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,n.m n I ' .' W 'J V EDIT0E1AL EGE OF, THE JOURNAL I ! f ii i - j r it- THE JOURNAL N INPM'KSPKST r. B. J.M"KWIN NKWKTAI'KR PuhlLh.il wrf ,!, in: r.-. .t hnixl.'T 'l eerr Hnndn id. it -I 1l - J.'unil Hu M n(. t'lfth n1 lunlilll .iri-.U. I'.llit. r. F.nten-4 at fhi iH...f fl. .- u Pur l llc.il. "r fr fr.n.il.K.n lbrouli tli ".nlH cn.l rli. mattwr . - TELKI'MONKK MAIN TITS. IM'Mr.. A All (I iianniriill Pflflrt "T " ant. Tell Hip .ipemlar thf ilr.rMi eiil "U F0RB1QN AlWKKTISINti li f. I'll PSI.ST ATI V H Vreelnnrl Renjmnlii f .. IkI A.1"rtl.ln tr' Bmiiawl.-. H. ll.llne. iM H'th reiiiie. Tort; 14.M t T is n..rre niiii.iinir. i iiir... Ruhwrlptlen Trma tijr irtl tii nny ililr. In Un lotted Hut.... OnaiU or Welco: riAii.v. On Mr M.on I On mnntH I SIMMY. On yw 2..V I Oil" month DAILY AND SUNDAY On rrar 7.t.n I One month $ .W party In her stntes. In lOnfi the Itopublloan candidate for governor hail h plurality of only 7.N3S, though t ho tisunl Republican majority Is around 20,000. Vermont anrl Ar knnsita nre nlso Hepteml or Mates hill their votes will have little tdg nlflt nncp. genuine goods; who knows It bet- bin Income upon the Investment. If tor than a newspaper that In every Mr. Harrlman thinks at laat that It MC ;,W IIS IX COXI KItKNt IC. I Shun delays they breed re morse. Take thy time while time Is lent thee: Creeping snails have weakest force; Fly their fault lest thou re pent thee; Good Is best when soonest wrought; LIng.'ring; labors come to nought. Southwell. 1 DID THE ELFXTIOX ME AX NOTI! IXO? r rS THE verdict of a ballot box worth anything? Is It to be heeded, or not to be heeded? It is the method made and pro- , vlded by the constitution for ox pressing or testing the public will for purposes of public action. No other method has been pro vided, and no other Is possible. The ballot box is the final and only nr . biter, and ita verdict the only known i or possible guide to public policies. . When ever that verdict ceases to , prevail, It Is anarchy. If we refuse to abide by such verdict, we are anarchists. To attempt to frus trate the expressed decision of the . ballot box is disorder, and those who make such attempt nre disorderly. Theirs Is an assault upon the most sacred right of the citizen, for If ; his decision at the ballot box be dis regarded, what right, or what auth ority remains to the citizen. A late election in Oregon was held ': for certain purposes. Those pur poses were announced beforehand, and among them was the official announcement that a senator was to be selected. The uaiin wert' prop erly printed on the ballot, and all the proceedings were regular. No , question of legality or regularity has ever been raised. The people of the state went to the polls and voted, first in the primary election, and then In the regular election, in the primary election two Republican candidates for senator were voted for. One was Charles YV. Fulton aud the other H. M. Cake. Mr. Ful ton's name, was placed on the bal lot with his own knowledge and con nect.'and that after he had journeyed ' all the way from Washington, I). C. to register and so make himself eli gible. In that contest, In which all the candidates and all the people of the state, all acting in good faith, were participants, and the selection made was the solemn pronouncement of the whole electorate. In' the regular election the names of George K. Chamberlain and H. M. Cake were on the official ballot for eenator, and with more than 100,000 people voting, Mr. Chamberlain was selected by a decisive margin. That eelectlon was made with full knowl edge of all the people, with due no tice to them, and was reached by an . orderly, regular, and proper appeal to the ballot box. It was not a Joke, a Jest, but the regular proceeding of the whole people, arrived at by reg ular process, and the candidate so chosen is the choice voted for and selected by the majority of those people. What is to be said of that group, or any man in that group of men. who, after this compacted derision end ordained selection will now ad vise that this expressed selection at the ballot box be set aside, and sonic other candidate fur senator' hci T WAS n meeting of two bl men In the world's aiffatrg that oc curred last week In (iortniiny- -Kln(? Kdward and Emperor Wil liam and the ned emperor of Aiixtrlii-Hungnry. whom King Kd ward will alco visit, Is another po tentate of big political dimensions. These men have a vast Influence over European affairs, and If they were no minded could cause trouble of gigantic proportions. Edward's powers are limited, and It Is often said that be really has but little power, but while It Is true that he could not take any very im portant step without the consent, of the ministry and parliament, yet a man in his exalted position, espe cially If popular, as he is, can cer tainly exerclso great Influence, and to some extent control the policies and actions of his nation. EdVTird'B nephew, William II, has somewhat greater power within his realm, though he Is limited a good deal by the powers of the reichsiag. As he has grown older be has be come