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Editorial Page of The Journal THE JOURNAL an iNDBMumwnr nbwwafm. C S JACKBOW. PuNlaher rubii- im. rir . ytfth an Yamhill attests, Pectlasd, Oreeua. Bntrrnl tb. poetofnce PortUna, Ores. for tranaiu Union Utrousu iue clkaa wattar. TSLBPHOMftS. fMlter'al S3 Of flea Mala rORMON ADVEBT1SIN0 ngPMSaKTATlVS. .Vreeland Benjamin Special Adrerttotn Ageaey. IM Kihii street Naw York; Tribune MM ins. Coleaee. ahaerinUmi Tirmi hi mall to anr la tba United Slataa. Canada or Mexico. DAILY. Dm raar S8.00 I On month 9 40 Cm 7ar 12.00 ! Osa moots. 9 M DAILY AND SUNDAY. Ona raar $7.00 Ona meats. 4 How mankind defers from day to day the beat it can do, and the meat beautiful things it can enjoy, without think ing that some day must be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity. Max Mailer. PEOPLE VS. COUNCIL. THERE CAN be no doubt that the people of Portland almost unanimously desire and will demand the revocation of that old Fourth street permit to the Central Oregon railroad, now alleged and pretended to be a perpetual and ir revocable franchise, ossified into an eternally vested right of the present Southern Pacific railroad and its suc cessors and assigns. The people don't believe this is so, and want the matter tested and settled by the courts. They are not willing to ac cept the representations of the rail road's attorney in the matter. He is earning his salary, and is not working for the people but for the railroad. The people want in the first place to get rid of that stretch of railroad as it exists and is conducted at pres ent, but whether that shall and can be done or not they want the road duly regulated and made subject to a suitable franchise tax. And they don't want to wait month after month and year after year for these results. They have been patient, tolerant, lib eral; for nearly 38 years they have let alone the several railroad com panics using Fourth street and they think that is long -enough. Now they insist upon moving in the directions indicated, but cannot do so because they can only, move, at present, through the city council, which ob stinately refuses to carry out their wishes. Why this is so has become an in teresting problem. It is a mystery, an unsolved conundrum. It has de veloped that the councilmen all have passes over the Southern Pacific, and they and their families can travel free anywhere throughout the coun try, but they indignantly resent any suggestion or intimation that this has anything to do with their action, or rather, non-action. The people are reluctant to believe that councilmen have been actually bribed to this course of defiance of the people's will so cheaply, but if not, what is the reason r What Is the motive? What is the influence? - The excuse that a repealing ordi nance would not be upheld in the courts is clearly a sham. The coun cil is not a court. Its opinion on this question is worth no more than that of any other doeen average cit izens, and nine out of ten of such citizens disagree with them. How ever that may be, the people want the matter tested. If the railroad is go ing to beat them on every proposition and always have its own way, the people want to find that out, so that they can consider what next to do or attempt. It is the council's business to carry out the people's will. They know what it is; why don't they do it? That is the puzzling question. If passes have nothing to do with the council's recalcitrancy, what then? The other excuse, that maybe the railroad will 'act voluntarily, is no Jitter. If let alone it will not act till it gets good' and ready, and when that will be nobody knows. There i vei was a berter' time than right now to find out whether the city' or I he Southern Pacific railroad is to have" paramount control of the streets. The question has- been left undecided 'Vrng enough. The people demand ac 0 on the part of the council that will assert their claims and their rights. And unless councilmen can make some better excuses than they have furnished so far they cannot blame the people for supposing and faying that they are influenced by nitsrn If this is not the reason, what is it? The Russian "Reds" are said to hsvo offered $25,000 for the killing of the czar, supposing; thst would free Russia from "crsrdom." But killing; the cgar might make matters worse rtther thsn better for the people tJsongh some think that impossible. OP H ROUGH a combination of unusual circumstances grain-handlers' strike in the port, and a new departure on joint rates in the interior Portland's hith erto splendid showing of wheat ex ports will be impaired in the closing months of this year. It is now too late to avert this discomforting re