' .THE OREGON , DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING. OCTOBER 2.- 1007. THE JOURNAL tit IK1r?PltNPlCHT' NEWSPAPER. . . Publtahat l-onuafceil etery evenlnir (ateapt Snnday) aud , every Kuuila awning, at Th Journal Build- inf, ririB ano ) annul atreera. iottiubb, tr, Bnten-a at tbe pnatofflce at foreland. Or,, for framnWai tbrvuj Um Bulla a aacond-cUaa matier. , i y . , TKI.ErHONB MA1X 1T8. ill departments reached by this anmbrr. T-ll lh operator the department yon want. FOREIGN APVIttTISINfl BIPBKSBNTATIVH Vreelaad-flenlaailB Snarls! ldf-rtlaln Acenry. Brunavlrfe UalMlnc. K2S Klfth arcane, New Tor) Tribune Hiiliillnf, Cbloago. tubarrlpfloa Terms by mall to any addraea la Ue, t'alt4 States (1"1 ,,tc0- Poa yatr. ...... .$9.00 on month ..f .BO 1 - '.' SUNDAY. .01 year. ....... 12.50 I On month ... .28 ... t JAIL AND nCNDAY. v On ptr.t T,80 I Ob month I .65 ;?,.They art never alone that are accompanied with noble thoui;hta.--Slr Philip 8ydney, . A MOST DASTARDLY CRIME. O LANGUAGE is strong enough proporjy to characterise the dastardly assassination oU.oi- , Sheriff Harvey K. Brown of Baker City. No effort or expense . should be spared to bring the per- spetrators of this horrible crime, to ' jusuoo, . nut it win probably be a difficult If not an ; Impossible task, That men. can be thus killed and no one suffer punishment," Is an op rresslye, thought, and perhaps la a good excuse for belief in a future boll.- . ' . ',-3 Th similarity of this crime with that of which ex-Governor Steunen- berg was the victim at once arouses the suspicion that It was planned by the same gang, or at least by a slm liar group of, assassins, and that there Is another Orchard at large. Mr. Brown's statement that the deed was committed In revenge for bis , work la the Steunenberg case, and especially in trapping Steve Adams, ' seems reasonable. He knew he was marked and hunted for slaughter, and :, he probably knew . pretty well - by whom, if be did not know the in dividual assassins.' Such a deed is hideously Infamous, i Brown was a . straight, . brave, con scientious man, , As sheriff of Baker . county, especially . during, his last - term, he dared to do his sworn .duty, though to do it was very difficult, and gained for him many enemies. He put .duty, before gain, party, ease or friendship. He was a noble man. " ' '' i I ; - It is difficult to comprehend the fiendish depravity of those who planned and consummated the assas sination -of such a man, making his iwife a heart-broken "widow and his children orphans. Tet the assas sins of a prominent man's reputa tion and character are scarcely less abominably vile. Consideration of such fiends causes a thoughtful per son to shudder at the desperate de pravity concealed around him. . i It will be a glorious thing for the country if every person having any guilty knowledge of - the Brown as sassination can be rounded up, con victed and duly hanged. Every good citizen will hope for such a result. " , . . revolutionary departure from the theory of representative, Repub lican government to the theory of a "pure democracy," very well; the name Is nothing, if right. ' , The people of Oregon found, and those of other states have found, too that the representative system, with no strings in the people's hands at tached to it, is a failure, a delusion. a fraud. The masses of people are not represented. The few are fa vored, the many, forgotten or Ig nored. It has been so In lalem, and more so in other state capitals. In none more so than in Sacramento; and It Is so In , Washington.- Per ceiving this, the people of Oregon set about regaining the power which their representatives had abused, and now, if they want a law they can get it, in spite of a mis-representative legislature; If they do not want a law that the legislature has Imposed upon them they can veto and annul It. This may be "revo lutionary," but it is only revolution ary as compared with the monstrous record of 'misrepresentation which our congresses and legislatures have made. . Really, it Is getting back to the first basic principles of "a gov ernment of, by, and for the people, If that is really what Is wanted, Oregon has made a notable move In that direction. If the people want would be all. that it is claimed he would be; only saying that nobody knows or, can assert 'that he would be. While bis career. has been en- the . thing ill tlrely creditable; It points to no sure conclusion in this respect., And It will be quite generally apprehended that he is rather too amiable a man for the tremendous task that Roose velt will leave to his successor. r OREGON STATE COLLEGES. HE ATTENDANCE at both the University of Oregon and the Agricultural college is larger than ever before, as It should be, and Indicates a prosperous year for both those , institutions. It Is stated, however, that Oregon stu dents to the number of 61 are at tending the University of Washing ton, which is to be regretted. '. How many of them are freshmen we do project, lanslng 'an undoubted large loss not 'only' to themselves but to others. ; With this ; action on ' the part of ' the rest of the depositors success