The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, November 21, 1907, Image 8

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Newspaper Page Text....- EDITOEJAfj FAGE OP THE JOURNAL THE JOURNAL AM l-IClnEMT KltWHPArrR . . . . . I'uMttber PafiMaWd (Mff mil rent (iff ItwPt t f'V'4 LTm T r " . " v.i. ihh I I'oniinu. i , " r - . lm - I irllllMI. - gwttw TELrrilKNfr-WAlN TI7S. n .p.rtfn.-nt. rr.rhM bT thlt "",hr fr.Vl th. owr... . th. dr..rtm.nir.nt. tORKlUN Arvr.HIISIVI HKI'KKWCNTATIV. Trl.t nenl.n.ln M-M ilrt .IrasuSrESw Bromwlrk lluli.ll. . ' T"r' : Tribune lljMj.nnc,JJO'j'. Tim h n "awe la U VulM ai" Oaa r'. Cm 7tr. On fr. i inMi or DAILY m ni i On month SI -.VPs Y. j &.I one innptn "PAIH AM' "IM'AV. .( .BO I .23 I es what particular commodities should I Into human living as to become al- There'i no Impossibility to him yfho stands prepared to con quer every hazard. The fearful are the falling. - -S. J. Hale. BONDS FOK WAT Kit W A VS. hear the brunt of an Increase In rates evtr will bo aanctioned or ap proved by the court." These remarks Indicate a very wide field of Investigation fr the railroad commission and the omits In regard to railroad methods of fixing freight aeh'dules. I Lis a; i of tho lumbermen Is extn itieh Im portant In Itself, but Is also Import ant In probable results outside It? epeclllc scope. If It shall be held that the railroads cannot thus ar bitrarily raise rates without r.howliiR that such n raise is necessary, not even, perhaps, Ir a particular irar fl" at a particular time Is not profit able, this decision will apply to nil products and nil localities, and n great measure of real rate, regula tion will have been achieved under existing laws. ALWAVN A IlliK.HT SIDE. RICHARD PAKTIIOI.DT, a Re publican representative In congress from a St. Louis, MIs , sourl, district, Is one of the "most broad-minded, progressive, far aeelng and useful of the public men of the country. He has now served several terms In congress, and has deservedly grown into prominence, until he enjoys an enviable reputa tion not only throughout this coun try but abroad. It Is this member nf congress, re dding on the country's greatest rlrer, and In the greatest city on ' that river, who proposes that tho gorernment should issue bonds to the amount of $500,000,000 to es- tabllsh a fund for permanent great i prefer. HE CLOl'I) has a silver lining It's an III wind that blows no body any good. No loss with out some gain, etc. Which adages are brought to mind by the report that hundreds of men who a year ago would have scornfully rejected such a Job have gone or are going out to chop cordwood. It may be said that so many la borers accepting this employment, rf they would not have done a few months or weeks ago, is a bad sign. but If so the adages quoted apply. There will be no fuel famine. And the price of wood may decline. And land will bo cleared up for the new farmers. And, after all, the men will be about If not quite as well off at this work as at other Jobs that If they have a choice they waterway improvements, leaving the smaller projects to be taken care of in the regular river and harbor bills. He would make the inland water way commission, appointed by Pres ident Roosevelt, a permanent body, to fcandle or give expert advice about the use of this fund. Mr. Bartholdt sees the importance and Talue of the improvement of the country's waterways, and would leave a part of the burden of this work to future generations, who will reap the advantages and profits. . Mr. Bartholdt Is on the right track.' The amount he suggests may - be oonsldered by Borne too large, but If this scheme were to be adopted to the extent pf half this amount, or. even $100,000,000, as was pro posed last year by Mr. J. X. Teal of this city, it would be a big step in the right direction. The need of opening tip all available Inland wa terways Is becoming constantly more apparent and imperative. The cost will t be great, but the Investment will pay. And as it Is future gen erations that will receive the larger part of the benefit, they should pay the greater part of the cost. There will be large gain on on side of the balance, too. If hun dreds, thousands, more laborers are induced by lack of other employ ment to gn out Into the country and help the farmers clearing land, making fence, digging ditches, working in dairies, doing all sorts of work for doing which farmers have been for Bomo years short handed. Look on the bright side. Find the good in events, circumstances, people. Get into the Don't Worry club. You'll live longer and hap pier. most one of tho necessities. I, Is more and more becoming a factor In everything Into which power, heat or llht enters, and theso three ele ments hid primal factors In human existence and human energy. Tho streams In the Oregon moun tains will more and nioro provide power for distant Oregon towns heat for them and light for them. They will yield heat for us when the conl and timber are gone, and ower for us when steam In Impossible. Thus theso streams are by wise pro vision of nature a public necessity. I Their wnter powers never ought to pass Into private control. The drift Is too much that way already for the safety of the future. Helonglng as they do to the people, tho control of them should remain In the bands