socialism, namely,
"the common ownership of all the
means of production and distribution."
We have recalled what Mr. Patterson
aid. for the purpose of pointing out
the difference nay, the contrast be
tween public ownership of public utilities.-
such as water, gas and electric
Mipply. telephone service, street rail
ways, and even docks and levees, from
the so-called scientific creed of Social
Ism and its ultimate purposes. For
while municipal or state ownership of
public utilities does wear the aDnear-
nce of a step towards Socialism, It Is
erj distinct matter practicable, to
an extent, in operation now in Portland
as to water supply, and probably to be
carried much 'further. Schools, bridges
ferries, libraries, etc., of the citv. being
supported by direct taxation not whol
ly by those who use them fall under
another description.
The question of municipal ownership
is iire to. become. Irrepressible in Port
land, as elsewhere. The beginning was
made in the water supply, if we take
another step, as public ownership of
gas plant or telephone, that step will
purely lead to all that should logically
follow: Whst to do and how to do It
Is the question especially since it
seems Impossible to stand still, it is
however? Important to note the limita
tions of the subject, and to mark the
eential differences between public
ownership of public utilities and the
creed atnd ultimates of Socialism.
In an aoaress on the direct primary
lw At Canby recently, Mr. C. Schubel
declared that the "newspapers opposed
to Statement 2Co. 1 were under corpora
tion control." The Oregonlan Js not
opposed to Statement No. 1 but it is
oi6ed to any Interpretation thereof
f!!tf-5Q llrP!t.the Proper and law
ful fnnctkwB f the Legislature. Yet
r. Schubel meant to delude
Ttttrfkui In ate Ikst of corDoratloh
organs. This interests The Ore son J an
greatly: therefore it inquires of Mr.
Schubel as to the name or names -of
the particular corporation or corpora
tions that control Jt?
MR. TOOZE8 FIFTY DOLLAR CHECK
The Oregon Ian finds in the Browns
ville Times and various other Willam
ette Valley papers a news Item entitled
"Tooze Men AreConfldent Said to Have
a Strong-Lead in Southern Oregon." pur
porting to be a "dispatch published In
The Oregonlan March 4, 1906," under a
Woodburn date line. It was not a dis
patch published in The Oregonlan
-March 4, -or any other date; it was a,
communlcatlon addressed to the editor
of The Oregonlan and printed over the
signature of H. 31. Hicks, Republican
chairman of Woodburn Precinct. The
Oregonlan feels Justified in stating
briefly the facts about this little epi
sode, because it is illustrative of meth
ods often pursued to make it responsi
ble for, or lend Its authority to. ex-
4-pressions and sentiments which it has
never uttered. About February 28, the
editor of The Oregonlan received a let
ter from Mr. Tooze, inclosing an arti
cle which he desired run as news,
without signature, or other distinctive
marks. 3Ir. Tooze complained that
he had not been fairly treated in an
article by The. Oregonlan's Salem cor
respondent, whom -he described as an
active supporter of Mr. Hawley's cam
paign, or in another article from the
Albany correspondent, whom he placed
In the Huston camp. With Mr. Tooze's
letter was a check for $50, to "cover
future advertising"; and It was also
6ald by him that he would cheerfully
pa any charges that The Oregonlan
might make for the article he desired
printed as news. The Oregonlan re
grets that It did not keep Mr. Tooze's
letter, else it would be printed In full.
The following reply was returned to
him:
"We return herewith your check for 50 and
the news artlclo from our correspondent. Mr.
Gill, which you request b Inserted aa news
In The Oregonlan. It lslmposrlble for vs to
accept this $50, obviously Intended to be pay
ment for this communication. In It prcnent
shape.
The OreKonlan Is anxloua that your candi
dacy for Congreoi. so far as its columns are
concerned, shall be placed, on precisely the
same basis as Mr. Hueton'a and Mr. Hawley.
It has. accepted .no pay from either of then?
Brntlepcn for any purpose- whatever, and it
wlir tkke pay from no candidate except for
matter Inserted as advertising and understood
by the public to be advertlrlnc.
Some tlmn alnce The Oregonlan printed from
1U Salem corraipondent an article to which
Mr. Toose took exception, and Mr. Gill sent
down a correction presenting his Ide. Now,
It, Is obviously Impossible for The Orerontan
to permit one of Ha correspondent In this
way to answer the statements of another. If
the original statementa are Incorrect, they
must be corrected by The Oreronlan In It
own way, or there may be admitted to lin
columns the statement of any person concerned
who deolres to call attention to their Inac
curacy. Tbre has been at no time from any cor
respondent printed as news In thin paper auch
an article aa our 'Woodburn correspondent
submits. If you will permit me, I will en
deavor so to edit the article, which I return
to you, that It wIU be aa nearly as pdstlble
In the mroe tone and. spirit aa the Albany
article and the Falem article, about which
you complain. But a I have already Mid.
