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SATURDAY, ; DECEMBER 83, 1905.
PORTLAND.- OREGON.
THE ORE G
AN
a a. tAoxtot
Published very evening except Sunday K and every Sunday moraine .at
.'-,-.(' f y :.-, .- ' streets, Portland, Oregon,, i
SHERIFFS VERSUS GAMBLERS.
A HEADLINE in yesterday's Journal read: "Sher
. iff A rains t Gamblers." and it expressed an inv
portant . and gratifying fact.
nut have been stated as a fact a few
ably not even two'ycars ago, as to most sheriffs of Ore
gon, who disregarded the state law against gamoung Be
cause it had long been customary to do so, because pub
1 sentiment had not been aroused against the vice, and
because city authorities not only tolerated but in some
instances authorized and practically licensed it But it
is different now, and we find nearly all the 'sheriffs of
Oregon standing squarely against the professional gam
blers, and making it difficult if not impossible to carry
on their nefarious business, t -v '
This is a genuine reform, and one that will stick. Not
that gambling will be entirely suppressed or that "pro
fessional or habitual gamblers will be completely frozen
out of Oregon in a short time; in some towns they are
yet more or less wpenry plyingtheir: vocation," but in
many other towns gambling has been in a large degree
suppressed, and is carried on if at all with difficulty.
It is tinder the ban of public disapproval everywhere
as it sever was until within the past
the gamblers' road n .Oregon will grow rockier and
thornier as time passes. ,V.- r V . " r "
. The sheriffs ought to be "against the gamblers," in
right good earnest whatever their private opinions, be
cause gambling is .crimeanL they ara the officer
charged with the execution of the laws in the various
counties. It is well that many sheriffs have" followed
Sheriff Word's lead in this matter, and it will be better
still if they will mutually agree to carry on the war
fare vigorously and on the same lines of action in every
.county. 1 - :' " ' Ul 'JLl. ...1-
The sheriffs ought to be against the gamblers" also
because the great majority of people, regardless of the
statute, are . against it. The sheriffs should be against
it as a matter of policy as well as of duty, A profes
sional or habitual gambler has no proper place Jit -any
civilized community, and should not be tolerated as
such. ' The people are rightly down on him from , a
moral point of view. They despise his profession, and
wift support and reward officials sufficiently able and
courageous to stamp-out the unlawful and despicable
business. -' .?:'.: -y s '. -.,-.:.. ' . '
We are pleased 'that "the sheriffs. are against th
gamblers." They are right in being so. They should
be even more so. Make gambling as a business as im
possible in Oregon as it is odious to every good citizen.
Senator Gearin exhibited common sense and courage
the Very first thing. His baggage having been delayed,
and it being important to be sworn in at once, he ap
peared in an ordinary every-day sack-coat suit, instead
of rushing to a Store or shop and buying or hiring proper
senatorial garments. . Good for Gearin I .
J OUR INTERESTING PRESIDENT.
TTTJS HAVE SAID," and meant them, many ap
Jf -. proving things about President . Roosevelt,
.' and expect we can conscientiously say many
more of the same sort. But, as has been pointed out
before, some f his actions and utterances are not to be
readily indorsed, or easily explained. , ,i
; for example, while making a dramatic and expensive
show of prosecuting the beef trust, he retains and hon
ors Commissioner Garfield, who not only proclaimed
. what the trust chose io divulge to him but, it is reported,
' ' promised the memberfof the trusts immunity from pun
ishment in consideration of what little, ' of whatever
- character, they disclosed to him.
As another instance, he fulminated bravely against the
rebate railroads, chief among which "Was the Santa Fe,
whose responsible manager and law-breaker was Paul
Morton; yet the president, knowing this, puts Morton
in his cabinet, defends him on every occasion, and re
cently has repeated and elaborated upon his curious
. theory that though a corporation as such may be guilty,
. none of its responsible, officers are. necessarily so, and
that in the Santa Fe case none of them were in the
least or in anywise guilty, although Morton rtimself
admitted constant, knowing and systematic violations of
the law. ' - . ; -...
The Bowen-Loomis case affords another instance of
. the president's tendency to allow prejudice to make him
stubbornly, unjust. He attacked Bowen asvif he were
. one of the greatest criminals on earth, toasted him, dis
graced him, kicked him out, and at the same time es
pecially complimented and honored Loomis, when all
the evidence available to the public indicated that it was
a case of six of one and half a dozen" of the other. .
"A little later the president, judging by his language,
' flew into a passion over, a possible and slight misinter
; pretation or misapprehension', pf his language by a Bos
ton man, and attacked and accused him as vigorously if
not as -viciously as if he had said that all the time
. Roosevelt lived in the west he was a horsethief. ,-.-.