will be in sight. , p r Again the boy with a gun, a rifle. He is 10 years old. His' younger sister would not Immediately 'obey his command, so he fired, and she will.be blind; for life, it , she liyoia This is a pretty heavy price for .the parents to pay for allowing a(boy to get hold of a loaded rjfle. : E 0 REDUCED ALSO TAXES VALUE OF COUNTRY'S Small CL&ngd The Infanta Eulalle Isn't as young as her nam Indicates. . -.. It's eaaler to give a place or thing a nam man w cotnia 11, , "Eat leaa If you want to bo healthy,' mmym a uuoior. ur weauwiy. . ' a A not know, but verv likely some haveL...1 il t?"1?. iMiuiri ii Know no waa btouu ior lir "REVOLUTIONARY" , MENT. MOVB- a mis-representative government, all they have to do is stand by the pre vailing system, t We don't care to split hairs about definitions of "re public" and . "democracy"; a people that spends 'time , wrangling over definitions can In t,he meantime be plundered, pauperised and enslaved. The beautiful rensentatlve sys tem, with the masafes of the people utterly powerless, ' either positively or negatively, is in vogue in the New England states, and in New Tork, and in California; look at their sena tors.. How many represent the peo ple in the least? ' The people of New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island and California have scarcely more to say in the legisla tion of those states, and are regarded scarcely more therein than the peo ple of Tahiti or Tlmbuctoo. And the only reason ' that they have not be come "revolutionary" is that so many of them are given some little petty favors or bribes free passes if nothing else at the expense of the mass. . There Is not even a representative government in California, only the mere form of it. One man' gQv.ernj the Btate, selects all important offl cers, sends his tools to congress, Is. almost as much an absolute dicta tor of public affair's as a ciar. From that sort of government, festering at all points with corruption, reek lng with iniquity from center to cir cumference, deliverance by a peace ful "revolutionary" movement would seem exceedingly desirable. And we shall not be surprised if the peo ple of California follow the example of those of "sane" but progressive Oregon and try the "pure democ racy" plan. gone there on account of the so-far ucceasful nnnnaltlnn ,tn fh Orrnn W,U ' t.h bay that jHooaeveic pucnea become celebrated? btate university appropriation. This TAFT A DOUBTFUL QUANTITY. T HE LOS ANGELES Times views' ; recent legislation, and the direct legislation move- : ment, in Oregon, with alarm, pity and reprobation. "Nowhere," it says, "has he pernicious wave of Buciaiisuc mougni wrougnt a more 'complete' overthrow of American Ideals than in Oregon." The Times wonders at and, deplores this all the more beoauss , Oregon was settled by exceptionally" sturdy, steady and "sane" people. They made a model constitution and began all right, but now, alas, "we find in Oregon a constitution the most revolutionary of any state in the onion." The , Times says the agitation was started by f'a half-baked dreamer," and re sulted in "a new constitution which Is clearly revolutionary," and goes : on to argue against the principle of va,"pure democracy," and winds up by predicting that the position tkken by the telephone company that is seeking, to evade paying taxes will be . sustained by the United States supreme court. Inferentlally, the , Times , asserts that the majority of the people of Oregon, who voted for the "new constitution," are chumps r unfit for self-government and incapable of attending to their own affaire.. ... "S peles paper alludes that authoriz ing direct legislation -la somewhat "revolutionary,'; but there is noth ing, to get scared -about in-that word. The people's slow and toil some progress upward toward light and liberty, has: been made almost altogether , through . . "revolution. warlike or peaceful. This is of the peaceful kind, and therefore far jess cbjecllonable ' than a revolution whose instrument , Is war. it, is leased on the simple, broad principle that tha people of, Oregon are fit for Mf-fovcrnment and are and of right ( ;:.r?.t to be their own' masters In I ttcr3 of kslslatioa. If (his is a UPPOSE," SATS a Republi can contemporary,-"that the Democrats should nominate Johnson, and the Repub cans Taft or Hughes; loud then would be the wallings from Wall street; frenzied the ululatlons of the pirate trusts. Tor whichever of the candidates was successful there would not be the faintest hope of a retnrn of the halcyon days of unrestricted piunaer. But without assuming that Mr. Taft would not fulfill this prediction, If nominated and elected what proof have we that he would be a vigorous arid unrelenting en emy or tne "pirate trusts," and the puissant and 'tireless foe of public plunderers? It is true that Mr, Taft is a superior man, of very fine qualities and with a good record of public service, an admirable man in many respects; but does all this make him Burely the man for the place in this time of a really great ethical American revolution? Who knows? How can any one positive ly say? That Mr. Taft Is