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THE PEOPLE WANT LANE.
ft .MONG the voters of Portland
l! there is a widespread and in
aVL aisteht "demand "that Mayor
, Lane shall run again. This
demand 'is essentially non-partisan,
for many of the, mayor's warmest sup
porters , are ' Republicans. When
prominent business -men of both par
ties approached Mayor Lane several
weeks ago urging him to seek reelec
tion, he was exceedingly reluctant to
do. so, Saying plainly that he pre
ferred to return to private life. He
finally yielded, however, to the strong
pressure which was brought to bear
by those who considered that the in
teresta of theeffy demanded that he
should be continued in office for
another term. ' ,
As a Democrat, Lane naturally an-
, nounced himself a candidate for nom-
nation by his own party. This he
did in response to the direct Invita
tion' of a committee representing the
several Democratic "organizations.
iThe news that Lane had consented
to run again was received with. deep.
satisfaction by thousands of voters,
irrespective of party. With profound
amazement they learned a few days
later that a little coterie of peanut
politicians who call themselves Dem
ocrats' had presumed to notify the
mayor that his platform and his poll
cies were undemocratic and unac
ceptable to the party. It quickly be
came apparent that the purpose of
these self-constituted spokesmen for
the Democratic party was to , drive
Mayor Lane out of . the race. They
were measurably successful for
Harry Lane is no longer a candidate
for renoraination by his own party
' Bat the voters of the city still have
it in their 'power to reelect Mayor
Lane- provided he ' will ' consent) to
run ; as 'an independent candidate.
Whether he will consent to do this
no one knows. Of all the men whose
names are mentioned In connection
with the office, Lane is the only one
who does notwant it Nothing but
a strong sense of duty will impel him
to reenter the field." It is the earnest
hope of The Journal that he will do
this a hope which is shared, we. be
lieve, by a majority of the voters, of
Portland. He will be. stronger as an
independent candidate . than as , a
Democratic candidate, v.. Y
ROOSEVELT'S SUCCESSOR.-
IT IS REPORTED that the presi
dent believes that certain interests
plotted against his nomination in
' 1904, and are now plotting to de
feat the nomination of any one who
will carry on the Roosevelt policies
and battles, and to nominate a strictly
"sane and safe" Republican candidate
for president These interests," It is
supposed, include some of the trusts,
the Standard Oil company and its af
filiated concerns, and generally, the
railroads. Particularly active in this
opposition,' the president thinks, is
Mr. Harriman, although the president
and Mr. Harriman seem to have been
pretty, good friends, politically and!
otherwise, until Very recently. j
Very likely there is some truth in
the president's reported view of the
situation. He seems not to have ae
, comphshed very milch directly in re
straining and regulating, or in punish
ing, the lawless trusts and corpora
tions, but he has taken some steps in
that direction, and certainly - has
stirred, up public sentiment in favor
. of such action, and it would be only
natural for the interests attacked or
criticised ,to desire the election of
some more placable -and pliant man
for president. .. . . . '' '
, Such a mas it will be easy to find
among the "mentioned" Republicans
Foraker,' Fairbanks, Shaw, Knox or
Root but who is the prominent Re
publican aside from Roosevelt whom
these interests do not want? Perhaps
Taft would not be regarded by them
with favor because it Is assumed that
he resembles Roosevelt , in the ' re
spect noted; but this is scarcely more
than an assumption. The trusts and
corporations would not be suited with
Hughes, although he is as yet a large
ly unknown quantity. La Follette Is
unthinkable to them; he would be
worse than Roosevelt Who is Roose
velt's man, then? And will he not be
r-rrMtdd at lat that there is no such
!mi rx-rpt Roosevelt himself "-J--
f .:t ia that there is no such
sure man prominent enough in the
Republican party to Secure' a "men
tion," except La. Follette. , If the
president will pick on the Wisconsin
senator as his successor and urge his
nomination, the country will know he
is in dead earnest, and entirely sin
cere. His, word would go far in rec
ommendation of Taft but after all the
people would doubt whether Taft'
disposition ia of the kind, to keep up
such 'a fight. To be a secretary un
der Roosevelt is a very different
thing from being a president in one'
own right ,,
But if the convention should get
away from Roosevelt and nominate
man not to .his liking, -or one- about
whom he is doubtful, he -might still
do something toward bringing about
the reforms which he advocates, an
more of them, by supporting Bryan,
if he should be the Democratic nomi
nee." Roosevelt! alleged enemies art
also Bryan's; in all his notable efforts
to bring about reforms Roosevelt has
adopted principles and policies that
Bryan conspicuously stands for; so
why . should-not the .president say to
the-Republican party: "Nominate La
Follette.'. or I will support Bryan"?
