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ture. David Gllson.
hours of tendance on machines
which absorb the vitality and ex
haust the powers of the young ones
who tend them for a penurious
wage.
Yet, ears the president of the
New York Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, "the federal
government has nothing whatever to
do, directly or Indirectly, with state
legislation on the subject of child
welfare. And some one) or two
of the eastern papers regard it as
another Idstance of "government
meddling!; N Yet It Is hard to. im
agine a more effective stroke at the
abuses, north and south, east' and
west, that stunt and degrade and
rob the Uttle children of their youth
and of the Joy of living, than the
publication, nation wide, of the findings-
of the nation's investigators.
Factory and field, cellar and garret,
workshop and kitchen, wonld alike
have ta yield up their secrets. And
for the nation to know is for the
nation to be responsible for curing.
3 OCR BOTTLED COMMERCE '
' WOULD' buy foreign built
l 6hlps to delfver flour toEBos
I ton and New .York If I could
register them under the Amer-
Tatriiag.'; -:
-"This was ther declaratlotrofTr B;
Wilcox' at the weekly Ad club luncheon-yesterday.
There could be nb
more significant proof of the folly
of ear navigation laws. ,
There Is a constant lament that
few ships fly the ' American flag.
Here te a ease where) ships rrould
fly the American flag If foreign ships
could be admitted to American reg-
: Istry. v" ; -
They are not o admitted, because
forbidden to do so by antiquated
navigation Jaws, kept by congress on
the statute books at the behest of
the shipbuilding trust and the rail
roads..,, Nor, can 'foreign vessels en
gage In American coastwise trade, a
fact that Is the finishing agency In
the destruction of American shipping
and In preventing ocean competition
with the railroads. . . .
To further strengthen the position
of those rho want ho ocean competi
tion In our domestic trade, there Is a
movement to exact tolls on coastwise
traffic through the Panama eanal.
Free tolls r on coastwise shipping
would partly relieve the situation,
but powerful interests aro against
any kind of relief. ' They want the
American coasts to remain bottled tip
and American shipping to continue
a myth :.' "'' 5rT;:"'':"
' It . Is strange . thai the American
people do not see the obstructions
and handicaps thrown around their
commerce. It is strange that 'they
do not realise how heavily these ob
structions and handicaps cost them.
It is strange that they do not thun
der at the doors ot congress until
domestic commerce shall be freed
and the coastwise seas be opened to
the unobstructed use of any vessel
flying the American flag.
t
isfy'the modern "sense of Una' and
color, the twentieth century sense
of beauty, we still go back to those
specimens that . have escaped the
chances of the ages. So In clay mod
eling, as well as In others of the
ancient arts, there has been no ad
vance since the old days when the
Greek and the' Etrurian created the
models for all time.
AS STATESMEN , DO . IT
f
.TWISTING THE LION'S TAIL
THE .'London suffragettes were
not satisfied with mobbing min
isters and fighting the police,
screaming In the lobbies of the
house of commons and chaining
themselves to the railings of the gal
lcry. ' They proceeded to window
smashing exhibitions; where ordl
nary and well behaved citizens lived,
and so, one crime leading to another,
to trying to set fife to the general
postofflce, and proposing to burn
up Buckingham palace.
If these women were crazy some
excuse might be dug up for them.
But,, judged by the ordinary stand-
- ards of - distinguishing right .from
wrongs they are entirely sane. They
plead, of course, fanaticism as their
excuse for law-breaking. Since their
impulses to break windows and burn
buildings are self controlled and de
liberate the British people are tired
out with their extravagances. To
the men who were not sufferers
there was something at least gro
tesque in their belaboring cabinet
ministers over me neaa with um
brellas, or pelting them with rocks
through the wludows of their dining
rooms. When they carried things to
the length of applying these same
Indignities to those who were in no
. sense their antagonists they over
stepped vthe line, and roused the
British people. The laws,, against
conspiracy to commit unlawful acts
are sharp enough if invoked in .their
full strength. It Is not then a mat
ter of a magistrate's fine or commit
tal for 30 or 40 days. Trial In the
- high court, with penalties of one or
two years' imprisonment and discre
tional bard labor will be la ques
tion. Pleas that their aim was to
change one law by disobeying others
will not be listened to. The Rtron?
rrm methods of the suffragettes will
fait as they should.
DEGRADING LABOR
HE names of the strikers at
Lawrence are strange names.
