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Newspaper Page Textifilll VAI-Mtnf THE JOURNAL AM tXDSPCNDKKT v KCWSPirCK. C. . JACKMON... .... ..PsblM -BtillJ arm? attain tat dart arj Sunday Smralna, at The- Journal Ballil Inc Plflk a ad Yamhill atfMta. Portia ad. Or. Icy bestowed the party would scare-1 Clonal afrairs the breaking from ly have had an , excuse , for lta ex-J old party linea and the election of lstence. ? v, .... I men whom the people ran trust to We are not discussing herein I do their will. Oregon will probably whether this principle and policy are continue to be classed as a Republi manaments'as something newly die-1 field distinctively their own. The covered by ; him yet he seems on J Institution at Corvallla has little la some , occasions to have filled out I common with' the high school aye- me measure or a great man. . Only terns. . ta line of instruction aa con- tne lapse of time will give ua, or Jtemplated by congress, la in a dlf- Immumtjr foi Boa's Ruef - A S e m i ermon tor loa ay. From' the San Francisco. Chronicle. , It wlir probably be soma years be for K miMI. m liru will MnaMtr (ha wise and good or not, only the plain I can state, for some time to come atlour descendants, a true perspective If erent field, lit is not a university I rraft trials in this city in the liirht of ! historic fact that such has been the! least, but the day is past when it I of him. Even then he may remain I In the commonly accented nso . nf reason instead of passion, and yet tha 1 11 1 1 1 n n.a tin. hmIrIa" ,KA DAtiHh- I Ka it ..,... M t11M.il. I - 1. . A - . . . I 1L.. A . r -. , I m I n M I- Mil to. tatarad at tba aaatafflm at Port la ad. Or., for I w"-7 " -iyiw u iwmic v , w waaiw via . iv mv unuui i ouuicwuai Oi a mystery. , ' ,' 1 ' I UJSl term. . JIB entrance reOUire- I "" suocras ui nun an ctropi" --- traaaoiaaioa urwi u Baiia aa aaouadua iiCAn party from the time of Lin i for the nominees of that party aim-1. . v- . .f .Intents should not ha mai. flshment, whlchla now generally con- ooln to the time of Roosevelt. Bvervlnlv because thev so on tho Renuhll-1 ....-.. . ' I with -.,... in- . aw. iT-ceded, la too serloue to bo suffered to Pnh,t,. -l.rMrm he. doHaroA rVn tlck.r -T nh.'mh.rl.ln . w.. .Ml r""'. .P" . """T " I " , eT:':: P Without comment ; , f . v A I ' career win , ce ine oreaatng wua to maae f Abraham Ruef la the most utterly de. " " .yi.v.. a"- i non or nartv iinna tntiii i i . uunci an.. . xam aiza scnooi la I , ki- .. r.t. aiattat. , v' ' HCUCfHONKS MAIN TITS. BOMK. a 9U6L ' AD arpaKaaata ivarfcad bf teaaa eaBbara. fall ta oparatnr the daparimaat yoa waat roaaioN aoviitisino aspatasNTATiva VrralaadB has stood for It Even Blaine was gon have faith in hla ' aonety. '.. hto occurred during hls admlnistratlon PWtly cultural; the land grant col- tened on the spoils tf. an American aia-B.Bj.n.1. Bpart.i Adwrtwna Ae.r. proiecwonisi, mougn u iui.auw .uun uu uu.wytuiy iir imer- for w thiak anlg i, occr-in. As I'e " waustrlal. The latter's Held dir. -There have beea.more bruial po- T OmnT oJiV 1 IV8 100 r w ryaa Bryan deilghts to assert. Roosevelt w to the people, and should be y, ' The Sense of the Infinite. . ' """Hr cope.' . jt "Thou are near. 6 Lord, and thy cornel manamenu are truth." Pa., cxl:l. i NB doea not have to believe W the same kind of a god as did the seera and alngera of long ago In order to obUIn the spiritual val- uea .which tbey found In tho thought of his ne&rneea to them. David and Browning. Jsalah and. Whlttler, , with all the centurlea between them, . 0' , BabaertBttaa Taraa b mall to tar addfaaa ' It Ue Uailad SUtaa, Canada at Malic. " . DAILY. On rar..,.....S.o) I )na aMotb I M , . SUNDAY. Oa rear. I Oar month I .1 ., DAILY AND 80NOAY. f)D fear ST.&0 I Oca awntk I .88 Every man shall receive his own reward' according to his own laborPaul to the Cor inthians. ' ' , y.'. Jf.' ,lr, .. , dent over six years and baa never ut tered an official word against the theory of protection. The Republican party has always been, since 1860, the party of pro tection. It is so yet, so far as any body knows. It la , safe to predict that It will so declare next summer. And this Is really 'the "paramount issue," because the protective tariff fosters and supports the trusts. Every graft and abuse are directly connected with It, or are in touch TUEOOUXTRT NEWSPAPER MAN I with It , . ,-. - ; i The Oregoniaa has stood ably and T USED to be pathetic to be a forcibly about three fourths of the - I country newspaper man. It time against protection. It t has J should 'not have been bo, but it therefore stood against the Repub . was.. , He was a sort of commu- Hcan party's pet "principle" and pol nlty football that everybody took the icy. Tet it has alwaya, or nearly liberty to ; kick. He waa half alwaya, aupported Republican can atarved and looked it. Hla clrculat- dldatea for office. We are not crit lng medium waa wood, potatoes and lclalng it for doing thla. Such was cabbages. ; If dollar In cash was surely Its privilege. But