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TUESDAY, APnit IV 1ZZ3. ' :
Portland. Oregon.
THE OREGON. DAILY
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Published every evening; (except Sunday) ftnd every Sunday nornlng, at
. hd streets, Portland, Oregon. -
THE NEED OP FIRE ESCAPES.
W1IEN HUMAN LIF,p is at stake no influence
should deter the city, official from doing their
s . whole duty. The Journal yesterday men-
' tA nu nUhc nrrtrrinian building, the owner of
'hirh have flaorantlv defied the law
i fire escape; We pointed out that
''the Wre dangerous front the fact
'x "fireproof" But it must hot be
' not necessary fhat a building should be, burned to the
' ground, or even that all its outer walls.be left standing,
.: to destroy the life .of many of it occupants in case of fire.
: There is but a tingle tairway in the whole eight storie
f the Oregonian building. That stairway wind round
: the well of the elevator shaft. In the basement are
.masses of inflammable material including oils, waste,
inks, etc, used in connection with printing a newspaper.
Suppose' a fire started in the basement. Smoke and
" it K- am th otovatnr aha ft at under
llSIUCa WUUIU .- uj . - . -
" forced draft"orr -warship; i nstantlv-every-means t
''egress would be cut off front the unfortunate tenants.
All the upper stories would be filled with stifling smoke
and the elevator way itself 'would be
... . . w . ,
tacn out may figure ior nunseu tne orciuiui kiuuhuh
: outcome. The walls of the eighth atory of the Chamber
of, Commerce building are still-standing,
oeen no .means 01 escape chcul mi
? Ing about the elevator shaft, how many
. V IUC VUHIIUCIWMil Viuu iMea.ava v
' with their lives? Th case are not
a t a. I-1 .11 .J..- .I1.mw.mm
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seniea io ine norror-stricsen eyes oi
the 1 Chamber" 'of Commerce" the othef
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Oregonian building, only with even
Suits. n-vrt-- V-'.
l ... a . a . "
" w r nav. iMMiainrti .ne if irvuuiaii
. J II I. lsc ULLalUL Ul,wn a.... M.it,. aa ..v
been ignored nut flagrantly defied. We
-by name ao that an object lesson might
order to Dut it ut tothe citv official so
- be no escape from .it But it is not the only building in
. the. .city tht, needs attention. , There are othera and all
should receive the prompt attention of the authorities.
This is. no time for ceremony or to consider the wishes
of individual people; it, is time to act
. We have had our warning and fortunate indeed is it that
it was marked by only a single death instead of two or
, tnrcc store. flc auinurmca ihubi nui wrnij luaiai upun
' modern fire escapes but enough of them to give tfason-
t able assurance that in the event of such a calamity the
unfortunate people within their walls would have ome
.show to get out alive instead of perishing like rat in
a note as mcy wouia prouauij ao
stances. v. v ;
I SENATOR FULTON AND THE DIRECT PRIMARY
RFSIIMTfJrl a riiarusainn nf tli
I Senator Fulton says: "'Should the yoters refuse to
indorse me, yet elect a Republican legislature, I
think two oronoaitiona would therehv
'established, namely (D.that they did not want me for
senator; but (2) that they, did want a Republican sen-
atorxf..,'' t..,"'i, ... tp-it.-Y r : yi
. And yet why should not the two propositions stand
. senarateiv on tneir naked mentaf
. known where the people have elected a Democratic gov
ernor and a Republican lieutenant governor and the act
- wa considered none the lets binding than though two
official of the same political faith had been elected. . If
there is to be such a-thing as a popular election of
United States senators, short of a change in the federal
' constitution which it is concededly impossible to achieve
even with a great majority of the people favorable to it.
the only way It can he done Is under
ilirart nrimirV lst0 . Iff IRaf I a vat la! mil
. the people pronounce in favor of a certain- candidate
what right ha any one to say that they mean other than
that which they express-by their ballots? That verdict
at all time and in every other respect is accepted with
out cavil or question as absolutely final? Why should
any exception be made in this case? f To question it is
merely an unwarranted assumption manifestly based
upon political expediency and not upon political principle.
, The aenator says that the May law it (till in force
and it givea every man who wanta to try for it a chance
to run for United States senator. It was in force in
; - Tune. 100? when faeer receiver! tha'
, for United States senator to "oe confirmed by the action
of the legislature which met the following January.
t - n:i...Li' - a . . . . . .
mow vcr is a xvepuoiican ana ine same voiera wno se
lected him for senatorial honor elected a Republican
legislature. . But this had absolutely no effect upon Ful-
Tk . : ! : . i : f
1UII a IllallUa. AUJ WHIiyiJ lIIUIvU tllV CAJI a;99IVU VI
the popular will in relation to Ceer and with such good
effect that they elected their own man who waa not a
candidate before the neonle. - It will be seen that Senator
Fulton . has advanced somewhat from his attitude of
I three years ago. Then he appeared to believe that the
people had no right to express themselves on the sen
atorship even when they' emphasized their choice by
electing a legislature of the aame political complexion.
