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selves. Greville.
SENATOR FULTON'S ERRAND
R. FULTON has been at Hot
Springs asking President-elect
Taft to Interfere in the Oregon
senatorial situation. What he
is asking Is that the president-elect
.advise members of the Oregon leg
islature to perjure themselves. He
is asking them to do that which
John Gill,, Judge McGinn, C. E. S.
Wood, Judge Lowell, W. S. Duniway,
W. B. Ayer, ex-District Attorney
Bristol, City Attorney Kavanaugh,
x-ttnited States Senator Mulkey, ex
Attorney General Idleman, J. P.
i Kennedy, County Clerk Fields and
many other leading Republicans say
these members are bound in honor
not to do. He Is asking the president-elect
to advise them to do that
which they solemnly pledged them
selves to the people of Oregon not to
do. He Is asking the president-elect
to stultify himself by advising mem
bers of the Oregon legislature to
stultify themselves by entering upon
a coarse of dishonor, perfidy, and
perjury. He is asking the president
elect to advise these members to defy
the expressed will of the electorate
of Oregon and to substitute for the
people's edict the personal program
concocted by politicians who have ul
terior purposes to serve.
It is an errand on which? because
of its unworthy character, Senator
Fulton ought not tcbe engaged. The
plain, people know the difference be
tween a straightforward course and
a course that is not straightforward.
They are quick to recognize bad
faith and as quick to punish it. They
fully understand that Senator Ful
ton's errand with the president-elect
Is Impossible because it involves
moral obliquity. It is a course con
demned by the united voice' of the
eastern newspapers and condemned
by the conscience of every man in
Oregon' who has. a conscience. It Is
political madness, because it would,
if the people's choice for senator be
set aside, bring a train of evils and
disaster from which there would be
no recovery. The solemn promise of
a man that he will do a specified act
cannot be violated without social and
political disaster to the man who vio
lates It and to those who induce him
to violate it. No man can profk
from perfidy. No man can succeed
through' perjury. No enterprise
founded on either can have other
outcome than ultimate disaster and
oblivion.
The news is that the president
elect" lias refused Senator Fulton's,
request, .which means that Mr. Taft's
judgment is to let the sovereign peo
ple of Oregon have their way and let
honest men remain uncorrnpted and
undisgraced.
A PARALLEL
I
T IS not in Oregon alone that
there Is effort to substitute a per-
' aonal program for a popular ver
dict. It is not in Oregon alone
that there is attempt to perjure
pledged legislators. There is a com
plete parallel in North Dakota, and
It is a parallel with a moral. One
Hansbrough was a senator from
North Dakota. His term is expiring
next March. He was a eandldntn far
reelection, but In the primary elec
tion wai beaten. When the votes
were counted the popular choice was
not Hansbrough, but another. Now
Hansbrough Is seeking to overthrow
the popular verdict and to Induce the
legislature to substitute "hlni for the
man named by the people. His at-.
ijiuue is aescnuea in an anicie rrom
a North Dakota paper, elsewhere on
this page, .It. Is an article that has
a familiar ring In Oregon.
Like Oregon. North Dakota has a
legislature la which the majority of
the members are pledged. They are
pledged to vote for ' the popular
c totce t or senator, -Hansbrough and
Ms lieutenants are trying to induce
the pledged, membera , to perjure
themselves. He hopes by that course
to Tvorra l is way back Into the senate
i tax ik -wv
through the legislative choice. It
makes no difference to him that he
was rejected by the people. It
makes no difference to him that his
attitude clearly commits him as an
opponents of people's rule and in
favor of personal program rule. It
makes no difference' .to him that the
only way he can reach the senate is
over a pathway of broken, pledges
and perjured men. It makes no dif
ference to him that he was rejected
by the people of his state on his rec
ord of 1 6 years in the senate. Noth
ing makes any difference to him.
The senatorship allures him and he
is willing to ride into it through
perfidy, perjury or any other
process.
A feature of the Hansbrough am
bition is of striking interest in Ore
gon. The candidate who beat Hans
brough is a Republican. It is a Re
publican that holds the Indorsement.
It is a Republican whom 75 per cent
of the legislators are pledged to sup
port. Yet in spite of the fact that
he is a Republican in a Republican
state and knocking at the door of
Republican legislature there Is ex
actly the same fight directed in the
same way and under exactly the
same circumstances as that which
is manifest in Oregon. There the
pledge was made to support the party
choice, and it is the choice of the
Republican party that is reflected in
the candidate whom Hansbrough and
his heelers are trying to beat. It Is
a parallel of striking significance in
that it shows that were Chamberlain
a triple-plated, double-distilled Re
publican, there would be a fight In
Oregon against him Just the same.
