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EDITORIAL EVGE OP THE JOURNAL 1 1 Tr f -r i jTHE JOURNAL AM tWDBPKNDINT H1W8PAPE. .PabUsber Pabllrtwl "ry awning (ttccpt insdir) n , mn ftanday mornlnc, at Tn Journal Bnlld t1 lag. rift and Yimolli atreatf. Porltand. Or. anMrad at tha poatofflr at Portland, Or. for Mnamlaalo tbraoxh tha mailt u aaood-laaa natter. 1 TELEPHONE MAIN TIT. ; AD ' atopartmcata rrrtiel br thto aambar. tU tha operator tb depnrtment yoa want. rOSKIQN iDVCBTISINU REPHE8KNTATITB Traaland-BanjaBitn Spw-lal AdrtlalBf Afary, Braniwlrk Building. 22S Fifth araooa. Maw .- York: Trlbtiaa Hulldlng. ChlrafO. Subscription Tarma br mall to anr DAILY. addraaa ta Iba Ualtad Statea, Canada or Maiico. Poa raar ....18.00 I One month I .M BUNDAt. Ooa yaar 82.80 I Ona month 9 .10 DAILY AND SUNDAY. 0o ar 87.60 I On month I .SB amount to far appropriated Is $10, 000,000. The present estimate Is tbat $35,000,000 will be required an nually tor prosecution of the work, which will make the total cost up to June 80, 1912, $275,000,000. After a recent visit to the Isthmus, Secre tary Taft In optimstlo mood declared that the work would be finished within seven years from the be ginning of the next fiscal year, which would mean completion In 1916, with an ultimate cost of more than $3 4 5, 000,000. But it is worth the price. Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn In no other. Benjamin Franklin. OUR KING HAS SPOKEN. 1 J. I T HE UNCERTAINTY with refer ence to a railroad for central Oregon Is removed. The ex pectation that It might be built gives place to the disappointment that it will not bo built. Thin Is ' r the only logical conclusion from Mr. ; Harriman's utterances, and he gives the reason. The region Is too thinly populated, there will be snow to .11. noyel several months In he year I and there are districts that would : afford no traffic, says the Wall , street wizard, blandly. The policy j Is not to build a railroad to develop the country, but to let the country develop for the benefit of the rail road. A million bushels of wheat In the Haystack district this season Is waiting for the railroad. It would be five million bushels as soon as the railroad Is built, and the freight on It In a season or two would pay for the extension. The building of the railroad would, in effect, create the five million bushels. That, how- ; ever, 1b not the Wall street method. It has not the charm of the Alton deal or the $40,000,000 gathered In by withholding notice of the Union and Southern Pacific dividend. Meantime, as to transportation, Mr. Harrlman holds Oregon In the hollow of his hand. Oregon has 1,720 miles of railroad, Washington has 2,260. Only three states in the - Union have a smaller percentage of rallrqad mileage per 100 square miles than has Oregon. A reason for It is Mr. Harrlman. His policy Is not to build railroads and not to permit other people to build them . into territory he owns. That Is why he bought the Corvallis & Eastern. Otherwise it might have been ex- ' tended Into central Oregon. Now it cannot be without Mr. Harriman's consent. Seasons will come and go and flowers bloom and fade. Ann will grow older year by year and the people of Mars will go on building Canals without giving a tinker's ( whoop for the designs of the Harrl mans on that planet. The church- yards here below will annually add J to their population, and Mr. Harrl man, transportation king In his j kingdom of Oregon, emperor In his j empire, will go on playing his game ?f high finance in Wall street and r when abundantly ready will build a railroad into central Oregon, but not before. What a striking illustration the spectacle affords to Oregonians ( to seek the opening of their water ways and become as far as possible Independent of the railroad regime that has long been and still is the ' tane of the state. D RELIGIOUS BELIEF. ON'T DESPISE people because they do not act and believe as you do, nor because their ac tions, Ideas and beliefs are un like yours. Don't be cock sure that another's belief Is foolish Just be cause you don't believe the same way. Because you can't believe at another person does In the matter of religion Is no good ground for say ing that there Is no truth In it. And whether his belief is altogether true or not, If It makes him a better per son it Is a good thing fur him. The questlon Pilate asked, What Is truth? hns never yet been answered ex cept in very small part. You may say things that others believe are incredible, impossible, but remember your own narrow limitations of knowledge. And how can you say that there Is anything impossible with God? Then consider, before despising re ligious believers, that a Scriptural rule, "By their fruits ye shall know them," is a pretty sure one. Do not most religious beliefs and practice make better men and women of a great many people? Pass a church on a prayer meeting evening and listen to the songs and the lower tones that you know are prayers or qulot "testimonials" or exhortations. You may sneer and say that this is folly on the part of this dozen or so PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE r HE JOURNAL has entered its sixth year under its present management and promises to be even better received in the future than in the past five years. The support of The Journal by the people of the Oregon country has