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IX rORTLAXD TODAY
A CONFERENCE of th ; state,
county and municipal health
officers of Oregon is in prog
- ress in Portland today.
Who'would stay the hand of pub-
lia health regulation! Who -would
deny tho ; municipality the right to
demand pure milk for its children?
Who would withhold from the state
ing Its people against poisonous
foods
; A Greek steamer recently arrived
in New York, infected with spinal
meningitis? Sir died from the dis
ease during the passage. But New
York was prepared to combat the
disease with specific curative serum.
. ... Five years ago, New York would
hare been poorly prepared to offer a
check. Within that time a cure has
been developed. The death of four-year-old
John Rockefeller McCor
uiick led to the discovery through
the action, of the child's grandfather,
who endowed the Rockefeller instil
tute for the study of the disease.
The incident of the child's death
yielded another marvel or preventive
medicine. : T r-TijT'.'-
ln a surprisingly short time yel
low fever has been wiped "out in
Havana and Panama, and the Canal
Zone has become a health resort.
Vaccination In Manila has banished
smallpox in five years, so that hos
pitals that sheltered hundreds of pa
tients in Spanish times had not one
last summer. ; . .
In 1890, 27.815 persons died of
diphtheria. The proportional num
ber in 1909 would have been 40,
000. The actual number of deaths
In the latter year was 10,258. The
lessened number is due to the dis
covery of diphtheria antitoxin. It
has saved 30.0,00. lives' In a single
year, ' .
An equal number of deaths from
consumption are being prevented,. as
compared with 1890, by precautions
Against contagion and by. the open
air cure.
Every conference, every move
ment for research, every reasonable
effort at health Inspection and reg
ulation, is an endeavor to conserve
human life. It Is a struggle to put
the man above the dollar. It is first
aid to poverty, for it is poverty that
Is most often the helpless victim of
disease. . ' ;- - -
THE COAL STRIKE
w w yITH the passage of the minl-
hl ' mum law introduced
. Yy in parliament by the go vern
, ment the great coal strike
rnters a new phase. . The men-have
?ocured the principle for which they
struck. If they refuse still to go to
work for want of a definite declara
tion in the law of the figure of the
minimum wage although the pro
visions for the commissions in the
various coal fields to establish the
figures are immediate and go Into
operation forthwith the miners
place themselves in a most respon
sible and unenviable plight before
.ihe country. -;- -. :. -
Chancellor Lloyd-George quoted
from -the question submitted to the
.miners prior to the strike, and on
, which their strike action was based.
"Are you in favor of ceasing work
for the1 principle of a minimum
wage?" This "principle" is distinct
ly stated in the new law.
: It appears that the coal operators
have unanimously agreed to open
their mines, and that the conserva
tive leaders of the men, headed by
Ramsey MacDosald, M. P., have
,. urged. Jn.. fact. demanded, ..that -the
men return to work. " ,
' So. the great, strike, will,: it is' to
oe hoped soon pass into, history. ,
: The suffering and poverty of the
trikers and. of those dependent on
thenf 'will be but, a bitter memory,
is wages, all the' higher for: he re
flux from the closing of the mines,
resume their flow among the fami
lies of two million workers, But
the relations of capital and labor In
Britain will enter a new phase-wlth
the enactment of the minimum wage
law as a new force in economic re
lations in the old country.
EXPLAINED
PRESIDENT TAFT has frequent
ly demanded a reform of our
p court practice and procedure
on the ground that our Judica
ture favors the rich litigant. i
The aggregate wealth of the beef
,iacker defendants acquitted at Chi
Jago Tuesday is nearly $200,000,'
(too. - . .. ...
Charles II. Carey, a lawyer, re-
tently said to an assembly of law
-vrrs in-Portlatrd : " TngcycifrtesT
n elaboratesystem of technical
rulos of . pleading has- .grown up.
ii!fh time is wastled upon demurrers
.:.tl Motions wMih are filed in near
ly every suit. . Technical rulrs which ; ground. Tor this the f.Kricultural
confine parties to definite Issues Brecollega hr.s to be thanked. .
obstructions - to ultimate Justice.)
Courts and lawyers now make jus-.the American Linseed company and
tice a secondary consideration. They 'of their Western Linen -mills of Du
proceed on the theory that the rules ! lnth as contractors with Oregon
must he ndhrred to. even thoueh the I farmers, to grow flax under con-
result is to bring victory to the party
J
wno ougnt not to win, ana mey nave
built, up fine theories of the law
nnder which precedent must be fol-;
lowed, to absurd conclusions."
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NOT GUILTY
A
FTER nine years, ten months
and seventeen days of legal
proceedings the beef packers
are declared not guilty., v
Testimony at the trial., reached af
ter nearly fen" years of legal moves
showed that the packers secretly wet
every week under v the name of.
