THE ORISON DAILY -JOURNAL, .PORTLAND. MONDAY, EVEjNTNO, MARCH '30, 1914.
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THE JOURNAL
A INDEPENDENT NBWfPAPEft
S. AI'KHIIN
. . . Pblthw
TO RESTORE THEIR LANDS TO TtfE PEOPLE
FnMiabeit w rnlrg evt SiiB4a7 and
cr Sunday oiornliw at Tba Jowrnal
ln. Rrnadwar ami Vamhtlt t., PorilniH. Or
Kotrrrd at tM poatofftee at Iorflod. ttr.. f'r
traaatnlaalon through tba mall aeeono
-I(m matter. ."
IKl.fcl'HONKS Main 7173: Horn. A-WjI. AH
drpartmanta reached bj theaa nnmbera. -jell
th mwrat'ir what rtnrtment twi wain.
luuKiuN auvkutisi.no HKVKKRJATI VK
Henjamln A Kant nor Co.. Brunswick BWa.
225 K lftb At.. Mew '-'ork; "I people a
tin Hldg.. tlilcago. " -
ftubarrlpttuo teruia b mall ot to anj ad-
reka lu toe Lnlt4 Statea or Mexico.
DAILY
,.$5.00 I One month - .
nviiAT
One rear,, .$2.50 I Ow monKt. 20
DAILY AND BIJSDAT.
Oaa ar $750 I Ona month. .,.. -60
E
Oh year.
Fools are stubborn In their
way,
As coins are hardened by the
alIay; .
And obstinacy's ne er so stiff
As when 'tis in a wrong belief.
Butler.
BUT ONK STEP
P
.OUTLAND has ne new asset
for progress.
It is the first unit in the
mnnirinal dock program. .' It
was dedicated Saturday with fitting
ceremonial.
Captain Warner of the great ship
Cardiganshire declared to the
writer that it is a thoroughly mod
ern and, perfectly efficient dock.
E. J. M. Nash of the Royal Mail
declared, at the same time, that
'It is effective in all, its facilities
ar a splendid convenience for
commerce, equal in many respects
to the best docks of the world.
It has 30 ffet of water, a depth
sufficient for the largest ships.
The Journal congratulates Portland
and takes a large measure of pride
in the fact that this newspaper
led the fight for municipal docks
and helped to beat down the heavy
opposition that at one time con
fronted the plan.
But this dock is only a step.
There are other changes that must
he made. Shipping does not re
ceive a quick dispatch in Portland
harbor.
The Cardiganshire, for instance,
Is held in the port four or five
days longer than should be neces
sary. It is a heavy loss to the
owners. They cannot afford to
waste the time of a vessel of 18,
000 tons measurement capacity
and capable of carrying 13,500
tons dead weight.
There is the loss of wages and
subsistence, and for such a ship it
Is a large sum. To it must be
added the loss of tonnage at other
ports incident to the long delay.
The delay is partly caused by
the refusal of one. of the lumber
organizations to permit . the load
ing of lumber at night. The
claim Is that at night the product
Cannot be properly graded.
In other ports, notably at Se
attle, the grading is done before
hand and the cargo all ready for
loading when the ship arrives.
Besides, the Cardiganshire Is fitted
with twelve powerful arc lights
and can make the scene of activity
at night as light as day. In ad
dition, the present cargo, for in
stance, is rough lumber for China
and Australia in which exactness
of grading is not essential. This
source of delay alone keeps the
Cardiganshire' in the harbor four
cr five days longer than necessary.
It is one condition that ought
to be removed. There are others.
There is not sufficient depth of
" water off many of the docks. At
one where the Cardiganshire is
taking on much cargo, there Is in
one place but seventeen feet. Such
a depth is ridiculous in a harbor
that hopes for big ocean com
merce. It presents the strange
fact that the ship can make the
Journey up and down the river
between Portland and Astoria with
a draft of several feet more than
is possible at some of the Port
land docks.
And there are other defects that
must be removed. The port au
thorities can find out what they
are by
FFORT is to be made by the people of Oregon to recover tor
the public use, submerged lands In river beds for the benefit
of commerce. ' j
These lands were once the peoples. The story of how, on
one pretext", and another they passed under private monopoly, espe-"
cially in Portland, is familiar history. It has been told and re-told
many times In The Journal.
