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September t, 1908.
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A guilty conscience Is like
j a whirlpool, drawing' In all
J to Itself which would other
wise pass It by. Fuller.
THE REAL ISSUE
T
HE REAL issue in the senatorial
controversy m not wno is 10
be the man that is to be sena
tor. It Is - not a question 'of
what is his name. It is not a ques
tion of 'what is his party. The real
issue Is' bigger than the man. It
7 .i 'k is bigger than any party. It Is a
:? principle. . Men die and parties de-
cay, but; a principle ls eternal. It
f never changes. It Is the same yes
. ter.day and tomorrow. A principle
J . of this character is at stake in Ore
J v-- gon. ' It Is one that has been contro-
" verted and warred over since the
i v beginning. It is one over .which
!" rivers of blood have been shed and
multitudes of men slain. It is the
S time worn question of whether the
" . many shall rule themselves, or
whether they shall be ruled by , a
j "Z few. It is' the question of whether
the many- shall be masters, or
i whether they shall be servants.
J' As pteaented In Oregon, it is In
'''a changed form, but is still the same
old controversy .issue." In Oregon
it ' takes . the form of whether the
.choice of a senator, shall be dictated
s-by mscrupal6us bosses, or . whether
he shall be named by all the people,
The bosses assert that-it should be
j done by the few; the people insist
that it should be made-by the many.
This is the issue,. and it is all there
lo of the issue. It is squarely pre-
J ,l nented,. and the question is whether
!' the bosses are to have their way, or
whether the people are to have their
way. .There is no otner interpreta
tion that can be placed upon the
present' discussion. Side issues may
be raised, but they are not germane.
Those who favor- popular selection
of senators are on one side, and
those who favor selection by bosses
are on the other. There is absolute
ly no chance of a misunderstanding.
"The or knowethi his owner, and the
ass his master's crib."
ALAS, FOR PUBLIC ORDER 1
T
HE MOB' spirit has been given
encouragement in : Illinois. A
jury has failed to convict one
of the leaders of the Sprlng-
m. field mob. The failure is disap
t - pointing in that it was believed that
; here was a case with sufficient evl
Jv dence and enough public sentiment
back of it to raise a check against
mob violence. The effect cannot be
V:l otherwise than demoralizing. It is
fjt practical demonstration to those who
: V lead mobs that there is small retrl
butive peril in their acts. It opens
H the way for them to lead in another
l sqene of -disorder, arson and murder
whenever occasion again suggests a
foray. It is the more lamentable in
that this miscarriage of the law is In
the conservative. state of, Illinois. It
is a state in which the race problem
is not nearly so aggravated as in the
south. . The denouement is one to
have been expected in Mississippi,
because of the pent up racial feeling
prevalent' there, but hardly to have
' been looked for in Illinois. -
It means that the violent enter
t1 prises that have been prevalent for
i some years have left , their mark.
f$ The Illinois citizenship has become
affected and the refusal of ; the
V't SpriDjrfield Jury to ; convict is the
sequel. It is a blow at public or
V der and Its fruitage will be disorder.
It Is in a sense . alarming, because
development of the mob spirit, in-,
- creasing as It can through & long
r process of years, could bring about
conditions greatly to be feared. If
mobs here and mobs there take the
j into their own hands apd resort
. to violence, arson and murder, if
" ther be no restraining punishment
,' and the spirit more - and more
., spreads, and if with multiplying pop
ulation, crowded cities and crowded
lands the process of violence goea
on developing, what will the ulti
ma to be but eorae time an occasion
wtrn'the whole country wlll'be in
' vy'vd in a.ruwlcss urri-tlng 6f whfth
AN ANTI -
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T IS acknowledged that some dif
ficulties stand In the war of a
repression of the gun habit, But
that is no reason for inaction.
If there were no obstacles to over
come there would be no great car
reers. It is often the . difficulties
that must be conquered that make
the ultimate worth while.
A first step in dealing with the
folly would seen! to btf a strict regu
lation of the sale of firearms. Make
the buyer. present a permit and re
quire the dealer to report the sale
to police authorities. The record
might, sometimes be a means of ex
plaining a murder. The requirement-might
some time be a means
Of preventing a murder. If so, it
would be worth the trouble.
The permit or license should be
surrounded with rigid restrictions
and its issuance be In the hands of
responsible . authorities. Circuit
judges,' who have constantly before
them . examples of the folly of the
gun habit, have been suggested as
proper. , authority to pass upon
whether or. not applicants should be
permitted, to carry concealed weap
ons. Perhaps it would be still bet
ter to vest this authority in a single
individual, as is done in Los Angeles
and other cities, where the mayor is
the only official who can give such
a permit. v
the late Springfield horror was the
embryo?
