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Newspaper Page TextTHE JOURNAL AS INDEPENDENT NFWSPAPEIt. t. 8. IACKSON.... . ..PabUrtieT r 8uBIy nrnrntrf t The Jonriwl nultl r.J Fifth end Yumblll street. Portland. Or. tmr,i.tuu tiirub tba malli i second-class r'"ttr. 1 I! I .R ' H O N K S MAIN in i).....vfnnB rat 7173. " . ..... .,- (ha ltertLUPDr TOO WSUt. F.rt Kid of f W. B 24-W : Kt S39. FVItliiG.N ArVKitTlSlSa KEPUKSENTAT1VE Vr-eUw! rnj"utn Special A'lwtliln Azmm-jt , nmu.wirk RulMlne. 22S Fifth STentis. N York; 10K7-OS tcrcf BuII.H-ik. Ctilc. Bahcripn..n IV- t,v mull or to nr uddress 111 Uis Cctlvd Siti. Cmiiida or Mexico: DAILY. One fvtr .. S 00 i Ons montli 1.80 SUNDAY. 0d jut ! month I -23 DAILY ANt SCN'UAY. ... nn . rnT .ST. 50 i One month jar Circulation 6tKranttt TA.J Ccrtifiei that the cirra.'aton ?" (At litter n audited aad ft guaranteed by the ' Advertiser's Certified Circulation Blue Book TAa rpfr Aas proved bj in rfiy.ii on tAt Af circulation records ar kept with cure tad the circulation stated with sach acxmracjr that adrertisen may relf on any Statement! or tame maae vj toe paoinnen itnen 4 ntnt B under the ownership eotf management ih control snntember 1. 1908. , ': A man should never bo ashamed to own he lias been In the wrong Alexander Pope. ITS PERIL A'PPAREN'TLY THERE, is grave , peril that the Willamette locks project may tot successfully . run the gauntlet of the comjng cession of congress. Danger is fore shadowed In the statement of Mr. John C. Young, private secretary to Senator Bourne. Mr. Young 6ays the Joint resolution offered by Sen ator Fulton at the "last session, &sk- Ing for a resuryey and estimates by the engineers, did not pass. This statement is emphasised by the fact : that the engineer's report has gone In without mention of the Willam ette, locks,-. Fortunately Senator Tlniinm HPfrnn Inhftve Reenrprt 'In structions f or. anf amended report by the engineers, with a prospect that this very necessary step for success may be achieved. . The incident is, however, of value It Indicates, as The Journal has often- suggested., that this project is being "neglected. This neglect was set forth in an article in The Journal two months, ago when the question was asked if there is "a purpose to " stab this project in the back." The fact that norecommendation for the project appears la the report of the engineers is In' Jtself full confirma tion that somebody somewhere is failing:, to do all that should have been dote. ; It is a queer situation. The state legislature ha's appropriated half the cost of the project. That was done two years ago: The courts have rendered a decision giving the state a 10 per cent share in the revenues, of the locks, decreasing proportion ately the sum that will have to be paid In case of purchase. It has also, been judicially determined-that theJ go vprnnientV right to use of wa ter for tho locks Eupersed.es the right of any private corporation, and that new locks can be built if so de sired. All thi3 is propitious for the success of the project. The unpro- pitious phase is the inactivity that in spite of all these fortuitous phases, seems about to smother the project. A further value of the facts that Mr. Young reveals is that the time has come for concerted and vigorous action by commercial bodies and others in behalf of the plan. If in strumentalities of this kind are not brought to bear indications are that the Willamette project will go glim mering. Two years of inaction at Wash ington are eloquent of the need of Bgenclcs with "live wire" effects. The Portland chamber of commerce, the Portland board of trade and other organizations, for the sake of Portland and of Oregon, ought to Intervene in behnlf of this project. The commercial bodies of the Wil lamette region, for tne sake of their own handicapped communities, ought to at once become active. There is opposition in congress to this project. Is it lit cessary, to ask who opposes? What does It mean and v horn does it affect adversely if there is to be a reduction of 50 cents per ton on all freight In and out of the Willamette region? OREGON "A REPUBLICAN STATE" f 13 argued that because. Oregon is a Republican state the lrpls lat;ne must elect a Republican senator aod must ignore the re sult oi the June election . when Chamberlain was declared the popu lar choice tor the office. But. 'who 'inaUe Chamberlain the popular choice?. Republicans. .Who made Chamberlain governor in 1902 and Sga!a m i06 by" an, fan-cased majority? Republicans. Loe vote passed tte.direct primary- law fcy'.wMrh vnter r I. Sowed ."to 'declare their V-bnW trie Senator?. , Republicans". , Whose votes enacted the ; measure ps:s.