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THE JOURNAL AX INDEPENDENT KBWSPAPEB. Ok 8. JACK SON ...'...... t..PotUatit' Fsktlibrd mwf eterlnf emtt Sunday) ! Mrr RujmIiv ouimlnf t Th JoBXDal Bolld- he, Ftftli aud YsmhiU elreeU. Portland, Or. Entered t rha poatoffoe at PortUnd, Or., tor transmlialoB ttutwfa tbe Dalit M seooad-claas natter. JTI.BPH1NE8 XAIN 71TS. HOME, A-eOSl Ail departmente reached by tneae anmbers. TU tb operator tba department yoa n Bait rid office. B S444; Kaat 880. POEBION ADVEBT18INOREPBESKNTATIVB Vreeland-nenlamtn ".oerlal Admtlalnr Asency, Bniaairlrk Bnlldln. 25 Fifth arenne. New lor) 1U07-08 Boyce Banding, laieaga. Suheert prion Terme br mall or to anj addreaa DA TLX. Om year.... Vi.OO I one month 1.80 BUN DAT. Oat rear..... .... (3.80 One monta. ...... t .X3 DAILY AND SUNDAY. On rear. f 7.50 One month I .S . -Thit Ctrti6t& that tbe circulation W"rAe i OMSOOV JCTTBHAX lil Jets aaditrd ooa raarantomftr ttv 1 Kivtnitt't Certidtd Cimtatioa Blot Bock TO Paper hat prorctf Ay rewrwaia tAaf tht timlatioa records art kept with t rare am war ctrrumuow scares, wtia moca meearacr that adrtrtitrt mar nhr oa an aiaarnaniu or aannr wa or car paontnert antler u mjfmtnoif aoa maMgtmtnt m atai I "it Ueamuet September 1908. Speak little and well, if you wish to be considered aa possessing -merit- From the French. : - ' TSSXOKO THE CASCADES ACTIVITY CONTINUES la be half of a System of experiment stations In eastern Oregon. President Kerr of the state col lege of agriculture Is to leave for Washington this week In , an effort to farther enlist the departments In the plan. Considerable concessions In the line of national aid have al ready been secured and. by personal representations at the departments President Kerr hopes to extend the scope of the government's activity. The bureau of reclamation, the bu reau of plant Industry, the bureau of dry farming and other of the ex pert establishments at the national capital with as much material means as can be made available are de- DAKOTA DECISION INAPPLICABLE IN OREGON T HE Dakota law undertook to compel legislative candidates to take a pledge to support the party choice for senator. It al lowed them no alternative but to take the plcdfre. It did not, as in Oregon, leave them free to take a pledge or not take it, as they should elect; It was fundamentally wrong, in that it made me laKing 01 trie pledge one ot the qualihcations tor election, lnis iiuamicdiiun inc law naa no ngnt to nx. ijuaimcauons are nxea by the constitution of Dakota, and that is why the law was declared unconstitutional. The Oregon plan does not have this defect. Here the law does not require the candidate to take a pledge. He is left free by the law to take a pledge or not to take it. Here the pledge is not made a qualiiication for election. Here many candidates were elected who did not take a pladge. Here candidates were elected who took a modified pledge. Thev could do neither of these thincrs under uie Dakota law, and that was wherein the Dakota law was de fective. The two statutes are as widely different as are dav and nieht They scarcely resemble each other. "By law, one "required," as the tourt says, the candidate to take the pledge. The other "re quired nothing. It left the candidate free. That freedom to take the pfedge or not take it removes Jiim entirely from any effect of tne Dakota decision. The contention that a voluntary pledge by a candidate is in contravention of constitutional rights is absurd on its face. Every candidate ever elected to any office has taken voluntary pledges. Sheriffs pledce themselves to enforce laws or not enforce them. and make that pledge an asset for election. Legislative candidates vi j it. i i r , . . . . tcugc- uiemscives Deiorenana to support certain measures and plead that pledge in getting votes. Legislative candidates always nave and always will secretly pledge themselves before hand to support a certain man for senator, and by that pledgee are elected or defeated. In caucus legislators nledce themeslvM rr each other to support a certain senator. Candidates for congress pledge themselves to their constituents to triven legislation, and fiv.aU wai pcugc iur ineir election, r arues in tneir piattorms make pledges and urge those oledces as a reason whv thrir ran. didates should be supported. Taft made nledcea on thp stiimn and so did Bryan. So has every candidate for president since, the nation was founded. So will every president, so will every troy- uuu,i ou win every legislator, ana so win every constable make anie-eiecuon pledges until the heavens fall or self-government per ishes from the earth. A pledge, and just such a pledge as the Statement No. 1 