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dotage in the world than for
one to, guide and direct his
course-ny the sound of a bell
and not by his own judgment
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ALAS FOR JUSTICE
EVENTS IN" Washington state
confirm the virtue of the cauee
to which the late Ralph Fisher
fell a victim. Lawyers are the
material for supreme court and
other justices.. The rights of every
man are at all times, directly or in
directly, in the keeping of the legal
"profession. The lawyers become
Justices and the courts are largely
what the justices and practicing at
torneys make them. Law itself In
Its last analysis, is to a considerable
degree what the justices and the bar
make it.': Jurisprudence is a knowl
edge of the laws, customs and rights
of men necessary to the administra
tion of justice. It is a system that
In its. finality is dependent upon the
purity of the legal profession. Yet
here in Washington are assertions
that a corporation. JFawyer was per-,
mitted the amazing privilege of writ
ing the very decision that was
, handed dawn as his own nninlon and
the opinion of the whole court by
Justice Root of the supreme court
of that state.
The case involved the equities be
tween a shipper and a great trans
continental railroad. The shipper
had won in the court below. The
supreme court reversed the decision,
the opinion being prepared" by the
attorney who had represented the
railroad company in, the lower court.
The opinion, before its acceptance
and adoption as his own by Justice
Root, was forwarded to St. Paul
for inspection by the general coun
sel of the railroad, who wired his
BDnroVal. Justice Root secured thr
.assent of the other Justices to the
opinion, and it was handed down and
expounded as the law of the com-
. monwealth of Washington.
The facts if true, constitute a case
of judicial infamy unspeakable, and
place new material in the hands of
those who urge that there is one law
for the poor and another for the
rich. .The unexplained expenditure
Of 150,000 by the attorney who pre
pared the opinion adds to this spec
tacle, crowning it as an unthinkable
betrayal of justice. When Ralph
Fisher and the many other honor
able members of the law were en
gaged in driving impurity from the
ranks of the profession they wore
patriotic in serving their country aud
mankind.
REGENERATE!) UNCLE JOE
SPEAKER CANNON is declared
to be on the mourners' bench.
He is seeking forgiveness for his
former standpatism, according
to the account. It is also urged that
he is repentant in the matter of the
present house rules and is willing
to have changes. It is well as far
aa-ltgoes. It is pleasant to know
that "even this Caesar of American
legislation can be made to hear the
marching tread of an Indignant elec
torate.. For years he has been big
ger' than the government, bigger
than the country, bigger than the'
president. So far as legislation was
concerned he has been a king on his
throne, an autocrat in his palace.
With him in the saddle at one end
of the capitol and Aldrich at the
other, the petitions of the people as
presented from the White. House
have been spurned. The spectacle
In the last congress of Roosevelt
knocking for more than five months
at the doors of congress, with this
Imperial pair of autocrats rejecting
everything asked for was never con
templated at a possibility' in this re
public, f But it happened : and be
cause it happened Mr. Cannon is a
repentant sinner. He is a petitioner
for forgiveness and f orgetfulness.
lie waul a another term ia the speak?
cr's ch?,lr, nod in seek in gi it recants1
tlu-t; for whltb he has hitherto stood.
l''otibt!fs'ho will bo forgiven and be
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THE BAITED HOOK
D'
EJCYINO THAT It has urged
members of the legislature to
violate their pledges the Ore-
gonian 6ys: "The Oregon ian
has not urged anything. It simply
has published statements of the facts
with exposure of the bunko game.
Members of the legislature will, of
course, act upon their own judg
ment. The Oregonlan tenders them
no advice."
The Oregonian has gone as far as
it dared to go in advising the leg
islators. Everything it could do
without actually advising members
to break their pledges, it has done.
It has gone to the border line, but
even that newspaper has paused at
the supreme act of directly advis
ing perjury. That was a step in in
famy before' which it has quailed.
But it dragged in the Dakota de-1
cislon and falsely used it in effort
to mislead pledged " members. It
clung to that deceit until. aggregated
legal opinion made its position ab
surd. ' It avowed the compulsory
statement law unconstitutional and
declared that though unconstitu
tional, it "superseded and rendered
void" the pledges of members, an
amazing legal proposition unprece
dented in newspaper annals. It ar
gued that because women promise
to marry andchangetheir minds
that pledged . legislators might
change their minds as to pledges,
another sample of logic for which
the world has afforded no parallel.
reelected, ,fcut he ought not to be.
