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Don't waste life on doubts and
fears. Spend yourself on the work
before you, well assured that the
right performance of this hour's du
ties will be the best preparation for
the hours or ages that follow it.
Emerson.
In view of the depressing effect of
politics on business, some of our con
servative farmers do not feel that
they can fatten a pig for market this
fall the same as usual.
It hardly seems of much use for
our wives to solve the obscurities of
Browning until they can grasp the
complexities of the grocer's bill.
The gulf between the highest pitch
of happiness and the lowest depth
of misery is mostly measured by
things imaginary.
Although Standard Oil may not
really be dissolved, they have had to
write on 34 different letterheads, by
crackey !
TUB KING STORY.
The avidity with which men of average intelligence swallow absolutely
ridiculous political charges, without stopping to think or investigate, is
beyond comprehension. For example, the opponents of Roosevelt are per
sistently, and with some success among unthinking persons, circulating a
fclory that he is so insanely ambitious that he aspires to be king. Through
his sole popular force' he would change our form of government to a mon
archy and raise himself to the throne. At the same time Mr. Roosevelt is
busy fighting for four principles the establishment of wh'ich would lead the
country directly away from monarchy toward pure democracy. Who is
there who believes that monarchy could be established through the general
primary system? One of the main planks in the Roosevelt platform is for
the extension of the primary so it will apply to the nomination of United
States senators and to the president, and for the direct election of these by
the people. He favors the recall. Imagine, if you can, that principle being
cpplied to a monarch. He favors the initiative and referendum. Imagine
a monarch issuing an edict with the force of law over the power of initia
te and referendum.
It is utterly unthinkable.
Yet many men pass along the charge that Roosevelt aspires to be king.
Such are either dishonest or unthinking. They promulgate a charge which
cannot stand for one moment before common reason.
After all, the king story is about as reasonable as many others incu
bated in the mind of special privilege and circulated in the hope of weak
ening the popularity of Roosevelt. Take the Standard Oil campaign con
tribution story for example. At first it was stated that Standard Oil con
tributed one hundred thousand dollars to Roosevelt's campaign fund; that
hf accepted it and came back for one hundred and fifty thousand more;
that Standard Oil turned him down for the last amount; that after he was
elected he immediately began prosecution of Standard Oil because it did
r.ot come through. A very good story to show bad faith on the part of
Roosevelt both toward the people and Standard Oil. Now it develops that
instead of the transaction being as the story relates, it is this way: Stan
dard Oil contributed one hundred thousand dollars to the Roosevelt cam
paign fund. Mr. Koosevelt ordered the contribution refused and sent back
to Standard Oil with the statement that because he deemed it his duty to
refuse the contribution it was not to be implied that he was rabid against
Standard Oil; that he would give Standard Oil the same consideration, and
no more, that was accorded by the administration to other business con
cerns. So, instead of appearing as talking against contributions from big
business and -secretly accepting them, as the opponents of Roosevelt who
circulated the story hoped, it develops that Roosevelt acted in an honorable
r.nd highly commendable way, dealing absolutely squarely with them and
the people.
When the truth is understood regarding the story of his friendliness
for the Harvester and Steel trusts they will be seen to JJave as little foun
dation as the king and contribution stories. Such stories are not circulated
because there is foundation for them, but are concocted by his opponents,
without regard to fact, for the damaging effect it is hoped they will have
oa his candidacy. When the light of truth is turned on they fade, like
unsubstantial dreams of prejudice, and leave not a rack behind.
I The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Ten
Til KICK PARTY TRUST POSITIONS.
That big business is generally beneficial is the economic experience of
the world for a generation. Great material development rapidly increases
common wealth and advances the chance of prosperity for the individual.
Since big business developed its scheme of combination with inter
locking directories trust abuses have grown up. Through one board of
directors controlling the operation of many naturally competing concerns,
those behind big business are enabled to appropriate an unjust share of the
benefits arising from large operation, thus increasing their power for
greater abuse, and through that power depriving individual enterprise of
its just opportunity to prosper. The oppression felt throughout the coun
try by reason of such abuse has given rise to a general demand that the
evil be remedied through the powers of government.
The progressive party is the only one offering intelligent and honest
methods through which that can be accomplished without sacrificing the
common benefits of big operation.