The Oreronlan cannot print your, artlclo In
Its present shape, attacking directly the can
dldaclen of Mr. Toose'a opponent, unless you
Nhcll E"t some responsible person to wsn
It, or unless you permit It to be sub
mitted to editorial supervision. In
that event, no charge whatever will
be made, becnune non should be mad.-.
. . . Mr. Toot may with afety leave to
this office the tat,k of editing this article no
that It will fully et forth what his friends
think of his Just claim to favorable consid
eration at the bunds of the voters of the
First Congressional District.
The objection The Oregonlan had to
accepting and publishing as Its own
the Woodburn article was that it was
cleerly a. partisan view of the Con
gressional situation In the First Dis
trict, since It contained statements like
this: "The Hawley forces In this (Ma
rlon County) show plain evidences of
disintegration." "Voters all over the
district are turning to the support of
lem school land ring." "Neither Hus
ton nor Hawley has ever been actively
identified with the Republican party
until they became candidates for Con
gress." However, when the article
was returned to The Oregonlan with
the signature of Mr. Hicks appended. It
was printed, so that full justice, or
more, might be done to 31r. Tooze.
Now, It appears in various newspapers,
like the Brownsville Times, Sllvertonlan
Appeal, Umpqua Valley News, South
ern Oregonlan, and Salem Capital
Journal, all friendly to Mr. Tooze,
credited to The Oregonlan, and In the
form in which The Oregonlan distinctly
declined to permit It to be published
In Its own columns. In one of these
papers, the Appeal, it Is given directly
as the editorial expression of The Ore
gonlan, without the Woodburn date
line.
The Oregonlan sets this matter right
because It desires the voters of the
First District to know that Jt is not
supporting Mr. Tooze for the Congres
sional nomination; nor is It opposing
him. Nor is it supporting or opposing
any other candidate. Nor can its sup
port be procured by $50 checka, or any
other improper consideration whatever.
Jt will leave to the newspapers
which have thus endeavored to place
The Oregonlan. in a false position to
make such explanations as they can
as to their motles for garbling an arti
cle from these columns.
DRESS. ITS POLICES AND VIRTUES.
A Dressmakers' Association is one
of the evolvements of modern business
methods. While this Is true, the pro
ceedings of a dressmakers convention
can scarcely, under prevailing Ideas of
modes and devotion to fads, of "fig
ures" and the habiliments necessary to
bring out their fine points on parade,
be less than silly, spectacular, vapid
and sensational. Hence the public was
in a measure prepared for the exhibi
tion of folly, 6i garment-worship and
of more or less immodest .posing and
speech that has characterized 4ie pro
ceedings of the National Protective
Dressmakers Association last week, in
session at Chicago.
It is probable, however, that the ac
tions and speech of even the frivolous
members of this "body- have been over
drawn by the reporters who were de
tailed to, give to the press an account
of the proceedings, of this convention,
and who, being refused "admittance,
were forced to substitute" for facts
which they could not get, fiction that
would pass muster as news. We may,
therefore, take with more than & grain
of allowance the statement that there
were "fearful and wonderful doings"
behind the closed doors of the conven
tion hall: that tired, perspiring, living
models fairly wept when they had to
hed the gaudy trappings in which they
poseq, ano-umt. a wonvaji sunt on the
general lines of a beerkeg was, In the
presence sf the audience, hammered,
slamrae. belted and laced int a, really
divine "figure.
There is felly eaewg-h la the realm of
(fashionable dressmaking and dressing.
There is no doubt of that. But the vo
I tariea at the shrine of drees belong al
most exclusively to the class known as
the Idle rich, who. while they are pay
ing worship at this court, with Its ex
tremes and. extravagances, are in no
greater mischief than that which cen
ters in a prodigality of time and money
and a frittering of their own energies
sins that they would commit in some
other way if not In this.
Every woman owes it to herself, her
family and her friends to dress neatly,
becomingly and well, in the best sense
of the last term. The mechanic's wife
may do this, and still keep within her
husband's means and adorn her sta
tion in life. The schoolteacher and
her name is legion may do it does
do It and is recognized as a woman of
intelligence, attractiveness and dis
cernment. Tbe farmer's wife the
drudge of the entire sisterhood of
women may make herself neat id
attractive In her clean afternoon gown
of calico or gingham, and. If she does
not do so, may well be subjected to
censure.
