Iriri OiuON DAILY JUukNAJU JUKTLAfji), fcATUKUA V AUUUST 31. ' 1112.
THE JOURNAL
N lrnrESDENT KEWSPAPEH.
C. 6. JACKSON......
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IrOHEIGN AUVEBTlSlKa JEPBESEXTATI VH.
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scnday.
qui ft..: 12-50 i on month 23
pAlLY AND SUNDAY.
,85.1
One yenr.
.4T.SO ) One moat-.
; j
Affectation In any part of or
carriage ia hut tlte lighting -up
of a candle to Show our defects,
and never fails to make us tak
notice of, either as wauling in
senses or sincerity. Locke.
AP.E WE IXCOMPETKXT?
A
RE we Oregonians capable of
self government? ,
f- In 1910 the rivers and har
bors bill passed the house with-
"out mention of the Willamette locks.
In the senate an ' amendment was
added, which appropriated $300,000
- for the" Willamette- locks and senate
Influence forced the house to ac
cept the increase, making govern
ment ownership of the locks a' fixed
fact
In 1911, after the rivers and har
bors bill left the house, an amend
ment in the senate added $325,000
for the Columbia channel and infor
mally recognized the deepening of
the channel from Portland to the
se as a federal project. Senate in
fluence subsequently forced the sen
ate amendment through the house
and made the added appropriation
available.
In 1912, after the rivers and har
. hora bill ' left the house, a senate
amendment increased appropriations
fpr Oregon projects $275,000 and
formally recogntee.4 the deepening of
the. channel from Portland to the
eea as a fixed federal project. Sen
ate influence then forced 'the sen
ate amendment through the 'Bouse
and the president signed the bill.
. Of what value to Onegon are our
two representatives In the lower
house at Washington?
Are not three years of futility and
failure in the house sufficient to es
:t&bUah,the hopeless inefficiency of
Orgon's two congressmen?
If we are capable of self govern
ment 'hy do we not have represent
atives in the national house as ef
fective as our representatives in the
national senate?
ARBITRATE WHAT?
NOTICE has been served at
Washington that Great Britain
will seek to have the Panama
canal law arbitrated at The
Hague.
Arbitrate what? What has The
Hague or Great Britain to do with
a strictly domestic concern of the
United States?
The basis of the British applica
tion for an arbitration is the con
tention that free tolls for American
istTrtBershtrfa Iff a violation" of the
treaty and a discrimination against
British interests.
Britain could not send a ship from
ew torn or uaiveston to beattle ori0n farm and ranch products he made
Portland If she wanted to. She can-1 commensurate with tha d.ities on
not carry freight by sea from one) manufactured products. Whatevr
port of the United States to another. ! autlioritv had to set tho lmanini; on
Tlte United States law forbids. How j "rommenBurato" trould'lTaT'emi'.rl
then, can freo tolls for American breaking task.
Bhips in such trade affect British in-i The effort of the D.-mocra'ic
tereats? 'house in the last Bt-ssinn was to r-
As to the treaty, when the United (;IK.H tne ,Hriff 0I1 m.ru-, which i,v
r t .
Mates acquired the cana. ?trlp, she
became supreme over the canal, just
as much u she is supreme over any
other ' waterway wholly within her
own territory.
Besides, the canal incident Is
Closed.'-' The Panama hill has been
passed, it has been signed y the
president, and is now tin- law of the
land.
It is a United States canal. It lies
within I'nitei stales territory. t.
Is, defended hy the I'nited States
flag, it must be maintained and op
erated by I'nited Suites it'dunn. it
was built with United States n:o:i".'.
What ia them to arbitrate'
NEW 1U.OOD IN THK Si:TK
W
lll'j. the I'nitoil Ktaten s. rule
meets on the 4lh of March
next, in special session, j'
.1 i
a s hoi s alter t h; u
guration ot v, new presiij.-nt , i;u.ie
Will be a larue tmniniT of v.fv fare,;,
and visitors lookin:: down from 1 1 ;
galleries will see a large quota of the
Lfw type of "flghtins" faces.
The old time sehator of rotund fl -r-nrc,
complaisant dispoBitlon and spe
cial' privilege inclination is pivini;
way to.tTTe militant type that .began
with La Follette and t'utnmins.
"While the formal election of senators
Will not take place until next Janu
ary, the primaries which Jetermine
the result have been held in most of
the states and have decreed retire
ment for many of tho sitting sen
ators. In only two Instances in the prl:
irlps 80 far held are men of stand
fast type reasonably sure of retain
ing their seats. One is Warren of
Wyoming, a Republican, and the oth-
)r is Martin of Virginia, a Deniocrat.
Though nominally of different par -
hub, f-acu oi mese men represents Hie
Old tygtem 6t service to the inter-
- .
ttB that seek Bpeclal privilege In
legislation. -
Tho
ELliUHAOjeL?BJ:-. asUu-- recruiu woi . h ad-drwwwd -to
down aa intereBting list, whose
departure Warren and Martin , will
keenly regret. Tor Instance. Crane of
Massachusetts, Bailey of Tcias, Gam-
: ble of South Dakota, Paynter of Ken-
tucky and Cullom of Illinois. Crane
Bailey announced they would
"retire" and escaped the wrath of a
I direct vote on their continued ser-f
Tlce. Gamble, Paynter and Cullom!
sealed their fate by vot in g for Lor- stay the march of unceasing and j
inier. Cullom is an old man, whojeostjy preparation by German'
has snent Ais lifa4ikjtttMief?ic.e aadamieg and fleets towards conditions
is not vicious, but he thinks in the
old grooves and lie la out of har
mony wUbJ the advancing Spirit of
Illinois. . -
To the ret iremen t list will e arW-
man nf Vohrnclra tvViv wna Hn-
-- ""' -H" . j,
featcd by a raging insurgent, ana
Curtis of Kansas, who will give way
to. Governor Stubbs. It ia probable
i also. Oufreenhelm of Colorado will
ret ire vol untajr iljjt lms est-aj)ing tjie
.other kind of, retirement. Wet more
'of Rhode Island, Briggs of New Jer
'sev, Nelson jr Minnesota and nurn
jhain of New, Hampshire may also
I be retired this fall.
