The Oregon daily journal., February 21, 1909, Page 42, Image 42

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There Is nothing la the world
really beneficial that does
not lie within the reach of an
informed understanding and
a well directed pursuit, There
is nothing . that God has
judged good for us. that he
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to accomplish, both in the
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WASHIXGTO.V
ipHB MAN who did more, active
I ly to gain this nation's inde
' pendence and who was Its first
president, was born on Feb
ruary $2, 1732, 177 years ago to
' morrow. Unlike Lincoln, he was
uurn in weu-io-GO mmiiv. ana wu
well reared, though he attended no
college. His history, in all its es
sential details. Is familiar to most
' Americans, should . be familiar to
every schoolboy. It is an Inspira
tion to every youth, a 1 record of
which every American is proud. -
The man for the occasion arises,
comes forward. So it has happened
In many great crises. And for that
time it would be difficult to Imagine
a man more fitted for the work to
he done than Washington. It seems,
as we read the wonderful annals of
that long struggle of. the few and
weak against the many and mighty,
-as'-if hepo8ses8ed"Traperh'nmairwf8
dom and. fortitude. Like ' Lincoln,
he had all but infinite patience and
faith, 'though he had not Lincoln's
serenity and sweetness of temper.
It may be doubted if a leader ever
woq so great ' a ' victory with such
Blender means and ; against such
great odds.
f , And Washington was as great In
peace as in war. ? If as a general he
was Indomitable, in statesmanship
he was unsurpassed. In 1789, ,120
jcnii eu viiU' epical, vauctv vruu, mis
became the new nation's first presi
dent, and for eight years guided and
guarded it with the utmost wisdom,
and then left It, voluntarily, well
started on ita great career. He
died, probably through medical
stupidity, in 1799, and though there
have been many eminent and a few
great men since, Washington, by
common consent; remains the conn
try's greatest bero, greatest char
acter, save perhaps Lincoln..
Lincoln's is a fresher memory.
Many men are yet alive who were
grown up and active while he yet
liyedL many still living participated
In those tremendous scenes in
which he was the chief actor; be
sides, the recent anniversary of Lin
coln's' birth was the centennial; so
Washington's birthday is but per
functorily observed; yet for all that
millions of . grateful Americans do
not forget him and his deeds. The
memory of him will never fade from
the human mind. He will live as
one of the world's greatest and best
characters wmie civuizea manaina
endures.1 .
MARCHING , TOWARD FREEDOM
0
F ALL the orations delivered
on the occasion of .Lincoln's
centennial, perhaps - none was
more appropriate, truly fitting
and really eloquent, than one of
which the1 following 'sentences are
extracts:
"The same pen that gave freedom
to 4,000,000 African slaves at the
same time struck the shackles from
the souls of. 27,000,000 Americana
f another race." - .
. -ii , , . . ; ., .
ui an lurms oi slavery none in
so hurtful and degrading as , that
which .tempts one human being to
hate another by reason of his race
or color." ' - , C
"freedom, ; in the broadest and
highest sense, has never been a be
quest; it has been a conquest"
: "One - man cannot hold another
man down in the Oitch without re
maining down in the ditch with
Mm."
"By every Inch the lowest man
crawls up, be makes It easier for
very other man to get up. Today,
throughout the world, because Lin
coln lived, struggled and triumphed,
every boy who Is Ignorant, in pov
erty, despised or discouraged, holds
hs head a little higher", (ts freer).
: Looking "at Lincoln, thinking t
him, what, finer .--.'sentiments than
these could a person entertain? How
rould they be better expressed? Yet
the mas' who uttered these words,
Booker Washington, was born a
iavv Ills ancestor for generations,
r-n one side at. legist, were slaves.
I roe. KooKer '-Washington V has
f f im f.ut ra(j jn jjIji veins,
THE LATE SESSION AND ITS WORK
T
HE LATE legislative session is
History, its record is maae,
and the estimate of its work
awaited. It will have critics
and criticism, but much of the com
plaint will not be deserved. Some
will charge that it logrolled, and so
it did. All legislatures logroll
All bodies that legislate logroll?
Logrolling Is the exchange of , votes
on legislation, and some of the best
measures ever passed are the result
of exchanges. It la as Inevitable to
logroll as to legislate.
It is the habit in Oregon to score
the legislature. It was contracted in
the old days when criticism was due.
