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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVT.:;iI,q, JULY 5, Ui:. . iE JOURNAL AS INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. V JAl'kKON.. .IUhllatue ..,.-. - .1.. SandaTI an r-rjMui4 nvwolne it TD Joornal Btti'U-irr.-tfth and Varohlll tr-ta. Portland. r. I-mor-d mt If fwatoffle- at Porttand.W-. f r trhmlu1oa throoih the nana " ' mutter. " ' '- " 111 U'HONES Mil III; Horn A"1 All d-partm-nta r-achKt b tb-aa """"flT H:tEIU!TAUVKKttSI.ti IMWJt!ta?' IMfth attain. New Torkj . PP'4 a BntVHnav fh If - , Jhacrlprto Term tr mil ,n ddf t the (Jolted State or Mrxktt . DAILY. . . . )r Tai'....,...f3 i On nootk. -w 80X1)41. , On aar........W50 I On mofith - AILT AST) 8rNDAT, . ,HM;;. If.So I On month.. .... it The bray man seeks hot popu- 5 lar applause. . Nor, overpowered with arms, de- serts his 'cause: Unsbam'd, though fotl'd, he doea i.if ithe best he can, force Is of brutes, but honor la -: 9t man. ;3tft Dry den. -49 OX THE WAY TO EMPIRE fpHE advent of the Oregon Elec k I- trie was celebrated at Albany ' I yesterday, with a great crowd In attendance. The- real significance of the Ore- gott Electric Is Its typtfication of the fact that James J. Hill is operating "In Oregon. It Is a fact that yeas war rant for the great outflow of enthu- beautiful scenery. There Is more of the picturesque to contemplate. But Oregon makes no bid for tour ists. jTe fight over road plans. We debate but do noth'eg. we preach about the value of good roads but do not. build the roads. ",. y Some want a bond issue, with fu ture comers to help pay for" the roadar and othenHwant roads built and paid for In taxes by 4.he present population. "One" part of the , state howls because the road Indebtedness Is not limited to' two pep cent, and another part becau: e it is limited to two. per cent. 0ne . community screams for an unlimited road debt and another shrieks for no road debt. Meantime, the average California farmer can haul as much load to market with one horse as an Oregon farmer can haul with two. set to work, end were. In working, Jterday. Perhaps it wasn't. Per tmrhr rh practical side of garden-, haps IJt was. Anyway, the many PROGRESSIVES ABSOLVED-XO. 2 sTasm at Albany yesterday. It was Tfully meet that a picture of the em ' '-"pire builder was prominently dis ' played from an arch on a principal Vj-thorooghfare at the celebration. i Hill's forty-million-dollar North Bankils a tprx.maker Joregoa, T It must have feeders. There must ! $ be traffic to meet interest and pay dividends. There must be ramifying ; t links for sustenance of the great trunk. t - ' That is one of the secrets of Ore ' son Electric extensions. It is the t : ! force for directing other extensions. . ' It was the agency that dislodged the ' Harrlman system from a state of hopeless inactivity, and inaugurated -- a duel of millions la which the two i great systems are spending mighty Bums on trackage and service In Ore ( gon. The Albany celebration was fit. ; It was a splendid recognition of an ; event that is part of a history-mak-' ,Ing period in western Oregon. ! ' J The Willamette valley is on the : . way to emptae. THE NEW ALIGNMENTS 1 r I I' lne and Intensive farming, but they were associated with' their fathers and mothers In the profit-making for the schobls. . ,.' ' , No wonder that these facts caught the attention of the United States bureau of education, and hate been set xutn' a tmlletlnnor circular for free distribution. THE-NOW FAMOUS RYAN Q ,a. Follctte Republican is un der the slightest obligation to support Mr. Taft. No Roosevelt Republican Is under the slightest obligation to sup port Mr. Taft. The national Republican commit tee had ho right at Chicago to Mex-, icanize the Republican party and Diaz the nomination. It usad to be the Diaz way in -Mexico to put the rival candidates Into prlron, but in Chicago the standpat national com mittee was content to sequester pro gressive delegates. In the primary states, Taft got 36 delegates and Roosevelt 336. It was repctlon repudiated ten to one, and pregressiveness indorsed ten to one, but the committee set itself up as the voice of the people and proceed ed to Russianize the convention, Russianize the platform, Russianize the candidate and Russianize the party. More than 1,600,000 Republicans in the primary states voted to have the party progressive, but by exer cising the right of selecting standpat delegates and excluding progressive delegates, the n'atI,onal committee maJe the party reactionary. The Chicago plattorm is not the voice of the Republican party. The Chicago nominee is not the choice of the Republican party. The national committee is not the Republican party. The forces behind the Taft nomination are not the Republican party. The platform Is the creation, the nominee is the choice and the con vention was tho workshop, of Boss Barnes, Root, Penrose, Payne, Smoot end other brigadiers and general issimos of reaction. They kicked the iBen(i trust magnates to Jail, and by HE now "famous Thomas F. Ryan Vent as a delegate . to Baltimore to