EDITOEJAb OF.-TQB J013ENAL "V.T.' t, tt mflE THE JOURNAL f AS INDEPENDENT KEWSPAPEB. C- 8. JACKSON . ...Ppbliiher rubltehw! erery ermine Pt ton!yL,?Ei every Sunday morninrt at-Tbe Jrnal Bond ing. Fifth and Vemhill atreeta, Portland. Or. Entered at the poatottlce at Portland, Or., for tranamiaaioa through ths ""l1 eond-cUea matter. . '' : ' ' TELEPHONES MAIN 71 T3. HOME, A-60M. All d.partBienu reached by theea nnmbera. ;"1I1 the operator the department JOU want. Kaat Side office, I) -2444; Eaat SSO. . . FOREIGN ADVERTISING BEPBESENTATIVK. Vreeland-BenjittnHi Special Adrertlatng Agency, IiroMiwick BniMin. 225 arenne. New York; W07-08 Boj-ce BuUdlng, Chicago. Sutieeriptlon Tetma by mall or '" ttre in tue United State,' Canada or Mexico; DAILY. "' One rear. .. $5.00,1 One' month $ .00 Ay:.; . ..v;' srxpAY." One joar.... $2-60 1 'One month....... . . DAILY AND SUNDAY. Oiie year..'. $7.50, J One nwnth $ -65 Li Ctmilatton $uaranitt f Jbit Crttit$ that tie timlauoa of U. luhtnadite6maSA guaranteed by tit" Adnrther't CtrtiSett Circulation- Bit Book This Paper aa prortd by inmtiration that the- circulation record ,art kept with rarr mad tie eirenimttoa ttmtrd witt fee aecmraer thtt advertiser may nfy oa any r . i , i i It aeatraarauof vy vntpmomnr ner a I fX o''' September 1, 1908. ' Men and statues that are admired in an elevated posi tion, have a very different effect upon us -when we ap proach them- Grevllle. AS OTHERS SEE XTS jpT IS a nsvcholozical truth that we usually underestimate the men and the things with which we are .most familiar. A prophet is not without honor save in his own country," and that Is literally true. That is why Oregon people. In or der to give proper credit to the ad vantages and beauties of their own state, must hear it described by oth ers. ; Until jthey have" It frqm the lips of strahgeffl) ttiey do not real ize though it is emphatically true, that the: climate f their estate 'is without the harshness of the north or the enervating softness of the south." Though it is true," they do not, -until they hear it from strangers, realize that Oregon has been made a. favorite child of na ture in the!' stored wealth of ' mln- ' eralsJniifltmouh.tainsia.the mag nificence of her forests, "which will bless mankind when other lands are desolate," in her wealth of living waters with incalculable potential energy, In her golden soil, in her landscape of green valleys, in blue mountain ranges and peaks of eter nal snow, all forming a grandeur of environment and Aggregation ; of re- sources for the comfort, happiness and'material wellbelng of a chosen i ace. Because all these things are every day affairs with us we do not comprehend them, we do not com prehend the matchless environment ' they give us and the matchless op portunity with which they shower ns until . the . Btr&ngerpoints them out- Thus' if is recalled : that In a competitive contest the capital prize for the'best article, on Oregon was won, not byan Oregonlan. butby a resident of a distant state. " He saw through the glasses of a first vision, ' while the Oregon competitors wrote of familiar objects. The second prize in the same contest was won ' by a resident of Portland, but. she bad resided in the city less than a year. Most of the larger prizes were won for the same reason by per sons to whom Oregon assets, condi tions and landscapes were entirely new. 'All this makes of exceeding inter " est an article from the American - Lumberman of Chicago, in another column. It is a story of Oregon and the northwest as others see us, writ ten by J. D. Defebaugh, editor of the American Lumberman, whose deep sympathy and ardent admira tion is reflected in his article. The paper has been a persistent cham pion of the interests of the north west, an earnest advocate of federal " aid for rivers and harbors and has In many other ways manifested a loyal friendship for the great em pire of the northwest. EDITOR AND POLITICIAN IT IS an old story that of ex-Gov-. ernor Geer. Newspaper work and personal political ambition are in harmonious. A man canpot serve two masters, and the proprietor or editor, of a newspaper cannot as a rule successfully go Into politics. He must of" course take a lively and constant interest, in politics,, but In almost every case It is a mistake for him tp try to make politics serve his personal ambition for office. It has been said that the law la a jealous mistress, demanding a man's un-, divided attention and effort, and It would seem that the practice of medicine must be equally exacting; yet lawyers and doctors get actively into politics and make a. success or both that and their profession. But as a rule a newspaper man cannot afford Ao become politically . am bitious) The reason is easy to per ceive. The editor needs to be free from all entangling' or -Influencing desires, in order to do- his full duty l the people whom as iwich he Is tound-tx Inform, advise and in all possible ways serve. Mr. Qeer has a strong taste for politics, Hot of fice; he has held various offices and has striven for some that he did, not get; but if he expected that bin pur chase .: or , control of . , a newspaper would aid his political ambition, his recent . experience must . have disil lusioned him. IDLE MONEY AND IDLE LABOR MR. HARRIMAN'S recent siry- ing that idle money and idle men were two great evils of a country seems nothing new or original, yet perhaps because it was said by Mr. Harriman it has attracted a good deal of comment and caused many suggestions.