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THE JOURNAL
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THE JOURNAL TO SENATOR FULTON
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Ona year f 2 .Ml ! One month $ 15
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0n tnr 7 (W Ona month $ .f
The Duke de Saint-Simon
was scrupulous even to the
point of asking himself if he
bad been slandered enough.
Fr Joseph Roux.
EMPLOYES NOT FREE MEN.
THE following dispatch from Lo
gansport, Ind., was recently
I ' published:
An order has been received by
the Western Motor Works company for
1100,000 worth of automobile gas en
gines. A clause In the contract sub
mitted with the order provides that tn
the event of the election of Bryan the
buyer has the privilege of canceling the
order. The order Is from one of the
big automobile concerns In the east
The trades assembly has called a meet
ing to consider the order and to protest
against what some consider an effort
to Influence votes.
This species of coercing working-
men may be expected to continue,
and to increase in scope and vigor,
throughout the campaign. Em
ployes In all sorts of occupations will
bo threatened with loss of work and
wages if Bryan is elected, and a
great many of them who if left to
follow tlwiF owb inclinations would
vote for him may be thus scared into
voting against him. But not so
Jarge a proportion of them, probably,
as in 1896 and 1900.
This method of vote-getting may
be legitimate, at least cannot at
present be prevented; but it shows
on the face of it that those who re
sort to it are no patriots. It is in
tffect- a threat that it they cannot
have their way, if their choice is not
elected president they will do what
they cap, to injure the country, and
laboring men in particular. This is
the spirit of it. If these threats are
to avail, then it is not a country of
"free suffrage at all. The employer
practically casts not Only his own
. vote but the votes of his hundreds or
thousands of employes. Therefore
the employes are denied the highest
attribute of free men, and become in
a most essential particular slaves.
It Is no answer to say that the
workingmen suffer no absolute com
pulsion, that they are still free to
vote as they please, for "you take
my life when you do take the means
by which I live." Most men will
submit to this species of slavery be
fore they will risk suffering pro
longed hunger and cold, especially if
they have families; and many of
them believe that the employers have
the power to carry their threat into
effect, and might really do so.
Under these circumstances is it not
quite erroneous to say that this Is a
free country and that each man is
equally a sovereign in the polling
booth? Whlttier'a poem on the poor
man on election day becomes a
travesty. If it be argued that the
employers, the capitalists, have the
greater Interests at stake, and know
best, let us then change the system
and allow them to cast their em
ployes' ballots, as the slaveholders
before the war cast three votes for
every five slaves. And let us cease a-a-tHE MOKM.nu fafkk b grum
the false pretense that the working- bling and pessimistic pndic
man is an equal at the bailotbox. I tions about increased taxation
on account of hond Issues for
proposed Improvements furnish out
side papers with a text for editorial
advice to their readers to beware of
investing money in Portland real
estate. Two Astoria papers, in par
ticular, quote the OP'Ronian's wait
ings as a sufficient ground for lec
turing Astoria leople for Investing
in Portland property. Hut these
grumblings and warnings will have
little effect on men of Astoria or
elsewhere who are well informed
concerning Portland's prospects.
Property here will so increase in
amount and value within the next
very few years that the proposed ad
ditional tax burden win scarcely be
appreciable. 'When a vir.m like Mr.
T. B. Wilcox, thoroughly acquainted
eral families, according to the local j wln conditions and prospects In all
Tapers, have found it impossible tojcoast cities, invests over $400,000
come or to stay there becaus thevjjn two lots in Portland, and other
N THE LATE primary campaign
in Oregon, The Journal advised
Senator Fulton to cease, his op
position to Statement No. 1. and
warned him that If he did not, that
opposition would result In his do
feat. Senator Kulton and the conn-
trv knows whnt happened. Once
more, The Journal offers him ad
vice.
It Is common knowledge. Senator
Fulton, as evidenced by interviews
and otherwise, that you are still
seeking to overthrow direct choice
of senator, as adopted by the peo
ple of this state. You cannot af
ford to persist In that course, Sena
tor Fulton, because in doing so, you
Invito your own political destruc
tion, and bring demoralization and
disruption into the party to which you
profess great loyalty. As a citizen,
you owe the state u duty. As sena
tor in congress, you owe the state
and its people a vastly greater duty.
Speaking of legislative elections ofj
senator, and of the use of money
therein, you recently said, "Men of
the highest character in the state
did things they no doubt regretted
ever after." Knowing this, and say
ing this, is it not your duty, as a
citizen and a senator, to seek to
save the people of Oregon from a
return to a system of electing sena
tor in which "men of the highest
character In the state do things they
regret ever after?" In the sight
of heaven and before the people of
Oregon, what answer, but one, can
you make?
In your Interview you say, "The
real sentiment of the people was
not expressed" In the selection of
Mr. Chamberlain. Do you wish to
be understood as saying that the
ballot box is a failure? Do you
mean to say, and in that sentence
do you not say, In effect, that the
people when depositing their votes
in the ballot box have not sense
enough to express what they want?