"Postofflce Box.: 24 3.". on 'the sixth
floor .of a Chicago office building;
that the object of the weekly meet
ing was to fix. the sale prices of
meat and the buying prices to the
growers; that the United States was
divided into districts and designated
by letters of the alphabet, and that
one of the purposes ofc the secret
weekly meeting as "Postofflce Box
243" was ra determine- how much
meat was to CTrshlpped by each pack
ing concern into the different dis
tricts.. ' ' ' '
The Sherman law declares it un
lawful to" engage in conspiracies in
restraint of trade, provides fines and
Jail sentences for violations, and it
has been in existence since 1890
Livestock
is a product ' Of the
farm. The
annual' products for
which' the farmers receive about
J6, 000.000, 000, cost the consumers
$13,000,000,000. Who1- gets the
huge difference between what the
farmer receives and what the ,con-
sumer paysi ,
By reports made under the re
quirements of the New York stock
exchange, the annual business of the
sit great packers Is $945,000,000 a
year. The profits, exclusive of the)
National ' Packing company, accord
ing to these reports, were $2 3,3 79,-
644 in 1911. With the profits of
the National Packing company, add
ed, the yearly .earnings of the trust
are $25,000,000.
The detailed figures are Impres
sive. Swift & Co. grew in sixteen
years from a ten million to an eighty
million company. After
paying
heavy dividends, regularly, Armour
& Co. have piled, up a surplus of
$73,000,000,' ' : ' : "
; The net profits of Armours In
1911 were $9,808,305; Swift & Co.,
$8,000,000; Morris & Co., $2,171,
339; Sulzberger. $1,600,000; Cud-
ahys, $ 1.7 0 0,000. , ; : :
These 'huge figures of earnings,
and ' the evidence at the . trial as to
how the profits were made, explain
why the Sherman law was passed
more than twenty years ago. That
law was endeavor to Bave the great
system or aistriDution rrom oecom-!
ing unjust to some men and over
generous to other men. ' -
The United States possesses one
fourth of the world's visible supply
of gold and silver. Our bank de
posits aggregate sixteen, billions of
dollars. Our bank assets exceed
twenty-three billions.;' No other na
tion approaches these' figures.
But nearly one half the individual
depoeits-and bank assets of the na
tion is In only three states -New
York, Pennsylvania and Massachu
setts. Forty-eight states create the
wealth, but only three, states have
almost half the money.
The verdict in the packers' case at
Chicago partly explains why. Other
explanations are the rich picking of
the land rents,' the extortions by
trusts, the cpeclal favors of the
tariff, free gifts of franchises, a car
nival of stocks, bonds, charters and
coupons, and f laallyr the unpardon
able wickedness of over capitaliza
tion. T r
The verdict in the packers case Is
a challenge to the best statesman
ship of the nation.-
FLAX AT LAST
F
OR about thirty years it has
been known to a small inner
circle that flax for fiber could
be grown successfully in west
Oregon. To popularize that
em
knowledge, and , to extend , the
growth and use of the plant from the
specimens erf the garden or plot to
Its place In the rotation of the farm,
and to the regular production of the
factory, has . met one obstruction
after another. .. But efforts have
never, ceaaed, . and it seems that at
last they are to he successful, -
. They should be, ' since ."not only
soil and climate have to concur, but
the flax plaht mst be accepted as
a regular crop in the rotation of Jthe
modern scientific fanner before It
takes its place as one of the best
profit earners from the land. These
conditions can be found In western
Oregon today. , ' '
It is but -recently that the culti
vation and handling of the f la plant
has been remodeled.. . Where in this
scantily peopled Oregon could be
found the hands of women and chil
dren that In' other- countries pluck
by, the .roots, the flax and, in bun
dles, steep Jt in the retting ponds
near by the growing fields? The
lack of them forbade the culturel
here until bold Innovators learned
to grow and ripen the plant, to mow
it with the recognized machine, aild
then to pass ' it through new ma
chinery on the field to clean and
bind the fiber ready for its transfer
to the mill. So only could low, class
and 'slow labor be dispensed with.
ana machinery end skillo
'Lhel
let at work.
The farmer, too, has been con
verted to, the adoption of flax as a
rotation cron that, proper'y farmed,
helps, not hurts the fertility of his
Bat It Is the appearance tere or i
tract with them. It Is the manufac-
. .
turer, ins Dusmesa mnu, accepuug
'the opportunity of. the beautiful and
high-standard flax of Oregon for
! factory use, that Insures the devel-
opment of flax culture here. The
j opportunity Is unquestionable, since
i the market is here and is expectant
!we shall appreciate the new move-
ment the more that it involves
breaking down of walls heretofore
surrounding a trust-controlled In
dustry of great profit.
