THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. 1 SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 6 1912.
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Avoid all singularity and af
fectation. What la according to
nature is best, while what is con
trary to it is always distaste-
ful. Nothing is graceful that is
not our own. Collier.
KILL THE
LAW
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HEY have found ifhe revolver
with which Harry Barr, the
chauffeur, was killed. There
is a manufacturer's number on
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the
weapon, and the new Portland
revolver ordinance requires a record
to be kept of such numbers and of
the person to whom the weapon Is
- sold. - -
With such a record, there might
have been a key to the myBtery of
"who shot Earr. At least somebody
would have to do some tall explaln
tag" to escape responsibility for the
Srirne. -;
.' Cut Ihe revolver ordinance Is not
operative. The courts have Issued a
restraining order for the purpose of
determining its validity.
- As long as the restraining order
remains in effect, It will help mur
. derers who have done their work to
escape fletection. As long as ordi
nances; and laws regulating sale of
revolver? are kept Inoperative, there
will be protection," asylum and Im
munity for the assassins.
By all means, have the courts nul
lify' the revolver ordinance. If It
cannot be set aside on one techni
cality, employ another.
- ?$f,taing; must be done to Interfere
with the unrestricted sale of revol
vers. Nothing must be done to lessen the
- profits of pistol sellers.
Nothing 'must be done to check
. the operations of gunmen.
Nothing must be done to hamper
. those who lie In wait and shoot peo
- pie down on a lonely road.
glnee the revolver Is only made
for the purpose of killing people, we
must not do anything to Interfere
With Its usefulness.
'A MULTITUDE OF DOCTORS
rfE' disease 'Is the Men" C03t of
ouiicicio ojo me
producer and the ultimate con
sumer. As for the doctors their
name Is legion.
The most recent Is Hia Farmers'
Society of Equity. The headquar
ters Is fixed in Indianapolis. The
remedy proposed Is a national mar
keting system for farm crops.
The proposition Is that all farm
ers, everywhere in this nation, should
enroll themselves in local associa
tions, to be affiliated Into county as
sociations, they into state associa
tions. From the state associations
the national association would be
formed.. That all crop raisers should
report to their local associations
what they have for sale. That this
Information should pass by the asso
ciations named Into the national of
fice and be there tabulated. That
the Belling of the entire volume
should be entrusted to the officers
of this national body, buyers being
produced by the natural attraction of
there being so much to sell. It Is as
sumed that prices would so adjust
themselves that by a series of tele
graphic messages from headquarters
trt Indianapolis, reaching the local as
sociations through the state, county
and district bodies, sales would re
sult and that grat savings to the
farmer would be realized.
Much Is being said and written
about farmers' cooperation. It looks
as if the Farmers' Society of Equity
had taken this much abused word
and bolted with it.
RUSSIAN TROUBLES
JI
HE Russian nnvv 1ms of late
yfrars been the storm center in
that much governed and stern
ly repressed empire. Ever since
the Japanese war there were at
tempts, more or less successful, on
the part of the crew g of several war
ships to capture and escape with
their ships.
Within the past few weeks martial
law has been proclaimed both at Se
vastopol and at Kronstadt, that is in
the Black sea and the Baltic, on ac
count of reported unrest In the navy.
H Is said that both among tho sail
ors and the soldiers revolutionary
literature is nemg circulated, at the commercialized vice and criminality
risk of men's lives. in whlch eminent men In tho com-
RUBsian discipline has been al-1 m unity are secret partners by reason
ways brutal, especially to tho rank I of the profits and- dividends thev
and file, while the Japanese war dis-l take in rentals from the unlawful
elbsed craft and theft running riot j business. These houses rented to
among the commissaries and con- lawlessness by our foremost citizens
tractors. ure places in which our daughters
Frequent reports of strikes and la- are snared and our boys, in their
bor troubles in many parts of the! teens dragged Into bad company and
empire leak through the veil of een-.then Into court trials and the peni-
wmiup. uui internal irouDies have ,
MTcr been allowed to stop the course
Of Russian diplomacy.
Tn spite of tho feeble opposltfon'of
- ' tutttTW fwislsntvanf! with thrtSFPnt,"'
If not the connivancy of he British
roreiKO ornce, Russia is solidly es
UWUhad. anorthera Persia. ,Rus-
Uian financiers and their agents are
pushing preparations for therall -
j road which may land Russian armies
on the Persian gulf and at the gate
of India. " Russia la strong enoueh.
wldJ the al4 of Japan, to '.block every
attempt or the Chinese republic to
j obtain unham!ered loans from non-
1 political banks, and to hold the
- young republic in a constant condl-
, tfon of snsnrns. and therefor, of
, feebleness. Meanwhile the Russian
' srip on Manchuria and Mongolia is
being lightened.
