t THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. I"OI:iL. '.I DAY J U j i. Ae journal AN INDEPENPEXT NKWSPAFER. "-JACKSON. .Puhllstief FrMl"hl evrrr ev-ntnf' pf-pt 8ni5') n(l rrt-r Snndsr nv-relnt: it Th Jonrrnl BoiM Uirf. 'Flub moi luiilll trpt. pnjatind. Or. FntmA mt th nntnffl( t Portland. Or., fnr -IT- trirmmluioo Uiroufh tbt nails eeond-clnw CiItW. 1EI HPHOXrS Mlrt TITS; Hnma. A-Wt. All diiM meats re6ed by tb- number. 5 ell (b operator whtt department you wint. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPHESKNTATITB, Pmjumln a Kentnor Oo., Bnrorwles R-jiMlns. 82.1 Firm Tmi, New Tori; 1007-08 Bore tiullulDf, Chicago. -: S"hii-rlptlon rmt hr mill or to njr address in to i; ai lea sutee, cnaa or iiencoi ' DAILY. .-. 1 On reer.. ...... .15.00 I On month. ....... .SO .vs., sondat. ..',.-i.ir On ytr........150 One Bvintt........8 .25 DAILY AND SUNDAY.-, V One rear. ...... .8T.M I On month.. ....... I .68 ' Knowledge. In truth.' is the " great sun In the firmament. Life ;and power are scattered with all its bearaa. Daniel Webster. -t8 WHO GOVERNS f N - A RECENT public statement 1 Chairman . George Bays: "A man who is indorsed at a public meet v - lug of 'iroters should have prefer- ence over, a man privately indorsed." The prlmarylaw says: , "All- qual- jfied electors who -wish to serve the . people in' an elective public office are rightfully entitled to equal op . portunltles under the law." ' The primary law" says one thing! Chairman George says another. The primary law s says all candidates should have "equal opportunities"; Chairman George says the assembly candidates "should have the prefer- cence." , The primary law says all candidates should have equal chance of nomination; - Chairmau George ays they should not. Since they are in conflict, which shall control the law or Chairman George? Is government In Oregon ,by law under,the constitution or by .personal ukase given down from the holy assembly headquarters outside '.the law and outside the constitution T A a 4 fc. .1 . 1 . . f . .. a . . , -n.ro iua ivgiHittuve ana aamimstra tlve branches of the state govern ment at Salem, or in the secret cham bers of the Portland machine? "We are teaching our young men ,to evade the law,, exclaimed a pro testing delegate on the floor of the Lane county assembly at Eugene last Saturday. Are you 'not; teaching them contempt for the law? ; Should not great and small offenders be Jailed for -violating the law? What do law-abiding citizens -think about it? ' . : rv -:.hi-r,:'.: , , I GAMBLING WITtt LlTE -I Z vns V-S 11 " ii- rvr, ,', IT IS TO. his own Interest for the dairyman to rid his herd, of tu berculous cows. The- disease rapidly spreads to healthy ani mals until his whole herd will be come affected., The milk flow of the diseased cow is reduced and the profit from her lessened until final ly obliterated. Her tilsease is com municated to hogs and poultry and financial 1 - results, from --this : source. ; The moment a cow reaches , a certain stage of the disease, her value is gone.: She not only becomes ,a cipher, herself, but rapidly makes healthy K animals - worthless. Thus the process of death to the herd Is ' not only actually going,, constantly on, but for each diseased1 animal an Increased '.. food supply for mainte nance is required. - Not only is the herd doomed, not only, are the reve nues reduced and finally wiped out, - not only, is the market value of the diseased anlmar destroyed, not only , Is ' the . expense of ,; maintenance heightened, but there is peril and financial loss through communlca- - tlon or the disease to-hogs and fowls. This Is the economic phase;;,If .there were no other reason, it would be sufficient for every dairyman to 'desire that .his herd be tested, and ' consumptives be separated from the .Lealthy. It is a proposition of math ematics and business. But there is' another "and a larger reason. Of 297 tuberculoui (children recently exam- lned, 26.19 ;'per cent; more than .ne fourth, were suf ferfng.,wlthho vlne tuberculosis. The bovine germ was actually fouud In lesions in their bodies. 5; How was the disease cw tracted except from cows? Can any . dairyman hesitate in the face of such testimony? ' - Even if any are unconvinced as to the communicability of bovine tuber culosis to human beings, there is the terrible chance that it may be. Does .: anybody want to gamble with a hu man life for the sake of a few dol- " Jars? What do the butter board -and others opposing the pure milk ordl-i nance think about It? T);IE TO BE SANE i -DON'T, think that the United! States has any real . trouble with Japan,? was the remark- of General Jacob H; Smith. If. 8, A., recently, returned from a trtp around the world. He added : "At any rate. I do not think there will be any trouble that cannot be tettled by diplomacy." This is the honest judgment of an American soldier. He has been in the orient, where he studied condi tions and formed an Intelligent opin ion. It Is by war scares and threat! of Invasion from Japan that our an nual army and naval expenditure has been stuffed out of all proportion. During.the four years of the seeond Cleveland administration, the' total cost .of our army and, navy was fl95..837.865. ' During the last four years of administration, the expend. $567,124,970. The total for a.tingle year is liow more than for the whole four yers pf Cleveland. All this 1 money -comes out of sorntoojy's pocket. Somebody has to earn it, and most 'of it represents money withdrawn from productive, industry. Spending it on war fustian i3 the process by which we are trying to tax ourselves rich. When a soldier like General Smith comes back from Ja pan and -tells, us there is no trouble with that nation that cannot be set tled by diplomacy, It is time lor civilians to be sane. r EPRESENTATIVE' HAWLEY is quoted as saying: . "Among other things that I secured was an appropriation of over 14 00.