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THE TRANSFORMATION. The plans outlined for railroad devel opment in the Oregon Country, assur ance of which Is supplied by work ac tually In progress, together with the irrigation projects under way and oth ers In preparation, the enormous growth of the delTfand for lumber and multiplication of sawmills on every hand, the rapid advent of new popula tion and increase of every kind of in dustry and production, will certainly effect, within a short time, a transfor mation of surprising extent in all parts, and particularly within the lim its of the present State of Oregon, which hitherto has not received In the work of development its proper share of attention. At bottom of all such growth and progress in our time lies creation of facilities through railroad extension. The main instrument or agency In modern "activity is the railroad. Upon it depends, mainly, the progress of every other Industry. Transportation has assumed In our modern life the place and rank of the one great energy necessary to all the rest. And the rail road Is as necessary to creation of ocean commerce as to the Internal de velopment of a country. We expect that within five years our railroad mileage in Oregon will be doubled. We include In this statement the North-Bank lines, which, though mainly in another etate, will be in fact, for all the purposes of commerce, Ore gon roads. Penetration of our coast country, at various places, as Tilla mook, Umpqua and Coos Buy, will open, first through the lumber busi ness and then through agriculture and correlated industries, new sources of activity, both for inland and ocean commerce. In our coast region, from the mouth of the Columbia southward, there will be within a dozen years aej many inhabitants as now In 'all Ore gon. The natural sources of wealth, therein awaiting appropriation and de velopment, are nowhere surpassed and in few places equaled. All arong the coast are ports which muy be opened, and will be opened, to coastwise trade; and a great ocean port Is wholly prac ticable at Coos Bay. The railroad is the prophecy, and it will be the fulfill ment, of all these things. So indispensable is the railroad in the economy of modern life that a country or a tract can do nothing till the railroad enters it. Hence Eastern Oregon has made little progress, and none .worth notice or mention, away from the single railroad along the northern border of the state and on the few short spurs thrown out from the main line. Eastern Washington has outstripped the progress of Eastern Oregon solely because it has been pen etrated and tra verged In all directions by the railroads. The difference ' can be equalized only by putting railroads through Eastern Oregon. Great possi bilities of wealth are there; but the railroad must go and make it, nd will find its own profit with the development. The resources of timber, of grazing, of agriculture., In Eastern Oregon are im mense. . It is shallow observation to declare it a desert. It is the same des ert that covers an area of a million square miles, east und west, between the Cascade Range In Oregon and Grand Island, in Nebraska, and north to south from the Canadian border to the middle of the State of Texas. Time was, and that within living memory, when it was said, and be lieved, too, that civilized men never would live, or could live, in this vast "desert" region. But the railroad has transformed the greater part of It, and soon will transform the remainder. Irrigation appears as a powerful factor in the work. Tho largest stretch of country with out railroad in. the United States now lies within the boundaries of Oregon. It has been neglected, for development elsewhere; but Its time is coming, and now is believed to be at hand. For the promises that have been, made are too direct and too definite to permit further incredulity. Within five years we shall have railway extension In various parts of Oregon on a eoale that will complete a vast outline and leave only local demands here and there still to be met. The lumber business of Oregon will alone go far to sustain the traffic; for lumber Is wanted, and will be wanted more and more towards the East, for a distance of twenty-five hundred miles; and Oregon contains the largest bodies of standing timber that remain In the world. Within the next ten years the popu lation of Oregon will he doubled, and the wealth increased four-fold. The agencies that will produce these results are fast getting into operation. It is open, patent, to every observer. Note the clipping on this page from the Astorian about the Columbia River bar, and the assertion that Portland prevents Improvement of the bar. Ob serve also that Portland Is deepening the river above. Ibe bar, but can't un- dertake the bar work, because it is too big. Note lso that Astoria has had these four years a Senator in Congress. That Senator Js a worthy and able man, and has done as much as any man