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Literature la the thought
Of thinking souls. Thomas
Carlyle. .
WEARIED SO SOOX? -
WHY SHOULD their, be hesita
tion by the slate legislative
yy candidates as to what deslg-
nation to put ' after their
Tinmen nn tha nrlnmrT ballot? Do
any of them object to the words "as.
- Bembly. candidate"? If. so, are they
ashamed of the assembly bo soon?
Have they bo quickly wearied of
that glided air castle of which they
but yesterday had such beautiful
'visions? . '. ', ... :'J, ' '.
If th word "assembly": ts to be
rejected, theloRical thing; to do Is
to go on the ballot as "rump candi
dates." Or, if something more
euphonic Is desired, let it be "hump
candidates," Perhaps a prophetic
designation might be "dumped candi-
- dates." Of. course, there ought to
be some mark or sign in commemo
ration of the three , secret confer
ences of. corporation managers at
which the slate was fixed up. Per
haps the coat of arms of the railway,
light and power, company, suitably
engraved, would be a vote (Catcher.
After all, though, they ought not
to be a bunch of old-men-afrald-of-
- thelr-assembly. The slogan to ap
pear after, their. 'names,-should be
either 'assembly - intellectuals" or
neither Is acceptable, then let It be
'assembly hot-stuff." If 'assembly"
Is left off, ; how .. will.; the weak
minded people who don't know a
good candidate from a Missouri mule
be able to distinguish the genuine
from the spurious? How can that
word, be spared, from the ballot and
the voter be protected?-
THE MORX1NG AFTER ,
IP THESE remarks seem to require
further elucidation, the Ore
gonlan will Bay that it deems the
nomination of Mr. Bowerman. for
governor not the best that might
.have been made.: Oregonlan. ;
If these.- remarks seem to require
, further elucidation, The Journal will
also elucidate. ,. It wag the morning
after. There was that tired feeling
that always comes the morning
after. Like Dr. Wlthycombe, Dr.
Andrew CI Smith, Mr. Ackerman and
Mr. 'Moores, our esteemed neighbor
had met . Mr. Bowerman,, and was
"his'n." On the bills the show was
advertised' as a Republican circus,
but when the delegates got inside
the tent it proved to be Mr. Bower
man's ownest and onllest circus. 'Mr.
Bowerman was on the lid, and Mr.
Bowerman s delegates were under it,
Nothing, could escape and nothing
did escape Mr.' Bowerman. - Recall
ing that the people haven't sense
enough to select, and that these dele?
gates, were .called, together 'to make
a selection that would be the real
stuff, Mr. Bowerman Idoked himself
over.' He examined his pedigree, de-
, elded that his ancestry was , a long
line - of intellectuals, and that his
breath was untainted with vulgar
onions, ; It- all looked good to Mr.
,, Bowerman. . It was a real work of
art,1 beside which the Wlthycombes,
the Smiths, the Ackermans and the
-, Mooreses seemed to Mr. Bowerman
and his tried and true delegates like
cheap guys with low brows,
Of course the other candidates and
the "unowned" delegates were al
lowed to "have their hopes, and they
had them,? but: not for long.: They
were allowed to make speeches, and
play the statesman, and think they
were doing things. They were al
lowed visions of the promised land,
as a hooked trout la allowed to play
, at the end of a fisherman s line.. .
Ah, that morning after. It came
" so soon and so sudden. Everybody
was ' "worked" but-, father He
caught, 'em a-coming and a-going.
This- was government, by the high
brow method, 1 ; -
TUB MAXAGIXG BUN
RAFT IS never committed
for the public, but at the ex
pense of the public."- Gov
ernor Folk. ,.
At( Topeka Monday night," Senator
Brlstow charged that Senator AJd
rlch In the new tariff bill forced an
increase in the cotton duties when
the cotton manufacturers were not
asking it., He cited testimony be
fore the congressional committee in
which manufacturers said ''increases
were not needed."', Senator Brlstow
declared that, th lncreaaes. were
made to boom the stock market and
lor the benefit of , the stock gam
blers. ' " ; v t 1
At WJnfield, Kan., Senator Brls
tow recently charged that Senator
Aldrlch used his great power 4 as
chairman' of the finance pommlttee
h-int4evwHcrV-himseitr1it
ton and hi3 associates in the rubber
trust, , His charges were as follows:
That, 'under' the Dingley law there
wss a '30 per cent duty on manu'fac-J'.'-i'l
ruM.rr and crude rubber was
free; that the present, tariff law
passed the house without change on
either erode or manufactured rub
ber; that Mr, Aldrich's senate com
mittee increased the duty on manu
factured rubber from 30 to 35 per
cent; that during the session or im
mediately after adjournment he in
connection with the Guggenheiais
and Ryan organized the. Inter-Continental
Rubber company with $40,
000,000 capital stock; that Mr. Ald
rich's son became vice president and
general manager of the trust; that
immediately there were large , ad
vances in the price , of rubber, and
that during the ; first " three months
of the existence of the' trust Itpaid'
dividends aggregating 18.2 per cent
on preferred stock.
