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THE OHIZGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, TTTT.Y 1 t " THE JOURNAL INIinPENPENT NEWSPAPElt. S. JACKSON. ..Publisher rssWI-ihd fv-rr wnlns (except PanilBT) d ing. Fifth aod SamMll atreet. Portlaad. Or, Enferr-d at th pontofflc at Portland, Or., lot trammiiMiion through tb maUa aecond-ciaaa mutter. TKF.EPUO.VES Main T173; Rom. -A-4MM. ah . . . v.- h. TtnmbtYfl. ? ,, '"' . imr . . ..... want. m ojwarnr wdbi awimn-u FOREIGN ADVERTISING RKPHE9ENTATIVR. a CnhuF Tjv Rnrnawtck Building. tiS Fifth aranua. IXaw Xork; lOO.-OS Boica Bollutiur. Chicago. 1 - ." , fuharrlptlon ' mis by mall or t air addreas toe United Btate. Canada or uvxiws ; DAILX. One ar... .... S OO I On month.. ......I -BO SUXDAI. Cm renr. ....... 12.50 I On month... ..,,.$ .38 DAILY AND SUNDAY. On Tr...A.. .IT.50 I On month........ .85 r Wisdom ia ofttlmes nearer when . - we stoop . Than "when we -soar. '.., ,. -William Wordsworth. a 3 GOVERNOR FOLK T T IS NAME means something.- It LJ typifies an Idea.' It. does not I I merely mean that he was gov- ernor of Missouri;- does not simply signify that he is prominent ly mentioned for the presidency of the United States. It la not mere omen that Governor Folk is a, fear less man, a brilliant man and a man of lofty Ideals. The name of this citizen of the republic, whenever or wherever It is mentioned, Invariably and uncon sciously carries to the mind that ' graft IS a " vice and "must be " put down. No matter who the citizen, no matter what, that citizen's polit ical faith, the mention of Governor Folk's name to him Instantly conveys the idea that graft is to be abhorred. It is a name that carries the startling fact that graft is never committed for the benefit of the public, but al ways for private, gain. ,i The fact that Folk was governor is a 'mere incident. The . fact that he is presidential timber is only an episode. , It Is the preeminent .fact that he is the embodiment of & trans- cendent principle that he, more than any other man of his time bag ac centuated that principle, that makes him Illustrious. The presidency could hardly fix his place more firmly In history. What If every state had .a dozen Governor" Folks? " What if every citizen of the country were a Folk? - THE SLATE f f ITH TWO exceptions, the re- lAf malnder of the legislative V ticket slated by "the inter' ests" was rammed through the convention Monday night. It was in utter futility that the opposition of many delegates was Interposed by their support of other candidates ex cept in the instances ot E, L-. Rayburn and Peter Hobilrlt.'.'Evea the ex posure of' the game, printed in The .Journal hours before the balloting began Saturday did not . break the -strong ; grip on the convention brought about, by the deal between the convention managers and those who participated In the three corpor ation conferences. : Denials were, of course made, that there was a slate. Men are compelled to deny: such things. They could hot, in the very nature of the case, admit it. , 77- But this cold fact remains: Long before the convention began to bal- lot for its legislative candidates, The Journal was on the street carrying the story, of the secret conferences. " It gave the names of corporation ' managers who were there." It gave the names of- the .legislative candi dates slated at those ' conferences. The list of names as thus given by The Journal was handed around to the heads of delegations ljftlie con tention, except that the name of C. B. Moores was written In lead pen cil over another name that had been ... crossed out. .; If there was no slate, how was The Journal, long before- hand, able to print the lists? If there fwasno slate,; why was the typewrit ten list ' The Journal had already printed, handed around, Jn the con vention? If there wajpis slate, why did the convention "on Monday night, -with two exceptlonsrnominatethe remainder of the list The. Journal printed Saturday? 7 Gentlemen may deny the existence of the elate until they are black in the facer but they cannot change the facts. Many a ;man has "been hung on evidence hot one tenth as strong. The Portland Gas company, the electric light; the ; street railway, and other corpora tions put their rubber stamp on this ' legislative ticket. It was nominated by the' flat or big business. ""The con vention was packed with men enough 'to nominate it, 'and, with three exceptions,- did nominate it. And it '.was for that exact purpose, and for other purposes of similar character, yet., to appear, that convention gov ; ernment is desired in Oregon. HlR. M'ARTIIVRIS CHALLENGE 0' N, THE. floor of Monday night's adjourned convention - C. N. McArthur challenged The jour , nal 't'to prove" that ho waB 0. .K-edfor. senator-at the-threfr cor poration conferences.' Tlut is the way they all do. 'Mr. McArthur has Inside Information that The Journal was not present at the three secret conference. Only, "good friends' at tended those. 