It is time for men to stay their
hands. It is time for mobs to check
their spirit of abandon. The exam
ple is Intensely evil in its tendency.
It is a menace already, overlarge.
FIXCH AND INSANITY
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AN ANY member of the Port
land bar afford to enter a plea
' of Insanity in behalf of As
sassin Finch? It is conceded
that the murderer should hare a fair
and impartial trial. That much the
law contemplates and justice de
mands. No more is required. No
more should be attempted in the
prosecution. No more should be
essayed in the defense.
Most pleas of insanity are bogus.
In most the courts, the Jury and the
community know them to be bogus.
They are the favorite and the final
resort of guilt. They are encour
agement to murder, because they
offer avenue for escape. . It is to
that avenue that assassins often
look before they buy a revolver and
turn it on the victim.
Fisher was murdered because he
sought to purity the legal practice.
Finch shot him in the back because
Mr. ' Fisher In that laudable effort
brought about the disbarment of
Finch , . for unprofesslonalism, a
charge to which Finch pleaded
guilty. Finch sought revenge. He
took revenge with a revolver and in
a cowardly way. That was not a
sign of insanity. It was evidence of
very great passion, ungoverned tem
per and a premeditated purpose
Would It not be travesty on court
practice to bring in a plea of in
sanity, when motive, purpose and
plan are so manifest?
Since attempt to eliminate shyster
practice from the profession was the
pretext for Finch's act, ought not
the trial, in order to vindicate the
martyr to a splendid cause, be noth
Ing.more nor nothing less than mere
lv fair and Impartial? Is not as
much as that due the profession and
due society? Does not the time and
occasion call for such a trial as Jus
tice contemplates? Why introduce
bogus issues In a case In which
everything is perfectly plain? Is
assassination a crime?
A JOLLY1 YOUNG OLD MAN
H'
ERE'S TO Uncle Billy Brown.
of Dallas. Not that he Is
literally an uncle of ours, or
even an acquaintance we
wish he was but he is "ancle" to
a multitude of people who admire
him. Uncle Billy has just celebrated
his eighty-Tourth birthday, and as
hla guests at a bountiful dinner he
had 78 widows and widowers of
Dallas and vicinity. Last year he
similarly entertained widows only,
but whether because he thought this
too dangerous, or in order to pro
mote matrimony among the relicts,
he this year extended his iifvitation
to widowers also. And a Jolly time
they had, with Uncle Billy setting
the pace. For years Uncle Billy
Brown. has been gaining a reputa
tion as a gay old boy, and he evi
dently doesn't mean to sleep on his
laurels until he becomes really old.
Some years, when he gets, a good
price for his hops, he scatters a
bushel, more or less, of small coins
on the town common for children
to rustle' for, and In other ways he
annually or oftener lets his neigh
bors know that he Is very much
alive, and still able to look on the
bright side of life. He refuses to
become silent and morose and
crabbed because he is old in years,
but makes people know that he is
yet young and Jolly; notwithstand
ing bis fourscore and more years.
Fortunate is the person with this
happjy. temperament, that has wuu
in himself the means involuntarily
to carry youth and joy and good
fellowship and happ comradeship
along the current of years into old
age, who can be sociable and inno
cently -merry all along the path
that descends sharply to the shore
line of earthly existence. I Not all,
nor many, can be an Uncle Billy;
Brown, yet many can learn of himi
GUN LAW
Thus far the restrictions would be
easy. Their practicability is patent,
The enforcement would present more
difficult problems. Ia this public
sentiment can do nearly everything,
Public sentiment can , enforce any
law. , Jt can compel officers to be
vigilant. It ' can compel ( courts to
mete out ample penalties. It can re
quire officers to search any and all
suspects. ' It can be the strongest of
all influences in eliminating this
concealed , weapon folly. , It, can.
when murderous acts are committed.
be a factor in seeing that there is
retribution and thereby discourage
pistol practice on human beings.
No life is safe when a community
is an armed camp. Possession of a
weapon is temptation to use it' It
makes men more violent when in
dispute. It makes men more halr
bralned when they believe them
selves wronged. It was not Insanity;
it was his ready revolver that nerved
Finch's hand. The manner in which
he did the deed shows that without
the gun he 'would never have been
bold -enough for an attack. ,A con
cealed weapon is a coward's flrBt re
sort and a brave man's Nemesis. It
is a bane of the social life and if to
legislate against it presented a hun
dredfold more difficulties that would
be no reason for rational people to
shrink-before the task.
a lesson, and Imitate In some ;ttle
degree his example of a cheery,
sociable, bright old age.