more temperate and moderate. In his public talk at least, and be trays loss of the vaunting swash buckler than he did a few years ago. He Is a man who learns as he reigns. Old Franz Josef, In his dotage and about to surrendar to a greater king, even as his humblest subject must, occupies a position of much inter est and of possible danger. At his death, which must occlir soon, Hun gary will doubtless renew demands which It has not ijressed as It would If the aged monarch were not sure to pass away In the near future. When that event occurs trouble is likely to ensue, unless well-laid plans are made to prevent It, and this may very likely be one of the reasons for this visit of Edward to the two em perors. The so far bloodless revolution in Turkey will also doubtless be dis cussed, for while Great Britain Is the chief guardian of the Turk, Ger many and Austria, as near neighbors, are greatly Interested In all that oc curs in the land of the "sick man." Young Turkey may have an easy Job for awhile in dealing with Ab dul Hamid, but will have to comport Itself with reference to what these pnissnnt monarchs may think-about it. The "ponce of Europe" Is always to he guarded,; the "concert of the powers" is something to be constant ly watched; the "balance of power" may at any moment require delicate readjustment. Hence It is to be pre sumed that these conferences amount to something more than fraternal calls for the purpose of exchanging family gossip. What a fine thing for the world it Is that men, placed by law and cus tom and birth in such exalted posi tions and wielding such tremendous power should stand for peace, not war; for concord, not strife; for de velopment, not destruction; for ar bitrament of -reason and law rather than arbitrament of sword and shell. What an improvement in kings dur ing the past few centuries this shows. Rut tboie Is ample room for fur ther progress, for greater enlighten ment, and before this century is over, we may hope, all such men of high place and great power will stand for unarmed instead of armed peace; for tue disarmament, to a great extent, of the nations; for a confident assurance of peace among civilized men based on justice, amity and arbitration, and not at all on emergency sides with them? "Shall the people rule?" "Hum bug; buncombe." Shall railroads be controlled; shall coal lands bo held by the government; shall we have a parcels post, postal avlngH banks, and guaranteed bank deposits; shall senators be elected by the people; shall campaign contributions he made public; shall the tariff be re vised In the interest of the masses Instead of the trusts; shall there bo any effort whatever toward n clean er. honoHter, bettor national life? "Humbug; buncombe." The "sntiare deal" In actual prac tice; people considered before par ty; truth about political affairs In stead of partisan claptrap? "Humbug; buncombe." XAVHJATIXU THE AIH. 0' means of destruction and slaughter. Till- I -X A X S Y EflAKLK ARGl'-MEXT. "ffl' R. BRYAN'S platform, like Mr. Bryan himself, Is hum bug," Is the Impressively and convincingly argument ative statement made by the Oregon Ion. Further: 'The platform is buncombe, and Bryan is buncombe, too." What voter ran dnnv. disnute. resist or named? What voter in all Oregon. fjoul)t Sllr(l powerful and unanswer- N THE site of an international airship contest, near London, notices wore posted warning people not to smoke, as It would bo dangerous, yet somebody there Is always a fool somebody lit a match, and a terriblo explosion and panic followed, killing several people and badly wounding many others. The strange part of the af fair Is Hint it should have been pre sumed that every person in a crowd of thousands would obey the warn ing, and that on that theory the air was allowed to become impregnated with explosive gas. Surely it is not r.eceseary in conducting these con tests and experiments to place by standers under any such great haz ard; otherwise the spectators must hereafter bo kept at aafe distance But while such an explosion as this seems inexcusable, there have beVn and will be many unavoidable or less avoidable fatal accidents. The aeronauts or aviators are certainly making rapid progress; they are winning their way in the long bat tle for the mastery of aerial naviga tion; but it is as yet and doubtless will be for a long time to come a risky business. Men will persevere however: plenty of men would take the risk if it were 10 or 100 times greater; and it should be recognized that In taking these risks, though some of them may not be conscious of the fact, they are probably doing humanity a great service; they are pioneers in a new realm that lies as wide as space for the conquest of mankind. For quite likely the prediction made that In the not distant future airships will become as common as automobiles are now will come true. Why not? Stranger things have happened, and have now become fa miliar. If one safe, dirigible abso lutely controllable air carriage can be constructed, and swiftly propelled and guided from one point to an other, then thousands of such car riages can be constructed and op erated; and