THE - OREGON 1 DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 20 1914
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Success affords us the
mean of securing additional
success, as lhe possession of
capital . enables us to increase
our pecuniary gains. Stanis
laus. WITHIN THE LAW
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B
Y JUDGE ANDERSON'S
cision at Baker City yester
day. Governor. West was
wholly within the law at
Copperfield. Judge Anderson said:
Whenever the power to enjoin or
restrain exists there follows with it
the power to compel obedience, and
It will thus be seen that if the dis
cretionary acts of the executive,
whether wise or unwise, are subject
to Judicial control either by injunc
tion or mandamus, the ultimate and
unrestrained power of the govern
ment would be vested in the one de
partment only, namely, the Judicial,
and not as our constitution provides,
In three distinct and independent di
visions. ' The decision says further that
for a court to undertake to deter
mine whether there was such law
lessness as to Justify the governor
in calling out the militia and es
1 tablishing martial rule would be
to j substitute the judgment and
discretion of the court for those
Of the governor, whereas the con-j
stitution expressly states that
JJQ
with the official
duties, under one of these depart-!
ments snail exercise oae
everclsP ro of the!loos lu more lDan MU0,000
functions of another."
It is now time for those who
have been denouncing the Wet
policy at Copperfield as "lawless,"
to, retract. The Oregonian should'
retract. Soul Mate Mbser should
retract. Various petty 'publications
that cuckooed the Oregonian and
Moser should retract,
i All blundered in their conclu-
aAn. K.,o -IIJ - : k
, 7 i 1 'c"
down into the fundamentals of i
lnvrnni Wrco 'a aflnn Thav oa !
.umed that the governor suspend-
ri ... ion, ' i
d the state law
I jWest suspended no law. The
law was already in a Btate of sus
pension. The district attorney of
Bilker county refused to enforce
It. The sheriff of Baker county
was not stopping gambling, theUnd Massachusetts.' It exceeded
!!l llQ,T tO.m!D0" and th: the combined amounts in force in
1 !
TT " " - ;
, me governor sent j.awson to
voppenieia, not to suspend state
law but to get state law to func-;
tionlng.
nor had
called upon the district
attorney and sheriff to enforce the t ,nM nf 1 TT" "7 "v
. . , loss of protection to dependents,
law at Copperfield, and arter their Mot, , tha - toj , ,
. " . . .. , . Many or the mortgaged policies
S H Ml th 7 were,aT8ked will lapse as a direct result of the
Inn L 6Kg rn8e,r,t LaW' i loans, and the entire amount of
lan M J?. .n S70n; ' lMDrance represented by these pol-
lan, Moser and the other critics of .ni i , t . . ,. , ,
woof ii,, . j, Icies will be lost to beneficiaries.
men al n t JL Lt Data aB t0 VM are not
5SSrpl 71 mailable, but the total will be
blundered . , j large
I , Judge Anderson's decision Is ; The association is serving an ex
sound constitutional law. It is in cellent purp08e ln calllng attentlon
exact conformity with the supreme I to tne lncrease in policy loans,
eourts decision In the case of the j Mortgages on lire insurance poli
CX?1; V 2AthJ0regn;' cies increased from three and one
-uuto Yvuivei tuu bam ia mat
case:
i
: But 'if it pertains to duties which
require the exercise of Judgment or
discretion to perform, or to matters
political or governmental in their
nature, all the authorities agree that
the executive Is clearly Independent
nf h rttVi a AAnsnnt. J......
of the other co-ordinate departments
of government, and is HOT summer
aax BKAirzrEB to tkeib xti.
HOT mERYX8XOir ok coitiol.
j To hold otherwise than as Jus
tice Wolverton held, or as Jndge
Anderson held, would be to put
the judiciary above the executive.
It would be to put the courts
above other departments, which
the constitution specifically for
bids. It would be to make one
department paramount and other
departments subservient, which no
people who value human freedom
will ever permit to be done. 4
iThe moral effect of Judge An
derson's decision will be far reach
ing. For years, it has been the
r -
habit of district attorneys to nul -
lify the law, by enforcing or not
enforcing it, just as District At
torney Godwin did at Copperfield.
For years, officials elected for no
- other purpose than to enforce the
- law have, enforced some laws and
refused to enforce others. Sheriffs
and district attorneys have been in
the habit of applying such laws as
it! suited their whims to apply,
arid not applying such laws as
they took a notion to disregard.
-1 I IThat was lawlessness. No dis
trict attorney or sheriff hag any
discretion as to what laws shall
. be. operative and what laws shall
not be operative. That is the func
- tlpn.of the legislature. When
; ..-ever a sheriff or a district at
torney refuses to enforce, a law
.".-as Godwin did at Copperfield, Jhe
.is' lawless.
: jThe Copperfield affair Willi go
a I long ; way in putting an end to
!the lawless ,s practices of district
attorneys and sheriffs. . The cour
age and determination of the gov
ernor and the1 decision of Judge
Anderson will probably make a
food active official of every dls-
I'- ." t
J I . t j r
trict attorney and sheriff In
LINCOLN
S..
