' TUESDAY. ' MARCH . 27, 1CC3. :
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TH E . OREGO N D A I'L Y.JO.U R N A L
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THE PHYSICAL ENCOUNTER
"GONIArTOmCE.
T
HE "Friend of the Teople" and the deputy .nd
subsidiary "Friends of the people"' employed on
the- morning; 'organ of the. " Southern Pacific
should refrain from shedding their outer garment in
-- the exuberance! their simulated1 indignation. .Liberty
has not yet been attacked in its citadel and reason in
consequence i nowhere tottering on in wrone ouisiue
i of the: Oregonian office Young Johnson undoubtedly
" railed at the Oregonian editorial rooms; He even left
his umbrella outside From the cool,, cold-blooded and
ealculating northern point of , view he was doubtless
unwise. It may therefore be said that he made a bad
start but if his start was bad he certainly executed good
whirlwind finish. He saw the editor's representative
and he stated his business which was
test against the scurrilous attacks that had been printed
against two friends of his and that he would hold the
writer of them persofiattjnrespOndlbte for further efforts
... w . . e s .
-- in the same line, - tie went tnera
without- any one" being taken - into
from the best reports lhat we have
he came out equally of his own volition. Having stated
his business, he went away toward the elevator v .
- Meantime the "editor's representative' bad been rein
forced by ne-of the subsidiary "Friends of the People,"
a husky young man reputed to be gifted with strength
and blessed with physical deftness. Young Johnson was
called back, the door of the room closed behind him and
-1Z proceedingsjpretty promptly begun.
that m. this, triangular encounter jonnson susiaiuco. euncr
1 heavy or serious losses. Subsequently the scene of se
ction was transferred to theTiallway wherethe assailants
were so heavily reinforced -that even ; the janitor vof
the Oregonian bujlding (who haiygjnee'
for his, temerity) interfered on the ground tnat ne would
not stand it to see ten men pile onone. . . ;
This is a succinct account of the general outlines of
'the affairjms to tJw tninor details accounts differ.
- -Nevertheless it will be remarked that the story fciven by
the Oregonian- editor's representative i and accurately
J printed, in Thejournal yesterday t reryi widely at. var-
iance with the account printed in the other evening' paper
last" evening and in the Oregonian": this-morning.- But
- be this as it may it is a mistake to think that, the event
'marks a red letter day in the history . of the world; .that
presumption is a little too violent for people with any
- sense of proportion to swallow. Neither can it be tor
tured into any deep-laid conspiracy to visit personal .vio
lence on any member of the Oregonian staff. It ia
simply a disconnected incident that stands entirely upon
. its own mer its. Johnson 4id not even tak bia- umbrella
into the roorarwith him. He stated bis business and
went away. So far as he was concerned the incident was
then closed, if it "was allowed to go at that" But when
, he was called back into the room, when he was con-
.. ' fronted by two men, teach one bigger and heavier than
- himself, and without ceremony, it appears, put immed-
- lately to a physical test the whole affair assumed a new
aspect and it was up to'Johnson to make good. '
The Journal refuses to believe that the. incident has
.loosened the underpinning .of the whole governmental
; structure $r that Jt; has . precipitated world-racking
cataclysms. It stands nakedly on its own foundations
and in this way sane men will view it, notwithstanding the
outrageoua amears of red paint with- which the Oregon.
Un hysterically seeks to daub it
LACK OF PARENTAL CONTROL,
T UDGE ' FRAZER in an address
said tbat the cause, of boys and
J in a vast majority of cases, is improper home sur
roundings, and the lack of proper parental control
, There ia nothing new in this statement; The Journal
lias voiced it repeatedly, and so has the press generally;
yet it will bear frequent repetition and it should not be
wholly lost, when made ' by a man in Judge Frazers
' position. V';-."'' ;-.. . ; y :-t 's, v' '
In many cases nightly boyS and girls all tbe way from
12 to 18 year old are out on the streets or elsewhere
away from home, and their parents do not know and in
many cases ' apparently do not care where the are or
y what they are doing. Children and youth thus permitted
to run at will about town are sure to go to the bad, to a
- greater or less extent r indeed, they are rapidly traveling
the first reach of the bad road already. . y-. , .
' ' Parents, have an important and solemn responsibility
in this matter. " If they feel no obligation to society, it
would seem that on their town offsprings' account they
would "guard carefully the footsteps and associations of
their children. -?"-r r y-f";y ,y v'
A few days ago a whole aquad of Albina boy were
arrested and several of them aentenced to terms in jail
for a long series of criminal pranks in that part of the
city, where they had become a terror, and not a parent
. put in an appearance In Iheif behalf."-Apparently they
- have been abandoned in their early teens to a life of vice
""and crime. There should be anawto" pumsh such "par
ents; they and they no more than those who beg for
- their children's release and then pay no better attention
to' them are the most dangerous element in any city.'
