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JfE AND GEORGE
lOMETHING is- added to the
gaiety r politics by the ef
forts of a certain organ In
Portland to parade and ex
ploit. George Brownell as a political
reformer, and as the paragon of po
litical righteousness for the present
time. "-Oregonlan. " '
Does the Oregonlan mean to dis
parage Mr. Brownell? If so, how
different its mood from that at the
legislative session of 1903, when Mr.
Brownell was the very apple of the
Oregonlan' eyev.; There was then the
coquetry of the sweet girl graduate
and her bean between Editor Scott
and Mr. Brownell, and when a great
hope of being United States senator
was upon Mr. Scott that night, he
flashed a telegram to Mr, Brownell
at Salem. It was a sweet, seductive
telegram, and was phrased in these
dulcet words: "Now Is the time; if
you can help me, It will be appre
ciated." Is It because George didn't
help that "me" sow gives him the
Icy eye?
KEEP UP THE FIGHT
TIIE FIGHT for the removal ot
1
the lockage charge at Oregon
City has been won, but there la
more fighting for the people of
the region to do. The channel must
be deepened and steamers that are
Independent of the railroad . Hues
must be operated. The Albany con
vention realized this and named a
committee to plan for larger use of
the liver by shippers. Under real
competition of . the boats against the
railroads, wheat used to be trans
ported from the head of navigation
on the river to Portland for 7
cents per 100 pounds, i ,. The same
process will give shippers the bene
fit Of an even better rate now and
to get that benefit, the Independent
lines should be provided. The 're
moval of the lockage fee will in It
self be an encouragement to com
peting lines. Shippers themselves
can mightily increase this encourage
ment by such cooperation in behalf
of independent lines as is proposed
by the committee named at the Al
bany convention. , The freed river,
and the steamboating sentiment that
shippers tan make will In turn be
stimulus to congress for continued
deepening of the river channel. There
Is literally no field in which Wil
lamette valley cities and .Willamette
valley shippers and consumers can
do more to help themselves.
V The fact that the fight for free
locks has been won Is proof to them
of what we can do if we only try.
The locks fight was a. far harder
struggle than that which is yet to be
made can possibly be. Not in a spirit
of antagonism to the railroads, but.
in the endeavor to conserve the in
terests ot the shippers, producers,
merchants, artisans and consumers
of a greater Willamette valley, the
struggle for a deepened and navi
gated Willamette should be pursued.
It is a struggle that can be won, and
one in which the rewards will be
worth almost infinitely more than
they will cost in effort r
THE EXPECTED
AS WAS expected, the Oregonlan
newspaper advocates the pro
posed grant of waterfront to
the 0. R. & N. by which the
rarirpad i':- will almost : completely
belt with i its - line : the east i side
waterfront and forever " keep ' any
other, railroad line from entering
that part of the city. It has always
aided and abetted Bchemes by which
the publio interest has been sacri
ficed to private interest It says: :
"The Journal newspaper, organ of
the interests that seized streets ' In
Portland during a period of 30 year
for their own aggrandizement, with
out rendering any return .whatever
to the city, is strangely excited now
oyer this exchange of benefits be- i
tween the city and the railroad, but'
its distress is useless." ; " r ; J
Since The Journal came into ex
istence it has opposed every improp
er gift of streets attempted In Port
land, fit now opposes the belting of
the waterfront of (his city by any
tingle railroad, and contends that It
should be the policy to keep the city
wide open to every railroad that
wants-- tcr reach the waterfront , It
maintains that every railroad should
nave equal privileges in the etty and
that no single railroad should have,
a monopoly-of the waterfront.
The Journal ; opposed the great
gift of a franchise by which the Port
land Railway,'; Light & Power com
pany got practical control of : the
gonlan advocated it. - The Journal
rxposod and opposed 4he attempted
;,!ock Bottom swindle; the jOregonlan
advocated It. The Journal's expos
al i -a broke up the Ciystem under
tklithe Oregonlan pocketed $50,-
000 in onejpf the worst steals ever
pulled oft In this city under the gulso
of a delinquent tax list; the Ore
gonlan profited enormously from the
scheme and advocated its retentldn
Before it makes further charges
against The Journal the Oregonlan
should humbly beg the pardon ot all
Oregon for the $25,000 telegram
sent to Salem during the legislative
session of 1903. Until the Oregon
lan has cleared its skirts of that
charge it Is not in position to at
tack anything or anybody. Twenty
five thousand dollars for the pur
chase of a bunch of votes for Mr.
Scott for United States senator, the
patronage of the office trafficked
off even before there was an elec
tion, and the Influence of the Ore
gonlan and Telegram to beat Mitch
ell were the terms of the $25,000
telegram as charged by Lincoln Stef
fens in his well known book, and
as published throughout the United
States by the American magazine. It
Is a charge that no one has ever at
tempted to- disprove, although right
here in Portland are the men by
whom the truth or falsity of the
transaction . can be established.
