EDITORIAL BGE OF THE JODRNAL lfaWo .- f THE JOURNAL AN IMlKI'KMiKNT a. jai ks NKWnrAI'RR. . rut.llih.-r I'lilillKhi .1 n-T t" Irffiit Slln1-ir "nil fd-rr Sm,.;M niiTiilm: r.t Tin- Jourpnl llulM In, riflh m..1 V n hill lrci'l. I'urtlnnil. Or. Miurcn or main support If Hrv a n Si m einont No. 1; anil Cako was favors oriental cxcluslnii, or guar ! ecaten ly Ko publicans for sov-i.hte-oil luiiik deposits, or prtectn j enil roanonn, chltif of which r Injured laborers, t.r anything else. was bin abandonment of Statw 11 Is to lie nlocted on tliat account ; incut No. 1. The IleinocrHtu Knt.-rcil nl Hi. ..-;..f-1,-i" t Pert Innd. Or., fnr tni r mloi-lxii ('eolith tin. nill h coiiiI c'Ib-h irmtl-r. TKI.KI'MOM'S MAI 7173. MOMK. A-4KAI. All il.-i'iir'.' t t tn-.l lir th iniml-era. TpII (! .... rt.i. r On .l.-i-irlinent voo want. Et -.!. It JI4; Knit H6. f-'KKhl.N APVKIt IISIVJ II f.f H KSKNTATI V K Vr.vlnnl n.-nj.in.n Sctnl A .lv. r( lalnir ARinrT. llniriMvlil, luillillii: i'L'S nrtti avenue. Navr York. liiO-'.s Ilm.o UulMIng, OM.'iiKO. . uWrlt-tl.-n T.-i m liy mull or to inr addraae Id Ihe Putlnl Slnti-a. lunmli or Mexico. DAILY. On ftir 1 f I Die month f -BO St'NPA Y. Cam tear I2..-W Otm month f .2.1 DAILY AM SI'NPAY. flne venr $7.!Sn I Ori nienth I .ft.1 So In the lust iiMitri'Ks iii.mi.v c inousuros wcii' rejecti 1 h"i only be causo J ho I(cpu lii lean 1 : I r. of tin" Henati. mo tiftturully iinulnst all ginxl measures, Init liri'ausi1 I M weio fa I ' h a 1 1 1 II. v 1. in t! Permanent and solid char acter Is built up out of trivial actions A. Mac.laren. AN r.WVllllT CltlMINAL. LET us hope that It will not de velop that the Standard Oil corporation la bigger than the law, and bigger than the gov ernment. Momentarily, It seems to be master of tho situation. Judge Landis. who undertook to discipline the oil moniirchs, has himself been disciplined. For his attempt he has received one of the most 6tlnging re bukes ever administered hy a higher court to a lower one. The United States government which Intervened to protect citizens by attempting en forcement of. the laws against the corporation's unlawful practices, has been temporarily set back on its haunches. The inner circle of Stand ard Oil, with King Rockefeller, the rious, at Its head, has demonstrated Its power in affairs political to be approximately as great as In con cerns financial. The loopholes of corporation within corporation, the juggling, the subterfuge and the wheels within wheels In organiza tion for the purpose of escaping pun ishment for doing things the law prohibits, is at least temporarily suc cessful. "Crimes ofr cunning," a President Roosevelt characterizes such operations, have been perpe trated, but for the present, they are Unpunishable. The government has spent $200,000 in prosecuting the rase, but the results are nil. For three years, the corporation enjoyed a secret rate of 6 cents while independent operators had to pay 8. Evidence showed that sometimes Its earnings were 1.000 per cent, and that the corporation, during the period, amassed a colos sal profit of $200,000,000. The se cret rebates were In wanton viola tion of the law. and the officials knew it. Proceeding on the theory that the law Is for the poor and not for the rich, these officials ignored laws, courts, and all else that good citizenship means.. Through hired Hessions, they ran riot In a carnival of gentlemanly plunder, but held up their hands In holy horror if a work- fngman asked for equal rights before the law. They endowed universities and hopsitals, but by the enormous power of their fiscal system, drove into bankruptcy and early graves men who dared to cross their path in a business way. . They prated of heavenly things, but violated the laws of the commonwealth, the j laws of humanity and the laws of the Almighty. They endowed churches with one hand, and with the other reached into the pocket of every oil consumer In the world. Their busi ness trail is strewn with the wreck age of men's careers, their homes and their business enterprises all be cause the victims sought to earn an honest living in the oil business. Their methods, and this outcome of the effort to punish them is ruin ous to citizenship, because it teaches that the easiest way to swollen wealth Is through unfair and unlaw ful means. It Is unthinkable that the unholy system Is to go on iin-checkf-d, and its promoters en on un punished, and yet what else !s : l.e expected if the country again allows "the Interests" to gain control of all branches of the povernment? vored and urged 1 is half a IVinocra' hate. The senate has done1 littl Ing that the people want, or leeil. rind will do nothing of that smf. It has neither any Intention nor desire to do anything for the benefit of Hi" masses, because it Is busv serving the trusts, railroads and pn t"'t.