The Oregon daily journal., June 21, 1909, Page 6, Image 6

THE JOURNAL
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tle. Colton.
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CRATER LAKE AXD THE LAW
' TT 19 to b hoped that nothing
I will be found in the organic law
to defeat the effort of the legis
. -lature to aid the Crater lake
;road. - Government exists to pro
mote the welfare of men, Neither
: law nor custom should prohibit an
activity that is promotive of the
convenience and happiness of the
human family. There is no field in
which the common welfare can be
better served than in road construc
tion. From the beginning of civil
ization the highway as a necessity
has been recognized and developed
Even the sun worshipping Incaa,
barbarians in many things, con
strutted roads that were the marvel
of the conquering Pizarro. It Is
, our humiliation that we of enlight
ened Oregon are laggards in the art
and practice of highway building.
It would seem a strange condition If
in the provisions of the law under
which the commonwealth was or
. ganized there should be a prohibition
of such projects as the Crater lake
road with its proposed sweep from
border to border of the state.
What heightens the merits of the
project Is.jthat independent of the
large commercial interests that will
be served, the proposed road will
make a great natural attraction ac
cessible. Crater lake Is not local
It does not belong to Jackson, Klam
ath or any other county or counties.
It is not even Oregon's. It is the
world's; Just as Niagara, the Alps
or the Andes are thevWoTia,s. The
plan has for one of Its purposes to
capitalize this world's wonder for the
benefit of the state of Oregon. The
federal government has done such
things at Yellowstone park and else
where. It is a national policy to
do this sort of thing and it ought to
be both wisdom and sound law for
it to be state policy. Oregon's
beauty and her wonderland are
among the most valuable of her as
sets. There are nations of people
on the planet who are living off the
. usufruct of their natural wonders,
and none of them can surpass pic
turesque Oregon. If there is a
technical constitutional provision
that prohibits Oregon from convert
ing her natural wonders Into divi
dends it is a bad provision, and if it
intervenes in the case of the Crater
lake road it ought speedily to be
eliminated. The hope is that the
constitutional framework is on
broader lines, and that the effort 'of
the legislature to aid the people of
the state may be found to be in full
harmony with the organic law.
OREGON' UNITED
THE TONE of the Oregon press
with regard to the recent Rose
Festival Is of a character to be
very gratifying and encourag-
ing
to Portland. With a single
slight exception, every aper in the
state that mentioned the matter after
It was over and almost all of them
did spoke of it in the most com
mendatory and laudatory terms. And
not only the editors spoke thus, but
also numerous rural correspondents,
all of whom made substantially the
same report that many from their
neighborhoods visited the Rose Fes
tival, and all were delighted with It.
In all this comment and correspond
ence The Journal has not found a
single complaint about Increased
prices of mealB or lodgings, or lack
of transportation facilities, or any
thing else. The people from the
smaller towns and the country came
by tens of thousands, and all were
satisfied, pleased, delighted, and
they say so, and will come again and
bring others.
This Is gratifying to Portland, and
should be appreciated by It, because
it shows a very friendly and appre
ciative spirit toward this city
throughout the 6tate. Time was,
apt so very long ago, when in al
most every other city and commu
nity In Oregon there existed a feel
ing of more or less hostility to Port
land, on one account or another, or
for 1 no rery- good reason perhaps;
but this has now pretty much disap
jjeared. As nerer before, all cities
and sections of Oregon are friendly
to the big metropolis, and are pull
ing together with her for a greater
and a better Oregon, This Is on of
the very best of tne, signs of the
times.
This result has in part come tbout
naturally and spontaneously, through
the broadening and enlightening
process of natural growth, 4and part
ly through the efforts of combined
or associated development leagues
and other similar bodies. Now all
the rest of Oregon takes a pride 1
Portland's splendid growth, and be
neves and realizes that Portland is
working not for herself alone but fo
all the rest of Oregon as well, fully
realizing that Portland's growth de
pends on that of the rest of the
state and "all the tributary region.
The Journal feels an especial sat
lsfaction in this growing spirit o
unity and fraternity throughout the
state, for to bring about such a re
suit has been one of the principal
missions of this paper during its
career, and it is but reasonable to
believe that it has not labored in
vain, but has exercised some influ
ence in this regard.