The reason why may be Judged
from that recent report of the Amer
ican consul at Harbin that the fer
tile lands of Manchuria, If properly
settled and farmed, are wide enough
and rich enough to raise grain to
feed the world.
WHY UK FOOLISH?
T
HE larger interest In the presi
dential election will give the
unfit legislative candidate his
opportunity. Under the stress
of more absorbing Issues he may be
able to slip in unchallenged.
The legislature of Oregon exercises
very large powers. Its trusteeship
for the people Is of enormous "con
sequence. The body exercises the power of
making laws f6r government 6f the
people. The crudeness, and impo
tehcy of many of our laws is example
of how Inefficiently this trusteeship
has been discharged.
The legislature exercises the power
of taxing $890,000,000 of Oregon
property. It exercises the power of
spending $5,000,000 and upwards of
the people's money.
Looking over the candidates In all
the parties, how many . of .them In
point of capacity, mentality and mor
al standard, are flve-mlllion-dollar
men?
Looking Into their records, ""how
many of them are there that a pru
dent private citizen would want to
entrust with the expenditure of $5,
000.000? .. How many of them are there, that
a prudent business man would want
to entrust with the expenditure of
$1,000,000, or $100,000, or even
$1000?
We have long overlooked the Im
portance of the legislature. We have
fallen lto' tli Tiabit of, "cussing" It
after thersesslon, only to elect the
same kind of a gang to the next ses
sion. In all our numerous public
follies, one of our supremest faults
is the Inattention and incompetency
we have displayed in electing mem
bers of the legislature.
We should do differently. We
should, not pay the slightest atten
tion to a party brand. There is not
the slightest occasion for politics In
the legislature. Statement One made
the Oregon legislature a non-partisan
body so far as actual results are
concerned.
Wfl should not nnv th ftJI'htpnt nt-
tehtion to the .-elltterine Dromifips
iuul nil" yeHiiui iiuuuuiuu pruiiiui-
gates when he becomes a legislative
candidate. Such promises are not
worth the paper on which they are
written, they are only made to get
in on.
It is the public record and the pri
vate record that counts. It Is com
mon sense and the fitness as to hon
esty and business capacity that
should be made the acid test.
Why elect a slx-bft man to a flve-mlllion-dollar
job?
Why continue to be foolish?
MR. LOGAN'S SI'Emi
J
OHN F. LOO AN says the news
papers misquoted him respect
ing his vice speech.
In explanation he say's: "You
may say that I approve the efforts of
Governor West to better conditions.
I think he ought to keep Mr. Esterly
in the field In Portland. I think,
however, that the situation has been
over stated to the governor. I do
not think Portland is any worse as
to vice and crime than is the average
city of its slr.e, and I think it harm
ful to the cily to exaggerate the facts
before the world."
Mr. Logan is entirely right in his
Insistence that Portland is no worno
than the average city. Many cities
are very much worse. Some cities
are a great deal better.
Los Angeles Is far better regulated
ns to tho liquor traffic. It has but
200 saloons In a population of more
than 300,000. Its moral conditions
are on a much higher level than
Portland's.
But San Francisco Is far worse
than either. It has conditions beside
which conditions In Portland nve
comparatively clean.
Yet Portland Is bad enough. Wo
have seventeen-year-old boys in Jail
for murder. We have a boy of eight
een serving out a ten years' sentence
in the penitentiary for being a mur
derous highwayman. Wo have tho
spectacle of a captain of police
against whom various bawdy house
keepers make the chargo that he
used his official authority to extort
monpy from them.
Wo have an organized "system" of
tentlary.
As Mr. Logan says, and as tho
I vice commission In its report savn
Portland is not worse than th v.
erflg rrrftnt-TroTtfieT-Ta-rf'-cTdSc"
his eyes to the facj that Portland
can be Improved.
No father can deny the fact that
no place can be made too wholesome
;asd ;lea.for his sons and daughters
to be reared In.
NOBODY KNOWS
I
F there were no other reason, com
mission government should be
adopted In Portland because it Is
opposed by those who live by pol
itics.
If there were no other reason, It,
should be adopted because it brings
him accountable to the people for hia
acts. . ;
If there were no other reason. It
should be adopted because It short
ens the ballot and focuses the lime
light effectively on those who ask
for office.
If there were no other reason, It
should bo adopted because it would
be deliverance from the present me
nagerie government, and conditions
could not possibly be made worse by
the change.
