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3m EDITORIAL ESSE. OP THE JOURNAL EX THE JOURNAL AK IMU'I'KMTVT ft JACKSON m: spaI'KK . . I'ul.IUhir Iulilllei1 riry m. I I r-! I imlm i w-rr Sunl ni. mlnii i.t II.- J.uo.l Hull,! lu FtfUl "! Yamhill (rc'. I rtl.iil. r. tptfreii ( thi. iwrnturfli-e t I' " nininlxloa through lit uill mutt it. id or fur TBI .tl'llONES MAIN TITS. lU'Mlt. A . Ill rfoiinrlii.rn'a i-.ei.-l . I hf p. 1:1. IT" 9ll the o.-t.r ll.f ,!.;.,. it 1 1. East siJr office, r. I'm. r.-.t . ..I.t. fUBEIG.V A'.'VKUl ISINil ltH'ltlK.vr TIVK VreMimlt ni'iijuniln Spi" In I A!' ttlidnif AfriyT Ilmmwlrk liiitl Hi :r I ifih ". Vnrk. 1tiT4i p.,oe Ii'ii'-'ll"!:. 1 LI"10- nil ( r tn miy a.1,lrp ;i,ln or Mrlloo. 8utrrl(tlon Tvrmii to rs tha Uultc.1 htatrn. l DAILY. Om finr S.VOO 1 One fUNHAY. 00s yur. 12 50 I Oim month month I .fO . I .23 On rear. DAILY AND Sl'NPAY. , JT.SO I Hull month . . B You are distressed, because In j'onder well-trained orches tra ft slnplo voice Is pitched one sixteenth of a note too high. For me. I lean out of my window on summer nights enraptured over the organ man who turns poor lost Lil ian Dale round and round with hla Inexorable crank. It does not disturb me that his organ wheezes and sputters and grunts. Indeed, there Is for me absolutely no wheeze, no sputter, no grunt. I only see dark eyes of Italy, her olive face, and her gerhmed and luBtrous hair. You mut ter maledictions on the In fernal noise and caterwauling. I hear no caterwauling, but the riYer-god of Arno ripples soft eongs In the summer-tide to the lilies that bend above him. Gall Hamilton. y r QUEBEC'S TERCENTENNIAL. T IHE BEAUTIFUL and historic city of Quebec Is celebrating the -three hundredth annlversa- ry of Its settlement, and the Prince of Wales, heir apparent to the throne of Great Britain, Is there as the representative of that mighty government, by which, to some ex tent, Canada is ruled. Quebec Is the center of many dramatic his torical events, and around it cluster many romances of history and "high emprises" in war. It was long the center of dispute between England and France, with which the United States, or the colonies, became necessarily more or less involved. It was at Qubec that Wolfe won his astonishing victory over Mont calm in 1759, rendering him, "about to die," immortal. It was in an unsuccessful attack on Quebec that the American general, Montgomery, lost his life in 1775. Quebec was founded by Samuel Champlaln, a Frenchman, In 1608, and for the greater portion of a long period the French were dom inant In Canada, but Wolfe's victory marked the beginning of the end of French control in that country, though a large proportion of its population are descendants of the intrepid early French immigrants. The growth of. Canada has been Blow, but more rapid in recent years than before. It is a vast country, with unlimited natural resources. Canada is larger In area than the United States, including Alaska. It Is being gradually filled up with settlers from tho old countries and the United States, and Its develop ment, though slower, will In time almost duplicate ours. , Many people predict that in time Canada will become annexed to the United States, but this is unlikely. It may break loose from the bonds that now In some measure bind it to the motht r country, but if so it is likely to F-t up l's own govern ment. In almost all local affairs It is eelf-governlng already. There is nothing to tempt it to become part erty owners nro to bo required to pay for this pipe linn because it In creases tho value of property. Once the means for bringing In water are i. aid for by the property owners, the I'ust of handling, and distributing the water, all the operating expenses, f In mi lii be paid by the water iinhts. Hut In determining the amount to lie paid by water users, the amount tif wiiii r consumed should bo taken i : i - consideration, and 'Ills can only be i.ii,e systematically ami accurate ly 1 1 v a meter system. Kach water i:-or, however small the nmount used, should pay a fixed minimum price, to be determined partly by the amount of money necessary to bo raised. though this minimum probalily nerd not be over f0 or 60 cents a month; then all consumers oyer a certain amount tuou ui nave to pay In proportion to what they use. A meter system Is essential even if it should be decided that water users and not property owners must pay tho Interest on these bonds aud provide a sinking fund for their re demption. Without such a system, there Is an enormous waste of water, and In a few years still another pipe line will be necessary, whereas with It this second one will be sufficient for many years. People won't waste water that they have to pay for. very acme, of "civilization" In the cmi nt ry's met ropolls. (Dance at the other extreme tens of thousands of men willing and