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Oaa year,'. 8T.W I Oar ownta .68 Now no chastening for the present seetneth to be joyous, bot grievous; nevertheless t afterward -It yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteous- ;'ness onto them which are i exercised thereby. Paul to - the Hebrews. that congress Is spending' a billion dollars a year, and they demand that one-twentieth of this amount - Shall go to the Improvement and construc tion of Inland waterways, but Mr. Tawney says we ' must economise. He does not represent the people In . i1 . . , '..;",'! NOT ROOSEVELT RUT ROOSEVELTISM S&tJStiSS: and administration rathe than basic I T 13 reported from Washington that the third term talk dead. A canvass .br a Wash Incton newsnsDer of the house this, bnt the railroads, as too many! of representatives showed an ver- or His colleagues ao. , . whelming sentiment for Taft. and no Congress could economize If it mention -of Roosevelt. Apparently wanted to. It could cut out a big this latest utterance' has removed Mr. mail carrying graft of tbte railroads. ( Roosevelt from the pale of possl billtles. It was a mistake for his friends and admirers to assume that he was the only available man. . They con It could change the tariff law. to as to Increase revenue from Imports, and hurt nobody but the trusts,' It could pass an income tax law and an INITIATIVE PETITIONS. A CONSIDERABLE number of In Itiative petitions are In circa . "t lation," and voters should be ' , careful about .signing them A signature to an initiative petition should be a deliberate, carefully con sidered, conscientious act. The In itiative 'feature of the "constitution Is on trial In Oregon, and the whole , country is watching the results. Op ponents of it In other states where It is being urged are saying that It - is already a failure In Oregon, partly because people will sign petitions for "any old thing," so that the peo ple are called upon biennially to vote for a multiplicity of unimportant If sot bad laws. Unless voters act con siderately, this assertion is likely to : be .Verified. '. Most things must be left to the legislature. Only some Important, state wide, vital measure that the legislature has refused to enact should be put before the peo ple through the initiative. It Is an excellent thing, but it can' easily be brought into disrepute by overwork ing It, Even a good proposition, unless . really important, would be better passed up to the legislature. Let us confine the use of this excel lent instrument to important and necessary measures. Of course there is always a con siderable ' proportion of voters who will sign almost any kind of a pe tition, carelessly, some of them even mischievously.,, This fact renders it all the more necessary for conscien tious, responsible citizens to exercise care. The better rule is. unless sure that the thing it right and important, "gator of Important public affairs or and harbor bill every year here after, Just as regularly as a pension bill. Such paltering with a mighty subject Is not statesmanship, It Is not ven politics. It is legislative pettifoggery. TWO "STERN" SENATORS. nhrltance tax law. It could In case I fused an idea with a personality and of great emergency even cut down I their confusion made them irration- the salaries of its members to $5.-al. What they were infatuated with 000 a year again- enough, la all was not Roosevelt, but Rooseveltism. conscience, for some we know of : f Roosevelt, the man, is only as other ut whether they do anything else! men; more faulty than some, less not tbe country whnts a river faulty than others. Rooseveltism, the idea, is the crystallization and presentation ef a sentiment that has been gathering force among the Am erican people for years It was and is that nstural force in a democracy that resists trend toward plutocracy and oligarchy. It Is a phase of that process of change that is ever mov ing forward in the public. The natural trend of one force In a self-governing nation is toward thrones and crowns. It had made long strides in development when Mr. Roosevelt succeeded to the presi dency. It was intrenched in the senate, and bad long been the secret and dominant force in the kitchen cabinet at Washington. The power of wealth had been used to rob one man and enrich another. The syndi cate and the magnate had a strangle hold on the country. The Immensity and the stupendous potentiality of swollen fortunes was the amazement of tbe world, and the subject of com ment by civilized mankind. It was an era with causes to brook resist ance, it was the psycnoiogicai mo