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WW EDITORIAL EiGE OF THE JOURNAL THE JOURNAL AN IMilTKMU'M C a. JACK SON N- I'A I'l'R , . . I'ulilMior erurr Ntimliiv nmnitriii In Fifth n i:t itinlilll Entered at Hi ,.,,!, rn. trniismlsidoii I h nni d the 1IIT (H'Cil Sine'ir) n t Tt.n J.. urn. I ltull'1 fctr.M-tfc. it I ! ii nd. Or. ,. nl I'. llllMl, i l. H'-- ' for . I ... Tf.l KI'HONKS 'MAIN 71 All l imltmivit. r.- . !. I'""""-- I Tell (hi- ihtiKi- 'Vnrii'mi "u Kmi Klav ofr. H 2Mt !" hunter to fire on every pretext, favor of reforms as Roosevelt gen Hazard Itself In the very Impulse that erally appears, to be? The votes cast for the new party In New York City and Massachusetts were local protests, and signify little as to Its probable vote In a national election. It Is probable that most of thoBe bo voting will consider Bryan or Debs, good enough for them, and will be unable to see any good rea Ron for farther splitting up a nil norlty opposition vote. often attracts the venttireaome Into tlio Impossible with Its resultant fa tiillty. We are apparently going to drown ourselves and execute our solves with autos hk long an lime lasts, nnd can only do what we can to minimize the aggregate. This we ni.iv ili) if we Impress upon our iiosir.. ' .....". a -.,i.. ,.. ih., I'TS. I V""ll HUH IIH'II uiiinyiu p inni mv POKKKiN AliVKllTISI Si; III I'll l'Si:" I Vrc'lnml ll.-ii.ninli' Sn-.liil O rt l-lmr llnin.M . k MiiUiliim IK nnn York. IK17411 IL..11W 1 1 u 1 1 1 1 1 . ir . I power of deal I I wel I an in the lurks in the water as speeding auto and the i liith oower gun. Kven with this pre- t"'sJ j ( .union pushed to its limit the cor 111.-""- '...,, 11,.. ,,,l..,-iiiki'i- nnd Suliarrll'Miin T 1 ti 1 ir In- mull or te " la tli Inlti'-l M.li.. I'muuli r Mril.-o: iblrt-M oner, tiic 11 n lie rui k 11 11 nil nappy lioines will have their s-uinnione from On tear . . On fear.. On fr.. K- llAII.V. f r, mi line mon t ri . SI NPA Y. . . . . $2 .V On m'lrith . 1 1 A 1 1 . Y AMI SI'NI'AY. $7 .V) On mmith 1 owning accidents. It Is the care of the wise and good man to look to his manners and ad Ions, and rather to how well he lives than how long; for whether he shall die sooner or later Is not his business, but whether he shall die 111 or well. Seneca. Ill l KM THK I KA.V H1SK LAW "miLD now." A' VALl'K OF OI'KX KIVIMIS. ""HE Oregonlnn has admitted that I there Is need of an open river below I'ortland. so that heavily laden ships can come here. but argues that up-river Improve ment is useless because railroads can carry freight cheaper than small boats, such as can run In those wat ers. can. If this position be correct, what Is the use. ns the Pendleton Tribune asks, of the Celllo canal? Deep draft steamers can never run above the Cascades, or probably Van couver, "at the farthest; on this - theory It was a waste of money to build the Cascade locks, and the river beyond should be let alone. It Is strange Indeed that even (he Oregonlan should at this late day be gin to preach such a doctrine as this, when everybody who considers this Bubject at all well knowB that poten tial If not actual water navigation controls railroad rates, along the waterway, or between distant points with water connection. It makes no difference to the pro ducers and consumers whether the navigable river Is used or not, so long as the railroad rates are re duced to the level of water rates And no sooner Is a river rendered navigable or a canal built so as to tspsaMip' navigation to a region than the railroad rates tumble. It is true that after forcing oppo sition boats off a river the railroad could raise rates again, and could repeat Ihe process, but the time is soon coming when this will be pro hibited by law; a railroad will not be allowed thus to monopolize business at rates first too low and then extor tlonately high. For railroad owner ship of the government will inevit ably r"sult in stricter and more drastic government control. If not In government ownership, of the rail roads. Comparatively little freight is brought to Portland around the Horn by water, but Portland has watei rates, or somewhere near that,, because the water highway Is there. So with a water highway into the D' takex too sumorsiw. ISCrSSING the Independence party movement the Phlladel phla North American views it quite seriously as Indicative of a possible new party that will sweep the country in the near future, and compares it to the start of the Re publican party in 1S56. The Xorth American thinks that "a party that polled 225,000 votes for mayor of New York; a party that cast 75,000 Interior; it will get water rates both ballots for Hisgen to lie governor of out and In, whether a steamboat I Massachusetts - f,000 more than UK UK should be and doubtless will be. a generous response to the effort of the Oregon State drange to raise funds by volun tary contribution, for use in fighting the Pacific States Telephone corpor ation In the Inters effort to destroy the Initiative and referendum, and the corporation tax law. The case Is to go to the. .supremo court of the lulled States. it is essential that the best legal talent shall be avail able In defense of the measures the corporation seeks to destroy. Whether true or not, It Is the ha bitual assertion that the bar, because of masterful mentality and legal eru dition. Is dominant In swaying the courts and securing decisions. It Is the contention of high and conserva tive authorities that this is a chief Influence In swinging the courts into a Hue of decisions