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.too anxious apprehensions
than ruined by a too conii- i
dent security Burke, - .
THE
COMING DES MOINES
. CONFERENCE.
.'J'; "KJEXT MONTH the conference
I VI called by Governor Cnmmino
' ; f to 'discuss the election of
. United States senator by direct vote
of the people will meet ' in Dee
Moines, and it it expected that dele
gate from nearly if not quite all the
states will be in attendance. As every
. one understands, the several legists-
tares will, have to go through the
formality of electing senators, or rati-
- - fying the choice made by. the people
in primary elections, but this will be
come, it is believed, only a clerical
:' formality, the legislatures exercising
no real choice or power of selection,
V ... after the people by 'a plurality have
expressed their preference. . . .
-"The conference at Des Moines will
' in all probability indorse fbi's primary
,;- method of choosing senators, already
. in vogue in several southern states,
in Oregon and in Illinois; but it is
expected it will also take steps to
a bring; about an amendment . to the
- federal constitution by the action of
three fourths of the states, as that
'I instrument provides may be done. 1 1t
requires only a majority of the states
to petition congress for ' a "constitu-
tional amendment, when that body is
I Hound-ti'.4WU.the- .amendment to
i -tne several states, ana u ratiuea py
three fourths of them -it becomes a
I part oi the eonstirarfoif without'iir
. ther. action on the part o( congress.
There is little doubt that if the op
portunity were . presentedTaV" least
three Jouiths of the .states would
adopt ' such an amendment, but the
thing necessary to be done first is
for a sufficient number of legislatures
to preVnt the necessary memorial to
' congress, and it is partly to work up
V a concert of actioix in this particular
avTL"1 - - . .
. In one way c the other the old
-method of electing United States sen
ators is doomed to, 'pass away,' as it
involves too many scandals and inter
feres too much with proper state
legislation.
A BOSS-RIDDEN STATE.
CALIFORNIA Republican poli
ticians are now engaged in
loading dice for' use in the
state convention of that party. ' The
governorship is . at stake, and the
smoothest manipulator will name the
; winner. There is no hitch over, re
form plans and methods, such as have
disturbed Republican conventions in
' the "east." " No candidate depends pn
any particular issue. The primaries
. have been held, and the main thing
now is to get the support of those
delegates whose first allegiance is not!
to their constituents, or even to the
Republican party, but to William F.
Herrin, political distator of the South
ern Pacific railway. The nomination
y will not be made for several ballots.
. Railroad delegates will be permitted
to square themselves with the "home
folks"; then Herrin will say the word
. and a stampede will follow.
- i It is a peculiar state of affairs.
Four candidates are looked upon as
',, . possibilities, but politicians admit that
none of the four ia strong enough to
win without the aid of Herrin. A
".. few years ago such a condition would
have attracted little attention, but in
' these days of political house-cleaning
", one expects something different;
either a well-defined reform or a re
volt California Republicans seem to
be reconciled to their fate. If there
is to be any breaking away at elec
tion time it has not as yet csst any
shadow before. , v rt,'.
California is st the mercy of two
bosses, William F. Herrin and Abe
Ruef. One would prefer to name
' Warren Porter of Santa Cms for gov
, trnor; the ther,favors J. O. Hayes,
San Joee millionaire and brother of
' Congressman E. A. Hayes. This
might look like t quarrel between the
bosses,; but it is not. Neither one
wants Governor Pardee to succeed
himself, and st the' psychological mo-J
ment they will doubtless corns to-1
gather and unite on some candidate
satisfactory to .both.': , It U .thla4hat
throws a rainbow across the path o:
Congressman J. N. Gillett. The man
from ' Humboldt has never offended
either of the bosses, and this doubtful
virtue may snake him governor of
California.'-' : ; . ..
At a glance it would seem that
Governor Pardee is the people' can
dldate, Not o. Four yearf of office
has given him an opportunity to
build up a machine. This machine
has won for bun tittle' more than
a third of the total number' of delegates.-
To gain what he .lacks, he
would jump at the-chance to com
promise witK Herrm, but . the. rail
road boss is looking the other way.
Only in. the. event of a break with
Ruef and the insistence of the latter
that Hayes be nominated would Her
rin turn to Pardee! . '
On jthe other side of the political
fence lies' a demoralised Democracy.