salt, but the merely temporary causes thereof should be explained and thor oughly understood in the public mind. It is due to no fault of natual con ditions that Portland is now losing the millions of bushels of wheat that will go to Tacoma for export. Left to follow the logical bent of traffic, the wheat of the inland empire will always roll down hill to Portland, and only under pressure of abnormal con ditions like the present will the cereal be lifted over the mountains to the sound. The temporary injury to Portland redounds also upon the O R. ft N. Co., for two reasons In the first place, eastern Wash ington farmers who have access to both the N. P. and the O. R. ft N. lines are taking their grain to the former road's elevators, as a protest against the O. R. ft N.'s refusal to submit to the joint rate established by the Washington state railroad commission. The joint rate was an unfair and unreasonable imposition on the Oregon road, which could scarcely do less than resist it in the courts. Yet, if the eastern Washing ton wheat raisers are going to boy cott the road on this account it will work quite a severe if only a tem porary injury, not only to the O. R ft N. but to Portland. Then, just when they had this dif ficulty on their hands the railroad and exporters are subjected to a grain handlers' strike because the demand of an increase of wages from 30 to 40 cents an hoar was not granted, the wages at Tacoma remaining at 30 cents. All of which puts Portland in the shade as to wheat exports this fall, and adds greatly to the gaiety of Tacoma. "Passes," say railroad attorneys and public servants who ride for nothing, "are merely courtesies extended to those -whom the people delight to honor." Beautiful thought; elevat ing sentiment. It will undoubtedly convince everybody but those who remember that while the people de light to honor the men they elect as school directors as well as those who are chosen as councilmen, the annual pass rarely if ever makes its appear ance in the board of education. Mr. Fenton supposes that nobody in office is in the least influenced by railroad passes. The railroads give the passes merely as evidence of the honor in which they bold the offices held by the recipients of the passes. It will be news to some people that railroads are in the habit of giving away things of value and expecting nothing in return. We beg our correspondents, "G. T. A" and "A. C." to control their tempers. Mr. Shepherd will undoubt edly resign from the council now that he has learned that the only man who thinks he it useful there is Mr. Har- riman. mm I i Now that there is a temporary ces sation of the race war in the south, we can once more regard with horroc. and view with sickened gaze the aw ful atrocities practiced on the un happy minority in Russia. Hearst is a conundrum; he deserves an unlimited number of friends on ac count of the enemies he has made, and of opponents on account of some of his apparent friends. Mountebanks in the line of fanat ical exploitation perceive that the Zionites in their demoralized con ditions arc easy, victims. They are open to any delusion. To those who believe there is honor among thieves, the action of the gam blers m making public Van Auker's piteous plea for oblivion may be a useful revelation. Palms has sense enough to sec that since he couldn't whip the revolution ists he can't withstand them and the United States combined. Now it is Porto Rico that hat an earthquake and the gulf region an overflow; it may be the turn of At lantic coast cities next. Hughes is said to be Irish-Scotch-Welsh-Dutch-Yankee. That ought to catch a lot of votes. Portland and Hawaii. From the Hllo (Hawaii) Tribune. Portland acted along ths right line In aendlng Mr. Mears to ths Islands In she Interest of trade. Portland and Hawaii have been pleasantly Introduced to each other through him, and the acquaintance, as each baa learned somewhat of the TEMPORARY DIVERSION WHEAT. A Little Out THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT. This Old World. From the Chicago Record-Herald There are the dark days and the drear. When all your planning: goes for nought When all the fair things disappear And all the sweet sons are forgot. There are the dark days when It seema As If the world could never more Win back the gladness or the gleams or glory that it had before. Ah. but there are the fair daye, too. When all your troubles nit afar, And all your gladdest dreams come true, And Fortune hovers where you are! There are the fair days when yen hear lour virtues praised by other men. And. oh, how splendid and how dear A world you find this old world then. Reflections. There Is a lot of fun about picnics In being glad when you