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lAg doe not depend upon
yem, but upon temperament
and health. Some men are born
old. and some never grew . so.
- Edwards.
ASTORIA'S OPPORTUNITY
HmHE threatened withdrawal from
I Portland or tne Americau-cm-.J
walian line tfivea Astoria a
splendid opportunity.
If. as reported, the Teasel are to
make Puget Bound fnd San Francta-
cotitought -to1 to osaibl to make4loads, -and -to establish minimum
Astoria a port of call for the line,
If there Is not enough traffic to Jus
tify the trij to Portland, there ought
to be enough Portland traffic to Jus
tify a trip of only fifteen miles and a
. brief stop at Astoria.
!J" It wouldlie one way for Astoria to
prove to the world that some ships
. will touch at Astoria that refuse to
come : te Portland. It would go
farther than almost any other Inflo-
ehce7Tn"""estibttBhlng-before -rate
tribunals,, the Just claims Astoria Is
making for common point recognl-
If Asloria canno effect the ar
rangement by any other means, that
city would he Justified In providing
' free transhipment of cargo by river
hoals or otherwise to and from Port
land. The ontlay for the charges on
such transhipment would be fully
. warranted in the prestige Astoria
wonldjsecnre.Jironi uch.au. arrange
ment... . , ,
; It the American-Hawaiian ships
- are to be withdrawn from Portland
as reported, aid if they are to make
Ban Francisco and Puget sound as
reported, Astoria has an unparal
leled j opportnnlty to serve herself
and the Columbia river.
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STATE AID
ISCUSSINO the state aid bill on
this page, George Hiclnbotham
says:
"The bonding plan throws
. the interest all to the bondholders.
and the direct tax leaves the Interost
alt with the taxpayers. If we bond;
, worth of work will cost us $2.3 5.
: If we pay a direct tax, we will get
. one dollar's worth of work for $1."
The . claim Is preposterous.. In
what way does a taxpayer get back
Interest on money he has, paid out" as
. . taxes? .,, It he pays out $100 in road
taxes, is the money not gone from
. . him forever, and does he not there
' after for all time lose the profit he
woald late made on Its use, or lose
r the interest he would get, if the
money were loaned instead of being
: paid out for road building?
, Money paid out by direct taxation
results In a direct Interest loss. If
Clackamas county should collect
$40,000 for road pufpoeec in 1913,
the taxpayers of Clackamas would
"JCTba"TrilfiuS""that much " moneyr and
'. would, in addition, lose the interest
. on It in all years to come.
Hls & coldr unwelcome fact, but it
tf Ineffaceable. It renders our friend
LlHcinbdth&m's claim that the tax
, payer gets back the interest on
money paid out in direct taxation
fully as absurd as that direct taxa
tion Will make fialr grow on a bald
head.
Equally untenable is his claim
that a dollar's worth of road built
by bonding will cost $2.35 and a
dollar's worth, of road built by direct
taxation cost but a dollar. If he
figures the interest cost under bonds,
, ho is forced to count the interest
- loss under direct taxation, and a dol
lar's worth of road costB as much
under one plan as under the other,
and not a cent more.
. Furthermore, under direct taxa-
tion, the whole cost will have to be sort round which wholesome lnflu
pfcid by people now in Oregon, while icnces Rather to keep the feet of the
under the bonding plan, others to
settle in Oregon during the next
Quarter of a century, will" help pay
the" cost, as they should.
SAMPLJSS;! --COMMISHIONH
N
EW ORLEANS, with a" popula
tion Of 345,000, is the first
large American city to adopt.
city government by a commis
sion.' Oakland is a pace-maker with
:her 160,000, and 200 lesser ones, in
. varying Uses, make up the roll to
date.
. If any cities which have one
adopted it have discarded this slm:l
pi aid'etfectlve form of municipal
management their names do not ap
pear lit any record with whfh we
, are familiar.
There.are; therefore, in the United
States, no results that can be quoted
from cities 6n a large scale. Wo
hav to go to Geroiahy, where scien
. tifio and Successful City management
ha so far reached It highest point.
Frankfort-on-the-Main has 334,-
97$ people. " It 1 governed by a
burgomaster, and three or four as-
la tbe affairs of .the city.
2tfS,22 ."FT- K6n The 3mV v,ew thftt W Rffrd ltl How did the
erai supervision, out no interference, measure wnuirt vk aawi h Arv. 1 AATHt tiff ay AlonHrtn mi
counts of the cltr for 1911 werd re
ccntly published. ; ' :
The city owns and operates the
electrical power and light plant, the
gas works, the nlunlclpal street car
lines, waterworks, public scales, sub
urban gas,, works', niarkeis, elevator
and storage warehouses, baths, drain
age, garbage incInrators, cattle
yards and.' abattoir, pawn ;sbop,- bar
bor and belt railroad and it equip
ment. '' The receipts of the munici
pality for mi" were $12,729,786
from all sources. Towards this the
municipal'; enterprise contributed
from their jiet profits $1,197,454.