Of all this there has been no denial.-It
is not denied that the house
left tne duty at 30 per cent with
crude rubber free. It js not denied
that Aldrich's finance committee-vln-creased
the duty to 35 per eent.V It
Is not denied that Senator ,vAldrioh
and his son,- E. B. Aldrich,r are. di
rectors of the new ' rubber -trust,
along . with Senator Guggenheim,
Senator Guggenheim's , brother1: and
the son, of Thomas F. Ryan. - It is
not denied ; that the price of rub
ber was advanced and that an 18.2
per cent dividend was paid .In
three months. ,
In the meantime, rubber r is so
costly that but a limited few in the
country can afford to : buy - garden
hose for sprinkling lawns. It is so
hlgbj-prieed that it is an extortion
ate; tax, on every auto owner to pay
for his rubber tires. ? It isUbe al
liance of, business and politics with
a legalized graft;?;'- It is one til those
grafts that 1b never' committed for
the benefit ..of the public,,; but at
the ; expense of he ;- public. , It is
the part the managing man plays
in politics, and, strangely enough,
the managing man is trying to
work his way, back into control in
Oregon. He Is trying to take away
from the plain people the right to
select candidates and trying to
throw the election or senator back
into the legislature. "
TITE
CRIME OF- THE COTTON
GOODS .SCHEDULE .
T
HE STORY of the cotton, goods
schedule , in the present tariff
law is told with convincing and
enlightening circumstantiality
by Samuel M. Evans in the World's
Work. The members of the Ark
Wright club ;ln BoBton control the
cotton-yarn and cloth; industries of
the United States, nearly all located
in New England.; : Among these
members are II. F. Llppitt and J. R
McColl, president and, manager, re
spectively of two large Rhode Island
cotton mills. These ' men, ' constit
uents and neighbors of Senator Al
drlch, were deputed to4 frame: cer
tain amendments to', the cotton
schedule. The duty was very high
under the Dingley tariff,; and Mr..
Lippltt told the committee that the
cotton manufacturers' dil not ask for"
any Increase ';Of duty, only, f 'an
elucidation of some minor features ''
Litigation td construs the'law In ceri
tain points as to what; should , be
classed as colored . and mercerized
cotton goods was pending, and the
contention of the manufacturers was
finally disallowed . by the United
States : supreme court, ; sustaining'
lower courts. In discussing the mat-
ter Mr. Llppitt had said: "I know
I am right, because -I vrrote the cot
ton schedule myself." That referred
to the Dingley law; he aUo wrote
the amendments found in the pres
ent law. t
i ; Space does not suffice, to ,go into
detallB here, but these 'amendments,
if adoptedwould have, and did have,
the effect of raising the duties on
the entire cotton schedule and ; the
price of all cotton goods. To make
doubly sure, one amem'-ient did this
by provisions , as to threads J and
color, and another d'd it by chang
ing an ad valorem to a specific duty
of so much per square" yard. These
amendments- were so unreasonable
that even Chairman Payne, - who,
however, doesn't dive In New Eng
land, would not stand for them, and
they were 'voted down In the house.
Aldrich re-insertted them in the bill
in the senate-and argued laboriously
for them, but owing to lnv. tlgatlons
and disclosures made by Dolllver, La
Follette I and other , senators, they
were voted down in that body also.
But It is impossible to keep a pro
tection grafter down; thesa same
amendments appeared again in the
bill when considered fn conference,,
and It. was : reported and . passed ; by
both houses with these robber
jokers in, after they had been voted
out by each house separately. ; That
was the work of Aldrlch, He is a
very able man in his line, all right;
thus he -enriched the cotton manu
facturers nd made every consumer
of cotton 'goods in the United States
poorer and the cost of livrag higher.
Not only the progressive senators,
but experts of the bureau of statistics
have4 figured out the results of these
amendments, and agree that they in
crease the duty on cotton goods in
62 classes all the way from 25 to
460 per cent And the "heaviest in
creases are on the cheaper goods,
TVorn by poor people, those who can
rarely exist on their meager earn
ings. ' thanks to Senator Aldrlch,
life has become harder for them, be-
cause they must contribute more to
add to the millions of the combined
manufacturers. . ' .,''.
On mercerized goods-and ' under
one of these amendments a single
mercerized thread in a yard makes
it mercerized tlie duties were in
creased on 118 classes of cotton
'nefarious jokers prepared by Mr.
Lippltt and presented and kept in
the bill, contrary to the recorded
win of even the last high tariff con
gress, by Mr. Aldrich the mercerl-
zation Joker," ' the color Joker a
single colored thread will make the
whole piece of cloth colored now,
notwithstanding the courts and the
specific duty joker: And during the
life of this bill they will cost the
people of the country millions upon
millions of dollars. v .