- Any one can easily perceive that when both themen and the money of a country are busy It is prosperous, and that when they are Idle there are hard or dull times; and it is equally apparent that idle men and idle money' go together. They are inseparable twins. There has no doubt been a great improvement in the situation, as to idle money and idle men, in this country during the past few weeks, yet millions of money and hundreds of thousands of men are not yet em ployed, or as fully so as is desirable. Mr. Harrlman's aphorism that "Idle money is as mischievous as idle la bor'' was uttered with a somewhat sinister intent or manner; it was in tended to. convey p- hinted threat that men who controlled great amounts of money, like himself, must be "let alone"; but we will still hope that the era of good- feel ing, honesty and mutual eervlce be tween the people and the railroads and other great corporations will soon come to pass, and that the great financiers and captains of Industry will put their money to work, and so put labor to work too, more and more.' There is opportunity and oc casion for the industrial activity of both money and worktngmen. Apropos, however, of Mr. HarrI man's remark the Brooklyn Eagle remarks that "another publicist of different type, former Chief of Po lice Devery, called upon everybody to 'exercise their money,' as a so lution of economic problems." So it -Is seen again Phow great minds run in the same channel, and tend to like expressions. But even be fore Devery 's eventful public career somebody still' more epigramatlcally if not more poetically said, "Money makes the mare go." A SAMPLE OF DEVELOPMENT y-l OMMENTINO ON the increas- L' lng number of school children in the Milton-Freewater dis trict, now amounting to 686, the East Oregqnian easily explains the growth by saying that "people are now doing more with their land than they ever did before. They have stopped ranching and are now farming. They are now raising less wheat and more strawberries and peaches. Each farmer now needs less land than he formerly did and the change of methods makes room for new people. Incidentally land in the east end is worth about 10 times' what it used to be worth." Here Is a whole volume of a de velopment story in brief space. The Walla Walla valley, where this has occurred, Is very well adapted to this species of development, but a similar change is taking place, or is bound to take place, in many lo calities in Oregon. More dairies are needed, and more hogs, and these require large quantities of grain and grass, but except for these purposes the rapid trend will undoubtedly be toward small farms and the raising of fruits. VALE PORK BARREL THERE IS promise that the "pork barrel'.' is to go and that fu ture appropriations for rivers and harbors will be based on the merits of the project. Many ap propriations in the past have been mere sop thrown by members of con gress to their constituents. They were partly or wholly wasted on un worthy and impossible projects. It is suggested that hereafter federal aid shall only be given to well au thenticated systems of waterways in which the practicability shall have been determined by expert investiga tion. President Roosevelt phrases the plan bo effort to bring about a "water policy rather than a water project." A proposition of policy rather than project suits Oregon. By that test the Columbia river system should come into its own. Tt is the second system in importance in the nation. It is nature's highway for three great states comprising the empire of the northwest. It Is an empire that, still in Its infancy, yields annually 45,000,000 bushels of wheat and other products to match. The main river stretches 4 68 miles into the interior and has navigable tributaries that with the developing hand of the government can be made to puls ate with a teeming commerce. It is nature's highway for the products of a great basin comprising 245,000 square miles of . territory that Is destined to support an enormous population. It is a territory that supports a race of prodigious energy and' that under the stimulus of com petitive and facilitated water trans portation would build a commerce of colossal proportions. It is a L, people that has from Its own means con tributed $2,000,000 in the single en terprise pf deepening the channel of this river from Portland to the sea. This act of self-help is illustration of how federal aid for this .river has never been a grab from the odious and malodorous "pork barrel," but a - meritorious and intensely prac tical human project. Along with it the people of the state have expended great sums in the construction of railroads for the portage around nat ural barriers which the federal gov ernment has for isome reason failed to remove.. . These people have in further effort" at self-help taxed themselves for payment of half the cost of freeing the Willamette river to commerce by joint purchase with the federal, government ,of the pri vately owned locks. ' These are records that attest the merit of the water system of which the Columbia river is to be the basis and that distinguish it as a program of national improvement to be cata logued, not as a project, but as a system. Other attestations are man ifest In the great stretch of terri tory and in the accumulating com merce that a development of the system would serve. Cheapened rates and adequate transportation stimulate production and ' by that economic truth the Columbia .water way system In Its possibilities com mends itself with striking force to any commission of experts on whom may devolve the selection of loca tions for national improvement. A reduction of 300 per cent In some instances In freight rates, following the Inauguratl6n of water competi tion In connection with the portage road constructed by the state, Is . a sample of the effective Instrumental ity that this system, In Its finality of development, would be. Oregon, of all the states In the union, will welcome a national movement In which waterway Improvements shall be conducted as a policy rather than as a project. When there Is final and happy deliverance from the "pork barrel" method with Its jug gling, its fraud and its waste of gov ernment funds, and improvement survive or perish on a test of merit, the Columbia river, system will come Into Its own. With this, record of known and proven facts before them cannot the members of the Oregon delegation rise to the momentous authority their position on the na tional map gives them and further to its full merit the great Columbia river eystem? FORDNEY A TYPE REPRESENTATIVE FORDNEY of Michigan Is a typical stand patter for protection. He Is especially interested in the lumber industry, out of which he has. become a multi-millionaire through excessive profits received on account of protection. He is one of a group of men who deforested Michigan and adjacent states, mak ing millions thereby, and then turned their avldious attention to the magnificent forests of the virgin Pacific northwest. He desires pro tection so that he can make even more millions here than he has made there. The excuse, the pretense, Is that labor is cheaper across the line In Canada than It Is here; but this can not be permanently so, because there is no tariff wall against labor; any body can cross the line any day from one country to the other and get a Job. Propinquity of territory and equality of opportunity equalize the labor market. This suits Mr. Fordney and men like him; they stand together for the system that pilfers from and plunders millions of consumers and so become multi-millionaires and get into congress or control mem bers of congress. When wllj the people begin electing congressmen who will look out for their Interests, instead of the Fordneys? CIGARETTES AND EDUCATION THE, EUGENE high school board, according to a statement made in the Register, Is trying to stop cigarette smoking in that institution. The wonder Is that such an effort should be necessary. Probably one high school 1b no worse than another In this respect, but If cigarette smoking -Is prevalent In our public schools or Is generally in dulged In by pupils, then It is time to inquire if education is not largely a failure. Not only is it unlawful for any youth to smoke cigarettes in this state, but if there is a tendency of youth to indulge in this vice it should be one pf the first objects and features of education, both in the home and in all schools, to stop it and to instruct boys and young men In its evils. There is little use in sending boys to Sunday school or in teaching them arithmetic, grammar and all the other multitude of branches that the high schools aim to teach, If In the meantime they make a practice of smoking cigarettes. They should be taught that it is not only physical ly and morally injurious, but that H is not "smart" or manly. No business man will have an habitual young cigarette smoker around him; good and helpful girls will not associate with h'im; and the habit spells probable failure along every station "of Mfe. Better get , no book education than culti vate the ineradicable cigarette habit. Here is a helpful suggestion which we commend to the considera tion of Senator Fulton and- his friends who, are trying to . Induce Otegon. legislators to repudiate their pledges to the people. f Thero is one way in which a Statement No. I1 leg islator can get 'out of voting - tor Chamberlain for senator," said a prominent Republican yesterday who holds an