EVENING, JUNE 27, 1003. ...L 1 "IB '. ii a...-. i r EDITORjlciL COcTHcTWENT AND TIcTWELY TOPICS THE ORiEQON DAILY JOURNAL . "'V as. JACKSON TIIE OREGON DAILY JO UltNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY Jfoutmaf JOURNAL PUBLISHING 2 COMPANY, Proprietors. Address? THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill Stt, Portland, On CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. Entered at the Postofflce of Portland, Oregon, for trnsmli;lon through the malls aa eecnd-cle- matter. Postage for single eop!e--ror an 8. 10, or 12-page paper, 1 cent; It to 28 pages,! cnts; over IS pages, S cents. TliL.lIFHO!NIiS Business Office Oi jon. Main 600; Columbia, 7&5. Edltoria? Boo ma Oregon Main 230. SUDSCRI PTIOIV Terms by Carrier. The Dally Journal, ons year . i 85.CD The Dally Journal, six months J. 60 The Dally Journal, three months 1.30 The Dally Journal, by the week 10 RATUSl Terms by Mail. The Dally Journal, by mall, one year..$4.C0 The Daily Journal, by mall. Mix months. 1.2S The Daily Journal, by mall, three months 1.25 The Dally Journal, by mall, one month. .60 The Semi-Weekly Journal. The Semi-Weekly Journal, eight to twelve pages each Issue, all the news and full market reports, cne year $1.50. The Vtekly Journal. The Weekly Journal, 100 columns of read ing each Issue, Illustrated, full market re port , one year, $1.00. orders and small Remittances should be made by drafts, postal notes, express amounts ara .rrtDtabla In ona and two-cent postage stamps. THE JOURNAL. P. O. Box 121, Portland, Oregon Work, every hour, every hour, paid or unpaid; see only that thou work, and thous canst not escape thy reward. Whether thy work be fine , or coarse, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation. It shall earn a reward to the senses, as well ns to the thought. No matter how often defeated you are born to victory. The reward, of a thing well done is to have done It. Emerson. THE GRINDING OF THE GODS. "Matthews is not dependent on the salary of that office (the United States Marshal ship) for living, for control of the county organisation means far more to him than the federal office." Bo says the Oregonlan. Many guileless persons have been under the impression that the ambition of Mr. Matthews to be and re main the political boss had some relation to his health. It now transpires that It Is not , a sanitary, but a financial measure. There have, Indeed, been charges made by the embittered and defeated political en emies of Mr. Matthews that In assuming to control the politics of Multnomah County he has been merely exercising the arts of coarse and vulgar gnafter. Until now, how- - ever, these statements have been subject to the usual discount of political animosity They are now' authoritatively confirmed. There can be n6 question about the au- ' thority. The Oregonian was the enthusiastic and able supporter of the leadership otMr. Matthews. It was his encomiast. It spoke . for him and vouched for him. It promised , In his behalf a reform in political methods In this county. It had then and has now un limited resources of information about him and his chairmanship and hia political rev 1 enues. In addition to all that, that paper's editor-in-chief ,.. had, as delegate and political ad viser and associate of Mr. Matthews, pe cullar facilities for knowing his methods. Therefbre, we may assume that It is true that the control of the county organization, means far more to Mr. Matthews than the salary of his federal office. It menus, Indeed, if words mean anything, that Mr. Matthews Is prostituting his position of trust in the Republican party tir make money for him self. Then the question arises whether a po litical party can afford to lend itself to a scheme of , private' aggrandizement. It Is no longer a question between political par ties. It Is a question between the people on one Bide and a boss on the other. Is there any reason why Jack Matthews should make a living by peddling out the offices of this ' county? There Is no salary attached to his position. Has the Republican party fallen O low that it will turn over the party to a man to enable him to blackmail a living out of It? There have been Just complaints against political bosses In the past. But never be fore has It been an admitted fact that the boss could live on the proceeds of his po sition. That brings us to the simple question. Are the 'people of this county capable of ad- ministering their own affairs without paying! tribute to Jack Matthews? . It the Repub were a thing of the