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    THE OREGON DAILY JO U RN At POIIT'L AND, i FRIDAY . E VENI NO, J 17LY ; 1 0, , 1003.
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-Three mountain ranges traverse Oregon from north to south the Coast, 10
to 20 miles from the ocean; having an extreme altitude of 4,000 feet; the Cascades,
100 to 150 miles Inward, ranging In height from 6,000 to 12,000 feet, and dividing the
state Into Eastern and Western Oregon; and the Blue Mountains, 3,000 to 10,000 feet,
near the eastern boundary, Upon the slopes of these mountains and their spurs
are the largest and most valuable timber tracts In the world, the output of lumber
for 1902 being worth $10,000,000. Between each of the mountain ranges are millions
and milllqns of acres of as productive land as can be found beneath the aun, the
ylelda of wheat, oats, flax, barley and fruits leading every known region, both in
quality and quantity. From Oregon, Washington and Idaho and Their Resources, by
R. M. Hall.
EVERYONE VOTES AYE.
' The campaign Inaugurated by The Jour
nal for the establishment Njf a city emer
gency hospital la meeting with the most cor
dial aupport. Without a dissenting voice,
public officials and private citizens alike de
clare themselves heartily in favor of the
undertaking. The chiefs of the Police and
Fire Departments, whose duties bring them
In frequent contact with cases of serious ac
cident and Injury, are agreed that an emer
gency hospital Is Imperatively needed. Phys
icians are of the same opinion and give
hearty endorsement to the project. The
City Auditor, who naturally looks to the
question of ways and means, expresses him
self as in favor of the plan, provided It can
be carried out without too much expense
Thla proviso need be noff obstacle, for the
outlay required would be small. The cost
of maintenance would probably be more
than offset by the saving In payments which
the city ta now obliged to make to private
hospitals for care of indigent patients.
No time should be lost by the city author
lties In securing quarters and making all
otbef needful arrangements for the Installa
tlon of an. emergency hospital. If it la to be
established at all, the sooner it is done the
better. The slight expenditure ' of public
funds that will be required will meet with
genera approval, and the results will more
than vindicate the investment.
desired relief for the wheat growers of Cen
tral Oregon appears at last to be not far
distant.
Secretary Cortelyou of the new Depart
ment of Commerce, opened business with
prayer and reading of scripture. Evidently
he realizes the seriousness of attempting to
regulate the trusts.
The bargain sale of tax titles now In pro
gress at the courthouse gives evidence that
TOO CIVILIZED.
. ' Troublous times are threatened for the
Saltan of Morocco, who is becoming so civil
ised as to arouse the serious dlscontment of
his loving subjects. Their dissatisfaction
has found vent In ominous rumors of Insur
rection, arjd unless their sovereign Is able to
convince them that he Is still a barbarian
at heart, despite the thin veneer of civiliza
tion which he has acquired, a ruction seems
imminent.
As is so frequently the case of late years,
an American is the root of all the trouble.
He .becarpe the Sultan' favorite, and .under
his tutolage the potentate learned to ride a
bike. It is impossible to describe the horror
of the Morroccans when they saw his Sul-
tanic majesty scorching through the market
place In the company of his detested fa
vorite. Not content with this Iconoclastic
innovation, the Sultan Imported an English
physician and hired a French electrician to
wire the royal palace.
Even the loyally of the, people of Mo-
Multnomah County is a pretty good auc
tioneer.
The postofflce deficit for the fiscal year
ending June 30 last was $4,617,203, as against
a deficit of $2,961,170 for the year previous.
This big increase of expenditures in excess
of receipts Is but the natural consequence
of a policy which made the Postofflce De
partment the happy hunting ground of the
grafters, the spoilsmen and the practical
politicians.
The absorbing question now with President
rocco Is scarcely proof against such revolu
tionary acts as these and they are expected
to rise at any moment in defense of their In
stitutions and the traditions of their sires.