beat: Woodrow Wilson for the presidential nomination. . Ryan got into the convention In a peculiar way. There vas a fight between Wilson men and Clark men in one of the congressional district conventions of Virginia. The Clark men had the organization and were in position 'jr control. But they suddenly changed tac tics and proposed to name but one delegate and permit the Wilson men to select the other of the two to bo chosen. It was a better outcome than Vilson men expected, and they accepted. The identity of the Clark delegate was not at once disclosed. When he finally appeared in the convention at Baltimore he was Thomas F. Ryan, Wilson's deadly political enemy and a pillar in the Murphy-Ryan-Bel-mont combination. Ryan's feud with Woodrow Wil son was on account of Wilson's re fusal to let Henry Watterson solicit money from Ryan for Wilson's cam paign. It angered Colonel Watter son. It angered Ryan. H angered all the brigadiers and field marshals of special jsrlvllege and- crooked bus iness. " " If Wilson had' accepted Wall street money he would have been under ob ligation to Wall street. Accepting Wall street's money by presidential candidates aud campaign managers is a chief reason why a trust mag nate has never been sent to Jail. A president who had accepted Ryan's money couldn't send Ryan to Jail, which is some explanation, doubt less, of why presidents of the United States have never required their at torney generals to proceed against trusts under the criminal section of the Sherman law. What this country needs Is a president who won't accept Ryan's money, or Belmont's money, or Mor gan's money, or sleel trust money, or any other money amassed by pro cesses that the Sherman law calls criminal. Only such a president can careful drivers and their passengers are alyayt In peril from the reckless 6p"eed hogs. Are the authorities and the law powerless to suppress them! It has been the ustom of Port-f land hospitals to increase the force of nurses and attendants on the 'th. Because of our new sanity in cele-brating,- the Jjospitala-yesterday-did not Increase the force, but permitted about half the' employes to take a holiday. At last account, no patient was received at a hospital as a re sult of 4 th festivities.' There is nothing like sanity, y rl. Forty-one killed and fifty or sixty injured is the frightful casualty list in a train collision on the Lacka wanna yesterday. It is the awful price we pay for being a race of speed maniacs. Wo are trying to conquer space, to obliterate time, and to comprese two life spans in Jo one. Letters From the People Articles and questions for this pag-e should be written on only one side of the paper and be accompanied by the writer's name. . The pame will not be published, but Is desired as an Indi cation of good faith. Wants Information. Portland, Or., June 21. To the Editor of The Journal Some days ago, assuming- the Oregonlan was honest In Its po sition on the question of single tax. a few of us wishing Information on that question, sent a letterr which I wrote, with the request that It be published In the Oregonlan and answered. No attention was paid to' it, arid now we ask the favor of you. Here follows the letter In substance: A few of us, wishing to be enlight ened on the matter, wish to ask of some well known single taxer. prefer- I ably F. J3. Coulter, the following ques tions: How would single tax help the social evil? Would single tax obviate the neces sity of a minimum wage law? How would It help the matter of the settlement of the strikers" troubles at the Alblna car shops? What answer have the single taxers to make to the charge that single tax would mean the confiscation of the land by the state? HENRY CONRAD. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Tammany was beaten, u , V We'll bet Bryan Is happy. Bryaa is eternally right Oregon helped; it was right. :, " It was bad Sews for Oyatef Bay. "V Ryan and Belmont can go home, ' Now we know whom to hurfaJi for. It turned out squarely progressive all right - e e . ' A The country Is going to have a great president .. r e e Oregon and The Journal are among the winners, i - Now te Democratic party, It last can look up. ; . - New Tork will be all right in spite of Tammany. For -once,- at" least" the Democratic party made no blunder. The wind la pretty well taken out 6f strenuous Teddy's sails. - Something very good eame ent of Nazareth and New Jersey. After the Fourth of July look for tome fair summer weather. Let Ryan, Morgan, Belmont Taggart Sullivan, et al, vot for Taft Bryan ha become the greatest politi cal figure and Individual factor of the country. Ten chances to on a Is a reasonable bet that Woodrow Wilson will be the next president folly, It finally did right Perhaps the only half-clear "Issue" tariff for revenue vs. protection the masBes va. the classes the people vs. privilege. There are many labored eulogies these days of Senator Root He Is really a great man. He has one of the finest brains in this little world. The plun dering trusts all love him. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Excavating for the T. M. C. A, build ing at Baker is In jprogress. The Grants Pass council has passed an ordinance fixing the speed limit for automobiles at 18 miles an hour, ' Eugene Register: The large new pump which 1 to increase theeapaelty ef the city water works Is being Installed at the pumping station and will soon be ready for use. , . . ., . , . . . Pendleton East' Oregonlan: If the Har-J rimamieopie do right tney win puua at once into southern Umatilla county. That country has waited long enough for the sound of, the steam horse. . ' , Roseb'u rgTRevie WTTsTTmohTh'sT-alni fall In Rbseburg registered 3.07 Inches, the heaviest total precipitation for June sinc 1888, when the total was . S.94 Inches. In 1883 It was S.l Inches. . ' ' Hermlston Herald: This has been a week of friendly, competition among the farmers of the project. Various 6nes have reported specimens along differ ent lines exceptionally fine and- large, and challenge anyone to meet them. . W. A. Sherman has been elected pres ident of the Astoria 'chamber of com merce, succeeding B. F. Stone, resigned. In his speech Of acceptance, according to the Astorian, Mr. Sherman "laid down the law to the members and Insisted on their hearty support." Baker. Democrat: The second week of work on the new hospital sees the stone superstructure under way. About- 29 stone cutters are busy. The portion of the wall and foundation that will be re built to conform with revised specifica tions have been razed preparatory to changing. Klamath Herald: Clark & Johnson have purchased the box factory at Shlp pington of the California B'ruit Canners' association. It is understood the fac- The Now ramous TKdmas F; Ry.an From the Atlanta Journal. John Skelton Williams, barvker, rail road magnate, southerner, of Richmond. Va., gives out an interesting interview of his -experience with Thomas F, Ryan, who V was seated as a delegate from -Virginia, on the floor of the Democratic' convention. ' ' :,- .... . "HI strongest" impulse Is to acquire money, and w his one robust Sasslon Is to keep Ittv says Mr, WlUlama, ; "He -views ethics and morals cynically. . H knows What they ' are. resneet t hm injejieralayj-ealle-thelr--occa-. Wh iJu!i -if Jr-fTf0 donated by citiiens has been aban Ttl0n; 1EM.i,i,,ai.Ji! Anting and aoned. jvlr. ciark stated that the Ship- pington plant would be continued in operation under the new management. Klamath Falls Northwestern hrA- big traction engine with eignt to iu wagons trailing will be the novel scene on the road between here and the Dairy and Bonanza regions this summer. George C. Clarke has taken a contract to use hli big traction engine in hauling tho product of the Horton sawmill, on the mountain near isonanxa, to mis city. SEVEN GREAT PLAGUES Asiatic Cholera. HE bolt of Taft by Governor Osborn of Michigan and his support of Woodrow Wilson disclosed the complications to ' kEosuU- from the present political , revolution. Osborn is one of the ; seven Republican governors who joined In urging Roosevelt to become ' a candidate. He advises against a . - third party. It Is Governor Osborn's opposition ' to a third party . ihal xevals.-.th&i- progressives out of the Republican party. They retain the name Repub lican, but it Is a Boss Barnes party, a Guggenheim party, a Penrose party, a Standard Oil party, a steel trust party, an Allrich party, a Mex icanlzed party. THE CATaTLE , OF THE NATION i complexities that grow out of pres 1 , .'nt disturbed political conditions, j Michigan is a progressivo state. It i ' j.j"ecenjtly dismissed its standpat sen ! ator, Burrows, from tr.e United ..States senate ana elected a progres i 6ive. Governor Osborn is himself an ar , dent progressive. The Republican or ;: ganlzation of the state is divided be !. p tween progressives and reactionaries, f Governor Osborn sees that great " peril confronts the cause, in the j. . ehifting party allegiance and new ' i "alignments now making 1.3 a result T. r --of the tragedy at Chicago. J--si-s? If third party is forned in Michigan, all progressives will not go into- it. Some will go to Wilson, ' ; as Governor Osborn has done. Oth . ' ers, who cling to the party fetk-h, ;4 will go to Taft, and augments! by sucb accessions, the reactionaries I '""""Tfiay gercoh7rroT ofthe party in the state, including the party organiza "t!on, an'd thereafter be able to dis perse and overwhelm the progres t 8ive forces. I "-The Bituatlon is one that v ill con , ' 'front party leaiers in all states. In t the twelve states in which pri , i' marles were held, the progressives are In control In nearly every in ! JitBtance, and the question. of how to r sending them to Jail arrest the ap palling increases in the high c03t of living. On this page is a brief account of the now famous Thomas F. Ryan. OUR COMPLICITY B ECAUSE Of a few drinks and a loaded revolver, a boy of eighteen Is awaiting trial in the county. Jail for attempt to He Is one of four boys landed HE rising prices of farm and ranch land are only one of the causes that maintain the high inr price of cattle. It is obviously!.,, ft Portland-orison