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Editorial Page of The Journal 1 L ""V. THE JOURNAL AM IMnsPSSDSHT prwnrri. C a JACK KIN l-vbltabe TMy event P , every . m-nint Te '"""f ' f "U? ir, nru U T.-Jll .teeeis. I'eriUa. 0r .k. . ...in fiif st Farttaod. Or.. ra.-ausstae tareus ess-aa-etase Alt irtMta rescne r prWste tnM. ( Tell Un wnW tse Mi""- ' ' ' I01UIUN AOVKnTuTlNO k 1,f",LTlJ, , VrUBl Beojaate Sre ! A d w 1 1 Cl'ftJ' V iM NMT.tnMt. - Trlbuee Bell. nbwrtsttoa rm fcr mil ress ' to the Unite Sutes. Csnsoa er M MleM . , ' DAILY " ' ..' On year.....,., ..pool On ...,... . inn DAT ' ' . ...' Om ..18.00 I t month...... , DAILY AND SUNDAY Om ftu .47.J0 I - .. Opportunities f are : swarm- ing around ;u all the time, v J -thicker; -than i gnats at.. sun- ; down, j We walk through . ; WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. TITO MAN ,e5 eeds an introduc I l ion m ! 'nT American city Xl than .William Jennings Bryan. I 7 . Everybody Vnows him; or of V him; and for him everybody, whether VanTforbitn7Teverybody,:lwhether ; entirely agreeing - with ' him or not, I has' admiration and respect- He is a rsre man in that be can talk so J much and not wear out public ap preciatioa of-fiim-and welcome for - bim -He is almost universally . re ' garded as America's greatest private : citizen, sot only because he can' say . so much and say it so well, nor be 1 cause of his great store of informs- tionrbul oecausebf bis "sincerity, bis "sanguine adherence to high ideals, bis courageous exposure of things that are wrong and his optimistic confidence in-the gradual and final ritfhting--olthem.j4lrougbtlwia-J creasing - intelligence and patriotism .oi.the common people. .. J Mr. Bryan has twice been a candi date for president,' and may be again. He would like to be president,' of course, but he would not " accept a nomination "under any false pre-; tenses, or 'on any platform con structed to catch the votes and in fluence of men who' in their politi cal and business acts are "enemies - of 'the republic," -Mr.- Bryan, we doubt not, would rather see bis ideals : of good government carried out and remain private citizen than to be - president: under &ny -conditions that would prevent needed reforms. He a. good-opimoa jot btmsclfu but be is not tainted with' the notion that be js more important than the coun try! . -: ! ' Mr. Bryan is a Democrat in a broader than( a mere partisan sense, although he is a pretty strict party man, as was shown by his support of Parker in 1904. ;, He has no con fidence in the Republican party re forming anything,' but frankly and 7 gladly j gives T President " Roosevelt I credit for trying to do so to some extent As Roosevelt is above or - ahead of his partyr-so-Bryan-is bet-4 . ter than his partythough it is diffi : , cult to judge correctly of - a party : that has been out of power in the 'government for 20 . years. Mr. Bryan's lecture here wilt not be polit ical, however, being a business af- .fair between bim and the Y. M. C A.; but be will no doubt talk politics ' ome ,'oii the side." It would be difficult, if not impossible, for bim not to do that ; As a Democratic leader," generally regarded the first in the land, Mr, Bryan is' welcomed in Oregon by Democrats; as a public speaker with ; few, if any, equals he is welcomed '' by those who have an opportunity .to bear him; as a foremost American I common citizen,, made so not by f adventitious or law-made wealth or undeserved -preferment, but by his ' Own ability and endeavor he is wel " corned by all. GREAT - NAVIES. IK 'ORE AND bigger battleships; the cry of the president, secretary of the navy, all ' ' : ', - the rear-admirals and other officers, of ex-Captain Hobson, and 'many others in official life. But we don't believe any great amount of 'enthusiasm for a , very, great navy could be discovered among the com- Vnoiri rpYopTeVbo pay the taxes. , 1 England built a Dreadnaught and "Is going to 'build another, of two, perhaps; Emperor1 William is-going to try. to equal or excel England in big battleships', little Japan is strain ng herself to keep tip; therefore, we tnut build Some Dreadnaughts, Or better. : :- - H in urged, too, that the battle lihips built only a few years, ago are now out of date. They cost some six or eight millions apiece, besides their armament and other furnishing. (t it eo' -several -millions- -year each to maintain some of them, yet - they, are already of little . account And so It will be. In all probability, with the new Dreadnaughts, if they are built; in a few years something bigger or better would bare to be built to replace them. The "ouestion is, does it pay? v It is said that a bisj navy, one eqtisl or superior to that of any other nation, except England, is the