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i It is by attempting to reach
the top -at a single leap; that so
much misery la caused ;n the
world. Cobbett. . ; ; 1
AST ALASKA LINE
' ' , ' .
I
N YESTERDAY'S Journal wa. the
aanouncement that ; nearly 10
000 is offered, as 'part 'M xapltal
of J500.000 .iora;Bteamer, llae
frotn Portland to ' Alaska; ,.Tie plan
Is to make it 'a Pprtland-owned line,
to be operated ale tte year round.
On the 16th day of. last January
j, B, Dodson, a Circle City merchant,
appeared before a committee In this
city and urged Portland to put 90 a
line of eteamera ta Alaska. He aald
he wouldi furnish 125 to 150 tona of
freight for the first boaCI v 51; .
On the. 16th of the preceding, No
vember, : J. M. Keller of Skagway
urged Portland to put on an Alaska
steamer line, saying It would be a
big thing for both Portland ; and
Alaska and ? that, If attempted,
Alaska would meet Portland half
" way. '; .;' ' V, 'I. V 'h '?
r The eameday, through The Jour
nal, H- H. Draper of Skagway called-
upon Portland to put on such a line,
saying, "We of Alaska have 1 never
been abl0 '.to understand why Port
land seems to care so little; for
Alaska trade, when It has - been a
eource of bo much 'revenue to Seat
tle and San Francisco." , ' -
,' . t Three days before; L. H, Peder
son of Seward urged Portland to put
on a steamer line to Alaska, saying:
"The business : men of Portland
would find an excellent field there
. for , increasing i their volume , of
trade." -. 1 f :" " '.. ; ' f
The same day O. M. Graff of Sew
ard appealed to Portland to put
steamers- In the -Alaska ' trade, de
claring:' '"Alaska is anxious to have
Portland as one of its chief supply
points.".' ' ''.'? ; v.
. fliers is example of the attitude of
Alaska business men . toward Port-1
land. . Thousands there want .to do
business -with this city. The single
thing that stands in the vay Is the
absence' ot a steamer line. .
: The trade of Alaska has mounted
to huge proportions.; $Vsr ; oleven
months ending in - May, 1811, it to
taled 28,461,074.ff It is more than
double ;th : value , of all the wheat
produced In Oregon In 1911. It is
a sum greater than the yal,ue of ,all
the wheat, all the wool, all the "hops
' and all ' the fruits produced Jn Ore
gon in 1911, i'
For the period Puget Sound ship
ments to Alaska, totaled 111,167,638,
Portland's totaled 135;646.
For the same period, .Alaska ship
ments , to Puget ' Sound aggregated
$S,054,343. Portland's ' shipments
did aot' aggregate one dollar.
Proving that location had nothing
to do with Portland's lack of busi
ness with Alaska, the trade of San
Francisco with Alaska for the period
was, la round numbers, 1 $5,000,000.
Is there any reason why Portland, if
she had ' transportation, should not
do as well In trading with Alaska
as did . San Francisco, 600 miles
farther away?
The offer of 8100,000 as "part of
the capital for a Portland-owned
steamer line to Alaska should be an
encouraging message to Portlanders.
The present trade of that empire is
but a fracQonrof what it Is yet to
be. Before very long, the coal fields
of , the territory will be delivering
their stored wealth to the world.
', Did ever any city , have a better
chance; t.o secure milll-ns In trade
.for Its agricultural, commercial and
industrial , output? ,
: JUDGE LOWELL'S PLAN
fUDE LOWELL should tear up
I his bill for limiting the ballot
r I measures to two constitutional
:J--amendments ' and five initiative
bills.
' - The legislature should not and
probably would not pass it If It
did, the people would referend and
beat it.
Judge Lowell undoubtedly pro
: poses his bill in all friendship' for the
initiative. But the effect of its
adoption would be an act of hos
tility, '
' "Suclra limitation could be em
ployed to destroy the initiative. En
emies of the system could, in ad- i
vance, pre-empt, Jibe two constitu
tional amendment places with friv
0 bus i propoBitions and block pro-;
posed constitutional changes of importance,-
,'.By the same process;
they could file five unimportant bills
nd obstruct the enactment of im
portant legislation. - - : . .
There are a great many interests
that want ) the i Initiative; crippled.
They would be cunning enough to
employ -'Judge Lowell's plan with
f piendid ; effectiveness for that send.
They could , Jlnd plenty of subjecU
011 which to present bills and amend
ments for filling up the seven places
on the ballot to the exclusion of de
. IcglslaironT-: TrTTT'
The coming . legislature, for ex-
1 :) ( I it. )!'
.irH of provt-n iniini lance. Ot'il'T
jl''Kli.1atur's havo. done ninth
ilt inisht ho desired to submit bojuo
of t lio defeated bills to t.lio jmoi-lo
i by initiative action, but by filins
Inieftsures enough to f II 1 tbe restrktt-
t,d ballot, such submission could bo
bloclied..-'-- ........ -..