It is one thing to be careless and un
tidy in dress, quite another to make
nil other thoughts and duties sub-sen-lent
to IL We have the extreme in
the one case in the collarless, down-at-the-heel
slattern who thinks it wholly
unnecessary to "dress up" for the
pleasure of her husband and children
and for the credit of her home; the
other extreme is found in the woman
who makes dress and display the chief
objects of her existence, repudiating
motherhood, because it interferes with
this ambition, and who spends all of
what she calls her spare time with
dressmakers, milliners and beauty doc
tors. Between these two extremes stands
the grand army of Intelligent, culti
vated, conscientious, industrious Amer
ican women; women who respect and
oare for their bodies as they discharge
every other duty of life, with pains
taking and intelligence; who are mod
est, unassuming, and In the best sense
attractive. In laughing at and cen
suring the fads and fancies, the folly
and extravagance of the few. as rep
resented by Idle rich women, let us not
forget to pay tribute to the worth and
common sense of the many who form
the rank and file of American woman
hood on the great plane of middle life,
who eschew the follies and extremes of
fashion, but who number among their
virtues the ability to dress neatly, suit
ably and attractively, and therefore
beautifully.
WATERWAYS REGULATE RATES.
Congressman Joseph E. Ransdell. of
Louisiana, at a banquet given by a
commercial organization in New York
a few nights ago, advocated develop
ment of the waterways of the country
as the best means of regulating rail
road rates. He said that water trans
portation cost only one-third to one
fifth as much as rail, and that "wher
ever we have rivers, canals and lakes
with good navigation, freights are
cheap, and there Is no demand for rate
legislation." This Is a truthful state
ment, the Importance of which can best
be appreciated in communities fxvored
with water transportation. The eco
nomic advantages of a water highway,
open to all who care to make use of It,
arc only partially understood by many
writers who hwc essayed to discuss
regulation of rail rates. An illustra
tion of this was noticed recently when
a writer In a prominent magazine, in
an endeavor to point out Inequalities
in railroad rates, cited the fact that
Portlind and the Puget Sound cltle.i
enjoyed a lower rate from Eastern
points than Spokane, which was 400
miles nearer to those points.
This, of course, from a distance tar
iff standpoint, was an Inequality, but it
was one that ws beyond the power of
the railroads to equalize, for the sim
ple reason that Portland and other
Coast cltlesenjoyed the advantage of
water transportation from the Atlantic
seaboard, and the water carrier and not
the railroad, established the rate. This
rate was, of course, lower than the
rail rate, and. In order to handle any
business in certain commodities, the
railroads were forced to meet It re
gardless of the protest of Spokane and
other inland cities. This Is a condition
that maintains wherever rail and water
carriage ceme Into competition, end It
Is always the water route that estab
lishes the rate. Development of the
waterways of a country has reached Its
highest state of perfection in France
and Gcnxwny. where there are thou
sands of miles of canals, and freights
are remarkably low. In comparison
with those where rail carriage alone
must be depended on.
The producers of the United States
annually pay to the railroad companies
hundreds of millions for transportation
of freight, and yet extreme dlfllcultv
Is always experienced in securing river
and harbor appropriations for worthy
projects, the completion of which would
result In an enormous saving In freight
charges. The Indifference with which
these demands for funds for river and
harbor work have been met is reflected
in the statement by Mr. Ransdell that,
of the total appropriations for all pur
poses made by Congress In the past ten
years, rivers and harbors have received
but three per cent, while for Army,
Navy and pension purposes forty per
cent has been expropriated. If the
present agitaion over rate regulation
will succeed in bringing out the facts
regarding the value aa commercial
hlghwaj-s of our neglected waterways
much will have been accomplished,
even should we fall In securing full and
complete correction of the. evils at
tendant on the rate question.
The people of the Pacific Northwest,
and especially those In the Columbia
Basin, have a particular interest Just at
this time in wishing Congress to have a
perfect understanding of the value of
waterways as rate regulators. We
have Just secured from the Senate a
promise for a much-needed appropria
tion for the Columbia River, and the
project now awaits the approval of the
House. If the rest of the members
viewed river and harbor Improvements
from the same business-like standpoint
as that chosen 1y Mr. Ransdell. there
would be, no question as to the fate
of the Jetty relief bill in the House.
There Is so much at stake, however!
and the amount esked is so small, that
it seems hardly possible that the House
will fail to agree with the Senate re
garding it- .
William Schulmcrich. .the Washing
ton County dairyman, asserted at the
farmers' Institute at Salem Friday that
Oregon farmers can produce pork at a
cost of three cents a, pound, and with
pork selling In Portland at nine cents a
pound he thinks this a premising in
dustry in which te engage. He is -a be
liever In fields f clover for Spring
feeding, rape "for Bummer feeding, and
pumpkins for Autumn. If the farmer
be a dairyman and has skim milk as a
possible waste product, hogs should by
all means be kept to prevent the waste.
