Morning Oregonian., October 30, 1907, Image 13

-THE -JIORXISG OREGON'IAN, .. WEDNESDAT, OCTOBER 30, 1907.
REPUBLICANS PLAN
SPRING CAMPAIGN
Party Leaders Speak at the
Club's Second Smoker
.. for the Season.
DISCUSS PRIMARY LAW
City Attorney Karanaugh Suggests
New Method of Nominating Can
: dldates Pours Hot Shot
Into the "Interests."
..The eeonfl smoker of the season was
held last night by the Republican Club
at the Selllng-HIrsch building. The aim
of the meeting was to unite the Repub
licans of Iultnomah County, that they
may be on a firm footing for the next elec
tion. City Attorney John P. Kavanaugh.
who was the chief speaker of the even
ing1, paid a glowing tribute to the Roose
velt administration, and said that while
he will not probably consent to be re
elected, his policy should be followed by
his successor, as It had come to be a
question In this country whether the cor
porations shall throttle the people by
placing their own men In office, or
whether the people shall make the selec
tion of the man beat adapted to con
serve the public welfare.
"I know." said Mr. Kavanaugh, "there
Is much criticism of President Roosevelt
because he dons not obey the beck and
call of the Interests' of the country. But
the time has come when we should know
whether the combines shall rule us or
whether ' the people shall rule. It Is now
a question of whether the 'Interests' shall
obey the law or not. I assume that Mr.
Roosevelt will not again be a candidate
for the Presidency, but the principles he
dvocates-"ar of great importance; "not
only- to the success of -the Republican
party, but to the success of the Nation
in -time to come.
, . Hot Shot for the "Interests."
"If It ia in the power of the 'Interests'
to cause the distress we see today, what
would be the effect If they were allowed
to fix their -bold on the Nation for a few
more years. The Republican party
should see that the corporation has no
voice ..la., politics. This question will be
hotly contested In the coming conflict.
If -we adhere to these principles, my
friends. 1 believe there is no such word
as fail.;
- "The Republican party 1s not one of
reaction, but of progress. If we unite
OUf efforts with those of the party
throughout the country, we shall stand
by those principles enunciated by Lincoln-
and other great men of the party,
and splendidly exemplified under the ad
ministration of Roosevelt. This party
has no idea that its nominee will be de
feated by Mr. Bryan.
"The purpose of our primary law-was
to conserve the good of the party, to do
away with boss rule and with corpora
tion rule, but a united party is the only
way .we ..shall accomplish our ends. So
long as defeaited party candidates for
nomination turn against their party and
stab It in the back, we cannot be success
ful. Discusses Primary Law.
"I am not ready yet to say the direct
primary law Is a failure, or that it
should be repealed, but I do say I be
lieve we should, as Republicans, find
some means of carrying out Its purpose
tn - harmony with the wishes of the peo
ple.. ... ....
"Boss rule had many defects. It was a
great misfortune for the Republican
party, for I believe boss rule has planted
the seeds for failure which we have
been reaping. These bosses nominated
men unworthy of the place. The only
way we can bring about the nomination
of the entire ticket is by union, for com
bination Is stronger than witchcraft. The
only way to do Is to unite the precinct,
unite the ward, throughout the city.
Form an. organization of the party, of
the people- -and for the people, and let
us Join together In a strong, honorable
membership for the success of Ute party
and the triumph of Republican principles.
"There are 8 prectnets in mis city.
"Why cannot 10 men be selected from
each ' preclncf to Join In the work of
choosing candidates, men to be nominated
for their honesty, good standing In local
communities, and for devotion to ine
principles of the Republican party."
Dr. IVithycombe Speaks.
The other speakers of the evening
were r-.- James vv ithycombe - and- Mr.
Griffin, of he Blaine Republican Club.
John GUI acted as chairman. Dr. Withy
combe said what Is needed by the party
Is men of principle, men of character,
and men who can rise and damn a dema
gogue without the tremor of a muscle .or
the twitch of an eye.
Mr. Gill said Republicans, instead of
marking the first six names on a ballot,
Should arise, . to their opportunities and
vote for the men best fitted . for the po
sition.
The music of the evening was rendered
by a volunteer. orchestra under the leader
ship of V. H. McCorquodale. The other
members were as follows: J. H. McCall,
E. Van Houten and A. W, Ledbury. The
clarionet solo. "Travtata Cavattna," by
"Verdi, played hy Mr. McCall, and' a
baritone solo rendered by Mr.- Yates,
were . well received.
"COUNTRY JAKE" TURNS
... .
Replies to Innuendo Concerning the
Chicken-Auto Eplnode.