past, but this Is plainly a mistake. If the investigators should ever extend the field of their inquiries to the Pacific Coast, It Is quite likely that here in the Portland postofflce they might find some practices de- cldely at variance with civil service rules. It might be asked, for example, why patronage in the Federal Building has been turned over to the local Republican boss, whose record in the past is not marked by any conspicuous seal for the betterment of the public service. COUNTY IS AGAIN SUC CESSFUL. Once more the county has been successful in the preliminary legal skirmishing which precedes the battle for the recovery of the tax sale certificates lost through the settle ment with the First National Bank. W. F. White, who Is a co-defendant with the bank, had filed an answer to the county's com plaint, setting up various defenses. To all of them the county demurred. In a care fully considered opinion Judge Cleland this morning sustained the demurrer in every point. All of the developments thus far in this litigation give strong ground for the belief that the county will ultimately be successful The extraordinary settlement made two years ago by the county board (of which Judge W. M. Cake' was the presiding mem ber) must strike every unbiased man as an unwarranted sacrifice of the county's property. The Indications are that the courts will take the same view. The state press has responded to the call for better advertising of the Lewis and Clark Fair and many of the Oregon papers will from now on publish articles about the pro posed Exposition. This will be a great as slstance to the committee 5n publicity which has altogether too much work to accomplish unless assisted by all of the state news papers. Apropos of the search for someone suf ficiently strenuous to act as Theodore Roose- ,-eIt's running mate in 1904, what's the mat ter with the Champion Beef Eater of the World, who has. Just achieved the magnlf- cent feat of eating five and three quarter pounds of steak In one hour and 40 minutes. At the present rate of withdrawing land from entry, either Under the homestead or timber claim laws, it will only be a short Ime until no entries of either class will be accepted. The cloud of fraud which hovers over many timber locations, has had much to do with the weekly "withdra wall." The fuming over to the Heppnct reliaf ! fund of the money raised In various towns lican party can solve that question, well and j for Fourth of July celebrations is a greater good. The question is up to it. Jack Matthews is only-a generic term. He stands for the system. It would be no re lief to depose him and to substitute another In his place. It in not Jack Matthews, but the system which he represents that must go. - Therefore the substitution of another grafter in his place does not touch the ques tion.' It is not a choice between grafters, but whether there shall be any ?i alters. Senator ..Mitchell is quite correc t In saying that the peoplt political bosses display of patriotism than crackers or speech-making could produce. In the flre the world If our local Republican contemporaries ap prove so decidedly of the investigation of the postofflce frauds, why Is It that they give no countenance to the investigation ' of the county frauds here at home? "He shook Heaven and upset earth," Is the inscription upon, the tomb of LI Hung of this county are tired ofjchaii.tr. the great Chinese statesman. It That he didn't iru-an what j seems calculated to arouse the envy of our he said does not delegate from its truth. strenuous President. The people can wait. While the self-con- .! stituted leaders are parcelling out the spoils, i The those who are to be despoiled wait for the j Ameri grinding of the gods. There will be fine ' toward sett in grinding then. Raiser's generous reception of the m navy at Kiel will go a loner way at rest the sensational stories of Germany's dislike for America. CIVIL SERVICE RULES IGNORED. It Is not surprising to learn thai liristow' Investigation of the New York postofflce lias disclosed the fact that every employe in the The Department of Justice of Washington, j P. C, might tilt the scales a. little farther by weighing some erf the Oregonlan's re marks about Jack Matthews. The liberal donations to the Heppner relief -.office Was compelled to make a contribution j fund by the cities and towns of Oregon gives last year to the Republican campaign fund, i us still further reason for being proud of Nothjng could be a grosser violation of the ' our glorious state, civil