that seem to trend In the direction of favoring corpora tions, since it is the corporations that mostly control the best legal talent. In any event, the issue between the people of Oregon and the tele phone corporation is whether or not the people shall have their way, or the corporation have its way. The people, after the legislature refused it, voted the franchise tax law into existence, with the consequence that n tax of $9,500 was Imposed on the telephone company. We have yet to hear any demonstration that the tax is not just, and equitable. There is not the slightest reason why a cor poration should not pay a just pro portion of taxation, Just as the indi vidual is required to do. It la the failure of corporations to bear a just share of public burdens that makes the burden fall so heavily on the pri vate citizen. The fact that in this case the corporation refuses to leave the settlement of the issue to the Oregon courts, but Insists on carry ing it Into the more tortuous adjudi-i cation of the federal courts Is evi dence that it is not willing to be fair with the oeoole of the state. The grange should have hearty support in its plan, for it is enlisted In a cause of strikine importance to all .he people of Oregon. w.heel turns or not. Hut without an open river the railroads would charge far more than profitable rates for even the small bouts. The opening of the rivers of the Oregon country is therefore worth literally millions a year to the coun try people, besides all It Is worth to Portland. It is to ihe advantage of this city; It is even fur more to the advantage of nil Ihe up-country peo ple who have produce to neiid out 8nd merchandise to buy. The Portland newspaper men tioned knows all this of course; the school (!il!i!:-'ii awiii ii) hi Idaho and British Cnlimilii.t know it ; yet through some malign influence that newspaper has now tinned its lusty ancient guns .u:al"t-t open rivets for the intirint. Sin i. a piece of jour nalistic tre!tilier in one's owu re gion I prot'.i'ily ln,ni.alleled. XKKM.l-.ss I T l.mi.S. the Democrats could poll; a party that is a power in Illinois and holds the balance In California, is a party to be reckoned with;" and contin ues: -'t typifieu the truth ihat th ie is a struggle that will continue to the death In this country. Every thinking man in this nation knows that tliis country Is approaching a crisis between the forces whose creed is equal opportunity nnd the Klip porters of special privilege. And at such a juncture the appeal to the citizen by parties wholly critical and not bound to provide practical con structive designs cannot lie disre garded bv any earnest student of i.iir civilization " Hut what we do not understand is what need or excuse there is for this new parly when the Democratic party has become pretty thoroughly I ;r aiilzed . and proposes to do about all that the Independence party pro loses to dn Kxcept in one or two i,:i ri ii-n Ih rv Mr Hearst's olatfii-m is THE M-as-.n ivcotd of drownir.K.i:lillstanUa,v . saliu. as Mr. accident i teaching a ghastly Hrvau-S, nd lf ,oth seek to ac aggn gaie H....tlng and swim- ' , ,,m,,lisn the same ends, l.v the same ming vie with each other in . ,... i,,,, to nu- nttio presenting the longer list of in tlms. .,,-'tv when an old. big partv that has The unskilled or a:eless attempt ja rhan- r success is at hand? both, and Ihe roll call of death goes! TllP N-nr,!, American says further: serenely on Warning are uttered, Tne wrongs an,j abuses do exist, and protests lifted, but the grim ! And if this or any other radical partv reaper proceeds with his harvest . j rnl, ld ronvince t he mass .,f t he Amer The inexperienced swimmers attempt ran people that no horn st effort w;as the passage to a distant Island In the;i,pjng made bv either of the dom- LiIjI'bIO.N was made some weeks ago to the advice of the Lumberman, a trade publica tion, to "Build Now," and again, In a recent issue, that journal repeats the advice, which, allowing for the commercial Interest that pe riodical has In the consumption of lumber, seems to The Journal to be good. Nor do we care lf It Is a part of an alleged plan to force a cam paign revival (it prosperity.,--' In any event the depression must pass, and prosperity return In a greater de gree than it has yet though In this part of the country there is Utile ground for complaint and then It will cost people much more to build than It will now. The Lumberman goes into the subject quite deeply, as follows: Present conditions are Ideal for t fie builder. The lessened cost of mn terlal. plus the Rroater efficiency of labor and the economy in the time re quired to put up a structure operate greatly to reduce the outlay. Con tractors are aware of the expense, In volved In delayed operations When It becomes peoesHary to lay off crews or to shift them from one point to another pending the arrival of material neces sary to continue the work the loss Is ften great. There la a Ions In time and loss in efficiency, and further damage by reason of the delay In the completion cf the building. Each etep in the construction of a dwelling, store or office h-.illdlng ln rrea!es the outlay. Contractors usually are paid In Installments, receiving a ertain per rent of the price when the foundation is In, another when the walls are up, another wnen tne structure is roofed over and so on. A delay of two or three weeks after the building Is roofed over means the absolute loss of the uae of the money invested for that length of time or possibly