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ADMIRAL EVANS
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NE of the last messages that
Admiral Evans left to the
American people was a maga
zine article In which he set
out the Importance or preventing the
.,. Panama canal from losing its value
ian a great pathway of competitive
- .commerce.
J He showed that for years the rail
road . Interests had prevented con
' gress from legislating for construc
tion of the waterway. He pointed
Hout that the trip of the Battleship
, 3Dregon around Cape Horn under cir
cumstances of world interest had
- created such a public, sentiment that
, Monger resistance to the building of
'the canal; was Ineffective, and the
. work actually undertaken.
He courageously insisted that the
. next move of the railroad interests
would be to seise water terminals,
acquire steamship properties and by
"subtle methods nullify the benefits
' iof the canal.' He argued that a prop
r conservation of the functions of
, Fthe waterway would immensely re
'duce -freight rates, carrying the re
duction in some cases to one half
, ! or even one fourth the-present flg-
i ures.
one w'1' 1ueBt,on tne Purpo8
Jor meaning of his messaged No" one
, erdoubtedth.4dmlraratJia4xlQt
r Jaini Tbait was unalterably settled
1 jvhen," thongh . a Virginian, he cast
) hls fortunes with the Union in the
t-?- stress an d d I stress of -1 8 6 1 ; -
' ' He was a defender of the Repub
lic, not only In war, but in peace.
. " Jlig passing yesterday recalls his con
victions and his prophecy . concern
. lng .the great isthmian route, and
.should.be an Impressive Injunction
to congress and the country to safe
guard the canal for an independent
', , - and competitive, function.
-THE PRESIDENT'S RESPON
- SIBIL1TY
T
HE president of .the United
States should give Oregon Jus
tice"" In reclamation matters.
He lias' th-authority He has
the power. He has -the law back
of him, and if he deprives Oregon
of a just share of reclamation funds,
,it will be discrimination against the
state by the White House.
' ' There has been effort to fix the
"responsibility for tha injustice to
Oregon on the Oregon senators. But,
"they have no authority to order the
expenditure of available reclamation
funds in Oregon. They have no
"power Jto authorize the extension of
a project and the transformation of
Jbarren. lands into productivity.
I It is the president alone who has
Jbucb authority, and it Is the presi
dent to whom the people of Oregon
must look for justice. It Is the pres
ident that they must hold respon--4elble
for past discriminations. It Is
J the president who, on the advice and
J recommendations of his secretary of
the Interior, fixes the reclamation
policy in the expenditure of avall
table funds, and in the .case of
'Oregon, the White House must ac
'cept the responsibility.
It Is certain that private inter
ests In Oregon have made repr
esentation to Mr. Taft in opposition
to proposed government reclamation
, in .Oregon. It is equally certain that
many reclamation promoters do not
want competing government recla
mation on a large scale in this state.
t But the state at large wants land
reclaimed on . a basis on which it
"wtll go to settlers at "the least pos
sible price and upon the most favor
able terms, to the end that the peo
" pllng of th'e land may be encour
tiged. This Is attainable by govern
,"ment reclamation, and Mr. Taft
should exercise his authority, and
give Oregon JuBtice.
EDUCATION FOR CHINA
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lACH day that passes proves that
the one great need of China in
solution Is the wider and high
er education of the choicest of
, her young men.
In .1908 the plan of a great Chl
Jiese University was started. The Bite
la now agreed on, and is in the group
Of the three important cities In the
Vang Tse valley, Hankow, Hanyang
and Wuchang. Lord William Gas-coyne-Ceell.
was convinced of it's
Necessity on his second Journey to
China In the interest of missions,.
On hit return to England his plana
were taken up by the authorities of
0xr6rd and Cambridge universities.
Steps-were taken to interest Ameri
can universities. Harvard, Colum
bia,; California and Toronto respond
at once-and-thelr - presidents
joined , tne committees. a fund of
$1,250,000 waa required, , of which J
half should be provided by England j dictions of long continued depression
and half by America. , whlch-wcre announced a-t the begln-
Present conditions ifi China havemlugof the year have been falsified,
stirred the committees Into still , There has been steady, though slow,
greater activity, and It is expected recovery In most lines of business,
thai the '"funds" will permit the be-; The new year begins with orders In
ginning of work on the site of the I hand, reduced stocks, JmproVlng de
unlterslty at an early day. inand, and more labor employed In
The Institution will be on the the majority of factories. In No-
lines of. the London university bothfvember and December of 1911 both
a central institution for teaching, ana
an examining body with which local
colleges in various parts of China
Will be affiliated.
The university will be secular In
aim and teaching. Missionary bodies
will provide hostels where tjhelr stu
dents will live.
A BUNCO GAME
T is almost perfectly apparent that
the people of Portland are to be
gold-bricked.