He is out of tune with the American
people, and a blow to their aspira
tions. It is such as he that make
"Country Life Commissions' a ne
cessity. It is such as he that keep
rural life under a constant and grow
ing handicap. It is such as he that
stands in the way of deepened wa
terways and open rivers. It was he
that fought the pure feod law. It
was he that bewailed appropriations
for the t Panama canal. It is men
of the Cannon type that are the least
and last to be desired in public life
and for whom the laat few months a
marked political mortality has been
manifest.
Since, however, the thunders from
an aroused electorate seem to have
reached him, it is possible that a
better session of congress is in store,
even with Mr, Cannon in the speak
er's chair". It ought to be an oppor
tune moment for Mr. Hawley and
Mr. Ellis to arrange an accommoda
tion whereby they can further the
Willamette project and other enter
prises for Oregon's development.
EMBARRASSING CANDOR
I
N A LETTER to Representative
McCall, Mr. Charles Francis
Adanis, who had been Invited to
come to Washington and give his
views on the tariff, expressed his
opinion of tariff beneficiaries as fol
lows:
Speaking after the manner of men,
they are either thieves or hogs. J, my
pelf, belong to the. former class. I
am ft tariff thief; and I have a license
to steal. It bears the. broad ncal of
the United States, and is what is
known as the IMngley tariff. I stole
under It yesterday; I am stealing un
der it today; and I propose to steal un
der It tomorrow. The government has
forced me into this position, and I both
do and shall take full advantage of it.
And. what are you going to do about it?
The other class come under the hog
category : tiiat is, they rush to tho
great Washington protection irougn
and with all four feet in it they pro
ceed to gobble the swill. Well acquaint
ed with those of this class, you know
their .attitude and their utterances. It
Is uselesH for me to dilate upon either.
To this class I do not belong. I am
Hlmnlv a tariff thief, with a license
to steal.
But. on the other hand, I am also
a tariff reformer. I would like to see
every schedule swept out of existence,
my own Included.
Mr. Adams is a prominent, sturdy,
independent old man, who dares to
tell the truth, and put. it. plainly.
Tom L. Johnson, when In congress
years ago, talked in much the same
vein. He was a manufacturer of
steel rails and a builder of street
railways, and he said he needed no
protection, that it did not protect
labor, that it was legalized robbery,
but since it was offered to him or
forced on him he would take ad
vantage of it. He was a "thief," of
the sort Mr. Adams mentions, but
like Mr. Adams he was not a "hog,"
nor would 'he lie about the object
and nature of protection.
An occasional expression of truth
about the tariff by one of Its benefic
iaries like Mr. Adams may be em
barrassing to Mr. Payne and the
other standpat committeemen, but It
helps a little to open the eyes of the
people to this great system of legal
ized thievery.
A SIDESTEPPING RACE
W
HEN ALL the germB and mi
crobes are discovered and
catalogued, what are the
privileges that will be left
to humankind? We are already a
race of sidesteppers. The air, the
water, the food, our clothing, our
houses and all else that we come in
contact with carry microbes that we
must dodge. Every day adds to the
list of catalogued germs and to (he
list of germ diseases. The latest and
one of the most interesting an
nouncement is that of a Buffalo
physician. He contends that cancer
is a germ disease with, garden vege
tables as the agency. for Infection. Be
fore the Buffalo Academy of Medl-
In defiance of the known fact that
the United States senate is full of
senators elected by pledged leghi
lators, it argued that pledges made
by Oregon legislators are unconstl
tutional, a contenlon discredited by
the practices in the case of every
sep a tor ever elected in Oregon or
any other state.
All these deceits along with the
prattle about a "bunko game," the
Oregonian has worked until their fu
tllity has made their further ex
ploltatlon absurd. The use of these
subterfuges was for no other pur
pose thaa to beguile members into
abandonment of their pledges. It
was an indirect attempt to lead men
into perjury. Perjury and perjujy
alone was the purpose, and it wsv
to bring that end about that all this
agitation with respect to the sena
torship has been aroused. It is an
agitation that was aroused by the
Oregonian, and that except for the
intervention of the Oregonian would
never have appeared. The move
ment has been fed and fanned in
the hope that pledged members vfould
swallow the neatly prepared bait with
the barbed hook of perjury con
cealed inside. There has been no
open, direct, avowed advice to these
members to take the bait. That is
a step that even the Oregonian hesi
tates to take. The paper is afraid
to father its own counsel, but lays
U on the doorstep and funs away in
the darkness leaving it, for pledged
legislators to find and adopt.
cine he ascribes cancer to use of
cabbage, celery, onions and kindred
garden products. His contention is
that the disease is produced by a
parasite from a common garden
worm. The worm crawls over the
vegetable, infecting the plant. Even
boiling, he declared in his paper,
will not kill the parasite. What
virtue there may be in his conten
tion, remains tp be seen. There is
this comfort, that if his theory shall
be confirmed, a means will be found
to combat cancer as contracted from
this source. Hitherto, cancer has
been ascribed by some theorists to
tomatoes, oysters and lager beer, a
contention not entirely qui of har
mony with that of the Buffalo sci
entist. In any event, science Is fast
revealing startling truths of which
we were for several thousand years
in blissful ignorance. The trouble
is that as we advance in information
we are more and more confronted
with the question of whether or not
to starve to death, or commit hari
kari by eating infected vegetables
or meats.
