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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, . WEDNESDAY EVENINO, FEBRUARY -8," 1911, TJJE JOURNAL AfcJNDEPENPENT KEW8PAPER. ' liCK80S..'.......-..""'"lil'11 c. a, ln. Fifth antf Vaniliill struts. rorn.no, r " . , -,, ZTuTot for Entorfd ft the poatoffie at TortUna. 'J-, traniimUaioa twougn ia biii inatur. TELETHON K9 Miitn T1T3; Horn. A-6051. All Opartmrot. Maenad IT thews - 111 tha operator ht department yon wut- roREKifi advehtisixo bkprksestativk. Fwijamfa ft Kentnor Co., Brnruiwlck BnUdln. SaB Fifth nn. New Xork; 1218 Pcopl. ' G Building, Chicago, KnbaorlrtloiL Term hr mnU or tt anr addreas fu the I'nltad Eiatea. Canada or Maxlco! DAILT. 0sa'rtar......SS.0O 1 Ona month........! .60 . . . . STJNDAf. . - One year.,.!.V. .$J 30 One month....... .28 DAILY AND SUNDAX. One Fear.......T.80 I Ona month....... J8 Ths doctrine of love, purity anO right living has, step by step,1 won its way into the heart- of 1 mankind, and has filled the future with hop 'and promiM. -William McKlnloy. : gax the norsE afford it ? N THE CHANGE of front by the : I Pendleton good roads organic ' I Uon, the house at Salem has a 1 view of what to expect The organization was formerly opposed to the senate good roads program. It ' found out that It was mistaken as to provisions of the legislation, and has eenl a delegation to Salem to urge passage of the senate bills. It will be the same whenever and wherever the senate bills become thoroughly understood The oppo sition that exists" is-based on wrong Information. It will turn Into ap proval as soon as correct Informa tion is secured. .This very patent fact brings the house face to face with a dangerous alternative. If it .beats . the senate bills, It will learn later that ft .has beaten exactly the thing that the people want. In the w-lde condem nation that will result the house will learn too late of Its mistake. Oregon is losing $2-,000,000 a rear for lack of good roads. It is $3 a head for-every man, woman and child in the state. It is a ruinous waste that has been going on for 60 years during which huge sums of money and vast effort and time have been expended in a vain attempt to better the roads. Th senate has placed before the bouse an intelligent system. It is a change from the old haphazard and futile methods. It is the product of long and patient study "by. capable ' men of Oregon needs and how to meet them as to roads. It.is an hon est endeavor to turn from the humil iating and'eostiy failures of the past to an Intelligent and well directed System for the future. If the house beats the program, It will have to boulder the responsibility. There Is frequent complaint that the Initiative Is too much employed. What else Is to be expected if the legislature Insists on being Impo tent? 1 ,I a: distracted house frivols ' and twitters over petty legislation and beats the big legislation of the session what else is to be expected than that 'there will be frequent re tort to the initiative? v ; Here are opponents in the house fuming and fretting over the pro posed highway commissioner. But they are proposing to spend exactly the same amount of money In raising the salary of the state engineer and In a salary for a roads deputy for him. Instead of making the roads a paramount plan at a cost of $15, 000 for two years, they want to make It the tall of another depart ment at a cost of J15.000 for two years. The house should pass the senate bills as they stand. They provide home rule for counties in road build ing!. They tax the cities for the ben efit" of the country roads. Multnomah .county already has macadam roads and will reap little if any direct ben-! efit, but will have to pay, under the senate program more than one third f the state aid given In any county for road building. Each county, under the senate bills has the right to say whether roads will be built, when they Bhall be built and whore they shall be built. Can the house afford to assume the responsibility of beating so fair a program? BALES OF RAILROAD SECURITIES TWO FACTORS have combined to depress confidence in fail road securities at this Junc ture, First apprehension that the Interstate Commerce Commis sion might reply by a general and firm refusal to the suggested in- Creases in fares and freight. Though I no decisions nave yet boen given out, yet the impression is said to ; be that compromises win bo an nounced allowing modifications .for Increase or lowering as special conditions of each road demand. Pecond, that reductions of dividends by the leading roads would further depress the market Thie.fenr also Is being allayed as tho time for such announcements is passing without! that action being taken up. In the advices now before us no mention Is made of unfavorable or oppressive action by state legisla tures or commissions Injurious to the, roads; which would affect the . t ... v money value ot ; securities. ' 8o ca lamity ' howlers may take heart the more as the double tracking of the Union Pacific it anniA rail road confidence, " - All whfch prepare us for the tatement that during January, no less thr.a J1C5. 