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poverty. Voltaire.
rjr-v PRICE OF SILVER,-"
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rTTHE SECRETARY of the treas
, i I . ury, it . was arinounced" a', day
' I 1 or two ago), declined to buy
more silver at present, at a little leas
"hafl72" tenti "an oue7becatise1ie
thought the price too high, yet the
.director of the mint is - reported ai
predicting that silver Will continue to
rise,, and within two years will' reach
76 cents, and not fall thereafter below
that price, and that it is likely to go
to 80 cents. ; This unward movement
of silver, he says, -will open tip hun
dreds of silver mines in the west
that have been ahut down fof 10 years
' because the fall in the prict of silver
made its mining unprofitable. '
'We do not know whether the di
- lector is a true prophet or not, but
Ji e"oughrlo" br"ableto"tudgeOf the
future prospect of silver better than
most men. Already some of the
great silver-lead districts are feeling
the effect of the present and proa-
pe"ctrverTseln"lhe prlcVbf Thi white
metal." Oregon, as well as Colorado,
Idaho, Montana and British Colum
bia, has great beds of silver ore,
which with ailver at 80 cents per fine
. ounce would be brought to the surface
and turned loose into the channela of
.', commerce.
? This recent, rise in the price of sil-
er (3714 grains) brings it up to its
value IS years .ago. It fell the next
year, 1892, to .67401, in 1896 to .52257.
In 1901 to .46093, in 1902 to .40835,
and then it rose gradually to .472 in
1905, :.Thirty-five yeara ago ailver
was worth f 1.025, but ell to .90 in
1876, and after that steadily till 1902.
If the present price is maintained or
advanced, it will be of immense ad-
- vanti ge to the writ
'ANOTHER TRUST SENATOR.
M
R. SIMON GUGGENHEIM,
who, it is supposed, will be
elected United States senator
from Colorado, will be chosen prin
cipally if not solely because he is a
multimillionaire, perhape the richest
. taahavt. g -a peal or nominal rest
denee in that state for Mr. Guggen
heim's real home, like Clark'a of Mon
tana,' is in New Yprk City. Mr. Gug
' genheim is quite as well entitled to a
senatorial aeat as Clark was, except
'. that so far as is known he did , not
openly and directly buy. hia seat .as
Clark did the-first -time,-at least
Guggenheim has very large business
Interests in Colorado; he is a trust
magnate of high degree; he will nat
urally look out for the interests of the
trusts and protected corporations; he
; ' If jri intimate association with Wall
, street; and it is said he has financed
the Republican party of Colorado for
, years -as an investment, of course
' and o why should he not adorn a
seat in the aenate. .',",;,..:
, With Guggenheim in the aenate and
Gabbert on the bench, Colorado .can
step up into the frdnt row of rotten
borough states, and cheerfully and
vnblushingly announce that she is not
only for sale to the highest bidder,
but that she doesn'tcare a whoop
bout the condition of her judicial
. ermine. . :" .' ' ' '.
NOT RAILROADS ENOUGH.
M
R. J.. J. HILL said recently
foat the reason freight could,
not be moirft? tint an
much the Jack of cars ancf TWoTnrtive'i
as of tracks and terminal facilities.
r-Jt is certain that there is a great lick
of cars, but it may also, be true that
more trackage along present routes,
as well as railroads through; hew ter
ritory, is necessary. It is apparent
that the country ia outgrowing its
railroads.' Not enough - cars, , not
enough motive power, and not enough
tracks on which to run the requisite
. cars and engines . if they were pro-
vided. So more railroads are needed.
Statistics published by the fnter-
state commerce commission show
wonderful, astonishing development,
with which the railroads have not
kept pace. From June 30, ,1895, to
June 30, 1905, the railway mileage of
th country increased from 180,965 to
216.974, or 20 per cent; the numbr of
cara from 1,205,108 to 1,84271 or 45
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per cent, and the number of engines
from 36.610 to 48,357, or 32 per cent
But durinar the same-period- tha ton
mileage of freight traffic' increased
from 88,567,770,801 to-186,463,109,510,
or oter 110 per cen wbilf the pas.
sehger mileage traffic increased from
I2.t)4202,55r to 23,800.140,396, "or 98
per cent. The average power of en
gines and capacity of freight cars was
augmented somewhat but not enough
to lessen materially the great discrep
ancy betweenthe growth-of -transportation
facilities and of the business to
be done by them. ; V.,
The railroads did not count on such
a prodigious growth of business .rer
quiring their services, and so did not
expand to meet it, and thus the situa
tion has become worse every succeed
ing year, until now the country is "up
against it", to. an unprecedented ex
tent and the actual losses, on account
of inadequate transportation' facilities
will jrun into the tens of millions of
dollarsr - .. ! '
'Evidently' there must be not only
an enormous increase of cara and lo
comotives on the present railroads,
but 'ant era of new railroad building.