It fails to paid him ft was looked upon by the explain, and always will fall to ex- payer as something given for noth-J plain, why It classes Itself as a Re- ing. e naa iicue priae in nis dusi ness, lesa ' In , hla position, and the community took him at his own esti mate. ' He was In debt to almost everybody, all owed him, and neither paid with regularity nor fidelity. Mostly they sever paid at alL .HIs supply, of , paper came from the dealer C. Q. D., and an issue of the newspaper waa late or. missed alto gether because he v could' not raiae President Roosevelt has been presi-1 la the Democratic nominee for presi dent he will receive a vote in thla 'state that will confound and amaze bis opponents. . ' The action of the state central committee will undoubtedly meet with the strongest approval from Democrats of Oregon. - . ,. t , .a THE ASSASSINATION OF DOLPH. la to a great extent a Democrat; he P within their, easy, reach.. The baa advocated several things' that grown up iaa rrom the rural district I Where . there is no" hlch arhnni .np plea" or matters of policy by the hrh0Be Poverty baa kept him out of iMS't.'tSwo?. "nTue'f wlThSvi ble to dlacover on redeeming He begin life very well-to-do tint Arm.mn in irnhharv hv tha Bryan. Indeed,, If Roosevelt would nooi. snooia have, and has at Cor- i'f 5,vrKt,,,,H? u J?0,1 "nIji . . 'j. m a i l ta ilia a niaxa vkara h. i ..i. I ' " . tumo uuw ( itrur wi senuins, vuur- i r - e nam- came to the proresslon of law,' not from I approaching ahame, I elements or ReDUblican : Dartv. but : are rather acnooi. ana wnp, on account of m oen unaoie to discover one professions of such Democrats as would not consent to enter hlgb 1 2nd w.a mt d'ra'wn tobSerT atlll' coma ta tha aima thn,hta lltlcal bosses who, grew up from ,a I know .that thou art near. ' y . brutal environment, but they all oven Throuah all area and in all rnr.i. MIA..l ...... A .4 iLI I..." .. " r a wcnur uwnvr UJiuium 01 Bnyining i tfti. a.naa of that whlnh la nthmr than' a. aa w .. i iimi lis Liiniii a f i ii a s . .... ... human' -aympathy Thev I ourselves, rrom wnicn bur Wghest good, vuuia. lowaru iroicn cor luemia ana plratlonh strain, the ultimate force of our being, this feeling after the Infinite la. universal. It la the. essential and determinative mark of every religion. When those alngera of, long ago tried OUKh tariff revision, a tariff .for rev- lnK 'or his avocation, and Into which I tn lunjs, but from the etblc-el environ- to express their sense of tha Infinite 9 I.. 1- ... . I m tl AW I1M ltrlal II dFa .. . Ttt A MA la n I IIS. A ak. a . a.. k E' ment or unlveraitf lire. Ther la no ioa na no reaaoo ior whlnh ha. cannot at a. t a or sufficient Democratic candidate. 1 of vital Importance and a noble Th.r, i. no WnVtmmSSm or official exemplar. He la not aa I misBion. inis is wiaeiy proviaea for inn ' mapireuon nis uueuecc ooea in the new couraea at Corvallla. and MrKai rfiees rrXTO suta! wm it la well. , i 1 . !! city, false to his party, falae to Thm taniAn it,. . asaociatea, false to evtrr man -who The tendency Of the time, IS to I ever truated him. and aolely for thei provide In education a avstem of in-1 P'l'T'oa or indulging the ignoble in- " ... . . . .. . . li. ' .Ij. .. . ... I ment of unlvaralt Ufa.. enue only, which It la believed he vr Wl" noi prevent Tiia enter- orincinie of ethios T and r. ii m i v. a a - J t In Ta Aari m A tkl. aU. I Amr-mnf MtmliiA ivihlArt ka TJ3 17x17 wit w tv tvu i..Ma m I rxou lavurs, wouic mats m iwa 4 v " . viasai i "r';rrj:'T"v" 1 - " - - WMV HII T. R. Coon of Hood River glvea hla version Of the political butchery at Salem of the late Senator Dolph. It is a defense of his part In that mournful transac tion. It la probably an honest statement and in the destruction of Mr. Dolph Mr. . Coon may have been the range of possibilities that he will numaa lue must oe ed by honest motives. be forced to become the Republican u';. ,lu rfurm"n" far away from Bryan aa he Is from Lodge or Fairbanks. ' It Is possible .that Roosevelt's service as president will not nd on March 4 next year, it la yet within atructlon ao long drawn out. that too i?t&rpil?tp WW '7 Vow'htt ZUS&V2 many yeara of a human life must be publican paper" while opposing part of the tlme--the very life and breath of. that party. guided Mr. Coon says Senator Dolph was a "corporation" senator. . That la what they say about most senators. They said it about Senator Mitchell. His alleged connection " with the Southern Pacific was notorious. They say It about Senator Pulton. candidate, though we do not expect this to happen.. And It Is quite pos sible, too, that be may become a candidate in lilt, or, more likely, in 1916; for he would then be only about S 8 years old. ; . Opinions of Roosevelt differ very widely, and will do so for a genera- THE OLD STORY. can. rHE THEORY of affinities re ceived a body blow In the mournful fate of Bessie Ham mond. She was the moBt beau tiful girl in ' all Nevada. She was the money to get his news from the! engaged to be married to a prosper- express office.