There was abundant reason for it
then. ' There was, for Instance, a
session that never , organized. $ The
members . gathered : at Salem and
spent 40 .livelong days in juggling.
There were other sessions scarcely
less revolutionary, and In which leg
islation was merely an episode of the
larger consideration of fighting over
the senatorship. It -was those ses
sions that handed down to us the
normal school problem. They begot
that , issue by trading' normals for
senatorial votes. If there was im
proper "logrolling" at the late ses
sion, it is the legacy from those ses
sions that brought legislatures- into
disrepute.
Tbe present session had many
problems thrust upon It. It had a
senatorial issue to meet,, and met It
faithfully. ' It solved It quickly and
satisfactorily, and therein served the
people well. It had the tax com
plication thrust upon it unexpected
ly, and met the responsibility effi
caciously. It quickly provided a
temporary measure, and with great
care prepared and passed what seems
to be an excellent law. It took np
the water code tha former session
rejected and passed it by heavy ma
jorities. Measures assailing the In
tegrity of the primary law were In
troduced, but tbe body rejected them
all. Assaults were attempted on the
local option law, but the session re
fused ita sanction. A bill, providing
for six months' school in every dis
trict, a measure of great value, was
decisively passed. The time limit
for the contingent appropriation for
the Willamette project was. extended.
an act that embodies constructive
legislation of the highest order. A
county referendum law was passed,
giving to each county the right to
veto-aalary-Mlln or other measures
to which the citizens may object, a
law that is of progressive and val
uable scope. Instead of passing a
bill outright, the legislature submits
to the people the question of
whether or not an asylum for, the
insane shall be established In east
ern Oregon, a atep showing the sin
cerity of the session and its desire
to cooperate with the electorate.
The. railroad amendment giving to
the people the opportunity by vote
to place the state In ; position to re
slat the tyrannous railroad policy
now in vogue, was paased, notwith
else, probably, he would not be what
he Is; but a large percentage of
African blood, far more than enough;
to make him a stave in the old time,
did not prevent him' from being
what he is. And how true it is, and
what a great truth It Is, that the en
slavers of other men. of whatever
race or color, are also enslaved.
It does not follow that the dif
ferent races are equal, or that it
Is wise for them to amalgamate or
associate. Intimately together. That
white people object to the presence
among them of large numbers of
aliens of a different race and color
should not imply that the white peo
ple hate the others, or despise them,
or even necessarily consider tbem in
ferior to themselves. But even if
a people are In all ways Inferior, a
superior people have no right to en-
slave or oppress them.
Only 50 years ago. when Oregon
became a state, people in this na
tion, whose basic principle was
Stated in the declaration of inde
pendence were born slaves. Lincoln
became ah Instrument for abolish
ing chattel slavery., But he eman
cipated more than the negroear he
struck a mighty blow for the un
shackling of the minds of the su-
perldr race.
The ..work of freeing minds goes
bravely on. - Superstition, tyranny,
ignorance, hatred, envy, malice, all
enslavers' of the mind, are on the
retreat The woria moves wwuo
freedom. And when one is fully
free he hates no other person be
cause of any real or Imagined supe
riority of himself over the .other, ;
SUBSIDIES-NOT THE REMEDY
ffl?
R. GUSTAV KUSTEKMAJNiM.a
member ' of congress from
risconsln, In a recent speech
quoted the New Tork Herald
as saying in 1853; "In sailing and
steam vessels we have surpassed the
whole world." President Buchanan
said a little later in a speech; f'Our
commerce now covers every ocean;
our mercantile marine is tbe largest
in the world." And about that time
Alexander H.. Stephens said;. "We
have now an amount of shipping,
both coastwise and to foreign coun
tries, which jut . us in the front
ran f the nations or tne world."
In 1869. 6.9 per cent of all for
eign commerce of the United States
was carried in American vessels.
