The Oregon daily journal., June 27, 1908, Page 8, Image 8

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art evil because it may seem
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first,, If. may continue .to
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IRRIGATIOX ', IS THE WIL
t AMETTE VALLEY. -
A PAMPHLET report Issued by
the department of agriculture
JTjL n "Irrigation Experiments In
the Willamette Valley," being
a report by A. P. Stover, in charge
ot tne government irrigation work in
this valley. Is of much Interest, and
merits careful perusal by Willamette
valley farmers. The report starts
out . by saying: that the Willamette
valley contains perhaps the largest
M4iv uuu; vi U1MUU9 IKUUi UULSIUe
the Sacramento and San Joaquin val
leys, In the Pacific coast or Rocky
mountain states.' Irrigation Is need
ed because while the'wlnter rainfall
is heavy, it la so light In summer as
to constitute almost " an arid con
dition. Grain" raising on a large
scale having proved unprofitable,
due principally to poor .methods of
farming, there has been a gradual
change to more diversified farming,
but for this purpose- the success
ful raising of " clover, vetch, small
fruits, hops and vegetables more
or less irrigation Is necessary. .
A series of cooperative experi
ments was . begun in the spring of
1907, and of course there has not
been time yet to ascertain many facts
and results definitely, but enough
has been done to show that Irrigation
In most of .the, "Willamette valley.
whenever practicable, will be of Im
mense advantage... This great valley
is well supplied with streams, and In
many localities Irrigation will
comparatively inexpensive, or
least will pay the cost many times
over within a few years. The report
says: "The soils of the valley that
are likely to be most productive vn
der irrigation are . the , friable clay
loams of the prairies that have good
iinderdralnage. .. These lands no lon
ger yield good crops of wheat- and
now. He comparatively Idle. ' The
greater part of this land lies in the
south end of the valley in Lane
Linn, Benton and Marlon counties."
The need of Irrigation is not de
termined by the total amount of
rainfall, but -by its distribution
throughout the year, and about 75
per cent of the rainfall of the valley
occurs between October and March,
Inclusive. Prom June. 15 to Sep
tember 15 the average ratnfall is
only 2.5 Inches,' which is Insufficient
for the purposes of diversified farm
ing.. Of course the Willamette valley
IS far more : favored in respect of
San Joaquin valleys, but irrigation
would render crops sure and perhaps
treble their volume.1 The valley of
the Po in northern Italy much re
sembles the Willamette valley In cli
mate, rainfall and products, but it
has been thoroughly Irrigated for
hundreds of years, and in the pro
vince of Piedmont, a little smaller
than the Willamette valley, over
700.000 acres are under Irrigation.
; The director is experimenting in
connection with the agricultural col
lege and several private Individuals,
and . already some data has been
gained. Unlrrigated land near Cor
vallls that produced 5,647 pounds of
corn fodder per acre produced with
one Irrigation 7,000 .pounds, and ir
rigated twice 9.666 pounds. Unlrri
gated stalks weighed 10 pounds; ir
rigated stalks 16.5 pounds. Unlrri
gated land yielded 2,604 pounds of
potatoes per acre; Irrigated once,
8,760 pounds; twice, 7,600 pounds.
On unlrrigated land near Philomath,
SB0 pounds of onions were raised;
on the tame amount of land irrigated
four times, 850 pounds. Irrigation
Increased the yield of a nopyard 80
per rem. t.xjwrimeui ..vum, aiiaiia
and clover gave like -results. .These
few experiments show clearly that
where Irrigation . is , possible, crops
can not only be diversified at will,
but the . yield, can be , greatly In
creased, In many cases doubled or
trebled. . , , .' "
Mr. Stover mentions the following
ways. In particular, In which irriga
tion will greatly benefit Willamette
valley farmers: (1), It will serve as
crop insurance; crops cannot fail,
however severe the drought; (2),
dairy herds can thus be supplied
with green feed during tho summer,
preatly Increasing the yield of milk;
13), irrigation would admit of more
nd bfttcr market gardening, the
raisin? of all kinds of late as well as
rtriy JifTrles and vegetables; (4),
l! Hrstion and drainage will be o?
r In reclaiming a vast area of
prairie land which; owing to Its poor men sent to Washington Is not, or
natural, drainage, and to the abuse should not . be, the conferring of
it "has received In grain cultivation, plums on , satellites at? home. Of-
lies in a water-logged condition till I flees do not exist with the Idea up
late in the spring and which even 1 permost that they are to be bestowed
when cultivated and subsoiled Is I as a reward for personal service ren-
wholly Incapable of producing nor-idered. They are created for the
xnal crops. . , I purpose primarily of serving and
. So it Is not only the arid lands of I conserving public order and protect
eastern Oregon that need irrigation, Ing and benefiting the people, and
but the lands of the Willamette val-1 that conception, and no other should
ley need It too, and many of them I be' the test of selection. , '
need drainage also. Every farmer!. With capacity, fitness and integ-
who can do so should become an lr-rlty as the test, men big enough to
rigator, and in many cases whole I hold positions as congressmen and
neighborhoods could profitably unite I senators, should be able to select In
to secure water and carry on lrrlga-1 cumbents for appointive offices wlth-
tlonV Notwithstanding the large an-J out "trouble," and without bringing
nual rainfall, this is a great need of I shame upon the state. The Ideals of
this beautiful resourceful valley. " : Ithe Oregon people are high, and they
want decent and orderly procedure
in these matters, and The Journal Is
prone to believe that the members of
the present Oregon delegation are
tures for Canada imperial I high-minded enough to be guided by
federation, entire independence I similar ideals and Improve the ser-
and annexation to the United I vice at Washington to be rendered
States. But Louis Corbally suggests I to Oregon and her people In this con
P
WESTERN CANADA. -
EOPLH have discussed three fa
in the British North American Re-1 nectlon.