when our rich people tire of the comparatively tame risks of automobiles running a mile a minute, why should they not amuse themselves and risk their precious necks racing in the air? It will be fine fun indeed, except for those who are blown up or tumble down. Every great achievement requires !ta sac rifice of human life. The airship would that some body would hurry up and invent a name for it will be not only a big toy for the rich, but a thing of us;' to the nations. They are already preparing to use it in case of war, and even if no war occurs H can bo used in other ways for the benefit of humanity. It has been a long time since efforts to navigate the air in dirigible vessels began to be made, pnd more success has been achieved within the past three or four years than for that, many decades or even centuries before. And these late successes will no doubt be succeeded by others far more complete. Possibly the children of today may live to take air trips across the continent. If not across the oceans, and wonder why so simple and de lightful a means of travel was not evolved until the twentieth century. would ho. well to help develop Ore gon and make friends Instead of enemies of Its people, he Is nurtur ing a wise notion, and they will meet him half way. Hut the peoplo of Oregon know, anu Keenly Tool, -and their governor will tell Mr. Harrlman bo, that It Is high time for him to act. Oregon cannot, must not and will not con tinue much longer to He repressed and half shackled for lack of rail roads which It has seemed Mr. Har Iman only can build. But grtat as he Is, Mr. Harrlman cannot keen Oregon tinder his thumb much long er. Capital other than his has dis covered Oregon, and he cannot keep it out. There must bo extensions and oven multiplications of railroads in Oregon, and strong as ho is Mr Harrlman cannot much longer re press them. Hill is already hero and others are coming. Mr. Harrlman is great, but there are etlll big men be sides hirp. But perhaps he iSgoing to move In this matter. This Invitation may well be interpreted as a probability of such a movement. And If this construction of the incident should prove correct, all Oregon would re joice, and extend the band of friend ship to Mr. Harrlman. THE HUIVAN DOPY A WONDER ByW.R. C. L.ton, M. D. FAKE COMPLAINTS. H I'ltR In Oregon the "non-partlnan" jbuncoes the Republican party, or many so-called Republicans, into t'lo delusion that there Is no thing In partisanship, and the offices should therefore be Riven to the Democrats. Turning the lobs over to the pomoirnts would appear to be non-senuitur for non-partl.ianshlp, yet that's OrpRon logic, under the primary law, and it rdos here. Orcgonlan. What a disingenuous little squeal this is, to be sure. How many of flees have been turned over to the Democrats by the primary law? Not more than one, If that. Chamber lain has been elected governor, and senator under that law, but he was elected governor first under the old law, and without any doubt would have been reelected if there had been no primary law. So he would prob ably have been elected senator, so far as the popular vote was con cerned under the former system. lie won simply because a plurality of the voters preferred him to any Re publican that could be brought out. Bjit what are the other offices? The Republicans Tiav both repre sentatives, the other senator, all th? state elective offices except one which the law requires to be filled by a Democrat about, five sixths of the legislature and nearly all of the county offices In the state. And yet because a majority of the people happen to want a Democrat in just one prominent office, the Re publican party Is destroyed, is dead, is utterly and irretrievably dead; now, uenceforth and forevermore. What siliy, insincere drivel this is. THREE GREAT IDEAS. In the ancient world there worn' scvon wonders. In tha modern world wi have In itullty only one. n tut that U the hu man body. KcKurdcd from R purely me (hmilcHl viewpoint, the human body U a Miiperbly efficient Inxtrument, Inilultelv complex, ''oiulhl(cly delicate, an. I yet powerful, enduring und udaiduble be yond belief. The human body Ih a ml cioooHin of thu universe, a miniature world In Itself. It embodies within Its composition, its Mtuctiire, Its opera tions, everything that Is to he found unywhere In the world outsldo of Itself. Hot- instance, the body contains nil of the Important chemical elements. Nearly three quarters of Its weight Is made ill) of oxyKim, that moat Important and uni versal element. Then there are the other (rases, nltroKcn, hydrogen, chlorln and lluniin. In addition to these Kasea we find carbon, calcium, phosphorus, so dium, sululiur. potassium, magnesium. Iron, cupper, lead and silicon, lithium. mercury, arsenic and other solids. The hist live named, the Kascs, are sufficient In quantity to fill a tank of about .UO0 cubic feet capacity say of a size L'O feet lonK. 10 feet hltfh and 20 feet wide. The solids In the body, such lis the car bon, lime (calcium), silicon, sodium, po tassium, magnesium, are nil In the ground on which you walk. The body contains enough fat to make about 100 candles, enough soap to keep Its own surface clean for a month. pnounh suKar to do for a family meal, and enough salt to supply the family ror a month. 