-d interests. It vy do no better under Taf! than under Prv.in, only It would expect Taft to follow a let us alono policy, while Hryan would show the country where the sen ate stands, even more plainly than Roosevelt has done. Would not voters do well, when asked to indorse and support the Republican party, to consider what their partylsm Involves, the rejec tion by congress of any measure cal culated to benefit them if It Is ap proved by Bryan, and because of that fact. If he favors anything, it Is therefore to be despised and re jected; w hatever he is Opposed to is to be favored and supported. And this just the same though i''J out of every 100--people are misrepresented and Injured by such a course. This Is partisan politics. There is not a stateBinan aniong all these Re publican leaders in congress, not one; they are all mere politicians, and as such a curse rather than a benefit to the country. CLOCKS THAT KEEP TIME. CIENTIFIC MEN are busily en gaged in the effort to prodtieo a clock which shall keep exact time. So far, the principal competitors for the primacy have been constructors of the clocks of the observatories of Greenwich, Ley den, Berlin and Washington. The clock mounted In the Greenwich ob servatory In 1S50 for the measure of time In astronomical observations varied from absolute accuracy only one-seventh of a second In 24 hours, but the beginning of tho present century another clock was Installed there which varies only one-twelfth of a second in a day. It is lately stated in a dispute on the subject that, the clocks of Berlin and Eeyden are even more exact, their variation being only one-fortieth to one fiftieth of a second in 24 hours. But, according to Professor Eich elberger, the palm must be awarded to the clock In the naval observatory at Washington, which ho says varies only one-sixtieth of a second in 24 hours. To this statement the Greenwich observer answers that the comparison is not well made; that at tho present time clocks may be made to go with perfect theoretleal accuracy if all the conditions of at mosphere were uniform. Small vari ations of the air, of pressure, of temperature and humidity, pro duce variations in clocks the more noticeable the more ' delicate and exact the clocks are. so that to pre serve perfect exactitude In the move ment of the machinery, which means the measurement of time, it i neces sary to resort to artifices outside of the clockwork. Thus, for example, the new (lock at Greenwich is installed In a place where the temperature vari s only five decrees in all the ear and is built wi'li an au'.'imatie mechanism to correct tire atmospheric p;-'--ure, so that It is said to maintain as correct time as the chr"k In the naval observatory at Washington. ud nothing to do, except as Iienio- i nils, about one vote In three, with the result in either case. The Ore gonlan Is noted for twisting things around and stating the very opponlte of the truth for the truth, ns It does when It says that "Mr. Cake was for the lloh Statement," anil was there r noth I fore beaten Mr. Cake turned against the Statement after his nom ination, and thereby lost several He publican votes to every one he gained by that flop. The Journal accurately predicted tho result In both Fulton's nnd his case, because It was In close touch with the com mon people, and understood the prevailing sentiment, and It fairly and fully warned both Fulton and Cake that persistence In their at titude would bo an act of harl-karl. Now tho Oregoalan inny thunder lngly threaten that the old order of things must and shall be restored, that Republicans who believe In the new order of things can have no control hereafter, nnd that all those who don't agree with it shall be scourged back to tho rear private ranks or out of tho party; but what It says along this line Is of little con sequence and will have no appre ciable effect. A large proportion of the Repub licans of this state, whatever else they do, nre going to stand firmly for the election of senators by the people, for the primary law, the Statement No. 1 law. the lnttlntlvo nnd referendum, and for direct leg islation. They have advanced upon broader, higher ground, into a clearer, purer atmosphere, politic ally, and they are not going to be turned back by these threats of a disgruntled organ of whatever is vicious and corrupt in politics. If the party Is wrecked in consequence, which Is a very unlikely outcome, it will not be the fault of these Repub licans, but. of the reactionists who are determined to return to wallow ing In the min Small CI Young miin, niakB K't I 1 tl K liein. a (tart toward .1'ihn I 1 ft 'I ! e i ImIi .lr . .11 no doubt find t e t EXACT All "worklnKineii" who nre worktnu II. t p.,tic ro (ippeHtMl to Hryan. The ic. Inl lnterrnt almont (ilway wn.M cut nvir lliu Kcnernl Inlcrrat- .'" pr.iliiMv I 'liiuii rllor 'I my'a hop ef Hi'' ei:oaj H sitlviitlon aro revived, Yot, It Is rrniarkt'd. th country do tint iipp.-iir ti) lo vxcrptlonully bllllouH Whit a mean woman It Is who won' Ko io tho Ijcik-Ii unless hor huaband not too. t Tl a Ir-iVpenrtfnt party'a convention will he aiiut.'KT one run to suit ono man IInw bucket" Me Kan? would "Votn for a full water do tor a rmhlbltlon party HE TIONARV SI'I.I T IE Oreeonian v.c pred'ets that what Id tand POLITICIANS. NOT STATESMEN. THE Washington correspond' of the Oregonlan. in JT' d . Mi; that Bryan would gain no vol. on th Pacific co;ist on accon t of his- position on the exclusion of orientals, says' "!t is a r cti 1 , fact tha' throughout ti,.- ; ministration, the 1'nil.d S'at.-? -cte w 111 be R publicar. avi t Re publican senate 1 going tr, a-sist in carrying out the pledges contain' d in a platform dictated by the Ixc o cratlc candidate and ratified bv ;!k Democratic rorvc-rt '.nn " A v. r. Cue on to f.-iv t; p'nee ur.d. r a Republican i Re- , M s i ,....:j,!. tratlon th sera l.