It shows that the partisanship Issue
raised Is a howling mockery, a hypo
critical buncombe, a trick resorted
to, not In the interest of the Repub
lican party, but because certain pol
iticians want to be senator and pro
pose to overthrow the' people's will
and get the office If they can. It
not, why Is the same fight waged in
the same way and under exactly the
same conditions In North Dakota
where the Indorsed candidate for
senator is a Republican?
THE PISTOL FOLLY
A'
BRIDEGROOM of four days shot
to death, his bride saved by a
hairsbreadth from the same
fate, and the assailant self-
slain by his own murderous weapon.
Is the news that comes from a farm
near Amboy, Wash. In Los Angeles
there Is a law that requires a permit
from the mayor for any man who
carries a weapon, and there is a
heavy penalty for violations.
Only in very rare instances has
good ever come- to any man from
carrying a revolver. The concealed
weapon Is the Inspiration, the re
liance and largely the cause of
burglars, highwaymen and thugs.
Every one of them has his ready re
volver, and depends upon it as the
ultimate reliance in his miserable
business of attempting to live with
out work. The presence, in the coun
try of a vicious population that op
erates in the night and hides by day
Is in part accounted for by the ease
with which murderous weapons are
obtained, carried in concealment and
used when required. The revolver
is essential to the business and its
function is to make the night
prowler bold enough for his work.
He is a coward as shown by the fact
that he Is afraid to face the world
in an attempt at an honest living.
The revolver Is his first and best
tool and the Instrument that nerves
him for his work.
The evils heaped upon innocent
people by the concealed pistol folly
are unmeasurable. The Amboy farm
tragedy, is a sample. The shooting
of Dr. Robertson at Salem is an
other. The numerous narrations of
murder and death in every daily
newspaper are reflective of how
widespread Is the revolver madness.
The multitude of accidents is an
other consequence. All these things
point to our insanity in tolerating
the practice. The law should end it
and could end it if public sentiment
would so direct. Public sentiment
ought to do It for the sake of public
safety. A strict state law requiring
permits from circuit judges, heavy
penalties, the right of search and
rigid enforcement this Is reform
that would reform, and to which men
should address themselves.
MOltE EQUIVOCATIONS
T
HE PENDLETON TRIBUNE
and two or three other party
organs speak similarly disin
genuously says that it has not
urged or even suggested that State
ment No. members of the legis
lature should not keep their pledge;
it only urges that they go into
caucus and act as Republicans. This
is pitiful equivocation and dodging.
Day after day that paper insists that
a Republican state should be repre
sented by Republican senators, and
argues that the pledge of Statement
No. 1 members is unconstitutional
and void, and intimates by every
suggestion that it can devise that
they "shou-id violate their pledger yet
when accused of ei-advising denies
with an affectation of virtue that it
has done so. It would .be more
manly and less censurable to do or
say outright and outspokenly what
it repudiates doing or saying than to
make these patently false pretenses.
The difference between what.it has
said and what it denies having said
is less than the difference between
tweedledum and tweedledee. Though
Mr j Geef has said that personally he
would keep such a pledge, by every
argument he can Invent he urges the
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Statement No. 1 members to break
their pledge, leaving the little knot
hole that he has not specifically and
in positive terms advised them to do
so, to crawl out through. An editor
who openly advocates the violation. of
the pledge is entitled to more re
spect than one who thus instigates
and incites members to this course
and then pretends that he has not
done so.
SOME FACTS ABOUT SUGAR
F
EW PEOPLE except sugar trust
experts understand much about
the sugar schedule of the tariff
law, with its "differentials,"
"Dutch standards," "polarlscope
tests," "reciprocity agreements, etc.
About all that the average person
knows is that the duty is fixed up to
suit the trust, and the consumers
have to pay the trust price. The
secretary of the tariff reform com
mittee of the New York Reform club
furnishes some Information that may
be of Interest.
