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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 .
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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?
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'Tet a "crisis" in the government wjll
probabiy be averted. , .
"It la nearly ' time for somebody to
define Santa Claus again.
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All sorts of conventions these days,
and results will be good.
But wasn't Fulton for free silver, and
didn't he attack Roosevelt?
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The dairymen's convention can prop
erly be thankful for prosperity.
Christmas is coming soon for con
gress, as well as for other people.
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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,
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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-
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For the first time since the organiza
tion of Hermiston's city government
harmony prevailed in that town Tues
day during the election, ,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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