Declaring that the ballot box is un
safe and not an accurate test of sen
timent, what method would you ad
vise in arriving at who should be
senator?
Now, you do not believe this, but
yotir position is so untenable that
in defending it, you are driven' to
the contention tht the ballot box,
that cherished agency of self rule,
Is a complete failure, and the people
incompetent to vote their honest
sentiments. Is not 'this destructive
to your reputation as a statesman?
You say that if the legislature
should elect Mr. Chamberlain, "They
would not be representing the voice.
of a majority of our people." Whom
did the "majority of our people"
wish? Certainly not Mr. Cake. Cer
tainly not Mr. Fulton. The Republi
can party Itself preferred Mr. Cake
to Mr. Fulton. Whom then wa3
that "majority" for? The constitu
tion of the United States, to whicn
you profess to be loyal, and the con
stitution of Oregon provide that the
way for determining the "voice of
the majority" shall be by ballot.
With that as the test, Mr. Chamber- and dishonor?
lain, with more than 1 0ft. 000 elect
ors voting, received n majority of
approximately 1,600 over Mr. Cake
Is it not a safer test than yours
In which you Insist that the selec
tlon shall be mado In the legislature
where the votes of 4(1 men will be
the test of what Is the "voice
the majority"?
Would your selection, Mr. Fulton
by that legislature, after what hap
pened on the seventeenth of last
April, "represent the voice of
majority of our people?"
You say that if the legislature
should ratify the selection of Mr
Chamberlain, "the responsibility
would rest neither with the people
nor the members of the legislature.'
Hie neonle have assumed the re
sponsibility, over 6 0,000 of them.
They do not desire to shirk It. Would
It not be cruel. Senator, to ask 4 6
members of the legislature to assume
It, when more than 60,000 good
men and true, are available? In
cidentally, when as you say, "Men
of the highest character did things
they regretted ever after," would
not the responsibility tho 50,000
would assume be far less than that
the 4 6 would have to face?
You say the next legislature
should not elect Mr. Chamberlain,
but should name someone else. You
know that, In effect, 61 men In that
legislature took this pledge: "I
further state to the people of Ore
gon and to the people of my legis
lative district, that in the legislature,
I will vote for that enndidate for
United States senator in congress
who shall receive the highest num
ber of votes, without reference to.
my Individual prererences. me
people wanted men taking such a
pledge to go to the legislature, be
cause "men of the highest charac
ter had done things in the legislature
that they ever afterwards regretted."
You know. Senator Fulton, that by
every obligation of truth and man
hood these 61 legislators are bound
to the people of Oregon and to the
people of their districts to go to the
legislature, to take their seats, and
there to finish the work the people
of Oregon in good faith, have given
them to do. You know that in the
sight of God and man there is no
covenant more sacred than that be
tween these legislators and the peo
ple, and that any subterfuge, by
play or other act. by which the
articles of faith shall not be carried
out to the strictest letter, will be a
living, infamous- and damnable He,
uttered publicly and shamelessly.
You further know that in the sight
of men, any deviation by any of
these legislators from that which
they have solemnly and publicly
covenanted to do, will result In the
political, social and business ruin of
whomsoever might do It.
Knowing all this. Senator Fulton,
In what light do you place yourself
before the people of this state, this
people who have trusted and honored
you, when you publicly advise these
men to pursue a course of falsehood
Small Change
Pull for a Portland of S00.000 In 1110.
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Bonn tor Fulton seems to be looking
ur more trouuie.
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It la a long berry and fruit season
in gonu oin uregon.
THE STANDARD OIL REVERSAL
WELL REVIEWED v
From the Detroit News.
The average men who will care
to
Portland dirt will nevfcr he an nhnn I wade throuarh th i
again as it is now. umna containing the nninlon that re
versed the Standard Oil fine will dls
Perhaps oulte a wad will he am rod 'over aa much to excite his risibilities
out of Hitchcock yot. If "J8 spleen. The reversal .smay be
..t, '" ' uoriamiy not wo Kind or
an!l annfiEr "mean W"" ItfPfZuuS'S ..'not tn
ana another to mean U. - kind of argument that he wool ....
, , , M M fhe street In a aobor moment. Except
The only safe place to hunt deer Is lug the second point made by the re
in town or ui me oeacn. I versing court, the point that an offense
a yuvcium lu carioaus or on eliould no
The fight is still the neonle aarainat
ino Ken-seeKing politicians.
Orrnslonally tt Is the idle-rich auto-
moniia owner who la killed.
no construed aa 10 seDarate offenaea
any more than each gallon ehould be
considered a separate offense a point
that, is not at all material to the re-
"Stay with 'em. Mr. Cake."
the Republican Albany Herald.
advises
A Portland lot 60x100 sold for 1260
000, and was dirt cheao at that.
versal .the remainder of the opinion
IB Illlod With such content inna An
not command our highest respect.