important state office; and he added thoughtfully: "It Is the only way I can see by which he can do it. Let him go before a lunacy commission and prove that he waa insane at the time he signed State ment No. 1. That will certainly let him out." It is amazing that such a simple and pleasing solution of the problem did not present Itseir Ions: auo to the fertile brain of Max Cohen and his associate apostles of repudiation. - Castro must be something of a politician and diplomat after all; he makes the French believe at once that he is a pretty good fellow; and if he has the millions he is credited with and he has been president a long time now he1 can easily prove it-to their entire satisfaction. It is aealn announced that freight rates from the Pacific coast east ward are to be raised January 1. Well, didn't the railroads vote' for prosperity? Let the unrepresented people pay. The Union Pacific's latest report shows that road to be in a very prosperous condition. Perhaps Mr. Harriman will build those lines in Oregon after all. Don't venture to suspect that any body made a dollar out of that cu rious Panama deal, unless you want to be accused of being an infamous falsifier. The "booster" is everywhere busy in Oregon these days; if you don't get out of his way you ma7 be run over. Public men's pledges must be kept, of course. Else there is no use in the people voting at all. Tkc Pacific NortWeat From the American Lumberman. The Paetflo northwest makes a won derful appeal to every visitor, and as he tarries the appeal brings conviction. It f " -ft i a In nH nt IS ft HlHl vriifun l. . -. . j " llvlnsr waters, of golden soil, or mineral wealth beyond compronension; 01 iui ests which will bless mankind when nfViar innria are desolate: a land of mountain, plain and valley; a land where continent and ocean embrace each other; and of a people great In intellect, energy, endurance and kindliness. Its people! They were chosen by the most rigid processes of natural selection irum all the conquering races that have rriade America great. There. In that golden northwest. In a climate whteh without ha h,MtinM, nf th north, or the ener vating softness of the south encourages human effort and assists in accompiian ment, these people are building an em pire. They have harnessed the streams fhov hjivA nnured them over the plains Which they have converted ntn fruitful riemii ana aaraens, mev are wresting from the earth Its mineral wealth; they are converting its ioresie Into forms or utility ana Deauty ana ai v .sm.Mlma nreaervtnff them from destruction rthey are building schools and colleges and are uving ime prmcw of the earth. The Bible vision of every man dwelling unaer nis own vine u fig tree Is realized there, where every man may have a snow capped mountain peak In his back yard and where his a..Aiir hnHUv nuil mil Intellectual want may be gratified. The natural wealth of that country la great ana great are Its achievements In every line of human effort; but greater and better than nil are its people thernselves a chosen race, growing not only In numbers but In all the accomplishments and graces, whfch make a people mutually useful and happy. Mines 'eed Only Capital. From the Medford Tribune. The following article, setting forth the need of capital In southern Oregon in connection with local mines. Is from the pen of Joe A. Thomas, who has for years been identified with the min ing Industry of southern Oregon. Cap ital Is neederand needed badly, to de velop these mines and It will probably be a question of tlm before It will be had. Mr. Thomas says: Within a radius of 12 to SO miles west and south of Medford lie untold treasures In gold and silver ores not to say a small percentage of other tise fijl metals. There are numbers of mer itorious bodies of large area that are lying dormant, simply because the poor prospector or prospectors that have faith in them and have spent almost a - lifetime acquiring a knowledge of what should develop Into large paying properties have not the means at their command to swing or .capitalize plants capable of putting an extensive low grade body of ore on a paying basis. What Medford needs and needs badly la a few well posted mining men that represent capital or have the confidence of men of capital, . that-are not -wind jammers, but men that have heads on them and know or see a future for a prospect and are willing to back their judgment with money. Thera Is gold In our mountains and plenty of It. and untold millions of dollars locked" In their rough and jagged sides. What has found its way Into 'the placer streams is a mere bagatelle to what is now locked in nature's vaults, awaiting the stroke of the miner's pick and drill, with the man or men behind to furnish the sin ews of battle and their reward will flow forth In due season. ' The Genuine Article. When Samuel Alschuler, who not so very long ago was a candidate for the governorship of Illinois, was engaged In stumping the state, he had occasion to address a gathering composed almost entirely of farmers. He wished to Im press on them that he also was a farmer. "Why, friends," he exclaimed, "I was literally raised between two hills of corn." Whereat one xf his raptured audi tors spoke up: J -A pumpkin head, VgoihV . - i The Man In the Moon. - A- 6-year-old boy. With hisMuutds thrust deep in his pockets, stood on the front porch watching- the full moon rise. "Mamma." he ventured, thoughtfully,'"! know why there Is e man in the moon!" VWhy, son?" askd the mother, list lessly. : ( - "Why. there had to be some one there to put out the light when daytime came and God knew, it would take a man to do It.