THE ' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22. 1913.
TUC IAI IDM Al land. The figure show tbt Ore-
' H tlx "0 K 1 I ML gon Is growing ymmetricelly;
in iNMtpivnesT KCWKfAfM ! The total bank deposits in Oro-
-TTTfuhiww gon ere $182,763,166.87. The cap-
t-ubiuto4ir soiug ixcm t.uniljr) an , ltal stock aggregates 118,620,860
linm.. ..rf Yamhill oil.. Portland r. , SUrDlUB
amerad i th iHBitottic t t'urtiui. Or., fur amount to $10,233,139
and undivided proflta
able for payments to, contractors in
monthly installment,1 The property
owner will tay interest directly on
the bonds. But the contractors will
be relieved from the necessity of
financing themselves during the en-
traosBilasloo Uirouttl the mails ne Mcoad clss
. -i - H'lW, .
Tlitk.'HOrJKS Willi Wl Horn. Al.
v. , AU dspartmante rched tr these oninnare.
' L Tall the arwratnr whiit opsrtir.rwt you want.
'ToukliJjJ 'AUVbiMi'imti' kUr-ausKriTA'riviJ
, BxnjnBil Kentaar Co.. Brunswick Building.
223 fifth awaoue, New Yerki 2)S raoplae
, Uae Hnlldinir. Chicago.
The pggre-ltire term of the contract, with the
gate banking capital, Including cap-1 result that they will have no ex
ltal stock, surplus and profits, is'cuse for adding interest charges
128,853,999.
blibiRTl.tk.n lasnu bf mull or to auj ddrM
a t unlttte Stales or Mniw
e af ......SS.00 I Oue month I
8CNDAY. .
On- sen ...,..$30 I On month ......
W ,' PAILY AND SCJiPAT
Cm fur $T.JU Ono. month
ANOTHER VICE DECISION
5?
Every moment of worry weak
cm th soul fpr it daily com-bt,-rAnna
Robertson Brown.
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to their basic bids.
Under ordinary circumstances the
two methods of payment should
pminlArhfl Anna hul If in uriron In
U8TICE M'NARY of the Oregon behaIf of ln8tailrnent payrnents that
say in a dissenting opinion in
: they will secure wider competition
in bidding by letting in contractors
I wuubc trouii ait uiv unimi in nut ui
tbe McAllister case that "unless !
the principles laid down in the Start flc,ent t0 provld th money MceB,
will remain a fruitful-source of embarrassment."
FREEBOOTIXG I.V EGGS
T
HE price for best eggs in Port
land is 65 cents. A cheaper
grade sells at 50. "Guaran
teed" are priced at 35. No-
Dr. Start was a figure in the. vice
disclosures in Portland last year.
He was guilty as guilty could be
l and was bo found by the trial court.
It was on tbe narrowest sort of a
quibble that tha-Hnding was re
versed by the supreme court.
The majority opinion in a divided
i sary for completing contracts in
! advance of payment.
! Another misapprehension is as to
the time and amount of bonds to
be issued. If an Improvement costs
$50,000, that amount ot bonds will
not be issued in advance of the con
tract. There will be monthly issues
of bonds, the amounts to be deter
mined by the percentage of work
completed. If at the end of the
court held that the trial judge ,.-, monfh th. r-ontrartor has com
erred in not instructing the Jury to , pleted ,0 nt of hIs contract(
.tody knows at what price storage consider the testimony of Earl Van j the hod ,g8ue wlJ1 be Uro,ted
uien as tnai or an accomplice, it i the amount of money actually due.
held that the testimony of othurs Payments will be on a basis of 80
wuo lum ot oiari comnm-ung Bimi-iper cent the otner 2o per cent be
ittr uiierjQCB who (.item was not lODi-
ggs end and fresh ranch eggs
begin.
In the very nature of things,
- these nrices are absurd. Tbe 65
tents for tbe fresh egg is prepos- j petent as it had no legal connection
Serous, It is disproportionate. The! with th,s particular offense,
feggs, for instance, that a ben will That is to say, the higher court
Jay in a dozen days are worth as held that it is the purpose of tbe
huch air tbe hen. Even at the law to keep a part of the informa-
'fcrlce of "selected" eggs, a hen pro- tion away from the jury. The de
duces enough to pay for herself in i fendant's relations with others were
sixteen or eighteen days.
1 No such status comes about nat
Rurally. The free law of trade
makes no euch prices. They are
artificially mad. They are brought
about by the meddling of cunning
men. Why these abnormal, incon
pej?able. preposterous prices prevail
Is illustrated in a recent egg tran
saction in New York City. H Is
, reported by the Journal of Com
merce, one of tbe most reliable
newspapers in New York. It says:
A yndota of Manhattan cold stor
es epaeulaters has asld to a whole
sale erootry houaa Iter HO. 000 caaes
surgery in this country is virtually :
criminal because so many of those
who perform operations are unfitted ,
for 'the task. How could a con-
gross of eminent surgeon be so
unethical as to thus imply that an
ethical doctor could by incompe
tency actually and literally destroy
human lives?