Thj law in the cuae need not cause
anyone to stumble. It is elmnlv this
that It shall be unlawful for anv
person, persona or corporation to offer,
grant or give, or to solicit, accept or
"jvoiyo. any rouata. conceaainn nv Ainu
Will either party nut un a rood and i ,"""'JU" ""P"" " l" . 'ranPor:
iifflclnf hnna ntfulnat .'n.nrT I , ' '""K"tJ in imemaw or
. - . i tureiKn commerce." Harva.it ina nf n.nnn
to 120.000 for each nffena. r llDl,1
And Still the hohoen hava not nom-1 and it la nrderml that nrlnt nv,AiAJ
lnated a candidate for president I be posted for nubile lnaueotinn ami tn
a meu wnn mo interstate commerce corn-
It is said Poraker will stumn for I mission ao that no one need be In error.
jarr ine price is not mentioned. I mora simpler
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It's a long dry snell. but hon-nlcklner . Th0 reviewing court opene its opinion
time is coming, also the state fair. I P." .scorln". Judge Landis for assuming
ui oittiiuam un Knew wnat tnese
Are the remnants of the rotten old 7. W1?..K "r'nion or tne
machine trying to beat Taft in Oregon? To be inoranfr1""" S'
I aouDiiesa reel verv tart anm tnr nnnr
Anotner misnomer: it is not the In-1 ignorant Standard olf ill through
dependence party, but the Hearst party, this part of the opinion the reviewing
a a "url on tne supposition that
Tt la raarafl that vai-ln,i imanlnn Dianaara UU WSS miBiWl (IV thn llttlfl
the campaign cannot be very long de- AJtofl railroad. It exclalma: "Surely
layed. I the farmer who brings his produce to
I iu uo auuppea io me cuy marxeis.
There are all sorts of DeoDle: some or the small merchant shipping to the
like to be in a big Sunday excursion country, or the householder who ships
crowd. his furniture when changing his resl-
a a aence, were not meant to be
Taft has already nailed a campaign eullty ot having accepted a concession
lie. He outrht to be able to hit a srood merely because they took the word of
hard lick. the carrier or his agent as to what the
rate was.
Dnrtna- tho novt rur Pnrtlin mill Of course not. for three reasons- Tn
prrow faster than ever, regardless of I the first place, the small shipper deals
pontics. wini mu irtigni agent at tne snipping
a a poun ana pays tnere, ir tne goods are
The Oreo-nn horvt ommtlnir vrv. prepaid, and the freight ao-ont l. most
thing in, will show up large and fine, unlikely to make an error in the rate,
as usual. fid Judge Qrosscup ever have to take
.Hiaicjaj cognizance of such a case?
Portland would triv J. .T Will n in tne second .irMce. the small shin-
srreat welcome, if ho cnnid rnmA tn pers named aresnbt shinnlnfir evorv dav
that celebration. a"d have no occasion to be posted on
i-very raie concerning tne various routes.
Again Senator Bourne has been olav- n third place, if the small Bhirmer
Ing golf wlrti Candidate Taft. Isn't this as shipping to da evepy iw, Jwlg
a sign of harmony?
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What difference does it make to the
people under what party name good
policies aro carrlnd out?
If Rosa De Clcco were a man, she
might make a good chairman for the
Oregon Republican party.
(rrosscup can bet a year's salary that
he would get a copy of the tariff sheets
and poet them in his office so that he
wouia anow where he was in the busi
ness way; and does the small shipper
exceed Standard OH In this simple mat-
iei uuuuies precaution r
The court co:
dlnary shipper
hid r.nrll
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ueorge uouia may Be m trouble over all th
his railroads, but he has kept out of
trie uivorce court so rar
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The man who goes deer hunting
snouia nave a circio bodyguard around
mm at least a nine in diameter,
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Very likely Mr. Taft is not really de
sirous of overturning the will of the
people or uregon in their own affairs,
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"Judge Landis does not stand quite
nsmisn as ne cna, savs an exenange.
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Aiim ucjiriiun wmj is viewing mm
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If the sultan of Turkey can manage
tin next spring, and then needs a man
Rgcr but there's that J2-a-word Afrl
can trip.
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The Republican party in Oregon
wuum ue au rignt ir some politicians
who aro bound to rule or ruin would
snut up and let it alone.
oh: "But Is the or
' thus bound at
to cinher out a a a
e confusing papers and figures
peatedly and pointedly that it is an
act of good citizenship, under such
circumstances, for owners of town
lots to build comfortable dwelling
houses thereon, to rent at reasonable
figures. According to these reports
hundreds of such houses, if built to
morrow, in Oregon towns, could be
rented immediately, and this would
help the towns where this was done,
and the builders most of anybody.
Oregon is growing; Its towns are
growing, the country is developing,
and everybody who can do so ought
to help in the movement, especially
when it would be to his own advant
age to do FO.
INVESTMENTS IN TOUT I, AM).
SCAItCITV OF DWELLINGS.