A
T A meeting . tomorrow even--
ing at 'the city hall, members
of The Abraham Lincoln
, Memorial Society of Oregon
Jni rietfrrnine In what minnor the
j; w,, Ueiennine, l ,wnaj manner IBB
birth ..Of Jtbe great ; emanCipatOr
i gBal i he obWvetf On the 12th day
s , ,
i Of next montB, . . ,
I T1w U, .n,ln.lnr' holr
. , , , ,
to the JdfalS Of Lincoln.
They are
t ideals which', widely followed, will
Thus, at Cooper Union, New York,
February 27, 1860, he said: ,
Let us have' faith that right -makes
might, and in that faith," let us to
the" end dare to 'do our duty as we
understand it. '. --'
In his second inaugural address,
delivered at Washington, March 4,
1865, ho said.
With malice toward none; with
charity for all; with firmness in the
right as God gives us to see the right,
let us strive on to finish the work we
j are in; to bind up the nations wounds;
I to care for him who shall have borne
Mhe battle. And for his widow, and
his orphan to do all which may
achieves and cherish a just and last
ing peace among ourselves, and with
all nations.
Only a great soul could speak
with such depth, such breadth;
such beauty and such power.
Though the form was lank, the
limb shambling and the face fur
rowed, no figure in all history is
more heroic or more majestic
IJKK INSUIL1NCE LOANS
T
HE Association of Life Insur
ance Presidents calls atten
tion to the rapid increase of
policy loans in recent years,
Investigation shows that at the end
of 1911 life insurance companies
representing 93 per cent of total
assets in the United States had
$456,000,000 in policy loans out
i standing.
Loans granted on . policies by
Ampnran enninaniac
including
"
ineir sman foreign
business.
j"ped rrm about 19;000'000 Jn
in 1912. It is authoritatively
stated that not more than 10 per
cent of policy loans are repaid
Tbls means that more than half
a billion dollars of policy loans
in lorce December 31, 1912, will
never be paid. If the encumbered
policies are carried to maturity
widows and orphans, in whose" be
rnau iney were taRen out, will be
"l
of great need.
The magnitude, of thi3 loss of
PrtecUfin -dependents can
better appreciated by a few c
be
com
parisons. Half a billion dollars Is
in excess of the total amount of
ordinary life insurance in force in
any single state on December 31,
,1912, excepting the states of New
Vftrlr Pannavlvanla Tlllnnlo fKlA
the teu 8tatea of Delaware. Florida,
Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mex
lc0 North Dakota. South Dakota
mar, wnmin.
0ft
t tho m,T,nm mtM" n.
i tiA
" vt, vu i -oa v TO m
1888 to 16.03 per cent in 1912,
and probably reached 18 per cent
In 1913. The average ratio of
loans to reserves in all states in
1911 was 15.98 per cent. Pacific
5 rtacr
I wool
luaing isevaaa,
' Idaho, Arizona and Utah, had an
averaeTA rutin . nf 20 na nor cant
per
the largest ratio of any group of
states.
Life Insurance companies are
Justified in attempting to discour
age policy loans. Figures show
that they too often defeat the real
purpose of insurance.
WAR'S AWFUL COST
A
CENSUS has been taken of
the new Bulgarian territory
acquired by conquest There
never has been a more strik
ing illustration of the terrible
waste or human life in modern
-t & tM U1VUC k
1 warfare. The census figures just
announced at sona furnish a tre
mendous argument to the cham
pions of universal peace. .
The male population of that
part of Macedonia allotted to Bul
garia was reduced during hostili
ties from 175,000 to 42,500. In
Bulgarian Thrace only 225,000
males remain out of a total before
the wars of 494,000. In the dis
trict of Mustapha Pasha, the scene
of particularly fierce fighting,
4000, or a little more than 10 per
cent, of a male population of 33,
000 remain.
Of 702,000 males living in this
territory before the first Balkan
war was declared, only 271,500
Burvive. Depopulation of the ter
ritories allotted to the other Bal
kan states has not been deter-
1 mined,, but it was undoubtedly ap
palling.
Bulgaria, Greece, Servia and
Montenegro had grievances against
Turkey which it might not have
been possible to arbitrate, r But
the ' second conflict was unneces
sary and j Inhuman ; it , was the
greatest crime of the twentieth
oSoo'
century. For , the flrHt time the
world learned that Christian na-
tlons could " resort to brutalities
ereater than those ever practiced
by the Turks who ere said to-be
oppressing the Balkans.
In spite of the lessons taught
by war, in spite of the Balkans'
eloquent argument fot tolerance
and square dealing by nations,
there la insistent demand for great-
er preparations ior war. ne
great powers of Europe refuse to
learn from the Balkans. The at
tempt Is .being made to foster the
war spirit in the
War should be
waged relent-
rcsoij, uut. n oiw. I
against greed and selfishness. The-
time Is ripe for earnest advocacy
Lpf international arbitration In the j
K.M mi.nnii.h.nrtinr.
settlement of misunderstandings
e t c ty, .ArM'
Ul X cove iww.vaao ww.
greatest general, then nations and
peoples will
begin to prosper as
they should.
THE MILLER PLAN
T
HERE Is a note in the remarks
of H. B. Miller before the
Auditorium Commission that
The Journal applauds.
