THE OREGON IAltY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY EVENING," FEBRUARY 21. 1914.
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THE JOURNAL
C. 8. JACKSON
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rutUabae ar araDluf (apt eondarl ana
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' trig, Broadway and Vamhlll ata.. Pm,anfl.Or.
Laltrid aj the poatoflca at Portland, e-. '""
tranatolaaion UirongU tba tca!la aa 'iaaeeod
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Arpartowuia reached by these oOtnbr. Tell
Ika opwatnr what dwiattront yos wat-
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Ooa rear.'.. ..,.15.00 I On month. .....-$ -80
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DAILY AND S0NDA'
One year $7.80 I One month -w
' He that uses many worda for
the explanation of any subject
doth like the cuttlefish, hide
himself for the most part In
his own Ink. Ray.
Til K RECALL FOLLY
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for
of
iHERE is no occafon
recall of . the mayor: or
any commissioner in
land.
Suppose the mayor should be
recalled. Suppose his successor
would, in some public matter, take
a course Inharmonious with the
views of a lot of people. Suppose
those people would circulate peti
tions and recair him.
Where would the process end,
address ourselves also to the great 1 large Industries. ' Desiring to share bled for with? revolutions tinder
humanities and keep in the very. In traffic furnished by the big written by syndicates as the play
forefront of progress." 1 manufacturers, the railroads hare s Whatever, the facts, the deatl
v The Ledger says it Is a healthy gradually made concession alter or. ueuum nas us urst cause in An excursion party from a midland
sign that ' Pennsylvania is to have concession, the effect of which has. the evils and abuses of alien own-J county came to the capital to see the
a real contest for the Republican been to increase the cost of traf f ic I ership of land. i sirfat of the big city of Dublin. After
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senatorial nomination.! That paper ana to impose injustices upun a-, . - ,1bilng around.' one
has uttered repeated warnings that . dustries not favored by the rail-j Henri Bidou. French critic and ; of thft mftle party
A. V.m9(.v of senitnr Pnrow roads. . I historian, says music is not an art was miseing." The
would prove a mistake. He has ; The facts now being developed n ungmmes m sirue uiu wV.Q y
the party machinery under his have large significance. The rail- anxiety. Perhaps Henri was re-.o to find p
control, but the Ledger points out roads are asking permission to in-? qaired as a boy to practice on the;hour,a search they
the fact that an election must fol-; crease rates, and this in face of ; piano when the fish were biting, f found him etand
low the1 primary. Therefore the 'the fact that the roads are fur- or it may be his. Opinion was., -V"
.... . - i . . . . I . m . j fn-rmari la tor In Ufa orhlIa Hotpnlnc Known laundry.
candidate must De a man xairiy nisning iree service. - i ae rauroaus ; : 17"L Y " then asked what be was looking at
representative of the ooonle. fare asking mat snippers not. sot suwi uuSuwi.. the said:
an iii .i i a I fovi-tAH Ka ! tAnnliAH fr - rtav - "rnt&a i " ' '"' . . . :
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CUAXGK
full an fpenlve new straw hat is
not an absolute necessity yet.
...l other adages, the -old saying
that "suicide is confession," isn't al
ways true.
SFl messages are said to be
"picked up." Wouldn't "picked down"
be more accurate?
That
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"Well, beerob. I came to
with sights of DubliB, and I'm blessed if
till I see the girl that
ntu nri.T ivnuiu iiivnrrH i Atmh...o tnr, ! many people srapaimze
1 . ... . J. . , . . if- Mrs. Vandprbilt over- the hurnine I SO home
i ioi7TTim a to rovan 11 qd nsr to rnn n? - - - - - w 1 . . . . . ,, . . . . ,
HE three lives snuffed out by I ""v"" .'of her fSOMOQ Long Island home, j ta f!L TrTa. - '
a train bandit near Belling-; There is the further self con-i And Psslbly some people are-more ; . .
ham last night wre not waste toaco tnt that , r-afirnnria bvl concerned over her loss than theyi An irishman who was selling a
, . . n -v - " 1 i .. ! hnrsa to nn KnarliRh asrnnt. who was
lives uui usiui lives. i not resisted the demands of fa- ." M j. ,.,..- .o-t-u ... essary to know
"a " I riillli
asked by the latter .
! not resisted the
One victim was a (panadian Pa-1 VOred shippers.
The roads evi
ciflc conductor, another a clerk at ; dently need protection, not against
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the Bremerton Navy yard and the
third a traveling salesman. Vhen
they attempted to grapple the rob
ber, he shot them d6wn, sending
five shots into the back of one who
a I tried to crawl behind a car seat.
The men were shot
Port- j Dravely attempted a
tneir ieiiow passengers,
because they
defense of
As usual,
they had no chance i against the ! the
armed desperado. His ready re-1 mission
volver laid them low,
the general public, but against the
favored fewL
THE DASTARD CONSPIRACY
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HAT has become of the pes
tiferous Democratic polit
ical j machine discovered
and fearlessly exposed by
Oregonian in the game com-
Without the pistol,
one by one. The discoverer of the fell plot
the hold-up has suddenly lost interest in tell-
would not have been attempted. ; ing the public of the diabolical
It is the power and possibilities ! Plans of this pestilential conspir
of a concealed pistoi that cause j acy. The four. Republican heads
men to undertake train robberies. ! of the game department are still
leaves a family homeless
The Philadelphia Public Ledger,
Republican, suggests that Senator
Penrose might show loyalty to his
party by ' retiring, but the North
American, says sueh a course
wouldn't be loyalty to his old
friend, Penrose. " -
and what would be the conditions j lt is a power lnat nerves men to ! on their jobs, and are the imple-
in this town? With such processes , get a -living by preying upon so
prevalent, with people trying to Ciety after the fashion of the Bel
recall a mayor every time ne ians lingham bandits. t
to please all sides to a controversy, I The concea.Iei pistol is a curse
how fan any self respecting man , of manklnd it cuts good men
be inoauced to run. ior m)ur ui
Portland?
