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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, Wl.D:;i:3DAY EVENING, AUGUST 21, VAZ. THE JOURNAL . , A! INDEPENDENT NEWSPifEB. . JACKSON. .Publisher Pulihdhrt mtr etenlnf feiceept Snnilsjr) n4 , nerj Sunday roorniri it The Munul Dutlil Inf, Tta and Tamlilll st., . Portland Or, Enters the petofflce tt Portliind, Or., for tranmlslon through the aU Mcoud dm natter. . , ', 1 TELEPHONIES Main TITSi Horn. A-SOM. All departments reached br thraa numhera. TW1 tb operator what department yon want. - Benjamin Kentoor Co., Branawlck . BiUldlng. 5 rlfth Tew, New York! 1218 PaopUi Gaa Building, Chicago. Bnbikfrtpftolf frrnit by itidtl or to any addreaa In th L'olted St a tea or Mexico. PAII.Y. . ,A On year 15.00 I On month I .00 Sunday. Ont year 11.50 I One mrenth f 2B " DAILY AND SUNDAY. Oneyer.,': IT.ftO I Oria month I .S3 Them Is aome soul of goodness jrt thtngs evil, Would men observlngly distil It out. Shakespeare. CHARLES R. MERRICK THE! sudden passing of Post master Charles B. Merrick will be a shock to his thousands of friends In Portland, in Oregon and in his former eastern home. Few men were held in such uni versal esteem by acquaintances and friends. Few men had a gentler or more genial personality. Few men went so directly and so quickly at ,the first meeting into the hearts of those he met. No man was more zealous In his devotion to the public welfare of i Portland and the state. It was 'while attending a development meet ing for the furthering of Oregon in . terests and Oregon life that he was , called yonder. Ho died as he lived, fighting in (lie ranks for a greater Oregon and a greater Portland. Ills passing is a distinct loss to the social and business life of Ore gon. It removes a man who was most devoted in the struggle for a Tortland lieautlful and a Portland practical. It takes away a leader whose evenings and daylight hours were spent in an endeavor to Impress Portlanders with the importance of iputting Portland's house in order. The passing of few men would bring to so many a senso of distinct per sonal and public loss. The example of Charles B. Mer ,Wc in his many public activities, is one for Portlanders to emulate. More Merricks, more men of the type of the man we all mourn, would bring great strength, great progress and great prestige to Port land. The Journal joins thousands in the deepest regret at his passing. THE POOR MAN'S DOLLAR W onr.RO w WILSON'S policy of refusing Wall street money for bis campaign is beautifully vindicated In the many half dollars and dollars sent .Jte Journal liy men of-, slender means. Candidates who Insist that contributions by the generalissimos of finance are necessary to win a campaign aie mistaken. The dollar from a calloused hand IS clean money, u is not given with the expectation that it will come back many fold in especial favors ' from government. As Governor Wilson said in his letter of acceptance, the national government should be bo conducted hat ellthe people will be taken Into the partnership. All the people will never be taken Into the partnership ro long as presidents are elected by huge campaign contributions by tariff beneficiaries and brigadiers of crooked business. Half a dozen trust magnates sent .to Jail would do more to straighten out crooked business than all other Influences combined. No president who is elected on huge contribu tions from the trusts dares send a "TifusT magnate to Jail. It never has been done and it never will be done. The president whose campaign is financed by Wall street is compro mised. His hands are tied. The mandarins of privilege have strings on him. They have strings on the White House. Pitch a president is - prevented from sending trust mag nates to jail through fear of the dis . closures that would follow. Woodrow Wilson Is right. The poor man's dollar Is better money with which to finance a presidential campaign than is Thomas F. Ryan's money. NOVEL 8TKEETCAKS THE latest novelty In New York streetcars Is the low-swung. Fteploss. douMc-decker. For three nontlis the single decked steplcss has been seen on Broadway on Its experimental run. So highly Is it approved that... l.'O cars of that typo have been ordered. But (he double decked car is the latest suggestion for Improved, Iraf fle in the crowded street, where trailers are Impossible. The first one that has arrived from tho build ers in Philadelphia', is to run be tween the Battery and Fifty-ninth street, on the most crowded section of Broadway. The conductor sits at a desk ln-the middle of the car and receives and exchanges money. Pas sengers enter, pay 4 heir fares, and move, either to the stairways lead ing to the upper deck, or to the low-'-er floor to find a seat. There are no crotis seats except at the ends of the lower flcior. On the upper deck seats are ar 1 ranged bak to, back longitudinally. The upper deck Is enclosed by win dows, removable in hot weulher. The seating capacity of the car, ex- elusive of strap-hangers, .Is 88. There is seven feet, six Inches space from floor to ceiling below, and more than six- feejt on . the upper deck.' '. ',. .' ' High