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5 s 8 THE JOURNAL -aW. .tWOUPKllOltXT KKWdflPIl THE OREGON DAILYJOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING. SEPTEMBER 23. 1913. U, wacoom ,.i, ;..... faMMwr ad ttatilta ., ...nil,. mm aa4a-) vtw Snadar aoraloc t The Joernal Bull . Bnaartwa? and Yanblll'an t'attlal-eVOr. Ktra at ttM paacaffk at rortlaad. Or, tar ' tranamlaslaa brab tb mU u wcoDd cUm I I endeavor to make Tacoraa'g claims 1 thoroughly Imbued with the col- Democrat. entrance. SAMUKL HILL. StALKr-HONKS Main TII3; Homa, A-ul. U tspwtmeara roaclied bjr tkaaa aooibara, Tall the aajaiatar what Hatartrarat jma want. avMKIOM ADVBKT1SJN0 KKt-RBSBNTATI V BnalB ft Kaataar Co.. Braaswt-fe Balbflu. rtft nrth , Kiw York MlS 4aupl BatMta. Cbloaio. bacrlpttea Trrua bj mall or to aMraaa la Ui t'nltaa fitatn or Uazleo: DA1LT UM yaw ......t5X)0 Coo mont 80 0NDAT Ow jrtar 3 M On aoatk I DAlLt XD 8UKDAT fht "ear ...... $T AO Obo moath 1.83 P Never writ on a subject without first having read your self full on it; and never read on a subject till you have thought yourself hungry on It. Biohter. AX .ASTOUNDING CLAIM IF EVER Columbia river towns and people bad reason to sit up and be attentive, they have it now In the new claims of Ta coma. Writing in the Tacoma Tribune. J. B. Duryea says: Read page 6 of the Tacoma book. This' la the Oregon & Washington rail way -hook: it was written in Now York City -by a New Tork man and his nay ORTLANDERS entertained delegation from Hood River yesterday in the Interest of the Columbia .Highway. Among the entertainers was Samuel Hill. ' ' Mr. Hill is a contributor to the survey for the Columbia highway. He is not even a resident of the state through which the road would pass. Mr. Hill took the Oregon legis lature of 1913 to his farm in Wash ington and entertained the members there for a day as a means of en listing the interest of the body in good roads. It involved consider able expenditure, but it was a free gift to all Oregon for the benefit it might be to the people of the state. Mr. Hill's agitation for good roads is a patriotic agitation. has no private end to serve. He asks no office. He is not a bidder for personal popularity. Ho has no ulterior scheme to further. What Mr. Hill is working with is good. What higher proof could lege man's adherence to ideals there be of the need for getting if Dean Rogers" appointment 40 feet of water at the Columbia means that President Wilson la not l to follow the rule of appointing corporation lawyers and lawyer pol iticians to tho bench, there Is hope for the ordinary person forced by a 'circumstances Into litigation. Crit icism of federal judges has arisen, not so much because Judges were consciously dishonest, but more on account of the tyrannies they prac-l tlced as a result of lifto-long habits' or thought. The big Interests have taken full advantage o(t judges' pe culiarities, and these interests have done what they could to seize ad vantages through some of the judges' peculiar processes of rea soning. Lawyers may criticise Dean Rog ers' appointment on the ground that he has no practical judicial ex perience. As a matter of fact, the judicial experience of some ap pointees has been a detriment to the courts. Unless the judge Is a man of broad sympathies and pro found learning, his experience op- Hoierates, in practice, to magnify tech nicalities and thus defeat tho pur pose of courts. Dean Rogers' appointment may be taken as a good omen. It indicates that teachers of law, men whose life work has not placed them on He. li , a good citizen, and what Is best of all, a cleaii, n honest man. PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF -J i'jjAjuiljlw An exchange insists that un fer mented grape juice Is nothing more than dehorned alcohoL The Hon-i nrahlai YV T T4.-i.an lllrm If H? the majority of people prefer the stuff that has spikes in It. bmAll change ago, that the Beavers could have done If somebody would only provide the income, there are millions of Americans who would gladly take the places of those who are com plaining because they will be com pelled to pay an income tax. After Mrs. Pankhurst arrives, the two or three lectures she will give will be nothing compared to the lim itless newspaper lectures she will get. an idea. He believes good roads would greatly ameliorate the con- one side or the other of great legal dition of mankind. He is convinced j questions, are to be given an op- Letters From the People (Communication uut to The Journal for pub lication In thla department ahould be written on only one aid pt tb paper, abould dot eiceed iKK) word In leii(tb Vnd muat b accompanied hr tbe name and adilreaa of lb lender. It tb writer don not dealr to bar tb uam pub lished, b ahould o state.) "Dlacuaalon 1 tbe greatest of all reformer. It rationality everything It tourbe. It rob principle of all false sanctity and throws tbem back n tbelr reasounbleiieaa. If they bare no reasonableness it rutblessly crust) ea tbem out ot existence and sets np Its own conclusion in their steud." Woodrow Wilson. that they would brighten rural life came througn the National uiy an(i enlarge rural bank accounts, a bank backed