'representative" ' as semblies of the people. Bla business. , whn It arembles in the name of the' -.laaylz . to,.,i6Claci. patfconwhei-4t convention will, "adviBe" the people to vote far, does not go out Into the lfjhwayS' and byways, or shout Us f'urripfsoa from the bousptops. llonce fir. MrAnhnr calls upon The Journal ."io )rou" that lie has the 0..K. of the gas, electric light, railway and other corporations., But, it is Mr. McArthur who must now produce the proof. . Let him prove that his name was not on the typewritten list ' handed around in the convention. Let him prove that a typewritten ' list thus determined upon beforehand and handed around amons the delecates for them to sunnort. is hot a elate. ; Let him prove that The Journal did not. be fore the tyDewrltten : ticket was passed around appear on the streets of Portland giving the exact names with the exception of C, B. Moores that appeared on the typewritten list given to the delegates to vote for. All this Mr. McArthur must admit. If then, there was no slate, if the three secret - conferences 4 did? not5 prepare and 0. K. tho slate, how in the name of heaven did The Journal get the names? Mow under the sun did it get and print the list of names that were afterward stealthily slipped.'to heads of delegations in the conven tion? r - v'o.- -v ..It is not up to The Journal to pro duce further proof. The evidence is sufficient;. . The. great public which Mr.. McArthur, and'hls ..-colleagues think hasnt sense enough to select a good candidate, perfectly under stands."" Mr.. McArthur was nom inated by the fiat of corporate Inter ests in secret conclave. He was a part of a slate, he received, the 0. K. of the gas, railway and other of ficials, and has been duly stamped with their rubber stamp. , , ? THE WATER. FAMINE, T HE PRESENT condition of the water supply in Portland Is un fortunate. There Is a water famine In several suburbs. In the Ivanhoe district householders are reported as wholly without water during the day and until bout mid night. During the night fhey fill bathtubs and other receptacles with, water for use during the waterless periods. Even In Irvlngton. at' the sprinkling period-fJTttte evenlngthe pressure is so low that the irrigation of lawns is difficult. " In many other districts there Is extreme dissatis faction with conditions. 7 7" - Meantime, the old time truth still stands. Where there Is no meter, there Is waste. ; The history of every city in the world proves it. If to day', Portland were universally me tered, there would be abundant wa ter. It la the waste that Is robbing many a suburb ofilts rightful sup ply. The same waste, es long as the city remains but partly metered will always keep the supply, reduced in the heated season. We open the fau cets in winter ?, to keep the water pipes from .freezing and open them In Siimmer to keep .the water , cool. We allow it to run without limit on the lawn so long, as payment is not by the gallon but by the month. A new pipeline will be built, and even the added sunDly will soon be insuf- flclent.. . The growth of Portland will probahiy.be enough to consume it all . a it. J . , t , , a - .1 a by the time the new line is installed. - Statistics . prove that unmetered cities use about three times as much per capita as 4o metered cities. This means thaTlwe"giaIloh8 dfTwateOii' a flat basis is wasted to every gallon consumed. This 'i is a chief reason why tnere is water famine in many Portland: suburbs. If the city au thorities .will meter every Bervlce main there will always ; bs water enou gh for everybody, And every body will have to paysfpr?whlt he uses and not have to pay for what others waste. : ' ROOSEVELT F ORMER President Roosevelt will take two quite extended trips in the near future, one through the, 'middle west and another later through- the south, making! many speeches,.. Jn these perform ances he will present all the appear ance ot a candidate during a cam paign. . Some Insist that he intends to be a candidate for president In 19 12, and that he is alreadyenter ing upon a campaign for that pur pose, but with this we do not agree, It is altogether probable that if Mr. Taft desires a second term, Mr. Roosevelt will do what he can to help him get It. r- Mr. Roosevelt" Is only a private citizen, albeit the most eminent one in the country, r and he breaks an other precedent by thus putting him self forWard as a free lecturer and campaigner. He probably thinks that no other man' in the country Is so capable of advising" the American people as he, and that there is none whose, advice they would listen to ?hd taHaUtlynchlng. A regular weekly writer In the Boston Globe asks: "Has Roosevelt reached bis limit? Will he once more astound the world as the Star performer on the International 6tage? Mankind may well ask, Is his great career ended, or is it still possible for lilm to assume the ag gressive, leadership of his country men and by some startling achieve ment again .' monopolize the lime light? , Must he rest content with the laurels ,hv has won, or, has' he the genius to win new ones? Can he "come back"? Can he actively and explicitly-direct the political; think ing of the great mass of his country men, ' and . thus accApiplisb results transcending the triumphs of presi dents and kings? Or has he reached' the summit of the hill, from which all roads lead downward? f : Has he not sounded all the depths and shoals M -amHaeTrote(rtlre-tartui on