Caught, as it has been so many times
with the goods on, the Oregonlan Is
not in position to" rebuke sin even in
a sooner dog, much less attack a re
spectable newspaper against which
not one specification of infidelity to
the public ever has been brought
REJECTS THE TOUNPATION
THE DICTATION as to educa
tional "matters attempted by
the management of the Carne
gie Foundation la resented at
Brown university of Providence, R.
I. A special committee of the board
of control ha recommended to the
corporation that the university shall
not accept for that Institution the
pensions the Foundation provides un
der certain requirements to retiring
college professors. Six of the nine
members united in rejecting the pen.-1
sions and the remaining three did noJJ
join in a minority report. The ma
jority members take the ground that
the Foundation, so far from Increas
ing the independence of those col
leges to which it gives aid, tends
rather to restrict it Their belief is
that if pensions are to be given, the
institution ; should provide - its own
pension fund ' 1 1 '
The action at Brown la the logical
result of the dictation attempted by
the Foundation. It ha assumed the
high prerogative of attempting to di
rect the educational system of states.
In a letter to T the governor of that
state, it demanded that Ohio change
its educational arrangements,' even
with reference to normal schools, or
otherwise no pensions-would be af
forded by the Foundation to retiring
professors in that ; state. ; It : pre
scribes entrance requirements re
gardless of whether or not a state
is sufficiently advanced educationally
and; unless the Carnegie standard is
met, the Carnegie pension is with
held. In practical effect, the man
agement assumes that for the few
paltry pensions it pays, the Founda
tionals to be permitted, to direct the
educational system of . the country.
The independence of Brown univer
sity in rejecting the so-called bene
fits is likely to be followed by other
institutions. The Unlted States com
missioner! of education, the United
States congress, the state superin
tendents of public instruction and
the legislatures of the various states.
as well as the people of the country
ought not to resign tneir functions as
to education and give them over en
tirely to the Carnegie Foundation. -
r BEEF NEVER BOJSIGH -
BEEF WAS never so high before
in June, or indeed at any. time
of year, since the latter years
M A. 1 a . m.
., oi ine great viivii war, wnen u
was quoted in greenback prices. It
1b a prime necessity of food, not only
for the rich but for the compara
tively poor; for the worklngmen and
their families, in this country. These
men earn only moderate wages; most
of them support families and live at
home; hence the constantly rising
price of beef is an important matter.
Among the multitude of conven
tions held lately was one of the Mas
ter, Butchers', Association of New
York state and among the resolu
tions they adopted was this: "We de
mand the .elimination . of tariff on
animals used as human food. We
attribute the higher cost of living
to a great extent to the tariff on the
necessities of life and principally that
on meat. "" '.
These men' speak " not " only for
themselves and their trade, but, for
all consumers of moderate means.
American beef, packed in Chicago,
Omaha or Kansas City, is sold today
In Europe cheaper than it Is sold in
New York, In Illinois, in Kansas or
in Oregon. It cannot be presumed
that it is sold in Europe at a loss;
the Inevitable conclusion is that it is
sold in America at too high prices, at
trust prices. The butchers say so
themselves. They do not get the ex
tra profit, it goes to the trust
Meat foods ought to come in en
tirely or nearly free of duty, They
should hear no more than a revenue
duty, at most. This would not hurt
stockgrowersbecauBe the trust fixes.
pretty nearly and ' generally, the
prices paid for animals, as well as
the prices tor meats. The thing to
do is to break the cinch of the trust
on both" producers and consumers,
and this can be done effectually only
by taking off or greatly reducing
the duty on food animals. ; . . .
Probably the production of cattle
has not declined as has been repre-
jgqtediJb.ui.it It has, leLoiaJmport
cattle and feed the people beef. This
would also add Immensely to our vol
ume of commerce '-with Soutlj Amer
ica, Mexico and Canada.
" The butchers are right; the tariff
enables the meat trust to charge, ex
tortionale prices for meat foods, and
benefits nobody but themselves and
some Republican politicians. The
people have to "pay, pay, pay."
, UNION DID NOT ASSEMBLYIZE
E'
VEN assemblyltes will do well to
scrutinize carefully the alleged
Information on which the Ore
gonlan is feeding them. - Other
wise, they will be led into situations
they will regret -In recounting yes
terday the counties that had era
braced the assembly, the Oregonlan
declared that Union had done so.
Union has done nothing of the kind.
