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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL.
AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER '
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J NO. P. CARROLL
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The also-ran Hat has been largely in
creased again.
' i t On &puUlcea'. Tlenr K '. ArhlUJrltyof the Feople Teaetloet
Portland. June 7. Te the Kditor of . pumi ju iwra.thi editor of
The -JournalWord elected by f,500Xh. Journal Is It complimentary for
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carMad' w." . insist pat me major
It Oregon Sidelights
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Poplar trees is The Dalles must go. )
f mJ .U IIaIw . ja V .... At I . . .
. . . carried -.VO. T iA . wregoman w nil .
Dam n n ii rriAn it nnn inn nrr Arv i - wvt i . , A iutiBH4 asi i Mann. , . . . . . .
three time, and oet. !?ni"A'" VM "" .rsV, ,
iww uwuncn m aw (o a wmwMUon 4"""v' - - i t Lebanon auenorta four oolaii,
If enough other state, think a. Ora- .faJoons, gambler, and dividual voter ha. to, a tJ'lw sawing ,
vXdREADFUL CONDITIONS IN COLORADO.
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1ONDITION8 such us now curse Colorado are never
brought about by a su.lden ebullition of feeling.
American citizen, and It Is they mnlnly who are
fT now involved in this deplorable contest, are too well bal-
; V ' anced and have too great a nact for the law to be car
V ' rled away so far by any Bu.lden Impulse or any wrong
i -A; immArlixtii nrlrln. The antecedent causes usually go
r .V.'. '.tack, they involve many and diverse things and -such out
' :, V rages are the culmination of accumulated cxirlences
f',"' rather than the sudden Impulse to resent u freshly Inflicted
i wrong.
i 1 The root of the evil Is found In that disposition of
human nature when J t enjoys great power to use, It ar
, '' bltrarlly. In the earlier days of Colorado precious metal
( , v mining very high wages were paid and a high class of
i men were attracted to mat line 01 wora. in me iumn
,; .'of tlm In, the Leadvllle district the mine owners decided
' 'k. to" reduce the ecale not so much because they were not
; making money, but because In Oils way they could make
( " more money. Then followed the inevitable- contest In
. r which the mine owners used the militia to great ad-
' vantage and succeeded 1ft having their way. Some of the
r ' more Important union men were driven forth from the
town and those who remained were forced to acquiesce In
.th new conditions. This was the starting point of
' ; . condition of armed neutrality between the miners snd
" mine owners, which, more or less openly maintained, has
" : agisted ever since. Thereafter It simply became a -ques
' tlon of which boasted the more powerful organisation.
' The men went steadily to work and organised on the most
1 -rigid line When they got the upper hand they ruled
' With absolute .way. Unfortunately, at times, the men who
. V cameVtO the front as their district loaders were not always
i ' . men Of character and respecters of the law. Experience
" ' such aa they had had taught them that the only way to get
' what they deemed their rights was to be powerful enough
" tn organization to demand and enforce them. No matter
how law abiding the members might be they were all
' forced to this conclusion by the logic of their own ex
perience.
The mine owners, on tholr part, bided their time until
? they got a governor to suit them. When they did a strike
waa forced, the mil It la was called out, bloodshed usually
: followed and In the end, with the military authority ex-
j ' arted to It. utmost, the mine owners had their way. Then
' after tha leaders had been driven forth from the district
the work of reorganisation was started again with the ut
' most secrecy. In the course of time by one means or
another a foothold for the union was secured. Keeping
Cv Steadily and doggedly at work, through the aid of new
' union men quietly brought in from other districts, a ma
j, , Jorlty of those employed were .ooner or later enrolled Into
, tha union. When tha organisation waa sure of It. strength
It began to show it. hand and ultimately It wa. In the
f ; ascendency again.! .Than followed the same bid story of
f tha militia
, Tha recent experience was the most flagrant In all ex
periences of a similar nature which have cost the Innocent
taxpayers all told millions Of dollars directly and other
. millions indirectly. - It was they who footed the bill even
when they knew, and In the present instance little attempt
' has been made to disguise the fact, that the militia was
under tha absolute control of the mine owner., who ad
vanced the money as a loan to the' state to foot the bilL
.t Under that arrangement there have been outrage, done
uch as have very seldom been perpetrated In any other
State in the union. American citlsen. herded Into bull
pen, without any charges preferred except tbv one fact
that they belonged to the union, kept there because the
, mine owners wanted them kept, martial law proclaimed and
maintained with a rigidity that literally wiped out the
legal rights of every citizen,, scores of men, women and
children driven forth In the cold and snow, forced to
abandon their homes, newspapers suppressed, the court
defied and private rights outraged to the most intolerable
. degree.