The Very knowledge by the Jogls-
atl re tna BuCa a pi'OCCBS COUld pO
, ... iJ 1 ,i,i. 1 ,U,
em nJOTSa- Would make - that- body
lation. It Is now, the ever pres
ent realization that If a "wholesome
measure la rejected iu the legisla
ture, It tan be passed by the elector
ate, Is the most powerful .influence
for making the body responsive . to
the people. '
The direct primary law, was passed
by ; the people after the legislature
reject! it. The local .option tew
man passed after the legislature to
jected' such a' bill .tor incorporated
cities.. The corporation lax law wai
passed by Jtha electorate after a leg
lslature . rejected ft. ., Tiue corrupt
practices lawwas so passep after the
In.L.Ll,,., vatMnA It
TT":, :
Judgo Lowell's: plan Is pot. A good
one. It will bo time enough to ye
h!ffAr narlftncl ta
warrant bo desperate a resort
v The point; has' not been reached
when Its enemies should' be empow
ered to monopolize the initiative
with petty measures to the exclusion
of Important legislation. .. : j; ,
THE TOLL OF THE SEA
T
HIRTY. dead were added yester
day to the toll of the sea.
Though but a breath beside the
appalling tragedy fin the Atlan
tic last 'April, ' the roll of the , lost
claimed' by an-angry ocean on the
Rosecrans at Peacock " Spit 'is a
frightful exaction in human life.
The list of the missing on the Pa
clfia coast during the past sixty years
mounts to a melancholy total. Six
teen shipwrecks in the period have
yielded an aggregate of 1400 lost
lives. " ' ,-;.. r :, .'
October 1, 1854, the , steamer
Yankee Blade was wrecked on Point
Arguello with a loss of 180. ' ,v
January 6, 1860, -the sleamer
Northerner was wrecked off Cape
Mendocino and 38 lives lost
July 27, J862, the steamer Golden
Gate was burned off Manzanlllo and
198 persons perished.
July 10,, 1865, the Brother Jona
than went down near Crescent City
with a loss of 148. :' .. . "
February 13, 1869, the steamer
Hermann was wrecked in Japanese
waters and 120 were lost -
August 22, 1888, the City of Ches
ter collided with the Pacific Matt
steamer QceanIcof t-Fort Pointr and
x February 2 1 r 1 8 9B , the ateacer
Collma was lost in a . hurricane 86
miles south of Manzanlllo and 198
persons went down with the ship,
December. 8, 1895. the steamers
Keweenaw and Montserrat collided
off Cape Flattery and 67 perished.
February 22. 1901, the steamer
Rio de Janeiro sank near Mile Rock
in San Francisco bay and 128 were
lost. . .
January 7, 1904, the steamer Clal
lam was lost in the straits of Fuca
with a death roll of E4.
January 23, 1906, the steamer
Valencia was wrecked off Vancouver
Island with a loss of 120.
November 18, 1906, the steamers
Dlx and Jeannie collided in Seattle
harbor with a death roll of 48.
July 23, 1907, the steamer Colum
bia and schooner San Pedro collided
off Shelter Cove, Mendocino, and 86
perished.
September 20, 1909,' the bark Star
of' Bengal was wrecked on Corona
tion Island, Alaska, with a loss of
111. " "'.::'.;." t..'.
August 27, 1909, the steamer
Ohio sank In Swanson bay, Alaska,
with a loss of four.
January 7, 1913, the oil steamer
Rosecrans was blown ashore by a
hurricane on Peacock Spit and 30
persons perished.
The Columbia river Las figured
but little In' the great marine disas
ters of the Pacific. -
STILL SOVEREIGN
I
T ALMOST seems as if the United
States Supreme Court has been
studying the latest election re
turns.
It has rejected the plan of reor
ganizing the lately .dissolved merger
of Hsrriman roads, , It has affirmed
the indictment of Patton and his as
sociates, for creating a cotton corner
as restraint of trade. These seem im
pressive steps by the court in assert
ing the authority of the Sherman
law. 1
Meanwhile, the dividends of
Standard Oil since the dissolution
are greater than ever. , The price of
gasoline and other . oil products is
higher than ever. The corporation
seems to maintain as firmly as ever
its strangle hold on the American
public, the dissolution order not
withstanding. 1 1
The defiance will not always go
on. The exercise by the Rockefel
lers of this power over the oil in
dustry by controlling output and fix
ing prices will not endure.
No anarchist does as much as do
they to inflame the country. Their
long immunity from restraint ;by a
national statute Is a hundredfold
more harmful to American institu
tions than all the soap box oratory
and all . the inouthings of all 51 the
demagogues.. . . , a ;;,.",,, ;
The dissolution Judgment, against
Standard Oil was a condemnation of
the corporation's monopolistic de
vices. It was an indictment of
thftOjmerrtal practices- associated
with use of those devices. ;'
: The Judgment was a verdict of
lHy lis truly iis t!.in;:!i t!:o -rc -cut
km liiul Ix-i-a for crinu. if tbo
tfHllrijoiiy viih fcujncloiit to dciaand
a dissolution, it was Knl'l'lck:nt to jail
the lii-iKadiers of tho oil corporation.
The Rockefeller anarchy la. a prob
lem for Woodrow Wilson ta solve.