This was reduced to 27.8 per cent in
186B, but the cessation of the war
did not stop the decline, for the per
centasre was reduced to 10.J per cent
in 1901 and to less than 8 per cent
now. -And f'now the . rof.dy pro-J
standing the desperate attempts of
railroad Interests to defeat it. It is
legislation of the first, rank, in that
it has in view the deliverance of Ore
gon from, a policy ,of discrimination
that keeps the state at the foot of
the ladder in railroad mileage and
state development. A plan is sub
mitted to the people whereby it Is
proposed to raise state taxes by a
heavier tax on railroads .and other
public corporations enjoying fran-
cnises and special privileges. It is
a measure back by the Oregon state
grange and by the tax commission
named at a former session, and is
designed to create Btate revenues
from other than taxation of lands
and homes. These and other large
measures; give to the late Bession a
credit greater than that achieved at
any former session, if fairly and im
partially Judged by results
To It is to be added tbe bold roan
ner in which the body dealt with a
question that it did not beget, out
which has been handed down from
session to session because each pre
ceding legislature had not the nerve
to attempt its solution. This Is the
normal . school problem. Whatever
may be the view of each Individual
on the subject, whatever may be the
disappointment of friends of " the
normal schools, each must confess
that a system of half starved schools
struggling; at each session for sus
tenance was an issue that called for
a : final, permanent and constructive
adjustment. This legislature has
met the issue squarely, and the ques
tion Is to be sent to the people where
It can be settled for all time, and
settled according to the best judg
ment of a discriminating electorate.
If it. is charged .against the. ses
sion that it did a few foolish things
in the way of salary advances, that
body must plead guilty. . If it is
charged that the house in particular
frittered away some valuable time
on petty legislation, it cannot make
a defense. However, the legislature
as a" whole refused appropriations
that were .urgently sought to ar
amount aggregating more than. $1.
000,000. It Is in truth to be said
of the session that the . spirit of
wise economy was constantly mani
fest. Extraordinary and powerful
Interests pleaded here and pleaded
there for state aid tor enterprises
of varying and often great merit.
A swiftly growing state, putting its
house in order Io receive 7anlnf low
of arriving population and seeking
to educated uplift and strengthen its
citizenship, was at the capital asking
the legislators for aid for manifold
and important enterprises of public
and ; consuming importance. To
these appeals the impartial observer
will concede that the session' was
earnest, conservative and prudent in
its attitude, that' it drew a happy
medium between taxpayer and pub
lic interest, and that as a whole it is
entitled to distinguished credit "and
tbe thanks of the electorate. .
posed is ship subsidies, something
that was never thought of prior to
ihe war, when our merchant marine
outclassed that of ail other coun
tries, k :
Mr. Kustermann discusses foreign
subsidization, and shows that it is
merely a tax upon the people with
out bringing about beneficial re
sults. European non subsidized
ships more than hold their own, and
"the great ocean carrier of freight
today.Is the. British tramp steamer!
that gets nor asks no subsidy. Great
Britain pays no subsidies to ships
going to South America, so that the
United States is on an equality in
that quarter. The subsidized Ger
man Lloyd line paid, 4 per cent divi
dends in 1907, while the non-subsidized
Hamburg-America paid 7 per
cent. A British parliamentary com
mittee decided in 1902. after a thor
ough investigation, that subsidies
were inexpedient. The more the
French subsidise the more they lose
ground. So it is not the. lack of
subsidies that has practically oblit
erated the American merchant ma
rine, nor would subsidies, unless
enormous ones, tend to restore it,
and then only artificially and un
healthily. What' is the remedv? .
Mr. Kustermann tells, very clear
ly, though he tells nothing new.
Our restricted navigation laws and
high tariff via ws have destroyed our
ocean carrying business, and it can
be restored only by radical changes
in inose laws. Americans should
be allowed to buy their ships, to be
nsed in foreign trade, wherever they
please. And since we allow for
eigners . to own large amounts of
stock in our railroads, why should
foreigners not be allowed to own
stock in a corporation running Amer
ican ships? , What a curious con
dltlon it is under which the United
States government Itself owns 38
steamships, of ; 1 02,100 tons, used
as transports and colliers, that are
not eligible to American f registry
without special acts of congress, be
cause they were built abroad. '.
Give foreign built ships, because
they can be built at two thirds or
less the cost f building them in
this country, American registry; re
duce or abolish the tariff on many
things so that shipbuilders can pro-
curs cheaper materials and supplies,
and so that foreign trade will be in
creased, and the percentage of
American ships at sea will begin to
increase, and will again Wcome a
source of national pride. The sub
sidy , remedy is that, of - a quack
"grafterf the other is the plan of
statesmen. Bat statesmen are in.
the minority la congress. .. - -.