And now when all was supposed to be over, when the
j...- troops had been withdrawn from the Cripple Creek dis
trict and the mine owners were In peaceful control, with
the backbone of the union broken, comes the ghastly
tragedy In which by a scheme of devilish Ingenuity, non
unlon workers are torn Into fragments by the shock of a
dynamite explosion electrically discharged. And so it
goes on, outrage begetting outrage, no law recognized but
the law of brute force and cunning, and the end Is perhaps
not yet by a long and bloody way. There Is a terrible ob
ject lesson in It all for American employes and employers.
Whatever way there may be to meet such conditions.
gon does It will be four year, more of
Theodore. .
churches. Surely this la ingratitude on than- tvar before Ukan tha - pain, to
surely the Colorado way Is the worst, the most deplorable
and the most anarchistic It Is the way that shocks and
borrlfle. every sentiment of right and Justice, Which vio
lates every sentiment of true Americanism, which pro
vokes anarchy and outrage and foster, murder, arson
and crime, unspeakable.
Elsewhere other, better, more legal and humane ways popular favor.
are found to regulate the relations between employers
and employes and they should be found In Colorado if that perhaps If he would request It some
that state expects to retain the confidence and respect of Pr tnem would die to acommodate him.
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mo yrv i m saioons ana mmoiers to I innk nn th ruoMi or tas men. iori n.M fa .ib . . .4 mi t.
noMnKii. t.a m... ..).. Ifor them and go over to the enemy, the ruwt nart of the oeopla Willi . ,A. -1 '. ' .
district attorney or sheriff in Multno- and the Imbecile., that the Ore- agrM with the loyaUy of the Oregom Is going on
man oounty. gonlan denominate their congregations to tha city of ( Portland, via. that ajtjonff jjy crk , .
Tha ni fr inn.n.n m Ai.i J seeing the contempt In which he holds I nit r not eorruot. neither are they I ii irniMWv- ...
natlng voting seems to have met with hn, especially those of the Presby- in, favor of thai corrupt . manner In flocking to tha state. . -
'"in iiin, ne wquo aiiow any ox ni. 1 which the mayor. aiia uir v .wmoww 1 . . . , -v ,r , . ,
mrellngs to even warm -the cushion lnlhv nnunii tha affair, of our city, r, AAvnUmtm , vnMi. . 1,1.
The people like Coroner Flnley so well a, 17 , or "," danominatlon. Thl. ex- .s the thinking clas. of votara cieariyi meeting at Corvallls.
puiiiHtiuii 01 in cause 01 ins aeieai 01 demonstrated- yeaieraay. wuj -1 , , 4 1 , ., , , j t -
8tott and Reed is in line with Insult, nninui ia hrave and manly utterance. Thlrtv ; thnnsni4 ahM l..rt
directed against that part of the com-1 of Dr. H11L sogether with all good I at tha Antelooe corrala. t
Oh. Orcrnn im immnaaiv p.nnui.n munlty who attend church that has nittsena. reMrdles. of party affiliations, I . - ., I
done by exhibitions of brute strength ruthlessly employed, all right Yet Its people pick out county been attacked by the Oregonlan for the I strongly supported by The Journal Jnl Una county has a new rock-crusher
Colorado has demonstrated to the horror of tha entire md district of fleers to suit themselves. 10 days through Dr. Hill under the I .uch a manner as to gain the oon- j to help build good roads, .
. 1 pica 01 aeienaing me gooa name oiiQdence of all gooa peopio, nm wu, ., , p
To on not acouaintarf with tha .it,,. I Portland (Portland a. represented bvlniean mea were elected to office Thai There are immense rnnsnf wiM h.-
atlon the figures look as If Manning and Brlckaon Blaster and the Portland club). Oregonlan ha. for the past week de- rle. la southwestern Oregon. ' '
Word had run on the Republican ticket But u w111 not agree with Harvey's voted a great deal of it. rUllant 1 i ,, ( v
1 upiananon 9i ni. zavorue.- aereat. in I editorial column, to us auacaa u& . 1 reopje or uienaaie ana vicinity gather
Tnere has doubtless been a great fall-1 " comraunny wnere unaer normal con- mil ana me ouier jmnisi-ra wu wuu sirawoerriea oy DucKstsful.
ing off in the last day or two in the 0,ons a Democrat has as little chance working for the cleansing or our xaw
Its sister states In the American union. That It cannot be
country.
CHARTER REVISION STILL IN THE AIR.
