THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL,' PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1914.
force may be resorted to by a
majority who are denied the right
to vote. If the Unionists encour-
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PESTIFEROUS SMITH.
rOHKION ADVKKTI3INQ EEPBESBNTATI V ,
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ND now the nerves of the
Oregonian , are all upset be
cause it: conceives that Dr.
C. J. Smith is going to de-
1 molish . the Oregon legislature. .
subaCTiptton tfrmi bf mail ,f I what a lot or trouble Dr. smitn
is for the Oregonian! It had
drsss In U United ates or Msiloo;
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Who lives to Nature, rarely
can be poor;
Who lives to fancy never can
be rich.
Young. ,
b.,.. . ...
A CASH ltEGISTKR PATRIOT
i.f .80 J conniption- because Smith ap-
,tlr.tv?d'TKllion at Copper
" f field, ; acti9ij$at ; a circuit court
ihas declared to be fully lawful.
Then it had fits because It mir
aculously discovered the diabolical
Democratic plot by which the Re
publican game commission is to
choke Oregon into a state of In
sensibility and" then proceed to
tango Dr. Smith through the twi
light into the governor's office.
No old granny ever had more
t5
I
HE voice of Senator Fall of, aches and pains than Smith has
KttW Mexico is for war. He Biveu me uieguuiaii. n 10 piuuiut
T
I entertained the senate "gal-
lerles yesterday: with a jingo
plea for armed intervention.
It is easy in the luxurious up
holstery of the senate chamber for
Senator Fall to declare war. From
that comfortable aBylum, he takes
no chances in summoning the
boya from the farms and shops to
armed conflict.
In the Congressional Record,
there is a personally prepared
biography of the senator, who thm
thirsts for the gore of the Mexi
cans. In it are the following
.clauses:
Albert Bacon Fall. Became exten
sively lntri"ted in ; mines, lumber,
lands and railroads; now engaged in
farming and stockralslnK in. New
Mexico ami In mining- in Mexico.
Senator Fall views his proposal
for war with Mexico placidly and
to 'behold the colics, headaches,
paroxysms, convulsions, spasms
catflts and seven kinds of hysterics
into which ur agitated neighbor
is plunged by its terrible fear that
the pestilential Smith may stea?
.'both houses of the legislature, Dan
Malarkey and Pat McArthur in
cluded. Evidently, Smith must be sup
pressed. If left at large with his
pestiferous plans of pulling down
our institutions, shanghaiing the
senate and house, ripping open
the constitution, taking the teeth
out of the tango and converting
the Republican game commission
into a darkling Democratic con
spiracy, the sleeping hours of our
nervous neighbor will be one long
nightmare.
Down with Smith. Although he
never has declared for abandoning
stampede a crowd of women but j of track of doubtful ' value - has
don't know a real painting from ( been added to the?, system.
an amateur's daub. 7 j The Pere Marquette is In poli-
Twenty-seven of the paintings ; tics for tne reason that Its finan-
in the Leeds collection bogus and cing hag been, done more for the
only ten genuine is a discourag- purpose of putting large profits in
Ing proportion. It"' Is one tnmg ; me pocJtets or stock j and security
to corrall bonds and auite another jobbers than for the purpose of
to size up the handiwork of a real . building up and equipping an up
artist. Getting rich by the manu- j to-date railroad system. The ex
facture of brick, or by making sau-i plotters have finished their finan
sages may furnish the wherewithal , cing and the road is physically
to buy Gwendolyn Into a title and
a family castle, but they are no
run down and financially decrepit.
The people of Michigan will elect
adequate experience for guessing a a legislature which will say wheth
er tne people of that state shall
real masterpiece. ,
Few things are more pathetic
and mnro ludicrous than one of our
crafty European art dealers with
his ambition to astonish with his
art treasures other and envious
American nabobs of pork.
A FEW SMILES
"Hava you anything to say before
sentenoe u pro
nounced i again t
you?" asked the
judge.
-The .only thing
rm kickto about,"
answered the con
victed burglar, ."la
beln' identified by a
his head; under the
whole time. That's
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
IN EARLIER! DAYS
SMALL CHAXGB
man that hep
bedclothes the
wrong." Puck.
Secretary Bryan, apropos, of the
Monroe doctrine's new Interpretation.
be required to bear the burden of id at a dinner in Washington:
THE BLIGHT OF BOYHOOD
A
! Smith, because every time he
moves, the Oregonian gets the
jimjams.
upon to do any of the fighting: j .legislature, down with the fell
... u"" J Cm Ih Wanca oirorv t mo ho
'' With fire flashing from his eyes, i
he can thunder down the aisles of
'tbe senate and encourage the
, nation's heroeB with patriotic
speeches. To the thousands of
Our soldiers who will die if we
' follow the Fall advice and invade,
there will be the consolation
I tljat they did not die in vain, for
Senator Fall's Mexican mines will
certainly be worth more after
American intervention than they
jare now.
j At best, the Mexican situation if
"delicate. A three hours' speech de-
AUSTRALLVS FUTURE
T
HE 126th anniversary of Aus
tralia's first permanent set
tlement was recently cele
brated in London. The event
has been made use of by the New
York Press to call attention to the
development of that continent.
There are some striking comparisons.
