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THE OREGON 'DAILY- JOURNAL, I Gir, LAND, MCi: VENING. CC 'ER ; THE JOURNAL ' AN lyi'VpKNDKNT XKWKPAPKrt ' '. S JtllvMlN - rUllllWM't 8ii.uy) m3 ......... M.in,lH1 Huwnlnip Mtr lh. Joil --4. ,;. Hr'Bily end mmil t,. rnninnn, vrr. ninnriirt the ixwintHo at I'oftland, O'-. A tonxuilMloa tbrciUKli tlie malla seoon4 I Tl.i-iii lK'M'S ''- 7173; Home, A-S0.M. Ail ileiiartiiieiita rwichtif r thru number. 1il th operHtne wlmt department -roe wt ioiU.JuN AD UHTIMNU- BItt'RJ'SlCNTiTIVB .u-w.xi,'eraf5 ec-Kvasrv iln Jliill.Iiuft, t Mmgo. v tdiluu-rii.ttou Tt-riim by Bialt or to any adurai lu tJue lulled State or Mfilco; .' , ' ,,,, nin.v Out fear ....... $3.fto I One monta . . SUNDAX' Oat,';er ,...-.".$2.40 f month ? 1AII.Y. AN'O SUNDAY. One year .... . .ti.&O ( One month . .50 '.$ JKS .f .83 ' It lap doubtful whether man kind ar most Indebted to those who, like Bacon and Butler, dig the cold from the mine of liter ature, or to those who, like Paley, purify It, stamp . It,: fix Its real value, and give It cur rency and utility. Colton, , . . OUT OP JOINT W iHY ' W out . of Joint with progress? r A ferry on a great thor oughfare under the shadow of Portland .. is a relic. It la a crude remains of a rude age. : It Is a hand-me-dowft from the primitive. ; Why perpetuate ItT . ', ' it A ferry on a great Interstate thor 1 oughfare in - a day ' of electric cars, -' telephones, wireless 1 and the auto truck la a misfit. It is a-sorry survival from: a pioneer., past. - It , has been outlived, .and .belongs in . the discard. " .-' . . ' It came with the trapper and the trail. It was the civilization of the tepee and the tomahawk. It had Its time. In the days of the dugout and the ox wagon," It should have gone - when , the yell of the coyote disappeared before an advancing civilization. The Interstate bridge Is the gleam :ict advancement. . It is the sunburst of the morning:' It is the full-orbed day of progress. ' ' ' -. ' ,,-A' time-worn - inter-state ferry is the backwardness of 'toon-prog-ress. It is "the landmark and pil lar of, mossbackism. It Is the gloomy remnant of aa ancient ' epoch. , ' - ' , ' ' We have thrown away the ox yoke " and the graltf'-cradle. .The trapper has- sung his swan aong and loco- motives are. on toe trail.' we nave the Babcock test and the cream Bep- arator. - We crpes . the continent in four, days instead of ' six months, and are ' soon going to Europe through the Isthmus; Instead of I around the Horn. ' - Why be out of JointT, - Why hang ' onto a mlsfitf ; Why cling' to, a Z primitive ferry In an age of bridges, r thousand-foot steamships and flying ; machlriesT . ,'''.', r To vote against the lnter-state ; bridge is to vote for the past It m Is a vote to turn ' the clock back warL, , It.is a vote for the wild'er - ness and the wigwam.' . It is a vote for the prairie schooner' and the T emigrant trail.' , t . ': It is a vote against advancement, ; a vote against the future, and a 7 vote against civilization. COLONEL MOSBY i IME heals . many " wounds - nd corrects many false ' ouinlons. , , oeen mviiea to vanaaa to taiK on his wa? experiences. Many peo ; pie may be surprised to learn that 'this fighter of the Confederacy is living, but that ia not the point . Mosby was known -to the people i of the North , during the Civil war I as a guerilla, and he was frequently called much worse names. But when the war closed Grant demon Etrated that he put little faith in f the stories told to blacken Mosby's , character. Orant gave the Southern ' soldier a position under the gov ; ernment, and In one capacity or an- other he served the United States ;v until a few years ago. . , '' 1 During Civil war days a Connec- ! ticut .village held a meeting for the : purpose of ' condemning the "guer illa" Mosbyt Recently residents of "the same 'village asked the colonel ; to be their guest and to give them a talk on war matters. He consent '' ed, : and his hosts included a num ber of Grand Army veterans. There was a price on Colonel I Mosby's head during the 60's. He , was bated . by Union soldiers and "stay-at-homes. Today ho goes about Washington with head erect and many, to do 'him honor. This vet- ' eran, an amatement to doctors, has , trobably . been allowed to live as , demonstration of what time can ac complish when people are sane. ' ' Sherman said war is hell; Mosby demonstrated it The North's pres ent attitude toward this veteran is proof that it is better to forgive and forget ''., ' MILITARISM AND TRADE I HE London Sphere contributes some Interesting data .bearing upon the relation between mil itarism and trade. The trade of the world, this paper says, is largely an AhglrJ-Saxon ' monopoly, and the figures show that the cost of militarism in five European coun tries as compared with Great Britain and the United States, is in inverse ratio- to the value of foreign - trade carried on by these groups of na tions. , ' . - Germany,! France, Russia, Austria and Italy have a combined import! find export trade of 9160 million collars, while the foreign trade of Telegraph calls attention 1 to 'the Great Britain and the United States milling trust, which Is one of 'the enjounta to ,10,19$ millions, -'Forjworst In Canada., : 1 , - I he protection of this trade and fori .The Canadians are beginning to national defense Greaf Britain and' protest against excessive . freight the United States maintain military and naval establishments at an an nual outlay1 ofc 575 million dollars, while the five European countries . gpend 1200 millions for the' aarae That la not the end of the com' parison. for Great Britain and the United - States withdraw vonly 536, 000 men from productive civil life. while Germany, France, Russia, Aus carracKs or on snipooara more man 4,000,000 men. - ' .. "The Sphere calls attention to the fact that the tax for , armaments falls most heavily - upon the coun tries ' least able to , bear'', it. Com' paring , trade figures with costs of armaments) . the following results are given; Germany's expenditures. on army and navy are 19 per cent of her total trade. . Russia . spends 48 per cent of her trade returns in this way; France, '14 per cent; Austria, .14 per cent; Italy, 16 per cent; Great Britain,, 6 per cent, and the United States, 5 per cent. .Tho burden is becoming heayler each year,, and more men are being taken from productive work. Even in Great Britain, , where the cost of militarism is comparatively low, the strain is being felt. What must be the suffering in continental Europe T , Militarism .la an economic ein. The Sphere's figures ' dispute - the saying that trade , follows the flag, A rmamenta debar 'millions of . men from earning their living in a' le gitimate way.. Trade, is strangled and Workers w ho are exempt' from military- duty have, the added bur den of maintaining workers who, are prevented from contributing' to 1 the common .good., ; The Sphere says that -militarism will destroy trade if trade does not destroy militarism. THE CORVALLIS MARVEL K EWS stories and pnotos of the now . famous Oregon Agrlcul tural College hen have , been ordered by several New York newspapers.; -The press of the en tire country contains accounts ant) much editorial comment about her achievement 0 - 1 The publicity she Is bringing the state totals more newspaper space than all the wheat alt the fruit, all the salmon, all the lumber, all the livestock, all the hope and all the other products grown in Oregon this year. As a matter of fact, within the brief period of, a few days she baa become known around ' the world, "'and information as to the details by which she smashed every known record of egg production is sought la every civilized land and clime. V Her achievement is of marvelous significance. . Her record is 291 eggs in 865 days, or nine more eggs than was the former high record, made by a hen in a competitive test held in Missouri and open to the To get the full significance ot the Corvallis hen's performance. It should be remembered that the average hen In the United States produces about six dozen eggs in a year. The Ore gon hen produced' 24)4 .dozen.". It was making more than two blades of grass where one grew before. 1 It means more, than six eggs , laid where one was laid, before. 'More significant stilt is the fact that her record was not made, under artificial .conditions. She was not pampered, 'nor unusually fed, nor given an undue amount of .attention. She was one of 60 hens housed in the Same bouse and having the run of the same yard. The conditions were , no - more than any practical ponltryman can easily comply with. ; She was fed good food, but there was no secret in her feeding. She received exactly the same diet and attention as went to all the hens on the college farm. '" She , had for shelter the same kind of house that was carried on the poultry demon stration train run by the railroads and the college throughout Oregon. The house cost about $25. 1 . There is in her performance,.' a phase that is a message to the poul trymen of the country. ' Through her work, Professor' Dryden, who is conducting these investigations at the college, is assembling evidence which is very strong to. the effect that se lective breeding, or breeding from a line of 'good layers, will Increase the yield of the flock. Professor .Dryden himself believes from his investigations that the laying qual ities are transmitted and that a good' Increase in general production "can. with proper pains, be obtained. ' . TO strengthen the view. Professor Dryden has a second hen wKlcb. at last accounts, .was making a rec ord very much like the new marvel. He also has a large number In the same pen with a laying average of over 200, - The present work at the Oregon college is counteracting the effect ot experiments carried on at an east ern station , for ten years in which it was finally concluded that laying qualities' were not transmissible. The discouragement to . poultrymen that resulted throughout the coun try Js removed by 'the facts brought oat at Corvallis. Professor Dryden la making more progress than la be ing accomplished ' elsewhere In demonstrating the possibilities the Amerlcany hen. ";, . " , ot MONOPOLY IN CANADA C I AN AD A, which is attempting to promote the general, welfare by means of high tariffs 'and direct subsidies, is learning the coEt of monopoly. ; The . Montreal rates, especially on wheat and flour, but the Telegraph prints some dead ly parallel figures showing that if Canadians ' are handicapped ,' by ex orbitant railroad , charges, they are oppressed "by. the' millers to a far greater degree than the railroads have attempted. Despite the claim that freight rates are excessive, flour and bread made . from . Canadian wheat sell cheaper in England than The. Telegraph finds. . that ' top grade' Canadian flour on .September 12 sold in London at $4. IS ia bar rel. - The same, day it sold In Mon treal at 15.10 a barrel, and in Win nlpeg at $5. The, price of patent flour varied from . 