KT NOT THOSE who are opposed to charter re
vision, who are opposed to a postponement of next I brands,
vur'a i-itv alfx'tlon and who dealre for tha best of
public reasons to retain the powers' which the charter aireaoy been almost insuffer- " "u uegree 1 w uie insuiie oi- ror gooa awvernmwv --1 a won
puunc rramuiH iu iciaiii tt.i.vh 1 K. , - . . . , - I rarted to a nar nt thla Mnnnnlt. I nn Vnnw(n 'more than Cat-1 "naanat-a
cigar . trade, particularly the cheap f election as a Republican in Alabama, I city, but If you read oarefully the en-1 Rapid growth, good color and bright
m reason aeeper man uie one given musi 1 tire eaiionat page 01 m mv. .....a -1 cruapwia m ui unman noDyarda.
offered, and I am Inclined to attribute istue tou will fladlhat all those Voting I
A John Day river man has -1,000
' of the Brown Leghorn . va-
now confers upon them, be for a moment deceived into be- worg9 Bft.r ,whIja. aut one will not through editorial, of the Oregonlan. kle, unable to think or act Intelligently rlety.
liovlna that the fight Is over with the election. There are have another chanca to aV an hia a I Now the writer of this drinks wblskrlfor themselves. '
those who believed that The Journal waa unwarrantably ,how- whenever he want, a drink and only Is ltpoeslble, when too lata that the The Coiallls brtckyard ha. begun, op-"
1 rsnrsa mifm uw attaaMa aieitHHait m 1 riaiaaiieiati iaa Msnnninsr si sssa ii uuiu arair inna anil esi 1 1 bm a wa n a ns si KMiabi m
. V -f-nn t f aa l...ln(. iaa fs . K I pi I DUM MIWIIUB tUUI Via, UUIVUBU A I VI VBjUUlWl aaaa aaeaaa ap ' ' ' 1 wa bIVMB U w Uf WaaB,aB, VVVVV VIJUBJ, gm
rr.i.KM urn uu, .... v . . ,h-,. i.. . . I do cav for a slttlna- and T do nntfar talnn tha nubile sllDDlnr irom lim graap, I innoe tile.
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they were mainly tnose wno ror personal or macnino rea- cyclone darted over Into Tillamook and be identified with the man who sits I that the ciencbea nst gave wdm
son. would have liked to see .uch change, made a. would hit B. L. Eddy a knock-out lick. Men BMtt to me rather than the one who proving now to be the knockout blow. I x new sawmill on Elk. creek. Lane
..... ,u m-. .aa . ,k.,.. ..,. ... and brethern. wbsre are the professional stands next to me when I take a drink. I There was a time when the people or county. la turning out 16,000 . feet of
",Y """" - "- politician, and machine ODeratora "atr- nd I have felt that the article. In the Portland and vicinity were compeiiea lumber dally, ,
forma. Any who honestly benevea tnat were wa. no rea- Oregonlan were in Insult to mv Intelll- to rely on .uch new. and support a. tne
son to fear will certainly have that confidence shaken, if Is It O rover Cleveland or W. J. Bryan enc as a man And I resented It at the editor of the Oregonlan saw fit to give More I. to have a four days' farm
freah nroof. are produced, now that the heat of battle is tnat w blame because the railroads Pol's- And I believe If local option car- them, and when decency and jood ,r.' institute. Sherman county farmers
rreen prooi. are proauceu, now mat ine nea oi oaiue is ., . .1,- .Bd nmhlhition fnitowa that it wilt morals wee at stake they got very are verr nrosoerous.
over and the result can be discussed in cold blood. and? it th.r i be due more to tha work of tha man little, but thanks to the able manage-1 .
Take this as a sample from the editorial column, of whole pres. of the country would charge ,n the towef t.n to Paget or Amos. I ment of our evening paper, that day 1. The busfnese for the yast year of the
tha nr.rnnlon thla mornlno- "Annth.p l...nn thla ' 0 mm. ir me Drewenes ana saloons WOU1Q save paai. ana xum nowr'ir v. --" iwi w rr.in.win aesociaiion
election is that the voter I. fully qualified to discriminate.
If the ticket had included a mayor of Portland, voters all over, that Republican votes for some
could have recorded their choice as freely and intelligently iJemoeratic county candidates should af
a. they did for sheriff and district attorney." TlL" i?i
ing meaning oi inn is ciear ana unmisiasaDie. it is claptrap it was!
true that Mr. Courtenev will not have the chance to carrr
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out tha will of the machine In this direction, but there L,- jr& w. taei tad fS
were eiectea men wno were not pieagea to Keep tneir nanas awhile, a real trust right here In Port-
off the charter, even though they got in by a diminished 'and. Perhaps the big New Tork mag-
rot. Th nurnoae of the consnlrators la Inst aa nrn- "'" oimuuh oi ron-
. ' ; ' . . land aftes thla
nouncea as it ever wa. to postpone inrougn cnarter tinker
ing the city election which under the present? order of I According to the supreme court, part
things Is to be held next year. The policy which it rep- tne coneutution roiiowed the nag to
..... . , . ., ,, , . the Philippines, and the rest Is In the
resents wa. unmistakably rebuked at the poll, last Mon- keeping of the G. a P. But the fact
day; it is a hint that the same policy when directly an la- seems to be that some of it is lost
aue would be repudiated with an emphasis which thej1'1 or "t('en-
most ooiuse couiu nol , unaersiano. mere js. mere- Thtt 0Mlldatea for representative who
fore, from the standpoint of the conspirator, all the more declined to declare themselves on the
reason why they should attempt to achieve by indirection "object of charter amendment ran many
h.t tha. nn Unn, h.v n .1 .nn,mnll.h .h -V "uu"' IBUCWS WHO
'" v. I came out with a plain statement.
a direct flght. plain hint that they had better let the
There is too much Involved to the people of Portland to charter alone.