(!, last 'liana. bCati overwhrlru-wtjorMU- ditectirg ' the legU'U- ture to elect the people's choice tor senator? Republicans'. "But the Republicans who voted for Chamberlain' for senator did not really want to have iilm elected by the legislature," say his enemies and the enemies of popular rule. Will any of those Republicans eomj for ward now and sny that they ware simply engaged in an effort to de feat the nominee of their own party and that they were deliberately plot ting to overthrow later tho decision expressed hs the people in the June election? What standing would such men have in the court of public opin ion? Shall self-confessed traitors to their party and to the people be permitted a hearing now? Are their hands clean? Must not bo .that seeks equity do equity? In truth Oregon la a Republican state. In the very same election which made Chamberlain the peo ple's nominee for senator the Re publican candidates for congress re ceived an aggregate plurality of nearly 39,000' votes. Yet Chamber lain was the popular choice for sen ator. What does this mean? it means that in this Republican -ttsfte. with this overwhelming Republican majority, so many Republicans de sired Chamberlain as Oregon's rep resentative in the United States sen ate that he became the people's nom inee for the office. Who will say that the Republican voters of Oregoa-shall not have their wlll?- A CHEAP BUSINESS r HERE ARE contentions and contentions. Some are absurd. Some are more they ure gro tesque. One of the latter is the hullabaloo raised by those who are scheming for a return to sena torial deadlocks and legislative hold ups. They contend that the selec tion of senator made by the people should be rejected for party reasons. It is a contention wholly without a basis sufficient to even gull the gullible. The United States senate now has 61 Republicans and 31 Dem ocrats. It is a majority of nearly two to one. It is a majority so over grown as to be bad for Republican ism and bad for the country. It is a margin so great as to make those in control imperious. It tempts them into indiscretions and prompts them to do unwise things. An over whelming majority was the secret of why the last senate rejected every good measure that Roosevelt asked for. The very best thing that could happen to the Republican party and happen . to the country would be for this overbalanced and top-heavy ma jority in the cenato to be cut down. A much smaller majority : would make the senate more sane and far safer. It is psychologically a fact that a' strong minority is of great value in the influence it exercises on the majority. It makes the majority apprehensive of loss of control and causes it to.be raoro rational. It saves it from the madness and in toxication that possession of undue power always- produces. The rais ing of the party iHsue when in the balloUng for senator the electorate rejected the party isrue is a mighty cheap business. GEORGIA C. COOLEV MON'G OREGON citizens who dropped from the ranks this week was George C. Cooley of Brownsville. . lie was one of those men of marked probity and gentleness whose passing, though a loss to the state, is partly compen sated in the lasting influence for good of his name and example. Mr. Cooley came west with the great caravan of immigration that rolled over the plains throughout the decade following the late 4 0s, reach ing Oregon in 1853. He settled at Brownsville, which has become the festival place of the pioneer men and women who saved Oregon for a star in the blue field of the national emblem. He engaged in the mer cantile business and in that capacity was for nearly CO years a factor in tbe business life of the state. Throughout that lung period he met all upon the level and parted on the square, with the result that the ac cumulated acts In his career are a loadstono of virtue and probity. TnE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS A' CCORDIXG TO a recnt state ment of tho National Arsooia tion for the St inly mid Pre vention of Tuberculosi:; a san atorium or dispensary is established, or an association formed. for the treatment or prevention of tubercu losis, every other-(lay, on an average. During September and October 16 associations, 10 eanltoria and 5 dis pensaries were started or provided for in the United States, showing a gratifying and encouraging interest in this modern war against this dread disease. From a few scien tists, physicians and philanthropists the movement has spread until it now engages the interest and atten tion of thousands of men and. women of all classes and occupations. f There are cow about 215-associa tions for the study and prevention, of tuberculosis in the "United States, with a total membership of more than 20.000, all engaged in a more or less active war upon the disease. Nearly 200 of these associations have been' formed since January 1, 1?05, and they wifl rapidly Increase, Of such associations Massachusetts- has 26, New Jersey 22,- New Yorjc 19, M Ichigan 1 0. Petjnsr! vania 1 4 ' andj 30' other states a less number ea"ci That these associations are check ing the ravages of this disease and saying life, results are beginning to show. Since they became active, and due largely to their activity, the deatb rate from this cause in Bos ton has decreased from 21.70 to 18,46 per 10,000. In New York it is estimated that their efforts have so far saved 3,000 lives. In Chicago a similar result has been attained While this disease is not so prev alent in Oregon as in the eastern states, owing to our mild and equable climate, yet it has a good many