A few days ago a California member of congress in
troduced a bill restricting . Japanese immigration, and
telegraphic reports stated that shortly afterward, when
some California members and visitors called at the
White House, the president flew into a rage, and fairly
raved over the act of this representative, who, whatever
the merits of the measure , he proposed, was entirely
within his rights, as the president was notin criticising
. -his action.' -' : . .-.- "f . ,v .
President Roosevelt's impulses may all be good; he
What Did Luck Do for Them?
." ..From Success Magasina.
Wbin we consider tne few wbo owe
fortune or poaltlon to accident or "luck."
in - comparison with ' the mease who
have to nsht every inch of the" way to
' their own loaves, what are they, In
' reality, but the exceptltota-to the rule
that character, merit not fate, or
Muck," or any other bogey, o?" the Im
agination control the deatlniee of men?
The only luck that plays any great
part In a man's life te that which ' In
here in a stout heart, a willing hand
and an alert brain. , .
' What has chance ever -done In tbe
world? Ha it -invented a telegraph or
telephone? Ha it laid an ocean cablet
liaa It built teamahlps, or established
universities, asylums, or hospitals? Has
it tunneled mountains, built bridge, or
brought miracles out of the soH?
What ' did "luck" have to de"; with
making the career of Washington, of
Lincoln,- of Daniel Webster, of Henry
lay. of Grant, of Oarteld. .or of Ellhu
Root? Did it help Edison or Marconi
with their Inventions? Old it have any
thing to, do with the snaking of the for
tune of our great merchant -princes?
Do each men a John Wanamaker, Rob
ert Ogdn or Marshall Klld owe beir
urces to luck? v " '
I have never known a man to amount
to much until he cut out of hi vocab
ulary auch word aa "good luck" and
. "bed luck," and from Ms life maxima
all the 'I caa't" word ant the "I can't"
philosophy.. There la no vrord in -the
Knclua language more misused aod
abused thaa "luck." More people have
excused Utasnsei vetfor poor .work and
ON DAI L Y
INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
The same could
years ago prob
self a sermon on
greater than he who
DESTROY
THE FRUIT
Clackamas
; printed in
by close attention
p .
whether the order
stance is justified,
orchard is in the
does right -to order
year or two, and.
it is destroyed.
of several if not of many cases wherein like action should
be taken, not only by this- inspector; but by others
throughout the state.- ' - ' - , '
The inspector
them as to the best meanof getting rid of fruit pests,
and showing them the imperative necessity of doing so.
This will be an excellent line of action which it would
be well for,otherJnspectorto follow ilJhejr.are Jible
to do so. ' v , '
The Journal his
portance of clean orchards and fruit, an"3 cannot too
earnestly urge it upon all people owning orchards. This
could be and would be the greatest fruit state in the
union if all fruit raisers would surely and absolutely rid
their orchards and keep them rid of all pests. This. in
volves a good deal of labor and considerable expense, but
it pays. Oregon has already gained a- great reputation
for the best apples, pears, prunes and berries, but has
done so only by sending clean, perfect fruit abroad; and
with this reputation enhanced by the marketing. of only
such-fruit, the demand would greatly and rapidly in
crease, and ten times the amount of fruits and berries
now produced would find a profitable market-outside the
state. There is scarcely any limit to the fruit producing
capacity of Oregon, or the market for its fruit, if that
fruit is all right '!
No man has a
cares nothing about
fectly satisfied to get along with wormy, almost worth
less stuffy for8uchahprchar(lJsarnfiiacetaiawhQl9
neighborhood,-county,-region,-and nullifies the-diligent
and costly labor of many men and is a direct and heavy
injury to them. So we hope that if this orchard is in
a condition to deserve it, as no doubt , many are, it and
all such should , be ruthlessly destroyed. . This is the
only war to get ' good fruit, and to build up the -fruit
industry, of Oregon.
Governor Hoch .
won i great victory
doesn t seem to know it. ,
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V GRAFTING AND BEING GRAFTED. ' V
A SUBSIDIARY but none the less important' de
velopment of the insurance investigation is the
light thrown upon the relations of the insurance
companies to the state insurance department of New'
York. What has long been suspected is now apparent
that the insurance department was simply a false pre
tense. It pretended to represent and protect the inter
ests of the public while at the same time the official
investigations which it made of the affairs of the various
companies were so many farces. It accepted the face of
the books, whatever they happened to show, and never
got beneath the surface or attempted to do so.. Its in
vestigations,' therefore, never could possibly show any
thing such as the public desired and paid to know. In
deed the department was only operated to make grafts
of all kinds safer for with its stamp of official approval
on all their acts the public rested content in the belief
that everything was all right in the insurance com
panies. . , ,
On the other hand many other insurance departments
all over the country systematically bled the insurance
companies. It was part of their stock in trade, profitably
persisted in year after year. It is well nor alone that
the New York insurance department. should be shown up
for what it actually is and was but that every other
crooked department in every other state should have its
acts laid bare so that the public may be brought face to
face with the grafting propensities of some of their pub
lic officials who constantly' victimized the insurance
companies..;.''