outspokenly for tariff revision is much in his favor; that he would postpone doing the right thing for two or three years is not to his credit. That Mr. Taft has announced that the tariff ought tc be revised is well; it would have been much better If he had told the country Just about how and In what Institution ought to be, if It Is not, every bit as good as the University of Washington, and to make It so the state must give it a liberal and cordial support. And.then the youth of. Oregon, and their parents, should have enough state pride to depend on state colleges for the desired hlgher education. If the Washington uni versity is superior to Oregon's, It Is so because it is more liberally sup ported. If we are to have a state university that will hold " Oregon youths and attract outsiders we must give It ample support. - And the same is true of the Agricultural col lege, which is an excellent Institu tion, and constantly becoming bet ter. The state cannot afford to be niggardly in these matters. But notwithstanding the invoca tion of the referendum on the uni versity appropriation, it starts out well, and we believe the people will rally to its support next June. This Institution, and the agricultural col lege, and Pacific university, and others, are deserving of the patron age of the people of Oregon. Ore gon young men and women can get as good an education, for all prac tical purposes, in these colleges as over In Washington, or in California. Both the taxpayers and the seekers after higher education should stand by the Oregon colleges. This is the only way to make them better, and the equal of any. Theoretically, the law reaards a noor man the aame as a rich one, but lawyer a . ' TnlS week Rooaevelt ' will ba tnn, ttoned oftener la the oaDara than Jo - a . r We auaoect that tha VlaalaatDnf IU be alluded to thla week aa tha ;Fathr oi waters." e i Will the Memnhla convention dImm aeciae tne queeuon wnetner tne Alien!, ippi runs up niUT , e ' i V A woman likes to visit a derrtlst; be' cause lie will improve her appearance me pain n inmcia is a pleasure to fier. e The trouble with, the Jana la that they Inalat that they are not only as' rood as anybody elae, but a whole lot oeiier. ,. a a .. j It Is announced that food rrtca wilt be raised 10 er cent more. What la evidently needed la a food abstinence society. mm -t From tha war Jananeaa treat Mr. Taft, they would elect nun president If he would run over there. But they are a polite people. a "St. Paul would have made a rood sportlns editor." save a preacher. But perhaps the world Is better off for his naving cnosen to do a preacher. a That was a rather cute preacher who remarked that he would like all the women's hats that had been paid for removed during- the services. a a Mrs. Waymlre's past mla-ht not be altogether agreeable, but.lt needs to be looked ftp. as she acts as If she were ex perienced in curious transactions, a a Covington and Burilson are in a dosen places all the- way from northern Alaska to southern California, which Is why tne aeaiue ponce can t ten wnere tney are. v Habit of .Lowering Assess ments Not Confined to Sheriff's Office.; , VEItBAL CX03IPLAINT V. ONLY WAS NECESSARY ' rr;;Y$ Tax Rolls Changed Even After Board of Equalization Had Teased on Them Formality of Affidavit Not Required. - IfllENSEi WATERWAYS "rrcsident Roosevelt Addresses Great Throng: at St. "Louis on Rivers and Their Importance, Panama Canal'ahd I Its 3cnefltsm at LaUlp the Pendleton Tribune has used columns of space to show that a choice of a senator by the people was unconstitutional, and that the legislature must actually "choose" in the full, literal sense of that word, and yet the Tribune now says: "One of the best results of the direct primary law in Ore gon is the absolute settlement of the selection of United States senators by the people at the polls prior to the meeting of the legislature." But perhaps having Just passed through a fair week the distinguished editor may be excused for such glaring in consistency. Oregon Sidelights That tha practice of reducing assess mcnts after the board of equalisation has passed on the rolls Is not .confined to Sheriff Stevens and his deputies, is shown by a number of affidavits from Assessor's- Slgler'a office on file fh the sheriffs office. , o ) -V After the tax rolls have been equal ised and turned over to the sheriff for collection, neither the assessor nor the sheriff has authority to reduce the assessed valuation of any property, though Sheriff Stevens has taken the power m a number of instances, act ing on "affidavits" which were , not sworn to. A number of affidavits sworn to be fore Assessor Blaler's deputies reducing aasessments are found on Sheriff Stev ens' records. Though the deputy- as sessors have no authority to reduce aaseasmenta after the rolls have paaaed the equalisation board, Sheriff Stevens makes no explanation of why he has accepted the affidavits and red u eel taxes on them. The law requires that the person objecting must nave; been assessed with property he does not own' before the sheriff has power to remit any taxes or assessments. ' One of the affidavits from -the as sessor's office contains the following ex planation of why a reduction is" necea aary. it Is signed by Mrs. K. Griff Hit. relating to the asseasment of 1I0C. and Was mude September It of this year. "I, Mrs. K. Orlfflth. being duly sworn. say that 1 was assessed at 1400 for household furniture. That the aame was wrongfully assessed, and that tha following Is a list of all my property liable to taxation, to-wlt: Furniture used many years and not worth half the amount assessed. Four hundred dollars is too much." The assessment was reduced to 1100. not because Mrs. Griffith did not own half of the property assessed against her, but because she believed 1400 was too high. Attorneys declare that such a reduction Is clearly Illegal. A large number f them have been made by tha sheriff, and about a dosen by. the aasessor. All the reductions of assessments made by the assessor In violation of the law were made during the months oi juiy. August and September of this year- on 190 assessments. Sheriff Stevens' shortcominKS as to tax reduc tions began as early as March of this (United Praa Leasee wire.) ' '" Louis. Ort ' Not alnca H the Louisiana rurchsse exposition has 6L Louis entertained such vasts crowds as assembled today te greet President Iloose v el W" ' Governors,' senators, con gressmen, farmers, merchants, labor ers, millionaires, professional "'men, rubbed elbows in the-vast throng that lined the river front when tha presiden tial bos t steamed down the river be tween an interminable line of every va riety of river craft , Kvery available steamboat, tug, launch, sailboat and rowboat was pressed into service, pre senting a scene of activity such as has never before been witnessed on the Mississippi. : Despite the enthusiasm of the welcome to the chief executive, the great object of the demonstration was not forcotten. and averr vessel carried an Immense banner with the words: "Fourteen Feet Through the Valley," while m great chorus Bang.- "Dig Her tion. and that la our navy. Tha navr Is not primarily of Importance only to the coast reglona. It la every bit a much ' the concern of the farmer who dwells a thousand miles from sea water as of the fisherman who makes his llvina on tha ocean, for It la - the concern of every good American who know what the meaning of the word patriotism la. This country Is definite- fundamental fiolloles to the Monroe doctrine, for nstanoe, and to the duty not only of building, but, when it la. built, of polio lng and defending tM Panama canal. We have definitely ' taken our place mon WOUl ik toe great world powers, anat t d be a elan iarnobla weakness. having taken suoh a place, to. shirk its Deep Through Dixie." the safety of the president during his Thorough precautions were taken for star In St. Louis. In addition, to the usual i detail of secret service men who accompany President Roosevelt on all his travels a -dosen' cavalrymen acted as a body guard on the trip from the river landing to the Jal Ala! building, where the president made his address. After reviewing the great naval pageant assembled In bis- honor, the resident resumed bis trip down the isslsaippl thla afternoon. Accompa nying tne Mississippi, carrying the president and his party, waa the steam er Mackensle, having on board the In land waterways commission, and the steamer Alton, bearing tha governors of a. score of state The Vlotllla la scneouiea to reach Cairo, nitride,-at o'olock tomorrow morning, when the president will make an address. At 11 o'clock the trjp to Memphis will be con- unuou, ana me lenneaseo metropolis will be reached Friday afternoon. The president waa Introduced and wea enthusiastically cheered by those who heard his speech. The president said: "It is a very real pleasure to address this body of oltlsens of Missouri here In the great dir of St. Louis. - I have often visited 8t Louis before, but al ways by rail. Now l am visiting It in tne course ox a trip or water, a imp on the great nitural highway which runs past your very door-- highway once se Important, now almost abandoned, which I hope this nation will see not only it restored to ail its former usefulness, bu given a far greater degree of usefulness to correspond witn the extraordinary growth in wealth and population of the Mississippi vaiiey we nave uvea in an era of phenomenal railroad building. Aa routes for merchandise, the iron highways have completely supplanted the old wagon roads, and under their competition the Importance Of the water highways has "been much diminished. The-growth of the railway system has been rapid all over the world, but no where so rapid as in the United States. Accompanying this there has grown in the United States a tendency toward the Heppner needa 60 or 100 more resi dences. e The Ontario High school has 41 pupus. year, mo mat ne cannot assert he ac- QUireA the hehlf ffnm IhA o ...Ac..,.. In no case did reductions mads by I practically complete abandonment of the the assessor s deputies involve assess' I system of water transportation. Sucb Irrlgon winter. has a a enough fuef for the The amendment to the' Oregon .constitution, to which the Los An-J particulars