He declared it to be the duty
of the city of Portland to provide
a show place for the land prod
ucts of Oregon, to make provis
ion for the assembling here of in
dustrial organizations and by the
process to provide markets for
the products of Oregon.. He said:
This city ought to perform strong-er
functions. Its primary function ia
to find markets for the products of
the state of Oregon. It has failed
In that function. It is not marketing
the products of the state. It Is not
marketing- tha prunes. It is not having-
anything to do with tha market
inr of salmon. It Is not marketing
the canned products of the state; j
these are marketed by California. It
has failed in its function of marketing-
apples and pears of the state
of Oregon; instead of this city taking-
up that problem they have let
It go to Spokane. It has failed in Its
function of encouraging Industrial
development of the state.
Mr. Miller insists that there
should be expositions of products
of the state for marketing pur
poses, and that Portland should
provide them. He says that almost
every other great city in the world
performs such a function. He says
there should be here at one big
annual exposition, an annual gath
ering of the horticultural society,
the dairy association," floral asso
ciation, wool growers, Angora goat
breeders. Pacific coast nurserymen,
Oregon Poultry Association, Ore
gon Livestock Breeders' Associa
tion, Onion Growers' Associa
tion, Oregon Canneries Association,
which is now in process of develop
ment. Mr. Miller is right. If Portland
haa any function, it is the mar
keting of the products of its back
country. If this city has any rea
son to exist, it is to facilitate the
gathering and interchange of prod
ucts and to aid stimulation of pro
duction and the rewards of pro
duction. How signally Portland
has failed in some of these particu
lars, is set forth in Mr. Miller's
strong indictment? of the city for
its failure, to find a market for
many of Its industries.
Mr. Miller should persist in his
leadership. The Journal will glad
ly second his efforts in what it re
gards as a splendid program. It
is a program that should appeal
to the intelligence of all the people
of Portland.
ALASKA'S COAL DEPOSITS
B
ACK of the Chamberlain bill
for Alaska, is the recom
mendation of Secretary Lane
respecting coal deposits in
the territory.
In. his annual report," the secre
tary recommends that Alaska's
coal fields be opened to the pub
lic under a leasing and royalty
system. He suggests that the gov
ernment adopt a system similar to
that under which Minnesota leased
its ore lands and Montana and
Colorado their coal fields.
Congress should heed the sug
gestion. Mr. Lane calls attention
to the fact that Alaska is the
largest body of unused and neg
lected land in the United States. It
Is now nearly half a century since
we purchased this territory, and
it contains today less than 40,000
white inhabitants, less than 1000
for each year Alaska has been in
our possession.
Alaska's mines, fisheries and
furs in 46 years have produced
wealth, aggregating $500,000,000.
Individual fortunes larger than
the price paid to Russia for the
whole territory have been made in
Alaska. But little bas been done
to develop the country itself for
the benefit of residents. Sys
tematic development of Alaska
awaits the development of trans
portation ' facilities, and this phase
01 Aiasica s progress depends upon
solution Of the futel emblem.
mere are
almost unlimited,
quantities of high grade lignite
coal In the interior. Toward the richer possession than the Phiiip-
southern coast there are two fields! ll?!'..! tl
. ... . . i the nation in general, not to one per-
Of high grade bituminous C0allnn but to evervbodv. i .
and come anthracite. Mr. Lane!
says these coal;. fields ehould.
v
opened, not to speculators, but to r.jnea at different times. People may
operators. Only they should have i not know it. bat an army officer haa
the lands who will use them. Noite obey orders Juat the . same 1 as 1 a
1 a. dKa.iIvi Ka TrAA ma o K-.i-' poldier, without question. Army-offl-
lauua.ouvufu w vyvuvu no uooib
for a gamble in future values.
Instead -of selling her land out
right. Minnesota sold the timber
rtmt- t,r,A Miui tfca . mimitai
-..' U Th- journal What la the matter
rights. These rlghta were leased wlth Governor west, that he allows
on a basis of 25 cents a ton roy-. the chief of police of 8alem and Al
alty on all ore mined. Because bany to escort the jobless out of town?
of - wonderful development of .'the
properties no - new ; leases were
made for about ten years, and ia
l0T the leasing law was repeaiea.
The Hill interests, noiaing sirauar
lands, are now teasing on a oasis
of $1 a ton, and the Minnesota
legislature will be asked to enact
another law copying the system
usea uy tne kui trustees as to uw-
' rivtntnna vain Ofl
Minnesota's leasing and royalty
system will ultimately accumulate
J200.OO0.000 for the people of
that state. The system has devel
oped the mines and saved to the
people their just share of the
profits.
I Though a New Hampshire com
mission declared Thaw perfectly
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...
" ' . " 1V. , . ' u
t, . ti.. tHmhT i
alienlatg, the experts, the trials, i
the hearings, the asylums, the
commissions, the lunacy sharps and
, . . .
ne countless others wnO want tips,
fees, allowances and money, money,
! mnnw It fa a Wonder that Thaw
is not a raving maniac. Almost
any other man, after such experi
ence would be stark, staring mad.
Letters From the People
(CommuDlcatlona aent to Tha Journal for
publication In tbta department should be writ
ten on onl one aide of the paper, abonld not
exceed 300 worda In length and muat be ac
companied bj the name and address of the
aender. It the writer ooea not desire to
nave tbe name published, be ahould ao a tale. )
' "Diacuaaion Is the greatest of all reform
ers. It rationalises everything It touches. It
I robs principles of all falxe sanctity and
throws them back on their reasouablonesa. It
they have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up ita
own conclusions in their atead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Cost of Initiative Petitions.