every side, thrilled, startled. dared , and dazed humanity from every conceivable eminence on the horizon?" , ' " This writer, after V resume of Roosevelt's strange and unparalleled successes, thinks that without the big stick, without the great presi dential office behind him, his influ ence will after all be relatively Bmall. It ia not the man but the president, the holder of vast power, who can wield great influence. ; The people are behind the office rather than be hind the man. When Roosevelt the president spoke, it was the voice of the nation, the people. When Roose velt the private citizen speaks, it is but the voice of an individual atom among millions. We do not altogether agree with this view, for Roosevelt Is not an or dinary, common, average private cit izen. -Millions believe. inhlm and would follow him as they would no other man, even though he has no official power. But they will not be lieve in him .and follow him if they Buspect that he has faced two ways, if he smiles; with equal cordiality, except in mere person&r greeting, on Beverldge . and Lodge, on Dolllver and Aldrlch, on'Norrls and Cannon, on Murdock and Dalzell, 1 7, Roosevelt probably does not design to run -for president in 1912, per haps not in 1916 or ever; .but he' doubtless does design t6 be a great and unequaled leader and influencer of the people la political matters.-He intends to exert 'over the people a far greater Influence than was ever exerted , by any private citizen ; be fore. Bryan holds the record now in that respect and Roosevelt Is ambi tious to beat It Hereafter who can guess? Roose velt is a young man yet, in his fifty-second y.ear. Opportunities that nobody dreams of now may come to such, a man. ; There" are eminences yet uncllmbed. New occasions and new duties will arise. We can be sure of only one thing that Roose velt will never rust.' ' THEIR ENTERING WEDGE , HAT English suffragettes have made some progress Is reflect ed in the late vote on the con ciliation suffrage bill. It was on second reading and passed the . bouse of commons with an ' unexpectedly large majority. It Is admitted, how ever, 'that many voted for the itleas urd because aware that it could not make further progress for a cdnsld erable time to come. The larger measures pending will bar .its pas sage to a third reading, possibly be yond the life, of the present parlia ment. Even 'after :; that, there . re mains the house of lords In which it will encounter sirenuons opposition'. The WH extends suffrage to about l.OOO.OW women. It gives the par liamentary vote to those women, who are already voters in municipal elec tions, and to 'rate payerB. It Is ac ceptable to the militant suffragettes only, as the entering wedge. But everybody recognizes that Its enact ment would lead to supplementary legislation in which there would be further, extensions ot tne cauot. The progress made is at any rate f reflected In the mere present con Fatitnvalnn fit Vl A V 1 11 . Anil tflOrA flfj sjderation of the bill.. And there are still other signs. One of these is the standing, character and number of some of the statesmen behind It, Some ; of "these arerHaldanerGrtr. Balfour, Redmond, Lord Hugh Cecil and Lloyd-George, as well as the en tire labor party. HIS FRIGHT A RICH , HUNGARIAN has Just crossed the United States from west to east on a trip around - the . world. He had heard that this country Is a land ot brigands and ..in crossing It he as sumed a disguise. On .the train he refused to allow the sleeping car porters to make up his berth. In New York he slept in barricaded bedroom, . and - with a : bodyguard Posted utside- All-thisis what comes from these pestilential Dem ocrats registering' as Republicans In Oregon, . The hue and cry. about them has been heard hy the Hungar ian stranger and he is on the verge Of fltS. . v.":'' V.- An Ohio law, under .which Govern or Harmon acted promptly, , makes local authorities responsible for such outbreaks as , recently occurred In Newark, where ; a young prisoner, with no resistance on the part of the officers, was , taken from jail and lynched. , The Ohio statute glvea the governor power to remove such city officers. " He is proceedlLg against the. sheriff ..; under . another 1 statute which was passed only last year . and applies epeclfically.to failure to pro toct prisoners from lynching. It, Is explicit and mandatory; the governor must suspend a sheriff in any case The. author, of .this law was a hegro'imember of the legisla ture frpm Cleveland,' and he drew it to fit such cases as the negro lynch ing that occurred in 1908 In Spring field, Ohio.' There is also In Ohio a mob-violence law, by which Lick ing county Jbecomes liable for $5000 to the heirs . of the . lynched "man These are good laws, and their strict enforcement should' serve to deter lynchlngs in Ohio. 1 Soon now, according , to present prospects, the long, hard battle for closed drawbridges .will have been partly won. . Major Mclndoe has ree ommended that except for two S15 minute Intervals, the draws remain closed frpm 6:30 to 8:30 a. nr., pro vided, however, that the draws shall always be open at the call of ocean going vessels. He - recommends :no closed evening period, as he