THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, s PORTLAND, ' MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1912, 7 f-' t , TH3 JOURNAL ' AH TSDEPBNnSST HKWSPAPKB. nicIFoN ; : PBblUr j and i .wrr RUBO.T momma It The rnl BuUO- - Inc. Tta end TmhiU -, rorainu Catena at the poMofflee at IVrtUoU, Or., ! Bttttef. . ' TELEPHONES ! Mln TITS; Horn. -)-. in ..... .hMt h thaac Dumuir. XU U aperator whit aprtaiat yon wnt. OBEIGN ADVERTISING BEPRESKSTATl Vft , ... 2S Klftb ?ioe. Kw otk; 1 People Uu Building. Chlcagu. Sofcacrlptton trnn bj mll uf address B the United State or aixlo. ' DAILY. . Ou rir f9.no I On montb &0 SUNDAY. On rcu S.fW I On month DAILY AND BtfNDAY. Oat rar IT.50 I On moatb I .S Great vlcea are the proper ob jects of our destestatlon, and smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to b the only true source of the ridicu lous. Fielding. -a MB. KELLAHER'S rOSITIOX I R. KELLAHER has requested the secretary of state to place after his name on the ballot th words. "Progressive, for iRoosevelt." But he has done noth ing to remove his name as a Taft elector, and nothing to give the Taft ' people opportunity to have five elect ors on the ballot. . In more than 100 years of Ameri can history, no presidential elector has ever proven faithless. Between every elector who was ever sent to Washington and the people who sent him there, the explicit understanding (incident to the position has always - been respected, and the covenant en tered into, scrupulously carried out No elector has ever cared to in Tita the odium that would come from Ja violation of the Implied pledge of fidelity assumed by his acceptance 'of the trust No elector has ever i ' dared to stain his name by disloy alty to one of the most sacred func- s itlons in the whole scheme of the 'American elective syBtem. The third party in Oregon cannot afford to sustain Mr. Kellaher In his position. It claims that it withdrew from the Chicago convention on high (moral grounds. It claims, whether - Justified or not, that the withdrawal was on the ground that Taft stole ' the nomination. How, then, can it Justify Itself be- jfore the people, If, as a party, It Joins jln the theft of a Taft elector In Ore k gonf OUR GREAT PROGRESSIVES F RANK MUNSEY, a director of the Morgan steel trust, has pur chased the New York Press, and will at once direct Its en ergies in advocacy of the election of iRoosevelt. - Of course, as a director of the steel trust, Mr.Munsey Is a progressive. George W. Perkins, another director lot the steel trust, is a progressive. (Judge Gary, the president of the (steel trust, who first proposed tho Perkins plan of regulating trusts, which plan Is a leading plank in the ithlrd party platform, is a progres jBive. The whole steel trust, in fact, Us progressive. The net profits of the steel trust were $l,109,14ff,093 In only nine years. It is a sura greater than the entire expenditures of an extrava igant United States government for a whole year, war budget and all. It is one third the entire expendi tures of the government of the United States from 1SC1 to 1865, in cluding the cost of the Civil war. It Its nearly three times the entire cost Jot the Panama canal, the greatest nglnee"rEg u'fial'OT tory of man. , Yet It la net profits, accumulated .by the steel trust of which Mr. Mun feey and Mr. Perkins are directors, land accumulated in only nine years. Of course, the steel trust is pro gressive. WAR IX THE Allt THE season for reviews of armies by the military nations Is on. Proofs are being given of pre paredness for the' grim reality loresnadowed by these masses of drilled men. German v collects 1 -o -1 ? '000 soldiers to pass before the kais - 'er's view, France brings army corps together that muster 130, 00u in the ranks. The small but very costly British array sends 30,00u nun, or so, to Salisbury Plain, chiefly to test her citizen Bhort term soldiery, for the "territorials,'' now in their fourth year, make a good part of the show. In all these armies squadrons, or even regiments, of aeroplanes of vari ous designs, are sent up to take the place of the light cavalry that used to bo caHed the eyes of the army. This year the functions of the aero plane are confined to scouting, ex cept so far as testing may he given to the bomb - dropping that tho Italians have practiced in Trluoli Bijt tne snips of the air are to be i armed. The Germans have never lost 1 "0t BC,llev' even neater distinc faith in the Zeppelins, though seven ,ion aa a race of man killers. Oi toese monsters have already be . Wrwkfcd Vivn hnvn hn v.. .111 , ... . U1U11 in ine past year, and sixteen more are in process of construction, twelve of them by popular subscription. These are veritable alr-Bhlns-of-wnr t . " . wiea wuhlwhich radically stiniillfiea nnd .i aluminum tne bodies are so strong . anil ricirl that pum nnj !,. 