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V Page f. ITs PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY,. FEBRUARY. 20. 1304 JoEiraal THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL v AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C sV JACKSON Published every evening (except Sunday) at The Journal Building, Fifth OFFICIAL. PAPER OF THE CITY OP OROWING DANGERS OF A A' T THE OUTBREAK of the present war between Russia and Japan It was rather optimistically taken tor granted that It could be confined to the two nations directly involved. This hope was strength ened after the actual outbreak of hostilities and declara tions of neutrality so promptly promulgated by the lead ing nations of the world. The only striking exception to the rule was, France which to a great degree has held aloof and which subsequently permitted Russia the use of one ' of Its colonial ports to an extent that scarcely comported ; n-sth trlc nrofesaions of neutrality. It is now becoming Increasingly evident thathe relations of the two-countries are a very great deal closer than he public had rea son to believe and that it apparently amounta to an of fensive and defensive- alliance. If this aurmise should prove to betrue, It would involve complications and Issues the most stupendous since the days of Napoleon. Once another European power la in volved and it war dogs unleashed the possibilities of evil would grow alarmingly and the whole world will be con fronted with conditions to appal the stoutest heart. For years the world has been .proceeding; on the . theory that the way to prevent war is to be so well prepared for it that the most sanguinary of nation will shrink from It. To whatever degree this may be true It Is certain that the maintenance of great armaments by the European powers, with th frequent opportunities for irritation ; which they afforded, has put every power on a keen edge. Facing such a crisis as that of the present war sh as piring nation with ambitious mien eager to extend their territorial possessions and add to the (lory of their own reign, is filled with the martial spirit which Is ready, 'to Ignite like gunpowder and Involve everything In gen ;! eral conflagration. ' It la very unwise national policy to seek to under ' estimate the' gravity of the conditions which now confront the world. While the, popular sentiment of the country Is manifestly with Japan the concern of the government Is to maintain a- condition of strict neutrality tending powers and to in no way involve the United States In the imbroglio which seems so Imminent. For the first time In our whole history we are confronted with the responsibilities and dangers of being what is called a world power. That responsibility came' to us with the ... unwise purchase of the Philippines at the close of the Spanish-American war. The sentiment that the purchase was unwise is now so general that few attempt to combat it. But .lt Is a condition and not a fronts the country. The thing having be accepted and the best must be made possessions there are added, tremendous responsibilities .'and these. too, must be accepted and faced. 'There has seldom been a time in . our " history when broader and more' conservative statesmanship was called for and the Roosevelt administration will, from this time 1 on, be put to-the severest test of Its whole career. The ' outcome of it all is bound to largely influence political re sults next fall and may, indeed, involve President Roose ' velt himself Meantime we can only hope that this coun try, wnaiever may oe me private reeungs or a majority im .IHa.n. m.h ma m.aaM lim .... . . U 4 i. ..Ill 1 . u im vivicviiO mo mw "ten lis ivui BW win. I u will UC. UII1 C "in no way involved in whatever complications may arise land that it will finally emerge from the struggle with the consciousness that it has done its very best by its own citlxens, which is the highest tribute that can be paid to it. I NEED OF MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOLS. t T WILL BE NOTED that in all efforts to reform and save delinquent youths great stress value of manual training schools as effective agencies. If they are not interested in their em : ptoyments, if they are not faced in the direction of becom ing self-supporting and therefore self-respecting mem bers of society, it matters little what may be done for them In other directions, tor It cannot be of very much practical consequence. ' ' There is much talk of Intractable youths in Portland. KXDXXJaXT ok m WAX. loreiglited . Preparations WWoh Had " Sara Made by Japan. Eliza Scldraore's Nagasaki Letter in Chicago Tribune, dated Jan. 8. The British fleet is at its usual winter station, at Hong Kong, and ths ships, which have been In dark paint for a year, are ready for lnatant sailing. There are British ahlps at Wei Hal Wet also, nearer the scene of coming events. The German fleet has been gathered at Kiao Chou for some time, ready to sweep out when a battle has been fought or a blockade established. The alienee and self-effacement of Germany from the present situation ia ominous. Manchuria does not Interest Germany, Is sa'.d officially, in contra diction to the spring of 1 895, when it o Interested Germany that she helped France and Russia take away from Japan the little Llsotung peninsula, won foot by foot by Japanese arms. But that, of course, was to preserve the in tegrity of China and the