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EDIt0KLLi page of mm muBMti , 4 1 f 1 THE JOURNAL AS IV DEPENDENT NKWSPArKlt. I'BtilUher I'uMtiked arery morning (i-t 8timljt ml erary Sunday morului at Tb J..urnl Build ing, flf tb and Yamhill itrrrta. 1'urtlaml. or. KnbTefJ at the paUfn?e at Portland, nr.. for traiiarnlMloD. tarousa tha uiaili neooi.d cl PiHit. ' .- TELEPHONES MAIN TITS. IIUMP,, A-rVM. All rtenarf iripnfM r,rhtt1 hr flii-nf mi ml'rm. eu in operator llie o.Mmi!iiu too - Kaat Bid ofllce. U 2444; Knot S3U. FOREIGN ADVEItTISISO IIEI'KESENTATI VK Vreelanrt-neujiimln RtI! Ailri-rtlslur Atw I irnnwl- Mulliltnar. linn mue. l"ork: 100T-08 Dojce Hulldlur. rhli-nM. nnd warehouses, and the great freight warehouses are monument!) to tills man's conception, industry anil enterjuiso. They determine what size of a inun Jim Hill Is. And the man nmt li i m works thrill the people with admiration for him, and mnku certain the cordial welcome and gon cioua support of the Hill Hues by tho people of Oregon and Washing ton. Hero h to Jim 11111 and his ma.v lila shadow never grow less a big brained man, a worker of wonders New and miracles and a plain man or tne milt. fliiharriptloa Terma b mull or to nr t.ltlreM la tbs United Stitm, Canada or Mt-ifco. PAILY. One ytmr $6.00 I Ona rrnnth I -SO . 0 Bl'XPAY. ' Ad ;nr $2 r.0 On . month t .23 J DAILT AND Bl'NnAV. On year $7.R0 I One month I .US people a democrat of aemocrats who believes In a square dealt A GOOD INVESTMENT. You're not quite ready to " -start, ou say: If you hope to win The time to be starting Is now today ' Don't dally; begin I No man has ever been ready as yet, Nof ever will be; Ton may fall ere you reach whero your hopes are try It and see. S. E. Klser. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. vTI9a day paramount. It awakens Ithe best Impulses In the human heart. It revitalizes that spirit which gave the world Its first successful experiment in self-government. The mind cannot be fixed on . the transcendent incident of the group of patriotic men who deliberat , cd all night of July S and then signed the famous pronunclamento on July , 4, 1776, without belngrebaptlsed In the transcendent spirit of self ' , sacrifice that swayed the public mind at the time. We are made better by contemplation of lofty example, and made worse by dwelling with the un worthy, "''I know not what course, . others may take, but aa for me, give me liberty, or give me death," was the sentiment expressed by the liery - Patrick Henry, and It was a reflee ..... tlon of the sentiment that ran j through and permeated the colonial mind. , The signers of the Declaration .knew fOt. how Boon their immortal act of the morning of July 4 would cause them to be hanged as traitors. Every chance In the world was against them. They were but a handful and the half of their citi zenship was torles. Their act meant war, and they were literally without the resources of war. Their antag onist was the most powerful military nation in the world, a fact that made the Issue of their step the most - desperate known to human annals. . Yet they signed. It was the crown ing act in a mighty cause. It was an act to thrill and vibrate in the . American heart forever. It is the most transcendent act of human ourage ever handed down to a peo- , pie.- It is an act whose Immortal motives of pure love of freedom af- fords a principle for every boy and every girl to square every act in life with, and by It to fashion a perfected manhood and womanhood. To think of It and contemplate it, is to fill . heart and mind with an inspiration , for the nobler, sweeter and loftier things in life, and to awaken desire to Quadrate conduct with the acts of those whose names July 4 made ; Immortal. If we keep the American mind well attuned to the magnificent harmony of that transcendent day, I our national moorings will be for ever in safe anchorage, and our citizenship thrilled with perpetual uplift HE $100,000 asked for to use In building more boats for the upper Columbia river is nearly raised, is as good as raised, showing that Portland people re spond pretty well When "shown." This Is a very good thing for them to do. but It really Is only a be ginning of things they need to do of investments that they ought to make, for Portland's benefit. In most cases the money will bring fair direct, specific returns; but in cases where it does not the indirect bene fits will be ample reward. And that many who do not give or invest will share In the benefits must not be considered at all; If everybody held back on that account little would ever be accomplished. Means ef river transportation for the wheat of the region adjacent to the upper Columbia river will be a great help, but railroads Into the interior must also