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THE. OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, ; PORTLAND, .WEDNESDAY EVENING, .SEPTEMBER' 18, 1912. C. 8. J ACKSAJL rrvrj tiuudai murnluc at The Joorual Baud- PblMf mr wnln( (exraet Bandar I I lu. Its aod Xamolb ata... Porttaud Or. ) Esird ( the' aoarofrtre at Portlao. Or fbr arauaottaalua, tkrausfe tfta valla aa aacoo4 qlaaa natter. IKLKr'UONES Mali T17J;' Hoina, A-OORU All dpartmtita reached br tbeaa oambra. . T iTli tflV OtVCfat ' i ... - .. . . .m HPMT? TiOT T'D XT A T I dk and chair, issue a glittering ions that were comofete and correct x Uti ...J vwixiixiw j prospectus, and with hot air as the iBulletina on this point are to be pre- a aWaabaaa;Ha1kibaM ' afVWraaai k .aaaa) ' ' I i U ? .a. a? A. a. ! a. f 1 '. . I a aa - 7 .... - j.ijfirt,.mj i.PtarQn. , vuici wpiiai open ' up Dusiness witn parea ana issued by the children bu- ............pubuahar servant girs, widows and others un- eau as soon as possible. It is hoped hat needed reforms and better, regist ration methods will result Miss Lathrop reminds us- that it ii., conservatively estimated that approx- mateiy aOAi.uuy infants die under the .ge of one year annually. SheJbelieves that with proper " care half 'that great number can be saved. To aid in this worky is one of the most pressing functions of . the bureau. Cooperation with the census bu cau, the bureau of education, and vith other organizations interested fn :hild welfare is intended. No immed ate results are to be expected, but ia gradual and permanent improve- nent in the care of the children Miss Lathrop believes the new bureau will prove of inestimable benefit to the people at large. IJOHKIUX AUVKKTISINQ JtEFgKSKNTATI VB, J Benjamin at KfirtnorCW Braaawldt ButWlna:. (121 Fifth avenue, New lurk; Uli 1'aupla'i Uaa baUdlac. Ltkaa-o. Bnbarrlptloa trm br mall or t an addreai the peopJe of the State? and tricks that are vain. The Olcott bill proposes to make every Oregon corporation honest. It proposes to prevent crooked corpora tions'; from being organized in this state.; It ought to be passed with an over hefrnin gm ato ri tv. ' .Is thefe anybody in Oregon who thinks a crooked corporation should be licensed by the state to swindle .1 .so un . .'u iTiun UJ ....... m ' If tt United Statea or Mexico. PAILV. Ooaraar.. I , nxmth.. J . 6CKDAT. Co rear.. Si.-. nrnntb ..I -S DAILY AM SCXDAT. On T't....:...f!.H 1 Ooa month I .63 R Tls the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, I And coming events cast tneir A . shadows before, Campbell. THE MISSING BOOK EPORTS are that the volume entitled the Second Roman Re public, taken mysteriously from the colonel's room in Portland, cannot be found. The man who took that book is a malignant liar, a mollycoddle, a male factor, an undoer of duty, a nature faker, a thief, a scoundrel, a crook and a jackass. He is an ignoramous, a low born cur, a hypocrite, an infernal idiot, a monster, a crooked boss, an infamous prevaricator, a swineherd and a thug. THE BRITISH MANEUVERS night, and his body, roiled down a fif teen foot embankment : - 1 v : ' The bullet. wounds in each instance showed how effectively the revolver did Its work. It showed how, easy it tor the gunmen, when properly armed, to mow down human beings. Relatives weep over the dead. The eport of the shot and the thud of . the ailing victim send an . occasional hudder through the social body. But that is what revolvers are made for.' Letters From tne People COMMENTAND ffEWS IN BRIEF V SMALL CHASGB s - -Amid auch abundance, living ought to " iiurir cneap. . ; v . : ..i-..r ..ptJ th avlatora fair to daath. but u"a win uwt ueter otners. -, s- -..:.-.ir...J.i-'t.'!;' . . Som) tlm a jrreat monument mar bo vici-ieu o ino iQunaera or Portland. Bortth known his Idaho won't go back on. htm, whatever he does, politically. There ia a nice, llvalr braiiza In hr. ton aometlmea, but never a cyclone or i ranK ttou.- r (OmnranlcattoBa aanf to Tha lotarnal fnr pafillcatton In tbia department ahonld he written on omr one aide of tna paper, annold sot axeeed 800 ttorda In lenrtb and moat be accompanied bj th name and addreaa of tha aender. If the writer doce not dealra to hare tna name published, be tboold o atate. i I r HIS year the British maneuvers have been arranged on a larger scale than ever before, and evi dently have a distinct purpose in view. v I The scene is set in the eastern coun- 'ities of England .Cambridgeshire. ' ; , DISCREDITED fTtHE third party enters the cam , I paigrt in Oregon discredited. I- By, nominating 'Mr. Kellaher without requiring him to retire as a Taft elector it repudiates all and singular of the high moral pretensions f to which' Si lays claim. The Taft people have a right to five , . eleqtori, the same as the-Wilson peo ' ' pie and the Roosevelt people each have a right to five electors. But the . "ZrZr-T' r;r: : 1, LNorfolk. Suffolk and Essex, while i.j.n.iuc, . a . -"iLincolnshiri on the north, and Buck- - by public Matement, and by the ac- bro ht wjthjn t, . J tion of the Salem convention