So here's to Uncle Billy; may he
live to be 100, still scattering seeds
of kindness and emitting rays of
sunshine along the way.
BURTON AND C. P. TAFT
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R. CHARLES P. TAFT, ac
cording to the report of
Treasurer Sheldon, con
tributed $110,000 to the Re
publican campaign fund, and it is
knbwn that he spent a large amount
of money In his brother's behalf be
fore the nomination, so that his total
outlay in this regard probably
amounts to- $200,000, or perhaps
$250,000. Now he wants to be re
warded with a seat in the senate.
Representative Theodore E. Bur
ton, long chairman of the committee
on rivers and harbors, is a candidate
for the senate, and deserves above
any other man of the Buckeye state
to be elected to "succeed Foraker.
He Is a man of long experience in
congress, of much ability, and whose
record Is straight and clean. Charles
P. Taft may be a very good sort of
man, but he has never done anything
entitling him to this honor, unless
It be his expenditure of this money.
He is a very rich man. else nobody
would think of him in this connec
tion.
It was a brotherly thing for Mr,
Charles P. Taft to spend his .money
freely to nominate and elect his
brother president, but he ought not
to expect Ohio and the country to
pay the debt by electing him over
Burton to the senate. It is quite
natural that the president-elect
should wish to see his brother's am
bition gratified, yet he will weaken
himself at the outset of his admin
iteration If he lends his Influence
to this project.
No newspaper in the country is
more intensely Bourbon than the
New York Sun. It is reactionary to
the last limits of reaction. It is
bitterly opposed to primary" laws and
Is fighting hard Governor Hughes
plan for such a law in New York
slate. But even the Sun insists that
the Oregon legislature must elect
Chamberlain. After analyzing the
Taft vote and the so-calledsjeWlstra-tlon
of Democrats as Republicans,
the Sun says: "Obviously the ar
gument should not in morals or rea
son effect the validity of Governor
Chamberlain's status before the leg
islature aa a candidate, which it
must elect to the senate." No news
paper of standing takes any other
view.
The fact was brought out at the
tariff hearings the other day that
the American starch trust is selling
Its product in England for 40 cents
a hundred pounds less than to Am
erican consumers, yet it wants the
present high duty retained or in
creased. And this is only one of
many instances of the same kind
What an immense bunco game, of
which the American people are- the
victims, protection 1b.
And still another terribly fatal
mine explosion, this one in a new
mine said to have been 'one in which
every possible means of prevention
of such a calamity had been em
ployed. But this is to be doubted.
Such catastrophes seldom occur in
other countries, and most of those in
this country were preventable.
There are some indications, or at
least rumors, that Mr. Taft will
greatly disappoint the standpatters
and predatory interests, and will
carry on a fight against them in the
peopled interest aa vigorously, and
probably ;, much more effectively,
than Roosevelt did. He has a great
opportunity to be a great president.
Now shall we aee "the law's "de
lays" begin to operate, as usual, in
the Finch case? s Or it not, will it
be because he has little or no money?
Captain1 Peter Cooper Halns also
says now that he has no recollection
of killing Annls, that his1 mind- at
that time was . a totaUilank. . Any
required number of experts, if paid
enough, will confirm this statement,'
But judge and Jury should give It
np credence. . , ,
; Mr. Taft says that. Tim Woodruff
by withdrawing from the senatorial
contest, "has established his claim
to the gratitude of the1 Republicans
of New York." This , Is not very
complimentary to Tim, but If tnere
was any danger of his election is
quite true. -..".,
The trusts are showing signs of
disgust with Mr. Taft, on hearing
that he is really, in favor of genuine
tariff reform, especially when iie did
not commit, himself during the cam
paign. Has the man no gratitude on
account of the solid trust vote?
Letters From tkc Pepple
Ltttera to Ttio Journal ahoold ba wrlttaa om
nt alda of Ua paper only, and obonld b
fompanlad by tba Bam and addraaa of tha
writer. Tba name wUl not ba nmd if tba
writer aaka that It ba withheld. Tba Journal
la not to ba nnderatood aa tndorflng tba rlawa
or itttrmesta of eorraapondanta. Letter should
ba made aa brief aa poaalbla. Tboae woo wltb
their letter returned wbaa ,aot maad aheald la.
eloea roataaa.
Correepondeots are notified that letter
.1 bm j- , .k. A (a-
nation of tba editor, be eat down b that Unit,
Why Increase a Necessity? "
Portland. Or. Dec 1.-To the Editor
of The Journal As a resident of Port
land and a friend of teachers, permit us
to ay a few words- tn their behalf,
called forth by that little effusion In
Wednesday's Journal signed "Taxpayer."