Practically no refined sugar is Im
ported, the refiners having a "dif
ferential" of 13 cents per 100
pounds; that is, the duty on refined
sugar is that much more than the
duty on the quantity of raw sugar
required to make 100 pounds-of re
fined sugar. The benefit of this
"differential" goes chiefly if not al
together to combined refiners, not to
consumers. The "Dutch standard"
merely relates to color, '"No. 16
Dutch standard" being the ordinary
limit as to lightness of color; the
"polarlscope test" relates to purity,
most Importations being of 9 6 de
grees while pure refined sugar is 100
degrees. The duty on raw sugar
testing 96 degrees and not above No.
16 Dutch standard is J1.685 per 100
pounds.
In the year 1907 the consumption
of sugar In the United States was ap
proximately 3,000,000 tons, of which
400,000 tons were beet sugar pro
duced in this country. About 350,
000 tons were Louisiana cane sugar
refined in eastern refineries; 200,
000 tons were imported free from
Porto Rico and 400,000 tons were
imported free from Hawaii; 1,430,
000 tons subject to duty came from
Cuba, -10,000 tons came from the
Philippines and the remainder of
less than 300,000 tons came from
countries not politically attached to
this country. Cuba pays only 80
per cent and the Philippines 75 per
cent of the regular duty. The aver
age ad valorem duty on sugar is 65
per cent, and the annual revenue
from this source Is- between $50,
000,000 and $60,000,000, out of a
total customs revenue of about
$300,000,000.
Beet sugar production In the
United States is confined chiefly to
California, Colorado, Idaho, Utah,
Wisconsin and Michigan, and is
mostly sold in the west. Cuba wants
the duty cut to 5 0 per cent, and Mr.
Taft and Secretary Wright aree
with the Filipinos that their small
sugar product should come in free,
and this is certainly Just, since they
are complete subjects of this govern
ment, and especially when their pro
duction for many years to come
could not increase to keep pace with
the increase in consumption in this
country.
The "trust" is the American Sugar
Refining company, but it has at
times had, and to some extent has
yet, opposition on the part of the
Spreckles company and the Arbuckle
Brothers, who say they are willing
to give up all the duty on refined
sugar If raw sugar can come in free.
But sugar Is a very good object upon
which to place a duty, for much
must. be imported, and it is a large
revenue producer. Revenue and not
protection of a trust or combine of
refiners should be the principal ob
ject of the duty, and the incidental
protection that a revenue tariff
would afford would be sufficient.
But what do the old ring organs
want the Statenient No. 1 members
to go into caucus about? As to the
senatorship these men have no occa
sion for a caucus, nor any business
iu one. In the matters of organiza
tion and choosing of officers and em
ployes, a Republican caucus is un
objectionable. Beyond that there Is
nothing requiring or Justifying par
tisan action. -
Years ' ago, when steel rails were
sold for $24 a ton, and a competi
tor threatened to reduce the price
to $15.50, Mr. Carnegie said he
could go him a dollar better and sell
them at $14.50 and still make
money. Now steel rails are $28 or
$30, to Americans, while the cost of
production is probably not much
greater than It was then. But this
infant industry must be protected.
Acting Police Judge Seabrook has
the correct idea of the fellows who
''pack a gun." He fined some of"
them the limit, $50, yesterdayand
regreted that the limit was not three
times as much. A large number of
arrests of people who habitually
carry revolvers and Buch sentences
will do much Jo" prevent mischief
and" crime. '
Apparently the Republican party
will keep Its pledge to revise the
tariff. But revision," observe, will
be by its friends; that Is, friends of
the protected interests.
The railroads want a. deep chan
nel from Portland to the sea, but no
open rivers above Portland. 'Their
views are expressed, somewhat dls
guised, in a Portland newspaper.
But the people generally want both
the deep channel below and open
rivers above.
Boni Castel lane's attorney makes
De Sagan out : to be about as dls
reputable and debauched a creature
as lives, and very . likely tells ' the
truth about him. ' But when he tries
to whiten the character of Boni the
job is a failure. . He and De Sagan
are apparently well . matched, and
either is well enough mated to the
woman who married them.
Senator Foraker says the Dingley
tariff law is Just right, and little me-
too Dick echoes the opinion. For
tunately, Foraker will end his ser
vice in the senate on March 4, and
little Dick will follow him out two
years later.
Are Gnosts Unhappy?
New York, Nov. 2S. Whil doubtlni
the existence of ghosts. Professor a.
Stanley Hall, of Clark University, the
Institution which recently offered a cash
prize for the capture of authentic proof
of the existence of- a spook, has startled
telepathlsta and Investigators generally
by announcing that If ghosts do exist
they are undoubtedly unhappy what
Huok Finn would call a "poor lot."
