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There ere. no greater wretches
In the world, than rmmy of those,
Whom people In general take to
be happy. Seneca.
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GOVERNMENT UNDER COVER
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I HE choice of a charter is le-
tven the one now in- use
and the new 00111011881011 char
ter.
T"; ' If the new one is voted down, we
Z shall, remain under the 'present nie-
S nagerle system. Hit , is the system
J;V under? which " nobody knows any
rj thine: about what is going on in gov
' eminent. - . 7 -
What we know is that we pay
the taxes "and that they are. always
T -high.f'i But nobody knows who
ti makes luetn high. All we know is
that the authority i3 divided be
; tween half a hundred members or
councils, , commltteea, "-boards, com
missions 7a n d other functionaries;
each of whom- hides behind the
' Jother. . ' '-''.; ' -j.
f There are so many officlaisriunc
Itlonaries and fuglemen, all exerds-
flng authority, that nobody can find
lout, which one is responsible for
'bad government . .
. It is government in.the dark. Jt
is government under cover. It is
; government in which officials are
without . responsibility. It Is gov
fcrnment in which functionaries are
i-ii. j. - 1 i.
nvcuumauia 10 aououy, - i ., ....
If is government in which peopb?
jare kept in complete ignorance of
"their own biisine'sH. It Is goveru
iment in which citizens are allowed
'to know nothing of their own af
fairs. It -is government in which
tUie man who pays : taxes never
knows and never can find out .what
goes with his tax money. '
It is the,,kind of government the
paving companies want., That is
why they are fighting the new char-
' tCr. .' " v. ": ..
It' is the kind of government the
cheap politicians want That is
t why most of tho city ,. hail employes
ire fighting the' new charter. "
It is the kind of government the
public service corporations want.
"That is why they are fighting the
rnew charter, , i -
fter twd" years as mayor, Joseph
Simon denounced the present sys
leni as inefficient, wasteful and
"costiy. ''After his- te-rln. Mayor
Uushlight says the same thing.
,( After four years as mayoXhrry
I.ane declared that'the present -fjs-
1 . 1 ... 1 . 1. 11 1. i u Li v 1 1. n HOIVD
11,000,000 a year of the people's
money. ;. ' -t-:.,-;-.';.-. - '
All those .who are fighting the
h new charter are fighting for tbc
present system.
Those who are supporting the
-'j ew charter, are striving ,for .gov
ernment in the open, for govern
fluent in the daylight, 1 for govern
inent under publlcity, for govern
nient with every official strictly ac
countable, for government In which
5tbe citizen can find out all about
ijeverytbing.
A NEW HOUSE OF IiORDS
ANOTHER Job that the BritisU
ministry is proposing to tackle
is to reconstruct the House
of Lords, with all its features
that have endured for many cen
turies left out.
One of the chief Liberal newspa
pers of London publishes details of
; the new measure which the paper
says has been adopted by the sub
committee of the cabinet entrusted
with the duty of framing it.
According to this authority th.e
new House of Lords is to consist of
10 to 200 persons, to be elected by
the same constituencies that now
vote for members of the House of
Commons. There are to be one cr
two exceptions of nominated mem
, bers. All such persons as are' now
eligible for membership in the
.House of Commons may be elected
to the House of Lord3.
'It is quite possible that prdpor-,
tional representation may be intro
duced.. It is believed that, consid
ering the great size of the con
stituencies, means may be so found
for, limiting the membership to per
sons of approved position.
. Members will be styled "Lords of
Parliament." In order to allow qf
the election of labor members paj
taent'of members is proposed.
The powers of the new House 6f
Lords, if these plans .jcarrjv-wiiw
over finan.ee, none. In general leg
islation, the right to amend or re
ject bills in the-first session after
their Introduction but subject to
; reference to a Joint session of the
two houses to decide all disputed
points.
The hereditary principle will tie
.abolished. . Every Lord of Parlia--j,i'ient
will sit there by virtue of Ws
own qualifications, not his rekt-
fired and odd members of the pres-
vnt. House of LoTds there are prob
ably one hundred wtio would re
I t-lvc popular; suffrages enough' , to
secure' tliolr election. IJut tho lialt,
the blind, niid the very obi in both
l)ody and uplrit, who left their cas
tles and manors and their great
town houses1 tQ vote down Home
Rule and the 1909 budget will cer
tainly titajv in future, 'undisturbed
at home.