anxious to work our of employment; Oilier tens of thousands who won't work, preying on their fellow men, mostly on tho poor, of course; thou sands of children for whom school room Is not provided, and thousands more who are too weak from chronic hunger to learn their lessons; mil lions upon millions of dollars ab sorbed In graft annually by a polit ical machine that all the millions of people of that city cannot overthrow nor control, a continual saturnalia of official corruption from which there Is no escape or relief; churches pretending to preach the meek and lowly Christ, and piling up vast for tunes out of rents nnd unearned In crements, churches as cold and selfish as any temples of mammon could be made; sweatshops where thousands of children and women toil for long, weary hours to earn barely enough to keep the spark of life In their weary, tast-aging bodies, with never any luxuries or recrea tion or sympathy or hope, treated worse than the worst citizens of North Yakima would treat their dogs these are some of the prom inent features and phases of New ever demanded by the president in the people's Interest. So it would bo strange If. wen In this preslden tlal year, the Democrats did not make gains In that part of the count ry. Assuming that a congress Is going to do anything anywhere near right, Is going to mako twon a tolerably decent record, it Is bettor that both houses should be of the same politi cal complexion, so as to be more likely to agree on legislation; but since It has b-m amply demon strated that the last Republican congress, with a large majority in both houses, was entirely subservient to the trusts and corporations and flnuuclal moguls, and utterly neglect ful of the people. It would be well It certainly could not make matters any worse -If a Democratic house were elected this fall. That would at least eliminate Cannon as speaker, and It would be worth millions a month, from an ethical if not a financial point of view, to rid the country of that Incubus. THE STANDARD OIL DECISION WOKDLKSM SEJIMOX8. w NEW YORK AND NORTH YAKIMA. C OMMENTING on a communica tion from a citizen of North Yakima, Collier's Weekly re marks that the Washington town "must be a place of consider able civilization." This may not be said sneeringly, but probably Is, for most New Yorkers and Bostonlans suppose that civilization decreases as one goes west; that there Is but little of the cream of It west of the large Atlantic cities, that It becomes thin and coarse after the Allegheny mountains are crossed, that west of tho Mississippi river conditions are at best seml-barbarolis, and that on the Pacific coast the principal rep resentatives of civilization are the Indians who at great expense have been taught to believe In hell and have escaped being civilized into premature graves. Possibly for the benefit of a few readers It should be stated that the foregoing Is not to be construed quite literally; yet there is enough basis of truth in it to render eastern people's notions of their superiority in point of civilization over western ers ludicrous. North Yakima a place of "considerable civilization!" Why, there Is incomparably more real civ ilization to the square foot or square mile, not to say per capita, in North Yakma, or Ashland, or Boise, or Walla Walla, or Salem, or Lew iston, or Tacoma, or Eugene, than in New York, Boston or Philadelphia. To begin with, the people in these western cities are less illiterate. A far larger proportion of these west ern people have an education, that Is, Eorae degree of book learning, of literary culture. But besides that, their view is almost Infinitely broader. They are far less selfish; they know more of their country's and the world's general affairs; they live better better than either the very rich or the very poor of eastern cities; and they are more honest and more candid. About all one hears from New York is about Wall street, or about a coterie of multimillionaires and their wives, children and paramours, most of whom first or last show up In the divorce court. Are the Wall street gamblers high and shining products of civilization? They pro duce nothing; they exist only to live off others, never attempting to earn anything or to benefit, others; their lives are worn out in a per petual effort to fool or swindle, others in short, they are purely gamblers, and so mrire vermin on the body olitic. They have no pat- Vnrb-'a V 1 1 I n T Inn " ,r , ' ... ,.i j i ate time, and conquer distance. Yes, we know that mankind Is . . M , . much the same wherever we find It, under similar environment.' New York is a big city, and these features of It are Inevitable, under present 'civilization," while North Yakima is a small city, where conditions have not brought these features forth; wo know, too, that in that great city, as In all great cities, there are