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' DAILT AND SUNDAY.
fn TT (T.DO I-Ona month t .AS
It ia hot untU we Tmve passed
through the furnace that we ar,
' made to know how much dross
' thore Is la our corriponitlon.-
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TIIE LOGICAL MAN
QES Mr. Selling approve the
piethods employed in the fight
. on Senator Bourne?
Does Mr. Selling indorse the
" Oregonian,'s attack on Bourne re
specting Oregon reclamation funds?
j" . til not, Mr. Belling should come out
In the open and repudiate it. Mr.
,'Bowerman .fiddled on the reclama
tlon string in the campaign of 1918,
And was beaten more than 6000
votes, The palpable unfairness of
the reclamation attack will cost Mr.
Selling votes.
:-The Oregonian cannot, in ten
thousand years, make Oregon peo-
'ple believe that the Oregon senators
are alone responsible for the change
- Ia the reclamation law.
-x 7The measure was originated by
Mr. Taft's fecretary of the interior,
and Mr. Taft approved it. The whole
power . of the Taft administration
was -paek'of and pushed the change
through congress.
'But the Oregonlan is supporting
Mr.' Taft: Is it supporting him be
cause he nd his interior department
7 helped put the reclamation program
through, and fighting Bourne be
cause the reclamation program went
through? Does Mr. Selling approve
that kind of tactics?
The jOregonlan says the two sen
ators should have stopped the bill.
Why didn't the two Oregon con
gressmen stop the bill? One of them
was on the very committee that made
. the Original report favoring the new
. reclamation program. If the sena
tors were to be blamed, why wasn't
mills to blame? Why wasn't Con
gressman Hawley to blame?
iTbe measure went through the
-lioaeefirstrWHl thetwoeongTeesmett
did not even notify the senators of
the change. The two congressmen
Me-Oregea iee-flsew
pie . to help
protest, agaiuai me
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"change. . ' " "r
I Yet the Oregonlan Is now boosting
jrt, Hawley for reelection. Is it do
ing so because of the reclamation
program and fighting Mr. Bourne be
cause of the reclamation program?
Does. Mr. Selling Indorse that kind
ef tactics?
The reclamation fight on Mr.
Bourne Is knowingly and wantonly
false. It didn't elect Mr. Bowerman.
It-won't elect Mr. Selling. Mr. Sell-
-ingehoutd repudiate it publicly asf4. ,,,,,, . t, ,., . .
. .j . .. . , . i ticket as favorable to British inter
unwarranted, unfair and unjust.
If
not, he will lose votes.
- Meanwhile thin vindictive fight be
tween, the Selling and Bourne forces
uLee ex-Mayor Lane the logical can-
- didate for senator. He should be
made- the compromise man. The
Belling : group charges Senator
Bourne with repudiating the pri
. mary. The Bourne group charges
. tft-lii :.L m
-TJCTiing w it n t i u i hti on or xne corrnpx
3- practices act. Both sides are bitter.
They are smearing each other with
"accusation, charges and invective.
Harry Lane is under no charge.
He has violated no corupt practices
act. He has repudiated no primary.
Lane is the man.
BLACKMAIL TOLL PAYING
T
IHE Becker trial in New York is
the most startling instance in
this decade of the purchase of
criminal immunity by black-
- mailing police. It has taken murder
to rend the veil that covered, not
, one but an hourly succession of such
crimes.
It is well to remember Woodrow
Wilson's powerful simile. "Jt is not
.w.the uncovering of the cesspool but
the rtolerated existence of the putri
.fylDgmass below that Is the offense."
., But only !n its dramatic climax
, does the Rosenthal career differ
- from innumerable predecessors. The
, Lexow committee of 18 94 and the
"'Maget committee of 1899 are notable
.Instances of evidence without end
followed by a spasm of apparent vir
tu, and then a lapse jnto conditions
where the swept and garnished house
la" entered by seven devils worse than
- the first, who there take up their
abode.
' The Rosenthal tragedy lasted less
- than eight short months, in that
'time tt was played out to the bitter
end,
' Flf et Is" the ambitious gambler,
anxious to graduate Into the gam
bling; house proprietor. Then the
head Of the "strong arm squad" of
the New York police finds In him the
tool and accomplice to provide a big
share of the plunder of the Datrona
oay. or prosperity comes next. Then
the denied - demand for premature
. spoils, and the quarrel. The gam
.Mcr, in revenge, ' Invokes the law.
Turned down In torn by the mayor,
the commissioner of police, and the
I'-trlx&tCv-to. .galas the ear of the
district attorney and tells his tale
The presjs publishes, it. . The district
attorney promises investigation. The
final scene is quick; to arrive. No
Italian camorra acted more quickly
or more ruthlessly. That midnight
the gray automobile, filled with' the
brayos of the twentieth ; century,
draws up at the sidewalk of the Ho
tel Metropole on . Broadway. , The
doomed man is Inred out to his fate
by a false frlendUPlstol shots ring
out and the gambler sinks' to' the
pavement, a dead man who can tell
no tales. -
The marked feature of this mur
der is the number of participants.
