The Oregon daily journal., November 21, 1910, Page 8, Image 8

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In tii Lulled State, cauada o' Meilco:
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One rear.. ......IS f One Bents, -. .80
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- Work is the very .salt of life,
not only preserving it from de
cay, but Also giving "It tone una
flavor.-rHugh Black.
PORTLAND'S CENSUS
T T IS NOT la tbo mere reduction
. v lUiiui . 9A0 AAA ,lriot
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the real ugliness of the Portland
census appears. What Hurts, is
tie ; light In which ;, the incident
pWes Portland before! the country.
We shall be advertised everywhere
s a-citr that stuffed thh - fcensuft.
The most that th newspapers and
people of the country will notice is
that pyr count was held up at Wash
ington and 18,600 names cut out
The ImmeiUate : inference will be
that we are boomers and hot air ar
tists,: It will be concluded . that we
have attempted to palm ourselves
off on the Country; for more than
we are, and have even resorted to
stuffing the census as -a means of
exploitation. , '
Nothing Could be more mlsrepre
sentative of Portland. No city in
the country Is more stable and con
servative. No city is sounder in Us
tallies or more solid in Its growth.
No city gives U the investor a fuller
dollar's worth of value for every 100
ornts of Investment. , No city has
stabler banking institutions . or a
more permanent realty. r ; ;; Jyxxx ;;;
The whole atmosphere of Port
land is the exact opposite of what
is reflected in ; the census absurd
ity. There Is not In this city one
atom of the spirit that would resort
to a stuffing of the census as a means
of exploiting the city.; There is noth
ing bogus, or fake or fraudulent In
or about the people of Portland.; The
whole history of the city is a story
to which a stuffed census is repug
nant, and it is a crime for an odium
of the kind to to thrust on the
name of Portland. . 4
'THE iSAFE WAY "
SilAIJL .the 'woman "or "ths man
have the seat . In a crowded
streetcar? The topic has been
v- Interestingly dficussed'by" cpr
respondenta lo The Journal. .
So far, no correspondent baa sug
gested that any easy way to settle
the question could 1 be effected by
having seats enough for both men
and women. The law sees to it that
when we ship cattle, sheep or bogs
to market, there shall not be over
crowding. ' - There : must be ; ample 1
room and plenty of fresh air for the
porkers and the steers, a provision
that is both wise and humanitarian.
The transit must also be with few
est possible delays to the end that
the discomforts may be as few as
possible, another provision that does
credit to 20th century society, ,';:;;:.
But. in the matter of our street
cars, there are ' no such provisions,
and we have the daily spectacle of
cars on almost all lines jammed to
the doors, men and women clinging to
the straps, millinery awry, air foul
and every factor for spread of dis
ease present and active. ,
Obviously, there are emergencies
which a traction company cannot al
ways anticipate, and . as naturally
there must be trips when the crowd
ing of a car is unavoidable. Ob vi
ously too, a company cannot foresee
the delays and. interruptions of traf-
lie mat coma irom accidents, bridges
ana the other drawbacks to sched
ules. But, there is one way in which
at least half ,the public would have
a. chance to Bit oa the wayt home,
ana mat would bo by putting, on a
number of cars to a degree approxi
mating the requirements Of the business.-
There are cities on earth' that
require all passengers to be provided
with seats, and traction companies are
alive. to their own Interests that do
not so impose on the public as to ltt'
vita that sort of public regulation.
in tne inevitable conflict ' between
the. stockholders; and 'the public. 4t
is saie aua s&ne to De considerate of
the public, v -
PENSIONS
IT WOULD TAKE 150 freight cars
carrying 60 tons each to ' haul
the gold that lias' h(ien paid out
in . pensions on account of - the
Civil war. ; The yearly payments 45
years after the .clbse of the war
amount to five times as much as they
did 10 years after the war.
The number on the" roll June 30,
1909, 44 years after Lee surrendered
at Appomattox, was 846,194, and
ihey were paid for the year $181,
973,703. (Im 187510 years
AppomattoxKAthe ' aggregate of ;tfie
pension payments was $ 2 9,2 7 0 ,0 0 0.
and the Amount, was. annually der
creasing: .One year- after the. olose
of the war,- the number- 6n. th -roll
was 1 26,722, and ' the amount -paid
$1 5,450.550 'The sum- now paid 'Is
more than 1 0 limes as great as that
liMbursed the year after the; war end -
) :ua uuv more man tne wnoie eumjeoraed in the journals of each dayl
raid iii pensions on account of the Just In this, that the employers se
r pi taflcpenaenoe, . TLe total
::. .! M n r . .:: t f 1'
war 1, tfc-ooa tl.e t i.iUa is $2,
eS6.461.S40. ' It U more than ?.
value of all the grol.l iiiincj'in the
-ITnitfd-Sttcs during the past 117
years. It is 40 times ns much as
Las beon paid pensioners of all pre
vious wars combined. ,
The statements are from an ar
ticle on the subject in the current
Issue of .World's Work. , E. W. New
berry of Wolcott, New Yorkr writing
to the magazine, says: "I am an ex
soldier of the Clvir.war,. with three
yas' service to my credit, and near
ly eight months of prison life. There
are two cases in this town- one a
widow whose husband received a
large hounty. He never went out of
the state, served only 88 days, but Is
by special act; granted 12 a month.