get home, where there Is something fit to eat. New York Press. Some men are hern reformers, but most men have reform thrust upon them. -Chicago News. Women are never satisfied. The pretty ones try to be brainy and the brainy ones try to be pretty New York Times. People ought to remember that they can't get over a marriage the way they wake up from the nightmare. New Tork Press. Hard licks make good luck. Godllnees Is manliness made perfect. Only an insignificant temper la lost easily. The common task makes the uncom mon hero. Grumbling does not help your growth In grace. We And In the world what Ilea In our hearts. Chicago News ' Miles of Pish. From the Los Angeles Times. Immenss schools of tuna still swarm The Latest News REPORTED BY A. BENNETT, Hank Stlfel fell down last Saturday and nocked a big slice of bark off his wooden leg. Morral, men with wooden legs shood shunn ths perscrlptlon counter, for she stings like a eerplnt and bites like a addsr. We held a mast meeting In the Bunco house Tuesday evening .last at x p. m , with Ha In the chair and Hank Stlfel acting as secretary and (a large concourse of our best people In at tendance; Light refreshments was served to ell who had the price, and harmony rained. The meeting was called to give expression of our senti ments on the spelling reform started by Mister Roosevelt, and I want to ten you- If he had been- there to hear our speeches be. meaning- Roosevelt, would wish he had never been born. Why sir It makes a feller's bleed bile to think that an unlltterary man like him wood try to mix Into things that only us Ut terary folks Is capable of coptnar with! It does, for euro! Does Mister Roose velt want to talk ths bred out of the very mouth of a Utterary man like me for Instance? Does Mister Roosevelt think he can by 1 awlpe of the pen upset the beauties of the engllah lan gwldge and make it over to. soot a man like him, whoss Utterary lnatlnka art beet expressed sbout thus: .0000001. So ws got together and adopted ths follow ing resolves: Whereas and wherefore the president of these U. States haa abbrogalted to htaaelf the rite apd. ths power and ths duty to depsrt from his const ltootlonal duties, as Isyed down by Jefferson, snd haa saw fit to try to corrupt ths engllsh Lsngwldge; Now therefore be It resolved thst Rabbltvllle. In the natm of her Utterary men, and wlmmen. says to this a Usurper and tresspasser of our Utterary rites, that If by nsxt Satterday nits at 11 o'clock p. m. he does not issue a order annul ling ssld former order that Rabbltvllle willy now henceforth and forever caat her vote sollld against him snd sll 'of his followers. Amen. Thsn ws all with uplifted hands swore to It before a notarial publican. And I tell you what Mlater Roosevelt better come off the perch, and mebbe he will hereafter leave our beautiful langwidge be. There is In our midst a feeling of disquiet caused by the ruhraor that we had aoted helsty about blllbryan. that Is I mean Mister Bryan, the Ne braska Statesman who has twlcs almost led the Democrats to Victory, snd who Is ths greatest Orator since Patrick Hennery shuffled off his mortlal eoll, or words and sines to that affect. Ws are sorry If we have t romped on Mlater Bryan's corns. Rabbltvllle wants to be fare. But shs thought she had caught Mlgter Bryan with the goods onto him. and that he had turned a deef ear to other, has been apparently favorable all around. Portland ia a primary market. aa Mr. Means pointed out, for a number of articles that ths Islands consums, and these should bs handled direct and flrat hand in ths Interests of economy. The value to the Islands of competitive mar kets la recognised and aa a result of Mr. Mears visit there la no doubt that Portland will be given a trial on an In creased number of orders The belief Is that Portland ought to be able to take care of the business. A decent atten tion to the trads and a fair deal are of course essential te the success of the proposition. As a Hllo business man auggeats, Portland ahould follow up Mr. Mears visit with correspondence, after the manner of San Franolsco, keeping Its customers In touch constantly with the markets by furnishing quotation and Information an aid In buying that Is appreciated. The ease with which currents of trade may he diverted Into aew chsnnels depends largely upon the transportation facilities With the Mat eon line of steamers now establlshsd commerce should not be long In finding the route via Portland Government Ownership. From the Bast Oregonlan. The 12,000 miles of railroad In Texas has In the last two years paid a net profit of I37.llt,24. after deducting all the money paid for lobbying, bribery, big salaries and other secret expenees. This means