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A little healllij. good-nat tireel rivalry
Ik lo be ib-sirel 1ml 110I this mini
rllaglng, IMS use if hyperboles am!
oilier )Illitifr.sg.''ie ihal would malte
rtablo bios ashamed of t helm clvvs.
If those (inrt rn l will observe It
from the point of view of I lir ma
jority of the clti.-ns of both cities.
In ,1 his ( oini'Tt ion it may bo allow
it 1 1 - for Tlic Journal to say thai It
Is In In" observed that tills latest
(hinge" of fa )si i In:;, tearing filNo
witness ; km! list one's neigh bor, 1111-
e. ll ili't ion of mcuiltiesS
Ne-cv 11IK CllS.KedlP'SS lies at I HO (lOOI- Of OUT
( teemed contemporaries which are
Subscription Trrnu by mill or tn n; ua.nes. , n(:sy 111 all limes spreading ami cir
culating vilely false reports (oiieern
ini; The Journal for purposes that
are apparent U every reader of news
papers hereabouts.
However, The Journal grows fat
and prosperous under their tirades
and so will Seattle and Seattle peo
ple continue to share generously in
1 he groat bounty of nature that en
dowed this wonderful section with
such ,a free baud, and brothers and
t'tiMtabed every morning (eiie-eiet Huiieln" n,1
IWf Sunday morning t Tin- J.-iinml HiilM
lii. rtih aud Yauililll unvii, I'eirtliiii'J. ju
1 Entered t the p.toM-e l Portland. Or. for
treinemtMetos tbrouub llic nitl ml -cla
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All rtviMrtuient renclii-d hy tlii-e- , 1111 nile.-ri..
Tell Mi operator the department jam n(.
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Rrunawlrk Hiillrtlnc. IK.'i nftli avenue-.
' York! 1007 -OS Iloyoc Hidl.llni:. OilruRu
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voters, ftvho become a little tired of j
loo in nun 01 one mau, itsu woum no
; i lieverj at a charge. This I ; said In
no spirit of antagonism to (hit re
markable lender, but In a tnete state
ment of a-fael.
On the whole, it Is quite likely that
John.'lou would prow the stronger
oanclidaU but
know.
nobody will ever
- In til United mte-. Cminilii or Mexico.
DAILY.
' Oat , year 15.00 I One ni"nt!i
. . ,. si n PAY.
flat sear $S..W ! One month
. t so
DAILY AM) Sl'NDAY.
'year.. $7.50 I Oiie month.
A TVri'.'AL TAItll -M AHH
TiMiiA,rov.i!:i:.
Mt'fi-
w.
No Insult offered to a man
i can ever degrade him, the
...nly real degradation Is when
te degrades himself. Dinah
Maria Craik.
PUT OUT THE GLAD TIAXT).
A-
PROMINENT citizen of Port-
.....Littd wrote to a prominent man
in Seattle, protesting against
the unfair statements aiipenr-
' Ing In one 01 more of the Seattle par
pera regarding Portland. The Port-
land man closed his letter with the
" following paragraph:
. 1 "If you will refer to the news
paper files I think you will agree
with me that the cracks of the Port
land papers are mostly in reply -to
, previous articles prlnd in the Scat
tie papers."
To this' Colonel A. J. Blethen, of
the Seattle. Times replied to the
Portland man as follows:
Let me call your a-ttontion to three or
mora Illustrations, and if you justify
them, then It would be unnecessary for
" me to go further:
--I.-- Commencing about tho. middle
' of February the Oregoninn and Tele
cram systematically published for'nev-
' cral consecutive wees Invidious com
' parlsons between Portland's progress
an' SeattleiB loss. They used the fact
thai Seattle was losins heavily in her
clearings as compared with the ; r
before, while Portland was losbu? very
slightly and then expatiated upon tie;
'fact hat bank clearings was -the criterion.
(V --' 'IV Another article distinctly made the
assertion that real etato .values. Jn Se
attle had gone to the dogs and without
K-ivlnfr a wlngle Illustration, declared
., over and over again that shrinkages of
" 35 'to 5ft per cent were common.
8. Another article following that as
serted' that building Improvements were
falling off by the wholesale and that in
comparison with Portland, Seattle was
Bhow'tng mieh tremendous losses that
there could be no doubt about where
th Queen City of the Pacific would
be located.
- 4, Agraln, the week before the battle
ehlp fleet arrived In Puget sound, the
Tlegrarn contained a leader under a
Jiead BQjnGthlng dike this; "Avoid Se
attle. Toil Have Keen It All." And
neighbors should be us broad-minded
and prodigal and see to it that
thCT'dvvell together in unity.
THE FOI KTH OF JULY.
T
erippk'd peojJe,
fi r(n. We call
Ml' call for a "safe and sane
Fourth of July," or at lonst one
safer and saner than this coun
try has had in past yiars, ought
not to be made in vain. An averaf
Fourth of July celebration has lonff
since become about half sheer, sense
less folly iiiwl more than half a nui
sance of tho first degree. Its main
feature is mere noise- rude, rau
cous, detonating, oar -. shocking,
nerve-racking, intolerable and utter
ly senseless noise; r.nd its first and
most n.iticable results are dead and
many of them c-Ml-otirs
'lvc s a civilized
people, but it is safe to assert lh.it' no
savages or barbarians ever indulged
in more idiotic and insane perform
ances than the American people have
be-pome accustomed to do on Inde
pendence, day.
Wo remember that on all- sirc-1; rfc-
cr.sloris the children and young peo
ple must be considered, and that Ihey
cannot and should not be expect.- l to
be solemn and sedate and entiieiy
circumspcct; we ntr mindful of the
fact that noise rhymes with hoys, and
that the latter seonjs to have an af
finity for the form""!'; so some nois
is unavoidable, and much merriment
and llghtsomness of ootid it"t: yet ad
mitting all this, the 'preceding state
ments reniainrue.