TROrTDALB. Or.. Oct. 26. (To the
Editor,) Considering our newspapers
to be far in advance Of our schools as
popular educators and our principal me
dium of publicity, we resort to them to
educate our citizens to a proper respect
for the laws of property and the proper
observance of the rights of others, also
to give publicity to acts of merit and de
merit. To acts of merit, that the public
may be cognizant of them and properly
reward them. ' To acts of demerit, that
the people may know them and use the
proper remedy to prevent their recur
rence. And newspaper publicity is about
the best remedy for all forms of mlsde
meanors and crimes that have, up to the
present, come to my knowledge.
In the country as In the city, a person's
property rights extend as far as his abll
Ity to own or lease. In the city, it may
be that he owns a lot, a block or a num
ber of blocks. In the country It may be
a farm, a section, or several sections,
Yet in each case he has rights of prop
erty that are recognized and protected
by our laws.
A man's domestic animals and fowls
may roam at will on his property. If
they trespass on his neighbor's land, that
neighbor has no right to destroy them,
but has a remedy in an action at law
for damages. The Constitution of the
United States gives all citizens the right
"to keep and to bear arms," but It does
riot- rive them- the right "to promis
cuously discharge them on the public
highway at other people's -property or
at anything else, unless In protection of
life and property. Ignorance of the law
excuses no one. Common law Is founded
on common sense, and as long as we fol
low a common sense line of action, we
may be sure we are within the law.
The writer has lived past the ae of
personalities and has as much respect
for the honest man who drives an auto
mobile as he has for the one who drives
a wheelbarrow. I do not see any differ
ence between the man who steals $1,000.
000 and the man who steals .L I have
Just as much respect for a man who
signs his name in five letters as the one
who . uses 20 letters, provided both are
honest men.
If the party who wrote the. article in
last Sunday's Oregonlan, signed John
Sterrett Corcoran, needs any more educa
tion or publicity along- this line, he will
certainly get it, as will any one else who
gets handy with .his gun among our
domestic animals and fowls. Mr. Cor
coran Is not a .person to me, but a party
who committed an unlawful act, and as
this was the sixth of a series, we' had
decided to put a stop to It. Be it John
Sterret Corcoran or Dr.' Harry Lane
either will-have to observe the law or
suffer the consequence. . I leave it to wit
nesses whether I have made a single mis
representation in thia case.
As to being a country Jake. I Dlead
guilty, and am proud of the fact. In
the country we are taught the proper re
Bpect for other people's property. His
other allegation, that I live In a tent
I am sorry to say I cannot plead guilty
to. I live in a "shack" and am within
the city limits of Troutdale-and my rent
Is paid to date. Furthermore. I have re
sided here for six years and have never
been lucky enough so far to live in a
tent.
Really, Mr. Corcoran, don't you know
that some pretty prominent DeoDle have
lived in tents? The Israelites lived in
tents for 40 years and are oroud nf.-lt.
Coming down to modern times, G. Wash
ington, u. 8. Grant and others of thplr
Ilk have lived in tents. Please do not
mane us proud by accusing us of acts
like this.
Mr. Corcoran also asks us whv we did
not keep It quiet and write Dr. Duharlr
Well, Mr. Corcoran, we are not in the
blackmailing line. That may be your
Idea of a manly act, but. .It. la not ours
and" we prefer earning our bread by
honest toll.
One last word - and we are donn with
J. S. C unless he shoots more chickens.
Don't get sore when you are caught In
the aet: The-public read between the
lines and know who is right and who Is
wrong, and personal vituperation can't
cover up facts. G. I. FUNK.
TO REDUCE MINERS' WAGES
COPPER COMPANIES GO BACK
... TO OLD SCALE.
Reduction Will Be From $4 to $3.50
a Day and 700O Men, Will "J
Be Affected.
, BUTTE, Mont.. Oct. "29. The Miners'
Union and the Smeltermen's Union have
received notices from the Amalgamated
Copper and other mining companies
that the old scale, of wages. In force
before the agreement on the eliding
scale was : made, will be restored on
November' 1, in compliance with the
contracts entered Into by the compa
nies and the labor unions of Butte, and
the notices have been posted In the
halls of the organizations.
A 'meeting of the Miners' Union was
held tonight and the matter referred
to a committee. The union Issued a
statement some time ago to the effect
that It will abide by the contract made
with the mines. The reduction will be
from $4 a day to $3.60, the scale before
the raise. The mines might have re
duced the wages to the old scale a
month ago, copper already then being
below 18 cents, but the companies pre
ferred to leave the wages untouched
until It should be evident that copper
would" stay below 18 cents for a while.
The reduction to the lower scale will
apply to all workmen at the minee
save "the machinists' Union, whose
members have been on strike for
months, and which organization never
signed the contract for a sliding scale.
About 7000 men are Involved.
