THE OREGON; DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, DECI 1 v , 1 v 1 0 JOURNAL s is t r.vr.s ukxt NrtvsPAr-KR. .ri-T Wntng wpt 8unart imI !--T m.rnli at The Journal iUi- , loo UiroujU to mll M Mcowi-class .HOSTS Mali), 7173; Homo, A'l. i IMutrmont rraclwd hr these aomlwrs. J toe op-ramr what k-partme.it yoa want. I -X AHVUBllSINQ BKk RFSENTATTVE, i In Kf-mtu 'V., Brims Mr PnlltlliiK, , .-itti renu, New Turk; JOyT-a ii.Jluir, ( bti-ajco. , ' ' iir1-)iliin T-rma hT man op to any iMras -,; lulled Slate, .anada or Mexico: ; , ,. E3ILT. , . .,; jear,.,..... X3.no I One month... SO . i ... STIMUV. .-.'.... .: -, '' j-ear... ....$2.50 I One month...., ..$ .26 ' DAILY AND SUNDAY. ; ; -vnr........87-S0 I One montl... .88 Indulge not - in vain regrets for the past, in vainer resolves for the future act. act . in the present F. W. Robertson. i . MR. HILL AND FARMERS " w mi II a i ik k in i !V n Ann si mnrfi A than anything else" is a good man 'who will ' till the land', a man who will 'iUIvate the soi." said James J. ' : ::i through The Journal yesterday. Exactly so. It is ' a, statement v. i.rth while, because tremendously true. It is the land that feeds and tk.thos. ' It is the land that furnish i s 40 per cent of the material - for cur" manufactured products. It is c n the shoulders of the man on the : .t (I that the whole; superstructure of society rests."- "," Mr. Hill is worth - much to "the country for the , sound ' advice he giros.' v His own career, begun In poverty and developed Into the tnan ?,. sement of millions of , invested cap Hal is testimonial of his mental vis ion. . He ' was never seen to 'better I. ' vantage than when he points " to tt-. man on the land aa the premier factor in national etrengtlu . The value of our agricultural pro duction is nearly $9,000,000,000 a year. It is more than half of the entire tnvestment in railroads, v It !s more than one fifth of the nation El wealth of Germany or -France,- ac cumulated in all past time. : It is tie first and chief factor in our na tional prosperity.. . , . .:: .,.. -,.- As in the nation, so in Oregon. It is the man on the land who builds, for the stability of the state. He Is tlm community builder and the wealth" maker, He touches the Boil into action, and it is the soil that is the beginning of all. .... Oregon's way to help herself is to beckon men to her lands. - These lands are rich and responsive. Their accessibility -must be. heightened .by railroads and country roads, and Mr. Hill and his competitors are provid-ing- the railroads.',; The leaders and builders of communities should per fect the rural highways. V The state ?. ti i.l its statesmen and moulders of thought should -da all , possible to make life on the land profitable and delightful. , ' , It is a splendid plan in which Mr. Hill and his friends in the great transportation world can be helpful. The easier the freight rates, the more profitable life on the land will bo. The more profitable that life the more farmers there will be. Mul tiplied farmers make augmented traffic, and augmented traffic makes augmented dividends' for the rail roads. There is room and opportun ity here for "a splendid state, with the farmers and the railroads in a reciprocal. cooperation. It is ope of many ways to get "good men to till the land in Oregon." IN CALIFORNIA f ALIFORNIA has voted an $18, f 000,000 bond Issue for the ij construction of roads. The sum is in addiiton to other millions the state and California citia have expended in the same brhalf. - . , The new investment. Is the result of knowledge gained, by. th people from experience ; with good roads built by former expenditures. They are convinced that there is no bet ter investment, and they are pouring the money Intothe-; activity,' $18, 000,000 at a time. An enormous profit js derived by the state from the tourist : travel that the improved , roads . attract. Thonsands of antotsta flock there and spend a month or two In touring the state paying out money for sup plies, repairs, Bouvenira, lodging, hoard, and the .hundreds Qf other nfesBitles, novelties and: luxuries that travelers always requtre." Among others, Oregon sends each ' winter season ; hundreds, of people wbo help to enrich the state by such ex penditures. . " . , ,- And the same'good roads that at tract the tourists are a delight and a profit to the California farmers. They haul twice as big a load on the good roads as they did before. That cuta the cost of their transportation in half and gives them a profit that thoy did not formerly enjoy.. Their life in the country is more delight ful, because the Journey from farm to farm and from farm to market id (.iijif'r. Distance is not measured by miles, but by the time it takes to make the trip. . Oregon can as well afford to make her country life delightful with good ro;tl as can California. Oregon utn a? tvcU attract tourist travel v t'io great turns they spend as rcu California. 1 Oregon seasons are ')": t. more delightful, and her , :.- ry and wonder poinia far m6re iitiful and attractive. "c liaij ret ailed business sense i.'