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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. ,-.-..
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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. . .