KILLING THE GOOSE
Packers Only Hurt Themselves
by Squeezing Stockmen.
RUINOUS CATTLE PRICES
"N"mTn Yakima." Wash. Farmers of tne
valley face a new difficulty; they are snort
of -baling wire. All ioeal stocks have been
exhausted and not more than one-third ot
the hay In the valley la baled. -
How Thejr Have Affected the Indus
try in Western Washington.
. Cause of the Condensed
- - 5111k War.
CHEHALIS. Wash.; Oct. 29. (To the
Editor.) We think It Is an established
fact that The Oregonlan exerts a greater
Influence over the development of the
Northwest than any other paper. And
right now the stockmen of the Northwest
need Us best aid and support. The men that
kill the cattle west of the Rocky Moun
tains are rapidly killing the cattle grow
ing business, a fact I can prove to you
by thousands of the best veteran cattle
growers of the Northwest. .-
Right now, Portland or the Bound has
an opportunity to locate a bur branch
house of the richest, best. Independent
packing-houses of the world, Swartzschlld
& SulEberger. I have seen them pay
J2113 ..cash for one live steer without a
whimper, and they have paid top prices
to the growers for their best cattle sheep
and hogs, and at the same time treated
the consumer right. They have untold
millions at their command and do not
have to skin every one they deal with,
but look forward to a great and growing
business for their company In future
years. They feel that other meat com
panies now having a strong foothold in
Portland are trying to shut them out.
Portland business men should at once
pave the way for them to enter, or help
the Sound people locate them. : We need
then) here.-
I enclose a clipping from the Ranch;
also a clipping from the Chehalis Bee
Nugget, showing how severe pressure is
being brought to cripple one of the very
best interests of the Pacific Northwest.
The fine condensary here Is one of six
owned by the Pacific Coast Condensary
Company,, which Is paying out millions
promptly In cash each year to the dairy
farmers of this state and Oregon for the
milk they produce, a product that comes
from the grass that grows on the hill and
dale and is gathered by the farmer -and
his fajnily, resulting - In a fair tiome
profit that will aid largely in clearing up
Western brush and logged off lands and
build up our future prosperity. . '
I know The Oregonlan is able and wil
ling to do all In Its power to work to that
end. The Oregon Stockgrowers Associa
tion, our Washington Stockgrowers' Asso
ciation, and the Northwest Red Polled
Cattle Club would all appreciate every
effort you make in that line.
- L,. K. COOBWHLU
Secretary and Treasurer, Northwestern
Red Polled Cattle Club. "
A late Issue of the Ranch, of Seattle,
contained the following:
- In the last Issue of The Ranch there .ap
peared the testimony of one oattlegrower
of the Northwest, in. answer to the meat
packers' contention that they are paying
better prices for beef to the farmers of the
Northwest than the packers of the Middle
West are paying- the growers of that region.
The Ranch contends that the farmers of the
Pacific Nbrthwest are being Imposed opon
by the meat -packers of Seattle, Tacoma and
Portland; that they are receiving little
more than half the price that Is being paid
by the packers In the Mississippi Valley, and
yet. on the other hand, meat is selling in
thoie cities at prices considerably in ad
vance of those prevailing In Middle Western
cities. The meat-packers "have replied in
interviews In the dally papers to the effect
that the allegations made by The Ranch
are without foundation; that they are pay
ing good prices for beef In California. Mon
tana and even as far Bast as Omaha, and
that the growers nearer home are getting
an even greater advantage on account, of
their proximity to the markets.
The Ranch does not doubt that the pack
ers are- paying good prices la Montana and
Omaha, where they come tn direct compe
tition -with the larger packers of Chicago.
Omaha. Kansas City and St. Joseph, tor
they are placed In a position where they
must do it If they get the beef, and they
must have beef from these sources because
the production of the Pacific Northwest is
not sufficient to supply their demand. Bui
when it comes to buying the beef of the
ranchers of the Pacific Northwest It Is dif
ferent. . Here there. Is no competition.
Instead of the farmers of this section get
ting the advantages of a strong market
which cannot be supplied without Importing 1
from elsewhere, they are receiving prices
which makes the business of raising cattle
for the market unprofitable, and as a re
sult many of the cattlemen have been forced
out of business.
If the packers only knew It, they are do
ing themselves more harm than good. By
killing the cattle Industry in this part of
the country, they are crippling their own
packing industry. If they are always going
to be compelled to go to Montana and Ne
braska for their cattle, the packing business
on the Coast will never obtain to the pro
portions which It might, If a well supported
and perfectly logical cattle raising industry
should grow up on the ranges of the Pacific
Northwest. The farmers of the Paclfio
Northwest do not want unreasonable prices
for their beef. They only want a price that
will enable them to do business profitably.