14.06 in London to 14.80 la Winnipeg and 14.90, in Montreal. Bakers' flour -ranged from f 3.60 . In London to $4 in Winnipeg and $4.10 In Montreal; No. better illustration of monopoly methods has-been presented. The London resident can. buy Canadian flour cheaper than Canadians can buy, the same article, and the London- price tnust Include the carry ing charge) and : the profits . of at least one additional middleman. The speculator and the miller in Canada are, reaping enormous ' profits at home because of a governmental pol icy' based . on the, fallacy .that the prosperity of a country can be built upon unjustifiable - profits to the few. - The United , States has gone through experiences such as Canada Is- now having. ' This country IS now committed to the policy of free competition ;T it .haa turned Its back on- prohibitive tariffs and unnat ural monopolies. Canada's resources may stand the strain for a number of years, but the time will come when that country will follow America's lead. A BLIGHT E ARB spending great sums to - advertise Oregon. We send , glittering ' and costly literature broadcast The counties' send out their pam phlets. Tho state . prints and dis tributes a state pamphlet In every possible way, we are trying to In duce homeseekers to . settle in Ore gon. - - 1 j But, .there is an Influence that tends to counteract the effect of these endeavors. - Thus, what must distant peoples think of us when tbey hear that we are pulling down our. state university?' ; ; They know Its appropriation was referended six . years ago. They know that Its appropriation was ref erended and beaten two years ago, What will . they. thinW - when they hear that its appropriation is again referended, and what conclusion will they draw If they are to hear that it has oeen voted down? - 1 There can be but one result of these constant - assaults on higher education in, Oregon. Distant , peo ples will conciuae mat we are a queer people. They will be amazed, when all other states are building up, colleges and universities, to see Oregon fighting the . agencies and Instruments of education. -. The effect will be to benumb the enthusiasm 'to come to Oregon.; It will have a deadening influence on immigration to this state. It will blight a great deal of the work of the costly literature and expensive advertising with, which we are mak ing bids for homeseekers. r Every state is striving to get away from illiteracy. Every state is open ing wide tho avenues to knowledge. Every state wants every possible boy ' and girl to be given . every chance for education, and the news abroad tEht Oregon has an armed camp in opposition to higher educa tion will keep away multitudes of people, and the most, desirable peo ple in the world, at that. What Is the use to advertise Ore gon if we are going to keep educa tion in Oregon in a hubbub?. , r - What's 'the use of spending great siima on publicity, ' i we are going to keep the higher institutions . of the state In turbulence and turmoil? EDUCATION FOR FARMERS S ENATOR HOKE SMITH of Georgia ha announced his In- - tentlon to push his agricultural extension bill through the sen ate at the earliest possible moment. This measure has been described as one ot the most valuable pieces ot constructive legislation that has been before congress in the" past fifty years. -'. '-'''. The purpose of the bill is to carry directly to farmers of every state end every county the educational advantages which are now ..limited, in large part, to Btudents at ' agri cultural colleges. .The aim Is to put into practical use the great wealth of scientific-knowledge of -farming which is now available to a compara tive few In. many of the states. .. The bill provides a fixed annual appropriation of $10,000 'to each state and further conditional appro priations to - be apportioned on - a basis of rural, population. The con ditional appropriations will - begin with . a total of $ 3 0 (T,0 0 0 a ' year. Increasing by that amount annually until a maximum of $3,000,000 is reached.. . - .' 1 :tJi . In order .to secure Its jshare of the larger, appropriation 'each state must contribute to the same Dur- Ipose ,an amount equal" to ' tm sum! onerea oy. tne zeaerai government. The money will be, expended through the state colleges of agriculture, and It' is 'provided that at least 76 per cent of It must be used for actual field demonstrations.