within a week true that low-priced cattle cannot be on account of pistols. raised on high priced land and feed. who but society itself sanctions But the census figures show that the j tne promiscuous sale of revolvers ordinary lars of supply and demand !and Ammunition to boys? are responsible for such prices as -iVho but society countenances the $9.55 per 100 pounds, paid last week gaie of revolvers and ammunition to for corn fed cattle In the Chicago j every thug every assassin, and every market. In 1850 the number of cattle in crook? Who but society looks complacent- meet progressive de: nlor.s to Taft and not lose control of the party and party organization to the reaction aries is a pressing problem. a part of the responsibility if he raises no protest and goes on day the United States to every 1000 of lv on wnl)e boy8 ana men with load the population was 766.6. In 1860 e'd revolvers burglarize, rob, malm, it had risen to 814.8. In 1890 it . mutilate, and kill? had still risen to 915.8. That was j Wno Dut society sits calmly by high water mark, and a decline set;wnlIe tne homicides, the shootings. I11. and lasted, until in 1910 there jthe murders committed with loaded were but 665.7 cattle to every 1000 j revolvers go merrily on? PePle- 1 Because of a few drinks and a Between 1900 and 1910 the cattle ioaded pistol, a boy of eighteen is supply Increased 16.8 per cent, or,',. jaii. How can any citizen escape in ngures, s.YJb.uuu. Hut popula tion gained 21.3 per cent, or 15,- 978.000. ITog supplies in the same decade decreased by 4,876,000. The resources of the people as a 'vhole meanwhile rose steadily. Tho standard of living demanded larger supplies of meat, and the higher priced portions in the butchers' shops were asked for. Therefore tho prices of cattle in the markets over the whole country have been steadily rising. If the high cost of living depends Mr. Coulter's Reply. Portland, Or., June "5. To the Editor of The Journal Apropos to the above communication referred to me for a reply, permit me to say, first of all, that the writer evidently is lahorlng under a common mistake made by some of the single taxers themselves, because they do not see other values, save the values In land. "That the single tax is a tax on land alone," Is often pot for ward, but nothing could be further from the fact. The single tax is not properly a tax at all, but the-rent value of natural resources and special privi leges granted by the state, including the community made values In lands. It Is,' therefore, one single levy upon the values created and owned by society In stead of levies upon the values created bv individuals, and Is based upon the truth that government is created to be a blessing to men, not a curse. The state must therefore exist upon its own wealth, else, like any other parasite and robber, it becomes reprobate, and ends by despoiling the many for the benefit of the few, Stated another way: The state can only take In taxes that which it first gives, else It becomes as a business man who sells worthless goods under a guarantee of genuineness and then repudiates the guarantee. This Is prac tically the condition of society as pro ceeding under the name of the state of Oregon today. Put a bit broader: It Is unthinkable that the saints in heaven could prosper and remain happy If the Almighty taxed them to the limit upon their robea, harps nnd mansions In order to equip and maintain the police depart ment In hell, while at the same time he gave away the natural and community made values In heaven to the more ag gressive sinners. Yet this is exactly Oregon today, and has crowded man away from the earth Into artificial lives, and thereby produced the evils the writer refers to. Now for the questions As to the so cial evil: It has two streams that feed It. economic necessity and the natural hunger in the human being for the re generative energy that arises from sex union. This hunger Is a thousand fold Increased by the artificial lives made necessary through the monopoly of nat ural resources. The single tax would after day -permitting the indiecrim- therefore destroy--the - social evil, in i !,.,. . i,,.o j time, because human beings would lual u l u. .c.u-.o tv, u,. !gra(jUally get back their natural oppor croons 10 couuiiub: On every citizen end on the whole of society rests a part of the guilt. Why doesn't the legislature act? EXPANDING TRADE I T will be rememberea that a few months ago a representative of the Maple Leaf Steamship com pany visited Portland on his tour I Unities, and thus become natural hus- I bands and wives Instead, as now roues ! and harlots. It Is to be observed that the word social evil la not the profes sionnl but the respectable, which Is caused by lack of funds to wed. As to a wage law: No man willingly works under a master he always dreams of Independence. So that If his natural opportunities were given him by destroying the profit In speculative ownership of the planet, he would 1m- A mediately take himself out of the labor ... iv.i uur ii Tn,n nr.et in aaporfaln h a ! mark "t and so force a