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I see not but that my road
to heaven Ileth through this
very valley .rr-Bunyan.
TlfK REPrniJCAN' TLATFORM.,
NATURALLY, the first resolution
"pointed with pardonable
pride" to the record of the Re
publican party during the past
50 years. There is much in that rec
ord to be proud of, and some things
not to be approved. We night men
tion the giving away of the public
lands unstintedly to railroads, and
adherence to a trust-fostering tariff.
But a party convention is expected
to look only at the cood side of Its
own party and the bad side of the
other party. A party platform tells
only half the truth, or less, for its
purpose, partly, is to1 fool the people.
. The administration of President
Roosevelt Is commended, and the
- party Is "pledged to a continuance of
the great work Inaugurated and car
rled forward by him."' Again im-
' portant - truths are ignored; that
many of the national party leaders
are opposing Roosevelt and obstruct
ing his policies; that his roost cordial
support comes now from Democrats,
and that as Boon as Roosevelt is out
of office" it Js probable that "the
great work inaugurated by him" will
be suspended, or at least w ill be car
ried on with even greater difficulty
than now, unless there is a general
change of Republican leadership In
congress. A party's record must,e
made and its policy must be carried
out mostly by congress of which the
Oregonian, with which paper. The
Journal sometimes agrees, Bays: ' "
Congress has , boma largely a fu
tility. , It can no' longer ' accomplish
much. It Is fettered by divers Influ
ences,' bound down by Idle traditions.
It has tied Its own hands with rules,
precedents, forma - and ceremonies. It
has ceased to respond to the will of
' the people. It . does- not even try to
a 1 tend to the needs of the country. k- It
only acts-when it is driven either by
the orders of its bosses or by. an ener
getic executive, like Mr. Roosevelt, In
the former case If acts with docility,
as if It loved the lash. In the latter It
whines-; like !, a ' whipped " cur, but . it
usually , obeys. - Still, now that f Mr.
Roosevelt must soon go- out of office,
congress snaps , its teeth at him and
growls as it -would never , have dared
to do a year or two ago. r .
t; That congress "'usually obeys'
erroneous; at least It Is not obeying
Roosevelt now.- - It refuses to pass
more than one or two out of nearly a
score of measures that be has re
peatedly and urgently recommended
60 that an indorsement of Roosevelt
Is virtually a disapproval of congress.
The convention demanded tariff
revision," with an Intimation that the
demand was not very strong or ear-
rest, and a usual phrase about the
"American workingman,, who, how
ever, is not benefited a particle by
high duties. .The plank on, American
shipping" squints at free registry for
foreign-built ships; but doesn't say
what it, means,;, and may, be con
strued to mean a ship subsidy. Reg
istration frauds are denounced, but
nothing is said about the count in
1896 or the - record ' of T, Cader
Powell... ,
The convention was evidently not
In favor of the Initiative and referen
dum, and viewed with alarm, not to
say with horror,! proportional repre
rent at ion and the recall. : Retention
of the Philippine elephant is 'ap
proved, also a greater navy, and the
university appropriation ia indorsed.
' Nothing -was said about open rlv
erB, inland waterways, the , Oregon
City locks,, the. etate school lands,
increased railroad rates, the building
of railroads In Oregon, the Southern
Pacific land grant the taxation of
corporate franchises, an Income tax,
Iostal savings banks, a parcels post,
regulation of railways, or the elec-j
tion of senators by. the .vote of the
people. ' Whether the convention
forgot these subjects; or did not wish
to commit itself upon them, we do
not know. But the people are think
ing about them, all the same. 1 .
As '" 'L"v'"'i:';'--'"" ' .sss '. V i
IIIXJIXXIXG OF A GREAT MOVE
MEXT. !T IS proposed by the convention
of governors at Washington to
have state commissions whose
business it shall be to consider
the best means of the conservation !
of the state's resources. These com-!
missions, in connection with the gov
ernors, would probably, after they
pet fairly to work, hold a national
convention every year or two,-and
otild thereby act somewhat In con
cert, .along the same . lines. ; Mean-v.-fcild
congressif lis personnel and
characler ran be improved will act
in harmony with stale laws, and the
fulers! government and the state
jHivernrnontt will work together, 'as
Tj ctary Ropt augsf steJ the" other
SENATOR OR SOUVENIR?
1
S THERE a scarcity of reasons for
electing Mr. Cake senator Else
why do his friends advance ''only
that ' bewhiskered and Question
able one, to-wit: ; That he would be
an Indorsement . of the, adminlstra
tion? Do his friends mean that he
Is to go, not as a statesman, but as
a souvenir? Is there no other rea
son for hla going save that he would
be a good bargain-counter tag to Din
cn the coat of the administration to
be looked at by the passing crowd. 5
Do they mean to corifesa that1 his
powers as a statesman are confined
to the fact that as a special sales
window card he would be a howling
success? ir this is all that is wanted
in a senator, why not label a tobacco
sign, "Cake," and elect it to the sen
ate? Doe,' their confession mean
that the' senatorship, with 4ts oppor
tunity for . doing great things . for
Oregon, should be sacrificed on. the
silly sham that all there Is in, this
election is to show that Oregon la in
b armony with. Rooseveltlsm-r-some-thlng
that Roosevelt, all the country,
and .all the world already knows?
