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r . ; WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN
TUB QUESTION of the justice of giving the ballot
to women Is one thing iM the question of how
- - it works la. actual operation 1 uit another
thing. Theoretically It should work
forms; practically It falls to do so.
. suffrage la to prevail lot It bo granted as a matter of
: right or Justice but there need be no delusions because of
Impossible claims of the benefits
from it. ' Woman suffrage now prevails in four states,
Wyoming. Colorado, Utah and Idaho, - In the smaller
states which contain no large alttta It rear loosely be said
, , that the chief result Is to Increase the
Inc the result In the large cities It
cult jr9 of effecting municipal reforms
-and towns it increases the party cost of election one third
to one half because of the enormous cost of carriage hire
not atone on election dan but .on registration days. A
comparatively small percentage of the
i Practical Interest In the election and these are "usually
,; v clamorous and Insistent; a larger percentage take 'what
-might be called a dress parade Interest in which they
Brace the public polities! gatherings
bands or fathers belong- The big majority of the women
- take a. perfnnetory tntereat in the outcome, that Is the In
, tercet which they feel eomes from
" tngs rather than from nor deep seated
'."'..Ires of their own. , h
- There Is -no such thing as a woman's party and arriah's
party erven when a moral qaeetion Is Involved. There ore
, still political parties and thee settle
. . . same old way. On the other hand
- coerced or purchased la largely Increased If not actually
doubled. The women of the half world are dragooned by
the polios. AJ1 those elements which;
, existing laws or set them at defiance, whloh take ad van
. tags of conditions despite the protest of what Is called
the respectable element of the oommunlty. find their
power Increased In woman suffrage states through their
aMltty to manipulate and east solidly the Tot of the
woeoen of the fasJf world. i x .
It Is claimed for It that It has the effect of making
. ' nominating oanventlons mora careful tn the. selection of
their candidates but this Is certain that the standard of
offtcc-noklers to no higher in the
; than It Is elsewhere while women
: less sympathy and support from the
Privately all practical men will admit those to bo facts
but few men lire willing tn stand out
f so. There to nothing to be gamed by
- and suffrage being a fixture in these
well be accepted. As for the other states, "Don't do It,"
Is their usual advice, r , , .
i However, as we have said, the Justice of the claim of
r woman suffrage Is altogether apart from a consideration
of how H, works In -practical operation. .
fll " 1 S':" . '
v WHILE WE HURRAH THE MOSS GROWS.
f HKRB WILL BJB a railroad
' I - . very long. It wtU come,
eouth. What next T It win
into the Rogue River valley. And
, ah travel to Coos Bay te a Pullman coach. If we have the
. . price. ' That will be about aU the benefit we will get in
Portland out of tho development that will come to Coos
' Bay through a railroad.. ';. . -; - y.
, y Connection will be made with sooth and central Ore-
. gon; there will be a big belt line of railroads scooping
everything south of Eugene. Tygh valley; and TJklah out
1 of Portland'e commercial Jurisdiction , ,
Not only so, but tho whole coast trade up to Tillamook
will be taken south, even as most of It to now. only that
trade will Increase tenfold in perhaps tea or fifteen years.
Bach to the prospect, while we sit and dream of great
. , t mwe, allow railroad corporations ts run the general and
state governments, submit to their dictation and domtna
' tton and pay most of our attention to the arduous work
: of "rolling up" a tremendous majority for this or that
'. party or politician. . ' t , V v-...
. . While we are busy hurrahing the moss keeps growing,
'. :-i without making a particle of noise. ,
NOT MATERIAL WHICH
IHOHAB W. 1AWSON, but recently, tn the estima
tion of the Oregonlan, a "yellow" shrteker In a
"yellow inagaalne, to now lauded as a very truth-
". ; ful and eonsclenUous man because he Intimates that the
BUadard OU company desires Roosevelt's defeat. The
t- Oregoniaa at ones accepts that assumption, and re-asserts
v it editorially; but It produces no evidence In support of
. , the etaunnent. It would be 'nothing new nor unusual If
the Standard OH aggregation 'made a pretense of oppos
' lng the president, merely for effect, and In order to dle-
' guise Its support and to have said what Is thus being
said, ' y-: ' , , ... .
- Is not -the Standard OU bank In Kw Tork still the
greatest pet of the government? Has
reliably Informed that Mr. James Btlllmau had received
. ;" any orders to withdraw his fingers from the national
treasury? Actions epeak loader than words.
In the fierce contest between cotossol kings of finance
r XMFWBB tOQVOms. ,.
: From the Well Street Journal.
Ir. Swallow strange name for a pre-
iMbUtoa candidate la conducting a cam-
Palm for president, on the proposition
that the traffle in all lntoxloatlng liquors
' shall be prohibited. There Is. of course,
absolutely no prospect of Dr. Swallow's
election, nor la It probable that any
. candidate oa the prohibition platform
will be successful in at least a centary.