This would attest his sincerity, in
fighting the people's battle as nothing
else could do. ' - ; 1
AN ILL-ADVISED MOVEMENT
E THINK the movement be
ing made in some localities
to invoke the referendum on
the appropriation made by
the legislature in support of the Uni
versity of Oregon is not well advised,
for two reasons. One is that we be
lieve it will not be sustained at the
polls, and much effort and consider
able expense will be incurred for
nothings .If this be so the result will
be rather to discredit the referendum
feature of the constitution, which
Should be used only when ' strongly
demanded by public. Sentiment
used several times without sufficient
excuse arid unsuccessfully, the people
may thereby become discouraged
from invoking it when it ought to be
done. "i ''( " '' " ' .'- .
But a larger and more direct reason
is that in our Judgment the appropria
tion, if it goes before the people,
ought, under the circumstances, to be
sustained To defeat it would leave
the university for nearly two years
without a large portion -vf the funds
that it needs urgently and must have
to carry on its work. The state has
the university and unless It means. to
abandon it entirely, which nobody
proposes, it should be supported with
a fair degree of liberality. It needs
to be built up and improved, and this
can only be done with money. The
sum voted by the legislature, $250,000
for two years, seems rather large, but
it is no more than ' the r institution
needs and can well expend if it is to
be made one that will do really good
university work, and of which ' the
state may be proud.. The university
is in the hands of a capable,' trust
worthy board of trustees,' and the
money will be well (pent. Even if
the amount is more-than th'er legtslav
ture should have granted, yet as be
tween letting the appropriation stand
snd cutting it off altogether we have
no hesitation in saying that it ought
to stand, and the university ought to
be supported. '
A good argument might be made
against state support of higher educa
tion in any form, even the high
schools, that ' state' education should
be strictly ednfined to the "common
branches," but it would be a, waste of
time and effort to attempt to maintain
this proposition. Like all other states,
we have a state university, and are
going to keep it and maintain it some-
Since this it the settled policy.
the only proper ' thing to do is to
maintain it well, and make it a place
at which the youth of the state can
obtain as good an education as can
be obtained elsewhere. -
WHERE THE TROUBLE LIES.
T
HE PRESIDENT and other ad
vocates of a ship subsidy law
have nothing to say about an
old law that has much, to do
with preventing the growth, of the
American - merchant -marine, about
which they profess to be so solicitous.
Over 100 years ago congress enacted
law to the effect that no foreign-
built or foreign-owned vessel should
be allowed 'to engage in coastwise
trade between United States ports,
and this law has never been repealed.
Its object was to "build up our ship
ping industry." '. v' 'C ;
Then early in the 70s congress
passed a la imposing a heavy tariff
tax on foreign lumber, to "protect our
lumber industry" and incidentally to
destroy our forests. A British vessel
can tarry lumber from Vancouver to
Mexico and sell It for one-half what
our own people have to pay for lum
ber manufactured right at home.
Under our navigation laws a ship
cannot ;farry ihe American flag un
let built ia the United Suits, and
yet we tax the materials for building
ships 50 per cent, enabling the Amer
ican lumber and steel trusts to charge
that much more for them than with
out this "duty they could be procured.
The so-called navigation, laws and
the excessive duties on steel and
lumber are responsible for the small
showing made by the American mer
chant marine, but these law's cannot
be repealed because they support cer
tain trusts, and the trusts support (he
party in power. Instead of the simple
and natural remedy of repealing these
laws, the trusts propose another trust,
to be fed by millions annually taken
directly from the' treasury, and the
president favors this scheme.
NO RAILWAY STRIKE.
r
rVST-repsftedrherMhreatened
strike - of railway " employes ha
been averted by a compromise,
everybody immediately concerned
and the whole'country as well are to
be congratulated. - The employes
seem to have yielded more than the
railroad managers did, and if so are
that much more to be praised for
consenting to terms that prevented a
strike and tie-up. The men will gain
an increase of about 10 per cent in
fwages, which there is no doubt they
well deserve, but will give up for the
present the 9-hour day.
' I The strike just now would have
been a great disaster to the country,
and there it- no doubt that it was a
realization of this fact that influenced
the labor leaders to yield a part of
their demands. The dispute has prac
tically been settled by arbitration,
some form of which should avail to
bring about an agreement in )11 such
cases, as the country at large has too
great an interest in the matter to be
ignored. Everybody who - aided -in
this settlement, if it has really taken
place, is entitled to the thanks of all
the pedplel The time ought not to
be far distant: when every such con
troversy will be arbitrated as a mat
ter of course, and when -there will be
no more danger of the traffic of the
country than of the United States
mail being interfered with. Both are
equally the people's business.
