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September t. 1908-J
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say everything that , can be
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FOB THE JUDICIARY'S SAKE
THERE is a tragedy in the resig
nation of Justice Root. of the
Washington supreme court. It
is the result of scandal. Let
ters that are said to compromise the
jurist are in existence. The rumors
respecting them set up a doubt as
, Justice Root's Innocence. These
doubts, so far as the public knows,
may be unfounded, yet they are
doubts, and as such, are a melan
choly milestone in a judicfal career.
In the public mind, the Judiciary
is, or ought to be, the anchorage of
civic righteousness. Not ' a taint
should stain its escutcheon. No spot
should blemish the coloring of its
good repute. No rumor 6hould mar
the symmetry of its virtue. It is
the' fountain from which, in theory,
righteous judgment should issue. It
' is the tribunal to preserve the in
tegrity Of justice, and to determine
the equities between man and man.
It is the authority to which human
rights are anchored, and upon which
society must depend for safety.
Members of the court are, or
-.' ought to be, typical in their bearing
and their repute of the sanctity and
purity of which justice is he incar
nation, -v
- When poisonous rumor points an
accusing finger at one of these jur
ists the climax of the regrettable is
reached. ' The situation . becom
more aggravated, when emphasized
.by a resignation, as in the case of
Justice Boot. It is an all urgent occa
sion for investigation, an investiga
tion that it is hoped, for the sake of
the judiciary, may show the robes
of justice still spotless and Justice
Root Innocent.
ROCKEFELLER'S EVIDENCE
M'
fR. ROCKEFELLER in his
testimony, though assuming
that all that be and his as
sociates did was quite legal,
Innocent, and even praiseworthy,
confessed or acknowledged enough
to show that such a monster "octo
pus" as that of which he has long
been the head is an undemocratic
undesirable and dangerous thing. It
is so even if no law had been vio
lated, but both state and federal
. laws have been constantly and
audaciously violated by these men
for many years, yet Mr. Rockefeller
considers himself and his associates
men of the highest moral and Chris-
. tlan character, which shows how
the greed of great wea.th will blunt
a man's moral nature and blind hi9
moral vision.
The object of these men was
monopoly, and they succeeded, by
the usual trust process. They
They would tolerate no rival, any
where la the country. The first
move, was In the nature of a tempta
tion, and it usually succeeded. They
offered the rival more than his
property was worth, and pajd in
Standard Oil stock or cash. If he
-would not sell, -they undersold him
1n "his own territory and so ruined
him. - So one by one they gathered
them all in, and having a practical
; monopoly could- recoup their over
payments, and losses, from 8glej at
too ow prices, by raising fhe price
to any figure they chose.
Mr. Rockefeller claims that this
. monopolization f the business
made oil cheaper to the people. It
did, of course, effect a great saving
. in the cost of production and dls
' trlbHtlqh, but that Standard Oil. did
not reduce the . price to what it
' might and? should , have done, the
hondreds of millions' of profits be
yond what would have been fair and,
reasonable, even In V great an in
dustry, are eloquent testimony. And
Mr. Rockefeller takes no account of
prop!!? ruined, of settlements depop
ulated, of homes'lnvaded by rrJ(olf
)f poverty, of disappointed hcT and
t't rented ambitions, of the wreckage
.: r? a plor-g his all-conquering
f It wou!d bo of no use tosug-j
-WHO WOULD
w
HY ATTEMPT the impossi
ble? Only disaster results
from that sort of effort.
Every departure from the
regular and orderly in life brings
its reckoning. When we vio
late health rules we sicken and die.
We sow the wind, and reap the
whirlwind. These ; inevitable reck
onings to follow causes are a natural
order, and unchangeable. They
cannot lie averted.
Even if the necessary pledged
membera could be perjured to
set aside the popular choice as
to. senator, there would be the "in
evitable reckoning in the legislature.
What kind of a sequel would it be?
What have legislative elections of
senator been In other days but dis
aster? What but disaster was the
assaslnation of Dolph? It was a
session that went down into the
political history of Oregon reeking
with extravagant legislation. It was
a session with men's hands lifted
against each other. It was a ses
sion of factionalism, bitterness and
betrayal. It was a session of con
flict, strife and scandal.' It was a
session of ruined reputations and
overburdened taxpayers. It was 4 0
days of tumult and split the Repub
lican party wide open and embit
tered one faction against the other.
It destroyed -one of the best sena
tors Oregon ever had, and gave the
state Mr. McBrlde. Was there ever
a more lurid example of political
disaster?
