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rrT i T" STTD 1ST T i Bsore wdTnorenoney and more and.; I ITC J W W XN.1N XUJA wore, attention to the hog industry "-vnwrvnm NEWSPAPER. Itntll few weeks ago, we had sur- 1 jTTXPEPEX PENT SKWSPAPEB. t. 8r JACKSON. ..fubHaner ago. vived for a year- withoot the Impor tation of a single carload of bogs wihw w yJ-, from otnf -ate. condition yntil . -v ffVfirtf&'EShft or. ; tha time, unusual hi, Oregon lift. assured stability of nigh t - . , .. . Portland' Or.,, ine iV iMi.-muttwtbrSiJsutb pEjCe, should iiltlmately maka us not fiiia mug. , - - an importer but an. exporter of pork. 173: lim, a -wml - - --r.t:tftNi"s e" All depart men ! Tell e-pe-at JO (IE! UN AlV - Mht Tl's: 2!S..J puts reached br thefe n anr what deprtmnt TO" k7ntif Co.. nriHiwl'-k Tla i,.l,ml A Kenttwr Co.. Hriwuwi' '"""" t S-J3 iNfi N- Vork; 121S ree-pw Bulldtisg. Chicago. i ViiMrrlptlon terms h.v trail or to taj da the l ulled Stslwi or Mexico. I PA1LY. .I3.no One montti. .nu n l ' - year 2.ao ' .w hmi. - ' iuii.t .xn sirsiAY. yr H-M I One month. ''lv..:Jr--?- The highest mfdwinter" price of pork in Portland was 11.15 cents ntatuk, 1 per pound in January, 1 910. want. SENATORIAL SANITY one rear. . taj address i , ' j .$ .50 .$ 25 Believe me when I tell you i that thrift of time will repay you Lin after-life, with a usury of profit beyond your' most san guine dreams; and that waste of ... i .l..i.n olilr.-. ...!. 11 Will mf 1. 1'"". J I tn intellectual andWral stature, beind your darkest reckoning. uian st one. f .t STABBING I'OHTLAND i. , . ictl-MIZEl) at every turn, dls- crimiiia'oJ apa,.:.t in every way,- underlined at her own flresi-de. no city in the United , States! has been more handicapped W Jn securing the benefits of her nat liral" advantages than IvSa Portland. x FTER approving free toils for American coastwise ships at Pananja, by a vote of 44 to 11, the American senate last night adopted a provision admitting American-owned foreign-built ships to United States registry. The house should accept the amendment. It is a first step to ward restoration of the American flag on the high seas. ; For several years no vessel carry ing the American flag passed through the Suez canal. For a whole year the American flag was not seen tS 1 in the port of London, though the flag of every other nation floated proudly there. The high tariff,-, which prevents American home-bound ships from bringing considerable cargoes, is part explanation of the disappear ance of the stars and stripes from the ocean. The foolish requirement that only American-built ships can fly the American flag is another factor in the assassination of our merchant fleets. ' The two together have driven the stars and stripes from the sea, and Americans abroad are "s7rn"ni as it'mav seem. unnaTufaT jis it is,' the loss of the oriental line 'is partly duo to selfish action by Portland men of business. It is a brief story. The rail rates to". Portland from the Columbia ,batn --were Indirectly fixed by the j rarely gladdened by the sight of the (Washington state railroad eommls-flag floating from a ship's masthead, 'f&n'. There was a time when Port-1 The American shipbuilding trust land had the only ocean port on the ! makes It impossible for shipowners .northwest coast of th United States, in this country to get vessels at luget sound was without railroad ! prices to compete with foreign-built 'connections. Pugot sound had no ships. It is stated that American Steamships. builders asked $480,000 for build- ' Ultimately, the Xorihorn Pacific ! ing the Robert Dollar of San Fran- 1-fijchoil tlu. Koiind Then the Great, i8(,o. na mat roreign yams bum go these; ctengthsy"; or ; are they aim ply crazed by their enthusiasm T"; It is stated that there are in Eng land twelve JFSfSized societies en listed In. the woman suffrage cam paign and that only one of the twelve flaunts, .Jhe banner of militancy. Prosecutors and Judges have no al ternative except to punish for such outrageous breaches of the law. These convicts will "have to watch the slow months pass behind the penitentiary bars, they will exchange the excitements and stirring events the world in which they havflfjeen vihg, and the glamor and limelight of their public acts, for the gray prison life, with wardens and offi cials for their overseers, and con victs for their associates. How soon will it come home to them that the game lsnot worth the candle? Will their fellows not recognize that on the culprits, not on those whom they attacked, will the weight and Influ ence of their actions fall? Is it too much to look for the abandonment of their desperate policies and the return to calmer ways? Ust "party jut it fell nytctim to the usual camp, follower! and the for ward steps of the Democratic party, led by Bryan. F AN UPPER - RIVER TRAGEDY I it for S230.000 , V'ln duatime, the -Washington state A great dredge used on the Pan rallroad commission fixed the freight jama canal was built for the Ameri rates from the interior of Washing- can - government at Glasgow - for tea to the soundaud it is on those j $319,000. For constructing it, tatea