The president believes, it is re
ported,- that a great conspiracy has
been formed to defeat him, or any one
like him, for president next year and
that among the leading conspirators
are the ' Rockefellers, Harriman 'and
W. R. Hearst . Since it is stated that
the principal object of this conspirscy
is to prevent government regulation
of - railroads and . corporationa, it is
curious that Mr. 1 Hearst's name
should be mentioned in such com
pany and as having such an object
in view. Hearst may "not have as
high an opinion - of the president's
performances as some do, but that
he should join hands with the trusts
and big corporations against the peo
ple i not to be believed. . '
He is a shortsighted and wrong-
headed Democrat who supposes that
it is either politic or for the public
interest-for a-Democratic mayor,
elected necessarily largely by Repub-
ican votes, to be an extreme parti
san. If the msryor were only a "Dem
ocrat, if there were "nothing to him"
officially but his Democracy, he of
course would stand no chance what
ever of reelection in a city where
Republicans are largely! in the ma
jority.- Mr. Thomas and his little
circle of bourbons are from a party
point of view impractical and im
politic.
Mr. Thomas professes to be a very
sound and straight Democrat, yet he
has been working as hard as he. could
to bring about the election of a Re
publican' mayor of Portland. Does
he imagine that if he were-a candi
date he could come within several
thousand votes of being elected ? If
so, his political ' perception is . very
dull, indeed. ' ' . '
v On the Side.
By Wax. Jenee.
.' Washington Bulletins. '
President Canteloup of the N. 0. eya-
tern had an interview with the .presi
dent thi moraine". " President Canta
loup waa told that he didn't know how
ta run hta road, and that he should
aae an asphalt roadbed, with mahogany
tl. On leaving, the dlsttnruiahed rail
road man aald, "Oood morning." The
president ta aal4 to be highly pleaaed
with the information he obtained from
Mr. Cantaloupe, and may embody it in
meseage to congress.
'Jack" Spratt the famous Tarvard
pitcher, vtsltsd ths Whits IIouss at
noon. His object was to give the preal.
dent 'some information concerning the
value of baseball as ths main factor
In education. . Mr. Spratt waa told by
ths president that ths"-pitcher should
uss rifle, as tne present gam pro
duced little more than mollycoddles. Mr.
Spratt was about ' to apak when ths
Interview came to an end. The infor
mation obtained from Mr. Spratt will
guld the administration In Its attitude
toward amateur baseball.
In raaponss to an official Invitation,
Plks's Teak Pate, the grsat bar huntar
of the west, called at the Whit House
at It.tO. Ha was told by ths presi
dent that ths best way to kill bear waa
by extinguishing the vital spark. Every
on was delighted with th information
obtalnM from P,- P. Pet, which will
probably result In th passing of an
anti-bw'a cree blU. .
Suicide Havens'
- By Rev. Tbomaa B. Oregory.
AU who have mora than a mercenary
Interest in humanity will rajolc that
such good work Is being don latterly
to sav th poor would-b suicides.
Of oours. th "scientific" and others
of th "advance thought" brigade would
say that ths tvD of humanity out of
'which the sulcld comes represents the
"unfit," and therefore ahould not "sur
vive." Iji the "struggl for llfs" ths
strong fight and keep on fighting, and
finally win. while It is only the weax.
the unfit, who give up, haul down their
oolors and surrender.
In. ths first Place. It does not follow
that those who eommit sulcld. or think
of committing it, ar of an inferior hu
man type. On th contrary, it is
matter of history that many - of ths
grandest choicest aolrlts of whom - we
bav any- knowledge contemplated th
violation of th "canon 'gainst sen
slaughter." but wer saved, soma by on
meana and others by another.
Those who destroy themselves are.
In many cuaes, intellectually and mor
ally h"per of those-'among-whom
they live, and gat shunted onto th
sidetrack that led them to their doom.
The people ar well worth saving.
Those of us who know history and biog
raphy ar prepared to agree to th prop
osition that had soma of tb would-be
aulcidea of the past been permitted to
carry out their purpos th world would
not have been what it la today.
It is ths part of th Pharisee to b
superciliously discounting and discredit
ing soms of our brethren, while w
crack ourselves up as being so extraor
dinarily Important
The fact ia that no human life la
without Ita value. Its aacredness, Ita
possible usefulness ' and honor, and It
should be th felt duty not only of
the man who professes to be a follower
of Christ but as welt of th man who
claims simply to be decently human, to
do ail that n can to neip tnos wno.
pressed hard by the burdens and per
plexities of existence, ar blu and de
spondent 4 '
This the suicide havens ar doing.