THE PATTERSON RUG1IT
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MPItESSEb with his : ef forts1 in
behalf of the flood Biiffercrs, sen
timental people in Ohio have ap
pealed to the president- to par
don John II. Patterson, president
of the fash register trust, who was
recently sentenced to a year in the
penitentiary for '.violation of the
anti-trust law. '
The judge,. who tried and sen
tenced', Patterson saht:
You wen belong to the walk of life
whtcb '..HhDuld - set an examule. : 'ou
have tost the opportunity tlmt was glveu,
you by the methods whlih yon liave
pursued. In your desire for gain, you
USVT-fiot everything else. The only way
tTrKk.X can .clmracterize your meiuoUH
la to pay that tliey were mean and petty.
Jt was proven in court that the
trust ' of which Patterson is the
head, bribed the; employes' of com
petitors, and of railroad and tele
graph ' companies; that it main
tained fraudulent "competitioa",
that by threats and libelous at-
tacks upon .the credit of Its true
competitors, it brought , them to
ruin; that it kept a "graveyard" ex
hibit of competitive machines which
it put out of business, always open
to the inspection.- of .. inventors and
investors who contemplated compe
tition; and that when competitors
would not close out - their enter
prises at its orders, it destroyed
them by cutting prices below cost.
-In twenty- yearSr-the. trust-broke
up 160 competing manufacturers,
many of wliom were ruined for life.
Nothing thatan-y man can do in
flpod can wipe o"uTthe record of
Patterson's blight on men and in
dependent business enterprise.
A STRIKE IN GLOVES
HE Ilelgian general strike has
been begun. Nearly all In
dustries on a large scalo in
the country are paralyzed,, and
the works are silent.. But railroadsr
streetcars, gas works, electric light
and power works, and the street
cleaning services 0 the cities are
in usual operation. Save in one iso
lated case no Fabtage, or 'raachin-
ery and equipment wrecking has
occurred That, without question,
as in violation of the orders of the
leaders.
This is distinctly a political
riko. That means that the So-
ialist party ,is responsible for it,
in plan, in organization, and in con
duct. ..- .". .
Not only has a; strike fund been
created in advance, said to amount
13,000,000, but provision has
been made for maintenance of the
families of the strikers.
The intention is to so imperil -the
Industrial-4if-ofBelgium that, lest
ruin shall result, the franchise shall
be extended to every male citizen of
adult age, by the concession of that
demand through necessary legisla
tion. . "
It will be seen that just such a
result as the English suffragettes
are striving to bring about by' dar
ing and cruel and wanton breaches
or tne law, to the injury or Indl-
vidualis, and of large and small
communities, tho Belgian strikers
are seeking by pressure on the in
dustries of the nation while keep
ing within the limits of the law.
Men cannot be compelled to work
in private industries, and the pub
lic utilities , which affect .directly
the life and health of the people are
allowed to be kept moving.
The Belgian and the English
movements are both forms of war
applied jto , modern conditions.
. There are: two questions raised.
Which method, if either of them,
will Win oii'tT "Which method, if
either- of. them, should win out?
These questions to be submitted, as
they will be, to the decision of tho
reasonable and solid classes of tho
two communities Belgian and Eng
lish, whose votes will, in the end,
decide.
Before either of the two wars
was declared the conscience of the
jurors in both lands was well dis
posed to granting both of these con
cessions. Will either or both coun
tries yield to compulsion what they
were disposed tb grant to reason?
ClKlXO,lllL FLAWS
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HE Literary Digest publishes a
translation from the French
of a detailed account of the
Iladfield newly invented pro
cess for castkig steel ingots without
obvious or concealed flaws.
The inventor is Sir Robert Ilad
field, a well known English metal
lurgist, ,and his paper was read at
the recent congress of the Ironancl
Steel Institute. The invention con
sists in, securing the graduaPcool
Ing or solidification' of layer-after
layer of the molten steel poured
into the mold, while by the ..burn
ing, under an airblast, of, a layer
of cinders and one of coal, "the up
per portion of the steel in the mold
is kept melted and allows the es
cape upwards of all Impurities. The
sreel in the mold remains through
out the eooling. homogeneous, -arid
free from those flaws, which a i t
the cause of nearly, or. quite,, all- of
the rail fractures that cost so marly
lives, in accident after accident in
this country.
The writes alleges that the pri
wary 'caiise of rail accidents here
is the fact that iu recent years' the
American steel works, overloaded
with emergency orders have, with
this c6nsent of the railroad ' "com
panies , departed , , from yilie; . aeViiro
hteel tests that still prevail in the
old world. They have .stopped,' lie
Pays, rejecting the whole upper
third of the ingots and have only
cut away a much smaller portion.
Facts as to conditions of rail
manufacture were brought out Hi
the year 1911 -by the tests of
broken or defective rails , made by
the Pennsylvania railroad, by the
Scientific American, and by the El)
glneers of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, and supported the ex
isten.ee of rail flaws as the cause of
accidents.
If. the Hadfiejd process shall
prove an effective cure notOnly
railroad engineers and managers
but the traveling American public
will have cause to rejoice.