TnE"TARIFt,nREAKDOWN
T
HE world is to' have example it
the minimum wage law In act
ual application, and on" a large
scale. It is a new policy in.
government, brought into life by that
transcendent commoner,, Lloy d
George.. -; . ' '
'.' Lawrence proved the breakdown
of the tariff as a -wage protector.
Even under the highest tariff in. all
time, Lawrence gae us European
pauper labor on United States soil.
For more' than 100 years we have
insisted., through, the tariff, that It
is a function of government to, pro-
tect the wags of .woTkers. With the
tariff myth exposed, It Is now, the
duty of government either to aban
don' the wage, earner of to adopt a
I 1 A VA ft t A A, ' M V
protection mai win jroiecx, ana sucn
& Protection is tne minimum wage.
uioya-ueorge nas poinrea me way
In this, as in other great human
problems. : -. . " ' . ...
The states should grapple the
problem of a minimum wage. They
should try to do for all the workers
what the unions are trying to do for
a few of the workers.
THE TOOL OF . DEATH
T
HE ' Portland pistol - ordinance
became operative January 29,
and Chief Slover says that in
this short time,' "it has proved
its worth." :; -:- ::--v:'V
He says policemen are under Iron
clad orders to enforce It strictly.
They otight to . be active in Us' en
forcement, for whenever they dis
arm a crook thev remove one menace
;t0 themselves.: . '
They know the thugs. , They know
the criminals. They know the men
who make a living1 with a , cocked
revolver. . If they apply . the pistol
law relentlessly, they will make Port
land an inhospitable and an unprof
itable field for gun men.
There should be a similar law for
the state. .There should be an anti
revolver law la the nation. It Is
the estimate of Observers that con
cealed weapons are responsible for
half the killings.
How can a criminal nlr his trade
without a revolver?
KEIfPIXQ UP THE FIGHT
A
FTER exhaustive i. Inquiry, the
Milwaukee Bureau of Econo-i
. my and Efficiency reported
that almost half the bad qual
ities of milk as it is finally con
sumed, are due to bad care by the
housewife. That, however, was in
a city and a state where dairy In
spection and regulation have passed
to high efficiency. ; - ' ;
There Is endeavor in Portland to
educate consumers as well as dairy
men. Both are at fault. It is of lit
tle use to provide for clean dairies
if the housewife leaves a pan; of
milk open for files to poison it, or
leaves it in close proximity to de
caying vegetation that will contam
inate it. ' It Is likewise useless for
housewiyes to be particular In the
care of milk if the milk has already
been contaminated In a dirty dairy.
A lecture last night at the Young
Men's Christian Association was In
structive to dairymen. Another net
Saturday night at the same place
will be instructive; to consumers.
Each is part of a series of similar
lectures 1 to be ' given , at the same
place in the same behalf.
'S The' lectures are by Chemist Cal
laway of the city -health department,
who has shown great ef f iclenycy In
the campaign for pure milk, There
will, also be other speakers.
Portland is still far behind in the
character of her milk:1: More than
1000 dairies supply milk to this city.
More than 120 deliver from their
own wagons. The revolution - of
transforming all - these sources of
supply Into the perfectly clean estab
lishments, that they ought to be,
rpquires time and enormous effort,
But the education is goina-op.
The processes of administration In1
the city are cumbersome and inef
ficient, but the officials are all ex
ponents of pure milk, and working
for it. . ,r-iV
It is a fight that must not be given
up until complete efficiency is final
ly reached. ' "
A Los Angeles woman sued for
divorce because her husband licked
her every time the home team lost:
After a careful scrutiny of the pros
pects, she determined not to risk
the season of 1912. . r.,
Why don't some of his friends
jaigue in behalf of Senator Stephen
son In the senate - debate over hits
ease, that like Carnegie, he is rich
and was only trying to get rid of
his money? ,; - r. '
By a vote of 40 to 34 the senate
voted yesterday for Stephenson of
Wsso,iLBini,iit,oi MOJjjeat-, UJMl
action to serve as a precedent lor
the retention of Lorlmer? The lat-
Lter voted for Stephenson's retention,
and the gallary laughedXOf courfie,
Stephenson jll vote for Lorlmer to
remain on the Job. The country
waits to eee how much furlher the
senate will go In voting that election
by purchase gives a fit title to a sen
atorshlp. Colorado gave its delegation to
Taft yesterday, by a vote of nearly
three to one. His hat. which the
colonel cast into the ring, la being
shot to a frazzle.
There are charges of diabolical po
litical conspiracy in the New York
primaries, and for -once Tammany
seems not to have participated.
(Ommnnlctkn nt to Tb Joonitl for pah.
ttratlon la tilt department ibould not oired
too wordi In length intt mast b arcoApiinled
br th nam od ddm of th rnder.
. Assessments In Multnomah.