In the very same , yard lives a sol
dier who was shot clean through the
body, who was rejected by the same
committee that granted the widow
her claim."
The incident tells th whole story.
It is the .muckers, hangers-on, camp
followers and the bogus ; that are
swelling the pension lists. ' It is not
the men who 'went out to be shot
at that; 45, years after; Appomattox
gl ve us 946,194 person s on the, pen
sion rolls and yearly pension pay
ments five, times as large; as,; they
were 1 0 years after the . war. The
real veterans are being robbed for
the benefit of those who, never saw
a tattle or smelled gunpowder.; J
ETADLG THE REAL ISSUE
S
UCH MEN AS James Wilson,
secretary of agriculture, are
partlceps criminis to the high
cost of living. v At Chicago Sat
urday night Mr, Wilson was attrib
uting hlghjirices to the fact that the
farmers were;: buying automobiles,
also to the fact that the housewife,
instead of going to the market and
carrying her purchases homj in a
basket is ordering what she wants by
telephone. ' ' " ( '
' James Wilson, secretary of agti
cultdre, has never been heard to say
that the extortions orthe'truBttv in
crease tije life coBt.? He has never
been heard to say that the Payne
Aldrlch tariff or any other tariff ,1
creases living epenBes. He has nev
er been heard to say: that the mil
lions spent on battleships, navies and
colonels has to be taken out of the
pockets of the people ; and thereby
increases the life cost Of all these
things that contribute so directly
and so heavfly to. the high Ufa cost,
Mr. Wilson has nothing to say, 1
: The main thing he has been heard
to say,; and . h has said it ; many
times that becausa housewives ; or
der by telephone,, prices are high.
His logic is that "the labor saving ma
chines and devices have in them
selves raised prices. Ills argument
is that every housewife In the United
Statesman' go. to market and!! carry
tome 1 dozen f ggs, a bar of soap or
paper of needles cheaper than the
delivery can be made by trained de
llverymen, skilled In the business
and , using labor saving devices for
the.purpose, ' ". (. ,
.' He argue! ; that the housewife
should go personally to' a distant
part of the city tot a paper of plris
and to another part for a can of
pepper and carry them home la her
market basket. .
Mr. Wilson's diagnosis ..of the
cause of high prices is that of an
old granny. The labor saving ma
chines, including the telephone, have
lowered the: cost of things. It is
trusts, .tariffs, extravagant govern
ments, restraint of trade, fraudulent
statesmen and: bogus, statesmanship
that have created extortionate prices.
As secretary of agriculture, Mr, Wil
son ought to have more to say about
these high price producers,-and less
to say about the housewives.. vIt
would be more creditable to the po
sition he holds,- to himself, and to
the country. . 1
TTIE
TEAMSTERS' STRIKE IN
, NEW YORK
P'
UBLIC ATTENTION has not
been drawn as pointedly as
should be to the aspect of the
teamsters' strike In "New York
and New;. Jersey that affects the peo
ple at large. This strike tied tip for
weeks the channels of business tor.
literally,"; millions of, people, who
were neither directly nor indirectly
interested Jn or parties to the quar
rel, and' yet submitted- to it The
damage done was utterly out of pro
portion to the items, the details, or
the results of the quarrel itself
And the chief damage fell on the
wrong people.; ,
- It was plain enough, day by day,
that the teamsters on the one hand.
and" the 'express companies' on the
other were keeping up the flKht.in
the hope that public opinion, devel
oped out of public loss, would compel
the other party to give way , ' No
thought of Its righteous bearing on
tnemselves. 5 Always It was the oth
er side which , was to be squeezed,
compelled, into a surrender, And
the people hore the annoyance, sub
mitted to the Inconvenience put up
With the positive distress, until the
limit of forbearance was i reached,
and then the strike cot itself set
tled. No particular thanks to efthor
of the parties even; for ; the settle
ment;' they held on" to the ; war to
the very; limit, and the people the
injured party inf the matter; of the
broken contract-r-looked on.
Similar elements were' at work in
the recent railway, strike in Trance.
Only there the government; that is
the people, .were ' more , obviously
not more essentially damaged by
the strike than in the New- York
! case.
I .Wherein do thete strikes differ
'from the manythers, which to our
cure their business and gain their
I ivf I:.-, 1 (' m - ' ; ;
w ni k f.: 1 v r.,:. i . ;:. 1
eonrce. The j u! V.c l.ar.-!
a consi.l "ration, to an i:
necessity of com won i;;,
died, carrind on, devolo;
.i over, i?-T
to lo ha
!, for the
profit he, the individual, can i: al
out of It.
Kuca contracts, have ia .-. :;co
Just the two 'parties, the public on
the , one hand, and' the .individual
Who' Is, to do the business, and pro
vide the men and machinery for do
ing it, on the other hand. This,
whether the subject matter be rail
roads, express business, light or wa
ter supplies, or what you vflll pro
vided that the term "public utilities"
describes them. v
Corporations are Just artificial in
dividuals, and the law and right and
logic apply to all alike. , '-
v In the cases now in question this
distinction is vital. The'partles in
these teamsters' and railroad strikes
have no right to expect the people
to make a ring,' and stand round
with hand claps or denunciation, as
their favorites in the battle win or
lose. . The people, have the inherent
right, land it Is their duty, to have
removed," as quickly as may be, the
obstacle that hinders , the , use and
development of the public utility for
the public good. Thus compulsory
arbitration,- conciliation boards; and
the; like are Justified, where quaH
rela between employers and employed
endanger the operation of. the enter
prise.' -' 1 -
The most effective agency so far
devised along these lines is the pnbr
lie service commission of New;York.
