THE OREGON ,- DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, OQTOBER 29, 1910.
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IT IS REVOLUTION
TIT 1IAT A PtJNY enterprise Jt Is
' 1 A ''Iiea late so-called antl-as-
YY senibly champions go about
delivering speeches for the
head assemblylte. ' Their efforts are
a mole squeaks In the teeth of. a
gale. .
Do they not realize that an assault
has been made by conspirators fcpoa
k v.vqwu , . 1. 1. Jl ,iu i.
realize that . an organized attempt
was made to rob voters of tholr
rights? . ,,,,. i ' , -
" s Do they suppose that cltlsens have
- forgotten those recent .threats ..to
"put the knife to Statement One,
ana tne Knue 10 me ,Mit"7 Do they
Imagine that voters have forgotten
that recent.1 declaration, "If State
ment One candidates-should obtain
nomination, : every effort ;rill. be
made tp defeat every one of them
at the polls"? bo' they Imagine for
one minute , that. the. people have
forgotten that "secret meetings were
held !n the offices of a local cor
poratlon for preparation of a slate"?
. Do they think (he taxpayers of this
state have forgotten that public serv
ice corporations of Portland are try-
. Ing to. destroy the. Initiative and ret
" crendunr with a lawsuit In the tv
preme court of the United States?
Do they, suppose that the voters have
' forgotten' that BJe Business nleada
In that lawsuit that the Oregon yB
tern takes election of senator out of
' the legislature' and gives It t ths
ieopie and that it Is therefore un
constitutional?; ' ",' "
The people of this state have been
. attacked. v TheJr rights have been
been placed in Jeopardy. 'A bill was
Introduced In the legislature to make
? direct election of senator a crime. A
bill was introduced In the leglsla
i .. 1 , i ii ji ... - .
iuid i.u uxaim uio mica inniary py
, creating assemblies. The scheme was
' to get Oregon back 16 the convention
. system and legislative election, of
senator.. and Jay Bowerman led' the
attack as a legislator, and led the
' attack as boss and master of the
state assembly. '- '.
; A more arrogant . or more Auda
cious attack was never made-on the
, rights of ; the people of any state.
"Secret Ji conferences,??;. - "slates,"
"packed delegations,", secretly se
lected by two or three men in each
county, and without notice,' an as
sembly so tight that none but Bow-
verman and his selection's could break
into Jt these were the. devices. Se
crecy, silence ' and '' division arejlhe
. rule. ; Death to the direct primary
and Statement One is the secret slo
gan. '. "Put the knife , to! Statement
One, and the knife to the iilt," is
the open war cry. v
' The people of Oregon are In revo
lution against this conspiracy. The
forces that are In motion are an in
dignant citizenship In defense and
counter attack. The people are
striking back at those who struck at
them and their rights. . They are
v going to resent the Brooke-Bean bill
They are going to kill the assembly.
The puny; speeches of late so-called
; " anti-assembly thamplons amid the
roar of the popular uprising are as
the sneeze of the rat in the vortex of
a cyclone. v .
THE SMASHING OP JUCTIINES
Tm POLITICAL machines
mostly Republican, as it hap
pens, because that party is gen
erally dominant in the north
and west are tottering, such
states as they have not already been
put down and out. Roosevelt knocked
out the New York machine at Sara
toga, at' least, temporarily. Hale's
JIalne machine was put out of busi
ness by a Democratic victory. The
- nomination of Bass for governor of
- New Hampshire; was- a " knockout
, blow to .the, machine of that state.
Lodge's machine in Massachusetts is
, undergoing a- severe 'strain, and If
' not wrecked will be greatly weak
ened. JGveri Aldrich's machine in lit
tle Rhode Island is in a wobbly con
dition.. - .
. The Ohio machine won in the
A . 1 . i II 1 V i. a a .
eiaie cunvcuuoD,. out us victory nas
caused such a split in the party that
Democratic victory is almost certain.
The Indiana machine went to smasli
months ago. under the sledge ham
mer blows of Beverjdge, The 1111
nois machine, loaded with Lorlmer,
.Is about to go to pieces. Ko ma
chine is more completely wrecked
than that of Wisconsin, where the
lumber barons and railroads long
held sway and formed an finlioly al
liance with men In office. It took
La Follctte a good 'while to smash
that machine, but he has made thor
ough work of it. The MlchIga ma
thine ran onto a rock and toppled
over when old Senator Burrows was
I repudiated and '. . ' Representative
sTownsend was nominated for senator
in i nia aitniin. inarai ... niiniaMnt
Kaftuas have demolished the old ma
rhtnrs and elected progressive sena
tors and rf'prpjectativps, in most In
rlancfs. . - '- ' "
YlVMngton hurlod ''a- ' cnishlng
U'ok tt Use "regulars"' la tho nom-
i
ination of polndexter.CalIfornia has
kicked its machine into the sea and
nominated progressives. Oregon's
machine has been "busted, for sev
eral years, though effort is now be
ing made through assembly nomi
nees fo reconstruct it. -The only ma-
1 chines in western states that yet
have ar firm grip are those of War
ren in Wyoming, Carter in Montana
and "Smoot in Utah. The Dakotas
are not fully emancipated, but the
machines there1 are badly strained.