'l!! 7 IT """Huiuuan ,Meigiuuic vver two tons can be OIlul. urea . i downward Is aided by gravity in its .momentum. Experiments have -iduwnJLia. ai(L-lhat .jUoaH-poHiMi shot fired down at a slant of not less I counsel filed a ('declaration," setting than 45 degrees from the height offorth in special lingo the facta on one mile vlir easily penetrate twojwhlch Ma claim rested. Unless the Inches of steel. The last official reA j defendant filed a "demurrer," he an-jed, nort rIIpctph that tha heaviest aruns ; carried by the air ships and fired from a height of a mile and a half will destroy the strongest battleship. These stories are taken seriously in both Franco and England, as we hear that experiments are being car ried out and estimates made for strengthening with steel defences both decks of ships and roofs and coverings of shore batteries and forts. So the war game goes on, and the peoples have to pay the piper. IF WE ARE FOOLISH E VEN though there is to be a large number of measures on the November ballot, what of it? Was there not a time once when we could not get any measure on the ballot? Was that not a time when we all would have been mighty glad to get measures on the ballot? Did not the legislature in those days refuse to give us the laws we asked for? Did not, for instance, the people of this state urge the legislature for a long time to pass a direct primary law, and did not tho legislature re fuse to do it? After the legislature refused, did we not pass the direct primary law ourselves by means of the initiative? Granting for the sake of argu ment that there are too many meas ures on the ballot and there are would It not be folly, for that rea son, to enter upon a wholesale plan of voting against all measures? Would it not be folly to adopt for tho same reason, a majority amend ment enabling the miuority to defeat the will of the majority? Remembering the past, would It; not be folly for us to enter hnsMlv upon any course of action that will In any way endanger the Oregon sys- tern or any part of it? Noting the vain and futilo efforts l of many sister states now struggling to throw off machine rule by bossoB. I and contrasting the conditions in those states with the utter abaenoc 1 of boss rule and machine politics In j our own state, would it not be folly for us to do one single' thing i that might in any way operate to t.he ! detriment of the successful working of tho Oregon system? Even though there Is to be a large number of measures on the Novem ber ballot, what of it? Is it not better to bear the ills we have than fly to others with which we havo had a hitler experience? Is it not better to give an intelll-, gent study to all these measures, i voting down those that ought fo be j beaten and passing thoa. that are'""-" L"H ,,UI"T Ul uueriU meritorious"' i patronage in aid of La Kollette'B op- The Oregon system Is the richest l,.,ta- NW"lair men who were legacy the people of Oreeon have. It makes the power of the ballot a real nower. and makes the Orornn rlrl7in sovereign Mgn It is the most precious ' r'''n llla('08 at tlie Public l ie counter, havo been pioneers ever Hlnce this prop itlon PVPr hrrniirhMntn h nrn i Step by step, every hindrance that erty eil" orl ,f'p market for homes, un ition ever orougnt into the pro- nir,m. tn r VnUt I"r tlJe promise hst the tunnel would of self government, and should f0,llrl 1)0 t'iro"H ln La Folleltes bt put through. institution cessea bP euarded as the most -nrnvl rnv1 ernmental heritage that has ever i come to man. : How foolish we should be to vote no on every measure on the ballot regardless of its merit! How foolish we should be to r-iss a wicked amendment thf.t proposes to give the minority power over the majority! why m:s commit mi Riirn I. n. SNRlCI) of Testis shot Cap tain Hoyce. whoso son cloned with X'rs. Sliced. A Texas jurv refused to convict, and, Satur day, Sneed shot the son. The Sneed MQSoCjBjqaja further assassinations are expected We convict less than one and one half per cent of those who commit murder. Germany convicts 85 per cent. All the nations of Europe con vict from 50 per cent upwards. With our convictions of less than one and one half per cent, the crim inal knows in advance that he has 98 Va chances out of 100 not to be convicted. He knows that for every one and one half chances of capture find conviction, he has Ds'3 chances to escape. Sneed was acquitted for one kill- lng- and ho hiiB ,akt'n chances on !anothur - !'very assass'n who com- urns premeditated murder remem bers that 98 out of 100 are never sentenced, and when he cleans tip his' weapon and goes out to slay be nat urally reasons that he will be one of the 98 i,. Add to this, the prevalent habit of revolver carrying, and it is easy to see why we aro the greatest ruan kililug nation in the world. In Chi cago alone, one person is murdered every twenty-four hours. In the country, somebody is murdered every hour of the day and night, 3C5 days in a year. In view of tho recklessness with which wo tolerate the revolver hab it, and in view of our incompetency in capturing and convicting murder ers, it is almost miraculous that wo SIMI'LLH LAWSUITS T HE term of Governor Wilson in Now Jersey is now to be further marked by an act of the legis lature at its recent session a0 tho , ' the Procedure in. court in all .common aw casea. Tha r-Aiifta 1 r, l.nH, , ir i courtf, rpj lnw-lorm s of the tngllsh law books were transferred bodily to the new country. a "plea." The plain tiff came back with a "replica tion." This won't do, said the de fendant, and promptly filed a "re Joinder." Were they then ready for tho court hearing? No, indeed, there came the plaintiff's "surrejoinder," and then, the defendant's "rebuttal," after which the plaintiff has a "sur rebuttal." Then the cause might bo set for trial and the jury called. As far back as 1 b 7 0 tho English! revolted, and the Common Law Pro cedure act vas passed. Under that the whole ground was swept clear. The plaintiffs lawyer prepared a "complaint." tolling his story in plain language. The defendant filed an "answer," in equally simplo terms. The plaintiff filed a "reply," which marked tho issue to be tried, and thereon they went into court to be heard. Not only Was the preliminary ex pense of an a:tii. cut to the quick but a whole breed of lawyers, called "common pleaders." whose business it had been as exports to prepare all the preliminary stuff, went out of existence at a Btroke. Not only Now York but other states have in tlruo adopted reforms .similar, in .inciple, but scarcely one of them has ventured the full limit as in England. New Jersey has followed suit, and has "gone" New York two better. Sh. h.is abolished the "demurrer," replacing it by a "motion addressed to l lio complaint." This challenges the law ot tho complaint, and is promptly heard. A similar "motion addressed to the answer" can do tho same lor the defence. 'i he othw -ow Jersey reform is also built on an English model. Hither party may call on tho other to admit either documents or facts material. Of such matters no proof 111 court is needed If admission Is refused and the party is put to the expense of proof all costs thereby incurred are paid, win or lose, by the party so ref lining, The English plans apply in equity :is vu'u aa in common law cases. HIS FIGHT ON LA FOLLKTTE N this page Is an account of tho long fight made by Theqdore Roosevelt on Robert La Fol ltstte. If Is an extreniolv interesting nar rative. When La Toilette was fight ing desperately with his back to tho wall for progressive measures in iseonsln and the nation nobody i gave more comfort to his political en emies thau old Mr.-Roosevelt. Mr. Roosevelt, as president, pin- I I .. .. A . I. ... u ... 1 . . a i . , 1 1,1 JU1L ""uerai 1 appointments. Standpat politicians 'no ?ro orTMnK,hlrn Were given t! ..1. 1 !.. 1.1... 1 . - A ... 1 . n 1 1 unhesitatingly appli.-d by the While -House, a fut't that is widely known and popularly resented by the i progressive Republicans of Wiscon- jsin. I It Is almost miraculous that La ! Follotte should have won under the i handicaps that were thrown about 'him. Only his own Indomitable pur- pose, his unparalleled staying pow jers, his perennial partnership with I the plain people and the justice of swered wltn the pi. if. 1 1 ..Hue niea.-iurcs tor uhlrhUtfit the wun.in,; das in iit,lection bv 1 lie battled enao'ed til" flrhtitie Wis- I cousin titut ennui n to finally win. 'I he ItMUMiU plurality by Which hej u 8 true you write In your pdl carried Wisconain for senator in his I tonal of September 12. 'Who Owns the latest race la some evidence of Imw I voters. It is not surprising that La Fol- lette opposes Mr. Roosevelt's candi dacy. He has reasons', Mr. La Fol letto arid Mr. Roosevelt are different kinds of progressives. PREVENTING DELINQUENCY IT Is absolutely true that the home is the right place to forestall de linquency in boys and girls. It is unfortunately also true that suf ficient attention has not been given by the community hitherto to so deal with those children who have been started on tho downward course by the lack of home care and guardian ship as to correct the waywardness fostered in the home. For many years the remedy for those who are called delinquent chil dren was sought in punishment. The j "reform school" was supposed to fill the double function of punish ing erring children by strict disci pline and, by teaching trades of vari ous kinds, to give them a chance of a start in life on their release. How unsatisfactory, tho system was can be gathered from the wide accept ance of the methods of the Juvenile court, based on sympathy with the child, as a victim rather than a pur posed criminal. But that the Juvenile court is a system of remedy rather than of pre vention is very plain. The inquiry of today Is this. Can not tho child be so dealt with as to keep him or her out of the class over which the juvenile court exercises Jurisdiction? The problem has been best dealt with, as in Los' Angeles, by organiz ing echopls which are part of tha public school system of. the city, with specially adapted teachers and spe cial courses of-training wherein the difficult, or even delinquent children may be dealt with. The epecial feat nro nf those schools is the manual and outdoor training of the punils. Constant employment of those vol- atne ana irrepressiDia oemgs where not only their i brains, their f n tellect ti al" sf deTurtnelr "physical side may be cared for, developed arid trained supplies the. outlet for th over abundant energy which neglect. tends -to lawlessness and to to wickedness and then to