multitudes of good, honest, vir tuous, admirable people the ones wo never have occasion to read about; but taking them all together, it is not lu order for a city liko New York to sneer at the "civiliza tion" of North Yakima. SWINDLED SETTLERS. T HE POSITION of a considerable number ,of settlers in Crook county Is pitiable, and if the state Is In any wise responsible. therefor, and there is any way In which It can help them out, It should do eo. Briefly stated, the state granted a company a lot of land to be reclaimed by Irrigation and sold, under a state law, to settlers. The company, or Its successor. It Is stated sold the lands, but failed to Irrigate as the law and its contract required. The company got the settlers' money and left them without water, and Is now presumably bankrupt. Tho state authorities havo been making efforts in behalf of these disap pointed and apparently swindled settlers, but Is not likely to gain for them their rights in full. It would seem that the state 6hould havo been more careful to see that the com pany fully complied with its con tract, though perhaps It did all that could be done under the law. And If members of the concern who took the settlers' money and failed to give them water a3 agreed are re sponsible financially, the law and all its officers should be very ready and willing to givo the injured people redress. E COMPLAIN bitterly, and witli much reason, at the reigning spirit of intensified commercialism. In its mad scurry for gain, it strives to obllter- It takes the child from the cradle and ties It to a machine. It transforms the world into a workhouse, and despises leisure. It drives lives Into hard lines, and has little mood for mellowed hours. But the system Is not all fault. It has delivered the most effective ser mons ever preached on prohibition. When the big railroad systems noti fied their employes that they must forego Intoxicants or lose their po sitions, there were thousands of in stantaneous conversions to the cause. There was In addition, a significant warning to all young men that grad ually the doors of employment are closing to drinkers. No pulpiteer In a lifetime of sermons ever drove so many nails In the coffin lit or Portland. July 15. To the Editor of I lie Journal: I lit) following from the decision of tho Judges In tho Standard oil (itsu dunutus that their opinion wan not rendered on technicalities, but on tho merits of the case as they uw them: "We should take up thru ubjeet In tti order stated, tho first being wbelhur a shipper can without error b convlctoil of Hcceptlna; a concession frnni the lawful publish) rate even thoujth It Is not shown, as bearing on Ihe matter In Intent, that the shtoner ut tho time of accepting such conces sion knew what the lawful published rate was a view of the law thut Is un bodied In the charge and carried out In the ruling excluding certain proffered testimony. Including that on nun Krf. ward llogardiis, who, being In absolute cnarge or trnrnc urrulrs of plaintiff In error, arrived to testify that during that period Jie did not know anything """ an in-ceni raio over tne Chicago & Alton railroad; that his attention ha never been calU'd to any such rate b any person or by the examination of any document, an. I that it was his un- aerstanuing and beller, based on what he was told by one liollund, tariff clerk for the Alton, that the rate over tne Alton road was 6 cents and that such rate had boon filed with the In terstate Commerce Commission." Who can believe that the Standard Oil company would put a man aa Ig norant of frelKht rates as Mngardus rretenda he Is lu chara-e nf ! trnffln affairs It Is not of record at any rate that any railroad company took advan tage of his ignorance and charared his company more than the published rate. Again, now is this ror a decision: "Manifestly the offense nf mwnt. Ing a rebate has not been committed until the shipper has taken back a part of the first money whereby his property has been transported at less than the lawful rate. Proof that h agreed to ncoept a return of a part of the full rate stopping there would not support an Indictment for accept- Running Shots Wrlttsn for The Journal by Fred C Denton. Ing a rebate. Such an agreement Is jn iiiy pan are some or ma not binding and nt any time before Its ramshackle flretraps In all Ore- eoniiiifi im mo en inner may reneni ami liiHlst upon the camera keeping 'he . ' : ""''"' u i- ui.nl. mniMmt" c ent to order their removal then the Imagine John J Rockefeller, and his ".' I,- Chi, k Alton railroad keeping L ,n . "'" ".,"v to 1)11 IJ h new oourt- tim whole amount. Y.'U"VV. u " 'V . . Proposed nouiun uiu.w jiiui . . nnversellshv.lt... in,n..j (..Z It certainly, t.aa jarrafl I'resmeni . () " . '- , ' "XI 1 to sell the present site. A city should noosevelt. and. as for Mr. Uryan. he ........ . . '.?i . r . . now- T ! ts said to be amaaed. Kverv one knows ,'V' I.'!, ' i. i S,1. luT cp.w'.yhe'bige.T i'"..I,Srp..r:ilorn!: Mrl (ill company the biggest Ilniin, lui - larKe revenue to ll,n eh..i r,,.P )J" . , i" XZ'iuW,0i& VI,' ..". "'.'"". " court houVe ',, , . .,l" nV, th.r.fnr. 0,rM"" ""'"'I,1"!". "P 'OUrth StrCJt will I tho city should keep the property ess thi nubllo Interests are Inferior private deals. and frame up deals to suit both shippers unl and carriers, us ineir interests apprnr. 0 Such combinations of capital, repre sented by a rew wealthy men coplml The p.riut polities Indulged In by the have another glaring Illustration of ,Ve citizens. Koine sort o a Chang how wealthy men control various enter- Is needed whereby there would be less r".'"..0:?. "J..0,?"'-".!.! i" J.".1.1? "."J1 n,or" ('tIon n b Pit of th ; ....... .. ..... - tun. uir.iro in tne city nan. llonaire. .... iih 1 1 w us iin iifiit"r in inn in riPRt ami circulation In Cincinnati, and through Pm.,'y Ti 'iU" ,h Vn , wJn'S 5 this paper's alliance with the press as- I,!, ,m?' ',ri',0,i Vh",tmlg:hl be "p- soclallons, and. doubtlessly his oonnec- . i .J fh"hJ buUd'ci so mueti tlon with the press association direct. ""018(J In te. Any United Btatos Judge can obtain business operations Is strewn with the wreckage of men's careers, their homes and their business enter prises, all because these men sought to earn an honest living in the oil business. Its example, by use of secret rebates and other unlawful devices, has been ruinous to the citizenship of the country who saw In It positive proof that the easiest way to swollen wealth Is by unfair and unlawful methods. Its act, by a policy of strangulation and Becret conspiracy. In wringing countless millions from those who were ln- intemneranre,. Tt was an unmilnife.i i stru,,u'n(s &n,i integers In the pro- sermon preached bv the spirit of ! ductlon of that wealth. Is treason to commercialism and the surviving morality, treason to humanity and Is able to manufacture the biggest uooin .op paper a. raiiuiiium ever nan. rui,inii.. 7. r.". ' ... " v ei.epH in u si uiscoum mis influence I ... i. . m . . ... in, u, i iim aiiv eninnv nr in. tru.ri,' ana i nirm i ur . wieinsei ves as ex-Altor- hs lilirhnr eT.nrt. i..i , , ' ney' General Monett of Taft s state hns I , VrSL.i, ,iV are PerfecOy reliable done. Monett Is a Republican, and ...... hauilfl Hi. . r; uni.it I l.n f . . U .4 .. .4 I . ' - - . -. . " I XT I , r-t , . Oil company, but he knows "what Is ,. .V","1" nuwaiaa may nave been a what." and la taking no chances nnd impemous in snaKlng hands with a I. Biinnnrtlnir Ttrv.n Krv.n'. .l,i.. WOUiatl ailHrchlst. but the e.on r t m. rt 1. 1 will do more toward opening the ayea ''"."J n' him up for five rears actoj nt niir tuil.i am u.ll t. . .1, -...- I WlttlOUt due res.lnl to nilhlle nnlnlnn of the trusts' nnd other .r..,.i i im.,. Will Uuwulda accept a lecture tour or . . . , . . . r . . . I .11 . n it U vh II, ..I. F .. I f I. . V, . ru, man any owier ining. Donley nit I ---.... uitoud. iiih nan on tne neau snan tin an id to his ... friend Hennessy. "I know one thlnir Ferrymen and transnortntlnn int.. about Judges, they watch tha eleotlon st" are encouraged to keep on In busl returns cloaely." nesa at St. Johns on account of eo many IILL1IUIIU VULCri li secure Justice for tha tnat prohibition prohibits, and that tha blind pig aquealeth not; all of whloh (U .,,, - , . . niina pig aquealeth not; all of whl the direction of obtaining, when hells a continuous score for the drya." roe) out nt nffle. fi I ... some trust or corporation. made to' divide up thV Targe farms o? the Willamette valley a few words of experienced men from New 7,.i.nA Now the big new railroad bridge '1 PPrclteJ- They know In ncross the Willamette Is completed. It without falL Recently n ith. and the first trains w 1 be cross ng " air" lo" "P, tM 'a'n P'n aad u u , , j ..... v " , 6 working with Immense auoceaa. In a few days. Isn't it about time to set a date and prepare for that cele- . Whl'8 Spain and aoma other eetra- ,,,, f., ' ,. TIM, . ,. tries havo mors thorough and prompt bratlon? Of course Mr. Hill should methods of convicting murderera, tha ne consuuea; ne must be in It If i v" seem to preier mi pree- posslble. PROBABLE DEMOCR.4TIC GAI. of a greater I'nlted States. On the -whole, barring its adherrence tolriotlsm; any religion they profess monarchial forms and rustoms, It Is a m. re vr.er; they have scarcely has better laws than this country j more conception of the has, and they are far better en- large than the wharr rats along the forced. The "Sister of the Snows" I waterfront : politics Is to thm mere is only a big Infant as yet; 300 ly a game In which those who can yean hence 8hewlll be a big nation, i plunder the people most are the best fellow?; in literature, beyond that T SEEMS to be