It will be.remembrred that cheap
and effective service fori the people
was the first aim of the administra
tion. ...Profits were' entirely second
ary.
Frankfort Is constantly visited ty
students from all countries, who are
deeply Interested In . tfhia complete
demonstration of the benefits of that
which, In essence, is. commission
government. .
A BILL TO BEAT
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N page 202 of the state booklet
la a bill that ought- to be
beaten.
ft purports to fix the "per
centage that freight rales on less
than carload lots shall, bear to car-
weights and maximum freights, and
providing penalties for violations of
the act." ,
It is a bill that has no business on
a ballot. It deals with a highly
technical subject in the adjustment
of the rates of freight as between
carloads and less than carloads.
There has been no public discus
sion of the principles which are sup
posed to underlie the bill. It Is ac
companied - by' no argnment which
gives the real reasons for such leg
islation Nor has any proposition, such as
Is outlined in the bill, ever been sub
mitted either to the interstate com
merce commission, or to the railroad
commission of Oregon for public
dlscuBBlon and proper. aAion.
Contrary to general impression,
the object of the bill is not xa lower
rates on freight at all. It simply
tries to provide a relationship be
tween carloads and less than car
loads, and this is met just as well by
a high rate as by a low rate. It
proposes the exercise by average
votere of the power to adjust highly
technical rate making, a function
that can only be done by persons
trained on the subject, familiar with
all the laws of transportation and
expert in the general science or rail
roading as related to the industrial,
agricultural and commercial life of
the United. States. .. .
Scarcely a score of men In Oregon
tire sufficiently informed on the gen
eral and highly technical subject of
rate making to have an Intelligent
opinion ou the merits or demerits ot
the measure.
No such, measure' should ever be
on a ballot. Its real purpose Is to
provide a private railroad rate for
certain grocery Jobbing houses: It
is their attempt to secure for them
selves exclusive territory, and for
that purpose, to increase the freight
rates on all the other Industries and
products of Oregon.
The bill should be overwhelmingly
rejected. To go against it on the
ballot, vote number 359.
THE NEW CHURCH HOUSE
T
HE new church house of the
First Presbyterian church, Just
opened in this city, is a prac
tical dmonstrattotrict
tension of the functions of the
church into the world. It is not an
exclusively religious, but a social In
fluence, dealing with all sides of a
man's being, at all ages, feeding the
hunger of the mind for knowledge,
meeting the craving of the young for
lawful and wholesome recreation.
The invitation of the church
house, with its manifold attractions,
appeals specially to the boy and girl
at the most difficult age, when re
straints of home and school are re
laxed, and the temptations of Vanity
Fair are felt In their full power.
As the city grows so grows the
number of the young who are here
without a home in its full sense,
strangers in a strange land. But in
this church house with books, and
musie, and cheerful companionship,
and equality of opportunity is a re-
young In the straight pth,
Of course children are not neglect
ed, In this glorified Sunday school.
In these days we are learning that
tbe eyes as well as the ears of a
child ara gateways to knowledge
both mundane and divine. Here are
provisions for both In the picture
and the story. We older ones may
envy the modern child who
is so
drawn, not driven, to the Sunday
school.
This church house is an invest
ment the fruits of which will be
gathered in the long years tO come.
Throughout her limits, Portland
should be dotted with similar estab-
lishments.
GOVERNMENT I1Y IGNOIUNCB
R
KFERRIXG to the so-called ma
jority amendment, a prominent
Portland business man Writes
The Journal thus:
This amendment, by mftkln It his
Vity, would force th elector to vote.
If a voter does not understand the meas
ure, I would advlBe him, a I would on
any bimlnrsg proposition, td vote no.
How cftn this meanure. If iattA. Aa
1 utu tilr.it I.... .1 t - Initiate sit hat :JTJU1 t-.fi U ftlM WAM. - -
The ac-J posits effect. Indifferent ' voters them?
-I"" " . '-.-.'.'"':-'..f :rpij:Cy--l-
would be encouraged, to ba more in
different. ' Realizing that no-vote
wouia be counted as a vote against
pending bill, the indifferent voter
would take no trouble to examine it
Knowing that -his vote would , be
ccnintedr-.againflt'MtrtoTWouid'-not
give , a whoop whether, the bill was
good os bad. Should the) vote of
such a man be allowed to- kill the
voto of a man who has studied a bill
and by; his TOto tries "to secure its
passage.
Our friend says be. would advise
the elector who does not understand
a measure to Vote no, That is what
thousands of other men are advising,
And additional ' thousands of men
wno ao not understand a measure
are voting no of their own accord
Is4lt fair to add to this long list of
tnose wno vote no because they don't
know, all those who from. Indiffer
ence and 1 lethargy don't care?