Atiotfalio la ali"klit tVl q1?0 of
Ji t L- . t 1 I iiuijuiviia ,JV " "
iimnuu s "V Mu,. uuBut cu uc , tfae Unlted state8. Assuming that
come, if at all, from some senator
who is not engaged in mining in
Mexico. Coming from a senator
so engaged the brazen appeal ia
a disgrace to the state of New
Mexico and to the senate of the
United States.
Except for a few enthusiasts,
the Jobbers. Jingoes, contractors,
the first settlement in America was
at Jamestown in 1607, then 126
years from that date would have
been 1733. That was 43 years
before the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and any schoolboy has
a fair understanding of the Ameri
can colonies at that time.
But Australia now has about
RE all the boys in Portland
who smoke cigarettes doing
so with the knowledge and
consent of their' parents?
If so, how fares it with civiliza
tion? Four-fifths of the boys in
some districts in Portland are
smokers. Many a boy of 10, puffs
away like a sea captain. Many a
lad of 15 is already a veteran.
It is an alarming status. It
wasn't so a generation ago. The
boy smoker was an exception then.
The lad in his teens who doesn't
smoke is almost an exception now.
Undoubtedly, there are many
parents who do not know what is
going on. There are many others
who do not know the deadly ef
fect of cigarette smoking on
youth. It is high time for them
to find out.
The representative of a large
southern tobacco house who has
made the matter a study, says
that the extent to which drugs
are need in "doctoring" cigarettes
is appalling. He says:
The drugs Impart a sweet and
pleasant flavor, and have a soothing
effect, that in a little time obtains
a fascinating control over the smoker.
The more cigarettes he smokes the
more he desires to smoke, as is the
case with one who uses opium. The
desire grows to a passion. Tho
smoker becomes a slave to the ener
vating habit. To the insidious ef
fect of the drugs is attributed the
success of the cigarette in gripping
its victims. By use of the drugs, it
is possible to make a very inferior
quality of tobacco pleasant. Manu
facturers - therefore put these vile
things on the market at a price that
makes it easy for the poorest to
indulge in their killing delights, and
boys and youths go in swarms for
them. A popular cigarette flavor Is j
made from tne tonca Dean, wnicn con
tains a drug called mellolotis, a dead
ly poison, seven grains of which
will kill a dog.
Sunken cheeks, dull and listless
movement, quickened heart beat,
and weakened eye sight are among
the physical effects that come to
the boy who is a victim of the
cigarette.
financial mismanagement. The
issue is whether rates shall be
based on watered i capitalization,
or whether the water shall be
squeezed out.
Somebody must lose because of
the exploiters' activities. The ques
tion for Michigan people to answer
is whether, to protect holders of
the road's securities, It will be
good business 4 or moral to place
the burden of higher rates upon
the poele themselves.
Ruby Pearl Myers was aged
nine and in the fullness of health.
Her life was snuffed out In an
instant by a passing auto. There
be few Indeed who understand the
fearful peril brought into society
when the automobile was invented.
A permanent cure for the
cigarette habit in boys will go far
towards curing their diseased
morals also.
"We desire no ter
ritory, no advan
tage, from our
weaker neighbors.
We do not wish to
be one of those pow
ers that snatch all
the profit from the
quarrels of their
proteges.
ITh typical old time power, which
we don't want to resemble, suggests
the story of the business man who, on
his return from the office, asked his
two little boys:
WelL what have you been doing
all day?"
Fightin',' they replied.
Fighting, ehr said i the
'And who licked?'
Ma, they said."
father.
a.11 nm a lr ura nil a Ti 1 Tnintncr rrknfts-
slonaires, "alien landowners and I 6,000,000 people anQ some of the
those who scent graft from the ex-
finest cities in the world. The
the longer-settled continents have
i 1 ..t ,.n1nk!A t4nn
on the broad lines of u. " ""V5 'TM' .
) tnese people. Australia is very
I wealthy, and has institutions which
. ..l.tA 1 .. MnmA.l.AKln 1n,Klll
" cesses of war, the country is in ac- i'"i"""" Cmu,iu.,
cord with President Wilson's, Mex-' Sent- and for a number Of years
- lean policy. His plan of pacifi
cation is
world peace, and human brother
But yesterday, we beheld the rnpare with those of any of the
. spectacle of a" United States sen older lea.
ator with his cash register on the I Canada has been settled more
floor of the senate, demanding ; than twlce as lonS a Australia,
that the foreign policy of this na- l and has had the advantage of
tlon be shaued for the benefit of being the next-door neighbor to
WOMAN'S LOGIC
s
his pocket book.
THE ULSTER COMPROMISE
the United States. Yet Canada's
, population is little more than that
j of the southern continent.
Australia's progress has been
PREMIER ASQUITH has out-1 much more rapid than was that
lined his proposed compro- of the North American colonies in
mise with the Ulster anti-1 the same period. This was prob
bome rulers. The adnjlnis- j ably duefin large part, to the fact
tration'B plan contemplates elec-! that the Australians profited from
. tlons in the several counties of the general advance in civilization.
Ireland, immediately after the bill But even with that advantage, Aus-
' becomes effective, to determine tralla has demonstrated that its
whether the countiei desire to 1 future, Judged by the past, has
come under the act. In the event j great possibilities.