A census enumerator, called on a
poor housewife, who invited him in
and said; "You go back' to Wash
ington and tell the man that sent
you here that I can't afford to buy
meat more than once a day; that my
husband can't afford to buy a new
suit; that the price of stockings and
underwear and even sheets and pil
low casea is so high that we can
hardly afford . to buy them. : Tell
him that I have three little girls in
school . and that ordinary cotton
goods costs so' much more this year
than, last year that I have to skimp
and scratch and save every penny
to make them look decent." '
There are millions of women and
children who are in the same pre
dicament, due to that tariff law and
to the Jokers of the great Republi
can leader and lawmaker,; Aldrlch.
Was It to this law and to him and
his , supine followers that the Ore
gon assembly "pointed with pride"?
nE DOESN'T KNOW
t:
HE SUPERWISE leaders indi
cated that whereas the voters
en masse were not capable of
nominating a ticket of intelli
gent, capable men, they, the. afore
said, leaders and advisers, could do
so easily. They could select men
who were ,. exceptionally . well-informed
and wise. Yet here comes
Dr, Wetfcerbee, ' nominated ' in his
absence, who confesses that he
doesn't know what Statement No. 1
is, doesn't understand it at all, -and
csnJt JelLwhether he is in favor'of
ic of not Now Dr. Weatherbee is
certainly a more than ordinarily In
telligent and educated' : man along
some lines; he' is successful in his
profession and ; In" business;, but. it
seem that when It comes to politics,
knowledge of the people's affairs and
Interests, be is more ignorant than
Farmer Smith or Carpenter Brown
or Teamster Jones. The : average
voter knows all about Statement No.'
1; might not the voters' be as able
to select candidates for the legislature-
as the "leaders" who selected
a man, and perhaps others who had
not taken enough Interest In politics
during several years past to learn
what Statement No, 1 is?
VIOLENCE IN PORTLAND
T
HE PHYSICAL attacks on team
sters, of which there have been
several', recently In , Portland,
ought to cease, No dispute can
be' settled by violence, and outside
the law. Whenever violence is re
sorted to, -it .invariably loses friends
for those who employ it. The Inac
tlon or the Portland police, more.
than anything else, is responsible, for
! the attacks that have occurred. A
large 'element. pX the Btrikers is op
posed to and counseling against vio
lence..",; Their efforts are : futile if
through some cause past understand
lng, the police do literally nothing
td; apprehend those .who have made
the attacks; 7 If the very, authori
ties themselves by their inaction give
license to men "to be violent, there
are always, some men who will be
violent. If the violence continues
the police department of the city of
Portland must assume the responsi
bility, What are police for? , , ,
Rudolph Spreckels, celebrated
graft fighter; returning from abroad,
where he met many. American mil
lionaires and big business men, sayB
that the "Interests" are preparing
some dangerous move to injure bust
pess temporarily for the benefit of
the "standpatters" who want to go
back to congress this fall and for the
general benefit of all the politicians
who have been brought Into danger
by the spread of Insurgency. Very
likely. The panic of 1907 wsft prln
cipally brought about by the "inter
ests," to discredit Roosevelt and
scare the people lnjo voting' for a
"conservative" man , for president
But this game will play out after
awhile. .
Representative Murdock of Kan
sas told the simple truthonly he
might .have amplified It when he
said in a recent speech: "For more
than a quarter of a century Cannon
has stood against' ; progress. He
opposed the federal inspection of
meals; he stood opposed to Irriga
tion; to currency reform, to the pure
food laws, to civil service reform; to
tariff revision, to railroad rate regu
lation, and to practically all the Re
gressive legislation since the ' Civil
warUvBut the Oregon representa
tives are in all things obedient fol
lowers and tools of Cannon, How
does this suit the voters ..of this
state? " -
Taking all the reports together,
the; prospect la that the country's
crop3 will yield much less than the
average, of the pa6t few years, not
withstanding some increase of acre
age. - Late spring frosts and recent
drouths have done great damage,
though this may , possibly; be exag
gerated.; -Prices in response to this
condition are going up, and farmers
of the Pacific northwest, where the
shortage is less than in other parts
of the country, " will , have another
very prosperous year, : ' ,
, But there Is going also to be
primary and the voter in the primary
will know who s who this time
Oregonlan. , He,, Surely ,nw)Iln TT
will know that the assembly ticket
was nominated by a collection of
non - representative, misrepresenta
tlve, corporatloncontrolled leaders
who are intent on taking away from
the voters certain very valuable
privileges and powers that they have
gained. This will be the first "who's
who" lesson. " - ,
' Mr.; Madrlz, successor and legatee
of the late President Zelaya of Nic
aragua, seems determined to cavort
around on his mustang and shoot
off his horse -pistol until Uncle Sam
will feet obliged to lasso him and
subdue his disorder. It is ; hinted
that this is what he wants, but his
imagination as to the injury, the
might accrue to Uncle Sam is highly
inflamed.. '
The Oregonlan asks what the 'In
terests" are. It professes not- to
know. But from information gained
from progressive Republicans , like
Dolllver, Cummins and Brlstow, it
concludes that the "interests" are all
right Just what it wants, and likes.