If ho doesn't ...dO'.it, noma other
statesman will... If' civil euits cauuot
end SUindard 0118 disregard of the
Sherman law, the Jails can. .' 1 ,
-One - Rockefeller in - jail -for - ix
months would do more than a thou
sand dissolution suits to end the
crimes pf' extortion of, which Stand
ard Oil jhas': been proven gall.ty.lQne
of these denouements or the other is
the logic of tho late election returns,
and one or the other is very certain
to yet come to pass. Tho American
people are still sovereign, .
ANDREW JACKSON
rrtllE recent testimony of J. pierr
1. pont Morgan before a congres-
filonal committee at Washing
ton must have unconsciously
reminded thousands of Americans of
the historic' strugsle between PresI
dent Andrew Jackson: and Nicholas
Diddle of the old United . States Dank.
It appeared in the evidence before
the committee that' only 180 men
are the .directing ; force (behlnd a
banking and industrial capital of
$25,000,000,000, or about one-fifth
the "f entire wealth of the United
States. Jn 1913.. what would An
drew Jackson, wise through hl ' ex
perience with Diddle, say of Ameri
can financial concentration ? A . '
, Nicholas Biddle is one of the dan
ger signals of history. Andrew Jack
son in his great conflict with Biddle
and the money power; is one of the
guide boards of history, "' 'A 1 W,
. Biddle entered the United States
bank.: honorably : purposed.) ' He
sought) in. 1819 to rescue it from
knavish hands. He rose on merit
to the headship of the Institution. .
But the mingling of banking with
national politics .corrupted him, as
it will corrupt almost any man.
Long direction of the pulse of busi
ness through the bank, long dealing
with men of influence in legislation
who - needed his Influence, as he
needed theirs, bloated him into a na
tional boss. v
He came to dispute with the
White House the issue of what
should be the financial policy of the
republic. As head of the bank, he
assumed to direct congress as to
financial legislation, a function that
constitutionally belonged to the pres
ident And his cabinet. To achieve
his ends, he carried politics into con
gress and banking into politics.'
He hired senators to act as coun
sel for the institution. He loaned
money freely to congressmen. He
advanced large sums of hank funds
to newspaper
editors, accepting
as security. He
printing . presses
adopted many agencies for control
of congress and public sentiment:
and sought, in effect, to .have his
bank supersede the constitutional
White House in governing the
United States.
It was a crisis in national history.
The need of the time was for such
a man as President Jackson. No
man less resolute, less resourceful
could have emerged victorious from
Buch a conflict Time and .history
have approved Andrew Jackson in
his resistance to the encroachments
of. financial interests upon the execu
tive and legislative functions of the
American government.
The career of Andrew Jackson is
a warning to the American people in
1913 to so reform their banking sys
tem that the Washington govern
ment can never again be dominated
by such a power as Nicholas Biddle
sought to wield.
THE ADVANCING CHINESE
IN CHINA, the -ICwantung provin
cial government has granted a
ten years' franchise to a Chinese
Trust and Guaranty company to
do business as a side show to the
Dairen produce Exchange. The cap
ital stock is $500,000.
The government requires a large
deposit as a guarantee before the
new company begins business, and
further retains a supervisory gov
ernmental control. A full inspection
of all books, accounts and documents
is to be made at regular intervals.
Last, but not least, the government
requires the company to pay to It
during the life of the franchise twen
ty per cent' of all fees and moneys
collected from its .future clients.
Meanwhile the new government is
nothing if. not practical. The minis
ter of agriculture and forestry has
started to recapture and develop the
Chinese silk industry. . The Chinese
consuls abroad are ordered to report
on the silk industry In their districts
and on means of developing the Chi
nese trade. Improved methods and
machines are to be introduced- In
spection bureaus under experts in
silk manufacture are being estab
lished at the six centers of the In
dustry with duties akin to those of
the agrtculturarexperts'hef e. .
The returns of .Chinese revenue
for the past year largely exceed the
estimates, and are ahead of any pre
vious year. The motor boats on the
great rier are crowded with both
passengers and" freight, and 'six new
motor boats are now being built
CORNERS IN NECESSARIES
THE Supreme Court of the United
I , States has now construed the
I first section of the Sherman
!) : Anti-Trust law, which forbids
restraint of trade or 1 commerce, as
applicable to indirect restraint.
An indictment was returned in the
New York Federal Court against
James Patten and; three; off his as
sociates- eMOTpirtag--tC',Tiranr s
leged corner in cotton. '(
'The validity of the indictment was
clia.1!- i I .y t.!,o J. !! , .' :i n ;. It
was (HiiiiiiU-d by tho govern meat
tli at to confirm tho indictment it wa.n
iiisccHHary that '.tho 'lower court
should havo held that a "withhold
ing", of the cotton Irom tho market
wna charged. Tho majority of tho
justices of the" Supreme Court hold
the indictment valid, and James rat
ton and his co-defendants must now
go to trial.
