THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, THURSDAY, EVENING, DECEMBER .7, 1911. ft! it THE JOURNAL AjLjNPKPBWPENT KEWBPaPEB. Jackson........ ...Pubitaht-r li.kiLk., .. .... ,.Mnl Hnnrinr) nd Bnnd. mnnlni at Th Journal Balia tag, Fifth and Yanibui ittwli, Portland. Or. Kntoria at tha noitoffir at Portland, Or., ' for ti-aturalwioa through the mailt aa eacona eUaa matter. " TELEPHONES Main T17S; Horn. w All dopartmenra reached by ttaeaa tfwm . . jk.AMAn tnii want. . : . . m want, - - - - Knnpiiw iTivrDi-iarvn MiTPBRSBNTATTVI!, Renlamln A Kentnor Co.. Brnnawlrk Bniiains, . 225 Fifth avenue. New York; 1218 reopie a ' Oa Building, Chicago. , . j, BobacrlptloB Terma by mall or to any addreaa la the Col ted Statea or Mexico. " . ' DAILY. Ose ear... ....Z5.00 On month I M SUNDAY. On year 12.60 I One month $ -25 . DAILY AND SUNDAY. One year $T.B0 One month I .65 -a What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pound a year. And that which, was prov'd true before, Prove false again? Two hundred more. Butler, 1 K- TnE LAWYERS' PLAINT T HE lawyers of : the Multnomah liar association nave passed a resolution said to be aimed at Governor West's theory as to capital "punishment. The lawyers ear that absence of public killings may Increase crime. It Is the lawyers that are directly responsible for much of the crime In this country. It Is the lawyers that have contributed heavily to the fact that we 'kill an average of 24 to 30 people a day every day In the year. ? It is the lawyers that have made the. criminal laws and so hedged , them, about with restrictions that v conviction of a guilty man Is ex- 0 ' tremely difficult. They have so framed tjhe law in Oregon that the accused can only be charged in an i Indictment on one count, while he - should be chargeable with all the counts in the statute and be suscep tible of conviction on any or all of them. They have so framed this provision that a defendant may prac tically plead guilty to all the other ' counts In a statute but escape con- vlction en the count under which he Is prosecuted. J , It Is the lack of convictions that j makes crime rampant in the United States, and It is the lawyers who hare made convictions so rare. The t t lawyers prosecute and the lawyers J ' defend the criminals. The whole ad- . ministration of the Judicature is in j ' the hands of the lawyers, and they 1 are doing it in such a way that while I Germany convicts 95 per cent of her - criminals brought to trial, we con- vict but 1.3 per cent. Germany con- ticta 950 out of every 1000, and we convict but 13, and It Id the law- ' yers to whom our public entrusts the t , forms of procedure, the manner and the whole machinery of prosecution. Our criminal Judicature is a mis erable farce, and it is the lawyers that have made it a farce. London, ' with a population of more than 7, ' 000,000, had but 19 murders In 1910, while Chicago, with a popula tion of 2,000,000, had 202, and, un der the administration of Justice by pur lawyers hanged but one. With criminals almost certain beforehand that the lawyers and lawyer-made '-- laws will save them from conviction, r, what wonder that crime Is rampant i and the United States at the head of the list, even distancing Italy, as a man-killing nation? A sample of the farcical adminis tration or criminal law in Oregon was a decision by the Oregon su preme court which reversed the de ' ' cislon of the lower court because '. "the" instead of "a" was used In a hypothetical instructibn, and a deep- . ly. guilty criminal allowed to go free. It. Is the quibbles, nonsensical tech-'club nlcallties and absurd processes by lawyers In the courts that free the criminals and increase crime. Judge Charles Carey, a lawyer, affirmed i the farcical character of our Judica ture, when, speaking to an assembly of lawyers, he said: "Under our codes, an elaborate system of technical rules of pleading has grown up. Much time is wasted upon demurrers and motions which are filed in nearly every suit. Tech nical rules that confine parties to definite issues are obstructions to ul timate Justice. Courts and lawyers now make Justice a secondary con sideration. They proceed on the theory that the rules must be ad hered to, even though the result is to bring victory to the party who ought not t.o win; and they have , built up fine theories of the law under which precedent must be fol lowed to absurd conclusions." TRAFFIC OVER TIIE ISTHMUS RIOR to 1900 the Panama rail way offered the only rail con nection by way of the isthmus between the Atlantic and Pa- , clfic coasts. In that year the traffic j. amounted to aoout 6, 000, 000. On! January l, 1907, the route by the j Tehuantepec railway was opened. In I that year the traffic rose to $21,000,- I 000. ' In' 1908 this sum was exactly doubled, namely, to $42,000,000. in 1909 It was $62,000,000, and in j 191OJ82.000.00O. ' J In 1911 to date the increase was f to $9.000.000, exclusive of morn '.than. $750,000 worth from foreign merchandise. , t 1 The bureau of 'statistics, depart xnem of commerce and labor, carries the comparison still farther, via the