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FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 103.
PORTLAND. OREGON.
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THE ' ARROGANCE OF LEGISLATIVE CANDI
,V;,-;:;..:.v-;v:---v..4, DATES.
' HAT REASONABLE OBJECTION can any
honest candidate for the
.' siirnirtur statement tio.:lr
J popular "election cf United States
raging for ..year, .tacn.year me
Jn!fin That demand has
' j legislative corruption which ha marked the election of
-senator and .the resulting consequence-mat mc eu
1 itself has come to represent, not tne puDitc.DUi tne cor
borate interest of the country. , It ha been sought
. - 1 a . a . ill. iL. ....a
through a growth of puDiic sentiment to seme vie -.
tion by direct attack. Bills have been passed through
, the.hQUse,-b4at fhey have been invariably ignored with
- contempt by the seriate" So" discouragingTiarbeen-the
J outlook that 'many hive come to accept the condition
v as Inevitable.;-7v'''r ' .77"' ' '
.v" Then the value of the direct primary law in cutting
V t the gordian knot was discovered. Through this) method
. the people instruct the legislature, as they would in any
: other popular demand, and tne legislature votes accoru-
inK to instructions. A similar method ha been in Togue
"in the aouth, where senator are actually named at the
77r primaries, and as a matter of course elected by the
legislatures, which accept these instructions aa sacredly
binding. " The result is that the people get the men they
" ; want for United States senators and
resent the people and not the corporate interest. : One
of the most brilliant demonstrations of-the value of the
plan-waa ahowa in the case of. Senator Tillman's first
. election from South Carolina, when tne people aemanaea
- the overthrow of the old oligarchy which so long -had
4' ruled and put to the front a man in every sense a popu
, " 4 lar champion.' 'Ty,t "'";T"t."":,r:::v
- What is statement No. U .11
' tailed to the attention of the voter.
ment No. 1 "I furtheratate to the people of Oregon, as
well as to the people of my legislative district, that dur
ing my term of office I will always vote for that candi
date for United State enator in congress who ha re
ceived the highest number of the people'a vote, for that
T -position xt-the general election-next-
Jtion of a senator m-eongr ess, -without
dividual preferencej. v4;.i ;V.
Why-should any conscientious man
mentr Why should any of thera presume to set up
, their own judgment against the expressed will of the
people? ' In private they are of the average class, not
" conceded to be in any wise superior to their friends and
A neighbor. By whar"mysterioos"proces, then,are-they
changed by their election as member of the legislature
from ordinary citizen in pnvatejife into superior beings
i as legislators-elect who "rise superior, not merely to
their neighbors, hut to a majority or plurality of the
whole electorate a it solemnly expresses it will at the
colls? The thing is -ridiculous to contemplate, and none
could be more ridiculous than the
themselvea a superiority which no one in their private
capacity would concede and which even they themselves
would not have the" presumption to claim.
4 , WELCOME TO THE HOMESEEKER.
s T It ANY PEOPLE are foming" to
lyl from the east,' from the central west, from all
T . ?Ztr.. tne country These newcomer are a
tremendou Influence for good arid in behalf of fight de
velopment in thi state and regi6n. .. They all have money,
which ia a good thing,' but -that it not the most important
thing. ' They are going to buy farms, wheat land, or
chard land, dairy land, mill sites, timber; they are im
; mediately, as soon as they can locate themselves, going
- to become producers, developers, money-maker, edu-
" cators.. .. . 'y ;. ; -:. ;...'..'-,'
J" Within . an hour this week the writer saw on one
.' street over 300 of these people. These were but one
""little-wave of thetidethat i rolling in and it-will be
perpetual. Most of these people will stay, and will like
the place because it is the very bed place, take the
' year through, for the average person to live in. The
- very rich man or woman may find a .more desirable place;'
the pauper or hobo may" not find the town awake to
greet bim and supply him with all his imagined needs;
but the "sort of people wh6"are coming to Oregon, "by
thousand now, are welcome, and will do welL
The oil welcome them. ; The climate welcomes' them.
The forest and prairie and river and mountains and
- valley welcome them.. The school and churches and
Jodge and organizations of all sorts welcome them. The
people welcome them! . "
THE PEOPLE WILL
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fTp HE PRIMARY LAW, as to it main, important
V I . features, has come to stay."The Illinoia supreme
' court decided yesterday, that the primary elee-
tion law of that state, which in most of its main features
' corresponds -closely to the Oregon law, was unconstitu
tional and void. Governor Deneen. immediately called
.a special session of the legislature to pas a constitu
, tional law. It will undoubtedly be done, and the main
features of the law sustained later by the courts. It
. will have to be sustained by the courts, or else the people
: r.How- StatehoocTWaa Lotr
From th New York 'World. '
7 Senator Elklna was talking for state
' ttood for New Mexico and Arlsona today
nt! they reminded' hint how he kept
New Msxloo out of th onto year
ago. Elklna was formerly a delegate
la eongrees from New Mexico. -Once he
had the bill making New Mexico a state
i tn such shape that It was ready to be
'' called from the table and paaaed. ' Pen
ator Burrows of Michigan, their In the
houee. mads ' a sensational - speech
. against the bill. Elklna was not In th
chamber. As b came la somebody told
Mm that Burrows had made a great
. statehood speech.' - .' r- --- ;
Elklns rushed down the stale, shook
'hands with Burrow and warmly eon
a-ratulated hire. He thought Burrow
had spoken for Inatead of against him.
