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THE OREGON
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JOURNAL. PORTLAND. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH .14, 1914.
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"The greatest pleasure I know
Is to do a. good action by
stealth, and to have it found
out by accident. Lamb.
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WHO OWNS THE CANAL?
A'
000 behind - Great Britain, in the. lated accounts, watered, sioc ana
value of exports. - ' ' i shady transactions, .tne prooi mow
The figures on their face are be conclusive tnat tne. raiea r
father discouraging to people t not aaeaaaie
is
the United , States. Germany
forging ahead at - a rate which in
dicates that Great Britain may
soon be overtaken in the volume
of exports, whllo America la lag
ging behind in the percentage of
Increase. But the United States
Is In a transitory stage.
Heretofore the volume of our
exports depended in great measure
upon.- raw products. Cotton is
still a considerable item and wheat
is another.; But the United States
Is more and more adopting the
policy of other great nations of
manufacturing its raw produces at
home. Our exports will Increase
more rapidly when we sell the fin
ished article rather than the ma
terial; upon which, other people
may work.- ,
acres on the summit; of . the Blue
Mountains 7600 feet high and cov
ered with two feet of snow the
middle of May are unanswerable
proof of the need, of a Blue Sky
law; I ' - ' - "- ' v
There is other proof In the Co
Titmhia ;. River Orchard . PnmrianV
ESIDjENTS of Hermiston and . and lt8 twln tne Oregon-Washing-f
larmeTS on me umauua pruj-: ton investment Company, which
ect ,'are already acting on the
rnrthArl virt.ima 1r Pnrtlanil anil
suggestion of The,' Journal., v(Hntr.'otIf;ofv(,n ft.Mmatd iii
that a hard surfaced wagon road , goO.OOO. They attempted to float
rrom Hermiston to umauui, a ui- 5,oo,000 In securities on 150,000
A FEW SMILES
PERTINEr4T COMMENT AND NEWS INRIEf
THE FUTURE TRANSrORTA-
R'
"Do you think Miss' ' Kidder was
having fun with, roe?" a eked Chawley.
-WtW, i d cnap,
give mo the details."
was I A w t h ur's I re
sponse. , :!"- ." '
. "Ttou see, I had my
bull terriertwlth me.
And! I said, to her.
That dog know as
: : SMALL CHAXdK
There is no freo excursion trip to
heaven. . - . -
Constantly the-revolver la doing- its
deadly work...-
After all.- employment usually In
volves work.
much as I do. ' And Why this prolonged eilenca. about
she said -'Don't you that terlbls West . "plot?"
A CONTRAST
DECISION; by the.. United
States supreme court, is of
striking interest because of
its bearing on the free tolls
controversy. .
The case is that of 01s6n vs.
' Smith, 1&5 United States reports.
It was heard on appeal as an al
' leged violation of the treaty of
f 1815 between Great Britain and
the United States in which it was
-provided:
That no higher or : other duties or
charges Miall be imposed in any
of the ports of the United States on
British vessels than those payable
In the same ports by vessels of the
United States.
There is a close similarity of the
provision with Rule 1, of Article
III of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty,
. which is:
The canal shall be free and open
' to the vessels of commerce and of
war of all nations observing- these
' rules on terms of entire equality so
that there shall be no discrimination
.against any such nation, or its citi
zens or its subjects, in respect of the
"conditions or charges of traffic or
' otherwise.
v Each treaty undertakes to regu
late charges on American and Brit
ish ships. The treaty of 1815 said
. , no higher or other duties or
charges shall be impossd on British
than those payable in the same
ports by -American shlpB. The Hay
Pauncefote treaty says the vessels
of all nations shall be on terms of
! entire equality so there shall be
,no discrimination as to conditions
1 or charges of traffic. The treaty
of 1815 was even stronger in its
terms than is the Hay-Pauncefote
treaty,
That Is, to say, In the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, the term "entire
. equality" is qualified by the pro-
vision that it shall not be discrimi
natory. In other words, the Hay
Pauncefote treaty does not mean
and cannot mean that the charges
"in all cases must be the same.
-In the Olson vs. Smith case the
w state of Texas by statute exempted
American coast vessels from pay-
ment of pilotage charges., A Brit
. . ish ship leaving- Galveston for a
foreign port paid pilotage charges
, and an American ship leaving Gal
veston for an American port was
' , exempt'd from pilotage tolls. On
these facts, the case went to the
. , United States supreme court. The
court, interpreting the provision of
the treaty of 1815, said:
Neither the exemption of coast
wise steam vessels, from pilotage, re
sulting from the law of the United
States nor any lawful exemption of
' coastwise vessels, created by the stat$
law, concerns vessels in the foreign
; traas, ana tnereiore any such exemn
tloas do not operate to produce a dis
crimination agalmat British vessels
agaglng la foreign trade and in
favor of vessels of the United States
la such trade.
- Thus, on the authority, of the
highest court in 'America- and on
a treaty provision even stronger
than the Hay-Pauncefoto provision
bo exemption of coastwise vessels
from pilotage tolls concerns Brit
ish vessels or other vessels in the
foreign trade. Nor do such exemp-
. tions operate to produce a dlscrim-
. . : ination against British or other
vessels in the foreign trade. It
was with the knowledge of such
. .facts that Theodore Roosevelt, who
was president when the Hay-
Pauncefote treaty, was negotiated,
said;-.