-u rf fun d to . n- i 'lr 1, t the V la-f de-i:zr as "a small frad ton" ef t be publican partv. "ili.it findio c.d of its most volatile or ii inverial." cann ( ro' a Hy this t means those U. who have stood are! -! for the primary law, tor t: ion 'if senate, is by 1'ie p. o; ' il-v! adhen nee to H'ptem' rit e Iri'iTive and referendum sslvt taws enact.-d at n. Ti e oreiror.ian United States Attorney Sims bravely says the fight against the Standard Oil company has just be gun, and that he will bring the octo pus to trial on many counts. But there is really little ground for hope that the law-defying monopoly will ever be convicted and punished enough to hurt. Present laws and .iii of liellcial procedure are all against the government in any such case. It Is about as difficult to convict a great monopolistic corpora tion, and really punish it, more than nominally, as it would be to convict and punish Milton's Euclfer. The Oregonian says: "P.y com mon acknowledgement there Is now no Republican party in Oregon. Tho victim is in the morgue, and the nnto'nsv is a plain revelation of the causes that took him there." And vet this paper, that talks thus about a par'v that showed nearly 40.000 plurality in the last election, as sumes to order all Republican Voters about just as an overseer used to do the slaves In the south. There "is no Renublican party in Oregon" be cause it doesn't obey the orders of tho slave drivers. A 12-year-old boy was killed In this city Wednesday by a bullet from H rifle with which lie was "placing." This is one of the latest and nrarest-at-home of thousands of such trag edies, every one of which ought to he a powerful plea for the suppres sion of the gun or n great restnc-. tion of its use. People allow their oung chihfren to play "ith load-d guns and -then mourn at an afflictive dispensation of providence. In a vast majority of cases a gun does harm and not good. Thn Bummer cllniata of Portland oiiht to l. advertised to the enda it inn i-iniiiir). Mr Hockefeller la no doubt duly and plonaly thankful for the laws and courts or his country. There are not one half, no not one tenth enough platforms and candidates yet to suit all people. Now probably Grandpa John D. can afford to give a ftw millions more to .standard Oil university. it. .rsier is ii yours old, but Is no more reiidy ror chloroform than he i .1) or 40 y.-ars uko. Those horny-handed worklna-men com prlsltiK the plumber's trust are not In mvor tn itrynn no-sir-ee. Councilman Baker also professes re pentance and a resolution to reform. hi union wiero aro smiles. Yes, I.ewellyn. nt the seashore, your j." a ween salary mould always tio s."Ken or as your income. Probably that J10.000 limit applies to Pryan himself; he wouldn't want to be shown any exceptional favor. A Mrs. Boffin Is sulne her fifth hus bnrni for divorce. Perhaps she wants lu marry one named Mid or Quit. Councilman liriscoll nny be trying to do right now, but the other mem bers don't see how it can be possible. Fenatnr Jonathan liourne has sub slded: HirinlnKlmra Ape-Herald.. LrfHiV nt Hot Springs. Va., and tako It back. "The Republicans didn't nominate any whiskers." says the Pendleton Trihuno. Are those Sherman sideburns a plctorl.il libel, then? The "crisis" In the Portland eoup ctl Is about as Important as that we frequently rend about In some of the Kovernments. An exchange snys that "Fulton is very close to Taft." liut he hasn't gone to Hot HprniRH and played solf with ttie candid te. It would seem that nt Brother Taft didn't have an Ide.i on any subject that Im considered sate to express, n.nd so I ns had to study what to say very care fully. A president of a 'cw York woman's club Is for Hryan because she says ne Is a !i.-i:idsurner man than Taft. Now there s a chance for a row. for iti do.ihO'dly there are prominent club women who will maintain that Taft Is as much handsomer than Prvnn as he is hlK:er. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TWO OLD REPUBLICANS J. I.. Henderson, a prominent Hood River Republican, writes as follows to A. Bennett's Optimist: "1 am a regular subscriber of vour newsy, virile paper, but by 'tho eternal,' ymi ko too far in Jumping on those who do not Huron with you. Your lust edl toilal, "Ihe Machlno vs. the People.' takes the enke. Now. my friend. I want to say lu all kindness, but with little virility' also, that when vim say .is you do. The defeat of Mr. Pulton an. I the election of Chamberlain (hIiiiiiio on you. why not Mr. Chamberlain as well as Mr. Pulton) was not a loss to Sen ator Fulton or his friends It was sim ply a crime committed nKiilnst th" whole people of OrcKon! And rvei y sane man In the state knows It.' ygu say what you know to be unfair. If not untrue. Now, Brother Bennett, I mjv not bo 'sane.' but I will compare In sanity with yourself, anil I tell you that oio mm.' m iiri'iimi, in my opinion win be as much better represented bv' Sen ator Chamberlain than It bus been or could be by Senator Fulton, us daylight is nriKiiier tiian darkness. "Not thut I would sav anvthlne axatnst Senator Fulton nersonnllv. 