THE OREGON
AIllY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, - WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1912.
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THE JOURNAL
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rOREIGTf ADVEBTISJXa REPRESENT ATI VK,
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Gl Building. Chicago.
JilS Teople
SnbaeHpfkw terma by mull or to any address
la the 1'nited State or Meiico.
DAILY.
Oh year 5.on : Oue month w
SUNDAY.
0n int ...... t2 !& ' owmth $ 21
DAILY. AND SCSPAT.
0 rwr $7.50 i Oct month t 83
What 35- ecsn do : f r . not h C 1 V
the test of powers; what we can
T&nffer - tot - aiwHter-1-; t he test
0 Jove. Bishop., wetcott.
5
sitpoi:
SUPPOSE the Portland commit
tee enUrs into an arrangement
with an outside company to
give Portland an oriental ser
vice for a number of years,
Suppose after the three years of
guarantee period is past, the com
pacy -claims it is operating at a loss,
and demands more guarantee.
Suppose the Portland' committee
refuses a further guarantee and de
mands that the -.company fulfill its
contract on the original terms.
But suppose the company refuses.
How can the committee enforce Us
demands? To what court would it go
to proceed crjalhst a company owned,
Bay, In Great Britain, and what, cir
cuitous and difficult steps would be
necessary To enf -rce performance of
the contract?
Suppose the company should re
port to bankruptcy proceedings or
lome other of various well known
processes to rid Itself of the liabil
ity under the contract. What would
Portland do, and how would it do it?
" Fpr twenty-five years, Portland
has experimented with the shoe
trng plan In the steamship busi
ness. At the end of twenty-five
years we are in a great trade crisis,
a lot of oriental business has
slipped away, the paramou.itcy in
the business has been shifted from
-Portland to u get sound, and worst
of all, we are without a line. It Is
an Inglorious, unenterprising, dismal
twenty-five years of futility. Is it
worth nothing to us?
Writing In yesterday's Journal,
W. S. Dunlavy, an experienced
steamship man. Bays: "If Portland
Is prepared to offer a subsidy to out--lie-4BtereU,
i,ha should be -willing
to stand a prospective Iobb for a
short time to get the necessary ex
perience and to havo the satisfac
tion -of having the enterprise owned
and controlled by local capital, no
that she could at all times dictate
; the policy, and keep the service at
all times a purely Portland service."
. W. B. Ayer recently suggested in
The Journal the plan of financing a
-locally owned steamship company by
Issue of municipal bonds, or by taxa
tion. "Te have Issued bonds for pub-
Hc-4ocka It .Portland capital Insist
on. dealing exclusively with town
lots, what may we not yet be com-1
pelled to do? '
CLEAN MONEY
I
T is not the big contribution that!
Is most prized in the Woodrow
Wilson campaign fund.
The fifty cents from the cal
loused hand of the worklngman, the
half dollar that is earned by the
weat of a toller, is as highly rrlzcd
as the $10 or the $100
4 1 1.1..
. ,ula,..T
nan.
It Is the equality of one man with curitles can be carried on without
any other man before the law that legally-authorized Interference by
Wtodrow Wilson stands for.' It wus'tlie secretary of state.
-fof-lnat reason that ho refused! of If,, 000 corporations organized
Thomas F. Ryan's money It Is for j urrtier the laws of Oregon, Sem-tarv
that reason that he demands that nojoi-ott savs 11.000 are cr.)oked Men
contributions shall revived from 'hide behind the corporate organlza-
tbe generalissimos of special prhl-jtion and do frenzied finance thev
-lege. -who have kept strings on the would not dre to do personal
White House in the past by 1,1 cam- Th Ilan,e of the gta,B of Qr
Daign contributions jhl0,)ld ,K)t use(J ,n any
The worklngman s fifty cents !,),,. No Rtate ,jrengfl
clean morty. It Is only with clean j rorI,oraUon t0 do business without
money that W oortrcr' Wilson will I i itl .k... v..
permit his campaign ex; crises :o Le
Pa'd-
AN OISKGON UFSOIUCE
0-NB of the obvious results of
the practice of Intensive farm
ing now being preached in
every experiment station, ev
ery farmers' club, grange and coop
erative association, lj to i nlarce and
to establish the demand for artificial
fertilizers.
i ThA threo vttniiv ....
Hances are nitrogen, phosphorus
ana potasji, and on tho abundance
i and rheaih.i'K nf thir .
I penda to a large and Increasing ex -
tent the Improved productiveness of
) the farm.
