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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAU PORTLAND; FRIDAY -EVENING, SEPTEMBER T- ;7' SJ, V''- OUT, OF DISTRICT ?',V:l:rV A 6 NOT IN ' ; ' THE HIGH PRICE CLICQUE . A ii '''' , .' EL COMBINE STYLE WITH GENUINE MERIT $9.00, $12.50, $15.00 AND $20.00 CLOTHE We say these clothes' combine style with genuine merit There s "the point m a nutshell" style and merit after all. These are the chief essentials in good clothes all that the most critical man could exnectlorovided the price is right.: We wish to lay particular stress on this point, for never in the history of this store have we been able to show such a distinctive collection of abso lutely correct clothes at such moderate prices. We vould like to have you come m look over the lines try on your size then compare them with suits sold elsewhere at the same prices '. yCS, CVen J lO lUgncr XC UUICimvC wm uc BCH-cviutiit aim jrwu wiu uwuwb iw iiuawnv u uunig. . v tt --tir- - fflctfs Suits SIDE NOTES ON TOE TREND OF FASHION As a result of the constant de mand for variety, each season witnesses some new style changes. This season the coats are not quite so long as here tofore 31 inches being a con servative length. The collars1 jJXLJLtnfle broader, sack coats with straight cut fronts; round ed corners prevail. Brown will be the predominating color, al though grays in club checks and plaids and dark mixtures have admirers. The long box back' overcoat with that graceful drape from the shoulders, which gave place several seasons ago to the semi-fitting French back coat, is again in favor with the Mevotees of fashion. Over coats Men's Sab In the conservative styles, the crowns of the stiff hats are a little higher this season and the brims have a ' more pro nounced curl, while the more extreme shapes have a fuller .crown and flatter brim. 1 The new French and English browns will be conspicuous, but the always staple blacks still hold preference. There are also some slight changes in the soft hats, both with refer ence to crown, height and width of brim. The Chicago's kader---Clotlies at $9.00 At this popular price we are show- mg an elegant collection of patterns and ' fabrics in 3-button, single or double-breasted sack suits. Among many others are included the famous Singer products and bur own swagger new Chicago Leader clothes for the young men. The opportunity for selection is practically unlimited. Any custom tailor would con sider himself fortunate indeed could he pro duce clothes of like character at $20. Choice $9 JO TheFamotisKIack fifth's High-grade Clothes $12.50 We offer an immense range of ex clusive patterns in lhese incompara ble suits. Without question the best values ever, offered anywhere at this price. We would like to have you' compare them with other clothes at $18 or $20 or more and be able to judge for yourself. The new shades of brown destined to be so popular this season are splendidly repre sented ; also grays, in club checks and plaids, as well as a line of serges and dark worsteds. Choice Distinctive Clothes $15.00 If you are in quest of something distinctive Irrparticular from the pre vious season's conceptions a suit that can not be duplicated by any merchant tailor in this city for less than $30, we have what you want. This diversified range of colors and styles was selected with a view to pleasing "the simplest as well as the most fastidious of tastes. Choice 5 M $20.00 We show the most exhaustive gathering of men's high-grade apparel ever displayed in Portland. Genius and craftsmanship of the highest type are remarkably apparent in this array of new clothes at this price, which offer unusual opportunities for selection. $20.00 Mm ii . SATISFACTION OR YOUR MONEY BACK 69-71 THIRD STREET BET. OAK AND PINE HORSESHOES OVER TOE DOORS The President's Latest To th dltor of Tin -Journal. -W have ret& the preldanf peech and have eagerly aearched for eome formu la, for some logical arrangement, ome rnothod to determine which a right ac tion and which a wrong one. In other words, for some word or etatement to let u underatand Juat what the presi dent means. Taking the statement "There Is no objection to any mans ....... jn mo amount of money, If he does It honestly and fairly, If he gets It as a reward of special skill and en terprise, as a reward of ample service actually rendered." If this be logical, then the gathering mrMther or ionunv9 into Kef lie" Gould and VanderbUt. are rot dangerous iu iu wuuunuv count of their power, . but only jffl hr mthod of acauisttlon. yet the history ot the world shows that the accumulation of power In the hands of a few has always but shortly preceded the detructlpn of that form of society in which It has developed, whether that accumulation ha been in accordance with some a-prlorl Idea of ttSnder " It was not the method by whlch-the wealth was acaulred. It was the power which was Inherent In the W If1 there8lsa. certain maximum amount of oropfcrty which could be safely held by an Individual without being men ace to society, then the president should state the amount, so we could clearly understand him. We are -left to take for-granted that there Somewhere exists some absolute right and wrong 'wnlch can be clearly discerned, and .whloh ap- ears to ail ui