I think that we have the right to
free "bona fide .coastwise traffic from
tolls. I think that this does not In
- terfere with the rights of any other
nation, because no ships but our own
can engage in coastwise ; traffic, so
.that there is no discrimination against
. t other snips whten we relieve the coast
wise tratiio rrom tons.
A
RECENT -news item pro
claimed that rights-of-way
through two tracts by which
Terwilliger Boulevard was to
swing into Sixth street, had been
given to the city free of charge.
It afforded a contrast. For
merly, owners of the two tracts de
manded $23,500 and $18,000 re
spectively for right-of-way for the
connection, and it had been prac
tically agreed at the City Hall
that the amounts should be paid.
The Journal intervened. It
made clear that it would enjoin
the purchase. In the present
transfer of the right-of-way to the
city, free of charge, the taxpayers
are saved $41,500.
It was not so in the case of
The Journal's suit to stop the
school board from buying for $51,
094, land assessed at Only $15,650.
The suit was brought by C. S.
Jackson, and, as sequel, he is sent
out of .court with an adverse de
cision, and with the costs of the
suit, including the fee of the school
board's attorney charged against
him.
It was an honest effort to stop
the waste of public money. The
only end sought was the defense
of the public. There was. no pri
vate benefit, no personal profit
In view, for the plaintiff. The
tance of twelve miles, would be
of greater benefit than a railroad
connection.
; A movement.has been started to
unite the' people on the subjeet
and all candidates ror county of
fices are to be asked to endorse
the project. When the government
work at Celilo is completed the
producers of Hermiston and tribu
tary country will by means of a
good wagon road have easy access
to 'water transportation for, their
products to Portland and: be inde
pendent of a railroad. ;
The f Hermiston situation finds
a counterpart at Holman which
is agitating the building of rail
way connection. This is not so Im
portant as the building of a good
wagon road to Cold Spring, which
is only twelve miles away and sit
uated on the river.
Supplementing the opening of
the -upper Columbia river to navi
There was the .United Wireless
and several other 'wireless schemes
which victimized Portland and the
think SB 'was too . much to pay for
nirar -
The young man ' who eats U "round
the circuit ran against this quick;
lunch incident the other day :
a rastidious person
. . .. . I I made his way charily
000. There was the New . York
& Chicago Airline, " which carried
away $250,000,' ,
into the place. A
tumbler - of murky
water waa thumped
The Ocean Shore Railroad Com- oun" woman on the
pany got $50,000, the Burlingame I other ' side of the
Teleeranh and Tvne writer Comnanv. I counter.
$300,000, and one' bogus mining
company, $1,000,0"00 ; -, v i J
.These are but a few instances
of the bogus . business. The whole
"What's y o u r T
"Coffee and rolls, my girl."
One of those iron heavy, quarter
Inch thick mugs of coffea was pushed
over the counter. '- The fastidious per-
purpose of the Blue Sky law is to mng an4 over lt ,
protect peopie against, meae uay- i "But whera - is - the aaucerr ne
light robberies committed under I Queried.
gationl and equally important isi-widows and orphans of their saV'
the construction of local roads to
serve as feeders. It is along
these roads that future transporta
tion is. to course and those com
munities which find an outlet to
the river are taking hostagesof
fortune.
USE THE WATERWAYS
K
ANSAS CITY a few years ago
invested 1,200,000 in re
storing the Missouri river as
a' navigable stream. Con
gress had refused to take action
which' would induce private capital
to reestablish a steamboat line,
and a 'use-the-river campaign,
backed by Kansas City money, was
inaugurated.
The; people of Kant as City began
using ;the river as it was and soon
demonstrated its possibilities. . In
19019 I Congress appropriated $1,-
the guise of corporate organiza
tion. .'.They have preyed upon all
kinds of people from .the million
aire to the kitchen maid.- They
have robbed professional' men of
their earnings, deprived the farmer
of his bank account and plundered!
W don't give no saucers here. If
we did some low broWd come pilln in
an' drink out of his saucer, an we'd
lose a lot of our swellest trade."
ings. ' . . I
. It the present Blue ' Sky law Is
declared unconstitutional,, the con
stitution will be changed. The
gentlemen who seek to restore the
old game of plunder cannot, do ft
in Oregon. , I
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Letters From the People
only gain to him was such gain asi 000,000 for Missouri river im-
wotild come to all other citizens
including the rent payers, who are
helpers and lifters in' the main
tenance of the public school system.
The judge on the bench In tax
ing up the full $125.65 in costs
both of the plaintiff and defense,
did not recognize the moral aim
behind the proceeding. He failed
to vision that broad realization
that there would better be no pen
alty for a private citizen actually
paying his own costs in a law
suit to protect the other members
of society against over-capitalization
of lands.
The plaintiff showed at the hear
ing that other lands equally avail
able could be had for less money.
But the testimony of others who
also have land to sell prevailed,
and the effort failed.
-Nor will it always fall. It did
not fail in the case of the Ter
williger Boulevard. The fight will
go on.
t Communication aent to ' Tfee Journal tor
publication in tbia department ebeold tx writ,
ten on only one aide of the paper. abold set
exceed 300 word ia length and moat be aa.
companlcd by tne name and address of the
sender. U tbe writer toes not dealre t
have the name pnbliabed. be should so state.)