maximum wage iu nnv uypicwaio caiciil uu uifciij"i mo u.n- -u. " out of the employer, h I pncea meai me oniy apparent rem-1 pobsiuihuub ui tusu uci..rcu urao jedy is that the housewives of Amer-j ports and England, ilea will be contented with les3 and! The American consul at Manches jwith less expensive meat. W readier now reports that a representa of various spasmodic efforts in east-! Jive of the same steamship line he PORTLAND establishment has ern cities by groups snd small asso been awarded the contract for f iat ions of buyers to reduce their The home of genuine Asiatlo cholera. Is In India, whence all its great epi-' demies have taken- origin. The first outbreak of which - there Is any accur ate record occurred in 1817, and the disease first appeared In Europe in not able degree In 1839-42, since which time a number of epidemics have occurred, the one In 1868 being noteworthy and that of 1S92 In Russia, France, Italy and Hamburg, also being severe. Asiatic cholera is epidemic or per manent In the Ganges delta, whence it generally spreads every year over India. In Its course westward it in variably follows the same course. For instance, in IS 17, there was a violent outbreak at Jessore, India, and thence it spread to the Malay Islands and to Bourbon, to China and Persia, to Rus sia iji Europe and especially to St Petersburg and Moscow. In 1831 It overran Poland, Germany and England, and first appeared In Paris, Ireland and America In 1832, In 1849 the cholera pursued the same route, coming overlund from India through Russia. It appeared in Paris on March 17. and lasted until October. In 1853 cholera, again com ing by this route, was less fatal lh Paris, although it lasted for a longer time more than a year. The last thra epidemics reached Europe by wsy of the Mediterranean sea. The seventh and last severe visita tion of cholera in Europe was in 1892, when its route was from the Punjaub through Afghanistan and Persia into Russia and across th Mediterranean . - ... V- T , I . . . ' iu "uuuiciu 1'iaim. xaie in ine sum mer the epldemlo appeared in various parts of Austria and Germany, and was frightfully virulent In the city of Ham burg. In England It was confined by excellent regulations to narrow limits. Crossing the Atlantic late In August it waa arrested at the hai4or of JNew York by half barbarous but effectual measures of quarantine and gained no footing in America, Asiatic --cholera has visited the Unit ea istates upon a number of oc casions, but the rigid sanitary methods employed in this country has prevented It from becoming an epidemic. It was breught by Irish emigrants to Canada In 1832 and it entered the United States by way of Detroit and thence it spread through the west to the Pacific coast and south to New Orleans. Subsequent epidemics occurred in 1841, .1863, 1871, 1883, 1891 and 1893. In 1899 Asiatic cholera was found by the United States troops in the Philippine islands. whera It has probably been often prevalent. Of the mild cases of this disease about 60 per cent die, while more than 90 per cent die if attacked severely. The nature and history of the disease had long made It clear to the minds of the medical profession that an In fectious agency is operative in the pro duction of cholera; but the actual dem onstratlon of the specific germ re malned for the genius of Dr. Koch, who discovered the "bacillus of cholera' in Egypt in 1883, a year after his com munlcatlon of his still more important discovery of the cause of tuberculosis. Tomorrow Hamelln's Plague of Rats. to carry the entire burden of society and still collect the very life out of the Industry of others. The graduated sin gle tax and exemption amendment la the question now which not only proposes to collect from all the proportionate value of the natural opportunities they monopolize, but specifically collects the interest on all the confiscated natural resources which has accumulated for these 50 years or more, and thereby make the burden equal to all. F. E. COULTER. leads to crimes against God and man. dishonors aged fathers and mothers, and fills our Jails with criminals made of our boya, and houses of prostitution wl-th our girls. Do you wonder women hesitate to bring more boys and girls into the world? I don't. Why will men and women be so blinded by prejudice In regard to Socialism before they Judge It, if they believe in Christ? It is Christianity exemplified. God knows we have a super abundance of Chris tianity, and mighty little of genuine Christianity. HARRIETT BATES, IN CALIFORNIA V. T building a concrete bridge at Ventura, California. The struc- j - 'ture Is to be 1 000 feet long and to : '-; cost about $60,000. The significance of the incident Is ; that the bridge is a part of the pood "-roads system of California. Though .already gridlroned with excellent their higher level I roads, that state is now spending the I proceeds of an elghteen-mllllon-dol- lar bond issue in highway construc tion. It has been stated that California I receives from tourist travel more revenue that is produced by the an- nual wheat crop of Oregon. The