UECAt'SK OF ITS ENEMIES
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HERE could be nov more en
couraging circumstances than
the hard fight that is being
made on the new. charter.
Many measures are to be admired
for the enemies they make.
It is impossible to harmonize all
the human differences. Thus, there
is; an irreconcilable gulf between ' a
home owner and a paving combine.
The home owner wants paving at
low; rates, and the combine wants
i fever cent that can be extracted
from the home owner. ; Naturally
enough, the charter that Buits the
cottager doesn't suit the paring mo
nopolies. ."''.
' , The-lght-of-lhe paving compan
ies , against the new charter is, of
course, a desperate; effort to keep
Portland under . the present me
nagerie government. There 13 no
way to reconcile the conflicting in
terests of taxpayers, and taxeateriv
A charter that suits taxpayers
doesn t b u 1 1 taxeaters, bocause,
while-the taxpayers want a mini
mum of tax money spent, taxeatera
want , a maximum of tax money
spent. The more money spent, the
more emoluments and rake-offs for
Job holders. That is why many
city hall employes are fighting des
perately against the new charter and
for retention of the' present system.
There is likewise an irreconcil
able conflict of : interest between
franchise-seeking corporations and
the average private citizen. The
charter that the one wants, in the
very nature of things, is not the
best kind of charter for the other.
That is why the fight of the puWic
service magnates against the new
charter is a strong recommendation
of the new charter to the averago
citizen. '
Possibly the average citizen hasn't
time to read the new charter. The
public service magnate has. He
knows all about what is in it. Be
ing a practical man, he knows all
about what he wants and how to
get it, and that is why he is strong
for the present system of govern
ment and against a change
FROM, RATS TO CHILDREN
I
N -PORTLAND, what was former
ly the dumping site for the garb
age incinerator is to be trans
formed into a children's nlav-
ground.
The scene was visited by tho
mayor arid park superintendent last
Saturday, and arrangements madj
for installing play apparatus for the
use of Portland youngsters. The
substitution of the 6houts of chil-
dren at their pastimes on a site
once occupied by refuse and Infest.
ed by thousands of disease breeding
rats is incident to the transforma-
Ltion of the garbage crematory from
a costly experiment into an effi
cient .burner of refuse.
Near the close of the'Slmon ad-
-min-istratioft the city health board
refused to accept the Incinerator, on
the ground that it had not met the
requirements of the contract More
over, the economies of the burner
were so bad that ij; cost Bixty cents
to one dollar a ton to destroy-garbage.
"
How the plant has been trans
formed into an effective burner,
destroying all refuse delivered to
it without the use of uel and at
a cost of only thirty-five cents a
ton is familiar. history. The fact
that, there Is to be a playground
where formerly, thousands of tons
of refuse were piled up, is the latest
concrete evidence of the . change
from inefficiency to efficiency.
It is a change brought abdutrtoy
Mayor Rushlight through the em
ployment of David Otis as superin
tendent and through various minor
changes that have been made in the
j furnaces of the plant. , '
Hanging on by the teeth and eye
lids to the side of a streetcar is a
stunt that the Portland baseball faa
does well to learn. Another car
may scrape him off, but it is wprtn
the risk to see a one-to-one tie lu
the eleventh inning.
Ye Gods of Ancient Rome! You
saw, nothing, in the boasted amphi
theatres of : your musty past to
equal, that Titantrrtruggfe Tuesday
between the clean-limbed, clear-eyed
athletes of Portland and Los An
geles. . It's difficult to get used to the
advertising candidate, who heralds
hinfself like a circus or a new
breakfast food. The old-fashioned
among us still cling to the old
fashioned notion that a candidate's
lire and acta should speak for them
selves. Music, 'most beautiful was heard
bybut very Yew iiennle af s reepnt
u n day e wtu ing concert on the mez
zanine- floor of a local hotel. Music
lovers who neglect tnis weekly feast
are missing 'an inspiration, There
were .touches.; as . delicate as the:
Ij. ,
threads of silver that descend the
mountain side and slip over the
Palisades into the Columbia.
Like big, buzzing bumble beeB
straddled by demons, the motor
cycles have undisputed right of way
in Portland. ' Somo day Satan will
claim his own.
, : Just a hole in the ground at Port
land la reputed to , be worth one
million dollars. . It's rather a big
hole, and a peg 200 feet square
would 1 be required to plug it. By
the way, rolling into this hole might
create a pleasant impression of fall
ing into wealth.
Waste' is supposed to be abhor
rent to Nature. But Just now it
Is wasting thousands of angle
worms which sprawl along the pave
ments. No birdling needs to be
early to catch a worm. '
Is Portland in too much of a
hurry for rest. At. many places in
the sidewalk parks on the outlying
streets, benches would interfere with.
n 0 b 0 d y." Women and children
would welcome them, and even male
grownups would find, theni handy
for a few moments' repose.