--Because the editor ous young business .man -of Reno. was cheap and his newspaper cheap Two months ago she met a saloon . his patrons thought his advertising keeper named Conlee whom she con of little value and paid accordingly, celved to be her affinity. From that His printers got their pay piecemeal, time the wreck of her life moved if they, got It at all, and the road (Quickly to its tragic end. Over the did the expectation of the great they traveled, was about as rocky ai I objections of her parents ahe per-1 body of the people of Oregon that that of their ,', ' pathetic employer, slsted in her demotion , to Conlee, Mr. Dolph would be elected bind. Subscribers received and read the leaving home to take a stenographic Nor did the demand of moat of the paper regularly and at the end of position at Ogden. ' There a faith- Republican newspapers that he be half a dotep. or a dozen years refused ful mother followed and waa prepar- elected bind. Nor did the dictates longer to take, It out ..of. the post- ing to take her to California, when of the calm judgment of good men office or' to pay for lti. Their usual the 'girl slipped away and married in. and out of the legislature as to excuse waa that they had never aub-1 Conlee. A month later, Conlee as-1 what waa for the best interests of They cite hla opposition to the orig inal Roosevelt rate bill in proof. But Itlon. but on one point all can agree. was Senator Dolph a corporation I that he is a very interesting Amerl- aenator? If ao, what waa hla re ward? He entered the senate worth naif a minion. He died a compara tively poor man. If a corporation- ist why did he not wax rich like Piatt, Quay, Bailey, Aid rich and the othere? A PLAIN WARNING. exacted tn -order to attain final preparation for life work. The need for a plan whereby those unable by lack: of means to devote so much time to it, can plunge Quickly Into securing ' that training valuable to them In their Avocations, is manifest .' Better : than all, however, : in the changes at Corvallla Is the Intensifi cation of the industrial features, throughout the collegiate courses, and ; the opportunity for specializa tion. Men better skilled In agrlcul- to-wind up thla chapter of bis f."0'2rPhl41No man I ptlble life by an or to betray '' n tf- ' The 5 all of his aesoclatea in his In- ?" nd everywl ready contem any an numeraire crimes ' to save . hla own worthleaa carcase from state's prison. ' Thla nt Ruef, years ago, while pre tending o dealre nothing so much aa the"purlflCQtlon- of the politics of thla state end city, eeid profenslng o be willing to devote all hla time and on doubted tslents to that -end, -began de liberately and euceeaef ullv to organise and build up the moat effective machine for the plunder of an unfortunate city that ancient or. modern history dis close H ' fomented human passion that he might prolt by the deatructlon it wrougnt. rie promoted the lowest forma of . vice that he, too penurious, "a rviu-muwpa u : naivv any vice might thrive on the blackmail which ha levied. He deliberately ,- infected the masse of the people with the desire Mr. Coon aaya the caucua that nominated Mr. Dolph for senator was not binding. Manifestly, it did not bind. That la the ahame of it Nor did the claims of illustrious service for a just reward bind. Nor A' tural, mffilug, mechanical aad elec- for-UUclt gain that .their Jove for die-1 man. life and love they thought only of some being larger, mightier, wiser than them selves,' a great man deified because be was . great'' Perhaps that really was their conception; still. We use precisely the same language, even though- our Ideaa are entirely different - -: It. makes relatively little difference what their conceptions were, so far aa ours are concerned. Their word are not accurate, detailed pen pictures of oe oeaoriDea o has aeen tho is great thins i where man find themeelveo with a huniar after thla sublime unseen- . - . . . , One may uae term of personality and another terms of power; to one the in finite may be but a local deity: to an other, that which embraces all spirit and being, and each may have all of tho oivine hla heart la capable of eontaln ing. .Hero none , may dogmatise f0f Ulnars. ' . .x - Bellgton does not depend on uniform ity of conceptions of the divine. It de pends more upon universality of com sclouanesa of tho infinite and openness of mind, and life to whatever we may feel and know, from any- source or throuah any means whataoavar of tha: Ufa or energy which ilea back of all life and energy, of Mat love and light which cheer and lighten every son of N EFFORT is being, made m Weal engineering and women more K him whM Michigan to enact an Initiative I poffoctly prepared In household arts honest dollars. And when, by the votes honeet dollars might lead them to sup- I .. Definitions determine nothing, bat J . mnst rnlt. and !t will hftln trt in- ?f . community completely-debauched anieuumeni iq ih consiuuiion, i - - w Dy nis mscninationa, I J.. A.fT,fX