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A "LAST DITCH" PLEA.
SINCE Republicans are being
urged by some organs of their
party to votruntyedly on June
1 for all the nominees of their
party, without reflection or discrim
ination, and especially for the Re
publican candidate for United States
senator; -and since it is insisted,
though without any good reasons be
ing given for such an assumption,
that , Oregon would suffer greatly
somehow If Governor Chamberlain
should, . be - elected instead of Mr.
Cake, and if any other Democratic
nominees are elected, it Is In order,
to ask what harm has come to Ore
gon from the election of some Demo
crats ,1a the paBt few' years. - Will
these organs please point out to
voters wherein Oregon has' suffered
or been Injured by the election of
Governor-Chamberlain, or Portland
by the election of Mayor Lane? Or
did Oregon lose anything by having
Mr.'Gearin for awhile" In the senate
rather than some Republican ? Did
Multnomah county suffer because
Tom Word was elected sheriff?
; The Journal wishes voters ttr con
sider this, matter candidly and hon
estly, when these partisan appeals
are made to them, and see whether
they were guilty ' of ' some great
wrong r to 5 the common wealth-'ln
electing and - reelecting Governor
Chamberlain and Mayor Lane. Thou
sands of Republicans voted for these
men,' many thousands throughout
the state, especially two years ago,
for Governor Chamberlain. Are
tbey sorry for it? Have they any
thing to regret about it? Are they
not rather glad of it, and proud of
It, as of a good act, that was of great
benefit to the whole people of the
state?.;..-1". . . ,
We all -know what criminal care
lessness and negligence, if nothing
worse, had held sway for many years
la the state house at Salem with ref
erence to the school lands of the
stated and how In consequence there
of the state school fund is millions
f -dollars less than it ought to be
and than it would have been If there
had been a "Chamberlain for gover
nor during those dark years of Ore
gon's political history. No sooner
was he inaugurated as governor than
he exposed the rotten, chaotic con
ditlon of affairs, and "f emedfed it as
far. as possible, 'stopping all frauds
and protecting the people's Interests
at every point, to their Incalculable
benefit, and to the advantage of un
born generations, Why did none of
Ms predecessors do this? 3 Does, it
make any difference to the people,
to Republicans, what the party name
or the politics is of a man who, when
all others. had shamefully failed, did
them this great sendee? At-an in
sensate partisan yell, are they to for
get all these benefits, this splendid
service? ' : : -tr
When the state' was apparently
likely to lose nearly $300,000 of its
school funds through the malfeas
ance of its state treasurer, it was
Governor Chamberlain, always vig
ilant In the people's behalf, who
stepped into the breach, and by his
prompt, energetic and shrewd action
insured the safety and recovery of
that money. If Mr. steel were now
a candidate for senator against
Chamberlain, these same organs
would' insist that Steel be elected be-,
cause he is a Republican. Partisan
ship, they argue, is the sole thing to
consider. But what do the thou
sands pf Republicans who voted for
Chamberlain, and the thousands
uiuiv "ui- uuv ate giau lie
was elected, think of such an appeal?
Isn't , it an Insult to their intel
ligence? .Will they not rather sup
port a man who has done them a
great service?;-.
Was this City. injured any by the
electlonv and:; reelection of Mayor
Lane, and the ' election four years
ago of Tom Word for sheriff? Last
year the people, including thousands
of Republicans,: approved. Mayor
Lane's policies, and even more would
do so now.". Suppose for party's sake
some mayor had been elected who
would hav.e stood in with the ma
jority of the council; suppose there
1: a d been J: no, : mayor to C protest
against the wholesale gift "of city
rroerty to private individuals and
corporations, - and - other nefarious
schemes, would not the people of
this city have been worse off today
by a Vide margin than they art)? So
Ion as the mayor stands sqnarely
nnd firmly by the people's Interests,
v!?"rntly protecting them at every
jh tig fur B he can, -instead of
weakly and slyly approving jobs and
plots to injure and rob them, ' what
do the people care 'whether he' is
called a Democrat of a Republican?
Is it not fairly childish, nay, idiotic,
for a voter to say that he will be
guided by nothing, will consider
nothings but a party came?
who cares whether it was a Jle-
publican or a' Democrat who stopped
gambling and otherwise checked and
restricted open vice In this city, and
made it a better town to the extent
cf millions, and Jn other ways be
yond measurement in money?. Isn't
It a paltry, pitiful plea to make, to
voters that they should not consider
these things at all, but only the
party tag of the candidates?
This is the t"last ditch'of the peo
ple and organs who are fighting for
the old political regime 'In Oregon
Mr. Cake, once nominated, has aban
doned the Statement "No, 1 principle;
he stands for It no longer; and be
who Is not for it is against it. Cham
berlain not only stands for it, but: he
stands forth with "a record of good
accomplished for the people of his
state during his service as governor
such as" no present governor in the
union can show. The only man who
in many years has made a better or
an equal record was La Follette
while governor .of. Wisconsin. . And
the good work Chamberlain has done
was done for Republicans as much as
for Democrats. Most of them won't
forget that. They .owe it to him to
send him to the senate, not only on
account of this splendid record, but
because he Is incomparably the abler,
fitter man to do work for Oregon in
the senate.
