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Modest doubt la called
Th beacon of the wise, the tent
- that searches
To the bottom of the worst.
' Shakeepeare.
PORTLAND'S TRADE CRISIS
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more railroad traffic. Every Influ
ence that builds up Portland and
Oregon makes railroad traffic.
If the pig figures of Portland will
Join In organizing a steamship com
pany, It-wilt-te the toegtnting-of a
new epoch in Portland's life as a
city. It will stimulate industry. It
will stimulate trade. It will stimu
late employment; It will stimulate
building construction. It will stim
ulate the field , of labor. It will
stimulate the business of every de
partment store and every little
store. Indirectly, it will be of ma
terial value to every resident of
Portland
Under -the encouragemnt of a
guarantee of $225,000 against loss;
if, with $225,000 as free insurance
against a deficit, is there not enough
red blood in Portland to launch such
a company? If not, what Is Portland?
S
OX TO
ARMAGEDDON
rE have a committee report on
the Portland trade crisis.
It Is recommended that a
bonus of $75000 a year be
raised for three years as public sub
sidy for an oriental steamship line.
iThis ia the plan of the sub-commlt-
tee of the oriental trade committee
of the chamber of commerce. The
flan is proposed after an exhaustive
tudy of the situation,
i The report says: "In our opinion,
' subsidy can be raised, and It Is
jWorth the trial, because its accom
plishment lays the foundation of suc
cess In the efforts on the part of
Portland to secure an oriental steam
ship line, as the committee having
the bonus in charge, would be in a
position to make a contract with one
-of-eresentr Transpacific-" iteatn-
hip lines, or It could offer a locally
organized company a helping hand
' that would be almoBt certain to se
cure the necessary subscriptions to
. the capital stock."
The.xommlttee Is Mr. Mears, Mr.
.Wilcox and Mr. Knapp. It Is a sub
stantial committee, and Its belief
that the subsidy can be raised Is of
ttlue.
It Is splendid encouragement for
. organizing a Portland steamship
company. The $225,000 of bonus
during three years, la $225,000 of
free Insurance against loss. It Is
?125,'OO0 of working capital for the
business. It is a two-hundred-and-
twenty-five-thousand-dollar guaran
tee that the enterprise will be suc
cessful.
.
, A local company could not begin
business with a more encouraging
outlook. There Is an abundance) of
men In Portland with brains and
experience for conducting such an
" ntrprlse. : Portland banks are
gorged with Idle money. There are
200 men and women In the city who
could take $5000 of stock in such
ures at . which men would stagger.
Those figures are the real explana
tion of why the cost of living Is high.
The labor-savins machines should
have reduced the life cost. But
they haven't.
tlon easier and cheaper, but the price
of 'everything is enormously in
creased. A cause of increase is the stag
gering total of money that we must
annually raise to pay interest and
profits on overcapitalization inter
est and profits on thirty millions of
water, interest and profits on thirty
millions of nothing, interest and
profits on thirty millions of un
earned, lntanglhle. unreal wealth
that shrewd financiers collect of us
through stocks and bonds.
Woodrow "VVllaon . refused cara-
paign contributions from Thomas F
Ryan and Wall street In order that
the field marshals of overcapital
ization might have no strings on him
and the White House.
If the Astoria papers' will stop
disparaging the Columbia river
heyade-CTOduc-0110111' they will be of some -real
service in securing removal or tne
Astoria handicap. The Journal
grows weary of urging a common
point rate for Astoria, with the As
toria press howling" constantly
against the Columbia channel and
Portland. Astoria Has a better case
for becoming a common point by
proving the efficiency of the Colum
bie channel than in trying to prove
that the channel to Portland is not
efficient.
TANDING on the brink of the
Impassable gulf that separates
him from those who, not being
bull moosers, are mostly malig
nant liars, white-livered thieves and
grave robbers, Colonel Roosevelt
says:
If the tariff Is really to be made a
tariff for revenue only, then every spe
cies of protection must he removed from
the American farmer and the American
lahortnB man. Furthermore. If the Dem
ocratic platform Is not repudiated.
hen the party under Wilson will bring
every Industry In the country to a
crash which would make all panics In
our post history seem like chlui s play
li comparison. . -1
The authors of the rayne-Aldrlch
tariff couldn't have said It bettw.
Joe Cannon couldn't have said it
better. The Lawrence mill owners
couldn't have said It better.
The secretary of the American Pro
tective Tariff League, who declared
he wOuld rather have Iloss Murphy
than Voodrow Wilson for preside.,
couldn't have said it better. George
W. Perkins of the harvester trust
couldn't have said It better. Judge
Gary of the steel, trust couldn't have
said it better.