There Is a deep conviction on the part
of Intel Meant peopi who have studied
' this problem that the least practical
' way to secure temnaranee reform is
through the way of prohibition, fed
w viiwiiiuii Tim own nea ii
has been found that it does not prohibit.
Nevertheless the vast majority of the
people of the United States are earnest
ly desirous of some practical way to
diminish. If not remove, the evils of the
Itouer traffic. No 'one caa deny that
chase evils are very great and that ther
are responsible for muck corruption,
. misery and loss, Murh as people may
differ as to tne methods of dealing with
this question ft would seem as if there
mljrht be at least feft-eenaent upon one
point, and that Is If liquor Is to be sold
et ell It eheuld be pure IIquot. Dr. H.
W. Wiley, chief of the government bu
reau ef chemistry, Is quoted by the Her
ald' as expressing the conviction (bat
fully W per cant of all the Whiskey sold
In this country la hotels, restaurants,
lube and bars to nothing leae than a
cheap imitation. This etatement seems
a i meat liwredtble and yet it bears out
the strong lsspreesloa which has been
seiaed bjr those who have investigated
IMDEPRRDBRT' MIWIFAPH i-.f.'--.'
Sunday) and over
Sunday ssornsng
Fwlisad, Cjregoa.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THl CITY OF PORTLAND
PRACTICE.
many wonderful re
Therefor If qual
which will be dartre
to to without alter
Increases the diffi
and in all the titles
women take lire.
ease, smallpox,
to which their hus
What Irrigation
their home eurround-
convictions or do
things In much the
the vote that can be
merely nominal
Gerroan scientists
unite to abrogate
abound the nodules
sclentlflo basis of
it till lately. .
Now Dr. Moore,
equal suffrage states
candidates usually gat
women than the men.
oa Impoverished
bacterial Ued soil
In the open and say
as heavy crops of
the following orop
doing so, they say.
to to 100 or 400
states might Just as
have been. V
Most of the soil
If Dr. Mbore'e
makes two blades
to only a pygmy of
and he has done
the parties would
to Coos Bay before
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EXTREME
apparently, from the
eroos the mountain
then? Why, then we
vote for Debs or
have weight and
But because
and Its candidate
good reason for
tho Influences and
brought tho midget
MASTER. - I
Ho can commend
more patriotism
and toss politics,
It to this class
anybody over been
and reason, and
lusions of even the
this matter that a very large propor
tion ef Intemperance in this country Is
due to Impure liquors. In ether words,
bad whlaky to the cause of most of the
evils of the liquor traffic. If this be
the case then it Is hUrh time that the
People of the Unted States, without
reemrd to their political affiliations and
without regard te their notions as to
this or that method of dealing with the
liquor traffic, should unite la demanding
the enactment of a law and the strict
enforcement of that law putting an end
to the adulteration of liquor. When
pure liquor la sold tn this country there
may still be intemperance, but the num
ber of those who become victims to the
liquor habit will certainly be very great
ly diminished.
Dr. Wller ears that the 'compound
Whiskies are usually made under ths
legal system of rectification, but he de
clarer that the real imitation should
be properly labeled on the bottles, when
the responsibiuty would rest with the
purchaser. It the pure food bill now
pending in consress should become a law,
this label would be required upon all
whisky entsrtng Interstate trams. It
seems W us that the law might go still
further and prohibit the manufacture of
adulterated liquors altogether and pro
hibit their sale whether properly labeled
or not.
tor, xaseays Imsltoaeiea. "
tV From tb Washington Post. " " !
Attoraey-Oeneral Moody promises that
the reciprocity proposition with Canada
will be taken up after election. Mr.
Moody talks like a man who thinks the
Democrat are going t win. . .
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JOURNAL
djfwwr st1 swfcsww(0aejg
jowrnai nwnn, raw e
and Industry that to going on. It would be Impossible for
the government to entirely please them all. and possibly
the president to Inclined to lean to his great and good
friends Morgan and Vanderbllt. rather than to Rockefeller
and Rogers, but as to this the publle Is In the dark; and
Indeed It to unimportant. The more these gentlemen fall
oat, the better becomes the chance of honest people some
day getting their dues. , r '.
What to badly needed to an administration In the peo
ple's interest rather than In that of either Rockefeller or
Morgan, and the men of whom they are the leading
typas. o;v . - -w- , -:,
VACUNATINO IMPOVERISHED SOIL.