By producing on his own farm all the
feed the hogs will eat, the farmer can
produce pork at the lowest coat and
maintain the fertility of his soil by re
turning to his fields all waste mate
rials. If dairying Is a means of pre
serving fertility, hog-raislng. aa an ed
Junct of dairying, is a further advance
in the same direction. Beyond ques
tion, livestock husbandry is the re
source of the Willamette Valley for
the preservation of soil fertility. It
would seem that, while rejuvenating
their fields by raising cattle, sheep and
hogs. Oregon fjrmers should be able
to make a good .profit for themselves
and lessen the quantity of products Im
ported from the East.
John Alexander Dowie, who has
squeezed more money out of the credu
lous public than any other religious
faddist or fakir who has ever Illumined
the pages of religious history. Is broke
In a foreign land. A draft made by
him on the ZIon City bank 1ms been re
turned bearing the familiar stamp.
"Not paid for want of funds." Dowie
has been described as a man of many
parts, and his latest entry Into the pub
lic prints corroborates the description.
The statement is made that he has
spent 55000 since his arrival in Jamaica
a few weeks ago. This sum would en
title him to classification among the
"high rollers," and with Deacon Gran
ger at home doling out small amounts
"as could be spared," he becomes what
is known in. the West as a "remittance
man. A higH-rolllng remittance man
Is hardly a safe person to send out Into
the world, rounding up religious con
verts, and Deacon Granger would bet
ter have the old man sent home before
he gets into vaudeville or adopts some
other picturesque method of disgracing
the ZIon family.
It Is an unexplalnable form of Jdlocy
which finds expression In fake messages
purporting to come from lost vessels.
The latest of these hoaxes had Its
origin not far from Halt Moon bay on
the California coast. In a bottle picked
up on the beach was the following mes
sage: "The British ship Drumcralg.
Captain McCallum, sinking at sea,
north latitude 43, west longitude 127.
W. W. Bales, ble seaman." The miss
ing Drumcralg was a bark, and not a
"ship." Able seamen arc not always
blessed with a high grade of Intelli
gence, but the greenest hand that ever
went Into a forecastle would find no ne
cessity In a moment of great peril to
specify that a ship going down In 43
north and 127 west was sinking "at
sea." The entire construction of the
message shows the earmarks of an Ig
norant land lubber, whose peculiar
Ideas of humor will hardly be appre
ciated by the families of the men on
board the missing Drumcralg.
Quartermaster-General Humphrey as
sures Senator Fulton that In the mat
ter of supplies for the Philippines, the
Government seeks only "economy and
efllclency." Ail that Portland seeks In
the matter Is an opportunity to' do
business on business principles. Pri
vate firms doing business with the For
Eat can and do buy lumber, grain,
and othr commodities cheaper In Port
land than In any other market on the
Pacific Coast. They also experience no
dimculty whatever In chartering
steamships or silling vessels to cerry
this frelRht across the Pacific at rates
as low as arc obtainable from any
other port. A fair field and no favors
Is all that Portland hes ever asked In
connection with the Government busi
ness. When this Is granted, Portland
will receive a larger share of the busi
ness than has fallen this way In the
post
Argentine wheat shipments last week
reached the enormous total of 5,12S,00O
bushels, compared with 2,563,000 bush
els from the United States. If the
American Society of Equity, which has
decided to hold wheat for $1 per bushel.
Is In a hurry to see the market touch
that magic figure, it had better buy up
the Argentine crop and hold It off the
market. It Is a matter of extreme In
difference to the foreign consumer whut
figure the American Society of Equity
places on the cereal so long as the
Argentine continues to supply the de
mand at prices several cents per bushel
under the American markets. Wheat
has declined seven cents per bushel
since the society Issued Its manifesto
not on account of the manifesto, but
because there was more wheat for sale
In the world's markets than was re
quired to meet the demands.
One of the speakers at the farmers'
Institute at Salem Saturday said that
many residents of New Tork have
much more money than brains, and es
evidence of the truth of the statement
told how an Oregon farmer shipped ap
ples to New York so carefully packed
that they were delivered to the con
sumer without a bruise upon them, and
not a worm Inside. The millionaire en
tertainers were glad to pay such a
high price that the- Oregon producer
netted $7.20 a box for his 150 boxes of
apples. Oregon apple-growers should
proceed to demonstrate that they have
much more brains than money by try
ing to get a part of the wealth of Fifth
avenue by selling apples to the people
who nave more money than brains.
The Oregonlan has done the gas com
pany a great service. It has "knocked"
the price of gas (after May 1) to a fig
ure at which the public can afford to
use it, in Increasing quantities and with
steadily Increasing profits to the gas
company. And the public will be a
beneficiary, too. The Oregonlan has
always been the great mainstay of the
business of Portland.