The decree of death having gone out
there is no lack of executioners. Sev
en are under trial, with what result
remains to be seen. Two of the four
automobile murderers are still miss
ing from the prisoners' dock.
Now, it is plain enough that the
city and the nation are facing, not!
an accident but a disease. There j
should be no hesitation in applying
remedies. .
ew York-ir now the awful exam-
ple. But every city where any se
cret connection exists between crim
inals and the agents of the law may
witness cases identical In germ and
origin if not in severity. How to
cifre it is the question of the day.
MK. MASON'S QL'KRY
0
N this page, A. L. Mason asks
what The Journal receives for
supporting Woodrow Wilson.
Not one penny. Not a cent
was ever received by The Journal for
its advocacy of any man or any meas
ure. No influence, no promise, no
threat, no hope of private reward
ever influences to the extent of a
child's breath the editorial utter-
ances of The Journal.
Thjs
newspaper knows but one
test. What is true, what is fair,
what Is just as to measures and men
are the guide by which It reaches
conclusions and advances Ideas. It
Is not a newspaper of dollars but a
newspaper of humanity. It Is not
a publication of mammon, but a pub
lication of human welfare. It holds
Its-utterancca na-sacred as a-frre-side
and deems Its responsibility to
the people as inexorable as Justice.
What It advocates is as sacred to
The Journal as survival and as un
purchasable as life.
The Journal Is for Woodrow Wil
son because convinced that his elec
tion seriously concerns the welfare
of 100,000.000 people. It is con
vinced that WoodroW Wilson will
take all the people into the partner
ship and no longer allow the trusts
to run the country.
Tt is convinced that Woodrow
Wilson is another Lincoln, and the
greatest constructive statesman who
has appeared in- this country' In a
generation. It is convinced that Mb
election will be the becinnlnsr of a
and purified enoch in American
political me, ana tor mat reason,
and no other, It appeals for his suc
cess. "Now if Governor Wilson's elec
tion is sure, what further need is
there for more money," asks Mr.
Mason.
No election Is won until the votes
are counted. Blaine was beaten
over night and by a single utterance
a week before the election in 1884.
The Sackvllle-West letter advising
ests" is popularly believed to have
beaten Cleveland in the last days of
the campaign of 1S8S.
One hundred thousand dollars of
the I2C0.G.00 Harriman campaign
contribution in 12 04 waa used in
New York and In the last few days
of the campaign, and it was boasted
that, "it changed 50,000, votes, makr.
lag,. a .differfince.,.Qt 100,000 ia ins
final result."
The Woodrow Wilson fight must
be continued until election day, and
it costs money to spread AVoodrow
Wilson literature and send out
Woodrow Wilson speakers. The
struggle cannot be abandoned. It
must be kept up to the last day
when the fighting will be fiercest.
A BILL TO BEAT
T
HE initiative bill respecting car
load and less than carload ship
ments raises the rate on agri
cultural implements 15 to 20
Pr
cent. Tt will make the ship
ment of cattle in less than carload
lots almost impossible.
Its tendency will be to increase the
freight on farm products generally,
while the chief end served will be to
establish a sort of exclusive jobbing
zone for persons engaged in the
wholesale grocery business.
Those behind the bill should have
gone before the railroad commission
with their plan. That is what a rail
road commission is for. The com
mission would quickly grant the
changes desired if there Is merit in
them.
Why have a railroad commission,
and then, as In the 'case of this bill,
attempt to constitute. the whole peo
ple into a railroad commission?
The bill should be beaten.
AT NINETY
A'
T Salem Thursday
John Minto, the venerable
Oregon pioneer, was guest of
honor at a banquet tendered
him
by prominent cltizpns in cele
bration of his 90th birthday.
His span of life wtretchps hack to
the- admlnistmttoirof rrmSehX Mon
roe. The population of the country
was then only about 10,000,000. The
Missouri compromise, under which
jaaisBuun was admitted iffto ther
union as a slave 6tate, and which la
one of the landmarks in American
history,- was but a year and '"'eight
months old when Mr. . Minto was
born. ) , . , '
Mr.jMInto was neatly 39 years old
when Fort Sumpter was fired on by
the Confederates. Ha has lived un
der the administrations of twenty-
two presidents Monroe, Quincy
Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Harri
son, Tyler, folk, Taylor,. Fillmore,
Pierce, "Buchanan, Lincoln, Johnson,
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur; Cleve
land, Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt
and Taft.
It is a long and eventful career.
It saw Oregon reclaimed from the
wilderness and peopled by a busy
population. .