"Dtaeosatoa Is tbe greatest of an reform
era. It rationalises everything It tonaea. It
robe principle of aU false sanctity sad
throws them bark on their reasosableneaa. If
they ha to no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crashes them oat ef existence acd sets op Its
ewa conclasioas ia their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
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Those Recalls.
Montavilla, March 14. To the Edi-
Mr. Younghusband paced impatiently
for, hours after midnight up and down
the cheerless bedroom .floor. He was
-fretful and lonely.
for his Wife had taken
her first post-nuptial
trip away from him.
She would be away
a whole week a
whole week of lone
liness and anxiety.
He pictured her
equally r even more
distressed at the separation. Out
side, to accentuate his misery, tha rain
streamed down in an unending torrent,
Tha wind whistled a lugubrious wall as
an accompaniment to hia feelings, and
tha thunder put in a few well chosen
orchestral effects. 1
The doorbell began to ring violently
Just as the clock struck 2. Mr. Young
husband listened with mixed joy and
fear. Hia wife, perhaps. His. eager
ear heard the janitor, sleepy and
grumbling, open the door.
A messenger boy, dripping and
soaked, stood without the portal as
the janitor unbolted tbe door. He
handed a saturated ; envelope to the
janitor: "Mr. Younghusband,"
"Anything Important?"
"Naw,. 'taint nothin"! A . woman
says her heart is breakin for him in
Boston." Puck.
Perhaps the finest sight of earth Is
mo- oirtn os a spring day. . t
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There is. after all, a slight varia
tion in one. or two "platfoms.',
.
Another great thing accomplished.
spite of the fossils; that Alaska rail-
roaa is now a certainty.
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-Turmou in Mexico sure to : con
tinue, gays a be-heralded special cor
respondent. But everybody knew that
oeiore ne torn us.
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A Colorado Judge sentenced a man
to death whose guilt ha said he doubt
ed, on tha excuse that he could not do
otherwise. . But ha could, and should.
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The United States supreme court
has just heard a case only IS -years
old, yet thera are impatient people
who complain of the dllatoriness of
courts.
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In a hundred vears from now. or
less, people will remark with wonder
ana sarcasm udod tne smaller Port
land of today, because of its rneterless
water system or no-system.
Governor West says that many per
sons not in the penitentiary should be
there. No doubt; but to put them there
wouia increase taxes, wnicn are al
ready, It la complained, "simply awful.'
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
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1 52 7.60 in bounties for the destruction
of predatory animals.
lone will observe the Fourth of JuTy
with a grand celebration and' race
meet, continuing at least two days.
Business at the Banka Dostofflce s
Increasing at such a rate that Post
master Moore thinks by the end of the
year the office may be eligible to the
tnira-ciass ranic
With a aood race track, which is
under consideration, it is the Intention
to nave- two -oig events at, urass
Valley each year, in spring and fall.
The-track will probably oe less than
nan a miie.
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C A-Poddock. a Lane county hunter.
has brought to Kuaene.. amonr his
season's scalps and pelts, the skins of
live zisners. wortn 130 to bo eacn
The fur is dark brown, with small
white is pots.
Toledo Sentinel: Collins and Hay
den. of the Leader, have purchased i
lot lying between the Abstract and the
Sentinel offices and will start the
erection of an office building on the
same at an early date.
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Hlllsboro has a new and Improved
fire alarm system. Just installed.
which on a recent test developed some
fast work on the part of the city s
fire department, A delegation of
IN EARLIER. DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
On tha right hand side of tha en
trance to tha park at Council Crest Is
an old weather-beaten frame house. If ,
mis nousa looks like a survival from .
a past generation from the outside Its
inienqr carries out the Illusion still
more strongly. r
Wins Klia Talbot, whose noma It Is.
is one of Portland's native daughters
and pioneer residents. . "If. you ; had
come on any other day but this you
would have found my house spick and
"Pan. said Miss Talbot, "but I hava
been, doing , a, lot of sewing and tha
house la every whichwaf."
we sat by the windpw where look
In to the eastward Mount Hood was
silhouetted against tha evening sky,
and where directly In tront of us and
to the northward lai? the beautiful
Tualatin valley. '
"This. looks like straying hack inta
the past." I said to M bis Talbot, aa I
pointed to the big oldfashtoned fire
place , and - the whatnot covered with
curios In the corner. J " . , : .
"I did plan on leering here once,"
said Miss Talbot, "and. I burned that
fireplace full .two or three times over
of old books, but , sohe of the old
things I did not feel tdat I could part
with. Hera for instance Is an old scrap
book of my mothers which she made In
lit... You see it is bill of old steel
TORY ATTACKS ON LLOYD-GEORGE
MANIPULATED ACCOUNTS
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FOREIGN TRADE LEADERS
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NCREASED rates demanded by
the railroads may cease to be
even a possibility if accumulating
evidence proves that many of the
roads have bean guilty of manipu
lating their accounts as well as of
watering their capitalization.