PERTINENT COMMENT AND .NEWS IN BRIEF
The suggestion' of . the hundred-
pound limit as a means of taking
care of the surplus In the parcels
post is strangely at variance with
what was dlrefully predicted about
the parcels post, say, two years ago.
It was a case in which the American
people were bamboozled for a long
time by the hullabaloo raised to
throw dust in their eyes.
A Mllwaukie milk dealer an
nounces that beer and dancing; cause
tuberculosis. The , announcement
might (Jim the popularity of the
tango but it will produce no percep
tible falling off in the national con
sumption of beer.
You cannot unscramble eggs, but
a time may come when a way will
be found to unscramble prohibitive
prices for eggs.
ing withheld from the contractor
until the contract is completed and
finally accepted.
This method of payment Is used
by private corporations and Individ'
uals, and is found to be efficient.
The 20 per cent withheld will pro-
tfrr the nrnnerrv hnlripra for with
corroborative of the testimony . of efflcient miction it is not pos
Von Hulen. If not to be admitted, ilble for cltina BgalnBt the con-
Z . i. I " mvm?a' l" tractors to exceed that amount,
be obtained? Perhaps aa tbe ma- -
r;.:Ta.r7tVneYer;fi ! Precedent then established
wery hou?a i majority or ine court is to rree an-
jority opinion held, the testimony as
to relations of Start with others
had no logical connection with this
particular offense, but they have a
most Illuminating connection with
this particular offense in that they
show the kind of practices to which
the defendant was habituated.
The' effect of the decision wa to
free a criminal. The effect in the
McAllister case of following the
by the
of 175,800. Bine tbe
made the purchase several dnys aco
th rgga iiava gana up enough to guar
antee the erocer a net profit of $180,
009 at the latest market quotation.
The eggt originally cost the epeou
ators It rents a dozen. The specu
lation dealt only with one week's nor
jnal consumption of eggs In New York
City.
j Here is a net profit of $255,000
on a week's business in eggs in a
Single city.' It would mean a profit
of Jl.OOO.000 in four, weeks. How
many, hundreds of millions of dol
lars would it mean for four weeks'
huslness in eggs for the
United States?
That is why best eggs are 65
cents in Portland and going higher,
with the price of fresh eggs exacted
for storage eggs of uncertain age.
It Is a nationally manipulated boost
ing of prices by artificial means.
1 - It is greedy speculation in an
important food etuff. It is the
making of fortunes over night on
eggs while hungry families are
Starving for them.
i i- j i j it.
THE POLICE PROBE
E
other criminal. Two convictions in
the trial court hae been upset by
hairsplitting technicalities and be
whiskered precedents which Justice
McNary says in a dissenting opinion
must be "overruled by the court orJ
they will remain a fruitful source
of embarrassment."
Shocking as were the disclosures
la the vice scandal, so far as the
higher court is concerned, no of
fenses were committed. . No wonder
NO UGH has been uncovered in
tbe police investigation to war
rant a continued , and aggrres
eive application of. the probe.
It is established that there was
gambling by the force, though gam
bling is one of the unlawful prac
tices which police are employed to
prevent.
It has been established that there
was a very reprehensible relation
between members of the force and
the underworld, though the. police
draw salaries for protecting the pub
lic against exactly' such things as
members of the force practiced in
the underworld.
There is testimony to the effect
that an acting municipal judge ac
cepted $10 from a defendant for
which he set the accused free,
though a police court is maintained
as a defense against exactly such
William Howard Taft said In hie 'things as the exchange of this vice
whole time as president, "the manner that
I we have of prosecuting criminals is
a disgrace!"
COST OV CARELESSNESS
ARELE8SNESS is costing the
government a large sum of
money annually. To avoid this
loss Postmaster General Burle
son has issued a plea for greater in
dividual pains In addressing mail
matter, He warns against earele&d-
C
money for liberty.
It has been established that the
police was used in a political cam
paign in an -attempt to extend the
circulation or a little newspaper,
though the official oatn of every
policeman and every higher-up in
the police department and every
managing man in the city govern
ment is distinctly repugnant to all
Letters From the People
, SMALL CHANGE
O, th fine sunshine, o November!
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"Immortala" are created by voting
iyr ono Kiiuwiar,
a f
A man's as should not debar a really
capable ma' from work: r-
a
Great event In New York soon; hoist
and Vincent-and-Helen show,
a a
There Is yet tlm this year for Cludad
J u area to b captured three or four
times.
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No doubt President Wilson will do
what he thinks is best and right and
who knows better?
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Men make a bad raoord In registering
and voting, women woree; "what la the
country corning to?"
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Rainy, damp, chilly evenings are ad
vantageous In pne respect; antl-workera
don't Ilk to bo out in them.