They believe that If the packers can sell
their meat In this country at a higher price
than the packers or the Middle West can
get, then they can afford to at least pay aa
much to the farmers for the beef on the
hoof.
Writing to the Ranch, one of the largest
stockgrowers of the Northwest declares
the growers here can get barely half the
cost of production for their stock. He
says:
"' Packers claim the Western market Is as good
a the East, but the facts are the reverse.
Early last Winter, when our growers felt lucky
In getting 2 50 to $3.7S on account of rail
way blockades. In Chicago, on the open mar
ket, 72 carloads of beef cattle sold: In two
days early last December, for over $6.8 per
too pounds live Weight for spot cash, and the
average on those 72 cars was over S8 per 100
pounds, heifers and all. Steers are now
bringing 17 to $7.50 for choice. On August
21, 1907, with a big run of grass and range
cattle. Chicago buyer, without grumbling,
paid $6.75 for Western range cattle that had
never tasted grain; 5 per 100 for fat bulls.
Tat heifer selling as hfgh as fiv. and train
loads of Texas and Dakota cattle selling at
4)5 to $5.50. with Montana and Wyoming cat
tle at $5.50 to $a with the biggest rush of
-cattle there has been on this year's market,
with 253,900 head of cattle sold in the past
four weeks in Chicago, and larger propor
tionate sales at Kansas City. St. Joe and
Omaha, is It any wonder the Western grow
er wants to quit or go where he can get a
fair deal? Eastern farmers are now paying
$7i in Chicago for thrifty steers besides the
freight back to their farms to get good
cattle to feed, while Montana belters have
sold for $5.25 this month.
One of th largest buyers tn this country
told me he Is contracting choice fat helfem
not In calf at $2.75. Another prominent buyer
says he gets cows and heifers at $2 to $2.80
and steers at $2.60 to $3. and shrunk weight
at that, after cattle come In ftxra long drives
and In strange yards.
With preseat cost of land and taxes, feed
and labor, cattle can not be grown and fed at
any ; such prices, and the way the consumer
has to pay for his meat he -ought not to be
asked to do it. - -
The condensed milk war being "Waged In
Western -Washington, according to the
Chehalis-Bee Nugget, was started by the
wholesale and retail grocers of Seattle
fixing a higher retail price on Carnation
cream, the product . of a Chehalis con
densary. As this action decreased its
sale. ' the Condensed Milk Company,
backed by the farmers who supply it with
the raw material, have vigorously pro
tested, and threaten to boycott the Seat
tle firms. The Bee Nugget says: .
The dairy farmers of Lewis County and
Southwestern Washington are being soundly
rapped over the head of the Pacific Coast
Condensed Milk Company, a corporation which
has done much to build up the dairying inter
ests of the state, by the wholesale and retail
grocery men of the city of Seattle who have
seemingly entered into a combine to enforce a
raise in the retail price of Carnation milk and
thereby not only decrease the . sale of this
commodity, but also Increase the output of
other evaporated milks which are manufac
tured in other states and gfve no revenue to
the farmers of this state. .
This fact has been established by the action
of the jobbers and retailers of Seattle In en
deavoring to raise the price of Carnation milk
which has . heretofore sold at retail for-- 10
cents a tin can to 1ft cents for the same
slxed package when sold by the single can,
or two cans for 25 cents. It Is claimed that
the reason for the demanded raise comes from
an alleged inability of the Jobbers and retail
ers to make a fair profit from the sale of
Carnation milk at the present price.
That : the demand is unreasonable Is evi
denced by the fact that the Jobbers and, re
tailers are already dividing a fair profit over
and above the company's price to the jobbers,
and that the retailer is making right along a
profit of nearly 20 per cent on every case he
sells.; If he should be allowed to change tbe
milk from a ten-cent to a 15-cent seller he
would then average over 50 per cent profit on
eaoh rase. The unfairness of the demand lies
in the fact that none of this added profit
would go to the manufacturer.
- The Pacific Coast Condensed Milk Company
is vigorously, .fighting the proposed raise and
the Jobbers and retailers are combined in the
threat that unless they axe allowed to estab
lish a new scale of prices they will push other
and cheaper brands of cream as ten-cent sell
ers and cut out the Carnation brand. This
Is the club they are holding over the heads of
the manufacturer to rwhlp Into line the Pacific
Coast condensed Milk Company which ab
solutely refuses to assist the trusts Into forc
ing the consumer to pay an unfair price for
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f Concert
An Ex-Soldier's Side of It
One of the "Rank and Tile" Tells Why So Many of Uncle Sam's Fighters Desert from the United States Army.
a SEE a lot. of stuff in the papers
uiuiifs uuuul wily BoimerB
- desert," said an ex-soldier In the
Perkins Hotel yesterday. ."The papers are
always publishing' the officer's side of
it. Why does not some paper publish
what the men themselves have to say?