What else does their plan of sending
Mr. Cake back as a" souvenir, rather
than as a senator; mean? ' .
rDoes It not occur to Mr. Cake and
his friends that this old bewhiskered 1
day, for the conservation and J best
utilization, and the due preservation
for the people's benefit, of the coun
try's resources as to lands, forests,
streams; as to Irrigation, water pow
ers, coal" fields; as to improvement
In agriculture, horticulture and stock
raising; perhaps as to transportation
and distribution, and even as to edu
cation and morals. ; j
. An incalculable amount of good
may come of such a movement. It
will necessarily be non-partisan, and
.beside' such a great object and pur
pose how : petty and puerile mere
party talk sounds. The president
gave the impulse to this movement;
the governors, and other. prominent
men are taking It up, and once in
fair swing It wiil we believe, work a
veritable revolution in this country.
For one thing, and one of Immense
Importance,-when such a movement
gets" a fair headway the railroads
will no longer autocratically; dictate
terms to 85,000,000, soon to be more
than 100,000,000 people, as they do
now. . The railroads may control a
majority , of congress a little while
longer, but they will never get con
frol of nearly half a hundred gover
nors v and 4 state ; commissions, ..., de
termined upon serving the people of
this and succeeding generations, and
these bodies will wield a powerful
Influence over tongress.
ROOSEVELT INDORSED.
THE administration has been In
dorsed, i Oregon has sent Mr.
Roosevelt greetings," and; em
, phatic approval. A souvenir
state convention in ringing resolu
tions 'has officially notified Mr.
Roosevelt, and the country that the
great Republican party of the state
stands by and approves the admin
istration and its policies. Two con
gressional conventions have accen
tuated the act, by sending similar
tidings to the president and the sis
terhood of states. It is a notable ex
pression by notable gatherings, and
In Its completeness will remove every
doubt throughout the country,.as to
bow Oregon Republicanism regards
Mr. Roosevelt and his policies.
, But Oregon Republicanism ' has
done- more. . It Y has gone V to;even
greater lengths to assure the admin
istration of Us loyalty. In the greet
ings it sends to Mr. Roosevelt and his
administration, it announces to him
that., so far as Oregon Republicans
are concerned, Mr. Roosevelt Is not
only indorsed, but - he Is given - the
great privilege of naming the "Repub
lican who shall be the candidate to
succeed him in office. It Is the most
notable honor that Oregon . Repub
licans could lay at the feet of Mr.
Roosevelt. It is a distinction so
great that It has been conferred on a
retiring president but once or twice
in the whole history of the nation.
It Is the extreme limit to which - a
party could go in extending not only
approval, but the highest praise. It
is a triumph for Mr. '.Roosevelt, to
which nothing could be added, or be
desired.'; After so splendid a tribute,
what a colossal joke for Mr. Cake to
claim that the only, way to Indorse
Roosevelt Is to "elect me." ;
AN OPEN WILLAMETTE.
A'
LL things come to those who
wait.' provided they work for
it. For 30 years, a toll taker
has been standing at the door
of every home in the Willamette re
gion, exacting tribute, It is, because
of the lockage . charge at Oregon
City, a tribute of 60 cents per ton
on every pound of freight shipped In
or shipped out of the section. If the
lockage charge were removed a re
duction of &a cents per ton In steam
boat rates would result, and the raiU
roads would, have to, meet It. It
would mean 1 cents added to the
price of every bushel of wheat, , 5
cents to every bale of hay, every bale
of hops, and a corresponding reduc
tion on every- sack of sugar, every
saok of salt, every keg of nails and
every other article of necessity. ,' In
the case of many a farmer and many
a business man, the toll taking on
the Willamette costs him more each
year than all his cbunty, state and
school taxes.Jl It costs so much, and
means so much tor the development
gag of ! "indorsing the administra
tion" has done overtime? Do they
not remember that It was worked in
behalf of Bitoger Herman? ; DoJnot
many of them who were entrapped
by' the snare to vote -for Mr. Her
mann, remember the nausea that
came to them afterward? Subsequent
events proved that, instead of "In
dorslng" the administration In elect
tng Hermann,: Oregon .actually
slapped Mr. Roosevelt in the face,
Strangely enough, , however, Her
mann was sent to Washington, and
a beautiful souvenir he was for Ore
gon to present to Mr, Roosevelt,
Oregon wants and,, needs to send
something , more than- a souvenir, to
Washington: ' What is wanted there
is a man of brains, profundity and
force, and if Mr. Cake measures up
to i the requirement, 1 his friends
should make it known and stop ad
vocating him as a tag for Big Bill
Taffe'a shlrtfront t They should tell
us of some of his broad statesman
ship and forceful personality no cb
sehtial .Inv the dignified office of
United States senator. They might.
for Instance, show us In what way
the elastic quality of being for State
ment No. 1 long enough to beat Mr,
Fulton and abandoning it when nom
inated, would be of value to Oregon
at Washington. '';;':;-. .''.'W';.
and enrichment of the region that
the wonder is that the exaction has
been . uncomplainingly tolerated so
long. , ,V.Vi:'.,'
Happily, the plan for an open Wil
lamette has, ' from an ' unexpected
quarter, received enormous impetus.