yester- atjons . H - day. At tlie ame time he chooses to ',. . . . occupy a place as a fifth Taft elector, L " , , f "m ,s ed . to ' wrawal as a , Taft elector. JZJSJP&tSSl The convention, as the voice of the !planc8 8Coats t thcif dj Thfi , tbu-d party, has made Mr. Kellaher home defending arm has 4Qm , mdefensible JftiojVits ; P?joru It and is dis jn th adyance . ha, made Mr, JCellalHr s attempt to jLondon of the invadcrs Xhe coun. itM?T' h is ,are,y Pe". "o serious - the-Bull Moose party, attempt to de- obstacjCJ the gh f d pnvethe Taft people of one elector wide H or roughP hffl q i fc It hM made Mr- Kellaher s attempt 'cross. There are abundant and ood tn intern th Taft nennln intn th ram- ! i- .1 . V . V , ;r 1 ruaus ana m tnc oranance survey B' "Needs Some Fixing." Portland, Or, Sept. 17 To the Editor of Tho Journal In all the "roug-hhouse' A GRAFT - I over McCusker's action at Chicago, there'a one rather lmudrtant fact that Y publishing the delinquent tax sewn to hav been overlooked, and lists in four instead of two tnttl 18 tfle us that Mr- McCusker made newspapers, the Multnomah ' Roosevelfs name after his own on county board has clearly trans- .!H.'Arl?"JT' al,?S cCi'ir "?.w gressed the law ' " I ' eieciea py jua, foiiene ip, . , . . , - I , n was alter l roneiio n i orders that in counties oi votes only, why did he have "Roosevelt 0,000 population and over, the delin- La roiiette Policies" written after his f.uent lists shall be published in the name? two newspapers of largest circulation. B th way, while The Journal' Is Jn i'ortland the cost of Publication roa8t,n th Socialists for the slurring for the present list is aa fnllnufi-1 Pamphlet they distributed recently, why Oregonian, $1,940.25: Dailv Now H01.8 "ord or two about Mr. Me- $1026 40- Tviffrom tt ii in. t t,u6Ker's subtle (?) reference to Teddy i,y:o.4U, lelegram, 1,363.10: . Jour m,.. UAi, li,Olt.aia Lttrrinnlat maw ka .r1rtW K., m I f iubij utonuvnru uui i Will tsy disregarding the law. the court McCusker is supDoaed to be both sane adds more than $3200 to the. charo- an civilized. against property on which the own ers have not been able to pay the taxes. - It is a heavy, an illegal and an un necessary toll on those already in How did tha governor annnnaa i could make any headway In a moral cru sade unleas ha employed Paddy Maher? It la unlikely that "Dear Maria" Storer expects Bellamy to get an am bassadorship In case the colonel wins. It is a rare man who. on soma vr slons, and under some circumstances, wouldn't mak a fool of himself over woman. It Is rumored that Lilian Russell's new husband will be- ambassador to England if Roosevelt should be elect ee presiaeni, ; e ' Everything in ,the local trouble none Is so comparatively quiet lately. It is supposed that everybody has . become at least near-good. : One Democrat has coma out for RooseveltJohn L. Sullivan. This Is quite natural Both art dead game sports or have been. a , There Is, or will be. ample Oppor tunity for both the Open River Steam ship line and the railroads. And the water line Is a great publio need. It Is supposed that the colonel regards betting men as undesirables and nnn. progressive cltlrens because they don't bet that he will be elected. The purchase by Munsey of a father obscure New York newspaper for the nuuiuite oi maning u a Koosevelt or gan will have no appreciable Influence in the campaign.. Such organs are out of date, and viewed generally with contempt OREGON . SIDELIGHTS ' Wilson and tte Pro- 4:: tfressives' piign with only four electors, the Bull fmaps every town viIlage( arnli Moose party's effort to force the Taft - people? irito the campaign, with only four electors. It has made Mr. Kellahcr's attempt o steaf "one 0t the Tafr electoral pfaces the effort of the Bull Moose ' party to steal one of the Taft elector al places. " jrlfter this action, no Bull Mooser in-Oregon is now in position to de nounce any act of the Taft convention at Chicago. No Bull Mooser in Oregon is now in position to denounce Thomas Mc Cusker and the other four Oregon del egates who did not vote for the Roosevelt program of organizing the Taft conyeation at Chicago, manor house and ' hall, .railroad, and post road, path, wtfod, and hedgerow is laid down. Copies are without doubt jin the possession of every war office III i.UiUj;Ct The idea of the entire operations may be assumed to be to simulate the landing and the advance of a German army, and to give a dress rehearsal of the concentration of many thou sand armed men in a small area. Britain may be thankful that she has no experiences of invasion to draw on. There is a large section of the Brit ish people urging conscription, or some torm of form ftf aen.r-,1 j . . ..-W.V.V...W 1U1 4UIUI1 u,. .., uu Nn B..11 Mnoser in Orerr,n i in nrwU.:. ' """.tV . 