Now he thinks if they designate a Republican choice and
.elect a . Republican legislature they thus make it suf
ficiently plain what they intend, at
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. vatiiuiuais uciuic mc peupic 11 wuuiu
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llll". a, IWIIIHI IW TKJUIv.b lllalk -VilCn t IIC AIIIIC
Ground for the ienat6rTo"c6me"up" for reelection he will
aiMvar rn.ii v m is ir u Miiinncr iirn ai ri f ai-
"the altogether." Or in the event that he ia not, public
-sentiment will have so crystallized that he will he obliged
to do so with whatever grace he may be able to assume.
; ' PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS.
HnilE PUBLIC OWNERSHIP
- J.-a.Ik J!- atk :
, uuuuicuiT .at, HiuwiiiKi LUiiiiiiH.
r' , While senatorial pettifoggers are debating
through weary month the question whether the railroad
can constitutionally be regulated at all, or if so how care
fully, considerately and cautiously it must be done, the
.people are paying but little heed' to their sophomoric
aophisjries but are thinking, more and more; ,'WelI,
perhaps we will take the railroads alt6gethef. The ma
jority of people are not at present in favor of such a
radical, movement, but it will be done within a very few
years as surely as. the sun shines and the showers fall
unless the Harriman and Hills run the railroads in the
'people' interest a well a their own. , , -'t
The point of view that thee great common carrier
owe their being to the sufferance of the people should
always be used as implements to exploit them, that they
should be used with absolute power to build up enor
mout fortune for a few individuals who do not. eren
. own them, will not always hold good. More and more
' is public sentiment veering around to the deeper, better
and profounder conviction that these managing men are
Talleyrand's Reproof. ;
torn th London MalL "
flpoaatnc of tho poaalbllltjr of boring
n auHn- by an after-dinner apeh,
Mr. Wyadbaat MLd the severest rap roof
INPIPINOINT WJBWFAPH
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHINO CO - - no. cauu.
pf the servants of
with reference to
the building was all
that it is reputed to
indeed measured
conservative. But
forgotten that If is
Stand just ao much
turn and, as usual
ther than they at
who dealing-with
fundamental right
tense of conceding
AN
a roaring cauldron.
1 If L.LI.
It isn't such a
but if there had
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ot tne occupants
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entirely parallel, it
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nc iclWiuu
day . would very
a ...
more disastrous re-
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uuuuum a a nil
have specilied it
be given and in
that there. would
for all the people.
unucr oucr circura-
Airrri nrtmsrw raw
he' nniti rtaarlv
Inatanr.ea have hn
the provisions of a
snaaatiM . n
rvnnnlsr indrkpaemenf
least if he were a
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or nini -cnougn ior
L. . .1.. ll
nTitif mnv in wmtrm
of railroad i. un-
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Druiinir nuritinn.
for a bore which h reeolleto. waa that
edmtniataretr by th great JfaJleyrand
while driving with a friend, t who kept
tailing him atorlea. As they paasad
through tho otroot of t'eonUnanUl
JOURNAL
The Journal Building, Fifth and Yam-
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in the broadest sense but trustees of the people whose
interests must not only, be considered but subserved.
Tliere is no" iiiore potent instrument for the public good
than the railroads, rightly considered, and rightly man
aged, but the moment they become the masters instead
.the public they degenerate into a
species of absolutism which soon- becomes intolerable,
The American, people are rarely radical in their views;
by any other nation , they are always
it has been discovered that they will
oppression and if driven to it will
with people acting m a mass, go far
first intended. . The wisemen are they
the public take int consideration their
and at least make the outward pre
them.
INTERESTING TYPE.
T ET US NOT at this distance go wild over young
j Becker,-the- new-mayor of M il waukee. What
T .'; the newspaper correspondents describe him" to
be, as the ninth or thirteenth wonder of the world, may
be taken with some shaking of the aalt cellar.
very wonderful thing that a man of. 30
was elected mayor even pf Milwaukee,, which is not more
than one seventh as big, at Chicago ' and ' about one
eleventh at big aa New York. 7
McClellan, mayor of New York, St yet a young man;
Mayor Dunne t not yet an old man; Schmidt of San
Francisco, thrice elected, hasn't a gray hair; Gay was
elected to congress when he was only 24; Bryan atirred
the world by hia campaign for president of the greatest
country that ever existed at the age of 36; Napoleor. was
physical master of nearly all the world before he was 40
and was dead at "53; Alexander had . "conquered the
world" at 33; so it i no very wonderful thing for a man
of 29 to be elected mayor of Milwaukee, Winconsinl
But what is of somewhat more importance than this
man's age is that a rich, racing, healthy, educated young
man, a man of power and honofand influence for right
in hit own community, as he. has shown himself to be,
should. declare himself as frankly and freely a he has
done... The interesting questions are: ..Is he really a re
former" or only a grandstand, apectacular player? We
willingly give him the benefit of the doubt.