could have done. Why should Astoria wish to discredit him? Port land Is working on the river, but is not working on the bar. She has taxed herself immensely to deepen the river, and the river has an excellent chan nel due to her efforts. But she hasn't attempted work on the bar. Does the Astorian expect Portland to tax herself for that work? It is an un dertaking beyond her resources, and dependence has ' been placed on the General Government. Senator Fulton ought to deliver a word or two of monition to the paper of his town. By so much greater a Portland Is than As toria, by so much the more does Port land want deep water toelow Aetorla. But Is Portland to undertake it? Or shall not the Government of the United States be asked to look to it? A TOPIC FOR THE TIMES. Good morals is the basis of every good and growing and energetic com munity. But morals are established in freedom, and grow only through free dom. A . beautiful, excellent, rural community or village, where morals are under coercion , of a local public opinion, may exist. Prohibitions of various kinds may be established. But that town never will grow to any stat ure of greatness. Or, if it should, and as soon as it should, It will cast oft legal prohibitions and depend on moral prohibitions alone. There is no real greatness, can be no real greatness, except in and through human freedom, and its correlate, hu man responsibility. Our counties, In which the rural districts are trying to force prohibition on their county towns, are making a mistake. It is not true local option, either. It wiyi be under stood and will work out, after a while. Local option, as to sale of liquor, is all right in principle. But its true principle Is perverted when It Is used to force prohibition on those who do not want it and who vote against it. Let no one suppose real temperance Is making or will make any actual prog ress under this system. It will be clearer in Oregon by and by. The town that is to grow and to amount to anything will not prohibit, but will reg ulate and control, so as to prevent or punish abuses. The strife on this sub ject in Oregon is but Just begun. It will end, as It has ended, In qur older states, by enforcement of prohibition only in the towns and cities that want it. And they never will be important towns or cities; however excellent as rural or village communities. The Oregonian . has no Intention of reopening at this time the question of prohibition, or any discussion of rt. Its purpose simply is to make a statement pertinent to the present time, and a statement that will be pertinent to all times. The Oregonian will simply wait and see. It knows, from study of ex perience elsewhere, how this attempt will work out. A cosmopolitan state like Oregon never can 'be held, in the provincial class with Maine, Vermont and South Carolina. PURCHASE OF THE MILWAUKEE. In securing control of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Mr. 'Harriman has undoubtedly scored heavily on his active antagonist, Mr. 'Hill. When Mr. Harriman suddenly developed a desire to build railroads wherever Mr. Hill was heading with his new roads, he was not infrequently charged with obstructive tactics. To what extent these charges were justi 'fied is still undetermined, but the ac--quisltlon of the St. Paul and the prose cution of the plans for its extension to the Pacific Coast will certainly have a tendency to impress the people with the belief that Mr. Harriman's activity has not been all bluff. If this modern railroad magician has added the Milwaukee road, with its vast sys tem of feeders, to the immense railroad interests of which he is already in pos session, he has landed a severe blow on the Hill interests and greatly strength ened his own position in the Pacific Northwest. When Mr. Hill officially announced his intention of building the north-bank road and Invading territory which Mr. Harriman had for so long regarded as his special preserves, the natural retaliation of the Union Pacific magnate was to prepare an invasion of the Hill territory on Puget Sound. The public is quite familiar with the fierce fighting which has been engag ing the attention of the legal, operat ing and even construction departments of the respective roads. Mr. Hill fought hard to keep Harriman out of Seattle, and Mr. Harriman fought hard to keep Mr. Hill out of Portland. Neither has succeeded In' winning his Vontest. and both are now practically certain to he operating in new terri tory within a comparatively short time. The Milwaukee as an agency for col lecting and distributing the vast Quan tities of freight which the Harriman lines will haul across the continent, is fully as important an acquisition as was the Burlington system to the Hill lines. If the -Milwaukee road is pushed on to Puget Sound and Portland, as It undoubtedly will be, it will enable Mr. 