, Portland, Or.. March 25. To th Edi
tor of Tho Journal On March 17, you
published tho" text of my letter to tho
board of state tax commissioners. In
regard to certain assessment methods In
Multnomah county, and on March 24,
you published the substance of the com
mission's answer to me. I will thank you
for a little additional space, that the
matter may be more clearly understood.
construing-. tne assessment law. upon
my request, the fx commission held
that land In acreage on March 1, btSt
platted by the owner after that date and
before the completion of the assessment
rou or . mat , year, mar be lerallr as
sessed according to the description from
me recorded plat In support of this
conclusion, the commission quoted from
Cooley on Taxation (page 715, footnote),
to the effect that "where land has been
regularly platted Into city lota, an as
sessment by the, acre as before Is bad."
The case being as stated by the tax
commission, tt would logically follow
that. If assessment of land la to be equal
and uniform, the recorded plat, tf used
in any' one Instance 'relating to land
platted after March 1. should be used In
all Instances. This has not been done
In Multnomah county; hence, my corre
spondence with the tax commission for
the purpose Of securing an official con
struction of the assessment law. In
fact. It has been the exception rather
than the rule In Multnomah county to
follow the recorded plat In the manner
which the tax commission says Is legal.
Reference to the 1911 tax roll will
more fuly explain what I have In mind.
Between March 1, Iflll, and the delivery
of the assessment roll to the board of
equalisation on October 18, the follow
ing additions were among those whose
plata Tera filed for - record with the
county clerk. I give in each case the
date of filing, taken from the plat books:
Addition Plat Filed. 111.
Jonesmore (blocks 83 to 67) March 24
Oregon Heights ...March 29
Mallory April 1
Oberlln April IT
Verona Park ., .........Sept 21
Ventura Park ...Sept. 22
The only one of the foregoing addi
tions assessed according to Its recorded
plat on the 1911 assessment roll Is Mal-
lory addition, why wa Mallory addi
tion made the exoeptlonT During , all
the time from . JIarch 1, 1911. to October
18, following, the assessor, according to
the ruling of the tax commission on my
request. , was "at liberty to take into
consideration end to use any publlo and
offlalal recorda that may give a correct
and definite description of any parcel
of real property that he la required by
law to assess." If It was legal to assess
Mallory addition according to It' re
corded plat filed after March 1, was It
not legal, also, to assess Jonesmore
Oregon Heights, Oberlln, Verona Park
and Ventura Park according to their re
corded plats, filed after March 1? '
The lot owner , in, Mauory aaamon
was able to go to tne snonrrs oiiico
this year and get a tax statement cover
ing the Identical lot which he bought.
Could the lot owners In the other addi
tions named do th same?
-. HENRT JO. REED.
Grievances of Common Laborers.
Portland. Or March 21. To the Ed
itor of The Journal Th violent utter
ances given forth by the L w. -w. ana
Socialist street orators are what we may
term an effect To eliminate effect. It
is necessary to remove oause.
The I. W. W.- "agitators" are largely
recruited from the floating element of
common labor. ; When they labor it i
largely in the construction camp of
railroads. . Such mp!oyment is pro
cured through the employment office,
the biggest fake lnce th day of P. T.
Barnum, and the treatment of laborers
In these large construction camp
would put Simon Legree to sham.. I
offer thi Information not from hearsay,
but from absolute Experience. I have
been to at least 50 of these camps and
never saw a place to wash one's clothe
or take a bath. The grub, for which
the men pay 25 cents a meal. 1 abso
lutely and positively rotten, but as there
are always plenty of men to ante $1 or
12 for a Job, it is to the employers' ad
vantage to keep the men on th "hike"
at all times. : If there ever was a cause
for agitation, these fcellow have one,
radical as they mayseem to be, and
turning out' the fire ; department to
squirt water on them will not eliminate
the cause. . ." t', .-,
Through the fluctuation in the de
mand for labor in varlou communities,
these men are never in a position to
register, nor; to be jiaturallred' if they
be foreigners, and so have no vote to
east and have no representation in tho
government whatsoever;, so the only
way they have of getting their grlevr
ance before, th public Is through soap
box oratory. Let a committee of Port
land citizens b. appointed to Investi
gate their grievances and they will find
they are all human beings, with hearts,
soula and sympathies the same a the
rest Of US. -"- . a
,-lf ft few 4t the following law were
passed and enforced the working people
would have more respect for the gov
ernment,"! feet aured:;
Minimum wsg bill In all work. "
Stem the tide of. Immigration until
such Immigration as we have 1 properly
cared for.
Tax. heavily, all unused ' land; make
owners sell out to the government and
let the government help" the people to
occupy th land. Remember how Bis
marck ' obtained the railroad of Ger
many for the peoplo? ' ' ' "
Shorten the hours of labor so that
every willing worker may be abl to
work, as there seems to bo an over
production of labor.
Reduce the "protectiv" tariff, or see
that labor has protection by such tariff.