The late decision by the Oregon su
preme court, holding that' the state
has not lost Its rights for Bharlng in
the net re venuer of the locks and
that all arrearages must be paid, Is
of great consequence as an Influence
In shaping negotiations for public
acquirement ., of the property. It
means 10 per cent of the income
taken from " the corporation and
transferred to the coffers ' of the
state, which In turn means that the
state is, in -effect, a Id per cent
owner in the property, ty- y -r
', It means that the $aerty is 10
per cent less valuable t(f te,corpora
tlon whose Illegal claims 4soIe pro
prietorship have been dissipated by
the decision. The effect ds to place
the people of the state In position
of extreme advantage for proceeding
with the plan of public acquirement
and control of the locks with its con
sequent abolishment of the .Inordin
ate and untimely lockage charge. It
is a favorable turn in the condition
of affairs to give great pleasure and
hope to those who .have -watted so
long, and labored so earnestly tor an
open river and Its v lower . freight
rates, i It '. is a condition for which
they are Indebted solely and only to
Governor Chamberlain, to whose
deep Insight and broad comprehen
sion of public affairs Is due the fact
that the suit was brought, and the
victory for the people won. . Under
the circumstances, is it. not the logic
of events that he should be sent to
the senate, there to bring to a fru
ition the plan for an open Willam
ette, he has thus so well begun?
The Democratic party of Minne
sota "adheres to the principles of
Jefferson and Jackson.' That's the
dodge; Btick to the two big' J's and
overlook everything that has hap
pened since. , What the country
wants these days la not so much clap
trap about adherence to dead men's
principles, as legislation and admin
istration in the interest of the com
mon people, who are becoming weary
of being fllmflammed by phrases and
false pretenses. -: . ,. y
: .A great uproar Is made by a few
congressmen about sending an army
officer named Stewart out: to ' Ari
zona where he has nothing to do but
to draw his ' pay. It seems be is
"temperamentally impossible,' that
is, nobody can get along with him;
and . the president- seems to have
treated him very nicely in giving him
an army post all to himself. Prob
ably this is what hurts him, that he
has nobody to quarrel wlth. ' X ; ;
It was not exactly a machine con
vention of the old sort, but was a
pretty close Imitation of it. v,It might
be called a near-machine convention.
It suggested ' clearly ; enough what
will happen as soon as the politicians
can get. rid of the primary - law,' if
they ever can and they are going to
try their best to do so, 'If they can
beat Statement No. 1 now, that will
be a good beginning.'
v k DemocraticT?aper says "the peo
ple do not'like a quitter of a prin
ciple." But suppose it was a bad
principle, then wouldn't It be better
to quit? Pendleton Tribune. ; Yes,
but The Journal asserts and maintains-
that ; the election of United
States senators by direct vote ot the
people is a .good principle. Of course
mo ahuumo - r -
as a Daa princiyie.
The question of electing .senators
by the people instead of by the leg
islature Is to the fore over in Wash
ington also, and the candidate who
dodges or equivocates is going to get
knocked out. . This reform move
ment is spreading.
"Ask 'em what the 'party will do
for you;" -Portland Journals And
ask 'em what Governor Chamberlain
will .-doi forX- -youJ-ForeBt Grove
News. Yes, ask 'em, and they will
tell you that judglrig by the many
good things he ha.3 done for them
that ino governor ever did before
they expect he will do some good
things for them as senator.
v; Newspapers are receiving a sketch
of the life of Speaker Cannon, 'to
be held for obituary use," ; 'i While
perhaps-few -editors are-inxlousr to
use the stuff soonf-it would be
good thing for the country if Uncle
Joe a political obituary could be pub
lished right away. .
Evidently the Republican poli
ticians of Oregon are not in favor of
the-election of senators by the peo
ple. But we think that most of the
Republican voters are. . The poli
ticians seldom really represent , the
voters..; ''. ". -,'V ;: t ,r i y
A Demand for Roosevelt.
Frank A. Munsey in . Munaey's Mag-
... sine. '
Mr; 'Roosevelt better interprets tho
thoughts, and .wishes, of all the peopio
than any other mati we have had in
public life in 100 year. , And In the
fight ha has mada far humanity and for
honesty and ' tha square, deal .for! all
for. rich and poor . alike he has ad
vanced the country . In whatever makes
for better government and better Ideals
and greater safety to capital and to in
vestors has advanced it - half s cen
turv. .... ... "
II Decauaa m icopa 01 me law tans
short of reaching them. In high fi
nance every move - of the chessboard
has been made under - the guidance of
-men most (killed in the law. And since
all punishment rmmi come through the
law tnta ame iaw oi wnicn ine manip
ulators haVe made use to protect them
selves what cnanee la mere oi appre
hending and convicting them?