of the people, most likely through their state government, and It will be a happy event if the water ways commission finds a way to bring that about. An annual franchise fee for use of them by corporate enterprise and state supervision would be a bulwark against their monopolization and the resistance to those methods by which so many public utilities and resources In this country have been drawn under monopoly. If this problem of con serving tho water powers to tho peo ple shall be properly worked out It will be a triumph of statesmanship and an enormous factor for the growth and public weal of tho future Oregon. Letters From the People . A Simple Itemed. Ralern, Or, Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Journal: Today you have an edi torial headed "a Wrong That Needs a Remedy," under -which you refer to the quotation In common law, "There la no f" TUT? TTATinD XfCVrC VfTCTAlT? I 1 1 X X XXJ IjlUUrS. Vlljl'H W X J. XJLVA j TAXING THE 81'RI'LUS. A CRUCIAL CASE. WHICH IS YELLOW? T REFERRING TO the case of the; northwestern lumbermen; against the railroads, the' American Lumberman, pub-! lished In Chicago, savs: "The case; of the lumbermen is about as strong : ; a one as could be desired. From the tenor of the petitions filed it: would seem that there is nothing in' r the financial reports of the railroad ! companies to give the defendants' great comfort, and certainly their, previous history in so far as It per- j 1 tains to capitalization will nfYorcT them little rebuttal evidence of a character supporting their position."' After Btatlng the grounds of the1 ' lumbermen's complaint, the Lum berman says: "'The supreme court of the United States ha3 held that a common car rtefinay not exact a schedule of Charges for the s-rvl. ,. It performs in excess of a reasorabl HE "SMART ALECK," along with the others, has his day. There are many of him. He thinks he shines most when he stigmatizes a decent newspaper as a "yellow" journal. He is often a "yellow" financier, a "yellow" citi zen, or "yellow" morally. Not In frequently he is all three. The present emergency in a financial way recalls the difference between him and the newspapers he charac terizes in his high and mighty style as "yellow." No influence has more doggedly striven in the past weeks of uncertainty to save the country from the embrace of panic than have the newspapers. , Editorially and In their news columns they have Btilven to allay unreasonable fright which is a primal factor in the money disturbance. They have, one nnd all, pleaded with the public to have confidence in the stability of tho financial institutions. They have In every way sought to minimize the effects of suspended banks and money hiding. They have with an exalted purpose and fine loyalty to the people and the republic fought in the breach to quiet the fears and discredit the rumors so mischievous to the money situation. It has been and is within the power of the press to turn business into bedlam and bankt Into Wrecks, but there Is not one newspaper but has exerted every power and influence that it could HE ASSESSOR for this county has assessed tho "surplus" of the O R. & N. Co. at 116.180, 000, to vhich that corporation objects. Whether the assessment is just or not The Journal does not attempt to say. That Is for the oard of equalization and the courts to decide. But we do say that since the ruler of that road has persist ently pursued the policy of fixing such rates as will yield a largo sur plus, and carrying It off to New York to the neglect of Oregon, it would be on'y fair and equitable for this and other counties that supply the traffic to recoup a little percent age of this large annual surplus by way of taxation. The people who piled up that surplus for Mr. Har- rlman would seem- to have an equity In It to fhrs extent. His policy Booms to be to make reprisals and carry out revenges If the people try to protect themselves, and he ought not to object if they use the taxing power as an instrument to even things up just a little. If he would build needed roads with the Burplus the people would welcome hlra to It and more of It. The Oregon bar association hon ored itself, as well as him, by elect ing ex-Snpreme Judge Thomas O. llailey its president. If all law yers were like Judge llailey in char acter and we think most of them try to be "the bar" would be looked up to with even more respect than is now accorded to it which is much. tlon therefor- tha u . ! wi-lci in an exactly opposite direc -U3 cnarge excessive rates and to use1 Bticn earnings for permanent better mnfa nr nJ(H vh frh la aoruini s . ,cu irom lt3 curr0Dt business. In other words, that court, has held that the cost of rail road , property must be distributed . through the years such nronertv u of value to the carriers iu their1 work. VRallroad companies are able in but Very few instances to demon strate to the satisfaction of the courts that tneir rates are so regu- Jated to give but a reasonable re- -turr, on me investment. Constant changes In capitalization, the issu ance and retirement of bonds for special purposes, have so upset, the true relations which the courts hold stock! and bonds should bear to the ftlu of the property that they can not show, to the satisfaction of the courts whether or, not their