- .Of -the re mainder, 20 per cent may be used either for '"household economics or for further demonstration work.' Wonderful progress has ' bee$ made by scientific agriculture ia re cent years, nnd to the agricultural college is due credit for this prog ress. But the colleges still have dif ficulty In. carrying their knowledge, valuable as It is, to the farmer. Most farmers now admit that they can learn from the college professors, but too many agriculturalists have not the opportunity or the Initiative Jo go to the college, ' throughout a state carry knowledge to the farmers In an effective man ner. -This method has all: the ad vantages of shop practices by which a workman, learns faster when he sees the foreman operate a machine as it should bo operated. .The Smith bill has merit - Agricultural exten slon of the sort to which the Geor gia senator is giving attention win mark an important forward step In the country's welfare. Letters From the People (Commsntntioni nt v The Joarnil foe pub. llmtloa In thU department boulrt be written oa only one tide of tne paver. Mould not exewd Suo Words la length end nnt b eceomnnnled br the name tuJ addreMkof the sender. If the writer do not deilr to bare toe .name Put junea, be anonia eo etaie.j , .. . -v. , , iTil.Mii.lnn la the vraatcat of ell reform!. It m Horn Usee eterytuluf It touche. H robe principle ot all false aaiietlty and throw them back on their reaeonableae. If thejr baY ue reaaonablenee it rutbleealjr erusnee " ot exuttesce and eeta up lta owe. conclusion in their stead." Woodrow wiuon. ; . . Prohibitionist Opposes Delay. ' McMlnnvllle, Or. Oct , 18 To ' the Editor of The Journal It is gratifying tb read that the various church conven tions are appointing committees to con fer concerning- the Umr lor the next prohibition amendment campaign. All religious, tewperance and eivlc organl- lattona should agree on a time ana tnen bend every effort to make the campaign a successful and convincing one." Already two of thetate organisations have declared strongly for XiH aa the time, and have called upon all other organisations to unite with them In the movement The organisations - so de clared are the Prohibition party, at the meeting of its executive committee at Portland, September 22, and the state W, C. T. U-, at lta annual convention at Corvallis, There is no uncertain sound la their resolutions. Tbey believe In waging war on the enemy , of all righteousness, virtue, and safe, govern ment at the first opportunity. ' There Is another organization, wnicn claims all the gains In temperance leg islation and education as apeolal tro phies of lu work, which is advising 1916, ' and is sending its agents to all parts of the state urging "delay, delay." Delay means two years of practically unmolested sovereignty for the liquor traffic. Why delay? The reasons given do not satisfy, those who recognise that in the liquor traffic, health, virtue. safety, education, . and religion find their greatest foe. . ' . The chief reason given is, that we must first make a special effort to re peal the "home rule" amendment, which was added to the. constitution. In 1910, Snd that then we shall be ready to en gage In a prohibition campaign in 191. Is there any- real need for: thisy , 1 am not a lawyer, but 1 was convinced from the first that there Was no such necessity laid upon . us. To . convince myself, X wrote to one of the leading legal authorities in the state, and while I am not at liberty to use his name nor to publish bis letter, the substance is that a prohibitory amendment. If prop erly drawn, 'even Jf It does not make mention1 or tne nome- ruie sunenament, will. If adopted, repeal that amendment by implication. - To a layman this sounds like good law, and I believe that the great ma jority of legal talent of tb state would so hold. - - If there are good reasons why we should not admit to the voters In 1914 a prohibitory amendment, let us have them, but until they are given those who really care must be governed by the numerous reasons which demand . that the first opportunity must be Improved In waging this warfare. ; It Is really death to the liquor trafflo in 1914 or death to hundreds of the best boys and girls, men - and - women, of Oregon, before we shall have a chance to strike another state-wide blow, in 1914. rr, ' . CURTIS P. COE. Wilson's Diplomacy Precedent.' . Portland, Oct. 20. To tne Editor, of The Journal In the matter of the Mex ican embrogllo, some of the foreign gov ernments are beginning to show symp toms of "diplomatic colds.",, They are now beginning to hedge from their pre mature recognition , of Huerta aa the head of the de facto government of Mexico, and President Wilson's patience, tact and foresight have established this precedent in the conduct of ; diplomacy, that a defacto government in this en lightened age, must rest upon a govern ment de Jure, and that no reincarnation of tne bloody Macbeth can slaughter his way to the throne of a dictator and take hlas place among the governments of the world, from the viewpoint and standards 'of American diplomacy, v. - Judging from tho Inspired articles of British writers, the government of Great Britain still stands pat and is not con cerned with the , standards ot nations looking for recognition any more than with, the standard of the ancient Gauls. They seem to view the present Mexican standard as they depicted h standard of tho American revolutionists, "as a snae with 13 rattles, about to strike, with the motto 'Don't tread on me." From Great Britain's ' point of I view President Wilson's cardinal weakness is his persistency, in Judging tlie present Mexican government from the standard of tlie government of the United States. We are told that 80 per cent of the peo ple of Mexico are illiterates and but 20 per cent intellectuals. But from the In tellectuals comes the governing class of Mexico. It Is now close to half a cen tury since Lerdo sat as the first presi dent of free, republican, Mexico, and what have the- Intellectuals to show from their stewardship? Aside from their perlodto revolutions, assassina tions