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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
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TAXING THE 81'RI'LUS.
A CRUCIAL CASE.
WHICH IS YELLOW?
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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. . ,
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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. !