THE DUTY OS PAPER
S
ENATOR BROWN of Nebraska
showed pretty conclusively
Thursday that thera was no
good reason or excuse whatever
for the proposed duty on print pa
per manufactured out of wood
Canada is this country's only real
competitor in this product, and Mr
Brown furnished evidence that our
mills could make the paper quite as
cheaply as the Canadian mills can
Mr. James J. Hill some weeks ago
said the same, declaring that there
was n5 difference in the wages paid
in the United States and Canadian
mills.
The Dingley law imposed a duty
on paper of ?6 a ton, which of
course enabled the manufacturers to
organize a trust which was what
was intended. At the investiga
tion last winter members of the trust
admitted that their net profit was
as high as 24 per cent, and if, as is
usually the case in a trust concern,
the stock Is largely "water," their
net profits are much larger than this.
The house reduced the duty to $2
per ton, which, if any protection at
all Is needed, is ample: It would
more than cover the difference to
cost of production here and abroad,
which is Mr. Taft's test of a reason
able protective duty, but Aldrich, the
friend and champion of all trusts,
has raised the duty to $4 per ton,
which will be as effective to main
tain tne roDDer monopoly as s a
ton; it will enable the trust to fix
the price.
The "insurgent" senators are tak
ing turns in showing up the Iniqui
ties of the Aldrich bill, and though
they cannot beat It, they are render
ing the country a signal service, and
laying the foundation for a future
successful assault on these plunder
ing schedules all along the line.
A NEEDED PROJECT
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HERE IS a movement among
the farmers in the wheat belt
of Umatilla county vo build
an electric railroad from Pen
dleton, or some other point in the
interior, through the grain-growing
district to some point on the Colum
bia river, to connect with boats now
traversing the upper waters of that
stream. The first question they
ill try to decide Is whether thev
111 undertake the construction of
the railroad, owning and running it
themselves, or seek by encourage
ment and aid to Induce some rail
road man or company to build It,
on certain terms. But in one way
or another they seem determined to
have the road.
This is exactly what ought to be
done in this case, and in any other
similar case. The best wheat lands
of Umatilla county lie from 20 to 60
miles back from the Columbia river,
and this being too long a haul by
wagon, the farmers are yet, net-
withstanding the boats on the river,
at the mercy of the railroad. They
can only get freedom and lower
rates by Tmlldlng a road from a
anding place for boats on the Co
umbia back into the interior nearby
to the farther side or the wheat bfelt.
That such a road would pay it is
presumably easy to prove. These
farmers are on the right track. If
o one else will help them, let them
help themselves.
A BIG LITTLE JOKER
T
HE ALDRICH TARIFF bill la
slimy with "Jokers." Several
of them, In different schedules,
have been discovered and ex
posed; others will not be discovered
ntll'the law goes into effect, If it
ver does, and some of them per
haps not then. The protected Inter
ests are experts in tariff law trick
ery, are past masters of cunning in
eking the people's pockets with
out their knowing it.
Perhaps the greatest Joker of all
one that, according to a corre
spondent of an eastern paper, will
many instances greatly increase
the cost of protected commodities to
consumers, though the figures in
the schedules may be the same as
those in the present law. This little
Joker, calculated to yield tens of
millions of plunder, is hidden away
in a section dealing with the admin
istration of the customs laws. In a
word, it changes the basis of assess
ment from foreign to American
values, without any provision for
altering ad valorem rates corre
spondingly. Suppose, an article Is taxed 60 per
cent of its value In a foreign mar
ket under the Dingley law, and the
new law leaves the rate the same.
It would be supposed by the public
that the duty would be the same, but
under this Joker clause the duty in
most cases would in fact be raised
by a large percentage. If an article
costs abroad Jl, the consumer now
pays $1.60, plus expenses of impor
tation, handling, etc., say $1.80
But under this provision it is said
that he would' have to pay the 6
per cent computed not on $1, but
on the cost of manufacturing the
article in the United States, say
$1.25, and the profit on say 20 per
cent, a total of American value of
$1.50, so that the amount of duty
required will be not 5 0 cents but 75
cents, making the cost to the con
sumer $2.25, instead of $1.80. It is
asserted that this provision will ap
ply not only to consigned goods, but
to importations generally.
This provision will not be such
benefit to American manufactur
ers generally, only comparatively
few, such, presumably, as are espe
cial pets of Boss Aldrich. To bene
fit them. to the extent of many mil
lions the whole nation is to be laid
under tribute.
THE CALHOUN VERDICT
T
HE DISAGREEMENT by the
Calhoun Jury is not surprising.