In the place of theke nin will
come trom Hie people a Vigorous (;.uui'reu mm uuuivn, a.iu I votes (or 50.00l out of lOO.OQO) should
band of precedent-destroyers, men ! records for him. And the volume , ue reiiuira to pass laws or amend
who believe in respecting the aspira- of the "peace orations" of the kaiser j ments."
Hons of the great mass of the eo - toni, of .11 those that he ha, t-1 rl'Z
pier and Will, ror the most part, la- tered, the boat studied and the most j ple but la strongly opposed by the his
bor to,4vercome the 'handicap ot leg- j effective. corporations. Such a situation is not
islation that has so long. made these He is not only a many sided, but j at all improbable, in fact this very con
asplra.ions a mockery. There will a conscientious and a religions man I
bo more to stand for the fair, (leal
in the next congress than have sat
in the-senate since, the system of cor-!
porate greed began its sway..
WHY IT IS BAD
I
N his Vermont speeches,' Colonel I
Roosevelt is making vicious at-j
.tacks on the Republican party. j
It was but yesterday that the..,
colonel sought the presidential nom
ination of the Republican party. A
change of but a few votes would have
made him the Republican nominee.
Was the Republican party a good
party then and a hopelessly bad
party now?
It is about the aaine Republican
party that it was during the seven
and one half years that the colon. !
was its titular head. One difference the colonel, "talirornia lias estao
is that it got a bigger corruption fund! lished direct primaries, including
for campaigns in tho colonel's time ' presidential primaries." Under tho
than it is getting now, with lloorge
PerklnB a Bull Mooaer.
If the Republican party in really
s bad as the colonel painis it. who
made it bad? Wasn't the colonel
president for seven' and one half
years, and didn't he select, nominate .vote " Woodrow Wilson did even
and elect Mr. Talt? Are not tho better in 'New Jirsey. H" forced tho
colonel's violent, at tack a on the Re- election of the people's choice when
rublican party a repudiation of hla'lhe logUitur.) wot about to repudi
own handiwork, wrought uhder his ate that choice,
own eleven and a half 'ojta-of lead-; The colonel says Johnson secured
crahipf "regulai ion of working hours of. wo-
If hla lpadm-sJiIjLxif. tka-Ufcpuhlican
party resulted so disastrously '.003 did befer in New Jersey. He se
the colonel expect to do a better ,o: -ured passage of a wotidngmen's
in the Bull Moose party?
What if Ormsby Mcllnr h.ad ?uc:
ceeded in corrupting a let of nth
em delegates into rcpudurting Tal't
and supporting the C(ilon 1 at Chi
cago? That would bavo made the
colonel the nominee.
Presumably, that would hr.vv mad
the Republican party a good party
instead of the ugly thing the colonel
paints It.
JIKMMVO THK 1 AKMIIKS
T
HE Transmiss:c?it))l Comuier-
clal congress accepted a coun
sel of perfection wlfn it ap
proved the proposition of Colo
nel Ike l'ryor of Texas that the tariff
tho tariff were sustaine,! ju j , r j , , . al
levels higher than an o:..-n market
would have provided The point of
reduction having bei n ad tuKted with
the Republican senate tile Veto of
President Tall Xmh .rtuoi:4sl.v-a!-..
plied. And the tariff stands as lt
an
tfovernor Wilson Is now busy In '
showing the fanners of p. husvhania
to what &n nnreastiibilde decree the
tariff causes them to i-'ill'et', ;; n,l
prei;ar!nr them for i 1 r . r 1 p. .tac
tions. The o' bor bide ef the fan,,, r;,-
SilffiTills the lelh 1' they i : , i . -1 , r
feel 'ny tho raisini; of the tarin' on
their productions to pnins 'kim
niem '.tirale" w it h om !'i,:iiri"!i -
t'lt'eil guo.li; I
be I, coinliieel
the Candida! es
It iloe:-; pot
i llet ierl!l to ll.'l','
ou by any one of
'ii to
or b
e f H ' ,irred
l-i a'ldie!C!
taraeio ::
their
to i 'olot). 1
a' Sal: 1...
the Chile, i
prod ,.e e. in
in a world
that a re is.
(it
:ate
1 1 la r.ueai , i e ins.' at leaat ,
uidiyopen market, and
d li'itii s would tlettroy
of trade against our
linii' tledr sales.
the balance
farmers- and
liefer (or
tlietn It would he to
have Governor Wilson try his rem
edy, and have cheapened to the fann
er the many articles of both necrs
eiiy and luxury that he buys, where
on the trusts havo levied their toll,
and dipped their hands in his
Iiockets:
THK KAIKKK'M 11KCOVKIIY
T is good news, not only to the pcrlence have uri'od the name pro
(lennan people, but to the world, Kram. The rannma canal law Inst
that Kaiser Wilhelni is on the
clear road to rccm-irv frrmt nio
throat attack. No life Is'mcre valu-
able than his at this ti.no.
i As coi.miander in chief of tho
great German armv he has over de-
mnnded frnm hie ',.t,ii-u fn hi
' " wwva.,w ttii auu i
unreasonins obedience. He has i
.claimed such obedience as binding I
i fight but one enemy, and that his
enemy, even If their own relatives,
their brothers, or even their parents,
were included in the opposing ranks.
lie has made much in his speeches
of the mailed fist. In tha early ,
; years of his 25 years reign he en-:
Jttyed, apparently, to pose as the
great war lord. ' .
