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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 23. 1910.
THE JOURNAL
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ernof Harmon has long becn-.recog-jhe ftblo to apply through legislation,
nlzod as a very able man, and lie measures mat would mane country
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Old friends am best. King
Jamta used to call fur his old
shoes. They were easiest for
hs . feet John Selden, "Table
Talk." i
i-oi.Vdrxtkr ot pkogrkssive
HKITtlLICAXISM
has used his ability for the true
service of the state, and not to build
up a party organization. Whether
this will strengthen or weaken him,
as a Democrat, in another campaign,
he apparently does not Inquire. Ms
buBiness is to do the boat he ran for
the people, rather than for a party.
These Instances, and there are
many others of leas prominence, In
dicate a -great and gratifying change
that is taking place; the substitution
of public Instead of party service,
the diminishing of nartylsm as a
means of spoils, and the elevation of
the standard of official duty and re
sponsibility. Most congressmen are
still obsessed with partylsm, but the
light of higher, broader ideals in
public service Is breaking Into even
the chambers of congress.
TIIK hVUK OF THK LAND
R'
EPRESENTATIVK " TOIXDEX-
TER of Washington appears to
bo "the noblest Roman of them
all." In the house, as an lnsur
' Kont. With him, the difference be
1 : tween the standpatters and insur-
'. gents Is, not confined to a disagree
ment over rules, or a petty dispute
about patronage, but is1 a broad,
deep, vital contest between represen
tatives of the common people on the
one band and of privileged, preda
tory interests of tremendous flnan'
rial power on the other. He stands
, with and for the former, much, as
La Follette does in the senate, yet
both Insist that they are Republicans
and cannot be kicked out of the
party, but will, work to reform It,
. They distrust the capacity, if not the
sincere Intention of the Democratic
, party to effect reforms.not without
reason,' and if they and other insur
gents can leafXa 'genuine revolution
of the Republican party, for which
the people may be about ready, they
ere wise to Insist that they are yet
Republican's and not Democrats, as
Cannon and other leaders say they
sre. ' .' -
Though serving his firi term,
Tolndexter has come Into much
prominence, which . was . added to
when he alone among the Republi
can members voted and. argued that
the majorltyj had no right to reject
or Interfere with the selections made
by the Democrats , for members of
the Ballingor-Plnchot Investigating,
committee. The Republicans .have
four ' members and the Democrats!
only two, and yet the Republican
members insisted on naming not only
their four, but the Democrats' two,
or at least one of the two. This may
be politics, but it is not Justice. If
the Investigation is merely to bene
fit a party, or certain party officials
instead of thopeople, the country
then It Is another evidence that
there should be and will be more in
surgency. Polndexter Is with his
party only as long as it is right and
Just, or at least when it is not man
ifestly and notoriously wrong. And
as to whether It is right or wrong,
Polndexter Is willing to appeal to the
people, as La Follette did in WIb
consin, as Bristow did in Kansas,
and as like men will do in other
states
A recent statement of his position
and that of the progressive Republi
cans. : published in the New Yor
I
N THESE high-priced times, the
lure of the country must some
times fall on the city dweller.
It is a lure that Is likely to in
crease in intensity. Consumption is
swiftly saining on production. W L, incoroi)araVle value to the people
life so attractive that the migration
from country to town' would be
checked. They. Invited correspond
ence and, found the Interest In the
movement bo great that an unheard
of per cent of their Inquiries were
answered by mall. These letters to
the commission, written by farmers
and explaining their wishes and as
pirations, made 'a volume of matter
of tons In weight, and a great mass
of them were studied, ; their state
ments tabulated and classified into
general rules. Several months were
given by the commission to the work,
most of it without compensation,
and at a great personal Bacrlflce,
From the data Jn hand, much, yal
uable information was deduced, and
specific recommendations were made.
The Improvement of roads, the need
of sanitationthe value of organlia
Hons of farmers and other recom
mendations for the betterment of
farm life were formulated and made
a part of the report. The reasoning
by which conclusions were reached is
said by those who have seen the full
report to have an educative . asset
should, there and 'elsewhere In Ore- J ideif In 1012, and do a few other
gon; wake up and warm up. Many! notable things., But first he will
opportunities are not sufficiently tm- slay a few thousand more animals
proved,, nor even appreciated, Peo-jln Africa, and lecture to the Euro
pie have been too lethargic, too cau-1 pcans. ,
tlous, too Indifferent. Warm up. '
A LK3SCW I'OIl HOI'S AXI .
' V PARENTS .'
