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TATIDM A 1 ; J kJ U 1C1N x.JJ AN INF E FENDKNT NEWSPAPKK. r. s. jacjoQX.... .ruMUher i ui.hobfl wHiy evening (eicept Snndnjl atid "fry T -ii(iT Binrpln at Ttaa Journal Bullil lS. Flail a'ud iauiliill ttreeti, Portland, Or. Ditprod at tha postofflee at Portland, Or., for ImnsmitsloB throujh tha malli ai aecond-claai matter. .." - Ttl.rrilONKS UnlB -173; Home, A-SOM. All d"partmrnti rtacbfd hj tbwe nnniUera. lell tht operator what deportment you want. FOREIGN ADVERTISING RKPRESEXTATIVB, Bn1mln A Kentnor Co., Burinwlok Building. J5 Hftb avenue. New Xork; 1O0T-O8 Boyc. Building. Chlcajtt. -. i , - -" . futwertptton Terma by maty or to any addraaa la U lulled States. Cairnda or Mexico: . . . DA.IH. s '-i',-One, jer........$5.00 j On mnnln. ...... I .50 . scsDAt. On year. ...... .2.B0 I One month. ...... .t -35 ' DAILY AND SUNDAY, ' Gn year.,......$T.oO On month, .83 K ., f . The only faith that wears i veil' and holds it a color in all weathers, is that 'which la wov en; of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. ; James Russell Lowell. i 'K- VOTERS MUST BE OX GUARD GF AlyL the rights which the vot ers of Oregon have won for themselves through the Initia tive, none is more vital than the right to elect United States sen ator by popular vote. Statement NO. 1 is the bulwark of this right. In the coming Session of the legisla ture an attempt will be made to eliminate Statement So. 1 from the direct primary law and to strip the people of the power which It confers tipon them. No man with eyes In his head and with brains in his cra nium can fail to perceive that this plot Is on foot and that it will bo ) consummated next winter at Salem unless ; the: conspirators vare fore - stalled by the people. ,. In one w ay and one way only .can the people insure the preservation of this al4Mmportant right,? That way lies in ; the nomination and election of Jegislatlve candidates who are pledged nVicomprOmlslngly "to the maintenance of the principle em bodied in Statement No. 1. Advocates bf . the assembly cun ningly argue that Statement No. 1 is not an issue in this campaign because no senator is to be electea at the coming session of the legislature. The argument Is false "and misleading, contrived for the purpose of throw ing dust in the eyes of the voters and deluding tem into a mistaken sense of security. VThe one prime ob ject of the campaign is to "stick the knife in Statement No. V-' as was bluntly declared many months ago by the assembly's chief newspaper advocate and organ. It was with this end in view that :the assembly lead era and their, allies, the public serv ice corporations, put forward their legislative ticket In Multnomah cOvin-iflf i ty. For precisely the same purpose assembly candidates are being placed in nomination all over the state. These men must be defeated and the opportunity; to accomplish their de feat "will be presented lft- the pri maries on September 24. But they cannot be defeated . theft unless Statement No. 1 candidates, are in the field against them. ' There is still time enough to bring forward Statement No. 1 can didates for the legislature, and it is the duty of every voter who believes in the principle to see that this Is done in his own county.;; Nominating petitions for Joint legislative candi dates'that is for candidates whose districts comprise ; more; than one, county must be filed with the sec retary of state not later than Satur day, September 3. - Nominating peti tions for legislative candidates who - are to be voted - for in oe county only are filed with the county clerk and the latest date of filing Is Sep tember 8. Full Information as to the form of the petition " of as to - the - number of signa tyres required can be obtained from any county ; clerk or by refer ence to the provisions of the direct primary lawt -' 1y-- ';'-( The machinery is simple. The pro visions of the law are clear. To put good candid at esin the field Is easy. The duty of the Individual voter is plain and unmistakable. If this duty is neglected, the reckoning that must follow will be heavy. MOVING PICTURES THE MOVING picture industry is being subjected to the super vision " of volunteer moralists and others and much comment Is heard pro and ;con. The extrem . Ists demand that pictures fit for pub licity must not reproduce elopements or even kissing other than by rela tives,.; Some demand absolute prohi bition of the moving picture houses. : Others comnlaln that thA mmin tsia. lure houses are the rendezvous f . young boys and girls, and that the exhibitions of criminal exploits arouse in immature minds the spirit , of emulation and the darkened con dition of the theatre JeadS to Im- morality. ' ' ; . ' A member of the New York-board of censors of picture films in Wew . York said recently to the New York Sunr'The picture show is the noor , man's theatre and to forbid the pro-1 ductlon of ; all scenes of .violence, crime or suicide would be to forbid ; the Chief motives ot drama and lit erature. ; To do so would be to for' . bid dramatic pictures; ' and exciting. Interesting and dramatic pictures are ne?essary snd desirable,' It would be , lmnnsKlhla to tindertaUn in oilmlnota everything which might fire the Ju yeniie imagination." But the board doe condemn, it was explained,. 