Nothing has been permitted to,ily as they can buy a dinner
enabling - deadly attack as well as
citnoncicfri 1 " .1nffinca
vt -v. n fciatn-v' nf thfn '
Yet through all the history or tnis ;
exciting quarter of ft - fttury the
peaco between Germany and her;
neighbors has never neen proaeu. .
n..-.".'- .mu .' !,--' HrillAH.!"
German armies have been drilled
unceasingly, but have never fought
German men-of-war have - grown
from squadrons to tremendous fleets,
Unit the, dxeadiiaughts' .. cannon, have
never thundered against an adver
sary. .
The kaisor is one of the best na
tive orators in Europe. His com
mand of bis native tongue is perhaps
uuequaled. His 'speeches have been
Again anrj again ne nas aeciaieu j
'himself on the side of international !
per.ee. -and alive, as becomea him, to :
. thi, 'nihil fAiiDnnc hi itiott n I) U hi) i
I .t a".... .oi,..o.Uw.v.o ,
I Kl.ali let the war dogs loose
He it is who can, and who is ex-
j pec-ted to, restrain the fighting class
of his nation from driving the Ger-
man people into war that ia to the
enormous majority both awful and
repellent.
Long may he live.
THK DIFFKRKXf'K
,. ,--,, 1 I
fN ormont Thursday, Colonel ,
Roosevelt extolled the virtues of 1
Governor Hiram Johnson, his (
' . . ,1 ,i,;4
running mate on the third party'
ticket.
"I'nder his leadership," exclaimed
'leadership of Woodrow A'iison tho
1 tunic tiling was done in New Jersey.
The colonel declared that under
'the Johnson leadership California
;"hasVdopted the system of electing
United States seuators by popular
I'.icn and minory.' Woodrow ileon
eom;'er,hation law.
"For ! generation," says the col
onel. "California ha been controlled
in mercilc-hs fashion as few other
btauj have been control. (d by tho
Sentatives Of Hpeeial privileges
ami the politicians In alliance with,
them." l-'nr a generation New Jcr
bey v,a.; tun! rolled tho santo way.
The (oionel uays Johnson made
;ood hia prouifsed by rescuing Cali
turnia from the bosses. So did
Woodrow Wilson in New Jersey.
in a final bit rat of enthusiasm for
Johnson the colonel exclaimed: "Ho
hi not only fit at this moment to be
pre.fciiient ; he is fit to be a areat
pivhHehf." Then why isn't Wood
row V'i!.-an "not only fit ut this uto-
n: nt to bo president, but fit at this
: e.iii,.nt to he a erwat riri.1i!i " I
,. ., , . , ..... . ;
Ih.-idcs. w.olrow Wilson l:t3 a :
.jjreident :al nomination and Johnson -
pot.
nt(Jlt.i i
Kt'OSKV XT sayB "no man
io belongs to thu Hi pnhli
!i or heinocratic !!trty has a
:M io call himself a jiro-
r
;ressive.M
Whal'
Mil I
,:i Kollottp a prn-
sfwuiver isn't
tsive?
isn't r.immliis
Wdodrov, ' Wilson
Bryan a progren-j
;
a iiroi'i-es'ii ve ' Or '
a 1 1 en I'rewviv,,'1 '
Ihii't llorah
pl'OKreive?
Or
(lore a pros;nv sivc? Or Iladley a
l'!'ogre.-,si ? Or Chamberlain of
( i re;; on ;i i i irn-Hrdvo?
Is lioss Hill r::mi of Pittsburp; a
pi 'onres: i , e and I. a follette not. a
p-oiM-esi-h e? pi (Jeoru'e Perkins a
proi;re..;.j)Ai.' at:d W. .1 Bryan not a
r.-(j;rei.Kivo?
M!t. l'opirs st (,(.i;,i his
A
s
a at
K stated
in .venter;
av s
the
af si;
ads
ana
or Po;,i .
Pi .rt! iiel-A;
il 1 'A II S 1
1!'
of
hack to the
trail of Hie
sae.ic tree,
nlariy re .'n
same i-tai'iiug i oltit. 'p he,
i (Mm a a av s leads to t
T!.v s eainsldp line reg
ies it'.a If Into a pi stion
of
it.
Portland's Willingness to finance
Mr. rope ha.; no doubt of the ul
timate i ticcess of a Portland owned
line, lie would launch the company
with a capital of $ "i '1 ' . o 0 o . He.
would purchase two liriilsh steam
ers for a beKlnninj;. lie would bond
thein for half the purchaHe price, get
ting the loan abroad at three and a
half per cent.
Other IVrtlanderH of tihi.'itiitipr r x-
passed Is timely in that It admits
American owned vessels of foreltm
WHO'S
b'uild to American ntdstrv for for '"' Added to this, there Is a gen
uuriu io nimiK.in n KiHtrj lor for-, .r, r,;cI,- of uncertainty regarding
eln trade. I tht. (,Uy utmlnitration which Is felt by
The plan Is the logic; of twenty- I the muti of citizens. This condition has
five vears of f.uluro x ! grown steadily worse for many months,
r,u ... . ... ,
,:inuij..ui iuuui;, mill UriCUl-
al line nt the end of the period Is a
liuirlo calU to I'ortlandi
4hr own orintftl Mn'.
There are more than two hundred
men and women In thla city 'who
are enriched by 1200,000 to $250,600
! through no effort of their own but
by the mere growth of Portland in
the last five years. It Is a wealth
that puts them in a relation of trua-
teesalp "to.. Portland, They could
help finance- an oriental line as eas
They ought to da It,
Letters Fjrom tKe People
cniiunication sent to The Journal
for publication in thla department
should b-wtiuen-W-only-on side of
SStS&
mi aaaress or me senaeiv it
w,lt.er. ?oe not .desire to have t
name pupjisnea. tie should so state.)