Demanding commission gov-
ernment hy overwhelming public sen
timent six months ago, they were
promised It by every candidate.
Every candidate theatrically sweat
ed for It. shouted for It and bled
for it. Every candidate figuratively
climbed to the housetops and bade
everybody come and behold how
strong he was for commission gov
ernment. Now Councilman Baker favors
pitting a commission charter on the
ballot and the present menagerie
charter on the ballot. Still other
councllmen want the Wood charter
submitted. In addition to other char
ters. Commission government Is to he
assassinated. The people of Port
land are to be buncoed.
THE KOSZTA CASE
T
HE Koszta case was this. One
Koszta was a Hungarian who,
In 1853, took, refuge In the
United States, became a resi
dent, and took out his first citizen
ship papers. Having taken part In
the Hungarian Insurrection the Aus
trian government sought to lay
hands on him wherever they might
find him.
In that year he went to Smyrna,
In the Turkish mplrc on his
private business. The Austrian
consul general there had him
shanghaied and dragged on board
the Austrian man-of-war, Hussar,
then lying in the harbor. But the
United States -aloorv-St, Loulsr-Cap.
tain Ingraham commander, was also
in the harbor, arid fo Mm KTo'szta ap
pealed. The Austrlans proposed to hold
the. man because of his original na
tionality and because he had fled
from performing his army service.
But Captain Ingraham served notice
on the Austrian captain of the Hub
Bar that unless Koszta was surren
dered to him by 4 o'clock on that
same day he would take him by
force. The American captain called
his men to quarters, cleared ship
and loaded his guns, ready to fight,
though overmatched by the Hussar
in size and armament. At 11 o'clock
the Austrian consul proposed terms.
The man was surrendered to the
French consul for safe keeping, and
tt110.!11 JrV""611, a fre m'n t0 tbe
Dlplomatlcorrespondncfl fol
lowed but the United States main
tained Its point. American citizen
ship covered the man with the pro
tection of the stars and stripes wher
ever he might go on his lawful bus
iness. If an obsolete Russian treaty could
be construed by Russia to Justify
her exclusion of American Jewish
citizens, or to subject them in Rus
sia to the indjraitles and oppressions
which it pleases her to Inflict on
Jews of Russian birth, then that
treaty must be torn up all efforts
to secure American Jews in the ex
ercise of their full rights ' as Ameri
can citizens having failed.
To define who shall be American
citizens is the high prerogative of
inis nation ana ot ner aione. Tosug-riand should tie namea. lie is a
gest, or to approve of. submitting ' standpat of the most pronounced
that question to any foreign tribunal j type. He is an Idolater of the Payne
is to derogate from the honor of the Aldrich tariff. He is the arch ene
natlon, and to forget one of those i my Of popular government. He out
first principles of the republic for j Aldrlches Aldrich. His appointment
which, in 1853, the United States ! would nail Mr. Taft to the cross as
willingly faced the prospect of war. ! a backer of the big Interests.
1 r.,,i,ro itrvnif Vin hppn denounced
FINANCE IN 1011
F
ROM figures given in the an
nual review Just Issued by !
Messrs. Henry Clews & Co. of.
New York the following are ;
taken:
Bank clearings In 1911 show totals
. - a A ' " A ., ., i
2LlV'1U";WW.;U.r"
those of 1910. Agricultural products
01 me nation are suiuinea up to
$8,417,000,000. being a decrease'
from 1910 of $277,000,000. The
exports of II months of 1911 are
given as $18 J.000 000 showing an ,
ncrease of JSOO.OOO.ffOO over 1910. ;
mports for the same period amount
5 dl Jol L f ; :PreaSfi1, ;
by $34,000,000 from the figures of
lain i1"11"' -
. . . ... .ition, not a politician of the Suther-
So much has been said of railroad and typ, but a patrlot of the Harlan
effect of the Interstate commerce j
commission decision forbidding a
raise of rates that It Is interesting to i
notice a decrease In gross earnings
In the ten. months of 1911 ending
October 31, of only $15,000,000. and !
and in net earnings of $19,000,000.
Dire thingB were predicted, from that:
decision, but nothing happened ex- in filling 32 pages with descriptions
,cept that the roads In general under- and pictures of Jackson county
took to Introduce measures of econ- towns, enterprises,1 orchards and
omy and of efficiency; 'scenery.
Wall street has had the privilege! In a very few years Medford has
of seeing new securities Issued In j
1911 to the- great total of $1,630,-
000,000, an Increase over 1910 of
$ 1 1 2,000,000. T ,
r"roni such figures various ded"C-
tlons appear The first Is that the pry.
, steel ana cotton Industries showed
marked development, largely owing
to the acceptance of lower prices.