In California these lands, by decision of the highest state court, are
the peoples, and no legislature, no court, no state power .can take
them away from' the people. It is sought to give the people of
Oregon the. same control of their submerged lands, and to that end
a "tide land Constitutional Amendment" is to be .proposed for .
adoption under the initiative. The title of the amendment is:
Tide land constitutional amendment making beds of navigable waters
Of the state Inalienable and subject to public use for water commerce; and
authorizing: cities to construct docks thereon or the leasing thereof upon
fair rental value to be paid for the joint benefit of said cities and the
common school fund of , the state.
It is in the people's interest that the amendment is proposed.
There is no money with which to hire men to circulate initiative peti
tions. The work will have to be done by volunteers, and The Jour
nal hereby calls upon those who believe in the plan to help secure
the eignatures. .
The last act that took these, lands away from the people was a
decision laBt June by the Oregon supreme court, which decision was
a point blank reversal of former decisions by that tribunal. As indic
ative of the basis on which the decision was made, the following
from the opinion 13 illuminative:
The contemplated ue of the lands (passing; under private monopoly)
is not inimical to navigation. On the other hand, it Is plain to any one
that the industries- of commerce and manufacture with which the shore
of the Willamette in our metropolis teems and the storing of the ar
ticles and. products as well as the construction of docks and wharves are
an acceleration to navigation.
Scarcely any statement could be more absurd. A court decision
based on such misinformation is pathetic. It is controverted by all
authorities on transportation. Its falsity is proven by all experi
ence. Every great port in the world has already abolished or is
rapidly abolishing private ownership of docks. London, at a cost of
many million pounds 'sterling has taken over the last foot of her pri
vately owned waterfront. . ,
It was ignorance of Its subject that caused the Oregon
court to hold the private monopoly of the river bed, was not an
tagonistic to navigation. Thus the interstate commerce commis
sion says:
Independent boats that were originally built and fitted to engage in
freight business are unable to engage-In that business because defendants
(the' railroads) controlled the terminals and, wharves and refused to permit
Independent boats to load or unload thereat, and refused to receive pack
ages from independent boats?
Either the interstate commerce commission, the highest author
ity in the world on transportation is wrong, or the Oregon supreme
court is wrong in holding that private ownership of waterfronts and
river beds is not antagonistic but beneficial to commerce. Another
great transportation authority that is wrong if the Oregon supreme
court was right, Is the Inland waterways commission. It says:
Every city situated upon a seaport or on nkvlgable water connected
with the sea, which constructs and operates municipal docks, will not only
prevent the monopolizing; of transportation, but will secure the lowest com
peting' rates by water and will at once become a terminal point ana receive
the lowest rates by rail.
That is to say, the supreme court of this state did not know what
it was talking about. Calvin Tompkins, one of the best known ex
perts on transportation, said In a speech in New York, May 27, 1913:
All other (than New York) great seaports are publicly planning to ad
minister and control their terminals to attract commerce, since It is
known that privajte control and exploitation limits opportunity. James J.
Hill's statement that the railway system of the country .has broken down
at its city terminals should be supplemented by the advocacy of municipal
terminals, to always remain under city control.
Yet, the Oregon supreme court held that private monopoly of
waterfront is not, antagonistic to navigation; and it was on such a
blunder as to fact, that the people's claim to their tide and submerged
lands was swept away. r
That is why a movement has been launched to gain back for the
people the submerged lands that were theirs in the beginning and
that were taken away on unjust and immoral pretests.
Will the people help?
tions, ard rote right. In no other
way can they, prove that they
shouldihave the ballot. :
which has for its aim the main
tenance "of peace, it will occur to
them to compare the tribulations
of a peace policy with the tribula
tions of a war policy. They will
stop to consider that war is war
and they will take into account the
economic waste in dead and in
jured, in widows and orphans and
in national debts and crushing
taxes.
They will realize that wars can
not be carried out by schedule and
that when once begun they will
lead to consequences that cannot
be foreseen. The issue must be
fought out even though the origin
al object of the, war is lost sight
of. The price paid surpasses any
thing that . the country imagined
it would have to sacrifice. Mis
takes are made that lead to enor
mous waste of wealth, an after
math of misery and hatred and
troublesome internal problems.
Bulgaria went to war against her
allies. She lost the greater part
of her Turkish conquests, tens of
thousands of ber army and the
misery that she is now suffering
i will extend through the years,
i How many are there In the United
States . who realize tnat to inter
vene in Mexico would end in the
opening up of a vast and dangerous
problem?