view, something new as a possibil
ity, the separation of the eastern
and western sections of the country.
To guess Canada's future, it must be
considered not only politically but
physically. The eastern section is
comparatively oia, setuea . in cus-
PORTLASD'S FIXE PROSPECTS.
T
HERB Is no reason why Port
land should not, and there are
Increasing reasons why Port
land should, "get there," com-
toms and Ideas, slow to progress; but merclally and Industrially, faster and
west of this is a section "rocky andl In a far greater degree during the
almost uninhabitable, stretching I next few years than she has during
from Georgian bay to Manitoba, and I the past few years- -and in these her
whose fertile and habitable western J pace has not been alow.
end Is narrowed in the latter pro- The biggest thins: to eTow over
vmce to a space -not much more than Musf now is the deepened channel,
luo runes wide between the Amer- the practical elimination of the bar.
lean border and the Manitoba lakes; J at the mouth of the Columbia. The
westward still, a vast prairie coun- Journal feels excusable for alluding
try extenamg to tne lootnws of the to this again, for It is something that
KocKies ana stretenmg norm ana evervbodv not onlv In Portland and
. m... a ... ,. ... .. . . :' a a I T ' '
Boum irom me Doraer to me Arctic in Orea-on. but manv people through'
circle, aDounamg in potential agrl- 0l,t he country should know about
cultural and mineral wealth;; and
finally, the three' mountain 'ranges,
and the Pacific- littoral with. Its
moist, mild climate and rich agri
cultural possibilities, Its inexhausti
ble fisheries, Its abounding forests
and Its mines."
and appreciate. ' . ' --
Just as the Columbia river bar has
been about obliterated . comes the
North Bank xallroad, bringing Port
land Into Immediate connection with
a vast section of the upper country,
and the assurance that the greatest
These' western sections are differ- grain warehouses of the country will
ent from . eastern Canada In re- be built here. J ust now, too, over on
sources, climate and prospective pop- the peninsula, the greatest packing
ulations. . From the headwaters of houses of the Pacific coast are being
the, Ottawa to Manitoba there will built. We "could speak of a dozen
never be but a sparse population, but really large but minor matters of de
that province and Alberta and Brit- velopmeht, particularly the new elec-
ish Columbia are vastly rich In va- J trie line, up the valley, but these are
rled natural resources, and will i at- the great, significant looming evl-
tract a large Immigration for a long I dences of Portland's rapid present
time, not only from Ontario and advance on the high road of its glo-
Quebec and ' the old country, but I rious destiny.
from the United States. Hundreds I ' And the most Important of all, the
of people have gone from even fa
vored Oregon Into these provinces.
Mr. Corbally considers the physical
question thus;
- "Pitched on the central plains of
the continent, walled In on the west
by the black fastnesses of the Rock
les, cut off - on ' the eaBt from the
homes of Ontario by wild wastes of
bog arid forests and stony places,, the
western prairie provinces lie cling-
lng together, Isolated In the Do
minion, cut hopelessly, I had al
most written from the other sec
tions of Canada by geographical bar
riers more formidable than those
which have established and pre
served the national organisms of Eu
rope.". . ...
Southward the vast prairie
stretches .on,. more or less broken,
extending; from the Saskatchewan to
the Gulf of Mexico." There is ho nat
ural frontier between western Can
ada and the United States. A barbed
wire fence, perhaps, and the tariff,
are all that serve to distinguish the
two countries. This "thousand-mile
link is the weakest in the chain of
empire that rings the globe." Al
ready these provinces are largely
"American.'' During the fiscal
year 1906-7, 47.000 Americans to
26.000 Britishers and eastern Can
adians settled in ; western Canada!
For some years there have been
nearly twice as many "Yankees" at
British newcomers to these western
provinces, and thus "a great human
wedge is being driven through the
frontier of the empire, through the
chain of land and men that links
Greater Britain across America from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, threaten
ing by numerical v weight alone the
unity of the Dominion and the em
pire at the most vulnerable point."
In this connection it is to be re
membered that , the local govern
ments of these western provinces, es
pecially British Columbia, have on
several occasions shown much dis
satisfaction with the action of the
government at Ottawa, and a move
ment tor independence in the not far
distant future might meet with much
favon Yet after awhile annexation
might meet' with more favor. But
without any such occurrence, the
maintenance of a high ' tariff wall
between us and our neighbors on tbe
north Is a piece of monumental leg
islative and economic stupidity- ex
cept from the point of view of cer
tain trusts.
