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THE JOURNAL Att - I INDEPENDENT ? NgWSPAPKB. C . JACK80H.., . . . rubu) ruMMied every evening exept .s,,n"'L" . arj Saadny moral Dir. at Tha Joantl Baild- ' vijr. f ma ana x aroma niwit, Portland. Or., tor tfwmlaaion tUroufh tlia nulla, a Jdlaa fatter. -v a . - - - TELKPHOMCS-MaIN T1T3. HOMK. A-OM. All tepartama reached fcy thaaa somber. am Toe oprt ttr d"irOT-ni jaw. . -.-But KUU effit. B-84-M: Kaat 83ft, rOBEIOH ADVKUTI8IXQ BEPBEaENTATIVB Vrul.xl.bfiliiiilll Snarlal AdTrtlalna ifMKT. Bronewi.-k Building. 225 Flfta aenge, New ' Vara; Tribune Building. Chicago- Cabscrlptioa Term by null to any addraaa In lb United State. Canada er Mexico. ... ' DAILY. Una - rcar..'.'....IS.(io I One month....... 9 M . . . m'VtiiT .: - ear...."r..W I One month.......! Si DAILY AND BCNDAY. ..... .17.60 1 One BHiDth... One ear. .$ .5 How happy la he, born or . r-, taught. That aerveth not another'." will;. - - Whose armor Is bis honest , i thought, And. simple truth his ut- -. ' ' , ,; - Wottbn. RAISE OP RAILROAD FREIGHT , RATES. , E LSEWHERE In this Issue The Journal republishes an editorial which! appeared In Its columns on April 18, in which it quoted from the Wall Street Journal, pre dicting a general ad Vance In .railroad freight rates in the near future. The prediction has been verified, accord- - lngf-turrent-ports,-'eren-iKoner . than expected. It is stated that all railroads hetween : the Mississippi river and the Atlantic, and north of : the Ohio Vlrer, will false rates next July about 10 per cent, calculating to gain "thereby 1100,000,000 a year.' Of course this Increase will Indirect ly If not directly affect the northern transcontinental roads also. In fact, all other roads will soon make then same announcement, doubling or trebling the Increased revenue.. - Are the people going to stand for this arbitrary and insolent increase , of the tax on their products, for the benefit of -a few millionaire Wall street speculators 7 And hqw. If: at all, can they help themselves ? .' That under; proper, , honest management and) disbursements 61 earnings this increase of rates is necessary nobody believes. The railroads running Into - the Pacific northwest are malting big net profits; enormous dividends, and all the other principal roads are do- "Ing welT, except'as they fall Into the -hands o wreckers like; Ryan. This ' Increase "Ineans BJmply'vthe holding up of the producers' and consumers of the country by the combined, rail road monopoly to theextenf of prob ably; $300,000,000 a year more than they would" have otherwise had to pay. It is an arbitrary, unconscion able' tax that the railroads can Im pose because they are stronger than the government, 1 s The people will . not" long endure . this species of highhanded robbery. . Not only Is such an Increase of rates unreasonable and Inexcusable, but, as we showed In the' editorial quot ed, It is a dangerous, Intolerable as sumption of the power 'of unlimited taxation by these corporations, one that the people are bound to resist. The people have unlimited power to tax themselves,-but if the railroads have equal power of unlimited taxa- tion, then indeed the liberty of the people Is gone: they are thence forth mere serfs of the railroads. If ; rates are attempted to be reduced, the railroads invariably; plead "con fiscation of their property"; but such an Increase of rates is conflsca tio by private corporations of the whole people's property. A SAMPLE TARIFF FLANK. I T MUST have, been a very dull man or a practical joker who wrote the' Iowa Republican tariff plank. , Fir6trit':Bays:v "W,e de clare unequivocally for protection as - the cardinal principle of the Repub lican pary, and we affirm our un alterable purpoee- tov maintain it," This sounds strongly standpatish, but the declaration proceeds: "Events have; confirmed the ' wisdom of the makers of the national platform of 1904 wherein the party pledged re . adjustment? of f rates ' of, duty only when conditions so changed that the public interest demanded their alter-: ' atlon.' In accordance with this dec laration of four years ago; the Re publican party of Iowa indorses the declaration of the. Ohio Republican platform of this year in behalf of re ' vision of the tariff by a special ses sion of next congress, etc.' .. Not only do the Iowa Republicans want their "cardinal principle" re vised think of revising a "principle"- because it-; isn't working right; but with what seems to be the malign sarcasm of a practical Joker they point to the unkept, violated, ignored, continued promise of 1904 as a basis for a new promise to be made In 1903. That is to say: "We made a promise in 1904 that we didn't , intetid to , keep and haven't kept,' and now we make another promise of Just the same sort. , ' , But writing tariff planks for po litical parties Is a ticklish business these ay8. : . , .What, the , Democratic , pjntferm may say isn't of much con-l Rrquonve, for during the next four years the. senate will be Republican, and a pod many Democrats, once in I'oncrti, Worn protectionists, 'and as t; , riblkaa platform promises '- ' ; - 'rT': of . revision after ' election- they are like piecrust. 