DOES PROHIBITION PAY?
WHETHER rKUHIBITION I
throughout . a rural county,
like .Benton or Linn or Polk
or aiurrvw ur uiuuiiua.
pays, from a purely economic or
commercial point of view, is a ques
tion now being much discussed, and
on which there is naturally a wide
divergence of opinion. Some appar
ently weighty arguments are ad
vanced by the anti-prohlbltlonlsts,
yet the counties and small cities that
have had prohibition for two years
or more seem to be thriving quite as
well if not better than their "wet"
neighbors. Perhaps it may bt said
that prohibition is a good thing for
an agricultural county, and not so
good for a county whose resources
run more to timber, mines, mills and
manufacturing; or it may be only
that it la easier to maintain prohibi
tion in the former class of com
munities. The prohibition question Is up for
determination at the approaching
election in Morrow, among other
counties, and Sheriff Shutt, who is
a candidate for the fourth succes
sive term, is zealously in favor of it.
He received recently a letter from
L. J. Gates of Kent, Sherman county,
manager of the Kent Commercial
company and for Balfour, Guthrie
& Co., which in part says:
"We cannot understand how any
good, live, sensible business man can
for a moment stand for the saloon,
the thing qf all things that draws
money from legitimate channels of
business, and directly injures the
business of every merchant In the
county, to say nothing about the
moral injury to the community. Not
withstanding we had the tail end of
two crop failures to contend with
here In Sherman county, our busi
ness for the year ending February 15
last was just $10,000 heavier than It
was two years ago when we had the
saloons., The year after the saloons
were put out of business, though our
crops were a complete failure, our
cash sales were 26 per cent bet
ter than the year before and our
secured time sales 10 per cent
heavier. It seems very ridiculous
for a business man to favor the sa
loons. Our taxes haye bepo
lower each year since the saloons
went out of commission. It is safe
to say that Sherman county is saved
at least $25,000 a year by the sa
loons being put "out, pf business
saved to "he farmer! the stockman
and laborer, the taxpayers. They
are the fellows who foot the' bills."
This seems to be testimony worth
considering. It is not the vapid
harangue of a professional reformer,
but the careful, cool-headed state
ment of a business man who must
know what he is talking about. Is
there any argument.or testimony to
overcome Buch evidence as this?
TJ. P. TO BORROW $100,000,000.
THE TJnloniPacifie railroad direc
tors, at their meeting in Salt
Lake City, voted to issue bonds
to the extent of $100,000,000,
half of which, more or less, will be
devoted to the building of extensions
and new roads. That the Union Pa
cific can now sell bonds on advan
tageous terms is certain. There is a
great deal of idle money for invest
ment, and good . railroad securities
are a favorite investment. The
Pennsylvania . railroad recently had
bid for several times the $40,000,
000 Of bonds' which ' it put on the
market, and while the Union Pacific,
with Mr. Harriman still at its head,
may not., be so attractive a proposi
tion, it will doubtless have no trouble
in, floating at$10Q,000,000 bond is-
SUe,'.-.'f' - .;i5X
What roads Mr, k Harrlman will
build when he gets this money is not
announced; if it were, nobody would
know any more about it on that ac
count Possibly, however, the new
roads spoken, of would . Include the
road to" Coos bay the road to Til
lamook and.: the road across soutn-
central Oregon, or one or two of
these, but there is no. certainty of
this. We ehall : believe that Har
rlman is going td build these roads
Just when he has actually built them
and not a day sooner or a rod far
ther.-'
A STUPENDOUS BLUNDER,
D'
ISPATCHES from Washington
state that through some agree
ment or understanding the
railroads have with the inter
state cpmmerce commission and the
president, the proposed advance in
rates throughout the country Is to be
sustained. Ever since last January
a rumor to this effect has been per
sistently circulated, and it now seems
to be confirmed.
The news of this agreement or un
dcrstanding will cause a distinct
shock to the entire country. No
body of men enjoyed to a greater de
gree the confidence of the people
than has the interstate commerce
commission and it will' be nothing
short ota public calamity if this con-J
fidenee is disturbed. Even the presi
dent's popularity could not but be
shaken by the Just Indignation that
such action will arouse. If the only
body having Jurisdiction to pass on
rates Is to agree1 in advance to in
creases, where is the forum to which
the shippers can appeal? No better
method could be devised by the rail
roads to destroy the efficiency of
this commission than the plan adopt
ed. With confidence In It once
shaken, It would be the work of
years to restore It, even If this could
be done at all.
For some time railroad stocks
have been slowly but steadily ad
vancing. Is it possible the "Wall
street magnates" have been working
on Inside knowledge, and the people
of the entire country are, to be
plucked in order that watered stock
and inflated bonds may be given a
value based upon charges exacted for
a necessity?