be built. With more roads to bring the produce of fat region to the river, and boats to transportIt cheaply to Portland, those products would greatly In crease, the people up there would be come more numerous and would have more money to spend for mer chandise, and the business of Port land would become much larger. It is in sweh ways that a city forces healthy, irresistible growth upon itself by reaching out into the In terior, into distant localities in all directions and helping them to de velop and help themselves. Port land has never done enough of thi3. Apparently it is going to do more of it. The subscription for mora boats on the Columbia Is an excel lent beginning. Anyhow, it's going some, and we Portlanders should "keep a-goin' " In similar directions at all. times, and. if we do, there will be a city here of 300,000 people and a state of 900,000 by the time of the 1910 census! years to learn what the Persians have as yet scarcely begun to learn about self-government. The shah seems to have meant well in trying to establish some degree of popular government, but he was short sight! id not foreseeing Its failure It may be that the fact of the Per sian's Incapacity Jor government does not Justify a despotism; it cer tainly does not Justify a cruel, op pressive despotism; but in such a country there seems no middle ground between autocracy and anarchy. Russia and England are supposed to divide Persian control between them, but in this conflict it seems, naturally, to be Russia that is chiefly backing the shah, the capital, Te heran, being within Russia's rather than England's "sphere of in fluence." England will only Inter fere when Russia manifests a dis position to gain and exert more than its share of power; England neyer forgets that beyond Persia lies In dia. But within wide limits the shah, like the sultan, will be per mitted to have his own way. With his misrule of the people neither Russia nor England is concerned. and heard a spellbinder every day, The expenditure of a great campaign fund is deemed necessary merely be cause it has become a habit, and like many other habits It is for the most part a bad one. There are some benefits of big campaign funds; printers, paper dealers, musicians and some other classes of business people and labor ers get some of them; spending them puts money in circulation," and so the custom is popular; but there is no other good reason for collecting and spending great , amounts of money in a campaign. TOO MANY REVOLVERS. MR. TAFT ON GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. S H BETTER TIMES IN SIGHT. 0 TITIS NAME LEADS THE REST w HEN the question is asked: "Who is the greatest rail road man of the day?" nine persons out of ten answer James J. Hill." He is not a Wall street man In any cense of the term, . yet his word Is as powerful "in the Street" as It Is In Minnesota and the northwest. He lg not a speculator, but a builder, a develoj'er In the true . sense of the term. Though he !s : connected with some of the greatest roads in America, his name Is never linked with thone who have made the ; exploitation of railroads almost a Stench in the nostrils of the people. ; lie is as welcome at the White House as tre Is on the farm. He Is as much at home at a farmers' picnic as h'? is at a meeting of the magnates of finance. ; Jim Hill knows every foot and fea ture of his properties; knows many N JULY 1. the midyear day, nearly $200,000,000 was dis tributed to stockholders in railroads and other large cor porations, and this vast volume of money turned loose, it is predicted, will result In a great" business re vival, and in bringing about a full renewal of confidence, Industrial activity and prosperity. This la no doubt to a large extent true. While the larger part of this immense amount of money will fall back Into the same hands that disburse it the Harrimans, Goulds, Rockefellers, Morgans, Ryans, and other like high financiers a considerable fraction of it will find its way into diversified industrial channels, and will help much to start the second half of the year off well. July 1 was also known as "re employment day." The railroads put a great number of men to work, which of Itself will go far to over come the last vestiges of depression, and is besides an exceedingly en couraging sign of better and in fact good times. For more than half a year the railroads have been e.nplry ing as little labor as possmie; every where they stopped work as far as they could, and threw tens of thou sands of men out of employment, thus in large part contributing to and prolonging the "hard times." What tho railroads have done In re employment will be done by other great Industrial concerns; besides,. the harvest is Just coming on. and except for Ihe political bugbear