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lOUIlWAL; 43 INTtrnxiTN'T RjrWSPAPCR. C. R. Jackson...... PtiMishfr r,;hi.M e rjr Tn,trf Tp Sondr . . vfry fc.;nOi.T nvrni.; at Tba Journal r.uu uJ iaujLlU ilwm 1-orUaPd, W jTrFcwod at the poatoMca t PrtUn9.rV;,52! ..fraiomioloa Uruu-o Lb nulla aecooil-c'aaa Biatter, ' ' . TEI.EPHONPS Mala T173; Homa, All departments reached br theM BnnLt'? Jell tilt operator what department you want. r-OHKlO-N ADTEHTISIXa BEPRKSENTATIVB, lunjii. KantBOTO Burnawick BalWlBfc 2.5 Ktfia araoua, New XatkJ lUUT-Oa Bojee ButlJini, Cb)aco. ' Mbaerlntloo Tarma tif matt fer eddreas tn Uta lulled Statea, Canada or Mexico: v. ',; . DAILY. One ear. ...... .15 00 t One sxtt........8 M -- ;.- SUNDAY. - ... -Ona year.... ....$2.50 I Ona month........! ,:v.., DAILT AND 8UNDAT. ;. -.y- Ona yar........$".50 Ona month., ......I .65 He that ; wrestles with us strengthens our 4enres end, sharpens our skill, tarantag onlst la our helper- Edmund Burke. SICK MILK s iTRIVING STltL to prevent Port land consumers from hating pure milk, J. W. Bailey testified Friday in the municipal - court . that It would take, mere' than 100 years to apply: the tuberculin test to " the dairy cows of Oregon. Though . false," his.; testimony; was . given; un der oath. It was given officially as the state dairy commissioner of Ore gon. It was offered in defense 6t a manjwho had violated, the Portland pure milk ordinance. It was Bailey's attempt, officially made, to - break . down and beat public regulation of the milk supply. It was one more aiVjBkvf atf Vn tYiA mart's nr ar batIm tsf . yiyill ftbk VMV lUSUH V0 V.VaW WS efforts to compel the children and parents of Portland to drink the milk ' A diseased co w,t feverish with to ' berculosis, her lungs putrid with iue disease, her other organs unable to exercise." their proper functions .be - cause of her lowered- vitality, can not secrete milk fit for human food. Laying aside the question of whether or not her disease is communicable through the r milk;"' Who " wants to - drink milk: from such a cow? What mother wants to feed a child, or her self consume, milk strained through the,; feverish: and debilitated organs of a cow in the last stages of a dead ly disease? The disordered and deranged phys ical system of a sick cow cannot pro duce other than disordered and de ranged 'milk. Pure i. milk cannot come from- a diseased source. If we are to. drink diseased milk , we ' might as well - eat . diseased meat. The practice of the one approximates the practice of the other, There is ; not a Physician In the world that ; would permit an infant to take nour- i- lshment from the breast of a mother . in the last stages of tuberculosis. 4 Yet here Is Jt-'W. Bailey; state dairy . and food commissioner of Oregon, doing 'hla utmost to force the people ; of Portland to use milk from cows whose physical system la la the last Etages, of debilitation with tubercu- , losls. He is aiding and abetting a conspiracy of , dairymen arid others wno are trying to, force Portland t people, to drink and use tuberculous - milk. A bold effort is being mado " to break down and nullify the para ' milk ordinance, and to "help It along ' Bailey, drawing' a salary for proteet . lng the. public against Impure' milk, ; goes into court and makes oath that , it will take more thau,100 years! to ' apply the tuberculin test to Oregon j. dairy" cows: "It la his puny effort to force sick milk from sick cows upon -( Portland people THE LATE PROFESSOR XBTLTSAM T IHB RECENT dea,th of Professor wiuiam james, lor a genera " tlon professor of ; 'DhUosonhy and psychology In Harvard unl- Tersityt Is a loss not only to that ln- ; stitutlon, but to the country and the world. Professor James was no re cluse; he sought to get in touch with the practical activities pf Ufa. : He ..." used a multitude of 'common inci dents to Illumine his - teaching. 1 Probably nothing more enlightening, educational, to the mature mind, has been written in a; century than his articles during the past two; or three j years In the Cosmopolitan magazine. He had a fascinating style, the ca- paclty to make duller- and. grosser ," minds see and comprehend ,ndb Interested in what he said, even 'on recondite subjects. He was a great teacher, He probably knew as much, ; speaking broadly, as any man of his - time, and he was devoted todiscov- " erag and discTosing truth. Of the many appreciative comments on P?Qr fessor James we quote a portion of one in the Los Angeles Times, as . follows: . '... ' "'With his clear and vibrant state ' ments of. a system of belief which could be of use to humanity, Wil - Ham Ja,mes did more to popularize : philosophy than any other writer of the,' age. Indeed, one may say that the work of James west very far to popularize the highest of religious conceptions, for It Is not easy to sep arate a philosophy like this from ' the purest religion, .The philosophy ' of James stood for right living, and surely religion Is expected to. aim at the same n&.y '' " James regarded all. men as hav ing a reverent attitude toward "afl life, and he addressed people as fel low-seekers for whatever v would make the world .more Inhabitable than It Js now, and whatever , would add to the : comfort, the happiness and the growth of all human Slty. ' ' : Tria vnnflnr n't atta nMlnaniKfev f , J r--i A - y - IWifiTirnCBTrasTn Iheremen - (ous tact that he "brings the entire r , : , ,: : 1. ll:t y f.