MAKE THE FACTS KNOWN
t
HERE IS, or should be, no
divinity that doth hedge about
a court, high or low. No
doubt a great majority of
American Judges are impartial, hon
est and Incorruptible, but it is equal
ly probable that there are exceptions,
and when one of these is discovered
there should be full publicity and
due punishment. A corrupt judge
is a peculiarly dangerous and repre
hensible enemy of the republic.
Hence Judge Root's "Indiscreet let
ters," and all the facts that forced
his resignation, Just after he had
been reelected to a six-year term on
the supreme bench of the state of
Washington, ought to be disclosed,
no matter whom they involve.
The suspicion seems to be that
ex-Judge Gordon, heretofore a close
friend of Judge Root, while attor
ney for the Great Northern road,
used money to purchase decisions
favorable to the road in damage
cases. Gordon was accused of a
shortage to a large amount and left
the railroad service, which indicates'
that If he spent the money as In
timated he exceeded his authority;
or It may be that he was charged
with paying too much or rendering
false reports of these expenditures.
So far these are mere surmises,
but the truth ought to be brought
"but. If a railroad has been buying
courts in Washington the people of
that state in particular and of the
country In general have a right to
know it, and all about it, so that
they can be. more careful hereafter
whom they put on the bench and be
better advised as to the methods of
unscrupulous litigants.
A periodical published in Chicago
called Public Service Is devoted
chiefly to the narration of alleged
fallures-pf municipal ownership of
waterworks, gas and light plants.
etc., and to articles and arguments
against public ownership. A sim
ilar publication is issued in New
York, and there may be others.
They are published at the expense,
as Public Servica frankly acknowl
edges, of the private owners
though it adds "e"mployes" of such
plants. As it says, this is legiti
mate, providing facts are strictly ad
hered to, for there Is something to
be said on this as well as on the
other side of the subject; but the
statements and arguments made in
a periodical especially established
and maintained for the purpose of
opposing public ownership are at
least to be read with caution and
accepted, if at all, with hesitation.
The habit of railroads of Vush-
lng into a federal court with a con
tention Tegardlng a state law seems
to have met a check in a decision of
the United States supreme court
Monday, which held that Che Vir
ginia 2-cent fare case must, first be
decided by the highest court of that
state before it could gain a standing
in the federal supreme court; that,
in other words, "only a decision of
the state court of last resort in aucb
a case could be appealed . from to
the United States supreme ; court.
The - Virginia railroad commission
made a 2-cent passenger rate and
the railroads secured an injunction
from a federal district court, which
held that the rate was confiscatory
and void, and the commission afc
pealed. The supreme court does not
pass upon the merits of the case, and
says it can come there In a proper
way and this . decision may be up
held; but It must come from the
proper court, namely. k the , highest
state court This seems to be an
important decision, one "that will
tend to check a growing abuse.
And still the tragedies . growing
out of Rueflsm and machine politics
in San Francisco continue if, as
supposed, Chief of Police Blggy com
mitted suicide. Other cities may
well look oh and learn. . .
Mr. Archbold also Buffered an al
most total loss of memory as soon as
Mr. Kellogg began questioning him.'
How would it do to refresh the mem
ory of some of these men by con
victing them of perjury?
German Care For trie
Worlcingman
From the Broadway Magaslne.
This Is the scale of German pensions
according to classes: Class 1, 127.60 a
year; class t, 35; class's, $42.60; class
4, J62.50; class 5. 157.50.
Even In a country . where living is as
cheap, easy and comfortable as It is In
Germany, 167.60 a year as a pension Is
no great sum: but tt ia an Income, a
man can live on It in Germany, and
every reform must have a beginning,
often of a. timid and feeble character.
. There ia also another matter to be
considered. The government collects
and carea for the fund from which these
pensions are paid, composed of the con
tributions of workmen and employers.