says It Is not so" important that people get homrarOeflalOm'Orth'inhey get to their work on time. . There is some truth la this; but a multi tude or working and 'business peo ple ant their families will be dlsap pointed find : dissatisfied with this recommendation thatTthelr petition j for a closed evening period -be d nied. After a long day's wort, home 13 pretty attractive, and waiting for a car and then standing up in It or hanging onto the sides of ft Is rather tiresome. But let us be thankful for half a loaf; perhaps we will get the other half after a while. In northeastern Washington a man Bet fire to his clashing Saturday, the flames spread, to adjacent Umber and the consequence has been the loss of several lives at this writing Six are known to have been burned to death, and millions upon millions of feet of timber have been destroyed. And this is only the beginning.: The fire is ravaging thousands of square miles of territory and the property loss 1 will be enormous, besides the loss of precious Uvea in a horrible death. Tfie fire was eet by an In telligent man, since he was a book keeper, and for that reason he ia all the more to blame, a Many forest fires have been started in this way. Can nothing, criminal law, appeal -to common sense, or regard for life and property, ever teach men caution about burning tnelr slashings? Letters From tlie People Socialist's View of Equal Suffrage. PorUand. auly l9.--To tha Editor of The Journal. We note In the morning Oregronlan of . the 19th, Inst, that a blunder In framing- the bill for the equal' suffrage amendment, to-be voted upon In November, makes lis provisions to extend the right of franchise Indiscrim inately to all women.- ,x,v - We can assert with emphatic declara tion that this so-called blunder will rive the amendment the full activity and entire vote of the -- Socialist party of this state. ; On the previous attempt to pass an equal suffrage amendment the discrim ination contained In the bill which still held non-taxpaylng or working women in sex disfranchisement and political bondage was the cause" of the Socialist party as a whole rejecting It ki toto. -, Equal suffrage advocates may be as sured of this addition to- their previous vote of the former proposed amendment National woman's .Organizer .Anna Maley of New York, now in Washing ton, will be routed through Oregon en-j route to California to assist In the fall campaign In that state and will address the citizens of Portland on this very im portant subject and its relation to So cialism on the 21et day of August- Two dates may be made in Portland. Equal suffragists may be assured that no clearer exponent of the condi tion of sex disfranchisement will 'visit this city during the campaign under any auspices. ' ,C. W. BARZEE, .. . State secretary of the Socialist party. ' nint for the Park Superintendent. - Portland, July IT. To the Editor of The Journal. Will you please call the city park superintendent's attention to the fact that the two young cougars or mountain Hons afe no longer kittens and any day some sm&Uchlld is liable to be maimed for life by trying to pet the TdtUesr;:--'.-' - This will seem unreasonable to. many, but Just investigate when many children are out there. .u.c:::...:..:,.F. B. FIN LET -.: ;:7 ;; :7; ; Belshazzar. " From the Oregon City Courier. The question at Issue in this state now is, shall the pri v law be abol lshed and the powc -t out of the hands of the voter? irned over to the assembly that it, d In Portland or not This Is the uuestlon. The as sembly movement lso simply the com bination of all the railroads, the banks, and public service corporations and old political grafters and politicians to re organlie the party so that they can take the control of stats office away from the people and put It In their own indi vidual hands. This - ls illustrated by the desire of the corporations to name the supreme Judges, Instead of letting' the poople name them in the primary, Tho railroad commission of this state is a check on the encroachment and dictation of the railroads against the farmers, shippers and producers of this state. me rauroaas aon t like this, and they are anxious to have men they wish named in the assembly and elected, who will serve the railroads and help inem continue to rob tne people as they have been 'doing for years. As an illus tration of this, before the railroad com mission existed? the people of Clacka mas county including the sawmill men and farmers , and shippers tried for years fi have the Southern Pacific company arrange a place near Oregon City, or at Oregon City, where farmers couia deliver lumber and produce for shipment, in carload lots, and the rail road company laughed at it and ignored the farmers and shippers for years, un til Attorney Jrownell took it uoon him self in behalf of 40 or more sawmill men in this county, to file a complaint before the railroad commission of this state against the Southern Pacific com pany, and the matter was tried out and the sawmill men won. The railroad commission decided against the railroad company, and there are many instances wncre the railroad commission has stood up nobly and squarely for the people; The assembly in Portland Is mad tin of Simons, railroad attorneys, railroad agents and political strikers who are working under orders of their superiors to nominate their tools and Instruments that will serve" them instead of the tax payers of this state..