surest guar anty of peace; that as long as we bare a great nary no maratime power dare to attack, us, and in our new po sition as a world power we can ae mand our rights and enforce our dues around the world.' There is something in this, we admit, espec- tally since -we have gone into the business of governing islands in the antipodes; yet we doubt whether it is either profitable or necessary t.0 try to keep VP with or keep ahead of all other rations -except England in navy building and try to catch up with herWaareHeveo, witk-the dia tant islands on our .hands, a peculiar nation, in situation and . in reserved. or latent strengths We make up many fold what we' would lack in a weak navy in our advantages, re sources ' and ' unlimited -;; sources . of power. ' Msy we not rely upon tbese more "than upon a great navy r7 May we not begin to rely also tip- on 'the certainly growing .sentiment throughout the civilized world in favor of peacet rjt would be foolish to count confidently on no 7 more wars, or even assume that we shall never become involved in another war, but the best thought and efforts of the world are making for peace, not an armed neutrality such as in creasingly great navies, indicate, a peace based upon esch nation's doubt of being able to whip the other, but upon the worldwide conviction that war is-not only a" relic" of barbarism biit'V foolish waste Of means - and strength,;;-; -. . .. As yet it might beTEutopian, but we hope and believe the time is not far-distant, -whenJjia., if.fet .United States can let its navy dwindle down to insignificant proportions and yet say to all the world, We fear you not; even without a navy we are too strong for jrou-to- dare to attack us if you would, and better than that we know that you, like us, would Set tle any difference between us in some high court of arbitration rather than go to'war"...,.'.-..:.,.. THE ONE GREAT HOPE. - FERTILE T HE OPENING of .the Cblum: I bia and Willamette rivers to JL free and unimpeded navigation . will do more to make a greater and better Oregon arid Portland than all other influences combined. Free navigable rivers ;'. will ; strike the shackles from both, industry and en terprise, start -up an era of develop ment of all parts of the state that wilt attract more people than can be interested through the ordinary chan nels of encouraging immigration. The city of Portland and the state need freer and cheaper transporta tion. The' railroads alone cannot meet the growing neds of a virile and prog.r?ssivecitizenship, such as Oregon enjoys and which can be in creased to double and treble its present number. We want more people, but we want to give them the greatest possible opportunity and a fair show after they come here to make their homes. Open rivers will accomplish more in this connection than any other one thing. With open and free rivers, towns and hamlets tributary to the rivers would spring up .-and. the arteries . of commerce would gradually spread to interior points by wagon road, trolley lines and-longothraveflus. Territory adjacent to the, Columbia river now lying largely dormant would awake to its opportunity and show more life and activity within a year than would come tdU in many years with out sn open river, ine opening and freeing of the Willamette river would set ifi motion hundreds of activities from beyond Eugene' to the river's mouth, and these ould beget thous ands of others as the ' benefits of freir ' and cheaper . transportation spread throughout the broad and fer tile Willamette valley and beyond. There should be no relapse-of ef fort ' in this " important "work; we should be up and doing and not rest until the work is accomplished. Those who get in the way and try to hinder and interfere with its accomplishment should be run over, and thus glveiTto underhand thst Qregon at last has awakened to the realization that she could "fly withr her own wings." Why should Oregon iropori an im mense quantity of cement annually wherl it contains., an inexhaustible supply of raw materials for the man ufacture of first-class cement? Here is an . opportunity for enterprising capitalists. - ' ''''-,, ;' At this distance, it does not appear- now- Sen aror- Fu Iron 's - f t gh t -on Bristol is going to be beneficial to Oregon' interests. . , , N T' IS reported that the Monmouth , normal school will ask the legis lature for $110,000, the Weston school $70,000, the ' Ashland school for $60,000 and the Drain school for $40,000, a total Of $280,000, as against a total of $113,000- two years ago, or two and one-half times as much. Besides this, the State uni versity wants $250,000, or nearly $100,000 ' more than in 1905. .'The Agricultural college is to be. heard from, and if its wants are in propor tion, and the legislature kindly al lows yall that ' is asked,, these six schools will require for the next two years about $750,000. ; :'.. We are not saying whether in any case the amount desired is too much, but for a state, of Oregon's popula tion the figures are large enough to challenge close scrutiny and inquiry as to whether the' educational inter ests of the state would really suffer if some .of these amounts were cut down a good deal, or cut put alto gether. ..