The country needs thousands of miles
of new railroads right now, and will
need: them, and other added thou
sands, in the years Immediately to
follow. ' Will private capital build
theseroads las . fast as the country
needs them t From present circum
stances and indications, apparently it
will not But private capital must do
a good deal in this direction or else
the people will somehow have to get
busy on their own account
REVENUE FROM SALOONS.
HAT the revenue from saloon
licenses will be increased by
the proposed increase in the
license tax is. indicated by the recent
experience of Chicago, where the rev
enue this year, under the new $1,000
license, plan, will beabout $7,292,000,
as against $3729,000 under the former
$500 license. Out of a total of 7,253
saloons in the city only 122 failed to
secure a new license at the higher
figure. - So it aeems that while the
number of saloons was not much de
creased the revenue was increased by
over 90 per cent ahowing that the
business is sufficiently remunerative
to warrant the payment of .double the
former tax. ' V. -T
In Chicago the increased revenue Is
to be used largely In paying 1,100 ad
ditional policemen required , for the
better protection persons and prop
erty, and reports of the carnival' Of
crime in that city show that more po
licemen are needed that is, assum
ing that more policemen are effective
to repress crime. ' ,-..
Portland could use some more good
policemen advantageously, though
perhapa better use might be made of
aa increased revenue from saloon li
censes.' If the experience of Chicago
were repeated here, there would be
over 400 aaloona that would pay $800
each,, a total of $320,000, an increase
pf-QytX.$15Q.Q00-Jyr. The city
needs the money, and the proposed
license ordinance, or something like
it ought to pass. . ,i
It is brought " to " light"that the
charter issued by the government to
the Union Pacific railroad provides
that when the earning, exceed a cer
tain percentage rates shall be reduced,
and it is suggested that this may be
done, since Mr. Harriman has lately
been declaring large dividends. But
the public should understand by this
time that anything in a railroad
charter favorable to the people soon
becomes obsolete, inoperative,' null
and void, while on the other hand the
merest hint, suggestion or intimation
of a right, franchise, "or privilege
granted to the company is perpetual,
irrevocable, and consumable . entirely
in the railroad's interests.
Mr. Odellrcme-time Republican
governor of New orTtTaylTThT
Hughes campaign was grossly mis
managed in1" the Empire state," that
those who were responsible for it
were incompetents, and that Presi
dent Roosevelt's interference was per
nicious and impertinent and did more
harm than good. These be brave,
true and haughty jwordsL andtIr.
f)i.ll, whn still a factor inNew
York politics, had . shown some of
the spirit ' that inspires them," he
woaldtoday-1iave-beeinomething
more than hollow voice from . the
tombs. - ' - "
It seems to a good many people
that Commissioner Baiter's estimate
that the value of Oregon's dairy prod
ucts this year, amounts to $28,000,000
must' have -been somewhat watered.
But the amount is larger, no doubt,
than, ever before, and will increase
from yearto year.
Ambrose Biercej-. talented and
cynical literary , Bohemian, acknowl
edges that he wrote the lines so
much condemned about the bullet that
killed Goebel'speeding "to stretch Mc
Kinley on his bier," but' claims that the
quatrain was entirely "misconstrued.
A. Little Out
THINGS PRINTED TO READ WHILE YOU WAIT.
"-..I'Aa Ancient Cuatortu. ' -. - -'
' A eurtoua euitom.' whldn dates twek
over 100 years for its origin, ts observed
at Newark during the -autumn. Accord
ing "to local hlatorlans, on. a Sunday
evenlnc In the autumn about 100 year
ago, a wealthy - and - well-known JncW
merchant named Oofer wandered abroad
In the woods which at that period surrounded-tha
township of Newark." By
pome means or other heot his way,
and aa tha - wooda were then Infested
with robbera, the merchant did not ex
pect to see his home again, and was
about to . rive up In despair when he
suddenly heard Newark pariah church
bells rlnalna for Sunday evening aerv
loe. ' By noting . the direction from
which tha eound of tha bells came, he
succeeded In finding hia way out. Aa a
thank-offering for hia providential es
cape ha bequeathed a sum of money, th
Interest of which was to be paid to
rlngera to chime the bells for six sue-'
eeastr Sunday venrngs every" year; "for
an hour, beglhnlng with the twelfth
Sunday before Christmas. . Up ' to the
present the oustom has been rigidly observed.-
though- many - raaldenta ln tha
town are lgnprant as to the reason. ,
.:. Memory Bells.. ,
Bweet' memory bells t their- witching
chimes -. o, -
Have charms aa dear as olden rhymes:
We hear them oft at twilight hour,
When seta the sun andTshuta the flower,
O bappy bells, O chiming bells.
