The Oregon daily journal., February 16, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

THE JOURNAL
AM INDIPINDENT' KIWBPlPtH.
C . . . JACK BON Wtbllantr
1 PoblUhKl ewary mine iPt Sond7) a ad
. twr Bandar toaratn(. at Tk Journal BulM
Inc. flrtk and YaBblU itraata. Portland. Or.
Entsr4 at tba eoatorflre at Portland. Or... (or
CraaaaaUaioa throuxb tba awlla aa aaooad-oUw
sairar.
spread of popular education democ
racy 1b growing more easily bent
to the divine will. The vision ot the
people Is broader, clearer and strong
er because they know more than any
people ever knew before. The pres-
A Sermon for To Jay
The Great Change.,
or ienry jr. cops.
TELEPUONKS MAIN TUB. UOltB. A -0061.
All departnwata raarttrd br " oomber.
Tall tba operator the eapartmant jrd want
Kaat Side of tic. HUU; Eaat 638.
FOREIGN ADVKKTtSINO BEPBESKNTATI Vg
Vmland-Brnjaml Special Adrortlaln Afenrr,
. Bronawlc Mollrilnf, lt2S riftb awtoua, !
rw; Trlbnny BnlliHiif, Chlmro.
t'lcular problems and Issues to meet J duty of the . Oregon delegation to marks on the Philippines are, how celved or accepted the Idea of such
and solve; In each decade or quad-1 rina a man against whom ehargss I ever, or comparatlyely Blight Inter-1 a commission' and appolntea' tne I
renniate. even, new Issues become J cannot be .brought, and .unite on lest. The subject Is ot Importance, I right kind of , men. Their pay I
paramount or Important, ana we ; una tor me place. The Question or out not so just mow relatively to amounts to only a few thousand
cannot face and deal witn tnera oy wnom ne nas supported for senator, otner matters nearer horned Every- dollars hut up rears this petty poi- k'f Jn h "ve again'
turning and looking backward at or whom he is going to favor for that body knows to what w allude. On ltician and objects to their payment; r V. . "7f,7 Irppointe4 time r
ent times only demand some great the bones and tombstones of Issues office, or what mau be will support these presslngly. important subjects he seeks to kill the commission. In Uv., it. come. 4joi.
sacrirlclal event to dramatize the as- and episodes that have been settled for congress, should not enter Into Mr. Taft was silent, or at most the Interest of the monopoly rail- ' B of''n yr? 1 J '' '.' I
plratlons of today Into the Justice and are dead. The world moves on. the selection; : Let the test be the spoke la generalities.. The . people roads and the allied trusts, ,
of tomorrow. And when the nation- To be and to do we must be con- nigner one or now he will con- iieea a man to succeed Roosevelt as And it should be observed that a I III ti Wn-M .-i.k.., ..r:V:.l
. . .. . . I . . .... .- j - I A..t th. v v.-in t.lA.....m.. m . I . . . . I W W ' uilici
at Birivmg ior a more equitaDie a-1 nectea wnn ui ui w- uv wi vuwi uu uvw i ui iiyuuii wutkuubi ua Muoer 01 Democrats are stsnamgiwi , cow weary and empty such
trlbutlon of the rewards of labor dav. the state and Its ' people. Having Icy there Is no doubt in with him -merely. It la sunnoBed. i ; 1 life would be. ho J
and capital shall sound its trump. President Roosevelt is constant In done that let the -name , go to the ' 1 1 1 " ' t0 try to embarrass or rebuke Boose-noe would sssra if it held no my5
Sahacrlprlon larma by BU to ar addraaa
Uailra HUM. canaaa or awucv.
ta Um
Om year.
On Mr.
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heaven help the party, the faction, his reiteration of fils neoesslty of president, let the president make I BAKER CITY PREFERS
the state or the cltlcens who try to moving right onward and being the appointment , and let the senate
stand against Justice In that day of ready to grapple with whatever con- confirm the appointee without fur-
IDECENCT. Ueit, , They should , try to broiden I'j'J lTr II'wp
' themselves enough to understand " "J tA-v r"n h,no kH
i gone glimLv., i- -k .v. nu... . -. , I
Judgment."
Add to godliness brotherly
kindness, and to brotherly
kindness, charity. II Peter
1:7.
OXLr SELF SACRIFICE 13
GREATNESS.