-- The Cemoorats -who were going to vote
for tho bill saw Elklna effusively tell
Burrows that the. had made a great
.speech and concluded that if Elklne,
: who . was father of . the- but folt that
way toward a man who opposed th
- bill they could not afford to vote for It,
and they didn't The result was that
the bill was beaten asd New Mexico
; Isn't In yet-
-; It Has Knocked the Boasee. ,
', From th Albany Democrat
Some of th valley papers are trying
. to make the primary law as Intricate
possible, and one might think front
some or the editorials that tt wt a
regular rhlladelphla ordinance that no
- - one- -e14 - anderaUwd- without savarai
sodes and numerous ther things at
tie's elbow. Of course. It Is not quit
: bad as that a Intricate a It may
be la some respects. ' But we need to
, gtre eur brains sxsrelse, end by tt
rim we have gotten the law solidly in
ur minds we will hove something in
u Imaas guffloUot far any klod of
O N D A I L Y
AN INDKFBNDINT NBWSPAPBR'
, PUBLISHED BYL.JQURNAL . . PUBLISHING CO.
Sunday) anderTSunday rooming, at
bill etreete, rortland. Oregon,
will sret different
;r - ,..;v
the legislatures,
auuitors, are ine
legislature have to
Joe Dattie lor tne
senators has been
ocning
been based upon the
struggle, of course;
hv fichtinc for it."'
th.1 ti:
long successfully
Thereere -
be some in the
of both is right
We shall not
ever the courts
A
1
these senator rep'
Hill, the greatest
of the world, is
more important
face, namely, a
cannot too often be
Here it is: Stat
are already under
a less degree in
Washington. .
preceding tnt-fiiec-
regard to jny-ia-
a. .
J. 7 ."",.
eating lines ot roaa
lalk-atlhatiatfal
across " the' Rocky
Great Lakes h to
rn1ian Papi'fii
orancn to opoKane,
men who arrogate1 to
to extend. through
So it seem that
combination, and
thoroughly and
This new road, it
transcontinental
Oregon just now
with brahcheand""feederrof7"coure,'' re
capable of development
WHERE
W
the only
England,
the first complete
RuSia..- .. ' :'
More than three
in the western
,000,000. There are
to hurrah for the
in various scattered
It i interesting
this empire, "on
the immense British
RULE.
ing the empire's
give 208,000,000
000,000 Christiana,
other " non-Christian
Sikh, Jain and
liberaL"
What will be the
all these peoples, iij
How and to what
intellectual and moral, occur? Large questions.
But at present
of a boss. .:
panelon" theories. "Back "of all ths red
tape there is eonitdersjl cream worth
drinking, and It Is probable that when
the law Is properly doctored It will he a
good thing for the people. Anyway, th
miserable boss system of the past ha
been pretty well slaughtered by It
Economy in the Houae.-3
From the New Tork World. .;.
The house of .representative pent
an hour and a quarter thi afternoon
dlcusslng a point Tf order raised by
Representative Hardwick of Oeorgla.
Th point wa made against the propo
sition Jn the legislative, judicial . and
executive appropriation bill to Inoreaae
the salary of a coal weigher from $71
to tszo a year. Tha dlscuaalon was con
atttuttooal In its scope. ' It resulted In
defeating the Increase. The eoal weigher
will not get his f 100 rnlae, .which is a
great saving for the government, but
the time used by the house In dlscuas.
Ing and defeating the 1100 Increaae coat
the government more than ll.Oeo..That
la a fine example of the economy prac
tloed by the house. , .
, AU in His Day's Work.
From the Milwaukee Sentinel.
. "I met Gorki In 8U Petersburg." said
a traveler.' "He is delightful. He tol l
me that .a Russian soldier only get
about S2, or three rublea, a year aay,
five kopecks A day, " - -
-During the war." said Gorki, "a pri
vate soldier stole A shirt worth half a
ruble, and was condemned to be shot -
"A he was being led away to death
hi colonel met him. "
Ivan, Ivan. a1d th colonel, ye
proachfully. what a fool you were to
rlak your life for the sak pf I ko
pecka.' , I
"Colonel,' Ivan nwered, 1 risk .t
very. day. for Ave kopecks,'
J 0J RN Al
"nto." r. caixoxx I
The Journal Building. Fifth and Yam.
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courts. The people, not the court, not
not the governora or sheriff, not the
poweriui element, ana wm uiuimibj
control What the people want they wiu get, and they
will make everybody elected to office, even up to the
supreme bench of the "United States, obey their will.