TIIK GREAT IIAItRIMAX PARK
i
T WAS recently announced that
Mrs. IJ. II. Harrlman had deeded
"10,000 acres near New York
City to , the state as a public
Evening Post, is mostly reprinted, on
this page, and merits careful perusal
What, we ' may ask western Repub
licans, is wrong with It? If it Is not
good Republicanism, should it not
be so? And if it should be so, why
not support men like Polndexter, in
stead of followers of Cannon and
Aldrich? "
TWO CONSPICUOUS FIGURES
if
A YOR GAYNOR of New York
proving a disappointment
to the politicians who have
been fattening at the muni
cipal crib, and the city employes who
, drew salaries for doing nothing. He
has disappointed both the Tammany
Ites who supported him and in an
opposite way the friends of good,
honest government. Even his strong
est opponents admit that he has
t-tarted out well. He quarrels with
nobody, but makes the grafters un
derstand that during his adminis
tration their occupation is gone. His
" appointments are said to be excellent
and he works In harmony with the
; officers elected on the fusion ticket,
. who aro not visionary, but practical
reformers. He has Instructed the
v assessors to do their full duty with
out fear or favor, and to allow no
tax dodging. While most of his ap
pointees are Democrats, they are not
, organisation men, and officially are
in practice nonpartisans. - He per
ceives that official service of a party
must necessarily conflict with and
militate against true service of the
city, which he demands. Yet he does
not try to, start a crusade for Sun
day observance, and against sump
tuary Indulgence that would not be
, supported by public sentiment, and
would result In more harm than
pood., Such are the reports about
the new mayor of the. great Ameri
can metropolis. anJ they are sur
prising to many who considered that
ht made a weak campaign.
Ohio has a governor, also a Dem
ocrat,, who; has been 'grievouslySur
prising and disappointing to the lead
ing, or most active politicians of his
party,, but pleasing to the rank and
file of all parties. He has made ap
pointments on account of fitness
rather than on account of politics.
M.my Republican officers who on In-
stfiration .were ' found fit, and
worthy have been left undisturbed.
N.i Poiaocrat has secured a -at job
because of a big party pull.. Gov-
aro rapidly approaching the time
when we shall eat all we grow. Wo
are already In the zone in which the
Influence of the transition Is re
flected In high prices for farm prod
ucts. No crop that comes from the
land is low.- Everything Is high and
generally Bpeaking, mounting higher
Only here and there are Idle lands
to be found. A few reclamation
projects, and a few. districts unpene
trated by railroads are all that are
left. But the number of people Is
multiplying at an increasing ratio
Equilibrium cannot be many years
postponed, and then, what?
It Is tlmo now for the movement
from country to city to lessen II not
to cease. At best, for thousands,
urban life is precarious. The higher
cost of farm products will make It
more-bo. The inflation Ip rents,
clothing, commercial foods and other
life necessities has already brought
survival near to the breaking point.
The water, the lights, the car fares,
the mounting fuel cost and the other
multiplying expenses are a pestilence
that daily challenge, the powers of
the wage earning city dweller. The
tension has been as taut as piano
strings for years. The average cost
of 97 articles of life necessity has
advanced from $5.40 to J9.20 In a
little more than a decade, and the
prospect is that the inflation will
continue. When to it Is added the
new and apparently permanent In
crease in the cost of farm products,
many an urban wage earner must'
face a serious problem, u
But, out beyond the city limits,
out there where the flowers bloQjjj.
the birds carol and the grass gfowB
green, there Is a different prospect.
There, any man worthy of the name
can get a piece of land. It may be
five acres, it may be 10, 2, 4U or
of the country, a value that for the
sake of the rewards it would bring
in an educated .sentiment demanded
that the report should have been
printed and widely circulated. With
out such publication, the laborious
endeavors of the commission are
practically lost.
Cannonlsm and' Aldrlchlsm pre
vented publication of the report.
Concerned more about administering
a rebuke to Roosevelt than the wel
fare of the country, congress, led by
Its twin masters, refused to make
provision for the commission to con
tinue its work, refused to permit
more than a few copies of the report
to be printed, and effectually
estopped further Inquiry into the
needs and conditions of country lite.
The report was submitted to the
president while the last congress of
his administration was in session,
and was made the Bubject of a spe
cial message. It was the congress In
which Cannon with his trailing little
congressional pawns who sneezed
every time he took snuff and bobbed
up or bobbed down every time he
said "thumbs up," spent his time
and the session's time in discredit
ing Roosevelt, and as a result, the
endeavor In behalf of country life,
along with many other meritorious
plans, went Into oblivion, where It
still sleeps. All this is why the
Walla Walla convention of farmers
have petitioned for publication of
the commission's report.
