The Oregon daily journal., December 30, 1908, Page 5, Image 5

THE ' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 30, 1908.
CZAR til
WILDEST OF
DESPOTS
His Vast Powers Exercised
for ,000(1 and . That Alone
Has Care of Beast and
; Bird and largely of Man
Size .of His Job. ,
Br FIIEDERIO J. IJASKIJI.
'(Copyright, 1908, by Frederic J. Haskln.)
Washington, Deo. 30. Secretary of
Agriculture James Wilson Is ' the na
tional policeman. Besides being -the
learned scientist which the law states
the secretary of agriculture must be,
and the benevolent farmer which he
appears to' be, Mr. Wilson lit reality
cturciiin moaa power ana asinoniy a I-
opje
Id the
- fecting the 80.000.000 nel
Jnited Btatps than any other man. Lest
some one fear this jpower. It may be
. paid that It is exercised only-for the
benefit of the people.
However, the fact remains that. the
secretary - of agriculture almost abso
f lutely controls the food, meat, drink.
and drug supply of the country. Undr
; various laws he can stop interstate
traffic In all food and drugs, and very
:. few communities . or people ace un
; touched by commerce f this character.
He can quarantine any or all states
-. against diseases of livestock, as he re
cently did In the case of four states on
account of, the food and. mouth disease
of cattle. He can do many other
things of a similar character that will
affect directly or . Indirectly the whole
people.
Can Insure Wholesome Tood.
Some one has speculated upon the
damage and trouble that might be
. caused If some Imp of malicious mis
r, chief should persuade the secretary of
. agriculture to use his enormous power
wrongfully. Luckily, It would be re
called in such a case. that the head of
the agricultural department, like all
other executive officers of the govern-inent.-ls
under the control of the presi
dent, while most of his decisions and
other acts are subject to review by the
' courts. Under ordinary circumstances
mm BuperviBury Huinuruy, exvcuiive
and judicial, is not called upon to act,
and the secretary of agriculture's decis
ion is. In effect, final. One notable ex
, ception to the ourt review is the-aee-
retary's authority over Importations of
food, drugs, etc.. which, it is reported.
la soon to be exercised to exclude
French absinthe, t -.
The seoretary of agriculture-acts as
, the guardian of Amerloan health and
the probable eradlcator of the national
- disease, Indigestion, In enforcing the
puro food law, the meat Inspection law,
and laws regulating the manufacture
, and sale of renovated- butter, filled
rheesd-and other adulterated products,
Vnder, these laws Interstate commerce
In practically all food, drink and drug
products, if adulterated, unwholesome,
or mlsbranded, is prohibited. The seo-
retary of agriculture has these prod
uct TftminA1 Mnil Arflnra thfm 1ahlu1
properly and if the manufacturers per
sist Jn disregarding the- wishes of the
department, their products are- con
demned and Interstate shipments of the
same are forbidden. Similar authority)
. aiso extenaa over imported rood proa
' nets. 'This enormous power enables the
secretary of agriculture practically to
Insure a wholesome food supply for the
nation. -.
' WStche Orer All XAn&s.
This power Is Increased by the iaw
tinder which quarantine may bo enforced
against livestock diseases. The secre
tary of agriculture i enabled to cut
off the milk supply of the large cities,
lie forbids interstate shipments of lire
stock and the by products of same after
slaughter, as well a hay, straw,- and
anything else, coming In contact with
such animals. Ha com Dels railroads and
sieamooat companies to oiHimeci ineir
cars. He confiscates and .kills diseased
animals, with or without the consent of
'their owners.
He does othef sanitary police work
t home and abroad. This Includes the
efforts that have been continuous for
number of years to stamp out the cattle
tick in the south and the sheep scab
and cattle mauge in the west. A num
ber of states liavn been cleared of these
pests. To guard against the spread of
came aiseases, tne seoretary or agri
cultures agnts Inspect and certify, or
condemn, all livestock imported from
abroad or exported from the United
States. In this connection the work of
the agricultural department extends
around the wprld. .