longer. Fur thermore, a prospective tenant may be come tired of watting and secure ac commodations elsewhere. AH these are problems which the builder who builds during busy times must consider. They are problems which those who build now are not required to solve. It is not possible to determine the In fluence of an active building campaign upon the commerce of the I'nited States. Were it possible to provide work for all t lie mechanics an Increase lri general trade would result. The solvency of the butcher, the grocer or the banker de pends upon the ability of bis patrons to pav their bills; the solvency of the job bing house depends upon the ability of hundreds of small retail distributors to pay their accounts; the solvency of the manufacturer hinges upon prompt set tlement with the jobbing trade. The ability of manufacturers to keep their mills going depends upon collec tions and the demand for their products. No one link In this clieln Is Independent of the others. No one link can be bene fited without at the same time benefit ing all the other links. Final analysis shows that the Interests of the various elements of trade are lndlssolubly linked together. To start building Is to start at the beginning and upon a firm foun dation to begin renewed activity. Build now. Small Change Hrrrln Is still boss of California. Kveryhody reads what Tom Lawson says He pays for It. Bryan did not lifcve to get anybody to revise ami ellt Ills acceptance speech. Fulton also gut Indorsement from the vice-president and some of Ihe sen Blot's. Mr Taft has bought a 1.200-pound riding burse. He may serve, but Is none too big. Enforced and abnormal prosperity will iv'iulre an immense Keiiutnican campaign fund. I'he Walla Walla Statesman reprints whole editorials of The Journal verba Mm, with no credit. The hi odds on Taft In the Lloyda 'insurant-"" scheme are likely to drop goon deal nerore election. The New York Journal nays bathers need more rlothea. Some bathers would look better with more clothes, on, surely. Ii ntr Jiainiirt innnuit is a unique event the only one of the kind In this region nnd deserving or a very large attend ance. Somebody has Invented a new word for a navigator of the air aviator, which Is one letter shorter than aero naut. Of course there must be a lot of good roads talk first; but the work Is bound to come; the people are all for good roads. The only way Illinois can get rid of its trust, corporation and boodle sena tor, Hopkins, Is to elect a Democratic legislature. Eook at the record of that last con gress, and then wonder that anybody should ask you to hurrah for the party that was In the majority. Again, Sir Thomas I-lpton has a no tion of trying to lift that cup. Nobody so well deserves It, and to nobody would it be so cheerfully surrendered. It has not yet been reported how many clerks Chairman Hitchcock has employed In making a list of the trusts that have been smashed and the wealthy lawbreakers who have been punished. A news item reports a man disap pearing at i'matllla "as complete as if the earth had opened and swallowed him up." How did the reporter ever manage to Invent so apt and original a comparison? i Vorys says Ohio will give Taft 120, 000 plurality. Mack says Ohio will go for Brya-n. This is a sample of 100,000 reports we will read during the next few weeks. Splitting the difference may give a fair estimate. An Indiana judge ruled that a night gown was a luxury and granted an In junction restraining an 18-year-old do mestic from purchasing one with part of her hard-earned wages. The girl not being; a corporation octopus cannot af ford to appeal, and so may have to sleep In her kitchen gown until she can get a husband. 'NO INFANT INDUSTRIES" SA$$ DAVID STARR JORDAN In a paper read before the Interna tional Free Trade conference held at London. August 4-7. I'resldent Jordan of Iceland Stanford university irlveu Ma M lew of the protective system, us fol-Miiwi: Every argument for and against the tariff has been stated a thousand times. There is nothing new to be said. Hut at tne nottoin of every argument re mains the necessary recognition of Its primal Iniquity. The fundamental Idea In American nolltv is thrft of u annn nt deal to all men, each standing on his own feel, with exclusive pVlvllegea or governmental aid to no man, and to no class of men. Inequality before the law, entail, prlmagenlture, church con trol of state, state control nf r-h,r,), class consciousness and class legislation were evils which our fathers would not tolerate. ' They c.hose the hardships of Plymouth Hock and later the haxards A Maryland minister, according to a dispatch, who waa beaten severely by the husband of a woman whom the husband found in the preacher's bed room, says he Is Innocent, but the wo man tempted him; that he was awak ened by her and ordered her to leave, but she wanted- him to love her and pray for her. All of which mav be true, but It is a reminder of the first man's excuse: "The woman tempted me." If It were not for women, what a good world It would be. of war rather than to nut un with mv of them. If thre Is one American Idea or Ideal to be segregated from the rest. it is tnis or eouallty before the law And It U this lde.nl which Is violated absolutely and continuously In the theory and In the practice of the nro. te.ctlve tariff. The protective tariff Is a device for enhancing the home price of tho arti cles It covers by a tax on commerco bv forcing the body of cltixens to pay trib ute to producers at home. These