Panama route traffic grew from $10, 000.000, in 1907.1 to $26,000,000 in 1911.; Via, the Tehuanteriea mil wo the growth was from $11,600,000 in : I J 9 0 1 to $ 7 S ,T 5 0.0 00 In 19 1 1" ; J More than half ot the east pound ! A - traffic to cltlea on the Atlantic and gulf cities was lb Hawaiian sugar, which accounted for , $37,000,000 of the traffic In the last year. The marvelous progression of these figures gives some indication of what Is to be expected when the canal 1b opened. The Instant re sponse when the pressure of rail road ownership on the Panama route T o a MAtn nnnrl ounr nota n in II OA t r iciuutcu pu ".co-.o a vuuoo rVi aTIao-aI rYrci fr rt h A rn 1 1- r roads to the canal route. WHO'S WHO A' LL along, we have howled our heads off because Oregon has not received a fair share of re- fulmlnated, we have bellowed, and v j j tit v J - . we have thundered. We have pawed the earth and chewed the ground, In our demands for more reclamation funds for Oregon. Now, some of our citizens are pro testing because we are on the point of getting more reclamation funds. They are urging the government not to give us reclamation funds. They are resoluting, they are resisting, and they are opposing government reclamation Just as vigorously as others are demanding it. - Is there another state in the un ion in which such a spectacle is pre sented? Is there another state in the union that ' does not want its share of reclamation funds? Is there another state in which there Is opposition to a plan of making pro ductive 60,000 acres of land now barren? What must the president of the United . States think of us? What must the secretary of the Interior think of us? What must the heads of the reclamation bureau think of the Kilkenny cat conditions in Ore gon, with one side howling for re clamation and another faction op posing it? Incidentally, who are the gentle men that are misrepresenting the facts about the west Umatilla proj ect to the settlers and water users? Who are the secret persons in the background who are, for ulterior and personal interests, misleading the protestants Into belief that the United States Is going to rob and ! ruin them? What sinister influ ences are at work, and who's who in this extraordinary game of trying to beat Oregon out of the $4,000,000 of reclamation funds about to be set aside for the west extensionof the Umatilla project? There is one feature of the proj ect that would alone be of incom parable value to the inland empire. Completed and made productive, it would be a landscape for a painter. It would be a paradise of verdure, a garden of productivity, an Eden of fruits, meadows and srreen erowth. all dotted with' thrifty homes and a busy population. In what contrast would it be with the present barren lands? In what antithesis would 10,000 or 12,000 such homes be to the present steril- lity? What an advertisement of the state for those coming in or going out of Oregon, to pass through 35 miles of such a paradise! Could such a transformation harm those who are trying to keep Ore god from getting reclamation funds? FOOTBALL FATALITIES T HE Insurance of Its football players by the Multnomah club is reminder that 14 players were killed and 67 seriously Injured j during the late football season in,' 1910 14 players were killed and 43 injured, and in 1909 the fatalities were 23 and the injuries 64. Of the killed in 1911, three were college players, six were high school and five were of other teams. Of the injured, 40 were college, 20 high school, one grammar school and six players. Among the killed, Bruce Adams, captain of the Fairmount, Indiana, club team, sustained a broken neck at Alexandria. Indiana. ' Ralph Dimick died at Portland from an attack of pneumonia, after an Injury sustained in the side in a game of football at Forest Grove. Michael Eckle, aged 18, of Roch ester, New York, died November 4 from a blow over the heart, received In an athletic club game. Rcfy Farrer, member of a gram mar school team at Pierre, South Da kota, received an Injury in a game, but feared to tell his father, and died several days later. Thomas Higgins, aged 16, sus tained a fractured skull In a high school game at Oconomowoc, Wlscon son, November 8. Charles Lange died from' an in jured spine In a practice game at the Montana college of agriculture at Bozeman, October 28. Tho college cancelled Its schedule and abolished the game. Louis Luthy, pupil of a grammar school at Burlington, Illinois, re ceived Injuries In a game, from which he died two weeks later. W. E. Merrlinan of Davis Elklns college died from injuries received. In a game at Westminster, Indiana, October 15. Rolland Schlneckloth died from a fractured spine sustained in a game with the Sioux City High school team, October 14. D. P. Topping pf Newburgh, New York, was tackle on the academy team, and died October 9 from heart trouble resulting from overexertion and injury. . - EGGS J 'j. T. takes a show like that at the new Multnomah : hotel ; to make people in Oregon think pf the im mense waste in our daily life that helps to keep the cost of living continually rising. Think what a carload of eggs a day . means In money value, and this quantity, says Mr. Mfhton, arrives iere dally. And these Invaders are In excess of what Oregon now produces. A carload means 144,000 eggs. The point Is not only that the Oregon producers are losing the price of all these thousands.