The last year or two has been a
glorious time for the country in re
spect to this wholesale smashing of
political machines, invariably allied
with "Big Business," with exacting
corporations and extortionate trusts,
to plunder the people. The voters
of Oregon should be very careful to
prevent the establishment of a
party machine In this state. And
every assemblylte is a machine man.
PRESIDENT MELLEN'S PROMISE
PRESIDENT MELLEN said in a
recent address that the Boston
- & Maine railroad was going out
of politics In New Hampshire,
which for many years it has "owned"
politically. ' He promised that here
after the .railroad, will not Interfere
in any way with the election of
members of ,the legislature or other
public officers; will not give or offer
any consideration to ,any official
which shalltend to influence, him in
the performance of his public duties;
and will also abolish the lobby, mere
ly employing competent 'legal talent
to represent- its Interests on neces
sary occasions; -.
" This promise, if made to" be kept,
is indicative of a very desirable
change in the practices of railroads
with regard to controlling legisla-j
tiojv In New England the Boston &
Main has long "absolutely dictated
all legislation and other public serv
ice In which It had any interest." Leg
islators were its mere puppets, be
traying the people for passes, attor
ney fees, some little mess of pottage
of - one sort or. another, and It has
been so to a greater or less extent
jn many other states. Now if other
railroad presidents will follow Pres
ident Mellen's example, not "only in
speech but in actios,, the railroads
will be relieved of much of the odium
that; has justly
legislation and other public service
will be greatly improved.
Mr. Mellen's promise, it - is to be
observed, implies a confession. The
Boston & Maine has hitherto offered
"considerations" to officials . lthas
maintained a lobby; it has been' a
briber and corrupted; it has been all
that has been charged against it, Mr.
Mellen practically admits this. But
hereafter It is going to be good. But
it will bear watching. And if Bass
Is 'elected governor; he will watch It."
THE DITCHBURN BRAWL
IF FURTHER evidence of the to
"tai unfitness of John .DItchburn
for a place on the "bench ;, is
, needed, yesterday's police court
record affords it. DItchburn Is him
self a . defendant in that court for
engaging in a saloon fight ; He en
tered the place, found the man 'he
ji'as seeking and assaulted him. The
claim of the man attacked Is that the
assault was made without cause and
for reasons , that " were entirely
groundless. ,
That is not the proper conduct for
a man who asks to be elevated to
the bench.. As a presiding Judge In
the circuit court . Mr. DItchburn is
not the kind of man, as this Inci
dent shows, before whom the citi
zen would care to go for a trial of
the rights of property or the rights
of person. ' , 1
From prisoner at bar in the po
lice court to presiding judge in a
circuit court Is a very long way. Af
ter the spectacle Mr. DItchburn has
made of himself, he should withdraw
from . bis . candidacy and make r. the
election of Judge Gatens unanimous.
Otherwise, the voters should make
Judge Gatens election so - nearly
oinanimous that men of the Ditch-
burn type will not again offer them
selves as suitable material for hold
ing the scales of. justice and enter
ing solemn decrees upon the rlghfs
of men and property. " .
Judge Gatens Is an able jurist, and
a clean, conscientious man of splen
did integrity.' Mr. DItchburn is a
brawler with a long record of indict
ments, disbarment, trials, verdicts,
hearjmgs asd sentences in' the courts
of Jtlultnomah county. .
GETTINQ"A JUR1
THE GREATER part of a week
was consumed in the selection
of a Jury, to try the Kersh wo
man. And except for a strange
and almost unprecedented incident, a
day or two more might fyave been
used up in this Initial proceeding.
There being 12 men In the box, but
three or four of whom had been
"passed Tor . cause," but not yet ac
cepted, the attorneys, for both sides
accepted them; and the panep was
complete. Such conduct on the part
of the lawyers Is unaccountable, and
seems almost unprofessional. There
they-'had an opportunity to delay
the completion of the Jury for hours,
perhaps days, yet, and possibly to
have a new venire, summoned, and
yet did not do so. r
Meaning no disrespect to court or
attorneys, who act' according to the
precedents and custom of., genera
tions, the selection of.a jury in many
cases is farcical. From a practical
point of view it is ridiculous. It is
wearying and exasperating. More-
upon the taxpayers. Care should be
ererclsed.'of course," that Jurors are
not badly prejudiced, but in almost
eny given case not one man In E0
Is Buffldfntly prejudiced to render;
uhu Bum; to serve as a juror. in
r
nine cases ont of ten a jury, of 12
men drawn from the first 15 or at
most '20, would be quite as godd a
Jury 'as one sifted out of 100, 20.0,
or 500 talesmen. And the process
that takes days could Just as. well
be finished in as many hours. They
do this work fatvbetter in England.
