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' t? V. v. EDiTorAL Page of The Jouiinal K-'.Y' V, 'iHE JOURNAL AM INDKPBXDKHT ilwIfifM" v 4 mr evening eset Beasayj i .rv P-May ornlx. at The IhtwIW n. fuiA sad laaaill streets,- Portia 4 110- Portlaae, WihI tke rtrrSee PorMaaS, Ore tor rntaa tares tae stalls ss ' TELXPHONSS. , --rii . !. i OtSm etels 00 rOMIQN ADVSaTISIftu SrBSSHTATIVg VrU4-BmJiU Specta AHwti.ln Aeescr. H Mews itmt, rr Xerkl TrlbuM Wll- PBfl, UHI g-'beetlsttSS TN kr nail SST tMM ta USIteS IUM, XHU Ww DAitr. 4 . - . ammiff .......SJ.00 On BMk....... J . . PAH.T AKD SUXDAT. Oe year.. ft. 00 M swats....... i Wirt Is liberty . without wisdom sad without irtm; Such liberty Is the greatest "of a ponible arils, f or tt U " and folly and madness, without tuition and without reetratatvBurka. "' USURPATION OP THE STREETS. FOR REASONS best known to themselves, a majority of the : councilmen hare : declared themsdvts oppoeed to any interfer ence .with the Southern Pacific's, use of Fourth street.' It seems-to be clearly established that the railroad's tight to run trains on this street is revocable at any time. It is well known that the city is not receiving dollar of revenue from the company for the privilege which ft enjoys, a privilege which is worth to it thou sands of dollars annually. Property ; owners along Fourth street - have " protested" for years against the annoyance of the South- era Pacific trains.'; They are a con sUnt menace to. life-and limb, often an intolerable interruption of traffic, and have seriously , depredated, the value or abutting property.' The de mand that the Southern Pacific shall either abandon Fourth street or pay to the city .an adequate compensation for its use is s6 clearly justified that it is amazing that any councilman should withstand It- ' ; ; . Months ago The Journal brought this subject to the attention of, the public and pointed out - the- injustice of allowing the continued use of Fourth street by. the Southern Pacific .without some compensation to the city. This is not the only instance where the streets of Portland are be fog used by corporations free of charge.: If the council is actuated by regard for the interests of the tax- payers, rather than the interests of the corporations which have ' thus usurped the occupancy of the public thoroughfares, it will 1 investigate every instance of this nature and take steps to right the wrong that is being lone. ; ,' . '. ;''''.'' . .'. - A SOUTH AMERICAN NEIGH--..LL: BOR, ri-v-' Ty'T R JOHN BARRETT, jerst - V 1 twWl temporary "resident . of Portland, who has achieved distinction and promotion, has recendymsejajcomprehensise and interesting official report about the republic of Colombia, to which country he is the United Ststesmtn fster. We quote a portion of his re port: ''''. 7 - f: -' ; -, . "Not only should the merchants, manufacturers, exporters, and , cap italists of the United States turn their eyes to Colombia, but all men who are. students of international politics 'or who care to keep informed on re markable achievements and ., possi . bilities beyond the confines . of the United States, ' should watch Co lombian progress. ' Then there is a particular reason, growing out of the recent Panama unpleasantness, why the government and people of , the United States "should lend Colombia a kelping and sympathetic hand in her efforts to develop a new. era of prosperity. Making a simple calcu lation for the future, Colombia will presently experience a material de velopment like that of Mexico, which has astonished the world and at tracted the investment of $600,000,000 gold of United States money, After having 'visited nearly all the Latin American republics from Mexico to Argentina, the writer holds that Co lombia, in proportion to area and - population. Is the richest of all in variety and extent of undeveloped re- - sources and opportunities. 4-".:'A:!r! Mr. Barrett enter! into many inter esting details, as to geographical lo cation, area, climate, present and pos sible products. There will, some time, and at no very distant time, be a continuous railroad from Montreal, Boston, New ' York and Washington through Mexico, Central America, and South America, through sot only Colombia nly a step, as we may say, from sovXhcra shore but through South American states, as fsr south ss Montevideo and Rio de Janeiro.,; There will be an outflow, as our population multiplies, southward as well ss northward not only to Man itoba, Alberta - and Alaska,! but to Mexico and Central and South Amer ica. There will be fine opportunities in all those regions as soon as