Jfltey. 'are names that 'are fa
miliar only In foreign lan
guage's?- ; '--;.
la one news dispatch appears the
name of "Mlsldek," a widely differ
ent cognomen, from the good old
American "Smith." Another In the
same story is "Rodlskl," and still
ant ther "Lebdek." -7
60 far, no striker has been men
tioned by the name of George Wash
ington Brown, John Hancock Wil
son, Patrick Henry Jones, Thomas
Jefferson Wllkina or Abraham Lin
coln. Johnson. Nor will such famil
iar names appear In 'the. reports, of
the strikers, for the mills do not pay
the wage demanded by men horn
and reared in the United States. '
The truth is that, while profess
ing that the purpose of the protec
tive tariff is to defend American la
bor against the "pauper labor of
Europe," the millowners ' of the
United States ye largely using "the
pauper labor of Europe" In their
mills. Every Lawrence striker
whose name has yet appeared in the
dispatches is a European name, and
all ot them are working for a "pau
per wage" of $6 ft week for women
and $ ft for men. WIth.tho toice of
Jacob, the mill owners appeal for a
tariff against "pauper-labor of Eu
rope," and wltn the hand of Esau
they . bring in "pauper labor from
Europe" by the thousands, to run
their machines. - .
In truth, they are creating a pau
per labor in the United States, and
are themselves pocketing the bene
fits of-the tariff. In an official re
port. Secretary Nagel, of Mr, Taft's
cabinet, announces that "one third
of the 90,000 mep employed in the
Iron and steel Industry work seven
days a week.; One fourth of them
work 12 hours ft day, or 8 4 hours
a week' Louis D. Brand els recently
proved that 6S per cent of them re
ceive ft wage of . only $10.50 per
week.0 1
Like the workers at Lawrence,
most' of the employes in the steel
and iron . industry are . foreign
ers, The low wage of $10.60
per week of seven days and 12
hours a day, proves It. - In addi
tion, the Pittsburg survey, after an
exhaustive lnvestlgatlonestabllshed
that between 60 and 70 per cent of
the workers in the steel and iron
mills are of either foreign birth or
foreign parentage.
, The mill owners are not using the
tariff for the protection of labor.
They v are degrading labor. They
make men . old before - their time.
They jflegenerate -the race physically,
intellectually and morally, as shown
by the article of Senator Polndexter,
on this page.
In nine years, by use of pauper
labor from Europe," the steel trust
earned profits ot $1,109,146,093. ft
sum nearly three times the entire
cost of the Panama canal, the great
est engineering achievement of all
time.
HERE Is a lot , the statesmen
of the states can learn from
neighbors. Here Is British Co
lumbia raising a revenue of
$10,000,000, of which less than $2,
600,000 is derived from direct taxa
tion. The effort Is to keep direct
taxation as low as possible, spend as
much as possible for development of
the country, and obtain , as large
revenue as possible from public re
sources. - ? '
The sources of the ten-million 'an
nual revenue are: A grant of $750,
000 from the federal government In
Ilea of ortain lands taken over by
the dominion from the province; rev
enue from land sales, rentals, sur
vey fees, $1,865,000; royalties and
rentals on timber, $2,450,000, roy
alties from minerals, $325,000; coal,
$25 0,0 Oft lwatejrpowersv$ 9 0,00 0.
The list makes a total ot more than
six and three quarter millions, or
over two thirds of the whole pro
vincial revenue. ; . '
Factors In the remainder of the
revenue are ft tax ot $500 a head
on incoming Chinese, , succession
$200,000, income-tax, $200,000.
Improvements on land escape with a
tax ot only $170,000. v '
. The government is a generous
spender in the improvement of
roads. ' It reasons that a taxation
reduced to the minimum by laying
burdens on natural resources, with
the smallest possible taxation on Im
provements and the construction of
good roads Into the interior are an at
tractive feature in getting people on
the land. ;.,'; ;
The government has kept the best
of the land In its own hands, and is
parting with It only as it is opened
up and occupied Nor dothe au
thorlllespermlt purchasers , to ' buy
lands In large lots and then hold for
indefinite periods for speculative
purposes. The province imposes a
tax of fou per cent on Idiejand, but
only three fifths of one per cent
upon land which Is under Improvement.
It Is a. god way - to people the
and. , V ,
country that Washington, Jefferson,
McKinley and other presidents stood
against third terms. 1
Interesting accounts of marrying
on $14 a week have been frequently
given by contributors on the wo
man's page of The Journal recently.
And the beauty of it is that they
are remaining married on $14 ft
week.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANG!
A Missouri Judge sentenced a man
to obey his wife for six months.
Still, we have an outcry against the
inhumanity of the death penalty.
Gaess w don't want a Theodora I
Roosevelt tgsinst Taft; Harvard
ag-ainst Val.
e
In a yar a, new presidential term
will have begun.
Bet Bryan woald rallr like to run
falnat Roosevelt.