Portland, Jan. 20. To the Editor of
The Journal From the communica
tion of George Hicinbotham, appearing
ln The Journal on Sunday, I judge he
wants some Information as to the coit
of securing initiative petitions as at
present necessary. If petitions are se
cured byvoluntary solicitors the cosi
is not much, if any, belojv that of paid
circulators. The clerical work, post
age, etc.. Is greater in cost and if
traveling expense, to secure by per
sonal solicitation and lectures these
voluntary circulators, is necessary
as it usually is the expenses may be
very great.
It dOes not take much in the print
ing line to run up a $100 printing bill,
and 60 postage will not cover very
much correspondence and mailing of
circulars.
By starting in early an initiative pe
tition may be secured through paid
circulators for about $350 to $500 plus
some printing, and legal services in
drawing up the bill. But it is more
likely to total $700 to $1000 if all
services are paid for. For want of
proper legal advice a certain state
measure which carried at the last
regular state election was nullified by
the courts, but I understand about
$700 was expended for circulating Pe -
In the presenting of the home tax
exemption measure to the people all
of tbe clerical work has been done by
volunteer labor, but the postage and
printing bills have been quite heavy.
Some traveling expenses have been in
curred, but very little, because of the
fact that those who traveled had part
of their expenses paid through other
means, and largely donated their time
when not entirely doing ao.
While names secured by volunteers
ln various parts of the state may cost
a little for incidentals, printing, etc,
the services rendered by the volunteers
are very great in an educational way,
and the names secured far more Indi
cative of the sentiment of the people.
The home tax exemption measure Is
about half way through, and the fu
ture efforts of the volunteers can only
be roughly estimated.
The printing now on hand ia about
exhausted and more must be provided
no other measure haa ever secured the
same number of volunteer signatures
and gtven Indication of such popu
larity among the common people, yet
it is quite difficult to secure the
means to put it on the ballot Organ
ised labor has given more actual money
to it. than it ever gave to any measure
except the employers' liability, law In
1910;-yet all told less- than $250 has
been secured.
A great many people never stop to
think that to stamp, mail and print a
circular and enclose it with a personal
letter takes about 6 cents each, or
more If allowance is made for clerical
work. Blank petitions cost for postage
alone by the time they are returned
filled with names over 10 cents each,
and many more must be printed than
sufficient to Just cover the legal num
ber of names required by law. Meet
ings and traveling expenses eat up
money very rapidly if Indulged ln. The
sacrifice of time made by volunteers
ia very great and cannot be estimated.
Senator Bourne and others have no
idea of the actual sacrifices and labor
involved in securing 12,000 signatures
to an initiative petition, nor the coat
of such work. For the election of 1916
the cost will be not less than twice as
much, and If his measure is enacted
and enforced, fully ten times as much,
and thus putting It out of reach of the
working people.
ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
Value of Philippines Discussed.
Battle Ground. Wash., Jan. 19. To
the Editor of The Journal A writer
In The Journal of January 17 aired his
views on the exploiting of the Philip
pine islands, claiming they were a
great burden on the people and that
certain moneyed Interests and army
officers were running a sort of graft.
I don't wish to cause any ill -will or
hard feelings but I wish to inform
him and others who don't know that
the Philippines are one of the most
valuable possessions that the United
Suites .owns. They give to the United
States its gateway into the orient,
which greatly increases the country's
revenue. Secondly, the Philippines are
the onlv rjosseaslon that anv nation or
i power has ever acquired, as far back
aB can be traced, that paid Its own
1 war debt in one year. I beg tbe writer
or anybody else that Is so Inclined to
(.top and think and see if he can recall
I am not talking to hear myself.
out Deeause i now. x put. in eigm
t .... fi
cers are
not militia, but regulars.
A READER.
Criticises Governor West.
i : Astoria, Or.,
Jan. JO. To the Editor
When West wanted tbe grand Jury of
Coos county to indict the ctty officials
of Marshfield for escorting an I. W.
Wi out: of town and. Florence was
A FEW SMILES
With hlssas and groans th audience
greeted th new
play. All hope, then,
wm at an end.
"It's hard to tall
Just what the pub
lic wants!" mur
mured the heart
broken author.
"It'a easy enough
to tell in this case." said the manager,
grimly. "It wants Its money back!"
Pat was standing near the car tracfc
when he noticed an automobile com
ing' up tha street, and to b safe ne
stepped DacK a
little.
The auto went
past, and Just as It
was passing the
driver had occasion
to turn off the
track. whn na
did the auto skid
ded on tha track.
causing the back end of it to swing
around, striking Pat and knocking him
down.
Pat was seen to get up and look
after the car and say, "Now p'hat
do ye think o' that? Whin ye stand
in front o' thlm they run over y.
and whin ye git out o' the way to
let thlm pass they turn around and
kick ye."
A countryman and als bride applied
at the box office for tickets.
"Orchestra chairs.
parquet or family
circle?" asked the
ticket seller.
"Whlch'll It
Marierr- said
groom.
"Well," - she
plied, with a blush,
'Bein' as how we're
married now, perhaps it would
proper to sit in the family circle."
The self made man stalked into the
office of the great financier with
... .. oppointment.
"You probably
on't remember me,"
e began, "but 20
ears ago, when I
as a poor messen
er boy you gave me
message to carry."