Isn't It time 'to teach hoys that
prolonged, deafening, terrifying
noises, largely produced by danger
ous explosives, is not-the best kind of
fun, even for th'm.; that, fun of the
right kind does not Involve the in
fliction of annoyance and misery up
on others; and that giant fire pr.wd;
ers and such implements of celebra
tion are dangerous and at any time
and anywhere liable to cause not
only the destruction of homes and
other nronertv- but the death of!
chi!dren--perhnps sweet and pretty
little girls. What folly it is to mas
sacre a large number of tlies" inno
cent little darlings every year merely
in order to make a stunning noise -to
offer up such a precious sacrifice
on the salt ar of. a .Chinese powder
cracker manufactory! '
With the developments of electric
ity: with the increased means of ra
tional jfrtiusonient ; with' easy ni";-.ns
of conveyance between places; wiih
the thousand-and-one things that oar
parents and grandparent s die not
have to entertain people of all ag
and conditions, isn't it possibly o
change somewhat the average
Fourth of July celebration, s" :t
make it saneT and saferT
II. KICKPS, the tin trust
multimillionaire who died
lately Of eccres in living,
was a sample of jhe tariff-
made millionaire, lie was not a man
of very superior abilitv but he occu
pied such a position that he became
one of the pets of the. protective
tariff system, and so with scarcely
any effort, or merit on his part he
was made enormously rich. The
tariff law turned one of Its many fun
nels into Leeds' pocket, and all he
had to do was to hire competent men
to run the business and pile up the
millions that were gathered In drib-
lots from Jhe American people. The
political claptrap has It that the
workingmon in the tla manufactur
ing industry were protected, but this
is a wholly false pretense. W. II.
Leeds wnj made an i norinously rich
mau. and contributed to campaign
funds, and talked with the rest about
"protection to American labor," but
he never divided his vast profit:-;, not
to the extent of a dime, ith his em
ployes. Leeds, like many cubeis, was a
tariff-made millionaire'. All users of
tin had to he!;, make him so just as
surely and clearly as though the gov
ernment ! :el iia-scd a !a'w that everv
consumer of tin must s mi d a petvent
i:go of Its cost, to W. 11. Leeds i:: in
envelope. The tariff on tin was not in-
Small Change,.
Fling eut'the ric. i t least.
Tomorrow- boy.-i, noloe, Joys.
II hnpiicncii 12 jt.irs ago tomorrow.-
Republicans are ex pecting -t he, survival
of 1 he f.it test.
-hut then It la
' St. ,!e'ins Is happy-
close lo Portlanil.
Bivan Is young enough to run four
or I'l.-o times yet.
The Pacific ocean extends a general
Fourth of July Invito. (
Next Sunday is likely to be th sad
dest cne of tho venr. j
At lenst Portland's Fourth this year
will ho tob-raldy mine.
Try to make the Saturday and Sunday
exc ursions sane and safe.
O well, we can't expect bumper crops
or everything every year.
The state if n eon must declare Its
Independence of lhurlnian
It should be easy to have elevated
political ldcaa at Denver
Increase of tho blind pig Industry will
noi arreoi tne nog marKct.
Hut Pryan never expected the support
of the Wall street newspapers.
-
Roosevelt won't hunt In Africa with
only tho big slic k tor a weapon.
The public is content about Orchard;
he can t go on the stage or lecture.
Yet a good rnanv people didn't get any
of that JIDS.OOO.oOu distributed in divi
dends. If Mr. Bryan restrains himself from
going to that ronvention, won't he b
an object of pity?
In bis autobiography it is supposed
that Rockefeller will not say much
about his eld man.
RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT
L
From The Outlook.
HIIYAX AND JOIIXSOX.
then In an article nearly a column long
this villainous writer proceeded to point
out that when the battleship fleet ar
rived in San Francisco it had gathered
up everything that belonged to the
pavy. In Pacific waters, whic h was not
true by any means as there were at
least" a dozen shlpaar Bremerton at
that minute, and therefore Portlandites
; had Been it all in Frisco and advised
.'-..- tbem to keep away from Hidttlc.
5. I might add in this connection
that you will find at bast gjo publlca
' tlons In the Telegram dec daring without
qualification that the entire Portland
delegation that came to Seattle to see
the,, fleet. In spite of the Telegram-' a
dvlce, -tfere simply grafted from the
time they errHei in the city until they
left.
S. The climax came .- when several
weeks ago the Telegram published the
" most damnable composition that I ever
aw In ell my life, containing In the
headlines these wonts: "Real Estate in
, ' 'Seattle Going to the Iogs! Alleged
Utislness Property Falls From JToO.Oco
In 1907 to KS.airO in l'ocs."
Then an article mere than half a
column long iterated and reiterated the
assertion, and yet .u know that rwJ
greater falsehood m!M be composed by
the" biggest liar on the face of the
- earth than that article contained,
Jlere are six distinct assertions eml
- r.ating solely In h4-fftn of" t!,e-Iort-
f land editors an 1 in th,ir officesand
everyone of them wire calculated tc
create a feeling of indignation In Seat
, tie that wag absolutely Icrxt, and any
- body of men who would not resevjt it prefer him to Bry;n
.... . are not fit to liv e on this coast! . jthe two suits trtt"u
. . ' You may look for the next 10 years but & pr'-aident he
.-and you will uiscicer re o. rasiou what- fle predatory In'o!
rrer jtt r.e y.u.i: -ctien "t mope six
-TTctPS snd They v-re tie foutllafter
, for the ti.ings !,,;t ' i lVn said in
reply.