He said that be would not sign his name
to his article and we do not blame him.
Who would. If he were the author of
such an uncalled for and unreasonable.
attack upon the raising of the wages
and the standard of the teachers Of
Portland?
For Just as sure as you low-f
er the wages of the teachers of our
etfhobjs you lessen the chances of hiring
nigh-grade teachers for these schools.
The best teachers know their worth and
will naturally drift to where they pay
higher wages than they do in Portland.
Scores of good teachers have left Port
land for Seattle, Los Angeles and other
cities where the remuneration is greater
than here. .
Mr. Taxpayer says that he will glad
ly take the matter up -with any one Who
may wish to reply. We are not speak
ing for the sake of argument, but we are
speaking for the great army of noble
men and women who are sacrificing
tbelr health and some of them their
lives, that the youth of this land may be
trained and educated for the different
fields of usefulness required by this
great nation in the years that are to
come. Any man who tries to keep
down the wages and the standard of tile
teachers of Oregon Is Working against
the best Interest of this state.
The average wages of the teachers of
Oregon are a great deal lower than the
average wages of woodsmen, carpenters,
plumbers, bricklayers, hodcarrters and
a score of other trades. We know of a
man in California, who pays $200 per
month to the man who trained his colts
and S60 per month to the woman who
trained his children. Are a man's colts
of more value than hla children? "Te
are of more value than many sparrows.'
Mr. Taxpayer says teachers work
about six hours per day. while every
teacher in Portland knows they work
at least ten hours per day and some
times a great many more. We have
known them many times to work until
12 o'clock at night grading; papers,
marking report cards, drilling for en
tertainments, etc. The work of a suc
cessful teacher is not confined to the
schoolroom
Mr. Taxpaver asks if a woman teacher
can not live comfortably on $80 or $90
per month and the male principal on
$150 or $200 per month. The truth is,
many women are teaching for from $S0
to $75 per month and the principals
from $85 to $125 per month. The aver
age wages, of female teachers of this
state is about $50.
Mr. Taxpayer thinks the teachers
travel throbgh Europe solely to have a
good time, and he begrudges the money
they spend in so doing. He doesn't
soem to realize that a teacher gravels
abroad to gain more knowledge of the
world and its ways and to better fit
himself to impart that knowledge to
others. We can yet learn a few things
from the "Fatherland." Very few of
them are fortunate enough to make
these trips, however.
Mr. Taxpayer asks if all the teach
ers are entitled to this advance In sal
ary. No one claims this, but' that is
no reason why the good ones should not
be paid the full value of their services
and the poor ones let go as soon as
possible,
Mr. Taxpayer again asks in just what
way does a teacher work so much hard
er or have a task so much more irksome
than anybody else. Surely he has never
done much teaching or he would never
have asked such a question. My dear
sir. there is no profession known that
Is more trying to the nerves and general
health than teaching. We refer you. Mr.
Taxpayer, to the old professor with
wrinkled brow and Jiair grown gray in
the service for others. We also refer
you to the woman who has given 20 years
of the best of her life to the cause of
education and now, with health ruined
and nerves shattered she Is pushed
aside to give place to younger and
stronger -teachers. And again we can
refer you to the grassy mound on the
hillside where lies a body of one of whom
the world was not worthy and who
gave up her life because she couldn't
manage 40 unruly boys and. girls, and
no wonder, for their parents couldn't
manage one.
' If the school board raises the wages
of the teachers of Portland they will
do it with a firm belief in their action
and with the best interests of their
children and their neighbor's children at
heart, who will some day rise up and
call them blessed. . . .
O. H. RIPENBURG,
Manager Flsk Teachers' Agency.
Why Not Make Test?
Portland, Noy. 2. To the Editor Of
The Journal Having seen In your pa
per from time to time how the no doubt
worthy city officials seem to- await an
actual test of the East Twenty-eighth
street concrete bridge newly finished.
Thereby wish, to ask why this hiding
behind specifications and yardlong pub
licly expressed opinions? Some bridges
are supposed to have been designed to
carry two lines of trolley cars, the entire
span and a fixed load per square foot of
the remaining part of it, and now whx
in Cam Hill is not this load applied,
thus establishing the stability of the
structure? It would be an actual test
and the only kind of test to count -on.
DESIGNER CONSTRUCTION WORK.
. He Had Performed. ,
"Uncle Mose." said the drummer, ad
dressing an aged colored man .who was
holding down a drygoods box in front of
the village store, "they tell me that
you remember seeing General Washing
ton. is it' truer'' v : ,i .