The principle above laid down is the
very life and motive power of that
commission. It will not and should
not be . long before every -state in
the American Union will have its
own commission in full control. '
WET AND WINDY DAYS
f
HE CLIMATE of Oregon is ad
mirable, and excellent tor va
rious reasons, and from- several
points of view. - It is so" Just
now, although one may hear, "people
complain about the briskly movlits
atmosphere and the contribution to
earth of clouds, . . ... . r
True, dry weather, and In Its turn,
wetness, sometimes persist in ; dif
ferent parts of, the year In Oregon
a, little. longer: than, . some -people
might order if they were the Weather
gods; but take It the year through
the Oregon climate is about as gpod
as is manufactured for mortals. , . "
Take . the material, commercial
point of view first, v All want abun
dant, crops next year, of course; this
very weather , helps insure : them.
With lots of wetness through part of
the year the farmers get rich har
vests through a shining summer, and
we'are all fed, . .. .;. . . . !
Then, - though the '; late ' autumn
wind H$ a little rude at times It la
no Kansas or Oklahoma f hurricane,
no Nebraska or Dakota blizzard.
The temperature; is mild, The live
ly breezes are laden with 1 health.
The raindrops beating in, one's face
do no harm. , '
There .will be autumn and winter
sunshine yet, too, as well as. more
of the healthful ; breezes and " fructi
fying V rains. . Welcome ' the windy
wetness: it is an -agreeable variety.
The Oregon climate is all right, v
If . cotton or any other crop ' ex
cept' corn has4 ever been f'lclng" in
the United States, .it Is so no longer,
Even far down south', the very hab
itat of alleged King Cotton, corn has
galned-the supremacy A writer in
a current magazine says that Demo
cratic corn, not aristocratic corn,; has
made; the agricultural districts , df
the gulf states rich.': "Corn special
trains have run- over the railroads,
stopping at every town,-; where pro
fessors have lectured on agriculture,
Boys. corn clubs have been organ
ized everywhere, and the "rivalry for
prizes has been intense, i There is
enormous wealth Iri corn, ' peanuts,
rice and sugar-cane far more than
in , cotton,, which yleldB only i a,bout
half a bale to the acre,, netting the
small fanner but little profit. So ,lt
is but natural, that hundreds of farm
ers in the north are looking to the
lower, Mississippi valley as to a new
El Dorado." 1 ' V, - . :
It is impossible as 'yet to glv.e ac
curate figures as to the vote, on all
the various measures and officers at
issue ,in the iate election. ;: In some
Instances the vote is so close and the
information, transmitted by corres
pondents so jacking ' in fullness and
accuracy that correct figures are un
obtainable. T For example, the coun
ty tax bill reported ; at first as da
feated,-is now announced as carried,
and that by the vote of Multnomah
county, in ;which the official 'canvass
has just been completed. In a few
days, the secretary t of state . will
complete - the ; official count,' and it
will not be until then that complete
ly accurate knowledge of the, results
can be obtained. .This information,
The Journal will give to its readers
as soon aa it Is available. ,
' Democrats and progressive Repub
licans can do the country heeded and
notable good service in the next con.
gress if they will .work together for
that purpose, and not devote their
efforts and energies to playing pea
nut party politics. ;:. .', . .. .
There will be one Socialist in the
next congress, Victor Berg0r of Mil
waukee,. which city, recently elected
a Socialist mayor. Can It be that
the drink that made Milwaukee fa
mous Is provooatlve of Socialism
l-s ...... - .--.-;,;,;;::.;
S Of postof fices in the , 1 0 largest
cities of the United States the Port
land office1 showed, thj jgrjatestjsec:
centage of growth , for .a period of
one year, ending September 80, last.
The local postal receipts during that
time ihowed au lacrease ot 18.7& perl
f , t l.:f ( r . , . : . ' C ' --
c- h-t faoo.OvO, r i : -: -. .
Los Ansd i v,: t:. c.r.ly r.o to
approach. this rate of prowth. The
cfflce in that city thoft-e.l a,n in
crenro of 17.23 per cent. Tori'- :id
may have been IT eri.'- 1, or.Da
randed, in the matter of 11$ c :::.,
but these figures,, and others, tell
an eloquent etory of Portland's
growth. - 1
Letters Frorn tHe Veopls
. , . Another Contribution. ; .
rmiand, Nov. 19. To the Editor of
The Journal. Dear Sir: I have read
with groat interest the controversy In
your paper regarding seats for ladles In
cars. I believe that In any case men
Bhemld give . up their eata to , women,
not from politeness. butout of regard
for possible physical infirmities. Many
women stand up for .jutlea dally and
very many ruin thftr health. But there
I one way In .which men can,, be of
more ' assistance to women than by
giving f. up ?, their ,- scats. Let them
go to work and abolish'1 the damnable
system -of having Jto 8tand.up:. In ;the
cars, not only in1 street cars, 'but t-or
steam roads as-welL I stood up all
the way-' from Pendletort the- other day.
