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truth If we be not sincerely Just
and honest In our actions-
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WH08E CANAL?
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T
HIE British note of protest
against free tolls for American
coastwise nhlps at Panama
says: As to aiscriminauon in
:-fvor of chips engaged in coastwise
.-trade, It would be difficult to frame
' ..' anrovlsion whlcrutould not be re
garded as Injurious to British inter-
' How ab6ut United States Interests
f Jn the, Panama canal?
, yT Who la building the Panama canal.
fcnyway
'Im Throhgh whose territory Is the
r JPanamaNCanal being built?
'L For wnose benefit Is the United
, States building the Panama canal?
! i Whose money U paying for the
' Panama canal?
'.- Whose money must pay interest
; on. Jhe bonds and provide for the
tepaVr and upkeep of the Panama
canal?
Is it for the benefit of British In
terests that the Panama canal is
built by the United States, protected
jy the United States flag, construct
ed 'through United States territory,
-i Maintained by United States endea
. Vor'and paid for with United States
money?
GRADUATED TAX MEASURE
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TATED In few words, the pro
posed graduated single tax and
exemption measure means this:
T - JBivery puuuo oervice cuiyui-
ation must pay a graduated tax if
ltfl franchise and right of way are
.Assessed at $10,1,00 or more.
, ' Every person or corporation own
ing land, water power or other nat
ural resourcos assessed f 10,1 00 or
-raore, on the unimproved value,
;jnust pay a graduated tax.
The graduated taxes collected in
eacb county must be applied to the
: following purposes, in the order
named: 1 The county's share of
ttate taxes. 2 The county general
sc1iool "and library fund. 3 The
jcounty road . and bridge fund.
4 Other expenses of the county.
-fb Any public purpose approved by
.Uhe voters of the county,
J The graduated taxes collected
ifrom owners do not exempt the fran
chises, rights of way, water powers
or unimproved land values from reg
'ular and special tax levies.
: , Water powers are to I assessed
4 in the counties where they are situ
. Jated, on the horsepower value of
the waters claimed or appropriated.
"Thls does not include water power
appropriated for Irrigation.
rty and improvements separately
tirom the value of the land.
'The board of state tax commls-
, Bloners will assess the franchises
-ed rights of way of corporations.
77 The state tax commission will con-
1 tist of the governor, the state treas
' T'urer arid the secretary of state.
". The people of any county may
:..Ote to tax personar77dty"anr
4 Improvements, at a regular olec
' 'tion or at a special election called
f by the county court on petition of
.fifteen per cent of the voters.
-" Corporations shall not own a vest
: V.,ed property right in their franchises,
Afcu told and jse their franchises as
; ttcstees for the people.
"It any person or corporation
! Shall at any time in any manner
trfviBfer an7 franchise or any land
.or other . property or -ny interest
therein or -ny part thereof to any
! natural person a3 trustee, agent or
I dummy with intent to evade or Mn
- der the levy or co1 'ection of such tax,
.1 fcaid trustee, agent (ir dunimy shall
4therebr become ewner of such fr.m
"ehlBe or property; Provided, that if
B5y person or corporation shall con
' vey any franchise or any land or
""'other properi y or interest, therein or
,f fifty part thereof to any corporation
jor fictitious person for the purpose
of evading any provision of this
' section, the same shall be thereby
"r fdrfeited to the state of Oregon for
!4he benefit of the IrreJucible school
- fc fund."
fc.iThe word "person" as i sed in this
yjtmendment Includes natural persons,
trustees, agents,- receivers, rompan
les, partnerships and other associ--,
utions for profit, estate, joint tenants.
' fcorporatiens and collective nssess
ments to the heirs of deceased jper
; fiona,,
;The proposed graduated land value
, tax Is. drawn in favor of the "little
ifejlow" the average man and in
' some degrees is a check upon great
; accumulations, either by individuals
. ot corporations.
. BOUGHT SENATE SEATS
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rrH.S 'MlaKOula- (Montana) gentl-
Inel charges that "tho election
Kfit. Dixon of Montana to the
'. United States senate, was in
evfry particular as crooked and as
corrnpi as the election of Lorlmer."
THE,
It adds, in an article on this page,
"If anything, the Dixon affair was
more disgraceful," and "Dixon's seat
was purchased outright by the big
gest and most dangerous aggrega
tion of corporate pl-atcs this coun
try has yet seen," 1
n But Dixon wasn't .caught. Lorl
mr was. The truth as to other
bqugbt seats never leaked out. It
was the bad luck of Lorlmer and the
good luck of-tbe American people
that enough of the legislative cor
ruption at Springfield . became
known to create an Indicting public
sentiment and conjpei-ErjrinveBttga-tion.