PUBLIC OFFICE A PUBLIC TRUST
A. DISPATCH . from Washington
says; ."Trouble is brewing in
the Oregon congressional dele
gation, and as usual, patonage
is at the bottom of it." There has
been too much "trouble" In the Ore
gon delegation over "patronage" in
tbe past There has been so much of
it that there should be no "trouble?"
la the future..
United States senators and mem
bers of congress, sent o Washington
to do things for state and nation, tut
a sorry 'spectacle when they engage
in scrambles In the parcelling out of
offices. The end and aim of the
one on which all largely depend, is
this entrance to the river and the
ample channel from Portland to the
sea. Mr. Glltner is Justified in say
ing that "these things mean that
Portland is going to take Its position
as the leading vort ot the Pacific
northwest."' But as he also says,-we
must not stop with this 26 feet at
low tide, tut must insist on the work
being prosecuted until the heaviest
laden ships that sail tbe ocean can
have .sure and ample entrance and
exit. Then, as Mr. "J J. Hill has
said, "all the Pacific coast will have
to take off Its hat to you because you
have one advantagenature made
the pass, water follows the line of
ipaat resistance and so does com
merce."
And a mighty commerce It will
become within thd next ' quarter of a
century, even wltnin tne next aec
ade, if the government, and the peo
ple of Portland and ot Oregon, ao
their parts, their full auty.
him to energy instead of , careless
ness, to conscientiousness rather
than contempt, and to faithfulness
instead of recusancy in bis service.-
1. he organs that oppose the rule Of ,. The' press of the country rivor had
tne people Instead of the rule of thBaeSuia.J?t
selfish and unscrupulous political fine tiie.reeult or the recent election
Dosses disclose some queer logic, . r "' M ;
A Point of Honor.
From the Albany (New York) Argus
-nil
THE PUBLIC EYE IS OK OREGON
A WOLF IX SHEEP'S CLOTHIXCJ.
PUBLICATION that sought the ,n,Rt to nt the well nigh unanimity
l.,., - uculb mere la only one thin for the Oregon
an men, . and dldn t get it, legislature to do, ami that Is, to abide
m i.j,;.,,.... , ,' by th result of the BODUlar referen-
"""" v"ailu "luiviuuiii sa- dura and elect Governor Chamberlain
vertisera ,40, 45 ami even 60 cents, to th United State senate. - There are
as much as the traffic will bear at pubiica ?n hV
A
all tmes, for the same service as it Jon the Idea of a Democrat being- chosen
an imieu oiara senator ; Trom
strongly Republican state. Some
Of
nrnnnul a tk. i I
,v"v. mv utj tw .uuij strongly Ken
20 cents, excites verv Httl rnnft-l them, indeed, call It a "freakish'- re
dence in ltn slnrprttir onrl hrtOBr h. lt!wf " no a felicitous term, be-
"! "- "vmvuvj a j I fjafJMM . iriiflKM n rt ilT tda nhnnrmo nn.
Dreachinr sermona. Aiiarnfnir talpa I natural order, and th election of Gov-
and pointing morals in calling atten- be. decidedly 'nolmaalnd 5l?H?2K
uon to time laxities ana aeticiencles I iUIt? matter oi course, nut on tne
rtf nth., '. comment ia. as notea. aut-
w , v " UVHklVt Cl :. a Vhai U1UK I Sranf a I tr a Unit hn 1 n thnt U a
their duty to the public." J legislature must accept the result, and
Thr.ua vrhn raorT this .riii.. -m' I send choice of the people to the sen
inOSe WnO read tttlS particular Pa-late, a maloritv of th irrmhar n the
per at all, come to the conclusion I legislature having? agreed In advance
that this la
aton thief tn rllvArf a ftanitnn f mm "Statement No. 1."
,i - . . . i ina , waanmcrion riiar remarirav
iw own violation oi newspaper etnica I "Governor Chamberlain's victory is
as wen as tne moral law, wmca n pwaunm, . n cannot do oinerwiee - ex-
frequently commits deliberately. .- Co& SpSo ?fc."anVdlat 11 JSS
A' case In ' point Occurred during tor be would act with the Democratic
the recent political campaign in this niriernautv" above" VSt ZXu
State, wherein It belabored a prom-1 tlona. There could have been no un-
I jAHtaMi)Inia a- m a- t m u i .
uvu. vuuu.uatv -n.vu wuw u "-1 ernor cnamberialn s character and bon
der, When it knew every Charge ltularlty repel the bare Buggreation.
mri . ,.n in Wh anA ?'"uld. .!? instructions, be obeyed7
uw.w ...v. m i ynnnuDlM V. lilOlTlCftl aa tna rBBUit 18.
spirit, and that Its heart was not In J ft repreaenu the popular will, and cure
US "dirty work" but It did It be- Xo&Vof Oregon nave Booked wTth full
cause It was ordered to do SO by I knowledge of , the matter before them.