The railroad presidents have been
calling for "peace," for "rest," for
'quiet." If peace Is to be based on
any such dishonorable terms as a
complete surrender of our rights, as
is proposed, it will only be at the
end of a war compelling peace not
otherwise. The absurdity of trying
to restore prosperity or trade by in
creasing the cost of doing business,
and the cost of the distribution of
products, ought to be apparent to
anyone. If advancing the cost line
oil around will automatically restore
business, create confidence and start
the mills, then It cannot be advanced
high enough or quick enough. We
apprehend it will be rather hard to
convince the thousands of Idle mill
men and timber hands that advanc
ing freight rates will raise their
wages.
- We c onfess we cannot see how in
creasing the cost of handling the
products of the country will tend to
make business for the Idle cars or
start one locomotive. From every
standpoint it seems a stupendous
blunder.
Those people who in consequence
of bad and in some cases no doubt
swindling advice paid out money for
the purpose of filing claims on
Southern Pacific lands, are awaken
ing to a realization of the fact that
they are "out and Injured." 8uch
of them as read The Journal at the
time when this filing fever was on
may remember that this paper
warned them that their efforts would
probably result In failure.
"Services of Statement No. 1 are
no longer needed in this campaign.
Its noble work has been done," says
the La Grande Observer. This In
formation must have come from
some political boBs or other opponent
of Statement No. 1. The fight for
this principle will not be won until
the next legislature elects the man
chosen senator by the people, and
this result Is not jet assured. '
It seems to The Journal that news
paper discussion of Martin's guilt or
innocence is premature. The state
may not have disclosed all its evi
dence, and on the other hand the de
fendant may successfully refute what
seems convincing. As soon as can
reasonably be done, the man, if there
is sufficient evidence against him,
should be brought to trial, and let a
Jury pass on his case.
Next Sunday, May 10, the N
York World, it announces, will p
nsn its twenty-fifth anniversary edi
tion, a "Jumbo" newspaper, whic:
will be the biggest issue of a news
paper ever published in the world.
It will contain about 200 pages, and
its printing and distribution alone
will cost about 1100,000. The
World is certainly a great success as
a newspaper.
"The Statement No. 1 Jssue has
gone a-glimmerlng," remarks the
Vale Oriano. Oo the contrary,, it is
a bigger and more vital Issue than
ever." Because Mr. Cake abandoned
It is no reason for the people giving
it up. - , ,
"There never was a better time to
show our attachment to the Repub
lican party," says the Pendleton
Tribune. For the snlendld work of
raSngress during the past fire months.
perhaps..1' ::.t -; ''"'"-;.' hN-jiV-
J liter v all, t does not . make so
much difference it the big, battleships
do not come to Portland, so long as
the number of big produce carriers
keeps oa increasing. t
Small Clianges
After all, the crops ar really mors
important man in games.
Panama la - 1bo welcoming- a larg
There will be a high time at Denver
o,2J9 I eel fcDove sea level. :
Th Taft boom aeems to have become
proportionate to him in slie.
Governor Hughes seems to be as much
out or it as secretary Hoot, -
Some oeople worry because they can't
remember what it is that they want to
worry about.
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The mornlntr caner sneaks of "the
trained aatutenesa of Juries." This la
an orlglal discovery.
Johk D. Rockefeller has Droved that
ne la in ravor or war; - tie gave zuv
to Keep a cnurcn etioir irora cusDana
The several-sided Republican meneu
vera in regard to delegates to the na
tional convention have reached the farce
comedy atag. -r-w
Not & dolearatat ta to" bat obtained from
Panama, but then while' he la gon& Beo
retary Taft will not have to make any
speeches or answer any questions.
That Verbose resolution of the council
on the capture of Martin la probably
the aillleat emanation from such a
source on record In the world's history.
A Washington woman's club teaches
that marriage la sinful. No doubt it
would be sinful or at leaat very foolish
for a maa to marry one of the members.
We hasten to make nubile our new
and original view of what should be
done with President Roosevelt when hla
term expires: Make him a baseball um
pire. mm
Congressman Cushman of Waahlnar-
ton declines to be a delegate to the
atlonal Republican convention. Cush
man is a humorist, and may be needed
in the convention to help-frame tariff
and reciprocity- planks. '
An exchange un the vallev navs:
When you vota for a Statement No. 1
ticket you are voting tn uttnil n Tlonin.
crat to congress," and also: "It is not a
question or Statement No. 1. hut a
question whether Oregon will send a
Democrat to congress or not." But not
many Republican papers will so frank
ly acknowledge that Chamberlain la cer
tain to oeat eake. which these atate-
ments imply. But if the majority of all
me voters want unamnerialn, why
shouldn't they hava him, eh?