- 000 in the rivers and harbors bill, Including $300,000 for the locks at Oregon City; $60,000 fpr the ; Wil lamette above Oregon . Clty'and he goes on to enumerate all the other appropriations for "rivers and . har bors and public buildings.1 Didn't Ellis do anything? . Wasn't Chamberlain in Washington this year? Was Bourne shanghaied and, like Jeffries, unable "to come Ijack"? Did Mr. , Hawley fill bis . own Beat and Ellis' seat in the house, and the seats of Bourne and Chamberlain In the senate? ; . "" ; feThe record 'shows that the $300,- 000 appropriation for the locks orig inated,, not in the house, but in the senate, By what fearful and won derful; process did Mr. Hawley, be ing a member of the house, originate It in the senate? : :'The amendment by which the $300,000 was secured bears the name, not of Hawley,. but of Bourne. If Mr. Hawley orlginat ed it, why did he give the.amend4etts hM 2403,. Pennsylvania 2347; ment Bourne's name? i How sweet and how generous of Mr. Hawley to tnus nonor senator Bourne! ; In charity, let us hope that Mr, Hawley Is misquoted.. Wo all know how the river and harbor bill 'went through the house without a word, letter or syllable about the Willam ette locks, and that but for the Ore gon senators it would not have been secured. For the sake of Mr. Haw ley, let us hope against hope that to his failure in the locks, appropria tion, he. is,,not adding the unpardon able blunder of . attempting to claim that ,"I secured -iLrv, If he is really making such a claim "my, high-i browed assembly" ought to "advise" him,. .'.' . " s ' WAILS FROM THE DEPARTED "B 7 THE assembly plan the peo ple are apt 'to "get a better class -of ' public servants," , says Chaltman .George. In a new official ukase. When in a' di rect , primary, Multnomah ;. county Voters nominated C." JB." GafltenbelB over M. C. George f6r circuit Judge, Mr. George thinks, the voters made a mistake. It was , that episode that makes the good chairman think that the people don't know a "good candi date and that the assembly 'will give us "a better class of officials," It is noticeable that divers'and sundry other persons .who are clamoring loudest for .the holy assembly have each had a good licking in the open primaries. - Indeed,-there is nothing so effective as such a trimming to convince the defeated candidate that the average voter doesn't know a good candidate from a spotted cay use. It Is from our. illustrious but still ambitious political cadavers .that there comes the claim that the vain and foolish people don't know beans ana that "my assembly" of Intellect uals is the only way to get "a better class of public officials." r The fact is, that if a man cairaot get a nomination by direct vote of the people, he ought not to have It. If his reputation, his record and his standing are not such that the citi zen body is willing to choose him, he ought not to( be in office. If the only way for him - to get a Job is through the secret and silent work behind the curtain in a convention, he ought to remain la private life. If the people repudiate him in the open primary, he Is an Ineligible, and af ter such repudiation it is.mlghty bad form for him to go crying about the state that the people don't know and "have to ' be advised.." It ' is the shrieks ofthese unjamented has been8i; the ' ululatlons of the gang that want's to "get back to the pie counter, and- the -roars from "my strong voice" that is doing allhls boosting for "my plan." " .r THE PENSIONERS N' INETY, NAMES a, day are being dropped from the pensbn roll's of the Grand Army of the Tte- . public, .Nearly four of the vet erans every; hour are conquered'by King Death. Each month. 2700 of them are laid in their last bed. 'At the end of the fiscal year in 1865, just after the war closed, there were 85,806 pensioners, but. 6 0;i0 6 of these were widows and orphans. The amount paid put was $8,526, 153. The next year 65,256 names w.erq added ftnd the disbursements rose to $13,459,969. That was the largest number of applljations until 1880, when under a more liberal law 144,466 applications Were made of which 19,545 were allowed, making a pension rolfof 250,80$; the cost that yearvwas f 57.240,640 lue in creases were compiratively email ,af ter that until 1890' when under new legislation another great leap, for ward was made; the applications that year being over 100,000, and in 1891 .696,941 applications were filed,' of wnicn 166,486 were allowed. ' This made a total of 676.160 'pensioners, the disbursements being $118,548,. 