The Oregon daily journal., April 11, 1906, Image 8

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PORTtAND. OREGON.
WEDNESDAY, . APRIL 11, 1S03.
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MOUNT VESUVIUS.
sT INCE THE ERUPTION of
and except for that terribly dramatic and tragic
"" incident, the World has jMtnessed and - read of
no such volcanic activity as that now being displayed by
historic Vesuvius, which is destroying the towns at its
'. base; 'slaughtering hundreds of people ana renaering
thousands homeless and temporarily destitute..,.'
' f It was 1827 years ago when Pompeii and Hercufaneum
- were literally destroyed, buried jin an avalanche' of molten
: lava, and we believe that Vesuvius, while always some-
. what volcanicaily active, naa never since,-in auuvese
"l8 centuries, belched out such destructive masses of mat
ter as it is doiig now; It may seem strange that people
will make their residences and homes guilder the. con;
slant Jy threatening front of such a volcano as Vesuvius,
but the take their chance, and perhaps, are justified in
doing- so, since for over 1,800 years the
the valley below Vesuvius have gone
vineyards and milking their goats in peace, mere was
. ever smoke issuing from the crater, and ,t right a lurid
glare; there were always mutterings and rumblings, yet
there was for 1827 years no destructive and overwhelm
ing vomitings of the internal earth-crust's molten stuff.
But at last repetition of whar occurred what seems
to us long ago but what to Vesuvius is only an instant
f time has come, and the region around the base of
-Vesuvius quivers and trembles, and hundreds of people
are being destroyed and hundreds of thousands are in
terrible dread. -..'';'. v ."-.' '; .' J.'..'
From a score or more of great fissures in the southern
and western sides of the cone lava flows in great, in
undating rivers of fire and burning bowels of the earth's
crust, burning up and, burying vineyards and driving tens
of thousands of peasant farmers and -vineyardists, "men,
women, and children, such as can escape hurriedly, into
Naples, Castelemare, and other towns at a -safe distance.
.. It has been suggested that should subterranean open
ings created by volcanic forces emit or throw m the sea
in sudden volume, the whole tQp of the mountain might
practically explode, and be thrown far and wideoyejthe
thickly populated valley beneath. X . r' ' ' f
Vesuvius is the .world's most noted volcano. Rising
from a'slope adjacent tyJhe bay of Naples, irTa denseiy
populated region that for nearly 25 centuries has been
V the seat and "Scene of a high type, of civilization, f has
Served as a theme of legend, story,; long" and drama.
The mountain itself is composed of two distinct, parts.
..indicating successive atagea, running back perhaps miK
lions of years, in its formation. . .The present main cone
i rises only about 4,000 feet above the sea really- in this
Country .only a high hill.. One of Vesuvius' ramparts,
famjjiar to travelers as Mount Comma, 3,470 feet high, is
- a portiottbf the-walf of prehrstoec crater of far larger
size than the present vent, which has been built up by
successive eruptions until it almost
half of, the old crater, - At some far, distant . period
Vesuvius was probably twice as high as it is now, and in
the course of oncoming millions of years it will wear
itself out and let the rich land around' lie in peace And
cease to alarm and destroy vine-dressers and sheperds.
Its belched . ashes , will - make, .rich, soil from which
millions will subsist in future vras and eons, but just
now Vesuvius is a terror. . : .- !' -m 't"L-.L i-
v, THE ORECONIAN AND FRANCHISES. ':' V-
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NE of.the most. insincere and therefore grotesque
- sM campaign cverwged beforatt "intelligent "peo
pie is that now being fathered by the Oregonian
and pushed to the front as a novel, issue and startling
advance in the line of public thought It has sent forth
to the candidates for the legislature from this county
a series of questions to be answered with the same sol
emn assurance as though it were rendering a public ser
vice beyond compare,- ;i ".'-"; ,
"Are you in favor of perpetual franchises?" "Are you
in favor of.the repeal of perpetual franchises and the
m substitution of limited franchises?" wAre you in favor of
the enactment of city charters granting perpetual fran
chises?" l"Do you believe in the regulation of private
banks?" "Do. yon believe franchises are property and
subject to taxation?"- "Will you-support a measure de
signed to. impose additional ; taxes on public utility
franchisea?V.-. , . ",, -......,.,' ,,.
How many years is it since a perpetual franchise has
been proposed in Portland? Who would dare present
one now? But beside 11 this there is not a thing de
manded in reference to franchises which is hotalready
provided for in the city charter and some of it too against
the open opposition of the Oregonian itself, strenuously
" expressed three years ago. All franchises in the city
were taxed last year by County Assessor Siglef." Taxes
- covering these franchises have already been paid by
. these public utility corporation!, one of them under pro
test, but still paid. The only exception to the rule has
, been the Associated Press franchise which the Oregonian
, has monopolized during : the greater part, of its existence
and which .it has sought to make perpetual without pay
ing a dollar's worth of taxes' for it ''
i At early every session of the legislature there has
. been presented bills for the regulation of banks and the
s appointment of state bank examiners. One and all have
' been characterized as hold-up jmeasures by the Oregon
ian and bitterly denounced from this standpoint, with the
result thatthere has been no such
thus be teen that while the Oregonian
lated move in the right direction, it
by the real believers in precisely this policy who forced
these principles into' the city charter; three years ago
t with the not altogether too; cordial assent of the" Ore
gonian. ' ' ''' i. .
j Had" Nerve" Durordeiw-'--:-'"
.. . ' From the London Times.