THE newspapers of many Oregon
towns are complaining loudly
because of the scarcity of
houses for people who desire to
locate in those places but can find no
dwellings fit to live in. This com
plaint is always made by the news
papers of most towns, but it has
never been so loud, persistent and
Insistent as now. This scarcity of
dwelling houses for newcomers is
greatest In college and academy
towns, whither at this season of the
year many families dfsire to go to
send the children to ihese Institu
tions. In Corvallis, although marly
houses have been built this year, sev-
even If the probable profits are not
quite so large or so soon gained, and
with this argument The Journal is
in entire sympathy; Tut it is foolish
and will be fruitless to try to make
shrewd observers believe that Judici
ous investments in fortiana real
estate will not be very profitable,
even if taxes on real estate should
rise a little.
Portland Is going to be a big city,
as a good many people are finding
out, but while It is becoming so
Astoria and other prosperous and
resourcefifl Oregon citks should
grow In proportions, and The Jour
nal hopes they will, and that their
local capitalists will do all they can
to that end.
fotild secure no dwelling places. In
Milton the Eagle the same thing
is happening, and It appeals to eitl
tens with vacant lots to build house
for people who want to rome there.
Tht Instances might be multiplied;
foe situation la the same, to a great
er or less extent, throughout the
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, There U tk gratifying as wen aa a
regrettable, feature about this con
dition of affairs: tt shows that towns
and country are growing rapidly,
that there it an Increasing number
of people who want to get into bu ai
re i or are able to retire from rnral
toil, and that more yemng people are
kfng t attend" Ine rations eol
1 ar.i Islgher schools and et the
0-Atrv.fn they afford.
V"H to coarpiiWon can b -t
-!-., t is ;i fcetsga to aaj- re-
. ' ' s
Portland men of good judgment and
clear discernment are on the look
out for Portland htiyp, at constantly
advancing prices and in spite of a
The transcontinental railroads, in
threatening to abandon trans
Pacific freight carrying, allege that
they cannot compete, at rates
charged to Pacific coast terminals,
with the Stiez canal route, and still
less, hereafter, with the Panama
canal route; hence they must be al
lowed to make lower rntea by rail
arross the country on trans-Pacific
freight than are made to coast cities.
Whether this Is a good plea or not,
1 again shows and emphasizes the
need and value of waterways.
Freight can be carried 10,000 mils
by water far cheaper than it can be
carried 2,000 miles by land. The
moral of this Is clear; the people
should spare no effort or means to
open up all water ways possible.
Some politicians are evidently deter
mined to make as much mischief as
they can In the next legislature, which
reany nas no use whatever for them,
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Judge Grosscup intimates that Presi
dent Roosevelt and the govrnment. the
people, don't amount to very much in
a court and maybe he is pretty near
rigni.
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After all, it ought not to be very dif
ficult for men elected to the legisla
ture to keep a specific, plain, positive
ijruiiiisB. i ney are mignry poor sub
stitutes for men who don't.
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Last week newsboys appeared in Wall
street with a lot of Commoners for sale.
This may be an evidence of Mr. Bryan's
humor, or he may have thought that
he might as well pick up a few nickels
in the heart of the enemy's country,
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The nert photographers think tboy
have an easy mark in Jim Ham Lewis,
but if he should be nominated for gov
ernor of Illinois, the G. O. P. leaders
will bo put to their wits' end to keep
the working men from nearJv all vot
ing for him, even If he la a dude.
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A Los Angeles Juripe has decided that
a woman has no right to take money
from her husband's pockets, or other
community property, .and that he has
a rignt to prevent her by force from
doing so. But most married men will
go on aDiectiy submitting to this sort
of robbery the same as thev have al
ways done. What does a woman care
about a decision by a judge, anyway
unless it be in a divorce case?
that generally make up the tariff sliest?
riuiiny not, it esems to us." And plain
ly not It seems to us, too, but the court
was not dealing with an "ordinary ship
per ; it was dealing with a shipper who
time and again has been compelled to
testify that a large percentage of its
iJiuiiiB raran irom tricKery in shipping.
It is dealing with the most expert and
largest shipper In the country. It is
dealing with a shipper that hires ex
pert rate men and which maintains the
most efficient traffic department in the
world, the great railroads not excepted.
A department In fact, which has been in
the habit of naming the rate which
Standard Oil would permit the railroads
to collect on Standard Oil shipments.
Ordinary shipper" piffle! Of course.
Judge Landis assumed that Standard Oil
knew the law, and the rates, too, and
why shouldn't he have assumed it? The
people of the United States have as
sumed it, and we hesitate to say that
Judge Grosscup and his colleagues are
below the average in Information on
which to base a like assumption. The
placing of Standard Oil in the ranks
with the "ordinarv shlnnnr" etriirot, i
as simply a grotesque exhibition of
legal contortion. The whole case rests
upon the charce that Stanrtarrt nn i f
an ordinary shipper.
