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Editorial Page The of OURNAL ,1 rTHEJOURNAL AH IHPEPEKDEMT lwnrMi c S. JACKSON. ..Pafcttaeer .m- twt .TitBt'7.tT''a',yr'at" Tl''' t,wp'rJy'tf6wr't6brg tiZ' nl'.JT'x'.'li.ia tT"er5A I anTTtotrrtit it dominates the rail- Orefoav Katore at til snetafSc af PerlaaVO" mum bmiu. ... -. . TBUSFHOH Mat .Mala SoO ntanai Bonn., ........ Business orno. ............ IrOBEIGN APVEST18INO H P R K8 K H T AXIJ rl.n4-B.oJas.ia Special 3"'!2 fB7ua: , 10 Kama street Km Turt; Trtbeo. JJauo- In-, Chic.. ' ' '"' ' SnBerrlptlo Tena T all ta U Celted Statee. Canada r Mexico. -i . . ... n. f 1 ' , i Ona year, la no I Ona aaoata f -" I On year, S2.0S I Ona smth. ..... niiiv mn SUNDAY. ' , V Ona year. ........ IT. 00 Ona onth.j.i...- 1 THE DOWNFALL OF i LANDIS HE CAMPAIGNINO of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt . Longworth .""-nd her, husband, has been the cause ,.o a lot jot trouble' to some people, and of disaster, it. is claimed, to Representative Landis' of., Indiana, whose defeat in the recent , election is attributed to feminine warfare en genered by the, visit to his district, of the Longworfhs during the campaign. . . i. . i t i:- ...... .t.4 it was aupposea -was vent ot .iTtneess Alice mo cun- soct into Landia district his troubles beean. which -culminated in bis falling Ian innocent victim to the society war which the -visit of the president s daughter precipitated. ; She ' was not to blame, either, nniees tor going Hver into the . Hoosier , state, v where she and Kick had really no business, though they went with the best of intentions, meaning to help Landis out, but now he wishes they had gone to Halifax instead. , ; Of course all the ladies of Landis' district could not have top-of-column, fjiext-reading-matter positions at the lyariotu politico-social functions pulled toff during the semi-royal progress of 41;. nA Vi1r anf atari ' rti rnnra. all the ladies who were not thus hon J ored felt slighted and snubbed, and ; acted a society ladies are prone to ' do under such circumstances. There- fore, arose heart-burnings, and Jeal- ousies, and manifestations of anger, and threats of revenge, which were i' fanned into a social cyclone when Alice was finally whisked off by a I milf, select "coterie of worshipers, all the other ladies being ignored as , " Unworthy to associate familiarly with her 'highness. A ; ; ;," ;'. : This "fixed", poor Landis. , Not , that he was to blame at alL But, perhaps, his wife was. At any rate '' Alice and Nick were over therein '. his . interest, and . the slihted and scorned ladies, gave, rdej-sJoilh eir husbands, fathers, brothers V and sweethearts to do up Landis, and they, '-.. obeyed orders. And yet some people J" say women have no voice in politics, v Similar results are said . to have oc . curred in one or two other districts , visited by the Rooseveltian bride and ' her husband, and hereafter fhey need expect no invitations to come to the aid of Republican candidates for con gress. THE BIO PULLMAN MELON fHAT IS a fine, btgjTjuicy meTon that the Pullman stockhold ers have been ' cutting. An accumulated surplus of $35,000,000 ' has been divided up, the surplus this year having been $5,000,000, and it is expected that the earnings will ; yield a dividend of $6,000,000 a year besides the regular eight per cent interest This is a very nice, easy way for a few men to become inor i tlinately rich off the traveling public The t p. would not mind the high ' charges of the Pullman company so ' much if passengers, in order to se , cure decent attention and service, did not have to pay the Pullman em ployes also. The company that is . thus 'raking in millions is too greedy . to pay its employes living wages, and they have to depend on travelers for , . means of livelihood. Every person -who; fras-ocatsrorr to-nse a Pnfhnan ; car must pay twice what the service 'A is reasonably worth, and contribute ' both directly and indirectly toward ; these millions that" the Pullman stock holders are amassing. But the Pullman people are horri - fied if the subject of taxes is men ; tioned. They consider it an outrage , to be asked to pay anything beyond , nominal taxes. ' Let the poor people pay the taxes; what else are they for? The city of Chicago is trying ' to collect a little matter of $2,500,000 back , taxes from the Pullman com pany, which, of course, is a piece of rank persecution, - , - The state of Texas having proposed to reduce Pullman rates, the com- . pany indignantly threatens s to with draw its ears from tnat state. What ; business is