-....;.... . . Mr. Scott of the Oregonian la th champion of the railroad, the publlo service corporations and against the common people, as he always Is, and It is. a wonder that the people who are within the, sound of his voice, the Ore gonian do not, wake up to the fact that they -are ;t)eing : hoc-lnked, thar tliey are runnirfg up pretty close to the brink and that with the aid of a small tramp wave, the light craft might slip over, and then such aches and pains as the common people would have.. but it would oe too law, ana u mignt take another 40 years to get the power back into their hands again. . . , This Is not guess work. - Everybody knows it to b a fact and what is the use of calling black white, simply, be cause it's Mr. Scott, the rallroadiL "Tn Simon or whoever It may be? - Scott aavieea us once to leave the venerable gray beaded old man rest, which would be the choice were It not for the virus that oozes from his pen, poisoning the life or thousands, and while In their stuirr'JoiedVnoeriaip;lnTo;crBit hands. their, political rights and power Rapidly would the book be opened to shameful pages of scandal and corrup tion. To Help the Deserving Poor. From the Technical World Magartna ''It is generally reoogniwd .among business men.", asserts Governor Had iey. "that the present hla-h' Ing is directly traceable ta ;th, fart thatrpr6aucaonhas hot kept pace with tunouiuiiLiuii. us proposes to be a "show me'- executive In every sense of the word and already he has brought about the organization of th Voti.i Farm Homes association, the object ef which is to furnish ,farm homes to the city, homeless. , .. ,,... ., Jhe jche mejs ,slmple.w.Th govern COMMENT AND SJL1LL CHANGE The favorite color Just now is green. The stale needs rain far more than an; assembly. .- .? ;. . Now is the summer of the Ice cream man's content , ' It is about time again for threshing machine explosions. . Party, party, party; people be d This is the keynote. . -j-. ...... Are all those burdocks and thistles going to seed again thisasummer? - Roosevelt appears to be the .Republi can party's only hope In New York. : .... . .. Loeb is properly pronounced as if the last two letters were transposed Lobe. Fortunately, the American fa,rmers who went up into Alberta can. come back.' ... '' , . .. , f. v;,..s .-, e. t-'c.' .:,':. However they feel Inside, all people who visit Sagamore Hill come away smiling. . ' . . How do voters like to be driven' by the lash and made to run by a brand ished knlfer :. It is time that somebody - discovered 9,000.000,000,000,000 microbes in an ice eream cone. - The suspension of the Newark and lacking county, Ohio.'' officers was not as. fatal as that of young Etherington. A Pittsburg woman shot her husband when he came home late. She claims that ahe thought he was a burglar, but , The country's crops, especially wheat will be short this year, but the Paciflo northwest will show ua better than any other section. , Five ' editorials in the ' last issde of the Condon Times were about The Journal. - Brother Fltzmaurlco must be "all worked up." ... r e.::.-..-;'.. 4 Some automobilists seem to try to make all the startling noises possible, especially ' at night when most decent people want to go to sleep. . s":-.iivi v. '.;,i,''.:''':?.:?t';,':-,S'' " Emperor William has been writing doggerel to some pretty girl visitors. It has long been suspected, that he was cracked a little in the upper story. . Exterminate the Lords." exclaims the Spokane Inland Herald. Oa let's ex terminate the flies first or at least the mosquitoes, i The Lords don't bother us any. The Baltimore Woman's Suffmge club IS trying to stop flirtation. There is no impossible thing that some women will not undertake. It 1 safe to as sume that no mere male attempts to flirt with any of the members of the club. . ,.,.,.. , The St. Louis Republic, 102 years old last week, says that there are 95 pub lications in this country that have been published for 100 years , or more (9 dally papers, 84 weekly publications and two monthly magazines. Of the 8 14 are published In New England and two in Boston the Boston Courier and the Missionary Herald. . . ; j ; i. July 20 in History"",BenjamIn Franklin It was on July ,20, 177, that.BenJamln Franklin ! made his first ; experiments with the' kite In his attempt to draw electricity from tha clouds. Tw years previous to this Peter Colllnson, of the Royal society, sent a Leyden Jar to -the Library society of - Philadelphia,, with Instructions how to use it " This ;fell Into the hands of Franklin, who at once began a series of experimenta l On March B, 1747, Franklin began bis famous letters to Colllnson,. Meantime, numerous experiments with the Leyden Jar had convinced him of the Identity of lightning and electricity, and he set about the demonstration of the fact The account -giverrrtjy Dr. Stuber;- of Philadelphia, an intimate personal friend of Franklin, and published In one of the earliest editions of the works of the