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Newspaper Page TextTHE JOURNAL C. 8, JACKSON ..PnbUaher publlabed rery tdIb (tMit ewr Sunday morntrg at The J' jU' ius. Fitta itliKaliia etreer, Entered at ttie rtoffioi at Portland. . Iranainlaalon Uuoukb U malls M eecoBd-claea matter.' - .vv ' -- ,.al..ll uvi ...... . - - f - -. . All departmaota rrnch.-d by tbeee Dnmbera. Tell the operator tbe department t want. Eaat Hide ornce, s,aai o-- - FOREIGN ADVERTISING RKPBKSEKXATlTfJ. ei..i n.n4.min naotl irivertlairie' Aseney, Rrantvlrk BulMlng. 22S fifth wnne. New Xorkt 1007-08 Bojce Building, coica. Snbarrtptlon Terme y i "la Um United Butea. Cai mat or to any addreaa nada or Mexico: :.'' " DAILY. .. On year.. ...... .$5.00 One month -BO . On rear........t2.S0 I On month . -23 , DAILT AND S0NDAT. Dne ear..w...s.. .17.80 I One month.......! .85 r Cntulatidn Guarantee ThiCerti6etht tlx tircahtitm of tie. A been MwdhedueS gaumattM by tie Adrtrthtri CtrtiBed Caxmkttku Bit Book 7 wr Aa prow 0 weeetijauos Wt the eimlmtioa ncardt u kept with 'cMtt awef the eimlattoa ttaud witk toch cverary tbtt adrtrtMtrt may nly ok any etaftrsaraca Of jaow abmv wc puwnmr umter the owotnnip oo .aussaxes" ia control September e, lsOa 63 And each (ball care for other, And- each 'to each shall bend, To the Poor a noble brother, . To the good an equal friend. . , Emerson.' K DOES ELECTROCUTION KILL? TfHB QUESTION. of. whether eleo I trocution always kills Is again I at the surface in the east. Doc- " tors are sometimes quoted on both 'sides of the question Three , months ago an interview was pub lished In which a New York physician cast grave doubts over the efficacy of official executions In the electric chair, lie related an Instance of the most sensational character. After - being placed in what was supposed .if to be a proper contact with the cur rent, a condemned man was taken from the chair for dead. He was laid on ft cpuch and to the astonish ment of those present a faint flush noon appeared on the cheek. Then came a twitching of the limbs and later faint heart beats. In 45 min utes the' supposed' dead 'man had re turned to complete consciousness and the remarkable alternative was presented of placing-the unfortunate man a second time in the death chair. This was done and within an hour after the first attempt at exe : cution, a second official electrocu tion had, been inflicted, and, as the ' denouement showed, with more suc cess. The physician -who related .the Incident raised, the question, If, in , other electrocutions, the attending physicians had not, on many occa sions, been the actual lnstrnmentall- ties of death. It was a suggestion of hideous Import and attracted wide attention. . , . A new discussion of the efficacy of the process has arisen over an in cident that occurred the other day in Pennsylvania.. A man received a heavy shock from a broken trolley , wire on a street corner and was ' picked up apparently dead. He was taken to a hospital, where 'at first the physicians announced that life was extinct. After a considerable - period he showed signs of life and as a result of the work of a physician . over him for several hours, he re turned to consciousness. He was able to converse,-but remembered nothing of the shock with which he had been felled. All that was clear was that while the physicians were working over Mm he experienced great pain. i Dr. Spitzka of the Jefferson medi cal college says the Incident proves nothing for those who claim ability io revive me aeaa aeni out oy tne ..electric chair. The contact, he says, was momentary and the voltage un ? known. The shock was probably , received through clothing and upon a dry skin. In electrocution, sponges wetwlth salt water, press upon the 'shaved body surfaces and the shock 7 is great and prolonged. The tissues v are torn asunder and the" blood changed by the intensity of the cur- rem. in snori, ur. fopitzka con KsS -"..vr us a- may remain. TAFT AND THE TARIFF TN HIS recent speech at the meet- Iiug vi ia vjqio aocieiy in New York city Mr. Taft said. "I am . a protectionist, wnlch state ment elicited much applause, but he had not finished- his sentence, for he went on to declare that the promise -of the Chicago platform mut iw aejn, ua ig give nig in terpretation of it, which is not at iall T.be Interpretation of the stand patters and over-protected Interests. After quoting the platform, he said: ."What that means, as I understand n, 13 teat tne cost or production includes abroad a reasonably profit or interest on capital, and so here a reasonable Interest on capital, and that that differs abredd from what it ii here, and that. aU" that ,means H V H J',,3 include the clenients if i ' !, vMch include the raw eludes, "there is no chance that llfeUtfcat of Professor Simon Newcomb, material, cost of labor, interest on capital, and perhaps other things and so on this aide, and then you reach the difference." This la not ver clearly expressed but seems to mean that' Mr. Taft construes the "reasonable profits of the platform to mean simply rea sonable Interest on the