: of an adverse vote, another elec- j
A CRY FOR HELP
T
HE winter placed a heavy
strain on Portland Commons.
The resources of the Institu
tion were badly strained by
the heavy demands for aid.
Appeals are now made for con-
tlon will be held in six years, with
subsequent elections at six-year
periods until, all of Ireland comes
under the lawv In presenting the
proposition Mr. Asquith said:
This concession does not mean that
we are retreating. We admit that
there are grave prospects of strife
I T Tl 4 ..nn...ll,l.J 1 .
in unut 11 uinuaiiMFu nume rule .1 . . .
is granted. But. on the other hand, ! lr,uu"uuo W1LU wultu carry on
the shipwrecking of this bill or its j the work. No settlement workers
permanent mutilation promises an 1 are more closely in touch with the
equally dangerous Nationalist , out- j human derelicts or more keenly
" -r, . . ,, ... TT ' alert in salvaging them than is
. BnarL!L !! ..e!vf e .UnIon- the Commons
tlon persists in adhering to pro-1 , J1..
posals unacceptable to Ulster, then 4T v,, "
Tnat.r win oa Jf, - Few Philanthropic organizations
though it gives' ther, Tthe p X&T2 V? f
of rejecting home rule for Them-! !""d" deVOted to
- selves. ,
Must Ireland- bleed again?
rtlMlAf T.QW anil laoltm .
: his nartv hav7 ., w time materially
: to armed rebellion in Ulster. That ' a,dded t the organization's bur-
... ,s.t . v.. v. ... ; "ens, ana at tne same time re-
EVERAL distinguished women
have addressed an appeal to
members of congress. It Is
an argument against a big!
navy program, and is deserving of
more than passing notice on that
account. But as evidence that wo
men can be logical it is convinc
ing. The women made six con
tentions as follows:
We have never been- refused
arbitration wlfen we asked for it.
With the exception of one war
which we began ourselves, we have
been at peace with the whole
world outside of thiB continent for
a century. Although we have
maintained the Monroe doctrine,
we have got along with a small
navy. Japan neither can nor cares
to go to war with us. The man
who sells guns is the last man to
give impartial advice concerning the
need of guns. We are losing' by
preventable diseases yearly many
times as many lives as we have
lost all told by foreign bullets.
The women clinched their argu
ment with one sentence: "Na
tions, like men. must prepare to
deal, with reasonable probabilities,
not "with fantastic possibilities."
Men accuse women of being Il
logical. Possibly they are, If logic
is a system for arriving at a pre
conceived conclusion in spite of
the facts. Perhaps the women
addressing members of congress
Sir John Tennlel.
From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
There has just died in London a man
who, during 50 years of continuous
service, was one of the most influen
tial political forces in England Sir
John Tennlel, the famous cartoonist
of Punch.
Tennlel was a real artist. Ruskin
said of him that he had "much of tha
symbolic mystery: of imagination
which belonged to the leaders of
classic art." As a draughtsman. Ten
nlel could not compare in technical
finish with Linley Sambourne, his Im
mediate successor, i or with Bernard
Partridge, the present Punch cartoon
ist, or with that incomparable artist
in black and white, Charles Keene,
also a Punch Illustrator. But Tenniel
surpassed them all in his capability
of seizing upon the) salient with a pre
science that was rarely at fault, and
of expressing it with the simplicity
and directness that invariably hit the
mark.
It is perhaps as the original illus
trator of Lewis Carroll's books, "Alice
in Wonderland" and "Through the
Looking-glass House," that Tenniel
endeared himself to the thousands in
England and America who love those
deliciously paradoxical nonsense books,
and whose remembrance of their first
delight in them was in part due to
Tenniel's pictures,
Tenniel lived to: regret und apologize
most handsomely ; for his lampoons on
Lincoln one of i the very few mis
takes he made- in his long and honor
able career. He took whimsical liber
ties with his own countrymen,', and
always drew Lord Palmerston as a
sport which he was not with- a straw
between his teeth; John Bright with a
monocle which he never wore, and
Lord Randolph Churchill as a midget,
whereas he was above the average
height.
Tenniel represented a superior type
of the pictorial jurnallst, uncommonly
shrewd, more dignified and serious
than the ordinary, and yet with a very
real sense of comedy that did not de
generate into farce or depend on the
slap-slick and the sign-post for its
elucidation and enjoyment, and that
was kindly and not contemptuous ot
genuine manly sentiment.
John D. Rockefeller, talking to a
Clevelend clergyman, said one day with
a whimsical but rather sad smile:
"From the stories
that are told about
my love of money
and my disregard for
humanity you'd think
I was : some such
monster as the crim
inal in ; the anecdote.
"A Judge once said
to a terrible criminal: 'And you actu
ally had the heart to murder this poor
man for a matter of 50 cents!"
" 'Well, your honor, said the crimi
nal, with an injured-innocence air.
'what do you expect? Fifty cents here
and 50 cents there it! soon mounts
up.' "
npssi
It some people knew as aiuch as
they say. they would be very wise.
I Some people clamor for every ex
pensive thing proposed, and then wail
about high taxes.
-
Bad spring frosts in Mars, says an
astronomer. The Martians would Uo
well to emigrate to Oregon.
Now It is said by friends cf Stan
Treasurer Kay that the candidacy ot
Ton Kay will help and not injure him.