.Mld good roads. .; California peo roaliao it. as is ,attftPd by the ;",;.:! ? of dollars they are pouring into the enterprise. Oregon will not want to go about It as lavishly as has California,, but will it not be profitable to spend a" few dollars on tho roads? Is there anybody in the state, who prefers bad roads? HARMLESS ERROR NOT GROUND FOR REVERSAL 1' , homa has taken an advanced, position' in the matter of, elim inating techticflitles and non essentials in the consideration of ap pealed casesv t It was . admitted ' by the court In affirming a crimfnal case that there had been "error" in the trial of the case in the courlbe low, that some vidence had been improperly admitted; but the su preme court ' decided that th Is . was "harmless error," not prejudicial to the defendant's case and doing him no substantial injustice, hence, there should be no reversal. , ': ', . ; In many atates,' prob ably rn most J states, , this error Jn. the 'admission of incompetent testimony would have been sufficient ground for a reversal of the case, even though it did. the defendant no harm, and though his conviction, would have- been certain without it But the Oklahoma; su preme court goes on record to say that "there has been entirely too much of this sort of thing, that It has resulted in the miscarriage of Jus tice Jn many cases,' and has bred a spirit , of disgust for law. and con tempt for courts In the public mind." This Is the language not of a news paper, but of a state supreme court, and it expresses an important truth that other supreme courts would do well to remember and act upon. There Is need ot new precedents In this respect, and ' this is one . that should be followed, rather than ad herence, as a conservative Boston paper;! has expressed ; Jt ; to , "prece dents and technicalities and Quibbles which make ? the; processes of our eastern ' courts at times' largely a game of 6kill between contending counsel." HOTEL PORTLAND PORTLAND people regret the, controversy that" has arisen over the control of Hotel Port- isnu. mu nusteiry, sua ue wide celebrity It ,.. has v; attained throughout th country as a cara vansary of the first rank, have long been a source of pride to Portland ers. It Is a reputation that has been built np chiefly by the executive abil ity and wide1 popularity of Manager Bowers, whose-capacity as head of such an establishment is known from ocean to ocean. The popularity bf Mr. Bowers wan attested in his re cent opportunity to become manager of Hotel Falrmount at San Francis co, which was declined In order to retain his connection with Jhe Port land hostelry, . . A properly managed hotel has much to do with the reputation of a city. , Nothing contributes more to the' traveler's favorable vew. of places that he, visits. It is to be hoped that the differences oyer the control of Hotel Portland will be speedily settled, and that no loss of prestige will come as a reeult of the controversy. A JUST DEMAND SLEEPING CAR porters to the number of 3000 have totltloned f the Pullman company for - a raise of wages from 83 1-3 cents a day to $46 or $50 a month. They allege that their income from tips has been steadily declining for the past five years, until they find It impossible to support their fam ilies, - . . ' V. i The paltry wages of Pullman por ters has been a disgrace to that enormously rich and money making monopoly. , It charges high prices for the accommodations it provides, and . should not depend upon Its patrons to pay its porters. ; . !; v The rise and growth ot the Pull man company is one of the phenom enal episodes in American industrial life. The ratio of its income' to its invested capital Is only exceeded by that of Standard Oil., It. has made th . Pullman family . enormously wealthy, and - has , enriched all its principal stockholders. The fact that it pays Its porters but 83 cents per day and compels them to rely on the cold charity of the public for stiTTlval, Is part explanation of the Pullman thrift. It Is a spectacle of tainted money with few. If any, par allels. " " 4 . ' 1 - OUR - UNTREPAREDTfESS" " GENERAL l LEONARD WOOD -.tells congress that we are "in adequately prepared for na- tlonal defense. For what then. have we been, spending all theso hundreds of millions 1 annually? Chairman Tawney of the house com mittee on appropriations has shown that over two thirds of the money spent by the government outside the postal appropriations goes lor wars past i and preparations f or wars to come. ' The total appropriations for the first year of Mr. Taft's adminis tration were $1,098,847,194. The appropriations to be made by the present congress will probably equal or exceed that sum., - According to Secretary..WIlson the total wheat crop of the United State's for the year 1910 is worth $625,000, 000; It appears, therefore, that the American people have , succeeded in rawing enough wheat this 'year to considerably more than'meet the war cost, ,by devoting the whole crop to the purpoae. - v E u.tia .spile, ot juar 4avlfth-xpead U tares, General Wood tells us we are wholly unprepared for national de fense,. In order to be fully prepared, must, we devote the whole of the wheat crop, the barley crop, the. oats crop and .'other millions besides to armaments, fortifications and siege guns? ' v Tho National Association of Man ufacturers, a year ago, quietly re solved that "each nation Is more profitable to the other as a customer than as an enemy, and that true de fense against enemies is not to have them." The great multitude of the American people will agree