1 And then nobody knows what kind of revision.. Even the Independent party is likely to dodge this question" or Jean to pro tection. . Ail of which means that party platforms have become mere platitudes -of fat-witted insincerity, enunciated to ioQlJVQters-i----i A SILLY PLEA. OW from a' negligible quarter cornea aa appeal to voters to support Cake in order to sup port Roosevelt and his policies. It is to smile. . We think not many Republican papers of Oregon will fol low this foolish lead. . Trying to get Totes for eandidatesln Oregon . on Roosevelt's account has been rather overworked already. The same plea was made for Blnger Hermann. The Portland gamblers appealed to their friendship for Teddy and his policies. Devotion to Roosevelt has figured as a plea la behalf of various scoundrels and scalawags in Oregon for the past seven years. Not that Mr. Cake .Is such a person, but the Roosevelt plea.1 i r t. 1 m l iu uresuu uaa uewuio vuo tuat im mediately arouses suspicion against the person for whom it is made. But If voters lay that prejudice asidet what stupid ignoramuses they must be taken for when ' it Is as sumed that -they will swallow the gratuitous assumption that Cake rep resents Roosevelt policies more than Chamberlain. Who in congress to day are supporting Roosevelt and his policies? A small minority of Re publicans -and' almost all the Demo crats. If any party In congress is opposed to- the Roosevelt policies It is- tha: Repnbltcan"Tparty7"Ws"kndw that the great mass of Republicans are supporters of Roosevelt, but the party leaders are not, and they con trol congress, and as a rule control new Republican members. . ' . v But admitting that Mr. Cake Is a sincere supporter of the Roosevelt policies. Chamberlain .' is an even stronger ; and more outspoken sup porter of those same policies. Nei ther has he become so Just lately, bnt has been iso declaring himself for years. There Is not a single one of the Roosevelt poycles which the peo ple of Oregon are greatly interested in and desirous of seeing carried but, that will not be cordially, ably and lnfluentially supported by Chamber lain if he should be elected to the senate. And ne people knowV it. Of what ue,' then, is this silly pre tense that Cake, a far1 more doubtful quantity In this respect, must be elected in order that- Oregon shall support Roosevelt policies? It is nothing short of an insult to the in telligence of Oregon voters. . r If Chamberlain should carry Ore gon in Jane, the country would know that' Oregon was in dead earnest In its support of Roosevelt's policies and most features of his administra tion. : Because the man elected is a Democrat would make that, fact es pecially -and peculiarly emphatic. Oregon, it would be eald, takes.no chances ? on "a dubious" and untried man; it selects even a Democrat be cause the voters of Oregon-know he can be implicitly depended upon, under whatever administration comes, to support s Roosevelt s pol icies... ' . GOOD WORK FOR ONCE. I F THE murderer of Nathan WoUf has really been caught, andS it can be established that the man Martin is the guilty one, the po lice department and certain officers who had charge of the case, are cer tainly entitled to much credit. It had become so almost invariably the case that the police were unable to eaten a murderer that the capture of this man comes as an agreeable sur prise. Nobody expected-the capture of the surely right man, hence all are pleasurably disappointed, at the re sult, as it now appears. This is es pecially the case as the capture ap pears to have been the result not of mere fortuitous circumstances or good luck, but of really good, shrewd work in tracking down the criminal. The horrible nature of the murder, the fiendish mutilation of the dead man, added to the public desire for the murderer's capture and punish ment. Even murder can be accen tuated, even this greatest of crimes can be blackened, by the manner In which' it is done, and few murders wear a blacker hue than this one. If it prove true that the police have such a murderer inLcqstody, their reputation will Justly rise several de grees. TV OREGOX "MOBOCRACY.M T HE Washington Post, owned by John R. McLean, a plutocrat who formerly posed as a Demo crat, : also imagines that Oregon has gotten Into miry trouble on ac count of its primary la Wi the initi ative and referendum; and Us effort to elect senators by the people,; an "attempt' to override the constitu tion of the United States."; It Is al ways to be observed that whenever the people attempt TCcr do something in their own . interest, and td . take charge of their own affairs, the plu tocrats 'and ring politicians are ex tremely solicitous about -the consti tution. - For their purposes the con stitution is exceedingly plastic, and can be . ignored altogether,;, but , as Boon, as the people propose to choose thefr. own , senators the plutocratic patriots cry out Jtbat the sacred con stitution is being violated. V The Poet thiuks Chamberlain will p robably Mia the election la June, and says that "the people of Oregon are apparently willing to have a Re publican legislature and Democratic representation In the " senate here." Certainly," it the ; people so decide, Don't, they, know better what they want than a few self-eeeking bosses? Or even than 46 average men la a legiBlaiurelVWhem are. the senators to serve, the whole people or only a few, of only .their parties, as, a few leaders direct? ;The people of Ore gon, the Post says, are inclined to lg nore .''political politics." We should think eo; :. Or, rather, they are trying to get rid of the common brands of "poliUcal politics." They, have had their fllfof it. . . So the Post, after reading the Portland "morning newspaper, con eludes that the people of Oregon have become a "monocracy." .Very well, a name doesn't hurt.' Better a mobocracy than a plutocracy, a thiev- ocracy, or a bossocracy. As long as a majority of the people of Oregon, than which there are no more intel ligent, worthy people in the country, constitute the "mob," the state 4b safe, and the rest of the country need not worry. A Portland paper that is not per mitted td have any political opinions of its own, and in fact Js not In any sense its own and ' can't have; any opinions, rehashes the stale theory that Democrats voted heavily to de feat Fulton in the primaries. There has never been a particle of evidence supporting this assertion. On the contrary, the almost universal opin ion is thatabf the few Democrats who voted as Republicans, about 'three fut of four voted for Fulton, as probably- a weaker . man than Cake.