vic tims here in the course of a year, and a large number of well to do people, and perhaps the state Itself, should help fight this noble and life- saving battle against the "great white plague." That It can often be prevented, and in many if not most cases cured, by simple means, seems to have been pretty well established. Those means have for a few years been employed in a small way ina sanatorium near Portland, which is deserving of more liberal and "ear nest support. And It would be wl if another sanatorium could bo main tained at a higher altitude and in a dryer climate in eastern Oregon, per haps in Klamath, Lake or Malheur county. Persons with means who have con sumption or a -pronounced tendency thereto ought to be encouraged and urged to take this treatment, and thoso without means should be helped, and for this purpose con tributions or a state appropriation, or both, are necessary. SIDE PARTIES NEVER SUCCEED HETHER THE Democratic party is dead, or is dying, or not, there is nothing Irt our history to give much en couragement to any other present party as an opponent to the Repub lican party. Side parties have been common in the politics of the coun try for 80 years, and their story is one of uniform failure. In 1 832 the Anti-Mason party polled 2 Va per cent of the popular vote, and created a gfeat but brief uproar, and died. The Liberal party polled 3-10 of 1 per cent of the pop ular vote in 1840, and 2 1-3 per cent in 184 4, and in IS 18 became merged Into the Free Soil party, which that year polled 10 per cent of the vote, hut dropped to 5 per cent in 1852, and in 1856 its remnants assimilated with the Republican party. Then, at. last, arose an issue, then came a time and circumstances which made the success of a new party possible. The American (Know Nothing) party polled 21 per cent of the country's vote in 1856, but was never heard of again. In I860 the Demo crats were split over the Impending crisis, and the fourth candidate was a negligible quantity. No side party again appeared till 1 S 7 2 , when the Liberal Republicans inr.de a great effort to defeat Grant, fused with the Democrats, and .nnk into oblivion as a party. That year a Temperance party first appeared, which in 187G became the Prohibition party and polled 1-10 of 1 per cent of the vote. The Labor party, united with the Greenback party, polled 1 per cent. The latter party in lS.su polled 3 1-3 per cent, falling in 1884 to l'i per cent and in 18x8, united with the Union Labor party, polled only 1 1-3 per cent. In 1892 the People's party absorbed the Union Labor party and polled 9 per cent of the vote and elected 2 2 presidential elector?, but it rapidly dwindled and soon died. The Gold Democrats ran a ticket In 1 896, but polled leas than 1 per cent of the vote. The Prohibition party has con tinued in the field for 32 years, but makes no appreciable gains. In 1884 its vote rose to lVz per cent and to 2 per cent in 1888; it held this vote In 1892 and fell to 1 per cent in 1896, rose to 1 per cent in 1900, almost to 2 in 1904 and has ap parently receded considerably again ibis year. The Socialist party, a survival of several organizations, polled 3-10 of 1 per cent in 1896; In 1900 its two branches pollen together 9-10 of 1 per cent and in 1904 3 1-5 per cent. Thi3 was quite encouraging, and If it could have doubled or trebled this vote this year it might have had some foundation for great expecta tions, but while the returns are not yet available it is believed that it ha3 shown comparatively little if any increased per. cent over 1904. So there is no prospect of the great growth and success of any 6ide party in ihl3 country. At several periods in our history even more than now, there has been practically but one party in this country; there wa3 no effective opposition; but successful opposition at last has always , cen tered around and made an instru ment d the largest and oldest party. This was so even with the sudden success of the Republican party, for the old Whig3 and their descendants and followers went over to it almost in a body. But becausb none of these parties have succeeded directly, and no party on a narrow or class founda tion, ever will, it must not be sup posed that they have exerted no in fluence upon the affairs of the country. In several If not in all cases they have caused the people to think, have in some measure im pressed political leaders and changed to some extent the course of political eventsv No such efforts are ever ea- tirely in vain. - ' ,' 1 It Is reported that a Tacoma lum bcr company has increased t& wages W of! its employes, '(numbering about 800, 1.0 per cent.. This If true la a real prosperity item, and it is hoped that many such incidents yill occur, When the wage earners are all em ployed at good wages we may be sure that .the country is for the time at least prosperous. The scramble for even higher duties will continue all winter,, and the 99 out of 100 people who will be injured thereby wUl be dumb unrepresented and forgotten. Insidious Metkocls of Ad vancing? Rates From the American Lumberman. inuring- me last weeK there has been a