THE ACTRESS AND THE. WOMAN
m
RS. DANIEL FROHMAN,
t otherwise - Miss ' Ullnrton.
wishes . to exchange a public
for a private, a stage for
domestic Jife, she says. She yearns
for simple, homely duties, for the
most unromantic of household cares;
three times in a brief statement of
her -aspirations she said she wanted
to "darn socks."' She is tired and
sick of a histrionic career, however
successful.; She ; dreada the foot
lights, she. la unappreclatlve of . ap
plause, tKe strain of her career has
become Intolerable; she Is resolved
to "darn socks." , We must not take
her too literally.. She is said to be
engaged even before ; divorce to
marry a rich man, who Is able to
provide her . a luxurious home and
take her on' foreign trips and hire
a retinue of servants: so she does
not really want to darn socks or
wash dishes. If Bhe had, she would
have picked out some very poor young
man to fan in love with for awhile
at least. Tet there' may be some
sincerity in her talk. , One can read
ily imagine even a very talented and
successful actress having an intense
longing, an irresistible yearning. Jor
the quiet freedom and comparative
rest of a domestic life, and "seeing
clearly and feeling , strongly that
nothing In anr other vocation can
compensate a woman for the loss of
these. For however strongly and
compelllngly the actress may pre
dominate, the non-professional wom
an can never be entirely suppressed,
and while there must be exceptions,
to a great extent the domestic life
is, as it was from the beginning and
ever will be, the natural "sphere,"
the normal life, of the sex. Fortu
nately for society, many women have
and obey a call to act. Success and
certain pleasures of a season com
pensate them greatly If not fully.
The world would have been poorer,
less civilized, if Siddons and Bern
hardt and other great actresses had
never live or had lived as house
wives Yet it Is far more fortunate
for the world that the vast majority
of women have contented themselves
with the quiets homely, domestic
life, being helpmeets to their hus
bands, raising children, having
household cares, "darning socks."
And in these days this 'does not
necessarily imply overwearing drud
gery, deprivation,. Ignorance, early
collapse and a pitiful,'- forlorn old
age. Let not the mistress of a comfortable-
though an .-iJuimblehamft
envy the applauded - and. tinselled
actress, nor let the latter despise
the housewife with childrea cling
ing to her skirts, !. A woman can get
nearer heaven on earth in the sound
of a prattling child of her own than
any childless or child-neglectful sister-of
hers can in the applause of
thousands and the toasts of rich
gallants at midnight banquets.
Yet many an actress would scorn
this philosophy. Mrs.. Leslie Garter
Is one of these. She professes that
her real pleasure is not only in her
success, as an actress, but in the fast
and giddy life that often is a part
of it. Her joy is not only in success
on the stage, but In suppers where
wine flows lavishly, in the company
of a succession of favorite liberal
friends, in the glitter and glamor
not so much of the stage as of the
other places whither a beautiful and
brilliant star can draw a swarm of
handsome and wealthy admirers.. It
Is a rapid and reckless age, she says,
and sle delights in being one of the
leaders of the pace. . No humdrum
household pleasures and conven
tional domestic Virtues for her.
She, also,' has her reward. We do
not venture to blame or even crit
icise such a woman; she Indeed
would be miserable as a private
housewife, eould not be so; yet it is
none the less true that in her the
better part of the woman has been
cast away for what in the complete
analysis and test must be accounted
dross. .
WAR SHADOWS
T
HE MICROBE that fills the air
with threats of war between us
and Japan refuses rest. He
keeps tbe imminence of con
flict with Japan perpetually before
us. For 16 years predictions have
been made of war between France
and Germany, but there has been no
war. Each has been periodically
described as sleeping on ita arms by
night and day, and as expecting at
any time to take the field. Children
born 'in 1871 have grown to middle
age, and a generation baa passed
into the great unknown, but with
out seeing the two countries' in the
embrace of war. Fresh from the
frightful cost of her conflict with
RusbIs, conscious . that revenge and
conflicting Interests are almost cer
tain to make Russia a future antag
onist, knowing that a conflict with
us, her own bankers, would be sui
cide, and convinced that money af
ter all is the arbitrament of battle,
and that we are nearly three times
the richest nation on earth, it could
only be from the folly of national
madness that Japan would challenge
us to arms.
: ' '.'Taxes! Taxes! Taxes! . Extrava
gance! Squandering!" So the howl
goes on from morning to morning.