the country would soon be in normal business shape again. All that is necessary for good times Is for the people generally to R. TAFT is quoted as saying that he is opposed to govern ment' ownership of railroads. for the following reasons: "First, because existing government railways are not managed either with the efficiency or economy of private ly managed roads, and the rates charged are not as low and therefore not as beneficial to the public. Sec ond, because it would involve an ex penditure of twelve billion dollars to acquire interstate railways and the creation of an enormous national debt. Third, because It would place In the hands of a reckless executive a power of control over business and politics that . the Imagination Can hardly conceive and would expose our popular Institutions to danger." As to the first objection, Mr. Taft seems not to have been fully in formed. At least a portion of the government-owned ' roftds in Ger many, France and Australia, appear to be run more efficiently and with much less risk to 'life and property than the privately owned roads in this country, and in many cases the rates are lower. Second, the expenditure of $12, 000,000,004) would be Imaginary rather than real. The roads would be acquired through bond Issues, and would pay operating expenses and Interest, and provide a sinking fund The expense of operation and main tenance might be -more than now but there would be no enormous dividend "melons" to cut, nor hun dreds of millions to be appropriated by high financiers for gambling pur poses and private expenditures. The third objection seems a good one, but don't the railroads, and al lied corporations to a very large ex tent own and fun the government now? Under government ownership might not the people be more careful In the selection of their high of ficials? And is there any real danger of the country having a "reckless executive" that they could not trust? Government ownership of railroads Is to be avoided providing such gov ernment regulation and control can be secured and maintained as will put these really public affairs on a proper basis, and make the people's interest paramount to that of the railroad magnates. If this Is found to be Impossible, then government ownership will become an inevltabla recourse. DMB MEN arrested for drunken ness and disorderly conduct, while armed with revolvers, were let off the other aSt with fines of $2 each, and their guns were returned to them. The Journal hopes the time will soon come when magistrates and others in authority will take a more serious view of the danger and evil of the promiscuous carrying of revolvers. Not a day passes but the news columns relatb murders, or murderous assaults by irresponsible people with revolvers Jealous husbands, "love"-crazed youths, men of all sorts in all stages of drunkenness, hobos, and thought less 'boys. Such cases run into the thousands in this country - in the course of a year, and in not one case In a thousand Is a revolver any protection or does it serve any use ful purpose." The revolvers found on hobos, drunken men, boys, and irresponsi ble people generally, should be taken from them as a partial penalty. In not one case in 100 is a revolver carried for any good purpose. I may be allowable for a man to have a revolver out in the woods, Dut he has no proper use for one m a town And even in the country It is the means of many sad tragedies, and little If any good. It would be well for the country It the ow-nership or possession of one of these implements of mischief and crime were permitted only by special license, and -.If the manufacture and sale of pocket guns .were rigidly re stricted. - WOMEN'S VIEWS OF NO-LICENSE V ... A ' Sermon for Today . Freedom. Brush To this essay Was awarded by Collier's the first priie of $100 In the baioon in Our Town" contest. It was selected by Collier's out of 3.000 manuscripts euhmltted: From week to week that paper will publish other articles of equal. brevity dealing with the saloon from every view-point The women have been .conreg-atinf WHY A CAMPAIGN FUND 7 EXEMPTION OF CHURCH PROPERTY. A' Of what use Is a campaign fund any way? Taft hae the ears of all the peo ple throueh the press, ami Brother ".Charlie" c&n advance the railroad fare without Inconvenience. As for Bryan. he is already in the phonographs, and an occasional lecture here and there on his j trip will pay the hotel bills. De troit News. THIS IS SAID facetiously, but looking at the matter seriously, I what is the need of a great campaign fund, on either side? If there should be no special litera ture, no hired speeches and-music, no efforts costing money, would not cheer up, get and hold on to a ; resun uo "uu.u large stock of confidence, and go ! rmt voters cast their