and exiled presidents,, they have thrown their country's resources open to greedy, foreign capital and neglected the weTfarevof their own people, so that today ao per cent of their countrymen cannot read or writ and are in a state of peonage that .is a veritable disgrace to our civilization, it la to these intel lectuals that President Wilson's diplom acy is directed, and the American people are behind him. 1 Are w to lower our standards to meet those of Mexico or the "Bible and rum" d!plomacyof our practical cousins, across the seaT . ; k "i ' j :"'' r ;) 't American, t i W ' t ,..,.. - . v The Gleneaslyn Wreck. Portland, Oct. . ?0. To the editor, of The Journal f rom press report I un-eJ derstand that recently, on a clear day, with fair weather and friendly wind, a ship In sound condition and under full control, was sailed upon .the rocks near Neah, Kah Nlo mountain, on the Oregon coast, and that after a so-called Inquiry a verdict was reached censoring two or more of the ship's officers and punish ing them by suspension for periods of three months each. In other words, the penalty for wrecking a ship on the Oregon coast Is a slap on -tha wrist. - Evidently the trial of the officers was deemed a controversy in which only PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL C1I V.C!K ' ' i 1. , - .if! 'Murderer XYUhlns inn y be,' sane, but nobody will' dony that ha i a foul. Everybody won't - be satisfied until all property in exeinpi from tasatioa. ' V ' ' 1 s . - 1 - ' 4 ' Uncle gam wouldn't trade Alesda. that he bought of Russia for "a eontt'- for the new continent and many millions .to Perhaps the only 'pood use to which that new Arctic continent could be put by Russia, would be to send all its rulers up there permanently. , -v; - '-,,..' " It Is unlikely that In this country Mrs. Pankhui-Ht will be considered more ttian one tenth as important a personage as she supposes herself to be. 'Whether higher salaries' for public employes are deserved or not, most voters are against them, as tlioy. will show at the firstopportunlty. t , A' Washington state man) agpd 11 '5, has a1 son DC. who has a son 7;; but what of the other three younger genera tions that should be In tha story? .: - A piece' of good news. If true, though Small and of slight Importance, comes from Parts tttat- Jack Johnson will never, never agala est foot on American SOU, ! 1 i 1 ' . '',. '-! t ' - ' m r , . x ' Fr(ro various' small items, one can radlly believe that King George ot England must be a very unhappy man and this ot altogether because he Is a king. ., ' The old adage that It la an 111 wind, etc., ia exemplified in the result of the reoent storm at Nome; great quantities of gold-boarlng sand were washed in It is reported. . URBAN RAILWAYS TEND UNDERGROUND From the Christian" Science Monitor. Demands of the people in certain parts of outlying Boston for subway as opposed to elevated . transportation should not be regarded from a purely local standpoint They are typical of demand rnade In bther cities where the elevated system is in use. - in tjnicago, where elevated lines cover all sections of the city and center In a downtown loop, affording mere ; convenient 4 an more rapid transit than t would nave been possible through dependence on the surface lines, there Is unceasing popu lar, clamor for the Temoval of the un sightly ' and noisy structures, and Chi cago has not yet tasted of the benefit of subway linevj,In-New, Tork, where elevated railways for years unquestion ably met a great communal want.: they have been rather .toierateo - tnan ao- cepted. It is quite certain that If they had not secured a foothold before sub way .construction began tbey ; would never' -have been Introduced, Indications point strongly to tne prob ability, that in large cities, at present without either elevated or subway trans portation, movements will shortly be set on foot for. the plaolng of existing sur face traoka underground, and there Is not lacking evidenoe of a disposition on the part of cities or the more populous class to take a similar course. It is seen in aU ot the Jarge and growing American cities that aome special and extraordinary provision must be made tha ship-owners and fhe officers were parties In Interest 'It occura to me, however, and I submit the suggestion for your comment, that tha commercial Interests of the state of Oregon and of the Paolflo Cat are vitally affected and that soma means should be provided to discourage similar hlp-management in future. The wrecking of ships on the Oregon coast will not Increase the sending - of vessels to the . rjojumoia River, reduce freight rates nor encour age ship passenger traffic In this part Of the Pacific The effect cannotr be otherwise than harmful At a . time when we are spending millions to con vince the world we have a safe harbor for the ships or all nations, we snouia not view in silence the Incredible spec tacle of three months suspension meted out aa punishment for wrecking a ship on a clear day In fair weather. If this is nohe of our business we should speed ily make it our business. ? A. W. P. .