- ', ; . If any of the normal schools are evef to be dropped, how is the time ta do it, not-only so save tha present appropriation asked, 7but to- save fu ture appropriations, increasing bi ennially, for it is to be observed that the needsof these schools are aU most always larger with each recur ring session, and at the rate we have been going it will be only a very few years until they will want a million year. And the longer they are kept going the more difficult it will be to get rid of any of them, for the money they get is used, in part and legitimately enough, to make such.a showing .at the next session, as to furnish an argument against dropping them. -- ' ;r:v.;J-.:' It is greatly to be regretted that more than two normal schools were ever createdrTwo would have been sufficient, for a state like Oregon, for many years. We could have; done quite well with one, but we have four, and the - question - now., is, must or should -they-Hall-be- maintained,atl50 large and constantly increasing an expenditure? We know bow difficult it will be to cut out any one or more of these schools, all perhaps being equally meritorious, and we suppose it will, be impossible, yet it ought to be done, and most legislators know that it ought to be done. ' , The State University and Agricul tural college, though a less number of ' their students ' than is desirable come from distant counties, must be supported with a fair degree of liber ality, of course, but when these large figureiTare :scanned itmay:ocatrzto legislators that these institutions ought to be put 'on a more nearly self-sustaining basis. When , the state has given the youth a high school education it has done about all they can reasonably ask of it A higher education is something to be paid for by the person acquiring it, and then it will be far more prized and probably much . more '.yaluable, than if it is freely bestowed.. - ... But if nothing else is . done with referenceloihe normal schools. they should, as the governor sug gests, be -put under a single board of control, one that would look out not only for their interests but for those of the taxpayers as well. AN ELECTIVE COMMISSION. T HE PLEA made by the Port land Harriman organ, speak ing under an attempted dis- ; guise, that ,tne railroad com mission should be elected by the peo ple, is a piece of dissembling in sincerity',, a sophistical subterfuge, in tended to muddle the, present press ing issue and offer a plausible ex cuse for opposing the law which the people need and which their ablest representative L business men 4 have agreed upon as necessary. In the first place, if there is to be a commission, its services are - re quired this year, and the . people would not have a chance to vote on commissioners for nearlv 17smonths. But besides ' that, we all' know, abstractly, what the 'Harriman in terests could do with a few hundred thousand, dollars adroitly used in a political campaign. The Journal has as much faith in the -people as any body that has studied politics, popu lar elections and the power of money therein, and while a very large ma JoriTyofthelleitorate-ir-tronejtra minority that might constitute the balance, of .power are purchasable. Many voters,' moreover, are careless of "consequence," M against a little present pecuniary advantage. ' A governor, high tip before the eyes of all the people, woutd not dare go wrong if he desired to do so. A fraction of the electorate , doesn't care what happens and is. susceptible to temptation. The railroads would not try to buy the governor, and sio body believes they could succeed if theydid,-but they -could- corrupts proportion of the voters and might bribe a commissioner elected lot six I years' and not removable during that period. This has been the bane of elective commissions in severrl states, nota bly in California, where two out of three of the commissioners. are al ways railroad men. But if the gov ernor is not a railroad man none of the commissioners will be. . With the right kind of a governor, having the power; of appointment and removal, the people are sure of the right kind of commissioners. .If the responsi bility of appointment is divided, or if the commission is thrown into politics by being made elective, the people run a risk that they can