. Else it is hot a republic Nor a democracy. ; - .
, In the practical working out of new ideaa and reformatory-
measures, there is contest, conflict, strife and
nothing good was evpr gained except
' . t
the courts, correspond to their law, tneir win. ? i Tho majority or tho poopio must bo
No court, no governor, no sheriff, no hired man, canaBaumod to bo right tho majority of tho
defy the will of the people. .
ruiue - in - the,.IUinoilawlJherejmay
Oregon law; but the central, basic idea
and will prevail."' ' , -
go back to the bosses and slates, what
ay. " '
Finally, the people and not the Court decide what
NEW HILL RAILROAD.
HE ANNOUNCEMENT it made through the St.
Paul Pioneer Press, which generally geta the
irst railroad newa from Hill sources," that Mr.
arid most successful railroad : builder
now working np north on a somewhat!
line than has yet appeared on the sur
new Canadian transcontmental line, the
western end of which will extend from Winnipeg, Mani
toba, to Vancouver, British Columbia, Thi western
end of Mr. Hill's hew transcontinental system through
Canada will be about 1,800 miles in length, 500 of which
construction. The route, as an
notfneed in the St. Paul paper, Vill closely parallel the
international boundary and will be a great development
factor in Winnipeg, Manitoba, British Columbia, and'in
the Dakotas," Montana, Idaho and
.:. ",.-., 7-" "" '
''Vv...y., ; .. ...l The will of tho poopio, as oxpresaod,
"rot several years airiuni engineers nave oeen Joik- . m.iortt A nlllPttllttf At , Kan.
....., t t . . V
in tsrmsn voiumDia Dciween rernie,
on the western side of the Rockies, and Vancouver vi
ihTimflkaffleeff'indTnrarrrc
work is now being vigorously pushed., Thi is a feature
of the war that is now in full progress between the
Great Northern' chief and the Canadian Pacific rail
way,, and the declaration that the line will be extended
mountain and through the wheat
fields of the Canadian northwest to Winnipeg and theaema than on
be interpreted as anotherniove In the
in invadinor h ITill territorv with itt I
wnicn 11 is now urn to uc piauuiun
this state to the coast. .7 7 7 I
Mr. urn is bucking against two Dig
hi is not a small one. "The whole
contest pell development rapidly, greatly, immensely,!
the people will get the benefit
is to be noticed, is the third Canadian
line that is supposed to compete with
t. r-,.A v.nir. Ty.rm . r. .lr.,J y,mrrV, h ! I
nuiiuciii, ut,ciupinis icj'vi v.i-vi.i. ,wiiiu i
the Grand Trunk Pacific," ariT now Mr. Hill is going to I
construct still another practically transcontinental road. I
THE SUN NEVER SETS.
E IN THIS NECK OF THE.WOODS areiiot
growing people. King Edward of
according to what ia reported to be
census of his widespread domains,
has in round numbers' 400,000,000 of them. This, we
think, is beaten only by Tsi An and Czar Nichola of
-'-7..;- - ,.'..
fourth of King Edward s subjects I
are in Asia; In Europe are 42,000,000, in Africa 43,000.000.
continent, 7,500,000, and in Australasia
a few other millions who are supposed
Union Jack on any necessary occasion
isles of the oceans.
to note that thia five-year census that
as jut been completed show that thepopulatkm-of
which the aun never sets, ha as a
whole greatly increased during Edwards reign, though
on account of famine and emigration aome portions of
domain have fewer people than 50
years ago. A recent consular report sayif ""Classify
population on broad line, the report
Hindoo, 94,000,000 Mohammedans, 58,-
12,000,000 Buddhist and 23,000,000 of
beliefs,- including - Jew. Parseea,
Confucian. No wonder . Edward is
situation as to that government, and
100 years? What will be the change?
extent will advancement, political,
King Edward seem to be considerable
A Corn-Fed Humorist.
v From Th Reader. , ; (
i It is not alone the" American of th
ottle or or the brisk west, or social
Pullman smoker,, who. la a native story
teller. The dweller in he Isolated val
ley of ' the. southern mountains, .who
knows not the shriek of the locomotive,
and whose experience of th world is
bounded by the red clay road of hi
home county, , like his little joke as
well aa the best farceur of them all.
Two gentlemen wer traveling in on
of ths hill counties of Kentucky, not
long ago. bound oq an exploration for
pitch plna. They had been driving for
two hours without encountering a hu
man being, when they came in sight of
a caDin in a clearing, it was very stllL
A. .?M. 'w t.h,y had ""
the thin elay-bank mule a-rasml ronnH I
and round tn a neat circle, to savs the
trouble of walking, and on lean, lank
man, whose garments were the color
of the clay-bank mule, leaned against
a tree and let time roll by.
"Wonder If he can opeakr said on
traveler to th other.
"Try him," said his companion.