- ; - . - COMMENT AND . SMALL CHANGS! Buy but, what's ths use? ; . ' - ' , 'Tet a "crisis" in the government wjll probabiy be averted. , . "It la nearly ' time for somebody to define Santa Claus again. i -J All sorts of conventions these days, and results will be good. But wasn't Fulton for free silver, and didn't he attack Roosevelt? ,, The dairymen's convention can prop erly be thankful for prosperity. Christmas is coming soon for con gress, as well as for other people. ... r - A man may be to some extent mis taken and yet not an infamous liar. It is not so important to suit the politicians as the rest of the people. '-.-. Fulton thinks. Young will be old be fore he gets the Portland postofflce. . Congress will soon adjourn for the holidays. It can always agree on that. ':' It is hoped and rather expected, that Taft will be a bigger man than Can non. - It ia a good thing for little Fu Ti that he doesn't know anything about his Job. Roads or streets paved with good in tentions are not adapted to this climate or regton. Ruef and Morse and some others can not be expected to have a right merry Christmas. The usual large grist of bills to "amend the code" are being prepared by lawyers. The first heat of one Ruef Is over and he lost. But tMere are other counts to hear from. Castro can't be raptured at home for awhile. And doubtless he carries his purse with him. It la to be suspected that as reform ers Counrllmen Baker and Drlscoll are n,t shining" successes. In even so fortunate and prosperous a city as Portland there are always sort poor to be remembered and helped on Christmas. fix-Boas Croker says the Idea of wo man suffrage shocks him. He waa al ways a man of tender feelings and deli cate sensibilities. It ia a safe guess than Taft will never go into a spasm of verbal ex coriation because of somebody's reason able or at least excusable criticism. Mr. Munsey'a new afternoon Sunday paper In Washington will print the morning sermons in full." But won't that be another excuse for not going to church? What would have happened to or been said of Emperor William If he had said that anybody who did not admit that he was In every respect in fallible and Inerrant. waa an Infamous liar, a dastardly scoundrel, a thief and a traitor? Vhere Is a good deal of talk back east, and as far south aa Georgia, about winter, but in spite of the annual pre dictions, we have scarcely had an inti mation of winter yet In Oregon. But of course it Is quite a while yet till spring, and there Is always a possibility of a brief freeze up, even in this equa ble climate. FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE "The Minute Men of 75" (From a centennial oration at Con cord, Mass., April 18, 1875.) Citizens of a great, free and pros perous country, we come hither to honor the men, our fathers, who on this spot struck the first blow In the contest which made our country Indepen dent. Here, beneath the hills they trod, by the peaceful river on whose shores they dwelt, amidst the fields that they sowed and reaped, we come to tell their story, to try ourselves by their lofty standard, to know if we are their worthy children; and, standing reverently where they stood and fought and died, to swear before God and each other that "government of the people, by the peo ple, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." This ancient town has never failed fit ly to commemorate this great day of Its history. Fifty years ago, while some soldiers of the Concord fight were yet living, 25 years ago, while still a few venerable survivors lingered, you re newed the pious vow. But the last liv ing link with the revolution - has long been broken; and we who stand here today have k sympathy with the men at the old North bridge, which those who preceded us here at earlier celebra tions could not know. With them war was a name and a tradition. When they assembled to celebrate this day. they saw a little group of tottering forms, whose pride was that, before living memory, they had been minute-men of American Independence. But with us, how changed! War Is no longer a tradition, half romantic and obscure. It has ravaged how many of our homes, it has wrung how many of the hearts before me! North and south, - This Date In History. 1787-Pennsylvania (the second state) ratified the federal constitution. 1804 Spain declared war against Great Britain. 