-rJ" usUco : Vando vaster deliycred the
opinion for the majority of , the
court. He' held .that it is not neces
sary that ! parties .should ; agree to
suppress competition among ) them
selves to make them punishable
under, the .act ,,, Tho conspiracy to
"create artificial conditions which
necessarily impede pr burden .the
dud course' of uch trade or com
merce, or restrict the common J,iber-1
ty to engage .therein;, is forbidden
by tho act. ' , -
Speculative contracts or purchases
of the necessaries of life with a View
to forcing up the market' price - for
the benefit of the speculators are now
put under the ban of the law.- .The
right of the people at Urge to cre
ate the. market price by. the unfet
tered operation of the law of supply
and ' demand In open and normal
market is affirmed,., i?:. '- -'v. .'
It is to be understood that this
law applies' to interstate commerce
only. :..'-!)";";V 1 ;';' i:l
The Jurisdiction of each state cov
ers contracts entered into and to be
completely .carried .through' .within
Its , own boundaries. ; y . V; .
. The diBsent of .' Justices Whiter
Hughes . and Lurton was based on
the technical construction of the de
cision of the lower court, and not on
the wording and legitimate meaning
of the section of the Sherman act In
Question. ;.' ;-. '- ;),; ''.
( Communication tent to The foarnal for
pabUeation la tbls department anoald b writ
ten on only one side of the paper, ibonli) not
xctc4 800 words In leng th and mntt be ao
compaoled by tbe name and sddreca of the
sendar. If tbe writer doe not dealr to bar
the asms published, its should so stats.)
Views Have Changed.
Portland, Or., Jan. J.-o ths Editor
of The JournalA little less than a year
ago, after having lived In Portland only
a few months, I found myself out of
employment, and after having made sev
eral unsuccessful attempts to get work,
and having a small family to support,
I admit being a little nettled at local
newspapers because they boasted of
Portland's "greatness."
Iu that frame of mind, I wrote a let
ter to the editor of The Jour
nal, told of my fruitless search
for work and mildly hinted that
a city should have something to
offer those who eagerly look for an op
portunity to exchange their Services for
a living before it boasted of Its "great
ness." After the DubUeatlon la The Journal.
of my plain letter, I was fairly show
ered with offers of employment.
This gave me an idea of what a news
paper of The Journal kind can do even
in small matters, so wnen Mr. Suren
of The Journal advertising staff Sug
gested that X enter a yearly contract
for advertising In The Journal, there
was no argument needed to convince
me of the advisability to do so. -
I have followed carpentry until I
understand how to manage It as a
business on my 'Own Account; but lack
ing the means to build myself a house,
as an evidence of what I could do, and
being' a . stranger, chances to "get In"
seemed small, but I put in a two line
ad. in your paper, reading: A. E. Wllc
strem, house, office, store repairing, re
modelling, building. WoodlaWn .2029."
In less than 30 days after my ad. ap
peared the first time I had nearly; $3000
worth of work through that ad. Part of
that was for one fair jslzed .Job remodel
ing an old house located at Thirty-third
and East Main street, which anyone is
welcome to Inspect, as It Is nearly com
pleted. The other part was for a num
ber of small jobs, which, though small,
were just as heartily appreciated, be
cause I havo started In business to take
anything that comes my way except un
earned money no chance to do that
My object In writing this letter is to
tell you that my opinion about Port
land's claim to "greatness" is changed,
not because I have made "strides" in
the direction of financial betterment,
for I haven't, owing to the fact that,
without money, friends and pull, one
must do more than what he Is paid for
in order later to get more pay for what
one does, hut I am confident that one
can get along here in Portland If he
uses the right means of making known
his wants and requirements.
Right now, though, I haven't more
than two weeks' work ahead In sight.
am confident that before two weeks
are past someone wanting a house built
or repaired will appreciate finding my
little two line ad. in The . Journal as
much as I shall appreciate his patron
age. I thank you or what The Jour
nal has done for me in me past, and
the business that it will bring me In
the future. A. E. WlKSTBQM, '
45 West Sumner street
"Our Boasted Prosperity ;M
Portland. Jan. 6. To the.. Editor of
The Journal Is the high cost of living
problem imaginary or is it stern reality?
That should depend on the financial po
sition of the person concerned. It Is not
likely that our millionaires are seriousj
ly worried by the high prices . of the
necessaries of life.
In Its report of commodity prices
for May 1, 1912, Bradstreet's shows the
Index number $9.27, the highest on
record. The index figures for. May for
each year since 1904 are given as fol
lows: 1904. 17.94: 1805. 17.88:- 1808,
J8.31: 1907. $8.94: 1908. $7.97: 1939.
.80; 1910, 19.05; 1911, J8.48; 1912,1
$9.27. This Is an increase in trice of J
pur ueiu iruin.j.sva a ivii.
John Mitchell, In his book on "Organ
ized Labor," published In 1904 or earlier,
says: "For the great mass of uhskllled
wdrklngnien residing in .town?
and cities with a population of from
6000 to 100,000 the fair wage, a wage
consistent with American standards of,.
living, should not be less than $600 a
year." The rise In prices would require
$700 in 1912 to purchase what could
be Jiad for $600 in 1904. ; ;:-;'.
Professor' R. C Chapln, recently"' in,
vestlgating, , living conditions 4n Now
Tork City, estimated that a family con
sisting of a man, wife and three chil
dren under 14 could maintain "a normal
standard, at least so far as the physical
man Is concerned, on an annual Income
of $900.