Of supreme captains of the world
there are but six or seven, and scarcely
one among them exhibits genius In its
healthiest colors. In ambush for nearly
all of them some form of nerve disorder
- larks. Orotesaue .as : f he. statement
.- eeeme. epilepsy, manifest In greater or
leas' degree, : revolves upon their des
tinies. . Charlemagne, the great and wise
captain of the Franks, who stands for
feudal civilisation, who "snatched from
; darkness all the lands he . conquered,
and. who reared an empire that ns hand
, hot lils ' was: aMs to control, la almost
the sole exception. What says the
,. bead-roll T . . i. '.-:-
At (I Alexander the Great who had
reckoned himself a god, died durlpg. or
just after, one of his f renetle "orgies.
Caesar, the foremost man of the ancient
world, 'bad .etrange convulsions In his
- later years, and It may be that the dag'
- ger f Brutus saved him from declining
Inta madness.' Marlborough, who-was
married te a violent woman, and whose
only son died m boyhood, was epileptic
- during his 1 last years of life. . ,
The adventurous and daring Clfve,
world , famous and conqueror of India,
st wee decidedly a neuropath. In hla
memorable duel with a brother off loer
he aniseed his aim, flung away the wes
. pn and rrld: ""hoot and be damned
I eald you cheated and I any so still'
Cllve was passionate, morbid, gouty anil
aa opium-eater. A J, rlob and of ua-
ON DAILY
. IHDIPINDBNT N W S P A
PUBLISHED BY JOURNAL PUBLISHING CO.
Sunday) and every Sunday morning, at
mu treeta, roruana, ureg on.
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Motlnt Pelee in mX
M
EANTIME
be lost
but likewise for
the market and
people inhabiting
oh tending their
"The valley is
broad , domain. . It
perity. One ot-the
portation. facilities,
destiny without
richly promises.
THE RIVER IS
ing of the
come more and
upon the water haul. ' , :
There are rates
hauls amount to as
inodityv-These conditions will not be i borne always
open rivers mean
underatand that its
the deepening of
them there wilt be
hides the southern
but the whole inland. empire. .I .:';",.;. ' : .-r-:
HE PORT
. consider
V .i it.
Willamette, The
more serious for the commission, as well as the railroad,
tharrwer "first" believed" they7wou!d be."But"oh both
sides they have been given the deepest attention and we
doubt not that everybody now is prepared to meet the
issues that are presented.
When definite
matter is settled the better. The conclusion of arrange
ments here most be followed Jby permission from the war
department to construct the bridge "and -approvakof the
plana presented. V Then comes the matter pf construction
including the steel which cannot "be procured, at a mo
ment's notice. ' The natural outcome will be consider
able delay . under the best of circumstances in effecting
an-actual entrance into the city. While the city's in
terests must be safeguarded in every direction, this ele
ment of time shpuid receive -careful consideration be
cause the sooner the question is definitely settled by the
Port of Portland the sooner the railroad will find its
way , into the city and that of itself is an element of such
vast importance, direct and indirect, that its .consum
mation is devoutly to be wished by every resident of the
city. ' 7 ? .. '.'
see the necessity and benefits of it, involves necessarily
the cleaning up of vacant, lots in both the. residence and
businesa-districtsof the e it yr-Much has been done irt this
respect in the past year or two, but much remains to be
done, and it is always timely and pertinent for a news
paper to urge the performance of this civic duty.
Clean up the vacant lots. Destroy the rubbish. Burn
the trash., Get rid of the weeds. Make unused ground
look clean and tidy. It pays. People demand and de
serve that this be done. Some people do it, and their
f1tfrhfnra have nrw mnnl riaht ii fail in A 4K.a,vb
legislation. .It will
unmaking' aM be: rA family with a nice.
has been forestalled
be compelled to look out on and pass by daily a filthy,
rubbishy vacant place. '
The cleaning up process means. betterrhealth and more
happiness. It should be a pleasure, and it is surely a
duty. Clean up! - - -..;. ... . ,v..,-L
stlnted reputation, he ' oommltted sui
cide. - ... : . ,.- .. . :, , , . .
Wellington waa ; dlatlnetlv enlleDtlc.
