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T IS . EASY to. ; understand why
there Is a propaganda that strives
to discredit Gifford Pinchot. His
philippic . against privilege deliv
ered before the Roosevelt club at St,
Paul Saturday evening 3s full expla
nation. No clearer or more forcible
presentment of the case gainst "the
partisans of government by money
for profit," as Mr. Pinchot calls It."
has been made In this country. No
clearer or more forcible appeal for a
"government by men for the' wel
fare of mankind" has been heard in
these United States. . He said that
the country has come to believe that
the-."senate and house do not repre-;
cent the voters by whom they 'were
elected, but the special Interests by
whom they are controlled," and that
la true.: He said that the tariff was
formerly a means for raising the
wage- of labor, but that It has be
come the tool for advancing the cost1
of living, and that is true. : He said
that the sugar trust has .been steal
ing from the government, but that
congress still protects, its business
with' high duties, and that Is true.
He said that congress raised the duty
on manufactured cottons when there
was public testimony by the manu
facturers themselves that the duty
should not be advanced,' and, that is
true He declared that at the very
moment congress was Increasing the
duty on rubber the leader of the
eenate in combination with the Gug
genheims was organizing an inter
national rubber trust, whose charter
was, so framed as to permit it to be
come a holding company for the coal
and (topper of the whole world. '
This Is a scathing indictment. : It
Is a courageous denunciation of men
who believe In a "government by
mony for profit" instead jot a "gov
ernment by men for the welfare of
mankind." ,It 13 the word of a man
whose years of official life at Wash
ington enabled him to see the rascal
ity going on beneath the" surface of
legislation, and one whom office, fear
or disfavor cannot dissuade from de-1
scribing the facts as he finds them.
It Is his courage and hlB devo
tion to his country and Its people
that makes Gifford Pinchot hated
and caluminated. Bemuse of his
fighting powers, his fearlessness and
his uncompromising virtue, he is a
scourge to ttte special interests that
prey upon their countrymen through
"bought" senators" and "procured"
laws. It is these special beneficiaries
of legislation that call him a "theor
ist," that declare he is a i "dema
gogue,"; and that are moving heaven
and earth to drive him Into obscur
ity. v But because these forces ca
lumniate Mr. Pinchot, does it mean
that he la wrong? Is he. not to be
loved for the enemies he has made?
EMALL TAXES FROM CORPORA
HONS " "
ITTT fialem Tnnrnol cairn IVnl V.A
i, state treasurer's books V show
that certain corporations have'
paid taxes as follows: Postal
' and Western Union Telegraph com
panies, -$1000; Pullman Car com
pany, $2500; Northern Express com
pany, 11070; Farmers and Mutual
Telephone companies, $1397; total,
$5967. Among the corporations that
have not paid any tat are the Bell
Telephone companyassessed at $25,
988; the Pacific Express company,
$4000,- Wells-Fargo company,. $9000.
standard Oil company, Refrigerator
Car company and Tank Line com
panies have made no report. The Sa
lem paper figures ' out that while
.-the total ta paid la $5967, the tax
assessed and not. paid Is $38,983.
Bome of these companies are delin
quent, for four years. And there are
others not mentioned that,' pay no
tax. The Salem Journal says that
"at least $100,000 of taxes due the
ttate are held up, and-Irect taxes
must be increased to niake "It up."
- This if true Is worth looking Into
by the next , legislature or perhaps,
if. it will not do its duty, by the
people. . Some of these corporations
are doing a large and profitable bus
iness in this state, and. they ought
to help bear its tax burden.
AT ttllCAGO
I money for profit'' is reached In
J the desperate "attempts ..now
making In Chicago to save Lee
O'Nell Browne from punishment for
bribing legislators to vote for Lorl
mer. Browne is the man whom
White, Link and Beckemeyer con
fers bought the!r votes, As a pre
liminary to his trial, It was pleaded
in his behalf that the payment of
1 9f racirrtn'r?hcdri6I8n"s'
after their votes had been cast ivaa
l' t hril.rry, a proponitbn so amaz
i f r almost Ftarue a graven
i '. Tl i;r,hfnrd ,nf deffr.Rji was
overrule1.! by the trial judge, and
was followed by a habeas corpus
proceeding sue.l out of another de
partment of the same court. It
failed, and Browne Is. forced to goto
trial today.
Six hundred dollars a day is be
ing spent by some gecret'syndicate in
the attempt to save Bcowne from con
viction. Private detectives In the
pay of this syndicate are swarming
over the state shadowing legislators,
witnesses and veniremen. An array
of lawyers of the highest reputation
and costliest , compensation is de
fending Browne, and resorting to
every technicality, .subterfuge and
quibble known to the practice in the
effort to prevent a trial of the case
on its merits. The struggle is not
unlike that In the Calhoun case In
San Francisco, except that in : Chi
cago the backers of Browne are be-!
hind the curtain 'aad nobody knows
their Identity. ; .