Humane Of fleer, Also. ,
While Inexorable In his attitude
toward food products which are not
what thev should be, and in dealing
with diseased animals, the secretary of
agriculture is also a sort of humane
officer. His agepts see to it, for in
stance, that llvcHlock in tsansit within
the United States or en route to foreign
countries are well supplied with water,
suitable food, air and. to some extent.
light. Animals are not allowed to re
main confined in railroad cars longer
than '28 consecutive hours, except in
certain cases. TWt-y are frequently un
loaded and given a chance to get exer
cise, and ree perors reacmng ine market.-
;... '',,':-,-.--.;;".,-..-. ' V
Borne ' farm crops are under the es
pecially .watchful eye of the national
jyiceman. Take cotton, for instance.
The secretary of - agriculture is doing
his best to stamp out the cotton boll
weevil at great expanse. After the crop
Is grown he prescribes standards of the
various varieties and grades of cotton,
which are understood to prevail in the
market, although the government is
without power to enforce lis ciassmca
tlon. - . , , .
sea Bwlndlers Checked.
' The farmer Is certain to get 'good
seeds of all kinds If he watches the
secretary of agriculture. . Here, again,
is a sample of the great police power
lodged In that official. He goes Into
the open market and purchases samples
of any or all kinds of seeds offered for
sale to the farmers. These samples
are carefully examined and analysed
and If vegetable or flower seeds are
found mixed and adulterated with weed
seed, powdered peanut shells, or any
one of the hundred or more impurities
for which agriculturists formerly paid
frood money, the national policeman pub
ishes the facts in the press, together
with the names of dealers from which
the Impure -seeds were purchased. .
Efforts are being made y the sec
retary of agriculture to protect all veg
etation from the ravages of the gypsy
ard brown tall moths In New England.
Quarantine regulations to prevent the
spread of these and other. Insect pests
wifiiin ih. TTnited states and the Im
portation of , new and injurious biiRS
from abroad are strictly enforced by
the secretary, in Ms ponce worn against
insect pests ha has turned loose thou
sands of Insect parasites to prey upon
the more dangerous varieties.
Orals Standards Maintained.
In the west the secretary of agricul
ture inspects all kinds of grains and
Issues certificates showing their qual
ities and grades. This enables anybody
to know Just what he Is selling or buy
ing, but the standards adopted by the
secretary have no legal weight at pres
ent. For several years attempts (have
been made to get congress to authorize
the agricultural department not only to
Inspect and certify grains, but also to
forbid ahlDments of same In interstate
and foreign commerce if the standards
prescribed are not aaopiea or ii me
grain is sold under false pretenses.
Breeds of livestock are. being Im
proved under the authority of. the sec
retary jo . certify pure bred animals,
whether native or Imported. This au
thority, however, does not-- extend to
interfering with traffic In animals which
are not pure bred. o; - "'
Guardian of the- Game.- - : " ;
Domeatlo animals are not the only
animals that come under . the protect
ing wing or tne secretary oi agricul
ture's police power, , He also, guards
the game of the country. Experience
has proved that state game laws are
more or less unsatisfactory. They dif
fer widely and consequently it formerly
was not difiicuit to obtain game xuiea
unlawfully at almost any time of the
rear. The secretary of agriculture, a
ew years ago, took charge of the inter
state traffic" In gam under the inter
state commerce clause of the constitu
tion. The Lacey act. so called, forbade
Interstate shipments of- game killed in
violation of any. state game-' Jaw. This
law is expected - to have' far reaching
consequences. Already a number or con
victions have been obtained under the
law, and. others will follow from time
to time.
The secretary of agriculture has a
number Of national reservations where
game Is allowed to- breed -unmolested
the year around. Fourteen of these are
reservations where migratory water
fowl and other game birds are pro
tected from slaughter.. It la hoped that
this policy will eventually result in 're
storing the flocks of beautiful wild
birds which have become almost ex
tinct under the . onslaught of the pot
hunter and the ' milliner's supply man.