pro- Jurers may be capitalists or directors of Industry, or they mav be the labor ers who contribute effort only without i-esponsiDiiity ror the way In which ef fort mav be annlled. It matters not whether capitalists or laborers, either or Dotn, actually profit at vour expense or mine. The law Intends Hint thev mum uo so. it la g oreacn or the prln clplo of equality before Hie law that either should thus profit. As a matter or fact mere Is little gain to the labor er oecause continued Immigration brings' him ew competitors nnd he- cause he Is in his turn one of the gen eral public who suffer from the commerce-tax. As wages are raised, so Is tne cost of living.' Kor the- director or mployer or labor, the case is on the average not much better. !ecause the cost of his product Is enhanced by the tariff taxes on everjrrhlng which enters hito his process of manufacture. In so far as a tariff Is successful. It is vir tually prohibitory. That the evils of proninttory tariffs are so little felt s due to the fact that our country Is a world In Itself, with untaxed trade throughout a district comprising nearly half the specialized production area of the globe. Vet within this faored area It ts possihie sometimes to corner a product or to monopolize production. To this end the tariff naturally lends itself, though it would be unfair to de clare it to be the parent of all trusts. II Is enough to recognize that Its gen eral purpose Is the same, the develop ment through legal means of Industrial and economic monopoly, the enrichment of a class or of a group of classes at the expense of the citizens at large. This Is theoretically contrary to Amer ican polity. If the principles of our re public In regard :o exclusive privileges are right, then the theory and the prac tice of the protective tariff art wrong That It works through the method of Indirect taxation, disguises but does not tustlfv Its Iniquity. The tariff la defended on the ground or the value to a growing nation or in rant industries of diversified econom Ics. We may not deny that at times there has been a flnnnclal gain to the community through taxing the farmer to build up the manufacturer. It Is not politically right or Just to do this out lf it were, the policy In. practice assumes the form of a vested right which becomes in time a vested wrong. Around these vested rights other condi tions grow up, and a change of any sort works havoc with related or associated Interests. JiiMtlce becomes possible on ly by the perpetuation of varied forms of Injustice to toucn tne tarirr in any wnv sends a shock through the flnnn rial world, throughout the body politic Tariff revision is, therefore, a kind of effort which can be baaed on no prin ciples. It Is a blind rush anions various choices of vlls. The only way out Is to mnkr taxation blind, like other ef forts at Justice. Its sole function that of raising revenue. In another way the theory of the In- fnnt Industry has proved fallacious. There are in America today no In fant Industries. They have grown fast or than the nation liaa. Our huge fn dustrlal combinations overshadow the world. Just as In their alliance they dominate us. in some degree they have the whip hand ovor other nations. If anything American can take care of it self, it Is our Infant Industries. Yet thev demand the tariff as a necessity of existence as insistently as ever they did. The lull In the self-assertion Just it present Is dum to the handwriting on the wall, not to any lessening desire to be fed at the public expense. The actual Injury to American pros perity traceable to the tariff, may not tie enormously great. It has doubtless been exaggerated. . It lends Itself to exaggeration. It makes us angry when we think of It and wrath means always a magnifying glass. Its greatest evil lies In the perversion of our theories of government, the Introduction of the ld"a of clasf enrichment through legis lation. Doubtless much of the prosperity of the I'nited States Is due to the pro tective tariff the prosperity of some of us. Hut In Mice degrees the nnn-pros-peritv of some of us. soma of the very sarnie persons for that matter, Is due t i tne same national meddling wnn in llvldiial rights. The apparent prosper ity of anv community could be greatly enhanced by taking property away from half the people to put it Into the hands of the others who know better how to use it. Thus behind all discussion of sources and means of prosperity, the fact reinnlns that Democratic Justice. that fundamental equity between man and man, can never- be realized li America so long as ny trace of the protective tariff remains on our stat ute books. It Is another illustration of the truth that "they enslave their chil dren's children who make compromise with Mn " This law' applies to econom ic lapses, to time-serving legislation, as veil as to moral sins. lheREAUl - I -f 1 FEMININE I I' Of the Heart of a Woman'. 