After Investigating hundreds of eases.
Dr. Hall Is more than ever unconvinced
of the existence of ghosts and In an ex
planation of his attitude which he con
tributes to Appleton a mnrafne cues his
reasons for his position. "No ghost was
ever seen to do or say anything im
portant," he says, "but all their reputed
acts and words are sor- trlval as to Inti
mate that such a life as they lead must
be boresome."
The president of the ghost seeking
university, In answer to the assertions
of persons who declare that they have
seen ghosts, makes the novel retort that
plenty of persons who have been struck
on the head have seen sparks, without
the sparks being in any way real. "Till
comparatively recently." says he, "the
whole world believed that the sun went
around the earth, but this concensus
does not add an lota to the probability
that It ever did so."
"Likewise," says the University presi
dent, "it is not logicat to belleVe that
ghosts exist simply because some people
believe in them. The list of once uni
versal superstitions Is a long one. but it
does not prove anything. It Is hard to
realize that our Intimate friends, espe
cially if they died Ruddenly and afar off,
so that we did not see the corpse or
the Interment, are really dead, and this
has a good deal to do with coses of
those supposed to return to earth." The
chief result of years of investigation,
however, leads Dr. Hall to conclude that
by their manifestations, even if such
manifestations be accepted, ghosts must
be a sorrowful lot. a statement jvhlch
shows the possibilities for the formation
of a society for the amelioration of the
condition of spooks.
The Optimist.
I am tired tonight, O soul of mine!
I have had to walk so far,
And the way was steep
And the darkness deep,
On the road of the things that are!
I was ever so hopeful, soul of mine.
When I took tlie roaa, a emm:
O. It seemed so bright,
For my heart was light.
And I looked at the world and smiled.
And now my brow Is furrowed, soul
And I fear my heart Is, too.
I feel a tear; J
A sigh is near-
Soul, how does It seem to you?
Why. It seems to me as if we had come
Through the best or lanas tnai are,
With never a day
That was dull or gray,
Or a night that showed no star!
I saw you smile when you took the road,
I knew you did not know.
For 'the smile of the sun
Is a barren one
Till it causes the seed to grow.
It must meet the barren clod "and fight
Till the lump with Its rervor glows.
The skies must dower
With many a shower
Ere fruit or flower shows!
And you, my child, in many a way
Were a sterile, oarren cioa.
Rich without fears,
But poor without tears,
yith hope for a magic rod.
Before you had journeyed far you found
1 nat someone aaa wamcuiijuu iub.
I remember your look
When labor took
Tour hand; I recall you cried!
I told you he was your truest friend.
jBut you aouoiea, bo n wa nuu,
With your love withheld
From the work he willed
The joy of the task was marred.
It is so with the most of men, my child,
It's the source of sighs and tears.
We hold the heart
From the working part,
And wonder at wearying years!
So, though we have come through the
best of lands,
With the best of skies above,
You feel the load.
For along the road
Your labor was barren of love.
Leigh Mitchell Hodges In Philadelphia
North American.
Portland's Growth.
From the La Grande Observer.
Every citizen of Oregon should be
glad of the wonderful growth of the city
of Portland. The census of 1900 credit
ed her with 90,000. Now It Is estimat
ed by Polk's census takers that these
figures must be increased to 225,000.
Allowing that these may be In excess
of actual conditions by several thou
sand, yet the fact remains that port
land has more than doubled her popula
tion within the last eight years, a
growth that stands second to few rec
ords of our country. The larger Port
land grows the better in every way It
will be for the entire state. The end
Is not yet and there Is every reason
to believe that her growth wUl continue-
to be as great the next few
years as It has been the past. Port
land draws from an Immense territory.
The great watershed of the Columbia
river flows Into her lap. The growth of
the great Inland empire; the develop
ment of the great Interior of Oregon,
all will redound to a greater Portland.
We are all proud of our metropolis and
may her prosperity never cease.
Everett C. Bumpns. Birthday.
Everett C. Bumpus, a member of the
international Panama land claims com
mission, was born at Plymptun. Ma.,
November 2S, 1844. In boyhood he
removed with hla parente to Bralntree,
and received there his .early education.