The onlv Twc ni'Mles to -w-h! tt yon
t'eople can flr.i sny fault whai-c ; were
T
UK JOFRNAL does not entertain
or Indorse the suspi-loa. real
or affected, that perilous f: i iel ;
of Mr. Br-an e::')ie.ss regar-!'ng
Governor Johnson of M ir.ru -ot i.
namely, that as prefidont he wouhl
1h fiti ttsrv lent to the intercut- or
Will street. It Is true that the p,, n
inatlon of Johnson is urged I, t; ...
New York S'orld anchotle r j - r, . . ,;
Democratic papers that fav.r a
standpat, negligible pojc--. I ;i n
doea not necetisarily foilow tha; i
a Democrat of thetr stripe Tlic--,
and a.- he; w .
as a car,c!i,I.i- .
iniht rot '--'lit
; b. e - r
than Uryan.
It seems pretty crr's
will be nominated at
week, bnt there is no
anv of hfs ovr-zealou
tended to build up the industry or
protect labor engaged therein; a very
small duly voiild have sufficed lor
thtit; but it was intended, and so
operated, to o-e.-ite a great trust, that
v.niild stand in with the other trusts
and help run lb" government so as
to rob the American people for the
etit ii hinont of a few; it would bo ex
act iy a.; just .t,uiI reasonable if the
government would authorize certain
men to go or send out among all tin"
people aiid-eompel them to pay these
persons a percentage of their earn
ings or'property, without any equiv
alent therefor whaiever.
The many millions that. W. 15.
Leeds' was thus auUiori.cd 'to 'plun
der the American people of did not
hurt any of them :r;) rechibly. The
contrihui ions were ji;:-t u fow cents
Or dimes from each on each pur
chase, and so paid that the people
did not realize the loss, or that ihey
were contributing 'to the stupendous
"Idle" of W. I. Leeds; the held-ttp
people did not feel or know t hat they
Were being robbed; hence, it h
asked, "What harm was done?" Hut
they were held up not only on tin-
varo lioagnt, out on, almost every
thing else; so t,li ;it the in voluntary
and (;,vtortionate contributions
aniotinlec! to a goid deal for a family
in the course of a year. Hut worse
il-ar: this, the principle of the system
Is wrong. Fnder high protection
that brings such results, there can
JWj iH"sqii'Sr-eda4"i t-ho doetrjiuo of
"erjua! rights to all and special priv
ileges to none" is violated; a few
men are given opportunities denied
to others; money is filched from
thousands of people insidiously aud
under false pretenses to make a few
multimillionaires like Leeds and
Corey, who use their millions ia part
to corrupt the government. It is tin
abominable system, and the wonder
I is not tnat the people are risim'
'against it, but that they have allowed
! themselves to bo fooled by the poli
ticians and thus plundered so long.
Hut the prospect is that they will in?
deluded aud robbed for some, years
jet by the same procesr. They cer
tainly will be if they entrust tariff
revision to the ltadin
who now talk of revising robbery by
its fKie'ids.
Few men la public- positions have a
harder or more important Job than Dis-
irici .viiorr.ev cameron.
t
It seems to be pretty well agreed that
a good many Oregon voters are both
I )eirio,-rats . and Republicans and why
not?
According to the morning paper there
were some pretty had politicians and
oMice Holder. s in I hvgon back in the
early 7l's- licit since.
As a part of n forenoon's exercise
Roosevelt cut clown 3 a or 4 0 trees from
two to three f, el in ell.-cnctej- and
weil can t we make the story" a good
one?, t . .
A Spokane man shot his wife at n
dance bc-ea a.--o she ciaaced with a man
named Innee. Rut what woman could
resist l'.-ince at a dance? tin with the
dance.
Government by the pooplo mnv as
sume either one of two forms; in
America, indeed. It .has assumed both
LorniM. tine may bo nulled representa
tive government, the other, pure democ
racy. Moth forms existed 'in the earli
est dnys- tif the republic; and each form
has been In tho 'process of development
from then until now. In its tiimpU-Nt
terms pure democracy may be seen 4n
tho Now Fnalunil town im-ohur There
all tho voters tltemaolvva participate In
tho government, fn wae of its extreme
forms reprcsuntatlve. government may.
bo seen In the United States senate.
There It Is tho representatives of rep
resentatives of the people who purtlelr
pate In the government.
3
Oregon has furnlhed the most strik
ing recent example of the development
of the tendency awav from rmrcuMihi.
tlve government toward pure democracy.
The Voters Of that eu-r iIhIa on lli,
Pacific coust have -already taken into
their own hands and have exercised
functions that have ordinarily Jjeen
Intrusted to tho mombers of the state
legislature. These functions included
tho choice of a United States senator,
tho acceptance or rejection ,of bllla
paused by the legislature and - referred
to the people either by tho legislature
or by yrder Of the people themselves,
the enactment of measures on the initia
tive of certain groups among the peo
ple, besides the determination of local
questions such as I heyMccnsIng of aa
loons or the establishment . of county
high schools. In all everv voter who
did his duty In the state had to make
his choice among some 50 candidates.