power, automatically work ing, brakes are provided, the great est j)ower coming Into play with the heaviest load.. Doors open and close on pressure of a lever by the con ductor's foot, while the heating and ventilating systems are of the latest pattern. " ' '.:':r" '-. ' THE EUGEXE ATROCITY T IIE Tflir murders are duplicated in the 'Eugene atrocity. It is the Barbara Holtzman horror s repeated. , i There has been no conviction of ; the slayer of the Hills. There has j leen no apprehension of the fiend who destroyed the Holtzman child. Will there be a capture of the un ppeakable" " degenerate who killed Mildred Green at Eugene? The mind is staggered by these repeated atrocities. It resents the belief that society Is so permeated with half-men-half-brutes who are ready to take a life for satisfying a beastly passion. vet here are re peated Instances of a crime more ap palling than any other on the crim inal calendar. It raises the ques tion if, for self protection, eorlety must not take measures to prevent degenerates and criminals from re producing their kind. Is there to be a rapture of the Eugene fiend? Or, like the slayer of the Hills and the destroyer of Barbara Holtzman, is he to go un apprehended? What tends more to Increase the number of these appalling occur rences than docs the failure to dis cover the perpetrator? What does more to nerve a .fiend for his crime than repented and constant failures to apprehend? What does more to multiply Hill atrocities, Holtzman atrocities and this latest atrocity at Eugene than the woeful Hat of slay ers who escape the criminal catch ers? What is the world coming to, any- way? At Eugene, this Innocent child of twelve repeated her prayers with her father and retired for the night, full of expectancy, hope and pur-1 pose for the morrow. She never awoke. The cruel hand of infamy cut her off in the midnight. Can we not have detectives who can detect? Can we not have po licemen who will police? GENERAL BOOTH THE friend, adviser, and helper of the poor, the afflicted, the weak in body and mind, the Binful and the down-and-out. whose long life had been devoted to their service, has passed from thift world, though his spiritual pres ence, the pervading influence of bis life work, grows and will grow, the brighter as the years pass. It Is impossible to lay a finger on any one secret or uie sirengm or tnat an International conference General Booth save as he found It j should be called to discuss many In the gospel that he taught, in the:mattorg for (nG security of life and Savior that he proclaimed. He badprorK,r(y n(- soa presented himself on the altar of his j It waB felt jhat the ,)Gst rcgnltJJ Lord in his early days. In His strengm tne great, ano me long ; drawn and patient works, of life i were accomplished. j Rut the secret of organization of, this lifelong crusade was peculiarly I his own. Other men, other minis- ters, were content to preach to con-1 gregations to one church, bringing to alvntlon as thev boned the indi- wiiuiii nuiii. iu "unaiii niwiii lu.ii rules are neeoea lor navigation, process was too Blow, and reached n - Better equipment of ships la not down to the very bottom and required. C Better construction or dregs of society, and there were ships Is possible, and, D The ef sotils by the thousands to beifiHpncv of crews can bn rreatlv snatched from the burning. How could one man, with his equally in spired wife, how could they make themselves -ffecUvoly fU? Not l one spasm, but in tne enlisting oc and also for creating and adhering others ln their associated and con-1 to .routes of ocean travel, will be Unued work. Thus the great idea considered. As to equipment. A of the Salvation Army took shape constant wireless watch on passen and permanent form. It. grew, It Ror Khi;,8 vm be made a general reg pervaded the whole earth. But It j Nation. A complete chain of wire has withstood through these long epH roast Htatlons will be Installed, years all perversions, all seductions. ' with communication to all ocean- William Booth, eeneral ha3 been. thn central fl.ru re for all- his or- the central figure lor all his or- dors have been faithfully and unhes- itatingly followed the essence of !hls discipline has been army obedl-; mucA i,v the conference without full i r'?de. him a comfortable living The i ir,i-. nf "eu ii) uie toini n net. wunout lull , it)0rlng man haa to us his brains and jence and the Inspiration p,f the gen- discussion. Sufficient provision of his hands also, to be a successful me ;eral has reached his humblest fol- j lifeboats or rafts will be demanded I chnnic Kugene V. Debs has been a i lower. i His retrospect, as he (mme In his i turn to enter the dark river, cannot 'have been other than of proud; hu millty. He was one of the vary few 'who could quote without r waver I the great words of St. Paul, I "The time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there Is laid up for me a crown of. righteous- : ness." A PRESIDENTIAL BU NDER T HERE seems every reason to be-1 lleve that tho president has blundered in the appointment; of a successor to Judge Han-', ford. The. new appointee Is a corpora-1 tlon lawyer. Ho 1s counsel for a great trunk railroad, and for other, powerful corporations. He was a1 witness for proving the good charac- j ,ter of Judge Hanford In the congres- 'or any other pictures, we might as jsional investigation. ;W(,n have the fight. Would Port- I A corporation practice does not land be willing to appear before the i necessarily unfit an attorney for the , world as the scene of a prize fight? 