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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND." SATURDAY EVENING, DECLr.lUR 10, 1210. IE JOURNAL -i i AN INl'BPES JENT" NEWSPirtR. C, -fcciACKSON. .Trry Tni nln (weeprstniday) tnd nin at The Journal BalM- .'I'ifih and, Yamhill itmti. Portland. Or. r-1 t thj pctofflca t Portland,' Or.; fce mission tiirougb tb walla a cood-M ; i KPnONKS Muln. TIT) HutM, A -8081. A 1 dfnartiB'nt r-bed t thw number. 111 tiM oiwrator what, department r wn- FPHKIGX ABVKHTISISQ RKtrBiraKJfTATlVB, Ivnlstnln A Keutnor 'To., Bronw1-k RniMlni, t '.5 Hfth awiue, New Tor! Boj buiklliig, Chicago. -. : - FtifwcHntlon T-rm hy mail or to nr addwai la Ui butted State. Canada or Mexico; ' CULT. ; .. - " ;n yeaf.,,..... 15.00 I On month. .--,,- srNDAT. , ' Ji One rear.. $2.50 I Ona month.. . ... daily and scndat. , v.- On year. iT.SO I Qn month...... .t 'The best Is yet unwritten, for we grow from more to more. San Walter Foss.. THE BALLlXGEll ItEPOKT ittw t k tnPTTV nf th T! all I nee r f committee did exactly "what It P was appointed to do, towlt: . acquit Mr. Balllnger.' The Dem ocratic .minority did exactly what It wag expected to do, towlt: convict Mr. Balllnger. Insomuch we are x actly where we were when the Inves tigation began. : - ;. The one ray of light afforded by the episode, is the finding returned by the Insurgent member of the com mittee. V He Is a Republican, and Mr. BalHnger is a Republican. lie sub mits a report of his own and, In it he excoriates Secretary BalHnger. His report will carry more weight with the country and have more in fluence In fixing public sentiment than the combined findings of the eleven other members of the com mittee, .j ; Mr. Madison's report will carry ... U I . . f . .. 1 ' wiui it xne enure .K.epuoucaa juhui gznt strength, wheresoever ' dis persed. It will be accepted as accur ate, by the entire Democratic opinion of tie country. There will not be a very large contingent left to sup port Mr. Balllnger. Incidentally, Secretary. Balllnger, long before any report was rendered, bad been set down by. the public sen timent of th e country aa an on tor tunate selection as a cabinet mem ber. This conclusion "was reached as the daily reports of the investi gation: were published;, ( Mr. 'Ballln ger 's own utterances and his official acta ehowed that he did not enter the cabinet as an exponent of thai conservation that the country wants. Such predilections" for conservation as he has since .displayed, came to him as a result of the fierce search light of inquiry under which be has been forced to stand. . I The whole .episode .of Mr. Ballln ger has been unfortunate for the ad ministration' The withholding of the investigation committee's report until after the election Is proof that the administration so regarded him. CORPORATION JOY- RIDERS URING HIS recent campaign i and since, Woodrow "Wilson ': expressed himself lucidly and happily on many 'occasions, an s instance of, which Is as follows: v Many of the people -' whom I '-see 'handling automobiles, handle them, as i If they . had neither conscience nor skill. I have no objection to the else, of beauty or power of the automobile. 1 am , Interested, however, in the size and conscience of the men who han dle them and what I object tq is that Home of these corporation men are tak ing' ?oy'.' .Tides la their , corporations. You know what men do when they have a joy ride; they sometimes have the time of their lives and sometimes, for tunately, the last time of their lives. Now tome of these trust men are tak ing Joy rides la which they don't kill the people that are riding; In them but they kill the people they fun over. , The apt . illustration is a potent factor in argument or oratory, and Mr. Wilson has the faculty of thus making bis point palatable. : He In sists that it is not the criminal cor poration that should be penalized by a fine, for the fine is recouped from the people, but that the- men who direct and : control the corporation should be punished, and be punished by imprisonment and fine whenever the law so provides. Guilt is per sonal, and a fine assessed against the corporation does not reach the really guilty. , It is the corporation managers who commit the overt act of breaking the law, and a few of them sent to Jail would teach respect for the statutes andbring a speedy end to corporation lawlessness. SAVINGS IN. OREGON THE PEOPLE of Oregon have in the banks of the state a de : posit of $219.50 per capita. ; It , .. la an , unusual , showing. - The average has Increased $31.60 in the past 12 months. - t , The figures are from the annual report of the 6tate bank examiner. The repoH shows that the total de posits are ; $ 147,51 8,5 28.07; an ; in crease of $2l,S02,818.15in the past year. It shows that there are 155 &tate banks and 77 national banks, orra total of 232. , The increase in their capitalization for the yeaf was $3,046,075. - r- r , . Mortimer Fldshhacker,' chief di rector of the London-Paris National bank of San Francisco, said In port- Hand Thursday: "By all odds, Por land is in the best position finan dally of any city on the coast at the present time. ' The banking InBtltur ilons of Portland are strong, and the lianklng' business is conducted along most safe and conservative lines. liuu of rortland Is due to the meth ods foHowcd by J our bankers." As