"No; sah." replied the old man, VAh
uster-'membah seein' him, but Ah don't
no moh since Ah dona J'in'di church,
sah.- . - - -
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Make the last month of tha year the
Deal. , r
This ia the best week of the three to
buy :'em.
There la yet plenty 'of time' In which
to predict a hard winter.
- V' -a ."'-'. .
To the extent of her abllltr to hate.
how that terribly bereaved young widow
must hate whiskey and a revolver.
Like all multimillionaire maamatea.
Mr. Rockefeller has a wonderful mem
ory; It can either remember or forget.
Just as be deBlres. v - , .
Now Indianaoolis is workinar tin a
world's fair. Among: other things it can
display ia a great number and variety
ox literary ieuers. ;
The Forest Grove News advises all
married couples who visit Portland to
taae tneir marriage ceruncaies along.
Tea, we are very moral here.
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What a' rovernment: with one hand
it is trying; to preserve the forests and
with the other it offers a big premium
to the lumbermen to destroy them.
President Eliot wisely resinned and
so Is able to read a great many com
plimentary articles about himself, that
otherwise would not have been published
till he was dead. , , ;
The resident says tie has little re
gard for .Hobson and his opinions.
When it comes to the matters of an. im
mense navy and a orobable war with
Japan, most level headed people will
agree With Roosevelt. i'
A Chicago rabbi says that in valu
ing; a woman 75 per cent should be al
lowed for cooking . ability, 20 per cent
for physical beauty and 6 per cent for
dress. It Is easily perceived that he
greatly enjoys a good meal.
a a
two umauua county roea nave re-
UOllUJf tllfQU 1UI " lilt ll,n vii V 1 17
ground that they had been physically
beaten by their wives. But a good
many wives will have to lick their
husbands before the score is evened up.
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The Commoner remarks that if Sen
ator Elklns Is weary of all this fusa
about tho duke and the daughter he
can er.d it with a Jar by merely show
ing that he has lost all his money or
that he Isn't going to let go of any
of It. '
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Detroit News: God's tariff walls are
the boundaries of climates, the differ
ences in soil, the variety of deposits.
God's free trade is the human desire
to share and exchange the sun's wheat
of the north for the sun's fruits of the
south, and so on through the list,
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An ungallant Wisconsin man named
Bcgga say a that a woman knewJitst
as well as man the right way to get
off a street car, but out of her natural
contrariness she will steo off back
ward Instead of forward. She Just do
not want to do it in the proper manner.
This Is probably a prejudiced opinion,
yet It opens up a deep question. How
would It do for street railroad mana
gers to run their cars backward, and on
the left hand track? j
PRESS OPINIONS ON THE SENATO
RIAL SITUATION
Tho June Vote Ignored.
From the Monmouth Herald.
Taft carried Oregon by 26,000 and for
that reason the Oregonlan advocates the
Statement No. 1 legislators should vio
late their pledge to the people. How
ever, it makes no mention of the fact
that the bill providing that members
of the legislature shall vote for the
-person receiving the highest number of
votes In the June election, received
majority of 48,506, or nearly double
the majority of Taft.
People Will Must Be Done.
From tha Mount Scott Tribune.
The Tribune does not believe that
the people voted Chamberlain for sen
ator because he happens to train with
the Democratic party, but because they
believed he was the best man for the
place. Nor do we believe the vote
wjtrald be ulfferent now, since Taft was
elected. The vote for senator and the
ote for president was two different
matters, and the One had no bearing
to the other.
The people's will must be respected.
Had the people declared for Cake it
would have been Just the same. But
since they gave their verdict to the
governor, then Chamberlain must be
senator. Politics as such Is not the
question, the people have rendered their
verdict and It .must stand.
The Question at Issue.
From the Central Point Herald.
The question of whether or not th
people are right does not enter into
the matter at alL If thia Is a gov
ernment "of the people, by the people
and for the people." as we have all
been taught, then the people of Ore
gon have the right'to say who shall b
their senator, even though they shatter
partisan precedent to smithereens when
they say so; if it is not that kind of
a government, then let us say so and
let the old political bosses resurrect
themselves, abolish the constitution and
allow the boss Of them all to appoint
himself dictator and run the' whole
show in the Interests of the dear peo
ple who have not sense enough to run
it for themselves.
Would Invite the Recall.
From the St Johns Review.
It goea without saying that the State.
jnent No. 1 man who does not support
cnamoeriain ror me senate, thus adver
tising himself as a liar, dishonest, cor-
This Date in History. 1
1793 Commune of Paris ordered all
churches closed. '
1804 British ports in the West In
dies closed to American commerce.
1818 Commodore Joshua Barney, dis
tinguished American nava officer, died.
Born July (.1759.