The state gave Roosevelt about
11,000 majority in 1904, and this has
put fear into the hearts of the hither
to unterrified. ' After the Republican
convention has taken its orders from
Herrtn, there may be a public awak
ening, but it is not likely. No ordi
nary Democrat could beat even the
weS,of railroad Republicans. At
that-this isn't a good year to fight
the railroad in California. The an
swering cry that E. H. Harriman
came to the rescue of San Francisco
at the time. of the , earthquake and
fire would blind the public, to. the
main tissue. : The Golden state is
doomed to four years of. railroad
domination. By that time it may pro
duce a Winston Churchill to quicken
the civic conscience and lead the peo
ple in a fight for political inde
pendence. ""-,'" ;-
. EARTHQUAKES.
HERE have always been earth
r quakes in various parts of the
. world, and many destructive
ones, but this seems a time of un
usual seismic activity, . possibly por
tending even greater disasters, if pes
sible and it would be possible, say
in New York or London than those
that have recently . occurred in San
Francisco , and Valparaiso and other
Chilean towns. We naturally look
for; earthquakes in a mountainous and
volcanic region, and near a coast, and
they generally occur there, yet hot
always, as the Charleston earthquake
proved. London has suffered earth
quakes,, and temblors have been, felt
in the prairie regions of this country,
A small Missouri town was .once
destroyed.
Valparaiso- has. been subject to
many earthquakes, in fact they have
been so numerous there that people
thought little or ; nothing of them,
but these were generally only slight
i vis ui wsiitw vi s ai v vst sn t "us nesp-iv-
frighting the people more than mo
mentarily;' but in such a region a
violent and destructive disturbance is
liable to occur at any time is pretty
sure to occur at some time, though
perhaps not for centuries. This year
was the time, in San Frncicoand
in Valparaiso,' though in both cases
the principal cause of destruction wss
not the earthquake, but subsequent
fire. A person living in a city so
situated always runs a risk of earth
quake and fire, of just the calamity
that has befallen these Pacific coast
cities, but for .that matter there is
an uncertain degree of risk anywhere,
in any city, t particularly on a coast
It) may be spared for many genera
tions, for many ages, even for aye;
yet it may be destroyed,-as these
were, any year, any day. - A severe
earthquake, with its almost certainly
consequent fires, is something whose
occurrence no scientist or ssvant can
predict ' It comes, like sudden death,
"like a "thief in the night"
OBSERVANCE OF LAW.
S'
OME IF NOT all the large
shippers and' railroads have
been so accustomed to violate
the interstate commerce law for years
that they have considered its viola
tion to be a matter of course, some
thing scarcely to be denied or dis
guised. They seem to have supposed
that the law was a mere "pretense, a
dead letter, something passed in ac
cession to a popular demand, but not
to be taken at all aeriously by the
peraons whom it was designed prin
cipally to affect and whose transac
tions it was intended to regulate.
But latterly ; time has been 1 a
change, an effort not altogether un
successful, to enforce the law, and
even those who have most insolently
defied it and held it for naught have
been obliged to admit that it means
something, and has force and vitality
to punish its defiers and violators. '
Some of the big railroad and other
business men seem to be willing to
give up their illegal practices and
obey the law, 'though we imagine
there are not a few among them who
will bear watching yet ' But the con
viction and lining of one after an-
other of these concerns on account
A Little Out
THINCJ P-WNTID TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT,
. ... Tha LitUa Blind Btggar
At 'the aats of the world where . the
travel flow.
And the folk stream by rull-tloe. '
A' little bltn4 bsaar alt in the sua
: And eheots afar sn4 awtde.
He fits the arrow ana twangs the bow.
And low In his throat laualta he. '
Fee wU he fcnpwa he wlU hit hla mam
Though vr a rao he , i.
And never his stock ef arrows fall
For the aln of the wound la swoet,
And the etrtckm folk bring the arrows
back :.-.'-
To pile at the boggaVe foot . 1
So he fits the arrows and twangs the
bow. ,
And laughs till his fingers shake.
For welt he knows ho ean never mlsa,
But eemewner. a heart must aebo.
Now they who are struck, they keep still
tongue,
But they carry the arrows back, :
And" thay who are spared they sound
abroad. ...
The songs ef the pais they task. . .
But still or singing, and grave or gay.
Through the - gate or the . world
thy sro.
AM the little blind beggar sits tn the
eua . - . .',-....
And iaugha as he lays them low..
Joeephlae Dodge Daskam.
. Reflactiona. A
The woman whe la ambitious to run
things gonerally practices on her own
heabandw- Now Tork Times.