A 1 1 a Aa&M I . M ' a. but of course the. machine pol iticians and officeholders are against it, and, also of course, the liquor In terests are against it. They pol iticians and liquor dealers, not all, but the majority of them dread to aee the people take the power of legislating directly Into their own handa, Instead of leaving public af fairs to a so-called representative legislature. Discussing this mat ter the Detroit News says: duatriaiize Industrial Oregon. " BRYAN'S STRAIGHT TALK. or-decelved hv hla pretenses 01 - patriotism, ne nad Con structed a government in which not one soul Id any place of influence was not utterly rotten, he then waa in a position to. snd did, compel every man who bad business with the city to stand and de liver, noming coum oe got rrom tne city good or bad. proper or Improper, lawful or unlawful, without tribute being paid to Ruef. .' Not a - hundredth Of his desire to become a can- Part of the villainies perpetrated under AIA. -.-t. ...fn fc.v "" "woira mjobco. or ever uiuaw aw, vivaiuvu, ft.t vu i win n. H'inaiiv in .rnwn trtm inr.mv makes it very clear that he does not I of his infamous life, when his city wassu"ff cannot compaaa. M R. BRYAN certainly cannot be I accused of a lack of candor. He not only makes no secret they do work great damage when minda capaDio or Doing stereotyped to them agree to Impoae those definitions on their fellows as final, authoritative, and easentlal to their welfare.- Tho divine la neither mrinite nor sublime when you can say. Hero are his lineaments and ho has no other likeness or appearance. -To the queatlon. How shall we think of the dlvlneT there can be but one an swerin higher, wider, deeper, nobler, purer ways than yeeterday. The con ception muat bo a developing One. A man's spiritual capacities develop as his inner vision becomes more keen. Tho soul takes wider. flight, and in our deep uiouggia w discover , vaat wnica lan- ests that are laboring to crush the in! tlative as applied to constitutional scribed., 1 1t , was ,a dismal business, I saulted. and beat her on the street, Oregon bind. Nor eUd the ante-elec- powerful interest is using every means done In a T dismal atmosphere, be-land she went to live with a drug tlon (assurances given to their con- known to privilege or monopoly to pre- cause there waa nothing business-1 clerk at Salt Lake.' He was unable stitutents by many men In that leg- vent the people of Michigan from ini like about it ' . . v:': , , to support her, and 10 days ago she islature bind. Nothing was,., bind- i But It Is a different era now. The was driven to the last Btep and be- ing. Nothing bound that legislature old type, of newspaper man has been came an outcast After an evening or will ever bind any legislature but laid away tn th churchyard The of mad frivolity , a few days later, the cold black Ink of the ' leglsla- story of him and bis passing is the I surrounded by pictures of herself as tor's signature to Statement No. 1, short and simple annals of the poor. I a: child, she turned on the gas, and land that Is the inexorable logic of He was harmless because - he was her 18 years of life came to an end. Mr. Coon's article and the Dolph as- helDle8S. On his ruins there , is a I With her life she paid the forfeit sasslnatlon txpect or seek the support Of a cer- which aroused the sympathies of man tain element of the Democratic party, kind as thev were never aroused before. ResDondlnx in hia oaocr to the con- n Conspicuous. among the special inter- tinned assaults on him by the New I of relief by public oorporatlona ejt- York World, he aaya: greater .scale than ever. . Uia an inanit tn the Inteiiirence of I . And this Is ttie degraded being whom js an insult to tne intelligence tWe prosecution Tropostss'to turnJooee ine party 10 umy jnm nnj man ur wi i new. and higher type. - He haa the of a mythical affinity. hard head of the business man and ' It la a story so old and so mourn the thrifty bent of the , successful ful that it seems all young girls man. ' Potatoes and cabbases have should have learned It. The passing been ! kicked f from ; his subscription fancy of Inexperienced youth is a list and the , non-paying advertiser dangerous counsellor. The safe and from his columns. - His conception sure guide for a daughter Is that than -all, was there not one solitary of his newspaper Is that It Is a mother whose life of toll, anxiety boss or politician interested in property, and he correctly estimates nd devotion are freely given for the George McBrlde, himself the prince himself as a factor In the commu-1 child's happiness. That happiness of politicians? How about the nity. He looks upon himself as a I and the way to assure it are the sub-1 stream of Oregon state officehold Mr. Coon says Mr. Dolph waa the candidate of the bosses and politi cians. He is grievously mistaken. Were there no polltlcans back of Mr. Fulton In that fight? Did none support Mr. Tongue?. And, stranger Mating amendments to their own consti tution. The brewery, distillery