In Portland, so In Oregon. ' Flnandat Tortland and financial Ors. gan ar eyuocyuioUs. - Tha surplus money of Interior banks Is deposited with their Portland correspondents and the spirit of the one Is the spir it, of .the other. . .. . '. " ''': 1 ,And the banks in turn; as shown by the examiner's annual report, are reflection of the spirit and financial standing of the: whole Oregon popu lation. The extraordinary aggregate of 2l5.5u per capita of deposit, and the increase of $31.60 in the average In 1 2 months la' a financial status that Is eloquent of the splendid con dition of the state. " jV 1 ' ' ' In the situation there is much- evi dence of thrift. To pile up such an increase in the' deposits, there must have been a generous response to endeavor in all lines of industry. So "splendid a saving In spite of . the high cost of living is sign that; the resources of the state have yielded returns in abundance to the; toiler. The; soil, the orchards, the forests, the "mines, the fisheries, -the live stock, the manufacturing establish ments and commerce must have re sponded generously, to the efforts of men. There, is a gratifying reflec tion in the present? financial '.condi tions and future prospects of Oregon. CAN THEY NOT HEAR ? ; A NEWS REPORT of Thursday's proceedln gs at the Rivers , and Harbors congress says:, "Safe guarding of-, terminal facilities along waterways to be improved, was declared by several speakers to be of great Importance, i; Some of them said that the railroad companies are already In possession of. dockage sites which wilt hamper the work of transferring- heavy freight traffic to water lines. Ouster proceedings must now be Instituted and sites be se cured by,, municipal ownership, be fore the full benefit of the millions to be expended could be enjoyed." ' There are 3500 delegates from all parts of the country in the Rivers and Harbors congress. AH are men of distinction, comprising governors, United States senators, congressmen, mayors of great cities and other per sonages of note. All have given ex tensive study to the subject of trans portation, and it istprobable that the body reflects the'; best technical knowledge on the subject of water transportation that .' can be : assem bled in the country. ' ', ., ;, . . Their expressions as; reported In the news dispatches V are . identical with what The Journal has urged for months in behalf . of terminals for Portland Every utterance by ex perts and , all the results of exper ience unite in declaring that the ter minal is the key to the situation, and that, knowing It to be so, the rail roads -everywhere seek control of these terminals. , C.-'i i In, Portland,, we nave a complete object lesson in the ' gradual exten sion of its control of water front by one of the big railroads. rThla ex tension of control has 'proceeded so gradually and so silently that almost three fourths of the Portland water front Is now In railroad ownership or control, and the city authorities are in the actual process of turning over the additional shoreline to the company. Cannot our city hall hear the testimony that comes to us con sistently and constantly from all ex perience, all authorities, all history, all experts t Can pur; officials not read the truth from the dismal rec ord written everywhere,' of wrecked steamboat lines, stagnant navigation, destroyed competition, ruined water routesall brought' about by rail road control of water terminals? WALL STREET ALARMED AGAIN W ALL STREET is worried late- f 1y on account : of - federal prosecution of a few trusts, and because of some talk that an attempt may be made to re vise the tariff again, and really downward, this winter. It takes but an idle breath to scare Wall street and set It trembling as though the heavens were about to fall., There will be no tariff revision this win ter, as everybody ; but Wall street knows.T And itihere were to i)e,7aIl the rest of the ; country is rather more important than Wall street. But . this is something that Wall street ' would not believe, and could not comprehend. ,'. , , . , f .The fears panics and debauches of Wall street have cost the country billions, first and last, but the coun try Is gradually becoming more inde pendent of the street, and less sub ject to sympathetic panic and losses. with a nine .billion crop turned into fold, the country should be able to resist a ianlcT even " though" Wall street has an occasional fit. And some time the tariff will be revised, and very much downward, too,' re gardless of the effect on the sensi tive nerves of Wall street; but not now., .' A HINT T HERE IS A correct and an In correct use' of the emergency clause by the Oregon legisla ture. , A distinct tendency to lapse into abuse of it was manifest at both the regular and special ses sions of 1909. ; It was applied to 16 out of 233 measures at the. regular, and .to four out of 13 at the special session." Without questioning that which has passed, It is to be remarked that the constitution limits application of the emergency clause to measures pertaining to ih& public peace, health and safety. .The provision has -every element of virtue, and is so mani festly appropriate under our system that It ought to stand unimpaired. lit iy-a-ltaKpfovl8loB7j-tecan8e"ltr use, by decision of the supreme court; Is a barrier to application of the referendum to a bill. ; j . It Is the small licenses and liber ties that gradually eventuate into abuses. Neither the public peace, public health or public safety Is in volved in a bill raising an offidal salary. If a salary has stood. at a certain" figilre for years,' riot, pesti lence or Invasion by a foreign foe are not likely to result, If it stand for 90 days In the same notch. Applica tion of the emergency clause to such a bill of to measures of kindred Im portance is an abuse, ' and ought never to occur. . " , - . At all opportunities, the people of Oregon have evinced the desire to have every public act clean, correct and within the law, -The law fixes certain restrictions on the use of the emergency clause, and there should be no deviations from the fixed and palpabU rule. If there are such de viations, the governor Is in all in stances fully warranted in applying the veto. ' CALIFORNIA ANOTHER FOOL OF THE FA5IILY H IRAM JOHNSON, governor-elect of California, seems to haVe a deaf and correct view of pro gresslve politics, "judging from an interview with:bim Ja New York. Few states It any, , have been more completely and supinely under the domination of corporations for many years than: California. , ; The people, prosperous,; cheerful, Cosmopolitan, did not seem to care They allowed the railroads and affiliated corpor ations to select nearly all the public servants, to make the laws, and to rule as ,they chose and help them selves to whatever they pleased to take, . But there has been an awakening. ana increasing unrest and protests during the past two years, culminat ing In the almost complete success on November 8 of the insurgent ele ment of the Republican party, whose ticket was, headed by Mr. Johnson. Hereafter, in California he-says, In dividuals, the common, plain, pri vate people, hitherto a minus quan tity, will be considered rather than the corporations or: the "machine," He. predicted the enactment by the legislature this winter of the initia tive and referendum, the recall, ab solute control of public service cor porations . and a comprehensive em ployers' .liability law, abolishing the fellow servant clause. "We do not mean to pass confiscatory legisla tion," he ; said; "corporations s and large property Interests will be pro tected.:, , We are simply going back to the original. plan of the founders of the nation r that the people shall rule) We shall regulate cor porations and compel them to respect the rights of individuals.- We must get closerto the people." v so, n , uovernor-eiect jonnson s prediction should come trde, ' Cali fornia will break its bondage of long duration, and,: according to the opin ion, of a local newspaper, become an other "fool ot the family." ! It won't be , long till the "fools," follownig Oregon's lead, will be in the major ity. But" the people are not .likely to be easily convinced, that, they, are fools for demanding . and securing government of, by and for them selves. ';v;v' ,;: :t :;-:. '''V-"'U AN . EXAMPLE FROM. BOSTON TT NOWADAYS THE V Pacific west N seems inclined to resent, rath-J er than to follow, an example from the east. But there are exceptions, i , - Oo a recent Sifhday afternoon, the Boston Morning Star . reports, ' the representatives of seven ' young peo ple s societies In the city of Boston met In Tremont Temple, and solemn ly with raised hands, took the fol lowing oath of citizenship:' " r "We will never bring disgrace to this our. city by any. act of dishon esty or cowardice, nor ever desert our suffering comrades in the ranks. "We will fight for the ideals and sacred things of the city, both singly and together. We will revere and obey the city's laws, and do our best to incite a like ' respect and rever ence in tnose above us who are prone to annul them or set them at naught. - - , ; , v"We will ' strive . unceasingly to quicken the public's sense of civic duty. : Thus in all these ways we will transmit this city not only not less, but greater, better,' and more beautiful ' than it was transmitted to us." t These representatives spoke and acted for over 400 bodies, whose total membership is over 400,000V, The societies were the Christian Endeavor, the Y. M. C. A., the Young Men's Christian "union, the Epworth leaguethe Unlversalist Young Peo ple's league, the Young People's Re ligious union; and the Girl's Friend ly Society of America. Every one of these societies Is not local or limited in its plans and purposes,- but covers more of less close ly the whole United. States. " But the act was Intensely local in Its appli cation to the city where it was .con summated, Think, for a moment, of Its membership; ' Cut out these four hundred thousand young'people from The muster roll of the coming gener ation in the old city, and the salt of purification and high purpose in the entire body, politic, would with them have disappeared. Let pone smile at the antique for mality of raised hand and common oath, v : In all the ages its; force is recognized.