' ' '
It required the pitiless publicity
that appeared In the Lorlmer case
to arouse tho country. It required
such an nroujul to force the issue of
direct election.
Wo are faBt passing out of tho
era of senatorial elections by pur
chase. Sometimes It seems discour
aging, 'but with unvarying regular
ity the American people s.em able to
correct ttuusea nd demonstrate their
capacity for self-go vernmoxtt.
Tho Lorlmer expulsion was a na
tional triumph and It ought to bo
encouragement to pursue the work
of reform.
CKOOKKD MONEY
THE sinister purposes or secret
campaign contributions In pres
idential elections are evidenced.
In the annulling loss of mem
ory in the present congressional in
quiry.
Autrust Belmont's memory was so
bad that he couldn't romomber how
much he gave to tho Parker cam-
naien In 1904. He finally said he
was willing to allow tho amount to
be lumped off at $250,000.
An extraordinary lapse of mem
ory anneared in George B- Cortelyou,
manager of the Roosevelt campaign
in lf04. He could remember Only
one individual contrihu Ion, that of
110,000 by Andrew Carnegie.
The Charles E. Hughes investiga
tion showed that George W. Perkins
contributed $50,000 of life Insur
ance money, and Perkins was subse-
auently indicted for it. But Cor
telyou couldn't remember it.
Harriman raised $260,000 in Wall
street for the Roosevelt campaign of
that year, and the facts were printed
in everv newspaper in the United
States, as a result of Harriman's own
exposure of tha details. But cor
telyou could not remember it.
Standard Oil contributed $100,000
to the campaign fund of that year,
and Mr. Roosevelt says he ordered
Mr. Cortelyou to returr. It. But
when questioned before the com
mittee, Mr. Cortelyou did not re
member It.
One nartner of J. P. Morgan was
raising campaign money that year
in Pennsylvania and anotner in isew
York. But Mr. Cortelyou, manager
of the campaign -and 41twrser of
corruption funds, could not remem
ber it.
Why did he refuse to remember?
Why does he hide the sources of
campaign contentions from the
American people? Why cover up
the means by which crooked busi
ness in alliance with corrupt poli
tics gets strings on the White Ho se?
As nothine else can, the crooked
memory of Mr. Cortelyou and Mr.
Relmont justifies oodrow Wil-
pon in his refusal to accept sinister
campaign contributions from Thom
as F. Ryan and Vail street.
PRESIDENTIAL STATURE
T 1 yOODRUW. WILHU.-N nan an-
aounced that he will not, in
YY the campaign, discuss his
It -is such an announcement as
might' "have been expected from the
man who, In spite of urgent appeals
from his friends, refused to go to
Baltimore to help out hia candidacy
before 'the conrgntron.- T he - presM
dencv Is an unusual office. The
White House symbolizes ninety mil
lions of people. The billingsgate of a
sheriff's contest is unfit in a presi
dential battle. Great policies and
lareo issues bearing on the common
weal are the topics fpr discussion by
men who aspiro to the highest elec
tive office in the world.
If all the presidential candidates
will follow the course proposed by
Governor Wilson, it will be gratify-,
ing to the nation. Nobody wants to
hear presidential candidates called
horsethleves, knaves and nincom
poops. We had enough of that in
the lato unpleasantness between Mr.
Taft and Mr. Roosevelt, both of
whom lost prestige and lost votes in
the mi.xup.
Presidential candidates who re
frain from vulgarity do much to
dt-monstrate that they are of presi
dential Etature.
MR. MVLKEY'S CANDIDACY
TT1I: appearance of Mr, Mulkey as
a senatorial candidate formal
ly launches the third party In
Oregon. It Is in obedience to
the Instructions of Mr. Roosevelt,
who declared two days ago for the
organization of a third party that
shall bo separate and distinct from
I f.-rlatinp' nnlltical nrrrinlntlnna Tho
next necessary step will obviously be
the naming of Roosevelt electors to
dlsputo with Taft electors the vote
that has hitherto been Republican.
Nobody knows yet what conditions
the new lines of cleavage will cre
ate It menus to Republicans who
join the third paty, that they are
taking fo mal leave of the Republi
can party. It recalls the populist
movement in tbe party nineties In
Oregon, which drew heavily from
both parties but which got by far the
most of its voting strength from the
Democrats. In .ho present move
ment, there w-ll: be no recruits from
OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,
th Democratic party, and the move
ment will be confined to a serious
split In the Republican party, end
its resultant demoralization.
In Oregon there will be thousands
of Republicans who will take tho
ground that Woodrow Wilson is ft
progressive candidate, and that it is
better to vote for him than to take
action to permAnently break tip the
Republican party. Other thousands
will remain regular and support Mr.