and with what purposes he would have the tariff revised. As to all this we are still in the dark. President Roosevelt is said to favor Taft for his successor, and this preference, we admit, Bhould have considerable weight; but who knows that Roosevelt knows Just what Taft would do? isn't It true that somehow the people who want real rt form and strictly, straight gov ernment in . the : people's Interest would rather trust Hughes, who has served only a yearr two as gov ernor t . New Tork, than Taft, who has held various high and. Important Offices for 20 yeare? ''One of the tangible good results of the work of the state railroad commission is the new train which the O. R. & N. will put on between Portland and Pendleton. The com mission made careful investigation of the service and finding it inade quate, ordered the railroad to put on an additional train. The officials of the O. R. AN. are to be commended for responding in the proper spirit to this demand. The public will be quick to appreciate all such evl dences of a disposition on the part of the railroad to improve its serv ice and to give proper facilities for handling the traffic. The notorious Milwaukie club has reopened Its gambling , games Neither the district attorney nor the sheriff of Clackamas county appears to have been aware of the fact. If these officials proposal to enforce the law It is incumbent In them to act promptly, - sternly and decisively. The Milwaukie club" gamblers are impudently defying the law and they deserve no more .consideration than is shown to the commonest pro fessional criminal, for that is the class in which they belong. The Antelope Commercial club will give a series of entertainments this winter. a A Klamath man raised 627 bushels of barley on seven acres of irrigated iana almost no bushels an acre. a a . Kvery day witnesses the arrival of more families In Albany to reside. With in the past month the population has Increased notably, says the Herald, a a There are by actual count 107 store buildings and residences today under construction in Medford, says the Tribune, and there is a demand for even more. a a Matters are now shaping so that the prospects look better than ever before lor the thorough testing or the oil and gas possibilities In this section, says tne Ontario uemocrai. a a -Kvery part of Harney valley where there nas oeen cultivation, sowing ana Dlantina- has brought forth a rich yield this year. There Is not a failure re ported In any line of agriculture. a a Toledo Reporter: Again the need of a fruit dryer or evaporator on this bay is apparent Hundreds of dollars' worth of as fine prunes as could be found anywhere have spoiled Jn the orchards. a a An Albany young woman left het purse with some money on a window sill when she retired, thinking about It arterwara out concluding it would be all right; but In the morning It was gone. Some days afterward it was found where, as it la supposed, she hid it wnue in ner sieep, mm A Sllvertonman thus writes to the Stayton Mall: You may have said it a thousand times, that stayton is the best town in the world. If you have thus spoken, you told the truth aa re fards quality. The grandest of all the rinltles, sea, (river) earth and sky have nere uniiea ana ao tneir oest to make happy the homes or men. a a F. F. Seavers. who owns a five-acre tract In Benton county across the river from Albany, has 1.000 White Rock chickens which' he has raised since mente of more than 11,800. while Sheriff Stevens cut one from 120,000 to $6,000, another from $20,050 to $12,050, and still another from $61,000 to $4S 000. ! Following are some of the re ductions made by Assessor Slgler's ueuuiiVBi T 1X7 XT , U - . . - "l .""""j . waBinn, reauceo from $200 to $75 E. Obdle. from $300 i?!"i.Mr8- A- Troutner, from $200 to $100; Nels Nelson, from $260 to $100; Mrs. C. Gallagher, from $300 to $50: S. A. Stafford, from 200 to I2R.- Mr. v Van Zandt,frem $300 to $60; Mrs. C. EL Dahl. from $260 to $100; Mrs. W. A. Ciamson. from $225 to $100; Mrs. Q, ivtiBLkuia, jrom aiuv to soil. AT THE THEATKES "Prince of Pilsen" Tomorrow. r,,,t,l?r,.,ellln at b0 office the Helllar theatre. Fourteenth h lngton streets, for Henry W. Savage's production of the beautiful nJfn.i comedy, rrhe Prince of Pilsen." Three nignis, Beginning Thursday. Special price matinee Saturday. ' Musical Play at Heilig Tonight. The attraction at the trem h... I Fourteenth and Washinrtnn airMt. ' nignt at s:io o clock will be Geo W Cohan's famous musical play, "Little Johnny Jones." Seats are selling at theatre. .