The sentiment of the American people is
undoubtedly, in the abstract, opposed to
lynching. Yet when brqught face to face
With the concrete case, when theory is con
fronted with brutal, fact, humannature Is
the same, whether in the North or the
South, the East or the West. The tragic oc
currences at Belleville, III., at Wilmington,
Del., and at :vansvllle, Ind.. bear witness to
the fact that the spiri; which finds vent in
lynchings is not sectional, nor is race preju
dice confined to the old slave states.
Roosevelt is whether the Russian bear will
bite if he tries to twist its tall.
--There -is -nothing surprising In the news
that another Oregon land office employe has
been detected in irregular practices and is to
be dismissed. For years the land depart
ment has been, the hot bed of scandals and
corruption. When jninor officials so their
Chief promoted to still higher political
honors, after being openly charged by the
press of his own party with rascality; "it is
not strange that they conclude that they,
too. may use their positions for their private
gain, without fear of punishment.
Superintendent Machen says he did not
accept bribes. Perhaps, like those Missouri
politicians, he called it "driftwood." And if
he secured as large a proportion of the drift
wood as he has of the Indictments, he should
be pretty well fixed.
The scheme Of establishing an emergency
hospital would go through with a whoop if
Official statements indicate that the con
struction of the portage road will soon be
Undertaken. The engineer who has made
the preliminary surveys is of the opinion
that the road can be built for the sum ap
propriate by the Legislature, and as soon
i the plans and specifications have been
completed bids will be tailed for. The long.
During the last presidential campaign, the winning argument of the Republicans
was that the election of McKinley four years before brought prosperity to the country.
and that his ro-electlon would continue It, as though prosperity depended upon the
acts of the chief executive of the nation. No doubt, many people believe It, or sue
an appeal would never be addressed to voters.
It is no new manifestation of popular Ignorance, that hard times are generally laid
upon the party In power, which Is, only Another way of conveying a belief that prosperity
end adversity are Intimately connected with the administration of government- And
such an absurdity is not confined to the American people; our English cousins have the
same aberatlon of the understanding. McCarthy, in his "History of Our Own Times,"
says, the administration is blamed or- praised accordingly as the people have food or bad
times.
Of course It Is In the power of government In all countries, to oppress the people by
taxation, but this ts not thought of or included when partisans promise prosperity to
follow the election of their candidate. The prosperity thought of, la something that
comes through law which permits or promotes proper Industrial correlation and con
tentment, liut when questioned as to what that something la which passes under the
name of prosperity, there is an ominous Silence from the prosperity touters. Several
times I have offered a dollar to any Republican who would. In Ave minutes, give a
definition of prosperity that would bear criticism, nnd I have as yet lost no dollar.
The fact Is, people have no proper Idea of what It takes to constitute prosperity.
There seems to be a general understanding that all are to be benefited by It, that
the well-being Is to be general, and that all classes are to be included. All the rest Is
vague and Incoherent, really Intangible, until Mark Hanna gave it a corporal entity In
"The Full Dinner Pall."
The farmer thinks that when he gets a high price for his produce, he is pros
perous, but if this be prosperity to him, what is It to those of his fellow citizens.
mechanics and laborers, who must go deeper Into their pockets for the advance In
price which they have to pay?
To the consumers of such prosperity products, it must be adversity; they are not
partakers of the farmer's prosperity. If we suppose that the farmer buys more, and
thus promote industry, the Increase of his purchases stands for the excess the consumers
pay, which they did not pay before, and they are no better off for their additional labor.
The fallacy of promoting general prosperity by raising prices. Is fully shown by sup
posing the prices of all commodities be raised In proportion, when evidently they balance
each other, and the farmer Is no longer able to buy more, and his prosperity also
vanishes. So It Is with the manufacturer; If the price of his products be raised, it may
be prosperity to him, but It is adversity to the consumers; consequently, the pros
perity which comes by raising the price of some commodities, ts at best, partial and
injurious to some, or In case of a general rise, the prosperity is wholly Imaginary, like
Hanna's "Full Dinner Pall."