ment for an outbreak to occur. The power of organized wealth to main tain its predominance was already T HE 8ENATE committee on in- teroceanlc mails did not want to hear Joseph L. Brlstow. Of course not. He has been a dis turber for some years. Some post office department thieves are In Jail new through his Investigations, and the sena'o will never forgive a man for exposing a tblef in a public of flee. He has made a report on the Panama railroad and the Pacific mail, but the senate committee doesn't want to hear him. He is not owned by the corporations, as they are, and they have no use for 'such a witness. They don't want the truth to come out. . A. Washington dispatch says: "Senators Flint of California and Hopkins of Illinois have txpressoQ stern opposition to Mr. Bristow'sappearing at all, and they teem to have carried the com mittee." stern opposition on me pari or Flint and Hopkins Is good. They can even be "stern" In the service of their isilroad masters. Their sal aries doubtless justify such an atti tude. Hopkins is a notorious "rail road senator,", and has been public ly charged by William E. Mason, an ex-senator, with having bought his election . outright, at a cost of, we elleve, over 1100,000. Flint Is a railroad attorney, sent to the senate by Herrin to work for the Southern Pacific and the Pacific Mall. Ev en body knows he Is merely Her- rin's man, and doesn't represent the people of California at all. On the contrary, he is their deadly enemy. And It is these men who become "stern" in opposition to hearing Joseph L. Brlstow, an honest Inves- What an abominable farce tbe United States senate has become 1 TOP HEAVY EDUCATION. c and that the state as a whole needs - It, do not sign. ' . General elections should not be cumbered with a long list of unimportant or possibly ob jectionable proposed laws. The av erage TOter will not then take the 1 COMMITTEE of college presi time and trouble to discriminate be-1 A dents met recently at Eugene ; tween, them intelligently. The peo- f V consider entrance require jple have taken the power of making ments for institutions of high- laws Into their own hands, but they r learning in. Oregon. To secure a should use this power only in cases common standard was the purpose, of emergency. but .the meeting is understood to ' : .. Some measures that the legis- have adjourned without action. Per Uture has refused repeatedly to haps the result Is not undesirable enact should be enacted by the peo- There Is a widespread sentiment in pie, provided laws therefor can be Oregon that we. are plunging for- drafted just right, such as a water I ward in the direction of a top-heavy and Irrigation code, and means of educational system. It is claimed increasing "revenue by taxing franrlthat we are not building solidly chises, etc.. and a law for protecting enough at the bottom, it is com water power rights. The Port ; of mon knowledge that not more than Portland bill is another case, for it 1 10 per cent of those In the public Is of vital importance to the whole Bchools ever pass beyond the eighth Columbia river commerce. And! grade, and that not five per cent some other proposed laws may be (pass through the colleges. Of 1, of enough importance to bring to a 1000,000 pupils in the schools of the Tote. But the people will do well country, little more than a half mil to exercise their power sparingly lion are in the colleges. Eight years yet,' and they should sign petitions (of public school, four years of high only as a deliberate. Intelligent con- school and four years or more of cientlous act. I college or university, constitute a I system of education that the masses MUST 'ECONOaZE - have neither means nor time to at tain. It is complained that half a But Roosevelt and Taft combined could not budge congress from its adherence to the trusts, even on this one point So Taft as president, The trusts are AS, crmon for Tod ay The Moral End of Money Making. otj&zyhy: g ?.lftoth f10 THERE are those who talk of monaf ana business I as though thess . wrs ncaarlly , and t Intrinsic ally evil, " it i often supposed ; that capacity for roodnaaa la 4a tabllshed by Incapacity for ' buslnssa. strained and in such, an hour, and I principles. ' Nay, , the main "prlncl- under sffch conditions, Mr. Roose- Pl of ail is the Same one always J could do nothing, velt arrived.. c ,u ,-'.m? ':y-being rougnt out .somehow -the ef- in the saddle. If It had not been Mr.' Roosevelt, fort of the common people to protect It would have been another.;-. Mr. themselves from the privileged and' Again let It be asked, and It will Bryan and . his nolltieal . associates predacious ;ew And think of the I be repeatedly askedif the Republi had preached the idea for yean. . it I Prty leaders and machine rulers of lean party is sincerely, earnestly and was not theirs by creation, but only tne DMt feneration leading the com-1 surely for reform politics,' for the L . . . . . . I msiM honnT.'l atftiiirivl a flw hla wa.IJ. I a ... . ..