-but that Oregon's good money goes out daily to pay the raisers in California and in the states td the east of us. There surely Is a good living for ! hundreds of small farmers In this egg business, and yet some of us are fearing to Invite too many of the ten acre farmers to start Another scandal Is that while Ore gon raises as good honey as the . t ., . ., . cant part of our consumption comes L ,, t at Vail lUHUV fill lt Vfbil'Cl DIHtCD tyU balV cast of us. It is plain fact that each good colony of bees is. equal in profit to six sheep. And a score of colonies are but a side show in the Industries of the farm. A Benton county farming bee keeper kept care ful count of time spent in one year on his eighteen bee hives. He de voted two days in the year, and no more, and netted 100 with no out lay except for bIx new hives. And a big family had all the honey It could eat. Some farming folks despise these small industries but they make a big mistake. The farm account book shows at the year's end how "many a nickel makes a muckle," as the Scotch proverb goes. . THE LOUD MOUTHS T HERE ought still to be room enough on earth for Lincoln Steffens. Is he an outcast, to be cruplfled, drawn and quar tered because he advocated peace, compromise and mutual concessions at Los Angeles? Among the accusations against Mr. Steffens is that he argues for the golden rule. Was it not time for somebody to advocate the golden rule in Los Angeles? Would it not be better if a whole lot of men ad vocated the golden rule In Los An geles? Would it? not be a good thing 11 inousanas or oieirenses wouia P,eaa Ior ie8S resort to me strong arm, the bludgeon, and force, In every city? Too many men In this country are whetting swords, sharpening spears, arming with clubs and preparing to crush other men. Too many employ ers' associations are rehearsing for force, preparing for carrying on class struggles by battering ram, catapult and physical force. Too many loud mouths on soap boxes In the street are hissing, stinging and counseling force and violence. Too many irre sponsible publications are printing inflammatory utterances that, by hint, incite resort to dark lanterns and dynamite. It is the radicals on both sides that make the violence1 It Is the loud mouths of capital as well as the loud mouths of the street that swell the list of explosions. Life is too short to be spent in such turmoil. The great third party, which is the public, and which in the last analysis Is chief sufferer from force and ferocity, should have sur cease. It does not think the Stef fens doctrine of moderation, good will and peace either wicked or per nicious. In its own defense, tnls public may have ultimately to provide a commission or court under state au- thority to which disputes will have to be referred and by which wrones can be redressed. It is one step the state may yet have to take in work ing out the welfare of men and the destinies of human life. BUSINESS IMPROVING 1 HE writer of a five column ar ticle' In the Saturday Evening Post, which bristles with fig ures and deductions therefrom, sums up his conclusions in this statement, that business as a whole is "neither very good nor very bad at the moment, though probably bet ter than the average condition for a series of years covering boom and depression." Rut after examining the figures given by him regarding various in dustries the impression is decidedly optimistic. The money market is so easy everywhere that all legitimate wants can be supplied at comfortable rates, with no sign of change in the near future. The iron and steel industry re ceives special notice. It Is said that the new orders of the United States Steel corporation for October aver aged more than 35,000 tons a day at the rate, that Is, of 10,500,000 tons a year. One ot the large inde pendent steel manufacturing con cerns is reported in Wall street to have the largest current output in Its history, in pig iron, steel, and tubular products. From other sources It is learned that the suspension - of railroad orders for rails and for new equip ment Is passing off. Between No vember 1st and. 10th rail orders ag gregated 150,000 tons and contracts for about 600,000 tons for 1912 are being negotiated. Orders for new cars amounted to 7700 in one week, and nearly 11,000 more are now pending. The steel corporation .reports net profits of more than $29,000,000 for the third quarter of the year, being' more than one million over Wall street's previous estimate. . . Bank , clearings . for, October were ; the largest Blnce March, 1910, and the third largest on record. " v To this coast the figures of the flour milling industry given by the census bureau" for the period be tween 1904 and; 1909 inclusive are of special Interest. . The money value of the products during that term rose from $713,033,000, In 1904 to $883,684,000 in 1909, an Increase of 24 per cent. The number of mills rose 16 per . cent and the average output to $76,000 from $71,000 In 1904.. ;;?,; A singular fact is that in the face of a growth in cereal products gen erally barley. meal actually decreased 58 per cent. But feed products raised 48 per cent, to 5,132,169 tons in 1909. These changes are prob ably due to the development of al falfa as a hog and cattle food, and to the. spread of Intensive farming, with its much greater use of mill feed for all kinds of stock. Letters From tke People IComnmolrnflona aent to The Joornal foe nnb Hot Ion In lhl dritartmant ahonld not exceed 8(10 worda In length and mut be accompanied ny lae name ana aaareea or to eenarr.j Mr. Rynerson Replies. Portland, Deo. 6. To the Editor of The Journal I have read your reply to my Inquiry aa to the meaning- of the cartoon published In your lsaue of De cember 4, and am pleased to know that It referred to "the McNamara class of Workmen," and not to the working-men In KenenftL The thing- that prompted me to make the Inquiry was the fact that The Jour nal has almost without exceptlbn in. Its editorial commenta shown a spirit of fairness In dealing with the various labor question that have risen. In the past, that Is not exceeded by any other daily paper in the city, and for that rea son more than anything else I wished an explanation, ji4 was inclined to say, et tu Bruti." I still Insist, however, that tha car toon, captioned as it was, was Insulting n that It gave Ibe impression that in the past labor, all labor, had sought to win Its cause by the use of bombs, re volvers, etc, and that now they had reached a time when they would have to choose between violence, murder and lawlessness and the tools of labor shown on the other side of the figure representing labor. To my mind no other conclusion could be drawn. The damage has been done, and hun dreds oi people who form a part of "the public heart that beats In sympathy for the laboring man" who saw the cartoon will never see thti editorial which ex plains what Was meant, and have gained the same impression that the writer did when he first saw the cartoon. The extracts from previous editorials which were published In yesterday's ar ticle were very good, but even In that there was a stinger. Tou say that or ganized labor did wrong by "claiming beforehand, without Information and without evldenca that guilty men are Innocent." Organised labor did nothing of the kind, because they did not know that the men were guilty, and as soon as It was known, that they were guilty they and their methods were Immedi ately condemned by organized labor, just as such men an such methods have always been condemned. ' In closing I would suggest that you publish a cartoon similar to the one In dispute, and In place of the figure repre sentlng labor put a figure representing the employer. On one side at the bot torn put a eroup of men seated around a table representing an arbitration board, and on the other side put a pic ture of an employer with a smoking re volver In his hand and a dead working man at his feet. Put a caption over this reading, "The Employers Tools Which?" C M. RYNEKSON. Opposes Three-Cent Fares. To tho Editor of Tho Journal In advocating reduction of streetcar fares Councilman Clyde gives evidence that he doesn't know the time o' day. He shouTd take a long look at the clock. Portland bas passed the time of such plcayuntsh reforms. 'Wide awak as to the nature of privileges, their holders and victims are lining up In opposing camps for a battle royal, and It Is quite time Mr. Clyde took sides. Anyway what good would 3-cent fares do worklngmen? It would simply take from holders of land values In strips and hand to holders of rectangles. What Mr. Josselyn's employers drop would be picked up by landowners. Suppose our busybee councilman, in nosing around the city hall for Social lstic reforms, should bump into a gold mine in the basement, which panned enough to buy thd Inflated franchises and provide free service, what would happen? There would be a week of jollification. Parades, red fire and spreading the eagle would be the or der; Socialists would prepare to usher In the millennium; Mr. Clyde's working men would be In the seventh heaven of delight until they received notices of big boosts in rents. Then they would awaken to what a fattening feeding trough the city mine provided for va cant lots and acres. ' Is there any doubt that this would result? Consider how much rent the upper floors "of the Yeon building would bring were fares charged for elevator service. Why should eastern and European owners of vacant lota and tracts profit by the discovery of city wealth? Who constitutes the city? These Idlers whs do nothing for It except drain the dollars that others create? Or Is It those who build houses, clean streets, set type and engage in mercantile pur suits? The suppositious gold mine Is not far fetched. It la easily likened to a discovery of better ways of producing wealth, which is of common occurrence. But benefits that get beyond the owners of patent rights are largely absorbed by owners of land. These two privi leges are similar but that's another tory. ' If Mr. Clyde really wants Mr. Josse lyn to pay more for his privileges he should Inwardly digest "Progress and Poverty," or "Natural Taxation." There he will find tha basis for court de cisions that franchise values are land values and may be taxed as such. By careful study it may be blistered Into his mind that "unearned wealth means undeserved want" for one to "make" $100,000 by merely holding land Idle is abstracting It from pay envelopes and business tills. Even councilmen must dig for truth. They cannot get It by putting tha hand into a Socialistic grab-bag. B. T. SAMPLE. . To Obviate the Bridge Nuisance. Warrenton, Dec 4, 10H.