000,000 la stocks, solo and bonds were issuad by the railroads. Of these Issues 9 S (-' 000,000 represented bonds, 36, 000,000 notes, an&only $20,000,000 stocks have been taken. The public Is proving its support. of the railroads by the tost of in creased Investments the surest test of all. Oregon's horizon for 1 continued expenditures on f . her new uuaua dccuio iw ud BAILEY I T IS UNTHINKABLE that any will and faction of the legislature Beek to protect the dairy food commissioner. To do so Is to Invite public execration. It is to make a record that will. stand ( as a political handicap for all time, for tany member "who does it. The case against Bailey Is proven. An unbiased Joint committee of the legislature has heard testimony and returned findings. The state at large knows that those findings tare dependable and that the dairy and food commissioner's office as con- ducted is a travesty on (he name, - we usca me run vi huubsi meu In making this Investigation," said Representative Brownhlll on theJ,wag 0 undetermlnahlA wht in th floor of the house, "and in using the rules of honest men we reached hon-, .... 1 Tf naa a flncrlnc est conclusions." It was a ringing statement of what Is widely known to be the exact truth. The conclu sions referred to by Mr. Brownhlll were the unanimous report of the joint committee that the dairy-com-mlssloner should be asked to resign. In the face of this finding by its own joint committee, In the face of the known misconduct of the office, In the face of the demand, of the press and public for Bailey's removal, and in the face of bis official oath as a legislator can any member shield Bailey and Justify his conduct? As the Oregonlan has truly said: "This matter Is not political or per sonal or partisan; it Is a question of plain honesty and public decency." The legislature created the office and prescribed Its duties. It has been brought home to the legislature by Its own Joint committee that the position Is improperly administered and the office prostituted. The body Is face to face with responsibility for the office, and Its declslofa ia a ques tion of "plain honesty." Is the legislature going to appro priate money to the amount of thou sands of dollars to perpetuate the present commissioner? Is it going to vote public funds for support of the office when It knows It might as well throw the money Into the Willamette river? How many mem bers are going to reveal themselves before the people of the state as of the same stripe as the dairy and food commissioner? How many mem bers have regard for the honor of the legislature? DR. I). L. RADER I T PROBABLY is the fact that the religious, or rather church, paper has undergone a serious changb In the past few years. The daily or weekly secular Journal has devel oped so large a circulation through both town and country that the weekly church paper is no longer sought as a medium for condensed news of the world at large. But the established church paper of high tone, such as the Pacific Christian Advocate, which D. L. Rader edited for 6o long, holds Its own. The pres ent movement for the consolidation of the various branches of the Pro testant Christian churches will doubtless be followed by a similar diminution of numbers of church papers, since each branch has here tofore maintained Us own organ. But those that remain will gain in creased circulation and wider sup port, as gathering church news, and receiving church communications from a wider area. Mr. Rader held a recognized position for efficiency j and Influence, and he will be widely missed. THE ACQUITTAL OF v WILLIAM HAXLEY T HE FfNAL acquittal by the ap pellate court sitting In San Francisco of William Hanley better known the state 07er as "Bill Hanley" from the charge of Illegal fencing of government lands in Harney county, is reported. The charge wa9 purely technical through out Mr. Hanley had not erected the fences complained of, but found them as an Inheritance from Peter French, the former .owner of the lands. It was proved that when ad vised that the fences In question were Illegal Mr. Hanley ordered the gates thrown open and no breaks repaired. He is known as a most progressive citizen, one of the successful pioneers of dry land farming in his section, and to he relied on to do his full part in the development by railroads of that wide region where he bas lived for so many years. . OREOOX TO LEAD THE WAY S UDDEN prominence will come to Oregon in the great presi dential campaign of next year. For the first time in American history, the selection of delegates to a national convention will be by tllrcct yoto- The country at lar5 8 pon ino vtoccbs as naoiy to i afford a very reliable forecast of what will be the Btrongth with he masses, of different- candidates in each party. An article from- the Baltimore Sun --'elsewhere on this I page ref,ecU the Popular view of- tha pnmln or ctrntra'a the coming struggle. It is probable that statesmen and leaders In each party will have' the jview mat is exprci view that is expressed by the Bal- quel will disclose Oregon as the pre liminary .battle ground of thecam paign, and It may be expected that various Influences will b employed for Jtrengtbcning the various