(. ... . . V a ...I. .nl. Dir discovery. - it was an iaea jn i u, ua v. .u-1 ovy., igiuiav ,iu mio-vi-ium hM .-, "M ... I , t. ... . Hk. - .-.. ' m ..... .v. iwniie tboss to whom dovamv uni in. nerent to tne people, and a part or " u , . laitreau. ana noir I eviuwe find eon.outio i ;.t-7 their system. . It had to . come be- No. these fine tontlemen who hate I 7 ion the Republicans nominate as evidence at nut . cause a free people of the mould of jbeen high in offlce haye in too manyjLa Follette?, We believe that by Large numbers of otherwise sensible the American people will,, in their leases betrayed the people, have sao-1 next June a popular, "vote of the Re-jpoprt feel that there u some unavoid- turn, rmnnta nA mnlv mvtrr 1an. I riflrpd. nrlMnla tn nlf h. ni. I DUbllcanS Of Orecon WOUld ShOW La I Die COnniCt between' the Ideal and the gerous problem. v It was fate, it was verted true principles, and the whole Toilette , their choice for the nom- trV,:"tWM wa th,y th sacred j...-- . ... . -l . m. . ....... lin'.ft. tr i I sua Uie secular, between the thinra th- uesiiny. it waa ma worjcina out ui eyBim is aiseasea. ' ion is wnv neo- i nvu, wmuivuumii , u .... . . . ... ......... .. . ? 4 ...... ' 'J- anotner aetau in this vast pian in pie are rejecting parties and tneir l ; v , ;, . thlna-a they aftuaii t,, t TT. self government. . , I organizations and leaders, and on- g-rr- ; j , of their daily affairs and duties. , t. . Li i i . . I H:r.MAfrararv Kn aava mint I riuuiuu ine rrttut numiMr tr t. " nappenea , idm r. wwkyw. u.mw iui g men-iq eniisi mi .v. . J ,----'- meet the difficuUv h VrM Vh '.I was the Instrument. He aoDeared at their cause, and to servo them be- cultivate foreign markets oy selling iivea and Intereau mta aenrat." irt the richt time, and is therefore an catse directly, resnonalbla' to them, good" Cheaper abroad. And selling They say. bualneaa fa bualnesa; rellgloo accident. The exposures of unlaw ful rebates and documentary evi- thta trnr -m ' t pose, dence bv Hearst lifted the lid. The I vtn . I man, . Shaw, insurance exposures In New York, degree all at once, and perhaps nev- We do not know to what extent them ' UP" ArtThaVTS;rtirK S pose. Great financier and sUtes- forward .to d wmort, wd pieasT the nrosecntlona of munlclDal thlevea . ...,.. .... . .Z v. roruana, uregon, hV pr.iir m M..n,,n th. f0rm. ttZ.Tr,"fZr pathy to the town on the - i uuuer iuo irgiem woicu ina israr i . . . . Urea Of rallvlnn an.1 IHaal thlnir. Bo It happene that there are Those wh feel that to anmlc nl wirinn on a Axtenda avm. I a lactc or tne sense or the extenas , eym- f tn,M of thlng, whll other g00 pH MMMwa biub aa J dldau w aa 11.11 ,. laish mar a a a a a w. a. a . a f b v ni bvii l inmsr La Fcllette in Wisconsin, exposures commends. -If the neoni ran t con"nenn?WD,cn ct a saturnalia of thievery in all v' w" namea, ana ai me same imim parts of the country prepared the them out Into high places, they will way. Mr. Roosevelt seized the Idea be no worse . off than tha ara nnv i i a . -j . i.v .v. I i ' ' ' bcjiou ii, auu iiuBueu n wnu to a large proportion of men in ooianess oi a uoia uncompromising high places, especially in the senate. nature, it ugntea a oiaze tnat nas spread until the-whole country is In conflagration for which no mere man, but only an imperishable idea, could have furnished the fuel. A torch is in every hand except those of enlrenched and dishonest wealth. To hold that Mr. Roosevelt is the only man who can lead and admin ister this sentiment Is error. Ideas are bigger than men and more po tential. It Is the Idea and the country-wide demand that tbe govern ment shall be drawn back to Its his- THE PARAMOUNT NEED. T Journal throughout Its brief attorney material. me or jess tnan six years has often told and shouted, in all forms and expressions of which it was Apable. In the meantime immigration in quite encouraging volume has come. but only a driblet In comparison with to apeak of bualneaa on I tend to dwell alternately nartmtnli tha nrantlnal I congratulations that the disaster was "fl thtr, no worse. V lin throua the life we feel that . i i ii ii manufacture and -the market, money ... . v , . . , , a..