The defendant had the benefit
of the reasonable doubt. The
nature of the transaction by which
the supervisors were bribed was
such that conclusive proof was lm
possible. There was no reasonable
doubt that they were bribed, and
that as a result of the bribery the
franchise was granted the United
Railways. There was in the minds
of the Jury no reasonable doubt that
the money taken from the mint was
used in corrupting the supervisors
There Is no reasonable doubt that
the city and people of San Fran
cisco were deeply sinned against
But apparently to the minds of eight
urors it was not proven beyond a
reasonable doubt that Patrick Cal
houn was immediately responsible
for the bribery by which the fran
chlse was secured. To the minds of
four of theJurofs, when they cast
the first yballot, Mr. Calhoun's im
mediate connection with the cor
rupting of the supervisors was es
tablished, as they voted for a con
viction, two of them subsequently
changing to acquittal.
Making a psychological analysis
of the motives that moved the Jury,
it is probable that the defendant
profited heavily from the reaction
awakened by constant use by Mr.
Heney of the corrupt supervisors
as his chief witnesses. The Jurors
were brought face to face with the
fact constantly that the witnesses
themselves were equally guilty, or
because disloyal to official trust,
more guilty than those who did the
bribing. Of course it was testi
mony on which the prosecution was
forced to rely. But the effect of
uch testimony was considerable In
undermining the prosecution, for
some of the Jurors reasoned that
these supervisors, being equally or
more guilty, gave their testimony for
the purpose of escaping the conse-
uences of their own infamy. This
unquestionably aroused a certain
spirit of resentment among the
urors, and contributed heavily to
the disagreement. .
In dollars, human endeavor and
time, the verdict has been a costly
one. It has heen, however, and is,
to franchise seekers and corrupt
legislative bodies in all cities a ter
rible warning of the peril of crooked
methods, and is worth all it cost.
A very serious objection to the
president's corporation tax scheme,
as a substitute for an. income tax, is,
as has been suggested, that the tax
would be only on stock, and wotild
not reach bonds. Mr. Rockefeller,
it will be remembered, testified In
New York some months ago that lie
only bought bonds, scarcely ever
stocks. This may be. one reason
why Mr. Aldrich was so ready to
accept the. corporation tax sugges
tion If he did not suggest it him
self to the president. Rockefeller,
Carnegie and most of the multimil
lionaires would not be reached by
this corporation tax; their invest
ments are principally bonds, and if
they have large blocks of stock they
would soon and easily find a way of
dodging the tax, while the little
stockholders would have to pay.
But then this is quite in accordance
with Republican "principles."
The steamer Jefferson has Just
brought down from Alaska, as the
first large shipment of - the season,
$3,200,000 In gold, and other mil
lions will follow. This arrivals at
Seattle will add to the interest
aroused in eastern people by the ex
position. hT 1867 Alaska cost our
government $7,200,000, and many
people called Seward a fool for buy
ing It; but since that time it has
yielded about $335,000,000 in gold
alone.
If crops can have grown, and if
they still grow, during such a phe
nomenally cold, dry, discouraging
spring as this one of 1909 has been,
and if there shall be, in spite of such
an unprecedented season, a large
harvest, as now appears probable,
what far greater quantities In years
to come, when conditions are more
favorable?
The constitution provides that
"the president shall from time to
time give to the congress' informa
tion of the state of the union, and
recommend to their - consideration
such measures as he shall Judge nec
essary and expedient" This la man
datory not "may," but ''shall.
President Taft has complied with
this provision in respect of an In
come or a corporation tax, but has
he nothing to Bay to congress about
the revision of tariff schedules, now
in progress?
Cash registers, too, Senator Bev
eridge says, are in the hands of
monopoly that by the .usual process
has frozen out all competitors, and
being protected by a duty of 45 per
cent is able to charge the American
people double the price that like
registers are sold for in Europe.
This extra price, beyond a reason
able profit, amounted last year, he
says, to $5,000,000. The govern
ment got none of this. But this is
a typical case of protection.
Wherever possible, farmers should
irrigate. It will in most cases dou
ble crops, and in many cases treble
or quadruple them. Immense vol
umes of water are going to waste all
over western Oregon that could be
utilized for this purpose. To put it
on the land will in Bome casea be
quite expensive, but what of that if
the Investment will pay from 20 to
100 per cent annually, as it will?