It is a "career unstained by scan
dal and everywhere contemplated
with respect for its sobriety, Its prog
ress, and its patriotic integrity. Mr.
Minto, on the downhill side of life,
has the unbounded respect of a wide
circle of friends, who revere - the
early pioneers for their Uvea and
their works.
THE PRESIDENT'S PLAN
P
Ri;SlDET TAFT is out with a
plan which he says will reduce
the high cost of living. It is a
proposal for state and national
land mortgage banks through which
fanners may borrow money at lower
Interest, and be able thereby to grow
farm products more cheaply.
It lu.not the farmers who are mak
ing the cost of living high. Lower
Interest would be good enough in Its
way but it is not the interest farm
ers are paying that makes the cost
of living high.
What the farmers want is choaper
agricultural Implements, and when
the farmer's free list bill for making
agricultural implements cheaper was
presented to President Taft, he ve
toed it.
What the farmers want and what
everybody wants Is cheaper clothing,
but when Mr, Taft received the La
Follotte bill to untax clothing and
break the stranglehold of the cloth
ing trust on American consumers,
he vetoed It. It was the first veto
of the kind ever presented by an
American president.
:hat-the-farmra wantr-what -the
builders of buildings, brideea and
railroads want, what the I ie owner
wants, what everybody wants Is
cheaper structural steel, cheaper en
gines, cheaper tools, cheaper wire
fencing, cheaper stoves and cheaper
steel and iron products of all kinds.
But when congress presented Mr.
Taft with a bill reducing the tariff
on steel and iron products, he ve
toed it, fastening the hold of the
steel trust more firmly on American
consumers and adding further to the
high cost of living.
What the American people want is
deliverance from the Jokers In the
Payne-Aldrich tariff, whieh increased
the cost of living ten per cent In
1911 and is sending the cost of liv
ing still further skyward in 1912.
But President Taft by hit signature
put the Payne-Aldrlch "tariff law
into effect, and afterward declared
It to be "the best tariff ever en
acted."
The chief factor in the high cost
of living is the power of monopoly
and price fixing exercised by the
trusts, and which Is strictly prohib
ited by penalty of imprisonment un
der the criminal section of the Sher
man law. But in President Taft's
time, and in Theodore Roosevelt's
time as president no trust magnate
was ever jailed.
In the llyht of three years and
seven mouths of his presidency, Mr.
Taft Is pathetic when he comes for
ward with cheap interest rate for
farmers as a solution for the hl,jh
cost of living. .
FAKE PROMOTERS
O man In Oregon Is In better
position to understand the
need for repressing swindling
corporations than is Secretary
Olcott.
Confiding investors who have been
bftten by the purchase of bogus se
curities write him asking informa
tion about the companies that did
the fleecing. Oregon women and
Oregon men whose savings have been
gathered in by the glib talk and glit
tering prospectuses that are the main
assets of a certain class of corpora
tions write to inquire of the secre
tary of state as to the standing or
responsibility of some concern that
long ago absorbed their savings.
The same inquiries are made by in
vestors abroad, and often the reply
that the secretary is forced to make
is, that tbe company was long ago
dissolved.
It was such circumstances that di
rected the attention of Secretary Ol
cott to the need of a Blue Sky law.
It was in an effort to protect those
who are being fleeced that Mr. Ol
cott along with a committee from
one of the Portland public bodies
has prepared the pending Blue Sky
bill and proposed It under the ini
tiative. Kansas has passed a Blue Bky law,
and is glad of it. California is pre
paring to pass one. So is Washington.-
So are Georgia, Texas and Illi
nois. The movement is swiftly
spreading throughout the country.
The Olcott bill should be adopted
overwhelmingly. It is a crime
against Oregon and a crime against
morals for fake promoters to be li
censed to go out and swindle.
An VnbosKcd Convention.
Krrmi the Now York American.
Tfl jflrjgt-f-ree find, upea xonveutio..of
tlie Now York Democracy In a quarter
of a century has named William Sulzer
of New York and Martin Glynn of Al
bany, as its candidates for governor
and lieutenant governor.
No boss's edict, no unit vota at
delegations, no barter and no trade, but
ine simpie, pin-ni prererenee or unsought
aad-wibuUiad .4lgata haa- placed - et
the head of the stats ticket tba two most
popular and eligible Democrats In the
tate. '
When th Prorresaive convention
made it epontaneoue choice of Oecar
Straus the American declared thet the
naming- "of that able, accomplished and
tamiesa citizen would raise the level
of state DoUttce."
j' The American's prophecy is already
fulfilled! The Republicans at Saratoga
broke down - the : machine manlpula
tlone of the corporation lawyer, Root.
and the political profligate, Barnes, and
nominated the honest and independent
job Hedges. ' r "-- .
The Democracy has learned the uplen
did heBon of the hour. . and the value
ana giory or us tree convention is in
dicated la Its admirable and winning
ticket. .. i ' ,.'