- A newspaper must.be in extreme need of -some excuse when It resurrects this paltry Invention as a reason for supporting Cake. ' "Roosevelt and his administration are the chief assets of the Republican party," says the Republican Louis ville Post Isn't this treason to the "principles," and "policies,'.' and "purposes," and "traditions," and "tendencies," away back? Many Republican leaders look upon Roose velt and his administration as anti Republican, as being disruptive and destructive of .the party, and are anxiously awaiting the time when the party will be rid of him and his ad ministration. Party is a nebulous thing these days. Oregon gets another snub in the cutting down by the house committee of the Crater Lake park appropria tion from $30,000 to $10,000, and then to $3,000, indicating that 80 cents may finally be allowed. This matter. is not so important as sonie others, yet deserves better treatment than this, for there is no other Crater lake in the country, nor anything tike it The people of Jackson .county offer to dohelr part,-If the govern ment will help, but $3,000 will not fairlylbegln the necessary work. ' .. The Journal, has. no dpubt of the result of , the referendum on the state university appropriation, which will be sustained, as it should be, by a large majority. The . people' of Oregon are not going to vote their state university into the educational boneyard. - The Corvallis Republican has dis covered that for the legislature to elect a senator chosen by the people at a previous general election would be unconstitutional and void. But the purchase of a Beat by, bribing members of the legislature Is, of course, quite constitutional. An exchange says: "Congress man Ellis of Oregon is of the opinion that just at present a certain kind of hysteria prevails throughout the country." He must have somehow discovered thai some people are try ing to do something. ' Philander C. Knox's Birthday. Philander C Knox United States sen ator from Pennsylvania, and Indorsed by the Republicans of that state for the presidential nomination, was born In Brownsville, Pennsylvania, May , 185. He received his education in Mount Un ion college, Ohio, from which institu tion he graduated In 1872. Three years later he was admitted td the bar, and began the, practice of law in Pittsburg. Inal87 he was appointed " asaUtant United States district attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania, which position - he resigned at the n4 - of a year to resume his legal 'practice. The law firm of which he was a member be came one of the most prominent in Pittsburg, representing; the Interests of many of the large industrial corpora tions of that city. Tor a quarter of a century or longer Mr. Knox took an ac tive interest in the Republican politics of Fittsbunr. but never sought public office. In 1901, upon the earnest solicits Hnn nf tha nrABlnent. Mr. Knox left nri. vate life and accepted the position of at torney-general m tne caoinst or wesiaent McKinlev. f A few years later he -was appointed to fill the vacancy in the iTnitp,! fUatea senatorshln caused b tne death nfTJenator Quay, and In 1906 Sen ator Knox was etecteq ror tno riui term. 57 Aid for the lVaf. : New Torfc May 1. To tha Editor of The Journal Lip-reading Vis coming more and mora to be a resource for the adult hard-of-hearlng. There are few who cannot be much benefited byit 'Up- Keamng stmpiinedy -- by itiwara . is. Nitchie, Which Has been running serial ly In Courage, is now published In pamphlet form; and av friend who Is interested In the Jaf has paid for a generous number of copies which we have bem, requested to , distribute to thore who care to ask for Id Will you not help in this philanthropy by print ing this letter to tell your hardrof hearing readers th'at they may secure the lesRons for tha kinir wierelr the name and address on a postal card is, oiiuuKii. . mi lessons conniiiuie a iuu course for . elf-lnstruetion.". - E. It. LOGAN. ' AMilstant' to editor of Courase, , 1E : Fifth avenue, '.fiew York. - f v v ; T .' 'I 1 iX-Ki -- Why Is It?, . Frotn the Chicago'-journal. T-i " ." That when the street car , conductor .touches j-ou tuij the .HHmiiiler you feel guilty, even though Ijrou've paid -your - " . ."" ' 1 (. ; . . . . . - , - . . . . Small CLangc - ' VToUUca t? the rear Just now, - y 'V . - ,And It didn't rain tLf tar JL That crowd deserved a good gams. Th roM bushes art getting- ready. . Statement No. 1 la the bis laaua on june a. n , , . Knox' Is the brainiest man amnnr the vuuiuawai , , ...ji,... . ' . . . - Now Senator Joe Ballev will ' swell una strut more lima ever. . Emma's talk won't hart anybody, as- peciuiy it iney stajr away. - No otheV boom thin Taft'a arrows I bit unless It Is Roosevelt's. - " The ara v to set rid of Emma Gold man Is to pay no attention to her. I . Truth, crushed to earth, sometimes taxes a long time in rising again, Then