The crops have yielded In money
more than the average, though the
returns, except In the case of corn,
have not been up to a bumper year.
The event of chief importance to
Wall street was the unlooked for
demand from Germany for large
sums in July and August, to set off
the withdrawals from both England
and France on. account of the war
scare about Morocco. .
AX ABSURDITY "
I
X Portland, Peter McAlplne. a tlm-
berman, drew his .last $70 from
the bank, and committed suicide
by hanging himself in the base
ment of hie residence.
At Albany, T. A. Hanse, who was
out of employment, became de
spondent over lack of work, and
shot himself. He left a wife and
child. , "
At Tacoraa, William Erhardt
walked' into a pawnshop and asked
to see a revolver. He took the
weapon, and before he could be re
strained, shot himself. He left -a
wife and child. He was penniless.
At Portland Fred Brazee, who was
penniless and had vainly lookod for
work for some time, took poison. Six
children, the eldest eight and the
youngest three months, and the
widow, were left destitute.
The annual mineral production of
the United States Is nearly two bil
lion dollars. The railroad earnings
are more than two and a half bil
lion dollars. The agricultural prod
ucts are eight and one half billion.
The value of the manufactured prod
ucts is nearly fifteen billion.
Here Is a round total of twenty
eight billion .dollars of American
wealth produced In one year In only
four activities. The reckoning takes
no account of the millions yielded in
the many other lines of human en
deavor. Who absorbs all this wealth?
Who gets al 1 this great- anmiartu m ,
which Is four fifths as large as the
entire national wealth of Russia,
and greater than the combined na
tional wealth of Italy, Belgium,
Portugal-and Switzerland ?
It is absurd that In such a wilder
ness of annually created riches in
only four lines of activity, men
should be penniless and bent on self
destruction. It is absurd that thou
sands are unemployed In such a Jun-
I gle of wealth.
It means that our statesmanship
has failed. " It means that with
tariffs, trusts and special privileges
created by government for the few,
our annual wealth is being absorbed
by a limited circle at the expense of
the many.
As, "Postofflce Box Number 247"
theoVef packers met once a week In
the Counselman building, Chicago,
and -4ixed the prlees at which
the fresh meat of the country was
to be sold, and fixed the prices at
which they were to buy cattle.
It was one of the steps In the
great tragedy of Increased national
suicide. -
HARLAN'S SUCCESSOR
D
ISPATCHES from Washington
affirm that Senator Sutherland
of Utah, Judge Hook of Kan
sas. Secretary Nagei or me
department of commerce and labor,
and Frank B. Kellogg of Minnesota
are under consideration by the pres
ident for the vacant place on the
supreme bench
It seems impossible that Suther-
by the progressive Republican gov
ernor of Kansas as unfit for the po
sition. Governor Stubbs must have
his reasons, and they have been made
known to the president.
Secretary Natrel is little if
any
He
thA
I more appealing as a prospect,
i Is of the same mould, and of
18 Ul U1C DttlllC ihwuiu, l '
ame Presses of thought as Bother
land and Hook
Kellogg has a record as a trust
, ,., ua
o'n.. what the country
more acceptable.
n.n,,i liia tn aoo In t h b fl mini n t nifiti t
h would be a flt BUC.
J lho em!nent justlce wnose
tQ f
Anothw ,an would eatl8fy the
country, and heighten respect for the
, TVia noon1 flnr ,n lhfi nnR.
school.
JACKSON COUNTY
r
H13 Medford Mall-Tribune enters
its forty-first year with a New
Year's number of metropolitan
proportions.
The paper has found no difficulty
risen to be the central and predomI-1
nant city In Jackson county. The
.city has ventured on a total expendi-
ture of $1,715,000 on municipal Im
provements showing a most gener
ous 'provision for the needa of a
f uture city of " large population and
many Industries. jXZZ' 'v!Vs'H'i'Hr
In the last of ths four divisions of
this New Year's annual, which la' de
voted to horticulture, the figure of
75,000 acres In orchards catches the
eye and these orchards second to
none for" heautyand" abundanc"eof
apples, pears, -and other fruit that
has made the Rogue river valley fa
mous
The Illustrations are very attrac
tive, the scenery 6f Jackson county,
its river, forests, orchards, and
mountains demanding the best that
the photographer and engraver can
offer.
Letters From the People
(Ommnnl-atlon pent to Tbe Jonrnil for pah
Iloitlon In this department hould not exceed
300 worda In letifth end mut be ireompaaled
br tbe name ind address of tbe tender.)
False Social Aspiration.'
Portlarld, Or.. Jan. l.--To the Editor
of The Journal. The formula for all
events, from a social as well as busi
ness point, must be measured by Its
promotive acts of efficiency toward
common wealth.