The clear, sweet beila of memorjr! '
When Luna's mystla silver light
Bathes bill and dale at noon of night -Then
voloea ring with magio strain.
Breaking tha calm with aweet refrain. .
O happy bells, O chiming bells,
, Tha purs, sweet bells of memory 1
Telling of childhood's Joyous lays.
And hopes and fears In bygons days; '
Of bridal rows and farewells said.
And solemn dirges for the deadi
O mournful bells, O chiming bells.
The sad, aweet bells of memory 1
Soon, soon our weary feet shall tread
That land where ao sad tears are shed;
Soon we shall clasp the hands of friends
Where with-the-aong no dtsoopff "blends
Of mournful bells, of tolling bells, ..
The sad, sweet bells of memory.
. I . . Btewart .
, November 14 In Hiatory.
ISit Thomas Parr, known as "Old
Parr," and said to be 161 yeara old. died
ear Shrewsbury, England,. - - - -
1802 First - melodrama produced at
Covent Garden theatre, called Tha Tale
of Mystery." -
Hit -TamDleo. Mexico, surrendered
to Commodore Connor of tha American
navy. . ' ... , ,
1900 Women granted permission to
practice law In France.
101 Colonel Henry Hapleson, grand
opera manager, died In London.
- 1105 Cxar remitted 111,000.000 taxes
duo from peasants. .
ft
Another Record Broken.
There are many records of all aorta,
and an Italian with a passion for danc
ing has added another that of the en
durance; waits. This novol champion's
nam Is Blgnor Gusttlerro, and ha made
his display In Parla on a Sunday with
flva competitors, lured by tha challenge
offer of Blgnor Gusttlerro to give 140 to
the man who could dance him down.
Incidentally the event established some-
Goebei's assassin had not been dis
covered, end Bier'ce. intended to con
vey the thought that since so prom
inent a man as Goebel could thus be
killed and the murderer not appre
hended the president might be the
next victim of an assassin's bullet.
Wall street is beseeching Secretary
Shaw helpagain. The-Kaw-Yofk
gamblers suppose the treasury was
created principally for their, benefit,
to relieve them every time they have
been indulging in a speculative spree.
The treasury should let them sink or
swim; the country is now too big and
rich for them to precipitate a panic, as
thejr threaten. They- are - not-one
tenth as important as they think they
are. , Wall street doesn't wag the
United States any more. ..
Cuba is now steeped so deep in the
blessings of gentle peace that a man
who is known to have money can
travel undisturbed almost anywhere
on the island when guarded by U. S.
troops. - -. '
"The"" national congress on uniform
divorce laws has decided that there
are onlv six causes for legal separa
tionand the bargain counter habit is
not one of them;
ili Standard Oil's Convktioiu
From the Winnipeg Tribune.
Tha Standard Oil company haa at last
been tried for .conspiracy and found
guilty. ,
Of eouree. the company haa appealed;
but, pending the hearing of the appeal,
hundreds of columns of wise comment
o the lnevltbleness ojf punishment
the majesty of the lyw. etc . will T
dished up for 'the "enfrcnlmptton of tha
American and Canadian peoples. .
Bui what Is the victory" of tha peo
ple over Standard OUT
The company-haa been- a notorious
criminal for yeara.
It haa defied and walked over every
law that was designed to Interfere with
Its tyrannical policy and when at last
a court of justice finds It guilty of the
thousands of Crimea It hits committed,
the people actually think they have
something to cheer for.
When a great rogue like tha Stand
ard Oil company commits a great
crime and Is found guilty, tha shouts
of delight dnly too conclusively indicate
popular surprise that such a verdict
should be possible. And these things
happen In democracies!
The heads of the Standard OH com
pany . should have been In penitentiary
many years sgo.- In their eonvlotlon of
conspiracy today the people - of tha
I'nlted States have little cause for re
joicing. In their .escape from eonvlo
tlon for so long the people of the
United States have great Causa for aor
row and shame for their, courts and
legislatures. . t . .l
What applies to4he United States ap
Bliaa wiut eoual. taroe to Canada
Y- i . . " : ' v , .
of tkc Common
thing like a" record for tha single plan'
1st who. played the contest through, for
it was part of the plan that the suc
cessive dances should ba played with
out tha alliehteat break or Interruption,
as It they farmed successive movements
In a single composition. This was nec
essary, because it -was stipulated that a
single fault In step or time on the part
of the dancers disqualified. The "ball"
opened at 10 a. m. and It closed at lt:S0
next morning. For an hour before that
time all the dancers but Hlgnor Oua(
tlerro were merely shuffling their feei.