Would such an arrayal of indiffer
ence, negligence and Ignorance on
the side of the minority and against
those who have examined and -want
a measure -passed be a fair condi
tion for use of the initiative?
If so, and if the Rending amend
ment is to be adopted on such
grounds, we are to declare not only
for government by Minority, but for
government by Ignorance
CAESAIUSM
B
Y power , of appointment and
dismissal, the president of the
United States has power over
a great army of 411,000 em
ployes. Their combined salaries ag
gregate $385,000,000. an enormous
power pf money for a president to
wield over the politics of a nation.
The president has the power of
veto, and this with the power of
federal' patronage makes him practi
cal master of congress, almost en
abling him to best any measure of
fered for passage, a fact evidenced
In President Taft's double defeat of
the late bills for untaxing food and
clothing.
The president has a power of pres
tige that goes with the presidential
Office that, alone gives his efforts
and demands, an authority beyond
all the power exercised by the king
of England or the emperor of Ger
many. In addition to these and other
great powers, the -Perkins plan
through the Bull .Moose party, .pro
poses to give him imperial power
over the industrial life of the coun
try. It proposes through the. Perkins
commission to give him power to su
persede all state laws and all state
legislatures and all state courts rela
tive to trusts.
It proposes that as to trusts the
president shall assume all the pow
ers now exercised by the congress
of the United States and by the fed
eral courts of the United StateB.
It proposes to make the president
an imperial autocrat fixing wages,
assuring dividends .and providing
safety for the investments in all the
trusts of the United States.
" We are now getting a little light
at Washington on tbe great trust
contriDuuons to presidential cam
paigns when the president had no
power of life and death over big
corporations.
What would Wall street contrib
ute, as the New York World asks,
to the campaign fund of a president
who had power, under the Perkins
plan, to fix a minimum wage?
What would Wall street contrib
ute to the campaign fund of a presi
dent who had power to legalize trust
monopoly?
WhatrWonId.ftiK-treeeontrI'b'
ute'lo the campaign fund of a presi
dent who had the power of life and
death over big business?
What would Wall street contrib
ute to the campaign fund of a presi
dent who had the power to control
the rate of trust dividends?
What would Wall street contrib
ute to the campaign fund of a presi
dent" who had power to Btifle com
petition in the United States?
Are we willing to enthrone at
Washington a George Perkins Cae
sarlsm exercising a monarchial pow
er, which President Taft says, would
be greater than the power exercised
by Caesar or Napoleon, and a greater
power than that exercised by ant
throned monarch now living?
PRACTICAL MBK
G'
EORGB PERKINS of the steel
trust, contributed $50,000 of
life insurance money to the
Roosevelt campaign of 1904.
Frick of the steel trust, contributed
$100,000: Morgan of the steel trust,
contributed $100,000.
After election Mr. Rooserel; per
sonally licensed the ste.l truBt to
absorb It's chief rival, in which
ftT trasfctlOn It took overa $200,000,-
000 property at only $29,000,000,
and without the payment of a single
dollar. That Is hovt the steel trust
was recompensed for its great cam
paign contributions.
Gentlemen of the steel trust and
other trusts are "practical men"
who know exactly what they wjant,
and know exactly what they are, do
ing when they contribute to presi
dentlll Campaigns.
In the presidential campaign of
1804, A rc hbeld eon trl bu ted - $ 1 0 0r
000. George Gould contributed $100,
000. Frick of. the steel trust, con
tributed $100,000. Morgafi of the
steel trust, contributed $100,000.
Jlartiman paised in Wall street and
contributed $260,000. Nobody knows
Letters From tke People
Oommnaictlom tnt to Tht Journal tat
publication In thU department ahould' b
wrltttn on only out aid of tha panar, ahould
not aiewd Sou worda to IcDfta and moat be
toi-ompanled bjr the niuia and addraaa of th
andr. If 4ht ."writer- (Jura not delr to Bare
tna name publlalied. be ahould io itite. -
V
.-'Tax oA hand Jaes.
: Portland. Or.. Oct. 1. To the Editor
of Tha Journal The following-. letter
from the city clerk ofPride. Rupert,
B. C -will ba of,- Interest,, as aheddlng
additional light on the proposition to tax
land values. . "-- f,- x. -
LAND VALUE TAX ADVOCATB.
"Prlnca Rupert, B. C Bept J7.
"In reply to our letter of tha zlat
inat,, bog to say that Improvements in
our city have been exempt from taxa
tion since tha Incorporation of the city
in tha year 1910. Therefore, no change
ha been made. . .
"The population la estimated to . bt
about 6000 and la increasing rapidly, as
Is also the Increase of building and
assessed values of land. The. assessed
value of land and improvements, as
shown by the first assaestnent In 1910,
was 115,300,001, of which the land
umoui.tB to 114,808,360, and the assess
ment of 1912 is X31.88S.585 the land
alone being $19,618,765.