A Seattle man, sent to the County
Jail to sober up, Insisted on remaining
when bis term had expired, and had to
be kicked out. Poor chap! It was
probably the only place he'had ever
found where his creditors couldn't get
at him.
The touch of Winter was given, per
haps, Just to remind us of one of the
things tbe starving millions of Japan
are up against.
Collins, the San Francisco lawyer,
gets fourteen years In prison. They
sometimes do the handsome thing in
California.
Who would have thought, away back
In 19M. that they would be offering
tfeoes&iHaa for a franchise down 'Front
street?
THE Slim LINING.
Br A. II. Ballard. '
The Plutocrat.
Tou are rolling in the luxury
Of much ill-gotten gains:
You are striving- hard as hard can -be
To swell your vast domains:
I suppose you caught that habit from
your. Pa.
You perambulate the avenues
With high and haughty mien:
You estimate Gentiles and Jews
A nuisance to be seen;
But you did not catch that habit from
your Pa.
You bribe, you scheme, you steal, you Ho
With airy nonchalance;
You rob, and lift your pious eye
Whene'er you get the chance:
T 'spect you caught that habit from your
Pa.
A franchise grab, a watered stock,
A property to wreck.
Owners of estates to mock
The5c are at your beck:
I believe you caught that habit from
your Pa.
Railroads, corporate scrip and lands
Yield you a princely life:
Not yours they are. but In your hands;
God knows your mental strife!
I know you caught that habit from your
Pa.
Weigh down the plate on Sunday morn
With your fat wad of bills:
'Tls all you have: your conscience torn
Will end In mighty Ilia;
Some people caught no habits from your
Pa.
Your money and your sleek, smug stealth
May not avail alway;
1 would not take ten times your wealth
To be you on tbe Judgment Day;
Shame! that you caught such habits from
your Pa.
Youll find that honesty, kindliness and
energy count for much, after all.
Clinch your teeth and face the battle.
A woman's face Is the root of all evil.
It Is unsafe to insult or Injure anyone.
In a day your positions may be reversed.
A man of wide intellect and compre
hension would fait down In despair at the
appalling ampunt of trouble and disap
pointment in this world. If the whirligig
of time did not hourly present an infini
tude of ever-changing possibilities. Hope,
hope, thero Is always the best of reasons
for magnificent hope. That saves us, and
is the only thing that does save us.
"Never start anything you can't fin
ish." Yc. and don't start too many
things even if you think you can finish
them. Do one thing and stick to it. Mlz
ner ma do a success of merely marrying
because he didn't do anything else. If
you are a maker of gas. don't try to run
newspapers at the same time.
Broadway bolls your blood, blisters
your feet and blinds your eyes; but most
people In America prefer these sensations
In that particular place to life anywhere
else. You pays your money and you
takes your choice, and It takes a pot of
money, too.
Definitions.
(Tips on the Race of Life.)
AFFINITY A man who has got money
enough to make it worth while.
FINISH When a man gets married,
that's his finish'.' .
STAGE A place of exhibition where
women and men djjplay and try to mar
ket their charm..
FORGIVENESS When a friend realizes
that you are no good and Is reconciled
to it.
ANGER Another name for getting
worsted In any transaction, great or
small.
EMOTION What you feci when the
money Is coming in all other feelings
arc weak Imitations of this basic emotion.
FRANCHISE Something Portland
gives and other cities sell.
PLUTOCRATIC Tendency to grab
franchises and watered corporations pre
ferred; possessions of widows and or
phans second choice.
ALLIANCE When two thieves are
working on the same Job.
AMEN What we say when our guests
depart.
DOLLAROCRACY A new name coined
to take the place of America.
TRUE Something no one ever accom
plished. FEMALE A branch of the human spe
cies banded together to capture man.
Their chief weapons arc dres and lying.
THINGS DOING IN THE COUNTRY
That's What We Say.
Hilkerta Corr. Forest Grove News.
That mule team must be pretty good
riders, as the boys are pecn riding on the
Thutchcr road quite often of late. Ha!
ha!
Why Herman Stays.
Highlands Corr. Sheridan Sun.
I Is a mistake about Herman Hill going
away. He Is one of those wise young
men that knows when a girls looks at him
and smiles It Is best not to go. He Is a
-mlndreadcr.
It's Up to You, Girls.
Highlands Corr. Sheridan Sun.
Harley Welson Is working on the old
home place at Ira Stephens making fence
and cutting his next Winter's wood. Now.
girls, look out, some of you will have to
say yes or no this Fall, for Harley wilt
have to have a cook.
Conductor Mulligan's Kind Advice.
. ' St. Johns Review.