It would be difficult to find a flaw
In the two splendid candidates pre
vented by the unbossed Democrat at
Hyracuee to the votera or New XorK.
The American, with an eye single to
the best interests of the state and the
party, has advocated Mr. Sulzer and
Mr. Glynn with a dally presentation of
their exceptional fitness to the times
and -to- th -need of tho- party-
. WUllatn - Sulstr bas bad - from his
youth a passion for public service that
amounted to consecration. He has never
manifested the slightest greed for
money. In -a quarter century of con
secutive and vigorous public life, in an
age orTeTnHTTnessanar gTarTptmsr--na
never been uttered by friend or foe the
slightest Imputation upon his integrity
or sincerity. It Is not possible to con
ceive of William BuUer in connection
with graft or public scandal.
Letters From trie People
(CowmuBleattona aent to Tbe Journal for
publication In tbla department hoold be
wrlttun on onlr ona aid of tba Dapef. should
not etcMd 800 words to Itngth and must b
accompanied by tba name ana auaraaa oi in
sender. It tbc writer dots uot daalra.to bar
tba name published, ba abiuld ao atata.
A Plea for the Convict.
North Plains, Or.. Oct. 8. To the Edi
tor of Tbe Journal Those who oppose
paroling prisoners are prone to forget
the effect of the harsh prison treat
ment upon those confined there and
urge that they 'shall suffer to the fullest
extent in every possible way while held
In confinement It is quite probable
that a prisoner treated with such rigor,
without sympathy and oomfort, will sink
into a precarious state, becoming pusil
lanimous, with nothing to look forward
to but a few years Of confinement and
then a future among his fellows by
whom he will be shunned and vllll
fled. The prison record he will be un
able to efface, and the appellation of
ex-convict will be deemed sufficient
to Justify the hostility of all society.
Ha will h rarinrftrt to a preparlou anil
vagabond existence, caring nought what
becomes of him and heeding little the
effect Of his actions upon those who
have been so little concerned regarding
his sufferings.
What we are endeavoring to do is to
root out crime, and we must go abut
it In the most forcible as well as tho
most humane way. It Is Impossible tc
Impose a life sentence for a minor of
fense, and yet we fear to release the
offender letst he return to society to
commit greater crime.
Is It likely that a term of Imprison
ment amid .unsympathetic surroundings
will Implant In his heart a love bf the
society to which he returns, a society
which he returns, a society which looks
on him with distrust and scorn? How
much easier it will be to fall the sec
ond time than when he was surrounded
by those wh respected him. Will it
not be more practical as well as more
ChrlBtllke to send him Out with a feel
ing of gratitude?
Is It not more human to secure em
ployment for him and sand him to those
who .have a.-friendly Interest- in- him
before his time has expired, if he has
exhibited an exemplary deportment?
Will he not feel that he has been be
friended by the state and owes her a
debt of gratitude? Or shall we use our
full power and keep him In confinement
his full term, then send him forth to
a society which repulses? In the latter
case, will he not feel that th atat has
punished him to the limit of its power!
' ' z I
and that he owes It nothing?
If w could but put our released pris
oners to some useful employment and
cause them to realize that we need their
service and spread out a broader field
of usefulness before them, surrounding
ttrem witu a, inenaiy atmospnere, X am
sure crime committed by ex-convlcts
would be to a great extent averted.
ALTA BLACK.
Challenge to Charles II. Shields.
Liberty Home Orchards, Oct. 11, 1912.
To the Editor - of Th Journal. In
The Journal of October S there was pub
lished a letter from Charles H. Shields,
secretary of the Oregon Equal Taxation
league, which for misrepresentation of
facta takes first prize. Previously to
the Hood River meeting at which Mr.
Shields spoke, I received an Introduc
tion to him. In our conversation he
admitted that he was willing to discuss
our various initiative tax measures. wlfh
any single tax advocate In the state,
barring three. He named the three. 1
then asked him if he was willing to
meet Hon. W. S. U'Ren. He said he
was. After the meeting was over I an
nounced our intention relative to this
discussion. He approved it before the
audience, stating that his time was ar
ranged for up to October 2, and any
time auer that date he would meet
Mr. U'Ren at Pine Grove grange hall.
He also told me privately how the
time should be divided. I communicated
this to Mr. U'Ren and it was very sat
isfactory to him. Mr. Shields says he
has received no communication from
Pine Grove grange.
Now, I would ask him if he did not
admit to me that he had received a let
ter from Brother John H. Mohr rela
tive to this matter. Brother Mohr and
I are both members of the committee
to secure speakers. And did he, or did
he not, receive a personal invitation
from me to meet Mr. U'Ren at our
hall? How much more would he have
us do to secure his services? My per
sonal invitation to him and the an
nouncement made to the public, to
which he agreed, and the letter he ad
mitted he received from Brother Mohr,
whch he haa never answered, should
be sufficient invitation for any ordi
nary person.