capital In vetted. And It may be reasonably in ferred that the president-elect would not consider 40, or 30, or even 20 per cent interest on capital actually in vested as "reasonable profits." So far, Mr. Taft appears to be a better tariff reformer since the election than .he was during the campaign. He undoubtedly desires sincerely a considerably reformatory revision of the tariff, and will use his Influence to this end in a "Bane" and per haps an effective way. SOME RECENT HISTORY AND ITS SEQUEL R. WALDO COE3 of Portland Is in Washington , on a mission. He Is laboring, so the account runs, to secure the withdrawal of John C. Young and the substitu tlon of John " If Into for the Portland postmastership. It is further re lated, that the plan has failed and that Dr. Coe has proposed a com promise providing two years more for Mr. Mint p and the accession at the end of that time of. Mr. Young. This plan seems likewise not to have met with favor, and the impression is that Mr. Young will ultimately be confirmed. Impotency in this matter is the price Senator Fulton is . paying for the path he has traveled politically for some months past. .Those friends of Senator Pulton who followed him Jn that path and perhaps counseled him to persist In it are falling by the same sword. It was destruction for Mr. Pulton when he assumed the unfortunate attitude of resisting the electorate in itswish to choose sen ator last spring. Senator 'Fulton was repeatedly told in The Journal that it would ruin him. His friends were told in this newspaper repeat edly that in taking $he same course they were working out hjs destruc tion. They were told this when they passed at Salem and at Portland the resolutions, denouncing Statement No. 1. It was told to them by The Journal that their course and Sena tor Fulton's course was political madness, and that It could have no other outcome than a miserable fail ure; " They refused to heed the warning, and the rejection of Senator Fulton at the primary polls was the conse quence, with that deadly warning the madness of Mr. Fulton and his friends should have ended, but it did not. A folly 1 infinitely more irra tional was undertaken. The infa mous activity, waa engaged in of at tempting to break down In their Uledges men who had vowed to sup port in the legislature the-people's choice for senator. It was proposed to smash the ballot 'box in Oregon and set at defiance the will of the electorate expressed at that ballot box. It was a program of Inexcus able folly, involving a moral stand ard bo low and methods so anar chistic and revolutionary as to every where meet with condemnation. It showed . on the part of those who planned it a woeful underestimate of the public conscience and a complete lack of touch with the purpose and civic conceptions of the Oregon elec torate. It met with rebuke from al most every newspaper in the land. met with rebuke from the na tional Republican administration. It was countenanced nowhere, and de nounced everywhere. It was the price that had to be paid for a course of political madness, a madness of which, in kindness and constancy, this newpaper repeatedly forewarned Mr. Fulton and his friends. Its logic Is that the Impossible must not be attempted. The inevi table cannot be prevented. The hand of progress cannot be turned backward. The tides of the ocean cannot be arrested in their resistless swep.- The breath of a butterfly cannot turn back the onward rush of the hurricane. The will of a deter mined people cannot be overthrown or turned aside. The lesson should be accepted and a beginning be made by Senator Fulton and his friends along lines attuned to the heart throbs of Oregon people, MONOPOLIZATION OP ATHLETICS P' kARTLY IN SUPPORT of the Chehalis county (Wash.) school superintendent's opinion on ii school ana couese aimeLicB is . . . - graduate athletic manager of Har vard He is not against athletics; on the contrary he says we need in our universities and we suppose this applies to lesser schools also "not less athletics but more." But be complains that under the present system of intercollegiate contests the benefits of athletics "do not reach hundreds of young . undergraduates who are 'dissipating their energies in foolish living"; who. are merely "lookers-on end pipe smoking idlers." : He .says they should .be Induced to undertake their own physical development In a sane and systematic manner and should ' not be left to their own volition. ., Professor Newcomb points ; out that under existing conditions col lege athletics are practically monop olized, 'first, by a few men already so splendidly developed physically that they do not need them at all; second, by rigorous young men who, while undoubtedly benefited in a I ' 1 ' " way by the exercises, are In no abso lute nMil nt them Th hruv nf students, many, times' outnumbering these two classes who need the ex ercises to build up partially or feebly developed physical, . manhood, and who, if thus , assisted, will con tribute to the community the largest number of its most forceful citizens, physique and mentality