'bench. But Undoes raise a surmise. The -picture, houses are the the of Ineligibility.'"' It causes fho pub-'aires of the poor. They are the re lic to suspect unfitness. It. fills the creation and rest places of the cb.il publlc with sufspicrion. of a narrowed i dren who do not know the bright viewpoint In the appointee. It is an unhappy time for such S,.?- I'?--! ford resigned under fire. Archbald Is' under impeachment. A federal Judge in Georgia is accused. The air Is thick,wlth. alleged taint oalhe federal bench," It is bad for the bench and bad for national Institu tions.." v ", , ."' . The senate should probe the Ilan ford succession. If the president has blundered, the senate should take measures to remedy it. " The ben'ch must-be kept clean. . The country must be saved .from Judges who are not of Judicial stapj ure and not of Judicial mold. TnE SCHWERIN CHARGE M' R. SCHWERIN charges that thero were unnecessary red tape customs exactions in the handling of shipments from the orient through Portland. lie pays the lack, of accommodations handicapped oriental business. He sa"P"T,'eq"yirtiTHentrBo"ln'flexIM were not made at other ports, and that ti,e effect, was to drive business from Portland. Collector Malcolm enters a gen eral nd specific denial. He asserts ,that othor or(g m not PXl)e(nte 0rt ental shipments any more than was dona at Portland. He says the de partmental regulations that ho, fol lowed were strictly followed else where. Which Is correct? It is the word of Mr, Schwerin against the word of Collector Malcolm. There is no par ticular motive for Mr. Schwerin to misstate the case. It. Is not a matter to forget. Port land should know the exact facts. It Is a case in which the exact facts should be ascertained and disclosed. They may bear very presslngly on the oriental situation. Even Mr. Schwerin may be partly right. Collector Malcolm might be unconsciously mistaken. Other col lectors, having a due regard for the welfare of their ports, may have been wisely flexible In the interpret ing of their instructions. It is a matter that the Portland Chamber of Commerce should inves- itlgate. The inquiry should bo by an expert. A probing can harm nobody. More probing and more delving by the chamber would help light up many uncertain situations. If Mr. Schwerin has told us truth, or part truth, we want to know it. If bo has told us either, we ought to know It. The fact remains that shipments from the orient, tnrougn roruana j have disappeared. That much of ' what Mr. Schwerin says is true. It ! 1b our business to know how much else of what he says Is true? OCEAX SAFETY D ANGERS from collision at sea are discussed In a recent ar ticle In the Independent. A joint resolution lv con- cress three days after the Titanic disaster expressed the conviction would follow from such a confer-' PnCp rathor than from the action of any one parllamentarv bodv. 0n July 30 tnore fo!lowerl the findings of the British commission presided oyer by Lord Mersey, it ia found that the lessons to be drawn f,om tho Alexander resolution as i uU on from t.ha llntmi rnmmlndnn i,n ,w ,. a. i """" ... v.on,o. flr-Wun , raised. The Titanic was navigated at un questionably too high speed. New international rules era that enhjoct. ,i,in. rt.u -h-.n. ! . , V "T j ,.r M.an li llghta should bo made ob- Ugatory. Is actively debater! by the .,,.1 horitlen and will net ho Hotor. ' universallvthat ehall. gfvs each per- a 'mi yo, ftnd 0 .yo" menn t0 . . ... , v, ' tell your companions tiiat because he son carried on shipboard a fiance for dors not happen to think as the Bull life. Efficient watertight"Bllbdlvis-' Moose, or "Cod Knows" Taft, or W11 ioa into various compartments, both i B0,1 P"1"11 (thank God he docs , not, t ransverse and longitudinal Is e-1 ZlttZ nn 'o"f 111 l mantieri. I ndottiitetiiy the confer ence win lean to improvements In i,nth tnn bulkhead and hull construe Much can ami will be dono to improve the conditions of labor at pen. It will be made better paid and proportionately more effective. All the foregoing makes up a sad commentary on the bent of human nature to let things go, to bo con tent wllh things as they are, and to avoid radical and coaly Innovations, even when human life is at stake on the largest scale. THE I KJHT PICTURES Vf there Is no regulation to pre vent display of fight pictures In Portland, there ought to be. If we have the Johnson-Flvnn lights and upholstery of the rich playhouses. They ar9 the resorts fom, which poverty is pot , barred and to which the great maesei go in battalions, regiments and brigades. Is It not tremendously important, is it not a sociological necessity that only elevating and educative enter tainment should be given at these show places. - , When so many other cities have barred ; fight pictures; it will be strange for Portland," one of -the greatest home .. cities ' la . the world, not to doso. TJ would-be strange for this beautiful Portland to harbor In "one ofritsT show "places", the pictured reproduction of a fight, a fight that could not take place here because the laws of Oregon forbid. ' Letters From tte People (Communications sent to The Journal for publication In this department should ba written on only one side or the paper, should not exceed 300 worda In length and must be accompanied by the name and address or the sender.