k.. I They-knew Governor Chamberlain's po-
those who had political ends to galnlmicai vlew. 4nd tna dutte of the St
and' spoils to gather if the work, was nc to which he waa aspiring, and they
.. .. . I have expressed a preference for him to
eiiective. , Irenresent them In the aenata for the
For such a newspaper, a handy next ix years. . ,
implement in unscrupulous nanus ai-i ..It i narUy fair to assume that the
ways ready to use it for private gain, I Republicans win juggle with the situ
vi a ,nhii. ft.tlon nd . elect one of their own par-
" U4"VJ ,, uu-j vuw v. m usang to tne nigQ position wmcn tney
tempt any otner service irom wmcn are to im. -
. vMnt xiie iww xuih. uiuuo unuo buiuq swa
the public could benefit Is contrary J Densatlon !n the law of offsets:
to its history. Character and BSSOCia- "it a Republican senator has been
, m . i . J. i ' ' I uiivAyv vui ivuv in 1 x.ra via, waa ua w . aauna7
tlon. i ,- ' I been unexpectedly Rained In Kentucky.
What a wolf is to the sheep fold, where a Democratic legislature has
. The Phlla-aelnhia Bulletin observes
"it la hinted that efforts will be made
to find some way out of this dilemma;
but If Chamberlain has gained a. plur
ality, as the i reports assert, this Is
manifestly impossible without the vio
lation of good faith."
These are fair representative, speci
men comments.
The Rochester Post-Express cheers
and the public interest.
Letters From trie People
Fleecing the Public
of The Journal My attention has been itself with the feeling; that If the pre
called to a grafter who is robbing the ceding; Republican fenatora had made a
CURIOUS LOGIC,
s
PEAKING of "the Oregon Ex
periment" . an eastern paper
Bays: ."The danger In the sys
tem is this: .That when the leg
islators find that the people are as
suming the responsibility for the
laws, they will shirk their own Im
portant share - In . government and
shift the whole burden onto the public."
Quoting this,: the Portland morn
ing newspaper, always eager to scoff
at " reformatory ; and : progressive
movements, and to approve any crit
icism of them, remarks: .."Why
shouldn't they? Since representative
government ; is superseded, what is
the use of a legislature? Besides, a
member of the legislature Is now a
very Inferior person, under suspicion,
liable to be checked and reversed;
end naturally he will wish to do lit
tle or nothing. .. His motto will be,
trust the people. " " ,,.
This : predicted "danger" Is one
that must really have required con
siderable mental ingenuity to Im-
gine. A person must have racked
his brains to think it up. The aver
age member of the legislature desires
to gain the approval of the people,
and will be all the more careful to
do so now than before,, because noiy
he knows that the people know bet
ter what he does and watch him
closer than formerly, and that if ha
doesn't do about what they think
right they will vote a disapproval of
bis actions, and that will end his
public career.
The legislator is indeed now "very
inferior" to the whole . people, and
realizing this as he never did before
he is likely to" l)e more carefuj to
please them than to do the bidding
of some boss or leader! And if his
motto Is, "Trust the People," he will
be inclined, one would suppose, to
act so, as a public man, that the peo
ple will trust him.
, The fact that the legislator re
alizes that the people are behind him,
around with all civil power and with
Implements in their bands to act
with, will, it seems to us, prompt
people of their money by locating them
as actual settlers on unsurveyed land
In township 16 south of range 4 east,
Willamette meridian, getting $50 down
and a balance to be paid when they get
nnng.
This townshlD was cruised by the
Northern Pacific Railroad company a
number of years ago and their unsur
veyed scrip piacea on an tne uesc um
ber land In the township. Owing - to
the dlinculty or loomng up mis an
creditable record, a iJemocratlc senator
would not have . been elected by tne
people; which is doubtless quite true,
there being no cause to question the
Republicanism of Oregon, on the na
tional issues of the day, as demon
strated In presidential and congres
sional contests, steadily, for many
years past. The Republican popular
majority has fluctuated: but there has
been at all times a Republican majority,
where national issues were mvoivea,
......i i- yA ma.ir it is clear mat. unaer exisuna con
n knAwimr nhvthlnw hnut this Idltlona and In . the present tone and
unsurveyea
for this loc
lleve that by residing
yed scrip, it is an easy matter temper of public opinion, it would be
locator to make the people b- simply suicidal for the Oregon Kepub
it by residing on this land until Heans . to attempt, by any partisan
it ia surveyed and received that they
can get a referenoe filing on it, -which
would be ao . but for the scrip being
nlncd before thev took ud their resi
dence on the land." This locator lo
cated 25 or 30 Deoole on this land last
June, July and August, but later In the
season they got wind of this scrip and
after investigating the matter here and
at Washington, D. C., they found they
could not get this land, so vacated it,
2ft!i? bulldfnL their cabins Ind T Uvin; aeclare'd for Governor Chamberlain, a
fhpra om tim cabins and living pemocrati tb0r choice for United
shrewdness or machination, to deprive
the people or the nervices or tneir ia
vorite. Governor Chamberlain, and se
lect some man not desired by the elec
torate, in his stead.
The Oregon Situation.
From the Joplin, Mo., Globe.