--.To the Ed itor of The Journal I have just read Mr. McFarland's letter on "Bridge Prob" lera." He asks for a "scheme" for reg ulating: the drawbridges. I think I can suggest a scheme that would do away with most of the congestion. It la a simple devioe for lowering and raising the smokestack. I was sitting in the hotel at Dresden, looking- out upon the river, and admiring the solidity of the bridge,: which will stand for centuries, (.being built after the; ancient plan, as most of the bridges are, of solid stone, with stone arches.) . Throngs of people COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE. ; Rome people never do anything, ln eluding (he buying of . (Christmas pre' ents, until they have to. ., a '. -.v i One small thin to be allKhtlv thank' ful for is that the use of "Xmas" is yearly becoming less frequent. e e , . '. President Taft's short 'message reso lution was a s-ood one. An occasional brief message on one subject will be great improvement. News Item from La Grande narrates a row. In and near a "fashionable sa loon.' This can't mean that society ladles meet there to play, bridge. Mother McNamara still believes hor boys lnnooent. The mother is usually the last one to believe her boy a crim inal, and even If forced so to believe. she will not desert him. Labor unions should ' . have ' learned that It is not wise to assume and dra matically proclaim the innocence of a union official accused of crime. Ther are black sheep in all lare flocks. a . a Borne men must be expected to abuse a conditional pardon or a parole. Wt hear of such men. but we may not hear of the many who do not abuse the trust reposed In them and who quietly The confessions of the McNamaraa are remarkable and curious when they mignt nave expected to die or old age before their trial could have been con cluded, or they could have been pun- lenea, ii convicica. A sreat man bellowed, roared and fumed; results were nil. save that brief, mockins; echoes did reverberatft. A liny newborn babe's faint wall In chamber till, to bending angels' ears In heaven did penetrate. month's Interest; paid $120, and then became a Judgment debtor for the or iginal amount, interest, ana costs. Query: what do -our usury laws amount to? Moral Keep away from the loan sharks. SEVEN GREAT PHILANTHROPISTS Edward There are no more philanthropic peo ple in the world than the stage Ioik. and thev are never called upon for charity but they respond liberally. Tha many institutions tnrougnoui jim cuuu trv that havs been erected by the play ers for such of their number who have outlived their usefulness or have met with misfortune, show how willing they are to care for their own, and In every other charitable way they are never called upon but, they respond willingly and bounteously. The earliest example or an acior nhlianthroDlst was that of Edwara Alleyn, the English player who lived between the years 1568 and 162S. His name has been preserver to posiemj through his .having founded Dulwteh college, an Institution wnicn naa ex isted through the 400 years lntervenlpg since his death. Allevn was an actor in Shakespeare s time and there is ample and clear evi dence to show that he was celebrated as such. His professional earnings aa a player, however, formed one only and not the chief among several sources from which he drew tha wealth that afterwards sustained his great founda tion: and his fame aa an actor must long since have faded Into a dim tra dition, but for the association oi nis name with an institution around which cluster Interesting historic reminiscen ces. Alleyn's ownership in Dulwlch lands began In 160 and steadily increased until he had acquired 1800 acres. He had barely got Into possession of this property before the question how to dis pose of It began to press upon him. Aft er 20 years of wedded life, he was still childless. Ihen it was that tha prosper ous player began "playing the last act of his life so well" as to gain the general applause of his own age and a large measure of admiration In after times. He built and endowed the college of God's Gift at Dulwlch in his own life time. All waa completed by 1617. The college, as at first Incorporated, con sisted of 12 "poor scholars," and as many pensioners, tho latter comprising an equal number of men and women, "poor brethren" and "poor sisters." The scholars and