Taft. But there will be still other
thousands who will quit the Repub
lican party and go Into the Rooeb
veirmovement" It is not impossible that the
Roosevelt party may split the Re
publican party in the state into two
evenly balanced halves. It might
do more.
rilRIIAl'H
WHEN thieves fall out honest
men get their dues, ia the
substance of an old saying.
New York City ia in the
throes of a gambling sensation that
has assumed national interest. The
bold assassination of Rosenthal,
keeper of a gambling house, is the
focal point around which the great
storm beats.
fhe five men w-ho motored up to
Hotel Metropolo, beckoned to Rosen
thal to come out. and then shot him
full of bullets, committed a crime
rarely parallelod In the audacity of
Its conepption or boldness of its exe
cution, ho desperate a killing un
doubtedly had back of it desperate
facts.
Rosenthal's act In making public
the fact that he was nayirlK tribute
to police higher-ups for tho nrivileea
of running his place must have had
nacK of it the knowledee of other
compromising facts of extraordinary
importance. On no other hypothe
sis would a group cf men arm them
selves and commit so desperate a
crime and 'jommlt It so desperately.
Perhaps exposures llkelv to fol
low may national!) direct nublio at
tention to the notorious alliance be
tween police and criminals so often
charged, and perhaps it may con-
inoute something toward a country
wide municipal bouse cleaning.
XI 1
x cruaps.
THE SMALL INVESTOR
SAVINGS banks of whatever
kind, postal or other servo
most usefully the needs of
me large class whos . ac
cumulations are small, or whn dn
not trust their own judgment in
cnoosing Investments. But their
patrons must bo contented with low
Interest, because tho bank must earn
Its expenses and Interest on Its own
capital stock from the difference
between tho interest it receives and
the interest it pays.
Yet it is undeniable thpt the Km.
obtainable interest compatible with
aDsoiute security la a strong induce
ment to save and to Invest. There
Is a very large proportion of invest
ors who will feel contented with
notning but public issues thnt ia
with government or municipal bonds,
or with the securities of honestly
managed and well tried comm.
tlons.
This c'ass is hardlv ever rataraA
to in thlu country. The recent reg-
uiauon orrerlng irovernment hnmi.
for subscription by postal bank de
positors is the first notable erec
tion. But what the postal bank cus
tomer gains in interest Is no e-iwit
Inducement, for It Is but a trifling
"Srrrrn TtlTTTWeTH"T?rTFirT;r,on i
vestor is In the adoption of the
French system. The ur.T,ria
- - . --, r-' V uuUUOf yi
other securities, are issued in vari-
uu ueuoiuinauons, large and small.
The small ones draw tmmor,o
"" DUU1D
from the hiding places of the savers
mostly women.
The country ia a rtnnhia i
HcardefJ money is brought Into lr-
umtiun, unu ino small Investor re
ceives the Interest which would oth
erwise pass either to the big city
banking houses or to the .'orelgn
subscribers.
But if the plan is to be tried In
the United States Just one or two ex
periments will not suffice. There
must be perseverance until confi
dence In the new method is estab
lished. Frying the fat out of corpora
tions Tor campaign uses has a fright
ful effect in destroying the memorv.
After only eight years, Mr. Belmont
and Mr. Cortelyou cannot remember
such trifles of sinister money as
$2,-10,000. $2C0,000 and Blmilar
sums. Nowhere is there such de
fective menjory as In corrupt poll
tics. Having remained in eclipse so
long, Mr. Selling has permitted Mr,
Mulkey to get in on tho ground floor
as senatorial idol of tho third party
How can Mr. Selling now hope to
dispute with Mr. Mulkev for tb
of the Roosevelt hosts? What is
lert tor Mr. Helling to do but come
out for Taft?
Long ago. The Journal predicted
that the Willametto valley was about
to experience extraordinary exten
sions of railroad mileago. The pro
gram of the Southern Pacific re
specting extensions of the Portland,
Eugene' & Eastern confirm the proph
ecy, to say nothing of the activities
of the Hill lines.
A New Jersey man has sued for
divorce because his wife bought
$725 worth of beer In 227 days. The
stinginess of some husbands is al-
tnost "beyond belief.
National history has scarcely af
forded as reckless and audacious a
crime as the shooting of the New
York gambler as he stood on the ve-
PORTLAND. THURSDAY
randa of a New York hotel., The
murder promises to take on the pro
portions of a national sensation.
It was in the winter months of
1011 that Portland was almost f ren
Bied in its desire for , cpmmlsslon
government. What has become of
all those statesmen and alt those
oanrHriota wti tinnffftred BO ' for
commission government? Why should
commission government oe less ae
slrable in the summer of 1913 than
it was in the winter of 1911?