But. after all. a., doaen conviction a.
mora or less, are of little' importance
aa compared with the far-reaching af
reet or rocusing pudiio auenuon at
white heat on honeet methods, rigiit
methods. In this Mr. Roosevelt has
done -. Ma Kreatest "-work has" done, a
work that no one of less courage, leea
impetuosity and lea fighting qualities
could have done. v' '.; M
A ; mild-mannered ; gentleman ,r would
have suited the grand dukes of finance
and of politics, but he would not hav
fitted the times, Mr. - Roosevelt haH
fitted the times. He is the best ' liv
ina examnle of the new idea in politics
a president of the people and for th
people a man or rmer ana gru ana
arrlatle and nerve nd. Withal, a man
of intellect and breadth of vision and
rock-ribbed honesty to match well the
fight there Is in him. . ?
If Mr. Roosevelt la au this and nas
done all these
things, and If my
analrsla of the financial rash is sound.
wouldn't- we do wen to now mi m
him . until he has finished the job he
has undertaken until he has concreted
Into the laws of tha land the princi
ples for which he stands so strenu
ously? Complete these reforms, and
our railroads and other corporation
will be in a stronger and safer position
than ever before.. Their stocks and
bonds will be the soundest and best In
the world. '
Has any other man the courage and
the firmness and the ability- to carry
out this work? Possibly, but why talcs
chances, why experiment, wnen we nave
leader wno leaas. t , man . woo ooes
things? ' r
The Proposed Raise of Rates,
From tha Bioux City. Iowa, Journal.
If ths desire to - promote -a general
Increase in freight rates has been al
lowed to leak, out a "feeler," it is
safe to say that the ' public reception
of the - proposition will not . encourage
the roads to go ahead with their plans.
There will be hardly a discordant note
in tha chorus , of resentful disapproval
arising rom the business community.
Business is lagging.' In spite of in
dustrial depression the cost of living
continues nign. ine general need la
to reduce prices to stimulate consump-
cion. uusinesa must De -coaxeo. An
increase in the cost of 'transportation
would amount to a new tax on all lines
of . business. It would increase tha
cost or living ana aiscourage consump
tion. rrooaDiy mere is .no single oe-
veioomeni mac wouia nave a mora
dampening effect upon the general run
of business. It is not sumrlslnr that
Dusineas men everywnere proiess alarm
at the erosDect. r. .
If.lt be true that the railroads must
raise their rates or go into bankruptcy,
the increase of rates would be chosen
as the lesser of tha two evils.- But the
mbllo Is far from convinced that, the
ncrease is necessary. Prior to the
panic the roads had ' been doing the
Diggesc Dusiness and maicing tne heav
iest earnings .In ' their history. Their
complaint was that more business was
offered than they- could handle. Dur
ing the period of increasing Drosnerlcv.
covering a period of 10 years, the roads
mane gooa prorits ana . increased their
dividends accordingly. At the close
of Such a period they ought to be in
shape' to withstand a little period of
reduced revenues without going into
Dan nr up toy. mere is not a big busi
ness in the country that is ma kin if as
much money as before the panic. Some
uuninesii concerns - are maKing no
money at -all. : Others are" running' be
hind, and borrowing ; money - to keep
puma; unui uuainmi can pica up. There
is general commence cnat ine recovery
will come next winter, if tha n,nt
bright crop prospects are not spoiled.
j Biwum , nui am rauroaas econo
mise rigidly, nut un with a
earnings, and reduce dividend. iinHn.
int, piuv-ew ui reaajusiment, as other
Dusmess is compelled to do? why,
should . not railway stockholders stand
their share of the cost of 'depression!
This Date in History.
1284 London rithmnanr' .nmnanv
founded. ?","
1643 Royalists victorious st battle of
Stratton. - -
lUi Fort Sandusky. Ohio, taken by
Indians. . .
1801 William H. Seward. President
Lincoln's secretary ' f state, born in
Florida, New York. - Died in Auburn,
New Tork, October 18. 1872.
1824 Levi P. Morton, twenty-second
vice-president of ; the ; United States,
bora. - - f., 5 ? .
1841 Twentv-flva lives Inst tw a fall
of rock from Cape Diamond, Quebec.
ibds aai aay in . Richmond, Vir
ginia. .
1871 Vendome Column, erected by
Napoleon I to commemorate his vic
tories, pulled down by the Communists
in Parla.
-1886 Rrltlah evacuatlnh of Rnalrln
completed.
1889 Great loss of property by lire In
Quebec; ,..:.
Levi P. Morton's Birthday.
Levi P. Morton, the eldest of the
three ; living - vice-presidents' of the
United. States, was born In Shoreham.
Vermont. May 1, 1824. At the. age of
n n9 became a clerk in a country store.
capital 10 siari a mooeii estatilisnment
Of his own. At the age of 25 he be
came a partner in a dry goods house in
Boston and live years later he -entered
a similar establishment In New York.
He failed few years before the out
break of ths civil war, but in a few
years he had accumulated another-fortune
In the banking business. His first
essay in politics was in 1878, when he
was elected to con gressf President
Garfield made him minister to Franc
in 1881. ' In 1888 he was elected vice
president on the ticket with President
Harrison. From 1894 to 1896 he was
governor of flew York. Since his retire
ment from the governorship Mr. Morton
has spent much of his time . abroad,
though retaining an active interest in
many large financial and industrial cor
porations in New York. , .