Including four fur the United States
Henate. and had to weigh the merits of
19 state measures and possibly two local
Issues. Tlfo ballot, which called for 41
separate decisions and 41 separ.it)
marks, was over two feet and a half
long. On it was printed. In adidtion to
the names of the candidates, the sub
stance of the measures submitted. Some
of these measures were detailed one
going into such minutiae as setting
I'.'Vi cents as the price of each meal to
be furnished to prisoners.
and .be adopting a law punishing cor
rupt practices and providing for pub
licity of campaign information. Xjiu
voters, moreover, nhOWd tljaorlmru.i
tlon. While adopting' these radical
measures, they rejectocl others equally
radical woman suffrage and ulngle
tax. Thov ahowed, too. a setaso 'or
humor. Thfrn ue'ie! two llxiherlea bills
It was ouenlv charged that one set of
flHhlim Interests wart, behind a incus
me to limit one kind of tlshlng in the
Columbia river; and that another set
of tlshlng interests, affected by tills
proposal, retaliated by proposing; a
measure limiting the. methods of their
competitors. Ttie "voters, adopted notn.
ami the state secured the advantage
of saving the fish which were belnu ex
terminated. The votera were not mis
led lev the proposition, introduced ululi-r
a specious local option argument, to
allow city governments to violate , tho
l7te I REALM - I
FEMININE
Oregon Si-rJeliIit3
Much good road work Is being clone in
Clatsop county. -
2 rt; camping out at
liver fia people
Helkuap Springs.
The Mormons may build a $1,000,000
temple a( La flraiule.
A good deal of road graveling is being
done in Curry county.
A hole in one' of Salem's streets has
born patched, anyway.
Albany is going to lee happy base
ball 1'or three dujs in succession.
,-icver-u linnoiMians have arrived in
I., me county and arc pleased with it.
e
. Up nt ' Tha .Dalles' people have been
wearing ebonies instead of flowers for
bieutoenoires.
Fruit Inspector I.ownadale of Yam
hill county has given i,oti,e that h"
will Mriciiy enforce th.- law against
codling moth as well as San Jose scal.
A large amount of road work is being
(Loiiuc.ii) Ronton - Ud season, says th
Times. Tie- supervisors are fast learn
ing how, ami are enthusiastic. Along
tile- rural delivery line's there is especial
activity.
Somebody outiht to put a big flea In
tlx- ear of the big land owner, says the
MoMinievil!- 'iVIt icho;.e-lt-gister. It is
tiao lie was thinking of dividing up
that li.e iii end en. urjgo the, small set
i.b'r to e-orne iii. Metier titvak ch e news
to aim gently though.
The Meinnvi!lty Telephone-iiegistor
rei.e, e Mr. sieAvpoke is waking tip
to II..- l-'cl 1l-.it that big mil!e factory I
is feeing to raise land valce s right awa v.
cil.d s meehine sho.ek him up. Wouldn't
woiab-r now if lie would give something
noire than growls toward boosting the
be-st county on earth.
When The Outlook last week reported
the result of the vote on United Stales
senator, it spoke of the vote on the
measures as in the future. As a matter
of fact. It was not the vote, of ours",
lint simply the publication ot the results
that laid not then taken place. The
elaborateness of the ballot mad" toe
returns slow In coming ia. Knough now
is known, however, to have It shown
that the voters were not dazed by the;
complication of voting or by the varie ty
and number or trc measures on which
they had to record their Judgment. in
the first place. they sheiwe-d their
understanding and approval of the gen
eral policy or whic h the state has en
tered; they did this by adding to the
Initiative and referendum a measure
establishing the recall, so that now the
people cannot only veto and initiate
legislation but vote a man out eff of
fice as well as vote him in; by making
tho eieciion of the candidate for the
senate chosen by the people mamlatorv
upon the legislature, and not dependent
as now upon prelection pledges of
legislative candidates; by amending the
constitution .so as to substitute maturity
for plurality vote ns necessary for
election, so nMo provide for simplify
ing the registration laws, anil so as to
establish proportionate representation
criminal code of tho atale by opening
dives:- and at the same time exercised
real local option by widening; the n
llcense territory. A If In answer to
tho urgument that the people are easily
led by demagogues, they defeated a
proposition requiring common carriers
to tra;isport state and county ofllcinls
free. And, to cap all. as The Outlook
reported last week,, the "Voters over
whelmingly cholse a Republican legisla
ture and u Democratic senator.
The action of the voters of Oregon
seems at first fclght to Indicate, that the
tendency of the times la toward pure
democracy; that the American people
ara moving toward-direct participation
In the government. There Is, how("-er,
evident at this very timo also a tend
ency uwav from direct popular partici
pation in government and toward new
foMns of representative government.
Houston and Ues Moines, ' with their
commissions "In place of aldermen nn.i
mujoi-s. are exhibiting a movement ap
parent to a leaser degree in nianv
American cities; Wisconsin and New
York. with their appointive public
utility commissions exercising, func
tions' heretofore exercised by dlrectty
elected legislators, exhibit the same
movement discernible in the states; and
the Interstate commerce commission ex
tends still further the principle of rep
resentative government In ttie nation.
The i-econelllailon of these two ten.,
ilencles lies In the fact that the Ameri
can people are not political ineorisi.s
but practical democrats. They do no;
value a political doe-trine for its own
sake; tney listen to the doctrinaires and
then blandly adopt tne expedients ot one
side or the other as they promise effi
ciency. When representative gover3
ment. as in the United States nenate, ob
scures responsibility to the people, they
America oiove i a step toward puWt
den ce .-racy and works out a system of
popular election of senators: when a
leig board of aldermen, approaching as
nearly as possible by ward representa
tion to p. pu-re democracy, i-d.sou-res re
sponsibility, then America moves a step
onward in representative government
and devises a commission appointed by
a governor, which exercises the more
important functions! of the superseded
board. So we have at the same time thee
two movements, embodying opposite
doctrines and dlrecte'd tciwar.l til" same
end. And that etui Is not the triumph
of-- representative government or thj
triumph or pure uenmoruoy, out tne
maintenance of government by the people.
w
For h Siinc-i1ourtli.