peace of the far east, since it would be a menace to the latter happy situation to have any other power established on Chinese soil. O, these Christian nations! What nn example their morals and manners are to the people to whom they feel called upon to send missionaries! Consistency is not a Christian virtue evidently; not a German Christian virtue surely, or the kaiser, the defender of the faith, ex pounder of the Bible, and church builder, would have been obliged to oust the Russians from the Llaotung penin sula for consistency's sake alone "to save face," as the Chinese pithily put it. But the Orientals have learned that neither the kaiser nor Christiana gener ally mind a little thing like "lost face" if they get something for It, a Kiao Chau, with soma coal-bearing hinterland, for Instance. America, the new world power., the great sea power, is being cruelly chaffed at this crisis, since fair Columbia's white fleet picked up and tripped away across the great ocean, just as the situation promised to become acuta, gone in a hurry on a moonlight excur sion to Honolulu at the hint of danger tr embarrassing complications, sailing yet farther sway to Guam, with the cer tainty of war. .The cable brings word that Rear Admiral Evans has been ordered to maintain the strictest neu trality in caae of war, and our cousins German and . cousins English make merry at the necessity for neutrality on the way from Guam to Cavlte. Since Dewey day at Manila, we have heard roucTi" fervid oratory and read many sounding sentence about Ameri ca's prominent place in the world,, its destiny in the east; about Its pieaence in the Philippines making it chief fac tor In the Asiatic equation and adjuster of th balance of power in the east, and how we must maintain5 this Increased prestige with an increased navy. Both PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO. GREAT WAR. Much of it Is due, as it always is, to the fact that they are not employed In ways which interest them. The manual training school will go farther toward settling this problem than any other plan that has yet been sug gested. It : gives the outlet required for surplus energy and it gives a direction and tendency which are of the highest possible value in shaping the life and in directing the ambitions of the young. There is a general feeling that so long as Portland con tinues without a free manual training school just so long will it lag In the rear of the progressive cities of the country. The' proof of the value of such schools is fur nished by the experience of every city In which they have been tried.' They are no longer experimental and the value of the theory upon which they are based has been demonstrated through long years of experiment. Port land will, therefore, start in with all the. Advantage of the costly experience for which other cities have paid. -It can start at the very height of accomplishment in this direc tion. Instead of beginning at the bottom '' and building from the ground up as many other cities have been forced to do. It can, therefore, get quick results from the money which It thus expends and such results as cannot fall to receive the endorsement, of every taxpayer who has the good of the city and its growing youths at heart. THEY'RE IT IS JUST a straw yet It Is not without its slg , nlflcance. In the Fifth Ohio congressional district the delegates to the Republican convention failed to instruct for Roosevelt. The vote stood 82 to 28. While many influential authorities long ago proclaimed that the president would be nominated by acclamation, and while that outcome is still among the possibilities, there is a growing feeling of conservatism in various parts of the country which Is breeding a disinclination to bind the delegates to the national convention. This feel ing is not apparent In the far west where the president's hold on the affections of his party does not yet seem to have- been disturbed. But it is apparent that it is growing in the populous state's of the East and the Mississippi val ley which will have such a preponderance in numbers In the convention. The president Is being Insidiously attacked because of his lack of conservatism and there is just enough in his manner and methods to give the color of truth to what is said against him. It Is barely possible that the war which Is now going on may largely affect his fortunes for, in such a crisis as that which may be ahead of the world, a conservative man In the presidential chair will above all things else be demanded. Of this circumstance indus trious use will be made to the' president's disadvantage and it would not be surprising If many of the most con spicuous states refrained from instructing their delegates to vote for him. This does not mean that he may riot be nominated, for even now everything, points in that direc tion, but it does mean that an unexpected opportunity for his enemies to get in effective work has been presented. That they will take the greatest possible advantage of the situation there is no reason to doubt; that the presi between the con theory which con been done must of it With these dent himself will bet ween this and the1 day set for the convention seems equally certain.. The struggle from this time .forward may be expected to grow in openness and therefore in bit terness, with results that cannot fail to be' harmful to the president even though they may not in the end prove