avoid. It may be said hat they run the same risk in the election of a gover nor, but not to such an extent. The people will not be so easily tempted to nominate, and elect a doubtful chief executive, and there will not be the opportunity fort.rading that an elective commission would afford. These sre the objections, plainly presented, to an elective commission, yet .The Journal would not object to this form of choosing commissioners if it believed the people really de sired it, but it is confident that un der -the circumstances - they -do not They want railroad regulation that will give them relief, and if a com mission 'is; to be created they want pnejtbat ,winhayetO ct rightly by the people or be removed. If they made a mistake they could not cor rect it-tmdei' six years, supposing the terms to run (that long, but a gover nor can correct a mistake of his, if he makes one, in six rninutesZ Possibly- now" Councilman . Shep herd will make the- excuse that be cannot resign "under fire." It Is an old etfeuse," but"innli" casenot"a good one. He had plentyof timejto resign before th fire became hot PortlanJSkoulJNot ain ' rrora the. Albanr "Herald." Th Oregon la errll -VVf vai- ley people tar a lack of sufficient en terprise to make an exhibit of apples at tbe horticultural, meeting In Portland lat week. The lecture la deserved but tha Ore- aonlan ! in no position ta deliver It With a harrier at her - gates .permit tins one of tier money-hungry corpora tions to levy a tribute of SO cente a ton to vet In. such chldlna comes with poor armce from the city of Portland. The lambasting ie nerewitn retnrnea with the cmmonltlon to . Portland to N re move her commercial obstructions, let down the bars, cease wrlhalnr from tbe apple growers and other producers of tbla valley their hard earned coin, be fore nailing: our hide to the wall as sleeper. It rather savor of holding out bread In - on hand o bring the friendly dor within: reach to be struck with a stick held In the other. Why should the Willamette valley advertise her apples to the world as long a a Portland corporation stand between her and the market of the world T To Mood River and other apple growing sections of the elate, the way to the market 1 open and free, Not only apple grower but producer of every commodity in the. Willamette val ley . are placed at the SO cent a ton advantage. So far a any effort of Portland to afford relief to thia section from the lockage embargo I concerned the people of the valley would be jus tified in sleeping till tbe dawa of eter nity. We are encouraged to grow -and eat our own apples, and Portland can not complain if, we don't get outside of our mountain-encircled and corporation throttled territory. ' , e e . Only Portland would permit such a prollflo valley a the Willamette to 11 at her back door pleading for permission to empty ber product la the' city's lap without an embargo. . It Seattle, Spokane or Ban Francisco, with the spirit that animate the people of these cities, were either In Portland place, he would have been hammering away at i the embargo, at tbe lock and the Willamette valley would now have free access to thi tites-metropolla. - If really Interested In waking up the Willamette valley, open tbe locks. saving the people a fiso.ooo rakeoff. V m i " ' January 22 in History. ; IBB J Protector Somerset beheaded. .15(1 Francis Baooq born. Died April 1(88 First Earl of Shaftesbury, champion of habeas corpus act In Eng- isna, aiea. - curn uiy A. - 1887 Duke of Wellington made com mander-ln-chlef of British army. ' 184S Moo! tan taken after a siege of ZO daya. . - - ... ' 1861 Walter !o!ton,- who made first publlo announcement of discovery of gold in California, died. Born ' May S. 17T. ' ,-. 18(8 Charles Keen, celebrated actor, died. Bom isil. 1878 North fleet lost In collision with the Murlllo; 800 persona perished. 188S Republican tariff bill passed by the senate. - - - . 1901 Queen Tlotorla died. ' Born May 24. ISIS. 190 Bteamer Valencia wrecked; off Vancouver Island; 1U live lost. - eaaaaaas-iiaaaHiaMasaakMMiBaa . Francis L. Parton'i Birthday. ' The Rev. Francis L. Patton, D. D., Lf D., president of Prlneetots- Theologt- cat seminary, was born In Bermuda, January 88. 