that ths people paid 11,11 profit to each mile of road In that teme! This Is why the railroad owners ars in politics. Prairie City Miner: Comer la a de serted village. Store gone, saloon gone, poetoffl.ee gone and Standard mine closed. But it Is expected that the mine will got new mill and resume business after a while. of tke Common about the bay and stretch up out of the Island coast ss far as ths Isthmus, a distance of 14 miles and the number Is simply beyond computation. , The schools of Ash are net all tuna, but have a liberal mixture of albtcore,' ahlpjacka and barracuda. Where the legions of fish corns from Is a mystery, and the wonder Is that so great a multi tude, with the appetites of healthy tuna, can And enough food In the sea with which to appease their hunger. , A Mad World. A distressing faet'to confront the peo ple of Great Britain la the report of the commissioners In lunacy. Ten years ago there waa one madman to every tit of ths population: today the proportion la one to every ZSS. Whereas ths Increase In the total population during the 10 years has been 10.1 per cent, that of the Insane population haa been n.7 per cent. Theee are serious figures They suggest that in very truth we are becoming "a marl world tnv miltor, " Thsnks for Aid. The Iste Lady Curson had an unrivaled collection of samples of English "as she Is wrote" In various parts of India. This Is ess of the choicest gems In her collection r 'Dear and Fair Madame. I have much pleasure to Inform you that my dearly unfortunate wife will be no longer under your kind treatment. She having left this world for ths othsr on' the night of 27th ulto. For your help in this mat ter I shall svsr remain grateful. Tours reverently, . ." Germany Makes Glass Bathtubs, Bathtubs mads of glass are being manufactured In Germany. They are made In a solid piece and ona can be turned out In Ave minutes. The tubs are said to have advantages over metal and enamel, one being that they are much cheaper. From Rabbitville OP THE DALLE8 OPTIMIST. our offer of a lott. But It is now ruhmored that Mlstsr Bryan has ths offer under consideration, and Is feel ing his way, and after his speech mak ing tower of the south he will turn his stsps to Oregon and make Rabbltvllle his headquarters for a vlggoroug cam pans. So we -are feeling pretty good out hear Juet now, being on the aids of the winner we gesa. Of course we alnt giving Bryan a cast Iron sklnch on our support, and ws aint agoing to turn Boosevelt down so hard but what we can get next again. Tou see It Is early yet and hard to pick a winner. Folks can talk about ruther being rite than be president, but we'd ruther be rong than get left. So mebbe we will have the Commoner out hear yet, and me a-eddltlng of It! But I alnt no cheap man! Bryan mussent think he can get me for a song! No. slrreei He has got to pay ma twenty dollars a month If hs gete my services, and pay It two, net jest promise It! And It must be paid promp en the very first day of eaeh apd every month! I dont give may branee and tallents and eddlt papers for fun! Tou bet I dont. And then It Is worth a good deal extra to eddlt a democrat paper, being more wearing on the con stitution than to eddlt a paper on the rite elds I gees mebbe by golly I'll strike him for twenty I. I can come down easier not1 I cood crawl upp. The city drug store, has put on ths market a new perscrlptlon called the "Pallouser." I tried one snd I gsas It is nslmed for the Pallousers because one of em would kill anyboddy else. 1 spit mtns ouj quick and live to tell It. The barber shop Is closed, and there ahould be crape on the door. Lisa? Did somebody, ask for Miss But terbot torn? Did some miss creant whlspsr hsr nalm? "He either hopes two mutch or his desserts ars small, who fears to put It to the touch and win or lose it awl." Will somebody dents the words or the polt? If so come out onto the sward and meat Me. Not behlnt my back, but In the open, in a fair fits, not like the major fltes. Corns out onto the sward and meat me In single combat and alone and unarmed! Any man what says a word derojatary to Mlsa Butterbottom can make his will! Hs can order hie Grave digged and buy a Coffin and hirs a undertaker, for when he meats Ms on the sward his dsath will be swift and certain, but not lingering. No, as he will be a citizen of my own town I will promise that it shall not be lingering. But I will make no further concessions, sews that it shall not be a lingering deeth. Ia the mean time the barber shop la elosed and we are looking for a barber, but not a feemalL No NO. NOT A FEEMAIL. My heart Is two full to say moar In these presents. Letters Ms. Koaflrtchs' meply. Oregon Olty, Or., Sept 27. To the Editor of