sauna. imw' uiuii n if inch a. eoncreta lia'ht did exUt! then it would be a simple matter to so rrame ,w iw wjwwu kA.nrhi nt trknaarreaslna' them. . "The administration appreciates thai liberal but honest' profit for legitimate ' promoters ana eencroue tuviaenua, eic But here again the administration leaves us in the dark. What -is an honest profit; what a legitimate dividend? I may save and slave for years, take that savings, Invest In 4 prospector's outfit and go to the mountains and there after memos -91 paruaniD euiue upon a- Claim rich in gold. At the end , of a year 1 have accumulated a million, at the end of two, five; at use ena or three, ten; and so my legitimate prone on perhaps $100 may be 100,000 per cent. Was It honest? .,1 may not want lt Shalt I leave It In the ground? And yet every s or infant! .wuUualaua' . Tfei Kind Yea Haw Always Essglit eig&fttwvof dollar I take out Is valuable onlv be cause it' can be exchanged for articles which men In the mills and factories are slaving to create, Or I may start a store. Figuring my wages at $4 a day and " thf amount of my Investment at $1,000. I find at the end of a year that I have cleared 1 1,000 above wages and 'expenses. That is 100 per cent and at this stage of my existence I shall have hardly yet earned the title of robber, I work day and night (this Is a Joke If taxen personally), ana not oeing extrav aa-ant this money continues to accu mulate it the same raUo In a geometric progression. I try to be honest, I go to church, give largely , to charity and am elected as one of the numerous yice presidents of the X ReDubll can club. At what particular period In that great immeasurable phenomena called time oo i become a robber? Or my father at the start was a poor iui nonesi larmer. tia.ii a century ago, he, with other kindred adventurous SDlrits. hooked up an ox team and. ex J losing himself to all the dangers of a oumey through the wilderness, peopled only Dy nostue savages, came ana set tled, according to Greeley's advice, in the west He catre a IRtle late, others before him had' occupied all the best land and he was forced to take a home stead that was partly a swamn. In time my father died and I inherit a farm on which are a half dozen enormous buildings, in whloh is trans acted business which extends to the four corners of the earth, thousands pass the door each Hour and wealth un told Is mine for a title to a portion of that farm. If I make 2 per cent, 1 per cent, money piles up. I do not need tne money; ao not wni ii, dui ii . ton re-lnvestlnr it the wheels of in dustry stop turning. If I give this money to charity it only serves as a lever to depress wages by enabllnr tnose wno win accept cnimr to unaer bid those who will not on the labor mar ket. If I give it to schools and colleges I only destroy the deraocratlo spirit of the schools and colleges and undermine the very foundations or tne institutions and their raanaeement. The menace of a great fortune does not lie in the fact that it was stolen, not that Inhuman methods. were adopted In... Its creation, but simply In that amount of wealth being In one person's hands. The rights or wrongs of the means used in Its acquisition is an ethical question, whether it Is a danger or not is a material one. If the trusts must go on and lndl EAPJJ) PKOGRESS MADE IN BUILDING THIS BRIDGE. Vidua! fortunes shall pile up, and the president himself says tuts is true, tnen his position can be nothing but that of an umpire to see mac in game is played fair according to his interpreta tion oi tne rua oi tne gams. Larre businesses can only-' be cre ated BSTThe dleplacement -tf -smaller f ones. . utrg iortunes can oniy d piiea up, except in exceptional eases perhaps, by the absorption of amaller Ones. In a given period one large business .mayj uute xne piace oi iuu uauiir ones, ena It voes without saving that the larie firm In erder to get the business must have, pjr, torn meaa ( Uer, gbtaioed WWII ...,;!. m i.kmW''IW".'"Ii"WTi'I"WJ"1" tifmmyi;1fvW9wivrwmm't "jW' BWMt"IWW "'"1 Ml r I f i 'yy"-leea6( y.;L-f , riir-i-rr -nifli--! -ir f if, if rrfg'l..! 1 Miiifii-'ri; ijnfrYft-iy'VMiVh.rM n tt - Construction on Willamette River Bridge of the North Bank Railroad. The piers for the north bank railway bridge, to span the Willamette near St. Johns, all well above the surface of the water. A large force of men are at work putting in the foundations for the shore piers on either side of the river. Piles are being driven for the draw-rest, the draw-pier having been completed. Indications are that the work of building the steel spans will begin by the first of next year. - Construction work on this bridge is progressing more rapidly than that on the bridge of the same company now be ing built across the Columbia river at Vancouver. The first steel span of the Vancouver bridge has just been com pleted, although this bridge was begun eight or ten months In advance of the Willamette bridge. The expectation is tnat both structures will be finished early in 1908. the trade by offering Its customers some material advantage. If I am driven from mv business It makes but little real difference whether At was by a so-called Illegal rebate, or by the blroer firm, through their ability to produce goods cheaper In large quantl tlea and throusrh their