-r tha i '. vc. tvhcrne th!-rj to the . oor cf esery Individual. This Is a miracle of philosophy and very nearly ap proaches a consummation cf applied knowledge." " We bejlevo these are not extrava gant statements. James was a Beer, even more than Herbert Spencer. Yet he died. Can the-soul of such a man die? Perhaps God needed him In some, higher, larger .Held or sphere. - - , ;; ... rORTLAM), HE CORRECTED aggregate"; of building permits Issued In Port land for August is $2,555,875. It lifts the total for the : first eight months of the current year 'to within a few dollars of $12,0.00,000. It Is 'city growth ! by leaps , and bounds ' Accompanied as It is by other evidences of expansion, if is a splendid, monument of Portland's achievement.' " It ourht to men the eyes of those who still cling to the forms,' customs and ideas or a pro- vincial Portland. Tho day when ,the city streets were eow paths' are gone forever. i The village habuiaments hav been cast aside. . The munlcl- pal aspect Isr no longer an jaffalr 'of small f lgurest' The time has come for oroaa jnen ana oroaa vision, , , I expenditure wun wmcn tne laie vu lag waB conducted is Insufficient for : Portland, . the metropolis. ; The petty bickerings anil puny personal interests of yesterday are out of place In ' this new day of a auperp city. -In actuality, as well as in the ory, the east and ; west sides should be one city and not two. Tho.ttransIt over the river shoulct be so easyand I so facilitated as to cement, not to divide them. The bridge over which cars can pais while boats paBS un- der .Is the model, for the present Portland. Docks sufficient ; to ac commodate the biggest steamers In the world and all that come should be the slogan of every Portland r ldenL A 'water front accessible to every:transpontlnentar railroad lln be every ; Portlander's Insistence. Oher such lines must come to Port. land because of the paramountcy that n I. ,,. Portland is assuming In the commer- cial and financial affairs of the Pa- clfle coast All these things ate factor. to further stimulate the splendid growth of which we are now In the midst The spirit of the Live Wire parade of Friday night is the spirit to make universal throughdtftnhe city. Our destiny will be such as we shall ourselves contrive,,' for 'lt- Is m--n that make cities. ' t ' DETROIT . i: FAR AS reported, Detroit has made the : greatest urban growth during the past decade, clfle coast cities are made, Portland, Los Angeles,, Seattle and Spokane will haye beaten Detroit's percentage record, but itis an astonishing one, for an old,' eastern city. The in- crease in 10 years has been 63 per cent so that Detroit has moved from the thirteenth place In 1900 to the eighth; possibly the seventh place, In 1910. It has passed not only Mil waukee, which it tied 10 years Ago, but Cincinnati, Pittsburg, New Or leans, San Francisco, and Buffalo, H may. Deal - iieveiana lur loreuui place. No large eastern city, as far as reported, has made any percentage of gain though all vhave gained comparable- to Detroit's., : ' One reason for this great growth is. said io-.be.iha ,lmmense automo- bile industry centered la Detroit Of inn we uou roBt-jjispai.cn says:' Thert vu - no naaon why Detroit bould have booomo the automobile con- tor. . It simply grabbed tbo burtnoie. It 1 8,000 Detroit workmen are now em- ployed by automobile factories, and 1J,- 000 more by manufacturers of motor aoco.orlea,.lt U due merely to tho de. termination of the city that it was ro- Ins to manufacture something. , This business, with Ha astonishing rapidity of growth. wa the inspiration of all the others. Every one decided to branch out "The ' stote factories buUt addi- lions ana rnsnea ior pubuibsb. jjLti machine shops grew, into engine worka if"1 The -car Tlantdedded to d(rmore bvsl- nes . there. Through the central com- merdal organization general enoonrage- ment was glveiLThe Idea was to boom ' There' is a larra lesson In thin far other titles, f Do things. Make v things. Employ many people at good wages. 7 Build np Industries. But (here Is another phase of De troit's growth, and that is its politi cal, clvio progress, largely resulting from the example and efforts of the late Mayor Plngree. He died years ago, but his work goes on. He taught people lo live better. CORPORATIONS AND TUB ' JUDICIARY 0' NE OF the strongest arguments tor, a nonpouucai -judiciary - is that the metnoa wm tend to take Judicial nominations out of the range of the Influence of pub- the Invention of glass which lets in lio.'Bervlce1corporatlons.41t may benight and keeps out air, there would worth while to notice the relation wwen these corporauons have to tne people. A public service corporation this . country would, if set side by ir by the law of its creation a . pub- side, reach from New York to No lle servant and nothing more. ' It vada. It is overworked men and over- is .bound to perform a public service upon equal terms under similar cir- cumstances to aU the, people and at reasonable ! charges. ; Other persons or other corporations may perform service . or not, at ; their will; ' may serve for any price that they may choose to fix,' but a publlo, servioe corporaUon la different Its legal duty is not imposed on It after, its creation but arts by the law; which creates it. i its , fluty , to serve .upon those terms goes Into existence with the-power granted to do the service. I - T it... i. - i-. .''