that Portland ratca are based. American builders asked more than i,In arguing to maintain'. j-ates, the $800,000. iroadf"tTieinstTve at rate 1 ' The American government bought hroaring3, produced great volumes of this and many other great canal ,' testimony showing that the haul cost ! building appliances of foreign build- tcthe sound ia five to eight times'ers. The American house should Washington senators and congress- - the known coat to Portland. Yet, i now ratify the American senate's men are strong advocates of upper Portland. Is confronted with the ex-, proposal for Americans to buy for-1 Columbia appropriations. "The Celi - trordinary fact that sound rates are 1 eign-built ships, admit them to 'o canal is abundantly supplied with T Is an unsettled question as to whether or not the navigation of the upper Columbia by the Open River Transportation line will be continued. - No public activity In the history of the northwest has done so much and made- so little noise. It began Its work Beven years ago- Its prob-tonr-w-asto- for the upper Columbia, Congress was pointing to the ab sence of traffic as reason for with holding appropriations. Somebody had to put the traffic there. The Open River company did it. When the Hue began operation, the Celilo project was dead. The old concern about improving the river had disappeared. Idaho and Wash ington delegations at the national capital were either not interested or actually against upper Columbia ap propriations. - The raiLroada along the river were in clover. They had killed off the old-time navigation of the stream. The shippers had forgotten about steamboats and their effect in reduc ing and regulating rates. The great stream was friendless at the national capital and at homo. But, behold the change. Idaho senators and congressmen are hot footed for Columbia appropriations. the same as Portland rates, and that ' American registry and sail them un- Tortland rates from the great Co-, der the flag of the United States, iity&bia basin are actually fixed by I It will help to again put the stars the over-mountain haul to the and stripes on all the oceans and In Found. Worst of all, it It, b y reason all the portfl. f' this artificial rate discrimination - &at Puget sound has. built up orient- .; al and other commerce by pulling it T ' ajuay from Portland. , rAor 1b tltTs all. The unjust and - artificial rate by which Portland is being cinched has l.-en J BATTLESHIPS FOR JAPAN APAM has commenced construc tion of three battleships of 28, 000 tbns each, all being super dreadnaughts In construction, n perpetuated .-V " wuouuul.u, ith the ftid of some Portland ship-;BUU tarr,1"S lounwn men guns. These shippers -they are (ew ;A11 three are to be built in the gov- ' tnt noWWtfulhnv fill nlnn'r lnla. ' ernment dck X". and the gllllS ed.rthat the rata. made no difference ; also are to be Of Japanese construction. to them, because the interior millers i(nd growers had to pay it. They i Tne navy department of Japan ad 4ood In with the railroads In cre-lvances year by 'ear ln supplying otlng a- public sentiment against from JaPan'8 own yards tho ship ifttbllj: demands for a downhill rate buildlng and outfitting requirements rfr Portland and Astoria, and for ! for 8,1 1,8 ve88ela- 1-dieir work got favorn front the rall-i 11 he borne In mind that the r)4ds that wert of ireat value in Bteel an(l other raw material Is also tjie prosecution of thHr shipping produced ln Japan, the output of Ujuslness. j both steel and Iron from the native It was a steady and consistent be-,0re8 Increasing yearly. So both Brlt - tfayal of Portland, and from it Pu-jaln and Germany have lost a val 60und haa enormously prospered. uable customer, .the' actual fact la that the Water-1 The new battleships will not rep- WIRELESS TELEGRAP&Y IVB new wireless stations at points sslecteA by the British government, and one provided by the Australian common wealth, will belt the wide world, se curing practically momentary con nection. The cost-?B&00,000 for each British station, (tod (500,000 for the Australian station marks the importance attributed to the new link. With gigantic leaps, averaging four thousand miles, the unseen but directed waves will connect conti nents and span oceans. The ether of the world's atmosphere will be filled with the messages, pulsating with the happenings of the nations. Statesmen of the antipodes wlli bo brought into immediate counsel. Criminals seeking to elude justice will no lorger be enabled to escape by avoiding the reach of the steam ship and the telegraph. The news of the whole earth will receive Immedi ate publication. ( So Shakespeare's imagination, when Puck ln "The Tempest" prom ises to "put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes," comes into the realm of prophecy fulfilled. So, once again another feat of science brings apparent Impossibil ity Into the condition of actual fulfilment- COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF Wil son on tlx e 1 antt Great nated. SMALL CHAXGB , , ; news! Roosevelt Was nomi- Letters From tke People (Communications sent to The Journal for publication In this