Now if Mr. Shields will agree to meet
Mr. U'Ren here, as he promised to do,
those who heard him will hav no
cause to doubt his sincerity, but other
wise we will weigh his sincerity In the
same balance as his statement of facts
relative to this proposed debate.
Awaiting Mr. Shields' early reply,
A. I. MASON.
Improvements Not Taxed.
Portland, Oct. tl, 1912. To the Editor
of The Journal. In The Journal of Oc
tober 7, George W. McCay falls into an
error that Is natural enough, regarding
the matter of taxation. He assjirne
that because improvements are assessed
In PrinceItupert, B. C, that they are
taxed. Two very different things. This
is not the case in any of the British
Columbia cities exempting improve
ments from taxation;"" They Sfe assessed'
Just the same.
He iiolnts out that railroads are build
ing in Svestern Canada, that virgin soil
IS open to settlement, that population
la rushing In. Of course. Railroads
could have ben built 20 years ago there.
population onngs them. What bring
population? Th fact of exemption in
targs measure front punishment for im
proving land and building homes and
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
-r; SMALL CHANGS 7
Coopsrative stores ars bound to come,
Again It is about time for predictions
y .jMmu .winter,1 v-- .y; , .ai..;..v
- h??' J1 10 muc the middleman
and his absoitlons.!rr-,-'---.'--r--,-.r..vr-.
.'--, ,"i - - -.
. The flick Msn of Europs is having
n .H,n many a year since the
vouiuurms nave Deen so perked up.
' On assessor there is no doubt what-
aivery oig tax-doager will vote.
'..' , ''.,
.CM ek" of increasingly warm
weather, then a killing frost-political-
'" ' 7 " " :
A pole department continually has
without Wlthi" itself as weU 89
' '' ' ' '"
trJllLI n?nt ought not' to have to
go begging at least not often or long
at s time.
a a
a"r-.r?,n . '.!?e rTlstratlon. there
are "quite a few" regular Republicans
around here yet, .
a
Hello, thou lowly caterpillar, we like
your coat If- as Mr Doarh tt
means a mild winter.
That's the kind nf h.v,n
games for awhile, to increase the in
terest and gate receipts.
Many ceonle anm in oanm ,ht
for Roosevelt's course Taft would have
been elected; but that la not at all cer
tain. -
a
The treat
shows that the ex-president, in regard
u, o- coniriDution was mis
taken. e ,
What an ancient, wrtnkiix aitti,
baldheaded, knock-kneed, toothless thing
that rA . J ... ..
Jp V... I . 1 , u" oualoo is. let the
Taftites bring it out again.
SEVEN FAMOUS LAWGIVERS
Confucius.
Confuciua was the great Chinese law-
giver. Born of the people, at an early
age the great Chinese sage was induced,
by the disregard for law among his
countrymen, to examine more closely
the ancient writings and satisfied of
their teachings to check existing evils,
he began to gather pupils. For many
years he taught them until he became
recognized, as well qualified to rule and
avlseTirnTe affairs of state. When he
was 31 years of age he was able to grat-
uy ni wisn to enter public service.
The ideal of Confucius, to the attain
ment of which all his efforts and teach
ings were directed, was a condition of
happy tranquility throughout the em
pire. He conslderedthat this could be
accomplished by maintaining the eacred-
ness of the five obligations of human
society, viz., those between sovereign
and minister, father and son, husband
and wife, elder and younger brother, and
between friends, all persons faithfully
perrorming the reciprocal duties arising
from each relationship. He olaimed an
almost unlimited authority for the sov
ereign over the minister, father over the
son, husband over the wife, alder broth,
er over the younger; and enjoined kind
and upright dealings among friends,
thus inculcating as his leading tenets
subordination to superiors, anj virtuous
conduct. In harmony with the practical
character of his system, he laid special
stress upon the care and education of
the -young, which- he Tegarfled asth
foundation of the welfare of the state.
His teachings In regard to political
and social morality are based essentially
upon the same grounds: His idea of
government was a paternal despotism.
But on the other hand, ascribing great
Importance to the power of example, he
Insisted upon personal rectitudn and
. .
Da government as The pledges and ar
guments for a ruler's maintenance,
The general tendency of the philoso
phy of Confucius Is good; and com
pared with that of Greece and Rome, it
takes precedence by the purity of its
teachings and the attention paid to the
rules governing the common Intercourse
of life, but Is inferior to them In pro-1
vub.iuui, ,iiB Leaguing VUIJ-
fuclus seldom referred to the great
problems of human condition and des
tiny. To hia practical mind the consid
eration of theology and metaphysics
seemed uncertain; and he evaded, if h
did not rebuke, hi disciples when they
carrying on business. One. thing react
on another for .. progress and for
development. We, have virgin soli
in Oregon, but It is not for sale
at any price, over tracts . of millions
of acres. We have a better climate, a
better market, a better state; but in
western Canada the railroads are going
out of the land business, and In Ore
gon they are the biggest kind of land
speculators.