In Yellowstone Park and other vast
tracts of 'country In Alaska and else
where, the secretary of agriculture pro
tects other kinds of game. His police
RIPLEY SCOLDS
: CPUS! PEOPLE
Santa Fe Magnate Says They
Aro Already Best Off
on Earth. ,
(United Press Laaaed Wlre.V
Santa Barbara." CaL, Pec 30.- "If
there is a people on the face of the
globe that should have no complaints
to make it is the people of the Pacific
coast," declared E. P. Ripley, president
of the Santa F railroad, in an inter
view given out on the eve of the pro
posed mass meetings to be held
throughout California to protest against
the higher freight rates scheduled . to
go into effect January 1. . -
"All this controversy about rates Is
foolish." declared the magnate. 'The
present rates . between the Pacific coast
and the ' east are the lowest railroad
rates In the world. They are constant
ly complained of by shippers In ; the
interior as being too low and as dis
criminating,; against then. Our only,
defense has been that they were made
necessary by water competition, that
there was little profit in them, although
such rates, applied to all the business
of the roads, would speedily bankrupt
them.----.-- .:;.':..'.
"The people of this coast are an
especially favored class. They get ab
normally low rates because of their
location. They would not have a -leg
to stand on in a court before any tri
bunal either for low rates or to pre
vent an advance. . They have . been
spoiled by a railroad service that in
its efforts to build up the resource of
the country has rendered a-service out
of all ' proportion to the amount paid
for it and unequalled in cheapness on
the face of the globe."
GEORGE T; ElTOX
COMMITS-SUICIDj:
T (UuHwt Pre lMd V1tA ' "
--j .. a .i ',i nnA A I J am rl
by financial difficulties George T. Ex-
. - ..... I J 1 aal.n. A .1 r,
ion, a iocai muaiu ueai.i, .."
killed himself yesterday. A number of
relative nf TCxton are said to live at
Ban Francisco, On his arrival at his
Store today Jiixton greeiea nis ran""
cheerfully. Immediately afterward he
intA tVi hflaninnt rtf his'estao-
llshment and shot himself.
power in this direction resulted not long
ago in breaking up a gang of elk tusk
hunters in Yellowstone Park and vi
cinity, which had been operating for
several years. i-vv
Toresta Are Xis Care.
' Last mentioned, but not least, among
tVi. twill nowera of the secretary of
agriculture Is his almost absolute con
tri - nu,r th natlnnftl forest reserves.
which hm an area of over 162.000.000
acres, or equal to the combined area
or tne New ji,ngiana iuim, new xunw.
New Jersey, Pennsylvania.. Delaware,
nil Kansas. . These reserve vary in
size from 489 acres to over ,000.00
acres each. . . .
in th fnrest reserves the secretary
agents seek, discover, and fight fcft-est
fires, and patrol all the vast territory
concerned, stopping trespasses of vari
ous kinds. There were over 1800 cases
of trespass last year and the importance
end magnitude of the work Is so fc-reat
that Secretary Wilson has asked con
gress for 1400 more forest rangers. " The
timber supply oi tne country -aepmiam in
no small degree upon mo national pur
est reserves and if they are increased
in number , and else by purchase and
otherwise, a -now seems prooame tn
necessary police work will jrow,, im
la nerforming '"all his onerous'duties
the near or agriculture nas an army oi
10.500 aslstants serving under him. Al
though this great force costs the gov
ernment iis.ouu.uuu a year, us won
brings the nation a return of millions
upon minions or. prone
BALFOUR LEADS :
COOPERAIIOniSTS
Nobles, Capitalists and La
1 borers Hock to Hear
, Former. Premier.
iWarnins
A party using the nam of
Tt. n. Terrv.
la traveling through the country taking
orders and representing himself as be
ing connected, with our house. He is
not, nor baa ne ever been in our em
ploy and has no authority to transact
any- Business in our name.
He is a fraud and should be arrested.
Taylor Williams Inc.) Owner Yellow
stone Distillery, ; No. 240, , Louisville,
Spectacles at Metxger'a.