Is the elated attitude of Nob Hill.
down the trail where we meet 'the ama
teur of social denomination, more In
structive or destructive toward the
only nobility that we recognise the
nobility of the mlndt
Our devotion to false display and
pomp, which Is bo often a cloak to dla
guise ffenetal Inefficiency, or worse, be
comes nearly a subject of pity and de
notes lack of self esteem, an unmistak
able sign of dual, domination, this illu
sive Idol should be somewhat modified
to save the old fundament from an
Irreparable rupture.
Every action In nature has an equal
amount of reaction, thus frivolity often
returns In recklessness, while wreck
and ruin are a result of the latter.
Tragic ends of every description may be
traced to the lair of mimic social tend
encies with its endless fangs of en
ticement towards a goal from where
there Is no redemption.
Is It not absurd to think that such
seemlnsrly harmless pursuit should -be
come the arch demon to all evils, which
leads Into a labyrinth of confusion, as
It substitutes the visionary for real
value and becomes the graveyard for
true Ideals and decency. It stimulates
the criminal instinct, for the battle be
comes desperate for maintenance. as
sham Is its code of honor, the system
has no schedule nor safety device and
Its destination spells unknown, barren.
The doctrine In spite of apparent bril
liancy is afflicted with an empty core,
and rather subtracts than adds to hu
man knowledge. It not only dwarfs
the" future of him who Is Involved In
the game, but stunts the growth of
everything that is of the same fiber.
Its shadow has the peculiarity of keep
ing the actor In constant darkness of
himself. The last.. act Is usually nl&veri
trf"'- realm that stretches" "between "trlr
Jail and the scaffold.
CARL, KRUSE.
"llard on the Sharks."
Portland, Or., Jan. 2. To the Editor
of The Journal, We. were sorry to see
In the post ,of honor for outsiders on
your editorial page. Sunday morning, an
article from the Journal of ths Ameri
can Medical association making wholly
unfounded claims for the medical pro
fession on the Isthmus of Panama.
As a matter of fact, medical science
has had about as muoh to do with mak
ing the canal zone sanitary as tha
fabled fly on the carriage wheel had to
do with the dust he claimed to have
raised. The doctors perched themselves
on the rim of the wheel, Jast out of
danger, and now they cry. Sea what
marvels of sanitation we have accom
plished !
All the credit belongs to the sanitary
engineers whose science and skill - are
only equaled by their modesty. Let
us do them honor and permit no loud
voiced pretenders to detract from tbe
credit due them.
Then if our Ingenious medical friends
proceed to lay claim to having fur
nlshed the foundation of scientific
knowledge that enabled the engineers
to produce healthy conditions on the
Isthmus, It is only necessary to cite
them to the example of General Ben
Jamln F. Butler af New Orleans during
the Civil war. with no doctors to
whisper "mosquitoes" In his ear, his
plain horse sense told him the way to
eradicate yellow fever was to clean up
tne city. lie did It, and the natural
result followed.
Dr. Holmes' mot Is as applicable to
Panama as artywhere: "If all the doc
tors and air the drugs there could be
dumped Into the Pacific It would be a
lucky yilng for the canal builders, but
mighty hard on the sharks."
THE HEALTH DEFENSE LEAGUE.
Authorship of a Poem.
Myrtle Point, Or., Dec. 26. To tho
Editor of The Journal. A varsity man
of our town quoted "there Is no death;
the sun goes down to rise upon a fairer
shore" as from Bryan. Please publish
the poem and set us right as to ths
author. WM. LUSK.
The quotation is not accurate. The
verse intended Is as follows:
'There la no death! The stars go down
To rise upon some other shore
And. bright in haaven's jewelled crown,
They shine forevermore."
It-is the first verse in a long poem,
written by J. L. McCreery of Delhi,
Iowa," a . country editor, in February,
1861. Tho poem was first published In
Arthur's Home Magailne of Philadelphia
In July lSfiS. The author published it
some weeks afterwards In his own pa
per. Being copied in other Iowa papers
some editor or typographer confused
the poem with others written by E.
Bulmer, another unknown poet, and at
tributed It to him. Eastern papers
copied it with E- Bulwer as the author.
So H. Bulwer Lytton got the credit of It
In hundreds of reprints. Several years
ago friends of J. L, McCreery noticed
this and the error was corrected, but
Sir E. Bulwer Lytton is generally given
as the author.
s llainfall at Albany.
Albany, Or.. Jan. 2. To the Editor
of The Journal. Is Oregon's climate
becoming dryer? Ws called 1910 a
"dry year" but 1911 was still more so
as the following Albany record shows:
1910.
Jan 6 64 In.
Feb 6.82 In.
1911.
10.68 In.
2.88 in.
.86 in.
.... 2.70 in.
. ... 2.86 In.