It is well to defend national
together. The loggers are fighting
for employment. After the experi
ence of the past winter with un
employed, it would seem like all
Portland would be behind the lum
berjacks in' their fight for free
tolls. What a strange spectacle
for any member of the Oregon
delegation at Washington to vote
against Oregon loggers andlor
Canadian loggers!
BRUTE OR HUMAN?
honor 'and "national dstlnv hut In
inquiry of men who are,, nfte that . national hnr
trying to navigate into this har- j and national destiny dictate a pol-
wvji uiuici ui.TumnuiascB nuicu Can
"easily be removed.
Portland is thankful for the
new municipal dock. But it Is
only a beginning. There are many
changes to make. Vessels must
have quick despatch, or they will
hot come to Portland.
PEACE OR WAR
icy of peace?
A JUGGLE ECHO
B
ECAUSE John Freeman and
Tony Gerb, loggers, had no
money when held up on a
lonely road by a man believed
to be Charles Hopkins, Freeman is
dying and Gerb is dead near Mount
a.,, ..! Vernon, Washington.
IwirvriiuiN in Mexico would Tne assailant, if Hopkins, is
be futile in the opinion of Nor- known as the "tattooed robber."
man Angell. the English peace He was armed with two pistols, and
aavocaie. me oniy solution or j when ne found that neither victim
the Mexican problem, he asserts, is , had money, he killed 'Gerb with a
me complete ostracism or that blow from one revolver and shot
J
Letter "From the People
SMILES
t C-ommnnlm ttona ant i Tba Joorsai for
pet lira t too 1b tbla depart aartot aboold be writ'
tea on only one eld of .the paper, aaald not
exceed 800 word la length and uoat bo- ac
companied by tba osroa and adilreaa of tba
cader. It tba writer tow not dealre to
have tbo name jpabUabed. be abtroUl ao aula. I i
"Dlacdsalon la tba areateat'.cfatl reform.
I. It ratkmaUaea eerrtb!n;s1t tooahee. It
robe principle ot all falsa aaactlty and
throw tb-ni bark oa tbeir rcaaooableoeaa. It
tbey bare no , rcaeocableoeaa. It ratbleaalr
c rustic theiu oat of eilateooa ttl acta up tta
i coBcluakma la tbeir aiena. wooarow
Wibsoa.
Salesmen Are Needed.
Portland, Or.. March 28, 1914. To
the Editor Oregon Journal The writer
was very much Impressed with the re
mark of Captain Harriman ot ne
Alaska steamer, that it was not "circu
lars but salesmen" that were needed
now In Alaska to get the best results.
Now la the time to prove that Port
land is awake and ready to grasp its
epportunity. It has been suggested
that a fund be raised by subscription
to enable the smaller manufacturers
and dealers to send a salesman direct
to Alaska, bo that all lines of Port
land's manufacturers would be repre
sented. I think the idea is an admir
able one. There are a good many
small manufacturers who cannot very
well afford the expense of send
ing a salesman and standing all
the expenses of salary and trav
eling, for the first? year or so, but
if these expenses were prorated among
every one of the city's various interests
in proportion to their capital or prop
erty It would make the proposition of
wonderful benefit to the city and make
the steamer line an assured success.
We are going to tax ourselves for the
docks and it is only a business proposi
tion to go after the business in an in
telligent way.
I firmly believe that If $100,000 were
Judiciously use&in this manner the
returns to Portland Inside of two years
would be ten dollars to every one ex
pended, and establish relations with
Alaska that in a few years will be
worth millions of dollars to the city.
If this opportunity is thrown away
it would be a stupendous blunder. The
time to act Is now, and if the business
interests of Portland cannot decide on
some practical plan to receive a Just
share of the Alaska trade they will de
serve what they Will get if they don't
do it. S. B. HOLCOMB,
"Tes, I
once," saldi
Bontonian.
had
a
a brother ih Boston
Chicago woman to a
in some
great ,muslcal acl-
ety there, but I
get its name.
"Handel
for
bid
I
Haydn society, !per
haps," suggested, her
visitor. I
Well. I gueas
Handel and Haydn were Boston men.
",tu iieyr K-nristian Register,
fourth htrtrtla
Smith, the veteran .Adirondack hotel
keeper, who started, life as a guide
and died owning $1,
000,000 worth of for
est land, was talk
Ling about boundary
disputes with an old
friend.