Such a state of affairs exists in Amer
ica ohly.! .The' corporations have us by
the throat any way, and in;, no civilized
country wjuld such things be toler
ated. ' We are so very humane-that we
try to' endanger the health of our
women, , We try hard , enough to kill
poor consumptives, we care not one
snap about cruelty t our horses, '" Let
the eagle' scream -we are-, it. And
whenv wet wish- to cover , up the very
large issues of our life, then, jet us
talk prohibition. ; l
. . ; , EMIL H., ANDERSON, r
w ' . i " mif .11 n. . ii . .w.,.
A Third Party Menace. . '
- Prom the Milwaukee, Wisconsin, i-
Third party movements in the Unit
ed States have often started with a
flourish proton tioua of great results, but
pot,: borne out iby the sequel., ; inhibi
tion has never amounted to much la na
tional elections, though often a conspic
uous factor In many state ' The Popu
list, movement .waxed ominously for. a,
timer but then Waned and' died.' "What
Will be the outsome of ,Boclal Democ
racyf ,!It is altogether too early . to say.
But .'every third - party movement' suggests-
a possibility regarding the presi
dency of ; whlchValhe present generation
has hid no experience, ?i ; ''J'K,'JVri:";
The constitution of the .United States
provides that in the choosing of a presi
dent the tetujrna of the , electoral col
leges; shall ,be signed, ;, certified "' and
tranimltted . under seal i to 3 the seat
of government, directed to thiy president
of the senate. lt continues: !
The president of the senate shall In
the presence uf the ' senate- and house
of Tepresentatlvesj open all the certifi
cates, and the vote shall then be count-,
ed: the person having the srreatest num
ber of votes fpr president shall be presi
dent, if such number be a majority of
the-whole number of electors appointed;
and ; if no person have , such, majority,
then from" the persons having, the high
est, numbers, not exceeding three on the
list of those voted for as president, the
house of representatives shall choose
immediately, by ballot, - the president.
But In' choosing the president, the vote
Shall be taken by states, the representa
tion from each, state having one vote;
a Quorum for this purpose shall' consist
f a member or members from two.
thirds of the states, and, a majority of
all -the' states shall be necessary to a
enotce. ' -- ---- 'A 'r ? r"r''''y
The presidential election of 1800 went
to the house under this provision, the
votes (of the electoral colleges being a
tie -73-for Thomas Jefferson and the
same number for Aaron Burr. After
seven days of balloting the choice fell
upon Jefferson, In 1824 there were four
presidential candidates, ' Andrew; Jack
son, John Qulncy Adams, William It
Crawford and Henry Clay. Jackson
was far ahead in the popular vote 153,-
644. against 108,740 for Adams, while
Crawford and Clay received less than
E0. 000 each.- The vote of the 'electoral
colleges was ' B9 for- Jackson 84 . for
Adams, ' 41 for Crawford and : 87 for
Clay. " Again there was ne majority In
the electoral colleges, and again the
election was thrown to the house of rep
resentatives, which chose not Jackson
but Adams. The ; people, ; however,
through majorities In the electoral col
leges, gave .the presidency to Jackson
in 1828 and again in 1833. It was Clay's
Influence which led to the choice of
Adams over Jackson in 1824, and Adams
made a model president t but the excite
ment and strain of elections by the
house of representatives would be great
er now than it was In those early days,
and It is to be hoped that the contingen
cy of elections by the house hereafter
will be avoided. ; .
The Senate of 1911.
From the Boston Globe. , ' '
The ' Republican leaders are so seri
ously 'divided In their Ideas, of party
expediency that partisan Jinea may be
disregarded In the next senate and the
progressive element vln the . party ,rmay
join "hands with th Democrats. The
old guard is badly shattered. - jt will
lose Hale, Aldrlch, Depew, Dlclr, Kean,
Warner, Scott,' Burrows," Burkett and
Piles', and It may lose Bulkeley and
Lodgei ' Aldrlch, will probably be suc
ceeded by, a standpatter, but Burrows
and Piles give way to Townsend and
Polndexter. Republican progressives.,
The other known changes admit Demo-,
crats. - The alignment as a whole Is en
tirely and deservedly disconcerting to
the Btandpat factiom, '-.rt
While Beverldge. progressive Repub
llcan. rive way to Kern, Democrat, La
Follette of Wisconsin, the most, radical
of the progressive Republicans, will be
returned. ; The lamented Dolllver un
doubtedly wm-be succeeded by a pro
gressive. La Fouetta will be a con
spicuous figure in the upper branch, es
pecially as he is credited with presi
dential , aspirations n , 1912. He ,may
also seek to take the scepter, ' that Aid-
rich , Is soon , to lay down, whatever
happens, the .standpat faction will not
be permitted to fashion the party pro
gram.
Troublous political - times are anead.
but tha country can watch the sttruggle
with comnosure. - The "Interests" were
taken care of in the last tariff bill; ItT
is now the turn of , tne people to be the
beneficiary : under , remedial legislation.
The Triumph of Preventive Medicine
From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.