V
If everybody would sit down
but what's the use? Mr. and. Mrs.
Everybody are mest obstinate crea
tures, and also rather excitable.
If one musthave a perfect char
ter, to his notion, before voting for
a change, he will keep on voting
for the present notch potch style of
city government while he lives.
Letters From the People
Communication! wot to Th Journal for
ftabllctUoa la thl Avpartmtnt ahoald be writ
ten 00 only on aid ( tbe paper, abould tot
txtwed 800 wordt la Itngth aed arnat tie ae
rompnldhbT tb aim and addrera of tb
Mader. It the writer doet not dwlre to baft
tbt Bitot BobUihtd, bt bould to autt.)
'Suffragcttes."
't Tortland, Or., April 15. To the Editor
o'f The Journal On April 4, the follow
ing, cablegram was sent to Mrs. Tank-,
hurat at Holloway prison:
t "Women everywhere and forever owe
you a debt of gratitude and loyalty.
The Enfranchised Women.of California."
At a later meeting- of the home
Suffragists nent a letter to the home
secretary f Eng-land protesting against
the Tahkhurst sentence, "In the name
of the free women of California." (gee
Journal -ef-Aprll 4.) I am sure your
correspondent, fV". H. M., will be grate
ful to. you for republishing this item,
which escaped his notice twice grate
ful, since his sisters and hla cousins
and aunts are Suffragists, It Is quite
najural he should be Interested In what
Suffragists do.
As to the value of suffrage to women.
If it will teach them to observe the
ordinary rules of fair play, which are
wsually pretty well grounded In a boy'B
mind by th? time lie has had a dozen
years In the democracy of a nubile
school. It jnay serve a use of sufficient
importance to Justify the experiment.
The first of these rules a boy learns
on the playground Is to "take his medi
cine." When he has done that which
merits a drubbing he getscit, and nei
ther dodges nor whines. He doesn't say
to his government, "if you beat me I'll
starve myself to death." If he should,
he would likely be told "'twduld be a
Jolly good thing if he did."
This commendable rule the American
Suffragist appears to have overlooked
when sne protests against Mrs. Pank-.
hurst's sentence.
I-et me refer W.. II. M. to the leading
editorial In The Journal of April 6. en
titled. "Unhappy England," and also to
a brief article in the issued of April 14,
entitled, "Woman's Era Now Dawning."
If woman will but realize her power
inrougn tne love of truth, through a de
ll?'0 "W Z
at least will see the futility of such
weapons as the. ballot. Let her, univer
sally and with her whole heart, desire
the improved conditions which the Sut
fragist claims will result If she exer
cises the franchise, and man will pro
ceed in aff orderly way to provide them.
It appears to be the order of the uni
verse that man builds the house wherein
woman administers the home. If she
have clear am well defined Ideas of
tne form ghe desires in the house, for
the welfare of the household, so mftn
builds it. There Is on need for her to
resort to' the hammer and the law,
MABEL TV, PLOWMAN.
Look Forward to Socialism.
Portland, April IJ: To the Editor of
The Journal The tendencies of All that
has gone before in social evolution make
for Socialism. Slowly yet surely does
civilisation emerge from each succeed
ing decade with nobler thoughts,
grander visions, greater achievements,
and a. finer sense of justice. The Indi
vidual, as an Individual, must continue
to give way, to the collective unit,
called society, until the future indi
vidual Interests are dissolved in the
common welfare. When that condition
is ftrrlved at, we shall have emerged
from savagery into that, society now
termed by political economists Social
ism. This will mean,, for the first
time in human history, a real clvllixa
tlonr In our savage state the universal
business of ftU tribes was warfare
conquest and conquering. This was in
variably the function of tribal govern
ment. The individual did not conduct
invasion or defense, as an individual.
As we have gradually advanced
in the civilizing process, we
have acquired governmental func
tion of various social needs, prom-;
inent among which are our postal, high
way ftnd school systems. Their Initial
proposals were vigorously attacked, Just
as the proposal of Socialism has been,
and continues to be. They were looked
upon as innovations that were dan
gerous to personal liberty, unjust ftnd
Impracticable. , ,The proposition to car
ry a letter across the- country for i
cents, to people who had no concep
tion of organised society; semed alto
gether impossible, and the advocate was
looked upon as a .wild-eyed agitator,
much the same as the average person
of today looks upon the proposition of
carrying a passenger .across the coun.
try for a dollar or so or actual expense.