The number of dances played was 261.
Slgnor Poll Lulgl was tha player. .
. Personal ":
'Until tha time of Peter the Great, tha
Aleutian Islands were unknown.
It Is claimed that Siegfried Markhus
of Vienna waa the Inventor of tha motor
car. . .. ; , . . . . -
' King ' Oscar of Sweden loves nothing
mora: In Tils quiet and leisure moments
than to Improvise on tha organ.
Charles Francis Brush, the noted elec
trician, has on his office door In his
building in Cleveland: "Office hours,
11:30 to 11." He Is always, there
promptly.. and never works overUm t
Jalss Irene Ainsiey, tha New Zealand
soprano who recently mads her appear
ance In London before k distinguished
audleace, which Included the Prince and
Princess of Wales, la only 11 yeara of
W. Morgan Shuster. the young Wash
ington lawyer ' who has recently been
appointed by the president a member of
the Philippine commission. Is under 80
years of age. His appointment carries
a salary of flS.000 a year.
Afghanistan's ameer was ' married
while ha was still a little more than a
boy to seven wives, each the daughter
of a powerful chief. Ha now haa four,
the eldest of whom la a shrew, and ha
sorrowfully succumbs to her attacks.
George W. Vanderbilt'g Birthday.
George Washington Vanderbtlt one
of the heads of the "house of Vander
btlt" founded by the famous commodore,
was born at New Dorp, Staten Island,
November 14. 1861. After receiving a
liberal education, he spent several
years abroad. Though a man of great
wealth estimated at 180,000.000 Mr.
Vanderbilt haa never taken a prominent
position In the world of society or af
fairs. Ha - ts a great lover ' of art.
Among his notable benefactions are lib
eral gifts of land and money to the free
circulating library "of New .York City
and the New Tork college for the training-of
teachers, r In 1J9S Mr.-Vanderbilt
married Miss Edith StUyvesant
Dresser, a member of one of the old
and prominent famlllea of New Tork..
The Prica of Hair. ,
A lock of hair of Napoleon I, present
ed to the Countess Brownlow by Sir
Hudson Low, has ben aold In London
for 1 11a Sd. TWtf autograph letters
by l tha Duke of -Wellington - to- the
Countesa Brownlow. and' a lock of heir,
realised only It shillings. -
An Interesting ,Maf eking relic was a
humorous menu -card of a dinner at
Mafeklng on May 14. 100. which took
place atx daya after tha relief of thst
town. - The card has on the back the
signatures of Prince Alexander of Teck,
General Baden-Powell. Colonel Mahon,
H. Plumer, Colonel Frank Rhodes And
J. Wllloughby.,- The relic realised II.
- A copy of the ninth edition -of the En
cyclopaedia Biitannica. (26 vols., half
morocco) was knocked down for It 6s.
r Letteta From -. tkc
People.
Will Xava o uoeeeso.
Portland, Nov. 11. To tha Editor, of
Tha Journal A recent dispatch in your
eolumns states In connection with other
reports regarding Mrs. Eddy, tha leader
of ths Christian Bclencechurch. that
tlfehurcls'dlvlded Into factions ow
ing to tha refusal of Mrs. Eddy to
designate her successor. I will there
fore ask you to give space to tha fol
lowing letter from Alfred Farlow, chair
man of the committee on publication
for. the First Church of Christ, Scien
tist, Boston, Massachusetts:
"Recent press dispatches have Inti
mated that Christian Scientists were
disturbed by tha alleged-disclosures
of the New Tork World, and It haa
been atated that 'radical changes' would
be made In tha "management' of the
Christian Science church aa a oonse
quenee. It waa also asserted that there
were factions quarreling over the lead
ership and that Mrs. Leonard la event
ually to become tha figurative head
of the church,' and mora to tha same
affect.
"Amusement atrugglea with compas
sion In the minds of Christian Scien
tists who read these sensational and
wholly - groundless reports. . There la
not a vestige of truth in one of them.
In the first place Mra. Eddy la not falling.-
She Is more than ever competent
to direct the causa of Christian Sclencs.
Christian Scientists know this very
welt and they do not seek another
leader. , ,r , . ,. .
"No radical changes are contemplat
ed. nonelademanded. There are no
factions " In the Christian Science
church striving for tha domination of
the movement, Mrs.- Eddy wilt-not be
succeeded by Mrs. Leonard or by any
man or woman. Her book. 8cience
and Health,' will continue to lesd hu
manity to God. asIt haa dona for 40
years. Mrs. Eddy be said that she
would not ba aucceeded by any person,
and Christian Scientists understand her.