crime. This subject will, it is to be hoped, find full expression at the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. tomorrow night - Jackson county contributed 1300 to the Wilson campaign fundi Lane county has followed with more than $200. Assurances from Union are that Wilson supporters there will make a handsime showing. Will any county overlook this great issue of the plain sople financing a pres idential campaign? Letters From tne People (Communication! aent to The Journal for publication In this department should be written on only one side of the paper, should not exceed 300 word lu length and must be accompanied by th nnm and address of the sender. If the-wrMer -doea-nat desire atthavelht nanie published, he should so state.) Plea for a Tualatin Tunnel. Portland, Or., Kept. 14. To the Editor of The Journal What would I not glvo to be able to write In a scholarly way, as bo many of your correspondents do! How well, I imagine, 1 could describe the beauties of the scenery near and ground Portland! I could use an argu ment that Portland Is sleeping, when the advtintaaes Rained by easy access to the beautiful Tualatin valley are Ig nored. The hlltside west of Council Crent Is covered with homes; besides, tliore are tent houses whose owners are only waiting for easy transportation to the city, which means the tunnel bored through the hill. When Mayor Simon appointed a com mififilon on this tunnel project, they Im metllately askt'd an appropriation of $C600 for ttie purpose of securing the services of a civil enulneer to lay out the route, but our present mayor ve toed the proposition on the ground that It was mi "individual enterprise.'" Hut when $10,000 was appropriated to (jive the deserving worklnuman a means whereby hu could live through the win ter, the pcene was laid on the east sldo and our mayor aeked, bo the pa ters stated, for onother appropriation or $6000. Tou sec, $2600 was consid t.id an "Individual enterprise," because the jinn who were appointed happened to be land owners In the Tualatin val ley, hut an amount of $15,000 put In Im provements on the cast side did not benefit our hillside people one mite. Now If this tunnel could be bored through, it would open up trade for the cat birle of the city, as well uh tin; west. H would moan such a boom in building homes as Portland has never known. It means Ifss than 10 mlnutea tor streetcar transit, it means, wuero now the stores are losing hundreds of dollars through Inability to deliver their goods, an lncreune in trade they have never experienced. Tha cast side has Krown out seven miles, with still more to follow. I.ents is asking admission. linllveilfS are made out that far. Hut wo people, on tha slope, within a ra- dins of two miles, can get no deliver ies, tlur money lor we pioneers on the slope are not poor people lies in tlit! bunks .litre and In the east, waiting for the tunnel to put it Into circulation. We aro getting weary of waiting. Wo have chosen this spot, overlooking tho valley for out" huinuu. Wo want iiij other place In Portland. We will havo arc lights within a month and the Pa cific Telcpliono eoinpanj has made some concessions. But wa want more. We- demand more. W'e deserve mora. Wo SOfTMEKN CRKST PIONEER. Ownership of the Kurth. Portland, dr., Sept. 13, To the Editor of The Journal The bitter note In the address of Clarence Uarrow is, only too true in that the "Earth is not the Lord's or the pla-ln people's but has liBfii acijulifd by man through force and Is held by force." f If i.i.'land, Germany, France, Russia and tho I nited HtuU;s ware mire of their possessions whv should they maintain lurgo nuvies anil armies? Is it not u fani that the ruling class has always force, cunnliitfly de vised fables, the fear of Clod and condemnation and now the tilni- f.f rwiwrlv HPfl KT:i rvnt !in Irth7" mat the state of Oregon has nmuti Kreai progress in that It has iba-iniaatlv6 end referendum but as Mr. narrow well bl the ruTTng'oIasTnnaT!--- cares hot what laws are made so long as they have "the power of Interpreta tion of the laws in the election and ap pointment of the Judges. It makes no material difference to the ruling class whether the Republi can, Democratic, Prohibition or Progres sive party Is elected with tha savereitrn power to rule, as they all stand for the same fundamental law the sacred right of private property in the man who is able to acquire it and to tax the people, to maintain a navy and army to secure him in the possession of it. Mr. Uarrow Is, a man of much learn ing and also experience but I am afraid that while ho may "speak forth the words of truth and soberness" that "much learning doth make him" blinded and ho dors not yet se,e that while' "vot ing la a nice little toy to keep the peo ple satisfied" the people are rapidly learning that the ballot Is as great a weapon as the bullet. Mr. Darrow Is practically an avowed apostle of direct action and there is no doubt lu , my mind that a large body of mm who have become disinherited and in every way belong to the prole tariat class are going to become disci ples of direct action since they have notiuntr to lose out tneir chains. I