- Is the -u88 of rata and ' guinea pigs
in the. laboratory of tha bacteriologist
a form of inhumanity, to be proceeded
against by lawT. There are very! good
people .In Great Britain as well as in
the United States who take that view,
but among them Is not Lord' Cromer.
The great reorganizer of Egypt-has
recently delivered an address in which
he assembled statistics of undoubted
authentically showing the Immense nttl-t
ity of preventive medicines, discovered
by . v bacteriological ; experimenters, in
the protection of human life. On the
authority of Bannrman, the eminent In-
eiimte4eotsfr-'tTe-
I Indian" district 'With a poulation of 827.
ouo , some, rour tnontns berore ; the bu
bonic' plague appeared -187.000. persons
MrnVA InnMilof ft1 a ro l ri t . 14iAnaA.
and o,ooo were left without inocuia-
CO
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Oregon is etill g-ofpsr we t
Xever so much to be thankful for.
Be thankful if j'ou have the price.
c-
Eome days must be dark and dreary.
"With hey, ho, the wind and the rain."
Even the silence of T. R. is strenuous.
Have the Democrats learned anything
yet?
-
The more rain the merrier next sum
mer. The rain can always "come buck" in
Oregon.
The fat turkey roosts a little higher
every year. - . ., .
Tolstoy lived long, but was mortal.
like the rest.
See 'that the soor have enouerh on
Thanksgtvlng. . ; .-:, - -
It was a windv. wet Sunday: vet of
moderate temperature. ; -
Even the mayors are issuing Thankar-
giving proclamations. ,
... . . .. , .1 ; ;. -i ,;. 1
When a man discovers that he Is a
fool, he ceases te be one. ; -
"
It might not-be persDicactious to say.
good-bye to Roosevelt yet. ,
- , V
It seems that there are times, after
all -when the colonel Can refrain from
talking too much. - -,
Though Missouri Is-next door to Kan
sas, it gave a majority of over 200,000
against prohibition. . . . . .
: Next there, will be numerous municip
al elections. - There may. be too much
election In this country. 1 ,
s. -;;'. .'i,. - : 1. .' v-i', i;..;
The colonel' save every dor -has hi
day, -i but Qovemor-elect Dix may not
consider this remark personal. : s ; ;s ;
;.:.",. -n. -T':'1- ( i5-:' -':i.-'-:'''".,
It Is all right for Portland to econo
mise, as much as is practicable! but it
must, continue to be progressive.
'in the 'estimation of many, a fat mallard-wild
duck Is-quite as good for the
firlncipal Thanksgiving dish as a Doug
as -county turkey. -. - 1 . . .
Novemter 21 in History Napoleon s D
fx KnvanhH 91 .l.tnfl Mnnolfton 1h-
sued his famous Berlin Decree, which
fiallti nhlAnt.thA VlllttlTlr Out of
England from all connections with the
continent of jairope. This aecree oe
olared England in a state of blockade
on4 nrnhUiltait nil l-nmniPrfd Or COrre-
spondenc with them. It was one of
the most : radical ; measures ever ir
by the vrrench , general. - It went even
till further than a blockade hy declar
ing, that every Englishman found liv-a
country: oocupled by French troops or
v. w biif iArlnrAd a prisoner
VJ - .U.I. Cl m
n ir nAMtianillaa helon-Hns to an
Englishman wail made lawrut prise, ancu
an xraae m .ngii "
prohibited. ' .-t ! ! :
No ship coming directly' from Eng
land, or from British colony, was al
lowed to enter any port, and any ship
seeklnr.-by fate declarations,' to evade
this regulation was confiscated with it
cargo as if Brmsn property. . i
-Napoleon's commercial poltcy earn to
k imnm th continental system.
and it resulted In the springing up upon
the continent or many orsncnes man
ufacture, to the loss of England. But,
on the other hand,: the price of foreign
goods rose to an 1 extraordinary height,
nnohiintr a ta-ar mnrehants to make for-
hnf aerimisiv aff e'ettnr the daily
comfort! of the middle classes. On the
whole, the continental system, Dotn po
- X.A AMnnm If-atlr. VB8 A' Vnlfl-
ItKX. w . jf uu .vu..v.... j . .
take, Russia abandoned it in 1810 and
with the breaking up of Napoleon's pow
er the system collapsed entirely, , On
the English side the enforcement of the.
Orders in Council, which the English is
sued In retaliation, gave offense to the
United States, and was one of the prin
cipal causes-of tha war ot, 1811-.. In
fact,- the Berlin Decree was the start
of mischief on all sides.
In his Berlin Decree Napoleon charged
England with having set at nought the
dictates of international law, with hav
ing made prisoners of. war of private
individuals and with having taken the
crew out of merchant' ships. Charges
and counter eharges followed fast upon
the Berlin Decree and the Orders in
Council went so far,: on the part of Na-
tlon, - Th disease came,; with the re
sult that only : 814 deaths - occurred
among those who had been inoculated,
while " among the unlnoculated there
were 29,723 deaths. ; Thus the Inocu
lation saved tho livea of .8000 persons
and through lack of It 28,800 Uvea were
sacrificed. Among those Who, profited
by medical : research Only one In 696
perished, while among those not thus
protected one In every SJ fell a victim
to the plague. : i ,';:,i: :;;;v ':C-
Then he cites the--report of Doctor
W- 'C Oorgas" on the decrease of mor
tality, on the- Isthmus- of Panama dur.