bothconsld ered are practically ruled out of participation therein. There is in this and similar criti cisms of men whose opinions are valuable a subject for careful and earnest study on the part of leading educators throughout the country. It Is conceded generally that a mod erate, reasonable amount of athletics is good, is even necessary, and the elements of contest and sport cannot be entirely separated therefrom; but the point seems to be well taken that athletics are not sufficiently distributed, are too . much monop olized, and that they should be made more a matter of education for all and less a matter of sport for. a few. . NIXE YEARS MORE OF "PROS PERITY." T OSEPH FRENCH JOHNSON, I dean of the New York Univer- I eity's School of Finance and pro- J feasor of economics in the Uni versity of Pennsylvania, recently made a statement that is not very encourag ing to the average wage earner. Pro fessor Johnson figures it out .not only that the cost of living has in creased 44 per cent in the past nine years, but that it is going to keep on increasing for nine years more, and that in 1918 prices of the necessaries of life will be 80 per cent higher than they were in 1897, when the era of prosperity" began. But how about wages? If they rise in. proportion, all right. But so far, they have not, and Professor Johnson says that they will not. He says it Is a law of political economy that wages do not rise as fast or as much as the cost of living, when this oing up. So, he says, "the work- n will find himself pinched in cket. He will not know whom to ame, and probably will say it is his Ife's fault." We did not need the statement of the learned professor though his is first class testimony to know that the cost of living Is constantly Increasing, and that wages are not increasing in proportion. We do not even need the government statistics to ascertain this, for everybody can see it in his own experience, but the government officially declares the fact. If this is to go on for at least nine years more; If after the tem porary break of last year the "era of prosperity" is to continue for nine years more, with the cost of living constantly going up and wages ris ing but little, in what condition will the workingmen be by that time? Will it have been a period of pros perity for them? How can the mil lions of wage earners prosper on a slightly Increasing income and a heavily increasing outgo? There is this to be considered, however; in such a period there is a big, active demand for labor, so that most wage earners of all kinds can find steady employment, while in a period of low prices wages are low, and besides that many people cannot get work at any price. So on the whole, it may be argued, high prices are best. But can this large increase of cost of liv ing and small increase of wages go on forever or Indefinitely? Must there not be a limit to it? And when that limit is reached, what will happen? Will Professor Johnson put on a. pair of strong spectacles and answer our "And then"? There is a very practical, import ant lesson for all wage earners in this state of affairs. They may not be able to change - conditions by thinking and talking about them, but they can be provident, economical, prudent. Nearly all of them can thus lay up something from week to week, from month to month, from year to year, against the colder, darker days that may come. Most of them can manage even to get bomes of their own. According to this learned man's prediction, they can tip this more easily now than they can later. Having done this, they will be independent, in ease, when the dark time comes. The government is never going to help them much; they must help them selves, and provide for themselves against the future. IDENTIFICATION T ESTIMONY as to identity is al ways to be regarded with cau tion. Here are several intelli gent, conscientious people with good visual capacity who declared that Burks, so-called, was not one of the train robbers, particularly not the one who menaced the engineer for a long time with ' a revolver. Barks, they said, did not exactly correspond with the robber In any particular, indeed scarcely resembled him; yet Burks, who seems deter mined to convict himself, convinced them by a recital of incidents which only he and they could have known that he was the man. To turn the case about, many a wrong person has been positively identified. A crime has been committed; some one re sembling the guilty person is caught and Identified by the victim perhaps by others, ' who swear positively to bis Identity with the culprit; and yet It turns out that he was entirely innocent; tArid bow1 often- is thls the fact when it does not so turn out, and an Innocent person puffers for a guilty one?. Doubtless many a negro has been lynched on hasty and mistaken or careless identifica tion. Next to expert testimony as to handwriting, that of identifica tion of a stranger is the moat un reliable. ' ' ' 1 AN IRRESISTIBLE MOVEMENT A' WASHINGTON' dlspateft to The Journal may not exaggerate when it says that the recent fifth meeting' of