All the mandarins of special priv
ilege and all the field marshals of
Big Business Joined in a grand
chorus of protest, couldn't have said
It better.
But In whose term in the presi
dency did the last great panic occur?
TIIK VKE NUISANCE
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HERE is pending before the
courts In Portland an alienism's
bill for $1000 for testimony in
the Roberts case.
There is another bill for $950
by another alienist In the same case.
The $-350 bill Is from an attache of
the state Insane asylum.
'No court should authorize the
payment of fees so extravagant. One
circuit judge has already refused to
allow the fee of the asylum official.
All courts should require a more
moderate fee In both instances,
Nor should the cut be restricted
to the alienists. Attorneys' fees In
estates and other cases, recolvers
fees, stenographers' fees, and other
fees have been permitted by judges
to mount to extravagant figures, fig
ures that are beyond all the bounds
of reason.
We recently had the spectacle of
a $30,000 attorney's fee In a re
ceiver's .proceeding at Pendleton.
We had a $9000 attorney's foe In a
$19,000 receivership of the Seaside
Lumber company. We had a trus
tee's fee of $2000 In the :.ame case.
to the former Jurist, and everybody
knows it.
Letters From 'tne People
(Communications sent to The Journal
for publication In this department
should be written on only one side of
the paper, should not exceed 300 words
In length and must be accompanied by
the name and address of the sender. If
the writer does not desire to have the
name published, he should so state.)
Protection and- Taxation.
Portland, Or., July' 30. To the Editor
of The Journal It Is claimed by the
protected manufactories that without
the tariff they could not operate, and
that many plants would be compelled
to shut down. And again that It en
ables them to ray better wages. Also
that' It shuts out Importations of pau
per labor made goods. But they do not
tell the public that It Increases' their
profits from 80 to 90 per cent. Neither
do they make it public that the ma
jority, of their employes get the mag
nificent autn ef from-iS to $8 per week.
Neither do they want It known that
pauper labor is shipped to this country
by the ship load, when there. Is the
least social unrest. All of these things
should be taken Into consideration when
we are investigating thia matter.
That protection does not protect Is a
well established fact. Protective tariff
impoverishes the nation; it pauperizes
lubor and creates monopoly. At the
breaking out of the Civil war we stood
second as an ocean carrying nation. As
a shipbuilding notion we were next to
England. Our ships plowed every sea
of the globe. foUay our sMTsars set
dom seen. As a shipbuilding nation we
are not to be considered; we are not in
It. Then, no American going to Europe
thought of taking any but an American
bat. Today there 1" no American boat
for him to take. There Is not a ship
carrying the American flag that carries
freight or passengers across the At-
COMMENT AND NEWS IN-BRIEF
SMALL CHASGB
In politic.
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Early rising such mornings helps to
make a happy day.
Trade and commerce are th life-
blood of seaport city.
The harvest Is great, and the laborers
are many, but not enougn.
Chinas rambling games are bad. of
course; but there are really worse evils.
Give the I. W W.'s due credit; they
seem not to be interfering with harvest
hands.
O. the hotels will thrive and the drum
mers will drum after-the parcels post
Is established.
More and more every summer the
tourists are making Portland a princi
pal objective point.
Votes on tariff bills Indicate a grati
fying decrease of mere partylsm and
politics in congress. '
Democratlo senators voting for a
good Republican tariff bill is one-sign
of political progress.
.
The able laborer who won't work now
shouldn't complain If It is a cold, hungry
world for him next winter. ,
Mexican rebels are Increasing again In
number and acttvity; they must have
discovered some new "angels."
""
Congress can't very well put Taft
In a hole now, though maybe he might
be pushed a little farther down.
' The sugar trust's authority to plunder
wives may be partially abrogated be
fore another house this summer.
An alleged boss named Murphlne Is
to be a Bullmooge candidate for con
gress In Washington. No. his name is
not spelled Morphine.
a
"Where are we all at?" asks the morn
ing new son ner. Politically, it means.
and principally as to Republicans. No
answer. It la easy to ask question.
There will be three or four months
steady harvesting work, at good wages
up in the Inland empire. But It will
not be street work under an easy boss.
I
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
oetis on the super-
structure of tht T. )L C A. building
at Baker, .
Rnaebura- lodsr No. 19J7. Loyal Order
of Moose, has on foot an active move
ment for the erection of a lodge building..
A hank at Kiwharr has adopted the
day-and-night system for Saturday buel-
ne. u im open iroiu i v m v vtw
p. m. on tbat day.