ballots quite ahead with work and business. It ! as Intelligently! is pessimists and cowards who give designing panic makers their oppor tunity. .. PERSIA. RUSSIA AND ENGLAND. Nowadays nearly all voters read the newspapers, and know pretty well what is going on. And such as do SSUMING that the exemption of church property that actually used for church buildings and other - church purposes is proper and just, yet the principle and policy should be subject tcrmodl flcation and limitation. Because it is right to exempt a church build'ng and the ground it actually occupies, It such site Is more suitable and valuable for a church than for busi ness purposes, it does not follow that It la right to exempt ground, though a church building Is retainW there on, that has grown very valuable for other purposes, and whose value Is increasing rapidly. The only way to remedy this epecles of tax-dodging is to fix an arbitrary maximum amount of ex emptlon for the ground occupio-1 by churches say $10,000. This would work no injustice on - the smaller and poorer churches, for in most cases the value of their church lots would not exceed this amount, but it would compel the older and richer churches, occupying very valu able lots not only for use but for speculation, for gain, to pay Uxes In proportion to the Increasing value of the land occupied. One church has a building worth $5,000 on a lot worth $5,000, and gets a proper exemption of the whole $10,000. Another church has a building worth $5,000, more or less, on a lot worth $50,000, or $10'), 000, when a $5,00.0 or $10,000 site would answer its strictly church pur poses Just as well, but it refuses to change, and tc sell or otherwise im prove the valuable lot because it is increasing in value rapidly, and so gets an exemption of five or 10 times as much as the other church. This Is an injustice, and the only way to approximate a square deal Is to exempt church ground only to a certain amount. Beyond that it shoujld pay taxes on the value of the land. unuauallv of lata in nr k. vmi &w 14 k w aa New York town, and a ?u nnA with xo worda, has turned the ordinary clat tery-spattery thought bubbling Into etream. She said: "Last month ended our nrst no-license year.. What of it?' It may be worth noting that no wo man. In tha dlaouitfllnn nini1ar.rl ha. unuKtw uu airainac anv mnn m firAniiiA inuaa-ringea opinion In the matter. fernapa this feminine lone-thinking vinci in iiflflir tha r ran tnnrtMaf- tui v. vo ui 1.110 now oraer. lfte. lineman's wife, who has lived In many places, emitted ih first rmiminri opinion: "We had the best saloons In the state, I think Where else would a sniooimeener-tiomffr aa ' did Mr. Kern. and tell me my boy was there too much? ia roinor my nusDand would stop In n n iiuuce iikb mat man to te nndln Domes aDout the houBe, as I do now, X ne next OAear wnrri patiia rrnm farm four miles In the hills. ' Only "ironi leeiinir and lone- thmnrht rmil.l have pulled the quiet woman out to say: ''I -will come down aj-id work dav and night, any way I cam on my knees in the street If need be, to hold the town dry. rou know why. It s been a new Kind or year for us the first pros pering one in 10. Xes, there's more hard . cider drunk sometimes too much and every one knows how It was last Fourth. But the habit Is broken the habit of running to town, with all Its paltry excuses, deserted work and mis erable night hours of waiting, keeping us all poor, sick and sour. Oh! It's been a MKd year, up our way a new kind of year for us.' "Best of all, I think, and my girls think so, too," said Mrs. Van Ness, "Is the feeling the clean feeling as one walks the town. No more dodging round to avoid Hanson's and the other cor ners. Ihey may be drinking Just be hind the walls, but the streets are ours now anyway, and the place somehow has a different feel to me clearer. prouder and my girls notice It, too." "Those that want it will gt It." said the lineman s wife. Mrs. Hurd s Ben nle was carried home helDless Satur day night." "And the mother takes It cheerfully," broke in Mrs. Hurd's neighbor. " 'What's a spree now end then?' says Mrs. Hurd. 'It's the dribble-dribble, so manv a dav and Increasing every year, that breaks the hearts. Eennie's all right; It will be a long time before he'll want to be so sick again. A man's got to blow off every so often, somehow) and we can take that -and laugh. But It's the com ing with four drinks In every nlght that eata the vitals out of a home and then eats the home. And that's the saloon every time. I've lived them both, and I'm for the spree.' " 80 the talk has run. But for the most part the women have become un wontedly cautious and thoughtful, know- ncr as never nerore that the problem is l little more than half theirs. The sud den change In our little clvlo machine caught some fingers,, even crushed and crippled In rare places. - Some line dreams have gone up and out Ilka our By Henry F. Cope. "The truth shall mak. v All fVaa m . John v!U:tV - " REEDOM is one of the costliest uiings to gain and the wfost dlffi cult to preserve.