And remember that the-time for W.
n. Taft and his pall of whitewash Is
past. JOHN A. MAC DONALD.
Walter Evans for District Attorney.
. Portland, March 25. To the Editor of
The Journal In looking- oyer the long
list of candidates -for the various po
sitions of trust In the city and county,
let us pause and scan the record of the
candidates for the high and important
position of district attorney. There are
good men In the field, -and there ,8 re
men who are not so good. But there
is one man who stands out above all
other candidates who should be remem
bered In the coming election. TM man
Is Walter IL Evans, candidate for dlsf
'trtcT-Httorney
Hi vigorous"1 prosecution of the men
who have been In the white slave traf
11c stamps him as a man who has force
and the courage 'of his conviction. His
remarkable. record Of convictions shown
him to be a prosecutor of the highest
Letters From trie People
COMMENT AND
SJIALL CIIANG!
' Lawlng coats about ten times too
much,
A model may not be a model youni
woman.
. e e
Looks like La FoHette had recovered
from that illness.
Now we get a view ef water power
monopolisation close by,
. , - .
Better be without an automobile than
bave on that you can't afford.
Moral: Don't believe the promises of
suppliants for publlo utility franchise
. .
A elty like Portland needs th services
of a high salaried corporation counsel.
The case aeems to be that Portland
wants a commission government but
can't get It
At least there could ' scarcely be a
oh an re for the worse In one office,
probably two. .
e ; ' - v
Isn't there any way to squeese th
vast amount of water out of th P. R.
X& A P. company? ..
Any one of the many recent' day
would have made, a to weathes, a glor
ious Easter Sunday.
., e ' e :
When people become fully .fit for self
government there will be no mor costly,
wasteful, cruel strikes.
Monopoly always pseirrtSeite be rood,
until It gets lis clutches firmly
gripped on the body politic.
Many working people deserve higher
wages and better treatment, but they
are foolish to accept advice of . the
I. W. W.'a. . - - ,
Portland started to provide Itself with
a system of municipal docks none too
soon, rather late, -' In . fact, but better
late than never. .'
. : v . . e j. i . ' .
Testimony .desired by one'attorney Is
always considered '.'Incompetent, im
material and irrelevant'' always - all
three by th other attorney.
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There Is left only a mere shadow of
an excuse for partisanship In voting for
members of the legislature or almost
any other candidates.
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Each presidential candidate or their
campaign managers charge that - the
others are spending an Immense cam
paign fund and perhapa they all tell
the truth. -r' .. , " -
SEVEN ROMANTIC MARRIAGES
' Charles
Few of the biographer of Charles
Dicken dwell to any extent uponhls
romantlo love affairs. They eeem'o
have been a much a part of the many
sided eharactetof the great English
novelist as aer'other. Dicken' great
acoompllshnrents In literature seem Jo
absorb all th attention and yet a lit
tle glance into hi Inner heart Is most
Interesting.
There was a sentimental side to the
oharacter of - Charles - Dlcken,7--whlch
seem to hav developed very early In
life.: Th Frenoh writer, Hervler, re
calls an Incident of Dickens' ohlldhooi
as follows; ?When h novelist was 8
years" old h had a ,playmate named
Lucy, a beautiful gtrV with magnificent
hair which hung down her back In
golden cUrla. The little boy, glftod
with an open and tender heart at once
felt for- Lucy such an lmpuls of affec
tion that he never forgot her. In fact
she i found later with her blonde hair
In at' least five Dicken novels.
But Dickens' first real love came
when he was a young man not very far
advanced la his teens. Among his ac
quaintances was a young bank clerk
who was In love with the daughter of a
banker by the name of Bead n el L His
young friend took Dickens to call at
the Beadnell home where he was re
ceived with kindness, and fell In love
almost at sight with a third daughter,
Mary. - -
Many writers are of the Impression
that "David Copperfleld." one of Dick
ens' greatest novel, 1 really an auto
biography of Dickens, and the "Dora
Spenlow" of the novel Is none other
than Mary, the banker's daughter. It Is
also claimed that she Inspired "Flora
Pinching" In "Llttl Dorrltf
Dickens and Mary became engaged
when the novelist was 18, 4i The par
ents seriously opposed this match, hav
ing grown anxious at the thought of
giving their daughter to a man without
an established position In the world.
Dickens was made to feel that his com
pany was not desired at the home of
th banker, and Mary was sent to Paris
order. Walter H. Evan has th ability
to prosecute and let u us this ability
of his by putting him Into th office
of district attorney. "
A a uulet man who has in no way
identified himself with any, clique or
faction, but whose so aim has been
to Aerve-the people of this district as
federal prosecutor, wa ought to feel
that it la a pleasure and a duty to give
Walter 11. Evans our earnest support
HORACE M'QUINN.
