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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.
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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.
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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.