some say the sweetenlnar of the u&ae nas . au Deen put on me . auriace. Tha'TjeODla of Multnomah eount-r owe a good deal,, not money, to lorn word. The ker td success does a ma little krood unless he can find the light key- Ha Jests at revecsreful disanooint' ment who sever was a defeated candi date. . , : The Commoner would no doubt ap prove of Bryan's 'election te the preal- aenoy. ... ., , A Democrat Is as likely to b. a sun- porter of .Roosevelt's policies as a Re- puoucan. How would ft do to harmonise mat ters by leaving .both senators off the jieiegauonr The voice of the camDalarn orator win scarcely be heard or heeded while the baseball umpire Is hollering In. the town. .".. ,y .l :..... ? An insane maa addressed the senate from the gallery and was tmt ont. Jeff lavls, being a member, couldn't be put out. What Orecon needs ta the senate Is men who know how to do thlns-s lor Oregon; party politics i is of. little con- WW Why doesn't Bonl come over to America and try again? Doubtless sev eral million heiresses would Ilka . to marry mm. An Indiana man has taught his dog to speak several words in the English language. Probably he will soon be able to hurrah for tha party. It was Oliver Goldsmith who wrote "Winter Lingering Chills the Lap of May." But May's lap will be too warm for the remnant of the old skeleton soon. ' e Representative Mann, chairman of the committee hearing evidence about the paper trust, could not be more sealously f riendly and partial , to that monopoly If he were Its high-salaried attorney. Oregon Sidelignts Farm Improvements ara noticeable around Brownsville. t e Elgin raised 11,000 In a few minutes for publicity work. Several new stores will be opened in Coos bay towns. . . The mercury reached (I at Myrtle Point one day last week. The business of the Dallas creamery, established last year, Is growing rap Idly. From the Weston mountain locality 46 carloads of potatoes have been shipped recently. ' . County udge Newell of Josephine county, In less than two years, has married 67 couples. The work of plowing; grading and graveling the county roads in various parts of Polk county has already been begun and will be carried on extensive ly this summer. . The creamery at Prairie City Is arous ing the farmers of that locality to the tact tnat tnere is money in cows and the Institution is growing more In ravor with tne farmers every day. R. D. Hume will build two gasoline schooners for service between the .Rogue river and Port Orford, the latter being made Mr. Humes snipping station. They will be 60 feet In length, with 15 foot beams. . The forest reserve in Curry Includes seven tenths of the territory embraced 1ir the boundary of the county. Tho government nas never yet taken so much of any one territory, and why should' It be Curry? asks the Gold Beach Globe. . , j . -1 Haines Record: Farmers throughout the valley are wearing broad smiles on account oftha splendid crop prospects. A" Powder river valley farmer always wears a smile, because of the fact that a crop failure Is unknown here. '''''"', . What Is said by stone experts to be one of the finest bodies of granite, suit able for building purposes. In the United States has been uncovered four miles out of McMlnnville, The quarry is 45 acres In extent and of unknown depth. John Rees of Spring Hill seems to be a very popular man In tha Democratic ranks, says the Corvallis Republican, he is holding the office of road super visor, and at the primaries he was nomi nated constable for Fairmount precinct, also elected as central committeeman. John Is bewildered, as the state con stitution prohibits a person from hold ing more than one elective office. . ' ' ' The white-breasted ' martins, with their cheerful chatter, have returned to Bend this spring and taken up their abodes in last summer's nests, and ars busily preparing for the rearing' ef this season's brood, says The Bulletin.- These handsome little birds are great de stroyers of insects that harm fruit 'and other agricultural crops add should be protected. , , Meuford Mall: A picturesque and typical .regon girl is that of a former school teacher, now a homesteader, who may be seen almost dally-In high top boots jumper and overalls, with rifle on shoulder, mounted on her pony, with a large mastiff trailing behind her horse's heels, as she wends her way to and from her homestead. This young lady left a lucrative position, hied herself to the - hilis, filed on a. homestead, upon which she has built herself a neat cabin, cleared an acre or two of ground, fenced the same, raised several hos, planted a garden and has done much In the-way of Improvement, -. . . . , Made a Blander. Frank -Davey ! in -Burns News. At Salem three. Statement Kb. 1 tUdates and two Republican .' voters' choice candidates; were i nominated .for the legislature.: Hal D. "Patton; a most enthusiastic young Republican business mail, heads -the Statement No, 1 ' forces, ft Is oalv- a short time since the party leaders' there were' determined to read the Statement No. 1 fellows out of- the party ranks entirely, but even such. utrcng men. as JDr. Smith snd T. B. Kay, state senators," can .be. mistaken some times and .WtTTfcrtainly : made bad blunder this time. ,, i WILL JAPAN GO BROKE? ' BY FREDERIC J. IIASKIX. , . ; Copyrlght. 