'Harriman to share in the immense lumber and shingle traffic which has heen ouch a powerful factor in swell ing the profits of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern. There is, of course, an immense amount of traffic of. this kind in the territory now reached by the Harri man lines, but as Mr. Hill is coming down to Portland to force a division of this traffic It is but natural that Mr. Harriman should break into new fields In the Puget Sound territory. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul has an extent of 675S miles, and includes in the system nearly 100 "branch lines and feeders radiating through the Dakotas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. That is the country that Is already buying heavily of Pacific Coast lumber, and & few years hence, when the remaining scanty stocks of the "pineries" are exhausted, the de mand will be of such proportions as to make that of the present day seem small and insignificant "by comparison. With the Illinois Central draining the great Mississippi Valley, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul traversing the richest portion of the Middle West and Northwest, and the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific and connecting lines all working under one management, Mr. Harriman is not only In control of more railroad mileage than Is operated by any other man on earth, but he also has It in the richest traffic-producing regions on earth. With this vast rail system a con necting line of steamers on the Atlan tic Coast, another line to China anf Japan, not to mention the fractional line between Portland and San Fran cisco, it may truthfully be said that the sun never sets on the Harriman possesslons. It is in the power of Mr. Harriman, as well as of Mr. Hill, to do a great deal for a country which has done so much In the traffic-producing line for him. Just at present there is such an overwhelming volume of traffic that it has overtaxed the facili ties of the roads to handle it. Eventu ally there will be an adjustment of these, conditions, and then it will be necessary for the roads-. to encourage the development of the country. The coming of thi3 period will be hastened by the competition between the two greatest figures in the railroad world today. It is to be hoped that they will continue fighting and adding to their facilities until there will no longer be any part of the great Northwest with out a "railroad. A COMFORTABLE SYLLOGISM. Either the Rev. Sheldon Jackson has very little religion or he has a great deal. If h has but little, it seems strange that in all these years the mis sionary society, which has been paying him a salary for attending to the sal vation of the lost Alaskans, should not have found it out. If he has much, it must be of rather a poor quality, for his grart seems to be of the same filthy 6ort as that of the mere politician, who makes no pretense of saving souls but confines his efforts to robbing the Government. Mr. Sheldon Jackson seems to do both of these apparently incompatible tasks with equal facility. His annual harvest of souls' must have been fairly abundant or he could not have kept his salary from the missionary- society so long; and we know from the Churchill report how skillful he was in replen ishing his own pocketbook and that of his friends from the public funds. His fruitful career raises the question whether honesty is helpful or harmful to a missionary's work. Everybody knows how little fact and how much Action there are in the re ports sent home from China, JBorrio boola Gha and the isles of the sea by some missionaries. Their multitudes of converts are like the thousand cats which the boy told his father he had seen in the back yard. Warned of the sinfulness of exaggeration, the youth curtailed his estimate to five hundred, one hundred, and finally fifty. Further exhortation reduced - it to ten, and a smart application of the shingle finally brought out the tearful protest that "our old cat and another one were there, anyway." Could similar pro cesses of. sifting be brought to bear upon many of the missionary reports, they would dwindle in the same way. Honesty in word is not therefore es sential to a missionary's standing with his society, and Mr. Jackson's long and blessed career proves that financial honesty is equally needless. This proposition is easily proved. If he did not steal he could not give to the cause. But giving to the cause is good; therefore stealing which makes it possible is also good. Otherwise -we should have a good effect from a bad cause, which everybody knows is im possible. This reasoning has the ap proval of numerous great theological authorities, notably Dr. Lyman Ab bott, of the Outlook. One of his favor ite syllogisms proves the saintliness of Mr. Rockefeller. Rockefeller's gifts to the church are a good effect. Hence the cause of them must be good. Ergo, Mr. Rockefeller is a saint. SOCIETY OX SHIPBOARD. The exposure of Lieutenant Dunn's conduct on board the training-ship In dependence surprises none. The offi cers