TIIE .OREGON DAILY JOURNAIy rORTikxD. .MONDAY EVENING, JULY 18 1003. t .: EDITORjIo4L TIcTWELY TOPICS THE OXjEQO N V A' DAILY JOURNAL - a a jackson' ,1 1 Jfnutmaf SOME DISCREDITABLE THINGS AROUND THE CORRIDORS: COcTWcTWENTtND JOURNAL PUBLISHING COMPANY. Proprietors. Arrets) THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, Fifth and Yamhill 8ts Portland, O. CITY OFFICIAL PAPER. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Entered at the Postomce of Portland, Oregon, for transmission through the tnalla aa second -clt j matter. roe tape for dngle copies- i'cr an 8. 10, or 12-page paper, J cant; lfl to 2$ pages, i cnts; over 28 pages, S cents. TEL.EPMO.NESi Business Office O; ;on. Mnln 600: Columbia, T06. Edltorla! Rooms Oregon Main 260. i . f 1 , i V: SUBSCRIPTION Tarms by Carrier, The Dally Journal, one year $5.C1 Tha Dally Journal six months 2.00 Tha Dally Journal, three months 1.30 The Dally Journal, by tha week 10 RATES! Terms by Mall. The Dally Journal, by mall, ona year.. S4.C0 Tha Dally Journal, by mall, alx montha. 2.25 Tha Dally Journal, by mall, thrae montha 1.2S The Dally Journal, by mall ona month. .50 Tha 8emi-Weekly Journal. The Semi -Weekly Journal, eight to twelve pages each Issue, all the news and full market r porta, ona year $1.60. Tha Vckly Journal. The Weekly Journal. 100 columna of read ing each Issue. Illustrated, full market re porta, ona year, $1.00. orders and small Remittances should be made by drafts, postal notes, express amounts are acceptable In one and two-cent postage stamps- THE JOURNAL, P. O. Box 121, Portland. Oregon. Some things have been printed about the Initiative and referendum that ara not creditable. One of these Is the statement that tha Circuit Court Judgea probably had an Intimation from the members of the supreme bench that the lower court would ba at firmed. Otherwise it is presumed that tha lower court would not rlak tha humiliation tf a reversal. That simply cannot be true. In the first place tha Supreme Court could not properly make such An Intimation, and, therefore, they did not. In the second place the Circuit Court Judges are not concerned with the action of the Supreme Court. They are trial Judges, and do their duty aa they see It There is no humiliation In a reversal, The humiliation would be to be Influenced by any auch consideration. Therefore they were not so Influenced. It is a base and low view to assume that courta Instituted for the very purpose of exercising Judgments independently of each other, would play Into each others hands to escape "humiliation." The question is too great for petty personal considerations. It Is no disgrace to disagree with the trial court or the Supreme Court, or for either to disagree with the ether. The question is what is the law and right of the matter, not who pronounces It. There Is another discreditable thins;. The supposed demerlta of the amendment are urged in some quarters as a reason for commending the decision. That la irrelevant The only place and time for such a consideration was when and where the amendment waa waiting the action of the Legislatures and the people. The goodness or badness of the amendment does not make It constitutional or unconstitutional. That la. to be decided upon what was done in adopting the amendment, not upon whether it ought to have been adopted. It Is a vicious thing to teach people that the courts have any rightful power to set aside laws because they are bad. The courta are not veated with any power to make or unmake laws or constitutions. Their power la to construe them when made, fairly and honestly, and then enforce them aa they are made, good or bad. If they are bad. then they can be repealed or amended by the law-making power, or the people who are their source. If the amendment were the worst In the world, if it waa legally adopted, neither four Judges nor three Judges nor all the Judges in the state have rightful power to alter one Jot or tittle of it Therefore the argument against the merits of referendum has no place In the discussion, either in the court or elsewhere. 1 la belated and belittling. j j - This is the age of display, Every one turns advertiser; Posters are needed today Ever, by King and by Kaiser. )5o not be frigid and proud, ' Act as your cousins and kin do; Capture the eye of the crowd Everything into the window. Harper's Weekly. CALIFORNIA'S JEALOUSY OF OREGON TAXPAYERS COMMAND RESULTS. It Is in no spirit of captious fault-finding - that The Journal once more reminds the of ficiate who are charged with the investiga tion of .the county's affairs that as yet prac tically nothing has been accomplished to ward compelling an accounting and settle ment by former County Clerks charged with being short in their accounts. It Is more than three months since the expert filed his report showing shortages