In occasional rare, unguarded mo
ments that paper lapses into a brlof
expression of candor.
The heading for the assembly
ticket is puzzling the leaders. ' Sev
eral captions have been suggested,
but none suit the superior-minded
advisers and leaders of the cattle
people. How,, would-this do : '.'The
machine corporation ticket; down
with reform and progress; the fool
masses be d "? . .
Tte Versatile, Curious
Roosevelt
Judson C. Welllver In Hampton's Mas'.
1 azlne.
Roosevelt, as we have known him thus
far, ts essentially Uhe agitator. Per
hapi, with his limitless versatility he
will presently appear in a . new phase
as a constructor: but his Renlua for
construction will be doubted until h
Shall have given , mora demonstration
than has been had thus far. It the
country heeds more agitation, It needs
more Roosevelt; lrjt wants construc
tive statesmanship.' it want fc leader
of proved capacity . for a constructive
tatesmanship. , ; . A ; v.;-;:, ::.::;:;-;v;r
Insurgency in fast drawlnjr together.
in one unity of aspiration and' purpose,
all the forces of progress, all th pow
en. of protest against the evil In the
present conditions. . : V
It la but a step farther to the bolder
program and purpose of organizing a
new party, insurgency has no venera
tlon for any party. , It Is more con
cerned for the results than for the In
strument. .
Will Roosevelt lead; the insurgent!
to victor? Perhaps no other man
could lead the new movement so strong
ly as Roosevelt, If he will but under
stand that the movement has outgrown
partisanship, become greater than par
ties. e must. Know that the time ts
past for dealing, trading,, trafficking,
with the Cannons and Aldrlches. He
did It for seven years, and . proved a
great bargainer In behalf of the public
interest , But the spirit of . the new
movement would be done with dickers;
it is making demands. It Is smashing
the ancient veneration for party names.
It Is full of the ldea-that parties' are
too often obstacles, and too seldom In
strumentalities for the acompllshment
or results. ;. It" la out to do something
bigger than any party now seems able
to do, & It must have leadership big
enough to understand what that means.
If the insurgents could be guaranteed
the sympathy , and all of Roosevelt In
the work they have been doing1 while
he has been out of the country,, their
early victory would be certain;
. .with Roosevelt as leader, with the
other Insurgents admitted to working
partnership , In , the enterprise, reform
will win. But a return to the ancient
idea" which puts the party Interest al
ways first will never satisfy. Not
even Mr. Roosevelt can carry ,the coun
try back to It -,;,-vv; ------;:; r ;;i ,;,
Roosevelt among many other Splen
did characteristics, has a habit of mak
ing .himself equal to .the emergency,
and It may be that he will prove him
self able to change his past practices in
rcgara 10 rerormers. ,, x.,
If, however, we examine his , record
we will see that there is good ground
for this chargj that Roosevelt cannot
brook : competition In the business- of
reforming. - Take the case of La Fol
lette. Roosevelt and . La . , Follette
seemed to be fighting for the same gen
eral ends. But La Follette was always
opposed by Roosevelt The La Fol
lette delegation to the ' Republican na
tional convention of 1804 was thrown
out of the convention. The patronage
and countenance of the national ad
ministration Were given without stint
to Spooner and the "stalwarts" In their
fight : to ; kill off La Follette ' Every
sympathy of Roosevelt was manifestly
with the antl-Follette wing. -
In Iowa, likewise, -during the long,
heart-breaking strug-le which Cummins
led for the destruction of the railroad
political oligarchy,' Roosevelt was al
ways counted against Cummins and for
te oligarchy. -v v -.; ,;; .,
In New York. Roosevelt and Hughes
did not "get on" well. , Roosevelt did
not understand toe Hughes way; he
opposed Hughes' primary election pro
gram,, which went to the very element
ala in the struggle to restore govern
ment to the hands of the people. When
Hughes, despite his ; opposition, had
become so strong that he seemed ab
solutely necessary to save New York,
the politician. In Roosevelt caused him
to force Hughes' renomlnatlon In 1908;
but It was done not that he -loved
Hughes more, but defeat less--
In Illinois, when the better elements
ere making a determined fight to un
horse Senator Hopkins, Rooeeyelt made
Hopkins chairman of the committee on
resolutions of the 108 national con
ventlon, giving him an indorsement that
resulted-ln Hopkins carrying the pri
maries and the unspeakable Lorlmer
becoming senator! .,. .,i..ir; .. ;; ..: .. ,
In Kansas, when Long, was fighting
for a senatorial ' renomlnatlon, Roose
velt's influence, was thrown to his side
as against Brlstow, , : , r ,
" In Oklahoma, Roosevelt was thp lead
er of opposition to a state constitution
which Intelligent publicists have widely
accepted: s the latest and most em
phatic word for progress In , constitu
tion : making.'v;j:.-5,;;-;w;:;?tf;
In 'Pennsylvania, the exposure of the
state- capltoh graf t having endangered
the Republican control, of the state,
Roosevelt spoke In favor of party reg
ularity at a time when every other
leader of reform sincerely believed a
Republican defeat would be , magnifi
cent achievement for the cause of pro
gress. . ..-.