of the Navy and the regular Army are members of high aristocratic cir cles. Their associates are of the pluto cratic caste, with plutocratic tastes and morals. It is to be expected, there fore, that during periods when vice is fashionable on land, it should also be cultivated on shipboard. Divorces and Oriental orgies being now the rage in millionaire circles, as a relaxation from the labors of motor car riding and dining, it Is to be ex pected that similar amusements will prevail among some of the smart offi cers of the Navy. Should", those officers pursue the somber paths of virtue while their associates on land are di verting themselves with fast women, they would lose the tone of society; they would find themselves no longer du monde, so to speak, when they again went ashore. A gentleman must be a gentleman everywhere, on ship board as well as on land; otherwise he gets out of practice. Aside from the necessity of keeping pace -with their "set," the idle life of Army and Navy officers, in time of peace, must make it exceedingly diffi cult for them to cultivate the hum drum virtues of civil station. Most of them are healthy men in the prime of life, and Byron has well sung that "Health and idleness to passion's flame are oil and gunpowder." Both from Its effects upon the con duct and character of those who be long to it and from its incongruity with Democratic institutions, a reg ular army must be looked upon as a necessary evil in this country. In Eu rope, where it is thought worth while to buttress up aristocratic institutions with vast military establishments, they seem more in harmony with the scheme of civilization; but here they have al ways appeared somewhat out of place. The fathers of. the Republic dreaded standing armies and made but slender provision for them under the Constitu tion. The entire course of Anglo Saxon history is one continuous warn ing against the effects of militarism in a free nation. Our own history happily affords few instances by which one can judge how a standing army would conduct itself, when employed by a tyrant against the people. The officers of the Navy and stand ing Army are educated under an Iron clad curriculum which tends to destroy every vestige of their individuality and reduce them to automatons. The system of training at West Point and Annapolis . is thoroughly aristocratic. Rank, caste, unhesitating obedience and subservience to rule are the un yielding ideals of the schools. Of course these are necessary in a reg ular military establishment, but that fact only emphasizes the incongruity between militarism 'and democracy. A standing army Is in precise harmony with monarchic Ideals and modes of life; in a republic it Is at best a thing to be tolerated for lack of something more suitable to the genius of our in stitutions. The Washington Railroad Commis sion is steadily drifting farther into the mazes of a most perplexing question. The making and maintenance of a dis tance tariff which is fair and satisfac tory to all the points'covered and af fected by its workings has always proven atask which has required the ability and experience of rate experts who have spent a lifetime in the busi ness. Under such circumstances it is not to be wondered at that the rail roads view with some degree of enxi ety a distance tariff constructed by men whose connection with railroad matters is strictly political. With the commission it is probably a case where, if they are given sufficient rope, they will succeed in entangling themselves. The joint rate, which is directly aimed at Portland, will fail in its object. As to the proposed distributive rates for the interior points, they cannot be other than self-adjusting with the Portland or Puget Sound rate for a base. So long as the Coast ports have the ben efit of water competition, it will 'be a difficult matter for the ' Washington Railroad Commission to nullify that advantage by any distance tariff not warranted by conditions. Senator Sutherland, of Utah, ex presses the opinion that intermarriage with the white race has improved the Indian in every way. This view is con trary to the experience and observa tion of most persons who have come in contact with halfbreeds, who, on the contrary, are ' subjects of physical weakness and mental deterioration. This Is especially true where the fath ers, as is usually the case, are the dis solute men of the border or reserva tion, known as "squawmen." The off spring of such mixed marriages, espe cially if girls, have no place in the world and would be excused in cherish ing a feeling of bitter resentment toward their fathers, to whose gross nature and sodden Indifference to con sequences they are indebted for life. Senator Sutherland says that half breeds attend college, take up profes sions and become good citizens. This is no douht true in some, perhaps the so-called civilized, tribes, in many in stances. But the halfbreed born on the border and brought up on the reservation"-or