77 In.
16 In.
00 in.
.... 4.23 in.
.... 1.23 In.
3.33 In.
. .. . 4.30 in.
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
Apr.
May
June
July
Aug)
Sent
Oct -
Nov.
Dec-
Mar 1.68 in.
Apr.
1.89 In.
May
June
July
Aug.
S(Ut.
Oct.
Nov.
1.75 In.
. 1.16 In.
. .00 in.
. .08 in.
. 1.22 In.
. 2.64 In.
.10.04 tn.
3.89 in.
' Dec.
Total ...S7.66in. Total ...33.99 In.
The usual normal at Albany should
have been abaut 44 Inches.
CYRUS II. WALKER,
Born In Oregon T3 years ago.
Single Tax and Uie 'farmer. , ,
Portland, Or.; Jan. 3. To the Editor
of The Journal In the issue of the 2d
"Argus" asks about a supposed case of
a farmer' wun a tsvvu aairy rarm as
to the. effect-of taxing land values ex
clusively. He does not state his case
clearljfebecause he falls to state the as-
sensed value of the improvements as
bompared with tbe land' values proper.
-COMMENT AND NEWS IN-BRIEF
SMALL CHANGS.
Maybe ftoosevelt la playing for Taft,
after all.
There Is getting to be quite a bunoh
of exposera of one another. ,
-.
There's a fine chance now to buy
'm early for next Christmas.
Still, the better place for boy soouts
Is in field, garden and orchard. ,
Well, how many more ar thinking; of
"getting into the fight" in the pri
maries? The manufacturer of discontent hen.
fits neither himself nor any one else
as a rute, , ; . .
The progressive RaduM leans of Ohio
voted down tweedledea and voted up
tweedledum.
Did you makd a arood start this week
better than any first week of the
year before?
Has it ever been flsrured out how
much official "detection" of crime of
any consequence costs?
More and more everv year Portland
will be a favorite convention city. That
auditorium will be needed.
Tlon't rr1rtA thtk nAUBtmfatlrt wikikftier
prophets: it will be garden-making time
almost before you know it.
This is the year when we will hear
considerable about "party" and "princi
ples, out political iniiaeis nave mum-
iiiea.
But many men now moneyless and
begging for a cheap Job would have
been independent If they had imitated
tne ant ana tne Dee in xne gooa 01a
summer time.
9
La. Fnllette uvi Roosevelt meant to
do right In the Tennessee Coal & Iron
matter, but was deceived. The colonel
will not take this agreeably. He de
ceived, mistaken? Never!
It will be a very good thing for the
country If a larger proportion of the
bovs crowing ud than heretofore be
come agricultural producers instead of
professional men or middlemen.
He thought and Inly said,, a year ago.
This year I'll do and be Just thus and
so." He made a vow thereof upon the
enow. Now watch me grow, ne saia
a year ago. Upon the snow sun shone.
sort winas aia mow; as transient was
of his resolve the glow: for vow ful
filled he nothing has to show. That
yesteryear of life he would treat so he
did not know; O no a year ago.
SEVEN SACRED BOOKS
Five Kings of
The Five Kings Is the name of the
sacred books In which is Incorporated
tho religion of the Chinese, as well
as a great number of other peoples of
the Orient. The doctrine Is a com-
inw-Fystem- ot - motaUJ80claX...P.CMtE
cal arid religious teacning num up , uy
Confucius on the ancient Chinese
traditions, and although Its author lived
more than five centuries before the birth
of Christ 1t Is still perpetuated as the
state religion of the Chinese down. to
the present day.
Confucianism Is a religion without
positive revelation, with a minimum of
dogmatic teaching, whose popular wor
ship la centered In offerings to the dead,
in which the notion of duty Is extended
beyond the sphere of morals proper
so as to embrace almost every detail
of dally life. The chief exponent of
this remarkable religion was K ung-tze,
or K'ung-fu-tse, Latinized by the early
Jesuit missionaries into 'Confucius."
Confucius TSied in the year 478 B. C.
In the seventy-fourth year of his age,
and his lifetime almost exactly coin
cides with that of Buddha who died
two years earlier at the age of 80. He
Is often held up as the virtuous man
without religion. His teachings, It is al
leged, were chiefly ethical. ,
As Confucianism in Its broad sense
embraces not only the- Immediate teach
ings ot XTbhfaelUS,-butalso the tradi
tional -records, customs and rites to
which he gave the sanction of his ap
proval, and which today rest largely
upon his authority, there ar reckoned
among the Confucian textsseveral that
even In his day were venerated as sacred
heirlooms of the past.
These texts were divided Into two
categories, known as the "King" and the
"Shuh," the former meaning "classics"
and the latter "books." The texts of
the "King," which stand first in im
portance, are commonly reckoned as
five, but sometimes as six.