960. In 1893 the number iu a.uuu.uuu, ann inAV rnnt , am sum disbursed until last years after. the war closed; when it was $161,973,704. The largest num- ber of pensioners ever on, the list I was 899,446, in 1903, since when the number has gradually decreased, but owing to further laws the dis bursements have decreased but slightly if at all. The total disburse- ments for pensions since July 1864, amount to $3,848,699,721.06 For the past four years the death rate has been about 30,000 a year, but It must be much greater frojn this on for a few years. Most of the veterans are past 70, and even the widows and. the orphans are no longer: young women aud .. children except in a few cases. Conqueror Death will get the last one of them after awhile, and by that time per haps the civilized nations of the world will have declared that "there shall be no more war." THE ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS AVAR r HE National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tu berculosis reports that by May 1,- 1911, it is expected that there will be beds provided In this country for 35.000 tuberculosis pa tlents. It is hoped tht, at the pres ent rate or progress, by 1915 there will.be no uncared-for victim of tu berculosis in this country.5 Much is being accomplished In the war upon tuberculosis in most of the, states of the union. . The good cause is gaihn lng recruits every day, and complete victory, seems to be only a question of time, perseverance, and 'added strength to the antl-tubercular army1 And what a glorious victory that will be! ; New York leads in the number of tuberculosis beds, '4 5 7 tC Masaacbu and Colorado; and New Mexico come next with 1489 and 1104. j x The only states in which no beds -have been provided for ."white plague" victims are Alabama, Idaho, Montana, , Ne vada, Oklahoma. Utah and Wyoming. These; western; states are exception ally healthy, but the victims ar.e there, as everywhere, and they will doubtless soon Join In the campaign. - Oregon haB . made a-good start In aiding the war against this disease, but needs to do more.' Every rec ord of a 'death.' from .tuberculosis should prompt aid to this noble cauBe. SKY MEN AND WAR W HAT PART are sky men to play in the next war? , In recent tests Glenn Curtlss, with missiles dropped from his aeroplane, hit a battleship target 15 times out of '22 trials.. The tests occurred on ; Lake Keuka under the auspices of ' the Kew York World -and.were witnessed by a nuiober of naval -officers,- The target was 500 feet long and .90 wide. It was an chored in the middle of the lake and the leaden missiles were -dropped by the aviator as he passed over. The altitudes- of the machine ranged from 139 to-900 feet, the greater number of ' shots being attempted from heights of about, 300 feet. . Naturally, the tests were not con clusive, but they afford suggestion of what may yet have to be reckoned with In warfare on sea and.lapd. Per fection of theart and devices of fly ing may afford a "hew peril for na vies. If projectiles dropped from oqe Or a score of aeroplanes can hit a battleship or a fleet of Dread- naughts, naval armament faces a rev olution. In any event, what rest will there be for an army in camp or on the march when any moment it may be assailed with a shower of deadly explosives that come out of the sky. ARGENTINA'S CENTENNIAL 0 NE HUNDRED years ago the united provinces of the Plata river declared their independ ence of Spain, no doubt en couraged to this action by the suc cess of the American revolutionises, and this year Argentina is celebrat ing the centennial of that event, its particular Independence day having been May 25. . The progress of this resourceful and now progressive, and prosperous nation was slow" for half a century or more, and tfp" to 1885 its government was unstable., : Since 1860 It has received an immigra tion of 1,750,000 Italians, 670,00.0 Spaniards, 250,000 .Germans and Swiss, 184,000 French, and some English and other people, o that its population is now about 6,260, 000, of whom nearly two thirdsara of jBpanlsh extraction.,' The country has long been tranquil, and Is stead ily developing, It is no great world power, to be sure; but it is a country of large natural resources,' and -can claim the world's respect; j The peof pie of the, Unjted States, especially the public men and large business men, know too little and take too little Interest in this and other South American republics. . The decision of the supreme court of the District of Columbia that the secretary of the interior will not hereafter be permitted to hold up in definitely land entries against which specific charges are hot pending, but whenever", a receiver's receipt has been issued must pass uppn the is suance of the patent within two years, is clearly one that is JuBt and has Jong been overdue. The gov ernment has been over-strict with poor settlers,' has held tip their cases for years without any ,reason; 'yet the railroads are holding millions of acres of- land In spite - of the fact that, they insolently violated their contracts.; There is no even-handed justice in such administration of the land laws. .'.'.'