The man who has potatoes to sell, counts his prosperity 25 cents a bushel, when
the price of the tuber advances that much, and the adversity of the consumer is 25
cents a bushel for all that he buys. The effect is Just the same as if money had been
taken from the pocket of. one class of people, and put Into the pockets of another class
of people, without any transmitting of the products. So far as general prosperity Is
encerned there has been no change; the sum of wealth has not been Increased a penny.
And so It la with every change W prices, of whatever commodity, or however pro
duced. When the market price is less than the cost of production, producers are thereby
Injured to such an extent as to force a diminished production and a consequent advance
in price, but every such incident only goes to show the want of correlation between com
modities of an sorts. Including wages.
Evidently, it makes no difference to the farmer, whether he gets 25 cents a bushel
for his wheat, or 100 cents, if all his purchases are on the same scale. A critic might
here remark, that If the farmers' savings were 25 per cent of his sales, his money in bank
at the end of the year would be less under low prices than under high ones, but this
would not change the fact that the leas money In bank would have as much purchas
ing" power, as the more money on a corresponding scale. The latter might pay a bigger
debt, but debts would also conform to prices current, where there is reasonable stability
of general Industry.
Therefore, it is unreasonable to associate low prices with hard times, and high
prices with good times, provided there is a general correspondence of prices, in either
class ;it is only when there Is a want of correspondence, when some things are up and
others down, that prosperity depends upon prices, and then the prosperity Is only partial
and fully offset by a corresponding adversity.
This principle was practically illustrated in the recent strike of 145,000 coal miners
in Pennsylvania, where, without any decrease of nominal wages, a large advance In
the price of the necessaries of life was the same to them as If their wages had been
reduced below a living point.
In the light of these principles, belonging to natural law. and therefore unchangable.
how easy it Is to see the utter futility of trying to bring general prosperity in the way
tlie Republican party has been operating for many years, working the governmental
machinery to establish the protective system. It is within the power of government to
put a tariff on Imported goods, and raise the price of competing products of this
country, thus benefiting home manufacturers, but the same government is wholly im
potent to prevent the corresponding and equal, adversity, thereby brought to other
classes of our fellow citizens. And this Is a question addressed not only to the common
sense, but to the common honesty of our people. It. Is, In a paramount degree, an
ethical question. A government founded upon the pretense of establishing Justice
has no right to tax some, that others may receive greater profits; to take from those
who raise wheat, and give to those who raise sheep; to take from those who wear
shoes and coats, and give to those who make them. Such a course has no sanction
in right reason, or in moral principles. It is absurd and abominable.
But such a system is the only basis for the promise and hope of prosperity thai
Republicans hold out as a reward for supporting the party. And when we consider
that only about 13 per cent of our population are beneficiaries of the protective system.
is it not a wonder that the humbug has so firm a hold upon the people. Taxing 87 per
cent for the enrichment of 13 per cent; or In other words, bringing prosperity to 13 per
cent and aaversity to 87 per cent of our citizens. That is the size of Republican pros
perity, which comes by government Interference with the industries of the people.
Real prosperity, that which is general, can not be produced by see-sawing prices
Real prosperity depends .upon the general production of wealth under conditions of
equality; that is when the Industrial human factories have equal access to natural op
portunities. When people understand this, they will cease to expect prosperity from
Juggling with prices. Or if that is the true doctrine, then evidently the trust system is
right, for under It, prices can be put up and kept up.
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Every observing person knows, as a matter of. fact, that the prosperity arislna-
from the Dingley tariff lawJ, has been of the partial, Injurious and unjust sort. The
trusts and those who are owners of trust stocks, have fattened, not- 10 per cent of the
whole people, while 90 per cent have been robbed to the same extent.
And this result is not an exception to the general operation of a bncflclal system.