"Didn't you hear
of the lawsuit over
a title that I had
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL. CHAAUK
Well," said Paul, i"lt was this way
I sat In the court room before ithe case
opened with my witnesses around me
jones Dustiea in) ; stopped, looKea my
witnesses over carefully, and Said
'Paul, are those y-our witnessed ? They
are,' said ij Thn you Win.' (said he.
'I've had them witnesses twice my
self.' "
But if Leo M. Krank had been a ne
gro, he prob'v would have been
lynched.
O ' . o
The spring pictures of the candidates
are also appearing numerously all over
the state.
One man has resisted the appeals of
his legions' of friends and admirers to
seek the nomination for governor.
British Secretary Seeley admits he
made a mistake. How Roosevelt, on
reading this, must despise him.
o
Though garden truck may really be
more important, don't overlook rosea
and other flowers. They're mighty
valuable, too.
o o
No doubt diseaseat are arraduallv and
scientifically becoming conquered, but
one, would better not be credulous as
to an the reported new cures.
Now Lents and other supposed parts
of Portland are out. Apparently no-
rxKiy Knows nothing about nothing,
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
Rj. Fred Luck ley.
with Jones down in JMalone list sum-L these lawyer and Judge befogged times
luci - annci tall,.
The friend had! not heard.
Kate, agrid sixi had been attending
school only
learned at
her hand
wanted anything.
une aay she was
sent to the1 chicken
house to get the
eggs. As she reached
a few , days. She naa
least i one lesson ito raise
if she
the chicken
door her
almost any
house
ltn o t h e r
A news item reports the case of a
recent town that has been turned into
a farm. ' That is what should be done
with about three-foUTtha f .most
towna.
o
Now arises a professor to anno, nee
that bad teeth are the cause of most
of the evils in the world. Bad teeth
are bad things, undoubtedly; so are
ridiculous professors.
o
"How long?" editorially shrieks the
Oregonian. Well, this glorious state
has survived the Journalistic virago
for more than half a century and will
An institution of Sherwood hence
forth is to.be the noon whistle, which
will wain town and countryside of the
time of day, from the new creamery.
mm
Lebanon Kxpress: Herman Davis is
having much trouble with one of hia
feet, having had five operations per
formed on it recently to remove barley
beards which had been in the foot for
nine years.
a a'
The first "smudge special" In rail
road history made a record run in
20 hours .rroin Richmond, Cal., to
Med ford, arriving there last Friday
with seven cars of distillate on a spe
cial order with an emergency clkuaenxe the w
The finance committee for the East'
ern Oregon state normal school cam
pai,en has already passed the $3000
mark, and the pi'ospeots are bright, the
Weston Leadersay. that th.re will be
ample funds will, which to conduct the
campaign in aceoraance with The plans
of the executive committee.
a
After letting contracts for more
than a mile ot paving, last Thursday
night, the city council of Eugene de
creed that nil water .pipes, gas pipes,
wire conduits or sf wers must li-jre-efter
bo placed before pavement Is
laid. After the harpurfHCe Is once
down it muxt not be 'rut. at least not
for a period of years or for some ex
traordinary reason.
.
Instance of crop precocity In Jack
son .county are noted in the Rogue
River Argus, as .follows: "W. H.-Sis-son
in plowing a field In which pota
toes were raised last year, picked up
about half a sack of new potatoes,
most of them larger than hen ee-KN.
He has a field of wheat waist high
"Along alKiut 1908 1 went dear back
io --ew York city land
when 1 looked at .
were run up so
looked as if they.
endure in spite of it for a long time and will soon be headin? out. while
yet. t I his alfalfa is up to his knees."
MAKING A HEALTH RESORT OF PANAMA
heard her sky:
"All you thickens that have
egg raise your hands." The
ator.
himself, bu one can go on our streets
laid an
Dellne-
loafers
Protection Against Fires.
Portland, March 30. To the Editor
of The Journal 'A great howl has been
made about carrying guns, that take a
life now and then. Little is said about
the thousands that suffer, perish and
die from fires. "We hardly think of
those common occurrences, until they
come home. Friday we witnessed the
efforts of guests from the Perkins
hotel, trying to get to places of safety
One lone telephone operator stuck by
her post, in danger of her own life, to
do her duty.