It seems as if there are parents not a few who really
do not care if their boys end their careers in the peni
tentiary or on the gallows, and their girls as slum out
casts. They act that way. But society has something
to say, oa should have, about this, and such parents
should be punished if possible more severely than their
unrestrained progeny. . . -. ,
' GRAFT IN MAIL TRANSPORTATION. . .
.OT HE ITEM' in the appropriation bill for carrying
? I V; the mails by the railroads calls for $43,000,000,
about $3,000,000 more than the estimate. The
railroads thought that while they had such a good thing
, they -might as well push it along $3,000,000 worth fur.
v ther.-
Representative Grosvenor says that
000 about 20 per cent is graft and since he has been de
feated for renomination he is likely to tell the truth
about it"' ;:- y" ; -.. v,;: .. ,y ,
' Ex-Senator Chandler, who served two years as -a
' The Crase for Pleasure. V
lAdy Tlolet Orevllla la" the London
. - Chronicle. . . - . ..
.', The Puritan element is slowly but
imrfly dying out In England. The eld
and honored word duty, uaed ao ef
fectively by Nelaon and Wellington In
old Idea of a compelling factor In Ufa
which gave eoiiaur ana wnn 10 nm
Fnglteh character, has yielded to a erase
for pleaaure. How far-reaching la the
change baa perhaps hardly yet been
rfaltedl- People congratulate tham
lva on the fact hat our countryia
growing gayer and pi mum Titer and more
grreable to live In than formerly, but
at what price We have bought the
clianse they do not atop to Inquire.
The praaa has been indefatigable in
. laabina the wpper elaaaea for their lua
vry. their Idleness and their aatrava
nca, icg .which ,we have baperUd
AM, INDIPtNDIMT KBWirAFIB
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
; yy atreeta, . Portland, Oregon.
IN THE ORE-
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for reelection.1 No
be elected aaenator
in other carts of
' The postoffice
$167,173 to some
ting $25,000 and
This is a sheer
to: enter his pro
Lord Clive, are
ouiia. own vimon
his confidence and
been able to gather
G
ama canal
built hy American
longitude. The
Coatzacoaleos, a
It does not appear!
at the mouth of
ern terminus at"
12rmiles, but the
It was along this
been" discharged"
lRJH. ttemnti at
ing were made but
harbor with docks
breakwaters, not
From Saiina Cruz
operate to San Francisco and Hawaii, and also, as re
cently published in the Journal, to Portland and Seattle
On the Atlantic sida weekly service jUibft mamuined
to New York and New Orleans. yy T- - -
This important
railroads have been,' partly by the Mexican government,
which, has a partnership contract with the builders for
51 years. The government appropriated about' $35,000,-
000, and of the surplus profits, after paying all expenses
and charges and
per cent and the
35 oer cent K 1
Regarding the'
canal. Special Agent
the matter, says:
tional railway to the Panama canal is an interesting one,
yet for the present this relation ia largely conjecture It
has been assumed the railway line makes a shorter traf
fic route for the
1,200 miles, while
Saturday evening
girls going wrong.
T
IE Sioux
ferkins,
governor
supporting it ,
of this $43.000..
amounts to, and
niiit.il iiiuk vi ii
from abroad, and which have been cul
tivated in our' midst by the presence of
foreign millionaires. But it does not
seem to have struck-the ordinary ob
server that the. same eras for amuse
ment which they deplore in the rich
prevails in all classes, high or low, mod
ified by circumstances and income.
Piatt Only Ona There. .
. "' From the New Tork World.
Tbomaa C Piatt of -New York "wae
the only oanatot In the chamber when
the vlce-prealderH called the aenate to
order recentl. Chaplain Hal came In
and prayed. "lvve your enemies" was
his opening . Sentence. Senator ' Piatt
listened with bowed head and proper hu
mility. When the chaplain had, ssld
'aman"; the other' senators bn to
eoraa In, hot. Mr. Piatt bad the prayer
all to himself.'.
no, r, oaeiou
The Journal BuDdlng, Fifth and Ym-
-t
member of an expert commission to determine the cost
"of carrying' the" mails, made a reportTsnowjng that the
railroads were greatly overpaid, and they defeated him
man vho offends, tatt railroads can
in New, England, nor in many states
the country,
bill also contains an annual bonus of
southern roads, the Atchison road get
J." Pierpont ; Morgan roads the rest
gift, made' every year to aecure the
support of a few interested congressmen for) other grafts.
There is an annual postal deficit, No wonder, when
the railroads charae the government $2.77 a hundred
pounds for the transportation of mail bags a distance of
422 milea. , -.'y.jvy ' -crrr -
The government Is an easy subject" According to
Grosvenor and Chandler, the railroads' graft on the mail
carrying business is about $9,000,000 a year. In the light
of mightier grafts it may be that the railroads, like
amazed at their own -forbearance..
AN IMPORTANT MEXICAN RAILROAD.
ONSIDERABLE ATTENTION .1 has been at
tracted recently, especially in view of the Pan
project, to the Tchuantepec railroad.
enterprise and partly, by its capital.