The Journal In regard to an article published in the Oregon City Dally Star entitled "Sixteen Thousand Dollars Paid, But Bids Unprotected," I wlah ta state through your paper that the writer of that story wss Ignorant of the situation or willfully misrepresented the facts whsc hs stated that there waa not and had not been a deputy game warden In Clackamas county the past sesson. t As far as the scarcity of game birds Is concerned, there arc more birds this year than there have been for a good many years, and less violations of the game laws While perhaps It may be true that there have been a few birds killed, you muat remember,, sir, that Clackamas Is a large county, with 1,000 or more square miles of territory, for two men to patrol and guard. If the writer of the article will abstain from hunting out of season we will feel very grateful, as It Is usually those who mske ths most fuse about It- who are the worst violators of the laws. While It la true I have made no arrests this peat season. I have not aeen any open violations of the game law. I have patrolled Clackamas county, a part of Marion, Washington and Multnomah, and I have heard some shooting, but have found on Investigating that the hunters had no game birds. We think Mr. Baker Is doing the best hs can with the force at hie disposal. The rough country with thick brusji and heavy timber makes it next to Impos sible for ens wsrden to catch violators. FRANK HENDRICKS. Deputy Gams and Forestry Warden. Wood choppers cannot be hired around Prairie City at l a oord. A Little Nonsense Time It Cheap. When James J. Hill talks of farm lag tie talks aa a railroad expert. He has Intensively cultivated hie agrloult ural talent In order te make freight for hie railroad, and, all with' the aid of his model farm near St. Paul, he haa Uught the farmers along the Great Northern what they can best grow for their own profit, for by doing so they profit the road also, says Harper's Weekly. "Do you raise black Essex pigs, Mr. Hill? ssked ths governor of Minnesota. "Yes." Ths congressman from Minnesota, who did not know aa much about pigs aa he thought ha did. pricked up hie ra, 'Well." said ths governor. "March ta critical time In a young pig's life, Mr. Hill." Mr. Hill assented. "What do you feed them?"' "Green fodder." "Dry or wett" "Dry." "There's where vau maka a mlatake Mr. Hill." triumphantly exclaimed the times as long to eat dry foder aa wet' congreeamen. "It takes a pig three times ss long to eat dry fodder aa wet." "And bow much do you reckon the pig's time to be worth?" asked Mr. Hill , Where Was Her Husband? Professor Mattsuccl. superintendent of the Vesuvius observatory, was dining with soma Americana In Naplss. This la heavenly. But what la It like In your observatory, when Veeuvlue la active?' a young woman aaked. "It Is not ltke heaven." said Professor Mattsuccl. 'It reminds me of a atory about a Neopolltan widow whose hus band had been dead sons years. One night she was persuaded to go to a aplr ltuallata' seance, and there the spirit of her dead huaband appeared and spoke to her. " 'My dear Agosttno, aald the widow to the shade, are you happy now?' " 'I am very happy,' Agostino sn swored. " "Happier than you were on earth with raer aaked the widow. "Tee,' replied the shade: 1 am far. far happier now than I was on earth with you.' 'The widow waa silent a moment. Then she said: " Tail me. Agosttno; what la it like in heaven? '"Heaven? aald Agosttno. T am not In heaven.' " Dead Onto Them. A atateaman. In an argument, had turned the tablea rather neatly on hie opponent. "Senator Dolllver, In congrat ulation, said: "Tou remind me of a Fort Dodge doctor. Dr. X . This gentleman once had a grave dug for a patient, aupposed to be dying, who afterwards recovered, and over this srror of judgment the doctor waa joked for many years, says Harper's Weekly. "Once he attended. In consultation with three confreres, another patient. This patient really dted. After death aa the physicians dlscuaasd ths ease together, one of them said: "Since quick burial la necessary, we might inter the body temporarily. understand our brother here haa a va cant grave on hand' "Dr. X smiled. " Tea.' he replied. 