Ills fainting flu after Waterloo were
frequent, and it was sn attaok of epi
lepsy that carried him off. The Roman,
offs have been neuropathic for nearly
three centuries, and one of the epileptic
fits of Peter the Great is "said to have
lasted, three .daya.:',. Charlea TV. whoes
mother was Insane, had fits In hlr
youth, and waa gouty, bald and scrofu
lous. Frederick the 'Great (from the
faee of whose father, when he took a
walk, says Macaulay, "every human be
ing fled '), reared in a perfect hell of a
palace, had a certain general unsound
ness of mind, to which mercy was alto
gether foreign. The stock of Oliver
Cromwell was not-over-healthy, and of
the neuropathic tendencies of the pro
tector himself there is sufficient evl
denes.. - - -; ;
KaiserV Many Subjects.
; From a . Berlin . Dispatch. :. ' - - -The
official returns of . the census
taken on December 1. 1101, show a total
population of 0, 106,1 HI In Germany,
against tS.l7.m In 1. ''
The women outnumbered the men by
ISS.ISt, but the government Statisticians
estimate that If the males make the
earns rata of increase as shown by the
last four censuses they will outnumber
the females la 1S4. . i
, The population of France was IS.lt.
16 In 10. The British empire had
S.ono;0o, The Vnlted 0utes had
M.MvO.
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THE FRONT. STREET FRANCHISES.
the Front street franchises should not
sight oft These are matters of vast pub
lic interest, not only tor the principles involved
the perennial advantage which will flow
from-the building of these two electric lines to the city
and the surrounding country.. It is not.too much to say
that so far as the Willamette Valley is concerned there
has been no, project suggested 'la year that will carry
with it such farreaching consequences as the building-of
one -or more electric lines up the valley. vAU, that is
needed : is the beginning-of -such enterprises.- . Either
others will follow as a matter of course of those now
projected will be so extended that the whole Valley will
oc fjrnairpncq jwiia. C'CCjricinraa,JS.lMJW. iuc-co mi
Ohio and Indiana, thus affording cheap facilities to reach
quick and frequent service. . rT
one: of-the garden spots of the United
States; it is doubtful if it has its equal anywhere in our
contains now about i 100,000 people
while a million could there find almost unparalleled pros
great drawbacks has been the trans
j The valley can never achieve its
adequate facilities of this nature. Some
thing very much more than an entering wedge is pro
vided by the two applicatrasM for franchises now before
the executive board .Both should be treated in a spirit
of broad tolerance so that there may. be realised as soon
as possible some of the results which their building so
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A. FACTOR IN FIXINO RATES
HE BENEFITS expected to arise from the build
portage railroad -are -just beginning
to .be realized. As time goes on they will be
more apparent. liven now there is an
awakening all along the line. The people of the interior
are beginning to understand how to make use of the river
and from Lewiston, through the Walla Walla country
and down the .valley of the 'Columbia are being Heard
suggestions that must soon be heeded for rates based
out of. Portland that eveiTln short
much as the orginial cost of the com
indeed the time is now at hand when changes in the
tariffs must be made. Portland is beginning to see what
for -it and when the people here once
future as a great city, depends upon
the mouth and a free Columbia above
something tangible doing.' Indeed it
is toward this goal that ail Should strive.' H htS is. a case
where it is everybody's business in the sense that every
itizxiih4s a personal interest in the outcome. Each
should therefofeddiwhatever Is in his power to bring
about these two results which will be of such tremendous
importance in fixing the future not alone of Portland
LET THE MATTER BE PROMPTLY.SETTLEp.
OF PORTLAND meets tomorrow to
and we hone to. settle finally the. ouea-
T.tUA a, c.t.i. t.j i.
questions involved have been much
conclusions are reached the sooner the
CLEAN UP.
HE CLEANING UP process that is going on and
must continue to go on, more and more, year by
year, as more people become interested in it and
tidy,:tasteful lot or yard should not
jy What the Voter ThmkC
- From the CorvaUla -Times.-.1 ;
There la one proposition with refer
nee to statement No. 1 that cannot
be dodged r escaped, and that is that
candidates whs don't sign wilt loss the
support of many a voter who wants di
rect vote- for - United States ' enat&rs.
Republicans down In Polk county are
going to scratch the legislative candi
date who doesn't sign, , and they are
going to do It In Benton If any of them
have the temerity not to sign.' Ths In
dependence West side Enterprise Is au
thority for the statement as to ths con
ditions In Polk, snd It Is public com
ment ss to ths situation In Benton. In
Its last-laeue ths.West.8lde Enterprise,
Waiter lyon s paper, says: ., ...
"The west mae Enterprise speaks a
truth and sounds a warning la time that
safety for any Republican candidate lies
In his signing ths pledge to observe. the
wish 'of the people ss expressed at 'the
polls In ths election of United States
senator. Numbers of life-long Republl
cans In Polk county have expressed the
determination to support no candidate
regardless "of politics, who does not
agree to suport ths people's choice for
United Stetes senator.., --They - have
taken part In placing the preaent. taw en
ths statute-books. . This paper Is on
good terms with all ths candidates snd
has no preference personally and It asks
them for the, party's sake to be consid
erate of the feelings of the rank and
file In ths matter of toe election of
falted Blates senators,"
SMALL CHANGE
Now some people 'are sorry they dldn
register. , , ' - :
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Only four days till Easter, v
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-It Is doubtful if Joe Bailey Is really
a great statesman. ;.. ; v w ,
Ths govsrVment In some respects Is
about ths weakest creature on earth.