good and stable governments T are estab lished, and : there Is a constant and rapid improvement in this rcspect WHY DOESNT ROOSEVELT . SPEAK OUT? X F-TARIFP REVISION is right I .' why has not Theodore Roose .velt declared for tariff revision and taxation reform long ago F, In all his many met sages to congress he haa not' said a definite - word about this ever-pressing and pulsing subject He tilts against the trusts, here and there, occasionally, yet never yet has tackled the mother of trusts, the greatest' economic crime of all ' the ages protection." "Protection", is in the very nature of the case an evil, a wrong thing, a crime against the common people. It benefits only the few, and these few the ones, as a rule, least needful or deserving of "protection" Look at Carnegie. Look etJHavemeyet. - v Look at RockefeUer.'.r."' :- ' Look at Schwab. .' 'And then, before hurrahing your self hoarse for protection, look at ten million working men, most of them with wives and babies, men earning barely an existence, and who are be ing robbed by the protection system. by the Rockefellers and Carnegies or, rather, by their representatives and tools in congress, and by platitud inous presidents who prate of aquare deals. - '1v:---T"T'"r""'r"r('V There is no "square deal" in the protective iniquity, and Mr. Roosevelt knows jt." If he does. not, he should. And knowing it, he should dare to The country .needs a man who dares to say and do the 'right thing who dares apply his moral philosophy to a practical affairnamely, the tax ation of the half-paid many for the benefit of a few vampires. . -., V,-; Is Roosevelt a great man, after all? Either he does not know and appre ciate this tremendous Iniquity; of elsej knowing it, he dare not accuse and denounce it, and seek to reform it 1 V' '';.:-,. - 1 ,U.,... But there are coming men who do both know and dare. ". ,,,';T' ":) Cummins of Iowa seems to be one. La Follette of Wisconsin another. Folk of Missouri ia another, Hearst Is bound to tell the truth. : And there's' Brother Bryan...' . A poet once exclaimed- "God give us Men"l .- iV:-..:';,-' And, Men men who dare to Say and do thf right things and .faith fully serve the people were never more needed in. this land than right now. . . ' ; . ; ,' - : . . , -, President ' Roosevelt Is an admir able man jto a certain extent; he has done some very good things; yet un til he declares the truth about this monstrous economic .robbery masked under the seductive, name of protec tion, 'we shall not wear our throat out hurrahing for him. . f V a r . " Kansas, which a . few years ago raised' the greatest. crop of whiskers of any state in the union, has become the greatest producer of whest and corn, in the country. " A strange creature called a Populist was found on the outskirts of one of the leading cities a few days ago, and was plsced in the state museum,' where it is re garded as : a wonderful " unnatural curiosity. ' ' " ' - Isn't there something rather ridic ulous in the humble attitude of the public as it hands its petition for bet ter service to the streetcar company? While .the people gave, for practically nothing, the use of their streets, they did' not give 'lip "aU right to regulate public corporations. ' ; ' " : The "Iowa Idea," which hitherto has .stalked grandly through the edi torial pages of some of our esteemed contemporaries, does not appear in separable from a little sharp work in convention and something approach ing Jobbery in committee. ,, - , The Taft boom, which developed a tremendous amount of strength in the administration organs, has been re tired, while Mr. Roosevelt gets that load of hay into the barn. - ' Russia is getting along. First it wss a breach of the peace; then riot; now mutiny. The next step is re bellion, and if that is successful it will be called revolution. '. ;. Seems like there are as many visit ors in Portland as during the fair a year ago. ?";"." , ." . r .... ; i ' t i. . in mi II. f Some . Republicans' of lows were not proper! honored.' The state ' What Is Portlands Greatest Need? MEMBERS OP EXECUTIVE BOARD TELL JOURNAL , READ ERS WHAT WOULD IMPROVE ROSE CITY. jr. Sewers and Fireboatr L. T. Peary. . "Sewers and another flreboat," aald tt. T. Peery. These I think are among the moat pressing: heads rf Portland. ' "The mortality statistics of the coun try show that Portland la the healthiest or the urge eltles In the United States, and In my opinion, this is due to the lgllanoe shown bjr th etty eounou In providing proper sewer faollttlea. . But new residence districts .are -priagins up in au parts or tnecity, mors esneei-ally-enths