1 believe I am the only physician present whose graves are not an rilled.' " - Plenty of Packing. W. H. Avery and Will Crocker have recently returned from a trip to the orient, and vie with each other tailing atones on the ot. er man, says the San Francisco Chronicle. Avery has a good one on Crocker They were going slong one of the streets In Yokohama, and noticed straw In the streets. Crocker, who Is a atu dent of the customs of the country In which he traveled, had ascertained that straw Is scattered on the street In case of sickness to diminish the noise. Other tourists were Ignorant of thla fact. "Mlater,' Said a email one. who had wandered away from mother, "what's this hsy doln' out here?' "My son," aald Crocker with a amlle. "the stork has Just brought a baby to the woman wno lives here. Ths small ons surveyed Crocker with wldo eyee snd said: "Gee, It must have come well packed." Tba Journal's Good Work. From ths Marahfleld Timea. The Journal has undertaken a good work and beyond doubt will receive the moral support of au Oregon editors In giving publicity te whatever can be learned of these exoesslvs and often pro hibitive rates of the O. R. aV N. Co. This matter haa been understood for many years, yet no definite figures were obtainable until the new rata law went Into effect. There la one thing In thla connection to be considered, and that Is the fact that prices are always lower whsrs there Is competition, and this rule holds good ths world over, whether with the vendor of life's neoeeeitlee, or with the railroads, or In any other buelness. It Is a trait of human character to take advantags of the law of supply and de mand and get all one can for products, work, or merchandise, but this does not excuse the O. R. as N. for the extortion It practices en patrons where there Is no competitive line of railway. The Journal will likely get to the Southern Pacific later on and ahow where many Industries up snd down the Willamette velley have been squelched by exeeealve railroad rates. Among these disclosures The Journal will And a big Hat of email sawmills that were driven out of business and In several Instancee their owners rulnsd finan cially. " e Aesop on Tour. A certain Play began with a realistic Representation of the Interior of e Laundry, In the middle of whloh waa a great Stove, whereon the Waaherwomen placed their Irons to heat them, making a mighty Pretenae of Ita Potency In that regard, though In truth It was but painted Cloth and Wood. And It chanced that one night a Kit ten wandered upon the Stage, snd waa In some danger of Impeding the Per formers. If not of being Itself, trampled upon. Seeing which the princi pal Blanehtssuess (who waa an Aotreee well known for her kind heart) picked up the little Creature and placed It out of harm's way upon the top of the Stove; whereupon It curled Itself up amongst the red-hot Irons and went to aleep. Nevertheleas ths Washerwoman were Impeded In their efforts to make the Scene go. Moral. One touch ef Nsturs makea the Stage seem thin. ' " i If Hughes will Investigate the Repub lican party as thoroughly ss hs did the gas and Insuranca companies he will have the biggest Job on hand ot any man In the country, , U-DIRDSEYE VIEWS D f TIMELY TOPICS SMALL CHAWOE. And Murphy didn't require Hearst te take anything baek. e e The situation aa to normal schools will probably remain normal. Don't try te use simplified spelling when you have to write anything In a hurry. e e' If necessarily brought face to face with the inevitable, be polite and bow te it e e But It doesn't follow that Jerome will now find time te convict any murderers or big thieves. e e ., 'y .-i Next winter we ehaii ess whether the state printer's and state tressurer's grafts are out off to any extent or net. e e The man who haa a good bearing ap ple orchard of favorite varieties In Ore gon need net envy the man with a gold mine. e e Perhaps If Jerome would attend to hie official duties Mr. Hughes would not set as many votes aa ha win lr Jerome atumpa the atate for him. a , The Russian terrorists make a prac tice of sending word beforehand to In tended victims, probably reasoning that to live in constsnt fear of violent death la about as bed if net worse than sud den death itself. e e That young woman who compelled the young man whom ehe waa to marry, to marry Instead a girl whom he had wronged and deserted may net have dona the' ether girl any great favor, but ahe get even with the dastard, all right. Senator Bailey didn't know that his clients were a pert of the Standard Oil octopus And yst he Is cracked up as a great atatearoan and lawyer, way. even a Portland councilman oouia nave emailed Standard OU In the Wattere Plsrcs proposition. e e Now a new. self-constituted, but aa he claims divinely commissioned leader Of Zlon. haa appeared Said Is making trouble for Boas Voltva. Which Is the second chapter In the swift story of "Eton's Inevitable breakup. e e A Ban Francisco young man married while. It waa supposed by another young woman and her family, be waa engaged to her. He says he thought the engagement waa broken, but she knew nothing of It. and so feela badly about it. In breaking a marriage contract, as well as In making ens two parties are