0"'y ,an auto owner ymnathlsea
much with the owner of another on
broken down and stuck fast.
a
Many young men would like to go a
sold, ere to u real war, but they might
change thir minds after experience.
Human beings are like oata; many
pampered pete and many wretched,
scrawny, hungry strays with all sorts
between,
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After the east wind the frost: after
the whits frost th rain annual hr...
aids of Winter, announcing hie coming
again.
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(Communlratlooa aont to The Jouraal for Dub. One of Carranza's "cabinet" members
UcKlon Id tbla department ahould be written os is called "Minister of Omento.' This
nnlv alii., ,.f th naiMr. ahould nut exceed I Should be tfia ntmlranTn In XJ1a
ivo wordi In lengtp ana nun Da iotumowi iu jumnu irouoie,
by tbe name and add rem of tne eeuaar. (i too
writer dom nut dealre to have th nam pub
lished, be itaould o vtate.)
niu-iiuinn i thm iniiHi ef all reformers.
It rationallaea arerythiinr It touches. It 1Mb
principles ot all (alae souctltj and throws tbaa
back on their reasuuabisDru. II to bav ae
reasonableness. It ruthlessly -eruahas them out
of existence and seta up Us own conelualoua la
their stead." Woodrow Wllaon-
Langdon-Daviee' Mislou.
Portland, Nov. 21. To th Editor ef
Tha Journal Mr. Langdon-Davies, rep.
resentatlve of th Garton foundation
and Carnegie's gold, has been among u
and Incidentally has remarked that wer
It not fur the Irish and what he Is
pleased to call "tha old-fashioned Ger
mans," there would b no war feeling
In these United States. I do not doubt
Ma sincerity, but am inclined to think
there ar a goodly number of American
who would hesitate before going Into
hysterics over a triple alliance, with
England the moving spirit, the German
good-naturedly marking Um on one
aide and the United States and her un
told possibilities on the other. He
places emphaala on the Irish hatred.
The hatred Is what galls tha. English
soul, wa presume- Warlike Prussia is
nothing in comparison with transplant
ed Irish hatred. The home rule bill
for the Irish will help somo, but for
tunately the transplanted Irlaamsii
knows well the length, breadth and
thickness of this "better government of
Ireland bill." He knows that it fall
far Bhort of what ha has been look
ing and working for, and with the nw
nationality that is growing up In t:pt
country of recent years, It Is impossible
to conceive the Irish people being sat
isfied with a bill which makes them
dependent on the will of the English
OREGON SIDELIGHTS '
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The Tim reports that work on th
IN EARLIER DAYS '
' liy -U l.ot klcj. ,
GREAT COUNTRIES TO THE SOUTH
From the Sap Francisco Chronicle.
Vor. a certain dislike ef what thy
call "Yankees" which doubtless exists
In the Latin-American- countries w
are. ourselves wholly and absolutely to
Diame. There la not a living cltlsen
of this country who will vn attempt
to nam a single act of aggression
toward this country or our popl on
the part of any Latin-American coun
try. Whatever dislike to us exists in
those oountries 1 based on a belief
that w have aggressive daaigns to
ward them. . And as a ground for such
fear they point to a great section in
the United States which was one
Mexican territory, our sclsure of the
canal tone, our virtual protectorate of
Cuba and many other instances of
minor character in San Domingo. Nica
ragua and elsewhere.
The fact Is we have been putting
on airs of superiority toward th
Latin-American nations which have no
Justification In our national charac
ter. All the South and Central A marl
can nations, exactly lik our own, and
all other nation have had to pas
through the unorganised period which
la preliminary to national life. Thle
evolution has ben more stormy in
aome of the" nations than in our
own for tha reason that Instead of ex
terminating th nativ racaa as w
did. they have fratrnUd with them,
intermingled with their blood and n
deavored, as w at this lata day are
beginning to endeavor, to assimilate
them Into a" common national life.
eglslature. Any law conflicting witru Their humanitarian lnmincn 'my maao
natlons anil in tne, temperate aoneg
nllianrA ind cnnH hv tn little Ireland.
forms of graft or blackmail underimie Scotland (if she demands local
tness, not only because of its cost
!to the government, but also on ac-
n?P..,itndard article of food, and,CQunt of delays it occasions in. for-
In i afnrlri 1 citv maka a net nrofltT
Of a quarter of a million in only
It week, t is a ghastly crime
against average homes and families,
t is a species of high-handed free
footing that time and means will
, yet be found to overthrow.
I , OREGON IS PROSPERING
N
rO BETTER proof, If proof is
needed, of prosperity in Ore
gen has been offered than
State Bank Superintendent
Wright's report on the condition jerl addressee, and la many cases
pf Oregon banks. The statement!11 fail to accomplish the right de-
Just issued is one of the moat Rat-i'lvery. In that event the mail must
warding mail.
