The Oregon daily journal., July 25, 1908, Page 6, Image 6

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fublUhrd nrrf a. liif nrf.l funiliyl ni1
Trry KiitxUr mmlm it II10 Journal llullil
!(. fifth and Yamhill .(recti. Ivrllanil. lr
Ifntered at f tic rr.iaifflin at 1'ert Intnl. Or., fur
frnncmlaaiou thiouiih tli. nulla 11 -Nnd cUaa
tenner.
TKIEPItoNKN MAIN TI7.1 H'lMP. il.
AH depitrt im-tita rrarln-.l tt ft"".- nMinhcr.
Tell the fifwralnr te .l.u'.trl m.-tu i'u wmit.
Earn Sid.- c.riw. 11 i-m. kiki win.
rinr.ti. Ti a:vkhiiimj imtkikntative
Vre'lunil Pcnjiimln Speclnl Ai1"Ttlln Arencr.
Prmiawli'li Hull. line I 1 r h nnilJf, firm
Ynrk; loo; o It,. h i. lintldliic. Chicago.
an. I poverty, they voto tho party
whither tho voto serves Uiciiist'lves
it not. Organized lalior has If h
Puhair1Ul'n Term, hr mall or to inr addreaa
In tlia Culled 8tatt. i'nnnda or Meiloo.
DAILY.
0d xr A m 1 iip month I .AO
Nr:::'A v.
0n fear $: .so i Oi -e month f 2.1
PAII.V AM' SI'MIAV.
fine (nr , I7..VI iiw month f .".
i-
in this world the one
thing supremely worth hav
ing Is the opportunity.
coupled with the capacity, to
do well nnd worthily a piece
of work, the doing of which la
of Tltal consequence to the
welfaro of mankind. Theo
dore Roosevelt.
wan (hen. They have recently t- 1
that a Krciit Industrial i.-n -dot
could occur under a Republican ml
ministration unless Ihoy ai;ii'' Hi. "it partisans, and Mr. (iompcrs ennnot
Roosevelt Is a liiinoiiat and inn.-' 1 1 mil rol them. They will not only
or them arf too I nt r!l ip'iit t I" iiov.- i. fus" to support Mr. Itrynn, hut
that tills e'reiit country Is pini: to he j w ill ,' the loudest of all In oppo
itilnoil In- Hi.' , I . t t tt ti of either Mi si'iou. Their opposition will lie so
Taft or Mi llrv.in. .vociferous that their numbers will
It must he admitted that the lead Ue.m multiplied It Is liumuu liaturo
Inc. people and Interests that make , to I..- sn. and it will lie .so.
these lhn.it an- vei powerful. , Sr II I Mr. (lumpers' Influence will
they mU-'it I"' .i'ue tu reproduce a ! he heavily felt. Tho principle at
temporary panic; hut If they are h stake will appeal to many a work
powerful now. Is It 11 t best M re - ; In c man. "The Injunction and Its
strain and reslrht them by Hie elec- I abuse," quoting President Hoose
tlon of a people serving president , velt . has been a heavy handicap to
lest continu.'illv bavins; their own! the cause of labor. More than nil
way In pi'llins. they reduce i Ii.'m' ' else. It has been an 1 11st ru in e 11 1 for
very people who J:eep them In puw'-r 1 ini'or s umioing. u lias neapeu
to practical m rfdoni For be it u I- 1 11 1 1 1 narm upon Homes VMiere
..-.. ,..ii.. r.'tl that these 1; etit r v I poverty stalked, it has been a fatal
who try to coerce w i il k 1 11 c. men Into
Small Change
"The party" naver did a danired thing
for "labor."
Yamhill against tho World with odds
on Yamhill.
One can readily hellave that Mr. Taft
Is very til fd. r
Very likely Pryan'a faith In Hearst
Is uleo ".shaken."
Thero Is no excuse for parties or fac
tions In u council.
You must Just revere- all courls. you
know, whatever they decide. '
COUXTRY AND CITY.
A'
PROMINENT Chicago business
man and capitalist, who has
been In Portland several days
looking over this city with a
view to making Investments, said
that people of this region "have
forgotten the fundamental principle,
which Is the development of the soil.
The most advantageous thing that
can be done is tho splitting up of
the farms, making room for a larger
and happier population. All growth
comes from the country to the city,
not from the city to the country.
Portland must increase her sur
rounding population in order to
make larger markets for the jobbers
and manufacturers."
Though trite, these truths need to
be uttered constantly, and "borne in
-upon" the people by the press of
this state.- The Journal for five
years has been urging, almost un
ceasingly, the Importance of more
people In the. country, more cultiva
tion of the noil, and to these ends
the subdivision and ealo In small
tracts at reasonable prices of large
farms In the vicinity of towns and
transportation facilities. Let us all
keep up the crusade. Something' in
this direction has already been ac
complished, but much more needs
to be done, especially throughout
the Willamette valley.
After alluding to the importance
of diversified manufactures also,
this visitor, Mr. Wheeler, said:
"Portland has just now begun to
see daylight. These railroads just
opened up here, which will bring
the city In touch with territory never
reached before, will mean a great
deal to Portland. I predict that this
city's growth during the next 3 0
years will be astonishing."
He Is right, but Portland needs to
keep doing things, pulling with all
her strength, for the big and neces
sary things. It has many fine, im
portant new possessions a deeper
channel, the north' bank road, the
packing houses, and others but
more If not individually larger
things will be needed right along.
This In fact is Just the time for
Portland to begin to make a new,
larger growth, one Into a really
large city.
voting iholr way will oppiess labor
to the last degree possible when tliey
have power to do so. They always
buy their labor as cheaply as pos
sible and never divide their profits
with labor to the extent of a dime.