and sa loon Interests will stand between the people of Michigan and the formulation of their fundamental law, if enough men can be found in the constitutional con vention who will prove amenable to their power. Wise counsel should impel the brew cry Interests to keep their Tiand off. Hands off this attempt on .the part of the people to regain control of the lib erty to frame their own fundamental law without the interference of the leg islature, or a fate wlll .be written for you which will parallel In every respect the fate of the liquor Interests In" Geor gia nnd Kentucky. , . . This is really a friendly word, of warning. Even assuming that the liquor business is one of such magni tude' and importance that It should of men could, for selfish or clique rea sons, dictate the course of the party in 190S. Certainly . Democrats learned something in the experiences of 1904 when the New York World and the spe cial interests it represents had their way, so' far as concerns convention re sults. Dem6crats know, too, that at this time when the American people are demanding relief from trust Impo sition the candidate and the platform must be representative of the interests of tho masses. They know, too, that the American people could no more de pend upon a presidential candidate chosen by the special interests and the representatives of the special Interests that seek to control Democratic conven tions any more than they could depend upon a presidential candidate named by the Republican, convention at the behest of the great corporations. No cno will contend, publicly, that the public welfare should not be of para mount importance in uie framing of a upon society to .recommence his career of villainy in the hope that by hla testi mony, which no Jury is likely to believe, it may succeed In convlctlna one or two men who, however guilty they may be. are white-robed and spotless angels of ii nil hb cumprea wrai ana me rotten controlled. There are those who think thev muat bo atneista because lhey cannot believe in the God of the Hebrews, the God of tne Old Testament a limited personal ity. But tho genuine atheists are more likely to be those who are without a sense of tho divine, because they have taken definitions and descriptions pre-1 rarea oy oiners insteaa or seeking trutn iqt laemscives. . We are but ooor learners of those an cient teachers if we have not discovered tnat their greatest lesson to us 1 not trutn, out tne biessin or tho oe search after truth. To cherish as final Abraham Ruef roustabouts whom he erslstent I final to be H ymns to Kn ow The Present Good. " By John Oreenleaf Whlttler. We have Juat celebrated the centen nial of the birth Of the Quaker poet whose gentle, kindly thoughts are be coming more and mora tho common possession of alL We sing his words in our hymns and repeat again the simple articles of his poetically expressed faith to a degree that would have seemed Impossible to that leas tolerant day In which he lived. This hymn is often sung to -the inmreaslv tuna ."Hamburg' . O, sometimes gleams upon our slcht. eternal pi false to Its nresent oosslbilltlea. Wo do not need to worry over defini tions of the divine. We do'tieed to cul tivate the temper of mind and tho sensi tiveness or spirit tnat -riu save us from blindness to tho higher facts of- life, that will save us, from the blasting whirlwind of materialism, with -Its sense of nothing but a soulless world of things. we need to avoid tne mind that shots the .divine up In some far off heaven to be reached only hv formal telenhon-r called prayer; that falls to see tho In finite in all things In sunlight and flower, in children's laughter, and In misery's wail, in factories and store, as weu as in cnurcneo. w need the mind, that argues .not about omnipresence, but In duty and delight cries. Always and everywhere thou art near. , . Sentence Sermons Through present ngnt; wrong . tho necessity in society, or If he doesn't Ject of countless nights of weary and others that treked In and out lie ought to'.' He has, or la prepar- "flail and tolling daya of anxious con- of Secretary McBride's office from no be 'wiped. out ' existence or sup-1 platform and in the naming of a candu- wid!ie?hytJ - ,i..n .a -1.1 -, i. loam ttr tha nai-anf Tfcia naoiia ti., th. . I tfressed. that business will An well I date. . No one will denv. nnhiiriv that w eMn" "aay gain or man. . . iut, ,vi(iuiuauuu auu UJ nyiii-1 , - -""' i mu iuw wutui uren uuui I ' .. 