It is thus in possession of an enor
mous sum of money. . Much of this
money it invests for profits in order to
provide the pensions, but part of it is
put into Improvements for the benefit
of workmen for the sole purpose of
Improving their health and thus keep
ing dawn the. pension payments. Ia 4iot
that a most curious ana suggestive
fact? As a matter of mere business
the government uses a part (and a very
considerable part) of tha fund at Ha
disposal to build sanitary homes for
worklngmen, hospitals for worklngmen,
and to fight tuberculosis among work
lngmen. And largely from this cause
have come those excellent, airy, well-
lighted dwellings in which so many Ger
man worklngmen are comfortably
housed in the cities. And if this gov
ernment has now found that to provide
healthful dwellings is good business be
cause thereby it can keep, down the na
tion's sick list, how great' is the accum
ulated wrong that other workmen suf
fer and have suffered, being housed
haphazard and so often fn deadly en
vironments? If the old age pension
had wrought no other good but merely
to force attention to this vast, vital
and fundamental housing problem, the
world should call it blessed.
Germany, I need hardly Ray. did not
arrive at these humane Improvements
without fighting for them. At best the
whole thing was regarded by the phil
osophers and wise men as a piece of
sublimated folly. They knew perfectly
well that any such scheme would be
ruinous to the national character and
an insupportable drain upon the na
tional revenues. They not only knew
It, but they could prove it, and they
did. with the most obliging kindness.
There in also a certain order of mind
everywhere that regards every lnnova
tlon as of the devil and detestable be
ing, it seems, quite able to see clearly
that the way everything has been, done
In the past Is the best way ever con
ceived by man. and If any one says
there ,1s a better way he Is a scoun
drel and muckraker, and let him die the
death.
Cleveland Abbe's Birthday.
Cleveland Abbe, a distinguished me
teorologist, was born in New York city.
December S, 1838. His education was
received at the College of the City of
New York, the 1'nlversity of Michigan
and Harvard university. In 18S0 he
Joined the United States coast survey
and for the next four years was- en
gnged in computing longitudes, star cat
alogues, etc. In 1864 he went to Rus
sia and for two years was an asstht
ant at the Imperial Central Astronomi
cal observatory at Poulkova, near St.
Petersburg. In 18fi7 he returned to
America and became an assistant at
the United States naval observatory.
From 18fi8 to 1873 he was director of
the Cincinnati observatory, where he
established a system of dally weather
maps of tho United States, with a fore
cast of the weathe'r for Cincinnati and
vicinity. This led finally to the adop
tion of the general weather service by
the United States. With this service
Dr. Abbe has been connected for nearly
40 years, first in the United States
signal service and later In the weather
bureau of the department of agriculture.
This Date in History.
1632 De Vries, on his second voyage,
arrived at the Delaware river.
1787 Delaware adopted the federal
constitution, being the first state to do
so.
1815 John Carroll of Baltimore, first
Catholic bishop in the United States,
died.
1818 Illinois admitted to the union as
the twenty-first state.
1839 Pope regory XVI issued a bull
for abolishing the slave trade.
1863 General Longstreet raised the
siege of Knoxvllle.
1884 The presidential electors met In
the several states and cast me vote
which elected Cleveland and Hendricks.
1894 Robert Louts Stevenson, Ameri
can novelist, died in Samoa. Born No
vember 13, 1850.
1904 Armored cruiser Tennessee
launched at Philadelphia. '
Knowing How.
From the Philadelphia Press.
One morning a few weeks ago as a
South Jersey country physician was
driving through a village he saw a man,
slightly Under the influence of- liquor,
amusing a crowd of spectators with the
antics of his trick dog. The 'doctor
pulled up and watched the fun awhile
and then said:
"My dear man how do you manage
te train your dog "that way?. I can't
teach mine a single trick.; '
. The man addressed looked up, and,
with that simple rustic look, replied:
."Well, you aee. It's this iway: you
have to know more'n 1. thw dog or you
can't learn him nothinV
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Now is
tamps.
the' time to buy Bed Cross
Buy some stamps and help alone a
Some Philadelphia society women are
mvuii Diusnea lauooea on tneir cneejts.
It is a hard job for the tattooer.
TJftcle Joe say he Is In favor of "hon
est tariff revision.". But hi definition
or - understanding or "honest", la not
given. ...
Wall street has been tolerably pros-
perous lately; a fairly good crop of
iambs, considering tne season, nave been
sheared.
Uncle Joe Intimates that "he will be
rather good if re-elected speaker, but
the safest way would be to relegate
him to the floor.
Because a woman would not love him.
a Portland man blacked her eye with his
iiei, ana no is surorisea 1,0 discover un
she doesn't love him yet.