AH know that C.ermanv has been
i for several years the chief source of
the supply of potash. Until the
: chemical processes affecting the pct
jj ash found In various parts of this
country are simplified and cheap
I ened bo that the soluble saUs can be
, put on our markets at lower prires
than . the Germans ask, Importation
I from Germany will doubtless ron
f Unue. But of the American devel
r opmsnt there Is well founded expec
t tatlon.
j Phosphorus is the product of the
j phosphate rocks. The chief 3ourcet
J .at i a i I ... I
p' Prwuu,un lm country have; York at times In the total wheat
; been hitherto Tennessee and Florida .shipments. In 1903, tho port opened
oui vuunuus urtibiio, spread over
an srea exceeding a million arres.
kv peeo found In Idaho- and have
TX5c a" V&o r 0 u g uTy" e i a mTn e J and" 'par-
tially developed with satisfactory re
sults. A ' '
It remains to notice that the sup
ply of nitrate of soda tha source of
nitrogen for. the farm has been re
ceived principally from Chile, where
great fortunes have been mace In
the industry of preparing and exporting-
the nitrate. The export tax
charged 'by the Chilean government
has been about 1 12.3 4 per metric
ton since 1880. That tax realized
to th Chilean government $459,
249,155 In the 21 years including
1911. .
The Importance to Oregon of the
development of the deposits reported
over a large area in eastern Oregon,
near the boundary line between Har
ney and Lake counties, can be read
ily believed. The success of the In
dustry depends almost as much oH
cheap1 and accessible transportation
as on the existence of the mineral
in quantity and on the purity of
its analysir. The new Harriman
central Oregon line will provide
transportation. By careful -nd re
liable exploration and analysis the
presence of the desired mineral
should be determined, and the re
sults made known whether such
results be for or agaln3t the Industry
In that locality.
THE AMERICAN KING
N'
INE billion dollars is the esti
mated value of the farm crops
of 1912. It is an increase of
J500.000.000 over last year.
They are huge figures. "They
visualize what the farms meanJThey
are new wealth thrown Into the
channels of trade, new impulse given
to finance, new work and new prof
its for transportation.
All the issues of stock by Ameri
can railroads for all time have -nly
mounted to JS, 470, 000, 000. a
smaller sum than the American
farniB yielded In a single year.
Our total exports of merchandise
for the year ending with, June, 1911,
were a little over two billions, or
less than one fourth the value of the
farm crops for one year.
The bank deposits of the United
States are equal to the entire na
tional wealth of Italy. They are one
third the national wealth of France
or Germany. They equal the com
bined national wealth of Spain, the
Netherlands, -Portugal and Switzer
land. The bank deposits are the ac
cumulated surplus of all time. They
reflect the money savings of the na
tion. In the United States, they to
tal 115,000,000,000, It Is enly six
billions more than the farmers of
the United States produced In 1912.
A nation's greatness is not in bat
tleships. It is not in armed men
and drilled regiments. It is not in a
nation's power to destroy.
The national security la in the soil.
The nine billions' worth of fc-.n
crops in a single year is the real
basis of national prosperity.
The banks are merely an episode.
They are an cdjunct. The :allroads
are only ah" Ihcident., in comparison.
They are the vehicle. The public
service utilities are a mere side
show. Nothing approximates the Import
ance of th farms. They are - the
great national anchorage. They are
the floodga'ea tf wealth. They are
Mho paramount' national Institution.
The farmer is king.
DISliHACIXG OHEGON
A
HIGH officer in the postal ser
vice says crooked promoters
come from elsewhere to Ore-
gon to organize fske corpora-
Hons that they would not dare to
thni thnv
.organize In other states. I Oregon, ,
il. . .-I- M a . .
i ii j organizing 01 soap-minbie com-
i nanles and the floating of 1betis s
huslneas is to he and whether or not
1 1; Is a crooked business
Whatever corporation the state li
censes should be honest. Until it
has rroved Itself honest, it should
not be licensed.
That Ir --hat Is proposed by tho
lOlcott blue sky bill, and '.he framer
jof the famous Kansas blue sky law
j says the Oleott bill 's a splendid
'llcf;urp
j "w ran none8t rRen Justify them-
.selves If they vote for Oreon to con-
Itinuo as spawning ground of dishon-
I est companies?
The vote for the Olrott bill should
! ''P
OXK INLAND POUT
G'
KNTIJ:MEN with hammers
have, in times past, tried to
tell 'ortlandrrs that Inland
seaports are Inefficient. One
said a ship never goes a length
farther Inland than can ba helped.
'Montreal ia the leading seaport of
Canada. In 1903. 29 per cent of
the imports and 32 per cent of the
exports of Canada passed through
Montreal. The port was then the
third of Importance In grain ship
ments in North America, being ex
ceeded only by New York and New
Orleans it has since passed New
lo navigation on the 12th of April
and closed on the 2 8th of November.
IaH . uumerIorUia .ikst lima,
Teesels of 15,000 tons began to ar-
riva and berth at Montreal wharres, !
The channel to the sea has a
depth of 30 feet, a depth recured by
the efforts of the Dominion govern
ment. , . ,
Montreal Is 985 miles from the
ocean, or ten times as far Inland as
is Portland.