returns sre . of a compensatory character. This phase of rate litigation neces sarily will hare to be settled in some satisfactory, manner. ? It is doubt ful. howsrerV, If 'the 'action of the railroad companies la agreeing upon The sequel ought to be evi dence that it is time for the kid gloved smart ones who arrogate to themselves superior aesthetics and pretend to scent "yellow" in all things journalistic, to stop and in quire which it is, after all, that is really "yellow." President Loveland of the trans misslsslppl congress Is entitled to the thanks of Oregon and the whole Pacific northwest for his timely and intelligent remarks on the import ance of opening up the Columbia river. ' Some delegates at the transmis sisslppi congress are trying to boom the proposed state of Lincoln. Every convention assembled for serious and important business has to have its jokers. "Railroad men have a right to be proud of their record," said Mr. J. J. Hill nt Kansas City. But nobody accused him of pointing at Harrl man when he said so. SAVE THE WATER POWERS. I T IS encouraging that the inland water ways commission is con sidering plans by which the wa ter powers of the various states can be husbanded, and their usu fruct bo conserved. It is the peo ple to whom these water nower? belong, and the heritage is of price less value, in Oregon the esti mated horsepower of the streams is from 500,000 to 1,000,000 horse power. The state 4s fortunate in that it Is so rich in this resource. It is an asset that wilt ultimately be one of the greatest of all factors in state development. It is a basis for the creation of untold wealth jand infinite comfort. Electricity Is only on the threshold ot-pplicatioB, yet it Is . already entering so closely Alabama has also "gone prohibition"- or its legislature has voted that it shall do so a little over a year hence. It looks like a prohibition "wave," "There's, a reason." Hurrah! Glory he! " Two police men have capture"yo alleged boy thieves. Let nobodysay our 140 po licemen are good for nothing. Connecticut for Revision. Governor Rollln S. Woodruff of Con necticut in an interview in the Wash ington Post: Undoubtedly Connecticut is heartily In favor of the revision of the Dingley tariff immediately after the inauguration of the next president. The feeling tnat me larur siiouki he re vised is almost unanimous throughout the state. We do not say Just what schedules should be revised, for that is a big problem, but we favor general re vision whenever necessary. We think with the people of Massachusetts along these lines. Probable. From the Philadelphia Press. "I sometimes think," said Dubley, "that it would be interesting to trace the origin of some of the common phrases of the day. For instance, I wonder who originated the expression, 'It never rains but it pours.' " "Very-likely," suggested Kidder, "It was A'oah." ... wrung- without a legal remedy." and fl low up thla with the atateinent that (ho O. 11. & N. company hna accumulated iibout 000,000 and fall.d to Invest It ev.'n in other roads needed by tho peo Il of Oregon. You Bay "iierliitpa Ih i nut l.-Kuily bound to tell what they nave uone wun this money." C'oiiiiiu nt 1 11 if on thla nri.l.lem km. iuv "The lutes should have been reauc.l or belter, the nurplua after a fair dividend to the Kiockholdera had been paid should have Ix eii used to build more and badly needed load In Oregon." Further yu -my here Is a grat wrung tor wlik as yet theie la no leual remedy." This very o.ise prenrulii a problem worwiv or uie proround t'onaidernllun o KKtt.'knivii, legiklutors, Jurlxts and put. li ita hlioulj them not be a remedy et.'. FlniKhlng up your article with "so the great wrong goes on." Three quarters of a million are suffering It, am helpless under the thumb of one mm who will devise the remedy? Hliat snail It be7 The remedy Is as simple as A. H, C. It 1m known l.y every lawyer of the isle and nation that a railroad la public hlghwav. operated by & corpora tlon and that it Is the duty of our state and nation to limit these corporations to a fa I r charge for the service they render tile people. Kvery lawyer snd many others know that these corporations so far as they themselves are concerned are as help lefs an u new-born Infant when 11 comes to making rites. The rate-making ouch tlon can eully be illustrated In this way: ou hire a man to paint your house, lie does it. You hand him J."0, he says It Is worth ItiO. Me sues, lie has g to come Into court nnd show that the work Is actually worth $60, or he nn- not collect io Now we make rates for our roads and the roads say they are too low and they resist them. These roads don't get to come to court and show that they are entitled to more Just as pom- filetely as the pslnter has to do and lere is the simplicity of the railroad rate-making .juestlon. The orgsUatlon of thfs O. R. A N Co took place In 189S with about $3f..