1905, by Frederic . Haskin.) J Tokio, April 5. Poverty-stricken Japan is spending money as If there was never a day or. reckoning.. Its .people groan' under heavy; taxes, and Its industries' are ufferlng?the reaction which' follows artificial K stimulation.' ' The Question one is forced to ask of this DrodlKal youna- spendthrift of the nations Is: Will shiest and wisest of Japanese statesmen and business men have coun selled caution, but the military clique is in the saddle and, "drunk with sight of power," seems determined to Bpend and spend until the last cash Is gone. ' ,'. , i The burden of taxation in Japan per capita Is $4.05, considerably less than ne per capita burden of $195.' in the United-States, which Includes national, state and city taxation. But It must be remembered that In Japan the average Income per capita Is only $17 a year. while In the United Sfcates It is $275. If tha American people were to pay. taxes for one year at tha rate Imposed now upon the Japanese, the result would be a surplus In the treasury of over $6,000, 000,000. enough to Dav off the national debt, the state, city and municipal debts, and have a balance sufficient to pay the arnment Ufr four mora , years without iuuuiuk expenses or in national gov. uaiuua vu uuugieas lor anotner cent. Tha details of - this taxation ; would drive the Ordinary American eltlsen to distraction. Everything Is taxed, and in a aoxen ways, xne land -tax. which is tha largest single item of revenue,' Is based on an assessment svatem whinh appraises the value of the land at the amount for which It would rent for one year, un city property the national land tax Is SO per cent and the city tax 10 per cent per annum. Suddoss in i an American city a man had a house which wouiu rent ior iiuw a month.. Under the Japanese system of taxation be would bo required to tav S360 of his i son in come for land tax, In addition to the tax imposed upon mm aa a business man, UDOH his tenant aa a. tan the Income which remains after tha first set of taxes is taken out . . iwa4t4Jtaooma .yasv-mi.1. The graduated Income tax is Imnosed upon all Incomes of more than $150 a rear, ir the aama rule applied In Amer ca, a book keener who gets tlAO a nuinth would be -required to pay $78 a year In come tax. Any person so fortunate as to enjoy an Income of ISO.ooo a. VMr must pay $7,426 tax each year, or nearly k cwi wuuwijr, a street railway is required to pay 20 per cent of its gross receipts Into the treasury, la 11m. ited to 1-cent and 2-cent fares, and yet imuiugss to pay a n par cent dividend. If any member of any city council In the United States woud dare to suggest that the street railway In Mm eitv mi fares to cents and in addition thereto pay a tax of 20 per cent of Us gross re ceipts, tha whole town would say he was cra.iv. But that is what they do- in Japan and nobody, complains. One street railway navmg some 60 miles of line, suffered all this and then made so much money la Tlividends that! the city gov eminent decided to take It over at tha city's price and pay for It In city bonds at par, regardless or tneir market value. inis is tne system a business man lit apan naa to contend with. Tobacco, unit and camphor ara gov ernment monopolies, and all profit to be made in those lines is converted directly imo tne national treasury. Tne railways are owned by the government, and while the passenger service Is excellent and cheap, the freight traffic Is said to suf fer greatly. At any rate the revenue from the roads is going into the general funds and not tor Improvements. The taxes on tne sale or aaka. tha natlnnol beverage, and. other everyday necessi ties oi tne neopie. were -already n nr. mous but the diet has recently raised them. There Is a consumption tax on eating sugar and wearing clothes. Noth ing under the sun that can be taxed is left untaxed, and yet this is a country where the farmers cannot eat tha Mrh quality of rice which they grow, but must export it to other and more fav ored lands, while they Import inferior rice from China for their own use. Im- glne the American farmer being foroed to sell everything he raises and buvlnr inferlor stuff to eat! How long would ho stand it? Millions for Expenses. Japan has about half as many people i the United States, and about one twentieth its wealth. Tet the Japanese nation spent last vear t315.000.OOS. aa against the United States' national ex- endlture of $578,000,000, or mora than alf of the American outlay. These fig ures do not take Into account the pro fectural and municipal expenditures In Japan nor the state and city expenses in the United States. - The money spent by the United States for army and navy expenses and im provements amounted to $199,000,000. Japan spent In the same year $98,000,000 for Its army and navy, or just about one half of that spent by America. These figures show that Japan Is spending money at about half the rata the United TAXATION BY (The following editorial Is repub lished from The Journal of April IS, 1908. The predictions contained In it are now about to ba fulfilled! according to eastern dispatches). ' , Since January last, rumors of a more or less tangible nature have been afloat that there would have to be advances In rates generally on all of tha rail roads to fill depleted treasuries caused by declining - traffic. ' These ' rumors, which originated In , Washington, were persistently circulated as though soma one in official life was feeling the pub lic pulao. It has how reached .a point where, as so reliable a paper as the Wall Street Journal says, "unless plans fail there is every prospect of a general advance in rates on all traffic lines east of Chicago, which average about 15 per cent"; this aetknby the eastern lines Is to be followed by similar action on the part of the western lines. The advance is claimed to be