We think it ia a good thing in our civic life, that rich
young men like Becker and Joseph Medill Patterson
get into politics and-talk and act truth, even if some
what dramatically. The people need such men .in their
business in councils, in the legislature, everywhere in
public life.- - ' ,---r- - . ;-r- ''
-The inheritance of' great wealth is a handicap if one
makes it sq,-but .the age of the man doesn't count; it is
what the man stands for nay, "what he is!
PORTLAND AND THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
CONVENTION. . ,
A CONVENTION calling itself the' Mississippi Val
; ley and .Latin-American convention met last
, week in New Orleans. It consisted of several
hundred delegates representing commercial organiza
tion of 32 atate and territories, -and was an assembly
of more than ordinary interest.. The purpoltif the con
vention, a given in the dispatches to The Journal was
''the formation of a. permanent organization which shall
seek to divert trade between Pittsburg on the east, and
Denver on the west and the great lakes through the gulf
porta, instead of by the way of New York, to the south
and Central American countriet."
The convention is one of the signs of the times in the
commercial world,. J It marks a tendency .of commercial
interests of great regions of our country to come to
gether and combine for the furtherance of common in
terest, 'and, especially for the purpose 'of marking out
and influencing trade ' 'routes. Commerce, it would
seem, is no longer fb-be left lo lake the course marked
out for it. by the great trunk lines of railway. In the
future, organized, and. determined effort will be made to
direct it into channels which have hitherto been neg
lected, but which seem to have been marked out for it
by nature. . -, "i.: . . ' -; '::
Again, this convention composed of representatives, of
great commercial interests, marks the tendency of com
merce to return to waterways for its greater outlets.
This is but another of many recent indications of this
tendency. The project , for the deepening on a large
acale of the Erie canal is another; the proposed con
struclwnf rahipanatt
still another; and our own projected canal on the upper
Columbia is yet another. These all go to show the full
and final recognition of water transportation as the
cheapest mode, and as the one which is to be a controll
ing factor in the transportation problems of the future.
This convention is of special interest to . the Pacific
coast. The north Pacific coast seems not at all to have
been m the mmd"bf the convention. It waa Latin-America
that the convention had in mind; but it is. doubtful,
if the convention should succeed in its aim of diverting
the -trade of the Mississippi valley to find its outlet
through the Mississippi and the gulf, whether any region
would be more largely affected 7 thanthit northwest
coast.' Let us consider a moment what it would mean.
Every great city and every large manufacturing and
nriningt district of the whole Mississippi valley, including
the great lake region, already has, or when present plans
are carried out, will have, waterways connecting it with
New Orleans.- In 1907, when the Tehuantepec railway
is completed, New Orleans will be connected with Port
land by a closely articulated trade route of less than
3,500 miles in extent, all of which will be a deep-water
route except the 195 miles of railway across the isthmus.
The leading minds of Mexico are already alive to the
situation and are making every effort to make the con
necting link across their isthmus as efficient and speedy
in its work of transmission as possible. . It is safe to say
that when the. waterway system of the Mississippi val
ley is fuUy organized and in good running order, and the
lines from New Orleans to San Francisco fully estab
lished and adjusted, freight from Chicago, Cleveland, or
Pittsburg can be laid down in' Portland by this water
route iri almost at short a time at it is now done by the
railways. We may not "be able to say now just what
this means, but to' be connected with every important
center of the Mittissippi valley by a 30-day service on a
water-route must mean something very substantial for
Portland. : . , T
When one glancet at the battered walls of the Mor
rison house or old Occidental hotel which was badly
damaged by fire yesterday hit first impulse is to say that
the firemen are entirely too conscientious. If the shell
of the building which remains is accepted as sufficient
excuse for permitting the " erection 61 another frame
building on the tame aite then one cannot help feeling it
ia unfortunate, rather than otherwise, that it wat saved
from total destruction. For the appearance of -thetreet
and for the safety of ititlf and adjoining property it
should be rebuilt of less inflammable material.
town, whir In thooo days were policed
by many nrte,. thay. obaarvad on
entry yawn, at h'la' poht, and Talley
rand aald to his friend, "Hush, w are
verhoard,' . . - -
SMALL CHANGE
If Mm candidate h&Va paid for all
tho ndvertialng they havo received tho
wonder la that man with so much
money would take an of flea at a small
aaiary. ratrlotiam, .perhaps.