A systematic inspection of mail
in the Chicago postofflce was re
cently made. Forty-four per cent,
or 2044)3 0 pieces, of first class mail
were improperly or insufficiently
addressed. Each instance calls for
a special investigation, and often the
postal employes are forced to re
sort to city directories to determine
the possible person to whom such
mail Is addressed.
Deliveries are attempted at sev
jsiaciory ever piierea. it. is con
;.JvIneing, ... for it.coyjTs all banks,
state 'anT'loaonaX' thus' refiectini
financial and business conditions
throughout the state. Mr. Wright
says:
unusually
whatever guise
It has been a long time since the
wedge was driven so far under the
lid of police affairs and with eo
much prospect of revealing much
tothe gaze of the public.
A high service has already been
rendered by-the civil service com
missfoners, who receive nothing in
return for the time and energy sac
rificed in conducting the investiga
tion. The work ought not to end
until the whole miserable business
shall be laid bare, and means be
found for renewing and rehabili
tating the police department on a
standard ' in keeping with the re
quirements and expectations of com
mission government.
As a window cleaner stood on the
ledge of an eleventh story window
either be returned to the careless
ounHop fr cant tn tha Hu'iI lnttjn,-
iTrtCerttra-flimrtrye
j his foot slipped. It was 13o feet
to the pavement below. Fortunate
cannot be traoed
The cost of careless addressing at
the Chicago poutoff ioe alone adds an
unnecessary expense of $75,000 a
The report shows an
tieajthy financial condition. Substan-. year, and the loss through failures
ami gains nave ueen maae (in a years
lime) by all the banks, the increase
in cash and reserve being especially
large. With enly two new banks c
tablished during the year, the banking
fcanltal hai increanail nearly 11,500,000.
! Especially significant -are the in
creases In total deposits, savings de-
yvpjiB: auu poii savings. in a
jof delivery cannot be estimated.
Both needless cost and unnecessary
delay In delivery could be avoided
if people sending letters would ex
ercise more care.
The postal authorities make the
very reasonable request that all
rp?. . b.nk the 7i.: ecr,,::
$7,084,558 in the state; savings de
posits increased $1,874,465, and
postal savings increased $307,140
increases ef more than five per cent
in tetal deposits, about 11 per cent
n savings deposits, and more
make use of the parcel post, take
.sr-ecial pains to make the addresses
plain and corrct -as to street and
j number. It will be well for every-
-Ibodv to remember thnt" tha nn.t.l
than ; 0.,i .
K i i... , .1 tjwc lauuui uo ecuuuuiicai or ei-
velopment throughout the state. I
Portland, counting one third of Ore
' goo's population, holds in its banks
Slightly in excess of one half the
total bank deposits. But Portland s
' increase in deposits was a trifle less
than ; one, third the total increase,
tne comparative figures
THE HOXPING AMENDMENT
T
HERE is some misapprehension
concerning the proposed char
ter amendment changing the
system ef issuing local ltn-
Phowinglprovement bonds. Voters are being
ly, his belt was hooked to the stout
little screws in the window casing,
and it held him firmly until he
could regain his hold. Of seventeen
buildings whose windows are cleaned
by one firm, only three have the
window fastenings. It is no won
der that every now and then the
terrible fall of a cleaner is recount
ed in the daily papers. The city
ought to regulate this occupation
with rigid laws. FJrm window fas
tenings, thoroughly tested for the
cleaner's belt, should be required on
every building. Men should be pro
tected, as far as possible, by law in
the perilous vocation into which
their necessities drive them.
that the smaller cities and villages told that authority to Issue bends
fff,' keeplng pace with Portland in I when ap improvement is initiated
1MU61BSB. win impose added interest charges
I ronisua ucorea neaviiy in gains'
pn savings deposits Tand postal sav-
Ings, the reBt of the state not keep-!
ing up tne ratio of gain. But this are not issued until the contract
fact need have ho significance, for completed, and of course interest On
It may indicate that people in the the bonds does not begin running
smaller cities and villages invest j until they are Issued. Contractors
their savings, rather than deposit i are required to finance themselves
Because of inequitable assess
ments, the colossal sum of $250,
000,000 a year Is taken unjustly
out of the pockets o' some taxpay
ers and put in the pockets of oth
ers. What else is to be expected,
when, though the law requires prop-t
erty taxed at its true cash value,
some is taxed at one third and other
at one tenth its value, as disclosed
in purchases for public, uses almost
every week In Portland? That is
?hu q liw h.ia Upon nrrmnaprl nm.
measured by the time it takes to kh ni,.hau nr '...
i nSr fD n " t: ' k - t we than double its assessed
Under the present system, bonrfs .......
- ' -l value. - - .
them in the banks.