- . tendency is certainly not healthy, and I am convinced that It will not be perma nent There are many classes of com modities, especially those which are per ishable In their nature and where the value is high relatively to the bulk, which will always be carried by rail. But bulky commodities which are not of a nerlshable nature Will always be specially suited for the conditions of water transport To illustrate the truth of this statement it would only be nec essary to point to the use pf the canal system In many countries of the old world; but it- can be illustrated even better by what has happened nearer home. The great lakes offer a prime example of the importance of a good water highway for mercantile traffic. As the line ef traffic runs through lakes, the conditions are In some re spects different from what must obtain on even the most important river. Nevertheless, It is well to remember that a very large part of this traffic is conditioned upon an artificial water-r-nnal the famous Boo. The commerce that passes through the Boo responsibilities. , Therefore, unless we are willing to abandon this place, to abandon our Insistence Upon tne Mon roe doctrine, to give up the Panama canal, and to be content to acknowledge ourselves a weak and timid nation, we must steadily build up and maintain a great iignimg navy. ur navy is al ready so efficient as to be a matter of just pride to every American. So long as our navy la no larger than at pres ent. It must be considered as an ele mentary principle that the bulk. of our battle fleet must always be i kept ; to- f ether. When the Panama canal Is ullt it can be transferred without dif ficulty from -one part of our coast id the other1, but even before that canal la built It ought to be thus transferred to and fro from time to time. In a Couple of months our fleet -of great armored ships starts for the Pacific - California, Oregon and Washington have a coast line which is our coast line just as em phatically as the coast line of New York and Maine, of Louisiana and Texas. . ' - . . ,.'. Destination of nee. V - - ' . uur ueei js going to its own norae waters in me faciric, ana alter a stay there it will return' to Its own home waters in the Atlantic. The best place for a naval officer to learn his duties is at sea, by -performing them, and only by actually putting through a voyage of thla nature, a voyage longer than any ever before undertaken by as large a fleet of any nation, can we find out exactly what la necessary for us to know as to our tiaval needs and prac tice our officers and enlisted men in the highest duties of ' their prof ession. Among our dtlsens there Is no body of equal slse to whom we 'owe quite as much ' as to tarn officers and enlisted, men of the army and navy of the United States, and I bespeak from you , the fullest and heartiest support, In the name of our nation and of our flag, for tha services to which these men belong. v "I . believe hat the nation has the whole governmental power over Inter state commerce and the wideat dlaore- tion In dealing with that subject; of oourse under- the express limits pre scribed in the constitution for the exer cise of all powers, such for instance as the condition that "due process of law" shall not be denied. The nation has no direct -power over purely Intrastate commerce, even where It - is conducted by the same agencies which conduct interstate commerce. The courts must determine what is national and what Is state commerce. The same reasoning which sustained the power of congress to incorporate the United States bank tenda to sustain tbe power to incorpo rate an interstate railroad, or any other corporation conducting an interstate business. i Control of Xailroads. ' ""Ths 'American people -wilt not toler ate : the bappy-go-aucky system of no control over the great Saeritate rail roads, with the Insolent and manifold abuses which have so generally accom panied It The control must exist somewhere; and unless it Is by thor ough going and radical law placed upon the statute books of the nation. It will be exercised in ever-increasing measure by the several states. The same con siderations which made the founders of the constitution deem It imperative that the nation snouia nave complete control of interstate commerce apply with peculiar foroe to the control of Interstate railroads at the present day; and the arguments of Madison of Vir ginia.- pinckney or souin Carolina, ana Hamilton and Jay of New York, In far surpasses In bulk and in value that their essence apply now aa they applied Seat Sale for Mr. Faversham. The advance seat sale win mm Friday. October 4, for William Faver sham. Who comes to the Helllv fhor fUu n,?t. beginning Sunday, Oc tober 6, in 'The Squaw Man." - "The Girl With the Green Eyes." This delightfully fascinating, absorb ing and withal -amusing play is being given a auuniir yivuuaion Dy tne Baker company this -week. Miss Barney In the complicated role of Jinny Austin the jealous wife, who caime an tha irouDie, is greatiy increasing her al ready strong popularity ln Portland. "Uncle Josh Perkins" Here. ripe and starting into the chicken business less than a year ago. He raises poultry a scientific basis and says he has little Governor Comer of Alabama has called a special session of the legis lature in order, he announces in' the call, "to establish the fact whether the railroads of the state are to dominate the situation, or the state is to control the railroads." This seems to be a growing and. more pressing and paramount question in various states, Eventually the peo ple are going to show themselves to be bigger than the railroads. Prospects for . a reorganization of the Oregon Trust, & Savings-bank are said to-be growing brighter, and all that is needed for assured suc cess is for the depositors who have not yet assented to tne reorganiza tion plan to Join with those who trouble ln keenlns his ooultrv in o-ood neai in. Commenting on Benton countr. tha smallest county ln the state, winning ine nri county Dnze at tne state rair. the Corvallls Republican says: Benton county has always had a reputation for richness, and year by year this reputa tion in growing, a new setuers come in, and the large farms are reduced In size and more thoroughly cultivated, this county will be able always to main tain ner name -ion progressiveness and vne nenness oi ner resources. 