- We do well to hold fast to the traditions and the ideals of a free people. There oan be no fullness of life where liberty la unknown. But cften our Ideals nf IF yard-engtne smoke: and we could wish freedom seem to conflict with our ohll. that many of our last years brave pre- .,. , ntu our ODU" dictions and promises had been less " " . " --. oudly voiced. .n un. uow SBn one De Tree and yet Wn know that drink Is belnc sold, aa I bo bound hv th lia nt a... In rear rooms at the lower hotel, by one , .' t7 " " . . ' """"" druggist, strangely at the harness shop, " "Joy absolute liberty and at a farm a mile out We know that wlirn he must constantly oonsidcr du- the drinkers will drink, our old liars ties to other lives? will go on lying, our consumptives are Th ut. 1. v.- . bound to .cough: But youth! youth re- restriction, wl h "uZ wlln. otn,S mains to us! Tenth fs the field the C'"T,Voniih Jw" "1 codos f hope of all temperance. Somehow. In odM- w e inav hZl izL D0 ror,mBl youV th. drinkvrs leerned. to drink. In thV forSt"" fa ht path was well graded and nearly re- . " ' spectable. and the others were going w ',v-l,r nl aw of tho right and that way. until the body and mind ad- WnB, .rrW'i. ,ri V" t justed themselves to the new conditions ftbsen?iof all Ji.,!, V1? ,J? U and another habit climbed to the drlv- .f." etel nn 7- uU llf9 er's seat and laid life-long hand upon Jei !"&w"2 H?!! in the country who ?hmply th' cPacty. within us. to of going each night lh,?.8 our0.Tn way . to wU1 what neighbor's Torch nd wu'' i l: 'rAtn80pportHun,.tlr .fout nothing to give or p lnJ0, "fd J""1. conduct the results MgXrs" moved: leav- uf U.L'1L goosing. Ing the house empty, he still went to tn ""fZ r S nrst tning the porch. After the house burned he i1, mr dm' J1 h' llngs to ua would go and sit on the wall. a"?n?"A .fJl k."wJr 'r.ra u- I Hnhlt and nnnreaninn tn n.i,. 1. -1 We had good saloons, if one may so giah but still It' Is there. In every man readily, but through repeated sicknesses, """l Vd tdndard. of 0n lila ,U nains. mental and physical disgusts. .u.pfian.d"d" M001,'pa nJ rig r . - . - . . .l.I Bill IJIUBV BLltlMIdrilH norm r I f 1 1 M un.. seir-aenunciaiions. Kent on oecause ins use the words. The keepers and their families were our friends and neighbors, But they were too many, they grew In sidiously upon us. They took the best corners; they interpenetrated and lutched the town. Their hold was In reusing upon all the forces of our lives, Is this divine possibility of saying ha will or ha will not Your will la ii one of the eternal teata la what ara w with our wills? ' doing Much exercise of choice. mom imwocn possioie courses and wa power constantly involves tha Wa elect every mo- dui worst ui an, mey sioua open mere always elect on the around nf nm uo, ouu " juuw. -- Kuoa. cnoosing mat wnich seems to ua schools of habit, with no entrance re- to offer the greatest good. Our ideas qulrements and minimum fees sane- of srood inav Tin nnnr. . tloned by us. apparently. I we may elect the goodof the lust, of & rt w . -. . r. ... 1 , a,. . . n ry n,. . 1. m i. . . - vT I I' ,W nr ii -v v I iicn, we may cnoose death, but we iiui iii ncii. uj wii9 mnvuino mat cnonifl lr rion n a. ir mamm rw, the grAss quantity of alcoholics con- Ai tho nowern ni1 th. int.iii'nu n. Buinou m wio uummuiiiiy irms aim veiop tne choice of freedom lnvolva quarries and all Is greatly diminished; widening considerations. We choo.a !".. mo goim in me ngni or ex per ence: we- j k. V .!. .. .r . m I J'T M, or seir alone but bhu umii uiuun. iiiuio iim, - I"" uu..iui or society, nrst or Home, then of fr ends tell us that's better for them. Some and neighbors, until the vision wldena have shown considerable periods of so-' to embrace a world and Its oblhratlons brlety. The wives generally, with Mrs. we choose on the ground of the good Hurd. prefer the ' spree career. Va- of all. . nety. even in pusillanimity is wortn The choice on the ground of the rood something, wara ciaer nas oeen in in- or all Involves the rejection often of . "r . .,......, " v.. ...,UH...iUi mm wnicn woma seem the highest good tourist son sent to his disgruntled and on the ground of my own Individual dyspeptic father a full hogshead of considerations. Because higher motives saved some of them a: our younor men with (and our girls are. of course, equally hs no loss sit freedom; it Is Ua hlsheat involved with too much mother-filing gam. " It U freedom from the dom" on aim uiuuu, ly Diican lui UI1IIH9, wnu I OI Ills iOWer fielr TtSlhg were going to the bar because the man of the higher life of all ahead wentto these we turn and find So freedom becomes not an external such a-years record of advancement, condition, but an internal function nd and sooini good-living;, or Increased process by which In constantly makln town pride and athletic success and and carrying our the choices of that right marrying, that for these alone we which seems good I learn to know tha louj, mi uio lo-wiir, o "ne, iu ku mgnest goon and rorm the habits of uunii ,11 iii7 mil iv nccj um "UIUUU CnilOS n- and Willing ThJir Out- nf rr, r tuhl ahmallt in n 1 1 Invn I . . 