SLANDERING PORTLAND, BIT-
r
O enumerate . the difficulties
and perils of navigating the
Columbia to Portland, requires ;
a two-column editorial in the
Tacoma Tribune. A sample of the
article is on this page. It will un
doubtedly interest Portlanders.
The withdrawal of the Water
house service to Portland is the text
for the diatribe. "It Is thus for
mally In effect declared," pays the
Tribune, "that Portland as a sea
port terminus of the Union Pacific
system will not do, will -not f ill -t he
bill of requirements, and la rejected
without qualification by the Union
Pacific, which will now -proceed to
utilize the Puget sound facilities
that have been prepared tor it at
Tacoma."
Again the Tacoma paper says:
'Portland has been condemned as a
seaport by shipowners; shipmasters
and railroad managers because of
the dangers and delays to shipping
that are incident to navigation of
the Columbia river, which leads from
the dorp sea to her docks, a distance
of about 100 miles."'
Again it says: "Against the su
perior economical attractions of Ta-
eoma's harbor, Portland has been
able, for a time to hold an Inferior
and unstable position in the oriental
trade only by virtue of a subsidy or
a guarantee that amounts to a Bub
sidy In favor of the Waterhouse line
of steamships, which the people of
that city induced the Union Pacific
tp undertake."
This Is what Portlanders get' for
being content with shoestring steam
ship lines. ' The Waterhouse ships
used to leavo Portland shippers
standing on Portland wharves, beg
ging for cargo space. The apace was
being saved for Seattle shipments.
The Watirhouse line, was never a
direct service. Its service was so
uncertain by reason of discrimina
tions against Portland shippers, and
its deliveries of Portland conslgn-
ments so conjectural, that Asiatic j that party to the one that offers a bet
correspondents frequently urged :er arrangement of society and it will
, ' . ... V. n atter not by what name the party An
Portland exporters to ship by the called. '
Seattle lines. By a continuation of changes for the
It wasn't a Portland line at all, in
actual fact. It wasn't run for tho
benefit of Portland shippers. It
made Portland a sideshow. It
made Portland Puget sound's back
yard. It wasn't interested in build
ing up a Portland business, and that
was why it failed.
No bettor thing ever happened to
Portland than its withdrawal, in ono
reppoel, because the withdrawal baa
sorved to dlw lose to Portlanders tho
rotten character of the service. It
exposed to view the handicaps with ,
which the export trade was Bllr. ;
a '
rounded. '
Still, the withdrawal gives the !
Hv..la of Portland Mninelhlnir to feed
.... ., , ,,
on. li una mu jnuimio ui i u.imuu
traducers with slanders. It gives
them something with which to con-iotlc
demn thlti Xrt. It fills thw with
vkiona of shipd being stiujt in Co
lumbia river mud.
It retails to them the so-called
perils of the Columbia b;r
It elves
them opportunity to ululate about
the so-called shoal places in the riv
er channel.
It is what Portland gets for con-
fining hcrKClr to tilt' exclusive OUSl-,
nes'j of swapping, town lots while re-'""
in fi-n I
... . ... .. .
Viin Knnn It 4o whit VnfHlnndnrll 1
g(H for thelr lttiL.k of jnu.ro8t i over-1
wuvii. iv w. ,o ,
8ea trade alld the facilities of over
sea trade. , rortlnni'.ers to owning and controlling
The Tacoma diatribe Is a bitter 'its own trade with the nations to the
pill but whofre is the fault but our ' A worthy object, and one In
? which we wish you success In Its ac-
own- . roTtipitFTiment. Tt will pay in dollars
Portland's answer to It should he 'and c.nts. a. f , w summers ago your
an oriental Hue that Is hti orimtal pai-r almost unaided, helped in the
line. It should be a line with l'ort- I flBht for C?RR milk- ana a marked Ue
. r, , . , , . i crease in the mortality of Infants re
land men and Portland capital be-1 Bultd. Rvery mother In Tortland should
htnd it in order that Portland ex-1 thank you for mnking our milk supply
porters may gc
an oriental service
that will be un oriental service
A 111 N( OKI) MA N
I
T cost Ib'rnhard rrtescn of Dalhis
11 100 to learn that the habitual -
ly benevolent stranger who bap-
pens around on a Wild West show
day is always loaded.
Frlesen had eold his farm, and
the money was In the bank. A gen-
.eel gentleman gained his confidence
and explained how the two might
make $lo00 each In a few minutes.
It was the old Kit me in a new. way.
Back of H was the plan of grMIng
a lot of money for nothing. We all
eem possessed of Innate desire for
quick riches, and no questions asked.
Anyway, Frleden, rllke thousands
before hi ni , Jumped at the chance for
easv money, and got skinned out of
111 0Q.
Vrobably the time will never Mnn
when blacklegs and bunco artists
won't find victims
Harnum was right. We insist on
being humbugged.