1 ! , ' cation of common sense, to fix an adequate- price, on what service - he renders, and by that token is lay ing the. foundation ' for an honorable and remunerative career,. He has, by his newspaper support of them, made places, . power and wealth ' for selfish . politicians, but haa wisely foresworn sthat .empty .martyrdom and determined to . think more of number I . The country ... newspaper has -its Important mission. The Hammond failed to realize, and the price became a tragedy. OREGON AND BRYAN. I as holy midnight of that last dav. I when Mr. McBride's. name was flung spectacularly into the arena? IWho plotfed that coup, a coup that had been foreshadowed for days, If ! In its own Interest, to keep Its hands as much as possible off of legislation and the conduct of public affairs. The great majority of the people are unfriendly to the saloon. . This the masses, rather than tho ' classes, That ' all of good the past hath had should rule. No one will say. publioly, I emaina to maao our own time glad, th.t .h. -h-.,i ....V jr. Our common, dally life divine And every land. a Palestine. that the party should submit to dicta tion. But in popular government skimmed milk sometimes masquerades Pr0"11 th harsh noises i of ' our day, as cream," and sometimes tho most net the most consummate of the 1 18 no a -neor7 or. a vague idea, or a abject toola of monopolies pretend an newspaper man has, or should have. his Important place. It should be a place pf honor aid influence. It is, or, will be; if his mind is kept whetted, hla business kept business-! N ENDORSING the candidacy of W. J. Bryan for president the Democratic state central com mlttee has undoubtedly voiced the sentiment of the party In this state. Bryan's strength in the west grows more apparent with each country week that Passe8 and tenB of thou- politics. He never had a political People, the majority, do , not like the ReHcan Party will nominate La of bosses . and politicians? Dolph heralded as a creature of politicians is grotesque. As a pol itician he was as helpless as an ln I fant He was as Ignorant as a mummy of the ways and wiles of piece Of philosophy, but a fact, pat-1 anxiety for the publid good and hide ent to every observer of affairs. Tbevl1 Purposes by patriotio pretensions. saloon -must; keep itself out of pol- TnJs ,8 sood, straight talk, but itlcs, or.lt is doomed, td destruction. has tne Democratic party a monop- There are many personably likable 01 . ne vina 01 patriotism which men in the liquor business, but the Mr- Bryan preaches? Perhaps the low.- sweet prelude finds Its wa I xnrougn clouds or doubt and creei rear.- . i -. I A light is breaking calm' and clear. '. ... ,, , , . ,. ... ...... .j Henceforth my heart shall sigh no more For olden time and holier snore: God's love and blessing, then. and there. Are now and here and everywhere. machine and never sought one. He did not scour the political slums for sands of voters who cast their ballots for Theodore Roosevelt four years 1 . j 1 1 1 . . 1 . . . 1 KU "m wrnu mo opportunity to hjejers and strikers. It was as lm- vote ior uryan next wovemoer, look- nosaible for him to mak rommnn idb upon mm as we natural repre- cauBa with rlnestera as for nil and 1 1V and hla Aims and concention "enlaT lne principles ana poll- wtor to mix. If h had fmilfa thv T w I u. wVi.u itA. hm.ua j I held uWalteringly high. When the ""'"j L1""' "uusul w euuorse were not the fu of dishonor and country ?. newspaper men meet, aa M? 1904 "The movement in favor of compromise. His name, public and they have met In Portland this week, "an is iasi assuming me propor- prlvate, untarnished by a single and Wtch their ima to higher ideal "uu" U1 lcai' upu"- upueavai. breath of Bcahdal, is proof of that they are building -firmly and well wh Roosevelt out of the field, no what a name to leave In Oregon . a m A ... I TTIHTI . TRI TT1 OT1 T , riTl f fl T fir T fl A n.OOI. I .1 . . . for tnemseivos ana - ior uregon. - - .-" comparea 10 mai or some or our aency Das bo Birong a noia on tne more recent officialdom! How ut- nuecuon ana me connaence 01 me terlv iintust to .c'lte his nam a. a American people as W. J. Bryan, creatdre of politicians In the samei jjespue nis past oeieats ne is toaay breath with the illustrious gentle- trafflo and Its consequences. And they are going to do their own leg islating more and -more. Follette for president, or " insist on Roosevelt remaining in office. O. A. C. This Date In Hiatory. 154J Francis II of France born. Died December 6, I860.. . 17S 4 Wilkes expelled V from ... tha house pf commons. " .. " , 1795 Insurrection Jn ; the . island of Granada. 1807 General Robert E. Lee born. Died October- 1Z. 1870, ; . 1809 Edgar Allan Foe, . American T HE JOUJtNAL views with satis faction the action of the board of regents of the state agricul tural; college. The' collegiate The Baker City Herald, a Repub lican . paper, remarks: "Certainly the Republicans are doing all In their writer, born. Died October. 7. 1849. tiower to remrlv InrlneMoi Annt. lsis sir tier.ry uessemer, invenror tlona. The bill to relieve all future into cast steel, born. Died March 15, embarrassment in financial circles, 8?g-, a ji- - THE BEfCBLlCAN PARTY AND PKOTECTION. IT 6 regon,an " Jorfty of his party and in every state gon's dismal lot to stand sponsor m , uieo tuivveu . ws 6"i yoiiiiu iu uuiuu xvepuuiicaus are turning I fQj-t of a column. The Star saidlto his standard. submitted by Senator Aldrich, the department ts to bd advanced one astute financier from Rhode Island, year, and its , industrial V phases In- i ample evidence of that fact. ; It is tenslfled. The , subfreshman ' year, to, this senator that both houses of which was In conflict with the high congress have looked from the first f leader, osaian Digma schools, Is to be abolished. For it l frame a measure that would ade and the present freshman , 'i year. 1 Quately meet the exigencies of the F. Sheolev. ., military governor of Louisiana in the civil war, born in Maine.