Yet no particular thing is specified.,
unless it be ' the proposed v new
asylum, and that Is manifestly no
case of .extravagance or squander
ing rTtie people are to pass upon it
before a dollar is expended.iThe ap
propriation I for the Crater lake road
and that for the " extension of the
portage road were not fif vital ne
cessity, but ; both are excellent ln-
vestments. The agricultural college
deserved' all, it goU And so ; on
through the list. These same news
papers and people that are crying
out . against extravagance ' are also
complaining because ; some . bills
carrying i appropriations were de
feated, It is silly to howl at fig
ures without i studying what the
rams go for. Nearly all the things
appropriated for were either abso
lutely necessary or entirely meritori
ous. .-. Oregon . can't expect to fly
wfth the same wings hat served her
40, or 20, or 10, or even two years
o. ' l" -
BIG INJUN PESSIMISTS
P
ROSPERITY IS backward In
coming forward. Confidence
was so badly shocked over a
year ago that it is slow in re
ceverlng the serenity of its nerves.
Money la timid about flowing out.
Railroad men are still hedging close
ly, and manufacturers are shy of ex
pansion. So, say Mr. Earling and
others. The approaching -tariff re
vising session of congress is usually
mentioned as the ;' principal cause.
The big interests, the great capi
talistic combines, the protected mo
nopolies, the 1 trusts, are holding
hack to see what congress will do
with the tariff. It would scarcely
do to precipitate another .panic so
soon, nor do they think it advisable
to restore confidence too far or re
vive prosperity too ssuch, for they
want to be in a position to say that
all that confidence and prosperity
need is assurance that the business
interests will be let alone,, or but Im
materially disturbed. "
Some large v animals . are great
cowards; so with great aggreJons'
of money - and "big. businesses
though their fear may be in part
affected., A reasonable revision of
the tariff, and this means very large
reductions in many schedules, 'would
cut down some of tbe enormous and
unconscionable profits, but would L
not naturally injure legitimate busi
ness of people who are satisfied with
reasonable profits and do not de
mand authority of law to create
monopolies; and there is not the
slightest danger that congress will
reform the tariff too far in this di
rection. - ,
Yet .with, or without, reason, tbe
big business world will remain
somewhat suspicious and sluggish
until the new tariff law ia passed,
out into effect, and studied.' So the
sooner it is over with the better,
The direct results are "likely;" to be
small; the larger results will be the
consequence of knowledge that the
agitation over tariff revision is
probably over for several years, and
people can adjust their affairs ac
cordingly, though the necessity for
such readjustment is. mostly imag
inary or affected.
This corner of the country is perj,
haps better off in a business aspect,
and Its prosperity . and confidence
temperature is higher and healthier,
than any other. Only the big lum
bermen are anxious over the tariff,
and even free lumber would not
"ruin" them. For the ...rest, all
prospects are very bright, providing
Mr. Harrlman will go ahead this
spring with the. promised railroad
building. The high protective tariff
imposes a pretty weighty burdenv on
the poorer people, but it is cunning
ly contrived solhat we don't notice
it much. State'and local taxes will
be rather heavy, but we will rrow
and expand so rapidly that they can
be borne pretty easily, by most peo
ple. , Keep the work on the rivers
going and give us some more rail
roads, and all our troubles will in
the near .future . be . considered as
mere momentary, flea bites.
The Pittsburg ' Post says: - "The
state of Pennsylvania has become
the greatest manufacturing region
on the globe, partly because . H has
been the time-honored policy bf the
commonwealth to make - manufac
tures exempt -from taxation,! This
la very likely a good policy, provid
ing the whole system of taxation Is
adjusted in harmony with it, and it
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
"The Truest Humaaity"By Adoniram J. Gordon
' (From an address at th celebration
of the z6th anniversary of thev landing;
of the .Pilgrims at Plymouth, Pecem
bar II, 1886).
More ess truthfully be said to the
praise of the worthies, the Pilgrims,
whose names we honor, than , there Is
time to express. . Of whom eould it
more truly be said, that "they bullded
better than they , knew?" Who sup
poses that they ever dreamed of the
noble republic whose germ and . princi
ples they bore In the hold of the May
flower T They were simply dutiful serv
ants of the most high, not architects
of their own fortunes, and. Ilk Abra
ham, they obeyed the voice f God and
went out not knowing v whither they
went, that they might inherit a land
which he should afterward give them.
Had they been wilndful of that coun
try whence they came out, they might
have had opportunity ' to return, but
now they sought a better country, and
Ood gave them one which far surpassed
their thoughts.