We pass laws for fire escapes. But
tell me what is the good of fire es
capes unless the hotel guests are
warned in time? Had the Perkins
hotel been equipped with an automatic
call fire alarm and phone this one girl
would not have been compelled to risk
her life, nor would the guests have
been unmindful of the notice given,
for by pushing one button the phones
in every room would have rung In
stantly, a red light would have lit be
side the phone, the fire gong at the
nearest station would have sounded,
and the young lady, at the desk, by
taking down her receiver, could have
talked to every guest, Informing them
where the fire was and the best way
out. All could have been done In
three seconds. Is it not time we
howled for Up to date appliances for
protection, when we could- save the
suffering of thousands, and with no
additional outlay? Timely protection
is what we want.
G. ERNST BAKER.
day and see town
and bootleggers leaning against walls
on street corners; but the cop doesn't
see them, j Some of them carry pre
scriptions in their pockets and get
liquor for others who can not! get it,
because one prescription is enough on
the books Qt the druggist to get all
you want, j provided you hand it to
someone thit will not squeal on them.
Is this what we call prohibition? If
ao it is a failure her in Hood River.
I am not a saloon man. but if we had
a saloon here the city would get' some
revenue outj of it to help pay Our ex-
. . , r
ttave we any orncers in tiooa Kiveri
that are honest enough to lok: thii wlifte deadliest region in existence. In
John B. Huber In Review of Reviews.
Gorgas and his associates have made
this region (the canal zone) as Infec
tion-free as any in these United States,
and much more salubrious than a great
many. Panama now rivals Palm
Beach as a health resort. Yellow Jack
has been absolutely banished from the
zone since 1906. During 1907 Gorgas
did not have a single case of bubonic
plague to -deal with; he had 50 per
cent reduction from 1906 in malaria,
typhoid, dysentery, pneumonia and
other grave diseases. His death rate
was more than 80 per cent lower In
1907 than in 1906. In the region over
which he has had Jurisdiction (the
canal zone and the cities of Panama
and Colon a territory of 448 ' square
miles, extending five miles on either
side the canal route), he has had in
his kfepfng the health of many thou
sands of men from widely different
parts of the earth, engaged in digging
through the swamp land of the erst-
ably $10,000 burned up in making one
man food for powder. Gorgas, in the
canal zone, has been saving human life
at the actual cost of $2.43 the individ
ual. Sanitation in the Isthmus under
Gorgas has cost Just 6 per cent of the
total canal building expenditures.
When, then, the Panama canal is
open to the world's vessels let no one
have to be reminded that this epic
work could never have been accom
plished had not devoted and zealous
men, from Pinlay to Gorgas. so mag
nificently, and with so much altruism,
suffering and martyrdom, led up to
and applied the discoveries and re
sources of medical science to the co
lossal enterprise.
thing Up before Miss Fern Hoblbs .is
called on? I JACK WILLIAMS.
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Settlers in Sluslaw Forest.
Heceta, Or., March 25. To tfce Edi
tor' of Thej Journali I understand
there are ome 800 applications for
lands here rln the Sluslaw forest re
serve. Thee is land here for several
thousand m(re. The government sur
veyors are here now j examining this
land for homestead erttry. Slxi places
have been taken within this neighbor
hood in the past few days. 0ne of
the forest rangers toli me he thought
about 60 per cent of the land could be
taken for homestead. I There is good
agricultural land on four sides! of my
place. I settled in 1904. About half
of my place is in cultivation or grass,
and every acre is producing feed for
stock. Fiftjr per cent; of the land in
the Sluslaw reserve will do the; same
There are parties moving in on their
homesteads
bench land.
now.
and
This is all hill or
ranges In distance
Mar4b.- 190J-iie had 86,000 .employes
uftder ofc'ervVAion. with 122 deaths; in
March of 908 he supervised 43,000
men, with only 45 deaths The mor
tality ratpV-Jthe canal zone for March
of thati.yW'Vas leBs than that of the
city oC"NelKTork, which Is among the
lowest, rural or urban, in civilization.
During 1906-7 he had 1273 deaths
among 32,314 employes; during 1912-13
he had 483 deaths among 54,000 em
ployes. The French, with an average force
of 10,000 men, lost during their con
struction period 22,000; the Americans,
with an average force of 33,000 dur
ing about the same length of time,
had 4000 die.