- it the writer does not desire to have tne name published, he should o state.) Loan Shark and Other Evils. Portland, Or.. Aug. 19. To the Editor of The Journal Anyone who has had the misfortune to fall a victim to "loan sharks" knows that the grand Jury in vestigation to Portland last spring was a humbug all the way through. In bo far as the Investigation wns meant to bring about changes that would protect those who are employed by the, city of Portland? It was a farce. Whenever conditions become no nad that they must be Investigated, those whom the taxpayers have elected to en act Just ordinances, hasten to evade the responsibility by putting matters Into the hands of grand Juries, a proceeding that has usually only one feature an additional expense to taxpayers. Is It reusonable to suppose that many who are employed by the city of Port land love the loan sharks so well that tliey borrow money on what they have coming from the city simply as nn ex cuse to give away a great portion of their meager wages? If It Is not reason able to suppose such a thing, and we are forced to acknowledge that those who borrow money on their wages arc compelled to do so In order to live until their remittances have arrived after a long Journey, wfllch Is the more unjust the city's slow way of doing business or the loan shark s unreason able rates of Interest? Which Is the better, to die of starvation waiting for $50, or to accept $30, or even $10, and he able to live for the present? Those who know least of a subject usually are moat ready with a positive opinion, and what I have said here will probably be regarded as eheer nonsense by many, but If this letter were not too long already I would relate an Incident in my own experience that would clearly show how unjust and unbusinesslike some of the city's methods are. The problem is quite simple, but our coun cilmen are unable to solve It. To relieve the situation City Auditor Barbour and some of his strenuous (!) coworkers have received due laudation th,.v -favor" a semi-monthly payment of city employes. Indeed, it Is strange how many things we 'favor" when we come to tninK or n; anu wnc such notables as H. II. Barbour an . others of a somewhat Flmllar caliber "favor" something It ought to help some. If a lot of red tape were cut out. many who are forced to deal with the people of Portland through the city hall would be saved many Inconvenience. A RKRSCKIUKR, To the Defense of Debs. Portland, Or., Aug. 20. To the I-Mltor of The Journal "Union Man," who cen sures EtiKene V. Debs In Sunday's Jour nal, seeing to be a very narrow minded union man. Debs Is not coming here nB an organizer of labor unions, any more than Theodore Roosevelt or Presi dent Taft or Woodrow Wliaun, wwe they Invited to speak. He comes as a presidential candidate of the Socialist party, whose committee has dated him here on September 2. Mr. Debs has been a union man many years and Joined his first local In 1975, according to Allen C. Benson In Pearson's Magazine. Ho organized the Brotherhood of Railway Brakcmen, the Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, the Order of Railway Tele- graphers and the Switchmen's Mutual Aid association. I presume tliese rail w organizations are affiliated way orRanizattons are arr.liiated with the A. U. of I. Pebs has filled nil the offices In the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen. When he began organis ing for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, says Benson, "there were only 60 lodges and the order was J6000 In debt. Within a few months he had added 22G lodges and wiped out all of the debt and put a balance Into the treasury." Dobs also organized the 'American Railway union: Kvery union man who. hae any idea that Debs is not a fit man to speak to union labor on Labor day should refad Allen O, Benson's bloirraphy of Debs and what he has don for labor all hla life and Is still doing. Do you suppose Taft, Wilson or "Me" would be of the "caliber" to talk to Hihorlng men's unions? They never have soiled thdr hands with the oil can. the coal shovel or anv other thing that means useful hard lal'or- Taft has held some office aii his life, ditto, "Me.- Wilson's Place as an educator has never led him tl) to11 wlth his hands. His brain has the laboring class? Ills political enemies love him (thev suv bo), wiiere he lives. I quote from John Mitchell: "I submit tiiat ho I should not be judged by his mlstak.