- nno.oOO capital It. was and Is now he duty of the state and the nation (the siat In the matter of Intrastate bus iness and the nation In the matter of Interstate business) to assume supervi sion, of this line and to limit the taxes they collected for their service to what this service Is reasonably worth and thereby prevent the abuse of the pat rons of this line by tho railroad com pany, and this our state and nation lave never done and the result is tho patrons of this line have been robbed of more than 125,000,000. The o. K. A N. Co. started out n 18!" to serve the public With about $22.000. on tif Indebtedness' for whic.i they were bonded; they also issued $1 1,000,000 preferred stock and these bonds and preferred stock were to have four and one-half per cent Interest and UK-re was also $1,410,000 invested In the common stock. Now, the courts have always told us that if in our rate-making we allowed the roads enough to pay the expenses, Incident to operation Interest on the bonds and a reasonable return on the stock that they (the courts) would sustain us. Who is to blame? No one but our sta,te and na tional offlfPTi and they fall th'rough dls honesty or Ignorance. The law is simple, the remedy is simple, tho courts are irood to us. Why don't we do our part" Mr. Lincoln found he could not eon vlct a hog thief when the men and the Jury had helped eat the stolen dog. f cannot and need not expect a remedy wnen so many or our public men are eating the luscious stolen pork. Sen ator lja. Follette offered a remedy in sofar as the nation s part Is concerned in the last congress and both senators rrom Washington, Mr. Ankeny and Mr. Piles, voted against It. Mr. Fulton of Oregon voted against it. Evidently ill these members are eating stolen hog. Senator (Jearln of Oregon voted for '.t. Mr. l.a toilettes measure was de feated in the senate. If the states of Oregon and Wash ington would appoint a Joint commis sion and have this Joint commis sion prepare a set of ra,tes for all the interstate service of the O. R. & N. and bring an action before the national interstate commission and have the na tional commission pass upon these rates this commission would enforce the set of rates if found Just, but our states men have attempted nothing of the kind. It Is our fault more than anyone else's because it Is our business to take care of our Interest. We have not tried. The writer spent the entire time of the last session of the Oregon legisla ture In Salem studying the works of that deliberative body, very much inter ested in railway legislation. There were two bills introduced looking to railway legislation. One was an excel lent measure that would, if properly administered, have prevented every overcharge of the, O. R. & N. In our .state. The other was a measure that would result in comparatively no benefit to the patrons of our lines, but it could be manipulated in the Interest of a class and in the interest of certain stations. mis suited uie class because It re sulted to their benefit, and it suited the railroads because the over charges would he continued upon 95 per cant of uie patrons arter this measure became the law. Just the same as before. The class In the legislature that wanted something they could manipu late in their own favor Jumped onto the good measure and would not let It out of the committee, and at the same time they pulled for the weak measure and passed It. Now, whose fault Is it that we have the railway abuses In our state we have today? No one but the prominent citizens who will not consent to any measure looking to relief unless they get the lion's share of the relief. And just so long as our prominent and influential people keep up these tactics just so long our people will be slaves unless the humble people get wise enough to throw off these wiseacres .who always want more than their share. Just as long as the most prominent element in our state go into partner ship with those railroads and support a weak and Ineffective measure in con sideration of special favors for them selves we need not expect relief from oppression. If we could prevail upon the promi nent element to go back to real knight hood and tie wining to piay a rair game and accept a square dal and let a rail way commission law prevail that would result in the complete protection of the people the railway abuses so far as the state is concerned will cease once, and so long as these prominent people do not exhibit the first degree of knight hood and display their sordid commer cialism dispositions then wrong will prevail. We need not be much surprised at the railroads but some of us will be when this conspiracy against the people Is laid bare. Fifty million dollars has been taken from the citizens of the states of Ore gon and Washington In the last 10 years, much more than this no doubt,' and it has been taken through the con nivance of the officials and prominent railway- patrons or tnese states. Don't blame the railroads, blame the politicians and the people wtio employ politicians. The railroad is as helpless as a baby should the people all try to do that which is right. My opinion of the recent legislature is that about 80 per cent of them are honest, straight people but gullible, and 20 per cent were dishonest and crooked. Went In for special advantage and got It. We have plenty of power to make rates that will protect us and plenty of as surance from the courts that these rates will be sustained, but our political ma chine will not permit a law that will protect to go on our statutes. With regard to your observation of Harriman'a neglect to reinvest the pro- From tha Philadelphia North American. The Issue of total prohibition I bound