with these practical business men that the true defense' of the country Is not battleships, but breadstuffs, not cap tains and cannon, but Christianized cordiality, and commercla Inter course. , , , Incidentally if, with all the mil lions we ara spending on armed camps and tha enginery 'of destruc tion, we are In a condition of unpre paredness, whose is the "fault? If the management 'of our military and naval establishment Is inefficient, would we not better put " them' ia more 'competent hands? . : . . ; - A PERTURBED CONGRESSMAN AMES M'LACHLAN, , representa tive In congress from Calif or- hia, who introduced a resolution th,at brought a "report1 from the war department which Is being kept secret' because it' discloses the coun try's defensive weakness, is another person, who Is fearful of a destruct ive and conquering Japanese or Chin ese, invasion. A foreign country, he says, couia land 200,009 troops on the Pacific coast in 30 days, and no body wquld know about it until ad vised "by the ' blowing up ' of the mountain - passes.";;' It; would v take years, he foresees, to dislodge for eign troops if they secured a foot hold here, aud would cost a billion dollars. Hence be , wants several billion dollars spent on increasing the army and navy, and fn becoming fully prepared at all times to resist invasion. . -' .' It certainly , would be very humil iating for, the Pacific )coast states to be overrun and 1 conquered i by an army of - Japs, ' Chinese,- Hindus or Abysinnians, and any . congressman who believes that this is" likely o happen should not be censured for worrying over that Calamitous probability.'- But in fact there is but a little ! more prospect ' or probability of such an occurrence than there is that the Martians will descend upon this planet and conquer It . VACCEVATION OF THB , FIVE persons attacked with black of Mexican small pox n'ear Sllverton, four, an old man, a young man, a young woman and a child, had never been vaccinated,' and they all quickly died, in spite of the efforts of good phy sicians and competent t trained nnrees. One of the five, an old , wo man, Burvived,' will ' recover. She was vaccinated 63 years ago. . The Irresistible conclusion Is that the vaccine, : though . administered ; more than half a century ago, was potent to , preserve this; woman's 'life, and that the others would probably have lived If they had also been ; vacci nated. State Health Officer Dr. Whit Is therefore quite justified in saying that these cases present "the best argument for yaccinajtion I ever saw." - ' i 'y; ;;.?'.'': f'i There are people who, for one In sufficient reason -or "another, protest against vaccination, but these cases should end such, protests. Vaccina tion has saved l innumerable lives, and ; has done injury " that" in com parison la -negligible. And though, as a rule, smallpox is not the deadly disease it used to be,' yet these-four blackened, disfigured corpses 6peak with terrible ; eloquence in favor of the preventive of vaccination. , ; , ' DAIRY LEGISLATION A' DELICATE AND difficult task , lies before those who are try ing to rid Oregon of tubercu lous cows. It is.' within a radius of a few miles around Port land that bovine tuberculosis is most prevalent : In - the high lands of eastern Oregon less than one per cent of the cattle are affected. In west ern Oregon outside of the Portland district there Is , three to.' five per cent Near Portland, the Infection runs from 10 to 30 per cent The State Dairymen's , association declared f or , a state law providing for use of the tuberculin test on a basts of partial' compensation to the owner by the stat f or the outlawed animals. The state is to make, the test free when ; requested, .and in spectors' ars to have power to make tests regardless of the owners' wish es where occasion seems to require. Otherwise the test is 'to be optional with the owner. ' In an event there Is to be partial compensation,- and it is estimated that this will! cost $50, 000 a year., - ; The conflicting Interests In the sit uation . are , thus made , apparent Eastern Oregon with its low percent age, of infection will-be 'little Inter ested. V Western Oregon outside, of Portland is more Interested, but pot so vitally as Is Portland. Portland, withlts high average of diseased an imals, an average that is bound to increase, is tremendously concerned. Portland with Its huge population, cannot ' afford under," any circum stances to continue the use of sick milk from sick cows. ." v ; To, legislate in a way to Becure the - harmonious cooperation 1 of vail these conflicting interests ia an en terprise requiring great discretion. Drastic state-wide , measures . might without compensatory provisions, in jure, the big butter and cheese mak-lng--dalf7'4Bteret8.'bepayTOent-of compensation may arouse an opposi tion to defeat legislation embodying that plan. . Other obstacles of small er Importance will be met in ' the i 1 ' ' I -ft effort, to harmonize all Interests into an effective cooperation. V Yet the ta6k is not Impossible. Few things are impossible.., Those who are moving in. the matter should, when preparing a legislative measure, assemble every . Interest and; survey the field from every viewpoint Legislation of the kind 13 a great big issne. It has been worried with in some of the states for 15 