8.V " . ,a Measures to remedy the very great in- - I j " . , , r , r yivyvixiis aim suggestions na One thing more. Mr. McCusker seems to have constituted himself boss of all the La Folletto men In Oregon. Thomas apparently wishes Us to believe that one simply has to glance at his sweet countenance to tell Just how every La mancial straits. It is sop thrown to November. As the only exhibit at a newspapers and charged against those beauty show. Thomas might take the unable to pay. It is a strenetheninir prlz1' but f 8 a P11Ucal barometer, he ,f nni;Ji tL.i k al,cKiYns surely needs some flxrtg. dt political fences by an unlawful use JAMES M SCUDDER. cr authority. . Conspicuous in the episode is the The Socialist Party. bill of the Daily News for $1,926.40. Salem. Or., Sept. u. To the Ed- only less than the bill of the wti.V T'"1." " Uregonian, and $562.20 more than the In Socialist philosophy, and veterans In claim of The Journal, both of which the movement will smile at the verv tapers have four times the circulation ?lmPIclty of tfe argument put forth of the News Thntmr. th- W... but U ln wrl"en with the knowledge ,;.,Vf ? though the News IS that there are still a great number of " V'yicssiuns 01 virtue, its people that believe Socialism Is nothing till, based on circulation, is nrenna. but a scheme to divide all the wealth in terous. It protests its frienrUhin fnr th ,and eiuallv. and I will do my best i self a tottering old man, his wife dead, ., . r . . . iui tn dianol unv Blirh thnnrht. h ... hli vlllaira rhm..! . nrt V,l. ..!, . ine nnnr. hut murri v..nj. .l. r " - --o... ... j , .... vu...., : -7 : ","v" la iu mc reaaers mav have. The gist and essence of the Socialist program Is the social ownership and democratic management of the socially used utilities and facilities that today are controlled by private individual "Rip Van Winkle" is the hero of one of the principal stories ln Washington Irving's "Sketch Book," which was pub lishod ln 1819. The scene Is laid in the Catskllls and the point of the story lies In the awakening of Rip Van Winkle, an easy, good-natured .ne'er-do-well. from a sleep of 20 years, to find hlm- limit in the pockets of delinquent tax payers whose property is to go on the auction block. It bellows about its purity, Dut becomes a pirate when public official and private person as th Bma11 ,tem of common, everyday ' related cuuiu cummouiiies, can, such competi- llultnomah county. It charges every what the cet would be to the public, other newspaper with heitiir rnn, lf we had several postmen delivering - - o va. vm 11 . a ...... 1 1 . . . . " . . ' " . . u i- 7, mug jn nit, same block, which would be the case lf we had competition Instead of coopera tion In our government. However, we think nothing of the fact that we have several different grocery wagons, ioe wagons, meat carts, etc., etc., all work- trolled by improper influences, but. while other newspapers present bills commensurate with the service, j.t makes a charge hat is mostly notor ious graft, pure and simple. iHrta a I o- a aaawMb ta vn. viv riV,,, All WUIK ine whole incident calls for action ,ns exactly the same territory, thereby living ex. -sition4a-denounce any ...political iraud ;of any kind. . In attempting to rob the Taft peo ple of one elector in Oregon, the ive iailed-tocarry The. present jnaneuJ vers may be designed to impress on the British people the slenderness of the resourrps nvailahl. nnlr r.ron Bull Moose Party in this state is Iconditions ta nrbviH? afl,.n,nt. fn.. guilty of one of the rankest political (to meet and reoel invasion on n frauds in American history. THEIR BLUNDER T such scale as the completely organ iicu ana equinnea berman armv might effect if the effort were made HE JOURNAL appealing tllQse' . ., u .... back of the majority amend-! , ""'" ""server tnis playing ment not to push that measure, i auiu'c " soL.'ar8e and realis Thev are mistaken in what !.,lc a sca 6 18 anyth.ng but wise. It thev are attemotimr to Ho. Smn, of,13 "nainiyvery costly. edy the verv ereat in- " "",AneM A"1"!". wer.8 BUP: iistir- lt,n I. K. j "'cu UUD '""i comraiiy situated usyce tnat is Deing done property buddIv deooL and if advert iin- tn. owners who are so unfortunate as to I buslness. was dispensed with, as in our be temporarily unable to nav the tax P8lorric.e department, would it not ma choxM. ,!, ,heir ' a teriaUy reduce the cost of an exist D ..vm..,u umcr .nct7 Most assun nomings. A TIMELY SETTLEMENT republic This story has furnished the material for eight or 10 plays, most fa miliar of which is the one presented for so many years by the late Joseph Jefferson. Irving probably founded -hia story on an old popular tradition in - Germany. In Otmear's "Volcks-Lagen," Uremen, 1800. In this story Peter Klaus, a goatherd of Slttendorf, was one day leading his herd to pasture In the Kyffhauserberg, ln Thurlngla, when a youth accosted him and beckoned him to follow. Peter went with him to a deep dell Inclosed by craggy precipice, where 12 knights were playing at skit tles in complete silence. Peter observed a can of delicious wine and drank from It. At first he was exhilarated by tha wine and then overpowered by sleep. When he awoke he was surprised by noTrace ofTiTs goats o"r 'his dog. Descending (he mountain apd entering the village, he found everything changed. The