it of a state like Texas, or f the country, what this private, rloe corporation charges? Can't it do v.hf it pleases in this free coun- , try. and divide a $6,00fl00 melon ah- I nually, besides 8 per ' cent interest, without being annoyed with plaints ". . . '. ; " .v - for lower rates and demand for taxs?TItis coming "to a pretty pass if business gentlemen cannot be let alone. roadroad companies or else they wiHingly submit to it tyrannical ex tortions. .Perhaps the lack of pas senger cars and their poor accom tnodations are' in part due to itn pressive suggestions of the Pullman company. .,." Perhaps the interstate , commerce commission under the new law, can do something to take a little wind out of the sails of this insolent and gorged monopoly. ' It has-had its own smooth way in plucking the pub lic quite long enough, "r ':Tr ARBITRATION. HE PROPOSAL, of some of the ; :i i. . v. ...... " tion 'of wages and other dif ferences with employes to the inter state commerce commission for arbi tration seems to be significantly and gratifyingly ' meritorious ' Employes generally have been :. ready to sub mit their side j of contentions . to arbitration, and very likely will be willinff to do so in this case, esoeci- ally sion who : is especially qualified to judge of 'such a question has long been a union employe of railroads - Strikes have undoubtedly .been a necessary weapon, and though many of them have failed tq bring about the immediate results sought they have on the whole been of great service to workingmen; but the opinion is growing that it is unnecessary and foolish to resort to this means of re dress except in extreme cases. Arbi tration is growing in favor and prac tice, and every advance made by em ployers toward its use in settling la bor disputes should be and doubtless will be met at least half way by em ployes. Railr oad-mploye ronstitute-the largest body of wage-earners in the country. Their work, in every ca pacity except that of the mere build ing of the roadbed, is important. To some of them millions of people an nually trust their lives, and there is reason to believe that many of the horrible railroad accident5"Bre due to the overworking of engine crews. The work deserves good pay, espe cially now when all the railroads are exceedingly prosperous,, their great trouble being their incapacity , to handle the business brought to them. The wages of some railway employes have lately been increased, notably those of the Pennsylvania road, and other roads, it is said, are consider- ing-the-iueatioa-of-faisingwages.- This, if done, will probably pre vent any general strike in the near future, but it would be well if both the' employers and employes would agree on arbitration, with, perhaps, a minimum scale of wages as a base. ft-would be equitable to, raise, or lower wages according tothe earn ings and profits of the. railroads, making employes profit-sharers of the surplus beyond a fixed income on the owners' investment, but this may not be possible as yet Arbi tration should be given a fair and full trial, on every possible occasion. WHY FISH WAS OUSTED. M R. STUYVESANT FISH protested in vain, though a great majority of the stock holders would, have stood by and for him if they could, against the trans fer of the Illinois Central railroad to Wall street and Standard . Oil con trol, for whatever speculative and monopolistic schemes might be de signed, -and that great road, hereto fore run principally in the interest of the stockholders, easily fell into the maw of the mammoth octopus, of which Mr. Harriman is the gen eral outside manager But it is believed that there was an especial reason for the fight on Mr. Fish, for it began at the time of fhetnsbfatScrexpds'ufes in New York, and because he could not be used as a tool by the interests . in control of the three great fife insurance com panies under suspicion. It was re ported then that war had been de clared on Fish by Harriman, Rogers and affiliated Interests, and the pre diction was made that he would be driven from the control of the Illi nois Central, and that prediction has been verified. , Big a figure as he was, he could not Stand against the combination arrayed against him, that seeks not only to control all the great transcontinental railroads - of the country, but also the great reservoirs of money, such as the leading insur ance companies."' T ' his disciplining defeat of Fish is significant not only as showing the tremendous, unlimited power of Jhe Rockefrller-Harriman combine, but as irrdicating the indifference of these magnates to public