ATamphietro - prepared ". by
Taft managers will explain that the
delegates at Chicago were not stolen.
Tho Impartial observer has known
all along that the Taft people did
not steal the delegates. They Just
took them, ' .
Andrew Carnegie says the political
situation ia too humiliating to be dis
cussed.' Andrew is too great an apos
tle of peace to be charmed by the
war .drums and bugle calls-of -the
situation.
It was fortunate for the Elks that
their splendid Portland parade was
not scheduled for the current week.
Five hours of marching yesterday
would not have been attended by
wild enthusiasm.
In the general scheme of things,
heated terms doubtless have their
place. It Is one comforting thought
in tho midst of tho general discom
fort. A mere onlooker Is almost con
vinced that Senator La Follotte is out
gunning for bull moose.
Letters From trie People
Article and questlone for this pajfs
phould be written on only one side of
the paper nnd be accompanied by the
wrlter'H name. The nunia will not be
published, but in desired aa an Indi
cation of good faith.
The Way It Affects One Man.
Portland, July 15. To the Editor of
The Journal Now that the Elks con
vention has past, and the people of
Tortland have derived much benefit In
advertising the resources and climatic
conditions of this fair country, and our
brothers of 142 have extended to the big
brothers from the east the warm and
welcome hand of good fellowship that
they might go away with a deep seated
Impression of gratitude not only to the
people of Portland, but to the great Pa
cific coatt; now thut the brilliant fancy
of our Imagination has been fulfilled,
beyond the dreams of Oliver Twist, let
us go back to nature, and sire up the
condition of our health.
Now that the fever heat has past.
And the dissipation that could not last,
We will back to nature and a cooling
bath
In the great Taclflc where the breakers
roll
And splnsli against the fevered limbs
that nrhe,
Until you think they will surely break,
The limbs thnt served yon, oh, so well
In dancing the can-can in a brilliant
grill.
J. knaw It's nlcc-to he a, bcajv
And (lance the dance that's so unfair
To nature that has been so kind
To give you love without the use of
wine,
The wine that poisons every spark of
truth
That God has given to our youth.
It's very nice to have a lunch,
And drink a glass or two of punch.
And dance the dance" of "It's a Bear,"
Kick Pame Nature through the air,
Then drink a quart or two of bud,
Or sparkling wine; It all tastes good;
Then do unother stunt of Bear.
And then you will be Teady to go any
where. And your nature will be so perverted
You will never know from whence you
started.
Through excessive drink and self abuse
You will he short the Bcnse
Cf the Powers goose.
Fred Rockwell Alexander.
Small Homes and Skyscrapers.
PortWindr-Thtlr 1&. To the Editor of
The .Tournnl -For every skyscraper that
would escape taxation if Improvements
were . exempt entirely there are. a thau
wand small cottages now taxed which
would also ascape.
The nmst valuable private building in
Oregon, the most valuable In Portland,
Is assessed at a quarter of a million. A
thousand sniall homes at $300 each for
the improvements and movable labor
values now pay twice the taxen. There
are not $10,0u0,000 In skyscrapers as
sessed in Oregon. There are supposed
to be over 30,000 homes in Portland
alon of the nearly $76,000,000 as
sessed for Improvements in Oregon
cities in 1910, to allow $10,000,000 for
skyscrapers and big business blocks is
an nutsjde limit. Twenty of the ..largest
buildings In Portland are not assessed
an average of $l'f,0,ono each.
The graduated tax measure would
take mitre In taxation from the owner of
ono vacant tract of land In the heart of
the city than Is now collected from tho
owner of any skyscraper as taxes there
on, nnd hi addition to such sum taken
would also require the payment of the
regular levy. There are many such emp
ty tracts, and others worse than empty,
for they aro covered with, dilapidated
buildings that are not worth removing
as rubbish. There are not many eight
story buildings. '
ALFRED D. CRIDQE.
Cure for Pneumonia
Portland, July 17. To the Editor of
The Journal I see that many people
lose their lives from pneumonia. Here
is a simple remedy which cannot hurt
to use, neither will It Interfere with
other treatments: Take a strip of heavy
flannel that will go around one's chest
twice, wrap It snug around the chest
pulled well up under tho arms, and pin
securely. Then give the patient nothing
but cold water to drink until he per
spires. A lady said she saved her hus
band's life twice In this way.
READER.
Stirring I'p Klngle Taxcrs.