- Vesuvius Is a '-terror,' dreadful yet
beautiful. '
Frank Baker's placs- simply ean't bs
Dowie stilt maintains his place' in the
aispatcnes, .
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Ths Commercial club- deserves liberal
support. It hae done and will do
great ' work, -t. r -' " ; '-'-
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Primary "election ' Is close at hand.
Go and vote, aa you honestly think best
Work for a better Portland.
Disease In: many' eases Is largely a
matter pf imagination. V
Dowia continues to bs' Interesting to
many people, i
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There ought fo be. another flreboat
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Who-a the best man 'for .representative
In congress? .It is an Important office.
Public ownership is a growing, press
ing question. 1 ' .-' , , '
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Ws told you that you couldn't register
after today,
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The milliners are happy,
Men wanted, labor wanted. . everr
where In the Pacific northwest. -
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It Is Just the right time to clean up.
Now Geronlmo wants to go on the
stage. . He has as good a right to do so
as Sullivan, Jeffries and Scotty.
There are now S5,J0 rural routes on
which mall ' Is "-delivered- by carriers
First thing you know, remarks the Chi
cago Journal the farmer will be getting
so luxurious that he will have hot rolls
and fresh milk in bottles, left at his
back door every morning. -
Boms people never grow really, old.
Taxation Is, a great problem, never
yet properly solved. '
Bnow deeper recently ' In Josephine
and Jackson counties than sines ISSt-s,
From a to 10 feet. Good for placer
mines. ; ; . ,
A Tillamook county man was ' at
tacked . by a large panther ' and had a
doss call of being seriously Injured or
killed. . Hs had no Weapon to beat off
the panther -until he took from , his
pocket a pocket knife, and with . ths
blade of which he cut ths animal across
the. eyesv This' had the effect of stop
ping ths panther's attack and which al
lowed him to maJce us escape.. ,
Speaking of ths late Homer Hallock,
who lost his life In, ths Chamber of
Commerce fire, Ths Dalles Chronlols
ssys it was through his efforts that
Ths Dalles was induced to make such
good showing at the -exposition on
Dalles day,?. .
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Dairy Interest rspidly growing In this
Coqullls valley. v , -
Great development In Crook county.
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'Fruit around Monument but slightly
Injured. '.'"-.j ,. ... V . .
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A Grant county sheepman received
from It ewes sight pair of twins and
ona of " triplets, SI lambs In alL ' All
the sheepmen anticipate a high per cent
of lambs this spring, says ths Monu
ment Enterprise. .......
Many leases of Umatilla reservation
land are being made .
Marshflald 8un;- Ths dredger Oregon
waa brought In Sunday from ths Ump-
qua and will soon start throwing up a
roadway for ths county hear Coal Bank
slough, where ths county thoroughfare
leads to Eastport Speaking of the work
of hla dredger ou the tJmpqua. Herman
Larsen said they constructed nine miles
of dike, which will reclaim for culti
vation and pasture msny thousands of
acres of rich land on ths umpqua and
i tributaries.,' .
Oregon apples ars eonsldersd 'the best
in ths world.
Marshfleld Mall: A remarkable sear-
city of labor has bee a noticeable in this
section recently. -Miners, loggers, dairy
hands, men on roads, etc., seem to bs In
great demand, but difficult to procure.
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Cooullle Sentinel: Many towns have
organised improvement olubs, generally
composed of ladles. Myrtle Point has
one and ths town naa Been "sucaea" up
considerably, and It begins to show that
ths hand of art hast been employed at
the public . square, which ' will oe a
beauty as soon as dams nsturs brings
forth ths flowers set out In splendid
order., . ....
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Great work going on all over rural
Oregon. . . : .-.
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Shanlko Republtcsn; ' Sheepmen ars
having a hard tlma of it In this Sec
tion trying to secure men for lsmblng,
nd at the present tlms there Is not aa
Idle-man in town;-"--
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In a test which .was mads ths ether
day of a well near Pilot Rock. 150
barrels of water were pumped In 14
hours.. The .well ,1s one that was Just
drilled, snd there is TO Xeet of water
in it. '- ; :
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Bandon Recorder: Ths Coqullls val
ley not only beats the bay In the num
ber of prohibition votes It caats, but
laat year It showed a bigger gain in
postal rseelpta ,
A Joseph man will build a livery barn
to accommodate (4 horses.
Coqullls Correspondence of Bandon
Recorder: One of our prominent eltl
sens got poisoned last week on soms of
your clam tea: sow we wish you would
drink all of the contents of those bottles
and not feed, ths surplus to ths clams,
for. the lop eara up hero- have weak
stomachs and cannot stand auch high
living, . . ,, .... . : ..-
j OREGON SIDELIGHTS
1
OMAN'S SUFFRAGE
DISCUSSED
Snffrags WU1 Ohaags This.