sentiment . and popular demand for regulation and control of .railroads and other great industrial concerns. They cars noth- THE CASE OF THE OREGONIAN. HEJOtTlfaACis pnifc nr bar before which every, man ought to be tried is the-bar of public opinion, and it has con cluded to submit'to this greatest jury of the whole people the libel case against the Ore- gonian, and it will endeavor to do so. a dispassionately as possible. . ; ' , , " ! ' As part- of the evidence' it "submits to this" jury of the people' the " cartoon in question, and it asks the people of Oregon whether that cartoon, fairly in terpreted, was pot intended, to mean that William M. Ladd, pos ing aa a hypocrite, is holdine in Jis hands a page of The Oregon ournal containing the horrible and murderous sentiments therein expressed, whether the ' cartoon does not mean. that William M. Ladd smilingly approves these" murderous;-sentiments, r no mat-: ter where or by whom they were first expressed! The' cartoon. speaks for itself and argument is unnecessary.'; I he statute law aoohcable oro- vides that if any person shall wil fully "publish or cause to be pub lished of or concerning another. any false and scandalous matter with intent to injure or defame such ' othtfpefson" he shall be punlsHed "by imprisonment in the county jail not less than- three months nor more than one vear. r by a fine not less than $100 nor more than $500. Any allusion to any. person or family with intent to injure, defame or maliciously annoy such .. family, shall be deemed to come within the pro visions of this section." . , The words represented in the cartoon never appeared in this oaoer. This oaoer was not or- ganized until March, 1902, a year vv. asoosaiuauuil Ul a I C9I- dent McKinley.. It is false that Mr. Ladd publishes, approves and knows. That this cartoon was published with intent to injure and defame him is beyond contro versy.' That it could not fail to annoy him and his family is self-evident. ' His aeed mother, a io- neexloiX)regorvlia-state4 that theight-ef that -cartoon-gavc-her-the-CTeatest-grief-sitice- sh- fbst her husband, and now the question i's: before the people of Oregon, Has-the statute law been violated or not? If not, then when will it ever be violated? What does the law mean and what is a viola-' tion of it? . .. .'::-.:;.'' ., tr. But there is a higher law than the statute law, just as there brum than the courts. There is the law of fair play. What will paper using the great power it possesses to maliciously, falsely and cruelly hurt innocent people and blacken, broadcast to the world, the name of a decent man? There is the law of ; plain truth. a . . V W-. a a . . . . ... . ' - mt. scott ana Mr. nttock know y taise. lhey know, and Jiave paper and nothing more, and never has, and never could, influence and has never tried to.: There is man to wreak his spite on his real antagonist and to play the game fair.ij ir ; We have reprinted this brutal libel so that it mav speak for itself,' so that each 'man may look at it and ask how he would have felt had it been published of him; so.that each mother and wife may look at it and ask how she would have felt had it been her son or her husband., The Journal has sins of its own to answer for. It is not perfect and it is willing to take what comes to it fh," journalism. It is speaking: not for itself, but for humanity for decency;, for good society for the reputation of our state, and it says solemnly, in the name of God,let us pause and take this home to Qursexesrnd: askJVrtWeall cowards?Have we Jost allaenstoxightandwKhg-andntice ? la the Oregonian above all law, both statute law and the unwritten law of the human heart? .' V; We do not believe it. " - - . .-. : ; i " :;,; ...':' . :;y . Mr. Ladd and law-abiding society are awaiting the action of a grand jury,' but whatever the ac tion of that body may be, or whatever the verdict of a trial jury may.be and it Is difficult to con ceive ot any man with manhood that cartoon nevertheless, Mr.' Scott, in greater , measure, as he controls the policy of the Ore gonian, and Mr. Pittock in great measure, as he controls the corporation itself, can never escape the responsibility for this dastardly act, and let them not be deceived. .", v ' . ' Men may nod to them on the them. They have richly deserved ing for the tilting of the president, for rebukes,' appeals, warnings or prosecutions; they believe themselves greater thnthe 7BOvernment, than the people, than public - sentiment or law; and a railroad president or other man in high station 'who op poses them must step down