department shoula be written on only one side of the paper, should not exceed 300 words ln length and must be accompanied by the name and address of the Bonder. If the writer does not desire to have the name published, he should so state.) necessary funds and . is rapidly ap proaching completion. Shipping points along the river have forced the railroads to meet the boats' low er rates. The railroads have been compelled to put ln sidings where there were no sidlngB, and where there would have been none but for the Open River llne. The Open River company Is known from Portland to Boston as one of the few Independent lines in the na tion. The service to the common welfare has been bo great that the railroads have put on a competing boat line between Portland and The Dalles. The purpose of the compe tition is to kill the Open River line. The latter has been a thorn in the side of the roads because It forced down rates. It Is only to kill inde pendent lines that railroads ever op erate cut-rate steamboats,. and Port land and the great Columbia basin have n constant view of the spectacle. Unhappily, the railroad opposition, the still unperfecte channel of the river, the mishaps of navigation ln a river which is yet to be greatly Im proved, and finally, tho ingratitude : mouse line to Portland was partlv resent an entire addition to the itade a toBtng buylnrss ny the cTiTB87"ftghxlng force of the Japanese navy, (of shippers along the route,' make sed on it ty powerful Portland ; since the Russian ships, captured ln mv tvuDovi;aiwiP " ai bid UCUliJ " sMi-tfr-rs. ' ' . rw" i ., . . . . I .......... -inera.nas wen gojn on constant- mg anttquaieu ir not ODsoiete. uut continued operation of the Open River line an unsettled question. A few nrlvatfl citlzons have financed lp under"Vh surface in Portland a the actual cost to the nation means i the line, and done it at a loss. For ready and stealthy sacrifice of Port- a terrible additional burden on a 'seven years they have maintained It land's Interests. If Portlanders only people whose average income falls )n he face of annual deficits. ' They stop for a moment to consider how short of $500 a year, and who pay havo brought enormous benefit to Portland bns hhl back white taxes out of that sum of nearly one shippers of he Inland country, to ftthff Mi).ori Uv Uipy jrn . fourth- tf -tht-4miwi hrorrtHTrrtinn- Hie E'wU uoithwest. compeiieu to r. aii.e that it is only hinee Japan has nothing to fear j But tho Inland shippers route Dy internal assassination and hetrav- 'rotn either Britain, America or .their frelaht over the railroads as business has heen lost France observers seo ln the Import-'goon as the latfr meet the boot ant additions to the navy of Japan ! rates. They ship by the boats until :un tb.-it we have provisions ngimm possible renewal , the railroads meet the competitive have i.o seaport, of conflict wlfX Russia when that i rates, and then thev send their prod Majority Rule. Portland, Or., Aug-. 8. To the Editor of The Journal. Kindly give mo space In your valuable paper to reply to the letter of Alfred D. Crldge published August 5. - Mr. GridgrearcastleaHy and ungentle manly accuses those working for the majority rule amendments as endeavor ing to foist minority rule by these pro posed amendments. Mr. Crldge must better define minority rule than by ac cusations. He says: 'It means that a minority of Ignorant and Indifferent citizens can da' feat the will of the majority for those voting on a measure." The truth is, it means that no political boss with some honev-eoated title can, by the aid of those tinned ignorant and Indiffer ent citizens by Mr. Crldge, pass some vicious law or amendment to our con stitution, the result of which must be borne by all the people of the state. Truly Mr. Crldge cannot be willing to insult the intelligence of the plain voter by saying that the rule of the plurality which we now have. Is ma jority rule, especially when there Is no stated number of votes required, only that plurality, which may be but the frreatest number of as few ns three votes or any number more than three. This la not what the people understand by majority rule. Granting that It Is true that fully 10 per cent of the voters do not vote upon measures Tartly Thrmi gh tgnosanee or ndifferenee that is not evidence that t least 40 per cent Bhould be compelled n stay awake nights to Bee that a few f the remaining 40 per cent do not pass some untried and experimenting legls- ation and It le certain that If less than he majority can pass laws they are not going to legislate for the good of all tho people. We have more law now hat we know what to do with, and we nay that a law which does not possess ufficlent merit, or has not been suffl lently agitated so that It will see'tire he support of the majority of the total umber of votes cast at eny election, is ot worthy of a place ln our statute ooki, and the taxpayer should not he ompelled to pay the cost of putting it here. A voter not voting on a measure liould be counted "No" unless tho ma- ority of the total number of voters ote "Yes," then the will of the ma jority would carry