1843. - He was educated first at Warwick' academy, Bermuda, and then at University college, Toronto. He studied theology at Knox eollese. Toronto, and then at Princeton,' and waa graduated from Princeton seminary In IMS. In 1871 be became a professor In - the Theological Seminary of the Northwest, In Chicago. From 1878 to 1878 Dr. Patton edited The Interior. Out of this relation grew the famous "Swing case,'' the controversy between Dr. Put ton and Professor David Swing, resulting In Professor Swing' trial for heresy, and, after active prosecution by Dr. Patton, his leaving the church. In 1881 Dr. Patton took a chair at Prince ton' Theological seminary. In 1888 he became president of Princeton univer sity, which position he relinquished in ISO to become president of Princeton Theologies seminary, . . Dtatc ameers ers ' Following Is the opinion of Justice McKenna In dissenting from the decis ion of the United Statea supreme court In the caa of Moyer-Haywood-Pettit bona. vhu. bavin bean kidnaped from Colorado, appealed from - the Idaho Courts, which held that they should not enjoy the right of habeas corpua: , "X am conatralned." aaid Justice Mo Kenna. 'to dissent from the opinion and Judgment of the court. The principle announced, a I understand it la that circuit, court of the United States, when asked upon habeas corpua to discharge a person held In actual custody, by a state for trial in orte of Its court undor n Indictment charsine a erlme against Us laws, cannot properly take Into ac count the methods whereby, a state od talned such custody.' . .:..;; e e . e ' '' ',.' . "In other words, and to Illustrate the principle by the light of facts In the case (facta. I mean, . as alleged, and which we must assume to be true for the purpose of our -discussion), that the officer of one state may falaely represent that a person waa personally present In the state, and1 committed-a erlme there, and had fled from It Jua tlce, may arrest uch person and take hTni ifroro, andlhefstate, the officeTe th latter knowing of the false accusa tion and. conniving In' and aiding Its purpose, thereby depriving him of -an opportunity to appeal to tbe court; and that such person cannot Invoke the right guaranteed to him, by tn con stitution and statutes of the United States in the state- ta which he 4a taken. And this, it la said, la supported by the ease of Kerr va Illinois, US U. a 438, and Mahon vs. Justice, 127 V. B. 700.- These cases, extreme aa they are, do not Justify. In my Judgment, the conclusion deduced - from them. - In neither eaae we the state the actor la the wrongs that brought within Us L confines the accused, person. ;.,.,, la the ease at bar the states, through their officer, are the offender.' Tbey. by aa Illegal exertion of power, deprived tha aooused of a constitutional right The distinction la Important to.be ob served. - It finds expression In Mahon v. Justice. But It does not need em phasising. Kidnaping la a crime, pure and simple. It la difficult to accom plish; hasardou at every step. All of ficer of the law are supposed to be on guard against It But how i It when the law becomes the kidnaper? When the officer of the law. uslng.it form and xerting its power. - become ab ductors? This 1 not a distinction with out a difference. It la another form of tbe crime of kidnaping distinguished from that committed by an Individual only by circumstances. If a state may Bay to one. within her borders and upon whom her process 1 served: 'I will not inquire how you came her;" 1 must execute my l&ws aa4 remit you to pro- , eecdlaga : areinst .-those who have wronged you,' may she so plead against her own offense? . Msy she claim that by mere physical presence of the ac cused . within her borders the accused person 1 within ber Jurisdiction de prived of his . constitutional rights. though he baa been brought there by violence?- , , . ' ;-. "Constitutional right the accused In this case certainly did have, and valu able ones.- The foundation of extradit ing between the states Is that the ac cused should be a fugitive from Justus from the demanding state, and be may challenge the ' fact by habeas corpus Immediately upon hi - arrest If he refute the fact he cannot be removed (V. Corkraln, 118 U. S. (91). and tbe right to resist removal 1 not w right of asylum. . To call It ma, in the state where the accused la ' 1 misleading. It 1 tha right to be free from molesta tion. It 1 the . right of personal lib erty in lta most complete sense) and this right waa vindicated In v. Cork raln and the action of a constructive presence la a state and a constructive flight from a constructive presence re jected, .'.v...,. 