With their bright cheery stations they
a re attracting th attention or th un
fortunates, interesting them, and finally
savttig them. v
Every one of us can be a aort of
"haven" 'all within hlmaelf. Th cheer
ful mood, the bright thought, the kind.
considerate spirit, ths , brotherly sym
pathy. the feeling of helpfulness thea
things steadily - riven bv us must of
necessity put courage and hope into the
souls of the discouraged ones who come
in contact with us.
Many a poor fellow who now fill
suicide's grav might have been alive
today, and a useful, honorable member
of society, had some one thought to be
friendly rather than indifferent a
apeaker of kind . and hopeful words
rather than a vender of curses and
wrath. v-
The Play
The Straight Road." In ' which
Blanche Walsh began an engagement
at the Hellle- theatre last night is
Clyde Fitch's lateat play. It waa writ
ten specially for Miss Walsh, who uses
it as the vehicle for th bast emotional
acting ah has ever don. - .
Th scene of the story is laid In New
Tort . It tells of the redemption Of a
girl of th alums. Moll O'Hara is not
an evil woman, but Is placed In evil
environment and the gradual develop
ment of her charaoter la e convincing
argument for truth. 'Miss Walsh, of
course, takes th part 01 MOU u tiara.
Th plot deals - with : th effort of
Miss Thompson, a wealthy young wom
an who haa volunteered for settlement
work, to raise the poor t a higher level.
Sh ia particularly Interested in Moll
O'Hara, and succeeds, by discovering
her 'Achilles heel of goodness.' to up
lift her spirit to a place above its
evil surroundings.
In hsr turn, Moll O'Hara sacrifices
hr whol life to sav Miss Thompson
from what would hav been an unfortu
nate marriage. In the third act when
the climax is approached. Miss Walah
does a wonderful piece of acting, said
to be the atrongeat altuatton Clyde Fitch
has ever written. Moll haa lurad Miss
Thompson's unfaithful suitor into bar
home, merely to prove his real character.-
She succeeds and is found tar hi
arms aa the door opens.
Th climax ia vivid and terrible,' but
In the lost act everything is straight
ened out as so oftsn happens on the
stage, and the play ends happily. The
entire Story Is told with a charming
simplicity which leada up to a climax
that thrills. ' .
Supporting Mlas Walsh -in "The
Straight Road" Is an excellent com
pany. Cherlea Dal ton is an exception
ally good leading man portraying the
charaoter . Of Bill Hubbell, the bar
tender. In a vividly reallatlo way. - Ths
keeper of a saloon In the slums of New
York, by the way, is tne nero or tne
play. Indeed, Miss Walah herself, aa
well as other members of the company,
present- characterisations that ar de
cidedly new to the stag.
William Travers, as Douglas Alnes,
fortune-seeker and hypocritical reform
worker, la a finished actor. As Mrs.
Flnnerty, Helen Lowell la Immensely
pleasing. She originated the part of
Miss Hasey In "Mrs. wiggs or ths cab
bage Patch.' Jessie ' Ralph also doea
a clever place of acting as Laay Lis.
The story of the regeneration of a
girl of the slums, on who 1 follow
ing th downward path aa rapidly as
"boosa" ' will' 'take her, but eventually
la led Into the straight road, la of the
abaorblng kind. It 1 graphically and
vividly told by Miss Walah and her
company, who make th play aliv and
throbbing With human Intereat.
The engagement includea perform
ances tonight tomorrow night and to
morrow matins.
. Spring In th Southland.
That blithesome bonny time ia com.
Th aladdeat of tb seaaona; -
And though. March cuff a with windy
puf fa.
And April has her treasons.
They never fall to flower th dal
And set th woods to singing;
And v'rywher In earth and air '
Th springtime choir la ringing.
Just wske at dawn of early mom '
Vpon an old plantation.
Go out upon the freah'nlng lawn
And hear the Jubilation; - '
The bleatlnre of the flcy herds j
With tinkling bells commingle. - i
And roosters crow asd rattle low
And gear and plowshares Jingle,
While farmer foIe calls to his boys, "
Who come with whoop and clatter,
And duck and goose- turn gladly loose
Their cackle and their clatter. -
And on th breese, apart from these,
Th 4houand carols Under
Pour from the grove td tell ef love
And of the springtime splendor;
Indeed, the whole earth seems allva
. From morn to eve with volres,
And graaees grow and blossoms blow.