THE SUPREME COURT
I
N THE political pamphlet sent to
" the voters appears an argument
against the nonpolitlcal Judiciary
movement and candidates. Its
manner is Juvenile and its language
intemperate and the statements un
truthful. ? For instance, it is stated
that at the June election in 1908 the
people rejected .'the proposition to
increase the ? supreme court from
three to five .members, and. in spite
of this plain expression of the will
of the- people the then Democratic
governor; in his biennial' message,
urged the. passage of a law to thus
enlarge the' courts, " It Is also stated
that two of the nonpolitlcal Judiciary
candidates (meaning, - doubtless,
Judge King and Judge Slater) were
active in securing the passage of this
law. '
, Concerning the statement," the
first inquiry that arises is "why do
Judge Burnett and Judge Bean, de
sire 'to occupy .unconstitutional ofT
flees? If they believe, as this state
ment implies, that the creation, of
these offices .is in violation of the
plain expression of the will of the
people,' is it any more reprehensible
for their opponents JtT:an for them to
be candidates? '
But it is not true that the people
rejected the proposition to increase
the,8upreme court, - What is true is
that the proposition submitted to the
people to Increase the suprem court
was -coupled i with another proposi
tion "to radically change the judicial
system of this state 'by abolishing
the county' courts and transferring
probate business : to the : circuit
courts. . The amendment proposing
this was so crudely drawn and left
undetermined so many ' details' for
the transfer of the business that thf
bar generally and the people , were
opposed to it, and it Js that radical
change of the Judicial system and
not the proposition o increase the
supreme .court from three to five
members lhat.nuffered.iief eat. at the
hands of the people.
Now the act of the legislature to
increase the supreme court was
passed by a Republican legislature,
in which the" number of Democrats
was a negligible quantity. , It ' was
indeed 6igned by the governor., Af
terwards the validity" of the act was
questioned in the. supreme court and
the-three Republican judges, Judge
Moore, Judge McBrlde'and Judge Ea
kin, unanimously upheld the validity
of the act and the power of the leg-
itiiaiure to enact u. Juage iving ana
Judge Slater did not sit when that
question was decided." We have,
therefore, an act of " the legislature,
approved by the three independent
and coordinate branches of theft gov
ernment, two of these branches be
ing substantially unanimously. Re
publican, r It would be as Just to say
that the Republicans created these
offices' to reward Republican politi
cal partisans as to say that they
were created for the benefit of Dem
ocrats. Neither statement would be
Just. The court was increased be
cause the growth ' of the state and
Increase of legal business made it
necessary in order to prevent delays
of Justice. , v
- -This argument now under consid
eration, at the end, advises the J vot
ers .to vote for Judge Moore; and
Judge McBrideJ which, by, the way,
is very good advice, but the. advice
is Inconsistent with the claim made
In this pamphlet that there (was
something radically wrong fn provid
ing for , two new! Judges, for f the
above named Judges have 'judicially
approved the validity of the very act
of the legislature which the authors
of that argument condemn as a Dem
ocratic trick." ' " (
.; There are other statements and
arguments in the political diatribe
now under consideration which will
receive our notice hereafter.
BEAT HIM
A'
SSEMBLYISM Is on, trial In
Douglas, and Jackson counties,
where J. A. Buchanan, is the
assemblylte candidate for re
election as joint representative, i ; ;
i Buchanan voted for the' malodor
ous Brooke-Bean , bill which made
It a crime i to attempt direct' elec
tion of senator in Oregon. He voted
for the notorious Mariner bill which
was an attempt to mutilate the di
rect primary by creating assemblies.
What Is almost worsef he. intro
duced a bill to repeal, the people's
made law Instructing members of
the legislature" to vote for, the peo
ple's choice for senator. ' -This ' law
had been passed by ' the people at
the same .election in which B uchanan
was elected to the legislature. : It
carried by heavy majorities in coun
ties represented by; Buchanan, and
In every other county in thi), state.
The total vote for It. was 69,668,
and only 21,162 against. '
- This law passed' by the people,
Buchanan proposed to have the leg
islature repeal. The fact that a man
with such a legislative record is put
forth as . the assembly standard
bearer is illustrative of the lengths
to which assemblyism will go if it
ever gets the chance. The 'place to
kill off this propaganda is in the
coming election. If thai is not done,
we' shall, be bedeviled with : It for
years to come. : Buchanan should be
step in the destruction of assembly-Ism.--
.'..,.
Each state is allowed -to n1a- In
the Hall of Fame in tfes capitol at
Washington a statue of one of its
deceased citizens. Illinois, a report
Buys'i may select for this honor Philip
Danforth Armour. This selection,
the Los Angeles Times thinks, would
be a fitting one.. It would be a queer
choice. The elder Armour amassed
a great fortune, and it may be con
ceded did much good; but somehow
his name Is principally connected in
the popular mind with the stock
yards, the beef trust, and the wheat j
pit. But since' Illinois has Lorlmer
in the senate, perhaps Armour in
the Hall of Fame would be appro
priate. ' -.''
' At Vale recently, Mr. Lafferty ad
vocated tho election of W. II.
Brooke, one : of the authors of the
malodorous Brooke-Bean bill.' That
bill proposed to make it a crime to
attem.pt direct election of senator in
Oregon , under Statement One.