For that reason there are no 'cabinets,'
no "machines liw- Christian .Science,
though a state of mind which believes
In the necessity or advantage of such
vehicles might, perhaps, naturally Imag
ine that Christian Science was oper
ated on tha same plan.
T he -a bsurd story has " been """ cl ref
lated that reporters from the World
were followed.' 'shadowed' and threat
ened' by representatives of tha Boston
Christian Science headquarters. There
Is not a word of truth In this story."
Respectfully,
COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION FOlt
STATE OF OREGON. r
: 1 . A Timely Tip.
From Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune.
- In the unhoped-for event of war
Japan Will be quite likely to find that
there are yet a few Americans tp take
their places behind tha gun. And Ameri
can naval gunners shoot mighty
straight. -. -- " ; ... . . ..
. Beat of AH Reasons.
From tha Philadelphia Inquirer.
' There are several good reasons why
tha Japanese will not start a war with
the United States because of tha San
Francisco prejudice. One Is that they
bars a very nraatloal government
Is Japan Looking for
Fight?,,;-
From the St Paul ' Dispatch.
Ia tha meaning of all differences be
tween the Japanese and tha Amerloana
a light f la Japan, far from being ex
hausted or even satisfied by tha expendi
ture Of belligerent energy In Manchuria,
eager to measure swords with the na
tion which taught her ths world in
lti, which brought her to peace In
1S0ST There may be both evidence- end
warning In the eventa since tha signing
of tha Portsmouth treaty.
Indifference to the'saorediiess of -Ufa,
as manifested by tha American shoot
ing of Japanese poachers In . Bering
waters, haa not been accepted In a spirit
of Indifference by - this - people wbloh
can on aoeaalon be, sufficiently Indiffer
ent to life themselves, this people which
Is as proud and as oonltdent of auperl.
orlty as tha Spaniards were In tha
golden age of - Spain or shall we say
aa the Americans are In the obviously
gold age of Amerieat , And contempt
for the Japanese people aa was mani
fested"" rorthe Ban Francisco 1 order, ea
ciudlng Japanese .children from the
schools," has not been received with In
difference, and cannot be received with
the ' understanding the contemptible
order . deserves. In . Toklo or la the
Islands: Neither has tha inclination
manifested at Washington. If not by
the congressional body, at least By a
very loud-mouthed part of It. to include
Japanese not only In the same excluded
class but In . tha same racial class with
Chinese, been unnoted In Japan. . - .
.. e e e
There may be Japa and Japanese, just
as . there are .Chinks and Chinese. But
when it comes to the solidarity of a
race, to national consciousness, to , a
feeling that whatever may be ths divis
ion Into.. classes at home,, tha world
muat consider the people as a whole
why then, the Japanese are aa ardent
and egotistical, as, say, Americana It
la all very well to receive assurances
from Toklo that the mikado and his
government realise . the . provincial
quality of tha Ban Francisco aot. and
It Is well to listen to tha smootn woras
of Japanese- merchants In New York
City, declaring that only tha Ignorant
people at home are angered .with the
United Statea. But . given tha . racial
qualities for what they are In Japan,
and for what they-are In America, It
would appear that It will take a very
careful and .tactful and deferential
policy on the port of both governments
to maintain any semblance of an entente
cordials.- Ws know on this, side the
Paciflo what power the government would
have If the people wanted war t we
have had only too recent a manifesta
tion of that. It la' not probable that
Japan could resist It tha Japanese peo
ple hungered for war throughout the
Islands as tha American people hun
geredor were made to hunger aome
eight yeara ago, ;.
.'. e ; e e
If there' were no partloular reason
for. Japan desiring war with America
all this discussion ss to their animosity,
and even aa to tha far reaching Indig
nation against these petty -.-American
acta, might be held negligible,-. But aa
a matter of. fact, of two facts, there
are reasons for Japan not cultivating
the good will of the United States be
yond tha point where war might be
easy. One, of these facts Is China, the
other Is the Philippines. - China Is, so
the Japanese consider, as . much- the
commercial destiny of tha Japs aa the
different . nations . hoped several years
ago their spheres of Influence would
sometimes be actual spheres of posses
sion and exploitation. China Itself Is
waking up, but China would scarce ven
ture to arms against ths - nation . that
whipped them into humiliation 11 years
ago. Japan being a clever as well aa
an ambltioua nation, may succeed In ex
cluding Americans and othera from the
larger empire. And aa to tha Philip
pines, there la no question that their
natural deatlny Is Japanese, Instead of
American. Even- American army offi
cers admit that If Japan ahould go at
It In earnest, -the United Statea would
ba beaten before - it' eould erosa the
ocean. It behooves us therefore to act
with soms . regard - for these possible
events, . sven though they appear Im
probable; ' ; ' ; ;
Turkey's First Step
in electricity
The first" electrical enterprise in the
Turkish empire, . now well under way
at Damascus, is described by a writer
In Tha American Exporter (New Tork.