TherJ is no reason now to be
trying to recall Mayor Albee.
There is no reason to be trying
to recall Mr. Dieck or Mr. Brewster.
Mayer AlLee has not done some ,
things The Journal would have .
done.
He has done some things The j
Journal would not have done. He,
has been too many timeB on both j
ides of the name issue. j
But the proposal to recall him ;
Is folly. He has had but six months
.In-office, a period far too short in
which to determine his powers and ;
possibilities in the position
down in their prime and orphan
izes little children in their weak
ness. T
Its manufacture ought to be
stopped.
Portland's last Issue of Improve
ment bonds was three times over
subscribed at a premium of three
per cent or better. It was only
further evidence that money com
ing out of hiding is seeking invest
ment in Portland securities.
IF WE RECEDE
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The proposei to recall him now ? true,
ENATOR CHAMBERLAIN'S
defense of free tolls in the
senate does honor to his posi
tion, his party and his state.
He holds that if we recede from
free tolls as violative ;of the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, we must, for
the same reason recede from the
clause prohibiting use of the canal
by railroad-owned ships. That Is
ments- by which the foul political
outrages were to be perpetrated
upon an innocent and unsuspect
ing people, j
With Its hoarse stage whispers
the Oregonian had us all hushed
into darkling fears of what the ;
hellish Democratic, machine com
posed of four Republican office
holders, was to do. Here is the
way the Oregonian exposed the
base villainy.
j Let the eyes of the unsuspecting
citizen who thinks, the old politics is
merely a bad memory and the polit
ical machine a rusting wreck on the
i shores of the new era of political re-
form, take a look at the perform
ances of Governor West with the
: State Fish and Game Commission.
- The state will see the live workings
of a political machine to boost the
' plans of the governor to put his
residuary legatee (former State Sen-
ator C. J. Smith) vin his shoes, such
as it has not witnessed for many a
"i day. !
Senator Luke Lee has the
mumps and all his colleagues have
been exposed. Anxiety in the .sen
ate is now probably greater than 1 8
Al X XMM V. 1 1 1 ;w
WeeklV Wiihlntn T-. i
wjia.t,heT forecast keeps appearing Just
i uouaiijr came true.
if v m
I Winter is
the ! In large eastern cities. How greaUy
wr ywpie are nere.
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The year IS nnn ni- th... I . .
tare possibility that the auditorium
w wm ue selected before lt ends
When a southern mob a-t th nie
ger lynching fever, it isn't at all nec-
tnat the victim Is
would he guarantee
the. animal fit for
fala majesty's - ser
vice. "Of course, I
will, replied ' Pat,
whereupon the bar
gain w a s 90m-pleted.
Some time afterward the agent met
Pat at a fair;
VWhy, you scoundrel." exclaimed
the Englishman, "you guaranteed that
horse as fit for his majesty's service,
and he turned out useless for the
army." -'
"Then, hang it, man;" why didn't
you try him in the navy?" was the
reply.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
it was when
pending.
the tariff bill was
Letters From the People
It was at a theatre in Manchester.
The king; aged and infirm, was
blessed with two sons. He was pacing
up and down tne
with a
trouhJed
exclaiming
In a proposal to snut mm 011 wun- u we recede for the Bame rea- Presumably, the vllllans are still
out giving him a fair chance The ; 8on he lnslsted we shall have to pursuing her, but not a word about
rfuuiuni uiu crcv-i. ""-.receae rrom our. neat to rortitv the ncmnfrotin int v.a
ivuv u 1U V. - WhlV fcJ.W. . 1 KJ UVVU
(Oommnnlcatlona aent to The Journal for
publication in this department aboald be writ
ten en only one aide ot the paper, ahoeld not
exceed 800 worda In length and muat be ac
companied by the name and addreaa of the
sender. it the writer ooea not desire to
have the name publiabed, he aboald so etnte. )
"DlscaBslon Is" the greatest of all reform
era. It rationalises everything lt touches, it
robs principle of all false annc-tltT and
throws tbem back on their reasonablenesa. If
ther have no rensocableness. It rutbleeslj
cruabea tbem out ot existence and seta np Ita
own conclusions In tbea- stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
How to Register This Year.
Pendleton, Or., Feb. 17. To the Ed
itor of The Journal Thousands of
voters have not registered yet. I want
stage.
earied.
look.
aloud :
"On which of
these my sons
shall I bestow my'
crown?1
Immediately came
a voice from the gallery:
"Why not 'arf a crown apiece, guvnor?"
While workinr to ahniish tvi tv.v
nuisance, don't overlook the worst sort
of Bmoke, that of cigarettes In boys'
mouths. . .
So the vote for th east side audi
torium site was only tentative, not
final. It would have been very strange,
indeed, to have had the matter settled
so soon.