1844 Queen Alexandra of England
born. "r .. '.;. .iA '.r. ' .
1884 Treason trials of members of
the Knights of the Golden Circle begun
In Indianapolis.
1866 Habeas corpus act restored In
the northern states.
1884 Science ball of the University
of Wisconsin, at Madison, destroyed by
rire. -
1904 Close Of the' Louisiana Tiir.
chase Exposition at StLouls.
1805 Benor Pal ma elected president
of Cuba. . .
William M. Fontaine's Birthday.
William Morris - Fontaine, for many
years professor of geology and natural
history In the University of Virginia,
was born in Louisa county, Virginia,
December 1, 1835. He was prepared by
a - private tutor and at the Hanover
academy until 1855, when he entered th
University of Virginia, from which In
stitution he graduated with high hon
ors four years later. - From 1861 to 1865
he served as a lieutenant of -artillery'
In th army of the Confederate states.
After the close ot the civil war he went
abroad and spent two years in peclal
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
A man below The Dalle raised
of good peanuts this year.
a a
, Jot
About 46 carloads of winter apples
will be snipped irom xne cove.
.'. a a
A Newport man and his wife caught
Zl line large salmon in one day
e .
- The demand for new homes 1s con'
atantly on the Increase in Lakevlew.
...... e . .'. . , ..
The Burns Times-Herald Is II years
old and has been owned by the Byrda
ror l years. :
A Mosier man has let" the contract
for clearing 320 acres of land to Hindus
ana now over 25 of them are at work.
Drilling at the oil well on the Dufur
place and also at the Bevls-May oil wrell
in Wasco county, is progressing nicely,
About 10,000 pounds of turkeys for
Thanksgiving were shipped from Al
bany, although the Bupply was smaller
man usuau .- ,.
V'.-' ' . " !.
During October a Marshfleld mill
shipped to San Francisco and Ban Pedro
(.853,000 feet of lumber and 497.000
laths, besides selling a large quantity
in the local market, v.
In 1868 the assessment of Eugene's
orooerty interests. Dotn real ana uer
sonaL was $1,429,240. Last year. 1907.
the assessment was $3,513,487, and this
year It will probably exceed $4,000,000.
a . a.
In a week Eugene raised $51,089 for
a Y. M. C. A. building, of which effort
the Register says: "It means a virtual
subscription of $5 per capita for every
human being in Eugene and some - to
spare. If Chicago. Portland or Seattle
would do as much they would surprised
me wona. u me emsiier vines oi ins
state of Oregon are going to get into
the race, they must learn 'The Eugene
Way.' No advertisement that was eyer
written will speak so loudly ror bring
lng good people to Eugene or bringing
boys and gins to our eoucationai insti
tutions than a bare statement of tha
work of the last eleht days and its re
suits. So let all the people devoutly
rive thanks that they live in sucn
community and among a people who will
take such prldetn fostering and prop
erly training the coming manhood of
America. '
a e
"Within a few years there will be all
kinds of fruit shipped out or Jjurur.
one fruitgrower was heard to say to
another on the streets of Dufur. "One
does not realize -the magnitude of what
is being done in the way or setting out
new orchards along Fifteen Mile creek
and the slones on either side until you
get to figuring on it. The farms are so
blc and the dwellings so widely scat
tered that It Is not like some fruit dis
tricts where each man has his 10 or 20
acres and devotes it all to rruit culture.
Our arowers are nearly all large hold
ers who are going into ine Ducin-ss in
the same larare way tnev raisea wneat.
Tracts varying from 10 to 60 acres are
being prepared at a single .stroke, and
the country near Dufur is rapidly be
ing converted from one of -the " best
wheat sections of the whole state into a
fruit nroducing region and we can rails
as good rruu as anyooay.
rupt an- not fit to represent the in
telllgent voters who elected him, should
be given the benefit of the recall. In
any event such an action on his part
means political suicide and he will be
come a marked man, In whom no onn
will have confidence. There Is no-dearth
of good men in the Republican party,
we could name a number that we
would rather see In the senate than Mr.
Chamberlain; but the people of the
state have declared him - their choice
and their representatives have been
elected on the special pledge that they
would carry out this expressed wish
and to not do so would forfeit the
integrity of the Republican party in
the eyes of honest men.
A Principle at Stake.
From the Woodburn Independent
(Rep.).