Even if worklngmen believe it wise
to vote as they are required to by
the heads of great corporations and
trusts, let them not. deceive them
selves with the notion that these
powerful people are going to bestow
any favors upon them.
Mr. Gompers cannot control the
union labor vote entirely, nor has be
bludgeon In tho bauds of labor
drivers and labor fighters. It lias
torn the heart out of many an
organized effort of worklngmen to
better their wages nnd condition.
The significance is that In the com
ing contest, the principle is, on trial.
The petition of labor was deliberate
ly turned down at Chicago. It
was, on the contrary, deliberately
adopted at Denver. It makes the
issue as clear as the noonday sun.
The worklngmen have the votes,
and if they vote for tho Denver
plank, they will win. If they win,
no other party will ever refuse their
will reason on this hypothesis, and
by that token, Mr. Gompers will tell
heavily as a factor in November.
THE PRICE OP THE REVOLVER.
said that ho wanted to do so. He reasonable demands. Many of them
lias decided for himself, and the pub
lic announcement of his decision is
In effect a suggestion to union work
lngmen, but he Is not trying to co
erce them, and would be out of his
place if he did. Hut It may be reu
Bonably expected that a largo propor
tion of them, depending on his judg
ment and experience, will follow his
suggestion, unless scared Into the
opposite direction.
Worklngmen are men, citizens,
equals, and ought neither to bo led
blindly by a leader nor driven by
taskmasters like slaves. Let them
exercise their judgment, sat isfy' their
conscience, and assert their man
hood, and vote as they please, like
free men.
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CASTRO AND THE ASPHA LTERS.
LOCAL contemporary In ex
plaining why the United
States does not chastise Cas
tro assumes that he has been
wholly in the wrong; and that he
Is not brought to book only because
Hie Is too insignificant a personage
to gratify with such a proceeding, j
He is compared to a flea, a mosquito
and a skunk, and it is Intimated that
a day of dire reckoning will come to
him. This will happen, we suppose.
when the asphalt trust has greater
power to dictate to the government
at Washington than It has now, and
it expects that that time will soon
come.
It Is asserted that Americans in
Venezuela who "have had their
property confiscated" could not ob
tain justice there. This is the way
the asphalt trust puts it, but It ap
pears from a good deal of pretty re
liable evidence that 1he asphalt
company fomented and aided a revo
lution for the purpose of avoiding
the carrying out of its contract with
Castro. He beat the revolution, and
as the asphalt company had been the
sinews of it he confiscate'! Its prop
N BEXTOX COUNTY the other
day, as Dell liaker, a young
farmer, stooped to lay tip a
fence rail, a revolver fell from
his pocket and was discharged. The
ball entered his left breast very near
the heart and passed out of the back.
He is recovering.
In Nevada Wednesday, a chauf
feur stooped to repair his machine
and a bullet from the revolver that
fell from his pocket entered the
breast just over Tie heart. lie
drove his machine 15 miles for
medical aid, fainted at the moment
of reaching his destination, and Js
in a hospital and may die.
And so the list of victims Is pos
sible of indefinite multiplication.
The procession of accidents never!
stops, never even halts. The price
of carrying weapons Is imminent
peril always, death and the grave
elten. No benefit cuiues from it.
Presence of the gun is temptation
to use it. Comparatively few have
saved themselves from harm by car
rying one. Thousands have been
siain because of if. The only bene
fit iary of the ready revolver is the
dealer and the manufacturer, one
of whom died recently a multi
millionaire. If by some means it
could he banished, society would be
emancipated from one of Its worst
evili'. humanity would be set free
from an ever present peril. Is there
not some way, some means of sur
cease from this folly?
I'robnhly those ancient Greek athletes
could nut have won a prize.
The tilRKer the corporation, the more
aw the courts can find for It.
The people of Oregon need to get
Ircer er Hairlman nnd others.
Tuft may attempt to Imitate Roose
velt, but can he find another Loeb?
Oregon Is also the cherry state, big
gest ana nest cnorrles In the country.
The fleet has left Hawaii and aome
people of the Islands are not broke,
el t tier.
Taft Is now a member of the steam
Miovel union. BUt Isn't there a steam
roller union?
Tnft has finished his letter, but
thore's no telllinf how heavily It lies on
his conscience.
Xnt many of these 12.000 words will
he nede.l to mention the trusts that
have been buMed.
The rraiv fool who killed a girl near
i -cno necaiiso she tll.in t love hltn also
had a gun, of course.
A New Haven boy of 77 eloped with
a Kin or zi, ana nis mother, agefl h,
positively refuses to forgive them.
Hoys, mind your mothers.
CnrneuU rrltliTses rtryan Of course
fSryan dees not believe In laws that
compel the people of this country to
Kive h man a uuuon uoiiars.
Vtce-rre!dcnt Fairbanks tnlkert verv
nicely to the 1'rlnce of Wales, but he Is
not n canilltliite ror reelection, and so
doesn't care where the Irish vote goen.
A PERSONAL AND HOME VIEW OF
MR. BRYAN -
a ihiiim rnr the accommodation of
morns puis only is to l.o l.uilt in New
York. Hut It Is o.n'c to sav that a lot
of old bald-headed men will manage to
get Into It.
It was not reported that Mr. Taft
consulted Senator Bourne about that
spe.-cli hIiIIh the senator wa at Hot
Springs, and no doubt the Oregon man
vva.s loaded with advice.