In modern warfare, y the way. It
costs about $15,000 to kill a man. In
the Boer row this item came as high
as $40,000. The Balkan mlxup with
Turkey was conducted more reason-
Washington.
e firf,i Mmo" om
ii.., . .i
,"7 or "trn Cttf Kon. "Kay. when
- .WRC.a at the swartna of people hur
j'"K -oy like ant,
their buildings that
tall and so narrow il
were afraid the Iandwas going to run
flel". why,SSBy, honeatly It
looked like a Joke ttf me. I was kind
--..aiuru ui mero .
tJT1? P"rle thtyelves when you
.--v,n.cu ai mem nn.n i. .-
OrSt kinA- nf liu. rr.i .
have lost all sens They are artl
VL?Y, ey veliave policemen i
standing t the crs walks h.rOtng
tnem with a club apross the street la
bunches. 1 couldn't island being herd. "
fo I got ma a cA. It sure lookejrW
as If New York-wia the unloading
Place and Ah if all trails were- headed
that way. say, the jiTay the poor live
there is a crime. and the way the rich
live is worse tliana crime. All of ,
them, rich and portf, have lost their
human instincts. They have become
proiit-KraiHimK mainlines. Unbalanced -development
is the peril of the biat
city. '
"Ityw can you espect to rear free,,
independent, liberty Roving Americana) ,
where they are herded like shoep and
where a policeman fwith a club does
their thinking for .!bem and decides
for them when .they ftvant to cross the
street and when to,!niIl around on
corner like a drovq ol cattle. You
cant raise an all-rlund, resourceful. '
useful man on a dy. smelly pave
ment. He has to leafn something from
nature. Hrlck wallif and steam heat '
are not aids to IntelUrt. They live, but
they don't have to tiow much merafy
to live. They are setting their exist- :
ence out of It am; putting nothing
iney are. spusges that suck up
but never give buckii
"The measure of im good citizen la
how much more does he produce than
he destroys. Why QjjeRe profit absorb. -ers
put nothing Intig existence. They
are like the tmrnnyes that cling to
the bottom of the .ship. Thoy do noth
ing to add to its' prgreiis.
"There are more lifers In New York
then I suppose existed.. A man doesn't
have to b poor to betel loafer, for there"
are as many rich lowers there as poor.
ones and they are,:? equally useless.
There Is absolutely no excuse for a
loafer. What good & he to society?
"Up to now here Itf the west we hava
Just been preparing; headquarters for
our real work. Pretty near every-
thing in our Mate h Idle. We have1
Idle forests, idle risers, idle prairies
and idle people. We'want to get the
loarers to work-. Idp people are beg-'
ging for something Jo do and our idle
resources aro begging to be developed
and used. - -j
'We need to: fhodilrnlze the country '
as the city has beet; modernized. We
lean take away the JrudRery of farm '
rwork by introduclnglmodern scientific!
methods. We have itoo much wasted '
'energy now too mlch loat 5 motion.
We want to get electricity at work on
the farm as it is lntthe city.
"We need to modernize our machin
ery of filstrlbutlon, -Sre want to make
our marketing machinery operate with
less friction and bfeng producer and
consumer into closefj'touch. Too much
profit- is absorbed tvy th middle man.
it isn't fair to match the wits of the
ESSE POMEROY, convicted of
murdering several children, has
been kept In solitary confine
ment in the Massachusetts
state prison for 38 years. This
man, more brute than human, has
shown no evidence of reform dur
ing all the years of his confine
ment. He has been a constant
menace to the institution.
Frank L. Randall, new prison
commissioner, is to try the theory
that a penitentiary falls of Its pur
pose unless the men confined there
grow better. He believes a prison
is not merely a place of punish
ment; It Is more a reformatory
than a punitive Institution.
Solitary confinement has not re
formed Pomeroy; It has perpetu
ated all the brute there was in
him. He Is now to be treated as
though he were a man instead of
a wild beastj He Is to have com
panionship. The necessity of bene
fiting him personally Is to rark
on an equality with the need of
restraining his vicious Instincts.
If Pomeroy improves under the
new treatment, his case will be a
notable illustration of what prisons
can do for good or evil.
etorm swept country by the nations
of the world led by the United
States. 1 ' .
- Some day, declares Mr. Angell,
there la to be a world republic and
Freeman with the other.
What a fine specimen of man to
be at large with two revolvers!
in some respects, what a travesty
we are on real civilization, Buch,
flA 1Tnit01 HtatAQ ton rwCknovA nw I .
t j7 " f ,uior instance, as wn en we manu-
a leading part in that world repub- j factUre pistols and arm thugs like
lie by an effective handling of the ' the "tattooed robber" and send
Mexican situation. them out to fall upon and kill de-
In his advocacy of the coming fenseless loggers or whoever else
of a day when war shall cease j may chance their way.
among tne nations air. Angen does , But. what else are nlstols mad
not base his argument on senti
ment but on economy. War, he
sets forth, is unprofitable to both
conqueror and conquered. The ex-
for?