and there is no half way count about it,' for all are affected. The fact is, this amendment is put for ward to establish true majority rule u that the minority of the moat care- lean. Ignorant and Indifferent citizens d by some leader like Mr. Crldge shall not rule or fool all the people all the ime. No, the people do not have enough power now, or things would not be us hey are. Anyone who fights true ma- orlty rule fights the power of the peo ple to rule themselves. There Is no atill hunt to stab the nttintlvn ln the back an you will no. lice, but as the fight for fhese measures The new tleket "may also be a esse tt too much Johnson, . ' . " " " ' ' . . - Wheat and flour may ' so down tn price, but not 4the loaf. " 'J -. Few will .have more fun out o the campaign than La FolJeHe, This elty ttLnM made alp-eat seaport hut tt men must make It so. ,,,, ' Colonel Watterson Js, greatly dis gruntled, but It is not likely that he will bo caught supporting Kooaevelt. " Yes; October 1 Ts a good time to start the campaign. November 1 better. Between the Taft Republican party and the Wilson democratic party there eeema scant room for a big third party. If all other men are liar, thjevea,'anj sons of perdition, there" '.iW'use frying to reform the coutitry anyway. - - - - v. - Some people won't eat good things when they are very cheap: disdain po tatoes, just- now. for instance. Although Mayor and Cashier Northey of Huntington 'Uiadnt done nothing',' and the town and bank were all right ha quickly resigned. The town of Huntington was never jo surprised in Its life uor was any other pretty, wicked, and semi-lawlesa little town -sa surprised -Just , because Oregon J ims governor, wno aoe tnings. A society swell stole half s million dollars' worth of stuff and Is decided by legal andme ntal experts to be guilty of "periodical Insanity." In the case of a starving acrub. wouldn't it have Deou-sa n a -stsaitngj. San Francisco Is to have a local Hall of Fame persons who have done noted things for that city. " Could Portland start one? Let's see; Simeon and Am anda Reed. Donald MacLeay, and and and O, let's,.wait. . No darkeys-need apply; all are shut out of the new party. Yet It la Im probable that tha colonel can capture any southern states. Meantime negroes, where they have votes, are thinking about how beet to get a square deal. Now we'll see the great game of a young bull moose trying to run a big, tough old elephant out -of his rich pas ture; also the ever frisky and kicking donkey audaciously endeavoring to drive both the other beasts out Into the sagebrush. OREGON SIDELIGHTS Eugene Register: Fhen such days as yesterday coma to the city what Is tne use of going to a summer resort T . - , ' Pendleton East Oregonian: With aucb weather as tbla ln Pendleton there Is no great need fur local people to go to the mountains or ths coast- ' ' Baker Democrat: Wallowa lake is a favorite vacation spot with Baker peo ple this summer, and large number have gone from 'here for their summsr recreation st ths pretty, mountain, re sort. e. s La Grande Observer: Right now V al lows county Is looked upon as the only place for weary traveler who ire warm and tireLAnd Wallows county 1 able to care for all who come tn a way that will make them want to, come again. "According to resident of the upper Rogue river district there are more camper ln that section this season than for manjt vears pat," says the Medford Mall tbune. "The weather has been air that could be desired. .Most of the camper are enjoying venison." .--. ...i .j - Eugene Guard: People are leaving the city for the mountain and coast In larger number this week than at any time orevlously this ummer. The MiAstkao kaai kaH it St fit atanf -Ptttx fpW nvniiici Mas ucvii iwa vr' '- days last week, and little thought has been given to going to tne resorts. Medford Mall-Tribune: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Henderson and on Charles ar rived by automobile by way of eastern Oregon and Crater lake from St. "Paul, Minn. Crater lake was . their western destination afiff "they TJeclaretbeywerB more than repaid for their long trip overland by one glimpse or tne lake. Klamath Fall Northwestern: "I have seen Niagara falls, visited the grand canyon ana seen most or tne scenic won der of Uncle Sam' domain: but Crater 4 lake i certainly the most- wonderful work or nature or mem an. aia w. a; Hopka, ttre-8acrrrtentan, who returned yesterday rrom mat Kiamatn wonaer, Astoria Budget: "Astoria la a per petual ummer resort, but the great ma of people don't know It," said Mon roe Bandera, the well known traveling man. "Astoria will" profit by exploit ing It scenic attraction in the same degree a Us lumbering and fishing In terests, only ln an easier and much less hazardous way. " Klamath Falls Herald: Alexander Vogelsang. uprvlsor of Ban Francisco believes the Klamath country la . des tined to become the favorite summer outing district of the entire west. "The Crater national park Is one of the won ders of the world." he said, "and it I my opinion that It will soon take Its place as a popular point lor tourists. SEVEN NOTED PIONEERS WUUini MurtlocTi. The tariff question, sa dealt with In cur tints st say rate, has not been busi ness. It has been politics. Tariff schedules have been mad up for the purpose of keeping as large a number a possible of, the rich and Influential manufacturer or tfiewuhtrylnlL""good " humor with the Republican .'party. al tliat our to others. Fonie tn no seaport. How Is i: t 'O ex If wo at v. i; iiii.miMn a h::i; in whoa' v,:;h Kn(; staud el; her at the near i he licul of Amer ican seaport in wheat vports? It is no! an l.