Justified by depression in business ' The Wall Street Journal very guardedly indicates what has been done and the influence ' which has been at work. It says: "Taere Is of course no authority for stating that tha president or any. mem ber of his administration have approved of - such advances in rates v. In fact, as is clearly, pointed out, there Is no occasion for an advance in rates' to originate In, or be sanctioned - In ad vance, by Washington. , 'However.it can be stated . on the highest authority that soma very prom inent men in : the railroad world have discussed the question of an advance in rates ' not only with ths commis sion,' but with ths president as well. "Railroad men or much influence have recommended to- the administra tion that an advance in railroad rates la the sole panacea for the present rail road situation. It may also be said that these suggestions - have made a deep impression on tha mind of tha presi dent." .'"' -..-.'..!"-..'., .-Hf. It . would be . well ; for the people to give heed to these intimations and be on : their guard. The reports may or may not be justified. - It might, how ever, be said that the people of this country are not hva humor for trifling. If this conflict between the people and can-fihe'Tnterests is to never cease as long as " .these transportation ' companies are in ' private hands, then there will ? ba' but one end. If the people lose con fidence in the machinery of justice, or In the executive or legislative branches of tha government in dealing with the carriers. the(end is in sight. f Fundamentally there is no distinction between a tax levied by the govern ment' for its needs. And a transporta tion tax levied by a railroad - for its needs. - If the principle ,. is once con ceded that tha railroad under -tha law can regulate Us tax or rates solely by lis , requirements, tne samr as a city Japan go broke? , Many -of the States is spending' It. which Is in pro portion to the fact that Japan has half tne population, but is not at ail in pro portion to the far-more Important' fact that the United States has 20 times the wealth. - Japan's "national debt is also in the same proportion." being almost as much per capita as that of thex United Btstes, notwithstanding its greatly In' ferior resources and ability, to pay,. , : ' While the ' Japanese government has been prodigal with subsidies and has spent a great aeal or money for educa tion and for Internal- Improvements, by far the-greater Dart of the taxes gath ered and money expended has been along military lines. Tne war with Kussia increased the national debt from a quar ter of a billion to nearly a billion, and at the same time taxes were Increased almost fourfold. The heavy Increase of taxes was made for war purposes, and It was promised that when the war waw over the taxes would be reduced. But this promlsa was not fulfilled. On tha contrary the diet decided to continue the war taxes In full force until 1811. and tha present program of the ruling oll- garcny contemplates"- even greater in creases. - . ' . . r - , , x TtMiti for War. v Tha men who control the government of Japan are few in number, but their ability has been proven by the fact that' japan naa eraerged irom a state or piv 1 lixation comparable -with that of Eu rope In tha middle ages, and has taken rang as a rivat ox tne great wona powers. All this has been accomplished under the leademhin of tha same men who still rule the country. Men of their ability and experience cannot fall to ap preciate tna- lactnar-'tneir - policy m draining tne country -oi lis very me tiinod. TMa .hrtno-a tin tha nueation: Why continue this enormous use - of money in preparation for war? ' To that Inquiry there ara two replies vouensareo. Tne Japanese in autnority declare that It la merely to place the military and naval establishment of the f overnment on a sound oaais in oraer hat war may be Insured against. They deolare that a great army and navy Is a fiecessity to an isolated nation; especial y to one that la just beginning to com pete with other great countries and wnirn. tnererore. - mun Da rrpnaraa - iu contend with envy and jealousy. The other reply is thai of those students of tha far east who- see In China the the atre of the' next great world-contest. Thev say that Japan, a country without raw resources and without rich terri tory, must find an outlet for Its en ergy, if Japan can gain political ana commercial control vf China It will re tain - its piace among xne iirst-ciass powers, supplementing in commercial J'ar Its victory of arms. Therefore, apan Is bleeding its own people in or der to nreoara tha arm v and navv that will back up Japanese domination of China and assure the ultimate prosper ity of the mikado's subjects, ' ' . Peopla reel Borden. ' - Whatever may be the ultimate pur pose of the present policy in Japan, Its present affects 1 ara apparent and ap palling. All over the country banks are falling, the little factories are clos ing down, the - people are- feeling more and more the burden -oi-tha -great tax ation. Business men who have upheld the hands of the, governing party are beginning to sound warnings to whioh the government turns a deaf ear. For eign capital is frightened by the history of the corporations which have been taken over by the government without warning,' Even the largest subsidised concerns are leaning heavily on the few ?reat banks of tha nation. . Lopklng to he future the Japanese business man can see nothing out Dannruptuy. The JaDaneaa statesmen, however. look ahead only to tha glory of their nation