ILL OTHER boys, who have
started on the road nursued
by Eueene Rooner nrofit bv Park- . This land includes the Ram
the warning of hia. death? It RP hills, comprising aome Oi the
would soem that at least aome bovs wildest and most beautiful scenery
would do B0and that many parents, m tha Portion of the country. She
having boya yet very young, would an others have also contributed
be impelled by this boy fate to ex- ?2,500,p00.. on condition that the
erciae greater care of them as they Btate PPropriate an equal amount,
are growing up. y 'or the purchase of 15,000 acres ad-
Perhaps no parental governance J,n,n. including a stretch of the
or guidance would have kept this Hudsoa ' river front from. Palisades
boy from going wrong; there are In- J1 - opposite New York City to
corrigible toys, whom no home or Piedmont, and extending back to the
other authority, or Influence will "amapd hills. This will altogether
keep from traveling the downward 00 jrooamy me most extensive park
road tn niln. 1 Tint thtnn thontrh In ur series OI parKS, in the world, and
the aggregate unmerous. are yet ex- w,n be of. Incalculable value to the
ceptlons, "and the proportion of them reai cy narnman Has taken
can be and ahould be lessened. Not "" creaiin per late nusnana wlta
always, but usually, the main fault her part of this magnificent , gift?
Is with Ta.nt: hut lot na not run- saying that It was in accordance with
sure this poor Buffering widow, who PlanB that h had formed but did not
loved ; her bay, a a mother will, live "to carry, put, and she requests
and doubtless did what she could to that 11 be known as the Harrlman
keep him straight. ; r' ' etate park- '
Observe, hovs and narpntn. the ' ThuB tha great financier and rail-
three principal agencleB of this road organizer will probably have
vouth'a destruction v!l fiction, riir- throughout all succeeding time a
arettes and vicious companions. He monument ta hia memory that Could
was a voracious reader of stuff that equauea, tnougn it win
if it were nrartlpjihlA hnnM ha min. De to her also. Hundreds of
beef trust as a conspiracy In restraint ; I "i
of trade, who knows but th,o . poor; i . I
Ktrtia-ffllnir InfnritllA Induntrv Mllcht I"
be forced to go to the wall?
.Oregon's two congressmen are In
Speaker. Cannon's cage of. trained
performers, and they bop off the
perch and do a stunt every time the
boss says "thumbs up."; If "he says
jump through a , hoop, they Jump,
and If roll over,- they rol, .
For the second time Patrolman
Slajil .has "used , his revolver with
deadly and good tef feet, as Patrol
man Croxton did recently. Let the
good work of getting the robbers
before they get somebody else, go on.
At last Curtlss divided honors
with Paulhan at Los Angeles, Vive
La Belle . France! Hurrah , for the
American Eagle! ' ;
REALM
FEMININE
B'
millions of people, as - they enjoy
these beautiful, scenic, health-giv
ing grounds, will rejoice that the
Harrlmans lived, and not unto
RELIGIOUS LUNATICS
A
QUITE COMMON and easy
means of inducing fanatical
insanity in many minds that if
left undisturbed appear to be
fairly normal is a prediction by some
100. A brief struggle, a modicum mentally ill-balanced, one-ideaed
of frugality, a measure of self denial,
and it will be all his own. Then,
no rent collector can call at his door.
No plumber, no baker, no butcher.
no wood dealer, no electric light
man, no gas collector, no fuel dealer,
none of the long list of collectors
that have sapped his substance and
made his life- a worry can molest
him. His land will yield him crops
nnri the orlces be profitable. He
can trow his own food, cut his own
fuel, and have all the time something
Torsett: The land Is the source of
all wealth and he will be one of
the monarchs of the land. fJo man
can own, control or give him .or
ders. As free sb the birds that fly
or the winds that blow, his life will
be the incarnation of independence
and the perfection of self reliance.
His children will not be confined.
amid the hoofbeats and clatter of
the stony streets and narrowed pave
ments, but will find gladnesB in the
greenswards,, fields, fresh air ana
streaming sunshine of the country.