Few newspapers even Indirectly ask
Statement No. 1 members of the legis
lature to violate their pledge; none has
the courage to directly ask them to do
so, yet they might as well do so, for
the manner In which they tender the
advice Is even worse in the eyes of
honorable men than their significant
suDierruges. Not only because the peo
pie have expressed such a choice, but
ior me nonor ana welfare of the Re
pu oilcan party Chamberlain should be
elected senator. It would go out to the
east that the Republican party selected
a Democrat to represent the state in
the l.'nlted tSates senate because it
was the will of the majority of tha
people. Are thoae who are fighting
B..raiiriii ii u. i airaia mat Chamber
lain would not prove an able representa
tive? They know that he would. No
it Is simply the wail of the rtvlna- r.i,im.
that has been cast aside by the people
using mo mreci primary ana statement
iiiciogainCT, mis is life or
death for the would-be bosses; it Is
jiio or oeath ror the power of the
people. We are fighting for a princi
ple. Down that and the people In their
wrath are liable to elect a Democratic
majority in the legislature next time
It Is to be regretted that some of the
anti-Statement leaders cannot look far
into the future: that thew ra lifii
the welfare of the Republican party of
m.a buiis iini gave rait Z3.000 plural
ity; that with them It Is wreck or ruin
to gain their ends. It is sad to think
that with some this is their last chance
hence the program mapped out of which
they cannot secure either Taft or Roose
velt's indorsement
studies at German universities. Upon
his return to America tn 1871 he became
professor of chemistry and geology at
the University of West Virginia, where
he remained until he joined the faculty of
the University of Virginia at Charlottes
ville. Dr. Fontaine has written numer
ous books and papers on geology and
mineralogy and is regarded as a high
authority on those branches of science.
A Wise Appeal.
From the Boston Traveler.
An imperial rescript Just issued in
Japan enjoins on all classes tn the
community the need of economy and
simplicity, the emperor saying that for
the purpose of keeping pace with the
constant progress of the world and par
ticipating in the blessings of Its civi
lization, the development of national re
sources Is essential. He oalls on all
classes to act In unison, to be faithful
to their callings, frugal In their domes
tic management, submissive to the dic
tates of conscience and the call of dutv.
f rank. and slnrere ln 'thelr manners and.
inured to arduous trial, eschewing all
indulgences. Nothing finer in the way
of an appeal to a people has ever been
issued by a ruler, i- ... v
u:. .-'' 1 ' " ' -
Among the applicants at Carrick-on-Shannon
(English) postoffloe for an old
age pension form was a man named Pat
Reynolds of the Cootehall district, who
has attained the patriarchial age of 109,,
He ia hale and hearty and in full posses
sion of all his facu'ties. . '
2X REALM
FEMININE.
k" Judge Not.
D
AVID J. BREWER, of tha Unit
States supreme court,' after 43
years of Judicial experience, has
declared that perfect justice is .
not possible. - It ,1s a human im
possibility, he says, accurately to weigh
.,Lth,.act9.rs ot -heredity and influ
ence which should be taken into account
lnT?erd.ln,the guilt of any prisoner.
.C ?ie J " " ticaa re w e r. after all his
Kf,TL9rJ"iudy ana oeeP thought, finds
humans judgment fallible, what a lei
"2nf th088 ' whohn a moment
of petty anger or i!appointment give
w'e. t .V thlng denunciation.
What a thought to take to heart In our
7iPj mHl attitude toward '
our neighbor. ' .
What a rebuke to the fll-advlsed, half
thought out opinion to which we give
hasty utterance, and the next day
would give all we own to recall.
Ihe hlg hest thought of th life of
the JudgVr said Judge Brewer in an ad
dress before the students of the Unl
yeTlJX Pennsylvania, "is justice, the
establishment of a perfect balance be
tween the actor and his every act.
Science is the mihmtir. mtA.
Law .is the mathematics of the spirit the
student of matter mav hona tn m
-does succeed. The Judge wilj almost
always fail.
The mighty and enduring laws of
nature are ascertainable nnA ,r halm.
constantly discovered by students of na
ture. When we enter the moral law we
are confronted by the fact that no hu-
mu uems can ever see an or the atoms
that go to make the whole, and that to
the end Of time no deflnlt henria win
ever hold Jhe even balance. ,
"There is the man who owns prop
erty which gains value through no ef
fort of his own, but through that of
men about him. The law gives him that
value and we call that justice. There Is
the criminal who before a cold and hard
hearted judge would get the limit of
the sentence Imposed by law., before a
gentle and kindly judge would get the
minimum.
"Back of tha actual dlapamlhU rfe
there is a domain of heredity and en
vironment which must be talcon lnt --
count In determining absolute justice,
but which the judge must constantly
ignore and administer the penalty ac
cording to the concrete facts presented.