In November, 1912, an officer of the
striking Chicago street car men's union
presented to the wage arbitration board
an Itemised budget showing the least
a family of five should receive to main-
Wm -decent - vlgr an -wtrir WttTTow?
ance for any luxuries, was $1154 a year,
Professor Scott Nearlng, Jn . his
"Wages in the United States" has made
. . , , 1
Letters From the People
AUD
SMALL CHANCE
To ortiltrato, or. not to arbitrate.
is
mo jucBtiun or 0110 or litem.
The Turk eoin to be a cbsq of th
umler dojf with lio friendu.
1 Wllftn Mm rinvnliirul vtwltn thn XVhltn
Wlien a Hard front does utrlko nouth
ern California 4t Uona u heap of mis
chief. ' . , '. ., .
' ... ' .," ',- . .
It might bo ) more , -intorHptlng - If
Colonol Hosevelt would ohi out tu
Idaho and ,ay It.
. , , 1 -, v j . ;
Mrs. Stonker 1h liavlntr a "flnn tlmn."
fmiig tittr, iuhmw intiliooa, . mid
ng,u HUle good as pueblo.
lany people are !e)ti)OCt!nflr the com
v, le1.4lature to b the -best ono yet
tu wn-jun, uui oon 1 oxpuoi 100 inucn.
Willlahi nocftefcllor ecm to ' be
nearly rm 111 an .it be had been ecmvtcUfl
of HomoUiing And aeniunc-bd to a term
ia.prlson.. J - V :' : 7 .
' To make .roasonuble appropriations!
uppry reaoonawe domanfls is elway a
diftieult if iot ;n iniposlble problem
to.- MOtve. ... ; :( v..-. .. ..,: ,A , '
. r ' I ( ., ; .''.. .' ''
The next 'president will have a) lot
of large ana important public 'ques
ons on 'hlg hands, and can't aiiord
to play politics much, v . . " :
T. K. Bheridan wai formerly d promi
nent cltUsen of Douilaa county. Or., and
D'? old neighbors and many- Oregon
friends think none the lesa favorably of
him because he ia temnorarilv cnnflnnd
la an Idaho Jail. ' ) ;-i',.f-y
;- . v. "- r ii-i,;-;' iH.. -v,:.u-.
It is said that it Ja unlawful for the
cats, yet a policeman .was commissioned
10 enooi some cats wun Duuets from a
bean shooter. How la it that th nan
of this" Instrument makes cat shooting
lawful T However, It would doubtless
be a good Job to ahoot. about three,
fourths of the cats. ; ) ' -
COLlMEITi'
Folly of De 'j'ssepsCanJ; Enterprise in Panama;
Joseph Bucklin Bishop in Bcrtbner's.
. At Intervals there is presented a per
formance of ; opera-bouf f in . a ) grisly
setting of pestilence .and death,, with
the leading actor, the all powerful di
rector of the entertainment, dancing
and ' pirouetting in the front of the
stage, blissfully unconscious apparently
of everything except b'a own capers.
His deeds and doings fill large apace
in the record, and have for many years
been the subject of animated and bitter
controversy. Was he an enthusiast so
blind as to be Irresponsible, or was he
so bent upon success that he was will
ing to adopt any means to secure it, or
was he the foremost impostor ) of hi
time? The record of his proceedings
may be 'l&ft), to supply ths correct an
swer to these questions.
Surely, no great engineering work
was ever undertaken in a more Jocund
spirit than Ferdinand da Lesseps exhib
ited when he entered upon his second
task as the world's chieicanal builder.
His success-with the Sues canal seemed
to have turned his bead so completely
that all obstacles were .virtually In
visible to him., He was the. first pro
moter of the age, tbe flamboyant collec
tor of capital under whose seductive ap
peals all French purses flew open. Had
he been an -engineer his appeals would
necessarily have been deprived of that
appearance of boundless , confidence,
that jaunty disregard 01 all mixicuiues,
which made them so attractive and so
nearly Irresistible to his own people.
If he saw obstacles, he refused to take
cognisance of them. When trained en
gineers called his attention to them, he
pushed them aside as jinworthy of serU
ous attention. He had cut a sea level
canal through the Isthmus of Sues; he
would cut a sea level canal through the
Isthmus of Panama, ' ;
For several years after the Ameri
cans entered upon the task of opening
a waterway across the Isthmus, there
were visible-from the car windows of
Panama railway trains long rows of
abandoned locomotives, dump cars, ex-,
cavating and other machinery partially
cupful iitudv of all wage data avail
able up to 1911. Relative to wae he
says: "Half -nthe-adult- males- of -the!
United States are earning less than $500
a year; three-quarters oi tnem are earn
lng less than i 6 00 annually; nine-tenths
are i uoe v nig uu " ,
while less than 10 per cent receive
more than that figure."