President Taft is doubtless hon
est and sincere in believing that his
corporation tax measure is right,
and at present the better thing to
do, but there is abundant room for
suspicion that he fell into a trap laid
by Aldrich or his employers, the ob
ject being the defeat of the Income
tax proposition. The more the cor
poration tax scheme Is examined the
worse it looks.
The Tacoma Tribune refers to
Portland's "overflowed streets,
How did It get the news? The only
overflow on Portland's streets is that
of people and traffic.
A Discouraging Prospect.
From the Louisville Post. (Rep.)
Most extraordinary propositions have
received most favorable consideration
from the two houses. The Payne bill,
as it left the house, had some good fea
tures In it and some very bad features.
The senate Is rapidly eliminating- the
good features, augmenting the bad fea
tures and adding atrocities of its own.
The result Is that business has been
checked. Uncertainty has spread among
merchants and manufacturers. The pos-
lbillty of securing a bill now that will
remove the question from politics seems
gone unless the leadership of the Re
publican party In the senate can be
hanged and the conduct of the bill put
into the hands of reasonable men.
Much of the Dingley bill has been
outgrown. That Mr. McKinley said Just
before his death. That has been said
by President Roosevelt and President
Taft That has been admitted by the
Republican national convention. Prom
ises to modify these exactions have been
made in most solemn manner and yet
scoffed at and repudiated by the Repub
lican leaders In the senate.
Now the story comes from Washing
ton that representatives from the west
ern states will act in a body, reject the
Aldrich bill and force a reconstruction
the measure by the assistance of
the president.
This is mere talk. It ought to be true
talk, for it is wise. It is unfortunate
that the country has to submit for 60
ays longer to a continuation of such de
bates as we have had in the senate. Mr.
Aldrich's course is a menace to the fu
ture of Industrial progress, a menace to
political peace. It is in defiance of the
promises of the party and In contempt
of all men who dare criticise the meth
ods he has used In embodying in his
bills the demands of his constituents
alone-
We certainly believe that the public.
whether they are Democrats or Repub
licans, are not willing longer, to submit
to the exactions of a measure Mr. Mc
Kinley, eight years ago, declared the
country had outgrown, a measure that
the Republican party has pledged itself
to reconstruct. .
In the interest of commercial peace
and in the interest of political quiet thli
congress should be required by the Rc-
publican leaders to fulfill the party
pledges, to give some relief to the men
who have been promised much relief
by the Republicans in order to get their
vote. If this be not done, the next re
vision of the tariff will be put In the
hands of Democrats. There Is very lit
tle consolation in this to either free
traders or protectionists. There is no
such thing as an Intelligent Democratic
policy of tariff reform; but practically
there Is no intelligent Republican pol
icy of tariff reform, not even an in
telligent policy of protection.
Democratic Apples.
From Norman K. Mack's National
Monthly.
Honorable James E. Martins of Plain
field, N. J., who the Democrats of New
Jersey know and love, is known far and
wide along the Atlantic coast both as
"the farmer orator," and as "the sage
of Cedarbrook." Mr. Martina's home
place at Plainfleld, N. J., is one of the
show places of that thriving little city.
Among other things he has a fine apple
orchard on the place that the Plafnfield
small boy knows only too well.
Last fall . Mr. Martine was on his
way home and he happened to meet a
.couple of youngsters whose pockets
were filled with nice, big rosy-cheeked
apples.
"Pretty nice looking apples you boys
have got there. Would you give a man
one of them?" he asked on of the
lads.
"Sure," said the youngster, "help
yourself. We get "em over in Jim
Martine's orchard.. Jim don't care how
many we take.'
"Don't he?" asked Mr. Martine.
"Naw," said the kiddo. "Jim's a Dem
ocrat, he's for free trade and free ap
ples." Speaking Without Thinking.
The Louisville Courier-Journal tells
of this embarrassing statement made
by a well known Louisville woman who
Is known for "saying things" without
thinking." Her daughter was entertain
ing a young man on the front porch, and
the mother was standing at the fence
talking to the neighbors next door. In
the yard of ths latter was a baby a
little over a year old, and it waa try
ing to walk. t .
"You shouldn't let. It walk so young,"
advised the thoughtless matron. "Wait
until it's a little older. I let my daugh
ter walk when she was about that age
and It made her bow legged." .
The younger man began, to talk ener
getically about the weather.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
Balllnger says Harrlman can go ahead.
But win
,.
Fourth week in June and still ' the
tariff.
The darling women naturally, they
ui want to be nostesses.