Wis. attve candidates took, is a fundamental factor in a self-e-overninF ajrotciw. ii i a precious neruage oi tne people, it is their strong est means and almost their onlv means of mntrn!l5n(r triir mki servants. It is their sole and onlv test in th uiiviiis. iKjway me ante-eiection pledge ot candidates and self-government must fail wretchedly miserably fail. It is a lunar m me pian, a stone in tne toundation. It is a fundamental in tne system, lo contend that any such oledee. voluntarily taWn ia uiivunHuuuonai is aosuraity a tnousana times absurd. purely between himself ana hl maker. It It U proper or legitimate to oppose man for belnr a Unitarian, as was Johll OlllflRV illAml. fnr Initani o la sired to cooperate -with the state and I the Rev. Edward Everett Hale, at the me college. - I present moment chaplain of the senate For the present the plan is mere-1 then It would be equally proper to ly in the incubating stage. It is be ing worked out by President-Kerr for a report that will be made to the college regents early in Decern- , ber. Extended correspondence with various communities in eastern Ore gon, with the departments at Wash lngton and with other factors in the plan is la constant progress. The plan contemplates a system of sub-stations so distributed as to be helpful to all the various areas of the inland empire. As is known, the agricultural features of eastern Ore gon present widely different charac terlstics. within comparatively short , distances there are Irrlttable semi-arid and arid lands. In ' all there has been as yet comparatively little Investigation. It ' Is believed by President Kerr that an enormous ly increased output of products can be secured within a few years by the application of the best method's in the various districts, and that the , region can be made an immense fac tor in contributing to the material . enlargement of Oregon, in the mat ter of the best suited cereal varieties for .the different sections alone there Is opportunity for an immense bene- scientific experiment and investlga tlon. In this line a considerable stock of valuable knowledge has al ready been accumulated at Wash ington and in the agricultural col leges, and the application of this knowledge to the districts of the In land empire would return rich re . wards. NO BEIJGION IS POLITICS ,-JHE PRESIDENT'S letter an Iswering a man who opposed . Taft on account of his religious that should receive the approval of all true and liberal minded Amerl cans. True, there was no occasion for. the president to say that this . man, in expressing his opinion, "foully slandered his fellow country men ' l such - an . expression shows Strong symptoms of the very intol erance which the president de- rmt n w AV 1 : UUUUtCI. ; VUVJ Uia CAJI ODB IUB UlflQ' Ion that a man is rather- narrow minded who thinks no one fit for president who differs with him re- . KgJously; but there is no reason why such an expression of honest opin ion , should be characterized as a "foul slander." - However, the president in the main is right, and his letter on this subjort is one of the best things he has written. , He correctly sammar-. lies the se as followsf ; ' v To discriminate ag-alnst a thoroughly uprlht cltlsen because he belongs to Rome particular church or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his anctianer'W any: church,' 1 in outrase rRlmt the liberty of copscfeac, which t one of the foundations of American liberty, toa ar tlUe to , know wnnner a man ekln(r your uffrane Is a man of clean an Might llfe Jion erahle In all bis deeiiniti with hla fel lows anJ fit by ounltflrition and pr Ie 1o ef wU .o u.e sreut of ftca -for -Mch 1 - u enfli,late; but you are tct tnutU'd to know matters vMoU'lie support or oppose a man because of views on Justification by faith, or the method of administering the sacrament, or the g-ospel of salvation by works. If you once enter on such a career there is absolutely no limit at which you can legitimately stop. - The opposition to Mr. Taft because he is a Unitarian was negligible, in appreciable, which is proof of the liberality and resonableness of the millions of members of evangelical churches in the United States. They know that Mr. Taft can be Just as good a president as if he agreed with them in the basic tenets of orthodox Christianity. The Ameri can people have evidently pretty well learned not to run their re ligion Into politics. PROBABLY NO TARIFF REVISION N" OW IT is reported that the plan of the Republican leaders Is not really to revise the tariff at all at the special session of congress to be held next spring, out only to make some verbal changes and some corrections In the language of the