"The interstate commerce com
mission has found that the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & St Paul rail
way doctored its annual reports
in order to secure a better market
for securities used in building the
Puget Sound extension. The com
mission says that the Puget Sound
company's report of property in
vestment waa $100,000,000 in ex
cess of the cash inve'stment.
This disclosure comes on top
of facts now known concerning the
New Haven, Frisco, Pere Mar
quette, and other roads which are
insisting that the public should
stand the cost of wildcat financing
It Is evident that there must be a
determined effort to get at the facts,
for while the public is willing to
pay rates based upon fair valua
tions of railroad property, there lr
no justification for charges de
signed to pay dividends upon water
or money wasted.
The railroads are trying their
rate case before the American pub
lic, as well as before the Interstate)
Commerce Commission. They have
not proved their contention that
provements, and in 1910 and 1911
further appropriations aggregating
$1,225,000 were made. Additional
help from the federal government
Is expected in deepening -the chan
nel, and it is announced that as
soon as this is assured the pres
ent boat equipment will . be en
larged. , Restoration of water navigation
is said to have saved Kansas City
shippers $100,000. But the great
gain has been in comparative free
dom, from railroad domination.
Before the campaign was started
railroads dictated tariffs. Since
the steamboat service was inau
gurated, Kansas City has had a
choice of routes for a large part
of its shipments, and the railroads
have been compelled to compete
for traffic they once controlled.
Money spent by cities in provid
ing facilities for water transporta
tion is money eventually saved.
Waterways are the regulators of
traffic rates and accommodations
extended to cities. They are more
than that. Men behind the water
way movement are not necessarily
antagonistic to the railways. Theyj
tor of The Journal I, notice in the
Oregonian that they are getting along powers nor in any manner limit her
rtne with tne Albee et al. recall ana ,atonomv
they hope to get the water meter re
call started soon. I also sea they think
there is some chance of getting the
citizens along the streets of the pro
posed change in the Oregon City-Port
land railway to tuna up and get ready
for a recall, as they did through East
Moreland. They ought to stop tho
Heusuer line to Kenton, and the Van
couver bridgre. There is some talk of
a lead pipe factory coming to Port
land. That ought not to be allowed
at all, and Meier & Fran" oughtTto
keep their intention of building a ply-
found secret, because they might shut
someone's light out. If so, look out
for the recall. As for the auditorium
it is certain to get it, for they ar.
after it as well as everything elae
that Is good for Portland and the un
employed. J
What Portland needs ia to get rid of
her mossbacks and get all the Tall
roads and factories she can, so that
we may have a payroll sufficient to
keep everyone employed. This climate
is fine, but you can't live on air alone.
There are towns of 25,000 and 80, 000
back east with larger payrolls than
Portland with 300,000 has. K. H. J,
Stoughton Cooley In Chicago Record-'
Herald.
The recent savage attack of the
London Times on David Lloyd-George
well marks the desperate plight of the
English tories. The long lease of
power held by the liberals and their
steady progress toward a solution of
sosae of the problems confronting the
statesmen of the empire have driven
the conservative-unionists to the verge
of distraction and caused them to go
to the length of encouraging clvllwar
as a means of overthrowing their
opponents.
One may well wonder why In time
of peace a great political party should
go to such lengths. It is not that it
may repeal the social betterment leg
islation enacted by the liberals, such
as old age pensions; for tory opposi
tion to that measure, bitter as it was
in the beginning, has 'practically
ceased. It is not direct opposition to
Irish home rule. ' long as tories have
fought it, for they now concede that
Nor is It any particular love for
Ulster, bold as has been the encour-
The exemption from toll for the use agement of its threat to use force,
of the Panama canal Is an indirect for the tories have never been known
subBldy, and when it Involves dis-to so out of their way to give local
crimination, of competitors. Infringes government to anybody.
on the principle pf equal rights all
who believe in free trade will regard
it as a mistaken economic policy.
Our coastwise trade through the
Panama canal, when confined to Amer
ican products carried in American bot
toms to and from American ports, is
not in competition with the coastwise
trade of any other nation through the
canal and is not in violation of the
principle of neutrality. In the traffic;
through the canals along the Oreat
Lakes, which is regulated under the
treaty of 1871, the element of offset
ting benefits. Is a controlling feature.
It seems natural for a nation to
avail herself of every Improvement
wnicn win facilitate trade, it is a
custom with all nations to make .river,
harbor and road Improvements which
frequently favor water competitors of
rail traffic and this custom partially
accounts for the free tolls plank in .the
Democratic platform, 1 There is noth
ing perfect under tbe sun, and the na
tion which ties herself up in abstrant
economic theories dons a strait
jacket which may prove an unwise
limitation of her activities.
Just prior to the declaration of war
McMinnville officials were Interested I engraving and clippings from the Sat
spectators at tne tnais. .;- j urdsy Kvenlng Tost, end here Is one
The Dallas Observer proposes that " h kT'" f "?rWBf P
all of Polk county's commercial clubs wlth tha blaclt wflta -stripes that -
combine In preparations to take all I y mother owned before I was born
delegates ana visitors wno win auenu ana captain teucn Drongnt to Portland
the stage grange of Monmouth, on a on his first trip to Pprtrand with trade
h?l?rd!scn iniPPlles. Here is a Waging book iny-
Sn5 tlmberdevelopment WisSurces! brought across the plain, with
in in ,019, ii is caiai inc aiiawuri
Harmony of Psalm ad Hymn Tunes.