people were, for the most part, strangers and the few faces tie of an exist- I recognized had grown old. At last he rndiv it innid or,i 'learned by mutual Inquiries that he had that is the main plank of tho Socialist alept for 20 years. The Vraanisers honl t'.rTnL 1 A From thfl New ork Poet. , sWpgSf s'to joo. lathing la. this whole campaign is . mora remarkable than the tallure of Baker Democrat: A notlneahla nrnnar. DroRresslVea who Sunnnrt nnmnnlt tn ffninPinderfanfth.b thelr n 'eally; ditch?, "n smraf Strm V-f?"0? Praila4T U throufth the election of a , - . . ; wooarow vvason.. xt Is not only that Albany Democrat:' Farmers in urimialh Is a convinced and sane progressive: parts of tha county report hundreds of that he is unbossed; that he lain debt' bushels of wheat spoiled this year by to nobody for his nomination; that he mice. The mica Inhabit tha ahnnka nf I win .-..- . on Tils ranch. " bosses and the corrupt corporaUons. Be- m.,. ,:, v" , r,j , :. -,, iiiuiu ut mm mere manas me patent McMlnnvllla TelanhOna, Raarlarsr? -Va I fact that he-alone Of tha thra fnnrll. i tner' 9- H- Mattoon has the material dates will, if elected, have a United par- AeJ.yi-forthe,,eoon3 voum? ot "Baptist ty behind him in control of one lf not M Th.M annCW.Hbeen fhTambi' nouses of congre .TherWn l"t,s n Vi'" .T .v.,. "i""1" nls Opportunity., for construo.tlva a pletion has been prosecuted With 4 most oe' for PcinB- on the statute books, commendable seal. s t , I some of the reforms the .hour calls for,; , pv,uj wj, tun uiettsures jor renor to wmcn Hermiston Herald: Open Itiver boats the party la committed. For no other' must have the patronage of eastern candidate is there a similar-prospect. Oregon,, eastern Washington and west- Taka Mr? Roosevelt for matn7.- . em Idaho-to-wntlnueVNot, only that. w. ha- ti- iTriiZ . :m 9Zi but the more business given thiamine Tf i1,0 jf iv 1 hl5 term. - the more boats will be put on and va,u, w?uW lt be- o far aa rem- the better schedule maintained. Are edlal legislation is conoernedT. That Hermiston merchants doing their partT the Progressives will carry the house of ' . representatives, no one has as yet been, 1 Nehalem- Enterprise: A panoramic reckjoss enough to suggest At best view of Nehalem City 40 inches long they" can only hope for asmtll mi- by eight inches wide, is a good repro- norlty to urae their oat thria Th- ductlon. but there are too" manv old lo, ure tneir pet theories as the, tumbledown shicks In i view t"ke it fj-K"slve senators hav been, express. t especially attractive. If some ot these itt x"em ln the senate. . With Progres- i were removed It would be one of the slv candidates running against Repub- best tblnKS that ever happened to 'tho llcans all over th place. . ble result WOUld seem to b an lnni-.. in the number of Democratic congress- county road through Solomon Flats has ", j " win mo nouse two jn.ar bepn romniBi,i ni th imnmv.irr.ani i.nence? would, require a tremendbus over- according to testimony offered to the t0rn and necessitate great dlssatUfac-! county court has already benefited local tion with the Wilson administration. '. ln,Arn!lianti t0. thtuextBi 6f. P'ohably should that be in office.' If Mr lloose- $10,000 in trade. The road makes a way volt were chosen h avmiM m m through one.ot the worst drain, ir, this S'JL Tl? iK. n . 8 a a the5regular Itepubllcans as well,' andi Grants Pass Courier: Back east. In their feeling against htm could hardly the middle west and ln the Rocky moun- be described as even tolerant Has he ' tain country they boast or their -Indian not sought to destroy tha Dartv which summers We can all testify that they made him what he 1st More than that, are beautiful and all that but do not whila Mr. Koosmmit . ISEJtZX when he became president that he would ; , not Jail out with congress as Grover' Cleveland did ln his second term, when ! the Bull Moose leader went out of of fice his relations with congress were, lf anything, worse. He had, moreover, forfeited the regard of some of the best men in the house, notably the New Kngland congressmen. Is It possible to conceive of Roosevelt Pettlnar on amw. These wild stories r onlv variation, bly with a hostile conarress. whan ha of an ancient and world-wide myth. For cou'd no et on well with one controlled Instance,, the story of the Seven Sleep- by his party? One har only to think ers, which has been told by many writ- ' Follette alone to realize what op era; the "Legenda Aurea," by Jacques P0ltlon Mr. Roosevelt would have to oe vorraglne"; "De Gloria Martyrum," laB- " by Gregory of Tours, and the -Oriental BoTar as the senate is concerned. It Tales," by the Comte de Caylus, 1743. 