1 believe him to be an able man -n. very able man but he stands In with the old convention, boss Kantf, that you cham pion, and he has been connected with the old hold-up legislature crowd, and the rotten political element of the Re publican party represented by the two warrlnur fnctlons. and whether ho has been personally cullty or not of tho cause of the trouble, ho Is In a measure held responsible bv the Peonle for It all; nnd 1 tell you now, that vou will find that Senator Fulton's political life Is dead In Oregon, unless be loins the people In their assault on bosslsm. and rotten political rule, and the conven tion system. Mr. Bennett, vou are behind the times If you think that tho people of Oregon will ever go hack to conventions. They care nothliiK about party, only as party works for tho common Rood alonrf lines that the people can and will In dorse. The old 'party lash' wan used, and tli" party sloKan was sounded, for many veins Inst pust, simply In order that a few men might control the Do mical situation, and ride Into office and stay there, by using said lash. The people of Oregon care 1.0 more for vou 'party' men ami your 'party' howl than they care for the way the wind blows. They are tired of belli ridden by your 'bosses.' The only sal vation for the people, and their only opportunity of Helf-preservatlon from Ihe assault of tho polltlcftl boss Is In tho primary law and Statement No. 1. If thv Republicans were to vote nnuln on .Senator Fulton he would net a smaller vote than he did last election and (lovernor Chamberlain would net a laiKcr vote than lie did. You may sav I fiat (lovernor Chamberlain Is also a "politician.- but ti any event he Is a believer In the primary law and State ment No. 1. and that Is Just the rea son whv 20,000 of us Republicans voted for him at ttie last elec tion, while we also voted for the Republican candi date for the legislature. And you need not be surprised If that same vote In Oregon will also vote ag&lnst Mr. Taft fur president, owing to the fact that tho Republican national convention turned down a plank this year in the national Republican platform by a vote of about 7 to 1 indorsing ine election of P tilted States senators by direct vote of the people. "Mr. Bennett, you gentlemen who are opposing the people and standing In with the misses, may just wen now to the Inevitable, or 'Ichaod' will be ,. ritie,, nil over our nolltlcal horizon 'el. A ...ni.la Vinvo unnkrn ThcV will speak louder and more pointedly next time. Take warning ana get irom un der" 77u REALM - -f feminine I Letters From the People Mr. Mllner IMoatls Not Guilty. Portland. Julv 23 To the Kill tor of The Journal In Wednesday's Issue you make a criticism of myself. The gen- ral public caro nothing about it, but I do. Your criticism Is absolutely and positively false In every particular. I don't care to go Into details, such mat ters are of no Interest to anybody, ex cept to Interested ones. There aro many ladies and gentlemen of Wood- awn who know all of the facts and know this denial to be true. 1 never assaulted a man or a woman In Wood- iwn at any time, nor I never attempted to neither did I ever assault a woman in this state, or In any other state. I voluntarily resigned my princlpal- Fhlp on May IS, ll0ti. on account of the humiliation and disgrace brought on mo b the thortcc.nilnga of Mrs. Mllner. and left for Eouthi-in California, tho fol lowing morning. 1 returned to the northwest several months ago because I am In poor health. I his Is the tlrst public statement that 1 have made and it will be the last, since the public cares nothing about one's domestic af fairs. 1 mnke this in justice to inyseir nnd In Justice to my friends and an ex tensive acquaintance in i'ortianu ami lr; the state of Oregon. f;UUAH A. jvi 1 1 r.. iv Oregon Sidelighti And still nobody strikes oil In Ore gen but somebodv probablv will, some .lay. A Junction rohhi-d of $5. if years." I'lo- editor's house was "the accumulated saving Vale is becoming an increasingly large "hipping point for a large Inter ior region. Kngene is going to try to get rtd of dimerous hobos by making them work on the streets. While a She. Id man nnd his wife were oat pl.-kb'g Ida.'kb. ri i. s their house was rehhc. of J!.',". F. A Se lf, r' of Th Dalles his been v Islting the hover river and may estab lish a ca niicrv t le-re. ra There o liy ": m for lie grcfit area of almost llt coinitrv In .ale- count v; ay 1 pie. "Now, dear people," the lican politicians and b aib rs inK. "what are you L'oii t the partv, the Cnne! old Please to fall Into !ih shoulder to shoulder. f Hut before dolna; thi tor the people to ask' N. Kcpub a re ask i do for Partv? and stand t he party." it s in order ' What 'is the ; . party going to do for us" .lust Jolly .ins along and fool -is. as ever? Please . let us know, In some s;im : n r detail, ! hat the party wli! (! ) for the peo- 1: (I to n. t- ! .11 In p .I'ics, :. t'" ta or ir a' - ' . c ; r. don n parti their w i cor. And the , r.nngb that t a i it ran to w r ( v r its pH: p r. a u rally and '' , . , -- I 11' :e!e t. . I; ... w reded k; Ore ir.t i mat io:i Is plain (V-. -Ionian will do , k the part; A ti. or ruin It a ract r;sf h a 1 1 v rel- s and is del o-f-d to rra r i ,,j.s rule, to a n s'.en "f ; corruption. T ' '' a-.d no '1 ! of t! . ; a-f, i ...t t r f- T7 IS' ' k A',1 the northern s'.v 1 for Taft, Chairman 1 lite v;sed. yet t he pa' riot ir 1 " .I it ii lans of e ei ' or u aat a libera! i Mow an pss"?n funds nev. ri 1. . -; ie all th- ir as u r.t m s w : h an u re- : t - f 1 i-1 aro of Pre' :t r 1 '! ai it patriots' millions to Just let t he j spend i r g :. ny It:." s are sure - oi k s nd I;. 