'l . ESagXSaxjhjuUI.firnhar roing, or such as are believed to sugiest similar - (that ,1a,. criminal) eels to the audience; also pictures of wanton cruelty to animals and unnecessarily brutal treatment of human belnss, and nil pictures whose j cniei appeal is to moruiu sjiireuOT. To prohibit the moving picture show nnyrely because the cheap en trance fees ensnare the young is ab surd. It would be equally sane to prohibit the maintenance, ot soda fountains at the corner drug store because boys and girls form : unde sirable acquaintances . there under the influence of a "pineapple flip" or a "coca-cola." The moving picture show,, today plays a similar part In youthful diversions to the Bertha M. Clay and Frank Merrlwell novels of a Xew'years ago. The country sur vived the one without prohibition, and will undoubtedly emerge from the other more or' less unscathed. - On the other hand, there no question as to the advisability of censorship of all films and the con sequent elimination of dangerous features.. The moving picture man ager should be required to regulate the nature of hlB exhibits and the conduct of his youthful' patrons. Crime should be. kept' off the. mov ing picture screen. , But a national board can hardly tw expected to reg ulate very stringently. - As admirable as Is their contention about their splendid activities, it Is to be re membered that, few, large business enterprises can be depended upon to chasten their own morals. The brewers in some states have taken It upon themselves to regulate saloons. Meantime, while the warfare wages, it would ba well if the par ents of these much-mentioned chil dren would appoint themselves "cen sors" of thejr children's amusements and Inform themsel ves f as to the character of ' the moving picture films by -actual inspection, v ::y ,;-;v' POIXDEXTER LOOMS BIG T HE PEOPLE i ot r the -state - of Washington must be asserting ' their; right : to rule when conditions warrant three can didates for United States sena tor in . making a combination for purposes, "of (defense. It is ; an nounced from Seattle that plans, art Lunder way; for an "amalgamation," so to speak, of the standpat candi dates for the senate in an effort to defeat Polndexter, : who , seems to have spruqgInto a dangerous rival in a .very; short time, A few years ago Polndexter was ; a struggling lawyer, fighting to keep the wolf from the' door, while at least some of the candidates now opposing him were controlling millions of dollars; Yet, when the people get opportun ity to speak in matters political, a common man may take the honors usually reserved for the millionaire. The condition in Washington politics la peculiar. ' Arrayed against Poln dexter is' the owner of one of Wash- fntrtnn'a trranr nAWtnonon. tVi ftwnp.r 6everal 0f Seattle's big buildings, and a lumberman of great wealth. All three candidates hall from the west side of, the state, while Poln dexter " comes from the "cow coun try." as that great belt of grain pro ducing land la familiarly, if not light ly, called.. Now these three captains of finance are to get together and agree which one Is to defeat the in surgent candidate who seems to have the people behind him. It is said that large numbers of letters have been sent to prominent business men of the state asking them ; to say which man of the three is likely to carry the most votes In the particu lar section of the state being thus tested by a straw bajlot. THE ANTIBILLBOAKD CAMPAIGN LOWLY but surely," remarks the Spokane Spokesman-Re- .tew; "the fight against the billboard gains ground." There Is some foundation for this statement in reports ; from various places. Massachusetts has taken some step? toward strict regulation of billboards. Chicago and San Fran cisco, are .not noted as centers of civic virture, but both, ' as well as many other cities, have declared war to some extent on the billboards. In San Francisco, and probably in other places, the real estate dealers have formally denounced billboards as an Injury to property. Even Seattle is moving for -repression of the "nui sance," Washington. D. C, grants no more billboard permits. In some cities, it is reported, leading mer chants have abandoned billboard ad vertising. : While all this and more along the same line that might be stated is. true, we suppose It will be a long time yet before . the .big billboards will disappear. - They fll Jo ...Home ex tent a demand that seemB entitled to some degree of recognition, but most people will agree that the movement for the City Beautiful will operate I everywhcre toward their suppression or restriction in size and character. WHEN MONEY WAS NOT NEEDED NEMIES of the direct primary in this and other states frequent ly urge that the cost to candi dates for such an office as United States senator Is prohibitive to