In this department amounting: to over $8,500. The County Court allowed the delinquent ex-offlclals several weeks In which to check up the findings of the expert, and finally about May 25, turned the matter over to the District Attorney, ask ing him to take such steps as he deemed nec essary. For five weeka nothing moro was heard of the business, beyond the statement that Mr. Manning waa engaged in investigat ing the alleged shortages and questioning wlfc nesses. Finally, two weeks ago, he annpunc through the press that he had concluded ft criminal Droceedinas would not lie anfts he would re-refer the' whole matteuyihe County Court in order to ascertain..! amount of the alleged shortagesJ" stated that, he would have the partj yoncernea brought into court as soon &f ' -ible. Two weeks have passed and noZ jeT 'effort has yet been made, so far as be learned, to bring the matter to an,.' 4' nr baa it been et for hearing in the VW Court. If the District rney dpes not wish to subject himaelf jr'' the suspicion of being lukewarm andylf-heartei In the prosecu tion of the oanty's rights, It is incumbent upon him jwaste no more time, but to take decisive X-P t once. In the seven weeks that heM bad the matter In charge, some tanrU results should have been accom Pilled, and the publics will scarcely view h tolerance, any further delays. If the District Attorney does not see' fit to :t immediately, then it is the obvious duty thereafter will be left to bring the Exp sitlon to the national attention, to populai Its purposes and alms and to advertl commercial and historical slgnlficai The state press of Oregon has ajt shown a gratifying interest In the workyM promot ing the Fair. The state's reftjentatlves in Congress will be greatly asslgVd If the news of what Oregon Is doing ayt her proposed Fair Is given wide pu"rXty through the newspapers of the cot A new religious yr n self-named the "Holy Ghosters" has mp-rftaken to drive the devil out of New YjAnA. Judging from recent Eastern Atsy -Aes, he would find the climate of X eago about to his liking. CourJ, house deputies who have been spends tneir anernoona on tne bleachers Instead of at their desks are having a pain ful reminder that the county expects a little work In return for their salaries. ,' ' tbe County Court to proceed, and to com- jiiHjueiii ri-uuiciiiift. ueiay la neeaiess. jne taxpayers demand action. Thirty-five hun dred dollars of their money Is Involved, and If It Is to be recovered, let steps be taken at once. 'Results, not promises, must be forthcoming. The selection of Senator Wehrung to take charge of Oregon's exhibit nt the St, LduIb Exposition will meet with general approval. A better choice could hardly have been made.. Senator. Wehrung is .a representative, man, energetic,1 broadminded and of marked executive ability. His career in public life has been an honorable one and as a busi ness man he has been successfufl and respected. Guarding hoboes while they break rock may not be so pleasant for the deputy sheriffs as going to the baseball park, but It w ill be much more satisfactory to the taxpayers. In his meditations at Oyster Bay, it has doubtless occurred to President Roosevelt that a war with Russia would divert atten tion from the postoffice scandal. In the vote to retire Jack Matthews front the office of Republican boss In this county, the only dissenting voice appears to be that of Mr. Matthews himself. The sudden cessation of hold-ups leads to the belief that Portland's highwaymen have COMMENCE THE WORK. Senator John H. Mitchell agrees with The Journal that now is the time to advertise the Lewis and Clark Fair. Senator Mitchell says that it is necessary to let the Eastern people know w hat we are doing out here and that the members of Congress will be more likely to vote for a government appropria tion for the Exposition if they find that the country at large is interested in the his torical celebration. In an interview published in the Oregonian Saturday morning, Senator Mitchell said: "Allow me to respond that In order to see what Congress is going to do, Oregon must Shaw what the Fair is going to do. Right away is the time to advertise the Fair. This can't be done too soon, but it can be done too late. Why, we can't possibly get an appro priation from Congress until next May. Wait until then to begin advertising? It wouldn't do at all." "How soon will you introduce the appro priation bill?" waa asked. "As early hi possible. Right away wljen Coryrress convenes." "Wouldn't that be in December?" "Yes; but the bill coujd not become a law until May." "'ow," resumed the Senator, knowingly, "if advertising Is to be put off until next Hay, that's almost a year. Only one year El (JENK, Or., July 10. It Is a noticeable fact that California is becoming Jealous of heriTthern neighbor and views with considerable