Here is my mother's ol candle mould. .
She used to put the- wicks through,
, ..... . .
lyii'm a unoi at we Dortom ana fasten
ing the wicks to a little rod across the
top and then pour the"" mould full of
tallow. Sometimes the candles would
not pull out and I can remember how
provoked my mother used to get 8he
used to hve to dip the mould in hot
water or heat It at tne fireplace so that
the candles would slip out After a
while, however, we bought one of the
new style fish oil lamps. You see this
little metal barrel has a double bar
reled arrangement coming up through
the center, holding two; wicks. Later.
this was about 1861 we bought a coal
oil lamp. In those days they were very
much afraid of coal pit so they made
the lamps with heavy bases so they
could not be tipped .over by children.
You see this has a marble base and a
heavy brass stand and jiow that too is
old fashioned since gae. and electricity
have come In. , ' .
My father's name was John B. Tal
bot He came from Massachusetts. My
mother's maiden name was Sarah Ann
Plumb. She was born' at Fairfax Court
House, Virginia. They wee married
on June 25. That date seems to be
more or less momenteus and fateful
authorities are In despair. It has been 1 in our family.- Not only was my
found necessary to supply the school I mother married on that date, but my
children with, breakfast In order that! brother Ed was born on the same date
tney may nave strengtn to pursue weir i ana I was ejected rrom my property on
a hold on the liberal party second only
to that on the conservatives.
That there has long been friction in
the cabinet over the party program
has been an open secret; and it has
been held together thus far only be
cause the forces from without have
been greater than those within. But
the antagonistic forces within the
cabinet have grown to such an extent
that shrewd observers are predicting
au early separation. That such a dis
ruption will come before the final pas
sage of the Irish home rule bill this
summer is scarcely likely; but that it
will follow shortly after the disposal
of lhat contentious question need sur
prise no one.
There is an Item in the liberal pro
gram that- Is so far-reaching in its
consequences that all other matters
sink into Insignificance In comparison
and prompts the party of the opposi
tion to adopt any and every means
that offers the slightest hope of stop
ping the movement That item Is the
liberal land program. It ia to pre
serve the land system of Great Britain
that the conservative-unionists have
reversed themselves on national poli
cies and encouraged the fomenting of
civil war.1 And, all these having failed.
the attempt Is now made, under the
leadership of the Times, to disrupt the
liberal party by encouraging dissen
sion in the cabinet This may be sue
cessful, for the landed interests have
It is not Lloyd-George alone who Is
responsible for the predicament of the
tories. The very nature of economie
conditions compels action. Rural Eng
land is losing its population. The best
men are moving to the cities and to
other countries. Sheep walks and deer
parks are taklpg the place of men. Nor
are conditions any better in the cities.
where the stress is so great that the
studies. And now It Is found that tbe :
nutrition of the children In their homes
is so scant and their deterioration dur- !
lng the vacation period is so great !
that the school board finds It better
to feed them during their vacation
than to try to build them up after
school begins.
The tory landlords, led by the Times,
may succeed in disrupting the liberal
cabinet, but they will still be con
fronted by the Impoverished agricul
tural laborer and starving children.
And Until these things have been over
come it will be useless to oppose
Lloyd George and those for whom he
acts. In what other way can relief be !
given these people except It he taken
from the landlords?
The Clavton-Bulwer Treaty.
Portland, March 14.-r-To the Editor j wlth , Spain congress made an appro-
vnauuu lur x I caiucii i mcxuniey ana
he requested that the people should not
of The Journal The construction of
an isthmian canal was merely the es-
recognize the fact that the country 1 tensible object of the Clayton-Bulwer b t0 Inquisitive as to the manner of
has outgrown the railroads' capac-! treaty. By its adoption the.Americans "8 disbursement. Woodrow Wilson is
itv'to handle traffin. VaviJ,M ' had in view the furtherance of the lJ. Jtcf-. th? .dl
' VIr Jlnotrln- an th lnn. P'""" "IB BllUUlIUQ , ne 18 me
tives of Great Britain were to cement -TT" .
ity to handle traffic.
waterways assist in, relieving con
gestion, which must continue as
long as railroad equipment is In
adequate for handling the coun
try's freight.
Kansas City's experience is in
line with that of Frankfort, Ger
many.; That City grew more in ! tne suppression or representative gov-
, , i emment, was instrumental in arous-
u. o .c ui. id-Liu river
was canalized in 1886 than it had
Now that addition
the good Will tf South American na- E'T, w , 15 I.
tions and to thwart the United Staes "f, T! h'ed
In the "acquisition of additional Amer- n i"'Ji
w.. .w.u ... .. VlWl?Ullla
We know him and can be assured that
he has an eye single to the best Inter
ests of his country.
As to Senator Chamberlain, who
lean territory. .
The holy alliance, composed of RUs-J
sia, Prussia, Austria, England and
(after 1818) France, which had in view
realizes that every ! dollar of toll
charged at the Panama canal means
grown in the 1500 years before,
There Is a railroad on each side
known as the Monroe doctrine.