There were 197 reasons for reversing
Judgj J.andls' decision, nnv of them
good; and if necessary the court could
have thousrht of 1,9,9 other reasons
for letting the S. O. Co. out.
It Is harder for a man who has
been livinj; on JL'oO.oofl a year to
get down to the $ ,". 0,0 0 0 standard
than for a $15 a week man to get
down to $10.- Stuyvesaut Fish. Ac-
Dr. James B. Bradley of Eaton Rao
Ids Is making a whirlwind campaign for
the nomination for governor of Michi
gan. 1 he matter Is to he settled at a
Kf-nerol primary the first of September.
Two-ihlrds or three-fourths of a
wheat crop In the Inland empire, with
ties price up to 75 rents or so wont
be so very bad. In no other part of
the country will the people as a whole
be hi tter off. t
The Dalles Optimist says: "Mr Cake
was nominated by about ;n,noO Demo
crats Mho registered as Republicans"
Repeating this utterly unfounded and
absurd falsehood will not make it true
though those who do so mav come near
making themselves believe it
Charles K. MeClatchley, editor of the
Hncramento Hee, writes as follows of
his visit to WJIlluiu J. Bryan at the
Fairvlew farm:
Bryan has a charming home, a beau
tiful home, if stands on a knoll, mid
is certainly well mimed "Kalrvlew. "
From tha lawn you can see the uptrt'o
and homes of Lincoln, the attractive
farms and country resblenres round
about, the mountains In the distance,
and all over that rich (iitrvadlnf green
from foliage and from grass a green
that preaches rest and content to the
eye and (teems to promlso them to the
heart. '
Bryan has 160 acres here, and be cer
tainly has made of It a beauty spot.
No man could grumble at farm life had
lie a farm like Bryan's. It has every
convenience known to modern necessity, i
and even luxury. I'racllcally every Hung
the Bryiins enl they grow or raise on
this farm. And everything about It
everywhere Is as, clean as a pin. as
sweet as the evening air breathing un
Its own vast carpet of undulating green.
And the house Itself. Well, the house
Is certainly a home! Its broad ap
proaches. Its sweeping entrances. Its
spacious rooms, every one seemingly Is
suing a friendly Invitation to Its neigh
bor to get In and be sociable -everything
about tho house breathes an air
of open-handed and open-hearted hospitality.
And Bryan s private den! He Insisted
upon us seeing that afterward, and sit
ting therein and chatting for a few
minutes.
Talk about all tho comforts of borne!
Why, to a newspaper man who knows
how to appreciate such a haven of rest,
that den has all the comforts of heaven.
And 1', wart In delightful, delicious, de
lirious disorder, too that disorder
which Is dally torture to the soul of
the good housewife, hut to the worker
breathes forth an almost living em
bodiment of heaven's first law.
Nobody but Bryan could tell whore
anything on earth could be found In
that room and I venture that Bryan
cotild never find a single paper after
any one started to clean It up and "ar
range things neatly."
But to return to the story: When
Bryan and Mrs. Bryan were through
with the Virginia delegation, having
hHd their pictures took," several of
tho thirsty delegates found there was
no water left In the crock by the
front porch. Hearing of it, Bryan es
corted the crowd to the side of the
house by the windmill. He personally
turned on the faucet from a deep driven
well, and handed to each in turn as
America's great Commoner. He stood
there smiling and hat lean, filling each
glass in turn to the accompaniment of
Kinniy, nappy remarks
It was certainly very democratic on
his part -but It was not affected de
mocracy, it was the simple, unaffected
out warn act or Ills own simple, unur
fected. Inward nature. Mis everyduy
llfo is made up of Just such little simple
acts as was shown all through that
pleasant afternoon of Friday
Whatever else some people may think
Bryan Is and It will ever be Impossible
for the world to agree with any man
no one who knows him will say that be
Is aught but a simple, honest unaf
fected. sterling American you could
scrape blm all day and you could not
tlnd the talntest trace or veneer.
Vou don't have to fathom the man
What he la he Is. right out In the open
sunshine. He Is as simple ami unaf
fected as a child. There Is absolutely
110 'style about him. no make-believe,,
no veneer, no sham. He la "straight
goods' from the skin to the heart, and
irom the heart out again
That Is why all his neighbors love
him.
That Is why. Republican and Demo
crat alike, they have been flocking to
his home to shake him by the band.
Tlmt Is why they speak to him and
of him as "William."
That Is way, even In the presence
of the honor that has been showered
upon this man. they find time to ask
him homely questions about homely
neighborhood topics - topics that breathe
or 1 lie lire or the soil, of the marvelous
miracles of reproduction, of the thou
sand and one little things that neigh
bors, especially If farmers, think to
talk about.
And In the nildRt of it all, this sim
ple, great man all the -greater because
of his simplicity finds time to answer
their homely Inquiries and to ask In
return affectionate questions about their
Intimate farm and home life.
I wish nil young Americans could
know and become well acquainted with
llllnm Jennings Bryan not as a can
didate for president, not as a public
figure, particularly, but merely as a
man.
They would surely become better
Americans therefor, better men. They
would then learn that your true gen
tleman Is known by the cut of his heart
and the fit of his soul, and not by the
cut of his coat and the fit of his trous
ers. Thev would then become aware that
in order to be really great, it Is nut
necessary for a man to embalm him
self In dignity's cold storage plant, to
splendid a glass of "Adam's alt" as exile bis heart In the Icehouse of snob-
ever came from the bosom of Mother! blsh culture, ami to array his soul in
Karth pure, sweet, soft and cold.
Many another man would have sent a
servant out to wait upon the crowd
Many another man would simply have
told the crowd where the water was and
let them help themselves. Not so with
the tuxedo of exiiuSl veness.