.7. v Z 7 l V 7 i 1 " " "I Perhaps It will be discovered that
eye will be kept pn the legislature and the member, from local option Is not such a bad, foolish
Multnomah county who have deliberately placed them- and injurious policy, after all. as has
selves under suspicion have only to glance at the election beU rePr"?ntad. But If It should prove
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'"u" """ " "" .mjv iiiimwia urn in-1 naal It b the same means thev em
voivea no party Drana win save a man who file. In the ployed to adopt It
face of thfl neonle.
ii ta announcea mu a new company
their states from prohibition let them I lan. and very largely its innuence, areiwaa vary satisfactory,
How abaurd 1t annaara that it ia hire some ens to bottle un Harvev. gone forever, wnue a wiomwmw, f"-
rresslve Dubllc cttisenshlp ' Is already I Daniel Webster Is in the Balam lockun.
beginning to cast backward pitying He imitated the more celebrated man of
.1 . . . mAltM aa WAI1 aa OTirithat ma wt.llv V...
"a 1 - - I mavnv aa two nnM noTiuiar inaiTiauBia. I
i-ortiana, June b. 10 me Muor oi I . in.ina their nrestlee. and later I Wan tha Tndlana m tha TTmatm. hi.
-ournai -auow me aa a visitor to tha respect of all good cltlaena inateaa lervatlon are complaining of the sheep-
yOUr beautiful City to express my lndig-l.a t-anatlrtlam. nuhlla eonsclenCS haS man for driving arnaa thai landa
irajiiii at inn auiiuu iaoii i hen at work, and tnis witn tne gooa
tnis summer oy one or your jeaamg ,orw nf the munlcloal league, aided Dy Tha naw lumbar fluma ahova Pm.
street railway companlea. rr. HUl's able diagnosis, supported by fordsvills 1. two mile, lona and takes
WHAT THE RETURNS SHOW,
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has been Incorporated in Portland, with
a large capital, whose object Is "to revo
lutionize dressmaking." But husbands
and fathers need have no hope that the
HE ELECTION returns show that every county In revolution will be In the interest of their
Oregon is at the present time Republican tn na- M"-1""""-
tlonal Issues and will be carried next November The Worcester (Mass.) Spy, a news-
by President Roosevelt. .How Jong this will be so cannot PaPr Tear old- na 14 was
be foretold, depends on future events. Four years hence "o
uregun may ouu oe aa sirungiy repuoucan as now, or on times was a noted paper, as newspapers
the other hand it may be much less .o, or even doubtful. wnt then; but latterly it fell on evil
Political rhamrea aometlmea oo.r.ur with Mmn.r.H umt na aT P tne Struggle fOf CX-
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rapiauy in mis country, ana H i. probable tnat tne Ke-
publlcan party Is now riding the topmost crest of it. high
tide. This is said not thoughtlessly, or with ' partisan
prejudice, but In the light of extended observation of past' Beturn to ITorinal Ooaditloas aad Talue.
LEWIS AND CLARK EXPOSITION
'KZOX TZSB BBAOXBS.
Begliming.
i From the Chicago JoumaL
The discharge of 75,000 employe, by
the railroads of the country Indicates
that the end of an era of unprecedented
high prices, both of living and labor,
ACHIEVEMENT THE MAIN JOY
events and present condition..
But without discussing these now, the election returns
also show that In local politics, in the election of county
and district officers, the Voters are increasingly independ
ent and discriminating. A party name, or the demand 6r
command of a party machine does not count for much in has been reached.
local affairs, and it is well. I Tne country has been traveling the
Thla tandnnrv tn Indanand im and darlmtnalnn -r. -Ill 1 pace that kills.
........... f . ., , It must now readjust Itself to normal
piauuan caiciiu uiiu niwe aiiu even iiuiiunai politics. 1 ne' I conditions.
principles and the men will be considered more, and the Labor, like every other commodity.
party less. Thus parties will become more servants and " amenable to the law of supply and
laaa mMt&rt tt tha vitafa And thi- .1 ,i v i. demand. Artificial stimulation of pro-
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rled beyond the point where it becomes a
burden.
The country has reached that point
Extraordinary consumption had en
larged the demand for labor. Aa the
Barrett Eastman In Chicago Journal.
Mr. Bryan's restatement of the So
cratlc doctrine, "If you measure life
by what others do for you. you will be
disappointed; but if you measure it by
what you do for others, you will be
rewarded," la well worth a moment's
attention.