Any one of the foregoing reasons
is sufficient to definitely convince
any average citizen that the system
should be put into effect in this city.
Under the present system, nobody
knows anything about what Is going
dn behind the scenes.
In the city council, one member
frequently charges another with trea
son to the interests of the -city. No
body knows how many of these
charges are true, or how many un
true. 1
On the outside, citizens charge the
city administration with inefficiency
and others deny It. Nobody knows
anything about how far the mayor,
for Instance, Is responsible for con
ditions, because his hands are more
or less tied by the council, the coun
cil Is more or less tied by boards, and
all are tied by each other.
Nobody knows where to fix the
blame for Inefficiency. Nobody
knows whom to hold accountable for
Incapacity? Nobody knows anything.
About all we know Is that we are
governed, but we don't know how we
'are governed. We know that taxes
are Inordinately high, but we don't
know why they are high, or whom to
blame for making them high.
From It all, we ought to know that
we cannot possibly blunder In mak
ing a change.
A CRIMINAL BUREAU
T
HE Organization of a bureau for
the detection of criminals In
Oregon, Washington and Brit
ish Columbia Is proposed.
It would keep an accurate record
for identification of all criminals In
the west. It would establish a bu
reau at which thumb prints, photo
graphs and descriptions wtfuld be al
ways available.
Why not? Why not card Index
every crook and every Buspect so
completely and make the relation be
tween crook catchers so Intimate that
the system of detection would be a
daily and hourly dragnet?
There Is a wide division line ' be
tween tho underworld and the upper
world of society. The crooks are
only a comparatively small percent
age. Decent people are In a huge
majority, and the task of keeping
surveillance over the indecent Is not
very great.
Germany knows the movements
every day of every crook and every
suspected man. So do other Eu
ropean nations. A Btranger there Is
regarded as doubtful and fit for ob
serving until his respectability is
established.
A main trouble In the United
States is that we don't catch the man
killers. They do their work and get
away. We sleuth around the mur-
der scene, look wise at the tracks'
and blood marks, but mostly let the I
deed finally pans on as one of the
unexplained mysteries. We have a
Ions list of them here In Portland,
and It ia a multiplying list.
Remembering that we finally cap
ture and convict less than one and
one half per cent of our murderers,
It seems time for a criminal bureau
that will l) a criminal bureau.
A HKiH CARD IN HHIPS
A
Sl'PKR - DKEADNAUGHT 700
feet Iouk, of 30.000 tons dis
placement, 29 knots speed,
armed with 11 Inch Runs, la
tho last card that the British admi
ralty plajs in the game with Ger
many. Tho design of this monster
ship has been accepted and construc
tion la to begin in November. The
fii nines are to be high power geared
turbines.
No doubt her decks will be spe
cially strengthened to resist the at-
uicKs ol me ,'ppinn war dirigibles,
and she will be fitted with batteries
of ions distance, and sky-rancinK now-I
of tnrpurh hf-r ndvoranrfpa In tbo (. i
T, . , ,.,, , ,
The old competition between guns
ami armor plates will take a fresh
start, under the hew conditions. In-1
Kcnuity and science in Germany and
England will be sot to work without from fire. With an alley no unsightly ! k1'18 w,' ftr not th Products mod
niiusH to devise new mpthnda nf otJniia ftf wood or anvthln alaa in f.nt rn scientific eurenb-s The kids wore
-..j .!- .i.i-u . - i
men mm uoiriRV nuun Hllgril iar
better be devoted to constructive not
destructive ends.
The Issue Is fast approaching be-!
tween the peoples and the military
classes in each of them. UnlesB the
peoples themselves, who are the uni
versal snfforer, take a hand the mad
race of armament will continue.
DECLARING FOR FREEDOM
T
HE great political conflict with
in the Democratic party to
throw off Murphy domination
In New York politic was born
of the encouragement given pure pol
itics by the triumphant. .leadership of
Woodrow Wilson".
-r'6Yorrorta!a;deihahd,-ing
tho overthrow of Murphy and the
nomination of a Democratic candi
date for governor who will do for
New York TShat Wilson has done in
delivering r.&llc affairs from boss
domination In New Jersey. The
World declares that' unless a Demo
crat who measures up to the Wilson
standard of progresslTlsm Is . nomi
nated, it will oppose the state Demo
cratic ticket in ths election.
The action of the Baltimore con
vention was a new declaration of po-
t nal Tl 1 I- M I
hope and everywhere made active the
force8 of clean -government.