- Let none smile at the ideals of pure life for; the : human unitconnected with devotion to the common life of the ci vie entity. Doubtless many Will fall 'short and out. But the meeting, the deputized representatives, the common purpose cryauiuiuu ju oiueiuu wui ua- menu will of necessity be. graven deep in the memory of all participants. . , . And the city of Boston will be the great gainer, by this admission" be fore God and man, that for the city no less than for the individual, sac rifices shall be made, battles fought and won. Is , not this story an example? That the city Is responsible for set ting good Influences round the boy and girl es they develop Into life no one, in these days, disputes. But the. converse proposition that for the young of the city privileges be stowed involve, duties : towards the city to be, done this, on bo large a scale, has never before found expres sion. - ' ',; '.'- :' . ; , ; : "Fako" News Portland, Dec. 8. To the Kdltor of The Journal I am utterly disguested with the proceedinas of one of your contemporaries who is apparently try- In to . foment an . unfriendly reeling between this country and a sreat new nation on the other side of the Pacific. I admire the , promptitude - and good sense of The .Journal in exposing the falsity and venom of the so-called Pasa dena incident. One would think with such complete reputation that a pa per publishing such scandalous '"news" would have the manly sense to apologize right away instead of bolstering up its foolishness by more li;s. . B. E. 6. Open Letter From Mr. ISarzee. Portland. " Dec. Cornelia Williams, City. Madam; Preluding this possible intrusion or breach of social etiquette In addressing a personal open letter to you, with a sincere ""Beg your pardon," we venture this courteous reply to your declination in The Journal to accept my challenge to debate. : Let us say in our presentation of this challenge we used not one epithet-or other allusion and meant only the most gentlemanly demeanor toward you, re peating jour own language in calling public attention to your unjustified re marks of my righteous (right ' not wrong) belief or political fatth. There was no sarcasm, slur or other un gen tlemanly remark that should call out your "bull," "slaughter house," "de struction,'?, etc, in defining me or my personality. We would prefer not to be egotistical or conceited In our opin ion of our own method, but we will here take, pleasure in suiting that our character will measure with any man or woman in this city for what good society terms the untarnished. We haVe 49 years of record in this state. for 0 years a small business manager as well as laborer, with hundreds of living witnesses:- and your womanhood or morality need'not be tarnished by my association. 4 V? -, - : I beg an hour of your ewn appoint ment in private or before an audience of one or more of your own selection for a talk in a friendly educational way on and of thj noblest cause that ever engaged the human mind or tongue SOClaliSm. , '.'J" If you will grant me this kindly re quest you will confer a favor on one you chose to malign, but who, as a citizen, maligna no one in thought, word or. ueea. ioi aionjr witn the muiu tudes who always oppose those that would do the world good, oppose So cialism because you are totally ignor ant of Its tenets, principles and teach ings, We can candidly ay, as one of old; "forgive," you know not what you speak of. ' . Tours T for education, advancement. Justice and the good of humanity. -l? C. W. BARZEE, 1 SUte Becretary, S.-.' p,"i - i - When Is a- Thief? 1 -,-3 ' t By Will B. Wilder la the Docket Some people are i born lucky. Will Clark of Texas is ah eMmple. H ,A v s nr. Clark was walkinar alona- a street In San Antonio one night, when his at tention was attracted by the verr care- less manner in which Blum & Co. dis played some of their wares. Outside of their front door in a vestibule r&imoet on the sidewalk, Indeed) was a glass showcase, and in the showcase was a wax figure of a woman dressed In a handsome gown and cloak. Easiest thing in me woria to get them, eut of that showcase: It was puttlnf an unneces sary temptation before , people to ex pose them in that way. ; V- .:.;" " Whether Mr.fOark needed a cloak and gown as a domestic peace of ferine, or whether he rcerely thought that It would be a valuable jesson In locks for Blum & Co does not appear; but it does ap pear that he undertook to remove the cloak and gown. - The showcase w.ns locked; bnt Mr. Clark was a man of In genuity, and he managed to break the lock without attracting undesirable at tention. He got into the showcase. which was roomy enough to accommo date both him and the wax lady, and he took oif her beautiful cloak and rolled It Into a bundle easy to carry. Next he proceeded to unfasten the gown and slip if down to the floor quite the custo mary way when ladles are not made of wax. However, in this case this method was not Immediately successful, because the wax lady's feet were fastened to the floor and the gown could not be removed in that manner. At first sight he, would seem here to Itave made a mistakeT but wait till you retfch the end of the story. uerore ce could get a diagram of the situation into his mind and figure out that this particular kind of a lady could be effectively disrobed only by lifting the gown over ner head, a policeman in terfered, ; and carried Mr.; Clark off to jail. He was brought to trial on a charge Of burglary, was convicted, and sen tenced to three years confinement in tha penitentiary. . Just hfere Is where Mr. Clark's luck would appear at first sight to have deserted Kim; but wait ' until you reach the end of the story . Mr. Clara appealed bis case to the court of criminal appeals of Texas, and