1 . , . . r . . run nogsneaa ot considerations. Because higher motives the stomach pump enter in I freely choose to be bound by sifter this. But to them, to deprive myself to be governed, n habits forming controlled bv the lives of others. This from reestabllshment In our town. must advance rather than farther re cede, and so if any one contemplates building In the near future, why not take advantage of these low prices and "build now?" The Lumberman lays it down as a safe rule to buy at prices thai rep resent only the cost of production, and continues: "Soon the railroads and other" heavy consumers must come Into the market and the instant they do prices are going to advance 10 to 25 per cent, and the Indtrirlnal who delayed' building in the hope of securing even better terms is go ing to be left." Building In Portland has kept up and Is pretty well keeping up with the demand, but has not exceeded it and as this city is sure to grow rapidly, and the demand to become greater, t,his would lnaeed eem the "psychological time" for even much more building than is taking place, The cost of building next year will very likely be from 10 to -5 per cent more. So "build now." A Poem for Today The Landing of the Pilgrims. By Felicia, llernana. Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (Liverpool. England, September 25, 1794 U TVA1aJk Vi r. Ill 1C4EI ..U. . . ff. - ' ' ,, ' I cause I submit myself wUllnsrlr to tha bratefl for ner many poems of religion obligation of the good of all. ana sentiment, ene win not a great . out or license freedom never tnni consciousness of a wnrld Af mnrl nKU. Rations, a consciousness discoverable only through the exercise of this free dom, I rise Into the greater itvlrtg. Evidently this freedom Is something quite different from license. When tho exercise of the right to do as I will leads me to will to do that which Is eternally right I voluntarily place many bound about my doing. 1 acknowledge the laws of duties to others of tha rights of others. I am trulv free be- ls A GOOD TIIE TO BUILD. A CIRCULAR sent out through the country is entitled, "Build Now." It purparts to eman ate from the new "Prosperity Society," and may be prompted by t.ot will gain no correct information lumbermen or dealers in builders' T by what they learn In consequence of i the expenditure of campaign funds. HE SHAH OF PERSIA mty not ! partisan campaign literature and be a fit ruler of any people, 'speeches are not intended to tell the but It le even more certain that truth and enlighten people, but to bt Iherpeople along the lines of his the people of Persia are totaKy distort the truth and delude people, road and the needs of the country uEf!t for self-government, even more So their effect, if they have any, is tributary. He has the reputation FO, if possible, than the conglomerate i detrimental rather than beneficial, universally of "toting fair" with hU j Russian. . We know that the gov-! There are ways in which a great Etofkholders,- and in consequence I eminent of Russia is a horrible in- campaign fund can be made eome- trey stand by bim. He Is a fighter but atair one. Being a flrst-c.as iaixerii Vecpa la tonch with public t jilnioa. A bl brainy man, his en tire time for many years has bec piTen to the transportation business and the development of the country through which his lines run. Suca Hr the character of the man hone Interest are now so cloaely i.:.:..J with ours. la many respects the cornrletion of the "North Bank r ;, r rr.eaas more to Portland au1 t Or g oa thia we bow reallu. ; : gri-at railroad, great la eoowp t" a and trat la constrnctloo; the t ? r! ' across the Colsrabia end c V'i"atr.u:e; the great fcarvc Justice, a disgrace to civilization, vet j what effective. Using it as "boodle.1 it may truthfully ptead that it wou'.d cot 4a at all to turn the government over to the people, to any such ex tent as Is done In this country, or In England, France or even Germany. The people of these and other European onntrtes are considerably educated, politically, and capable of reasoning and self-restraint. Those of Russia, that is, the masses, are still "half savage and half child." And the people of Persia are even more so. To all practical pnrpoeee tbr'y are still living In the tenth cen tury, and to graft twentieth ceetory tirnitation tpon them is an fmpot siti!ity. It tock England f thousand -.