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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.
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J.
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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.
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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-
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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
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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
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