The Journal Is in the prelimi
naries of removal thla week to Its
new home. The trr-nsfep-of a great
modern printing plant to new quar
ters is a mammoth undertaking. It
necessarily Involves the temporary
crippling of tho energies In all de
partments. It limits spare In the
news columns, and has measurably
Interfered with tho paper's handling
of the Chicago convention and other
great news. The final transfer of
the plant wijl be completed after
midnight Saturday, aud then with
the great Hoe presses and other
(julonjrit uJiA-tuaUad - la . itu y tbax
newspaper establishment In tha
north weat. The Journal will have no
apologies to make for Its service,
Several carloa's of old potatoes
on Front street, Portland, for which
growers were offered $1.50 to $2 per
hundred last spring," are beinjj of
fered now at 25 cents per sack, but
nobody buys. What to do with
them is the problem. For once,
growers made a mistake.
In formally opening the campaign,
Chairman Hilfcs Ignores the bull
moosers and directs his fire on
Woodrow Wilson. If Mr. Hilles be
lieves the bull moosers to be be
neath his official notice, he has a
lot yet to learn.
Letters From tKe People
(Communications Sent to The Journal
for publication In this department
sbotid -be- written- n -enly-eneld t
the paper, should not exceed 190 words
irr length and must be accompanlm! by
the name, ami address of 'the sender... If
the writer does not desire to have the
name published, he should so staaei?
1 Facing Great Problems.
Portland, Aug. 6. To the- Editor of
The Journal. It se.ems etrange that
there Khould be such a contention among
the people while each one Is striving
tor what lie thinks is right. But this
continued strife must bo from a cause;
and while so many of the people are
deprived of the necessaries of Ufa In
a land of plenty, the cause will remain,
the disturbance will continue, and the
crimes In society will flourish. The
laws that govern., society become more
complex as the population on the earth
Increases. It is like a pyramid of rocks
built one on top of the other, and to
remove one rocli weakens the whole
structure and makes It dangerous, es
pecially for those who have most to
lose. And g-enerally the disturbance
oomes from those who have least to
lobo. but it also comes from those who
have most of the burden to bear. And
t,h,ir dissatisfaction is expressed in va
ried -ways. They are denounced as
"agjtifters" and "soap box orators." It
Ih fluite natural that those who are in
possession and power would" be opposed
to any change In the present order of
tilings upon, which their security de
pends, and they will put it ofT aj long
as they can. But changes will come In
spite of opposition. The world will con--
tinue to progress as It always has, step
by"stp, to the better. AnJ,thoso who
are ou top must not think that they can
forever "stand pat" while the world Is
moving on. To keep pace with the
world we must progress, or soon be
buried, as the fossil, by the evolution of
life. And any political party that does
not keep pace with the times must like
wise die. The people will turn from
better we huve come from Hie darker
ai'rs to this hlRli stage ot civilization,
with all its wonderful achievements; but
ilo you think that we have reached the
pinnacle where we can stand snd fflory
over it? Were it possible to file out In
one bins line all the children that are
marching to work each morning, and
then to look upon their bent forms and
dwarfed bodies, and to look Into their
fiauhr and hunjery fares, what a ad
showing It would be for a great and
prosperous oojintry! And man, the
highest typo of God's creation! Why
does he allow hla. children to labor in
dusty, disease breeding dungeons, while
men are Idle? Why does the mother
e"d them there? Is she lacking
that 1,-ve ut.d motherly Instinct? No,
1b thfif cam umiua an1 (h. pum.
in
it
of
Is that same cause and the cause
I a thousand other ills. And better
It
would be for all humanity were this
.cause wiped from the face of the earth
lit does not show the lack of patriotism
t rry 0L.. a(,alnst tnose. wr0nlf8. Tn9
loud mouthed ndtator Is more pafrl
than tho silent bloodsucker.
FHL1X ONE IH,
The Sale of Liquor.
Portland. Aug-. 6 To the Editor of
The .loifrnal. In your editorial column
' August 5. appears an article on the
it I'll n W a rH' u farm uhloh ma .u 'tt nlan
Is at least humane. It can hardly be ex
pec'.ed to reform an inobriate. In nine
cases out of ten, after a certain degree
of Inebriety is reached, the case Is hope
less. Hu is a lost man. He Is more to
be pitied than to !e punished." This Is
,r,n ,rll'- but while reading this, the
thought will compel attention, Why
;make Inebriates'
WVi v l.rtill,. ,,".
. .
nc(!l w nose or.iy pronnrt is mis poor,
lost man or woman? Why give place
to such a business? Does It pay"
Virnr ranr l inil.iivnrln. In
r ror 'ne rn,iri t "rink, wont you
nun another such crusade against the
deadly gun of the legalised ll'iuor busl
nf'. Eventually out of f very fifth home
one of thf'He sam babies that escaped
death from the germs in the milk, ir
cumbs to the more deadlv Krnis which
Ht'Klrnv Tint nnlv 1 1 f u . n. In, m,ln... i...--.