The surest wey to keep money la cir
culation le to have a family. New Tork
Fres.
An optimist Is a man pho polishes up
the dark aide of tife. New Tork Tlmaa.
The borrower always saems to be able
to wear better clothee than the lender.
New Terk Frees. .
The young -lawyer's first plea Is a
trial performance. Chicago Newe. - v
It Is easy to expect others to set good
examples.
Sometimes money talks, but more
of tan It stops talk.
Any man whe aays T eon ears" la
slther a liar or a fool.
At least the toa of the man whs
welte are sure to turn up.
One aeeret of aueces Is the ability to
keep your own eeereta. i
Ufa 1a a riddle: we ean gueea It
therefore we must all give It up.
Chinese Fight With Fingers.
From the Bangkok Tlmaa
On Sunday afternoon a Chinaman Is
reported to. have baen killed la a house
at Talat Piu, Bangkok, as the result of
duel with ' another Chinaman. They
fought with the two forefingers ef eaoh
hand, stabbing each other with these In
the region of the spleen and at the
same level on v the other side of the
body. A strongly built coolie, using the
eight of his body, could certainly give
a nasty blow in that part of tha body,
even with two fingers, and repeated
blowe Of the kind are eatd usually to
prove ratal. i ne men wno go in ror
this kind of contest practice every massw(
of ' rebstes . and other violations of
law las been a most excellent thing
for -the country, and a very useful
lesson to many men and corporations
that heretofore have had no respect
for this law which they in particular
were called upland bound to obey.
And the country generally has on ac
count of these prosecutions and pun
ishments, though perhaps inadequate,
a greater regard for laws generally,
A Ml ' 4. - 1 ,! M . - 1 . I
and will be inclined to heed them
better, ' ' -
This is what the country has long
needed and stilt needs, not more laws,
but better observance of laws.
Of couTse-the tourts wiirheVe "to
decide whether the holders of fran
chises grsnted before the adoption
of the present charter are obliged to
make reports of their. receipts snd
expenditures. ; In equity they ought
to do so, ss well as ths owners of
later franchises. At any rate, the
matter ought to .be tested, and all
possible effort made to tax all public
service corporations impartially.
.While the excuse necessarily car
ries with it a confession of its in
adequacy we will have 'to remain
content with . President Roosevelt s
intimation that the appointment of
T. Cader Powell to . a position in
Alaska without hope o( defalcation
is the only fit punishment that could
be visited on a politician who Vsien
ly nurses his crimes in the aegis of
the statute of limitations.
The Journal is hot jeopardizing its
hitherto untarnished reputation as a
political . prophet when it predicts
that "Uncle Joe" Cannon wlU not be
elected to the presidency. This splen
did nation is moving ahead too fast
to permit itself to be hobbled for
years with the policy of "stand
patism." . ' r- ' -'"j1 11 '. "
One of Sesttls's prominent women
hss just presented her delighted hus
band with twins, and the citiiens of
the sprightly little suburb are talking
of celebrating the event by taking a
new. census. Seattle is in a fever of
progress, all right
..''. ... ...
Senator Cullom speaks of the ter
rible times under free trade 10 years
ago. We had no "free trade" then,
and the terrible time began under the
McKinley tariff. .. . ' .,
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We sincerely trust that the knowl
edge that Mr. Harriman hai made
120,000,000 out of a skillful ' manipu
lation of the stocks of railroads that
are supposed to serve Oregon will
of the Common'
tng stabbing bags of rice or peddy with
these fingers till they can use them like
a piece of 1 re, .. ....
! Defiant English.
When struggling with a foreign tas
guaaV, ' aaeieat or modem, one seidoai
stops to think how ludlerpua our an'
deavora to translate the meaning Into
eur ewa tongue would seem te eae bora
to apeak that language as hla ewa. Ts
appreciate this, one .has only to see the
tablea turned when traveling in foreign
parte. Underneath the eleetrle light
button in the bedroom in a popular ho
tel la The Hague are these words: "The
eleetrto light dares net te be touched."
I High Ufa In Africa, ; ;
A Gold Coast 'Journal desoiibeS
wedding and a feast following It in
meaner befitting a eustodlen ef morals
and manners: "It la reported .-that
most of tha gentlemen who attended
refreshed themselves avariciously, and
the manner tn which they aoted does
not epeak well of their gentlemanly
principle These gentlemen may Please
beware te avoid a repetition en future
oeeaeioas." . . '
-Remarkable Metaphor.
