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' Knowledge. In truth.' is the
" great sun In the firmament. Life
;and power are scattered with all
its bearaa. Daniel Webster.
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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.
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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.
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: 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. .
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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.- .
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, '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-
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