candi- oatss with the Oregon voters. .lU-U already anno uacad,. that Champ Clark, prominent afa Demi cratlc possibility, ' Will1 make five speeches In Oregon the coming cum- mer. LaFollette has already vis- lted Oregon ' several times, and la likely to come agata, before the pres-: UentJal primary ' day in this state. Roosevelt Is coming, and It will not be surprising if Oregon will be the host within the near future of more of the country's great and near great than at any time in her his tory. .V.;.. HARRY THAW STILL INSANE T HE CASE OP HARRY THAW is, unprecedented in this cojuntty. Ho has just been denied- lib eration from Matteawan asy lum by the highest court in New York, and there seems to be no hope for his release from that semi-penal institution. Thaw was rich,, and his mother -und other wealthy relatives spared no expense in his defense. He committed a crime such as 1 it rfoa ira tirone to regard with a large degree of leniency. That the reputation of the woman in the case was not good trial. At any rate, the Jury found Thaw not j, hut , j . cases, wnere the -defendant bas money and friends, this verdict is merely a thinly disguised prelimi nary to the early liberation of the prisoner. Usually such a prisoner Is dubbed insane only at the time of committing the murder, and sane thereafter. . , But not so with Thaw. The au thorities all along the line have stub bornly held that he is still InBane, and must be kept In confinement. This judgment may be just; it may be beneficial to society; but Harry Thaw may not be too insane to won der why he could not become sane again in a few days or weeks, as so many others have done. He may even reflect that Sanford White, whom he killed, was a man with many wealthy and influential friendsT . POLITICS AT SALEM R EPUBLICAN legislatures in Oregon have universally-played Into the hands of Democratic governors. They dld.it for Pennoyer. They did It for Chamber lain. In the Bailey and several other matters, they seem In fair way to do it for Governor West West asked the body to deal with Bailey. A refusal by the body to do so will make the governor, about 10,000 votes stronger with the people. Any legislature with an abnormal majority of any party usually be comes drunk with its own power and does foolish things. A game of cheap politics has been played at Salem throughout the present session by the Bowerman faction possibly with the notion that the public does not understand what Is going on. But the public fully understands tbe horse play, and It will fully un derstand If for political reasons', pub lic money by thousands continues to be spent on Bailey. It understood In the case of Pen noyer. It understood in the case ot Chamberlain, and It will understand in the case of West. God save the Republican party from its eix-bit politicians. DOUBLE TRACKING THE & N. R, R, O. W. T HE ANNOUNCEMENT by Judge Lovett of the intention to dou ble track the main line of the O. W. & N. Co. from Portland to the east is one of the most Im portant and direct consequences of the railroad development now In progress in this state. The cost will be enormous, but far sighted rail road management is pot deterred by outlay when corresponding results in expediting and extending traffic in sight or in Immediate prospect are relied on. Since the Improvement has far more reference to the future than to the present It is Impossible for the heads of the Harrlman sys tem to give a fuller Indorsement to the contribution they foresee from Oregon to the aggregate traffic of their lines. Open the door of Los Angeles to tho Tacoma, Seattle and Portliuid tourists. Take off ynur overcoats and wraps and bask in the sunlight of glorious Cal! fornia. How fine it muit eeem to you, gentlemen of the mists! Los Angeles Times. O yes, It is nice to run down into the southern California sunshine for a little while after a spell of dark, damp weather; but what a relief and pleasurable change it would be for people living in the glare ot almost perpetual sunshine to take an occa sional excursion into the land of fructifying winter mists. Come up, ladles and gentlemen, and get a re freshing sprinkling. Senator Lodge made a long and labored' argument against the popu lar election of senators, the main point of which, nakedly revealed, was that senators and senatorshlps should be kept as far away from the people, and as little connected with the people, as possible. It necessar ily follows that Senator Lodge be lieve that the people are not fit for more than half self-government, and that senators are not bound to rep resent the people. He has consist ently lived up to this belief for many years. ' - , The tri-state Farmers' convention, held in Walla Walla last week rep resenting the fanners of Washlngr ton, Idaho and Oregon passed . a resolution, amone others, demanding tbHaFc4 fH)UIn- thl4h-onve!v4 uou actea mteiiigeniiy. u a popular vote .could be held, the parcels post would carry by a great majority. - ' . 1 ....... J. . . 