What does, it mean when these
grpat sums of money are spent to
prevent the Browne case from com
ing to trial? If Browne Is innocent,
why do not his : mysterious , backers
let his case be tried on Its merits
and the defendant get , the benefit of
that vindication that Van . acquittal
would give? What amazing specta
cles . we.vda have, when senatorial
elections are not by the people but
by purchase. Is Chairman George's
weather 'eye on Chicago?
WHY BY PROXY?
ff W T HAtf DOES the good Chair
hl man George mean anyway,
y J when he says his assembly
T will give u "better offi
cials"?. What variety of Igorrotes
does he think the Oregon voters are?
Is his conception of the Oregon elec
torate a vision of long bearded and
long haired men, hatless, shoeless,
living ' in huts and : subsisting on
dried fish and huckleberries? Is It
hls Idea that the average working
man only knows enough to draw his
wages Saturday night and find the
way to and from his work? Is it
his idea that the average farmer (is
too Illiterate to do anything more
than to work lnkthe fields all day
and to know when and how to go
to and from his meals? Does he
think that an average farm hand
doesn'jt know enough to ride a mule
to water and that when he is put
to ploughing he merely 6tays put
until somebody comes and leads him
to his dinner? . What else does the
good Chairman George mean when
he Insinuates that the average voter
doesn't know the difference between
a good candidate and a spotted ca
yuse?. v;-.. . M -v -': - : A
Who pays the taxes in this state?
Who feeds Oregon?., Who growB the
foodstuffs; who fashions the raw
material Into finished products;
whose hands take It from the soil
and make It into f ood,: clothing and
wealth; .what men build the houses,
operate the ; mills and move the
trains, steamboats and electric cars?
What would Chairman George do
without these men that he says can't
select a good official? What would
Oregon be without these men that
Chairman George'8.,assembly Insists
haven't sense enough to govern and
must be governed by proxy?
, RETARDING DEVELOPMENT
HOSE j WHOSE welfare depends
in any measure upon the de-
velopment. and prosperity of
Oregon will do well to mark a
new form of "knocking" which tends
to the gravest consequences. Wheth
er. due to mere blundering. blindness
In an attempt to support Balllnger
and his backers, or to actual desire
to retard settlement until the inter
ests have carried out -their program,
the"' Oregonlan's daily untruths that
Oregon's resources are. all "locked,
up" by conservation, and that pros
pective settlers had better go to Can
ada, can have no effect but Injury
to the state. , As a political ' expe
dient this snarling over imaginary
evils excites- only amusement and
contempt, but to the extent It circu
lates where the truth Is not known
nothing could be better calculated to
turn away people who have-1een
looking to Oregon as a future home.
Whether the OregonJan admits It
or not, Oregon Is still " a land -of
golden opportunity. No state In the
union offers greater reward to set
tlers who will .come and join In Its
development Shall we not welcome
them as other western etates do? To
say the door Is closed Is not only a
falsehood, " but also a blow ,at our
own prosperity and an. Insult to
every citizen and commercial body
honestly advertising Oregon to the
world. " -
A GORY DEATH TOLL
i RAILROAD employe Is killed
A every two hours during each
day, week and month In the
year. One of them is maimed
every six minutes. This declaration
Is made in. an article by John M, Glt-
terman In McClure's. , It is an ap
pamng aeatn ana casualty roll, espe
clally in view of the many safety ap
pliances the roads have employed In
the effort to save life.
It is in Btrong contrast with the
railroad record as to passengers; For
the year ending June 30.V 1907, the
number of passengers killed by the
roads was 610 and the. number in
jured 13,041. The outbursts of in
dlgnation at the butchery Tesulted in
more safety precautions by the roads
and the total killed for the year
ending June 30, 1908, was 200 less
and the number Injured 1500 fewer.
But this improved showing id sav
ing tne lives of passengers Is far sur
1909. , Of tne 3b8 companies renort
ed, no less than 347. operating 159,-
bfW miles of line and carrying 750,-
n t t r fi n ...
oK.una iJHsaengers, went through
! t'! year without a single fataiily to
a passes ser in -a train accident. Of trLt-'-r's.
the remaining 21 companies, no lcjan cU, r
than 10, operating 37,6S1 miles andi his copy ho
carrying 1S5,447,507 passengers had
but one fatality each by accident to
trains. It leaves only II roads on
which any considerable number of
fatal accidents to passengers hap
pened during the year. This record
of Immunity represents a mileage
nearly seven times that of all British
roads, and equals the aggregate of
all Europe, excluding Russia, but In
cluding the British Isles.