-.' ' in nne form or another, may in fluence many votes. But assuming that Toters are not to be influenced by mercenary motives, that votes are not in any way to be bought, there appears to be no need of a large campaign fund. The people all know Taft and Bryan, know them quite as well althout the expenditure of a dollar between now and election as they would with the expenditure of $1, 000,000. They also know as well etrat the "Issues' are though their Ideas on this subject may he vague as tbey would If they bad $40 worth of campaign literature to read supplies, but even If so, it seems to be very good advice. Not for years has the price of building material and labor been so low. Lumbermen complain of a dull market, the sup ply of labor still exceeds the demand, nearly all materials are comparative ly cheap unless, like the plumbers' fixtures, they are controlled by a trust and building sites in cities and suburban tracts are lower than they ere likely to be again; hence, why not "build now?" The American Lumberman, whote name indicates its mission and which speaks from an IntcresteJ point of view, yet that is a Terr re liable and trustworthy publication, says that, this is the "psychological moment" for buildlsg. In a certain city, where conditions are much the same as in other cities, the Lumber man says that a 'saving can be made of 28 1-2 per cent la labor and material, and frorb $5 to $ a per thousand on lumber, as con. pa red with a year ago. It Is certain that prices of lumber, materials and labor But, relteroteB the Portland mouthpiece of reactlonism, . the will of the people does not prevail now The people didn't want Chamberlain at all. To suppose so Is absurd. Be sides, the "will of the people" Itself absurd, a humbug, a delusion Let us retreat back to the good old ways when the people had nothing to say, when a few politicians said and did all, when senatorshlps and other offices were bought and sold when all official life was a veritable cesspool of corruption. This Is the Oregonlan'o plea. ' " i If the new chief of the army engineers, Colonel William M. Mar shall, shall be as good a friend and supporter of Improved harbors and open rivers, and especially of the Columbia river, as General Macken Ie, the retiring chief engineer, has been, the people of Oregon will have no reason to complain. Colonel T, W. Symons, who was stationed here for a while 15 or 20 years ago, was an aspirant for General Mackenzie's place, but there will be no grent or general regret here that he did not get it. That J. J. Hill is as big or a big- ger man in the railroad world than E. H. Harrlman, and was able de-splte-the lstter's utmost opposition to force his way down the Columbia and Into Portland, is an exceedingly val uable fact to Portland. Eventually this Wall street dog-in-the-manger autocrat will be forced to let loose some more. poet, but the thought of her many pieces ought to become the possession of our children, and this Is especially true of the poem below. The breaking waves dashed high On a stern and rock bound coast. And the woods against a stormy sky Their giant branches tossed. And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o er. When a band of exiles mooredathelr bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true hearted, came; Not with tne roll of the stirring drums, Ana tne trumpet mat sings of rame. ig come. In fear- Not as the flyln In silence and They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer. Amidst the storm they sang. And the stars heard, and the sea;- And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the freel The ocean eaela soared From his nest by the white waves foam: And the rocking pines of the forest roared This was their welcome hornet iere were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; Why had they come to wither there. Away from their childhoods land 7 There was woman's fearless eye. L.it oy ner deep love s truth: There wa. manhood's brow serenely nign. And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afarT Bright lewels or tne miner The wealth of seas the. spoils of wart , lie; dvuuv m iuib biu uinr Ay, call It holy ground, The soil where first they trod: They have left unstained what there tney rouna Freedom to worship Ood! -5.uii.hti: 111,11 ana slavery lie that way. Where none know any obligations tha few strong force the manv weaker ones to do their will. Wrhere freedom reign the Imperative of the highest good' ;is gradually It dawns on all. compels each one to will to