conference of traffic officials of east ern and western railroads and bo far a can be learned the nrlnclDat subject un der dlscusMon at this meeting was the Dest means by which a horizontal ad vance In freight rates throughout the country could be put Into effect without strenuous objection- from the various shippers. It Is generally understood and admitted by almost all railroad men that the horizontal advance In freight rates throughout the couhtry. especially in official and western classi fication territory,- was not permanently abandoned at the time the Question was held In abeyance last fall, and there Is no doubt but that the railroads are taking steps to secure this advance either In the way of changes In classi fication, minimum weights, or by direct increases In weights. One way In which this Increase Is be. Ing made and which Is working . even greater hardship on shippers of all commodities than a direct advance In commodity rates, la In changes of classi fication or in minimum car weights. As an example, the increase in minimum car weights which was made in south western territory this week: sash and door manufacturers and probably other manufacturers of building material would have preferred to have stood a etr-ilRl.t rate advance than this change n minimum car weights, as in the long run It will cause them Infinite labor In cither checking up the weight of actual shipments or In securing refunds on excess charges from the railroads. According to this rullnir. from D-' ccniber 1 the minimum car weight on nearly all kinds of building material o an principal points. Ineludinr the largest cities and towns In Florida Ala. lamn, Mississippi. Louisiana. Texas. Ar kansas. Tennessee and Kentucky, will, after December 1. be 24.000 pounds in stead of 30,000. It Is generally known by lumbermen and railroad officials that t is practically Impossible to place sash and door or mlllwork of anv kind. weighing 30,000 pounds. In the ft vera ire slae boxcar, and as a result of this rul ing It will be necessary for sash, door and mill work manufacturers to pay a higher rate than ever hefore. If this advance had been placed upon mlllwork as such, and In a straightfor ward manner, there would have been lit tle or no objection, ns it Is realized lhat this class of material takes up more car space than other classes of building ma terial, but the feeling among mlllwork manufacturers Is that the railroads have not treated them fairly In attempting to subject them to a higher freight rate through the raising of.carload minimum weights. This objection is not limited to the mlllwork manufacturer but extends to lumbermen, and the general feeling throughout the entire lumber trade Is that whenever . the railroads feel that an adyance in rates la necessary it should bo made as such and that no roundabout way. such ae raising classi fications or ehnnglng minimum car weights; should be adopted by the car riers. . r , Public 1'tilities Thnt Are Public. "We used to believe," ears Charles Kdward Russell, In the November Ev erybody's, "that unless we granted to rich and undeserving persons charters to plunder us for long terms of years or forever, electric lights would not burn, streetcar wheels would not re volve, coal" would refuse tp give out fc-as. and water to turn Into steam. Fur ther investigations In science have dem onstrated that none of these beliefs i well founded. We can hnve at least as many, and at least as good, public util ities without franchises as we can have with franchises. Of course, so long as we endure the bosses that the corpor ations support, we shall have aldermen much disposed to create franchises and bestow them upon the corporations that support the boss. But that does not alter the fact that the franchises are wholly unnecessary, and, further, does not mean that we must submit to'them. The histories of Chicago and Philadel phia show that there are ways to Im press upon even the most corrupt alder men that ever sat In a council cham ber. "And if we could once get rid of the franchise superstition, what an ad vance that would be! We should then see no more of such hopeless and mazy muddles as the corporations have made of the New York traction situation, nor the continual nullification of "the peo ple's efforts to obtain gas 1U a reason able price. "Moreover the abolition of the cor poration franchise would go a long way toward solving the problems of munici pal corruption. If there were no fran chises to be grabbed, there would be Just so- many fewer occasions for cor porations to bribe and so many fewer reasons for the corporations to finance the machines. About 95 per cent of the cases of aldermanic and legislative bribery that have been investigated In the past 25 years have been found to have their sole source in a public util ity company. I have not found anv in vestigator of these crimes that still be lieves bribery can be materially less ened so long as the great source of urlDery remains. This Date in History. 1620 The Pilgrims in the cabin of the "Mayflower" signed the famous compact. I t y North Carolina, .the twelfth state, accepted the constitution. 