by the greatest aggrc- t. ..1H M Ballon of capital the world has ever He Insists that they would aid in known. The postage for mailing this checking the drift of population book comes from the same source. f,-nm thn ronntrv to the cities. Think of what this New Yorker this j . . . . . . nui UlliJ III UIO unu Diaic, ija. h v mouthpiece of capital says: "Every great .producing area has a natural outlet and Inlet, a market place. And here great cities are lo cated. Puget Sound is the natural outlet for a region almost indefinitely --; large. By reason of her -. harbor Tacoma is forever appointed on of the (treat commercial cen ters ' . of the world." After proving by the O. & W. book that Tacoma Is "appointed one of the great commercial cen ters of the world," Mr. Duryea proceeds to convince himself that the Columbia river has no harbor. Not content with that, he next sets Oregon and every other state, he carries his propaganda. In his ad vocacy of better highways, Mr. Hill has become a national figure. He is known to the good roads men of every state. He has been a figure In the most notable assemblages of good roads advocates in the nation. It Is leadership that is rendering the country a high service. It is leadership that Is not only unselfish, bill that has cost Mr, Hill heavily In time and money. The .unflagging Interest of Mr portunity to make law a splendid instrument of human justice. The president himself, a teacher of gov ernment and political Bclence, is showing what' a professor can do In an executive position. Teachers of law may be equally successful on the bench. A WORKER'S VIEW 'James J. Hill la vounr vet. only 75 May he live and keep young until he In p About on thousand tlmea aa much comment has fafaen marl on that little Maine election aa It waa entitled to. American cttlea are absurdly spread out. European visitors think; but aren't tneir cities absurdly contracted and oon. densedT Soma government officials at Wash 1 tin ton aeem to persist In the Idea that Portland la "a village on a creek," aa the Puget Sound papers used to say but don t any more. It la reported that native women and children In large numbera are victim of peonage and slavery in tho Philip pines. Is it thus that we are civilising ana wnristianising tnoso people r The Mexicans are alluded to as "a proud people." Yes, the dominating class great land and mine owners and military officers a small fraction of the Donulation. who consider it their di vine right to oppress the Ignorant masses. Huerta Is still laboring under the de lusion perhaps Implanted by the late Ambassador Wilson that the American people are generally against the present administration at Washington, especial ly as to its Mexican policy, uuerta is much mistaken. That suffragette whose horse was killed by a humane society officer in Massachusetts because it was very oiu nnd had 17 kinds of visible diseases, but which she bought for a young, sound animal, may be a very smart woman in some wars, but she couldnt make a urns. up the amazing claim that the Co-j Hill In good roads should challenge lumbla gap leads only to Tacoma 'the attention of tnen and inBplre and that Tacoma, not Portland, Is the great outlet' and inlet of the5 Columbia river basin. He says: .Tha government -charts (6140-1 Co lumbia river, I5c at any book store) show that the mouth of 'the Columbia, river haa only 23 to 25 feet of water over the bar to which may bo added .l feet, the mean of the highest high them with Interest In the cause. HILL AND THE NORTHWEST r J HE plea of a worker for tho opening of the Columbia ap pears elsewhere on this page. He offers to contribute one per cent of his wages for a year, and another worker whom he knows would subscribe J100 to a fund to aid in deepening the en trance. Here are toilers who look beyond the apparent, and comprehend the real benefits and the real benefi ciaries of a Columbia river devel oped to Its full power in trans porting commerce. It is not the lot owners at Astoria or Portland, not the land speculators along the upper river, not the business estab-l AMES J. HILL'S seventy-fifth birthday anniversary furnished occasion for the New York Her ald to speak of what he has j lishments and manufacturing con- j of the people, should be entirely aban tides, whereas modern freight vessels accomplished. 1 he Herald says: draw from 25 to 32 feet in stM water. "Mr. Hill has done big things in a For a "long legged" vessel to get over t, because in him a big brain a bar constantly shifting sand when , , , . , ,, the breakers are rolling there must backed by supreme courage." . be at least 40 feet of water and even Mr. Hill has made money; a ,lrou.M,?f a ThVB ,8at1H &reat al for hlmseif. but vastly to drop the ship on the sand and . 