Tha first of 1 these are "Shaokihg"
(Book of History), a religious and moral
work, tracing? the hand of Providence
in a series ojf great events of past his
tory. The second "King" Is the so
called "She,''K.ing, (Book of Songs), oft
en spoken of as thn "Odes." The third
"King" Is the so-folled "Y-Klng" (Book
of Changes), an enigmatic treatise on
On the average In Oregon half his
values are improvements and personal
property on such a farm, which would
be exempt. Taxes on the remaining
half would be Increased perhaps one
half. This would make his taxes about
$75 Instead of the 3100 now paid. Of
course If the land was but little im
proved and the fences were of small
value the farm would be taxed more.
It depends upon the relative value of
the two forms of property, land values
entirely excluding all labor values, and
Improvements and personal property
whloiv would Include every form of crea
tion by labor and capital. On the aver
age the farmer now pays $2 for what he
should pay $1 for in public taxes. Tho
public funds would he made up from
the Increased taxes on idle, speculative
and monopolized land. -
ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
Vancouver Deposltora.iiBafflcd. "
Vancouver, Wash., Dec. 30. To the
Editor of The Journal How can the
citizens of this city and county obtain
Justice In the case of the officials of the
Commercial bankt The prosecuting at
torney refuses to act. The Judge al
lowed the trial to go to another county,
the governor wouldn't lend a helping
hand, the state bank examiner allowed
the bank to do business until, the last.
Prosecuting Attorney F. W. Tempes
refuses to do anything that the deposi
tors ask of him. Fourteen hundred peo
ple, mostly poor, lost their savings In
the Commercial bank.
Is there no law to convict a banker!
Is there no law for the bank examiner
to follow? If there Is, where was Mr.
Mohundro when the deal was being
pulled off? Let Justice be done to all.
Let there be no Injustice to any.
O. D. WE8TCOTT,
A Depositor."
Roseburg Commercial Club Protests.
Roseburg, Or., Jan 2. To the Editor
of The Journal. In a recent Issue of
The Journal there was a letter appear
ing In Us columns signed "Victim of the
Clubs," in which the writer states that
he has received letters from a southern
Oregon commerolal club promising that
he could get steady employment, at from
14 to $7 per day.
It has boon the policy of the Roseburg
Commercial club not to encourage any
one to come here,' or anywhere else in
ths west, who must secure employment
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Thirty-fmir Inches of rain fell at At.
bany In.JJtHTherAJ'erflJlSi rainless
..... :
Rainfall at Astoria in; December was
10.89 indies, almost exactly that or ue
camber, 1810. . , '
Red Cross stamps 'to the - value of
$36.60 were-sold at Brownsville during
the holidays, and Halsey people bought
til worth.
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The construction of the new Catholic
church at Stanfleid is again under way.
The location has been changed to the
corner of Qlendening and rage streets.
and the church win race tne nortn.
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fltah'fleld " Standard: " Another meat
market la a much desired institution in
Stanfleid, and the onenlng is about to
be grasped by one or the three different
parties who are desirous ,of supplying
the want. , j
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Grants Pass Courier; The Josephine
county JalL on Christmas last, was for
the first time In nine years without
from three to ten occupants. This points
to the better moral conditions to be
found .among our people.
.
Mayor Henderson of Astoria in his
annual summary before the city council,
emphatically favored the establishment
of public markets, saying this would re
duce the cost ot living, bringing pro
ducer and consumer together..
Cottage drove will soon be the home
of a furniture manufacturing plant, ac
cording to 8. R. Smith of the Cottage
TGreve Manufacturing company. Mr.
Smith has been experimenting wun tne
fir in the vicinity of Cottage Grove.
'
Lebanon Express: Bennett Pearson,
who says he is a 60 year old farmer,
dug up his 25 year old shotgun and won
turkeys and ducks at the shooting
match Saturday. The boys say they will
bar Bennett and his old gun when he
reaches 100.
Albany Democrat: Uncle Billy
Wright, the pioneer horse radish man
and scissors grinder, has the distinction
of doing the biggest horseradish busi
ness of anyone in the state between five
and six tons a year, raised either by
himself or for hlm
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Florence West: On Christmas day we
saw a fine bouquet of roses that were
grown in the open air by Mrs. W. F. Pot
terf of Manleton. The flowers were Jutit
unfolding from the buds, and were In
deed beautiful. How does this look to
people who live where the ground Is
covered with snow and ice for months
every winter?
the Chinese.
the art of divining with the stalks of
a native plant, which after being thrown
give different Indications according as
they conform one to another of the 64
hexagrams made up of three broken
and-three .jmbrokeji jtne. ......-.. 7-T
"The"" fourth "King" is the "Ll-ki"
(Book of Bites). It is a compilation
of .a vast number of documents most
of which dte from the early Chow
dynasty. In this Tl'-kl" are -many of
Confucius' reputed sayings and two long
treatises composed by disciples. The
fifth "King" is the short historical trea
tise known as the "Ch'un-ts'ew" (Spring
and Autumn), said to have been written
by the hand of Confucius himself.