-inswering MivGlafkc.
TortlanU, Or., Aug. 27. To the Editor
of The Journal-7-InTHa Journal of
August 13 Mr, Qlafke delivers himself
of a little more of the sophistry that
we have been getting relative (0 the
amendment for the crippling of the
Initiative. , .He says, "the very fact that
possibly 10 to' 30 percent of the voters
will vote for candidates and not for
measures makes "it all the. more reason
I why the support of the total number of
isiaturea ignored the people's demands
until they tooic it uou thmeive to
ar'h,ei:B "Lt
. "
Uu,t j,.0,n Q t0 30 pe. oent of the votera
may not vote on initiative measures.
In the situation above described, feup
potie the measure hud been sufficiently
agitated so that only UU per cent failed
to vote on It. Tlten using Mr. Ulafke's
figures If tho corporations were able
to muster SO. MOO votes against tne
common people's 43,099, they could do
feat the -measure. This simply means
that unytliing proposed by the people
that did not tally with corporation In
terests would not have a ghost of a
Khow under Mr. Cllnfke'g amendment,
1,0 matter now important to tne people
lt m,Rht be And Mr. dlafke'lma tn
face to tell us, apparently without u
smile, that he and his followers are
fighting for majority ruie and have no
nf ,t,!J,lillli i,tiL
All students of hit-'tory recognize the
fact that the natural teodenctts of the
people are strongly conservative. They
are slow to adopt new Ideus. . Tills Is
clearly shown by the length of tune re
quired to bring ti.t 111 to the point of
demanding the Initiative and other
progrt ssivc laws.
I'nder ordinary conditions and with
the present law this ronservtitive ttinl
ency opinates strongly toward the di
f 1 1 of n:iy inltiativi measure, cs
pei ially if it contains a::y new .fi-atuiv.
This has been w ell iil'i it rat ,i in ui e
K"n eli-ciiuii.s. l''ir m!s leasun it i.s
!:-.u..li i-.tvivr now to defeat bad laws
' tnaa to pass t.n.d ones. Mr. (I.afke de
siis to I lai i- .1 1. audi; ap .upon praxre.sji
by puetieally npeitlifiK the iniUati.e.
lie ipp,i:-i.s its prill- iple but does not
'dale to r.ay so in plain V.il !.-h.
1:. it. n.
Single Tax in V ictoi ia.
I'ortlarel. Or., Auk. -t --To the l'.dltor
of 'l'ne Jiiurnal It W nsst-rteil by t.'ie
oppn tits i t ti'.e graduated Hiii;'e I k
tncat,. ire that there !: way of rii;i;i
ln out what any person',; taws would
b.j. 'i'lila ih Fini,l.i syhttinK hairs. if
llO Chatlite WliatiViT iii lllllile. Ill thfl'IfK-
t-nf system 1l,tr; Is lej wav of liguriiig
olt what thu t;.,s i.n individual hold-
Jnss will be next y. ar. Wo can mly
approximate it. li.t that approxima
tion will be within ?.: per cent, and e.m
be estimated in, e h closer. In Victoria,
H. ( the same foobsh statements were
I. utile, before the pcupl-, by a nearly
six to one vote, declared fer a strong,
firm step toward justi -c in taxation.
The results shywed that tha estimates
of sinfflo taxers wi-r-i eui!S-rvative, Init
that not one slnulu homeowner liad his
taxes' r..iseil. only big business i'.oid
lnss, sliack-covered downtown valuable
lots and largo speeuiative tracts. The
experience lias taken daeewhi're er tin
ptdveinents have leen oxempied from
taxation. Mere are a few from Vic
toria. 1!. 1'.: John Allen, 617 Pino
street, lot assess. i
at $70,1
Improve-
muilS at ll&oo. Kid pay .!.-. under rdd
tot tits at nsou. 1
8teni, but under new pavs $1(1 al-
,i,oUgh his lot uas raised to jsoo vilua-
tiun.
Airlier Irvle.t;, 1 z C llasil street, lot
S 4 7,1. iniproieiiit-.it1' I'o''1. l'id pay
i 5-' .:"'. tn.w pavs Jlciiu.
Walter Frlck'-r. 1 15 ' 7 Government
i -
stre-t lit j;mhi, inipruv-jtiients ."ni.
l'bl pay JJ1 30, now pas t-'O with lot
alucd at $liico.
.). A. Sayward, V:.-w an.l iKniKlass
streets, lot vulucd at JSti.lui), linpi.e
iPfiits at $1f,.iMio. 1 loii-r obi FVHtem his
taxes v.Muld have t "i: $-!".::'l. I iebr
the nw $17c3. And ao oa down tint
t (, v rnll'i fif VietfiT-ia
i,; "r,tiand tl' graduatpd measure
would r.-dii' e t'. o taxes htil ec'ie en Hi,.
-"'ii-l! laddings and I'a iv.iin, ll,im
la r Ke ! ldaus. It
l:rith h
the in w
peratmn
I 'ii! ii ichia
v- n no n eppcis' d to
fer It Went lot'l i
K stein Ii
have
to aibiiit IIh sa!ii" as a pi
inter
: j i r 1 1: n! t i: , tojirn'-.n t, as an ni-'.:'-
:' I, , .i:t'.i,r. i r,e .,; ;
VMtsii i ic ;, . ibivv I ."ia;,''il'-ts
i ','ii .
fa' t
1 lie.
T. i
1l;.tr
l.lth
I'll
l'l l:..'-'
bt r:,
to c.-, ntat
u
id ilbuti,..
"f tl i;Sl!
ds
iir; 'ip in huniln
el 1 1 , " " a n d s 1 1 1 o i
: .,1 e . i n I lie.- "II
I i f eiinimu
t'l i 'Mile.
pplie.itiun.