Portland. April 10 To the Editor of
xns journal Again I have been dream
lng. But my dream of last night was
retrospective and carried me back Into
ths pre-natal conditions leading to the
suicidal mania of a little child, as
graphically described by Mrs. Yockey
In her letter of yesterday. In my dream
I beheld an overtaxed, jlrh and poverty-
sincaen mother or a numerous family,
wiui a happy-go-hicky sort of a hus
band who Insisted upon his legal right
to the .multiplication of his species,
without any regard whatever to the
means -of supplying ths necessities of
his superabundant household: and I saw
that mother tossing sleenlesslv upon
her bed, beside, her snoring .lord, her
thoughts bent upon suicide as her only
means of deliverance from burdens too
grievous 10 ds oorns.
Years passed rapidly, as they do in
areauis. ana x saw tnat mother, aroused
Dy nor own experiences Into a determt
nation to do what whs could to opea an
easier road for other mothers than the
on she had been, compelled to- travel.
Her race was wrinkled, her arms elon
gated, her shoulders bowed: . but the
gleam of hops was In her eye. albeit
there was ths shadow of a srreat dread
In her heart, for her 0-year-old baby had
developed a murderous and suicidal
mania, snstamped upon him In embryo.
Tea, , Mrs. Yockey,- "suf frags- for
women," though it will not bring ths
millennium speedily, will gradually but
surely "change thla." It will gradually
bring women Into. ths ranks of.the law
makers, where they may so represent
ins momer-siae or our ' common nu
manlty that no mother will be compelled
to bear children for whom sthere is no
prospective means ' ef support. As a
rule, the wealthy woman, especially If
an "antl," shirks maternHy. It Is ths
women of the middle or working classes
of life who bear and rear and often sup
port the children. Under the reign of
equal-rights; which" our' broad-brained;
brava and magnanimous Oregon men are
preparing to extend to their wives and
mothers next June, motherhood will be
looked upon, as It of right ought to. aa
a business so honored, shielded and sup
ported . that no prospective, half-sick
mother will be compelled to keep board
era or lodgers for a livelihood, or lis
awake at - night planning to rifle her
husband s pockets to secure the means
to buy books and shoes for hla already
numerous proseny. Ws gladly welcome
Mrs. Yockey to the ranks of the stir-
fragtats. She will make us a splendid
ally. Half the equal suffragists of to
day began their publlo work aa shs and
did in opposition to -tns . cause ws
were ready to espouse as soon as ws Be
held It In Its true light.
. ABIGAIL. SCOTT DUNIWAY.
. V Boat CHvs St to Mer.
Portland. Aprl . To the Editor of
Ths Journal Unless ths constitution of
thess United States and declaration of
Independence say one thing and mean
another "titers is no Justice in denying
women the vote. We have as , much
right to say who shall roake ths law
w must obey aa the men. . I know
women have ths light to vots and yet
If by the turning over my hand I eould
give women' ths vots I doubt if I would
glvs It to her because according to her
present mental attitude on questions of
the day shs would not by her vots
change the result. Nina tenths of the
women today believe In ths present In
dustrial slavery of women and men and
If they voted they would vote to per
petuate that-'' Industrial slavery. . Ws
now . have enough-voters-who- vote for
such conditions, . so . where would the
gain be to ths human race If that vote
were augmented by .thousands more of
ths sams kind - of Ignorant and brutal
votssT Suffragists say they want' to
change ths moral and mental status of
women and men but you cannot Changs
ths morals of women and men till you
change ths natural environment for the
better. You cannot change ths mats
rial environment unless you abolish In.
dustrlal slavery and ths women suf
fragists as a whols believe in the capi
talistic regime. I hsve heard most of
the women of prominence, the national
officers of ths association, and I havs
never heard a platform speech from
them that did not betray their aristo
cratic tendencies In the direction of
class distinctions. They believe in the
present brutal atrugglo for existence
because most of them ars beyond 'and
above 'the bitterness of it.
Whenever they have the ballot the
go on voting mostly ths old Republican
politics, and tbtlr entry Into politics
has added -not one lota of advancement
In the line of human progress, t .
I admire their courage and splendid
mental- prowess -ln-the-flght-they- art
making, out regret to see such a useless
wests . of . energy - for the - accomplish
ment of something that would result
In nothing ot valus used aa they would
use It. No, sir; . not until women want
something mors than squal suffrage
ths simple right to vots would I glvs
nar-tha ballot,
AtlCE SORENSON.
las Prays o It,
Drain, Or.. April s To ths Editor
of Ths Journal It Is not surprising to
una the rougner element opposing wom
an suffrage, and, of course, there srs
always a few old fogies who ars against
ail reforms, but how any Intelligent
Christians can fall to desire equal rights
ror women passes my comprehension.
urely aa Christian mothers we must
wish to have those men elected to office
who will see that Just laws ars enforced.
