THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAU PORTLAND; FRIDAY -EVENING, SEPTEMBER
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COMBINE STYLE WITH GENUINE MERIT $9.00, $12.50, $15.00 AND $20.00
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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 '.
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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
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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
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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 .
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prices 4m to- . . .
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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. We Wish to A4s tribute tha knawl.
edge and, use It for the benefit ef man-kind..-
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