To these five "Kings" belongs a sixth,
the so-called "Hlao-klng" (Book of
Filial Piety). The Chinese attribute Its
composition to "Confucius, but In the
opinion of critical scholars it Is the
product of the school of his disciple,
Tsnng-tze. ' .
As to the "ahuh doors, they are
four In number, consisting of "Lunyu'
(Analects) ; the Book of Menctus, the
"Great Learning" and the "Doctrine of
the Mean.' Thess books make up the
sacred books of the Chinese, who hold
them in the deepest reverence in the
same manner as do the Christians the
Bible. r ., ;
For our earliest knowledge of the
contents of these Confucian texts we are
Indebted' to the painstaking researches
of the Jesuit missionaries In China dur
ing the seventeenth and eighteenth cen
turtes who with a heroic seal for the
spread of Christ's kingdom united a
diligence and proficiency In the study
of Chinese customs, literature, and his
tory that have laid succeeding scholars
under lasting obligations.
As to this religion, it has lifted the
Chinese to an intermediate grade of
culture, but has blocked for ages, all
further progress. In Its rigid insistence
on rights and customs that tend to per
petuate tne patriarchal system with Its
attendant evils of polygamy and divorce,
of successive seclusion and repression
of women, of an undue hampering of
Individual freedom, Confucianism stands
In painful contrast with progressive
ennsuan civilization.
Tomorrow The Koran of the Moham
medans. In order to support his family, and it Is
naraiyjust to the Roseburg Commercial
club for the correspondent to state that
a southern Oregon commercial club made
him such a promise, as the fault Is Just
as likely to be attached to the Roseburg
Commercial club as to other commercial
clubs in southern Oregon.
If the writer wishes to be fair, let him
state the particular commercial club
that made these promises, as the corre
spondence of this club will show that
Its policy has been to encourage those
only to come to Oregon "who are Indus
trlous and who have a sufficient amount
of capital with which to establish them
selves." O. P. SCHLOSSER,
Publicity Manager.
1615 It, I. Ave., Washington, D. C.
Portland, Jan. 2. To the Editor of
The Journal How should I. address a
letter to reach Glfford Finchot?
. L. M. B.
now an "Ism" Makes Way.
From the New York Evening Post.
From California comes the interest
ing .news that "the so-called progres
sive movement as a political Influence
In losing its hold on the public mind."
Kven. the Uttla that it achieved Is be
fore the supreme court, with Its very
constitutionality challenged. The his
tory of politics in this country proves,
we learn, that new isms have a follow
ing for a time, after which their sup
porters drift baok to one of the old
parties. The ( Free Soil party, for In
stance, set out to do great things. It
"drew to its ranks many good people
from the. two old parties," but "after a
little while tha great majority of the
people drifted back to their former
political home." Thus we are still di
vided Into Whigs and Democrats, and
slavery is as flourishing as ever at
least It must be so In California. The
same ' veracious history' "records no
great political or economic . or civil
achievement in the operation of the
machinery of the government that was
not Initiated, and accomplished by one
or the other of the two great parties."
Everybody, for ' instance, knows, wo
suppose, wh'ch ons o'f the two great
parties mads olvll servlee reform an
Issue, and is awars how idle it would
hava been, for the-advocates- of -woman
suffrage in any western state to begtn
an agitation without first 'securing the
indorsement of a Republican or rmmoi
crstlc convention, ,,i;vi.-';t
XT r f ' t A t
ip Increase ot iiriminala
From Polk. County- Observer "
4.
,7 The- mistakes that, roost supporters
ofapltal punlflhnwnt nake-ls- the" a
sertlon that, those who oppose that
method are "defending" the criminals of
society. Nothing could be further from
the truth. Opponents of the extreme
penalty are not affltcted with so called'
"mawkish sentiment" which is the glib
stock and trade argument of the ad
herents of legal murders. Punishment
for murderers is demanded but they -take"
tha position that confinement for-life
in a .cheerless dungeon, . beyond all
power of pardon or parole, is a greater
punishment than . the taking of life.