The Union Republican says:
"Theeffort Jast week to secure a
meeting of the county Republican
central committee for the purpose of
passing upon the assembly plan did
not bring forth a full attendance, and
another meeting has been called for
Saturday. The fact bf the matter is
that the people do not think much of
the assembly plan, county . officials
have no use for it and politicians
generally are fighting a little shy. of
it until they can See which, way the
cat is to Jump; The central ; com
mittee will have a difficult task in
sizing up public sentiment over the
county, but if there is no response
to a call it Is fair to 'presume that
party representatives want none of
it" 1 .
But it is the interesting feature
that is to come. Last Saturday was
the day for the adjourned meeting,
and as will be seen by a dispatch In
.The Journal's news columns, no
meeting was held. That is the way
Union county went for the assembly.
That is a sample of the "splendid en
thusiasm" with which the tower. says
Oregon counties are embracing its
mongrel folly.
SHORTENED HIGH SCHOOL
COURSES
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A
TWO YEARS' high school
course is an interesting event
uation in Chicago. , The Record-Herald
says the plan of of
fering the new course is meeting
with wide approval. It addsthat,
It is a well ascertained fact that
not one in 100 among Chicago school
children reaches the end of a high
school course. ; The obstacle
is financial inability to spend the
four years required; The difficulty
is InStact so clearly seen in advance
that many pupils are deterred from
entering high school at all."
The new course is outlined In a
bulletin Issued by the superintendent
of the Chicago schools. The curricu
lum banishes the dispersal of energy
and Interest over the wide field of
general culture and concentrates the
pupils endeavor on topics that are
fewer in number and more practical
in purpose. The course Is so ar
ranged as to give the pupil a thor
ough training in some special course,
together with instruction in such al
lied subjects as will be Lelpf ul. : Its
utilitarian value will be, that it will
fix effort Hong definite and limited
lines Instead of attempting to give
a smattering in many fields.
The experiment will be watched
with much interest , It Is wldety
charged by eminent educators that
the high school has become the mere
preparation for the college or uni
versity, and that it has ceased to be
of utilitarian value except to young
Lpeople who are going deeply into cul
tural education. The amazingly small
per cent of high school graduates in
proportion to the attendance in ele
mentary schools is charged by these
educators to the impractical field
Into which the ' high schools have
been pushed. The fact that in the
collegiate course of the country's col
leges there are only about 170,000
students, they maintain is proof that
high school courses should be
planned, not as a stepping stone to
universities and colleges, . but as a
completed education for high school
pupils.. The new two years' course
to be given the coming year in Chi
cago is the fruit of agitation against
the present high school system, and
will be very likely to gain additional
adherents for the more practical
plan. ..
"GENUINE REPUBLICANS"
B'
UT ASSEMBLY win be held.
nevertheless, and all genuine
Republicans will be fully rep
resented In It Oregonlan. Now
recurs the old question; who and
what are "genuine" Republicans?
Also, -why?
1 Mr. Simon is, we suppose, a "gen
uine" Republican; .T.-B. Kay of Sa
lem, is not , Then, why? And are
there not a vast number of common
people who have generally voted the
Republican ticket, but whom the Ore
gonlan would not admit as "genuine"
Republicans?
Who is to decide on genuineness?
Evidently, the Oregonlan. But a lot.
of ordinarily Republican voters don't
regard the Oregonlan as their politi
cal Bible any more. .
Coos bay as well as the Columbia
river is well provided for In the river
and harbor blll- gets $400,000 for
Its desired and needed channel im
provement Some other Oregon riv
ers and harbors are not sufficiently
cared for, Uut on the whole Oregon
cannot reasonably 'complain this
time, v These appropriations will
greatly aid its development '
Mr. Jack Johnson Informs ari Ig
norant and wondering world that It
Is summer in Australia when it Is
winter here. He says that. this is
very curious; he found it out by per
sonal .experience. He had a fight In
that couBtry-ooca on a yery. hot-day
In December. This information
should gain Mr. Johnson much pres
tige and glory. Few of us were ever
In Australia; a less number of us
ever had a prize fight there In De
cember. Having never been to school
or traveled like Mr. Johnson, we sup
posed that Australia was completely
frozon up in December, the same as
Labrador or Siberia. When Mr.
Johnson wins, or gets licked, as the
case may be, we doubt not that ho
can get a position as professor of
Geography in Chicago university.
Senator La Follette has visited
Roosevelt and may have elected him
self to the Ananias club by reporting
that he and the' former president
talked politics, and that Rooseyelfis
In fighting t trim," presumably
meaning that he, Is getting ready to
fight on La Follette's side. But
Roosevelt may have been only draw
ing the senator out
; The country needs a Roosevelt
that is, a Roosevelt as estimated and
portrayed- by- the Roosevelt enthus
iasts; it heeds a big,: mightily influ
ential, dominant man who wilt lead
a fight for the Common People and
who, if they are well served, will not
care what becomes of Party.