1 11 1 1 . UM IMC CUUIC IC1U1 Ul IIJB cuu;
r t a r Y mive8 0ftv Dr09' tract- They are obliged to borrow
hered.. Capital stocky surnluB and f th- i.nu. ot nrCVDiiino, intot
brofits Inr-raAii-tt mom ih,. i tA I -wsavijea ine ngnt ior . eatauwemHS ia
KlianBS K,, 'i'!lates' 8 Pe. lnterest the contract school need not thrpWup thesponge
A committee of the I. W. W. is
at Salem to remove a girl from
the State, Industrial School for Girls
on the ground that members of the
I. W. W. do not believe in such in
stitutions. Still, Mr.-Baldw!n,-who
led the fight for establishing the
POiV Loans and discounts increased
- nearly $5,000,000 on-increased de
posit of wore than $7,000,000.
Two thirds of this Increase was
cored ;by banks outside of Port-
ors pay is included in their original
olds. Thus the property owner pays
the interest indirectly, - ,
lf the proposed amendment f
adopted funds will bemade avajl-
and . ask the state' authorities to
close up the institution. :
The Clinical Congress in Chicago
asserted that a large amount' of
1
English Uiw la ipso facto void. The sen
ate Is a creature of the crown. The
taxes have to pass through the Kng-
lish treasury. The tariff laws cannot
be changed to benefit Irish trade. John
Redmond and his followers accept It
possibly because they realize how hope
lessly dependent on the Rritish vote
they are and will be for years.
Let England get this much desired
autonomy In greater measure) and lit
tle Wales, so far as their peculiar In
terests a.re concerned. The great and
abundant trouble with the Irish, whos
hatred is so damaging to English In
terests, is that they io not know how
to appreciate all the Brtttsh government
has been doing for them. They re
fused to keep quiet and peaceful, as
good citizens ought to have done when
a predominant partner was so solicit
ous for their Interests, and now that
they have become law abiding American
citizens It is a shame that they should
be allowed to interfere with England'
scheme of world peace, if we could
only get rid
England" and these "old-fahioned
er
success was long ago won. Brasll, Ar
gentina, Chile, and latterly Peru, can
now learn from us less than they can
teach us with profit to ourselves. In
the tropical countries, on this conti
nent as well as others, the ' progress
is slower, but the end will be the
same.
The Latin civilisation la different
from ours, but only th supercilious
ness which comes from ignorance would
say that one Is superior to the other.
Each ts probably best for th rc
to which it belongs. In many things,
certainly, the Latins are our superiors
courtesy, private and International,
among others. The high-bred Latin'
American Is th ideal gentleman. In aU
that th term gentleman Jrnplloaw
courtesy, hospitality, truthfulness, hon-
"I wg, born within aound of Sow
new town hall at Juntura is going ahead Bella," said Walltg Nash. "Bow church
dal. I'iUWw'Sl V.oolr 'ft raady th . hreh B Cheap.ldo. Lon-:
-v., iU iu o- corn witnin sound or
the Bow Bell iw equivalent to th state. ,
jnent of Saul of Tarsus when he aald .
he was a Hebrew of the Hebrew. I
ws equcated for the Jaw and for 17
years I wa an attorney and solicitor
In London, my offices being within a 1
stone's throw of QuUd Hall. '
JTn. 1877 I came with several other
Englishmen, to Oregon to Investigate
the big land grants In this state and
to look up th possibility of th build
ing of & railroad acroaa th state and
to cure an ocean port to connect with
th railroad. One of our party wa4
Hnry Mouley, th naturalist of th fa,-'
moua Challenger expedition. Hi was a
professor in Oxford and had com along
to report on the natural feature of
Oregon to th English capitalists who
wr InUrestad In th propod read.
Another member of our party was Col- :
oni Kerr, an offler of a orack cavalry
regiment In the British army.
"Colonel T. Edgerton Hogg, a south
erner. Who Was Dart ownar at tha Cor.
vallls & Yaqulna Bay wagon road grant,
aa wn sa of the Willamette Valley &
Cascade Mountain military road grant,
had Interested some BritUb, capitalists
whom w wr reprsnttnr.
"We T-am by way of the Central Pa
cific to San Franolaoo. From Redding
w came by stage to Roaburg, .it tookw
us thr- nights and two days, during 1
which time It was Impossible to Up on
account of the constant bumDs and
lurches of th stago. From RoMburg to
Portland w cam by th Oregon A Cal-
Uornl road. We oould not complain of
not having a warm, rtcaption a our
arrival was signalised by tAS burning
of the Occidental houl while w were
gua.u. it was run by Dan Hoi ton and
looatad at the corner of First and
Morrison streets. Net only th hotel,
but the whel building burned down the
night of our arrival and two mn lost
their lives.
"After spending a few days In Port- '
land w went to Albany and from there
drove to Corvallls. At, Corvallls we fit
ted out for a horseback trip to the
coast W made a cartful examination
from Corvallls to Yaqulna Bay. W also
wnt through the Bllts reservation and
looktd at th oountry tributary to the
bay. W tyd at Pta AbUy'. who
wa running a little country hotel and
for the show erowds.