VACCINATION OF THB SOTIi may be a strange
term 'and Idea to most people, but It expresses a
hfoors of the department of agriculture, and that prom-
toea to do wonders for Impoverished solL Whlkf vaootna
tlon of the human body has preserved countless thousands
of human Uvea against the one dreaded and deadly die-
vaccinatum of tho soil. If what to claimed
for It be true, promises to have an even more beneficial
effect upon human life by greatly Increasing its products.
will do for arid volcanlo soils It to. ex
pected that vaccination will do, tn a Jess degree, for soils
whose fertility hag been exhausted.
Heretofore such soils have been enriched and made to
some extent productive by expansive fertilisers applied to
the surface; but by the new process it to proposed to sup
ply such soils with nitrogen from the atmosphere at a
cost. - r ' v
have die covered that tho nodules on
tho roots of leguminous plants, such as beana, peas,. clover
and alfalfa, were really colonies of millions of bacteria,
which subsisted on nitrogen. Bolls devoid of these bac
teria will not produce legumes, but where the bacteria
accumulate much more nitrogen than
they need, whloh remains tn the soil to enrich It for suc
ceeding crops of corn, wheat or other grain. This to the
rotation of crops, though nobody knew
V . ,
It to elaliaed, following up the German
scientists discovery, hag devised a way to grow these
bacteria by thousands of millions, and. keep them in a
dried state. In little cakes, for farmers' use when needed
soils. Experiments have shown that
will produce from eight to twenty times
legumes as will un vaccinated soil, and
of corn or cotton or wheat wrll be from
per cent heavier than It otherwise would
la this part of the country to In little.
If any, need of this vaccinating prouss, but It will bo a
boon to New England and other portions of the country.
conclusions are correct, the man who
of grass to grow where one grew before
a practical philanthropist beside him;
more good than aU the politicians of all
accomplish hi a long time. r
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PARTYISM NOT WISE." '
THB JOURNAL has no qWret with men who will
vote for Roosevelt, If the reasons for doing so
appear to them sound and sufficient. Nor to K
disposed to criticise honest and Intelligent men who will
Swallow or Watson. A majority of
Oregon voters win undoubtedly cast their ballots for
Roosevelt, and there must be reasons for doing so that
merit, and are worthy of consideration.
man may consider the Republican party
the beet entitled of any to his vote Is no
him to blink at the evils and abuses ex-
toting in the government, or to assert or suppose that hi
choice, either party or candidate, kr entirely invulnerable
and absolutely perfect, and that conditions In every re
spect are Impossible of Improvement. He need not say
or think that v great governmental extravagance to all
right, when If It existed under a Democrat to administra
tion he would denounce tt as outrageous. Ho can rejoice
over the prospect of an Isthmian canal while disapproving
means which selected the route and
republic of Panama Into existence.
the president for his action In tho an
thracite strike, and yet reflect with regret and oven sor
row that tho president, except In one ease, has failed to
make any movement whatever amounting to anything
against tho robber and criminal trusts. He can applaud
Roosevelt's admirable qualities, and yet wish him less of
an ebullient egotist.
In brief, the intelligent voter, oven If entertaining no
doubt about voting for Roosevelt, will qualify this ap
proval, or choice, with the wish for Improvement i for
and less partylsm. more statesmanship
more truth and less claptrap, more? prac
tice and toss prof eea Ion, more honesty and less humbug,
mors performance in the people's Interests and less boast
ing and buncombe'. .: ;.
of voters, those not carried to extremes
by partisan prejudice, and who Investigate and think.
recognise the errors and fallacies and de
party they prefer, who must serve as
the balance wheel In our political machinery and the ulti
mate hope of tho republic Itself.
Toonm aBKiai.
Toons artists and the parents of
youthful prodigies will be Interested in
Mr. o. D. Gibson's brief and direct ad
vice ln Collier's. Mr. aibeoa ears)
"Beginners are worried needlessly ever
the. quality of paper and ink to be used,
It Is only necessary that one should be
white and the ether Mack. -
Tor some reason all seginners draw
very much alike. Those who work the
hardest are the first te get away from
this sameness. First of all a start
must be made before any guiding to
possible. Nearly all children draw more
or less; consequently there are a great
number of parents fearing that If they
withhold thslr sncouragement a career
may be destroyed. It is more likely to
be the other way about, for It is en
tirely. a matter to be worked out by the
besinner himself. And too much help
is bad for the self-reliance without
which there to no chance,"
'. Oiliest Otty to tne Weela. "
The coldest city In the world Is Ya
kutsk, Siberia. It Is the great commer
cial emporium of east Siberia and the
capita) of the province ef Takutak, which
In most of its area of 1.SU.0II square
miles if a bare desert, the soil of which
is frosen to a great depth. Yakutsk con
sists of about toe houses ef European
structure, standing apart. The Inter
venes spaces ere occupied by huts of
the northern nomads, with earthen roofs,
doers covered with hairy hides, and win
dows of Ice. .