great philosopher, -is as follows: i "The plan which ' he had originally proposed was to erect - on some high tower, or other elevated place, a sentry box, from .which should rise a pointed Iron rod, Insulated, by being fixed to a cake of resin.7 Electrified clouds, pass ing over this Would, he conceived, im part to it a portion of their electricity. Philadelphia, at this time, offered no opportunity of trying an experiment of this kind. " Whilst Franklin was waiting for the erection of a spire, it occurred to him that he might have more ready access to the region of clouds by means of a common, kite. He prepared one by attaching two cross-sticks to a silk handkerchief, which ? would not suffer so much from the rain as paper, . To bis upright stick was fixed an iron point The string was, as usual, hemp, except the - lower end, which was silk. Where the hemped string terminated, a key was fastened, - With this appara tus,, on the appearance of a thunder gust approaching, he went Into the Common, accompanied by his son, to whom alone he communicated his intentions,' well knowing the ridicule which too gener ally for the interest of science, awaits1 unsuccessful experiments In philosophy. He placed himself under a shed to hai discovered that great tracts of land are available in Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and ' other southern states at $10 an acre. He proposes to secure this land a few thousand acres to begin with and great tracts eventually and par cel it out to the homeless of today at the rate of 40 acres to the family,- 33 of tWese 40 acre farms to cluster around a central farm . of 160 acres, where a skillful agriculturist shall . teach the colonists how to farm economically and profitably. The cost to the settler for his chance7; to leay .. th overcrowded city" and get his first real chance in life will be as Allows: Land, 40 acres at $10 an aore...f 40d Buildlnrs and fences 400 Stock and teams . .......... $00 Implements, eto. ................ 100 Total . . ; . . .. ..... , . 7. ;$1200 But' it is contended, the crying need is for farm homes for the homeless who are moneyless as well. -r It Ib this Identical class of people which Gov ernor Hadley proposes to secure. - But not all who come -are eligible. Millions may apply but only thousands can be accepted. - Bo he proposes that all ap plicants for farms shall be subjected to examination by a board of the as soctatiorv: car to be taken to aid the deserving poor who want to ? get the land and to differentiate between them and the hopeless dere;icts. - Are Oregon People Barbarians"? , , From the Eugene Guard. . The Oregonian, which is the leading "assembly" advocate of Oregon, says people who want to govern themselves are '"barbarians." - j ' A econd 4itw!aJJl itrongty in line with the first and shows that the :as. sembly" movement is aimed directly at the primary law, because rule by the people is held to be rule by"barbftri lans," Statement No. 1 simply pledges a candidate to vot for the choice of the peopla as expressed at the polls for United States senator and. as the Ore gonian declares. -evry "assembly" .can- NEWS . IN BPJEF OKEGON SIDELIGHTS Medford has ordered, 16 miles of pave mont. , , ':' . New state bank of Hubbard oponed lost week. '. r - ; There is 23 feet of water on the Co quilie bar. , Coos county will spend $200,000 on good roads. . Echo scouring mills are at work; em ploy 25 men. ' Considerable building is going on in Myrtle Point, .... i - Forest Grove has . a rest' room for country people. - t One hundred Union county goats eottl at $3.94 a head. . River 'business .at, Astoria ' has in creased much lately. . '. . , .. ... '.'-" : ,-. :.: Through a hole in a pocket a Stayton man lost a $235 ring. , v.. -.. :.v r,;- ' Second good crop of " alfalfa cut la Polk county last week. ;. : " , V' ''-i. i : A large amount of fine cherries was picked around Mayger, . Sixty bushels of barley an sore was threshed near Sheridan. Many merchants of - San Francisco will visit jClamath. Falls. Fruit display at The Dalles pleases and astonishes all visitors. , . Automobile trade Is srrowing Into a large business la Klamath Falls. ---v.-' .. . .::. . .t!.::7'-; Resources of the First National barjf of McMlnnvllle are over $700,000. .. ' The "coming of the Oregon Electric will causo Eugene to grow faster than ever. . ' Probably no county in Oregon will turn off better crops this year, than Washington.. . ' Montgomery correspondence of Dallas Itemizer: Precious Irvine visited the Stow girls Saturday .and Sunday. j ... ... : -v.- v'"." A resident of that place reports Tolo to be booming. Forty buildings are to be erected there as soon as the lumber mill secures logs and the brick and tile factory will commence operation in i very lew days.-: ; , -.