1' of cour8. dubious whether the Dem- The story seems to Have originated in 0.cat can capture It by 1913. In New, the east Jacobus Saruglensis, a Meso- JerBey a eat may be won, and in sev-j potamlan bishop of the fifth or sixth fral other e1 there is a good fight- century. Is said to have been the first '? hftnc- 11 may be, however, that; priest to commit It to writing. Gregory Jh" Democrats will hava to wait until of Tours perhaps Introduced lf to Eu- 1914 t0 overcome the pf esent JUpubiU- rope. Dlonysius of Antloch (ninth cen- can lead- But u muat be remembered, tury) told the story In 6yrlan and ., ln the e"1n Just closed, tha old-; Photius of Constantinople reproduced It lln Progressives have frequently voted: with the remarks -that Mahomet had wllh the Democrats. Dislike of Mr. Taft adopted it Into the .Koran. nd oeslre to injure htm may have The Seven Sleepers have also been been. motive, particularly on tariff celebrated ln a poem by a French trav- maur8- Bu' men of the I Follette eler named Chardln, and ln a Spanish - Cummln" type could hardly fall to1 drama called "Los Licte Durmlentes," wtd'?,r Progressive measures which by Auguatln Morreto. The story of "The P wllson might recommend. To do Seven Sleenera nt Rnh." i otherwise Would be to stultlfv thfrn. this serlefn-May-S; a-ne- of-the-? -r?tatlon ror compare with the weather at this sea son In the Rogue river valley. Here the aays ana nights are perfect in all that to make up tne Indian goes summer. SEVEN CLEVER BOOKS "Rip Van Winkle." 'Seven Popular Legends." There is a Chinese legend of a long sleep related by Contes ds Tees re garding a shepherd boy named Chu Ping, who was carried awayjy a Taolst priest and placed tn a cave in the Golden i!e height of the grass and could find Hill. He Immediately forgot all about nome ana rrienas ana everything else. There he remained more than 40 years, until he was at length discovered by his elder brother, who asked him where his sheep were. Chu Ping said they were on tna nuisiae, but bis brother soon came back, saying that he could competition with W HEN eastern Enron waa watching for the smoulder ing fires surrounding Tur key to burst into flame the how ytt hati,t ,B the trua teachings news comes that the immediate dan platform "Replace cooperation." Socialism Is Inevitable, no matter from which point you view it. The mathematician and the scientist can prove to you that It Is a natural sb quence of evolution, the Christian can them, at least, want to amend the initiative without harming it. They think its large use an abuse, and be - lieve Jheir amendment a harmless corrective. . Tha,t is their blunder. They do 'hot realize that they are advancing be indefensible doctrine that the minority should have power over the majority. They do not realize that A TARIFF FACT HE council of the city of Man Chester, fcngland the week be fore last awarded a contract for litty thousand dollars worth of steel rails for the street railways of mat city, mere were several bidders ine lowest was a Pennsylvania steel company. Its bid was $3950 below T -..v.. a.ucu.ucu . une oil mat ot its nearest competitor, a Shef- V s.oi uiuws ever Uirccieu tie ft rntnnini, Af...l r.t- . r j. ,u.uiu(.i a tii iiif- cmin cil gave the contract to the Pennsyl- against the Oregon initiative They ought to issue a public state ment admitting that they have been 'misled. They ought to come out in Eng- e provided for in no self gov.-' WiZm c Xr r 1 7l it. Ihev oueht thus nnh ir v j.i: , .. 1 .. r . ' J iuc utjivcrca wunin a tew miles of the udiate their amendment, as mi-1 Knii.t, .1 . T ot tne. ...j,.,.,.. am-, Hums wnat Decomes of van:a company in the face of loud (Protests that the English company IflllVnr T ri llllraa -v J ,1 the public prints and frankly admit ! " ""'V I" : 7 "'T lnat 2 ihzt thr man .h. ': iii uirowing tiiuwiu, - away -tne taxpayers' money . i suuenor and the matontv mfprinr i is .i .l. . J - . j - icu uie nmencan company can - ... . doctrine- pnitnriatH m nn nt nn. .. . . . . f""J -" !" 7.- ' iianunrti cross tne Atlantic and -beat th . .-'f vy nam u iiy 1 1 t and f , men , 1 American, unjustifiable, and a blunder j . ,and call upon all good citizens to vote It down. There are, of course, others who ...... ,c ..em passed, Decause ; transportation what had they to fear S.Waf ,1 P0We,t f the!fr0m the En,lsh anuf Se?s in Jn laws" C Tu They, Wanthas"" of their home market when the all laws to be made by the legslature, boot was on the other leg? AnJ vet t ITn' 71S'a,UrfS T be influcnccdithcy took the contract, without the pU -d ;repeop,c the nieasi,rcs hr lhat,Jol;n w-Gates & Thev are minoritv .n, . ' J"" .t0..the frei"er $18 yvain. mc initiative any need tor a protective tariff on steel rails? If the American mills overcame the handicap of three thou sand miles and more of mil an.l i-tsatf majority. crippled T SWINDLING THE UNWARY HE postmaster general estimates that the people of the United States are fleeced out of mm. -000,000 annually by bogus cor- porations. The sum is one third the entire tax able, property of Oregon. It is four fifths the whole cost of the Panama canal. k. s Swindling the unwary on such a scale constitutes a national scandal. It;i done. by corporations that are allowed to enter upon business with out asset, p hart to Keep ins mills running. At the time this contract was awarded the American market reports called the market active, they said that the nulls here were full of orders, and that a raise