1 Tbl decision Illustrates at once tbe value of the right and tbe value of the mean to enforce the right It la to be hoped that our criminal Jurisprudence will not- need for- It efficient admin istration the destruction of either the right or the mean to enforce it The decision, la the case at bar. aa I view It brings us perilously near both results. I this exaggeration? . What are the fact In the case at bar a alleged In the petition, and which it Is conceded must be assumed to be true? The complaint which waa the founda tion of the extradition . proceeding. charged against tbe accuaed the crime of murder on the 80th of December, 190S, at Caldwell, in the county of Can yon, atate of Idaho, by killing one Frank Steonenberg, by throwing an explosive bomb at and agalnat hi person. The accused aver in hi petition that he had not .been la the state of Idaho, In any way, ahape or form, for a period of more than 10 years prior to the acte of which he complained; and that the governor of Idaho knew accused had not been In the state the day the murder was committed, nor' at any time near that day, . '-r "A conspiracy 1 alleged between the governor of the state of Idaho and hie advisers, and that the governor of the tat of Colorado took part in the con spiracy the purpose of which waa To avoid the constitution or the United States and the act of congress made la pursuance thereof; and to prevent the accused from- asserting hi constitu tional right under clause 2, section 2, of article iv ef the-constitution Of. the United State and the act made pur suant thereof. The manner In which the alleged conspiracy had been exe cuted waa set out In detail. It waa In effect that the agent of the state of Idaho arrived in Denver Thursday: Feb ruary 18, 1908, but It was agreed, be tween him and the officer of Colorado that the arrest of the accused should not be made until some time in 'the night of Saturday, after business hours, after the court had closed' and judgea and lawyers had departed to their homes; that the arrest should be kept a. secret, and the body of the accused ahould be clandestinely hurried out of the state of Colorado with all possible speed, with out the knowledge of his friends or hi counscTT that be was St the usuat place of business Thursdsy, Friday and Sat urday; that no attempt was made to ar rest him until 11:80 o'clock p. m., when tile horn was' surrounded and he waa arrested and Charles P, Moyer, -arrested under the same circumstances at 8:48, and he and aoeuaed thrown Into the county Jail of the city and county of Denver. f '' 'It la further alleged that. In pur suance of the eonstpracy, between the hour of t and o'clock on Sunday morning, Febnuary 18, the offlcere of the state, and certain armed guards, be ing a part of the force of the militia of the etate of Colorado, provided a spe cial train for the purpose of forcibly re moving him from the atate of Colorado; and. between aaid hours, he was forcibly placed on aaid train, and removed with all possible speed to the state of Idaho; that, prior to this removal and at all times after bis incarceration la iJie Jail v the Letters trom 'the iJmaii Change V T People - Not a Strike-Breaker. Portland. Jen. 82 Ta the Editor of The Journal Sine you have been SO kind a to publish my picture, and print the statement that I era a "strike breaker," and also reviewed njy record in tha Warren caae, will , you kindly publish tb following statement I bo Ueve yoa Intended to be .fair, and In thle spirit I appeal to you at this tima There are three reasons why I am at work at this time; yet those three reasons blend together until they are Inseparable. They are sentiment., loy alty to a trust and self-respect.,- In regard to the flret reason I wlah to state that after I had denounced that whl.te-llvered cur, Fred Warren, every one looked on me a a sacrilegious man, a disturber of the peace of the holy ( ?) .churchea Deacons, elder and min isters with few exceptions looked at me with a "?3" sympatbetld expression on their pious, countenances, and passed me "by on the other side.". Dr. F. Bur gette Short, Superintendent J. C, Fields and Manager Fuller were not aorheart lesa. however, and when I waa almost in despair they united -to cheer, com' foTT andjtwD m from furm Dr. Short counseled with me; Mana ger Fuller and Superintendent Fields gave me work, and now when I am called to stand by thera in their trouble I elmply try to do my duty each duy and hope to prove to them that I can reciprocate a klndnesa "WhenPnHous represented ine ae acting like a craijr man and other church officiate 'lied about me. Short. Fuller and Fields trusted me. I do not believe-la hell; but If the company will locate It and Mr. Field will build track In there, I will -take my car -and bring out a load to show that I mean business In this matter. " ; .-. The aecond- reason,--vl.(i- loyalty-to a trust, ha kept me working In thle strike. I was hired as conductor last Aegust on the O. W. P. division to work for i S cents an hour, ae you have stated, but not as a strike-breaker. There was no talk o strike, ao Intima tion in any ..way that a atrlke waa ex pected. .' Unloa- and non-union . men worked together In harmony. Some uf my dearest chum were union men. The boy were kind to me In my trouble and did what they could to make life pleasant for ma I tried honeatly te be one of them, and X believe they have learned to trust me.! When this atrlke waa declared I waa working on my own "run," scabbing on no one,, happy In the thought that I could send money each month to my little baby girls in Minnesota.