- making land trading tend to blunt the VUiua uu raiseu a iuau ui fw,-1 iinar . aenaiDUltlea and act as a hlaai (100,000 for building 700 miles of lIif IJ1,"" ' our Jl . . f. ......... . I while, on the other hand, we are aure wii in me or weaia la unrittea for I ouaineas. I The result of this separation and ap- parent antayonlam la that we cannot! aeveiop our iivea ymmetrlcallyi we ara j irn vj voniiiciina- purpoaea; we raui to see any Ideal ends In bualness or to find anv nranllral valuaa In . rallvlnn I I Rellf Ion ' without bualneaa tenda to areamy, purpoaeleaa moral enervation;! ouaineae wunout ideal ends railroad, which Is Indubitable evi dence that she is awakening. kkd o; more population It-Is possible that aa a graft ex in all parts of Oregon Is an old piorer Lincoln Steffens is more of a story and slogan, that The success than as a judge of district I Jn.4 any. praotlcai values in .religion. Hymns to Know The Night Watches, By Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould. rTVhll Ih. ntf O.hln. narlna1 rimilil liim KrHHi wavn wninn rnia .v. a.veimi. I . . . . . , torlo foundations, and it will be done best state in tha 7ZyZ 7 . 7T J, . . Z. IZ a.. .' ,. ,JDe8t t la the union reasonably tingulshed student of medieval lore and . i,.Co.., .v.. InvUe8 mythology, he is known to many thou- no man can uo riecut-u wuu is uui, by his life and acts, a pledge. alma to groaaness and materialism. ' We need to BDlrltualiaa all nur acta. our. whole lives, our bualneaa, our work, par pleasures by giving them moral In- leni ana vaiue, so as to uairy tne sacred and the secular, the utilitarian, and the Ideal by making each serve tbe other. . 1 It does not make ao much difference whether a man . ia engaged In money inaaing or in writing poems ana pictur ing tne rair areams or natter tninga; wisest would be to adjust standards so the education we can afford will best serve those for whom it Is In tended in Oregon, rather than at tempt to make Jt agree with stand ards in other states. If the avenue to. all colleges of the state must be through the high school, the masses will be hurt. It would be the under taking of the impossible, and its con sequences would be grave. A widely diffused education Is better for the state, ana better for the republic than would be a . few educated and many Ignorant. The fixing of arbitrary: regulations that would lengthen and narrow the road to learning would be a grave mis take. The more colleges that are kept within reach of the common alty. . and the broader the avenue that leads to them, the better and safer. PORTUGAL. W REPRESENTATIVE TAWNEY, life must be spent, in getting readv chairman of the committee on to live. appropriations, warns congress! To seek at this time to establish f that jt xaust exercise ecqnomy, in Oregon standards equivalent to , or there will be a big deficit this those of older and more populous year. And, the first thing heard from states, is Impossible. It is the fad of the leaders in this connection, the college presidents and college facul only way they can think of in which ties to desire that their institutions x to economize,' is to pass no river and shall have courses as high as the harbor bill and no public building highest. It is more often a question bills. We hear of no effort to econ- of pride than of sound judgment and dmlze In any other way or to raise rationalism. More than 20 per cent , more revenue in ways that would of the districts in some of the coun not additionally burden tbe people ties of Oregon have but four months .generally, as could easily be done, of school per yean Because wretch- but the rivers and harbors must I dly undopaid for lack of available ; wait. , This win oe pleasing to the .money, teachers are scarce and often railroads, and therefore furnishes a incompetent, Oregon has a popula fine excuse. . -;- tlon Of about 600,000 and an area of This 1 false economy. By delay 96,000 square miles, an average of ing work already in progress the j six people per square mile.' It ls'lm- gorernment win lose millions, and by possible for us at this Unas to set putting j otr other work the people up and maintain standards of edu areTbeingi refused a right far too cation equal to those in states hav long delayed already. It is their Ing an average of S 00 or. 400 per money; in various ways they have square mileV, We have to consider plainly and loudly declared in favor the vast masses of children In the of the use of 156,000,000 a year for remote districts, and answer- the; E COMPLAIN a good deal about our government, and not without cause, but when we look at the people of poor little Portugal we may thank