- But as to the fatalities to conduc
tors, brakemen, switchmen, labor
ers and other'men on the rail, It Js a
different story. Last year 6.4 per
cent of all the railway employes In
the United States were injured, by
some form of railway accident. It
means, practically that po such em
ploye can expect to escape accidetft
for 16 continuous years and that
during that period every man in the
service will be killed or Injured. It
Is explanation of why most life in
surance companies decline to take
risks on railroad men on, any terms,
while In any .sort of . company a
switchman can be Insured only at a
rating 20 years In advance of his
actual age.-, The" article says, Mat
ters'' have come to. such & pass that
If the Injured tf one bad, year-cduld
all wait in line ror one Hospital, aoor,
the line would reach the length of
Manhattan Island from the Battery
to Spuyten Duyvll creek, back, again
to the Battery, and up once more
as far as Madison square, while the
dead, If laid side by Bide, would
make a row nearly two miles long."
What makes the case more dis
tressing is the difficulty the Injured
encounter In securing damages for
their Injuries. . ,Mr. Gitterman In
stances the case of Thomas Kane, a
flreman whose widow, left destitute
by death, succeeded In recovering
d am agesonly after litigation that ex
tended over -nine years, 10 , months
and 27 days. The case had been
tried four times In the lower court
and had been heard five times on
appeal. He also cites the case of the
widow of a yard employe whose suit
for damages Is stll lingering In the
Pennsylvania courts after 10 years
of litigation. : He calls attention also
to the case of an employe who man
aged to obtain damages of $27.75
for the loss of an arm, and the case
of a widov who was awarded $12,-
000 for her husband's death but
whose case, after more than 11 years
of litigation; is still in the courts.
In New. York, bills providing for
compulsory compensation for death
or -injury by accident, are designed
to remedy this situation, and pos
sibly are a move to afford some de
liverance of railroad employes. "-
A FINE SUCCESS
THE BIG festival week la now
fully over; there has been a
Sunday In, which to rest up;
and now the city will settle
down to its ordinary, everyday bus
iness again. The festival was a com
plete success, and everybody who
helped make It so, and there were
many such persons, Is entitled to the
thanks and praise of the commun
ity. While the rain Friday was
something of a "damper," the fine
weather Saturday and Saturday eve
ning more than compensated for the
little dampness, and all sorts and
conditions of people were out for a
good time, and they had it. It was
not onljk Portland people who were
pleased with the, occasion through
out, but thousands of people from
all over the state and elsewhere. The
testimony: that the festival, was a
complete success and very enjoya
ble Is unanimous, and Portland has
received unstinted,,, praise ., on . all
hands. r As a single , sample of the
comments made by the "state pa
pers,- tne Eugepe Kegister says:
"The 1910 Rose Carnival will go
Into history as the greatest Oregon
event to date and If, In future years,
a greater one ; is held, there will
hare to be still greater skill devel
oped in" the growing of roses and a
whacking of Portland brain to de
vise a better show or finer entertain
ment' of the people."
Remarks similar to these are nu
merous, and show the good feeling
toward Portland In other cities : of
the state. They, all helped the me
tropolis to make the occasion an en
joyable and satisfactory one, and
Portland people, appreciate - their
kindly spirit.. .The festival was big
ger and better than most people ex
pected and it has ' been a big, val
uable advertisement for 'Portland. It
will of course be . an - annual event
hereafter trad , a bigger and ; better
one each year, but it seems that it
will be difficult to Improve much on
last week's affair. ' ,
JUST AN INSTANCE
TN A RESIDENCE district in the
northwestern part of the clty,i3
I a quarter block of valuable va
cant ground an excellent prop
erty except for weeds. All around It
are well kept homes.' Along its, edge
next; the sidewalk, on" two streets,
great burdocks are growing, as tliey"
are toe, oofy not quite so luxuriantly,
on the space between the. sidewalk
and the curb. Their leaves stretch
out across about one third of the
sidewalk, and in a month or two
more, with timely showers. - may
about cover it in places. Women,
passing along to take a car have to
lift their dresses to avoid contact
wittt these monster lappa officinalis,
and may later have to go out into
the oiled street to pass along.
On the next lot lives a family
that: takes care ' of their grounds;
not a weed is to be seen; about 100
xpgebuahes .."are, hloQmla&on ', the,
small plat of ground; 'and frequent
ly the man or his, wife can be seen
with h sharp trowel or knife cut
ting out young burdocks that have
drifted onto their' ground from their
t ; : tha street
.1 rtoijent lives, in
and he liters his lot
clean the year round; It, too, la orna
mented with beautiful shrubbery and
flowering plants.
mis Is only one case of many. It
is not right for a property owner to
let the burdocks grow up and out
over the sidewalk In this way, and
It should not be allowed. People
who do thl3 are not treating the city
right, and In particular are not
treating their neighbors right, There
ought, to be a, wholesale weed
slaughter in this city, and the big
weeds should nowhere be allowed to
go to seed this summer. A few
drastic jobs on the part of the po
lice would work a needed reform In
this respect. , . ; v . '
: Apparently . Arizona and New
Mexico will have to wait awhile yet,
notwithstanding the Republican par
ty's repeated and positive promises.