1: V ',..., A dispatch says' 1 pub lid men' at Washington ' are bewHdered at the suddenness . ot- the - reciprocity -L'sue presented ; by President Taft. ; It is very sudden. Indeed, -for them.' It has tbeen discussed and argued only some 30 or 40 years, and especially during the 'past eight or 'ten years a largo portion of the press and many broad minded ' statesmen, economists and publicists have been ; hammering away at it But to the stand-pat pol fiiclans It is something new, strange, and suspicious. - They want, to sleep over it fop anotber 40 years. Secretary Hitchcock f, announces that the small sample postal savings banks are working .well, tip to ex pectations, and that If the requisite funds for doing so were available he would establish thousands of them. The necessary appropriation should be made by congress before adjourn ment. There is no excuse for wait ing longer in the establishment of those banks throughout the country. Letters From tte People The Rotating Ballot Plan. t Salem. Feb 6, To the Editor of The Journal My. attention has been called to an article in your Issue of the Eth, tinder the title, "Rotary Ballot Plan In-! tricate.", criticising the practicability of the plan of rotating the names on elec tion ballots as provided in a bill passed by the senate and now pending in the house. The criticism la made by Mr. Fields, county clerk-of your county. It is apparent from the tenor of Mr. Fields' criticisms that he does not comprehend the provisions of the bill. He is quoted 1 as saying that "If there wer five can-, didatea for governor, four for secretary of state, three for treasurer, two for at torney general and 30 for representative hi tha legislature,' the prlater would have to change the form as many times for each precinct as the number of bal lots for the precinct is divisible br E, 4, 2 and 30. From 10 to 20 minutes Is re quired to change the form, and great care would be. necessary to prevent mis-! takes. Multiply all this by 189 pre cincts In Multnomah county and the re sult Is a Chinese puzzle," etc I do not have a copy of the bill be fore me. but I am famlller with its terms. No ouch number of changes is contemplated or required. It does not apply to- precinct nomtnees or candi dates, but requires the state and county ticket to be printed first, leaving suf ficient room for tho precinct ticket to bo printed afterward. Taking Mr. Fields' supposed case, the highest num-1 ber of candidates in any office division of the ticket for Multnomah county would be SO. Then the names In each office division would be changed 30 times,- and no more. One hundred and twenty-five thousand ballots are to be printed. Thirty la contained In that number approximately 45.000 lmes. This number of ballots would be printed on each change of the forms. In fact, there would ba but 29 changes of the forms. The printer would start with the official form and print 45,000 bal lots. The press is then stopped and the forms changed in each office division, and the same number Is again printed. Where Mr. Fields la confused 1 in the idea of making a fair distribution to the several precincts. This is accom plished In the bill by requiring ballots printed on each different form to be piled in separate piles until the whole number has been printed. There would then be 30 piles In the supposed case. The ballots are then to be assembled into ono pile by taking one ballot suc cessively off of each pile. This mingles the ballots thoroughly and uniformly. From the ballots when so assembled, and not otherwise, is the distribution to ba made to the precincts. That Is, if COO are to be sent to a partioular pre cinct, that number is taken from the pile and the precinct ticket printed thereon. When so understood, there is no difficulty in executing the purpose of the law. The tickets must go through the printing press twloa, but that is neither difficult nor expensive. I am satisfied when Mr. Fields understands the terms of the bill he will give it his full support instead of ridiculing It W. T. SLATER. A Labor Problem lii New York. By H. F. J. Porter, In Cassler's Magazine When is understood thatr the busy season of the clothing manufacturers lasts for only two or three months In tho spring and the same period in the fall and that there are some 260,000 hands in New Tork city fac tories at these . times, and that in midsummer and midwinter two-thirds of them are turned out of the factories with about as much cere mony as the gas and electric light are turned out, it will be realized that the city has to absorb his unemployed element somehow or other. Take, for example, the cloak makers' Industry alone. It embraces 2000 factories, with an average of 40 employes in each. These, with their families, constitute an industrial community of some 170, 000 people, men, women and ohildren, which is comparable to a town of the size of Providence or Indianapolis. It oan readily be appreciated, therefore, how serious is the effect upon the city when the greater number of the wage earners upon whom these people are de pndent are suddenly deprived of their sources, of Income. Of course, there are some trades whose seasonal fluctuations dovetail into the others, so that a part of this horde is gradually reemployed; but still there is the great factor -of underem ployment, which lies at the root of the problems