-sue t,f a Keaport, V,,, i r . irm iu i--ue u; ( oniiin s lal a nation that h. u-n.pot.t- i- . MIS3C.1 Porthi.vi'.- 3.BU.I - , evport business lend, and now lit'sd or ven new fleet, Just begun, to the tune of $43,OOo.OOO a year, may commence to make her Influence felt. ni'ar- KKKINO ACAIVBT THK lU'F. years' Imprisonment In an Mellt. F A lilt, ii !;!(!:i F .ORK 1 pound In yesterday miilsn to : ; ,The fini'iin hrs proven i that wheat ! '" it ' i o i'..ii's a i'oi'kim! n:irknt 't h) the hiheM '!-.(( o:: record. uMnrn; college a.' I t ucriir-ent l"-'".s that Itihk 'tents yields a dollar a l.e, .-.),, i in (V-e&OU; the prPut farm Irish prison is a terrible price for Mary Letgh to pay for throwing a hatchet at tho Brit ish premier and hitting and wound ing John Redmond Instead. The other cnlprlt, Gladys Evans, who set nets by rail. They forget the hands that fed them, and this, with the killing competition by rallroad- owned i river boats, has placed the PRICR8 ! ()ppn Hirer line-In jeopardy. j There may yet be record of the i assassination of the upper Columbia line and the restoration of rail rates to the old notches. COLORKI) IH.LEGATE8 A rial i-ii'iii, uinu.n i.muH, h no sei t UlAlKMJ UC1 lire to tho Dublin hotel where Mr. A mltted to seeo AMiuiih was to speak on the next i A tlon in the bul day. is In the same plight. Both I tlon. but no ( COLORED delegate was per ond the nomlna- 11 moose conven- day. is in the same plight. Both " tlon, but no colored delegate the-- women have found it very hard was allowed a vote. to kik against the pricks of Brit- In the bull moose convention In is" laB- I Georgia, they threw out the negro l.irio Baker, the accomplice of ' delegates, and denounced them In nrice rtf C)uda l'tvnna rili-At,wt ,,m. .ni.L. i - . ntn 1 !?.". al,0'',, s!,": -n:i'" cms. urn off with seven months impris.jln tho South Carolina convention Jjftjsjroucn :tnii tno-.e;. farm- on men t. the negrOes were excluded. l? . u' uiuH -siMy- were these women- handling the In Oklahoma, It wB unanimously .wMimm " '"w th."-t are carnal weapons of assault with a I resolved, that negroes were not want .V:M' f'Vk- I'o.iiiu deauiy missile and with arson --were ed. In Alabama, seventeen negroes .-ivvp mi' c:u.ii.u u.ai noes win they fighting for their own hand, or ef .return to tho low prims of other were they tools of a militant organ- jtsir ine or Ter has risen gautr-atlon. designated like the Rus lfbr; tfl. Ko.lSck to the market fig- sian nihilist or (he Italian camorrlst. s.J rt VI iff ritiiK,tp. i d . ft!! . svdftfy luHftpptrit.g f jjf Iheifttttire,'! ef must be grown 3hlfl enelwrcs a! the ivtvr , Kt r-CfenslAut, tare bi-J a ! , r.er - HtfR,"f'srtUI-ljl4!y r.c ,'fnl, " IJo incrcated tm? for he, ,( rv e trr conimlt siectaculr crimes to pro- d ie fear of death nnd injury among political opponents of their secret society Wanting any kind, ot disclaimer or repudiation on the part of their leaders It would fepni so 04t 4 . U foetMe gr thf'0!(fl jtifie rItTf rtTirv"rte,eiT"ttTt' tfltff'trtsr'ttg1 Uenal life. There was plenty of apology for lh arrival of the popu- JtT P"ci toward tther levels. ,and their ro!les-c i -nd inanir.r. Rural. Orcjpn is r.lreaciy dfvoiinf . bcllcc that ifcy huvo a mission to 4 r. 4 '-..' i .. t ... - who -gained admittance were "lg nored." The only value that attaches to these Incidents 1 that every party has Its conflicting interests, even newly born party. The populists In their time started off In harmony but differences, disputes, and disln tegratlon were the speedy result Yet the populists appeared before the country with many Ideas, Idpas The use of gas for Illumination pur-1 poses was a revelation to the people of Hnglnnd wjicn at the wid ot the etght eenth century William Murdoch, after years of experiments, demonstrated that kui h a power exltsted. The light that Murdoch flushed upon the ways of men in i 7 a 2 , especially in the great cltlea, wus of tremendous evangelistic value to them, to speak of none of the other ways in which his great discovery has blessed the human raCe. William Murdoch was a miller' son find was born ln Ayrshire on August 21, 1754. Aat. an early age he arrived ln Kngland und secured employment with the firm of Boullyn & W'att at Soho. According to a well-known story, Boul tnn was struck on Ills first Interview with Murdoch by the peculiar hat which he was wearing, and Murdoch stated In answer to Boulton's question, that It was made of wood, and that be had turned It on a lathe of his own mak ing. It appears that Murdoch ln his nervousness let the hat fall on the floor, and It was the unusual noise it produced that attracted Boulton's at tention. At the Soho works, near Birmingham, England. iU.rdoch developed extraor dinary mechanical ability, which was wUser vl -bv -hia.