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CLAY
B"
LIGHT ON THE CHILDREN
T
iHE.bill that Senator Borah has
; been so industriously piloting
through the senate recently is
illustrated by the, types of the
Lawrence children presented to the
committee as samples of the child
product of the ' woolen and cotton
mills' of Massachusetts. V r
The bureau that the bill proposes
to establish Is named the children's
bureau, bilk , The object , of the bll
Is "Investigation, Information, inter
pretation:! facts. ; :' y K -(
rrjvate .philanthropy and private
charity have lavished their resources
ou the children of the nation in late
years." But private means may give
out, private charity be diverted, and
private interest fall: "The govqrn- m?r'l.
meat. light shall shine with steady
beams , into the dark- places where
ETWEEN the 7th and the 12th
of this month of March a Clay
Products Exposition will be
held in Chicago. President
Taft is to smile on it. James R. Oar
field, the ex-secretary of the in
terior, will be the principal speaker
at a banquet where 2000 clay work
ers are to feast
The exposition" Is" appropriately
held - In- Illinois, since that great
state is rich in clays and shales, and
in factories of all description for
carrying on one of the chief and the
most ancient Industries of the hu
man race.
It Is' said that the still more wide
spread use of clay products In build
Ings of all descriptions will go far
to diminish the half a billion dol
lar annual fire-loss in the United
States. These permanent materials
cover so very wide a range both
in nature and in value. The expos!
tlon will show brick, tile, fire proof
ing, clay building block, terra cotta
clay roofing,' and besides the struc
tural forms the ornamental forms In
which clay Is used today.
Do we stop to think, when clay of
good quality is suitably handled and
properly burned how Imperishable
are the vases and statuettes, the tiles
and tablets co created? When thou
sands of years have passed they are
excavated from the ruins ot Babylon
and dug up from the well nigh as
ancient. lomDS or Btruria, Greeee and
fcgypt. Ana, neither in deeira. in
fhlldri lead laborious lives," of
f ( !y food, thin clothing, and long
aim "texture
has the twentieth century after
Christ improved on tire', workman
ship of the tenth before. On th
contrary for models that shall sat
ODDS AND ENDS OP A CTTT
NE of the toughest enemies that
the modern city must defeat
waste. It ranks behind.
but- not1tar behind, graft in
the mischief that it does. And the
American city Is the most wasteful
ot all by consent of all observers'.
In a city of the size of Portland
we are told by experts that the gar
bage and refuse accumulates at the
rate of not less than one third of
ton daily for each 1000 people. In
Cleveland, Ohio, the municipality
has Installed and has kept working
since 1905 a plant for the utiliza
tion of the garbage of the city. - It
deals with about 40,000 tons of
garbage yearly. The products are
two and one half million pounds of
grease - and - glyceriner more than
twelve million pounds of fertilizer.
The market value of all approxi
mates $130,000. Cost of reclama
tion Is a little over $2 ft ton, exclu
sive of interest on cost of plant.
In Columbus.'Ohio, a similar plant
Is said to be operating with equally
good results." ";
In Los Angeles this question Is be
ing debated. At a meeting there a
few days ago the figures of analysis
of garbage made by Professor G. W.
Groch, a chemist of that city, were
quoted. He gave the reclaimable
products under such a system as that
in use at Cleveland as 4 ter cent
grease and glycerine, 4 to 5 gal
lons of . denatured alcohol, 3.16 per
-cent nitrogen, ammonia 3.84 per
cent, phosphoric acid 1.25 per cent,
actual potash 1.22 per cent, and, in
addition from 2 to 2.50 per cent of
bone phosphate from each ton of
green garbage.
The professor ended by saying
that from , 2000 tT3T)00 pounds of
actual potash were thrown away
dally in the garbage of Los Angeles.
Our practical friends, the German,
save this waste. In Berlin the house
owners are compelled to provide for
the removal of waste, garbage, ash
es, and so, on from their buildings
Most of the owners have Joined in
an association 'which has contracted
with a ; stock company, formed- "for
the purpose, to remove and treat the
garbage. In treating it, .first, the
metal, rags, and, bones are removed,
then the ., remainder is treated , in
somewhat the way described above,
to the great profit of all concerned.
Letters From trie People
(Onmnwnlenttoii ant to The JoiumI f mb.
Uritioa ta ttt (VoartJMnt boulil not eXMrd
SOU words in lvnstb ud must be. accompanied
by the name and eddreu ( tbe Moder.)
Colonel Greene Stirs 'Em Up. j
Stevenson. Waalu March S. To the
Editor of The Journal A most re
markable boosters' meeting was held
In Stevenson Monday nlsht meeting
without parallel in tha annals of Skam
ania county. Possibly It will result in
mora genuine boosting, however, than
most of these gatherings. , Now. a
booster's customary fault is the distri
bution of "hot air." At this meeting
the air becama red hot so hot it
scorched holes In th hides ox a number
of those who appeared.