After serving in the war. first as a
private soldier, then at the head of
his company, he studied law and was
admitted to the bar In 1867. He was
on the bench from 1872 to 1882. For
20 years Judge Bumpus was- a member
of numerous commissions chosen by
the Massachusetts courts to settle ques
tions of water, gaa, electric and land
franchises. As a member of the inter
national Panama lands commission he
has spent,, much of his' tlmp abroad
during the past two Veara. j '
i Lincoln county has a new postoffl-
named Taft- That nua-bt tn help It
row.
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Now buy your Christmas presents--.
Now the annual jokes about turkey
uaou w iu uruvr.
Now that horrible "Umii" will
be
in vogue for nearly a month. -
Gomcers now save that ti lan't i
Democrat We don't blame him.
Some people wouldn't Ttanrnlu nrna.
penty if they sat down' to dinner with
it. ,
Most people after a holldav. ai ftr
election, can be thankful that it is
over.
-
The man who missed srettlnsr a turkev
before Thursday is lucky.; he has more
money.
Stllf, traveling by balloon will not
be popular with the masses for a good
while yet.
Now there is to be -a bovs' consxeaa.
Next, we suppose, a girls' congress, then
a children's congress and an infanta'
congress.
If Pu Tl Is all of that kid emnernr
of China's name he probably has- the
shortest one on record. His nickname
might be PI.
The Increase in railroad f reia-hta will
amount to $10,000,000 a year or more.
The railroads are determined to be pros
perous, if possible. -
"You can work long hours if you are
careful what you ,eat, says Mr; Rocke
feller. A good many men would change
this to read: "We can work long hours
if we can get enough to eat."
It is no crime for a man to walk
across the continent bumming his way,
or to when a barrow around the conti
nent, on a bet; it Is not even vicious or
appreciably Injurious to anybody; but
there is nothing useful, praiseworthy or
admirable about it, and such tramps
would iret only what they deserve If
everybody turned a cold shoulder to
them. i
WOULD PERJURE LEGISLATORS
Though Rejected by the People at the Primaries, Hansbrough Vant
the North Dakota Senatorship
From the Rugby (N. D.) Optimist.
H. C. Hansbrough has openly an
nounced his candidacy for( the, senate, to
succeed himself, this winter. We cannot
believe that Mr. Hansbrough's aspira
tions will be considered seriously by a
egislature three fourths of which Is
pledged to vote for the candidate of
their party receiving the highest num
ber of votes that man being M. N.
Johnson of Petersburg. We don't be
lieve that Hansbrough, personally, Ih
half so bad a fellow as some others
profess to. and we sympathfae with hlro,
to a certain extent, in his humiliating
defeat at the polls, but our sympathy
does not extend far enough to lead us
to wish for a minute that the legisla
ture would select him to again repre
sent us in the senate. Mr. Hansbrough
has had his day. He had -IS years in
which to work for and prove to the
people of this state, whom he was sup
posed to represent, that he was the
champion of the people and not the pup
pet of the trusts, as he was charged
with being. He had all the opportunity
in the world to show the people that
he was right on all questions pertain
PRESS OPINIONS ON THE SENATO
RIAL SITUATION
Unreasonable Stuff.
From the Seaside Signal (Rep.).
The most unreasonable lot of editorial
stuff ever published In a newspaper
that pretends to be working for the
moral uplift of the people is that run
ning in the Oregonlan. advising State
ment No. 1 members of the legislature
to violate their pledges. O, consist
ency! thy name will never be used in
connection with the Oregonlan.
Preaching Dishonor and Infamy.
From the Weston Leader (Ind.).
The Oregonlan Is at some pains to
explain that pledges and promises
hntilil not be kent in certain Instances
one of such Instances, of course, being the
pledge to vote for Chamberlain lor tne
United States senate, taken by a ma
jority of the members of the next leg
islature. It is unfortunate that a great
paper like the Oregonlan should permit
itself to lapse Into such a disreputable
moral and mental attitude. It doesn't
seem to be aware that it is preaching
dtshonorand Infamy In the Interests of
the "Fulton crowd." Its code of ethics
In this particular would really discredit
a Digger Indian, it i ihiwhiuj vvj
turn from the Oregonlan's columns to
the utterances of strong and upright Re
publicans like Henry E. McGinn, who
say that they fought Chamberlain at
the polls, "but that he is unquestionably
the "people's choice," and that nothing
will excuse a legislator who breaks his
pledge.
AVhat People Would Think.
From the Grants Pass Outlook (Rep ).