W ' w
.Tarklnnvllla Pnnf Now that we have
one of the heat water systems utalde of
Portland, how about a few sewers :
Bound to com and the sooner the bet
Drornn C! cAirUr: And With the
pomjng of a city m the west side will
comp a new suspension oriage. ine new
one twice as wide as the present struc
ture.
Construction work on the new Pres
byterian church at Bandon has com
menced. The bvllders hope to nave me
building inclosed before the fall rains
set In.
Haines Record: Four steel bridges
are to be erected In the county this
uun .hl.K will ninVn a total Of -0
tsteel structures built In this county dur
ing the past three years.
Oregon City Courier: Cluster lights
on Main street will be tried out. arid If
they prove satisfactory, cntr Main
street will be so lighted. The decorated
steel poles will cost about $75 eacn, and
wa be paid for by the business men.
Stanfield Standard: More cow" and a
ahruUt ba the chief ambition
of everyen Interested in the advance
ment or new communities ue um wm
of the litigated actions in Umatilla
county, until that ambition is realised,
a a
Eugene Register: Albany Is to be
congratulated on the completion of its
new filter system, at a cost of $30,000.
Eugene has had a filter of thejsame type
In use for two years, and constant tests
of the water enow that the filter does
the work.
The Hermlston Herald thus cheers
the potato grower on the project:
"Early potatoes did not bring an aver
age price this year, but this should not
discourage a single grower. Plant again
next year and every year. The man who
docs this will win.1'
Portland's Golden Rule
Eclwanl H, Hamilton' '
Ia the San Francisco Examiner.
A NAME OXLV
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a company as, easily as they could
buy a breakfast.
In what other business does the
""'public offer a guarantee of $225,000
against loss? It what other business
does a public Issue a freo insurance
Z of $225,000 against a deficit?
"Such a lino conducted for three
years in Portland would become
paying enterprise," said a Portland-
. tr of large shipping experience yes
terday. He was once a member of
a big steamship company. "It
could charter three or four ships for
" thre years and put them Into the
wrvtce. It would have a standing
. that would enable it to arrange fa-
- vorable routings with the railroads.
"The" fconus of $225,000 would ab
'y solutely guarantee It against loss
for three years, and In threeyearsv
- by regular sailings and proper ac
... rotnmodatlons to the shipping pub-Jv-Illc.
Jt could easily build up a busl
1 Best that would be profitable."
HE other day a young white
girl was brutally whipped by a
party of men down In Georgia.
The girl was carried to a grovo
on the outskirts of a city. There she
was stripped to the skin while four
men held her, and one lashed her
naked body with a buggy whip. A
negro chauffeur held a lantern near
by so that the men could see to do
the Job thoroughly. The girl now
lies at the point of death in a south
ern hospital.
The only excuse offered by the
men for their disgusting assault Is
that the girl refused to promise to
give up the young man with whom
she was In love
The men responsible for the at
tack were not Ignorant, Irresponsi
ble toughs, but men of affairs And
they worn men of affairs I;i the chiv
alrous south which has always been
famed for its high respect for
woman.
A southern tradition held sacred
for generations has been burlrd
. , i . .limine. wnai is tne cause or an tins
The public Is not deceived as to ,,.,,, protPOtlvn ,., an(1 thflt
only. No nation can long endure under
It,
What Is the remedy? Free trade and
single tax. Thnt will do it; do it abso-
lutely. Free tiadu would break or crush
one kind of monopoly, nnd tnx on land
what these extravagant fees mean.
They are easy money, if not worse.
They are money that somebody has
to toll for and oweat for. They add
to the high cost of living, a cost that
fees, costs, tribute, taxes and allow
ances help boost higher and higher.
Worse than all. they decrease pub
lic respect for the courts. Judges
cannot afford to allow fees out of
all proportion to the service ren
dered. Thev cannot afford to nllow
huge ralteoffs thnt the public knows
to be extravasant.
There should be a change, and
there will bo a change in this unfit
status.
THE ACCEPTANCE 8FEECH
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SEVEN FAMOUS CALENDARS
Gregorian Calendar-
Portland, July 19. They used to; say
"That Portland hog!" and.the ceuntry
used to smite the city in the legislature.
We have the same sort of thing in Cali
fornia, with San Francisco disliked and
distrusted by the country,, denied ap- ;
proprlatlons by the legislature, refused
backing when she asked for financial
bread from the federal government.
In eight years Portland has changed
all thajL She is popular where she was v
unpopular; she is helped where she
was hindered. If she asks anything In
reason from the legislature, her request
Is granted without contest.