They would then become certain that
simplicity Is really the truest badge of
greatness; and that the man natural,
and not the man veneered. Is closer to
the great heart of the All-Beelng.
Organization of tne Leg
islature
Oregon Sidelignt3
No mosquitoes In Irrlgon.
The lumber business Is Improving at
I-.sfaeada.
Irrlgon Irrigator: The Vale Orlano
says it offers its readers a "cerlal
f"uy. 1; is rather, a "cerious
ter lnr these hot days.
mat-
cordinK to this reasoning. It. would
erty, and the Venezuelan courts held I also be harder for a man nceustomei
him justified in dbin so. And
GOEPERS
AXD THE
VOTE."
"LABOR
to $..0,000 a year to live on ? iu.dihj
than for a man used to $ 1 r. a week
to live on $3 a week- and so on
down to zero. The remark of Fish
is Illustrative of the philosophical
rot which the extravapant rich who
are robbing soiiety have imposed
upon It. People who pp-Mid hun
dreds or tens of thousands a year on
luxuries ou;:ln tn he made to pay
taxes accordingly.
wasn't he? When the asphalt peo
ple engaged In the revolution busi
ness they subjected thtymsolves to
the risks and consequences of fail
ure. The revolution having failed, and
Castro having properly punishxl the
foreigners who aided it. thev run
sniveling back to Washington and
insist that our government should
take up their quarrel, as in fact it
has done, as far as it could, but
found that ("astro was not to be bul
lied even by big 1'ncle Sam when
acting for ore of his pet trusts.
We do not contend that Casiro Is
, J. 1 V. 1 1 .1
a very wise or .aumii.tme mid, "u , y,.tu.r covets the 01
quite likely he deserves a licking, ; Wp rovrt onv ,.ar), ,
hut the United States lias no oc
casion to give him one lieeause the
asphalt monopoly went down there
and tried to overthrow his govern
ment and pot the worst of it. That
is. our government has no reason in
Imterfere unless if is goinc 'o co'n
mlt Itself to the policy of not only
protecting the trusts arid givinr
lK for .'!'
r ban It s in
-bttrl or
t-l rU
1 :i iar.s. llu' 1
would have 1.
ru-
rvit.s 10 1 : -of
this fact
f ord-T.
t ;
t rusts.
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SlVt
VARIOUS real or pretended lead
ers of union labor are criticis
ing Samuel Gompers sharply
for his open support of Bryan.
This was to be expected. So many
men, and especially those who are or
seek to be leaders, cannot agree, in
such a caso. They have minds of
their own, which differ politically,
Just as those of merchants or farm
ers or lawyers differ. Besides, in
any organization, however worfhv,
there Is always seme friction, strife,
antagonism and jealousy. The large
majority of union worklngmen are
likely, unless verv strongly lnflu-
enced to the contrary, to follow the I
advice and course of Mr. Gompers.
for he seems to have been a wise
and true leader.
In and I90A the. forces of 'them everything tilev
t'rion labor went, under certain ; home, but taking up th
pressure, alnyst solidly for McKin- j foreign countries too. But we suj
ley, and In th former year at leas' 1 pose it will come to this, if we at
it was this "vote" that elected hltn J to bc-eome a government of
- asmming thnf he was really elect-i t rusts, by the trusts ai d for
ed. Similar means will be taken
find are already being put In opera
tion to contro: this "rote" for Taft
next November To wha extent I
will succeed remains to be Feen.
though It peems dou'tfo, to say the
least, If as large a proportion of
Dillon worklnemcr. ran ho Influenced 1
against their Inclinations 1 y the
ume man t h is year
Worklnemen have a richt to vot '
the tha' will bent fctac th'r in-
" .r.fn. I 1 tn-Mr((r,;, r;5,c V,a'-h r.ever mak.fiM. r.(. Orr
doty to do o. And if -hev real'y t ,.a. ,r,b r,Ve H;,i.cracv is too ctin-l f.,t
v'"" toun i.e t r.rown , r,i!.c .. allow rart isar.sh ;p to JnUr- ; q
obi 01 mp4n)rment and narv. d to , fPr(, wi.. business When It comes1
aeatn it Bryan i elected. In U?fi , , rY,. rC i,c.n m'r, an hn
ltOO.w do not Mime then fori,., r,rji and vexing the rartr ticket. Tb ri ,
B4innS iv .nr.! mm. even if the- r.pjforrarv holts. the tlcVet and ' Oil was n-rth J! :.
reprwentatlont hould not hare bn . m,k( ,t? rnnv. Thst H a ferret : fir and perhai
O m4il.f4(IHH. But while th- of -,;,, j, ,n wt.;!M,ring r r ,r n
rpreentatloni will ho ml - witH r ower in the country The f(,r fr,P tri;ts r, v.
inn n u promoie mat ir.or in, rr-.t's h.iro th vote?, bu' they!
not t 0 penetany belierpd, and haver. -t th ennnine Thev heoom I Wherevtr thy go and wh.vev.r
that work Irk mei . will not be no j 1-raMnrR! on rmrty. Thr v pla-e party ' tr ey undertake. Amerln get ,.n
ai:y tcarvd. And la fart there i j above all other considerations. In hop, or come prcty near d ing so.
to itifh tun for alarm aa tterejtt eternal ronflirt t.ctween weal'hjVlde tboee Olympic gameg
Mere cement walks are being put
down in Albany than ever before. Six
cement walk nun or (irms are hustling
in different parts tf the city.