All these considerations combined do
not furnish a sufficient reason or ex
cuse for the wholesale repudiation of a
pledge even a political pledge. This
would be an anomally at which the na
tion might Indeed mock; this would fur
nish a .-spectacle at which the nation
mlgnt. well wonder; this would bo a
precedent at which constituents would
naturally stand aghast. The member-
elect, who. having made this pledge in
the hope that he would thereby insure
his election, violates It ih the next as
sembly will not merely lay himseir
open to the charge of being swerved
from his purpose by eleventh hour in
fluences; his constituents will be quick
to arrive at the conclusion that he took
the pledge wljth the cool and premeditat
ed Intention of violating it, for there
is not a candidate who dtl not realise
that the present contingency was not
only possible, but-very probable. Verily
we may consider tnat we nave raiien or.
evil days If aquestlon of party alle
giance shall lead wen. to even the sem
blance of dishonor.
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Will Keep Their Pledge. j
From the Mount Scott News (Ind.).
So there is a plan en foot te keep the1
Statement No. 1 "men from redeeming
their pledge to the voters of Oregon?
Now honestly, can the state trust their
business affairs to men who win de
liberately break their-pledge of honor,
(whereby -they got ttielr offices as legis
lators and senators t Are mere no men
of honor any more? We do not believe
It. We believe that they will think
better for it. ' A pledge is a pledge. Can
we, we repeat, trust our public busi
ness to a man who deliberately breaks
his pledge, his word of honor? Not and
he who does it signs his political death
warrant, then and there. - , .
The Statement No. I pledge was r.ot
forced on anyone, It was ev voluntary
: ' ' . " v ' - '-. .? . i
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
Even at this season many people visit
oeasiae. i -. ...
- -
- North Powder is. to have a sash and
door mllL ,
A steer being fattened by a Hubbard
man has been increased in weight from
1,600 to l,4& pounds.
It has been demonstrated beyond
doubt that Klamath county can grow
celery the equal of any in the United
states, says tne KepuDiican.
Approximately 165,000 apple and pear
eea will be Dianten in me. noKue mver
valley in the vicinity of Medford dur
ing the coming winter, according to the
estimate of County Fruit Inspector G.
W. Tavlor. This means about 8000 acres
additional orchard., making a total of
4i.ooo acres of fruit orcnara in tne
valley.
Astoria Budget: For several years
there has been a cnannei tnrougn
the east end of Sand island and
duvtnr the recent storms it has
not only Increased Its width but
has also carried away fully 600 feet
from each end of that end of the is
land. The beacon light, -that was on
high land at one end, is now far out in
the water and deep water is around it.
Corvallis Times: This county needs
people; It needs farmers used to making
a living on from 20 to 40 acres. If
those who have lare holdings would
agree to sell portions of their ground
reasonably, purcnasers wouio soon m
found. A lare number cultivating 20
and 40 acre farms . would result !n
greatly enhanced value or all real es
tate In this section. It would brine
dollars into the community, where there
are now out cents.
Nearly 10,000 cages with 48 pounds In
case, were canned In a Bandon can
nery this fall, being nearly double the
output of last year. Owing to the
strike In the early part ox tne season
the cannery did not start operations
until about the first of October, and,
had It started on time the output would
Drobahly have reached the 12,000 case
mark. There was not. only a large run
of salmon this year, but they were or
first class quality.
ing to their welfare, and that he could
be depended upon In all emergencies.
How well he performed these functions
Is a matter that has, apparently, oeen
passed upon by the people whom he
has represented allthls time, and the
verdict was decidedly adverse to his
further political preferment. Whether
the people were competent to pass upon
this matter Intelligently or not, there
may be some room for argument in the
mini of Mr. Hansbrough, who undoubt
edly reels that he has been misrepre
sented, but the fact remains that they
have passed upon It, and their verdict
is Irrevocable or. at least should be, In
every sense of the word. Mr. Hans
brough has no right to seek the nomlna
Hon, and he certainly cannot expect to
get It unless he believes that the leg
islature this winter will contain a suf
ficient number of Benedict Arnolds and
Judas Iscarlots to turn the trick for
him. Men may be found there who re
gard their pledge so lightly that they
feel absolved from It by the decision
of the courts, but no man with an ounce
of self respect either for himself or
for his constituency, will vote for other
than M. N. Johnson.
act on the pari of these senators and
legislators. Now why should they not
keep It Inviolate? Is partylsm so far
above principle that the party whip
amounts to more, than honor? If so,
then Indeed Oregon may well put on
sackcloth and weep for the future of
this grand state. But we do not be
lieve It. We will trust these men once
more. The man In the tall tower Is hot
so influential as to make them forget
their duty to their constituents, and
the good of the state.