1 He system of exempting improve
ment give general aatlsf action, and I
nave no reason for believing that the
home owners would vote to impose taxes
upon' improvements even had they the
opportunity to do o." 1
Intervention In Mexico.
WestpOrt, Or., Oct! 1. There are TU-
mors of intervention in Mexico, In this
easejnterventloa properly defined means
war of Invasion in the interest of
foreign capitalists, aa well as thoa of
our own perfect American Beauty roses.
Rockefeller, Morgan at al. Yesterday's
Journal says that tba "13, 000,000,000 of
foreign Investments In Mexico are yleld-
ng no Interest." Mothers of America,
I up to you now to be prepared to
kiss your grown up boy good-bye-
many of them for the last time and
send them down to be poisoned by tin
salable packing trust products and killed
by Mexican bullets. - True, those lad
were expensive, cost you much, AU of
you suffered all the pain and terror
of death When! they were. born. Bom of
you will drag the effects of that strug
gle -with you to your grayes. - Your
hands have become twisted and coarse
in your efforts to keep the boy de
cently clean and their clothe whole.
And you, too, daddies, , give the boy
the hearty grip and tell them to writ
often to mother. Never mind the hard-
earned do lata they consumed in food,
clothes and schooling. They are needed
right now In the defense of your coun
try'.' No, your country is afe, but
life and property, -with emphasis on
property," in danger in Mexico. Re
member, this is presidential campaign
year and we need diversion. People are
getting together and talking too much.
Need a foreign war to solidify us.
Mustn't swap bosses In middle of
crick." A, H. SAUNDERS.
Lafferty as a Stand-Patter.
Portland. Or., Sept. 80. To th Editor
of The Journal What an awful blunder
the Bull Moose party made when they
ndursed A. W. Lafferty for congress!
For a so called progressive party to
Indorse such a political adventurer as
Lafferty is sure to cost that entire
ticket thousands of votes. Lafferty Is
genuine standpatter and any over
tures he makes to the Progressive is
not to help th cause but to help Laf
ferty.
Her Is what A. W. Lafferty had to
say about the Oregon system In a speech
at Oresham, Or., n October 33, 1908
The Initiative and referendum Is folly.
Tha recall Is vicious and Statement No,
is a positive violation of th united
States constitution." This is a verbatim
extract of the two hours' standpat talk
which Lnfferty gave, viciously attack,
Ihg the Oregon system and our progres
sivo laws. .
Should th contemptible Lafferty try
to lie out of saying this as he tried to
lie out of writing the "mash" lotter
to th high school girl whom he had
never seen, the reader can find a full
and friendly account of Laffertys
standpat speech In th Oregonian of
October, 24, 1908, page 8,- column 6. The
Oregonian at that time was boosting
Lafferty and giving prominence to th
speeches he made in the 19Q8 campaign.
No man who believe In th Oregon
system should leave a atone unturned
in defeating Lafferty for congress.
R. MEADE.
Protest Against the Hat pin.
ot The Journal Noting an article la
Th Journal respecting tbe hatpin dan
ger, I must certainly agree with the
writer. If a man la not allowed to
Carry a dangerous weapon, It Is high
time that tha law extended to tbe "soft
er sex" My experience with one In
a crowd at the Salem fair corroborates
the evidence of the writer of yesterday.
I nearly had an eye put out and no apol
ogy was offered either by the Wearer,
and I for one demand' the rights of a
citizen to the enforcement of the law,
if there 1 such a one. It 1 even more
dangerous than a revolver. The other
day in the cars one woman had a pair
through her hat that reached out nearly
four inches on either side. I would like
to know why It is necessary for the
villainous- looking thing to protrude
farther than an inch? I, am sur that
the pin at all event does not 'add to
the beauty or "character" of this wearer.
PROTEST.
The W. C. T. U. Convention.
Lents, Or., Oot. 1. -To th Editor of
The Journal It seem to me that the
national convention of the w. C. T. U.
in Portland has not been fully compre
hended by the majority of the people of
Portland.
Do we know all that it will mean
to have this body of worker hold their
convention here, I wonder? I am sure
If we do wo will not lose a moment in
sending our offer of aid to the commit
tees. Let us open our homes for these
Kuesta. The city of Portland wljl re
ceive compound interest on an invest
ment it may make, either of time, hos
pitality or anything else. Every busi
ness house should arrange to decorate
It places with the emblem of purity
the white ribbon with a liberal dis
play of the Star Spangled Banner, for
verily these women ar patriot every
one. L 8.
t The Astoria View.
Portland', Or Oct 2. To the Editor
of The Journal' From th editorials
and new in the daily ores it wnnlrl
"seem a though Portland was alarmed
as to its future as an ocean port It
is in truth facing a crisis in regard
to its marine transportation. The
Ameriean-IiawAttan line baa found it
unprofitable to run it steamer here
for th cargo offered, and this morn
ing's paper say that th East Asiatic
Steamship Co. has refused to send one
of its big liners here to discharge' car.
go to the amount of 2000 tons. These
two line, together with th Harrison
line, Kosmo line, Maple Leaf lin. and
others operate from Europ and Ameri
can Atlantic coast ports to th Pacific
port of the United State as far north
arBflTrX01tin)bIC' but "the'y . do lot
come up, the river to Portland.