SurelyJhere J something that San
Francisco can learn from her neighbor
on the Willamette. The lesson In civic
popularity in worth while, t
Portland won her present standing
with Oregon and the 250,000 square
miles of territory tributary to her
through the great rivers and centering
railroads by doing for others as she-
would be don by. She stated in to
develop the country first and share lu
the benefits afterward. :
N his speech of acceptance Mr.
Taft says the law cannot make
rbo rich reasonably poor and the
poor reasonably rich. He says,
"votes are not bread, constitutional
amendments sre not work, referen-
I it ma Ai rft no v frtt anH ftimifch '
UHIlin IIU IlVl i ' J 1 LHt IIIIU 1UI 1I1M1
houses, recalls do not furnish cloth
ing, Initiatives do not supply em
ployment and relieve inequalities of
conditions of opportunity."
It Ih an honest, frank statement
from the president, as are all the
T The day that such a line was es
jtablished, there would be a new at
mosphere in the milling, manufac
turing and exporting circles of Port
land. Only discouragement Is there
SOW. Orders pour In, but there Is
Bo transportation except for the men
ho have branch establishments on
Pnget sound. The oriental busmens
! slipping away. The mills must
run shorter hours or close down.
There Is no roseate future ahead.
There are actually men In the dis
trict who think of pulling up stakes
and moving to the sound
A new air would be afield the mo
ment a first sailing date for a new
line was announced. It would be
a line giving equal opportunity for
the small shipper with the big ship-;per.
we have had no such line In re-
Cent years. What we have had was
an annex to Puget sound. Oriental
liteamers have sailed out of Portland
and left wltb t-urgo room saved for
'Seattle while Portland shippers
tood on the wharves and clamored
rind begged In vain for space. That
Is why business slipped away from
OS. That is why tho Portland that
once had all the northwest trade
,wlth the orient has no oriental line
jnow, while Seattle has four and Ta
coma has a regular line In addition
to calls from the nine Funnel.
a a a
..- The Journal believes the railroads
would give routings to aid the en
terprise. Railroads don't always do
what they should, but it is probable
that la this case they could be
shown.
Tbejr do not always reallre It. but
It ta to the interest of the railroads
tfytryrp matee-PoTtBt mtttmr and
(trad center. Every added man em
ployed in Portland makes more rail
road traffic. Every tlmului to
Portland trade or industry makes
utterances In his speech. It Is his
from Its pedestal, nnd --by men of viewpoint, i nd from that viewioint
affairs. The nouth will lose one of
Its most honored and most delight
ful traditions, If It ever permits its
chivalry to become a name only.
A COLOSSAL EXTORTIOX, XO. 2
Mr. Taft ventures lntj an avowal
that the masses everywhere will
misunderstand, misconstrue and re
sent. No president In history has been
valuation would crush the mother of
monopoly land monopoly.
If the older countries Germany, Can.
ndn, progressive Japan and Austria
find It good, why n;ny wo not find It
good? Those countries would not go
back to the old system of taxation. The
Honorable David l.loyd Oeorge has hit
upon a novel" schema. He ajlows the
land barons to fix their own valuation.
That Is fair, nnd should be eminently
satisfactory. Suppose we follow that
rule so far as we. can. Accept the valu-
ntlon placed upon land by the owners
themselves. Not long ago one of tbe
city blocks wns sold for J900.000. The
owner of that block cannot kick if It Is
assessed at his own valuation. There Is
an island In the river that has never
hen sssessed above 131,000. The owner
thinks the city wants to buy; now he
places the value at $30n,000. Let it be
rsscssed at that figure. Bo we may
follow down the line. Take any of the
railroad lands. Assess them at what
ever the companies ask for them. That
would h the-means of opening up many
millions "f acres of Idle Innd. because
no one wants to hold land out of uko
that Is hmlly taxed.
Thnt plan would fnrntfh employment
for untolrl thonmnds, who are today In
forced Idleness. All Ui protection this
country wants is protection ::nlnt un
desirable Immigration. A proper ad
justment of land value tax will n.ake us
n prosperous nation. We have tried
protective tariff and found It very much
rf h burden. U does not fill the bill.
HENRY M. JONKS.
So perfect was the Julian style of j
reckoning that it prevailed generally
among Chrlstlon nations, and remained
undisturbed until the accumulation of
thu remaining error of 11 minutes or so
had amounted in 1582 to 10 complete
days, the vernal equinox falling on the
Uth Instead of the 21st of March, as it
did at the council of Nice, A. D. 826.