'ine Dumpxins are rme the i-nnni. fairs are being held, and we also have ine ioiiv oia larmer. iini-m .inh p. kins". With US this Week. SO the hnnnl, ness of a bountiful harvest should be complete. uncw jonn comes every yenr aim ll b vviueni at tne JSRiplre this week, that he is more welcome uian aver. , "To Die at Dawn" Pleases. The Lvrlo' has never offered i mnn satisfactory performance than that of io ua ti uawa, uie oik sensa.tionn.1 melodrama which opened the week on Monday night Everybody who has seen it Is of the same opinion that it l nu of the best ever, : Matinee tomorrow. Midnight in Chinatown." The oriental ouarter of everv lam American city is filled with mysterv. 11 re' some Idea of his section of the tnmm A reception and banquet will be given FJ ,,f.,VfiV" "a " W nd th m- lumgui in ine reception-rooms or tse White Temple which will be notable. Cheerful Acts. ORGANIZE MEN'S CLUB AT WHITE TEMPLE PVettxrwrMa?6' bf the Sues canal Improve the Kirers. "From every standpoint It Is desir able for the nation to Join In improving the greatest system of river highways within its- borders, a system second only in importance to the highway af forded by tbe great lakes, the high ways of the Mississippi ana-its great tributaries, such as the Missouri and Ohio. This river system -traverses too many states -to render, it possible to leave merely the states the task of fitting it for the greatest use of which It is capable. It is emphatically a natiAnai molt, for this Brest river sys tem is itself one of our chief national assets. Within the last few years there has been an awakening Itv this country to tha need of both the conservation and the development of our national re sources under the supervision of and by the aid of the federal government ThL ia Mneniallv true of all that con cerns our running waters. un tne mountains from which tha springs start we ar now endeavoring to preserve th 120 years aao. "The national convention which framed the constitution, and ln which almost all the most eminent of the first generation of American statesmen sat, embodied the theory of the instrument in a resolution, to the effect that the national government should have power, in cases where the separate states were) incompetent to act with run erriciency. and where the harmony of the United ' States would be interrupted by the ex ercise of such individual legislation. The interstate railroad situation is ex actly a case In point - There will, of, course, be local matters affecting; rail roads which can best be dealt Tth by local authority, but as national' com mercial agents the big Interstate rail road ought to be completely subject to national authority. " Only thus can we secure their complete subjection to, and , control by, a single sovereign, repre senting the whole people, and capable both of protecting the publto and of seeing that the railroads neither inflict -nor endure injustice. - . "Personally i - rirmiy - oeneve that f.t; wh ch rerulate the water supply lJ'Jl-l?''T and prevent too startling variations be-1 wntrox aif industrial corporations doing tween droughts, and freshets.; . Below 8tata bu,,ne ,ncJudln the controi of the mountain a. in the high dry regions of the western plains, we endeavor to seoura the, proper utilization of the waters for irrigation. -This, is at the sources of the streams.' Farther down, where they become navigable, our aim must be to try to develop a policy which shall secure tbe utmost advantage irom the navigable waters. -, , Build the CaaaL "I think that the building of the Pan ama canal will be of especial advantage to the states that lie along th Pacific and the states that lie long; the gulf; and yetwter all, I feel tnat tne aa van tage wilKbe shared in an only less de gree by the states of the Interior and of the Atlantic coast. ' In other words, it is . thoroughly national work, un dertaken for and redounding to the ad- The pastors and the ladles of the church From the Uyeno troupe of Japanese itoaiyn, mere is not an ace on the pro gram at the Grand this week which does not n-osaess merit- The two tnreninra have a slnaine; act of more than nrrfi. nary worth. Music lovers have flocked to tne urand this week to hear theaa people. have done so. A considerable num. - are cot denying that Mr. Taftiber by hanging back can defeat the are . making elaborate arrangement-.? or acrobats te- the singing of Pierce and the banquet, and.it is thought that no less than 800 will share ln the feast and fellowship. The