law, leaving the schedules to stand substantially as they are un til some more convenient season. And this, It will be claimed, will be a redemption of the party's platform pledge to revise the tariff Imme diately after the Inauguration of the next Republican president. This report may be erroneous, or it may be based only on the opinion of some of the leaders who will hot be able to carry out their program; but it should surprise no one if the report correctly forecasts the event. Mr. Taft is no doubt in favor of some mild revision, but is not likely to be at all aggressive In the matter, for he was careful all through the campaign not to advocate any spe cific revision. A few of the old standpatters have fallen by the way side, but most of them will be in the next congress, and they will not revise the tariff except so as to suit the protected Interests. They will point to the results of the election as their ample warrant for continu ing the present tariff in force, as well as their complete Justification for maintaining It thus far. THE PRICE OF EFFICIENCY 0 ENDEAVOR is more worthy of its hire than teaching in the public schools. A committee of . the Portland school board favors recommending to the taxpay ers a 20 per cent increase In the sal aries of Portland teachers. The in crease will cost 1100,000, but it is only, an atom In contrast with the millions worth of taxable property In the district. It is a small consideration- for- the cltixen-t Infinite to the teacher. Adequate compensation Is a first factor In securing efficient service. Poorly paid teachers lack enthusi asm, and. lack jif enthusiasm has for its consequence a poorly instructed pupil. A-poorly paid teacher lacks permanency and lack of permanency is demoralizing tp every calling. There can be nox perfect organization in the schools without both enthusi asm and -permanency, and without organization Instruction is effectless and expenditures wasted. In the last analysis the reward is almost certain to be the measure of achievement in any calling, but1 in none with such accentuated fruitage as m educational work. Their en deavor is of character in which the devotion or lack of devotion of the servitor counts for much or counts for little. If teachers must scrimp as some or them have to scrimp in -oriiana to meet the demands of life, they are without that thank fulness that Is the fundamental in spiration for devotion to their work. Enthusiasm is not born of poverty, nor is auty stimulated by indigence. Reduced to its ultimate, If the com pensation be Impossible the results will be impossible. If the compen sation is adequate, the service will bo adequate. The service must be adequate, for with the proper com pensation the talent will be attracted and a standard be established that must be met by elimination of the Inefficient. Survival of the fittest should be applied in the school room, for it is in the common schools that 90 per cent receive their all In prep aration for the exigencies of human life. The action of the , committee of the school board is timely and if presented to them should have un limited weight with the taxpayers. Because over 9,000 Oregon voters registered as Republicans and did not vote for Taft, and over 10,000 more men voted for Bryan than reg istered as Democrats, it Is assumed and asserted that these 10,000 vot ers or more registered falsely and committed perjury. This does not follow at all. Party chains are not po tightly binding as they used to be, and a man may now be con scientiously a Republican and vote for Bryan. That is, he may be a Roosevelt rather than an Aldrich Republican, and may also depend upon his Judgment rather than Roosevelt's opinion or dictation as to which candidate would better carry out the Roosevelt policies. A man may register as a Republican and vote for an occasional Demo crat, even up to president, if he chooses, and he is not therefore nec essarily a perjurer-'or other sort of criminal either. now. Democratic senators get quite as much for their states as RepuD lican senators. It must be so, un der 'anything like a "square deal The mere politics of Oregon's next senator will cut no figure with re gard to his services to the state. It Is a high duty of the two rep resentatives in congress from Oregon to vote against Joseph Q. Cannon for speaker. To mention nothing else, he is obstinately and perverse ly opposed to all Internal Improve ments of rivers and watprways and against everything else Imaginable that Is good for the people. Our representatives should aid others to get rid of this "Old Man of the Sea." It has taken 10 weeks, durlne which time 1,400 talesmen have been examined, to secure a Jury in the