to follow the fight for local op tion In aoine sections. Where sentiment In a community la strong enough to carry a local option election against the suloon lnterrsta, there la almost certain to be sentiment strong enough to force a cotiteat for complete, restriction. The moment that phase of the tern perance ijunatlun presents Itself It glvea rise to a cieoatable proposition. Argu ments worthy of consideration and re spect are offered against such an ex tension of the prohibition theory. The degree . to which it la practical and proper to abridge the Individual liberty of the cltlaen la a mutter that calls for careful thought. It Is a ipiestlon which tho North American doc a not mean to discuss today. The Philadelphia I.limor Itealera' as sociation has aeen fit to force another phase of the controversy upon our notice. We have no uarrel nor Ill-will toward these men. Wo question their wtadom In openly entering politics as an organised force. Hut we recognisi that their call for a cooneratlve stand against the spread of local option and prohibition sentiment is due to natural and thoroughly Intelligible Instinct of self-preservation. The fatal error thev make Is to alien ate and affront every self-respecting American cltlien, who miv be friendly or Indifferent toward the liquor traffic, but who Is bound to resent such an of ficial declaration as the following: I ir it were not for the revenue, that the saloons of this country are now I .aylng tho government, heaven only nows what would become of the tax payer. I he millions of dollars wo pour annually into tha nutlonal and state treasuries help to loner the tax rates and virtually support the communities To eliminate the s..hon would be to undermine the foundatlona of the coun try's revenues." This statement is at once an Inso lence and an untruth. The sanctuaries of this nation are pot built upon pillars made' of kess and barrels. Komcthlnic beslfles bottles stands between America und bankruptcy. 1 hese men have a right to ask for calm discussion of any fair argurrrant they may put forth against the aboli tion of the business jn which their money Is Invested and upon the con tinuance of which their livelihood de pends. They are entitled to that hear ing because their trad, as our statutes stand, la a legullied one, and the prlvl leges of every law-abiding cltlaen are theirs until altered laws put them Ifc'lthf.MI ft. A flHlA Hut they forfeit the privilege of tolerant treatment when they make the statement quoted. They had no rigni to make It. liecaiiau It Is untrue: ij cause they know It Is untrue; because it Is an offensive untruth to every en lightened cltlaen: because It Is a pulpa bla nnd vicious attempt to deaelve those Of win people wnu ma ihiiubh.":u with the real economic political ana in dustrlal conditions or the country. There are two sides to every nues tlon. The liquor Interests must have their riav In the court of nubile opinion Hut If this Is to be the basis of the structure of their defense, they are building upon a foundation of sand sure to be awept away-by the rising uue. It Is true that the revenues from the liquor traffic are large. 11 Is true inai taxation of their conimodltlea and their trade provides a considerable percentage of the coat or maintaining many rutin! v Hut they are taxed not for profit, but to strike an approximately even balance Kheet For huh Inst the Income thus pro vlded are debited the deaths, the crimes, the dlseaae and the loss of eamlni mli that are directly traceable to drunkennees throughout tin n.innlrv A look on both Sld.'S of til i...ii7r ! necesssrv before an account is closed. In every spot on earth Income from the liquor trarnc Is merely pun payment In recompense or tne gruaier annual cost charged against mo com rt. . i . 1 1 r v i.At tho lienor men come forward with fair, broad conatltutlonal iiuestlons along the line that Individual rights for self-help or seir-hsrm should not ie maimed by sumptuary legislation, l.et them assert that It Is the Inalienable rioi.f .f everv free-born American to shape his habits and choose his own pathway heavenward or hellward ac cording to his own desire, without legis lative gunrdlnnshlp Thereby they would open a debatable question. Hut If they wish to retain a single nUlased advocate, they will cease once and for all the utterance of such per nicious nonsense as their assumption that they support this government by a business which millions of their fellow-countrymen honestly believe to be a trarnc in souis. eeds of his Ill-gotten gains In new roads In Oregon, and admitting that this Investment for the people would have been better than a reduction In rates, 1 think this posKlon Is wrong. I know it Is. The present patrons of the U K. N. company are liable for a reason able tax for the service they get and no more, and these rates will be rea sonable when these people get Justice. To continue the present overcharge In consideration of the fHCt that the pro ceeds were to go Into a new line In Ore gon or elsewhere thnt would belong to llurrlman and his class, Is to consent to avery of our people for the benefit of another and Is in conflict with common w, public policy, common Justice and everything that Is right. As our people are to be kept In harness to build roads the people should