Is all this the "greatest prosperity on
earth" that we have heard so mucn
about T If so, for whom? And in -the
face' of such conditions Is it not dis
gusting to have anyone, let along work-
ingmen, wag 0 tneir somiy io aop
their families on starvation wages 1 Is
It right and Just that they who do the
useful .-work of the world should ,dwell
In shacks and live on the meanest of
food, eking out an existence little bet
ter than that of well-stabled cattle? " Is
the merest animal existence all our
boasted industrial 4evelopment is capa.
ble of giving our workmgmen, their
wives and children, or are they, through
Blavelike docility and stupidity, allow
ing themselves to be robbed. to support
tbo idle ana extravagant; vv. sa.
Capitalism and Capitalization .
Portland, Or.. Jan. 7. To the Editor !
of The Journal Suppose a man earns;
and eaves $10,000. Has he not a right
to spend that money? Surely, but he
does not do it, usually, lie saves it
and spends some other person's money.
He saves his own pie and becomes a
pensioner on the public.
If he can invest the $10,000 so as to
return 5 per cent in rent, interest or;
dividends, that will bring him $500 a
year, which is .more tnan tne average
wages of the men who do the hardest
work. 1 " ;r ' . ..
Suppose Mr, Mortimer Moneybug owns
a block in- Portland valued at $1,000,000
and that ! the Income from It is 5 per
cent This means that the public pays
Mr. Moneybug $60,000 a year as a salary
or pension and does not require mm
to perform any service in return. . ;
The capital stock or capitalized value
of , rallroods, foqtorles Indeed, of all
property is thus evidently and Indis
putably a mighty burden of debt on
which thfr whole publiepayawnV inter
est or dividends, tor an tnese are pniy;
different names for the same thing, a
tax r tariff levied on all society for
the benefit of'a part tnoreof. , j ,
This explains the astounding paradox
of modern "progress," that the greater
the Wealth of a country th$ greater
the poverty and 'misery of the masses
of the workers who produce that wealth.
The prosperity of a country la meas
ured by its capitalized value, .but, this
valuation is Only an asset for that part
of the people that owns the wealth un
der ancient forms of law and custom.
It is a debit, or charge, against those
who produce the wealth, but are dis
credited or disinherited by these anti
quated customs. -'
These: parasltid tributes rent, Inter
nt and dividends are" collected off thi
publie by the Juggling of prices and
waees. xney are eitner aaaea to tne
prices Of goods, thus increasing the cost
of living, or they are deducted from
-wagV9rrmsdtirtngfterpttTcliafllH2
power oi tne vomers ana enppung me
market,
We thus have the other paradox, that
NEWS li'l iiiU;-i;
OKCC01J 'CIDELIGIITS
One of tho crylwx nm-ds of Mulheur
cwiiiiy, tn iJi'nux-r.it.MiyH, l a. county
ihiui iiiiiu. ,1.1 hl'hiih urn iu(Jii.:(nt tiro
now pruvidca tor Dy iin.iina (,,1; outilnlit
(t.lproiirlutlunb, 1 .
"' ' ,
The Paisley I'ichs demands that the
flly coiincll JpfiHitae jiKiiliiHt ..thtt xav
liiK llorwcs it ml town that cut tlio prov
etulor out'of the wriioiiB of farinvrs
Who oonte to I'ttlslcy to tnai-ltet. '
Miimltfteld JRM:ord: ' Thn new police
CtiH Hyutem to be H4l .In Mni whfU'ia in
cru)y to 'OiKirate by rthe ,tf-b-phono com
imn'. There will ,bi .thrpe police call
boxes and -lights, ' ' ....
... ,. , . . . -, p . , v.
The new cieumery of -the Lower Co
Itimbla 1'urmaix' j-omjittny. the Astoria,
liudKi.-t sa, : will soon b6churnliK' five
tuiip uf butter per illem. yiUlnm itohy,.
an expert irom inacpenaqnee, 4s tp take
charge as manager. ; ' , t , , ,,, ; ;r ,
The Ijokevkw EamlnM;; !: with Its
New ' Tour's Issue ' entered I Its thlrly
Xom th ytjur, ' imd .the ..Kxnaninei wan
niiikfH nil iuumrilulnt rwettrdinir.thn .rt-at.
ment the people of Lttke,.couiy,.are &(:'
cordlnsr liVtil.tind. hIpa(Eprf;i(f;. ; ;
Lebanon Tribune? In several Lebanon
yaras' roses :are yet In bloom.- In 4he
east'jwe Jfigd Of itiuw stojais, ib&ttxtH
and belOw sero weather. 1 tThese .faots
ouccht to be sufficient to satisfy anyone
seeking amUd and salubrious .climate
that Oregon is the placs to, live. ' ;:, '
Bend Bulletin! No better tribute to
the advancement Bend has accomplished
couid be asked than .that afforded -by
the opening of its splendid new banking
building.- Tha any town -but 20 years
old, .which' up Jto J8 months ago was
100 mllesirom a railroad, oou Id war
rant such a structure, :is remarkabfl. , ,
party at Nf. C. Baragars was photo
graphed with thfl e.n folks ..in their
shirt sleeves and the women in summer
dresses on green lawns, but this week
has witnessed higher, temperatures than
last week.,, , . ;'X-r-' ; .
i . . i : 1 1
i hidden by a Jungle growth of creeping
vines. Visitors w.exst told .that this -was
"old French machinery," standing where
it had been left when th French com
pany collapsed 20 years earlier. The
little locomotives and cars, almost toy
like in appearance when compared with
those in use by the Americans, bore elo
quent testimony to the. irresistible on
ward march of mechanical Invention.