the Rivers and Harbors congresB "marked an epoch in the' economic history of the nation." This movement for better and more steady, energetic and system atic improvement of rivers and bar bors, and for sufficient and regular appropriations therefor, began sev eral years ago, and has now reached the stage of positive, marked , in fluence. In connection, with the In land Waterways and Conservation commissions, this influence will soon become irresistible, and the oppo sition of Cannon and other fossils and reactionaries will become futile The objection that It would not be wise to issue bonds to the extent of 1500,000,000 until it was fully and finally decided just where and how the money should be expended Is sufficiently answered by Repre sentative Ransdell when he says that the bonds need not be issued until needed; what is sought now is the positive governmental adop tion of this policy, assurance tfiat It will be promptly and persistently carried out, and means provided for doing so as soon and as fast as is practicable. The war in Venezuela has begun, but Gomez being on the ground ought to have the better of Castro, who is far awaf. Let tfirs From tlie People Letter to The Journal iboalrl be written on oo aide of the paper only, and ettonld bo ac companied by the naroa and addreaa of tbe writer. The name wUl not b ned If the writer aaka that tt be withheld. The Journal la not to be understood aa lndorafn tha Tlewa or atatementa of eorreapnnrlenta. Letter ahonld be made aa brief aa fykalbta. Thoee wbo wlah their lettera returned whenxnot need ahonld ta- eloee poetaa-o. rnmannnrtna n notified that letter x. eeedlnf 300 word la length may. t he dis cretion Tne editor, ne cue aowa iu met Vitrified Street Paving. Portland. Or.. Dc. 14. to th Editor of The Journal The slogan and onn of tha paramount sentiments of every progressive citizen Is, and ougnt to De. better streets In the cities. And better hlarhwav In the country are the grow In b: Imoulse and should be the ambition of all. Therefore, the Inspiring cause of this article Is to attract the attention and elicit the interests of etperts and adepts in earths and minerals that can be fused, that are lying adjacent to the street or road; by means of a portable melting furnace, to bevborne along (as the work progresses) by a traction en gine with ample power to drive all the machinery requisite to tne worar. But the greatest difficulty arises from the prevailing feeling among profession al 'men and experts along this line that thttt which has never been done cannot be done. But if this article attracts the attention of some foundryman, artisan, machinist, mineraJoglt , or practical glass manufacturer who will communi cate with O. M. Pringle. 921 East Burn- side street, Portland, Or., the object of this communication will havs been at tained. I think the practicability of the scheme ran be easily demonstrated, and that It Is destined to revolutionize all road, street, dam and retaining wall building, and lessen the cost from one half to two thirds. O. M.-PRINGLE. A Great, Commendable Movement. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Obviously, transportation facilities must be Increased and enlarged. If tha increase and enlargement of railroad facilities cannot be made then it fol lows that they must come from the utilization of our inland waterways the utilization of pur wasted natural re sources. The movement therefore. Is to be commended. - It Is a great work that should be done greatly. A half billion of dollars will be by no means too large a sum to be expended with resulting benefits as set forth in the report of, the commission In view. It would not be too large a sum expended over 10 years, If it will Insure us against periods of freight congestion such as marked the winters of 1908 and 1907. But the movement has struck a snag In the' opposition , of Speaker Cannon. He opposes tha proposition of Issuing bonds for the purpose. He would have congress make the appropriations for the purpose biennially, and he would have those appropriations limitedper haps to $20,000,000. His view, as h disclosed in his speech before tha com mission and its . conferees. Is a narrow one. But be is a- man. In the speaker's chair, of such power that he is for midable, Therefore, his declaration tf views is disturbing Clearly "Uncle Joe" must be educated to the necessities and the great value of the work. This Date in History. y Ull More than 100 .persons per ished in the burning of ' theatre in Richmond, Vs. .-, '" ' 1829 A party of Choctaws attacked a camp of Osaare Indians on the Can adian river and . killed seven of their number. - - - , . - 1837 -Admiral George Dewey of the United States navy born In Montpeller, vt, . . - - 1818 Morgan ' 8. Bulkeley. governor of Connecticut and United States sen ator, born In East Haddam, Conn. ' 1847 Hugh Conway, poet and novel ist, born. Died May 15. 1885. 1861 -Federal . force captured Tybee Island. 1887 David Howard Harrison became premier of Manitoba. 7 . 