' In Massachusetts; Roosevelt has al
ways and uniformly been th friend
and supporter of I-lenry Cabot Lodge,
who Is an absolutely dependable Tory,
- To such men - as Josenh O. Cunnnn.
James E. Watson, and other leaders of'j
Toryism In congress, : Roosevelt wrote
letters which, published at the height
of crucial political campaigns.' served!
aslndorftnjent8" or the reactionaries to
whom they were addressed.
f In Cleveland, Roosevelt practically
commanded Theodore E. Burton ' to ao
cept the Republican . candidacy for
mayor against Tom L, Johnson,', leader
of the remarkable reform and humani
tarian movement In that city. Burton
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE .
Aldrich is a great leader and the king
of grafters.
If Cannon will talk, he must' expect
to be shown up.
If Kst.herlnn' OTVIna n..n
out, she'll become an old maid.
The Wright brothers are alive and
sound; they appear to have quit flying.
.,,.
"Yflll linn' hv trt in mot-& fLnA
near, remarked the Albany Democrat
sage. -v
Perhaps If women were given the
light of suffrage they wouldn't want to
vote. . i
. - .-.,
There are nnnullata nniiB-h In Vehraa.
ka to hold a convention, but that is
about all, ,
Why don't the. Enffllnh nnllrft nslt
Conan Dovle where Crlimen is. and nil
about It?
Most of the officers, mllltarv and
civil, of Nicaragua, apparently should
be In Jail.
A vounar man Is so much la love with
a girl that he says she Is worth -her
weigni in oacon. . .
It is. not mint men who ran draw
$7600 a vear and t2O0O or an nernuialtea
for doing nothing.
w : v.'
"We are bound hand and font." av an
English suffragette. Around the waist,
ratner, out tne tongues are loose. ,
Pltv the rx)ot neoDle at the beahes:
how they must shiver these nights, un
less they have plenty of blankets. '
It l about time for the nnnnle nf
Portland to tell the war department to
neep.ua-nanas orr tneir local arrairs.
Another thlnir about Oresron: There
Is only one fly nere to about a million,
in proportion to human population, back
east.
Oklahoma Citv has Increased In tjodu-
lation 540 per cent In 10 years, "and is
now about one-fourth as large as Port
land. ,- ' , . . - . ; , .
Can anyXody point, with pride or oth
erwise, to anything Bills ever did for
Oregon during his long service in congress?-',
: Kternanlsm has Injured soma 200,000
?ople In this city, to an amount not
o be accurately measured In figures.
say 13.000,000. - -, ' ,
- Five people In an automobile raced
with a train 8 killed. 3 badly injured.
Yet other people will do the same thing,
In some, cases,: with like results. -:
John D., Andy Carnegie and the rest
of the multimillionaires are very care
ful not to give away nearly as much
as they are taking from the people.
: e'; ...-;,..,. .; .'-
A Chicago professor says skunks are
food to eat. But that people generally
on't believe this is shown by the fact
that the meat trust hasn't cornered
skunks.
n, T,. .wv;r.:;j:. ,;J.--:P -":fvrj, 'It-v.-s'-r'-'V
."When the colonel gets ready, perhaps
he will tell us what he thinks of M lie
trust made tariff law.- But more likely
he won't Some men's courage is over
estimated. ' "American women are the nlost beau
tiful women in the world," said the
Gaekwar of Baroda. - Then the gaek
waress told him It was time. for. them
to return home. y v ,
Champ Clark, minority leader of the
house, and Its probable future speaker,
Is a former college president who reads
his classics in the original without the
aid of dictionaries. ...
On' a building in Cleveland a notice
reads: "This Is John D's place. Rock,
efeller doesn't like it. but the announce
ment Is true and legitimate. The place
is a saloon, and the proprietor's appro
priate name is jonn u. bennapps. -
July 27 in History The Atlantic Calle Laid
On July 27, 1888, at 8 o'clock in the
morning, the Great Eastern arrived at
Heart's Content the American terminus
of the cable line. It would be diffi
cult to describe the feelings with Which
Cyrus W. Field, who, with his associ
ates on board, had watched the progress
of the undertaking with Intense solici
tude, day and night penned the follow
ing announcement to his friends In New
York, and which was received through
out the whole land with unbounded de
light: , Ai' v; v. !;;;
"Heart's Content, July 27. We -arrived
here at ? o'clock this morning.
All well. Thank God, the cable is laid
and is in perfect working order. i,,
CYRUS W. FIELD."