- employ era, and .. Mur- doch was sent to Cornwall to superin tend the fitting up of Watt's stenm en gine, which were in great demand there. It was durln? his stay ln Cornwall that Murdoch began the rxtwrlmente In tho distillation of coal gns, whtrh were to result in the great discovery with which Ills name waa to be forever as sociated. it wus ln 1 792 that he commenced nls Investigations, and so Intense was his application and so rapid his progress that he was able, the same year, to ap ply his invention to the purpose of lighting up hla cottag. - It may be well to stop a moment Just here to reflect upon the fact that tho wonderful illumlnant first flashed forth Its brilliancy, not tn the drawing roomy of the "jjreat end rich,, Jut in the hum ble home" of the poor miller's son away down ln bleak, grimy old Cornwall. Going back to Birmingham, about 1797, Murdoch publicly showed the sys tem he had matured, and made Such lightning-like progress ln tho discov ery of practical methods of making, storing and purifying' the new Illu mlnant that ln 1798 he was prepared to light up the great workshop with the wonderful gas. A gas manufacturing plant was start ed ln the establishment, ln a very short time similar plant were Installed In neighboring workshop and factories, nd the reign of darkness was over. It Is fair to say that Murdoch' fame Is not commensurate with the tremen- aous importance or nis discovery, in a venerable and venerated book it Is writ ten "The light Is sweet." It Is of Im mense value to us In many ways. Light Is the unfailing ally of righteousness and the uncompromising enemy of all sorts of wickedness. In the ancient book Just referred, to w a read: . 'Every one that doeth evil hateth the light. It Is as true as the gospel. When the cohorts of evil are ready for business they seek"be shadows and tho gloom. Tfts In the darkness, not In the light that- wickedness) aor -Ha work. The miller" son well deserves a place In the list Of the greatest men. He did a great work, and when lie died. In 18119, the world lost one of Its noblest benefactors. Tomorrow Joseph Marie Jacquard. eates n useless waste from a business standpoint Let us all try to be fair, evoii to the dumb brute, for lti life Is hard enough ut best. MKS. JENKS. s not rinanceu oy some runa outside ot he state, such as the fund which pays Mr. Crldge. consequent) - we cannot make the fight we would lii (o. The voters Will decide whether the wish to rule or be fooled further MAJOI11TV Itl l.K LKAIH K, By II. II. t'nliil.l, Fec'y. Against Waste and Cruelty. Poilhind Aug. 7. To the Editor of The Jour' il I would like to express my vle hi he destruction of fruits j and other valuable goods at the crema tory. Why should the people be taxed to Imlld and maintain an Institution to burn with wicked waste these neces saries. FYults, If not fit to sell, might be used by charitable Institutions. Also, If people were a little careful. there nerd not be so tnucli garbage to collect. There should tie a can or box for broken dishes, bottles und tin cans, and another for foodstuffs, like parings from vegetables and waste from pantrv and table, which teams would gladly collect to reea pips or chickens st no cost to the family. Newspapers and wrappings are the finest kind of klnd IIiirs. Clothing, old shoe and cast off furniture can easily be disposed of by telephone. The waste from a city woul l furnish the table of every charitable Institution ln U, if It could be cor rectly disposed of and proceeds used for that purpose. It taken time to raise food)jven the Almighty has to have tl ni to supply us, and Wo should bo careful abHt waste In any form. About dogs, I may have queer Ideas but I consider they are born with dis tinct qualities of .excellence. I believe for those qualities' they deserve at least kind treatment and good, wholesome food ln return. NfTh. at Walt, will get It. Horses are a walking advertisement of their treatment. The kind driver sem that the harness la easy and hi horses well groomed and well fed and not over, worked nor their backs ridged with the whip. That driver' whole personality Ui- aU balanced maw, 'ibrm-1 another kin I and the hopeless appear a nee ot thslr iiorsv I a dumb protest and appeal to human people, and indl- Helrs of Anneka Jans. To the Editor of The Journal. -In the Issue of July 11 I read of the vast hold ings of Trinity church and the secrecy that has been maintained about the holding of the property leases from An neka Jans about 1760. No wonder they han tried to keep things from the world. They are called a Chrlstiun defrauded the heirs for so long? The '.'rime of orange had a grant Of hundred of acne of land from the king. He gave to his daughter, nneka Jana, much, If not a.l these acres. There are l'.'C acres In th heart of tho city of New Vork und 2 acres on Manhattun Island, and the 10 acres which Trinity church leased they never had any Mtie for. and all these years they have heea gmv. Ing rich off of holdings they didn't have a valid right to. while the heirs, n anv of them, were in neea. u there a-e any of the Anneka Jans heirs In I'oit'and. I would lie glad to hear from it em through The Journal. The properly held by Trinity Is now worth over 1 iioo.diiu.ooo Instead of millions. K. Capital Punishment. I'urtland, Aug. 7.