; hut hereafter, for it is written "no
; drunkard shall inherit the kingdom of
j aml " Won't you, through wise edit-
"i ii'i, oirjw mo i uuiin ii mhfb in noiiurs
and cent alone, of allowing such a
business to live when Its r,nly product
Is the peor loet fellow who haa to bav
"I ,T ,C " "LK" ,r. P":
rent or us wno CO not contribute to the
flucci es of the liquor buxlness?
J t. M.
"The Day's News."
Portland. Or., Aug. 6 - To the Editor
of The Journal It Is all In a diiy's
news. It in in almost every day'e news
"pity 'tis, 'tis true."
Here wc find ourselves in this 'won
derful new country of ours after a half
century of unrrelle led Industrial de
velopment, during which wealth has ac
cumulated fabulously and the sentence
above from your editorial today Is the
bent we can do as an epitome of the
net result.
And yet yot say, In effect, In an ad
jacent column that the old parties have
Justified their existence and Unit there
Is no necessity for realignment upon the
real lnues of the day and hence no
need ror the (or any) third party. If
I you reawy believe this to h a fact
then I shall venture the prophecy that
you're In for the surprise of your life
when the returns come In next Novem
ber. For the woodx are Just full of us
who believe that something has got to
he done, and In our own time, to bring
about a more equitable distribution of
tha products of our Industrial civilization
There's enough and to spare for us all
for every man who Is willing to do nn
honest days work, and the observing
man in tne street is putting two and
two together and realises that such ex
tremes aa go to make up tha "day's
news' are really not necessary at all
And If tho "Bull Moose" can convince
the people that his party stands for this
forrtrr rvqnirr flcnirtheTe's t ofng to
ba something doing in this country on
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE!
Business bankruptcy ia a rare Item
of news these time.
The Washington state Bar association
5 lined no credit by its Indorsement of
udge Iianford.
Though many lawyers arc excellent
cltlxens, few lawyers are politically or
socially progressiva.
. . . - ..
The president is always to be cred
ited with moderation in lanauaara and
dignity in deportment.
Now the big keynote has really been
sounded by Taft himself. But there
will be many minor notes,
a - -
The CaVmorists trial lasted II
months and cost Italy $800,000, a record
for some of our courts and lawyers to
envy. , , ......
A government of law and not of Beo-
ple, is Taft's slogan. That would be
very well If "law" meant SDeedv and
etjual- Justice.
dleaied, arid lus-
tlco are often ouite different The
Meyers will case seemsato frnish an
example of this.
Portland used to kick at the railroads.
or because railroads were not built; if
it isn't energetic it will have a kick
coming to Itself. ,
A Sierra mountain vouthr.lt said to
havo been discovered to be a great poet,
but people will be slow to believe it,
for his name la Smith.
General Oroieo says he does not re
cognize the United States; Its too amnll
an affair for such a great general.
What he needs is a rockpile for about
seven years. - -
The men who founded and laid out
Portland are entitled to much credit,
but they bullded badly In the matter
of small blocks, narrow streets and no
alleys.
It is the big real estate owners who
will profit most bv a permanent, suc
cessful oriental steamshrp line, as they
do ry every enterprise that helps to
make a greater Portland.
Negroes cannot be blamed for think
ing and even saying thai their ostra
cism by the leaders of the new party is
not comportable with a square deal.
And In the northern states are quite a
lot of negroes who are allowed to vote.
SEVEN NOTED PIONEERS
Dr. William
The pioneer In the charitable work of
the Humane society was Dr. William
Hawesv-the founder of that society whoJ
was born In London in 1736 and died
in tliut city in 1808. Today every city
of any sixe in the civilized world lias
its society working along the lines laid
down by Dr. Hawes.
On the carriage" road, close to the
border of the Serpentine, in Hyde Tark,
London, stands a little building that
will recall to ail visitors to that city
the work that Dr. lhiwes carried out
for the benefit of humanity.
In 1778 tho gold medals of the British
Humane society bore the head of
George III and In order to show It in ap
preciation of the value of Its work lie
ordered this building to be constructed
on the shore of the Serpentine, and hud
it fully equipped with every appliance
necesHary to restore life to a person
nearly, drowned.
Ten years after it was built the
king's sun, the Duke of Cumberland,
aaved the life of a young girl rom the
Serpentine, and upon him at St. James'
palace, the gold medal was bestowed.
William Hawes was educated -at St.
Paul's school, London, and served an
apprenticeship with a surgeon and
chemist. He worked so faithfully and
showed such skill that at 23 he was al
the head of an establishment In tint
Strand, with a share In the business and
lie had a large patronage.
At 37 Dr. llawes decided upon what
should be his Ufa work. He had felt
an earnest desire to do something for
humanity. He read ot an account of u
society at Amsterdam that was then six
years old, the duties of which were to
restore to life those nearly drowned,
the first Tuesday after the first Mon
day In November. And on amount of
hammering about "Socialist, anarchist,
lunatic,'1 eti, li suing to hcaS. it off.