Quite often one reads: "Although
he had been many years in public life,
he- died comparatively poor." Why
"although"? Is a strictly honesr man
In public life considered an anomaly?
San Francisco preachers are hetero
dox in the proportion of 74 to 19, ac
cording to a vote on Dr. Aked's resig
nation because he was accused of her
esy. But there is very little heresy
any more.
Work on the new Southern Pacific
depot at Central Point is in progress.
Plans eail for a structure 106 feet
long.
Another of the old landmarks of
both town and railroad is fast disap
pearing from Huntington, the company
having sold the old coal bunkers. The
purchaser is tearing . them down.
" In three days ending Wednesday S
applications for naturalization " were
handled by the officials at Astoria.
Fifty-six applicants were admitted, 28
rejected and the coses "of 12 continued.
Workmen under direction of the city
street superintendent are clearing the
ground for the exvatlng for Albany's
new postoriloe building. Uround will
be broken, it is thought, not later than
April 1.
The manual training department of
the" Wallowa schools has been - en
larged. Four grades below the high
school are now learning to handle
the tools. Meanwhile the high school
gymnasium is going up as fast as the
weather will permit.
a
A capacity house, as reported in the
Hillflboro Independent, saw "The New
Minister given by the Christian and
Kvangelical churches last Friday night
for the benefit of the street improve
ment fund. FL L. Perkins had the title
role and shared honors with Miss Alice
Smith.
Observing that, as estimated. Union
county has 100 people subject to the
Income tax and Umatilla county about
the same number, the Baker Herald
invites the Inhabitants of those two
counties to "come to Baker county,
where the opportunities for money
making are so plentiful that more
than 150 have sufficient income to
take - part in the taxpaying."
LAMP VERSUS PICKAX PHILOSOPHY
"Generally run down, sir?" Queried
the druggist. "Slightly seedy and
want a good toning up?"
The pale-faced
customer nooded.
"Well. . I've the
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From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Greater than learning and cloistered
scholarship is the ability to enter sym
pathetically Into the lives of other
men and to understand their Joys and
their sorrows. Nothing is of real im
portance divorced from Us appfication
to humanity. No principle of human
conduct is valifl that will not work
upon your neighbor. These are aphor
isms hard for men of studious in
clination to remember, and yet very
Important to them. Yet even Charles
W. Ellot. former president of Har
vard, most honored of the scholarly
fraternity In this country, seemingly
forgot them the other day when he
undertook to defend his antagonism of
trades unions in a letter to President
Pender of the Trolleymen'B union of
The argument of on
verv thhi a: for vou
Jenkin's Juvena- ! New York city.
tor. Three doses a ; paragraph is worth noting carsfully,
day and more If nec- ! because it typifies a certain academic
cssary. Fifty a tasL or ""ugnr.
bottre.'
"No.
rage of
It wants blni to have a fair trial and
every opportunity to make good.
It wants the same chance given
Mr. Dieck and Mr. Brewster. Any
thing less does violence to the
great American sense of fair play.
It Is to condemn men before they
the canal, and that fs true.
IT we recede, for the same rea
son, he pointed out, ; we may be
called upon to give to Great Brit
ain or other foreignj nation the
same rights in the canal for their
war vessels that we ! elve to our
have had time in which to show i 0wn WRr vmkpIs nnfllthnt i tmp
what they can do. I if the eaual terms ! with all na-i
tions in the treaty means that we
cannot grant free tolls to our own)
shifis in our own trade through our ;
vouchsafed us by the original dis
coverer of the dastard conspiracy
for several days!
Will the I Oregonian please In
form us as! to the latest develop
ments, and whether or not the
to say to each of them: .Register as a ' sa4d the Pale patient,
ricmnrrat fnr thm. fniinwinp .bthi- "But, my dear sir, it's the
1 That mPiu iQ rw f.. i1Qr... ' the day. Jenkin's Juvenator Is
of progressives. i greatest discovery or moaern meai-
2. it is in power, making good as ; -'". ie
no party has ever done, except under j Every one is rejuvenating, you might
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln. say."
3. The progressive element now i "Yes, but I think I'd rather try
controlling it is none too strong within'' something else," replied th cus
the party and needs the help of all ; tomer.
progressives in the coming primaries. : "Nonsense," pressed the chemist. "I
4. You yourself are in reality a ; tell you, Jenkin's Juvenator will
Democrat, if you- believe in the rule of i have more effect' on you in a single
the people as now exercised through day than any other medicine could
I cannot agree with you." lt runs.
t h a n k s. "that the trades unions have brought
nappiness to any worklngmen. Higher
wages, shortened hours, better clothes
"the ' and- moro meat do not necessarily con-
iriDute to genuine nappiness any more
tlan the luxuries of the rich do. Hap
piness and content are states of mind."
overlooks the physical betterment, the
Increased physical efficiency, the op
portunities for healthful recreation and
for education, the greater self-respect.
and, in brier, tne chance for a better
balanced life,, which is afforded work
lr.gmen by shorter hours and higher
wages. Work may be a scholar's whols
life, because he loves it. but it cannot
be, and should not be. the whole life
of a factory worker. The higher de
velopment of civilization rests, truly,
upon the daily toil of men, but its
flowers are the growth of leisure. TM
more leisure and the better living we
can Insure working teople without
impairing the output of-useful things
the happier our civilization will be.