Pome of the l.-irr.-st -and most n.
clous cherries th.tt ever pleased the
taste of in 111 are now belli picked from
the op-hards iiriund Kstaoada, savs the
News.
Since Inst March the deposits In the
Hood Jiiver liarikin A- Trust company
Iwve increased from J J 0 , 1 1 1 1 0 to J 6 5 000
snowinit a fratn or J,...n!,,i Much of
this amount is new capital that has
come Into the vallev and eh..ws that in
vestments are SKadily on the Increase.
The couilition of the Mosler apple
crop was-never better for this time of
year than it is now and Indications
are than the hlKg st and best shlp-
mei.ts ..1 aiu.ot. ever sen: out rrom
this district will he shipped this vear
ther fruits are doing equally aa'weli
and a bumper crop is expected.
In welcoming the arrival of the
Prince of Wales in Cauada, Vice
President Fairbanks, sneaking for
tin- Ftiiied Stales, said: "We have
no rivalry except In ways of peace.
er's territories,
her s neighbor
ly esteem. There are no fortifica
tions on our frontier. Tin re are no
: at ien ips 011 1 ue .1 1 . - ni umm . 1 ne iaiies cnronifle: This is an "off
" True lei' Mr. Fairbanks '"ar for tomatoes everywhere. The
'.' . , plants were not healthy, thev 1. Hunted
miuht have gone en to sa that there i ;inil . fr,lit as n, aM to Kn. f(J
a foolish mi-chlov'Uis. l::!nr!ous 1 1" full size, it is not alone in this
, , , . vhlnitv, put all around, that tt:U Is
' igh tariff barri.r between the twoitthPther n nr.colim eontlnue!
countries, disadvantage! '-is '" tl) etii weather or because of ether cond:
eiiple of l"i'h. ar.'l n .'en'nined l.v
A Eugene man says that the wildest
country he ever saw is on the south
fork of the M. Kenzie Tho whole
country Is f resli from the hand of na
ture, without any corners ruhlied off.
His party saw many deer, but nearly
all were does with fawns.
! t Ion s is not k nnwn
(rOMPKKS AMI LABOR.
I
T WILL be impossible for Mr.
Gompers tn swing al! organized
labor to. the support of Mr.
Brvsn The rea.n for 1t i the
same reason that keeps the marv
poor and the ?.-w rich. p Is the
divergent opinions of the mass.- c j s,irr
Th' -- a'wa .s fall to agree on great ,)t ,
One WiU'ata J
more ha? '" en boo'
v heralded a3 a 2
who Is o; ie. d to
an of Ni,,,r:!- k a
are leading w -1:!
opposed to I!' an. t
namesake of M It
he Is the busint ap(
i-i of
d ef.
ril.ir
lam- .!
lire:' t t her
who are
aa 'n this
r.'ed that
i f the lodte
MarshfeM News. fiver "1.nnn
hn.i been raised up to Satur
day last fi-.r the linden find, of
which amount the 1 A Smith Lumber
company gave ,..,or Jt is thought that!
sum po-itieiy nssur1- the s.- ur
tik for the ba of the new dredpe. he
'. t.K lo.ilt at Portland An aeeronria-
older I""1,,"' "',B,r' '-commended I , ,". s"nVo"
oadiTjl.y the engineer department. and no ...,.,, to ,
nrJ.j doubt will l,e (framed w )., n onr. ss pr idine off
1 meets next winter I
of 'he In'erva"
Steam and Ho-Baltinro-e
F-ot
I t . n
1Kb an
Bryan, as
ercar. : ,
a rr. a ' '
Blue River rnrr'jpnn.Vr'-c pee
Wright killed a larpe cougar at Irvic
Sim's place Saturday evening The ani
mal was In Mr Sim's woodshed when
i.Mr w right started to enter the build-
in of . lnK Moth the cougar and Mr Wriirht
. ha-ked Cut '-f th Woodshed Vtnff a,H
"ther closelv until the courar finally
lion It ' M'mK nwai into the woods "lings ,rr
I ro, ured and j.ut on th trail of the
an tn.e Bid sum bed It un lr whoi
in thai 'Mr r'.ehl sljoj :t It a fomalo
. :c.i ,. 'w'-v ''.' ft I measured eight and one
1 ' 'I,E ' 1 half f-t m 1.nh
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From the Pendleton Tribune.
Fpon this subject the Portland Jour-
al discourses on the Intrigues of men
iml combinations of men who alllel
themselves together In the organization
of tho legislature before Statement No.
protruded itself into politics, the ob
ject back of It all belntf the power to
ppolnt .subordinates, name committees
ind dictate legislation In the Interest of
the men engaged In consummating the
deal and its outcome.
The details of the course usually pur
sued are quite faithfully given by The
Journal, especially Its portrayal of the
power of the president of the .senate
that comes to him as the presiding offi
cer of the joint convention which elects
a I rnted states senator.
A singh) instance of this Is recalled
by the writer of this editorial which
occurred during the last hour of the
session of 1 9ol. when John H. Mitchell
was elected the successor of lieot iru W.
MiPride.
As had been the case for a good
many .sessions, the election of a sena
tor was postponed until the last hour
of the session, at midnight of the last
day. The contest had dragged along
for the entire session between Mr. Mo
P.riile and H. W. Corbet t and within
about 30 minutes of the time to ad
journ, namely, at 12 o'clock, midnight,
the name of Mr. Mitchell was proposed
nicer'. ing to program agreed upon by
ins friends before the beginning of the
session, providing Mcliride should not
succeed.