. 4 J- w-J-UCA o-u--B-iroTT-tm j the, part of these corporations to I escape the duty Imposed by law and themr-dvea coas!.I.-rel f.s in-io; 'r.d- ent concerns wita the arbitrary row er to fix their own compensation and to serve the public Interest la euch manner as they may deem it their interests to do. The duties imposed fcy law , on public service corporations are en- forced only by courts. It is there fore of, great interest to these cor porations to have courts who will be lenient with them in respect to their legal duties. That is why we hear ol secret assemblies of lawyers repre senting 'public service corporations meeting to dictate judicial nomina tions.. That is .w,hy Mr. , McCamant, Judge' Carey, Mr. Wilbur,. Mr, Fen ton and other representatives of pub lie service corporations1 met on th eth day of July to consider the ques tion of judicial nominations. ( It was noVj''-'',surprIs!ng, ,'. therefore, y that through the influence of these pub lic service ' Corporati&ns : Mr. McCa mant,; the attorney for the Wells- pargo company, a great public senr- ice cornoratlon. was chosen as a can- didats for . the ; supreme ; bench f and along with him,; and equally eatis- factory. Judge Burnett was nomi- nated. ' And that is why nominations made under such Influences ought not to be ratified hy the people either at tne primaries or at tne eieciwn. He service corporations shall be elim inated i in the choice of Judges of tbo courts; . -t". W, J ? ':?. A FOLLY S.S 1:3 lete In a. day The New York World eaya . that- recent expert- j menta by the British admiralty with Internal-combustion' k engines lore-1 Bba40W such a result The new en glne Is of gasoline type and is of such efficiency that . It promises a revo lution la naval construction. V it'll probable that It will be the inventive genius of man that will han olsamamenl ?m. S N SS Tj "it!" AT'Z, Z'" C '3i pendltures for naval construction are r . .m.4 t t i. aaa Sf,VBHh' IJJSI J - ft 2! Jf2.KH creations Of naval, architecture are to be rendered obsolete In a' twink ling, the way of naval experts In se curing l extravagant ' appropriations b"SS?! wlir become rougher auu uauuot. , v;, i i. us. iu bow Duucr-jJioauuauKULs i authorized by the late-congress, are to cost from $12,000,000 to $18, 000,000 each.' In the five years of peace from 1906 to 1910, 'we have spent in naval armament the - huge 'aggregajte of $578,022,101. It is a turn per . cent greater than the meat In naval OperaUons during the five years of the Civil war. one. of the chief factors of expendl- ture by our government which Is spending $J,667,685.fl$-every work- lng day in the year. What a blessing It will be If a discovery ; shall be made that will, check the. world In its headlong career of naval folly? THE "OLD GUARD" MUST GO IT; HE Springfield ' (Mass.) Repub lican, whose advocacy of all . that f tends to promote good government is well known, has I this to say, of the. Influence , of the direct; primary: A r - ' v "it lsvnlease note, the direct nri- mary system ihaUs causing Allhls mischief In the Republican party in i tb west and far. west. Were ' the I good old delegate convention system -MM lr ba tn Hnr-h TTartua . TtriB.ei n.H.Ui. Iowa, Wisconsin and California, the Old guard would be Still old guarding beyond a doubt The closer 1 the t v. MABi,". w P the W. the, harder tne peopie aanwaer ana Dang iu ah of which must mean that something u m the nolitlcal wind", 18 n A 9 UJ , fAnd yettbe :"old guard", In Ore- gop. deludes 'Itself with "the notion that the people of Oregon will ratify the attempt to teturn to the "good old convention system." But it will take a lot of old guarding to Induce the people to give up any of the tfl Broaaway irom nis aomi power they have wrested byperslsf- cll to the "dty hall." Rome', Toklo, I a. . Mm . a. . . &s e" etIori irora tno pouucai Dosses and which they now hold largely-by virtue of the direct primary. CONCERNING YACATIONS I TUM Awn wniran a to have at least an. annual outing. It was never a part r of the divine scheme that should be all work and no Our very "civilization ( Is a there play, means Some ..for our , physical undoing. one has said, that chairs, cooked food, books and clothing are! elements of civilization and sickness. If it were not for houses thero, would be less consumption. But for be less illness. The beds of the 3,- 000,000 who are constantly sick In burdened women along with ill- cared-for children that are mostly in these cots. We draw Incessantly on the fuel of the physical body, but rarely take time to replenish it. The nervous force is constantly told off, but it Is only on rare occasions that we stop to wind it up for more tlav. When it was trufy