any except men of large wealth. It is refreshing to read the words of Judge" John D. Works, who won the nomination for senator in.Callfornla I . nave made my campaign for less than Jl 000,7 he says, ''by con- lining my expenses to legitimate and necessary" expenses, thus demonstrat ing that an American citizen need not be a millionaire to run for the United States senate from California. I had no organization and no paid workers anywhere in the state. , I have neither expected nor received MlBaBaWBrtp-of anyirtnd: .This Is the kind of roan who re ceived the indorsement of th rt. I publican voters of the state the first J time they were given an opportunity THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, TOnTLAND, SUNDAY to express their choice br direct vote. ' He Is indorsed for the seat now oc-; cupied by Frank P. Flint, whose pre vious occupation was that of attor ney for the Southern Pacific. "It was the" same Frank P. Flint .who : announced be would not be a candl-l date to "'succeed himself because of ( the excessive cost of , a direct pri mary campaign.- . r doubt Flint was right, so far as hewas ebpeerned. It would have required a capacious barrel to pur chase for h'lm the Indorsement at the primaries. But for a man like-Works, making an appeal direct to the peo ple on a people's platform, the money was not required. ASSEMBLYITE EFFORTS r T IS REPORTED in the morning paper that by "a vigorous cam paign of education the assembly Republicans of Oregon will offset the misrepresentations that have been put out by Democrats and ir regular Republicans." The assem blyltes,: it Is further stated, aTe golnc to send out large quantities of liter ature to the' voters. "This is well; voters not as ignorant as imagined by 'some assemblyites, will be on their guard against, "misrepresenta tions." If there is any trick In the line of "misrepresentation' ;'; that some of the assemblyites don't know and won't" employ," it will be a sur prise for1 anybody who can discover it. ' ' ' "Democrats and ,irft?gular Repub Hchns" should be closely watched, no doubt; yet they mighLoccaslonally tell some truths, and take a notion to do about right.'- By the way, there are so many "irregular Republicans', these days that, the "regulars?, ap pear to be becoming few and scat- ering.V Ti -'-0' ' V ;;.;. S'r And why shpjald thf assemblyites Bendlout; "Uteratureand "argu ments" ...to th illiterate and incom petent voters? Chairman George and other assemblyite leaders argue that the. common people, the voters gen- j erally,' are ignoranti unfit to. select candidates, incompetent to vote on laws, and are only capable- of vot ing ."straight ticket," selected by some self-constituted leaders. Then why Bhould these people be sent stuff to be read, or thought about? There Is a waste of corporation or other funds here; all that Is necessary to send out to the cattle people is a cheap leaflet, saying: "Vote 'er straight. Hurrah for ps." .But the assemblyites are realizing that they have a difficult proposi tion on their hands. They are ap pealing to the very people, who they say are not tit for self-government. Their game of fooling the masses cannot be forced through as it used to be.y There may not be1 many Dem ocrats,lbut the political woods and prairies and streets are alive with "Irregular Republicans." PURE FOOD a LARMING manifestations of the iU reckless djsregard of human rV; health engendered by commer- clal' greed are shown in the re sults of prosecutions for food and drug adulteration by the department of agriculture of the United States ' during - the last year. " ; Chicago has been found the center of unlawful activity among . manufacturers and firms of national reputation have fallen into the net, . For instance, one great packing company was fined for purveying a preparation of cotton seed oil for "imported Italian olive oil.". Tomato catsup of another large concern was found to . contain decomposed sub stance. and to be unfit for consump tion. Counterfeit cider vinegar and fruit extracts, highly adulterated and discolored, were numerous.; The same was true of maple 6lrup and even of Neufchatel cheese. Several "dandruff cures" and "complexion beautifler8";wer,efound to have no more potency than chalk. Government chemists have con demned some of the most widely ad vertised "soothing slrups"Tand "in fant's friends' as bby killers. There seems no limit to which some manu facturers will go to glean the dollars of distressed mothers, who read the extravagant "ads" ot bogus prepara tions and expect to gain relief for their babies from "remedies" which are actually tinctured with the germs of death. , It is a deplorable state of affairs when the careful housekeeper, when she goes shopping, must arm herself with a list of dangerous t foods and drug's. .While in some sources there is criticism of the work of Dr. Wi ley's experts, there remains the fact that foods may be prepared without suspicion of poison and without adul teration. Those are the safe foods to buy and except for the work of the national health