The ballot for Mitchell did not result
in his securing sufficient votes, ami the
time agreed upon for adjournment had
arrived. The clerks had footed u;
the tallv and Mitchell s friends w. re
thronging the floor personally impor
tuning supposedly doubtful members to
1 hang" to him. Five minutes had ex
pired and the president of the senate.
Mr. Fulton, a strong- supporter of
Mitchell, refuse) to see the clerk as he
held up to blm the result of the vot
The president of the senate was occu
pied In watching the progress of the
contest for converts nn the floor and
could not see the tally sheet held up
for him to take and read. Fifteen min
utes went by; enough votes had been se
cured lacking only one. and several
evangelists rushed to The seat of Mat
toon of Louglas, who bad voted for
Corbett all through the session, forced
him to his feet and shouted for him to
vote for Mitchell. Of course, pande
monium reigned with unobstructed
sway, and when Mattoon continued to
stand after the group of Mitchell boost
ers had taken their hands from off blm.
iult Immediately followed the riot,
roil after explaining that he did sn
most reluct.ar.flv. he would, rather than
see an adjournment without the elec
tion of a senator, cast his vote for John
11. Mitchell.
Then bedlam was let loose nnd everv
boly was absolutely crazy for full 10
minutes. Mitchell himself was stand
ing In an ante-room watching the pro
ceedings, and when Mattoon rose a
friend stirullnir by him said. "Senator,
you are elected" "No," said he. "Mat
toor, Is golr g to give his reasons for
continuing to vote for Corhtt." Hut
within a few minutes he heard him
pronounce his name, nn 1 at once the
1'iikv Oregon politician was surrounded
by his utterly Irresponsible frien-ls
and literally carried to the speaktrs
desk
Hut If the president of the joint con
enti"n had not been a Mitchell man
1-e Hould have pr-omp'lv aijourned the
sepsio' ,st the hour named for Its dis
solution and Mitchell would not havo
It was. Indeed, verv lm
havo a political friend as
presiding officer of the senate In those
lsyn
Dry Farming in Eastern
Oregon
From the Kast Oregonlan.
That practically every foot of the
si. mi-arid lands of Umatilla countr will
produce crops under the dry farming
methods now In u in thaVirid districts
of Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, Is
me uencr 01 j. h. weieii or t nicHgo, a
dry farming expert formerly of Chey
enne, Wyt.. who was In the city today
on nis way to i'ortland on business
"I have seen drier land than you have
In Umatilla county converted Into flno
farming land which Is now supporting
a koou population ana yielding a hand
some Income to the owners. True, this
land looked torbtdillng when the pioneer
dry farmers went ttpon It. It was with
out water, had but little rainfall and
was barren of vegetation and exceed
Inclv nnoromlslntr Some nf it was
fairly good range land for a portion of
each year but It was not first-class
wild grass land.
"Hut the patient, farmers have plowed
It deep. cultivated it frequently,
disced It. harrowed It, rolled It and
packed It down with the moisture of
iho winter season in the soil and It Is
now yielding rrom 30 to 4fi bushels of
corn, good yields of dry land alfalfa
and excellent barley. oatH and cow peas.
"The laud that was once almost val
ueless in Its laugh state Is now worth
from ?a5 to ?50 per acre and Is sup
porting a heavy population. The dry
farming area Is sruendlnK constantly.
Like the grow til of timber which fill-.
lows the settlement westward dry
farndng Is coming slowly westward and
within a few years It will reach the
arid section of Idaho and Oregon.
"Vou do not need half of the moist
ure you think you do to produce good
crops. By cultivating the land and
hoUlintr the winter moisture In It. al
most any of your desert land will grow
good crops.
"1 bclievet hat this system will re
deem the west as quickly as Irrigation
and tho cost of installing the system Is
so much less than that of Irrigation,
that poor men can go upon dry land
empty handed and within a few years
be independent, while under Irrigation
the fioor man must have the price" of
tho water in addition to the price of
the land and under many of tha sys
tems must wait for several years for
1 1 1a water."
The Great North War
ner Lake Country
I' nun inn 1 .11 11 tt it w r. ih ill iriir.
The Kxamlncr now bus been up to
Plush, to the ltabblt Creek country, to
tha (iolden mining camp, all In tlm
North Warner Uike country, and has
seen llilnua t lift t am wondrous In way
of future posNibllltli'M. We are full of
It; so full (hut we haruly know wlitre
to In gin, or how In say It We are
loaded to the luim, and will give our
VlcWM of the latent resources of this
empire In the 1'aimluH, fruit growing,
wheat gniwinK. Hoi k raising and min
eral wealth, way. Just an fast as wo
can find time and t-pitcu to do ho.
All this may hound optimistic, but
any one who has traveled extensively,
and knows what ban been done else
where In a similar illmate, under sim
ilar conditions, cannot help bcomlng en
thusiastic over tho Warner Lake country
We have seen something new yes,
something absolutely new, a section of
country wlij'h has not been tun over
by prospectors, when' there Is water
power, timber agricultural lands and
stock raising, where one can commence
m tb ground floor 011 u perfect equal
ity with nis neighbor. w here lie can
make a home with the posltlvo assur
ance that the question of tninsiorta-
tlon does not enter In It.
Where the price of copper and the
uiis and downs on the stock market are
nf no consequence, where lead and sil
ver value cannot possibly uffect tho
price of firrm land or board bills.
yes, indeed, a country so lar from
civilization that the scandals In hlgn
life nor Important political questions
are even heard of until they are ten
lays old, where war with Jauan Is dis
cussed as an Idle dream and all naturo
Is glad.