Oregon City, July 15. To the Editor
of The Journal In the Daily Journal
tif the 10th Instant, under the above
heading and over the initials Q. T. 8.,
I find a very interesting article, part
of which I think Is very erroneous and
misleading. He says, ."Benefits will
come when, and only when, people have
correct conception of land values. False
ideas of this, many believe, come in
not recognizing equal rights to the
earth, tio one has naturally a better
right than another. Hence people do not
distinguish between what nature pro
vides and what a man produces, and fall
to recognize all land holders as privl
leKwd. and products Uiould sever - be
taxfd until all privileges are paid for."
Now, the writer of the above CB, T.
S ), seems to assume that the taxes we
pay to the county and state each year
are for the privilege of using our land,
which Is a very wrong conclusion. AH
our land was first acquired by our gov.
EVENING, JULY 18. 1912.
COMMENT AND
83L1LL CriAXGB .
Courage may be of an unwiie sort.
;. e ...
Kverjr year more people are learning
that good roads ray.
Some irradtmtea from a school of
Journalism may get jobs. .
.
Doubtlesa' there have been worse men
In the eenate than Lorlmer. , ',.
Oregon's summer nights are conducive
to longevity and morality.
- dome workers need and deserve short
er hours an- more rest epella.
a . .
- The people are bound to htvs better
publlo service, and will got It.
Of all the crops, only prunes are re
ported abort. Again, It might be worse.
In a Taft-Wilion debate the Demo
cratic candidate need have nothing to
fear.
President Taft may be wise If he does
no campaigning; he tried that last
spring-.
a
It Is difficult for matJre men to be
lieve that a summer girl is quite as
good aa she looks.
Reform in Borne measure of the great
express monopoly evlt seems also to be
dimly but hopefully coming Into view.
A too-blbulons mechanic! Is occasion
ally benten by his small but active wife,
a pleasing variation of the usual story,
ably, warm except for the fellows who
yc-u?
Borah, Hartley, Osbom, Rtubbs, and
many other big progressives decline to
follow the Hull Moose movement Into
the big, deep ditch. ' .
a
StnmA PrnhlKfttnnlaf a want tn hana.
slve party ." Better not; all the other
immea Kin irugresaive aireaay.
a a
Thnug-h he loat $225,000 In his London
Orand opera house the past season, Os
car Hammeretein will try again next
season. He loves art In grand opera
more than money, but lota of the latter
Is necessary in his business.
SEVEN FAMOUS DOGS
Arnold's "Gelst"
Matthew Arnold, who was a promi
nent figure In the great galaxy of Vic
torian poete who were working simul
taneously during the greater part of
the past century, was especially devoted
to animals, and during most of his life
was the possessor of several pet dogs,
upon which he bestowed more than the
averaga amount of attention.
These dogs were not alone his com
panions during his Wle hours, but he
kept, them constantly by his side while
employed In his literary work, and ne
has left a poetic tribute to each at his
death which is a part of the great
amount of literature that he left to tho
world as a legacy from one of the most
popular and most admired writers of
the nineteenth century.
Among tho dogs which Arnold culti
vated as pets during the later A-ears of
his life, he most frequently 'Shentions
"Kal6er," "Gelst" and "Max." In "Mac
Millan's Magazine" for December, 1882.
in a poem relating his grief at the death
of a pet canary named "Matthias," Arn
old thus describes his pet dogs:
Oelst came next, our little friend,
Gelst had verse to mourn his ond,
Yes, but that enforcement strong
Which compelled for Gelst a song
All that gay, courageous i heer,
All that human pathos dear;
Soul fed eyes with suffering worn.
Pain heroically borne.
Faithful love in depth divine
Poor Matthias, were they thine?
Max and Kaiser we today
Greet upon the lawn at play.
Max a duchshund without blot
Kaiser should be, but Is not;
Max with shining yellow coat.
Prinking ears and dewlap throat
Kaiser, with his collie face.
Penitent for want of race.
Which may be the first to die,
ValntQ- augurJ.thjror 1!
But as age comes on, I know.
I'oet's fire gets faint and low;
If bo be that travel they
First tho inevitable way.
Much I doubt if they should have
Dirge of mine to crown their grave.
emment, either by force of arms, treaty
or purchase, and tur "privilege to use
the land waa granted to us by the gov
ernment and paid for when we paid the
price the government required of us,
ajid the right to hold, buy and sell, was
given to us by our government, and we
are under no obligation to our state for
it Then when we. become residents of
a state and purchase land of a private
individual or of the government, within
the limits of that state, it becomes our
duty to abide by the laws of that state
and to assist In bearing the expenses of
our county and state In accordance with
the laws of our county und state, and
our natural right to the land has noth
ing to do with the rights bequeathed to
us by our government. Our state has
the right to regulate the condition of
things In the state; It cannot say how
many acres a man shall hold, because
we obtain our land and land prlvlllges
from the national government; but It
has the power to impose a specific tax
on all large holdings o land over a cer
tain amount, so that It would be unpro
fitable to hold large bodies of land, and
that is Just what we need. That kind of
a tax would affect the large landholders
and nobody else; but this unreasonable
and" unjust single tax win hurt the
users of land two times as ba'd as It will
the land speculators.