Partylsm Is now a thing of the past,
under direct legislation and the Initia
tive and referendum. Statement No. 1 is
a notice served on the people of Oregon
and the country-at-large. that the Uni
ted States senatorial seat of Oregon is
no longer "for sale." To go back to
the "barter and trade" system of a few
years ago, which we all remember with
shame, would be to ncknnwlpri (hot
we cringe to the crack of the party
Whip. No, Statement No. 1 is here to
stay, ana Oregon will shine In th r
ture as the brightest star in the galaxy
False Moral Reasoning.
From Frank Davey's Harney County
newi tKep.;.
The strongest reason urged to Justlfv
the violation of the pledges of State
ment ko. l legislators Is the dwirtlnn
of the supreme court of North Dakota
mat sucn a pledge is unconstitutional
and cannot be legally exacted and there
fore can be ignored without betraying
any trust.
There may be strict legal truth In
this, but we believe the moral reason
ing is false. The Oregon candidate for
the legislature took his oledge freely
and voluntarily. He took his chances as
to the effect such pledge would have
upon hls candidacy before the- pri
maries and again at the polls. Is It not
too late now for him to seek excuses to
go back on it?
If any member of the legislature
feels that he was elected under a con
dition which now makes him nonrepre
sentatlve. it is his duty to resign and
let ttie people fill his place. If there
are Statement No. 1 members whose
conscience rebels-against carrying out
that statement resignation Is the rem
edy and should be taken at once.
This Date in History.
1788 Duo de Broglie. French states
man ami diplomat, born. Died January
rJi95T"TJ'faity f Peace made with the
Dew of Algiers, by which an annual
tribute was given by the United States
for the redemption of captives
1828 John Gilbert mad hi. ...!
appearance on the stage of the Tremonti
nit a 1 1 o in Dustun.
1832 LOUlSa M. Alcott. emthnr KKn,
IS G2rmn.tr"i .. --.Pl in Boston,1
jntiri-ii o. 109.
1839 Washinrton Irvlna- ini
aninor, aiea. . corn April 7. 178!
1861 Lord Monck took the oath of
office as governor general of Canda.
1967 Honorable Rodolphe Lemjeux
of the Canadian government received
at lunch by the empress of Japan.
England on the Water Wagon. ,
From Progress.
Chsrles Roberts, M. P in his book
on "The Time Limit and Local Option"
brings . out the fact revealed by the
home of Ice returns,-that -of the 12.995
civil parishes In rural districts In Eng
land and Wales there are 8902 (more
tban 80 per cent) In which t herein no
license." ' In the "county of Lincoln
shire 45 per cent are no license parishes. I
Ike REALM
FE.MININL
"Lettejrs From tne People
Ltttera to Th Journal should bo wrlttee OS.
no ldo of tb paper only, and 1110014 be so
fompaoled by tho Da mo sod address of the
writer. Th Bam wUl not ho ad If tho
writer asks that It be withheld. Tho Journal
Is not to bo nnderstood ss Indorsing the Ttowi
or ststetoents of correspondents. Letters should
be made s brief ss possible. Those who with
their letters returned when not used should In
dose postage. - . ..!..'
Corrsspocdeatt are notified that letters ox
eeedinc auo worda in leneth Bur. at the dis
cretion of Ue editor, be cut down to that Unit.
Pleads for Physical Culture.
Houlton, Or., Nov. 26. To the Editor
of The Journal Admlttfng that the pub
lic school of today is a very satisfactory
improvement on the school of many
years ago. It Is ctlll apparent that the
system ia far .from what it should be..
The school laws are very emphatic In
compelling children to attend school for
mental training, but do nothing for the
proper physical t raising of the child.
further than pl-ovldlng a nominally san
itary condition In the schoolroom. This
iieo-ieci oi tne proper pnyeucai aoveiuy-
iiiem ox ine cnua is almost, as in
jurious to the child and the community
as was. the fashion in years gone by of
neglecting the mental development. Of
course the physical part of -the child
usually asserts its right to development
very strongly and manages In some way
though osually without either system
or profit, to attain enough strength to
serve Its purpose fairly well. It Is just
as much the duty of the state to pro
vide for the physical development of
the child as It is to provide for the
mental development of it."