our stars that we are not they. A little nation of about 5,000,000 peo ple, less than each of several of our most populous states contain, most of them poor and able, to produce little beyond the necessaries oi life, have to maintain a vastly expensive and shamefully dissolute monarchy, with a numerous court of grandees trying to rival old Spain or France under the empire, a cortez beside which our congress would shin as a collection of saints, and an army of public functionaries, perhaps 10 time- the number we have in this country, in proportion to population. Undor such conditions taxation has of course become unendurable, the poasantry being Wt scarcely jucugh to keep body and soul togetuer, and the country is in debt to the point of bankruptcy. So there have been some weak and so far futile attempts at revolution. A dictator whom the horrible king has permitted to take charge of affairs may work some re form, but the condition of the people seems well-nigh hopeless. Portu guese in tnis country should be thankful for such an "asylum." sents them and the people generally; and if not so suited will vote for the Democratic candidate If he suits them better. The party name and party plati tudes and party- claptrap and party false pretenses will go a less dlstaace this year than ever before. It is of course largely a question sands through his beautiful hymns. of means of th Host kind nf f. When first published this was called oi nieano oi tne nest Kina or er- ..Evanlng Hymn tor Mions." Now tt fort. In a word, tbe problem is to la sung frequently by congregations the question Is thie, la the money mak Ing for the sake of the money or foi eome nign ana wortny enar wnnt Is the motive that Impels either the! dealer In douara or the dealer In I dreams T . I Our Ideala visions, asnlratlons. and! our religion become most damaging If they fall to find expreaslon In conduct I and work; lacking the practical, they result In a character that is Mtiaried with contemDlatlna the aood lneiead of reallslnar It The- man who sink h!al aoui in dollars an ay personally ue not worse than he who allows It to atrophy I wnue ne areams. 17 ..a Im Mllwlnrt fa th. Awnaml,. aral the motives that bear men on and buoyl them up to do the toll, bear tne Uurdena.i atand in tha fiaht of daily llvlnif : here! are the visions that lift our eyes from! the desk and the machine, from profits! and discounts, and help us to see thel worthy prises or lire. No man could become a saint by sap- ara tin hlmaelf from this world's tur moil, and reading his Bible alon; nei-l titer can any man una acrengm unui tahllltv for llfa'a bualneaa and Ottttle.l wards, unless he sees through Its dol-I waraa, unless ne sees tnrougtin na ooi-i lars and its airt tne moral nia oi aui this world's work. .... . I This noisy mm or aaiiy living may cei the greatest blessing we know; It l thf or fori a candidate who, they think, repre- gnow Oregon in advance to millions v'yhere as the closing hymn. IF JONATHAN SHOULD Am. 0' UR JONATHAN wants to go to ther Chicago convention, and wants the delegation instruct ed to vote first, last and all the time for Roosevelt. ' Suppose the Oregon convention should grant his request, and suppose the Chicago convention should stampede to Roosevelt, and that the president should accept and be elected. What a strangle hold Jonathan would then have, on the Oregon patronage. He would be the master of ceremonies at Washington, and the chief dis penser of pap to the Oregon breth ren. Schuebel would loom on the I horizon and alight in an office that would make the district attorneyship look like 30 cents. As for Brother U'Ren, nothing within the gift of the grand old party would be too good for him. Jonathan would see that he landed in a foreign mission, if not. Indeed, In a cabinet portfolio. of eastern people. We must do that. We talk a great deal among ourselves, but we hear the Bound of otjr own voice. But while express ing this atom of pessimism, we rec ognize and realize the good work our commercial organizations partic ularly in Portland, but also through out the state, are doing. They have done a good deal, but we believe ten times as much can be done dur ing the next year or two and more particularly for district and county organizations other than those of Portland. We stand ready to defend, or rather, to applaud, the work of the Portland organizations, especially. if we may particularize, the Com mercial club; they have carried the whole state's bnrdens in this and in others, too, for years, the benefit of Portland except as the state benefited equally or more; but Now the day Is over. Night Is drawing nigh Shadows of the evening Steal across the sky. Jeiius grant the weary Calm and sweet repoae: With thy tenderest blessing May our eyelids close. Grant to little children Visions bright of thee; Guard the aallore tossing On the deep, blue sea. Comfort every sufferer Watching late In pain; Thoae who plan some evil From their sine restrain. Through the long night watches May thine angels spread Their white wlnga above me. Watching round my bed. When the morning wakens. Then may I arlss, Pure and freah'.