Then B. T. S. says again: "Buyers
nnd other users well know when single
tax does come, their taxes will be less
than at present.'; Now this assertion
Is unreasonable, unless It is modified In
some way. Single tax will never make
them less. This fact Is plainly shown
in '"The Public" of July 12, 1912, in its
report on the effects of single tax on
the Hudson Bay company's property at
Edmonton, Canada. It says: "Tho taxes
on the company's property have been
steadily growing, not only on account
o" the Increasing valuation, but also by
reason of the fact that taxes other than
on land values have been abandoned one
by one." The assessment on the land
keeps getting higher al' the time. Tours
for the right,
GKORGT3 HICINBOTHAM.
Philadelphia and Tortland.
Oregon City, Or., July 17. To the
Editor of The Journal A dispatch dated
the ICth, reports that "A dozen tugs,
after several hours' work today man
aged to pull the big battleship Wyo
ming into deep water from the mu'd
bank in the Delaware river where she
had rested all night." She was on her
trial trip and consequently not fully
equipped, drawing not over 28 feet.
The Oregon, drawing 28 feet, came
up to Portland a few days ago, re
mained several days and returned with
out needing the services of any tugs.
The distance from the ocean to either
port Is the same, 100 miles. "What, has
become of the 'knocker" who says,
"Portland can never become a seaport!"
The problem can be stated In simple
terms:
Ut-IJi-l
NEWS IN BRIEF
, OREGON SIDEUariTS ;
The Huntington New's thinks Hunt
ington will have electrio. light by next
fall, beyond doubt
Work on the piers of the steel bridge
to be built across the Willamette at
Corvallts is about to begin. -
S'-.a . .... ; .''
At Baker the First Baptist. Presby
torlan, Methodist and Christian churches
have begun ,a series of union services
which will continue through the entire
vacation season, end until September 1.
"Three building s-wHJ r be -erected - by
the Eugene board of education man
ual training department of the pub
llo schools. They will be completed
by September, in time for the fall term.
Five thousand dollars will be spent
Haines Itectord: The 40 horsepower
three ton motor truck used to haul con
centrates from the Highland mine to
Haines. Is proving a success, and this
method (it transportation will probably
displace the wagons and teams formorly
In use.
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Corvallla Oaaette-Tlmea: Three half
frown coons in the window of M. M.
ong's sporting goods house attract
consldeVable attention. William Horn
ing captured the bright-eyed Ifttle fel
lows ftbout a mile from the city limits
and Mr. Long is giving the publlo a
sight of them.
Medford Mail-Tribune:. Walter Golds
hy, one of the owners of tho Ooldaby
Brothers mine in the Althouse district.
Is displaying a quart Jar filled with
email nuggets, a part of the cleanup of
a three months' run. He has over $1200
In gold with him and has shipped much
more to the mint.
Estacada Progress: Cowbells, which
have disturbed the slumber of residents
ever since the town was started, are
liable to bo stopped by a "tinkle-tinkle
ordinance that Recorder Deyore has
been o.dered to draw. It will provide
against the running of stock at large
within the corporate Um,its.
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The Forest Grove News-Times a few
flays ago entered upon the twenty-sixth
veur of Its existence. pf itself the
News-Times truly, thorigh modestly
Rays: "The News-Times has grown
with the community, and has been en
larged from time to time, until at pres
ent It is one of the largest country
newspapers In the state."
and "Kaiser."
The death of all three dogs occurred
before that of the poet. Goist was the
first to go, and Arnold thus poetically
notes his death In a poem In "The Fort
nightly Review" on January 1. 1882, the
last two verses being:
Then some, who through this garden
pass,
When we. too, like thyself, are clay,
Shell se thy grave upon the grass.
And stop before tho stone and say:
"People who lived here long ago
Did by this stone, it seems intend,
To name for future time to know
The dachshund Geist, their little
friend."
Gelst was followed by Kaiser on April
6, 1SS7i and Arnold thus poetically
notes the death of this dog and the
grief of Max in a roem which appeared
tho following July In 'The Fortnightly
Review":
What, Kaiser d.'ad? The heavv news
Posthaste to Cobham calls the muse.
From where In Furlngford she brews
The ode sublime.
Or with Penbryn's bold bard pureues
A rival rhyme.