Ths two approached ths man. whose
yellowish eyes regarded them without
apparent curiosity.
"How do you dor said th northerner,
"Howdyf" remarked the southerner
languidly.
"Pleasant country."
'Fur them that likee.lt." -
"Lived here all your lifer
The southerner spat-pensively in th
dut- Not ylt." he ald. v - - .
Just for Fun.
From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
"I'm free to say a friend In need,"
Quoth Mr. Horace Hodse,
Ts juat the sort of friend Indeed
' That I doslr L dodgO -
l
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f SMAI.T. rHAMfiTl I
- -Only- thr dra mr . ta . which to
reaiater. " ,
careful lntctlnr eandidataa for
in lesiBiaiur. - .
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Th portrait of lomt of th many
eandidau. In tho oountry paprS wUJ
i won aimppr,
' 4rlmry day u pretty closa at hand.
No aueccsior. to cx-chalrman - Bakor
yet He's difficult to dupUoaU. . ,
Tho Cltliens and tha Poopla do have
laomo atronuoua erlmmaa-ra.
I
I Did a party over do you any a-ood. aa
tlmo.
How about Putar and - Uoidalar.
aieasrsu uenay and Brutal T :
- Rlrht smart ohanco for at loaat a llttla
uooo. ... .... ' '.' , .
It la also aa oxeollont time to clean
UP. . , : .-. .-.
It remains truo that ultimately the
way or tne transcreaaor la hard.
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Plok men carefully to do your bust'
.
boys don't liko'it
Quito a Jong time tlU basobaU yot;
e
, Lots of poopio, have tha prlnv fever,
Perhaps April' is keeping Its heavy
snowers for primary day, ; ,
- ;e I ' ; r- -
Another rood thing- about Portland la
that May i is not a general movin
aay, as in soma cities,
The recent eastern arrivals think Ore
gon's eiimau is au right. , .. ,
. e s e v .
- Soma candidates' will wish they had
tneir money peek. ' r---
I . r '
must do respeotod and obsorvod.
e , o
-Thft.CnltedfitAteAsentJOJI00,e(O
cigarettes to cnina jaat , year, which
may be one reason why tho : Chinese
have slight reapoct for the work of
American mlsaloaarleA And they sell
em mere zor i eent a box. It ta said.
' Row ' muoh worse
It
sometimes
It la dls-
inspection
J covered to be.
e , e
.1 Iok n try
to feet pleasant even
Politic, ir.has been remarked,
is a
unewma Duamoss.
e
oood campaign - weather : All - rl-ht
ui ii wiu rain alter Awhile, .
On the Oregon senstorshln It ia
squaro fight between tho ballot and the
narrei. It .has been on before, but not
vote or the people be set aside by th
content of tho barrel? Sal em Journal.
"uaie, rind tao barrel.
moo weather to go fishing.
late Tuesday evening." ,"
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Malheur Gaiefte: Wo Announced laat
week that J. M. Forbe was a Repub
lican 'candidate for - county oommls
aloner, which was A mistake, He Is a
Democrat, 'and we humbly apologise for
e error.
Freewater streets being Improved. .
' e .
The Freewater -correspondent of th
East Oregonlan saysr The weather of
the past week shows that prospects for
fruit are splendid, and at least a half
crop-will be on the treea.
The late
rains and sunshlns are bringing thing
out rine, and the rrost is. not near so
bad as at first supposed. -'
e e .
Prospects fine in Irrlgoa. .
e e ' . "
More dairymen wanted around Cot
tage Grove to support the creamery
there. " - :
- , e e . ;
lot of Improvement getng on tn and
around CorvaUia. -
,.e..e : '
The Dalles 1 bound to have A olty
! park. It ought to a good one.
Lota of snow in th Bin mountain
" ''. e . , " . , ,r-
Many people are hunting Umber land
In Wheeler county. ,
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Frospects fine for a big, fins Apple
erop Around Halnea.
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- The . Lakevlew . school maintains , II
grades. . ;. . . ... -c .
t- Lake view will have a race meet next
summer. :'.,
. The microbes did net vote on th
Eugene election.
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The Umpqua river has an Immense
amount of unused water power that .will
be "harnessed" ora tlma , ,
. ' . e1
A Drew's valley man became now
blind, and may lose his eyesight per
manently, f
e :
tAkeview Examiner:
Ths Bend Bui'
Jetln bases ltsbellef. that all railroad
... ........... ..... r..w .......
the fact that they have plenty of lava
rock there Tor ballast. A different kind
of ballast usually attracts more atten
tion from railroad builders wool, live
stock, products of the soil aad" "gold
bearing rock, such as Lake county pro
duoes in abundance. -
e . e u . .
FJat Oregonlan: Mies Vsata LyndA
aged 10, a grand-daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. J. A. Drake of this olty, has just
received a check for f0 from Kller
piano house of Portland for making the
moat words from tha Ellers word eon
test, which ha a been conducted for aome
time as an advertising scheme. . Mis
Lynde made tit words, ths largest num
ber sent In by any contestant... ,.:...