apprehension the army of settlers and ,mmlgrants which has be-n pouring into this state from the Eastern states as a result oi' th advertising efforts of the various communities. California is Jealous of her ,ositlon and realizes the fact that people are really beginning to discover Oregon. In the publication cent out by California there Is a studious avoidance of any reference to Oregon and Washington aa a part of the Pacific Coast. It is not because of Ignorance, for ther is rlemy of literature in the "Golden State" which amply tells of the wealth and resourced of this part of the country. It can but be laid at the door of our southern sister's Jealousy. Oregon is awakening from her lethargy as sh should have done dozens of years ago. We are discovered to be possessors, of immense wealth by men who recognize these things when they see them in the crude state. m A Eugene newspaper man was a visitor to California recently and was impressed with the everlasting braggadocio which confronted him on every hand. "We have the largest trees, tho finest fmlts, the best climate, the flpest scenery, the most summer resorts, etc., etc .," is what one sees at all points. The fagt Is Oregon has everything that California has am'. In addition a far more satisfactory and equitable climate. We have Just as fine scenery and more of it; we are blessed with as good fruit but on a less extensive scale of production; we have more fine forests and we do not doubt that the giants will measure well with those of California; we have a better supply of water. Oregon could huve the most famous summer resorts in the world were it not for the fact that every city is a summer resort and one has all the pleasures of the cool air and balmy breeies right at home. The writer has lived In both places and has come to the conclusion that the dif ference between the stttes is this: Oregonlans have not been wise enough to do the advertising that California has done until the present year; the facts about our glor ious West land have not been placed before the Eastern public and Eastern capital has not been attracted here in such great quantities as to develop all the mines, build mag nificent pleasure palaces, create fairy lands on mountain sides, or make palaces by the sea. In talking with newspaper men In the City of San Francisco, the Oregonlan meets with appreciative remarks which show that this state Is no longer considered a home of moss backs and bristle whiskered lounging farmers, but a state that is coming to the front in all lines, a worthy competitor of California. The prospective Lewis and Clark ExDOsItion is resnonslble for a deal of this sentiment, hut th fYr.rt. nt Vi Northwestern railways to attract immigration also have borne fruit in attracting at tention. Within the next few years Oregon will compel the rightful recognition at the hands of our Southern brethren. No publication can then be issued in California as a "Pacific Coast edition," and be considered complete without a reference to the Northwest T. r. and I rs on Sj that made enough to retire from active business and live upon the fruits of their industry. The Minnesota Judge who decided that poker debts are not collectable evidently Im agined that he was telling us something new. If everyone has to pay a license for work ing, the inducements for being a retired mil lionaire will be greater than ever. Until the ax began to fall, the life of the deputy sheriffs was one uninterrupted round of pleasure. This Is the season when the smile of the hotelkeeper at the summer resort begins to expand. Congressman Littauer should be handled without gloves. A Buddhist dignitary was recently burled in Japan, and the police attended the funeral and made an official report of the ceremonies, which must have Men rather picturesque. The report merely says: "Three hundred and eleven Injured, 75 fainted, 121 thefts, 374 pickpockets captured. 1,021 articles lost and 7 people rescued irora canals." CONGRESSIONAL REPARTEE. Alfred Henry Lewis tells of one occasion when Jerry Simpson scored against an opponent. The house was proceeding along under the flve-minute rule, and Snodgrass of Tennessee rose to reply to Simpson, who, It seems, had charged Snodgrass with the triangular offense of being a lawyer, a fop and a fool. Snodgrass waa -an awful bore, a dull, tedlcfus sort of a man, and could settbe nerves of the house on edge quicker than any other man in It. He was proceeding in a manner, says Mr. Lewis, which he meant to be pompously satirical, to crush the guileless Simpson. "Mr. Speaker," drawled Snodgrass, while the house writhed to be rid of him, "Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Kansas charges me with-being a lawyer- " - "We'll nolle that count." interjected Reed from his seat on the Republican side. "Let the gentleman go on to the next." "Acting," continued, the wearisome Snodgrass, with the same exasperating drawl, acting on the suggestion of my eminent friend from Maine, Mr. Speaker, I will now go on to the second count of the indictment preferred against me by the gentleman from Kansas. In the second count. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Kansas charges me with being a fop ahd accuses me, Mr. Speaker, of wearing clothes. I must say, Mr. Speaker" this with lofty sneer, full of a spirit of patronage toward the "Bockless" Simpson "1 do wear clothes. I might add, Mr. Speaker, that I not only wear clothes when now am a member of Congress, but, Mr. Speaker, I wore clothes before I catrie to CQngress " - "Just a -momentl" broke In earuthrof Kentucky. "Will ther gentlemarrplease state- how long?" There came another burst of laughter which would seem to fall as pleasantly on tha Snodgrass ear as did the first. He beamed through the uproar like a tarnished sun, and when It finished he again took up his oration where Caruth had broken in. ' "Mr. Speaker," resumed the pernicious Snodgrass, "the third and last count of the Indictment preferred aga'inst me by the gentleman from Kansas Is that I am a fool." "Bang!" came Crisp's gavel. "The gentleman's time has expired!" Snodgrass looked helplessly about him; his five minutes were up; he must leave his defense to that third count floating In the air. It was the amiable Simpson him self who would push to the Snodgrass rescue. "Mr. Speaker," said Simpson, "I ask unanimous consent that the gentleman's time to speak on that third count be extended five minutes. If the house will grant my request he will prove it." Detroit Jburnal. The Interest that is being taken 'In the reminiscences as he is in Interpreting laws coming Lewis and Clark Exposition I for the benefit of the county and state. He throughout the state has been the means of was a Circuit Judge In the First District, refreshing the minds of many who had the land in a time when, four or five counties con pleasure of attending the great World's Fair I stlttited only half of a Judicial division. He held in Chicago 10 years ago. When reading I left the bench several years ago and re- of the coming glories to be seen'at Port-1 turned to the bar, It was there that he con land's Fair, the Chicago Exposition visitors Itracted the habit of telling good stories of eem to again hear the wild tom-tom musiolhis experience. ' Since his election - as of the African Tillages on the Midway, and County Judge last year he has not (lucky to see the bewitching eyes of the streets of stars!) dropped the habit, and It is nothing Cairo maiden. The memories of the old unusual to hear a good tale from him after Midway also recall a few strange incidents the buslnes of the day is ended.. The other and several queer remarks. " George W. day one at these sprang up when the Judge Hasen tells thst one day he was standing in I was asked how he came totframe the law front of the Libby Glass Works, when a man permitting counties to place their prisoners d from the country moseyed along, accom I at work on roads and rock plies. panied by a young girl. Outside ot the! "Well," said the Judge, "It Is a long story. World's Fair glass works were piled large j I began my political career with a term, aa heaps of the -glass bat had been melted, I recorder of the good and beautiful old town . cooled and then broken up Into big chunks I of Jacksonville, In the First District! I like coals the lumps were of various hues, found thatt town to suffer financially from Uncle Henry and the lass looked at the a monthly 'influx of drunken strangers who colored heaps for a minute, and then the tfd would be arrested and Jailed. They would man remarked: "Well, Mary, war s the I be well fed and would therefore serve their glass Just as It came out of the mines." An! time, Instead of paying their fines, as they he stroked his beard with the air of on were well able to do. When I took office, I who knows it all. not a new rule in force. A drunk had to work his time out or be fed on bread and Lack of choppers and not a scarcity of water. The rule was in effect Just two days timber, according to Eugene Tauslck, a when some people began to object. It was Walla Walla fuel dealer, is responsible for a monstrous to starve the prisoners; it was shortage of wood in the Meacham country against the state law, the city would be sued. more than anything else. Mr. Tauslck says etc., were dinned In my ears. I said net the there, is plenty of timber in the Meacham men work and let the city be sued.' A bread neighborhood, only it is a little naraer to get and water diet I noticed, decreased the at than before so much was chopped away I number of drunkards from the country, and nearer the railroad. "To secure laborers to at a meetlna- of the