October 1). - Tha company, which la
practically Belgian, working under a
concession from a Turkish functionary,
began operations only after tha rejeotion
of a similar scheme for Aleppo, and has
encountered no. small amount of legal,
transport and engineering difficulties.
Bays tha writer: .w
"Ths terms of the concession give the
company a very wide scope. They com
prise a monopoly of electrical tractloa,
light and power, a virtual monopoly of
eleotrlcal appliances, a right to estab
lish agencies elsewhere, and a telephone
service, should such be necessary. The
company la under contract, with the
municipality to light certain , parte of
the town, and la hound to 4-epave the
streets where, the tramway passes.
. "A force of 1,100 horsepower is .de
rived from the falls of the River Barada
at Et Teklye, 11 miles from Damascus.
"The original plan was for five miles
of tramway, crossing the city in two
directions. For-the present only three
and a half miles, connecting tha auburba
of Meldan and Salhlyeh. are being built.
"The tramway ia expected to be the
least profitable part of the concern. It
will, no doubt, largely aupplsnt the eab
trafflo, which Is not Inconsiderable on
Its route. More than that It can hardly
do without introducing a minor revolu
tion Into the hablta of the natives.
- "Furthermore, local tlms Is not money1,
although the present undertaking may,
by a happy" combination of cause and
effect, conduce to make It so. Similar
ly, alectrlo light supplied at a reason
able rate may create-a larger domand
for artificial light. Aa will ba aeen
from the foregoing remarka, Damascus
haa certain Industrial pretensions. How
far electrlo power Is likely to ba applied,
even with an Increased Import tariff.
In a conservative country-whers water
power Is forthcoming, to existing or to
new ' Industries, is scarcely within the
range of thla report. It la enough to
note how nearly the progress of Damas
cus Is bound up with ths destiny of the
company." . . ' ; '
Is It Fact? : :
' From the San Francisco Chronlole.-
- There la an astonishing disposition
shown by eastern editors to erawl en
their bellies when discussing the
Japanese question. Is it really a fsct
that the prowess displayed by the little
brown men In their, recent war with
Russia -has so frightened them that
they feel compelled te ask .whether
American polloy muat be governed by
fear of the ennaequenceo at tha wrath
tt foreigners I '
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BIRDSEYE VIEWS
cf TIMELY TOPICS
SMALL CHANGE.. '
" i eSSBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBB
Tlme'o' year to begin aavlng up for
Chrlatmas again. '
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What Bonl needs Is a few duels with
rawhides as weapotta.
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About the easiest thing to find by
looking for it la trouble...- f--- . .
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Won't somebody please prove that
fresh eggs are full of miorobes and
lit to kill"? . .
George Ada says people ought to
swear. When listening to one of -hie
plays, perhaps. - , j...-,,.-
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Now we read In a McMInnvllle paper
of "a very home wedding." How
happy the "very" home. ; , , .
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Temilsnt would cause bnmany
aombar. faces. If Hitchcock could ba
proved guilty of complicity In eoal land
frauds, . ........
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LSUllr-4hr-nppilhtmehlof the latest
member. of the supreme bench may not
cause the trusts to feel particularly
moody. - ; . ' .
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1 he lack of our Republican vote In
Vansaa ts accounted . fort Burton la tn
Jail -or somewhere In the vicinity of a
jail In Missouri.
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Hearst is coming clear across the
continent to California to rest. But
some people will remark that there la
no rest for the wick el ... ; ,
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A Chicago man has been sent to Jail
for allowing hia wife to support him.
Isn't It time that men began to organise
to protect their lightst
If Uncle Sam passes lawa that fairly
Invite men to grab lands, he ought not
to ' assume too virtuous an aspect In
condemning them for doing ao.
"A professor haa discovered or Invented
a new kind of rabbit. ' No thanks to
him r there are loo many kind of rabbits
In thla part of the country already. ,
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Perhapa Larry Sullivan - will make a
present of a few ahareo of mining stock
to all ths people of tha second ward
who voted against him In tha-Ust city I
electlon.