1900 President Paul Kruger arrived In Paris. . , Francis Brown's Birthday. Dr. Francis Brdwn, president of the Union Theological -seminary and one of the most distinguished Hebrew schol ars in America, was born at Hanover, N. H.. December 28, 1849, and received nts rirst aispioma of graduation from Phillips academy- in 11(8 Later he studied at Dartmouth coll ere and at the Union Theological seminary. - He also spent some years In study abroad. In 1890 Dr. Brown became professor of Hebrew and cornste languages in th Union Theological seminary and laat spring he wss chosen president of the seminary to succeed the late Dr. Charlea Culhbert Hall. - For his distinguished contributions in the, field of learning Dr. Brown has been rewarded with hon orary degrees rrem lea dinar universities in Americas and Eurooa. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE O, the wretched day after! A normal Christmas, as to weather wet, Perjury is considered a' small crime beside murder,-- ., ; '.. Have you noticed that the days are setting longer 7 Don't worry yet; it's a week till the month s bills come due. - Some of the Christmas spirit should extend throughout the year. Next Christmas we will have lion or tiger for. his Christmas dinner. , i Some people may be congratulating themselves because they put off buying them till too late. "Colossal fortunes are on trial in thin country,'' says Dr. Scburman, - Bet a iuiiuuu vary wiu De acquitted. - . We don't hear munh n thar "nnWh nd" any more. In its former sense, it u yi jr mucn disappeared. , Christmas was made" partly to soften VP tha. tisht-wada Salem Statesman. If so, it is in that respect a failure. If Uncle Sam had riven fhrlntmaa . preaems, mat aencit would have mount- d up to nocKeieiier-UKe propositions. The President's onlnintTa an flavor permitted to merely leak out. Chicago Record-Herald. ; No. they are unnul.H A man may a area in a-eneral with the. Roosevelt policies without Indorsing everything that Roosevelt does and ays. . A Umatilla countv man named Card and his wife have- sued each other for divorce. They want the Judge to cut the Cards. ' .- The Castellans kids are 'lucky in escaping the custody of Bonl providing they don't come within seeing or smell ing distance of De Sugan. Two' Massachusetts rlrls had a regu lar pugilistic contest Thursday. Now will those who make the excuse that women should not vote because they can't fight cease their opposition to woman suffrage. , Kaiser William, like President-elect Taft, has announced that-fce will drink no more. Being broke, on only 810,000,- 000 a year, he can t afford to. John D. Rockefeller's Income or fi nancial gains this year amount It is id, to iso.uuo.uuu. tie can- give away ill, JK ..111 V. ai lew minium ,nu on,, ua iim-wj. du long as he does not have to pay that fine. , . A Chlcaarn wnman offered a nrlze'of 8100 for the beat verses favorable to municipal suffrage for women, the same to be sung to the music of "The Battle Hvmn'of the Republic." and a sample of the thousands of competing poems reads: . ;. , : . It Is a burning shame that you should shoulder an tne cares When we are willing to be your helpers and the mayor s. , This should appeal to Mayor tane. who, however, has long been a woman suffragist. . FAMOUS GEMS pV PROSE "Tne Example of Wsning;ton (From an. oration by the famous min ister to England on "The Progress of lberty in One Hundred Tears," at Taunton, Mass., July 4, 1876.) One of the strongest muniments to save us from all harm Is the example of Washington. Far be It from me to ralae up a vlalonary Idol. I nave uved too long to trust in mere panegyric. Fulsome eulogy of any man raises with me only a smile. Indiscriminate lauda tion Is equivalent to falsebod. wann ing; ton. as I understand him. was gifted with nothing ordinarily defined as gen ius, and he had not had great advantages of education. His intellectual powers, were clear but not much above the average men of his time. What knowl edge he possessed had been gained from association with others in his long pub lic career, rafber than by secluded study. As an actor he scarcely aistinguisned himself by more than one brilliant stroke; As a writer the great part of his correspondence . discloses nothing more than average natural good sense. On the field of battle his powers pale before the splendid strategy of Napoleon Bonaparte.' Tet, notwithstanding all these deduc tions, the thread of his- life from youth to age displays a maturity of Judgment, consistency of principle, a steadiness of action, a discriminating wisdom, and a purity of purpose hardly found united to the same extent in any otner instance can recall In history. Of his entire disinterestedness in all his pecuniary re lations with, tbe public, it is needless tor me to speak; more than all, and above all, he was master of himself. If there be one quaVqty mora than another In his character which may exercise a use ful control over the men of tha present hour. It la the total disregard of self, when In the most elevated positions for influence and example. The star of Napoleon was Just rising to Its zenith as that of Washington , passed away. In point of .military gen-j lus Napoleon probably eqiieled, if he did I Through the Cascades by Electricity. From Electric News, Passenger trains hauled by electric lo comotives will be running through the Cascade tunnel of the -Great Northers railroad before January 1, 1909. The electrification of this long tunnel, which has been a source . of trouble and an noyance since the road was built, is th largest undertaking of Its kind ever at tempted In the west, and the Great Northern Is the first of the great west ern roads to adopt electric propulsion for any considerable portion of its road. Not only la the Cascade development the largest of Its kind In the west, but It Is the first three phase railroad sys tem to be Installed in this country and one of the first in the world. The most unusual feature of this electric service, as planned by the General Electrlo com pany's engineers, Is the fact that the motors, which pull tha electric locomo tives' and trains up the grades, will nat urally and Inherently become" genera tors on the down grades and return elec trical energy to the line. The Caacade tunnel is a little less than three miles In length. The elec trification of this division will eliminate the present congestion of traffic, be cause steam locomotives cannot pass through tha great bore very often on ac count of tha stifling gases and deadly smoke. The danger of suffocation will be removed and the traffic cost will also be lowered, as the electricity used is manufactured in the vicinity from wa ter power. - The Great Northern has secured the rights and titles for enough water pow er along the Wenatchee to develop 100, 000 horsepower and it is said, Upon good NEWS IN BRIEF , OREGON SIDELIGHTS. Medford Socialists havs nominated a city ticket. 1 Many road districts are voting ape clal taxes for good roads "if ? Wheat crop prospects were never bet ter at a year s end in eastern uregon. The Astoria Budget Issued 'a large, valuable and very, creditable special Uhriatmaa edition, e - Over 300 men and 210 head of stoc rock ta04. are now worklnar on the rsrUroad-'W'tekL a radius of a few miles of (Klam&tfl - . '-J..J . :-f-. ., ; " t . .... Corvallls Times: The packing houses now being erected at Portland will re quire large numbers of hogs. Dairying and hog raising go together. Benton county has much land good for dairying purposes, and oould produce- many hogs for the Portland markets Take the ad vice of a college professor and save the calves. Let the calves become milkers, furnish local creameries with butter fat. and feed the separated milk to hogs. , ' ' Owing to the fact that the excellent qualities of southern Oregon rranlte are gaining a reputation in other sections of the state and in California, the Ore gon Granite company has found It Decen ary to open a branch of lice and shop In Eugene and . Is already contemplating one . In Portland, says - the Medford Tribune. . The company contemplates erectlne-new shops near Medford.. De velopment work on the. quarry is being rushed. . The ' Roseburg Review ' says that It sincerely believes that Roseburg has al ready lost more than $38,000 which is tha total of the proposed bond issue by not getting the paving .work started last fall as planned. Tne councllmen wbo opposed the bond issue should let the fact penetrate their minds that the people of Roseburg are decidedly in favor of street paving and are- not in any mood lay stand any further "rag chewing" ower the several kinds of pave ment proposed. The hobo nuisance Is again becoming very conspicuous In Roseburg, an aver age of 100 of these persons passing through the city daily, most of whom are north bound, says the News. The hobo camp, situated along the river in the vicinity of the brickyard Is said to be alive day and night with these indi viduals, among whom are many mere boys ranging In age from 12 to 20 years. The officers are powerless to quell their intrusion. Tbe Dalles Optimist: That Oregon is likely to lose the only sugar beet fac- ....... u. L . I- - A J . . T iuij - wo nave, ma una luuniru i ai i.ei Grande, is more than a probability. But ! will it be a great evil? We think noM In the long run. It may cause some inconvenience, some loss, ror a time. nut in tne end it win give us a vaiu able fruit acreage where beets are now grown. We really believe that ror the benefit of the state at large the sooner the factory is closed the, better. President French of tha Wlston Nor mal school has been attending a teachers' Institute In Harney countv. a ad saya that county "la a most prom isins- nl ace to Invest money. Settlers are coming In by the hundreds and land is yet cheap, some or tne most ex tensive and richest valleys In the west He in that county as yet undeveloped, waiting -for opening."'; Many teachers had to come on horebaek 90 or 40 miles through snow, but all the teachers or the county out, two were present. By Charles Francis Ada mi not excel, any person known In history. In regard to the direction of the In terests of a ' nation, he may have occupied a very high place. ' He