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The government contended that stand.
ard Oil paid a rate of 6 cents, while the
general and published rate Was 18 cents,
hays the court: "On the fr nf that
tariff sheet no 18-cent rate for petro
leum or the products of petroleum ap
pears. The 18-cent rate was only ar
rived at by a process of circumlocution
that Is to say. on the face of these
tariff sheets there was round thi ..1.1.
ed line, 'Governed by Illinois classifi
cation; then by turning to a ciassiflca-
l.uu auiipieu oy ine railroad and ware
house commission of Illinois, it was I
found that petroleum and Its products
were set down In the fifth cIhsh; then
by turning back to the tariff sheet it
was found that the rate set down for
the 'fifth class' was 18 cents per 100
pounds." The court speaks of tills
price being "evolved" out of a process
of "reference and cross reference," when
only two sheets were referred to, the
one atatlhg which classification petro
leum was In ami the other tho price
that govorned that classification. Hut
why score Judge Landis for doing this?
If .TihIs-a Oronsoun had gone to the
frelirht donot to all Id 100 notinds Of oil
and asKeu tne price, tne rreigni ciern
would have ."evolved'" the price by pre
cisely the same process of "circum
locution." "reference and cross-refer
ence that judge 1-HTHils usee, ine 15
crnt rate did not require half as much
circumlocution n the scheme by which
the rate on oil should be reserved In a
hate of mvsterv that would at times
and for Standard Oil's benefit permit
of a 6-ccnt rate appearing aa the legal
rate. Socrecv and evasion, discrimina
tion and commercial trickery make cir
cumlocution necessary In order to dig
out the truth. And tne pity, tne sau,
sad circumstance of It all Is that Stand
ard OH had no employe that could per
form this process of circumlocution as
well as the $40-a-month clerk In a rail
road freight orrice. Tne court wouici
have been 'much more to the point If It
had attempted to show that tne result
of the process was erroneoua.
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But that Is not all Indeed, there la
far too much for the confines of one
article. The court holds that a con
cession Is not a rebate, and that a con
cession is not even a concession for a
long time after Its acceptance, because
who knows but what the receiver of
the concession may repent and pay up
the full amount 7 You don t believe tne
udges said that? Then read the opln-
on, and they used the word "repent,"
too. Listen: "Manifestly the offense
of accepting a rebate has not been com
mitted until the shipper has taken back
a part of the freight money, a a a
Proof that he agreed to accept a return
of a part of the full rate stopping
there would not support an Indictment
for accepting a rebate. Such an agree
ment is not binding, and at any time
before its complete fulfillment the
shipper may repent and Insist upon the
carriers Keeping the run amount.
what complete rulnltment means
111 be shown, but to continue the opin-
on: The concession dlffera from the
rebate only In this, that In the conces-
ion, the shipper, instead of paying the
run rate and receiving nacK part.
merely settles for the difference. And
there is no basis for holding that
the transaction is consummated
and the door of repentance is closed at
any earlier moment than In the case of
nc-cpiittntr a rebate.
"Of course, the Irrevocable may be
reached and the transaction consum
mated In other ways than by money
settlements, as by ' the offsetting of
mutual accounts. The point Is that the
transaction, as a transaction, must be
consummated."
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See tho point? Isn't It rich? How
comforting to that hoary sinner. Stand
ard Oil, to know that
"While the lamp holds out to burn.
The vilest sinner may return."
The doctrine appears to he that if you
see a thief running away with your
money, you must not stop him; he may
repent; any way, the "transaction Is not
consummated" until ho disposes of the
money so that he cannot repent and give
It back. On this principle, it will be
easy enough for us all to be lawyers. If
we can only succeed in Inducing a condi
tion of sufficient mental Incompetence.
The doctrine of Standard Oil repent
ance and its possibility of returning
money is amusing, but the doctrine of
the "consummated transaction" haa a
sinister appearance. If it is good law,
then Standard Oil is safe to all eter
nity. It means that Standard oil can
ship oil over railroads to which It sells
car and locomotive oils, and by never
consummating the transaction. by
balancing accounts, can get rebates.
concessions or anything else It wants,
and without the slightest danger of
minishment. under this decision, be
cause the transaction not being "con
summated," the crime Is not cornjnitted,
and the day of grace, the time of re
pentance, not wholly passed.
And this rrom an American court:
It isn't safe to trust one's expressions
to paper In regard to this matter. In
stead of reviewing the case, the opin
ion furnishes grounds of Justification
for the offense. The average citizen
can be mightily thankful that over at
Oyster Bay there is a man who feels
as strongly as any one on this matter,
and who has not dealt his last blow,
by a long way. This much may be
said, however, that, in our opinion, the
reversal has done more to weaken the 1
standing of Standard Oil before the
country than the Imposition of the fine
did. We regard it as rm evidence of
the eternal law that, no matter how
apparently successful the oppressor is,
he Is speedily working out his own de
struction by means of those seeming
successes.
Running Shots
Written for The Journal by Fred C
' Denton.
Brother Bill Taft might have told
union labor to go to hadea In a much
shorter paragraph.
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Perhaps "Brother Churles" has nut ud
?"'.' V11 .put un the campaign fundst
but who knows but what ho nmv h,. .
"fat fryer" of aUDerlntlvn ,l..nr... nm
plenty of victims willing to be fried?