8 It not unjust that her conformance with the marriage laws of the conn try should bo taken us the very sum total nnd Inherent basic prin ciple of a woman's life nnd th same thing In a man's life be merely an Incident, scarcely worthy of com ment and certainly not greatly Influ encing his usefulness us a business or a social acquaintance? Men can do what Mr. Stevens appears to have done, until some better n plimiitlon of his conduct la forthcom ing, and In a little while his acquaint ances forget It or pass It by with a slight shrug. They would perhaps not want their sister to know am-h man but If he Is good company or a "good fellow" he will pass ns a friend It doe not greatly mailer. A woman mav throuah weaknxas ns through the very strength of her lovt, through a trust In h man's word that scorns to nsk for explanations or even hint of Investigation, dn such a thing as the ninn has done set the ennvn. (tonalities aside ami believe thai lm-i Is greater than law and the world will never forgive If she has made a mis take. A mistake of Ignorance, of weak ness, of too great trust It does not' matter. It Is a mistake and the crown of her womanhood, her honor, her vir tue. Is gone. Thereafter she Is not fit to hold a business position, to teach school, even to cook In one's kitchen. The doors are forever closed analnst hee and all too often she la thrust Into the pain or del morale sin because there 14 no oilier open. Campaign Funds It is probably true that Mr. Heney and bis work has fallen into some discredit in California, even among many people who were In favor of the prosecutions. There has been so much delay and expense, and such small results, that the people are tired of the proceeding and think it largely farcical. This may be the fault of the judicial system rather than of Heney and his backers, b-ut people cannot be expected to keep up a lively interest in such a matter for ypars at a time.' Heney has done some good work, but he has blus tered and bulldozed too much and sometimes has acted on too slight evidence. Oregon Sidelights A branch 18 inches In length cut from an Elgin man's apple tree held 53 ap- pie mat were oi uie average size. A cougar over nine feet long was killed on Mosby creek by Mr. Van Schrack and his boys and dog. It had killed many sheep and goats. With prunes selling at 6 He and one of the largest crops on record, If It don't rain during prune Harvest, there will be good times at Myrtle Creek this full, says the Mail. There are seven families of the new colony already at Wolf Creek and a number of other families jare to arrive soon, says the Glendale News. A hotl. store, etc., are being builK lb., with Kmi:.' i; d of d r, i w ti i r. i; ctilng a gha.-tly itlng and swim each ut her in 1 Im of id i ms. Col ii in" ri'W bnaf. and one givs down within a l ards cf the friendly shore. The i ;k rietti -d swimmer at Albany Is t.'' d urn wist i su-fMed to fcav I- n B i ramp, ai d sinks be neath the urf are. A mr.n at Monro? who tannot s tin. gr in bathing wup Into a aep hoi, and pays the nation's power at the polls '.u wKhont an attending j nant parties to correct these evils. we believe that public sentiment would be strong enough to make of the new party a mighty politiral far tor. One American citizen, however. has stood in the way of the party of The Rurns News relies on "the yeomanry of the land, the common people on the farms and In the "work shops of the country. In such states as Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Illi nois, Oregon and California," to "save the country from the threat ened disaster of Bryan's election." Yet it would not be surprising If the "yeomanry.'' the "common people." should show that they have become tired of Aldrich. Cannon. Klklns, Dalzell. and all that outfit, and of the rule of the trusts and corporations and railroads and moneybags, and not being afraid of Bryan as the? were in 19f. or not being so easily controlled, should vote him in this year. lorien no nis me. a young tnaa. Ignorant of the meaning of the lights on steamer with a tow. row till boat Into the rawer. nd ft joaag woniaa U sacrificed The prlc la hnman life is a heavy r t pay. but there ema to b no remedy. The uunkJlled ventar Into peril from which the skilled wowbj shriek In ftar. Tc antomo M!.t, templed hf th power to do to. tp4a mp kla m bine otil there Is un aecldnt. rtwaesstoa of the t h poT gun tempt lh earlei One man Oregonlan that he considered It laudable and patriotic action for Democrats to register and vote as Hearst or the party of Debs becom- I Republicans, that paper at once as- !ng the holder of the balance of the snmeg that he speaks for many and That j that his statement supports its rcjt- Union will be connected by telegraph wire with the rest of the world, and the old time method of sending telegrams by telephone or freight to the main line will soon be a matter of the past. A Eugene man has a new well 148 feet deep, with ltd ret of water in It, which cannot tbe lowered by ordinary pumping. He' will ultimately build a water tank and have a water system of his own. Many Prineville people in the moun tains camping have been utilized as fire fighters by the rangers. They diaw wages for the work, but they didn't go to the mountains looking fur Jobs, says the Review. More than double the amount of fruit has been cared for by ihe lalles can nery this season than was handled l,y that Institution last year. Not only Is this true of cnerries. but also of strawberries ami peach plums. Twenty thousand dollars is the sum that has already been proffered W. E. Powell, a painter of 1j Urande. says the Observer, who Invented a process i of making commercial turpentine from I old stumps that cover the Blue moun tains. A freight wagon arriving In Prineville brought six barrels of beer consigned to six different persons of that city nnd a five gallon Keg of stronger fluid. Which shows that Prineville knows bow to assuage Its thirst even if tbe city did vote prohibition says the Review After driving down a hill wltn the brake set so that the wagon wheels did not turn, a man near Brownsville was