"Yes, yes!" cried the
inancier, 'Where's
....Btian Register.
All Scotsmen take pride in their na
tive land, but none more than the old
gardener of Duddlngston, of whom the
following story is
told:
The gardener was
showing to a tourist!
the beauties of the
loch -and of the little
village. It was even
ing, and as he ex
patiated on the love
ly scene and on the glories of his
country the moon rose over a hill.
The old man stopped short ln the
middle of a speech and gaaed at the
moon with admiration.
After a moment he turned to the
tourist and said: "There's a moon for
tion
threatened for expelling some trouble
makers, the governor said if they had
broken the law to arrest them, but that
they had no right to drive them out
of town. Now, right there ln Salem
and Albany, he allows the chiefs of
police to drive the unemployed out of
town. If they have broken the law,
why not arrest them? Why does the
governor want to prosecute Marshfield
and Florence and not Salem and Al
bany? I do not believe in prosecuting
Marshfield and Florence and then let
ting 1 Salem and Albany go for the
same offense.
I think all cities and towns do right
in escorting all trouble makers out.
All foreigners that do not like ,our
government, let them go back to their
own countries. E. J. FORD.
Criticizes Curricula Board.
Hood River, Jan. 19. To the Editor
of The Journal Has the auestlon of
higher education In Oregon as repre
sented by. our state supported schools
been finally settled? If so, how? If
not is it in process of being settled?
If the latter, then what is the plan?
The taxpayers of this state want a
good educational system in Oregon.
They have not been satisfied with the
present arrangement, because they
are convinced that there is unwarranted
duplication of work between the two
schools and consequently a needless
expense. Moreover, there is constant
strife between our Institutions which
interferes with the best work of both.
The people want this matter cleared
up, and now.
During recent months university
professors have been running about
the state making a wild attempt to
convince the people that the university
is rendering them a great service and
they seem to be devoting most of their
time to the farmers. Whether they
are doing this because they think the
farmers can be most easily fooled or
not. I do not know. The fact Is, how
ever, that they are giving a great deal
of attention to agricultural subjects
and to questions relating to the farm.
Is this merely a campaign to gain
favor among the farmers, or is it the
only field the university can find to
work ln? If the latter, why the uni
versity? These interests are already
being taken care of by the agricultural
college. Or does this activity mean
that the university haa grown so con
fident since the referendum election
that they dare to boldly usurp the field
formerly held by the agricultural col
lege? If that is the attitude of the
university. I would remind it that its
appropriations were approved by a
very small vote. Many thousands who
were opposed to granting these appro
priations did not vote, simply because
they were willing to give the univer
sity one more chance, and many of
those who voted for the appropriations
have -been disgusted by the events
that have followed. No sooner had the
board of higher curricula announced its
decision to give one engineering course
to the university than the presldeat
of that institution sent out an interview
stating that the university would build
un a rreat engineering school. Such
action could mean nothing else than a
duplication of everything that Is need
ed to teach engineering, and is abso
lutely contrary to the thing the people
are anxious to have accomplished and
which they have expected the board of
higher curricula to bring about The
natural conclusion ia that the decision
of the board has absolutely failed to
accomplish the thing that wax at
tempted, or else the university Intends
to place such an interpretation on the
action of the board as tc completely
destroy its effect.
, There Is a rapidly growinc sentiment
among the people that tho board of
higher curricula is entirely Incapable,
and it looks as though the university
bad discovered this fact and had at
tempted to take advantage of it by
grasping everything ln sight.
If I am not badly mistaken, unless
ono more satisfactory explanation la
mad in the near future, a movement
will bo started for th Initiation of a
measure which will settle tho question,
either by definitely defining the work
of tho university and tho collage, er
I at J3
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PERTINENT COMMENT
SHALL CHANGE
The
old rule, no work, .'no eat. is
right.
Resolutions won't
deepen the bar
and harbor.
The campairn'
is Jk "unmitigated
bar" already.
Will the unemrtlnveri "irml" tint
aemaM pensions?
The courts ehAilrl be ahla to admin
ister a cure for motorcycle insanity.
The Huerta pretended government is
"broke," can't pay interest on debts:
ure sign of "last legs."
a
Huerta has changed hU minister of
finance again. That muxt be an ex
ceedingly hard position.
Americans offer to loan Turkey
$120,000,000. How Huerta must wish
Be were dictator of Turkey.
Big business seems Inclined to nn
timism, and to think that it may pay
to oe law-aoiaing ana aecent.
e
Five-year-old boy shot and killed a
banker calling at boy's father's house;
got gun from papa's pocket.
The new electric line will be a fine
thing for thousands of people. May
they and it prosper together.
a
The man who owns a patch of
ground, a cow and a sow. If he has
any get-up at all. needn't worry.
As to hustling for trade and com
merce. President Averill courageously
says that Portland is non-progressive.
Two sherltls and 30 soldiers are
guarding General Salazar in Texas,
says a dispatch. This must make him
feel very proud.
A California priest predicted that
earthauakes and big windstorms and
the time of their occurrence. Couldn't
the weather bureau hire him?
Most people, fortunately, would
rather work than endure the privations
and indignities suffered by a tramp
ing, non-working, everywhere unwei
come "army." -
CANAL TO REVOLUTIONIZE SEA TRAFFIC
From the Wall Street Journal.