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' Good roads? Kvervhodv la In fu..,-
of good roada at the othr fellow's ex
pense. VMien good roadrf are not ns
scHsod to lniDrovementM or ner.,-,,,,,1
property, but only to land values, we
will have a few hundred miles of theni
In every county in the state. If the
good roads cranks really want good
nitry Biiuuia inrm a juncture with
the Oregon Single Tax league and make
that father of bnrf roads, the land hog,
walk at a fast trot to tho tax collector'
office.
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If the machine "elements in the He
publican Party of Oregon displace Cako
they think that will swipe tho bakery.
Oregon-tfor Taft. Now, If after all the
machine simply disgusts self-respecting
Republicans to such an extent that
Oregon went for tho other Bill it would
be no more than would suit the fool
killer.
a
It takes several long paragraphs In a
recent letter of acceptance of a. rntnml
and experienced statesman to point out
that while the railroad corporations are
somewhat criminal in their oberatlona
at times, there is really nothing alarm
ing about them, and the American peo-
fle can sleep In peace guarded by those
earless foes of monopoly and graft.
Bosses Aldrlch and Cannon.
a a-, a
The fire devil seems to be dolna- what
the citv dads Bhould have done years
ago and that Is removing a lot of
shacks and traps from the north end
of the business district The trouble
with the fire devil is he sweeps up
good buildings with the bad whan ho
Starts In. It would be cheaper to null
down about BOO rattletraps than hava
the f. d. sweep half the city some windy
and dry night.
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Willie Hearst has a healthv slda
show with some good features, but it
Is Willie's dough that keeps the steam
up.
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If It Is a fact that almost the entire
waterfront of Portland is outside the
fire limits there is a big opportunity
for the initiative to hit a lasting lick,
pro bono publico, by including it there-
While the city council Is wrnngling
over its petty honors the workingmen
clncheo by the employment agencies aro
wondering why the free employment of
fice long ago ordered by the people Is
not opened up. So are some of the employers.
At least one sehnolhtiuse In this city
is In constant danger of being de
stroyed by reason of the high brush
and dead weeds close around tt on tho
north and west sides. When school bo
gins the possibilities for a coroner's in
vestigation over a hundred or more
children will be greater. Perhaps it will
rain by that time and perhaps it
won't.
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There is no need of worrying about
the next legislature not passing a law
to Insure bank deposits. The bankers
of Oregon will attend to that, for they
very well know that If the law Is not
passed in Oregon and Is passed !n
Washington or California, depositors
will go out of this state to secure their
money. Even though Taft does not
think Insurance of deposits a good
tiiins'. nor lust ton the successful and
nonesi uaniter, several mi-nureu muu
sand depositors from outside states ar,
now using Oklahoma banks in prefer
ence to home institutions, with more
coming In by every mail.
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In Washington state the primary law
Is full of spots, holes and bugs. Got
up by a lot of statesmen and political
machinists it Is a fraud, a counterfeit
and a crippled Jimcrack In many re
spects, but even then far superior to
the old convention system. With the
initiative the people of Washington
would do more kinds of things to the
machine In less time than it took Ore
gon to shut off its steam.
The Issue
Letters From the People
"It is Inconceivable that the peo
ple of Oregon should want a Deano
crat for senator," says Senator Ful
ton. It is not at all "Inconceivable"
to the plurality of the people who
voted last June on the question.
Nnr wea it "inconceirahlfi" that the
people of Oregon preferred a Demo-
celvable"
'Incon-
to the senator.
.1- - ry w 1 1 , ,
municipal 'debt increase f $5,000.- to a rvepuuu muiu, iw
r.no t, ic n,ttv rt,.in tint , i a POVf TDor on several occasions. A
nom',1 win make no mistake In In- I vpr.v Blmnlc 8nea1s
vesting here.
The Journal dees not mean by
these remarks to urge people of
Astoria or any other Oregon city to
Invest their surplus capital in Port
land. We would prefer to see them
invest it at home, and do whatever
they can by this means to build up
tbeir own towns., and there is no
JonM that profitable investments
ran be msd In Astoria, and In other
Oregon ritie Civic loyalty and
pride may well be invoked to in
fluence local capitalists to make In
vestments to help their Jbome towns.
Of course the Standard Oil case is
not a party question, either, but
everybody knows where Standard Oil
will Bend its campaign contribution.
July was a big month, as com
pared with recent months, for real
estate sals, but there are a good
deal bigger months to come.
Oregon Sidelight3
A frost at Meacham last Saturday
night withered the grass and foliage,
a a
A Dalles man grows peanuts aloriK
with many other things successfully in
his garden.
a a
La Grande haa J 100 left over of Its
Fourth of July campaign fund, as a
starter for next year.
Eugene is now ahad on cherry trees,
having one S feet 7 Inches In circum
ference. It Is 34 years old and is In
the yard of M. T. Awbrey.
a a
Some unknown person took a horse
to an unused barn in Euirene and tied
It and left it to starve to death, and
it had been dead perhaps a week when
oiscoverea.
a a
Peter Dohm hsd two acres In cauli
flower at Mosler that he attended to
himself, and planted 7,000 plants that
yielded him 8,ofl8 heads of cauliflower,
from thesa he realized 1350 an sere-
Many of the heads weighed 20 pounds
eacn.
a a
Albee enrrepponflenca of Eaat Or
gonlan: Every few days one can see
prospectors corns Into the hills with
pack horses loaded with grub, blankets,
pick and shovel to try their luck for the
hidden treasure. It reminds real old
timers of the day of '4, snd that a
mining boom will again strike this coun
try is as sura aa the sun that sets.