4. break hr tr. two Th. rninmhin rtvr more for those other courageous has no ocean, harbor, never can have, ones who were wise enough to take; Oregon farm, the ax man in the one, and never will be a port except Money. Portland. Or., Sept. 21 To the Ed itor of The Journal Charles P. Church accuses me of "describing a circle of confused thought," but ho should have remembered that 1 was setting forth ilving trading horses with David Har- respondent who entertains the idea, evi dently shared by Mr. Church, that the government oossesses tha Dower of is suing money directly to the people, and to those who need it most. Indeed, ha quotes the federal constitution as say ing that "congress shall have power to coin (emit) money and regulate the value thereof," himself Injecting the word "emit" for the reason, presum ably, that the word "coin." which satis fied the fathers, does not quite fill the conception' which he thinks attaches to this' conferred power. But Mr. Church is not at all Justi fied In this liberty he takes with the language of the framers of the consti tution. The government can coin money, the real stuff, but it can emit only some form of currency which repre sents Indebtedness to the full amount of the emission. From the beginning the government has not coined a dollar of either gold or silver that It did not first buy, and It had nothing to buy with, except the money that it had gotten from the peo ple in the way of taxes. Mr. Church han not controverted this fact, and can not, for If it can "emit" a dollar that does not cost the people In some way a dollar, then It has the flat power, and any further worry by the people, any OREGON SIDELIGHTS Class periods in the high school at Kugene will henceforth be signalled by a clock with- an automatic announcing attachment. A saving of time will be on or the beneficial results. ' ,. " J At the nresent rate of taking up "out standing warrants, Polk county will soon be out of debt. The reduction since January 1, according to the Dallas Ob server's figures, has been from $38, 06J.17 to MS5.72. A traa-edv of the nlalna la Indicated by this paragraph In the Fort Rock Times: 'The big' team horse of B. F. Talbott that strayed away last apring came home a few days ago. He looks aa if he had had one h of a time." - ADDeal to tha homeseeker In tho Moro Observer: "If you were a young man lnnkintr for nhenn land and a comfort able. living on the farm you would, with modest means, find a farm in Sherman county that would be satisfactory in every way." Can don Globe: Condon has outgrown the one-dav "clean ud" in the spring. The city council ougnt to mak,e pro vision for several clean-up days during the year, and the matter of cleaning up the premises ahould be directed by an uiucer ana oruers maue uhubiiik u. icii cleanup and cutting of dry weeds. Hillsboro Argus: Miss Mary A. Simp son, who has remembered Hillsboro In naming her England home Hillsboro House, Richmond street. Brldington, Yorks, England sends the Argus eight shillings four pence for another year of the Argus, so she can read of the local chronicles of her old HlllsWoro home. Miss Simpson is a niece of the late Thomas Otchln, one of the earliest pio neers, who came, here as an employe of the Hudson Bay company and took up a donation claim near North Plains. He wus one of the very few who held his claim from the time of filing until his death. IN EARLIER DAYS s By Fred Locklejr. HUMORS OF GOVERNMENT BUG0L0GY cerns that are the desideratum. It doned is not because of their interests, hut t'nder the constitution, the govern because of the far higher interests By Herbert Corey. Her name !fe Mary. She wrote a nice little note from Haverford, Pa., to the bureau of entomology at the department of agriculture. "I enclose three funny moths I caught the other day," wrote Mary. "Will you kindly tell me what they are?" Whereupon the bureau of entomology rose from its several chairs and began to move in circles. Mary had found the brown tall moth In Pennsylvania, where the brown tall moth had never been heard of before. A brown tall moth is as destructive to elm trees as a forest fire. No one knows how many millions of dollars have been spent In fighting him. If moth have sleeves, the brown tall Is giggling up his. "Go!" said the centurions of the bu reau. "Beat It to Pennsylvania and find out all about this dreadful thing." Ho tli at a squad of entomologists swarmed on Haverford next morning. Other bug connoisseurs heard the dread ful news and they came to Haverford. For a week young men stumbled through Its streets, their eyes fixed on the tops of trees. iThe pockets of the young men bulged with butterfly nets and poison of all the people that The Journal has long been appealing for im provement of the great waterway. The hired man on the Eastern . t . . rr i . aj m t , i L ! ment can "coin" all the bullion, gold or .monies. iney numeu iieiin.it.-ui, uui silver, it can pay for with the people's they could find no moths. At last they money, but it can "emit" only Indebt- I looked up Mary. edness. "Quick!" they gasped. " 'Smost 1m- It has been generally conceded that ! Portant! Tel1 us where you caught the this question was permanently set- ! brown tail moths? un, . said iviary, i oruugnt inem home with me from Maine." for shallow bottom.