Roosevelt, the Egomaniac." :
Portland. Or., March 23. To the Edi
tor of The Journal "When went there
by an age when Rome encompassed but
one only man?" Without the modifying
expressions ' of Washington, ' Jefferson
and Lincoln or the prpmtses of Roose
velt, th question resolves Itself Into
this Immediate proposition: "Shall the
form of government be changed?" X
hold that the third term does change
the form of .government If any man
deny th's.. then he stands accused oil one
of three charges: He Is altogether Ig
norant he ,a altogether - Indifferent' or
he Is a monarchist. If he Is ignorant,
he should be Instructed In the facta of
history: if be is indifferent, he should
be stimulated with patriotism; if he is
a monarchist he shduld be driven from
the country as a traitor. Why spend
so much breath, waste so much energy
or weave so much argument, about a
man's promises, or the meaning of a
word? - Hit the bullseye; hurl the lance
into the heart of the Issue. Every hon
est and fair man knows that Roosevelt
Is a self made lngrate. Retributive Jus
tice Is sure, and pursues him now in
cartoons, parodies, pasquinades holding
the mirror up to nature. His disposi
tion to change the form of government
is treasonable, and his treatment of his
friend Taft 1 traitorous. Thes -ought
to, afld will, consign him to obloquy. No
Democrat no Republican no Socialist,
no man is a patriot who. would change
the form of our greet government A
third term means a life term then In
heritance. The country has had enough
of this egomaniac Roosevelt. ., .
F. FAUNT LH ROT.
Diagnosis of Discontent.
Portland, Or., March 24. -To the Edi
tor of The Journal In view Of the sen
timents expressed-by your paper and
those expressed by such organizations
as the real estate" board, the Rotary
club and others relative to the L "W. W;
unlonTTrniiTtpeltBdto-HJiswer. ' There
Is not a word written thus far except
Dr. Brower's article in today's paper,
that has treated this subject In modera
tion and reason,. Why 'not endeavor to
ascertain the cause of th "disease"?
Do doctors' and health officers run peo-
NEWS IN DPJEF
CKLGOX M DC LI GUTS
Monday, April 1, will be a ro plant
ing day at Ontario.
.
The Grand, a moving picture show
house at Marshflcltl, has been enlarjjed
with a fireproof addition.
B. TV. Bates, who until recently pub
lished the Roseburg ' News, has estab
lished himself with a Job printing out
fit at Koeeburg. .
Monroe Leader: Johnny Flechter re
cently received 800 Early Crawford
Feach trees and will plant them on his
arm In the Irish Bend.
.
Banks Herald: " There Is a movement
at Koy. to establish a store there on
the cooperative farmers' plan, and an
organization has. been made with some
auch scheme In view.
Rev. J. R. N. Bell, formerly of Baker,
but now of Corvallls, will deliver the
Easter address April 7 to the Baker
commandery and visiting brothers from
Pendleton and La Grande. -
S. O. Ledford of Wamlo, "asco coun
ty, has drawn down $10 bounty on the
scalp of a large cougar, the first on
which bounty has been paid In Waaco,
according to The Dalle Chronicle.
.
The Redmond Spokesman proposes a
plan wherefcy an electrlo light and
power plant may be established at Red
mond depending for fuel upon Juniper
cleared from the new lands . nearby.
The benefits, the Spokesman claims,
would thus work In all dfrectlon at
once. . - . t- -'.
Baker Heratd: The Rosemary num
ber of the High School Nugget will be
put out this year about April 1 and
is planned to be the biggest' one-ever
turned out This number of the Nug
get is the one annually edited entirely
under the supervision of, the Junior
class.
.
- Silver Lake Leader: In addition to
caring for his general merchandise busi
ness and managing the Lake postoffice,
F. A. Remington has found time to
Flant 40 acres of fall rye, 10 acres of
all wheat and prepare ground for 80
acres of spring rye and 10 acres of
black oats. .. . ;
Stayton Mail: The Mall has Just
completed the printing of a telephone
directory for Stayton and vicinity. It
Is a book of 88 pages and contains close
to 1200 names, all patrons in Ptayton,
Sublimity, Aumsvtlle, Turner, Mill City,
Mehama, Scio, Jordan, Lyons, Marlon,
Shetlburn, Kingston and West Stayton
teing Included.
Dickens.
to continue her studies, and the ,epara-
tion waa complete.' . ;
Whoa Dickens realised that hi pro
ject was without hope, he waa Very
much aggrieved and sought around for
companionship of a like character, which
he found In Kate Hogarth, whom ' he
married in 1838. Nine years later Mary
married Henry Loul Winter. A year
later, when she was 44. she wrote to
the novelist, then famous, and Dicken
confessed, on receiving this - letter,
"Never did I hear th name Mary with
out being Impressed." And he recom
mended her to read "David Copperfleld,"
wherein she would recognise herself In
the person of Dora, .