The well to do, and ibany of the clergy,
opposed the public school system' on the
ground that a general, education of the
people would destroy their usefulness,
and disqualify em from being "Just
common people." The prevailing no
tion was the oni? the well to do
should, -be educated and prepared to
manage the affair of government. To---day
.education has become compulsory
and 'we wre-eli, en 'tliw way . to the
supplying W free text books and eVen
food-and . clothing to .pur school children.-
Society has, begun to learn that
each child I an asset to be developed
tor its greatest degree of utility, and that
for every neglected and uneducated
PERTINENF COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
It iH fllRO
a free country ag-to-or-
Ithotfiaphy.
One cloennt forget the world as easily
as it forgets him.
One ran live on two bits day or less,
but does It pay?
The Jlder one gets the-more he ap
preciates spring.
It is improbable that Appraiser King
will become Tammanyixed. .
l'.
That none of the Beavers Is ft Beaver
makes no difference. Rah, rah, rah!
Better get that Batch of land-a home,
croft before the Tanama canal is
opened.
..
. Some dny the capitalists may fore
close, and "take over" all Rurnn anil
Japan., . , - ::.!.
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Leader Underwood Is an extreme op
timist; says the tariff bill, or bills, may
be passed by May 1. .
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If one likes midwinter weathrt- In
April all lie has to do is to move east
ward from 1000 to 8000 miles.
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This ' administration Inn't trumhllnir
with fear lest the United States be in.
continently licked by litis Japan.
It Should be difficult in nlitsln vmi
the small percentage of names needed
ror mat u. or o. referendum petition.
. ,To put the loan sharks out of busl-.
floss will be dolnir ft verv ood lob for
many people of small means and for
the community in general.
Ing kingdom of less than half a mil
lion people seems to ft big country like
this amusingly farcical, but Montene
gro has some Justification for taking
herself seriously.
TICKLING TOMORROW'S PALATE
By Herbert Corey. "
Washington. .April 16. If the epicures
will kindly let their mouths. water for
a, moment? -
Thank you, gentlemen. Here's ft little
cheer for you. The great American ter
rapin is to be saved to future ages. So
are the shad and the lobster and the
can vasback duck. That genius In the
department of agriculture who suggest
ed the other day that we all go to rais
ing hippopotami in our back yards and
keep edible muskrata In the rarlor
where we used to have goldfish merely
had his wires crossed. - The supply of
food fishes la general is tiot decreasing,
arid there is every reason to think
that our typical American delicacies
will be saved.
Let's take up Brer Terrapin's case
first. The Indians used to dig him out
of his native mud tend make stew of
him. The white, man got a tasto and
played him off the boards. . There are
records in existence showing that the
contracts with bound men In Virginia at
one time provided that they should not
be forced to eat terrapin -moFe than
three times a week.' Of late years only
presidents and United States senators
and rich clothing merchants could get
him. Even they were apt to let their
Hps smack at the wrong time, and revel
n a terrapin pleasur .when they were
really eating "sliders."
Five years ago the supply of terrapin
n tne wild state was practically ex
hausted. About the only real terrapin
dinner of the- past year was in honor
f President Taft. His hosts for the
night ransacked , the markets of two
states to find enough of the toothsome
turtle to make ft showing. For years
it has been taken for granted that Mr.
Terrapin was rapidly passing into tra
dition. Every one said that he could
not be raised by band.
As usual, everyone was wrong.
They're not over talkative at the bu
reau of fisheries. Co that few people
know that for the last four years ft ter
rapin farm has been operated by the
government at Beaufort, N. C. Maybo
the officials didn't say anything about
it because previous experiment had not
met with success. But it has now been
demonstrated not only that terrapin can
be raised on a "farm," but they, can be
raised as a commercial proposition.
Slow sales but large profits seem to be
the order. Soon we will be hearing of
young girls from Vassar who are op
erating terrapin cowles as ft means of
livelihood and of getting into the illus
trated papers. . '
The Beaufort terrapin station Is built
at Mdewater, so that about half of It is
covered by each tide. Well out of the
reach of the waters the terrapin are
provided with sand in which to make
their nests. The farm is surrounded by
fence, sunken so deeply that the bur
rowing turtles can't get out, and a wire
net prevents them from swimming
ftWfty.-.:
, "Each female terrapin lays from 12
to 14 eggs." said Mr. "Dunlap at the
bureau of fisheries, "and about 90 per
cent hatch. ' There Is practically no
mortality among the youngsters, and
they are raised very cheaply. We feed
them on .the commonest sort of fish.
We have been operating the farm ftbout
four years, and now have a. fine crop
of 3-year-olds, We think that we have
completely demonstrated not only that
terrapin cn be. successfully raised un
der seml-artificlal conditions, but that
they can be raised commercially for
profit. The chief dangers that threaten
them are herons and rats, which eat the
little fellows, and unattached persons
of the male -sex, who steal them when
they lire 'grown. 'It is quite easy to
guard against, both perils."