11 contains only ft little Iron. Just about enough to make a cou ple of small nails; but It has etiouKh hv- droften gas to till a balloon that would actually lift the owner Into the clouds. The human boiky also contains enoutth arbon to make about 3.000 lead pencils. or li'i tlx? form of a hod of coal enoufrli to keep u hlaxliiK (Ire koIiik for an hour two. that, us a matter or fact. Is lust what the body does with Its car bon uses It for fuel. .And the energy derived from the carbon, or coat, does for the human body Just what 1t docs lor the steam engine tt keeps Die body warm and gives It energy to move, A full-grown man should welsh 150 pounds, which should be divided as fol lows: Muscles and their appendages. Si pounds; bones, 22 pounds; fat, IS Causes of Socialism The Sparta (Win.) Democrat, com- mrntlng on the oigunliutlon there of iHoclBllntB and the nomination of candt dutea, saya: It Is natural to aak the cause of this sudden development of extreme radl- tiounda: skin. 7 sounds: brain. '3 pounds Intel lull organs, 12 pounds) blood, 7 pounds, ine noay contains udouc seven- ,.,, , ,,,, oounly but u , ,,fn(.ult eighths water; and so the man would . . contain about 17 gallons, or mors than half a barrel of It. to nnfl a satisfactory explanation. While a continual agitation Is kent un a li. I t... . i. . . . . ... . ----- As to food, he would consume every J,.,".,"."m "u,Hl '"" day 5.000 grains of lean moat, K.00U Z "H , ' , " grains of bread. 7,000 grains of milk. buVh"'" "cct ,l' "", r,"ul S.U00 grains of potatoes" tfOO grains of S ftf ail J ih. . . commences ,o . nnn rln itlr Thin . K causes tho first thought Is nf butter, S3,ooo grains of t"r i ids , many exposures of the lll-mitcn makes a total of food and drink equal fr,llnes ',,! by the present nat n . nearly t eight pounds. administration, and Its many t i ire' The matter bus aken Into the body , Bet;uro at lho nB,lds of a t rust owmd Is normally balanced by an equal nuan- Hepubllimn congresn any legislative tlty of waste thrown off. Kor the es- relief that win uri'nr,i .....;" .. cape of this waste there are four ave- equality of opportunity for all anil tho ruies: the lungs, which throw off 20,000 relief of tho tolling millions from tn grains dally; the skin, which excretes robber exactions of arrogant wealth 10.000 grains, and the kidneys and In- This fact standing out prominent as It testifies, which eliminate 24,000 anil does causes many to turn for relief to '.OtiO grains, respectively, Of the water the party of cxtravugant promises in taken, tho liinjH and skin together carry tho .hope of destroying the system off Just about one half, the kidneys which had made the cxlutenco of the about per cent, anu ino iniesunes me runner imruiis possioie. rest. The United States circuit court nf All this means that there passes appeals In releasing the Standard Oil through the -body within tli course of from tho payment o? the SZii.ooo.ooo fine a year almost a ton and a half of solid Imposed by Judge J.andis, while other and liquid matter. Tha body rebuilds courts are railroading to the jail and Itself with a portion of this each day. penitentiaries the penniless laborers of discarding a corresponding quantity of tt,e. country accused of comparatively waste. Thus we see that the body Is "V 1rf.e"Res wl.th "t scant consldera- constantly changing constarrrrv" break- of tholr natural rights or congtl- lng down and at the same time being ",'""n ' ' making more .ebul.t. We speak of "my body" as If fL7-i.tLt 1 ?,a? "'J,1'1" R.1clal; we had today the same body we have '"rtv employed by the national always bad. As a matter of fact, how- p . ,. . , . , ever, we build an entirely new body hi fart Thai ?hPtt? h I'in "W.nk t ,0 everv few months It is like cataract "e fHOt Ulnt the tl"1,1afl arrived when eer rew monins. it ih like a tatara t. the government must be taken from the e see todav the same Niagara Kails of thu part dominated by Joe that men looked at 5.000 years ago; but f'annon. by Aldrich. by Shermah. In itio water that forms tho falls Is always i.,.i.n anA mhr .t.n. . ..'...; changing Is never the same for one cv8, whoso power lias mady existing second. So with the body. conditions nnsslhle. and nine In , The human body is a prodigious work- Itv the nartv which Is miliar no raui. er the most compact and powerful en- tlons to the trusts and combines, and glne known. In a single day the body which under the leaaershlp of the peer of a healthy man does work equal to less Bryan will repeal the legislation in mi n vtripmi ui j.dvu ions one idol mat nus maae ine existence or the from the ground. A man at hard labor, trusts possible, thus restoring to tho a longshoreman, for instance, helping people that equality of opportunity and to loau a ship, will do a work of 200 to power of government of which they 2"i0 foot-tons a day. So It will be tin- are now deprived by tho arrogant uerstood that the body tn Its general wealth of the nation through the