About the iime the f Republican club thinks it hais
them all corralled, by. a gradual geometrical increase, a
lot of them will toss-their horns and switch their tails
and break out.
, Well, who caif-etter afford to be high flyers, or
rollers, than the steel trust magnates? ' '
meant stingy, poverty-stricken careers
by aaylng 'luck waa against them" than
by any other excuse. . - - -
That door ahead of you, young man,
la probably closed because- you have
closed rt by lack of training; by a lack
of ambition, -energy and push. While,
perhaps, you have been waiting for
"luck" to open it, a pluckier, grittier
fellftw ha Stepped in" ahead of you and
opened it himself, .
Frost Makea Fat Turkey.", ,
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From' the Minneapolis Journal.
'Cold weather make fat turkey."
aid the poulterer-'
- "Because in a warm fall the ground
keeps soft, the Vegetation linger on,
and the fields ar full of worm and
bugs,. What -tAe result? The result I
that the turkeys. . from - sunrise till
dark, tramp the tempting Held on long
forage, .eating the worms and bugs,
which thin them, and walking all their
oft and fine flesh into tough, stringy
muscl. ... .- , . ... ..... ...
"A cold fall, with early frosts and
snows, free the ground and kills the
bug. Then the turkey are not tempted
to wander. They loaf in the farmyard,
gorge an abundance of grain .and put
on flesh like a middle-aged woman at a
aeaahor hotel. .
"But in a warm fall, hunting the Irre
sistible bug, the turkey do their 1( to
tO mllea regularly and become athlete.
For athletic turkeys there I no public
demand." , . . ...
Christmas goods ar making their last
call.
J O URN A L
nro. r. cahdix
Th Journal Building, Fifth and Yamhill
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may be generally right,it may.be well to have a ma?
in his position who dares speak out what he thinks on
most subjects and occasions; but these instances show
that he has his faults and weaknesses, bis often in
firmity of "temper." , , , , . . .
Since he preaches occasionally, he should preach him'
this text: ."He who ruleth his spirit is
taketh a city." ... v
THE INFESTED ORCHARDS.'
INSPECTOR for Multnomah and
counties, according to information
yesterday's. Journal, has ordered the
owner of an orchard at Milwaukie to cut it down, be
cause, through neglect in spraying it, the orchard has
become hopelessly infested with pests, and is al menace
to all other orchards in that vicinity, even those that
and hard work have been kept free
i
irom pests. '.: t ,; " ... .
We know nothing of - the facts in this case, nor
of the inspector in this particular in
but assumfhr'tht Jact to be that the
condition- represented, the inspector
it destroyed, and should see to it that
And we presume that this is only one
for - this district," Jr Hr Reed.-lrls also
reported, is preparing to hold meetings of fruit raisers
in various school houses for the purpose of instructing
frequently pointed out the great im
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right to have a foul orchard, if he
marketing fruit, even if . he is per
of Kansas claims .that. Kansas has
over Standard Oil. "But the octopus
Hydd Versus Ide.
From the New York World! r '
The business method of tbe Home
Life Insurance company, a , explained
by President Ide t the Investigating
committee, show a conservatism and a
regard for the right of th policy-holder
In refreshing contrast toth prac
tice of th larger'instltutlon.
Th old-fashioned theory that Insur
ance fund are trust funds Mem still
to obtain in this company." it indulges
In no syndicate bartlclDatlons. It has
no nonledgsr assets. It enter Into no
Joint-account stock speculation. - Reg
ularly every year after the profit have
been ascertained and an addition made
to the aurnlua the balance la innnriinM
among th policy-holder-with mathe
matical exactness. There I no "guess
ing" by actuaries. Individual accounts
ar kept with th deferred-dividend policy-holder
and their pollcle credited
wnn ineir earning.
This I only simple honesty and fair
dealing. But how elementary the meth
od! What ktndergartsn nrocess bv
comparison wl(n the highly elaborated
aystem of the larger companies! And
what opportunities for personal exploi
tation left unutilised by 'the officials!
Not a single Veraalllea fete In the his
tory of the (institution; not an opera
box! Ho baronial estate; no horse
how blue ribbon;; not even a dally
bunch of violets!
From Hyde to Id 1 th whole gamut
of modern life Insurance. What- con
tempt a. McCurdy or a McCall must feet
for JrhO keep hi talent wrapped
up In a napkin I
SMALL CHANGE
Among othara. Uncle Sam la dotna
very big bualneaa theaa Oars, la bla
poatofnc department
Minister Orlp of Sweden and Norway
seems to nava ioat ma grip.
' It would seem that the Republican
party her had experienced enough hard
luck lately, without tbe organisation
of a "Tammany.- v .