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I Small Ckange 7 SOCIALISM A NATURAL EFFECT
The poolroom q use ties runs late poU-
Business will sever become dull la the
courts. ,- v
Some criminal lawyers need a sitting-
dOWn-Oa. r
The eanal will smell loudly before It
Is begun, .g -
Missouri Is about as doubtful as Mas-
sachusetta , ?
The state of Washington Is doubtful
as to governor, . - .
What does the president think of an
ally like AdolcksT
Bvery reourrlng lunday should sea a
more beautiful city. .......
tt would take a still higher tariff te
make finer October weather
Mrv Cortelrou predicts heavy Repub
lloan gains in Oyster Bay this year.
The high-tax and trust party banks on
the fact that the fanners can afford to
pay. .. ,
-But who earee for bright skies and
bracing air In comparison with mud for
football field T - - ,
Councilman Zimmerman wants toO po
licemen, sad . his sort of a wide-open
town will need them, :
X
-t Violations of law by some saloon men
will prompt many people who would not
do otherwise to vote for prohibition.
Soil snd climate alone win not make
good orchards. They need constant at
tention and warfare against pests. Then
they pay. .,'. - ;
The tobacco manufacturers have reor
ganised a I1I0,0O,vO0 trust, and users
of the weed may expect soon to get
about I eenta worth for a dime.
The Salem Statesman thinks that
Roosevelt's re-election will result la a
Wall-street boom and the building of
more railroads. That's as ths Standard
OU decides. . v ., , -
"The resources of the. law have been
exhausted by the administration In pur
suing the trusts," declares the trust
orsan of this city. What a whopper!
If such falsehoods are of any value, they
should come high. .
Them to a probability that the next
senator from New Turk will represent
the Rockefeller Interests rather than the
Vanderbllt - Morgan interests which
"Unole" Chaunoey Depew represents. A
senator to represent the people of that
srest state to an idea that occurs to ao-
body.
SATS TOvXf XSiaOBT XS A VMAUS.
Ti sag the ts Watoh SMtoea S&'Zed e e
te FiMiut Mis Own lap a tail ueh
- From the New York World.'
A fraud order was issued yesterday
by Acting Postmastsr-Oeneral R. X
Wynne against the Thomas A- Sdlson
Jr. Chemical company, which haa been
doing business from headquarters at
Noa. It-lf Stone street, thle city. The
company was charged with obtaining
money through the malls by fraudulent
pretenses. In representing as a cure-all
"The Masno-Blectrle Vltallaer." on al
leged Invention of Thomas A. Bdtson Jr.
The order of the .postof floe department
came as the reeult of a fight made by
Thomas A. Edison Sr., who claimed that
the company was making capital out of
the similarity of the names of father
and son.
The elder Bdlson began bis fight last
September tn the federal courts, seek
ing to prevent the use of the name
"Thomas A. Rdison Jr.," and claiming
that the device sold by the company was
fraudulent. The company won the ease
before Judge Bradford ; of the united
States district court st Wilmington,
Del., whereupon Mr. Bdlson took the
matter to the postoffloe department at
Washington, filing an affidavit to. part
as follows:
"The Thomas A, Sdison Jr. Chemical
company is and has been engaged In an
Illegitimate, fraudulent and deceptive
schema for Imposing upon the credulous
public, snd particularly upon persons In
capacitated and made desperate by dis
ease. My son, who is named in the com
pany'e literature as a great Inventor and
ntedloal authority and In personal
charge ef the regulation of the vital lsera
to the needs of Individual cases, is a
young man of no scientific or Inventive
attainments. Hs never represented him
self ss such. All the statements attrib
uted to him In the alleged Interviews and
in the publications of the company are
falee. He has no Interest tn the oom
pany and never was directly connected
with Its operations. - - -- -
'The boy was gotten hold of solely for
the uee of his name, in the way of re
muneration he never received more than
III a week.
"He did suggest to the company on
one occasion the advisability of .mar
keting an electric medical battery, but
it was not the WttaUser.' My eon la in
capable of making any Invention or dis
covery of merit
"Before lle he was employed In s
clerical capacity In my office. He has
had no rerular employment since, but
haa supported himself by the sale of
his name to a number of persons who
have sought to trade on my reputation."