Why all this roaring then?
Senator Vardaman. of lliastssippi,
has negrophobia so acutely lhat he
thing that comes up In congress.
. A conjecture: Thre will never ue
retrenchment and economy In public
expenditures which has been the can
didates slogan 1 or uu years.
Unless he dodges doing so, as in tbe
case of other taxes. Grandpa Rockerei
ler will have to pungle several simol
eons to Uncle Sam as income tax.
There is nitrate of silver and nitrite
of silver quite different, one being
-made out of sulphuric acid and the
other from sulphurous acid. Now you
anow ail about it.
There is a gopd long spell now be
fore next winter in which laboring
men can put themselves in such a fi
nancial condition that they can be in
dependent and self supporting whei
the ohlll, rainy days come.
Spring may be more enjoyable back
east than here, for there it comes more
quickly and noticeably and furnishes
a delightful contrast to a long, cosd
winter, while here It is often near
spring in February and March.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
By Fred Lockley.
I "We arrived at Oregon City in the
tltion of citizens, has ordered the city fH of H4J." said A Mrs. John Kirk
engineer to prepare plans, specif lea- wood of Hopewell. A man named
cu""h? 'Umal 01 the C"1 0t F"e- had Just bunt a two room
" t remea one; or the rooms
The Eua-ene Register reports lra-1 and w.r.
provement in the labor situation lo- T.th. " , , w. 7w ' . V .
cally. conditions being better than at J Ilhr went to Mr. Abemathy to rent
any time since last summer. Large! a boat. Father bad heard that Clat-
r?andrrk.'lD W H!?" T" 1
" " v iwcii t two rancn. .11
As one of the many excellent re- w Friday when mj father went to
suits of the first shost course in as- rent the boat. Mr. Abernathy would
rlculture given at Klamath Falls, the not rent it unless father agreed to tie
Northwestern predicts that much, of up ov,r Sunday as he said he did not
kShJS!ii Lbi waBt hla bo1 " - n Sunday.
rSade prodJcutJ? ' Father Mil th '- " As
made productive. toria and found a plaee. When be re
Editor Pegg. of 'the Umatilla New turned to Oregon Cityi-to get the fam.
Era, announces that henceforth the Uy, my mother and iwo of the girls
firm name is to b Pegg t Of tedaL were sick. Of ooure he could not
The new member is further desorlbed UK the family , kirim w wara
o. r- 11 nfi..l Attnr .nil minir.r 0 lajiuiy a.a uifim as we were
who has txA nrevloui experience. Mr CK 4,0 h UK 11 thought of
. . r . . " . I Mln. , n 1
Pegg retires to the mechanical depart
menu
THE FORWARD LOOKING ANGLO-SAXON
Two Irishmen met and fell Into con
versation on the street one day. It
went something like
this:
Rellly Pat was
drowned yesterday.
Fl tzpatrlck
Couldn't he swim?
Reilly Yes, but he
was a union man.
Hi swam for eight
hours and then quit.
Magazine.
Everybody's
From the Toronto Star.
The London Outlook says that the
placing of a bust of George Washing
ton in Westminster Abbey would con
vert the Abbey Into a scene of per
manent, visible outrage' upon all loyal
inhabitants of Canada. '
"Are we to have a monument to
Washington and none to his victims?
Let us be logical and erect anothei
monument to Paul Krueger (the late
president of the Transvaal Republic).
He had the same qualifications. Wash
ington was the mortal enemy of Eng
land, and persecuted a British popula
tion."
We do not think that Canadians are
worrying about the proposed outrage.
As to Paul Krueger, though bis bust
la not in Westminster Abbey, one of
his generals "is prime minister of
South Africa.
going to Astoria and ' looked around
for a place nearer aiarid. Captain
Thompson, an old mountain man. of-
Thl will ba nna of tha most pros-1 f,ruf hi. nl.n. . . . -
Lake! in" the opinion of &e lder. J?"0 " Jfcj C-Pf
which says there will be more new C , ,1 ,M T J. ,
business buildings erected and more house full ot half breed children. Hit
new enterprises stanea man in many 1 vv juiow wo nci pi ace. joe
years, and that more new homes will Meek also had an Indian wife and a
be erected and more city work com. j family of childiia. "
ueucBu .uu iu any i v "My brother. AdaniL'irot work from
Sneaking of the prospective supply '"M.?k '5?":.W?
of water Tor irigation the Baker Demo- u on
crat says: "With the snow in tho Tuallty river. Next Summer we went
mountains from three to . eight feet up the river and bought Dr. David
deep, the fear of scarcity of water the Leslie's farm, Just ajcross from Mis-
coming summer is awayea. hjij sion Bottom. Father -paid 1400 for
grweTClntSahTendT
on irigation will not suffer, as seemed r IO"-, Th, doors and wrlodows had
no Boiipeu arouna me tiorn. 11 nau
one or tne old fashioned large brick
chimneys coming down in the middle
or the house with a fireplace on each
side. For years myrfather ran what
was caned the Methpney ferry, at
what Is now known'j s the town of
Just abfve ua at what is
possible early in the summer.'
can show so large a per cent of
res
cue activities.
The unemployment, the winter
season, and the more than usual
was what he meant by his veiled
, , threat in reply to Premier Asquith
u is a strange thing, boding no
duced its revenues through con
tributions. There will never be a
time when there is more reason to
Commons.