In the 'Marlon -TOttnty Republican
assembly were 29 voterC-It was an
Intensely enthusiastic "!' and an 1 im
mensely representative gathering
so the committeemen say. '. .
Well, good advice is good, what
ever its source; even If offered by a
Democrat
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Letters Frcrtn tlie People
Raising Rates on the Gresham Line.
Gates, Or.. June the Editor of
The Journal. The announcement that
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
Co. Intends ' to advance its passenger
rates on the O. W. P. division between
the city limits' and Gresham comes like
a bolt from the, heavens, and ; has
aroused Indignant, protest from the peo
ple living all along the line. The pres
ent' rates were established seven years
ago. Travel bas increased at such re
markable rate that the company is
taxed to accommodate lUlpatrons. Peo
ple who use the line 4very day and
patiently stand up in the coaches morn
ings and evenings, unable to get seats,
are dumbfounded at this evidence of
avarice on the part of our publio car
rier. . According to its own statement,
the company Is doing a thriving busi
ness and was never in more prosperous
condition. James J. Hill has said:
Double the traffic and I'll halve the
rate." Our local carrier would advance
the rate In the face of a tenfold In
crease in traffic Who dlotates this un
wlbe and shortsighted policy of creating
a bitter publio sentiment by attempting
to advance rates in the lace of a
steadily and constantly growing busi
ness? If our railroad officials want
to pursue a policy that Inevitably leads
to Socialism, they are now on the right
track. CHARLES IL BENEDICT.
The Common People's Day.
The Philadelphia North American had
notable editorial on the occasion of
Roosevelt's homecoming, of which the
following are extracts:
This la a day of Jubilee. "y
The sailing of one ship bearing; one
man Into New York, harbor today pre
sents the strangest condition In a na
tion's history. Pleadingly, lovingly,
trustingly, a proud people trained to
boast of having a government of laws
and not of men come thronging to one
man, not in servile deferenoe, but in
glad affection, clamoring: "We have
missed you! We need you more than
even It Is our crucial hour for the
want of a friend! Speak) Take your
time! But In the right hour speak,
knowing that when you speak it Is to
those who trust you and,: trusting, love
you." . ; ...
That la the real message that the
common people of America will pass
today to Theodore Roosevelt, outslnglng
and putsparkllng any marconlgram. Fot
this Is the -day of days ot Mr. Common
People. - -- -; - - -
Mr. Common People deserves his day.
He is not such a futile, ignorant, in
considerate individual as not to deserve
something that Is all his own. In city
flat and suburban home, in village coU
tage and lonely farmhouse, there have
been so many meetings in a way, po
litical meetings of mute protest that
it ts high time for an occasion of In
spirational outburst of emotion.
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So many thousands of men have felt
that while the country they loved was
growing richer and greater, while they
had .been honest . and industrious and
patriotic, they could not answer the
Query of the woman's eyes why their
children must quit school so soon and
go to work; why her self sacrifices in
the early years have meant noth
ing; why to keep stomachs filled
and backs clad It was necessary to part
With' all the savings of the years.'
Mi. Common Peoplet could not answer
to himself those questions. However
hard he worked, the more helpless he
became. Some hideous unseen power
was crushing him. He clung fast to
the ideals of the fathers of the nation.
He tried so hard to believe In his coun
try and in democracy and all Ameri
canism. But he was ground between
the upper and nether millstones of priv
ilege and politics until doubt of all our
institutions sifted into' his soul.
It is Mr. Common People's own day.
He is not carrying a torch because he
has been herded with other human cat
tle to vote a pary ticket that has been
hailed victorious at the polls where he
has not really been represented. ;
He Is not waving a flag because an
admiral or a general, with good boys
under him, has whipped lesser men In
honor of "the" flag, that has come un
happily to man less a guarantee of
liberty and equality than it was meant
to do for Mr. Common People. -
Roosevelt's arrival means much more
than Dewey'a or even than Grant's. The
enemies then were alien. Those to be
beaten now are within the nation's for
tailed. And Roosevelt,' the square fight
ing man, is the one and only one who
came forward and told the disheartened
garrison that, while the fight would be
long and hard, It might be won.
- :. . . ' :,;..; r: ; . "
Mr. Common People knows that there
was one man who was fought from
first to finish, by all the agencies that
make his life task harder. He knows
that he and his fellows were impotent,
dumb, hopeless sufferers. - He knows
that Theodore Roosevelt stood first be
hind him, then before and, while he
lacked time for a knockout, gave that
deadly enemy' a brace of black eyes and
gave Mr. Common People at least time
to breathe. ; ..;.;: .;,.'"-
That is why this day Is the Unreason
ing emotional' jubilee of the common
people. Do not argue with them today.
Thoy are cheering for Teddy Roosevelt
And In our soul w believe today, more
devoutly than ever before, that the
voice of the people Is the voice of God.