Ing tno'perlod of American occupation
Here is a summary of the death rate
per thousand since.,l906t;''i'i-r;f'':;;
. ',.-! 'tv,,f.i -::a ': '' Canal - Em
Tear. i ; t. Panama. ;i zone ployes.
1906 .......... 86.8. , ,!!
ihh -....k.'.ii. ''if. d nn.o i f
(4t73
1907 y... ...... 84.46 33T63 S 28.74
1908 -,V.i4".: 84.88 24.83 : 13.01
10 ..- ,.,-r26.4418.1 rS; 10.44
From this It appears that there were
saved last year through the results of
medical research 1600 lives In. Panama
City, T 4291 in the Canl Zohe and 753
among the canal employes., Dr. Gorgas
states that; since: 19 06. there has been
no case of either yellow fever or bu
bonlo plague on the Isthmus and that
th pumber.of hospital cases of malaria
among canal employes has been reduced
from, the appalling total of 821 to the
thousand to only 215 to the thousand.
.' - ' '., -
. ' ' Elecrrli Kallroads. ,
' From the : Eugene Guard. .' ,
Electric road bnildlns Is now the most
profitable investment open to capital In
western Oregon. ' The , Oregon Electric,
operating from Portland to Salem, made
net profits of one -million dollars last
year; tne Portland, iuugene Eastern,
operating In Eugene, and across the river
made 828,000 during the earns period.
These are official figures and-tend to
show; what dividends may be expected
from. Investments of this character. '
; .Moreover, Eugene Is 6ugulally desir
ous of having the coast country opened
up to development,' and to have that de
velopment turned. Into channels : which
Increase the business and population of
this city.;.. This cannot bo done by wait
ing for the Hill or Harrlman people to
takes the initiative, The people must get
to work and begin active operations, as
sured that after the proper, start nas
been made these big lines will gladly
take, over their holdings if they wish to
dlstfose of, them. This was the experi
ence of the Medfprd people who com
tneneed f work ' oh the ' Medford-llutto
owned by the Hill in
terests, and destIned.to become a part of
the great Hill system in Orcgdn. - Every
dollar invested In . that road was re
turned to tlje original stockholders, and
If it had not been U would have been
i 1
Or. 'c t-'iinty ci-rtiilnt one of the
iiii , ! j Of l- r; bio laaii In I. !
wi.-t, Mii.l to be r.(J,ou'J (icrcM.
Xo woman 'in the town of XTadras
eliould l ave to j.'t out and aw her own
woo.i Hun winter, with two machines
running, na peihaps she may have bail
to do in the past.
-,
The post three weeks has recn won
doiful progress on the railroad rradlng
between Madras and Redmond. Tw
next three weeks will pee much more,
reports the liedinond Hub.
-
The carpenters have nearly completed
the work of rebuilding the mill town of
Wendling that was destroyed by fire
hist summer. The last touches, are being
put on some 40 new residences, reports
ihoJEugene Guard. . .
One tiling la certain.- With all the
wet votes and home rule laws in the
state, Hermiston will remain dry. says
the Herald. We have a .section in our
city charter which we. believe will ef
fectively keep them out . for all,,; time.
Cottage Grove's . postal receipts are
Increasing rapidly, says, the ', Leader.
Tan thousand dollars business' for the
fiscal year ending June SO next will
give us free postal delivery.' And the
prospects are that the receipts will
reach that figure.
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" Ducks are a ecaroe article' on the bay
this fall from all reports, says the Ne
halem Enterprise. , The large Ijarids 'that
have made hunting sol populsir on this
bay during the past are no more, and
ln all probability will never be seen
again. - ' , .
o;v -;v--;
As a result of being turned down
by Justice of the Peace T. M. McKln
ney. a negro and a white girl : from
Pendleton, .were scouring -Walla Walla
Thursday night in search of some one
to marry . them, and at & late hour
they did not seem to have been suc
cessful. . if. ' ' :'r j ' , ;
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Nohalem Enterprise: Mr. Bash ar
rived last, week from Sail ITrancisco
to locate permanently in Hhls valley.
His wife and family preceded hinv The
house Is nearly finished on ttielr I'atm
whlnh will -enable them to move in with
their household goods within a few days
time. The acquisition of more 'people
for this valley Is one. of . the' most im
portant phases in its development and
should be encouraged whenever nos-
utfble by those In a position to bring
ineir inuuencv n near upon wo mnnor.-i
win oe axnamea or our iitue nenaiem
valley where, ever you may go, -..
ecree
p'oleon, as to order the iure tnd burn.
Ing of all British foods found in France,
Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain and In
every place occupledvby fFrenfh ; troops.
In every direction bonfires were made
of British goods. And so exacting were
the French that when Frankfort ex
hlbited the least hesitation In carrying
out , th decree, French troops were sent
to execute, the order. - , .
: The result of all this was that'.the
two countries met on the common fron
tier, the coast line, in ,., deadly, etrife
in which no weapon was drawn, The
Imperial soldiers were turned into coast
guardsmen to shut out Great Britain
from her markets; the British, snipe be
came revenue cutters to prohibit the
trade ef France. : The . neutral carrier
pocketed his pride and offered hls..erV
io .to either for pay, .and : the- other
then regarded him, as ? taking park in
hostilities. " - .; f: .- .-.-'.'V.', .yV:.