At soma previous time, an effort had
been mad to sell te the school board a
small tract of land back of th school
house, to be used aa . an agricultural
experiment' farm. "At the special elec
tion, tbe proposition was defeated by
vote or about to .. Tha local
paper had supported the. DroDosltlon
vigorously,: and had unkindly stated
that 92 fools had voted against it.
Colonel A. K. Greene, who hu been a
strong booster for the county and town
la the past, was in attendance at the
gathering Monday night, and was
chosen secretary of the assembly. Be
fore the meeting was fairly under way,
ho. rose and desired to rpake soma re
marks. . , ..,,...,: ......
Before the unsuspecting cooulace was
fully prepared, the colonel: swooped
down upon them and began to select
victims for the altar, to slaughter them,
to remove their skins snd to rut salt
with both hands. Ho paid his respects.
which were most disrespectful, to the
minister, tne superintendent or tn pub
lic schools, the editor of the paper, the
officers and the prominent citliens gen.
orally. Ho called them- by name: he
leveled the finger of scorn at them: he
ripped them up the back; he unraveled
them and held them up to view. Be an
nounced their shortcomings, and de
nounced them.
After ha was fairly launched on the
ttdo of oratory, all but tho victim
grinned and enjoyed tt; but the colonel
is thorough, fair and painstaking. As
soon as ha had thoroughly-torn one to
fragments, he began on another. Some
of them turned pale! somo of them
turned red; a few turned purple But
the' colonel wasn't Interested in color
schemes. He kept right on.
He charged them with disloyalty to
tha city, with working private scheme
for their own benefit at tho expense of
the public The tract of land proposed
for an experiment farm he referred to
feelingly as "a patch of rock and clay."
and openly declared that he would have
made the 93 fools S3 If he had been on
hand at tho election.
He' paused a moment not to take
breath, but to decide ' that ho had
omitted no fellow citizen from th roster
of tho offenders. 'There was a dead
silence, but It was full of eleotrlclty,
But Colonel Green is th original Ajax
he isn't . afraid , of lightning tn th
least He defied all the bolts of the
roasiees, ana, declaring that h was
don with th boosters of Stevenson,
with a very injurious accent on th
word "boosters," he walked out of the
meeting.
One of th lambs brought to the
slaughter endeavored to defend bis own
position, but somebody els shouted that
If he had anything to say he should
bav said it while th doughty colonel
was present , The butchered ones sub
sided Into Inaudible "buzzing, and th
meeting proceeded.
-- The rest of it was tarn, however
Th fireworks wer over, and th ex
citement had gone with Colonel Greene
Really, ther wasn't anything else to
say unless th colonel was answered.
and it seemod to be th sentiment that
nobody oould properly scor the colonel
while he was absent - Colonel Greene
is a booster, only he does th boosting
with th to of his cavalry- boots. He
eeras to disapprov of boosting Indi
viduals at tha expense of th public
H opines that a boosters' organisation
should boost for th welfare of the
community and not b an Instrument
for promoting th welfare of a few,
Th meeting was a sucoess in one re
spect It marks th inception of the
colonel's new organization, th Self In
terest oiub. lis has already named th
charter members, and appears to be
ready to nomlnat others for full mem
bership honors at any time. This or
ganization bids fair to grow rapidly,
and become as .famous as Roosevelt's
Ananias club. Anyone desirous ot Join
ing may sigmry his intentions by prov
ing that he ha endeavored to us
city or county organization for the our
pose of enriching himself at thd expense
of the people, and make application to
Colonel Greene. . W. T. BICHMONIX
Manager Dixon's initial statement Is
at least two thirds "rot" '
Wasn't "oensecutive" in th dic
tionary a few years agoT '
, .
Tim for realsterinr is renm1n
short Don't you want to vote?
Th near-frostv ntehta are also road
-lavoraoie lor in iruit grower.
Of course. Murderer SseeA could not
be convicted, he had too much money.
Taft says ho is for a 5rottIv, tr.
iff. That policy has got to o down.
The country mav be witnonain an x.
hi bi Lion of ambition overleaping Itself.
Oct the children Interested in garden
ing small farming. Now is th time to
oegin. . ! . p.
Rooserelt sava the majority of vot.
ers are for him. Many men know a lot
that probably Isn't so. ,
Better elect a DemocraMa presidents
th-ehance-ar-te-couldnt Tret "a" sec
ond, to say nothing of a third term.
Think of th absurdity of riving wom
en th right to vote and oensurlng them
for changing their minds between regis
tration and election. ..
Napoleon mad the terrible and irr
etrievable mistake of his winter cam
paign to Moscow. Roosevelt but it Is
too-early to draw a parallel.