The Oregon election challenges at
tention. The people of that state have
declared for Governor Chamberlain, a
Thi. T flnrtlno- mi tr,l AnH w.o senaior. luo. uisjuriiy oi mo
vacated, has within the-last few days !mSSJ ajoWty wlirdevolVe Tl
rnna back there and la again locating Vn?n ..na.1. . m.aJ0HAy a w'" .?? :P Y . "li
parties on this same land on t t he same uy S?t.Z ui
.The question aa to -whether the people
of Oregon should be privileged to name
Small CLane
Tuft Is a well rounded man.
Harvard got even, on tha water.
iiieir representative in tne senate was Tt'a rfirlT T,ft n .tt.
fairly and unequivocally put to the bii SrttL Taft that write
test There were two platforms upon
which the candidates for the legislature ' Aim ,-. K' . ... ...
appeared before their constituencies.
Those platforms are called "Statement I
iso. I" and "anti-Statement No. 1." The I
Almost Julv: then atom nil mm At si I
most sure.
Statement No. 1" Dlatform Dledsres the I i.?,V."Vn5n z0" ways been a bossed
candidate for the legislature to vote .
for the candidate for tlie senate hav- , ,
Ing tho Indorsement of the people. The A1,;,0" lon4r berry "eason in de-
"anti-Statement No. 1" Is a declaration "Shtful Oregon. V
In favor of electing- a senator by the 4 A . 7 ' ' " v '
old method. It appears that the can- .Ar,e tioa?, vlo Improvement societies
didates for the legislature who made ' -,iuDa dead?
the campaign on the platform commit- ..j. , .
In it them to abide by the people's de- fc ; i Democrat r Why, a man
cision with respect to the election of who Is for Bryan. -senator
were almost unanimously elect- .,,
ed. The gentlemen who stood for the vf-1 the organs of the Interests la New
old method of election were defeated York wUI support Taft.
not
at the Dolls.
tn view or sucn decisive results it ;s
somewhat amazing that nlana for re
pudiating- their pledges and grossly In
sulting the people, should ba In con
templation by the senatorial electors.
Tha hope la to be entertained that the
reports from Oregon are not accurate
In tarDreta tlona of th oonditinna thara.
If such treacherous betrayal of the
people's wishes Is planned, or evei
dreamed of. the necessity of drastic
action by tna people la apparent; and
In order that such drastic action may
be had simultaneously with their be
trayal It seems that tna peopla 'of Ore-
ron might begin at once the prepara
ion of Imoeachment Droceedine-s
against every legislator who violates his I How would ' a big Poland-China sic
promise to cast his vote for United I do aa a substitute for the Teddy bear.
oiaiea aennior aa lnstruciea Dy me peo-i , , I
Ple'S VOte, , ' , . - I But RonsavaU nnUnt.m V'
. - " u. .UUUH-
The Oregon Primary Law Works,' I . a -
From the Sprlnjrfleld, Mo., Leader. I .' Home Oregon machine organs are still
The people of Oregon have declared I Viewing with alarm the recent election.
It seems to ba certain that Tart- 411
! run well in the Philippines. .
Mr. Brvan alan hna til,
and a streetcar line thereto.
Morcan. Harriman t al
njiooa tt revise tne larirr.
r - i : . -j ,
Whatever-the lirvii 1im 'win
as shortage of breakfast foods.
It is said that never hafn waa .-
country without u living ex-president.
Teddy bear.
Tha Columbia river bar, Ilka saloon
bars in many counties, ia alan niaan.
that they wish Governor Chamberlain
to represent them In the United States
senate. Belne unable . to elect him
themselves, they have elected a legl- j pearl ng.
icifcurB iu vniTjf uut mtir win. .yyiui - . w" : a (- -the
lea-ialature ober that wlllt B-l n. n.
useffi'r bow.can t,,ey eloct
But why nott It Is evident that AUlea -""-cakes.
many of their constituents have set t s,u k ',i v.
them the example. If they would obey e"'?' ,Fu2'on hpuld become at-
the voice of the people they must carry f vestTatinr. r 5 "tart ftn ln
out the Instructions which have been vestigatlon of Heney's career.
plainly registered by a majority- of I ,-. " "
the ballots which express tha people's I Taft believes in and practices optl
wlll. I plsm; why, he would not groan and
But Is a primary election meant to I be glum even If he were defeated.
work ln thai w&v? Why not? Plain-1 . a
ly, as a rule, the party which electa the The campaign will ha hatw.T m
legislature will wish to have represen- B1U and Bill," say. oT. Pa?
tatlon in congress through those Of granher. It ia not ao hVrf a 2.FaL?I
their own number. But ; In present
conditions exceptions will often occur.
A parallel to the Oregon case is con-
hope.
a
The Detroit News says:
ratvaW In IWlaannrl Tt la . a-Anerallv I . " . "mere are
believed that Governor Folk 1. St lJ
choice for senator of the people of our Sneake - orator" nominating
atate. Now. In the unllkelv event of I . .
H?h Se5S"!"K,LH''1fi - A candidate for president must often
thus raisin,; the very ouestlon noW JJ jtt0, h?h .l"?,,1""
before Oregon legislators. It is quite ?.n?" ,7 ' oecupledwith apeechifylng
possioie tnat some otner suae- may oei
conirontea oy mat question.