: good for Great Britain, to flnd'Ume 7? T u, niore1f0!lvt0
, th mnarvti r,nP I Z respond to the cry for help than
ntvil war to tbe appeal now-made by the
Ulster elects 17 Unionists . and
; 16 Nationalists to, the British
; parliament. Even in Ulster there
t; is no great preponderance against
home rule, while throughout the
rest of Ireland the sentiment is
r, overwhelming in its favor. , But it
OUR PORK RICH
r
T DEVELOPS that 27 out of
37 supposed old masters bought
in Europe several years ago by
tha lata William n T .cca .
. is not tne uisterues that are the ! not originals, but copies
powerful opponents or home rule: t How amusine when onr Amrl
.it Is the landed aristocracy, that j can pork rich assume the airs of
. element or isngiana who have "culcbah" and so abroad in nnMt
: never yet surrendered the power ; of the pictures of the master ar-
to oppress except at the point of ; tists. They know as much about
the sword or in fear of the gibbet, i what they are after as a Jaybird
y .. rremier ABquua taxes ;a prac- knows of the multlplicaUon table
llt-"w wi- Biiuaoon. lies They know every little movement
'nova In ffort that If a . ikIhau t
J
x In .Ireland "who find themselves
; outvoted may resort to force, then
Letters From the People
(Communication! aent to Tbe Journal for
publication In thla department aboald be writ
ten on only one aide ot tbe paper, abotold not
exceed 800 words la length and matt be ac
companled by tbe name and addreaa of tbe
sender. If ,the writer ooea not desire to
bTe tbe name published, be abonld so atate.)
"Dincusalon is tbe greatest of an reform
rs. It ratlonaUaee tTerrtbtnc it tooabea. ft
rob principle of aU falsa sanctity and
throws tbem bsck on tbeir reasonableneas. If
tber hare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
c rushes them out of existence st3 sets op its
own conclusions in tbeir ttead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Psychology for Workers.
Portland, March 9. To the Editor ot
The Journal This Is a word to the
working class. Association, in its ef
feot on th reasoning faculty. Is anal
ogous to clouds to a bright sunny
day. Reasoning is a faculty of the
mind; association is a faculty of the
imagination. If the former faculty
rule the latter the effect is a pleasur
able sense of harmony on the mental
or physical vision ; if the latter rule
the former the result is disastrous.
Consequently the faculty of association
must be ruled by reason in ordr that
it may not assume undue proportions
and for that reason exercise an undue
influence on our mental conceptions
The ruling class have always held up
to the worklngman j the most sublime
-rvl 1Al T' V aw VtatrA nloe.. 4-1- 1
tt v,l ,klt ,v. i , '"'" i""" nioir
duujci. i-uou mej great mission to the world in th varl.
called attention to deaths by, pre
ventable diseases. But a woman's
habit of reasoning leads her di
rect to the point. Is it possible
ous walks of life pictures of self-
denial, patriotism and all kinds of
marks of superior merit. In short, they
nave aone everytning out deify them
selves. However, they have taken care
that she proposes taking arma-1 to'studiously avoid showing their mo
ment money for use in saving lives
rather than in taking them?
RAILROAD MISMANAGEMENT
T
and every little wheel in a cash
register . and can decorate a bar
gain counter with a genius to
HE affairs of the Pere Mar
quette railroad are an issue
in Michigan. That railroad
is in bad shape physically
and financially. It faces the- pos
sibility of being Bold out under
foreclosure sale, and to avert this
method of putting the property on
its feet the people of Michigan are
being .asked to permit an Increase
in freight and passenger rates.
The Pere Marquette's story is
similar to that of the New Haven
and the Frisco roads. The Michi
gan railroad was a success until
Wall Street financiers assumed con
trol 'of its affairs and began ex
ploiting the road Itself and the
people who live In Its territory.
t In 1900 the Pere Marquette's
total funded indebtedness did not
exceed $27,000,000. At that time
It owned and controlled 1728 miles
of road, Including all of its pres
ent main lines. As a result of
Wall Street mismanagement the
indebtedness has been Increased to
I $100,000,000, and only 360 miles
tive in doing this. Thir prime object
was to cultivate in the minds of the
working class through this faculty of
the Imagination a certain reverence
for them. And since the majority of
the working class ; are Ignorant, and
since, moreover, this faculty is amen
able to all kinds of suggestions, es
pecially If it be not controlled by cold
clear-cut reasoning, the ruling class
were wise enough ; to take advantage
of this fact. Now, of all th forces,
secret or patent, which submerge and
enthrall the minds, of men In the
slough of slavery and ignorance, the
misuse of this faculty is the most
potent, and at the same time the hard
est to rectify. To conclude, in pro
portion as working menv control and
conduct their own thinking, the better
will they be able to see things in their
true light and also see through the
vileness and hypocrisy of others. But
first of all, let them study themselves.
! T. FARMER.
Mrs. Duniway to Mr. Cooper.
