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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