said that man has been called the sick animal, the dlag nosiareferred to the impossible bur dens man attempts to carry. He over eats, over drinks, over smokes and i . ia stava'tm all n!a-ht at a itlnnMn I i - - - i mem-ngT Mo-gives to Hla business and . to .his da'ly .dutles'jo heavily and so constantly of his strength 3 t.if i V.... : t ! ..:. I i ; Every can shoald harden ta the lure cf the eea teach or the moun tains. Ia either there is surceasa from the distractions and struggles of business. In either there ia gath ered a new supply of nervous force, Ko be paid out in the dull routine of the year to come. In both, there is accumulated a great supply of fuel for the physical body and new energy for the. mental storehouse. The heart that feoes down by the eea Is not called on to beat with that ter rific energy with, which it is forced to pump away amid the din and dis tractions of, every day toll. The change, the diversion, the forgettul ness and the rest are the elements of a strengthened and , lengthened life. What is t-he world, what busi ness, and .what the home, ' when health is gone? Every social atom earns and deserves the annual out- lBS- V CLEANING UP VACANT LOTS HE JOURNAL has been plead ing . during all its Ufa for cleaner grounds, for cleaned-up vacant as well as occupied lots, and while not nearly as much of this work hasjbeen done as should have been done; we doubt1 not that The continue the crusade nd endeavor to make. It -more effective. For this purpose several specif lo ; and Illus trated cases have been given lately, and if the property selected was that of Mayor Simon, the reason was ttathemorran 5 vate citizen should set a good, exam ple In this, rspeot--;Besldes,; as The Journal fully explained - yesterday, there ; are ordinances against 1th e weeds .and rubbish, and these laws should be better eiiforced, and it Is especially the mayor's duty to see that they are enforced.' Portland - has acquired enviable fame in several respects as a city of great wealth, as one with an ex ceptionally desirable site, as one af fording magnificent scenery, as a city s that Is growing Teryrapldly,; and as a Rose City; but It has. been delinquent In this respect of foul and filthy tacant grounds, and It needs to grow steadily . and rapidly into the city beautiful. These places should one and all be cleaned up. This is a civic duty on the part of all lot Owners, but especially on the part 0fj lot owner wh.are ajao oft nciBUi ana sworn to cuiorco in aws " v.j. PORTLAND'S NEWSPAPER FISH' :- " WIFE"''"'' IT HE OREOONIAN Is angry with Its loving neighbor, The Jour nal., It gives us the Icy eye and the marble, heart It Bald "the !.t:". "V all the corporations would be for the direct primary. Also, that if It did, all' the' machine corrnptlonlsts- would be for the direct primary, .lso that if any candidate attempted' to buy hla way into office, the corrupt practices- act would send him to the pen itentiary, ; U This affronted ourensftlve neigh bor. Its', wrath Is as that of the ex cited' fish-wife. Its'! 'Biioutfhg ' aid spluttering has the tower, in a hub bub." 'II shrieks out that The Jour nal Is a "liar," a iiar of 40 brands and persuasions.. Then, apparently remembering that It is a high-browed fish-wife, it jcalls us that horrible thtngt majtoia." In Puritan days they used to have ducking stools as they used to have ducking a curative for common scolds, and It inayet become necessary tor our newspaper flsh-wlfe to nint .the stool and. cool herself off. KEW YORK" CITY N EW TORK has become a tre mendous' city. , Only London exceeds It in population. AH the other big .. cities . are left far behind in the growth of ' this young giant of : Manhattan. Paris petin, ana omers were Dig towns when wouter van Twiner louowed I portion Of the original -cowpath Alexandria, and many others were big, , famous cities when our New York was but a squalling municipal baby,-- ' The ? English i and the Dutch and the . French fought over this little iown-ana Amer jcam, as uiey Jiaa x - . a k ' a. ' V m nfcome, rongnv new oi au, iinauy, wd not ao very long ago, as history mm a 4 sisS than aimAaf sa . runs, and It was then almost a wll derness.;::Now," within the limits of that municipality, are nearly 5,000 00 0 people. - It. 1b a .tremendous, an impressive growth. I ; The country is proud , of the me tropolis,' spite of all its- faults " and evils. Jt is something for a new country, only discovered day before yesterday, to be proud of to have the second biggest city in the world. K A' NEW OUTPOST ATiENTS'wlH soon bejadmlf ted to the Oregon State sanatoriurd . for treatment . Of tuberculosis. Seventy-five s to ; 100. patients will.be given there the best euratlve Cate that modem science can apply, It Is a part of. the general movement by the American' people to get, .well Sickness' among us costs. the nation every year $1,600,0.00,000: or .more than one.haf the national "wealth of Svrttzerland or PqrtugaJ.,. Accord' lng to Dr..' Howard wet have iffipfif ooo cases or maiaria every year, which an ample use of quinine and i . ... vigorous : war. on; mosquitoes would .V4Wmm .a-. 