It IS safe to say that if the 100a tnn.
of cargo that the A-H lin passed up
because they had to com to Portland
tor u, naa been waning; st Astoria, jt
COMMENT AND
69L1LL CHANGS
Mrs.' Pat Campbell millions are sorry.
Murphy lan't bos of New York state
any-mor.-. ,.,',.,. 1
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Still ail candidates, w notice, are In
the fight to stay. .,,.-. -:::, V---.-:-.-
UTh man t must v,b bigger i than: the
candidal thes .day. : - ,f, -
Everything one sees the days is a
remedy for pes slmlmn. . , '.
-..a : t ' ) :,
"Woodrow "vVilson seems to b a poli
tician pt the right sort. , .
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Mightn't Portland sensibly advertise
for a deteotivo who could detect?
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Neither can politician spoil nor af
fect this glorious October weather.
Thar ar a few Demooratlo Sibley
left, but theyar being. froieu ouU.
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Several names could be mentioned of
men who won't be the next -United
States senator. , -
, . .
You may bet .on election and lose:
but bet on Oregon and you're s.ure to
win. I
. 1
Whether the' money waa much or
little, what did they spend Jt for? What
did they buy with It? '
SEVEN FAMOUS, REBELLIONS
Shays Rebellion.
The Shays rebellion, which takes its
name from the leader of the insurgents,
Daniel Shays, who was a captain in the
Continental army, had It taproot in the
growing spirit of lawlessness, nut ape
clal cause of discontent were traceable
to an unequal distribution of wealth and
excessive land taxation In Massachu
setts, the sole aeat of th outbreak.
Governor Bowdoin and his partystrove
vigorously to reduce the state debt and
keep up the public credit a period of
great punuo depression. bui mis
trained severely the farmers and cltl
sen of moderate means- in th -Inland
town., Private creditors pressed their
debtors, while th state pressed alL At
tachment were put upon the poor man's
eaHle nd teams, and his little home
stead w sacrificed under' the Wierirrs
hammer. It was no sign of prosperity
that the dockets of the country court
were crowded and that lawyers and
court officers put in the sickle.
There wa common complaint of the
high salaries of public officials and the
wasteful cost attending litigation. One
might suppose that a legislature annu
ally chosen would soon remedy this state
of affairs.. But the inhabitants of tha
western countie took th short cut of
resisting civil process and openly de
fying the law. And herein their error
lay.
Shays rallied o large a force of mal
contents about Worcester in the fall of
1786 that the sheriff and, hi deputies
would hav been snapped up greedily.
Those large 8000 ton steamers passing
by from Panama and San Kranolsco to
Puget sound would not hesitate to drop
into Astoria harbor for cargo, but they
won't com 100 miles up the river for
it. We find that we cannot bring the
bla- lincB here, so let us bring them to
Astoria and kocp the freight in the Co
lumbia river, where It belongs- man
Portland would become a greater dis
tributing oolut than she is now, for she
would have dlrecfTervlcaJLjacL of
being dependent on the eteam schooner
from San Francisco, as she now is. 'inis
city would gain a great deal more than
aha would lose by helping Astoria, but
by trying to be the "hog," she will lose
all her prestige a a port, and gain
nothing-. Portland and Astoria should
be fighting together for th Columbia
river Instead of fighting each other and
letting Seattl grab all the trade. The
situation 1 grave. Why not can a
ioint meetina- of the lower uoiumoia
Commercial clubs and discuss it?
Transnortatlon Droblem have changed
In tha last doien years and We now find
th railroads reaching out to meet tne
tamhiD instead of vice . versa, Th
Pennsylvania rallroafl'a ultimata At
lantlo terminu 1 now Portland, Maine,
the idea being to meet the ships nearer
to Europe. A Florida ranroaa nas ex
tended miles out to sea to Key West, to
meet the steamers nearer Cuba,
The Canadian railway are- pushing
down th St Lawrence and ven to
wards Hudson's JJay. Portland la 00m
pared to London, but you find th At
lantic liners ttrrr- at Falmouth- and
Southampton and you take the train th
reat of the way. Portland 1 compared
to Hamburg, but the steamships that
make It a ereat port are owned tnere.
and it 1 always the owner's wish to
have hi vessels load and discharge at
th horn port Look at the stern of al
most any German vessel and you will
see "of Hamburg" painted under the
name. You will look a long time before
you find "of Portland" on the stem of
a seagoing cargo venem. ru iuro
steamers bear It, only one steam schoon
er, and two sailing ships, the latter
making one trip a year to an Alaska
cannery, peruana cannot aepena on 11
own ship to make it a great port
Therefore. If Portland desires to con
tlnu growth and prosperity, it should
make Astoria the port for the Columbia
river. W have lost the ' big steamer
lines ourselves, but It iq not too late to
get them to call at th mouth of th
river aa they pas up the coast.
