The Oregon daily journal., November 13, 1906, Image 8

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?? Very few people are good "
'economists: f- their fortunes,
: and still fewer of their time.
--Chesterfield. -' .". v V.y :
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: IS THE LAW TO BE ENFORCED?
1 r fHE Oregonian published re
I cenv false and jnalicious
! I '' cartoon of W. M. Ladd, at
' j tired in pharasaic4l,,garb.. nl,xpre
,. senting him as reading .with approval
' I a newspaper editorial (counselling" the
7 1 murder of the " late - President Mo
. Kinley. No more brutal libel was
j ever published,
' A grand jury-is in session - today,
deliberating upon the. questiotrof in-
' dieting the proprietors of the.Ore-
. gonian for the libel. Numerous wit
nesses have been called though why
, any fair-minded man should require
any evidence other than the cartoon
i , itself is not apparent, .U"
;5 - If this be not a case of libel, then
' the law of libel may as well te re
pealed. For if the law does not af-
V ford redress in a case so clear and so
TndrspilfaliTeiSThtsTBac ieTfw11TrDe
: .left without pfitection -fronVlb ven
i: omous assaults of unprincipled news
' "papers.' - ;. M 'T .'-' ; .
TANTEQUltABLEAOjySTMENr.
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HAT- the - present' method -of
" I ' handling the Water system is
.inequitable arid needs reform
. ing is a proposition with which almost
i everybody? agrees. The only ques-
tion tinder discussion is: What
ciangetlalH&fld'be! tnade?' The Jour
,' nal suggests three; steps - which it
- 1U- thinluwouldiK)JveheproWemaa
t equitably as may be done, if not with
I' .entire satisfaction to everybody.
T First,, io accordance with-whatoix
I reasonable and quite general demand,
x make the property intersected by ex-
tensions, new mains, pay for them by
I an assessment per1 front foot, Such
f V mains undoubtedly increase the value
: of the property, which ought to be
. taxed to pay for, them, and to relieve
l the general taxpayer and water con-
' aumer of this part of the burden. "'
Second, theouncnshouIdnevyTi
' ' sufficient tax to pay for the water
? used for public purposes street
' sprinkling, the fire department,rtrre
'.' parks, and so on. This would amount
! ' at present to perhaps $24,000 a year,
; but whatever the amount it should be
. paid by the public, by all the property
J " : owners and hot by water consumers
(, only. This in fact is the theory in
vogue now, but it is not carried out in
. practice. ,Bills against the citjrfor
: water. have been presented but never
.J, collected. But. they, should becor
-.. lected, and provision for their pay
t" '" ". ment should be made by the council
I ; ,1 each year.
f ', : Having taken these two steps, the
: wir would he clear to nnnrtion tha
' balance of the burden among, water
users so that it would be light As a
' basis there should be a minimum rate
, ' , of SO cents per month for all water
... vviiauiucia. nuwctci juiic uicY ubcu.
; and beyond a specified amount con-
, autnera ahotild hn rharirrH arrnrf in
n 0
. to the amount used, as determined by
T"- meters; the-meter rate by iheatmmnt
of money necessary to be raised, after
having eliminated the cost of new
mams and figured in the amount to be
paid by the city for fire protection,
. sprinkling, etc. For the purpose of
; '- determining the amount beyond 50
, , nnii jcr invnin ,iu uc paia vj any
f consumer, meters on every service
, pipe are necessary, and should be re-
r' t quired.
Thi's plarii it seems to The Journal,
would be at fair all around as any
that could be proposed. Water
users would not be taxed .for laying
new mains; aside from that expense,
and the cost of water used by the city,
consumers would pay for what water
they get. just in proportion td,its con
' sumption, whether used recklessly, ex
travagantly or economically, with
"equal rights to all."
The 'journal sincerely, hopes ,'that
there will be a fowri of milirorfIn-i
habitants on' Coos bay,' and that the
growth up to that figure ill be very
. rJiridi-ULftrr! tnjp' ,ov'r
Ihere will get a , 40-foot channel, if
they need one that deep, or whatever
drpth they do need, and that several
ruilroads will connect that port with
the whole United Slates. While all
this fs going"on, we hope one or two
po.t .gay papera.vill noj coniider jt
necessaryor profitable to rail and
scold all the time at Portland. Please
let this little old town grow a little
too. There should be room enough
for two big cities In Oregon, .:": ,
I TRADE -WITH CANADA. :
R; JAM ES J. H ILL is un
i doubtedly right in the po
sition he takes that this
country, is foolish in maintaining-
hostile commercial , attitude toward
Canada, which of course obliges that
country to take' a like attitude toward
us. The time will come when it will
seem incredible that two great ad
joining countries set up a high com
mercial barrier between themselves,
to restrict trade and add to the bur
den of consumers,' with- no compen
sating benefit to either. As Mr. Hill
suggests, had it not been for the wise
provision of the constitution prohibit
ing such action, the several states, on
the same principle as that which
maintains a high tariff between this
country. and Canada would have es
tablished tariff walls around them
selves, to the Immense injury of in
terstate trade. New England would
have protected itself against tha middle-
stater and' the "west.--thc-outh
against the jiorth, Ohio against Ken
tucky, Oregon against California and
Washington, and o on. And those
benefited by such a -pdicyr at thr ex
pense of the people, at large, would
have been arguing that such protec
tion was a benefit, just the same as
men do now in favor of protection
against Canada. ,:-!. ' .w.'r!..