Of conree Senator Fulton and the
Cakes are equally strong and sound
on tbe great q. o. P., "Pjlnciplen."
H. J. Tarler. a farmer north of Pen
dl'ton. says his barley bss yielded 44
bushel y the acre on fields which In
the j.at hT averaged and over,
arhlle h!a wheat will make about li.
He Is not a whit 'ita-u raged for this
rielrt woild be cwartdered above the
average in maar coontrtee and a?n-e six
weks ago he predirted that nlai It
riDi h- would have aormng at an. ana
I " It did not rain, h fels that t'rna-
tlim eeuntr wheat lands r the ncht
and bt In the world. He lies markka
the prv-e f Ms lanl un ii rr ct b
caaee k got aor grain at aiL
eopl
Rebukes Pulton Party Aiethods.
Portland, July- 31. To the Editor of
The Journal The Fulton faction In the
Republican party of Oregon is showing
its sense of honor and nrtnniDle so com.
pletely that hereafter nobody need mis
understand it. It proposes, In the most
brazen and unscrupulous manner to rule
tne party or ruin it. It not only says
that in words, but It puts that program
into all Its acts. It spits upon decent
men and scouts the Idea that there is
such a thing as honor In politics. It
notifies every Kepubllcan In the state
that he must come Into its wigwam,
train in its crowd, do as he Is told and
be satisfied with the crumbs It sees fit
to dole out to him, or it will knife him
to the backbone whenever it gets a
chance at him. That is the program
that the Fulton faction has followed In
the campaign of this year, and It boldly
proclaims that is the policy of the fu
ture. Can It whip the decent man of
the party into Its service in that way?
That is the question!
Fulton had his inning as senator. If
he had kept his skirts clear, and had
stood with the public on the great Is
sues, lie would have been continued In
that office almost without question
But he did not do that. He wobhled
played good lord and good devil and
lost the confidence of his constituents
and was turned down by Cake in the
primary election. This rebuke and de
feat would have settled the hash, for
a time, at least, of any man whose
mue whb ieas tnan an Inert thick. Not
so our hero! He haa an lltM mnoatv
and such unbounded confidence In cheek
and in the guillellity of party derotee.
that he Is up and at It again aa If noth
ing had happened. He refuses to be
lieve tnai nis aereat. at the primary
was really Intended hv a, ma lr.Hr. i
the Republicans of the state, and in his
new effort to regain hu lead and rule,
he la more outlandish than ever before
He now openly defies the maority and
party honor. His faction-was In honor
ouuna to arupport sue at the June elec
tlon. Cake had fairly and honorably
won the nomination from him, and the
Fulton faction ahould have voted for
mm 10 a man. ttul aid they do It? No,
they knifed him. They Toted .for Cham
berlain, a Democrat, for eenator, and
now his faction turns around again and
face the other way. It a re Tt would
be outrageous and a great disgrace on
Republican Oregon to elect a faemwrat
to the tnlted States annate, but that
Charlay Chsrley. the pin of propriety
arid prf-tion ahull nsve It Thst la.
the Fulton faction, gla-ata notice, by
what It ay-a and rtnea. that w ben Ful
ton or anr of hla kmlmn m
office. thy will support tho party
Urkat, and that they will expert erery
other mm br of the penr to a-npport it,
but that whenea-er a Repnblk-aui who
dna BOt Submit t thalr rnU (ai fnw
efface, they iwam the right to knife
tsira to oeath. That Is tha Fulton pr.
gram. Rale ' or mini Honor to. Lb a
wind! Any means Justifiable that se
cures power, office and plunder.
There Is but one way to meet such
men. They must be dealt with as they
deal by others. When they come up for
orrice. as tney are "sure to do, avoid
them as you would a pestilence. They
cannot plead party loyalty, for they
themselves have trampled party under
foot. They cannot plead that they are
party nominees, and entitled to support,
for they have themselves jumped orS
party nominees, with both feet, and
Droygnt cnaos and defeat and disgrace,
In order to do it. They have earned
nothing and are entitled to nothing.
They are trying, lust now, to hide their
moral deformity behind the bulky form
of Judge Taft, but the effort will. fall.
It has already failed, and they must
stand on their own merits, and on the
record they have made, and are making.
It is better to vote for any honorable
man Democrat. Republican, Populist
or Socialist than any one of them who
knifed Cake at the June election. This
is a fact to be remembered.
Lately Mr. Fulton has walled off his
dogs of war, and talks compromise, and
puts on an appearance of decency, as
his faction Is practically In power, but
his purpose Is, without doubt, to de
stroy the choice of senators by popular I
uid, mm 10 succeed nimseir as senator.