A i 1 " K! 71 I i '!( I I a 117,
Savinj; t!:e City I'ront Itself.
I'oiibir.d. or. Aug. L'7. To the IMjinr
ef Tb.- .1 u r i N " '.v t hat .'ir fab- Ibih.
I'l'V I .". Ill the l'l"'':-H of b.-ttlg 'I'.lll'il
'.; a d tel oi l; ;t l.v ti.'e li'Hl I'lmr of
this HMte, lei;- we tmt Wei! look back
"'.it the pii-t year and i"Vi,w the con
'iilions whl'.'li led up to .the governor's
m'tlnn?
I belb-vf that tl;e S'U' rmir Is sincere
and that be has act' d only when the
.' : t in t Ion was " bietly In in oil of a
eb.-aii up that to let It, go m as It wan
ii. cant ruin to the city. Purely, no city
'an elsl when It In gruwitiH worse
i iotitb by month, (is Portland lias been
For the last eight or nine months things
have in en growing intolerable and the
nd of it finally came. Thanks that
wo have a governor with backbone.
To review thb situation that hits .con
fronted Port land during tiio last eight
or in ne months, we view a city overrun
wltli prostitution which was openly car
ried on with the full consent of tho
polk-. (Jumbling has been carrind on to
an alarming degree, and this'also rlht
utnler the very nose, of police author
ities. The ll'iuor laws have been no
ti.ricoK' violated, and by -the action of
city authorities, the dive class of linuor
men havo been encouraged in tho vio-
"nd It has finally reached n stae when
the hand of tha governor had to bo
felt.
To sum the aituatlon, thla city hai
- wUkv awyee- VVJ4Wvr
Mayor KutdiUght haa dona haa ben to
make malum wru- and healta In tha
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGS
The fovernor
Cameron.
seems to be
"onto"
. - . - - .
Already the Bull Moot are lookinr
atuie ftnotijer eavagely. '
- '
- Seems like. In West's case, a tovern
orsliip means governing. . '
7":r -" " " " ' '.-'
l There will doubt lews- be some Una va
cation weather this fall., .
- - '
Wll,'th peoplft elected Cameron but
that was jiults.a whlla ago. . v
rj : -t,
M lopir as Taft can DlaT aolf. he
I will bo ,-reaB.onably- happy. - -r--: -
Now for tho hop fields, ready to yield
their annual gplden. harvest
'
Harmony could not b expected among
a lot of strenuous ballmposers.
, t -i - - - - - - .
What- Is tha " matter with "the
pa-ar-r-ty?" Nearly everything, appar
ently. -
Many a woman would make as cap
able a postmaster or mistress as any
man, -
. , f.
The courts may save Cameron, brfef
ly; but he will soon ba down and out,
anyway.
r . f
It Is suspected that even old niossbaek
Vermnnt is somewhat (Teoted with in
surgency. ,
'.
Fairbanks Is going to stump for Taft.
Seems like the Taft company. Was frigid
enough already.
A seedless c'ueumber has been propa
fratert but what ' some oopla want Is
a bellyacheless cucumber.
.
Hoys in their teens would not be out
nlKhts racing to the devil if they had
the right sort of parents.
Aside from any other reasons, Taffs
vetoes of good tariff billx should and
will beat him for reelection.
People who are advocating the recall
of (iovernor West must have -but slight
acquaintance with public sentiment.
Postoffioo employes deserve a Sunday
r;st us well. as other people, and the
public will be just as well oft without
Sunday mall.
SEVEN GREAT LETTER WRITERS
J. V.
Though Goetlie is not commonly feck
onod as one of t lie approved masters of
the epistolary art, like Horace VValpolo,
Madame do Sevigno or Pliny the Young
er, yet lie Is probably one of the great
est letter writers that ever lived. Aprt
from the matter of his letters their
number alone Is extraordinary, and es
pecially when the voluminous nature of
his other literary labors Is considered.
lt las been computed that up to
Faster, 1S7 S, about letters of his
had bev.ti published In addition to about
1Hn( addressed to tho Frau von Stein
alone. Tho number of his known corre
spondents is reckoned at about 810, and
the runije. of subjects d.scuseed is no
le-N sutpriilntc than tho fluency with
which l.e tri ats them.
To Schiller. Goethe wioto more than
7;0.l letters, clilel'iy on the principles of
pi.otty and art. and ou the same sub
jects be corresponded with SchlcKcl.
I tvitti:; r, Reiner, with .Merck. Carus, l'o
derinhr and others he discussed physi
cal scii-m c, and witli .lacobt and laivi
ler .subjiv:ts uf a more metaphysical
I. ut Ul ft.
If we take Into account the other
cr.-ie.-, of mb.eclhui. ous lettvts which h-
niii!.t have written al different periods.
su h s the early letters to Kestaer and
the hiteit of all to Matianne von AVtlle
iner, we may reckon that in the course
of Ids !on lifo lie wrote, besides the
oicliuaiy business memoranda, which
were not likely to be preserved, some
IhinK like la. cm letters.
Sonivi of the most interestliiR of these
letters w to publit,lnvl by liimscir. and
now form part of his collected works,
as for instance "l.etteis fiom Switzer
land," which were addressed to the Kraa
on Stelli, and "Tlio Italian Tour," com
posed mainly of letters addressed to I. el
and to ilvider. ilis correspond nc0 with
ScidlliT was edited by himself, and pub
lished in l Sh-u, but most of the. other
series of letters havo been lsaud ut in
mayor's chair today a mere figurehead,
who would have b;t the city po to the
!os and never attempted to Mop il.
He lias no Influence In directing the
police department or surely lie could
have dm,! luoro Hum he bus done in
eieanlr.t; things up. Kvery oiUvr il.'part
iii, ut seems to have notion hex ond the
control of Mayor Rushlight, and to be
sailing alone; in its own way. I'om
plaiiits about thu lack of efficiency van
la, heard un cvuiy liaml ub'out tils city's
pn v nt administration.