Letter From the People
(('ommutUcntlun -ttnt to The Journal for
publlci tion In thii department ibould b
written on , only one M of th paper, otild
not Mced rfliio wardi In length n mint I
eoompinied by th nam .-tm iddreM of -tb
ender. it the writer duel not detlro to hire
the nam publlibed, ha tbould to itatu.
Graduated Tax.
Portland, dr., Sept. 19. To the Ed
itor of The Journal Opponents of Jus
tice in. taxation criticise the graduated
land value tax measure because they
assure us that its provisions, can be
evaded. Thn they proceed to show Its
iniquity and unfairness and the awful
havoc It will produce among the small
home owners In city and country, All
of which, as Alphonse says. Is much to
laugh, yes.
One way they assure us it can be
evaded Is to split up a holding worth
half a million by deeding to relatives,
who will kindly hold the same until the
time comes to make a bona fide sale.
How many men with a holding In Port
land worth $500,000, will trust 50 rela
tives with 1 10,000 each?. Imagine the
result! The measure prohibits the orig
inal owner going .into court and making
claim that the deeds were merely ''wash
gales" to evade payment of taxes.' He
would far better sell half and put the
resulting capital Into Improvements that
would not be taxed at all, and thus
avoid any altercations wfth. nephews
and nieces and half cousins over any
little Indiscretions. And that Is what
he would do.
Another objection that Is solemnly
produced Is that the big corporations
would Immediately proceed to sell off
their vast acreage In small holdings
By all means let them. The sooner, the
quicker Oregon will come Into her own.
That Is Just what the measure Is pro- I
posed for. That Is Just what the Cana
dian Pacific In British Columbia Is do
inggoing out of the land business. Let
the S. P. do the aame. A good, strong
hint to the wise like this exemption of
improvements and a graduated tax on
land values over $10,000 assessed to
any one owner, is sufficient.
The measure proposed also confis
cates for the benefit of the school fund
any lands deeded to a corporation for
the purpose of evading the tax. This
will effectually prevent the formation
of fictitious companies to deed land to.
None ot our tax dodging families and
estates love our sohoois as well as that.
Another loop hole that will be tight
squeezing for Old Man Tight Wad Intent
aZtoinfuMMto ih nn,,n?v e
?Ald 'i0.'0-? '".eACtrUntyJn h?l
and specific tax. Imagine a man with
a quarter block of shacks on Washlng-
ton street assessed at 1320,000 for the
land values alone, selling the same and ,
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gallvantlng over Oregon looking for in-
..n.tnn.. i.. hi.. i..j . i
vosiijiciua ill luia lauu uui w CAcetru
and Just to equal 110,000 in each coun
ty, keeping track of them, paying taxes
on them, selling part or all of each
whenever the assessor raised the valua
tion on any one above $10,000. It would
worry some of our Tight Wad family in
sane to dodge taxes that hard. It would
bo far cheaper and. would evade more
taxr a - and lots of trouble -sidestepped
Just to put up a good building Instead
of the shacks and live happily ever
after. No money to do it with? Well,
friend, with taxes off all forms of im
provements there will be plenty of
money seeking investments. There is
plenty In British Columbia. Might sell
half and Improve the other half, and
that Is Just what Is being done where
Improvements are exempted from tax
ation. ALFRED D. CRIDQH.
The Political Parties.
Vancouver, Wash., Sept. 20. To the
Editor of The Journal I wish to cor
rect an error about the third party
which I notice every day. First there
is the Republican party, which Is repre
sented by an elephant with a long snout
which Is often stuck in other people's
affairs. Second comes the Democratic
party, represented by a mule, which In
noted as a chronic kicker. Third comes
the Prohibition party, not represented
by an anlmal- but clean. thoughtful
mrn auu wiMiieii. ii in a pnriy ui mow
but healthy growth and to be reckoned
with In the coming election. Fourth
comes thn Socialists. This is a party
working for the Interests of the have
nots and seems to grow fast with plen
ty of opposition. Fifth comes Teddy,
with a party represented by a Bull
Moose. There doesn't seem to be any
need for this fifth party only Teddy
couldn't get a third term any other
way. It's lucky ho took an animal that
Is used to the cold, as It will not have
the shelter of the White House.
WILLIAM FRANKLIN.
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Alleys in Cities.