pensioners were to be were crossing, going and coming. Just then I saw a steamer coming down at a rapid pace. The current was very swift. Her decks were black with pas sengers, and she had a barge in tow. I shuddered, for I saw she could not make a landing above. I was holding my breath, but just then down went her smokestack, under she went and up popped her smokestack. She sped on and made no disturbance above. Amid sweet strains of music rrom me band we boarded one of those great pleasure boats that we might see and enjoy the wonders of that most cele brated river of romance, song and legend, "the River Rhine," with its old and new fortifications, its, ancient and its modern castles and Its many old and new cities. The Rhine Is double-tracked on, both ' sides. There Is also a great water traffic. There are hundreds of large, beautiful tugs, as large and pow erful as our bar tugs. They steam up against that swift current with six or eight great barges In tow, and when they come to one of those great stone bridges they simply bow and pass under. I was amazed, and I wondered why we who "are so smart" had not "caught on" long ago. Only think what relief a few hinges, properly applied, would bring Portland. Now, if I was not so busy with my own sterilization bill, I would gladly champion such a bill. And I would expect to be received In about this way: "Yes. certainly, that's a good bill. I lost my train once by being held up, and it does seem that when you are in a hurry that the draw Is sure to be open." But my sterilization bill Is of more Importance, and I shall stand by it to the end. DR. OWENS-ADAIR. For a Happy Christmas Holiday. Portland. Or., Deo. 6. To the Editor of The Journal. The time Is again at hand to swap trinkets and eat the cold store g turkey left over from Thanks giving. It is also the time of good pheer. The merchant Is the - "t cheer ful This Is a puzzle for profound thinkers; others had better pass It up. The ads. remind us dally of the swap ping days -remaining before Christmas. We are urged to do our swapping early. The primary objeot being to relieve the poor clerks so they will not be too fa tigued Christmas morning to enjoy their presents. Some of these presents will be dollies. Incidentally and Incidentally, only, of course, you are helping the mer chant and yourself. - Think it over and see If you cart figure out why the mer chant is so anxious to help his poor clerks and then nose around and see If the ; poor clerks " are working shorter hours. If they are not, and em ray close range observations, they are not, then why Imagine you are on a holy mission when you buy earlyT ; It Is true that you will be relieving the annual jam but the average clerk does not mind the jam so much as waiting for 9:30 p. m. She chews her gum and waits on as many as she can . without NEWS: IN BRIEF OREGON SIDUL1GHTS. . An irrigation mass meeting will be held at Medford Saturday, ' ,,- a , The Medford Commercial club has unanimously adopted resolutions fa vor-. Ing the movement to establish a free public market in that city. , '.: a : .' :;.; . -. The ladles of the Clvio Improvement society of Lakeview at a recent dinner raised $58.10. which will be expended in setting trees In the city park. , a Myron Cralir of Eugene, who recently killed an eagle, not knowing that the state laws protect these noble birds, has been fined $5, the minimum. . ' .-:-.:'' .,- ! A number of friends of Mr, and Mrs. Bert Tooze of Sherwood gave them a surprise "paper WeJding," to mark the end fit the first year of their wedded :. -vv;7 ; Albany Democrat: Farming Is not so slow around Albany after all. Mr. Groshong made $10,000 off his hops. L. C. Stratton cleared $4000 on 20 acres of prunes, and Harold Rumbaugh $540 on three acres. ; ( Jackson county stockmen have offered $20 additional bounty for every timber wolf scalp taken in the Cascade forest reserve between the hadwatera of ''Big Butte creek and the headwaters of Lit tle Butte creek. ( ' La Grande Star: Hunt & Harvey, well drillers, report the bringing in of an nthar nleni'Hrf arteeian , well at ' Lower Cove on the farm of ,M. Morris. At 420 rest a now oi 3D aaiions oi ecueni water per minute was. obtained. . . ... ... .. ,.,. ,. a , .. ... . . Salem "Statesman: Bids for the .erec tion of Balem'a new public library build ing are called for. and the Masonic hiilldlnar of six stories is a go. both to be started this winter and rushed to completion next spring-. .. w ' V.',- ' . ' Eurene QUard: Because ha is de termined to come to Oregon, Morton Netlsoh. of Lake Benton, Mlnn.t has lust olnaAri at lanrl trade with Herman Nell- I son, of Junction City, on the basis of al most six acres of land In Minnesota for most six acres or la one acre In Oregon. i Alleyn. 