It Is good to be remindod now and
then that there Is nothing of any value
or satisfaction In life but achievement.
Achievement is everything; its results
sre nothing. Mr. Rockefeller Rets no
real pleasuro out of his enormous riches,
but the nfeumulatlng of them Is a source
of continual happiness, not berausa he
csn do anything with them, hut because
they stand a monument to his power.
The possession Of pre-eminence, such as
the president's, soon becomes a burden
that would he -.insupportable were It not
jor new acnievemenrs. one alter an
other. Poverty anil privations are tin
pleasant, but chiefly because they sym
bolize weakness, incapacity, mul failure.
Liixury soon wearies, and many ft man
would resign It but for its symholism
cf ability and succeRrf
For the same reason there Is no hap
piness In what others have done for
you. Man's capacity for enjoyment Is
limited and ha is speedily bored. Though
he had all the material blessings and
had not obtained them for himself, but
received them as a gift from another,
he would be miserable as soon as the
novelty had worn off. He would have
missed the satisfaction of achievement.
' It Is better. In a double sense, to give
than to receive. When you give, you
gratify the craving for achievement In
striking fashion, for you exert your
power. awi '.power Is man's strongest
passion, you prove, to yourself and to
the world that, in., this fierce battle of
life ,yoU are. not only able to 'protect
yourself, but to lend some cf your
atraagth to othera .
Bat when you receive, you admit your
incapacity and write yourself down a
weakling foredoomed to failure. In spite
of all our fine-spun ethics and our the
; ory of a universal brotherhood of .man,
we all are conscious from' the time
when we are first thrust into the world
, ear own masters that life Is a fight to
thed eath In the Jungle. As truly now as
when our cure-men ancestors slew one
another for the flesh of the aurochs,
to be vanquished by the saber-toothed
tiger and the hear at last, we make war
upon oui fellows. We fight with Intel
lect instead of brawn, and our weapons
are cunning, and trickery Instead of
hati-hetM mrule of polished stone, but
their effects are the same; and If we
lo not die Immediately we die eventually
after a period of suffering and shame
and humiliation worse than death.
In civilization as in the wilderness the
law Is the Inw of the survival of the
fittest, and might is right, now as be
fore the sermon on the mount. "Vae
vlctls!"
A few short centuries of what we are
pleased to call civilization have not
been able to eradicate the Instincts
which ages of this unrelehtlng struggle
against nature and our fellow man have
Implanted In us. Having learned through
the experience of millions of generations
that the man Is happiest who Is best
flttel to his environment, and that he
is best fitted who is strongest and most
cunning, we have come to feel that we
should be satisfied with ourselves In
proportion to our adaptlblllty. But adap
tability can only be evidenced by deeds,
and therefore our pride Is In achieve
ment. We cannot eat any more meat
than our neighbor, but If In our cave
there is a great heap of carcasses It
proves that we are a better ,man than
he is without a similar accumulation.
Our strength and our adaptability are
greater than h's. We are the better
man, and he must respect and honor us.
For here, after all. Is the mainspring
of all human action the desire to sur
pass our fellows and make them ac
knowledge our superiority. What Mr.
Rockefeller wants Is not the money,
but the reputation of the richest, Which
Is to say the ablest man In the world,
the man who surpaaes all other men in
fitness to his environment. What Mr.
Roosevelt wants is not to exert the
pewer and bear the responsibility of
the presidency, but the reputation of
being the ablest politician (or states
man, if you pleaseV in the country. He
wants to compel all of hi. competitors
to acknowledge their inferiority to him.
He wants to feel that he is best fitted
of all of them to the environment In
which he finds himself.
So It Is with all of us In every walk cost of labor Increased the cost of llv-
of life. We want to make our fellows Ing advanced. Persons of limited means
admire us and acknowledge that we were obliged to economise. The result
have strength and ability enough to falling off in demand for manufac-
oonquer our environment and rise su- tured goods.
perlor to them. Our instinct tell, us TnJ a limitation of produo-
that etrena-th ia tha ana rat i.i.iu. tlon and a lessened demand for labor,
and he who ha. most of It will .be the Tn law of compensation reasserts its
happiest man. .Therefore we exult in "way- Prices will necessarily readjust
the display of our strength, not so much themselves find their level. Labor,
for the resulta of it, as In heaps of car- be,nK Svrned by the same Inexorable
casses, as for the achievement Itself, ru,e8' w111 aU ,nt0 tho natural current,
which evidences our strength. 11 will lose nothing, because the cost
i That is the reason why the men who of living will be reduced in proportion
have Inherited wealth are alwaya so un- t0 the reduction In wages,
happy and generally so worthless. They Th,s reaction does not predicate hard
have not had to exercise their strength, times. It simply indicates the restora-
whlch has therefore become atrophied tlon of normal values,
to the paralysis of their energy and am- Thoughtful labor leaders are begln-
bltlon. They enjoy the results of the n,n to realize these facts and arte ad-
strentth. enerpv and ambition of ofhnra vising workingmen to adapt themselves
but they soon And that there is no per- t0 the change in economlo conditions.