Mr. Taft's party is satisfied with the laws under which trust abuse
nultiplied and flourished. It advocates non-interference. It is content
that the attorney-general win trust victories on paper and that the offen
sive name be blotted out. That prices continually go up to the consumer
und dissolved trust stocks sour high on the market, it holds to be rightly
chargeable to others, and natural economic causes, rather than lax applica
tion of court orders to dissolution under the Sherman anti-trust law.
The trust plank in the democratic platform rejects the idea of the
Saerman law and relies alone on stopping big operation by making it im-
Tossible for monopolies to exist, regardless of whether it hinders the rapid
creation of common wealth and decreases the chance of prosperity to the
iudividual. It would do away w'ith big business instead of its abuses.
Both the Taft and Wllbon platforms rely upon compelling competi
tion. The progressive platform starts with the economic truth that competi
tion may be harmful and combination helpful, depending upon the extent
s.nd degree of competition and the economy and regulation of combination.
It proposes to stop the abuses of trust combination that society may get its
just share of the benefits of an economy only possible through big opera
lion without hindering the proper movement of large undertakings. Mr.
Roosevelt holds that the Interstate Commerce Commission machinery is
effective for correcting railroad abuses, and that the Sherman law can be
iiade equally bo for stopping evil practices in interstate commerce.
This is not the first time, nor per
haps the last, that I have touched on
the subject of "Breaking Home
Ties." But it recurs again because
of a little scene of which I was a
witness lately.
A boy such a little boy he
seemed, in his first pair of long pants
got on the train with a suitcase
as big as himself. He was possibly
fifteen or sixteen years of age and
he was going out to earn his first
real money.
His father and mother were with
him. They did not get on the train
with him, but stood outside his win
dow talking to him until the train
pulled out.
The mother's bravery and courage
in seeing her one lone boy, as the
conversation proved him to be, going
from the shelter of her influence,
was a beautiful lesson. She was not
particularly cultured, perhaps, and
she plainly did not belong to the
"eggsloosives," but she was a woman.
"Be a good kid," she admonished
him, a world of maternal anxiety in
her tone, and then as the boy gave
signs of showing that, after all, he
was only her little child, she added,
with a catch in her voice that belied
the lightness of her tone, "And don't
forget that your mother was a Mc
Glll." Then she stepped back while the
father talked to him, and her face,
as she watched her boy, was a study
in expression. There was pride, and
love, and grief, and renunciation all
coming, but the instant he turned
toward her, she met his glance with
a cheery smile.
"You've got a peach of a day to
start in. Kid," she told him. And
then, "Don't forget your manners. I
don't want you to come back eating
with your knife." The boy winked
away the tears, and smiled back at
her.
"If you get homesick, just stick it
out, son. It won't do to be a piker,"
this brave mother further said. And
then she stepped back again to gain
a little more courage while the fath
er gave the boy advice and instruc
tions as to how to reach the camp.
"I'll miss you, son," his mother
said, and then added with a pitiful
attempt at gayety, "1 won't have any
body to tease me now."
The engine whistled, the conductor
called "All aboard," the last of the
gay, laughing crowd of tourists on
pleasure bent hurried into the car.
The mother stood and smiled v ith
her lips, while her eyes showed the
grief she was trying to suppress as
the train carried her boy away from
er into his first venture. He turned
to look back at her, then quickly
looked away again, swallowing hard
as he did so. And behind him,
though he knew it not, sat a foolish
man who wept for the mother who
was going to an empty house.
The boy will go back again. But
will he go back with all the sweet
ness and freshness of unsullied youth
upon him;
That is the question that mother
is asking herself tonight, as are
countless other mothers who have
opened the door that their young
might go forth to battle for life.
It is a question as old as time. It
is the question every mother has to
meet and to which there can be no
definite answer. And the manner in
which she meets it, proves her met
tle. The mother I have cited is eat
ing her heart out in loneliness and
grief, I. doubt not, tonight, for 1 read
her motherhood in her eyes yet,
though she may not suspect it, she
has met the test bravely and nobly.
ROOSEVELT'S "CONFESSION
FAITH."
OF
(Fourth Installment.)
Food Law Should Be Enforced.
No people are more vitally inter
ested than workingmen and working
women in questions affecting the
public health. The pure food law
must be strengthened and efficient
ly enforced. In the national govern
ment one department, should be in
structed with all the agencies relat
ing to the public health, from the en
forcement of the pure food law to
the administration of quarantine.