Happiness cannot be mesmerized into
a human being. It is based upon
soundness of mind and body, which, in
turn, is based upon healthful living
and working conditions.
"In November. 18S6, I was married
to Miss Harriet Scott, a sister of Har.
vey Scott and. Abigail Jane Dunlway,
said W. R. McCord of Portland, a pid " :
neer of i860. "Welfwere married by k
Rev. Neal Johnson, a -Cumberland Pfss- v
byterlan minister, abrother-ln-Iaw. of
. mwi... me !iucr u&
Scott. We were' married at Mrs. Abi
gail Scott Duniway house at Hard
scrabble. j.
"Our wedding dinner was cooked
over the couls In a fireplace. . ,
"Mrs. John T. Scott, who was th
mother of my wlfei-and of the ottter
Scott children, died:' io crossing the
PHins. tier husband. John T. Scott,
married again after; h8 had come to
Oregon. ij . ;
"I tspent the winter after my mar
riage at Lafayette, where 1 lived with"
my brother-in-law, i!!.Mr. Cook. Mrs.
Cook was a sister f my wife, and U
the mother of Mrs. Olds, of oids,
Wortman & King. . j!
"In' 1857, we moved to Portland,
where I secured wotk as a carpenter.
In 1858, we moved! to Hardscrabble,
where I built a Methodist church.
After finishing the jhurch 1 got a Job
in Portland building, a house for Gen
eral Lovejoy. General Lovejoy was a
very well dressed man. He was excit
able and impetuous; but latnd. hearted.
aiiauie and intelligent.
"In the early days of fishing on the
Columbia I went up. to work at War
ren s cannery. Wo used to catch thsj
salmon In nets. I rigged up a flsn
wheel on Bradford's island, at the foot'
of Cascade rapids. This was the first
fish wheel that I know of being used -or
the-Columbia. The salmon no long
er run as they used, to In those early
days before they had been caught so
extensively. The record catch of this
fish wheel was 7 000 salmon in one day.
We used to get 3 cents apiece for blue-
back salmon For kalmnrv Tlinnlnar
from 12 to 15' pounds, we got 15 cents
each. Any salmon weighing over S
pounds brought 30 ; rents. Sometimes
we would get' runs pf very large sal-
man, running from 50 to 60 pounds.
We were given 30 ; cents apiece fof
thorn
These "states of mind," It Is fair to
add. Dr. Eliot hoDea to indue nnt bv
j the rewards given labor, but by mak
i ing the task itself a Joy. And that is
j a very high ideal. But he completely
The weakness In Dr. Eliot's conten
tion is his manifest ignorance of what
industrial toil means to the workers
No one who ever swung a pick, or
handled tools, or stood all day in
factory beside a whirling machine
would dispute what might be called
the materiallstio basis of happiness
The philosophy of the study and the
philosophy of the factory and mine
are far apart, and men cling most
closely to the theorem proven in their
Own sweat and weariness. Any other
sort ring false.
"The biggest run jof fish I ever re- .
memuer seeing on tie Columbia was a'
run of sturgeon. The wheel was a 33
foot wheel. One Saturday night the -run
of sturgeon j commenced. We
worked until 3 o'click :next day. The
sturgeon averaged About 150 pounds,
though some of them were "a large as
8 or 10 feet In length. In !4 hours
we caught over 30 j tons. In addition
to my regular twd men I .had some
Indians to help .me handle them. As
the wheel threw them out We would
Stick them through the head with a
pick and shove them back Into the
river. In those days sturgeon were
not considered food fish. We wouldn't
have bothered killing them but would
have simply thrown them back in the
river, if it had not been for the fact
that we were anxious to kill them off
and rid the river of sturgeon. We con
sidered them a nuisance." -
fiendish
trail?
villains are still on her
The recall petitions should be
thrown into the river. It is no
time to make a fool of Portland.
.It is no time to make a fool of
public position. It is no time
make a fool of the recall.
to
BUILD WELL
'UK folly of careless road build-
NON-POLITICAIj COURTS
I
your president and congress.
5. When a party comes to express
your views through its policies and
enactments better than any other, it
is your party and it is your duty as a
good citizen to register under its ban
ner, so. that you may help to make lt
serve yourlf and your country.
b. Register as a Democrat, regard-
have In a month. It cures everything
from coughs to corns. What's your
objection to it?"
"Why, nothing, only I'm Jenklna."
wet nor dry they were classed a tem
perate a middle class who favored
neither extreme liking neither. They
PROFIT IN TWO HOURS OF $600,000
uz is ntroriK.y set forth by ' cana our own warships, or revenue ' of a candidate for any judicial po-
T
I w. VV. Crosby, a civil en-i
rr4 n AAS nf Halt I m aha I n ' a -- ! aT
fit i n rTi vrt tiaikiiuvi u i is a x
cent issue of. the Manufacturers'
Record. It is far better, he argues,
that a few miles of highway be .
constructed durably, than a nun-!
: dred miles without foresight or
system. When people assume a
burden for a public enterprise they
are naturally critical of the man
ner, in which their money is -spent
; and of the value they receive. If
they find the roads, for which they
have bonded themselves going to
pieces in a few years they become
j skeptical, of road improvement in !