its outskirts is without a place in the economy of Nature, and has a just grievance against his parents especially his father. The order of Secretary Taft granting to privates in the Army the opportu nity for promotion, if liberally carried out, will in time fcring about a much better state of affairs in the Army. The life of a soldier under present rules offers less Inducement to an ac tive, intelligent man anxious to get on in the world than any other calling. If, however, there is before the soldier a prospect for promotion rewards, he Is afforded an incentive which Is suffi cient to materially Improve his work and habits. The successes attained by men who have risen from the ranks in our industrial enterprises are far more plentiful than those of the men who reached commanding positions through influence. No man can under stand men as well as he who has worked in the ranks with them, and best results are obtainable when the captain, either in the regular or the industrial army, has a perfect knowl edge of the men who are to execute his commands. It is denied by the Houston (Texas) Post that the overwhelming strength of the Democratic party in the South is due to fear of negro domination. That journal states the reason, as it sees it, thus: The dominant political sentiment of the Southern States represents ancient Ideals of Republican government. It la shown in eco nomical state governments. The cost of the municipal government In New York City ex ceeds the coet of all the state, county, city and town governments of the entire South combined. "Yet," says the New York Sun, "this city has been ruled by the Democrats, 'with few interruptions, time out of mind. Is the Northern Democrat less economical than his fellow-partisan of the South." Captain E. O. Crlm, a large individ ual with a diminutive mind, who Just at present has charge of the football squad of the University of Washing ton, has issued an edict forbidding players from holding any conversation with reporters. He has also excluded photographers and reporters from the grounds. Very few of the Washington football players are cheap cads such as Captain Crlm proves himself to be, and it is a certainty that any attempt on his part rigidly to enforce his ridicu lous order will be followed by a mu tiny that may be dangerous to the prestige of the captain himself. Ex-Senator Turner, of Washington, nominates Governor Chamberlain for the Vice-Presidency. Chamberlain de clines and nominates Turner. Ne braska and Washington, or Nebraska and Oregon, would make a ticket that the envious East would call Western, and perhaps woolly. There are some electoral votes over there along the Atlantic seaboard, and some in the Mississippi Valley, east of Nebraska. So-called "forest fires" which occur in settled portions of the state, are spread by dry grass, which fills the fence rows and neglected portions of the farms. To a great extent, this could be avoided if more sheep were kept on the farm. Every farm should have its band of sheep, varying in number according to the amount of pasturage the farm affords. Several attempts have been made in this state to effect organizations of prune growers and hop growers whereby the expense of. passing the crop through the hands of middlemen could be avoided. Thus far these ef forts have failed, but. that Is no reason why the effort should pease. The prune grower gets too little and the consumer pays too much. There have been more than one thou sand murders in the United States during a year. And few punishments. Perhaps the real reason is that the men who deserved it most have not been taken off. If any more resolutions can estab lish Portland's Alaska steamship line or deepen the Columbia bar or the en trance to Coos Bay, let's have 'em. Tacoma has been "captured" by the "blues," and of course Seattleites are saying a real enemy would have want ed Seattle but couldn't have got it. The campaign committees might adopt the bargain-store method of marking down the $1 contributions to 99 cents. Public-service corporations in Port land won't tell their earnings, but the people, In the end, can find out. But here are individuals to whom the world owes large draughts of Mr. Bailey's Chinese gin. Eighteen cents for hops is a big price when it can't be had. TIMBER IS FAST DISAPPEARING Mill Cut and Fire Ravages Surest Future Lumber Famine, Leslie's Weekly. That our lumber supply, one of the largest sources of our national wealth is in danger of practical extinguishment before many years, seems clear from a recent report of the Department of Ag riculture. According to this showing, the lumber cut In this country up to the beginning of the fiscal year was about 27.73S.000.000 feet. The vast propor tions of this slaughter of the forests may be appreciated by imagining the lumber to be all of Inch thickness, making a "board walk" 2000 feet wide from New York to San Francisco. Maine, Michigan, and New York are no longer great