Mrs. Lenonla W. Brown. aRuftu i.
yeress. Is reported aa saying that
"""" unouia d meea ana numble in
her home," and that she "should Buffer
in silence the many lndlgnltlea which
her husband, through his brutality, may
heap upon her." The easiest explana
tion of a woman lawyer saying these
things la that she didn't; quite the con
trary, and that somebody reported the
opposite of what she said. Otherwise,
she must have considered that this was
the only way ahe could think of to gain
Oregon Sidelights
Prairie City has a population of 750.
Bandon had a holiday when the new
steamer Daisy was launched.
Four dances in eight days are prom
ised, says the Prineville Review.
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Jacksonville la growing; several busi
ness enterprises have been started.
Fossil had two golden weddings this
week, Mr. and Mrs. David Hamilton and
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Henderson. -
a
Powell Butte'a stage station. 18 miles
east-northeast of La Id law, Is exultant
over finding an ample supply of ex
cellent artesian water at a depth of 600
feet. The strike was made about a
week' ago.
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Work Is going forward with a rush,
and before long; Salem will have a mil
more of paved streets, on Commercial
and State, says the Statesman. There
should be time this year for another
mile on Court and other streets.
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Bandon Recorder: Everybody here
uses buttermilk these drtts since the
new creamery started up; housekeepers
use It to bake with; saloons dispense
It to the thirsty; hotels serve It at
meals and the whole town revela In a
reign of buttermilk.
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A bonus of $25,000 has been offered
at Lakevtew for establishment of a
beet sugar factory. After a thorough
test la made on growing sugar beets In
Lane county this season we will be In
position to talk business along the line
of establishing a similar Industry here,
says the Eugene Register.
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Huntington Herald: ' Three grading
outfits arrived here Wednesday ani
went down the river to resume con
struction work on the Northwest road,
work on which was suspended last fall
when the panic came. Three hundred
and fifty head of horses and mules left
here the same day for the scene of
operations.
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The Incoming of strangers seeking
homes and men with capital looking
for profitable investmenta In Bandon is
on the Increase, says the Bandon Re
corder. The hotels are full and old
timers are so crowded that they virtual
ly find themselves strangers In their
own home town. In one week 122
strangers arrived.
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Alluding to John Day strawberries,
now beginning to ripen, the Condon
Times says: John Day fruit ranches aro
held in the back ground for want of
transportation but aome day they will
come to the front and astonish thi
world. We have traveled a fair slice
of this old globe but we have never
seen the John Day peach Beaten in any
country.
According to a South Bend (Washing
ton) paper, the following advertise
ment recently appeared tn the Pacific
Christian Advocate: "Wanted Appli
cation for teachers in public school of
Ilwaco, Washington. Must be active
members of the M. E. church. Good po
sitions and good salaries to tight par
ties. Address Rev. D. Leppert." The
South Bend paper, published In the same
county In which Ilwaco la situated,
properly criticised this advertisement
severely, but The Journal is- Informed
that the school directors of Ilwaco were
not at all responsible for It. and have
called down 'Rev. D. Jjeppert" aa he
deserved. The public schools hava not
yet become denominational. - .
William M. Davidsoa's Birthday.
, William M. Davidson, superintendent
of public schools of Omaha and one
of . the most prominent educators tn,
the weat, was , born May t, Ittt,
at. ' Jamestown, Pennsylvania. lie
received hla early education In
the public schools of Kansas and later
graduated from the Kansas State Nor
mal school at Emporia. Since 188) he
haa been continuously engaged In ed
ucational work, with the exception vf
two years h spent aa editor of a news
paper at Emporia. Ha waa superintend
ent of publlo schoola at Topeka from
189! to 1904, when he accepted bis
present appointment as superintendent
of publlo schools at Omaha. Mr. Da
vidson ia the author of several school
text books that "are widely used and
haa attained prominence a an Institute
worker and a -lecturer on) educational
subjects. - He Is member of the lead
ing educational and scientific societies
of iUt I'nlted Statea and has been
honored ;with the presidency the Na
tional educational association.
I THE T APANESE IN HAWAII H
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' , ' BY FREDERIC J. HASKIX. .
(Copyright, 1908. by Fredrlo J. Haakin.)
' Honolulu. April 20. Hawaii is not an "insular possession,"; like the
Phillppines-or-Porto Rico.- It is-as much a part of the United States
as New Mexico or Arixona. Kothwlhstanding its purely Amerlcanvpollt-
ical status, the question of the hour in Hawaii is the Americanization
of the islands. Why? Because Hawaii, an American , territory, has a
population of 160,000, of which 100,900 is oriental. Of this number
76,000 are Japanese. The most spoken language In the territory is Jap
anese. The most widespread religion is Buddhism. Apart from the
small communities in the towns
rather than 'occidental.
Those persona who believe that the
opposition to oriental immigration mani
festing ltaelf among many white peo
ples In various quarters of the globe la
the result of a mere bugaboo would do
well . to consider the ease of Hawaii.
brightest of Neptune's Insular Jewels.