:. general and withhold their support
j from future undertakings. Every
; countjr engaged in road building
' should see to It first of all ihat
its funds are being applied In a
j, businesslike and scientific man
I ner. This implies that the work
should be done under the super-
vlson of competent men. If there
own canai, it means that we can
not prohibit Canada's ' railroad- ;
owned ships from passing through !
our canal. It means that we can-;
not fortify our canal.
that we cannot send j through the , to
By John M. O ski son.
The other day you and your fellow
investors rushed to place In the hands
of two Investment banking houses a
clear profit of $600,000 and all with
in the space of two hours. You helped
n means ? ox sign snan appear on tne oauot has - the' un. lt is aWlne for . there will b0 no hangers-on and drunk-
indicate the party affiliation
you and Will always shoot for you ' aras wm De put on tne blacklist.
while the progressives control it. You, I You say the mountains are God's '
ships, revenue, cutters and trans- j ment of a candidate for the bench.
ports of Great Britain, Germany, i No candidate for a Judicial office
or any other foreign nation. j will have a place on the primary
After expending $400,000,000 of j ballot. 'The only voting for ju
American money on the great wa-; dicial candidates wilt be at the
terway; after spending years in i general election,
toil and struggle in ' ita construe- j The bilj Is In line with the dis
tion; after meeting all the chances ! tinct trend of the time. As presl
of failure and all the great re-j dent, Mr. Taft, titular head of the
sponsibilities of cost in mainten- j Republican party, named a Demo
ance and perils from convulsions of j crat justice of the supreme court
nature; after devoting all, sacrl- j of the United States. Several states
ficing all and enduring all that we j have already taken their courts
have In this vast undertaking, is i out of politics by plans much like
NTTfATlVR netitions. ar in c.ir-
. . . u. a. i ii . i i m ' will vnta ncvi ti m a u nH a" f twa Atti 1 m
cuiation ror a measure to mate ,TO e yoursen ----- ----- ''""to write a very interesting and drama
,, . . j ; nerexoiore. f or a party is merely an ' v-uuuoo um iun.is -
the coufts Of Oregon n6n-pO- organized instrument like a gun' which hard thing to say but it s the only tic chapter In American finance,
litical. ! ! will shoot for anybody in possession I way to strike a level. Liquor will be At noon oo January 21 the control-
The bill provides that no mark of u- The Democratic party is now ' Vanished from social resorts and kept ler of New York state opened bids for
wormng line, ana wiison, your mend, " waer I $51,000,000 of state bonds bearing in
terest at the rate of 44 per cent. The
bid that was accepted came in about
an nour Derore tne envelopes were
came from two big bank-
acting together, and it of-
being discovered are not so long estab- ' everv nooo bond
Ages and i
sentiment within the Republican party, ages passed away before Salem W'ent t RiinoptsaVui hiddfirsi tvr thl kiia hin?iB
dry and that was after hoppicking. and : ,lffpp tK ;nni,a fr t a.
. . . 1. 1 . ucau uu(,3 iu uur uwr-
yards. either. The smell must be
nearer Portland. Literally speaking, I
we may have devoured the Cascades
with our mind's eye. We may have ;
Orunk in the scenery, and liked it bet- j
ter than booze. But we knew without
i time ofisition. Nor can the friends of a ?r- and Mrs. Plain People, if you re g - work. True and at the beginning of opened. It
. . ... . . , . Ister as a Democrat, can help. to decide time Gods work the Bible told of ' inr firms a
ut giving ? candidate in any way refer for cam- ir, the Democratic primaries who shall 1 the use of liquor. Our mountains not I fe?eJ to m
cutters, or transports in
or otherwise witho
the same Tvrivileps ;tri th wnr- ' naien niirnnspo to tho Tnttv nlltrn- hav. th tnin
i (i - ' -c-- 1- 1 " " - J i w
j 7. Owing to the sharp division of lished as , the use of liquor.
me uemocraiic organization is in a
better position than it to execute your
will as witnessed by the revision of
the tariff, the reform of the currency
and the regulation of the trusts, all In
your interest a record of achievement
not equaled since the Civil war.
8. lou will be warmly welcomed bv
cratic party.
PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT.
The Virgin Birth.
Oregon City, Or., Feb. 19. To
me at $1,072.50 for each $1000 bond
Within two hours we (largely repre
sented by our agents, the retail bond
dealers) took the whole $51,000,000 is
sue. To some purchasers the original
buyers allowed a selling commission
your, fellow progressives in the Demo-1 being to!d that the Cascades are not i of '1-25 on each 1000 bond. But no
good to eat.
Since my hopyard was first planted,
at an estimated expense of $6000 for
every 40 acres, $150,000 has gone for
the production. Multiply this by all the 1 farms of Oregon for the benefit of the
one knows, except the sellers, how
many suchtuyers were accommodated.
Assume that , half of them got their
bonds for $1,071.24 each what was
the total profit to. the successful
bidders?
The total profit would, in that case.
figure $569,925 in less than two
hours.
Why. la such a remarkable showing
possible. Largely because you and I
know nothing at all about the current
rate of return on money which is put
to work. Largely because you and I
paid no attention to the opportunities
offered from time to time to bid for
the bonds which cities and states put
out. Largely because we have learned
to leave the selection of this sort of
investment to bankers who must have
their commissions for executing our
buying orders.