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It la- reported that tha Marlborough
divorce ease will be tried In thla coun
try. That'a right; if there la anything
American courts are proficient in it le
In granting divorces T- - -
..i s .. ' " e e ; - ". r-. -If
Governor-elect Hughea would make
another business visit to that barber
shop where he voted he would please a
good many people, whether he looked
handsomer or uglier attar the operation.
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It doesn't ' make much difference
whether you get a turkey for a Thanks
giving dinner or not, or whether you
have any Thanksgiving dinner or not,
providing you make euro that you gat a
good look-on at the Thanksgiving foot
ball game, . ,
Need for National
BY I. PEASE NORTON, PH. O.
- There ar four great waatea today,
the. mora lamentable, because they are
unnecessary. They are preventable
death, preventable sickness, preventable
conditions of low physical and mental
efflolency and preventable Ignorance.
The magnitude of these -Wastes Is testi
fied to by experte competent to judge.
The facta are cold and bare 1,600.000
persons must die- In the United States
dUHnf.The next It months; equivalent
to 4.100.000 persons will be constantly
sick; over t, 000,000 homes, consisting
of tt.O00.00S persons, will be made more
or less wretched by mortality and mor
bidity. : . 7
We look with horror on ' the blsck
plague of the middle ages. The black
waste waa but a passing cloud com
pared with the white waste visitation.
O' the people living today ever 1,000,-
000 will die of tuberculosis, and 'the fed
eral government doea not raise a hand
to help them.
The department of agriculture apends
17,000,000 on plant' health and animal
health every year, but, with the ex
ception of the splsndid work done by
Dre. Wiley, Atater and Benedict, con
gress does not directly appsoprlata one
cent tor promoting the- physical wall
being of babies. Thousands have been
expended In stamping .' out cholera
among swine, but not one dollar waa
aver voted for eradicating pneumonia
among human beings. Hundreds of
thousands are Consumed In saving the
lives of elm trees from ths attacka of
beetlea;'in warning farmers . agafnlt
blights affecting potato plants; in im
porting Sicilian . buga to fertilise fig
blossoms In California; In ostracising
various species of weeds .' from -the
ranks of the useful plants, and In ex
terminating parasitic growtha that
pray on fruit trees. In fact, the de
partment of agriculture baa expended
during the last ten yeara over 144,000,
000. But not a wheel ef the official ma
ohlnery at Washington waa ever aet In
motion for the alleviation or euro of
diseases of the heart or kidneys, which
will carry off over . 000,000 of our en
tire population. Eight millions wilt per
ish of pneumonia, and the entire event
Is accepted by the American people with
a resignation equal to that of the Hin
doo, who, in the midst of indescribable
filth, calmly awaits the day of , the
cholera. " , ,
During the next census period more
than 4,000,000 infanta under years of
age will end their little spans of life
while mothers sit by and watch in utter
helplessness. And yet this number
could probably be decreased by as much
aa one half. But nothing la dona
In the United Statee alone, of the
10,000,000 living today, all must die. af
ter having lived, aay, a little more than
1.100.000,000 yeare of life, on the aver
age slightly more than two score yeara
Of these years, 1,400.000,000 represents
the unproductive yeara of childhood and
training. ,
Consider that the burden of the un
productive yeara on the productive yeare
le 10; 10, or aay 100 per cent. Could
the average length of life be Increased
to 0 years, say to 41,000.000,000 yeara
lived by 10,000,000 of people, the bur
den of unproductive yeare would fall to
1 per cent In the judgment of men
competent to bold opinions, this ia not
Impossible.
The states' rights doctrine can be
applied against the department ef ag
aieulture aa effectively aa agalnat a na
no
OREGON SIDELIGHTS. "
Almost every town In Oregon is howl
Ing for cars. . ,
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Burton - county boasta'of a aecond
crop of new potatoes. v
Springfield Is to have a match fac
tory and an undertaker -no connection
between the two.
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Eugene 'is ambltioua to become the ,
preeminent metropolis of the Willam- ,
ette valley. How s that, Salem 'and Al
banyT . . .. . .'
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That the country newspapere of Ore -gon
are enjoying prosperity is evidenced
by the marked Improvements being
made in many of them. ,
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Abundance . of" November "- garden s
"sass" is a glowtnr tribute to-the eqtrrty
of climatic conditions in - the valley,
remarka the Eugene Register. ; : . .
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On ' a one-third valuation .., Morrow
county's assessment- ia 1,1.000. No
good reason can. be given for assessing
property at only one-third lta value.