The people of those territories might
take a notion - to elect Bome sena
tors who- would serve them Instead
of the big corporations, men like
Gore and Owen of Oklahoma,- so
Aldrich and Cannon will probably
keep these .territories outi -
People" are flocking; numerously
Into various parts of Oregon---4nt6
Crook county, where .tha, railroad
building is going briskly on; into
western UmatIHa county on th irri
gated lands, ino southern Oregon,
whose fame as a fruit growing re;
glon has spread - throughout the
country, and elsewhere. Oregon's
population will Increase by a good
many thousands this year..
From the New Tork World. .
Th chaplain of th .house of repre
sentatives Invoked the power of heaven
the other day against "the gloating
tongue of the muckraker." The presi
dent of the United States, at Ada, Ohio,
Friday warned hie audience against "a
clasa of neweptperr and , of magazines
that are properly criticised as 'muck
raker,' that' rely for their circulation
on the vicious and unfounded attacks
upon the honesty and upright character
and patriotic! motives of men in publM
life, and upon those consplcuoua and
prominent generally."'
- When the chaplain of the house of
representatives talkr about muckraker
he refers presumably to certain son of
Belial who speak disrespectfully of that
grand old political ruin. Uncle Joe Can-4
non. When . the president muckrakes
the muckrakers he is probably express
ing his confidential opinion of various
writers who have dimmed the halo of
that peerlesa- patriot, Richard Achillea
Ballingr. -. "- - .-; - -
It would have been better, however, If
both the chaplain -and the president had
been more definite in their f utterances.
What do they mean by muckrakitag?
And who are the particular muckraker
that have atirred their bile? Much de
pends upon the point of view, as cer
tain specific Instances will - prove. ?).
A, lot of eminent gentlemen out In
Denvej protested bitterly against Ben
Lindsay's muckraking articles in Every
body's Magazine, and made them an is
sue In the recent campaign.' When the
votes were counted it was found that
the citisens of Denver had sustained
Judge Lindsay by large majorities to
the very great damage of both political
machine and the discomfiture of nu
merous benevolent corporations. t . "
Mr. Taft himself is waiting Impa
tiently for the United Btatea supreme
court to sustain the government's case
against the Standard Oil company. That
the government ha a case against the
Standard Oil company Is due largely to
the writings of Miss Ida Tarbell, who
aroused the public sentiment that final
ly compelled action.:
It was not so many years ago that
Mr. Taft himself repudiated , the Ke'
publican boss of Cincinnati, and Mr.
Taft in this instance was Influenced
largely by the $irol!o feeling which Lin
coln Steffens had aroused by his ar
ticles on toss rule and machine gov
ernment In American cities,
All this is part of the literature of
muckraking, so-called. Possibly the pres
ident thinks" the country has grown so
virtuous that there Is no longer any
thing to criticise in government or busi
ness, but it will take him some time
to prove it
In the meantime there are many thihga
that need presidential - attention more
than do the excesses of the muckrak
ers.' So far as they muckrake his ad
ministration, M,r. Taft has peculiar ad
vantages. As president of the United
States he has a larger circulation than
a ny of them. Through the newspapers
he: Can reach "practically every literate
voter in the country. If , his answer to
their charges is convincing, they have
done him no harm and have discredited
tfiemselves in the ourt of public opin-
iOn. ; : ,-r.t .'"' - Ti
Mr. Taft has much more to fear from
himself .than from the muckrakers. His
ecstatic, defense of the Fayne-Aldrlch
tariff and his procedure in the Ballln
ger matter have done his administration
Infinitely more harm than anything the
mucKrakers nave said about it.
The Perennial Bernhardt. ' ;
Paris letter to London Telegraph. :
The amazing Mme. Sarah Bernhardt,
having given at her theatre here a per
formance of , the ,'pame mx, CameUas.!
the representations of which play we
have- long since1; ceased counting, left
at 10:30 the next morning in her motor
car for Rouen to begin a tour of sev
eral weeks In the French provinces.
She will motor from town to town every
day and act every evening. The divino
lady sets the most remarkable example
or human energy in modern times,
When she' motored away from her house
in the Bouleyard Perelre she Was given
a' charming send off by troops of girls,
who brought her flowers. Some who
made them by trade had even fashioned
flowers especially for her, and one girl
threw her a Wue rose of her own handi
work wmcn ene must nave spent hours
of bvertime in making. At the farewell
performance, of the "Dame aux Came
llas" a houSe more'' than half full of
women and girls wept copiously, throw
ing heaps of flowers upon the stage
when Mme. Sarah, having once mare
died pathetically, reappeared before the
curtain.
Standing Room Only.
Kirke La Shelle met an actor -and
noticed that he was wearing a mourning
Dana on nis arm. v - - -
"It's for my father," the actor ex
plained. "I've Just come from his funer-
La'. Shelle expressed T his sympathy,
The . actor's grief was obviously very
real and great "I attended to all the
f uneral arrangements,1' ht said. "We
TSsafffytnlngLi'asTalhcr'TiouliI
have liked it."
"Were there many there?" asked La
Shelle.