- A Cnrlons Situation. -
From the Toledo, Ohio, Blade.
There was nothimr 1n the Oregon
election to discourage the Republican
party. Its ticket waa wnirormiy sue-
. Keynote Burrows called hint "Theo
fcelt Rosevedor." 'But he may have been
worried over the things he was saying
that weren't ao.
- Young Miss Taft has won a scholar
ship. There has been nrettv a-ood
conditions as before. Hoping this will
open ti.e eyes of the public and they
will prom tnereoy, ,
-,; f ..; j. '. it - i - ,
Helen A. Keller's Birthday.
Miss Helen Adams Keller, whose in
tellectual achievements have made hen
name familiar throughout the English
SDeaklng world, was born June 27, 1880.
Sinoe she was IB months old. she has
been totally deaf and blind as a result
of illness. Her birthplace waa Tuscum-1
bia. Ala,, but nearly her whole life has
been passed ln Boston and vicinity. She i
is descended on her father s side from
Alexander Bpottswond. one of the colon
ial governors of Virginia, and through i
her mother she Is related to the Adams i
and Evferett families of New England.
Since her seventh year Miss . Keller's
education has been conducted .'by Mins
Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a In 1900 she
In the dispatches there is a hint that
some plan may oe aevisea oy wnicn
the legislatures may evade the obliga
tion which shall confront them. What
ever scheme may be hatched for such
accomplishment it will In its essence
mean the repudiation Of the pledges
upon which the candidates for the legis
lature appealed to the people for their
support. On Its face, of course, such
action would be an insolent defiance
of the people's wishes as expressed by
their ballots.
Roosevelt and Taft
From the Detroit News.
The whole realm of public life con
tains no two men of the same convic
tions, who are so opposite In method
anri utArvmerniTiant. fta nra RrtnaAV! fr anri
entered Radellffe college find graduated Taft Koosevelt la Intuitive and com
lour years ' mier. iiiuukii unume to Ibatlve; Tart is judicial and persuasive,
speak, to see or to hear, the young Roosevelt assaults obstacles with all
woman has become well versed not onlv I f be vehemence of hla nature: Taft would
in the rudiments of education, but in all I order the engineer corps to remove the
tne nigner orancneg oi learning. - in re-1 obstacles. Kooseveit excoriates ana ac
cent years she has contributed a number.) literates his enemies; Taft would make
of articles to leading newspapers and I them see the reasonableness of doing
magazinea 1 .,.;,--.,.'' line ngni tning, ana bbk tnem 10 ao iu
let DOtn men worn to me same enna.
. . . i . .. J A I A. L I. 1 .
This TafA In Triafnrv I ..nul uo, "I'i'ucu woiumu
inis wate in uistory, I wooaevelt'a naasion there is no suffi-
JR50 Charles-IX ; of France born at I dent foundation: neither must it be
Biol. s " ' . - . . j supposed that behind Taft's smile there
1769 Quebeo bombarded by Wolfe..' I is no iron determination, one is a piece
1794 Prince- Kaunlts. chancellor of I of dynamite under the stump, the other
Maria Theresa or Austria, . died., Born is tne stump-raismg macnine tnai
in 1711 I works eanilv and makes no noise .but
180S Massacre of British troops In either will raise the stump. In carry
Ceylon. ' - . " , .,1 lng out the Roosevelt policlea by the
ISJU-Cholera first appeared ln New n F
York.
1834 Lew Woodbury of New Hamp
shire became secretary of the 'United
States treasury.
18&7 Massacre at Cawnpora.
18tS3 Battle of Cold Harbor, Va.' '
1876 Harriet Martlneau. ; historian.
died. Born June 12, 1802.
1894 M. Caslmlr-Perler electrt.1 nraaf.
dent of France.
plosions in tne vvnne .House, rewer epi
thets used, and a dearth of high-keyed
sensations, but the work" will be done
just as effectively. .Rooseveli has the
machinery mostly in good working
order, and Taft is too gooa a worxman
to allow It te get rusty.
But best of all qualifications, assum
ing ability to be present,-are the trans
parent motives of ine man, bis Innate
candor, his open life. - his absolute
separation from the tricky or merely
folltlCEU, nis rum siiprsasuun ui puo
in dutv hla sound sense of the dlf-
Detween eaneiuiat ngni ana
atneere casslon for seeing
the people benefit from hla work, his
wholennme belief In the good Judg
ment of the whole people, ana nis own
clean, upright, manly view of things,
Here Is a statesman "the . state s
for the nomination of William McKInley neoole hardly stop. .to appreciate in this
OWdy. Clayton T" said Mr. Manna 5 J K,.f...!i .n-An.rlntlam
Howdy, Mark?" was the greeting in Un nnA of ita tricks, to find a man wnn
response, - , seeks neither -wealth nor power, but
' "What Can VOU do? lt,i tha U.l..,n l,iah, ,n e-rnlteil imhlMnn In
K,n,,!r.,?,nn,,m manager. enroll his name Indelibly in the honor-
- "Well." renlled Clavton T enntrnl tKsl.ki. xnmnunv nt those who thnne-ht it
delegation fro Arkansas, and Arkansas I was fame enough to have served their
ia a Bm inai o-gins witn "A. 1 i fellow-men
. nviin, iaiu jar. iianna. wnat do
Anecdote of 1806.