Thpra will be drawbacks and handi
caps, but the' compensations will be
a hundred fold. To be thus a king
in his castle, a baron on his own
land, With strength, hope and thrift,
is the lure that the country with its
present prices for products holds out
to the cly dweller, and it i a -lure
that the future promises
strengthen.
and clapper-tongued fanatic that the
world Is about to come to an end,
and that a chosen few, those who
believe just what thl monomaniac
tells them, are going to be caught
up into heaven, plucked as brands
from the burning, and so Baved. It
Is one- of the religio-psychological
wonders that so many people who up
to maturity or even middle life and
beyond have been apparently sane,
will believe this utterly absurd non
sense, and go crazy over it, as a
family did recently over on Pugut
pressed, Inflaming his Imagination
Into a diseased condition. He ran
with boys who were vulgar, profane,
obscenn and' who nnlnnnart hia mind
and polluted his soul. With them 1 themselves alone.
and girls as vicious, be learned to
smoke cigarettes, a habit that has
ruined innumerable
mnrn narriana n roitan
opium and whiskey. A boy who be- ' re"1,ftI" U ha t0
comes an Inordinate cigarette smoker oue OI ,aume Bea Bei"
Is as a rule a hopeless case, unless p BtorieB.
this habit can be broken up. Tv0 now Pnr(i. y. i.
Add to these that the boy had not ,ng wUh u makeg hlghwav robbery
IsTfiisXourBirtliJay?
The air flights at Los Angeles are
von livM over and momentarily, that city Is
nt years, tLn out of the Bpot light. .But. it won't
too rough a sport. Unless a soccer
Btyle of play be provided for the po
lice, the game will become unpopu
lar.
to
SOME PERTINENT HISTORY
A
DEMAND for the publication
of the report of the country
life commission was voiced by
the convention of Oregon,
Idaho and Washington farmers at
Walla Walla this week. Similar ex
pressions have come from other gath
erings, notably the meeting of agri
cultural college presidents held In
Portland last August. The truth Is
that no report of the commission's
findings has ever gone to the coun
try, save that carried gratis by the
newspapers in the process of pur
veying the news. The valuable work
of the commission is without fruit,
in lhat no channel has been found
for its findings to rech the public,
and thereby hangs a tale of conspir
acy at Washington that la no credit
to the republic.
The errand of the commission was
one of the most exalted that has been
launched in this country. It set out
to ascertain the actual condition of
rural life, and from Its findings to
elaborate recommendations that
would aid in raising the standard of
rural living. The members of the body
were of conspicuous intelligence and
enthusiastic in their world. They
journeyed into every state, held pub
lic meetings, and. from the farmers
themselves took testimony and heard
opinions of what measures could be
applied, that would tend to exalt
country life. ' They sought to find
out the cause for the drift of rural I The Astoria Budget . wants the
population to the cities and hoped to J people there to "warm up," So they
forties, and their several children
went up on the roof of their house,
all stark naked. In cold, stormy
weather, to wait for the coming
chariot, one child dying and all suf
fering greatly from exposure. Yet
this case Is scarcely more 'extreme
than thousands of others.
It seems that the minds of a large
proportion of humanity are so con
stituted as to become very easily un
balanced on the subject of religion,
or some phase, exaggeration or dis
tortion of religion. The veriest
mountebank or charlatan, however
ignorant and nonsensical, if gifted
with forceful volubility and some
measure of "personal magnetism.
and a few memorized "texts, can
soon collect a large following, who
become Insane in variouB degrees, ac
cording to their temperaments, many
to such an extent that reason is com-'
pletely dethroned. .
This result is caused, crudely
speaking, by yielding the mind to
concentration upon one point, to the
exclusion of all other considerations
until' It Is thrown out of balance,
and becomes, so to speak, inflamed
and festered in one spot, and other
wise paralyzed. These lunatic man
ufacturers usually seize upon a very
few passages of the Bible, which
they construe to suit their purpose,
ignorantly and without any exercise
of reason, and base everything upon
them
connected excerpts contain and ex
press all of truth, and all knowledge
of God and man, and of past, pres
ent; and future; but these, inflamed
but possibly sincere spouters, as
sume to know and declare exactly
what these passages mean, which
construction Is invariably absurd
and contrary to intelligent interpre
tation. . "
Yet. by such exhortations, by such
grotesquely narrow and dark minded
fanatics, great numbers of people
have been In all ages deprived of rea
son, and this process goes on with
unabated vigor. Hence the world is
afflicted with holy rollers and fire-
tonguers, and end-of-the-worlders,
and other variations of such extrem
ists in religion as to be absolutely
Insane. Where to draw the line in
restricting their crazy performances
is one of society's problems.
learned the necessity of obedience to
authority. His last word was
"mother," Indicating that his heart
was not yet wholly hardened. His
last thought was pity for his mother.