of poverty and vagranoy, in temperance, crime, gambling, prostitu tion, sickness and mortality, and neces sitates our alms and workhouses, penal institutions, hospitals, morgues, and tha charitable institutions, all of which are palliatives to the conditions which -have been allowed to develop. Reciprocity With Canada. From tho Milwaukee Wisconsin. There is no doubt in the world that the indorsement by congress of the re ciprocity agreement with Canada which has beon negotiated by tha state de partment and is recommended by Pres ident Taft would bo advantageous to people on both sides of the boundary. The public at large, which has been complaining Of the high cost of living, has an interest In Canadian reciprocity as a relief measure. People who use paper made from wood pulp have a sim ilar concern, for there is no doubt that even the resulting Increase of importa tions of wood pulp and pulp wood cut on private lands would bring down the cost of paper. The removal bt restrictions upon tha exportation of pulp wood cut on crown lands would cause a further de cline., The Canadians have always bean large consumers of American manufac tured goods, but there is no doubt that under reciprocity their purchases would be larger than. ever. Think of trus vast martiet tor American agricultural ma- iincyUaJliOouadlc98.uadiaBawrUi " One Was Enoughs, ' From Suburban Life. A farmer riding on a certain railroad nuked the conductor on a recent trip: "How often do you kill a man on this bre liner "Just oncV replied the -conductex" COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGF , Ellas Is too old to -go 'to Paris and enjoy himself. Great battle near Juares; two killed and five wounded. , . - Tet the Missouri capital was not mora sinful than some others, v The apparent weakness of the Mexi can government-Is surprising, ' , . , . .... - . -. . -." ' The legislature will need to huBtla from this on. Hut do it right t - - . .. ... - Probably mere man can never ba edu cated to Ilka a woman's falsa hair. - -! --'-'. :.-.,.,-; : - v-i Well, Vivien here's hoping happiness, but feeling rather sorry for you,, all the same. . Portland will go on growing In spite of the Frank Kiernans and Lawyer Ijun iways. . :, ,-,' ' No, Montmorency, to raise poultry successfully, it Isn't really necessary to read "Chantecler." Anybody can answer the question! Why is tho state printer's graft like Tennyson's brook? A Massachusetts roan traded his wife for a knife. Perhaps tha silent letter was an inducement , - (. ;,, :. Violations of tha license law, says a Newport paper, have borne "better fruit" An "a" supplanted an "i." v... ..; , . : , .. j.. .jv:.;.' A ride from" a roadhouse to a Jail early on Sunday morning is quite appro priate, if not altng-oih.vr nl'ittgant . . The legislature would hava dona more and better so far if soma members had not been so badly afflicted with Bourne-citis. SEVEN FAMOUS RIDES The Ride of The ride of Dick Turpln. the famous English outlaw, from London to York on Black Bess, has been frequently re lated in both song and story. "Then one halloo, boys one loud, oheer ing halloo To the swiftest of coursers, the gallant the truel For the sportsman unborn shall the memory bless Of the horse of tha highwayman, bonnle Black Bess." A complete book of William Harrison Ainsworth's novel, "ftockwood," is de voted to this remarkable ride, and the lines quoted above are from a song en titled "Black Bess," said to have been written by Turpln himself, and later set to music by F. Romer. ' Turpln and his pal, Tom King, had been carrying on their "kid gloved out lawry In the neighborhood of London, They had ridden up to a hostelry, which they entered, unconscious that they were being pursued. Shortly a party, who were following them, also reined up at tha tavern. With their usual coolness, they were about to es cape from their captors when King was unfortunate enough to bs- thrown from his horsa in the mount Turpln was safe in the. saddle and was making off, when King called upon him to shoot the man who had him down. Turpln turned about and fired, but as they ware strug gling ha killed King Instead.' Baaing tha result of bis shot ha gave spurs to Black Bess and went away on his fa mous dash. , He was pursued by three skilled horsemen. Both leader and followers seemed to be keeping at a relative dis tance for a time; for, although Black Bess was able to outrun any of them, her rider desired not to Inconvenience tha mara thus early in tha race. Being open ground, tha pursued and pursuers were in full view of each other, and as Dick rode swiftly across the heath, with tha shouting trio hard at his heels, the scene had a vary animated appearance. As they approached , Highgata, Dick Blackened his pace and struck to a nar row path to -the right in order to avoid tha town. His pursuers fehouted for him to stand. Pointing to a gate which seemed to bar their further progress, Dick unhesitatingly charged it, clearing It in beautiful style. Not so with the pursuers, and the time they lost in un fastening tha gate, which' none of them President Taft Cuts Loose. From the Philadelphia Telegraph. That President Taft has determined