-s, hut by the good he has done." Union men, you should read up on Debs' life atet'"Work, then perhaps you will know of what "caliber" he Is. Socialists do not judge a man by his religion or tho church he belongs to, but by his char acter and work. SOCIALIST. No Quarter. - Portland, Aug. 20. To the Editor of The Journal There are apparently quite a number of ways by which to promote "the advance of civilization" that eo many sentimentalists are talking about; but out of them all, there, is only, one sure and certain way. Some people. In their infantile ignorance of the fact that a dog can only produco a dog, seem to think that leniency towards convicted criminals Is the means by which ths much , desired end can best be accom plished, while many are equally per suaded that an enforced respect for the law and for the lives and property of others "is Infinitely better. The utter lawlessness of ths present time here in Oregon, calls loudly for a Draco In place 'of ft Wells. W'by Is It that tho state of Oregon Is In a more demor alized condition now than ever before In Its history? Because the thus, thieves nnd ruffians of every descrip tion " (who can only reproduce their Ju;, Kliur.-to kind), have perfect faith that the rl- COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE ' ' Bummer and the moon cams back. Colonel Wattcrson Is nearly . happy again. - : Portland has no occasion to love- Schwerin. . - - - - ' - Hurrah for Chrlstofferpon: may he never raitr r ' Movinar picture rooms ire better Places than saloons. . . e . Consolidation and 'eo-oneratlon icav be overdone. Is Portland to become, or remain, a shut-outjtown? t Don't believe most feeoole are very bad; they're not. Itev. Mr.' Mr. Rrotijrher knows the beet place for a vacation. It tike more than a few August showers to ruin Oregon crops. Oroco deserves peace, of the most complete and permanent kind. What! can't a new town be wild and wooly If It wants to? It seems net. Few people do as much, or as well as they might, and really work no hard, er. Borne sheriffs and mayors doubtless regard the governor as a malapropos butter-In. Last month Portland had the Elks. September 11 it will Klve the Bull Moos ers the right of way. A doctor who never asked a fee Is to have n era vestone. But there endure an Infinitely better If Invisible monu ment to his memory. La Follette whacks all three parties, platforms and candidates though Roose velt especially; but he persists In pro fessing to he a Republican. But if he Is. aro Taft and Roopovelt Republicans? V. P. .Tlmmr Rherman has been noti fied. Tills fossilized standpatter should not be forscotten. If the Republican ticket phould win, he might be prenl dent. That one fiict should bury that ticket "a thousand fathoms deep." SEVEN ODD SECTS Quietism. Quletlsm, In the broadest sense, 1s the doctrine which declares that man's highest perfection consists in a sort of physical self-annihilation and a con sequent absorption of the soul Into the Divine. Essence even during the present life. In the strictest acceptance of the term Quietism is the doctrine put forth and defended In the seventeenth cen tury by Mollnos and Petruccl. Out of their teaching dedoped the less radical form known s Femlquletism, whose principal advocates were Fenelon and Madame Ouyon. Tho Hesychasts. or Quletlsts of Mount Athos In the fourteenth cen tury, seem to have been fanatics of on extreme type. They Imagined that, by a process of profound contemplation, tliey could discern Internally the light the Divine Presence the glory of 'e very same which was disclosed to the Apostles on the Mount of Trans figuration. Hence they were also called Thaboritcs. The soul of which this privilege was vouchsafed had no need to practise any of the eternal acts or rites of religion. The theory of abstract contempla tion which the extraordinary fruits sup posed to bo derived from It. traveled In due course in the west and there gave, birth to tho far-famed school of the Mystics fif which there were various ramifications. The earliest exponent of the system In France was John Scot us Erigena, the contemporary and friend of Charles the Bald. Krigena Incurred the censures of the Holy See; but the result of Ills teachings was permanent. The Mystics as some style them, attended a position of high renown and Influence at Paris toward the close of the twelfth century. Here two of the ablest expositors of learning of the middle age, Hugh and Richard of St. Victor, Initiated crowds of ardent disciples Into the mysteries of the via Interna and of pure love that marvelous quality by which the soul, sublimed and et heriallzed, ascends into the very present, chunibor of the king of kings. The path thus traced was trodden by many who were to take rank prime cause of the present state of af fairs, will furnish them a loophole through which to escape their Just de serts. Things have come to such a pass that there is In the air a -feeling that unless they Improve very shortly a re turn to the old time necktlo parties will ba ta.lu.a into cotiBidoraUoa. But for the said "parties," arranged and con ducted by the vigilance committees of the past, even the questionable state of civilization under which we are living today would have been Impossible, and the ruffians who flocked from