0 mmmmriw ir-uiMTt ease. .Today, there are. 500,000 peo ple continually sick from tuberculo- , sis,' an easily proven able disease. At t:. j ' .t t . j c : . v. , tUH, la EZ-li: f ;Jra:.lc;;, l-' v s tuberculosla v -.11 uuI:r co-trol. The Pennsylvania ttate board cf health has Just reported that it has suc ceeded in reducing the mortality of tuberculosis from 134 to 120 per 1000. Further heavy reduction of the death roll, from that malady is expected by the addition of two more tuberculosis colonies to the one now in , operation. The same organiza tion reports that by the expenditure of $3,000,000 in the past four years it has saved the state $23,000,000. It has fought diphtheria with anti toxin and has cut the mortality from typhoid fever one half. As a nation, we have obliterated yellow fever and scurvy, and almost ended BmallpoxV In another genera tion, 'any city that has a typhoid fever epidemic will be the object of general contempt; on account of its carelessness : In , permitting ' such a condition! The progress W are mak ing Is our encouragement to go on with "the effort to he healthy. Ex perts claim that we could. Rouble, treble and even' quadruple our work we wiped out sickness. . v By length ening and strengthening bur lives we can create a-new and higher civiliza tion in this tired old world.- .We. can make anew public asset put, of good public health.. ; The Oregon ...state sanatorium is an outpost of advanced intelligence. , ' i The Camper and the ' Forest, Fire, . ; ' From the Seattle Tlmea j It is rather hard to say . just how all of these forest fires start Way out In the woods we are occasionally shown the scars of old fires on the mountain side where no rail or wagon, road, has penetrated and Into whloh It seems al most impossible that anyone save the most adventurous and therefore the mdst careful of the hunters and, trap pers have penetrated. -' -!' v And ' yet, from . across, tne lake or across" the canyon, there appears in the sunlight that deep scar like the blow a glgantlo fist crashing Into the green timber the soar of that old fire. What did It-come from T That Is a qnestloa which the Indiana the guides and the trappers ask themselves. Scarce- from a campf Ire because the trails are too hard for; the ordinary tram per to travel. . Scarcely from a locomotive because there are no locomotives In thai country. Scarcely from a logger's en gine because only t the cruisers . have ever carried the tragedy of the woods into mat region. v ' where from,, then? Lightning is the only answer the a perienced woodsmen can give. These cud scars" are many years eld. and In the daya when they were burned there was no talk about their burning, and no rangers or nlred men to fight them. " They Just burned themselves out In the same way that most ef our present-day forest fires are allowed to burn themselves out1 "- ; ,. V', But when those old fires burned there were not so many clearing- so many "old burns" axid, so many "slashings" over which ftrfs might sweep and upon which they might feed. ; These things nave au come witn tne growta of civil ixaUon. w.r.....,.,;,...,-r;-.-::-., ?f---.- The green, virgin forest ia the last to burn. The "slashing" Is the first the old burn" Is the second, and the green timber absolutely the last. one or the principal causes of forest fires in the green timber Is the green horn camper the man who leaves a camp fire burning when a few well-directed kicks would totally extinguish, it or a few buckets of water render it totally harmlesa , y - z: ,; The least that we can do is in remem bering ourselves that when we are In the woods we must ot leave behind us a fire of any kind ooals of a camp . the ooal of a, Cigar or cigarette, or even the-flickering spark of a discard ed match. '.; ,' ,""-,..;...:''..; To Woods when they - era. traversed only once or twice a year by a man who . knows and loves them will get along very well. It is only when the olty-bred man runs loose along their a-up traaa in tne summertime that the woods must. look, out for their lives. " People Versus Corporations, ; From -the Medford Mail-Tribune The effort Inaugurated by the assem bly Is a move to re-establish the con vention system, whereby property is en abled to govern man Instead of man property. j The part Played by corpor ations in the assembly Is exposed by Judge McGinn, who detailed the per sonnel of the assembly leaders as fal lows: . .- w. D. Fenton is Southern Paclflo and Standard OH attorney. R. W. Wilbur Is attorney for the Portland Railway, Light A Power company and of the Liability Insurance companies, which September 4 in History, On September 4, 1870, the French' nation saw the city of Paris again be sieged' by a mob second only to that of the day of th fall of th Bastlle. The news of the battle of Sedan, which was a great defeat for the French arm a had reaohed the city and caused an Im mense commotion. Jules Favre and his friends assailed th regency In th Corps Legislatlf and demanded the . deposition of th emperor. Th turbulent clement Of Paris filled the streets With tumult and thronged into the legislative halls, which assembly they: dispersed. .. The members of th opposition then assem bled, at the Hotel d VUle and formed a provisional government of national defense. This., government .determined immediately on th abolition of the seri ate and the Corps ' Legislatlf. and at 1 p. m. the Empress Eugenie left the Tulleries. and fled to England. The battle of the Sedan had been fpught on September 1, and th emperor surrendered on the second and was de ported as prisoner to Wllhelmshohe.' The German army at once began to move on Parts, its capture being considered th most important task of th war. Al though ths French nation, had a consid erably larger "military force, yet th nation had been weakened by so many reverses that after several months, it was decided to surrender, and a treaty of peace was signed on th following February. 