Ruef bribery case in San Francisco, Can anybody pretend that this method of starting or proceeding ,in criminal case is anything else than a farce and an outrage upon helpless taxpayers? How long will people endure such performances in the name of Justice? It is pretty easy to guess what and who are some of the "large In terests" that demand the retention of Mr. Cortelyou as secretary of the treasury. Mr. Rockefeller, for in stance, did not cast that vote for nothing, and Mr. Morgan' stands ready to relieve the country in any financial stress. Mr. Watson of Indiana Is another surprised statesman. He gave up his seat in congress, where he was one of the stalwart standpatters, to run for governor of Indiana, but failed to get votes enough, and so Is at present out In the cold. But President Taft, if not 'President Roosevelt, will no doubt do some thing nice tor him. " With the Columbia and Willam ette rivers opened, and a lot of new railroads built, during the next four years, Oregon can grin gleefully even while bearing the burdens imposed by the trusts.' ; Letters From tlac People I 'tttem to Tba Journal honld be written oa one Hide ot the paper only, and aboald be o fompaoied by tb namo and addraaa of the writer. Tba name will not n used tf the writer a ska tbt It be withheld. The JdarnaJ la not to be understood aa tadoralna the tlewa or (tatenenta of oorreapondenta. Letter abould te mane aa Drier aa poaaitile. Tnoee woo wiid their lettera returned when sot Uaed aboald In. close poetafe. CorresDondents are notified that letters aeedlng 800 words In length may. at the alt eration of tbe editor, be eat down to tbat limit. BRIEF COMMENT AND NEWS SMALL CHANGE Takes Exception to Journal's State ments. Pendleton, Or., Nov. . To the Editor of The Journal I desire to take ex caption to your editorial on "Social' ism" In last Sunday's Issue. I believe it to be grossly unjust and unfair its treatmenc of facts. Also In regard to the principles of Socialism, it la to say the least, misleading. First aa to the perversion of facts, will say that the vote for Debs haii not decreased from nis vote or iU4 On the contrary, there has been a gain of about 60 per cent In 1904 his vote was 409,000,- this year It will in all probability be,'-600.000. In 1904 the dues paying members of the Socialist party numbered 20,000, in August of this year they numbered 48,000. In ,1904 the Democrats who could not swallow tha Parker pill voted- for Debs, simply as a protest and not because they had anything In common with his party. This year every Socialist ballot fairly represents a Straight-from-the-shoulder, lass-conscious, revolutionary vote. One of the most, encouraging things to the Socialist is that the decrease In our vote tn the large Industrial centers has been more than offset by tbe Increase In the rural communities. Heretofore the farmer has not taken kindly to So clallsm. The country over he ia now rallying to our ause, and especially is this so In tha solid' south. It ap pears from a studyv of the vote that an entering wedge has been, pried into the stronghold -of Democracy, that in ue time will render it In twain.. Can the Democratic party get any consola tion from this year's voteT None whatever. Is there any consolation or hope In the Parker vote for you? Not bit. Can you point out a single man In the Democratlo party who would make a stronger race .than the Com moner? I believe ot., Why not turn His friends say . the chances are 7 to 10 that AbruizNwill wed Miss Elklns. With the known genius of Pa Elklns for business it is prob able that the three missing chances are in his hands. It may not only mean that if the wedding goes, the bride must be admitted to full com munion at tbe Italian court, but that Pa Elklns himself is to bloom out in the . cocked hat -and knee breeches of royalty. It Is sometimes urged that a Dem ocratic senator in a Republican sen ate would be devoid of influence for his state. This pretense has often been refuted not by theoretical as sertions butj-by record, facts. Qne of these Is the .history of the record of the late Senators Dolph and Mitchell in the senate when congress and Jthe administration were Democratic. So, then to a young party with new blood In Us veins? Study; its program and principles. It Is International in its scope and can boast that It la the larg est political , party In the woMd. If Is the jbnly pariy lh America that has a definite program In opposition to the Republican party, the party of the large corporate Interests. Second, as tp the political and eco nomio 'principles. You state that . "So cialism involves the elimination of self ishness from the human organism." On the contrary Socialism