.(".' .- .',.' .
It la estimated that tracts of contig
uous ground np along , the. Columbia
rgregatlng 111 acres will produce
160,000 worth of berries this year..
' Oood fruit crop expected arf ucd MU-
ten, k is saio, alter au.
THt SUNDAY SCHOOL
LESSON
i . .. , By H. D. Jenklaa. D. D. .
Topic r Jeens aad the Babbath" Mat-
thaw xiW-lA --
Golden Text Remember the Sabbath
day, to keep It holy. :odus xt:l.
'!."..- tntredaetloa,
The Sabbath, one day In aeven et apart
for rent and worship, wber observed
in the spirit of. a lovlnt loyalty, ha
beeo, next to the saered Oorlpturea, ths
chief bulwark of true religion. But the
enemy of all righteousness loves to turn
the believer's weapon upon hlmaelf and
accordingly w And the Sabbath here
perverted to worldly uses, and ther
loaded with oppressive, unacriytural re
quirements, which latter abuse converts
it into an Intolerable yoke.
-We should remember - that toe fourth
commandment as it stood In tbs Jewish
law was general In Its terms, leaving to
reason, experience and love nearly every
matter of detail. . It was evident that
two purposes underlay th law, one ot
pity to the- poor and th ether of honor
to God. . So far as rest was concerned
It : was designated to protect th toiler,
Bo far a worship was concerned, to
meditate upon his statute and to join
with hi fellow in public worship. '
If w were to sum up th Lord teach
lngs upon th Sabbath we should say
in ths words of Paul, that thla "lew
Is good if a man us .i lawfully (I
Timothy 1:8)..- Jesus would have man
realise that what Is obligatory In any
law of God Is the divine Intent it li
possible to obaerre th letter of any
law without observing th law (Roman
Ii:t7). Underneath the civil law not
to kill lies the divine Intent to condemn
anser and to reDreaa sverv cruel lm
pulse of the zevengeiul heart t Matthew
In the same way. the law of the Sab'
bath was net to preserve particular
hours during ths passage of a. week, as
the seventh Day sects pharisaically con-
tend. Nor was It to forbid all activi
ties, as ' sometimes Puritan - exegetes
teach. It was to aav out of a buay,
work-a-day life a reasonable time In
which to refresh the body and to draw
nearer to God. : No law is given Juat to
be kept. - it la to be kept for a purpose,
and that purpose Ia the law.- To keep
It without regard to Its purpose Is not
to keep It at alL In the desert of Sinai
the man who kindled a fir upon the
sabbath did that which waa wholly. un
necessary, most likely to ahow hi eon-
tempt lor the lawaad- the-.Lawmaker.
He waa punished as "in contempt of
court" (Num. xv:S2-M1. But th our
pose tf the day 1 better kept In a cold
country with fire than without We
keep a different day of the week than
did the Jew. w keep it free from some
of th restrictions which ' were laid upon
them. - Tet the Christian who observe
the Lord's Day in freedom from servile
labor . and spends Its hours In worship
and. deed of charity and helpfulneee,
keeps the Sabbath more Sabbatloally
than the average Jaw ever did.
'.-. ' '' Ths lVaaoe. 1
Verae 1. Mast footoatha In Jades, led
through fields of growing grain. There
were no wide, highways In that land
such a are common now with oa Cer
tain "hort-cuts" wre kept open from
Immemorial times. They belonged to
the public and wer used by the public
without restraint The "corn" which
the disciples plucked was- - doubtless
wheat or barley. ' Our scholars should
understood that what we call "corn:;'
that is, malse. was not known la ths
eastern world nor was it commonly
known in - England at th - time our
translation was made. Englishmen still
usthwrd;TcTany,-fclnd"of- grain,
but especially for wheat We use it at
times for any grain, but commonly fot
"Indian eorn." The rabbis - had laid
down a multitude of very strict and
very foolish rules about tha Sabbath,
some relating to rubbing out wheat be
tween the band, ' alnc that was a
kind of threshing.". People can be ri
diculous in Religion, when they lose the
spirit of It, as wall as In anything else.
vorse S. There la a class) whose re
ligion consists largely In a disposition
to find fault Nagging la considered by
them a higher grace than commenda
tion. Such -were, our' Lord's critics
who put th commandments of their
rabbis upon the asm plane with the
commandments of God (Matt xv:t-).
verse I. - David waa in the syes of
th Jew so great A hero that what he
did wa accepted aa legitimate. Jesns
call to their attention the fact that
David recognized the law of charity
as Abmre-thA-law- of - form - (I Sam.
xl;l-S). There were time when even
the moat atubborn atlckler for th letter
of A low waa obliged to confeaa that
there might be aomething diviner. Th
bread which David demanded from the
priest was as sacred as the bread upon
our communion tablea But David said
life was holler yet He must bar that
bread for hi fainting soldier And
the prleat gave tt to him. - The applica
tion was simple. The Sabbath la holy,
but no holier use can be found for It
than that of relieving suffering In God's
name. -
Verse .. The laws of God themselves
appear to conflict as regards the Sab
bath, If one ha regard only to th
letter and not the spirit All labor 1
forbidden, and yet extra labor 1 upon
that day required of th priest (Num.
xxvlil:l-10). The letter of thee law
conflict but their spirit doe not'
verae . Jesus then puts forth an as
tonishing claim. If tho needs of 1 the
temple wer above the letter of a law,
let It not be forgotten that his will was
more to be revered than the most sa
ered fans that was aver erected to the
pralae f Jehovah. - :-'Jr- "- '.