Brooke is a candidate for reelection
and Laffefty's hoost for. the Brooke
candidacy is sign that Lafferty him
self is unworthy of public conf ldence
He ought to be beaten for congress
and John Manning be elected.'
Letters From tine People
Testimonial to Judge Cleland. V
Portlvid, Oct. 28. To the Editor of
The Journal-r-With few exceptions the
voters .of Portland, and in fact, every
city, . vote for a candidate for public
office without the slightest conception
of the personality of the man himself,
and especially of hla early history.-Tet
the conduct of a aa during the early
years of hla life is generally a good In
dex to his character as long as he lives.
It is because I in personally ac
quainted with the personal hiBtory of
Circuit Judge John-.B. Cleland before
he came to Portland that I am writing
this - letter. I grew up in Mitchell
county, Iowa, the same county in which
Judge Cleland first practiced law and
ws elected circuit Judge. , His reputa
tion In Iowa is well known to me. He
lived in a farming community, and his
practice was intong the people of that
community. . It is because I have known
Judge ClelanoV so long : that the , asser
tions made by his opponents that he is
Invariably inclined, to favor corpora
tions because Ms training and tempera
ment make him a stranger to the com
mon peopje appear ridiculous to me. He
grew up among ; the ptala people of
Iowa. I have kept up my acquaintance
with Judge Cleland since he came 'to
Portland, and in no characteristlo can I
see that he has changed in the slightest
degree. -Yh .- . , ,,
If alt the voters of Portland knew
the judge aa I know him I would have
no dQulit.ot.iha'.outoijna, of the. alautlen
November 8. . R. REIERSON.
Vote for Smith for Congress. .
Selma, Oct. 27.TO the Editor of Th
Jourrfal: Will you give space in your
valuable paper to another veteran of
the civil war? - I wish to give my. tes
timony in. favor of Hon. R.- O. Smith
of Josephine .county," Oregon, candidate
tor congress. Comrades, I have known
Mr. Smith Jor many years, and if elected
to "Congress , he will work for., us. and
veterans of the Indian war. ; He will
also work against all, grafts and land
f ratids. He has ' had ODOortunitv to
make money in land grafts, but has
refused. I, have 'no kick against Mr.
Hawley. Ha has been there long- enoutrh.
Comrades, vote for him and you will
noi regret it. Also vote for Oswald
West for governor. E. D. HAGEN.
Secretary of State Is Responsible. ' )
Central Point, Or Qct. 22. To the
Editor of The Journal: ,So far as I
can learn not a .single voter in my
precinct (and there are 59 registered)
has ' received the campaign book, Will
you kindly tell me through your paper
who Is responsible? LEE W ATKINS.
' Why Stultify Ourselves.
From the Vale Enterprise. ,'
Mr. Bowerman , has always been the
foe of the direct primary, and as the
assembly candidate. Is he entitled to the
votes of the men who believe in the
direct primary? This is the supreme
test of the. primary law. - If it is right
as a principle of government, whv
should a -maiv whos la favoroflt
stultify himself by voting for a man
Who Is opposed to it? .'
If Oregon elects assembly candidates
this fall, it might' as well give up all
further idea of progressive government
and fall back into the rut of rotten pol
icies which has disgraced the state for
the last 25 years. It is up to the intel
ligent voter to sustain the present rep
utation of the state as the leader In
progressive legislation, or disgrace it
by assisting to throw It back in the
column with states like Illinois and
Colorado, where legislatures are bought
up at so mucn per head, and where the
people have no chance to select the men
who compose legislative bodies; .
, Bowerman's Soft Soap.
1 . From the Vale Enterprise, t
Bowerman will not f6oi many, thourh
voters have been fooled frequently with
less' reason for It Eastern Oregon peo
ple are wideawake and -they are going
to ao ineir own voting, regardless of
the "soft-soap" speech of Bowerman or
the f times that emanate from the tall
tower in Portland. Eyery speech that
Bowerman Is making on this tour is
losing him - many votes, for he avoids
all the Issues, and in order to fill in a
few minutes' by whiph to hoodwink the
good people, he tells them how they are
being robbed by the present state ad
ministration, and how he will save the
people ittoiey on buying soap.' The rest
of the tliie he devotes to Bourne, the
rriena ana cnampion or the direct pri
mary. ;,,,'"'...,'.;':'vfl. '-.":' .: ,.v . v .:,-';-;;'
:":'f",";;; A Desperate Excuse,'
i From tho W;eston Leader.
That XJlianiberlaln and Bourne have
formed a combination tq elect West at
the expense of the rest of the Demo
cratic ticket, is the veriest twaddle.
That the "assembly jush" are using it
shows the desperate extremities to
which they are reduced for the flimsiest
klad of campaign material. If it be
true that' certain valley Democrats have
bolted West for this alleged reason, as
reported In the Oregdnian, then let them
bolt and go to the demnltton bow wows.
The Democratic party has no use for
such sap heads. The chances are that
Bowerman and the corporations have
strings on them,' anyway, and thai they
nave been casting scout zor an excuse
to support h'lm. ' ",, ?
Things Done Better Jn Fraiice. ".