service rules, but it was strictly in ac- I cord with the methods of the politicians who ! A larger appropriation for police protec- . have made the Postoffle Department a huge ! tioii would be money well spent, political machine. The- public has enter- : ' 1 . tained the belief that campaign assessments In, this tfranch of the government - .service FAMOUS SERMON FROM THE BIBLE . - i . (Jesus Calleth Earnestly for Confession of Faith.) ' , ' 8t. John 12:20-60. And there were certain Greeks among them That came up to worship at the feast: The same came therefore to Philip, Which was of Bethsalda of Galilee, and desired him, faying, SIR, WE WOULD 8EE JESUS. Philip cometh and telleth Andrew: t And again Andrew and Thlllp tell Jesus.' And Jesus answered them, saying, THE HOUR IS COME, THAT THE SON OF MAN SHOULD BE GLORIFIED. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall Into the ground and die, It abideth alone; But if it die, it brlngeth forth much fruit. HE THAT LOVETH HIS LIFE SHALL LdSE IT; and HE THAT HATETH HIS LIFE IN THIS WORLD SHALL. KEEP IT Unto life eternal. . If any man serve me, let him follow me; And where I am, there shall also my servant be: If any man serve me, Him will my father honor. NOW IS MY SOUL TROUBLED; And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: But for this cause came I unto this hour. FATHER, GLORIFY THY NAME, Then came there a voice from Heaven, saying, I have both glorified It, and will glorify It again. The people therefore that stood by, and heard It, SAID THAT IT THUNDERED: j Others said, an Angel spake to him. Jesus answered and said, THIS VOICE CAME NOT BECAUSE OF ME, BUT FOR YOUR BAKES. Now Is the Judgment of this world: Now shall the prince of this world be cast out, And I, If I be lifted up from the earth, WILL DRAW ALL MEN UNTO ME. This, he said, signifying what death he should die. The people answered him. We have heard out of the law that Christ abideth foreveri And how sayest thou, the son of man must be lifted up? WHO IS THIS SON OF MAN? Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while Is the light with you. i WALK WHILE YE HAVE THE LIGHT, Lest darkness come upon you: For he that walketh In darkness knoweth not whither he goeth, WHILE YE HAVE LIGHT, BELIEVE IN THE LIGHT, THAT YE MAY BE THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. These things spake Jesus, and departed. And did hide himself from them. But though he had done so many miracles before them, Yet they believed not on him: That the saying of Esalas the prophet might be fulfilled. Which he spake, LORD. WHO HATH BELIEVED OUR REPORT? And to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed 1 Therefore they could not believe. Because that Esalas said again, HE HTH BLINDED THEIR EYES, And hardened their heart; That they should not see with their eyes, Nor understand with their heart. And be converted and I should heal them. These things said Esalas, when he saw His glory, And spake of Htm. Nevertheless among the chief rulers also many believed on him; But because of the Pharisees they did not confess him. Lest they should be put out of the synagogue: for THEY LOVED THE PRAISE OF MEN MORE THAN THE PRAISE OF GOD. Jesus cried and said, he that belleveth on me, Believeth not on me, but on Him that sent me. And He that seeth me seeth Him that sent me, I AM COME A LIGHT INTO THE WORLD, That whosoever belleveth on me should not abide In darkness, And if any man hear' my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for A I CAME NOT TO JUDGE THE WORLD, BUT TO SAVE THE WORLD. He that rejecteth me. and recelveth not my words, HATH ONE THAT JUDGETH HIM: The word that I have spoken, the same shall Judge him In the last day. For I have not spoken of myself; But the Father which sent me, HE GAVE ME A COMMANDMENT, . ' What I should say, and what I should speak. And I KNOW THAT HIS COMMANDMENT IS LIFE EVERLASTING; Whatsoever I speak therefore, Even as the Father said unto me, so I speak. j . ............. ...... ... ... .. . f J r GOSSIP ABOUT WOMEN --------....... . During the recent visit of Major-General Baden-Powell to Liverpool the ladles of the city in particular paid him special honor and so impressed him that he reciprocated by revealing the well-kept secret of why he is not a benedict. "The 'ladles are critical," he pleaded, "and see no great point in me. I have had that pretty straight from one of them myself." And he told the story of how, when in South Africa, his duty was td tell an old Dutch lady that she must leave her house, ' which