Likewise the lobster Is not becoming
extinct. Those who reasoned -that the
supply is becoming exhausted because
the price in the New - York markets
lately went up to 75 ' cents a pound
msy take heart. He is actually in
creasing on the Maine and Rhode Isjand
coasts.
The bureau of fisheries .points out
child society must answer to itself.
The chief obstacle to the fuller develop
ment of the collective idea is that old
savage Instinct of individuality. This,
in our modem business world, ;tneans
the ability to extract profits, to ac
quire that acumen to successfully- come
Into 'possesion of something produced
or possesed by another, by 'means of
trade or barter. That old commercial
Instinct has become, so thoroughly im
planted in us that we regard speculat
ing or trading in commodities as more
dignified than their production, and this
practice has become so general that we
ate seeing its effects in the Increasing
difficulty of ft great mass of humanity
to acquire -anything like a decent and
respectable existence In a country with
boundless resources and teeming with
wealth The matter of tariff on "com
modities will not meet, this difficulty;
for just so long as we adhere to the
rule of producing and distributing com
modities on ft gambling basis, Instead
of for social use. Just "so long will
these, difficulties remain with us.
":" A New Crtsstown Proposal. '
Portland, Or., April 15. To the Edi
tor of -The Journal In regard'. to the
east side crosstown carline, I would
Jlke to state ft few ideas-not only tnlne
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
-At Pendleton, the flunhlnff system Is
to be applied in street cleaning, super
seding, the ancient sweeper.
Myrtle Point now Ims In force an
ordinance . for reUrdlng the 'speed of
autoa to the 12-mlle limit. ,
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A urODOSltion foe furnHllllff Aav mnA
night service of light and power has
been put up to the people of Couuille,
The First Presbyterian church at
Klamath Kails, which started last year
in debt. Is now', clear and has I1Q0O in
its building fund besides.
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Condon's council has ordered that the
paving of Main street be rushed, and
has Instructed the city marshal to Im
pound all stray animals,' including
chickens and lambs.
J. Albert Matson has asked the city
of Marshfleld for a franchise to install,
all over the city, 24 Inch conduits "for
conveylnr electricity, eteam, water and
other utilities for the use of the pub
lic." " .. . , , -. - - ' . -
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It is a matter of , only ft short time
Until all tike range lands in the vicinity
of Fossil will be homesteaded. The
Journal says: "Inquiries for home
steads are becoming more and more fre
quent as the days go by."
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. A band of gypsies who recently en
camped near Monroe have folded their
tents an4 fllttod. THe Leader says
there was some excitement among Mon.
roe mothers until they had rounded up
their little broods and found there were
none missing.
Lakeview Examiner: " A large num
ber of homestead applications are being
received at the land office., Most of
them are for lands In the northern part
of the district, and are made by people
residing in Oregon and Washington, al
though occasionally persons residing in
the middle west gather on to 820 acres.
the need for real protection for the
lobster, Jioweysiv Not-so .manjrof him
are being caught to the pot as a few
years ago. Wherever' there is ft pot
there is also ft fisherman who lias no
conscience about selling the undersized
robMers. although the state laws all
forbid the sale of a lobster of less than
nine Inches in length.. The small ones
cannot be safely exposed. In markets,
but are bought by pin-headed summer
hotel men, who make chowder of them.
The lobster catch in Massachusetts
Is undoubtedly on the decrease, because
of the universal disregard of law by
the fishermen. In Malpe,' however, an
effort is being made to enforce the law.
The same may be said of Rhode Inland.
In the latter state a method of artificial
propagation, developed by - the govern,
ment experiments at "Wood's Hole.
MaM., some years ago, is being tried
with advantage. ' After the eggs are
hatched the tiny lobsters are kept in
screened pots on rafts, and the water
is agitated by means of slowly moving
propellers;- Otherwise the - youngsters
rould gather in clusters and the strong
er bnes would eat each other up.
"We have our choice." said Dr. Dun
lap at the bureau, "between raising
many little ones or fewer strong ones.
During the last fiscal year 2010,09,000
lobsters were hatched at the govern
ment stations. Jy this means we are
able to keep thesupply up to normal,
wherever the state authorities will co
operate with us. The need for closed
sea-son where the fishermen will not
obey the laws la imperatively suggest
ed." .'. ; .
Tiiere is some hope for the shad, too.
most toothsome nd boniest of fishes.