that court,, after: due consideration,. de cided that a showcase could not be re garded as a house, even If it, was big enough to afford room for a tete-a-tete, and breaking into It could not, therefore) bo burglary, . Mr. Clark's guardian angel had guided bim to the Showcase, rather than to the show window proper. The Judgment of the lower court 4 was re versed, and the cause remanded, "for the utter lack of sufficient evidence." ' Then, feeling that Mr, Clark had done something that ought to be recognized in some way, they tried to get him on a Charge of theft Again Judgment was rendered against him in the lower court although M. Clark Ingeniously tried to wriggle out of it on the plea of former conviction. Convicted of theft, he re membered the success of his former ap peal, and saw no reason why be should not try It again, jit did, and his faith was Justified. : ' , The court of criminal appeals found upon considering the facts of the. ease, that Mr. Clark had Indisputably taken unlawful possession of the wax lady's cloak; which was valued at $40; but they could not see that he was in actual DOBseselon of the, gown (valueo at S86) at the time when the policeman inter rupted him. It was still held by her firm-set feet .They admitted that the psychology of the situation . indicated that he prqbably Intended to take pos session of the gown when he had solved the engineering problems connected with its Temorarrtni't thr-lw!OUia Tiot"bun lsh a man for his guilty Intentions, and the saving; fact of the situation (for Mr. Clark) was that the lady" had effec tively disputed possession of the gown up to the time of the police raia. The taking of the' cloak alouo would be misdemeanor; but without the vown to ' Letters From trie People COMMENT AND , .; SHALL CHANGS Shop early, mail early, ship early. ...... . Pork is going up at a In. Raise more hogs, i l . ,-. Eggs 40 cents a dozen.' Raise more hena ' v ' - -: .. Santa Claus seems destined to be im mortal. , , . , . . ... -. . .... . Hunt out the poor families and re member them in time.. . .- , i Votes of women seem not -to mako much difference in results. '- - The Balllnger .committee's report changed nobody's opinion. v : .,';'- '. .'. Roosevelt is to talk next Tuesday. but he may not mention 1912. . ' -, : , ' , - v Now the Fourth of July orator can elocute about a nation of 100,000,OUO people . - Multnomah county's population en titles it to a representative In congress, all by. Itself. . - OT philosophy and humor In rhyme, Uncle Walt Mason never, runs dry,- lie cheers millions. ' , . ' , ? ; Portland, as always, will have a warm welcome for Mr. J, J. Hill, and hopes he will be cheerful. . , , ' ;. ',' - k:' !,.':;':;' Boston Globe: Shop early -for Christ mas. Use'the Red Cross seals. : Don't spit on the 'Sidewalks. . , John T Sullivan wants prlr.e fighting reformed. It is to John's credit that he never turned evangelist , 6 : V -, . . . ' Patrick Cudahy left a fortune oM20, 000,000, after giving some millions away. Most of us helped him make It , ', .. ' ; .;:, The theory 'of the railroads appears to be that freiaht rates should ao uo along with traffic, stocks and dividends. Seattle,' following the ' examnle of several other cities, has abolished high school "frets." It should be done every where. . -. Some of the Jold "reaulars" in oon- gress won't like, the Arizona- constitu tion, but it seems to be a very good tfhe. nevertheless. .. Spokane claimed 125.000, but has 104.- 402, according to the census. But this is e-ain in 10 years or iks.s ner cent. making it the 46th instead of the 106th city in size.. ; . . . .- .. ;: . Governor Harmon of Ohio made a friendly call on President Taft, and looked over the improvements in the White House, which he has a notion he may inhabit for four years from March . ISP- . . I , Miss Annie H. Shortridae, the hlchest salaried woman in the government service, who has been receiving 13500 a year as law clerk in 'the office of the solicitor of the state department has resigned in order to practice law. Oc casionally a woman has the right sort of brains to make a good lawyer. December 10 .in History It was on December 10, 1832, that President Andrew Jackson ' Issued his proclamation . against ' nullification, warning the people of South Carolina that they were being misled by design ing men, whose object was disunion and treason, and that he had no discretion ary duty, but must enforce the lawa of the union. Congress came to bis aid and passed the so called "force bill" in March,. 1333, but in tha meantime a com promise tariff measure had been agreed upon and made further retort to the force bill unnecessary. On March s the South Carolina convention met and re pealed tha ordinance of nullification. It would not be correct to suppose that the spirit of nullification was .con fined to South Carolina or to the south ern states, for Ohio 'passed resolutions approving of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions ot . 