f ig- urea seem ' large, but they serve a purpose In giving nomo idea of the J hugeness of tourists ".annual expendi- tures in the Btate of California. ,;The tourists are a crbp that never fails In California." There are excel- lent roads for them to journey over, '""and with-a desire of encouraging .the business California is building t Ftill' better roads. , , It Is a business that Oregon could easily sbsrtv Through a largg part There it more purchases, with faces set towards economy. But, probably, the men of the house revolted against any de cline in the standard of living to which they had become accustomed. With tho revived demand in the in not identified by name as the same who visited us has Just made an examination of the possibilities of Manchester as a regular rort of call of a steamship from the Pacific coast. Of course the Patfama canal Is the inducement for the opening ence there would be no use for a minimum wage law, As to strikes, the same would be true. It would be more profitable for both striker and so-called "scab" to go back to the land and use their natural opportunities than to fight over a Job. In fact, the necessity of a maximum wage to get men at all would forever prevent strikes. The natural tendency would be cooperation and union. As to confiscation: "It Is to lauijh!" Bless your heart! Doesn't everyone know that all the land In Oregon Is al ready conflsrated from Its rightful owners? From the men and women butcher's shops meat prices resumed ! communication. up of this and many other lineB of 1 who want It for homes it is held by the nELPING.OUT THE TAXES so-called owners until the want for .iin utroif, n.wy .in. .H "iTT,ak tllem millionaires without right, means, at the other end, of cheap-j no real single taxer is interested In enine and quickening communica-i th9 question of who owns the land; he a 1 a ... ! ,.M i ( iirjats in urrgon. HE lnhabltan'j of Wake county, N. C, ran short on tax money for the support of the county's schools. But there was a bit of land unused round each school- house. Would not that help out If (Hons put. in crops? So the school chil- j ready only aren and tbeir fathers and mothers, to the number of 1200 In all, set lo work. Seventeen of the school tions, as the ships would unload Ore gon canned goods, fruit, timber, and grain directly from the Portland docks, in the very heart of a dense manufacturing and consuming popu lation that s measured by the mll- The Portland docks will be ust .' . time. Chicago's 4t.h was sane, and not a fatality is reported from a city farms or gardens were cropped last : where formerly hundreds paid the year, and tho net proceeds, to the penalty on beds of pain or at the . - 1 Hp m 1 oaa .. J , V. benefit of the county's schools. Since this was voluntary work and sacrifice for the common benefit It Beems to be one step higher than tho where the children work for them selves. Not only were the children morgue of a mad celebration. lty pays. San- They Bay it was the speed hog gishness oflanother auto that drove Oregon 1)A. good ,aa.iiiat.i&4 tha. Ruedy - machine- from threa4 with one killed and anotii?r fright fully injured on the Sandy road yes- is only Interested In who gets tho rent value of the land which society not the owners put into it. That's all. Fifty years ago and more Oregon and the United States confiscated all the land that w-e and our children must have for homes and gave It away to a few corpo rations and individuals, who have since colleeted the rent out of the Industry of the "nobodies" through the connivance of the tax laws. If a young man or woman wants a home today they can take their choice of building sites on the top of Mount Hood or at the bottom of the Willam ette. Anywhere else they go the confis cated value of all these years will be taken out of them. The single tax would take the confiscated rent values out of the people who have collected it lsntead of out of the Industry of the poor people who have merely created It. However, the single tax, as sufch, Is not-up ..at this ., 4lmav-f t he wimple reason that the few, corporations ' and land hogs who have posseoifeloh of these confiscated values would be able Some Questions. .Portland, Or., July 2. To the Editor of The Journal Why is it the subsi dized papers do not say anything about the Socialist candidates, who were nomi nated at Indianapolis in May last, in a decent and- orderly convention without a dissenting vote? Do you think bo cause of your silence the country can be kept In ignorance of the fact that Eu gene V. Debs and Envll' -Sldel are the Socialistic candidates for president and vice president for .J9J.2? Do you not know that the Socialist party has been wie imru yariy lur id yuarai v ny ine call for a third party now by T. R.? Perhaps he still thinks the Socialists are "undesirable citizens"; If so, lie will find the woods are full of them, and more coming from the ranks of the grand (?) old parties so old that they have passed the time of their useful ness and retired to the boncyard, as all discarded, useless things do. The So cialist party