Verae 7. Then our Lord goe back to
th spirit of all law, and says that
God himself has declared hi law ware
given to promote mercy rather than to
exalt forms or hours of worship. Their
condemnation of his dleclplss, which,
except for the awe Christ's presenc In
apt red, might have brought them Into
grave peril, waa an unjust verdict In a
critical case. They had condemned In
nocent men. They Inflamed th popu
lace against ths disciples and taught
the people to look upon Jesus falmsslf
with suspicion. Which waa the greater
sin, to disregard a form in An hour of
need, or to disregard the whole purpose
of divine revelation to the Injury of
Innocent menf
Verse I. Jesus plainly asserted that
the Sabbath was not so divine a he
was. H had the light to. change ' It
hour and Its observance should he
choose to do so. H had not vlojated
the lew. But suppose he bad! He had
the right to change It or even to aro
gate It If he thought It best J0
prophet had ever so spoken before him.
No apostle ever ao spoke after him. It
removes himself from the rank of th
subject and aeaumea th throne.
Verae . When Jesus is attacked, he
doe not slip out by compromise or sub
terfuge. He faces the tsaus and raises
his claims higher. - And now, Jesus hav
ing aassrted his preemlaenoe, he enters
plaoe whore n Knows n oouid put
Into act his defiance of his aaptious and
malignant foes. He doe a not turn back
to let them think over what h ha
Id. - He goe forward thsrs he know
h will havs an Opportiiilty to-aot up
to th principles h ha I uat laid down.
Verse 1. His enemias reoognised
that something unusual waa abeut to
happen. They would put him to the
teat not knowing that he was seeking
it They say, "Vary well. If th purpose
of every law of God Is to prescribe
msrey, what do yon say about healing
on the Sabbath dayr They would pro
voke him either to recede from bis po
sition or to so farther and tnvolva him
self with the oruplas and superstition
or tne people.
Verse It Jesus means to make them
ridiculous as well as prove them wrong.
If one of them had livestock suffering
on ths Sabbath day from some untoward
accident, he would find ho difficulty tn
framing aa Interpretation In accordance
wth his Interests. This waa A turn to
the dtsousslon which they had not an
tlolpated. Possibly Jesus referred to
some recent Incident In which one or
more of his hearers had been actually
Involved.
..Verse II, No man who Justifies th
relief of a suffering animal can find
fault with th relief of suffering man.
Th Old Testament contains a great
many law Intended to ahleld th patient
beaata of burden and to apeak for thoee
that cannot apeak for themselves (Deut
xxv:4). It certainly waa not the Intent
of God's .law-to oppress man, 'who ia
master of the beast
Vers IS. Jeau did not aert the au
thortty of the Messiah and then with
hold Its exercise. He declared th
grounds 'upon which he might act' and
then acted. And hla miracle was per
formed In such a way as to reveal Indl
vidua! responsibility and personal power.
He never healed In the nam of another,
a did th apostle, but he commanded
the forces of nature and the diseases of
ths body exactly aa be would command
angels or men. They were equally aut
lect to him. He did not attempt to
soften the antagonism between - hla
views and the Ira; be emphasised tt
Verse 14. And the success of hi
word only embittered the men wh
hated him. The suoces of Christianity
has raised np more foe than It doc
trines. The fact that Chrlafa word
goeth forth with power Is the one thing
that his enemies cannot oeny, put tnai
does not prevent their determination t
deatrey him. - "
' THE SHADOW
By Blla Wheeler WDoox.
(Cbsyrlght, ISO, by Aaerlcaa-Joisal-B)zaBtfBr)
To get all you oan and to keep all you
- BS(, ......
ThAt was th motto his young lit set
H spelled "Buocees wlh Utter of gain
And atopped - At nothing . that meant
Attain. . .
Lev went by nlarh aald. "Wen lost.
For wives are wasteful and children
eost1
H laughed At fashion. - "But fool," h
aid,', '.:-i-
Toil, that tailor be housed and fed.
"And olothee wear rusty, 1 whll gold
wear bright .
And heap on heap 'tis a goodly sight'
Want though worthy, and need, though
great
H held, as' arwaya, ' th spendthrift's
fate.
"I toll," he argued, "while other sleep;
While others are idle I gala, and keep."