1 drawn in equal numbers from the four London parishes out of which the found er drew his wealth. A curious legend, dating from the time of the founder, and always current afterwards among the pensioners, tells that he was scared into his generous and charitable scheme by an apparition of the devil, "In propria persona,1 among some theatrical demons In i drama In which he waa acting. In the fright thus occasioned he was said to have made a vow, which he redeemed In the founding of Dulwlch college. Shakespeare's name is Interwoven with local traditions bearing on Alleyn's life at Dulwlch, and the links of association between these famous contemporaries afford strong antecedent probability that the tradition sprang from some thing more soil! than "such stuff as dreams are made of." Each began and closed his professional career as a stage player In nearly the self same period and in neighboring theatres. Alleyn's fondness for his old pro fessional work is Indicated by the fart that he engaged the boys In occasional theatrical performances. For close to two centuries after its foundation the work of the Institution was confined chiefly along the lines laid down by Al leyn. The school waa reorganized In 1S57 and again in 1882 and now com prises a school building- entitled the new Dulwlch college which was erected at a cost of $600,000. At the present time Alleyn's bequest provides an upper grade education for 640 boys, and a lower grade school under separate man agement where only nominal fees are charged. As an institution for the edu cation of poor boys next to Glrard col lege in Philadelphia Alleyn's Institution in London provides for the greatest number. As depicted In the large collection of his own and Henslowe's papers at Dul wlch, Alleyn's character waa one of singular amiability, combined with great shrewdness and aptitude In business and his piety and benevolence are no lees ''conspicuous in his early correspondence and in his diary than in his last will and In the noble foundation by which he is best remembered. Tomorrow Johns Hopkins. swallowing said gum. As for yourself, early swapping will do much to con serve your religion, your equanimity, your ringlets and other trinkets you are attached to, so to speak. I have a friend who says up In Norske they close shop a half day be fore Christmas and whoop It up until after New Years, iifl asserts, with enougfh Norwegian to make It emphatic, that quite a number of them survive. It seems to me we would do well to copy the old country methods of spend ing the Christmas holidays. Let It be a season of festivities, rather than one of commercial greed. "JIM BROWN." Governor West's Trison Ppllcy Correct. y Portland, Or., Dec. 5. To the Editor of The Journal. I wish to say a few words concerning capital punishment I certainly do not agree with Mr. Greens lade one bit. I would Ilka to know how Mr. Greenslade would feel at the hour of his death If he were one of those "12 sincere men" or that "Intelligent Judsr" and It was an Innocent man they con demned to a "deserved death." How many Innocent men have been con demned? No one .knows. Why? Do you suppose those "12 sincere men" or that "Intelligent judge' wish to have the world know that they condemned an Innocent man? To take an Innocent man's life, is not that murder? Most certainly, and that "intelligent Judge" and those "12 sincere men" are guilty. I agree with Governor West, and I believe many others do, too. Perhaps hs knows of many Innocent men who have been hung. Perhaps he has seen many Irfnocent men leave prison af t r remaining behind the bars for many long and weary years. Just think of all the Innocent men that have been condemned and you will think differently, Mr. Greenslade. CONSTANT READER, f Has. Governor West the Right? Hood River, Or:, Dec. 8.- To the Edi tor of The Journal. "Thou Shalt not kili" The party Who first said this killed a man himself, and another thing: If our governor, who Is commander of the state militia, carried out this doc trine In full how would it sound if he should say to all the soldiers: "Load your guns with blank cartridges,! and If you are engaged in warfare, always save your enemies' lives?" . Now. if I have the right idea of a governor, he Is an "executive," to see that the laws are enforced, not nullified. Of course, his attitude On capital punishment Is that of a kind hearted man but just the same It seems to me if he has a legal and moral right to say he will balk all attempts of courts to carry out "first degree murder" .death sentences he also has the right to say beforehand that no robber, forgar or. other criminal shall suffer for infringing; the law. in this putting it too strong? ; Respectfully, .' - J. M. BLOSSOM? MurrJ cr is murder From tka Chicago Tribune j ' The plea of guilty entered by McNa-, mar a staggering answer ' to the hysterical cries of plutooratio persocu tion and Justice outraged raised by mis taken sympathizers over the Loi Angeles "'" union moor itself was all too. n.iung 10 make sweeping charge's of op pression and official anarchism, . This Sinister outcome of determined prose cution disposes of these charges., The effect upon public opinion cannot but be salutary,.-..,..... y ... '.-"';-.'