He speaks of personal property as if
It came from th skies and never
touched the earth. No great amount
of such property can be held without
land to hold It on. Of course, diamonds
and money can be, but they pay no
taxes now. There Is not $10,000 of
value In diamonds assessed in Oregon
to private persons. There are more rag
carpets assessed than that.
Vote "384 X Yes" and give Oregon
a boom. ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
That Largest Sunflower.
Coburg, Or., Oct. 10. To the Editor of
The Journal In The Journal of October
9 appeared the story, under a Forest
Grove data line, of what was called
the largest sunflower grown this year
in Oregon.
Now I wish to state that I have one
sunnower that measures 20 inchea in
diameter and the stalk Is 10 feet high.
I have another that measures 15V4
Inches across and the stalk is 12 feet
high. These flowers wer grown with
but little cultivation.
JOS. A. HANNA.
Sclo, Or., Oct. 11. To the Editor of
The Journal I notice photo and item
from Forest Grove atatlng that probably
this was the largest sunflower raised
in Oregon In 1912. At the Linn County
fair, recently held here, there were do,
ens of stalks exhibited over 12 feet high
and with largo heads. However, the
one that won first premium at thia
fair wa raised by two school children,
Gordon and John Wesely, measuring li
feet 2 Inches in height with bead diame
ter 24 Mt inches. This auuflower won a
five dollar eult of clothes. In tha same
garden at present ars a number of
stalk from 13 to 18 feet high. If you
want to see real sunflowera come to
Sclo. A. O. PRILL,
Mr. Mason's Query.
Fortland. Or., Oct, 11. To tha
ut ine journal rue best evidnn nf
m M rmi. . - . - - aM -j. .-w- T
the success, enterprise and popu
larity of your publication la th
common falrnes which It has always
extended to tha public. No fair minded
man win accuse it of being radical, rat
it advocates men and measure with .
degree bf firmness, and 11000,1117 which
convinces peopio inai jtj, editor means
what ha advocates.' In Its support of
Governor. Wilson tor the prssideiCy Us
, PRECOX SIDEUGUI8 !
The number of pupils in i the Bend
schools on October 4, ths end of the
first month, was 38, as against 14 at
the same, time last year. 'nyff --:-r
The council of Klamath Falls has
thrown Out the airan recantl-r-adontetl
aa an alarm, and the ancient bell is once
"vie in jieraia or in ur ziena. i
Q. O. Richardson, postmaster at
Ad-
ams, is experimenting with the man
ufacture Of broom. If tha umnVi h
la offering aell Well h will , undertake
io promote broommaking on a payroll
acale,
Ie " '
Signal: Within the next fort
night contracts will be awarded for two
large. . buildings on Main - and Bridge
streets and we are informed there aro
mora to follow, r
Falls Citv News: Oeora Sutherland
brought a radish to this office Satur
day that la a monster, weighing eight
pounds. It has the appearance " of a
dressed chicken, and is sure the limit.
Grants Pass Courier: The timber re
soUroes along the route of the proposed
railroad down the' Roam river from
Grants Pass to the sea justify the hope
tnat this city will become, within a few
rears, a treat lumber manufacturing
center that will give a payroll of 92600
to t&uvu per aay.
Gervals Star: Sam H. Brown. I. B,
Cutsforth. Al Thornbury and others who
experimented with the Boston Marrow
rat squash this season are well sat
isfied. The yield will be 10 to It tons
per acre. They have been loading cars
this week for the Portland cannery and
nave snipped so far five carloads aver
aging to tons to the car.
a .
Richland correspondence Baker Her
aid: A stock company has been or
ganlsed- for the purpose of buying the
"remains" of the Panhandle News. It
is said that the caper will cemmence
publication within the next few weeks.
H. A. Clemenss will be the manager and
eauor oi me new sneet.
pried into things beyond their depths.
-ro give one s self earnestly." h said,
"to the duties du to men, and, while
respecting spiritual being, to keep
aioor irom tnem, may be called wis
dom." Those were bis teachings In
gara to the ancient creed of China.
While he enjoined respect for its wor
ship and religious observances enforc
ing command by example, he crushed
out every spiritual tendency by dlacpun
tenancing speculation upon higher
tnings,
For 23 centurle Confuciua haa held
away over the minds of nearly a third
of the human race. The source of this
influence may be ascribed to the use Of
the Four Books and the Five Clasaloa
aa text books.