do not think that capitalism will make any concessions to the working class. I have preat faith in the power of publlg opinion and the newspaper In which to express that opinion. The printed word when it shall fall with dynamite force for the rights of the people will largely determine whether the earth will be restored to the peo ple by the ballot ami paacevor the bul let, dynamlta and force or assassina tion and arson, I believe the people on this earth arS learning that the "Earth and Us ful ness is the Lord's and he hath given it to the children' of men to enjoy," and that the private ownership of tha earth acquired by man through force and held by force will soon disinherit all men and the children of men will be com pelled to rise a a mighty, army with uanui, ru nui nmteis, ana proclaim to the ends of the earth that it shall be restored to the children as a heritage to enjoy which will mean the collective ownership of the earth and the fulness thereof. VICTOR SMITH. Slnglq Tax in Victoria. Portland Sept. 11. To the Editor nf ! The Journal Industriously cl ran In t i n e j Z7 XZsJiTul TW take taxes off Improvements and make up tha difference with a graduated tax on land owners having over 110 Don in land values .un- Ui MiMsmHl -rolls nf nv countv. ruin and devastation and COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Tha mean old sea; tha water's fine now. Darrow is an idealist with iomt bad Ideals. Lincoln never answered bitterly or angrily. . Everybody ought to co to at least one fair. .. . Silence in a candidate pften better than speech. Oregon can properly say "well dona" to her senators. Evenings are get tins lonr enough to study the pamphlet In the year 9913 people will b dis cussing the social evil That Pendleton Bound-Up has gained a ' national reputation. Oreat hay weather lately If there were any hay material. RooeyeUadmlt8that he won't ea- tabllsVTne rnirreniuffl. TttmeUenrunr, maybe. Women divide up In politics Just the same as men do, q ''what's tha dif ference?" . Perhaps the Colonel was anxious to learn how the second itoman Empire came out, Oregon colleges should be considered good enough by Oregon young people and their parents. Historians and other writers apeak very well of several presidents who served only one urm. Nothing 1 heard from Chancellor Day, but it Is presumed that he hasn't Joined the Moose party, There la a growing suspicion among both producers and consumers that the middlemen esitct too much. Professor Wilson Is rather shy of tho Tammany Tier; thinks it may be dangerous for the beast to show a lik ing for him. SEVEN CLEVER BOOKS Huron Munchausen. Who Is there that has not, in hla youth, enjoyed the surprising "Travels and Adventures of Darou Munchausen," ln Russia, the Caspian sea, Iceland, Tur key, etc., told in a slim volume all too short, indeed illustrated by a formid able portrait of the baron in front, with his broad sword laid over his shoulders ami several deep gashes on his manly countenance? This book appears to have been first published, in a restricted form, by one Kearsley, a bookseller in Fleet street, London, in 17S6. A few years after ward It was reprinted, with a consid erable addition of palpably Inferior mat ter, by II. U Symunds, of Paternoster row. The author's name was not given and It has. till a recent date, remained little or not ac all known. There can hardly, be a more curious piece of iub lucted biography. The author of the baron's wonflnrful adventures Is now known to have been Rodolph Eric Raspe, a learned und sci entific German, who died in the latter I part of 1794 at Macros, in tho south I of Ireland, while conducting some min ing operations there. Much there was of both good and 111 about poor Raope. Tills Ingenious mau, who wast born at Hanover ln 1 787, commenced lifo In tho service of the land-gravo of Hesse Cas scl as professor of archaeolopy, Inspec tor of the public cabinet of medals, keeper of the national library and a coun cillor, but disgraced himself by putting some of the valuables intrusted In him in pawn to raise money for some tem porary necessities. He disappeared and was advertised for by the police as the Councillor Uaspe a man with red hnir, who usually appeared in a scarlet suit, embroidered with gold, but sometimes In black, blue or gray clothes. He was arrested at Clausthal, but escaped dur ing the night, and made his way to Eng land, where he chiefly resided for the remainder of his days. Before bin lamentable "dnwnbr"ak" ln life, P.aspo had manifested decided tal ent In the Investigation of questions of geology and mineralogy. Ho published in T.ci'isin tn 17K:: i rurlrms volume in L()tin m t,,p foi.matlon 0f volcanic is land and the nature of pwtnfifd bodies. In 1 7 fi 9 there was rend, tit the Royal Kocietv In London a Latin paper of his on tho teeth of elephniitlne and other unlmals found In North America, and it is surprising at what rational and Just conclusions he had arrived. Raspe 1910, after paying their taxes, the people of Victoria, B. C, voted to take taxes off improvements. Tho city there car ries on the public functions here pro ceeding under city, county and school