Mr. Hiltmay be speaking two
words for himself and .one for the
countryjfree trade 3 between the
United States and Canada would ben
efit his railroads, no. doubt; but it
would"atsd-Denefit in an almosTtnat
culabfe degree the' people generally
of both countries. The United States
on the whole would have rather the
better of a bargain for a change from
high tariff to free trade or liberal
reciprocity. But as long as a ma
jority of he people can be hood
winked and deluded by the specious
pretense that protectieui against
Canada is beneficial to them the pres
ent injurious and fatuous policy, will
be adhered to. v . "
BIO MONEY IN FRUIT. " ,
-YAMHILL county Tarmer, In
a. letter to the McMinhville
'j Telephone-Register advising
farmers to raise more fruit and less
grain, says; "A few years ago I sold
my little boy r a small piece of brush
land, about three acres, allowing them
to pay me in work. They grubbed
this land and by my advice set it to
Baldwin apples. . Last year was the
sixth year , out and-the first crop to
amount to much. ' The' crop was
gathered and sold. , Every expense
was paid. .There were $438 put in the
bank, and enough more sold privately
to make the total profit $450 or $150
per acre from the first crop, which
was more than enough to pay for the
land, the grubbing, the trees and their
care for aix years."
On nearly half the land in Yamhill
county, he says, this can be duplicated.-
And he might also have pointed
out what an excellent thing it was for
those boys this incentive to work,
to take an interest in producing some
thing, and. the encouragement to
stay at home.
As to prunes, though' this was "a
sad year," this man saved 40 tons,
about half his crop,, which cost for
gathering and drying fi of a cent per
pound. They are 'now worth 3H
cents, leaving a profit of 3 cents, $60
per ton, or $2,400 for his half crop.
No wonder this man is convinced
thst fruit-raising pays. As he says,
there is big money in it if properly
handled. The old methods won't do
at ell.-of -course Mruit raising haa be
come . almost an exact science; but
men who wil pursue it right will find
it , exceedingly profitable, not. onlyTh
Hood River and- southern Oregon,
but throughout the Willamette val
ley. - ' - -
Being, after all, only a mortal, it is
not clear how the president can be
come thoroughly Informed abont the
canal job on a hurried trip across
the Isthmus' and back. . But he is a
keen observer and overflowing with
energy, and will glean some infor
mation that may be useful.-, .
The story that the Standard Oil and
the railroads tried td defeat Governor
Hoch and worked for Harris hat
rather a fishy appearance. , It may be
that they don't like Governor Horh
very well, but. that they wanted to
exchange him for Harris it ImproV
able. -r - - t , :
It it remarkable how" many men in
this state duck and scurry when 'some
one yells "land fraud." - , ,
The car shortage in Oregon, which
has cost the farmer and shipper of
tha state man thousand of dollars,
A
A Little -Out
THINGS PRINTED TO
, Helpful Suggestions. : ( -
Hard work la tha only crt of aue
eaaa; but it is auch an opa aeerrt, that
few lak It 4 hnart .and act up to it.
Oat to buainaaa early. -Don't wait Ull
after the atroata ara -warmad. "
Tou soaat recount that- averythtns
that la worth having must b paid for.
Tha first thing to do la to realise that
aueceaa caonol ba attained br altUna
till and counting ona'a flngara. ' -..
There 'la a certain kind of pig-headad
iadlviduai who will not admit when ne'a
wrong. Avoid thla' falling as you would
tha fever. Ken will rpect you for
owning up to mlatakaa, and deaplaa you
for tha other. , .
Don't fret because you've got an Idea
that the boea la getting mora than hla
mnniT'i worth . out of your aervlcea.
Keep pegging away. It'a my experience
mat ineae ininga nan w.
tiitlnar fhemeelvea.
your rellow-mrn. . xry-io potnunu
thalr nawullaritlea. to see thing with
their eyea. Have eonalderation ror tneir
feelings In every way.