-. . .. ..- ' ' Without a word of warning I -was called off my car to Join what 'was called- a "carmen'a. strike." . I saw n carmen In' the mob nothing but a num ber -of irresponsible, craxy boys led by a larga burly fellow who said be was organiser of the "Industrial union." -He ordered me off my car; and when he got sassy and ' aggressive I drew jny gun and offered to fight bim then and there. I waa standing by the men who desired to work for their home and famine and oppoeed te the Irresponsi ble mob. We could not aa loyal men leave thousands of men and women and ohlldren to walk the street that cold Saturday bight flv week ago, to sat isfy the whim of a handful of dissatis fied employe We would have acted Ilk children If we had gone out with the mob; as we of the O. W. P. are not photographed, bad not aaked for a raise In wagea or presented to the company any statement' of any grievance what soever. We will get a raise in wages from - the -company -when- tha time , is ripe for It we firmly believe.- ' My third reason, self-respect keeps me fighting agalnat tbe so-called etrlk ers. I am a cltlsen of the Unttod States, born of Irish parent, havlag implanted la my soul the thought of my personal liberty not the liberty o do a I Ilka, but -The liberty to da aa I ought to da The constitution guaran tee m aa say right, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I am A na tional guardsman, a soldier of tb state, ready ct any time to' go anywhere in ite defense when needed. A soldier fights,, and now. sir. as a soldier, a cltlsen and a man, I claim the right to sail the time I have to spare -ta-any man for lawful purposes at whatevor wagea I can get and I inalat that bo man or company of men haa the right to Interfere with me, and J believe that my frienda and foe know, from paat experience, that I will use without hesi tation sword . or sun to enforce my right . with a mob of d runken - hood lum. . CHARLES M. SMTTHE. - ,. Conductor No. 4(, O. W. P. Railroad. - - - . - 6nowflakee. . . t Vhm enowflake fall. And. on the ground. He thickly deep, While, underneath, are little flow'rs. Asleep. , From soft grey eky -.. The feather flakes come clinging down , And klse eech tree, and clothe It with 'A gown. " . ... - White coverlid' About the old brown enrth Is spread. And warm beneath dream little flow'rs ' In bed. s With silent fall " . .The enowflakea nestle to the earth, - and ay. - . "... . . ' ''Sleep, little flow'rs, sleep through the night Till day." ,' at Denver he requested to be allowed to communicate with hi friend and hi counsel and his family, and the privilege waa absolutely denied him. The train. It la alleged, made no stop at any consider able station; but proceeded at great and unusual speed, and he was accom panied by. and surrounded with, armed guarda, members of the etate militia of Colorado, under the ordere and direc tion of the. adjutant general ef the atate. I aubmlt that the facte In this ease are different In kind and tranecend la consequences those In the ease of Kr vs. Illinois and Mahon va Justice, and differ from, and transcend them as the power of a state transcends the power of an tndrvtdual.- . "No individual eould have accom plished - what the power' of the two statea accomplished. No Individual could have commanded the means of success; could' have made two arrears of promi nent cltlseas by Invading their homes: jould have commanded the resources or Jails, armed guarda and special trains; could have successfully timed alt arts to prevent Inquiry and Judicial Interfer ence. The accused, ae soon- aa ha could have done ao, submitted his relghts to the consideration of a federal count. lie eould not have done so in Colorado. lie could nottiave done so on the way from Colorado, At the first Instant that the state of Idaho relaxed Its restrain ing power, ha Invoked the eld of habeas corpus. He should have been heard, not dismissed from court end the sctlon of the circuit court In so doing should be reversed." '- ' This Is Bryan and Bourn day. , . The pure food law won't make the restaurant steak any tenderer. . , , ..... e ' There have been ao senatorial "head quarters" at Salem this time. . . e a :''..''. Now the aspirants for clerkships will begin to get Jobs, neverthelesa . - ,, -, ,. . e -.. ' The plumbers have got most of them patched up, and are tired though, happy. .- v. . ... The Ohio river aa well as Foraker, who lives on It bank, la ea the ram page. . ..... :'.