W. Newt os Bennington, the president
ef the Thomas A. Bdieoa Jr. Chemical
company, professed to be muck surprised
at ths decision of the department, and
he said he was not yet prepared to say
what the company would do. He laid
great stress on the fact that the com
pany had won its ease In the federal
court, and epoke of the elder Bdlson "us
ing the postofflce department to gratify
a private spits." He declared the com
pany had never "made a dollar and fhatJ
he had sunk 931,900 of his personal re
sources in the enterprlea '
The basis of the department's fraud
order against the company wae the ex
travagant character of the claims in the
advertising matter of the concern. The
vitallser wae recommended aa good for
nearly all of the Ills that flesh is heir
to. One of the company's publications,
written by George W. Arnold, had these
headlines over a article deecrielag the
alleged virtues of the vitallser: ,
"Japan Wants Vitalise rs for Troops In
Field; Rdlsoa Jr.'s New Invention s
Hssterplece; Eldest Son of the Wlsard
Wine Admiration of Scientists with His
Wonderful Dynamic Energlser,' Frlo
tlonal. Magnetic, Voltaic and Faradle
Currents for the First Time Combined;
Publle Meeting to Discuss ths Bdlson
Vitallser; Young Inventor Receives En
thusiastic Ovation When He Conelu
slvely Proves to the Electrical Society
of New Tork the Truth of His Theory
of Disease."
Young Bdlson fs new a nervous Wreck
and under a physician's cere at Ore en
wood laka After a confession to Ms
father he was restored to parental favor. ,
From the Catholio Missionary.
' BoeiaUsa to one of the forms of or
ganised social discontent Aa such It
must be elaesed with union lam, sisals
tax. populism, Catholic and general re
form activity, municipal leagues, etc
Fundamentally the earns psyoholoeioal
factors produce all, via: Dissatisfaction
with conditions as they are, and an ef
fective desire to Improve conditions by
reform. These forms of social move
ment are not differentiated primarily
by their form of protect eo mush as by
the plan of reform proposed.
The elements that make reform move
ments are permanent In the human race.
Henoe te look upon Socialism as the
arbitrary creation of lawless men, to
look upon it chiefly as a form of athe
ism, to rest content with denunciations,
la sa Inexcusable error. We priests
must know it as It ts; know R as an
effect, understand the eauees which pro
duced tt; discriminate in our dealing
with Socialists, and understand thai
abuse and Inaccurate Information would
expose ue to merited ridicule and weaken
our power.
We cannot learn Socialism from'aca
demle books; we must go to the So
cialists, te their propaganda literature
and press, learn from them what they
are and what produces them. We should
give them credit for honesty and earn
estness until we know that they do not
merit such consideration. In this way
we will know actually what Socialism
v.-.' ... . : y-:
It must be looked upon as an effect
Men are not Socialists until they lose
confidence in government Do the facts
of political oorruptlon which none ef us
deny warrant one's despalrt Men are
not Socialists until they believe that
honest, humane competition in industry
is impossible. Who doubts the extent
variety of pernicious and vlllalnoua de
ception, adulteration, cheating and de
frauding that go on dally.
Men are not Socialists until they be
lieve that the lota rests of wealth die-place-those
of men aa men In our In
stitutions. Can we deny that appear-
anoee got to show that wealth to too
powerful f
When these facte of DOlltteal eoirno-
tloa are marshaled; when by their side
we place the facts and dishonest busi
ness methods ontversallr met with:
when we review the role ef money in
our Institutions,' we have before us a
set ef facts appall ins; in their magni
tude and disheartening- in their signln
eanoa. We conservatives think always of
what our Institutions have done; many
think always of what our institutions
have failed to do. From among these
come our Socialists.
The hideous aspects of eur moral, so
cial, industrial, political Ufa are heaped
.e
BETTER FOR RUSSIA TO LOSE
Karl Blind In North American- Review,
Were Nlcholae II in reality that which
misguided flatterers have described him
to be oa account of his peace-loving
propositions at The Hague propositions
he himself utterly disregards he would
have plenty of good work te do In his
own dominions. .
There can be no doubt that the
achievements of the Japanese are at
tributable to their remarkable advance
In ecientlfla accomplishment, beaideo
their personal bravery, as welt as to the
high standard of Intellectual culture
among the people at large. Japan has
a population of only (,000,e0; the Rus
sian empire- more than 140.e09.0SO. But
In Japan 4,ln.d chlldrsn attend school;
in the vast dominions of the oxer only
,m,64. It neea not be said that the
difference la still greater as regards the
higher educational establishments la
Japan, as compared with Russia.
What a field for bettering the stats of
popular Instruction in the empire of the
young man who posed as a friend of
peace and progress I But as a matter of
fact, the rule of brute force goes on
under him with uasbated cruelty.
Not a few educated Ruastane, there
fore, Incline to the Idea that It would
be a good thing for the nation If the
armed forces of autocracy were thor-
?uhly beaten. The defeat of Nicholas
in the Crimean war brought to Rus
sia at least some degree of relaxation
from hie Iron rule In matters of the
public press and of" the provincial as
semblies. Finally, -too, ths serfdom of
the peasantry was to be abolished la
consequence of that war.