- That Is why the government wouUI not let the Atlantic . advantage of opportunities his rail-! forest, the lumber Jack in the log road opened up. He has assisted, ' KnS camps, the deck hand on the ered a sort of a bug which for lack of a more Intelligible name may be called th alfalfa weevil-weevil. Anyhow, it Is a weevil which feeds on the weevil which feeds on alfalfa. It is saving thin valuable crop in some parts of the west. The oddity of the moment, however, Is the sick nurse of the hairy vetch. Vetch is a valuable forage plant, but It isn't a hustler. When It finds a aoil that Is deficient In nitrogen it Just lies down and dies. Whereupon the entomologists take a bottlo of bugs out to that vetch field and turn them loose. These bugs have Just one Idea In life, apparently. They hurry to the roots of the vetch snd begin to feed it the nitrogen it lacks. Which Is more or less of a marvel. The bureau of entomology Is adding tied In this country at the polls In 1896. Another of Mr. Church's Immature I conclusions is contained In this state ment: i -To Mnnirior th. h.nk Hcnn.it ' to our stock of bug lore every da y. Late fit entr the Cnitimhi hvai- n,i ratner than hampered, the Deoo e'river steamDoat, me woriter on tnei count niled nr in this countrv todav ' iy it discovered mat tne uitra-yioiet also why the O. & .W. came to Tacoma. j who made his If the Columbia river were a port for j valuable. He vv. v-u cMris liic Kirn i ni iroann . . ...... , . . .. - ui would have bought their terminals at I ""Owing that rull prosperity for hlSiCierKS, me sienograpner, tne denv-1 other avenue), of business relations." the human body. If they are applied too Vancouver, Washington, and that , railroad cannot come except through j eryman, the employe in every lineal Doubtless this is true, but it is well often. But the cigarette worm which would have been the port of the Pa- greater prosperity to Us patrons. jthe worker'in every trade, all these ' t0 remember that neither could the;Uves In madeup tobacco not only Is The Tacoma claim that It Is at .mperea, uie people mcnuiuuai, mo wumw uu uibi count piled up in this country today, . 'y 11 gucumto mai iu uuiwium railroad properties office building, the railroad track there Is not enough of the sacred metal ' rays are powerless against the bacteria U still- aaalatine- and In the mills and factories thnito 1 Percent of it, to say nothing , which inhabit milk. Every one knows IS still assisting, ana m tne rams ana raciones. tne i nundreds of tem&naa for It in .that X-rays have a deadly effect upon Mr 'will'. hin I. Kl tn aa well aa th liiiRlnp", and nrrff i Portland Railway, Light & Power com- ! impregnable, to the X-raya, but it actual- Mr. Hill b brain is big enough to as wen as tne business ana prores-i . .v.. ... ,i OAmB to rimirth in nmnortinn to .tin '.it,, .. 1 ; 1 , . .1 .. DiMial man o n ,1 tha ffraat f ttri. fao fr i . .. ... .. -. . . . tho tat of tho f'nliimhfn tri " .. .wv" .iv up aim lamuaus - land to every portion or the city in a I tne amount 01 jv-raya n gets. ui iuw miumuia gap is tntor-Hnnondont Ho hna timt on. ! commerce, transportation. flnanra'riat thnuul, nmhhlv all th. n.nni. hnn! Just to nrove that the near tree blight truly refreshing. That claim is the bafliaoLlhfi. insistence in the "O. & W. Book" that "Tacoma Is ap pointed one of the reat commercial centers of the world." The insist ence is that to get to any other Northwest port Portland having been squelched by government charts there 1s a heavy lift over the mountains, while it Is down hill from the Inland Empire through the Columbia Gap to Tacoma. Mr. Dur yea says: Get a Canadian Pacific railway fold er. Notice on table five that the ele vatlon of Medicine Hat, where the line to Spokane leaves the main line, is 2168 feet; at Summit It Is 4127 feet. I tered upon one of the most inter-land Industry are alike to be bene- to Bfe all parts of the city m the course is caused by an animal organism, th .4tt( K .u .u.... i,!of time, while the fact remains that ecientlsts are now raising this bac- Mtfnr demonstrations In beef and (fitted by the great change sought ;tluit porUon of tM -pcbpie-wna r-am -ftwtar in-bottiesr-fiy-and -r-thj-wH milk production ever conducted In1 at the Columbia entrance and in I to gpt about each day is fairly well ac- likely raise in the laboratory another America. Twenty-nine dual pur-! the deepened channel from Astoria commodated with its present equip-! pest to eat this pest up. They did that pose cattle, purchased in Great to the Canadian border line. mtnt- , . . , : with the alfalfa weavii. They discov- Britain, are now on Mr. Hill's farm! It is a program that plays no j , debt to with a S20 gold piece, and L,ra, morin order to be saved nonr st Ponl Tho or tv,iih f0trr.to it la a r.wwt T.rttK ' n . . i. i. , some more, in oruer to oe navea. 