Few Americans are awake to the
possible developments of both the At
lantic and Pacific coasts of the United
States from the opening of the Pana
ma canal. Most Americans have looked
upon this as an opportunity to ex
change United States products by
cheap water highway. Manufacturers
in New England are looking to see
how they can broaden their trade on
the Pacific, and consumers and dis
tributors of foodstuffs are figuring to
see if they can realize something in
the way- o? cheaper food through the
Panama canal from the "glorious cli
mate of California."
Few people very few have consid
ered the importance to the United
States on both ita eastern and western
coasts of the opening up of a new
water route tnat in conjunction with
the Suex canal makes a water high
way around the world passing Just
under the United States, where it has
formerly gon around South America.
New York and Boston are due north
from the Panama canal. In fact, out
side of New England, the Atlantic sea
coast is west of Panama,
The opening of the Panama canal in
1914 is likely to revolutionize ocean
transportation. The leading steamship
companies are planning to belt the
earth in the ' northern hemisphere: ln
fact, run circles around it both east
and west. Just south of the United
States.
The Hamburg-American line the
biggest steamship company ln the
world expects in 1915 to have its four
biggest passenger ships, outside of tha
Imperator type, running to Boston. Two
nf them were put In the Boston service
J in 1913 and the Amerika will be added
1 In 191' and the Victoria Luise in 1916.
It la within the range or possioiny
that even the Imperator ltseir wm in
HIGH FINANCIERING ON RAILWAYS
By John M. Oskison.
I should be pleased, as the humble
reporter for the investors of the coun
try, to sit by and listen to a debate
between B. F. Yoakum, cnairman 01
the Frisco railroad system, and the
-if. I 1 I i"Vl
man who wrote an eaiwnn "
lier's Weekly, dated December 27 last.
Certain statements made by both of
these men require elaboration and ex
planation. For instance:
Collier's quotes some paragraphs
from a report on the Frisco receiver
ship which stated that $32,000,000 of
the road's funded Indebtedness of
$24, 000,000 was paid to bankers and
brokers in commissions an average
commission of Just over 12 per cent
"while the profits of Mr. Yoakum and
his associates ln the promotion of the
feeder lines sold to the Frisco ranged
from 10 per cent to more than 100 per
cent. t t
In a statement which appeared Just
before the Collier editorial came out,
Mr. Yoakum said of the $32,000,000 of
commissions:
"No one received any part of these
discounts and commissions except the
bankers and investors themselves.
. It is true that a comparatively
new system doing the work of exten
sion and development of the Frisco Is
not always as favorably situated in
the money markets as axe the larger
and more powerful systems with well-
by bringing the two schools together.
By Bavlng the $$00,000 or more that
will go to the university each year
under the provisions of the new mill
age law. which goes into effect in 1916,
there wotild be enough saved to pay
for the entire university.
What is the board of higher curri
cula going to do about it? Many thou
sands of Interested voters are await
ing the explanation. A. I. MASON.
Finds Fault With the Police.
Portland, Jan., 17. To the Editor of
The Journal I, see ln today's Journal
that the police have committed an
other outrage in the arresting and
fining Of three men, and in turning
three ladles over to Mrs. Baldwin, for
dancing on tbe public streets. They
should have been in a schoolhouse.
Bo long as these people did not
make too much noise as would disturb
the pleasant dreams of tho pious, they
Should bet allowed tc dance on the
streeU from midnight until morning,
provided; they gave room for th- owl
cars to pass.
I -would discharge all of oar 300
policemen and sell our patrol trucks
and 1 would hire about. 60 farmere tp
fill their places and let. them call a
taxi .instead of a patrol. The customer
pays tha bill anyway. And when these
farmer police got brlgnt enough to
collect from: fallen women and split
with the crooks, I would f lrr them
also. . -.
Last Monday night at 11 o'clock
four - men were goln.' east at First
street on Alder, and were talking ao
ae to be heard a block ov more. Three
Of them had white shirty on, and one
ANDREWS IN BRIEF
OREGOX SIDELIGHTS
A Musicians' union of about 40 mem
lrK hax be n organised at Maxsh
fleld. Condon Times: A letter came from
Jake Schroeder this week, howling be
ta use he did not get his Times. Keep
your shirt on. Jake: you are going to
get your paper this week.
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HoulUn Herald: 8t. Helena opened
up her- purse strings one night last
week and presented the fire company
with S100. This is onlv a' small token
of the esteem in which the fire boya
are neio by trie people.
Tragedy at Dallas, chronicled in the
Observer: "A nice fat turkey gobbler
was visiting on hast Washington
street Tuesday. At one place he called
the host tried his best to make him
at home and nearly succeeded when a
stray dog came upon the scene and
the so near and yet so far was again
1 in eviaenre. l,ucKy turkey ana un
1 lucky host.'
Umatilla New Kra: In another year
the OUlo locks will be completed when
vtHeels from all countries of the world
will come up-the Columbia river -to
Umatilla and this will become the dis
tributing point of a territory for hun
dreds of miles around, and ln our
mind's eye we can see this a large
wholesale center with many manufac
turing plants located on the river
front.
Trying to flag Gentle Spring, the
Hood Rver News waves this: "Gentle
zephrys were blowing last week and
the balmy weather was like spring.