It Is no easy matter to be married in
France, says F. Berkeley Smith, in "Suc
cess Magazine.," One great thing in fa
vor .of so sacred a ceremony is that it
cannot be hastily performed. It Is an
event requiring months of preparation,
of the signing of endless papers, the cer
tificates of birth and the consent of pa-
vents, until at ldst the wedding day,
-wtrielf-ftas-!
wengedV-f e he ew
tire satisfaction of every one-concerned,
including the legal authorities, arrives.
If marriage is difficult, divorce Is even
move so. There are np such romantic
and youthful adventures as eloping on
a til capital handing $10 to the ac
commodating parson and Wiring for for-
giveiiiran wiiu hid vnunge.
COMMENT - AND
6MALL CHANGE
Watch Taeoma grow backward.
' ' Only about a week more of campaign
agony.. .
.. l. . ; - ' '.: ',
They"Btltl mean to "put the knife into
Statement One." '
"
Some of the campaigners seem to be
armed with razors.
He may turn out to be the left Bow
er-man.
' Looks like
a Democratic victory in
Ohio; Foraker will help some,
A woman's smile can subdue the
tougnest and roughest of men.
.. ' . . ' :
It takes five days to select a Jury
that could and should ,be selected in
five hours.
California man 81 years .old has mar
ried the sixth time. Some men never
know when to quit
'v'-S;r;;;-JV!;'?v,MV:1i
It is not so much what a man be
lieves but how much he believes it that
gqverns his conduct.
" , .
The Boston Globesays "Roosevelt is
Roosevelt'j Yes, but he la. wearing a
lot of Bryan's clothes, , , , r ,
1 --.s.
Dr.. Cook hasn't been seen - or heard
of for quite a while 'now; , no telling
where he will tu'rn up next
:;"'i';v.ii':;:'',,tV':ii'V r,:: ',;.', '--.':
It was 17 degrees at Pendleton the
other night Let's see; which visiting
candidates were there then?
IjOS Anreles flmiw: ' A "Kvr Vnrtr
dispatch says:: ''Walter Wellman re
ruBes to taik.7 ' Then It .isn't Wellman.
Boston Globes .' Cnloner RoorvaU Aa.
clares he never says anything that he
doesn't believe. What a lot he must
oeueve.. - - .. ,
Cases that take two weeks to try
here would be tried In two days or less
in England, and with more justice as a
result.
New York man sued for divorce bei
cause his wife hit him with a dish
cloth. But that Is scarcely a dangerous
weapon. 4
Senator Bevtldge well deserves re
election in Indiana. Such .a Ttnnuhllran
is preferable to some Democrats: in the
ienatt. , . ,
fc. . . , ; W .
How high an a 1 renin snes is told hv
an instrument called a barograph. But
it Is nothing like an I. O. U. graphed on
a saloon bar. '" , ..
... :-' ".-''. . ' ,
What New Jersey wants to know of
President-Wildon. If he shall be elected
governor, is. whether he wilt extermi
nate the mosquito. -
. -
Girls of a Seattle high sctool have
set an example worthy of countrywide
commendation. Thev liave resolved to .
wear Ji mora, '.'rata" . r
October 29 in History
History presents no more Interesting
character than Sir Walter Raleigh, who
was beheaded on October 29, 1818, "in
Old ' Place Tard,- Westminster. It
chronicles no more versatile man... .sol-
dier and poet, sailor and historiart court
favorite an roving adventurer, it, is
hardT'to say fa Just which one? of these
his character is the most Interesting.
As one of his biographers says: ; "He
seems' to hav been born tsy that only
which he went about, so dexterous was
he in all his. undertakings, in court in
camp,l5y sea, by land,- with sword, .with
pen." ,' ' -- v-K-i 'iV '-..; ty - ;i-i :..
Although Raleigh exerted himself so
much In the service of his country, what
he did was, for the .most part, so out
of the way of ordinary man's doings.
that even history-seems -perplexed to
discover what to record of him; We
are told how he won Elizabeth's favor
at the-first by laying his rich cloak In
the mire to save her majesty's slippers.
We are told how he wrote one line of
a couplet, when growing - restless with
the dilatory manner which the queen
had in prompting her favori ties, and
that the queen herself .deigned to com
plete It .
It'-Is said that to put , the queen
In remembrance, he wrote on a window
obvious to her eye: "
"Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall."
Which her majesty, either espying
or being shown,' underwrote this an
swer : -' --- -- -.
It thy heart fair thee, climb not all
all." - - -- , ,
Raleigh had a restless spirit, which
made him at once innovator and adven
turer. He was always making new dis
coveries. He it was who introduced
tobacco into England; Which Ellzabethr
strangely enough, , Judging merely a
commercial spirit regarded as a useful
article, but which seemed to James Sn
execrable nuisance. ; v 1 .