Oscar Hammersteln must be a humor
tmt o a ,! aa a. mlialnal arttfrt hit
cllned ah Invitation to a swell dinner
because he wasn't hungry, - -
The Louisville 'Post save that Gov
ernor Bradley In a public letter "speaks
with reason and 'common sense, and
seems to be greatly aurprised thereat.
If the H&vtien revolutionists win and
nt nn a. government- It will have a rev
olution on Its handa in a few days, or
weeks. Revolution is tha only regular
Industry down there.
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
Comments on Gun Carrying.
Beaverton,' Or...N0V. 28. To the Edi
tor of. The Journal This is not a de
fense of gun carrying. "' Personally I
never carried a pistol In my life, either
In the wilds of the mountains or of
Portland. Generally speaking, I have but
little use for the matt who habitually
carries a gun in his pocket . Tet I am
unwilling to class men as good or bad
just because they carry a gun er do not
carry a gun, . f
It appears to me that the moUve that
prompts a man to carry a gun should
be taken .Into consideration. The pa
pers report a man being fined (50 last
week for' carrying a revolver in Port
land. Yet this man had been held up
and robbed a few nights before.
A philosophic mind might have re
flected that lightning never strikes
twice in the same place and have
breathed a sigh of relief that it was
over at . laBt, but most men are not
constituted. -to. take so Eheerful aylew of
such happenings. '
It is doubtful if there is a man in
Portland so Imbeclllc as to trust his
Ufa or property entirely to police pro
tection. Your men go home in squads
jup the best lighted streets moneyless,
"with coats pulled over watch chains,
eyes piercing the shadows, brains striv
ing to restrain legs that want to run
and forcing feet that refuse to walk
aear the dark alleys to remain on the
sidewalk at least.
Whether, a gun would he of any real
protection Is perhaps a debatable ques
tion. But if a gun lr the pocket win
give a citizen a feeling of security or
relieve his nervous tension, why not
let him carry It?
It would seem to me that after the
citizens of Portland have all been dis
armed by the police, the thugs will have
nothing to fear. The police seem to be
the least of their troubles. Surely men
who outwit the police in' everything
else will not permit themselves to be
disarmed. The net result of this cru
sade will be that the citizens of Port
land will be fined and Imprisoned by the
police and robbed by highwaymen, whom
the police cannot catqh and against
whom the citizens are prevented from
protecting themselves. -
The police ha,ve already become more
autocratic than a decent Caesar would
be.
One of theae guardians of other peo
ple's morals looks in the window of a
private House, discovers the cook smok
ing cigarettes and wearing her night
gown. He promptly arrests the woman
and the owner of the house. The Solo-mon-Itke
Judge decrees that the woman
stay five days in jail and the man go
free. Another hluecoat, not to he out
done, arrests a man and his wife and
demands that they prove they are mar
ried. And the Judge, having Increased
In wisdom, tells them to get married
again.
And now we have these fellows eye
ing our pockets and running their hands
Into them to see whether or not we
have a gun.
And this In spite of the fact that a
man has a constitutional right to carry
a gun. But what la the constitution
when confronted by a law enacted by a
city like Portland?
There is one class of men in Portland
who will not be searched for weapons.
That is the lawyers. Tet in propor
tion to their numbers probably more
But what 1. 1 the consilt.rtlon I
lawyers carry guns than any other class.'
Last Saturday one lawyer killed an
other with a pistol. May we expect a
police raid on the legal fraternity? Not
much. No law Is expected to reach
all the guilty.
It has been urged that if a more
stringent law against carrying revolvers
had been in force last Saturday's trag
edy would not have occurred, t Is It rea
sonable to suppose that a man bent on
murder who fears not the penalty for
murder.. will be deterred by any penalty
that mirht be Imposed for carrying con
cealed weapons?
We would love to live In ideal condi
tions, no robbers, no locks, no guns and
no police, but the fact remains that we
do not. In the times and places where
life and property were most safe men
carried not one gun," but generally two.
Gold dust lay on the cabin table and
doors were not locked, but the man who
dared molest that which wae not his
was a bigger man than any who lurk
in the shadows of a Portland night.
Might not Portland's criminal rincket
be less if every man carried a gun and
me acuviues or tne police were re
stricted to something Useful sav re.
pairing the streets?
FRANK CRONER.
Legislators Must Represent People.
Portland. Dec. 1. To the VlAitnr nt'
The Journal It is said, "Nothing is
more certain than that the constitution
of the United States, requires the eleo
tlon of senators by the legislatures of
the states." Yes, certainly, and no nan
person disputes it. That la, the mem
bers of the legislatures cast the ballots
that elect the United 8tates senators.