recognizes In the Innate selfishness of humanity the chief factor in progress and civilisation. It always has been so. It will probably always be so. The material point is this that the producers of the world have always been too generous with the wealth they produced. They have buiid ed palaces for their masters, and they have been content to live, in hovels. They have made it possible , for the wives of our plutocrats to give Expen sive dinners to pet poodle dogs, the while 15,000 children of their own class went hungry to school in Chicago alone. They are now awakening to the truth or the axiom, "Charity begins at home' and by the time the supreme court deals a death blow to Oregon's initiative and referendum law, and tha O. O.-IJ fails to send George Chamberlain to the sen. ate, the people Will flock into the So cialist party for the battle of 1912, which will b between the. Republican party and the Socialist party. " The Democratlo party fe dead.. It .died and was burled beneath a sea of ballots on November t, 1908.;, It did inot have eve a 60 per ent iflncrease. . Verily, Mr. Edl Vr7 people Who live itf lasa houses should ot throw atonwii Very respect fully, v. " CLYDE E. FINCL Isn't the high school business being overaoner . e Tom Watson, like Bryan, carried his uwu precinct. a All the parties but one. If not dead. uaau-ueaa. I ii vetoes are valuable, tha mayor vmium ma sauary. Persistence) la & "jr uvcraone. NOW amnio attenHnn h, V vtv.n t ,1 A.' fi - " iuo twuioau games. 'NOW Oraernn In Mtahln. rtn.lv i,v i ",i . . -"-' Certain "lam inttf -. telyou retained. . Naturally. Of entire a hn. m v. .. -.va wtv uu anyway. ... .v- , e -. Onlv tha Boat nf living ivfw irvu oeing prosperous. a a Now is tha time xvuoo jt-esuvai next June. a . Soma R'eDubllcana am X,tanlnil t maka Oregon go Demooratlo next time. Tha turkeya will also be very pros perous, for the next two or three weeks. fiut soma man ----- -llliua, mm BHAIUU about the full growler as tha full din ner pall. Western Oraemn la tha rin..f ! th untry yet we Import butter and cream. a It can't be that that ffannhiiit.. Kn. SutLhMben Postponed to await tha coming of prosperity. Mr. Cowherd nt Mi. and ia put of a political job. But he" may not hava to herd cows. a The loss from nuhlln if men who fell by the wayslda on No vember S is the country's gain" John Tt. dmirtrloaa aimnn... .V.-1 .X. . Taft majority in New York was due tt his timely remark In Taft's favor. i The "labor vefa" aaoma . v. thlnar like what tha 1Fnvlli1ima th.n.it oi a woman, a doc and a walnut tr. e Ohio tnla-ht eleet flon.tn.law worth to the senate. Then It would be represented in that body by Dick and Nick. e A Georgia magistrate ha obliged to pulk But It uuraocracio donkey. m "The dav nt th hnmni. .i i. !"?" announces an eastern Dublieatian. Hut the nrettv trlrl la not llk.lv tn worry much oVer this. NOW it will rta artnt,. In Ka .u.,t 11. that if a man doesn't like the tone of ?n .e! tr,,al ,ak?,ut h,m. ho or son la justified in killing the editor. ' e It seems thatwhen Emperor William does too much foolish talking for pub lication, he realize it In time to keep it out of print, which is more than can be said of some American statesmen. President James of the Illinois state university has notified the students that anyone found guilty of hazing will be expelled. This is a good precedent for other college presidents to follow, and stick to. OREGOJT SIDELIGHTS. A Wheeler county man sold two last spring colts ana one yearling -colt lot uu. , a ' a . Bandon adopted a charter and be came a city by the light vote of 105 a a ''.'.''.!. Umatilla county's nubile school 11 brarles have been increased by 1,500 new dooks. ' r'"".": 15 Tie BXALM FEMININE, 5 -w. . . . Pensioning Mothers. OMETHINO that la of Interest in tne matter of motherhood and tha protection of childhood la a little Item In the Dallv ronui an Trad reports whioh ) tvn : unaer in new scale it weeklv mv. menta tn vMawm .. The increased valuation of Wallowa . v" county for 1908 over 1907 Is practically .lB. wt wueenaiand naa ar- a round million dollars, being 17,217,000, ranged a new scale which allows to a as against 15,242.000 laat year. mother having on. child nnnrt.nt i ...... .. . on ' 11.22; for two children tl lft An Ainie aoar. aava ina enrvama itei t . . . , publican, has captured and killed 120 , uj r nrM cnndren. 