Any healthy child over 10 years of
age could , perform four hours' physical
work and the same number at mente.I
work each day and at the age of IS
years would be worth more to himself
nd to the world than three times the
number under the present- system nt
that age, If both the physical and
mental work were adapted to the capa
bility of the child.
Of course some of the leaders of t'.ie
society that looks after the prevention
of cruelty to children would throw up
their hands In horror at the Idea of a
law compelling young children to per
form any profitable labor that would
have a tendency to eliminate any of the
childish mischief that now gives our
juvenile courts so many hard cases to
settle, but the spasm would finally give
way to their better Judgment when the
wholesome results of full development.
Instead of half development of the child
were once realized. It would materially
relieve the physical restlessness that
now so distracts many a parent as to
cause them to drive the restless child
out of their presence at the very time
that the child so much needs the par-''
ent's care, and would be a welcome re
lief to many a nervous, overworked
teaehrr in the school.
A Charles Dickens, a James A. Gar
field, an Abraham Lincoln or a Booker
T. Washington cannot be produced with
out th. aid of physical toll any more
than steam can be. produced without
some form of moisture from which to
produce it.
Why not give the children a chance to
use their muscles and develop them as
well as their brains? They would en
joy It and the world woulu greatly profit
by It , A PARENT.
How We Can Use Rockefeller.
Charles Edward Russell in the Novem
ber Everybody's.
Let us have some one blessed thing
dODe In this country on some other
basis than that of dollars.
But at present we seem always to get
hold of all these matters by the wrong
end. We have some thousands of rich
men that are willing to endow univer
sities and found libraries and establish
hero funds and subscribe to dubious
philanthropies, but we do not seem to
have any that are willing to serve the
community by doing anything the com-
munlty wants to have done. And this
IS the more lamentable because some
of our rich men have shown in' the
amassing of their private fortunes a
considerable endowment of the very
qualities that society most has need of.
Take organization, for Instance. Th-
principal lack in our municipal affairs
Is, after ail. not so much a lack of
honesty as of organization. In all our
great cities; but particularly In New
York, there Is no discernible plan about
any known thing, but we get on by
Bheer main ' strength and stupidity.
Suppose we could utilize the talent far
organization that Mr. Rockefeller pos
sesses, or Mr. Carnegie. Nobody has
ever stolen much from Mr. Rockefeller;
he organized a system to prevent steal
ing. Nobody has wasted much of his
time, and no part of the work he want
ed to have done has been spoiled for
want of coherency and design. He nev
er allowed anything to go to waste
about his shop and his enterprises have
mver been encumbered with - useless
material and useless men.
But he has had no monopoly of this
order of talent; thousands of other men
i.avo been at least as liberally gifted.
Under our present organization of so
ciety it is impossible for us to make
anything like a full use ox such ability,
but at least we can get some of it,
ff only we can get the idea started
that disinterested service for the com
mon good Is an, honor and a privilege.
Growing Crops With Electricity.
From Electrical Service.
In England they are experimenting on
growing wheat and vegetables with the
aid of electricity. The tests so far
have been very successful on a small
scale at the experimental station.
A number of wires are stretched over "'
the field high enough from the ground
to permit the farming operations to
go on underneath. These wires extend
all over the acreage under experiment
and are supported by posts in long
parallel spans, protected by high-tension
Insulators. Electricity is supplied
at a pressure of 100,000 volts. As soon
aa the wires are charged leakage be
gins, "Brush" discharges take place
all alons the line; that is, the electricity
"fizzles" off the' line with a peculiar
buzzing, audible to the ear and with a
glow which Is visible in the dark. Any
one walking about below the wires can
distinctly feel the effect of the elec
tricity on the hair. This stimulating
action of electricity Is what makes the
plants life i grow so uch better and
quicker than under natural conditions.
TOIIIV ecu unj UUI IS BIIUL Oil '
at night -Gooseberries yielded 17 per
cent increase under Its subtle influ
ence; strawberries, 36-80 per cent in
crease; tomatoes, none. In another plot
carrots yielded 60 per cent Increase and
beets 80 per cent, with an Increase of
1 per cent sugar content under sim
ilar treatment - .
. Twenty acres of wheat were treated
with discharge wires st a considerable
height and high .tension current; the
electrified wheat gavC a better quality
t f. flour. - f .r-
A Myrtle Creek man has bougfit 100
acres of rich bottom land for 810.000
and will well it in five and 10 acre
li avis. - 1
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