surprised on locking back to se.' fire racing over the ground at a rapid rale of speed. A spark struck from a n k had set fire to the grsss and 75 a r- of ground were burned over. From the Commoner. Tf bank deposits are guaranteed as recommended in tho Democratic nation al platform, funds In bank will be as good as gold In the pocket. There will be no more money panics because there will be no more lack of confidence. Washington will not have to go- to the aid of Wall street banks In trouble be cause all bankers, being jointly respon sible, will watch the Wall street banks and see that they do not do dangerous and Irregul.u- business. Big bankers do not want deposits made absolutely safe In all bnnks because It will give them less power with their big banks. They oppose the Democratic 'guarantee. Large industrial Interests enjoying special favors, at. Washington oppose the popular election of United States senators because such a method would soon result In breaking up the present powerful senatorial oligarchy headed by men who shamelessly represent Stand ard Oil. All these big Interests fight this plank In the Democratic platform The Republicans will not materially reduce tariff schedules because the tar iff barons control their organization and provide their campaign funds To prevent the adoption of reform measures the Republicans will have an enormous campaign fund contributed by the powerful Interests most deeply concerned. The rigid policy governing Mie campaign funds of the Democrats does not govern with the Republicans. ! l my ten notntng until tne fight Is over ! Then It can be shown that large sums were paid to, minor organizations and men who could not render detailed re ports. With the Democrats there must be weekly reports If the government at Washington Is to tie rescued from the powerful few and turned over to the whole people the people must help now. The Demo cratie managers need money for the legitimate expenses of the campaign. They do not require and do not expect anything like the millions which will be used by the Republicans. They have no vast organization with thousands of men, rrom the topmost to the lowest receiving extravagant salaries. Hut they do require money to see that the Republicans do not Improperly use the wis! mims put si meir disposal by rich men who want to continue the govern- ni.'in or me tew They rea u re monev the preparation and dissemination Letters From the People betters to The Journnl nhould htt written on one side of the paper only, and nhould tic ac companied by the ni:m and atldreaa ef the writer. The name will not be used lf he writer nsk that It bo withheld. The Journnl Is not to be nnderntood ni Indorminjf the tIcws or. aAtenieota of ciiTeiioii,i'i!ts. betters should bp unfile as brli'f nn pcelhle. Thoae who wlah their letters relumed when not utted should in close postage. Corres,Kindents ore notified that letters el eeeilhig 8o0 words in length inny. at tbe discre tion of llio editor, be em down (o that limit. Not so with a man. His mav hnr oeen tne (leliueaately planned deception. Ho may liave lived a lie for 16 years, sworn to It. iflorled In his" abllltv to de ceive. He Is a man and It Is forgiven. The worst his acquaintances will say against him is that he "got tangled up with spme woman and then It is for gotten. He can go and do It again If he be minded, or as many times as women may be found who believe his lying tongue. The very essence of a woman's char acler is her trust. The blind. Implicit trust that a woman places In h man who says he loves her is not to bo paralleled tn the world. It Is the very heart of honor with her, notito distrust, not to ask questions, not to tolerate InvestU gation. If she loves she trusts a man wholly, completely. without reserva tion. To ask him any question of hla past life, especially if his past may have had sorrow or he a painful memory to him, would be a monstrous thing, impossible in a right minded woman. Elba's pure nnd perfect faith in he white knight is the very element of hef woijuinllness. it is a sacred, tierfeqt trust to maintain which she willingly gives her faith, her very life, and he sacred honor. To lose that fnlth is to lose him to snatch away his knight- hood to admit herself Incapable of Toy Ing. r literature and for the expenses of nai icnai nea uq ua rters. The committee pledges Itself that every .-ent forwarded In answer to tills appeal will be carefully expended and a.,. mute, I for A special account will be kept and a detailed report will be made It W n fight of the many against the powerful few. The people must work together in making tills con test i,r the well-organixed few with their millions tn campaign funds will win Duke of Terk's Rlrthday. The duke of T.- k w-lw, t,.. fu.l is Adnlnhiis rharls Alexander Al- l.e-t Kdws'd (Jor.rge pb 1 1 1 p I,n,l I,nd- slaus. was born in K,-nins-ton palace me In With the arket ai from tn $ ! 0 here will be placed In circulation from having written to the I the sale of Hainea hv from $6n.00o to l,A.IIUi wnirn auilf-l 1 uie Ri inn i i "V' a 1 belnar harvested and the big supply of feed hay In the stacks will Hive lUlr oe a quarter of a million cfnnars to r di vided up among ua. says the Record. August 13. the rrnnd.,, t .k. late duke of Cambridge, who was f-st co-istn to -he late Queen Victoria The duke of Teck is still more closely re nted to the R-Mish royal famllv through the marriage of bis sister to th.