But the question arises, where did the
members of the .legislature get tho
power or right to cast these ballots, and
under ' what circumstances and limita
tions? Whose interests-and whose wel
fare do these ballots represent? . Does
tlft ballot represent the individual judg
ment or interest of the legislator alone,
or does he cast it as the representa
tive of the people who voted' for. him
and put him In office? Whom does a
member of , the legislature , represent;
himself, or the voters .who put him
there? Is he a sovereign and lawgiver
from lila personal standpoint or Js he
NEWS' IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS.
Douglas county furnished more than
13,000 turkeys for the Thanksgiving
market :
.. . . : .-' . : : ; .; '
The Gold Beach . Globe reports the
finding of some fine copper rock In
Curry county. . :
I. ... H f'; .),' a :?''-.
Condon Times: The weather Is fine,
wheat, is looking better than ever be
fore,, the town is growing, everything
points to continued prosperity. Every
man In Condon had a Thanksgiving
turkey for his dinner, some bad two.
, ' ; -.: '
While shingling the Episcopal church
building In Canyon City. M. Dexter
found concealed beneath the Old shin
gles a lead pencil which evidently had
been placed there when the building
was built more than thirty years ago.
,.a .
Building In Bandon continues at fc
rapid rate, says the Recorder. 1 nere
are a number of new residences under
construction at the present time, be
sides a couple of business houses and
the fine $30,000 school house. Anothe
fiiinr, in thn rlovelonment of the city
is the improvements of the streets that
is constantly going on.
A : nt Mvrtle Creek anDiSS has
Ka n nrnnnnnmA hv an exoerfenced ao-
Sle buyer a man" who has bought hund
reds of cars of apples to be the finest
he has ever seen, says we xaa.it. a m
Is a strong statement and a mighty ar
gument . in ravor or jayrue unn sun
shine, Myrtle Creek soil ana yrue
rvaok'a nnalttnn on the man. as oelng
the most favorably located and fitted
by : nature lor tne proaucuon 01 per-
rect appies.- 1.
an agent of the people who elected him,
an bound to obey their known will?
A good deal has been said about rep
resentative -government, and that is the
form of government we have, but in
the past, the representative- has, in
too many cases, represented his own
personal Interests rather than the in
terests of the men who charged him
with the duty of representing them, and
an effort la now being made to get
back to the real representation, of the
whole people by members who go as
public servants to the legislative bodies.
The thought that the legislator, as soon
as the ballots are counted that elect him
to office. Immediately becomes a sov
e reign, responsible to nobody but him
self, or his own personal Interests, is
fallacious in the extreme. It is, indeed,
subversive of our whole form of gov
ernment. If a matter should come up
in a legislative body that had been un
foreseen and unprovided for. the agent
or representative might, with propriety,
act on his owu judgment,-hut in every
case where l.e had been Instructed by
his constituents, he is bound by every
principle of honor known to men to
represent them faithfully and well.
Nor is there anything In the consti
tution of the United States, or the state
of Oregon, or any other state, to pre-
vent the people frpm Instructing their
representatives as to what they want
done, in the matter of electing a United
States senator, or in any other matter
whatever. The people have a perfect
and unobstructed right to Instruct their
representatives and the representatives
are bound In honor to obey, in all sorts
of state affairs. In fact, every party
platform is Instruction to legislators.
and certainly a legal election, as that of
June last. Is as positive Instruction as
cotild be thought of. To disregard it
would. Indeed, be subversive to repre
sentative government. Somehow it must
be beaten out of the heads of predatory
politicians that a public office is a
private snap, . and that its emoluments
and powers are to be used for purposes
of personal plunder rather than for the
good of the general public, and right
now, and in Oregon, is as good a time
and place as will, ever occur to test the
lasue- thus fairly made. Is. the agent
bound to do the work of tho principal.
Is the question to settled Apply It to
business, In the legislature, or anywhere
else. Who shall boss the Job, the em
ployer or the employe? ,
The "power" to cast a vote, in a leg
islative body lies wholly with the leg
islator, and the constitutions, both state
and national, put it there, but the leg
islator must not use that "power" for
his own personal benefit, and as against
the public good, and he dare not disre
gard the known wishes of the people
who gave him the "power" to cast that
ballot. That "power" Is not his per
sonal ersnet. It belongs to the public
whom he is bound to serve, under the
forms of law.