Every white man in Honolulu will agree
that the Japanese have driven the white
artisan from the islands, that the Japa
nese have made It more difficult to per
suade small farmers to take up home
steads, and that the Japanese are now
slowly "but surely crowding out the
white man from retail business. They
hate already made a beginning In the
wnowsaie Duameaa, and nave an eye on
the immense trade of the big Import
ing; Jiousea.The Chinese cam a to Hi
wail before the Japanese. They were
atopped by the annexation of the lalanda
to the United States, but there are still
zo.ouq or tuem mere, rney nave had
their - share of retail merchandising,
but they have ventured upon nothing
Ilka the general campaign of competi
tion which has been puraued by the Jap
anese. '.'.
wnen Hawaii was annexed to tne
United Statea in 1898 there were tnany
people here who were anneftatlonista
merely for fear of Japan. The Toklo
government had picked a quarrel with
Honolulu and there waa not the allaht-
eat doubt amouar the Japanese in Ma-
wall that the rising aun flag' would
float over Honolulu harbor and advance
the cower of Jatan a Ions: aten toward
the rich Occident. The raising of the
American flag put an end to those
dreams for awhile, but the Japanese
oontlnued - to reach out In a bueinesa
way. After awhile the government-Inspired
Immigration companies made Ha
waii merely - a stepping-stone to the
ricner oDDoriuniuea on ma. mainiana.
Thousands of Japanese came to Hawaii
under paaaporta permitting them to go
no farther. They stopped a few months.
made enougn money ror a suit or Amer
ican clothes and the steerage passage to
San Francisco. Then Hawaii saw them
no mora.
Xgioraat Goollea.
The Boor. Iranmnt Jananeae cooliea
who toll with their wives in Hawaiian
cane fields must not be made to bear
the whole burden of the blunder of
permitting the Hawaiian Islands to be
come orientalized. At first they came
under contract as contract laborers: in
other words, with little more freedom
than slaves. They were brought here In
the good old days of the monarchy to
work on the sugar plantations the same
plantations which owed their very being
to the reciprocity treaty with the United
States. Chinese. Japanese, South Sea
Islanders, Porto Rlcans, Spaniards, Por
tuguese and many other nationalities
have been brought here to work In tha
cane fields. . The oriental labor waa
found to be more to tha liking of the
?lanters. because It was cheap and easy
o obtain, and because the coolie is con
tent to remain a coolie. '
But after awhile the (fooltes were fol
lowed uy Japanese of other classes whe
came to sell them goods, teach them les
sons and guide their religion. Artisans
and mechanics poured in from Japan and
the white mecnanlo took a ship and
sailed away. It 4s not only that the
Japanese will work for less money than
a white man that he drives his western
competitor from the field. The superior
ability of the white man might make up
for the difference tn ages. But the Japa
nese lower the dignity of labor, and
white men become ashamed to earn their
bread by the sweat of their brow. This
has been the case in all history w'ner
every a cheaper and inferior labor has
Interfered with natural conditions. A
white boy in Honolulu would scorn to
be seen pushing a lawn mower, because
that ia a "Jap's work." So it still ia In
the southern states to some extent,
where certain employments are beyond
the pale as "niggers' Jobs."
What Hawaii needs more than any
thing else Is a solid middle class of
white people of European or American
extraction. All lta public men recog
nize that imperative need and are work
ing to that end, although careful to say
nothing against the Japanese who have
caused all the trouble. There are rea
sons for their conciliatory attitude. In
the first place it is not well co rouse
the ire of half the population by intro
ducing a rt.ee question into a community
where there is room for a dozen auch Is
sues. And then. "too. the Japanese who
were born on the Islands are citizens.
When they reach 21 they will have the
right to vote. Whether they will gain
control of affairs or not is not a ques
tion for the Immediate future, but It
CArtalnlv will nnt ha Inna until thev are
a potent factor in politics.
Awe of Sugar King,
But more potent--even than this po
litical force fa the awe of King Sugar,
from which no Hawaiian may declare
Need of Democratic State
Universities
From the Eugene Guard. -
Da we want universities that will
teach plutocracy or democracy?
Private universities hava to b main
tained by gifts of wealthy ; patrons.
Their teachers must cut their teachings
to fit the opinions of tha men who foot
the bills. The weak-kneed professors
submit. Tha bold and truthful onca
r turned nut. Thli haa been ahown
nn the Atlantic aeaboard. in tha Mis
slssippt valley and on tne racirio coast.
Benjamin Andrews, president of Brown
university, waa turned out by the rich
men who control that university because
he stood by the people In 1898. Pro
fessors Ely anI Veblen, of Chicago,
were daring enough to speak for the
neonle's riahts. and to criticise some
of the encroachmenta of - corporate
wealth. John D, Rockefeller inquired
of President Harper what he thought
he was auDDortinsr tne university ior.
and Ely and Veblen were Invited to go
furtber ana ao it in a nurry. jvl omn
ford, too, E. A. Ross told some truths
about corporation metfeode, and Mrs.
Stanford insisted on having, his head.
Professor- Howard stood by Ross and
his head came off, too.