And all that Is rejoices.
, .- - .. . eAnoa,
An Important Town
Overlooked
The itinerary of the Portland bual
neaa men' trip aat Of th mountains
Is thua criticised by th Echo Reglater
- Echo, th most Important city be
tween The Dalles and Pendleton, on the
main line of the Oregon Railroad
Navigation company, and about miles
north of Pendleton, ha bean paaaed up
Ilk a "whit chip.1' Th business men
of Portland seem to " hav forgotten
Umatilla, Hermlaton and Echo three
important cities In th inland empire
that ar deatlned to become great (but
It aeema not if Portland can hslp it)
Umatilla la situated on ths great Co
lumbia river, and Is ths gateway of thl
vast Inland country - to Walla Wall
and Spoken ae. new Harriman map
recently Issued). Hermlaton Is - the
headquarters and of floe, of the Uma
tllla River Water Users' association
(see circular laaued by the department
of the interior In AprlL 1108.) Echo
la a thriving city of Almost 1.000 peo
ple. From Ita geographical position It
is and will eontlnue to be the n
and central depot where will be re-
oeived the excess wealth produced with
in a radius of IS miles In all directions.
About 10.000 head of fine, fat beef
csttls ar annually fed near and ahlppd
out or Echo. , over to.ooo tons or ai
falfa hay ar raised on land tributary
to Echo ' each year. In 100S over S3
carloada of wheat were shipped from
Echo , In carload lots. Ovsr 100,000
sheep are ownsd "by men who make
their home In and near Echo. One hun
dred and thirty-two carloada of lum
bar wer received by the lumbar mer
chants of Echo during Itot, and with
a start for 107 that bids fair to double
its previous record. "
Over 10,000 acrea ef now arid land
111 be watered by the east UmatUla
project now under full headway; over
6.000 acres of arid land will be watered
by the Furnish enterprlae now com
pleted ; over 7.000 acres f psrtlally
arid land wUl b watered by th Hlnkl
project now under construction as to
a portion, th other portion having al
ready been constructed and Is now In
operation; thla makes a total of over
12,000 acres of now arid land that will
In a short time be productive of many
millions, and all of this lie at Echo's
vry door.
Portland - business man,-- delay - your
excuralon train for four hour and atop
for a few momenta In Echo. Oraap the
wonderful opportunities here : offered.
Ae we have stated. "Get aboard while
the train la at the depot It will be
too )ate when it haa gone around the
curve, Tb poorhouses and pauper
graveyards are run or men who eould
have traded a mule for a quarter aeo-
tlon of land where Portland now stands
or who, In other words.- thought the
knocker Inatead of the boosters the true
prophet of the Lord. . Get aboard) Get
aboard! The train never comes back.
Land la here for the asking uompared
to what It will be worth In 10 yeere."
Buy Irrigated lands, live-In Echo and
wear diamonds. Pass Echo by on your
excursion and forever regret a lost op
portunity, - ,
, Easter Premonitions.
Lovely and 111 yl Ike flowers and laoea.
spring born, or delicate hue.
Saarklea of dewdrops and jeweled sug
gestion. - .
Sheen of soft silk gleaming through:
Large shapes and email shapes.
Bewildering beauty, '
Fated to blind
Many bright eyee to duty. '
Now while the March winda
In tempest are blowing.
Here, there, all over
Are Eaater hats growing.
If you should know by report' of your
mirror ...
Tou were dellcloualy fair.
If you had heard Maude and Mabel and
Myr
Each a new hat waa ta wear.
Then don't you think
Tou'd be wanting one. tooT -
Now don't aay "No,"
For I'm sure that you do.
Why, 'tis a part of the Joy ef the season
winn our tali lines we brine .
Till the deep chancel la fragrant aa
While froraPtne choir anthems ring;
ii me oars suniignt '
Through stained window - atraamin
eiiouiu una a iresn gar a en
to welcome Us beaming: -
That rich gay tiued dreeses, ".
And hata like spring flowers .
Should blend In the harmony
Kung py tne hours.
. -
Joy Is the keynote; 'tis well It ahould
souna ...
Through sermon' snd anthem, glad,- vt
brant erofound.
Jot la the -motif." then let It be seen
m Kimi or color, in aort neaa a ah...
But oh. we will hoc '
Would It b vrons t nee
That tho' Eaater eomea early '
'Twill be a fine dey;
For If it should rain.
Oh, If It ahould rain -1 t t
M. Ay Stock.
Today la History. .
1141 Russians riaraatawi n. c j
at oattle of Lake Palpus.