November 13 In History.
ITIKTtattl Of Sheriff tnulr. ' . ' '
171 Blr John Moore, who conducted
the memorable British retreat to co-
ninni hAr Died January K. 10.
1117 William Wirt of Virginia be-
rama attorney-general of tha United
etatea. . ,
1SS7 London's "Bloody Bunaay.
itii onanlna of Catholic University
i a mrl ee at-WaahlngtonJftlatrlcLjjf I .
Columbia.
18S United- SUtea- notified Spain
that Cuba must be evacuated by Janu
ary ' . . . '
1900 Unltea States cruiaur iiwmiu
wrecked at Guam by typhoon.
isoA. H. Green, the "Father of
Greater New York." murdered. V
Some Strange Coincidences. -ftnma
ramarkmbla colncldencee ara re
corded In the ease of two men, WUllam
Connolly and Patrick Cantwelt who
were drowned a short time ago by "the
upeetttog of a "float" on tna urana
eanal, near Tullamor. England. Tha
two nien were born on the aama day
IS veera aco: they were baptised in the
same water; they were drowned In the
Grand canal, and they have now been
buriediOgetnr; : :
' Shipbuilding in Scotland.
In the flrat half of tha year 1106
Scotland produced an-amount of ton
nage from her ahlpyarda unprecedented
lit the Irtirtory ef ahlphulldlng. In theae
alx months, according to a Olaagow dla-
In theae
patch, the ahlpyarda put Into the water
no leaa than 107 vessels of all elses,
with an aggregate tonnage of ISO.ttl.
is growing more serious. Mr. Har
riman is again sending out the story
about-the millions of dollars he 'in
tends spending for equipment and
rolling stock.
Representative 1 Babcock will . find
no sympathy among tariff reformers
on accpunt of hi defeat He is one
of those-Republicans who professed
tariff reform, and on pressure stood at
pat 'as anybody. : So neither side
trusted him.- :: ...
: Mr.-Roosevelt i once inore enjoy
ing a rest from the ardious work of
governing thi country and running
the politics thereof. If he is not very
careful, he wiil return from one of his
little vacation trips to find that this
country can run without him.
The Count and the Duke emphat
ically declare , that because of the
charge their wive have made against
them, teir honor ha been almost in
delibly stained and that nothing, will
wipe out the blot but alimony.
t . ! .
The water question certainly needs
a thorough overhauling and adjust
ment; let's do it right while about it,
The Play "
.By Johnston MeCutley. ..
"I Ilka the man you'vs put to this
book he's a great man only I don't
like his, flnlah." '
. "Tha Lion and the Mouse" Act IL
Eplgrammatlcal, logical, strong, a per
fect commingling of' paramount emo
tions la proper quantities, the senalble
aequenca of events following on direct
causes, results that ara attained through
relative ateps gauged by word and
deed a, without a word that Is uaeleaa
and without a deed that la unnecessary
such la 'The Lion and the Mouse"
as a play.
It opened at the Helllg laat night for
a run of two days only. -There'e tha
pity of It It la a play that will do
any or good to wltneaa. Every man
and woman In Portland should aee It.
It la one of the few playa at preaent
before the public that la really worth
while. ,
And In tha cast of "The Lion and tha
Mouse" la Mlaa Joaephlne Lovett, a lit
tle California actresa, who desarvea to
have her nam In big letters on every
poster. She has .but one scene Jn the
play where there 'la any work to do.
Bhe'.graaps that scene wonderfully.
Laet eilght at Ita conclusion the crowded
houae roae to her and toured forth
sincere applause parquet, balcony and
gallery. ,',' ..
"The' Lion and the Mnuae" la one of
tha few plays which, without reaortlng
to melodrama, can entertain gallery and
parquet alike. It la one of those plays
with a double-barrel effect If you are
shallow you get tha action rapid-Ore,
enough of It to satisfy you. If you are
not v shallow you get an "underlying
beauty that la almost unparalleled In
the preeent-day playa "Tha Lion and
lb a Mri' toach a multitude . of
truths and Is eplgrammatlcal without
being burdensome. It preaches without
giving tha Impresalon of preaching. The
morale of It are hidden, yet all get
them unconsciously.
It la the story of a financial giant,
sworn to crush an honest aupreme court
Judge for daring to tread upon hla
wealthy .toes. It so happens that the
Judge has a resourceful daughter, and
It ao happen that during a European
trip the daughter ef the Judge falls in
of the -Common
READ WHILE J YOU WAIT.