H. D. O.
World's Naval rowers.
Madras, Or., Sept. 30. To the Editor
of The Journal Will you pleas give
us the rank of the leading nations as
to naval power with the Vmuiber of
vessels. -
PleaB answer soon aa possible.
TJie world naval power' with th
number of modern battleship rank a
follows: Great Britain, 48: Germany,
31; United States 26; France, 15; Japan,
U; Russia, 11; Italy, 10.
The State Aid Bill.
Oregon City. Or., Sept. 80.-To the
fiditor of The ' JournalIn The Dally
Journal of the 26th Inst, I find an edi
torial on "The SUte Aid Bill, discuss
ing th nature and effects of paying
Interest on state road bonds, in which
I think you take an entirely wrong view
of It. it there is any profit or gala
from interest. It must com to whom
soever furnishes th capital. If the
bonds are sold, the men who buy the
bonds reoeive the benefit of th interest
If a direct state road tax of 1 mill is
tvled each year, th taxpayer all get
th benefit of th interest, "a penny
saved is a penny earned, you know.
Th great principle In Question hare is
th different effects of,th two-ways
of raising th funds to build the ro&dl
In the state. The bonding plan throws
the interest ail to th bondholders, and
the direct tax leaves th interest all
1th the taxpayer. If -w bond, one
dollar's worth of work will cost us
I2.S5; if we pay a direct tax, we will
get one"floiiar a worm or work for on
dollar...., Very ..truly, your a.
QEOROB HICUNBOTHAM.
, : Plurality; Is Required.-, ,
Osrstervtlle, Wash.. Sent " 23 ..T th
fiditor of The Journal A claims that
NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Baker Democrat: On hundred and
aixty cans of trout fry were received
in this city yesterday for distribution
in the various streams in this vicinity,
which close the consignment from the
hatcherrto the local territory for this
SBend Bulletin!- Judging from ,th
look of thing at th railroad freight
warenouae nere, one conciuaes inai cen
tral Oregon la enjoying prosperity, a
it in. Tha hlir hnlldlns- i full of aTOOdS.
thA Tilntformn am nllpd hlarh and addi
tional carloads ar arriving every day
" Kugene Register:' A. W. Weaver and
Albert B. Weaver of Thurston and Olon
Denning of Springfield have returned
from a hunting uTp on th south' fork
of the McKenzfe. , A. W. Weaver claim
he has . broken the record In killing thre
rU-er in 15 second. H Says if anyone
can beat this he will go ovrt. and pull
off another stunt ttll more atartUng
in character. . (
nurni Tlm.TTra.ld! Th Bill Moun
tain Jlagla at Canyon City say there Is
& nnnr mnrkot in Burns for fruit, and
money conditions are responsible. This
is .a mistaKe. xne tact j wo irj
fina apple crop and th market Is sup
plied with the looal product, which ae-
counts lor me stow mium uj. m
Day fruit. - Harney county raise a
Aa nf fruit and in a short. time
ihere will be none shipped in from other
points. ., 7 ,, . , 0
were powerless- against them, and no
court could be held. This first success
of the Massachusetts insurgents alarmed
the friends of order throughout the
union. Congress, by this time an adept
In atealthy and--diplomatic methods, of
fered secret aid to the authorities of
Massachusetts upon the pretext of dls
patching troop against the Indiana
But the tender waa not accepted, for In
James Bowdoin th stat had an exec
utlve equal to the emergency. , Bow
doin availing himself of a temporary
loan from patriotio citizens, he raised
and aouipped a- mUltla - f ore- larg
enough to overawe th rebels, which,
under General Lincoln's command, waa
promptly marched against them.
Shays appear to have more ef, the
demagogue than warrior about him, and
his followers fled as the troop aa
vnncod, being finally surprised and rout
ed at Petersham, February 4, 1787. By
winter civil order was restored, but the
legislature made concessions not less
just than prudent. The vanquished reb
els were treated with marked clemency.
But Governor Bowrtoln's energy lost hint
a reflection in louowmg spring, ana
one of the manliest pioneers of conti
nental reform was remitted to prlvat
Ufa for the rest of his days. To him
succeeded the veteran Hancock, whos
light hone through a horn lantern of
vanity and love of popular applause.
Tomorrow Dorr Rebellion.
electoral vote than Taft and Wilson
together; B maintains that a plurality
only. Is necessary. Which la correct?
A. 15. PREUTT.
A plurality of electoral. votes is neces
sary to th election of a presidential
nominee.
Taxation.