and out. Are they mrstaken? The Journal's thousands of readers ill be pleased to learn that Dr. Stephen S. Wise will speak to them weekly on topics of national interest through these columns. - Fw speak ers in Portland had larger audiences and few writers had a wider circle of readers than hadtRabbi Wise, whose brilliancy y vigor, and independence made him a leader in the thought of the times, and his many admirers will rejoice that, though absent, he still continues . their guide, philosopher and friend. The - first of the series of articles that Dr. Wise, from his home in New York, addresses to the people of Oregpn will appear in The Sunday Journal. . - That is a very good rule that the president has established, that what ever he is represented as having said, unless its publication be explicitly au thorized, in verbatim form, by him, is to be considered as spurious and false. This allows the president to assume a dignified attitude of denial if some one reports something the president said which on reading in cold print next day he wished he had not said, and relieves him of indig nantly declaring that 'somebody has lied when the poor fellow to the very best of his recollection told the truth. While the torm that has raged for the past 48 hours has not been the most destructive to life and pr6perty in, the history of the northwest, it will still be regarded by many people as the most calamitous of a decade. They cannot get away from Seattle, r, .' . ; ' opinion thaHhe granclcsttTry of tn '.i-o- mt v : ltMgEffi& . . bi eo O' Only 6Y . , (fjifid i'a-'iyi , ?t'u- . . .. - iM ana -"lou wrtoon smiles' at such sentiment, false that every line and meaning and always known, that Mr. Ladd is the law of common manliness, in his heart having but one opinion street, or even take them by the the contempt of all honorable men, and they have it. ' Support the P ortage Road From the Pendleton East Oregonian. The portage road must not cloaa. A protest that ' wlU be heard In Salem hould be aent In br the cltlsens ot the Inland empire. It la the only hope of the people of the Columbia. Hvar vallajr. It cm be made an Inestimable arm ot the state e-overamenk It may be weak and poor ly supported, but think of the powerful corporations which are fighting it. Think of the thousand of plans of these corporation to remove It that they may have a clear field again to extort money from the people any' freight rate they fit. Will the portage oommlsalon play Into the hand of theae corporation? - Keep It open and In operation afany coat. Th Open River association 1 building boat for the upper liver. Don't eloae th portage now, Juat aa It fullest utility 1 about to be reached. The commercial organlkatlon of th Inland empire should emphatically pro test agalnat It suspension. - Let the protest be heard. - . President Talks Football. From the Philadelphia Pre.' President Roosevelt was la Philadel phia yesterday afternoon for tlx min utes. He took advantage of th oppor tunity, too, and mad an " address. It wasn't a political speech, such a Sen ator Penrose might have wished, but hi word probably appealed to hi lit tle body of listener mors than all th political speeches In th world would har. for h talked on football, and h? audlenc-. was mainly University Of Pennsylvania student. Th president was returning to Wash ington from Oyster Bay, whr he bed gen to cast hi vote. - HI private ear Blgnet was attached to the .train leav ing Jersey City at 1:14 o'clock and ar riving at West Philadelphia at 1:10, where a small erowd, probably-a hun dred, gathered at th statloa to -grt the president AS the train fulled In the crowd made a break fori the rear ear. hlch ws recognised Immediately a President Roosevelt'. , Mr. Roosevelt was seated In th drawing-room of th car, apparently In a deep discussion with Secretary of Btavt Ellhu Root. So absorbed was he lit th conversation that h did not notice that th train had reached Philadelphia. It waa only for a few seconds, however, for a squad of university student started a Pennsylvania yell, with three "Roosevelt" on th nd. At th first aound the president dart ed from hi seat and waa out on th ob eeivatlon . platform. ;HU .face beamed. airislne people. and that thTgrcat . .. . . . . . . ibiutted Dy tn oregontan. v and scandalous, as -every one Is a greater jury and a greater be thought of a powerful news-'" inference of that cartoon is brutal- a minority stockholder ins this its management as a newspaper.' which'teaches even 'the spiteful in the matter after one look at hand, but they do not respect and, waving hie