and counsel the people to bear ail ins patiently ror awmie ' and tnen Japan will be the England of the ori ent, the mistress of the Pacific and the queen of Asia. They will not ad mit even tha possible danger of finan cial disaster. With clever book-keeping they shq,w the people how the debt will be paid In a very few years without ad ditional taxation. For the purpose of playing to the foreign world they ar range a great exposition 'at a cost of many millions, all to be borne by the government. Tney pian great railways, great factories, great hotels all to be paid for from the public funds. And they believe that the virtue of the an cestors of the emperor, and the match less patriotism of the Japanese people will bring, them safely through. . But even In Japan there are business men, equally as patriotic, who csjnnot eeeany other result of the present policy bat national bankruptcy. THE RAILROADS or county,-then publlo ownership must follow.' .' ", "'v.v In levying a tax for publlo purposes, tha taxing1 body makes and ' can make no Inquiry as to , the ability of the taxpayer . to pay. Tha money la re quired. It must ba paid. , --?" If regardless of .conditions, of valtie of service, of ability to pay, a rail road Is permitted to advance rates, then tne power Is too great ' to be left in private hands. In any other business, to advance prices in the face of falling ?iarkets or declining; business would be oily. But tha railroads are not to be controlled - by the ordinary , ecbnomlo laws. They must get their Income ir respective of business conditions. Mills may close, manufactories run on short time,' merchants economise and thous ands be thrown out of employment, but the railroads must tax to ths limit what they move. No matter If for years past their business and income- have grown by leaps and bounds, at the first sign of a decline rates 'must be ad vanced, thus adding to the difficulties of those - In other lines of business who have not been endowed with this power to tax. The business interests of the north west have had an ample demonstration aa to what arbitrary advances In rate mean, as the idle mills and men t so equally testify. A measure like the Fulton amendment to prevent such ac tion is quietly pocketed by a commit tee nacked in. the Interests of the rail roads without a-word of protest but If . these reports are true a raise In rates may be agreed on In advance of a hearing, It la difficult to believe that these, things-can be true,' vet . It would, ba well y for shippers to be on their - guard and lt their , wishes be known.;;;- .'K i, .. .,. . Much wight be said of the 'fatuity of the railroads in pursuing this course, of the failure In results which Is cer tain to follow, but the principle in volved so overshadows alf other con sideration as to make such discussion ' at this ' time seem almost puerile. - This Date in History ! 1706; Leopold. I, 'emperor of Austria, died. - ! . ,. - 1758 Andrea Masxena, tha greatest or Mapoieons masnais, born at Mies. 181 Oswego, New-York, taken by a combined force of British and Cana aian troons.' in.' ' -, 1859 Alexander von Humboldt,' fa mous naturalist, died in aBerlln. Born there September 14, 1769. - . " ere i 1862 Henry u. Thoreau, poet, aiea. Born July 12. 1817, 1868 Argument In the Impeachment trlnf of President Johnson cloned. 1S82 CroWn' Princd Frederick .Wil liam of Prussia born. . . 1806 Morek than score of lives lost in a tornado near Marquette, Kansas. 1907 Rev. Jiohn Watson (Ian Mac laren) dled. Bora November 8, 1850. TieREAm Community Gardening. " T J r5 0 NE of the newjdeas" that is gain ing ground in certain suburban districts la that of planting the flower, garden in- a community schema ; so that V tha t whole neighborhood becomes a beautiful pic ture, instead of . presenting,: a a Ms-, so often the case. ' a hi Atnk v a nna a mm ' ' with one garden color scheme conflict-; mg with that of another, and the whole presenting an appearance of haphazard planting. It . offers an opportunity also," or fostering the community spirit In tha neighborhood.-with -sufficient chance for cornnetition tn null. iii fni..... ing. . f . - .. ; .-. '- V . .. , in our favored town . the idea could' be worked out to perfection, and now is the time, if the idea is to be takvn ; up. With a little consultation and' friendliness anv of Portland's auKurha. or for that matter, any city street may , ba made a beautiful picture, gladden- it is evident enough to anyone tht umeining is. wrong when a bed of purplish magenta petunias . ecoupies - a place in the foreground, of a garden and in a similar position on the next neigh- hi),'. ... 1 l i . geraniums or r"' t"y"" ckiwiiii awn scaiiei Salvia. : -,V-':-.rV--, With' a little- common nnlltanaaa iiiil consultation such glaring errors may be avoided.. The mistakes made by one of a group of gardeners in this community method may be made the basis of tha education of all tha rest, and It Is of COUrse not neceaaarv that tha aama man should grow the same thing year after years If ha does not want to., Most of us, however, have our fav orite flower, tha thing that we under stand and therefore obtain splendid re sults from. With one It Is rosea, with another brilliant annuals, with- another sweet peas. What is urged in tha com munity gardening Is that each -ona should grow the thing ha httnaair hat loves, If his choice of a location does not conn let wltn the color scheme of tha -. waol --- plan. - --n A group of neighbors In small east ern suburb triad the plan and their results are interesting, aa told , in Su burban JUfa: s'.,. '..,; t - ,!;. .r.,,;'v One neighbor liked tha Sweat Wil liams they reminded him of his - boy- hnlH Hav, .Tut lit mnth.. ...! bloomsso last summer, from a strait. gly few stalks of (the flower tucked-" away in secluded corners of tha garden, they were elected - to a' tilaca of honor and, holding sweet sway, they stood In - ineir primness au oi a .neignt, xrom tha front gate to the house, on each side of tha path. Near the house they parted and wandered around the build ing out of sight. A large, oval bed was cut for them In the center of the fin a lawn. ItlH avarvhnriv atralahraray felt the charm of the scene aa he passed by. - . " '."" In tha next flower garden, snare was devoted to pansles. A mixed border to. the lawn glowed like a jeweled mosaic A round bed held white nansles: an other, large yellow blooms; and a third bed, all tha delicate purple shades. Low veranda boxea were filled ' with the blooms to match the border, not a bit of the box showing, the drooping vino MMflMtln. 1 1 - "Tha householder whose garden ad joined tha pansy-lover's chose aliy pinioned sweet peas, and trained theaa In a beautiful luxuriance. They grew up the latticed verandas, and Over tha wire fence that separated the garden from the street. I was not aw ara that there were so many beautiful shsdea of color until I had followed my host ess from hedge to veranda trellis, and other sweet pea arrangements about the garden, such aa a fan-shaped trellis on the lawn, and the column of sweet peas. This latter was a decided nov elty. A cylinder of chicken wlre-fenc-Ing was made, four feet high, and tha avines trained upon it. "One of ' the gardens that deserves special ; mention was that of . the ge ranium. They were grown ' from seed the previous summer, and,' whesf cold weather came, they were fine stocky plants. When spring came, they were planted In their pots that Is, the pot were sunk"" in the soil to form a round) bed In front of tha dining-room win dow; others made a bank of bloom against the house walls In ail tha geranium colors." In thta connection a suggestion may ba made of a combination of bloom that Is seldom seen and which la one of tha most brilliant and servloaabl schemes for a Portland home Imagin able. It Is simply scarlet geraniums and; La Marque roses. One of ths bright est pictures that memory brings up to me, is of a garden spot about the old water power-house of the Contra Costa Water company In Oakland, whera this -combination, soma years, ago, was held) to entirely. The, beautiful glossy foli age of tha La Marque with Its shin ing ' snowy whrte blooms against' tha walls, climbing over tha rough stone work, and the foreground given up ta masses of glowing scarlet in the gerani um beds. It was strikingly beautiful. And one desirable feature for the olt dweller,', or tha uburbanlter moat of whose spare' time. Is spent In getting home or getting to work again. Is Uiai these two, once fairly established,' need very little , care. The geraniums wilt bloom well along Into the fall, and out tings from, them w'll root. readily and ba ready for the next season. There are other white roses equally desirable) and as showy as the La Marque, and perhaps more' prolifio of bloom. Soma of the other white roses which do well here ars Climbing Kalserlne (Mrs. Rob ert Peary), Climbing Made Gulllot, Madame Alfred Carriers (tinged with yellow), - Coquetie , aes .Alps,- uoquetta des Blanches, Mabel Morrison. Margaret Dickson, Mervllle da Lyon, Madam da Wattevllle (called tha villa ' (called tne tuiii lp rose ba- cause of tha tinted edge of tha petals). Madam Host, Madame ' Joseph Scnwartx,. Bessie envg tttngea . wi:a yellow), 'Florenca - Pemberton, . -: Fra Karl Druschkl. Quean, Bride, Balti more Bella. , whfta La Franca. Kalseria Augusta Victoria, White Mam an Coohet, wicnuriana, wnito xxamoier, rsyen (tinged with yellow) Debutant (a Wicnuriana seedling) and Ivory, tha white Golden -Gate. -"Our tendency In a amall garden Is to have too many things, hone or wnicn ws tears su premely , for. Wlth the community scheme, we should obtain - better re sults -individually as well as help ta form a mora beautiful and harmonious whole. . -) ."-' . '. - -f-. at at at .. , The Daily Menu. . ' BREAKFAST. ' ' Cereal with cream. Minced ham on toast with poached eggs. - ... . soiree. . . . - . LUNCHEON.' ' . ' ' Broiled lamb chops. - French potatoes. Apple Dutter. enm sauce. -Jam tarts. sTea. . DINNER. . ' ' Okra soup. Broiled shad. Baked egg plant. Dandelion green. . cnocoiate oiano mange. - Coffee.- ..; " ' - Chocolate blano mange One ouart of milk, one cup of sugar, half package of gelatine; half teaspoonful salt, tea spoonful vanilla, three, tablespoon fuls grated chocolate. "Sos k the gelatine 10 minutes in half a cup of cold water. Boil the -milk and add gelatine and the other ingredients (the vanilla after tak ing from the fire), t strain into molds and let , stand - to , harden. y .-. r : - - '.iij Aa to Colon, . i If the sun were blue there would be only two colors In the world. blue and black; or If It were red -everything would ' be red or black.' In the latter " case . there would be red snow, red ' lilies,- black grass, a black cleary sky and , red clouds?. There . would be a little veriety, however. If the sun-wera grren. Thinps that are now yellow would still remain that color, but titer' would be no reds, purples, orange . or pinks and very" few of those cherry -hues that make the world bright and pleasant. ' Besldea color the temperas ture-of this earth would be very much changed. i