. ' National Issues. :-"
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
The Oregonlan, of Portland, vhlch is
classed as an Independent Republican
journal, is on the lookout for a mauslve
and monumental "Issue" which will fur
nish the demarcation for opposing party
COMMENT AND
SMALL C1L1NGE
Last call
for June bride.
.
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cost of battleships Is also
In-
creas
It's fine welther for either harvest
or vacation. ,
Within a week now we shall know
wnicti licked.
;
Now President Taft feels better; per
haps almost bully. .
. .
Beef steaks and Pullman berths are
as high or higher than ever. -,
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If Roosevelt atarta a new party it
will have a big membership right away.
Now Washington,1 D. C, wlir be a
lonesome, muggy old town for a while.
It Is quite commonly Supposed that
It. will be a Simon-Republican assembly;
No, Portland will not celebrate par.
tlcularly. She's done had her celebra
tion. Buy up the bridge bonds at home.
This will add to Portland's already fine
reputation abroad.-
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Pittsburg has had' another cloudburst
But it will take more than water to
clean up that town.
,.'; ' ....rve .:;;;."':
Tor a man who has nothing, to say.
Roosevelt continues to occupy a good
deal of newspaper space.
After all, sdme of the graduates
learned something beside sports and
athletics during the year,
J.::. :'.:'..' s c-i; ;''!;"
People srolna- to the mountains hmiM
be especially careful at this season not
to start any rorest ures.
' Oregon has a great supply of good
things, but a few oil gushers would be
welcome and would help -a lot
v
- The Oregon cherries taste Just as good
as they look, and more than that in
praise offthem could not be said.
. ;'- m
An exchange heads an editorial, "The
Government's Cotton Suit" But can't
the government afford a woolen suit?
.But - if Arliona and New Mexico
should elect Democratic senators, per
haps the regulars would keep them out,
after alL
4It will be a very poor crop year, ap
parently in the eastern and middle west
ern states, but the Pacific , northwest
will turn out big crops, as usual ,
' Next Monday the eloquent Fourth of
July oratorwlU be heard numerously
In the land. There will be millions of
words, but perhaps not a new idea.
When Arizona and New Mexico come
In, there will be 48 stars on the flag,
and that will be about the limit. Per
haps Alaska will make the 49th and
last. -
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A Detroit "regular" paper alludes to
them as "the friendless Insurgents.'.' Oh,
they have millions of friends among the
common people who don't talk very
much. - .,
A Kansas court has decided that It is
the duty of pedestrians to dodge auto
mobiles. But most pedestrians don't
need a court decree to Induce them to
dodge. . ;
The Albany Democrat says there are
400 blind pigs in Portland, besides its
600 saloons. Being a strictly temperate
and moral man, the editor of the Dem
ocrat evidently could not nrove thin of
tahls own personal knowledge.
June 28 in History
A great deal of Interest has always
been manifested In the Great Eastern,
the first big steamship to be built, and
upon its first arrival In this country,
on June 28, 1860, the newspapers were
full of accounts of this "sea monster."
Its subsequent use in conectlon with
the laying of the Atlantic cable helped
to continue this interest At the time
of construction of the Great Eastern
it was the largest ship in the world.
It was completed in 1869 in England
and started on Its trip from Southamp
ton on June 17, 1860, crossing the At
lantic in 11 days. ,
The length of the Great Eastern was
680 feet, beam 82, depth 48, and its
gross tonnage 18,915. When this vessel
is compared with the big steamships of
today, It can readily be seen what a
furore its appearance -in : our ' waters
must - have ' created. The Mauretania
and Lusatlnia, two of the biggest ships
of today, are 790 feet In length, 88 feet
wide and 66 feet deep, with a gross
tonnage of 82,500. -. .
During the year 1860 and the greater
part of 1861 the Great Eastern made
many voyages to and from Europe. In
December, 1861, when political relations
with the United States looked ominous,
the Great Eastern, served as a troop
ship. -,
In 1864 negotiations were entered Into
with tha Atlantic Telegraph ' company
and 'the Telegraph Construction and
Maintenance company for the employ
ment of the Great Eastern as a cable
laying ship. In 1867 the vessel .was con
verted from $. cable-laying to a passen
ger ship, in order to provide for the
travel- to the Paris exposition. Later
It war again used for cable work, and
laid some of the most Important tele
graphio cablese across the Atlantic, In
the Mediterranean, In the Red sea, etc.
In 1884 it became a coal hulk in the
harbor of Gibraltar, and in 1887 it was
sold, to be broken up, for $82,600.
The Great Eastern reached New York
on the twenty-eighth of June and was
docked at 6 o'clock In the afternoon.