: i
A TOURISTS PARADISE
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIX.
' . (Copyright, 1908. by Frederic Ji Haskfn.)
Honolulu, T. II., May 2. Great literary lights, from Mark Twain
and Robert Louis .Stevenson to
tion committee, have made much
the land Tjf-neyer-endlng sprinjr ia
longed-for land, after at least six days on the ocean. For this reason
one always beholds It. In both Joy and gratitude even the best tourist
Bailor welcomes the port bf call.- Hawaii, lying just within the border of
the, tropics,' is yet so fortunately situated that ityls ' blest with all the
f beauties of tropic lands while escaping the curses of the torrid zone. "The
; beneficent, trade-winds sweep over the Islands for nearly the wnole year,
melting all the seasons Into one, and that one spring.; ; ; , r-?.
Here.'' then, la tha charm of tronlca.1
seas, the wealth of tropical fruits, 'Toe
delight of tropical flowers; In short, the
land that has never known and never
will- know the sere ' and yellow leaf.
Here, too, is that mysterious rugged-
ness or volcanic plies which tells that
Hawaii, most favored of lands, is also
the youngest of the isles of the sea.
ng is gray the barest and ruir-
fredest of volcano sides is never neutral
n color, ' A cloud floating over the val
ley, or clinging to the mountain side,
may suggest shadows of gray, : but
there is more in it of ashes of roses
or the heart of the turquoise.
The modern globe trotter demands
that the beauties of nature be served
to him on a golden salver with all the
latest conveniences. Hawaii meets this
demand. Honolulu's hotels are of the
best and varied to suit the taste. In
one of? them, a great pile of stone and
mortar, one might think himself living
in a jsroaoway nosieirr, in another,
framed in a setting of exotic flowers.
one tlnda still lingering the atmosphere
of the old Hawaiian royalty. Yet an
other spreads Its quiet verandas where
tne Burr or the llnest bathlnir beach in
the world threatens to break over the
breakfast table.. .
" .- Aa Inspiring Sight.
One is whisked In a rapid automobile
over a perfect .road of asphalt and
macadam to the matrnlflcent nreclnioa
of the Pali, the trystlng place of the
winds and the grandstand before whlrh
Hawaii proudly displays one of the
most inspiring views In the world." One
takes a Pullman car on the tov railroad
for a Journey to the other side of th
island, v In Hawaii, and Hawaii only,
can one , have his dinner -on -.' hotel
veranda overlooking a v lake of living
fire in the crater of the greatest Active
volcano on the globe. This great sight
Is onlyfour days and $40 dollars from
Honolulu. , To Hawaii's natural beau
ties, and to' its nerfect climate. . have
been added all the conveniences which
Modern American civilisation can sug-
gest for the car and entertainment
the. visitor, be he sightseer, commercial
traveler or prospector,. ;,
To most American visitors arrant
those who live- along th Pacific coast,
It is thfe up-to-dateness of Hawaii which
is its most striking feature. . A news
paper in an Ohio city a, few weeks ago
caused much amusement in Honolulu by
its astonished comment upon a copy of
the Honolulu Pacific Commerclal-Adver-tiBer,
-which by chance had fallen Into
the . hands of a Buckeye editor. The
Ohio man thought it worth comment in
his columns, and In an amased tone In
formed the publlo of the fact that Hono
lulu was a place where people not only
conformed to the conventions ot 'life,
but had a newspaper. - .
From letters that constantly coma to
Honolulu it Is to be seen that the Ohio
editors ignorance upon. the subject of
actual conditions in this really progres
sive pari oi tne unuea states is wide
spread. . In th Paclflo coast states, to
which. Honolulu - is as near as New
Tork. the people know better., but east
of the Rocky mountains, Hawallans
complain - that- the prevailing ideas of
these Islands, are .obtained from pic
tures of the death of Captain Cook In
i the old-fashioned geography. ,
. ' Th Sandwich Zsladl,
- The Sandwich islands were savage, a
century ago but the modern circum
navigator of th globe - who stops in
Honolulu ' will have no ned to look at
the Stars and Stripes to tell him that
he is in an American town, with all the
American attributes. The Merry Widow
hat, the Diabolo top, and all the little
fads and lanciea of our' national , life
have their, run In Honolulu just . as
promptly as they do In Qulncy, Illinois,
or oangor, Maine.