eatrVeras. Grsat ears must be ezereissd to see that these looalltlee arw provided with lateral severe. Ja no other way can the excellent health record of Portland be maintained. We are just beginning the construction of the Brooklyn sewer, to ooat fUtO.OOO. The Irvtngton sewer, that coat lltt.ooo. Is about oomplstad. These trunk sewers make ample provision for a large por tion of ths-iest side, but the rapid building up of the peninsula will soon eall for eswsr extension in that lo cality." ' . .. ."Another Immediate need of Port land." continued Mr. Peery, 'Is a naw and larger flrebost "The extensive building of manufacturing plants and warehouses em and near the river front In the past two years makes It usees eery that we provide additional nre flghtlng apparatua for 1 this class of property," , : - I A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO READ .. , Song of the Thennometar. iohn Xendriok Bangs in New Tork Sun. Hurrah for the merry midsummer days. Hurrah for the shimmering sheen! Three cheers for the weltering July haae .That hangs a'er the pastures green! Oh. here's terthe red hot sun above , And the white hot pare below, When even Cupid, the God of Lots. Grows faint In the noonday glow I . - Ah, blessed times Indeed are these . . ; Ablaae are my. Inward Area As I mount up to those high degrees'' Toward whioh my soul aspires!. ; ' World Notea. ' .V-': i ' The oldest unlvereity in the world Is at Peking, tt Is called the "School for the Bona or the Empire." Ite antiquity Is very great, and a grand register, con sisting of stone columns, 120 ta number, contains the names of the S0.S0S grad uates. . . . Because pariahloners of the Grace Methodist church. Haverhill, especially those hs.vlng large families, eomplalnsd that the, expense of attending ehurch every Sunday was more than theyeould bear, the official board of the ehurch has voted to give them free trolley rides te and fronf dmreh. - ,- There le a species ef mullet flab found among- the eoral Islands of the Paolflc which swims about Jn armies, with ef fleers and van and rear guarda. Baoh army is also provided with scouts above and below. When danger threatens from abers. the .. upper eoouta pi una downj If the danger urfrom below, the lower scouts dart upward, and thus warn the army. i . - A Westbrook, Mains, s tors attracted muoh attention this last warm spell by a sign which read: ' "Come In 'and see ue en oil stoves." . ; - , - In parts of Australia, where the' aver. age rainfall Is not more than 10 Inohas, a square mile of land will support only eight or nine sheep. ' in Buenos Ayree the same area with 14 lnchee ef rain, supports 1,00 sheep.- Out of 440 pupils who will enter the New Britain, Connecticut, High school this next fall only Ave will study Greek. f What They Pay 'For. ' Here are a few of the subjects upon which the newly fledged Ph. D.'s ef Har vard have thrown light: "Studies on the Nuclear Cyole of Gonlonemue mur bachll Mayer," "The Concept of Quan titative Equality," A P Q Plane for Thermodynamic Cyollo Analysis," "The Longitudinal Vibrations of a Rubbed String," "The Visual Cells In Verte brates, Chiefly In N returns Meyeulosus.LV Culture Btudlss of ' Hymenomycetes.' "The influence of Selection en - Color Pattern In Guinea Plge and Rata," "De rlvatlvse of Substituted Orthobenaoqut- convsntion consisted of, only about 2,000 members, and there are many more Republicans in Iowa than that Work on the Panama canal Ss said to be' progressing so favorably , that we may soon look for the official an nouncement that it .will be begun in the near future.' There must be something very al luring about that peek-a-boo waist to attract to it the opposition of so many women. . ;' "" ' '." .''"? V;j" :;V' ; . France hsi just discovered that a very liberal trsnslation of the Monroe doctrine reads: "AH the Americas for Americans.", "V""''.' .";''"".-;'".', ': Conditions in Russia are gradually improving; somebody is sssassinsted every dsy or two.' ;' . '. ;'; '' . .t . 1 1 1 i I. . Idaho Republicans seem to be about as loving as a lot of cats and dogs. ' Governor Cummins has ' fairly earned his success. ; The "Iowa Idea" still seems to be alive and kicking.:-r -rrt Old Joe Clnnon for presidentl It is to Isugh. Well, Borah rhymes with hoorah. ' Standpatters will get Watted. ' bilanthropio Sparrcra.