It is absolutely certain that' Oregon
gave Mr. Taft nearly 26,000 plurality,
and it is equally certain that It gave
Mr. Chamberlain about 1500 plurality In
June, and both elections may be fairly
!en. 8 Vtl'ir"1" i".Tnt Vl'!
vicin 1,1. im niv-, ami uui uuglll l,
be allowed to stand, without question.
Is it certain that this Judgment would
be reversed In an election for senator,
tomorrow, between Fulton and Chamber
lain?" Finally, is it a calamity to have some
one, not a Republican, elected to a
public office, onco in a while? Mr. Taft
does not so consider It. In a speech at
Germantown, Va., July 20, he. congrat
ed Bath county upon the fact that it
has two political parties nearly equally
divided, which he nald was a guarantee
against evils in the 'administration of
government, and he was right about It.
Parties long in power always become
corrupt. Witness, Tammany and its
Tweed product in New York, and - the
rascalities of the Republicans of Penn
sylvania In building their new capitol.
It le always so. Has Oregon been hurt
by its Democratic governors, or Mult
nomah county, or Poirtland, hurt by their
Democratic officials?
But aside from all this, the poople off
the state have voted for senator and
they have chosen Chamberlain over bis
competitors, and . there in honor, that
verdict must stand. . The issue repre
sents a vital, fundamental principle of
government and Its Importance Is far,
far above any mere consideration of
party or of personal Interest.
, LEVI W. MYERS.
Disagrees With Bishop.
Eugene. Or., Nov. 30. To the Editor
of The. Journal Seeing a report of a
sermon" by Bishop .Scaddlng a few days
ago in which the statement is made
that religion does hot consist of emo
tion but conduct, I respectfully take Is
sue on the . subject What is religion
(the genuine kind). if It Is not of the
emotions? Man' Is a' being consisting
of a soul (emotion), mind (thought),
and form (body). .- Consequently religion.
It it is a permanent force or is an ef
fective agent acting on the human per
sonality known as man, it must affect
all the three above mentioned depart
ments of the human' system,, and .the
emotion, being the inmost (or highest)
and moat frequent, source of human ac
tion, must necessarily be the most inti
mately affected of the three in order
to experience -permanent, effect of theil
forco referred to- j - . - - t . r v
The trouble with many of the Institu
tions of rellglor. today la largely, per
haps mainly, a lack of religious emo
tion, or emotion In religion. ' 1
JOHN W. BILLINGS.
ZkRLALM
FE.MININL
The Cost of Kank.
i
r IS doubtful If there, la a mot pa-
'gure m tne world of roy
alty ... than' the , csarlna ' of ItussU,
she who was born Victoria a
' daughter bf Princess Alice, grand
duchess of Basse, and granddaughter
or King Edward VIL -
.-l(.b0-r her broken by. worry
and disappointment harassed by the
IVitn Ct "lMe Rn,, denled th eommo.,
he- Ju ",Z ln" 01 KPg
Indeed
i Vn?J?eiT' ,lne Por carina Is
woman. .."" uiuuuuaii
i... Ji?fnA.bAt !' jews says that uri-
" -" oaves ei. Petersburg- and tnkea
mind9 AVoyftB9 " lose her
go .my n0nt,hr. as th "he will Sot
lor Ind thiJ ?"b cafl tRk baby
nav2'..Si!
as he l, in h . off lajpo.ltWS
seems to be an affectionate m and
dotubUe.t.u,l?ribbUt thU- whlleu" wouM
aouDuess suit the csar of all the Rus-
TM.1 In v.
Ana bo th nrirtp
!San' deluB On. and In hourly terSS-
1 bomb. For days,'
not speak, having
i1- ""ll- "h d?e H?.t "Peak, having
" ne is arrncted with h da.
rangement of the vocal organs, which
makes speech impossible again she be-
VThee.l8d b.out ln ai Invalid's chair.
mSH.8tl'kln8rJan, W6Ct lein to the
mothers who desire above all things
that their daughters should marry mn
SLweau,th' and 01 Position ooinuSg
h, ,ihJLmer,8 th'nKs that these can
buy, to make happiness.
Hero Is a woman who has all her
r.b?"i!rrounda.wlth a the lux
Hri!!Jh.at tn19,ney ould purchase, whose
aiteir.la,1. welft" has been a matter of
solicitation on the part of many ser
vants and household dependants, ever
left girlhood behind, has, it is saXe to
S8 1VtT tated of happiness. Be
yond the nvjre outward facts of her
Hie. we have nn rlrht tn innir ...
cannot but wonder. She married Nich
olas from among many men whom alio
had met, and though we may not know,
we cannot but conjecture that had he
notf been able to give her the highest
rank of those who were available as
husbands he would not have been
chosen. .