B HAVE madu in our city such
a good slurt now nt the cele
bration of our dayof national
Inclependent-c. by sane methods
that it will bu several thou
sand pities If Wo have to go blt'.;k to
tho old style of demonstration which
includes fl htuVMSt of casualties.
Tho rose- festival is tha mivlng agent.
When we huvo had our week uf jubllu
tlon and a feast of real beauty,, we havn
let off steam, so lo speak, and ara
readv to deport ourselves uulctly if or
awhile, and by tjmt same excellent find
utidcvlatlng law of exigency of which
we have spoken before our distinctive ,
njid beautiful Hose Festival will yearly
Insure Vs against a riotous Fourth.
The next thing is to plan a civic cele
bration of the occasion which will sat
isfy the young people who rightly" de
sire to make Hinriotliiiur different of tho
day. tV plan "which will umphaslxa the
large lessons of patriotism and loyalty
which we can not afford, and do not
desire to have forgotten, and which will
eliminate the dangerous, bloody,' foolish "
and wicked combustion of gunpowder
winch annually maims and destroys our
yout h.
The Housekeeper tells of a celebra
tion which took place In Minneapolis
last year. It Is worth considering, for
we shall have to make in future yams
some provision for celebrating tho day
harmlessly.
The celebration was scheduled to be
gin nt 9 o'clock. At iS o'clock there were
not a hundred persons on the grounds
aside from the workers. Al 9 o'clock
the re were at least :t0,0O(i, and the crowd
kept en augmenting till ,the rain eama
shortly before noon.
First there was the flag raising with
a procession of national guardsmen and
a flag escort of civil war veterans
across the parade to the ISO foot steel
flagstaff. As the flag was hauled tioft,
two bands and a chorus of 2,0iu) little
girls gave tho "'Star Spangled Manner"
in stirring fashion. Then the general
program began. There was no speaking
nor nuy reyuro mat demanded quiet,
but out of the tent nt the bi1 of each
stage there appeared troops of trained
dogs. professional acrobats, jugglers
and the like, who proccedccl, with their
acts and were then l riieslerred by pint
form wagons to the ne xt staar in tho
circuit. This k.-ot the crowds from
gathering uncomfert.-.iil v 'at any one
place. At the same tt"ie bombs hc-gan
to be sent up from a canvas c-ne-lftHiire-.
the projectiles bin si Ing in mid air to
release i;ro!esepie f'iioires of men and
beasts that Heated serenely away A
oallocai ascension with a pa'-ae-hute
drop was on the- program but. the w ltd
prevenled. All fids time there were
circulating through the crowd comic
"characters, some professional .ami some
of rhom small hoys who had donned
grotesque make up In competition for
a ragmuffin prize.
Running Sliots
T
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f".-
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whet was supposed to be a fu..i -. arti-j to fllnft mud or cast rocks at JoV"
rle alluding to ?'our Rose Carnival. In on. He has sortie c lein, ,,; ,
that you were obliged to go to ..:. t. r- ! rr,nf-th that Hrvan has i .: -., ,d
Otfgonian says: "A resolu
tion at, Denver for election of aen
: 'o-h by direct vot" of t hc'pi ople will
signify nothing in fact. It will be
f'i" polKicr.i rliiptrnn 'if a party that
:u.--re!y wants sor.iethinfe to talk
shout which it never intends to per
forin." AdmitMii that this is true.
ho.Th probably it is not, what
'V.ef th" rpiadrennial "claptrap"
V-imlsoB and. professions of the
itb-er party "which it never ltito-ifs
i i nerfo'rm" -tariff rev
i ' . oHi'fM'v n: form
oration control, and a l)t
,1'ers"
Tills is the season, an.l the sort of
weather. In which Astoria may safely
euaiieiige tne world to and a more- in-au
tii-ui anil congenial spot tor resort pur
poses savs ti,V- Aatoriar- l)av lev ibev
politicians i through the veaTs this city Is "becoming
better known and appreciated and i
more tirmly fixed tn tier lodgment upon
tin- man of the northwest. People are
beginning to appreciate the fact that
thr-re is more , Awtoria than the nier,;
old-time name the Portland and the in
st.ite pre ss bestowed upon, her; that sue
has -buM.'i- -. and does business; that
she Is a mo fet n. lively. araOitious,.
proj: i -si ve eity. with nil the elements
for wli tiing and holding and achieving,
and aide to account fur herself in th
awing e.f events and the movement of
people.
Written for The Journal by Fred C.
Don ton,
This law compelling brush to bo
cleared from empty lots. is. in the na-
Kture of a tax upon land speculation. A
poor man with several blocks of land he
Is holding' down in hopes of realizing
from if ion to $ a 0 0 a lot profit as home
builders increase their value by their
industry, is compelled to pay more for
clearing the brush than a kindly deputy
assessor taxes him otherwise. Since
Portland has given land speculators to
understand tiiat everything possible
will he done to encourage empty lot
holders tliis law is almost in the nature
of confiscation.
In revrrmplng ' the city charter the
special talent chosen for that purpose
should bear In mind that if they pro
pose Involved, lengthy ami complicated
amendments that tin; great common
ality will be likely to vole them clown.
They should also mit forget that any
"bugs" slipped in will be subject to
execution by the Initiative as soon as
disoyered,..' . , e . ... ,
Some clear-cut provision is needed In
the charter that would enable one de
partment of th city government t
be resnonsible for the
t-rieo of these .horrible, wobbly,' muiiiy
paintiess shacks on t lit- most valuable
building and business lots In the city.
It would be heart rending, of course, to
turn these property owners out of their
homes in Xew York. I.tinnon. ,-Los Ar
geles. Pane, or where they may he,
and compel them to Ivaild de-cent con
structions, or at least clear away their
rubbish, but civilized bfiivgs and peo
ple with Improvements worth mention
ing' dislike to have fire traps oulte so
thick us they are in Portland.