'vMa mi.. ahu iiv uiu All li I 11J) I IU VI 111 U M , a shorthorns and the average price 'an inner circle. Conversation on or appertaining to frogs is not encouraged In the bureau of animal Industry. Because not long ago one of Its brightest young men went per fectly dippy over bactrachlans. He wouldn't talk about anything else. He slipped lively green frogs into the hands of those he liked and was Invariably shocked and Irritated by the effect. He spent his spare hours In catching frogs or studying frogs or talking about frogs. So they put hlrti under the Judicial bell glass. "This man Isn't crhiy," said the Judge, after the frog connoisseur had conclud ed his defense. "He Is a great sclehtlst. But I think that some of his accusers ar'Suffftring from echoes In the garret." The Judge returned to his home at 3 o'clock the next morning from a little party. On the porch was the frog lov er, somewhat peeved. "I had planned a little surprise for you." said he to the murmuring Judge, "but you are so late In getting home that part of it got away. However Whereupon he dumped eight or ten large frogs Into the hat of the Judge, which the Judge was holding by the brim while he talked to the caller. Then he got the Judge by the coat lapel and talked frog Jo him'untll 8 o'clock in the morning. Then a neighbor bbw enough of the tableau on the front porch to call for the police. A large copper re sponded to the call. "Whrctr-wanof yez," satd her" ls the cr.azy guy?" "Look us over," said the judge, wear ily, "and take your choice." "Net to Salem, , Or., I know of no more picturesque or more beautiful elty than my boyhood home at Hannibal, Mo.," said P. W. Craig of Salem. ."When we came to Hannibal from Kentucky our family Consisted of it persons, fivo of whom were Americans of African descent held In bondage. ?rom 1845 to I860, steamboatlng on the' Mississippi river was at the height of Its glory. Those were the days of the beautiful packet boats and the famous nrtses.' In the winter of 1843 and 1844 I remember tho Mississippi was frozen ' over - and wagons went across from the Misso,urt shore at Hannibal to Illinois. ' Some of the slaves at Hannibal took advantage of the ice to escape to Illinois. in those days there was no fugitive slave law. Five miles out In the country from Hannibal was an old gentleman-' named Henry. He had a slave named Jerry. As you know. In- slave days, a slave al ways took the name of his master. Jerry Henry was one of the most cap able negroes In the whole country. Mr. Henry was old and Jerry took full charge of all of his master's business. His master became very feeble and Jerry knew that he would be sold at his master's death and probably sold 'down tne river.- Nothing was more dreadetl by the negroes than being sold down tho river to the cotton or sugar plantations in Louisiana. "No matter how bad a negro was. If you said to him, If you don't straight en up and behave, I'll sell you down the river,' that settled that negro. It was more effective than any amount of whipping. Jerry got to worrying for fear he would be sold down the river at his master's death so he ran away. -He settled at Rochester. New York. His master, Mr. Henry, died soon, and at the administrator's sale the auc tioneer stated that Jerry, a slave, was ' still the property of the estate, but as he had escaped he would "sell -him for almost any bid made. Tom Lair bid Jerry In for $5 though a negro as smart as Jerry, If possession could have been given, would easily have brough $1200. When the fugitive slave law was passed, Tom Lair went to Rochester with a United States officer, to recover the property for which he had paid 15. Jerry waa doing well and was greatly respect ed in the community. When the United States officer arrested him to take htin back Into slavery, there was almost a riot. The fire bell was rung and a mob of people gathered around the officer and Jerry. Jerry was lost In the shuffle and the next thing Ivts friends heard was that he had escaped to Canada. Jerry was more fortunate than most of the escaping slaves as the United States marshals or officers usually recovered thr-m for their owners. "Ben Butler's brother used to ston frequently in Hannibal. He was well to do, but he was almost ostracized because he was a "nigger trader.' A nigger trader In those days was not mucli re spected. Mr. Butler lived In New Or leans and used to come all through that district to get healthy, strong nigger field hands for the sugar plantations In Louisiana and also to get fine-looking young negro women to supply th southern demand. Butler would pas' from $400 to $500 for a young, healthy nigger work hand. A nliigcr who was a good carpenter or a good mechanic. If he was young and healthy, would sell as high as $1000, while a young and beau tiful girl, who had some negro blood in her, would bring $1000 to $1200. One of the tragedies or this business was that frequently a man failed in busi ness and all of his slaves would be sold at sheriff's sale, frequently his own flesh and blood going on the hlock. In other rases, after a man's death, his children, by some of his favorite slaves, would be sold down south. "Hannibal was one. of the beet land ings, aside from Herculancum and St. Genevieve, on that part of tho river, but the coming of the railroad sound. 