Time had retired .them from active serv
ice as completely s if they' had never
existed, leaving them stranded as here
"junk" , along the wayside of progress.
Covered with the softening . mantle of
vine and leaf and flower and overshad
owed by waving palms, they stood In
silent dignity at the fitting monuments
of a "lost cause," making a spectacle
so .eloquent with the sadness of f ailure,,
the pathos of defeat, that few beholders
could contemplate It unmoved, and no
Frenchman could look upon It with eyes
undlmmed. ,.. , .
The story told" by these silent wit
nesses was a true one, for the record
of French effort and failure at Panama,
with Its mingling of folly, absurdity,
greed and heroism of Ah highest qual
ity, is one of the most, pathetic, as It
Is one of the most diverting, in tho
history of human endeavor. The proj
ect wag doomed to failure from the
outsat, andlwas, fairly rushed to de
struction by reckless and rascally man
agement, but it deserved to succeed
because of the rare courage and patri
otic devotion of tbe men, many of them
the very flower of young France, who
did the work In the field. The shame
of the failure has, been told by. many
pens, and not always' with either char
ity or careful regard .fcf .truth but gtha
deeds of the men who faced pestilence
and death with Aunfllnqhing, coy rage,'
many of them dropping into .Unnamed
graves, "ltave passed with slight and far
from adequate mention. The Americans
who have succeeded theni In the task at
Panama, and who have studied the re
sults of their work, have a very high
appreciation of their intelligence and
xe.al and the warmest .admiration -for
their courage.
the more plentiful the crops are, the
worse off the producers, dn the rural
dlstrlets-nany-ktndS'Of ttaff wtlfrnot
pay cost of transportation, while In the
cities most or the inhabitants are In a
chronic jptaf "of Restitution, ft 4 ) V - i
There 4s bo remedy WtMs' condition
but the entire abolition of the clumsy
and complicated mummery of capitalist
law. Society must Jje reorganized and,,
reneea n accoraance . With tne .prin
ciple, of natural gelations.1 . '
-lw in its true sense is the natural
relation and correspondence of men and
things, of properties sand proprieties.
The thihg now called iW is entirely .fta-,
natural and inimical to the welfare of
mankind. . '" '"!r .
-What is needed is not more legisla
tion but -Intelligence to make an end
of legislation through the discovery and
application of the laws of life that are
always operative. These laws will de
stroy humanity if not utilized for its
redemption. ) , J. I JONES.
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Were tho Chinese rioneert? ."
Woshougal, Wash., Jan. 6. To the
Editor of The . Journal The , wonderful
discoveries in healing of broken bones
by Dr. Alexis ' CaMl reminds me of
an account given by Hue In his "Travels
in the Chlfteao ; Empire", of th healing
methods found there. It is as follows:
"For several years w had for one of
our catechiats.a man who had the pre
cious" gift .of being able to set frac
tured limbs. We -had tieeh hlm 'opeVate
upon and ciire th ex,tr,aprdnarraclUty
more than 0 unfortunate man whoso
bones Were broken and ven crushed.
The operations were so euocessful ,that
the patients used to 'cdrfte' themselves.
Women
; Woman 'js the purchasing head of the .home. She riot only .;
' buys most ,the things Vsed irt the home, but .most of the -
things 4ise4-by the tnan of , each family as well She purchases
the food, clothing, furnishings;- and utilities; buys the children's
outfit And several times Asotuch or -iier -own -use as is needed
; by the average man. ' '
I) '; . ;'' :) p )- A''-''--- ' t.-;- -''''-.'''. XXi;:X 'ij x'';-j X' ' -...'t -nVi , ;t.;-C-; x,-tS
x.. It is natural, therefore, that she should read advertisements
more than merf, because advertising "keeps her posted on the
newest t and best merchandise, the best stores at which to trade,' ,
V nd, the bestvalues obtainable. She buys'tiilngs to better ad- ;.