xjui ne naa ror years aisooeyea ana If fiylng ,8 M easy aa the part
uiBreByeciea nis raomer. e aespisea ,ooked at Los Angeles, the children
ner counsel, ner love aid not re- may yet go huckleberrying by aero-
Birain -mm, ne naraenea nis neari iu Dane
nt-r Buuenng on nis account, oo ne
cnose vne literature and viler com- jf tlje administration should really
panions, ana cigarettes, ana oecame carry out Its threat to prosecute the
a tniet. He was uniaitniui to em
ployers, he despised labor, he had no
respect for virtue or honesty, .be
went from bad to worse rapidly;
then, when suddenly death struck
him, he thought of "mother." Too
late. The time to think of mother ProgreaMve Republicanism stands for
la whn the first tPmntatlnn. and the conservation of th natural re
o. . a sources oT the. federal domain as op-
J ' r" "" uuu, I posed to the atandpat policy of par
BoyB, read good, clean stories, celling; out private interests, without
Steer clear of dirty, vile companions, restriction and" without adequate com
Respect authority. Be faithful with pensation. these vast posseaslons of the
emnlovers I ct rizarettpi alonfl aa "e- " ranoa ior etronsj ana ene-
empiojers. L,et cigarettes aione as tlve B0Vernment control of raJlroada,
you would poison. And think of and the regulation of rates thereon, an
mother. And parents, protect your oppoued to the reactionary policy of non
boys if possible from these evils, lest Interference. It stands for competition
they come to this boy b endr , mononolv. It ... ,n favor of strfinB-th.
enlng Instead of weakening the Sher-
A JUST DECISION man anti-trust law, and of enlarging
the powers of-the Interstate Commerce
Charles .W.-, Knapp, publisher of the
BU Lou la Republlo and prominent In
the politics of that mate, is 62 years
old today. He holds a college master's
degree and - started Jn . the newsnaner
"business In 1867 with his father, being
many years a Washington correspond
ent. . . -
Martin P. Burks. Virginian by birth
ana aean. or me law faculty Of Wash
Ington and L.ee university since 1902
- Dr.- John U DlckeyT physician, bonk
airector ana X..H. u. A. leader. Is 65
He , will hay his birthday cake In
Whtiellng, Va., where he was born
Judge Frank 8. Dlflch, -who pro-
siaes on tne redcral district bonch In
Idaho, was born In Ottawa, Kan., 47
years ago v this . mornlns-. He "is an
alumnus of Brown university and used
to be attorneys for the Oregon Short
Lflne. , " ' -
Louis R. Birlch, now of New York,
who was the only delegate from the
Rocky mountain region to the Palmer
and Buckner national convention In
1896 and temporary chairman of the
third party convention In Indlanapo.is
four -years later. Is 61.
Robert J. Fisher of Athens, Tenn., one
time bank teller, who Invented a book
ty pew niter and Is the holder of 80 pat
enta. Is 63. He has gone beyond the
alary earning period.
Wllllan J. Dutton of San . Francisco,
who has been In the Insurance busi
ness since 18ST, la 63. lie was born In
Bangor, Me.
James R. Falrlumb, New York or
ganist and composer, once United States
consul to Zurich, BWiteeriana, is 72
todny. He bears decorations conferred
by the king of Wurtemberg.
Among the dead whose anniversaries
come today were: Benolt Coquclln, tins
French actor, who died last year at the
age of '68; Joslah Flynt Willard, author
of "Tramping With Tramps,1; who died
the day before his thirty-eighth birth
day three ye,ars ago.
"The Hifflrult Hoy." .
OY nature Is not girl nature ' very
mother finds that out and ma
eternal feminine la A B C com
pared to the eternal masoullne in
boyhood, nays Mrs. K. M. Bowl.
In Popular Science Monthly. , "
1 Mother love is so often all heart and
no head Where her boy Is concerned that
mothers "have been known to make dif
ficult hoys from their own choloo.