What but disaster was the at
tempt in 1897 to. elect Mitchell for
senator? Mitchell had enough
pledged votes fdr his purpose, but to
circumvent his election the poli
ticians prevented the house from or
ganizing. As the Vesult of it, 90
members spent 40 days, at what?
Daily, the senate went through the
grotesque spectacle of reading bills,
while at the other end of the cap
itol the impotent, unorganized house
refused to meet. It was a proceed
ing as complete In the debauchment
of public affairs as maddened men
could make it. It was a travesty
on public order that citizens remem
ber only with humiliation. There
was a rump house, and members
were hired by one faction to go into
It, and hired by the other faction to
stay out of It. Members elected to
perform the high function of choos
ing a United States senator spent
their time trying to prevent a sena
tor from being elected, and sue-.
gest to Mr. Rockefeller, for he
would not understand the sayings,
to read the "second great command
ment," like unto the first, "Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself;"
or this: "Woe, unto you, scribes
and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye
devour widows' houses."
Yet the evil of such enormous
fortunes lies not so, much in the
way they are obtained as in the
way a portion of them are used to
pass or defeat laws, to control legis
latures and congress, to influence
courts to corrupt the whole public
service and run the government In
the Interest of these multimillion
aires and against the Interest of the
masses of people. The recently ex
posed Archbold letters are frag
mentary evidence that this has been
done.
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
P
OSTMASTER General Meyer ex
plains' In the Independent the
benefit to the people of postal
savings banks. There are now
1,543 savings banks in the United
States, with deposits aggregating
3,660,5o3,945, of which 98 per cent
Is in the banks of 14 states, leaving
only 2 per cent in all the rest of the
states and territories. Mr. Meyer
argues from this that in the greater
part of the country there are no
adequate facilities for saving money
by the people, and that If the 61,000
po8toffices of the country were made
savings dfpositories hundreds of
millions of dollars now hidden away
In secret places would be brought
out and put into circulation. Be
sides this, Mr. Meyer might have
argued, a great aggregate sum is
-annually squandered, or spent for
unnecessary things, that would be
saved by people of small means if
they had a savings bank at every
postoffice.
Nobody would doubt the absolute
soundness of the government postal
savings banks, whereaB a large pro
portion of people are suspicious of
private savings banks though in
most cases there Is no occasion for
them to be so. Yet occasionally such
an institution fails and poor people
lose their hoardings, go many of
them are afraid to place their sur
plus earnings In such banks. Dur
ing the" last fiscal year money or
ders to the amount of $8,104,447
were purchased and made payable
to the purchasers savings of people
who thus deposited their money
where it drew no interest and at con
siderable cost, because it wa6 sure
ly safe. Besides this, over $100,-
000,000 were sent abroad in money
orders during the year, a large por
tion of which would no doubt have
remained in this-country If there
were postal savings banks.
There If now before a senate com
mittee a bill establishing postal sav
ings banks. The Republican party
platform promised 'them. ; President
Roosevelt urged Ithenu President
elect Ta ft favor them. - So that, al
though powerful firfancial Interests
PAY THE PIPER?
ceeded." No less an authority than
Senator- Fulton himself says mem
bers were hired not to take the oath
of office and that others were hired
to take the oath of office. Elected
by the people and trusted by , the
people to enact legislation and elect
a senator, the senatorial issue led
decent men into the astounding atti
tude of refusing to do either, and
the session did the extraordinary act
of expiring without having organ
ized. It was 40 days of the worst
factionalism ever witnessed in any
state. It sowed deep the seeds of
disorder from which the Republican
party .still suffers. Constructive
legislation was needed for the up
building of Oregon, but this need
was but a breath In the whirlwind
of senatorial fury. The interests of
Oregon and the interests of taxpay
ers were sacrificed in the conten
tions and passions of the senatorial
iEsue. What the state witnessed and
what the country witnessed was not
an orderly legislative session, but 40
days of anarchy with the state house
In the hands of an infuriated mob,
with respectable citizens of the state
as its leaders. It was a political mess
without a parallel. Without taking
Into account Its terrible record of
corrupted men what waB it but dis
aster?
These are two instances of legisla
tive election of senator. They are
typical of 30 years of it In Oregon.
They are typical of what certain
politicians plan as the program for
Oregon's future. They are a reck
oning that must be expected if
enough pledged legislators can be
perjured to set aside the pbpular
choice for senator. Conditions are
ripe to make this reckoning more
disastrous than ever before. The
complications are the worst in the
state's history. They are sufficient
to make confusion worse confound
ed, and yet they are but'a single one
of the disasters that would be
brought on by overthrow of the peo
ple's cholceand substitution of a
persona! program. Who would pay
the penalty, and what would be the
price? Who would square things
with the disappointed and insulted
people? Who would appease, and
how would It be done, the 69,668
citizens Who Voted against legisla
tive selection of senator? Are the
politicians not playing with fire that
is certain, if they have their way,
to light an awful conflagration?