, varitages than .jnan-wmake8 .the money go farther--by reading ,
advertisements. v ". ; " ' ' " w ' "'".-',
, Read the Advertisements' in THE JOURNAL closely and
' constantly every day fortthe aake of ECONOMY. ( r i
; (Copyrighted. 1912, by' J. P,
.ilt I.ulco )!. r.i.l,I-ti,.pui,ll(-,iii: It 1
not the lllici tii of the tiewnpni'i.-r.-j Ilia
are tltriutim.it by nu-li tyriuuiliss tis thn
of tho Idtvlio. court;. It 1h the freeilojti o
tho people,'! The .rtcwKi'iipur. can exls
without 'dlseusKlon of the actions of th''
courts; tho ncwsimpcr may enjoy "publl,:
conflduhco uiidsuiiport,,whnQ..iaiiorlni
the constant cncronchinent of the Judl j
clal branch of the government upon Ihi
other tlnpartrnonts and upon thoir ryan t
tern, tho people. The public; howeVuf ,'
cannot, afford' 'that the press shall b
thus limited or-oppressed. AW the onlyt
nicnn of koeplng -informed of the actH
of their public servants, , the people in-J
viie lymnny witen mcy wuncui mui i"
newspapers shall be terrorized Jnt
cowardly sileijce. r, i, ; (. ' ,
Spokane Bpokesman-Rwiew: In view
of all the facts and circumstances it m
Inevitable ' that r. the , -'Idaho ! suprenn
court's decision of . this, contempt casi
siioum can to be indorse oy . tite ma
Jority bf the -thtjiking people of Idaho
U'be vitiating fallacy dnithe deolslon is
that it -ignore -tho fundamental right;
of tho citizens and prosii of a nation to
criticize the courts that , they -bave crai
ated. This supreme court vin effect Set.-,
the creature above its" creator. Th'
court has gone .out of Its way- to find
grounds .for Justifying its decision. Its
Judgment Is farfetched. When it speakv
Of jUlaged rViUfying the 'courts-.ts WbI
cause of 'more than 100 criminal cases
of dynamiting," it drags Jn matters that
havo' nothing to do with the case under
ooasiaerauoa. , . ; , t
Sacramento Bee: Judicial outrage hw
been committed in Idaho by .the supreme!
court jof the state, in pun.ishing for al-f
leged .contempt of .that .tribunal thf
publisher and .the managing editor oc
the Hoiee Capital -Nws, along with onil
of th stockholders of that paper. " It iu!
not the Boisa newspaper men who de-l
serve to ds in jaii, dui tne justices wno
have abused the power to send them
thera And nothing that shy newspaper
ever, said could do more to bring that
court Into deserved public contempt than
this petty, vloious, arbitrary and tyran-
Dical decree. ' r,
San Francisco. Bulletin: ' Plainly thee
Idaho Judges who are so determined
protect their dignity lent themselves tol
political Job that would have ais-i
graced a ward heeler. Theodore Roose-i
velt sold as much, and the only Idaho!
editors who published his denunciation
are punished as .m&lefaatQra ; Thus doj
the veopis learn tnat a tree press nas
no place In a reactionary, scheme oft
government ,' )
Albany Detnocrat: We know some-I
thing of the first cltisens of Idaho, in
eluding the members of the supreme
court of that' stale. A" good Judge lsj
seldom a good politician and strange ast
it ma v mam moat of the sunrema court!
judges of Idaho are selected from among!
tho ranks or in politicians ana noq
from ths lawyers who have attained
eminence In their chosen profession. Thel
gentlemen who . concurred" la the ma-l
jority opinion In this case are no exoep-
tion to tbe anovo ruie, wnen tne con
sUtutlorial amendment providing for the
recall was submitted .at th last ses
slon of the Idaho legislature the mem
bers of this court made no secret of
their opposition to the provision provtd
lng for the recall of judges. Had
Judges- not been-- excepted from-tlwl
operation of the recall, the Democrat is
firmly of the opinion that tne majority
members of the highest tribunal In that!
state would soon be -called upon to give
an accounting for their unprecedented
and arbitrary decision.
Euaene Segister: Over in Idaho we
ore Jbeing .treated to a spectacle that
might well justify the belief that the
clock .has rbeen turned, bacx top years
and we are living in the middle ages.
Broadly, contempt of court should- con
sist In refusal to obey the court's man
dates, in this sense, it should be and
must " be sternly upheld. ; The Idaho
newspaper men, however, did, not refuse
to obey a mandate oi tne court, uney
metely published a criticism, made ' by
Theodore Roosevelt, characterising the
court as reactionary and against the in
terests of the people. Their conviction
seems to be the best possible proof that
the colonel knew whaOawai talking
about ' " "' ' '
..s
Salem Journal : No '.doubt the editors
are )gyllty of contempt now, if they
were not in venturing to" criticize the
action of the immaculate ones, but they
are not alone. Every intelligent man
In the United States is heart and soul
With the editors, and If the IdAho su
preme court could Bend to Jail all who
not only have, buf who express, their
unbounded contempt for the Idaho su
preme court Judges, they would find the
jails, and prisons of the whole world
Inadequate to hold them. , They are not
Judges, they are tyrants.
Pendleton East Oregonlant The action
of. the Idaho court is chiefly valuable !
In that it will further shatter the ldes
that Judges are superhuman and canndVJ
do wrong. The highest court in ldono is
controlled by narrow minded and con
ceited asses who lack wit or they would
have concealed" their shortcomings. -.
ii ' i"" 1 1 ? 1 ;
to thank him, to the chamber he oo-l
cupied beside ours; and in the pres-1
ence of such results, we never felt
inclined to laugh, because the plaster
he employed to promote the Junction
of the bones was made of wood lice,
white pepper, and a fowl-pounded to
death." X' '" & ' .' '
Possibly Br. Alexis has studied In
China, Huo also' found .their knowledge
(that Js the common people's knowledge)
surpassed that of ISuropean physicians
on other matters of healing; instances
being given on page 23, volume, II, al
ready quoted. , . F. V. MOSS.,
Arc Better
Tkan M
en
Fallon.
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