1798-99. Alabama took similar measures, and the legislature of Maine passed a resolution declaring that the government in flxins the bound ary by treaty with Great Britain be tween Maine and Canada, bad exceeded its constitutional powers, and had en croached upon the rights of the state of Maine. ' -' ; :"-;.:v" The nullification question was kept well to the front in the national legis lative halls almost from the adoption' of the constitution. During Adams ad ministration there was so much opposi tion in some parts of the country to the alien and sedition laws, that the people In several states boldly' took the ground that the United States govern ment had no constitutional right to pass ana emorce a. itw uiai.waur manixesuy antagonistic to the Interest of any in dividual state. Thomas Jefferson, the author of the declaration of Independ ence, wrote the Kentucky ' resolution in favor of state rights. The Hartford convention took similar views regard ing the attitude of the government to ward the New England States. It was this nullification idea that la- tBr led to the violent debate in the sen ate between Hayne of South Carolina and Daniel Webster. In November 1832, soon after; General Jackson's ' second election to the presidency, a convention was summoned to meet at the capital of South Carolina to consider the question still at Issue. i-The convention drew up and unanimously , passed an "ordinance of nullification" which -embodied the views of one of the leading exponents Of state sovereignty, John C Calhoun. The tariff law which had been but recently enacted was pronounced "null and void, and no law, nor binding ;,on this state. Increase the value Involved, the mlsde meenor would not be a felony Judg ment ot the lower court was therefore again reversed, w . . .. , ;.: Now that you have reached the end of the story, don't you admit that Will Clark was an unusually lucky man to be able to secure so much unusual experi ence Of showcases, buttonholes and courts at so small a cost? Penny-wise and Pound-foolish. -. From the New York Evening Post ; The president it Is announced, has cut $25,000,000 from 1 the departmental estimates, so as to Insure some sayings in - the actual cost of "administration next year; Tor this the' country will give thanks unresorvelly. "But on the same day, we learn that the president favors tbe fortification of the Panama canal at a cost of (14,000,000 and he is Still committed tq the two battleship plan, which calls for a wholly 'unpro ductive expenditure of 120,000,000, at the outset with enormous- coats for up keep and repairs thereafter. In evitably the president's pruning Of es timates, desirable as It is, seems, like a penny wise procedure when the pound foolish goes into fortifications; afloat and ashore,- i The neutralization of the canal, as proposed by the Keifer resolu tion, is what a broad, humanely Inclined executive ought to stand for. But the president dons not seem approachable from this point of view. He could have accomplished " the neutralization of the Philippines ere this, had he set his heart on It, and thereby saved air the millions now going Into coast defences In the archipelago, and ended the neces sity of keeping coast defence troops In the' tropics. The fortunes of political war have ended Mr. Taft's hopes of ac NEWS IN BRIEF OIIECON SIDELIGHTS -Number- of saloons in Eend will be limited to 19; license 11400 a year. ( .... . . Med ford Commercial club is receiv ing inquiries at the rate of about 60 a da3r- - V . - ':' Even In this month of December ripe strawberries have been picked in Jack tion county. " ' ' m- . . , Klamath Falls is going to have an Ice plant and cold storage warehouse of large proportions. , V.. V ' Six families from Wisconsin have lately arrived at Ashland, but cannot find houses to rent . A wild goose- came to a Klamath county farmer's barn, apparently look ing for grub nd shelter. ."";- More than 7000 fruit trees have been sold to farmers in the western section of Washington county this fall. A Eugene mercantile firm gave an evening dinner to its employes, number ing 17, as against 6 a year ago., , .... . .. v. - Mails to Prineville are 24 hours or mare late; bottom has dropped out or the. road between that place and Shanlko. .... , Albany has 13 real estate offices, and almost 10" men engaged in the business directly and Indirectly, mostly depend ing upon it for a living. . , ' District Attorney Brown was waked up after midnight by a man who wanted him to prevent the visitor's wife from leaving home. She went .... t ..... , I '" , The Observer tells how Rev. Hoberg, S3 years of age, wrote 1300 words on a postal card. Mrs. Knott of Albany .wrote over 60ou words on a postal card, says the Democrat The Grants PaSa Commercial club has received upwards ot 1000 letters of -inquiry from visitors at the Chicago land show! all asking for literature and in formation regarding fruit Uhd farm lands..' .,.-. ..:';. , ,. .- : ' : Hood River will send its quota of winter tourists to California for the season. Several f amllioa have already gone there and others are preparing for th trio. Most neenle put -off going south until after the holidays, reports! the News.