I remember to have read that, years
after its completion. General Jackson's
campaign at New Orleans was sharply
criticised in congress and Judge Doug
las In a masterly speech vindicated it
Afterward, meeting the Judge, the gen
eral 'cordially thanked him . and said,
"I always knew Z was right in what I
did at New Orleans, but I never knew
why I was right until I Tead your
speech." The remark may . awaken a
smile, but there la something deeply
philosophical In it. The thinker must
come after the actor to Interpret his
conduct for htm. As the master takes
up some rude 'melody of th trouba
dour and sets It to music, so thinkers
have io set to log!S the deeds of the
.d'S -treat actory Instinct is great
er than-- rason because It reajs the
rnlnd of Ood, yet knows It not, " It
was a divine Instinct that guided the.
may be advantageous In many spe
cial Instances. It has ' undoubtedly
flven Pennsylvania an advantage
over other states making the same
classes of goods and that have taxed
tbelr manufactories,' but Pennsyl
vania ha also enjoyed the benefits
of a high t protective tariff more
than any other state. Besides, its
vast natural resources of coal, coke,
iron and oil have been enough . of
themselves to enrich . a great ., com
monwealth. 1
OREGON AND HARRIMAN
"-HE;. EUGENE. REGISTER says
I. that its- opinion .is "that the
, I . ; wizard of Wall street will
, f never .let so good a thing as
Oregon transportation slip through
his fingers. While he may build as
little road as possible he will not
overlook strategic points and will
see to it that he controls the .Ore
gon railroad situation for years to
come." -
But -are the people of Oregon go
ing to allow Mr. Harrlman, for an
other ten or twenty ." years, to con
trot all the "strategic points," and
"the , Oregon railroad situation
while continuing to "build as little
road as possible"? Shall a great
state, with some three quarters of a
million people, .thus remain handi
capped, repressed and at the mercy
of one man, or" corporation? ' What
a confession of auplne submission to
tyranny that would, be. We think
the people of Oregon are made of
better stuff. '.They' are willing to
treat . Mr. Harrlman, or any other
railroad builder, not only fairly but
liberally, generously, " and to work
with him, for the development and
upbtArding of the state; but theywill
not allow Mr. Harrlman to gain pos
session of the "strategic points" and
then exert bis energies to keep all
rivals out of the state and build lines
elsewhere with Oregon money; build
ing iiUIe rvnotblng In Oregori
The people: of Oregon have en
dured this policy about to the limit,
and if Mr. Harrlman does, not keep
bis promises and do a lot of build
ing pretty soon they will find means
to get 'some railroad building done
nevertheless. . A a railroad builder
in ; Oregon Mr.. Harrlman will jbe
welcomed and treated very well; as
a"rallroad dog-in-the-manger Jse .will
not be tolerated .very muchlonger,
' V j( r f.
Tbe newly created and very im
portant tax commission carries- as a
..corollary.thezjippofntmfnt ..otjtwo
citizens who shall not be of the. same
political party, ; to serve as commis
sioners.!!, The appointments are to
be made by the governor, secretary
of state and state treasurer who are
also ex-offlco members of the com
mission. -Among the names men
tioned for the, place Is that of As
sessor C. p. Strain of Pendleton, who
is known throughout the state as a
deep student of taxation and a prac
tical and progressive thinker on the
general subject of- taxes. On the
theory that the offices should go to
men on merit, Mr. Strain is a logical
man for a place on tbe commission.
He has had 11 years of -experience
In western Oregon, 11 years In east
ern Oregon and is otherwise abund
antly equipped for such duties as
the service on the commission would
Impose.
.The Journal doubts whether it
would be wise to locate the pro
posed one normal school at or very
near Portland. A site , here would
be expensive, and what Is a greater
objection,' a large number" of stu
dents are better-oft away from the
allurements of a, large city. ;., Port
land Is the most ventral place, Tut
this advantage does r not . outweigh
these objections.
'.. ' By a close vote, Just, enough to
carry the measure, the state senate
passed the railroad . constitutional
amendment resolution, and thus
completed the .forging of a weapon
tbaLtaay become one . ot Immense
value to Oregon. - There Is no dan
ger of its being foolishly used. There
is much comfort in its possession, 'y
helm of th Mayflower and It was a
divine instinct which guided the foot
steps of the Pilgrims to Plymouth Reck
and It ts for us to exult In the clear
reasonableness of what they did.