' She was a pretty little woman from the
Interior of the state, and she boarded
Conductor Mulligan's car to come to St.
Johns to visit her slster-ln-law. She had
but little knowledge of the trolley sys
tem, and viewed everything along the
route with intense Interest. "If I should
put my foot on that rail." said she. point
ing to the nearest bit of track, "would I
get a shock?" Mulligan smiled. "Not
unlcs you put your other foot on the over
head wire!'- replied tbe suave conductor.
The dear woman almost fainted.
Behind the Times.
Llpplncott's.
Luclle was making her first visit in the
country.
What's that?" she cried, as she saw
the fireflies.
We call them lightning bugs. Didn't
you ever see any before?"
"No; the bugs In our tawa. ain't lit
yet."
t
In the Kiss Line.
W. H. Froit la Llpplneetrs.
"Ia there danger of coatagtea Is a xlaa
Asked a younr very eaxaa!ag Jack
on XIc.
Bald the Baltimore ML: "If y wtrti we'll
Tror N. C.
If there'a a ay Hilar caatagioKa la a Mac."
FRANCHISES AND THE PEOPLE
New York Press, March 5.
Before the People's Forum In New
Rochelle yesterday William J. Gaynor.
Justice f the 8uprerae Court, Appel
late Division, of the Second Depart
ment, delivered a remarkable address
on the failure of the Government In tfic
Nation, state and city to enforce the
laws for the people as against the cor
porations. He Intimated broadly that
tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
could be mace -to do its duty or lose Its
franchises. He said outright, that there
Is a remedy for tlie exactions of the
gas trust, and' authority In law to force
tho Ryan-Bclmont traction monopoly
to carry out Its obligations to the peo
ple. The Justice, In depicting Rockefeller
as a fugitive from a subpena server,
said Rockefeller and his kind arc -the
real anarchists and if not checked will
destroy our Government. The address
In part Is as follows:
"The prime object of government is
to promote distributive Justice to all.
If government falls In this It falls at
the all essential point. The blunt say-
i tngr of Cromwell Is as true now as when
he uttered It: If there be any one tnat
makes many poor to make a few rich,
that suitD not a commonwealth.' Pros
perity la the highest production of use
ful or agreeable commodities the com
munity Is capable of, consistent with
the physical, spiritual and moral
health and growth of its members, ac
companied by a Just distribution among
the producers of the total product. This
doa not mean share and share alike,
but according to the fair productive ca
pacity of each, whether It be physical
or mental or both.
"No matter how great the total pro
duct may be. If there be not a Just di
vision of. It among the producers If
you have not that distributive Justice
which I have mentioned then you
have not prosperity, but the reverse.
The aggrandizement of the few at the
expense the many Is not prosperity.
If laws and conditions are such as to
enable a few to get an undue propor
tion of the total product of Industry, a
larger proportion than they earn, that
Is government not of Justice, but of
Injustice, and there Is no excuse for Its
continuance and It cannot In the na
ture of things long endure with an In
telligent and educated people, but only
with an Ignorant people. The Intelli
gent people of this country are finally
making up their minds that they will
no longer Buffer such a condition to be
created or fostered by the abuse of the
public franchises of the country, under
which our public-service corporations
exist, and they are prepared to elect
Legislatures and courts and public offi
cials who will even resume such fran
chises, take them back, unless such
abuses are stopped.
'
"Gas companies and railroad com
panies and tho like are not mere pri
vate companies such as companies manu
facturing wall papor or carpet or
clothes. On the contrary, they havo
been given a public franchise to do a
public duty or service, and for that
purpose the Government's power to
take the property of Individuals for
public purposes has been conferred on
thcm.by government. That great power
could not be conferred on them ex
cept on the theory that they are en
gaged In governmental service. Hav
ing In mind that that is the status of
your gas companies. Just look at what
they have done. Have they acted the
subordinate and useful part of gov
ernment agencies or have they been al-
i lowed to do as they please?
"Government created from time to
time about 20 such gas companies in
what was" the old City of New York,
and gave them separate territories or
districts to supply. The city conferred
on them franchises to use the streets
In order to do their service. They were
the offspring of government. The city
dealt and bargained with each one sep
arately In Its separate district and got
along pretty well with them"; But stat
utes were paused enabling one corpora
tion to own the stock of other corpora
tions, and In that way one company,
called tho Consolidated Company, now
owns all of the companies and manages
them ao n unit and prcoents a monopoly
to the city to deal with.