to break with tha standpatters artd re actionaries of his own party is indi cated by tha tone of his mesaaga upon Canadian reciprocity, a message that will evoke a discussion quite as wide as that caused by tha famous tariff comunication which President Cleve land sent to congress mora than 20 years ago. Reciprocity is no new thing in American legislation. Blaine was an uncompromising advocate of the sys tem and President McKinley 'favored closer and freer trade relations with Canada in bis last public utterance. Even before that at a comparatively early day, tha doctrine was considered old, considered old at a time when all parties ware In favor of protecting American industries and before. . the tariff had become a political issue. "The idea of equivalents," said Benton, "is not new, but has for Its sanction high and venerated authority, of which I shall not fall to avail myself."' The "high and venerated authority" was no less a personage than James Madi son Tha president In his massage to con gress call attention to tha fact that nearly every article which it Is pro posed to put on tha free list is an ar ticle of prima necessity, which affects tha cost of living. With foodstuffs higher, in price than ever before, it may be said that tha subject comes up at a psychological tfnonTt' This is espec ially true in vleF of tna fact that the president intimates that hwill call an extraordinary session of congress ,lf the body now sitting falls to act. -An especially- gratifying feature of the tentative agreement is that which promises a removal of prohibitive -duties on lumber and the abolition of restric tions against the exportation from Can ada of wood pulp that goes in the man ufacture of paper. These two subjects were hardly before the negotiators of ficially, but a way is pointed out by which the pulp monopoly may ba broken at an early day, a result that will re dound to the benefit of ' every news paper reader, which means virtually' every Intelligent citizen of the United States. - "4 1 Humphreys Falls Short. r From the St Paul Ploneer-Pressv 'Congressman W. . E.Humphreys .. of the State of Washington made a speech at Detroit the other, night lr. which he failed to measure up to the possibili ties of the occasion. Humphreys is for ship subsidy and a great big navy, and he tried to tell the Michiganders'of the wees " tharWOTiegfttrrehrma we fall to make provlsiosj against the encroachments of ''any foreign foe" in general and Japan In particular. , 1 From the reports of tho speech pub lished in the Detroit papers, we gather that Humphreys rmade it 'painfully plain how easy It would be for Japan, in our state or unprepniednews,-to land aa army of 600.000 soldiers on t!. Pa NEfrS IN BRIE1? OREGOy SIDELIGHTS Hermiston Is to have alectrio lights soon, - . a : Fruit and vegetahlo'' cannery at Myr tle Point is assured. i , Six head of Jackson county 2-year-old cattle weighed 10,000 pound. . Brownsville, should own Its water and light plants, urges the Times. Eastern man says Linn county peo ple live the most ideal home life of any in tha country.- . ... Many counties will do a good deal of good road building anyway, but the state aid would ba a great help. Snow in tha mountains is deeper than for many winters, insuring an abundant water supply for - irrigation, says tha Baker "City Democrat , ' . Last week a Coos county man mowed some beardless barley On his hill ranch, which was sown last fall. It is now somothlng like two feet in height and is splendid green feed. ,x The ". Bohemians are - doing things these days in the colony and tho new town, Malin. Three times a week they hold rabbit drives, and the other days they work on tha hall building, says the Merrill Record. s Farmer near Corvallls has .filed on the stream near his place and will im mediately proceed, to put in the canal and -ditches that will give him water for atfalfa riiirposes in particular. He has high grade cows and expects to develop a fine dairy herd. vv...-- ..at Property owners Intend to build a wall along the bank of Lake Ew&una, near Klamath Falls, and by using drainage ditches, to drain off an area of marshy land, which will ba divided Into tracts. The wall, which wlU be constructed of concrete and stone, will be wide enough for a driveway.. Dick Tnrpln. chose to leap, enabled Dick to put ad ditional space between them. " AU the people along the route were very much alarmed by the tramp of horses, the men rushing into tha road to seise the fugitive, and women held up their babies to catch a glimpse of the flying cavalcade. With a pistol in each hand and the bridle In his teeth, Turpln passed boldly on, no one daring to pre sent much resistance to his flight They were nearing the hlghHornsey toll bar. The gate was swung Into its lock, and the prompt custodian of the turnpike trusts ensconced within his doorway and held himself ready to spring upon the runaway. But Dick kept steadily on. He coolly calculated the height of tha gate; he looked to tha right and the left nothing better of fered) ha spoke a few words of encour agement to Bess, gently patting her neck, then struck spurs into her side and cleared the spikes by an j