The Pacific Coast Loggers asso
ciation has unanimously nassed
? - . ) w uaa ywwovu
tension of credit and the' growing! resolutions opposing the repeal of
Interdependence of governments free tolls. . No wonder! If free
renaer tne iruu or victory more , tolls be repealed, Canadian lumber-
costly than Its worth.,. It Is not
worth the price that ; has to be
paid. ,.. . - .. ;..
i When people find themselves
.'chafing at the delay of a policy
men can underbid Oregon lumber
men In the Gulf and Atlantic ports
of 'the United States, and many an
Oregon logging camp will be re
duced In force or be abandoned al-
The present tax muddle has
come about because the method of
collecting has never been sound.
It Is founded on the false principle
that enough should be collected in
advance for a whole year. When
the collections are adjusted to the
needs of public business so mil
lions of money will not be drawn
from the people and piled up In
the banks a year in advance, there
will be no such , muddle as the
Cleeton decision has brought on
That is why The Journal has long
advocated quarterly payment of
taxes.
W.- M. Davis, chairman of the
committee, announces that only 300
names are needed to. complete the
number of signatures required to
get the non-paf tisan judiciary bill
on the ballot. The ease with which
the signatures were secured indi
cates that the bill for keeping the
courts out of politics is extremely
popular with the people.
The ratio of registered women is
steadily gaining on the; men. It is
now more than, one woman to two
men. The way for women to help
equal suffrage in other states is
for all of them to vote at all elec
The School Board Automobiles.
Portland, March 30. To the Editor
of The Journal I see In the papers
mat Hcnooi jierk Thomas haa satis
factorily explained to the Oregon Civic
league "the exact purposes to which
the seven automobiles owned by the
school board are put, and the cost of
their upkeep."
With the belief that there are thou
sands of taxpayers who, like myself,
would like to feel that satisfaction, I
ask that the explanation be passed
around. . .
When 1 first knew they had one
automobile I Questioned the justice of
sucn expenditure, since our street car
service reaches every school and when
saw "Car No. 3" the question mark
grew larger. Then, again, I saw "Car
No. B," and the question mark grew
out of all proportion. Now when I
find they hold seven of these lux
uries my curiosity gets the better of
me and must be relieved, if only by
the asking. -
So I'm giving some of the questions
uppermost In every ordinary taxpay
er's mind: What represents the orig
inal cost? wnat the upkeep? Are
they all of one make? What firms
were favored? How many are used at
a tlmeT "Who all" enjoy these free
rides, etc, etc. MRS. A. BON HAM. -
, '
"Wealth, Money and Wages.
Clackamas, Or., March 26. To th
Editor of The Journal In regulating
the finances of our nation, it might
be well for the people to understand
some of the questions. If money is
the representative of wealth, created
or to be created, there ought to be
enough money for every one who
wishes to labor or go into business.
In 1904 the per capita was $31.41.
Now, if every one worked every day In
tne year, tnere wouia not be money
enough to pay more tha.n $1 per day.
To keep wages -up, so that every man
can have good wages, there must be
some system whereby a man can get
the . medium of exchange to pay him
ror ms work without robbing his fel
low man tor woman).
Is President Wilson tryinsr to c-1vv4
xne peopie more money? When peo
ple work they should have'the use of
money without having to pay interest
on It. Muscle without intelligence
would be an almost total waste. ? lam
xur suw uouu wages makes
good times and a happy people. To
have good wSges, there must be enousrh
money to pay. VIOLA BURR.
from one-half to seven" miles from the
ocean beach. In Lane county, 2d miles
north of Florence and! 20 miles; south
of Waldportj In the vicinity of Saddle
mountain and Big-creek, and also near
Three Buttejs and on I the headwaters
of the north if or k of the Sluslaw There
Is plenty of (running Water everywhere
and living springs. I j
On my place potatoes prodube 573
bushels to the acre. Timothy and
clover grow .seven feet high and so
thick it is difficult to get a ; sickle
'through. 04ts and wjheat grow very
large. Common garden, peas grow 15
feet high. Rutabagas are large as
19 inches lni diameter. Two-year-old
apple trees iore 14 large apples and
four-year-ohaj trees as (many as ap
ples. Cherries and peaches, in fact
everything, do well jhere that will
grow In any iother part of the sitate.