A'
GREAT many fine and true
things were said ot Lincoln
dnrlng the past week, and out
of them perhaps the most im
portant lesson presented from his
, life was his self-consecration, his
spontaneous, unconscious spirit of
' . celt sacrifice. He did nothing, be
yond the common necessary things
that all men do, for self; his thought
and work was always for others.
often tor the individual and always
for the country, the mass. During1
x his celebrated debates'wlth Douglas
he' framed up a crucial question to
ask the "little giant," and showed it
to big wisest political friends. With
. one voice they urged him not to put
: 4 that question, said it would defeat
him, for the senatorshlp, that being
the immediate ostensible goal of the
.. contest. He had not taken that in
' to consideration and refused to do
so. He was not fighting Douglas
for a senatorshlp; he was fighting
for a great national doctrine and
policy for the time Just ahead, for
the great crisis that he foresaw was
coming. So all though his presl
' dency he was nothing but an instru
" ment, " For himself he had no am
. bitlon, as most men who seek pub
' lie life have; his sole ambition was
to serve others, to serve and benefit
: and preserve the country. In this
quality Lincoln towered above all
our other great men, to an lncom
parably greater extent than he tow
erei above them in physical height.
. President Roosevelt truly says of
. Lincoln's career that its "keynote
' was disinterested devotion to the
welfare of the country," and that
.the difference between Washington
- and Lincoln, and our other great
men, "is shown by the fact that
: - when we think: of these two men we
think Inevitably not of glory but
- of duty, not of what they did for
' ' themselves but ot what tney did for
their fellows." This is what made
them truly, great, and Lincoln he
greater, in a broad sense and all
things considered, ot the two. And
in no other way can a man become
great in public life.
But Lincoln was thus great not
only: because he loved the peo
ple and yearned to serve them
withput thought of other reward, but
- because he believed in them, trusted
them, was confident that what they
, would do was right. And so closely
had he come In contact during all
. his developing years with the com
mon people, that he knew as by in
" tuition what they wanted, what
, would seem' to them right. But the
way to do these things was a matter
'Of long, deep study and profound
meditation.. And Lincoln in the end,
if he had lived and been praised for
, all that he had done, would have
- said it was the people rather than
' he that did it; he had only done
their will; the glory of service and
self-eacrifice was the highest glory
' that he could attain or desire.
' In a Lincoln birthday article Wil
. Ham Allen White wrote: "The les
, son of Lincoln is the old, old lesson
of life that nothing is worth doing
that does not help others. This is
as true of nation as of men. And
democracy grows strong only as it
is sacrificial, altruistic. We wax
' strong nationally only as we are able
to choose leaders like Lincoln, men
of heart and courage and devotion,
who are pledged not to help those
; who are strong among us hue to help
the weak to become strong. ' Class
rule for class benefit Is selfishness,
and selfishness is sin, which is a re
proach to any people. The party,
the faction, the class that seeks its
own advantage, inevitably must lose
It The class that seeks special prir-
' lieges .loses not only them but its
,. good name. Whatever alliance there
Y is today- of selfish Interests fighting
however adroitly against the univer
t aal demand tor distributive Justice
twill follow the slaveholder to defeat
' and destruction aa surely as there
i Is a God In Israel. : it is
. a curious thing this selective power
of democracy. ; It 'works- this self
government of ours. . The divine pur
pose is often checked, diverted, lg-
nored; ' but with "the persistency pt
' a flood it finds its"1 course and moves
onward. So sure must
one be of right winning in 'the long
run that one feels bound to declare
that a fundamental faith la the peo
ple, such as Lincoln had, is an es-,
sentlal part of a man's Working faith
-la God. Lincoln's whole life epito
mized that faith. ' Through
LAW-BREAKING SALOONS AND
DUTY-DEFYING COUNCILMEN.
fronts us ahead, "forgetting" not ther delay. There are bigger things
literally, but in a comparative sense to do at Washington than to haggle
-"the things that are behind." He over appointments.
m AM BLIND there has mim arlfnwirr . ----.- -- , -
AW I IIIBBI. (liana IIIII III I V . Mm W 1LU 1. AX tm II I trim A I HiiKk.l
mering, a dispatch says, and Z.I . " : " v -. . -i . v .r"v,WBUl :w "-oluteiy th
IT Baker City 1. tranquil. .Of 'IT "TT w"f bl' 9'
course, It Is tranquil. And Us
r
HE LIQUOR license committee
of the Portland council and If
Its actions are sustained the
council itself is laying itself chair, by trying to gauge our thought
wide open to very severe prltlclsm and action by those of statesmen and
and loud complaint The Journal heroes dead and gone
wrote last week: "Each generation
has Its own peculiar work, to do,
lta own peculiar issues to face."