The tyhmua of Tebuautepec lies between 16 and 18 de
grees north latitude and the 94th and 95th meridians of
eastern terminus Of the rauroad is at
natural harbor on the. Gulf of Mexico
the Coatzacoalcas river, but the- west-
Salina Crn hai no naturalltarbor. In
a straight Una between the termini the distance is about
railroad ia 195 miles fa length." - -
route that Captain James B. Eads
planned a ship canaL and even before that as early as
both canal disaina- and railroad build
were abandoned," and not until 1892
was the present railroad project begun in. earnest ihe
first 'construction was faulty, and ia 1898 the enterprise
was taken hold of by an American firm, and the road
has been practically rebuilt since 1902, many of the heav
iest, grades being reduced "and curves straightened.
The' harbor at the eastern terminus is impeded by a bar,
whichjslbeing dredged and jettied, after the Eads plan
at the mouth of the MississippiT-At" Sallna-Cruz;- the
western terminus, an outer or refuge harbor and an inner
and wharves have been created by
yet completed. - - y',
a triangular line of steamships will
road was iinanced, as other Mexican
5 per cent interest, 1t is to receive 65
builders, who. invested over $10,000,000,
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relation of . this railroad to the Panama
Pepper, who has been investigating
."The relation. of the Tehuantepec Na
Atlantic coast and for Europe of about
it is alleged to be a shortening of 1850
miles for New Orleana traffic.7 But for the next', few
years the railway is likely to be viewed mainly as a
means of taking care of the overflow traffic which can
not be carried by the Panama railroad on account of the
necessity of using its facilities for, the construction work
Of the canal. . . - :V'.y .;: "yy7
Mr. Pepper says further? "The influence of the Te
huantepec line on. the Mexican national development is
an unquestionable one. Intimations are given that Mex
ico will now enter upon a series of trade treaties with
Chile and other Pacificcoastcountris of South America
with a view to securing not only a portion of their traffic
for international transit, but also' with .the purpose of ex
tending Mexican commerce." - ' ' '
NO REFORM IDEAS JVANTED. .
City Journal, whose cditorCeorge D.
is a candidate for the nomination for
against y Governor " Cummins, assails
the governor daily for stirring up strife with his reform
schemes, and urges harmony of the standpat order. The
Sioux City paper considers "the party" the most import
ant thing, and because Cummins has broken out in 'ad
vocacy of tariff reform and railroad regulation,-argues
that he is no longer a good Republican and should be
beaten. v "In 1904, the organ says, "the main thing was
the election of a Republican president and a Republican
congress. Now the main thing is the election of a Re
publican congress- to uphold the hands -of - the Repub
lican president elected in 1904. National issues are at
the front this year, in spite of all the talk about the Im
portance of the governorship. If a Democratic house
ia elected next fall it will mean an end to President
Roosevelt's legislative program."
This latter sentence is rather funny, considering that
congress is turning down about all of the president's pet
measures, while the Democrats are for the most part
supporting them, or at least the most important one, the
railway regulation bilL The house passed this bill, but
did so with the expectation that the senate would kill
or emasculate it. The majority of Republicans in both
houses are really against it, and it is the Democratic
rather than the Republican party in congress who is
;-y7TT7 T'V
Governor Cummins, though very tardilv. has eoma nt
yith a La Follettee program as to railroads, and gives
indications' of kicking over the high tariff traces again,
on which account he is criticised for not being a good
Republicanr-The- party-ir-theTnaiti-thinsTarid the man
who has any ideas of .reforming or changing anything in
the interest of the people cannot be a good Republican.
This is what the daily screed of the Sioux Citv oaoer
there are a good many other organs
(Maim; tiiiu ima sentiment. -
. One on "Uncle Joe." ' .
From the New Tork World.
When Speaker Cannon aat down at
his desk at the eapltol tbf other day
hs found a slip of paper on it asking
him to call up on the telephone "East
Hit." The speaker went to the tela
phone, aaked for the number, and when
an anawer came said, "Do you .want
mer'
"I don't know,? came back tha anawer.
'-"Well, I haven't time to be fooling
around hers. Do "you want mer In
slatad the speaker. "VVMPare you, any.
weyr , . .
' "This ia ths government, hospital for
tha InaaneV came back over the wire.
"If you think you. ought to bs here,
why com along."
''Hell!" waa all the, speaker said', as
he sat down and reallxed that aomsr ens
had been p)aylog a 'oka on hinr .
SMALL-CHANGS .. .
antoaerr a8nt know or Nmtnt
bar about Standard OH artatre would nil
a cyclopedia.