LThe -war department hag recently re
stricted the fthftd flshermei in the plac
ing of nets, in Chesapeake bay. These
nets have been catching the shad on
their way to. the spawning grounds.
ftnd the extinction of the species would
be but a matter of time., Similar ac
tion will be taken at the other spawn.
ing grounds:' There "will never be as
many shad as there were once, but they
will at least not be exterVnlnated,
The supply of mackerel has largely
decreased, and most of the halibut now
offered In the markets comes from the
Facifio coast. But codfish are 'actually
Increasing along the Massachusetts
coat. It Is reported that blue fish are
disappearing, but that is a habit of the
blue. Sometimes he Is not seen for
years. When they were first reported
on the Atlamte coast the oldest fisher
men did not know what they were. Her.
ring are holding their own. and the men
haden which is of value principally
for the oil he affords are Increasing In
number, Although,. It was once .thought
that they were bound toward extinction.
The supply of fish In the great lakes
Is Up to normal. Whiteflsh inLake
Erie ftre even Increasing.
Generally speaking, the food fishes
of the deep sea are, aft numerous as
ever. Their range is so , wide they cn
never be fished out. It is , only the
shore fish and those that run Into bays
and rivers to spawn that may be de
stroyed. The German earn isn't con
sidered an especially valuable fish. Few
people know that tralnloads of live carp
are sent from the Illinois river to the
markets of New York and Philadelphia.
Fewer still have ever seen the carp on
ft restaurant menu. But he is a good
food fish, for all of that, although the
sportsman bates him because -he de
vours the game fish in the waters he
inhabits. , '
Finally, there . is the canvasback duck
the. only gastronomic rlval to the ter
rapin, He. Is about done for, and he
can't be artificially reared. But a new
law empowering the federal authorities
tb take steps to protect nil migratory
birds was enacted by the last .congress,
and the bird men ; at Washington are
now drawing tip rules to be enforced at
the opening of- the next' hunting season.)
And it is hoped that these laws . may
be so strictly enforced by federal offi
cers that with the cooperation of the
states,, that this last delight of the epi
cure will bo saved to posterity,
but of the entire population : of the
Peninsula..'--The first is that it is ab
solutely .necessary not only to have
one but two crosstown carlines ' Any
one who will study the map of , Port
land will notice that this carline mbst
reach those districts that are the most
populated. How will the people in
Kenton, North Alblna, Piedmout. Ver
non, ." Highland, ..Woodlawn, Oakhurst
ftnd Irvlngton Park reach this district
unless Athere be a regular carline on
Killingsworth avenue? At present this
great and long street, "which reaches
from the' Willamette to the Sapdy and
Slough road, has only lnterurban serv
ice. Killingsworth avenue, has the
great car barns, the finest high sctiool
in the city and also ft library, is It
not high tiriie that this great district
should get better .service? - A carline)
from Dawson street to connect " with
the east side crosstown lines on Twenty-eighth
and Thirty-ninth streets
would serve , population', of""' 200,000
people. The Northwestern and the Port
land Railway 'companies are one.The
people are one more fooled by the
4wwiftble ftftUmi ia iUgU.i. ultUMy
There Is rio rellelSfrom the new conjfl
cern. Hut there is ono concern fhatJ
.twu.u R '..yi J BlL;, ft 1 . I 1 1 1 1 W. XJUVH
flut. solid eight, 4f' you don't do your
duty when the time conies, ' :
... ,;, GKORGE JfEYfctt.
THE PANKHURST
CASE 1 '
From The Public.
ikThe Mississippi valley conference ot
woman suffragists which met last .week
at tit, Louis, ignored Mrs. . Pankhurst's
case. In its bearing on civic morality,
this silence was ' manifestly right; in
its bearing upon woman suffrage move
ment in the Mississippi valley, It was
as manifestly wipe, Better In both re
epects, since the subject is beginning
iu uAv-'ite at-rious interest In thin coun
try, would have been a, pronounced pro-'
test against the criminal methods .for
which Mrs.' Pankhurst nd her follow
ers .professedly stand and which they
are ruthlessly carrying out. Better, too,
would it be, both for the Integrity and tho
easier progress of the woman euffragiji
movement in this country, if the nation
al ossoclatlon 0t, woman suffragist
were to protest against the criminal
policies of the Pankhurst faction In
Great Britain, or at least to withhold
appearances of approv&l. Those meth- f
ods ars so indefensible with reference
to political action, so repulsive with ref
erence to moral standards, and so un
wise in their tactical aspects, that the
democratic agitation for woman suf
frage in the United States can hardly
afford to be identified with them ,ln
tke i public mind, .,,.';
Already abandoned in Great Britain
k.. .ti i.i j.. . .. . . .
h i i-auuuo-t Buiiponera anu most
or its strongest leaders, the Pankhurst -faction
is rapidly making its methods
appear to Americans as being much
lees like "ft Joke on John- Bull" than
heretofore. Deliberate ftnd persistent
crimes which rUe to the grade of arson .'
and bomb-throwing and have murderous -probabilities
of . horrifying nature, 1 "
cannot long be regarded as a, joke on
anybody, -and this quite irrespective of
distance or ot the fact that they are
perpetrated by gently nurtured women;;'
who think they . are thereby helping a
good cause, American opinion is be
ginning to regard this outbreak in
Great Britain very seriously, and not -
wun tne favorable kind of seriousness--
its promoters are lookinV'for either. . It
Is beginning to take its place in Ameri
can opinion along with the criminal ,.