1800 Order of the Sacred Heart lounueu. 1804 General Armstrong. American minister to France, presented his cre dentials to. Napoleon Bonaparte. 184ft Princess Victoria Adelaide, eld est daughter of Queen Victoria. Died Autrust S. 3 901. 161 United States vessel Santee cap tured the privateer. Royal Yacht, off (Jalveston. -1878 The Halifax award of I5.E00,- 000 was paid to Canada, . 1 880 Charles .Francis Adams, diplo matist, died in Boston. . Born there Aug ust J8L. 1807. . .. . 1896 George (3. W, Ferris, inventor pr the "irerrls Wheel." died In Philadel phia. . - lauo .aiany lives lost Dy Hurricane In Texas. - . The return, of Cardinal Gibbons to Baltimore on October 10 was made the occasion for a welcome worthy of the city ana appropriate to the home-coming of a prlnee of the church. The ven erable prelate has beett abroad to pay bis respects to the pope and to attend the eucnaristle. eongnesa in. London. "It Is estimated that 50,000 loyal Catholic were In the procession thafeecortf d him U$0l r"",idenc, iran iur rnurnaa siaiioa UJ me arcn- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE The Union RepubUcan club, vidently is Vhort on unity. ,-.-.. i ... A ; Freezing up back east; fine trowing weather in Oregon. m ' And November's as pleasant as May In good old Oregon, . ' . i ; The Haas suicide, or homicide, is a deep mystery that may never be un raveled. . i . V It is supposed that a "recall" by a majority of a political -club or two is quite constitutional. ," ' ", There are two obstacles to a boat cnannei rrom the lakes to the gulf sandbars and Joo Cannon. It is said Mr. Taft will insist on tariff revision. The trusts have no ohlectlon provided it is revised upward. . Another strike has failed that at Kelly Butte. But tha future historian will probably not say much about it. . A Cincinnati man shot off his 11ns with ft shot eun 'but It Is In another way that men are accustomed to shoot off their mouths. The ftconle of Ore iron don't want Chamberlain. !t Is said. But on four separate occasions they have said that iney aid want mm. The Portland moral snuad Is becom ing so active that It Is scarcely safe for a man and his wife to . live together any more. At least all couples should have their mat-nave certificates readv for exhibition at all hours. Pu Tl. the S-year-old eraneror of China, having been transferred to new hands, Is reported to be crvlng day and night for his old nurse. Poor kid: this Is but the beginning of his troubles. Almost any coolie Will have a haDDler life. A Chinese edict, promising a consli- tuitlon In nine years, adds, "and bv com pleting what is left unfinished you will comrort your spirit in nenven. This Is. tho only sort of comfort ,that those who are hoping and working for tariff tax reduction in this country are likely to get. Woodburn Independent: One or two Statement No. 1 legislator may bo really and trulv sick when the time comes, but it will be the natural conclu sion that the absence of any more means a money consideration. And even the one or two will have to die to make good. A few days ago the Oregonlan said that the late empress of China was not born a slave or In lowlr Ilf". but was a. daughter of a mandarin. But a day or two liter It said she was born a slave. It might be well for the editorial writers to compare encyclonedias and agree on one story or the other. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE The Socialist Party. Pendleton, Or.. Nov. 19. To the Edi tor of The Journal In the Journal of the 18th Instant appears a criticism of a letter of mine, which was printed in tne issue of the 11th. I beg ynur kind indulgence in giving space to this reply and wish to say a word in appre ciation of The Journal's policy of giving utterance to those who so radically dif fer with them. The author of this criticism is -1.. F. Wooley of Cottage Grove, Or. His Is a line f argument that Is very consoling to those who wish an excuse for clinging to a political carcass after It has begun to decay. The utenor of it Is that third parties never amount to anything in American history. The Democrats (and Republlcans back up fhis argument with a long list of the minor factions that have split off from the two great parties and thnt have lasted for an election or two and then disappeared. Because these parties have never amounted to anything. therefore the Socialist, party will never grow. Of course the silliness of this argument Is exposed by the fact that the Socialist party does grow, and that it has grown, until today in membership, literature and sentiment It is 10 times as power ful as a decade ago, and that its vote (over 650,000) was prevented from in creasing in a like proportion only by the most . strenuous efforts ever made by the ruling class to befuddle the vot ers. In this effort to mislead and de ceive the capitalist politicians did not simply play their strongest card. They played all their cards. The Democratic party used Bryan for the last time and Gompers for the first time, and catered to all the phrases that are supposd to catch the votes of laborers. It had the support of all those