The event created so much excitement
In the city that business generally was
neglected, and - multitudes of - people
thronged the wharves ana roors to get
a glance at tna .monster. wnen the
boat, was passing Fort Lafayette in the
harbor a salute was fired, which was
promptly responded to from the four
guns of the Great Eastern, and from
this time onward, until her arrival in
alignments In the fall congressional can
vass and during the next national elec
tion. Some of the editorial wisdom
under the heading "A ; National Issue
Needed" is thus uttered:
, "No political party can stand united
on any of the petty questions now agi
tating congress. They are not national
issues; they are sectional, i Tariff for
revenue only Should be a national de
mand, but such Is the humbug preached
by politicians that it is yet impossible.
The trend of socialism may add to the
general confusion. That subject in
volves many groups also.' The country
needs an lssiuifof national and high
moral Import. In none of the questions
over .which congress has been contend
ing Is there s.uch an Issue."
There are people, plain voteri as well
as practical politicians, who find the
issues now before, congress, those that
Interest the country, anything but triv
ial or picayune. In the list of Issues
which the Oregonlan sets up only. to
topple overin a sor$ of Aunt-Sally-ln-the-alley
gamewe note the curious
omission bf such policies and tehdenciesi
as conservation, downward revision of
tbaiari;f.anohjiasiLoU.iyiqghjybat
does the Oregonlan consider these if not
the subject and text for political par
ties? They certainly Interest-te people
at large, particularly the related topics
of a downwardly revised tariff law and
the ; Increase in living expenses. "Na
tional Issues," those that embitter and
disrupt are happily not too frequent In
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Haying Is "in full blast."-' .
Those
beat.
Dstlles peaches are hard to
Urgent call
Roseburg.
dally
fo
residences In
Springfield has employed an expert
street ouuaer irom Los Angeles,
Prairie Clt;
ty, now become a railroad
terminus, wi
II be a big shipping point
Many fine cherries are being shipped
from Eugene to California and Puget
The Eugene Register has a fine new
press and has been enlarged . and im
proved. '
Polk countrnan harvested over' S00
crans oi straw oerries irom xess man
two acres. -
. Some fine peaches were ripe and were
put on the market in The Dalles last
Thursday. - ..
Aumsvllle has a new and "live" paper,
the Advance, run by D. I. Seabury. It
will help Aumsvllle grow.-
;. '..,.' . 'V ."' , V; '' i-
Prominent Medford men are arrang
ing to give a crowd of 200 of Spokane s
leading men an automobile ride through
the orchard district when ,they arrive
In the valley about July t on their way
to Reno.
.-. ' -,
Just now the boys of La Grande are
having a hard time keeping away from
the fruitgrower who is trying to em-
?loy cherry pickers. A great many of
ho lads have stied up For the season,
says the Observer,
" , S ,; ,.. t.
Contractors are hustling down, the
cement walks in Union and our streets
are a scene of "activity in consequence,
says the Republican. - There , are no
kickers, the people in general accept
ing the order of the council as a good
thing. .
.
Bryant's Park, where Albany win
hold Its first annual Chautauqua, Is
without doubt, one of the finest nat
ural parks in the state, and through the
untiring efforts of ..the Chautauqua
management. Has been converted into
one of the mosi picturesque spots in
Linn county, says the Herald.
-, .."-::- ' '.;.: .'.:-;;'-
One of the strangest occurrences of
the present day is reported -from Eu-
Eene. The present incumbent of the
ane county clerk's office announces
his voluntary retirement from that of
ficial position after 12 H years of con
tinuous service.. He asserts that he has
become weary with official life,
i.,
There are no snakes on the plcnlo
grounds this year, says the Brownsville
times. Two boxes of snakes, great
big ones, were sent to Brownsville for
exhibition, but when the snake man
found such exhibitions were prohibited
the snakes were forwarded to Portland,
where they eat 'em alive,
This promises to be the best season
in the history of this county, according
to men who have lived here a long time
and watched everything with care, says,
the La Grande Observer. There is not
a portion of the valley that la not show
ing signs of great production and the
farmers have their crops well in hand.
.,.:;'. :'; ,,:' ?,:v: ;, ','.0
A California man said: "1 have in
vested in farm lands In all parts of the
coast country, from the Mexican border
to the British Columbia line, and have
paid from $16 to $15u0 an acre for It
but I consider my Klamath county pur
chose the best I have ever made. ; It is.
I think, the best land in any of the
coast states."
TLc Great Eastern
the North river, it was one continual
ovation to the distinguished visitor.
Cannon boomed, steam whistles shrieked,
flags were dipped in graceful wel
come, people . hurrahed, handkerchiefs
waved, and demonstrations of a kindly
nature came from every quarter. At
the present time several times dally
largor vessels pass in and out of the
harbor of New York with ho attention
being paid to their coming or going.