- From the Outing Magaslns, " - For several days four or fire spar rows bad visited a eertaln plaoe en the brought food fee anethet UtUs fellow, L. T. Peery. of l&c Vjommon ILE YOU WAIT. nones," "Brilliant Points," "Contrlbu tlons to the Cytology of the Entomopha thoracae" and "Greek Proper Names In Old French." . .. L -1 " i Attempts at English, - L Clarence Ludlow Brown ell. in his book "The Heart of Japan." teUe how eagsr the native shopkeepers are to corral the custom of the English and the Ameri cana To thla end they display eigne couched In what they bellere to be Eng lish language, though the following ex amples seem to require some transla tion: "Barber to share beard or to dress hair, away." "The genuinely bier buy the health for drink." "Of smokes our tobacco ta -pressure to our tongue and gives the healthiness to here and he I Also all people by it" "Cowmeat and pig meat and ramune aouda eaaupre alnainbiya -inlvael." Thla last means lemon ' soda, earsaparUla, glngar beer and ginger ale. . New York's Mouse-Catching Snakes. Tor New York and Paris belong the credit for unique methods ef extermi nating . rodents. In New Tork snakes have been trained to follow the mice Into their holse and kill them. In Parts Dr. JJsnyss ef the Parasitologlcal laboratory. ' after 10 yeara of experi menting, discovered the germs of a dis ease deadly to mice. With these germs hs-tnocvJtea mice eaught In traps and then released thsm to return to their former haunts. The result waa ta kill no less than 10,009 mice in one week In a emaU town in the Interior -ef France, wnere ue experiment waa tried. , . . - .... Small Thoughts. The height of realism la to elng coon songs till you are black In the face. .It' a our charity that always- covers a multitude ot ether people'e sins. Making a mountain out of a molehill appeals to the real estate speculator. - Married life may be one grand, sweet song, but the average man's roles Isn't educated up to It - If we all loved our neighbors as we lore ourselves the world would become a mutual admiration society. 'The people who write articles on how te euoeeed are not always able te sell them. , ;t . ;;..,t .,. . .. ;7. . '". Married for Love." T 7t Is a very fine thing to be brave and generous end noble," said Bliss Perry, the writer, editor and Harvard teacher, "but sometimes we are gener ous and noble against our wllL Then, Of course, we deeerve no credit Of thle type waa a young married man whose father-in-law, a reputed mlllloualie, buret In on hire one day and groaned: 'All Is lost! I am utterly ruined!' 'Ahem,' eald the son-in-law, then I mar ried for love after alt' " - who never tried a flight from the spot The visiting sparrows never came empty billed. They would drop tiny morsels of food near the little sparrow. When tt began to eat the orumbs the othere set up a .great ehlrping and then flew away. After watching thle for a few daya I went out on the roof and approached the lone bird. It did not flutter away from me and made no realstance when I picked It up. . , The sparrow waa blind. Its ayes were covered with a mUkllke film. VvvU .x Welth From Junk. T - Front the San Franolseo Chronicle. I Copper wire to the value of tlOO was stolen from the Postal Telegraph com pany's former office ebout II o'clock Wednesday night A gang of five men carried faTteen colls of wire to a wagon, which was driven by a member of the gang, and before the arrival of patrol wagon loaded with policeman., under Detective gergeant E. Gibson, the thieves escaped with their booty. Not only the telegraph companies, but the United Railroads and the telephone company hare been heavy losers from ths depredations ot a well organised band ot junk thieves, who discriminate In favor of the more valuable Junk, euch as eopper wire and brass findings, r - A ready market is found for thle loot some Junk deoJers making no scruples about purchasing all that is brought to thsm. The wire Is melted Into crude ingots and sent to the eastern smelters. Ths methods of the thleres In looting the ruins in the burned district ere ex tremely simple. Several members of ths gang search ths ruins, and. after selecting such pieces Of junk ' ae will eommand the highest price, oast it Into the street It is an easy matter for othere to gather the Junk without at tracting attention Boys have been engaged by ( Junk dealere to pick up bits ef eopper, and In thle way hare contributed largely to making the business of the Junk men lucrative. .. ,-. - ' Great piles of Junk of all descriptions are piled in the courtyard In the rear of the polios headquarters st the Lowell High school. In the dare Immediately following the fire the police confiscated quantities of Junk and mads a great number of arrests. The men erraignsd in the police courts are fined a nominal sunv.wb.loh Is quickly paid. .. : A Little Ni onssnse It Saved Hlra Money. V' Charles Klein, the