- To the Editor of Tho Journal I have read with Inter est articles In the columns of The Jour nal, pro and con. on the Impending ques tion of capital punishment. May l De allowed to ajd my mile to this discus sion'.' Any uuestlon Involving the death Lf a hum-in being ts unquestionably one in the hUhi'Ht Uegreu of morals. All persons of religious Intelligence- agree that the word of God as revealed In the Bible is ll.ij supreme standard of right in moisls urd religion. The Bible, Gen esis U.S. ctintalna a plain divine declara tion on tfifs question at Issue here ln Oregon; vl. "Whoso aheddeth man's blood, by man (officially), ahall his (the murderer's) blood be shed." This law was announced to the entire human family, wljcn It comprised but eight per sons, afier a degenerating experience of sixteen ond a half centuries, and three hundred ye-rs before Abraham, the father of the Hebrews, wss born; and 700 years bi fore the birth of Moses, the lawgiver of Israel. Hence they blun der who speak of the law of capital pun ishment ap a di timet Jewish enaot roetit. But, says the would-be expositor of Christianity, "Capital punishment t contrary to the plrtt of Christ." Let us fee. When, on the awful occasion of the arreet of Jesus at the git of Octh-sn-ane. Peter whipped out his word nd pcMr- r r rr Mftt'WtsrTh nt-af the high priest, intending to smite his head from hi ftmiy, but only cutting ff ear by hla God-power. He rbuked Peter, saying, "Put up thy sword In It sheath! they who take (resort to) the sword shall perish by the sword." Years arter Chrlt had risen and returned to the throne ln heaven at the right hand of the father, be returned and spent a day with John, hi expatriated disciple, on Patmoa, an island of the sea, for his faithfulness in defense of the truth and opposition to sin; and uttered the same law, "They that kill with sword shall be killed with the sword." Revelation 1S:10. When Jesus gave a better Inter. tooth for a tooth" of the Mosnte dis pensation, he wss rebuking the spirit of retaliation among tho people, which grew out of their perversion of the Just law of retribution. But the savior of mankind twice reiterated the universal law of capital punishment given In Genesis t:, on these two occasions above referred to. The law of capital punishment Is a surgeon's kntfe; It saves the life of the patient. In this case capital punishment 1 for the life of the body politic and God 1 the aurgeon; the state or civil govern ment is God agent. J, H. LEIPER. which desired their constant financial support. The tariff ha become sys- -tern of favors, which the phraseology of the schedule wsa often deliberately con trived to conceal. It becomes a matter of business, of legitimate business, only when thd partnership and understanding . It represents Is between the leader of congress and the whofe people of the United States, Instead of between the leader of eongf bSb and jsmall group of " manufacturers demanding- special recog nition and consideration, ihat it why the general Ides of representative gov ernment becomes s necessary part of the tariff question. Who, when youj come down to the hard fact of the mat ter; have behr represented In recent year when our tariff schedule were being dlBcnssed and determined, not nn - the floor of congress, for that is not where they have been determined, but In r the committee room and conferences? That is the heart of the whole affair. Will you, can you, bring the whole peo ple Into the partnership or notT No on 1 discontented with representative gov, eminent; It falls under question only when It ceases to be representative. It is-t bottom a question of good faith and morals. flowow-ther-prssenttaTtfToXilrfr' the. light of It? I say nothing for the moment about the polloy of protection, conceived and carried out a a disinter ested statesman might conceive it. Our own clear conviction a Democrats is, that in, the last analysis the only safai and legitimate-object of tariff duties as of taxes of every other kind, Is to raise revenue for the support of tho government; but that is not my t. present point. We denounce the Payne-Aldrlch tariff act as the most conspicuous ex ample ever afforded the country of the special favors and monopolistic advan tagea which the leaders of ths Repub lican party have so often hown them selves willing to extend to those to whom they looked for campaign con tributions. Tariff duties, a they hav employed them, have not been a means of sotting up an equitable system of protection. They have been, on the con trary, a method of fostering pecial privilege. They have made it easy to establish monopoly in our domestic mar kets. Trusts have owed their origin andthelr-sesure power to. thenv Tba economic freedom of our people, our prosperity ln trade, our untrammeled energy in