'publican of them of cani- Thel COU- of victory a goodly or other Mow would It do pie Vote without amor e 'hem? Tl. hens., of Charles Troutnnn near Shed. Is was r .l.l-,l of Jl.'.u and in hunt ing for the thief !,. drove a horse worth ?10o so tar in the heat that it died. After several v. nrs of patient studv T. II. Willtam- of Hood River has svs ti uiat..-d the en Hf making l.r.-i ! to a toil. in, oil Me has i.at.nted mil timnu I'.ictur 1 i mixing, ki ending and in.eild- !nc dfviee that I,- is using mi cess fudy. : A niiinhT of surveying pnrtleo are nt v.. rk In this reirion. all close mouthe-1. but very Industrious, says Ihe l.akeview Kxamincr. I ut at the ame time ;h's work m. ins that "re lonir expected rn!l wav age so far as this region Is el)n- ert e.l s now only a iist'.oti ef a few . nion i lis at most . I I The second crop of alfalfa on Bu'ter I cr. ek v.as excellent and the third crop gives pM.mise of being fullv as goo 1 Wllh a little extra irrigation th" fiiur'h j . r..p culd l.e harve-teil oil most of the !lM'.""r cre-d; land tlnj vear. but m.t ! of t,;e fitiner will cut but three crops j Tl.ev will : axe thr. . g.m, crops a: d jp.enty of excellent fall jasture. The People for Bryan. From tho Sclo News. ,s was expected William J. Bryan was nominated as a candidate for tho residency- at Denver, last week, on tni first ballot. The enthusiasm of a vast majority of the delegates and spectators seemed to be unbounded. From whence comes this almost unanimous demand Or the nomination of Mr. Bryan? .Net from the capitalistic classes; for the, lew him as an enemy and dangerous 1,1 their Interests. Nut from the trusts and tariff beneficiaries; for they know, with Mr. Bryan in the White House, the special privileges they huve enjoved for Vitus, would no or snort miration if he could bring about the abolishment thereof. Not tiie politicians; for they have used every possible means wlthl.i their power to prevent the action of the Denver convention which selected the Nebraskan for the Democratl? standard bearer, for the third time. There is left but ono source, then, from whence the overwhelming demand for Mr. Brvim could come the people. From the north; from the south; , from the middle west, and from the I'aclflo states this demand for the nomination of Mr Bryan developed In such magni tude that all chances for the nomina tion of any other candidate than Mr. Bryan very uiiickly faded Into insig nificance. .Mr Bryan possesses the entire con-fiiiepi-e of the people. They believe. If he shall be elected that he will en deavor to carrv nut Ihe reforms of which he has been preaching; that ne will be im enemv of greedy trusts; that lie will endeavor to have our tariff laws tevised, I hat he will be a bln.-k In fie wav of the encroachments of pre datory capital and that he will so far as lie Is able rescue the government from Wail street Influences ana re store It to the people. The fact that the tru-sts. Wall street and predatory wealth In le-neral. opposes Mr. Bryan. endeiis bit. i t" the people. They love him fir the enemies h- has made. Nor is it an lmi-ossibilitv that this Jovo will he carried to the polls next No vember In sn.-ti numbers that the sub ject of their love and confidence will win tne election. How About Oregon? From the People's Press. How about Oregon, will sne give majority vote for Bryan or for Taft? Pot us see, did not some 20,000 Oregon Republican voters cast their ballots for Mr. Chamberlain for the United States senatorshlp? And did not these voters and thousands more In the most em plintk' terms Indorse tho principle of tho olreot election of senators.' And (lid not the Republican national convention just as unanimously turn down the di rect election of senators plank? And was this turn flown not entirely agree a tile to Mr. Taft and the national lead ers of the partv? Therefore, would not ordinary reason Indicate that a considerable portion of the L'li.onu Republican voters In this slate who bellevu In the direct election of a senator and wiio voted tor a Hem in rat w 111 also continue to believe in the direct election of a I'nited States senator and refuse to vote for the party and candidate and platform that la op posed to such direct election? That Is one small cud of reflertlon that party leaders who are so sure Taft is it out here can chew on to their ad vantage. So far as we cvn discover, regardless of the personalities of the opposing can didates, the Democratic platform Is much nearer In line with Oregon popu lar opinion than -.the Republican plat form. Oregon has recently taken direct action on a number of the Issues con sidered by these two platforms, and In every rasa Oregon has deVlded in en tire accord with the decision of the Democratic platform as opposed to the stand taken by the Republican plat form. Out here we have been rapidly getting away from iintloiial party lines, and wo have perhaps without realizing what we were doing, actually managed to think and act without first asking whether this was in entire accord with the leaders' bleap or not. We have grown Independent, and we are not es pecially concerned about the name on the party collar of the nominee; we are concerned, though, In