. : ' . '
The way people treat Bryan all over
tho country, and he is an almost con
tinuous traveler, it is no wonder he can't
understand why ho has not been elected
president ' ,
A case of mistaken identity, including
the mistaken, opinion ot a handwriting
expert, cam near sending an innocent
young married woman to Jail last week
or at least leaving her under perman
ent suspicion or Deing a tnier. Many
innocent people have suffered terribly
and wrongfully through similar mis
takes of identity and handwriting expert
vldenc.
The proposal has been made to
have in California a "revolver day,"
which w'puld be a day on which the
police would stop every person on
the Btreet and search for firearms.
A better It lnd of "revolver, day" is
that in vogue in New York, where on
every day the police can search the
dives and suspects and take away
their weapons.;
With 200 acres .in bearing, Laks
Labish Is already the largest Logan
berry enter In tha world How
completely it will be beyond rivalry
when its acreage, as Is planned, ; is
Increased to 2000 ftcres this year
""TcTIu'Kann-iieink'Bays she ' would
ilke 0 see Mr, Roosevelt president
all the time. But this Is a SiVferent
kind or a country, itgwas to pre
serve it as a nirrerent Kind of a
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The pur-are building; to be erected st
Lebanon wiU occupy a ground space of
MxltSO feet, tha largest in the business
district ! ,
The Nehalem Enterprise calls on the
city council to impose a license fee upon
agents and peddlers, and thereby protect
th home merchant - , . .. . .
e '
County fair promoters who met re
cently at Myrtle Point took steps toward
acquiring a sit and raising ion as xor
developing th enterprise,
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Paisley Press; The air Is full of land
talk and everyone is studying land plats
ot the townships hereabouts. Hurry up
and file, or ther will be no land left
T. A. Taylor, according--to th Madras
Pioneer, has a - caterpillar engine and
iplow outfit that wll turn over SO acre
laay. xnfngtn is 01 norsepower.
Hrmlston Herald: Hermiston's new
water system is being rapidly complet
ed and every citizen is glad to se it.
It will mean lower insurance rates and
th best of protection against sickness,
.... ,
Baker Democrat: Cooperation on th
part of those who can well afford it
will promote th building of a new nata
torlum in Baker, an enterprise that .will
do a much as anything els to add to
the upbuilding of th city.
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F. L. Evans of Salem, in a letter to
tha Salem Statesman, tells of th find
ing of a gold nugget worth IIS, by J.
CheweketSTtwtTTtnd-TjropouTidSth
tneory mat ricti placer oeposus may
exist beneath the capital city.
Silver Lake Leader! Bringing their
household goods, horses, cattle, hogs,
bees, chickens, ducks and dogs, a colony
of seven landseekers filed on homestead
and desert olalms in th Christmas lake
oountry, They obtained J20 acre each,
a total of 2240 acres of choice land.
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Pendleton East Oregon Ian: From far
away Cavite, in th Philippine islands,
come an inquiry about diversified farm
ing land to Umatilla county. 6ecretary
Keef e has received a letter from S.
Annheuser. of -that place asking for in
formation relative to land -adapted to
intensive methods. - - ; i
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Astorlani ' Property owners who put
up 12100 for k block" of oil macadam
on Duano street between Tenth and
Eleventh ar expressing their satisfac
tion over th lob, which was done by E.
A. Oerdlng, a local contractor. The city
refused to approve this Job, but it is
said to be one of the best pieces of pav
ing ever laid in Astoria. v
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Senator Poindextcr zt
j ; Lawrence
SEVEN MEN OF PERSEVERANCE
Admiral Farragut.
David Glasgow Farm gut was a man
who never gar up anything that he
undertook until 4 Its completion. From
the tlm he entered th navy as mid
shipman, befor th age of 10, through
out his 60 years of service to bis ooun
try ovary task which he took up was
finished through his lndomitabl perse
verance, " .' ..'. '-.
When less than II years of age, his
superior officers had already noted this
sterling eharaceristio in th boy. At
tms age n was wiin captain x-urier on
his long oruise to th Paclflo, and was
intrusted with .tho command of th
prize ship to b taken into Valparaiso.
"This was aa important event in my
Uf," he afterward wrote. "When it was
decided I was to take th ship to Val
paraiso, I felt no little pride in finding
myself In command at 12 years or age,"
But Captain Porter .knew that no ob
stacle could keep the boy from th
completion of his task. That he was
right In his Judgment is shown by an
incident which happened as th ship
was on th way. Tha former captain
of th vessel, Olddeon Randall, had been
left on her as a navigator, determined
to escape, and started to sail the vessel
in the wrong direction. Farragvt gav
orders to th contrary. Randall re
plied he would shoot any man who dis
obeyed him, and. went below tor his pis-
tola The boy Farragut kept him ther,
and from that time on ther was no
doubt as to who was in command of th
vssL.. : - -
On of thgreatest events in th life
of Farragut was his capture of New Or
leans. The city was one of th great
strongholds of th confederacy, and by
gaining possession of it the north would
strike a vital blow. Farragut was or
dered to tak It Th difficulties
seemed, insurmountable, but by th per
severance of th great captain, then
over 10 years of ago, theywar ovr-
aom.