- ., ' -- : r'.' ', ''';.:.,' '"Industrial QoverAient." ' ' . Ashland. Or., Oct.. 18. To the Editor of The Journal I cannot but admire your well written and logical editorials against the loan shark and. other ex ploiter 'who exploit to the limit But what's the use? . All forms of interest on money, rents on lands or profits from labor In the form of dividends are exDloltatlon. Al of these are unsciip- tural." However, tbey are made legal by political governments. A good deft nitlon of the phrase "political govern. meat" is as' follows: "A government wherein tha courts recognise as legal certain forms of exploitation while call ing other forms theft", Buch govern ments era necessarily class '? govern ments, due to the aforesaid recogni tion, and depend on the civil officials and the military arm to enforce ex ploitation and to protect the exploiters from ' the exploited 1. a, to protect those who hold lndusrlal titles granted by said governments or held - as good by its courts, from those who. depend on them for a chance to labor under exDloltatlon. 1 , If what we believe in Is what we are, then those who believe In polit ical governments are 'politicians and should defend exploitation much t or little, and not . apologise for or try to make It respectable by minimising the act or the evils of the act. , As political government, and politics are inseparable, to gt rid of the thing that corrupts society Is for society to discard, or cast off political govern ment . And why should she notT So clety -has given, polities and the poli ticians 6000 .years to make good, and fallur-4s written clear across history; pages. '. "i If politics cannot make good la 6000 years it cannot in' SO.ooo. Bo what's the useT If the old house Is unfit and cannot be. made fit, build a new. one. I will show you - the design. Jt you like It show-it to others until Society will build a house or'government after he pattern thereof. 1 , The following . is . my ' definition of the . phrase, "Industrial government": "An organized society in which tho gov ernment of its members (would Toe bjr the consent of the governed, and whose courts could not constitutionally rec ognise the legality of any form of ex ploitation a government whose con stitution would be so framed or drawn that industrial or economic Independ ence would be the heritage of all, be cause collective ownership of 'Indus trial property with cooperation in and democratization of Industries would" be constitutionally provided for." . , As the laborers of ..our day are eco nomic or Industrial dependents, they are forced to swim near the loan shark, either little or big Interest taker or profit monger. Therefore, don't throw up your nana in s noiy norror wnvn you see him swallowed, whether at one mouthful or ten. You should expect that he would be. tinder the condi tion of. society Industrialised, the la borer would be - independent and no one could make him afraid, because no one could legally exploit him, neither could he legally exploit others. . As there would be no politics, because poli tics would be-displaced by Industrial ism, the corruption caused by politics would disappear from - society. I wish I could, get the editorial staff r i - lu. IN Ciii:. Tli.j Pe Kovcn CI - inn i.i-vu oia.ni Im tira'i.ip. ,1 by ladies of An ! til-j II J'l'i t is belli 1n fl'.iiicl (ii t . lnwr Iloli-vk river near i'oniiii. It a unutil (. air, bet will C 1 1 11 1 - n 1 ; !s J'ur lnna i owe and the tanuetii UtiivaLioiiL "r.rt'iW f 'V-jmJ t-nir-c? a;.( rxi,m,if f - Ji-sf' J ,'-. M: s, 1 f,t!njr in the Wviit? roiiniiy, till tint. 1. Kii kllld one of tli lHrL-cst t.m Urt fver f-nen in this country, it l,i-l J' DoiYits on its Itoitis and du-ticd -.i LoO poiii-" ConHid ennqr that I .)! 1.4 dwif fl'nd ilumb, lie Is qui its an exi'tsit mk a hunter and angler. The Sih'fr I.al.e I.eHrter v wnts to know wIiHt litis b' (Mii9 of the pu'.ilio wHtwnng place tuttt was talked of l-i'-t Bummer. J. 11. De I-tcey tins fierHd-to cioiittle a pump, and It looks to tii Leader aa tliouuii the city fathers could . ncrape up cnuugli cuish to hire a Woil Uug. . "Union," sHys tli Scout, "haft, more nice, nibetantial brlrk bmldinga than any outer town of lta two In eastern Oregon. Retlrr thun that, the town Is not built beyoud the' surrounding coim trry, nor Is it liopelesely In debt. The next few years will see substantial gains here," :t ; t;K' : ' , f . v, , -!. . - '' , ' One ot the obstacles encountered by the rood roads movement Is mentioned by the Rogue Bivtfr Argus, which says: "we are very .anxious to nave gooa roads. We ar very anxious to -have tlie public travel that road and leave man comes along and ptfts up a.Rtilde board at no expense to mu uui the next morning some hoodlum trie . . . i . A M. T . i. ahAiit rlmA that some of the scapegraces be put whr a.. . . .... lit 1 . u' UI M.M ;. l' .! i .' . .v.. .V. ... for the future of urban transportation: and modern advance in engineering, the recent great improvement In ? oament construction,: the perfection, of lectrlo Illumination, the demonstrated poasibll ityof burrowing safely and In all direc tions beneath citieiv are Influences that combine to convince not only municipal authorities but traction , interests that the solution of the Urban- transit, prob lem must be found underground. - v if Miersona experienced in city gov ernment wefe called together to plan for the building of a large city from in varv berlnnlrta. one of their first steps would . be- to provide for arched-over streets. Knowing the cost of digging and rediggtnsv of tearing up ana cover ing ? over, . no ' experienced municipal worker would lay sewera. pipes