Portland, Sept. 20 To the Editor of
The Journal The one great mistake
the city fathers make Is In granting ad
ditions to tho city, blocked off without
"alleys." It Is Just as easy to keep
an alley clean as the street in front of
the residences, and much mure con
venient In every way. Take the city of
Kellwood for Instance, beautifully laid I
out In blooks, fairly wide streets, but 1
no alloys. Land was oheap when the I
city was mapped out and alleys should '
hnva been the one ereat essential for 1
convenience. Now, you will see stacks
nf eordwood'plled In front of the houses :
snd weything has to be unloaded onto j
the sidewalks In front. Cnrdwnnd haa !
to be cut In the streets, making a mess
and nuisance in tne rront or the dwell
lings. With an alley there Is less danger
, ,re too. as the house, cannot "butr
I up against each other as they are built
now- The raot lB- n0 lot "hould be less
! iha" 60 .by 100' a?d mor9 JC PS8lble'
n.ii.i ). hr to mar th. (,,,,. i
The grasp for wealth to make the
most of an acre Is the cause of such
Inconvenience, and tho laws of the state,
In fact, should forbid It,
Oregon is not so small but that It
could afford alleys in all her towns and
cities and the sanitary conditions would
be Just as good as they are now. It
j would be more to the credit of the
courts 10 see inai sugn was the case
in platting off an addition to any place
and wide streets should be one great
essential.
Again we have avenues In plenty, but
where aro tha trees on either side to
give its full meaning? it ia no avenue
without the trees; Just as well call it
"stroet," or "lane." OB8KUVEIL
Cap! till Punishment.
Klamath Falls, 8pt. l.To the Ertl-
,tor.of The Journal Please let me ex-1
nluln why I think w how "ought in
abolish capital punishment.
At the various stages of human devel
opment, various methods are necessary
to raatr.irj tb ' lxuttlnot. Tha
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGS
"Beware of experts," warns Dr.
son. He's onto them.
wn
Most roadhouses seem determined to
do as evil as oossible.
For an Infant party, the Moosers are
naving mucn trouble.
'!.'
Some men Who want tn tutV Inner
loud and often are first to interfere with
oiners tauc
The W17 to rediioa tha tariff durU
Is not to anpoint a powerless board, but
Another thing for Portland to be
proud of. Its Y. M. C. A. has the largest
membership of any In the country.
Free speech Is a sacred right, of
course, but some street spouters make
nuisances of themselves In exercising
In the late Progressive party conven
tion more than half the delegates were
from Portland., an about iialf the coun
ties were unrepresented.
Assuming that the Democrats and
Roosevelters are enemies, the former
may cheefrully comply with the com
mand, "Love your enemies."
.
Some one professes to have discovered
that women's understanding Is increas
ing; that Is, their feet , are growing
larger. But some of them, even if this
be true, won't buy larger shoes.
Thousands of Oregon people were
pleased to read that Mrs. Abigail Scott
Dual way was able to attend and take
an active part In a suffragist meeting
and luncheon the other day. May she
live to vote often.
. .
Many "old" maids and bachelors are
so because of lack of ouDortunltv to be
come acquainted; they are reserved, dlf-
uaent, conventional and strangers to
agreeable marriageable people, of the
other sex. so drift Into confirmed bach
elorhood. Why don't some of the many
reformers advocate a publlo acquaint
ance bureau for such peoplet
SEVEN CLEVER BOOKS
"La Rochefoucauld Maxims."
Many of us are familiar with the
'maxims'' of La Rochefoucauld, jwhlle
we know little of his life and the ex
periences from which he drew his de
ductions regarding the relations of life
and the mind.
He belonged to one of the proud old
families of France and lived during
parts of the reign of Louis XIII and
of Louis XIV. The world was the
school in which he was educated. He
knew Cardinal Richelieu and watched
the struggle for mastery between htm
and Anne of Austria. He also knew
Cardinal Mazarln and saw his policy
after the death of Richelieu.
When the political party called the
fronde which waa the parliamentary
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"urt- L Rochefoucauld took up the
cause of the fronde and drew Into It
l the Duchess de Longuevllle, with whom
he was In love. This movement of the
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could only be written in burlesque
, ,
verses.
The ending of the struggle that this
party made saw the end of the infatua
tion the duchess had for La Rochefou
cauld, in one ot the battles he was
wounded In one eye and for a time lost
his sight.. By the time he had recov
ered this the duchess was lost to him,
and he retired to his country estates
for a period;
In the rebound of his affections he
met Mme. de le Fayette, a very bril
liant literary woman, and they became
deeply attached. For 20 years they en-
method which Is most efficient for such
' purpose at ono stage became a draw
back and hindrance to Justice at an
other stage. Capital punishment has
now in most of tha civilized countries
, outlived Its usefulness and tends from
j now on niore to protect and breed crlm
I lnailty than to prevent and cure It. It
! makes the conviction of murderers much
1 more expensive than necessary and also
more uncertain. The reason for this is
the growing sentiment agalnBt capital
pur.lshment. This sentiment Is a religion
which will continue to grow, making it
more and more difficult to select Jurors
and also In many other ways more and
more difficult to detect and convict the
murderer as long as capital punishment
ia the law.