When the vessel was nearly opposite
the battery, the chimes of Old Trinity
church were heard across the water,
playing "Rule Britannia. Strange to
say, only 43 passengers could be ound
In the year 1860 to "venture" on the
first voyage of "the most splendid
ship that ever floated in the ocean";
but this was owing, of course, to the
novelty and vastness of tha experiment
and to tha serious doubts which had
been so frequently expressed, from the
very first conception of the enterprise,
as to the manageableness of such a
vessel In a storm at sea ' -.;.v
During the time the vessel lay In port
she was visited by tens of thousands
of persons, who gladly paid the admis
sion fee charged to Inspect the majestic
structure. Large excursion parties came
from all the principal cities of the
Union, to view her lofty, walls of iron;
her stupendous machinery, , and her
marvelous Internal arrangements; and,
in due time, opportunity was afforded
those who wished to witness her sail
ing qualities to be carried by the noble
ship on pleasure excursions to Cape
May and elsewhere a privilege which
thousands availed themselves of, in
cluding many persons eminent in nauti
cal and scientific matters.
" On June 28, 1776, occurred the fa
mous battle of Fort Moultrie. It Is the
date upon whiah Thomas Jefferson
Wrote the Declaration of Independence
In 1776; of the battle of Monmouth In
1778, and of the sea fight rbetween the
Wasp and the Reindeer In 1814. It is
the birthday of Peter , Paul Rubens, the
distinguished painter (1677); the 'Earl
of Derwentwater (1689); James Robert
son, "The-Father of Tennessee" (1742);
Richmond - M. Pearson, - the southern
Jurist (1800); John Y.-Brown,-the Ken
tucky statesman (1836);Lyman J. Gage,
secretary of the treasury under McKln
ley (1836); John Boyle O'Reilly, author
and poet (1844),. and Otis. Skinner, the
actor (1868).
a nation's history. Once In Its history
is sufficient for party - division on a
policy like slavery. If there are no such
issues as that now before the American
people there is that one, always impor
tant, of governmental adequacy and
righteousness in purpose and methods.
.. i The Plowman. . ' .
Gea' up there, Brain! . Gee up there,
. Hand! . - - - , . ,, :
I am a tiller of the land.
Ye are my oxen docile, strong,
To make the furrow straight and long.
I'll feed ye, rest ye, tend ye well,
And stall ye at the evening bell.
But now 'tjs morn; the uplands He
To take their pulsing pregnancy.
The plow Is set; its sheening steel
Is eager for the harvest's weal.
So haw there, ' Brain! and haw there,
, Hand! -,!
I am a tiller of the landA
Richard Wlghtman In July "Hampton's."
' - The Dangerous Gun.
v From the Tacoma Tribune.
An Oregon -Judge hai decided that
a gun "unloaded" Is not a deadly weap
on. Yet all , the v evidence shows that
It !s,the gunJthatjHS't Jadedthat jj;sj
on ana juus eomeuoay every rew-days,
and then it was a Michigan Judge who
said a gun was dangerous without lock,
stock or barrel, for he knew a man
who whaled his wife with a ramrod.
. Crops around Brownsville are simply
splendid, says the Times
TANGLEFOOT
By Miles Overholt .
"Kings on V.y Fln
gfia" and "The
"The Cubanola
Glide."
"Put on Your Old
Gray lionnet"
nnd half a dozen
more.
Drive me nearly
crazy when the
pride
Sings 'em loud and
awful In a tone
, ' that makes me
sore.
Tina PARTICU
LAR j SUMMER.
Where did you put'
mv f ura. itinmniH ?
And where Is my palm leaf fan?
Get my rubbers and parasol, I'm going
- out with a man.
I'm going out with a man, mamma, to
take a walk jn the park;
It'll probably rain and snow and hall
from now until after dark.
And yet the sun may shine, mamma,
SI riH nanrVTN 1 A rv A xr At frnm Vi.n4
Bring my fur-lined gloves, mamma; to
walk Is such, a treat
Lay out my cool new summer dress,
'the one with the peek-a-boo;
Where is 'my winter veil and cap and
my other overshoe? , . '
The wind Is blowing like everything,
but the sun la shining bright,
It will be 90 degrees in the shade if
It doesn't storm by night
Yes, pack my trunks with winter duds,
and, mother, call a dray;
I'm, going out to the park, mamma, on
, this glorious summer day.
The New West magazine, R, Btoon,"
manager; V. C. Bean editor; ha? gone
Into the hence. There's no use talking,
you can't make a magazine In this
country of Just Bacon and Beans. Par
agraphers: Kindly improve upon this
and charca samat ta mir anomint
" IT HAD BEEN ABSORBED.
"Is your fathaw'S estate hentalledT
Inquired the British 'nobleman Of tha
fair young thing he was about to make
hls'n, and whose father had never yet
been able to satiate his burning thirst
"HentalledT What do you mean.