fatal. With It all Democratic advantages increase if the situa tion can be met. It has not yet been demonstrated that it can, but if there was certainty of a united party headed by a man that would command the confidence of the country and the fealty of his own party, the outlook for the election of Roosevelt would not be nearly so brilliant as it is now painted. But to secure everything in a Dem ocratic candidate that the situation demands does not at the present moment seem possible. Conditions may, how ever, rapidly change between now and next summer aid what seems impossible now may then be achieved, for It is the unexpected that happens in politics above all other human affairs. Is laid upon the one of the most prestige and navy are lacking now, and nothing gave the Russians more satis faction than the clean sweep from Japanese waters of every Americas naval craft Just the day before the opening of parliament at Tokio was ex pected to precipitate the crisis. The Japanese were a degree hurt by such a conspicuous defection in sympa thy and moral support, when it was proved before the ships left that all dan ger of European protest 'or Interference at Panama was past, and the admirals pulled up anchor slowly, expecting their orders to be countermanded. For months past, foreign merchants have suffered with Japanese merchants from the political uncertainty and the stagnation In business, quite as much as if there were war. Every contract has had its war clause for months, In surance rates have risen, eontracts are canceled, and the demands for foreign luxuries drops each day. Every ship comes from America loaded to the last nick of space with flour and foodstuffs and accessories of war. - One ship poured a stream of flour bags from Its holds in Tokohama, and all day at Kobe another coolie and an other bag of flour was as continuous, as the locust and the grain of corn' in the Egyptian fable. An endless chain of "XXX" bags poured out the port side Into lighter after lighter, and bags of "vlrgo" went to the starboard, the chanting crews powdered snow white with bursting bags, and even the upper decks whitened with flour. Then rolls of wood pulp creaked overhead and came down like mill stones In the bottom of empty lighters, and the stream of flour gathered head again and concealed the pulp rqlls from view. For three months the Japanese sub sistence department has been accumu lating flour, to be baked into hardtack for campaign use, the service ration of balls of boiled rice hot being as reliable In a fleet-footed, lively campaign a the American hardtack and sea biscuit This and the substitution of khaki color for white clothes in war were the two things Japan learned from the foreign object lesson afforded by the seven allies at Peking. Coal is the burden of talk among treaty port mr-n coal price, and ship nients, and rates, and gossip about coal is as regular as comment on the weather. Coal, as the first necessity, the slnw of naval war, Is pouring to the shores of the Yellow sea from every mining region in the world. With all this end of Japan underlaid with valuable coal beds, and the naval and mercantile -ships of all nations regularly coaling at Nagasaki, the Japanese government has brought thousands of tons of coal from Cardiff for the use of its warships, nothing .undone to add to the efficiency of the tteet It was a bellicose Toklo bsnker who, in arguing for an immediate conflict JNO. P. CARROLL and, Yamhill atreeta, Portland, Oregon. PORTLAND AFTER ROOSEVELT. spend some unpleasant quarter hours with Russia now and for all time, offered to sell his wife's diamonds to buy coal for the fleet. His colleagues cynically asked which of his owi valu able possessions he would sell to buy coal, the personal sacrifice of a tiara and riviere and other state ornaments which he could not himself wear, not atrlklng them as a purely unselfish act. We have almost historic parallel In Artemus Ward's heroic sacrlice of his wife's relations at the time of our war. TOTS TAX. From the St. Paul nianatrv The rural mall carriers are asking congress to Increase their pay.' A bill in pruning raising it to I7Z0 a year as the maximum, rear hud nft.r thr. service. They ask for a minimum of $00, an Increase to $720 the second and me maximum, 1820. the third year. The only argument against the request Is the expense it will Involve. If that is the only cause assigned for this unfair discrimination .it should have little weight. The city carrier gets from $900 to $1,200 a year. He rides free on street cars when he can ride.. The rural carrier has to supply horse, wagon and harness, feed himself and hnn. for his transportation by supplying it iiuuBrii. mo worn is more arduous than that of his city brother: his paths more difficult. If tha rltv nrrl.r e.i-. ly paid, the rural carrier is grossly un- uorpaiu. ji. me iauer is rainy paid the Other is largely overpaid. The country Is committed to the pol icy of delivering mall to farmers. Fair ness, eaualltv Of treatment nnnln. that it should have been given when ur banltes were given free delivery. If expense Is an obstacle It should have Deen ioreaeen ana raiseu when city de livery was established. It is too late now to raise it. If the rniiu in justify enlargement of the rural service men aoouaii mi iree aeijvery service In cltr and countrv. If tha nn tn v maintained, make it equal In point of emciency ana remunerative to servants with the other. TOonro A XX AS. From 'the Ashland Tribune. The Oregon Daily Journal of Portland has. arranged to publish the war news from -the Orient supplied to the Hearst papers. This insures The Journal very full and complete news of the war which is on between Russia add Japan. The Journal is forging ahead rapidly and is gaining a position among the prominent dallies of the coast and It appears In the most attractive dress of any evening paper this side of the Rockies. - ' "There Comes the Bogy-Kan." From the Washington, Times. When the scare' on both sides Is over, we may have a warm campaign, but at present both parties are represented1- s cowering in terror at the ap proach of some bogy-nan, . -. V ' ' Health Is a Potent Charles F. Thwing. president of West ern -Reserve -unlverslty.