- prlnc nf Wl-, T!,e duke was ed-I'-ated at We!Hr.aM,,n nd at tli" royal ml.itarv school at Sandhurst He he- line n .,TT;rer r-r tt.e Se vfn err, t h I,n- Sou tne latter year ho S'lr-recrlod hi. f,m. n the title Tn - ' ( be was mnrrlr.1 tn I.ady Margaret ;rr.Vr.nnr daughter ,,f the Immensely wealthy (Juke nf vwt-minster Fulton's "Personal" Sacrifice. Portland, Or., Aug. 10 To the Edi tor of The Journal In the light of re cent developments an extract from a speech made bv Senator rulton in one or tne valley towns just prior to mo June election would be of interest. In substance he suoke as follows: "It had been my Intention to not be a candidate for reelection, for 1 had found that a man of my limited financial means could not afford to make such a sac rifice and It was only after my good name and haricter had been assailed that I consented to seek reelection. In fact I was compelled to do so In order to vindicate my good name. After the decisive vote that was cast In June It seems strange that Senator Fulton would now be eager to make another "sacrifice'' to the people of Ore gon by serving them another term in the I'nited States senate or would a "personal" victory Involving the defeat of t'ne "people's will" furnish It I in the "desired vindication"? Again, was the "campaign statement" but a bit of blar ney from a "servant" of the people who now seeks to be their "master"? REPUBLICAN. Tfie Ii)(l('in(leiit Parmer. From the Weston Leader. With wheat at lid cents a bushel, "Hard Times" cannot even peek over the rim of I'matllla county. His crop may be ten or fifteen bushels short of the' usual average, but the farmer is not compjalnlng. He will have a Jingle in his pockets nnd a corpulent account at the bank. Truly, he Is the "salt of the earth and the fatness thereof. Once it was the fashion to sympathize with him as he arose at 4 o'clock In the norning to pall his cow and do the chores, his faded blue denim overalls kept In doubtful Juxtaposition with his galluses bv a few shingle nails. Now he is tbe object of admiration and re spect not to say envy. In I'matllla ounlv there are scores of farmers In dividually able to buy out any of its merchants and have a comfortable sur plus left for emergencies. Lawyers. doctors, bankers and tradesmen must ooff 'heir hats to the horny-handed sons of the soil who may sport auto mobiles 1 they choose, and take their leisure as becomes men who hnve "arrived." To say that a woman should investi gate his past and prove his statements before she marries a man may be very true, but so long as women are women it will not be done. It Is doubtful Ir one out of twenty women would know bow to go about It to obtain proof tljyt a man has a right to woo her or to ask her to be his wife, ir he ap pears to be what he says he Is It suf- rices ror acquaintance, ir ms tastes ana his avowed outlook upon lire chorda with her own and she believes In htm. It is enough lor friendship. And If she loves him It is sufficient on her part for marriage. 1 o claim that she should obtain testimony to his statements Is to miss the very heart and core of a woman's character. Those who say so do not know. They have not read womanhood. There Is only pity for these two women whom the Jugglers with matri monial law on the part of T. M. Htevena have brought to light, i ney noth oe lleved In him ns women have believed since the beginning of time and as women will Continue to do down through the ages to. come. That he deliberately tricked them seems evident, and that be cause he a man it will be condoned. is doubtless also true. Home day w shall perhaps see things differently. H . H The Daily Menu. BRK.-.FAST. Cantaloupes. Fish Tlmbale. Raised Biscuit. Coffee. LITXCHKON. Cold Meat Loaf. Stuffed Tomato Salad. Saratoga Potatoes. Bananas and Cream. Tea. DINNER. Oxtail Soul). Chicken en Casserole. Hgg Plant. Lettuce. French Dressing. Deep BlacKherrv 1'le. Black Coffee. ,' ' - ssvan-wntn Len in and distinguished himself n tt, utn African war in lSSO-Hinn In Th Xot That Kind of Men. Fmm the Milton Eatrle iitrni citizen is Thrrrrtrire Roosevelt." This "last expression seems a mis taken view, for It has Iseen demon strated that Theodore Roosevelt is practically powerless. He could get none of his policies enacted into law He has not smand a trust or sent a "malefactor of great wealth" to jail. Hi opponent are completely In the saddle, except as Mr. Taft might make some effort in the name direction. But tf RooeeU failed, bow call Taft oece. em If he -r at earnestly and 'tlror-outl it erated falsehood that thousands of Democrats so registered and voted. So far it hs discovered one In stance of a man no voting, and one man who Justifies that act. And this Is all the evidence that It haa been able to produce. A boy of 12 rears went oat hunt ing in Colombia county; he allppVd. nd the gun went off, killing him. A boy of 12 has no business) with a gun. either when a lone or with somebody. One dav last week a Myrtle Cn,k firm purchased 40S.dOO pounds of French and Italian prunes of the following srowers Cleal Weaver 6c.i(in, Kd W,av., er loo ooii, J. J. Chadwlrs. 40."fl, J B Harris fi,000, and M R Smith 20 0''0 ' unds. The above fiarures sre appro is no reason to hellov. the Statement No ) rcen mn be hrow beaten or bought off Just why It would be nny spore honorable to re sin than It would to -o into the leg islature and yiolate the;r obll1on by vntln urimn the people ,holce the 'irprtm ip'ed (.olttlcisr.s who are urs 'ttlt eh a rr,ure bsce not explained The flatfm.it No 1 rr, Tf! who would do so would rot nr,i proie himself en. tlrely la.klrc In rrlnrlnle nnd unfit pounds. Tne arove iisrures are appro swate with hU fellow tr,. k. . Imated The actual yield rosy re,eh I . . ,'h "T-"1-.Jfi more thsn pounds Toe r-rlr-e , .i,., Th, F.ml. i," '', i A. J Ithrop. yours man. landed in M ed ford Hmae. rrorrU'-" to tee Mali, and soon after met an itlre trarer. who eald hie name was H H ft sAn-eltot-. an aaaed Ltl,rp If he wanted t go t ftanj f"rar"-1r-o P.eii). Ing affirmatively. 