"Many there!' cried the actor with
pride. "Why, my boy, we turned 'em
away!.' - '
Taft and Muckralers
li-lliftl 'ArJD
"IALL CIIAXC3
.Now comes a big hay crop.
The Oregon farmer is hapj-y. i
Well, ft is registering time again.
Some more .cleaning up is in order.
. ,
And there are millions of roses left,
....
Pinchot is not afraid of plain Speech.
The great-publio quest"!on: What will
Roosevelt say?
.
The "See America, First - 6logan
should be revived.
It was about-as perfect a Sunday as
nature can turn out.
It was a treat festival, but nncn a
year 4s often enough. .
Back In Boston June brides need to
wear sealskins, or -something about as
warm. , . . '
Chancellor Day says automobiles are
a curse. Thev are f mada hv nm
people.
Portland will no doubt maintain .its
reputation this year as a fine summer
resort .'. , . :, ... .: .
Nearly all Oreeon's -nnstmastnra
aries were raised -lately proof that the
towns are growing. i . - -,
Perhaps Roosevelt ' will, be both a
tegular" and am "insurgent" Scarcely,
anything is impossible for him. -.
And still the'killlnar anil wnimillnir nf
the Joyriders continues. JBut some of
them can be spared better than most
folks.
,
The Rose Festival week want a. rtrnrA.
breaker for weddings in Portland, but
there are a good many June bride to
come- yet, v. ;;,
Roosevelt is "on the Atlantic, home
ward bound at last "and will get a tre
mendous - greeting when he lands next
Saturday. , ... -
It Is exDecterl that the census will
give Spokane abaut 110,000 Inhabitants,
dui we tspoKesman-Keview thinks the
town will grow 15,00. during the year.
THE TRUTH AND
CO!
-John Bllllngton was a leader of thought In a city proud and great,
And Bllllngton'a busy goose-quill was a pillar in the state,
v-nd BilUngton's fame -had borne his name to the country's furthest -ends.
: A powerful man was Bllllngton, with powerful men for friends.
:. . .....' . '-;i';.. .
A spirit stood by Billington's bed, one howling wintry night, .
And Bllllngton llfte'd a startled head and stared at the thing m white.
."Away with you! To the devil with you!" -he gasped in a sleepy dread.
"You nave sent me thither a thousand times; I am tired of the trip," it said;
"A viiousand times you have heard me tray for half a chance and the light,
A thousand times you have turned me away-f-vou shall hear me out tonight
Though you waved me away with you pen, today, you shall listen now, for-
SOOtti; -'!:' ''::- ' '.;,;.;;. ,
You shall hearken well to ths tale I tell, ' I am the Spirit of Truth." 7 , '
A- phantom picture flashed In air
Ana Biiimgton gaxea m mna amase, ana nis eyes grew Dig in nis neaa.
. He' looked at a home of poverty. He saw a dying child. 4
He saw a young girl, sunk in shame, and a mother who, never smiled; . ...
A son bowed down and sullen, bearing the brand of a thief. '. v -
And a father hopeless and helpless, too sodden with rum for grief.
And over the picture, in letters of fire, "Want" -was the word ho read. '
And Bllllngton scowled to the spirit , "What business of miner he said. .
He lookedand saw where, overtime, women and children toiled 1
Till worthless human hands grew weak and precious goods wero Spoiled.
He sav a boss with agly eyes threaten a woman there"' 1
Whose hollow cheek foi-etold too well tne end of her strurgle and care.
Again he looked, and ha saw the death In a driven -workman's face, " "
ulle a hungry man .stood waiting near to enter the emptv place. -
He turned once more to the Spirit of Truth, and "Bother your show!" said he;
"Scenes like this are common enough. What do they mean to mf
Took agaifC'' spoke the Spirit of Vruth, and spread before "bis yta, 1
A smiling land of abundance that stretched to the circling skies;
A land o erheaped with richness,-- kingdom of Corn and wine, - -
Where bounty waited," enough for all. in forest -and field and mine.
But cumiing and craft had siezed the wealth With greedy talon and claw, ,
And set it aside 'for private gain,.,and fenced it round with the law, 1 "
."Look well," the spirit oommanded, and Billington answered flat:
"A threadbare subject, my shadowy friend. Where Is a, story In that?" ' '
"God .pity your stubborn, blindness, man, and forgive you the chance you miss!
Away with your dead traditions! Is there never a story in this,
That greed would garner the .harvest, leaving the owner gaunt;
That servants would sell to the master and thrive on the master's want?"
Then Bllllngton spoke of property rights, and of customs hoar and ojd.
And argued his dread of a flag blood-red that 1 would rise if the truth were
told. - - - t . - ' - ' ... ,
'Oh, fool!" the spirit in "anguish cried, "Must history make It clear
'Inat yours Is the hand that sows the seed of the pestilence you fear?
"For ages long I have .striven and toiied to free mankind from wrong.'
I have pleaded and prayed for human aid to save the weak from the strong.