1830 National Republican party, at Baltimore, nominated Henry Clay for president. 185 Lillian Nordlca (Mme. Zoltan Doeme), prima donna, born in Farming ton, Me. 1870 J. H. Rainey, of South Carolina, the first negro ever elected to the house of representatives, sworn In. 1873 New England celebrated the centennial of the "Boston Tea Party." 1889 Robert Browning, English poet, died Born May 7, 1812. 1898 Sir William Jenner, physician to Queen Victoria, died. Born 1815. 1899 Major General Leonard Wood appointed military governor of Cuba. 1903 William I. Buchanan appointed United States minister to Panama. Richard Yates' 48th Birthday. Richard Yates, ex-governor of Illi nois, was born In Jacksonville; 111., De cember 12, 18(0, ths son of Richard Yates, who : was governor of Illinois during the period of the civil war and later served his state for. a number of years In' tbe United States senate. The son graduated from Illinois college In 1880 and later studied law at the Uni versity of Michigan. In 1885 he was elected city attorney of - Jacksonville snd held the. office for. six years. In 1892 he was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. Two years later he waa elected county judge and from 1897 to 1900. he filled the position of United States collector of Internal' revenue at NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS. The walnut Industry ' will develop rapidly from now on. In' weston the offices sought : the men; there was but one ticket. , A mountain ' Hon visited hennery near The Dalles, and besides killing all the chickens badly frightened the fam- ' , For the first time since the organiza tion of Hermiston's city government harmony prevailed in that town Tues day during the election, , - . , ' While ducks have been much more numerous this season than for several years past, the birds are not as Xat as usual, says the Marshfield Sun. -.'-.,,:-'., The clerk of Marlon county has re ceived 20 applications for permission to levy special taxes In that many road districts for permanent Improvements. It Is foolish to chase around hunting gold mines when eggs are selling in Arlington for 45 cents per dozen and chickens 15 cents a pound, saya the Record. A good sized turkey la wortn about as much as a cow was after the panlo of-1893. Go Into the poultry busi ness and get rich quick. . Conrad Krebs thinks he has plan which will revolutionize hop cultivation. The innovation Is a ten dlso hop plow i h iiravn hv four horses, and com plete a whole row at a time, averaging 14 to 16 acres a day. He was already disposed of a carload, numoering eu. Roy Bailey of Mosier had taken his rifle apart to clean it. Bnd either did not know there waa a cartridge in tt or was trying to get it out when it went off and killed him instantly. He leaves a young, wife and three small children. Fruit tree planting in Wasco county Is decidedly on the Increase, many thou sands of trees having been set out in the last few weeks. A man of experience In fruit culture advises the planting of trees n6w. as he says this is the. best time of year for this work. The street paving ball has com menced to roll nicely and the indica tions are that by a year from the pres ent date It will have rolled so well that ail the mud on the streets of the city below the bluff will be rolled up with It, says ' The Dalles Chronicle. The total number of trees ordered and planted so far by the Gold Ray com- Sany of Jackson county amount to 16, 00 or 18.000 and cover some 800 acres. An order for 75,000 trees has already been placed for next year, and the planting will be kept up until the com pany will have planted some 10,000 acres-of land. Hubbard correspondence of Wood bum Independent: The hop marifet I" now 2 cents below the cost of produc tion and still going lower. Is It not time to turn under the hopyard and do something else: say. raise chickens or. get a few milch cows?. Eggs are worth 40 cents a dozen, butter fat 35 cents a pound and poultry from 10 to 12 cents a pound. Is It not better to make a little profit all the time than to raise hops and only make a little profit one fourth of the time and the other three quarters of the time go behind? An old settler writes to the Estacada Progress: The land on which the city of Estacada is built was a wilderness less than 60 years ago. It Was taken up as a donation claim by Franklin Pierce and his wife. Matilda. The struggle was long and hard to tame the wtld land. The wife often walked to Portland in company with Mrs. Sy bell Falmateer, carrying their infants in their arms to engage In washing or house work to support the family, while their husbands worked on the claims to turn them Into farms. 