or 20 years, and In cases Is still far from, settled; The exercise of Intelligence, foresight and earnest application by all concerned Is the only way to reach effective results. An encouraging phase is that all parties are manifesting a willingness for 5 compromise and cooperation. This should be reason for those who are factors In the agitation to have hope of ay successful outcome. Representative1 Victor 1 Murdoch, notedv Insurgent, advocates a pure fabric law, along the same line as the pure food law, one requiring, all fabrics to be labeled, as to whether they are all wool, halt wool or all cotton; linen or pArt linen, real silk or imitation ellk, and so on. - After awhile, some one has v remarked, there will be no frauds left .for. us to bite- on, and - we will v be going around with legitimate garments on our ; backs and ' real food in ; our stomachs perfectly' miserable because we haven't been humbugged. , Letters From tlie People Equal Suffrage Means Equal suf , ." .. frage Laws.- . . . . To the Editor of The Journal: May we enquire of you why woman with matern ity and other family duties, essentially belonging to, ser sex. should not be ex empt from Jury or other state and govern mental; ."service. While she yet assumes the duties of suff ragre, or . of saying what kind of laws shall order her being, or ltf M a-'ciUaenT-r''c;f.rrv:r''' The conclusion you ) draw regarding the obligations falling upon the female citizen under a changed, form of suf-' frage, is illogical. Cannot laws be so changed as to be suited to new condi tions T Do we not now exempt physi cians from jury, duty and other, duties that fall upon the cttisen in other voca cations of life? . Is not ' the fitness for Child bearing or other feminine duties and responsibilities, of as much worth -to the nation as the practice of medicine? Are not physicians creatures of education and practice, while ma ternity is only born of sex?, 'Let us broaden our vision as we evol ute toward the higher civilization. " -1 The woman demaads and rightljr de serves the ballot because . she baa be come one, of Uie industrial units of so cial production, it Is for the change of that condition which- warps and die tates her very, life that she is demand ing th ballot The mode by which she gets her living determines, her future social position as a citizen. ' The neces sity of and the basic foundation for a say m affairs of government eomes from the -necessity - of . determining- the existence of life of the, citisen. Let us ' add that the higher clririsaj tion fDl care for militarism, which will create a sane and proper adjustment of our social and industrial affairs.: Wars are always. fought by the.workera, for and in the interest of the masterSr and never by the masters for and In the in terest of the workers. ,.,-,-:!-,..--, ' The workers, both men and women, are getting wise to their own interests and will soon learn to cease to patron ize the' capitalist hippodrome of mod ern warfare. . ' ' ' CITIZEN. " Complains of Sewer Pipe, , . . Portland, Dec, 12. To the Editor of The Journal: L.wlsh to call the atten tion througn your paper 10 a piece 01 what . looks to me as i such Jobbery which Is beihg perpetrated on the resi dents of onr city, namely, the ; laying of cement sewer pipe on 'certain streets at or near Ockley Greea The pipes are of ' the very poorest quality, but sup posed to be one to two, cement and sand lif proportion; but they are at least one to five, . and should never have been laid, as they will not - only notstand the pressure, but will crumble to pieces on being used, as they will not stand the acids to which they wjll.be subjected.- It 1s well known that all sew age contains certain acids, and if pipe which contains very little cement and five-sixths sana. and crumbles in your hand before being laid, la put , down, what can be tb result? , Only .'.what common sense could tell us; they would all have to be taken out again, either replaced or a new sewer dug and good pipe Inserted. Are . the taxpayers ; to stand this crude piece of Jobbery or are the people directly interested in 'it blind or careless in allowing themselves to be floeced and to. have to pay twice for the same Job? It surely will have to be done over again . if they accept this plecej of wqrk. 5 1, would, like to see a committee . appointed to. inspect the pipe. I make no reference to the lay ing of It as I presume the bad pipe Is laid' the same as good pipe would be. - , Hoping that the readers of your 'pa- per and the people in the vicinity where said sewers are laid will gtve this mat ter their greatest attention and see for themselves whether I am right In my opinion or not, I will leave It for them to decide. - ' ITJENKT LTEBK, 127 Wygant Street As to Senator Aldrich. " Portland. Dec. 14. To the Editor of The Journal I read! your editorial in last night's; Journal' entitled, "The Aid- rich ; Expos-ore,'' with mingled feelings of satisfaction and despair satisfaction that the exposure bad been toade de spair for the horribleness of it all -Is that the kind of government we have? , Is It possible that for 80 years a man should be at the head v of , the United States congress, working against the people's Interests?. Is that what, and all, your Civilization amounts to? Is that the fruit and flower of So-called