The English -woman suffragtsta have
contributed besides other things to the
gayety of nations a remarkable mixed
mixed metaphor. One ef these atrenuoue
ladles, speaking ef the lack of interest
of women In their rights, soldi Ae
Jet it Is but a flea bite ea the eeean,
at let us arise in all our strength and
nip it. in the bua. we have seen too
much not to' know where the --' 'boot
plnchee.", . ' V
Winfleaa Angel
From the Tonkere Statesman.
"The theatrical angel has no wings,'
remarked the observer ef events and
things: "when hie money le gone he
has to walk just like the reet of the
bunch." - ,
Out of th Mouths of Babes,
From the Chisago News. ' - -
Mamma Tou have been very naughty
today. Tommy.' .,
Tommy Shucks! I eould have been
twice as naughty If 1 had wanted to.
' One day small Elmer was gtvea a por
tion or tripe ror innon, preparea
eordlng te the bpanleh method. -
- -Ughf he exclaimed after teetlng it
"Ain't we got nothla' to eat but this eld
sour bath towel, mammar 7
Little JUsle Mamma, - how mueh do
people pay a pouno tor Dam ear
Mamma Bablea are not sold by the
pound, my dear.
Little Elsie Then why do they al
ways weigh'' them es soon as they are
bora?.
Teacher- (Junior grammar class)
Johnny, what gender is "phonograph'
Johnny Feminine gender.
..Teacher No. no: 1 it's neuter.
eSfohnny Well, it ought to be fejni-
ne. 'cause it - repeats everytnmg - it
tseaiBV
reconcile our business interests to the
trifling loss occasioned by ; the car
shortage. , : '. :'
Owing to the customary demand
for space by people who pay for their
advertising, we find ourselves unabls
to publish all the letters of those who
foretold the disaster of Chile and neg
lected - to t make their predictions
public.
TWheat has Tdeclinedta-price'10
cents a bushel and cotton and corn
are getting cheaper, and yet the Re
publicans declare that the tariff pro
tects the fanner.
A thief who stesls a few dollars is
a very insignificant criminal beside
Stensland, who injured thousands and
ruined hundreds.'
Th,e Tacoma Ledger concedes that
protection did not cause the big crops.
The Sslem Statesman may consider
this heretical '
Coeds Won't Marry.
From the New Tork Sua
Statistics just Issued by Secretary Ar
thur E. Beeter of the Alumni associa
tion of the University of Chicago ehow
that of the 1.SS0 woman graduates of
the university since ite reestablish'
ment In lift only 1T1. or about if per
cent, have married, i -
It Is conceded that the 114 girls
graduated In the elassee of the last two
years should have more time, but the
eeme consideration cannot be given to
those who were graduated before, and
the officials have no satisfactory ex
planatkm to give for their lack of In'
tereat In matrimony.
This failure of the coeds te wed Is
not confined to eny one class. In fact
of the nine women who - graduated in
IStl, the year - following the world's
fair, not one has married. . ' -
The officers of the university deny
that there le anything tn the sugges
tion that the restrictions at the uni
versity against college courting and en
gagements between students has any
thing to do with this Showing, nor do
they believe that the average age of the
women graduates nas naa any erreot,
although the statistics show that the av
erage age of the women who have grad
uated has been very close to IS, while
the men have been younger.
The students figure out that the fac
ulty regulations have done more than
anything else to turn the girls' heads
to other matters than matrimony. They
are almost unanimous in declaring that
the university authorities have pieced
such restrictions on college courting
that younger girl students go elsewhere
to college.
They cite the large number of engage
ments at Northwestern university as
proof of this claim. . ,. .
c .. Cognac for Automobiles. '
' v From the Paris Eclair.
Shortly before the Shah of Persia was
111 there arrived from Parle an automo
bile. Almost before It was unpacked his
majesty wished to see It worked. "Sire,"
eald the grand vlsler. "there le no spirit
available for the motor." "No apirltl"
exclaimed the Shah. ' "And my old cog
nac of ill It Oet some flasks of It."