M.
Where They Will Get It.
Pendleton. Or. July SO T tha TJ-.rl.
Itor of The Journal It seems to me that
the method of the Socialist nartv In
raising campaign expenses is deserving
oi more attention man trie newspapers
of the country give it. Here is a party
that Is now attempting to raise 120.000
to defray the expenses of a special train
for it's presidential candidate to tour
the eountry and plead his cause with
the people.
How do they Intend to raise It? Not
from corporations snd trusts as we all
know some party campaign funds to
hava bean secured, tint from Its member
ship, workingmen, clerks and small bus
iness men of the country.
Tou cannot consistently remain silent
and fulfill your duty to your sub
scribers. HORACE K PLANT.
This Date in History.
17t Allies defeated the French at
battle of Mind en.
1(11 Richard Henrr Pwna Jr., au
thor of 'Two Tears Before the Meat,1?
wu bom In Cambridge, Mass. Plea
In Rome, January 7, 1SS2.
1I1S Herman Melville, writer on
Knuth sea Ufa bom la New Tork city.
Died there September 1, 1 HI.
1171 Senate counted Mr. Belknap,
ecretary of war, on charge of selling"
official poaltiona
llli Conviction of Louis Kiel. leaflet
of the rebellion In the Canadian north-
IMS Ellhu Root suceeaWrd 0neral
Alger aa secretary of war of the United
Ststa.
!4i Rnteert E. Pttlntl. j-rwuor
"f Fennsrlraata, filed. Bora liecember
S, !., .
Henry Watterson In Louisville Courier
Journal. All economic Issues pale before this
supreme exigency. Mr. Bryan's reviled, ;
personality is but an atom. The most
hide-bound conservative cannot fear ;
Mr. Brvan with the Republican sonata
already fixed to outlast the next pres
idential term. Mr. laiia personality. ,
however attractive. Is but an atom.
when we reflect that It Is simply the
velvet hand of the old confidence gamt .
of high tariff and high finance, play-d
upon the American Industries by tho
party of Standard OH and steel and iron,
of the sugar trust and the tobacco
trust, or fraud and force, from the hour
when It sought to Mexicanize the gov
ernment by the Impeachment of a pres
ident who had committed no legal
wrong and the setting aside of the ver
dict of the ballot box by congressional
nanrna Hon to the hour when It adopted
a platform of imposture, placing upon
It the protended counterfeit presentment
of Roosevelt, but coupling him with a
yoke-mate out of the very vortex of
predatory wealth and the Jawa of mo
nopoly. '
Flying the flag of Roosevelt the Re
publican leaders have already made
their peace with the system, that Is
with eatan, Ptttsburg and Wall street.
From Rockefeller to Carnegie, from
Harriman to Morgan, every chieftain
of lawless riches is well content with
TUft and Sherman. They foretoken
and Imply the old order of special priv
ilege to the few, impositions 0 every
sort to the many: high finance ram
pant; high tariff, "revised by its
friends," rampant; the end of Roost--veltlsm
and agitation "for the good of
business" business only organized cap
ital and licensed monopoly; ine same um
story, the same old song, tho same old
fang, sllcaea over wim guie i
rom the Roosevelt larder, meaning
four vears more of the rascaldom, which
Roosevelt has unmasked but not
nhlrh Roosevelt has exnosel.
but left intact: which, In spite of Roose
velt and all his works, stands today nit
imn,Mant anfl defiant ns ever it stood.
a gray wolf presiding over the senate,
a gray wolf presiding over the house
and a gray wolf giving tone and effect
te' the ticket.
Can anv thoughtful Democrat, can
any patriotic American, balk of hie duty
before a layout so menacing and obvious?
Robert T. Lincoln's Birthday.
Robert T. Lincoln, president of the
Pullman Palace Car company, was born
In Springfield, 111.. Auaust 1, 1843, tho
eldest son of President Abraham Lin
coln and Mary Todd Lincoln. He re
ceived hla early education In his home
citv and then studied at Harvard ryl
lec'e, from which he graduated In 1864.
as A. B. He took up the study of law
at Harvard Law school, but entered the
arnry when the war broke out and
nerved as captain on the staff of Gen
eral V. 8. Grant After the war he com
pleted his law studies and engaged in
praettee In Chicago. He became secre
tary of war under President Garfield In
ls".l anfl remawea in mil pmiiion un
der President Arthur. He was strongly
mentioned for the presidential nomina
tion In 1SI4, but refused to oppose Gen
eral Arthur In the convention, Under
President Harrison, Mr. Lincoln was en
voy extraordinary and minister plenipo
tentiary of tbe t'nlted State to Grt
Britain. After his retirement In 1J
he became general counsel of the Pull
man company, a"nd after the death of
Genrgo M. Pullman he was elected pres
ident of tbe company.
Tbe Panama Digger.
Each ( days the diggers of the Pan
ante canal are removing a quantity of :
r atari at equal to the cvramtd of Cheor.
wntca rernirea tne labor of le0,0i(
ze years 10 diuio.