well-known play wright waa watching a shuffle-board tournament on the Minnetonluk. A young man made a "ten off," and forgot to score thle unfortunate stroke egslnst himself. "I'm very absent-minded." he ex plained to Mr. Klein apologetically. "Usually, though, you're absent-minded In your 'own faror, aren't your" said Mr. Klein, with a laugh. "Tou are like the old father of the wedding. iehr ' "In what wayf . "A young bridegroom, after the wed ding was all over and. the. bride's -old father had gone off to the club, began to search anxiously among the -wedding girts, ., ..... ... - 'What are you looking for. eearr eald the bride. "That $1,800 check of. your father's;' he said anxiously, 1 don't see it any- " 'Poor papa le so absent-minded.' said the bride. He lit hie cigar with it " Hie Father's Mark. ' .'' Dr. Edward Brooke, the noted teacher and author of Philadelphia, described at a dinner the treat strides that popular eduoation had made in the past, SO yeara "Smaller and smaller." ns eaia, -do- comes the percentage of the illiterate, of those who cannot read or write. It won't be long before a thing that onoe happened to me la Bulllvan county wgl be quite impossible. "when I wee teaehing gohooi in my youth In Bulltran county, a boy, one morning, undertook to go through the alphabet "He stumbled arong. ana nneuy same te a full etop before the letter X. , " Dunno that un,' be said. " Oh. yes. you do,' said X. Think a minute.' "He thought Then he brightened. "Why, he eald. that'e dad's nams.'" 1;:. yjj for Tat. :77''a f "That 'was tit for tat With a ven geance,; said Walter Christie, the aute- moDinst. apropos oi a quarrst Dmn two French ehauffeure. "It was rery neat It reminded me of a grocer I used to know in Paint Book. Thla erooer went over to the jewelers one day to get a new crystal put on his watch. The Jeweler, as ne ntteu ana cleaned the eryatal. - suddenly flushed. He bit his lip and frowned, hut nana trembled so that he could hardly go on with hie task. t - "Finally, handing the watch te the grooer, the jeweler said In a reatrelnod voice: "Bss- nardon: but didn't I Juet see yen put a couple of rlnge and a scerfpln In your pocketf - - - i -Sure you did. eaia tns grooer ooiaiy. When you come to my plaoe, aren't you always putting things In your meuthf " ; Patches for Oil Trust, v '".' a o.t.u M.tifanp. taJlM la In ftha habit of alluring etudent trade by the Information that "Jonn u. jr. waa wont to hare hie person arapea at mat par ticular establishment The wlelder of the eheara never wearies or telling the characteristics of his richest patron. He never bought goods that were expensive or very oheap, but would select material with a view only to , its durability. "Then," says the tailor, "after the gar ments had been ordered he would .never fall te lean ever and whisper confi dentially! Tow,- Mr. - Blank," please don't forget to slip Into the pocket a eouple of patches for the trousers.' " - Ha Didnt Resign. ; " Home Influence is a'mlghty force. It IS" recorded that when sir William Wlghtman, who. after a far too. pro longed Incumbency of the queea'e bench, had made known hie Intention to re sign, nevertheless reappeared at West minster hall, he waa asked, by Sir Alsxan der Cockbura to explain the factv."Why,H said Sir William. "I did mean to, but when I went home and told my wife shs eald. 'Why. William, what on earth do you think we ean do with you tness (g about the house all dayr So, yen see, I waa obliged to come down to court again,".- ".-"-?--.x y : . One Traveler's Criticism. John Sharp Williams had an engage meat t epeak in a small southern town. The train he wee traveling on was not of the ewlfteet and he lost no opportunity of keeping the eonctuctor fn fTtrmtd ' p"'Q"a af that pas. tlcular road. . "Welt If yer Am't like It" the con ductor finally blurted out "why In thunder don't you get out an walk?" , - "I would,". Mr., WUllame blandly re plied, "but you ess the committee doesn't expect me until thla train gets In." n - .'