26. A writer of French history, who was In Paris on the day of the overthrow of the empire, desorlbes the scene as follows: "Never will I' forget Sunday morning, September 4, 1870. Going" from my rooms,! found the streets every - where around .Piac de la Concords crowded with unarmed men, women and children. Turning to a gentleman, I said to him: 'What is the matterf and he replied; Tt is a great calamity, sir! The empire has f alien! Th emperor is a prisoner! , . "From government headquarters and through the -Hally Journals th tru situation of affairs was concealed, until the ministers, finding It Impossible to keep any longer from the people th pmuanja JJUEILQU UiXUUEUUUl IUQ VU;. Frenchmen: ., A great calamity has fall en upon our country. After three days of herolo fighting by the army of Mar shal MacMabon against three .hundred . i . t t t yer. 8 j-toti ro ClisrlfS the Jaitmsj falla on the mv B. Huston an 1 George V.'. i:u; present the timber Interest. H. Caroy la attorney for the UIU rymUm and the telephone coiitpany. v a.lace MoCarnnnt . rrre!er,t numeroua cor pora tlona, and If elected to the supreme bench would nullify the Initiative and referendum. Jay Bowerman is legal representative In central Oregon for the Ilarriman lines and so It roes down the, list Every corporation lobbyist who became a familiar figure at BoJem at the last session of the le gislature was In evidence at the as sembly. . The people, ( not the corporations, should select judges.' legislatures and senators. Oregon does not want to. get back In the class with Illinois, where the senatorshlp Is auctioned off to the highest bidder. - ' Your Judgment, Air. Reader, ought to be as. good as the Judgment of the man yon send to the legislature as. to who should be senator. In what respect Is your representative better able to make a selection than you aref In what reupact la the Judgment ef these self-appolpted delegates to an assem bly controlled by corporations, superior to the Judgment of the whole people? Father Starts Again. 'V Pack my trunk, Miranda, fer tny eyes la rettln red An' I sot all th symptoms of a bad cold In mv head. ' Taint no use sayln. I been settln to v'. a draft r - r V v Arguinj out (t onljr helps to drive me Drat them " cussed ragweeds! Oot ? a sniff o' them Juet then. ' , An'-r-hlsh-ty whlsh-ty whoosh-ty-"' ' choo!. ; Hay fever's, come again t i; Who brought In these flowersT : Don't you anow meyre oaa ror meT Lord! -My eyes are burnln' till it seems " like I can't sea HuhT It's all a poUon, air I bring tt . v on mvselfT ' . Nope, you . needn't vex me with them ' Cures mere on tire shelf. ' . . Been a-foolln with them even year 'sense dear-knows-w hen - y -.i Elih-tyl . Whlah-ty whooeh-ty chobl i knowea 'twould oome again. whatt Tou hear'dthat Perkins had a .. snlendld our this vearT - Humph! - He's always cured p . tttt haT fever tlma la hr.- , - - Ain't I tried his sure cures, by the bot- - tie an tne dox All th' time a-sneeiln' till I nearly stopped th olocksT -s vi Listen I Perkln's sneealoCt Ast be sneeses like a hen - Hlsh-ty whoosh-ty whish-ty wheel ...vv'.ivs startln' in agaln.-',.;,;;:;:,?;; Pack my trunk, Miranda ant ' float sympathise with ma Nothin' sets me sneeiiln' like a lot e j. svmnathr. - ? ' ;. : Tea, I've got blue glasses, an' some powdeed stuff, an salve An' that ragweed starts me Into sho-tr- - in' what I have Nose as red as biases an swelled .up aa .. Dig as ten : Hoosh-ty whoosh-ty hfsh-ty H001 Hay, fever's come again. - ' W. D. Nesbit Revenue, a Tariff Blind. . ' ' From the Kansas City Star. The laborious efforts ef the, flftad ers of the new tariff law to show that It is a good revenue producer aooehtuate the vital defeots of the act For when it is necessary to defend a protective measure on its revenue features, the im plication is plain that It cannot be suc cessfully defended as a protective meas- ura -. - " . The country has no auarrel at this time with a tariff system that produces large revenues, provided, ef coum, that the duties . producing the- revenues be levied on luxuries and not on articles of oommon necessity or general use. - And a' tariff law that does not. at least; pro- uoe large revenuos has ne excuse wbat ver for existence, 1 since there is no sound defense for th protective dutlea There are ; many equitable ways-to produce revenuea The , oouptry needs never be at a loss for ways and means to operate the government In whatever way these . revenues ' are produced, whether by the