governments separately. The state lev ies a state wide graduated tnx on vari ous forms of natural wealth and re sources, so the city "could not do so. It placed a flat single tax on land values by a vote of about six to on. The levy was the same all over the city. Not 8 bank has gone broke, not a home of a worker confiscated, not a sign of a panic The first seven months of 1910 the building penults under the old sys tern of levying tsxes (practically what we have in Oregon everything In sijfht) were $1,4215,125. During the first threo months of 1911 the law waa bung up ln the courts, but nevertheless the- first sever) months showed $1,767,960. Tha first seven months of 1913 shows $,- 350,440. At tho same ratio of popula tion Portland should show $30,000,000, It will not shciy that much In 18 months, It will show $20,000,000 for the whole of 1912, while Victoria will probably show $9,000,000. Adjoining "towns" that extend Into the country and Include farms for there are no counties show the same wonderful development and the name satisfaction with the exemption of l'm provements from taxation. ATiFHKD D. CRIDQEL McGinn vs. Scriptnre. Portland, Or., 8cpt. 15. To the Edi tor of The Journal In his Bull Moose sermon, Introducing Mr. Koosevelt, Judge McGinn, appropriately enough from a Bull Mooser's viewpoint, quoted Joshua xxiv., 15, and added to the pray erful thought of the hour. Yet this does not suffice; neither Jew or Gentile, agnostlo or the higher crit ics, re ftt one as to the point; nor is this surprising. For real, genuine, perfervid controversy commend me to the Scriptures. ln the bands of a Bull Mooser. . - gome of us ere disposed to take the Interpretation of the same as we do our mundane laws to the eourt of last resort and abide therein; others like unto Balaam roost us for our credulity. Infallibility herein is an evolution from the Ananias bunch, apparently, if not apparently, let it go as applique. But not to stray too far afield: But one man, only one man, within the range of my intellectual inquiries nas cianrieu the connection between Joshua, xxiv.' 15, and tha Bull Moose, and he Is Foley, the Irish philosopher. . wuota-faot - fi unary didn't get time to ' prognosticate Joshua, f'r a lady In front NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS ' Baker Democrat: Labor conditions in Baker and over th county are as suring and there are few idle men. ..'.... The eider mill plant in North Silver ton Is bains remodeled and a steam en gine added to Increase the capacity. ; n v.-... .. - ..,.......,... . ... Joseph Herald: The brick work on the tiehluer two-story business block is about -completed and an army of car penters will do the rest. It will be one of tha best built and most beautiful buildings In eastern Oregon when com pleted. Mr. and Mrs, J. M. Marks, Linn coun ty pioneers of the early Bft's, now res idents of Oakland, Cal, are visiting their son. County. Clerk WUlard JUarKs, at Albany. Mr. Marks, according to the Albany Democrat looks only 80 of his 80 years. Astorlan; Officers of the Scandinavian-American Bank yesterday closed a contract with the Fisher-Stevens com pany, of Charles City, Iowa, for the in stallation of a handsome system of ma hogany finish, with tile floors for Its new bank .building. now under construe. tlou at Twelfth and Duana streets Klamath Herald: In less than two weeks 11. Newnham has produced from his single acre and a half garden In this city and s61d In the local market over 70(j doaen cars of corn.. Tn corn is well filled -out, tender and sweet, end ' there has been In Mr. Newnbam's experience here no damage resulting from frost Eugene Guard: A volunteer, sun flower came up on O. W. Knepp's place on the river road and he let it grow. He brought the perfected head to this office yesterday. , Exclusive of the stem It weighs 11 pounds; Is 21 -Inches In diameter , and 65 Inches in circumfer ence. He has given It very little cul tivation. Can any one beat it? Dallas Itfeiniier: A great race, an electric race. Is on between the Hill and Hanlman lines for the securing of the trade of this valley of ours, and ftvery where that they are so far com peting has been benefited by it. We hope to see the race strike old Polk In the near future, that we may secure some of tha benefits other sections ar enjoying. bad detected the speclflo peculiarities, distinguishing these teeth from those of living elephants, and found no rea soning for disbelieving that some large elephants might have formerly lived in cold climates, being exactly the views long after generally adopted on this subject. The exact time of the flight to Eng land is not known, but ln 1776 be is found publishing in London a volume of some Cerman volcanoes, thus again showing bis early apprehension of facts then little, if at all, understood, though now familiar. And in the ensuing year bo gave forth a translation of the Baron Horn's Travels in Tameswar, Transyl vania and Hungary a mineralogies work of high reputation. In 1780, Hor ace Walpole speaks of him as "a Dutch savant, who bus come over here, and is publishing two old manuscripts in in fernal Latin, on oil painting," which