- There is tot a better . location in southern Oregon for a. fine business town than Central Point, claims the Herald. Commercially, she has the ad vantaged any other point in the Rogue river valley, and U destined to grow mtb a - place of great commercial im portance, i -t A native of Sweden who had been away from home and had not written back for 28 years; and who. for soma years past bad been a mill worker in La Grande, discovered through a news paper Item that his father whe-was very wealthy was dead, and that he had a large Inheritance coming to him. avoid the rain. His kite was raised. A thundercloud passed over it v No sign o electricity appeared. He almost despaired of success, When suddenly he observed the loose fibers of his string move towards an erect position. He now pressed his knuckle to the key, and re ceived a strong spark. How exquisite must have been his sensations at this moment! : Oh' his experiment depended the fate of his theory. Doubt and de spair had begun to prevail, when the fact was ascertalnedMn o clear a manner.- that even the most Incredulous could no- longer withhold their . assent Repeated sparks were drawn from the key, a phial was charged, a shock given, and all th' experiment made which are usually performed with electricity,.- . And thus the Identity of lightning and electricity was proved. Franklin's proposition ' to -erect, : lightning rods which-would convey the lightning to the ground, and so protect the buildings to which they were attached, found abund ant ; . opponents. Nevertheless . publlo opinion became, settled that they did protect buildings. . Then' the philoso phers raised a new controversy as to whether the conductors should be blunt or pointed; Franklin, : Cavendish, and Watson advocated points, and Wilson blunt ends. The logla of experiment however, showed the v advantage 1 of pointed conductors, and people' persist ed then ia preferring them In that form as they have done ever since. , . . .. July 30. 1775,' was the day set aside for fasting and humiliation by the pa triots. . It is the' date the Confederate states met In Richmond in 18(1 'and the first of Sherman's three battles at At lanta, In 1884. It is the . birthday of Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin (1788); of Ellsha Dyer, the Rhode Island phil anthropist (1811); Augustln Daly, the dramatist (1838); and Frederick J. Stlmson, the writer of law books and novels (1855).-, It is the date of the death of Robert the r Wise, king of France (1031), and ' Caroline Anna Southey, poetefs and novelist (1854). 7 dlda.V must be especially pledged to dis regard tho mandate of the people., - , This honest avowal of the Oregonian that, the "assembly", movement has for its prime object the destruction of the principle involved irt the primary law, which is th right of a majority of the people to express their Wishes at the polls and bind the men elected to office to carry them out will' tend very mucn-to simplify the issues in the com. ing primary election." : , ,' The question to be passed uppn by the voters, according to the Orcfgonlan, is, ahalt the people or the politicians rule? ine. ' assemoiy-; :repreents tne politi cians, ' who are making a desperate ef fort to regain the power they lost when the direct primary law went into effect 7 V 7: 7 Fallacies of Protection. -. ' From the Boston Globe. 7- We i may hope that the high tariff advocates will have " enough respect for the Intelligence" of; the voters net to "5 repeat the assertions, so familiar In prevTous campaigns, that high prices mean high wages, that the . foreigner pays the tariff tax, that a cheap coat means a cheap man, that the American workingman is .""protected' by the tar iff,; etc For all that is plainly. re pudiated by President Taft's slmpjo statement, and is contradicted by too many notorious facta , "The . fallacies of protection are al' the worse because fhey are covered with the nauseous slime of a pretended, al truism," said Dr. Eliot two years ago. He believes we have been hoodwinked ana nypnotisea py tne wora- "protec tion." 'inere are many signs that the hypnotic spell Is being broken, but Mr. Cockran Is certainlyrathcr optlrnlsjtlaJa ma nope inai in tne next campaign free trade -may be adopted as an issue by tne uemocrats. - The Burns postofflce still continues to indicate a large, healthy growth In the population and business of the com manity. The receipts of the office for me monio in uunn, lawa, enowea Sn in crease of 4b per eent over June, 1K07.- T ANfi LE FO QT Dy Miles Overhoit READ THIS AGAIN. v. V ang io the h aves. ' . WMrffnJdbl,owJfllrc;9 frorn the north.. . Winter comes staggering forth, Frost on tho fences and trees. ' ' ' ; lhermometer down to tho srround1 Turn to - the -right ero yV fiwse. ' Dont lace the. wind; turn around. Skaters whirl forth on the ice, : w?1!1111,13 rln out Bladsome chimes. Wind veering east In a trice, . - i..tni. i . niuuren snowoamng betimes. (' Read this again and once more. Discard every hot weather rule. Sap cooling drinks by tho score. iteau it aioua ana keep cool. 1 7 ' MY '-WANDRRTKa. BAT.