At the recent International congress
in Amsterdam the strongest Imaginable
demonetration was made by a Russian
representative. Among the delegatee
present there waa a Japanese, Kata
Jama; of Russians there appeared Plech
anoff, who has lnoletvely written against
the anarchist theory, which le often er
roneously mixed up with the Socialist
doctrine; Leo Deutech, who recently was
in great danger of being unjustly deliv
ered over to the Russian authorities, but
was saved in the nick of time, and Vera
Sassulltsch
She Is well known for having made an
attempt In .the '80s upon ths life of
the chief of police, who had had po
litical prlsonera, among them one of her
"raoxa gov OAxovg oovmrrwov
Ths story of how "Uncle Joe Cannon
got hie wife Is full of interest At Can
field, Ohio, the seat of Mahoning acad
emy, Molly Reed, who later became the
wife of Speaker Cannon, waa a school
girl. .
That section produced Ooms strong
men and women. Yenkeedosn, as It was
called, waa the center and heart of west
ern abolitionism, the route of the un
derground railroad. In the days ef the
revolution the British burned the towns,
villages and homes of the people, and
when the states ceded to the general
government their lands, Connecticut re
served this tract to reimburse its peo
ple for their Are lossea Thlg Connecti
cut western reserve became the Are lands
of Ohio,' The Connecticut people emi
grated to these lands and brought thels
abolitionism with them, so Yankeedom
grew in northeasters Ohio. 1
Yankeedom produced some mfghty
men, three president Hayea, Oarfteld
and MoKlnley Joshua R, Olddmgs, Ben
Wads and Mark Henna. This was the
early home of General Chaffee and Wil
liam Dean Howelle. Howe! Is est type
on the Ashtabula Sentinel, snd his octo
genarian father still dees business at the
old etand.
In the early while stirring events
were being enacted, Molly Reed was a
school girl la Mahoning academy. She
was a bright roey cheated, cherry lipped
and happy girl. She bad many admirers.
In the summer of 111 Molly went to
the far away-oralrlss te visit her cons
Ins and her eunte.
Joseph Cannont thert a" boy "tawyer.
was fascinated by her beauty and her
sweetness, while bis manly bearing won
Molly s heart ...
Molly returned to her Yanks bom to
await the coming of' her Joe in the
springtime. One by on her companions
learned. In confidence, of the betrothal,
until It became the village story that
Molly was lost to aU the anxious Yankee
bora.
The day was tied and the time of
up In consciousness, and these men live
In the .presence of that despair beget
ting power. You may say that Soc tal
is ta ars tosy, or Idle, or intemperate,
or vicious. I care not X wish te In
sist mainly oa one point; that Socialism
le an effect, natural, necessary, unavoid
able In present historical circumstances.
If we priests Wish to deal with It is a
way worthy of our power, we must take
hold of the conditions which produce It
The church must oppose It for it to a
menace. Immediately to our institutions,
and remotely to our faith. But the clergy
must stand equarely and face tho facts
which are making Socialism.
Let us go to the Socialists and Snd
out sympathetically what are their feel
ings, their intention. Let us face the
evils which they rightly erttiotee and
make war on them. But let us never
confine eureelves te resolutions or eon
deiunatlona of organised Socialism, -
A body of publle leaders who will
vote a condemnation of Social lent and
be silent about the deplorable phases
of our political, commercial and Indus
trial life, would not ehow the wisdom or
peroeptlon that we may legitimately ex
pect of those who attempt to direct putt-
lie opinion.
' Of ecu res I do not underrate the force
of the Sooiallstls propaganda, nor do X
forget that men may be talked into It.
In as far as -this Is the ease, there la
some good In resolutions, honest opposi
tion and enlightened warning. But the
main power of Socleliem la la the evils
which we see and the despair which
they engender. This is particularly the
ease since education to universal, demo
cratic equality of man and man Is takes
as an axiom, and the Individual believes
in his own value as never before
The main emphasis la Catholic ac
tion should be laid oa practical reform
work. . In Catholio Europe we find ad
mirable reeulta A coherent timely
philosophy of reform has been worked
out and the clergy are actively inter
ested in the material welfare of laborers.
The holy father In his encyclical Re rum
Rovarum. aives Socialism only second'
ary attention, while the main force of
that splendid document to directed to re
form. The principles therein contained
are tn accordance wittt tne oeet lencen-
cles and wleest statesmanship of our
time. We should master them, know
thslr relations and limitations. We
should then know the facta la modern
Ufa be thorouwhlr versed Is everything
that beers on the whole organisation of
current social discontent. We muet
avoid hastr generalisations. Inaccurate
Information and Immature Judgment. So
cial discontent cannot be suppressed. It
will yield to proper direction. But that
direction must take account of all that
Is true In complain and lust la criticism
tooar.
own ultimate aoqualntaaces, brutally
flossed and otherwise subjected to
great erucltlea Juries being In ex
istence at that tune for such oases they
have since been abolished Vera Sassu
litscb was, to the horror of the govern
ment declared not guilty," and man
aged with the help of friends to escape
across the frontier of the Russian em
pire. ...