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Tbo judsaa ara important, ' Do you
want-to maae any changes T- -r
A baaeball .game' la never. Ilk 'an
election, for ft won't pasa off quietly.
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Some of the candidate will bo for-
nlnst tho - prrtnary nomination , law
bercaftar... ' , . - . - . :
April , la full , of , muale, and , play
many tuooa. ..-1
Only 10 days till the choice. .
v. .. ' '. ' . f':' .! - , "
V Try to vote for th beat men.
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'With "a'ome of the nloeat people on
earth the - weather ot . next Sunday la
more Important than all tho election
and revolution on earm. .
The old earth la aa young aa ever
th -Jaotmlnga..
Dowl should havo been put In ' an
asylum many yeara ago. .
e',e .
Just one mors chance to register. '
i j- e a-
Only flva days till Eastor. "
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Candidates . becoming lively..
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O yoa. drop around about 11 o'clock
tonlkht to register, and kick-beoauae
other people are ahead of you, -
If enough Portland people think aa.
this will be a bigger city-than - 6tfi
Francisco 10 years heno.
. - . . e . e .
The sago of th Albany Democrat re
mark: Candidates who have been
around some always .see bright pros
pects where som of them have, no
prospects at all." v- " .
Man never could deprive women of
tho right to talk, -anyway, and ha has
sens enough not to try.
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Maybe you can : catch trout If not
VOta. . -
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Tillamook Headlight: There Is nothing
small about Tillamook only-its popula
tion. - For Instance, one cheeee factory.
th Map! creamery, la a week or so
will be receiving 10,000 pounds of milk
dally and will manufacture U tons of
cheeee a month. Without In' any way
overestimating th product, should th
factories confine themselves this year
to cheeee, a they did last year, 1,000.000
pounds of cheewlll be th output for
Tillamook for 1906, . with th average
price ot butter fat somewher near 9
oent to 28 cents per pound. Thut every
thing looks bright and prosperous for
the dairymen in Tillamook, yet It is aur-
prialng - that so few new settlers com
to Tillamook and participate Jn tnlf
prosperous Industry. - , .:
A TCelloar housewife, along with other
products, took to Oakland th other day
IS dosen eggs."
Great baaeball gam at Athena next
Sunday. .. . '
Heppner Times v -Ther will be no re-
seedlng of wheat fn Morrow county this
spring except a little In th Ion coun
try, notwithstanding th gloomy outlook
a couple of weeks ago. Grain, has all
started up and Is now growing hloely,
except in th locality mentioned, where
it was froaen out In spots.
Kewberg Is thinking of acquiring Its
water system.. , .
Hops around Sheridan about all sold.
Clatskanl Chief: At th present time
th loa-gers c th country are receiving
th sum of t for Oregon pin logs and
U.U for Columbia spruce, th highest
pries ' paid for the material In th his
tory of ths business hereabout. ' , ;
e .
every official In Linn county Is a
candidate for . reelection, says th Al
bany Democrat. Isn't it curious?
Spring work In full blast," all over
Oregon. .
8tret Improvements In th' nice town
of Milton. : ; -
Probably need of mor spraying. Kill
ths fruit pests. -s .
e - .i.
Oregon can and should become th
greatest stat In th Union.
The first of last June a man living
near Brownsville purchased II goata
six of each sex paying ISO for them.
One died, the' pelt of which he sold
for 0 cents; another on of th number
was sold for 12.76. and th Mohair
from th little band waa sold for $13. It.
Th Increase has swelled th number
on hand to tt, valued at 7S, and thue
it can be seen that he ha realised over
iOO per cent oil his investment .
Th 1 Gold Hill city election ''also
"passed off qulstly." . -.. : -
Sow alfalfa. ' . "
tots of coal In Oregon.'"
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Tillamook ' Headlight: Som of th
boys of the city mad a raid on Roll!
W. Watson's barrel th other night and
made th "blind pig disgorge no leas
than Tt bottles of the stuff that is
making "our man" gloriously ridiculous.
Th boys hid th bottles of bear under
th sidewalks, -and the "blind pig"
squealing so loudly at ths loss of his
bosom friend, th boys returned some
of th bottlea which . had not been
tapped. This is not " th first private
blind pig" that mysteriously disap
peared by any means, for th boy have
"caught on."
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Coqulll Herald: Three eight-hour
rhlf ts ar employed at the Maxwell
tnln sinking th slope, which Is pro
gressing at th rat of about nine feet
per day. Th slop has been started
from th level, which I (00 feet from
th surface, and the lift will be sot
feet Development work ahowa an ex
cellent vein of coal, with an exception
ally good sand rock roof and floor. -
Condon Times: Th heavy-rain -of
last Friday night soaked ths ground
down 'It or1 14 inches and was a great
boon for spring plowing.
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Tramp hnvs struck th Aurora Bors
tals office, at which It kicks. . .. . 4 -.