manent satisfaction in that but that it
I!es only in achievement, whose power THOSB Jrivjo-TO-FOtTJI DSdSZOM.
they have lost. They reel that they are
not conquerors of their environment. From the St. Paul Dispatch.
but are only protected from their envl- One finds It dlTcuit to foilow the
rdnment as by a wall. Water runs in insular decisions of the supteme court
their Veln.j they have no place among and find the thread of logic that runs
men. through them and make logical seeming-
Achievement that Is the one lov. the My inconsistent doctrine. The securities
one excuse for being In, the world, the f of the federal constitution follow the
It was my pleasure last summer while Nji the churches and all good citlsen. timber down this distance In 15 minutes.
on my return irom Ban r rancisco, to and. championed flay ' alter aay Dy a
spend a few weeks in your city, tfur- -nod. clean, progressive dally paper, I The fJlendele News savs a li. noo.000
Ing which time a party of 10 tourists I -r. the reason. O be ascribed to ths Imlnlnr deal la about to ha nulled off
anlnvad tha hnanltalltv ne vmir naflnlk 1 m m - m ,v.' ...kl. Itm v. . At I ,l. , . . L . a . . mt
.... j v -- r r acit vi wi mwm k- miruoowMi ana tnat tne uienaaie ais-
While here, one of the pleasures not leaches, so fondly backed by the morn- trlct "1. slated for the biggest mining
o oe iorgotten, was a riae aoout your iny paper. Aaotner ana very important i poora the world ha. ever known."
city on tne ooaervation car, wmcn ierti factor wa. the determination or tn
at the comer of Third and Morrison Oregonlan to foist a Roosevelt boom North Bend Citlsen: As a result of
streets, and took in the principal streets on the people to Induce them to sup- the efforts of the Coos Bay chamber of
and suburbs. The fare then was 25 port the gang, when all decent people commerce $3,500 ha. been set aside for
cents, and If I remember rightly, the va know President Roosevelt Is tho the continuance of the work of dredging
cars could narmy accommodate tne pas- last man to uphold sucn an element "lithe shoal at the mouth of Pony slough.
sengers ana irom a money point ox view i the Oregonlan train, witn in our city,
It was a success. land Is It possible that the editor of the The Jury In the case of roung Barry.
In visiting your city again this sum-1 Oregonlan' doe not know that ft walwno killed a young man named Ahearn
mer, we decided to take the same trip, because of Theodore Roosevelt's1 brave in Klamath county some month, ago.
and were somewhat surprised at the ad- and manly stand against the very wag 0ut 17 hours before being dla-
vanca in fare to 60 cents (the same trip things the Oregonlan now champions, charged. It stood 11 for conviction to 1
In San Francisco, Los Angeles and other I when he was on the police commission for acaulttal. County Judge Webster
large cities being 15 cents). This cer- of New Tork city, that first endeared defended Barry,
tamly seem, very high, especially for so him to the heart, of all good American
short a trip, and as ws were given to cltlsenst And this same determination a Cottage Grove young man let his
understand It was only done to adver- to havs right and good government fr- drug-store bill run two years, and the
tiaa tha clttr and the car comnanv. we vail la what today Place, him so far itamtaad account than showed that the
certainly think this a very poor method above the mean, dirty method, adopted If ir.t thing charged wa. chocolate
to advertise, as the former fare. In our bv the Oregonlan in politics, ana mat cream a and the last a nurslng-bottl.
estimation, was high enough and could I he will be nominated by acclamation I ne must have caught a good wife in
be Indulged iu by moat visitors. and elected by tne largest majority oti order under the changed circumstance.
I trust that the good citizens of your any president wno nas ever unea tnat i to pay a two years bill.
city will take this matter up, as I great omce.
have heard numerous complaints from I A ROOSEVELT, BUT NOT "OANQ"l Prlnevllle is spelled many different
other tourists. A. B. I republican. I ways on envelopes directed there, the
latest variation being Prunevllle, which
for some unexplained reasons anger, the
Crook County Journal, more than all the
others, perhaps because it considers It
an Insult for any one to suppose Prlne-
.,411. . Am,.(mM with MIIUM
K. -.. . ,! . S.a1.na Am-., I -
1V W VI VM sj V IOi V IV Vl kMMIUi wa V(vm
has appropriated mso.ooo, and citizens t.(,ni. i. . th. etnaa
of Portland have subscribed J4I0.OOO to f,eM. i the state of Oregon are
the capital stock of th exposition com- to b- found on Trout H4y creeks.
pany. All the Pacific coast .tate hav tnU county. Many farmer, have their
appropriated for tlate exhibit, or are quarter section In one Immense alfalfa
certain to do so. of the eastern states patch, or a. great an area aa Is usually
as we call them Missouri. Minnesota M.n ln wheat In Sherman county, and
and North Dakota have already arranged aome have two or three quarters. All
to transfer their St Louis exhibit, to alfalfa land 1. irrigated by th water.