Once lighted, when, where and how
will it end, and whomwlll it seize?
are opposing them, congress may
possibly pass this bill. We shall see.
MR. BONAPARTE ON THE LAW'S
DELAYS.
I
N A recent address before the Na
tional Municipal leagueJAttorney
General Bonaparte argued vig
orously that the criminal law, or
rather criminal practice, should be
thoroughly and rationally recast and
reformed, in order to serve its de
signed and ostensible purpose of
punishing guilty and protecting in
nocent people. One is sometimes
tempted to believe that the criminal
law, as carried out In practice in
our courts, justifies the saying of
Jeremy Bentham long ago that, "If
evil men knew how much pains the
law had taken for their benefit, there
would be nothing that honest men
could call their own." But he prob
ably did not witness as much con
fusion, unreason and what he called
"Incognosclbllity" in criminal trials
as is prevalent now, and It is prob
able that we carry to still more ab
surd lengths than did the judges
whom 'he denounced the legal de
vices and technicalities in criminals'
behalf. The Ruef trial In San Fran
cisco is a conspicuous case in point.
Many people -besides Mr. Bona
parte are restive over what he calls
a "foretaste of eternity" between ar
rest and Indictment, between Indict
ment and trial and between convic
tion and punishment. We need look
no farther than the Ross case for an
Instance of the latter.
Mr. Bonaparte ascribes this evil
partly to "interminable and iniqui
tous delays," partly to the tendency
of bench and bar to tolerate all kinds
ot "dilatory, frivolous and often
ridiculous' proceedings," and partly
to legislators who give convicted
persons almost limitless facilities for
appeal, even though there is not a
shadow of doubt as to their guilt.
The Journal has quite frequently
commented on this great evil In this
country, and it is pleased to be able
thus to cite in Its support the high
est law officer of the country, as it
was to quote recently President-elect
Taft's more guarded language ex
pressing the same idea. Judges and
leading lawyers of the country ought
to take this matter up and lead in
working out a practical reform.
When Shakespeare wrote that
much quoted sentence,, "To thine
own self be true, and It must fol
low, as the night the day, thou
cans't not then be false to any man,"
he made a great mistake, according
to certain- Oregon politicians and
party organs, In not writing the word
"party" instead of Vself.!'
' - "i
Thousands voted for Chamberlain
who did not want him elected for
Benator by the legislature,, and who
had no idea that he would be elected,
says the Oregonian. There la no
evidence of the truth of this state
ment, and to "oppose" It is the fact
that. Chamberlain ad "carried the
Btate three, times before, ; once for
attorney general and twice for gov
ernor. Did not the people want him
for these offices?; And If they did.
why should .they JiQt.want..bim. after
his very acceptable aervlcea and In
creased popularity.-for senator? But
even if the assertion were true. It
furnishes no excuse ' for Statement
No. 1 members of the legislature to
violate their pledge.-
'Mr. Rockefeller testified that the
oil business was very "hazardous,
yet admitted that in eight years past
the profits amounted to $570,000,
000. So the "hazard" did not worry
him much.
Letters From' tke People
r.t,. tr. thm Journal ahould It written OB
aoa aids ot th paper only, and ahoold o
KDpantcd br the namo and addra of th
writer. The nam wilt not wo
i. i, h wtrhhM- Tha Journal
la not to b nnderatood aa Jndoralnq r tha
or atateuwnta of corraapoodonta tttr ahouio
B made at brief aa poa.lbl. Thoaa who wlh
their letter returned wo not need boold la-
''cOTriapoSentn ara not! fled that
reading 800 word In length mar. t th
cratloa ot th editor, b cut down ta that limit.
Fallacy of Judge George'a Argument.
Portland, Nov. Z5. To tne iwmor ui
The Journal I have read in tne ure
gonian with considerable sadness the
able attempts of Judge M. C. George
to assist In pulling Senator FultonH
chestnuta out of the fire, his burnt lin
gers apparently being willingly endured
In the faint hope that the nut might
acctdently. fall to his lot. In the Ore
gonian of TUesday he does not uae
quite aa much space as usual, and out
of the maze of his "contemporaneous
and unanimous practical construction,"
universal acquiescent wnsuu,
metamorDhosia of the original consti
tutional electoral system," and other
large and , reverberating attempts at
rhetoric he 'really makes quite a strong
argument for the keeping of the pledges
made by Statement No. l pieagea mem
bers of the legislature, albeit that Is
not what he tries to do. But toward
the end of his dissertation on legisla
tive duty, he asks the question. "Will
some Statement NO.. 1 pamsan iru
where a legislator Kets authority to
pledge or sign away to any votefwthe
legislator's own final sworn duty to
elect a senator?" And ,to thlB question,
which seems so hard to a hidebound
partisan like the Judge. I beg space to
give a little attention.