This shifting of days had caused great
disturbances by unfixing the times of
the celebration of Easter, and hence
of all the other movable feasts, and ac
cordingly. Pope Gregory XIII. after
careful study, with the aid of Clavlus,
the astronomer, ordained that 10 days
Bhould be deducted from the year 1582.
by calling what, according to the old
calendar, would have been reckoned the
6th of October the 15th of October, 1582.'
and, In order that this displacement
mitfht not recur, it was further ordained
that every hundredth year should not be
counted a leap year, excepting every
fourth hundred beginning with 2000. In
this way the difference between the
civil and the natural year will not
amount to a day In 6000 years.
The ' Gregorian or reformed Julian
year was not adopted In England until
A. D. 1761, when the deficiency from the
time of the council of Nice then amount
ing to 11 days, this number was struck
oui of the month of September by an act
of Parliament, end the third day was
counted the lth in that year of con
fusion.
The next year A. T. 1752. was the first
of the nw style, beginning January 1
instead of March 26. The change from
old style, as the Julian calendar, and
dates according with It, now came to
be called to new style, or the reformed,
In SpainPortugal, part of Italy, part of
Netherlands, France, Denmark and Lor
raine in A. D. 1682; In Poland in 158fi;
in Hungary in 1687; in Cathollo Swltier
land in 1683; in Cathollo Germany in
1684; In most parts of Froiestani uor
many and 6wltierland In 1700 and 1701,
and lastly in England in 1761. In Rus
sia. Greece and the east generally the
old style is still retained. -
This Gresorlan calendar was tne last
calendar to be established, although the
French nation tried to rearrange it in
1793 professedly upon philosophical
principles. This was to be known as
the French Revolutionary calendar, me
new era was dated rrom tne minute
of the autumnal equinox (September 22,
1792). which was also the day from i about Portland.
which the existence of the republic was
reckoned. There were 12 months, of iO
days each, divided into decades. In which
the days were named numerically
Primldi,JE)uodl, and so on, up to Decadl.
Th remaining five days were grouped
as festival days at the end of the year,
and known as "Sansculottldes." The
sixth additional day In lea-p years was
named "le Jour de la Revolution." This
calendar was the product of the revolt
(i gainst Christianity, and it existed until
the old system was restored by .Na
poleon, December 31. 1805
I find it hard to get material for my
articles on the Rose City. All the
boomers and boosters want to talk
Oregon not Portland. Their literature
Is nine parts Oregon to one part Port
land. The Commercial club talks Ore
gon; so does the Chamber of Commaroe.
It wasn't so 10 years ago, when
"that Portland hog" was so thoroughly
hated. The countrymen looked on the
Portland merchant as a plunderer
man to be dealt with with caution and
watched with alarm.
Then came the Commercial club, and
Tom Richardson to run it. He begun
talking to the Portland merchants a4
they never had been talked to before.
He told them they were hoggish, and
proved it. He accused them of stand
ing In the way of the state's progress,
and made out his case. He declared
they were opinionated, self-satisfied,
grossly selfish and they couldn't deny
his facts.
This was pretty rough talk, but
Richardson was earnest, forceful and .
effective. Theodore B. Wilcox backed
him up Wilcox was president of. the
Commorolal club. Tlie mercantile oft-- -science
of Portland was stirred by this
Peter the Hermit preaching the re
awakening crusade.
"Build up the country and the coun
try will build up Portland,! w their
cry, and they liav put It Into rorot
and effect The country has been, built
up in great measure through the "efforts
of the city, and the city has grown and
prospered as never before.
But the best thing Is that the city
is now loved where it was hated.
"We doij't' have any more trade ex
cursions,' said C. a Chapman, the
head booster of the Commerolal club.
"We used to have many such things.
The merchants wont out, mads short
stops at different towns and cities, and
tried to sell things. That's a thin of
the past.
"Now when wo go out ws give at
least a whole day to the place w visit.
We don't take out anything to sell, and
w don't sail anything. We don't take
along any orators to tell the people
au we require is a
talker or two who can make the neces
sary polite responses.
"But we say to the people we are
visiting: "Now you don't want to hear
us. We want to hear you. We want
you to tell us Just what you've got and
Just what you need. Then we want
you to show us your country, and we'll
help you get what Is needed to de
velop it.' And then we act on the In
formation we have secured. So we make
and keep friends.
Well, .we've got the countrr to trust.
lng and 'depending on the city so that
In Great Britain the Introduction of ; nw If an irrigation district gets Into
tht Gregorian calendar was for a
lon time successfdlly opposed by pop
ular prejudice. The lnoonvenlence, how.
eves, of using a different date from that
employed by the greater part of Europe,
In matters of history and chronology,
began to bs generally felt.
Tomorrow Mexlaan Calendar Stone.
Does Not Want to Vote.