is the only party offering any hope for the future of this nation; that stands fnr equality, liberty and justice; the only party that advocates anything to the advantage of the great plain people. Why did not Father Vaughn take -ad- -rantage of the Appeal to Reason's offer to give him the use of Its whole front page to make his objections to Socialism known to the world? The Appeal to Reason Is read the world over. Why does he come here from a foreign coun try to Influence us In our politics, and go from city to city, to tell a few peo ple that Socialism will destroy the home? Capitalism is doing that very rapidly now; Socialism has not had the opportunity yet. Why does he say so many things like T. R.? .Everybody knows, who has a grain of common sense, that Socialism is the one thing needful to make humanity human once more. Religion and politics should not be played one against the other. Father Vaughn or any other preacher cannot stop the onward march of Socialism, for the "ethics of Socialism are the ethics of Christianity." says the Encyclopedia Brltannlca. 'ni you make anything bad out of that definition, ye preachers who pretend to preach Christ? Christ was the first Socialist, and gave us the foundation for Socialism. "Do ye even sd unto one another as -ye would they should do unto you." "Love thy neigh bor as thy self," If he was on earth today he would put to rout the money changers from the temples, now taken over bodily by mammon. It is not So cialism they fear so much .as the loss of the power through money which they uuvo iiciu wri iiio uiercuf isriniiio ing down labor to tho hare limit of ejfV f1etTi:g. OapttgrhwIffTh rffe'ftaTr enemy to ties home, the breeder of freo love as is evidenced by the, court records every day In the papers. Capitalism I- By Miles angleroot Overholt JINWJNG JOSHES. Old Deacon Bright bent down In prayer Ana tncn. without a warning. Be stepper upon a peeling th O what a lovely morning: A small boy smoked a cheap drar Down where the little lambskins play, men, nunueniy, re saw a star What .time is the parade today? Bill Ball came home one afternoon; Of course 'twas much too soon for Ball ; He saw his wife and someone spoon O what a pretty fu-ner-al! A fat elrl frolicked on the beach Her bathing suit was much too tight, a sneu -was almost in ner reach How brlarht the moonbeams seem to nignt: O don't you remember about one Ben Bolt? - 'Twas long years ago that he swayed But here is a later: T. Roosevelt Bolt Which puts one Ben Bolt In the shade Stick to Your Trade (Cootrlbottd lo Ilia journal tir Walt Maaoo, tba famoua Kamia pot. Bla prota po ma arc recular featora of tbUa column Id Tba Ualljr journal. 4 I found in the years that are past that Switching around Is no use; for the cobbler should stick to his last, and the tailor should stick to his goose. In winding a clock I excelled; no others could wind as I wound at least so my partisans held and ftill I kept fooling around at tasks of a different kind, for which I had no sort of knack; ah, me 1 was stupid and blind! Oh, waly! Alas and alack! I worked for a while In store, I tolled for a time in a mill; dug out some valueless ore from the side of a vitrified hill; -I wrought with a tracklaying crew, I wielded a spade on the street, and poorer and poorer grew, until I had nothing to eat. When I.'d blown In the last of my rocks, I said: "I'll go back to my trade: when it comes to the winding of clocks, all rivals are put In the shade." Since then I have prospered, you bet, and I've my own wisaom to tnanit; 1 haven t a care or a debt, and I have a roll In the bank And thousands are fooling, along,-and putting themselves In a plight; they're doing the task that Is wrong, they pass up the one that is right. Don't tackle the job you do worst. If you'd "enjoy comfort and peace: for1, the cobbler ahu 4 iek-4hl"ftrft,"ant"TTi e 1 alter should etlck to his geese. . ' Copyright, inn, b George Mattbew Adtaia, sional value, but never allows them to hamper, impede or embarrass him." ' Mr. Williams had undergone an -sonar. lence with the silent Wsnasiva hanW. Win. theJ upbuilding of the Seaboard system, which tapped the native south of both men. This la his description of 'Mr. "Ryan Is Very smooth and nlaiin. ible. He has no scruples that I can discover, but hli methods are never vio lent He has a clear mind and a long one, and the gift of 'infinite patience. He never breaks his way into a situa tion. He buys In or ; insinuates hinw self softly and by degrees, or goes a long way around and approaches from ambush In the rear. He can await his opportunities, and when ther arrive recognises them In a flash." . v Mr. Williams gives a ijoncreta tllu- tration of Ryan and' his methods: . in the winter of 1903-1904." ha Mr. Ryan and associates' aa-reed tn make a loan of $2,600,000 to the Seaboard Air i,ine railway on collateral worth double the amount of the loan, promis ing aenniieiy ana expressly to do va rious things for the benefit of the roa. On these promises he and 'associatea' sadly defaulted, but he made It a con dition of the loan that he should