or con duits after the existing prevalent sys tem. : The new city would be suowayea throughout for the accommodation of every possible form of publio service, and transportation would be Included in the Hat It will be difficult for cities built upon a, plan the very, reverse of this to adopt" modern Inventions to its use, but It will not be Impossible. Little by little; at least, all cities can depart from the old outworn methods and take up the new. It may not be feasible or convenient now for aome or the outer eomitrunltie to tear down or to tear up their traction systems, but it Is femalble, and It should be their aim, to carry on all future traction construction upon different lines. ' ' of Tho Journal to see the design and the beauty. f tha house X want built, and get them to quit patching up the old house, which is rotten at tha foun dation and sagging at tha roof and al together unfit to live in, and help us build the new one after the patters shown. . -t D. M. BROWN, M, IX MiC Wylle's Attitude Criticised. " Verboort, Or, Oct 80. To tho Editor of Tha journal Taking notice of a com munication dated. October 14,- in The Journal of October 16. in which one EL J. Wylle makes an attempt to severely criticise that well-known student of Shakespearean : English, J. Hennessey Murphy, because the Said J. Hennessey fintiS fault with tha grammar of Shakes peare, a hops you'll take It not amiss If I express an stlmata of tho estimable Mr. Wylle. w , - - 'Towering geniuses are far above the fast rules of grammar," says Mr. Wylle. Judging from; the learned gentleman's own grammar he must be a genius him self of the highest order. Just think of a man - charitably . sniffing! : There's originality to , begin with We don't know what Wylle may be by extraction, but ho seems to have a strong conten tion against the Irish, and that may be th result of his deep learning and . wide charity. - - 1 V Now, as to the grammar part, that might easily-- be settled In favor of Shakespeare, for who knows but It was some towering genius of a printer's mis taker I opine that Wylla tnust possess a ohronlo temper against his Irish neighbor, otherwise he should be con tent to indict the Hibernian only for his "most unklndeat out of aH.C W know' J. Hennessey out here, , but' we know ot Mr. Wylle only by his contribu tion to The Journal, and Judging ,by what we know, w would bet 10 cents that J. Hennessey knows more about the Lord's Prayer than . Wylle does about "Homa Rule." ( . . ,. ,J. VAN LOM. YOUR MONEY By John ML Oaklaon, Smith wa th head of a family. There were Mrs. Smith, on boy of ten, another - of seven, and a little , girl of three. . Smith wasn't a brlliant man. and hla progress . upward : In the firm he worked for a a clerk wasn't startling Jy rapid. - . . Mr. Smith was a sane, clear brained little woman, and she took it into her head that she wanted those two boys of w. ... . h.t, nnnM.tiinttv : it possible, than their father had had to get on. And they would get on raster, h decided, if they were educated bet ter than their' father bad been. sr- That meant keeping them away from money saving jobs -until they were past 10, and keeping them in school anS col leg for about It years. But th real strain on th 1 family resources would not come untU the oldest- boy left the publio sohool and the high school. So much, Mrs. Smith figured "out and then she set about creating in her fam ily a conviction that every member must help to build a saving fund for th def inite purpose ot educating the children, ,"Monday ha always been wash day," aald Mrs. Smith one. "Now, in this family let' make Monday "bank day.' Every Monday on ot us must go to th saving bank with something to. put In. - 'Til be th messenger for th first year, and every time I go to, the bank I'll tak on of th children with ma Maybe next year Daddy can manage to go, and he'll take Tom with him. And by the.tlme Tom goes to high school he can take our Monday savings to th bank," - , , , In th Smith family "bank day" be came an established institution. ' Be fore It became necessary to draw money out to pay for Torgs college course, every member ef the family knew tho wav to the saving bank with eye shift, and the Inevitable part of tha story. 1 that after all tha kids had drawn upon the saving: fund for the necessary ex pense otthelr education the fund was about as lurg as it ever had been. That ."bank day" bablt has served the Smiths excellently Well. . AiD IM TADI IFR F y I'rvd "I cam from ' the vstate where they bave to pry Ukj a crowbar," said C; W. Uay. on the Pacific coast Ihe I" i 1 conception of what cold 1 ' - ' the mercury In the therm to 40 degrees below w ., u .. stay there for days in m... .. mter. took us six months In each j n' to i '$kr 'Wt! n,tt&,M'!P''m:'im't ,i''' ti " pretty near tlx' months duumc the mer to cut enough vQod ' tiV kc. . i thawed out duflng t"i six iiioiiln-, . winter.,': Doing the chores in winter d a Maine farm Is no Joke. At any i l( when I was-18 '.nra( old I chang. a iioi. the icy blasts oirthe Atlantic to tl.o in 11-pouthwe-'t breeze of the P itio. I ar rived In !-'tn Francisco 65 y is aco this month.: - aooa after my. arm 1 at, ban Francisco I went - across tho bay. to whfra On'.