hands, he attempted to Join In the ylL . ' - "Who did Pennsylvania play last Sat urday?" he asked, aa soon a th cheer. Ing had subsided. " A dosen voice all tried to be the first to tell him that there waa no game. : - "Is that ao? Well, I thought that must be th oa.. ; Do you know. I looked all over my paper to find out how th gam came out. and couldn't find a word, and I was afraid something waa the matter. "We're having soma real football this year, aren't wT" he continued. "What did you think about that Princeton Dartmouth game? My, how I would like to have seen that game!" " - . , Th president' other word were lost In the cheer that broke out. There are good, husky lungs for you," said th president to the rest of the erowd, a th yell finished, and re turned to bl car, Th president waa accompanied by hi sister, Mrs. t Douglas Robinson, who alighted In tni city. -r , - - H a MaaaaaaaaaaaSH)ia ! The Land of Ducks. "There are more duck In China than In all the rest ef th world.-' China lit erally I white with these bird, and day and night t the country resound with their metallic and edomful voloea. Children herd duk tin every road,-on every pond; on every farm, on every lake, on every river. There is no back yard without Its duck-house. There Is no boat little or great, without Its duck quarters. ' . . Even In the cities of China ducks abound. They dodxe. bet ween th cool ies' leg. They flit squawking out of the way of the horses. Their Indignant quack will not unseldom drown the roar of urban commerce. All over the land there are great duck, hatching establishments, many ef them of a eapaclty huge enough to produce 0,800 young duck every year. . The Chinese duck I extremely ten der and delicate the beat tarn duck for eating In the world. Duck, among the Chinese, I th sUpla dalloany. It I salted and smoked like ham or beef, and duck e;s at eaten aa chicken egg are in America., ' Make the Locks Free. From the Albany Democrat ' It le In order now for the newspapers generally to take a hand In the demand for f re lock at Oregon City. Con gress met In s short time, and this I on of the thing It ahould make pre vision for at thla coming session. It hould not cost to- secure : passage through anything like this of a public character. The old tailgate system I a relic, and th Oregon City lock I a toll-gate. A cent and a' half per buahel mesne a good deal out of the pockets of the "farmer. , , . v- ' r-" TDIRDSEYE VIEWS--P-VvTIMELY TOPICS . SMALL CHAMPS. It was quit appropriate that Teddy snouio, go oy sea to see. , , A big stick 1.. hln a good deal Indirectly to dig a big ditch. And still the H'e keep to the fron- Halnea, Hodson and Hart . . ' .v : Wall, were you not complaining at th prospect of Oregon going drytt , .' :,.- ' . - ,1 - . - 'Why didn't the government get out an injunction against the UteeT " No doubt Harriman haa plenty of "water" la which to place hie Flah.- - The' suspicion that the proprietor of the Gear hart beach .lured the Galena aahore there 1 entirely unfounded.. Poult . Blgelow Is doubting If Roos. velt can find out more about the Panama canal In two or three day tbaji he did. Future generation will ett ' down 1 1n parka and eall the men that donated them blessed or woald. if they thought about It There Is no need for the policy-holders to worry; isn't Paul Morton atlll draw ing DO. 00 year salary for looking out for tnomT- - ', It waa a married man, ef course,' who declined to subscribe, for a lecture course on the ground that he waa lectured too much already, ' u, ., . EvSrybody admit that Mrs. Sat hu a right to do what-h please with her money, but a good many people think he would be wise to take their advloe about It . ' . ' -;.. The -Commercial Traveler Anti-Trust League proposes to launch a .. Bryan boom. What again? W thought th boom waa launched -when he returned from hi trip around th world. . . - Th people of Astoria are : wtaa In knowing when they have a wise mayor. Both th Republican and th Democrats have nominated Mayor Wise, though he ta a Democrat for another term. . . ' , The husband of on of th London uf- fragist who recently raised a row In th house of jcommona says he Is willing to pay 10 a day aa long aa ahe la kept In Jail. Ha may need to do some vigor ous explaining when she gets out. Thla advertisement appears in . The Dalles Chronicle: "Wanted Girl to as sist with housework; good horn, treated aa member of the family.'" If more housekeeper would, make and keep thla proposition, servant girls might not b so scare. , . .,- . - .. . . A Washington woman- want damagea rom another