I have starved and fought and watched and wrought that the light might en-
-ter in . - . . - .-
To end the away of falsehood and banish the curse of etn:
And men have gone to the stake for me. and scorched In the cannon's breath,
And women have writhed In the torture and welcomed the arms of death
That the truth might live to serve the wcri and then, when the fight seemed
1 gave the standard to you to guard .to you, John Bllllngton! .
"I trusted you with my work to do; I gave you a charge to keep,
I placed in your hand a shepherd's staff to comfort my hunted sheep..
But now you turn it against, me, and the truth must go untold-
While you devote your stewardship to the will of the power of gold,
To the pleasur of those who burden the poor, to the greed that fosters crime;
Oh! Turn you again, John Bllllngton; be true while yet there is time. . ,
For this is the cry of a thousand souls that down to the pit have trod - -Whokeeps
the truth from the people stands in the way of Ood!' -f '-.
ut Bllllngton slowly shook his head,' with a look disconsolate - ' ," ''- 7 7.
For his was a mighty goose-quill, a pillar strong in the state",
' And his was a lame that had borne his name to the country's furthest ends.
A powerful man was BiHIngton with powerful men -for friends. . , '
- Leonard H. Robbins, in the Newark, (N., J.) Evening News.
June13 in History
' When King William III," of England,
died In March, I7p2, and was succeeded
by Anne, the sister of his ; wife, and
daughter of James II, England and
France were about to - engage in waT.
The final break came on May 15, and
the contest that followed Is knpwh in
European - history as tho war of the
Spanish Succession, while In American
history It isvusually called Queen Anne's
war; r the Second Intercolonial war,
f On one side were France, Spain and
Bavaria; on the other England, Hol
land, Savoy, Austria, Prussia, Portugal
and Denmark. It was In this war that
the Duke of Marl6orough won his fame.
To the people of New England wax
between England and Franco meant a
hideous'nlghtmare wa-whoop,' the tom
ahawk and scalping knife, burning ham
lets and horrible captivity. To provide
against it a conference was called to
meet at Falmouth, on Caseo Bay, early
In June, when Governor Dudley, of Mas.
sachusetts, met many of the chiefs of
tho Abenaquls. The Indians, professing
to have no thought of .war, promised
peace and friendship by their Accus
tomed tokens. But as usual only a part
of the tribe had been brought Into the
alliance, and some lawless provocations
by a party of English marauders- soon
orove the Indians into their old French
alliance, and war was declared on June
18, 1702. , t : . 1
By August, BOO French and Indians
were assembled ready for Incursions
into the New England settlements. "They
divided into several bands and fell upon
a number of places at the same timo.
Villages were burned, Inhabitants mur
dered and New England was filled with
consternation. , Jt was finally resolved
to fit out an expedition for retaliation,
and a usual the people of Acadia were
selected to expiate. the sins of the In
dians and Canadians.
" Colonel Benjamin Church was put in
command of 650 men, 14 transports and
38 whaleboats, convoyed by three ships
of war. Sailing from Boston In May,
1704, Church ravished the lesser French
settlements on the Acadian coast, but
ventured no attack on Port Royal, s in
1705, another body of men, under Suber
case soldiers, Canadians, peasants, ad
venturers and Indians, well armed, and
with rations for 20 days, 'blankets and
Jtctits sctAQuL,Jdosyoy-J,ha-ngli5,h
Battlements in Nevvloundlana, marching
on snow shoes.
They took Petit Havre and St. John's,
and devastated all the little settlements
along the eastern coast and the English
trale ws for the time completely brok
euup. The following spring New Eng-
iiii,VD LI iiiuu
C. ;. V..ir:!o's rose show i'l ba Juna
17-18.
"
Eujrene's high echool turned out 39
graduates. .
Dalles people claim to beat the world
on cherries.
Five carloads more Dakota people are
on the way to Stanfield. . ,
Wallowa county farm lands have in
creased greatly in value in tUe past
year.
A laree amount of lumb shipped
from Klamath Falls is bound" for Aus
tralia, via 8an Francisco.
A poor way to build ud aclty js to
hold your city property at. an -exorbitant
figure, bo no one can afford to
buy and erect a building yet. that is
what many Medford. people are doing,
says the Mali-Tribune. '
v Eugene Guard The grain crop all
over the valley is : very healthy .this
year . and the : farmers are expecting
large crops. It. has been the most
ideal year for wheat that nature has
given for a long time, for there has
ben Just enough rain and shine' to
insure rapid grow tit, - 1 !