board of trustees get out the fuel is the hardest thing, he cured the passage of an ordinance said. "You know a man will do most any- mining the marshal to work prisoner! thing else before he will chop wood." Mr. the streets. The first person to defy Tauslck gets a great deal of wood from I law was a bad man who had been terrorls- along the lower Columbia, and Was in Port- ing us for several years. Well the marshal land on his way home from a trip to the took that bully in charge and the next day mouth of the river. he was at work on the street with pick and shovel. I had given him 12 days and he "Beet culture in the La Grande country is served the limit 4 When we released him no longer an experiment," said J. W. he hurrldly left the town and went to Med Scriber, an Eastern Oregon banker, who has ford, where, not being very well known, his been attending tq business matters in Port- chatter was taken seriously and he was shot land. "There Is one thing, however, and dead soon after he arrived." that is no one can expect to successfully raise beets unless he gives them, care and .jj you ever l0Be 375 ln a ,jnB;ie attention. Too many farmers have tried to mlnuter c. A. Schneider, a traveling conduct a big farm and cultivate beets and ot FranCco, !n a cr0W(1 ut nlght. have failed. Those who are raising the several had to confess that they had never sugar producers and doing nothing else are had l?75 to lose in a single year, let alone being successful." Crops throughout East- ft ngle mnuUi and asked Mr. Schneider it em Oregon, according to Mr. Scrlber, are m he ever nad such an experience, an excellent condition and indications for a yeai j aid- repiled the visitor, and it bountiful harvest are good. "The rains came mada me feei like committing murder at the Just at the right time," he said. tme ,t happened in Boise City ln 1885." he went on. "I had come out West with a bad "Crops in the Middle West are looking case of gold fever, and I followed a rush to very good with the exception of corn," said ft place some distance north of the Idaho E. H. Smith, of Menomonie, Wis., land im- capital. Six months cured me of the fever, migration agent for the Union Pacific, and I returned to Boise City dispirited and "The floods damaged the corn, especially in with little money in my pocket. I had to Western owa and Eastern Nebraska, and I get work, and as nearly every saloonkeeper am afraid the yield will not be as good aa and storekeeper acted as a sort of employ, usual." Mr. Smith is interested in the loca- ment agent I called on several with no ra tion of settlers and has been the means of suit, until I met one dispenser of drinks who offered to sell me one of those old-fashioned nickel-ln-the-slot lifting machines. " 'The thing has been here for years,' and I am tired of looking at If he told me. 'No one has called to examine it, and I don't know how much is In the box. Tou can have It for 16, and if you find a fortune In It, I won't kick. "I declined to risk the $6, and Just then a dapper little fellow came in and bought it at the figure the saloonkeeper named. As soon as he was ln possession, he pulled out a bunch of keys, opened the drawer" and found a heap of nickels. He counted them up and they totaled Just $375, and a few coins to spare. Then I cursed myself and I cussed the stranger also. "I learned soon after that the visit of the little fellow to the saloon was not altogether accidental. He was the agent for the com pany owning the machine, and had been sent out to Investigate its till. As the ma chine ad not ben touched for 41 years,-. tho ' company doubted if it had any legal claim and thought maybe the saloonkeeper might charge storage on it. So the 'agent wi authorized to buy it if he could for a reason able figure, and by his purchase the com pany cleared Just $270 on the investment." bringing over 20 families to the State of Oregon. "You certainly have a great state," he said, "and I see no reason why Oregon will not soon be filled with desirable Eastern settlers. Lands are getting high u. the East, and Middle West and it is better for one to come to a place where property is cheap and Just as good and in most instances more de sirable." e Although a clerk ln the office of the Chi cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, with free transportation readily obtainable, John Gil more Nof this city would rather take his week's vacation this summer in tramping over the Coast. Lightly laden with blankets and a few cooking utensils and provisions, Mr. Gilmore and A. R. Strachan, a mining engineer, left Portland Saturday for a short tour of the towns between this city and the Coast. They expect to travel about 200 miles during next week, every- step of the way on foot. "We will carry," said Mr. Gilmore, "only such things as we absolutely need, depend ing