"What then? Can, It be that the
Infinite one accurately regulates tho ma
terial wona, Dut leaves the moral world
in chaos? For 43 years I have searched
for the answer to this question and .
through the light of my glass I have
seen this beautiful vision of immor
tality. Through an of the turmoil of the
courtroom, in the faces of countless
criminals on trial before me, the vision
has been revealed to me that, in some
other place, the errors of Justice wW be
rectified and that all of the innumerable
and Invisible and baffling forces that
go to make moral guilt will be accu
rately measured and ascertained,
"And so. In the cross I have learned
to see the visible symbol of Infinite Jus- s
tlce, and In the resurrection the message
of a great hope."
t n g a
Life on the Farm.
By Mrs. M. T.
ORTLAND, OR., Nov. 80. To the
Editor of The Journal For the
best article written I see you
offer . prise which I know
the ladies that are better quali
fied than I am with a limited edu
cation, will get. although I will do what :
I can and If not acceDtable there Is no
harm done. Now I have been a farmer's
wife over SO years and I find, the bal
ance wheel to make things agreeable
and run smoothly is a mother. Chil
dren s sympathies are reached by mother
When nearly everything else will fail.
Teach them the first commandment
given by promise was to Uiem, which
reads: "Children, obey your parents that
your days may be long upon earth,"
and reverse the commandment and they
can aee -at once now true the BtDie
is. Every paper, almost telle of
some youth com In to some utlmelv
death. Tell them there are only three
steps to the scaffold; first Is. disobey
parents: second, their teachers In school;
tnird, the laws or the jand. and II the
penalty is death they must pay the cost.
Too many mothers screen their boys and N.
glrla to keep their wrongdoings from v
the public, ana such favoring is the
ruin of many children. Now thin is
tho first lesson a woman should learn;
he second one is. always take an In
terest In your husband's, work as well as
your own and if he does anything, ask-
ng your opinion about It, always have
compliment of encouragement. How
many homes I have seen unhappy In
thia respect. Soma women would not
be able to identify their own stock if
left widows, i saw a lady a few years
ago that did not know her own cows
and she never set a hen or gathered the
?ga, out she Kent posted on all the
vies and looked after the wardrobe
very well. I tell you their home was
not happy. The estate his father left
him was mortgaged and was soon to
go. A woman must use economy on a
farm and look after her poultry and
garden and above all, get the meals
ready at the orooer hour, so her tired
husband knows his meals are waiting
when he comes from the field. Never
call on him to stop the team out of
the crop to take you to town. see
that your wants are supplied before he
gets busy. Take an Interest in getting
the crops out in due season and if a
farmer has such a wife tha children will
be more apt to take Interest Keep
things tidy around the yard: have the
children help you; it will teach them and
maxe the none attractive and pleasant. .
It K R
Contributed Recipes.
I)y R M.
INGKR BREAD One and one-half
. cups of brown sugar (or one cup
molasses and one-half cup brown
sugar), one cup butter, one teaspoonfu!
of soda dissolved in one cup of sour
milk, two teaspoons each of cinnamon,
ginger and cloves; two cups flour, two
well beaten eggs, beaten whites and
yolks separate last thing before baking,
makes a nice raisin cake if one cup of
seeded raisins rolled in flour Is added-
Just before putting into pan. A nice
rown cane to frost.
Cookies Without. Eggs One cud lard.
one cup sugar, creamed together; one
cup sweet milk, little salt one-half
Ounce of baking ammonia, one teaspoon
of favorite extract, flour to make stiff
nough to roll. Bake in hot oven.
A Good Cold Cure for Little Folks
One pint of strong senna tea. two large
onlona peeled, sliced thin in the tea; one-
half teaspoon of ginger, one and one-
nan cups or brown sugar; return to
stove and boil till onions are cooked; "
take irom fire, strain and add one table
spoon of vinegar (or one-half teaspoon
or peppermint essence). ' Give In doses
one tablespoonful to three in quantities
necessary to move the bowels; and as
often as needed. This is perfectly harm
less. We use It In our family with
perfect satisfaction, as the children take
It for onion syrup.
For a grease to fry that will pro
duce fine brown, take two pounds of
lard, two of rendered ' suet and one of
butter; melt together. Save for that
purpose only.
(In the reclpo for cookies without
eggs should there not be an acid used .
with- tr-e alkaline ammontaf This la
an unusual article 4n the-comrnan"
kitchen, although it is said to be used
In bakeries. tAa Its action is similar
to that of baking soda, it would seem to
require either cream, of tartar or sour
milk. Is your recipe correct? Ed.)
, The planing1 mill at Imbler has re
sumed work and the first car of dressed
lumber since the recent fire was loaded
out from that point this week. Just a
month 4 go the " planing mill was de
stroyed and the interval of idleness was
very short ; considering the circum
stances, i