When Kataiama, tho Japs nose, and
Flocbaaoff, the Rueetaan, shook hands
at the congress; there waa tremendous
applause. After a speech of the former
Plecbanoff followed, both having pre
viously been elected vloe-presidents. In
a long and -passionate speech Plech-
enoff maintained that "the Russian peo
ple bad had nothing to do with con
juring up this nefarious war, but - that
the hostile conflict had been provoked
by. the - moral enemy of the Russian
people namely, by the despotic csar.
If the government of Petersburg were
to be victorious, H would not be Jspsn.
but the Russian people, which would
psally be the vanquished,"
The speaker continued by saying
that the autocratic csars, by their acta of
oppression, had enslaved a mass of na
tions all around tho boundaries of the
empire, thereby earning universal
hatred. Theee nations were' sorely Suf
fering from the seme chains which
bound the Russian peopi a - Henoe Rue-.
staa freedom had a thorough feeling of
solidarity with those downtrodden races.
What had been done in Finland was.
Plechaaoff said, on a par with what had
long been done In Russia. "Now,
however," he declared, "the tuns has
ooms at last for the end of the oxer's
tyranny. Blow after blow, defeat after
defeat administered to his forces in
this war evoke in Russia no dympathy
with the government. That sorely driv
en autocracy to a Colossus with feet of
clay, and Japan Is fortunately oa the
point of smashing one of theee feet
The other will have tobe e rushed at
home."'
In conclusion, Plecbanoff spoke with
Indignation against Pranoe, who "had
become the etrongest eupport of the
oxer's despotism by paying with her
sold the exsoutloner of all the Rus
sia a.".
There was ths llvsllst applauee for
these bitter and Incisive remarka. Let
Nicholas II reflect upon them. '
ths coming of her Jo waa V widely
known as that ef her betrothal, but Joe
did not coma It was before the days
of railroads and the telegraph for Can
field and news corns slowly. Some
Pennsylvania Dutch were sprinkled
among the Yankees, and on of these
la sympathy said; "Molly, vwat you
dink, he ooms still T with candor and
frankness Molly answered: "X still en
tertain, a hope," speaking after the man
ner' of her church, for Molly was a
Methodist
Soon it became known that Joe was
making a campaign as a candidate for
district attorney. When the battle was
over he .went to Caaneld and carried
away bts Yankee glrL ; - . .
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POLXTiaAA OVTTjOOK XR ktZSSOtTSX
Collier's for October II sums up the
political outlook in Missouri by saying:
Among ths Bryan wing of ths Demo
cratic party there to much disaffection
toward Parker. Missouri Democrats were
the first to adopt a- Id .to 1 plank In
their platform. Although the Democ
racy Is of the old, rock ribbed sort In
the country district, many ef the Bryan
followers will st&y at home unleee Folk
can get them out te vote for him. In
that case some of them will vote for
Watson or Deb. The Republican are
working Sard upon this class of Demo
crats, circulating Bryan's famous anti
Parker speech, made last April. Olvlng
this possible defection Its full weight
taking Into account the powerful en
emies Folk has made, considering the
hostility of Butler, the debilitating
apathy of Senator Stone, the revolt of
many semi-Independent " Republicans
from Folk's associate on the ticket
Cook and Allen, and Roosevelt's genuine
popularity through the state, the cau
tious man will hesitate before tallying
Missouri's II electoral votes In the safe
ly Democratic column. Folk s enemies
can hardly beat Folk, but in the attempt
they may. do that which they have no
object in dolnjr turn the state over to
Roosevelt , ,
Oregon Sidelights
ifmw ' - ---
enrollment at
Independence to to have a new three-
twry brick, , f
That proposed army post to not heard
Pilot Rock will hare a
house by January 1.
new school- v
The business of the Jefferson cream- .
ery la rapidly increasing. , J
Last Monday 4.M aalmoa were 'j)
brousht In from t iiim.
Their winter white cane are being
placed on the higher Oregon bills. .
School
774,
Josephine county's assessment has la- j
creased 9 par cent In two years. ; , . r"
Jefferson's sawmill haa been re
modeled and Its capacity much Increased,
The flrst snowfall of the predicted
hard Winter haa made Its appearance
la the Blue mountain. , . ,v - , J
That 10-year sentence ef Holdupper
Sullivan looks bad to others of hie Ilk, 4
but good ts honest men, ..
On pear of a lot prepared by Mrs.