tariff or other means, the people the consumers or users pay. The people do not object seriously to Bavin a revenue tariff. If it Is nroo- eriy distributed! What they- 4 'object to is the Imposition of protective duties that are in many instances wholly pro hibitive and,' therefore, produce no reve nue but are maintained solely' to en-i able the American manufacturer or pro ducer , to exact .from Amarfcaa con sumers excessive pricea.j' Paying legitimate taxee tot revenues is one thing, and paying tribute is an other.' And the people are learning the difference; i 1. I i - A man near Eugene has a Oraven steln apple tree from '.which he gath ered bushels this year. - Thirty bushels were marketable and 15 were culla Another man in that vicinity has So Oravensteln trees from which he has ; gathered 700 bushels this sum mer. These are only two lnstanoes of very heavy apple crops this year. At this rate, the owners wilt net over $500 per acre from the sale of 'the fruit. - - Tlie Frcncli RepuUic thousand Germans, forty thousand have been made prlsonera General Wlmpffen, wno naa taicen command of tne army in place of Marshal MacMahon, seriously wounded, signed th capitulation. This cruel reverse has not shaken our cour age. Paris is today tn a' stat of de fense, ; The military forces of the oonn try are heing collected. In a few days a new army will be organised on the banks of th Loira Tour patriotism, your union, you energy will save Franca The emperor was made a pris oner in th fight The government In accord with publlo 'sentiment, is adopt ing every means suggested by the grav ity of the situation.' .'..V'"-.-"-" -There was nous for the government to .. conceal matters . from th people. Even the soldiers fraternised with them. The Republican deputies on, this event ful,; day were (rooted, with rounds of applause as their carriages approached the palace, the demonstrations in each oase concluding with these or similar words: , La Deoheance! La Repub Uquel" . The Republican members regarded the fall of the empire as a fact already accomplished. But after th fall, what thenT This question no one could an swer." Her and there could be heard suen expressions as these: "Enough of the empire! Down with the traitor and coward of Sedan! Let us have a RepubUol" Thus th French Republic was born on a bright Sunday morning- In early September, with the emperor a prisoner la the hands of the enemy and the am. press ffeelng for Ufa A victorious array (was marching upon Parla Th wiso I mtrtt the nation were bewildeed. 1 And all this only forty years ago today.. ;- On ; September 4 the Intrepid i was blown up in Tripoli In 1804: th Confed erate Oreto ran the blockade of Mobile in 188i and the Apache Indiana under Geronlm surrendered in 1886. It Is th birthday of :rHndar, the lyric poet, (618 a O; Aleiander III, of Scotland lfal); Franools Rena VtcomtS de Cha teaubriand, romantio 'French writer X178;iJwarA.nBates,atteTwTfan-' eral under Linooln (1793), and Phoebe Cary, poet (1824. It Is the dat of the death xf Robert Dudley, earl of Leices ter (1588) and Charles Townshend, th English orator and statesman (1787). if. : l i i ) I t WesMiigtcn, fept 8 The prominence ' ff the speakers find the importse of the subjects to be cohsidered will com bine to attract the greatest amount of publlo attention to the national con servation eonirresa. wv,i,-i i tn uw.-nbla In St Taul Monday. President Taft and ex-President Roosevelt head the list of epeaiera, which also Includes James J. Ilhl, Glfford Plnchot. James H. Gar flelo, Senator Beyerldge and other men Jx-Presldent Roosvit tn K.rHn th Wr .w h a Labor day address In nrgo and ths next day he will speak at the conservation congress in St Paul. Dur ing the remainder of the week he Will fill speaking engagements in Milwaukee. Freport; Chicago, Cincinnati and Pltts brf -Hla .address -In the last-named city will, conclude his present tour. 1 An election for state officers and members of congress will take place in Vermont Tuesday. It will be the first of ths fall elections and as a conse quence the results will be scanned for Indications of the way the general elec tions may go In November. Anv ma-' terial reduotlon in the usual Republican majorities wm oe naued by the Demo crats as a sign of victory in the room ing eleotlon throughout the country. On the same day that Vermont holds Its election the neighboring state of New Hampshire will try its jiew direct primary law for the first tlma Unusual interest Is aroused by the contest, be cause New Hampshire Is the first Cast- em state to extend , the primary ; plan - to include toe nomination of guberna torial candidates. There are two candl. dates for the Republican nomination for governor Colonel Bertram & Ellis and Robert P. Bass. The former is regarded as th' candidate, of the old line Re publicans and theUatter Is the choice of the progressives. vt'. ,,,a,;, :.j Th greatest publlo interest however, is manifested in the struggle between insurgents and .regulars within the Re publican party in Wisconsin, which will be decided at the stat primary Tues day. The fight resolves around Sena tor La Follette, who is a candidate for reelection, and who, ae