As to a Pull
riy Winifred niack.
There's an article in one eif the June
magazines on "Acting as a Profession
for Women."
It's good reading, arid I was having a
bcnutltful time finding out all about
rehearsals and stars and preset agents
mil tilings when I came across this
sentence:
"No actress can ever hope fo get her
hc.ad very high above water unless she
has n 'personal pull with some one of
in nuencc.
1 stopped reading right then and
I here.
What a lot of rubbish this talk of
personal pull is, anyway. Whenever
on meet an out-a t-elbows, down-in-tlie
heel man lie's sure to teli you that tho
only reason he can't make a success Is
that he hasn't a "personal pull."
Why lioe-sn t he go out and get a
'pe rsonal pull?" It's to be had in the
market.
You can buy it with ability, and
that's the onlv thing that will buy it
anil keep , it:. staple, 0 , , C
I suppose the men who dig sewers
have to have a pull with the boss who
engages them.
A good back and a sitronir set of
ntlnued exist-I muscles pectus lo be the pull In sewer-
digging circles.
Unfair.' isn't It?
Of course, if the boss was 'a humani
tarian hod hire men hecauso they
looked as If they neodod a job, and not
because they looked as If they could do
the work he's going to pay them for
doing. But . the boss isn't his own boss,
after all, and the man abejve him will
ask him s one very embarrassing tiues
ttons If his diggers do not get their
work eone on time, so he can't he
humanitarian and haa to be a idaln
Ilia to. Obtain flowers an ! 'he . t : . -r
.Uie publication from the ('hieuxi
ft.rd-Here!d rlvln? the exact r,
vrea In 44 c;te of the Unite,) Fi.u. n
on building imp-ovemeata fer the
"month of itay, showing Portland t
l.a lot. while S'U gMrie.l.
I ito lot blame the peoples f ILrUan i
1t feelitif warm shout what the Tim
l as said, but I knew If they knew tttr
would m.-ei tuerrruuy ton-
Ika t 1 . e . -
---. . ieT n'n eanq papers X
-niecUcne! were the tnatlcstora of ti.i.T Yorfe,
that are nothing t
eith-r. It Is to be i
' a leader as Mr 1
i rti sole Demoerai ;;
, for a candidate tor ,
It i probably
professedly Demo, r;
that in that part i
iaon'would Jtet man.
;"i Bryan, and he t,
But trrat wc
'lit .
his d;
iper that, tn at
ti l-1. he is not
the country fit
-iielit
; - tbe enstci'T
' p apt re s,iv.
con nt t y Joh ti-
g t r
unt
Corvallls Times: Within '20 years
Irrlcatlon will be extensively prat-tdcee
yilereye-r jiossible on WlilameHte vallev
I'.o pi Little attention has been nr.ni
to in iu-at tote In the region, because there
has been no need pf it. Crops were pys
silo,', and existence easy without? It.
Hut the lands, for various reasons are
leht Into gftater production.
V greater ponula-
incd. The great-r
l-le threulLOi i rr i ira f ion will
! bring it Into utl tizntion' and It Is only a
i-iatt.r of time . : t 1 1 i 1 all the streams
w:;l b- call-.-el on lor tlie aid tncy ran
give the- si. a , I isimiT and truck gar
de tier IT v. li! ..Itlmnt'-lv irive irre.ii
in a California till district is an 1 profit to those wt.o cng-ag" In it.
lie i i re' lateis, 101 vhi
'vision, reciproc-1 to brought Into f,m
'irdlav- re'ori-i A r,e" ' ::" h X
.anuiav. l .01 t.i. j h ti) b s,JS,aln
"he kidnaping of the Domcncir.o
odonted incident in its details
;"d in .he extreme folly of the kid-nap'-rs
in supposing that such a fool-j
haniy scheme could succeed. Iti
ut-ra.wi out luckily In that the girlj
so'T. got bark home, and that nobody i
so
is killed,
rvinft f
Fortrot Ifrother ticorfte.
1'rcm tlic Brrns News.
A rood Joke Is told at the expense
of .lam. F Mnhon, the IVmocratlc
w.irh.-rfe- of Coil Springs. On election
lay. he found a good honest voter who
was willing ft ftccomaiodati him to
The kidnapers at e de- certain extent at b ust, and Jim made
"iravy punishment.
no i
a special request that he vote for Sara
Motheishend for clerk and frovernor
a, ere votes that! no-,;bi, but It looks as If their pVopt r j Chamberlain for senator. When
f rbt and that what ha hr-ri here OBlea he couid
bi co-rep:etelr Jjttn"cJ In reply. Plate of the mid !"
From thto It ia to to en llat Tfce It Is asaum.'J. I;-
Joutcil a not concerned la thi atrorser, bnt th.
tinpicaBi. nniair turn a nrel lab le because a lare-
rrmtett. Th Joarnil rxllevti itire
. Is r-oaty of room for both Seattle and
Portland to row to become tit
Nw Vork cf the raffle eoat, and
t:. re I ueed fof these npTy "rab-fn-.:"
ta take plae bt either
t nm tnd Portlard isrs or'be
:uii ft.ri'iai id Zf.C jeopie. j
' o..rry ,ew j,af c wag jn a i,)1LatIc asylum.
'id aval! i.eth1nc . -
'"" carry some. The woman mffraKists of Kn
--"st in these, .n,;, r a fraction of tbem. are not,p!,-e
in is math the ! lf t.,;-, their cause acy by their eon- ; Mn';;
'. so. is so onlv tin-ted z'Xjt of lawlessness. By the" ' i .