1 the doom of the river towns and now the towns that once hummed with the traffic or the river today are sleepy lit tie villages living on the memories of the past." This of the animals $500 each. was more than j limitless vision and concern for the l lowliest social atom. a project Without C at once Paid It to D. It so happened J , paradox and a puszle. It seems to It is a plan with j that owp 1mou"f t0A ,ft"atbe a contradiction, but that Is because He expects to prove that more I It is a vast and splendid scheme within 10 minutes. once paid It to him, thus liquidating $60 of Indebtedness with one $20 gold piece and A had It back In his pocket Is evl- beef breed which produces little 1 bring on a bettered status for the a lift of '2152 feet, and then the road ! milk or a 8Peclal dalry bred which I grand army of the toilers. produces little beef. The plan of the experiment Is In controversy with the insistence of most dairymen and most beef pro ducers. Both have long contended that the single purpose cow Is the more profitable. This has been especially true among dairymen, although some of them have al ways defended tho " cow of dual purpose. In any event. Mr. Hill takes into consideration the growing scarcity of beef, a ponderous fact that the average producer has not yet taken Into account. Mr. Hill is convinced that the new conditions will de mand new methods, and that the ?ta!l U,ri'ifh the mountan leadinglcow that will yield both beef and sw imit tui is ine signal to advance. runs down the Kootenai and Columbia rivers, and it Is down hill all the way to Tacoma. study the map. fiee what a tremendous "almost in definitely large" territory Tacoma has . to draw from. You will readily find that the answer to the question, "Why Tacoma?" Is. "It costs less." Nowhere else can the traffic of the Northwest - come so easily and so Inexpensively aa to Tacoma. You may ask, why hasn't Tacoma frown faster In the past? Because thef men behind the hundreds of mll lionsthe great railroad financiers have suppressed Tacoma while their plans were maturing and until they eould get all the land thev wanted for o terminals and had given the signal to , advance. And the great four-track Point Defiance line to bring the freight through .the Columbia river gap the oniy water graue pass In the. United AT EIGHT V-NIN E A mnnov nan ho mo,l o-nn.n'f r,,.l,1l 1 ., ..!. 'l ' ' " uinicuuy ir. v-nurcn .. , . v,., o.ai uu.. .lu, . 3 u . I- j den ,y ,aborJnfi. under ,s Jp hU ben.f rarm with a breed of cattle which jized to the worker whose letter is i that when a $20 gold piece Is used In will produce a large amount of !on this page, and who wants the j paying a debt of $20, it not on)y wipes milk and beef, than with a special ' river utilized because it will helpjllt ,he debt- but tnat the 20 P,ec 18 1 r 1 a .viu a 1 x.-.. j .. wiped out also. But this Is a great error It really does not happen. There is at present an abundance of money In the United States to answer every business demand, and to the full, but it is not in the hands of those who need It most. It is, strange to say. In the hands of the rich, while th poor people are In a condition where they could use much more than they are able to get hold of, but Mr. Church appears to see the coming of the day when the money of the country will be where It rightfully belongs, In the hands of the poor and those who are rich will be without means. The man "having good security," to whom Mr. Church refers, can at pres ent, "anywhere and at any time," get what money he wants, but, as I was pointing out In my former letter, the dif- T LA GRANDE recently, former State Treasurer George Webb celebrated his eighty-ninth birthday. The day was passed , at his daughter's home, where he jwaB the recipient of many congratulations. Mr. Webb was born in Maryland in 1824. It is a long stretch of time from 1824 to 1913. The year that he was born was the year that The new Tacoma claim is highly Instructive. It may be, as the ar ticle Insists, that much Wall Street 'capital Is behind Tacoma and against Portland. The Northern Pa- ' ciflc builders originally tried to make Tacoma the city of the Sound. Fosslbly the magnates of that line pUU have great holdings there. " 1 Other proof is that Wall street magnates of Pacific railroads exact ninety cents a ton more on Eastern "Washington and Eastern Oregon grain to Astoria than to Tacoma. That fact is strong indication of hostility to the Columbia river and lliuiaiuin IVI IUB OVUI1Q. milk will yet be proven the more profitable. Mr. Hill lays no claim to an un selfish interest in the farmer's wel fare. He says his railroad depends Jackson first ran for the presl dency. Neither Jackson, Adams norificuity is that the man without such Crawford received a majority In the I curltv ls the 0116 wno suffers most. Wtorl fmw ,h An land, unfortunately, the fart remains, as ..,v.v. waa T ... . in .at. chosen by the house of representa tlves. Mr. Webb was three years old when the first railroad In the United States was completed. The total trackage of the railroads of upon the territory which gives It,the country at the end of 1912 tonnage, and tonnage increases onlylwas 244.089 miles, when the country Is prospering.! He was 20 years old when the It is a philosophy of railroading j rir8t telegraph Hue was built, 24 that many railroad minds do notlwnen sold was discovered in Call- that the govern ment has no power to put money Into circulation In a way that will appre ciably help that man. According to Mr. Church's admission. It gets, necessarily, into the other man's hands first, and he ls not the one who is calling forth this discus sion. T. T. QEER. understand. JIDICIAL APPOINTMENTS P RESIDENT