in price was imminent.. THE CHILDREN'S BUREAU HE of Jesus Christ, and the practical man can convince you that, as Lowell says, "Times are ripe, rotten ripe, for a change." We who have Investigated the conditions, know that a change Is need ed;- andneeded-bad. To prove that the Socialist party is a party for the working man and wom an, let us compare It with the other po litical parties in the field. You will find behind the "Bull Moose." tho Dem- ger js over. The proposed alliance of Servia, Roumania and Bulgaria tn make common cause to require the Turks to give autonomy to their Christian provinces is given up, for the present at least, and the sick man of Europe is to have another chance. i.dS apologized ior the re- ocrats and the Republicans, large cor- cent massacres, filled the pockets of porations and trusts are paying the the Albanian chiefs with gold naci- camPain expenses of their candidates, fied the -Macedonians with manv tni "-Zlu !fnow th wJ"kln People nm- uuuwoa-wn many have nothtngtn coTnrrrorr tvtth these mo- promises and some cash, been very nopolies, it stands to reason that their civil to the Greeks and Montenegrins men. lf elected to office, will pull their and made terms with Italv Further' way' They he-v--0. because they are thf Otinman. t,,,,. .t' tna representatives of this particular tne uttomans have shut their eyes on detriment to society, and if their plans what the three northern kingdoms are Bot carried out. the office holder were preparingin the way of alliance would ulcky be officially decapitated, first, and then war and shaken hamU an ome",e true to the graftersr would all rn,,nH snaKen hands be installed. On the other hand, the Ut course Austria-Hungary was at having their campaign expenses paid tne DottQm ot it all. The three Ral. witn runas raisea uy tne members of Carlyle thus alludes to this legend: "Your Kptmenldes, your somnolent Peter Klaus since named Rip Van Winkle." The Incidents of a tale - ln an anony mous Spanish story book entitled "Ta reas de un solitarle," are exactly like those of Rip Van Winkle. only see a quantity of white stones ly lng there. He then went out and bade the white stones arise, whereupon they all got up and lo, there was a flock or many nunarcas or thousands ln num Der, Tomorrow "Robert Macal Re," of congress, and With equal propriety you could have stated also that the practice of congress Is the house, and not the senate, makes Itself responsible for appropriations, and that ln practice kan kingdoms, while apart and inde pendent, are fairly srood neighbor tr the big empire to the north of them all. The chances of war would prob ably mean a coalition, with the seed of union in it, and then a decided change in the map of Europe. A the party, and no one else. All mem bers fay dues at the rate of 2So per month, which goes to pay all the ex penses or tne party, xnis one item alone should be enough to make any Intelligent parson see where Socialism is what the working people need. Our candidates, Eugene V. Debs and Emil Seidel, for president and vice president strong kingdom in the Balkans with a re8P,e1ctlveljr' cmss conscious fifr,.!, ,;ii; t. , n working men, who are devoting their ruteen million population, has hppn u,,,- n mak nnnmnn. .v. laboring man; and both are fully quali fied to handle their offices, if elected. HAL E. HOSS. population, has neen a DugDear to Austria for many years. So, doubtless, the Austrian minis ter, Count Bernstorff fairly earned from his master, the old emperor, the cross of diamonds to be worn on the breast of his coat on hicrh rlavs an holidays which he received when he reported progress. T new children's bureau ated as a branch of the depart ment of-commerce and labor oy tne last congress has al eady organized for work. Its head, liss Julia Lathrop, has announced its irst sum to be the ascertainment -of uc lumper ana ages of the children rM . . I ine process is the sa e'of th TTnit. c.... ... of mining .tocks. apple land stocks.'the vital stadstT; r,. 12 J " stocks based on bogus inventions and deaths lenng IS nt cn man. .1.- i. i.. mi infimt,. var.Vtv rf nr.nl J;i: . , , .! e ncaitn con- j r. ., ac- uiuuii 01 me sur.vivors f In Defense of Hawley. Salem, Or., Bept. 12. To the Editor of The Journal My attention has been di rected to your editorial of last Tuesday which leaves the Inference that the fed- lne Italo-ltirkish war is. it seems, aulsition and control of Willamette to be settled at last. Italv hnvc Tr,r. Locks was entirely the work of Ore- oli for a heavv sum in rash n. cZ on 8 enarora. and that Congressman rlnA.l ty SUm 10 .cash' the Sllr- Hawley aided little, if any. The then renqer ot some territory on the chairman of the house committee on shores oi the Red sea. and the resr- rivers and harbors and others are of an vation of one Trioolitan nort a opposing- opinion. I would also like to road south tn ,h Ah ik K Tetor t0 an editorial in your paper of road south to the Arab tribes in the May 24, 1908. entitled "Acquisition of interior. he closes the war ledger, Locks Made Easy," in which