.' ,' It is reported that more than half the dairies furnishing milk to Port-1 tors, since The Journal'a crusade for pure milk a few month ago. Then there wasn't a. decent dairy in this region; now the majority of them are so, and the rer,t will have to be made so, are in fact being made so, That was a fight worth while.- The death list of babies will be a goo deal smaller this summer than last But there must be "eternal vigi lance . n this matter. "How to sleep In comfort on warm summer nights is a problem of city life that uncounted thousands of fam illesnever bave been able to solve,' says Collier's Weekly; There Is one way In which a good many, eastern city people could solve this question though many others could hot and that is by coming to Portland, or any one of various other places In Oregon, to spend. the summer. One can always sleep in comfort here, as far. as weather is concerned. Women and Voting ' From Collier's '..Weekly. ' Four atatements, open to question, ft least, . ji not actually, erroneoug, are gerieraljy accepted aa axiomatic byihe less conservative suffragists:; (1) That tne right to vota Is in and of Itself an Inalienable right, based on natural Just ice. ; (2) That voting- Is merely a met ier or rigm, ana not a duty too. . (3) i nat government will, be better if wo men hava a mora direct hand in It H That women are not repreaented under uia present system. Th vote la and al ways has been an acquired. nd not a natural right. Men and : women alike nave me riabt to a Junt rovurnirmnf. Voting Is merely a meana to -an end. Civilization assumes that no nation or country baa a right to misgovern itself, and none, has been allowed to when the civilised world has undertaken to Inter fere. It is undoubtedly unjust to Jane Aaaams, ror instance, that she should not nave the chance to share in the con trol of government cosaessed bv thou sands of ignorant men, as it is unjust that a woman school teacher should be paid leas , then a man if she does man's work. . But because one labor saving ' generalisation that women are not the equals 'of men M certain sorts of workhas outlived Its accuraoy tn certain cases, it does not follow that another generalization -that all women snouia vote on all questions is prac tical aad Just. - And that is what is demanded there is no definite propo sition to limit the vote to waea earners. educated women, women of property, or momers, or to the , questions on Which women are specially. Informed. We are governed by a areat nu'mher of elected representatives having many" aiuerent mncqona to perform. It is a complicated system under which a clear issue is seldom presented. Most of the questions are questions of business, not of morals. Most of our bad government in cities comes rrom insufficient atten tion to details even by business men woo are oeaung with somewhat simi lar problems. It 1 not apparent that women trained and occupied by matters not similar to the business of abvern ment will have more time and energy to sHve to understanding Its' details. In ra gard to "the moral question in politics women proDaDiy take at present a high- ftstand. than men, Their polnLot view is mora aetacned; they are not so con cerned as to be anythlna but disinter ested. Women have not proved to have any nigner sense of honor than men when It comes to smuggling or tax dodging. Th fourth contention the taxation without representation' max im, is very slightly. sUnnorted bv fict. Even male voters do not vote except in rare instances, either on the maklna of laws or their administration. They only elect men to make and administer the laws for them, and the Influence of me voter on most of fthe matters to be decided is very indirect. Women's in fluence, acting throuah the voters, is no different general'y. except that it is one stage further removed, and is there whenever women' have chosen to make It, felt Their influence-Is quite suffi cient In every case except those where women as a class 1 hav interests op posed to men as a class. Women have no class Interest In taxation and . are as thoroughly represented by the mavor and his tax board and by the legisla ture aa men are. j Why Eggs Range High.- From the MUwaukee Wisconsin. Thereport ror the - senate commlttea on the high cost of living stated that one of the causes of high prices of certain commodities was the competition in the markets during times of plenty by cold atoraga speculators who hold products for times of soarclty and en hanced prices. An axamnle of, this la furnished by a statement from Newarlt, rew jersey, that 45,000,000 eggs have been shipped into that city Since April 1 and placed in cold storage by the warehousemen, s there to remain, until TnlvK tltra ,14. ,nkt.i In k . . o - r -----w t ihw. ... vim winver. Tbeae eggs were purchased at an average oi hvj cents a aoxen. and the total cost to the speculators Is It -cents a doseh. ir the eggs retail in New .York next winter at the price which was paid last wlnter-fc-45 - cents a dosen the specu lators' will net more than $7OO,06o. Formerly, during the mOntha In thlh the hens are busy eggs dropped to IS cents a dosen, and sometimea,U cents, and the" thrifty; housewife . who pur chase" by the case, of ten secured them at 10 cents. Owing to the bidding of the speculators U is impossible to get eggs for less than- IS, cents a dosen, even when they are coming in plentifully;-, from the farmers, The .1 price ranges from this tip- toward 40 -cents according to thajieverity of the weather in winter. The argument thai the stor. age of eggs distributes the supply so mat tne. consumer can get them In the winter, when under the old rule of trade they at times could not b had "tor love oi for money,"- does not find acceptance among those who cannot afford to pay W . cents dosen for eggs, but who cnuld Indulge in the important food pro duct If -the price were from 10 to IS cents, or even 18 cents a dosen. Goldwin Smith's 'Bequest. From the Boston Globe. 