- e' ' -...,..,'. ; "We need . more poets," says Dir. Newell Dwlght HlUls. Different ones, doesn't he mean?. ' 1 ,- - ( ' , " ' .,' '.. It 1 supposed that Just now a good many more colored babies era being nameduJoe Foraker than Teddy Roose velt ,. v . ; - '' "o- ' '" Weil. It Is a little remarkable that out of Multnomah county's six and a half - atate- aenatora three should be printer. ' .; .v. - ,, - , .' . 1 ' ' '"'.. -' ; higher newer than the lea-lalarure - or congress will soon open the Colum bia river, so far ea the 1c blockade la concerned, . f ' . ; . . ;,"' - e ' . ''.'' ,..'.; ' Whatever' ether patrlotla Democrate Bryan may overlook, If . any, Watson won't be one of them.,' Bryan has a good appeuia.-- e .. e Many people who car nothing about denatared alcohol . would , be greatly Interested In any scheme having for lta object denatured work. ' . " - Families of etrlklng-' worklagmea at Lods. Germany, are living on 81 cents aweek, which I even lea than they get when the men work. - . , . , . .- r , ,. . , ;,-. , "Between the fear of their constitu ents ad a Democratic governors vetoes ' the legislature may do fairly well," re marks the Salem Journal. ;' ', ..... . ... '", . "We grow old and atop playing. say Colonel Wa Hereon. - Yet - we . auapeot . that a good - many grayheada drop around occasionally yet for a quiet little game of draw except In Portland of oourse. ....i.. t . .... ,t.j.... Oregon Sidelights A tSS.OOt hotel may be built in Bills ' boro next aprlng. ' . '.V. Z a . .... Ten earload of potatoes are retorted frosen around - Lebanon. -. """e'' '.'-.'-.'--'--; -v.- Qraata Paea haa the, fourth. largest Sunday school In the stat. - ,. . . " 'v tf - -l. . ., Beeton -oeunty- baa a few pauper -that Its poor farm has been sold. ... e a . A Bellfountatn man lost 100 out of 108 sheep by drowning in his bara yard. ; . : , .. , v : . - ". Several orchards around Aurora are being destroyed, because ef eld age and - pest. .-..,'- .: ;; : ', ' ."" e t e .! " '' A Sclo farmer ta working for 1a eo-. operative . union of farmers of Una eounty. , " ." ; ... " '"' ' . . e e . ;-? ; ' ".-',-- The Toledo Leader characterises the -weather down .there laet week as Jdls graecf ul." -r - - '" " , " " ' A well dug tOO feet deep near Mer rill I filled with water up to within four feet of tjse top. ' " -.' i - ' .A Methodtet women of Milton- put the lath en tbe new church, the men, per- . haps, being too tired. i , 1, Four young motherless children ef a well-to-do farmer living 10 mile front;, Condon were found In a etarvlng con dition. . . . .;' ; - . - The Stay ton 'Mall eaya that calling a town or Its and Scioa elxe a city "la Ilk swearing a allk dies over a calico petticoat." - An Albany man want the TJ. of X. at Eugene merged with the O. A. C. at CorvaJlls. Qood aoherae, maybe, but impossible. i: . - Ernest Hofer Is going to start a bar ber ahop in Newberg. No, not the col- . onel and blaok-letter editor, though be sometimes .feel Ilk wielding a raaor. -- '' ' " An Oregon City business man picked up a purse containing 110 and through . papers In it learned that it belonged to a country resident to whom It wag ' returned. - - , , ' - e e Canby Tribune? .. When yon ean't find -anything elae to do these eold daye taka, your gun and go duck hunting. It will .'. be better than to alt around ths house and growl. - - . ' k e e ' iy. There was a second coyote hunt near . MlUon but not a coyote was killed. No salt waa taken along to put on their tall, and perhape they had been read- ; . Ing the newspapers. , .' ' . e -..' - " " Gold Beach Globe: Last Wednesday Riley Davidson of Pistol irr supplied the people of Oold Beach with f Inj, massfed pork, which waa a treat highly appreciated. . It would appear from the following In the Myrtle Point Enterprise that an Invasion by some foreign or domestlo foe la feared: "Coos bay Is interested In having formed there a company of ,, Oregon Natlonel guards. - In ite unpro tected and somewhar Isolated atate this would eeem to be the least that eould be done there ae a matter of protection from Inside er outside en em lea" . . -; Here la a specimen of the Vsle Ort- ano'c weekly batch of poetry: - He saw the beautiful-Valllev He viewed both vail and bill Until his vision rested, ( t On the od flower mill . ' : Thento the bridge It wandered "'"Zil- And round the mighty gades Till It cam te.tha hot wells W;h water hotter than hades - ' ' con. next week. . Ibsenisms. Marriage, the relation 'between' man and woman, ha ruined the whole race, and set on alt the brand of slavery. It Is a pity that our beat thoughts wpf to our biggest blarkguarda A new; nohlllty will arise. Not In the aoMllty of birth or money, nor thet of talent or knowledge. The nobility of the future will be that ef feeling and will. From poethumous tiS. of Ibsen. I' I