Inch. The toUkeeper demanded payment of the pursuers, which again lost them time. When Edmonton was reached the followers were considerably in the rear, and as Turpln was dashing through the narrow street a donkey and cart were in the way, but undauntlngly he covered the driver and his little wane With ease, and on ha dashed. Twilight was approaching. Black Bess had kept up a pace which probably no other horse In England could have equaled, and even Dick, accustomed as he was to her magnificent action, felt electrified at the , speed with which ha was borne along. "Bravo! bravo I" shout ed he, "hark away, Bess!" Finally, after a ride of close to 200 miles, that taxed to the utmost both horse and rider, Tork was reached. Tur pln was exalted, to which Bess was not insensible. She neighed feebly in an swer to his call and reeled forward. She I felt A shiver ran throug her frame. Her heart had burs. But Dick succeeded in escaping his pursuers. This famous ride attracted the attention of England as nothing of Its character had ever done before, and for perhaps a century afterward all cir cuses were not considered complete without Dick Turpln and his ride to Tork as a feature, and even to this day every traveling circus In England has a Black Bess, Tomorrow Rlda of Lady Oodlva. cific coast, subdue and subjugate Port land. Seattle and Tacoma, capture the mountain passes at Wellington and settfe their families on the rich farms from Skagit "to Siskiyou. Thus raising their own provender and new soldiers, they would be able to defy and defeat the best efforts of the United States to dislodge them and tha Pacific slope would become a Japanese province. Terrible as, that prospect may be, t tell the whole truth, to paint the pic ture in Its most horrifying - details With-everything, west of Wellington in their control, the Japanese undoubtedly would take advantage of the superior facilltlos offered by Mr. J. J. Hill's railroad lines and coma right on to St. Paul, thus capturing the capital of the northwest and the headwaters Of , the Mississippi. From here it would be but & short step to Duluth -and tha capture of tha western terminal of tha Great Lakes. After that the Japanese could sit down and dictate terms to Wash ington and Wall street . - We wish it understood that we do not think anything of this kind is go ing to happen, but we insist that Con gresman Humphreys does not know the Japanese if ha thinks they would be content to stop' at Wellington and get fat and prosperous in developing the farming country in tha great northwest. If we are going to hava a war scare, let us hava a real one, i Benefits of Commission Government. ' From the Eugene Register. . The beauty of commission government Is that it destroys" the old time political machinery that under tha slipshod method of previous -government ground out graft in its various forms. There are now. hundreds of American cities that have adopted commission govern ment and none of these has yet had councilmen Or ; commissioners indicted for graft while in numerous other cities that are still conducted under the old form there are frequent reports of graft among the councilmen wherein corpora tions have paid them good, round suras for working through legislation in their behalf and such legislation as is detri mental to the welfare of the city. ; Remembering and Forgetting. We go our ways forgetting The favors we receive, ' But day by day wa find ' The time to keep in mind . . The wrongs taat made us grieve. ; . . - -....(,-..'.( We carefully remember The paHsIng enub or slights .. But in a little while .:, Forcet th word nr m(1a Xkat.JE.adtt. a. AuMuut bright Tonight this morning's triumph No longer will be sweet " . Tint monv s mi will tint v. : , Ere wa shall cease to fret O'er vesterdnv'a rtefpnt V ... - g, E. Klsor. - Salem Statesman advocates the com mlsaiua ., plan., of goven innt-. for- that city, - - Oregon to Lead tKeWay rrom tiu Bait Imors Sua - Tha far west will blase tha way for tho rest ot the country in tha fight for the control of the Republican and Dem ocratic, national .conventions. , Two months before either of the contentions Is held Oregon will vote under its re cently adopted system for tha choice of delegates to the two conventions. These delegates are Instructed for both presi dential and vioe presidential candidates. The Oregon primary will take place early in .April, .1912 c- : v.r .'