proved Wulpole's own Idea that the use of oil colors waa known before the days Cf Van KycJc Such In part Is a history of the early lifo of th author of "Baron Mun chausen," a man of great natural pene tration and attainments, possessed of lively general faculties, and well fitted for a prominent position in lift. Wait ing, however, the crowning grace of probity, he never quite got his head above water; and died in poverty and obscurity. It will be observed that. In bis mining operations in Caithness, he answered o Ihe character Of Do-uster-wive in tha "Antiquary," and there Is every reason to believe that ha gave Scott tho idea of that character, albeit the baronet of Ulbster did not prove to bo so extremely Imposed upon as Sir Arthur Wnrdour, or In any other respect a prototype of that ideal personage. Of all Itaspo's acknowledged works, learned, Ingenious and far-seeing, not one Is now familiar, and his literary fame must rest with what he probably regarded as a mere "jeu d'esprlt." It may be remarked that a mere transla tion of tho "Baron" into German was published by the Ingenious ibirger in 1787. This was very proper, for most of the marvels wero of German origin. Some of these connected with hunting are to bo found ln n dull, prosy form, In Henry Mabel's "Facetiae," printed tn Strasburg in 1608; others of the talos are borrowed from CiiStlglionl's "Cor teglans" and other known sources. Tomorrow 'Bluebeard," av him told hini go way back an' plant his theeoloje under th' coat tails av th Bull Mooso. Whin he finished th' fifteenth vurse he sbud have fired the 16th varse at her, for that wud be milk to th' porridge. Ye see, Joshua gain ered all av th' dlllygates av Israel over to Sheehan, an' says to thim ln th' Bull Moose tntrupltatlon; 'Ivry time ye broke away se wjiat ye got; luk at th" greeiiBackers ISiTWeyptrM'" th poppy lists on th' wrong side av Jordan, an' th' rest av th' bolters; put away thlin sthranga gawds among ye.' he says; an' I guess ivrybody Is doln' It, f'r th1 Bull Moose buttons are still in th' express ot'fls, charges unpaid." CUDDY O'REOAN. In the Name of Humanity. Portland, Sept 13. 1912. To the edi tor of The Journal. I have read of the flogging of the prisoners In the Jack son, Michigan, prison. Isn't It beyond boliof that the people will permit such fieiuiishness and cruelty in America, when the people are the kindest and where the people aro the kindest and moat generous In the world? None but those that love tho Lord and serve him and have bis kindness and Justice In their hearts should be al lowed to bo keepers or governors over prisoners or other human beings kept In confinement and needing discipline. Many of those poor prisoners are the product of environment. hereditary traits, and planetary influences. and many of them are there through crimes committed while under the Influence of intoxicating liquors sold them by other human beings, calling themselves men, though "instruments of the devil" would be n more proper name for them. Why are laws not enacted against the manufacture and sale of liquors to white men the same as to Indians? They commit the crimes of lust and murder, the same as Indians do, while under this influence, and why rhould one be exempt more than the other? Prisoners or no prisoners, those men should be treated with humanity by those m charge. They should work and be self-supporting. They should have picture shows, music and church ser vices. The seed thus planted will bring good results in the lives of-those who. from ill treatment might other-wise"" ie hardened beyond recall. God gives all tho world sunshine and rain, alike for saint and sinner. Why should brutal keepers withhold the gifts of peace and happiness which rightfully belong all humanity? Destroy tha traffic in drink and you will destroy most of the disease, and immorality of the country and there will te-'far-ft'ww-ttr-yHaon'. MRS. L. O. BRIEN. Roosevelt a Long Figkt orb La FolJcttC' It is pertinent to note Mr. Roosevelt's attitude toward -the men who, did the pioneer work of progressmsm and to wards the means, which they adopted for promotion of that work. " La Follette was In the senate' when Roosevelt came to thepfesldehcyrhav- " Ing Already .assumed! a definedattltude as a reformer within the 1 Republican party. La Follette had behind Urn five years of successful "constructive work in Wisconsin. He had built up there an organisation ln support of the scheme of things which is now styled progressive. If Mr. Roosevelt had been . friendly to reform. If he,, had been other than actively unfriendly to It, h would have helped La Follette or at least would have put no difficulties in his way. But from the very beginning he set himself against the man and his work. When the Wisconsin legislature met . in 1901, Roosevelt then 'having Just come Into the presidency, La Follette presented his first large demand look ing to a more popular plan ln state government. It was in the form of two Important proposals of legislation, one a primary election law, the other a law under which railroads should be taxed , on an equality with' other kinds of prop- . erty. These issue were f oUght