supposed radicals who hnve caught some little portion of the Socialist philosophy, and who traded upon their radicalism to seduce those whom the Socialists had partially edu cated. Yet in spite of all this the Democratic party Gompers, Bryan, rad icalism and all went down in ignomin ious defeat, while the Socialist party not only increased its voting strength but multiplied its actual power many fold. Now these very radicals who were made ridiculously funny and ludi crous by the powers that be have the hardihood to talk about the "failure of the Socialist Darty." -' As the working class has grown into power in every country it has formu lated its political expression In the So cialist party. This class has grown with the Droeress of the Intelligence and the industrial solidarity of the class It represented. This 1 the situation todav. The Socialist party by its in ternatlonallsm. Its democratic organiza tion. Its principles and all its features. Is the political expression of the work ing class. To confuse or compare such a nartv with the antl-Masonlc, ureennaca, Populist or Prohibition nartles is to sririie oneself lerorant of Wie most sim ple principles of logic and the most fundamental facts of history. Which of these parties had great in ternational affiliations? Which had created a literature that filled the shelves of every reference library? .Which of them has rested upon a phil osophy that has commanded the atten tion of every Institution of learning managed by its opponents? Which of them created a political, self-supporting, tireless working, dues-paying organiza tion with a membership of 60,000? Mr. Wooley it appears to Yne that you, are still sitting, in love and affec tion, beside the political corpse that departed this life on November 3, whist ling to keep-up courage and drive the ghosts away. After a little time for grief for a departed friend you will come to a realization that you must put that friend 'neath the cold, cruel earth. After i a' few months have elapsed you will. If you are a logical man, perceive that though parties rise and parties fall, progress goes marching on. As- for Bryan, he is not dead. He is very much alive. He la like a cork on the political sea.- The moment pressure is released he. will come, to the top. He Is the one and the only factor that held Democracy together fori this last des perate fight.. - ., . - : '''' -A teiar woxls wbout conflrcstion and I am done personally I do not believe! in that Idea. There is a batter way NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS. i .,iint rata of progress It will get ahead of Halem and Astoria. U they don t -waicn own. - ; The enterprising citizens of fit. Hel ens are building a five-foot gravel side walk from St. Helens to Houlton. Several Pendleton men have bought in the aggregate 3.240 acres of land lately in Alherta. at an average price or iiu an acre. Pleasant Hill, near Eugene, bas sn English walnut tree 30 years old that measures 72 Inches around, two feet from the ground. . Pendleton grocers are paying &aor 50 cents. a dozen tor eggs. i prosperity for the farmer with laying hens, but how about the egg-eaters? ,m , i v.. .it. aVimtt two houses a j... ant hn some, says the Statesman. ' Yet there are not houses enough to go around, ana win ni be in the near tuiure. A Springfield man says business Js good in that mill city and new people ure coming In nearly every our cata there, and that the town will soon hav three new stores. Real estate transfers in Polk county ...,. in th 'naxt two weeks until the average of each week Is from three to four times as grem uu....b the months of last spring arm bu.ui... The total output of Bandon Salmon cannery was 10,000 cases, nearly twice v. . i a vonr flsro. anu una in the face of the fact that there was a t.trlke of the fiBliermen in iu -; part of the season. Hermiston began its career wttb m.uc.h. Internal strife, but a meeting iieia latelv was a political love feast at which a list of city officers was nominated which was entirely satisfactory to both the rival factions or tne town within the nast 18 months Eugene has paved 60 Diocas wan ......... . . . . ,.,i..h,,.,. pavement, at a coat or over The street Improvements during the est 12 months, outside of the paving amount to more man any lu.iuci uvi of five years. . , r A Dalles milk and cream dealer says the cannot get more - than nail milk enougn. n saia; r c more milk any where f or we ve tried at and around Portland. Washougal, and other places, besides near this city. There Is positively not another gajlon available." An electric lighting plant for The Dalles is a matter which Is now being considered by the city council. Dalles City owns considerable water power on Mill creek and if it Is founcLfea slble and practicable. . steps will he taken to build a plant which will supply the city with lights. which space forbids me to dwell upon. But. Mr. Wooley, did not Lincoln con flscate the slaves? Were not those slaves private, chattel property, the same as your cow or your horse today? Do you not think that if necessary th same thing could be done wnn me prop erty of