. h . ;; .'. y ';.'r --
McMlnville News Reporter On June
25, seven' Cooper brothers, of whn
the colonel is one, will rather at the
home f Colonel and Mrs. Cooper for
a general reunion. The seven who were
born in the several states of Kentucky,
Tennessee and Missouri, are now all
residing in Oregon as is also their only
living sister; - . - ; , . ; -' :
. .. ..... ;,..:. .. , i
Astoria BudgetSix million feet of
lumber comprised the raff of piling
which has just been started to San
fTfaneiaco from the Hammond Lumber
company's yards at Stella. It will re
quire eight days for the company's
steamer, George , W, Fenwick, , to tow
the monster raft to the southern Cal
ifornia port. The firt raft to suc
cessfully cross the Columbia river bar
was in 1896, and since that time from
one to five rafts have been built each
summer. Of these only one was lost,
this in the summer of 1907. The rafts
are about the . same sine, being 700
feet long, 65 feet wide and draw about
25 reetqr water. vv
JOHN BI J.LINGTON
at the foot Of Billington's bed, ,
Queen 'Anne's War
land sent Colonel March 'to Port Royal
with' two regiments, but he returned
without assaulting the fort. 'Governor
Dudley forbade the troops to land when
they came back to 'Boston , and ordered
them to go again. Colonel March, was
ill, snd Colonel Walnwright took com
mand; but after a pretense of besieging
the fort for fcieven days ho retired with
smalt loss, tho .expedition, having cost
Massachusetts more than 110,000.
In 1708 a council at Montreal decided
to send. a large. number of Canadians
and Indians to devastate New England.
But after a long march through the al
most Impassable mountain region of
northern New Hampshire, a murderous
attack on Haverhill was the only result.
In 1709 a plan was formed in England
for the capttre of New' France by a
fleet of five regiments of British sol
diers aided by the colonists. But a da
feat in ForfAiga.1 called away the, ships
destined for America, and a force gath
ered at Lake Champlatn under Colopel
Nicholson, for" a land attack,, wal so
reduced by sickness said to have result
ed from the poisoning of a spring by
Indiana that they burned their canoes
and -retreated. ' ' "r'v :-
Tho next year. Nicholson was fur
nished with six ships of war, thirty
transports, and one British and four
New England regiments for the'eapture
Of Port Royal. Bubercase had only 60
men and an insufficient supply (of pro
visions. He surrendered after a short
bombardment, and on the 16th of Octo
ber the starving and ragged garrison
marchedout to bo sent to France. For
the last time the French .flag was
hauled, down from the fort, and Port
Royal was henceforth an English fort
ress, which was renamed - Annapolis
Koyar, m nonor or Queen Anne. With
a change of masters came a change of
names and Acadia was again called No
va Scotia the name bestowed Upon It
by James II, in 1621, and Port Royal,
Annapolis., - - . -
Jdne 13, 1858, 'a treaty was signed
between .the United States and China,
and in 1863 occurred the battle of Win
chester, Va. It la the date of the death
of St Anthony of Padua in 1251. It
is the birthday of Francis Dana, states
man and Jurist (1743: Madame D'Arblay,
the noted English novelist (1752); Gen-
American soldier, (1786); GustavuB V.
Fox, the American nava officer who
commanded the1 first monitor to cross
the ocean (1821); and Fits-John Porter,
the soldier of the Mexican and Civil
wars whose court-martial caused much
controversy (1822.). ,
U i
5 O.a' ..!t
kotiii; a would iirr.T. . .
In old Jar;, n, so I've btcn told, they
call their, cor. ere "Diet."
vell- mituit we try our own fair
bmicli,
With new and different kinds of lunch,
A filet KfthiTis tha nnmir hnnrh:
It wouldn't hurt to try It.
ALSO AN EASY PATH.
The teacher was teline the cIar ahnut
the path of least resistance. .
"Now tell me." said she. "what t tha
easiest thing'in life?"
"Get sienatures to a ronntv Mviiion'
petition," said Bill, whose father is a
politician.
A climber once climbed up the face of
a wan, ,
He , swore, and the popr wall shed
tears.
You ask, did the wall hear those terri-
ui- swears ;
It did, for you see walls have ears.
; 'High Interest Rates.
- fFrom the American Banker.
The rei-ent failure of such a -large t
number of 4 per cent municipal bond, of
ferings to find satisfactory purchasers
and tho rather Indifferent success of
many offerings at '4 and even 4J,i; per . , '
cent lead to yie belief .that, money rates '
are finding a tendency , to seek higher
levels.- Added to these facts,' the an- '
nouncement that saving banks will de
crease or have decreased the' interest al- ,
lowanco on deposits from 4 to per
cent is a further indication that flnan- j
cial Institutions are compelled to exact V
a larger; margin of profits on trarlsac-
Hons. - . :,v,V---.- f
By far the greatest factor, however,
In tho demand for higher interest rates,
is the attitude of tho private investor,
who is no longer willing to accept the
ordinary scale of return on money in
vested, out wno is constantly seeking
an enhanced revenue, commensurate ,
with the increased cost of living ex
penses. - It would appear, almost.' as if
the security Which offered 44 per cent
or more were tho only ones in which any
considerable Interest could be aroused. .