lumber states, rank ing respectively sixteenth, fifth and twenty-first. The Pacific slope and the Gulf lead, Washington being the chief lumber state and Louisiana the sec ond. Wisconsin and Minnesota are third and fourth. Arkansas, Mlsslssip' pi. North Carolina, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia make, with Lou isiana, eight Southern states, all pf which lead Maine in the amount 'of lumber produced. There is little more white pine in the country. It is prac tically all gone, and one of the diffi culties of building now is that there is no substitute of quite such versatile usefulness. Only 8.5 per cent of the year's cut comes from this noble tree. The once despised hemlock furnishes almost three times as much. In the scarcity of better lumber, elm, pop lar and basswood, which the Ameri can of 1850 did not consider fit for fire wood, furnish more than white pine. How this huge annual cut of lumber, and the ravages of forest fires as well, shall be replaced, is one of our most important problems. LIFE IX THE OREGON COUNTRY Barrinar the Misery ln His Bones. Woodburn Independent. The man wno has been waiting a solid year to go to work can now enter the hopyard. A Rising Market. La Grande Observer. The highest price ever paid for local orchard was $700 an acre, but the time Is soon coming when J1000 an acre will not be unusual. Brains Always Score. North Yamhill Record. The fellow who put a feather in his "canned chicken," made from jack rab bits, is some distance ahead of the fel low who never thought of it. Proper Thing In Buachgrass. Echo Register. , Last Tuesday a man gave a hurry order to a waitress in one of our hotels coupled with a little profanity. He was ordered out of the house and defied the lady to eject him. There was no man handy to call in at this Juncture, but catching up a bread-knife the plucky waitress chased him to the street. He won't come back until he gets over his scare. Diversion ln Linn. Harrlsburg Bulletin. We have some queer laws. It costs less to wallop your wife- than it does to whip your horse. Recently one of our citizens was fined 75 for beating his horse which wasn't the full limit of the law; while last week Judge Henderson gave a drunken brute the full limit ot the law for beating his poor little wife, which was only $50. Both cases were tried in the same court. All the RlKhta Both Need. Beaver Cor. Tillamook Herald. Athena is not the only place where women help harvest. We know of sev eral women around here who have helped their , husbands, fathers or other relatives. One girl 13 years old drove the horses on a hay fork tnis year at U a day. A woman was putting back hay ln a barn and the load from the hay fork covered her up. Her hus band had to pitch lively for awhile to get her out before she smothered. Some of the women of Tillamook know what the strenuous life means; bjit I never was in a "community where husbands and wives lived more amicably. Faults of Colonel Bryan'a Trip. New York Sun. Colonel Bryan continues to emit in formation. Now he is In Paris, silent on the sacred ratio, but. willing to talk on any other subject. What has Impressed the Great Conservative Force in the far countries he has visited? It Is the "dem ocratic development," and the Colonel reports : I noticed it in India. Japan and China. Everywhere one sees the sam evidence of popular awakening. Wherein is the cause of this "popular awakening"? The question is easily an swered. The Grand Awakener has been about opening the eyes of the people. Be fore Colonel Bryan started on his travels all was quiet and calm. Contented with their slavish lot. the natives of China, India and Japan lived happily. Ignorant of the sorrow of their state. Now they are In arms. They have been taught their rights and their wrongs. Colonel Bryan has illuminated their minds and extended their horizons. A world revolution will follow in nis trail. The old order must change. He has pulled its foundations from under it. An international political reformation is a noble achievement. Yet for Bill the Taint-Killer it is but a small thing. He has accomplished it on a pleasure trip from West to East. PROBING From the New Tors: Press. COOLIES FOR CANAL WORK. Their Vse Defended on Ground That None Other Are Available. Chicago Chronicle. The Panama Canal Commission is about to try 2500 Chinese laborers on the canal work as an experiment. According to a Washington dispatch this is "the last hope of the commission." It can hardly be quite so bad as that, for the -same dispatch says there is a prospect that eventually laborers can be obtained in large numbers from Spain. What is meant seems to be that the Chi nese are the last hope of an Immediate supply of men in sufficient numbers to push the wofk. It has been pretty well understood for months that the negroes obtained from Jamaica and other islands in and around the Caribbean Sea were unsatisfactory. The Jamaicans are said to be the best of these, but even