The nearest approach to that record was
made In Boot land m l0l. when In six
months fiS.804 ton were produced.
The large output from tha Clyde yard
waa augmented by the launches of the
Ludtanln, a Cunard-steamer of 11.(00
tons, and the Agamemnon, a battleship
of it.tuo tona. In tha closing week of
the half year.' : - -i 4 ' ' -
. P, A. B. WideneVs Birthday,
Peter A. B. Wldcner. the street rail
way magnate and financier, was born In
Philadelphia. November It. !!. Hla
parfnta were poor, and hla first em
ployment was as a butcher's , boy.
Through political connections he 'laid
tha foundation of'hle fortune by obtain
ing contracts to ' aupply tha union
troops with meat during the war. In
1S77 ha permanently retired from poli
tics to. devote himself to hla street rail
way and other enterprise).' In com
pany.' with : W. L. Elklna aad . Thomas
Dolan he formed what became known
as the Wldener-EIklna syndicate, which
acquired many of the most' profitable
street railway properties In the United
Btatea. He built a home for stippled
children.' which be presented to tha city
of Philadelphia.
t A Bird Song.
A little bonnie bird I know.
With breast more aof t than eiderdown
A dresa aha weara of dappled brown.
And sings with sweeter tone, I trow
Ah, sweeter far thla birdie alnga
. Than all tha birds that summer brings;
And yet her song lSjOnlythls:
I love you, papa! 'then a aiaa. ;
No tendereat song of nightingale.
Nor aparkllng trllla and gurgling guah
' Of Joy from velvet-throated tbruan,
Nor brilliant pipe of mottled- quail.
Nor tuneful plaint of whlppoorwilV.
The meaaura of her aong can fill; -JAnd
yet her song Is only this: t
' "I love you, papa!" then a klas.
. Anon.
Why and Wherefore.
Why do the hind legs of an elephant
bend forward? ,
Because, - Its weight being so great.
after lying down It would have to rise
.with great dirrtcuity were ita lege oeni
outward like thoae of other animals.
Being bent under thi body, their power
of puahiwg directly-upward waea tha
powerful muscles are exerted la greatly
increased. ,
Precursor of Many Othera..
A terror of the Industrial world Is the
I etrlke In any tredftThe first -Tegular
true may be aaia to nave taaen piece
111 '1IS4 In London, when the tailors
struck, but after a struggle' had to give
In to tha employers.
love' with tha son of the financier.. The
daughter returns to find her Judicial
father a broken man. She' determines
to right tha wrong. She has a short
time before the Impeachment proceed
ings will coma before the senate. Bhe,
under a nom da plume, had written a
novel with the financier as the central
character a novel that doea not reveal
him in -a favorable light. He requeata
an interview with the authoreaa , and
gets It She' asaerta her Independence
and for tha flrat time since he knew
power tha financier,' thi Hon, in other
words, meeta a human being who darea
to think different than he things, who
darea rebuke him and to ezpreaa a mind
of her own. v-
Inatead of being angry',, the lion la
pleaaed and geta the authoreaa to re
main In his home and write, his biog
raphy. She flnda correspondence which
would clear ber father, purloins the let
tars and sends, them ; to her father's,
legal -representative. . Living In the
houae of the man who la trying to de
stroy her father, meeting the lion's eon,
whom aha lovea, the daughter-of the
Judge la torn with conflicting emotions.
la compelled to hoar her father berated
without replying. In order to gain her
end. In the third act discovery ' comes,
and when the girl. In an outburst of her
mind, declare she would not marry the
lion's son because hla father Is the
greatest criminal of the century, the
lion begin to aee the other aid of
things and realises there I something
he has overlooked. In a characteristic
line he aays: .-
'1 can run thla government I can
make puppet of,enatora and officials
but I cannot rule my. own eon."
Of course. In the and, tha lion, out of
consideration- for the daughter, aavee
the father from disgrace and consum
mates the marriage between his son
and tha girl who has won him over
to the ranka of Justice. It Is a atrong
play every line of It It Is distinctly
worth seeing.
Aside from the excellent work of Miss
Lovett as theN Judge's daughter, special
mention la due Paul Everton, who plays
the Hon; John Robertson as Hon. Fits
roy Bagley, the lion's private secre
tary; Macey Harlam as Jefferaon Byder,
the lion son, and Ada Levlck as, tha
lion's wife. .
Mr. Everton gives a logical character
isation of the Hon, his strong work be
ing tha descent from a tyrannical ruler
of things In general, aa wa aee him at
the first glance, to the meek sympa
thiser - of the world'a-wrongs, as- wa
find htm at tha final curtain. Mr. Rob
ertson grve good characterisation of
an eccentric and ' somewhat difficult
role, and Mr. Harlam doea well as Jef
ferson Ryder. Mlaa Levlck plays the
wife to an artistic turn. Oeorge Barr
doea the servant stunt ,n the 'conven
tional and approved faahlon.