Strangely and happily enough, too,
the first , European tidings flashed
across the cable to the western hem
isphere was that a treaty of peace had
Just been signed between Austria and
Prussia, and that the blacks war cloud
which had gathered over all Europe was
fast fleeting away,
i congratulatory telegrams were im
mediately forwardd by Mr, Field to
the president, of the United -States, the
secretary of state, and to the honorary
directors of the Atlantic Telegraph com.
pany; The queen of England sent her
salutations to the president as follows:
The queen congratulates the president
on the successful completion of an un
dertaking which she hopes may serve
as an additional bond of union between
th United States and England." To
this the president responded with similar-
sen tl ments. -t-awv.-1-
Several previous attempts had .been
made-to lay, a cable across the Atlantic.
The first was made in 1887, when, on
August 6, a start was mada from Valen
tla, a port on the .west coast of Ire
land. Not very r?luch of the cable was
put out when a break occurred and the
end was lost. The Vessel, following this
misfortune, returned to Plymouth. An
other attempt was made . early the" fol
lowing year without success. The third
attempt was made on July 17, -1858. and
on the 17th of August the two vessels
engaged succeeded in landing Bafely
the ends of the cable, on the Irish and
Newfoundland shore. Complete con
nections were made with receiving in
struments, and the following message
was sent over the wire: "Europe and
America are united By telegraph. . Glory
to'God in the highest; on earth peace
and good will toward men." The event
was received with great enthusiasm on
both continents. The cable, however,
soon became Impaired and after Beptem-
had the support of the municipal mo
nopolies, the "regular" Republicans, and
Roosevelt! And yet Johnson received
nearly 10,000 majority of the vote; ? -
Ir such cases as these is summarized
the whole case against Roosevelt lead
ership. He Is for refornv but too often
against the reformers. ' He ' would try
to club reform Out of Payne and Can
non aid Aldrlch, and he has shown dis
position too often to snub La Follette
and Cummins and Tom Johnson and
others of their kind. . "
Assuming that Mr. Taft will not
again be president. We come "back now
to our original Inquiry. Is TRoosevelt
Inevitable? Is he tho destined candi
date of his party In 1913? '
It would seem to depend 'on Mr. Roose-
yelthlnjeltUha-lialIUk8 cities
with the Insurgents of his party, It
he shall 'cooperate with other progres
sives; if. he shall' adopt the, for hlip,
new policy Of driving Tories Instead
of , progressives .out of. the party; if
h ''shall cease to fight the La Follettca
and the Cummlnees, and. us4 his In
fluence ,to hold up1 their hands; then
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Springfield has 23 trains a day.
First grapes are ripe at The Dalles.
. .
Grant county crops have improved
lately. ; ' '
Corvallls is to have an oatmeal manu
factory. : . t ' ': .'-
r"Gold Hill will have a big "carnival"
July 28-31. - . .'.;;
t Cathollos will build a Sisters' acad
emy, at Burns.
Trait growers around Prairie City
have organized. , . ' 4
' A Cove man advertises for 30 cherry
pickers July 27. . , ;
New Episcopal church at Port Orford
Is - about completed.,
a '.v '.".,'
New cannery at Medford has 7000
pounds daily capacity.
It takes only 33 Silver Lake gooseber
ries to weigh a pound. '
....'. ,. . .a '
A Eugene man is raising mushrooms
and sells them for 31 a pound.
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Oakland hasn't houses enough for the
people who want tOvllve there. s
. i -'
; A Drain business man has a nlcft
name for a hot day. It ts Cool.
a a
.Wallowa county man has Inclosed 500
acres with a coyote proof fence.
a a ' '
Many newcomers have been in Central
Point lately, looking for real estate.
. a .
Hay was never before so high at this
time of year in the Nehalem valley
$18 per ton. , ; .
Planty of summer resorts right close
home, if you look around, remarks the
Albany Democrat. Now, that's so.
,
' 86 far, wheat is averaging about 40
bushels, and barley from 60 y 70 bush
els an acre around Athena,
.
Big Portland property owners and
business men ought to put up what Is
needed for that livestock show,- Jt will
pay them to do lt '
- Woman who intended to leave certain
relatives $25,000 ech left-off the ciph
ers, and they will get only $26 each.
Noughts count jwhenproperly placed.
There is an opening In Tillamook for
a wood yard. We are almost surround
ed by forest, but it seems that It is im
possible to secuse a cord of woodfor
anything like a reasonable, price, ,Bays
the Herald,.;...- ;...
During the month of June 830 people
registered at the government station at
Crater lake, and during the first 18 days
of this month 380 had registered. This
breaks all former records for this tlm
of year to the rim of Crater lake.
The Rogue River Valley Canal com
pany's big Improvements are going for
ward rapidly. A large force of men has
been engaged on the desert boulevard.
The elnal. which-runs ftve'mlles east
and west through the center of the des
ert is nearly completed.
It is estimated that fully 80.000 feet
of lumber will be milled from the four
logs of a tree cut back of Seaside. While
standing the tree presented an Imposmjr
spectacle. At' the base It measured 12
feet In diameter -and the first branch
was fully 100 feet from the ground.