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Six years ago I brought him down,
A baby dog from London town;
Round his small throat of black and
brown
A ribbon blue.
And vouched by glorious renown,
A dachshund true
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Poor Max, with downcast, reverent heffd
Regards his brother's form outspread; '
Full well Max knows the friend Is dead
Whore cordial talk
And Jokes, In doggish language said,
Beguiled his walk.
The poetic tributes addressed by Arn--iilJi!
LhjL favorite dogs "Oelst" nnd
"Kaiser" and the canary "Matthias,"
count up nearly 400 verses. '
Tomorrow Horace Walpole's 'Tata
jjan." Item 1 Philadelphia has over 2,000.
000 of people.
Item, 2 Undo Sam has one of his
largest, navy yards there.
Hem 3-The Delaware does not com
pare with the Columbia In size, length
or extent of tributary territory
Item 4 a battleship grounded on a
mud bank In tho Delaware yesterday.
Item 8 A battleship came to Portland
last week and retumed without mishap.
lroblem-To find the population of
Portland In millions when one-fifth the
age of Philadelphia. Q. E. D
Apropos of battleships, ran anyone
solve the conundrum why we insanely
keep on spending $12,000,000 for a single
one of them, when they deteriorate- at
the rate of over a million a year and a
$.,000 aeroplane can knock them Into
smithereens in less than five minutes''
DR. W. C. SCHULTZE
Women in Office.
Portland. Or., July 17To the Editor
of The Journal Much has been said
about the only woman mayor of Hunny
well Kan. Now. Dayton, Wvo., has
elected a woman mayor. The Telegram
of July 11 ayH: "Mrs. Wissier la tne
second woman n tna United States to
be mayor." Some years ago, in tho '80s
tho little city of Argonia, Sumner coun
ty. Kan., elected a full city ticket of
women, mayor and all. I think If you
will Investigate you will find that there
are moro than two women who have
filted that office with credit to them
selves and the city that so honored them
Women have municipal franchise In
Kansas. I did know the lady's name at
the tim. Wo lived only a few miles
from Argonia, in Harper county, and I
remember what a furore it created at
the time. Rut why not?, I have an
idea that most towns and" cities would
bo more moral with a woman at the
head, rnd women in the council, with
heads of departments good reliable wom
en. Let us have more women officials
MRS. HATTIE BELDIX.
Silence, If You rieiwe.
From the Detroit Freo Press.
Atlanta has prohibited tho groaning,
moaning barrel organs from making
days and twilights hideous outlawed
them. Nynck has prohibited crowing
chicWens and barking dogs. Long ago
Berlin stopped piano poutidlng at speci
fied hours. Chicago and Los Angeles
have abolished the yells and horns of
street hawkers. All theso Instances In
dicate a, growing consciousness that a
great percentage of city noises are not
only needless but unlawful nuisances.
They- Indicate too a growing con
sideration for the night worker. As
cities grow, night workers Increase In
numbers. These men and 'women must
sleep, by dai',, Sleep Js .Imposaihle In. a
clamor of street cries, horn blowing in
alleys and organ grinding on street cor
ners. Besides, tho multiplication of
nolaes serves to wear to a finer, rawer
thread, the reaped nerves of weary day
workers In cities. The only gainers are
the physicians and sanitariums receiv
ing broken nerved patients.
AnotKer Bought Senate
1 beat
From the Missoula Sentinel. '
Mort than threa years after his elec
tion to" the United States senate, Wil
liam Lorlmer has neen declared fraud
ulently elected and la'bv todav'i action
of hla conferes JgnornlnlouBly expelled
from the chamber. ' , ; ,
There wero few people in IlllnoU. ft '
in, the nation', who believe his election
honest In 180&V when the will of the
peopla In. the senatorial primary was
overturned By the legislature. - Yet Sen
ator Lorlmer haa served three years
as senator, and ha recorded his vot
always with the Interests, on a hundred
bills of public moment'
There are other men In the senate
who were as little entitled to their seat
as Lorlmer, There hive been few who
defended their political lll-dolngs with
the effrontery of the blonde boss. Many
of the tools of the corporations have
been eliminated In the. last few years.
Others will eoon pas from the stage.
The election of Dixon of Montana to
the United States senate was In every
particular as . crooked and a - corrupt -as
the election of Lorlmer. If anything,
the Dixon affair was more disgraceful.
Lorlmer was- himself a rich .man; he'
paid a share of the price of hia seat -and
the balance was contributed, not by
one corporation, but by several. Dixon's
seat was purchased outright by the big
gest and most dangerous aggregation
of corporate pirates this country haa
yet aeon. Standard Oil money sent Dix
on to the senate and the Standard Oil
and Us affiliated organltatlons are in
finitely more of a menace to our pop
ular Institutions than are the influences
behind Lorlmer's election. Dixon was
broke when he went to the senate; to-"
day he la worth $300,000.