"The Lion and the Mouse" will be the
bill at the Helllg tonight ,
. gcjenct Makes Discoveries.
Oheslt haa 'been a subject of recent
study by French physicians, who find
that growing fat may be aa much a
mark of disease aa growing thin. Tha
shortness of bresth and other troublra
of the very fat are' of toxic character.
and usually Indicate that the normal
toxins of the body ara Imperfectly oxi
dised and eliminated. ' In some m sta
rtles accompanyng obesity tha toxlna are
mlrrnblan, animals Inoculated with the
bacilli having gained In weight aa much
aa 100 per cent Other polaona, how
ever, may be concerned, the 'fat-forming
effects of alcohol,, arsenle and phos
phorus being well known.
The electron seems to be looksd upon
by Professor J. R. Rydberg of-Lund,
Sweden, ss the original form of matter.
Hla work on tha chemical elementa has
convinced him that there must be a
fighter substance than any hitherto
known, fend he finds this by assuming
that the electron Is an element with an
atomic weight only a fraction of that
of hydrogen. Thla new element to be
known aa electron Is not a separate
kind -'f material. The evldenc at
hand suggests thst It makes up the
metal, and Is a universal gas, or at
leaat forms an atmosphere throughout
the solar system. -., .. ', ,
With Peary in. ike
- r " Nortt:
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The Adventurers. ;
From tha Atlanta Journal.
Robert E. Peary, from whom nothing
authentle has been heard for m on the.
and for' whose safety very general fear
nao oeen xeit, naa Dean neara irom;
acroaa tha northern allane comes the
pieaaage that the American flag .has
been planted nearer the pole than has
the flag of any other nation. Com
mander Peary reached a point, ST de
greea S minutes north or only SOS mllea
from- tha pole. Tha Italian Duke of
Abrussl, who held tha record previously
waa compelled to stop 14 miles farther
south. .
' And when tha pole la reached, what
thenT Why, nothing much. Nothing
that will be of any direct and general
advantage to humanity. And therefore
dlvera peealmlatlo and hypercritical
phlloaophera opine that it has been but
a barren quest - We do not agree with
them. - Wa do not know what precis
scientific worth tha discovery will have.
but even If It baa none, all these expedi
tion will have been well advised, never
theleea." The aptrlt of adventure, alive
and qulok In the world, though it ahould
never be tha direct purveyor of victual
for tha world stomach, la yet a good
thing. . 1 ,
. Peary Near the Pole,
From the Minneapolis JournaL
The north pole has not yet been con
ouered. Peary has returned without ex
act knowledge of It but with the aatla-
faction of having penetrated nearer the
object or so many ratal expeditions man
anv of his Dredeoesaors.
The nrohlem of the geographical pole.
It la "evident llo be7olved byth
methods of tha sapper and miner, eacn
new applicant for tha honor reducing
the distance by a Tew miles. The flrat
polar expedition of the nineteenth cen
tury rU short of the pole nearly-bus
miles.' but that wa a long advance over
the first one recorded. In the sixteenth
century, when the pole kept l.tOO miles
of Ice and water between Itself and the
discoverer a The last deoadee has seen
great advance Into tha hitherto Impene
trable north. Nansen reduced the in
tervening- distance to Stl miles, tha
Duke of Abrussl eut 24 miles from Nan
sen' record, and now Peary has made
an additional eut of 87 mllea. The pole
Is getting In close quarters.
What la to b- accomplished- oy tne
actual landing of man In the undefined
region known aa the north pole la not
actually agreed -npoa by aelentlatav 1
la the nature or man to investigate ana
propel himself Into every portion of the
earth, and the mora difficult of. access
the region the more he haa determined
to conquer It Thla has been as true or
trot) leal as of Arctic regions. It la as
trne-of-the- desert of Sahara, ao-f the
hlgheat mountain on the earth' ur
f ace. Conquest, exact knowledge or ex
periment for science's sake have ani
mated nearly all nineteenth century ex
plorations. Letters From the
r . People
'' "Tha Water, yatexa,' '
Portland. Nov.. It To the Editor of
The Journal- The Portland Free Water
association baa presented a clearly de
fined plan and purpoae to place the -ex-
pens of maintaining tha water system
where It will be leaat burdensome, and
that 1 oh tha realty ownera of Port
land. . A moat Interesting and Instruc
tive statistical' table might be compiled
showing who these men are and how
very easy they manage to live en the
sweat of other men's feces.