generally expected, and tacitly conceded, by eastern Republican newspapers, that the Democrats will gain a consider able number of seats In the next house. Republican campaign man agers would not concede this, per haps, but those who are in a position to tell what they think truthfully fidmit that they expect the Republi cans to loso some districts that they carried In 190f,, even though that, was an off year nd this is a presi dential year. The Republican majority In the last congress was 5 4. so that to have a majority in the next congress the Democrats would hav to gain 2S seats, and It la nnt Impossible that i fittest. Others like it have been preached by great manufacturing and mercan tile establishments. It is a move ment with a message fnr every where. It Is tho sanest of sanity, and for that reason is spreading and extending to tho minor establish ments and industrial places. The crowd In the electric car is imperiled when the hand and brain of the motorman are unsteady. The de positor's funds lu the bank are Jeopardized when the cashier's brain is ever wine-soaked. There Is no place In tho activities of life where an Intoxicated man Is useful. Carrying the theory further, Su perintendent Vanderhoeff of an Ely, Nevada, mine recently delivered a wordless sermon on cigarettes. A notice posted at his mine wnrns cigarette smokers not to apply for employment. He believes that men who do not smoke cigarettes can give better service than those who do, and that Is the reason for his action. He wants results. All cap tains of Industry want results. All employers want results. In this tense, steel-strung commercial day. ent laxity to unjust severity. Now that the Standard Oil has tim relieved nf thut MMl ffn i,f Its Ann AArt A boy of 18 who could not swim a donation to some college la In order. was drowned in th WOlmtiwrt a iifnxiTmiiiaii onerman win . arfWB ,n tn8 v lnaineTte be asked to make some suggestions con Wednesday. This Is a frequent OC- cernlng the necessity of educating the currence. Such tragical Incidents file day. are certainly sufficient warrant for ... Tho Journal to ronent Its nrfrien- A local boss In San Jose hna made a ine journal to repeat its adUco. confession charging the Southern Pa Learn to swim. Every boy and girl, clfki managers with every crime under ine Bun trom ingratitude to murder. Tlie gentleman is somewhat of a crim inal and an Ingrate himself, according o.njrj .w . " im ii Biiuy, aim 11 ine nonornoie Standard Oil Stock Steadily and corporation was put on trial for Its life In the opinion of a federal court of anneals, the fine imnosod hv Judge Landis was excessive, and the j t00' ou&ht t0 be an BbIa mnior guilt of the defendant corporation was not established In accordance with the rules of evidence We do : rapidly rose during several days bo- " Jury would have to acquit if the . ciuw.c o ,v, A , , , court made the same rulings that were not undertake to review the reason- roro lr" decision of the appellate tna,i in the Mnha dynamite trial. Tha ing by which this conclusion was i court sitting In Chicago wus ren- Judgo and the Jury might believe the v.ii l . . iiiiBiuirr numy, um mo i. iiaraoier ui inn readied, nor to pass upon the tech- ( oered, which leads some to suspoct prosecuting witness would necessitate nical accuracy of the appellate I tnat mere was a leak from someone positive corroDorauon. court's interpretation of the law, but ! connected witn tpe temple of Justice. we dlo say unhesitatingly that a fine - of ?il 00,000,000 would not be an) Champ Clark, fresh from the Den excesiiive punishment for the known ! vor convention, said: "Of all tho idt- Icrlmee which lie at the door of , ouc performances on tne race or the Standard Oil. It Is a national earth ln modern times national con raiamdtv that this hope rnrnnmtinn i ventlons are the worst. You can no Roosevelt will make no more sreechea. Is Tuft bitting on him? this hardened and Inveterate crim-! more deliberate ln one of them than inal, should escape unwhlpped of J 'ou could In a boiler factory." jnstice. In the outcome, the prose cution of the Standard Oil has re sulted in the grossest miscarriage of justice that this generation has witnessed. GREATEST CRIMINAL A(iE. OP THE W IIATEVER the conclusions of courts and law;, ers ln the Standard Oil case, there are certain indisputable facts which are well known to the Am erican people. These facts carry home the conviction to every un prejudiced mind that this corpora tion Is the greatest criminal of the ago. Its crimes have been flaunted to tho world. Its long continued defiance of the law, its inhuman in difference to the rights of competi tors. Its dishonesty. Its cruelty and 1' manifoid violations of every prln-. clple of commercial Integrity are familiar a.