- It is interesting to know that . wire
less telegraphy was first used In prac
tical 'commercial affairs in Hawaii. The
first commercial ' system Installed by
Marconi was that .connecting the islands
of th Hawaiian group, and this pre
ceded by some time the connection of
the islands with the rest of the world
by submarine cable. Ths question of
lnterlsland . communication had always
been a perplexing one. -Honolulu was
the kapltal, both politically and finan
cially, and the people were put to great
Still Dodging tLe Issue
T.' T. Qeer of-Pendleton, In a com
munlcatlon to.Th Journal, seeks to de
fend his statement that ''Statement No,
1 is s dead issue,'' but, as usual, claims
to hav .been misrepresented to some
extent, saying. In part: .; '
"What I said was that Mr. Cake mad
his . fight , during th primary contest
squarely on th Issue embodied - In
SUtement N& I f that Whatever degree
of unpopularity sttended , that '.. state
ment among th peopl Tis willingly
shouldered, and as between himself and
Mr iTultnn ha won on that issue; that,
after having won as a Statement No. 1
man, the contest had been finished as
to that statement, his position fully es
tablished, and ,to continue the discus
sion of the question after It had been
won, to the exclusion of a discussion
of -national and political topics, was
not only s wast of time, but really un
necessarily playing into th Democratic
tar, ueer repeats mat oiawmnii n
t was "threshed out in ths primary
contest, and says that the only ques
tion now is th politiosof th two can
didates: nothinar else whatever is to be
considered but that Cake is a Repub
lican and Chamberlain s democrat, ana
he concludes: . ' ' " ..' '-'
"Having won his fight on the ques
tion of Statement No. 1, Mr.- Cake is
exactly right in declining to discuss It
further to the exclusion of national
questions at the-behest or the party
which Is in s minority oi zo.vuo in tne
state. Mr. Cake should receive every
Republican vot in the state. His loy
altv to Statement No. 1 cannot be Justly
questioned in any quarter. The claim
made by Governor Chamberlain that he
la entitled to be elected senator in a
Republican stato because h espoused
Statement-No. 1 before Mr. Cake did is
of too gausy a texture to successfully
appeal to any reasonable man, for if it
la true. It snouia d ranramrea mat
length of service is not always a cer
tain proof 'of loyalty." - . -
' The Journal does not desire to use
much space in answering Mr.-deer's
sophistries. The one ultimate thing to
be accomplished, the goal of the whole
effort and movement is the election ef
a senator by the) people. To effect this
a majority or not n nouses oi me legis
lature must De statement xmo. i men.
To elect less than a majority of such
men means defeat for th very thing
that th people are fighting -for. Hence
a man who is not now carrying on the
fight for Statement - No.' 1 candidates
for the legislature is not-a supporter
of Statement No. V nor of the election
of senators by the people. Mr. -Cake
stood for Statement No. 1 until , he,
through H, rot the nomination; then he
abandoned ft, because he thought his
personal object could thus , best be
served.- The primaries were only the
first battle and an indecisive one. The
victory not for Chamberlain.' nor for
Cake nor any man, but for th princi
ple, th thing sought for. and long de
sired, election by the people Is yet to
be won on June 1. and the fruit thereof
'. V ' v . -.. . ;
Jack Loudon and the Honolulu promo
of . the. beauties of Hawaii. In truth
a paradise for "touuLsts. It la land,
lnconvenience bv the necessity of wait
ing upon communication " by slow and
irregular 'steamers from island to
island. KxDerimenta were made toward
an lnterlsland cable, but as the channels
are so very deep the ' shore ends were
cut orr on the sharp coral reers aimosi
before the cable was laid.
Once the people turned - to carrier
pigeons as their saviors. Pigeona were
boueht. ootes erected and arrangements
made to forward messages and letter
from one Island to another by means of
the homing birds. But the . pigeons
failed to become a commercial success
Then came Marconi's discovery of the
wireless. Hawaii was first to see th
practicability ; of the discovery. Mar
coni was induced to set tip stations on
the various islands, but as his system
was then In an experimental stage the
service waa inadequate and not reliable.
The tectorial legislature had faith
enough to grant the wireless company
a Bubsldy, and it struggled on -with Its
experiments. Financial success finally
crowned the eirorts or inose interested,
although not until tha original com
pnny had failed. Now one walks into s
telegraph office In Honolulu and sends
a telegram to any point in the islands
in Just as matter-of-fact- fashion as he
would send a wire from New York to
any other city of the Union. ,
Cable Beaches Honolulu. : j
In 190? when .. the Pacific , cab,S
reached Honolulu there was a day of
great rejoicing. ' - The newspapers Is
sued special cable editions and for the
first time In its history Honolulu knew
what was going on in the world on the
same day that it happened, r But the
same newspapers which made so much
of the cable- news had been using press
specials by . wireless for many months.
In fact, Honolulu had tho first paper in
the world to employ the wireless tele
graph as a news gathering agency.
Of course the cable did much for Ha
waii. . Until five years ago , when a
steamer came into Honolulu irom nan
FranclMro almost the entire town would
be down at the aoor veiling to ine pa
ofisengera on board ship: "What's the
newer' and the passengers would take
delight in surprising me isianaera wun
their six-day-old SaS Francisco infor
mation. Now there are few Hawallans
to meet the boats, and the passengers
are anxiously inquiring:- "What has
happened In the. world during -the six
davs we have been at sear
The traveler who comes from the
orient finds Honolulu the- beginning of
the Occident. A party or 60 Japanese,
merchants and bankers, who had never
been away from their country before,
recently started on a trip around the
world. ine nrw rartun ion iney
touched was the American port of Hon
olulu. .Tne Alexander xoung noiei was
an eve-ooening crash which snowed
them the difference between th Occi
dent and the, orient This is th larg
est building in Honolulu. It is six
stories : high, and has large, electric
levators manned by thoroughly reck
less, young Americans. .