Tet many Jews prefer a good business
American city to raieBtine.
Old Jupiter Pluyius must havs been
captured oy - dry- oinciais wis spring,
As soon as Roosevelt drops the gun,
ae no qoudi seises tnat ez-a-wora pen,
More people should take some Sort of
vacations should enjoy the brief span
or. me more. ,
Only 10 days till it will be Mayor SI
mon. It seems to be quite generally
oeuevea mat ne wui mane good.
A big row in the Washington legisla
ture is scheduled. That state has long
ueea entirely too souaiy itepuuiican.
Bank clearin e-s and evervt htnr kiss
indicate that Portland is arrowing faster
ma Better man ever oeiore, rignt along.
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The other day a man ud the valley ad
vertised for a large number of logan
berry pickers. Not long ago the logan
berries had all been killed.
The stat of Washington has been
unfortunate In its governors. Three
have died In office, and some others
should have done better than they did.
It is the children and voune- folks in
the country or in small towns that look
forward eagerly to the Fourth of July
and that really appreciate that holi
day. The Albanv Democrat man savs he
knows a dozen girls in that town who
would make good wives. Is that all?
What a slight acquaintance with Al
bany's girls he must have, after living
there 40 years or so.
It. Is very well for a president to be "a
good fellow, and not too opinionated and
pugnacious, but if Taft signs a tariff
bill anything like the Aldrich monstros
ity he will lose the confidence of mil
lions of people.
m
If the spirit of William H. Seward
can look down on Alaska and see what
It Is. what it has produced and what
it will become, said spirit may well con
gratulate Itself on doing a very good
Job for the country while a tenant of
tne bouy of that far-seeing statesman.
Why shouldn't a man be as willing to
serve as a councilman as well as a
school director, without pay? The lat
ter orrice requires a good deal of time
and attention, and its duties are very
important. Yet good men are always
fouud to serve without pay.
What a poor, weak lot we Americans
are; how ignorant, dull and slow. All
foreigners must be smarter by far, for
we must be protected, you ksiow. All
peoples can beat us badly. It seems; in
all contests we'd be o'erthrown; that
we're great and resouroeful is only
dreams: 'gainst none can we hold our
own. So we must have a high solid
wall against all these other folks' goods.
else they . with their commerce our
hearts would appall, and of good things
there would be Hoods. Hence we need
a tariff that's very high, to protect our
weak ana slow, ir we re taxed some u
per cent thereby, don't we see our million
aires growT Ana to snow roreign roiK
that wave aougn ror cake, tne tariff
I
fixed with care, so s to tax eighty
million people
to make an occasional
millionaire.
FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE
The Atlantic Cable
(Written on the establishment of tel
egraphic communication between Eu
rope and America on July 27, 1866.)
All great leaders have been inspired
with a great belief. There is a faith
so expansive, and a hope so elastic, that
man having them win keep on Deitev-
lng and hoping till all danger Is past
and victory is sure. Such a man was
Cyrus Field, who spent so many years
of his life In perfecting a communica
tion second only in importance to the
discovery of this country. It was a
long, hard struggle. Thirteen years of
anxious watching aijd ceaseless toll
were his. Think what that enthusiast
accomplished by his untiring energy!
He made B0 voyages across the At
lantic. And when everything looked
darkest for his enterprise his courage
never flagged for an instant Think of
him In those gloomy periods pacing tho
decks of ships on dark, stormy nights
in mldocean, or wanqerlng in the deso
late forests of Newfoundland in pelting
rains, comfortless and forlorn. Pub
lic excitement had grown wild over the
mysterious working of those flashing
wires. And when the first cable ceased
to throb the reaction was Intense.
Stockholders and the public grew exas
perated and suspicious; unbelievers
sneered at the whole project and called
the telegraph a stupendous hoax.
At last day dawned again, and an
' A Basis for Popular Distrust.
Vrnm the Wall Street Journal.