essential. Let the disappointed young woman sua him. get his money, snd be happy ever after. Tke Is! egro AS VIEWED BY Portland. Or., Seat. K To the Ed! tor of The Journal As a southerner, i Georgian, I will ask space te comment on the editorial in today's Oregonlan under the caption ef "The South and ths Negro." Ths editor admits that 'Ths orlainal wrongs of the nsgrq wars the guilt of New England no leas than of Virginia. That la too well understood te need die cusslon. When New England found that ths slavea could not be employed there at a profit, because of climate her elavetraders changed the destination of their cargoee te the south. It Is not In point to devell on the peat of the negro: he ie new free end under the so called southern oppression hss made much educational advancement. The learned (?) editor's ldeaa of the aouth's sneering at their literary efforts would be amusing but for ths vlcieusness un derlying ths statement. The propor tion of the negro taxpayers In the south Is small, and yet they have their public schools and institutions of learning sup ported mainly by whits southern tax payers. The average southern negro despises education and has a contempt for work. I have lived among them and speak from years of observation; I do not bass my theory on s long-distance view nor from prejudice. The Oregonlan complains because ths south "has nullified ths enfranchising amandments of ths constitution and de prived the negroes of ths right to vote." The answer to that la very simple: If the constitutional rights of the negroes have been violated, he has hla redress In the federal courts ending In the great eat tribunal of Justice the world has ever known, the supreme court of the United States. Why Is It If he, the negro, la so outrageously treated, doee not the above sympathetic writer start a movement In his favor to teat those acta ef the southern states whloh he contends have nullified the enfranchis ing amendments of the constitution"? Growing blind through emotion, the Indignant editor eaya that In the south "for the negro there are ns courts, no law, no right to be heard. Suspicion is conviction. Accusation la proof." A statement as absurd aa this springs from one of two things, a fanatical Ig norance, or from a desire to wUfelly pervert. However, ehsrity forbids our thinking It te the. latter. I will give him tke benefit of the doubt and believe that it Is the former, that the trouble llee in hie head, only in his head, not in hla heart. He would Impress hie readere that the nasro In the aouth lives under a "sys tem of social, educational and legal out lawry." Thla Is net true, and such sn assertion reflects very little credit on his Intelligence. Socially tha negro le not recognised try the eoutn: tnai is ner privilege, ae It la the privilege Of say person or persons to choose his or thslr own soclsl companions. ine negro shows ons of bis inferior traits wnen he seeks, by every opportunity In his power, to force himself socially upon the whites; If hs were self-respecting, he would havs too much nrlde to do thla In the railroads. I will "admit that the aouth does not desire to eee him In the position of prealdent or vlce-preeldtat, but If he were given such a position by hie friends of the north he would be neither burnt nor hanged; tat aa long aa he kept his place would be allowed to go quietly about his affairs. in the schools hs is given an oppor tunity to learn. If he will, and In being prevented from Intruding upon the whltea In their schools he le also pro t acted from any -bad element which might deelre to intrude upon him and prevent hie educational advancement Legally, hs la not outlawed. I know of noconstltutlon of any of the eoufhern states whose severity upon the negro la equal to that contained la section 3 of tab constitution of Oregon, which I II I ORBOON SIDELIGHTS. Less empty houses In Albany than for several years. a a North Bead III te have a big wholesale grocery house. e s Myrtle Point haa a ptoepsteua furni ture manufactory. . e e Great rush for timber claims 'ground Bead and Stiver Lake, e e Nat enough carpenters te do desired building in Brownsville. e e Trout-fishing as good ad In the early times hi upper Coee river. a e The finest of Jaokaon county melons sell there for 10 estate apieoe. a e Linn and Lane will have a boundary scrap Ig the nsxt legislature. a The fruit erep Is good la ths a sees lake valley, In Lake eounty. e An eastern Oregon doctor is nagged Lasler. But there areelaaier man. e e Klamath Falls will set out l.ooo shade and ornamental trees along Its streets. e e V . , - , About tare thirds of Morrow county's whest crop will be shipped from lone, e e Men with or representing capital are