all parts of the earth would be holding full sway. The very people who are talking so loudly and, as they Imagine, wisely, about brotherly love, etc., would take an entirely different stand If one of their own dear ones chance to be tho victim of murder or outrage. Any wo man possessed of any womanly feeling whose baby had been ruthlessly slain, as babies have been only recently, or any man bereft by like moffns of the wife Of his heart, would naturally and prop erly demand that tho law. even In its most drastic form, be put into effect Voters of Oregon, pen to It that at tho coming election, capital punishment for convicted murderers remains on tho statutes, lest worse befall; sr, if men, that are men, aro forced to take the law into their own hands because tho law itself has failed them, be very sure that adequate punislhment will be meted out thovo'iirhlv and well, the governor and bin militia to the contrary notwlth lng. A. B. B. The Tariff. Astoria, Oh, Aug. 20. To the Editor of The Journal According to Wall street statistic American tourists have spent In Europe over $800,000,000 the past year. These tourists are largely of the Idle rich, who have become doK lar lords through special privileges le galized by the trust fostering protec tive tariff. This vast sum would buy, build and fortify the Panama canal and leave enough to. hvti'ld and equip six dreadnoughts. It woulrt bulld and equip a standard gauge transcontinental rail way. It would give every state In tho union $12,000,000 for permanent roads. It amounts to about half jthe entire rev enues of the federal government. Yet, all these trust made American dollars' are spent in foreign lands, among for eigners who likewise enjoy the low prices at which American trust made, goods are sold abroad. What kind of a fool should a man be called Who will ar gue that ft protective tariff keeps our money at home? NELSON PETERSON. Why Crime Increases. North Portland, Or., Aug. 20. To the Editor of The Journal A few evenings ago in your paper was a piece headed "Chief of Police Alarmed at the Increase of Crime; Half the Force Ordered to Reptfrt In Plain Clothes." 8ur, ctime NEWS IN BRIEF ' PRECOX SIDELIGHTS Baker Democrat: The dry farmers; of Baker county will be In the running thlg fall when they turn their grain into market. Theirs la a crop that Is a wonder this year. . . e ' -Dnfur-Dispatch. Quoting from files bf August 13, 1897 The top price for steers at Portland Is 12.75: -h"" 9Vi mutton, $2.25. Practically- nil the -wool In the country has been sold, 10 cents being the average price, '.""'T .., v. e e - ' Hlllsbora Argus: Contractor 'Wil liam Foster expecU to have the court house annex building completed some time during September, and at the lat est by October 1. He la now having the face' brick and terra cotta laid, and the exterior walls, will present a beau tiful external. . Joseph Herald; A score or more of our people drove over to Sled Springs, $5 miles north of here, within the last week and brought home more huckle berries than a mule could haul on a level floor. That Is the greatest huckle berry belt on earth.. Eugene Guard: New , arrivals In western Oregon are wondering If ' the weather every summer Is like that which has prevailed here this summer. For their Information we will state that between Jdne 15 and September 15 there Is seldom anv rain, and Irrigation would be a godsend. ' Sheridan Sun: Next year will be one of Sheridan's beat: then will follow the fruit year, in which many hundreds of acres of orchards will first coma into bearing and the fruit Industry will con tinue to develoo from then on until Yamhill and Polk counties will be the fruit and nut centers of Oregon. Toledo Leader: The big cable for the Mutual Telephone company has been put In place under the bay Just above Newport. The cable Is 2000 feet long nnd weighs 5500 pounds. Tt will put Waldport, Yachats, Alsea and the entire southern end In touch with the whole of the northern end of the county. Eugene Guard: Thirteen years aeo ttits month, most of the wheat In the Willamette valley was ruined by Just such a rain sfl this one. The ruin fell almost continuously for over a week Just before threshing time, causing much of the grain to sprout In the shock. It Is only onee in a long time that such conditions exist here. eventually as the most perfect masters of spiritual science, among whom were the venerated names of Thomas a'Kemp 1m. St. Bonavonture, John Tattler, of Strasburg, Gerson and St. Vincent Fer r'ter. 1 A revival of the Quietists took place In Spain about the year 1675 when Michel de Mollnos, a priest of the diocese of Saragossa, published the treaties called "The Spiritual Guide." His leading principle, like that of his multifarious predecessors, was that of habitual abstraction of the mind from sensible objects with a view to gain, by passive contemplation not only a pro found realization of God's presence, but so perfect a communion w ith . Him as to end In absorption into his essence. Persons of the highest distinction Cardinals, Inquisitors, nay even Pope Innocent himself were suspected oY sharing these dangerous opinions. Mo linos