the big trusts? Standard Oil employs 12.000 men. Last year it had J84.000.000 clear profit. Just a little J7.000 from each employe. Those em ployes received as their share far less than 11,000 each. Yes. Mr. Wooley. I grant you that they sold their labor power at "so much per," as you state, but as a class, they had to do It or starve, Is that freedom? No. i Cheer up, Mr. AVooley, the worst is yet to come. CLYDE E. FINCH. Ix-sson In Heney Shooting. Waldo, Or.. Nov. 20. To the Editor of the Journal :T ne shooting of Francis J. Heney "in a San Francisco court room is but the .fruit of prolonged dishonesty In California. For 40 years It has been said that California people were largely dishonest; 20 years ago J. B. McChesney, who for over 30 years was principal of the Oakland high schools, In the presence of the writer, said:.. "It has been said that Californlans will do anything for money, and 1 guess they wUl" Owing to the wild rush for tho rich gold mines It was peopled by the odds and ends of the earth and from all the points of the compass by a population so mixed that assimilation and coopera tion for the future gbod of the state was impossible; and isolated as this coast was in the early days, hundreds of criminals came west to begin life anew. , As If this wasn't enough, Collls P Huntington through his railroads taught the school of graft. The shooting of Mr. Heney, coming ss it does from a hatred of him be cause he would fearlessly deal with law lessness wherever he found it, has more than ever aroused public sentiment and will result in great good. His persistent activity against lawlessness made him a special target and Mr. Haaa doubt less felt that he was serving- a large constituency when he fired that unlucky shot. Oregon is well on the way toward the same state of affairs that confronts California today, and if we are not up and doing we shall surely reap the same, reward. We have our prominent men who despise the law and particu larly do they hate the will of the people as expressed at the ballot box. As far as it lies in their power they would pollute our state's honor, sack and plun der It for their own selfish greed, not caring a ecne for integrity of act or word. They have nothing but contempt for law, moral worth or Stability of pur pose; they would make liars and bood lers of every young man In the state and thus jeopardize the lives of every district attorney who dared to trace up and expose the higher ups to justice. They would enter sur legislature and there grapple with a majority of Its membership whom the people elected under special -confidence and pledges and finally send them home to their families and friends In disgrace. What care they, the political shysters who, having already been turned 'down by the people, have no other way of getting an office? , But this is a people's legislature and not a political rabble such as used to be so easily manipulated. They only want seven and they evidently hope to get them. ' ' If these men who care nothing for. the morality of cur citizenship do suc ceed in turning down the people's votes and the .recently enacted law by foul and unfair methods, the 69.000 con servative voters of the state should see to it that petitions are. circulated in every county tbtil possesses one or more of the traitors who had a hand in thus defeating the people's choice for United States senator and overthrow the Jaw and popular government,- and emphat ically request them to immediately leave the county and state. , : The shooting of Mr. Heney shows con clusively, that we must yield up our laws and our rights under them or take a firm stand for their maintenance.- . - . i . W. 3. "WElMER. . Individuals and , tne Fara- ' ily WWe " - ' - . . : 4 j ,'j -.- ' ' -.:- ... ..... -r r,. ,;,.v; William Hard in the November Every. . . ' body's. The hall-bedroom working-girl is the exception. The worklng-glrl who Is liv ing at home is the ; rule. And ' when "he la jiving at home it is really very seldom that she is the sole support of the family. . - iAIn,rttl1' Rlvr. I" 1900, out of some io.ooo cottonzaiii women there were, in round numbers. 2,500 who belonged to families In which there was one other breadwinner, 2,000' who belonged to ramUies in which there were two other breadwinners, and 4.000 who belonged to ramllies in which thwe were morn tftsni two other bread wtnners.; The in dividual wage has no Importance, com Fhi?i ll- Th tamlly wage Is every thing. It works out like this:- SPECIMEN ONE. Husband (loom-fixer) ....,$13 a week Wife ring"-spinner) ....... a week Four small children, at home. SPECIMEN TWO. father (Picker-man) .'..,-. Daughter (drawing-frame girl) , " . .. .,t7 a week . . 7 a week Total Mother at home. SPECIMEN THREE. Father - (weaver) tn . -.. Daughter (spooler) ;. 5 a week Daughter (weaver) 10 a week Son (slasher-tender) ........ 13 a week Total . , , . . .j9 Nobody at home. - SPECIMEN FOUR. . . ' ' Dauirhter li-arl n . Total ...... ....13 Mother, two brothers and two !