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The Forest Grove Press say If Port
land is to b a oity of 3,000.000 paopl
by ItaO. then by th same token Forest
Grove ought to be a city, of 20,000 at
least.
'Plans for th Moose building to be
built at Hlllsboro at the cost of $31,(00
aro in th hand of the building com-
initt. All th money needed save about
45Q0 has been raised.
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Whelr Reporter: Wheeler la the
only place In tha county with a big pay
-oil and .yet we hear some of our clt
sens talking hard tlm.. It must take
a great daai to pleas soma peopi. ,
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Th press of the state, now unitedly
proclaiming the blessed estate of those
who do their Chrlatma shopping early,
will doubtless also rornember that those
merchants are thrive blessed who do
their- Christmas- advertising - early -and
lots of It
a a
"A report was received tn Lents yes
terday," Bay th Lnts Record, "to th
irect mat u t. tuitie, a newspaper
man, was seriously sick In a hospital
In La Grande, sllsrht hon beilna held
out for his recovery. Mr. Tuttle wee
the founder and first editor of th Lents
Optimist." ,
The Salem Statesman counts 'Latin
American psychology as a factor in the
Mexico game now In progress. It
thinks It will take th people ef Mex
ico only a minute to turn away from
Huerta. aa soon as it Is plain to them
that he la bound to lose. "Thy want
oonquerlng heroes down there, and a
new one every little while." says the
Statesman.
sty. courag. Their Ideals ar noble.
They think ls of money tharuw eo;
refuse, evn in trad, to make slaves
of thmselva aa we do; have more re
gard for th amenltU of life. Taught
by experience, they are alow to give
confidence, but once given it I com
plete. And vn trad is a good deal
of a social function,
Now It not tru that th Ameri
can people have anything but the
friendliest feeling toward th Latin
Americans and in so far as political
acta have rraat ti m f Una- nt aiifl-
nicion. they are mistaken In us. We ! who, y th bye. Is still there
do not want any of their land or to "w returned to Albany and mad a
any way control their dostlny. But ' trip into eastern Oregon to see the char
they at any rate know us, while w auter of the timber land along the line
do not know them. We had better of the grant. The rest of the party
learn. It is our own fault if English, continued on over the range Into east
German, Italians and Spaniards are em Oregon, but I eame back to Corval
more welcome tn Ltin-Amertoa than 1 II to investigate the titles and records
we. And materially It la well worth of the land grant company. We were
our while to know the Latln-Ameri- sven weeks ln Oregon.
cans better. Their countries ar great, 1 "The following year, in 1S7S, I pub-
rloh and undeveloped. They Invite cap- , llahud a book called 'Oregon, There and
ltal and they Invite colonists. Their Back In '77.' I returned to England.
aggregate , trade I enormoua and In
creasing. Wa buy heavily from them
and are In a position to supply all
their needs. And to begin with, we
ahould learn their language- It is a
beautifur'laiiguagft and easy to master.
The study of Spanish, at any rat,
should be compulsory in evry public
school .where any language other than
English .Is taught. To Americans the 1
knowledge of Spanish Is of more value
than knowledge or an other languages
combined living or dead.
where I spent two years, and In April,
1 873. with a group Of a doaen or more
Bngli-h capitalists, I returned to Ore
gon and we purchased a fralf Interest
in the land grants.
'The Btory pf the building of the Cor
vallls & Eastern railway and Ha ex
tension to Dotrolt Is too long a story to
tak up here, Sometime you may run
aoross one of my books entitled 'Two
Years in Oregon.' This was published
In 1883 and will give you a pretty good
Idea of the Oregon of o years aso.
"After ytars of work along literary,
lines. I am carrying out the Ideal of
every tru Englishman, to retire to the
land. We have a beautiful plae at
Nashville In the Coast mountains, on the f
ft
Pointed Paragraphs
Th opnlng of th canal will not
help us on this coast to reach the
weat of South America, but it win open
un th territory bordarlnn on th aulf
and the Atlantic to our anterprise, It r0ad from Corvallls to Newport.
for us to make the most or our op- .
portunltles; to get rid of our self suf
ficiency and our imagination that wa
have nothing to learn; to Inform our
selves of the wonderful possibilities
of the undeveloped countries to the
south of us; to recognise the sterling
Qualities ef the i,atln. American people.
acquire their language,.. ascertain their
needs and their business method and
endeavor to conform to them, whH at
tha same time considering what we can
buy which thy en aparo. There la
opportunity for profit on both sld6 In
greater interchange or courtesies.
ideals and products.