woman who caused her to lose fleoh through worry. A good many woman would pay a handsome eum and worry a good deal beaide If they could get rid ot SO-'pound -ot flesh, but maybe this one was ef the slender variety. -. Tkc Biograpty of a Bribe Teyou and your dupes, the constitu ents of whose welfaVe you have bees) the insolent betrayers; - To you and your vlctiroa, the bucket- chop alaves ot . whose hop or salvation you have. been the ruthlee dastroyer, To you and your masters, the corpora tion of who dictate you have been th good and faithful servants; ! To you and your works - ana your shame, as a valedictory to your present session and a aalutatlon to your nest ene - - -. I dedicate thte homely story of the dirty Bit of Paper. ' ' lWi. THOMAS W. liAWBUIX. : s. THE BRIBE. . It waa a wora and dirty and evil- smelllng-blt -ot. paper Its center boV the portrait ef a man. a man the Image Of his God. ' .... ' Behind the maaeive. staieiy orow was ' stored wisdom. From the great kindly eyes shone toleration. The square, ' eet I've-weighed-it-and-deelded- tfbeyond-recali Jaw waa power incar nate. - , " ' Under that face the one script 'in God We Trust." seemed almost unneces sary: the other. "The Father ef Hie Country; His Country the Greatest on Earth," superfluous. ror tne features bore His Indelible stamp. "True by birth and by choice, grreat by environ ment and by declalon, splendid within and by reflection." From that reaolut mouth came, forth In organ tone. "All men shall be judged by what they have done, and they shall t rewaraeo ana punished accordingly, here and here after." ' On the trodden bit of Deter, silent wit nesses to Its potency, were traced, auto graphs ot leaser men, dingy black upon faded green. In the lower oorner was Its tag, Z8323. and plainly In th upper angle waa Its universal passport the symbol of It power for good and for evil. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS. - - . ; ' TheTLarger Rascals. " v From the Atlanta Journal. '. At Flndlav. Ohio.' the Standard Oil eompany was found guilty of conspiracy in reetraint of trade In violation of, the Valantina antl-truSt law1 of Ohio. At New Tork, Judge Holt of the United States circuit court Imposed a fine or S10I.00S on,' the Hew Tork Central for granting rebates to the transportation repreaentatlve ef the' American nugar D.finin. mmmmv : Fnrwi ar Banator Jo seph Ralph Burton atarted for Iron- ton. Mlasourl, wner ne , w spena six month In Jll, Burton having mad th vital error ef Xwlstlng hie official nnaiHnn fn ftila twirannal oroftt All these thing happened on the eame day. - When a big truat vioiaie mm w and la eaught up with, when a great railroad I fined, when a former United State aenator la aent to prison u these things indlcste that we are liv ing In an age of grafters and grafting. the cynical violation on the pert of the rich and the powerful ef the lawa of which were Intended to apply equally to all, do they nott . And theee conviction and fines and sentences are cause for pessimism and discouragement concerning the stste of the country,' ere they nott, No. they are not. They are food for optlmlem. They should foeter , cheer fulness end encouregement ' - For . they show that ths people are finally determined to put a etop to violations of th law .en the part of r no , OREGON SIDELIGHTS. , Oregon will have an' Ice plant " ' 0 , O Med ford's school attendance, H0. ; ' -.. '"'. . :. ' -' ' .'j . . - FoothtU orchards being wrecked bn bears. , , - . t :- - v -- '. ' ' 7 A good deal pf saw and hammer work In Medford. : - iv -. ' ,-' i'.-.. .. It - took only1 ' W seconds to marry a Dvuiv in Aionny. " e'; -. new Catholics have church at Lyons, Linn county. ; :.. , ,. . .. ,. . -w-, -,- tvood la t a cord and eoal "out ef eight" ; at AnteJope. , ; .. .1. . ;.-.1,, J.,....v.- e . ' X- Chtnuts a good e thorn of Tork Stat wer raised near CoqulU. . . ! ' ' ' ,v,..; ' . i . . ',. "."