own the roads thev build, and If the people are entitled to the present roads for a fair price then make the rates they are entitled to. I think It Is high time the people were understanding this simple proposition and quit compromising or offering to compromise for a few crumbs. Now, we can gather enough from this article to know what our remedy Is. The weakness of our remedy Is the weakness of our state. Will the people of Oregon exhll.lt Intelligence and knighthood combined enough to secure and extend justice? This Is the sticker. We mav not have rower to make Hnr- rlman tell what he has done with the money we have permitted him to take that he Is not entitled to, but we do have the power to prevent him taking It, and always have had. atul this Is much more important. Will we limit him or will we permit the present cor rupt political machine he is dividing with to keep us in slavery? Respect fully, F. W. GAINES. New Bridges. Portland, Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Journal Portland needs closer and better connection between the east side and west side of the river. That la apparent and has been for a number of years. We need five new bridges now that will be above all shipping In the harbor, or else three subways that will be beneath everything else. Mod ern engineering tends toward tunnel! rather than bridges as being cheaper in tho long run and fully as convenient Portland must be closer knit together with one or the other, or both The construction of better bridges will not affect other values aside from land to any appreciable extent. It will not make the labor or the material in a house cost more to have quicker and better communication and transporta tion. It will not add to the cost of the furniture In a home, nor to the supplies, because of less time being consumed in getting across the river. Hut lots will go up. In the vicinity of the new bridges entire streets will tako upward flights of prices that will make a home-seeker sniver. Franchises over the streets approach ing these new bridges will be valuable to street railway corporations, tor franchises mean the use of the land on which the rails are laid, the ex clusive right of way for each car as it passes, and this land the most valuable In the city. Pains should be taken to secure to the people the full value of these franchises and tne relinquish ment of unjust conditions and terms In older franchises obtained when tho peoplo were more helpless and less In formed than now. Some of these older franchises were obtained through ways that were dark and tricks that were anything but vain when the then only daily paper In the city was silent us to the grans. Mnuntlon of life after death In some sort of a hereafter. This Is a wrong conception. Immortality properly me.-ina quality of life that Is not subject to death at all. Immortality is not entered through death, but by translation as In the case of Elijah. The rici'l'le of the world are now In the state of mortality. None of them get out of the world alive. Senator In- galls or Kansas, in nis ramous wni--burg oration, said: "We are all under sentence of death. We are all con demned to die." This is true. We are all convicted criminals. And the mortal body at death enters what la called corruptible dissolution. It becomes food for worms. This Is not the way to Immortality. The Im mortals do not die at all. Their bodies do not pnss into corruptible dissolu tion, but are subject to the control of the mind and can be put on and off at will. That Is. the Immortals have power to materialize and dematcrlalUe their bodies, and thus to appear or disappear whenever and wherever they please. Jesus had this power after his resur rection and probably before, as we read of a disappearance once when the Jews were about to offer him violence. His body did not pass Into corruptible dis solution. He recovered his body from the tomb. His death was different from that of the mortal man. It was the re linquishment of a phase of mortality Inherited from his mother. It was a victory over death, not a surrender to it. There is no immortality, then, In death or after death. The spirits of the dead are not Immortal. If they were thev would not have died and would not be dead now. Hut Immortality In the highest sense Is promised to those who overcome that Is, to those who "keep the commandments," and get out of the world alive as Jesus did. and not go In the hole by the help of an under taker and a sexton. To overcome the last enemy, death, means to dispense with funerals and, of course, would give no encouragement to the business of undertakers and tombstone agents. J. L. JONES. Small Cjianga Mr. Bryan will donbtless assume that silence gives consent. Poultry dealers seem to have quite a stock of confidence yet, Rut there Is one kind of courting that no holidays can prevent. These nre the sort of holidays when most people don't cut turkeys. Can't Miss or Mrs. Wood understand that with an old man It can't always bo Mae? Credit men held a meeting at Indian apolis lately. What a lot they must have had to say. The Japs sny all they want Is equal privileges with Americana. But most of us cun t get 'em ourselves. Nobody has yet attempted to discover or estimate how inu'-h graft there was in digging those canals on