instru- actlvlty does the work of 14 or 15 men. mentality or us congressional oois. This is many times what any man-made engine can do. proached. It Is a region with limits fixed by natural barriers that the hand of man cannot change. Traffic will not climb a chain ()f mountains when it can glide without resistance down a water grade. One train crew and one locomotive moving f5 load ed freight cars to the seaboard is the essence of intensified transpor tation facility. Is is the character of facility that Is Portland's and Portland's only. It Is the facility on which Portland prestige is build able. Its capstone however, is an nntrammeled Columbia. This must never be lost sight of. Portland and Oregon must keep it hourly and per petually In view, for It is Portland's and Oregon's means for an unrivaled and unapproachable commercial greatness. "TW Store to Let" Unless this is done and events con tinue for the next few years as they have for the past 12, there Is mi doubt. In view of the rapid rise of the tide of Socialism, that this country will be engulfed In a elasr, struggle. If that time ever comes there are many thou sands who now are endeavoring to avoid the raising of this class question by remedying the evils complained of. who will, when forced to face the Inevitable, Krom The Dalles Optimist. In looking around the city of Portland one Is surprised to see so few "To Jet" alum on tim hiiii.iiims i,cin.. i, r,, , 1 a 1 i K n themselves with the militant mil ,.j iiti lions rather tiian with the privileged ,ula dwellings. rew wno re continually adding to their w e are somewhat familiar with all I swollen fortunes through the favoritism the great cities in the country, and with of legislation and who are uslnr. this all of thr "good'" cities, an.f we verily I money exacted from the sweat nf th believe that we never saw a town where brow of American labor and from tho mere were as few places for rent us body of the child slave ot tne niinsau i In the capital of Illinois, the home of Abraham Lincoln, a mob went forth to wreak lawless vengeance on a lot of negroes because one of their number had committed a dastardly crime. lor lyncning ine eeiLaiuiy guilty person in hot blood one may find an excuse, but not for an at tack on innocent negroes indiscrim inateh. In such an act the race hatred crops out, and ou what basis of justice or logic should one race hate another? W MR. HAIiKI.M W AXD OREGON. wno Having participated In that elec tion, having voted bis sentiments and baring failed or succeeded In realiz ing his desires, will honestly and conscientiously pay that the verdic of election day shoi:hl be set aside- able array of facts and train of rea soning as this? "Humbug." "Buncombe." How familiar these -words have become to renders of the Portland organ of op position to everv movement, even' IS there really in the State one voter i ffnr, Irm(lc. and everv voice rniend In favor of reform, of bettor politics. I T IS masorifb!-.- surmised --though it cp- he rny a purmiso that the invi:-ui.on of M.r. Harrlman to the governor, Mr. O'Brien and Mr. S'aniei- Indicates an Intention V.I,. .. , ... 1..... 1- K..ll.Jt II I'll 1 1 I I'.lll Ml III' K III lllllllilll Ittll- j road t'no-.ich ci::tral Oregon -or at j least tiiat he has that project In j contemplation. j It is k'T",V ;'lflt 'r- f'arrlman tried tn serin e'Hrtain rights-of-way into ("rook county from the north 1 1 AT Mr. Clifford Pinrhot says of the president, may sometimes need scrutiny and dilution, for the head for ester Is .likely to be prejudiced in his chief's favor, but the following statement of Mr. Pinchot we be lieve to be correct; That the president had put into the minds of the American people three great ideas; F'irst, the square deal; second, conservation of re sources; and third, systematic im provement of farm life. True, the "square deal" idea is nothing new; it is only another ex pression for the old Jeffersonian doc trine of "equal rights and no spe cial favor;;"; but it had been com pletely trampled under official feet. The second idea resulted In the great, convention of governors last spring, and from this beginning great good will come. The third and newest of the pres ident's large suggestions is vastly important, if It can be reduced to a practical working basis. President Roosevelt has assuredly set In motion mlgh'y forces for the benefit of the American people and of humanity. In Illinois Adlai E. Stevenson, ex-vice-presideut ; in Ohio Judson Har mon, former cabinet member and eminent lawyer; and in Indiana Colo nel Marshall, a prominent and very eloquent man, are the Democratic candidates for governor. They are all wealthy, experienced, elderly men, and that they sought the nom inations would seem to indicate that they believe they have good chances of election. "Shall tiia peopMj rule?" inquires Mr Ilryan a doxen times In bis speech nf acceptance. Why, the fart is. nobody objects to It. They go into their booths te ns they Mnrn-xl plea.';p every tine-. a id seem to he enjoying ns manv lndl- v!ii".nl rights, privileges, cnucessions :ir:l stunts fl s they did d'lr ng Cleve land's administration." I" ndi-dori Tribune. The, Vale Oriano and the Eugene Register are worrying over the ques tion and the Register says people generallv are whether The Jour nal will support Bryan or Hlsgen. Whv don't the perturbed brethren easily find out by reading The Jour nal. It only needs the beginning of a lot of railroad building in Oregon to make 1908 the best year yet, in spite of decreased wheat crop, but every year will be better and bigger from this on. who so participated ami who is. in fact, a good all around American, who will advise such a course Hav ing had his fair showv-liefnro a frt- u ......r, nave neen making some non-par-1 pj res t uimiou aim i.