.niber r f lotcrq r.-. ;s ,.i-a -..i- .- er,oU,n v l V'd
th.
man reacheel the looth, however, and
proceeded to mark hla ticket- hi me-mi
'.ry faib-d hltc. so he turned to Ira
Mrfhcn. wno w en the board of elec
tion and the following colio.-ui took
Are
you
son
of Jim
. s. s . r
tr. I wonder if vrnj would te I
hatfe Brjarltl.'. thf.t Is. wiP spnort j aut I'K.ritiea a ko?kJ d-nl of troutle. no !y...ir f ather r.tei'me to rote for be-
no Otner let mora" 10 at,, ;1,il. but i ,(., ,. p,.ii,"mf ra r,k MI- fan. 'I ether' rend
D'm- . j people fo drive into doi wbathijj-
Boan nndnubtlly ha an im-'sre deftrmlced r.fK to do. evn bv
It is suggested to limit the lnltl i
tive to allow an amendment on a giv
en subject birt once In 10 years, and
such a plan has its advantages. How
ever, this is not necessary, for, as the
matter now stands any reform can he
place 1 before the people as King and
as often as Its advocates want to put
up for the expense of obtaining signa
tures, publishing arguments, sending
out literature, etc. What harm dues
all this do? The printers gain, the
agitators hope and spend their good
money, and If the reform proposed js
net . aecpptabic to the sovereigns of
Oregon they simply Jump on It with
their little pencils, and move along
as crne as sny oriental potenlat
after ordering the decapitation or an
unfortunate slave. Under the measure
everybody has "equal rights' and that
is a blessing.
eft
If we send a man to the whipping
post and give him iO lashes for beat
Ing his wile whv should not a man
who deliherarelv shoots his wife be glv
en 6,000 lashes? Might kill him. to be
sure, but would society suffer by suctc
gentle creatures lieirin sent to shovel
sulphur for eternity:
Mexico has not.eaJoyed a revoluyfo
for a quarter cf a century, and bui
tights get to be such tameness to the
Spanish-Indian nieod that some thing
must be pulled off that Is ojual to
! hree-rlngetl circus or t n n rtsn , gen
eration tiould forfc"t the 'virtues of
their fa: hers.
If some of the tewn-s that bnve gone
"dry attempt to lax business and
profegplor.al ntn to make up their de
pleted revenues there will be nothing
lef: of them but a depot agent and a
ciruggiBt and a few reformers.
The sugar and tobacco trust "must
and shall be preserved. seems to be
the e;ai" at which the "party that pre
served the union'' aceonllng to Its
latest allegations ah snow. In alory.
arrived. It has other objects for ex
istence, but ttie preservation ef these
two exemplary Institutions of liberty
Ftand out on Its program like a beson
lieht of hope to the entire trust fam
ily.
Notwithstanding tha continual sug
gestions ef the man who once heled
to pay I'G.OOo for admission to a show
anil then got In Just as the curtain
dropped ilat the Statemenj No.
mpmiwri or the ! I mature could vv.e
working man just like the rest of. us
Pull! I wonder what pull little Maude
Adams had whe-n hn went to New York
from Salt Lake Citv. an awkward, lonir-
b'ftged, freckled, western -firl In her
teens.
Who's the man who'maeU- Mrs. Flske
a Die to act .'
.Margaret Anglin who took an in
terest In tier?
Ethel Rarrymore has a null, hut thet
pull wouldn't do her a particle of good
ii sne wasn t a Deautitrul and charming
woman.
A pul! may gel an ctrss a chance tij
scow wnnr sne can do, but she ll have
to oo the showing before she can get n
"Standing Room Only" sign In front of
the theatre.
You may be as clever as anv woman
on the stage today, little Miss Anony
mous; If you are. vou won't be Miss
Anonymout very long.
If you do stay Miss Anonymous, It's
because you're lacking not necessarily
ir ability but In manner or in looks
or In magnetism.
Managers are anxious enough to find
sta rs.
They need theB1 n their business
Just as bosses need competent workmen
in their business.
If you are a .failure In life ion't
blame somebody else.
Rlame yourself..
piueiy your own deficiencies, correct
them, and the first thing you know vou
wont be a failure any longer.
a:
GeorRe W. Klrchwey'a Rirthflay.
Professor George Washington Kin h
wey. dean of the school of law of Co
lumbia university, wis born in De
troit, Mich.. July 3. m;5. He receive
his education In the public schools of
ifrmit ana Aioapy, y. m 1S78 af
ter graduating from Yale co'leoe h
siunieo. law in AlDanv. During this
period he edited tjae Historical Manu
scripts of the state of New York For
iwo years n was a nroresxor ,t i.u
at tr.ion college and in 191 he Jolnd
the faculty of the law m hrxil of '"o
lumbla university. Professor Klehwev
ts a leading member hi the bar .issot'a"
tlon of New York and has written
eraj text books that are In common use
In American law cschoola.
raeare personal fcl!oin, such as rioi8n army of omen
olbr mt&' taa, but on the nth-r
hand hU repeated fandidacy has! An excre askn: ? Rrvan rich er
weakened tin with a porUan of thej1 u ,lw to "
The laugh wa fj J'tn and he is stfll
entirhg It ss mu'h as arybody.
" The I'suaJ Order.
"Wlt do jou propos to do tor me,
doctor?-
"WelL I'll flnt write fan out a. pre
scription anil iater oa 1 will c nd you
a lUUa till." T -
Tliis Date In History.