-; household words. Stand- The Dalles Optimist says that "some of the state papers say that Fulton's friends 'knifed' Mr. Cake, and voted for Chamberlain;" and that it would be nearer the truth to say that "the followers of one Jonathan Bourne elected Chamber lain," and adds: "To asperse Sen ator Fulton and his friends and fol lowers and accuse them of conspir ing to defeat Mr. Cake, is a gratuit ous insult, without foundation in fact." (Jo it, husband; go it, beaf. Keep on harmonizing; the average, Impartial voter cares little about i your quarrels. Having elected the better man, most voters are quite well satisfied. n It Is none of our business, but It does seem that a certain doctor who has been on a trip abroad hus been most grossly "unethical" -an adver tisement of over a column run as "pure reading matter." It is said that Chairman Hitch cock Is going to Bend Candidate Sherman out to stump Iowa nnd Ne braska. A machine standpatter llko him, may find that to be an "en emy's country." We always did like Big Bill Taft. and believe him as clean and honest as possible; and It Is ton bad to boo so goo,d a man bunched up In such company as Aldrlch, Elklns, Crane, Cannon, Hopkins, and all that gang. ! j under present circumstances, and " ,he greatest living ex- wlth the heavy load the Republican I empiar of tho old legal adage that narlr h ri 1 t,i rnrrv fit, even oronfpr a Ci irpi ifii' ion Pas flO SOUl. WHO SHOULD PAY ? TT HAS BEEN argued, or rather, asserted, that the new Bull Run I pipe line should not be paid for p'ar by taxing the property owners ! gold for Its cost, but by c, Herring the j L U cost from water consumers "Thin1 t; load Is put on property owners," It 1 , ...,,.. II -..-,,, 1.1 I.e. ,,,t-. ! J9 lu UJ , w . . I in i. j , cii,i,i iii ii. ' , i, by water consumers. It Is the uni eraa! ri.le in m mfr ipaiii that auch cost hha.l te pa,d by t!;e users of water. Tin- d : .ir i:c fr' rn this rale In Po-tlar ! ac ,n.i ,:shed Chiefly by alnpb-tax ari:,i-s" It la no unTi-av:.a'. ' ' lenry" to propoae tha: the ruperty i wn. rs of a city aha!', x-r.r for a permanent Improvement of this klcd. that t-ImnM-dtately and greatly benelicial to them, irdependint of whether thy are) water confumert ,,r Lot, for It la an Improvement that In crtaac) the value of er r M,k an i lot f gttjund. Itr.provf-d or un improved. In the city. A TKiB-reeldenf may en 10 lot. of the ;fork market report?., thev l.flve about as much Interest as the monk ys In the central pnrK toi,; they .-h,p tha heaven Is f i whf " they ran eat and drink all d.iv and go to be, drink 3-.e or of a Mttie j Morgan s;. turtis that berause I hfy wit!- a renu the::;, but he ! a enough to bring the rou nt r y and pa v ; ! , though as y. that tv a hand iap n '. i '. I za t h n- one p : v e. 'a: g' Unt not nlli of thel.l rti-h ur.i!r d t h part and most sat.dth far? the rriu?Mm,!!!"R;iln-s are hlgh'-r o.-d r Pi-Tpont nd great sum on plc havi? an artlfb rtl value il l or M ID f hn'i V !. ti : Co "it : ded a-:, t pat ri'i' ism :'. to this . d T ot t hem ve tax on art If number of seats than this may be gained. These gains will he made prin cipally. If at all. In the middle west, where great nil in be rs of Republic. in voters are thorough'-.' ii!-'r;:''- wf-h the party 's stand;iiit p.-!:cv, l-s o-v-nrdly . re.'nt ii ":a: v pa ff::!. !t i:i r siihservi, ney to 'he fr::- nnd other Interests, and Its re -orr! In r:-e last congress of turning down r. Inns' p erv on" of the Roo,M-e'f pn'irie for benefiting the people There havo he n lud l at ior.s nf dNpleasnre ame.r.g western Rep-ibM-rans for se'-ra! vears. with s- ithI warning lm-iil- :;ts. Mi "i-a.-y. ex treme protf i tim, 1st, as l.-eat.-n in Mint.tsota, I.ftfey. f i.-sioied. m.i ch'.r.e f tar.di att r. was bi-a'en In H're and 1 Iowa; Babcx k. who made some fale , col ,c ges. i rr.t t ions toward n form and wen'1 In the minds of tho people at large there Is no shadow of doubt that in the crs.o tried before Judge Landis this corporation was morally If not legally guilty. For three yer.rs the corporation enjoyed a eo-ri't 'Hte of six cents per 100 from Wh;-:t.g, Indiana, to S'. Lou If, while In voting for president. Repub licans of Oregon may forget or over look that last state platform. Taft was really not to blame for that. Laws are made and administered anil nd indeed or construed hv the! The Canadians welcome tne courts too much in favor of special ! Prince of Wales, of course, but they Interest, and against the general in- ! really won't need much ruling by torest. Every legal maxim and f him when he becomes king. George Hruce Cortelyou's Birthday. George Bruce Cortelyou, secretary of Ihe tri'iiKiiry of the I'nitefl States, w.t:i born In New York City, July 20. 1XG2. Having graduated from tho Hempstead Institute nt Hempstead, L. I., ln 18 71. ho nttendod the state normal school at U'l'Kt t 1..1.1 MnfcH fr.im hl.h h.. vmil. listed In i 8 S2. He took up tho study of law nnd gridimm,! fnn the law ile pulinint of Georgetown university In and from the Columbia univer sity, now George Washington univers ity. In ISflfi. ln 1HU3 he reeeive.l the degree of 1. 