Portland, Or., March 9. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. When a man, like
my infatuated friend, W. A. Cooper.
gets sufficiently ienlightened over one
phase of prohibition so that he can
cast a vote against the prohibition of
votes for womenj he has made favor
aDie progress toward run recovery
from his intoxication over the other
phase of his malady; and I thank Jack
London for assisting him that far. J
sincerely hope that Mr. Cooper, whose
eyes are partly opened, so he "can see
men (and women) as trees walking."
wlU at last be able to see them (as
1 . ' -
they are), the parents of men and boys
who are bom (as they ought to be)
with the innate strength of character
that alone makes their existence worth
hile. Just how Mr. Cooper can com
prehend what "Mrs. Duniway thinks
by quoting her as the author of things
she never said, or implied, or thought
of, can only be accounted for by the
fact that he Is only half way cured
of his hallucination. What else but
his desire to perpetuate intemperance
would cause him to bewail a danger
e thinks he sees in such a way as to
make him ask, "what would become
of the (liquor) business" If the man
himself should be strong to control
is own appetite? Time was when I
felt impatient over the idlosyncracles
that prohibitionists call 'arguments.
But I have gotten over all that- 1
have learned that fanaticism is not
capable of coherent reasoning, and I
can afford to be charitable. But l
do warn mothers, who depend upon
th money they and their children earn
n the hopgatherlng season, with whlcn
to pay taxes, buy groceries, clothing,
school books, etc (and of course pay
he preachers), that the only way to
promote temperance is to teacn tneir
children that It is the abuse, and not
the use, of anything that is bad. "The
time will never come when the saloon
will ha known only In history," until
men and women are born with suffi
cient stamina to resist temptation.
That is what God placed us here for.
Let us begin at the other end of the
tempesance reform, of which the pres
ent craze has lost sight. The man
who remains sober because he cannot
find intexicants deserves no more hon
or than the man In the pfenitentiary
who is honest because he cannot get
hold of anything to steal.
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY.
Whether a bust of Washington is, or
Is not, placed In Westminster Abbey,
a matter of less importance than what
the celebration Is Intended to signify.
In all the discussion about celebrating
the hundred years of peace, rather tou
much stress is laid upon the past, and
not enough on the present and future
relations of English-speaking people
We ought not to be satisfied with com.
memoratlng the fact that there were
two wars, and that we have managed
to squeese through a hundred years
without another war. We do not nee.1
to thresh out all the old straw of the
American Revolution and the War ot
1812-14, and fight all the battles over
again.
The Knights are dust.
Their swords are rust.
Their souls are with the saints, we
trust.
Loyalists and revolutionists. Cans
dlans and Americans, acted accord in .1 1 Wheatland
to their convictions, and fought fornow called Lincoln tiere was another
them. All honor to them. Tha fiaht is .TTr which was cabled Jack Doaks
"rry
uvci, xjicir ueBceiiuaiiiB nave inuuiir t- , . , .. Ji
, . . , 1 "o "vm i.Biie nouse was oaca
long war on their hands a war in from the rlver a mgi fth,r
which they are to stand side by side I built a house nearer i the river, the
ana iigni agamai we common enemies 1 iirst nouse built in Wheatland.
river as this was a famous Dlaoa for
TTnon tha North im.rin nntn.n. I haxel nuts and blackberries. In those
--'"- " - v-w.. v , . . . , . z.' : .
are more than a hundred million neo- a"? lne "ians nao slaves, a party
pie occupying a territorv twice at. I """"" "-iii una ot me
lara-a CTiimn. Dntk ... I little Indian slave b6ys so harshly
Rriikh n n.iin ... - ... I that my father boughiihlm. He was a
the same ideal of freedom and good. "mrt 4 whl nd a
democracy. Thev are net enamlaa ht.r """" w, ua .rawnia.
rivals in service for humanity. When
the population Is 200,000.000 Instead t:
100,000,000. the world will be much
nearer to
democracy and
day. Great Britain, Australia, and
He used to take uirf' across Ihe river
every day to school.? 1 Went to school
to Lorloda Bewley 1 As you know.
mo worm win . ue mucii I -v.. mram .- wi.iiLti. .
realisms- the Ideal, of ""AT"1 "'.Wn,l5n niasacr and
. j.- .v, ' r .1 w tajten oy rive rpws, a Lmatllla
ni 're?0ra. than..,t to: chief, for his wife. IMtas Bewlev has
nniain, Australia. im l nft .i ,k v, "
New Zealand are making even greater DV; . , MrT ;d the "oth-
pruisico. in auure iieias oi social serv- -r. .,, i.0 of h.r v,,,
ice than we are. with th TnHi.n. .k. di
ated, but that is a Ionia- atorv.
All these communities in the British "The only school fooka in mv first
.empire ana tne unitea estates are nat- i scnooi were a is aw Testament and a
urai ajues, wnetner tnere d a formal i spelling book. 1 tpon learned the
alliance or not. Their common inter- I spelling book by hert so' that what-
ests are or greater importance than 1 ever wora Miss liewley asked m I
all the controversies about fisheries, I could not only spell :lt. but tell the
Panama canal tolls and other subject I otners wnicn proceeded or followed It.
ef diplomatic Intercourse put together. I Miss Bewley only taught three months.
In the maintenance of that substantial ttne married a man aamrd -Chapman.
alliance lies the hope of humanity
What Is in Westminster Abbey is less
important than what is in the hearts
of hundreds of millions of British and
American citizens. What was done !n J Wonders of IKcience.
the eighteenth or nineteenth century All these theorlea ntarhtn
ib teas iiiipuna.ni vua.ii wumi inn i wen- ninsa me more or teas as comic.