And this work cannot be done, either
in a high office or' an editorial
A TRAGEDY AND ITS LESSON.
cltlsenshlp will never have regret
Neither city, nor man, ever regrets
correct action. No city desires to
Her confess itself in tavor ot open nulll-
the people regardless ot. party, are land that from this Ufa or
urea or congressmen piaying peanut i "",l"ln utre was no escape, ho
politics, to the country's injury.
OLDA ROWLAND is dead.
life was the forfeit of her er- "cation of law, state or municipal.
ror. She squared her account 11 " inherent in every community i
with the world by leaving her 01 Americans w prerer decency
We have to fate as a terrible varning to others
TOE USUAL FARCE.
I
dark would he our dsapalr. how hot,
vur iota. IM WOrla WOUld b O
ft an a- - J .
ti iTi n- r"."wo irom , aeatn oJ
T IS Ati Instructive if not a grat- V"in.thi, "V ? rtm w to
living spectacle .to see a lawyer which noni Tor uV h lookhiVX
of Americans to prefer decency toll .nina tnr ynnrm trivial I opni out to ui anot h.r V?ri5V
lndecenpy. All that fs needed la for terhniAntie. m the ease of a fLW-J l.l'... '".!" )
w - - i , . . . ... . i - - w - i 1111 l m mi iijimiiHn , iit.i m it
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. ...nlnln.., farai o-n nn with. . A . ln..f .... nnf wnnli rin nltiipa nr art (at nalnt inVanaDiy a maJOrltT Will BrrBT t..,4..i. nMl.U ,...!. I SJi. ""imqriAllty.
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ptivelv concerned with. Ours is a her story is the dreadful word, "he- themselves on the right side. If it .rrrerata hnndreda of thousands of ou .ao9r or windows but for th
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The committee and council seem larger, busier, livelier, more lntelll- ware." wrB 1101 our experiment n seir- dollars. What wonder it the plain our frUndV not thiir fo?m- rmfi
lnln.ml.nd & f VII k.tDrili trt nrnltul V n n , 1 .-.a Kn.tif Iful wnrlil I Thai tn.vn. .1 hi rnlnl In thai laaf I KOVernment COU1Q naraiT nBVB a 1.0 nunl. 1 I DUt Xn fsial mmn m n4 WAman .w i
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certain saloon-keepers who are rank than theirs; it is a world now, and weeks of her life was awful. It was w 1Mue ' dlclal proceedings as a hypocritical! bin. theorwn. th um Th.y il
and constant violators of the law. a time of "live wires." a living hell. There was no moment " could not. have been true ot farce. If a man had stolen $2 froml ?!,vlJb,r us and yt we W
... ... .1 I . .. . .... iRalrAi rirv m .Ii.h. v I ... ... . I mat aomawhara than mn., k. .w
The memners or tne committee ana Because something is new or or rener, no surcease rrom tne nor-1 v - uw a citlten and had no means to em-j without our waiia thir. u lir. t.J
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council wno are taaing mis course i strange to us it aoes not roiiow mat rime secret, me sname aneaa, ana i - ww. . ip10T & nign-pncea lawyer, ne wohair but "n to limit our uv
are doing bo, manifestly, in the In- n is incredible or Impracticable. One the guilty knowledge behind were ner icials had done before what Uiekljr be In the penitentiary; but Ibrok.a up'wfu, iVStmrVbwJe the J,
toroat and at th behest Of law-1 Anam nnt alwn vm rniirt dAfltmntton b nvarnrhAlmlnr Tt mi thai tnrtnra I they have done HOW there UCVer I If a man nntHnof hlmafilf In . no-1 Of Our hearts And eauaad lm.rln.ll.