- . . '... . -, On Halloween' a party was given at a Lane county schoolhouse, and a big bonfire was kindled outside, and at Us height a stray wild goose flew toward It alighting among the crowd. A wo man caught it, trimmed -Us wings and is trying to tame it for a decoy, , ; Gervals Star: In his unmitigated grief for the misfortunes of the Republican party in Oregon, Colonel Hof er seems to forget that be helped to bring about the present state of affairs. When he knew there was nO possible show for his nomination, he set himself up as a candidate for governor, well knowing that such action would scatter the forces of his (t) beloved party, and in vite defeat . . - Jactsona Proclamation Its officers; or citlsens". It was this ordinance that brought out Jackson's strong proclamation. Jackson's popular ity In the south as well as In the north, gave to his authority great advantages, and he did not hesitate to act with char acteristic decision and promptness.' He ordered the collector . of customs to make use Of the revenue cutters and any other vessels that might be available for the purpose of seizing all cargoes liable to, pay duties. :; ; ,;." v;f ., .'-,.;.. ,f At the meeting of congress In De cember the president's annual message declared that it was his intention to .treat all , armed resistance as treason. against the United States, This remark able, paper, written by Edward Living ston, the secretary of state, not only set forth the constitutional objections to nullification with great power;: but it also ehowed clearly that ; the govern ment would be desperately in earnest in the enforcement of iti authority. This utterance and the special message ad dressed to congress in . January, 1833, very generally commended themselves to all except the special advocates ot nullification.' The so called Clay com promise of 1833 propitiated. South Caro lina so that the ordinance ot nullifica tion was abandoned. j v ; , ; President' Jackson had made up' his mind that with the first overt act John C Calhoun should find himself a prison er of . state, charged with high treason. When General Jackson lay upon his death bed he was asked by Dr. Edgar what he would have done if Calhoun and other nulllflera had kept on. "Hang them; sir, high as Haman,' They should have been a terror ..to. traitors to all time, and posterity would have pro nounced It the best act of my life." December JO; Mississippi Was admit ted into the union In 1817; 8an Antonio, Texas was captured , in 1835, and the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain was signed In 1818. Today is the birthday of Daniel Appleton, pub lisher Ml 785);, Thomas H. Gallaudet founder of deaf mute education .In the United States (1787); Matthias W. Bald win, pioneer locomotive builder (1795); William ' Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (1805); George Goldwalte, Alabama Chief Justice (1810); Zacharlah Chand ler, secretary of the interior under Grant (1118); William J, Rolfe, author (1827); Emily Dickinson, poet (1830); and El- ward Eggleston, clergyman and author (1837).: Today is the date or the death a year ago of Jted Cloud,' the Indian chief. ' --v-.- .;"; complishing large things at home by legislation. , Perhaps he will soon find time to devote himself to distinguishing administration in other and' in noble ways. - J- Rosebery's Opportunist Attitude.' -- From the Philadelphia Telegraph. Lord Rosebery, ohce. a. Liberal pre mier, has now flopped plump and In continently Into, the chill and obstruct ive realm ot the privilege-enjoying Tbrles. In the present parliamentary flurry he has spoken 4 and written for the Conservatives, but even the Union ista who hanker to keep every lota of powftr and precedent for the peers have not received him warmly, while his old associates among the now radical ele ment clamoring for the lords' abolition seem not a Whit worried by his defec tion... His , proposition last spring, re ferred to a conference that could not agree to agree and most gloriously dis agreed, each according to hia pet opin ion, was more acceptable to the Lib erals than to the Unionist!!, but it did not eventuate into another of the sys tem of statutes, checks, traditions and rulings that form the British unwritten const! tu tloru The Tories blocked the suggestions of their latest ally, Yet his plan for reconstituting the upper house conserved various of its tradl tions and ancient rlghte, while it tended to the elimination of .some of iUarbltrary and -absolute- powr--y the now famous veto, restriction. To the student of politics,' observing from th outside the settlement of govern mental policy, the Rosebery idea seemed RMinible and effective But the parties close to the issue found it no oil on their turbulent water, but rather oil fed to ardent flames. 1 ; : : TANGLEFOOT By M3fi Overholt , WHY NOT? "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Be have," sings a petite little blonde thins at, a Jocal theatre, Incorrigible pupils, proDaoiy. wot! . : 4 ' BROTHER ED. V . " My brother Ed's a humorist, thou srh' he Is deaf and dumb, and oftentimes he tells a Joke with finger and with thumb. One day ho bet himself 'a dime that he could tell a . lie with thirty variations and would, never bat an eye,. : Ana so he met a timid man to whom he -told a tale of how he murdered forty men.: The man turned green and pale and also turned and yelled "police!" Poor Ed forgot his boust nnd nearly cracked his finget ' joints to Bay the word "almost." , . Ed met a woman on the street one sultry afternoon; he said to her, "Just wait a while and I will sinar a tune." She; waited long but heard mo song, al though Ed's fingers flew. The woman got quite angry and at last when Ed wae through, she said, "You mutt, where Is the tune? I've waited much too long." "Ha. ha." Ed humbly said. why that's a Chj-istlan Science song." All. day he played such awful jokes. One-time he "told bis son that he'd decided secretly to kill him with a pun. Son cried . with fear till Ed explained that puns were simple Jokes and simply sprung by simple men on other simple folks. "That's why I cry; that's why. I'm scared,'! replied the frightened lad. you are chock full of puns," he said, "Cause you're so simple, dad,? - uespite the roast my brother Ed kent Up his killing pace. He took the lead and kept it. too, In that joke-Bpringlng race, ai last one flay be saw a man whose whiskers hung in ' shlreds and they wre much more plentiful than sit poor brother Ed's. Ed said to him: "You ought to shave; your whiskers carry germs; they're ' full of little molecules and hay and iangla worms. Go start a mattress factory and build ari ostermoor- " ' the way that" fellow smasne,a his lamps !