In another sense1, . these forefathers
were great thinkers, for they thought
God's thoughts after him, careless ef
the contradictions which 'those thoughts
might bring to our human logic. This
was their Intellectual heroism that thev
believed Ood; though they thereby made
very man a Han. It Is the fashion
nowadays to admire the puritan and
decry puritanlsm. But It was the doe
trine that made - the man and not the
man the doctrine. 'Iron in the thinker's
brain Is Just as needful If he is to
grasp and master the dark problems
or tna universe as iron in the black
smith blood la needed If he is -to
wield and mold the iron bar which he
holds In. his hand. ' . And our Puritan
fathers had the. -iron from the hill of
eternal truth so wrought into their
blood that they seat down a current of
stalwart - convictions which a score of
generations, have not outgrown.
May this be the lesson which we
gain from them that ' fidelity ' to Ood
ia thev surest way of fidelity, to man.
The truest humanity Is that which is
born of the truest divinity, And' there
fore If w would realize the prayer of
Oeorg Fox. the Quaker, that of being
baptised lntosa sens of all conditions,
let us know, that we must be
baptised Into. God's truth as well as Into
Ood's love. This, then, shall be my
closing sentiment: The) Pilgrim fath
ers, as they ire marching on year by
year -In the ' culture and, .wealth and
greatness - Which 'their sons 1.hsve
wroufht out after them, may the pil
grim sons fall -back year by yrr tipon
-the piety . and virtue and " conscience
which their fathers wrought out before
them.'- , ;
BuiUing; a Railroad
! , Witk Electricity
' From Electric News. v
One of the createat undcrfekinna trt
Wttory of railroading In the Pa
rlfjc extension of the St. Paul road.
More than 1100,000.000 will be expend
ed on this new line which win Teach
from Chicago to Bt Paul and across
Montana to Seattle.- . .
wer - me too miles - of v mountain
tretehea .electricity IS to be used an
the motive power, '200 ton electrlo lo
comotive will haul the tralna. Down
the sides of the Bitter Root .'mountains.
ri pouring- a sufficient number of
Streams tO furnllh ihimmt ....
ii uit sucirie motors .
Paul wlU need to handle
... U.'U'.U'.I,. .1 V . . W ,
irs . which, the 8t
iuie urn train over
tna. mountain division
:i. tieee streams
are io do harnesaedat a cost of mil
Hons. The boldness of cpneeptton and
the unobstrusive way In which the
work ,1s ; being executed challenge ad
miration. .. Through the "fastnesses of
the Bitter Boot range a tunnel., 8T50
feet long- Is being constructed by elec
trical power and through, it will be
operated trains hauled by motors. One
end of this tunnel . will open in trt
state of 'Montana and the other Will
land the traveler in Idaho, and Us
grade,w!iniot exceel I per cent.
. In general the -work on the west end
of th road between Butte and Seatt
is nearly finished on some of the dl
viaions, but the long-tunnels and the
heavy fnls will take soma time to com
plete. . Rails are now laid in five dif
ferent ; sections, but . the track . is not
continuous for more than 120 mile.
Or tbe Seattle-Tacoma line the track
has been finished from Black River
Junction to Summer, "Wash. East of
Seattle the road Is oowplaled for a
distance of Tt .miles, and work evr
the Snoqualmle pass of the Cascades
being rapidly pushed, . On one division
there are at least 60 fills to be mad
of an a verage depth . of 70 feet, and
the road between Black River and the
tunnel will cost probably ,175,000
Through the St Paul pass, In the Bit
ter Root . mountains, wtk Is further
along; the v grading U completed ; and
the bridges are bullf In Seattle thft
Hiiiiiwi , wvi auaruvij. uosTun, " An
view of the fact, however, that the
greater part of the extension has been
rfnni H.irln, a- tin. a fin.n.l.l
presslon. tbe work In general is a mar
vel n the annals of railway copatruc-
Mr. Shlvely's Victory. "
From the Tnrliananolls Star.