was wanted as a police station. He told the lady -to go and presumed she would obey. Finding in a few days she was still in possession, he sent his men to turn her out. She refused to go and she fcald no one had told her. "Oh, yes," replied a sergeant, "the General told you himself." Then came madam's silencing retort: "You don't mean to say that little red faced man was the General!" It transpires that Queen Draga, in an audience with the foreign minister a few weeks ago, said she lived in deadly fear, not knowing what the day or night might bring forth. She knew, she added, that she was hated by the people and that King Alexander was also detested by hia subjects, and she was convinced that the country would prove too strong for both of them. Various reports are in circulation regard ing the value of the late Queen's estate, which was said to amount to 12,200,000, chiefly invested In her sister's name In Switzerland and Belgium. A commission is now engaged ' in making an inventory of the property of the royal couple, and it is thought probable that the total private eBtate of both will be found not to exceed half the sum mentioned. Few members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals are as energetic and faithful to the cause as Mrs. Florence C. Bethune, a society woman and wife of the well-known New York lawyer. Mrs. Bethune has Avithln a few months caused the arrest of eight men for cruelty to horses and In eachcase appeared in court to testify against the accuseds After securing the conviction of a driver recently Mrs. Bethune announced that she will now direct her energies against mail-delivery con tractors for inhuman treatment 6f horses. In the last year Mrs. Bethune has turned over 36 sick and homeless dogs to the society. Mrs. Sarah Snook of St. Joseph is Missouri's oldest inhabitant. " She is 108 years old. She eats pie, ice cream, and other things; walks a mile every day for exercise; can see as far and reads as well without glasses as many young people, and remembers well many great characters of this country almost a century ago. She celebrated .the one hundred and third anniversary of her birth at the' home of her daughter, Mrs. Agnes Jacquay. Mrs. Snook Is a native of Louisville, Ky., and 'spent many years of her life in Kansas. ' Lady -Warwick, one of the cleverest of English women, has invented a new design of dining table. It Is sunken in the center, the space being filled with flowers, palms. and maidenhair. j The, man who is doesn't, want much. - satisfied with himself Four great cqal stations are about to be exploited in South Africa. The most south erly field lies between Ladysmith and the northern boundaries of 'Natal. . These regions will in the near future supply a large part of the world's demand for coaL Natal xported-204,00-tons tn-1901. r ' " ; "! ' ,; . , i . . ..... .... . ,. , . , . .; "LABOR" AfD "TRADES" UNIONS ' '.- ..' S) .. - ' .. ' V-.'. :.',.,.. . , ......... .....,.,. i ...4 ; inion reuse upon i. skill, "a labor J . ; It Is only A sace and- rlotlnip A nable or Its 4r The "labor question" assumed very In- They have no monopoly of skill, for their1 teresting phase recently In New York. " In work Involves no special training, h is only discussing It the Times of that city com- when all crude labor is employed at better mented upon the "labor , Issue" in an'ed- wages or more favorable conditions than' itorial, aa follows: ; . those they reject ..that- they have any falf .."The Board. of Building Trades has come, chance of succeeding in a strike. In any none too soon, to a decision to eject from other conditions it Is only . by unfair means representation In their body the unions of that they, can liope to succeedthat is to the drivers and handlers of building ma- say, by assaulting or intimidating but of terlal. It is hardly fair to say, even now, taking their places the unemployed to whom that they have 'come' to -this- conclusion, otherwise the' terms that are unsatisfactory They have been driven to It by the action of to the strikers would be satisfactory. That the employers' unions, representing dealers Is to say, whereas a trade union relies upon In building materials and the owners of Its monopoly of a certain, skill, 'a labor trucks, who In turn were backed by the union relies upon -violence, united action of the employers of labor Inithrpugh breaches 6f tha peace (tie uuuuiiib ait im i.uif.u ... vuii, in viiuvr unaDie or IIS Qv result is evidently a vindication, hot only fleers unwilling to put down that they can