Nothing shows more conclusively the
unfitness of capital punishment at this
stage than the small percentage of mur
derers sent to the gallows In those
stat p.s wtilh still retuln It.
Therefore it seems to me It Is now
high time we adjust our law so It can
be enforced with greater certainty. A
life sentence to hard labor or to solitary
confinement is a much greater punlsh
rnent for the murderer. It Is more In
accord with our present stage of con
sciousness and therefore a better rem.
. edy agait.st crime,
i PAUL C. PAULSON.
Odd Talcs Vouched for
by Oregon Newspapers
China Cuts Off Owa Bead.
Btayton Mall; A very peculiar ac
cident happened at the woolen mill Sat
urday when a full grown China phens
lint hen flew directly through a win
dow pane, cutting off her head on the
JaggC'l K'a and 'ailing on the inside
of tho building several feet from the
window, One of the workmen picked
her up and searched for the pheasant's
head and finally found it outside the
building. The only way we can acoount
for tne circumstance- is, that probably
tha bird hart be. n making her net In
the disused building and had come horn-
to roost It will, be no roosting place
for chickens from now'on as Mr. Wil
bur will soon hava the machinery hum
ming.
Jtlds See rair ana Make Mouey.
Sulem Capital Journal: It tni. s )',,',;
county kids to break all recuiMs for
enterprise, and they are ha.id-ralsei
ot the common kind
of which, thank
God, there are still a great many, and
their mother, who was pickings hops for
a living at Kola, sunt them to the state
fair. The oldest was 8 and the little
girl was 6, with a bdy between the two.
They wer given a free, ridi on tha rail
road, got free admission to the fair,
because they had not a cent of money
betweon them. They picked up their
own lunch about the fair grounds, and
saw the whole show, took In the races
from the top of tho fence and in the
?fternon mod some money on tho side,
he oldest boy got a nickel for holding
a man's horse. The man waa so pleased
he bought the children admission to one
of the side shows. Tho show was so
rotten that the kids went out disgusted
i and told the woman at the door that
i they wanted tlielr money backu Khe
I trave them SO cents, after some racelne.
In which the noy neia nis own
fiv crits abend thev atartP.i' tn ih
tha &:3J train for Lola, when the Jour-
uai eouor pieaea mom up in his motof-
car and gave them a fra0 ride-to West
Haleni, after pumping the story out of
them. Who can match the thre kids
from EolaT
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
for the past two years pastor of the
i, neiens m. m. cnurcn, will go to cni
cago, where he will enter the North'
western University theological school
tor a iw.p years course.
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Terrebonne Oregonian: A warehouse
for Terrebonne Is the next move in
the development of this thriving .little
Durg. The Farmers' union has taken
the matter up and a committee Is now
out soliciting stock subscriptions.
- Union itepubHeanf joeepbr-Yorgason,
who recently arrived from Bl-Horn,
Wyoming, ha plans for the erection of
an opera house. Union is sadly deficient
in this respect, and a good building
would encourage a better class or snows.
Joseph Herald: Bill Scott, eight miles
east of town, has a 10 acre field of rye
on a dry hill that looks like a world
beater. It will go more than four tons
of hay to the acre, and most of it
stands seven feet and four Inches high.
Bandon Recorder: Work Is proceeding
right along on the new Presbyterian
church, and with a few weeks of good
weather the building will be Inclosed
and then it can be finished up with
little difficulty,' even though the rainy
season does set in.
Gold Hill News: An experiment In
Dpanut growing attemuted the present
season by Charles Erlweln, has resulted
so successfully (thRt he will plant an
extensive patent next year to demon
strate yet another, possibility of the
Rogue river valley.. Mr. Erlweln cul
tivated a single row this season, the
planta oroduclnir peanuts of large size
and excellent quality.
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Nehalem Enterprise: A log measur
ing seven feet four Inches in diameter
and 32 feet in length, scaling 10,000
board measure, was cut up at the
Wheeler mill arid required nearly two
days to dispose of, figuring In the
breakdowns that resulted in handling
the log owing to its great weight. It
Is estimated that the weight was over
40.000 pounds.
Joyed a high minded friendship and af
faction.... ;
Madame de la Fayette was guided by
good principles. La Rochefoucauld
had strong Intellectual force and much
wisdom. She once said in regard to
their mutual friendship: "He gave me
mind and I reformed his heart"
In the letters of Madame de Sevlgne,
he speaks often of La Rochefoucauld
and always with an Indorsement of his
goodness, courage and sense. She said
also that he had a tender heart.