IsM Imperialists defeated; Tilly
killed. - .
176J Granada surrendered t
British. JZ""
174 -Geore Jacauaa riantm, l.t
nt French revolution, guillotined: born
October i. 1781. '
H0O William Cownar. Vnarli.h
died: bom 1711. . v
1 SOS Emanuel Lisa founded the
trading post In Nebraska.
1811 Robert Ralkas. I founder, r
modern Sunday schools, died; born 17S5
1814 Napoleon Bonapart abdicated
th thron of Franc.
188S Bolivian army invaded the re
public of Para. -
1887 Algernon Charles Srlnhn...
poet laureate of England, born.
-- 18t Federal army commenoed sieve
of Torktown, Virginia.
1 87 Impeachment trial bae-an a
William W. Belknap, secretary of war.
. 18S4 Eleven strikers killed in )
at Connellsvllle. Pennsylvania.
1807 Venesuelan con areas ratlflaul
boundary arbitration treaty with Great
Britain.
Majesty of the -People.
From the Loulavllla Courier-Journal.
Queen Victoria had had. doubtless
aome recollection of th theories ef the
divine right of kings, so whan Mr. Glad,
stone, then prim minister, brought her
a paper to be algned, she aald:
cannot sign it That doea net rep
resent my eentimenta."
"Mdam." aald, in prmlr. "you
muat sign It"
"Do you say MUST to me, Mr. Glad
atoneT I am th quean of England.
"Madam. I am th PEOPLE of Eng
land. Sign." ..
And ah signed.- ' . '
Every "Wall strt lion la now anitou
to 11 down with, the lamb Icslds him.
Caldmity ! AnrJTrom
. New York
x From the Commoner.
The editorial page of the New,Tork
Press,' Republican, sounds these days
very Ilk an Its Democratic document
Indeed. It would 'b difficult to find In
th history of the 18s campaign a o
nunclatlon by Democrats so sever as
that which aDoeard In the leading Ml
torlal printed in the New Tork. Pre,
Republican, of March 14, 107. Tna
editorial Is entitled, rWhat Ia Du th
Railway High Financier la Not the
Martyr's Crown, but JalL" u
. Extracts from that adltorial follow;
Tears . ago - this 1 paper . predicted
the very thlnge that are now coming to
pass, and repeatedly, through the wild
debauch of the railway manipulators,
we have warned them that they were
hastening the day ' of reckoning, r The
whole trouble with their schemes, as
w have often pointed out la not - that
th publlo haa started what they ar
pleased o eaU a prairie fir. It Is that
thy..hav simply., been carrying on
green goods swindles - on . a coloi
scale. ' , t
They have been taking the railroads
out of. the hands of engineers and rail
way men' and giving them over to cor
poration lawyer and stock market
gamblere. Inatead of managing them to
haul great traffic and to tgk ear of
th future transportation needs of the
country, they have used them to control
the ticker tape quotations and to par
form speculative miracles. They have
stripped th properties to max a fraud
nlent show of earnings so that they
might doubl dividend over night after
they had "gone long of stocks" and,
selling the next day on the rise, put
tea and hundred of millions of gam
bling profits Into their private pockets.
They have aelaed roads that were legiti
mately capitalised, multiplied their
stocks and bonds sevsral times. Issued
th bogus securities to themselves or
their syndicates at a low price and then
unloaded them on , th publlo "at th
top." They hav piled up earnings Into
a hug surplus that ought to hav been
uaed for buying locomotives, ears and
rails to hsndls th growing traffic, but
which they have lent to themselves to
buy other stocks low and sell them high,
stuffing their wallets . with the pro
ceeds, . .
These manipulators of the railways
of the country have taken 1100,000,000
of shares of one road, added them to
1100,000,000 of shares of another and
called them, by the mere process of
merging, worth f 500,000,000. They have
issued securities to uemseives insur
ing their possession of th actual worth
of the propertlee and printed counterfeit
securities representing the water they
have poured Into the merger. . Tble atuf f
they have palmed off on the publlo as
the original and Increased value of the
roada and- gathered In fabulous fortunes
by th operation. ,
And becaus the railroads war being
handled by the lawyers and atock mar
ket gambler to- make w-satarnaJtsr-of
speculation; because It was of mor Im.
portanc to tbem to tak from 60 to
100 points of profit on margined ac
counts In tb Stock exchange than - to
convey the traffic of the country In
hand and to provide for that la prospect
the railroads themselves have - been
going to the dogav For lack of proper
equipment track inspection,' labor, 'td
they hav been - murdering passengers
and blocking freight to a degree unap
proached anywhere els In th world and
never before paralleled even In the United
States. We know of a cas of a rail
road paying per cent 'dividends (de
clared to mark up th prloe of th atock
ao that the gamblers could unload at
tremendous profits) which had a lever
break In a switch tower and the whole
system waa tied up becaua thr waa
sot an extra lvr ready to be put In.