6e was banned lit h the tnirfT, etwwjfh to rsr Ms fr to the Bay Ttr and asked not to sjen tlnn the incident. Bt he !4. and mad mm affidavit to tts truth, though for what, purpos ts ttot CApUuced. I Fulton and Pledges. From the Grants Pass Outlook (Rep. 1 Possibly the senator regsnis a poht- enl pledge as being very different from anv other form of pledge. Possibly he feels that in view of the towering ca lamity that threatens In the election of Dfmoorat to the Cnlted States senate the Statement No. 1 members of the eglsltture would be justified In a de- fectb n of this sort. In any case we are afraid the mere suggestion of the prop osition will be sufficient to prove tne undoing of Senator Fulton as n candidate and to lower him In the es timation of his constituents. The com mon rabble hve the same peculiar no tions about a please today as they had In the days of the Msgna Charts Cer tainly, from n partisan standpoint It Is important that a Republican should rep resent n Republican state But from the people's standpoint there are two thtnrs vastly more Important : that their representatives should have the sense of honor to abide by their pledges. and that the will of the majority should preys ii. Should lie lUnKhod. From the 8 tm Jnornal Tbe ir.an ho aror to r n- ein tar t.ier re-,rt niUi a rifle anrt w1k. t. benr he shoot Ins at ever thins be mjr4 tint in rerie-t tnat half the rbarrn ef the hee-hes t men, women an4 !! Jfen la the animal life iwc e-e rnre If he -sprxH re fleet to frst etterf there evsht to be Mn way tn make Mm re flect witaj (be strong arm f tbe lsw. Col. Watterwon on Col. Bryan. From the Ixiulsvllle Courier-Journal, ilr. Bryan Is a Mgar and a better man tbar, e Ciousht htm. He ia en titled to the respect of the people. He win make an entirely ufe and sane president, much safer and mere sane than Mr. Rooeeyelt. whose berk has been worse than his bite, disturbing the fountry without drlvlrs; away the thlevfa Rut eren If w personally de tested Mr. Bryan, ws should support him on the broad Issue thst the Repub lusn nertr has made Itself the embod iment ef vicious m.n4 Immoral government. A Wooll- Horse? "Mrs at the foot of Irois. nom pi lined the boarder evet of the tabla. thls) mutton has a wewiiiyy taste - "I'm glad U b " snapped the land 11t. "The lat time I trs jn mutton fan said it was horse Bai," Fish Tlmbale Flake cold cooked fiKh. put In buttered dish, cover wltn iTi'iim ; Poulette or Bechamel sauoa; sprinkle with buttered crumbs: Dake. Cold chicken Houp cook l chicken. bunch of celery, M cup rice In K ipjarts of water; cool, skim, add minced iiarslen'. I tablespoons Kiateii cooaea ham. luice of a lemon. 2 cups cream. salt, white pepper and dice of whits bread. Baked Halibut Put on buttered dish 2 pounds of cutlets or steak; cover with pared, sliced tomatoes, 12 minced al monds, 1 shredded seeded (treen pepper. Vi teaspoon of salt 1 tablespoon of but ter; bake; baste 2 or 3 times; strain sauce from dish over. Peanut Candy - line cup sugar, 1 cup molasses tt piece or outter size of an eK. Boll ,1ft minutes. Try In cold wa ter. When brittle add pint of pea nuts. Pour Into well greased pans; be fore it is thoroughly cold cut Into sou a res. Vinegar .Taffy Two cups Kranulated suaar. 2 tablespoons or vlnenar, small niece of butter, a pinch of cream of tartar. When brittle pour on. well greased pans. Mark off when nearly cold. Stir verv little while boiling, lust enough to keep from burning. Il"3i-a i wu , ujje iiu'irir Dii(ai, whites of 3 pgits. 2 cups cucoanuL tensnoons baking powder. Mix all to gether, drop upon buttered paper and bake until Slightly orown in a dtibb oven. l ' li iw 1 1 ii t p C'nraniels One CUP Ot . grated chocolate. 1 up of brown sugar U 1 cup of molasses, cup sweei mux i n.ii ...11 It Kat-itona n-hen rirorinert It ' water. Add a piece cf butter slie of an; . n i t L-.,irllaH a-alnul meats , eftS tiii'J I I U "1 -.".--" -' - - I Pour Into a butterel pan. v nen parxij cold cut Into squares. This Date In History. 1 794 Battle of Belli arda, betweer the French and Spanish 1806 Miranda abandoned his con quests on the Spanish Main and sallex to Aruba Ul!-United States frigate tssej eantured the Alert, the first vesse taken from the British In the war O 112 1S22 An earthquake devastated 1 n r ere iJirt rtf Rvrlfl. llfiS Poxly of Thaddeus Stevens la; In state In the capital at Bsmnwin. 1 70 Marshal Baxaine appolnte commander-in-chief or tne rrcnen arm In the wr with Prussia. 1S94 -onress passed the Brice-Oor man tariff bill Spanish surrendered Manila t the Amerfrans. Airswer Did Xot Salt. From the Portland Iabor Press Recently the Oregonlan sought ses, era! union men, m(w them Rrslde Gram and Secretary Cessidy or the Btat Federation: T. M. Lea bo. secretarjr the Barbers' union; R. A. Harris of th Labor" Press and others, to set thet views sa to the probable action of tb American Federation of I JSor with rt rard to the support -of Bryan or Tsf The answers, we are told, were fort! coming, but Just why th Oregnriisn dl not prtsft them we have as ret failed t lern,