'Goldwin Smith left the bulk of M estate,' eetlmated at 1 1,000,000. lo Cor nell unlveraity, where ha had once been proreaeor. The Deaueat la memorable. alnce it came .from on' who waa n6t trying- to win his way to fame by buy ing the favor or 'mortgaging the lame of a great educational inatlfution. Gold, win Smith's place in the anftals of his era. waa secured without It not alone through his . contributions ; to thought' and literature, but on account of his sympathy with the cause of our ur ion aunng the dark days of the Civil Borne have regretted the unirorelv altitude of Professor Smith to the new social awanenmg which la patent even unta.babea. -But they forget that hie roots were In the paat. that he was es sentially holdover from an age which thought the millennium had arrived when tha doctrine of evolution waa ac cepted by most of tha great writers and thlnkeM - .' .' ' . remote past, blossomed with whatever there waa of kindness and veracity in our time. Applied to Goldwin Smith, the worj "gentleman" did not belona to a hark- neyed and tasteless terminology. COMMENT, AND SMALL CllANCE The elate is probably all made up. - Nevada ought to be a territory yet. Roosevelt said he wouldn't and then aid. , Best summer climate on earth, right tin e. . ' The healthy strong loafer deserves no iavors. -- It wouldn't do to take Portland's Cen sus now. . i ... : Now Is the time to subscribe for the iiy paper. ' Don't let a pestiferous little fly kill Pity the" eastern people, both winter na summer. .- ' , The, people didn't choose and ' send any delegates. -t..e ,.e As ret not many can take night Joy rides in airships,. - Oregon has the full-fledged, rightv nun jjiiuinry law. j , .-.... , . -The. men who murdered a teamster snoum oe nangea., . It is about the time of. year for the iruoi to raise, tne price or sugar, Perhaps Roosevelt thlnka he Is big cuuuiu ( m m ooiu- siues, an siaes. ' One thlni that annarentlv will ntvmr 09 touna out is tne naoita or salmon. It was slmnlv imnossthln fnr th uuiunerw aeep -quiet ror two montns. At least children should not tn nitr. mitted to see, those prizefight pictures. - ' " . .. '.- . ..- - ..: -.. ., Reports from th beach resnrra ri tnat tne summer girl haan'-t reformed. The neToea ShouM rfmnmht. thut they have other things than priaeflghts 11 W 111. i t, , . s ' . tBtlll al visitors aav that thVit anA environs or Portland are surpassingly beautiful. . - - r - Fortunately one doesn't have tn b tn the society blue book to take an enjoy able "vacation. ' The assemMv la exrtented tn i1rlr that the good crops of Oregon are due to the tariff. . -- .. . . . ; - . , A man won tl ov drlnklrisf'lT "11ieer" of whiskey in succession, and then died "as the fool dleth." ' &h Dtiaf I aura A 4.11 where he belongs, he would become real ill. He "prefers tq, stay out nd hava a good time. .!'' --'..-i "Charles the Bantlst" IS the name hir which some people back east call Gov ernor. probably soon to b Chief Jus- Mayor McCarthy savs the s nrlsef la-ht pictures cannot be exhibited in San Francisco. Has McCarthy also Joined the reformers? f. . .... ,'.-.. " . - ' f- iy. Truesworthy of Los Angeles Won a lawsuit for a big fee partly. A man with that name, if helives up to it, Sught to win almost anything, -even eaven. . - Los '' Anaelea Times: PrtxeflirhtiriD- should be stopped once and forever.- It ia a business that breeds crime, vnl. garity, dishonesty and everything that iieipa tne uevu. (.,; ..- ... A millionaire arass widow savs she got divorce because her husband, did not agree with her.; What a focj he muat have been unless she was closo with her money. . It is reported that Cooper kin Clark wants to go to the senate again from Montana. But It would be unconstitu tional for New York to have three sena tors and Mofttaha only one.-- July 8 in Hi8toirElmund Burlce Over the early , career of Edmund Burke, the greatest, of English orators. there hangs a veil that has never been lifted. .The most reasonable opinion as to his birth fixes that event as occurring at Dublin on. January 12, : 172. His father was a Protestant n . attorney, his mother a Catholic, by the nam of Kagle; he had at least one sister, a Mrs. French, 1trom whom the existing repr-. sentstlves of Burke's family are de seended. and two brothers, one younger and another older than h was, with whom he went to school at Kildar. Later Edmund attended Trinity college when Goldsmith was a student there, and .like hlrt ttalne! no academic , dis tinction. -'' f" : '".r'ii.