you praise, and carries to. the debit of Tripoli the campaign Initiated and carried on by nrohahlv aevral hi,nA.A .V Congressman Hawley among the com- lar. rJrth Lt """n uoi- mercJ j organtzations of Oregon to Se- iars worth of war expenses. thr lnss L,.,. inform. nnn ai.nwtno. rh r,. of a good many hundred Italian lives, nd protective commercial activity on and the poverty of thousands of tn 'Willamette fer his use with the Italian families ?li. .t. government engineers and with con- uaiian tamihes. She gains the nomi- Mr. Hawley pledged himself m nai control Ot an unwillinfiT DODulation hla first camoalarn to andeavof" In aa. of Arab tribes, and sea-board terri- cure this appropriation, and the lnfor- tory which Wl 1 demanr! manw mill.. mauon was lurmsneu mm ana was used , ' , --T-- aaan ta 4i J H Q for its development rarely, lf ever, does the senate Interfere with an appropriation passed by the house, The house annually strikes from appropriation bills senate amendments aggregating tens of millions of dollars. The house committee On rivers and harbors had a rule requiring a favorable report on a project made by the govern ment engineers before an appropriation cou:d be IhseffedTn the'endTng:""bnX This was a good rule, as It prevented the old "pork barrel" policy and projects' stood on their respective merits. Based on the arguments and data submitted by Mr. Hawley, this report was being pre-- pared in tho Portland united States en gineer's office, and the congressman was assured by the committee that if a favorable report was received before the bill was passed by the house it would be amended-to carry the 4300,000 re quested. Mr. Hawley did all ln his last legislature, and it promises to come again. It was said the governor had agreed not to vote It. It may become a iaw-inen ror the application. Will It efor the poor devil who has no TWO DEAD A' by him for the publio good, and formed the basis Of the authorised project re sulting in the appropriation and the purchase of the locks. Your editorial of May 24, 1908, con tained praise, for Mr. Hawley only of the then Oregon delegation, and prop erly, for it was only the congressman that was building the foundation for government action T Spokane a chauffeur was sKbt dead baturday night on a lone ly road, and his body left be- siae us ear. In Portland a chauffeur' w hr.A .Yo.u. ,that afiPrPrlatl" bi"' '."T-r-YT. t- -.r-.v V"" 1 auouia.Drifiinaie jnine nouse or. repre-i ceau on the Lmnton road, Monday I sentativea. Such has been the practice power to expedite action by the local office, but no report was made by the local engineer ln person, as I recall. However, the chairman of the house commltee then assured Congressman Hawley that the house conferees would agree to a senate amendment providing the "required $300,000, and with this assurance the amendment was made and passed by the senate and house and the bill received the approval , of President Taft. The same course was followed ln the case of another belated report and the chairman of the house committee on rivers and harbors telegraphed Mr. Hawley as follows relative to these appropriations: "Buffalo, H. Y., Sept 20. 1910. Hon orable W. C. Hawley, M. C, Portland, Oregon. The appropriation made ln last river and harbor bin for Oregon City locks and Improvement at Sluslaw are certainly due to your efforts. D. 8. Alexander, chairman." It seems as though Chairman Alex ander recognized" no paramount "senate Influences" Which your editorial states "forced the Increase through the house," and being chairman ot the conference committee he is probably ln a better position to know. In th nexY two paragraphs of last Tuesday's editorial you are pleased to criticise Mr. Hawley for this alleged failure to proporly provide "for the channel from Portland to the sea," Does your editorial writer have to be In formed that this project lies-within the present second congressional dis trict and not the first congresoional district so ably represented by Congress man Hawley. Part of the project awilt oe in tno nrst district after March 4, 191 J, and if his constituents continue to overwhelmingly elect him as they have In the ipa, I am sure Congress man Hawley will , gladly throw his tnasterful energies,. 4nt the fight for this waterWa -also. RONAL) C. GROVER. friends, or will It catch the big rogue as well?. Since the maleXactors of great wealth, the grafters, the grinders of the poor, and the derelicts of official life ar the greatest menace, will wr batin with theseT Then, there Is Morgan, the trust mager; Morton, the rebater; Per kina, th Insurance fund manipulator; Carnegie, whose great wealth came of aetsBHOor and Turned' manhood; certain Judges, who soil their Judicial robes; the sugar trust magnates, who cheat the government and rob the people; and al me cungreaameB ana legislators and city councumen, wne line up for special In terests; and that certain governor who neipea Harrlman steal 162,000,000 and later neiped tne steal trust to: gobble up a Diuion more in defiance of law ad Kuer and bis kind; the