Portland, Oct. 1 To th Editor Of
The Journal In the Sunday Journal
George W. McCoy tells of two straw
votes, his object being to discredit tax
reform. Naturally so. He holds land
and lota In various counties and either
holds them out of use or exacts "all
th traffic will bear" for their use, and
that he know how to keep hi taxe
down is shown by his own figures of 6
cents per acre for wheat land in Sfasto
county. But what did his renter pay In
taxes on his stock and tools, furniture,
etc. The Alberta man paid 10 oent per
acre on his land and not one' cent on
stock, tools or furniture. I know many
wheat farmers in Wasco county, but
don't know one working fanner who
gets off at 10 cents per acre tax on
his land.
After all, that is but puerile argu
ment when a great measure Ilk the
graduated specific tax measure la be
fore the people What have Mr. Mc
Coy' taxe to do with the enormous
injustice of th Southern Pactflo and
th wagon road land grants of this
state, th waterpower grab and th
untaxed franchises that draw millions
of iJlar5 to tribute for naonl of,
mis stater
-JEveryona who- favor the retention of
th ownership of franchise by th peo
ple, for tha benefit of the people, for
alt tim to com should voto 34X yes
on .November 5.
Everyone who favors allowing th
tana grant noiaing corporations to con
tribute something to the state treasury
xor tne privilege or holding one-third f
the state out of use should laugh to
scorn the poor foOl that tells them tha
py so aomg tney win lose their homes,
dubt. me oanKs, ruin tne insurance com
panle. destroy prlvat property and
rung tne country into chaos and work
ing men into direful distress, and calm
ly vote 864X yes on election dv.
Everyone who favor putting rich and
poor on an equal footing In matters of
taxation on personal property and of
laying taxes where they cannot be
dodged or evaded will vote S64X yes,
ana it iiooa itiver or any other com
munlty votes 8 to 1 against It, it will
be because they do not understand; be
cause tney nave been deceived or be
fuddled by Shields and his swarm of
petty knockers, prevaricator and ml,
representors that wander over the state
and talk of everything but the question
before the people CITIZEN.
Woman Suffrage.
Clackamas, Or.. Oct 2. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. Should women
vote? Certainly woman should vote
whenever h Is able to omnia ir
own political party, hold her own elec
tions and elect her own candidates,
Whon woman- proves, to . the world that
ah Is capable of elf government and
abji to make wis Jaws, she will not
have'to ask man for th baHot. .But
rather man wll come to our .polls, take
ore ins nat ana bsk women for the right
to east til vote. VIOLA BURR
Pointed Paragfrapns
Bvary man is the hero of his cine
dreams, -
it takes bin tailors to finish a aaif.
mad man.-
'Their Is nothing mora convincln thm
eloquent silence.
- j j
Most of us get what wa dcsr Ki,
fall to refcognlx it.
You can always get somth!n for
noining ii in lorm or aavice.
Th man who put hi best foot for.
ward never has many kick coming.
After his fiftieth birthday a man
doesn't hav to pay th fiddlr so often.
A man has an awful tlm when hi
wife is sway from horn and he ji1h
Fighting the Deadly
Habits ., ..
J
SamueL Morw'in In 'American MagH-nln
Towps looked about him and faw
world soddetj with .alcdhol, da.e'l wit!
drugs and befuddled wUh tolu;.i'o. 1T1
saw the terrific pressure of ccnuncrctuj
need and steed driving theSo habits It ,
upon' us from every quarter. n saw
that many druggists were feeding thu
resulting abnormal desire almost with
impunity.'; tile saw physicians casually I
employing alcohol where It was nelthet
Indicated nor needed, and leaving Id
their wak a gloomy trail of morphin
ists many Of thes latter actually vio-
tims of the hypodermic syringes, left'
in their hand by physicians. ? H gath..
ered Information -t regarding. Conditions
In tha so-called prohibition tattis, and
waa 'himself astonished , by what he !
found: In f Vermont, for' example;' the :
inquiries of Dr. Aehabe! P.AGrlnnell,;
dean of the Vermont Medical' college,
had led to the conclusion' that, follow
ing the prohibition of. liquor the drug
habit had grown until ' reports ' from '
druggist indicated consumption of
opium and its derivatives amounting to
one and one half grams per day . for;
every man, woman and child in th
state. And this apart from the alco-,
nolle patent , medicines that crowded ' in
to take tha place of the franker atim-.
Ulants. '-. ; v ' 'JVp' A-'.'
He saw, all. about him, nion and wo
men going down under this scourge. II J
saw ' nervous women, an astonishing
number of them, habitually taking trio- :
nal, sulfonal, veronal and thi other ooal""
tar derivatives and commonly; under ,
th Impression- that no bad habit-would .
result Many were even so Informed
by Physicians. And he coined the phrase
driving a hard fist Into the palm of
the other muscular hand by way or .em
phasis "I tell you, anything that acts
like an opiate, i an opiate!" . , . ,T
He saw that nearly every one or th
more than 6000 case that had. passed
under his own observation had a his
tory of excessive tobacco smoking H -saw
man after man, discharged from '
his hospital and fre from deslr for
his fatal stimulant, resume tobaoo
smoking and thus lay th foundatldhs
for a relapse. And h launched 'jLhmjJl
pnrase: -smoKing is always a baa uung,
and inhaling tobacco Is Just as lui
Jurious as moderate opium amoklng!"