.Now, in view of this, can any reason
able man Muesllon the right of ilov
. rimr Wist to put tills ciiy on its lect
am? Hii our ma: or and lao chief
UJ7 i Olica. U"UO tlijjdr pililii, coinnion uaiy
to the people and enforced the laws as
the I tuple made, them, wo would not
ii .w lie held up to ridicule all "ver the
woihi. A. H- GIIOMW la.I..
The Kiiijjlo Tax in CanuUrt.
In reply to inquiries made by H. F.
Alb.n of Kansas "'ty. Mo., lh t'olloxvlni,'
inter of June I, Horn h H. Watson, of
Watson I'n., leal a to aentet i7d
moutoii. Alberta, explains the tax reform
,n operation there:
The slniilo tux system has been in
operation here fur the past live years,
and 1 would say that it gives entire sal-i-factiim.
I have jet to meet the busi
ness man who Is opposed to it as it ia
noik'.nx out here. At first wo had a
business tax extra, little different from
that in the state. That Is to say, so
much per square, foot, the amount vary
iin: for Oil tereiit lines ,f business. This
has now hi en done av.ay with and all
.axes put ui land. The only other tnxe
we have are a. few licenses such as don
license, milk license and carters' license,
and other lines of business which re
quire special regulations.
At the last M.sMon of the Provincial
p u liiimeiit. they adopted an act putting
the whi'lo province under single tax.
I will s nd you a copy of this uct ns
soon as 1 can get It. A number of fair
sized cities and towns in t lie province
have adopted the system, and I Inclose
a little paper from Toronto which shows
the movement In Vancouver and Vic
toria and also In Ontario, although the
present premier, a conservative, is op
posed to it.
You will notice that a petition Is In
from ail the cities and towns, and also
practically all trade union and other
bodiea have applied for it. I have no
doubt that If It were put to vote 'it
would carry.
The Astor Haby.
From the New York Times.
If all reports are true, John Jacob
Astor VI In tha most .expensive baby
ever brought Into the world.
doSBlp In the me.dhm world la that
Dr. Edwin Bradford Cragln, who Is re
sponsible for th& safe advent of this
InterestliiK baby. Is reCWviiiR tJOOO a
day for each and every day lie Is in
attendance on Mrs. Madeline Force As
tor and her young son. ""
ir rf y Hr-tett hbr -ti try tW f eV tB'
Wayside, Colchoater, Conn., and took
up hit resident: at the Astor mansion
NEWS IN BRIEF
..OREGON SIDELIGHTS
. The Myrtla Creek Mall, avers that all
thera-Jato be-done-to-buiidtha ranch
needed cannery at. Myrtle Creek ia Just
to go ahead and build It. '
McMlnnvtHe News Reporter: Tha I.
W. W. aife here. Not the boys that
"raised the poof down in California,
buQrhe Independent Work Watchers
who tiaily contemptata tha street im
provement work... ,.
. - - .;. ' - - -. , v -
"Woodburn Independent! Wet Augusts
like , the present are very rare In this
valley. It ta neot-Bsary to go tack 12
yeara- to find another with as much
rainfall ln,-te tirst half nl the. month
as wo had up to August IS.
- .-.
Ashftnd Record, reproducing from Is
sue of 20 years agoj General James 11.
Waa.veiv-th Pupuliift eandidaty for xires
ident, spoke to a large crowd In Ash
land on the eleventh of August. Mary
bj. Lease, the noted woman politician of
Kanjsas accompanied tho party.
Oregon City Courier: Sunday the falls
had ipjite a volume of water pouring
over and this is a decidedly unusual
sight for August, as tha big mills take
all tha water during the dry months.
Hut Oregon hasn't had any dry months
this summer and the old residents say
"seasons are changing."
Westotv Leader ; The Ladres' band
has ceased Ho practice and is said to
bo on tho point of dissolution for a
timo nt least. This condition Is ascribed,
to the contemplated' departure of two
of the band's leading members, who
have been instrumental In smoothing
Its financial pathway.
.
Ontario Demoovat: XL A. Beagle, on
iulle west of town, is harvesting his tax:-
ond crop of red raspberries this, sea
son. The berries are tine .targe ones and
the vines are loaded. Strawberrh s also
make, two crops here. In a single season.
J. H. tJcarin, a half mile east, has been
gathering two crops each season for
several years.
St. Helens Mist: Applications for
farm loans are being maJe to the local
bank and money lenders every day, lor
amounts ranging from a few hundreds,
up to several thousands of dollars. In
nearly every Instance the object Is to
get funds with which ,tolmp.rove and
clar land. This is an indication of the
work to be dona and improvements to be
made in Columbia county during the
next few years. t,
Goethe.
tervals between his death and tho pres
ent tl mo
lt iy interesting to note when Goethe
was Hearing the v-lut of his life, instead
of trusting ids literary remains, as ne
called them, to a son's discretion, lie
formed plans of his own about lie ir
disposition, which ho coufjibj to faith
ful friends, lis counted his letters to
vurious persons ns part of his "remain.
It occurred to him that tho proceeds
of bis coi respiuidi ni'o v, Itli Zt lter should
he . aluttud m tv provis-km for K.-irei-'p
daughter, I'oiris. To Kcl.crihan, Go, t!;j
coiMidcil the task of exnminiUK his d.a
rles and letters to select all that ouht
to he published iu the Hemalns. lirafts
of Goethe's letters to various persons
had been kept slncn 1su7. Kckermnn
spent ionic weeks at tao end of the
year in arcfully evamioi'iu the
letters "f a l', w yea rs. t u i January 1,
1S:;1, he bi'(t;it Goethe a statement
of considerations wnhh should, in hi;;
ontnien il. t ei in 1 1 e. the manmr (f nul,-
I Ovl... ,) IT. ...II.., , - ..
staL-menl point by point and said: ' In
my will 1 will name you us editur ei
these) lett'rs, al.d 1 will, inoiiovc;', in
dicate thai wo aro in i.viictMl of t'.e
same opinion as to the method to he
observed."