Portland; New Tork and Massachusetts from th twb creeks.
have mad appropriations, and moat of
the states are expected to make suitable . part Orford Tribune: We understand
provision when their legislatures meet why our friend Cox Invites us to bring
during th coming winter. up four or five gallons of rich cream
The display, of course. Will be far and help him eat salmon-berrlea He's
greater than anything ever hitherto at- out of butter, and he know, what effect
tempted on the Pacific coast, and If ail a few hour, of horseback travel over the
the states act which are now expected to Sixes trail would have on that amount
do so, the prospect would .eem to be for of good, thlok cream. We have a bet-
a more important exposition than has Iter proposition, Jim. we nave at our
vet been made anywhere excent at the home about a hundred acres of salmon-
great International exhibits, which this berries. Come down and see us and
does not pretend to be. There will be, I bring your sugar and we'll have a feast
however, many exhibits from foreign na
tions, which will transfer them from St.
Louis, but Just what may be expected
from outside the united States la not
yet known. While this exposition Is to
be held at Portland, and Will of course
advertise the Pacific northwest more
than any other section of the country,
the people of California will not forget
that It Is not an Oregon, but a Pacific
coast enterprise, which is entitled to
and will receive the earnest support of
all Pacific coast state.
Editorial In th San Franct.co Chronicle.
The Lewis and Clark Centennlalx expo
sition, which will open at Portland, Or.
on June 1, next year. Will represent an
expenditure Of about 15,000,000 in pre
paring grounds and buildings, promo.
tlon. administration and expense ot
transporting and installing exniDits.
While that seems a modest sum in com
parlson with th 140,000,000, more or
less, expended at St Louis, It may b
aafaiv aald that each dollar of expend
lture will produce twice the amount of
show that the Bt tiouis airectors nav
produced for the same money. That, of
course. Is because many of the. costly ex
hibits collected for the great exposition
can and will be removed to Portland at
small expense, although they would have
never been assembled for a sectional
fair. It was this which enabled San
Francisco, at th close of th Columbian
exposition, to obtain, at small expense, a
very creditable display for our Mid
winter fair.
The Portland exposition will be welj
worth visiting, especially by those un
able to make the trip to St Louis, aija
the resolute way in which our northern
friends have attacked and are carrying
through an enterprise so ambitious as
15,000,000 fair is ample evidence or
their vigor and public spirit The
United States has appropriated
$475,000 for the exposition, and
will make an exhibit which will alone
av obsttjtAts txbb.
one tad only satisfaction.
Orandm other Skaggs Had to TeU.
From the Chicago Tribune.
An aged woman of the name of 8a
mantha Skaggs, who for many years
had resided near Ripley, 111., arid was
known by her numerous descendants
and all the people of the countryside
as Grandmother Skaggs, was compelled
to go to court to testify as a. witness
in a lawsuit over a disputed will.
"Mrs. Skaggs," said the attorney for
the defense,- in cross-examining . her.
"may I ask how old you are?"
"Do. I have to tell that. Judge T" ah
said, appealing to the court. '
"Why, yes, madam," replied the "Judge,
It's a proper question; and at 'Vour
time of life you surely need" not - be
sensitive about your age."
"well, she answered, "I'm 97."
JBut she told it with evident emW.
raasment and reluctance.
She knew that everybody In the neirh
borhood. believed her to be 100.
flag to prevent citizens ln the dependen
cies being put- twice in Jeopardy, but
they do not trail after it to Insure them
trial by Jury. The constitution she!
ters the islands by virtue of Its own
Inherent vigor until congress, a creature
of the constitution, deriving all Its pow
ers from It, decrees the withdrawal of
the Constitution and the substitution
of Its own a will. Were tne court unani
mous ln these doctrines a layman might
attribute his lack of comprehension to
his own mental obtuseness, but when
the decisions are made by a divided
court, .live to four, he feels Justified ln
holding an opinion of his own.
. Xnfssoif la Calmness. -
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
A conciliation committee averted a
strike by more than 20,000 teamster. In
New Tork. Million, were saved by the
! exercise of common sens and modera
tion. The example Is an easy one to fol
low when people keep cool and act rea
sonably . ,v '- '
Two men living near Oregon City,
according to the Courier, tried to cut
down a tree, hut failed. It was a larpe
tree, some six or seven feet ln diame
ter. The two men sawed, and sweat
and swo the last may not be true,
so it Is. Just as well not to aay it The
saw dragged Its weary length back and
forth throuarh the six feet of solid fir.
the day wdre on and the sAw-teeth wore
off, but the tree gave no sign of falling.