Confuciua was in no real sense of the
word a religious teacher. Ilia doctrlnea
were entirely ethical and political. His
attiture toward the supernatural may
d summed up in his own worda: "R
spect the gods! but have aa little as
poBsiDie to ao with them," and It Is n
corded that ha spoke but seldom of four
subjects marvels, feats of strength.
reDeuion ana spiritual beings. In bar
mony with this attitude, ha expressed
no opinion concerning the immortality of
ine soui. He inculcates ever the duty,
which ha himself had observed no faith.
fully, of honor to parents and obedlenc
to temporal power. In thia way th
Individual becomea abaorbed in tha fam
ily and the family In the state, which
Was "regarded by Confucius as the high
est concept on earth. For a state to be
prosperoua mercy and all other virtues
'are necessary, and these qualities are to
be manifested by the entire body of
citizens, his teachings are eonaeauant
ly wholly worldly In character, and the
dry maxims in which h expressed hia
vlewa are permeated by a utilitarian
philosophy which Is devoid of any touch
or laeausm.
Metaphysical speculation. Ilk relig
ious investigation, la absent from hia
system, which sums up to its principle
in me live cardinal virtues humanity,
uprightness, decorum, wisdom and truth.
Confuciua may.-perhapa, be said to be
China Incarnate In his' lack of orlzi-
namy; dui wnn his devotion to the
practical ana. nis. moral .principles a
patriot, eage, and teacher, he rank
among the foremost men that the
worm nas ever seen.
Tomorrow Mohammed.
course has been fair and courageous, but
..., inconsistent, it maintains his
election is an assured fact without any
i-imuuw wi oeieat, yet it re
minds people of the necessity of fur
nlHhlng money to insure success of the
Democratic national ticket. Now if
Governor WHson's "callinrTtnd electt06
are sure," what further need is there
iur mure money vvhy not make his
election one "without money and with
out price?" When th cont.at . v
will it not be fair and honest for The
-uuinai 10 let ine people from whom it
has collected the funds know Just how
much The Journal receives for the space
It has given and the effort It has put
forth to collect and forward the money?
Space Is a newspaper's asset, a revenue
producer, and it la not often given away.
A. It. MASON.
A 10-Inch Sunflower.
Prairie City, Or., Oct. 11. To the Edi
tor of The Journal In The Journal of
the ninth, there is a description of a
mammoth sunflower, raised In the gar
deu of W. R. Sparks of Forest Grove,
Or., which measured 18 Inches across,
will say that there Is one now on ex
hibition in the window of H. N. Crain
of this city which has a diameter of li
Inches. This sunflower Waa ffrnwn In
the garden ef Mrs. Louis Hess, outside
of tho corporate limits of Prairie City
'. DONALD ROSS,
Putting Gunpowder to Work on Farm
'Sacramento Bee.
The use of gun powder Is not noces
sarllyjlmlted to its power of destruction
seeing that the federal government has
Just utilized several hundreds tons of
the stuff as fertilizer.
The habit of the government has been
to destroy lta condemned powder, but
when a big surplus waa marked for des-
uotI?nwhu aff0 BOm nlua be
thought himself of th go per cent nitro
gen contained therein and proposed a
special treatment for the truck gaxdena
at Fort Myer and Indian Head. . a"
Astounding results followed. Veg
etable aprouted with amazing rapidity
and produced moat bountifully, outdis
tanclng by a month or so those in the
neighboring gardena In the race to ma
turlty. Tha nitrogen, one of the chief con-
plant life largely, subsiatay-eid 4t.-
Not Without merit now is tha Su
gestlon that the world's gun powder
condemned or otherwise, be devoted to
the rejuvenation of the soil and the
murderpua purpose 0 storing it in and
beside engines of war abandoned. Noth.
ing could b mora anihu k.
?&r?fJirTf1' y Powder, At
the same .timeauxnjnV te'W-aiT,i
battleship Into wEf..A 'I
AnVr1a . la,!.
In. kkiilia - r-
A WomanY View of
; . Morgan ,
Gertrude Atherton's 8paeeh at Loa .
-t' ?. Angeles. . v-vrv..;:' ';;
My career : ss a publla speaker has .
been short," began Mrs. Atherton, "but -
in the short, time In. which I have C-
voted mora', study : to these, questions . -than
pravlously it has been borne -tar-,'
upon m thatlhia (a not a question of
tha success of tha Democratic party. ,'
nor of tha alectlon of tha man
leads it; it is question of the triumph of -tha
greatest thing in the world, oemoo
racy. '.v'-vi.; -, 1'
"We have never actually had democ.
racy, w started out with a govern- 1
ment formed by the cultured portion of . v
tha colonies, the aristocrats." The mass : ;
of the people) in those days .were lgro-: . .
ramuses. Hamilton and the rest of .5
them did well to form a strong govern- 1
Went: if they had not, we would hav
no government today. - But tha spirit- '
of ths times is a tendency towards trua
democracy. That is what the anlrlt ,
Of UnreSt the snread of socialism v
means." t't-;- - r--- tt"
"All over tha world this spirit is man
ifest. In Europe tha most democratlo
peraon you meet is tha English duke.