- n-iuin. 1..1 '" I tisan efforts in these di rect ions, have j fc to l.e hoped that the great rail-iqtiare-deal voter to uphold and de- . (0(n ekin to claim and take a I road niacr.ato will not he able to lend th verdict arrived at. Most of prp(,tpr Itrt (n pMr affairs, and , BPf un all the routes from the north. 11, who but Senanr Fulton, who'.. flt themselves to do so. and to i he hs from the smith nd ii of greater liberty and power of the people. Out here In Oregon" the people that recion. nrobahlv. that he n. talk with Mr. Stanley. It This Is pert and plausible, but ina. iiao neon acquired n v otners. dnosn't bit tho i.nnt i I'p In Alaska an independent can di'lafe for delegate to congress has beaten both the Republican and DemocraMc candidates. Thia might be a good example to follow in many districts in the states. Republicans necoiiilnc Aary. Krora the flrlo News. The Oregon machine, backed by the national machine, will probably sie--e. ed in dethroning Mr t ake, or mal-e him but a figurehead chairman. Hut hew will such action affect the rnalor itv of the Republican party which for t.anmiinte ,.., noin nateri linl vuieil I I It, P. I 111 I ... M and came near succeed Ine: and it ,.. v. .... fake? The K.-pun iran party 01 t.r. is with reference to the situation in r share, nor anv chance nf Un,- ... f' b'itipg the candidates to be voted, for; they vote as not they, but the bosses and ringleader! who pell them out. "blame pleas1." And the Trlb- hlmlf was ope of the principals in the content, who journeyed nearly 7.000 mllf to limime a figure In content, who as nef npant i'f the highest oTflc within the gift of Ore gon people, hut who failed In th fheck and circumscribe the malign activities of unscrupulous machine politicians, but It is all "humbug", "htirfnuihe." All the "Roosevelt policies." which Mr. Rryan and Governor Chamber content, who more than he. b every )a)n an many Democrats as well as obligation ot good faith. eo,nit . and j Kepubllrans approve, are very fine kotwr. to tn inly bound to stand by i , i,r.n announced by the president. tht election made? HaTlng entered , but ag 1hc t,.gt COmes of Into b contest and arc-ptrl is r,r, .hm , t,m. mntt rinttine conditions and 1 terms, who mrP thn ; lntri ,,rBrtiee. or elwting men te nbonld hM by the fr -u! - f,,oring th.m. they re "humbug." "buncombe-." Into central Oregon, unless upon a positive certainty that he will Im mediately build a road, or roads though of course enough money will buy any such property or right. there are now in Portland This .state of affairs sh nw Severn 1 uoiigs in ine rirst place it is a sur- evidence that the city Is growing rapid ly, for there ar thousands of bujldings going up. in every ipiarter or tl town niiiicuires nre appearing as ir magic and they are in most cases occupied be fore the paint Is dry. In ihe second place it shows that business Is good, else there would be a lot of vacant stores. And It Is sure tlint v. uere there are so few places vacant the rents must tie good, and at the same time people would riot pay the big rents uiuess ine nusiness justified It; so busl ness Is surely good. Look at tho matter from any stand point and you must sec that Portland i very prosperous, remarkably prosperous or course the financial flurrv last fall hurt some; but it hurt Portland less than most any other city in the country anu ner recovery was quicker than In any or her sister cljles. And then look at her financial rer ord. 'Marx-Nous ' is the only word to express It. perfectly marvelous! Three name failures, and two of them most awful bad ones, and both with large liabilities, and yet not one single cent lost by the depositors! In lee. I the word "marvelous ' does nut half express the state of affairs. Kvery Oregoninn should be proud of Portland, and proud nf her growth. Hv tho united. Concerted efforts of all of us that city will before many years be the metropolis of the Pacific coast, 'that fact Is as sure as that the sun ."bines Her strategic position Is un assailable, und supremacy will one dav br- hers Just as sure, and because, water flows '.down hill' Much trade has been kept from her by shrewd compef-itors. much lias been diverted bv others, an a cident has much to do with keeping her back, like the discovery of gold In C..llfornia, which built up a gTeat cltv down tht re. But everything is now coming to the advantage of Portland anrl tho Port. land capitalists and business men are at last shrewd enough to take