To the orchard 1st. however, summer
days in January are not an unmixed
joy. fearing as he does the premature
appearance of the buds. So turn on
the cold faucet a little more. Old Man
Winter; we don't expect spring quite
this early, not even in Hood River."
One would never Imagine It now,
but that Modford did really have hum
ble beginnings seems to be attested
by the 8alem Statesman. In Its 26-years-ago
column appears this item:
"Four years ago Medford was mostly
a chapparal thicket. It now is a town
of 1500 inhabitants. It cast 328 votes
at the last election. It is said that!
there are nearly 50 voters ln the pre
cinct who have not been long enough
in the state to vote."
time be transferred to Boston, and
both her captains, Ruser and Kler,
have made themselves familiar with
Boston harbor.
The Hamburg-American line pro
poses to establish an areund-the-world
service via Panama and Sues. There
is no reason why Amerioan porta may
not In time be calling ports for this
all-the-world-around trade.
The Fabre line, which has Just
opened to Providence, R. I., Is reported
as contemplating an around-the-world
service through the Panama canal.
calling at Paclfio coast ports.
The Blue Funnel line will institute
a direct line from Europe through the
Panama canal, up the Pacific coast,
and around the world through Sues.
Sixty-one ships are now being operated
by this line, and flv huge crafts are
being built for circling the globe
These ships will run both east and
w est.
Fifteen International steamship linen
ure already planning for the Panama
canal route, and of these 11 companies
are building In the aggregate 0 big
steamers of from 10,000 tons each up
ward for the Panama canal route.
It Is this trade, east and west, belt
ing the world, that the United States
should study and cooperate with. There
Is more trade and money In it a hun
dredfold than in any present possi
bilities arising from north and soutn
lines of trade between the United
States and South America on either
the east or west coast.
The reductions in our tariff and the
new currency bill permitting the es
tablishment of American banks ln for
eign countries all conspire to the
joining of American trade with the
ast and west commerce of the world,
which is so aoon to enclrcla the north
ern hemisphere.
established trafflo and serving a high
ly developed and populous section.
Some of our strongest railroads, how
ever, are now paying aa dearly for
money as the Frisco ever did."
Mr. Yoakum says that the discounts,
amounting to $32,000,000 ln the roads
funded debt represented no direct out
lay of money. It "Is an obligation
whose maturity Is spread over from
15 to 60 years. In other words, its ef
fect is to raise the apparent average
rate of interest from, say, 6 per cent
on par to an actual rate of from 7 to
7 per cent. This computation of In
terest rate includes final payment of
the bonds in full."
ln explaining his part in the build
ing of feeder lines to be sold to the
Frisco, Mr. Yoakum said that he used
the means which he and his directors
thought best adapted, and be said that
their profits were not much above a
sum which would pay per cent on
the money they put up.
Of Mr. Yoakum's methods in build
ing the Frisco system. Collier's says:
"This is the sabotage of greed among
those in authority, treason in place of
leadership."
Intemperate words, these last.
Surely there is need for sanity In such
discussions, and a clear understanding
of the facts. The debate I have sug
gested would help to enlighten the pub
lic as to the building and financing of
railroads.
wore a blue shirt A policeman rushed
over from Second street and grabbed
one by the arm and told him to go
couth and started another north. Then
he arrested the one with the blue
shirt and took him over to Second and
Alder and rang up the patrol car. I
went over there and the policeman
went through the nun's pockets and
afcted me what I was doing there. I
told him I was waiting for a car, and
he told rne to go across the street
and wait. I did so, and by the skin
of my teeth escaped a ride in the
patrol wagon, picked pockets, seven
kinds of lice and a $10 fine..
P. W. BRITT&
Protest His Broadway Assessment
Portland. Jan. 19. To tbe Editor of
The Journal A few evenings ago
there appeared an article in your paper
to the effect that Broadway street be
tween Morrison and Washington
streets war soon to be resurfaced and
paid for out of the general fund. Just
a day or two later I received notice of
proposed assessment for bard surfac
ing East Stark street In front of my
property, which wtould amount to
$640.04, but nothing was said about
pa'ylnr for it from the general fund.
Now 1 would like to ask why I am
asked to pay for Improving ray street
individually, and also assist in pay
ing, through the general fund, for the
Improvement on Broadway. It appears
to me that the property owners in this
district . should pay their improve
ments the same aa I do wherever I
happen to own property, and any
thing different from that would seem
to me as Irregular. ' W. T. ANGER.
IN EARLIER DAYS;
By Fred Lockiey.
Slem has a kinique organisation, ft, -
la a club without constitution or by .
laws. It has -no officers and every
member Is a law unto himself. It Is .4
catted the "Old ; Men's Club."
Twenty-five jbr thirty years ago a
few of the oldi-Hmers used to ult on '-j
the bench In front of Squire Karrar's
utori in Saleri! to talk politics and
swap yarns. During the rainy Meithf
they used to slither ln the hark room ;
of Gibson & SflngletotVH dniK si ore.,'
Still later th: tipped thir tmire
liack in the baifk rom of Let- SteuK-r's
(irug store. Aaiong the first momners
of the "Old ion'i t'luV were l'r-e
Charley Clagj'lt. John tj .Vils.m,
Judge Walton, Ed Hirs-h. John ;ry,
Alonxo Gesner.it. K. Pnltre, H, Staple
ton and V. tl: Bootlit. livemutt'y
they moved from the liarti nxim of
Fred Legg'R dnig store to ti untairs
room in the Joore builriiuc. I-aler
they took a room over Iatton' k1
tore. From there tluv Vihim1 over
Hush's bank asd now tlw are lm-ati-d
In a room vef 'Bair'a plumbing an. u
on Commeiciaj "street. 1
I spent an hpur or two at the "old
Men's Club" ire-cent ly. talk1p. wit li
Oliver Beers, -John Gray and n ft-w
other old-tim Sulemlt..