been more than generous, and the success and prosperity of the paper is largely due to their good will and liberality. The people have understood The Journal and Thfe Journal has done its level best to serve the people. When the present management took charge of The Journal five years ago an ditorial announcement appeared, as follows: THE JOURNAL NEWSPAPER. The Journal property hai been purchased and has passed under the control of the undersigned and the paper will be con ducted on lines of tfrratest benefit to Portland, to Oregon and to the great northwest, and in many ways conducted differently, as to men, measures and methods, to those of its contemporaries which follow narrow grooves of newspaper habit. The Journal in head and heart will stand for the people, be truly democratic and free from political entanglement! and ma chinations, believing in the principles that promise the greatest good to the greatest number to ALL MEN, regardless of race, creed, or previous condition of servitude. Exuberant assurances are cheap and empty. I wish to make none. Performance is better than promise; action more fruitful than words. The columns of The Journal from day to day will better reflect the spirit behind the paper. It shall be a PAIR newspaper, and not a dull and selfish sheet. In short, an honest, sincere attempt will be made to build up and maintain a newspaper property in Portland that will be a credit to "Where Rolls the Oregon" country and the multitude of people who are interested in its development and advancement. Portland capital largely is behind The Journal, and the fund is ample for all purposes. Coupled with energy and enthusiasm, the work of making a paper devoted to Portland's varied interests it begun. The support of",tbj8Y fraadom-loving, the intelligent, gener ous people of Oregon is invited and will be duly appreciated by still greater endeavor and achievement on the part of The Journal, which hopes ever to become stronger in equipment, stronger in purpose, stronger in news resources, and stronger in good deeds. C. S. JACKSON. Portland, Or., July 23, 1902. In this announcement The Journal pointed out the path it proposed to follow and it earnestly went to work to "keep faith" and "make good," and it has succeeded. Its work of the past is an evidence of that of the future. It proposes to continue to hew to the line and let the chips fall where they may. The Journal stands for the many and their interests; stands for a "square deal people; but think a moment of this They are doing no wrong, but are and all that implies and means to do its share of the work in bring ing about better conditions for the masses, in making Portland a better and better place to live in and Oregon one of the really great and progressive states of the mighty union? The Journal shall keep the faith ! GOOD NEWS FROM PANAMA. T HERE IS a pleasant ring to the news from Panama. Progress In the canal work Is much ac celerated. The aggregate ex cavation was 1,274,444 cubic yards in August against 1,048,776 in July, gain of 225,668 cubic yards. The improvement in results is so marked tbat Mr. Roosevelt has wired con gratulations to Colonel Goethal, the military engineer, whose genius has wrought a revolution in canal meth ods and affairs. The Increase In the excavation aggregate is so great that the allowance of $27,000,000 for dirt moved by the end of the fiscal year ending June 80, 1908, Hill, according to Colonel Goethal's estimate be $8,000,000 short of re quirements. The 63 steam shovels At work will shortly be increased by 30 more now en route to the isthmus, when It Is expected that the excava tion will reach 2,000,000 cubic yards ' per month. Preliminary work has Already begun on the great dam and Jock's, which Colonel Goethal's esti ' mntoa will hn a exeater undertaking than cutting the canal prism. " It Is already established that the! canal will cost more than double the original estimate!, and possibly a great deal more. Including the $40,-00,000-paid the French , and the '110,00,000 paid to the republic of -tutm lor,,'th franchise, tin, meaning and trying to do right and better, and you can think of a great many scenes wherein people are do ing wrong and making themselves worse. Go down In the "north end" and listen to the songs and exhortations of the Salvation Army people ignorant, deluded people, you say; and perhaps you think what folly their performances are. But look Inside a big saloon and see men squandering their "money for that which is not bread," their "substance for that which is not meat"; some becoming besotted, oblivious to and reckless of opportunities, devoid of ambition to do or be better in any way; and ask yourself if the folly is not here, instead of over yonder in the army barracks, where a few have found a better and cleaner and hap pier way to live. Why argue about the truth or reason of the doctrines taught and believed? There is the sodden spendthrift; here the "saved" believer, clean, honest, industrious, ambitious for better things in this world and hereafter. The comparison might be made along higher social levels with sim ilar if not so striking resultant ob ject lessons. For most people, some belief, some religion, Is a very good thing. A philosopher said, "Man is a religious animal." That Is, re ligion of some sort is a predisposi tion of the race. Mankind has