Tho energy of Goethe was mm Vflmiv
when it Is considered in tho liht of
production, and It Is hard to understand
how he found It pnslble to write v.iyh
an enormous tunouut of literature and
et liad time, to com pos.o mora than 14 0.
Ooij letters abide from ail Ills other va
rious d.ilics. A biographer suii.s hen
up tlais eloeiu'iil ly " This is ;ho in .;
cnnpleli Iv roumle,! literary life in his
tory a life of monumental prupoi tivms,
and yet of poil'eci symmetry, responsive
to all intvllectuai impulses of a: t. (hil -obophy
and si .clu e, open to ourv ll(;!u,
yet si ll'-poiscd and sel f-v'eut rolled till
its calm seems Olympian. '
Next week- Seven Men of Action.
on Sunday. Alii:
tor VI n.aoc bis
ist 4. John Jacob As
appi . arauce on Woli.is-
day, August 1 1.
lt is expect'd that lr. Crania will
remain member of the Aster house
held until varly iu September, for Mrs.
Aster Is most anxious that lor son
shall by correi tly s'.urted on a healthy
ami lieartv carter, and that sh herself
shall suffer ii" roiapse and shall b
healthy iu,d strong and nor. al. that
she may properly rear tho child to
whom sho mu'.t be both mother aril
father, and to whom ."he expects and
xvants ta devote her life.
The etianoi-:; an- that Dr. Crnijla will
lie in constant attendance for nearly .us;
XX ecks. , . ...
At the reported' rate of $ 1 000 a day,
his fee iittliat casei would total hotwe.n
jn. iiiat iin,i J4,-,,(hmi
Tho nursery is suppostd to have cost
more than lo.inn.
No prince of loyal blood, no heir to
kia.uly throne, ever entered this world
under Mi"h i xpenslve Coi.ditkeas. lint,
then, kluKS do not have t.Ux money U
spend that American millioiiati.'eS do.
Al
GooJ H
ways in
umor
HI 11' UAGKTTI'; M Alt V
Mary bad a little lamb,
1 1 wasn't any usi .
Nuxv vveiywheiv that Mary goes
!Slie has a little moose.
.New Vork Sun.
i'rmi the llieiston I'est.
"I didn't ace her shcdiiiui; any tears al
her husband's funeral."
"That shows Imxxv much sho really
bn.d him; d. napicss always ngi;rn at. d
ids rheumatism.''
Krorn the Philadelphia Hullettn.
Arthur Ah! .Madeline, how do I knovx'
you love ma tiifly?
Madeline Arthur, notlilni; but love
could mttke a Klrl ridu behind her liauejS
on u motorcycle.
From New Orleans Times-Democrat.
"Well, old sport, how do you feel?
I've just eaten a bowl of oxtail soup
and feel bully."
"I've Just eaten a plato of hash and
feci Uka everything."
From the Boston Transcript.
Glbbs Uh, yes, Jonea Is an ass and nil
that, but you'll never hear him say a
mean thing about his wife.
Dlbbs I' don't know. He .says. she
made him what ho Is!
From Uuck.
The Senator's Wife (In Washington)
You are sure they are nice people,
Augusta?
The Senator's Daughter Yes, Mam
ma. Their father la owned by the same
trust that owns papa.
From The Pathfinder.
, Romantic Kthellnda Uow the trees In
the- orchard are moaning and sighing!
-TWefM 'ctcdT'8uT6nrnr
wera as full of green1 apples as they
are.
Tke Facts Atout tKc
Negro -
-By-Charles-Stelzle. ,- .
Executive Secretary of The Home MU-
' elans' Council, -Th
negro problem Ii ahi-trhg from
the south to the north. At any rate,
the census - figures indicate that th
south is becoming whiter, largely dua
to the fact that there is a steady ml. .
gratitm of. the negro to the nortlu Also,
tha fiRures show that the negro ia .
gblng to the sity in both the north and
the iwuth,. The pereentaB'e of negroes
for tha entire country Is 10.7; for tha
cities :M.B,000 land over it ia 1.S.- Ne
groes constitute one-fourth or mara of
the total population In each of 2? of
these cities, and in four of them tha
proportion is more than half In each...
of"l! cities there are "more than 40,000 .
negroes, although in 'WashiBfeton, It C,."..
the negro population is 94, ua. i
The wildest, guesses imaginable Aava -r
been made aa to the future of the negro-"-"-race.
It has been said with qpual in- '
siste.nce, and. with probably aiiual "au-
thority, both that the negro ""would ul
timately dominate the United States be
cause of the largo birth-rate among ne
groes, and ' tia.t the negro" rac would .
some day be practically eliminated.
As a matter of t'actj while during ths y
past 00 "years the total population of th,
country has inuceusvd fowrfold, the ne-i
gro population has increased only two,
aiid tvvq-thlrds fold, iiutf. it must not
be forgotten that, whereas the. increas
of the white population was largely dua :
to a considerable influx ;Of foreigners, ,
the increase of uegroea depended almost,
entirely upotv' fiatlva "tocH." irowvr,re:
the uotual situation may b arrived At,'
by comparing the relative dfiath and' "
birth dates of tho two races,,. ' 7
While it irf impossible to secure com
plete vital statistics In this country, ; ;
thero are certain registration areas in,, '
which' figures aro kept. Unfortunately!
these areas are for thu most part in th '
cities; there are almost no records for
the country. In iW the death rate for
negroes in the registration areas wa - :
20.9 per thouband, whereas for white
it was only lihl per thousand. As thesao
figures for the negroes included a, fevrl . .: :
Mongolians and Indians lt would be fair
to say that the actual death rate was.-
about 29 per thousand tor the negro.""'