regard to what the candidate stands for. what he ex pects to do. how big a man he Is. Po it miv easily happen that Mr. Taft will not gather In tho folds of his voluminous party cloak guile all of i Oregon mat is registered Republican. A Problem for Knuiloyerti. N T 1 1 15 Interest of Hahbaih observ ance It has been suggested und ttie Idea Is Indoraed In some of the eastern papers, tnal employers lend their aid in lessening sjunday travel by giving each employe his or her vaca tion beginning Saturday morning, and ending Monday noon or night. Thla would give all employes who de sire to get out of town -and who does not chance to do tho traveling on Satur day and Monday, thus avoiding tin) crowding of Hunday excursions and les sening the dangers of overcrowded trains, besides helping to make the riab bath of tne more than 20,01111. 000 of Christians in the country something more than a mad rush for recreation. The American Sabbath union, which prganlaatlon (for wo have to have an organization of course) Is pushing this matter and endeavoring to obtain the cooperation of employes, ssya that the moral principle Involved in the Inculca tion of tho vital truth regarding the Sabbath day aa tha bulwark of our homes and our land would lnflnitelv more than compensate for the material loss of a few hours' service. Certainly if tho thing Is to he dona it will have to begin with the emnlov- ers for It is asking more than human nature Is likely to live up to, to ask employes to remain in town over two hot Sundays In order to bulwark our liberty of our homos. Not that many of them are not good and sincere Christiana, but the good daylight hours of those two Sundays they are worth more than all the rest of tha week, for the reason that they are Just so much extra. They are the su perabundance, the little more that means so much. W hen one puts In eight or ten hours a day, six days In the week, for fifty one weeks of the year at counter or office, that one week of vacation Is looked forward to no one who has not worked for a living can Imagine how eagerly. Then at Inst it Is hero, the liberty, tha freedom. The desk and tho store and the long rows of figures nre left he hind, and the vacationist sets his or her face to tho Invigorating ozone of tho ocean, or the fresh breeze from off too river, or attunes his ears to catch the low murmurs of the deep woods. Would anyone ask such a one to post pone ttie vacation a day or hold him back a "minute, even for such a fine principle as that of refraining from Sunday travel. v e are that the mod day In the cities Is becoming an alarm- nuisanee. 1 no inrongs or. dressed u;) people who swarm the .-ttteets, crowd the tbontres. rush to eaten trains nnd boats for. a day's outing, are ccrt.ilnlv not living un to the rigid adherefice of the day. as crJTTeelved by our forefath ers when they laid the bulwarks of our liberty. It shows a disregard of tho,- 11 lie HirtilllllK or ine .aon.'lin anil 11 looseness of opinion on the proper ob servance of the day that may well, be thought alarming. .... ....... , v 1 . ...n.i.m eon a vol? 'i probably pretty welS agreed Modern unobservance,7if, Sun- Fa is in line and re t 1 I act ny legii-Uvpe,. Si,' h a- 1.- ib - dared for by 0,,. r, :,w.r ,:u"..-o,. the RepublP.-iT, s. 1 ,,t i e.:d vi more cer'aii '. r.f- -. , j.c. anything aJn b . Mr hr- .m Here Is a frank 1 ::, i,. ,n of . Tkdousncss. th non-paTlo-jum. th treason to th i-op!' interest., ef I art! mi n politic, and pf..n of KepubllraB party p!iri as n'-n-r.IIflpJ in the prcnt Senate Ti e t-eriat e acta, accotdirE to this repre sentation, on acr mcnun that it proposed, not upon It m-ri, nofib: )n any with view to aenrlpg tb !nt'-ret tair.aM" fct rr adasrlrtr the welfare t th KpiBblKr for ivt pie, but rattier tspom in poJUleslj t bit.' f mlUh m !.: v;, r.e ai l : i'h al . TV. IP'S .! !' I- - '.: ci t - e tl par: -- r... V..l lr.1'.-). i (V1 air. .v!v . at ran 7 ' , id- :.'fi! . i - ;e a'f 'V' I a- ). .s fabri-a'vn that the I k n,. -r a: : 1, c teat 1. ) T; f.e r - r- i1-1 r- i a Re publicans ard M !-i Fulton and . What excuse- ran counrllinon offer for f-tcipt : m-e ! . os Into ma'orl'y oi.(! n.lnor'p v "pari " or cliques. toe.-: Vr (OPV- I r hi'" ; ' n d ar.d hancipg propositi' ::s rone, g' i ! ' r V -c,. tl .1-1 cin In "' n w hatr ver riirht or ! n w ' o have , I'll'eir rr- i : P- fer it. I ca padt v. ?o t .1 pa"' . KT'litl. 1 1 HI a purei r 11c: ! i ;s as- h a f not a 1 a t 1 i e of atrrtal-,'-l or afc.r Fultcti bat.n by resworn. si'l'.t 'u It lh t h right 1 ' .il'ier .if ft p d a . 1 t- he lafl'V r ord:t,arv ' Coi.nr i irran Cotte) .'-1 arr.'!or. against : 1 " r oi"! jo e -t." ' nt en c Ile e eatlPLT : : e piac s niav 1 to be ort-e t! in v, in northern Lake countv. is f."- .1 big growth in population 110: pi 1 .sp.-rlt v si v s the K v- amil.er to vv I r r i e :i t i i ,r) enterrtte I ,!! put wafr on ! 2. Ci ofi acres of ri.'h j s.'-ne bins!1 I 01 ! w here a few acres will j afford pro pii"is homes for a gr.n t 'lumber ..f 1 pi., who .-an engage In intensive farming or fruit of all kinds j Corvaihs Times These are not proud I iiiv l-.r the hep man. It Is rather a ' 1 .a if trihulatmn Most of them who j,.... op.-i ,-, t :ng their yards, aro banking 1 on fut.:ie. They pcarcelv expect a ; piot'it t),i sea,s..n Thev are reatv to p.. k, t a lopn .Most of them did that . i'st year Ijls a pvrotechnic busiress. it th,.. 