bllltlee," that feature is not the real
foundation of its being an income pro
ducer. This being true, why should the
und because the stumps and weeds are
of the Jrisa "that hate : flowed to remain, be taxed tor less than
I these "old-fahloned' ths land adjoining, which has no better
German In all the states of the union, original pasaiblliU. l It anything
how near the day of universal peace , ieea tna,n paying a premlurti in the form
would be, with Kngland, tho war-nation, j of low taxes, for not improving the
land and not putting these capabilities
to work? The holder of this land gte
another premium tor his idleneas In the
shape of the enhanced value of his Idle
land by reason of his neighbors' Indus
try, the neighbors being assessed upon
th.iv industry to nay the deficiency cre
ated by the Idle land's being underaa
aeased What . hAXo.. .the. jajAKhb.p.rs'. im
provements got to do with th, quality
of soil or the ifli unai
C. A. M'LEMQRB-
leading the van. Is it possible to get
rid of them? The writer does not think
so. England will never iiave insight
enough into Irish affairs, and Irish lifi,
to settle the Irish question satisfac
torily. Only Irishmen can settle that
question, and as for the Germans, thy
are coming here with a wholesome
.fcnswle.dge ofgn gllah. diplomacy good
and bad.
We don t need alliances. When a na
tion has an clean a conscience as this
country has, there is no need of an
alliance. If England had always clung
to the path of righteousness In all hnr
dealings with subject or temporarily
conquered people, she would nothuVi
to send envoys around tho world on
special mlsHlons of peace. But
"hatred'' worries her. German honesty
worries her. Her foreign colonies Heeu
her awake at night.
We wish- her luek. but we would
suggest to Mr. Langdon-Davies that he
go back and tell the English people
that England need not worry about this
triple. alliance, for it will never tai
place until England aits in Judgment on
her own doing and reforms her ways at
least, and when that happens she will
not need any artificial prop to keep her
in place. E. J. MURPHY.
not level, especially the heel. You can
tell which side to put It on by looking
at an old pair of shoes. Cut on piece
of felt to reach half way across the
hl. the other piece, to reach one-fourth
of the way. placing th smaller one un
der, thus leaving the surface smooth to
walk on; then tack in place. In half
soling ehoes,. If one sida is worn off
more than the other, cut a narrow strip
of leather, place between the sho and
the half-sole, and tack ail together
firmly. I save one-half by fixing the
children's and my own shoes when they
need It. THRIFTY HQUBEW1KE,
Untaxed Idle Lands.
Springfield, Or., Nov. 19. To the Ed
itor of Th JournalFrom the many
letters from the people to the dallies on
the land tax question it is; very appar
ent that the matter has not yet been
settled, and also that it is being brought
to a head pretty fast. The time Is not
far distant when we are going to adopt
an up-to-date system and relegate the
present antiquated one. W ar dally
being brought face to face, through the
faculty of reason, with ttje absurdities
of the present system. ,'
There is an argument that Is made
amusing when we try to reconcile It
with others mad by the advocates of
our present tax system, It is from an
editorial In one of th large dailies of
the northwest. Th editor was comment
ing on the subdividing of logged off
lands for settlement, and he was then
apparently one of the advocates of tpe
present plan.- He Observed that the land
With its' stumps and brush produced
very little tax- revenue, nut "it was
capable," possessed the soil qualities,
if you pleaae-r-of being made a food .tax
resource. If we let the At tier go- Upon
and put It In shape for cultivating.
Now, let u -recall tbat.jive havebeen
many times told by those contending for
our present plan that to. tax- lmprgv
menta, man s Industry, Is not a penalty
thereon, put they claim it Is because
of the income producing feature of the
improvements that they are taxed, '
I believe a great many readers .would
Ilka to learn what the reason is, if any,
that if the land possesses these "capa-j
" ' - - 1 ' (
Mr. V'lten to Mr. Seaberg.
Oregon City. Or, Nov. 80. To th Ed
itor of The Journal Mr. Walter Sea
hm in a recent issue of Th Journal,
Iiis.11 asked whether Mr. Cridge or myself
may not De opposing dsusw uu. p
bill to prohibit hired solicitors for ob
taining signatures on initiative and ref
erendum petitions, because it might de
prive u$ of a souro of revenue. Per
mit ma to say to Mr. fieaberg that I
have never received a dollar or other
pecuniary consideration of any kind for
circulating any petition. I have known
Mr- Cridge's work wU enough for the
pest U years to answer that ha has
contributed much more in money and
time for the circulation of Buch peti
tions than he has ever received.
Will Mr, Seaberg kindly state through
the press how much money he con
tributed to the expense of obtaining
and defending th initiative, referendum,
dlreet orimary. recall . statement No. 1,
corrupt practice aot, or ftny or all of
the constitutional amendments or laws
cpmmonly known aa the Oregon sys
tem? It so happens that I have never
seen or heard of M'. Seaberg or Wa
check book In connection with any mea
sure intended to increase the people's
power or make better government In
Oregon. Mr. Bourne Is the only prson,
so far as I know, who vr spnt a dol
lar for popular government laws In Ore
gon and favors prohibiting payment of
solicitors for getting signatures on
initiative and referendum measures,
W. 8. U'REN.
YOUR MONEY
By John M, Oskisoe.