Christian civilization? Then we are not civilized at all Mr. Editor, that Is awful; it Is mon strous, and it made me sick to read It I - was taught that most men were good, that high officials were great and good men, and then to see the head of the senate, with; the aid of many others, using the last great act of his life to plot and schenie to rob millions of his fellow citizens for his own and his fam ily's personal, benefit, is almost enough to break one's faith in the human race. - And then there ia tl) Guggenheim ancf stanaara OU and the sugar thieves and Lortmer (some of whose vindicators reached the senate no doubt, by the same route)', the state house grafters and Kuef and Schmita, the land and timber tnieves ana some rather shady transac cerlty, isn't it appalling? '.i.:Ci, When we contemplate these and it's many other depravities, don't you think the human raoe should be anhnmel of jwi'117. Human Ufc, no matlur how lit- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGS Now for good roads; the people are bound to have them. , ..- . i It always does Oregon good for Mr. J. J. Hill to visit it. . Wil this congress go down in history as the "lame duck" congress? . , Perhaps Doc Cook could also seTi an article denying bis confession. ; ; -- ; ' ,v f V v ' ' - V '. ''' VThomsoeve'r Oregon hnrrahs for, its loudest hurrahs will be for J. J. HilL . - Even in the matter of the Mexican In surrection there is a woman in the case. There is already a large' demand for water wagons, delivery to be made on January 1. - K phrase of an old hymn was, "And December's as pleasant as May." , So 'tis, nearly, in Oregon. , , -;.;:'..;', '1--,-y''-' V J' " ':-, (.:. -One way to lessen- the . chances of being killed by a bullet is to keep away from other men's wives. ;, , It Is now believed that the year-1910 will witness the completion anil opening of the Hawthorne bridge, after alL Boy of i shot and killed one of 6 at Auburn, Cal., ' while ;. out shooting birds, ine sport for such infants. "?' '-i';?- '':'. '";'";',''r:i : '.",' V';v ''' :-'-";",';:'v ' : The proposed Panama 1 canal exposi tion might as weir give up; Pasco is planning an International exposition In 1915 itself. ' - . .- - . . If "animals are' to be-caged at all In parks, they should be given large space in which to move about and exercise themselves. .- ' ... . " . - - There is another dnad man on account of a wife's unfaithfulness and the usual verdict will doubtless be rendered in the husband's case. The Hawthorne bridges Is dose or nearlv no. The -: courthouse, we mav reasonably hope, will be finished t by the eno or ,. v -. , r)otwlthstandlng the enormous buyins: already, noxt week. will be the banner week in Christmas shopping, and Sat urday the 17th, the record dayj '1 . i,;;.!'; .-i ; .-J ;.-;f''-A;:. ' Time between Portland and San Fran cisco, via Klamath Falls, only ti hours before next fall, it Is promised. .Quite different from the old way of staging It over the Sisklyous. - i s; A storv In the morning caner tells of President Tafl visitlnar. the postoffice department and inquiring for Mr. Hitch cock, end finding a lot of clerks hard at work; at 6 a. m. But this is about ns reliable as, some 01 us. pouuca "dope." , . 1 Wbsfrrealr tnints the late Mr. Har- rlman could have don for Oregon, and also for his railroad system, if he had done 10 or 15 vears ago what his suc cessors and the Hills aro doing now and are to do in the next ' few years. Harriman was a great organizer, but not a aeveopern 4 .. - DecemDer 16 in History ' Today, is the date of the Boston Tea Pary, a most Interesting - social event that was held in Boston In 177$. Among the articles taxed by the Townshend revenue bill passed by the British par liament In Ult was tea.' ; There ap peared no better'way among the colo nists to avoid paying these taxes than to refrain from buying and using the articles taxed. A general boycott was started. In 1T6S, 1600 of the 2000 fami lies in Boston had, totally given up the use, of tea. , The most patriotic, palate could hardly have, found a more pleas ing' substitute In the "Liberty Tea made from the leaves of the four leaved loose strife, basted with the-Juice from the boiled stalks of the Same plant and dried In an oven.- . .' . .- -, Finally the East India company asked and received tax permission to export tea to America Without payment ot du ties In England. Thus it was hoped the price could be made so low In tie colo nies that me temptation to ouy coum not be" resisted. Yet this was neither the first nor the last time that English authorities failed to realize how truly the British quality ot persistence had come , to the new world with' the set ters.' . i , ; ;V,"-. r , -- : ? : " Informed that tea ships were on the way to Boston and that tea commission ers or consignees had been appointed to receive their ; contents, . the people promptly and -squarely faced the prob lem before them. The, tea commission era were called upon to resign and re fused. The owners and the captain of the first. vessel to' arrive, November 38, 1773, were told that her entry at the custom bouse would be made at their peril. A few days Jater . two . other hlps'appi'-'-'-'-'---'-'-''.