1.. I. from Georgetown uni versity. Mr. Cortelyou etigngcl ;i a general law and verbatim reporter In New York City In 1SS3 and later became principal of tfreparatory sehools In Ihe nino city. He entered puhllc f.tvIco In SS9 and has been private secretary lo Mirlous public officials. In Novem ber. 1S96 he was appointed stenographer to president Cleveland, became execu tive rlerl; the following year, assistant siicreiary to I'l'i sl b nt M. Klnley. July 1, Idas, and secretary to the president April IS. ISno. ITeRlilent Kiiosi'Vi'.t inn ppolti led' him and on February HI. liUiil, made him secretary of t lie newly established department of commerce and labor. In June, 1 304, ho was made chairman of tho Republican national committee und In March, 1905, ho be came postmaster-general. He became secretary" of the treasury ln March, 1607. theory, and the common law and statute law, and every technicality and resource, fight for .the corpora tion that robs tho people and against them, if they seek to punish the criminal corporation. Hence Judge Landis appears to his Judicial su periors as a curiosity, a freak, a man out of place. People can't have any doubt that Bryan stands for the Roosevelt pol icies, whether Roosevelt does or not. President Roosevelt having ap proved Mr, Taft's speech of accept-! W.1S overwhelmingly in the mnjorlty mce. it may bo regarded as certain dependent operators were f"rced'(nal fhe candidate fully concurs ln the Roosevelt policies. The speech having also been approved by Secre tary Root, we may assume that It will be entirely satisfactory to the trusts. What Is a Republican? to pay tne puDiisneu rate or in. leiring the period, tho corporation iled up profits of $200,000,000. The ri bates were utter and wanton violation of the country's laws, and the officials knew It. The pretense 'he they did not know it Is shallow h umbug. Pro, ,- Taft Told a Rig Truth. From the Salem Journal. Candidate Taft mails a speech at the dedication of a courthouse In Vlrg ntu the other day when he uttered the splen- i. .ontiment congratulating the pen- 'pie that the two political parties were ,-! nearly every one balanced In that partlc- ilar county. He snbl wr.ere one p.irij overwhelmingly in tne inajotn n was verv iiirnouii n " of office or secure the punishment or political offences. That waa a great big truth you uttered, Mr. Taft. ond bravely spoken In a time of need lake it here In Oregon, and all Kinds of un fit men have ridden Into office on the overwhelming majorities of the domi nant party. In the last legislature there was but one Iemocrat In tha lower house of the legislature, and In the nrnt legislature the proportion It not has i ,r,,,rh irrer If the state were not the matter of ! fTJTZ2dK? Zzl:V?"?rJ?,Jh. irrHi ei iin '.' i - j Hitchcock So far Chairman not spoken up on dire on the theory that th i rnmnslirn enntrlhuf long. It la a r reed : h mt luit one-third of asch le- Domncratle ature lemixrais. ana a iireninnii ijmocniuc , , k ni ,,. hv ii- , , i men um,i " 1 ' " e ' - - Rocks I rom a Glass House. From the Falem Journal. The Oregnnlan has columns of edi torial abi'iHS for Jonathan Itourna, who will be I'nlted States senator for four years to come by virtue of the direct primary and the direct election by tha vote of the people of two years ago. Four years ago there was a disgraceful effort to buy the senatorshlp, ln which It was reported and published, on wbst seems ralrly good authority, that It. W. Scott offered Hourne J2n,,000 for the voles be might be able to transfer to him. (leer was tho voters' choice among the Republicans then, and out of It all Fulton wss elected, apparently without the use of a dollnr because Oeer bail not gone out and made a campaign for the party or the principles Involved In direct eleotlon of senators. Plnce thon Cleer has gone over to the machine wing of the party, and decries Statement No. 1 and the eleotlon by the people under the laws of this state. Bourne has re mained firmly entrenched behind State ment No. 1. and the Oregonlan. which favored the direct nlan as contained in the Oregon primary law two years sito. has nothing but vitriolic abuse of the law and Its supporters at present Whst a rotten mess It all ts and how devoid of principle law? are for the poor and not for j that Bryan will boss the the rich. they Ignored statutes, f chairman In this matter, but there 'ail-. pir,f::::.g them? a-.e r, -I. a'.eri tlf." the' ; the p'Vi ' r-1-ook responses or order a 'l.si.UEr.f r.xhtaii The;, cheat 1 ai! their t,r. .rer r.i IcT.bors. all tax- of unimproved iroperty Itr. letting ; j aier,, and per'ure themselves to It !! to lccrae in value by