The Eldorados, which he -Went In
search of, were innumerable; and as
he Joined with these mine finding ex
peditions a large- amount of oarrack
stopping, ha, won himself at -last the
characteristic appellation v f "The
Scourge Dt Spain,", and for this Spain,
relentless, had his head in' "Hie end. '
Raleigh - is generally credited with
Mysterious New Guinea. -New
Guinea, ' is ; the -mystery of the
world today. Many travelers - have
penetrated into Darkest Africa, and the
explorer has made his way Into nearly
every other quarter of the globe; but
around this great island tbe second
largest. In the 'world there still clings
the romance of the unknown." The in
terior is a terra incognita, Into-which
the white man" has penetrated hitherto
only very short distances. With the
exception of 81r William Macgregor and
Mr. Laurentz, - says Professor A." .
Pratt in the November. Wide World
Magazine, no one has gone so far 'into
the higher altitudes which fringe the
coast as myself and my two sons on our
last expedition undertake for scientific
purppses. ' ,
? How .completely New Guinea' is scpa
rated from the outside world caii- h
gathered from the fact , that while
Thursday Island, lying iri the shallow
waters, of Torres strait between Aus
tralia and New Guinea, is. a civilized
community, rejoicing in all modern
conveniences, Including hotels, at Me
rauke, only a. day's passage away on
the coast of the land of mystery, the
people live in all the proroundly primi
tive style of the Stone Age. Tha mem
bers of the powerful Tugarl tribe,
which inhabits the country at this
place, are head hunters, and, like the
natives of many ' other parts of the
island, probably indulge in 'cannibalism
and every other vice of a savage, blood
thirsty people.,1 ,
A New Rep'ublican Party.
By Ray Stannard Baker in American
,ri v: Magaslne. -:, ; r
A new party new in the sense' of
hiving new Ideals and a mew leader
ghip has come1 into being within the
last year. It is a renewed and recon
structed Republican party. It 1 a
nartv of which the control lonsr flrmlv
7iei(r - tnhe0Tiey''eentewr - )r
Is now passing neyona tne Aiiefini-ny
mountains and centering itself Uniting
the virile and demooratlp people of the
middle west i The strongest of the new
leaders--save only Roosevelt, who de
fies classification are - western men
with," western ideals. - Moat of .theni
are from small towns In agricultural
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Oregon City has a Never-Cuss chib.
Catholics will bifild S church at Du-
fur.
4
Cottage Grove . has begun extensive
street improvements,
'Cottage Grove man killed a deer that
aressea loo pounds
- Mutton sheep over on Coos bay dress
over 100 pounds each.
Twenty potatoes raised by a Coos Bay
man mi a ousrjei DasKei, ana weiga ov
pouAds. ...
A number " of new homes are being
erected throughout the country sur
rounding Gervals and an unquestioned
air of thrift "pervades the section, says
the Star.
Lane county has S8 lumber mills with
an annual cut of 200.000.0U0 feet. Two
tniros or tnese iiimDenng plants are
located In and about Cottage Grove, as
serts the. Leader. t ..
Considerable excitement prevailed In
our midst (last Saturday, says a- state
exchange, T)ut the editor does not say
what he had been eating or drinking
to cause It
Douglas county has been freed from
its heavy burden., of debt says the Re
view, and at the same time more sub
stantial public improvements have been
made than ever before.
.',''(? '''..m.'w ;-''' ''';,,:;i!",.,':'.'''Vv :? i..
Man near Tangent has an apple orch
ard that is doing great things this year,
11400 a acre, says the Democrat. There
are 80 trees to ihe acre, in it, and they
have yielded aa average of seven bush
els to the tree. " v--.;
" ' .'- "? :
The; Hilt crest orchard hear Melford,
which1 holds the world's record for
prices paid for fancy fruit Us : pears
having been sold in the London ,niar
ket for $10.08 a box two years ago, has
again nearly equaled Its former high
mark, a carload having been sold In Lon
don at $10 even. .
K Lebanon blicksmith named Mayer
was shoeing a farmer's htfrse, and when
he acted' ugb he attempted to put a
ope on one of his feet when the horse
threw himself, breaking one of his legs
and had to be shot. He promptly paid
the owner 1185 for the horse. Mr. May
er has been In Die blacksmith business
in Lebanon for about 28 years and in
tnat time has shod thousands df horses,
and this is the first accident of the kind
that has ever happened m his shop. .
Grants Tass Courier: The most beau,
tlful weather tht was ever, known- in
any coilntry Is now with us, in this part
of the Rogue River valley, the land of
the red apple. Ct may be that . In this
world somewhere there Is a valley mora
beautiful than this, but so far- as his
tory goes . It has not been mentioned.
To live in the land of sunshine, beauti
ful fruits and fine fruit, is certainly a
great pleasure to all who are fortunate
euougli, to locate--irer'iw-w' - "
"Execution of RaleigK
having been tfie father of English col
onlzation in America, and equipped and
despatched several, expeditions 'to this
country. .... ., .. .
Thday of Elizabeth's 'death was the
I birthday of Raleigh's misfortunes. He
never was a ravorjte with James from
the first .It was not long before 'we
find him brought up for trial, for high
treason at Winchester. Throughout the
whole he is described as conducting him
self with spirit, as "rather showing
love of life irthaii fear of death."i He
was found guilty, but was dot executed.