"Of course It would be foolish tb go
ask the men in the service, for the very
good reason that they dare not talk. If
they tell the truth and it Is printed, the
officers deny It and defy the paper to
give the names of the common .soldiers
who said it. This the papers, of course,
cannot dov if the reporter and the edi
tor are on the square, so the officers
then claim that the whole thing Is un
true and a 'slander on the noble Ameri
can soldier,! Said 'noble "American sol
dier' In the ranks keeps his mouth shut
and even If asked If the article is true,
wisely denies it, because If he does not
agree with the powers that be above,
they take it out of . him later, in the
thousand and one ways they can and
do.
"From the standpoint of an enlisted
man. I want to say that the. real reason
why so many men desert, and especially
over half of them the first year, are be
cause the language of the officers used
.toward them, and because of the large
amount of heavy manual labor required
without pay, such as pick and shovel
work. Tou can guess howit Is your
self if you were to enlist with high Ideas
about serving your country, and all that,
which Is promptly kicked put of a soldier,-
as a rule, the very first month in
the ranks, and when in line you had an
officer, either 'non-com.' or shoulder
straps, come up to- you and call you
every name that Is an Insult In tbe Eng
lish language and you had to stand
there and take it in silence, or else be
sent to the penitentiary for from one to
ten years. . -
Horse of Another Color.
"I notice the officers say that most of
the men are enlisted from the country.
Let any one curse the average American
farmer boy and he will, and should,
fight them then and there. Call him a
liar in civil life, ana he can, and usually
does, strike you. Now let him enlist, and
the very first week some officer walks
up to him and, with a string of oaths,
applies a name to him that is a deadly
Insult to his mother.- The man In the
ranks must endure It or desert. If he
Is a man of any self-respect he deserta
when under such officers. Do you ever
hear of an 'officer being punished, put
out of the army, for Instance, or reduced
in rank for cursing and insulting his
men? I never did. - '
"If the soldier la fool enough to com- i
plain, he gets the worst of It, for the of
ficers must back each other, right or
wrong, so when it is a question between
the officer and the enlisted man with
other officers as the sole Judges, what
show for justice does the common soldier
have? In theory he has certain rights:
In practice he Is a slave and mighty soon
finds it out. This Is why good men re
fuse either to enter or to stay In the
army, as a rule. That good men do so
refuse Is admitted in the very discussions
of how to get and to keep good men, la
It not?"
Different tn War Time. .
"I am talking about the Army' in the
time of peace. In war It Is - far dif
ferent. The officers who abuse their
men In war are somehow killed In a
larger proportion than the good offi
cers, so the men are treated better.
When the men are abused In times
of peace they can do nothing but de
sert, but In times of actual war when
bullets are flying: around pretty thick
things are vartly different. Every
man in the Army knows this, and of
course publicly denies it. It is one
of those things that Is known but
cannot be proven by the very circum
stances of the case.
"The second reason is that the men
enlist to be soldiers, not common labor
ers. I can get $2.50 to $4 per day
for doing such work In private life,
and did not enlist to swing a pfek
and shovel. When I was In the Army
I handled a pick and shovel A good
deal more than I did a rifle. I or any
other soldier is just as willing to dig
not only with a pick and shovel , but
with a knife or even with my bare
hands In war to protect my- country,
as to use of a rifle: but not In
times of peace to improve a military
post when I can get good wages for
the same work, even In the same post.
The United States Is rich enough to.
hire laborers, and to use the soldiers
for target, practice, drilling, and all
that. What hag digging a ditch to lay
& water main to the commanding offi
cer's bath tub got to do with real
soldiering?'
"The food Is all right. In fact, most
of the- men re-enlist because they have
better- food, tjeds, baths, and shelter
In the Army than outside. It is use
less to call up the first sergeant and
ask him why the men desert. If he did
not answer as' he thought the officer
wants him to he would soon cease to
be first sergeant i Let a. first sergeant
tell the-commanding officer, even the
general himself, that the men leave
because the. lieutenant or the captain
curses his men to their faces as if they
were dogs and U would not be a month
before that same first sergeant would
lose his stripes and be digging trenches
or loading wagons himself. The first
sergeant, being a wise man, tells what
the officer wants him to and so holds
his Job. . In the service the officers
have the men Just where they, the
officers, want them, and both the offi
cers and the men know It. '
-. No Justice for Soldier, '
"Another thing: In times of war
the' Army is all right, .there Is some
Justice ; then for the common soldier.