It Is at all times and In all places, the Inevitable consequence of such a system
Farmers, especially, ought to know this, and also that It Is impossible through
tariff laws, to bring them within the so-called protected class. Those who produce
Dr. Woods Hutchinson, who Is connected
with the State Board of Health, has been
setting up the cigars lately, according to the
stories his friends tell. It seems that he
called a meeting of the members of the
board early In the week to confer with a
committee of the city board.. They were to
meet at the doctor's office late in tne even
The members of the board showed up with
several reporters and others and waited and
waited and waited, but the office was locked
up and Its occupant failed to make an ap
pearance. Finally he was located at his
home, by the telephone. Then it took him
several minutes to realize that the Joke was
on him. He treated, they say. The doctor
had called the meeting and had then for
gotten about It, J
"Freight and passenger business on the
Coast is exceptionally good, said A.
Stewart district freight and passenger arent
for the Chicago A Alton, who Is on a tour
of Inspection of the North Pacific Coast
Mr. Stewart's headquarters are In Ban Fran
Cisco and he generally visits Portland about
every 90 days.
'Low rates made good business during June
and while travel to the East Just now is a
little quiet, I look for It to pick up within a
few weeks. The national O. A. R. encamp
ment takes place In San Francisco next
month and the western lines will be crowded.
'The Lewis and Clark and the St. Louis
Fairs will cause a great deal of activity west
of the Mississippi and I see no reason why
one exposition will not benefit the other."
Mr. Stuart said he was not in a position to
state definitely, but he. would as a "predlc
tlon" say that In all probability the rate
from St. Louis to San Francisco to the O. A.
R. encampment would probably be $47.50, the
price of a regular second class passage one
way.
"They say the politician's life is a hard
one, especially during a siege or strikers,
but I tell you that I have yet to find the man
who receives a salary by suffrage of the
people who will exchange his position for
the alleged easy-money making place of a
bookagent," said A. B. Smith, a traveling so
licitor for an Eastern publishing company,
last night. "The politician, of course, has
a hard time of It, but only during a cam
pa I en. The rest of the time he can sit in his
chair, shake hands, buy the cigars occa
sionally and make votes In divers other man
ners, and no matter how much he spends of
time, money and mental worry, he Is always
rure of a 90 per cent profit upon his invest
ment by the acquirement of knowledge of
human nature, of the brightness or stupidity
of character as he may see it, by lessons in
diplomacy and lastly and principally an en
larged bank-account which he may enjoy
with a comfortable household and high so
ciety. These are the handships, or, as I
should call fhem, the happy Incidents of a
life. Now contrast his life with that of a
bookagent. The jeddIerL as unkind people
call him, has a campaign of his own, but the
only features of It are hardships and small
compensation. All the adroitness of the
politician must be hi, except in bis own
town he does not belong In society, and In
offering- his books he suffers as man re
bukes as the , unmoneyed ward-heeler does
when, ha looks for votes. Then look at what
he has toj-un against. Now here Is one of
100 instances: . The other day I tried to sell
a set of Shakespeare to a saloon man and
here Is the net result of tha interview:
'VChakbeerT .Not I don't keep It. Got
lager, bottled, home and Milwaukee.'
."Here,' I said, 'this Isn't a beer; it's
book!' : -L , . ; '
'Oh, book, I have no book. All my hook
(bock) la out, but I'll have soma next May.'
"Wouldn't that Jar you? He thought
was a brewery agent . but he bought the
books, or rather I exchanged my book beer
for a few. glasses of his lager and money,
just as votes are made by the liquid in the
campaign. 1 1 run against these Instances
every week or so, and. If I were not like a
worn-out politician, they would make me
feel like, giving up the business."
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Several lawyers were relating their curious
experiences in the corridors of the county
courthouse yesterday, when ex-Dlstrlct- At
torney W. T. Hume related the following
story:
"It happened down In California, years
ago, but it never found its way Into the
newspapers so far as I have been able to
learn," prefaced Mr. Hume. "In the town
where this Incident occurred, there was a
fellow who persisted in getting into trouble,'
and although he had been arrested several
times, ne always pieaaea not gumy ana mv v
THE LAND OF WHEAT
wool may be, but those who raise the cereals, and those belonging to the wage class.
togetner constituting the greater part of our population, must forever be the robbed,
in all schemes of partial prosperity brought about by tariff laws.