Duker '..;;,-;; ",,,:-...' -;
"Hi means, will the money come di
rectly to you Is it hen tailed to you?"
"I ayiivRa - vnri rinn't bnA . vinnnjii.
There ain't no money coming. Hen
tailed I No, It s been eocktailed." .
A Stinging Swipe.
From the Pendleton East Oregonlan.
Hudson Bay grange has passed a res
olution that serves as a stinging swipe
to those who are tacking tha move for
an assembly. .The resolution was passed
at tha last meeting of Hudson . Bar
grange, and in detail is as follows:
Whereas, This grange at its regular -
meeting of March 19, 1910, placed Itself
on record as being In favor of the direct
primary and the referendum; and
Whereas, we are in direct opposition
to the return to the oonventlon system
of selecting candidates for either tha
state or the county; and . .. " -
Whereas, We are utterly opposed to
machine politics and machine domina
tion, we learn with surprise1 and Indig
nation that one E. W. MoComaa, has
recently called a meeting in Pendleton,
which meeting had the audacity to speak
for the Republican voters of Umatilla
county; without in any publio way con
sulting with the electors, or even with
those whom they named as delegates;,
and ' , .
Whereas, They have had the lmper-
tlnence to place among the list of dele-
Vila. ttiA manu a ft. a avawmaaw a
lodge, James Kirk, a gentleman who
stands tor clean politics, f or straight
going Republicanism, and who Is, more
over, a staunch friend of the direct pri
mary, this lodge places on record its
abhorrence of tnls self-constituted com
mittee and all its works, and begs to
assure them that any man who comes
into this section of the country asking
for the support of the electorate, who
is in any way branded with -the ear
marks of the machine, will receive our
unflinching opposition. , ,
Unanimously adopted by Hudson Bay
grange. No. J 61, June 18, 1910. . .
(Signed) -
.... W. H. WITHERITE, W. M.
, .'.' E. HOON, Secretary.
(Seal) -
If this resolution is an index, as it
doubtless is, to tha sentiment of the
people of this county with respect to
the assemniy then Judge Lowell, knew
vhltraAf ha annlra h.n h AaflaraA h
bulk of the Republican voters are op-,
posed to the .scheme. Hudson Bay
grange has declared Itself in language
so explicit that any one should be able
to understand the same. ...
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From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Our wandering Ulysses is home again.
ne nas spoaen. - na nas spoicen line a
man. He has spoken like a patriot
He has spoken like an .American.
We do not believe that he has the re
motest thought of ever again becoming;
a candidate for office. What could of
fice do for such a man except to con
sign him to the category of the vulgar -herd,
and lower him In the esteem of
half his countrymen?
But .there is a great place for him
and a great future. Let him but de
clare his Independence Of machine poli
tics and proclaim himself chief Justice
of the high court of political arbitration
and he will be so accepted by the en
lightened and the progressive of all
parties; Its purpose the purging of the)
public service; its Jurisdiction wherever
the need arises; Its authorization and
authority, perfect disinterestedness and
transparent procedure, master of itaelf,
equally free and fearless of the hand
made statesmen and tin-horn engineries
of both the Democratic and Republican -
D&rtlaB- U'hera theufrun mimta fh.
publio honor and welfare, to Justice and
Integrity; such as we are seeing at this
moment in Mr. Roosevelt's own stats
of New York and In the state of Illi
nois. ,
Grief to Burn
; (Contributed t The Journal by Walt tlaaoa,
the fotnoui Kanaat poet. Hla prose-poema an a
Journal.) i
There's always some trouble to fill
us with woe; In winter the weather Is
sloppy with snow; in summer it's hot
and in spring, it is wet,, and the au-'
tumn's the blamedesti calamity yet; and
so we remark, as we' push through the
crowd:- "Oh, why should the spirit of
mortal be proud?" When one's back la
all itchy there's no place to scratch;
When you have a cigar then you can't
find a match; when you're hungry as :
thunder there's nothing to eat, and
when you're not hungry there's grub
and repeat. You 'buy a new shirt, and
it fits like a shroud Oh, why should
the spirit of Willie be proud? Oh, tha
sugdr Is sour and tha vinegar's sweet
you ve nous on your bosom and corns -on
your feet, and all that you swallow
Is poisoned with germs, described by
the doctors in dog-Latin terms. ;And
jcv jruu a.iD uaypy, you aiecKy chumosl
v,u i my m tne blue
'noath vniir trnnil ;
- u . xcro, ana
splatter the earth with a loudburst of
teais! You throw up your hats and
you laugh with the crowdand that's
wnjr ti.o ayirn i mortal 18 proud!
CopyrIRR 1(110, br
George Matthew Adami,
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