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WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE
; -DISCUSSED
A Toto Froaa h rxm.
Amity, Or, April . To th Editor of
Th JournaJ I, a a woman of Oregon,
ask the voters to not pass this very Im
portant question by without Toting upon
It. If you think it will be a benefit
to your Wife and family and thereby
a benefit to th state vot for It. If
you do hot think so, .why hesltat to
vot against ItT ... ,
I cannot yet aa bow It can be a
benefit to anything, even th temper
ance causa which 1 uphold. "T'bellev
th woman's part of th temperance
work can be' and la' don mostly In th
home and schoolroom.' And w know
that th horn life doe influence th
national life and prosperity. .
My "better half,' "for they shall b
on flesh," now represents ma at th
polls, and I hop that my boys will
be men able to do so In th future. , 1
On writer has asked "If the majority
of. High school students ar girls or
boysr Wall, girls, no doubt, but whyt
Is it beeaue they ar smarter or mor
able to learnt I ask, ... I do not believ
it. it la becaus or this woman, suf
frage idea that women ar "it-" , Th
girls are taught and . encouraged and
pushed from th firat. . How about th
poor, noisy, dirty boy Let him run out
in th atreet and play with other boys
wnu mamma goes to mothers moat
ing." etc He is only a boy anyway.
He won't be anything but a man whan
h is grown. Why don't you take aa
good car of your boys aa you do of
your' glrlsT Perhapa he will go to
school and b graduated and vn be
abl to vot intelligently yet if you take
mm in lime. Teach him a little tern
peranoe, eta, aa you go along.
wny ar ther ao many bad menT
I can but think that In very many case
it is owing to these first few years of
neglect and discouragement .followed
by other years when they seek, employ
ment to find themselves crowded out
by many of ,the same- smart, earnest
girls you have so encouraged to receive
an education and prepare for a busfnes
lit, to be abl to earn whatT Money,
of coaraa. Then perhaps they ar told
by. these scm girls, "Nol w eannot
marry . you; you -cannot support ua aa
w ax usd to. W can't be poor men's
wives. Besides you ar Ignorant, No;
w can take - car of ourselves." Edu
cate th girls by all means and th boys
mor. ... : v
After a few years of betas jrhubbed
on all sides what young man would not
be discouraged, however good be tried
to be, and think, "Wall, what difference
does It make, anyway?" I do not won
der that they fall Into bad company
and bad habits.
Why ar not som of these girls who
ara in i-the shops working for tS per
week' and paying their beard taught
to ba good housekeepers! Is not light
housekeeping In pleasant, family at
120 and $26 pr month with board and
a little time to one's self better than
that? . ... . .
Ar they mor of th servant ia help
ing, m wash my dlshea and car for
my children than to supply my wants In
the store t Will the ballot cur Jill of
these things or must it be don by'thes
women In their individual homes T
On also said to look in th Bible and
a if th Ixrd did not put "them" in
th world to rule. I looked, but while
looking my eye fell upon Genesis lll:lt.
where It also says that God-told th
woman to rala th children and told
the man to earn bread by th sweat of
hia brow and for th man to rule over
th woman, - .-:...--r- .-. - ..... :
I think the equal suffragists would
better say nothing about the Bible at
all in their argument. TAMHILX.
rigorously . Opposes . Wonuua . Suffrage.
Portland, April 7. -To th Editor of
Th Journal Mrs. Phelps, near th
close of a recent epistle, said: "God
knows If women do no more to stop
th liquor business than men it will b
a flourishing business ' when Jesus
comes." That sounds like a revelation
or a vision. Perhaps some of th suf
frage element think th fuss they ar
carrying on Is equal to th second com
ing of Chriat, and that they ar des
tined to lead th people from the ways
of evil Into light wher no mistakes
can be mad and all live in peace and
harmony by voting for- soms old maid
for som petty offlo or by lauding
soms old woman wbo hen pecks her hus
band. ' '-
Sh also spoke of th atal argumint
of th aesthetic and moral natures, th
argument. may be old., but the. naturea
ar ever new. They ar inherent and
can never be stopped, but can b de
graded as any nature can. Of coura
thle argument did not refer to any
woman who does not want to tak the
responsibility of a moral and aesthstle
natur upon herself. ,
A person ones mad the. argument
that if women had th right to ballot
it would detract their attention
from homo - work. Th know-all la
ment of th suffragist hooted at th
time-worn argument, but I noticed th
same element using it as their strong
est argument when they failed to get
th - good women of Portland out to
listen to their nonsense. They said that
th women were staying at horn and
attending . to . their own business.' It
looks as though soma of th discon
tented element would stay at hom and
profit by th example, especially soma
of thess Imported suffragists. If they
ar so anxious about th .question why
don't thsy remain at home and workT
Begin at home -and then spread th
work, but Instead of that they Invade
the -peaceful - west '"and disturb our
quietude' with their discordant cries of
oppression. '
Another statement mad is ths reflec
tion: of absurdity personified. It said
they wanted the right to make our cities
as quiet, safe and peaceful as a Quaker
lane, so th boys and girls could run
around at midnight If th maker of
th statement will for moment tak
her ere from th idol of her worship
and look at our neighbor states, wher
th plagu (woman suffrage) has struck,
sh will find a condition equaled no
where els in. th union, that is, the
stats Is so rotten and th rascals ar so
much In the majority that they can't
convict a man there. That look Ilk a
Quaker land. , .