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Th death Jt In New Tork la ii-ti
par 1,000. In rorUnd it Is only taat
wiac : 11 11 " y
A Kw Tork srtrr forgot aha had haaa
married and marrlad aaaln. X at
many married girls wish thay could for
get. , ,. -; . ... T
lawm baa (ha hindaomeat xnrm for
SMratary of atala Balam JournaX Which
ona oZ taa thraaT . s
Parkar advising tha XaineeratM Mrtv
m wuui iuLm ib woui am xor Jim axocv
to eoma back to Portland to advlso tha
Republicans whom to nominate for
sheriff. : - -.
What O what will tha Barmblloan
party of Oregon dot Frank Baker has
resigned. ;
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Bollad down, Mr. Colwell's vlatform la.
i nm people be a. . .
Taxes dellnauant next Moadav. 'remam-
It has been an open winter above Colo
rado. The anow in soma places In that
aiaie ia aw teat deep. , ,
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The laland hi now o.u let General Wood.
bo la any oemetery. '. . ; ,.y. ,
If an aaxeament la ever reached at
Algedras It will be only heeauae tha
eomtnlaaionara are tired of tha place and
want to get away. y y;"y y: "
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The South Portland Republican league
exhibits another sample of harmony. .
The Ignorance of Soma senators about
publlo aentlnjent la aatonlshlng.
It Is easy to .understand .why the
Federated Trades oppoae Rand, but why
uiey are stuck on Eiua la a mystery.
No man able to work need now be Idle.
What a patchwork it would ba if some
on were to formulate a Republican plat-
rorm rrora he Individual -platforms ef
the .Tartoua candidates for Republican
nominations who are v "running-'- now.
8ayr4at'a keep U hldl-Saiem Sta teaman.
what you want la a platform written out
In advance by one Republican and a con
vention in which everybody will lay back
nia ears, open nta mouth and aay "I.
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On April-fool day you can lawfully go
troutfishlng. , , . , ,.
If the poUUclans..and lertsfatora and
other office-holders don't want publlo
ownersnip or something worse, let them
behave themselves., - "
JT. Plerpont Morgan ha riven a maato
don to a New York museum. ' Ha baa un
loaded several white elephants -upon" the
people. -
It la a free-for-all rae If you hay the
money to spend. . ..".'; y y -,
It cn,lajlmantMLParker witi
nominated. ...-.... ..i, ,.. . ... .. ' .
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
A Newberg factory will furnieh the
face brick for the Wells Fargo 14-story
building in tbia city. It la probably tbe
largest oontraot of the kind avr let in
Oregon and tha competition waa very
a harp. -
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Ontario chamber of commerce la send
ing out lots of information literature.
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Canby horse died at the age of Is.
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. Ther are ltT children or school ag in
Oold HUt district, Sevan mora than last
year. , '",. ,- , .
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Sclo News: Psrhapa in ens or two
weeks tha Nsws will be able to an
nounce nawa that will b of great Ira
ortance to the entire community. We
are In poaaeaalon of .the rumor, but do
not deem It advlaablo to state it at the
present tlm. - '
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Ontario wilt have a vinegar plant that
will use SO.OOd bushels of apples a year;
will make preserves, jellies, fruit but
ters, canned goods, boiled elder, wine,
cider champagne, pickles, sauce, vine
gar, ate. . , i y
-'Canby levies no tty. taatiii
James. Inman, the Looking Olass can
didate for president has : a three-column
letter In the Roaeburg News which
says it waa paid for at advertising
rates. Mr. Inman .mistw PS. a.aorry
spendthrift"""'". .. ..... vJ... - i
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Polk county fruitgrowers have organ
lxed. -t .
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' Gilliam ' eounty wool growers have
organised. - -"
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A Molalla woman lost a brooder and
ever 100 chlckena by Are. . ...
' Barlow correspondence of Oregon City
Courier: Some eastern men were here
aome time ago looking after land, which
means in the near future we will have
more settlers. Tbe Lewis and Clark
exposition was a great advertisement
for Oregon. Those men earns to attend
the fair, but decided to aettl in this
part of the country, r:-- -
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Sevan fine Percheron stallions, averag
ing about ts.000 each in price, have been
sold in Baker eounty thla year.
A number of new buildings are being
erected la Sheridan, y
f, -:.,"';.,' a . ".: " :; - :- '
Newberg people .must keep- their
ehtckena at home. i i
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' Echo Register: Echo and thla part of
Umatilla county has a climate unsur
passed for the raising of alfalfa, fruits
and vegetables, and as soon aa the Uma
tilla project la completed and the land
aettled up into 40-acre tracts this coun
try will be as great If not greater, than
the Yakima valley. The climate Is much
milder than the Taklma valley, . being
about 1,000 feet lower In elevation, .
Th Adams Advance has died from
lack of aupport .. ,-.i4. .
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Several Tenneaae families are com
ing to Forest Grove as aoon as they can
aell out". --: -
An old Washington eounty man writas
to th HUleboro Independent that he
wants to go to San Diego, "where the
flowers bloom all the time, the con
tinual sunshine warms the heart. Makes
life bright, light and eay, .and where
widows are plentiful, bright and gay aU
ttb day. . ' ' -: .