Th fleet was gotten ready below
th mouth of th iivr. Then th first
obstacle arose. Th larger boats would
scaroely clear th bar at th rivers en-
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trance. After patient and untiring ef
forts, the fleet was at last gotten across,
and was ready for th attack. , Ther
new difficulties appeared. Th enemy
had strung chains aoross th river, on
old hulls, and flreboats wer ready to
b floated down upon them. Nothing
daunted, Farragut sent small boats up
by night and had 'the chains removed.
Then he took bis fleet by them, and ran
tho gauntlet of th two forts beyond,
Then cam th terrible encounter with
th southern -fleet or fifteen ships. For
a time it appeared that th battl was
lost, but Farragut, who bad been tied
among the rigging of his flagship, tn
Hartford, so that he could tak in tha
entire conflict, would not admit defeat
and urging his men en, he turned it into
victory.
Th perseveranc and bravery of the
commander was rewarded when In list
h received th thanks Of th nation
through congress, and was given - th
rank of vice-admiral, a position created
expressly for htm. n was later com
missioned admiral, which placed him In
command of th entire navy. , '
Admiral Farragut was on of tha few
great heroes of - th world whose
character has never been clouded by th
slightest suspicion ot a want of honesty
and personal purity. Many entertaining
anecdotes ar told Of him. When we
consider th novel and complicated prob
lems that confronted him in naval war
faro, and th providential manner in
which h seemed to have been schooled
for then through a long life when w
remember how other commanders merely
fought line against lint in simple though
courageous fashion, while he contended
with easemated forts, fir rafts, fleets
and hidden torpedoes, all at once, and
oonqur4 them all, St would b unfair
for anyone to refuse to pronounce him
th greatest naval commander th world
has ever sean. And all the glory that
has come to Farragut must b attrib
uted to his great perseverance, his un
tiring energy, his disposition never to
stop until sueoess crowned his efforts.
Polndexter in
Examiner.
Washington, Feb. 2 7. Th situation
among the striking textile workers in
Lawreuoe, Mass., is most remarkable.
They present in concrete form probably
the clearest illustration of the. fallacy
of an excessive tariff that the United
States has ever known.' -
Under the plea that th standard of
living in th United States is higher
than in any other country in th world,
that th class of labor itself is better
and that therefore- greater wages must
ce paid, th' manufacturers of textile
products hav succeeded for many years
in buttressing themselves about with a
tariff that is not only protective but
exorbitant
They hav held th threat over the
country that should th tariff b made
lower, th present high standard of liv
ing road possible by th lucrative
wages now being paid must be lowered
also.
Quite a reverse picture is revealed by
the situation, at Lawrence W find
upon investigation that th textiln
manufacturers have at these mills as
squalid labor as can be found in tho
four corners of the arth. y
They cared down the -ware of these
people, not to meet th standard of liv
ing, in the-United States, but to the
barest possible margin of exlsteno. In
one miserable tenement building 1
found 54 -persona llvlng-Twentvwo
of them worked in the mills at an aver
age pay of .7 per week. This Is
I2.7S per week with which to buy fooiT
clothing, light and fuel and! pay rent
lor eacn on or th 6. These ar luxu
ries which th mill laborers noy
under th rich pickings ot a high pro.
tectiv tariff.
Aided by th autocratlo commander of
th stat militia, manufacturers have
decreed that th striking workmen shall
not d permitted to send their children
away from Lawrno whr thy can
uuiain iooa ana a piac to Sleep,
Women and children hav been vio
lently seized and dragged to th police
station for no offense but th mothers
were attempting to send thir children
out of thotown. I saw on child who
had a black y and who was in a per
petual stat of nervous fright from th
attack made upon th women and chil
dren by the pollc. Without provoca-
tlon she had been seised and thrown
Into a patrol wagon.
I saw a young woman who was at th
Station with th other members of her
family. Without reason she had been
cursed, dragged to a patrol wagon and
forcibly taken to JalL Her arm was in
jured by the policeman.
Families are concentrate in Law
renc by " sheer force. If they ar .
starved Into subjection and forced to
go back to work at such wages as th
manufacturers choose to pay ther Is
little substantial difference between
their oondltlon and abject slavery.-
What can th government dot It can
reduce th tariff to a reasonable rata
so that these manufacturers wlR not be
able to goug tho working man on the
on hand, and th consumer on the
other. .