Mollere submitted his comedies to La
Rochefoucauld for his approval of them;
and among his other friends were the
preachers Boileau and Bossuet, and the
dramatlo poet Racine. He died In Bos
suet's arms, after suffering 10 years
with gout. Madame Sevlgne gave. In
her letters, all the minute details of
his Illness and death,
His "Maxims and Moral Reflections"
were written after he had seen and
studied life. Voltaire said that this
work had but one truth running through
it, which was that self love is the mo
tlve for everything.
Dean Smith said, however, that there
are two kinds of self love. One. that
ot some men, which induces them to
please others; that of some other men,
which induces them to please them
selves. There Is a worldly wisdom, a wit and
a fund, of good sense In these maxims
that make them good dally reading.
They have also been largely drawn upon
by prose writers and poetsl
Next week Seven Imaginary Beings.
Always in Good H
umor
GUIDING HER THROW ARIGHT,
A man who, with his wife, is em
ployed on a farm In Shropshire, says
London Answers, recently found him
self In a bad predicament when. In at
tempting to evade the onslaughts of a
savage dog, assistance came in the shape
of bis wife.
When the woman came up the dog
fastened his teeth In the calf of her
husband s leg and was holding on for
dear life. Seizing a stone in the road,
the wife was about to hurl It, when
the husband, with wonderful presence
of mind, shouted:
"Mary Mary I Don't throw the stone
at the dog. Throw It at me!"
TOWN IMPROVEMENT.
From Chappie's News Letter.
"Kind sir," remurkod the husky hobo
as he npproaehpd the leading citizen,
"you have very likely heard of and are
undoubtedly Interested In this wonder
ful new plan for tho municipal beautify
ing of cities but would you manifest
your Interest In a substantial way?"
"As how?" Inquired the leading citl
ztn. "Would you, for Instance, contribute
directly to the causer
"I don't quite get you," was the re
sponse. "Well, a dollar would buy me a ticket
out Of town," responded the frowsy
one.
The Holy Men and the Hobble Skirt.
Portland, 8opt. 19. To the Editor of
Tho. Journal One preacher in a north
western city has taken snap-srtots of
exhibits on the streets and will illus
trate lectures and sermons on modesty
and morals.
Another minister has voiced tha pro
test of the woolen trade the hobble
skirt has monopolized the space close
round about and injured the market for
other wear.
A Catholic clergyman has entered his
protest, and gone into detail somewhat
upon what is safe and modeUt and
proper for women to wear. Hut bless
his holy soul, he Is not supposed to be
looking at the women.
A great governor of a great state has
oflcially (?) Informed another great gov
ernor that it is woman's dress that
Inys the deuce with thn nnn'
intentions.
All of which is Interesting; however.
It Is to be hoped that tha little short
aniri win persist, ana thut our mothers
and sisters and duughters and sweet
hearts w'U refuse to go back to the bur
den of yards and yards of superfluous
wear. The hobble is pretty and sensible,
let us pray that It persevere. The main
prudes will become accustomed to It,
then all danger will have parsed. It ia
custom that regulutes our sense of mod
esty and morals. Slmllla slmlllbus "rtifl
ranier. L. D. R.
The Crops.
Don't get discouraged at soma losses,
uiniimi ofcHUMQ or sin:
Don t worry about bears, bulls
Or
bosse--
See the-cHp a-comlng lnl
There'll always be same sorrow and
trouble,
But banish fear and doubt:
Most evil Is but a colored bubble-
See the crops a-turning out!
Don't tntrid -tri Trtrrrt(rts a-sptetlnr, 4
ior iiurnor envy ana naie; -
But Join Mother Earth In generous feel-
ing
Ths 'crops wers tievsr if . s"itt
3. P
'GovernmeotRegulation
Is No t Freedom Says
AVoodrow Wilson
Columbus, Ohio, Sept 21. Memorial
Hall would not hold all the people who
wanted to bear Governor Wilson last
night and he addressed ' an overflow
meeting outside, afterward. Governor
Harmon presided. Governor Wilson said
in part:
"Leaders of the. Republican party
and of the third party have astonished
the country by practically abandoning
any serious attempt to meet the main
Issues of tha campaign. The leaders of
the third party at the outset declared
that the real issue of the present con
test was the high cost of living, but
they have laid less and less emphasis
upon that because they have seen they
cannot seriously attack the question
without attacking the question of tha
tariff and trusts in a very different
way from that In which tbey are ao
tually approaching them. ......
frices have risen all over tne world.
but much faster and very much higher
in high-tariff countries, where monop
oly was protected, than in low-tariff
countries, where competition excluded
monopoly. And the .chief cause ot
high living in America is that the mar
kets are controlled.