Bom of the sun-ragists remind on
of Constant! n. They tak th stand
that they think will be a personal ad
vantage to themselves and they try to
have people believe they saw a dagger
leadlnar them to ths light, when very
likely their eonscleno showed them a
broom or a dlahrag pointing toward
their horn. But that looked too much
Ilk work.
The writer wasted th remainder of
th column in scoring man In treneral,
calling them "th Ignorant masses who
have th privilege of ballot," and In
sinuated that their only occupation waa
to drag children to hall. This Is Indeed
an- appropriate statement And then to
turn and ask men t let them do it all.
et you show them and th old world
will be turned wrong aid out and Ha
inside scraped. '
W ar sorry, ladles, that this gov
ernment is so corrupt, but it takes time
to right event a, and not your advlos
or th advic of th Imported element
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THE FOOLEK FOOLED
" From the Financial Brieflet
On thle question of city deposits, fn
bank ther ar three interested parties
-th ally, considered as an entity, th
business community and the banks. It
Is an unequal interest Ths Interest
of th city, th owner of th money, is
paramount to all, and th interest Of
the business - .community to have 'the
money kept in circulation. Is paramount
to that of th banks, who ar interested
to th extent of what ther is in It tor
main. . juri now mere is a grea. xau
dal In Cincinnati becaus certain bank
era of that city got it Into their heads
that th only . parties rightfully inter
ested war th city treasurer and them
selves. . Hence, If they kept th city's
money out in circulation, they cams to
believe th publlo had no further In
terest' In the matter. This of course
waa an entirely mistaken j view, and
needs no comment to refute it . '
This paramount interest of th city,
which w have mentioned. Is two-fold.
First, the city wants to get ' as much
as It can for Its idle money and sec
ondly it wants its loan absolutely safe.
What w ar 'interested In her 1 this
question ot security for the city's money
loaned to banks. Ther ar two math
od of securing the clty-r-one is by th
obligation of a bonding company and
th other is by th deposit in plsdg
of certain approved securities. Which
of thess two methods of security Is th
better? Tou can' get very little help
in determining th matter from bankers
Even, her "the point of view" is con
trolling. Th banker who doe not have
th "approved securities thinks the
bona of a bond company, which main.
tains its position in th atate by a de
posit of a larg sum. with th state
treasurer, ia Just aa good a security a
any other. While the banker who has
government, state and other gilt-edged
municipal and corporation bonds thinks
that the delivery of these in absolute
pledge to th city is th batter form
of security. ' The city of Portland has
this latter form and Just now the Ore
gonian la kicking -up a big rumpua be
cause it baa. ... . ...
Again let ua say that what w ar
interested In is not th quarrel, if such
it be, among : Portland bankers, but
rather in this rumpus which th Ore
gonian la kicking up. : ' I
The greatest boon conferred upon the
state of Oregon In to' years was the
establishment of Th Journal newspaper
in Portland. . Four bankers of th city
helped out this enterprise by taking
each a shar or two of stock. In its
rag at th success of its rival, th
Oregonian has set out with the mall
clou attempt to make the bankers
odious In th community. It ealls them
plutocrats and announces that in its old
age It has become th friend of th
people, the down-trodden masses, the
proletariat, which In all ages have
sown that others may reap. Th skill
with which the Oregonian hides Its mo
tives reminds on of th gamboling of
a ( rhlnocsrous.
With this slight preface' we ar now
ready to state why th Oregonian takes
the part of th bank offering th bond
company's obligation . as security for
city deposits. .... Because .of the -oppor
tunity offered to charge th manage
ment of th First National bank with
selfishness. 'Although this feature of
th city charter requiring a pledge of
bonds ' for city moneys advanced was
specially passed by a direct' vote of th
people, MY. A. L. Mills, president of this
bank, is held responsible for having
'engineered" . th . whole thing, through,
out of .selfishness and enmity to the
people, the down-trod dan maas, 'th
proletariat, v which th Oregonian now
stands for. The Oregonian carefully
avoids letting the fact get but that this
provision in th charter, was specially
voted on by this earn people for which
it now stands, but assumes that the es
tablishment of It waa mad wholly by
plutocrats working In th legislature.