advant age of the situation, and consequently l ortlan l Is coming Into her own. And It means much to everv person In Oregon to have a big cltv In the state. It will help every fanner, every busi ness ma i. every town and everv city tn build up a great city on the Willamette and the stars have written that we are to have such a city, a cltv mistinpassed in the west-the mistress of the west and the Queen of the Pacific. mines to buy foreiKii titles and castles for their daughters and to bring dis grace upon, the land which they have plundered under the Raise of law. An Optimist. I haven't any use at nil for follcs who start complalnln' When dirk clouds cover skies o' blue an' it begins a-rainin'; I like to see the drops come down In blessed, welcome showers. An' soak the earth so parched au' tirown' an' kiss the grass an' flowers. I don't believe we ought to kick becauso the grav skies lower. An' let the twtnklirt' raindrops glint on bud an' branch nul flower. It sort o' seems to me we 'ought to tune our hearts In prnlses. An' Join in with tlu .lov-songa of tliei lilies an' the daisies. There ln't any question that the blos soms an' the grasses W1H cheer ecch di.imon l-jewe!cd drop of welcome rain that passes. I kind o' sort o" know the birds will all commence a-slnglu' An' split their very throats with Joy w here r ll:ey go a-wiugiti . go never mini the murkv skies th rields are all rejoicin . WJth every bird an' bud an tree their irlsd notes thev are voi'cln'. Then let us he as thankful as the frail est of the posies. An' welcome every twinklln drop that gleams among the rosles. E. A. Biinlnstool, in I.os Angeles Times. ! iren has rejected the machine crowd the Fulton wing- and voted Ihe party organllHtlon and management out of the aforesaid machine tjam'.s Now National Chairman Hitchcock is en deavoring to reinstate the machine o; Kultnn crowd In power again, who will je every means possible, fair and un- .,na la Ir.lro I , , w JX'r I" "'I'-" en-vl.l.n "I . .i.o.-i- ..... ... ......... ... i,,.. ore-. ln Rd ,,.,,, Kulton winter gon voters ark to that condition. ' A the News vinrih matter, no ! better procedure Is poeslble to place Oregon in the Rryan roltimn than that An open Columbia river from Its i curse the Fulton peord". twrked by ripper waters to the sea is Portland's I """msl nrgan'iatir.n ts now rursu . , 1 'eg There are thousand of Republl- l,re. The people of Portland mnl i n,r;. who are gr-atly dlsples.d with understand this fprt in all its mo- ' tiirao platform and th Chicago That Mr. O'Brien fhould be sent I nicntous import. It i. the open so- 1 . , "JuX. for Is not significant, for Mr. O'Brien frame to Portland s future nrestire t They n.iht not hm'f be-n persuaded to it v Uninr , . u i . . ., ' iii' for Mr Prvan, but to be run over ' an , rough-ehod In the or her permanency Is Harriman's executive arm In Ore gon, and would ned to be seen In Ml! a kolda Ita mate fiction on' Peptcmbr 14. and Mr. Hitchcock It frolaf to end nets prominent cansr!cner down thr to trr to kelp roll op rry Ur RePob)lra iJorliy b encouragement, to tot No humbug or ' uncomhe, though, men and brethren, aliout Aldrich and Rockefeller. ad the trnt and mo norxv'l'e. and purrhane of eeata In tb senate, and official treachery to the pc-opla. O no; tbeee arc tbe any event; but that the governor with his well-known views, should be Invited, may. as conjectured, be which ts now 1s the key to bfing attempted win make them anry her ultimate dominion as the lead- ! " Tt :ne maritime city of the roast Th Democrats Hopeful. . Successful Dry Farming. From the I.nkevlew Kxamlner. One of the successful "drv farmers" of thin section, Joe Ambrose, lives about 11 miles west of l,akevlew. out on the desert. He has .120 acres of land. nnn. of which is Irrigated, but all of It can be. If so desired. On this land thia vear. wihich sldered a most reniarkablv drv one hv the old settlers and he Is one nf tho old-timers, having resided here for 21 jrars i;o nns tine crops growing r.bich show for themselves as to th fortuity of the soil and Its exemntlon from drouth. Among them are wheat barley, rye. alfalfa, field neas or- hum. coin, Russian millet, stock and sugar beets. rape. carrots potatoes. rutabagas- last year the latter welifho.i as high aa 14 pounds apiece and all kinds of garden vegetables all grown without a bit of irrigation. In addition to the above crops he has n lot of fruit trees that are thrlfri ar.d doing well, besides small fruits. Air. a morose says tie is nerfertlv con- terited. tlist he alwnva liked the ennntrv Hnd that he came here 21 vears ago pre pared tn stav. not too well-fixed as to the world's goods nn:l he has no notion t cnHnging ins i-itt"n. He drives Bond rig and has the air of a prosperous man. The Examiner elves this Mnerli.!, of Mr Vmh'-ose In support of the theory v...... , oiMu uas none here others an do If thev will come and lo cate ant st.k to It till success and ! ot-rvcrity, sure to enme, is their re-wtrd. "Turn the Rascals Out." From the Seattle Times. Kverv abuse from which the people of this country suffer every criminal trnot that feeds uoon the necessities of