breakers and special Interests and in getting out of a rut and Uklng a of the damned. It was a torture that L.0"1!1!.6 bee? ny ""on to sitUm of sacred trust, squanders until V the'rS?,' hwlui? VoPomI
... .a a a a a a. ' Al I anna I . I t ArHfllrla A rl M,t lIHeAN an iAnsa V aa 1.... ... . .a I nf IA ih A I . . V V"r. 1
defiance or tne puoiio interest ana stroll or a run on tne swara. mere others of her sex should comprehend. ""-" vi.iau. i izoo.ooo or other people s money, Mu., . ':i T apirtion rtr t
their oathB of office. These are ser-1 are many thlgB to think of and it would be life and hope if all of lD iaw ana ll enrorcement. takes months of arguing to discover within. oiosBom
1... MfAa-a-rAei S MVa tint ttlA Af1 I A. A ana aa naani V a. Al AnAAatM-fl I t.i Iv aH m I V A I 106 Will II Ot h 1117 dUefltlOll I kAfhA. V avkaa I. WAA eAmA 1aPCl1 IrVrtW. I Tll6 DlCtUrAM W hflVA -vn .V '
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Itself Bustains them, and The Jour- thought and did; and many things Comprehending it. many an one of aDOUl " ln nrt. District At- hole through which he can escape, by thi pM.inV of ioVed onY. t
nai cannot reiram irum cairncwrw i mat tney tnougnt ana aia we wo i mem wouia pe savea ins ana woes " 7. - "- 1 ine aggregate ot maximum pntiie 1 r-------- 'ir puaaioi reuottud
lng such acUons and the public ser- Khink and do better. If an elderly that they know not ot n PP'f aw oerore. !g too severe, argues the lawyer for ideal me bTforo u. "eadT ui to Ttn
vants who perform them as they de- man will look back 50 years he will it is not surprising that hands Mayor JonM w,u doubtless do the the defense as it the court were 'daJ,1 nw! possibility
I ...... I w m, an1 am I1I DK..IN Y). T I . . PlrltUai AXlatanea unnhulu. I
serve. see that a great many impossiDiu- r-were stretched out to save the name "?...' m "-"-' obliged to give mm tne maximum importanco of the aDtrituaJ TZaIV
t. iH 41..11.. . ... ii ...v..a ii....ti,.ii .a n.u. n 1 j t. 1 an tnree or tnem ao not tnev ournt i ...... v. ii..,aj i one doea nnt : .
rruui wui luuivauuui uui um un, aa) 0101; uuu; ot utuiua nuwisuu. iv wn w ruug, i , ysuui uu ibi bvuu.i u u vuaio (.,... kii v.
of the notorious law-breaking them, have come to pass. And there but It was charitable. It was a 1 ... . 1 wuwwo guaraians wlth no crime and with too many have to po.tponVthe reMon m'S
lolnta" will be nut out of business will be many others. Progress ll crime In thosa who tried to srlve 01 W9 lw- 11 11 18 not ineIr hUBl- crlmes: he haa not had the proper condition to aome future dtr in ord!
J1UI W AA lV JU Walk V4 Ue.MVD W 414 V UiCaU Vt.V. a A wa;,. -aw 1,1 4U1 ffl 1U fcilUBO HUU It 1CU l,U (ITV VI IIUWI f AAtaVM law Br 1VA. al vjva . thai T T . f VI VA
by the publio servants whose sworn both the life and th hope of human- her relief but it brought surcease, ne" to MJ a law- wh0M " ltT chance to plead, and the whole far- 0f a further, hi her euVeof belnUT
duty it is to do bo. Such licenses lty. It involves thought and action, it was murder, a murder of two, 11 not tne business of the mer- clcai rigmarole of technical balder- S,1,JP,n(1 m-r ,,n- Pleaeure in her
as are revoked are reissued imme- and every generation, and decade, but It spared the world a nameless chant hl counting-room, nor of da,h that is always on tap for the .en.e of the riti? Vu.utx'tin.i
dlateiy TO some aummy ana not and year dearer, oroaaer tnougnt child and the mother a life of odium. --- "--"'--''""- rascal wno nas tne price,
one out of 10 that ought to be re
voked is revoked. Whyf
The councilmen cannot plead lack
of evidence. The evidence , supplied
by the police department in several
cases Is sufficient, ample. 'Besides
certain places have long been notor
ious. Every councilman knows their
common repute. And they are not
higher court Judges, to split technic
al legal hairs to protect law-break
ers.
But It Is said by some of these un
faithful public servants that it 1b il
legal, or unconstitutional, or un
just, or unfair, or too drastic, to re
voke a license once granted; that it
is ln the nature of personal property.
and more effective action. The men it was an unpardoned and unaton- man canno ieaTe lis business to
and the newspapers that are leading at,ie act and should be driven from hunt up vWnc infraction ot
the world's march onward and up
ward are ln touch with "live wires."
VALPARAISO.
T
IHE GREAT American .fleet has
Just passed Valparaiso, the
main port and metropolis of
Chile, one of the progressive
and hopeful South American repub- to shield these, It may not be cop
lies though It is not richly en- demned on high
society.