L. R. E.
Quoting Frdm an Historic Cae.
Newberg, Or, Aug. 3 To the Editor
of The Journal. My second edition
"Sixteen Years In Oregon." which will
soon be ready for the public, will not
only riisect the evidence glcn in the
Winters' deed controversy, but will
also give an account of the witnesses
present at the trial who were waiting
to give evidence In my behalf, and the
documental evidence 1 had, including
many or w inters sis-'naiures, present
T mt - -lt- K a rlnoiaUn sri K V
(he circuit court and the ,upre.e couri '..
Tho following is taken from the decls-
Ion of the supreme court and Is a fair
sample:
"Winters sem to have been a keen,
catrulattng business man, careful and
even miserly and stingy In money mat
ter, and .ucli a courso would have been
contrary to bis usual hablta and char
acter." The evidence r,f the plaintiff wit
nesses In the easo shows that Winters
wat contemplating giving hla property
to the temperance movement; also giv
ing this same property to Mrs. Max
well, his housekeeper. The testimony
also Hhows that Mrs. Rutledge had bar
gained te lease the property for the
measly sum of $150 a month ror rive
years, and the evidence shows t hat the
property bring $450 a month, rental.
The above. I a fair sample or tne
opinion.
Another section taken from the opin
ion la1.
"We do not believe that Winters was
foolish enough and unbusinesslike
enough to have dona an act so Incon
sistent with his character and habits."
WILL E. rL'HDY.
Oriental Line Xeeesrjr.
Sandy-. Or, Aug 4 To the Kdltor of
The Journal. In your editorial entitled
"The Live Man's Way" you hit the nail
on the head In regard to making Port
land a seaport. But jrou cannot drive It
n far enough with one lick, lou must
keep on hammering. When we look all
about us in every direction and see our
wealth and our wonderful resources, snd
then see other cities with not half tha
wealth and resources tributary to them,
develop great seaports, with their Alas
ka and oriental lines pouring In and out,
the vast wealth, of our empire, are we
not Justified in aaklnir ourselves what
Is the matter with us? Why are we thus
without ample oriental and Alaska ser
vice? Just keep on asking that old
question, "why?" What Is the use te
keep grumbling about our trade slip,
ping away from us to other ports, with
out applying the proper remedy? The
bonus way ia not the right way, and
never will be the right way. Tha Lord
almighty has given you a river as great,
if not greater, thun any upon which the
largest seaport cities of Europe are
built. And the barriers ore leas, too,
than s6m of the large sesport cities nf
Europe had to contend with. Why ia
all your vxport trade going to California
and 8eattlepnrta?Talk about tha ben
efSta of thranamft canal. What' ben
efit la tha Panama canal going to ba ta
NEWS IN BRIEF i
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
8. A. Pattlson, who founded tha Can
tral Point Herald six years ago, has
old tha paper to E. R. Qieason and
E. Bacon.
I A contract, for tha remodeling' and
rcuuuuiua; ui me snnukiftuu nu vitv
erection of several new buildings at
the county fair grounds haa been let by
the directors of tha Baker Commercial
dub. . "y" " :
Baker Democrat: Such thunder claps
aa were experienced Friday night tested
the veracity of the oldest inhabitant,
who has been often heard " to remark
that severe thunder and lightning were
strangers to this part of the country .
Baker DemocratiaIn the construction
of the new St Elisabeth hospital every
bit of tha materUL with one exception,
is home product, from tha building
stones and brick to the lumber. The
single exception noted ia the steel work
used for reenforctng.
a
A telephone -company- has- -en
ganlied at Monroe. The object Is to
give Monroe direct telephonic connec'
tion with all parta of southern Benton,
as well as long distance tier vice by
the Independent system.
Forest Grove News-Times It ts not
often that a fruit man gathers two
crops of 'apples at one time, yet B. H.
Tupper picked from an apple tree fruit
that grjaw on the tree last year and had
remained there until now. Last year's
apple was In a fair state of preserva
tion. And this la no nature fake story,
either.
a a
Astorlan: The consumption of pota
toes in Clatsop county annually amounts
to fully 60,000 sacks of 180 pounds each,
and of this sum not to exceed 40,000
backs are grown at home, although all
the land In well adapted. Bottom lands
produce 350 sacks to the acre, and up
lands 250. sacks. The average price to
growers the past decade has not been
less than $1,25 per sack, and in gome
years as high as S3.
a a
Eugene Guard: And "Mil no steps are
taken to build a city ball, badly as it
Is nede1. The several municipal de
partments are scattered throughout the
city, and tho old shaok on the county
grounds is a standing advertisement of
Eugene's lack of enterprise and elvlo
pride. The liveliest, fastest -growing
town In Oregon is too poor or lacks the
spirit to properly care for the admlnnts.
tratlon of its own business!
Hawea.
persons who had been overcome by
gases or who had been burled while in
rendition like death.