. While it is over a year off It devel oped here today that In bdth tholblg parties tha contest is already on and that no stone will be left unturned to carry the state for tha Influence it may have upon others , In" the selection of delegates. TVjv-s'v.vrV ..;i'Vv Western politicians' generally believi that La Follette or some other progress ive will carry the state by thousands of votes over Taft, and that delegates will be sent to the convention instructed for a progressive candidate. . It is stated to ba the intention of the administration j.o contest and under the directum of Postmaster General Hitchcock Oregon will assume an Important position, on the political map. , ' More Interesting, perhaps, than the Republican situation is that . among Democrats. It was asserted by several Democratic congressmen favorable to tha nomination of Champ Clark for tha presidency that friends of Woodrovf Wilson and Judson Harmon 'are pre paring to take up tha Oregon situation at an-arly date. '(,,-! Ona of Mr, Clark's friends reoelved a letter from Portland Or., that a ilis- sourian is tha strongest man among tha Democrats of that state, but that unless his campaign was put in the hands tif competent men and an organisation af fected tha New Jersey man or tha Ohio an may walk off with tha prize. But, ha added, as matters now stand, Clark la tha undoubted leader, and 4 the pri mary were held today-iflrw.puld easily secure tha Oregon delegates to tha Dem ocratic national convention. A SCALY FISH TALK. - I "Have tha smelt of the Columbia river forsaken their old stamping ; ground In the Co wills?" inquires Hymsa ' II., Cohen In sf marketpaglcal tone of voice. We'll be the. -goat Hy have1,-, they smelt a worm and are forsaking the GROUND In . the Cowlitz whera they were wont to STAMP and kick up J their heels and have a high old time ' generally? AS THE CL.OCK TICKS. Leaning gracefully against tha capital Q on his typewriter, ha flipped the -ashes from his cigar and said: I. Need ham Is a deputy sheriff at Salem. But for that matter Daniel Webster is a .; jubucb oi me ytsm.-o iu oui nay, yuu t fellers: Mary Mee is a spinster at Central Point! Why don't you do ltf ? Shame on yuh. ' O, YOU HAM SANDWICH. -Without thinking further on the mat ter, it has occursed to us that a ham actor with a bun has no business be coming wrecked on a cannibal island. AT Voice From the Plains. Do I look Ilka a city-bred creature, A woman skimped tight at the hips. With an inch of white flour on each fea ture " And a daub of red paste on my Upntu Is my head weighted down wnn a cargo. Of horse hair, or oakum, or tow,, That you ask me if I'm from Chicago, " Or one of the set that you knowf Do I look Ilka a, girl that would wobble When nature has given me feet. Or tie myself up In a hobble To make me a sight on the street? Is-my hat a ridiculous Jummux Of heathenish olor and shape That would sickan the sight and tha stomach, ' Or even the foollshest ape? Do I talk with an edire like s parrot, Or giggle, or simper, or flirt? Is my hair bleached the shade of a car rot? . . Do I Wear a man's trousers or shirt? Am I riggM up to strut like a dummy In duds unbecoming and loud, Or swaddled to look like a mummy . My form showing clear to the crowd? - No. I'm not . city-bred woman; I come from a place In the west Where women intend to stay human, ; Because they consider it best. We have use for our brains and ouf ' bodies ; And something to live for but style . We are- genuine womon not shoddies- - And life to our kind is worth while. .- We are here for the good of creation: We'ra women, not clothes signs or r 'birds:. .v-:--. We're working for human salvation, And value good deeds' and good words, , Oh yes, wa have heard that you pity Such, badly gowned creatures as I,. But. thank God, I'nj no child Of thrityt! I'm dressed for the plain snd the skyl Lurana . Sheldon, in New York ?ime , Light on the Panama Purchase, From tho New York World, A. W. Dodsworth, business manager of the New York Journal of Commerce, testified before the house subsidy, in- -vestlgatlng committee yesterday that thnt newspaper was offered $36,000 te help manufacture publlo opinion in fa vor of the purchase of the Panama canal by tha United States from the French company. This testimony may have astonished some' of the members of the committee. It does not astonish tha World, which ' at the proper tlma Intends to renew its ; demand for a searohlng congressional investigation of the purchase of tbs) Panama casal properties. Helpful Hiram (OontrlKova to The Journal hy Wlt Maw, the fa mom KaoJii poet. Hl proM-pocrot r regular feature of tbla column la Th Bally Journal). 1 . It was a day of lea indNeleett all glary was the village street and gents , and ladles tumbled down and went a-whisfzing through the town. Six times I broke my collar bomv and I was full of grief a nd groan. Six "times I landod on my head and breathed a wish that I were dead. Slx'limes I fell upon tha walk and slid In anguish round a block. And then I reached (and not too soon) a stretch, of walk with ashes strewn; there man might use his legs and feel he didn't need to dance and reel.- Old Help-' ful Hiram' did the trick. Old Hiram's crippled, bent and sick. lie's lonely, feeble, tired and gray; ho has ne wealth to give away. And yet he tries, tha best ho can, to benefit his fellow , man. And when he Bees men whizzing past tholr coat tails flapping in tlie blast, the victims of a day of sleet he sprinkles ashes on tha street and men with broken collar bones are blessing talflfr-4ttarwea-ton.Y-ftar' haas soma geeser say, if -he had wealth tb give away he'd do so much to help tha race; he's simply talking through his face. You do 'not need a pile of dough to help to lessen earthlyrwoe. Just look around you, and you'll view a thousand things that you may do. -.- , -.-! ! OofTrlshn lt,-- hf CeOTga Mttttuew Adam. TANGLEFOOT j . ' ' ir" ' . ; " '''; By Miles Overholt ;