continually arriving la Cooe bay towna. e s A Josephine eounty woman and her daughter cleared fill la three weeks picking hope. e e Prunegrowers In southern Douglas county also sustained heavy losses ta account of rain. a e Albany Herald: The new Oregon will he a land of good roads, of an Increas ing variety of agricultural products, of dairies and of manufacturing industries. With Improved transportation facilities, population will seek the Willamette val ley, which should become one eontlnuoue region of well-kept farms e e Bears have become accustomed te visit a slaughter-house near Seaside, and seme men get bear meat fres In stead of buying beef. One bear had to cross a big log on hla route to the meat aupply, and the butcher set a trap so that the bear would jump Into It, but posted a nottoe en the other aide. "Be ware of ths trap," which advice Bruin took. But the trap waa moved and the neat night ths bear, being near sighted, was caught all according to the Seaside Signal. and tke South A SOUTHERNER. says In subetanee that no free negro ner mulattoes not In tha state at the time of the making of Ita conatttutlon ahall hold any reel estate, meke any contracts or maintain any aulte therein. Of course, tha fourteenth smsndment haa rendered this void, but It has never been wiped out of thla state's constitu tion. The crime for which the negro Is lynched is aa a rale, one against women; lynchlngs for other crimes are very rare. Over the entire world, and north as wsll aa the aouth. the violation ot a woman la considered the worat of all crlmea. When hla le done In the south, they lynch; when It Is done In the north, with few exceptions, they lynch. The law Is prohibitive as well aa punitive, and whoa the former falls to protect, the latter la not going to alt with meek folded hands when a mother, slater, daughter or wife, has been asaaulted by some brute, be he black or white, and allow him to fatten In Jail, awaiting a postponed trial, which too often bows to a trivial technicality. Human nature oan stand so much, then human endurance breaks I would ask, would the writer of the editorial re ferred to quietly alt with folded handa If ha wers to havs any of his dsar ones suffer from s like Indignity, sqd asy with calmness. "Let the law take Ita course?" I am Inclined to think not. Those people who are always preaching forgiveness and ethics are the last to practice their theories. In the south today there are a better class of negroes, who are law-abiding, who command respect by their conduct. With theee the south haa no trouble; tat on the other hand there are a great many more who are Idle when they can work, shiftless, vicious cruel and vengeful. These care neither for God nor man, are slavss to their desires and commit the crimes for which they are lynched, and will continue te be lynched as long aa they continue .these crimes I would like to remind the Oregonlan's editor that It was lynch law which made it possible for law-abiding people to live in the west during ths days when the bad man held his unrighteous sway. There are many southerners living In the weet, quite a few in Oregon, and It la and will ever be very distasteful te them to read sach slanders aa ths Oregonlan prints against their, native land. Sueh Ill-timed and false state ments, whether made In public speeches or In editorials will not tend te cement the two sections and will create 'in southern people a desire to return 'to their homes Instead of using thslr In fluence to bring others to Join them hi their new abode. Such editorials do a community no good, but help to make It misjudged, because of the nar rowness of thslr sentiment In conclusion I will quote exfracts from the Telegram (which I under stand la tha evening edition ef the Ore- gen Ian) of the 14th and M, respectively. They apsak for themselves. Monday, September M, page 4: Repeated as saults and attempted asssults on white women, of which there have bean 11 In two months, caused the attack on At lanta's negro population Saturday night" Ten of theee II escaped. "It was perhaps the Immunity enjoyed by theae 10 wrsjeh lead to four attempts at aassult is quick , sucesselen Ma turds y afternoon and evening." September M. page 1, last paragraph In article: 'The city will pay property-owners for alleged damages sad at a mass meeting a fund of eeveral thousand dollars wss sub scribed to defray the expenses of burying the dead and caring for the wounded and to care for the families of tha victims. Thla applies to both races " The first article shows or proves ths Justification for ths resentment of the whites snd the second shows their humanity to the negro. aU M. NORWOOD. i The Bebe school opened with lit pw- plls. e