Mark what became of these .men.
Turned -out of private institutions for
their courage and honesty, these men
were promptly reappointed to better
Sositlons in state univeraltles. An
rews la tha head of tha University
of Nebraska. Ely and Rosa are pro
fessors of the University of Wiscon
sin, of which LaFollette la a product
Howard Is in the University of Kansas.
These universities are pafd for by the
people, and the cause of the people
may ba preached tn them when Ha voice
ia smothered In the universities tha
millionaires own. The men who pay
for the universities control them.
Or do you think Standard Oil main
tains Chicago and Syracuse and Brown
and other universities out of pure love,
of mankind? The one man who speaks
loudest for Standard Oil " and against
tha Roosevelt pollclea and the often
est Is Chancellor Day, of the trust-
owned 8yracuee university. ' The ma
jority or our presidents, senators, con
gressmen, governors, judgea and prose
cuting attorneys are trained In the uni
versities. It is worth the while of the
trusts to control, the universities, and
to trald tha men .who are- going to
make, interpret and Inforce the laws
to see thlnga as tha trusts aea them?
Rockefeller thinks so. It la worth mil
lions to him to control ' the univar
iate. What la It worth to the' people T
Now the University oi Oregon, like
all state unlverp!tten. In nn lh .ih.
of .the people. The . university Trofes-
eora are tor government not only wf
tha peopla and for the people, but, by
the social life of the Islands is oriental
himself free. ' Tha islanda live by sugar.
they have aacrlfloed many things for
augar, the augar barona are lta busi
ness giants, and augar needs cheap
labor. Kven yet tha augar planters, or
aome of them, have hopes that tha
unitea states win remove me restric
tions from Chinese labor and will ad mi
them to the Islanda. Some of them
chafe at tha recently imposed restriction
of Japanese labor, but even the sugar
barons aa a whole aeem to sea that the
Japanese were becoming too numerous.
Tha threatened buying up of augar
stocks by Japaneaa capital ma hava
had something to do with their atti
tude. Among tha - more - progreaaiva
pianiera are men wno realize mat iar
wall ought not to bring In any mora
oriental, even if It could, and these are
looking to the south of Europe, for
lief.
I Although thev came to Hawaii at the
invitation of the augar planters and the
nawauan government, tna Japanese
hava became the maatarr of -thai social
and Industrial life of the territory. More
man m.ouu were Drougnt in under iron
clad contracts in tha yeara between 1885
and 1890. The tide waa swelled each
succeeding; year, until the Tecent re
striction Where each month used to
bring from 600 ro 860. the number com
lng In. now la not above 160 a month.
These are, under tha agreement, rela
tives of Japanese already residing in
Hawaii.
The gi eat .majority go to the cane
fields, where tney "'work for 1 $18 a
month, the month consisting of 26 daya
of 10 hours each. The old contract
system, which would be peonage, Is
abolished under American rule, but the
laborers are still very -much bound to
the soil. Nevertheless their condition
la vastly Improved over what It was in
Japan. A year's wages for a farm hand
in Japan Is less than lit. Of course
living costs more in Hawaii, but the
average Japanese laborer Uvea on 810
or u a montn ana saves is or is. in
a short time he is. a wealthy man ac
cording to his standards. Before the
law prevented, a large portion of theae
savings went to steamships ror traew
portatton to tha Pacific coast. Now
many go back to Japan, but since the
immigration restriction there la lesa ml
gratlon and the Japanese declare they
are in Hawaii to stay.
The cane field laborers have found
ou that they could make more money
by working tn the sugar mills, with the
result that semi-skilled labor of the
mills has been taken away from white
men and given to Japanese. The same
plrlt of progress which formerly car
ried them on to the mainland of the
union will now keeD them in Hawaii.
for they see thftt the chance to improve
tneir condition is Detter now tnat immi
gratlon has been curtailed and the door
of greater hope on the mainland haa
seen cioseo.
XTot Slow to Boast.'
Servile he may ba now. but tha Ha
wailan Japanese will not ba content to
remain so. When the Toklo government
used some rough language to Washing
ton at the time of the San Francisco
school question. Hawaii knew all about
it and tho cocky Japanese were bold
enough to boast that the Japanese flag,
instead of tha Stars and Stripes, would
Boon fly over the inlands. Events have
cooled their patriotism to the point of
Keeping ineir moutns snut. Dut it is
safo to say that nine out of every ten
Japanese in the islands think that Japan
could take Hawaii whenever It pleased,
and that it Is likely to Please.
Several thousand veterans of the war
with Russia are now working in Ha
waii. They have been made the nucleus
ror many wild rumors t military or
sanitations and uprisings, most of
which were made of whole cloth. But It
is true, nevertheless, that these veterans
keep up organizations, just aa veterans
of wars of every nation do. They may
be seen on Sunday marching about the
country In military formation, hut they
declare that their only -urpose Is a
social reunion.