Don't Inquire these daya too closely
a to whether the needy are deserving
a .n, I
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Mar Tohe want a divorce, which
should b denied her; she ought to be
obliged to 11 v with I Putnam Bradlee
'Strong, and be with her, for life. -
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.The northwest passage need expect
no appropriations for lta Improvement.
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" Y4 the Willamette river ought to be
free also.
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- Thirty-sight Seattle attorney - ar
now employed in a will case that baa
been in the oourta seven year. It must
have been a large estate, . and it la
squally certain that little or nothing
will be lert ror tne winners or tne rase.
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Tomorrow la th last day In which to
do ante-Chrlstma buslneaa.
If you watch St. John and th
peninsula, you will see fln exhibition
of rapid growth. . , -
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Th standnattera and " reciprocity " re
fuser ar inviting the toe of the peo
ple' big boot. ,v,
The lntereat in Bernhardt' southern
tour la la tenta. : .
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If you liav been' narrowly selfish In
preparing for Christmas, don't Imagine
that your Bunaay reugtoua rormatitie
are worth anything. . . , ,
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Russian peasants are Just Ilk our
multi-millionaire Jn on respect; they
refuse to pay taxes.
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There won't be much of a slump after
the holidays, lthr. - ,v
Beatdea allowing the ' beef ' trust
baron to flimflam hlra with bogus
book. Commissioner Garfield la reported
to have promised them -immunity from
punishment. Aa a -trust investigator he
1 a "dalay.". .. -''
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While you sleep - you -have 'to pay
tribute to the trust., Th wire mattress
trust will raise prloea I per cent Janu
ary 1. , r -' -r --.
Ex-Governor Geer overlooked the
hobo in th enumeration of hta desired
constituency, but he may -' make an
amended and elaborated statement. A-
r If Tom Lawaon goea- broke he need
not expect to be aet up in Business
again by-Rockefeller and Rogers.
Becauae Japan assumed actual control
of '-Korea, one of the Korean minister
of state killed himself and another
rushed into his superior's oinoe stark
naked, which Incident are additional
proof that Japan waa Juatlfled in taking
th reine or government jn 11a own
hand. . . -""
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' Out In thia country a green Christmas
doesn't portend a fat graveyard.
- Wild game and varmints numerous In
the Coast mountains of southern Ore
gon. ' - .
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Roseburg has a fine nospltalQrants
Pass is to have on, and Albany' needs
one. .i '-. v -.'
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Two Milton young men who were
peddling boef la Weston left their wag
on and eontanta In a livery atabl over
ulght, and aoma one soaked the meat,
worth. S40,- -with kerosene, - ruining it
and proving that as a perpetrator of
malicioua mischief h deserves Severe
punishment. 'r"
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Weston saloons are being closely
watched to aee that they conform to
the law regulating them, commenting
on which the Leader aaya: "In the pres
ent state of the public mind. It is up
to the saloons to walk a pretty straight
chalk line if tbey value their existence
A decent, law-respecting bar is prefer
able to prohibition; but prohibition la
preferable to a licensed dive."
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Bandon Recorder: ' 'About 18,000,000
to 10,000,000 feet of log have been cut
on the upper river this year, and are
waiting for a freshet to he brought
down and distributed to the various
mill. . '- ' v .
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. Th old town of t'matllla expects to
be aome important again, through th
reclamation of land in ita vicinity.
f. - . r-. e. .-
. People of Echo and vioinlty work to
gether for 'development, with flne re
sults. - . .,; --. '1 ..
Three1' Weeton ' men 'hunted geese
along th Columbia for eight daya and
got only two, the honkers, though nu
merous, not being gees in getting in
range of bullets.
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K "Narasene" church haa been organ
ised and a building erected at Milton,
Great quantities of fruit, berries and
vegetables have been ahlpped from Mil
ton and Freewater this year., .
' That the building of the Vale h Mal
heur Valley railroad la the first step
In the development of. the thousand snd
one latent resources dt the great Mal
heur county is doubted by none who
has given the subject serious consider
ation, say the Malhsur Oasette.
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' North Bend's chamber of commerce is
nearlng the 100 mark In membership. '
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The Coqullle valley 'Is' the'gsrden
spot of Coos county, and aa yet only a
mall percent I under-actuat cul-
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
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tlvatlon. Thsre Is room here for hun-if
drada . of farmer who ar willing ' to
work one-half aa hard forv success aa
they do In ths, east, says the Bandon
Recorder.' , . -
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Fishermen , along Rogue river who
own good eddies fo' catching spring
salmon will havs veritable gold mine
when the railroad comes, and they wilt
get-from It to II for fish that they
have heretofore sold r for one-fifth - of
auch value, -
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Th pottage Grove Nugget laeued th's
Week a line ;lllustrated spuclai edi
tion. ,
SENDING. MAIL TO 'THE
; ARCTIC CIRCLE ; ,
Victoria (B. C.) letter in the Phila
delphia Inquirer.
; The annual mall for Arctie circle
point within the Dominion of Canada
haa Just been dispatched via. Edmonton.