. Meanwhile her ta A lAMiinn rtrtf nf all to decent unionism. The blow this will deal the cause is heavy, and there Is but one way to recover from It and to Kaln that, publlq support upon which buuucbh aepanas. , The vast; overwhelm-; lng majority of union men who woul no more c-apntenanoe murder than the same numberof farmers of merchants, must assert themselves. They have been ' misgoverned and misguided ond misrep resented In the public eye by labor poll- ticlang and their accomplices. By many of these false leaders.. murder and cor. ruption have been employed under pre tense of furthering the cause of organ ised labor. There has been too little protest from reputable union men against this form of propaganda, and their weakness has cost them dear. - Twenty-one gravestones uointed the finger of deadly accusation against these misrepresentatlves of a worthy cause. The whole sickening picture ought to be stamped forever upon the memories of the American worklngman; so that ho will make an end of this terrible ' wrontf, this terrible dishonor. - The American people are Just. They are far toom than just, they are warm heartedly generous, and they may be de pended upon to favor the good cause and enlist for the wronged. But they will not endure propaganda . by f' dynamite and assassination. . Tlle- McNamaras, the Gentlemans, the Alt- mans must be expelled from the raivks of unionism If unionism is not to fan and there must be no more vague senti mental loyalties to protect them and no more Indifference to methods. The de cent men in the labor ranks must as sume command. Tanglefoot By Miles 4 Overhr.lt THE SUNNY SIDE. YOO BROTHER (MID r.o" CMUTtoM rse kwarad coroner "Where is your big brother now?" "The one with the eye-brows V "I suppose that's the one." "Why, he's dead. He got Into a fight with some Chinese gamblers and they smothered him to death. It was a bit queuerlous, too, for their names were Wun Lung, Too Lung and Lee Lung. The coroner sat on my poor brother's remains for two hours; then he said my brother had died from con gestion of the Lungs'" "I understand they are not going to have any violins in the orchestra that is to play for the Amalgamated union ball Friday night" "That's right. It was discovered at the last moment that the players' violin bows were taken rrom the tail of a horse that had once been driven by a scab!" The Governor Indorsed. From the San. Francisco Bulletin. The Anti-Capital Punishment league of California, through Its secretary, has wired to Governor West of Ore gon Its congratulations for his stand to eliminate punishment from his state during his administration. The tele gram follows: The Honorable Oswald West. Gov ernor of Oregon, Salem: The Antt Canital Punishment league of Cali fornia wishes to express to you Its keen appreciation of your determinatia to eliminate hanging from Oregon (Wr ing your administration. There will be fewer capital offenses when the state ceases to uphold tho barbaric custom of committing legal murder, tending aa it does to cheapen human nre ana to create and maintain revengeful inclina tions. When all governors ana states follow your heroic example In this and other penal policies, crime will rapidly decrease. J. H. xouwu. "Secretary Anti-Capital Punishment League of California." Pointed Paragraphs. Many a day dreamer has attracted at tention by snoring. . There's one good thing about politics you can get out It takes the stock brokers to trans form water Into real money. When the wolf Is at a man's door he has no need of a burglar alarm. There Is nothing more convenient than occasional absent mlndedness. Beware of the knocker and his hatn men you may be wanted to pose as aa anvil. After a man has been married a few years he gets used to posing as a door mat. It must keep his Satanlo majesty busy if he finds work for all the Idle hands to do. . A woman doesn't admire her photo graph unless It flatters her or a man, either, for that matter. Don't cry over past opportunities; the tears may prevent you from seeing others that are coming. It takes a bride with a vivid imagina tion to go on believing it ts'tlll the honeymoon when she is busy at lit washtub. 5 The Torture CKamt cr 8 (Contributed to Tt9 Journal br Walt A:-V tu- fatuous Kunsfla Doet. Hit Droa-.-nnttnsi 7 roKuior iiur ui uu CvlUWU Ua io Dill vim ms r ' v' In olden days they used to rack the criminal and break his back, and one may know how tough he'd feel. If he was broken oh the wheel. The torturer, we Vnay opine, believe he had things very line; ne anew nis traae rrom A to Z ana no suggestions weloomed he. And yet nis work was crude and coarse, fo ne renea on oruiai rorce. If I wernl jorturer in chief, I'd fill, my victims' souis wun grier. ra stretoh the poorl Chaps on the rack until thoir Joints be-I gan to cracic ana tnen I'd say: "Oh laugh and sing, and smile, and smile like everything!'' I have three kinds oft rheumatls, and pink pains through my system whiz, and pcqple stand about tnyl chair, and"when I paw around and sweatf iney spring tneir optynlstlo gags, ami tear my temper an to Tag I -mere It SJ time for sighs and tears: distinguish time for sighs and tears; there is a time for smiles and cheers; i dlstlna-ulsh then, those ' times' betwtyVdon't getj 3 . . v f "... . ....nuu 1 -I Oauria Udttliaw Adamc. A2HSXJ ' laWtW ft'