-' - Where; is my wandering boy tonight, Ihe child of my tenderest care? , He's gone and things don?t seem Just right, . - L :,,-,-- He wonders every minute or two, . v mi, muKea ine raoonngnt Ugnt ' He wonders why the sky is blue, , ."::" And why the night Is night . O, where is my boy tonight? . T . O, where is my boy tonight? i His voice o'erflOws, . . ! '. For I'll full him Via Irnno. O, where is my boy tonight? " ' . , -. . , - y, .v .. -,-.: V, ' Once he was quiet and' kept histongua, But that was before he could talk, NrtW T four h tin. ffrartlraff m Inner ' Befora- he can hardly- walk. . ' T no wi-uuou wny ine ocean rous, -He wonders why is the earth, u. He wonders- it cows and sheep ' havo . souls, - And what a trillion is worth-' ' ' ' O, where is my boy tonight? ' O, where Is my boy" tonight? My knowledge o'erflows, " Correct? ' Goodness knows! ' , O, I hope he won't come tonight :'; Ilarmony and the Republican Party. Senator Moses E. Clapp In Washing ton la (a Washington, D. CH weekly). Harmony will not come to, the Re publican party by the- agreement of a few men in congress. The Republican party does hot and never did reside in the White House except la a representa tive capacity. : The : Republlcah : party does not and never did reside In congress,- axCept in a representative ca pacity, i It lives in the hearts and pur poses of the American people, and har mony will come whenever we.. return to" tho old theory of recognizing the voice of tho people as the voice of the party. , Tha lraublt la that w have come upon a time when wb forget that the r secret of Lincoln's , success, , was not alone Lincoln's greatness but his desire to wait that he might reflect the pur- j pose of the people. We forget that we have come to a point when the time honored policy, the very basic law 'of the autonomy of the Republican party, Is violated; when the policies of that party ara proposed to be banded down Instead of - being received from tne party Itself. There is tho secret of our misfortune; there Is the secret of our dlssensionl And If everyone of us could hold up our hands and a ear eternal allegiance to the dictum of anyone it would not harmonize the contending; forces that He in the background, and of which we are but the representatives. I would hate to belong to a political party that had a dead level of intellec tuality, and which was never. ruriiea oy Independent thought . Wo must have differences. It is right that we should have. In differences and debates there from -we get the Dest resrrtta Norls there any reason why honest aurer- ences should result in bitterness. We stand today at the parting of the ways. Not -. the parting within and among those who may feel themselves the self-constituted leaders of the ite- publlcaa party, but between us as a party and the. people win come uio parting, unless be heed what we know to bo the will ot the people. That does not Involve tlje idea that senators should blindly follow every whim and breath of popular approval that blows across the fields, but it means that on'-great questions the best. and the wisest judgment ia not that of us who are in the senate, somewnat ao- contuated in debate, but it is the wise and settled judgment of a great people. Bo It is wise and just tnat we aocept it and unless we heed it we reach tho parting of the ways the people will part from us. But if "we return to tho basic principle ipon which our party was fourMed, and which enaMed us to solve the problems of the past 60 years, namely, the principle of representation, , we will not only retain tho confidence of tho people, but tha details of legis lation will follow as a sequence. The American people are reluctant to give up the Republican party because tho people recognize, that in tho autonomy of the KepuDiican pariy--it us prin-. clnlea are lived up to is to be found the correct, party, the agencr for the solution of the problems or mis repucn lie If we wfll only stand fast to that . tradition of the "past the. people will be with usl ' The Ides of November. i77 7 ; 77 From the Woodburn Inftependent (Rep.) '' Machine Republicans cannot or will ; not see that this assembly movement will help put Democrats in office. Well, we'll have to wait until after the elee-" tlon. ' Even the' Multnomah courthouse Is liable to have some Democrats as occupants. 7 Just wait a little while. November will . soon be , here. Then, will the great Issue be settled, "hot at the direct' primary by'ariy' means. (CoDtrlbated to Tit Journal by Wilt Maoa the famous Kauaai jxxit. Ilia pobe-pof mi ara a regular Centura of tbta column io.'lbe lall' JouruaL) . ., , 7Tou are wasting your-lives! Like the' bees in their hives, you work for the . large silver wheel; and you stick to the Job tlllTyour nerves - are- a-throb, and -life is run down at the heel. : With moiling have done! - Get out in the sun and take from Dame Nature a fall ;, J f your future seems dark, chase yourself to the park, and Wok at the fellows play ball. I used to be tied to a desk, weary-eyed and longed fot release from life's Ills; I anchored, m hope to the horse doctor's dope, and filled up my" lnwarda with pills. Then a friend came aloiig he Was forceful and strong, and he carried me off, grouch and.all( and I sat on a board and I howled and I roared ' as the b6ys on the diamond played ball. Now I'd think It a shame if I should miss a game and I go at my labors with V!nTrandyr---prro-r nerves are a sight, and the dope is no more In the swim. When you're feeling too old and all covered with mold, and your picture seems turned t$ the wall, hire a livery shark and go, out to: the11 park, and, look at the fellows play ball! CoriTrlBbt,. mio, br ' --v A ll Good Advice' ' Georga Matthew A4amf. l-t'