7i By George William Curtis we know the pang. We do not count around us a few feeble veterans of the contest, but we are girt with a cloud of witnesses. Behold them here today, sharing in these pious and peaceful rites, the honored citizens whose glory It is that they were minute-men of American liberty and union. These men of today interpret to us, with resistless eloquence, the men and the times we commemor ate. Now, if never before, we under stand the revolution. Now, we know the secrets of those old ' hearts and homes. No royal governor sits in yon stately capitol; no hostile fleet for many a year has vexed the waters of our coast; nor Is any army but our own ever likely to tread our soil. Not such are out enemies today. They do not come proud ly stepping to the drumbeat, with bay onets flashing In the morning sun. But wherever party spirit shall strain the ancient guaranties of freedom, or big otry and ignorance shall lay their fatal hands upon education, or the arrogance of caste shall strike at equal rights, or corruption shall poison the very sprlngu of national life, there, minute-men of liberty, are your Lexington green and Concord bridge! And, as you love your country and your kind, and would have your children rise un and call vou blessed, spare not the enemy! Over the hills, out of the earth, down from the clouds, pour In resistless might! Fits rrom every rock and tree, from door and window, from hearthstone and chamber; hang upon his flank and rear from morn to sunset, and so through a land blaz ing with holy Indignation, hurl the hordes of Ignorance and corruption and injustice back, back in utter defeat and ruin. Springfield. In 1901 he was nominated and elected governor, of Illinois on the Republican ticket. Four years later he was unsuccessful In an attempt to win a renomlnatlon and again In the campaign of last spring his aspirations for the nomination were defeated. The Czar's Crowns. From the Chicago Journal. The czar has as many crowns as a fashionable lady has hats. He is re garded by his people as a religious as well as a secular monarch and there fore has crowns for every possible state occasion. The Russian Imperial crown Is modeled after a partriachial mitre. Five magnificent diamonds, resting on a huge glowing ruby, form the cross at the summit. Diamonds and pearls of utmost perfection render this crown un rivalled among all others, and there is one sapphire in .it which is said to be the finest stone of its kind ever mined. A Statesman's Discretion. From the London Chronicle. - If discretion is a virtue on. the part of the average. man it is a positive necessity with emperors, and statesmen. This truth .was realized by Gladstone at the Outset of his political career.: - Shortly-after his marrlftfe ' he said to, his wife: "Shall 1 tell you nothing, and you can say everything? Or shall I tell you everything, and you say -nothing?' She chose the latter alternative, like a woman,' and like a wlsewoman rigidly adhered to her part of the bargain. ' - i. i n , i m r -i - ii. : A Cleveland man has patented a pro-l ceas ior curing meats Wltn salt Dy U9 use of electricity, iietters. From tlic People ' tetters to The Jonrnil should b written ea , one aid of tb paper only, sad bould be ao oompanled by the some and addreaa of ttaa writer. The name will not b lined If tbe writer aaka that it be wlibbeld. ' Tbe Journal ' la not to ba understood as lndortlng the viewa or itarementi of correspondents. Letter ahonld V made aa brief aa poaaible. Tboa who with their letter returned when sot naed should in ekiee poetafe. . - -.- . Correapnndentat are notified that ' letter er feeding BOO words la length may. at tbe dis cretion of tbe editor, be eut down to that limit. No Misstatement Made. ; '' ' Portland, Deo. 11. To the Editor of The Journal In your Thursday issue occurs a misstatement-that we feel sure you will be grlad to correct. It Is In regard to what was said at an educa tional .Institute : held at the United Brethren church on ; Wednesday. Mrs. Additon was reported .as saying that there existed a law that would bar all women out of saloons. There was iu such statement made: allow me to give a correct report of what was said. . The- following resolution was pre sented and passed: - v.. ,"w have watched' With interest the action of the city council of Portland as regards the question of 'women in saloons," and we respectfully call at tention to an existing law known as senate bill,27. which reads as follows: "'Selling Liquor, to Fern alps Law passed at the legislature of 1058. B. 267 Any person permitting a female under 21 years of age te remain in or about a place where liquor Is sold, or selling or giving liquor to such female Is subject to a fine of $100 to $1000. provided that this act shall not apply to a female accompanied by husband or" parent or to any open public restaurant or dining room. Approved February 21, 1905.' ' "We urge that this law be rigidly en forced." A ahort discussion followed; there was no address made by any one on tne subject, nor was there any asser tion that It would bar all women out of the saloon. Certain it is that all present could read and understand this ago limit. What was said was that if the curfew law and this age limit law was rigidly enforced, it would go a long way