And when a party promises more than, this to the voter, It can be easily con
victed of being either knave or fool. pj.
THE ACTIVITIES OF WOMEN
all the people hurt by the tax scandal could
get their1-injuries cared for there.
Unless the Czar is a rank "bluffer, he Is
preparing to administer to our President one
of the most vlgirous snubs which that stren
uous gentleman has yet suffered. The pro
test n gainst the Klshtneff massacres may
come back with the information that the
addressee does not care to receive it
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The club women of New York are making a valiant effort to raise a sufficient sum of
money to establish in some part of the state a free school where girls may be taught
trades suitable for women, to enable them to earn a decent livelihood, and keep them
from sweatshops and the streets, , The project is ne that shoujd appeal foev-ery -woman-whether
she be a club woman or not. By strenuous endeavors on the part of a few loyal
and interested women, the sum of about $6,000 has been accumulated. Many more
thousands must, however, be added to this before the work can be brought to the com
pletion desired by the sponsors of the admirable and beneficent Idea.
The National Consumers' League, making Just now Its fourth annual report, shows
that it includes in membership 53 leagues, representing 13 states, seven, states having
been added during the past year. Mrs. Florence Keliey, the national secretary, says
that the commercial value of the league's label Is shown by the urgent demand for the
privilege of using it on the part of manufacturers lnvbranches of industry in which it
has not been awarded, and several firms which once scorned to use It have since
changed their arrangements in order to secure the privilege. The social service com
mittee of the Massachusetts state federation,-of which Miss O. M. E. Rowe Is chairman,
urges the clubs to aid In this movement.
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A Widows and Widowers' Club has been organized in Hudson County, N. J., with
the prime object of ameliorating the lot of Its two score or more members. The club held
Its first consolation soiree on Sunday in a park in North. Bergen, that is situated near
two cemeteries. Many of the widows ' still are young and comely, and a number of
unmarried men who are not widowers want tio Join. The club, it i said, intends to make
all applicants for membership furnish death certificates of their deceased partners.
NORTH YAMHILL, Or, July 8, 1903
To the Editor: Since your valuable paper
is getting to be a common household friend
in this community, I think that a few words
regarding "Old Yamhill" will perhaps not
be out of place.
That Yamhill County, the land of wheat,
hay, oats, hops, prunes, etc., is the recog
nizee "garden spot" of Oregon, I think will
not be disputed. The old dependence, wheat
raising, however, is rapidly giving way to
the more profitable diversified agricultural
pursuits which are becoming common
throughout the enure Willamette vaiiey.
Where once waving fields of wheat would
greet the eye at this season of the year,
clover, vetch and other profitable hay
crops are to be seen. Where the mongrel
cow was once the source of milk and butter
supTlyTiowmay beseen apteTidid herds of
blooded cattle. Jerseys and Shorthorns predominating.
-North-Yamhilt is-sitnated irrthe Jbeauty
spot" of Yamhill County, and is a most
thrifty and growing town, and the scenlo
effect In the surrounding graon Mils, fields
of waving grain and the Coast Range Moun
tains, as viewed from the elevation upon
which the town stands, Is, at this time of the
yqar, the remark of the traveler who hap
pens this way, and is not excelled anywhere
in the state.
Besides the well-developed Industries of
Yamhill County, she -is rich in latent re
sources which have as yet been but partially
developed. It Is the belief of many scientific
men who have made careful examinations of
the ground that petroleum, Iron, coal and
the precious metals abound and will in the
future in response-1- the-application of
capital, be made to produce fabulous wealth.
Already some effort has been made along the
line of devolpment of the hidden resources.
In this respect we might refer to the work
JOSEPH L. BRISTOW.