t is unfortunate for Ms. Shlvely and
r Indiana that his election will be re-
Kcelved the .country over as the unex
peoted victory of a "dark horse"; the
reason being, of course, that Mr. Kern's
recent prominence . Inclined common
opinion to look for hls electlon. , To an
extent the result will seem the eettmr'
aside of a superior for an inferior man
conclusion that will do Mr. Shlvely
an Injustice, as he undoubtedly la the
peer of any Democrat In Indiana and
by his ' more' intimate .acquaintances is
regarded a perhaps the best equipped
man in Thataie for" theposltion. .In
the northern part of tbe state, where
he is a popular Idol, he is looked uoon
as an intellectual giant,
Without passing upon this estimate.
u sui iitioiti i mmy mm jar, oaive
ly's abilities are very great. His a d-
pearance la commanding, his powers
a speaker and debater are of a very
high order, and hta gift for public life
la exceptional. He will be a worthy
successor In jjolnt of brains and reoog-'
nition to Turpi. Voorhees 'and McDon
ald, and It ts possible , to expect and
believe that ha will Represent the statu
with dignity and credit . At least he
m is.r auuvi inai average senatorial ;
caliber. He is a self made man whose
career bristles with dramatic and In
structive lessons in initiative and self-,
reliance. He is 61 years of age, and 'n
the futl maturity of brilliant powers. On
the whole, his party, and the state -maybe
congratulated upon his election.
- - m, I, I, hi - -
Tightening the Coils.
Prom the- Public.
On the , surface . there seems to. be
little connection , between the proceed
ings at Washington against the New
A VI k VI AU f VI RVUIVIUUH tlil.1, IU till
proceedings there against the American.
Federationist for what we shall have to
tlattngulah as a labor libel. Tet the
two are Intimately, related. Each la
different phase of a tendency, toward
usurpation of power. :s In the Federa
tionist case (pag Sly the' proceeding
tend ; to destroy ; th freedom of th j
press by remitting questions of its -abuse
to the arbitrary determination of
injunction, judges., thereby destroying
the American principle that in libel'
cases, Juries shall decide all the Issues
publication, libelous character; pub
lishers motives and Justlflableness of
publication. In the World case, the pro
ceedings - tend to subject publisher all
over the United States to trial In the
District of Columbia, . . . '
The '.proceedings against i the World
ar-t heref ore f va st 1 y - grea t er - momen t
to the people of the United State than
. , ..iHA
any quvsnuii -ira'uinii imii in .-vu-
nectlon with the Isthmian 'canal. Im
portant as soma of those questions are.
For these proceedings are a menace to
th general freedom of th press. .They
are a greater menace than was the se
dition law of ' 178, for-which the fed
eralist psrty was responsible and which
drove It 'from power.
, This Date in History.
- Th British, after Issuing a
proclamation of martial law. withdrew
from the eoast Of Georgia.; . .
1829 The assembly of Virginia pro-'
tested against the tariff.
i maJohn Qulncv Adams, sixth pres
ident of- the united States, died. Born .
In 1787. ' '
1865 General Crook captured Cum
berland. Md. r - , J...
1886 -The Washington, monument, at
Washington. D. C, dedicated. -
1881 General William T. Sherman
burtrd at St. Louis. ,
1897 A daughter was born to' ex-
President Benjamin Harrison , at . Indl '
anapolis. '
- 1904 United. State marine engaged
In battle , with insurgents in San h
mlnso. - . ...
1908 Pennsylvania railroad complet
ed Its first tube under the East river
between Manhattan .and Long Inland
John Nicholas Brown's Birthday.
John' Nicholas BrOwn,- who has been
oanea in ricnest ooy in ine woria,
was born In Providence, R. I., February
21, 1900, and by the death of his father,
on -May 1 of that year, and Harold '
43 ru w ii, 9 uiiv.ir,- vii i.in, ai, vile BUl'lfl
year, he became the heir and head of':
the family. His father's death left him .
96.000.000 and by hi, uncle's death i
became the possessor of another $8.
000,000. l?v he time he Is 11 year old '
these tlA.OOO.OOO will have grown into
$30,000,000.: John Nicholas in the last
representative of. the Rhode island -Browns,
a family thst hss been fa
mous for more than a century. - Hi
father was the eldest ec-n of John Cnr-,
ter Brown, who gave, to Providence a big
publie library. HI great-gr.nrlfathr,
Nicholaa , Brown, was one of the lib
eral benefactors of Brown unlverstlns
erHi father. Chad BrO'vn.. was one Of
th oHljal .aetders "of Providence.
F.'ixfne F.agl-a will erect a building Of
at leat five stories. R