Letters only are carried and these ar
limited to on "ounce in weight, aa th
entire bulk Of the packet when it leave
Edmontoa must oom within IDS pound.
ResMtared letter have the preference,
although they . are not assured of de
livery If late, and other letter are taken
In the order pf the datea of mailing. The
route la not only, the longest mall cir
cuit la the world, but far and away the
most desolate and most difficult
For the I-cent stamp which decorates
the corner of the envelop th letter
will be carried In aome cases from the
extremes of South Africa. Australia or
India, and it will most probably-be
necessary ' to. have tbe oarrlera go 680
or too mile Into a frozen, forbidding
w tide mesa, th government expending
upon the redemption of the contract, of
the atamp very" many- thousand time
what it receives, while the carrier must
fight single-handed with savage nature.
HI life and the aafety of the precious
packet Intrusted to him ar at all times
in the ha sard.
' This la the first yesr in which the
postofflce department of Canada haa as
sumed th delivery of mall In the ex
treme north, the Hudson Bay company
heretofore carrying roeassgee to and
from the Arctic and aub-Arctio country.
Increase in th number of trippers.
misslonarlea, prospectors, settlers and
policeman in the extreme north explain
the taking over of responsibility, by th
postmaster-general of Canada..
The malL la oiviaea into two pacaets
at Edmonton, one for point - between
Lao la Blcha and Fort Resolution . and
the other for the straggling outposts of
empire as far as Fort Macpherson. the
moat northerly depot even of the Hud
eon Bay company, ISO mile within th
Arctlo circle, where the year ia divided
into a atngle day and night.
Th Lao la Blcbe man goea by norae
only ltO mile out of Edmonton. Thence
forward the dog and the deer ara tne
carrier' subordinate. . Deliveries ar
mad at Fort McMurray. Fort Chlppe
wan. Smith's Landing. Fort Resolution,
Hay River, Fort Providence, Fort Simp
son. FoVt Wrlgley, Fort -Norman, Fort
Good Hope and Fort Macpherson. , From
Edmonton to Fort Macpherson . I 1.800
miles, end th mall arrive at th rort
in Aoril if it haa no exceptional delaya.
. Beside th packets-Just dispatched,
there ars several other packets going
to ths nortbland wlthjn the next
week or so, so that alt the posts
will receive at least a yrly malL
There la a mall made up' atr Prince Al
bert that goes ss far aa the head of
Reindeer lake, at the edge of the, great
Barren Lands. .. --v ...
The York Factory packet runs to the
far north via Lake Winnipeg and the
Nelson river. The Moose packet Js made
up st Matawa and , .goes via , Abltibl
river. -. -
The- carriers for the t and west
shores of the great bay aomettmea meet
at the southern ports on the shores
of tbe bay; the meetings being made the
occasion of short but hearty Jolllflca
tlona. Than each passes' on his way.
Although lettero for th , winter
packet ar - limited to an ounce in
weight, there may be much news com
pressed by th Judiclou. Very thin
paper a a nil 1 used and cros writ
ten. ., ... - . i ,
Everything is news to the people of
the Barren Lands snd the same may be
said, of th greater part of the forts.
It doesn't matter If th news is late. It
1 read in sequence, and ao what's ths
difference It it did happen six months
or a rear sarlier? The dock Is simply
turned back, v
Newspapers and packages are carried
to the north on tbe annual steamers of
the Hudson Bay company up the Mao
kensle river In the summer. Of course,
letters are also carried, but the newa
Daoers convey th tidings of th world
and are treasured aa fin Jew!. '
Th war in Manchuria, the revolution
In Ruasia, th great disasters of th
last six or ten months, all will be news
to th northland when other parte of
the world have forgotten them. And the
people of the north claim a distinct ad
vantage, even over th people of sup
posedly mors favored land. They never
have to wide through a mass of un
interesting and indecisive matter for the
facta f the story. ' . "'
Ths main facts are all they get, ind
they .must piece out the rest, and unless
they are-so fortunate aa to have a large
consignment of papers they are enabled
to settle all detail aa their wlahea and
Imaglnatlona ordain. f , v r
No Place for the P6or Man.
- From the ,lBan Francisco Post, v
"Keep away from the Phlllpplnee is
my sdvlce to the American without
capital." said W. E. Holablrd 'in the
lobby of the Palace hotel the other day,
Holablrd . returned yesterday on - the
Siberia from the Islands, where ho haa
been forthe last five month aa an
agent for E. H. Harrlman to look into
th feasibility of an Island railroad.