(policies of that ruthless faction of So.
ciallsts which William D. Haywood rep
resents, and its corresponding faction
in the trade unions of which the Mo
Namaras are a type factions that turn
for redress of economic grievances from
educational agitation to dynamiting and . -other
forms of terror.
The plea that "things are different in
Great Britain," and that we of this
country "don't understand the necessity" ,
U.I r ... ... .
iur uemuus crimes use arson in pro
moting the woman uffrage movement'
over mere, is cnitaisn or worse, mere .
Isn't a. word to say in defense or exten
uation of the Pankhurst compaign of
orime in Great Britain which couldn't
beta truly said for similar' campaigns In
this country If the criminal faction In
the - woman suffrage movement here ...
were as boldly to adopt corresponding "
tactics, There Isn't ft word to be ftald
in defense or extenuation of that cam
paign which couldn't as truly be
said; of any campaign of crimo
for the. promotion of ny political
purpose nywhet.crConsldpr the es
sentlal character of the . crrtnlnat
country in which there is ft large though
probably not yet preponderating opinion
in favor of woman 'suffrage, Is slower
than it ought to be in extending that -democratic
rlirlit: -nherminnn a faction
of woman suffragists, opposed by many
woman suffragists from the start and
abandoned in shoals by their own' a"
socltes later on, conspire to break up
public meetings, to destroy property, to '.
endanger life, to threaten the kidnaping
of children, and otherwise to fly in the
race, not only of the elementary laws
of the country but of elementary public
morals. They call lt' "wr." So said ,
Carrie Nation of her hatchet perform
ances when she adopted similar tactics
in milder form to compel lawmakers to .
close "down the liquor traffic In - the
United States. Bo says McNatnftra1 of
his confessed destruction of scores of
human lives at Los Angeles. So say all
physical force revolutionists, - If that .
palliation were admissible, where would
it end Grant that the Pankhurst fac
tion in Great Britain may rightly, "by .
running amuck with ' firebrands and
dynamite, spread such terror on all aides
as to coerce legislation Allowing wo
man suffrage for the sake of peace, and
you grant all that any physical force
revolutionist demands. Grant that, and
you grant the right of physical-force
trade unionists to coerce by the same
criminal methods. Grant that, and you
grant that Socialists who stand out for
ballots instead 4t bullets are the ten
derfeet their dynamitfrtg critics call
them. ,. Grant that and there is no po- .
lttlcal purpose, no civic reform, no prog
ress of any kind to which you have not
given license to make "war" upon eo
clety. Grant it, and you grant to antl
suffraglsta the same criminal Indulgence '
to terrorize In opposition to allowing
woman suffrage, or to terrorise for Its
abolition if allowed. In I word, to ap
prove Mrs. Pankhurst's campaign of
crime for woman auffrageor even to
remain silent when there is occasion to
speak is to approve the breaking up of
mo .uuuuniiunq. vs. l,ll UIUW, ll JB iu
consent to cancelling every reason for
giving the ballot to anybody.
Pointed Paragraphs
A man can knock and knock and atlll
fail to make a hit.
Love levels all things, when love li
on the level. ' - '
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A-flock of microbes may do . more
damage than a flock of elephant.
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' Shorter -engagements, if followed"" by
longer marriages,' would help some.
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Some women look upon eliarltyas a
stepping stone to society.
4, .w
Satisfaction ran never b cniMntn '
After loot's wife-had been turned into
a pillar of salt ' sne probably kicked
because she wasn't ft marble column, v
The "Sprucing-Up"
Season
You, sir, c&nnot get kwy -from
the "spruclng-up'' sug-
ftestions of spring no matter
iow Indifferent you may be to r
the question of dress at ottur
seasons of the year. ,
- This is a good 'time to visit
the stores that cater to men.
Look over the new thlnes i-n
scarfs, shirts, waistcoats. What
-about , hats and canes and
umbrellas? And there Is always -
; the question of a new suit or a
light overcoat.
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'Read the . sdvertipnments
TUB JOURNAL. They will
take you to the right hops.,for
the things you waht. '
And if "you don't know what
advertising to offer good sug
.gestions. - Read the advertisements, NOW.
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