He lived yet a dozen years, a prisoner
In the Tower, his , wife with him, and
wrote his famous "History of the
World.".- ' ... ; . J.iX: ov.-,,, ,
He was then released and sent, on an
expedition to South America with 12
ships and an abundance of .men. Uut
secretly, out of timidity, James Informed
Spain of the whole scheme, and the ex
pedition failed. Raleigh knew what to
expect; but, having bound himself to
return, he did return. He, was imme
diately seised and without, a new trial
was beheaded on his old condemnation,
all to appease the anger of Spain, on
Thursday, October 29, 118. ,
Raleigh died nobly. He spoke to the
Lord Arundel to desire the king to allow
no scandalous writings, defaming him,
to be written after his death; and he
observed calmly: "I have a long Jour
ney to go, therefore must take leave!"
He fingered the ax with, a smile, and
called it-'a sharp medicine," "a --surs
cure for all diseases," and laid hi head
on the bjock with these words la "con
clusion: "So the heart Is righU it is
no matter which way; the' head lies,"
On October 29, 18S2i the first settlers
from the east arrived in Oregon. Mayor
Harrison of Chicago was assassinated
in J893. Today is the birthday of James
Boswell, the biographer (1740); Edmund
HalJey, the astronomer (1868): Robert
Hoe, American Inventor . (1784); John
u.eais,. toe English poet (1796) Thomas
F. Bayard, secretary , of state , under
Cleveland (1858); and Justus H. Rath
bone founder of the Knights of Pythias
(1839)... Today Is the date of the death
of James Shirley, ; English dramatist
(1668); and Allan Cunningham, the poet
and miscellaneous' writer 1842).
states; and they are as able a group of
men as ever appeared perhaps at. one
time in American public life.
livery Where, Indeed, the old -leaders
have been going down to defeat The
country has set its face forward end
will not be turned aside. Aldrlch, Hale
Cannon, Burrows,, and many othvwp
porters of the old regime have either
been eliminated entirely or, -shorn of
their v power. New men and younger
men, with, new ideals and the virility
of new purposes, are everywher com
ing to- ther f rent. Such - men as La
FolIetteand Cummins, who have fought
a long fight alone, who have be out
cast rebels and Insurgents, are now
coming, into their own.1 La Follecte
won at the recent Wisconsin primaries
by the enormous majority in his own
party of over 80,000 votes. " Insurgency
has ceased to be a mere uprising of
guerillas; it has become a great, a well
regulated, a self conscious progressive
movement. 1 - .
- " '' "" - ' : J '"' 'vt-:-;.-.'""
The Scheme of the Bosses.
From the Union (Or.) Sqout
Jay Bowerman Is one of the strongest
advocates of .the direct primary that Is
now running at large. 'There is no doubt
of , it at alL Mr, Bowerman evert goes
so far as to say that he will veto any
measure that might interfere i with or
change the direct - primary law. We
Would very respectfully ask Mr, Bower
man If he Is also as strongly advocat
ing the assembly. The assembly is In
opposiy on to the direct primary. Mr.
Bowerman favors them both, or he only
favors the "direct primary. All that Is
necessary is for the assembly delegates
to Rppoint themselves, go down to a
town.. say about the size of Portland
and nominate a ticket' Then all the
direct primary has to, do is to ratify
the ticket Who wouldn'l; be In favor of
the direct primary unden the conditions'?
The bosses are all for it. All the
SfRMrhcmsrrvesrnorrvncget
ui wuminBuug ins ircnei. ; ine primary
Is welcome to ratify it Then the beauty
of the assembly is that the delegates
can elect themselves. " That puts the
commpn ordinary Voter where he be
lohKs; clear ou of it. , All he has to do
is to. ratify , the tldket he bosses, norol-
natB. -' ' ' ' ' ' ' .4
TANGLEFOOT
By Miles Overholt
"GREAT -MEN'S MINDS, ETC
1777. '
"We must heat thnm inAav n Afnitw .
Stark is a widow." nnnArst storv Au
gust 17, Decisive Battle of Saratoga
1910. .
"We will hpa t 'om tn a Frola . T '
think I said tmrria " 1 TJ
tember 27, Decisive Battle of Saratoga,
. - II i- - s 1 . t ,
- First Cliiucse Senate. . .
By Ferdinand C. Inslehardt.- D. D , in
- the Christian Heralds - - .
The late dowager empress, one of the
ablest Women Of m'odarn tlmoi orlfl nni
of the; most wise and skilful in state- '
crart,, promulgated a plan of renresenta-.. ,
tlve government , in China, i, which - In '
volved nine year? of progressive action,' ?
The first, step, in the plan was taken
s.year ago by the .Inauguration, df the
provincial assemblies. The .second nten
was the opening of the Imperial senate
by the regent Prince Chun, la Peking on
October 8. There was little or no cere
mony, to mark an event msmnmhU In-
the world's record. - In a brief address
Prince Chun said that the wish of the
people was for parliamentary gov
ernment and Re commanded the senators
to have that nnt n viur A tna ttnltt-
'cent parliamentary bulldlnrwlll be con-
n uticu, uui iienaing lis , completion
the sessions of the senate will be held
In the narrow quarters of the Law col
lege. The, crown Is determined that
progress toward representative govern
ment snaii oe orqany ana conservative.