- ''-.' ' Wo Blevstors la Japan.
The empire Of the rising sun does not
boast or an elevator in its entire do
main. About 15 Japanese crowded into
the elecator and asked to go to th roof
garden. Theyt . never ' had been in , an
e!evator; before and th elevator boy
knew -it. -They Went to th roof garden
at express schedule, screaming and yell
ing and holding onto the iron work on
the inside of the cage. When they got
to th top they declined to get out and
asked to co to ine basement. .For prac
tically half the-afternoon th Japanese
around-the-world party, SO . leading mer
chants, ana manufacturers, were cnas
Ing up nnd 'down in the elevator with
all the delight of an American boy on
bis first roller coaster party,
Ther is an old Egyptian saying' to
thl effect that he who once tastes Nile
water longs ' for It vrmore, . and
the same principle is true of Hawaii.
Th traveler -who follows ths trail until
it leads him' to this enchanted land of
eternalvsprlr.g, finds Its influenc well
nigh Irresistible when , he takes
his leave of it. ' No matter to what
cum he owes auegiance n must pieaa
antly remember the deep-slashed, cloud
capped mountains, the laughing break
era. the crimson flewers and tha pleas
ure-lovtng people who ajways feast and
aing in nappy nwu.
reaped at Salem next winter. All the
partisan sophistry that can be uttered
cannot blind the peopl to this fact
The party question has nothing to do
with it; th candidates have nothing to
do-with It; the people -want to elect
their senators and In, this effort Mr.
Cake now stands In at least negative
opposition, while Mr. Oeer Is a voluble
mouthpiece or the remnants of the old
machines that seek to continue to de
lude and humbug the people. Ed. Jour
nal. ; y . - . '.
SprlngLPoem,
The horses chirping cock their heads,
The summer sausage sprouts, .
The 'little pigs in garden beds ,
Push up their , tender snouts. . '
The turning worm hag left the still,
Ecstatic hop-vines hop, . -
The butcher stiffens Up his bill,
; The chicken rears his . crop! f .
The" pussy cats from willow trees :
Are sprawling on the ground,
And in the field the new-born cheese
, A-skipping goes, all round. "
The buttercups with butter fill.
Th bees waxed big go ambling; '
The redbreast shoat Is never still,
The woolly tramps are gambling.
The turtle's voice is heard once mora
' As creeps he o'er the lard;
The tame grass runs up to the door, '
; The fly; feeds from your' hand. . - -f
The cow is warbling from her nest - '
In elm no longer bare, ; -
Then skimmingly with creamy crest "
The cowslips through-tha air. .
Soon wlll the corn prick up Its ear.
The arrowroot will shoot.
The trees their dlxzy heads will rear
Tet keep their feet, o boot. .
Oh, some will freeze to winter time,',
Of summer some are fain.
With fall some fall In love, but I'm -
Glad spring's .unwound again! .
3 . Hasper's Weekly,.
House of Lithographic Stone. '
, ; ; From the Kansas City Star. ' 1
A plain, plastered stone house about
60 yards f rom - the ancient city hall of
Nuremberg, Germany, has nothing - to
distinguish it from tha other old houses
of the neighborhood, except that it is
built of lithographic stone, worth from
S to 11 cents a pound. So lithographers
who- go to Nuremberg wander from the
worn tourist trails to see the wonder.
The hofise was built about 1880. nearly-
100 years before Alois Senefelder.
the discoverer of 'UthogTaphy, - was
born. Andreas Liechtenstein, who built
it, 'took the stone easiest to get and
secured it for the trouble of carrying
it away. Now - the material In the
building is worth about 14.000.
- The present Andreas Xlchtensteinv a
descendant of the man who built the
Douse, lias said, ivem about once a
month for the last 80 years to specula
tors who want to buy his home and tear
it down for th stone. It is his home
and was that of his forefathers and he
refuses to part with It, ;
Small Ch
Hurrah for. the blessed rain.
. -.- - -
Surer every day Taf t and Bryan.
;..., j - "
Machine remnants worn munh In vl.
dence. "
Being broke, La Rose is probably not
Insane.'- . - .
See 'em rush now for tha Taf t band
wagon. ,
"Let US alone" im tha nlatfnrm mt all
criminals. -. .
Senator Bourne
is somewhat of a
standpatter, - , -
'What is slnn TtAatA I m Ami
baseball weather. " "
California Is still In thai vrin r.t tt...
riman and Herrln.
. . - -
The convention neglected to "de
nounce'' Chamberlain.- - -
Mrs. Ounness seems to- have been
S real Merry Widow. ,
Th Oregon 'Renuhllcan nnlltlclnnai
sr evidently for Taf u .,,
Statement No. 1 is not .to he tnaawil
aside and tramped on, yet. ,. '
There's also thst arlorlnus rtuvtrd of
Ellis to point to with pride.
Th opposition to Bryan amons- dem
ocrats has about petered out. .