Holablrd 1 a atrong advocate of
Opening the portala of the Philippine
to the Chinese. Said ha: "Thia idea
of th Philippine for th Filipino Is a
wild flight of fancy. If th Chinaman
ware admitted to the Island and no re
striction placed upon hlra the pursuit
of agriculture could be made to amount
to omthlng. Th Chinaman and the
Filipino are the only one - who . can
attnd manual labor in that climate,
where the heat and humidity eomblned
make it Impossible for the white man
to live In comfort at all. The Filipino
will work long enough to get money to
go to a cock fight and the Chinaman la
barred out, therefore throwing to wast
th valuable possibilities of th vast
uncultivated areaa of fertile oll.
"Th banana tree and the oocoanut
are the only form of vegetation raised
In any quantities," continued Mr-Holablrd.
"and they take car of them
selves. - They form th starting point
of th two most .important export of
the islands, . , namely,. Manila hemp,
'Which is the Inner fiber of the trunk of
the banana tree, and copra, the dried
meat of the cocoanut,- The former Is
known and used all over th world, but
th exportation of the latter 1 confined,
almost entirely to Marseilles, where It
I mad rlnto desiccated coooanut and
cocoanut oil. On th Island of Mindanao
there ta A small colony ; of American
soldier who do a thriving business
with conra. There are also a number
American negro 'traders who handle
hems. The use of two aete of scales
used in buying and selling makes their
trade profitable." - . ... N
Of the American school teacher in
th Philippine Mr. Holablrd speaks In
th highest- term. He refer to them
as th highest type of American man
hood and womanhood and la especially
warm In hi prats of Dr. David Bar
row, superintendent . of education In
the Inlands. As for ths Filipino children,-according
to Mr. Holablrd. .they
are apt pupil for a while,, but seldom
peraever In their studies long enough
to achieve results. -"Th
worst feature of Manila," said
Mr. Holablrd, "IsSti hotel service, snd
of that the less said the better.
"The couatry ts an Interesting one,
but offers no -inducements m my opin
ion . to thi American. - He cannot get
"along there without capital, and If he
haa that he can arrord to stay r ai
home." ' ,
- The Bnfeeoesasa at taw, '
""Portland, Dec II. To the Editor of
Thd Journal There I much talk about
Mayor Harry Lane's arresting th gam
blers at th Milwaukie club, but who
can blame him, or his policemen? iWho
1 to blame but th. charter-fixer?
Mayor Lane propose to show th people
of Portland Juat who the confidence men
are. . He find ' a charter which ys
that no gambling ahall be .done within
the four-mile limit of the city. So he
enforces the law. If he finds, ordinances
made to cover up aomethlng else,- but
by enforcing these ordinancee the skele
ton in the municipal closet Is uncovered,
who i .to blame? Mayor Harry Lane
was put in office to enforce the law
on th statute book of th city. More
power to him. The men who framed
the charter had aom ulterior reason
for putting In that provision. Th whole
voting population . mad the .. charter
valid. , 1 i
Voters of the city ' of Portland, do
come to your senses. Make wholeeome,
plain law. Have a charter that does
not make food for a . set of lawyers,
whose sola aim In life I to make the
life of the cltlsen of th city a burden,
or make th city a laughing atock to
the world. ' ir a law ay a thing, that
muat be what it mean a not a make
shift or a cover, Taxpayer do not want
to be forever paying bills, to have vari
ous ordinances and lawavexperted and
to determine tbe validity or legality of
them. Repeal such stuff from the char
ter and statute books, or elae keep at 111
when the chief - enforces them. r
If Mayor Lane was a Republican you
would not hear -a murmur. It makes
all the difference . what complexion
(political) the man Is so the ring has
th push. When they do not, then it
I persecution and everything to block
progress. If you could rake over some
of the paat you would' probably find
some more alien ' who have 'drawn a
good fat salary from the city and coun
ty, and you would find them all Repub
licans. There waa no squeal then about
It " May the voters learn that the city
council la of as much, if not more,
tmportanc to the city than th mayor.
With the council and mayor in "har
mony" (that word la "borrowed from
Frank Baker) the city would be tn better
condition. Mayor Lane haa set his face
against that word spelled . G-R-A-F-T
and th people should rally, to his sup
port,. even to turning the rsscals out of
the council by the, referendum.
- Mayor Lane,' keep up the good work.
AN ADMIRER OF THE JOURNAL'S
STAND.
-Th Bed Artlols of Smbst
Portland. Dec. 22. To the Editor of
The Journal The editorial pen of that
nirty young paper. The Portland Jour
nal, 1 a particularly facile -one. Mat
ter of dally If paaalng lntereat have
their, due attention; the Intrlcacle of
national and looal politic ar Impar
tially unraveled for th many reader
of that paper, history mads and htatory
making ar material for edltortala of
marked thought and ability. It la not
to be wondered at then that The Jour
nal haa a constantly and rapidly grow
ing constituency and it takea no prophet
to foresee that this paper will soon be
the leading one in Oregon. -, " :
But sometimes "Homer nods." and
th other day with rne confidence,
th result of many successful achieve
ment In th past, ths editor of The
Journal tackled that occult and abstruse
subject Boston baked beans.