Of the 200 mpmhnrH nf th uniita 10(1
were appointed by the throne, the other
AA XL- .
vv oy xoe provincial assemblies. But
these . men elected by the assem
biles were not permitted to qual
ify ' Until their selection had , hn
approved,; by the viceroy of their
Province..' Those nnmod 'hv' th
throne Include Imperial Manchu printfes
and nobles, distinguished scholars, re
presentatives Of the official rln.a mnA
fit the wealthiest clUzena This Im-
pcrjai enuie is expected to demonstrate
in?- aoiiity or the Chinese people to
Share in the rulerahln nf tho
and hence prepare the-way for the third
aa-tirsi-Tira-Ar-ia4.T5t'Si,i lit -mis
laid down, the establishment of a na-
iiotial parliament Which has been nrnm..
Ised for 191!.
. . . Oregonian Distorts. ..
From the Corvallls Gaiette-Times; s
Exactly 225 people heard Bowerman
and Hawlev at the Renuhllr!An rallv mt
the opera house. This was the "lm- .
' r J - i
mense' crowd the Oregonian said was
there. 1 The 'Immense.', crowd here was ..
about something like ' the "immense"
crowd the Oregonian said greeted theee
gentlemen at Alhany,' . At that meeting
there were exactly 157 present In re
porting the Corvallls meeting, a column
and a half or spaee is devoted to direct
quotation from Mr. Bowerman, but cv-
try person there knows that Mr. Bow
erman did not say what the Oregonian
wtys he did, Mr. Bowerman did not rise
any of the language attributed to him
and did not , mention various matters
the Oregonian said he did. - The first
two-paragraphs purporting tc- be what "
Mf. Bowerman said, did not come, fro-n
that gentleman at all, and at no , tin
did he use the language attributed to
him. The fact Is, the Oregonian. untfe,--standlngthe
usual tenor of Mr, Bower
man's remarks, presented what it
thought he should have said. And It
wrote a far stronger speech than Mr.
Bowerman made. It couched his re
marks In language this candidate i:d
not use, can not use.
These facts are cited as further evl-;
dence of what the Gazette-Times has
said -before, that the Oregonian permits
that which is most reprehensible i
newspaper work It permtts its news
lal policy. It does not. tell the trut!i
when that truth does not bolster up the
cause It champions. This is not legiti
mate and makes the Oregonlan's -news
columns unreliable and unworthy of
consideration, if the public wants facts
undtstorted, - i . '
Dry Fanning Methods Pay.
' From the Minneapolis Journal.
Farmers In almost every section of
North Dakota have learned a lesson
from the lack of rainfall and are pre
paring to -change their farming meth
ods In many particulars, Among other
things the amount of grain harvested1
In spite of the short rainfall showed,
very clearly the high degree of drought
resistance of the soli, but it also taught
the farmers that they had not in the
past been doing their full paft in the
conservation of moisture. 1 '
There have been numerous eonverts
to the Campbell system of dry farming,
which Includes deep plowing, deep sow
ing and the forhiatlon of the dust
blanket on the surface to minimize sur
face evaporation, Several farmers ' n
different parts of the state became
converts to . the Campbell system sev
eral years ago. and in' years when the
precipitation was up to normal were
laughed at by their neighbors, for their
extra pains, but the'laugh was the
other way this year. These, dry- farm
ers reaped remarkable harvests this
Jrear,- their, wheat., yielding In "many
cases 40 bushels an acre, while neigh
boring fields tilled by the catch-as-catch-can
method turned out six to
ten bushels. i- - r
(Ceotriboted to The Joomul j wlt Xiios,
tb fasieai Kibui poet HU profe-poemt art
rrgaUr feetur f tbii column ii Tbt D:if
Journal.) ' .: . ;
The yellow peril came and went, and
dfdn't scare me worth a cent. ! A nerll.
then, of darker hue, was held up ss a
bugaboo. 'When Johnson sent the white
man's hope careening up against the
rope, alarmists, said: . "The end has
cornel Now watch the ebon peril hum"'
And stiUiI;went my Joyous way, and
howled a cheery , roundelay, and wori
my patent duplex grin, until the coppers
ran me In. Oh, peril pink and perils
green are dished up by each magazine;
and "yellow Journals pant and roar about
the perils at our door; muckraking gen
tlemen produce frsh perils, reeking in
their Juice; no man In all, this blooming
land can be so poor he can't command,
or be so tight he can't afford a nerii
for his humble board. .With irerll here
and" perils .; there,'' and perils raa-inir
everywhere one's bosom should be full
Vf ears,-, ona aayes, . should ,. be twin P
founts of .tears, ones hair should alwav.
stana on inn, no yei i must confess
my frlendthat all the world looks good
to roe;, I'm mashed on everything jt see.t
wnoop ann , sing my song of gheer un-
til the peelers Interfere, f
lew'tighti 1810, V A ' ' A"'- a,
Oeorse Untthf ir; Ada mi Lyg J 1HtjL i
. TKc Perilfl
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