-Bellv me, it wse poor! You see he was a robber man; the whiskers weren't his. That's why he poked my brother Ed; thafs why Ed's lame head is! That's also why hia eyes are bruised; that's why his Jokes have fled; that's why there' Is no smile upon the face of brother Ed. : XPIien in the Metropolis. 1 Correspondence of, the- Public. ' But perhaps the man at the meetings Who attracted the most attention, or at least who excited tne greatest curiosity, waa W, a U'Ren of Oregon, the gen tleman who was characterized by Lin coln Steffens in One of his maaaiine articles, -as , !'the people's damned ras cal" Oregon has been dolnsr some verv remarkable ' things in a political way during the last eiKht or nine vears. and back of most of these things has been wis man u Ken. But not Very munv -people knew it In fact not many peo ple know it now. Mr. U'Ren IS prob-" ably the champion pussy-foot in Am erican politics today. He has a way of slipping around quietly and - unhe knownst and doing things which after wards other people believe they JIM.: themselves. He doesn't urn any.rt"! f Ira He keeps "well ut of rnmrs i the lime light. He takes no 'brass ba - l along wlth,hlra when he goes Imntr r for the Beast He Is the very leu t and the most shrinking among the who figure In the drama of piacei il revolution which - has been running It . a continuous : performance In Orejr n , for more than a decade. And'ro the'" was great curiosity to see and hour this modest man who loves to get off In a remote corner and sit down on his heels for a nice, quiet rest while orators are entrancing the multitude In front. m fact this is a favorite attittid with U'Ren. He will -deliberately' vacate ntce easy chair and noiselessly retire 't VvV t I iahc toy i. Hi'- avei a corner ana squat there for an hoir. . ruhbing his lips from time to time with a handkerchief drawn across' and across. But when he does come out of hi corner and 'when he does speak, ' it is found that he has something to say and he never speaks except on the question before the' house. Ho keeps right to that and no one can divert him io anyimng else. He has achieved poll- . tlcal miracles in Oregon in his unassum ing way, and yet If he had never dnn" anything in his life" except to eat and sieep ana keep in out of the wet he could pot make less fuss about it s. A Wise Woman. -. - From Scraps. ,1 " - - - . James C. Dahlman, , the recently de. feated candidate for governor of Ne-' braska, 6ald the other day of a terri ble graft scandal: "These Lour faith in human nature. Thy riv' Pita th. . n I t ., I n m . .. . v.. ...a yrpniiiu.iii; uunuuH oi me eiueny Jadrin the Jeweler's shop.-. A salesman W this shop was showing an ingenlus electric clock to a youna a-frL Tim mis,' he said, hjr touching this lever you ' swucn a, ongnt ngnt onto the face of the clock. It's a , splendid device for telling the exact hour of your husband's return from the club.' But' she said, T haven't got any husband,' 'Ahr but you will have some day,' said the clerk. Yes,' she agreed, Then she nodded to ward. tha clock. v 'But mine.'. Bhft- aid - won't be' that kind.- At this Juncture the elderly, woman Interposed. 'My poor child,' Bhe said, they're all that kind. I'll take the clock.' V ColoneLRedheacl . (Contribotea to Tht Jenrnal fcr Watt Hrri. tbt faiDoui Kansai wmt, L.it proae-tKwm ar a rrgnlur . featurt of tbia coIuoid la Xbe 1)U clour nal). : The -well known Colonel Redhead Is always feeling sore; he doesn't give this country approval any- more. , ? From . dewy morn till evening he sings the same old song: Whatever - was, was splendid; whatever is, it wrong.- When he was young .the nation was one of spotless men, but it's been sliding dpn ward most grievously since then. JTJie colonel rants and rumbles, and shakes ' his weary head, and. says that virtue's vanished, and honesty is dead. - The colonel growls and grumbles, and wipes his weeping eyes, and talks- of days enchanted when -men',, were ,1- wise.. The colonel blows and blusters. V and talks about the flag, and says it's seen uianonoreo, ana snorts and chws the rag; The colonel's tongue is tire less, his heal is always sore, and weary people dodge him, and say he Is a bore. Perhaps he sometimes , wonders why he's eo much alone, why folks are not arVf ?tftr- b'ttt- KCOwLand groam If ho would change his. program, for Just one fleeting day, and quit hia dole ful droolings, and giv a hip-hoorav. and swear the country's better thVn ever t was before," he'd e,ase to be a hother, a blister and a bore. CopTTieiit. mm, "... leorr Matthew Adnms