'inftoiiilf t business In fact I all the enterprises. We " -imrn Ha ilum Prother Uarri ' -1 w: i -akf- a firmer grip on tie : th paser,g r traffic of Co :tv If the pr..p.-et;ve ale of th . O-.-" 'o the S.ei;',. r- l a. tf'e goes r .ugh. 1 o..s a si-.'.! t.. realize a r-. 1 t ; -1 t f r- k 1 t t .-1 ie thto'igh n :ix-K.rr nt !'... n th. Alliance sn.W .v n'.e.rrtna tie row b"-.t rw ently :-; t. 1 ,-t N..rt't ) ,. but Ir rase ' ' f. -.': ',p .!' -1 MarTlmin. TH'f-m w'i r-'t te ;.iw..--ed and the - tit - 1 ! f- r: ui m. if t.iey are ; . t up a r.o-. h or im Wlio Arc Five (iri'iitcst Aincricnns? contributor to th" Vilirrlm's Script August Ani. riian Ala ga in the zinc, writ's: "In a littl" club that I belong to we had a led-l.ot discussion the oiher night on ipe old .piestion as to who are the live greatest living Americans. "i if course vv e tounl ourselves puz zled 01 lie- beglnnl.ng as lo what great ness icallv Is S.une rien who are re garded ns' great to. lav mav be Mtlr"lv lorgotten in years, and one !, gulte ikely to get greatness mne.i up iniiiil notoriety or reputation. So we finally an defined the living man n.s the man who has the largest cumber of followers; the man w ho speaks w HI. greatest au thority to the most pe..pie We all agreed instantly on Roosevelt, although there was one runipant pert:-" rat In the group who opposes Roosevelt. P it even be admltteu tliat R. oseveit prob ably has the greateit popular following of anv one In Amer'i" at the pre.-rt time. ' We had a hot (lis- usslon over liryan for No 'J. but flnallv accepted him bv a maioritv vole. After that we fought hard at: i long, and did not brink hi until muinlght. The IKt of five which we fltallv s. t .1 follows No 1. President Roosevelt. No. 2 W J. Hryan. No. 3 J P Morgan No. 4. President Klint of Harvard No. 5. Samuel Gompers. labor leader I tabor I'nlons Hhould Help. From the Portland Labor Press. Organized labor should require no seoonu iiiviiauon rrom the grange to assist In the defense of the initiative and referendum against the attack of the racine -states 1 elepbone At Tele graph ivnmpanv.- The Labor Press hearttlv seconds the suggestion that unions should not wait for fuither formalities to let the granne kiiow iney win assist it In this fight. I ids is the opportunity of years to )ol.n issues in a most worthy uniW lakin;; and to Initiate cooperation with the farmers that will grow into a re lationship that will be permanent and poweriui ror tne weirare of (lie producers. Pass a resolution Immediately pled ging assistance to the grange anil speci fying the amount, be It Jj or $100, pay able on ih ni.ind. Hear in mind the power of such ac tion Before the courts. Pet them see you know what yen want nnd how bad ly vou want it. Vou may be laboring under the Idea that this cuts no Ice In th matter of making your wishes constitutional, but If so you Uave an other guess coming. The ablest Jurists in the land will tell you. when not under oath anj bound by a i.tainer to exercise their knowledge of the law Instead of. their common sense, that the supreme court merely has the last guess, and that such guess Is often more nearlv its Judgment as to popular or powerful ilcmsnd. rather than i pon the equally conflicting con clusions of law. The executive board of the fitate Fed eration of Labor will undobtedly make an official appeal to unions on tins luestlr.n. but they will make it stronger in i more henitilv If a few strong un ions express themselves In advance. Facts Worth Knowing. A tree In Ashsnt.e furnishes butter. Clean, soft flannel will clean dusty wnlpaper perfectly. So minute is the bncitl-is of tTphold f-ver that a single drop of water may contain millions An electric lamp socket prorlded with a lock to foil would-be thieves Is a re cent Invention. There Is about a sirgle rhsnr In 4.eC0,f -i o 1 1 o o that one thumb-print mav duplicate another Norman K. Mack's nirthtlajr. Norman Kdwnrd Mack, the well known newspaper publisher of Buffalo, who served as chairman of the Import ant committee on mien at the recent liemoerntlo convention in Ienver was tiorn July 14. 1S,r,5, In West Williams, Ontario Ills education was received in the schools near his home When a young man he went to Ttuffaln to make l.l home, and tn 179 started the Sun day Times in tha- cliv. having pre v : ,usiv served an apprenticeship on s. v.ial papers He wns successful from the start, an.! before many years he t ad accumuiat. d a substantial fortune He allied himself with the Pemocratlc party, and In 1 ?no was chosen the New York member of the Democratic national committee lie has been a delegate to the Democratic national eonventlons of l.nn, 9114 and l.T and few Democrats have had more influence In molding the national tendencies of hi party He supported tbe candidacy of Ornver Cleveland In !M. and 1 ?2. and ! a warm friend and supporter of William J Hryan. How thr Star Arc Conntcd. From Populur Mechanics The gigantic task ef counting all the The Sunday ball game, the Pundav theatre, the skating rink with special music, all the Inventions of man for catching the money of tin- men and wo men, whose day of leisure the Sahhath is. are distinctly a menace to the right and proper meaning of the day. 1 nese things without doubt create a loose