I NEVER SLIP OR. DROP.
Special Holiday Rates
NO PAIN! NO HIGH PRICES!
WHY DO YOU HESITATE?
' Wc give a 10-year written guarantee.
FLEXIBLE FLESH. COLORED PLATES.
REGULAR $20, NOW... .......f 10.00
GOLD CROWNS, 22-KARAT..,:....i..f3.50
BRIDGE TEETH, 22-KARAT, ......... $3.50
GOLD FILLINGS . . i ...... . . . . f l.OO
SILVER FILLINGS . . . . BOf
WHY PAY MORE?
If you are nervous or hava heart trouble, the Electro
Painless System will do, the work when others fall.
Bank Reference Open Evenings and Sundays.
Lady Attendant
: f
7
Electro PainleaSS DentiaStS
Corner Fifth and Washington Streets Across From Perkins Hotel
" Cores Biliousness, Sid:
Headache, Sour Stom
1 ach, Torpid Liver and
Chronic Constipatio
Pleasant to tall ;
t - - n r n
JUUU U.J
laxative Fniif Syrup f
Cleanses the system
thoroughly and clears
' sallow complexions of
!es and blotches.
guaranteed "
(United Prtis Leased Wirt.) v
Liondon, Dec. 10. Former Premier
Arthur J. Balfour haa started a "vigor
ous campaign throughout Great. Britain
for -"capital and labor combination In
many industries, taking as Ms text 8ir
Christopher Furness' monster co
operative shipbuilding scheme. Balfour
is conducting his movement as presi
dent of the Labor Cooperative associa
tion, an organization of several years'
standing, into which, however, new life
has been Injected by the big shipbuild
ing experiment
- The audiences which the former' pre
mier has been addressing in the lead
ing English cities are perhaps the most
curiously mixed of any ever - gathered
In the United Kingdom. Peera and
workingTYien, Socialists, Liberal and
Coneervatices, captains of industry and
unionists, ail seem equally enthusiastic
over the plan, which, it is hoped, will
revolutionize the relation between cap
ital and labor and put an end to indus
trial strife by placing the two interests
on an equal footing and making them
work toward a common end.
The ex-prime minister; makes it clear,
however, that it is not socialism which
he is advocating. He urges individual
rather than committee control of both
commercial and industrial enterprises,
declaring his belief that the higher the
degree -Of individual efficiency among
members of any form ' of - managing
board the less likely would they be to
work harmoniously together. '
"Our association's ideal, however,"
he explained in his last speech, "is a
complete copartnership. "! mean that
those who carry on any work should be
associated in all that work brings in.
"Kverything that softens or obliter
ates the division between employer and
employed Is a step in the right direc
tion. Th more w encourage mutual
knowledge of each other's affairs, the
more we can bring the two classes to
gether, the more we can get tUo work
man to understand the difficulties of
the employer, the more we are likely to
produce a class of workmen fit to deal
with all questions, industrial, political
or social. This result we shall get by
cooperation and I doubt if we shall get
it in any other way.
"I think the plans we advocate can
be most efficiently carried out, in -the
first instance, at all events, in those
trell established industries which have
little about them of the speculative ele
mnt" ; : : ' ' - .
CUTPURSE FINDS
POLITENESS PAYS
Is, Very Nice to Mrs. Kelly
and She Is $5003. to
the Bad.
,; ' ' s (United Peu Td Wlre.V
' New York. . Deo. SO. Mrs. Helen M.
Kellv. mother-in-law of Prank Gould,
has notified a private detective agency
that she was robbed by polite stranger
whocscorted ner to a notei arier an
accident several days ago. Mrs. Kelly
was carrying a purse whicn 'contained
money and jewelry to the value of
Mrs. Kelly, who is a member of 'the
Kelly family that is -connected with
the Donohue Kelly Banking company,
was riding on Fifth avenue when one
of her horses fell dead. An apparently
wellbred stranger offered to escort her
to her hotel.-, She accepted the offer
and not until the man had disappeared
did she discover that only the strings
to her chatelaine bag remained, the
rest, containing the valuables, having
been ut away.