-contrlbutes- an admirable paper to Harper's Weekly of January 16 on "How Shall I Educate My BoyT" Among other things he says: . in certain great fundamental re spects of purpose, method, condition, and force, the education of your boy and mine and of all lads Is to be made alike. One of these primary conditions relates to health. "Before me,, as a college officer, there pass' reports of hundreds of boys and of girls, largely freshmen.' touching the condition of their bodies. The state ment of defects and deficiencies, of mal formations and of no formations. Is surprising and painful. The ills and the weaknesses extend from ankle bone- to optic - nerve. Curvature of spine, un equal height of shoulders, defects in vision, .are the more common ailments. and they are paUifully common. . A teacher of gymnastics, who has met hundreds, and I might almost say thou sands, of students, has said to me never had but one perfectly formed and thor oughly healthy student been placed on official hygienic Hats. Of course .the standard was high, as it ought to have been. , But It Is safe, at all events, to say that the bodies of most boys and girls are not so well formed at the age of 20 as they would have been had proper care been given and taken. A certain share of children are' not well born; but even of those who are not well born, the larger share are al lowed to abuse and, to injure them selves.' Therefore the first thing that I have in mind in the education of my boy Is his health. My youngster goes to a school, of which the buildings are large, well warmed, well ventilated. He goes away wlch me in the morning at S o'clock; he returns at 6 o'clock. The intervening hours he is spending under good physical conditions, as I have In timated, in the pursuit of knowledge. His lunch he takes at the school build ing. His play, at football or tennis, he takes eevry afternoon under the super vision . of the school authorities. Such outdoor play belongs to the fall and spring months. The close of each day of the winter-time he spends in the gymnasium, also under an Instructor. But In every , season of the year he closes the day's work and play with a shower bath or with a swim In the pool. He walks home after 5 o'clock, about two miles. Reaching home, be rushes In crying, T'm as hungry as a bear!' I presume my boy ia getting some knowledge; I know he Is. But I also am assured that his growth In atature ia well cared for; he is a healthy boy. The vigor of maturity, the energy of permanent working power, the length of service -and life, depend, in a very large degree, upon the growth and the health of the years of the second decade of the boy's life. Tour son and my son should have as long a training as possible. By long I do not mean merely length In time; I mean richness in quality as well. Merely temporal length should not be gained through the heavy cost of sacrifice of es sential values. But most boys have a training altogether too brief in time, as also altogether toe poor In quality. The course of a class from the day of Us entering the public schools until the day of its graduation Is a course like the Famous Sermon From the Bible St. Matthew XIX:I-0. Christ healeth the sick; answereth the Pharisees concerning divorcement; shew eth when marriage Is necessary; re celveth little children; lnstructeth the young man how to attain eternal life, and how to be perfect; telleth his dis ciples how hard it Is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Ooa. ana promls eth reward to those that forsake any thing to follow him. And It came to pass, that when Jeaus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; And great multitudes followed him; and he healed them there. The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him. Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause T And he answered and said unto them. Have ye not read that he which made them, at the beginning made 'them male and female. And said. For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh T ' Wherefore they are no more twain, but'ona flesh. What therefore God hath Joined together, let not man put asun der. They say unto him, Why did Moses then command to give a writing of di vorcement, and to put her away? He saith unto them, Moses because of the hardness of your hearts suffered you to put away your wives; but from the beginning it was not so. And I say unto you. Whosoever shall put away his wife, except It be for for nication, and shall marry another, com mltteth adultery: and whoso marrteth her which is put away doth commit adultery. His disciples say Unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife. It is not good to marry. But he said unto them, All men can not receive this saying, save they to whom it Is given. For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother's womb: and there are tome eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs 'for the kingdom of heaven's sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it, Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on thorn, and pray: and the dis ciples rebuked them. But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not. to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven. And he laid his bands on them, and departed thence, And, behold, one came and said unto him. Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him. Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. He salth unto him. Which? Jesus said. Thou shalt do no murder. Thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness. Honour thy father and thy mother: and. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. . .. The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou bast, and give to the poor, and thou shale 'have treasure in heaven: and come and fol low me. ' - x K But when the young man heard that saying, ha went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. ( Then said Jesus unto his disciples. Verily I say unto you. That a rich man shall hardly enter into .the kingdom of heaven, -ri ..---......; .(' -, .--, And again 1 say unto you, It Is easier Factor in Education march of an army In retreat t Is marked by what is lost, "Of the 7,786 pupils who were in the first .grades of the Cleveland schools in 1889, 2,024, or about 28 per cent, were Jn the highest grade of the grammar schools but eight years later. Of these, 1,263, or about 1 per cent of the original number, were in the first-year high school? In the fol lowing year, and 664 of them, or between 8 per cent and per cent of the original number, were In the senior classes of our high schools four years later." Such a decimation may not be so thorough in many school's as obtains in the schools of Cleveland, but In every system of schools the slaughter of the innocents Is great The chief method of prolonging educa tion, either in point of time or through efficiency, lies In better teaching. Two years, at least, in the school period be tween 8 and IS, could be saved by the enrichment and improved discipline of the teaching staff. - I wish, as J have in timated, that my son, while he Is being educated, shall have a purpose; but this purpose I wish to be of the 'most general character. Both parents and children are cverlriclined to desire, to. conceive and to select a spectflo purpose ait a tod early age.' A father, whose son la IS, fre quently says to me. "I don't know what work my boy will take up." Of course he does not know; neither parent nor son ought to know. Education Is largely a process, of self-discovery. Education reveals -the potentialities, the aptitudes, as well as, be it said, the essential weak nesses of the youth. One chief reason of education ilea simply in the purpose of finding out one's essential nature and character. In fact, if the choice of a life's vocation be made early a mistake often results. ' Temporary preferences are misinterpreted as permanent choices. Waste, disappointment, failure, misery, may thence result. But, although the specific purpose should not be entertained, the general purpose- of ' self-enlargement, self -enrichment, self - control, should obtain. The training of a great manhood, therefore, in order to render effective service to humanity, I would place be fore my boy as an atmospheric and gen eral purpose. I would not so place thla purpose before him as to develop self consciousness. Let all Intimations of a mission or a career be eliminated from bis conscious thinking. Let his boyhood be natural, simple, happy. Let not the boyhoad be spoiled by trying to make it a Jejune manhood. But ao far as the boy at the age of 14 or II does at all live in the future and' many boys live In the future more than we think they do let that future be large, great, high, worthy of the best , If such a future, in such conditions, I can keep before my boy, then at the age of 21 or 22 he will be able to choose his life's vocatlpn. I will gladly let him choose his own career. Not a few fathers hurt their sons and damage the careers of those sons by picking out careers for them. Train up the boy in the way he should go, and then let him choose his own work. In the choice of a vocation, as In the choice of a Wife, every young man should be left alone, If he is not worthy of being left alone, the parent has grievously Injured the boy in the preceding decade of his life. ' Dr. Thwing emphasises, In conclusion, that the boy be trained In an atmos phere of truthfulness; that parent and teacher should rely upon his honor. for a camel te go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When his disclplss heard it, they were exceedingly amased, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this Is impossible; but with God all things are possible. Then answered Peter and said unto him. Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have there fore? And Jesus said unto them, Verily I say unto you. That ye which have fol lowed me. In the regeneration when the Son of man shall sit In tbe throne of his glory, ye also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlast ing life. But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first XUOT OM OAFZTAZi AND &ASOB. President Eliot of Harvard Is strongly of the opinion that the public should have a legislative and judicial remedy against both employers and labor unions, and -that they should be under govern mental Inspection and control. "The process of determining what prloes a given industry will bear," he says, "is now a process of combat. The weapons have been chiefly strikes, boy cotts and lockouts, all of which ordi narily Involve' bitter strife and vlo lence, and not infrequently the disas trous interruption of a productive In dustry. "This is certainly a very stupid way of arriving at a determination of the best price to be got in any year or at any moment for a given product. Con ference and discussion between the workman, the capitalist and the trading agent, whatever he may be called, are the rational modes of arriving at a practical answer to the -question of price, and this would be the mode adopted If right relations existed be tween capitalist and workman, each be lieving that the other had a genuine interest in the real success of the busi ness they unite to conduct. 1 "Labor Unions and employers' asso ciations, so far as they are fighting bodies, abridge personal liberty; asd so far forth they are in conflict with the democratic ideal. They are also in con flict with the democratic Ideal when they destroy free competition. In this respect one kind of association is just as bad ss the- other. A monopoly has always been sn object of detestation In democracies, and such it ought always to remain, for competition is the na tive air of human progress and . im provement." Benections of a Bachelor. From the New York Press. The only way a man can fool a woman is to let her do it herself. . It takes a lot of education to teach a woman what she already knows by instli.et. When a woman thinks of the clothes that could be bought on the money that Is waated on house rent It makes her write a letter home to her mother tell ing her she suspects her husband doesn't love her any more. - It makes a woman awfully ashamed to have her husband not know any bet ter than not to pretend to her friends he is making ao much money he wishes she could be made to spend more. Money laving Scheme. " From ' the Buffalo Express.. -A new law of Mississippi makes It a misdemeanor to do political work for candidates for money. Political man agers everywhere ought to be .interested In securing arch a regulation. It would greatly reduce the cost of campaigns beaides .incidentally making for purer politics, A Woman Said to Be at the Bottom of Land K ' .Crabber Benson's Troubles It Is reported in Ban Francisco that Mrs. Belle A. Curtis, a widow, is the per son who. more than any other, made matters warm for the Pacific coast land grabbers Hyde, Benson and others. She was -a stenographer In Hyde's employ and, as th story goes, incurred the dis favor of his chief clerk' by smiling too sweetly upon another, employe, and so was discharged. Then she thirsted for revenge and told the government all she knew about Hyde's questionable method. He denies that any of his work passing through Mrs. Curtis' .hands could make trouble for him., but this is doubted by those who have watched the develop ments. ' V i t ! ' t , . i, cOne of Benson's most intimate business associates was Crawford W. Clark, a wealthy Sacramerito man, who for years has financed Benson's operations.' In an Interview in' the Chronicle Clark said: "I don't believe the government can catch Benson. He. is a mighty1 shrewd fellow, and so far as I can see he has merely taken advantage of loopholes in a loosely drawn law. -1 have known, him for 25 or JO years, and never took any stock In him. He was always inclined to spend more than he made. Boms years ago he failed, owing me about flO.000, but this has since been made ' good. - During recent years, when he has been speculat ing In government land scrip, I have generally lent him the money he needed, but I always had good collateral for these loans. , - .-, "Benson and F. A. Hyde 'operated to gether, although I. cannot say they had any formal partnership. Many of my loans have been for their joint opera tions. When they bought land which they intended to exchange for government scrip that is,- lands in the areas se- lected for government reserves these purchases were entered In my name. I transferred to the government and when the deeds were signed by me the scrip was issued itvmy name. - As fast as this Serlp was sold, or the lands located on it were sold, I collected thex money, thus getting back my loans. This was a simple money, transaction and did not' Involve me In any of Benson's illegal schemes, if he has been concerned in. any such. Of course, I took considerable risk of los ing my money, but while Benson owes me between $30,000 and $40,000 now. I think the loan Is well secured. I have an order on T. B. Walker of Minneapolis for more than that amount Walker Is a large timber speculator, who has em ployed Benson to locate lands for him. "I bad to keep my eyea open all tha time in dealing with Benson. He wss always hard up, and would spend all the money he could get his hands on. He gave a fine house to Grace Gates, later known as Mrs. Swlftwater Bill, having bought It with money he odght to have paid - me. He made a fool of himself, with her, and that was the rea son the government caught him. He started off with some $6,000 or more In his clothes and Mrs. Swlftwater BUI as a traveling compsnlon. He was going to show her a good time In Cuba and else where. When he got down east the gov ernment agents nabbed bim, and he had to put up his $5,000 and more as ball for his appearance when wanted. So he did not go to Cuba, after all. "Before he started I told him he was a fool. 