Is Judge Oeorge ao unsopmeucaieu.
so simple minded, that he does not
know that every year, in every state
where senatorial elections are held, leg
islative candidates go before the people
and ask for nomination on their pledge
to vote for a certain candidate, for the
senate? It Is true that members orten
go unpledged, and that such members
are often not long' unbought. But In
all Judge George'a articles he seems
never to have had a troubled thought
about the buying of unpledged mem
bers. At least, not In this or In any
other article that I call to mind does
he even hint that Jt might be uncon
stitutional for a senator to go to Wash
ington by purchase of 'members' votes,
as has been done In more than one
Instance.
It is not the Republican party in
which I waa born (during the throes of
a civil war) that has usually been not
ed for a strict construction of tha con
stitution, but Mr. George's construction
Is so strict that he claims an Oregon
member can only follow its provisions
by violating his pledge to the people,
breaking his solemn word to hla con
stituents and utterly ignoring and go
ing contrary to the wishes of those he
denominates "intermeddling voters." In
fact, the only right he seems to leave
to a voter 'at all Is to vote for the
candidate the machine may put up. To
demand la advance that something shall
be promised s to the course a legis
lator shalt pursue, regarding the peo
ple's wishes, especially as to the elec
tion of senator,- Is a ' Hold up by said
voters."
Well, no member elected was re-
quired to be "held up." There has been
'hold up" legislature in Oregon re
cent enough to be -vlthln the memory
of Judge George. But these pledges
were taken In the tlpen and no mem
ber had . to take them. If a member
felt he waa being held up he could re
fuse to' take the pledge and thereby
refuse to divest nimseir, as tne su
preme court of. Dakota said, of hfs of
ficial duty." But any such attempt at
election time would have resulted In the
defeat of these members the good judge
Is now trymg to persuade to go back on
their pledged word. And no amount of
sophistry by Judge George, any more
than the rot dally dished up In Oregon
Ian editorials will change the fact that
a legislator does his full constitutional
duty, when he carries out the pledged
will of the people and that a failure
to do so stamps him as a common liar
an A M n a n varr 1 i-1 ti hAnkr .In ttlVl om VIA
QI1U mail v Itiiuii ,jmiiivi naaviia v
dependence can be placed. II. A.
James H. Cummiskey's Birthday.
.Tames ' H. Cummlrkey. commissioner
of public works of Prince Edward Isl
and and one of , the prominent men in
the pubic life of that province, was
born November 27, 1849, in Fort Au
gustus. P. E. I. lie was "educated in
the public schools and In . Prince of
Wales college. He taught school for
several years and In 1872 entered com
mercial life. In-1891 he was elected a
mrmtyrr of the legislature. His election,
nretf with the return of another
Liberal rnember, gave the Liberals a
majority and overthrew the Conserva
tive government which had been in
power since 1878. In 1897 Mr. Cummis
key was elected speaker of. the legisla
te BssemDiy, a: position no neia lur
seven years. He 'Was returned at tner
general elections of 1897 and 1900. In
the latter year he waa appointed com
missioner of -public works, in recent
years Mr. Cummiskey has been acting
premier of..-Prince Edward island on
several occasions.
This Date fit History..
175 Henry ' Wheaton. a noted . au
thority on International Jaw, born in
Providence,- .R. -I. IMed In Dorchester,
Mass., March 11. 1848.
1S09 Fanny Kemble, famous) actress,
born in London. Died there January 15,
1893. , . . '
1850 Hardin Blgelow, mayor of 6ae
ramento'.'Cal.; died of' cholera.
1861 General .McClellah ordered the
observance of the- Sabbath In all - the
camps -of the United 'States army. -:
1R68 Sir John Young appointed gov
ernor general of Canada. .
- 1874 Proposal made for an exclusive
mall train to run between New Tork and
Chicago. .,-;; . -
1896 Alexandre . Dumas,- flla, died in
Paris. Born July 88, 1821. ., -
1905 Edward VII . gave New Tork
Yacht club cup to be raced for by
American yacht, t - ' -
1906 Fine .'of', 118.000 imposed ' on
American Sugar. Refining -company "for
accepting rebates from the New York
Central railway.. . ',-. ,
A' South Fork eorrespwndent of the
Milton Eagle mv the rads there are
the best in 100.000 yearn.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Apparently the trusts will still rule.