manuaf tcure depend upon their reconsideration from top to bot tom in an entirely different spirit; - - We do not Ignore the fact that ths business of a country like our is ex ceedingly sensitive to change In leg islation of this kind. It has been built up-, however - ill - advisedly, upon -tariff - - schedules written ln the way I have Indicated, and it foundations must not be too radically or too suddenly dis turbed, when we act we should act with caution and prudence, like men who know what they are about, and not like those in love with a theory. It Is obvious that the change we mako should be made only at such a rate and ln such a way a wljl least interfere with the normal and healthful courao of commerce und manufacture. But we shall not on that account act with timidity, -a If we dtd not know our own minds, for we are certain of our ground and our object. There should be an Immediate revision, and It should be downward, unhesitatingly and stead ily downward. It should begin with the schedules which have been most obviously used to kill competition and to raise prices ln the United States, arbitrarily and without regard to the prices pertaining elsewhere in the markets of the world; and It houfd, before It Is finished or intermitted, be extended to every Item ln every sohedule which affords any opportunity for monopoly, for special advantage to limited group of bene flctartes, or for- ubttrtzed control- of any kind ln the markets or the enter' prises of th country; until special favor of every eort shall have been absolutely withdrawn and every part of our law 08 taxation shall hy been transformed from a system of govern mental,, patronage Into a system of just and reasonable charge which hMI fall where they will create the least burden."" When we shall have done that, we can fix question of revenue and of busi ness adjustment In a new spirit and with clear minds. We shall then be partners with all the buslnes men of the country, and a day of freer, mora table prosperity shall have dawned. There has been no more demoralising influence In our politic In our time than the tnfluence of tariff legislation, the Influence of the Idea that the govern ment was the grand dispenser of favors, the maker and unmaker of fortune, and of opportunities such certain men have sought In order to control tho movement of trad and Industry throughout the continent. It ha made the government a prlxe to be captured and partle the mean of ffctlng the capture It ha mads the business mi Al ways in Good H umor FOB A HURRY CALL. From Punch. "Hello! Could you suggest the wrong number I ought to sk for, miss. In or der to get i double 4-9-1 Mayfalr?" THE DIFFERENCE. From Yonkera Statesman. "Pop!" "Yes, my ion." "When s man talk a great what 1 he calledf "An orator, my boy." "And when a woman talk a deal, what la she called?" "A nuisance!" deal good KEEPINO HIM INFORMED. From Fllegend Bleetter. (Jerk -Mr. Baplelgh complains in his letter that he is not hearing anything further about hla suit.' Lawyer Bend him a bill. From Life. , "What broke up their happy home?" "It skidded and struck a telegraph pole." DON'T "LAMETTE. Ben Lempman of the (Jold Hill New I considerable of a pote. Besides, he I a youmorlat. From hi funny column w herewith produce his contribution to. tne Eig rund or poetryj On the hanks t the classic Willamette Knetfrsw-r-frem tnt- f.' where iy of one of the most virile and enterpris ing nations in the world timid, fretful, full of alarms; has robbed them of self confidence and manly force, until they have cried out that they could do noth ing without the assistance of the gov ernment at Washington. It has made them feel that their lives depended upon th ways and means committee of the house and the finance committee of the senate tin these later years particularly the finance committed of the senate). They have Insisted very anxiously that these committees should be made up only of their "friends "; until the coun try in its turn grew suspicious and won dered how those commltteea were being guided and controlled, by what Influ ences and plans of personal advantage. Government cannot be wholesamely con ducted In such an atmosphere. Its very honesty ts ln jeopardy. Favors aru never conceived In the general Interest; they are always for the benefit of the few, and the few who, seek and obtain them have only themselves to blame If presently they seem to be condemned and distrusted. Pointed Paragraphs dramett Am he stueK In hla bead 11 Oa n ..m. .... Ms ear. Jesus interfered, rtonnf the .v had s good tlm. but-O, dmelt':- A sensible man Is seldom sensitive. Usually when a man falls In love he gets bumped. Love load the list of sweet thing that soon turn sour. The easiest way for a woman to hold a man I to bold htm off. If you would strike a man favorably don't aim at hi pOcketbook. If you accept charity some ons I sure tuy you don't derv it. The man who stops to argu seldom accomplishes anything worth whlls When It's your turn to face theudge the scales of Justice usually go . wrorig- You'll never make friends by going round looking as If you hadn't s friend' on earth. - -T - s