"unholy" - allies, encouraged by suo-
. V - .!,.., - X
f V, . , . m ii. , cesses 1x1 iiuruiie, uumicu vrrE..jv
of the Main, and use of the river aln ln 182 that in due time a cdn
mg in tnis country ina spin, o- re- a olla- added t the frelht nt f
sistance which, finally, came to be th- t-n-o--.-ri n 7'
, .,, iu. jiuuiu.
AB1 In fro trill- Vi -mom ,, w -1 -
- - ... " .- acu uf ilia
coas.iiuenis ana we mow
GETTING REAL VALUE OF RAILROADS
the
REAT BRITAIN, Germany and
the United States lead the na
tions in the volunie of . for- rates are inadequate, In spite of a
did notesult In placing the rail
roads: in the hands of receivers.
Ten years after the channel was
improved railroad tonnage was
twice j as great as it was when the
roads! had a practical monopoly
of all traffic.
, Experience proves that both
cities-fand railroads prosper in di
rect iatio with volume of traffic
It also proves that traffic will not
increase as it should unless full
use is made of waterways.
gress would be called to terminate the
revolutionary governments in South
America. Great Britain suggested the
peopie oi uregon wui sustain him. As
to his course, what was said more than
a hundred years ago may now be repeated:
"The single note
remedy of Isolation, hut refused i to From that deep chord which Hampden
' By John M. Osklson.
(Copyright, 1914, by J. G. Lloyd.)
Mr. Prouty. of the Interstate Com
merce Commission made an excellent
speech the other day about -the desira
bility of making a valuation of the
country's railroads. He put the case
as it concerns the investor:
' "Under the constitution of the
United States . . . railroad prop
erty must be allowed a fair return
vpon the fair value of the investment
. . . All Just men concede that
it (a fair return) should be substan
tially the same return obtainable from
private investments having the same
incidents."
This matter of getting the real
value of the railroads is going to be
carried through. As Investors you
are vitally 'concerned ln watching the
process, ifr. Prouty says it will take
from four to six years from July 1
next, when the valuation begins.
Especially if you are a stockholder
of a railroad you should be interested
in following the news of this national
rnnA i piaa W I1UU UUI uvu ..us.- .
guua I . V A m nnoht in h a.HowLi1 to
txy wj mo i vj. ...
earn dividends. If at the conclusion
of the process it is found that the
road in which you own stock has no
value beyond the amount of its bonded
elgn trade. This country has
extended its over-seas commerce in
a remarkable degree, but figures
for 1913 show that America It yet
i only within hailing distance of Its
two 'rivals for commercial su-
- premacy of the world.
in is is ureal Britain, with a
population of 47,500,000, had a
foreign" . trade of $7,020,755,000
v Germany, with , about 70,000,000
people, had a foreign trade of $4,-
showing of , increased cost of wages
and supplies. ' . :
The commission . was told last
week that the average rates per
ton hauled a mile today are as
high as they' were fifteen- years
ago. There has been a greater in
crease In the net earnings of rail-
N
DAYLIGHT ROBBERIES
6 INJUNCTION against the
administration of -the Blue
sanction Indiscriminate Intervention.
The American sense as to this antici
pated aggression reached the deter
mination to oppose tbe acquisition: of
additional territory on this side of the
Atlantic by European monarchical gov.
smota
Will vibrate to the doom."
JAMES B. CARR.'
obligations ln other words, if the
whole value of th road would do. no
more than pay its debts your stock
would be worth nothing. Decause
ownership of the property (which lies
with the holders of stock) would rep
resent no valuable Interest
Therefore, before this national com
mtsirinn finishes its work, it behooves
you to anticipate its findings you folks had the third room
don't want to be caught with worth
less stock on your hands! How can
you do this? -
Then is no sure way, but you can
do something. The roads themselves
issue annual reports; these you can
get from the road's secretary. Get
them, if you can, clear back to the
time of the road's organisation for
ten years, anyway. Then study them.
See how the mileage has increased,
what has been spent on maintaining
the road and its equipment- Study
the Increase of the road's bonded
debt At the end set the road's assets
against its liabilities, and see just
what remains to the credit of the
owners (the stockholders).
In some states the state railroad
commission can help you ln getting
at the real value of the road whose
stock you own. Write to the state
capitol. anyway, and ask for help.
Ccuncll "Crest on that date also.
"My father; John 33. Talbot, was a
roan of some importance ln his day. He
went to Illinois in 125 and was the
first one to break ground in Warren
county in that stated He was the In
terpreter for the United States troops
in the Black Hawk War and he knew
Black Hawk well, ji He w.i county
commissioner and while holding that
position he married flu gene D. White's
father and mother. KHe also married
Mrs. White's "!ster.:f Mary Ann Jen
ninga to General M. ii. McCarver.- one
7f Portland's earliest pioneers.
"My parents started for California
ln 1849 with their fooii children. When
they came to the rka in the trail
where the road swu south to Cali
fornia they found Hh- Indiana had
burned the grass off all that country
and father was afraid they could not
go through on account of having no
feed for the oxen. He decided to come
on Oregon so they: arrived ln Port
land In the fall, of 1M. They lived in
a house that Finlce 'Carruthers built
on First street neariwhat is now Sal
mon street. It was.a'Hhree room bouse.