7 cents each; coons, two bears, three coyotes, a nura-l0' four-children 91 cents each and for w..0.. IOe a"0 dob ana no use cats r cnuaron a maximum without number, l?r . The state has found It wiser a i., Ion mother and allow her to Lakevlew cltliens are alive to tha 2? .t0. h?' children than to force her mportance of the good roads move- and " Vhii,,r" mem ana especially me piano lor con-1 nr , ,.. Vi.i. ..." " " ""iiouwu necting that city with fclamath Falla frn? ZrlihlJ uPPPrt upon tha sUte Dy a rngnway or the best kino. . I it tl anfni-7a evv' :V ' A Umatilla countman says that hJehi.i3 can name men who have taken money (state, and although JV .f. i".y iu iiio auiouai ji uver eo,vvv,vvv, mucu in tnat county, and invested it else " " I iiioui aesiraoie aid to a e r..k. a I denantlanta , A few veara aero a man boutrht a I 40-aora piece of land near Waldport I For a woman who may ba anavcallant He afterwards sold enouah timber to mother of thraa r,T. Ac'liS?! pay for the entire 40 acres. Ha is now may be witling to work for thani aarlv selling acre lots at the rate of 1100 and late and deny heraelf all but the blr' each. est necessities of life, may be an al- r - n a r tn 8ti u"le5" tlLCtr in the world of wage produce any better grade of copper ore, ful wife to a man of small means: capal and its gold bearing rocks are not ble of obliterating herself for hi arnVvi beaten In every mining district, says the and yet since self-abneeVation hai Gold Beach Cflobe. The sandstone of eommarSiai v.i,,rri.iDiLgV?n.il'f J1.0 finest quality. . . to the progress of the commercial lifi .- - t or tha state. Some celerv broueht to the Echo I Ona thin. nw .t.. : v. Rearister offloi was SS inches hlKh and of AZIZ.''., very tender. There are fortunes' to be this rul?ng Tl the Australian itkte la made in celery farms in this country bold enough to reconfse that hv dnln and manv nlacea on tha meadows are thi. -n. "iIL K-.r?'? bY ' ..Plany adapted to this money making uy "0, son."and da'uggteT. "h uiddl more of value to the state than if aha accumulated a competence at lnduatrv indoned her family, men and women of the right now much a donkey could be laarallv decided ally the not That many of the country people are and abandoned her family, becoming Interested In good roads is jt u men and women rviuBiu irom ina ici inai many ui i sort Of brinefnar-un that (hi districts are now voting a '-special" tax h,,i.,, "r,.:H5 f?" P"r on thempelves for the benefit of the shaTloVv ls ou ' thVuJhtkiyt?9Zl;.2Z roads in their own districts, says the 0W-iS S?,"!1 ? u Kuaena Resrlater I u r. IX., f 'lr u mm community -ugene, register. that to think Of it la worth navina- for n - .. i- .... 1 1 shock to our nervous svstam. tied dTaU-icta than thev ever have been f,OWvmu.c.n 1ettr ott wou!' the coun l1?! vict : ih v" a,Iteer try. if many women who are now our nervous system. considerable loss is reported by the kindf V.ii various -farmers, and certainly some- Ki-0' -."S"?-.1''. .t . thing will have to be done. Between ""f-wnue inlr cnu- wolvea and varmints. sheeD. goats and 215" I V th? '. "treeta, wer taken deer are being slaughtered to apro- J iri.fili.1 1?"!""11?, ana f?"?- aigious extenu C'reek has . 150 goats. One man on Cedar SEiiS" i" i'11." meir Creek has lost over 100 out of a band o( .;l"Lwi within the - ' 1 . " wvmi ytt s ui .utoir 1, 1 III 4 when they are not In anKr.nl tar. Aatn Butte Falls correepondenee of Med- rL " " .2r"fw?.tl? aPou tbr home under ford Mail: As an evidence of what . "it "i ' LJtl.hi .w homesteaders have done who settled b kif. 5 ",c,,vai1 f th5? m,sht and opened up this section, we point ? ",m ?L Probation officer am- with prldrto fhe many residences Taunt , la'ts at th homes in Butte Falls, to the erection of a fine c.rtin iKIr!. ? "Ut2 Jd t0 sfchool, to the establishment of a beau- n,7n,m5.ltUe"irnd, b,y. tiful townsite, to the installation of a SSP .i'it0 ? ? t9J lab2.r- fine mill plant, besides our stores and fi1!3,,1"! J?wIi,i? fJ?ort J1, tondh general inieresls ofoutsiders In Butte V. 'An'fhK hljfcr mSm ,h'J Falls. k I - Tbl would maka tha a e . t i mginanpf a lam- .. .-t-i uy a DrODer ouranlt tar m wnmen Ba pllshed during the year now drawing to .2rr. . Siih1 rank" Sh a close in tS matter of road Improve- Wo?r? i.n LSd S?f 1 wpur,u.,.to or ments and within another yea excellent nrn who mu,t be UP- public highways will have Been com- vrng. pleted and rocked to the Nehalem val- T . . . . . fey. to Elk creek and probably to the i2tc: mo?.5'ou think of it, the Tillamook county line, says the Astoria f.",1" 2ppf" ha alvantage of pen - Budget Clatsop Is making aa rapid f '"'", w.omn who hf turned her eneralea to a wnman'e nat,.i that of belnar wlfa end mntv mnA the district Is an extremely difficult one XiJi'V0"0 no ault of her own progress In this line aa ia any county In tne state. notw!insianaing"ine Tact tnat to build roads in. FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE 'Abraham Lincoln" By EmiL'o Caatelar The Puritans are the patriarchs