He understands the meaning of present
day tendencies and adapts himself to It
a means of self-preservation. The
only aristocrats, tha only enobsone
meets abroad, are tha rich Americans.
"Our country 1 represented at th
court of fit. James by a man who hob ,
nobs only with royalty and the nobility 5
who lives In a style more gorgeous even
than th Russian ambassador affects,
Bvery time the name of the Relds is '
mentioned abroad you can see a smile
flit over fsces. Of course that sort ef
thing must be stopped.
"As for Roosevelt, he wss president
seven years, and in all that time ha did
not give a hang for labor, nor for whit
slavery, nor for child Jabor. If Mr.
Wilson had not been nominated at Bal
timore and Rooaevelt hd been noml -nated
by th regular Republican, cop. .
ventlon you would not see any of those
things in his platform now.
"You do not need Roosevelt to give
you those thlnge. They are In the alrt
Ten million clubwomen are demanding
them and they will come, but not
through the Roosevelt platform. Ha
couldn't give them to tha country, if h
were elected.
"I do hot expect to convert Roosevelt
followers. Roosevelt haa succeeded In
Introducing a sort of religious fervor
into his campaign, and if there la any
thing th American people Ilka It is a
new religion. Now there ia nothing
funnier on earth than anything about
religion connected with Theodora Rooae
velt. But you can't convert on of
thee Roovelt follower any mor than
you can perauade a martyr at the atak
that ha la not having a good time."
Mrs. Atherton aald that the threat
waa being made that If Wilson was
elected ther would be a panic Kh
held that the panic of 1898 and the panlo
of 1907 were hoth Republican panic,
and denounced Roosevelt for hia aurren
der to Morgan In the Tenneaae Coal
Iron corporation matter. .
"Tha truth is that w hav not a re
public; w have a monarchy," sh
added, "and the ruler is J. Plerpont Mor
gan. He sits in his library on Thlrt
eighth street and sends for Taft or for
Roosvelt and they comsand do .hlabli-.
ding. " When Wilson is president. Mor-
gan will never think of such a thing aa
sending for him, for ha knowa that Wil
son Will not com
Always in Good H
umorl
THE CROOKED WAT
From the Washington Star.
District Attorney Whitman of Naw
York was talking about tha Sad case
of a western banker who had stolen a
great sum from his depositors.
"The man," aald Mr. Whitman, lived
beyond his meana motor cars, a house
with 11 baths, eon at college, daughter
coming out, wife hungry for diamonds.
The inevitable result followed."
Mr. Whitman smiled and ended:
'The unfortunate fellow got atralt-
ened, so he became crooked."
CLUB RATES.
From IulsvillatCouyiejr-IournaL
"My wif and myaelf ar trying to
get up a Hat of club magazines. By tak
ing three you get a diacount"
"How are you making out?
IWrlU w - can: get one that I 4oat
want, and one that ah doesn't want, and
one that neither of ua wants for Ilia,"
CONTAGIOUS.
From Cnlcinnati Enquirer.
Ta insomnia a contagioua dlsaasef
aaked the boob.
"No," replied tha wis guy. "Why de
you ask?"
"When my neighbor gpg can t sleep
at night I can't, either," replied tha
boob.
Pointed Paragraphs
He who hits the pipe must pay tha
piper.
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Impressions made by beauty ar mere
than skin deep.
a a
Tha epicure hates to wast hia appe
tite on cheap food, and no wonder!
a a
Th winter of our discontent la aa
likely to show up in summer aa any
other time.
a a
People never credit a man'a vlrtuea as
long as he has a vice.
Peanut politicians should not
cora-
plain if they get well roasted.
A beggar naturally has a pinched
look If he is arrested for vagrancy.
m
Occasionally a detective forgeta to
disguise his breath with a clove.
a
As a matter of fact, there Isn't
enough truth in the world to keep the
tongues, of gossip wagging therefore.
you can draw your own conclusion.'
Warning to the
Voters of Oregon
The proposed amendment to the tnf
constitution which win appear on the
official ballot in November as "Noa.
J08-9," If 1 carries, wll take away from
the people the right to govern them
aelvea In taxation mattera and return
to the legislature and predatory and
private Interests the power to "regu
late" tnd "arrange" taxation measures,
the inference being that thp people are
not" 'IntoTterttraltr-ecrmpetenr to pass
upon such things at .the, polls. Every
voter who believes the people should
rule and who believes "unequal taxation
ia robbery," and who further hiu..
that the people at the ballot box ahould
have the right to pass upon taxation
measures before they become effective
rtTeIaVit v a
vent the araendment Trent becoming th
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