-V V, ' Burke then studied 'law at the temple, in London, was said to- have been a. fa vored admirer of Jeg Whoff lngton and to have made a mysterious visit to this country, and In 1778 published, after a satire on Bollngbroke, his well known treatise on "The Sublime and Beautiful." For some time he made a little money from his literary ventures and then got his first insight into politics by accom panying William Gerald . Hamilton , to Ireland, when th -fatter was 'secretary for that country. i :,y Later Burke quarreled with Hamilton and accepted the position of secretary to the Marquis of Rockingham, when that peer was mads prim minister. Shortly thereafter Burke defended J-he course of the ministry in regard to th American colonies ao ably as to attract th attention of the whole Whig party. and from that time until 1780 he was on of the party's chief men, a : 'In 1768 Burkemarried a daughter of Dr. .Nugent of Bath, and durlrig the- years of parliamentary opposition, which now came upon him, he continued to live tn a manner which has excited not little, suspicion,. Buying an estate, at Beaeonsfleld which was worth at least 82500 a yearf H. loved, art ana n ueo. this houss :with treasures, at the same time keeping up, among all his political preoccupations, n intimacy with Gold smith, Garrick and Johnson and' tha ciu at th famous Turk" Head,. himself pro ducing from, time to time a work upon some political subject, such as that mas terpiece Of its kind, th' "Thought on the Cause of the, Present Discontent." - -When Lord North bckme head of the government in 1770 he brought about all th disasters which Burk had foretold and for tha first six years of ethls mln A Broadening of Public Conscience. From th World's work, , ' Ther was set lip th ether day a very appropriate brons portrait in baa-rllef of Henry George, made by his son, on ..a wail in the building In New-York wher h died. , This ; is ta good reminder, , if any reminder were' needed, ' of the con tinued vitality Of "Progress and Pov erty." And mor vital than thabobk Is th large principle that it set forth th code of ethics that It advocated. ', f or many. men, wno nave not,assentea to the definite method of taxation, which ia called the single tax, hav come to recognise the essential, immorality of withholding land from productive uses a4he-dtiWfHerllty-thei'- pe-v- ulation In land. The use' of the earth and direct access to ft , under the. most favorable condition Ahat do not abridge the rights of others are Very much more seriously, considered than they were 25 years ago." That th earth should be NEWS IN BRIEF OP.LGON SIDELIGHTS On one Albany rosebush stem are 128 blooms and buds. There will be three airships at Bak er City's celebration. Jacksonville cleaned up- very thor oughly fcr the Fourth. , ... . Iiarvest Is already "in full blSat" in western Umatilla county. ' The Oddfellows' order rapidly in Klamath Falls. Is growing The Salem Cherry fair is a greater success than ever before, of tourse. - La Grande box factory ia running day and night, making fruit boxes. Several big eastern wool buyers at tended the wool sale at Joseph. . Sat urday, ' ; . Some alfalfa near McMlnnvllle "stands ( Inches or mora hlsrh over the whole of a large field. --... A rock crushina- nlant with : a car paclty of 200 tons a day has been es tablished near 'Ls. Grande.- . ,.--.-.!.. .'.'5 ... : r" , 'Ashland, ' Albany and La Grande, as weu as uiaasione rara, win nave Chautauqua assemblies this summer. An addition will be built to the Fair- mount Christian church. The building was -dedicated onlv a few months aao and is already too small for the congre gation. ' , Althoua-h Newbera- is a strictly' nro- hlbltlon and safe and sane town, the Graphlo says: "Wanted A new Moses to lead us back into the glare of the public gaze." ' . , - Th Woodburn Masons' have contract ed for the construction of a temple, tn cost 822.000. The Balem Masonic lodges are preparing to build, a 878,000 to 8100,000 steel frame building., ' . .: ' '-- e.- - r n.-i Tha -' Booth-Kelly eomoanv of LanJ county has been awarded a-contract for 40,uco.ooo reet' or lumoer ror oars ror the Harrlman lines, a contract callln g tor nearly 81.000.000, The money will come into Oregon for a state product and De,xpentted here. ; , . , The La Grande Star advises a vouna man to buy a piece of Grande Ronde val'ey land and plant It to alfalfa. .' He must use Judgment and get' land that can - be watered, but for that matter most of the Grande Sonde will be irri gated in a, few years. , .