Full of enthusiasm In his belief that
lie had found his mission In life, ho
paid no beed to tne opposition he' en
countered, and the ridicule to which he
was subjected.
At his own expense he offered a cer
tain sum of money to any person who
would try the means t aid he pre
scribed upon any person who had re
mained too long In -the walr of tha
Thames, between London and West
minster bridges. Witnin a year so mnny
persons had been saved that' it looked
as If Dr. Hawes' private fortune would
soon be given away In this scrvlc.'.
People no longer laut'hed at Hawes
and some of his friejads gathered at u
cafe in 1774 and founded tho "Human
society" under his direction. On April
4 of that" year," Oliver Goldsmith die.l.
Dr. Hawes wrote an account of Goid
smith a death and dedicated it to Kir
Joshua Reynold!" and Edmund Burke,
two of Oliver's intimate friends.
In this he lulled uUention to the
danger of a medicine than greatly mi
use and called "James' Powders" whirr,,
he claimed, had eauHd the death of
Goldaniith by too excessive donea. Tins
created a renewed interest in the so
ciety that was looking Into such im
portant niatteiK,
Dr. Hawes was an hnnornry member
of many humane socteties in Kurope,
Asia and Amerlcu. He was so absorbed
in zeal for his favorlts work that lie
left but a small fortune for his wife
end children.
Tomorrow Claude Bourgelet.
Portland's shipping? It will be to Port
land just whut Alaska's shipping has
been to Portland. Your export trade
will all go via California and.Sca.ltla
ports. There is more energy displayed
and more development going on now, in
western Canada than anywhere on the
western continent, more railroad build
ing, mora seaport building. Why?
RHif-ing apples and strawberries won't
make a seaport, nor the Almighty won't
come down and build ships and make a
seaport for you. So. what are you go
ing to do about It?
If you haven't export trade, that, In
Itself, Is an acknowledgement that you
hav.irt a se.iport, or that you haven't
inaiuji m uiuiuv rnougn 10 nuuu a sea
port, If yon can't buu.il a i-eApori ctm
ZT.T.l'V, y.J,P ( the
use to spend all those millions on your
nrr ana iiarDor : j ne niggardly policy
of our administration at Washington,
D. C, end our antiquated land laws have
been great boons for Canada nf late
ycara. We started wrong In the firnt
place, and now we art learning that we
must work out our destinies on different
lines from which we have been follow
ing. We need a little oil of progress on
the axlctree of our understanding. We
need lasa politics and a little mor com
mon sense In our destiny building.
K. J. BOYLE.
Slandering Portland.
Krom tho Tacoma Tribune,
It was not so had In the days of
small shipping, but Imagine the costiv
detention resulting to a modern freight
er, now so common;' of 10,000 or more
ions, aoaea jo me really great risk of
crossing the. bar! Every dnv of tht
detention means not only idle eBniti
Invested In ship and cargo, but also
absolute waste and loss of operating
expense. Add to that the dangers of
Injury and further detention In crossing
tha numeroua shoals of the river both
waya, and even In lying unwarily in her
berth at the city front when the river
Is falling, thus Incurring the risk barft-
ly oscapea recently by the battleship
Oregon of settling In the mud and there
being held for weeks or months until
next rise of waters. The meaning of that
would be something far short of a. prof
itable voyage. If It should not even por
tend financial failure to the owner. And
we ara not to forget the onerous port
oharges, the heavy ptlotage, lighterage
and Inauranee that have made the Co
lumbia river notorious in shipping dr
oits aa one of the mpst expensive ports
In tha world.
. Tha reasons ara hera sufficiently
shown why Portland has been con.
ilemnrd as a seaport, why In order to
the fiction of commanding a share In
the oriental trade She was compelled to
lie down on the Union Pacific for pull
ing the ehestnuts out of the fire In so
subsidizing the Waterhouse tramps, why
tha tramps have retired from the Ill
requited and losing service and why the
Union Pacific, Instead of abiding at
Portland, has, at cost of many millions,
acquired trackage rights to and lrge
terminal grounds at Tacoma as moans, of
snte and economical outlet to the orient
for lta water-level traffic though the
Caseade mountains.
" TTiaratsposea of Tmafif arTTFvaT
of Tacoma,
Americas. King
Henry Clews' Letter
The United , 6tatea seems to have
taken in mother nature as a special
partner, and once mora - the country
promisee to be fevered with good har-.
vests. If present calculation are real' .
Ued we ahajl garner a 700,000,000 bushel
wheat crop, a 2.J00.000.OOO bushel" corn
crop and a 1,200,000,000 . bushel oats
CTOpT-The yield of potatoes and hay la
alao likely to be conalderably ahead Of
last year. The total value of these
five crops Is estimated at $3,J0O.000,0OO,
or about J200.000.000 ahead of last year.