-'--"-.' ."' On the afternoon of December"! the Old South meeting bouse held What it could of the crowd of 7006 which had gathered from town and country. Be fore the speeches ' of Samuel Adams, Qulncy and others were , ended a few candles were lighted in the darkening building. At 6 the -owner of the ship Dartmouth entered and announced that the governor had refused to permit the Vessel to leave. ' ' " ' "V From , that .moment the working .out Of a carefully planned program was ap parent A 'This meeting can .do .no more to save the country," said Adams, j A tie of It we may understand, carries with ft great responsibility, but how utterly we seem, eometimea, to fall to 'realize ft. , , READER. , y'-l Steady Growth of t?ocialinm. ' From the Omaha Nsw';:,'- The name of the Socialist party first appeared upon the ballot rn the United States to 1888, when It polled -1088 votes.--In the- 81- years -which - have since elapsed it has progressed stead ily, showing these totals: V . 1890, 13,331; 1893,-21,167; 1894, 32,133; 1896.- 36,564; IRP8, 91,749; 1900, 98,447; 1902. 225,903; 1904, 403.338; J90, over 600,000; J908r over .600,000. ' ,-v ' It win be some time before an the figures for 1910 are available, , but - it la knownv that the vote scored a - large Increase all over the. country In New Yprk it grew from 33,000 to 85,000', In California, from 16,000 to over 60,000. Hits probable that this year's total reached the million mark. ' .. v Milwaukee elected the first -Socialist congressman on, November ' 8. ' - The thoroughgoing" Socialist bojdly declares that the arth aud the fuU ness thereof was Intended, not for the making ot dividends, but for the sat isfaction of human needs. - Ills program Is frankly : revolutionary, though , he prefers the ballot to , the - bullet as a means to the end. ' v ' ' ; v ., While 'the avowed advocates of so cialism have worked with wonderful en ergy and persistency to promote the growth of their ;cause,: lhey;are by nd moans entitled to all the credit for what Jiss been accomplished: , The Socialist has a partner who 1 working overtime to convince the world ttuit there' is no hope, save in revolu tion, v ' , ' The Socialist's partner Is no other than our old friend, the standpatriot tfat-4ate"-eayi-th contented conserva tive who; hardened by fat years, insists that "all's for the best in the best of all possible worlds." - v,V-". .- - UUils man stands stubbornly In the fftce of all progress. He consistently t opposes .every human aspiration for NEWS' IN BRIEF , OREGON SIDELIGHTS Pendleton Fist Or!Tonian: Dr. H. W. Coe is suing W. J. Furnish for $1,400. 000. When lie filos an answer to the complaint surely Mr. Furnish ivill thank the doctor for, the compliment "The rapid growth of P.oseburg 1n all directions Is enhancing the noed of elec trio car ilnea. Huch a Rystem. with branc-hps extending into tha surround ing country Is coiufiiff in the near fu ture, says tho Review. , ... .' Though Lane county raises very fine apples, it does not have to depend upon the apple for Its reputation, says the Register, it produces . a variety of other tliinR8 with equal abundance and of like high quality of any one produc tion, but In quality as well as quantity of them all and they are numerous. ' , .. " ! ' ..;-.'. ' "' Salem Journal: v The enterprise cele brating the one hundredth anniversary of the arrival of the Astor ships ia meeting with generous approval all over the state. The completion of the new hotel and the taking up of the next step In placing Astoria on the map are all matters of public Interest. - ,. Silver Lake Leader: The barometer has changed and we look for very cold weather, followed later by some "squalls.. One wedding Is sure to go and a couple more "pipping," while sev eral ladies are Just aching to hear the declaration ' they Will say yes to, with as much, avidity 'as 'a -hungry hen does as she gobbles down a grasshopper. :- . 1 "V- '-.-'.-.. :' ; ' Port Orford ; Tribune: 'The stage In coming up the beach last Thursday ev ening, In attempting to pass outsKie the big rocks Just below town, was caught by a big breaker and capsized, dumping the mail, trunks," valises, eta, along with the driver and two more passengers, Into the briny waters. Fortunately no one was hurt and the trunk and va lises were recovered. - v W-V V -y :,.:' ',i,i.,,. ;v. :....,': ,::'!...'',' -.i-,"" i The number of inquiries received dur ing the past few weeks by the Medford Commercial club has not only- been the greatest in point of numbers in the his tory of the club, but more than 80 per cent of. the inquiries now coming in represent letters of definite nature which Teqnire personal answer, and the percentage of requests for literature alone has reversed from 80 per cent of the total a few months ago to less than 20 pr; coat ( , . 