The coroner should not have lent
hla office to cover up the crime, but
It was humanltariauism. It was of
ficial perfidy, but there was ln It
the charity that tried to save a fam
ily name. A mother and a hearth
stone are the most precious of all
things ln life. If there was effort
dowed with agricultural territory
like Crazil or Argentine. It is not
long since Valparaiso suffered a dis
aster similar to that which occurred
earlier .the same year in San Fran-
The pity ot It all is that Golda
Rowland carried .her secret Into her
grave. There was a man ln the case
and he has gone unscourged. Who
Is he? What is he? Where is he?
a vested right. This 1b not bo, and clsco, and in view of the attention J These horrors are all his handiwork,
every one knows it. The excuse is
worse than. none. Revocation of li
cense is a specific legal penalty for a
saloon-keeper's violation of the law.
He knows it is so when he pays for
his license. He goes Into the busi
ness knowing that if he doei not
conform to the law bis license is
now drawn to the Chilean city some I These perversions of officials, these
information furnished by Consul I two murders, this sorrow-stricken
WInslow is Interesting. home, he wrought. Cravenly and
The loss at Valparaiso was from cowardly he skulks while the suf
1100,000,000 to 1150,000,000 ferers suffer and his victim moul
probably nearer the smaller than the gers in her grave. Possibly society
larger ngure. ur mis at least a holds him in its arms, hugs him to
its bosom. Millions of times before
it has caressed and fondled such
cheats and will probably do It mil
lions of times again. It is almost
characteristic of society to damn
the girl and forgive her betrayer,
If our physicians, our clergymen and
quarter was caused by fires ln the
forfeitable, and that with an honest six days after the earthquake. In
city council it would be revoked if I stead of collecting $180,000,000 of
he violates the law. But some of insurance as San Francisco did, the
these law-breakers evidently know Chilean town had only $10,612,500
these councilmen better than the of Insurance outstanding, of which It
people who elected them did. was able to cash only a small frac-
The revocation of the licenses of tlon. Of the whole amount or m- other worthy organizations would
a a a. a. A 1 A. . . IL . I
law-breaamg saioon-aeepera, wnen- surance in iorce at tne time ot me pUrge Portland of those who killed
ever it is legal, is a proper and neces- disaster a little over half was carried an(j covered up the killing of Golda
sary penalty. It is unltable and Just, by foreign and a little less than half Rowland, let them begin at the be
as well as legal as a penalty, and it by Chilean companies. All the com- ginning. Let them go to the root of
is necessary in order to prevent other panies settled the rire losses or tne guCh evils. Let them seek out this
saloon-keeperB from also violating last two days, which happened after skulker from his crimes, and drive
the law, and the establishment here all the fires Immediately following nim an(j others of his kind, whipped
of a reign of saloon anarchy. More- the earthquake had been out ror it to an outraged Justice,
over, as we have Btated, it is a coun- hours, on a basis of rrom 30 to 7 0
oilman's sworn duty. And in sev- per cent. But the foreign companies
eral cases there is no doubt what- refused to pay a cent for any Iobb
every, in anybody's mind, that the that pecurred Within three days after
evidence was sufficient to call for the shocks and the Chilean compan
ies compromised such claims at from
10 to 50 per cent. The foreign com
panies have successfully resisted
TRUTH ABOUT THE CURRENCY.
the imposition of this penalty.
Law-breaking saloon-keepers are
had enough, but law-breaking and
oath-violating councilmen are worse.
IT'
C
HE ALDRICH, currency bill has
,been pretty well shown up and
11 congress aare to pass it it
will be still more fully exposed
The currency Question is one that
every attempt in the Chilean courts the average citizen does not comDre-
to mane tnem pay up. xno American Dend verjr thoroughly and ln regard
company Is doing business in Chile. to which it might be easy to fool the.
Asiae rrom tne reconstruction ot multitude for a short time, but
OMPLIMENTING The Journal public buildings and the widening of whatever legislation is enacted, or
on its editorials, a reader says rstreets, everything has had to be penag any considerable length of
that they "seem to be connect- done by private proprietors, without time for discussion, will be subjected
ed with live wires." He has government aid or much credit, and to ci0Be scrutiny and analysis, and
A LIVE-WIRE PERIOD
einreBsed the editorial aim of The the work has been slow. Only a
Journal, even if the goal has not yet small portion of the destroyed dis
been fully attained. This paper lives
in the present, endeavors to be up-to-date,
and believes ln and works
for progress, forward movement, ra
tional but if necessary at times rad-
trict has been rehabilitated. Much
time has been lost from the lack of
structural Bteel and. wages have
doubled. It has taken a whole year
so described and explained by
friends of the people that they will
be able to understand it sufficiently.