.;-. Lifa.v ;( - (A Modern Veeeion.) " By Wex Jotme. A Uttle youth : - A tiny bit . ' A little work. -. -",'mM, . , Then aber nltf ; :7. A little graft A little bis ' A threat of Jan. - And then gee whist A little billion ' . ' Stowed away ' A little eaetle. ' And then good flay! - A little ekeleton , - Out of sight A little scandal. And then good night! ' A little will To quarrel by V A tomb, And so good-bye! , ., Oracaful Dances of Spain. From the Nineteenth Century. , Tn dancing the Spanish woman la queen of her sex. To see the real thing you must get hold ef a gypsy band or visit soma humble dancing plaoe la Seville -or m the south. - There le no danoing ta the world, ee poetic, passion ate, suggeetire or greesrui. Spain le the true home of the danoe. There are the Jota, or Aragon. with Its fln abandon but stately time: the tango, reeembllng the denee du ventre ef Moorish Spain the danoe ef geeture and euggeetion; the graceful eacbuca, with Ite ehlronomle play ef head and arm si the Jaleo de Jeres. which gypsies dance tn whirling measure; the quaint dancee of the Baeque prevlncee, and acoree of minor looal daaoee more - or Use alike peculiar to different local' Ue. ' But the great danoea are the bolero, the eegutdllla, the ehaeona and the fan lango ef the south. These dancee are the soul and epitome of Spain. In all ef them proee geeture the mystery of true dancing plays an Important part; la all or them the poetry or lore and motion le exhibited with extraordinary SaubUetg and expression, i v Letters From tks People on Topics of Current Interest . . sTataea'a Seat ee sVkwyesa. PortUad, Aug. I. TO the Editor of The Journal 1 inclose herewith a eopy ef a letter mailed some daya ago te the Morning Oregealen In anawer to tie senseless and unjust - editorial screed against lawysrs In general and Amerloaa criminal eourte In particular. . So base less and utterly unfair are Ite periodical diatribes against lawysrs and our legal system, and slaee it lacks the eourteef and fairness to give epece in its ool umne te a etatemsnt ef the ether eide, 1 appeal to The Journal and ask It to pub lish tale statement end the inclosed let ter. Permit me to eav that during a resi dence in tne nortawest or more taan it yeare nothing of public Interest Is more gratifying than that at last we hare tn Portland a aewepapsr that le able to held Ite own with the Oregonlan. which la. ever dominated by a policy ef rule or ruin, it eesma te .be the ruling no tlen of Its editors and owners that whom tt eannot dominate It will de stroy) and that while It le dependent oa the public for support as are other bust. nsse snterprlses, it ewee the puoue nothing, but Is merely . the - personal organ of Its rich proprietors, te be used te lash whoever may come under Its displeasure. Very respectfully, . - - . UJSOKUB t BAOUAS Portland. July IS. Editor Oregonlan The Oregonlan's periodical scour gins ef lawyers appeared on time' In thle morning's Issue. While the proreeeion le In little need of defenee esslnst the ehargee piled up against It from time to time by the Oregonlan, It may be that people who are not In the habit of maturely, reflecting upon euch de nunciation before accepting tt as goepet truth from the ssnctura of the leading newspaper of the Pacific coast will be mleled. It le trite to eay that praetloe ehould accompany teaching; - etlll tt may be readily notioed that all through the past rears whenever the Oregonlan haa had occasion to appear In the courts, either ae plaintiff - or defendant tt has In variably retained the services of a law yer; eo do all the rest, ir lawyere are responolble for all the miscarriages ef Juatlee In our eourte, - and tf such is their chief function, why ehould those who ere eo learned in the law and who eo bewail the ruin and deterioration of our courts employ them and pay them for auch dirty work in their own causes la eourtt Ever man may appear In his own eauee at the bar of Justice. The truth te that tt ta only human nature for liti gants to dsslre to prerell In a Isgal eon- test They 'employ attorneys to secure for them every advantage that the lewe of the land afford. They are entitled te all the law-allows and no more, it la the attorney's duty to demand ' ae much for them and under his oath be ta compelled to Insist that his clients re ceive ae much at the bends ef the court Then le it the attorney's fault that Judgea sometimes commit errors , and are reversed? It le a common cry that England and her provlncee are away Ahead of us in the dispensation of Juatioe. . It la a falss cry. It Is not true. Her preoeedlnge may be more heartless. She may Stick to the old traditions of a false dignity that holds that a court of Juatlee eannot err, and that Ite decree ere Infallible and must not be disturbed. But remem ber Mrs. Maybrlek: remember a - Jef freys, r It Is better ta err oa the aide ef mercy than to srr 1n a hard-hsarted and bigoted notion that anything human can be infallible. Our eourte sometimes srr, but It does not become a good American to insinuate that a erlmlnal'e money will buy Immunity, or that our free country has not as good laws and ae able, and Impartial a Judiciary as that of any old and pompoua monarchy under the eun. Nine-tenths