of lib erty; they opened a new world on earth; they opened a new path for the human consoience; they created a new society. Yet, when England tried to subdue them and they conquered, the republic tri umphed and slavery remained. Wash ington could only emancipate his slaves. Franklin said that the Virginians could not invoke the name of God, retaining slavery. Jay said that all tha prayers America sent up to heaven for the pres ervation of liberty while slavery con tinued were mere blasphemies. Mason mourned over the payment his descend ants must maka for this great crime of their fathers. Jefferson traced the line where the black wave of slavery should be stayed. Nevertheless, slavery In creased continually. I beg that you will pause a moment to consider the man who cleansed this terrible stain which obscured the stars of the Amer ican banner. I beg that you will pause a moment, for his immortal name has been Invoked for the perpetuation of slavery, Ah! the past century has not, the century to come will not have, a figure so grand, because as evil disap pears so disappears heroism also. I have often contemplated and de scribed his life. Born in a cabin of Kentucky, of parenta who could hardly read; born a new Moses in the solitude of tha desert, where are forged all great and obstinate thoughts, monoton ous like the desert, and, like the desert sublime; growing up among those pri meval forests, which, with their fra grance, send a cloud of incense, and. with their murmurs, a cloud of prayers to heaven; a boatman at eight years in the Impetuous current of the Ohio, and at 17 in the vast and tranquil waters of the Mississippi; later, a woodman. suddenly deprived of her protector and wage earner. Somethlna- nf a atmiiar nature might well be considered in re gard to women and children deprived of the huaband and father through his own act, as In the case of this man David Wisner In Malheur county, who sia uvea nuniencea in uta. ltnnr tun. meat for kllllnr his nartner aftnr mnm dispute over the possession of farm lm- jiiemenia. ACCOrdlne- tn tba ntnntni, nnnrti - . . . - . - I Trr i " ". ."-".-"' ircoa 10 open a way to unexplored re- l " wr mira a win ana aaugnter witn- gions for his tribe with ax and arm felling the immemorial era; reading no other Bible, the book of great sorrows Of wanderlna: work- ut. mean? of support, yet our prison oi wanaering woric- sytem gives him no opportunity of her book than the earning their support during the Ion years that he must spend as a prison- great hopes, dictated often by prophets uste not 'SyTe'nfa who", to the sound of fetters they dragged brought disgrace and sorrow uoon them through Nineveh and Babylon; a child 5" w,v 08 leaving them penniless, but of nature, in a word, by one of those c50yUn?aaMHSL J?" miracles only comprehensible among Ing of natural responsibilities. Some free peoples he fought for tha country, dy ws Bhil r'nd it possible, to make and was raised by hi. fellow cltiaena to nearlyUthanmwetdcf,Bow Crn'? ra0r the congress at Washington, and by It is possible that we may find It thn notion tn th. nm.M.n.. iv. practicable to set such a man aa thla public: and when, the evil grew more pV.sner",. virulent, when those states were dls- of farming while the state's prisoner, solved, when the slaveholders uttered K?.d Jel 5 pa,rt of, hl alrn'na" 2 t0 their war cry and the slaves their llf fficlA&iJtti groans of despair the woodcutter, the deprived of a wage earner. boatman, the son of the great west, the , Surel7 th utter Irresponsibility whtch descendant of Quake, humblest of the ffir SSSS ?..?"if humble before his conscience, greatest receive nothing and which neither fits of the great before history, ascends the JS?1' their - - e- "-Kv . , OAlCt WilOU their sentence is ended, works a definite hardship. It lowers the moral'1 tone of the men whose Ideas of rational re sponsibility are already too nebulous. And anything that lessens the world's already too small stock of moral re? sponsiullity Is strongly to be regretted. - t n LtCtle Pointers. HOLE cloves scattered plentifully among clothing In dreaser draw era are said to keep away moths as effectually a camphor. capitol, the greatest moral height of our time, and strong and serene with his conscience and his thought; before him a veteran army, hostile Europe behind him, England favoring the south, France encouraging reaction In Mexico. In his hands the riven country; he arms two millions of men, gathers a half million of horses, sends his artillery 1,200 miles m a week, from the banks Of the Poto mac to the shores of the Tennessee; fights more than six hundred battles: renews before Richmond the deeds of Alexander, of