-. at home. The poorest girl In this list 1. th girl that Is earning" the- most money. If a family has several wasrAenmera it Is well off. If it has only ona warn- earner It Is likely to be in straits. And wages, .ultimately, get adjusted to tho family basis; so that, if a famllv 1. tn enjoy a decent Income, Its women mem bers, as well as Its men, must work. Tho bright side of the family wage sys tem Is that certain families with many wage-earners have marvelous bank ac counts. Fall River, among its cotton operatives, has all the opulence that the local financiers claim for it The dark side of the family wage system, after wages get adjusted. to it. Is that If a family has to depend on the support of one member It is often on the veree of destitution. Fall River, among its cot- ion operatives, has all the squalor that the local Socialists charge it with Everything depends on which kind of family you choose to look at. If, being neither a financier nor Socialist, you choose to look at both kinds, your con clusions will lack that, unity and charity which would entitle them to have a place in a consistent philosophy of th universe. Recruiting Army of Women Workers William Hard, In November Everybody' in tne year ihso the army of women workers in tHe United States numbered 2,313,988. Twenty years later, if that armv had grown only In proportion to the growth of total population in the United States, it would have numbered 3,767,689. But there had been recruiting sta tions scattered along the way. At some of these stations,, marked Destitution, penniless women Bsld been forcibly conscripted. At others, marked Higher Standard of Comfort, women, not absolutely pen niless, had reluctantly, but still without actual coercion, enlisted for the purposo or supplementing the family income, because, while their mothers were con tented with bare floors and tin dishes, they themselves, with growing self-respect, demanded carpets and china. Finally, at a third variety of. recruit ing station, there had been employed a full brass band which played a tun! called Economic Independence, with endless variations; and a certain, num ber of women, whose male relatives were bidding their highest to be per mitted to support them, had been sol emnl sworn in to support themselves. From these sources came streams of fresh recruits to join the army of women workers on its march, so that In 1900, when the last private had filed past the reviewing stand In which Wil liam R. Merrlam, director of the cen sus, was sitting. It was found that the total number of women in tho Industrial parade In the United States was not 3,757,69, as It should have been, but 4,833,630! In the course of 20 years there had been more than 1,000,000 statistically unexpected additions to the ranks! Was there, in that time, any other social change more fundamental? Dad Gunnery in the Spanish AVar. In an article In McCIure's magazine for November on "The Fight for a New Navy,'' the author in telling of the strides made In gunnery reviews th conditions that prevailed In the Span ish war. He says: "The Spanish ws'r was won by two naval ' vIctorlesrManlla and Santiago. Naturally, the, fame of the American navy and especially of its gunnery, flamed across the world. As a matter of fact, the shooting at Manila and San tiago was about as bad as possible. At Manila 90 per cent of the shots missed at a range of from 6,000 to 4,000 yards; at Santiago the chief battle of the war at least 98 per cent. A special com mission of officers, which was appoint ed to examine the wrecks of the Span ish ships at Santiago, established this fact officially. It reported that of 9,600 projectiles fired, only 123, or 1.3 per cent, had found a mar!t on the Spanish ships. Making every possible allowance for i.ita which could not reafiily be seen upon the Wrecks, not one shot In 50 struck its mark. The day of the battle was clear, the sea smooth, the targets were 20 feet high and 200 feet long and the range was 2,800 yards. Kngllsh gunners at that time could have lilt the Spanish ships at least two out of every five shots. Fortunately for us, the fact that we were fighting a thoroughly sen ile power, whose ships had neither gun ners nor proper ammunition aboard, gave us an undisputed victory." Julias Chambers' Birthday. -Julius Chambers, noted as a journal ist and author, was born at Hellefon talne, Ohio, November 21. 1851. He fraduated from Cornell -.Hnlverslty' In 870 and later studied law at ColumbU college. In 1872 he went to Minnesota and discovered LIU Lake, claimed to be the source of the Mississippi river. Af ter several years' experience .on leading New York newspapers, serving as Wash ington and London correspondent, Mr. Chambers became managing editor of the New York Herald under the elder Bennett. Later he serves as editor of the World aad other metropolitan dall ies, eome or bis achievements have be come famous among Journalists His capture of the Blaine sensation at Mi lan, Italy, during a vacation trip in 1889 was quite on a par with his quarantine expose of 1871,- his Btoomtngdol ssv lum experience In 1872 and his Mad rid' "coup" In 1 876. In addition to his newspaper work Mr. Chamhers 1 is tlie author of several novels and plays and many magazine stories. . .