of a union of employers, which has never keep out of their places as good and as been so close or so firm as in the contest skilled men aa themselves who are. willing to provoked by the drivers and the laborers, work for less money, or on less advantageous and very injudiciously taken up by the conditions. They must strive to weaken the skilled workmen in the building trades. forces whfch society has' organised tor Its own protection, whether of the constabulary "The lesson has been sharp. But there Is or of the militia. Every such strike tend to reason to hope that it, has been effective, array the striker against society, to put Certainly it will have been effective if the them Jn an attitude of defiance toward law representatives of skilled labor In the build- nd order, toward peace and civilisation. Ing trades stick to their present profession of Their general and permanent success would an Intention to take no action in common lniply be the reign of anarchy, with what are Incorrectly called the 'un- skilled trades' connected with building. "Now, why should men who rely ujon Their action goes to the root of the whole their knowledge of their business to earn question of the organisation of labor. It their livings and to get as high wages as draws a sharp and broad line between trades their employers can afford to pay, ally unionism and labor unionism. And It shows themselves with men who rely and must that the Interests of the two classes of labor rely upon brute force and violence to get are not identical, but different and possibly more for doing their work than other men hostile. can be hired to do it for? Why should a - - - - iraae union join nands with a labor nnloja' "A trade union alms at comprising a That Is the question which the Board vIV monopoly of the skill required In Its partlc- Building Trades, under the pressure of thV ular art and mystery. Its strength Is that It action of the employers, ' has been asking it- does comprise such a monopoly, and that the self, with the results that we see. That is particular work its members undertake to the question which every representative of do cannot be done by outsiders except after skilled labor ought to ask himself when he a long apprenticeship. A trade union which Is asked to 'affiliate' with a representative of has arrived at this stage of perfection is unskilled labor. The benevolent but absurd perfectly sure of getting all the share of the Powderly, with his ridiculous motto that profits of the enterprise in which it is en- 'the Injury of one is the concern of all,' re gaged that employers can afford to pay. In turned the wrong answer to it. He took the the most intelligent and best-managed ground that when any digger or hodman unions it gets this without a strike. Em- chose to quarrel with his bread and butter ployers recognise that they cannot carry on It was the duty of all the highly skilled ar their business except upon terms which the tisans whose work was In any Vise con union Is content to accept, and when these nected with hie to quarrel with theirs, terms are such as the employers can afford whether .they had any quarrel with lt or not. to pay, they pay them without the loss and The consequence was that he succeeded In delay Involved in a strike. That seems to be shrinking the membership of his 'noble and the position of the 18 skilled trades repre- holy order,' before he had done with it, to a sented by the Board of Building Trades. pitiful fraction of what.it. was when he took hold of It. The Board of Building Trades "Now, evidently, this position is not at all has shown much better Judgment in refus that of unskilled laborers who organize Ing, on behalf of skilled labor, to embark simply for the purpose of hplding on, on it in the same boat with unskilled labor, or their own terms, t6 the JoBs which they to admit that the two have any interest In happen to have in some branch of Industry, common." TOM JOHNSON'S WAY. Last year eight Democratic members of the Ohio Legislature violated the platforms on which they were elected by voting for what is known as the "curative act," de signed to confirm a corrupt grant of fran chises to the Cleveland Traction Company! Mayor Johnson at the time told thee eight black sheep that if any of them ever came up for office he would go to (heir districts and endeavor to defeat them. Last week Johnson spent three days cam paigning in his red automobile In Richland County, where one of the black sheep named Earhart, .supported by the lpcal bosses, was He clipped "The