It has been argued that women of small
Intellect should not be given the ballot
yet any fair-minded person, can prove
for himself that there are . more men
of . low intelligence than ;. there are
wonen.' ' ' - --- -- - .
Blessings on those noble women who
are striving for Justice , In our dear
statel '...' .
with my babes td care. for. t can only
pray for ths success for which they
labor, but when ths time comes I can
gladly cast my vots en the side of tight
wunoui neglecting me children to do
so and help to keep our Oregon the
best stats In the union. , R, B. -
Endowing American Families.
1 r From the Wdrld Today.
We have had our discussion concern-
ng lalnted money. It Is time we con
sidered the endowment of famlllea. . Re
cent svents exhibit tns new tendency In
American lire to establish a parasitic
class composed of descendants of men
who havs accumulated fortunes. These
fortunes are no longer' distributed
among a man's heirs, but are kept In
tact and placed In the hands of trust
companies for administration. Ths ben
eficiaries face no responsibility - of
wealth, but simply receive the whols or
a portion of ths fund's Income. In
one case thrss young children hsve ap
proximately ths sams endowment ss
thst of Harvard, Yale. Columbia and
Chicago universities somblnsd.
Ths next step In our financial evolu
tion Is ths concentration of wealth In
trust eompsnlss. An -enormous per.
rentage of ths productive wealth) of the
United States is now- held by a small
proportion of our rltlsens. Should rsch
one of these eltlsens st death and this
Is todsy's drift provide thst for the
szt SO or i0 jeers' hia wsaltb. gliould
bs handled by trust companies for th
Miunt or his descendant it would 101
low Inevitably that a large proportion
or our national capital would v eon
cantrated under the control or a sal
doaen financial Institutions. . There mar
be benefits attending auch m concentra
tion, but the moat conservative or us
can see (hat Ha dangers are Inevitable
and tremendous. With all reapeot for
the ability and honesty of thee com
penlea. no slnrle croup of men la capa-
ble of administering- such power. No
group of men ought to have such power
to administer.
The American people has no desire to
destroy incentives to the creation of
wealth or to deprive the family of a
rich man ft a 'generons 'ehare o bis
fortune: but ' the establishment ' of an
endowed class of Idlers Is contrary to
the American aplrlt and dangerous to
American institutions.
THE HARM A FLIRT
CAN DO
' '. Bv Beatrice Fairfax. '
Girls, there has been a great deal ot
talk about the manner in which a man
will pay devoted attention to a girl and
then walk off and leave her to wear
the willow. Now how about the way
a girl will lead a man on to dance at
tendance on her and then discard him
ithout a aualmt '
One is quits as blameworthy as the
other, you know. .
I -wonder hew many of you are ac
cepting presents and treats rrom men,
allowing them to believe that you care
tor them, when all ths tlms you don't
cars a rap, but merely encourage them
for the saks of what you get rrom tnem,
It isn't right, girls, and It does not
placs you' In a very creditable light.
If you have a. direct understanding
with a man that you feel, nothing but
friendship for him. and. knowing that
hs Is still anxious to spend his time and
money on. you., that Is bis affair, ana
y-are-aosoiveor-or TssponsiDimy-.
A girl always knows when a man
really cares Jor her, and. if she has bo
love . to give- h!m in return shs should
discourage his attentions.
There Is no glory attached to ths name
'flirt.",. .-- - - ' . - ,
A good many girls labor under ths Im
pression that to be called a flirt Is some
thing very desirable. '
A flirt Is a cold-hearted, calculating
woman, who leads men on merely for
the .saks. ot displaying her. power oyer
them."-'
There Is nothing - tender - or- lovable
about her. Her every act Is deliberate
anara fnr the haarta of men.
She watches- their emotions ss calmly
as a naturalist does the struggles of a
csntured moth.'
It la cults natural that a girl should
like to havs admirers; It shows . that
shs Is charming and popular. But aha
need not lead every man to believe that
shs msans to accept him.t -
Many a young man spends mors than
ha can afford to on the girl ne nopes
to win. :.. .
It la alwavs wrong te allow a' man
tor spend more than he can afford on
you. but It is treDiy wrong wnen you
An not Intend to reoav him.
You must nlar fair In the game oi
love. aTlrla; lr you give no quarter you
can 'expect none., '
Have as - many - rrtenos ss-- you - uae.
but have them on a fair understanding
da not let your sole idea bs te get as
much out of them as you tan and ;hsa
4fab thB..- - ' .
A flirt can OO incaicuiaDie narm, out
only to men. but to her own sex.
she embitters a' man and he Is never
again the sams man In , his trsatmsnt
nf women.
Hs looks upon 'them an as oemg oi
the same caliber as the gin wno as-
cetved him, snd treats them wun
little mercv as shs showed him.-'
Remember this, and bs nonest ana
trtie In vour friendships with men.