It can institute habeas corpus pro
ceedings in th federal courts to release
from Jail th strike prisoners who have
committed no crime. It can institute
proceedings to secure to th Topl who
live there th njoymnt of their con-'
stltutlonal right of traveling from state
to stat and so avoid a oondltlon whloh
so far as I can see differs but little
from slavery,
BLOTTING OUT THE PAST.
Th seven wonders of, th world ar
decayed but nn.
Tomorrow Robert Fulton,
Mr. Scott's Plan Endorsed.
Albany, Or., March I. To th Editor
of The Journal Th article on roads in
The Journal Of February 11, by 0. Chil-
son, cieany states tho tacts. All over
Oregon taxes hav trebled In the last
few years, and road work which; was
don under low taxes Is not even "kept
up; " under " th " present "systent v 3rh
overseer, Who is appointed by th eoun
ty Judge, with his relation, or a favored
few, does all th work, which is Uttle
enough Th money is spent, and in
stead of th road being improved it Is
actually getting worse. W .have in
our district stretches of gravel on the
road that never Is traveled over because
It was dumped on any old way and left,
so I would say with Mr, Chllson that If
th interest money on th proposed
bonds would be paid to the farmers out
of their present tax bill, I venture to
say that they would' give ' an , equal
amount in work on th roads and the
roads would b speedily improved. As
it now is, ther are few farmers who
get a ohahG to do anythlng on the road
unless they do it all gratis, and conse
quently Uttl is done. . .
What W want is a law that gives
us a chanc to elect our overseer from
among us, thereby getting th man w
want, and to designate a certain amount
of our tax money as . a road tax, with
tho privilege Of working it out en the
road at or near our own premises, there
by creating an Interest in us to have
th best piece of road possible ,, ,
In conclusion, I will say that the arti
cle of WlUUm J. Bcotcfor a plan for
road work certainly is a good one, as
tho interest on money raised, by .bonds
would be lost ' to th community, , In
lMrficoU'S plan, th .whola amount,. t-
terest and principal, so to speak, would
become available. The plan certainly
come from a. master mind, no matter
If it is from a farmer. W farmers are
only too often too slow to make known
what Is needod. Mr. Scout's plan should
be taken up and agitated all over Ore
gon, as it certainly is ahead of th
present bond plan. -." 3. RBE8ER.
Woman's Bights.
Portland. March 6. TO th Editor Of
Th Journal Arguments against
woman's rights ar good demonstra
tions of th fore of habit" It is a
slow and laborious process to ovorcom
a habit ot any kind, and those of which
w ar unconscious ar seldom over
come. , . '
Bo few peopl realiz that they ar
tho possible vlotlmg ot certain habits Of
thought that with many th habits ar
here to stay. When I read an artlol
setting forth "th audacity of woman"
in pMsumlna to an quality with man
at th ballot box, I know it is Only an
other case of th thought habit For th
tendency is to do only -what has been
don and think as jur latners nav
thousht '
That all mankind has certain" common
rlo-hta is1 self vidnt Not that they
ought to have, but that they hav
thos rights. Bight' Is not a thing to
b changed by law or stat dictum, but
rtht lstd nrlor to government or
law, as principle. Th question to ,be
dtnnined by law is simply this: Are
those rights- to - longer be ignored and
tramnied UDon by th powers ma di
Just at present the powers that be
ri renrosented bV man. Will W Con-
tinu to deprive woman oi nnr risuv-w
Or will w b fair and acknowledge her
as an equal representative of th race
with man? .
n.it rvoliitlonarr roreratnors, oi
whom w so often boast said, "Taxa
tion without representation is tyranny.
But it Is mor than that it is down-
rlcrhtSrllllanv. .
To contend that woman has not the
TtB-ht to a ballot is virtually to say that
hav no statutory, law, wnico
woman Is bound to respect For by
What nrlnclplo can she b held subSer-
Vint tn laws which In no manner con
cern hert Th rraming .or our laws is
of vital importance to us all, and the
antt-suffrasettoIs a moral awarr.
Th man who' trusts his horn and
children to th oar Vof a woman, yet
contends that hr innueno as a com
mon voter would b bad with what h
knows te be wi e the west corrupt
governments on earth, has -little -regard
for his offspring and home, or else his
thoueht habit has reached th auto
matic state,' and Ilka the parr,, ht
'lust talks." ; . i 1
lit. Human Parrot, if ybux talking
qualities wer on the same basis ot
quality with your mind, you . would
soon be lost In a world of silence, so
intens that you could hear th stars
creak, as thoy rovolv upon their theral
axis.
You'd better start your think machine
going while you are still within call
ing distance to th rear guards of prog.
rss. WARREN M'CULLOCH.
Chance for Would-Bo Fanner.