The departure does not mean free
water, but to place the burden where
It Justly belongs. I am one of tha com
paratively, rew . who own their homes,
and with- othara-ln llko-poaltlon. will
welcome tha proposed change. The
water syatem aa now managed outrages
every senaa of Justice, but to aubatltute
meters would - not leeaen- but Intensify
the burden. The Individual home own
ers will to a man favor tha new schema,
therefore how may anyone object when
his holdings will be taxed In proportion.
Tha change Is not "aocialltlc.M but
democratic, and aa such will be wel
comed by all true lovers of justice.
F W. BURNETT.
atusle la the Saloons.
Barton, Nov. 11. Editor of Th Jour
nal: Should Portland amend an ordi
nance for. the benefit of 100 peraona
when by ao doing the whole population
of tha city, especially the young upon
whom tha burdens wa now carry muat
soon fall, will be placed In danger? Will
not tha 100 tnuaiclane. who are said to
be out of employment because of the
exclusion of musle from the saloons,
be "In better business" - If. they make
their living In other ways; snd In these
times of scarcity of labor and high
wagea la there not room for all In
places of bualneas where the tendency
Is to upbuild and not pull down 7 how
many parents of Portland would be wili
ng to see their sons or daughter enter
a aaloon aa a musician, however high
the wagea. may bar Satan Intends to
use each and -all of God's gifts to man
kind for his own purposes, and musle
Is one of tha best he particularly de
sires,' no doubt for Is It not also true
that the beat' people are those who ere
fond of musIcT Then" shslT the "city
fathers" so change sn ordinance thst
the danger of ruin, spiritual and physi
cal, shall be greater? s '
As the mother of 'five boy I ara In
terested In the saloons of Portland.
, . .- , m. p. a
Can't Stand the Trust.
- From the Astoria Herald.
Tho - Herald this week announces a
change of policy. Henceforth It will be
Democratic- Not tha Dolly .Varden-Cltl-sens'
Democracy, but the " pure, un.
adulterated Damoeracy which laid the
foundation for - thla grand government
and Ita Institutions.
Thla change of policy la the result of
the Republican party's attitude on the
tariff queetlon, and that alone. The
Herald cannot - aupport - the - stand pat.
trust principle -of the Republican party.
- Tha Republican party for the past SO
years has been the champion of the cause
and Interests of trusts. Which party will
you chooser .Which party do you believe
Is the on to represent the cause of com
mon humanity? Th Herald knows from
psst history that there will never be
any relief from unjust burdens Imposed
by ths trusts as long as tha Republican
party la . In power, and It therefore
espouses the cause of the Democracy,- in
the Interest of th common people and
th laboring classes.
t Real Funny.
." From The Dalles Chronicle.;
Th Sunday Oregonian baa . become
exceedingly "funny" all at once. la
addition to ths rainbow comlo section,
It adds,tha exceedingly funny feature
of chroma yellow tales about people
prominant la It political auuaa.
BIRDSEYE VIEWS
ef TIMELY TOPICS
SMALL CHANOtt. '
An election la always vry important
till It la over.- , , , -,
But the really big land thieve are
yet unconvicted.
Oeckham win make a stand for Bever-
idge In tb aenate. - ; -
The Vtea may ba thankful that they
are not Pulajanea. . , ,
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Even the people who are officially In
tha water wagon are in trouble. - -
Each natlqn will disarm and go in for
peace after all the othera have dona so.
., '. e. . e - -y j '
The Ooulds fesl that they have been
touched by Bonl'a appeals about enough.
KaneaJ "IS "always In some 'sort, of
trouble; now she's short of corn-buskers,
. '.v ..- ;.' ;. ,;
professor say tha Inhabitants of
Mara suffer from thirst can't utey
raise bops up there T
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It la about time t begin suggesting
that people buy their holiday presents
early, but it would do ne good.
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Gorky ' Ig .ever In Europe abusing
Americana on account of their habit
of having only one wife at a tlma.-
. I - - a - .- -
'quiet but pretty." I It to be Inferred
that moat pretty wedding are noleyf ;
Prohibitionists are alo' Bongratulat-
ing . themselves over election results.
Nothing Uka being cheerful and hope
ful. , . ; . ' ,
' Aooordlng to hi pictures In the pa
pers the new lord mayor of London
looks -Uka a twin brother ef King Ed
ward.- ' .
If you've got a silver mine, look
cheerful again; stiver's going up and
going to stay up, aays the director of
the mint
And still men and boys are being
killed for deer all tha way from Maine
to -California, and -the-manaleughterlng
idiots ara let run loose.