guardians; the mar ket, would be flooded with disease bearing concoctions. ESPERANTO . R BMAINING open to any argu ment yet to be advanced In be half of : the Esperanto move ment, we are bo far unable to see any prattlcal or even any artisr tic . or moral merit ln it. Tho an nounced purpose of it is to provide and put Into-use, a common world wide language. This sounds fine, but it Is about as Impracticable .as a common world-wide climate, one equal j sayt to that of, Rogue River valley. ' . ' ' . , . ' , One point of criticism that might be made against these linguistic en thusiasts is that they cannot agree among themselves on the exact form of language to . be used, any . more than the ad vocat.es of ' simplified spelTIHg "coulcTagree ., on ; the orthoR- rapny or many words., Mr,, Brandefj lununcws. ior example, naa a .di;fer 1 killed a girl, has been held in 25 -ent 'Upt of reformed words from, that 000 bonds on a charge of Murder or worked oufby Andrew , Carnegie--1 manslaughter, andf the evidence and so it was all along the linp. Onei fervent local ' advocate of reformed , snellin? insisted, for ' instance, in ! spelling "the" "dhe," and there wre all sorts of . differences among the, orthographical reformers. . So It is with the Esperantolsts. They agree on the grand Idea that there should be a common language, one spoken by a Philadelphia law yer," an Oxford professor, a Hindu sa p-ant, a. Digger Indian, a society belle and a hobo asking for a substantial handout; but they differ as to Just what this language should be. If It could be left solely to Esperanto xytAt T.w t3.,rf on wmtiri h; well; ha could not doubt devise andj use a languag suitable ror an a cent' people, at least; but nobody else would entirely agree with him and submit to; his decision. - Considered more seriously, the Es peranto echemeseems entirely Im practical. No literature of Value can be thus manufactured. Language is a thing of slow evolution, and de pends on myriads of varying Ideas, emotions, thoughts, impulses ahd conceptions. It ; cannot be forced upon differing people any more, evn less, than one form or toncept of re ligion ,could be, through a Society of Promoters of tlniversal Religion. The use of the English language will doubtless, increase, in the world, , but - not until many evoluting gen erations have passed, if ever, will a large potlon of the people of Eu rope cease to speak French, other portions Spanish, others German, and so. on. And the world will bo a good deal older before the China man wilt conform in common speech UP v the Esperanto concept ; of our friend Mr. Barrett t .. f SIX ACRES AND RICHES , -'.-;'. -'.i , ri-. ,: 1 ,' 4 c y?V-N" WOMAN, Mrs. Alliscfn, living "nearxPrOBSorr Wash., owns and cultivates six acres of land. How she happened to be pos sessed of only this rather Irregular, jf eVPn numbeP 0f aCrea jn that wide country lp not explained, but accord- lng to a supposedly veracious local story; this Is what she has.- Nor does the story detail whether she Is a widow, or has a husband who has learned to live on the principle that everybody works but father. , V ' ' But the Jact 'of interest to the gen eral public Is that on. this six acres Mrs. Allison raised last year 6000 boxes of apples -that she sold at a price that netted her over - $7000. Very likely she raised, some, other things also vegetables, chickens, and posslbl? - children, ; but . the apples alone brought in $7000 above the year's expense of raising them. To many eastern people1 this true story will be incredible, but out here la the Pacific northwest it is scarce ly remarkable. It Is thus mentioned here more as a typical than as a won derful incident. ; There Is a helpful lesson in the announcement from Payette, Idaao, that the demand for the cantaloupes produced in the valley surrounding that busy town has overwhelmed the producers, leaving orders from a number of cities unfilled. In connec tion with this must be taken another significant fact, that the price be Jng paid for . Payette cantaloupes iis nearly: double that offered for the product of any other section of the northwest It lsjvell to remember that but a few years ago' the Pay ette country was , considered ; worth less except as sheep and cattle range. Men-pushed .across the valley in an effort to- reach-land farther west and for many years refused to con sider the possibility of home build ing in a section so uninviting. - But with the development of-irrigation in the Intermountaln country, . men dis covered that the "light sandy soli was wonderfully productive, and that the most highly flavored fruits and veg etables would grow to perfection It was not long until the apparently worthless land was selling at $500 to ) 1000 -per acre -and the e'nd is not yet. ' The call for help comes from the fruitgrowers of the Milton-Freewa-ter district. While fruit is ripening rapidly it is said that men and wo men cannot be had to gather and pack it, and thousands of ' dollars' worth of early varieties are sure to be lot. While in the cities hundreds of men remain in ;self-infllcted idle ness,, the grain fields and thrf orch ards call them to labor but they heed not. The loss of ripened frut is unpleasant to consider, when one thinks of the high cost of living, lor the cold days of . winter will soon come, when the .dish of choice fruit will be passed spaYlngly because? of short supply. And yet some people complain that' there are too many people in this country, already! AllOregon is interested ln the ef forts of 'Gene Simpson of Corvallis to establish the Chinese pheasant as the game bird of the northwest. In troduced In this country a . quarter century ago, the pheasant had a hard time of it for a number of years be fore men could understand its value to the state and to the country. Sportsmen with broad views saw the opportunity, to build up bird shoot ing in Oregon and spent good money in encouraging propagation of the birds. To men like Mr. Simpson, whose love of the beautiful, as well as enthusiasm for true, sport impel them , to. take advanced , positions in any mattor .of common good, tho state will alwayg owe a debt of grat itude. A.. mlllloaafceewYrker-whfrr mobile;- crashed Into a carriage and- T,10RNIIC, AUCUwT CI, shows carelessness oa his' part it Is to dg nopea uiat u.e ijuiu&uint.nt be severe. An example needs to oe made of some of tha millionaire speed maniacs who are reckless and regardless of poorer people's lives. Not that a person should be pun ished, for a wrong act because he is rich, but the law should show a rich man in such a case no favor because of his wealth. ; The Los Angeles Times, an ex tremely "regular" and "conserva tive .organ, 13 naturally greatly dis gruntled at the result of the recent primary, election in California. In it does not believe in primaries v' ev v - -'""- rails iengimijr ti.iae reiuiiucia ui Oregon, whom it says the California "reformers" have copied after, "Re formers," it : says, "are a i, funny bunch." : They -are; Hhey are "hav ing oodles of fun Just nbw, with mora In prospect, at the expense of the regulars and. standpatters. , - , Within' a month, America's, great est army, that which attacks 'educa tion, will again fall' in line at the call of the school bell. What a tr$ mendous Institution the schools are, what a force f orgood , what a bles slng to youth and old age! Few peo ple stop to think of the wonderful f orceof 20,000,000 little heads all bent on'ope-object, all busy with one purpose." And that is what the school army really' means. The mayor of Ottumwa, Iowa, has been ousted from his position - for permitting gambling in the town, by a decision of a court. This .is a' warn ing that 5 other executive officials may do well to heed. They are sworn to enforce the laws against crime, If they don't -do BO" a Just: Judge may tutri'them out of office, V " Tramps should be made to work, argues and urges an exchange. -.This may be unconstitutional. Many other persons than tramps decline to work. But at this season of the year at least people who do work would do well hot to feed tramps. There is no excuse in this region for a man to be a bum, - ' v. . There is something wrong with the poultry business in Oregon when dealers are compelled to- ship a car load of Mve chickens from Nebraska to Portland during the hot" weather of . August. ' It , looks - like - carrying coals to Newcastle to ship poultry to one of the best poultry sections of the country. ' " ' ' It Is not only the far western cities that are growing rapidly, . De troit shows up, according to a censuu bulletin,, with a population of 465, 766, a gain in 10 years of 180,062, or 63 per "cent. This is a record of which the bly Michigan town may well be proud. ' . " ji ' - ";: -.; -. ; . The pig iron , production of the United States, according to the Iron Age, was 25,795,471 tons in 1909, and 15,012.,392tons.for the first .i of 1910 as against some 9,000,000 tons in 1895 and In 1896. The sup ply of ore is practically lnezhanstl-. bleOtv.:'' Why don't Brothers, Ellis and Hawley now- come openly and val iantly to the defepse of standpatlsm and Cannonlsm? Are they going to play insurgent? It's nearly time for a wheat block ade. Fine Collection of Jonahs. - -- From th New York Evening Post. The Republicans are daily adding to their fine collection of ; Jonahs. ;,- Sena tof "Crane of Massachusetts, .appears now to have becone the " expert au thority for the administration on the subject of who Is to Je heaved over board, and has been , traveling from place to place to Indicate who Is tiext to be cast Into1 the - angry political waters. Speaker Cannon was long ago marked as the chief victim to be thrown to the ''great fish" of - the Bible nar rative, ;popularly supposed -to be very like a whale( but possibly a prehistoric submarine with excellent accommoda tion's for politicians temporarily In re tirement Secretary.; Balllnger Is : also August' 21 in History -On the death of Edward IV, ln 1483, his crafty and unscrupulous brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, gathered quickly into his hands the reins ot power, proceeding with . consummate audacity and : ruthlessness to sweep every strong rival" out of his path. Con ten tin g him self for a few" weeks only with the title of Protector, he sooti dis puted the validity",: of. his brother Ed ward's marriage, .caused an.. obsequious parliament to set aside the young sons whom the latter had - left. . declaring them to be illegitimate, and placed the crown on his own head. The,, little prisces- (King , Edward V and Richard, -Duke of York), immured ln the 'tower, were murdered at their uncle'B command, and Richard III ap peared, tor the time, to have triumphed in: his ambitious villainy. But popular as he made himself in many cunning ways, his deeds excited a horror .which united Xancastrlans with the party of York in a common detestation. Friends of Henry, F.arl of Richmond, then in exile, were not slow to take: ad vantage of this feeling. Henry could claim descent from the same John of Gaunt, son of Edward III, to whom the house of Lancaster traced its lineage; but his family tbe, ; Beauforts sprang from the mistress,' not the wife of the great Duke of Lancaster, and had only beeh legitimated by act of parliament; una Lancastrians,' nowever;, were satis fied with the royalty of Ma. blood, and the Yorkists were; made content by- his promise to marry a daughter of- Edward IV. On this understanding being ar ranged, Henry came over from Brittany to, England, landing at Milford Haven on the 8th or Aiifuist,. 1485, and ad vancing through Wales, He was Joined by great numbers as he moved. -,' Richard, who had no lack of courses. marched" quickly to meet him. and the "ra.u nMdniu uiviBiun or nis firrny and .ho -saw-that his fate 'was .sealed He plungvdt wun dBsrralring rage, into the-thickest of the strufrKle and was slain. . His crowned helmet, which,, he lui J. prettv gen,cra!l- b firmed upon ns bound fyr the fame destination. And now It appears that Alilrii.-his.n, If not AMrloh himself, must, in Senator Crane's judg ment, be similarly unloaded. At ajiv rate, fifu-r the recent confer ences With the Rhode Island senator, It is announced that he la firm in his in tention not ,to seek another election, and alBO that he will booq make a puouo latonient explaining or refuting the chargea brought against him by a brother Republican, Senator Bristow of Kansas. - As this will break Kr, Aid- rich's consistent habit of 30 years In not retilvinar to calumnies, w sea how strong the- feeling has become that In him bis party" haa a burden grievous to be borne. . . We notice that in the west tha Jonah figure of speech is less In use than that of tha scapegoat, The latter Is. in fact, more expressive and more pertinent to what Is actually going on. To pounce upon a Jonah and fling him into tho stormy sea is to Imply a very strong conviction of his personal guilt; Where as to single out a man as a scapegoat, and-send him off Into the wilderness, may simply mean that he, though pos sibly a very good fellow, has to be made a sacrifice of for the sake of the party. i ne terse ana epigrammauo west cans this "making a goat" of a politician) still more picturesquely, "making an Angora'' of him. We observe that thi is what Mr, Balllnger's pastor, who is now in New York, fears will be done with the -secretary; Knowing his par lshloner to be "pure : and t above re proach," the Kev. Mr. Matthews natur ally resents the evident purpose of the Republican party to "make a scapegoat of him." "If it does," adds the clergy man, "yoii will hear a roar of 'protest coming out of the Rocky mountains that will make the noisiest .volcano la the world bury its head In shame." - A Cannon or Balllnger or Aid rich has, innocently or otherwse, become the em bodiment of tendencies In the party which the people strongly object to, and so, in order to placate the voters, a movement Is started to disown and .dis place the men who have. given the of fense. But note the inevitable result The step Is felt to be a tacit confession that the worst which has been charged is true. Thus whether the offending members of the party are clung to or thrown over, a bad Impression has been, created and Is . certain to do political damage, to the party. If nothing la done, people will sayt "You confess that you have unfit leaders, yet you are either unable or unwilling to" depose thorn." On the other hand, If those who the public says "must, go" are made to go. the cry will be raised: Well, you kept them Over only because you-were frightened, a How do we know that you will not speedily take them back again. or that you have not still with you many: others as, rascally! , - In all eerlousness, It Is very difficult for a party Betting out to remove handi caps in a campaign to do so with any asauraflca that, politically, a bad mat ter will not be made vorse. Today, for example, the real mischief has already been done. Whatever cloud Cannon and Ballinger and .Aldrlch could cast upon their party prospects this year, is al ready lowering and , black, - and It Is doubtful, if anything can now be done to remove it - , " All thU Is not to say that parties