Wlllamlnn, Or., July 39 To th Edi
tor of The Journal I want to thank "A
I'olles Antl-Su f frtielst" for her " ar-
njfiriinfortunat In his dlscuKFloug . tj,.i. n your column last night. By her
' 'Of public issues, !nl In few Instances j article one can tell that she Is a woman
A WALL street expert on finance has Mr. Taft l..-.-n more unhappy "f ,,ru; ulVlr an'1 'lfln'''pn, M'
says the people of the 1'n.tcd lhan , nls Rp,eeh of acceptance. XlZZ
.vatos are na.MiiK interest nnd The dispatches say those present nation to near perfection. Nothing can
a mrti nntitnil('AS- - ... - . j 1 a .
profits on (30,000, 000, 000 of
watered sUKk.
Thirty billion dollars is a stagger
ing sum. The human mind cannot
comprehend It. IK comparison, we
know that it is more by a billion
dollars than the total Investment In
farm property In the I'nltcd Stites
a few years ago. HpeakiiiR of this
huge overcapitalisation. Hie Phila
delphia Telegraph, a standpat Re
publican paper, says:
In other words, tl cse .10 billions of
dollars represent the capitalisation of
what Is known as "the good will" of
business. On this hxinn sum dividends
amounting to one blillon and a half
have to he paid annually. This amounts
to about J1S per capita or 1100 per av
erage family. To pay this vast sum,
only a part of the dividend fund, either
wiiKes must 1 kept relatively low or
prices must bs artificially raised
Every year we are compelled to
pay on this unearned, intangible, un
real value $1,500,000,000 in inter
est. The annual Interest totals more
than tho vcluo of all thn taxable
property in Oregon, with thirty an
nual wheat crops thrown- In. Every
man, wonan and child In the I'nlted
states nas to pay sib apiece, every
year, to meet this Interest.
In addition, the profits have to
be paid. The most that we know
about these profits is that $1,109,
1 4 6.093 was tho profit made by the
steel trust in only nine years. The
trust profits on steel In nine years
were a greater value than all the
taxable property of Oregon with
eleven annual wheat csops thrown In.
The steel trust's overcapitaliza
tion, as stated in an official report
by-a high officer In the Taft admin
istration, is $720,846,817, or less
than one fortieth of the thirty bil
lions of overcapitalization in the
country. How much were the prof
its on the rest of the overcapitaliza
tion in nine yearsT What were the
cornhtned pToftts and interest on at!
the overcapitalization In nlno years?
If tbe country only knew what
this total of profits and Interest is,
It would be appalled. They are fig-
when It was delivered frequently
applauded the president's points.
Tho applauders are to be admired
for their enthusiasm. The men who
ran keep up their courage at such a
time could whistle nnd make merry
In a graveyard.
THE MAN OX HORSEBACK
I5V erltlra sav Governor West
went on horseback to Poise to
be spectacular. If West had
gone In a coffin they Mould
have said he did 1 to bo spectacular.
No man knows better than does
West, the value of such a journey by
horseback. It carries him through
tho country rOads, past the farmers
on their wagons and in their homes,
by tho forests whore tho woodmen
work, over ' le hllla where the com
mon "man travels. It Is a way to
come in contact with the little man,
to learn his viewpoint firm handT to
warm the touch with those on the
low levela and to contrast their
viewpoint with that of the upper
crust.
Most public nie.i Journey by Pull
man, amid the great and ntar great,
far removed from the herd that tolls
and spins In the great outdoors. It
is why the common man is so often
publicly forgotten.
convince a normal mind of the present
day that woulcn are not tho intellectual
rtiial of man unless It Is thn Insane
methods of the stiff raglsts. Let us be
thankful that our American women
have not debased th"mselves like their
Kngllsh cousins. Let the women of our
day keep in touch with the laws and
questions of the day, discuss them In
telligently in our homes, bringing our
finer senslhllltles to bear on man's
more rugged nature That will do more
good many times than antagonijlng the
men our American men who do more
for us than any other men of any other
nation ever did or ever will be made to
do by women who forget tholr modesty,
decency nnd kindliness In the rush for
a new sensation.
Ii anything perfect? Are good men
and women all over the universe giving
their lives in one unending struggle to
benefit humanity. In vain? Do women,
two thirds of whom are not of the
class who could understand political
problems thoroughly, expect by giving
their unintelligent opinion to remedy
the ills master minds are bending all
their energy' toward? What class of
women will vote? Will It be the wo
uinn.who le busy helping lame dogs
over stiles In her own little corner of
the earth? True,, there will be a small
class who are honest In their endeavors
and who actually believe that woman
by her vote will clear the earth of her
ills, but how small thnt crowd will be
beside that great company who are
ciamorlng for votes for various other
reasons
ANTI-SCFFRAGI8T.