Ho doesn't dare try to xplaln where
this money came from, The difference
between Lorlmer and Dixon Is the dif
ference between the burglar who was
caught and the burglar that got away.
If tha same publlo sentiment was stirred
up four years ago to Investigate the
election of Dixon that was started by
a Chlcatv newspaper against Lorlmer,
Colonel Roosevelt would have had an
other manager this year and he would
have been pointing at Dixon as an ex
ample of the rottenness of our pres
ent method of electing United States
senator.
If we had had a senatorial primary In
1908, the Amalgamated Copper company
could never have sent Dixon to the sen
ate. Yet Dixon and his newspaper are
shortsighted enough to believe that his
howl for a primary this year ha even
a trace of honesty or sincerity In It
Lorlmer leaves the eenate head fore
most; he la being kicked out yet when
Joe Dixon packs his baggage for Mon
tana on the fourth of next March, he
will retire to an obloquy as complete
and a repudiation as condign as that
which has Just overtaken Lorlmer. He
can't look one man In Montana In the
eye and say that his election to the sen
ate is a whit cleaner, that his record is
a scintilla less stained than that of his
Illinois prototype.
It was many months after the election
that the Chicago Tribune first published
the story of State Representative White
which led to the congressional Investi
gation.. The action has been slow in
coming, but It Is a symptom of healthier
politics In the United States.
Pointed Paragraphs
After 60 virtue may become a habit.
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Many a publlo reformer Is a private
grafter.
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It Is the accidental epigram that ac
quires the most fame.
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Many a man Is friendless because he's
too popular with himself.
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Never forget that It pays to be pollto
even If you don't mean It.
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If you would enjoy your work take
an occasional day off and loaf.
An FgotistV finus for not' knowing "
j more Is that It isn't worth knowing.
It's awfully hard for the average
man to keep his yellow streak ur.dr
cover.
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Some kind of women's clothes don't
Beem to be made for any other reason
except to display in show windows and
to keep the old bachelors gueslng.
Conditions at Lawrence.
From the Xew TOrk Globe.
Tho report of the federal labor bureau
on Industrial conditions at Lawrence.
Mass., suggests that there was abundant
reason for last winter's textile strike.
The agents selected at random one
week last summer and exnminlns the
books of the companies found that the
average wage of the 21,000 employes
was $8.76. It Is not surprising to bo
told the mill workers were compelled to
live in squalid quarters, and that fam
ilies to get enough to live on were lod to
send their children to the mills.
Here Is an official statement concern
ing conditions prevailing In one of our
most highly protected Industries. Ameri
cana who have willingly paid high prices
for woolen clothing In the belief that
the payments enable the cloth makers to
live according to the Amertoarwwtandard
receive a rude shock from the fport. In
the woolen Industry protection does not
seem to "protect" labor, for the workers
at Lawrence are in a worse economlo
condition than similar cloth makers in
England, Franco and Germany.
.1 f , By Miles
anglctoot 0verholt
WORRIES.
"I see your hair is getting thin," the
barber softly said,
And then ho gave a lecture on the work
ings of the head.
He said: "You use a quart of dope that
I have got on hand
And you'll have such a heavy mop that
you can lead a band."
I handed him two dollars; for six weeks
I soaked my bean,
But my head kept growing wider with
much white space In between.
Then I saw another barber, and he said
the dope I used
Was a hair-destroying poison, and that
I had been abused.
Well, I bought his great elixir and I
used it day and night;
Sttll my head kept growing scarcer;
what was left had turned to white.
Then the third tonsorlal artist knocked
the otlTcr fellow's stuff,
And I purchased his and used It, but It,
too, was all a bluff.
For ten years I spent my shekels for
some wet stuff for my hair;
Pretty so'on I quite, resembled something
like a polar bear.
Then at last I quit, discouraged; I had
tackled every graft;
Fellows who had hair a-plenty gazed
upon my nut and laughed.
But J paid no notice to them, and I
never combed my. hair,
For I'd reached a point, my brethren,
where 1 didn't give a care.
Then one dsy I chanced to monkey with
my noodle for. a tpell,
na it jTirTiT,,, T-ipm icri nix incnes wun
a wild, unearthly yell.
For- my hair had grown and scattered
till it, covered all my block, .
And 'twas long and black and heavyi,
yes, Indted, 'twas quite a shock.
All of which proves my contention;
brings a reason for this rhyme:
If..you worry o'er yflur troubles, they'll
grow bigger all the time.