- One of the moat imnortant neada In Albany at this time is that .of more modern rental properties. It is a pat ent fact that there la - not a1 modern dwelling for rent in thefcity. Moreover mere are Dut lew reaiaence nroDerties of any description for rent,-and - rents are at the top ,price,aays the. Herald. . L. "F. Weaver. - state aaent for the Studebaker and B. M. F. automobiles, has advised John M. Root, president of the Crater Lake ' highway commission, that his companies willUolntly furnish one O-horse-power runabout. ' model 1911, to be sold by the highway com mission and the nroceeds devoted to tha Crater Lake highway fund. ; s Every steamer returnlnar from notnts on the, north side of -the river Is bring ing over a larre crowa or men rrom tne varloua logging camos in that section. Thursday aitemsbn the (General Wash ington, made three trips to Deep River and her total passenger Hstior the day was abeMt 888. Other steamers brought many, says the Astoria Budget Tha loggers must celebrate on the Fourth. In the : Coast v ran re ' of OreVnn : In Benton county. there is a tract of mountalnoua , country drained by ' a splendid stream known as the Five Riv ers. It la so called because it la made un ef five . other streams which mod estly rank as rivers in high water season. True to tradition, we call tha land and th river Punjab, after the rive rivers in India so named, says the Corvallia Gasett Times. Ittry Burke was the man who kept th Whig party together, fighting for them In th commons aa they had never been fought for before. Returned as a rep resentative of Bristol, then the second city In the kingdom, he struggled hard for the cause of Justice in the 'tanage ment of the colonies, and his WSpeecM on Conciliation" -has long sine become a classic, 1 like all his work, Jacking only in polish, and stylfc - r : - I j. When - the Whigs came again into power at the time of th surrender ef CornwalMs, Barke's Influence of eours became still greater. In all tha legisla tion regarding, the Indian bill he took an important part and finally In th trial of Warren HAstJngs, he conducted What Was, in many respects, the greatest state affair of his career and what Included the greatest, of all his speeches. . Th narrative of the crimes of Hastings, as Macaulay saysrmad Burke's blood boll, and never during all his part in the 14 weary years of the trial did his energy cease or his righteous animosity lessen tn lntensity.--",vv-;:'w'--'--;f.'-- ' In 1780 Burke startled many of his friends by the publication , of his -"Reflections, on th Revolution In Franc.? Windham wrot of himr "What shall be said of the state of, things, when It is remembered that the writer is a man decried, persecuted and proscribed, not being much valued In Ms own party, and bs half th nation considered as little better than a madman?" And, indeed, ; tho electrified country nearly justified thes statements. Ther Was at once an end of his political friehdshlps and from that day his pub lic career may be said to nave begun to decline. ' He , wps partially rehabilitated by. the time the Hastings .trial earn to an end, but in 1784 h took a formal leave of parliament and,. ' refusing a peerage, would accept only a penalan of $W,0oC,.Hndie4.onwJttlyA.lTIT.r;X . On July 8. 1709, occurred -th famous battle of PultoWa- in Russia! Jt t the date of the arrival of th' French fleet under .D'Estaing at the jmouth of th Delaware in 1J78, and that the Jeahett Arctic expedition; sailed from San Fran cisco in .1878. It ia th birthday of Jean do I Fontaine," theceletrated fabu list (Uil) ; 1 .Fits-Greene Halleok, tha poet' (1790) ; Admiral William Howard Allen, noted naval officer (1790) ; Rob ert K. Scott, southern soldier and states man (1826) J and William V. Moody, tha American educator (1889). , easily accessible, that it should not b monopolised, that ownership and use of it should b given to all on the same conditions this ' underlies ; the ; j great parliamentary struggle In1 England;, and it is in a dozen forms coming into mor general acceptance in the United States every, year. , -. -.- ,;'.''. : . 4 V i-. . " m 1 j: : . ft is doubtful whether any book has appeared In any part of the world these 5 years that has had so far-reaching and profound an influence aa "Progress and.Poverty'V-eyen onthose who do fiot accept' its ultimate . conclusions; '-'It brought a large .new era of life and thought -within the reach of men's con sciences; and1 the publio conscience hjuJ heen moved higher by It. ; , , - Straflge. ; From the Philadelphia Record! '" J - ' SlUicus Love T l; a, game In which Cupid -"'deals th beards- .'- ,.-; Cynlcus Then why does he so often deal from the bottom of the deck TANGLEFOOT Overholt WHY NOT? ' 'Mamma, I cut my appendix fin ger," said little Bobby. . . "Appendix fin ger?" . , ;,; ', "Yep; the last one, the little one. If my first finger Is the index, the last one must be the appendix fin ger, isn't It?" And , mother guessed maybe he was right. , ,: BIBLICAL NAMES. : "I see you have a couple of Indians" employed on your farm." remarked the summer tourist a the ranch house. "Yep; my pets." . . "Know their names?" "Sure. On of 'em Is Lo the com mon old name, you know. Took them names from the-Bible," t did." '-v. , - "The Bible? Why. the name. 