It Is not easy to be logical and con
sistent and never wavering. In truth and
fidelity, and the .eternal mnscullne leni
ahead so fast to take control that the
mother la face to face with a conqueror
before sho knows It. ,:
Obedience to parents la begun during
tho flrnt wetki ofbuby llf A man does
In middle life what he began to do In
childhood. Mothers," fathers, look at
yourselves, thrn consider In what groove
or, rut you are netting the course of
your child's life." All are hampered by
conditions, and the difficult boy Is the
product of adverse conditions. , '
WLat Progressive Republicanism Is
Representative Miles Poinaexter 1 the New York Evening Post
A
SEATTLE Judge decided that commission; of giving this commission
, . . . , , . , . tho power to fix rates and power to put
a couple who had lived to- lt8 orders ,nto ettecU , . , It
gether 20 years and had sev- vors the appointment of impartial and
eral children, the man alwavs unbiased federal Judges, rather than
till now representing the woman as tn,? uwh"e erv'c f? association
. , , . , . , , with the Trusts and public service cor
his wife, were in fact fcfnd in law DOratlons- It favors the Roose-
. . U m a rrlaH thnii trh nn marriatra orA. I itnH i 1as1iivm riA.K .uk.,
sound. The man and wife, in thrv". -r "-""t i . . Jh " .o "T "'.b-h7h "
man had prdered the woman away .nd -ha 1.and ?huds' pfbate" on,!5lr-
jk . , , . ' cles to defraud the customs, should be
from their home, supposing that she vigorously prbsecuted, and that the
had no legal , right there, but the principles as well as the tools and dum-
Judge not only held that she was en- m,e8 should be punished, regardless of
titled to maintain a Buit for a di- w'l?L . T , uJ
.... ,, favors a liberal and bustness-llko policy
vorce, but tb all the community of internal waterway improvement, and
property and liberal alimony besides, the immediate issue of bonds for that
of congress, at least, shall be, as It was
Intended to be, responsive to public
opinion. As - It Is controlled today by
the patronage and power of the speaks
er, It Is wholly unrepresentative. It Is
not even conducted .under regular rules,
but In all crises under a system of spe
cial orders, for particular occasions, as
the desires or the exigencies of the
speaker and his lieutenants may de
mand.. Fundamentally, however; and gener
ally speaking, the difference between
the progressives and the reactionaries
Is that the former stand for the Ameri
can principle of equality, while the latter-
stand for special Interests of vast
accumulated, wealth. Progressive Re
publicanism believes that these, aijcum
ulatlons have become bo vast that they
exercise an undue and Improper Influ
ence in legislation, while the reaction
aries contend, privately, (lf not publicly,
inai accumulated weaun is entitled to
special consideration,, special Influence,
' A difficult boy Is a baffling problem. .
Sometimes, there Is a special aptitude
for some line of work that Will present
the way out'.of the wilderness, but usu
ally. there is nothing that really Inter
ests. ' He ! Indifferent to study; he
cannot be rollnd upon., ir tuns away
and gets Into quarrels, and punishment
seems to amount to nothing. . A mother
should realize that this boy of hers
must work in some 'way or his whole
life will hK a wreng to .'humanity and ,
himself. The higher the order of work
the better, but work which is Isclplln '
should he chosen. Discipline Is the most
difficult thing to -establish, it takes
In all the wisdom, all the love, all tha
strength of motherhood . to administer,
but It la the life line.
Set up discipline in "your difficult
boy's life, and every slraln against It
will be a pull his Wholo nature will feel
as long aa he Uvea. It will hold him
to pucpose.
. Disciplines bow? Discipline when?
Let us be simple and explicit A time
to get up In the morning. Uappy the
boy that gots another' kiss or a loving
personal call. Discipline will not allow
nannlna afterward. Bathe and dress.
Kxact military order In this. Cleanli
ness teeth brdshed, hair combed, shoes
tied, before breakfast may be faten. it
Is sometimes more than a mother can
do to get these things done, but every
day Sunday and all will make It hab
it. It sinks In.
Observe rood tabte manners always
the hall mark of good breeding and the
difficult boy likes to be sure that he
Is well bred. He -U1 have a self-re-Btiect
that will bo far toward Inspiring
ambition for other attainments. He reg
isters a credit to himself when he sees
another fellow "eat like a dog.
He feel set up, und likes to find mat
he knows a thing or two. Among men
nnhlnir cut to tha oulck auite so sure
as a slur on his "bringing up." He Isn't
to blame for it. and resentment hi ni
fate, at his lack of tralnins In the slm
nl etlmiette of. dallv life will take the
heart out of a man v.hen A knowledge of
it would have made him a social equal
of a most desirable acquaintance.
When -there is a departure from, the
normal boy nature, the earliest Indica
tions should be studied very carefully.
When Mils boy dlsclosos a fault like- a
yawning earthquake, don't run, but look
in rtnwn Into the substrata. You may-
see unmlned gold and gems; prhapH
only an abyss unfathomable, but let
the light of mother love shine In clear to
the lowest depth. You will neeii the
divine love to guide yours, but never,
never, never think for a moment mat
any fault is there, to stay.
A Pleasant Occasion.
From Colliers.
It was Just on Chrtatmas eve that
all the Republican editors In New York
state received this letter. It came on
the letter head of the "Republican Kdl
torial Association of the State of New
York":
"Dear Sir The members of the Re
publican Slate Editorial association,
with their wives, aro invited by Sena
tor Deoew to attend a reception at his
house in Washington. Friday evening.
Air. uepew propones
February 4. 1910.
to Invite tho president, the members
and special favors at the hands of con- of the cabinet, and leading members
Kress. of conereRfj. to greef us. and he will
Progressive Republicans cotitend and also provide railroad transportation
know that the main mimosa jf irovern-1 from Albanv to New York and from
ment 1 the protection of the weak New York to Washington and return.