GILLETT HEARS
PRAYER OF JAPS
Consul Asks ; Square Deal
- and Governor Eeas
sures Him. ,
TREASURE
FAR
IS
Al'JAY FROfJ FOES
Unele Sam Cleans Out San
Francisco Mint; Coin, ,
. Goes to Denver. r
(United Prtsf Leased Wlrs.i -
Ban Francisco. Dec. 80. Uncle Bam
has completed the transfer front - the
local mint to Denver of the enormous
sum of S222.EOO.O00. V, x-
The government officials began to
remove the coin last August, soon af
ter the fleet left for the orient, and the
utmost secrecy was maintained. Special
deputies, fully armed, for ever three
months have been quietly leaving 6an
Francisco on almost every train going
east, carrying in Wells-Fargo strong
boxes consignments of the treasure.
Now rthe gold is so far away from
any seaboard that it would be prac
tically impossible (or any foreign force
io reach it in time of war. The action
of the government in moving the money
was simply precautionary, ,f,: ,
s Want Oin Advertising.! !
Although. 1 five tons of advertising
pamphlets concerning Oregon have been
sent east -by General Passenger Agent
McMurray of the Harri man lines in
Portland, a telegram was received yester
day from the headquarters at Omaha,
asking for 10,000 additional pieces of
such printed matter for distributive
work. Th quantity of material asked
for shows the great anxiety to know
about Oregon that is found throughout
the east and middle west. . , .
SISTER STATES
I'JILL UIIITE
Oregon
and
Washington
Combine to Fight -New,
Transcontinental Eates. :
wholesaler)" will unite with thnsn of .O- -gon
and Washington in i-i iiiBin n
matter before the interstate commeuw
commission.
As a preliminary to the commence
ment of format suit to block the in
crease in freight rates to and from the
Pacifio coast, a meeting of the railroad
commissioners of Oregon and Washing
ton, and the large shippers and jobbers
of Portland, was held in the office of
I. N. Teal, attorney for the jobbers,
Monday afternoon.
-The meeting was merely for discus
sion of the subject and no final conclu
sion was reached because of the many
phases and features of the proposed in
crease. The meeting lasted about two
hours and after discussing as many of
the. features of the new tariff as possi
ble an adjournment was had to some
date early next week In this city.
Those at the meeting were II. A. Falr
chlld of the Washington state commis
sion, Commissioners Altchison. West
and Campbell of the Oregon commission,
J. N. Teal. , attorney for the Portland
wholesalers, and A. H. Devers. A, I
Lewis, Samuel M ears, Henry Habn and
Kdward Newbegln.
It Is the purpose of the meetings to
secure concerted action by the states
of Washington and Oregon to prevent
an increase of the freight rates. Under
the Oregon law the state commission
is entitled to call the attention of the
Interstate commission to what are al
leged unfair increases in rates.
It Is possible that the California
. Notaries Commissioned.
' (Salem Bureau ot Th Journal.)
1 Salem, Or., Dec. SO. (;umnilaiona a
notaries have been Issued to U. A. Stock,
Cove; Wilson M. Barnette, -Wasco; I..
R. Thompson. Portland; Kirk Whlted,
Redmund. and A. N. Robinson, A alls
City. .
v ' Stearns Strike Endrtt -
Unlt FraM Leased Wtr.
8tearns, Ky Dec. 3e. The strike of
the miners her is practically ended, 3o
per cent of. the miners returning to
work.
EXCURSION
The Spokane,' Portland A Feat
tie railway, "The North Bank
Road," has authorized the sale
of round trip tickets at -a very
low rate during the holidays, .
The tickets are sold on basis
of one and one third of the one''
way . fare 1 for the round trip.
Bale dates are December 2 J, 14,
25 and 31 and January 1.
The return limit Is January 4,
'1909, sufficient , to - give patrons
along the line of 'The North
Bank Road" an opportunity to
visit summer homes and families
ever th holidays.