And -the Persian monareh'e automobile
Was heated with oogaas at 110 ths flask,
A Little N
onaense
v j.". ) The Power of Talis. V
Mayer Casey, the 'courageous
forme of Lowell, said the other day
ex a certain corruct aorDeratlaai ,
Talk is cheap, and till we atart to put
inese men in Jan they win continue
to sin. For, no matter how often we
expose them they need only turn on
a flood ef loud, ehean talk of outraged
ana virtuous aenui ana the force er
our exposure le wined out . -
Te matter what men ere convicted
of, Juet give them liberty to talk, and
somehow or other with their noisy,
red-faeed.jUeeuenoe. they will telk
themselves : baek ; Into reepeeubillty
again. , -
"Here is an lastaaee of what talk
aoee. .- t '
Freneh paper one day printed a
paragraph to this effect 1
At tne table d'hote a dish or new
peas la served. A German sweeps all
the peas into hla plate and begine te
eat
Took here.1 says a neighbor, the
reet of ua .like aeaa. too.' -
" 'Ah. but not as much as' I do,' says
the German.
"This parasTanh ' reached Germany
htuly. The . German editors 1 read It
Then they printed - the next day
paragraph like this:
"At the table de'hete a dish of new
peas la served. A Frenchman sweeps
all the peas Into his plate and begins
to eat, .'.
Xeek Here,' says a neighbor, ; the
reet 01 ua like peaa. too,-
"But not as much as I do. save tne
rrenenman. ,
. Tht Bad Dollar.
raee that bad dollar r said the smart
conductor. . ..)-
"Well, a fellow passed It on me when
wasn't looking, and Ss I oan't afford
Che loss, 1 must pass It along.
Bee that falow with a grip running
to catch this earf Ten to' one he wants
to eatoa a train. He gets the bum
doner. -
The men with the grip clambered
aboard. Near the depot the conductor
ruanea up to-ini. 1
"Fare, please!" 1
The man with the grin handed out a
MIL grabbed the change and dashed
from the car Just In time, carrying
away unnotieea tne worthless coin.
"What did I tell your' said the emart
conductor. "That fellow's el wey a in
a hurry and always changes a bill!"
Then he looked at the bUL and swore
eortiy. -... -.i
"He caught me at last." he said, this
te
a woree counterfeit then the dollar
Strange. ' ' .-
Hillary K. Adair, a western detective,
said In Chicago, apropos of certain cir
cumstances that had enabled him to de-
teat a bank robber:
"I deserve but UtUe credit The cir
cumstances pointed to only : one' 111
omened conclusion. They were unmis
takable. They were like an Incident
that happened the other day to a dear
friend. , . - ,-. :
My friend, aa he eat at breakfast
looked up to see his wife- smiling at
him tenderly and playfully. . - i '
1 mended the hole m your 'vest
pocket last night while you- were
asleep.' ebe eald. . 'Am I not darling.
a oareful housewife r
" "Perhaps,' said my friend - darkly,
But hew did you know there was a hole
in my veet pocket TV" . -.
A Child's Odd Mind.";; V
The late - Henry N. Ptllsbury. . the
famous cheae player, was fond of chil
dren and delighted In Incidents that
illustrated the originality of the chllj
mind. .
At the Meroantile library they teach
me new waye of looking at thlnge. They
give me new points or view. .
"I showed a little girl -an aquarium
of Japanese gold fish the other day.
'How would you like to be a little
flat. mmlA -1
"Not much. eald the tittfe girf
"Why notr I asked.
- -Because,' sns s-Jd, if you were a
little fish your mamma wouldn't have
any lap.'"-
Didn't Mind Being Sued.
Denial Webster was once eued by hie
butcher and the man did not call upon
him afterward to ask htm to trade with
him. Webster met him In the, course
of a few days and asked him why he
dldnt call. "Because," eald the man,
"I supposed that you would be offended
and wouldn t trade with me any more."
To which Webster replied: "Oh. sue
me as many times es you like, but for
heaven's sake don't starve me to death."
Cardinal MartinelU'b Birthday. ,
Cardinal MartlnellL who became well
known to Americana In his several
years' residence In Washington as the
apostolic delegate to America, wee born
August 10, 1S4S, in the pariah of 8anta
Anna, Lucca, Tuscany. He became a
churchman at li and spent the yeara of
hie novitiate in teaching. At the gen
eral chapter of the Auguetlnlan order In
1SSS he was elected prior general of the
order. He wee appointed papal delegate
to America in and served In that
office until he was succeeded by the
present delegate, Monslgnor Fa loon to.
Archbishop Martlnellt was elevated to
the college of cardinals in 1S0I.
Cardinal Martlnellt won the esteem of
all Americana during hla residence in
Washington. He speaks English with
e end fluenoy. To the quick, viva
cious ardor of his countrymen he unites
the keen Insight snd delicate sympathy
of the high-bred churchman. ' ,
Inducted by His Sons. .