"He who enters here leaves hope be
hind.", ta. a motto chiseled. In the stone
archway over a noted penitentiary In
this country and. It seems to us, no
greater affliction oould b visited upon
a criminal -than to make him realize
that, when the steel doors of his cell
close behind him. shutting out ths
world and lis pleasures, they will again
open only to permit the passagt of his
lifeless clay to the silent cty of the
dead., A man without hope, without a
future, without friends and the
companionship of the world is a. dreary
wreck on the rocks of crime. TJurlng
all the years while life shall last, the
punishment will go on, and on, grow
ing, rather than diminishing, through
the passage of. time, with only tho
yawning grave at the end. And when
the "last bitter hour" shall over
shadow his lonely pallet, and death,
with its sable mantle, shall blot out hia
earthly career -hewlintnrwr that no
iovea one win be there to minister to
his last needs and no tears of sorrow
wilt, mingle with the clods that fall
upon his narrow sepulchre. Who shall
define the misery of the lonely hours
In that prison cell, or realise the hope
lessness of that wrecked and destroyed
life?
Surely a llvine death, for
flnement must In time become, is pun
ishment far greater than the snuff in
out of a human life and the ending of
all earthly troubles. Prison records are
filled with attempts at Buiclde on the
part of life termers, showing conclu
sively that death is more to h AaaIm..
than life, amidst such surroundings and
unuer sucn conditions.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overhol
ALL IS WELL.
AW! BP A
ferWiCOrW
POVVN.THiOi
POKE I
RTntw
Heletr Hps "are drifting" dust "
Caesar's dead and turned to clay;
Still there's cause to hope and trust:
Lincoln Steffens. dav bv flv.
Keeps old Cosmos In her place
Ana directs me numan race.
Chicago Record-Herald.
Solomon has quit the came,
Pharoah Is in the hence;
Still the world goes on the same:
Teddy's cllmbins: from tha fence.
He may run again, you see;
He will save us you and me.
Pointed Paragraphs
Right here and now, pause and con
sider the fact that there are people in
the world who never even heard of you.
There may be nothing new Wider
the sun, but almost any modern drug
gist can give you "something Just as
good."
A pretty girl doesn't have to propose
during leap year, and a homely one Is
afraid to, but there's the strenuous
Widow. I
"I "am going to turn over a new leaif,"
remarked Adam on New rear's day, and
thereupon he donned an apple branch
In place of the frayed fig leaf.
With the advent of 1912, make up
your mind to attend strictly to your
own business, and you'll have no time
to mix it up with your neighbors.
The New Theatre and It's Fate.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
It Is announced that the new theatre
movement in New York has been aban
doned by tha wealthy and cultured
"founders" on the advice of "experts."
The first home of the aHlstte drama
which these founders erected and sup
ported for two seasons proved to be too
magnificent and too exclusive. It was
not supported by the. "plain people" and
had to be vacated. ' A smaller, simpler,
moi-0 democratic theatre was thereupon
decided upon, but apparently "the ex
perts," after mature consideration, con
cluded that even such a home for the
serious, beautiful, dignified drama would
find few occupiers.
Perhaps the chief difficulty was the
supply of plays of the right sort The
New York public Is indifferent to class
ics, -while good modern plays are, nat
urally, few and far between. The com
mercial .theatres secure everything
good, bad, indifferent that promises to
be popular, and what is left cannot
make up a repertory ot an independent
theatre.
The New York "founders" had means,
good Will and a genuine Interest in the
movement, and their action is dlsap
pointing. It will not, we are sure, dis
courage Chicago's friends of the artistic
theatre. Our own drama players must
have a real chance. Their project is
wisely modest;, the hope la to build up
gradually a constituency interested in
classics and standard plays of all kinds,
ancient and modern, romantic and real
istic. The New York fiasco' emphasizes,
the need of caution, but that's all.
emoree.
ic H
(Contributed to The Journal by Wilt Mmod, .
th famous Kansaa poet. Hit pross-poemi are
regular featum of t-ls columu lo Tut Dally '
Journal.)
It Is vain to weep like thunder over .
some bad break or blunder, for the past,
my friend, Is written, and we cannot "
change the tale, and I always have the . '
willies when I see some silly Billys put- 7
ting up their lamentations at the place .
where people wall. It is morbid, It
is ghoulish, to be brooding o'er the ' -
foolish; Idiotic stunts you've pulled oft
in the days that are no more; b.etter look
ahead and ponder on the bright days '
over yonder where the country of the .
future waits with sirens on Its shore. .
Many1 wayward paths I've Journeyed; I
have tilted,. I have tourneyed with the
ogres and the monsters, I have wasted
golden years r1mt"you never serine sit-"""
ting all forgetful of my knitting, resur
recting ancient blunders and bedewing
them with tears. Foolish are the teara
that blind us. for. the time that Ilea
behind us; wasted are tha sighs we're
heaving for the phantoms of dead daysj
for the sun 'is shining o'er us stifl 'the""
time that lies before us Is the' time we "
ought to think of so got busy, Co waysl
Conynihf. TOIL br ; A' JW " .V' '
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