But In times of. peace there should
be some appeal, some outside court,
where cases between, officers and men
are tried. As it is now, say Soldier
Smith enters a charge- against officer
Jones; soldier Brown accuses officer
Jackson and soldier Thompson com
plains against officer Doe. Officers
Jones and. Jackson hear the case of
officer Doe, acquit him and make.lt
warm for the soldier. Then officers
Doe and Jackson try officer Jones
with the same result; and lastly, offi
cers Doe and " Jones proceed to try
officer Jackson, with a foregone re
sult. It Just works right on around the
circle among the officers, who try each
other, and the common soldier has no
friend at court,
"To get a fair report on army condl
tlons-by having orfloers report upon them
is just as Impossible as to have the en
listed men make the. roport. One Is as
one-sided as the other' would be. The
only way to get at the truth of the mat
ter is to have a mixed commission with
the majority from outside life completely
free from any influence. And even then
it would be impossible to get the enlisted
men to talk unless the commission had
some way of protecting those who did
tell the full truth from the secret pun
lshment that would be handed out to
them later in a hundred little ways.
"We hear a whole lot about improving
the morals of the enlisted men by taking
away the canteen. Why does not the
same powers Investigate the morals, and
especially the manners and the swearing,
of the officers. Let each company have
one special man, such as the Tribune
was in old Roman times, - who had no
power but to protect the men from the
underhanded labuse of their officers,
with power to punish the offending offi
cers regardless of Army Influence, and
there will be not only comparatively few
desertions, but no longer any trouble to
entist plenty of good, honest, sober self
respecting men' into the ranks. But
who pays any attention to the common
soldier?" .
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Washington and Park Streets
v 8:15 P. M.
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353 WASHINGTON ST.
Cor. Park
an article' now In dally use with an estab
lished prioe.
Should the condensers be forced out of busi
ness because the manufacturers will not sub
mit to avaricious demands of the jobbers, and
retailers' trnst. It would mean that the de
mand for milk from the . farmers would so
greatly , decrease as to practically ruin the
dairy business of this state.
Where would the dairy farmer be If the
condenser should cease to boy his milk? The
Carnation milk condensers are now receiving
from the farmers of this state about 30Q,o$T
pounds or rreah milk a day, for which tbey
are paying tbe farmer from $1.60 to 11.63 a
hundred, or about $5000 a day.
Yearly the Pacific Coast Condensed Ml'-
Company Is distributing between Sl.uuU.OOO
and $1,600,000 among the farmers of the state.
It would be a serious matter should this con
cern be obliged to curtail Its output. It
would be a serious loss to the farming Inter
ests of Lewis County and the whole state.
But the Seattle jobbers' and retailers' trust
is not all mighty and the weapon for oppos
ing its vicious threat lies in the hands of the
farmer himself. Let the farmer retaliate by
refusing to use the trust's brand of commodi
ties In dally use.
OREGON AND ITS WOOL
Woman . Replies to Statements of
- - Rhodes and Cunningham.
Eastern trade papers devoted to the
wool Industry, are giving much space to
the remarks of R. S. Rhodes, a manu
facturer of Fall River, Mass., and Charles
Cunningham, the well-known sheep
grower, Interviews with whom were re
cently printed in The Oregonian. Their
statements have called forth a letter
from an Oregon City woman, which is
printed In the latest issue of Fibre and
Fabric. The letter follows:,
OREOON CITY. Or.. Sept. 27. 1907.
(Editor Fibre and Fabric.) Dear Sir: I
enclose an article printed recently In
the Portland Oregonian. our thief paper.
T think It a shame that our own paper
should publish this from this Mr. Rhodes,
who does not quite Know an aoouc our
mills and products. tie never visneu
i:a. the laraest and oldest mill out here.
did he. and looked Into our wool-room,
and the back-feeds In our card room to
see what grades of wool WIS use? 1 am
a woman who has worked in the wool
room sorting the scoured wool for the
mnnufnhirA d nor own blankets' and
who now tends the back-feeds In the
card room, so that I handle some con
siderable wool continually ana Know a
little something about it.
Perhaps this "cheap stuff of poor
quality," which Mr. Rhodes found in some
"clothing Btores" in Portland, was never
manufactured In Oregon at all. Myself
and my daughter have both bought cloth
In our own mill here for making skirts for
ourselves, also we have bought blankets
Sroduced in this mill; and my son has
ought suitings to be made to his meas
ure by a tailor. I have handled flannel
clippings from our own tailor room, as
also from San Francisco shops (which
latter were the product of Stockton and
San Jose, both California mills, and of our
own Bandon (Or.) new little woolen
mill over on the coast). And incidentally
let me mention here that my son once
had a tailor make him a suit from cloth
produced in the San Jose mill, and It was
good cloth and reasonable In price.