1 A Kennrwlrk farmer expects to make a profit of $1,000 from a 20 acre traet he will have in asparagus next season. There Is money in small farming, but If there ere such enormous profits as this it will not be many years until the settlers In tho irrigation district of this county will need individual banking houses to take care of their coin, re marks the East Orcgonran. , . . a v Lake connty ha a population of ,4051 according to the 1910 census, as against 2487 for 1900 and 2ft94 for 1890. This is an increase "f about, 63.6 per cent and is Indicative of the w,onderfnl growth made during the past few years. It is well known that only during the past two or three years that there has been any appreciable' growth In the pop ulation of the county,, says the Exam iner. - . - - . Tte Boston Tea Party warwhoop sounded from the porch and a band of perhaps 1 60 men dressed as Indians and known' to history as "The Mohawks," hurried ; from the meeting house 'to "Griffin's wharf, , where . the tea shrpa lay. Withln'three hours they had finished their "Tea Party" and 842 chestaS of ; tea - were thrown ' overboard without noise or opposition; All the scenes of the strange little drama' had been so well arranged that - when the play was done actors and spectators re turned to their homes as soberly as it they had taken part In nothing more theatric than a Thursday lecture. . Who these 60 Indian garbed krog do fiers were Is not known, but It Is known who. Instigated the mob, who was the mouthpiece of Boston at this moment and of Massachusetts,' of New England, of America it was Samuel Adams, the "Palinurus of the Revolution." ' Tea laden ships also reached Charles ton, Philadelphia and New York during the same, month. . Excited meetings ,of citizens were held in all these cities. In Charleston the tea was landed, only to rot In storage, but" the Phlladelphlans refused to permit the ships to land.1" When the king of England heard of the Boston Tea Party he was- naturally very angry and resolved to humble the Americans at once; nor did his short sighted majesty doubt for a moment his ability to do so. ,; 4Of i the colonists he WTites;',''".rrbey--w11t' be lions while we are lambs, but if ; we take the resolute part they will undoubtedly prove very meek.", But poor George had. his mind disabused in .this as ,ln . many other things during the few years that fol- lowed., - r:;:r: ::t'','- .S'. i -";:. .V. December Is, 1853, Oliver Cromwell becomes Jord protector of- the British rfllmj in 1835 'the great fire in New York city occurred, and the marriage of' Napoleon and Josephine was . dis solved In 1807. i Today is the birthday of George Whitfleld, celebrated preach er 1714); Boethoven, composer (1770); Jane Austen, novt-llst' (1775); General John F. Hartranft (1830);-Carl Maria von Weber, composer (1786); Mary H. Catherwood, the a nth or ( 1 8 4 7 ) and Lil lian Russell the singer (1881). ' Today Is the date of the death of Sir William petty, eminent political ' economist (U87), and Wllhelm Grimm, writer of fairy tales (1859). better ': thfngs. For , money, he asks more and more; to men, he concedes less .'and less, o.'-' -."-- . --. ' He demands higher rates' for railroad service. He resists all attempts at the regulation of - public service corpora tions. - ' ',,.,-' ') He regards ' the Wisconsin : proposal for , government railroads, docks and steamships in Alaska as unspeakable heresy. - r ..' Ho lnsits on higher . rates . open all necessities of life every time the tariff Is revised. , . . , . . . . . , , - With hundreds of thousands of, chU dren going to school every morning without , their i breakfasts, he - deolares that our trouble ia not "high cost of living, but cost of high living." t He Is fighting now for , a find of Open hop'! ; which would crushlabor unions to the! dust, '-leaving the work man to- deal In bis naked Individuality with organized dollars.- , He says men . shall work when and where he pleases ' for what he chooses to give them, or that they shall starve, with their women and children.; The standpatriot is the greatest asset Of socialism. IX he has his way the earth will be owned by fewer and fewer, the many will be more and more com pletely exploited and the revolution wlll come the surer and the souner. , Song of tite Sliirt - From the December Atlantic ,' This has been a particularly perilous season for the man with a passiofl for shlrtsl By some diabolical agreement all the haberdashers at one and i the same time filled their windows with luscious lavender -and -faint ? green Stripes and-soft silk shirts ; with com fortable French cuffs, and marking out $2 or 83, as the Case might, be, Wrote $1.60 or $2.50 bolow. 'The song of the shirt was loud in the land, its haunt ing mHody noe-tw -be"reFlsted.-TS"thcre any lure for, a woman in all the fluffy mytery of a-January "white '' sale" comparable to the seduction for a man of a lavender Shirt marked down from $2 to $1.50? I doubt It. .'-.J leaven ao!n 1 the woman If there lal TANGLEFOOT . By Overholt V' - SUTING THE DRtlGS Have you ever read a startling tale or, , say, ten lines of it In which a lovely maiden's saved from some most awful death? And has- you heart stopped 1 beatingf Have you nearly thrown a fit? And litis your hair almost turned gray? , 'And have you lost your breath?' - And did you stop and ruse- When the story, ended tmis?t' " but after taking' one dollar bottle of Mrs. .Redham's dope,'! etc. - Has a .fellow' ever owed you, say ten ' collars more or le.ss, ... ;'..,- And have you sorely needed it to buy an Overcoat? - And have you pressed him for that cash, with accent- on. the .press, Believing, somehow, all the time that you were Just the goat? And did you ever swear - i When y6u heard the man declare: "and I'll have It . for you Just as soon as I can raise It but I'm terribly, hard run these days and will be for a year or two, etc."' , , . ; ; . - DM you ever work on salary? And have