I he crv all over this country Is for
a new region; unexplolted, yet of suf
ficient promise to support nnd warrant
legitimate expenditures In the develop
ment of Us water power, timber belt,
gold zonc5, fertile farm lRtids und stock
Industries, and truly such a field Is
iresented In southern Ijike, county. Ore-
gan, an empire In Itself.
1' or many years th s vast reff on has
been occupied almost entirely by a few
men who are engaged In stork 'raising.
notwithstanding the fact that at all
times It has been conceded that thou
sands upon thousands of acres of tiie
richest lands awaited the homeseekct
where ran be raised cereals, tropical
fruits, and the most delicious berries,
(ireat water power remains unharnessed,
there are long belts of fir. tamarack
and line, and thw gold lodes can ha
traced for miles on the surface.
The reason and the only reason which
ha heretofore prevented this promising
field from leeching more attention Is
the fact that It Is situated very much
more -distant from railroad and tele
graph renters than any other part of
the Fnlted States, for It is about L' 10
miles southwest of Vale, which is the
southern terminus of a short line of
railroad which leaves the main line or
the Oregon Short Line at Ontario, or.,
100 miles east of Klamath. Falls Whlcii
is ,tu mues uy uoai norm or I lorrls en
the Oregon fe California railway, and
120 miles northeast nf Likely, at tho
northern terminus of the Nevada, l'a
ifornla, Oregon railway, and it takes
from 2 to 4 days to get mall and ex
press from the nearest railroad polni.
As a matter of fact the Goblrun mining
district In Lake county. Ore. Is off tho
map. and entirely outside of the limits
of civilization, and situated only fho
miles from a land of gnat agricultural
resources, and only 10 miles from
Plush.
This section Is now attracting much
attention because it has recently been
Invaded by energetic and sterling bie !
ness men with the view i ; the develop
ment of its wonderful resources. Large
forces of men are at work developing
the rich gold mines; schemes are being
formulated for the reclamation of largo
bodies of swamp land, tho water power
question Is being seriously considered
from a manufacturing standpoint, data
Is being secured as to the extent nnd
location of the 1mnien.se amount of gov
ernment land open to settlement, largo
Irrigation projects are receiving atten
tion and the country generally Is In lino
fur the development and exploitation
which Is fully warranted bv exten
sive resources. ffit&t
New towns are being laftj 1 sub
stantial buildings are being' fc-efTteM, ad
venturesome prospectors are making a
careful and exhaustive examidhtion of
the mineral nrea and an era offirosper
lty Is now actually in sight sifrf as was
never before witnessed by art section
of the west.
; course
r Standard
1.O00 to Rook"-
", 1 i'i " f 1 boil to
r the a'tome.g
the court.
This Pare In HItory.
-Juen Marv of England msr-
riel t- Philip of Hpetn
lTr: Xi ynrhnd colr,n1 deelrJ
ir calnt the Inllsns.
Taft Not Like Rooiwvelf .
From th New York Evening Post
Mr Taft Is receiving an extraordi
nary amount of praise for being unlike
somebody elso pot mentioned At the
Yale law school Pnator Prooner
thanked heaven that the eer-retary was
s lnwver Who would. If fleeted presi
dent, know bow to observe the consti
tutional limitations of his office
"When the three brsnches have be-
corre pilbornnted to the will of the t-
ecut've rerulsr rvernmerit has ceased
to exist " Then the se-mtor added eel- 1
Thomas L. Iowis' Isirthday.
Thomas L.' Lewis, who became the
successor of John Mitchell as president
of the t'nlted Mine Workers of Amer
ica, was born at Locust Gap. Northum
berland county. Pennsylvania, July 25.
1 "Ho. Me began his mining rareer at
the age of 7 years as a slate picker on
the breakers at Newport, which Is now
known as Wanamle. He came Into
prominence rirst at the age or 1 1 years
In connection with the Knights of La
nor movement. Later he moved to
Itrldgeijiirt. iblo. w here he dug coal
in the mines of the Wheeling Creek
company for three years. In 1S92 he
gave up work In the mine to accept the
position of serrotary-i reasurer of the
Ohio miners' organization. In 1900 he
was chosen national vice-president of
the I'rilt. d Mine Workers of America.
During his entire rareer Mr. Lewis has
been active in the Interest of his
brother miners and he has won their
gratitude by his unceasing and success
fill efforts for the betterment of their
condition He was elected by a ma
jority of nearly H.000 votes.
Time to Wake Up. .
Press Hureau of the A. B. C. F. M.
Secretary Taft, speaking to a' great
mass meeting of men In Carnegie hall.
New lurk, not lomr nir.i anlrl "l-,,.o
I went 10 the orient I did not realize
the Immense Importance of foreign mis
sions. We have got tn wake 1111. W
are nut all there Is In the World." H
added that It would shake us out of
our smug provincialism" if we could
si e for ourselves what missionaries ar.
doing In the far east
Even more vigorous is the testimony
of W. T. Ellis of the Philadelphia Press
who made a tour of the world for the
express purpose of making observations
along this line, lie declared that mom
than once he was tempted to wilte to
the laymen of America: "Klther do th
job or chuck It; don't play at It." An
other American tourist, a business man
from Georgia, who gives liberally of his
money and has two daughters 'in mis
sion service in China, writes from
there: "Oh, If only our business men
would come over and see the opportun
ity! I really believe that in the next
few years China will be a great Christ
ian nation."
Winston Churchill, M. P.. F. A. Mc
Keniie, the eminent war correspondent
and oriental traveler, and Ambassador
Hryce have all spoken In a similar vein
on public occasion within a few weeks
When men of this caliber, on two con
tinents, voice such sentiments it Is a
token that the "time to wake ud" bus
come.