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
' DISCUSSED
'- ; Amotsaatld of .Za. - '
"Portland, March 24 To the Editor of
Th Journal. If th article signed
"Rosle was really written Jy a, womaffl,
why there la no "other side to the aues-
tlon' so far as ah la individually con
cerned, as sh has placed the proper
status upon her Intelligence and needs
no Interpreter. ' A woman who would
epand 17 minutes Of Ood'a time delib
erating over elbow sleeves, lao and el
bow gloves, or long, sleeves with lace
to droop over hands, j would naturally
try to make it appear that all women
ware likewise frivolous. 1 , In fact, we
oonaiaef mat portion or our aaiiy ana
weeaiy journals ciaaaea as lemunne.
with its attendant matter, aa burlesque
on the average intelligence of enlight
ened and Chrtatiaa womanhood, and as
for myself, I place th i whole thing
where it belong with that portion ,of
our sex who consider It th proper thing
to hold Up useless, but pretty bejeweled
nanda, begging for tha privilege of help
ing to rivet their own chains, who spend
their time beotorlng the hired girl, de
vising stunning toilettes .fori society
balls, receptions, etc., cuddling lapdogs
for, as a rule, that portion of our sex
eonslder the 'told-fashtoned baby" aa
entirely too ' "old-fashioned" to suit
them, so the dog comes In and th'baby
steps out The wives and mothers who
are endeavoring to rear their families
In the fetus of the Lord so that they
may become worthy citlsens Of a Chris
tian commonwealth have no time 'to
wast trylBg to show th "other side of
a question ' that really is no Question.
but by Its own puerility condemns it
self. . " : - - '. - .-'--
I was almost Wicked enoush to wlah
that the president of the O. 8. A. O.
K. W. might fall Int th handa of tha
probate court and gain by experience
the knowledge that many other women
have attained in that bitter school,
simply because they war victim of
laws and foolish prejudices they had no
hand in formulating, and because they
must.- perforce, -put their property-
property they had helped to' accumulate
Into th hands of men. - They saw
th Judge and lawyers walk off with
th "swag," -while they - themselves
shouldered the washboard and begged
th privilege of washing th soiled linen
of thes legalised robbers in order to
buy their children's bread. There are
aome laws enacted by the fathers whose
wisdom and utility I fall to understand;
th law of probata i one.- If the wife
dlea there ia no more ripple -noon the
surface of domestic life than if the
zavorlt mare -had - shuffled oif - eh
mortal oolL but If th man diss, then
th wife and children' are thrown help
leas into the hands of tricksters who
live upon th pickings plucked from
their ignorance and who never let go
so long as ther Is blood, and nowadays
dead man'-wills ut no '-figures in
eourts. -r. ....!.....,...;..
I am a reeldent . of thla city, own
property and . pay taxea. Teaterday X
went to the courthoua to pay th earns
and had to push mvway through a
howling mass of what pasaes today for
manhood. The air was stifling with to-
baoco amoke, the hall was aa blue as an
Indian summer day in th north, and so
scented and perfumed with stale
whisky that on of abstemious habit
would only need to breath It for a
short time to become tipsy, and like
Wall atrwt.-thwy weie howling atocksl
only they gambled In politics instead of
mines, oil, wheat, etc. "Wah, wah, wan,
you - darn - Republican!" -c :. "Register.
ProhlT' "Registered, -you registered V
"You a Democrat r "Vot your ticket r
"Ton know, Prohl,"."01v us your flip
per," and - all this ' intermingled with
rough-Jokes, horse-laugh and a com
mingling of cat-calls that made the day
hideous greeted us at our entrance and
continued during th time it took us to
transact our business.
The young lsdy who accompanied me
and who waited in the hall was favored
by some of th member of thla Inter,
eating crowd . with divers winks and
grimace. To aay that I or any other
Intelligent woman must perforce go
there and pay our taxes and then argue,
plead, fight on through weary days and
year for ths privilege which thes men
esteem so lightly that it I mad a party
by-word, and a -cursing, is a travesty
on Justice,- and a mocking in th name
of liberty. If woman had the ballot
such scenes as that would be Impossible
for th very things thst mak men
treat each other with fairness accord
ing to their code would obtain if women
had the name rights. I know whereof I
speak having been a resident of a suf-
f rage state from th tlm of Its Incep
tion until I cams to. Portland a. short
time ago. , ..
But here IS a question I desire to ask:
Would It ba any more degrading for me
to face a mob Ilk th one described at
th polls than In . tbe court houaaT ' In
the courthouse I go to pay taxes with
out representation, which la unconstitu
tional ; to th other place I go to deposit
ballot In th Interest of home and
country, that such scenes may be made
impossible and that this our boasted
'home of tbe brave, and land of the
freaLmay.heoom4adeed--etll to'-Whlcn It
lays clstm.