So much alarm waa caused by this
sort or thing that the territorial legisla
ture last year pasted a law requiring
an owners oi rirearms to register them
with the county clerks. The result waa
that the Japanese were shown to dos-
seas fewer firearms than tha neonle of
any oiner nationality. But even in Ma-
wall there are those who doubt these
returns. It Is known that tho United
States war department took a serloua
interest in this registration and examl
nation. An officer of the Ruaslan gen
eral staff also came to Honolulu to In
quire Into the results of the registration
ana to examine tna Japanese veteran
organization. The Jananeae ara slv
and cleve. but their -reputation for
trickery has become so general that
tney are ocing closely watched In every
quarter.
the peoplaY too, and not by the trusts.
Let no one forget that Allen H Katun.
who Introduced the university appro-
iiisuun Diu in tne last legislature, ana
who speaks for tho university, signed,
Statement No 1. when tha other friend J
of government by the will of tha people
were scared to tha woods.
Why, then, are Palmer and Walker
and the Linn county men so hot to
gin tne atate university? Do they want
to turn the control of education in
Oregon over to the meat packers' trust
as soon as lta Portland plant la com
pleted? Their motto is: "No higher
vuuvbuuo except . ior inose wno can
pay for it." Let the rich have a mo
nopoly of college education, and the
poor man do without. Let the rich
furnish all the luda-ea anlnaiari iiul
legislators, and leave the lntereats of
me peopie in tneir nanas.
Shall we stand for It, or will the
people of Oregon aupport a university
where the eona of the plain people can
Set an education lust as good as young
rockefeller got at Brown? Thla coun
try haa turned lta recourses and bus
iness opportunities over to the few
with hardly a murmur. Will it turn
Its education over to them, toot Will
It adopt tha theory that all a poor
man needs is education enough to read
what the, trusts think best to print for
him? - ;
This Date in History.
1429 Siege of Orleans abandoned.
1868 La Sage, author of "Oil Bias,"
born. -Died November 17, 1747.
1780 Battle of Sulllvans Island, South
Carolina
-174 United States postof flee de
partment established' by congress.
1799 Bonaparte defeated at St Jean
D'Acra. r
1806 Robert Morris, the financier of
tha American revolution, died In Phila
delphia. , Bora in Liverpool, January. 20,
178. , s.
1818 Americans evacuated York, Can
ada, after setting fire to the city.
1854 Sullon of Turkey gave a ban
quet in honor of tha Emperor Na
poleon. - ! ' . ,
1878 John Stuart Mill - died. Born
May 20, 1806. -.3
1900 Peary discovered tha northern
coast of Greenland.
1906 -The dominion gcrvemment took
over the defenses at Esquimau.
Getting Even With Fra Elbertus.
v From Sucdesa Magazine. ;
" Elbert Hubbard says he was nearlng
the end of a "lecture before one thou
sand attentive inmates of a state In
sane asylum, when an old woman cams
screaming down tha aisle:
-'My UOfll i cant atanu iuin uuiicmo
any longer. . - i -. ; . . ' .
Tht,T' said the- superintendent to
Mr. Hubbard, 1 tha flrst.slgn aha haa
shown of returning aanlty. '
REALM
FEMININE
e
Does Motherhood Pay? -
"D
QbS-ft pay, after all, 'to be , a
mother?" la tha curious ques
tion asked by a recent writer.
The argument on which shu
basea ' this Iconoclastic query
Is that of all tha mothers she knows,
none but mourns the loss .of a child
dearer to her than life; or ? meetf a
deeper pain In the fact that her children '
hava not turned mi mm ah it.nt
to, nor are Inclined to the things to which
she wlahtfd to direct tbem. She thinks
theae women will admit that-tha perils
and the labors which motherhood en
tails, are far in excess of the rewards;
"m tiuiiness woman naa leisure
to keep herself attractive, not only to
ner friends but to her -husband; that the
fact - of their utter dependence upon
each other draws' them closer together;
that leisure i from baby tending means
culture, reading, travel, and tha culti
vation of tha arts which widen her in
terest and keep her the same sort of
Woman that the husband knew and
loved in his youth.
Very few mothers, it is certain, will
Igrea wltk thia dark picture of the re
yards and troubles of motherhood. Very
few would exchange tha situation, even
though life haa brought soma disap
pointments, for tha care free state of
the childless woman, whose thoughts
Inward jurnwi b largely
For ithls Is the crown of a mother's
joy -tbat aelf-forgetting which spelU
tha Inner meaning of motherhood.'
- - naa laiaaaBa- - t : - i -
It has often seemed to ma that ths
mothers who ara ao disappointed In
what their children hava become, hava
ootjii Biung tneir nearta on tne child's
becoming what they wanted him to ba
InitAA M wr ) m UA ... kl..t 1 . 1 - .
for. Tho hardware merchant and his
wife have agreed that the boy ehould
Inherit the business and they want htm
to begin at tho bottom and learn tha
price of nails and trundla goods, around
in wheelbarrow. They ara naturally
disappointed when the boy refusea ut
terly to take their view, and takea to
illustrated hose, long hair and dabbling
In painta. They make their deductions
too soon. The boy must find himself,
and it is by no means so easy for him
as It was for his grandfather, whose
education waa simpler, less complicated
and bent to a particular end. Our mod
ern education keeps children In the nur
sery stage muoh longer, diatruata their
judgment aurrounds them with Ideals,
gives them an insight into all branches
of Scientific thought and literary
achievement and then expects' them to
start in at selling nails with the same
2est and Interest that would appeal ta
them at years of age.