they are poor laborers. All this Is now officially admitted, me dispatch quoted says, apparently on offi cial authority, that "the negroes are paid only 80 cents a day as against $1.60 to the Spaniards, who are said to be capable of doing three timesj as much work." There la little hope, therefore, of accom. pllshlng much, not to speak of rushing work, with negro labor. Spaniards can not now be obtained In sufficient numbers. Hence the experiment with Chinese. It will be noticed that nothing is said about common labor from the United States, either white or black. The truth is that American laborers do not wish to go there. Common laborers do not go. Skilled laborers are required, but Ameri cans of this clam are not seeking employ ment there, and can be Induced to go only by offers of wages which would be retarded as excessively high at home. But for all that our labor union dic tators have been meddling ln the matter of employment on the canal as though the interests of organized labor were deeply involved. They have Insisted on the eight-hour day, though our eight-hour law was not intended to apply in Panama, They have Insisted on it for laborers who are and always will be aliens no less than for American citizens. They have been particularly insistent in their opposition to the employment of Chinese labor, and that probably is the reason why the ex periment of Chinese labor was not made long ago. The experiment may not be successful. We know, however, that the Chinese la borers are capable of working under try ing conditions and that where they can work they are far more efficient than the negroes now employed, and that they are more faithful and reliable than most other laborers. They do not have to be watched every minute and they are pretty well able to take care of themselves, and will observe sanitary and other regulations when they understand them and know they are ex pected to observe them. If they fall it will be because they can not work in the climate of Panama. There may be some truth in the statement that they are the last hope. If they succumb to. Panama diseases and the debilitating influence of the climate it will be hard to get enough men to push the work to early completion. Experiments have al ready been carried far enough to war rant this conclusion. If the Chinese prove to be the right men for the work, it is said they will be employed in large numbers, and they ought to be. The commission ought not to hesitate to employ all the Chinese needed to push the work. Opposition by our labor union bosses ought not to be re garded for a moment. Our skilled workmen can have a monop oly of their kind of work on the isthmus if they want It. Our unskilled workmen will not work there. Labor union opposi tion is therefore wholly wanton and un reasonable and should be entirely ignored. Speak to Aatorla'a Senator. The Daily Astorian. "Portlands' anxiety, as to commerce, has its sources far more in the state of the river and bar below Astoria than in the river between Portland and Astoria. Daily Astorian please copy." Oregonian. Yes, the Astorian takes notice! It has been taking notice of Portland's overweening and proverbial interest in the Columbia River bar for lo! these many years; and among other things it has noticed Portland's frenzied and ceaseless efforts In behalf of the mul titude of projects to open the upper Columbia and the Willamette, and every other channel in the broad state that led to Portland, while, through all the years the untold millions of the country have been lavished on plans and schemes to enhance the commercial prestige of the metropolis, the one great gateway of the state of Oregon is still bared, by the deliberate ineffl cacy of a. Jetty system, contrived, also, ln the Interest of that one city. Giving Ont More Information. Chicago Tribune. Mrs. Chugwater Josiah, what is a Prime Minister?" Mr. Chugwater It's a preacher that's in his prime. How many more times have I got to tell you the meaning of plain, simple English words? Living; on Love and Klsaea. Life. She That's all very pretty. Jack, but do you think we can live on love and kisses? He It's much the safest everything else is either adulterated or poisoned or tainted! Ethan Allen Hitchcock. Milwaukee Sentinel. A man who produces the maximum of results with the minimum of self-puffery. SOME FEATURES ' OF THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN First and foremost, all the world's news by Associated Ires, special correKpo'ndentH and members of The Oregonian staff, making the fullext and mont complete record of any Pacific Coast newspaper. GREAT POWER PLAriT " ON ROGUE RIVER An Industrial Center has been cre ated where General Joe Lane fought Indians fifty years ago. This rapid-running Southern Ore gon stream has been harnessed to electricity and furnishes power for a large district. An article deal ing with the enterprise is well il lustrated. WHEN PRESIDENT HAYES WAS COUNTED IN Every