feeling in regard to religious thinking, and tend to place America. .1 hrlsttan nation, upon an nsecure footing, In which expediency Is allowed to take the place of right thinking, nfi 1 pleasure is substituted for the worshiu of ttOll. And yet our hearts cannot but beat In sympathy with the hard-working man or woman whose one week of leis ure begins with the Sabbath morning md who wants as speedily ns may ho to escape from the noise and heat and crowds of the city and arrive at some retreat where he mav begin to live his own life and commune with nature, and who straightway starts off im a Sun day. These same working peonle would travel on some other day than Sunday If they might, and so it becomes a. problem for the Christian employers who can do so much to bring about a change in this matter. Let the employers band together to lnforce this simple brotherly thought, merely, in fact, a working out of the good old ' principle of "whatsoever J would that men should do unto you." and we shall hear less of crowded Sun day excursion trains crashing into reg ular trains, less of the disregard of the Pabbath. We shall also take a forward step In preserving our Identity as a distinctively Christian nation anil we shall draw the bonds of hrotherll ness more closely around employer and employed. t it Raspberry Jam. Red raspberries nre also plentiful, and nothing could be more delicious than Jam made from them, as follows: Allow three quarters of -a pound of sugar to a pound of fruit. Put the ber ries on alone and boll for half an hour, stirring hard and often. Plp out tho superfluous Juice, adtl the sugar an! cook 20 minutes more. Put up In Jara or glasses. The Dally Mcnn. BREAKFAST. Peaches Cereal with Cream. Boiled Salt Mackerel. Coffee. l.rM'HEON. Nut Butter Sandwiches. Crab Salad. Raspberry and Currant Jam Hermits. Tea. DINNKR. Beef Bouillon. Baked Salmon Trout. Creamed New Potatoes. Oreen Peas. Apricot Pudding, Foamy Sauce. Black Coffee. Raspberry and Currant Jnm Ten quarts raspberries. 3 quarts currants. i ouarts sugar. Put the currants into the preserving kettle; heat slowly on tle stove; crush vlth a wooden vegetable masher. Spread a square of cheese loth over a howl and turn the crushed fruit and Juice Into It Press out tho lllice which (urn Into l-o -.-a-A-.l n kettle. Add the mi- tr and put on tho stove; sttr until the sugar Is dissolved. When the sv nip begins to holl, add the remaining fruit IPat slowly and boil ten minutes after the fruit begins to buhlile. Skim, rut in lars nnd seal Hermits one and one half cui su gar one half np butter, one half clip milk, two wr II -I. eaten eggs, one tea spoon baking powdrr. sifted with two and one half cups flour, one rup chopped .raisins; put in flour, one half teaspoon cinnamon. cloves. nutmeg; pour In Isrge tin; spresd about one half Inch thick, bake sn.l cut in squares. ror dusttr.g carve, i.irn.Tur.. , -r i-ifir, n th, n)V,n, snrt ,M.nlnI ,n nothing better than a fine, eo.t fainter , par- , r,nr,r vhWmA Is ore th.tt demands tbe quality of almost 1rflnlt A r'li'nn . ..;. ; ( r d ; -i'-i:t e,' is of t va-! - r 0 a . -. rsv'r. g Me ' r -e a f r. f e i iiij tr.ii- leg riffe-rtf-re Fire Alarm. A 'r-p but rf'ective f ; r ulsrmtMr i . c p fl.le h V r rir !- ir.g tr end pars-ed with a rdeo pf "'wm which rreit. ar,d stlcwn them rib a ti 'tt. og.t'-.r whn the temperature tfEtn to r-rt too high brush A fine ijusllty r.f r"-k suitable for grindstones has been found In large qusntltlea In Colorado Including lines under cnnstrnrtlon or about to be t-;),t Rr-rxll has about 1. 1 15 o ml! of railroads The finest rubles, which come from Bnrmsh. sell for five time the prlf of diamonds "f sltrilsr sire patience, and without th art of photo grsrh the task would be almost Im possible Pbotogrsr hie rlate cortlng the whole of the so-uthrn hemisphere have already been Ho-uri. and these with the series dMling with the Pr1hrn hemis phere will number more than 'AO He. h -...- , UV I IK 1 n ' - .. - M.nnl, Muriatic arid will remove Ink V"1" j from' ?".0t to :M.w starry ' Imaac. and n a rninh l-ult ln th total rm-nber of stare photngrap bed will b from iinvarnlhed floors which should onrccting two ple-es of i wasneT tun water alter it la uneu II h a circuit and keep- A gol mm twit tint no wnite tn Its plumsre. and her the synonym for cowardice "to show the white feather." Th task of ooiifitlne th stare on t ,s pis ten has alr-r been mmmwi. and tbla mtl together fth the rata lcfulttg. win take at ieaat 1 year a Tltla Pate in History. l$fl3 -Cor nation of Jamea I of Eng I -insl irr.o-Jchn rhllpot Curran. an emi nent Irlh barrister and orator, was born 1 Tfi Treatv o Oswego. making peace with Pontlac 17 Oenerel Joi n A Dlx born, died April Jl. 1 T 1".! Alexsndtr Dumss. Ft'" nov elist tw-rn; died pwi-mNr S. "e t J3 Llfbon surrendered to twin Ped rn Martin Van Purer, eighth pres ident of the t'rlted States, died rt Kinderh-voli N y hn'n there. De cern 1 r 5 17 I Captln Matthew Web-i drowned In atterrpt to swim the Niag ara whirlpool rapids. 17 I'nited "nim oiturw passed the Dingier tariff sit IM Rr prnrifr tr.i,.T befw.Tt rran-e and th fnlted Ptte signM. A FYnch 'onmal aTinouneen the ilis roverr of a new method of prer1eg r It oonett In core-ring tbm ta-ot too thickly with lard Thl stops op in- perm, prvnta eraporattaa aaa keep pt tha aJr.