- Died July 20, 1878. 1885 General Robert, E. Lee appoint ed commander-in-chief of ,the Confeder ate army.-' ... ,-. 1900 British captured the Dervlsn EPLYINGiTO the Gervais Star the choice of an overwhelming ma- man that it has of late been Ore- there 18 to D" substituted two years jBltuatlon." We suppose this Is sar- of elementary Industrial training. ; I casm, hut are not quite sure: -Per- The plan Is ideal for, conserving J naps we .are to, understand that with that the . Oregonian was not a con- It is true that Bryan is opposed eistent Republican paper 'because it by the powerful financial interests has steadfastly refused ' to, support of the eastern money centers, but in the very foundation ;,of - republican- the present temper of the country and Ism, protection." ;.The Oregonian' in in the light of the experiences of the rrply' seeks to show 'that.. 'protec: past three years, that Js an element tion" la not or was not originally a of strength, not of weakness. Wall cardinal tenet and principle of the street will not determine the choice Republican party. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT. T the needs of industrial Oregon. There is here an" undeveloped em pire. There is wealth in, the forests, HE FUTURE historian will have wealth in the fields, wealth In the an ; Interesting and perhaps a orchards, wealth hidden, away. in the i jhmmm i x.i . . . . I Knw. u . I Again come t: jaiiuoi Biuiviui auujwi iu ueai i iuiiiimmub u agjio-1 tress la Turkey. Famine prevails in Aldrich in charge of the national finances, we need not worry or ask questions. , '' Worth Saving. - Again come tidings of terrible dls- with Jn writing , of Theodore! Kate of wealth ; almost beyond pom-Iarf. sections and , people are literally Roosevelt He has-made and may putation. Trained men are needed iii&affirltttE yet mane some niBtory. ana at ores- w turn mis siorea weaitn into tne scenes, writes tnat ne -naa never known It goes, back to of the next president of these United ent cannot fullr ,or accurately avenues of production aadade. It Sor'Co been,nWne miS IS 56, but practically admits, farther States and the very fact that it op along, that In all its later career the poses a: candidate will give him Jlepublican party has stood for pro-(added Influence before the people. notion. ' . , The truth lei as the Gervais Star caid. that this has been the prime, 1 rinefpal and distinguishing feature i t the Republican jarty,rXtst ora- t . rs have continuously, persistently, f jr a generation, prated of "protec- i ! jn to American industry - and la- V . r." On . this idea 1 McKInley was t icm ejected;. h was the author of , cf i::e tarlS laws; Qn the ils ; riliicJpally,"; "the Republican t!ucs lJe.-as lived, moved i its N nr.'. V.'iUiout the rood stuff n mnn a -wiiiis.. une applicant i It Is folly to assume that because Oregon gave Roosevelt 40,000 ma jority in 1904 it will do the same for the Republican standard bearer in 1908. . It was not his party but his personality that swept Oregon for Roosevelt In the last national cam paign. -Less than two years after the Roosevelt landslide the voters of Oregon elected . George Chamber lain? governor by a majority of 2.- 500.1, No man who studiea the politi cal heavena" can fall to aee In, that ! f acf jtb e ; d awn ; of the new popular vcau e which this po ljnovemest-, whlcli' portends In na- judged. - Opinions of ; him differ j is an Industrial problem,: pure and schools. There is good ij.i- i xi. m . .imnia ...I. i . '.i ....i. I these Armenian waifs.. ",uc,f -,.-t W;. BU. .viWM a little cnao about 10 venra , oit. fv hnrh nTtrm.' Th far fntnrn 'oroblemB that the late Senator Mor. I who walked from his native vin.a-a A historian will scarcely write , ; him rill secured the; passage, by. congress llk 7?.m ',K Zlmtrji i - x . A at--,J- 1 . .avj i . . it. - .lJ . . ' . . ... . , , . .... , X. . . AngasUne Blrrell'a Birthday. The Right Hon. Augustine Birrell, chief secretary - for Ireland, was born near Liverpool.' January 19. , 1860. the son ' of a' distinguished Nonconformist clergyman. . ' He was.. graAuated from Oxford -university in ,1878. t became barrister In 1875. and a .few years ago was mane a oencner oi tne inner tern pie. 