toward solving the problem the city council was struggling with, i.iat was all, and is certainly true, or anyone who has , worked along purity lines, either direct rescue work or on preventive lines, knows full well that tt Is the young attractive girl that is being dragged down to perdition, and that If these laws could be enforced it would reduce the question of "women In sa loons" most perceptibly. As to the dif ficulty of telling their age, the writer ef these lines knows by experience In rescue and preventive purity work that with the majority of girls resetted, there was certainly no trouble as to telling their age; such -an excuse Is unworthy an officer of the law. ' Shall we have laws enforced or not? L. H. ADDITON. Positive Injury to State. Portland, Dec. 8. To the Editor of The Journal Dally for many weeks (ha Oregonlan has used much of its editor ial space in an appeal to men to throw honor to the winds, scorn integrity and violate a solemn pledge, made volun tarily to their fellow citizens of the state of Oregon and to the world at large. In the closing sentence of the initial paragraph of a -column article the Oergonlan says: "The pledge that many members of the legislature made is one that cannot be too soon or too decisively retracted." "That statement should damn the pap4r at the hands of every man who believes he Is bound by oath or contract That statement should bar the paper from every home, where pledge and promise is held as sacred .'n honor. Upright men are astonished and the Innocent cry, shame! Tere Is a great Journal trafficking with the devil, suborning sincerity of thought and honesty of purpose in men, to glut s vengeance, .'by admonishing, advising and insisting that certain citi zens representative citizens, too turn cowardly traitors, become base Ingrates, disgrace themselves and the common - , wealth of Oregon before the eyes of the world; by precept, teaching the youth that a sacred pledge Is not bind ing, and that the refusal to be hound by promise or pledge entails no stigma; teaching the world that, as a people, we of Orecon abide not by our word of honor, and that perjury brings no compunction. "Why our public schools, our churches, our courts of Justice, our JUvenlle courts, if the great newspapers are to sow broadcast, to old and young, the doctrine that to He la honorable, and to be a coward and a traitor Is commendable, to be foresworn snd re fuse to be bound by the pledge of honor Is the highest ambition of a statesman? Again the Oregonlan says: "It is enough to say that such promise wa made without sufficient consideration of the circumstances and consequences," weaxness: ana more, weakness be stowed in vain!" But what's the use? The Oregon la rj has neither politics nor religion, nor any ambition but to make Harvey Scott United States senator from Oregon at any and all cost of money or integrity. To accomplish this the paper would Jeopardize the honor of its best friends and the welfare of the state. It is not my purpose to discuss, pro or con. Statement No. 1. I am a Repub lican in the fullest sense.-. I have voted for every Republican presidential can didate from Rutherford B. Hayes to Taft Inclusive. I have very decided opinions In the matter f Statements Nos. 1 and 2, initiative, referendum, etc., but , shall not air them here. Also. I stat that his excellency, Governor Chamber- lain is no special favorite of mine. But, I hold that having signed Statement No. 1, or pledged themselves to abide by. the popular vote for senator the ' Statement No. 1 members of the legis lature are bound thereby and .cannot retract without stigmatizing themselves, the Republican party, and state of Ore gon before the whole world. The Oregonlan'a pusillanimous fum Ings and frotbings, ere today and havo been a blight and a scourge upon this commonwealth, and are and have been most material hindrances to the devel opment and progress of the stste, and this most recent. spuming will not tend to make for the most desirable consum mation, but will act as a check to immi gration to our confines..' Men of means, men of talent, men of high born prin ciples, of right and wrong, men full of hope and courage, with the will to dare and to do, are zealously anxious to come among us. but they will not, nor can we expect . thera to become one of us, to bring their sons and daughters to a state where- as they will be led to believe, by reading this Oregonlan rot men have no regard for their word, that a pledge is only a convenience to further dishonesty, j Hundreds of good families will hold aloof from Oregon because of a widespread belief dis seminated by the Oregonlaa's ribaldry that we, as' a people; are mountebanks and freebooters. ,. . , t "He hath made me's byword of the people." . -, v JOE. JARLET. ; ' ." f V , .. The Joy of the Thing, -... . Benevolent Old Citlsen (to little f el- -low shoveling snow) Well, little manj you're working hard! :v Little Fellow (indignantly) No, ". ' ain't; nobody told me to do it! ' v