This department, through its special
health service, would co-operate in
telligently with the various state and
municipal bodies established for the
same end. There would be no dis
crimination against or for any one
set of therapeutic methods, against
Or for anv one school nf mfriirin( nr
system of healing; the aim would be
meieiy to secure under one adminis
trative body efficient sanitary regu
lation in the interest of the people
as a whole.
There is no body of our people
whose interests are more inextricnhlv
interwoven with tho intoraata rf oil
jthe people than is the case with the
farmers. The countrv life
sion should be revived with greatly
increased powers; its abandonment
was a severe blow to the interests
of our people. The welfare of the
farmer is a basic need of this nation.
It is the men from the farm who in
the past have taken the lead in every
great movement within this nation,
whether in time of war or in time
of peace. It is well to have our cities
prosper, but it is not well if they
prosper at the expense of the coun
try. I am glad to say that in many
sections of our country there has
been an extraordinary revival of re
cent years in intelligent interest in
and work for those who live in the
open country. In this movement the
lead, must be taken by the farmers
themselves; but our people as a
whole, through their governmental
agencies, should back the farmers.
Everything possible should be done
to better the economic conditions of
the farmers, and also to increase the
social value of the life of the farmer,
the farmer's wife and their children.
The burdens of labor and loneliness
bear heavily on the women in the
country: their welfare should he the
especial concern of all of us. Every-
tning possible should be done to
make life in the country profitable
so as to be attractive from the eco
nomic standpoint and also to give an
outlet among farming people for
those forms of activity which now
tend to make life in the cities es
pecially desirable for ambitious men
and women. There should be just
the same chance to live as full, as
well-rounded and as highly useful
lives in the country as in the city.
Farms Ought to Improve.
The government must co-operate
with the farmer to make the farm
more productive. There must be nn
skinning of the soil. The farm
should be left to the farmer's son in
better, and not worse, condition be
cause of its cultivation. Moreover,
every invention and improvement,
every discovery and economy, should
be at the service of the farmer in
the work of production; and, in ad
dition, he should be helped to co
operate in business fashion with his
fellows, so that the money paid by
the consumer for the product of the
soil shall to as large a degree as
possible go into the pockets of the
man who raised that product from
the soil. . So long as the farmer
leaves co-operative activities with
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their profit-sharing to the city man
of business, so long will the founda
tions of wealth be undermined and
the comforts of enlightenment be im
possible in the country communities.
In every respect this nation has to
learn the lessons of efficiency in pro
duction and distribution, and of
avoidance of waste and destruction;
we must develop and improve instead
of exhausting our resources. It is
entirely possible by improvements in
production, in the avoidance of waste
and in business methods on the part
of the farmer to give him an in
creased income from his farm while
at the same time reducing to the con
sumer the price of the articles raised
on the farm. Important although
education is everywhere, it has a
special importance in the country.
The country school must fit the coun
try life; in the country, as elsewhere,
education must be hitched up with
life. The country church and the
country Young Men's and Young
Women's Christian Associations have
great parts to play. The farmers
must own and work, their own land;
steps must be taken at once to put
a stop to the tendency towards ab
sentee landlordism and tenant farm
ing. This is one of the most impera
tive duties confronting the nation.
The question of rural banking and
rural credits is also of immediate im
portance. Many Do Not Proser Enough.
The present conditions of business
cannot be accepted as satisfactory.
There are too many who do not pros
per enough, and of the few who
prosper greatly there are certainly
some whose prosperity does not mean
well for the country. Rational pro
gressives, no matter how radical, are
well aware that nothing the govern
ment can do will make some men
prosper, and we heartily approve the
prosperity, no matter how great, of
any man, if it comes as an incident
to rendering service to the commun
ity; but we wish to shape conditions
so that a greater number of the small
men who are decent, industrious and
energetic shall be able to succeed,
and so that the big man who is dis
honest shall not be allowed to suc
ceed at all.