Then, when It le remembered that many
bankers have customers who are clamor "
tng for loans and are willing to pay 6 '
per cent or more for accommodation, It
is not to be wondered that securities of
whatever nature offering a lower rate
are declined, and remain without pur-' -
chasers. . This condition has been the
reason for tha failure of such cities as
Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago and
Milwaukee to dispose of first class se---curitles
on a 4 per oent basis, rather
than any teflection on the nature of the
desirability of the Issues.
A eolation of the opinion of a large .
number of investment bankers leads to "
the conviction that thoueh the country
at present is on a high Interest level,
this. condition is not one of permanency,
but will be eubject to a radical readjust,
ment that will ere long make its appear
ance. Says one student of . the situa
tion: "The recent difficulty In placing
new security Issues Is due to two causes.
The first -Is the diminished , supply of
available capital for productive enter
orise In the United States, individual
and public extravagance, municipal as
weir as national, nas ansorDea tne orai- ,
nary savings of the country to a great- ,
er extent that heretofore. An Increas
ing percentage or puoiic ana pnva.iw
expenditures dot several years past has
been for account of non-productive pur
poses.
fThe second cause is tne necessity on
the part of the Individual If not of the
Institutional investor for a higher return .
III IIIO AUIIU VI. ,,ii.cTrov
tlonal and municipal expenditures are -
constantly calling for higher taxes, and
the Increasing withdrawal Cf men and,
means from productive labor into non-
productive pursuits enhances the cost
of service and commodities, wnich en-
hanced coats falla upon the individual ;
whoso income Is derived from stocks
and bonds with the same force as upon
Individuals whose Income -is aenvea
irom wages.
"We do- not; believe that tne country
is on a nermanently higher Interest lev
el, although we" would not venture to
predict when the cnange win occur. , i
may bo five years or It may be ten, but
within one of these neriods there will '
be a radical readjustment, and If will '
likely come as all uther such cnanges
have coma In the past, namely, through
drastic liquidation In commercial, in-, :
dustrial and real f state circles. How
ever, pending this readjustment, the Is
sue of new securities under necessitous ,.
conditions which compel the payment of
higher rates of Interest will naturally -
have an adverse effect upon long term -and
old securities which were put jout
under more favorable conditions."
The "Bo'n Oratah."
From the Lyceumite.
. t- ta nrfti that Colonel Breckin
ridge, , meeting Majah Buffo'd on the
streets of Lexington one day, asked;
"What is the meaning, sun, of th4 ;
Conco'ee befo the co t house 7" .
To which the Majah replied:
"General Buckneh. suh. Is making a
speech. General Buckneh, suh, is a bo n
oratah." , .
"What do you mean by bon oratanr
"x , vn? nr T ". min. were asked how
much two and two make, wa would re- 1
ply, v'f oh." When this is asuea a do n
oratah, he, replies:. 'When in the co'se
of human events It becomes necessary
to take an lntegeh of the second denom-
ination and add It, suh, to an lntegeh
of the same denomination, , the result.
suh and I have the science of mathe
matics to back mo In my Judgmentthe
result,-sun, and 1 say n wimoui iea
of successful contradiction, suh the re
sult is fo'.' That'a a bo'n oratah."
. He Had Done En6ugh.
"Ffllow citizens,' said the-candidate,-; -"I
have fought against the Indians. I
have often had no bed but the battle
field and no canopy but the sky, 1 have -,; .
niKttii nvr rh froien BTOUnd till SV- '
ery step' has .been marked with blood."
MIS Story toio weu, uu a. uiicu uy
looking voter came to the front, , .
"TMi i - H,'i-n,ii if vou hain't done '
enough .for, your country. ' Go home and ,
rest, in vote ior iuj.toim,w"",i
r s - .'. ' 1
t ' Tlie, Nine Kings
(Contributed to Tho Journal by Walt Maaoo,;.--tta
famout Kunaaa poft. UU prose-pi.ieina art
regular foulur of thla column la lb Dalljr ,
Joui-ual.) . . ' , " 1. V .
Nine monarchs followed ih the gloom
wnen Edward Journeyed to the tomb; .
nine monarchs walked, as in a dream ; ,
enough to make a basnhall tpam and ,
cast upon King Edward's bier the . fu
tile tribute of a tear. And at. his task-, :
the sexton sings (the man who digs the ;
graves for klugs) :r ."Nine monarchs, in
their brave array, are bending over Ed- 5.
ward's clay; and does the silent sover-r.
eign care, or does he know that they
are there? And .can the tears of mon-
archs nine make those dim eyes of Ed
ward's shine? And if they give their
nine cbmmands, can they ibring life to :
thoBe cold hands? Can all their armies
and their ships bring laughter1o those""
dead white Hps? Can their nine crowns '
MXtrrKtrn TinerbTirijrto-TTirflfad lti"
Ufedlvine? Nine paupers at a pauper's
graVe, who claw their rags and fecp and
rave, can do as much to help the dead.
at those nine kings at Edward's bed,'
Copyrleht', lfllO.
Ceorae liatthow la