--Napoleon', 'with despotlb slmpllclt'y, an
nounced clearly his purpose of rulnlnB
England through her trade, and nta min
istry really needed no other : argument
than, hit avowals. . The Order la Counoll
was . finally - withdrawn In, June, ,1812,
but too late to avert the war with the
United States. Napoleon never revoked
his Berlin and Milan decrees, although
by a trick -he', Induced an - over -eager
president of . the United States to be
lieve lhat he had done so. , ": -
November 21 is the birthday of Joslah
Bartlett, the New Hampshire statesman
and patriot 1729); George Howard, the
Maryland governor and politician (1789);
Jacob Sleeper, merchant and philan
thropist 1802);'tWilliama. Augell, in
ventor And manufacturer (1811); Lewis
Henry Morgan, the "Father of American
Anthropology'': ;181 8) V, r John-T.-Miller,
the California soldldr and statesman
(1831)' 'and Mary - Johnston, popular
American novelist (1870). It is the date
of the death oflQueen. Eleanor of Eng
land (1291); Sic Thomas Gresham, foun
der of ;the London Exchange (1579);
Thomas Shadwell,' the- poet , (1892);
James Hogg,' the Ettrick Shepherd, poet
and miscellaneous writer (1836); - and
James Meadows Rendel, engineer (1858).
worth one hundred times what ft cost to
the city of Medford. - This will be the
experience of the people of Eugene, If
they will take hpld of the Eugene-eius-law-Coos
Bay enterprise and put their
money into -It. They may build, own
and operate the road, or they may turn
it over to a great system like Hill's, and
in -either lease work wonders in- the
building up of. a elty here. v . .
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States for Women,
:': f ?' , From the Boston Globe. ',
Congratulations to the 130,000 women
of Washington who have been added to
the electorate -. 'by y- the . overwhelming
adoption or the woman suffrage amend
ment to tne comrutuuon. Theirs is a
magnificent opportunity to -aid in rais
ing the level of honesty and efficiency
In government And congratulations to
the-men who gave them the opportunity
In a rude state of society the Intel
ligence ' of. 'one sex may have sufficed
i,for the management of common Inter
ests, ixt the vastly more delicate,. In
tricate and Important questions of a
complex sotlety, in which the Interests
and welfare of women are equally con
cerned, there is abundant room for th
Intelligent activity of both sexes. '
i Five states of the union now have
equal suffrage. Women have voted In
Wyoming elnce; 1869, in Colorado since
1893,. in Utah since 1895, in .Idaho since
1896, and they have had municipal suf
frage in Kansas since 1887. Having once
given the full vote, to women, no state
has yet taken away the privilege.
, That Is at least s. "refutation of , the
charge,' so frequently, made by the antt
suffragists, that disastrous results fol
low the giving of votes to women. '"
. It ,1s proper to note that we have
here an admirable Illustration - of our
federated system. -The experiment of
giving women the ballot Is going for
ward without having to wait for; an
igreement upon It .throughout the na
tion. .'.:-,;:'",:;; :;:, it',;. .
Insurgency aii Ignorance.
,; From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
I 'ThftiWhole fabrio of this Insurgency
movement - is based on Ignorance and
demagogy," i says Congressman Henry
Sherman Boutell of Illinois. -
Mr. Bouteil has for some' years been
the most ardent .supporter of Speaker
Cannon' and all that Cannonlsm implies.
His- organization Irt Chicago refused- to
indorse him., for renominatloa and - he
ran as an independent." The voters gave
him a drubbijig. that left his vote in
Who accomplished his undoing. That
expression doubtless will cause the vot
ers in his district to be better satisfied
than ever with their decision at the
polls.
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to
inoud honia
in .Maine.
On the nli-'ht of his arrival, though It
should have been asleep.
The town KUiyed up and ina tha spe
cial train.
lie shook the hatid in forty styles of
all within his reach,
. 'Twas plain that riches had hot turned
his heud.
Ha climbed up on n drv Roods box and
made a' lengthy tpeeeh:
,' Next day the village papers quoted
- him as having said:
."Friends: This Is the proudest mo
ment of my life. Adown yon sylvnn
glades where once- I used to gambol
I see the old homo of my boyhood. Out
ihto the vast wilderness I went 40 years
ago, noble resolutions surging in my
youthful breast, etc., etc."
His speech was Quoted far end wide, v.
And no one dreamed the papers lied, .
But had they mioted what he said.
Below is what ioJks would have read:,
"Gents an' ladles: I'm sure plumb
tickled about this here meetln. Re
minds o' once . when I was one o" th
actors in a leetle hangln' . party In,
Kiote county. Well, sir, they was
A maiden beautiful and sweet from
i" Klckapoola creek
wes chosen queen of Loco county falt :
Her regal robes, were gorgeous and her
c ,. hair was smooth and sleek,
Believe me, she was qutte beyond
compare.1 ... . -. . .. ....
Her subjects crowded 'round her throne
to hear her and to see,
With haughty mien she gazed upon
-: the crowd.
Then in a husky, tearful voloe she made
' her first decree; .