Thomas, Or., March 4. To th Editor
of Th Journal---To th "would bo far
mer," th "man that wants a chanc,"
whoa Utter was in The Journal of
Maroh L I might give a chance If he
can do th work, it will be mostly
celery and truck farming. I hav 34
aores, with SO acres cleared. Of course
Z . will want som grain and hay. t
would llk-to- correspond, and would
Ilk to know how large a family h has.
how old the children ar ana their sex.
We have the finest schoolhouso In Linn
county in sight about a half mil away,
two teachers and 10 grade;, a fine
school. - .
If this man will let us hear from him
right away w will see if h will suit
us. , ; J. N. JONES.
! - W. O. T. U. Expresses Thanks.
Woodstock, Or., March 1. To tho
Editor Ot Tb Journal Th Woman's
Christian Temperance Union of Wood-
stoca unanimuuai vunoa iiiuiuuuu
of thanks for the space granted them
in th columns of Th Journal for their
publicity work. Thy also expressed
their appreciation of the many , articles
you publish for tho uplift of humanity.
Clara c Ingham.
Corresponding Secretary .
Iyet Some Bold Man Answer.
McCoy, Or, Maroh 4 To the Editor
of Th Journal (1) Pleas glv th di
mensions "ot the largest sea serpent ever
seen or killed. (I) Hav thy ever
been known to destroy shlpsT . . . ...
. ' " . ; v '"' LEE LOSET.
Tanglefoot
By Miles -
Overholt
decayed but nn. - '
The men who mad th oountry great '
are now hut nnalia nf In.f . ! .
And though th same old world is her, '". "
ui amne oia snining sun, '
Th great and good ar has-beens
nd thlr works have turned to '
, , rust. .'. , -
What matters it if Pharaoh once ruled
a mignty racer
What matters It if David put Goliath
to tha matt
It buys us no persimmons nor brings
gray nairs o in lace
Th question now befor us 1st Whloh '
man is at ths batT
Perhaps ther was a panle Just a few
short years agoj
Mayhap the hops brought prioas that
created oulta a tuna:
What - matters it if people fros In
forty feet of snow 7
The question of th moment: Who
Is pitching now for ust
Th past is gone, the futur looms, the '
present, tnougn, is nre;
The dopester's day's approaching and
he's there with m&nv a nlnn:
So let's forget the sorious things; let's
ciiiib rn io in rear;
The boys are en th training ground;
v the baseball season's ripel"
Pointed Paragraphs
A sermon Is either based on a text
or a pretext . , , 1
It's easier to get loft than to b either
right or president
Bad luck is often but another name
for poor management
-
But It takes a woman to keep a se
cret she doesn't know. .
l '.',..-:---.!, .!'.'"":-,
Some men glv a dollar with en hand
and grab two with th othr.
, ' ! ",..'.'T--. '"-.""--'
There ' isn't f much hope for a man
when bis wif loses faith In him.
If 7yourar poorer , than your rla-
tlons It is easy for you to dodge themr
.vruvj .
For vry lawyer who fights for ths
right ther is on who .flghU for the
wrong. ,.' . ,
-s::'rrj--'-X ''ft"'"'
Bom men get busy, snd tell their
troubles for th purpos of getting Into
the gam ahead of others who want to
tell theirs. :
1 ; Testing Illm,
..- ' - From Judg.
Wlfl 0org, befor w married,
you told me that you would go through
Hubby And so I would, dearie, will
ingly. i -
Wlfl Then go and discharg th
cook, r ' '
While, he Is about it tho self mad
man should mak himself, a greeabi.
Jarring tKe M7elkia
(Oontritmtd to The Journal by Wilt Miten,
the famous Knn poet. His pnxc-prwmi sr
regular feature et tills eoluma in Tbe Dilly
JoarniL) . ., ., . ' . . , -
Th candidat for president, when I
was younger, never went cavorting up
and down th land a babbling words to
beat the band. His captains mad what
ever noise was needful to arous the
boys, and he, from all the clamor f re, -preserved
a decent dignity. But now
the bustling - candlflat for office of
chief magistrate rants up and down end
paws the air Ilk som cheap faker at a
fair; like charlatan dispensing pills to
cur7the nation's grievous ilia I'v
heard him ranting, many a time.; I've
seen MM, hoarse and gray with grime
stand at a railway coach's door and ftli
th air with squawk and roar, imploring
people for their votes a spectacl for
gods and goats. Our presidential oandl-
aates snuuia oo iim . otnnr rAn
skaUand"laTie som siashowfraks
along to play th bones or sing a son
in mon when
all the noisy show is dona. Alas, aiaa t
The good old .days, th sober 2 " t
quiet ways t - j ,
'OoryrigW, mi. br A v"
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