A man br the name f Morgan and his
n other lived in one "room, the Davis
family had the other room and roy
third room, i nave o.ten
heard my brothers .'and sisters talk
about .their first winter in Portland.
The pigs used to get under the house
and ureatly -annoy pny mother witn
their squealing and jr.ru n ting and occa
sionally when theyiad a fight they
would almost lift the boards oir tne
floor. There was one eld sow that was
particularly bad about fighting ana
squealing 'so my brotner cnariey
noured some hot Water through the
crack in the floor on. ber and that set
tled her. She decided to go wnere
things were not so yopical, and never
came back." . , '
January. This delay resulted ln a loss
to Mr. Reld of six months' Interest on
$350,000 and a corresponding saving
to the city, amounting to more than
twice the amount of the tax referred
to it aonears. therefore, that no tax
was legally due from Mr. Reid, and
The Reid Dock Site Tax.
Portland, March 14. To the Editor
.ramont. Ruit TnH,n thrniio-H l, I ui J. e . ournai in your Issue of
?' " . . " " IThnr.Hc. .,(.,
lust for- empire, oy.wora ana aeeo an- -""' " S. Vtnn t understand noon- what
tagonized this national spirit i r. , rurl;uti8e " c - """ nnv uch demand
In 1841 she claimed a protectorate Site Unloads Tax Sum on the People." ( ground any such aniand
over the Mosquito coast, and In 1847 Then foUows a statement setting forth M b deh"rhM n made upon
she drove the Nlcaraguans from San that the dock commission had received ' the comment that has fbo X ?ate-
Juan del Norte, changing Its name to "er "'n an. juewja, county
Grayton. She claimed the island ln treasurer, asking what icould be done
the Bay of Honduras and sought to bout collecting $4002 assessed against
extend the boundaries of British Hon- the Reid property recently purchased
duras. To counteract these aggres- by the commission, which the commis
sions our statesmen had recourse i to M'n naa not exactea rrom Reld before
Sky law should have been f peaceable negotiations, which eulmln- closing the deal for Its purchase. This
ermo-nr : t, . ated in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty To wa followed with a criticism of pub-
sought. . The granting
such an injunction would cast a
cloud upon ' thousands of dollars
of bond issues and call into direct
question the legality, of every cor
poration , formed in Oregon since
June 3 1913, when the Blue Sky
law went into, effect.
J Naturally, there are ' interests
that oppose Blue Sky laws. In the
commissioner of Iowa, . told the
986.240,000. The Uhited States, commission r that the average rate
with a population which numbered
nearly ;. 100,000,000, reached $4,
276.000,000 in its dealings with
other nations. Great . .Britain's
lead waa mainly In Imports, which
greatly exceeded : those - of either
Germany or the United States.
exports Increased nearly eight per
cent, ias against a 12.5 per cent
increase , ior uermany and a 3.5 1 since 1900
per cent ; increase for the United
tates trermany" last year was
only a little more thai. $200,0,00,
roads during the last fifteen years' suit that has been brought there!
iuuu -i- .a meir -previous - mstory. t is a loreign ruDDer plantation and
dltrord Thorne, state railroad j a foreign mining company,, both
unknown to. the Oregon , corpora
tion department. There is an Ore
gon mining company whieh could
not pass the test of the Oregon
Blue ! Sky law.
The corporation -has long "been
the asylum of bogus business. It
is 'the vehicle by -which millions
of - people have been swindled out
of hundreds of millions' of dollars.
The need of a Blue Sky law is
fully! manifest in. the long and dis-
of dividsnds on stock yielding div
idends increased from 5.45 per
cent in 1890 to 7.2 per cent in
1912. The average rate on all
stocky, including fictitious capital
ization as " well as genuine, -increased
from 1.97 per cent to 4.73
In 1913 the United Kingdom's per cent. The amount of capital
stock yielding dividends has - in
creased more than 100 ; per cent
. The public wishes-' to be fair
with the railroads., ; But ia view
of ' disclosures concerning manipu-
RSLtlsfv ' th American construction" of Uo servants whose "neglect or inat-
this treaty. Great Britain in 1859 and Jtentlon means additional cost to the
1860 concluded treaties. with Guate-1 C"V. o- py a suggestion that this
this transaction the foregoing state
ment seems due In Justice to the dock
commission. TAXPAYER.
Calls Prohibition Foolish.
Sllverton, March 13. To the Editor
of The Journal I observe that Mrs.