purpose of the gathering Is to organise a men's club in tne cnurcn ror active work and co operation. An orchestra has linen en. gag;d und solos will be gtvnn by Butterworth and . J. W. Belcher. Brastus Smith, who has recently come from Rochester. New York, and whit haa naa experience in such clubs there, will ppeak , on "The , Men for the Church"; F. E. A. Smith, assistant castor of tha White Temple, will sneak an "The Church for Men"; Rev? John Dean of tseanie, rormeriy - a secretary of the . ., i lal litems Oil BUUITHB. An address will be made also by Rev. J. Whitcomb Brougher. Preceding the Danquei a. reception will be held In. the cnurcn pariors irom s:so to 7:30, and all men who are Interested are invited to be present and to help establish the the output of their securities, but aa to inese tne necessity ror leuerai control is less urrent and Immediate than is the case with , the railroads. Many of the abuses connected with these cor porations -Will probably tend to disap pear now that the e-overnment -the publto is gradually getting the upper hand as regards putting a stop to the rebates and -special privileges, which some of these corporations have en- , joyed at the . hands of the common car-riers.-But ultimately it will be found that the complete remedy for these abuses lies ln direct and affirmative ac tion by the national government . That there is constitutional power 'for the national regulation of these corpora tions I have myself no question. - Two or three sren era t ions sro there waa lust vantage of all of us to the advantage as much hostility to national control of the nation as a whola Therefore,! of ' banks as there is now. to national am glad to bo able to report to you control or rauroaas or vox inausinw how well we are doing with the canal I corporations doing an interstate bust There is bound to be a certain amount ness. yr- ' if - or experiment, a . certain - amount oi ft task sxeater than any of its kind that Ym ever been hitherto undertaken. Whatever I Is - really Beneficial . to one part of :j our country is ultimately of benefit . to the whole. Exactly as It Is a good thing for the interior. of our country that the seaports on tne Atlantic ana ine jracuic and the gulf - should be safe and com modious, so It is to the Interest of the PLANS FOR TRIANGLE LAKE POWER PL'ANT ' (Special DtiptteB te- tit Vooraal.) ' -Eugene, Or., Oct 1. The Pacific Light St Power company has let the contract for 100,000 feet of lumber with whloh to i build the flume for a big electrio dwellers on the coast that the Interior I plant which It intends to erect near ' ,-eluto PENDLETON TO BE AMUSED, , AFTER ALL (Special Dianateh. to The Journal I - Pendleton. Or.. Oct 2.-The FraxAP theatre In this city will be reopened thla season in spite of the fact that It had been condemned. With new scenery and other improvements, ne playhouse will be acceptable to the fire department A company with Ralph Coon, a theatrical man. at the head has been formed, to be known as the Amusement company, and the repairs-will be made at ones. The opening night will bs October 11, , should Doseess' ample facilities for the transportation of its products. " Our in terests are all closely interwoven, and in the long" run it will be found that! spring and, summer. wo go up OF go oown ioneiuer, .gy ; siMcuig ir ny, For over a year past we have been engaged In making the dirt fly In good earnest, and the output of the giant steam shovels' has steadily increased. A . m uuw ma nun; bumuh. "hdu t. u, la moat i41eiit1f an tha Tfttnmua vet in the month -of August last we excavated the site of the powerhouse to furnish over 1.200,000 cubic yaras or eartn ana i tnousanas oi norsrpower.- can firan rock, a greater amount than , in any J Cisco capitalists are back of the scheme. previous month. If we are able to keepi Triangle lake, 10 miles west of Eucene. It is the lntentton to build : the flume ! this winter : and erect the Tlant next ' It is planned to run power and light wires to Eugene, Corvallls and Juration City and per-" baps Other towns in the valley. , The company has appropriated 60,000 min er's inches of the waters of the lake. ; which Is three or four- miles long and two or three wide, and there is enouorh .. fall between the outlet of the lake and up substantially the rate of -progress that now obtains-we shall finish the actual digging within five or six years: though when we oome to- the great uatun oam : and locks, wnue mere - is no question as to the work being feasi ble, mere are several elements entering into the time problem !-whlch make.lt unwise at nreaent.to hazard a DroDhecv in. reference thereto. , - "Now. aentl.men. this leads me up- to I association in another natter for national consider-1 county la the east. Bert Hoffman -Prlso Booster. ', $ ; (Special Dlapatca to : The ' Journal.) ' - Pendleton. . Or- . Oct - J. Bert Huff, -i man, editor of the East Oregonlan. took the premium for the best -composition- on Umatilla - or Morrow counties, -of- fered by the district fair. His tonln was "Umatilla County and Its Oppor tunltles.'1 Jt will bs used by the fair aaveruauif , bmatuia