In all probability, the aggregate of all
agricultural wealth produced thts year
will be about $9,000,000,000, as against
$8,500,000,000. the figures of the dnart
menl or agriculture laat year. What
this annual production of new wealth
means to this country may be estimated
when It is remembered that tho capital
stock of alt the railroads in tim TTnit.ii
aLiLEa-is pwced-at-S,7fl,000,OOOr An-
Increase of $500,000,000 In agricultural
nromicjs In a single year cannot but ba
a powerful stimulus to business.
Bankers in all portions of the west -are
agreed that the crop situation Is
satisfactory, that business Is in mora
promising condition than for several
years past, and that the business men
of the interior have decided to eliminate ,
politics from thoir calculations. Thla.
Ui a , practical expression of ncfaased
coMwenoe based upon positively !m-
proved intrinsic conditions, - XhaxQltOA
crop seems, likely, to aULjjelow e(lriy ..
expectations, but the yllwiltrn"evor
theless, be large, and planters are secur-
lng prices whlch afford goqd profits.
The-south enjoyed exceptional prosper--tty
last year vand Is not Trikely to fall,
behind 'seriously during the next 13
months. August Is usually a month of
deterioration, so a maoderate rfwUfng off
In condition need cause no surprise In
the final reports. A
Tha stock market has been strangely
backward In reflecting the betterment
of conditions In the interior. This must
be largely attributed to the absence of
genuine leadership. The stock market
is literally taking care of Itself, and
stagnation was Increased by the fact
that the vacation season Is now at lta
height. Wall street is not governed
alone by crops and business, aa Is tha
case In the Interior. Monetary condi
tions are an Important influence. Bo,
too, are 'international affalra. Tha
money market reflects increasing hugl
ness nctlvltyCommerclal paper la more
plentiful. Time money ia hardening
and the Increased demand for funds la
being felt In all directions.
According to the last statement of
the national banks throughout the coun
try, loans are more than $QO,OGO,000'1n
excess of a' year ago. Canada has be
gun to withdraw her balances from thla
center. Western and southern demands
will shortly become more pressing, and
there has been soma expectation that
Europe, owing to strained conditions
there, would depend upon New York for
gold in settlement of Its obligations to
South America. Easior conditions, how
ever, are beginning to prevail In Europe.
Germany has been paying a portion of
her American loans, Indicating partial
relief of strain in that quarter, and In
both I'arls und London cheaper and
more abundant money Is reported.
Among the reasons why New York has
been less .sanguine than tho west Is the
tremendous output of new securities
during the first six months of the year.
While the distribution of these has been
much more successful than misht havo
born expected, nevertheless the ncHl
nmrket Is somewhat congested by sin-li
exeuHtilve offerings of high grade secur
ities. In time they will doubt lens .ha
distributed, but August Is not generally
considered a good investment month..
In July tho output of new securities
whs only about $34,0u(i,OO0, as against
$130,000,000,000 a year ago. This ts an
unusually small output, and proves the
Inability of the market to hike any fur
ther new lsii at tills time.
Pointcd Paragraphs
Your discretion might loplc like cow
ardice In another.
Many a young man's chancas In life
go up in cigarette smoke.
A man knows more at II than he can
uulwrn belweta that and 60.
A gir! never boosts a new love affair
by boasting of an old one.
m m
Some men are dumb because their
wives never give them a chance to talk.
A woman can't feed a man so much
taffy that It will spoil his appetite for
it.
Even the man who Is hti own worst
enemy li always ready to forgive hlm
sel.V '
If it were not for the trusts whom
would a man who falls In business blame
for It?
In a woman's eye, the most attractive
thing about a man Is her ability to at
tract him.
Money mnv bring happiness, but
every man on earth would like to try
the experiment for himself.
There are lots of funny things to be
seen In this world, and among them Is
a fat woman sitting on a little piano
dtool.
When a couple In ngaged they look
ut each other's virtue with (Magnifying
glasses, which are thrown undo on their
wedding day,
Tanglefoot
by Miles
Overboil
OUT WKKT.
Out west most anywhere the women
V0tl
And opportunity Just stlcka nround.
Nobody ever has to he the (mat.
And nature's kind of partial to the
ground.
Tho htnumH am all chock full of
speckled fish.
The woods urc running over, too, lth
gam".
Most all vou have to do is sit ;i iul wish.
And '"Ws'll cull you by your fain ly
name.
Out west the sun Just haflgs around and
smiles,
And doesn't try to burn the atmos
phere; Old winter never practices his wiles
He only come to sort of stretch the
year.
The folks out west don't try to steal you
blind,
Nobody thinks to lock his money
pouch;
Mas .ever body's of the Jjiughlng Jilnd,
They'vq got no-Mstll to" carry 'round a
grouch.
Out west the kids are nearly alwaya
kids,
And flowers clog the paths thatlead
to fame;
Nobody's roughly Jerked along time's
skid::.
And everybody gives his proper
name.
Tha begsar meets a friend on every
. block,
Nobody thinks he s better than tha
rest;
No one has time to stand around and
nx, , i
And that 1 why nobody leaves the
west
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