serve the good of all to sink the lusts of the lower for the good of the higher. The light of truth gives this liberty to all. As men come to see themselves in the light of the glorious life, as mora than dust, as truly divine, come to see their fellows as of this same family they catch with Joy the vision of the possibility of doing great things, of giv ing thlr lives awav for ideal emls of so living as to lead all to the hlghet rood; they enter Into the freedomn of the truth, the freedom to will and do the best we know. Mr. L. M. Da via seems to hare been trying to give a modern exem pllflcation of the wondrous wise man of our town who Jumped Into a bram ble bush and scratched out both his eyes, and then perceiving t&e conse quences repeated the Jump with gratifying results. -s The Equitable Life Insurance com pany will build a 6 2 -story building la New York, the plana for which. It Is said, alone cost $250,00. Oregon policy-holders will help erect this great building, but will get nothing oat pf Jt - . 1 Pledges Should Be Kept. From the Tacoma Ledger. The reported movement In Oregon to hava members of the legislature break falta with the voters and elect some body else than Governor Ohamberlatrt United States senator will probably not succeed. It should not succeed. Much a Republicans fl sllke the idea of a Re publican legislature sending a tkemocrat o vv asnington city, tne members of the legislature who took a pledge to support ror l niiea mates aenaior wnoever re ceived the popular vote are not likely to nreag it. to advocate a violation f the pledge Is to advocate dishonor. This Is not In support of the Ore.on system, under whlca a legislature con trolled by one party may be railed non to vote for I nlted States senator Jor a man of another party. It Is said ft! eupport of keeping pledges. The candidate that took the pledge known s Statement No. 1 In Oreaon went be fore the people and sought their vote. on tha strength of that pledge, among oiner issuea inn ranaiasiea aid not have to sign tha statement. They did It., knowlnr the possible consequences. It wtll iMt W without tnharraa.ment to gn to Salem, organise a strongly Re publican lectslaturo, then tura In and elect lh ara hen ft in senator. But let than keep tbetr pledges. Some Unemployed. They do not care far jobs 'mid Kansas wnr; Beneath an ardent run such tabor Irks; And then they think toere may be some thing neat And easy for them at the campaign . work a Indians poll , gtaa . JnuU.We'd All Ia.--"If the world aa on Id eont to aa and rlgM ,riow. ht would yoa do?" . - vtnai vat-Taaoy aJaa wouie da. I fTiewd." v hat la th.tT" . - w Sentence Sennona By Henry T. Cope. Faith In Ood is best evidenced by fel lowship with men. Too m,my measure their means by their meanness. Trouble that mlsrht break ua tn-ir k made to make us. The hardest seats In the world ara those on Easy street. Nagging people are always praying for peace In glory. Worms of the dust make poor leaders of men to the divine. Social sympathy Is tha many theological barriers. solvent of The world Is not lifted to virtue hy picturing It as wholly vicious. Tou cannot have harmonv wtitii.. yourself without conflict without. No preacher ever eau.ht man wtw. fishing for compliments. Formalities ara the anbatltnt w4k which the tmntr heart trie, ta mb ... for faith, " mm Prayer Is measured br it. untnHnn rather than by the information it aends to heaven. It Is not the Rlhlft In mn, nnnl ... the Bible In your practice that will mil,. you better. Pome men think thev have nut nf th. old mSn wherr they have only put oa the old woman. Is Here to Stay. From the Prlneville Review. Onlv those who hava the welfare of the Republican party aa a prty at heart are the ones who object to tha Statement No. 1 method of doing busi ness. Now that the compulsory law has been enacted by the people. Republi cans will be more careful hereafter or their party Is threatened with seques tration to that niche In ancient h's t"ry ivhlch Is at present occupied hy the whig corpse. It Is true that In this Instance tatement No. 1 finds strong favor with tha Democratic voter, who naturally wants t sea rris party repre sented. In atata tfJr Jml i, lwva be ao pleasant to taste. But a lair ana impartial view of tha .irueti. convinces one mora and mora thiin Dnwmtni io. i u nere to stay, no mat ter which party la Injurad by Its oper ation, for It la a godsend to tha minor ity and thrives on the misfortunes of the majority, thus acting aa a brake. How to Keep Cool. From the Chicago Examiner. Pon't get excited. Ion't worry. .J?"' ortnk beer or any alec hollo - Ugh detain weight CelrrT. . lrlnk plenty of water. Fst.,frita and vegetable. Fat little meat. .A t he frly. -- i . Be tewiperata In vlllttttaf. ard Td colier for be:p."