Caesar; and, after having emancipated 2,000,000 slaves, that noth ing might be wanting, he dies In the very moment of victory like Christ, like Bocrates, like all redeemers, at the foot of his wtfsk; hla work, sublime achievement! over which humanity shall eternally shed its tears, and God big benedlotioni . . - Mexico Likes It, From the Brooklyn Eagle. President Diaz has spiritedly denied that he has said that he will not be a candidate for reelection. He declares he has said nothing at all on the subject That is enough to show to Mexico that he will be a candidate again. And that ia enough further to show that he will be renominated without doubt and reelected unanimously. It Is a way Diax has and Mexico likes, His nineteenth or Is It his twentieth? term arouses no apprehension In Mex ico. Under the form of a renublin and under the formality of reelection, Mex ieo enjoys the reality, of a life presi dency or a strong man, with the pow ers equivalent to those of any monarch. We may not like that: but Mexico does, and Dlaa does, and that ia .enough for both. ' Prefers Socialism to Tammany. From the New York Post. 4i Opposed as we are to the practical teachings of the Socialists, we yet have the feeling that a great Socialistic par ty in this city in the place of Tammany Hall would i be an improvement upon the existing situation. An' "Idealistlo organisation, however mistaken, is much to be preferred to one purely mater lair I stlc, 1 without . honor or morals or de cency, i -. J. Ogdcn Armour's Birthday. J. Ogden Armour, eminent as a mer chant and capitalist, was born in Mil waukee. November 11, 1862. the son of the late Philip p. Armour, the pioneer of the meat packing induatrx in Chica go. The younger Armour, mfler attend ing Yale, entered upon a business career in his father's offices in Chicago. Upon the death of his father in 1901 he suc ceeded to the presidency of the greet firm of Armour ft Co He early showed an aptitude for business and. under has management the great commercial en terprises founded by the elder Armour have continued to grow and Prosper. These enterprise include, In addition to mammoth packing houses In Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Milwaukee and1 other cities, an extensive chain of grain elevators. Mr. Armour Is also heavily Interested financially rn railroads, car lines and other large industries. This Date in History, 1781-i-Cvrus "Alger. Inventor of the cylinder stove - born in West Bridge water, Mass.' Died February s, 1866. , 1794 Treatv concluded at . Canan. daigua between the United States and the Six Nations. 1804 James Monroe appointed. United States minister to Spain. 1818 Americans defeated at battle of Chrysler's farm., on the Canadian bank of the St Lawrence river. 18S4tjrhe third pleuaryi council ' of the Roman ' Catholic church met at Baltimore, ' - - v - r ; 1 1 889fc-Washington admitted to state hood by proclamation of President Har rison. .... v.:-.; . ,1907 German emporor and em-press arrived at Windsor on visit to King Ktiward. . . , w Save the garter books from old elas tics. They are useful for hooks on Iron holders, short towels and In many way a can be used for a second purpose to very good advantage. Instead of using vatfIuato flavor oup custards, boil half tt dozen peach ker nels in the milk. This makes a pleas ant variety from the ordinary winter flavorings. n at at Mustard Pickles. CUT In small pieces one cauliflower, one quart of cucumbers, one quart of peppers, one quart . of small onions, and one quart of green tomatoes, add one quart of eltron out Into small pieces, sprinkle with one cup of salt, cover with water, let stand over nlsrht. than drain. Ml- t..ih. one half cup of cornstarch, one and one half cups of sugar, one half ounce of turmeric -powder and nine tablespoons of mustard and stir Into two quarts af hot vinegar. When thick and smooth, add the vegetables and boll for one half hour, stirring frequently to .prevent burning. - , . The Daily Menu. BREAKFAST. Concord Arnnaa TnmA Cracked Wheat with. Cream. ' , i . . . . Broiled Bacon. Buckwheat Cakes with Maple Syrup Coffee. ,., i , - LUNCHEON. Brains with Mushrooms. .... Fried Cornmeal Mush. .Cress and Cucumber Salad. . ' Appjej Sauce. Macaroons. Tea. - A DINNER. '. - - Gumbo Soup. Roast. Chicken with Chestnut Dressing Creamed Cauliflower: Mashed Potatoes' . Lettuce with French Dressing. (f;, Taoioca pudding. White Cake. -Cheese, Black CofXeie. " Chicken With jChestnut pressing Stuff chickens with crumbs highly sea-' spned and add to thla a i few chopped chestnuts.,. Sew up and lard the breast with thW strips of bacons Koaat and serve with cream ;sauoe. to which chopped cooked oysters have been added.