- There is no other sound reason ex
cept our indifference and Ignorance
why we should not buy state and city
bonds directly from the states and
cities. I believe that the selling offi
cials of states and cities. If they got
together in some sort of co-operative
organization, could educate you and
me to such a knowledge of municipal
bond- values that we should no longer
have to pay bankers over half a mil
lion dollars for an overnight demon
stration of their expert judgment.
Pointed Paragraphs
Paper
get.
money fW soft, but hard to
There's no
a mother's.
love so inexpensive aa
Many a so - called opportunity !
merely an optical 'illusion.
Girls, keep your fiances at
tance from young" widows.
a dls-
it the humiliating fact that all
these millions were paid out( not
to maintain an American canal,
but a European canal?
There is a tremendous answer in
the fact that Great Britain, owner
of the Suez canal, on a treaty ex
actly like the Hay-Pauncefote
Is waste and not a dollar's worth ftreaty' grants the equivalent of free
of road for a dollar, road Improve-I olls t0 he? shlPs Passing through
ment will receive a setback from i Suez, permits France to grant the
which It win not rnnvar in VMr i equivalent of free tolls through
- - .- . - I Suez, permits Russia to grant the
. THK LOST CAUSE ! equivalent of free tolls for her
: ships, permits Germany and ner-
TANDPATISM is making Its ' mits all other nations to grant the
last determined stand la equivalent of free tolls . on their
'Pennsylvania. . It is defend-i ships through the Suez canal.
ing a cause already apparent- i If Congress repeals the free tolls
ly lost, in a state whose politics ' clause, why not invite, King George
has been described as "corrupt and ; to come over and us;e the White
contented," In an effort to re-elect t HouBe for a summer Capital?
.
that proposed in the bill for which
signatures j are now asked In
Oregon.
The petitions should be freely
signed. They are a first step for
giving the people of Oregon an op
portunity to declare that a judge
ought not to be a politician.
of The Journal Rev. A. A. J top-yards in Oregon, and see whom vou j land speculator and big tax dodgers,
ivites "those who doubt to go I are attempting to injure. Our profits 'and that is to levy a stiff and positive
F.re sman wnen compared with the I tax on estates worth over loO.ooo,
profits of our friends of the overall : ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
Drigade. Then hurrah for the hop
yards, Oregon's great industry. Em
ploye is benefited far more than em
ployer. ELLA M. FINNEY.
THE BENTON KILLING
S
Boise Penrose to the United States
senate.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
recently suggested that Penrose
could show loyalty to his party by
withdrawing from the contest. But
he refuses to withdraw, vainly
imagining himself the savior of a
losing cause.
FREE RAILROAD SERVICE
T
HE Interstate Commerce Com
mission is Rciirinor fiirt Via
- " O AM.bUS
testimony bearing upon free
service furnished big ship
pers by the railroads, In the in-
vnw he, i v,o,,; dustrial railways case the corn-
strong opposition within his own I mIsion held that the f 'spotting" of
party, : for , J. Benjamin Dimmick cars wunoui cnarge was a dis
of Scranton. who as mayor gave cmination against smaller indua
.1)18 eity Its first real business ad-1 Jrlal comPanles. and 1 therefore i-
T
ministration, has announced him-;
legal. The present inquiry Is re-
veauug me reasons for practices
postlon to Penrose. In making hlstwhich run contrary -to;. law and the
announcement Dimm'ick said:.! interes of the tailroads.
rree rauroaa service of all
kinds has been discussed by wit
nesses representing the railroads
and favored shippers, j It has been
made obvious that! the big ship
pers, who generally are In favor
of increased railroad' rates,, are
opposed to paying for services they
now receive for nothing.
The commission's, investigations
go to show that the railroads were
guiltless of Intentional . wrongdo
ing. They are evidently the vic
tims of a system, which has devel
oped -with the growth! of cities and
I believe the way to bring back the
Republican party in to cleanse it, and
that ia a task that each state must
undertake In Its own way. - We must
rehabilitate the party by taking our'
stand for things that are positive and
for measures that make for the wel
fare of our citizens.,, . ,
Mr. Dimmick's announcement .Is
significant. He said ' one of the
reasons for the great defeat of his
party last year was that it failed
to point out the proper remedy for
things that manifestly needed cor
rection. ?'I believe in protection,"
says Mr. Dlmmlck, "but we must
HERE ! are only meagre de
tails of the killing by Gen
eral Villa of William Benton,
a British subject, at Chihua
hua, Mexico.
Facts that stand out are that
Benton was a British subject and
that, on account of damage to his
Mexican properties, by the rebels.
Ire went tp Chihuahua "to tell
Villa whatj he thought of him."
Though owner of large interests
In Mexico, and though he had a
Mexican wife, Benton remained a
British subject and alien to
Mexico. v
Nothing but trouble comes out
of the alien ownership of land, no I
matter where. It is almost a moral i
certainty that most of the revolu-i
tions In Mexico are backed by war
ring factions of alien interests.
Thus, . the British minister to
Mexico is Sir -Lionel Carden. Brit
ish interests in Mexico are largely
the Interests of. the . Pearson syndi
cate, represented by Lord Cowdray.
They are jointly interested, the
New York World- says, in a 40,000
acre land speculation in Mexico.
Every acre j and r every dollar that
they "hope to get out of it is an
argument against the policy of
President Wilson and In favor of
the continuation of Huerta.
In the presence of greedy aliens,
Mexican land titles have been of
negligible importance. With a die-
Editor
Hurd invites
and hear Dr. Hinson next Sunday."