Leap year is drawing toward a close.
It la easy to a-et converts in "a. hunt
ness revival. . -
It cannot be ehara-ed that tho mimr
in ireuu ui vetoing ordinances.
-.."(
That's right chief: arrAst evrvhn1v
wiiu i-ai i itw a gun. ana coniiscate ii.
Of course the tariff will he revfxenV
soya uncio due. xes, dj its rrienas.
-
Official returns show that Maryland.'
after all, was the only doubtful state, f
In one sense there can he no rinnht
that Mr. Tart will be a big president
Nobody seems to have consulted 'Sen
ator Plaft as to whether he wants to be
reelected. ,
Some neonl seem 'to lmaalTi h m
receipt for Dew rent la a throus-h ticket
to heaven.
With only 83S.0OO a. vhi in hiM
Mrs, Howard Gould can't believe In
prosperity.
Regent Chun laaues an awl In inn
minutes, and there is no relschatag to
. ton mitt in iu.
.' '
A lot of those neanut atari whtatloa
are still annoying many people and con
stituting a nuisance.
The arrumenta nf thnu !
election of senators by the 'people have
been reduced to a "fraxxle."
Uncle John D. la rathr fnrlfn1
but remembers a good deal better than
he did two or three years ago.
Really, a treat artist lib Mr Tnnir.
feller cannot remember all th.A mn
and concerns he haa done in oil.
The mayor of Indlananolla hmn
some scheme tor helping the unem
ployed. Has prosperity missed India
napolis? a s
Tennessee is nrovinsr that the unnrt.
sltlon that it was a civilised state la a
mistake. Some "heathen" missionaries
are, needed there.
Mr. Kellogg may do very well for
cross examiner of the fitanrlarH nil
officials but we would like to see Ida
laroeu given a c nance.
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A New York woman uvi the "i
best sellers' of novels are vicious and
dangerous. She 'probably wrote one
that wouldn't sell at all.
a
'TT!n1iallAi4 rv a1 In.l. ... V n
v, i ... j . v. . una iici ufiio a
nice Bmooth synonym for "Inrrtiu"
as to tariff rates, freight rates, telo-
piiunu rates, avaier rates, etc.
A burlesdue being . presented In X.
York is entitled. KT he Merrv Widow
ana tne uevw wnicn is considered an
appropriate and harmonious 'conjunc
tion. a
Before long people will probably be
crossing cantlnents and oceans. In bal
loons, but these airships are hot likely
to Interfere much with railroads and
steamships.
, .
A .Nebraska bishop has nrdered all
the women members of his church to
wear hats during services and at church
functions, but It Isn't suspected that
he Is In collusion lth the milliners.
The Seattle Times says that city will
have 750,000 inhabitants "almost before
you can say Jack Robinson." But we
suppose it does not mean to be taken
literally; perhaps means by Christmas
or New Year's.
RAILROADS DODGING ORDERS OF
THE COMMISSION
-From the American Lumberman.
The railroads ask for fair play and
for the manifestation of a spirit Of
friendliness on the part of the public
toward these great instrumentalities of
commerce afed civilization. They say
that the railroads . and the shippers
should be friends. - To this the ship
pers and the people generally agree.
They are not unmindful of the benefit
that the railroads have been to the
country. . nor of the Indispensable part
they play In modern, commerce, but
friendship must be based upon respect
Relations between friends must be open
and fair. There must not be attempts
at sharp practice. . Business is business,
but attempts to secure business advan
tage should be legitimate and reason
able. Aa some railroad men have well said,
what there Is of public Hostility to them
is largely, if not entirely, their own
fault, due to their assumption of a
superior . position and their resistance
to even reasonable control. An In
stance la seen in the' way in which car
riers have dodged the orders of the
Interstate commerce commission regard
ing lumber rates from the Pacific coast.
After the commission had rendered Its
decision and the rallroags had an
nounced they would comply with it re
serving, of, course, their right to try
out legal Issues in the courts, the ship
pers in the, west were disposed to be
friendly. They had fought an open and
fair, even If a hard and somewhat bit
ter fight; had won and the railroads
had accepted the results of the ship
pers' victory. The lumbermen were in
a mood to say "let bygones be bygones,
and let us. do business," but then, sud
denly, much to their chagrin, they
found that the railroads were not play
ing fair in their acceptance of the de
cision, and so by their own acts the
roads have blown Into life again the
dying embers of hostility.
They did It In this way, among oth
ers: The commission allowed the rail
roads to advance their rates 5 cents
east of the Pemblna-Port Arthur i line.
Xo Debt and Money in Treasury.