Inspired an energy and vigor In the veins of the French people which they safly needed after the demoralising sway of centuries of Bourbon kings. With even a small modicum of the wisdom so prominent In Washington," he, too, might have left a people to honor his memory down to the latest times. But it was not so to be. Do you ask the reason? It Is this. His motives of action always centered In self. His example give's a warning, but not a guide. Had Napoleon copied tha example of Washington, he would have been the Idol of all later generations In France; for Washington tohave copied the example of Napoleon, would have been simply impossible. Let us, then, discarding all Inferior strife, hold up to our children the ex ample of Washjngton as the symbol, not merely of wisdom, but of purity and truth. Let us labor continually to keep the advance in civilization as It becomes us to do after the struggles of the past, so that the right to life, to liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, which we have honorably secured, may be firmly en tailed upon the ever enlarging genera, tlons of mankind. ' And what is it, I prsy you tell roe. that has brought us to a celebration of Washington's birthday? , Is It not the steady cry of excelsior Up to the most elevated regions of political purity, s'e- cured to us by the memory of those who have passed before' us, and conse crated the very ground occupied by their ashes? Gloriously,; Indeed, may it be aid of it In the words of tha poet: "What'e hallowed ground? 'Tls what gives birth v u ; , t To sacred thoughts In souls of worth. Peace, Independence,. Truth, go forth. Earth's compass roun!; -' ' And your high priesthood shall make v earth. ' " . . All hallowed ground." authority, that several of the heavy grades near the tunnel will also be elec trified in the near future, and . it la prophesied that tha entire western di vision win be run by electricity within a few years. t ' r While this railroad 1s the first in the west to adopt electricity se a motive power to any great extent, it Is passing evident that It will not be the last, as nearly every railroad In that section, from the Canadian Pacific to jthe South ern Pacific. Is planning mere or hss electrification work, which will be start ed during the coming year. Would Better Trust the People. From the Brooklyn Eagle. Other administrations before that of Mr. Roosevelt have been as bitterly ar raigned as his on eharges quite as spe cific and scandalous as that . relating to the purchase of the Panama canal. Other presidents before Mr. Roosevelt notably Abraham . Lincoln. . Ulysses 8. Grant and Grover - Cleveland were the victims of attacks that carried oritlclam Into the realm of the .libelous and the malignant. Yet they took no recourse to the courts either for their administra tions; or themselves. ; They - trusted ' to 'time and to tha good sense of . the American people for their vindication, and they did not trust In vain. ; .--.. " .' , " True to Life. -V-";' V From Lustige Welt Photographer (to young man) It will make a much better pIctuYe if you. put your hand on your father's shoulder. The Father Huh! It would be much more natural If he had his hand in my pocket! ' Proposed Bond Issue ' Waterways tor . Zn point of attendance and . interest and the work accomplished, tba Na tional Rivers and y Harbors congress, through Its fifth annual convention, held during the second week of December, marked an, epoch In the economic hiatory Of the nation. - And the resolutions. Which were unanimously adopted by the convention fearlessly went upon record for bond issue of $500,000,000 to im prove the rivers and harbors of the United States "as shall be authorised by congress, said bonds to be sold from time to time end In anch nTiontlrloa mm jT&rajrhe necessary ,She provisions for the issuance or saia Donas to De simitar to those authorising the bonds for the con struction of the Panama canal. . This action on the part of the Na tional Rivers and : Harbors congress, was the culmination of the campaign of education begun several years ago, the piecemeal appropriations on the part of the Congress of the United States, . by river and harbor bills, In no sense out lining" a fixed and comprehensive policy of waterway improvement, commen surate with tha ever increasing demands of trade and commerce. Notwithstanding the objection entored by Speaker Cannon to ' the bond issue feature of tha resolutions, the oommlttee on resolutions, representing all sections of tha country, had no differences as to the need of fixed annual appropriations for Waterway development and they be lieved the time ripe for an explicit dec laration to that end. The time for ar gument had gone by with tha 8600 dele gates who were In attendance upon the convention, tbe time for aotlon waa at hand. . . ' 1 . ', Representative Ransdell of Louisiana, president of the National Rivers and Harbors congress, who has for many years been an active, earnest worker for a comprehensive plan of waterway betterments; in explaining the action of the congress over