In genera! terms Senator Rayner the
other danstated the important cen
tral facts about our currency sys
tem thus:
"The truth about the situation is
ln one instance to erect a single
leal, all along the line. It does not story of a steel building. So it ap-
despise the lessons or tne past, tne pears mat wnen oan rrancisco nas that the money in this country is
teaching of history, but it would not been almost completely rebuilt, Val- not equitably and fairly distributed
constantly keep its attention on these paralso will have only fairly com- an(j that it Is Bo concentrated at
while facing new issues, problems, menced that great task. points that dominate the banking in-
conditlons and circumstances. It 1 ' , " 1 a terests of the land that the people
remembers well and acknowledges TIME TO STOP THE SQUABBLE, who need the money and the agrlcul-
all that the old, now rusty and dead j
wires were Instrumental In accom
plishing, but for present practical
purposes must be connected with
present, active, throbbing, humming
'live wires."
The Journal believes In some
S
tural sections of the country and the
the law. Our system contemplates
no such nonsense. District attorneys
and sheriffs are paid by the public,
and if It is not to promote the sov
ereignty of the law, what is it for?
IS IT A "FORLORN HOPE?-
t
of life.
There are none llvtna in
aenae of life and thought who have rl
t.iuervu un mia ure mat ilea beyo
the walla and windowa nf h n.i
at time; we all have aeemed to he
HE OREGONIAN characterizes voices that r m til, V.-"?
the effort be ng made to elect MoTttJ
Deonle. through adherence to .SW wndrfur rrava binds t
If that Is not their duty, laws should Statement No. 1 of the primary law. breach, how minv .
be passed to make it their duty. If las a "forlorn hope." Is it so, indeed? J? LeLdvDJr hand that. jJ
niti.or.. v on v. 1 t. U.. .. v. an..v.n nrv, An IT.'.V"" lY ""'?na -eraea to raa
Iiuib ta w uv uvu.icui n. uu 1 uui nuiii n ana onng severed ones
the people, the "rank and file" of f!i?j?r filn- ,How wonderfully
... .... 1 ueain maae ua tender to the llvlnr
with dim. ahadowr forrJ
SOME SIGNIFICANT FIGURES.
voters, even Republican Voters, tnrnit Ever that aplrlt world preaaes abd
Tlnn't thuT want to elect u" f"piou wun aim
A'
Interstate commerce commis
sion throws light on an inter
esting and important fact which has
probably not been presented before
ln the same aspect.
We are all familiar with the fact
buu uutsu.o ur ui our own neartnaidea, belna- dei
want to, why f' lou,ler tban could ib t
hope"? Why Death haa set those voices free a
art a a nrtW ham ' anu la a, . . . m
of this?
inn Rpnmnra. lnaieaa 01 lurmuit turn, i innmnr nnr .v.rv.i.u ii.. ir.. .,j
vi mriuiuiKiAu -a At- .. ' : " ---- -- ILrr- T -,--.7 ": an ww u
nAAittiiiiiuun ui m rau- Kminau over to the legislatures to " inviatDie sings to the aoula
.... I - " " " IHAn T h aa rnmnA . A a-... - at
way statistics compiled by the wrang.e and bargain and boodle 5r of our oVn hVth"ide.. Wfl
over? Ana ir they ao want
should it be a "forlorn
cannot they do bot Tne way is ""7 .p5B.1? 10 or th frt
plain; vote only for Statement No. TttV ffiiMiSg
... . aa I AVI In 4 1 1 aa A .J . . . ". :
1 canaiaates ror tne legislature, ana --y ..rT''"I1r'.","n
that proportionately to her area, the ringsters and grafters will find "lva to cover and live the larj
Oregon's railway mileage is nearly lt more difficult to organize against "haVe rot thTrtam. with wh
the smallest of any of the states in the people next time, and thereafter. w" oothe and doiude ouraeives wi
tne union, only three. Idaho. Ne- A vlct0ry won by the people this ihe,e "Tr. "the wnTinV aSTv
vada and Wyoming, have a smaller spring "ill render future victories humanity universally. Thia aer
proportionate mneage twr 100 1 v ..nnt h.11. iht it S,K.' . i,,e,. " wn ci
icmji ..v, " " . w iuw un iu Lull iruition maaa th. ..
square miles. California on the ia a "forlorn hope." The masses of ent ""eding-, budding, pruning its wj
south has double our proportionate peopie are not fooled by Insincere wbec"."? thir." J'for mo
u" iiuwiiugiuu on me politicians as easily as tney were a "u u"n oui ior me me that la t
nnrth t-mn an1 a half flmu n.iin I . lever.