Tills means that for every thousand ne
groes, 2U die annually. In the census
report for 1900 the figures for death T .'
rates are as follows: negroes, 30.1 per l....
thousand; whites 1 7-3 per thousand. It
will be tetn that not only Is the deatrt .
rata among negroes nearly twice as ;
great as U is among whites, but that
the death rate among negroes is In
creasing, whereas it Is decreasing i
among whites.
In tho matter of birth rates, all th
facts are uguiust ilic negro. Absolutely
reliable data is not available, but tak
ing the number of children in the United
mutes to females between tho ages of'
15 to 44 years of age, we arrivq at tha ;
following conclusions: In the United
states us a whole ttiero were in 180 to
t'.t.-ry luiln xvui.c xxwurti tSr rhtldrertT'tO
every l .i.n) net:,) womi ii (including In
!iaii and Munmdians i 75'J children, In
ltt'M) lliere Were to evi ry 1000 whit
xvoutcu ins tldidreu, ami to every 1000. . .
ntgro women children. While tb..
birth rrrte bus greatly declined for both
races ia in e.iis, U lus declined mors
rapidly among i-trtn s than among
xxiute-, i.annly, 7S per tluniraind for
while.-, and 174 per thousand for ne- '
l: o'-s
'I liese firf.tr-s would seem to Judicata
tloj ce it' iii. . il sup. vii.ai y of tilt) white
,o Il' pi, sel.l tl Hue, I Iv-S continue.
I t-ut lms inei eotitirucn to utare us in
tlto f.n ..; U'cj iu :.ru la actually liuirtas
litir in nuiiil'.s, not as fast rhitlvaly us
is Uo wi.iie. bul we may as well maks
up ii... inn. os in.ii i.ui initio is here to..
May lis shopy a i.i.estiuli (IS tl
wnei.e r i.e v.lil l"- a "i;."h1" negro or
" l ad" i.eri'. rivt ihu answer to this
MU'Stti.n del ., loU aa inucii ' upon ths
whites us il doe upon the blacks. W(
Mei.ibl a iso i ei.sider lt a finality that1
the x Idle ne'e and thu negro lace Will
li. c er .'.ei i". lliel. l is liUp''SSibl
l., nave a i..ti: :i part' free and part
s.axe. it is still more im possible to hv .
at the fcamo t.n.' In wtio country a mor- 1
aily and ph;- .-.ie.iily delaying race, and'
a surviving m o untouched by tha dy
l.ig race s ' ate.
II x.e ciuid ui finitely settle this, It,
would tave us from a lot of flabby
thinking and xxuiia scheming. Tho ne-'
go, win ncter return to Africa to es
Uldusii a l.ibeilaii republic lie is the
only maa in Amem a wlio has been
bn.'iy.ht la re ae,.dr..-t his will. For 250 j
v ears t in : was i ystcmntically ex
puiiu.'d f:oia tii" li";:i. raco the beat
ouamhs xv tin h lit a man for citizen
ship hi a liiioociiuy. Considering th
hi, ; of oppert'inlt j , the advice of fool
tr.ends. and tie mnerilit limitation
xxiiicii are boin natural and acquired,
toe. iiem-a has tio:.o pictty well since th
ihu that he was set 1 re.
The fa. t that the iiv( :u Is dying In
s'i. h lui'f,. nuuibcis or uberc ulosis and
utavr slhl iicre l'l i.gt.1 fill diseases, is,
nt' touit-e. doe to his ignorance and to
ot!ur t, asous. for which ho Is largely
respousiob , but we cannot forget that
it i , also to lie ' ehargeil to ttia faet '
that ho 1s compelled tn , live 1n "thu""
txoiet suciiui s of our towns and cities,
oileu xxilieHir (iialnaxio or Sewerage, or
Kin baun s-i x ice. xx i i u o u t water within a
i e a i-v ' a b 1 ii liistui.ce. and scarcely any
of the sanitary e.. mill ions in house or
y ml or sti't xvliich xxlules consider an
ubsoluic. un v...:,it j'. Wo orive tha worst
forms of Immorality Into he negro
purletF, and then i urse tha negro b-,-uuso
of las moral weakness. We aub
ject him to the liexereut teat of our'
ciiy lii'e- pnysieal, moral and political
i'i'I tiun cya 'ally ih.elara that tha
ni'B:i" i mi s.od any way. Lot's give
I, i;, i a su'ia-e d ai a 'niau-'s chance.
N. illo r laeo bailed nor mawkish senti
mentality xxiil nettle this very dellcats
qieitioii. The s"Uth cannot settle lt
alone and tb" north cannot do (ho work
fer the south, Tin- north and tha south,
too city and the country must tacklo
41:,. the.p' together, for this is a national
plohb'lll
Pointed i-aragrapHi
lie rood
happy.
and your wifa may be
Hotter a quick fight than a quarrsl
long drawn out.
Kvery man baa a Job lot of relatives!
ho doesn't like.
Marriags brings ,a, few happy mo
ments and many unhappy hours.
A modest man gets over It befors ha
meanders very far from home.
Platonic love by any other nam
would generate Juit as much gossip.
H'a downright difficult for some men
to live an upright life nowadays.
The truth Is mlijhty but it doesn't
always prevail in a political campaign.
A woman has to bo a good guesstr in'
order to make a successful wlf ana.
mother.,,
"You may run a railroad on wntsr, but
you can't bo sure the stock will pay
dividends. "
eVTTfT sorry for tha man who U un
able to distinguish between friend sad
an acquaintance. .
'.'