othr . j0 It. they thus meanly and treaon reoplea industry and laterr-H. and biy rob rai',;;or.p by positive crime; tkt BCW tJ.fC. fir line may I jrs,,.ad f,f interesting thernselvea In lucre the Talat of hla rropertj their Irj a the doctris footed t?dp-i rr fir to rostrrb.! m cent te th cx ft of ttf lrrcTfSBect, Tl irop- t axes on ha, k . w as tun,ed cown in Wiscon- o' his wealth, sin. Landis was beaten for reelection t'.f in r.r.t on a thou-; In 1 : o in Indiana, and old War Thev ' twear off their I horse Hull, of unsavory repute, was s with theidenbd a r er.om inat lor, this jear In v mumb Iowa (ioren;' r Cur.imir.s has dis rupt' d '.be party in 'he lattrr state. own country, that tr4ey Know coarse, vulgar politician aa Joe Can- as little about as tfcey do of Cfclna. con. The tariff Is tht mala pleT thry fpend rail Bon a annuaMv In 1 an-re. bt thta aaa ben iopplemented L'arr.p. merely boaaae it la fah- j by tha dcflaat Intolest refnaal of tha Ignable. Aad tbU Is the height, the Urt tovfrw q do aaythlsf tat- ro irts and all the ethics of ordinary riMzenshlp. The corporation ran riot In a carnival of organleed plun der, but held up its hands In holy horror If worklngman asked for equal rlghta before the law. It founded and endowed universities and hospitals, but by use of Its enormous power and secret fiscal follow ing tie j.-al of a aincf re and system, drove Into bankruptcy and him ab.er man. ha Toilette of Wisconsin early graves men who dared to cross All r roi-h th.at region there ts d!a- ita path. It endowed chorcbea with ratisfartion and dissension. Voters one band, and with the other reached into the pocket of every oil con sumer In the world. It prated pub licly of heavenly things, nnt violated the laws of humanity, the laws of the commonwealth and the laws of the Almighty. The trail It has traveled la Ka is no intimation that Taft Is inclined to play the part of boss. Is there a voter In all the land "green" enough to believe that If the next congreas is like th last on It will revise the tariff eieept as the traits dictate? If an, eomebody ought to apply for a gruardlan for are disgusted with leadership and great power In the bands of such a Judge Gmsacup having been re minded that be oaed to be consid ered "radical,- remarked that "aa one grows older hla mind develops." Yes, one's mind and aaplrattona and sympathies asd parpoa develop, sometimes la one dlrvctioa and nmlmei tn aaokr. Aa a rb, a federal official's mind develop !a HeDubltrana to get the majority. But the sentiment Is growing stronger against the machina policies that sub ordinate all to the party Interest. Ma rlon county this year has four antl marhlne members of the general aearm bly. Hatteberg. Kay. Ubby and Jet ton. The machine wing of the party has three members, Hughes, Keynolda and Smith. The antUmachtne majority Is strong Id both house, and there Is apt to be a rw leadershtp tbst will put up a program that mean a much to the peep's and little tn the niachlna The machine pregram wltt men etr a ranee aod tralloa In effwea and apella The f-ur antl-marhlne members a do are pielged tJ mis foe tbe choice of the people for T'nlteit states aenater Hare cut off the flrat and most demoralising laflumre that enters Into any legisla tive erganlaatlnn tha tradtriet and illca. ering aa4 rtfM eorrwf, t Ion graw lng et of alecttag V. 8. awiatorav Etna B, Hnppe f Mllltawa. Pi , a neesMfsl arreerer of asr-ars ma has jTjst raolrd til for a big bohrk ff fine quality. It sneavnrod 2 Isx-hea ta twgth a ad weighed it pound a i This Date In History. 118 King Henry VII of England born. Bled April il. 1509. 14 -K.dward IV defeated the I-an-castrlans at Hanhury. 1 7 R - Amherst and Wolfe captured I,oulahurg. 1789 - Tlronderogs. abandoned by PYenrh and occupied bv the British. 1 o; Mariano Arista, general and President of Mnlro. horn In Sun I.nls olosl. Pled nt sea. August 7, 1SS lt5 -Poltvl.in trivips entered l.lrr.s. IMS 'li-neril Sim Houston !!tl at Huntsvllle. Ter Horn near Lexington. Va . March 2. 1 791. ICS- Ofn'rsl Heiireaux, ei-presldent of Haytl, assassinated by Ramon Ca eeroa 1 oo Russians esptured tha forts st Nswchwarg Foully Explained. Tmm the Oervls Star. Will Mr Taft be the hest nominee lrresTet Ive of partv. for the laboring man. or will Jtr Brvan We mnt t'ldge the merit" of (Hi nuetlon hy ft rrlnelpU followed by the partT that as thus far done tr.e het hr lsh"r nej the worklngrr n. In the pn.f t-e R. pobllree party his been and is nw the friend ef labor Tt ws tVe part of progress aa Hn pw. er and that progress and tmvrr Is net antsrnntetle tn lebor Wtt' 1m plv bsise backed hv lshor psrty alene galna f The fa'k that 14r. Taft Is net tho friend f laher la simply twal dla Nothing mere nr-r less. A Mf retigloa. rvtrl tn Vew Tr etty tli smrrmer win be iranaged br Rev. TaivM C Hurbee, father of the gereraor of ew York.