on hotels and farm houses along the way for our shelter and most of our meals." .County Judge Webster Js as prolific in tho -1 ilm 2f DOUBTFUL CONTINGENCY. Some years ago, Lew Dockstader was in terested in a colored minstrel company and had, early one summer, engaged a colored comedian, Ebenezef" TElisfia" Jones7Torthe next season. One day Ebenezer Elisha came around to inquire as to advanced salary. He was mighty hungry, he explained, and didn't have a dollar he could call his own. Dockstader told him that he would see the treasurer of the company, and Just as the colored man Was leaving suggested that he had better sign his contract, which he had previously failed to do.' Ebenezer hesi tated a minute and then warily observed: "Well, I'll sign, Massa Dockstader; I'll sign it, all right but fo God, I'se so hungry I don' reckon I'll ever live to fill it" WHERE IMMIGRANTS GO. Pennsylvania, thanks to the mine owners, absorbs a clear majority of a'l the Croats Slovenians and Slovaks that come to America, more than a third of the Magyars and nearly a third of the Poles. More Finns go to Michigan than any other state; the Scandinavians continue, as always, o drift largely to the Northwest, although many of them stay In New York; and the Irish and the English go everywhere. But New York takes heavy toll of the Immigrants of all nationalities. Nearly a third of all who come 208,824 6ut of B48.743 In 1902 stay In that state, anoT not-a single face that ends anyseftlers at all falls to leave some of them there; It is noteworthy that, Jri spite of the attractions of the South, that region is still almost untouched by the stream of Immi gration. There are several populous Southern counties that do not contain a single inhabitant of foreign birth; and In 1902 only 2;278 immigrants went to the nine states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia combined less than the number that has been brought to New i or, on several occasions on a single ship. July Review of Reviews. WILL TAKE NO CHANCE8. "I regard the trust as a weapon that may be very dangerous in the handsof un scrupulous people. "Maybe so.' answered Senator Sorghum, "but I'm going to try to be on friendly terms with the gunner and take no chances." Washington Star. ' - REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A woman has Ideals till she gets married; a man after he gets married. The average man saves money one place so as to be able to put it where he is squandering it somewhere else. It takes a woman to convince herself that what is a scandal, for some other woman to do is only an Indiscretion when she does It - The man who couldn't guess to save his life what kind of stockings his wife wears can always tell what kind any woman has on that he sees get on a Btreet car. J A girl has such will power about some things that she will let a man go on making love-to her when a mosquito is biting her knee without ever letting him know it New 'York Press. ; ; ONE OF NATURE'S SAD ERRORS. Nature equipped the rooater with an ab surd desire to crow at an abominably early I hour ln the morning Just when you are en. Joying the best part of your sleep, some old sway-back rooster lets loose a yell that wakes you; and then he keeps up his dis turbance until after sunrise, and doesn't know any better. Why is a rooster's voice so badly out of proportion to his weight? The everlasting fool Is composed almost ex clusively of lungs, .and although he doesn't weigh more than three pounds, he can make nimseii neara nve miles away. If a m had as large a voice, proportionately, as a rooster, there, would be no use for tele phones. Nature has been entirely too gen erous to the rooster. We file a protest- Wait Mason ln Nebraska State Journal. 1 V 31 As candy eaters and Americans rank first water , drinkers, A number of western railways have found that the growing of tries along the right of wai" profitable, both for ties and snowbanks, and are setting out millions of cuttings. "A $100 bill will sustain pounds, lengthwise. , a weight of 47 REAPING WHAT HE 80 WED. When President Roosevelt took Henry C. Payne Into his cabinet, he had a right to ex pect a crop of delegates, to expect conven tion endorsements, to ... expect a smoother-. pathway toward the nomination - he - so frankly seeks. All this he had a right to ex pect ; and his expectations have not been disappointed. But did he foresee no other results?. Did he not know that the appoint ment of a notorious spoilsman would spread and Increase any existing laxity or corrup tion ln the Postoffice Department, and would cause political favoritism. Jobbery and get-rich-quick schemes, at the government's ex- , pense, to flourish like rank weeds? Albany Argus.- !" J ( ; Denmark export 85,000,000 worth of but ter a year. The total population of the country is 2,500,000. .. .u ;