-t ' " A farmer near Madras la down. 100 feet and still boring away for water. -. '7" " - " c , '',. The Myrtle Point Enterprlae says there Is no official record ot a worm ever bav ins" been , found In a Coos county apple, - .;.. ...1 - "All the saloona muat cloaa at 11. Most of them do," aaya the Salam Statearoan. Then aome don't do what they "muat'i How' thatT . . ';- , : A. C Mamers ef DftuirlaS eVufitv has " t.fioo-aer farm on, which he haa lately built 10 mile of wire fane. ' Besides othsr stock hs has 1,300 Angora goats. With Jupiter Plyvlu doing, business at - th old stand, and with two rival water . eompanlee In operation, Roaeburg prom Isea to have a "wet old time" of tt, eays tne news. , ..... -. - ' ' ; e : ' ; . .. , . . Huntington expects much aotlvlty and prosperity In the near future. The new railroad down Snake river will be In operation, opening up a rich country! m smelter will probably be atabllahd near-by . mining properties are being opened up; black aand along Snake river ill o oreoej and reduced, and so. predicts the Herald, we will have good timee soon and have them la abundance,' Vale Orlano: The merchandise stores are rushed with the forwarding business and th general outfitting for the In terior. The town ha several big alx and eight-horse freighters in it every day d thy are taking from Vale a-big - warehouses wagon-load after - wagon load of goods. Vale hae never been so prosperous as at th present time and the forwarding business la Just In Its Infancy. .- ' "'"''-; , 1 . : Last winter and spring a man south of Echo broke tao eras of raw. dry- land and afterward harrowed It eeven times at Intervals of about a month apart and before the last heavy rain he had stored up In thla land two feet ef moisture, while all of hla neighbor land waa en tirely dry. Since the' last rain be haa three feet ot wet soil, while all the other soil In the neighborhood hae but about a foot. The entire tract Is now sown to grain, whlch 's uj and looking , extra, well.- - - ' ';..t ' Over-broad. rtreans and beaten high, waya, along tortuous human currents and Into earth' hidden hook and cran nies, up and down upon th ebb and flow of many generation, thla bit ot paper had found It wayIa th great, hop of trad It had bought- necessaries, comforts, luxuries, life itself. In the noisome marts where Satan eaters to evil paaston - It took from men and women-respect, truth, virtue and gave them sometimes death. . Thee blot ar th tear-mark left by . a broken-hearted smother, who by this bit of paper freed an erring child from prison, but not from disgrace. That blur record th mingled Joy of th mow haired, care-bent couple who tumbling home by the Christmas-coming of this maglo token waa snatched from' grasp ing strangers. The blue-penciled letter -on the edge note the snaring of the thief who. stole. to save thoee dearer to blm than hie honor. The red stain Is the' blood of mortal sombat, a struggle to the death for this flimsy- bit of paper. - In all Ita earnings snd goings, its me-. sag of aorrow and happlneaa. It aerv Ice to careful thrift and unbridled license, It mission for kindly eompa. Ion and merciless cruelty, the graven face of the man waa ever, calm, tran quil, serene, a mirror '. ot unalterable faith in God and .Time, who right all thlnga. - - - ' " But now the placid llpe relax, curt up, -quiver In score. The gentle eye blase and aparka of anger fly. The firm jaw becomes rigid, harsh, . menacing. - Th shrinking scripts read! "In Greed 'Wi Trut," "Th Forsaken of HI Country; HI. Country th Graf tlest on Earth." The face llashes out fierce contempt and unutterable wrath,' for now the soiled and besmirched bit of. paper, ehrtvelllng of itself a It passes from on ' shameless hand to another more vile, hae become the algn of the unpardonable In, the unspeakable trade, one's man- ' hood for another'a soul THE BRIBE. THOMAS W. LAWBON. . the- rftrr-andToweTnirv'naFTnak-iTl men and all bualneaa concerns to th same mark ef honesty and probity. - They show that the people are slowly and painfully, yet Intelligently and -with persistence, . working towerd .the ' day ' when it will be just , as dangerous for the big rascal to steal a coal mine as It I for th little rascal to steal a scuttleful ot eoaL . ..; . it a Joke?- From the Wood burn Independent Representative J. W. Beverldg of Portland la nothing If not real amus ing. Hs see a way to have ad anti pas bill that will not be an antl-paa bill. "If any bill Is Introduced st the next session ef the legislature making It unlawful for free passes to be issued t publis officials In Oregon." he says, 1 , will, unless declared out of erde by the house. Introduce an amendment providing for th snaotment of s stt- ut which hall by atat law compel all railroad and atreetcar companies, or ail transportation eompanlee la the stare, to Issus full transportation" to all eounty and city official within th Stat." Is this a hug Joke or is the 1 man -in eernratf Tax a railroad com pany te the limit and then eompel it to . give passes to an army' That wouldn't hold water, but If It did, vry Tom, Dick and Harry would run for ef fie and, .every' Jimcrow hamlet would -hurriedly Incorporate, Mr. Beverldge la an. original humorist 1 i - v -Wi..,