-Chicago dispatch to the Washington yR0";'v
Pout: A good story is told about Powell ? cehl.
Clayton, from Arkansas, national com-1 Jv,J r"A-ii.
mitteeman and formerly amhnnanytnr tn
Mexico. ' . .
He called upon Mark Hanna at At
lantic City ln the spring of 1898, when
Mr. .Hanr.a wns making - his campaign
ror
tor
"Ho-
ou want?'
,w,u;tJt0.b ambassador to Mexico."
"All rlffht." returned Mr ll.n.
And that was all there was to It 7
Business Picks Up. t '
From the Boston Globe,
i On every hand are signs that busi
ness la, picking up, and that the panic
of last year, which seemed at the time
to have knocked the bottom entirely out
of prosper tjrs dinner pail, wbs .more
artificial than real.
Every day's news reports tell of, this
or that big factory, mill or foundry
resuming full time,' with a full force.
Panics generally come with a thud,
while prosperity steals upoiv.ua so grad
ually than many people do not hear her
footfall until she Is at their elbow,
i,ven the professional pessimist can
bear her this time, if he makrs half nn
effort at listening, h
' Tariff Revision Pretense.
From the New Tork World. "
Prices under the- tariff-protected
trusts affect the general cost of liv
ing of every American. . Through the
tariff he pays an : extra toll on , what
he eats and what he wears and tho
house he lives In. - Possibly Mr. Taft
himself believes- that the people are
entitled to some relief from excessive
taxation. But It is congress that
passes tariff bills. Should , the Repub
licans carry the next house and re
vision be left in the hands of stand
patterns like Cannon, Payne' and Dai
Bell, with the connivance of Aid rich
and Ms kind In the senate, ho honest
revision of the JDingley rates would
be possible.
Is it the policy of the Republican
party by this campaign talk about re
vision merely to raise a dust so as to
fool the voters? ..-..-".-v.-, j
cepHful. barrlns the KinRle ex ceo tlon of I brains In that Tuft famiiv J?-
United States senator . Owing to - the 1 1 ion nl probably In the Herron fam-
borlaln, twice elected governor on the) a '
DemocratiO ticket, he defeated the Re-1 Now if Mr. Bryan will charce the I
publican candidate for aenatpr, although panlo. and the floods and tornadoes, and
i mo aiu !'" i"" n penis, ana an tne other Ilia of the
Republican legislature by an over- country, op to tha Republican party.
WTtAurro0rXatlo is presented: th Campin " -tart out evened up.
vtte ' say. thaa trav-
people, and In the absence of a con- "T1" that paper: "jThat the
itltutional nrovialon. rerers the oues- P"'4 " Seattle should tiot be kept
tlon to. the voters as a recommendation ?;"-"v,Vople' for the reason that
to the legislature.. In spite of thla l8. V?6 TePrt, -? p?' directory
some of the aucoessful candidates for ??thefci,,th J?.3! of April nearly two
the legislature were chosen on aa antl- hIfJT?onth a2-: nJ this t. m.
r. led ire nlatform and therefore may not n.1 the Times to add 10,000 or more
consider themselves bound by the re- . "f flaLv population announcement,
suit of the primary. There Is talk, in-1 Jhs - "-,,' Probably a Joker, but the
deed of a defection from th Tanks I Times . will take him seriously, and
of the pledged members, but if the He-1 : the -population 285,000 at once,
publican leaders are wise, they will dlsTihis seemr a ridiculously small raise,
courage any such program. The demand I however, when it would be Just as easy
lor a direct vote on united Biaies sen-i ". !.
tor Is growing more insistent every
year. Nearly one-half oi the states are
on record as favoring the submission
to the people of a constitutional amend-
two-thirds will be secured during the t Mkeylew cltliens have hired a band
next two years. But in several of the Instructor for a year at $100 a month,
states a plan for Immediate relief has , a
been adopted, and the people are very Windy Hollow miner. t m
earnest about the matter. Should the now be developed, says the Lakevlew
cat cnicanery involving; DroKen pieages,
defeat the will or the voters expressed I Condon claims that It la tha lara-aat
onoortunity: , ; ;
Better the loss of a United States I i .....hum n h.re. .
senator for a term than the loss of this iratth2u5" .Vn! 2iviln b,r"M T0W
prosperous state for a decade. Jonr Coquille river.
Pendleton Tribune: Portland Just W I
now is the prettiest city on this eontl- VI
nant . alao. riiii-ln all , !maa nf ever f.
Oregon SidcliKts
Election of Senators
A reader of the Boston Globe writes
to that paper as follows
I year.