. rr uiwn-i rew years ago.
age per ivu square mnea mat this
state has. Here Is the statement: I Th rmmrii la in dutv bound to
Per 100 1 put saloonkeepers who are persist-
sq. miles. I ent violators of the law out of bus
iness. When the councilmen will
not do this, straining awkwardly to
refrain from doing their duty, the
people will form their own opinion as j
to the reasons for such misfeasance.
California ... , 4.17
Idaho . 1.74
Nevada . , 1.0 8
Oregon . . . . . , 1.92
Washington ,. , 5.07
Wyoming .. . . . 1.28
Average, whole United States. 7.S4
The plain, common people are not makes the martyr.
Contrast our 1.92 miles of railroad 1IkelT to ve UP the Prlmarv law but
Sentence Sermons
By Hiiirw V rvina
Manliness la the beat kind of cod'
ness. J
I
Ready-made opinions are always ml
flta. J
3
Smartness la never a mat oh for I
cerlty. A
i
It'a not the misery bnt the mot!
per 100 square miles with Iowa's
17.83 miles and Minnesota's 10.18
miles and these states are by no
means the highest ln the list.
Of course the answer always made
ia that we "haven't the population to
support more roads." But let us
see. Iowa and Minnesota have had
as much railroad mileage as Oregon
for forty years, hence by this time
should be pretty well settled. The
following shows the number of peo
ple who have come into these states,
per mile of road:
Population,
per mile.
California . . ,. 248
Iowa 245
Minnesota .. ., , 235
Oregon . . , , 247
Washington .. 166
In other words, Oregon is better
settled, per knlle of road, than either
Iowa or Minnesota, and 60 per cent
better settled than the adjoining
state of Washington.
PEANUT POLITICS IN CONGRESS.
this spring especially they should
demand adherence to that very im
portant feature of that law, State
ment No. 1.
Every Sunday ought to leave a
person somewhat and somehow bet
ter than it found him.
R'
TILL THERE is haggling over country banks and the country towns
the federal aistrict attorney- and mercantile and farming ihter
shlp. Mr. Bristol has announced ests and honest business enterprises
that there are many prisoners are all unable to procure it when
In the county Jail awaiting trial. The the necessity arlseB for Its use, and
court is ready to do business but all are sacrificed to gratify and ap-
things that the present generation's I tijpre is no attorney. It is indeed pease the demands that are concen
parents and grandparents believed I an extraordinary condition that in trated around the financial centers
ln, but not in all; and lt believes all Oregon there Is not a lawyer on 0f the country. We will never have
and is interested in a great many! whom all those who nave a linger permanent relief until we strike at
things that they knew nothing about. I in the pie can agree,. There are the root of the evil and reform our were to benefit illegally or nnder-
It is a new world every day. Not to j hundreds ot sound and able attor-1 entire banking system from its foun-1 hahdedly by millions where only
Hymns to Know
In Heavenly Love.
By Anna L. Waring-.
Mls Anna Letitla Waring haa writ
ten a number of beautiful poema and
from these two hymns have been taken
and have found favor all round the
world; yet their author haa succeeded In
remaining- almost unknown in her quiet
hnma in Glamorganshire. South Wales.
This hymn appeared ln her little book
entitled "Hymns and Meditations," in
I860. ,
In heavenly "love abiding,
No change my heart shall fear;
And aafe is such confiding.
For nothing changes here.
The storm may roar without me.
My heart may low be laid.
But God la round about me,
. And can I be dismayed?
Wherever he may guide me.
No want shall turn me back;
My shepherd ia beside me,
And nothing can I lack,
Hla wisdom ever waketh,
His sight ia never dim, .
He knows the way he taketh,
And I will walk with him.
EPRSENTATIVE TAWNEY, a
leader ln congress, is trying to
prevent the payment of the
members of the inland water
way commission, appointed by the
president, on the ground that he had
no legal authority to appoint such
a commission. This is a petty. My eaviour has mjr treasure,
y ,V And he will walk with me.
ywoiiiw va.vuav .UI uuillg HUB mil-
roads and trusts a service. If they
Green pastures are before me,
Which yet I have not seen;
Bright skies will soon be o'er me,
Where darkest clouds have been.