be given thflL nomination of the majority of the voting trust which then con trolled the Seaboard Air Line. Papers were drawn up under which Mr. Ryan and 'associates' promised to lenfl th. 12.600,000 agreed to. A majority of the Id voting trustees resigned and Mr. Ryan and associates' nominated their successors. Thejr were no sooner In control of the company than they proceeded to manipulate its finances and force it to borrow money from them at exorbi tant rates of Interest and under other onerous conditions. Before they had actually turned over to the company the 2,!iuo,ooo which they had agreed to lend It they forced it to make a new w.ww.wvw niiu v BjiVO IV liin subscribers to that loan 15.000.003 of . three year 6 per cent bonds, with a bonus of $12,600,000 of preferred and common stock. They tried to get the whole of ths loan themselves by frightening stock holders and keeping them from sub scribing, but in spite of the discour aging statements which they put out, stockholders did subscribe to about half of the new loan, and Mr. Ryan and 'associates' furnished about 12. - 600,000. Their first loan of $2,500,000 was paid off before maturity. - In the case of the Seaboard Mr. Ryan and 'associates' succeeded, through the agency of a voting trust, without stock ownership, In bleeding the cor poration of which they were trustees to the extent of nearly $2,000,000." Sixty-one years ago Ryan was born on a Virginia rami. During the Civil war he was dependent upon two maiden aunts and received a bare common school education. After the war, youngster that he was, be man aged the plantation until he reached the age of 17, when he came to Balti more and entered the employ of the dry goods house which has slnee be come the firm of John E. Hurst & Co., then headed by General John 8. Berry, afterward the father-in-law of Ryan. Two years In Baltimore and he sought a larger field in New York, en tering a banking house In which Gen eral Berry was Interested. Two years after that, when he was but 21 years old, he became partner of a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and two years after that bought a seat for himself on the exchange and swung fairly upon his career of acquisition and power. Trade cams to him from the biggest New Torkera from Jay Gould arid the like. He held to this business for a dosen or more years. 1 hen he rested for a twelvemonth. When he returned to business he began consolidating publlo service enterprises and large Industries. Soon he was hated and feared -became a very savage in. the financial world. He waa with the Whitney syndicate. First, be turned hts hand to the rail ways of New York and was a leading factor in the creation of the Metro politan system. New Jersey came next and the electric railways and lighting plants along the coast were made into the Atlaftttei-Goaei-Eleetrto- lines - Great wealth and greater financial credit was his then, so he Invaded the west and had to do with the railroads of Chicago and Milwaukee, and with those of his own south. And this brought about the Seaboard affair with John B. Williams. His southern activities also led him to the tobacco trade, and he was In strumental In organizing the Union To bacco company and Its successor, the American Tobacco company, the opera tions of which the government has been seeking so long to restrain. In the Hughes Insurance investiga tions he was frequently brought to the surface under the adroit and success ful probliHg by, the later governor of New York of "inside" financial opera tions. After the probe he purchased the Equitable and made Paul Morton head of the society. Is Money Mainspring How. Three years ago he withdrew from the directorates of 31 great corporations. Since then he has been a sort of money mainspring. Columns would be required to recount the enterprises with which he has been closelv. and often domlnatlnely. lden tified. He has been In development undertakings In the far west and in the territorial possessions; he has mammoth Interests in the .Congo; he Is In aleel, In banking, In railroads. In Insurance, In tobacco. In short, he has reached out for wealth and mastery wherever his untiring search discovered possible profit. Politics he has ever found usefuk With the old type of bosses, the men who really controlled the country for a ..An nB V. A n.AA I ... I n . - A he maintains similar relations with their somewhat puny successors. Fpr year he has been a powerful volcein New York and. If anything, a more powerful voice In Virginia, where his friends fronl time to time have tentatively suggested the governorship or a senator-ship. He keeps his voting residence in the old state, having a magnificent home In Nel son county. . " Of him Mr. Williams said further: "I have been to fortunate In my busi ness connections that It was difficult for me to understand jthat a man could be capable of violating pledges and promises, deliberately and solemnly calmly in the face and expressing friend ship anJ apparently not at all ashamed or embarrassed not -even angered when ' bluntly told my opinion of his conduct"