Of all animals, man haa bv far tha
longest Infancy. An Infant turtle.
they tell us, knows aa much as It will
ever know, as soon aa it Is born. It
has no mentality exceDt Instinct. Tha
young horse or cow Is very much of a
baby for a few months, but by the time
it m two yearn old is supposed to bo
through with its coltish ways. We edu
cate our children for 20 years. Is it un
reasonable men, to asic ror tnem a lit
tle time to discover themselves?
When It comes to settlna- down In
cold print the thoughts of a mother
whose little one haa been taken from
her, or those who see a young man. the
pride and Joy of their life snatched
from them by dfath, the hand and heart
falter. There are no words to tell It.
and no one fully enters Into the anguish
who hna not passed through the same
dark vay. But It la only a cold ob
server who believes that a mother whar
has gone through that terrible experi
ence would renounce It and be content
never to know motherhood. Carping
critic, can you measure the depths of
that mother's heartache? Never. And
by that same lack shall you stand ut
terly outbids and apart from the depths
of her peace and her joy, when that
comes back to her. to know her little
one sheltered and guarded aa earthly
love could never shelter it and waiting
in tho eternal home. One of our Port
land ministers in conducting a funeral
ceremony for a child does not fall to
say to the sorrowing, broken-hearted
parents, "You are now tha parents of
an angel."
Doej motherhood nay? Not In coin.
If one is looking for that, or at least
not always. The sons go forth to a
struggle with the world, where a
mother cannot follow; they marry and
settle in another town and their letters
grow infrequent. But In the hearts of
those asms sons, stalwart men aa they
are, tho thought of tha mother who
guarded their infancy is one of tha
sweet sacred places.
The daughters marry and become ab
sorbed in their own household duties
and their children, but in their lives
there is a place which no one but
mother can rill. Aa nearly as may be!
they' try to make their homes conform
to the ways that "mother used to
have."
Motherhood nays In something better
than money. It Days In love lova
given and love receiving, and In th
growth of the spirit and In the larger
sympathy and in the tribute that aga
has from youth. Money can not buy
these things, and they ara not to be
bartered for ease and leisure and ac
complishments. I at at
For the Garden.
A MONO the most easily cultivated
and satisfactory vegetables to grow
is tha kohlrabi and on this account
It stands near the head of the list.
The plant la comparatively little known
In America and is generally quite profit
able to tha market gardener who grows
It partakes cf tha nature of the cab
bage and the turnip and la often used
as a substitute for the latter. Tha
plant Is very hardy, often enduring se
vere frosts and also restating drouth.
The upper part of the stem swells Into
a large, fleshy head above the ground
resembling the turnip. Tha edible part
range from th slss of an orange to
the slea of a man's head. Its flavor
resembiea ootn tne turnip ana cab
bage. It can be stored away In win
ter like turnips.
Kohlrabi Is beat for the table when
about the size of a cocoanut. It is then'
tender and of fine-flavor, but when It,
becomes larger it Is tough and stringy.
In cooking the vegetable It la sliced
and boiled until It becomes soft,, when
it may ba served like turnips.
The pi nnt grows best in deep rich
soil and for early use tha seed should
be sown as early as permissible out
doors. When the plants are three or
four Inches high they, are transplanted
Intn rnara two fot nnflrt. a font apart
in the row. 'For a late crop seed should
be sown early In May. and another
sowing made a month later. The most
commonly grown varieties are eariy
white" and "early purple."
, ,st
The Daily Menu.
T . BREAKFAST. .
Coddled eggs, v Broiled bacon.
Hot biscuit. Coffee.
LUNCHEON. .
fnrn fritters, v T.nmh currv and rlca.
Apple butter. Oraham wafers. Tea.
DINNER.
Scotch broth, Chinook . salmon, egg .
sauce. ,
: Spaghetti and cheese. Green peas.
Spinach.
' Baked custards. Sponge cake. :
Oof fee. - x
- Resigned to It, : ; .
From the Atlanta Constitution,
a 077, WWU V1IV VIU ibuji iua I 0 M ,
lot o talk 'bout "woman's rights'. In the
papers now. What does' It all mean?" '
'Hit means, Maria," said the old man,
" that women air a-takln the places
wnm utfii .vu:utiFU. I tii 11 una mi
plow .right whar I left It,- an' when
yoa sharpen the "ax you kin sail Into
a dosen cords o wood; ' in' I'll have .
aupper a-bllln' when you" git home!'' '
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