When man or woman designs to aa-
aert that we as wives and mother would
not be capable of voting with ad much
Intelligence a that courthoues crowd.
why then ws must needs say that a very
low eatlmate ha been placed upon that
Intelligent and angello superiority with
which we have been eulogised by ths
male portion of our cltlsenshlp opposed
to woman suffrage." They have dubbed
us queens of homes, molders of charac
ter, given ua sons and daughters to rear
whose proper training means the salva
tion of our homes, told us we wore the
power behind the throne, laid the bur
den of church and all reform upon our
shoulders, and yet tied our hands,
classed us as fools and lunatics with not
brain enough to legislate with th aver
age Intelligence of a barroom erowd.
Oh, the farce of it all, savoring of
mawkish sentiment, or silly prejudice.
or unadulterated -hypocrlay. . common
sense is spoken of as being a thing of
quantity,' but "unfortunately It has be
come a thing of quality, and tha most
uncommon thing of all, if It were more
plentiful then these vexed questions
would cess to trouble and the "angels"
would be permitted to step down and
trouble tha nolltloal nool so that heal
ing and cleansing might permeate Itsi
muddy waters, so that our boasted civi
lization might become a truth lnstesd of
a stench In the nostril of a Just God.
In conclusion I would say, that the man
who declares thst woman suffrage Is a
failure In the 'statea where at present
It exists Is either densely ignorant,
foolishly prejudiced or has been, keep
ing bad company, for brewers, and dis
tillers are the sworn enemies of woman
suffrags. May God hasten th day
when noble men and noble woman shall
stand side by side at ths ballot box. de
positing their votes In the Internet of
home and native land, wiping out and
forever that "damnable doctrine" that
vice must exist and be legalised in or
der thst a' nation may proepr.
, NAOMI M DONALD. FHKLP&V
. Story of P Musset Statue.
. In Pars, th topic of the moment Is
the new statu of Alfred de Muaaet
the first t be raised la llis capital-
which was unveiled tha other day, add
which probably not a few of thla year's
American vial tors will see in the place
of honor that has been given It beside
the Comedte Francals. But although the
statu is admittedly one. of the nneat
worn or its mnd in farta rt is ine
rather odd story of how it waa executed
ana that of an. uncommonly pretty
little Incident in connection With its
fashioning that Paxlalana. are finding
moat Interesting.
T)eMusaerdied m 1S6T. worn out, at
forty-seven, by a life of intermittent
dissipation and hard work. . and thla
statue shows him seated on a bench in
a characteristic attitude of dejection,
his head, sunk upon his breast. Above
him Is the muse in the form of a beau
ttf ul girl who . quotes to th poet his
own famous lines: "Let us part in a
aia xor an unanown worra.
- Oddly enough, no less than three no
table people posed for dffterent parta of
tbl atatu at th requeat of Antonln
Marola, th soulptor, who never saw
his subject In the flesh. These were De
Muaset's slstsr, Mine. Lardln de Muaset,
who sat for the face; Albert .Lambert,
th actor, who furnish the beard and
mustache, th cravat and the romantic
cap, and Paul Usoudler, ex-praaldent
of th municipal council, who proved to
have Just 'the 'figure" that . Mercle
wanted. s '
Th romance of the statue, however,
ha to do with the model . who. posed
for ths hus. This was a young-work
girl and sh took auch an interest in
the Statu of D Musset that th aculp-
tar gave her th poet's books to read.
Having devoured them, sh waa mors in
love than ever with the dead poet, and
every day when she came to pos she
brought a few flowers which she placed
on th pedestal of "her poet," aa she
called him, But this Is net all, for
sine tbe completion or nis statue, tne
artist has found out that the girl, who
waa quit bewltchlngly pretty, cam to
him-under an assumed nam and he haa
been unable to trace her. '
i -ao-thl--potmmous1vsr" T Alfred
de Musset did not receive a card lor the
unveiling of his atatu. Among those
who did. however, at the express com
mand of ths French minister of fine
arts, wss the aged Adelo Collin, who
kent house for and nursed D Musset
In his last years, and she -was on of
the most noticed and interested people
at tue eeremonies.- : It was said awhile
aro that Mile.. Collin, who is ever
ninety. Intended to publish, her reminis
cences of D Musset, but nothing more
haa been heard of th plan. ,
WOMEN AND NAMES
By Dorothy Dla. .
If Shakespeare had been a woman he
would never have aaked th idiotlo
question, "What's in a namef " 7
He would have' known that-ther-is
all sorts of worry, and bother, and eon
fusion wore confounded In lc -, "
To begin with, he- wouldn't J have
known when, and where, he waa a lady,
or a woman, or Just a plain female.
Then he .would have found out that
very time he went to algn his nam he
was un against tne conundrum - or
whether It Is batter to' follow fashion or
common sense in the nam tnuddie. ,
For. while a roe by any other-name
may smell as sweet, it doesn't follow
that a lsttsr addressed to Mrs. Evelina
Oladvse Smith will reach Mrs. John
Bmithjhoughthf yjBS.one.anajns i
am ma uaraon.