From the Lewlston Tribune.
Oregon has no state debt, bonded, or
otherwise. This . is one . of the . first
facts stated In the biennial report of
State Treasurer Steel. There is' in the
treasury a cash balance cf 1658,330.16,
of which S214.897.98 Is in the general
fund an amount sufficient to pay state
expenses until next March, when taxes
for 1909 will be paid.
It is both a pleasure and a duty to
record facts "like the. foregoing. It Is
U the 'mor significant and notable aa
coming at a time when other states.
big and little, rich and poor, are up
to their ears in . debt and would be
over their ears except for constitutional
limitations that would make additional
debt unmarketat'e if issued. The fact
of having a governor to administer
the state economically and honorably is
only partly i responsible for Oregon's
clean record, since -it has been free or
practically free of bonded debt for
spme yeara. But, without Governor
Chamberlain It "is quite prohable there
would, have again been plenty of debt,
since-he has exercised thp veto pow'er
against the legislature unsparingly and
the knowledge that he would use It has
no doubt kept other extravagant appro
priation bins out that would otherwise
have been --logrolled - through, together
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGIVrS. .
Albany will soon need a second high
school building.
Another new town In Klamath county
Woraen, on tne lower tajte. -t
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The Prlnevllle flour mill ils running
right and day toflu orders.
Astoria' Is to have a training school
for nurses, after about January .!.
Jonenh claims to have the handsom
est bank building in Oregon outside of
rortiana.
A Myrtle Creek hotel keeper is doing
sucri a good Dustness mat no win en
large hla hotel.
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Prospects are bright for the ultimate
completion of the 140,000 capital for
tne mux conaenser in Atosny.
Mass meetings are the order of the
day In Wallow county mostly, just
now, about raising sugar peets.
A neighborhood In Marion-county la
named Pumpkin center. That ought
to be a food dace to go to set pumpkin
pies..
Business men and property owners of
Tne I'aues are entnusiastio over tne
proposition relative to the proposed
bonding of the city to pave the down
town district. ,
The manager of the Gilliam County
Milling company at Condon reports that
the mill had shipped 100,000 bushels
of wheat to Venesuela during the last
month and: a half.
Antelope, whloh went dry by three
votes, haa allowed Its saloons to run
openly ever since July l the same as
II noining nad nappenea, ana no com
plaints are ever heard over these vloi
la t ions.
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A barred Plymouth Rock hen. owned
by A. S. Hart of Albany has laid 256
eggs In the past year and haa thus es-
taDiisr.ed a new worm s recora ror tne
most egga ever laid In a year by one
nen. saya tne Herald. Tne rormer rec
ord, as compiled by poultry Journals,
was 201.
a
How can a sheriff sen boose In a
dry county, when It ia his duty to
arrest anyone else who does the same
thing? That la what Is worrying the
nentr or ltook county, wno naa oeen
oraerea oy a court to sen a lot or con
flscated boose, while the law forbldi
anybody to sell It
La Grande Observer: Water, water
everywnere, and not a arop ror irrlga
tion. While that Is a tact It will ot
always bo thus. No doubt If It waa a
more difficult undertaking we would
have had water out In the valley years
ago, not aa it runs on past and through
the valley so abundantly it is slmoly
a matter of building a reservlor and a
tew lateral aitcnes. "
Cecil .correspondence of lone Pro-
ciaimer: Iast Sunday being the third
Sunday and coming early In- the month
was evidently forgotten as .regular
service day. Rev. Atkinson oame, but
owing to tne small congregation did
not hold services. We regret this x
ceeaingiy. Brotner Atkinson, and will
try ana not let it nappen again.
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Drilling was continued after water
was round in a well near Madras, with
the result that the drill penetrated the
stratum or rock wnich held the water,
and the entire supply has been lost,
though It waa plentiful at 100 ftet, and
disappeared entirely when the drill had
gone down a few feet lower. The
wen u n w down over .150 feet and
there Is still no water, but drilling wM
be continued until it is found. A sim
ilar Incident occurred In Madras some
years ago, and many wells In the vicin
ity went dry, and the water in others
was lowered, In consequence.
but said that this advance of 6 cents
must be graded up between that line
and the Doluth, St Paul and the Mis
sissippi . river line, reaching the max
imum of 6 cents at the latter line of
terminals. Instead of grading up that
advance between the two lines In a fair
and reasonable way one which would
seem very easy to accomplish they
put the full advance Into effect In
most cases within from 10 to 60 or 100
miles of the Pemblna-Port Arthur line
Instead of the Duluth, 8t. Paul and
Mississippi river line. Thus they both
Ignored their promise to shippers and
Insulted the commission for a petty ad
vantage worthy only of tetty men.