After that Dr. Aked will not be in it.
They are " botli good men and true,
but who will act as unbiased umpire in
the debate? As for himself, the Rev-
erened gentleman quotes "the Apostles'
Creed" as all sufficient. Will he kind
ly inform a waiting world as to the
j author and origin of that creed? It
I is not to be found in "the Bible. None
of the apostles ever mention it. That
it is the apostles' creed is. a mere tra
dition, "an unproved assumption," to
quote Mr. Hurd's own language, and
not a scHpture account at all. It is
undisputed that the great host of
Christian believers adore him who, ac
cording to that creed, 'was conceived of
the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin
Mary,' but a 10 times larger "host"
of Buddhist believers adore Buddha,
who came into the world in pretty
much the same way hundreds of years
before the Christian era.
It is equally indisputable that tiot so
very long ago the same "great host of
Christian believers" were just as
firmly convinced that the world was
Politicians. .
Ashland, Or-Feb. 18. To the Editor
of The Journal As Taft has called
i T. R. a Socialist which is an awfully
Portland ; rr For, is t- u t.. had name, but not so bad as lt used
- j Lilt; i-Ui .kj I m .
of The Journal In The Journal of . to be I feel; It my duty, T. R. being
February 13 John T. Dizney writes as so far away.tto rise up and deny it. i Dry
Home Tax Exemption.
if he were not aware that the $1500 T. R. is not a Socialist! He is a poll-
nome tax exemption measure, now as- J tician, and a very clever one. Taft
sured of a place on the ballot next No- j3 also a politician. The reason I call
vember, was not an amendment to the them politicians is because they be
Oregon constitution If he will read , lieve p7uticB as a machinery of gov
it he will discover that lt will super- ernment ls beBt for society. The
cede the clause he quotes, which clause reason i am a Socialist, or an Indus
is one copied by Oregon from the old trialist. is because I believe in the
Indiana constitution and long since SOc ial or Industrial machinery as being
abandoned even by that mo.-sback- tne ideal er better machinery of gov
ridden, political machine-cursed state. ! ernment.
Of course. Friend Dizney may think! Taft J8 right when he savs the
he is not taxed to the extent of overcoming conflict will be between Ko
20 per cent of his income, which ls the sialism and society as now constl
average for working men and women, tuted. Society as now constituted
and in case this exemption measure stands for noli tips and oonoses a
cuts down his taxes he can turn over , change. It Is at the door of politics
immovable, according to the' scripture,
and that the sun, moon and stars .re
volved around it daily. These pious
believers came very near to burning
a "heretic, Galileo, at the stake, for
asserting the contrary, and compelled
him, .to retract. Bruno was made of J
sterner stuff, and, refusing to recant,
had his heretics burned out . of him.
The same fate would have been met
by Dr. Aked had he lived In those days.
Will Mr. Hurd explain Luke 2:48 on
the theory of the Virgin . birth? It
seems that In his twelfth year Jesus
went With his family to Jerusalem and
tarried behind ' three days. After a
good deal of trouble they finally lo
cated him, and -bfeingxonslderably pro-
the surplus tnat weighs on his con- that we lay all the miseries of the
science to the State conscience fund past and present. What good society
for honest taxpayers, which no doubt enjoys, or what blessing it receives, is
the next legislature will provide for. in spite of politics or by its leave.
It is certainly just to provide, far Because that to kill the goose that
the exemption of the home from 'tax- lays the golden egg would stop the
ation to a reasonable amount when we supply of eggs, so politics, while de
bear In mind thh.t there is scarcely a fending and upholding exploitation,
man or woman to be found in the stops at the1 deadline only for the
country, and especially large corpora- reason that to go farther would be
tions. which, being assessed for over fatal. Sometimes the line becomes dan
$100,000. do not dodge taxes and ex- gerously near conditions such as exist
empt themselves for over 85 per cent in unhappy Mexico, and military ex
of their actual possessions. Andrew ploitation displaces civil exploitation.
Carnegio complacently dodges taxes on While both are bad, the difference Is
$295,000,000 out of $300,000,000, and a matter of degree more than of prln
admits it over his own signature. He clple. Both Taft and Roosevelt con
has beaten the state of New Yorkr out tend for the present machine, even
of over $30.TJ0fl.000 in taxes in the last , though , the product thereof is vile.
longs life. By using the, qualifying
term he may think he is 'giving his
theory more" weight. The writer asks
the question. Is any whiskey good?
And do those people who advance this
theory believe what they try to make
others believe? It is practically
known -from a variety of sources that
whiskey has dono far more dumagQ
than all the benefits received. Doubt
Itss this statement, or probably mis
statement, by the liquor men would
not have been presentel if the "Oregon
campaign had not been launched.
The woman whoT marries for money
earns a lot more than she gets.
...
An impossibility is something a wo
man Is unable to do with a hair pin. -
a
Somehow one never thinks of blam
ing his face because it needs a shave.
..!-
How It does disturb us whes all we
get for our money- Is the worst of ltl
,-
A popular neighbor is one who lis
tens to our troubles without insisting
on telling his.
:-
Once in a : great while a talkative
woman meets a man who Is reality'
smart then she shuts up and listens.
It's a pity we can't put some of
our youthful enthusiasm In cold stor
age and keep, It for. 'old age.