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An Illinois .farmer haa a clatarn of
cider 10 feet wide and 11 feet deep.
That may help aome to make a long,
hard winter eomfortable.
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A Democratle candidate for represen
tative named Startup was defeated In
Chehalls county by three . vote. His
wtnd-up was not equal to hi Start-up.
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A report cornea from New Tork that
men's coats are to be shorter. If the
boss tailors keep on shortening men's
coats they will , have to - lengthen the.
trousers at the top or elee there will
be a space between the two garment a
But the prices of the coats won't be
any shorter, if they only come down to
th small of a man back. , ;
Carnegie v Prince
THE BENEFICIARY OF
- From th New Tork American.
The press of th Plunderbund rejoic
ingly makes much of the fact that -An
drew Carnegie, back from Europe, de
clared enthusiastically for Hughes be
fore ha left the ship. ,
Why shouldn't Andrew Carnegie be
for Hughea? Next to John D. Rockefel
ler ha Is Ue most conspicuous example
In the United States of - how - special
privileges, legal and Illegal, can enable
a shrewd and energetic man to acquire a
mountainous fortune. -'
Mr. Carnegie stand for about every
thing In our buelneaa life which Mr.
Hearst haa fought 'in his newapapers
and to which- hla candldaoy for gov
ernor Is menacing." It la summed up In
pillage of the public and oppression of
labor. : ." -
Mr. Hearst believes In high wages
and pays them.- Mr.' Carnegie, when he
waa an active Ironmaster, ' believed In
low wages and paid them. - If the unions
In his shops attempted to better th
condition of their members, he gav
them battle to the death.
- ... a.a
Homeatead la not forgotten by the
country. That terrible etrlke, with It
scenes of bloodshed and th train - or
misery It left behind It for thousands
of families, will live a long in the
popular memory as many a sanguinary
conflict of the civil war. ..'
Carnegie asserted thst he could not
afford to, pay the living wages demand
ed by his workmen in the steel Industry,
but he retired from that industry with
a bank account of f 800,000,000.
Retired, that la. from personally di
recting the mechanism which yields him
an annual Income of many rallllona,
drawn mostly from the pockets of the
American people. He Is ths largest In
dividual owner of the steel trut.Hls
enormous yearly revenue I paid htm
by the steel trust ' v '"
This trust has praetlcsl monopoly
of the iron and steel business of th
'Farms and Government Bonds.
From Moody's Magasln.
Farm Indebtedneas la almost Invaria
bly tha result either of a mortgage
given as security for a part of tha orig
inal purchase price, for the purpose or
Improving or stocking land already paid
for, or for, the purpose of buying ad
ditional land for Inveatment purposea.
But In no ease do the mortgagee of tne
class considered exceed one half the
value of the unimproved land.' If this
particular mortgaged farm, and the
othera In the community, fall to pro
duce the returns necessary for ths In
terest charge against them, wlinee
come the Interest on the bonds Issued
by af railroad dependent on this com
munlty for Its origin of business?
If one can Imagine such a thing as a
country suddenly rendered barren, th
railroad haa become worthless for divi
dend purposes; while, on the other nani,
should the eame country simply i be
stripped of Its railroad mileage. It
would Continue self-supporting and at
tha same time demonstrats its ability
to pay any reasonsble Interest -charge
against It It haa already done this In
times psst In all portions of our own
country before th rsllroad construc
tion reached the community.- If. there
fore, the Investor muat ultimately look
to th earning capacity of his Invest
ment," we feel that It Is demonstrated
that he can most safely do ao when bis
Invsstment la a properly mada farm
mortgage.
TREOOW BIDELIOHTa." "
Mora houses are aeeded In CoquUla. .
Rainier may have a S10.000 hospital. .
Tha soaking rains brought happlnes
to farmsrs. '..-,-,''
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- Elgin will have a big, new school- " .
houae next year. -
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Logging camps are numerous along . -the
Molalla river. - . ;-' x y
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, Wasco county is all. aama Ireland thla . '
year) few potatoes. ,m .... v''. '
-...'( ,. e '-;,' ".-,.'!-'. ' s ' '"
, There Is muoh building activity In all v
parte of Douglas county. -.
.;'."'.."' . a "'. '
An Irrigon man has chrysanthemum."
talk five feet eight Inchea high.
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- Athena and Weatoft people are paying
It a hundred for - old fence ralla for
fire wood. J - ., ,?"