IM efhamtlaln fnundeit thl etr r.r
Quebec. -
leeJ Vvashlnston took emmmnH t.t
the Cont'pental army at. Cembrtdsa
Ufl tntlgemenf bet ween lirlti.K
against Chamberlain for Untte-4 Htatcaj mr4 Amriciin troop at Kings ErM,fe,
cere.Hieie e,u nine tww ue-ucicreeru (iiiiiiiifti 1 t.
honorable men. there Is no indication
that any of jhem hare so r rooked a
conception ef honor a their tempter.
Pity the of any erorperat !.
taxed on octh-'ir'f-th the market value
cf irs watered stock1 Tax the poor
man'a furniture, wacmn. little husinees
anything o relievo tifi cecpora Vfry
orprered te slavlab assasors of a
prtjudictd f t:Mtrt - . (
l.' eorge Li. Fox. noted actor
bom Died October j, 177.
1M first normal ciw.i in Ameri
ca opened at I.exinatn. Mann.
1J Last day of tha battle of Gettrs
btir. Prussia tni defeated the AuMrl
ans at Sdow.
li The Island of Ctram st'seef by
the Americans of tha warship "Ctarles-toa."
Kverythlug was free. Til" leoi'inado
stands were cce.t--i. -if at'-aeiion To
the small boy tinl'iriiUy. but provfsi.-nrMj
was made, to tiiKe care of tip, s m -i I.- re---
girls who. hadn't the cour.'ige to fight
their wsiv Into the thirsty line. Pop
corn wnw free, flags were free. enter
talnme-nt was free-, and tlie rein came
Just us the last drop eef p-monade liad
been scooped from the last barrel and
the last pae-kago f piopcorn fcael been
handed out!
-After if wan all over, the "kid:-"
wole up to the fact that thev had had
fi Fourth of July celebration without
firecrackers. Out of n crowd vaHou-i-ly
estimated at front .'lil.iiciii to Rii.oon,
not n single casualty haiDt.-cn renort-d.
and everybody had had just exactly tho
sort of a time that had up to that day
seemed an Iridescent dream never to bo
realized. ' Everybody was pleased, even
the men who had worked themselves
Into a condition approximating collapse
laying the plans. As a result. Minneap
olis has not put the fire cracker on the
list of undesirable, for youngsters and
grownups alike have learned that there
Is a better way- a way which gives
better expression to American patriot
ism and which Is better calculated to
Impress upon the rising generation the
meaning of a democracy founded upon
a recognition of the fact that all men
are created free and equal. That is
the best lesson of the gorlous Fourth,
tt m
Woman's Ways.
WOMAN Isn't as anxious to be right
as she Is to have others think that
he Is right-. -- c- '- --o
To go nway from homo for a month
Is equal to having the liotiso refurnished
and ae-epilrlng a new affinity
Y'ou can buv friendship, but there's
no market to sell It in.
People get tired of doing nothing be
cause there is so much of it to do.
Manv a woman devotes more thought
to regulating the world than to the
management of her own household.
The best way to stop a wagging
tonguo is to stop your ears
Tho heart of a lev Ing woman Is a
golden sa-nctuarv, where often there
reigns an ldel'of clay.
it Isn't so bad to have one sided views
If we look on the hrlght sfdo
Our disapproval of a nmn'a act does
not make It wrone. nor does our appro
bation make It right.
Few nun appreciate how much a
woman appreciates masculine apprecia
tion. Many n, woman's reputation for wis
dom Is due to lur ability to keep her
mouth shut.
Sometimes a woman is unpopular with
her nebehhors because he never docs
anything that thev can gossip about,
is
Two Women's Ways.
AMITTKN for cooking I always
ke ep by me some cloth - glove.
me.de Just like babies' mittens,
with S"rarat thumb, hut fingers all in
one. I make them, myself tram anv old
pieces of cloth or serge that I ha'ppen
to have one- In the liv in-T-i.ioru comes
in useful If the fire- has to be seen to or
the hearth brushed in; '.v hilt in the
kitchen they pre Invaluable for taking
hold of hot dishes, baking titt, etc.
A sewing- apron I eif.ni wonder I
any one lesldi's myself ha discovered
what a couifext a sewing a ro.i can bei.
I have one, Just f',eirt apron. t!i
lower part of which Is double and di
vided Uito four pocked... Inlo till;', when
I anurietlng down to sew. 1 s!ir all the
miyf'rials that I shall need. There is
no danger of their getting lost, or roll
ing orr ones lap s there Is If thev are
loose.
r v
Mayonnaise Dreissinx.
PI.ACK the yrtlk of ore , ?K n a bowl
that has be en then oug hly ccojed.
and Into "this stir slow ly pure oliva
oil. one drop at o time, until t becomes
ttie oonsistenr y or butter You sheiuid
be In a cool pl.;e. wlillo doing this, or
el.e It will curdle. Mix tog. i;.er two
tablespoonfuls of vinegar, one tbl
spoosful ef water, salt and a llttl" Ene
llsh mustnrd. 8lmjliis Into the egg v.M
f ij mlxtore. and ft Is rerady t serv "
.emm Juice inntead of vinegar ia a:i
Improvement.
. n
Fonda for Luncheon,
PLACE one cup grated re-ie, one cup--.
brad crumbs, one cup milk, ore
beaten rgg. aneT"salt and peppar to
tste, 1nto a rudlirg dlah snd mejt over
hot fire.'stlrrlna until thoroughly lneor
porati1. Thfn set In hot oven until
brcwn on top. Ferve from dlch it 1
'"X't tn. Ttrts ta (t'ilclou. and maki
a pic dish to serve for luncheon or tea.
r.
For Sandwh hr-s.
REMEMBER that Just a little mus
tard andrcaa ,-rd planted rrrr
wk from now onward "througu
the summer will provide j-ou with ma
larial for lalsvy t sandwlrhea for hct
oars. Mustard should t tosa. tbitt
ajs tr i eras. -
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