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Springfield News'. Soma people in thla
neck of the woods are born silly; others
are ahlpped In and aome are knocked
allly by the thlnga they aee after they
get here. . . .. i '
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' The Benton County - Cltlsena' league
la to take a hand In the movement for
government ownership of tha Oregon . .
city locke and free navigation of tha
Willamette. Tbat'a right. Everybody
take a hand. - . ; v
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' Corvallia Republican. In Polk eounty, '
a farmer has a cow tl years old. : The
butter served. to some Corvallia gentle
men at a certain Portland hotel lat
week 'must have been made from 'the
first milking of that sama cow.
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There was a big electrlo storm along
the Curry eounty coast last week, doing .
considerable damage;-lightning- shivered
swvrrai nri (reng ana me inunaer, ins
Port Orford Tribune ssye, "reacheoflha
limit of eound and awfulnesa"
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' Brownsville. Times: With three new ,
sawmills snd tha three old ones hum
ming in the Caapoola valley next spring
therLwlU-be . something-doing, lntha.
lumber shipping Industry from, thla city
If cara can be obtained, ,l
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Mllton Eagle: Each year the poultry
business Is becoming more lucrative
and now assumes proportions that will
soon rival any branch of farm Industry.
Farmers are forced to acknowledge that
the old hen can lift her own weight ia
raising a mortgage from the farm. : :
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, Toncalla Courier: Tea, there is money
In the poultry business In this country,
Eggs at SO centa a dosen and turkeys
at II and 10 centa a pound. Seema
high, hut that's what the farmer gete
for his products in this Una. There are
several farmers In this neighborhood '
who never market lesa ' than 180 and.
some of them manage te aell aa many aa
800 turkeys each year. -. "
T
Health Department
tional department for health. -It ia not,
then, a question of constitutionality,
but. rather, of whether or not such a
department is needed by the nation.
It seema. desirable that a United .
Statea national department of health
ahould be established, having aa lta
head a secretary,, who shall ie a mem- -'
ber of the executive cabinet . ' .
The purpose of the department ahould
he to take - aU ma urea calculated. In
the judgment of experts, to decrease
deaths, to decrease sickness, and to In
crease physical and mental efficiency
of cltlsens.
- ,The economic reasons for establishing .
a national department of health are
five:
- 1. To enable society to progress more '
rapidly under tha law of Increasing re
turns through Increasing the percentage
of exceptional' men of each degree
(many of whom aro now: lost through
preventable accidents), in addition to '
Increasing the total population.
1. To lessen the burden' of the- un
productive years on ths productive
years by Increasing the average age at
death. If we eatlmate the average
span at 40 years, and 10 yeara aa un
productive, the ratio of unproductive to
productive yeara la 100 per cent With- "
out venturing an opinion aa to the true
figures after the manner of La Place, t 1
have calculated ' what would be the
economic gain If average span wsra 40,
44, SO and IS yeara and also the burden :
of an - unproductive year at 1100 and
1100. -The annual gains are shown
undsr the various hypotheses. Thus If
the aversge life span of a class of the
population can be Increased from 40 to ,
4t yeara, the economlo gain would be
lli to flO per head. Assuming 40,000,
000 of productive age In the United "'
States, the. burden of the unproductive
yeara of childhood, lightened by an In
crease' In the average life span, from 40
to 46 years - would ba - 1400,000,000 to
11.(00,000,000 per annum, and an In
crease of 10 yeara would result In sav-
legs of ' $1,820,000,000 to 11,440,000,000
per annum. -
I. The third economlo reason le to
decrease tha burden of death on 1 the
productive yeara by increasing the age
at death. If the expense of illness end
death are 1100, and. the average age at -death
la 40 yeara, the average, death':"'
expenses . average 111 on the 10 pro-
ductlve years. Could the average age
be Increased to- 60' yeare, the burden
falls to 1 1 0. or a decrease of 10 per cent"
For 10,000,000 ef . people, the saving of
11. IS per yesr of life would be equlva
lent to 1110,000,000 per annum. , -
4. The fourth object would be to
lessen the economic burden of- sickness.
Assuming Naiyholme'e figure of nine
days' average illness per annum., ap
proximately 1,000,000 yeara of life are '
lost per annum. Estimating wages st
$1 a day, and all other expenses 11 a
day,- 11,444,000,000 lose per annum la
registered by this Item. . Could tha days
of Illness be cut down one third, nearly
$100,000,000 would be aaved. .
I. Hlgglns haa estimated that 1400,
000,000 are now spent on criminality in ,
the United Statea.. . If the criminality le
largely the product of the eoclal en
vironment, euch aa overcrowding, alco
holism, etc, measures which would de- '
erease this only fractionally are worthy
of-consideration. , A decrease of II 1-1
per cent would result In eavlnga of "
1100,000,000 per annum,
For the last four estlmetea the total
savings ranee between ll,ROO,000,OOt
and 4,000,00,000 per ennun -
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