WILSON has ap pointed Henry Wade Rogers, uan of the Yale Law school, a Judge of the United States Circuit court It to tv, Tk hnl. -l.. ... ..... . . l-'coiucuin ; T TVrTiT. e'urao,Q"!,ir81 Juaic,al appointment of note, y, Thre,co",d n more pow-,and may indicate his policy In fill erful proof of the need of Columbia ; Ing vacancies on the federal bench Mth.M Atltnn . . , . . . u'fi nuro iiviu ymiona 10 Kenne wlck to pull together for common defense 'and common benefit. If, as the Tacoma claim insists, it is fight of the Columbia river cities against Wall, street capital, there'll need for a common defense. , . If Wall Street Is backing Tacoma ; up In her claim that she is the gate way of the Columbia Gap, it means that there i are millions of money and tremendous influence in the There is no question about dean Rogers' qualifications as a thorough student of the law and as a man of high character. Before going to Yale he was president of North western University at Evanston, Illi nois, where he was recognized as one of the big meu of. the middle west. He went to'1 New Haven as Rn authority on law sjid also as a man of affairs, well acquainted with fundamental principles of law and fornia, 37 when Sumpter was fired on, 42 when the first Atlantic cable waa laid, and 45 when the first Pa cific railroad was completed. Mr. Webb came to the Pacific coast in 1850 and like most of the Immigrants ot that year wei4 to California. He reached Orogon in 1865, from Missouri, and settled near La Grande. In 1875, he re moved to Pendleton, where he has lived almost continuously ever since. He was elected state treasurer on the ticket with Sylvesters. Pen noyer In 1886, overcoming an ad verse Republican plurality of 3000 In doing so. He was renominated In 1890, but was defeated by George W. McBrlde. After his re tirement as state, treasurer, he was twice elected treasurer of Umatilla county. In politics Mr. Webb has always been an aggressive aud consistent Deuteronomy. Kstacada, Or., Sept. 22. To the Ed itor of The Journal The ten command ments constitute the higher law. Tho Israelites never kept any part of this law. That ls the reason the ten tribe,") were wiped off the map and the Jews, the two remaining tribes, are still under the curse. Indeed, the whole world ls under it, as well as the Jews. We are all under condemnation. The reason the Israelites did not keep the law was because they did not under stand it. v No one keeps It now, nor any part of it, because no one understands It. Every breath tho mortal man draws la a violation of the law of life. The breath of life Is not In him. The very fact of being born Into mortal existence necessitates the penalty of -Aeath. What we ordinarily call life ls not life, except in a very Inferior degree. 1 Ho another law was given to ' the Is rael I tea a secondary, subordinate, or in ferlor one. Thas tbe meaning of the word Deuteronomy. ' They had to take lessons In a lower school. They had to perform services, and go through rituals and ceremonials and mummeries that symbolised the higher truths which even yet are not at all understood. Every orthodox Christian must accept the doctrine of salvation by faith. Man is saved by fslth and not by works. Yet ho has to do all kinds of works, and then we do not understand that there are dif ferent kinds of law. The higher law ls the law of levitatlon, or uplift. That ls salvation. The lower law ls the law of gravitation that ends In the grave. It ls the law of penalty and retribution. No one Is saved by works performed un der this law. The commandment, "Six days shalt thou labor and do all that thou hast to do," does not refer to material work at all. We cannot do all that we have to do In six days of eight or ten hours each. Man Is not saved by the labor of his hands and he ls not serving God when he is working for wages In a mill or factory or a ditch. He Is serving a dif ferent deity. And such servitude is not a blessing, -but a curse. The blessing Implies tho removal of the penalty. "In It thou shalt not uo any worn. In the language of the higher law, i day means at least 1000 years. Caluu lated on this basis It takes quite a while to perform the six days' work that we have to do. No wonder the people think there Is never going to be a payday and that the Almighty himself has gone into insolvency. There is no Sabbath now. It has not come yet. All the days are evil. "Honor thy father and thy mother,' doeB not refer to the natural, mortal parents. It refers to the universal pa rents from whom the human race orlg Inated. God is the universal father; Nature the universal mother of all man kind. A knowledge,of the laws of God and nature woum sotve satisfactorily all the vexed problems that the people are now vainly trying to settle by leg lslatlon. . The best thing the legislatures could do would be to dissolve and eliminate themselves and let the honorable mem bers go to doing something they under stand better than making laws. Let them learn to govern themselves before attempting to govern others. It is not the duty, of man to make laws but to find out what the law In and. get Into line with it. J. L. JONES, Pointed Paragraphs 1- arguments