"Most ot thjf : orlKlnr.l memhrrs nre
gone." said John Gray. "Aiming our
present membership who are old
stand-bys are'-pr. W. A. 'iiik, Ira
Erb. M. W. Hifnl. Henry H. Hell, Judge
Hubbard, J. A?Bakeiand a l7en 01
fifteen more. Our dub, in th truest
sense. Is a df mocrncv . V.- nie ill
bosses. The only requirement in that
each member jiay 75 cents a month to
help pay the rent and for firewood.
Those are our onl expense. We can
come up here, play a eaiue of bil
liards or a rubber at whlnt or rll
liage and puss a. few hour very pleas
antly. 1 g liens Oliver Beers there Is
about our oldest member."
I guess I am probably one of tbe
oldest-timers here." said Mr. Heere.
I was born on April 10, 1846, on Mis-
lion Bottom, 10 miles north of Sulem.
My father, Alansoh Beers, ln the final
division of the mission property, took
the old mission farm of 64S acres, on
Mission Bottom. There were seven of
us children. After father's death, we
were scattered out among strangers.
F.leanor and ; Abigail were taken by
Father Roberts. By brother William
was taken by Rev, 1 avid Leslie. I
went to Charfey Craft's house. He Is
the father of Mrs. George P. Litch
field of nils city. John went to Father
Waller's. Sajly and Benjamin were
cider, so they" shifted for themselves.
I went to school to the old Oregon
Institute. Bi brother Will and I
bached In the; old parsonage one win
ter while goltig to si-hnot My sl"ter
Abigail marrlHd Jesse Parrjsh. They
took Uf a place i-lx n HeV east nf
Albany. 1 lived with them for three
years.
"When I w'm'17 years old T went
hack to my father'H old farm on Mis
sion Bottom asd rented it for three,
years. The flpod during the winter of
'61 and '62 ; washed away all the
fences. When 1 was 20 year old, T
began paying Ifor the farm. Each of
US children had a seventh interest In
it. The farm ;wa appraised at $3"00.
To buy the shares of the others, 1 had
to pay my six brothers and slst-rs
J500 each. rl had the farm paid for
ty the time I wan 26.
"I have an did writing d-sk at limns
that taken one bark to the old days. ,
It belonged tujjafton lee. He -brought
it with him oij tilt: Lausanne when the
great -reinforcement ranie out to the
Methodist missions in 1 SU7 W. 11.
Gray, (the historian, the father of Mrs.
.'acob Kftmm f Portland, was ajrrent
friend of my father. In his history of
Oregon Mr Gljay speaks of my father
as an honest man, a devoted Christian
and a man wnoae moral worth wan
8bove price. He sa' ho was true afl
Heel and as heneut as he wan faithful.
"One of trje company who came
with my father-In 1 K37 was Dr. W. H.
Wlllson, the fAther of Mrs. J. K. 1111
of Portland. Anether was Anna Maria
Pitttnan. who married Jaaon Lee and
whose son wa the first white child to
be born In Oregon. The child ind Its
mother are both burled In tne Lee
Mission cemetery here ln Salem
"You could get some very interest
ing stories from most of the members
of our "Old Men's Club.' Some time
you must come up to my house and I '
will show you Jason Ie's old writing
desk and other Interesting mementoes
of the early days."
Pointed Paragraphs
The man who tries "to buy popularity
gets stung.
t a
Not all high fliers are Interested ia
aerial navigation.
T
The less a fnan has to say the less
he may . have Occasion to retract.
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Some people are too busy talking
about themselves tt talk about others.
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It's enough to annoy any woman If
her husband refuses to quarrel with
her j
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Lots of girls never advance beyond
the literary department of a cooking
school. i'
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Many a marl is dissatisfied, with hla
lot because it s located too near that
of his neighbor.
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One kind of, a nuisance Is always
telling you thmt "you ought to take
something for that before it is too
late." i
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The right invariably triumphs at ,
least that is tl5e feeling a man always
has when he happens to beat the other
fellow to it. j
M rowing.
Remember a friend in friendly way:
You r looking . younger every day!
We're
younnfr as. tne oays go uy.
When friends are
kind, and hope is
high. i
4nd love-Ilght kindles In he eye;
We're "younger? aa the days go by.
We climb the h111s with toilsome care
Sore burdened? -'neath the noonday;
glare, ? '
Then rest awfelle In peace serene.
. , 1,11, v 1 . n . v t . u . . ... ivw.-wv
But when tne life is marred by want
Or cold neglect those specters gaunt;
When harshness takes the place of
love. . ;
And anxious fears that harshness
prove, t
'Tls then we think, though may not
say,
"You're growing older day by day! '
By Mat tie Tobias Benson. ;
The Sunday Journal
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