'Why,' says I, 'what the dickens do you want to go to Cuba for, Benson? There ain't any government lands there that you can get' hold of.' He laughed and said he was Just off for a little vaca tion. - "Lately Benson, has . been ' buying a large amount of land scrip owned by New Turk people. , He has always been speculating In lieu lands, but while I knew of most of his transactions. I have never bothered my head about them. I Just kept myself secured that was all. "BensonMately had a great row with Dr. E. B. Perrln of Williams, A. T., for whom he was under contract to locate scrttj lands in exchange for, the big tracts Perrln sold the government for its for est reserves in Arizona, Tou know, Ben The Woman in tha Caae. To the Editor of The Journal I have been reading the articles in your very Interesting paper in regard to "unfortu nate girls," and I have been wondering why women themselves do not help them. I am sorry to say it, but from observation, I am led to believe that the average woman is as much to be blamed as the man who gets thegirl into trou ble. The man may start a girl down hill, but a woman la responsible for the eternal ruination of her reputation And Is it not queer that it is oftenest the mother of daughters who is the most bitter toward the unfortunate girl? Now let me state a case. There came to our town a "young man he was not particularly young, but he was single he was quite good looking, a good dres ser, and considered quite a "catch" for the young lady who" would be fortunate enough to. land him. Among the many admirers of the young man. was one (that we know of), who loved him not wisely, but foo Well Oh, you all know the rest of the story how women be gan to look askanc at the g4rl and how the girl rubbed shoulders with old friends as she passed them on the street and how the old friends were always very much Interested In something on the opposite side, or above and beyond the girl. ' And so It went, until finally the girl leaves town for a short "visit" and then but we all know what happens, or st least, what Is said to have hap pened. "They say" it happened in this case but did it'? No one knows it did for a fact, but it may as well have been so, as far as the reputation of the. girl Is concerned. After a short time the girl comes home, but ho. one gives her the ,glad hand of welcome. It is the same as it wss before she went away, her friends forget to remember her, and' finally her only associates are her immediate fam ily. Her father and mother were well known and well liked, she was a nice, good, well educated girl, or at least al ways was considered so, until this new star, or comet rather, arose in the horizon. And what was the young man doing all of this time? Why the same old thing to be sure attending dances, ten nis parties and receptions where he had been invited by "mothers" who ' had failed to recognize the girl on the street, although they had known her from In fancy. It was not men who Invited him to these places, I have heard men say he ought to be kicked out of town. But to resume. A short time after the girl's return, an old friend of. the family gave a card party. Her mother and sisters were Invited, but she-was not asked. But and I. am ashamed to say it, the man was there in all his curls and glory. He had been Invited. And, oh. the pity of it the woman who gave the party had daughters of her own, No sweeter, end no better behaved than this one, but this one, alas, had been "talked about." Now. mothers, stop and think. You do not know but 'what your own daughters may be placed In the same position this girl was. . Why do you not pity the girl. and. kick the man? Or If you must- kick, kick both You do not know what you are doing. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE son has. his 'cruisers.' or land sharps, all over the northwest. looking out for good timber lands, estimating the num- ' bar of million feet of lumber there may be on the unoccupied areas and helclnc him get title to the same. Perrln had employed Benson to locate a certain amount of land, paying him partly In cash and partly . in scrip. Well, the doctor got the notion in some way that Benson was skinning him, and he went after him red hot. I told Perrln that' he had better settle with Benson, who was too smart for him. He took my ad vice and the quarrel was fixed up. . "This man Perrln is one of the leading land-scrip speculators In Arlaona. He and Benson have been very thick. No, I can not say. as to the truth , of those, tftHA 'ihat PftPrin - waa Btrlrmfna- 4k.. timber from a track of 100,000 acres ' which he sold the government for a for- Mai- raaervA. nn. am T ivifo th.t Rm. son had anything to do with such trans actions.. Of course. If Perrln has been ooing anytning ji tne sore it wouia iook , like plain robbery of ths government for the object Uncle Sam has in buying up tnese Diar tracts im to protect tne water shed by preserving the standing timber." : , . ... ...... .. The fraudulent transactions