are not bound to try . to tone themselves up' by .sending men under suspicion to the rear. Be the , Immediate political effect good or bad, the thing must be done., Ships that have sprung a, leak have no option about jettisoning m part of their cargo. They may sink- if they do, but they" certainly will If they do not. xet when all is said there does remain something , comlo In the Idea that a party which" has obviously be come unpopular may at once recover popularity by disowning unpopular men, lr is too, much like the futility of th butcher who sought to reassure a cus temer about some Questionable meat b? telling nun that it was not it but the butcher himself that emelled bad. ; Pertinent Political Paragraphs. From the Woodburn Independent (Rep.V We may be In -error and r one Is liable to err but We are of the opinion that Wallace McCamant, assembly can didate for supremo Judge, will be. the lowest man on the minority ticket. Permit us to observe during vacation perlod-tbatrvhen , the political ball be gins to roll It Will be very palpable that the assembly ticket Is not near so strong as ltiused to be, ..-----fie- We hye particularly inquired of those who travel over the state what the feeling Is generally In regard to the assembly. , Invariably the, answer is that for every one of the assembly there are 13 against It but the dozen say little, It Is this quiet, determined faction that will decide the day at the direct pri mary. Their minds are made up. . Dr. Calvin B. White, secretary of the state board of health, who has been in vestfgatlng typhoid cases in Roseburg, stfys that the disease was not caused by the city water, but from water drunk from private "wells. -Dr. White said that he found no indications of typhoid terms ln the city water, but Tinon anal valng samples taken from -several wells had found eymptons at the dreaded af fliction, 'which shows! that people- of towns should avoid the use of well wa ter. It is the water' that Is In motion that Is, pure and safe, i , - ;Deatli of Ricnard III had worn, was found by Sir Reginald Bray, nattered and broken, " under hawthorns bush, and placed on the head of his rival, who soon attained a mora solemn coronation as Henrv VI L Both the character and personal ap pearance of Richard III have furnished matter of controversy. He was regard ed as' a tyrantby hls subjects, but at the same time he was not destitute of some good qualities. As klngr ha seems really-to - have - studied Jiis cotrntry's welfare, passed good laws, endeavored to put -an end to extortion, declined the free . gifts offered : to ; him by several towns, and . declared he would rather have the hearts' of his subjects than their money. . r f;" -. ,-"'; ,i ., . Tradition is divided as to Riehnr'. personal appearance, and the story of his deformity Is possibly derived from Lancastrian malignity and from a mis understanding of his nickname, "Crouch- oaca. lire race m an the nortralta extant of Richard Is a remarkable one, full of energy and decision, yet gentle arid sad-looking, suggesting the idea not oo mucji oi a. tyrant as of a mind ac customed to unpleasant thoua-htn. Tin. where do we find depicted the warlike luuu-nrorea visage attributed to1 him .5l'T?0??m -More.-. , With such, a on um uie aong reign or tha PlantagerietS icnumaie. xne nerce spirit and the valor of the race never showed ; more Strongly , than at the close. The middle 8 V 0O' as,iar as England was con Bu,nny o Mia to have Dassed away with Richard III. , V F August S1V 1808, occurred the battle of Vlmerlo, Portugal, ietween th Eng Ushand French; the irst of the jo?t meetings between Lincoln and Douglass took -place In 4858- ad the .Charter; Oak t Hartford, Conn., blew down In 1858. Jt is the birthday of St Frances de ciob, ina ceienrareri vrot,nH . k I I 1 Sn7 1 . V 1r tm - TtTllll ... . J X, ;,L'-V, ,,:c .artL f erry the hero ii.."." Vl are. (17857, Jules ..y .liumi u. uauagner, noet and (',h. ?f,?lP.iohn Lcak- 'English -rer nw.uiuni iijw), ann - .ariv . , I "vino Miuuvnguf. IWlf. y: New i i'or:: Cor; nr. 1 "Washington, Ati. an liirwa una all f;. wiLu seen interest the Colonel will lea Roosevelt. ti, "'n t will leave his home tOv " r" dav anil ft where he will m,i,'.. ".up t " i --- tv a n.,. B...-,iv a farmers, he will in proceed ,l, Cheyenno, at the t the Frontier day eeleh. J tu s .heduled to remain in c 1&n" fi , aturday until Mon'n.; Lie I ,. sc Saturday depart for Denver. . nen he . An important bstf Tuesday in, Georgia 'U, fbemocrats will choose their ca T ,th; the- judiciary, represenutlvci f"' gress and countv anri i ln e.,. local UUUUUCCl j Wilt . hB Olon.-j state election in October Z at & contest is' for the renomination , ' ernor Joseph Browa. His 1 G) Hoke Smith, whom Mr.. Brown , nent ed in the governorship two vL Cardinal annutellV-Vcc. a -iftmerous suite; is booked England Friday ior Mon.0 ?S is to he the personal represent. . the pope at the great Euffib??'' gress to be held in that city t f ,The first of the big state middle west this year win hi' - ? tt( nB Mni. i - ,u fled i. will open Mondav t ,.State Wntlnu. epteraDer 3. An unusually large number of , irtant conventions and .