you strained your eyes For quite a year, expecting that your efforts Would be seen, , And that the boss .would Jolly you and laua- you to the skies And boost your wage about a foot i. from ten to seventeen? And did you laugh with Joy . When he peddled this, my boy; - s "for you see,., -we must cut down expenses, so I guess we'll have to let you go, I'm sorry, but", , - THW FOREST RANXXfiTt O don't you remember sweet Alice, Beer Bolt " And how she got stack en the guys. Who wore khaki suits, and she gave vs , JoIt . When she goo-goeed ' her V beantffnl i.r-.,;-; eyes? , ,- , ;:..! ' Yoa see. Mister Bolt, fbeae boys rode J - the range, .... , ' The forests were theirs to protect, -They drew forty plunks and kept all Vbm , , . " chanK ... , Bat their clothes never had a defeat. O weren't they swell with, thatr yeOssf . , ' bued duds, - ' i - , When they stood by th eld TtDs well - And smiled at the rMs who were (hear cbewtng eodsi Tot each believed ah was the beOs. " , O glm-me a Job. mrster, gtmme a Job, . "v Let me wear khaki ctnfh and a rrta And I'll handicap any other old slob, But ni getaway with the gUL j We the Tariff off Mmts. ' Frora';the, New, York'WorVL;;' When 1 congresa convenes one from today Its first official act should' be to remove the Payne-Aldrich dutlee oh meats as a step toward reducing the ' OOSt Of BvtDg. - - . - . . '- .' ' .-' ' ..V This' is one of the plain mandates ef the election.' l.".No" tfrvestlgatlon' by a' tariff commission Js required. Ws ttme need be lost in debate. It can be done in single day. -v ... ..,",'' Under the Payue-Aldricb act beef la taxed a cent and a half a' pound: bacon Is taxed four cents a pound; hams are -taxed four 'cents a pound;' mutton and ; lamb are taxed a cent and a half a ; pound; pork and veal are taxed a cent and. a half a pound; poultry is taxed . three cents a pound when it is alive and ' five cents when' tt is dead, Afl these 1 taxes strengthen the beef trust in Its' policy of extortion by keeping out the' food products of Canada, Australia and -the Argentine Republic. ' , Officials of the beef trust Insist that the price of meats is governed solely by the law of supply and demand and that for years the supply has;been In- ' adequate.' If this be true the way to reduce the price to - the consumer Is to increase the supply, and the way to lncrea.se thesupply is to open the American market to Canadian, Austral Ian and Argentine beef and mutton. -This; is so simple a process that there can be no excuse for. waiting un-. t Ol a new congress hag come Into ex istence!, Still less can there be an ex cuse for partisan pofttlcs. Mr. Taft himself should take the Initiative in recommending this measure, but wheth er he acts or not congress is still the legislative branch of the national gov ernment and congress has heard from the American people. ; . - Popular Love ol Malignancy. i " " From the Public. -s 7 Prior to the recent election In Oregon the Minneapolis Tribune commiserated the people, of Oregon borrowrog Its kmood from the Oregon lan, an organ of . plutocracy upon their unhappy dW lemma. They had - to vote for thorn solves on 33 . questions of government. Instead of having those queshtiona de termined for them by Jackpotters In the legislature. "That unhappy state," said the Tribune, "has the initiative and referendum m malignant form." Mallg- ' nant! Aye, Indeed, malignant to Jack potters. And Oregon has deliberately and overwhelmingly decided to - kee -those people's power methods. The cli ents of the Oregon lan proposed to them a constitutional convention; and- lest that might abolish the malignant initia tive and referendum, the people -of Ore gon voted It down by 60,00 to 26,000. , TlieC IB ommercia. asis jnxr yen) r I i - ,T it -V ' '' ' '7" (Contrtbatwl- to Tha Journal by Wilt Mtson, tba famous Kansas poe. . praseiKimM ar a v . regular '(eatura of this 1 comma ta .The hilj Journal). , ,-;,i--.y ., , --' ' .' , I have lived a 5 long time hi this ' Valley sf tears, and my bead has been 1 whitened by hurrying years; Fve sized ' Up the world as I toddted along,' I've J' sampled , the :' right and I've sampled -the wrong; I have herded with goats, and I've frolicked with sheep, I have learned how to. laugh, and Fve learned i how! to weepjf 1 - hav loafed,; I have dreamed, I have . whacked 'up some wood, and I'm sure of this fact' that It .', I pays to be good.. Whene'er I do wrong, with malicious intent, then !, feel 'for a while like a counterfeit cent; I would swap myself off for a watch made of brass? I haven't the courage to; loob In - tlie ' glass. : But when I do, right" -then how. chesty I fel! . The village ' is filled With my "Jubilant Spiel! I feel , that' a feather is placed in my hood. - and ; I guess I am right, for It pa V I to be good! Oh, what are the thlnps prizes; we, Bain lupon1 earth? They are' not the ; gems that go , ciickety-clan k, they are not the bundles . we have lit the . bank. ; Respect -Of Tour neighbors, ' tlje love of our friends, some credit up -' there ,f where .the - firmament bends tb"4iings-ae -the. gufdon for whih we' should strive, they-give us an oIh -Ject in being' alive. And youll never gain them, -as gain 'them , you should. ; unless you believe that it pays to be good.-' ' - ;. ' ci;rteht. loin, :.. '-A .....- iiur,;o lliittht'W Adnnit, JLJy'