When Dickens married Kat Hogarth,
the daughter of the editor of "Th Eve
ning Chronicle." the young ooupl led
a modest life, but when "Pickwick Pa
pers" appeared, it had an Incredible uc
cess, and their financial condition Im
proved at once. In, the meantime the
writer had received Into hi horn on
of his sisters-in-law, Mary Hogarth, a
very young girl whose character har
monized with his own. Mary died unex
pectedly a year later, when only 17,
and her death completely prostrated the
novelist Later Dickens Immortalized
her as "Uttl Nell" In "Old Curiosity
ShOp." , -..,.. .
The loss of his first love and the
death of his young adoption, both of
the nam of Mary, rendered sullen the
disposition of the author, and although
Dicken and his wife had a number of
children of their own, they separated
in May, 1858, andvhls biographer say
that an absolute incompatibility existed
between-them, - - -.-.--,-- -
Dickens desired to transfer his resi
dence to Gad' Hill, but Mrs. Dickens
opposed It saying that she was ' too
much attached to London to establish
herself In the country. Dickens carried
out his desire and the disagreement pre
vailing between the novelist and his
wife became more and more serious,
and was never-fully adjusted even to
his death,
.. Tomorrow Mozart . . -.
pi out of a community, or shoot or hang
them, - when afflicted? And when an
epidemic attacks a community, do the
doctors and authorities do nothing what
ever except treat the afflicted as fast
as they are stricken? .Don't they hunt
the cause and, if found, remove it or try
to? And is there ever an effect with
out a callse? To say that "there is al
ways a certain number of discontented
men (agitators), who never hav
worked and won't ' work refuse "work
When Offered them," 4 an outrage on
human intelligence and "brands the au
thor as a' fool, comparatively speaking,
or a knave. A vast majority of man
kind, prefer work when It brings even a
decent living, to say nothing of a right
eous recompense.
"There is a storm a-brewing and 'tl
neither hall nor rain." I am on record,
as far back as 1892, as predicting a
civil war a repetition of the French
revolution should industrial condition
not ohang for the better In America in
from 25 to BO years. I wa rated a rich
man in 1892, and have been so rated
until recently; when long years of elok
nees absorbed my' wealth.- Every-real
(student of human affairs knows what's
coming, if no relief la found,,' and found
soon, and shivers In apprehension.
Great Goal Why won't the rich men
and the heads of great man-employing
Institutions see "the andwritlng on the
wall"? J am not a member of any
Union or organization of any kind, and
yet all my sympathies are with the
working, producing classes In America
yes, and everywhere on earth.
F. GEORGE FLOWER.
, " Goes Jlim One Better. , -
Hood River, Or., March 20. To the
Editor Of Th Journal I saw by The
Journal last night that a man at Dal
las has a knife 60 years old. I can beat
that I have one 75 year old. My
father had It given to him in 1837 and
I don't know how4ong my grandfather
had it before he gave it to him. So
Mr. Dallas will have to come again if
he wants to beat this neck of the woods.
v WALTER WALTERS.
Another Old Knife..
Portland. Or., March 25. To the Ed!
tor of The Journal: I have a knife
which my father traded to ms; grand
mother along in 1836. I donot know
how long he had It before he traded it
to her, but at : any rate It Is at least
16 years older than those, mentioned in
r-.,
today'
Taut Jjcitner's Address Wanted.
Ellverton, Or., March 28. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Does any one know
the address of Paul Leltner?
- JACOB SI KGFIUED.
History of tts B.-cf
Packers Cass
From the New York World.
1902 May io: Injunction asked
against the becf trust May 20, tempo
rary Injunction granted. September 20,
beef trust demurred.
1903 May 27, injunction made per
manent; packers appealed to the su
preme court ' .
1901 July 25, Roosevelt ordered de
partment of Justice to push case.
190B January 4. briefs filed. January
16, case argued. January 31, supreme
COUrt deolild In fuvrtr rf th crnvorn.
menu tebruary 21, subpeuas issued for
185 witnesses. March 20. special jcrand
jury met to hear evidence against the
beef trust March 29. Armour's super
intendent lmtlcted for tampering with
a witness.' ' July 1, seven corporation
and 33 individuals in beef trust indict
ed. September 19. pleas in abatement
filed by the packers. October 23, claim
made for famous immunity bath.
1806 March 21, Immunity 'granted.
by Judge Humphrey.
1907 September 18, new grand Jury
called; no indictments. -
1908 December 7, still another grand
Jury; no indictments.
1909 February 19, fourth grand Jury.
1910 September 12. Armour, Swift
Morris, and several others indicted; civil
suit brought at same time, September
it, oerenaants gave bail;-i30,oug each.