'He has been In politics since .1885, ana naa ny no means oeen always-suc cessful; In fact, in three out of hla five contests ' he has aeen tne other man win. It was not until 1S89 that he first' entered parliament: With tbeor ganlzfrtlon of the Campbell-Bannermnn cabinet, Hr. Blrreil waa- made- president of the . board of education. s When James. Bryce was chosen to be British ambassador to the United States, Hr. Birrell succeeded - Mr. . Bryce as chief secretary for- Ireland. ; Mr. Birrell has distinguished himself In literature, and is also well versed in the i law, having been Qualn professor of law In Unl- ixndon,. xor several down as our greatest or most nearly perfect statesman, yet surely, not as one who cut a mean and unimport ant figure Jq. our affairs. His career so far reads much like . a romance, more like a novel, than a story of real .life, yet that "he Is very much of a reality we are sure enough, f ' Some of Roosevelt's 'traits, or man. In so great a position, seem rather ..ludicrous, to tnany-rBtich ; as his frequent . preaching of morality, and. as some one has. cynically ex pressed It. proclaiming the ten bom-1 of the firstact endowing the land grant colleges, and 'of the supple mental act of 1890 for the same pur pose. These acts provided a new and ,'. distinct , type of, education, strictly technical and ; scientific In character. It Is common knowledge that the effect has been to make of the land grant institutions a large factor In this country's .triumph over all competitors In manufacturea, in agricultural achievement ; and In $very .tnduatrial'-llneinii-i.-ir - The land"graht colleges, occupy a neck. - He marched to the hospital, mounted the operating table, and took chloroform without a whimper,-all alone wun not a iriena or acquaintance near. The kind Christian doctor gave him the best - medical care possible, ' then- the child had to be set adrift to make room for other sufferers. - The ' boy'o eager ness to enter the school Was pitiful to behold,, but that too was full to over flowing. A permanent orphanage Is greatly needed to care for such orphans. -". ' iTrom the Topekaf Capital. i Tho, Associated Presa ; will do the country -a favor Jf It limits its . report of the: second Thaw trial to not over a stickful a dy. ' One dose of that ase ought to be onough. . are his lives of Hazlittand Charlotte Bronte and -nis sedition -or Boswell's jonnson. '- . Changed Her .Mind. . r; ' i ' ,rom the Philadelphia Press.' i Tees So Mrs.. Roxley Isn't, going Jo appiy xor givorce, -aiier au7 , - ' Jess No she. found . out that . there were three other girls, who were crasy to' get him If- ho were free.. .. k Just Like a. Woman.' -iTrom the CHeveland Leader.5 . r i. JfraThirdly-r-Whv don't you oreacb agninst Sunday golf T , . " r ur.'. iniroiy now, ir tnot isn't lust like, . worasn! : What Sunday golfers would. hear tha sermonT v -.: . By Hoary F. Cope. ,y Manners are surface, morals. ' e e . -; Character la aover put on; it grows ent ,-. . ' ... Spirituality Is a ooor refura from morality. .e -e . . v:. No man over served life who waa afraid to die. . Love always' wins, . because It la not afraid to lose. , . ; - . . . e e The divine law is but the language of divine love. All gain and no pain would make. I ft. Ba sixair. e . e The only people who count are those wno can pe countea on. Too many . find their 'consciences ia me conventions or oiners. a . . - The door' of truth cannot h onnl . I . . .1 I - . ...... .. . w . ti uw oj vi prjuuice, : , a ? Where the wage determines the work, the work la never worth it The piety you put on before the mir ror Will not make vou a mirror nt piety. - , -e e .. ,'::;;v I " Men Wijl bo honest with one another! when they are honest with themselves.? - a,... , (. . - . j There is something wrong In a man' when his religion is the poorest thing" about him. , i a a W I Tour mesaaare will mn 1 nat aa minl Into the hearts of men an It. haa rnntaV in your own. - .... -.,:.. Lots of people would lose all hope of aocjciy dui ior tneir, periods or:seir- wviaiiuij. i .. .V-.. .... ' '. We s re all apt to substitute candorl wiui me . laiuis ox otners ior nonesty wun our own. - . ' . The road through a difficulty may oe rougner, out it is always saier tnan tne roaa around it 4. When the church grafts on this world It Is not strange it ceases to bear the iruits or anotner wonq. , . - : .-i 3 M'.i j,-;e- '- ;"f If you will walk in the fields of atn you will find a lonsr .task before you pit-King on tne ourrs ana cocmes. , , It the church had given' as much St. tention to -her traction power aa. ahe has to her track she would have brought many- more . passengers to me xerminui. ' Blindness of Conceit. , ' From the New York Prss. r ' "$Sym notice- the density of a con ceited cersonT' asked & business man. "To me. that's the most striking thJnaH aoout sucn an inaiviauai. 1 jaayDe . n has some qualities that Justify hla-good opinion of himself, and maybe not: hn'ai dense, -Just the same, and the proof oti it is mat ne aoesn realise .now no lm-l presses hla. associates, unpleasantly, Ifl tne average conctuecrman bad the leash iaea oi tne nanaicaa- under wninh h lai laborlnr he'd shed it mighty quick. Dutl he hasn't and It's InDosalhla t hmii u Into him. He's the modern human os-l tricn witn Ms head stuck Intn thai nanit so far as any recognition of his dls-. Bgr,eauie iraii in concerned," V;