HONORING THE NATION
T
HE Washington State Bar asso
ciation declares by a three-to-one
vote that Judge Hanford
served on the bench "with
honor and credit to the nation."
Why, then, did he resign? Why
did he quit the bench rather than
face impeachment charges? If he
served "with honor and credit to the
nation," why did he not demand In
stant proceedings under the Impeach
TfieBtrtn eyder-tfl he exonerated?
The trouble with the bar associa
tion's expression Is that nobody will
believe It. The body compromised
tbe facts an act of kindness
ANOTHER
A Veteran lYohlbltionist.
Albany, Or.. July 31 To the Editor
of The Journal - It la very seldom that
1 do not fully iiRree with the sentiment
expressed In your editorials; but I do
not agree, or rather I am not optimistic
as you expressed It In your editorial of
the 21th Instant headed "Why Wilson
Will Win" and ending with these words
"There Is not the slightest chance to de
feat Woodrow Wilson." With the divid
ing of the Republican party as between
Taft and Roosevelt, there Is great prom
ise that your prediction will come true;
but you have still to reckon with the
Prohibition and Socialist parties, par
ticularly the former. We who hare
stood on the Prohibition "firing line"
for 40 years, often wandering ss did
Moses and the Israelites in a wilderness,
aitlagr.watchiflev praying lor the "pit
to come when the partisan spirit will no
longer hold men to the two old parties,
now see as w believe, the fulfilling of
our desires, and believing the manu
facture and sale of Intoxicating liquors
as a bsvsrsf to be yi greatest national
question to be solved, we now see the
gleam of a brighter morning for us ana
our America, and can almost hear th
command "Go forward and possess the
land" as We stand now so near the
banks of a political Jordan river.
The Taft and the Wilson platrorms
are silent upon the liquor question. The
Roosevelt and Socialist platforms will
no doubt have the same "aching void."
The platform of the Prohibition party Is
brief and concise: the platforms of th
two old pnrtles are a great mass of
words; so much so that even th Na
tional Tribune. Washington, P. C, the
great champion for us Civil w vetor
ans, criticised them. Woodrow Wilson
Is a good man no doubt, but when he
trains with Murphy-Sullivan ct al, ha
will find before he Is through with the
campaign, he is like "Poor Tray,' was
said to be I firmly bslleve thare are
hundreds of thousands If not several
millions of American cltliens who by
the "ides of November" will flock to the
Prohibition standard, Christian men and
women too, who will vote ub they pray;
that the drink cursa my ho removed.
We may not win to a position In Wash
ington but we will hold the "balance
of power" and by 191S we will elect our
man. By that time th liquor men will
all be In on party and the Prohibition
ists In the other. Our nation can no
m,ore survive "half drunk, half sober,"
than we could "half slave,, half free" ss
Lincoln declared.
The first 10 years of my life after my
majority or 1860 to 1870, I voted the
straight Republican ticket in Oregon,
twice voting for Lincoln; then for many
years I "split my ticket," picking men
from the old rartles who I felt sure fav
ored temperance. In later years I have
befn a party Prohibitionist, ana on
August 17, 1898, I Issued a fourrpsK
temperance tract, which I closed about
as follows: "Twenty years apo I stood
with three othrs upon the summit of
Mount Hood and had the grandest view
of my life. Twenty years from today I
expect to stand with others upon some
lofty height of moral reform, and though
voice may be tremulous with age; to
Join In the glsd shout, 'the saloon Is
gone, we have saved the boy.' "
At the tremendous pace at which Pro
hibition sentiment Is growing, I have
every rason to believe my "forecast"
will become true, at least in Oregon.
I am a "booster" for our peerless com
monwealth, and though an humble far
mer, there la nothing that I can do In
my advanced years that will bring my
native state more of prosperity, peace,
and happiness than to help wipe off her
fair face the crowning sin of th ages,
the "legalised liquor traffic" And to
this end we will ever pray.
CYRUS H. WALKER.
Chaplain Oregon 8tate Orange.
Always in Good Humor
NEW PROBLEM IN PHYSICS.
From th Washington Post.
The class In physics will now ktndly
explain what happens when an Irre
sistible built moose meets an Immovable
elephant.
A GUESTS MISTAKE,
From the fit. Paul Dispatch.
A gentleman staying at a hotel asked
the person next to him if he would
please pass the mustard. "Sir," said
the other, "do you mistake in for a
walterT
"Oh, no sir," was the Immediate reply.