November 17, defendant pleaded that
Judge Landl wa biased. Deoember 24,
defendants demanded that civil suits be
tried before th criminal suits. Decem
ber 37, civil suit dismissed entirely la
order to expedite the criminal ultav-
1911 March 22, packer filed a de
murrer asking that the famous lmmu- .
ntty bath .of 1906 be made permanent
uay it, pacxer petitioner mat inaioi
ments.be quashed. July 6, the packer
pleaded not guilty; -trial set for Novem
ber 20. : ,- 4 . -?
1912 March 16, verdict of not guilty.
Tanglefoot
By Miles
Overholt
THE JACK OF ALL TRADES,
clerked In a store in Baa Anton,
In Utah I herded sheep. . -.--
drove an auto in Abalona,
And I've fished in waters deep.
I drove a hack In Kalamazoo, , -
I've warbled in cheap saloon.
I braked awhile on the scenlo boa, - ,
And l'v piloted Dauoon. .,,
I sold cheat) ranches In Mexico,
I naddled clcrars In Kent
And 1 megaphoned on a tallyho.
I've been reader or paims in a tent.
I've ridden at night with a Ku-Klux
Klan,
I have deoutv marshaled, too.
I've posed an a regular fighting man, : ,
Ana I vo-Dossea a piraucat crew.
I hav cooked at plght In a cheap cafe,
And I deaooned In church awhile, l
T wo laaAtnfr man In a naurntv maY.
And I sailed on tne tuver mia.
I've shoveled sand In a placer mine.
And I worked In a livery barn.
In Colorado 1 herded klne, ' .
In winter l'v knitted yam,
Now I want Job of a different kino,
For I V got to earn sum naie: ,.
Though the .work is hard. I will not
mma, -- -
Though I've applied for a thousand Jobs,
I get but a verbal wat; .
The bosses tell me the wis ld sloba
To stay with tn n i ve guw r
Pointed Paragraph
ton are vowel that hare caused
many a man' downfall. -
Always remember to be a gentleman
unless you' are a woman. .
. .. r ( - . . . . .
What the world needs la lees good ad-
rice and mor good example.
AmMtloB Is a good thing, bat don't
fly higher than you can roost
-
An thlnrs are for th beet and rrexy
on of us Imagine h' th best
M.n man Im dlssatlafld With his
lot becaus It 1 too near hi neighbor's.
l tji nlirhfa sleaD U OB Of th
few things people Ilk that Is good for
them.
rrw.M. tin, m. nl MiM.nAu n fOT hiS
right! h 1 apt to traad on som thr
fellow toe.
After yniDathiiinf wlta popI wn
ar in troubl many a maa begin t
feel Ilk nypocrii ;
a. min widow has on Important
advantag over th Inexperienced maid
eh can act a her own chaperon.
- It doesn't Mem right that a woman
should have two ears for hearing gos
sip and only on tongu for repeating .
If no essy task for a leap year girl
to pick out a first class husband. About
th best she can hope for I a chanc
to pick over what remain on th bar
gain counter. ' :-'. ' -.
W Hobson's Choice.
'"rTom Drooklyn Lif.
Modest Suitor I am going U marry
your sister, Willi, but I know I am not
good enough for her. -
Candid Llttl Brofhsr-Tliat's what
Sla ay. but ma's bien telling her h
can't do any better. . -
Wasted.
From the Cincinnati Enqulrr.
" stated Colonel Bourbon
"th people of ' thi city waste mor
than a million., gallon of water every
m""shthat a factr rejoined Majah Sour
mash. "Po you rekon they drink ltr
Travelers
-Hhnti.il to The Jonrnnl br Wilt Uteon,
thi frnnoiw Kensas poet. Hie proae-pojma ar a
regulur feiture of thl columo in Tbe Dally
Juuranl.) ,
Down this little world - we travel,
headed for the land of Dawn, sawing
wood and scratching gravel, her to
day, tomorrow gone! Down our path
of doubts and dangers, w ar toddling,
mil on mile, transient and Inquiring,
strangers, dumped Jnto , this world a
while. Let u makethe Journey pleas
ant for the littlo time we stay; all w
have is Just the Present all w need
Is just Today.. Let's encourage one an
other as we push along, the road, say
ing to a juded brother: "Here, I'll help
you with your load!": Banish scorn and
vain reviling, banish useless tear and
woe" let us do the Journey smiling, all
our 'hearts with love aglow: Let us
never search for .sorrow, since the Jour
ney is o brief;. here today and gone to
morrow; whafhavt we todo with grief?
Down this llttl world we wander,
atrnn?ers from some unknown spheres,
h,a.i,.,i for the country yonder where
they have no eitsun w .ui.,i u
therefore Cease complaining, let us be
no Kinger glum; let us all go Into train
ing for the Joyful life to cornel
(VrirricM. ion. iv
Gvorga MuUin-iv Ail sun.