This is a very small, but insistent
aggravation In the woman's, name pus-
El a. Wi ar told that It Is th neignt
of bad form for a woman to sign her
nam Mrs. So and So aa if sh waa
throwing her marriage certificate at n
and when sh does we set her now a
aa not knowing what la what, but all
th same if she doesn't do it. it keeps
ua guessing. ; - .
How la one to know offhand of a
stranger, that Alicia Montmorencl
Brown'a other nam la Mrs. Bill Brown T
In spit of fashion it is a silly eustom
that makea It Inaumbent on every mar
ried woman to have aa many aliases aa
a bdrglar. - - -.-"-'"; -
Then ther is anotner trouDie tnat
every woman with sops has to face trie
moment they marry. What-i ah to
be called in a country where the title
of dowager doesn't obtain T If they
all live In the same community it is
necessary to differentiate between ber
and her son s wire, yet now nam ana
uncomplimentary to refer to her as "Old
Mrs. Smith," when sh Is perhaps on
the sunny slds of 801
- It has been auggestsd that the beat
way out of thla difficulty i to call a
woman "Madam" lnstesd of "Mrs."
after her son's marriage, but thta happy
solution of ths problem has not yst
been accepted. ' . t
- The professional woman naa aim an
other troubl in tha complex name
business.- In old times, when woman
waa expected to b no more trntn a
dabbler in any calling, the woman who
wrote waa an authoress, th ons whs
scribbled . verses a poetess, and the
one who administered -pills a doctoreas.
Ths title carried with it pretj.piuch
th-nie'nipllction'"iis"if one was
called buttarlna, sllkolln. or any other
name that signified an Inferior imita
tion Of a good thing. t :
It to rldioulous In the days,- when
women are eompetlng on an equal foot-
Ing with men in ail sorts or worn, ror
them to ba branded with any kind of a
feminine professional appellation, and
the "ease" ar an insult that ought to
be dropped. ;
A woman la slther a sculptor, or - a
doctor, or an author, or sh IsaV and
ther is no more reason why she should
be branded ao as to indicate her sex
than ther Is why one snouia signny
by some special, title whether a man
doctor 1 young or old, or a man writer
haa black hair or green.
Another difficulty raised ner is in
th eas of the woman who makea her
name famous, and then marries. .
. How la sh to keep Identified with
ths name that represents her achieve
ments when- ths law gives her another?
actresses cling to the name tnat tney
have, made of value on th billboard,
but the woman writer or aoulptor la apt
to sink her identity in thst of her hua
band, or at least qualify It by adding
his name to hsrs, wmcn ia iiveiy aenw
ment but poor business.
Any way you look at It, tha question
of what to call a woman Is beset with
troubles, and It is subject that the
women's olubs ought to settl.
v If they esn hit upon som mesne by
which we can tell at sight that a lady
is the wife of her husband, and still
herself, they, will fill a, long-fslt want
Mrav Longworth'a Parent.
Washington Correspondence of tha Nsw
yarn nun. .
"Mr. Speaker," said Congressman
Longworth, "we'd Ilka you to come to
an informal family dinner at, our house
on Thursday." '.' y . - y
Uncle Jo" hesitated.
"Oh. there won't be anybody else
there," explained the Ohio representa
tive, "exoept Mrs, Longworth'Sv par
ants. "Of course. I'd ' Ilk t meet Mi
Longworth's parents. answered the
spekr, "but.." Then he remem
bered and accepted instantly. f
TWflCTNLOVfe AND
DUTY
'''" - "By Beatrloe. Fairfax. .' ' ''
It human love . Were , ths growth . of
human wt.1!, Wht .waTlirdarad, prft.
salo old world thla would be, to toe
sure. .; .'. .'".-- -. i , ' -'
We would all fall in love With th
right person, at th right place, at th
right time. Instead of which we fre
quently - fall head over heels In - love
with the wrong person at the wrong
place and at the wrong time.
. Thar la only on way to" keep from
falling in lave, and that is te run away
from It. i.uylsu'Mtm- .r. . ..
It 1 no use to etay near love and
think you can ahut your ears and heart
to his clamor. '. v r '- . '.-.
7 You can't do it for he will whisper
In your ear and beat on your heart
until you have no longer th power or
will to keep him out . .
' It is all very wall to say to th man
or girl in love, "Don't fall in love; you
have no right to." Th obvious an
awer would be, "But I have fallen in
lovewhat Can"! do about itr'
Some one must suffer; It must- 4
the man, the girl, or both, or the duty
for which either one stands responsible.
. And this brings u back to th fi rat
argument, vis,: that If a man cannot
afford to fall in love h muat run away
rrora temptation. , -
, In nine oases out of 14 th man Who
cannot afford to fall In lov la young- -
He can afford to wait, though tell
ing him ao will not comfort him much,
a nothing Is go impatient as youth.
unless it he love. ,
Nevertheless, he can well, afford' to
w4Mefw-yarsrtmdrf"haTa sure f
his love and here he can aak her to)
wait with him. y r . .