which he presided. said: "Nobody . contemplates the issu ance of $500,000,000 of bonds at one time. All we plan Is -to have bonds Issued from time to time as needed. These -bonds are for permanent works, for work Just as permanent and possi bly more so than the Panama canal and destined for the same commercial uses. These works are not alone for ourselves, they are for posterity as well and should be paid for, at least In part, by it. By the authorization of the Issu ance of $500,000,000 of bonds to carry out a broad and comprehensive pulley of waterway Improvements wa are but Imitating the wise example of the rail roads who make money by borrowing money to be used for line extensions, thereby Increasing the means of hand ling traffic. "If it should be found that sufficient money cannot be appropriated from our rent revenues to carry- on the work of completing water projects under way and the beginning of -new ones ap proved by the board of army engineers, then there should be sold sufficient waterway bonds from time, to time, so that each year will find the work of Improving our rivers, harbors, and canals steadily going on to flnal com pletlon, . , "In 1901 the congress of the United States authorised the issuance of 8180, 000,000 of Panama bonds to be sold as needed. With the. $30,000,000 Issued the other day the amount of the Panama bond issue up to this time Is 884,631, 980, extending .over a period of nearly six years. "As a large deficit Is In sight, to be exact, $58,070,201 for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, for the next fiscal year as per the estimate of the secre tary of the treaaury $114,000,000, and $143,000,000 for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1910, It Is clear that only by a bond Issue can the work of waterway development on a comprehensive plan proceed. It will take but $10,000,000 a year aoout tne cost or one battleship to pay 3 per cent on the proposed $500, 000,000 bond issue. And this sum wisely spent on our watercourses, our rivers and our harbors will save the people more than $500,000,000 annually in re duced freight rates." . ' Proposed Waterway Improvements. From the St Paul Pioneer Press. The plan proposed by tha waterway advocates has nothing In common with a general policy of bond issues, for per manent improvements. ' It is essentially different It la definite, not Indefinite. It wholly eliminates the log rolling- fea ture and with it the evils that spring therefrom. It is, not proposed that con gress issue bonds the proceeds of which shall be spent how, where and when congress pleases. On the-contrary, it Is exactly that Irresponsible, haphazard, foolish method of expenditure against which the waterway advocates are con tending. They would be the last to ask for a multiplication of the waste ttiey are endeavoring to prevent' It is exactly to prevent further waste that they pro pose, a bond Issue under the terms and conditions which are the essential fea tures of that project They would not advocate bonds If congress could be de pended On, without an annual wrangle and without Imposing unwise conditions, to appropriate neither more .nor less than would ba demanded. It is merely because the current revenues are uncer tain, and because the temper of con gress from session to session is still more uncertain, and most of all because they want tq put a stop to log rolling, waste, extravagance and folly that they offer the suggestion of $500,000,000 of bonds. '" Tha. terms and conditions which, wa repeat are the essential features of the project of the waterway advocates are (1) that the proceeds or as much thero- a as 'anaif Vv a 4rti r A nanaaan nksll V expended, not according to the direction or congress, out under tne supervision of a commission of experts in such places,' for such works and' In such amounts as will produce the moat per manent and most effective results in tha shortest time and for tha least money; (1) that the bonds shall only be Issued from time to time in such quantities as the progress of the work demands. That such a commission as would be appoint ed by Taft or by Roosevelt would spend! the money not only Judiciously but eco nomically tha country's experience with tbe irrigation commission proves. As a matte' of , fact except by the appoint ment of a commission, mads wholly In dependent of congress for appropria tions, there can be no systematic, no wise and no economical development of the waterway systems of this country: and a commission can only be made In dependent of - constant congressional In- . terference by authorizing, as In tha case of the. Panama canal, a bond Issue to ba taken advantage of as needs (require. , With such an assurance a general plan of Improvement can be mapped out and proseouted continuously to. completion. . Post Mortem Fame. From the Kansas City Times. ""' "Despite all your wealth1 said the cynic, "your very name will be gen erally forgotten in 20 years after your death." .v ' "No, it won't'' replied the financier! my estate is large enough to keep the helits squabbling longer than that."