out in a battle running through 1901, 1902, and 190$. Opposing La Follette there ap peared as active workena several prom inent federal office-holders, men who might have been "tailed oft by a word from Roosevelt if he had chosen to utter It. James G. Monahan, collector Of Internal reveau at Madison, : and Henry Flnfcrcotrectorof Internal rev enue at Milwaukee, were conspicuous. William Devoo, a Republican senator from Milwaukee, elected under pledge to support La Follette'a measures, voted against them and was active ln side tracking the railroad bill ln committee. Very shortly thereafter he was by Roosevelt made collector of customs at Milwaukee, thus conspicuously reward ed for his betrayal of La Follette. Wil liam O'Nell, another state senator and an opponent of La Follette'a proposals," waa also given a federal appointment ' Still another of La Follette'a opponents In the legislature, Francis B. Keen, an assemblyman, was given a place ln the consular service by Koosevelt. Following this first attempt to pop ularise the state government of Wis consin, La Follette urged other pro posals before the" legislative "sessions' of 1903 and 1906. One of hla most bitter antagonists, and perhaps the most ef fective of all of them, was A. L. San born of Madison, a well known rail road attorney. Sanborn's opposition put all of La Follette'a resources to the test and came near defeating them al together. In March, 1905, upon tho re tirement Of Judge AIoiibo Hum. Han bom was appointed by Koosevelt Unit ed States district judge. At the came time another active opponent of La Follette, J. V. James of Milwaukee, was named by Roosevelt as United States Judge. One of the fixed obstacles ln La Follotte's work to "progreaslvlze" Wis consin was John W'. Babcock, a mem ber of congress. La Follette undertook to beat Kabcock In his own district. In the crisis of tho contest Babcock waa strengthened by a personal letter from Koosevelt, declaring his friendship for him and urging bis reelection. Haniuel Barney, another friend of Babcock and opponent of La Follette, was rewarded with an appointment to the court of claims at Washington by Koosevelt. Joseph G. Farr, another of Babcock'a political aids and a staunch enemy of La Follette and all his works, was giv en a place ln the Indian service by Koosevelt. Graham U Rice, 6tlU an other anti-La Follette man, was givon a federal Job by Koosevelt Tho editor of a Wisconsin paper, whose voice waa loud against La Follette, one 11, A. Taylor, was employed by Roosevelt as assistant secretary of the treasury; and another newspaper oritlc of La Follette, Amos P. Wilder, was given a position ln the consular service. At the same time there was caro In the selection of postmasters in Wisconsin, to name men arrayed against La Follette; and later Henry C. Payne, perhaps tho lead ing anti-La Follette man of the state, was by Mr. Koosevelt made postmaster general ln hla own cabinet It was in spite of tills tremendous opposition that Mr. La Follette succeeded in putting hla scheme ojt progressive legislation upon the statute books of his state, Perhaps it waa his sueceRS. which so Irritated Mr. Koosevelt that in June, 1904, he secured by direot Ini'luende the dismissal of Senator La Follette as a member of tha Republican national com mittee. This act was the very first toet of the "steam-roller" against which Mr. Roosevelt now so bitterly inveighs. In 1904 Mr. Koosevelt was the on8 candi date before the Republican convention. The organization was In hla hands. The resular Republican organization of the state of Wisconsin sent to this conven tion as delegates at large Senator La Follette, W. B. Connor, Isaao Stephen son, and J- H- Stout Their title as dele gates, as afterwarda determined Judi cially under the Wisconsin state law, was clear, But there appeared as con testants four "stand-patters," namely, J. B. Quarlos, John C. Spooner, Joseph W. Babcock, and Emll Baenacn. The contest was presented to the national committee, which was organized in Roosevelt's Interest and the La Fol lette delegation was thrown out, not, because It had not been regularly chos en, but on the theory that its members were not Republicans, And occasionally a woman thinks she Is marrying a mighty oak only to dis cover later that she is tied to a atlck. Warning to tne Voters of Oregon The proposed "amendment to the state constitution which will appear on the official ballot In November as "Nos. 308-9," if it carries, will take away from, tho people the right to govern themselves in taxation mat ters and return to the legislature and predatory and private Interests the power to "regulate" and "ar range" taxation measures, the in ference being that the people are not intellectually competeat to .pass upon such things at the polls. Every vojter who believes the people should rule and wb.o believes "unequal tax ation is robbery," and who further belleves'that the people at tho bal lot box should have the right to pass upon taxation measures before they become effective, should vote No. toW .-v- P and tnu8 Preve"t the amendment from becoming the "law of Oregon." O. S. JACKSON. Prtiandt"eptri O 9 i 2. T :- -t