Mars. It must be harder walking for old man Weaton now than It was 40 years ugo on one account automobiles. Taking off the motto suits some peo ple; they wouldn't trust even the Al mighty, If he were running a bank. "Look out for had money," advlars an exchange Hut most people are busy enough looking out for good money. Emperor William is the grandfather of another son. As u grandfather ho Is getting away ahead of President Roosevelt. It was reported that nrlcea of neces saries were coming down, but It Is sus pected tout they have been throwing out ballast. Fortunately the stringency will be about over before congress gets H chance to make a worse muddle of the currency system. If Roosevelt becomes King Theodore I. Prof. Drake would, of course, expect to be the first duke. Day might have to begin as a bart. A man has written a book entitled. 'How to Invest Your Ssvlng." If ho sells enough of them he will be able to prove that he gave good advice for himself. bridges, but they should not permit their public servants to give too much for them. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, is making its streetcar combine come to three cents fare, and when Tom Johnson has entirely won out In that contest and compelled the corporation that has defied and flouted the law and skinned tha people of their nlckles even as other streetcar combines In other cities are doing, there will pos sibly be something doing In Portland along the same lines. The People of Portland nave in The Journal a paper that is not going to stand Dy In silent contemplation of the stars while any sort of hlghwaymanship is being played on them. The bridges can be built nnd the value of the franchises will pay for them in a few years If collected by the public servants for the public purse. Perhaps we will by that time be sensible enough to enact tax laws whereby a part, at least, of the annual "unearned Increment" of the real es tate values also created by the bridges will flow Into tho public treasury. Meanwhile let us keep our eyes skinned, and not permit some syndicate of Lon don or Philadelphia capitalists to be given three bridges and 30 or 40 miles of streetcar franchises for nothing, or for half-price. If those bridges are built by the peo ple of Portland the peoplo of Portland can build streetcar lines over them, If necessary. And let our public servants bear In mind that the recall will bo In operation next June. With that and the Initiative the people can make !t lively for any combine that under takes p "do" them as they have been "done" In the good old times not so very long ago, as It were. FRED C. DENTON. Prof. James, of Harvard, ssys tho purpose of the higher education of wo man Is to teach her to know a good man. Rut when Jove comes In, educa tion skldoos. It Is to be hoped that Mao Wood will keep Senator Piatt's mind so occupied that he will not have much time 4o de- ote to Jobs to protect the express companies' graft. If som person not famous. Instead of Klplintr, had written, as (i line of a great po.-m. "The tumult fi'id the shouting dies." he would have been told to go to a grammar school. President Hanson, of the Ceorgia Central railroad says he would not veto for President Roosevelt for ilog-cntcher. Still. If he would have. that office, ho would no doubt be a good one. Since the motto. "In Cod We Trust." Is only on tne larger coins, perhaps tho president thought the other kinds of money, thai are Just ns pood as old. were being unfairly discriminated against. Edward Payson Weston, the old m;in who Is repeating his walking trip from Rnstnn to Chicago after 40 vears. spends an average of $10 a mile, or $50 a dav. He Is a pedestrian traveler, but no hobo Perhaps the only salvation for tho girl who spells her dog's name "Phldeau" Is to marry her to somo husky laboring man with a warm tem per a large, varied appetite and a will of his own. A New York woman stood In line for 14 hours durlnir a run on a bank, only to learn when she reached the paying window that she hd overdrawn her ac count. And vou can bet that she was In no humor to pay the balance. Birthday of Frederick Weyerhaeuser Frederick Weyerhaeuser, the cnor mously wealthy lumber king of the northwest, was born in Nleder Sapl helm, Germany, November 21, 1834. He emigrated to the I'nited States in 18 and four years later located In Coal Valley, Illinois, where he engaged In tho lumber and grain business. In 1860 he began sawmill operations at Rock Island. In 1 SOI he removed to St. Paul to better direct his great lumber Inter ests and since that time he has contln tied to make the Minnesota capital his home. Mr. Weyerhaeuser is heavily In terested in other Industrial enterprises as well as engaged In various phases of the lumber and logging business, it has been reported that his wealth Is equal to. if it does not exceed, that of John D. Rockefeller. Mr. Weyerhaeuser owns vast timber tracts In Minnesota, Wis consln, Washington and Idaho, and through ownership or control is greatest single factor today In American timber field. tho the This Date in History. 1595 Sir John Hawkins, English nav igator, died at sea. Born 1520. 1699 Russia and Poland signed treaty of alliance against Sweden. 1736 British defeated the Spanish at battle of Porto Bello. 