'Lo' is ' not in th Bible. What is the other's name?" ( . , . "Why,' Behold. Don't you remember reading them , names Lo and Behold?" And the visitor said he did and let It go at 'that, - OF COURSE NOT. Th tall, lank minister observed as his sad face grew light: "I try to keep from levity and fUn with f all my might; " But when at times I marry folks It sure- iy is no sin -To say to them, by way of Joke, T am a coupling pin!" , , ' WHOA. FAN! ' " ' She was modest, was Annabel Claribel , c, Ann. "w , . She never would look at a sailor man, In manner most haughty. . . . She said they were nauti-w V -- ' Cat What d'ye know 'about that! Whoa. . Fan! . If, a eat had 40 kittens, and they all ' had nine lives each, And cat insurance was the proper caper; Say, r would be an agent then, th Job ' . , would be a peach ; . . ' You bet I wouldn't work on any paper. : Over at Prlnevllle ther is a contract or.by the name of Pancake. They say he' raises the dough, Aw, shut up! '-'':,. '':'--'"' Two Views of the Administration. . " -,v'..From World's Work. ,i ,y .X- Her ar two points of view that make a-man think: On was expressed "by a cltisen of Iowa thus "Mr. Taf fs good nature and especially his simple' confi dence in th party organisation is mak ing .his administration weakr for . lack ; of popular support The peopl don't believe in Balllnfter, and they don't Ilk Wlckersham. as a general censor of po litical parties. Who la Wlckersham that he should say who may and who may not be a Republican? ' Th president and . his advisers and th party managers at Washington ar living in a fool's para- flise. They don't know what th people ar thinking or doing they don;t,know tn people t all. : They, think that crlt-, Iclsm of the administration or of con gress la the result of mere partisan en- ' mlty pr ef 'eonaplrators' of disappointed ; men. . W all feel sorry for Mr. Tsft but we hav no means of bringing him to our point of view-no means of in forming him of , the real facts. The newspapers hav not criticised him wan tonly, in fact they have been Very con siderate. 4 The Insurgents are not rebels. They speak - for the people, , Distrust of his advisers is not treason to the president It is a necessary result of , the careers and- actlvltes of these ad visers; and yet. the president after he knows that they are ' distrusted, holds to them and works with them." The other point of view was expressed by a mafl in official life 'at Washing1 ton "Th outburst of criticism of .the administration and of the leaderrfin , congress comes from papers that wanted a reduction of duty on wood pulp and,, didn't get what they wanted and from magazines that are . mad because the president favors an increase In their,, postal rates. This sort of thing is dis reputable and unjust Then, there are groups of disappointed men. who expected-of flees and didn't get them. They have an organized conspiracy to discredit; the administration and to drive some of its members into private life.- Th president, is thus . forced "to stand by his friends he would not b the man that he la if h didn't. It'll all blow over. The people hav no us for traitors and conspirators and deserters.. We In Washington scorn tha whole gang of' them." , ' . ' ' Farms Better' Than 'Battleships. ' Frem th Evening Wisconsin, - Every intelligent cltisen must respond to the common sense, patriotism which animated th address of President W. C Browii i of th New fork Central rail road before the recent' gathering1 of th " Minnesota Bankers' association." H called attention to the alarming- rapid ity with which consumption of the prod ucts of th nation's farms is overtaking ' production, and added: .. .- "We are building 'great battleships.' two of them each year, costing, equipped and complete," about 810,000,000 each and It costs nearly a million dollars per annum;'" apisee- to man , and i maintain -them, - ! am in favor of an adequate navy, but I wish th money expended In building Just on battleship could b devoted .to this Work of improved, in telligent agriculture.. .Whet one battle ship costs would establish two splendid ' agricultural xperirffent "or . demonstra tion farms in every state in the Union, . and I will guarantee if this is don and tha work Intelligently and energetically carried oii that, as a' result of lt the" valu of the increased product of, th -nation's farms will, within 10 years, buy and pay for. every battleship of every navy that floats on salt water today." Real, Life Dramas ' (CoBtrlbattd to The JoormJ by Walt Muoa. th famout Ktosas ot. . Bis proM-poems are s ; regoUr feature ot this colutea ia Xb Dally Journal) - - : :'.'y. ' Oh, - th long winded bore Journeyod Into stdr. , wher th merchant and clerks were all busy; and ha told an old tale that was moldy and stale, and mad all the listeners, dizzy 1 anr h hummed and he hawed and he droned and h pawed, and no one rejoiced at his sally; and the foolkiller cam and climbed onto his, frame, and planted him but in th' alley. Ohj th orator rose, and ha talked through his nose, and be screeched like ' a vane on a .steeple; and he poundad th slats of the vile plutocrats, and ha -wept o'er the woes 6f th peopl: and the Ills we endure, and the griefs of he poor, had ruled him, with sorrow and dudgeon; then the foolkiller came' and got onto his game; and swatted him One with a bludgeon.- Oh, the man who sines bass through a hole in his face. Insisted all evening on -roaring; he rended th limbs of our favorite hymns his vole jieay.j;ippe(LjupUh4JUqqrJj3g. did we hint that he'd do well to sprint, he. said he would sing "Ahhie Laurie": and the foolkiller yelled as th singer h felled, and burled his lungs in a quarry. CdpyrlitM. ' 10101 bT Geurg Matthew Adam- . -i- ...... -i