In the extended interview with E. H.
uarrman nuhltahed in Tuesday morn-
inr. tinners It Is difficult to under
stand exactly what he did say as to tire
crisis of 190T being ''directly traceable
to the Landis decision." with its 139,
000.000 fine. It would be doing a grave
injustice to one of the. clearest minds in
America even to suppose inai mi.
this. His logic and In
tellect would lead him to ask himself
th nhvimn nuestlon: "What caused
the Landis decision V
The Landis decision was the fruit of
a popular atata of mind brought about
by methods of corporation activity of
which the lire insurance inquiiy e.o
the first illuminating exposition. Cor
nnratlons in those times were in many
cases being conducted with an utter
indifference to the laws of Ood and man.
if a oornoratkm were only strong
enough its managers assumed that any
thing was right which they could bring
about without actually incurring pros
ecution. It was thought in some finan
cial circles proper to own tho represen
tatives of the people in state legisis-
turaa in congress, and. Indeed, we
had established a condition so rotten
aa tn bring about a violent revulsion
of public sentiment of which much fool
ish legislation ana some equaiiy luuima
court decisions were the conscious or
unconscious reflex.
But besides this the crisis was over
due. Reckless speculation by rich men,
enormous losses all over the world by
war. fire and flood, tremendous con
version of floating capital Into fixed
forms of wealth, and a multitude of mi
nor causes brought about the crisis of
1907 later. If anything, than might have
been reasonably expected. Is anybody
foolish) enough to suppose that agitation
in our, state legislatures or a heavy fine
Imposed updh a single wealthy corpora
tion could have brought- about a finan
cial crisis in Tokio. New Zealand, Cape
Colony, 8t Petersburg, Berlin, Paris,
London and every financial center in the
world? If.it had not been, for the in
ternational ' waste which preceded ths
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Albany has a new glove factory.
. ... "
State papers all praise the Ross Festl
vaL , . .
e
Large and tine crop of cherries around
Tne Danes.
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- There are now 10 water craft on
wallows lake. -
Samuel Porter of Halsey celebrated
his ninetieth birthday.
"Best crop of prunes In many years
says a man near Salem.
A Pendleton yearling grade Durham
steer weighs 980 pounds.
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Cottage Grove has employed a booster
Fred Q. Conley of Portland.
A party of 8umpter people. It Is told.
caught Z500 trout in uiive laae.
Immense fish are being caught In the
McKensie according to tne stones.
The estate of ths late "Unci Billy"
Brown, who. lived near Dallas) was
Worth I1SO.O00. t-
A fish m eaus-ht near Cavuse whose
stomach contained a large hook and a
piece of attached line.
Clatskanie celebrated its third annual
rose festival Saturday. Lota of fine
roses down there, -too.
The best start . made toward a free
public library by any town in Oregon
except Portland has been made by Ash
land and tne second Dest oy renumiun.
X. Boise man was in Baker City a
year or two ago and decided to come
back and build a flour mill. This week
he returned with that Intention, but
found a mill already building.
Dallas Itemiser: We notice that one
of the first questions a prospective land
buver asks is in regard to the roads
rnnnBrtlni anv proDertv with the mar
ket place, and that they are perfectly
willing to pay considerably more for
land from which they have a good way
of getting out and in.
Haying is in full blast around Kcho.
Oood crops are reported everywhere.
Three and four tons of alfalfa are cut
from each acre In good condition. But
what the land near Echo now is. Is only
a promise of what it shall be. In a ride
over the country within a radius of two
miles of Echo one sees land which
three years ago was covered with sage
brush, but now all cleared and covered
with alfalfa fields and orchards.
If Albany people once a week were
to write letters east, and keep It u,
each person Just one letter, there would
be something doing, suggests the Demo
crat. Suppose only 1000 people did It,
that would make 62,000 letters annually
sent east about this country, doing a
service that could not be estimated in
dollars and cents. The influence of a
letter is personal and emphatic. It is
always read, and the person receiving It
always takes notice.
Astorlan: By every conceivable means
within her grasp, the state of Oregon
must work unceasingly for the deepen
ing of the Columbia river bar and of
the Columbia river to its last northern
reach; this Is her supreme duty. Not
to tuny particular section or city Or com
munity, but to the entire state, to the
valley of the Columbia, the Inland em
pire, and the fields of produce that lie
back and beyond them all.
By James T. Fields
other cable was paid out. Twelve hun
dred miles of it were laid down, and
the ship was Just lifting her head to a
stiff breeze when, without a moment's
warning, the cable suddenly snapped
short off and plunged Into the sea.
Field returned to England defeated. But
his energy was, even greater than be
fore. In five months, by the blessing
of heaven, another cable was stretched
from continent to continent. Then came
that never-to-be-forgotten search In four
ships for the lost cable. In the bow of
one of those ships stood Cyrus Field
day and night, in storm and fog, in
squall and calm. Intently watching the
quiver of the grapnel that was drag
ging two miles down on the bottom of
the deep. The spirit of this brave man
was rewarded. All felt as If life and
death hung on the Issue. It was only
when the cable was brought over the
bow and on the deck that men dared to
breathe. Even then they hardly believed
their eyes. Some crept toward It to see
it, feel of it. to be sure it was there.