My hope I cannot measure,
My path to life la free,
the
learn and move . forward is not to
live. Stagnation Is worse than
death. Last week, Lincoln's birth
day was celebrated, and if he had
lived till now he would have lacked
a year of being 100 years old, but
his coach and his hat end the hoop
skirts of the women of that time,
are long out of date. The deep,
broad, great principles upon which
he based his action are eternal, ever
present, but those principles are not
those 'of any party ot Beet or class:
Each generation has its own par-
neys in the state who can discharge
the duties of the office with credit
to themselves and honor to Oregon
Is it the official ghosts of former
United States district attorneys that
are walkinjs r that fill , President
Roosevelt with affright, and does
he Imagine that all the lawyers of
the state might arifle with justice?
This squabbling over an appoint
ment ought, to end. It ought to end
before ; the ' country - gets the Idea
that there is not a reliable and Capa
ble lawyer In the-4tate. . It is 1 the ,
datlons in the interest of the Ameri
can people against the special inter
ests."
Secretary Taft in his speech be
fore many thousands at Grand Rap
Ids, spdke almost altogether ot Phil
ippine affairs, which must have been
disappointing to many of his audit
ors. . We think Mr. Taft has' been an
admirable governor-general of the
Philippines, and secretary of War. So
far as we can Judge, he has been
honest, 1 capable and wise. . His re-
thousands are required to pay this
very useful commission, we Would
hear no word of objection from Mr.
Tawney. or his congressional boss
Cannon. " . ;
This commission - has rendered
and is calculated to render the peo
ple of this country great and Im
mensely valuable service. It has
already helped. greatly to awaken the
people of the country to the urgent
need , of . inland ; waterways The
president did the' country an exceed
ingly valuable service when he oon-
This Date ln History. -1J7J
Death of Alphonso III of Port
ugal. 1864 Spain declared - war against
England.
rflB Edward Shlppen, distinguished
Jurist and father-in-law of Benedict Ar
nold, born In Philadelphia, Died tnere
April 18, 1808.
1804 United States frigate Philadel
phia burned in the harbor of Tripoli. .
1814 Charles Marie Wtfber. the
founder of Stockton, California, born in,
n - " rxi J 1 il.. 1 . . . . . ft n .
isavana. Jieu 111 ointmuii, jn&y w, jdoi.
: 1863 Steamer Independence wrecked
off Lower California, with loss of 129
Uvea, -, -
- 1881 William Pennington, rovenor of
New Jersey in the "Broad Seal war,
died in Newark. Born there May 4,
1878 United States senate passed the
Bland ailver bill. , -i .-i ...
1905 Jav Cooke: American flnnnnla
died, v Born August' 10, 1821
The worn out religion Is the one tl
Is never used.
a
There can be no right manners wl
out righCmotlves.
We are seldom sorry for the atlnaJ
words we have left unsaid. i
a
Ton can never wholly satisfy hei
uuugcr luiuugu iiie ears aione.
A man mlases the bleaalna tn m. A
ucuuy wnen ne crawls around It.
a
Nothing Dl eases ona kind of mlnJ
oeiier inan pounaing tne other kind.
The people who are not afraid t
are the ones the world wants to live.
Advertising the etna of onr friends'
not tne same tning as confessing
vwu.
The 'church la sure to ba laft in
dark when the preacher Is only a I
nxiuro.
Light-hearted people are almost s
10 ne rouna carrying someooay eia
Duruen.
e
Everyday exasperations are wlndof
through which we see the real nj
within. j
To shut your heart to the needs a
griefs pf other is to shut out
world's tide of Joy.
a
Tou cannot aulcken the appetite
men for righteousness by preaching
rottenness. . ,
The only sympathy some folks
tivate is a keen feeling of being so
ior tnemseives.
--. -. ki
lt's a waste of breath to point
way to heaven with your Hps while y
111a is neadea tne otner way.
George Harvey's Birthday.
Colonel George Harvey, who, thoil
comparatively young man. ia one
the most notable figures among Ami
lean puDiisners, was porn in tne townf
Peacham. Vermont. February 16. 1JJ
U. m.I.A lm i4l.atlnn fln'-'th ll
acaaemy ana aeciaea upon a -career I
journalism. Hla first work was that!
a reporter on a newspaper at gpri
field, Massachusetts. A few years lal
he went west ana continued Dis ne
paper work ln Chicago. His next m
was to New York, where in a : shl
time ne Became managing editor of
New York World.- Profitable Inv,
ments In electric railroads enabletO
In a brief time to -acquire the ownerd
of the North American Review, of whl
ne nas since oeen eauor.- in 1900
effected a reorganisation of the old f
of Harper & Brothers, and slncje t
he has controlled the destinies of
various toeriodlcala bcarlna- thair nn
This year Colonel Harvey waa honoj
wttn tne appointment - to - the Bra
jeciuresnip at aie university.
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