The Ragtime Muse
tleth century may bring about.
WALL STREET'S WELCOME TO NEW YEAR
With their Ions afid electrons as a
For science now divprces
The atom into forces n
That go sparking ich the other all
The Tenant's Water Bill.
Portland, March 7. To the Editor
of The Journal In last Saturday's
Journal Mr. Daly Is still harping on
ninety days' water dues. I don't think
the .people are as dense as Mr. Daly
supposes. Can he or The Journal ad
vance one good reason why the owner
of a fews rooms should pay a renter's
water bill, any more than his grocery
bill? The owner could not collect for
water dues until the 80 days were up.
The renter could move out a few days
before. Thus Mr. Daly could save the
city $100,000 by taking It from owners
who had raitn enougn in porxiana to
build, as against renters, who are pre
pared to leave in an hour. The Jour
nal says the rent could be raised that
much. So it could be raised to meet
all his bills. Would It be business T
The Journal had a similar claim in re.
gard to raising assessments to full
limit, the results of Which are still
seen and felt in humble homes. All
through the Albina district seven room
houses rent for 120 per month, with
annual taxes $50 or more than one-
fifth of income. The personal part of
commission government was a huge
mistake. Where would we have been
had we granted all money wanted at
the last election? If owners must pay
for water used by renters, then Port
land will have a funeral and commis
sion government will be the corpse.
FAIR PLAY.
By John M. Osklson.
Theoretically the stock exchange is
a place where the values of owner
ships in the country's businesses are
adjusted. In spite of the purely gam
bling features of its operation, which
have excited the unfavorable notice of
many of the lawmakers at Washing
ton, the stock exchange continues to
be a barometer of business worth
watching.
Hardly had the brokers come to
gether after the disappearance of the
New Year"s Eve katzenjammer when
the belief crept into their veins that
1914 was to be a' year distinctly dif
ferent from 1913. They opened their
minds to the optimistic talk of the
bankers and big business men, and
they ' began to pass along to their cus
tomers written summaries or m
cheerful talk they heard.
Certain brokers resumed the send
ing out of weekly letters a practise
they had discontinued during the stag
nant times. Among themselves they
began to force up the quotations of
those much-dealt-ln stocks which re
spond roost quickly to manipulation.
Then, rather to their surprise (for
brokers are not optimists by nature,
whatever they may say in their printed
leKIP tl .bUy o. tpub", ?n But force expresaed J mo'tlon
show up again. Certain of the good i a thr-je-dfmen-lo ocean
stocks began to march upward stead- Can't exist w!thaty somewhat
uy. i nose Droaers wno specialise nn wnicn to act; rr
oeallnar in odd lots renortad a. aurnrla. 1 So savants return formatter
in inr.aa. r Kni... I And resume the exufieM clattar
Before the January rise stormed n t,nA.lra11 lH elusive, primal
seven points, Atchison gained four With the mlcroscop?and balance
points. Baltimore and Ohio rose six And a theory of valence
points, Canadian Pacific Jumped 14 They go prancing son an everlasting
points, St. Paul rose eight points. . V68.1-. . . t'JL
Lackawanna gained 17 points. Illinois f "a Thobvloudr th.m
f.ntrai ... .it ti i Ana tne oovious deludes them
. ? DT i ght pomt"' nnsyl- And they fall to ccaprehend the cos-
vania Railroad rose seven points, mlc Jest!
Southern Pacific went sp 11 points, .
Steel gained 10 points. Tet the truth they cannot swallow
This waa Wall Street's forecast of AIa lra,tnr Pitann'ot follow.
what will come In the revival of act
ual business for the next six months.
Wall street likes to take -its profit
from a business revival before tbe re
vival actually comes; but there are
any number of very shrewd and ex
perienced prophets operating in Wall
street, and unless they pretty well
agree that added business would come
to bear out their optimism In marking
up prices, an upward movement would
not last long. As a matter of fact,
the January and February rise in stock
values seemed to be legitimate.
in Portland with all the loads they I stand against prohibition la to be re-
could carry, would not Dreaa mem
t'.own, for a granite Driage, duih
right. Is stronger when there is a great
weight on It,
I am greatly surprised to see the
cement sidewalks breaking up. Port
land would save money If she put
down granite curbing. Vancouver, a
C. is waking up to the fact that ce
ment Is not durable enough, so they
are turning back to granite for street
curbing. ED J- MARTIN.
Wants Inquiry As to Word.
Portland, March . To the Editor
of The Journal Publicity has been
given recently - to an act of Sheriff
Word. The facts upon which all the
papers seem to agree are these: A
woman gave to a one-time policeman
certain information Incriminating or
purporting to incriminate Sheriff
Word. The ex-policeman, no friend of
lh, ahprlff it is claimed, tipped the
to a reporter of a certain
runer For the purpuus ui
ment? it h immaterial whether it was
S a reporter of The orn.U the Or-
T.Uvram or th NeWS. It
the Telegram or the
seems Sheriff Word In some manner
obtained Information of the matter
and bT certain means inveigled the ex
rMeeman to his office. So far. all
mTto be rig" enough, but after
retting this man mm " """
genius "... hiifim him and
For Granite Bridges.