The city become the victim of It
nna offaprfafci they eemblae sad defy
her aad rob her and her people. That
Is what we call a trust, namely, a
partnership or combination of several
similar corporations. We cry out
against trusts, but the legislators,
whom we elect, busy themselvca pass
ing laws to enable trusts to be formed:
and then they pass laws to curb trusts
called anti-trust law: In fact, thoy
sometimes pass both kinds of lawa In
the same seuslon. Could anything be
more ludicrous? The people arc taken
for mere fools by their chosen repre
sentative. All of the trusts are formed
under statutes enabling one corpora
tion to own the shares of other cor
porations. In that way any number of
corporations may be brought under the
control of one corporation, and there Is
your trust, and thus we have a gas
trust.
"A big company like the Consolidat
ed Company Is prone to forget the obli
gations of the several companies it
controls to government and to the peo
ple, who created them and endowed
them for a public service. The law Is
that the city or an individual Is only
obliged to pay a gas company a fair
price. That can be ascertained only by
examining its books to find the cOBt of
Reduction.
"But. forgetting that gas companies
are not private and Independent manu
facturing or trading companies.. but on
the contrary, public service corpora
tions, a big gas trust tells the city that
the cost of manufacture of gas Is Its
private matter, and none of the city's
business, mark you: and I notice that
the city" tho other day began a suit
against the Consolidated Company to
ascertain such cost. And wc still have
some people among us who have not
yet got through their heads that a
public-service corporation Is in a dif
ferent position toward the public and
government than an ordinary private
manufacturing company or a private
individual in .business.
"A private business may make all It
can: it has competitors, and govern
ment has nothing to do with it. Bat a
paBlIc-aerrlce corporation ahemld aot
fee allowed te make oat of the pasllc
mere- tkaa a fair retain Hpoa It acfaal.
accessary laveatmeat, aad T believe It
la agreed that the legal rate ef latereat
la Kara a fair retara. How many times
that arc the public paying to the gas
companies of the City of New York?
You can imagine when you are in
formed that the capitalization of the
companies controlled by the Consoli
dated Company Is upward of $90,000,000
of stock and $100,003,300 of -bonds, and
that the capitalization of the Consoli
dated Company is $100,000,300. The gas
companies of Brooklyn are organized In
the same way. In It aar wonder hai
dreOa ef the a sand a ef people aay that
taee ceatpaalea, bavins: been created
aad Klvea Jraacalaea te do n overa
ment service, ka-ve been turned front
the daty of aerrlnjr the x vera meat aad
the" le at n fair price late
ciea to extort from the dry aad the
people hoaey te pay Interest and dlvl
deada ea an exerbitaat and fcegna cap
itallaatlea, and thereby enrich a few
at the eznense ef the ntany, -which the
groat miad ef aad aatare ef Cromwell
saw did net becente a commonweal thf
Some Dangers, of Smoking.
The 'Lancet.
The cigarette smoker who "swallows
the smoke." as It is often said, deliberate
ly exposes himself to the rink of unmis
takably poisonous symptom, as are man
ifested in. palpitation of the heart, dyspep-.
tic disturbances. Impairment ' of vision,
headache, breathlessae, malaise and so
OB.
VOICE OF THEOUNTRY-PRESS
Good $ease of a.Yakirjta Horse.
North Yakima (Wash.) "Republic...
. We saw a man beating, a "horse with
a shovel this morning. The Tiorsefcaa
too much sense to retaliate.
Crops.
Albany Democrat. "
T. T. Geer attending Professor Withy
combe's farmers'. Institutes and talking
crops is pretty good, and Geer Is "two
Inches the taller.
Doing Something for the Pnbllc.
St. Helens Mist.
The Oregonlan Is getting gloriouriy
even, and incidentally accomplishing a
great deal for the masses who have, beon
ridden nearly to death- by the Portland
franchise grabbers.
Outgrowing the Gumboot Age.
The Dalles Chronicle.
Pendleton Is another town that Is grow
ing tired of living In the gumboot- age
and proposes to have some good, solid
and substantial street Improvement. The
practice of putting 'a sand, poultice on a
soft spot In the road every Spring never
has been and "never wIlLbo satisfactory.
Ought to Have Done It Privately.
Albany Democrat.
The Democrats did not dodge the pri
mary law in their Portland convention.
They simply recommended certain men
for different positions, in view of the
fact that some of the positions are going
begging for candidates. In the opinion
of tho Democrat, though, it would .have
been better not to have even recom
mended a ticket, but to have made ar
rangements privately to secure candidates
for those offices without candidates. It
Is probably alt the same In the long run;
but It would have obviated all charges
of Inconsistency In connection with the
support of the direct primary law.
Crows In Mortal Combat.
New York Herald.
Two dozen or more persons, including
several well-dressed women, watched a
battle to a finish between two crows hear
the obelisk. In Central Park. New York,
on a recent Sunday afternoon. The fight
ended only at the death Qf one of. the
feathered pugilists, and held the specta
tors Intensely Interested to tho finish,
Thef birds flew together into, the park
and without any preliminaries faced each
other like trained gamecocks. The fray
began- Immediately. There were no
rounds, and for fully 20 minutes the con
test was one that would have satisfied a
Filipino.