hlchsr ups and their kind; some a little old. A Short Cut to Millenium. Salem, Or., Sept. 17. To the Editor ot im journal rt is sterilisation. The. yrwtusa. ja.EuiiBittciqa-ltio.xreaUoajof the unfit. The matter was before tha to be sure, but they have descendants through whom the evil could reach tlm coming generation these should be looKea arter. To be sure, our ancestors were thiavea and robbers and rapists, and it was their rivalry in this field of activity that sharpened their wits and prepared the way for ths later civilization. Miss Tarboll says that Grandpa Rockefeller was a horse thief and had other crim inal instincts. Had the sterilisters caught him where would be our John T. and Standard Oil and the Chicago universi ty and the John D. Jr.; whose noble life Is given to grood and holv thino-? However, wo cannot think of stopping the wheels of progress for little thinira lika that. Of course, there would be soma Ions where there is ereat. sain.. In m. diaval days the court people had eunuchs ior servants, and we do not read that any of them ever broke into the do mostlo felicity of their masters. Science has shown that tobacco and alcohol poison the germ of human Uf and cause Imbeciles, criminals and per verts. So, those who. smoke and those who drink should be looked after 11 we would prevent" the unfit. Indeed' so great Is the need for sterilization that ws marvel at its slowness ln coming. L. D. RATLIFF. Dull' Moose Thistle Beaten. Tillamook, Or,. Sept. 10. To the Ed itor of The Joumal.Thefe is on ex hibition here a largo thistle. They re calling It th Bull Moose thlstl It Is seven Inches across, and a won der. But Just now a neighbor of mine, A. D.. Smith, was parsing with a won drous looking plant. I eaidi "What's tk.i .. . . " mw e answered; ;' a woodrow Wilson thistle." I measured It, and, say, it's just 12 inches across! i M. J. WALLING. sincerity, quite as much as did Tfiplrt stand In opposition to Canadian raol. proclty, when they had bean rmaino- aa really in favor of tariff reductions Could thoy fall to vote for a low tariff measure urgea Dy him as president! j Or for a measure embodying changes ln the anti-trust law? Or one combating the danger loosely described by the pub lic as that of the money trust? More than this, Governor Wllson has i Jived up to his theory that tha should bo a party leader. If chosen to the White House, he will Inevitably act on the same theory as led him to indi cate to the New Jersey legislature what i measures he felt should be enacted. As a result, there was passed a corrupt-1 practices act and a thorough direct primaries law. The publio utilities law has often, been described, and so, too, has the workmen's compensation act ' The long list of measures signed by Governor Wilson Improving the lot of : women and children among them the first law relating to women wage earn ers ever enacted ln New Jersey which has recently been compiled, speaks for Itself. It spoils true m-osrra. r-ess at onfle Affective and quiet; It 1 r. , . 01 wnat wm hPPn lf Mr. Wilson is chosen president Pointed Paragrapki Publicity charity. ia th mother of much Good eookt are also born one h great while. a a If you entertain guests too van , re apt to retain them. " ' a- a Jot f a enim saves Its parents money Dy not being twins. - . . . .; " The words of a woman mav consoling even if they are not . a a ; ; A woman can be as nroud figure as If she really had a good one. w m The average girl Is capable of inv4. almost any fellow that sha ahm,i,wr a a Nothing pleases an lznorant m. - much as a chanco to hand out Inform tion. a a A glutton is one who overln vi. stomach with food that others are hungry, for. - a Nearly every mother e-nta i k. ""eu wines iq soiectlnar uuiuo ior ner oaDy noy. a middle Lots of married men snunfl th.i. a wondering why the fool kUlo, maI. get thum before it happened. The average man would be !, f", a aw relatl0"-If he COUld look at them over a lonar diatnn-. phone. t " Warning to the Voters of Oregon "Assimilate" the Mexican. Portland, Sept. 14.T the Editor of The Journal-Why should the Amerieat people give much thought to the ques tion or discussion of that bugaboo, the assimilation of the Mexicans with our people? Give the Mexicans, the kind of aUasiailUliuiuiliaX Wav.ave.heIadians. t It FINLEY. The proposed amendment to the stats 25.'Vt,utL0,l. Wh,ch -WPear on the official ballot in November as "Noa S08-9." if it carries,: will take away from tho people tha right to govern them selves In taxation matters and return to the legislature and" predatory and private interests the power to "regu late" and "arrange" Jaxattq.fi measures, the Inference being that the people are not intellectually competent to pass upon .such things at the polls. Every voter who believes the people should rule and who. behaves. "uneauai' tav.H- 1 robbery." and who further believes um mo. ycuvio a.i me oauot box should measures before they become effective, should vote No. 30 "No," and thus tore: vent the amendment from bocomlna- th C jUIACKBON." Portland, Sept 10, 1812. ' -. v -