To mak a bookkeeping showing which
would Induce the publlb to - take the
stock at more than 200, the road waa
not buying neeesaary auppllea Ilk tie,
rails, spikes, lavera and switches! It
a doing thla thing at this very minute.
If a locomotive breaks down, there is no
other available to take Ha place; the
train must be abandoned! -
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The high financiers and stock market
gamblere hav played their game te the
limit They nave made their tens and
hundreds of millions. But the publlo
baa learned what la the matter why
there aren't ears enough, why the trains
don't run on time, why perishable goods
ar not delivered at their destination
until they are rotten and useless, why
th mortality from oolliatona. derail
ments and other eauees ellmba to record
a terrlbl slaughter of the publlo. And
eo In all the atatea tne citisena sire
rising to compel , the railroads to be
operated for the people of the United
States, not for the stock market gam
bler And th railroad will b ao op
erated, the ertes of "panic" by th Har
riman and Hills and Goulda and Stick-
neys to tlie contrary not withstanding
Thar will b no destruction of the
prosperity of the nation. The -"prairie
fire" win burn up nothing but super
fluous paper the counterfeit aecurltle
of the high financier. . Fictitious val
ues will fall. The water may atey In
the stocka, but nobody will be peylng
th counterfeiters 100 cents for what
Isn't worth a copper. The crops will
grow. ' The mills and factories will turn
ut their . product. Tb wage-earnere
will make their livings. - The gigantic
wealth of the country the real wealth
will be here every dollar of it- Only
the railway green-goods-business will
languish. .
And perhepe If Is not" too much' to
Rope that before the publlo flniahea the
work that will clos th high finance
ra of. awlndle. soma of th great men
who are shrieking about the perversity
of a plucked and outraged people will
be where they belong not In the presi
dencies and chalrmanshtpa ef boards of
directors of falsely capitalised publlo
highways converted . Into monopolies,
but In JalL .v
A Duke. Diary. '
' V':' By Wax Jonee. .
MONDAY Met a beautiful American
girl today.
TUE8DAT Fina mat mi as Bcrappie
is sole heir to 180,000,000. Knew I waa
In love with her. - '
WEDNESDAY Made love to Ethel. X
adore her. How I admire the free and
frank way of th American girl, her'
delightful breeslnessl ' - '
THuRSDAT Proposed to Mr. scrap.
pie. Told me to see' Ethel. Found.
rude young business man with her.
FRIDAY-That young man, who
hasn't a cent again with. Ethel. When
h left I told her that I loved her and
that I could be hera for a settlement of
111.000.000. She said "Nit" Horribly
crude way these American girl have.
SATURDAY Announcement of Miss
crspple's engagement to that young
business fellow. Remonstrated with
Mr. Scrapple. He aald, "Ethel run bar
own funeral." Ban! -
A flaming meteor haa been vthserved
ever New York. It hsa since been dls
rovered that it haa aeveral million dol
lars and comes from rittsburg,. .
Small Cnangc V
On Democrat la going to run tit
oouncllman Is be all?
; ',,,.--.'.','.
" It would be too-much to ask Thaw
that hypothetical queatlon aa a teat ef
hla sanity.
At least there wer no "dear Ma
tilda" letters ta the Roosevelt-Herrlman
correspondence. " i - : - , .
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Th war In Central America doean't
amount to much, unless It interfere
with tk banana trade. ..v.- " . i-
It Is supposed that alj th candidates' '
namea are In the directory evidence
that they really live Here. . . -
. i-, - e - " ' .'-' . .
No doubt Mr. Harriman could manage
to have himself elected president of
th Roosevelt Ananlaa club,
' f i .y , ..w-. '.'!' ."',.
Queer thing . kr happening, ' sure
enough. . Pennsylvania- paased a 1-eeat
fare law and Loulavllla voted dry.
... -,
1 Senator Bourne took awalk with
Teddy, to prove that he waa not a '
mollycoddle, if be does play tennis.
.... .. . .: . - ... ;,... - ,.
Still. It la believed Mr. J. 3. Hill wtll
have considerable Influence with the
management of the Oreat Northern rail
road. -'.,..-. -
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The president mentioned Harriman In '
connection with Burton, yet It was "My
dear Harriman, come and see me," not
long ago.