1 only mistook you for a gentleman."
a tangle It comes right to the city to
have us help it out That sort of feel
ing has been brought about In eight
years, and 1 think It Is truly a great
work on of the state's greatest ac
complishments." "This Is not philanthropy it is en
lightened BBlflshneAA." writes Mr. Wil
liams of the publicity department of the
Commercial club. "For someone says
that for every dollar the outside coun
try makes, Portland gets 60 cents."
I notice, too, that the Commercial
club, with Its 1800 business men and
the Chamber of Commerce, work In en
tire harmony, running smoothly side by
side, each carrying Its own part of the
burden. And while Portland has accom
plished much In improving her relations
with the country, she has led in the
work of harmonirlng differences be
tween the smaller cities and th dif
ferent communities; so ther is a gen
eral pulling together instead of a'gen
eral breaking apart.
SOME! CLASS.
Prom the Pittsburgh Post
"Some class to our graduating exer
cises," boasted tho south side glrL
"What's thatr
"Some class, bellev me."
"Aw, you roped In some senator, I
s'pose, to deliver the diplomas."
"Senator nothing. Wo had th dl
plomas delivered by a south-paw pitcher.
Some class, eh?"
A SUFFRAGE SUGGESTION.
From the Washington Post.
Why not settle the woman' suffrage
question by giving the ballot to the wife
In every family In which the husband Is
too laxy to register and exercise the
franchise?
Pointed Paragraphs
Heady Re ol vers.
From Newberg Enterprise.
If a considerable number iif the news
papers would follow the example of tmi
Oregon Journal In denouncing th sal
of revolvers Indiscriminately and In-
slsttng upon a degree of supervision
over their ownership there would be .
no occasion for publishing every few
days stories of the killing resulting
from the ue of those weapons. Th
Journal Improves every opportunity for
Impressing this matter on the minds of
tho publlo. One of the latest of Its edi
torials was based upon the recent mur
der of a bank cashier In Iowa br a boy
of 16 who was himself killed by a posse,
and it was found that he had four
loaded revolvers In his possession.
Wise Old George.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
She And how did you Ilk th meet
ing, George?
He Fine! Especially th talk by
that pretty little Mrs. Featharly.
She Mrs, rtatherlyt Whyth silly
creature Tiasni'an Idea In her foolish
head.
He Mtybe not, my dear, but she's
awfully cut.
Che On second thought, George, you
needn't go with.m again.
Many a man's cemrige Isn't skin deep.
Worthless people are often more amus
ing than worthy ones.
A small boy tries to practice economy
in the use of toilet soap.
When a man is
calls it , financial
certainly Is.
flat broke his i
embarrassment
rife
It
Whn two smiles come together In a
head-on collision the result of a kiss.
A man likes to acknowledge his faults
to a woman who insists that he has
none. ' -
Bomctlmes a girl misses a good thing,
by pretending she doesn't want. to fee
kissed
a
One wsy for a man to find out just
what a woman really thinks of him is
to make her angry.
The child who Is afraid of th dark
may become a politician when he groms
up and fear th light.
a
It Is said that there are peopl who
have money and do not wiow how to
anJojL It. .
a a
After a woman has married a man
to reform him and succeeds It some
times happens that another woman
comes along and spoils all the good work
with a smile.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLES,
"Don't go aboard the ship today," th
crowd Implored the guy,
Who frolicked with the fleecy clouds and
monkeyed with th sky;
"The wlnd'll bust your thlnirmajlf. and
you will pi your form;
Don't go aloft this day," they said.
we fear the coming storm'
The aviator skimmed the sun and flirted
with a stnr,
Then selfted gracefully to earth and lit
aifresh cigar.
The track is rough." the started said.
"and you will lose control;
Don't drive your cur todav, my bor
or Death'll take his toil."
The crowds,. too, voiowdl his sentiments:
"Just wait." they said "awhll
Until you jtt an von trade a inln'ut
iQt-'miie.
The speed guy chased his car around
the track at fifty-two.
And copped the prlzo and took the train
and moved to pastures new.
"O pray don't hunt those men alone,"
the sheriff's wife appealed,
"They've got tn drinks aplec aboard;
with runs each one Is heeled;
They've slaughtered men In every
clime; they kill folk right and
left.
Their specialty Is leaving men and wo
men quite bereft.
The sheriff went but soon returned
with six had bandits bold!
H slapped am when they tried to run
and had "em frightened cold.
When people stand ajthaat and say on.
thing can't be don,
Th timid pilgrim bows his head th
knocker's club has won.
4 c man. w i . el eee Jit
looks em In the eve,
And sort of sneers and turns awy
he'll do It then or die.
And Just as brav a any Is the itrtU
tier, too,
Who guilds four stantas lust tike these
and somehow jams 'em through.