the people everv high tariff-fed corpo rationthe defective currency system the dominance of the predatory rich In government affairs, due to frying the fat from the manufacturers the short age of more than $160,000,000 In th national treasury, and growing at the rate of about $28,000,000 a month the riotous extravagance in the appropria tion of a thousand millions of honest earnings of taxpayers by th last con gress, and the results flowing from these evils and culminating In the "Koosevelt panic" anil the hard times that have thrown thousands of men out of employment all owe their existence to the Republican party which has been in absolute control for 12 years. In any yea,r of the 12 it has been within the power of the Republican party to have put the criminal trus's out "of business, to have revised the robber tariff, to have perfected our cur rency system, to have curbed the greed of the predatory rich, to have reduced expenditures to the basis of economy, to have minimized. If not prevented, the corruption and extravagance that now afflict the country. But the Republi can nnrtv has done nothing. President Roosevelt trlel to do something, hut the Republican party wouldn't let him. What can William Howard Taft do? Nothing. The lime has come for a change. "Turn the rascals out. This Date In History. I"34 Father Aulneau. the first mis slonarv and martyr of the northwest, ar rived 1n Quebec from France 17., ihe battle of Bennington fousht l.SS The Russian defeated tbe French with great loss at Novl. north ern Italr- 1 li Ietroit surrendered to the Brit ish is:.1 The northern sea vna discor ered by t'nptaln Franklin. l.'S--Th strte of Ixdaware abolished iiw iriMim sj-siem profpect r,f it in thP fret of the quite signilirani. v e may tage i; . advent of the North Bank mad. It as at leaat a hopeful sign. the agency to be relied on for the If Mr. Harrlman HI "turn ooe" romicg of other transcontinental svs- and build needed roads within "his territory" In Oregon, people will for get and forgive the past. They will not complain about rather high rate, high enougQ to yield good torn it !a to he the agency for de liverance to the open aea and the world's customers of tbe products of a roromerrlal kingdom that In area U undupHtated and onap- I F-nm the Atlanta Jmirpal It Is ni almoet undisputed f ct tiat tbrcugheut the countrr there Is ji fnn stsntlv growing rorfldene In the vie. tnrv of the lmv-ratlr prty this year. M'n who In previous vr-w r have bti lukewarm tmvd Mr. Bryan are coming fcr-r In his support, not fTt nn-tor-Itr and falnt-hnd!r. hut with a wboie and an frnet, honet por pw It l In the ery atr that he will trake better ruce than he ha rrr mAm hefoTT. M the bwnTsnrr of tbe Iniocrai la rising accordingly. V - lse Ifayette was created marshal 14 (Vngress penred a hill for the exclusion and deportation of anarchists Its John Young Brown waa nomi nated for governor of Kentucky. Wasted Opportunities. "t"w dlil Tmi like my talk lot night T aaked the beginner In tbe lec ture flel 1. "Well." replied the candid cr1." "von didn't take advantage of rour many oppnrtanltte. I dldn tT" "No. yos hsij a mimW of epportnnl tlesi to ' rrutt be for rou did. Phila delphia Frtsa. Charles S. Mellen's I!irthdny. Charles Sanger Mellcn. president of the New York, New Haven HirtTnrd railroad, nid considered one of the ablest railroad officials of the rouiitry. in. born In Lowell, Mass., on August lfi. ISM. He received a fair education In' the locsl schools of Powell and Cnn r..i v 11 ami l.cEain his railroad ca- I reer at the age of 1 ' year s, when. In i rut;, i,e ontered as a clerk the office or I the csshler nf the New York. New I Haven Hartford railroad H" was I nflrrmril Sucre ssl Vcl V clerk to the chief engineer of the Centrnl et-mont railroad and clerk In the treasurers de portment of the Northern New Hamp shire railroad In 173 Mr Mll"n en tered the service of tn Boston. l;or-H A Concord railroad and became, suc cessively, assistant to the manager, auditor 'superintendent and eeneral su perintendent Tn lf h became gen eral purchasing agent of the t nlon Pa cific railroad and soon was promoted to was he positions of assistant general ruan i ager and jeneral traffic manager n nt rod In 1905 he returned to ine. eaji , and b-me the general manager of the New York A New Fngland railroad In the same rear he was made se-ond vice rreidcnt of the New York. New Haven Hartford railroad, from which po' tlon he changed to tha of president of the Northern' Pactflc railroad. H made president of the ew inn .-rw Haven Hartford railroad In l?n3. Some Question. From the Burns News iRp By what authority do the Oreronlan presume to read men out of the Repnh llcan partv and assume a dictatorship at this trme? Pld It not renounce thsj Republican partv Isst spring? Has It not oppoeed eome of the most cherished fundamental principles of the partv for ? rears' Has tt not aown the seed' of disaffection and discord tn trfs ranks mnt assiduously? Is this latest a proposition oa Ita part t eome bark Intel the eonnclla with the proviso that It 1 T1 L. . . hI snitA IV.A mm- Bi . the rrtnew Kald all ta one 7 . .