With li-reslstibl loario that Is. If fig-
Pore ar as truthful ss they sre said to
be h demonstrated . that thsre are
Boatonlana who eat "from 60 to 100
quart a year." , 1 '
That may b true, dui wnen me edi
tor saya (aa he does) that bean muat
be boiled before they are -baked, the
entire population of Massachusetts rises
aa one man to dissent. '
That la the trouble with beans called
"baked" and served aa such beyond the
borders of th old Bay Stater They are
boiled to death, then put in the oven
a a mere matter of form.- Beans can
not be "baked" tn an abaurd little shal
low tin pan. , They can be boiled and put
Into the pan nd the pan put in the
oven, but they ara boiled beana, and not
baked, Juat th same. -
- The bean pot ueeo-in Maasacnuseiis
1 made of thick clay, glased on the in
side: the opening at tbe top -ia very
small o that only a few beana are ex-
nosed to direct beat' and alio to retain
a much moisture a possible during
th baking process.. . . '
Boston beans ar paroouea sugnuy
(never boiled), then put in the bean pot
and baked anywhere from to 20 hours.
Truau there ar ome mysteries in in
preparation of the bean for their long
"trial by fire" known only tor the Initi
ated, but the difference between the gen-
ulna Boston bajcea Dean ana us duui
pale-faced counterfeit is like "Hyperion
to a aatyr." - . - .
Now. if the editor or The journal naa
ever, tan ted Boston baked, beana in all
their nut-brown beauty ana tootnsom
gloryr a they are cooked by Boston's
beat housewives, my word for it he
would look forward with pleasurable an
ticipation to his yearly "stunt of 10
.... . - " -
BUNKER HILL.
'' '
In thg Awkward Squad. -
- From the Saa Francisco Chronicle. ,
An Irish drill sergeant waa Instruct
ing som recruit in th mysteries, of
marching movement and found, great
difficulty in getting a, countryman of
his to halt when th command wa
given..-". ! '
After axplalning and Illustrating sev
eral times, h approached th recruit,
ised hint up silently for a couple of
minutes, then demanded his name. s ,
"Fltsgerald. aor," wa ths reply.
"Did. you ever driv a donkey, Fits?"
"Yes, sor."
'What did you ssy when you wished
him to stop?"- - ', ... v
"Whoa." " t -"
'The sergeant turned away and imme
diately put hla squad In motion. After
they had advanced a dosen yards or so
he, bawled out at th top of hi lungs;.;
"Squad, halt! Whoa, Fltsgorald!"
Hit Beautiful , Faith. : '
From th Cleveland - Plalhdealer.' .'
John. Jr., S, waa promised he could
go to the clrcu. 1 '
Hi mother, thinking he would be
come frlshUned at the elephant and
-other animal, told him he would have
. - -. n
LETTERS FROM THE
v PEOPLE
to be brave and manly and not o airaia
of anything; he would sea.
. Friday night 4h was to go Saturday),
as h finished saying his nightly pray
ra, he raised his voles snd .with a most
beautiful faith and confidence and all
th earnestness his I years could com
mand he said:
"O God. mali ra good, brav; trotg
and manly for) th clrcusl' , y
.... , . - - - J-f -.
. - ,:..
RAILROAD REBATING
- ''. EXPOSED 1
,
Ray. Stannard Baker in January Me-
. Clure'a Magasine.
' Ten yeVra ago no on dreamed of the
enormou expansion of this trangs y
ten of prlvat ownership of railroad
rolling stock. , Examln almost any
freight train today jou any railroad in
the country, and It will be found that
one or more of th cars, often every car
in the train, bear not th nam of the
transportation company. Whose lawful
obligation it la to provide the
ries of commerce, but the name snd the
flaring advertisements of private , per
sons who are not common carriera at
all. Today over l0 private freight car
lines ar in flourishing existence, oper
ating 130,000 cars. - And the number in-,
dudes not suaiy stock and refrigerator
cars, - but aU sorts of curious by
developments, prlvat cars for break '
fast foods, beer, furniture, farm ma
clnery, egg, atone, lumber, lard, car
riage and many other ' commodltie.
Train ther ar today which resemble
nothing so much a a flying billboard,
advertising everything ' from "dellolou
aausaga" to "perfect pickles." "
, The largest slngl owner "of prlvat
ear Is Armour of Chics go. who con
trols a dosen or mora carllnea, and not
only . fruit and meat ears, - but many
tcink, cattle and even ordinary boxcars
involving altogether a business of a
magnitude difficult to conceive. Of refrigerator-cars
alone he ha over 14.000,
representing an Investment of som $14..
000,000.'. Nearly every great trust la an
owner of private car;, that ia on rea
son, aa I shall ahow, why the trust, is
a trust and why It Contlnnes a trust'
Tbe Standard Oil company owns thou
sands of private tank cars, and th steel
truat thousands of ore and coal cars.