In th abstract ther Is no question
that th bonds specified by th Port
land charter specifically pledged with
th city for it money advanced to a
bank Is ths batter form of security.
Whether or not it !a an unnecessarily
hard form of security w ar not now
disposed . to decide. Our purpose I
merely to call attention to th silly
twaddle which "Oregon's general news
paper" is now peddling out against car
tain of her banker in order to b re
venged for assisting a rival upon it
feet Ths redeeming thing about it all
Is that nobody la fooled, except perhaps
th Oregoniaa, ,'.'. .' v , '
A- great, -big, funny, - hearty, - whole
some play la "Th Heir to th Hoorah,"
which opened th nw Halllg theatre
last night and it was presented by a
capable company of people, who romped
through their lines-as if they liked
very bit of It Th result was an en
tertainment which waa found thoroughly
enjoyable by th big and fashionable
crowd that attended. ' 1 ,
When Paul Armstrong wrote "Th
Heir to th Hoorah" he mads first a
miscellaneous assortment . ot people,
every on of whom he endowed with a
distinct trait; thsn he aded a plot and
spiced it with clever dialogue, 'it Is a
good reelp and the cake proved dell,
clous. ... . . '. '
Th play has to do with a rich miner,
Joe Lacy, who Is trapped by a scheming
woman aa a husband for her daughtsr.
Lacy is lacking In society polish, and
this results In a disagreement hot words
and a separation. Lacy goes to Europe,
comes back In sight months, attends
a dinner given for him by his old com
rades, and is Informed In the midst of
th merrymaking that h la a father.
HI companions present th boy with a.
rosewood cradle of Immsnss also, which
is taken through two windows, tf means
of a derrick, and over ths cradl ths
wife, who hag fallen in lov with her
huaband, tells htm so.
. Guy Bates Post who Is remembered
agrseably as Steve In "Arlsona." an
for his clever work In "Th Virginian."
assayed th role of Jo Lacy, without
entire success. He wesrs evening
clothes too naturally, and they fit htra
too well.- ' '-(.'.'
Th crowd Of pals, who ara introduced
to make fun, succeed surprisingly well.
There ar half a dosen, of them, snd a
likeable lot they ara, Ther is Dave
Leor. with his lmmens mustache, and
his infectious "He! He! He) Huh! Huhl
Huh!'r laugh; Bud Young, the sturdy
youth who propose before a crowd on
a dare; Kelly, who went broke on th
street and began over again In the west;
Bill Ferguson, sn amateur spellbinder;
Lon Perry, with, an inimitable drawl,
and Oua Ferris, who wears spurs with
hi vning cloth.
Armstrong haa chosen to present the
western miner type in playful mood
throughout Ther I ho gun play, few
which wa are sincerely grateful, and
th profanity la ao easy that It loses
its vlciousness. -A.fter starting his play
most conventionally, th opening scene
showing a French maid and an English
butler in uninteresting conversation, he
presents his people In a succession of
funny situations. Th dinner,' where
everv man is required 1e wear full
evening Oram tt it UUg 'em. is remark-
: : THE PLAY " '
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SOBRIELY, GENTLENESS
AND INDUSTRY .
By Beatrlo Fairfax. .
- I -once heard a wis woman give
young girl th following plc of advic:
"Do not waat your time en a laay man
or on who eannot kep a Job." , '
That , waa excellent advice, girls, and
every on of you- would do Wall to bear
it in mind.' . ', -.: , .
Tou have all seen women whose live
were ruined by being tied to laxy, shift
leas husbands. '; .' ,' ' . . ,''. ,
You have seen th misery" of home
where th head of th houa waa good-for-nothing,
who could not be .relied on
to provide the barest neceaaltiea.- . .
And you have alio aeea - th hom
wher there was extravagance when th
father worked, poverty when h didn't
Th woman married to a man of that
stamp never knows wher' she stands;
her nerves ar constantly on th rack.
She knows that no matter how good
her husband's Job may b h will lose
it through Incompetent or changeable
nesa on his part ' ,
- Bo you ae. girls. It of .th utmoat
Important) to your futur -happiness
that you do sot throw yourselves away
on men of either of these types. .
. . Every man, whether- he be rich or
poor, should have som work to do.
Th idle man la of no uss to anybody.
H might Just aa wall not exist aa far
as his ussfulhas goes; in fact. It would
be better if he did net. as he gets' a bad
example to other men. - Tou know th
proverb that "Satan f lnda soma mischief
aUlt for Idle hands to do."
mi orainary, every-oay lasy man mat
w com in contact with ha no money
to back his laslnsss.
When he marries his wife has to sup
port him. .. . - .
Hs probably makes lova very well'
why, shouldn't he? h baa nothing ls
Keep away from htm, girl, ne matter
Vnaa aalMla. kl lala. U.a k.