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Nobody caraa whether Rhod Island
elects another) senator, but If ah would
get rid of th on ah has the country
would be thankful. . . .'
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Th New Tork Press prints a list ef
nlns possible Republican candidates for
president and on Democrat Tb latter
is Alton B. Parker. ." ': r r r-
, r ''-. . ; "' '
' Bom -people are born erasy, soma :
achieve craslness, and others hav
eraaineaa thrust upon them by th at
torneys for the defense. .;'.'
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' Mr. Bryan says ha xpet ia be ac
tive in - politics for It yeere yet . He
ought to make- it tt. eo that he can .
run for president In 1988. . ;-
tt ----- 'e . ; ' :y ,. ;
Anybody Inclined to censure ' Admlrel
Dewey for moving out of ' that gift-
house should remember that he isn't the
boaa of the Dewey establishment
. , . - - - - l .
While tiding on horseback an eastern
Oregon sensational preacher waa blown .
Into atoms by dynamite, which exploded
at hla approach after bis horse trod
on it ' ' -
e e i .
"Bowman brings' dam -news"' la a
hemdlln in th Pendleton Tribune. Thla
Is pretty language to be uaed In a sup
posedly respectable and moral news
paper. ; . " ; ". .. , ' ,
TrayosrTnore-tB-vr tn Pitte
burg, but ' it's worth more," says tb
Pittsburg Gasett. Yes, If on like
rook, flood snd a succession of scan
dals in so-called high life. .
Having passed th 70-year mil peat,. :
O rover Cleveland tolerably aaf from.
having tb Democraue nomtnatioa lor
president thruat upon hlnv .n t ;
Oregon Si Jclignts ;
A Jug ef hot water exploded and se
riously Injured a Corvallls rural mall
earner.
,' a ,e -' , v.
At - a basket social of Ooeaa Spray .
Rebekah lodge la Tillamook county
$84.48 was raised. .
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An Albany couple's - trunk , that had
been held up In the blockade had been
robbed of tltO worth of stuff. . .
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Grants Paas Is to have another box'
factory- and planing mill that will add
fully 100 men to th payroll of th etty.
Th Clovardal Courier alleges that
Tillamook county la putting on the
coast- market a . considerable quantity .
of limberger cheese each year, - : :"
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Aurora Burealie: Six months ago a
man gav us an Item. Ever since, when
we ask him if thsre la anything new,
he replies: ,"No, nothing more." '
Drain has pure spring water, and so
the Nonpareil says: "Fill up your old
slimy, typhoid wells and use city water
like they do In other civilised places."
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There te a - splendid opening , m -
Brownavill for a brickyard and til
factory, aays th Time, Th beat elay
for -that purpos In, the, state I foun
her. , - " '- '
Th atag from Shanlko is oarrytnc
numbers of aettler Into th Irrigate
district to tn soutn or na daily, and
many of them are buying land ther.
says th Madras Pioneer. '
s e ,
The country tributary to Brownsville
e the beat dairying country in th Wil
lamette valley, declare th Times. Why ,
not agitata the establishment of a con
densed milk -factory here? . ': ,.
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Bridgeport correspondence ef Dalles "
Observer : Every farmer In this vicin
ity is raising a few thoroughbred
horees, the prevailing high prices being
great inducement in that ' line ef
etock. i
Coal prospector 4 are bonding eeel
lands In Sams valley, where the- "Tndl- ,
cations" are said to be especially good.
There ia eoal enough in the vlotnlty- of
Medford to supply th entire Pacific
eoaet region If ones, opened up, easert t
Tribune. ,
Independence 1 getting in line, aay-
the Enterprlae. A big raca meet In f
una. a big cherry show In July, an
other race meet or two during sum- .
mer and fall, a . big hop -carnival
which ahould be the blggeet of all. aa '
advertiaes our biggest Industry i
would be a, big thing for Independence.
i , , e e
The superintendent of the eoal mlnee
near Bedford states that there will be
no lese than 10 velne when all 'are
opened. He Is how employing II men.
none of whom 'are working In the main ',
tunnel, but all are prospecting and de
veloping the recently discovered veins.
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There Is an excellent opening for a.
fruit cannery en Coo bay, says- fhe
Marshfleld Bun. In all of this county "
there la n"t a single Institution ef the
kind, end th establishment ef a plant-'
here by practical cannerymen . with ,
requlalte capital, we believe, would be
a bnnansa ae a dividend payer from V
the Jump." Many tone of fruit rt en- '
nually en the ground and tone upon, tans
are thrown lata t&e hog jna.