The American hoard, the oldest for
eign missionary society in the t'nlted
States, and kindred 01 ganlza tlong, arc
showing to the world that missions do
not m. an a sermon apiece all round for
the heathen. Imi that Christian home-,
schools, hospitals and workshops an
the most efficient tools of civllizntie".
Mr. Ellis savs that "the modem in.ei
prides himself on his broad views and
far ughtediiess lit loves politics, hi
politics" If this Is trie in- cannot ai-
fonl t be Ignorant of foreign missions,
or what S.-r-ietarv fall calls, "the ef
fect of religion on government." And.
he added. '1 am talking practical facta
an 1 I know what 1 am talking about."
Hearst and lien.
From ioler's Weekly
General Hcnjamln F. Butler. It will
be nmembered. In ISM. placed himself
at the head of the old Greenback party,
with the hope of compelling the Demo
cratic party to accept him as its leader
He failed nf this, and It was then
thought by many that he would draw
away so many Democrats as tn Insure
Republican success Mr. Cleveland
was elected, and Butler was supported
by the New York Sun and received
about 130. 000 votes. The Nashville
Manner points out some resemblances
between Butler's party and the one
Mr Hearst is launching now It was mountain with eae
called the National party The platform I startled st hie noonil.i
glses I1 plee take noMre Piml
lsrly st the Republics el jh ratifies
t on In this cMv last nlrht. the spek-et-s
seer-ed ut-tfthle to keen off the tor-ae
i i" - r.aries a or r rs ne iurniii 1 of Mr Tf 1ud1r!l-mlivWn' Fv
the !bnv rf the rr" jerSodv at p!ude-d lntl'Uv. nd tv-en
14 SsttjI Tsvinr Cnlerlflce, poef looked srotixirl to e If tir rllst'n
"1 sett"-, diel P"tn ITT! rut"' el (-.erann. not dlsttnruUhM for
i".,- muii or Kirrt-o t omen lin-I hscir 1"-1s1 mlr.d ws taktnr of
ie'..d in i,-,dford. Kn'nl ' fr And wbeti ex-Je-T-tr Phsw
jer,r layior. r re'o-ert of tne I told Ms tcfr of the man who kent
dei la rd
the banks. Innd-rrant rullrnads. and
other monopolies tteen rrore Insolent In
tnelr demands for furt' er privileges
emnlv "t sneak of this in n Imnrr. ! mre riaj legislation in this
sonsl wsy" Crrtslily w. name no emergency the dominant parties
names, out a robust man with eve
Killed a Hear With a lU-volvcr.
Frotn the Milton Eagle.
Mart McCumbi-r killid a large t.-var
on the North pork about ! 'i roles from
Milton Friday. In company with P. J.
Kei;v h" was whipping the stream fir
hi' 1' woen be saw Bre r Hear on a log
at. out 2T, feet away. Mr Mri'imil .
carried a Jy-i tiihre revol.-er for Just
such an emegrency. but hesitated Jii'-t
the fraction of a second before he de
cided to use It on a bear that looked
tn he as large as the side of a mnin
ta'n Throw Ing -lis. retion to th.e wind;,
he blazed nwav and hit the side of th"
Hrc'r H.,,r.
rncal.
Never In our history have 1 euple of leaps straight
which rnppened to he dirt
Met umncr s direction, and
e rrr-
1 ;
'hurrh. J1eJ Born November
ik - Prth. N"vt 5ce,ti. totnl'T
det toyed I T ft.
IHl-Krw trad -eten tbe t'nlted
Fist., end Porte Rim pro-1imew1
1T Japan aseumed control of Korea.
cbocl with revolver r-wet mrA
Nowte rt-tfe. and wound tjrt In Orphic
p"" ". ' Punishment Is rot the bje-t
rf education, tier In criminal prcuw-u-MtTti
the aim of rnTertimerit." there wnm
n Uer that pnsM almowt tT been
heard at Oyster Bar.
forw a -d.
tl- in M'
sea-e 1 Cat
fccntloman ojt of sevral vrnr
Prowth Concluding thnt he was in for
t Ur Vl.-.. ..I..., .. I , 1
are !-'., '-,-" '",' . V " " '- '
arraved arainut the rotle and are th.i"'"" . ".v "J1?. "me w,e o,r n o ai -
abject tool, of the onorte monor , . ,,V. , who wa usiag h u
ilea" It will I one of the amus In, f" ''V i- "
occupation, of ,h- summer and " 'iS Vim
t-.mn to .e whether Mr "ert. with lnw .,th a ,hr,, ,ut , he f .ieiV
th- same material, ran areatly Improve Xh. hllIM m.rr), ,n,,rf.Iv ,,,rilsh
the Putler record Pos.lbljr he tnit, : h. lnrt h, fell dead in hi. tracks Mr
for hl newspapers carry his appeal to , Kellr. who an latere. te) t,..
a very larre number of r-dera. of a I utor of the fieht. sail the hear was a
ktrd who read little elsa. 1 fct aa a horse
Map "t FIt- Onta Fartl.
Althmiah p.m of the new a-overn-rent
map" ft Bevtlnna rf the I'ntted
Ftatea ha- rnmt the a-evMnciral survey
from It, tea to M.oa tn pre pore. crae
will be awid to the. public at I enta
tach when raadr tor dial rl but Ion.
Life Sarins llnoy.
Py tbe use of eninomtle reel
which will maintain a uniform tenln.i
ret permit lt lerrth to -van s ha.
motion nf a Ship 2erran1a. a if e-ea Ir ( t
eabiawar ,nd hre-rhes-bHOj- has beta'
mad practicable for dm on vaaaeU.
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