was arrested and imprisoned, and In due time the Inquisition condemned 08 propositions from bis sentence which wag confirmed by a Papal bull lu Aug ust 16S7. Having undergone public pen ance, Mollnos was admitted to absolu tion, after which, in merciful consider ation ef his submission and repentance, ha was consigned for the rest of his days, to the dungeons of tho Holy office. Here he died In November, 1692. The principles of Quietism had be come so deeply rooted that they were not to be soon dislodged whether by the terrors of the Inquisition or by the well merited denunciations of the Vatican. The system wns Irresistibly fascinating to minds of a certain order. Among those who weig dazzled by It was the celebrated Jeanifa Marie De la Motte Guyon, whose ardent propagation of her mystic theology In the court circles of France, where Fenelon, Madame de Malntenon and other Important person ages were greatly Influenced, gave rise to bitter controversion and agitations. In the end Madame (iuyon was silenced and irrfprlaoucd and Felenon was sub jected to humiliating papal censures. Tomorrow Bablsts. Is on the Increase and it Is not to he wondered at. Crime will likely Increase now that criminals have nothing to fear. It Is due to two things: First The very unwise policy of Governor West in commuting and pa roling criminals Instead of letting them got Umir Just diatru a. prescribed by law. Second The Journal's pet measure In having an ordinance panned disarming all reputable citizens, so that thugs and ruffians have nothing now to fear. They've always gone armed' and always will and if caught red handed the pa role system gives them a chance to go and do likewise again, so they have nothing to fear, even though caught. W. J. Garrison's letter from McMlnn vllle In last night's paper has the right tone and covers the matter thoroughly and If the voters will only vote as they should we'll have less crime or at least have less criminals. Try petting a dog when he kills your sheep, and see If It stops him. W. J. JOHNSON. ' Teddy As a Progressive. Portland, Aug. 20, 1912. To the Edi tor of .The Journal Mr. Roosevelt states he has taken the best of Mr. Bryan's and Mr. La Follette's progresslveness for his own platform. When I was a boy I once read in a book, "It is. not what cometh from the mouth, but'from the heart, that defiles." Another pas sage was, ''Ye rannot serve two mas ters." When Roosevelt comes before the people In this campaign I hop? he may look at his audience for this sign. This has been Mr; Bryan's success in three defeats for the presidency, that the peo ple know he was sincere. I remember my first introduction. After one glance of Mr. Bryan's eyes I felt I was not so big as I hac. thought myself before. Tho sacrifice he made at Baltimore will carry him through history as one of the greatest of men who loved his country greater than the presidency. Had Mr. Roosevelt, when he saw the people wold have no third term, thrown his Influence to Da Follette or Cum mins, we should now have a true progres sive In either party, but his egotism and hatred of La Follette made hlnvshow his true character. L. C. UNGER May Turn tho Candidate's Head. From the Knickerbocker Presa. Governor Dig saya Governor Wilson's acceptance speech Is scholarly and In dicates that Mr. Wilson has a clear grasp of publlo questions. Such high pralsa from so eminent an authority upon statesmftnsihp may turn Governor Wilson's head. A Prodigy. From tho Cincinnati Enqijlrer. Qabs -Has Jones, a good "memory? Stsve Should say he has Why, he can name yon the last six vies presi dents of "the T7ntt! state. ' Tke Moral Aspects of Protection ,' By, Rabbi Rudolph I. Coffee, lh.D .:.;;:;V' r, Pittsburg, Pa. I in ths approaching presidential cam palgn, the chief toplo under discussion will be ths-tariff question.. Many pert sons will discuss the material advant ages and disadvantages of the tariff! we shall confine ourselves wholly to the moral aspects o i tariff for protection! The argument for a protective tariff, on s certain commodity is to enable thf producer-to compete successfully wltl foreign Importers. Thusr thousands of laborers obtain work, and the mill sup ply finds a ready market. On analysis the argument breaks down. It Is unjust Our government promises equal rlghtfj to all, yet here the privileges of a smal minority of capitalists receive speclaJ consideration.' As their dividends lnj crease, and the cost of living soaravJthd unless the labor union can strike suc cessfully. 