Joseph L. Bristow, Fourth Assistant Post
master-General the man, who has come to
be called the sleuth of the department Is
six feet two inches tall, but so thin that
when standing erect he seems to be fully
seven feet. -When seated he assumes a
crouching position, making It appear that he
is, only a little above average stature, and
when he begins elevating himself to a per
pendicular attitude he seems to get up a foot
District Attorney never could get enoughV I
evidence to warrant holding him to answer TS J
before the Superior Court. Six years passed
.
away, tne District Attorney Became a juage
and the troublesome person was still in the
town, always inviting a term in the penittn-.
tiary and always escaping it. His continu
ous invitation became a Joke until one day
he was indicted by a grand Jury and haled
before his old acquaintance, the District
Attorney, now a Judge. The charge against
him was read and he readily voiced a plea
of guilty. Much to the surprise of all, for
the minimum penalty for the crime was
one year and he could get off with no less.
He knew what he was doing, for the evi
dence against him was strong. Still the
Judge was astonished when he heard the
plea.
"'You plead guilty T he asked. 'The max
imum penalty Is 10 years.'
I Itnow It" said the man who defied the
law, 'but as I pleaded guilty, I won't get It.'
Yes you will though,' responded the se
date magistrate. 'When I was District At
torney I tried for six years to get you in
dicted, and for four years as Judge I wanted
to have you before me. Now, as this is the
only chance I ever shall have, I shall give
you the full period I waited for you and
that is 10 years.'
"You will, eh, you blasted old Idiot?
Well, if I had known that before I pleaded
'd have walloped the thunder out of you.'
"The fellow served' his sentence," con
cluded Mr. Hume, "but I never heard
whether he thrashed the Judge.
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of the Yamhill Coal & Oil Co, of Newberg,
which company has driven a well to a depth
of more than" 1,200 feet, in search of pe
troleum. Experts represent that the indica
tions shown at that depth are all that could
be asked for and that a continuation of the
work is most certain to be successful In the
discovery of a profitable oil field. The most
extensive work done so far In the county In
the way of development Is that of the Port
land Coal & Oil Company, of Portland, In
their coal mine on the Goeser farm, three
miles from this place.. This company began
operations- two years ago and have kept con
tlrtuously at work ever since with ffie result
that they now have 1,900 feet of tunnel, alj,,
told, consisting of two entries, with crosif
tunnels between them for purpose of ventila
tion, running back into the hill a distance of
something over 700 feet. At J:he presents
time there is between four and five feet of
coal at the tunnel face, a considerable por
tion or wnicn is or nrst-ciass quality, wniie
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at a time. The result is Interesting. 'When
postofflce Inspectors have nothing else to do
they make bets of the time it will -take Mr.
Bristow to get his head into the rarlfled at-
This, however, Is not in one undivided
strata, but still has intervals of sandstone
dividing it. The layers of sandstone, how-'
ever, are becoming thinner and less frequent
as the tunnel Is pushed into the hill, and It
is confidently believed that they will pinch
out altogether and that the coal will then be
In an uninterrupted strata of sufficient size
and quality to make it a good merchantable
product. The writer has made a recent ex
amination of this work and is therefore a
firm believer in the final successful outcome
of the Portland company's undertaking.s I I
Much money has been expended by them in "eHJ J
this work, and whatever the outcome may
be, tney are deserving oi mucn credit for
their stlck-to-it-iveness."
There is much more -that might' be said of
this locality, but In fear that I may be mak
ing too much of ,an intrusion upon your
space, I will burden you no further, .
VINE W. FEARCE.
mosphere he breathes while erect There is
a legend around the department that a vis
itor who , had Just been Introduced to Mr.
Blstow-watched him straighten out for. a fewu
moments and then gasped: "Good Lord, is
he-never going to stop getting up?"
Great Britain's colonies, with which Mr.
Chamberlain's tariff scheme la to foster
trade, furnish' but a fourth of her foreign
business. .
The average gross returns from all culti
vated lands in the country is less than $10.60
per acre, and for cereal crops only $8.0 per
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