M. L. Pellett want to the Roania
river valley so - years ago and began
I read In a Rnede Islariat.ap.er re- I wnrklnVfnr Si a. aV an? nnw i wnr?h
cently of the absurdity of election or tsoonn . " "
United States aenatora by vote of the 'v'"'- . .
citizens of the respective states. The . . pna1i,j nv vi. v,..
writer refers to the case of Oregon. He 7Tmi i.lunJ ,tJ$$. .x Si
calls our attention to tha fact that the fjl1 "'iSV d5'.ln..laSlrafubiI!:,f nLh?
leialaura la . Renuhllcan and et it ?eered It off a bank, and the ride cost
must Indorse the choice of the voters nlm Vw-
when it comes to electinar the man who I
is to represent the state at Washington, If the Estaeada. country can produce
The writer also claims that the state one carload of fine strawberries from
will be misrepresented at Washington Just a few small patches, why shouldn't
for the next six years, How he makes the berry acreage Increase until train
that out he better explain to the peo- loads are sent out every year? asks the
pie of Oregon. He had better advise News. '
them how to vote. .. Let him describe to , - - .
them the fairness and the beauties of A Silver t.ake cow last week gave
tha lUKKllna- of legislative districts and birth to three as nlca r.alvea aa nna
the cheating; of the voters of his own j should want to see, says the Leader,
state. ' v . !. . .. , 1 The cow la a Hereford and the calves
HlB OWn State Of Rhode Island has I are all merlrert lllra tha mnthee Hrl en
gone unrepresented ln the national sen- hardly be told apart,
ate, and many other states have had the! , m . .;r
sameexperlence. Congressmen are ex- - Tmi u tfn,.n ,,
that town was nuea
one night last week by
renders It useless for
pected to represent the cltlsens of their fvin",, "?J
respective districts and states. If by I " ' wel1. Bear
- v m scraD iron o
ifsfnhMta.1 anuf-.Af hir nnlitlnn! riirhta party or partlea unknown. It f
It Is nothing more than right that they 5.r,?.MlnLJ.,. ' V..
should demand the referendum. Had opf W10,"' a" d ". ,f L1."?' .1
H5 VllTl ffT.i, lt,IQ f Uo BU1II6U VI
operations close altogether. : The well
was down several hundred feet and
prospects for oil were considered very
Drignt.
the voters of Rhode Island or Massa
chusetts or Connecticut the same priv
ilege the voters of Oregon enjoy there
would be some rotation In office.
Those three states have elected uem-
oprfltlf a-overnora on mflnv occasions.
but by reason of legislative unfairness
nave Deen iorrea 10 nuuran vu uujubi
East Oregonlan: With over SO new
combined harvesters ready for work I
i.-il, hfv, nf ih I Umatilla county. It does not look like
state cannot choose of their own frea a "short wheat crop. There are over
will the man to be their representative 800 machines now owned in this county
ln tha United States senate then I say and new orders are being received
this form of government Is a failure. If every day. It is strange that the same
the people of Oregon wanted a Republl- farmer who will tell the newspapers a
can to represent tnem mey-wouia nave k,t .'.V'V"-"- "'ri'-.,
So voted. They wanted 'a Democrat ?p shortage -will buy a 12,500 thresh-
and elected one. That was about the iK outflt on the same day.
nniv wov to heat the machine. They . .. , ' -
knew that the legislature was fixed and . Woodhurn' Independent: A short time
under the thumb of the boss. The "ma- ago we felt Jubilant over what we pos
chine" must make other arrangements sessed then, but since the era of 'sat
than have been previously made. I Isfactlon we have secured a pressed
hone to live to see tne uregon aysiem i Dricx factory, a creamery ana ice cream
introduced Into all of the states or tuei plant and a cannery. Kurely
w sr w
Union.
Strawberries Canned. .
From Woman's Home Companion.
n -vmir -tara cerfectlv clean and
dry, then take equal parts of fresh ber
ries and sugar, and mix and mash thor
oughly. To accomplish this, take only
a small quantity in a dish at a time,
that you may be sure every oerry is
mashed. Pu. Into the jars and seal
Immediately, Inverting the Jar for S
Short time before putting away.
The work Is easily and quickly done,
as there Is no heating. My berries
canned in this way last Hummer kept
perfectly and have preserved their de
licious flavor unimpaired.
Strawberry shortcake equal to that of
the summer baa been an i enjoyment
whenever we wished through the winter.
Two Albany brothers. young' mer
chants at the depot, have saved enough
money to Invest II. 000 In Portland
property, says the Democrat.;
these ad
ditional industries are sufficient to In
crease confidence. But there Is more
coming. We are not -stopping, or think
ing of stopping, and tha prospects of
Woodburn are truly brilliant. Several
projects are on the carpet and .this is
bound to be one of the large cities and
a m nn tr th mnafr Imnnrtant enmmm1n1
points in Oregon. .,- ..-. . VI
t iiv iiuinj nivci uint:ier viaiiiia ina,
this happened at Mosler: One day last
week an old rattler came Into a chick
en yard after something to eat. One
of the chickens heard his rattles snj
came to see what it waa The snake
coiled up and looked wise, but as soon
as the hen got near enouuh, the snake
gave a Jump and bit the hen right
n the This made the htm mad and
so a bale began. By this time there
were about a dosen - chickens around
and they all pitched in: When it was all
over the snake had Its rattles all picked
off and it was so badly beat up it could
scarcely move. There were two or thre
nens injured a little bit but they are all
well by this time.
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