Concession is made' between all
points 200 miles or less apart. '
Tor tickets and Parlor Car res
ervations, call at City Ticket Of
fices, d and Morrison gta, and
122 id at.
Train leave Portland, 11th and
Hoyt t tatlon. Tak "S" car.
fTTnltaa Pmm foiled Wlra.l
Darnmgnlii f!al . Deo. SO. Jlnannt
merchants throughout the state are
breathing easier following a visit yes
terday by Consul General Takahashi of
San Francisco to oovernor uuiett. -to
ask him 'to sea that the approaching
legislature gives , Japanese suojects
- Takahashi at first renresented that he
called on Governor Gillett merely to
become acquainted and to congratulate
the governor on his recovery from a
recent -illness. - He later aumitteo mat
he came here to ask the governor to
use his Influence in preventing hsrsh
legislation affecting Japanese.
- Takahashi said that Governor Gillett
had promised tho Japanese fair treat
ment and that the JaDanese need have
no uneasiness.
BUKNS $1000 NOTE
AS X3IAS GIFT TO
PBINETCLLE CHURCH
4 (SpeclaKBUpstch to Th Jouratl.) . 4
Prineville tec Dec. 80. The
4 First Methodist church of this
city, which a year ago erected
4 and dedicated a fine new church - 4
ediflce. Is out of debt "W. W.
4 Brown, who held a note for -
4 $1000,' bearing C per cant inter-
'' est. made the church a Christ- , 4
4 mas present of r the ; piece of 4
4 paper, which represent the last 4
4 obligation - incurred in building 4
4 the local house of. worship. The 4
4 ' note was burned before a large 4
4 congregation during the Christ- 4
4 mas exercises 'of the Sunday 4
4 school children. 4
v
H0B0S AMONG
STANFORD GIRLS
(United Preas Leaaed Wire. J
Stanford University. Cal.. Dee. JO.
Sorority girls on the campus are terror
ised bv the presence of vagrants, who
are taking advantage of the absence
fliirlntf- thn hnltrfAva nr tne areatpr rutrf
of the student body. The girls have ap
plied to the police for protection and
the authorities1 with a number of col
lege men are keeping a strict watch
about the sorority houses nightlv, -
Tramps noiaiy. aiiempiea io gain en
trunce to the Knppa Alnlia. Theta- lst
tinght but weri driven off by university
mpn. summoned froiji the Kappa Slgmq
hohse fraternity by the frigktned girls.
Many or- mo ureeit letter nousns ar
cserted at tiresent and for several dny,1
he liobos have ben hanifng about
Mteir-Xiias 0Upd
OF SUITS, OVERCOATS, TROUSERS
BEGINS HERE TOMORROW
' ' MORNING
im Oil on All Men's Suits and Overcoats
TROUSERS SPECKAL-
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $S.00, now .$2.20
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $3.50, now $2.85
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $4.00, now 1 .$3.10
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $4.50, now. $3.65
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $5)0; now .$4.05
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $6.00, now. $4.05
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $6.56, now.. $5.20
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $7.00, now 7 ........ . .$5.65
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $8.00, now. . . . . ....$6.45
MEN'S TROUSERS, values $10, now....;...:. $7.35
A. J. Mclwdson Co.
OPPOSITE WOOD ARD, CLARKE & CO., 283-285 WASHINGTON STREET
. Health how many
would give fortunes to enjoy
le greatest of nature s gifts and to be
able to give
A Smile All the While
Ailing tots- cause pity fretful young people cause
wondermeritirritable men and women cause surprise. "
To enjoy perfect health the body must be built up
and the mind invigorated by perfect food. : '
Ifs Cocoa
is the perfect food drink its use will bring quiet to I I
Y breaking nerves strength to the weak and I J
. contentment to the strong besides it is ;
. delicious and appetizing.
, 30 cups of a delicious drinlc
"Ns 25c , Sy
TC FAX. 2 .BY Ait. CSUGCISTS.
the outskirts of the campus