of the shortcomings of our Judgee arlae from the fact that we hare svsr been the elaree of political parties and have always Insisted that our Judges be named by tbeee political machines. Judgee ehould be elected by the people, from the supreme court down, end that for terms not to exeees six years, but their time ef election ehould not be at the asms time as that for our pursly political offices. Their choice should be guarded egainat the In flumca of oolltlcal Bart lea. If all news- papera of the standing of the Oregonlan' would aavoeate euca a moae ox selection ef Judgee It would not be many yeara until moat, of the evils thst it uoin - plains ef would be removed. Let ue educate ourselves to the notion that our Judgee ehall be selected for their emi nent fitness for- the position and not because hs may belong to a eertaln po litical party er that hie selection will bring certain support ta a political ma chine dominated by schemers. Lawysrs are people, ordinary people. They are lilts other people: no better) no worse. Their average goodness and their average badness -are en a per with that ef other olesss of the people. Inoludlng doctors, farmers, laborers, preachers and even editors. They- are doing their full ehere to make this s better and purer world. They have done their full abare of bearing , the burdene of the past They have not Another Bobby Burns. B v James 3. Montaaue. ' : ' ; Ten know that chap that used to loaf . around our etreet alt day, . A-tellln' storlea to the kids, an' watchln' babies playt . Well, eayl If he'd let boose alone, he see that he could write gome things te make the world est up an' chuckle with delight He see that he sees poetry 'most every- v - whore he turns. An' tf he sobered up he'd be another . Bobby Burna . He ain't wrote hothln' yet he ees, so - very awful good. But that don't make na difference, for he's eertaln that he eould; But he's eo foad o loafln' - an' of watchln' youngstero play An' loadin' whiskey Into him, It always seems eome way He never gets ne time to tend to eerioue concerns, --.. An' so nobody knows that he's another Bobby Burna , X never heard of Bobby , Burna an' . maybe he eould beat That poor eld ehaa at wrltln' but the ' klde along our street . Would rather eee him elttln' there a-makin' bablss smile , ; makin' babies smile ' Than all the Bobby Burnses you could find in half a mile. - We hope he'll quit the boose eome dsy, tor we ean see ne yearns Ta sober up an" git to be another Bobby Burns. . , , . i ( Chamewa correspondence v- of -" the Aurora Boreealls: The four little In dian boye who were returned te the ChemeTwa school today, had the time of their Urea while here. The oitisene ex erted themeelres to giro the little ehape a good time. They eey they ran away aeeauee they don't get enough te hV Shirked In times ef street; they have been tn the thick ef the Sght tn every battle for liberty alnee the. dawn of history. They are today thla land over straining every nerve to eurb the rapacity that threatens to engulf thla country late Pluto's pit - . . Yes, the Oregonlan ewes' them seme thing; much that It een never pay. It ewee a Jefferson, a Hsnry, an Adame for that very freedom that allows it ta criticise court a ir owes a Marshall, a Wsbster and a Uneoln for the privilege ef living in a, great and glorious re public We all ewe them something i debts we een partially -extinguish by striving to live up to the greet stand-1 srds erected by them end by eeaaeleaaly laboring, as the world grows, to exalt that matchless governmental structure whose .foundations were so' skillfully laid by the hands ef lawyere at the birth ef thle republic OEORGK X BROOKS. ; a JaeeseveH AAmlxee. , Hood River. Or July II To the Edi tor ef The Journal I would like to ex-' press my humble views upon one ef the vital subjects that concera ue ae a na tion, namely, the heroio stand Roose velt bee taken agalnet Standard Oil and aU thoae gigantic comblnatione which organise for the purpose ef cornering the necessities -of life, controlling the Inetrumente ef production and dlstrlbui tlon end plundering a patient and long suffering populaoe. I realise the faot that under our present eystsm ef gov ernment, a eystsm copied from that ef tnolent Rome, but In a more progressive orm, great organisations and great se gregations of capital tn the hands of prU . ri inuiviauaia are necessary to the admlnletering of the enormoue buelneee of this great republic In mv humble opinion it la not the use but the abuae ef this privilege of orgsnlxatlon that our great executive, with his lore of juetlca . end his characteristic