And if their love does not stand the
test of a two or three-years' engage
ment, they may- reet aaaurd It would
not stand ths test of matrimony.
The world la full of men and women
who. have had to sacrifice love to duty
women who have felt that their bom
tlea had a stronger claim on them than
love; men on whom the responsibility
of the home rested too, heavily for them
to dare to think of love.
And yet thee man and women -are)
fairly happy. They ar doing their lif
work cheerfully, uncomplainingly.
Hardly a day paaaes but that X re
ceive a letter Imploring advice on this
subject,": .y. . . . z:y:y
Girls writ that thsy ar in lov. and
would Ilk te b married, but that they
are taking ear of th home and ' do
not see how they can leave It.
Men write that they- have fallen' m
love and ar anxious to marry, but that
they are the aole aupport - of . their
mother and sisters, and cannot afford
to support two families, " ---,---'
I would aire anything In tha world.
to bs "able to ssy to thee young peo
ple, "Qo on, - be married: love la th
most important thing in the world b
true to it';; but I can't. -
I can't tell there to turn their backs
on the mothers . who have sacrificed
everything In the world for them.
After a man la married his first duty
I to his wife, but before he marries
his first duty Is to his1 mother.
Ana so.au 4 can say to mam isi
I "Waif
rim does wonders toward moouung
out love's difficulties.
If a man puts his heart and soul Into
his work, sucoeas is bound to come to
bint. - -,-y .V-.
If he Uvea wtsoly, he Can save money.
The girl can do her share by en
couraging him and not demanding toe-
much of his time.
She must not expect him .to spend-
sll his spar moments with hsr, for
If hi mind is too much occupied with
her he won't do good work.
It ian't easy for either of them, for
naturally, loving each other, thsy want
to b together. ,
They will have te be satisfied with
th knowledge that their lovo exists.
and wait patiently until auch- time aa)
good fortune smiles on thsm. ,
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Enterprise landing.',
March 17. We aet out early and war
soon Joined by some Skllloots. with fish
and roots for aale. At 10 o'clock we
stopped for breakfast at two houses of
the same nation, where we found our
hunters (Drewyer and J. and R. Fields),
who had not returned to cSmp Isst
night; they had killed nothing. The in
habitants seemed very kind and hoaptt-
able. They gave almost th whole party ,
much as they could . eat of dried
anchovies, wappatoo, sturgeon, quamash
and a email whits tuberous root, two
inches long and as thick aa a man's
finger, which, when eaten raw, ia crisp."
milky and of an-agreeabl-flvoiv Th
Indlana also urged us to remain with
these all day, - es hnht -eik-and deerv-
whloh they said were abundant In th
neighborhood, but as the weather would
not permit us to dry and pitch , our
canoes we deollned their offer and pro
ceeded. At a distance of two mile
(farther) we passed . the entrance of
Cowellskee river. This stream discharges
Itself on ths north aide of the Columbia,
about three miles above a remarkably
high rocky knoll, the aouth aide of
which It washes In passing, and which
la separated from th northern hills by
a wlda bottom of several miles ia ex
tent. Th Coweltske Is 160 yards wide.
deen and navigable, as th Indians as
sert, for a considerable distance; it most '
probably waters the country west and ,
north of the range of mountains which
crosses ths Columbia between the greet
falls and raplda. On tha lower- side or
this river, a few mile from Its ' en
trance Into ths Columbia river, Is the
principal village of the Skllloota, a
numerous people, dirrenng, nowever,
neither In language, drees nor manners
from-the Clataopa; -Chtnooks- and Trthar '
nations at ths. mouth of th Columbia.
With ths Chinook they have lately been :
at war,, and though hostilities hava
ceased yet ther haye not resumed their -usual
Intercourse, so .that the Skllloota
do not go as fsr as tne sea, nor do ths
Chlnooks come higher up than the Seal
Islands, the truce between them being
carried on by the Clatsops, Cathlamaha
and Wahlacums, thtrir-'tnutual friends. -On
this same river, above the Skllloots, "
resides th nation called Hullooetell. of
Whom we learned nothing except that ths
nation was numerous. Late In th even
ing we -balled at tbe beginning of th '
bottom ' land below Deer laland. after
having mads SO miles. Along the low
rgrounds JDn ths river were the cotton-
wood, sweet willow, oaa, aan, nroaa
leaved ash and a growth resembling tha
beech, while the hills were ocoupled al
most exclusively . by different species of
fir: the black alder was common to the
hill aa well as ths low grounds, i Dur
ing the day we passed a number of fish
ing camps on both sides of tha river, -and
were constantly attended by small
parties of Skllloots, who behaved In the .
most orderly manner, and Trom whom
ws purchased ss much fish sad roots '
ss we wsnted on very moderate terms.
Tha night .continued aa ths day had
been, cold, wet and disagreesbl. -