But to confine ourselves to Oregon. I
know something about the wages here,
too; my son having worked In this card
room more than four years and my
daughter for two years in the: spooling
room. She averaged about $1 per day.
My son began as a boy (just from the
9th grade in school) at 75c and worked
up to $1-50. Wages were lower then, it is
true, and would probably run now from
$1 to $1.751 mean for. the boys In our
room. Scores of women and girls do not
make over $1 (which Is also my own
wage). The sheep-man speaks of "hobo
labor1' at $2.25 to $2.50 per day. Does he
perhaps refer to our sons and brothers
and neighbors who do receive such wages
for street Improvements and the like,
which is much harder work than In the
mill, or does he mean our paper mill
employes, who get about $2.20 and work
In shifts 10 hours daily In one week and 14
hours nightly the next week 14 hours
for $2.20 for white men, Americans, po
tential law-makers?
He calls It "hobo labor." Many of these
men own their own homes, some of them
serve ort our school boards, trustee our
Churches and officer our lodges. Some of
their children work in our woolen mill at
least part of the year, the younger ones
attending school In the Winter. It Is un
true that -"labor , good enough for mill
work costs $3. per day In. Oregon." Why,
I know a man who has sorted wool for
years graded It. that is who was work
ing this Spring here for $1.75 and wanted
$2 or he was going into the paper mill.
As he is still with us, I presume he got
the $2, and I know some weavers who
make $2 on piece-work. .Where, then, will
you find any average pay of VX in Oregon
mills? Let no "big Eastern mlll-ownerB"
be deterred from establishing plants here
by fear of the "prohibitive cost of labor
in Oregon.'.'
Now I know my information on these
subjects Is very limited, which Is the rea
son I have taken pains to tell you how I
came to know what little T have observed
and learned; but surely neither Mr.
Rhodes who I think betrays superficial
ity with his assumption of Oregon infer
iority nor Mr. Cunnnlngham. whose
sweeping statements In reeard to wages
here and to our use of shoddv (I sup
pose thy never, no. never, use any shod
. ly in Eastern mills, oh dear, no!) badly
heed qualtfvlng. has pot to the dsf of the
matter. Will not someone who Is capa
ble of doing so throw some light on the
matter? . . . .
I think there are reasons- for the lack
of more numerous woolen mills other than
the question of "high wages" or "need of
laws about shoddy." Some people have
an Idea that more legislation Is the sov
ereign remedy for everything under the
sun. while I believe that we have a
areat deal too many laws on our statute
books now; , but that Is another subject
and I am digressing. "Revenona a nos
moutons," which phrase, while it - may
seem peculiarly appropriate In this case,
wps not Intended for a pun. Several pos
sible contributory reasons for the scar
city and smallness of Oregon woolen mills
occur to me, but I bave had enough to
say and am ouite willing to take a seat
and listen to some oneelse a while. Tours
respectfully,
HOMESICK EASTERNER,
who yet: does not believe in giving a
ATTRACTIVE
FABRIC
DRAPER!
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Our stock of upholstery
and drapery fabrics, con
sisting of foreign and do
mestic materials, is abso
lutely new and was selected with
great care and judgment. We
are showing a wide range of pat
terns and colorings in the popu
lar fabrics, including yard goods
portieres, couch covers and table
covers, which command the
earnest attention of every in
tending purchaser.
ACK 8
86-88 THIRD STREET
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"black eye" to Oregon Industries without
proper cause.
WANT TWO MORE BIG SHIPS
Naval Officers Expect Appropriation
for 20,000-Ton Battleships.
' OREGONIAN NEWS BUREAU,
Washington, Oct 29. It is the
nninlnn nf naval officers generally that
Congress, at the coming session, should
provide for two new 20,000-ton Dattie
Bhips, to be companion ships to those
recently placed under contract. Navy
men believe It is a good Idea to build
up the naval force in units of four
ships each, each ship to the unit to
be Identical with the other three. If
this policy could be adopted, the Navy
could be enlarged more rapidly than
If the plans are continually changed.
For Instance. If the necessary appro
priation could be obtained for two
ships of this type, contracts could be
let for them not later than the first
of next August, and they would follow
along less than a year behind the
ships recently contracted for.
If there should be any radical change
In ship-building' before the new con
tracts could be awarded, the officers
concede that the Government would
be Justified in modifying Its plans.
For the present these officers are con
tent with 20.000-ton battleships, and
are not favorable to the immediate
construction of ships of 22,500 or
25,300 tons, unless Congress should
see fit to appropriate for more than
two battleships at the approaching
session, and no one looks for any such
abnormal appropriations at this time.