It did not even stagger. At length the
tree was out through to within a few
Inches, but it obeyd St. Paul's lnjunc-i
tlon. "be steadfast" Wedge, were in-1
serted, but the tree never budged; and
. j . ....a. w& nto . 1 aa t .am
stood, and also stood still at last re
ports. Some people think the strango
phenomenon is a result or witcncrart;
other, suppose that a chance has placed
the center of gravitation exactly over
the center of the basal support, so that
any motion whatever in any direction
whichever baa a tendency to elevate
the center of the mass, or words to
that effect But the most reasonable
suggestion is this: Keeping in mind
the size of the tree, the probable dull
neas of the saw, and the wonderfully
fertile soil and invigorating climate of
Oregon, It seems quite possible that th
stump and that ' portion of the trunk
which were first cut apart grew to
gether again 'before tha opposite side
of the tree . Was : reached. Stranger
things than that , are Said to have hap
pened In Oregon.
; , , l H l ,p ni ia, ll I '
Twere Will Twer Done Quickly.'
From the Philadelphia. Press. "
" A Chicago woman waa granted a di
vorce In Just IS minutes after filing her
application.; But if th thing has to be
done, why 'delay? In, eom places th
courts dawdle over these matters for an
nour er two. :.&;, t .;
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rAIKBAHXS AJTD XOOXTBOOXTt".
From the Nw' York Globe
Senator Fairbanks when asked if he
had seen the statement mad to the
newspaper, the other day by Senator
-Bole Penrose, Republican state ohalr
man of Pennsylvania, who declared that
Fairbanks win stand for the vlce-prcsi
dency, the ssnator replied:
"Yes, I read his remarks. It is good
or Penrose to nominate me ror office,
but I have, as you know, repeatedly and
publicly stated my refusal to become a
candidate for the post, and I Still have
no 'Intention of becoming one.
"Who do you think, then, would be a
good man for the officer' .
"Well, I really can't say. Seeing that
Penrose, however, has been kind enough
to proclaim me for the place, perhaps
I cannot do better than reciprocate, I
believe Iq reciprocity."
A STBAJrqg, STBAjrOM ITOBT.
From th Medford Mall.
In our' last issue Mr. Lebners of
Phoenix told of having had an umbrella
stolen from his buggy while In Medford.
Mr. Lehners honestly believed that this
umbrella had been stolen or he would
not; have intimated such a thing but it
was not stolen at all It was lost, on
Seventh Street, almost directly in front
of Nicholson's hardware store. It was
seen lying In th street by Mrs, J. W.
Ling while she was passing on the side
walk, and her little boy picked it up, and
the article 1 at the Mall office and Mr.
Lehners may have It by calling.
Advice to the Lovelorn
BY SXATSIOX rAIBYaX
V- Voi Be Obscure.
From the Albany Democrat
The -Portland Journal la oi so very
obscure after all. - ' Olds, . Wortman A
King ; Of that city : have made a 15
months', contract with the paper for a
page advertisement every day.-;ir..,;;,-
Portland, May J4. Dear Miss Fairfax
As you seem o know most everything
about the heart in vibration and keep
ing It moving I come to you for an
opinion and advice.
I will not go Into details, but merely
giv an outline, as it would occupy too
much space. I am a stripling of only 54
winter, and know but little of the femi
nine hart owing to circumstances over
which I have had no control.
A short time ago I met a miss of 45
summers, fair to look upon, both ln form
and face, In expressing my surprise
at her being a miss with everything In
her favor she told me she had devoted
her life to a crippled mother, and had
made her her Why. ana wa. giaa or it,
aad I know she waa, for tears came to
her eyes as she recalled her to memory.
Now, she has an aged but robust
father of 85 to look after and Is doing If
with tenderness and care.
I frankly told ner I thought she was
the best girl X hate ever met, and asked
her to give me her address not for
publication, but Just to show good faith,
aa she would probably hear from me
again. She gav it to me, and did hear
from me for I wrote her and tried to
prove to her th assertions I had made,
vis. that she was "the best girl" I have
seen. V 1 ' .. .
I received mo reply, nor did I hardly
expect any. 'What I want you to tell
me is this: In a heart, such as beats In
her bosom, Is there not a little crevice
not entirely occupied by love of father
Now, If you think It possible there is,
t wish you to tall me what kind of
explosives to use ' to enlarge t suffi
clehtly so there win be a vacancy.
.v- -. ANXIETY!-"'
You should act upon the principle
that a "faint . heart never won a fair
lady. ' Make a love war Against this
true heart and If you ar "Worth sHucks'" ,
you will win it Jf you ar going to alt.'
down "and expect such a Jewel to fall
Into your lap you are badly mistaken
aa a woman like you describe alwaya ha
a duty to perform, but that duty may
be to you If you have the tact and quality-1
to,, attract her attention. Success -Ilea
entirely with you and belief in self
and your cause are the motive power.
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