The thrifty members of .-the hew Bo
hemian colony which has been started on
the shores of Tula lake,iputh of Merrill,
have made wonderful improvements in
the raw land which compHeed their
homes when the colony was first estab
lished -a few., months ago. Some 6000
acres were purchased and subdivided,
and the town of Malin was platted. The
raw land has been cleared and cultivat
ed, and the new town now presents a
thrifty appearance, and 1s growing rap
idly. ber 1. it was found impossible to trans
mit messages.
For several, years there were no fur
ther attempts to lay an Atlantic cable;
but'Mr. Field was still active ln fur
thering the enterprise arid enlisted new
capital. The last and successful attempt
was started on July 13. These vessels
accompanied the Great Eastern: The
Terrible, Medway and Albany. The trip
was attendant with little Incident or
trouble until Heart's Content Harbor,
Newfoundland, was reached on the 37th.
The success of the enterprise was now"
assured. 1 Mr. Field was the lion of the
hour. -Congress voted unanimously to
present him with a gold medal And the
thanks of the nation, while the prime
minister of England declared that only
the fact that he wag, a citizen of an
other country prevented his recetvelng
high honors from the British govern
ment. John Bright pronounced him "the
Columbus of modern time, who by, his
cable had moored the New World along,
side the Old." . , '
The Paris Exposition Universalis of
1867 gave him the grand medal, the
highest prize It had to bestow. He re
ceived the thanks of the city of .New
York,, with the freedom of the city and
a gold snuff box, the thanks of the
chamber of commerce of New York,
with a gold mdaV a decoration from
Victor Emanuel, king of Italy; an entire
service of silver, from the late George
Peabody, and many other marks of ap
preciation for his great service from
different parts of the world. , .
Today ; there are many calble lines
connecting the United States with Great
Brltan." The cost of a modern Atlantic
cable is about $2,800,000, and it is In
teresting to compare this amount with
the contract price of the first Atlantic
cable, which was, $1,100,000. This is
due of the great Conductivity, involving,
of course, more weight in the core, and
also to the Increased. price of gutta-pet-cha.-.
-.. .
Today in 1787 Fitch made' his trial
trip of his steamboat on the Delaware.
It is the date f the founding of the
DankfOf England; In 1604, and of the or
ganization Of the Alaskan territory in
1868. ,- July it is the birthday of Char
lotte Corday, of Ftance (1768); Thomas
Say, Jhe naturalist, .who explored the
Rocky mountains with Long's expedi
tion (1787); Eben N. Horsford, the
chemist (1818); Thomas Campbell, the
poet (1777); ' Alexander Dumas fils
(1824); and Cyrus Thomas, the Ameri
can scientist-1825).
laiiMMH aiki MBfMH'"lllMaBaaaaMa4aaMni
Mr. , Roosevelt very likely will be the
choice of his party. ,
But If Mr. Roosevelt shall Continue
his older policy" of opposing' and dis
couraging the efforts of reformers who
uare iry uj ao some reiorming without
first securing a dispensation from him
then It may fall out that - the. new
Insurgency will be powerful, enough by
1912 to, control a national convention
and nominate some man of Us own
temperament
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The first members of the Sixty-second
congress will be chosen in Ver
mont, where the state;, election take
place early in September. Tha returns
will be scanned closely by the leaders
,ofothpartIesa&.UiiiwlU. betaken
as an indication of the political cur
rent throughout the country. -i- .)
A movement ts under way In Dela
ware to have the coming Democratic
state convention arrange for a primary
election to doolde on the party's can
didate for United States senator.
TANGLEFOOT
' By Miles Overholt
SOME HAIR LINES.
All the faise hair sold In this country
at the present time comes from ' th
neaas ot aeaa Chinese. News Item.
Hop Long Chee was a leper, a loathe
some, sickening sight .
But hla hair , was long, and thick am'
stralR-ht and black ns thn. eha,i.
. of night. :'-. I . vv. .- ' I
At last he died, as lepers must and biff
body went to the grave, I
But his long black hair remained oil
earth, to fashion a marcelle wave.
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wing iiong sang was a roDDer Dota, an;
he killed and maimed a score.
But he died In awful agony to pay fo:
meaning gore.
And his hair was thick and 'twas madr
into a switch of auburn 'tone,
And milady' wears it proudly and calls It
. all her own. i , ,
Now. Yans: Ban Tansr was an imbecile
and his hair was matted and lonpi
Ana ne sat an aay oy tne countrysia.
and hummed a nitiful sone:
And dust and grime collected there, tot
ha never wore a hat.
But when he died bis hair was made intif
, , . miladrs rat :,
At Hongkong, Wing Hop lived to be k
nunarea years or age.
Spent forty years in an opium den Snc
th in an 1.nn o c
For he was cray as he could be, and hfj
aiea aione, airaia,
And his hair was sold and fashioned lnt
a bleach-blonde lady's braid.
VOh, yes," milady softly says, as sh
comos ner curiy iocks, " '
"This hair is mine, each strand of it'
But her visitor only mocks:
"Of course It's yours; no doubt of that
I saw It on the shelf
At . the store. . I know It's yours; yo
' paid for It yourself."