Portland, March 9. To the Editor
of The Journal In The Journal last
week I read an article headd
"Bridges Are in Bad Shape." It
seemB to me tnat laying steei giraers gettms - ".a curses him and
and then, putting in concrete la waste j calls him ""Tl. a the
of time and money, when they won't , violently . won in their
stand an automobile truck's load being aforenamed PW "nff.
driven over them. This city would do , account of the "f"!' cus
well-yea. this country.:! may say-if J after ? Anier or-
it fell In line with tha old country in tody, orders him " 11 r
building road., and bridges. In Eng- j derate .allow elthe?.
ianu ineywoum not tnina oi putting w fHnd In fact, he
torney, " ""V"
in inferior material in constructing
roads and bridges, and: I believe this
city should get at the mother mater
ial and build her bridges with gran
ite, for there is nothing that can take
the place of granite for durability,
strength or beauty. It may cost a
little more money to put up. but If we
have to repair many bridges at such
cost as that of which we are informed
Dy nowara iiuiraes in relation to dui- " T K. cinA'm nam
livan's gulch. $16,000 for two bridges. ! lain and fo -Lan nme'
a- a. H rrrnTYlllTiCad0.r
Now here is the "nut" of the whole
business. Can such a thing be allowed
in the United States of America? If
such a thing Is done In Mexico or as
we often hear. In despotic Russia, are
not all our papers full of expostula-
UTn!l, . rmocrat. I voted for Word.
I also voted for West, for Chamber-
I am sure this elty would be thousands
of dollars in pocket if) it used gran
ite. X am led to believe that granite
iran be put into these bridges as cheap
as the steel and cement that are being
used, or cheaper. Were granite' put
into these bridges all tha automobiles
n.n.m.r.1 without protest?
R DILLEY.
Deplores Mrs. Dunlway's Attitude.
Reedville. Or, March 7. To the Ed
itor of The Journal Mrs, Dunlway's
gretted, In tbe light of the fact that a
good many of her sisters throughout
the state welcomed the ballot for tha
one purpose of destroying the liquor
traffic in Oregon. Pioneer In the auf.
frage movement la Oregon, Mrs. Duni
way noma a very influential position
in political circle. How sad fnf.
that she doesn't Join forcea with those
J7 . nmy neipea to enfran-
?h,?,VBd h,p drtve out hl uncon
trollabla monster, tha a.ivn.t r
flirt with It? They will not submit to
regulation: they don't make on move
up na live within tbe law.
jj.ejr aon t care a rap ror the people or
the law as long as they get the money.
They stand today ready for th slaugh-
...i. vi uregon, wnen again
counted against them, will close them
v '"'c.ci. tv iien tnere la .
demic of disease I believe in removing
isolating the pa
tient. They are both wise plans.
There are those who mo on tiM,..t.
the world boasting how easy It Is for
"""" tne evu or the drink
5? blt,' .h07 y contemptible Is
the individual who gets drunk. How
"v" wastea on the wretch.
It Is enough for ua to know h.
the path of tha liquor traffic nothing
':.T-' .J 1 yKU sprung up.
i"u, auvuia we snow it to ex
ist? The day of the reapeoUble sa
loon, generally speaking, seema to
have passed away. In Its place has
sprung up a1 monster, willful, law de
fying, with the temerity to ask to be
let alone in its work of ruin. Let us
get in line with Tennessee and put
them through the ropes.
O. E. FRANK.
Tuberculous Cattle.
Forest Grove, Or., March . To the
Editor of The Journal Please answer
througbt The Journal If it la against
the state , law to sell milch eowa at
auction that have not been tested for
tuberculosis; alo. does this state, by
law, pay for cows that have been con
demned? v - g. j. t.
It is unlawful to sell at auction un
less within 12 months the animals have
passed a test at the hands of a quali
fied veterinarian. When animals are
condemned public compensation to the
owner la made as follows: For heif
ers (between one and two years of
age). $1; fotS cows. $2sj for rerls-
tsred animals, mala or female, f 17.10. I
So into their far horizons oft they
bump. j:
Thus they reach thegumplng-off place.
But they're looking for a soft place,
Ana naaiy tney turn back arrald to
Jump! ' it
. an ,
Pointed Paragraphs
Some of our Joys; and most of our
sorrows are due to ignorance.
Aoout the surest way for a man to
gain a woman's respet is 'not to merit
it. i
?l-
Tbere's nothing rrrjre attractive and
more numerous than Unreasonable wo
men, a
:
There are two kirjds of men the
self-made ones and those who have to
listen. ff:
The worst thing t?t can happen to
a man la to win this first time he
makes a bet. 5 ;i
9k
There are two alrffei to every story.
The victory you wirj Spells defeat for
the other chap.
Had the late Mr Methuselah bee
a woman the world J would never have
known how old she really was.
When a girl Jilts J young man she
may do him a great"; kindness but he
doesn't realize it utjl later.
The woman with heef trust ankles
might at least omit he noisy hosiery.
He who hesitate bossed.
By Forney Austin.
If you were a man forty-six years of
age, &
And your position m life was lika a
bird in a carei
And were married 4 a- woman wh
was a suffragette.
Do you think you woHild be nappy. Well
I guess not YVt.l
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