Pleasure he pushed from his path aside,
Make way," he commanded, "lor Gain,
my guide.1
And even Comfort he thrust from hi
door.
Lest shs should lessen his growing store.
Frlendahlp he scouted, ."for what is
friend. -. .
But on whe tell sewts aad asks you
to lend?
"I keep my' own counsel, that no one
may know.
And ask to favors, and iron bestow.
"And those wh hat ma shall on day
And serve th, he boasted, "for wealth
la power. , .., ; . . .. -
"But whether meg our me, -e whether
they bless, . .. --. V
Matters but MUe I seek success." :
And whll hs labored, and gained, and
kept "
X hldeou badow behind hla crept
Sh dogged hi footstsps, and bided her
t me. -
"I am ready, ah grinned, as he reached
hi prima . V
Sh peered through th - window, : and
chuckled to see . ,
Hew he counted hla gold with A miser's
glee. , . . '
Than olose besld him h saw her stand.
And ha clutched his treasure with
trembling hand. y , ' '
"Nay, not your treasure I ek." quote
be.-,
"Leave them behind yen and follow ma"
He shook with terror "Not yet, I pray--Glvc
m a year, cr a month, or a day."
Twill scatter my gold, I wtn do kind
. deeds, .: ,
will seek my fellow, and gtre to their
needA - ' ' ,
"Oh. much could I do ere another dawnr"
Death answered brieflyr.t7oo.iata. com
nr - . v. ..' v. .
Now. where ah took him I do not know.
But all hla money he left - And so
trust he 1 musing en . that sam
thought:
1 got all I could and kept All X got"
And I hop he la honest nough to con-
fess
That wealth Is a very small part cf cue
' " CSS. ;:'' , , ;
Gratitude of Two Husbands. 7
- ' ' From the New Tork Bun. '
Dr. Margarst H. N orris, th physician.
ttt charge of th Sarah Seward hoapltal
at Allahabad In India, furnlahe beauti
ful evidence of th gratitude of th
natives among oom ah and many
other American women Are working in a
medical way. The two letter subjoined
ar genuine and irom the husbands of
two women who Bad been patient cl
Dr. Norrls: , - . . ,
NO. L CURED.
"Dear She My wife has returned from
your hospital cured, rrovidea male
are allowed at your bungalow, I would
ilk to do you th honor of presenting
myself ther thla afternoon, but I will
not try to repay you; vengeance be-
longeth - ante God. Tours, - notloeably,
77.i7L7 no. i dbad. . - .7 '
"Dear and Fair Madame I have much
pleasure to Inform you that my dearly
unfortunate wife will be no longer under
your kind treatment ah having left
thi world for th other en tbe night
of th 17th ultimo. For your help In thi
matter I- ahali ever -remain - grateful,
Tours reverently, ' . . ."
There testimonial arc printed In th
India number of - Woman' Work for
April. W do not know which of th
two Babu matorp!ca 1 th moat af
fecting. , , . Ellen Terry Jubilee,
' From A London Dispatch.
The Tribuns has. started a ahllllng
subscription fund for the Ellen Terry
Jubilee celebration, the form cf which
has not yet been decided upon. The pa
per head th list with a ubcrlptloa
of 1,000 shillings ttl.UO).
It appeal to lover of th drama all
ever th world te make the fund a suo
cess, and say tt will weloome slngl
hllllnga as much aa gift eg tbcusandA.
WOMANS SUFFRAGE
DISCUSSED ' :
Wfll Vote fog What th Women Want,
Portland,. Or., April . To the Editor
of The Journal Aa a voter I ana in a
perplexity. I want to vote right on th
uffrsg question. But I think that It
is a question that th women ought to
decide for themaelves. I have always
claimed that voting 1 a repreeentativc
duty, that when a man enter th voting
booth, be Is there ss ths representative
of tha wife and children at bom. Juat
a much as th legislator is represent.
Ing his constituent - The family is the
unit ot civilisation. As Its representee
tlve head, how shall I represent my
wlfA She does not want th ballot Of
the many women X know, three fourths
of them do net wish to vote, but those
wno want tne ballot want It bad. But
here U thla other body of charming
women, educated, refined, nublla anlr-
Ited. leaders In educational natters and
In charity and reform, and they ask us
as their exponents at the poll not to
vote to force political duties on the -women
cf Oregon. . They olalm thev are
carrying the heavy end now without ad.
(fl 1 tional duties being thrust upon them.
rA thoughtful lady said to mc A fsw
cays ago: "We keep your homes, we
rear your children, w operate moot cf -your
charities, w push your ohurcb
work, why should you men shift your
polltioal duties and foroe them on eur
shoulders. Tou men ought to be
ashamed not to go and attend to your
reform movements yourselvss instead
of seeking to divide your responsibility
with the weaker and most . heavily
loaded half of the face." i
But If tbe women wanted the ballot X
would let them have it riant or ami,. '
X believe they do not want It and that
me society which quietly nd with lady,
like dignity and reserve aaka at nil.
hands our deolslon on June 4 that - ths '
men will attend to politics And allow
th woman to attend to th ever widen
Ing duties of social life, charltr. church
and reform work, 1 worthy of oonsld
oration and Is not to be puffed cut by
the sarcastlo and decidedly personal re-.
marks of tbelr more aggressive slstsrs.