WHAT'S IN A NAME. -
"Wan time," said Pat "there wor a land
- wnose rismints wor sore, -O,
enure, they always had a grouch, an
vlt thev wanted more. ;
Shure, they'd get mad at Ivrythln', eacl
was a.reg'lar firebrand.
An' cause th' peoples'-Ire raised, the
caued me countnry lie land. '
A BASE IMITATOR. ' ,
"Ladles and gentlemen," said thegrea;
impersonator, "If , restaurant - boarder:
will kindly hand their firearms to th
Janitor, I will now endeavor to mocl
turtle rfoup," ,
The Assembly's Failure,
From the. Corvallls Gazette-Times,
It is sometimes necessary tq swal
low a very bitter dose. It Is not ftl
ways possible -to do it -however, with
out making a very wry face or Vga
glng" a little. Many asserablyltes,. t
majority of ?them after sober . though
If not already; will find It a gagglnf
matter to. think, of Jay 'Bowerman a;
governor -of this fair state. Those wh:
participated, trt the Assembly that nom
inated him will probably have; to atanr
by him, at least, remain quiescent, bu
the outraged many who see In his se
lection only the triumph of scheming
personal ambition and disposition t
control regardless of " the welfare o
the' party the assembly -was meant f
serve, these wlll be sorely tempted t
protest In the one ef f ective . way. f
No man. can honestly say that Ja:
Bowerman is a strong man; no mai
can- truthfully say -that he. Is of gu
bernatorial timber, nor cftft It be sai(
that , he is comparable in any sense t
either of the gentlamen ; he defeated
Certainly no man ..would be foolisi
enough to-' say, thSt any peculiar fit
nesa caused him , to stand out as th
one great . rnan ' the - state . has beet
longing" to honof, ; And lives .there f
soul with ignorance so dense as to say
that without "fixing" the Multnomal
delegations Bowerman would have re
ceived from Portland a vote double tha
given the . popular Dr. Smith, belovet
of all that city? The fact la, Jay Bow
erman is a weak sister exalted by poll
ttclans of the Pat McArthur stripe. H
Is not the choice of 1.30S unpledgec
delegates after sane consideration o:
the party's and the state's best Inter
ests. His nomination at the prlmarle:
is not certain, and the election Is los
if Bowerman goes out over vths statt
and shows himself. - -
Must Have Indorsement of Wealth
' From the Salem Journal. '"
The selection of Jjlmer Colwell for the
custom house at "Portland was accom-i
pllshed , by Dr. HenryT Waldo Coecolnj
to Washington, D. C, twice and secur
ing his appointment-
Dr. Coe la a man of great weaKh an"?
was able to get the appointment because
hecpuTJ up money in the campaign, 'anc
there la great Joy among tle machlnt;
ranks, v .::-r-::X. i :
But what a humiliating spectacle foi
the American people, that no man car
get an appointment unless backed by t
millionaire with campaign boodle tc
back; him. , j
What has 'the Republican party toex
pect but repudiation of such a machin
at the first possible opportunity? )
" Dr. .Coe Is a lavish . entertainer,! anc'
has one of the finest homes in the state,
and is In large real estate deals.
. Such men are probably necessary lr,
any: political party in this age of thf
world, when money rules in many ways
But will not all the money spent tc
get Colwell his position have to b
made back out of the people?
The machine collects its bills twice
oyer for all such expenditures, and the
people pay , those . bills. -
Tke Books We Buy
(Contributed-to Toe Journal by Walt Miaon.'
the famous Kanaig poet. Hi proae-poemi ara n
rRular featur ot tbla column la The DalU'
Journal.) - .. ... . , . . ... j
1 bought a hundred books today, and
one was fit to read. The others turned
my whiskers gray, and made my bosom
I bleed. I'm weary ; of the "gripping";
j tales you find In magazines, whose'
hawk-faced' hero seldom falls to save
some Zenda queens. I'm weary of, the
"vital" book that treats of marts and
slums, or gives the heart-throbs, of e
cook, or, lionizes bums, 'I'm sick of
stories "true i to - life," which give
minute detail of how some fellow beat
his. wife, and spent a : year in Jail,' -I'm
tired of those detective tomes which
spring some lifeless clay, in order that
a Sherlock Holmes may make a grand-'
Btand play. O, men and brothers! Is
it true that novelists should teach?
I'm tlredof all. the dreary crew. who
preaclwaQd preac h aud.preachtl'm.t
ionglng for the old-tlmo acrlbo who ex
ercised his brain (unjike . the modem
"problem" tribe) the world to enter
tain. -O for a novel with a plot, built
on the .olden plant For that VA give.
1 three tons of rot' writ, by the "vital' .
i.man! . - ,, .- . t - ...-(.'.
j Loi.j-rlKht, 1910, br ' ffh 1)1
K George Mnttfiow idams.' vvJjfJL U?.-!U
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