American over 40 will recall the struggle after the Presidential election of 1S76 between the two parties to get one electoral vote for their side. Judge Williams, in his recollections, tells of his part ln this unparalleled contest, and of Oregon's share in attempted bribery. BANDMASTER SOUSA INDICTS "CANNED" MUSIC From an entirely selfish point of view John Philip Sousa writes a notable article on the pubjeet of Automatic Musical Machines. He ' declares that they will corrupt the musical taste of growing youth and must lower the Nation's standards. RICHEST TROPIC FORESTS IN THE WORLD The wealth of hard woods in the Philippines cannot be computed. Approximate figures are stagger ing. A correspondent sends from Dalupaon a lot of facts concern ing what is bound to become, un der - railway development, the greatest of Oriental Industries. BRINGING WATER INTO JERUSALEM King Solomon's Pools are once more put to the practical use of man. Evangeline Ben Oliel writes most interestingly of this most in ' teresting land. Incidentally, she describes a visit to Macpelah, where Abraham, Isaac and Ja cob lie burled. PARIS BEAUTIES GIVE UP THE CORSET They declare It is an instrument of torture, while others say It is woman's best friend. A corre spondent of the French Capital sendt" a batch of Interviews on the subject, together with photographs showing the effect of the absence of the corset from the form divine. SOME FAMOUS PLUNGERS AND SPENDTHRIFTS Dexter Marshall writes of the notable few today and compares them with the Dwyers. "Pittsburg Phil" and "Coal Oil Johnny." Be tween the lines a lay sermon may be read. WHERE THERE IS NO DEARTH OF TROUT The place is up near Detroit ln Marlon County. The better half of a couple there writes of angling pleasures and calls for help from the valley to. dispose of each day's catch. LIFE AMONG THE NEW YORK SHAKERS Lillian Myers Herst. formerly of Portland, has been studying these simple people who live ln seclusion ln Northern New York and are re quired to practice celibacy. She tells of their thrift and Industry and their spotlessneps from the world. SUSAN CLEGG AND MRS. LATHROP The village philosopher tells her neighbor of a day that was full of troubles! PERILOUS ASCENT OF MOUNT BAKER The annual outing of the Ma zamas for 1906 Is the theme of a special Illustrated article. Their excursion into the wilds of the Mount Baker region was ln line with the purposes for which the club was organized, and proved one of the most successful of the pilgrimages yet undertaken. The region is rarely visited by tour ists, and little known even to photographers. Unknown glaciers were discovered and unnamed peaks ascended. The climb up Mount Baker was a hazardous one ly a route generally thought im practicable. GOSSIP AND NEWS OF THE SPORTING WORLD Good, live sporing news Is a fea ture of the Sunday Oregonian. No other newspaper In the Northwest approaches the thoroughness with which this department is covered. The leading events In ail sections of the world are chronicled by the Associated Press, and Its re ports are supplemented by special dispatches and letters and inter esting local articles. Football is now looming up on the horizon, and this popular Fall game re ceives attention tomorrow. The California field is covered in a let ' ter from Harry B. Smith. LIFE AT THE OREGON AND WASH INGTON SUMMER RESORTS The Gaieties of the Summer sea son are now ln full swing at the various beaches. The large crowds at North Beach, Seaside, Newport and other points along the coast have enjoyed one of the most" pleasant seasons ever spent at the Oregon and Washington Summer resorts. The social life Is still at high tide, many events giving it life before the return to the cit ies. Attractive photographs of beach scenes are reproduced. SOCIETY, MUSIC AND THE DRAMA The pages occupied by these de partments contain a thorough re sume of the local, social, musical and dramatic world, as well as special theatrical tiews from New York and other Eastern Cities. Social events are now more nu merous than during the hot weather of the past two months, and the various activities of the , Fall' season will soon commence. Sketches amd photographs are a feature of these pages. NEW YORK AND WASHINGTON LETTERS These communications each Sun day are read with interest by thou sands of people. There Is all the latest chat of the great metropolis and the National Capital. The Washington letter this week has an interesting account of the Countess Casfinl, who has left the Greek Church to become a Roman Catholic, thereby receiving the disapproval ot the Czar. WEEKLY BUILDING AND REALTY REVIEW Investors are making fortunes dealing in Portland realty. During the past Fall and winter import ant deals were closed almost daily, and the market Is now regaining some of this activity after the quiet Summer months. A review of some of the large transactions is presented this week, together with Illustrations of new residences.