enthusiasm and firmness, is opposing, too long already hare the people bean blind en thla great subject blinded by the pomp and power of the organised wealth of a land which haa produced mors millionaires end mul timillionaires tn a shorter length , of time than any country on earth. Many were deluded with the notion thet the eorporetlone were stronger than the government- But Roosevelt the great est president since Lincoln, has cleared the mist eway, nulled the wool from the eyea of the people and tt remains to be dsmonstrsted whether Unci Bam or the trusts wilt control thle great common wealth, a oountry ' which Washington and his bind of patriots struggled eight long yeara te wrest from the hand, of tyranny. , I bellere tn equal juatioe before the law for an and that the power of the multimillionaires should be curbed te prevent them trampling on the righto of the producers, the farmere, those who are attached ta the eoll from whioh aU wealth ta derived. . The farmere.. the greet middle class. Are the bone and elnew of the netlen. . The two danger ous elassee politically are the very rich . end the very poor, one living In luxury and Idleness, the other condemned- to a. lire or nopeleSs tolL . This Is the great est and apparently - the most perfect . form ef government the world has wit nessed, but great evils are glaringly ap parent In our civilisation. I am In fa ror of Roosevelt for our next president My eandld opinion Is that ' If he le " elected those great combinations which are like eome glgsntla moneter with Its teeth fastened about the throat sndjts claws burled deep in the bowels of our greet republic will yet feel the etrength, ef thet greet arm. Tours truly. ( .. " J. B. TERRT. , ' Oirle XxaprorexaeBt " Portlsnd. Au. - L Te the Editor of - The Journal The different subjects Which may be Included under thle head. treated in yeeterdeye Journal, are rery . Interesting to thle reader, and under the same thle Interest suggests 4 another Item: . I once saw an appeal mede to ell con scientious people to i eweep from the aldewelk eny pleoe ef . fruit peeling which e not her may have thrown there. " Thle may be possible la the eastera eitlee where lew and public opinion con trol habits ef thle description, but could It be In Portland t Are we not barbar ous In fh Is tremsndoue amount of care. lessnessT Only very recently a charm -Ing lady lecturer waa subjected to seri ous inconvenience end her lecture la consequence ahertened-through her step. ping upon seme suoh thing ae a cherry sain. And boys It eeeme should be pre-' rented, ae far ae possible, from throw- . Ing atonee on sidewalks; thsy are espee lolly . dangerous from being the same oolor as the welke, end thue not esslly seen. r X heard en elderly gentleman aay that tor thla reason he dreaded them far more than fruit skins. As regards perk epsces In the cltyt Have any besides myself a picture In their minds of the happy soenes In the ' email parks ef Savannah' eo frequently recurring (every few blocks) as one peseee through the city?. These were provided through the foresight ef the original noble spirits who planted the colony. Their public spirit-"took time by the forelock." .H. . J : ' The Superior Sex.' By Wex Jones. " I A women ean t rote ae a man n ean: - She thlnke Bernard Shaw is Intense," And she dancee what looks like a can caa . . v '' When ehe tries to get erer a fence. She can't eee a mirror but In tt Her hair neede a pet and a smack: 'J. She can't keep a secret a minute, , - , BUT She can button her waist up the back. A woman can't hit With a hammer. Except an the end of her thumb; In athletics, for all of hsr clamor, . ' Hsr performance le terribly bum. When out ef a streetcar ehe tumbiee , She probably sprawls on the track; When asked- for - a ' speech ehe Just - mumbles, - v - "' ' - ! . BUT v She caa button her waist up ths bsek. A' woman can't eharpen a poaoll: A woman can't aire with a atone; - A rasor ehe deems a utenoll - For carving the gristle end bone. . . When a man feels uncommonly cheerful He laughs till hie ligaments erack. While a woman when Joyful ta tearful, -' , ' BUT ..'.:- - She can button her waist up the back. A woman can't stay, without dreaming Of burglars, alone In the house, Nor see without Jumping or screaming " So much ee the tall of a mouas. A woman ean never look merry . When spending un cents at a craek A woman can't climb for a cherry, - . -....'-.-..- BUT r ' She caa button her walat up the back. Long Shota, " ' Mother why don't you plsy populer muslo on the piano, Dora? Dora Because I take after papa, and I hear he never plays ttvertteev - A,