One Way to Save Money.
Gold Beach, Or., Nov. 19. To the Ed
itor of The Journal. Take shoes, for
instance, although we pay a good price
we do not always get gopd ehoes. Every
home, especially oountry - nome, snould
be supplied with a shoe repair outfit,
with thta and some pieces of leather,
many dollars rnay be saved yearly. There
Is nothing difficult about it, and any
woman who can patch and mend can fix
the children's and her own shoes. A
half sole can be put op in a few min
utes, thus prolonging the life of the
shoe. A piece of leather put on op
side ef the heel tn soon as It begins to
wear off will help to keep 11 straight. A
pad of old felt put Inside of the heel
when the shoe is new will aid greatly in
keeping it straight, as often tho foot lo
it Ih from a etpry of the late Robert
Barr that I take' what is quoted here;
"If I am ked whether the scheme
will produce a fortune within six
months or a year, I am forced to ad
mit there Is little chance of It. An
American wishes to turn qvf his mon
ey quickly; a long look Into futurity
Is not for him, He wishes to buy one
railroad on Monday, another on Tues
day, amalgamate them on Wednesday,
tell the stock to the publle at veral
millions profit, and rake In the baodlo
on Friday."
I do not ned to say that It was
an Englishman who was supposed to
say the words I have used here, That
is certainly the English Idea of our fin
ancial methods.
On the same day that'I read Barr'a
story I heard the complaint of an Eng
lishman who had bought the common
Block of one of our railroads, He
wanted to know why he had not re
ceived any dividends) on the stock, and,
furthermore, why thesteck had gone
down in price since he bought It.
Now, this man, supposing him to be
a real Investor, must have known that
the common stock of that road has
never paid dividend In Id years; that
the earnings of the road which might
have been used to pay 'auoh a dividend
have been turned back Into the road
to improve It and strengthen Ua credit,
and h must have known that this com
mon stoOk could be bought by a real
Investor only after he had made up
his mind to hold it for the "long pull."
Hundreds ef millions ef dollars worth
of such stock Iw being held by Ameri
cana and they ar. not ail men of
wealth either, Other hundreds pf mil
lions art invested In real property
which return practically nothing on
the investment beyond taxes, and you
do - nqt hear the owners complaining
about th dlscqura;mnt of depend
ing upon the future to make their hold
ings pay them. s
No, the averag - American Investor
Is used to waiting for hie profit, It
Is really the typical English Investor
who is Impatient of the . future,- He
Is either the sort who must have hi
4 per cent right on th dot vry in.
tercet day. or the wlfdest financial gam
Wer known.
It Is time ta give the patient AmrU
can Investor Ma dq
Platonic lve may be
a distance.
a a
How people can enjoy
if tliey don't have to."
a suoees at
cmnplng out
Even a deaf man has a good ar for
some kinds of muslr,
a
Occasionally a gill usee one yountf
man to make another feci had.
a a
You ?isv a right to think a lot of
things you have no right to say.
a a
' Two niay live as cheaply' is 0110
after marriage because they have to.
a a
The girl who Is always trying to at
tract attention usually attracts the
wrong Und..
a a
What a gf?i likes about an engage
ment ring is that It doesn't back up
her blushing denials.
a
Few of u arc half so good, half so
bad, half so poor or half so rlcH at
people Imagine we ar.
as ,
The girl who persists In doing trioYo
IW'TieTnflWff-'tt
to break Into the spinster class.
The "Glacier Movement" on Huerta.
From th Chicago post,
In Washington they call the Wilson
polioy in Mexico "the glacier movement" '
against Huerta,
The metaphor la singularly apt -Silently.
slowly, qoldly, lnvlncibly,his
mysterious power Is forcing IIua,ta
back from Ws throne,
From day to day a crisis threatens,
but never comes, And when the cloud
lifts the lc walla are found to have
moved forward an Inon,
Hucrta's bluff and buster--even' the
measure of real strength that lies be- "
hind him seem puny and weak before
the irresistible glacial force.
The Mexican may yet stand up against
the power that is driving him relentless
ly back- But the precedents do not prom
ise u. Men have harnessed waterfalls
and bridged flood ridden river. No
man has yet stopped a glacier. .
.Dollars With -,
Sand on Them
Don't we often wish they
made them that way when we
see how they slip through eur
fingers?
- It takes shrewd buying to
make an income show a sur
plus In these days of our eld
friend, the High Cost of Liv
ing. Bhrewd buying means pur-,
ohaaing the right thing at
the right time and at the .
right price.
t That's where advertising In
4lve dally newspapers like ,
TH13 JOURNAL serves yoq
well.
""It keeps yeu, posted on 1
"what's what" end "when's
when." ,
fkdvertlslng rightly uej
ps ito put santf on your dol
lars so ywu cafj hold on t
them better, . k -