- and sinless In thy holy eyes. , .nnnrlnnlfv rnt Tna ,vnr,.4lnti nr oil- hlrheat ideals, for the translation Of . T. L n , OA . j. religion Into terms of dally Jiving; it' l respect Party Lines Wiped Out In State and u the place where character !s moulU- ii , not for N.tioru b? ? atraaa. its c to the stronj will P.I1Q IIS rilBllllUlU ULIAf IUII1VIV. .V. lit. service of all mankind by eson man in, his place. ii m 111 Sentence Sermons OBJECTIONS TO THE ' LAW. PRIMARY r BOUTELL'S BLUFF. M R 10 years for Inland . waterwava h. sides liberal Appropriations for har bors. Their voice is almost nnanl mous, 'from Maine to Texas, from Oregon to Florida; 'yet Mr. Tawney, and Speaker Cannon, and other lead ers sayi g We : must ,ecboooUse This is no economy. The people are suffering ' losses of millions a year because there1 are not enough railroads, and tetp of millions be cause the railroads charge exorbitant rates, and the situation will con stantly, grove .worse. '.'They know question of how fares it with them. We have to consider the boy .there, and elsewhere, who from ' lack of means, or because he helped to edu cate, others in the family, got be hind. In short, we have to deal with the danger and the consequences of making our education too fine span ' We should as far as possible keep it within the reach of the common herd. We should maintain a state university .where the best education should be obtained, but a duty is due the commonalty. The policy that is E PRESENT ATI VE BOUTELL of Illinois, in a colloquy with Champ Clark of Missouri de clared, with the dramatic ora tory of the spellbinder, that every Republican In the united States would vote for the Republican nom inee, whomsoever he might be rfor Cannon, preferably; for Fairbanks, for Knox, for Taft, for Hughes, for Cortelyou for anybody labeled a Republican. , Notice that Mr. Boutell did not say why this would be done; why all the men who have been Republicans or so class themselves politically up to date, would not think or exercise Intelligence, but would vote for any yellow dog" or "interest" candi date, nor did he assume to have any warrant from eveuSany part of them for making such a statement. It was only an ebullition Of partisan froth, both light and stale. Bluntly 6tated, under any circum stances, Boutell Is a proclalmer of an untruth. ,What he says will happen will not ' happen, no matter who is nominated. Voters have been Judg ing and differentiating more and more; for years, and will do so this year a gooa aeai more than ever before. ' A vast number of Repub lican voters will be suited only with HE Indianapolis Star finds two great and, in its opinion, suf ficient objections to the Ore gon primary law. The first is that it abolishes parties, especially the majority party." That is, it de stroys party organization, or ren ders it difficult. The second is that men who represent party principles do not get the Important offices. The Star says: "Men who ought" to be in high office are not there. Once they would be nominated by the consulting judgment of responsible party managers, Intent on the achievement of party principles through the elevatiou of men who believe in those principles, . to power." But if we admit that there is some force in these objections, we cannot forget what party organization and adherence to professed "principles" have done, and are doing in other states. Now, in entirely too many cases, men who ought not to be In high offlce are there. Yes, men were "nominated by the consulting judg ment" of a few bosses and machine operators; the offices were traded off and parceled out; the game was to a large extent one of graft and grab rather than of efficient, pure minded public service, and the peo ple were the victims. ' But the precious "principles." 