Be friends for rnenasnip m saas not
foe- raft-
Arid don t for ons momeni oeiieve mat
breaking mep's hearts will do you any
wwi-ln the lone- ran.1--Ths flirt very
often ends by becoming a peevish, lone-
i. ia . . . .- i ' ' : '
'Answer td Correspondent
1. F. Lane. Placer. Or. Ths names of
the officials you desirs ars as follows:
President's cabinet Secretary of state,
Ellhu Root i secretary of the treasury.
Leslie M. Shaw: secretary of war, WIN
Ham H. Taft; attorney-general, William
H. Moody; postmaster-general, George
B Cortelyou; secretary of the navy,
Charles J. Bonaparte; secretary of the
of agrlculturs, James. Wilson: secretary
of commerceand labor, VlctprB... Mst
calf. - . - . ' . -
Ambassador to ureal Britain, wnns
law Reld; minister to France, Robert B.
MoCormlck: minister to uermany,
Charlemagne Tower. , .
Oregon's senators cnariea w, r ui-
ton John M. , Gearln. -. .
Oreaon's congreaamen Dinger xier-
manns John- M. Williamson-.
United States Judge ror Oregon. i. jk.
Wolverton. y
Chief Justice or the united - oiaies,
Melville W. Fuller.
Negroes can hoia any ornes to wnicn
they are elected, ths sams as white
men. ' ' '- -.
State Treasurer Graft. y'J
FronTlhe PeridletonIiBrOregbnrsn.
It la remarkable to note ths anxlsty
ot candidates for ths offlcs of stats
treasurer to make It clear that they ars
willing to distribute state tunas to
banks . In counties where stats moneys
originate, rather than concentrate the
state funds in some favorite bank,, from
which ' the etats treasurer may grow
fat.-- - ' .-- :
Thla stats treasurers orrics nas Been
used to more corrupt purposes than any
other state offloa In ths past Stats
funds havs been used by Jhe treasurers
for thslr own prlvata benefit and profit,
without discrimination, and tnis is a
late day for ths spasm of decency to
strlks ths political party and ring which
has coniroiiea.-inis omce ior years. -
Ths power of - the country press
which has, demanded that this corrupt
nractlcs cease, is .responsible for ths
change of sentiment among candidates.
Ths East Oregonian hopes to see tne
state treasurer's graft stopped by ths
Juet indignation ef ths people.
'Tns State snouia enjoy any onm
coming from the use of stats funds.
This office hes -fattened enough of
ficials. ,
''-.-. Politeness Overdone,; .
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean. "
General Horace Porter wae talking
about a French artist ,
."Ths man Is talented and a good con
versationalist," he ssld. "but hs Is too
gushing. . Hs Is oversympathstle. In
his desire te be egreesbls he goes toe
far.
"Perhaps I esn best explain what I
mean by a little story ths story of a
young girl.
"This young girl's sweetheart said to
her one evening:
" "Were yen swars that X passed yout
house lsst night
; "'Of ' course I was,',' shs said. ' Do
you think I would not know your step?
. "But he, st this, grew grave snd dis
trait, tot ho had passed In a cab,"'
THE PATHFINDERS OF
HISTORY :
By Rev. Thomas B. Gregory. ' '
John Flake, In his "Outlines of Cos
mic Philosophy," drawing a parallel be
tween Sir Isaac Newton and Herbert
Spencer, ssys: "They resemble each
other alike In the audacity of specula
tion which propounds far-reaching hypo
theses and In ths scientific soberness
which patiently verifies them; whils ths
astonishing mathematical genius pecu
liar to ths ons Is paralleled by the
squally unique power of psychological
analysis displayed by ths other. As In
grandeur of conception and 'Srelatlva
thoroughness of elaboration, so also lit
ths vastness of Its conaeauencea In tha
extent of the revolution which it is
destined to effect in men's modes of
thinking Mr. Spencer's dlscovsry is on
a par with Nswton's." - ,. ,
- Spencer was not tha ftrat to eall men'e '
attention to ths idea of evolution.-The
oia ureeg who forms the subject of the 7
second article In this series nraianA
the Idea 000 yeara before--the -htrtti
. nrisi; ana in modern times Goethe and
Kant not to mention others, anticipated
the great Englishman by many years.
What Spenoer did and perhapa 1
waa ths greatest thing thst anr One
ever did waa to co-ordlnats ths myriad.
ioia pnenomena rormulated by ths laws
of evolution, thus systsmstlslng that
which was before more or less of a
chaos. -;.,-- - -,.'.-,'-.'
Patiently studvihr the antlra hierar
chy ef phenomena, from matter up t
raino. jierDen spencer, after years tof
the most hcrolo toll, was sble to sn-
nounce the law underlying" and deter,
mining thsm. . ? ...
Finding evolution a mere ' theorv.
Spencer left It a solid fact with its
taodus operandi verified and explained.
This is What Flake rlahtlr calls 'tha
wldeat generalisation that haa vet been
mads concernlnt:tha-coneeeia-rintvre"-'
as a wnoie.