William Galloway ef McMtnnvill for
exhibiUoa weighed ounce. ; -
" Many Willamette hopgrowers are In
creasing the else of their yards. But
nobody knows what next year's price
will be. . v-f. . - - ... , n,., . . y .
After election the president to coming
west to kill some big gam. If defeated '
he will enjoy killing something wild
and so he will If elected. - .
A Linn county men has coma to
Portland to see the United States mar
shal In reference to some calves mis .
taken by Albany barbers for deer. ,
; A eooW Is anchored7" in the Columbia
near Walluta, to which are attached four
water wheels, by which Dr. Griswold of !
Helix win irrigate l0 acres ef land, ,
An' action has been brought wgalnet
Independence parties to recover M0,
twice ths amount alleged to have been
lest by plaintiff playing twenty-one. .
The Corvellls sawmill Is very buey, 1
running night and day and employing 00
men and Ave teams. Much of the
product is for use In that elty and
vicinity. . . v ,r ;; .. -v--
The Tillamook Herald predict that
prohibition will carry there, and ears
that open gambling that has been al
lowed will Induce many te vote for pro
hibition, so as to get rid of gambling. Tr
t According to ths John Day News, one
of the beet marble quarries in the United
States to located near that jjlao. It Is
of tho blue mottled variety, and the":
owner has been using tt for lime, which
he sold for build log purposes. ;; ,L r : j
Vegetable life thrives so lustily la
Oreson that strange growths are occa
sionally found. A Rose burg ma has a ;
potato vine with tubers growing, not .
only oa the roots In the soil, but also on
the surface; and another man there haa
four stalks of com with well developed
ears en thslr ende Instead, of the sides.
Dr. Shaw of the Oregon penitentiary
has been hunting with what was repre :
aented ae the famous Trsoey 10-10 rifle,
with which the bandit killed eight men.
but really Dr. Shaw, says the Inde- .
pendence Weet Side, had only the stock
of the Tracey gun, the barrel having
been exchanged Tor that of a aheep
h enter's rifle whom Tracey met In the
Cascade mountains in Washington. This '
may account for the doctor killing no
deer. . -, . -f:
X
nut ROB
SUO0SI
From ths Minneapolis Tribune.
The secret of the success of the Greet
Northern .railway in earning dividends
for its stockholders may be read In every
report ef gross snd net earnings. It has
become sn old story to students of rail
way operation, but the publlo forgets It
from year to year. The annual state
ment Just published recalls ths matter
to mind. The gross earning for the
entire ays tern were 141.000,000; the net
earnings were $10,000,000. That If. the
Greet Northern railroad saved for Its
stockholders nearly half , the money It
earned last year, t x
The contrast between this and the re
ports of other greet railway systems te
striking. , The Northern Pacific. eomes
neareat with 122,000.000 saved out of
$40,000,000. The Union Pacific comes
next with $$$.000,000 out of $tl.000.00.
In five other great railroads chosen hap
h a sard for comparison, the'' New York
Central, Pennsylvania. Illinois Central.
Milwaukee and Northwestern, the net
earnings run from $0 per cent to 40 per
cent of the gross. -
There are some qualification proper
to be mad. The elder eastern railways
charge 'a considerable percentage of
their betterments-to operating expenses..
Then those that are holding companies
for other railroads get a large part of
their Income outside of' earnings. But
still a large proportion of the difference
remains to be charged to the prudent
economy in operation by which waste of
power, labor and material le prevented
snd operating sost kept down.
We have no doubt that the sevsre dis
cipline and irritating red tape through
which these economlee are brought
about la one of the causes of the unpop
ularity of tho Groat Northern railroads
along their own llnee. But w do not
remember to heve heard that tt to un
popular with stock owner. , ... .
Trenton, N. J.. Correspondened
New
York Times.
Asembiyraan HuJse, your candidate
for re-election," said a Spellbinder st a
Republican mass-meeting in one of the
lower wards of the otty last night "was
to hava been With you tonight and make
an address. Hs is kept at home by an
Injury received last wash day whils
helping Mrs. Hulse with hey wash.
'Isn't be a dearr asksd one of the
women la the audience, la a vole loud
enough to be beard all ever the hell, and
the multitude broke Into a round of
cheers.
-Tell ns how It wasf shouted one of
the crowd,,
"Weil, if you most know the nartlo
alars," the platform orator returned,
"I'll tell you. He waa assisting Mrs.
Hulse to empty the suds from her waeh
tub, when his foot slipped off the porch J
etep, and he was so badly sprained in
the back that be has been confined to hi
bed ever elnce."
"Sueh beautiful devotion? eaclalmod
the feminine voloa a second time, end
the throng broke into another round of
cheers.
The Incident ha mod the eesemhly
man very popular among the housewives
of the county, and hie re-election by a
ist-gwr majority than that he received
tost goat to conceded all around.
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