ever been groping for a God, a way to heaven, and if haply some have found what they sought to their sat isfaction or betterment, why should the means be criticised? Indeed, are not the results evidence of the truth of the belief to which they adhere? there the class comes from birth, while here it Is a problem of money. To be in the smart set, wherever the locality, means gowns and hats that some are able to pay for and some not. It is among those who are not that the husband or father flees to Canada, hurries to China or shoots himself in a counting room. The New York young woman will probably fall in her errand. Re formers before her, in a cause scarce ly more sacred, have been derided, stoned and burned at the stake. It Is the habit of mankind to reject people with a message. Hut if, by a happy chance, she shall direct enough attention to our reckless and tremendously expensive dressphobia, with its train of attendant evils, great good will have been accom plished. And if her feeble efforts shall, by indirection or otherwise, succeed in eliminating one poor tenth of the present unbridled non sense in the matter of female attire, priceless benefit to struggling mil lions will have been achieved. OREGON'S GREATEST PRISE. ENTER- T A WOMAN'S ERRAND. W E MAT SMILE at the young New York heiress who comes home from Europe with many of the usual habili ments of female attire missing. The smart set in which she moves may, and doubtless does, regard her as a fantastic Joke. Indeed, the whole country, on first blush, is probably Inspired to believe her headed ulti mately for a madhouse. But her errand Is not fleeting non sense. Behind it there is many a tragedy, both of heart and life. She demands dress reform and a million husbands and fathers in this coun try utter a heartfelt "amen." With a limp pocketbook in one hand and an unpaid milliner's bill in the other, these husbands and fathers are ready to bid Godspeed to any reformer who HE MOST momentous enter prise in all the Oregon coun try is the plan to put the Ce- lllo canal on a continuing con tract baBls. It is freighted with weighty interest to every section of the entire northwest. It touches the immediate welfare of a million people and a vast aggregate of in dustrial activity. The key to in dustrial development and commer cial life Is transportation. It has been said that the man who con trols us transportation, controls a country. The statement teems with truth and vividly denotes the vital Importance of transportation. The problem In the northwest is not the control of transportation, but the lack of transportation. The ap pliances and facilities for moving products to market are totally inad equate. The railroads cannot do it and their officials frankly confess it. They cannot provide cars enough, lo comotives enough, terminals enough, sidings enough or tracks enough. It iu a physical Impossibility because labor cannot be secured to do it. These officials freely advise that wa terways be opened and utilized as supplemental to the railroads In essays to stop the uncontrollable and insurmountable madness of latter day dress faddists. , In their dress our lovely women are unconsciously dragging many a father and husband Into the mael strom of bankruptcy. His wife's $100 bonnet or $500 gown and what they mean has made a defaulter of many a bank cashier. The gown and hat have come to signify social classes. The same thing signifies rank among the Hindoo women, but. i handling the traffic. Testimony of that sort ought to be final In con vincing men that the problem of the hour, when products are piled mountain hiKh at railroad sidings and Industries are naralvzed for lack'tlc0 60 loas fitiM. i. ion the chariot wheel to move freight by rail as it costs by water. Even through the Erie canal with Its lift of E00 feet and ar tificial appliances, wheat is moved by water at one sixth the cost that it takes to carry it by the best paral leling railroads from Buffalo to the Atlantic seaboard. To move a ton of iron by barge from Pittsburg through the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to the gulf, a distance of 1,800 miles, cost but 80 cents. The figures are of momentous import to the Columbia basin with its con gested traffic, handicapped industries and retarded development. The added freight he must pay the rail roads because the Columbia river is not utilized for transportation costs every farmer in the section more every year than do his state and county taxes. It costs every busi ness man who is a considerable shipper in every city, In every town and every hamlet, a proportionate amount. It is a condition so vitally affecting every interest in the region that the wonder is that it has not become understood and a remedy ap plied long ago. It is thus that the movement to place the Celllo project on a con tinuing contract is enormously con sequential. It will hurry into com pletlon and a consequent use of the Columbia river within two or three years, a project that otherwise may take ten or a dozen years to finish. It will hasten into service this mag nificent transportation artery and have it ready to meet traffic neces sities when the completion of the Panama canal, now swiftly progress ing, brings Europe to this coast with heavy demands for the vast volumes of products the great inland empire will produce. It is a movement