Frank Stewart of Cedar Falls.4 Iowa.
has been made a Knight of Pythias un
der remarkable circumstances. The
three ranks wsre conferred upon him by
Ms 11 sons, the event 'taking place at
the castle hall of Red Cedar lodge No.
(I. . Some of the grand lodge officers
of the state attended and a number of
Knights of Pythias from outside lodges
were present Among the eone of Mr.
tewart who took part In the conferring
of the degrees were W. B. Stewart and.
R. . Stewert of Spartaeue lodge, Chi
cago. The work was the termination
of a family reunion that has lasted for
week, and the boys took this occasion
of making their father a member ef the
organisation.
" Algerian Strikers. t
They have en original way ef making
strike effective in Algiers. The
shoemakers ere striking. They are
Jews, Mosisme and Spenlerde, and lack
cohesion of race and language, eo that
their leaders felt something wee needed
to keep them In hand. It was therefore
decided by general - vote that no man
should be allowed to leave the central
of ftoee which are, . fortunately, roomy
In CM Algiers even for food or sleep,
so long as the strike lasts. If a man
gets away by any chance there le a
ue ana cry until be is reoaptured and
led book. , . .....
Letters From the People on Topics
- -.of Current Interest
A Word to
- Portland. Aug. H.Te the Editor of
The Journal In your, valuable Issue of
the 4fth was an artiole from the pen
Of a eouaetlman recommending aa
ether pipe line abJ the purchase ef the
ton ef Mount Tabor fee a park. , The
perke owned by the elty are only partly
improved. We have more perke than
can be property attended to. Thou
eande of dollars for this purpose eould
be expended If the city eould afford to
f 0 so.
As to the water . suppty. we already
have an abuadaaee of water ' for the
needs ef the present population, and
even tnougn the population waa 100,
soa there woiaid be ample water Jor all
Of course, we have net water sufficient
to supply all of Multnomah county.
When the waterworks were built they
were intended only to supply this elty.
A number, ef eur emsens think that
In. order for Portland te be a great roe
tropolia all the edjeeent farming coun
try must be annexed, such as Mount
Tabor, Montavllla and other suburban
towns. Where the benefit is to be de
rived frem having these plsees - an
nexed ts doubtful. All the benefit theee
places could hope te have from annexa
tion would be aa Increase of taxation
and a supply of Bull Run water; the
expense te the elty is so great, end the
compensation, so small, that It la Inade
quate to the amount of money to be
expended. If eur elty severed but one
half of the territory It does now U
would be better, aa the elty le alto
gather tea large for the population.
As far aa parka are concerned, we
might eay all the suburba are parka, aa
one oan get but to almost any of them
in is or le minues ana get all the
fresh air and country sights and
scenes h deslrea . . .
When we get supply pipes laid te Mount
Tabor and Montavllla we WlU have aa
abundance of Water. .
The Inoome reoeivbd by the elty for
water Is something enormous. It seems
Indescribable to any eae who thinks ef
the matter that the water department
ebeuld have trouble la making the
water department perfect. Net. only
that, but there should . be large auma
of money, and would be. If handled Ju
diciously, which would go toward pay
ing the great debt orented te bring the
water from Bull Run. Instead, I am
reliably Informed nothing has been con
tributed to the sinking fund, and this
great Income has been spent la the put
tiirg in or new pipes, etc it would
that the equipment of the water
depertmeet would be aa perfect - as
moaey eould make It when vast sums
of money spent for that purpose are
taken Into consideration,
Oregon need never fear a water fam
ine, ae the supply ts almost Inexhaust
ible and, best of all, the water pours
into the elty by gravitation. All the
expenee the water department Is pat
te le In looking after the pipe line from
here to Bull Run, and the water does
the reet ..i-... .-' .
Ae far- ss the water department ie
concerned, when the time eomeo In the
distant future that It will be necessary
to instair another pipe line.- It will not
be necessary to sell bonds, as the great.
Income from the tax collectors ror wa
ter will be amply adequate to furnish
ths money for a new pipe line If needed.
Consequently it will not be aeceeasry
to sell bonds for that purpose.
, - THOMAS QUINEAN.
Xarmoales ef aTaeure.',
Clackamas. Aug. IT. To the Editor
of .The Journal In a recent issue
of your paper was a suggestion that
"without a belief tn God there eould be
aomorallty In the human soul." I was
enrloua at the time ef reading, and am
till so, to know what the-speaker meant
by the word "Ood." Did be mean one of
the Greek god, ef whom there were
f Or wee It the Qod Jehovah of
the Hebrews in general, and of Moses,
Plain Statement or
FROM AN OUTSIDE PAPER.