Now, Mr. Weatherman, soma warm
weather forth roses, please.
As a nrivate eemeterv 'filler ' Hfra.
Gunness was certainly a success..'
Will - the various Renuhltcan atata
conventions indorse this congress?
Think how the crops would be mined
if it were not for the Olngley tariff.
; '. ' ";i ;v ''" i,: - ' y it. " '' :
The convention didn't have the nerve
to point with pride to this congress. '
For a sight of Harmony In violent is.
tion, visit the politicians' convention.
.. a at - - .
Bui-there never will be a hat that
will entirely conceal th girl's face.
Th' rain. if general throughout tha
inland empire, win be worth millions.
In Oregon, 'contrary to : California.
farmers do not hope In vain for needed
rain. t , ' t
It is a little enrlvfor a convention
to praise the pinglcy tariff for good
crops. . "
- , .- T ....
Whv shouldn't ' Oregon's Orand - Old
Man be made chairman of the national
Republical convention T. ,
.:--,;,... v--,v-t4 -IrS.'-t-J'i--'- -'
The machine politicians - could ' not
turn Bourne out of the senate, though
they wished they could.
j . ' '
' Take a run down to 'Astoria or New
port and go out and sea th fleet. It
will be an enjoyable trip. - ; . . ; -
-".-V ; v.e ,:-.; , v'V--, j .. .'" '
" A magazine writer says six hours a
day is long enough to work. Six hours
too long, for soma people, v
h:.i::;:.: . i '
Fairbanks must be getting desperate;
it is said that he drank several glasses
of buttermilk in one evening.
V -
' Ths gaaplpe thug's name, Tj Rose,
proves again that there la nothing; to
indicate character in a name.
A San Francisco barber charged a
sailor 14 for a hair cut. Th Jackie are
likely to give him a floss shave, , .
Th man. if one did. who rented rooms
to Hetty Green for ISO a day may b
expected to become a billionaire.
Now will ' the farmers be good and
vote ,'er straight? See how th Repub
lican convention brought needed rain.
A news - item says Mrs." Lonrworth
will., arrnmruuiv Nick-on a stumnlng
tour, but won't, talk. O, Sh won't,, eht
. . : '..-, " - " ; - ; : '. - ' . '
' Geer's argument that Statement No. 1
, . ... , ... . n.u... . v I .
defense of . his school land .admin
istration. , " . i,
It ls said that a woman was respon
sible, for getting the fleet to stop off
Newport. ' That Is proper; aren't ships
all feminine f . -
On June 1 a lot of people will ntak
nuisances of ' themselves swearing In
their , votes; - . They should : b given no
more privileges than the law allows. :
A cat that was th leal owner of :
140,000 was killed "to end its pain."
More likely to end the pain of thos
who wanted the money and they wer
not klttena
. Oregon Sidelignts
Bronwsvllls has a new vehicle f so
Dallas "may also, soon have - soma
paved streets...-- . -
x '-Li' " - . 1 r i-T- -.- ---r-r- . r-
An Albany man will set out a wal
nut orchard of 820 acres in Lincoln
county. ,
'it. Is reported that ths famous Par
kins fruit farm, near Medford, has been '
' (, w i j. i-
The 'Albany Democrat alludes to-Mrs.
Abigail ' Scott Punlwsy as , "a former -
Albany milliner.- - j
Mora ducks and sees are hatchins
en th Klamath marshes this year than
for several years ,..;
Seventy blocks of streets have been
graded in Corvallls the past few weeks
and are now 'being graveled.
Ths Dalles, from June 80 to Julr t.
will hold a cherry carnival and show
the finest cherries In th world, f
' It has been estimated that the total
value of the trees and small fruit plants
fiurchased ror setting out new orchards
n th vicinity of Dallas sine last fall
amounts to fully $7,000..' . --. .
A En itene Plymouth hen hatched last
summer has Just commenced to lay and
the eggs are record breakers. - She has
In Id si . ee-ars in the same number .of
days last past and each of 'them meas
ures six tncnes in circumrerenre one
way and seven and a half the other..
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Th Dufur Commercial club Is pre
paring to purchase 20 acres near the
cltv to devote to a public park and ,
amusement grounds. Besides providing
oaseball ground ana masmg provls- ,
Ions for Planting trees, shrubs and .
making an attractive place for recrea
tion it is the intention of the Commer- "
cialtclub to' grade a half mile circular
race course for convenience in holding
, -- : . " - 1 ' : ?
Difficult for Them to arn. t
5 From th Woodburn Independent.
Wonder if some of our ld Repub
lican friends-in Marlon county will not '
now recognise that" there was soma
advice worthy ' of consideration in an
editorial In these columns two months
ago in which w warned them and oth
ers' in the .state to "Go slow, gentlav .
men."-Harney County News. ' ;"w
They heard, assuredly, from ' mora
than one source, but didn't Tecngiiljs.
They seldom recognise. To do w uhA '
act on the recognition, they woiiM tti
to drop back In the ranks of thi uZZ
pie Tj hat would not suit th Vl
leadership nature of soms SalomlU,
'A-