of - Ben son and his associates In the land ring included - the corrupting of .notaries public. - Alarge number of the dum mies, or - persons ; with fistulous names, who had made application to take up government timber lands, swore to their applications before the notaries, the latter accommodating the ring by ask ing no embarrassing questions. Some notaries are reported by the special sBxiiv iu iib.y aignecr ami . acwnowi- eugea diocrs or . applications in blank. These Were used extensively. It Is said, in Oregon and Washington, and even in OaHtftrnim A ,k. A 1 .1 , v .niiiviia, win uvma.ia.iiun tu which the applicants had to make oath ' was one that the lands they-wished to enter upon were not mineral lands. They also swore that they had not previously entered upon any government property. The accommodating notaries, by ac knowledging and affixing their signa tures to the applications in blank, en abled some of the timid tools of the land ring to avoid committing perjury. The names of proposed applicants for lands were taken from old directories, secured by inserting advertisements for ' clerks and other employes in the daily papers and by other tricks and devices. Benson, while dealing in the different kinds of scrip, made a specialty of land scrip. He would buy up school sections on some hillsides, or tracts not to ex- fceed 60 cents an acre in value, and turn them bacfc to tbe state for lieu land scrip, which he would place on good timber lands outside the forest reser vations. The stumpage alone on these lands over which he. laid the scrip would be .worth from 60 cents to $1.60 a thou sand, whereas the land he 'had turned Into the state was almost of no value. Among the Pacific coast transactions that the department of the interior has under investigation- la one Said to In volve 100,000 acres of land included in a forest reservation in Arisona. The owner of this land. Dr. E. B. Perrln of Williams, A. T., Is. said to have, by the aid of a United States senator who poses as a reform Democrat, succeeded In get- ting this 100,000 acres set aside as a forest reservstlon. He then sold It ..to the government, taking lieu land scrip ror it. The most peculiar of the many sin gular features of this transaction Is said to be that when the government took the land for a forest reservation a con tract existed between the owner and a lumber company, by. which the latter wis to take all the best timber oft the reservation. The lumber company is said to be at work devastating the reser vation. After the trees have been re moved and the reservation cleared the land will be of little value as a forest reserve. The cutting off of the trees will also 'deprive the land of any valua as a watershed. If be would take advantage of one girl, would he not of another? It is all verv well for you to say, "Oh, my girl woulil not do such a thing.". Madam, let me tell you. you do not knw your girl. Of course you think you do. But she is not made of wood. The mother of this girl would net have believed her girl would have done such a thing either. That mother was a refined woman she educated her daughters In music, painting, needlework and in everything young ladles should know. How could she possibly think her girl educated In the church could go astray? I have looked In amazement at mothers ,of girls Inviting this man Into their homes what risks they were running.. They simply threw their girls st him. I know that man had no respect for those women who toadied to him after this trOuble. I know in his heart be felt Sorry for the girl and if .mothers had not sneered at her he might possibly have married her. But as it was he was having a good time and of course could not stoop to marry a girl who was an outcast from decent society why of course not. it would have hurt him socially. , Mothers when you are kicking some body else's daughter, you are kicking your own. You are the ones who mult the rules that govern society, why not make a rule that If a girl In tempted and falls, ahe is at least as good as the man who tempted her, and glv her your protection and pity, and then- if your girl should go astray, you will know she will have the sympathy of women of women whose hand rocks the world -who was born to pity and caress. Do not, I Implore you. cast a stone until you are yourself, truly without slri. ' ' ; -. " -L. ft. Ode to ths Medical Man. From the New Orleans Picayune. , The hapless modern wight Is Sick with appendicitis, But what to him Is wrong and grim To the physician right Is. When "practice" growing slight Is, The doctor's sole delight Is To sit up late In solemn state -Inventing something flti." He's made mosqulto-bltls, And alcoholic tightls, Until today . The suffix gay Unquestionably trlts Is, " In fact the sick man's plight Is A state of constant frlghtis, It seems to me There soon will be " ' ' An.awful rumpusltla! " Hpn't Oars for Jeredla. From the Washington Star, Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan's $25,000 copy of "Paradise Lost" causes a number of people to wish he might display a cor responding interest in their losses Of a mundane and material nature. ... Wot In Senta Carolina, From the Boston Globe, Congressman Corona, who shot skd killed an editor in consequence of politi cal differences, has been given , four years' imprisonment and ordered to iui y a fine of $4,900. But this was' not lit" South Carolina;, it was in Cuba.