With wonderful tenacity and pugnacity
and amid a constant flutter of wings and
much shrill cawing, the crows pegged and
tore at each other with their powerful
beaks. In 15 minutes one bird lost Its left
eye ahd almost half of Its feathers.-but
not for an Instant did It give ground or
weaken Its attack. Five minutes after
ward Its antagonist delivered a -vicious
thrust In the remaining eye. The stab
apparently reached the brain, for the
blinded bird toppled over and turned its
feet skyward.
Then the victorious crow, which had
not come out of the fight unscathed, flut
tered around Its dead opponent for about
a minute, cawing loudly the while. It
then flew to the obelisk, winged around
It several times, and alighted on the very
pinnacle of the huge stone. From Its
lofty perch It looked toward the body of
Its erstwhile foe for a few seconds, then
emitted three long, melancholy, cawg and
turned and flew away, passing over the
Museum building.
Hockefcllcr "Upbraided in Conrt.
Butte News.
Listen to what Supreme Court Justice
Gaynor. of New York, has to. say-ofjJohn
D. Rockefeller, the champion subpena.
dodger; -
"What Would a decent man here Jn- thh;
community do if he heard an officer was
looking for him to subpena him to court
to testify? Would he hide m his house
and IiRve his wife and children and serv
ants He and say they did not know where
he was? Would he hie Into some other
state, or go aboard his yacht, if he had
one. and put to sea and escape, or would
he como forward like a decent man and
say: I am here.' And if he lied or
sneaked away would he not be condemned,
by the community as dishonest, dishon
orable and dlsrespectable? Would any
one offer him his hand on his return? .
"And if a man with an overgrown for
tune made out of the abuse of public fran
chises does nothing, is he a decent mem
ber of society? Ia ho fit to mingle with
honest people?
"No amount of church or Sunday school
teaching can make a character decent or
respectable."
As an arraignment of -vicious citizenship
and cowardice, nothing is to be added. to
these remarkable words of Justice Gay
nor. Vancouver Speaks for Itself.
Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian.
The Oregonlan calls attention to the
fact that delay on the part of the
Port of Portland in allowing the north-r
bank road to bridge the Willamette
may cause the road to ship next
year's crop to Seattle. This would
be due to the fact that the road
would be complete to Vancouver be
fore the bridge was built. Well, what of
It? Portland was a city and had its
first families and mossbacks when Se
attle was an Indian village on the tide
flats. Of course. Vancouver has a good
harbor and could handle all the wheat
through warehouses built here, but we
are so small that The Oregonlan cannot
nse us to awake the old conservatives of
Portland. Who "did first rate, thank
you. before they had railways and can
still live If the north-bank road never
comes.' The Oregonlan has reckoned
wrong again. It will taks more than,
the mere mention of the name Seattle to
awaken those sleepers,
JTEWBPAFEK WAIFS.
"Weary Ono (Jovially) "Fine xaorniag.
The Judge (genially) "T. Indeed ten
and costa." Cleveland Xeader.
TTgly Coster "'Oo . are yer statin at?"
The otber "I ain't good at natural Utory."
Punch. ,
Connoisseur "Ah I ThI Is a copy of n
Titian. Tou will pardon jne I am sure. If
I say that it la an Imperfect one."
Artist "Certainly. As a contclentlous
painter, I had to copy all the Imperfections
of the original, you know." Chicago.. Tri
bune. Blobbs "So you gave up $10 to that for
tune teller, eh? What did she tell your
Slobbs "8he said I was too easy?" Phila
delphia Record.
"You. say she is a. habllual bargain hunt
er?" "Habitual t Why. say. that woman
would get op at 4 o'clock to attend a. rem
nant tale of eggs." Indianapolis Star.
"I hear the audience laat night; was ratntr
cold." said the critic. "Most of the people
were, at first," replied Hamin. "butwhan
they remembered that they had paid 'good
raosey to see the show they got hot."
Philadelphia Press.
The Stlalster "That was a rather .Jong
sermoa I preached this morning, my dear.
Do yoa think it met with the approval 6t
the congregation?" Hla TVlfe "I supposo
so. Abaer. I notieed they "were all aod
dlng." Chicago Dally Naw-
"How would yoc advtsa me to proceed In
order to attract public attention to my
statesmaaly abilities?" "Thero are two
ways," answered Senator Sorghum. "One Is
to read .up all the works oa political ecoa
emy yoa caa Aad, aad the. other la to.re
aesiber alt the ftay stories' yea hear."
-WaehlBgan Star.
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