Not included among the private freight
car owner we have also the sleeping'
ear trust, owning thousands of Pullman
cars which Sre in reality private cars,
snd the express trust with thousands
of express" cars.
Armour and his aaaoclatea In the beef
trust, as the largest Owners of prlvst
car, and. perhaps the worst offenders
though w haven't yet bad the Pullman
car trust, th express companies, the
brewer, snd others In the full light, of
publicity will furnish the best Illus
tration of the peculiar . .operation and
effect of the private car system. - What
ia true of Armour la true in greater or
less degree of every private car owner.
Armour owned all the cars In which
his product waa shipped. When the
railroad hauled them it paid a rental
called a "mileage charge'- to Armour
for the use of them, afterward collect
ing the full freight rate. Thia I a
plausible and proper, aa sunshine pro
vided, of course, we admit the right of
private individual to own railroad roll- '
tng slock. This rental varlea in amount,
being I cent a mtle for every mile the
car travels in certain parta of the coun
try, three quartera of a cent in other
partes . : :
Now, It ts plain that ths farther the
car runa every day the more It will .
earn. It it runa 100 mllea it may earn .
IS a day, if SO mllea only 60 cent.. Th
primary advantage of owning a prlvat
car, than, la the mileage It makes.
Armour saya with all. the plauslbllit.it ..
of utter falrneas to his small competl
tor: ' ' . . 1 -
. "You have as much right to own prl
vat cars as I -have, v Go ahead and get'
them. 'The railroads will pay you the;
same mileage aa they pay roe." '
' Every word of which la truthful and
yet conceals the worst sort of a lie. - --
Armour'a small competitor can own -private
ears, but he cannot make' them
run. . For that depends upon having
great Influence with tbe railroads. Ar
mour can and doe-, make his cars run.' ?
Nothing Indeed is more impressive in
all the methods of the beef truat thsn
Armour's system of keeping account of '
bla private cara.- At the bead of the ,
Armour car line 1 George B. Robblns.
the -president of the corporation. He
worke in closest touch with O. F. Frisbr,
traffic manager of Armour dt Co. Th
head office 1 in th Horn Insurance
building at Chicago, where a large force
Of. clerks la employed.. There are con
nections wtth all the railroad offices '
by both telephone and .telegraph, t
Lst us'say that Armour delivers IS
cars of beef train load to th rail
road at 1 o'clock today. Th number
of every car la entered with the data of
tasting, on a hug tally sheetat the
central office. Say tbe train la bound
eaatward by the Grand Trunk. At Els
don, Illinois, the first Junction point, in
Armour man is at hand to report the
train. At Port Huron there la another
Armour man. He fills out a blank
postal card reporting the arrival there,
the tlm taken in reiclngv whs ther car
ar out of repair, and ao on. Other
Armour men stand ready at the Niagara ;
frontier and at every other Icing sta
tion through to New York City, each ;
reporting by postal card. If part of the ;
train goea to Pittsburg, or to Montreal, -there
also ar th Armour men ready to
report Instantly. For Armour has over
TO regular branch houses In the United
States, besides numerous local agents,
traveling agents "and ths like. Armour
is slways on th spot
Evrr morning a great pile of these .
card appeara on the desk at the central
office In Chicago. Each card is checked
up. If a train Ha loat time. 11 an
Armour. car 1 sidetracked anywhere, a
telegram ia at once dlepatched: "What's
th matter?" It 1 a messag which
require and receive prompt reply. Ai
mour l.nvr to b put off or trifled'
with.-. Mora than on railroad agent,
who did not use proper respect, has
summarily lost his heed. And If of
fenses are multiplied, aome 'fine morn
ing Armour dlverta hie entire bnslness
to th rival lln which will hurry hi .
car. Hurry, hurry, is his Insistent de-
mandj'and no railroad dare dispute
him..... 1 ' . ' - '
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Fort Clatsdp. --.'-
December II. It continued raining
the whole day, with nd -variation except
occasional thunder and . hall.. Two
canoe of Clataopa cam to u with
various articles for sale; we bought
three mats and bags, neatly mad of
flags snd rush, and also th akin of.
a panther seven feet long. Including the ,
taiK ( For all. these we gave small fish
hooka, a wornout file ahd some pound
ed fish, which hsd beeoms so soft and
moldy by exposure that we' could not
us It; It is. however, highly "prised by.
the Indians of this neighborhood. Al
though a very portable and convenient
food, tha mode of curing It aeem known
to, or at - least practiced only by, the
Indian near th great fall, and com
ing from auch a dlatanc It has an addlt
tlonal valu in the eye of th people,
who hre anxloua to posse som food''
lea preqsvrlou than their ordinary sub
sistence. Among these Clatsop was a
second chief, to whom we gave s medal,
and sent some pounded fish to Cusoslah,
wno couia not com to see us on ao-
r
count ef sickness.
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