freighted with boundless possibili ties for the development and enrich ment of an empire of industry, and if every governor, every senator, every congressman and every other official, as well as all the people of the entire northwest, do not unite in helping the plan along the eighth wonder of the world will have arrived. states pass 2-cent rate laws or other regulative measures, do not the rail roads turn to the federal courts for protection? Did they not do it in North Carolina? Did they not do it in Virginia? Did they not do it in Missouri? Did they not do it in Minnesota? Do they not do It everywhere? Has not the federal government always been the haven of the trust, the railroads and tariff robbers? MASTERLY INACTIVITY. facilities, hurry waterways Into use. Nor is the question of adequacy of transportation the only considera tion Involved in the subject. Inves tigations In the east have established that U ota eight times aa ftuch The president, Secretary Garfield, Commissioner Balllnger and Attorney-General Bonaparte have all been clamoring for prosecution of the Oregon land frauds all along, so the tale from Washington runs. Then It was District Attorney Bristol who Las stood up the whole federal gov ernment, eager as it was to prose cute, and blocked the wheels of jus- Was it really the fly that ran the race? It is Senator Fulton's plan to take all control of railroads out of the hands of the states and give It to the federal government. .JBut when the Said William Jennings Bryan To William Howard Taft, of tho" who J "You straddle in yonr attitude No mu flnda fame by hunting H. Toward financial graft." t ' Thar Is no obedlenoo undor compul sion. Said William Howard Taft p,ck,e(J pl,ty "bound ,lT. iomt To Colonel William J., body pain. "I really couldn't straddle, MmlM of ohMat M th, 0OMclenc built of society. not that H neyer flnd, hlmlf who nvr I'm way." denlei himself. Tou nevor will find faith by running AC f T 1 away from facta. Dcrmon tor 1 oday The hlrneot rellrloo la to do the lowliest tnlnaa well. The Everyday Heaven. By Henry F. Cope. They who pour out their heart 'The earth Is full nf the loving- kind- nevr empty them, ness of the I,ord." Ps. xxxlll:5. . A man mi, deceive himself, but he never fools destiny. I Iw have had and lost, not to . . . . . . , I ... . .... ' . , Truth eannot be found while squint- I what has been withheld or taken ine at popular opinion. I Revenge is never so sweet as when we refuse to entertain It. ' Our roughest ezperlenoea often arise from our smoothest tricks. Tou oannot travel toward heaven if you turn your back on truth. Borne talk so hard about duty they have no strength left for deeds. The shortness of the day nouses no man from greatness of endeavor. The mournful saint works a good deal more harm than the cheerful sin ner. The man who la getting rich by Iniquity is sure to be keen on heresy hunting. The faith that shows up strong on the fence may fall altogether when It gets on the field. If we never do the things wo do not like we never will be able to do the things we desire. It's not the man who says the loud est amen who makes the most Impres sion on heaven. There are too many folks trying to meet the world's hunger for love with essays on affection. Lots of people let their dally manna spoil while they pray for butter and sugar to spread on It. . their I a man thinks hla Ufa la I when the truth Is he is I of fact I 0-- ,0 I iur i A LL THIS WHILE Secretary Garfield "earnestly desired" the vigorous prosecution of the Oregon land fraud cases, so it Is said. So did Commissioner Bal llnger. So did Attorney-General Bonaparte. So did the president. So did the whole blooming push. It Is said. May 30, 1907, in his speech at Indianapolis, Mr. Roosevelt said: "As a matter of course we shall punish any criminal whom we can convict under the law; but we have no intention of confounding the in nocent many and the guilty few by any ill-judged and sweeping scheme of vengeance. Our aim is primarily to prevent these abuses in the fu ture. Wherever evil-doers can be found they shall be brought to Jus tice; and no criminal, high or low, whom we can reach will receive im munity." But here Is the cold calloused rec ord: With two score indictments pending and more than 100 defend ants involved, not a wheel has been turned in the Oregon land fraud prosecutions in more than a year. What a masterly inactivity with all Washington so keen to prosecute. Lymns A Stranger at the Door. By Joseph Qrlbb. The Rev. Joseph Grlg has a num ber of the most beautiful and best known hymns to his credit. He was a precocious child, writing such hymns as "Jesus, and Shall It Ever Be" when he was but 10 years of age. He be gan preaching when he was 15. He lived about the middle of the eighteenth century. Although his ministry at Sil ver Street Presbyterian church, Lon don, Is forKotten, this fugitive hymn is better known every day. Uphold, a gtrnnirer at the door! Me gently knocks, has knocked before; Has waited long. Is waiting still; You treat no other friend so 111. O lively attitude! he stands With melting heart and laden hands; O matclilesH kindness! and he shows This matchless kindness to his foes. But will he prove a friend Indeed? He will; the verv friend you need; The friend of sinners yes, 'tis he. With garments dyed on Calvary. Rise, touched with gratitude