Duniway of Portland has come out
flat-footed against prohibition. I am
alad there is one able woman writer
In Oregon who can foresee the disas-
' . . . , . , . 1 . 1 1 n V
mala by which the boundaries of Belize J "babifr a of publio officials might be ter.that prohibition would bring on this
were determined with Honduras, i by nira dt a statutory amendment, v or
which the hay islands were relln- otherwise. From the tenor of the r-
quisbed. and with Nicaragua " with- tlcle it appeared that not one of the
drawing the British protectorate over members .of the commission had
the Mosquito. - But aa tty the t con- exercised ordinary business caution,
struction of a canal, the treaty was and that the criticism waa well de-
by Its terms limited to such construe" J aerved. It is a source of satisfaction
state. If prohibition tnumpna wui
not only create an industrial panic dui
It will cause thouaands of our citizen
to suffer. While prohibition would
cure the evil ln one . way it would
bring on four times as many evila ia
another. Prohibition is reauy tyran
tion by third parties and thus an oh-ft learn that there appears to be twonical ln Its form and oppressive in its
siaes to wis question, and to know 1 nature. am a nauve or xasiue,
that the criticism in this case is un-ihlbltion state. .I iBaw as much money
deserved. The undersigned baa taken spent for liquor and more drunkenness
the pains to examine the 'records in i than I have seen In Oregon. I saw
this case and finds that not only was ! one class at war agams. mo oier n
the deed for the Reid croDertv executed I saw class hatred and discontent on
before this tax became a charge on the I every hand. I saw thousands of doi-
property, uui . na. me deal ror the j isrs o xm-mc " -- ,
property was actually Closed, so far illquor. Maine's money paved the beau
as the commission had power to close (tlful streets of Boston. From a theo
it, in July last, at which! time the logical and scientific point of view pro-
Imal list of plucked people.
Such companies as the Oregon
Inland ' Development Company,
which sold as fruit lands wild
stacle to such construction by ;the
United States on its own account. I
' By the terms of the Hay-Pauace-fote
. treaty of 1902 .lt . supersedes the
Chtyton-Bulwer treaty of 1850, abro
gating every part of it except the gen
eral principle . of neutralize tlori. The
proprietary rights of the UnitVd States
are established' by It:, r fit: agreed
that r the canal ; may be : constructed
under the auspices of the United States,
at its own cost" n "That said govern
ment shall have all rights Incident to
such - construction and the exclusive
right f providing for regulation arid
management." and the acquisition of
territorial sovereignty by the United
State is anticipated. The United
States -is now the owe er end has ex
clusive powers 'of sovereignty over 'the
canal zone. This nullifies certain limi
tations in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
as tne treaty making power or t the
commission made a specif ic ! of fer for
the property which was specifically
accepted by Mr. 'Reld.' Before the pa
pers were executed, however, there
arose a question as to the power of
tha commission to authorize any fur
ther issue of bonds to meet ' the pur
chase price. This held the matter up
nearly six months, v At that ! time no
levy of any ; kind for 1913 bad been
made, and no tax ef any kind was due
I until six months thereafter, nor waa It
la
United States cannot curtail her war due when the deed : waa .executed
hibition Is absolutely foolish.
EDWIN A. LINSCOTT.
; Wonders at Mrs. Duniway. '
Portland. March 14. To the Editor
of The Journal I think it Is a shame
that . a t-woman of Mrs. tmniway s
Influence should ' defend the liquor
traffic- now,: tbt -- we , women have
the ballot and should ' all work to
gether to drive this great demon from
our midst. : - . ' ' - y
As Mrs. Carter says In The Journal,
of course there will always be drink
ing, but think of tbe good that will
come, of the many souls and homes
that will be saved. It Is not the drunk
ard alone who suffers. Think of the
hundreds of yo mg girls who go down
to hell, caused from their first drink
of liquor, given them by a man who is
seeking their downfall. After a drink
or two they lose all sense Of virtue
and respect for themselves or their
early training. Many a boy la lost
after being tempted to take one drink.
Can we expect these young, inexperi
enced cmiaren to resist temptation
when we' put it before them? Must
women and children go on suffering
through ages, waiting for men to be
born with sufficient, stamina to resist
temptation a very foolish expression,
I must say.
If Mrs. Duniway had ever experienced
the sorrow and h earaches, or if she
could ever witness a home with sr poor
mother and a house full of little ones
half sta.rv.ed and half naked, and the
saloonkeeper getting every penny that
was eamsa, i wonaer.tr ner attitude
would be different?
God pity the ones who can, but will
not rignt against this soul destroyer.
MRS. H. E. ADAMS.
' The Ragtime Muse
Live Thy Life.
Live thy life gallantly and undis
mayed;
Whatever harms may hide within
tne snaoe.
se tnou oi rear, my. spirits more
airaia.
In earthly pathways evil apringeth
rife; -- - -
But dread not thou, too much, or pain
or strife -
That plunges thee to the greater
oepius oi iue! -
What though the storm-cloud holds
- the bolt that sears?
The eagle of the. crag, that nothing
- fears, . - - .
Still, still Is young after hundred
-years! -" :- -- "
Florence Earle Coates. ln Serlbner'S.
Pointed Paragraphs
A fair exchange beats six unfair
ones. '
The happy man is -one who Is less
unhappy than his neighbor. :
Men are great pretenders some
even pretend to understand women.
.
No man wanta 'bis wife to know
everything he knows, about himself.
9 . -9
There are no tomorrows on the cal
endar of the chap who -does things.
Even nature loves' a Joke Judging
from the funny people to be encoun-"
tered. ' ?
Another foolish habft is falling In
with people who are alwaya falling
out- - ! -
. - ' .
Men want but little here below, but
women are alwayelooklng for base
ment bargains. '
. -'
"A bore Is a man who, when be has an .
hour , to spare, gcs and spends It
with some one whoihasn't .
: .
We know a young man who consid
ers himself a warm-member because
he burns his. candle at botb" . ends.
The Sunday Joiirnal
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wnted. ,
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r .. the home. . -3 i ;
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An irresistible comic ,
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