-... 01 " lendar for the' week S f ,e number are the ufl. convention of tha Order of Earles. tn ho v.. l. '.i 11 . Ot r in a bj Ameii then tional the annual meeting of the LeTUli American Municipalities at fit p "! the I7th annual convention of the I-''' tional Hay association, at Cedar L Ohio; the 20th annual -JSf Ohio; the 20th annual mnZ. H cormnlssioners on uniform itatThJ? Which Will hhel,1 ln n Hmln.rt, 7 thl l...r" Uan00S Jtl. a .7 ' .' a",,uttt meeting of u,-. American Bar association; tha ,L convention ' of the Vrm State, 4 'ever association, at Bethlehem. N w and th annual meetings of th. i. national Association of Facto f' spectors and the International MM"' tion of Labor Commissioners, th 1 slons of which will be divided bet Hendersonvllle and Columbia, a C. " Power of the Steel Trust. By John Moody In Moody's MaBa8lr lTie real strength of th mr. . . Is to be found, and only .founi laK steadily increasing hold on the mm resources which It requires forth, building up of Us , business MJ , !' maintenance of its position in the InH i trial world. Today it holds iS8i ; of far reaching importance not onh i claim to the old Lake Superior wV:; deposits (which it acquired at the of the consolidation) but th tm(u-! ousiy vaiuaDie tease on the Great North. ? em ore lands, which contain ioo.ooo.SM to 1,000,000.000 tons Of iron ore: it(M - practically in fee simple, the Tmtsm deposits, which contain nearly u m ore as the Great Northern fields, ut ' In addition about 8,000,000,000 ton coal; it owns over 8000 miles of nil-' road lines, including an immensely nl able system of belt lines in the Chiw district, Important and extremely prot; ' aois raiiroaas jn Minnesota; roadi vast carryinar capacity connecting lib Erie with the Pittsburg district; tlvely valuable lines In the" Tennetr district; , extensive and practically t elusive deposits df coking coal ln Br sylvania; steamship lines on the p lakes, with vastly greater cafrjlis; paclty than those owned at the th the consolidation. These assets tm trrely outside Its numerous Dew t mills and blast furnaces which k been built , during the last half te years in many parts of the country, a of the remarkable Industrial tit; Gary, erected entirely out of iurf .: earnings. From an Outsider. From the Spokane Spokesman-Re' "We're bigger 'an you by v2i,e: i cries Portland. - I Heavens, can it bet -Has thativftt; blood-curdllhg, soul-paralyxlng cw- tlngency been realised? Is it pom: that the ancient and honorable flsniw village down -by the Columbls ! s really surpassed that municipal nm ment to the Alaskan nugget, Seattle. Walt "What Is your proof r' I" bated inquiry from the shores of Poget sound. - - - ''-: . : rThe official -announcemeat.M been made, but . A the merry neighborhood quarrel on." There Is a great deal or none ; fury. and It all rests upon tat qu ", as to whether there are mors . souls in Portland or Seattla - j VptU the matter of Seattle s -' i houses10,884 was expiamea, up a tree favored the Oregon etty. this was not taking Into account " fact, clearly explained by the Seatu Times, that the domicile vacancy merely due to the summer negirs v the lakes and mountains. , . ; It seems soma 20,000 residents--) the advantage claimed by PrtIn the way move regularly each mm to, escape sunshine. Probably m tbem.go as far as , Alaska. If tM n so says the Seattle Times, they w back to enjoy the winter climate t Seattle is her full self again. . No More Monte Carlo. J From the. Boston Jf ! HelKlum Is showing itself in In the work of "PP" long fashionable and PWJ. j public gambling . halls tn - tle4 kingdom when Its P9S uphn the Kursaal at Os end-In W i . of the play and raid It like is 41ThnV wMenPsTrts"' : bllng, and until Bismarck cam in united Germany the P,"""mble were in open partnership wlth Pft,, Now Monte Carlo, in its wrtche4 f( torinclpality, la the one refuge ( s players In iu Europe. It can b question ' of a short time ,wne n particularly outrageous c8alnc, t continuous scandal will suppress the Monte Carlo casino, s suicides' park' and Us sordid prlsj . with ne sweep of moral InjIJggV While we never have Jeg-W a fSl green cloth In this untry, e rf . a period when gambling was con , as the necessary attachment i 0 , cesfful watering place such as- &t and Long Branch. - One hou , recent Cuban, congress f with the favorable consldortawnt, j project. .to set ,up a n ,lttie Carlo in that island. - If ' w publlff. should ever venture . clir. ; anachronistic folly we nug" mi Bolvna Involved in , the which ; always threaten Franc " Monte Carlo, " -The Albany Democrat thus en .,. ende to be- funny; This contest "-. to M" bany and Corvallis """T" .uiloff " ny. ' The Gasette-Tlme anP admit that Albany fj t" K heads on human h'uldrVch and ?he soil of CorvH. ICV?!bl wafer8rtert,r7bro'n 2J water a boulder mJ&" 0f fcofJJ front m& . the, PrAk'ry helf A a so Med to threaar ana - s t our dusflefs carriage (sion ride with fineiess court e morrow. 1 : ; i - i w