Further, the applications they made of
the ruling were not uniform by all the
different roads similarly situated in
respect to length of haul, etc
Such a policy Is a contemntlhU one
and It is difficult to believe that the
big and broad men who are at the head
of the railroad systems could have
been responsible for sweh action. Such
a misapplication of the rates must have
been the work of subordinates who Im
agined that they were doing a service
to their employers by thus filching a
little advantage. Subordinates who
would be guilty of such work should
be "fired." They should no'longer have
the opportunity to endanger the reestab
lishment of friendly relations between
the railroads and the shippers which
In itself Is an advantage that far out
weighs any such pettifogging advan
tage as the railroads have sought to
secure In this kind of rate making.
It is, of course, Impossible for the
responsible officers of a railroad them
selves to figure out and apply each
rate. They must trust this work te
subordinates, and we still believe that
when the men really in authority on
the transcontinental lines and their
connections know and appreciate what
their subordinates have done the mis
takes the latter have made will be
remedied as quickly as possible and a
proper rebuke will be given subordin
ates who were so careless of their em
ployers' Interests.
with alt- the other trades and Jobs there
by made possible.
Methods That Should lie Exposed.
From the Salem Journal (Rep.).
The old Portland machine Is seeking
to destroy the direct -primary law and
defeat election of senators bv the direct
vote of the people. To do this It must I
nave tne organisation of the legisla
ture. t . i ,
To secure the organisation of the legis
lature it Is asking that all members elect
ed as Republicans go Into a secret caucus
and thus give a chance for corrupt in
fluences to prevail In the organisation
of both houses of the legislature.
Everybody should know that the old
corrupt Portland political machine
wants power solely for plunder, wants
the legislature organised ' for purposes
of graft and to defeat reforms and undo
alP that has been . accomplished for
purer. poi Itlcs In Oregon,
The-antl-machlne elements in Oregon
have s majority In both houses of the
legislature and - should- not betray rthe
people by handing over the organisation
to the, machine. r- v
Yet the agents of the machine have
time and money to travel all over the
state and solicit member of the legis
lature to carry out the machine pro
'FEMININE;
A Vocation Bureau, i c
T
HOSE of you : who heard Miss '
Emily GDbert'a address at tho
annual meetiag of the Consum
ers' League will remember that .
i , .she dealt in part with the work
of the college settlement In New York, "
in 'Investigating the occupations of the
girls who finish the grade school o.- .
as-far as they haver time to go ana
who are then obliged to find some kind
of occupation whereby they may earn
a living. As their parents are poor.it
la not possible for them to obtain a
better education and, so be fitted to
undertake more 'remunerative, work;
they must lust drift from one Job to
another without continuity or plan. -
You will remember that she empha
sised, particularly the entire absence tit '
any sort of connection between their
various employments and also the lack
of education .or training In industrial
pursuits. She spoke of the girl who
had successively held positions ( if mem
ory serves) as cash girl In a store, aa
paster of labels on bottles, and then at
sewing buckles on belts. No progres
sion,' you see, and nothing learned which
would be or hem in any otner : em
ployment.
A thoughtful Investigation, such mm r
the college settlement la making, la nec-
eaanriir tne rirsi tiling; iiiwi-inaie win
be evolved some plan by which these)
flrls can find an occupation for which,
hey are fitted and which they can do
with real liking. And that is the essential
beginning of any creditable or valuable
work in the world. .
In a number of the Outlook some two
months ago there was an Interesting ar
ticle along tnese tinea, a aescripuon or
a novel movement in Boston which,
crystallised into a vocation bureau. Its
purpose is to aid young men and young
women, auch as these. In choosing a
vocation and In nrenarlnr for It. The
bureau renders Its service free of charge
and Its list of trustees Includes the
namea of many of the men and wome.n
who are best known in the various char
itable and philanthropic enterprises of
that city.
mat seemingly enaiess ana least ap
preciated of pursuits, the gathering of
statistics, has been one of the chief
businesses of this vocation bureau, for
of course it is necessary in order to
lve advice as to an occupation, to
ave at hand the most complete knowl
edge as to the growth or decline of that
business, us reason lox oeing. ana tne
causes, industrial or .commercial, or
f eographlc, or political, which may ar
ect the business In any particular field.
But the gathering or data, important
aa Jt is, is not the only feature which
commends the vocation bureau. More
human and vital la its effort to give
personal advice to every Individual man.
woman; boy or girl, who is in need of
help in tho matter of selecting a voca
tion or learning how to fill it.