Ugainst the strong, and that while all "I may add that It Is bilve! tnat,.
Interests should be treated with Justice, through an advertising agency, we can
the central principle of all legislation arrange to secure Hotel aceommoaationw
should be tho public. good, and not nrl- at Washington in return for Bdverus-
vate aggrandisement. It is the differ- Ing. though the negotiations to thin end
ence between a real republicanism and have not yet been fully conipleteu.
a bogus class system. Fraterna
- We have come to a point when .tlM A-
doctrine of liberty has been construed It founds
as license not more by some Of the the antl-pasa
It is to be honed that this decision work, if necessary, as opposed to the In
will be upheld by the higher courts JjVff,t
and become a precedent, at least as wor)c it -advocates 'a permanent tariff
to Its main feature, that sustaining commission, with full power to investi-
the actual wifehood of the woman. "o report all factojnerejsa
As the court seemed to Indicate by f .n en"f n"naan " t en raT;r
., . , , .. ., .1 than the grab and barter system of Al
ius uuciHiuu legaium itio pruyeiij, ar-cn and Cannon.
it is a reprehensibleort of man "who
would not only turn out a woman w advocate a reorganization of the
under such circumstances, but who y"'tc? ta,s nafe 80 Jiftfcth ,nter"
, . , , ,. , . ests and the sections which have-so
in doing bo would legally bastard- ong entirely controlled It shall share
ize his own children, some of them their influence with the entire country,
of tender age. It will be one evl- We re ror . more independent, spirit
dence of progress and enlightenment JJ-??
, .. . , , 7 . ... of subserviency to one or two dictators.
If the law will no longer tolerate this Progressive Republicanism, especially.
species of injustice, in deference to stands for a reorganization of the house
If.
illy yours, II
O. BUNNELL, Secretary." ill
like, the old days before fl
law. Senator Depew's
res the 4 1 It or Marcii next mc
reelection, he must come be- "l- I
former Ideas on this subject.
of representatives, so that that branch
of the so-called highest. We have come year. For
to a point when some private interests 'ore the New York legislature which
vested with government franchises have meets next January and Is elected next
become more of a menace to individual iNOvemrmr.
rights than the .government ever was,
and the peculiar spectacle Is witnessed
of a people, Jealous Qf Its liberty, seek
ing to enlarge the powers-of' the central
government as, a matter of self-prqtec-tlon.
It is the only recourse, and unless
that government in all. its branrhen in
kept perfectly free from the control of Washington, D. C, Jan. 22. Having
the great powers which It is sought to I ,ec,,ved Prtldent;Taft' complete leg-
News Forecast of
Week
regulate and ' restrain there is no re
dress at all.
A view of the assembly scheme as
seen by Honorable A. T. Buxton,
master of the Oregon State grange,
Is to be found on another page of
The Sunday Journal. , It Is a state-
January 23 in History---,Kansas-Netraslca Bill
The Kansas-Nebraska bill passed Jan
uary 23, was the act of congress, by
which - the territories of Kansas and
ment issued for the benefit of the NebrasKa"wre organiied in 1864., it
D-,.Dntroo nt iha atata But win ha turned out to be one of , the most lm
-..1.-. on . I portant acts in the legislative history of
m., .....(,. " ... " the United States. It precipitated the
cause Of its dignified and compre- final phases of the slavery struggle
henslve analysis of the subject. There which resulted in -! the .Civil war. It,
is a multitude of people In Oregon leV '' vomicBi
i -j x . parties. It started a . renewal of the
k.' ;..i a fcoo fmli. wuu "a"1 euuiui, u contest between the north and the south
nut v-mj- Mr BUXton's statement Is a lucid ex- oyer a question which had been regard
pression of their convictions. Every J as settled for many years: at least
business man; every salaried man, D ,c.f; . !uUe
' ., 'land 1850. It stirred the passions of
every wage earner, every working the .people of both sections, gave rise to
man, every iarmer ana an otners bitter and protracted controversies, both
who want orderly procedure in our I In and out of congress, and doubtless
public affairs will read the article considerably h
, 4.1,11V Ula prajcu, Lii uuvm is lull itiaj
party-; it led to the formation ' of the
Republican party; It raised. Lincoln a.nd
with profit and pleasure.