Unless X get different light I shall vote
for my wife and mother In favor of Mr.
Wilbur society In the stand It has
taken In behalf cf the dignity And honor
f woman's present sphere.
Then l know - several arorklns srlrls
and I have yet to find one who wantc to
vote; and I must try to represent their
sentiment on my ballot It Is A mistake
to-imagine that .'tha opposition' to the
suffrage movement comes from the lets- '
are cIssa I have found It among the
working girls, the busy housewives, the '
thoughtful mothers, as . wall as th
scholarly women, . -.- -- .
. .. A GUARDIAN OF HOMht .
Where Arc the Suffrag Beaefltsf v
Portland. Or.. April I.To tha Kdltae '
of Th Journal It has been my for
tune to have been more or less te all
of the state where uftrage for woman .
exists Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado and
Mormon Utah and I have had a chance
to compare these states with other both
east and west; that any one of these
xour statss can be compared with moat
of tho rest of the states of ths Union
is simply preposterous. It to stated
"women will purify pollttos." aad thi
i th great cry of those who spend
tneir time going tip and down cur fair -
tat agitating. . We generally Judge
of th future from th past . Let us ses
what woman has . done In . Colorado,
which seems to be the Ideal suffrage
state. In no place tn the United States
Is politics ao- corrupt as it Is today'
in th city cf Denver; It has developed
that woman, and so-called respectable .
women, ar a deep In th mire. If sot '
deeper,-than the -men and many -ef - the.
wicked and corrupt scheme have been
conceived and executed solely by wom
en, who early developed proclivities that
wouia put a wara do to nam.
woman. If she Is good, la th bt
and If aha Is bad, the worst of human
beings; at any" rat, ah ha one quality -
alwaya, and that is whsn sh makes up
her mind to aocompllsh an end, h will -do
o no matter what mean ah may -employ.
The recent exposure of polit- '
leal wickedness In Denver ha proved '
thla,' as Is shown by the offlolal reports
in the famous Shafroth investigation;
thla offlolal Investigation shows that .
Alma . Beswlok, Alice Donovan, Mrs.
Mary McOrath, Mrs. Aehworth. Mrs.
Beatrice Muhlemann and OUic Vaughn, -
'a- girl who keeps a little reataurant
were far Ahead of the men In political
wickedness and manipulation.
This Investigation - shows that ths
market price for a woman's vote was
111 that Mis Beswlca- and Mrs. Muhle-
mann stuffed tne ballot pox arter
having marked th said ballot, for
which purpose they retired to a secluded
room In the St Nicholas hotel at Den
ver, draw down th shades and lighted .
th gas. Thla report shows women
and girl a" ome under age, voting three -and
five time In ens polling plaoe, en- ,
der different names, without leaving the ,
room. A consideration cf this whole -report
Is appalling and bears out the
worst things that can be said f or. suff-
rage. - We are Informed that aa soon
aa Oregon Is won over .tar suffrage they
are going to whip Oklahoma into line. -
Te Gods, what a ' galaxy Wyoming,
Idaho, Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma and '
Oregon and still they say they love .
cur stat a Moat f th work for suff- ,
rags fax this stat 1 being don by non
residents, people who have no- Interest
In the welfare of this commonwealth,
and as soon as th election is over will
tlently fold their tents and fade away.
Should they not be oompelled to live .
her and experience the evil of their
deeds T Why do not eom of th good
women of Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming or
Utah come and toll u of the benefit
Because there ar no benefits. Th unl
versal opinion of th good woman ot
thsss four atatea 1 that uffrag ha
proved A total failure. PAUL JONJES.
i
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Cape Horn, Washington. - -April
Having mad our prepara
tion cf dried meat wc set out this
morning by c'olook, continued along
the north Bid of the river for a few
mile, and then orosaed the river ro
look for the hunter who had been eent
forward day before yesterday. W found
them at th upper nd of th bottom -
with com Indians for w ar never
freed from th visits of ths native a.
They hd killed three elk, and wounded
two others so badly that It waa stOl
possible to get them. - W therefor
landed on the south aide, after coming
1 mils, and hsvlng prepared a oaf
fold and secured th five elk, wc camped -for
the night .
a i
City RoeMs Run at a Loss. .
Consul Dunlap reports from Cologne
on the operation 01 street rt vn,
which, as Is usually the case in Ger- .
many, are owned by the municipal ay--thorttie.
There was a deficiency cf
IM7S for tbe year covered by the re
port The roads, he says, a a rule are
wall conducted. When th aeats In a
car arc occupied no on I allowed to go
In. Getting on or off a car while In mo
tion 1 punished with fine of from 1
to If saarkA,