The papers said she spoke both clear
. n.i dnd loud;. . , -V"', , -
,.'My loyal sub1ects Te this your
gloriously beautiful valley, the "gods
have, been most kind. 'TIs here that
the sun shines more brightly, the birds
sing more sweetly the flowers are more
beautiful, the people are truer, braver,
more lovable, etc etc" ' - ?'
Tne papers said she talked like that
For fully fortv minutes flat. - . , t;
But what she said is found below;'
It took her fifteen minutes, though; .'
'Ahem: Er dear people, I I I er
that Is today is was er I stand be
fore you i today no this no this is
the day that we you I I er today
is the happiest weather
I thank you.
' ' NUTTY RUMBLES.
A feller who lived at Coos Bay '
aook ms Kin ror n itp m the sprty, '
And he said: "Mary Lou, i
'TIs a good tilace to. Coo." v . -
'Of Coos." said the girl. "Let us pray,'!
.r;.:' si. ' .-r'?-ii", -i '. . "i'i""'.;-;-.' 'i-..v'.-".-':.
A, Fix has located at Athena, Or., atd
expects to become a permanent Flx-ture.
C what A Fix! ' . ' , v .
' Another, Democratic Afajorlty.
4 r From the Boston Globe.
vThe condition of the Massachusetts
congressional districts furnishes food
for thought to campaign managers. 1
i Of ; the .' 14 dlstrlcte the Democrats ;
secured only four congressmen, whereas
the i total ; Democratic ; vote. In all of
then" exceeded? -the total oast for the
Republican candidates. In. 18 districts
the Demoorats CKBt '191,104 ballots, and
adding the- 21,000 votes cast for the
two Democrats running In the Ninth dis
trict - brings -the Democratio tptal "up
to 212.000. . The Reptihllcans ; in the
whole 14 districts had a total, vote of
198,772. Here is a Demooratio major
ity of more than 13,000.'' Only by the
narrowest chance did the Democrats
faH to elect more than half of the rep
resentatives. . . , 1 '
A Democratic congressman would
have been elected In the First district
by a change of 176 votes, in the See
nd by a change of 209, in the Fourth ;
by a change of 18 for the short term
and 66 for the long term, and in the
Fifth by 279, while. T8 votes would
have changed the result In the Four
teenth district ..,' ji -. . j . '
Given proper campaign' Issues, such
as they had this year.-the cltlxens of
Massachusetts have ahown . that they
are . fair in their political . decisions.
Knowing now how easy It Is to upset a
political party that is not .doing right,
Massachusetts voters should keep up
the good work they so courageously be
gan on Tuesday, voting for principles
Instead, of. men or parties. , .
-' , . ; - - Fpll'fti. - - , ' V
Adversity Is fortune's school, v
' Its lessons fill the air; - - - 1
There's wisdom In the babbling brooks
.,' And uplifts everywhere. -;.,.-.
Disasters' are but stepping stones,.
That span life's mystic streams,'
Mere finger posts to victory, .
. Or figments of our dreams.
The hand that hrlngeth rforrow, -C
Ofttlmes a blessing brings; . . ' i '
The clouds that hover o'er us, : ': ;
'Are only angels wings. v ':
It Ood Is God and right Is Tight,' . '
Though fools and cowards blame,'-.
Stand in the glowing beacon light
That ever shines the same. ;' ' .-',
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If God Is God and right Is right, . . -
We cannot wif fer long; ' ,
Discount the final victory,' "
. And lift your soul in song.-' ; ,ly
Stlllman F. Kneeland In Nautilus.
; (Oontrlbnted to Tt 7oornil by Walt Minoa.
the famous Kumii poet. praM-poeuis rc .
reRalur ftur of tbii column In Tbe Dtlly
Journal). j :; ,ti'.y,;.v..; y,I;..v4 '.,-i -.
They are holding high earousardowo '
al vnarue s arrugf tiainr, ana tne Boyi
are turning money where the shining
bottles are; you may hear their Joyous
laughter, you may hear them sh6ut and
sing, and they're finding life a solace.'1
as the noisy hours take wing. But the '
morning, O the, morning, when the sing
ing founders wake! ,When the mouth is
llke'a hen's nest, and the head a mass
of ashel O the agonies - remorseful,
and the wailines that ascend! For all','
nien i must pay i the fidlder whens the !
dance Is at an end. There are fellows
all around us who are cutting quite a -swath,
thinking that unless they're styl. .
lsh they , are surely in the broth and
they're buying motor-wagons, and i
they're jaunting off to Rome, with a
lot of borrowed money and a mortgage ,
on th homoi yAud some day a beastly
panlo on' the land will spread a pall, 'and
a lot Of stylish alecks will be backed
against the wall; then you'll hear a lot
of pleading pleading alt in ; vain, my
friend;' for a man must pay, the fiddler
when the dance Is- at an 'end.' Little
Cora Jane DeJiggers has her feelings" '
badly miffed, for her mother often tells
her that her gait 1 much too swift;
With - her- swagger girl companions
through .he streets she likes to roam,
and she sees the moving pictures when 1
Bhe ought to be at home; she Is flirting :
with the Jonnnies in, her harmless, fool-
vlelil
and never bend girls, like- boys," must
pay the fiddler when the dance is at an
end. - t--'-- . - . '
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.Tne Filler