In a divorce suit on the ground of gave a bent to his great political am
nonsupport, the husband pleading baton. , , .
that he was out of work and in debt " Upon'the admission of Missouri into
tn his landlord a Marvland lud-re "e Union in 1821, the vast region ly-
to nis lanqiora, a Maryiana juage ng betwecn that Btate and the Rocky
restored marital peace between the mountains was left unorganised. On
couple, pacified the landlord, and January - 4, 1864, Stephen A. Douglas,
eot the man a Job, which showed un- who was chairman of the senate com
usual capacity for. the office f dl- i",
yorce court judge. Blessed are thejWhrch prescribed that territories when
peacemakers. , ; I admitted s states, "shall be received
into ine union witn or witnout slavery,
vftw . fpnort la -that Thoodore tnclr constitution may prescribe at
n u m . , tnat .ineoaore the.tlnU) of thelr admission." and fur
Roosevelt .will tun Tor congress and ther. "all questions pertaining to slavery
be a candidate for speaker. He. Is are to be left to the decision of the peo
also " to be elected senator to sue- Pla residing therein, by their appropriate
ceed Depew. to 'finish digging the tepresentatlve. to be chosen by them
Panama canal, to write for a,do?en ;hea bV hSwev.r, . was rearranged,
ox so magaames, to be elected pres- tnrpugh an amendmout suggested, by
Islatlve program, congress is expected
now to accomplish some real work,
though no one can foretell at this tlmo
Just what action will be taken on tho
president's' recommendations. Mean
while,- the tense situation between
knnkf.r I'annnn anA 1!i nnH-Piinniiii.
Senator Dixon of. Kentucky and Sena- "tea and 'further developments In re
tor Douglas reported It, In, its flnll 8ard t0 tno Ballinger-Plnchot Investl
shape, the Kansas-Nebraska bill today, gallon may be expected to furnish some
66 years ago. . interesting news during tho week.
This new bill provided that the tnr- The libel case, brought by the gov
rltory was to be.divided Into two tarts enment against the Press Publishing
to be called Kansas and Nebraska and coPany. publishers of the Now York
stated specifically that the Slavery re- World, on account of stories relating
striotlons of the Missouri Compromise to alleged scandals In the purchase of
"being Inconsistent with the principles U,e Pa1"m Canal company's stock hy
of non-intervention by congress with the United States, is set for trial Mon
slavery in the states and territorles.as In the United States circuit court
recognised by the legislation of 1850. at New York. ;
commonly called the compromise meas- Anotfter court proceedings that will
ure. la nereDy declared lnopem tlve a - ",wu i"""'" ' te
void, it being the true intent and mean- trial of the "blljac"cd flour" case In
Ing of this acr'not-to legislate slavery NeW" (-rleanS Involved In this case,
Into an v terrltorv r' !' nn, Which is the first of Its kind to .come
elude it therefrom ,but to leave -the to tr,a1' ls the iong sindinS contro
people thereof perfectly frea to fornl versy between the department of agri-
and regulate their domestic institu- cuuure Bna "enour miners or the
tlons in their own way. subject only to cauntry? 8 h ,.leEal ty of manufac-
the -constitution of the United' States.' turing --WeacheA--flour.- ;. ,
- The bill occasioned- prolonged arid ,Jh
acrimonious debate, and finally passed , "Detroit Tuesday" whe 7br Gelrze
1?'''' A. ? for' the" ra8l
Irttt -wST Ren fnS UiCb? Jeged murder of Mabel Milman, whose
wivitS- hnnL J h' T,he d,t; dismembered, body waa ound in the
bate in the house was continued until n...-, n,..
May 8. when if passed by a bare ml-W.lV h'r-i...
jorlty of IS votes The bill became a 0! was lie vTctirn of a criminal
'l!W -fn P,rse-ident P,erce 'Knature on operation performed by Dr. Jritch, wh .
May so,, io4.. w ; , .. , afterward sought to conceal the crime
":..;- , " (by cutting up tho body and sinking it
Quincv. (1744): of Jean De m..nvllin I i tho pivr : .- .
the founder of New Orleans (1680). i Numerous Questions of ' IntereRt an t'jfl
Henry Dearoorn, the Revolutionary sol-Hjmportance to the country at large are -CiH
dier (17B1). Mra . Kmma Willard. . the I tn Ha rilHcliHRnrl ' at .the annual .oi
educator (lltj). tne day upon which of the .national board of trade, which
William Pitt, the English statesman, will begin in Washington Tuesday and
died (1778), upon which the battle of contlnu three Ways. .Financial legisla-
Buena Vlata was fought In the Mexican tlon. ahip subsidies, -postal : savings-.
war (1847). and the beginning ofv the banks, the tariff.! and the conservation
siege of the Alamo by the Mexicans In of natural resources , aro among the
ISSOi : ... -.. r. i .',, ,v. I matters that will receive attention. .
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