. -a
The Ragtime Muse
Giving our children scientific tem
perance instruction is still going on,
-end within another generation we hope
to have not only a saloonless nation
but a better type of manhood and
womanhood. J. A. H.
voked his mother said: "Son why hast ten years ami stiu continues to do so If Roosevelt was a Socialist he would
at that rate, which sums must be made . demand jremoval of the old political
up by taxing the small home owner. I machine Sand the placing, not of a new
We have some tax dodgers in Oregon ! political machine, but .of a new indus
equally well versed In that art. and ! tr,al or social machine known as a
the only, way to get even 4s for the social. Industrial or cooperative corn
home owners and small taxpayers to 1 rhonwealth, wherein exploitation would
do some exempting. The tax laws of 1 De cooperation wouia u.Biiaj
thou thus dealt with us? Behold thy
father and I have sought thee sor
rowing.' Did hot: the Virgin Maty
know positively that Joseph was not
his father, and that: "being, conceived
of the Holy Ghost" he would necessar
ily be a most miraculous being and not
at all subject to her control?
4 W. C. SCHULTZE.
. KRa M. Finney Replies.
Gervais, Or., Feb. 18. To the Editor
of The Journal In ' answer to "Sol
diers' Girl" I wish to say: -
Prohibition ia nearer force than free-
tapr like Huerta, and a conspiracy i
Of -alien freebooters a deed IS aidom. Extremes are not good either In
rhvth and art abstract, of tltl a dress or politics. Moderation is the
a t ictlon Larrded tironettv Jim r- wort nThere at thousands of people
a iicuon. Larraea property nas be-. vno pi0Jded along heedless of the re
come in Mexico a-prize to be Bam-Kn nr th wets and the drvs. Neither
Oregon have been made by the special competition among laborers and In
privileged and the rich for as many dustriallsm or Socialism would displace
decades as we have a record of a state i n",Ila,,c f ! '".
government -except when in 1910 the
people swept out the Infamous poll
tax and now it will take some posi
tive exemptions ot the home and the
tools with which: we earn a living to
ever get even. ' -
I am holding no brief for Mr. TTRen,
but. so far he is the only man who of
fers a plan whereby we can have good
roads without taxing the homes and
D. M. BROWER, M, t.
Aks About Good Whiskey. ;
Hood -River; Feb. 19. To the Editor
of The Journal A correspondent in a
recent issue of The Journal appears tJ
be boosting the whiskey business on
the basis, this time, of its "valuable
medicinal properties." He makes thu
declaration that good whiskey pro-
Unemploynient; Cause; Remedy.
Portland, Feb. 19. To the Editor of
The journal Unemployment is surely
the greatest calamity that van befall
a people. It will get worse as our
unscientific economic system continues
to grind out injustice. It is fast
demonstrating itself an Inadequate
base for our civilization. You say. "It
has served us quite well." It has
served the strong quite well, but how
about the weak? It ls at best but a
haphazard, gambling system and -one
of legalized robbery. We have got
along sfter a fashion, because capital
ism has had a vastly rich continent to
feed upon. It has this continent about
eaten up and stagnation will ensue in
the near ftlture. We are kept going
by development work only. Our situa
tion 1$ a . precarious one. The break
down of rtie present" system of eco
nomics is in- sight. If we wish to
avoid a cataclysm we should hasten to
adjust our economic system to meet
the demands of our well-being. For
our relief In Oregon we should estab
lish an industrial institution that will
be self-supporting, to relieve our over
crowded labor market. This we can
do at the election mis fall, thanks to
our initiative law-maklnv power. Let
us all line np and prepare a proper
bill. - ' W. II. BLACK.
What the Old Guard 8ay.
We used to belong o the Farmers' Al
liance; : -f
Ere that as the "Grangers ' we fought
for reform; t
Ah, then when we uttered our cry of
trlfiticf -
We started the :whirlwind and rode
on the storm!
We were called 'anarchists" then, and
"plain crazy,"
Because we were out -for a new
money plan.
But even the hankers now say It's a
daisy,
Supported by McAdoo excellent
man! ; - 1
'Way back in the "eighties" for co-operation
' -We
pleaded, deluded and dangerous
Twas said that we: aimed at destroy
ing the nation t
But now the Idea " harvesting
praise.
We said that the trusts would be sure
ly opproHslve-'t-Th
annular calked ue "dlsrruntled
old crafiks"; -
We now say the tme, end they say
we're "progressive"
And tender us i banquets And loud
votes of thapks!
We used to be mob1ed for our uttered:
opinions " '5
On money and tsalff and taxes and
trade, -I. I
But now when we ttrtwl of, "plutocracy s
mi nlons" ,i ?
They cheer to thef echo, no longer dl.s- ,
inayed. - - :.
Our "follies" snd "'dreams" and "de
lusions" ""-hearty.
' Support from the,, masses and classes
have won: j' '
We're writing, the .platforms of every
rta rt v - v .
Reform's grown too easy to be any
fun! ii .
It la Illegal.
Portland. Feb. U.-i-To the Editor of
The Journal Kindly let me know
through your columns, if I can de
stroy United States money providing
it 1b mine. - P. J .A.
Federal statutes forbid under any
conditions whatever, the mutilation or
destruction of money of the United
States. Such mutilation, the laws pre-.
vide, is criminal and tne one who does
it Is subject to prosecution. The own
ership 'of such money does not 'exempt
from thie provision.
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