make the least A A Worker's View. St. Helens, Or., Sept. 22, 1813. TO the Editor of The Journal I am very much interested in the effort you are making for the development of the Columbia river and would like to help It along. For several weeks I have been-wishing that The Journal Would attempt to raise a fund among the working men of the Columbia -valley to .help -this work. . I am a workingman and Would like to give 1 per cent of my. Income for a year to . fund for making a 40-foot channel over the bar. In conversation With a fellow worker? the other day he said he would like to give $100 to such a fund. ( Could you not put this matter-hefnr. the workers of this great valley o we could Join Portland and Astoria in thla great work? FRANK L. BURNS. Write-Up of the Wrtfe.Up Man. From the Forest a rove Press. 1 Last week Fred Lockley jyas a visitor In Forest Grove. The readers- of the Press all know Mr. Lockley as the writer for the Oregon Journal, whose articles about several prominent people of Forest Grove have been reprinted In ( carry a union card. tnis paper, ivir. jvocmey is special "write up" man, who travels over the state looking for unique and Interest' ing stories about Oregon. He is rapidly becoming aa authority f early life, as many of .his subjects have been ob tained from the early pioneers. It Is Just that that makes his writing so popular. Instead of beginning his ar ticles with a funeral notice, he begins with a quotation from the man him self. Too seldom do the living receive notloe, while any vagabond may get a column eendoff for the next world. Mr. Lockley was editor of the Pacific Monthly, before US consolidation with the Sunset Magaslne, and has long been a faithful and efficient booster for Oregon and the Willamette valley. We expect to read some more Interest ing "features,' with local settings, as a result of his last visit. The editor Just wanted the experience of writing up a real "write up" man. Sound noise. The self-made iiihii never quite gets the Job finished. YOUR MONEY By John M. Oskison, By John M. '"Oskison. " At the time of the last sale of New York city bonds, which was conducted by Controller Prendergast, prices re ceived proved to be lower than antici pated. Certain comments In the news papers following the sale were to tho effect that he overlooked a chance to get better prices when he did not ar range to sell them "over the counter" to tho people who have hundreds of mil lions on deposit In the city 'a savings banks. Sneaking to the National Association of Credit Men, Mr. Prendergast called I attention to some facts wnich indicate that a aood deal remains in the way of educating Investors to the desirability of putting their money In municipal bonds before such a sale can be a real success. The last bond sale of the city of New York was advertised all over the country, in small towns and cities, In smalt papers and big, Y4 no popular demand for the bonds was created. And In those cities where the "over the counter" method has been employed, ac tual popular buying has accounted for small proportion of the total. Those are facts which officials of cities are bound to consider. But Mr. Prendergast went on to say: "There u no reason whatever why 1 our people should not be educated to an appreciation of the securities of their own cities and states and nation, and possibly we have been remiss in not having undertaken this before." '. Why not devise a plan for marketing the securities of cities, states, and the nation In the Same way that tha big In vestment banking houses use? Why not have them for sale st all times, and why not make the campaign of educa tion continuous? The self-made man doesn't have to A man laughs at scars when a woman throws things at hi:n.' And many a thoughtful toper gets fuller than he thinks. Lincoln never worked a holdup game on county fair visitors. t Lucky Is the chaperon who has eyea that see not and ears that hear not. Matrimony Is a bargain and some body gets the short end of every bar gain. Every girl screams on getting klsse.l by a man but she usually docs It In wardly. ..m&ti The fact that a man's home Is mort gaged Is no sign that he owns an auto mobile. A woman may. have more love than respect for her husband if he helps her wash the dishes. te'L-'J - 11 ' '.. , J , "Good Morning, I Am Opportunity "v Here he Is right at your door step lifting his hat pnittely and asking you to let him In. lie Is coming to you through the advertising In today's JOURNAL. Will you read the measago he has for you? . 1 Will you open the door an!' let him in? It used to be that you al ways had to seek opportunity but that is not always the case nowadays. Opportunity Is , a hustling Chap. He is modcrnlr.od. He uses airships and automobiles, telephones and advertising. He wants you to take him In and he frankly says so. Unlike a pretty and diffident MIsb he ls eager to be em braced. The advertising columns In the -daily newspapers ar Op portunity's mouthpieoo. He knows people read newspapers and believe in them. 80 he chooses the easiest way to reach ydu! Meet. Mm half way read the advertising. In today's JOUR NAL, Opportunity Is a guest who pays his way liberally. V,.