11 saw thousand of misguided men.
and women, particularly among tba low...
er classes, tak to cocaine to sooth their s
nerves and stimulate their jaded facul
ties. He studied these cases for years.
He arrived at a conclusion, summed up .
in the phrase: "Cocaine provides th .
shortest out to th insane asylum. It
takes them there across lot!".
II saw sentimentalists and extrem
religionists trying to reform the fallen '
by appeal to a confused and warped
moral sense. He studied these cases. H"
arrived- at the conclusion that it IS un;
fair and useless to appeal to a diseased
mind. He gave up wasting word on
thorn. "The tlm to talk," he said. "Is"
after the medical treatment is finished.;
What's the use? They aren't them-
selves. Their minds ar muddled and .
twisted. Got to get that twist out first"
A great many of his case came to -
him after .a history of year In sana-
torlums and "institutions." Many had
spent long terms of years and tens of
thousands of dollars In the pitiful Strug.
gle. In practically every case it was a
story of attempted substitution of Htlfn
ulant or gradual reduction of th dflse. v
And In practically every case it had
ben "bo much a week, with extrn."
Towns saw Into all this saw all '
around it and behind It, and arrived at
several conclusions. One was that?
withdrawal" and "reduction" are never. .
cure. Such treatment may even be dan
gerous, particularly in the case of a
confirmed alcoholic or morphinist - Th
first step must be a medical obllterar
tion of the craving. -
Always in Good H
umor
ILLUSTRATING THE DIFFERENCE.
'What 1 your profession Or trader
asked the lawyer of th witness, ao-
cording to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
"Well, I'm a kind of a carpenter."
"A kind of a carpenter, eh? . What
kmd of a carpenter?"
"They call me a Jack-leg." .
They do? Well if they call you that .
you probably ar one. - Will you pleas -
explain to the Jury 'the differeno b--?
tween a Jack-leg carpenter and a real
carpenter?"
"I I can't tell you th difference, but
I can glv you an example."
Well, sir, go i ahend
-ffi "thW'sam "dif f e'renc as Stwa
you and a real lawyer."
Ttt-Blts
Chairman (addressing a mtfiis)i
"I am sur we will all b very sorry
our aaoretary is not her tonight I
can not say we miss '1 vacant chair,
but 1 do say we miss 'is vacant faoa5
Puck
"Mordecai Judson,H 'roared Colonel,
White, had been aroused In th mld-s
die of the night by a suspicious nblss
In hi poultry houe. "is that you la
there, you black thief?". "
"No, ah!" humbly replied a frighten
ed voice. "Dls is muh cousin, Ink Jud
son, dat looks so much Ilk in and
steal everything h kin lay his dog.
gawn han'a on. Ah at horn dls mln- ,
ut, sab, uh-sleeplng d sleep o'
Jest." -
Kansa City Journal
"What do you propos to ay on th
stump?"
"I think I'll stick to th American
flag and tha grand old forefather of
th republic. Things ar too mlxd In
my district thl year." , - K
A SAD DISCOVERT.
From the Cleveland Plain 'Dealer"
To swat a fly Is to commit a murder,
declares a Denver sentimentalist T, It,
is tOo, late to Insert a plank forbidding
the swatting 'of flies. .
A NATURAL MI ST A KB. ,
.From the Plttaburg Post." -
"Why didn't you arrest that matt
when 1 denounced him as a pickpocket ?"
demanded th Irate cltlsfln. -
"I thought it wan just a litti polit
ical dlsousslon," explained the police
man. Warning to tke
Voten of Orefon
The proposed amendment to th stat I
constitution which win appear on thl
official ballot In November as "No
J08-8," If It carries, will take away from
th people th right to goverh them;,
selves in taxation matters and return!
to , tha-Jeglslaturs -and-prdatoty ; snd -prlvat
interests ,th power to "reguA
late" and "arrange" taxation measured '
the inference birig that the neonu . Jt'
not Intellectually competent to passVW
uivu mrnvn vitiligo si in polls. EVt-rf
voter who. believes , h. peopl ahould
rule and who" believes "unequal taxatloi '
is robbery," and who further Vinv.
tfiatT7IOeHp78-aTlheTaIlo't boTihould'
hav the right to pas won -taxation
measures, before they become effective,
should vote No, 309 . "No," and thus pre
vent thqf amendment from becoming th
"law of Oregon." . , c. 8. JACKSuK.
i
l b iMt(L Roosevelt must hav mors
clean souks.
Portland. Sept 10, Ipz, , ;