Commenting en a recent editorial In
the Oregonlan concerning the Marquam
ease. The Dalles Optimist says:
Ordinarily we have followed Mr. Boott
In his views along the "plutocratlo"
campaign, but In thla case we think bis
Judgment Is warped. , -
As we understand It the Marquam
case was something like thla: P. A.
Marquam, one of the ploneere or port
land, found himself In 1SSS, or there
abouts. In pee sea tion of- eome very val
uable real eetate in tnat city, sna ne
wee considered m weauuy man, kujiv
ln to the Portland standard of -those
days, snd wished te Improve some ef bis
property to bisks it proauee en income
He was urged to build a theatre, on the
now famous Marquam Grand sits, and
finally undertook to do so. As the
structure n eared eompletlon he found.
la the first place, that It would cost
vastly more, something " like 1 100,009,
thsn hs had expected, and to eomplete
it hr was forcsd te make a large loan.
The edifice , was - completed, com
pleted af tea a fashion, snd ths doors
were opened.' But the thee t re proper
did not pey, end the rooms did not rent
at anything like the retes he had rig
ured on.' It will be remembered that a
large crack appeared on the Morrison
street front and tenants were wary of
going Into the upper storlea -
Ana tne property wee oaaiy nanaiea.
He bed no uniform prieee for rooms.
One tenant would pay f 10 for a room
and the one adjoining Identically the
eeme would be rented for tlf. ' The ele
vator service waa execrable, the halls
were lighted by-candle. It at alt and all
In all the management was very bad.
About the time when thlnge were at
sixes and sevens, a prominent lady was
killed by ths gross carelessness of an
elevator boy. This cost . him several
thousand dollars, and was the beginning
of the en .
The hard tlmee. cams en and the In
terest eould not be paid and current
expenses could not be met '
Then, through Mr. Ross, or ths Ladds.
If you will, a loan waa made to pay off
the debts and the property turned over
to me mort sag-ore. i nan n was roun'i
that Mr. Marquam, In hie simplicity,
had greatly underestimated the debte
and greatly overestimated the rentals.
As time passed, and the money strin
gency - became more accentuated, and
the mortgage again became due, like
wise a large sum for running expenses,
the property waa placed under the ham
mer. "
Now, as a strict matter of feet the
Marquam block waa not at that time
worth the amount due on It ; The Ore
gonlan knows that; every buetnese man
In Portland at that time knew It and
It took a good Job of flnaneeerlng for
Mr. Ross to find a purehaser.
Finally he suoceeded, and the prop
erty wae closed out for good and ail,
and nothing snore waa thought oi IV
Joshua and David In particular? 1 as
te near an answer saying: "Neither ef
theee gode te worthy our attention tf,
day, but the designer and creator ef na
ture la alone worthy eur adoration."
'' Wee nature ever designed? - Waa ne- '
turs ever created . If go, where did th4
designer corns frorat And where did he
reside while the work of qreatlon was
going on? '."",'
Let ua gome down to the solid facta in '
the case and say aiturs never waa de .
signed,, nature never was oreated, but
atanda aa an eternal unit af life, self
existing, self-governing, . knows no be
ginning, end will have no ending, afoun
tela of unfolding goodness, of love and)
of beauty, Aa the rose unfolds frem the j
germ, so, alao, does eoul righteousness,
morality, if you please, unfold from tn
nate qualities ef the humsn germ, and
not ae a gift or pressure from without,
Heaoe the justice ef preaching spirit eve
olutiea as well es preaching material
eve) ut ten. One law, the law of unfoleV
ment governs all things.
I have seen many people eeeatlagly.es
just es morel, es beautiful la love aa
were their professing neighbors, who be'
lleved net in a Qod nor la gode, nor yet
In a first cause, but cultivated the good
ness wlthla) themselves for the effects
that goodness would bring, stood before
the world on their own righteousness,
aer tried te borrow from another,
- Eternal life, te Insured- by the eenatt .
tutlon of nature, and self-untoldment
evolution of our Innate powers, will '
bring ua to the ha roe salsa mt nature.
which ts a joy forever. ;
WU4AM FHUXIPS. ;
The rneee ta the
Oroeham, OttTAug. 11. To the Edits
ef The Juumal In the Morning Orege
Blaa of August It appeared an article by!
special reporter with theee heedllneeii
saloon Man Holds Fort.' u. Wsinhard.
of Greeham Deflea the City Marshal t
Arrest Him."