Then they carried it along to the elec
trician's room, to see if the long sought
treasure was alive or dead. A few min
utes of suspense and a flash told of
the lightning current again set free.
Some turned away and wept, others
broke Into cheers, and the cry ran from
ship to ship, while rockets lighted up
the darkness of the sea.
crisis of 1907 a panic would have been
impossible even here.
Whatever Mr. Harrlman may have
said those who believe the pronounce
ment ns given in the papers can see In
operation an excellent example of how
the foundations for Just such another
decision can be laid. The spectacle af
present afforded by the United States
senate is an Insult to every self-respecting
American. It exhibits statesmen
supposed to be acting In a national ca
pacity owned In soul and pocketbook by
petty local interests, while one corpora
tion after another shows that it can
snap its fingers at the promises made
by the Republican president and all
his party before election, and accepted
by the American people.
There Is. In fact a shameless revival
of that association of selfish corporate
Interests with legislation and legisla
tors, such as rlared not show its head
12 months ago, and such aa can bring
about another Landis fine and another
social upheaval. Even a condition so
grave could not produce another 1907
crisis without the other factors which
contributed to that crisis.
Vote as They Prey.
Sea Aldrich. ses he.
It's ez plain ec kin bs ,
Them Ioway fellers
Air nothln' but Jealous.
They can't grasp'' the Idee
That this thing's up to ME!
Hain't I made every tariff?
Let 'em sputter an' swear, if
That Is their pleasure. But wait
Tilt the vottn' an' then, sure es fate.
They will not be in it.
No, not fer a mlnlt
I know an' you'll ses
That the majority
In my footsteps will leap
Like a Jot o' shorn sheep
'And do ez I say . ,
They'll vote as they prey! '
" Indlanapolla News.
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A Blue river man was halted, while
riding on horseback along a road, by an
eight foot cougar which ha killed after
firing several shots with his revolver.
Ihe RLALM
TLMININE,
When Daughter Visits.
ff
OW, happy it would make all of
us.wno go a-vlsltlng In the sum- .
mer time if we could know that
after we leave, the hr...
ni.. aWou1? ay. ''I'm so happy and
P'?sd: we've been having company "
Instead of having her slump down in
wV Ln. ?ay: "Well. I'm tired"
we ve been having company."
whJchWin,i?tr?l1 dl,frenc. nd yet one
Wfiicn & little rnnrtoiv .
and genuine sympathy might work.
,A.nd ven though each ons of ua en
deavors to be the right kind of guest.
lrJ"hW0I h Whli' th&n- whethfr we
fI.Krln,Blng up our children to belong
to the first or to the eoond class "l
visitors. For you cannot expect young
people to have- th . 'l"""
and insight that older people have? and
f1 " not too much to expect that
they should endeavor to fit Into the
L? "nw that they , are accustomed to
give deference and courtesy to older
people and to their hostess.
But you see tha'RMt1 imnhi. i.v
52?.' 1UTi ZZna POOPI i that this
to do n0t MCUtomed
It la unfortunatelv not. it t n It iifiAAM
mon to find young girls who have been
bo accustomed to being waited upon that
J5!y.a? IS "sThtsst idea of
the trouble they make for other peo
ple. They have been aocustomed to ex
pressing their likes and dislikes very
Plainly at the table, getting up at any
hOUr Of the dav that nln.Zl r"
finding mother always ready to wait
abuf tm Dd mak thn comfort-
Here ia
A young girl recently went to a rela
tive s home for & short vliit ai, v...
come to have a good time and she lm-,
mediately 1st her relatives know It Shel
.ro.ii.cu vu g-u nere, mere and every
where, to see somethlnar. to tin unmu.
thing. "What are we mln to ...
day?" was th only question that oc
curred to her. Moreover she came to
a meal when she was ready, not when
the meal was; she didn't like the
things they had to eat and did not
hesitate to sav so: nh ln.fo in .i
drawing room and let the hostess make
tier bed, since the one servant of the
household was more than busy. You
Bay It Is Incredible? Would ft were
The fact of the matter la that it I.
amazingly common.