Thar ar better things In life for you
than marriage to a shiftless, good-for-nothing
man. .. ; .
" If you ar friends with a man and he
tells you that ho never can ksep a post
tlon, and that It, Is all th fault of hia
ara ploy rs. Just' look Into' It carefully
and find out. how things really stand
per ore you accept nis attentions. -.
Th fact of a man wanting to epand
all his money on you Is no sign that he
will make a good husband. ...
It would be far batter if h saved his
money with a view toward hastening
ths day when he might ask you to share
his fortune.. .' -.
Th important qualities to look for in
a maa are sobriety, industry and gentle.
nss. .
Th man who haa all thre Is sure te
make a good husband. r
Dong wast your tlm on men who
laek them, for no woman will be happy
with a maa lacking any one of th
thro. V " , ..
At th Cascad liocks.
April 10. Early in the morning - we
dropped down the channel to -the-lower
ena or isrant island, ana men drew our
boats up ths rapids. At a distance ot a
quarter of a mil w crossed over to th
village of th Clahclellahs. consisting of
stx- house.'-- en the oppoalt side-. Th
river. Is her aboat- oo yards wide," and
th current so rapid that although we
amnlaMM YlWa. MM V. aaatatie aaaUtaV .
were born - down - a considerable dis
tance. White w ar at breakfast on
f th Indiana offered ua two sheepskins
for sals; on. Which was th skin of a
full grown sheep, waa aa larg as thai
of a common deer; the seoond waa small
er, and th skin of ths head, with th
horns remaining, was mad Into a cap.
highly prised as an ornament oy to
owner. He. however, sold the cap to ua
for -a knife, and ths reat of the skin
for' those of two elk; but aa they bad
observed our anxiety , to purchase the
other akin, they would not accept the
asm price tor it and as w hoped to
procure more In th neighborhood we
did not offer a greater. Th . horns of
th animal were black, smooth and erect;
they rice from th middle of th fore
head, a littl abov th eyes, in a cylin
drical form, to th height of four Inch,,
wher they are pointed. Th Clahclel
laha . Informed, ua that thes shsep ar
very abundant on th height and among
th cliff or th adjacent mountains,
and" thai" thes two had -tatolybeeBr-killed
out of a herd f tt at no great
distance from the village. W war
soon Joined by our hunters, with three
black-tailed fallow deer, and. having
purchased a few whit salmon, pro
ceeded on oir route. Th south side of
the river Is Impassable, and the rapidity
of th current as well as ths larg
rocks along th shore, render th navi
gation of th north aids extremely air
flault. Durins th greater part of the
day it waa necessary to draw th boats
along th shore, and, as we have only
a single towrop that is strong enough.
we were obliged to bring tnem on aiier
another. In this tedious and laborious
manner wa at length reaohed th portage
on th north slds and carried our bag-
gag to th top of a hlu, about no paces
distance, wher w camped ior tn
night The eanoea were drawn on shore
and secured. . i-;-
ably funny. So also Is ths scens where
Joe and Dave discuss th baby. '
Nora O'Brien, . who playa Mrs. Lacy,
does th best sh can with a lot of In
sipid lines, and Miss Maud Ream Stover,
ho playa th mother-in-law pan, m
disagreeable necessity, shows a careful
appreciation ot th requirements of th
role. Jan Peyton, who was In Portland
a ysar ago with Lawrenc D'Orsay. Is
as handsome as ever, while Louis Rut
tr, aa Madgs Casey, 1 llkeabl all th
tlm. : ' .
"Th Heir to th Hoorah" plays' te
night, tomorrow night and '. tomorrow
afternoon at the Helllg. , ,
- -'; '.. ',' Frederick Ward. .
There la little that ean be said about.
Frsderlck Warde. Nearly everybody
has seen him, and a mars casual review
could do littl to-ehang an opinion aet
by long association. For - years Mr.
Warde and Louis James traveled togeth
er, but this season haa prssentsd them
differently, Mr. James hsadlng a com
LEWIS AND CLARK
pany, his former intimate associate ap
pearing in readings and recitals. - ;
It was th '.Merchant of Venlc" that
th Bhaksspearean scholar and actor
took for his theme at the Marquam
Grand theatre last night and thos who
heard him learned much, were Instructed
and entertained. - If th spesker stio
ceded In arousing a littl new Interest
In th greatest wrltsr of plays, certainly
he need not feel aggrieved that most
playgoer deserted him for an hilarious
offering, up th street
It wss Elks night and after the lec
ture there waa a stain sociable. Th.
festivities saw their climax In th pre
sentation of a loving eup to th guest
of th evening, who Is on of th big
men of th order. Thre hundred Elks
contributed aach ene stein to the ledga'g
gtora, ,'-,. .. ;...'.:,.. ' ,
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