1789 North.. Carolina, the twelfth state, accepted the constitution. 1812 Fort Niagara uomDaraea Dy tne British. 1834 Mrs. Hetty Green born. 1836 George Vi1. Smith, president of The people of Portland want realColgate university, born. . Died Febru ary 8. 1900. 1X5 Pegu, a city or nurman, recap tured by the British and annexed to In dian empire. 1S62 General wimner aemnnnea tne surrender of Fredericksburg, Virginia. 1873 Pope Pius IX Issued encyclical letter against "Old Catholics." 1886 Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of the phonograph. 1890 Members or tne Mana indicted atlNew Orleans for the assassination of Chief of Police Hennessy. The Real Immortality. Corvallls, Or., Nov. 17. To the Editor of The Journal Before discussing the subject of Immortality it Is better to get a definition of what the word means. It la commonly supposed to mean con- AVImt Is Xeeded. From the La Grande Observer. William M. Ladd did a heroic act at a most opportune time in guaran teeing the depositors in the Title Guarantee & Trust company againit loss. This will do much to restore general confidence In Portland and will have a beneficial effect throughout the state. Now. if the railroads would come to the rescue of our sawmills and give them a rate that would permit them to enter remunerative markets, they would all be reassembling their crews, the now silent whistle would again be calling the craft from labor to refreshments and as the east Is shipping back to the west the money borrowed, it would only be a few weeks until General Prosperity would resume command, and the last few days would be only an incident or siock specula-, tion that possibly got just a little be yond the control of manipulators. Wall Street Alarms. From the Kansas City Times. A farmer once owned a mule which kept him continually nervous by prick ing up Its ears as If in Immediate prep aration to Jump over the traces. Finally, to get rid of these symptoms of mlsT chlef which never materialised, the. farmer cut off the mule's ears. "The beartn's of this observation lays In the application on It" with. Wall street which has become little more than a false alarm In Us propensity to Indicate bad times wltb no sufficient reason. . , . . i - O 1 1 . 1 . wrcgon Diaeiignts Several Athena farmers are riding about In new automobiles. The lid Is on in Antelope! Picture It! Think of It! Can It be possible? says the Herold. The cut In wages at tho Booth-Kelly mill has been tho cause for the Spring field merchants reducing the prices on groceries during the past week. A man had a nard fight. In which he was somewhat Injured, with a deer in the heart of Pendleton. It was a pet belonging to a resident, but vicious at times, as tame deer are apt to be. A railroad survey listed from Klamath Falls ng l s To I.akevlew, he Examiner predicts that I.akevlew will become "the most important city In Interior Oregon." R. D. Hume, of Curry county, has a dredge at work In the American river which he thinks will lift out and sepa rate the gold In the black sand or Rogue river and along tho coast, some thing which many have unsuccessfully tried. A "shooting star" exploded In mid air one evening recentlv Just west of Prlne vllle. says the Review. There were three explosions In less than a second. after the stylo of tho most expensive skyrocket, only on a much grsnder scale, showing nil the colors of the rain bow before disappearing Into the night. The inbound stage has been late at the terminus. Joseph, but twlfe in flvo years and the outbound stage has missed the train nt Elgin but once In flvo years, and that time was duo to, a breakdown. This Is a record that bents any railroad, says the News-Record, and is in Drlgnt contrast in uie wean ami tired train that tries to make a daily trip from La Grande to Elgin. A Eugene man, according to the Register, had killed a deer, also a bear that he had trnnped, and was trudging along about dusk carrying a deer's head and some other plunder on a heavy stick over his shoulder, when a mon ster cougar lumped squarely -on top of him from a bank. He fought vigorous ly with his club, and got away unhurt, but the cougar got some supper. Stockmen from more than 150 miles north and east of here, and many from 20 to 60 and 75 miles both west and south get the bulk of their supplies in Lakeview, says the Examiner. Not a day has passed for several weeks that has not seen from one to half a dozen two, four and six-oorse teams -ioadlng provisions at our stores for the' var ious stock- ranches, where from three to twentv men are kept. Silver Lake correspondence of the Lakeview Herald: The orchardists of Lake county are harvesting the blggest apple crop In the history of the coun ty. In one orchard, at Summer Lake, a barrel of apples was picked from one limb. Many trees will be damaged by the breaking off of limbs under the heavy load of fruit. The apples are of the firirHrt quality. People from 100 miles r.roiind are getting their apples at Summer Lake. " The crop Is so large that many will spoil on the owners' hands. Many of the fruitgrowers of this fertile county are setting out hun dreds of young trees, preparing for the advent of a railroad; when fruitgrowing here will be a profitable business. A p- . pies, peaches, pears, apricots, pruneg-C and all berries produce luxuriantly her. !