Our aim is to control business, not
to strangle it and, above all. not to
continue a policy of make-believe
strangle toward big concerns that do
evil, and constant menace toward
both big and little concerns that do
well. Our aim is to promote prosper
ity, and then see to its proper di
vision. We do not believe that any
good comes to anyone by a policy
which means destruction of prosper
ity; for in such cases it is not possi
ble to divide it because of the very
obvious fact that there is nothing to
divide. We wish to control big busi
ness so as to secure among other
things good wages for the wage
workers and reasonable prices for
the consumers. Wherever in any
business the prosperity of the busi
ness man is obtained by lowering the
wages of his workmen and charging
an excessive price to the consumers
we wish to interfere and stop such
practices. We will not submit to
that- kind of prosperity any more
than we will submit to prosperity ob
tained by swindling investors or get
ting unfair advantages over business,
rivals. But it is obvious that unless
the business is prosperous the wage
workers employed therein will be
badly paid and the consumers badly
served. Therefore not merely as a
matter of justice to the business man,
but from the standpoint of the self
interest of the wage-worker and the
consumer we desire that business
shall prosper; but it should be so
supervised as to make prosperity also
take the shape of good wages to the
wage-worker and reasonable price
to the consumer, while investors and
business rivals are insured just treat
ment, and the farmer, the man who
tills the soil, is protected as sedu
lously as the wage-worker himself.
Attention, Wood Consumers
Sound dry red fir and yel
low pine, lG-inch block body
wood, delivered in your wood
shed in orders for not less
than 10 tiers to a place, at
$2.25 per tier.
E. J. MAIIAN
Leave orders at office, 290
East Main st., or phone 1G8.
BRITAIN TO APPEAL.
Panama Case Likely to Go to Hague
Tribunal.
In the war of American Independence It was the "embattled farmers"
at Concord bridge that made the first stand and fired the first shot against
"taxation without representation." That battle is not yet fully won.
There is still one class of American citizens that is taxed without anv voice
i-f their own, and governed by officials they have no part in choosing and
laws they have no part in making. Every voter's wife and mother and sis
ter are of that class. Is it not time to end this inequality before the law
and to be true at 1 ast to American principles? The men of Oregon will
have the opportunity of enfranchising their women folk on November 5 by
passing Amendment No. 1. '
It's hard to feel much sympathy for the woman who growls about the
high price of meat, and then buys twice as much as her mother used to
have, because it is too much bother to fix the leavings over into hash
Washington, D. C. Great Britain
has reaffirmed its protest against the
Panama canal bill. In a note filed
with the state department by A.
Mitchell Inness, charge d'affairs of
the British embassy here, it was said
that if a satisfactory agreement could
not be reached Great Britain would
appeal to The Hague tribunal for ar
bitration. The note submitted says Great
Britain will give careful considera
tion to both the bill and the mes
sage President Taft sent to congress
relating to discrimination in favor of
American coastwise shipping in the
canal.- If, after due consideration, it
is found that no satisfactory agree
ment can be reached in the matter,
Great Britain declares it will be nec
essary to appeal to arbitration.
Mr. Innes was instructed by the
government to file his protest. It
is h brief note, saying merely that
Great Britain still stands in her pre
viously explained attitude in regard
to the Panama bill, but its tone,' as
has been said, makes it appear Great
Britain believes it will be necessary
to subject the question to arbitration.
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PEDDLKHS' LAW VALID.
Judge llnnds Down Decision in Im
xrt4int Case.
Salem. Judge Galloway Friday
gave down a decision against the
Spaulding Manufacturing Company,
which some time ago brought an in
junction suit against District Attor
ney McNary and his deputies, alleg
ing that a law under which certain of
the company's agents had been ar
rested was unconstitutional.
The statute in question Is the ped
dlers' law, which requires a license
from salesmen traveling about the
state. The Spaulding company,
whosse salesmen were selling bug
gies, attempted to show that the Ore
gon law was contrary to the constitu
tion of the United States. It is be
lieved that the manufacturing com
pany will appeal the case.
The Tidings Is tor sale at W. M.
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Our line is ready forx your examination. This season we
are showing the most elaborate assortment of all wool
fabrics that has ever been assembled. Every imaginable
shade, every new design, all the latest golden browns,
gold dust worsteds, granite grays, vigoreaux, nebublues,'
etc., from the foremost American and European mills at
popular prices. Satisfaction guaranteed. Your money
back if we don't satisfy.
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For Fall and Winter Wear
We just modestly state that we have the best Boys' Suits
that can be bought for the prices we ask for them. A big.
variety of patterns to select from. Our school trousers
for boys are made from selected and durable materials
and are made as stout as it is possible to make them.
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