0 yes, the people have been hum bugged most successfully for many years by verbal fume on the part of oratorical office seekers. Doubtless there have been "principles." They were argued out by' Madison and Nation. From the Eugene Guard. The Oregonlan has justified Its dec- work of local' development leagues, I laratlon of political Independence by Immigration bureaus, push clubs, asserting that there is no Kepunuean etc.. Is also necessary; and some of ?iyu,0TA7XvS W on them are doing good work. this questlonT Every day adds to thel t f ... . , . ..contusion among tne warring xacuona Let us make a suggestion: As of wh,t w Bm.a a Republican party, soon as you begin, to get good re- Schuebel's appointment to an Important suits, double both your expenditures and efforts. It will pay, for every body except the very old peopl and others ought to do this much for them. Of course it will pay for the non-progresBlve mossbacks, top but let consolation for that unpleas ant reflection be found in the fact that they won't understand or ap preciate the work, or share in the true satisfaction of its results. The Salem Journal says: There Is nothing the eight counties of the Willamette valley so much need as a larger population. A region large as England, and nearly half as large as Iowa, has barely 160,000 peo ple. The Willamette Valley Develop ment league Is gathering facta of pro duction to turn the tide In this direc tion. One thousand facts of production will constitute the literature that will do the business. The advertising cam palgn through 1907 brought 27,216 peo ple to this state aa a result of the colo nist rate. During the same months of 1906 the colonist rates brought 16,214, showing an Increase of 9,001. or, in round figures, 60 per cent. This is a little, only a beginning, Go forward, on broader, more liberal lines still. If the eight Willamette valley counties could somehow join together to spend $500,000 to tell about themselves to the right peo ple during the next two years, the population would in' ten years be multiplied tenfold, and property values and products would Increase in an even greater degree. So, in a less degree, with the other sections of the state. . This great work ought to be carried on both locally and generally, on a broader, more liberal, scale. All for one and one for all, In. this matter in Ore gon. Get the people; we all agree on that, we can nearly or suf ficiently agree on how.' Then do it. federal position in opposition to three fourths of the Republican delegation in congress only emphasises the demoral isation of what waa once the dominant party In Oregon, which now consists of a number of predatory camps, rally ing around the - personal standard of some leader like Fulton, Bourne, Geer or Cake, each distrustful of the other's purposes. Now at the outset of a State and national campaign there Is no unity of purpose, no organization, no advo cacy of fixed principles, only the frag ments of a broken machine, from which the best elements among the voters are holding aloof, thousands of erstwhile Republicans preferring to vote for Dem ocratic candidates as a protest again t existing conditions. Oregon Republi canism Is paying the penal ty.of machine rule, and nothing but chaos may be Bv Henry F. Cone. Faith cannot feed on fossilized facts. i Conduct is simply character vitalised.: a A good lover is sure to be a first clasa nater. a He rejects happiness who refuses alll sacrifice. The Father never drove any Into the, far country. Ton cannot find a martyr by looking' in tbe mirror. It's hard to believe In the goodness O the grouchy. i The most wasteful thing In this world: IS seirisn economy. e i mall fellows .so persistently pushing- their personal claims to the fore with out discernment, enousrh to know that the people are tired- and sick of their self-asserted leadership. The American Saloon. From Collier's Weekly. The American An Indianapolis paper boasts that the population of - that city has Hamilton and Jefferson and ' Web- grown from 228,000 to 235,000 in a ster and Lincoln, and others; but j year. ' Portland would consider that how and to what effect have these principles been applied by the poli ticians of the past 30 years? Look over the list of members of congress today, and find how many stand for any "principles" such as this term meant formerly. About the only "principle" heard of has been "pro tection," a system of plundering the many for the benefit of a few. What principles are to the fore now? Restriction and control of trusts and public service corpora tions, and equal and Just taxation a snail's pace. If that is the best the Hoosler metropolis can do, Port land will overtake it in a year or two. saloon Is a rella of an Institution the like of which exists in no other country on the earth. Why does it exist? To fur nish at retail a commodity danceroua at best: to extend, and to keen