one of the fore most leaders of th Insurgent causa is meeting with, th powerful , opposition of the regular. , In addition to the sen- aionai iignt mere is a spirited xlvfrvjr oornered contest for ! th. ReoubUoanX nomination for governor. , Th Stat primary la Michigan will also be held Tuesday.: Here the dif ferences between the regulars' and ' the Insurgents are not so acuta but a race between three aspirants for the Repub lican gubernatorial nomination has, con tributed to a. lively campaign. i-j Also of interest to th politicians will ,b the 1emocratiaatte convention of Colorado, which will meet , In Denver Wednesday to name a state ticket On th same day and for the same purpose Connecticut Democrats will assemble In convention in New Havens What will undoubtedly be th greatest demonstration of Roman Catholics ever witnessed in-America will be the Inter-' national' eucnarlstlo congress, which is to begin a week's session in Montreal' Tuesday.'; The gathering will be i at tended by hundreds of eminent, prelates from aU- ever the world among them being Cardinal Vincent Vannutelli, th papal legate; Cardinal Gibbons of Bal timore and uaramai jjogue, ins pnmai of Ireland. t :i Assembly Organ Boost Abraham. From Cot Hofers Salem Journal The Oregonlan and Eugene Register are boosting Albert 'Abraham for gov ernor and, playing up his proposition to emend the. -direct primary law, i Abraham advocates having the ; jtre? gon direct primary amended so that the party stat; and county teentral4 oommlt tees Shall designate . party candidates Who shall hav the preferenoa; v all ethera- ? .. .-'" That ia exaotly what the Portland as sembly has done, and that constitutes Senator Abraham as assembly candidate who will divid vets With Senator Bow erman, "-,..;.";S.;,.'';".:''.v . i j Neither Senator Abraham, nor Senator Bowerman have 'enough confidence in their chances for the nomination I for rovernor to let geef th offloejthey now'hava.';':,;;....,, , t ,4b - The assembly organs want th'e help of both' the.se 1 g enUemenraf a special ses sion, to repeal or amend the Oregon primary lavr eersr td legalise machine candidates and shut out all othera The assembly - organs ar .boosting Abraham becaus h propose to, help destroy th Oregon direct primary ilaw and for th same reason Abraham fknot entitled . to th 'support ef friends ef thlaw. ,,., ;--"' 'f ; Senator Abraham is advocatint a mor tririgent Sunday law, r knowing ;: that certain elements of th sUte may go to him on that Issue who would go a no ether. - - . The ' assembly organs agre wlth Abraham In creating a privileged class of candidates whe would have the beck inr of th nartv committees and ' th machine which goes with the official J - ;. . . That la the pith ef the wnoie propo J v ... . .. - sitions-create an official aristocoacy with , the party machinery back ef it Mtch -that up with the interests to, In surecampaign' futjds .and drive rough shod over the Idea that th people have any rlghfto; role. -v Mr. Abraham like Mr. Jflmlck does-not tn his official declaration-corns font for direct election of senators on State- ment No. 1. and that' also endears .hint to the assembly organa ,.-1 ' - political -privilege - and- monopoly of party pdwer dies hard but th people ar determined vto give it the death blow In Oregon.!;.,;;;- ; w;. '-',:''. , .' 1,11 ' T - 1 If - The Tearned Increment i ".r CA.' iFromiM ;3BoStoivaieba I. ': ' As recently as a generaon ago there: was scarcely ' one person In a million who saw. anything arong or nnfair in buying large tracts of land and keeping it from productive use until the un earned Increment mad them rich. ;To day there are many thousands whOi be lieve such a course ls essentially Sim-, moral, and theft numbers ar conetp.nt. ly; growing. ; v, By th taxation of j land values they are seeking to res tor 'the earth to those who will use, it . ? . ...Not alone the great struggle in Eng land between the 4andless and the land ed, which is being watched by all ''the world, ,and ths quieter , revolution in methods of land taxation, which has been going oh in many German munici palities for doen years, but also' the successful application of th single itax principle In a few Isolated communities, particularly In the western and southern parts of this country, reports-of which will generally be found In little para-' graphs in obscure corners of the news papersall these are sign of a changed conception of man's relation to ithe earth. :.:-v-;;.'fy:i;,i Of the wisdom of th single tax .there may be doubt of Its Introduction with out resultant i injustice 'in many eases there Is little doubt; but of its high moral purpose ot preventing monopoly .and, speculation in, land, and restoring tne sarin to tnose wno wn u ooin for their .own and for others' benefit there is not the shadow of a. doubt 'The Corrallla cannery is 1 busv 'blane today, says , the',, Gazette-Times .ot-U-JM ITU a l il. iweuirnvo vt ov wumen are busy peeling fruit and a half dozen men are equally busy getting It cooked. Into t cans atidi sealed. The vlace looks like buelnees ' with, a big "B," and It wilt mean that If the growers ; contlnu to bring U the apples, pears and tomatoea