If Congress authorizes two new battle
ships in the next naval appropriation
bill It will be doing more than many
friends of the Navy expect. There is
a general feeling that Congress will
rather Inclined to hold down noval
appropriations, and authorize one
rather than two battleships.
Open Umatilla Lands.
PENDLETON. Or.. Oct. 29. By a spe
cial order of United States Land Commis
sioner R. A. Ballinger, 2640 acres of land
under the Umatilla Irrigation project will
be restored to entry. The opening of the
land was made on the advice of the en
gineers in charge of the project.
January 28, 1908, is the date set for
filings, and no rights can be obtained by
going upon the land prior to that time.
The date for the restoration is December
28. 1907.
bART MKTKOROIXMilCAI. REPORT. .
PORTLAND, Oct. 29. Maximum tempera
ture, 60 degrees; minimum, 65 degrees. River
reading- at 8 A. M., 1.6 feet; change in last 24
hours, none. Total rainfall (fi P. M. to 5 P.
M.),' .32 Inch; total rainfall since September
1 10O7, -2.&3 lncbr; normal rainfall since Sep
tember 1. 1907.. 6.2S Inches: deficiency. 2.70
Inches. Total sunshine, 12 minutes; pomtble
sunshine, 19 houm 17 minutes. Barometer
(reduced to sea level) at 5 P. M.. 29.8S inches.
WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The barometer baa rleen durlns the last 12
hours - ovsr Western Oregon and Western
Washington, but the pressure remains com
paratlvly low over British Columbia. Rain
was genera! over Northern California, Ore
gon. Washington and Northern Idaho. . The
pressure Is high over the Southwest and clear
kles prevail this evening over Southern Ne
vada and over Utah. Temperature changes
were genrally slight and unimportant.
The indications point to rain Wednesday west
of the Cascade Mountains, and to cloudy
weather with occartonal rain ever Eastern
Oregon, HHstern Washington and Northern
Idaho. It will probably be ialr over Southern
Idaho.
FORECASTS.
For the 28 hours ending midnight, October
Portland and vicinity Rain; southerly winds.
Western Oregon sbJ Western Washington
Bain; eoutherly wlnria.
Kastern Oregon. Eastern Washington and
Northern Idaho Cloudy with occasional rain.
Southern Idaho Probably fair.
PACIFIC COAST WEATHER.
Observations taken at 0 P. M. Pacific tlms.
October 29. 1907. .
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SOUTHERN PACIFIC.
lvtnff Portland
Bhanta ixpr3a
Cottag Qrov Passenger. . . ,
California Express . . .
Ban Francisco ICxpress. ,
West Side
CorvaUls Passenger
Sheridan Passenger ..........
Forest Grove Passer rr. . .... .
Forest Grove Passenger.
Arrlvlne Portland
Oregon Express ....
Cottage Qrove Passenger. .... .
Shasta Express
Portland Express
West 81 Jo
CorvallU Passenger
Sheridan Passenger
Forest Grove Passenger
Forest Prove Passenger
15 a. m.
19 p. m.
45 p. m.
SO p, m.
:00 a. m.
10 p. m.
00 a. m.
20 p. tn.
:2ft a. m.
30 a. m.
80 p. m.
:80 p. m.
:55 p. m.
20 a. m.
:00 a. m,
:QQ p. m.
KOBTHEBN PACIFIC.
leaving Portland
Tacoma and Seattle Express
North Coast & Chicago Limited..
Puget Sound Limited
Orerland Express . ....
Arriving Portland -
North Coast Limited.
Portland Express
Overland Express
Puget Bound Limited
8:80
3:0
4:30
11:45
T:00
4:15
8:15
10:55
p. m.
p. m.
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p. m.
p. m.
OREGON RAILROAD NAVIGATION CO.
Leaving Portland
Pendleton Passenger. .
Chicago-Portland Special
Spokane Fiyer
Kansas City ft Chicago Express.
Arriving Portland
Spokane Flyer
Chi., Kan. City ft Portland Ex.
Chicago-Portland Special
Portland Passenger
7:15 a. m.
8:30 a. m.
T:00 p. m.
7:40 p. m.
8:00 a. m.
9:43 a, m.
8:20 p. m.
5:15 p. m.
ASTORIA COLUMBIA RIVER.
Leaving Portland
Astoria ft Seaside Express. .......
Astoria Express
Arriving Portland
Astoria ft Portland Passenger. .
Portland Express
8:00 a, m.
6:00 pi m.
12 :15 p. m.
io:qo p. m.
Jefferson-Street Station
SOUTHERN PACLFIO. .
Leaving; Portland
Dallas Passenger .....
Dallas Passenger
Arriving Portland
Dallas Passenger .....
Dallas Passenger
T:40 a. I
4:15 p. l
10:18 a. I
:23 p. I
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