on ex tending, the sales of brewers and dis tillers, it prospers nest wnen it can make two . drunkards arrow where but one grew before. How nas It protected Itself in this policy? By gathering to gether all that Is venal In politics: by acting as connecting link In our singu lar American alliance between the cow ers that prey snd the powers that rule. The liquor habit Is common, In one form or . another, to all the occidental peo nies ' but anecial to lis la that ntfmrtivm school for deplorable morals and poll tics, the saloon. And back of that Is our moat mistaken creed that every- thlnar Is justified by business. Is the Individual stockholder In a brewery or a distillery morally any worse than the pious, pew-owning shareholder in tha standard uu eompanv or the American TODncco comoanyT e. iiko the rail. road shareholder, pormlta his mmn. tlon to set in tne sacred name of hunt, ness. The great corporation, dealing In necessities of life, may take bread from hungry mouths. The fruit of mad ex tension of the liquor trafflo Irf ruined private health, ruined public soul, and weaaenea generations to come after. JV "1 a hot seoldtne- front the minister .'fan hoped for until a strong, capable leader e quickest way to cooi any meeting. ? onmaa fnrward. whn will fllanlara tha I ! . Trie soul in aimpiy inai which aveau the supreme ana tne BUDiime. Tour use of your leisure often detes-f mums i it w uKiii,.ic.. v. wu, t He can never be more than half edu cated who is not educated In heart, a The greater the opportunity the less" likely it Is to have an advance agent tI The religion that does not improver human relations has no pusiness wit humanity. The man who says he Is too noor give will never be rich enough to b other than poor in heart. The church Is almost sure to have paralysis following a fat over dogma. a a There must be something queer abou any faith that needs perpetual defend ln- ... There are too many saints who wouM rather lead a meeting than follow thelrf master. A man's confidence In goodness 11 usually dependent on his own reserves Infinite love wouM be a mockery without Infinite hatred of things that harm. .:. - -- It's easy to be pious when the chil dren are asleep ana tne neignoore n lert town. t v -.-y There are thoae who when they hea Gabriel blowing his horn will want trl know what he gets a day zor uomg mat it is and will remain to Mr. Taft's credit that he has done what he could to Induce congress to remove the unjust and even , outrageous Philippine, tariff, but he has failed. Roosevelt himself has urged that the Filipinos be accorded the simple Jus tice of free trade with this country, whose 'subjects or chattels they are. This Date In History, t I486 War declared between Franoe and England. 1747 8artuel Parr, English literary celebrity, tiorn. Died March 8, 1825. 1802 Robert Smith of Maryland be came secretary of the United States navy. - " 1837 Michigan admitted to statehood. 1881 Louisiana seceded from the union. ' .''; 1888 Andre Bienvenu Roman, one of Louisiana a ramous vreoie governors, died In New Orleans. Born March 6, i too. ' 1171 George Ticknor, historian, died. orn August 1. 171. ; - , 1886 General Gordon ("Gordon Pa sha") killed at Khartoum. , , 1888 Fall of the Salisbury; ministry In England.;, ;.,:; .'v- 'V .r,,'.:.. t'..y. fjtot-'a killing frost at Mvrtle Creek yet this winter, nays the Mail. The thermometer atood at 70 In the shade Wednesday. Only one . light fait of nnv. '- Snmt Irinda nf hurrtaa rlna Waa, potatoes smiling on the vines. Stock In rood Condition without winter feed In and green graas everywhere. , 1 ; James K. Biggins' Birthday, j James H. Hlggins, who was recentlyf nauaurated as governor-of Rhode Js4 land for a second term, waa born in thf town of Lincoln, R. January is, is7i Left fatherless at the age of 13. younaf Higglns was the main support of th4 ram u y, consisting or a momer ana tnre children. . He worked his way througrt tne nign, scnooi or rawiucaet ana inert attenaea crown university. - xie graau-t ated.frora Brown in 1898 and spent the two following years at the Georgetown! university law1 school. After graduatlnRf from the latter institution he returned! to Rhode Island ana was admitted to the bar. He began hlspolitical careeij in 1103 as a raeraoer or-tne jttnoae is Und house; of representatives. In. No Vember of the same year he was elected! mayor of pawtucaet oy me largest pi alltv aver received by a candidate mayor of that city. In 1906, whll still holdlnc ... the . office of .-mayor... hi was elected governor of Rhode Ialandl on tne democratic ticaet and waa, re-j iur-t foil 1 fr