-.lund is now located. At that time it was a stock ranch. .The owner WHiit-Ml to nail it at 9B0' an acre, it wuhu't the deamess ot the land.ut the ' Bcarctntsa of the money that kt-pt me, from buying.' ' " "In the early fifties m iny of the rich gulches were playing out Hundreds ot people who had failed to make good at placer mining w.ra crazy to get back east . They declared that California had been ', overestimated . and would never -amount to anything.' I reckon it Is as Father Clinton Kelly says: 'It Is lucky our foresight is not so good as our hind- ' sight for If It was ww woulBTaJl be rich and 'that wouldn't be good for us.' "I came to Portland In February. 1869. That spring Fat and Nick Slnnott and myself wilted from The Dalles to- Flor ence, Idaho. . We didn't stay there long. , The two tinnott boys came back to Port land and leased the old Columbia hotel. Nick soon went back to The , Dalles where h rented the UmaUlla. house which h ran for many years. ' It la his son who,,1 Is now our representative in congress1. " : "I leased- a claim on Meadow creek where I made $29 a day till it ran out ' I cam back to The Dalles to get woi it for th winter. The Oregon Steam Navi gation company were building a ports are road from Celilo to The Dalles. I got a Job with them as steward in charg ot their mess house. I had over a hun dred men to feed.' Z worked from 4 in the morning till 10 each night A man named W..I Bralnard was roustabout He sawed and brought in the wood for me and did th chores and helped around the kitchen. " -. v . "In the spring Bralnard and I went to Canyon City and got a mining claim,. We struck ground so rich that w. got as high as $9 on the point of a shovel. The claim: was "pockety. - There were four of us who owned it W took over 11400 ot coarse dust and nugget from less than 14 squar feet ' of bed rook. When I bad something over a thousand dollars irt dust I sold my shars for 1800. Bralnard held out for more and they-, paid him $2500. I left Canyon City Just at the Urn Phil Metchan came. H started a butcher shop and prospered.' : " Th winter of 186$ found me back in Portland. -- That was 80 years ago and I -have'heea her vr alnce, - - "vm- " . "W. U Bralnard, my partner, came her also and together w bought In tb fall ot 1894 ISO acre Just east of Monta rilla. Rev. Lewis of the Taylor Street Methodist church had owned th place. He put up a well built seven room houe that eoar hlm $1800. H had It aores : claared, a good well and $00 fruit tree ; get out He boroWed $8000 on th plao ' from Asahel , Bush, the Salem banker. He could not pay when th mortgage cam due so It was foreclosed and w bought it from Bush for 12000. Lew Parrish was the real estat 'man who negotiated the deal; It wa th first sal of farming land he bad made, and hi r firm Is still In business. - v , "When w bought th plao Bralnard and myself were ,. both unmarried bn within a year X married Minerva A. oil am, th daughter Of Captain N. D, on. Ham. ' He had 820 acres on th north . aid ot th Baa Line road running from what Is now Sixtieth street on Mount Tabor for one-half mile eastward and a mil north of the Base Us to th see- ' tlon lln. H bought It In 115$, paylns; $1.60 an aor for it " , "Bralnard and I divided th place'1 X took 40 acres with the hous on for my share and h took th remaining 110 ' acres. He boarded with u till he got married. -( "Ten years later people used to say that, mine was the beat Improved 40 acre farm in Multnomah county. - By 1874 X had four children and my wife and I wanted them to be near some 'good school. X sold my 40 acres with its or chard of $000 pear tree and my other -improvements for $6000. X paid $420$ for 40 acres owned by J. 8. Newell, th -father of W. K. Newell, th fruit expert It was 40 rods wide and halt a mil long and lay between Fifty-seventh and , Sixtieth street on th west slop of Mount Tabor. X later sold two aores ( ' f this to th school board for $3000, and they built th North Mount Tabor school on It . - ' - , "In those days X knew every family i living' east ot the river. Today X get on , tb Mount Tabor oar and I rarely fao X know. , u v - t Pointed Paragraphs - Th less yon say th mor It eounta. , plafonio lov, Ilk perpetual motion, -is all right as a theory but it wWt work. -' - . ' Some men- will pay' a $80 cigar bill without a murmur and then get real' fussy over a $2 bill for gas. , . ' The summer girl who can keep halt a dozen young men .up in the air Jet once Ia the real thing in Jugglers. J ft i f , kj , . - t j If you think th average, woman' la ' weaker minded than tne average man,' you are entitled to another think. - t 1 , v , Perhaps ha ' is Just that, Alonxo, but we wouldn't advise you to call the manager of a swimming school a dive keeper. ,n , 1 , M '1' f ' ' It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but in most cases the aver age man would rather pose as th catch er than th pitcher. , v t ' 'u' - " ( ' ' , l ' t , - Th chestnut tree of this country may r soon be extinct, but unfortunately the Jokesmlths are not dependent upon them for their supplies. : ; " We are not surprised that a man gets nervous at his own -wedding. It .is probably the first time lie ever saw all -th bride's kin lined up,- The Woman's Page The Journal each evening pre ' - sent number of striking - feature. Sfany of them are of eteluslve interest to wo men; others are of general : , arpeaL , . . They all - are jvorth while. Cultivate this dally" feature ., pntie; you will find It prof itable rending. . ..