The story is told or a Doy wno was
bootblack but who had talent for
drawing. The councellor of the voca
tion bureau advised him to bring In
some or nis SKeicnes, ana rauno tnem
good. He was advised to study lettering
and tnen to try to get a piace in a eign
shop. This he did In a 'few weeks, anil
Instead of blacking boots found himself
on the wav to do the thine he liked to
do and in which he could give satisfac
tion, in wnicn, moreover, im wuuiu bq
vftnee steadily to good wages and wider
education.
These things are distinctly worth
while. It ia the greatest of pities, with
all the work that there Is to do In the
world, that so many people are heart
sick, or at least ill at ease, In the line
of work Into which they have drifted.
Only In a most highly organlxea ;8tate
of, society, of course, would it be pos-
slbleno establish an agency, ror giving
people .advice as to what kind of work
they are fitted for and how to sjet that
work. Yet that society at large would
be the better for such an adjusting, is
all too evident.
Have many of us round tne aeauy
right work for us?
Have we attained to that happy state
of society of which William Morris and
his coterie dreamed, .when each man's
heart should be In the work that he was
doing, and In which he felt himself to be
especially neeoea, tne rignt man in tne
right place? Not many.
How manv a man Is spending his la
bors over the routine of office business
whose heart Is sore with longing ftf
woman teaches scnooi wnen sne wants
to .sing, or washes clothes when fhe Is
fitted, to do careful clerical work, be
cause the way did not open for her to
get Into the kind of work that she
wanted to do?
We da a lot of adjusting, or course.
Fortunately that trait Is Inherent in the
human, since from the earliest history
of functioning life, the law has been
adjustment or death.
But if instead or adjusting we coum
i the thing w want to do -what a
load lifted, what a coming out Into the
sunshine, what a wiping of weary fur
rows from 1 heavy brows. Just to be
ble to do the thing we want to ao.
wnild be enough of happiness, wouldn't
it?
t et .
A Thanksgiving Game.
8 A QUIET little game after the
A hearty dinner give this spelling
test to the young people. It
sounds easy, but It Is also easy to make
mistakes. Let someone read and the
rest write:
Antlntous, a disappointed, deelccated
physicist, was peeling potatoes in an
-embarrassing and harassing way. Hla
idiosyncrasy and privilege was to
eat mavonnalse and mussels while rtBV
Ing at fhe Pleiades and seizing people s
tricycles and velocipedes. He was an
erring teetotaler, and had been on a
picayune Jamboree. He rode a palfrey
stallion and carried, a salable papier-'
mache bouquet of aaer. phlox, mullein,
chrysanthemums, rhododendrons, fuch
sias and nasturtiums.
He wore a Bthyl's resplendent tur
quoise paraphernalia, an ormulu yash
mak and astrakhan chaparejos. He
drank crystalltsable and disagreeable
curacao Juleps, through a sieve. He
stole some moneys and hid them under
a peddler's mahogany bedstead and mat
tress. Like a fiend in an ecstasy of gaiety.
I rushed after him into the nmelstrom,
or melee, and held him as In a vise.
I could not fees him. however, and
he addressed me, with autocracy. In the
following Imbecile words hlch sounded
like a soliloquy or a superseding paean
on an oboe:
"You are ratable luna-moth; a "
salaaming ylsler; an equinoctial cory
phee and . an isosceles daguerreotype."
From the October Bookman.
ft. ' M R
Simple Plum J'udding. '
0
NE cup grated carrot, one cup grated
potato, one Cup seeded raisins, one
cup sugar, one cup flour, one half
cup of - chopped suet, - one teaspoonful
cinnamon, one half teaspoonful , cloves,
one half grated nutmeg, one foiirth tea
spoon .salt, one half teaspoon? bicarbo
nate of soda. Steam three hours in cups,
and serve with hard ainuc.
ft 'ft, R
Inexpensive Pound Cake. .
A"
DD one cup of butter to one and one
half cups of flour, one and. one
half cups of sugar and one half
teaspoonful of baking powder. Beat
butter and flour to a cream. Beat four :
ggs and sugar light'; mix all together
and add the baking powder. Bake In a
tube pan in a moderate oven 45 minutes.
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The Daily Menn, ;:i .i.
: - "BREAKFAST.
Cracked Wheat with Cream. ; .
. - , Bnked Apples.
Soft Boiled Egs. Coffee.
- - LUNCHEON. -Kippered
Herring. . Waldorf Salad,
Graham Oemi, Cranberry Sauce. Cocoev '
-. DINNER. - y -
Clnm Broth.- Escallop of Turkey '
Glaxed Sweet potatoes. Cauliflower.!
- .Celery Salad. ' " J
; -.Pumpkin Tie. Cheese.
Black Coffe r