For the world of hlolorv a nd. fop
that matter., for the unlverae so far aa
we are able to know it Spencer did
what Newton did for astronomy ha
supplisd the -key which unlocked ths v
mystery of the method by which nature v
performa her work. --'' ' .
The nef-reault of Herbert Snencer'a
long and glorious life work wss the'
revelation of ths fact that the path of
the mighty procession of things Is .an
ascending ons.-
Ot course there Is devolution ss welt
as evolution. ' retrogression as.wsll a
advancement: but upon the whole,
stralghtow-tkrnngh ths devolution and
retrogression, the march of - things, is
upward In the long run, steadily up
ward t -. ; .- . ' - , - ; ;
From Stardust to Nebula, from Nebu
la to World, from World and its Inert
matter ro lire, rrom .lire in its lowest
forms to life In its higher snd still .
higher phases, ths -process culminating,
so far aa ths present Is concerned, in
the -Imperial brain of man. v -
And man from our first glimpse of
him in ths prehistoric tlms until todas
has been steadily slowly but surely
"climbing up ths golden stairs," gen
eration py generation, tns long, weary
centuries through, leaving soms of hla
brutality behind hlra, soms of his Igno- "
ranee, soms of his wretchedness, grow
ing ateadllyV-though . gradually, better,
wiser and happier.
Herbert Spenoer nowhere- saw - any
evidence or even so much ss an lntl-
mationur a "rail si Man ' rrom -an
original perfection, and purity. .,
From the time, when; man first ap-
pears -upon - the stage of ' the world,
awayDack inthe geologic times.""
straight up te thj moment that now
la. he Js seen to be sdvanclng, stub,
bornly, heroically fighting, his way to -higher
and still higher levels of thought -and
llfst , . "--., -
In a word, ths law of evolution Is'
the law of progress, and Jts world to
ns Is: "Hope, and despair not"!
LEWIS AND CLARK
At Cascade Locks. : j, .
April 11 It rained all night e that
tents and skins which covered our bag.
gage were wet We therefore deter
mined te take ths canoes first over ths
portage In hopes that by the afternoon
the rain would cease and, we might carry
our barrage over without injury. This
was Immediately begun by almost the
whole party, who In the course of the
day dragged four of ths canoes to ths
head ef the vmplde -wtthr great diffleulty
and labor. -A guard,, consisting of s
sick' man (Bratton) and three who rtsd
been lamed by accidents, remained with '
Captain Lswls and a cook to guard the
baggage. This precaution was bdso- -lately
necessary to protect It from ths
Wahchellahs. whom ws discovered to bs
great thieves, notwithstanding their sp-
farent honesty in restoring our coat,
ndeed. so arrogant and Intrust vs have
they become that nothing but our num
bers, we are convinced, saves- us from
attack.' Thay crowded about us whlls
ws were tsklng up the boats, and ons of
them had ths Insolence to throw stones
down ths bank at two ef our men. we
now found It necessary to depart from .
our mild and pacific course of .conduct
On returning to the head of ths portage
many of thsm met our men and seemed
III-disposed. "Melds - had stopped to
purchase a dog. and being separated e
from ths rest or tne party, two Jnoiine
pushed - him out of - ths - road amd - at." -tempted
to take the dog from him. He
had no weapon but a long knife, wttlt .
which he immediately attacked tnem
both, hoping te put them to death be.
fore they had tlms to draw their ar
rows; but as soon as they saw nis oe- ,
in thev fled Into the woods. Boon
afterward ws wsre told by an Indian .
who spoke Clatsop, which ws ourselves i..
had learned during the winter, that ths
Wahclellahs 'had carried off Captain'
Lewis' dog to their village below. Three -
man well armed were instantly Dis
patched In pursuit ef thsm, with orders
to Are if -there wasthe slightest re
sistance or hesitation. Af the distance ;
of two tnllee they came within sight of
the thieves, who. finding themselves
nursued. Isft the dog and mads off. , We . :
now ordered all the Indians out of ,
eamp, and explained to tnem mat wno
ever stole any of our baggage er in
sulted our men should be Instantly shot, '.
a resolution which ws were determined
to enforce, ss It was now our onty
meane ef safsty. - ,'Jy, s;
! A Daring rriment ' ; .
From he Coweta I. T.) Courier. .
Ws havs decided that "boose and
business" Is a bad mlxturs. snd will
trv lust slain bualness for a short spell.
If tbls doesn't work well we may de
cide te cut out buslnsss snd try boose.
This dsclsion was reached after a very
forcible ergument with our devoted J
spouse, who warned ua In ho uneerteta ,.
lsnguage that ws would be using soms
of thst hair restorer en our topmost
point unlsse we wiped it off our list
altogethsr. As it would bs a sin ts
wests ths pteelous fluid In thle manner
we have cut It out. Boys, be warned- ;
aud don't tempt us, for we will be .
compelled to murder In cold blood the
nret one wno nesnee a-ooiue or tinc
ture coatUrtuv .la out firessace.
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