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Panther are quite plentiful along the
coast several having been killed lately
la Curry county. ., ,
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Last weak people In Douglaa county
were still gathering peas, beana, - and -other
garden "saaa." , ..... ,
Now Is on of tha times or year when
people who expect to rats good fruit
next year must spray. "' ' .-
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A 'letter addressed "to th pastor of
some church in Sheridan" waa returned;
no preacher In that town?
a e - , .. ' r ,
Somebody stole th L4 Orand Chron
icle' "dlxshlnary." oinoe when It fa- .
vors simplified spelling to soma extent
.' - i
A Clackamas county . farmer whose
wife la away aays hla cooking has not -killed
his cat yet, but tha hens have
quit laying egg. - - j - .- -
Th Oregon City Courier haa been en
larged to aevea columns and otherwise
Improved and la on of th beat week-
lies In th state. :
A Coos Bay pioneer named W. D. L.
F.- Smith -died laat week. 1 He Jived a
long and worthy life, notwithstanding
his numerous namea.
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There ha been more fuse and fight
ovsr the appointment of a Juatloe of tha
peace at Condon than ever tha appoint-
ment of adjudge of tha Biiprema courts
.';-.; "' e e .- ,''.'
Tha raising of good horse Is a proflt-
able business In Sherman county, over
160,000 worth having been aold to out
side buyers since harvest and there
being as many mora for aale.
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As good applea can be raised on th
lands of the lower Umatilla as any
where In Oregon, aays the Echo Regis
ter. , What la wanted Is men. - The land
and climate have been here sine Mount
Hood was an aperture on the aurface of
the earth. '. ,
of Plunder Dund
SPECIAL PRIVILEGES.
United State. It- owns cr control by
lease virtually all the iron or on thla
continent - and all - the - proceaaea by -which
that ore la made Into everything,
from a rail to an anchor or a needle.
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When you buy anything made of Iron
of steel you pay tribute to Andrew Car--
negle.
. He waa a very rich man before tha '' "
steel - trust waa - formed - and - a-large
part of his fortune came from railroad ' ,
rebates. Rockefeller himself waa not -more
eager for them or more ucoeful
in getting them. And tha tariff filled .
Carnegie' pockets, too. Nobody kept a
more keen watch on congress when dan
ger to hla Interests threatened there.
He waa aa good a representative of the '
Plunderbund in hla buay years aa '
Thomaa F. Ryan Is now.
' And today Andrew' . Carnegie, who
wants Hughes sleeted, personifies th -teel
trust
Let him put bis foot down and that,
gigantic combine muat do aa he says.
Does he say to it that it shall treat
the American people fairly," with com
mon honesty? . . . . ..
Here Is the answer to that questloni
Th trust of which Andrew Carnegie
la the chief beneficiary robe ths Ameri
can and favors the foreigner. - It sella
structural steel at home 'here for 131 a ,
ton, but lata tha European have It for
I to. -
- The same discrimination Is mada
against tha American purchaser of steel
rails and of everything else Mr. Carne- .
gle's trust has to market v .
- Why should not Andrew Carnegie ba" .".!
for Hughes, along with Morgan and
Rockefeller and Ryan and Belmont and
Harrlman and all tha rest of the preda
tory monopolists who are preying upon ,
th American public?
It is Just as natural for Andrew car-:
negle to work for th defeat of William
Randolph Hearst and the election of
Charles B. Hughea as It Is for Farley,
th strikebreaker, to do th same thing.
Pennsylvania's Costly Snide Capitol.
, From tha Rochester Post-Express.
In his annual message of January,
1106, Governor Pennypacker felicitated
the people of Pennsylvania because
their new capltol wa "being built for . .
the reaaonable sum of 14.800,000." .The
governor wss rather prematura In' hla
fellcitatlona. The cost of th capltol,
according to recent, disclosures, wss
over 1 113,000.000. thle price Including "
"furnishings," sn Item thst covers a ' - -multitude
of political alna. The decent
people of th Keystone state ask for an
explanation... The ring naively replies
thst, "nothing 1 too good for Pennsylvania.?...-
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t It la ths old story over again the
story- of political Jobbery, -graft and -corruption,
epitomised by Kipling In hla
"Departments! Ditties." We quote from .
memory one pertinent etansa: . '.
Who can doubt tha secret bid
Underneath the pyramid -;
Io that the contractor did.
Cheops out of several millions, .
'And th secret of the hew capltol at " v
Harrtsburg Is. that ths rlngsters snd fa.
vored contractors have done the people
out of ts.OOO.OftO or 17,000,000. Further
more, the people have received dishon
est goods for their money. Stained com
position passes for carving and thin
veneering Is palmed off for solid Wood, '
while the bungling workmanahlp makes -It
certain that th building, like the
oapltdl at Albany, will be eeactaatly la
th hand 9t. rpalrrs,,(.v, , , .
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