She was Simnlv a verr trnnA in.,..
tration of the wav in whl,-h
mothers let their daughters grow up.
always arguing that they are young
yet that you can't expect children to
help much; that they will see things
differently when they grow up, and
that anyway It Is less trouble to do
the work one's self than tn mika t),
children do it. So the mother of the
untrained inconsiderate girl is largely,
almost wholly to blame In the matter
of which we are talking.
A girl who has grown up In that
useless fashion and is accustomed to
being waited upon constantly by some
one else cannot be blamed for havlnir
no appreciation of the number of steps
that she makes necessary for some one
else.
The mother who la an shnrtsiirhf erf
in her treatment of her daughter is
piling up trouble for that same young
woman later on no doubt of that. I f
the spoiled daughter marries, as she
almost certainly does, she has to learn
through hard' experience, knocks and
bruises (metaphorical and actual),
through tears and wearinesB and dis
appointments, that which she might
nave learned easily and pleasantly at
her mother's side tn the delightful
years when they were together, If the
over Indulgent mother could only see
that she is preparing her daughter for
much trouble Instead of making the
way easv for her. rjerhans she would
feel differently about calling upon her
ror detinue duties in the home.
If she could only see that in the
rears to come the young woman Is go
ng to say with much feeling: "If
mother hadn't babied me so I should
not find it so hard"; that Instead of ap
preciating the devotion that has kept
the wearied mother toiling along with
fagged mind and weary body that her
pretty child might have dainty clothes
and soft hands, the young lady will
feel that she has been denied the great
privilege of learning to carry her do
mestic affairs easily and gracefully, the
mother might seriously consider the lot
she is planning for her daughter.
The over Indulgent mother is thought
less; she cannot see beyond the present.
It Is easier, of course, to do things
that one knows how to do instead of
teaching some one else who Is perhaps
not over willing to learn, how they
should be done, but the point Is that
if the mother always does It, the
daughter will never learn, and when
she Comes to handle her own menage
she will feel awkward and 111 at ease
In it and she will then be placed In
the disagreeable position of having U
learn from her servant instead of from
one who would deal with her mistaken
gently and would make tho learning a
pleasure instead of a burden.
And when daughter goes a-vlsltlng
she knows what she has been taught
at home.
Tact is something not very well un
derstood by young people. Quite likely
they think It means hiding the fact
that you are not having a very good
time and being always talkative and
agreeable.
If daughter could only know It, she
shows her tact better by making her
bed and picking up her clothes than
by entertaining the company; and makes
a much better Impression for good na
ture by refraining from making extra
work for the servants than by giving .
them presents.
A simple appreciation of the fact
that a guest Is one who Is lodged and
fed at another's expense would also do
much toward making her acceptabls
as a visitor.
Simple Birthday Cake.
THIS recipe makes a cake of good
size which can be frosted nicely. A
pink frosting Is usually attractive
to children. The red coloring ir.atter
which cornea in the gelatine packages is
useful for coloring frosting: Two cupa
sugar, one cup butter, one cup of milk,
three eggs, one half teaspoon soda, ono
teaspoon cream, tartar, three cups pastry
flour. Bake in a round tin and frost.
B
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(Contributed to The Journal by Walt Maaon,
the famoni Kaoaaa poet.- HIa pro-poema will
be a regular Estate of this column In The
Dally Journal.)
- The veldt Is covered with-your dead,
Bwana Tumbo; the desert quakes be
neath your tread, Bwana Tumbo; tho
Hons from their fastness peep, and turn
and flea like frightened sheep; they
dream about you lh their sleep, Bwana
Tumbo, At home the nature fakers rise,
Bwana Tumbo, and try to swat you
'twlxt the . eyes, Bwana Tumbo; one
Long has slugged you. with a brick, and
London prods you with a stick; O come
and rout them pretty quick, Bwana
Tumbo! And ' Seton-Thompson, known
to fame, Bwana Tumbo, aa having double-action
name, Bwana Tumbo, is keep.
ing busy night and day, compiling fic-V I
tlona recherche; he knows that you are 1
far away, Bwana Tumbo; And all ths
scribblers, halt and lame, Bwana Tumbo,
are printing tuunes ot oig game, tswana
Tumbo; and we are weary of the crew,
and tired of all the things they slew;
our hearts- are honing now' for you,
Bwana Tumbo! ,
(Coprrlrht. 1808, by A -JTyt
Oeorge Matthew Adams.) j
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