Can we not guess that in her girl
hood, when life looked bright and eaav,
there was some other to whom her
heart- turned in affection? Is it likelv
that the delicate, highly bred, well ed
ucated girl Dasaed thrnus-h im
pressionable years without meeting 0110
who satisfied her ideas of manliness,
of courage, sincerity, and gentleness?
Every girl has such dreams; everv girl
longs for such companionship. TSverv
Woman thinks, at anme , Ir. v.
life, that she has found the ona who Is
uer irue male.
But If Victoria Alice had such an ex
perience, it was not hera to realize her
girlish dreams and heart dictates. Sliv
was of royalty, and royalty has obli
gations which must be met. She was
but one girl against a riiultitude of coun
sellors In whom there 1u nafntir f-
the state, perhaps, but who are but Ut
ile concerned witn tne hearts of women.
Think Of It. vou mnthara arhn n.r
forward at nightfall to the coming of
your husbands, the man hnm vn
yourself chose to be four life compan
ion and the father of your children.
Think of it when his step is heard in
the hall and the children run tn
him with glad cries, when he holds you
in his arms and your hearts are both at
peace. When you see your sons grow
ing up under his' guidance and wisdom,
strong, manly. helDfuL lovina-:' whn
your daughters come to you with their
neari proDiems. seeKlng guidance.
Think whether vou would rather
just a plain American woman, living th
viiiuiuii 1110 ui jiivR ana service, or
simple Joys and simple pleasures, or
the czarina of Russia, nominally a ruler
over millions of neonle. amrrounHnA h'
ail that wealth can give, but dlsappolnt-
tu wnn me, uriiKen in neaun, terror
ized in mind, a pitiful, melancholy, lone
ly and wretched woman.
Education in Apple Eating.
AN interesting and novel feature of
the National Apple show at Spo
kane will be the exhibit and dem
onstration work of the domestic sci
ence department of Washington Stat
college. This department plans having
a booth In the apple show and demon
strating the many uses of apples. Girls
from the department will be In charge
and will bake apple pies, tftrts, dump
lings and all, the tempting dishes In
which apples compose the principal In-
14 rem on is, ana incse win De served to
the visitors. A cookbook containing
only recipes for apple cooking and the
various preparations made from this
fruit will be Sold for the benefit of the
department and to help any expenses of
the exhibit Miss Gertrude McKay, head
ot the department, will have charge -of
the work and will be assisted bv about
a dozen of the most advanced girls from
the department
?
Lobster Bisque.
0'
NE CAN of lobster,' two cups of
mlik, three pints of boiling water,
one tableapoonful ' of butter, one
half cup fine cracker crumbs, salt and
pepper.
Chop the lobster coarse, taking care
not to tear it. Put boilin water, unit
pepper and lobster into a saucepan and '
cook gently for 40 minutes. Have ready
scalding milk ln which the crumbs
have soaked 20 minutes. Stir in but
ter,, then milk and crumbs; set In hot
water five minutes and serve. -
Chicken , Bechamel.
MELT one quarter cup of butter,
blend in one quarter cup of hour,
add gradually one cup' of thin
cream and one cup of well seasoned
cnicKen siock, stir until smooth sjid
thick, season with pepper and salt,
let cook slowly for 15 minutes, add one
pint of cold chicken cut into dice, heat
thoroughly and serve with a garnish
of parsley or cress.
The Daily Menu.
BREAKFAST.
Cracked wheat and cream. Stewed figs.
Codfish creamed. Potato puff.
Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
' Cream cheese sandwiches.
Mexican beans. Waldorf salad. -
Sliced bananas with cream.
. ' Tea .
; . . ., '-' DINNER. :"";' -
Lobster bisque.
Meat pie, potato crust ,
Cauliflower. Hollandalse. ' ;
Buttered parsnips.
. Celery and lettuce salad.
. 4 Steamed fruit pudding..
. ' " Black coffee.
Cauliflower a- La Hollandalse One
cauliflower medium size with loaves re.
moved, quartered and soaked for one '
hour head down In cold salted water.'
Pour off water and boll for one half
hour. . . .-
Have prepared ,8. sauce of tablespoon
of butter md beaten yolk ' of an egg
well stirred together, nlnh of alt, pep- f
nor nnt a .1 . .) nf 1 ,n a n 4 . . i .. .. -
"... . v.. ... ,,,,; jtiinr, uvrr
which has been poured s half cup of '
boilin" water and stirred for a few mln- "
utes till It thickens. Arrunge cauliflower
on dlsn and pour this kuucv over it. ' 1