1 This asking for special privilege from the government la absolutely unjustlfl able. Many commodities are produced more successfully abroad than here and the putting on of a tariff merely means that the price is so much bighe for the genuine article, and almost Sil high for some inferior Amerlcan-inad article. Some few stockholders ard helped and 90,000,00-0 people find thel clothing and grocery bills higher than ever, If it be replied that thousand. of Workmen are set to work in busd factories, we agree, but at starvation wages. Men who are willing to taktl all they can through the government aid, give 'as little us they can to pa their help. The tariff on steel sen dividends soaring up, and made man Pennsylvania millionaires, but the arm of day laborers continued to recelvd $1.A5 each day after 12 hours Inhuman toll, and seven days every week. Howl the protective tariff does not benefi working pcople Is seen In the late Mas sachusetts strike. Wages which nq man could live on properly were paid b capitalists, who always had money tt donate to charitable societies, but nom to pay a living wage to hard worker! laborers. The protective tariff puts fl business on a false basis. The duty ma! be raised or, lowered by legislation therefore a sense of insecurity pervaded the business. Nature puts a child on hid feet as soon as he can stand, but thlt protective tariff, originally Intended trl start and protect an Infant Industry has never been relinquished, though thlfl Infant is now well nigh en to a cen tury old. Protection reverses the law of free dom and progress, therefore It cannot bJ Just. Formerly, religion was the sw preme concern of the state. Either yot agreed or suffered martyrdom. Outs forefathers fought for liberty of con science, and now we worship and pray as we choose. Likewise, political free dom was denied the masses, who were. not thought wise enough to know thelii own needs. Our ancestors successfully! attacked the classes, and today every citizen shares the privileges of govern-i ment. Again, Industrial slavery ruled the world for centuries, but riow, that the Civil war has ended this doctrine the south finds greater prosperity thar. ever before. Freedom of the presa, of the person, every form of freedom haf been won for mankind. There merely remains the freedom of commerce, tq purchase wherever one wishes without restrictions of an arbitrary kind. A all other forms of freedom have eotnc to mankind, so will this In due time The constitution prohibit a tariff be tween states, next let us prohibit one between this and a sister nation. Protection la opposed to the spirit ofj true religion. Moses and Jesus both! emphasized the lesson of brotherly love. Our country practises that law, as Cubs the Philippines, and the "open door" InJ China will testify. America Is mindful of tho words of the prophet. "Have we not one Father, did not the same God create us?" We sent our publlo school teachers to Instruct the Filipinos, fur-; nlshed them With expert officials Xo prepare them for future citizenship, hut when they send to our shores the very articles our missionaries have taught them to produce, America raises a high tariff wall to exclude them. Wfe show our lack of brotherly love by llm-l lting the entrance to our shores free of duty of merely 150,000,000 olgars. mere fraction of the' whole output, and not enough to satisfy the needs of America for a single week. The message, of the twentieth century Is peace. Wo have our Hague tribunal to avert war, and preach that the law of brother love is not only national but also International. We show our love of the heather! by offering him our Bible, and then play the hypocrite by denying his products fair competition In our; markets. We send our college profes sors and ambassadors to bear the olive branch of friendship to Europe, and then impose an unreasonable tariff oh imported necessities, even wnen Amer lea cannot produce them. The protective tariff lives a false hood. It permits American producers to charge higher prices In America thai in Europe, though freight be added, foil the very same article. An America watch, purchased in England anb? brought back here free of duty (for American wares come In free) sells at a lower figure than tho regular mar ket price. This Is possible because the American tariff 1s built on false stand ards, not on the natural value of supply and demand. The making of tariff rates has always been accompanied by unholy scandals. Selfish greed dictates many of the rates, not disinterested and loyal. patriotism. From the moral point of view, the protective tariff violates every canon of Justice. But, wo are forever told, It starts the wheels of Industry and pro motes progress. This Is but seeming progress, not the healthy growth of sound, vigorous manhood. When a fac tory enters a new locality, ln'arlably the charity society follows soon after to repair the damage done. In part, by the mill and Its system. The capitalists will support tho charity organization out of their dividends. If these mills paid a living wage to the employes, there would be no need of charity. Let all industries have fair play, but we should not subsidize a few owners at the expense of the entire American n. tlpn. Pointed Paragraphs Modern young men court In haste and repent at leisure. About the only thing father gets on his birthday is a lemon. ( Better a pavement made of good In tentions than no pavement at all. Some girls are given away in mar riage and some throw themselves away. It takes more than a fur-llned over coat to protect a would-be actor from the frost. If a man's backbone Is weak he wilb never occupy a front seat in ths hall of fame. .' . ' A man has no use for a woman who attempt to oonvlnce him that fcajia' wrong ana succeeds in doing n. "