divine; Turn out his enemy and thine, That soul destroying monster, sin. And let the heavenly stranger in. With the Gloucester Fishermen. From the Travel Magaslne. The routine life on a mackerel schoon er la not strenuous. The orew consists of 14 men, a skipper and cook. Two mon consltute a watch, one, aloft as a lookout, the other at the wheel, so that each man has two hqurs on duty, and then 12 hours off, before his turn comes around again. During this period he may be called on to shorten sail, wash the deck or to perform other work. Half of the cfew have their bunks forward with the cook, who Is king of the forecastle, and the rest sleep aft with the. captain. We were assigned to a doublo bunk aft, where we were not troubled by galley smells, but had to be on our good behavior. Ml the rollca and revels we're forward. The crew ate Jn two shifts, the older men With the skipper. i IFK'S poverty Is due, not to what we have had and lost, not to what has been withheld or taken from us, but to the good whloh we might haVe had which we carelessly have passed by. No others despoil us as we despoil ourselves by our blindness and Indifference to the wealth of our own lives and the beauty ever close at hand. We who scurry over land and sea, who dig, and toll, and fret to find hap piness, come back at last to learn that the sweet faced guest has been waiting close by our door all the time. He perishes In the pitiless snowa who, blind to the good and the glory In every valley and hillside, heeds only the Im pulse to climb and find the good In some remote height. Ambition and pride lift ever peaks ahead, only to mock him when at last, worn, spent and empty In heart, he falls by the way. The old theology talked much of a heaven far away, to be attained In the remote future; the new theology often seems Inclined to Ignore any heaven. but what the hearts of men need Is the sense of the heaven that Is all about them the Ood who ever Is near, and the blessedness even now attainable. Some live In the past, complacently contemplating the glories that once were theirs or their ancestors'; some live In the future, dreaming of felicities yet to be; but they are wise only wtip live to the full In the present, who catch the richness and beauty, all the wealth that the passing hour or the present oppor tunity may have. He Is truly godly who sees Qod in all things, In the affairs of this day. In tho faces of living men, In the flowers and fields, who sees all the divine wonder and beauty of life, and not he who sees the Most High only in some legendary past or In a strange, Imaginary future. No man becomes strong by reminis cence of his breakfast or dreaming of his next meal alone; each portion of time must have its Own fitting food. The soul of man never can find Its full ness through either nistory or prophecy; sense or the spiritual In matter It needs the this living, pulsating, present. This world is slovenly, sinful, and evil because so many of us are content with the past or the future, with myth or with imagination, and fall to demand the development of the good that Is our heritage today. The better day comes not by dreams, but by each man doing the best he can and securing all the good he can for his own day. We need to give up the plan of saving tho world by the piety of postponed plr-psnrnsi and to find the fullnnRs of life In the present, to get below the sur face of things and discover life's real riches, to Interpret this dally toll and struggle, and all this world of ours. In terms of the divine and Infinite. How much It would mean to our lives if we might learn, instead of sighing for the Impossible, to get oil the sweetness and joy that is In the things we have, how rich we would find the common lot to be, how many things that now seem dreary and empty would bloom Into new beauty. In a child's smile, a wild flower s fragrance, a glint of sunlight, things possible to all, wo would find Joya unspeakable and full of glory. This does not mean dull content with things as they are; It does mean the de velopment of the faculties of appreclar tlon, the growth of the life In power to see, tha development of vision. It means the transformation of the dull earth with tho glory of the Ideal. Some day. when we look back over our Uvea, how keen will be our regret. as we realize what wo nave missed, how we have spurned the substance of life's lasting treasures, human loves, friend ships, everyday beauties, and happiness, while chasing the shadows of Imaginary Joys. People who lay their sins on the Adam are not anxious to have successes attributed to him. Many clouded over burying hla head in the steam of his own slghlngs. Texas Complacent, from the Houston Post. With 49,874,800 long, dark-green watermelons with thin rind, red meat and black seeda remaining, grand old Texas Is viewing the situation with tha utmost composure. Sentence Sermon By Henry F. Cope. Killing time Is soul suicide. Prosperity Is a stiff test of piety. , Tou eannot be a leader and lose sight "An East Bid Bank for Eaat Sid People." ; 4 Per Cent OPEN AWF ACCOUNT for yc Son or Daughter WITH The Commercial Savings Bank TVI teadi- iV XKOTT AND A fund started now and s teadi ly added to will give the child a good' start when he or ahe reaches maturity. Only 1.00 is required to open an account. George W. J. S. Blrrel. Bates. . President Cashier' i