eradicating use less labor In their different form of organization. it resolves itseir into a Question or being hung by a piece of Manila hemp or by a buk com. Certainly, new Industries are opened up and by the gigantic organisations the amount of wealth produced is en hanced anormouslv. but in the very nature of the organisation of modern- productive forces these new industries and the wealth they create must, in an Increasing ratio, fail into the bands or the larger capitalist, who alone, through the private ownership of an Immense fortune. Is able to set in motion the gigantic wheels of modern production. "The rich man who with hard arro nnce and the poor man who excites or Indulges In envy and hatred of those who are better off " To thla we must reply tnat. in so far as w can see, neitner exists ex cept in the imagination. All men are aa rood the conditions with which they "rm- surrounded will llw- them te ( oe. xne so-oauea arrogauiu wia nun la a condition brought about by their surroundings, their divorce from actual contact with others In a different station in life, their education and their hard struggles In the business world. And so ' we' honestly believe. If we are al lowed, te itave aa Jieaegt sufferance pi opinion, that the so-called arrogance is nothing but a lack of understanding; a total Ignorance of that which appears to others to be a plainly discernible real lty, a- tangible truth. The poor man does not envy. Re does not envy Rockefeller, for Rocket feller Is poor Indeed. No man, no mat ter what his paper title may cover, can in reality nave more than he consumes. For years Rockefeller has been practi cally a cripple, unable to eat an ordi nary meal. He nas In late years been vilified by the multitudes, who do not understand; he Is looked on as almost an escaped convict, solitary and lonely, shunned, maligned, a human automaton, AUTOMOBILE BARGAINS Slightly Used "PHHCX" Cars We are authorised agents of . the Oee. N. Pierce Company, Buffalo, N. T., asakere er the celebrated PlereeArrow Aute mobllea At the present time we have m ' number ef slightly need Pleroe Cars fully equipped aad in -per-.feet running condition, whloh we . ---HSBtK- -- eacfc fe-ulae" prices 4m to- . . . WHUfor 4tsriptm Hit mlane to TOSS-HUGHES MOTOR CAR (XX tHILADILTHIA, FA.f Befcraaeei Fraaklla National Bank, Phfla. whose brain has become a machine with only one function the organization of industry. Do we envy Rockefeller? Not Do we envy the high society devotee, who at times can find, for pleasure, no more worthy object than a banquet at which the guest of honor is a specimen of anthropoid ape closely resembling man, and whose moral senses are of such nature as to allow of the purchas ing for husbands of specimens of an thropoid man, who. In actions at least, closely resemble ape? He does not envy the business man who by years and years of incessant toil builds up a monstrous Industry, whose brain has been hammered and pounded I until It will scarcely register the sense perceptions oi a numan Deing, wnone only reward Is a pile of wealth In brlok and stona, the loss of a human social nature, total Ignorance of a great world outside his own little ceil, gray hair and the grave. And so in conclusion I will say that we hava followed the advice given ue. we have read the president'! message two or thraa times. ' It may be a simple matter for the president to make ex-cathedra state ments which future years will prove to have been mere sophisms, yet there are many who will refuse to receive any statement from any source, unless hey will stand the test Of IndactiveTearcm. - While man moves In the line of least resistance toward that which gives him pleasure and seeks to avoid . pain,' yet It cannot be denied that the sight of I squalid poverty of many, the sensual extravagance oi ue lew. me DruiaUM- tlon of man by Inhuman conditions of existence, the degradation of women and the destruction of homes, the In creasing ratio of criminals and the toll ing of children In factories and sweat shops, the bondage of lrnorance through lack of opportunity, the slaving of hun- areas tnat one may riae; tnese sights and conditions may awaken, and do, in many a human breast, the desire for cnange tnat is not born of envy or epurroa on ay any nairea, except tnat form of hatred of conditions whloh give pain Instead of pleasure to any person that can realise the terrible truth. We want freedonm and llhertv. H only the freedom from unnecessary wnni sna mo nutru 10 nia tne Knowl edre of the laws of nature to tha and that we may be better able to adapt ourselves to them and live out the fufj. ness of our lives Instead of struggling with each other over crust of 1 read or tne ownersnip or a railroad; with out which knowledge we are the ver iest slaves, be we captains of Industry r - jrT in iu. . wr ranaz oi a rail road construction sranr, And aithnnvh we shall continue, to be assailed by In nuendo by many' great men,, still we anaii continue tne mruggie ror the gain ing the only freedom . that a knowledge,: and to disease tha ad reseftt"TUr'MgBar-Tharter- who "ya, -it aoea not move." .Wealth 1 not in brick and -wood, atom viiuinv. and jewelry, but In knowledge, the sec rets which have been wrung from na ture. 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