Way to Scramble Eggs," seeking a renomination at the party primary. WHY HE CLIPPED. I saw him take the paper, and Turn to the household page, Then scan the columns up and down As one who all would guage. "Ah!" he muttered to himself, "Here's 'How to Make Rice Fritters, And 'How to Utilize Cold Beef.' Then from his pocket forth he took A pair of scissors small, And severed from the printed page The helpful hints and all. And "How to Make.Peach Butter," As well as half a dozen more, "That's all" again his mutter. "A thoughtful man," at once I mused, A man who cares for things, Who loves the calm, contented song The home tea-kettle sings. In his speech at Shelby, Mr. Johnson said The Democratic party will remain the minority party in the state as long as a handful of boodlers are permitted to parcel out second terms to such men as Earhart. The difficulty with the Democratic party In Richland County is that it Is rotten at the top. The foundation seems to be all right, but the head ought to be cut off, then the Do you." I asked, "preserve these notes Party w,n et back t0 tn ood old majority So that your wife may eye them?" OI lrom lo i'ovv- A "Not much," he growled, "I cut them out ff v So she won't get to try them." : lne re9Ult or tM primary on Saturday Baltimore American. afternoon was the defeat of Earhart by 5 majority. In commenting on the 'result. .Tohnaon mill inc. iw-rn6wUC. .gm. "The defeat of Earhart means the utter One of the curious facts of civilization Is annihilation of the eight 'black sheep.' that prior to 1800 a date from which, in a Gear (is absolutely out of the runhlng in general way, the world Is considered to have Wyandot County, and the other six have not been making more progress than ever it did dared to show their faces. The result before attempts on the lives of heads of wm have a most salutary effect over the en starts were rare. Since then they have been tire state. It will give the Democratic party very frequent. a chance from now on to move forward and They say the Sultan of Turkey shuddered accomplish results." San Francisco Star. while.his courtiers were telling him how the late Servian sovereigns were done to death. Unfortunately there is no reason why the mst desperate ruler should feel more unsafe in these times than the heads of constitu tional monarchies or republics. Within 10 - A LADY'S POCKET. Apropos of the difficulty even their fair owners experience in locating ladies' pockets, a good story is told of a lady who, arrayed' In a new frock, took a. hansom the other do v years the French Republic has lost Carnot, Ln(, oh aehtlnir. hunted valnlv for tha n. the American Republic McKlnley, Italy her trancfe to tn pockt wnere ne nad confld. constitutional King, Austria (also a limited monarchy) her -Empress, while attempts have been made within the same period on the lives of the constitutional King of Eng land and the Presidents of Mexico- and Brazil. The quest was so unduly prolonged thsv at last her charioteer, wno was not a man of refinement, remarked from his jperoh: "Now, then, marm, when you've done a-scratchln' will you Day me mv fare?" it wouia seem mai, u mere is any memoa gDare Moments in tneir maanees, xne assassins are more ais posed to strike at those heads of states who rule with limited powers and by popular consent than at those who rule absolutely and by "divine right." THE REAL "CONJER." "Do you think that there is luck In a rab bit's foot?" "Not as much as dar is in a chicken foot," apswered Ms. Erastus Pinkley, "pro-vjue Courier-Journal. vlded de res er de animal is attached," Washington Star. WHAT 8TARTLINQ NEWS.' The Honolulu Advertiser Is out with the news that Secretary Loeb.'in an authorized Interview, "practically announces Roosevelt' candidacy for the Republican nomination." What a . scoop by our . Honolulu contem porary t Theodore Roosevelt actually a can didate for another term, and nobody this side of the Paciflo Ocean suspected it! Louis- SOME NEEDED DATA. A ' The Rock Island Railroad is probably the "THEM THAT HAS GITS." lonly road In the country which employs a The Idea is growing that the start of the I woman as the bona of a section gang. - This bear campaign came with a wholesale- un- I road finds that she can makethe men work loading of stock by the Standard Oil crowd. hard. It Would be interesting: to. know how Quite likely. As Josh Billings used to say, ( much her husband weighs. -New York, Trl- them that .has gits. Boston Herald. I buna. I ' ' 1 I A';.''VK-?-:i:':ivV,vjh v'.'-'s v. -'V !", "u :i- I- Xr