"jno wonder, therefore, that the lead
ers of the Republican and Progressiva
parties are saying' less about high
prices. They dare not, or will not, go
straight at the issue of high prices.
Government regulation will Bhleld mo
nopoly as well as guide It and regu
lation Is not freedom.
Democrats Btlok to Guns.
"The net result Is that both these
parties have, to all Intents and pur
poses, abandoned the central issues of
the campaign. The Democrats alone
are noia enougn ana rar-Bigntea
enough to see that they must tackls
frankly and directly this questlpn.
They see as clearly as anyone else that
business must In our day be done upon
a great scale, but tbey know that there
Is a size which Is natural and a stis
which Is unnatual In business.
"Monopoly Is always in tha lbnf run
weak and Inefficient and the leaders
of the Democratic party know perfeot
ly well they are serving the business
Interests of the country better, much
more Intelligently, than the leaders of
either of the other parties, - because
they mean so to regulate competition
and free the conditions of business in
this country as to substitute the effi
cient for the merely powerful. It Is
futile to stand for the causes of our
present wrongs and weakly propose to
control and moderate the results, and
yet that is all our opponents suggest.
Backbone of the Vatlon.
'I wonder what regulation Is to ac
complish for the workingmen through
the instrumentality of those who havs
been their most successful opponents.
For. after all, the attitude of the gov
ernment towards labor lies at the heart
of almost everything that concerns us
a n nation A rtftftnn mnv ha aaM tn
consist of those who do its dally labor,
and .America has always boasted that
she was the home of free labor, that all
were welcome to come to her shores
nd partake of her unbounded oppor
tunities.
'Shall we substitute for this dream
and ambition of ours a regime under
which great 'regulated monopolies
shall 'be forever the chief patrons of
labor? Shall we not, on the contrary,
assist to set the laboring men free by
placing them In a field of varied en
terprise, controlled by no set of men,
by no government, where they can look
about for opportunity and find It,
where an economic democracy will
make them feel that they have a vital
part in everything that affects the en
terprise and the hope of the success of
the nation?"
Opposes Tariff Board.
Before several hundred business men
nt the Chamber of Cemmercs Governor
Wilson said:
"One of the most amazing fictions of
our politics Is that the Democratlo
party Is not Interested In the business
ife of the United States. When you
reflect that the Democrats of the United
States comprise about half the popular
tion. it Is Interesting 'hat half th
population should 'be suspected of the
desire to oommit commercial hara-
karl."
He opposed tha proposal of a board
of experts to handle the tariff question.
'Conditions are constantly changing
with the tariff, sometimes as often as
every 24 hours," said the governor.
"You cannot touch one tariff, sched
ule without having incalculable results
In other schedules. I suppose that
when you deal with the woolen schedule
for example, you supposed that was
nil the woolen men wers Interested In.
But the woolen men, If I may o red It
what 1 have read In their reports, are
almost as much interested in th chem-
cal as in the woolen schedule. Bodies
of experts to guide legislation have al
ways bewn the machinery of one thing,
and that Is delay."
Po&terl Paragraphs
Nailing
a He won't always keep it
down.
livery man Is tha architect of his own
misfortune.
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In planning for the futura don't over
look the present.
A shoemaker's wife never thinks he Is
too good to last.
a a
Give a man string enough and he'll
construct his own tangle.
a
If a woman Is really fond of vooal
muslo she seldom tries to sing.
Let a famous doctor name a new dis
ease ana it will soon uacoms iasn-
lonablft.
The absent are not always to blame.
They may have had sense, enough to
remain away.
Ono of the things a woman can never
understand Is why her hard-working
usband is not enthusiastic about spend
ing ills vacation with her folks.
Varrnng to the
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
thn people the right to govern them
selves In taxation matters and return
to the legislature and predatory ani
private Interests the power to "regu
late" -ami "arrange" taxation measures,
the Inference tielng that the people aro
not intellectually competent to pass
upon such thlogs at the polls. Every
voter who believes the people should
rule and who believes "unequal taxation
is robbery," and who further believes
that the people at the ballot box should
have the right to pass upon taxation
messures before they become effectlvo,
SilOUlU wifl .'v. wvw ..v, mm kIMIB yrV-
vent the amendment from becoming tha
"law. of Ors'on."
C. 8. JACKSON.
Portland, sept, jo, mi.
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