If yoa will kindly seoord me the space.
which- the Oregoolea refused. I shall
state the facts la the ease.
I. Welahard waa granted alloenae last
Jsnuary te eall liquor near the, south east
corner ex Main and rowen streets in a
building known as the Leader salooa. A
few months later ha waa ordered out ef
tha building by the proprietor. Ia view
of this feot he purchased property
across the street (having been encour
aged by eome of the eouneUmea that
tney were willing tnat ae should trans
fsr hla buslnsss) and moved In. At a
apeelal meeting of the - council, the
mayor refused Wetoharg pet mission to '
do business, as a remonstrenoe had been
preeented. Ae yet the eouneil baa net
revoked Weinherd'e license, aa the city's
attorneys have advised them te do be
fore nisttsrs ean proceed. V .'
Welnhard has newer dared an yens ta
arrest him. and Is aa anxious for the mat .
ter to be settled aa anyone -,
, GEORGE W. METZGBR,
-- . Town Marshal.. -
Wo Water Faxaine ta IVaats.
' Portland, Aug. IS. Ta the Editor ef
Ths Journal The artiole tn Saturday's
Journal relative ta tha water famine
oa tha Mount Scott line was unjuat te"
a portion of It at least and should not
have been made se sweeping-.
Lents (which the Mount Scott News
calls the metropolis of the Mount Scott
section) has not had a water- famine.
On the contrary, the surety of good
water and plenty , of It Is one of the
strongest factors In. making Lenta the
finest suburb of Portland. - . One only
has to go some 41 or SS feet to get en
inexhaustible supply of the purest ef
water. The water supply from the Coff
man water works has not felled; we
have water frem this source tn both
bouse and etable and no lack ef water '.
has ever been experienced. If anyone
near Lents lacks water they have failed;
to connect themselves with the .surest '
supply; and better water would be herd
to find. Certainly la juetioe to Lenta "
this should be stated.
A RESIDENT OF LINTS AKP-A PA-
TRON OF WATER ST8TEM.T V""
the Marquam Case
JL
and the buyers were supposed to have
a sold brick.
In the course of time, however, values
Increased, and then very auddenly tha
Marquam s undertook to show that Mr.
Ross had aeted as agent for the pur '
chase of the property from himself aa
trustee, contrary to law, and the suits '
began. ' Well, the supreme court has .
twice decided that Mr. Ross -aoted with ,
ih his legal rights, and the eaee to set
tled. - . , ... ....
Now eomee the Oregonlan and others, '
and placee a greatly exaggerated value'
on the property. We have been told,
and we think truthfully, that the Mar
quam block would not today sell for
enough to pay the original loans, opsr
atlng expeneee and 6 per cent Interest
And we all know the estate has bsen
carefully and economically eared'- for.
The courts went Into that matter .and
found that to be true.
The whole proposition Is otitis: Mar
quam undertook to handle a deal which .
he could . not master. He went broke,
He was sold out The Incident was "
close. Just ae the Perkins and others
of those days. Thsn the block wes put
In good order, waa properly handled,
values went up and the old ownere un
dertook to get it back on a technicality,
and they have failed. "3
We do not bow the knee te Mr. Rose! .
or -the Ladds. or any of the "pluto '
crate. " But we do not think the Ore
gonlan Is "toting fair" In this matter, '
and we give the facts, nsvsr having see a
them fairly stated before save in the
cojert proceedings. -
. The Road to "Success."
By Wsx Jones, 1 '
' Let everything go
In the hustle tor dough, . . i
. - And never let up
For a bUlloa or ecu -
' To Umbo with youth .' '
'.' And friendship and truth;
Get your mitts on the coin ' ' '
. Without scruple or ruth.
' Expand your first mtlllon :
Till It swells to a billion:
Then moll dsy and night
- -e maker it a trillion. . . . ' - .
' . And then when your store -"
, Is a trillion or o'er .... .
., Why, keep oa a-huatHog
And rustling for more, ,- ; -
... Keep'on, never stop; )
-1' Ksep on till you d?op. .
. Every dollar you miss ' ' s
' , Some other will cop, . ' , .-'
. . . Keep on till you die
And then from the day ' ' .
... ' Tou may watch your gap ksaas 7
: Make year ellas-Vj 1 -
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