This is alaji fast becoming one of the
greatest dairying sections of the state.
It Is not a t'mber country. One can
stand In my jdooryard and see a sheep
for 10 miles. The ibruish on this land
censlsts of Salmonberfy, vine maple,
alder and a few sapling firs. ; Dead
cedar occurs,! and Is good for building
purposes. "there is plenty of wild
game and thie streams are all full of
fish. I have; located many settlers In
this vicinity.
show anyone
my place the
REAPING THE (SftlLROAD WHIRLWIND
" ,- , ' ! "
Prescriptions arid Prohibition.
Hood Klver, Or., March 28. To the
Editor of The Journal Is Hood River
dry? I answer, yes and no. By state
law the town is dry, but In actuality
it is not. Go to the two depots and the
express offices and look over the lists of
booze snipped in. You'll see barrels
of whiskey unloaded at the felgnt de
pot consigned to local druggists. Now
the question, to an outsider, would be,
"Who drinks all this." According to
state law, one- mast -be sick, 1n the
rirst place, then get-a doctor s pre
scription, wmcn costs $1.50, to get a
bottle of liquor. That will cost $1.60.
The same brand would cost Just a
dollar in a saloon. Now, if this stuff
were all consumed by sick people.
tnere would not be manyf us left able
to take care : of our. orchards . and
strawberrry fields. . , . .
A man who is not sick can not get
a prescription - unless he will perjure
I am always glad to
land free I of charge. At
latchstrlng Is on the out
side of the door. I hope this will in
crease the population of this locality
and lead to the establishing of many
happy homes, LORENZO E. DOLE
I
Portland's Opportunities.
Portland, Or.. March 28. To the
Editor of I The Journal In th
article in Friday's Journal exDress-
lng regret that the business men of
Portland were unable Ito meet Secre
tary KedrielcL and make him convers.
ant with Portland ami Oregon's re
quirements for the expansion of Its
commerce, stating,! that if Oregon's
commerce isj to be promoted, if its
trade is to be extended as it should
be, if its resources are to be developed.
tnere must oe a more thorough study
or its natural trade routes,
Secretary Redfield as an officer of
the governmeint and a resident of New
York, could i hardly be expected to
know wnat would be required in Port
land to expand its commerce and its
business men could Hot tell him:
would not if j they could; and If they
could and would, the secretary would
immediately nform thejm, that it was
not wiinin ine province: oi tne govern
ment to supply same.
The secretary is perfectly right In
his determination to establish a con
sular office M Seattle, la fish commis
sioner and a -supervising Inspector of
the steamboat , service;. Why?1 Be
cause the people of Seattle by their in
domitable will, tbeir puman energy
and their progressive activity have
wrested from jvns, the natural, logical,
strategical, commercial and geograph
ical center of the northwest all the
commerce t,he pioneers! of this state
developed In the past, because to use
the expression of the honorable secre
tary of commerce in San Francisco,
the descendants of thosi pioneers were
educated in the doctrine! of commercial
cowardice. j J "
On account of this latter, the people
of Portland have lost mkny opportuni
ties in the past. This is the psycho
logical moment when her lost prestige
can In part be recovered. The oppor
tunity to participate In the beneficial
trade of the north to be derive front
and in conjunction with the construc
tion of the intended government rail
road In 'Alaska. "The great volume of
By John M. Osklson. '
I desire to draw your attention to a
perfect Illustration of the old adage
that If you sow the wind you may ex
pect to reap the whirlwind. It Is a
matter of railroad financing.
Very desperately, the railroad man
agers are trying to obtain an increase
of rates from the Interstate commerce
commission. Probably they are fully
entitled to the lncraa.se; certainly they
have shown that until iney gei ix iney
are going to have a hard time getting
money to meet their needs.
In the very miasi oi ins rajiruuuo
fight for higher rates comes the news
that the poor old Rock lsiana sysiei
has at last hit the rocks, and a con
gressional committee investigation oi
its financial history looms ahead. The
whirlwind is about to be reaped.
it wfLH back in 1902 tnat the sowing
of the wind took place In the financial
history of Rock Island. As an Iowa
congressman put the case in a speech
In the house, a group of freshly made
millionaires fell upon tne kock tsiana
in and proceeded to change it
ffrom a fine money earning property
capitalized at $60,000,000 into a water-
loggedMtarveling. tterore mey ccu
The unique value of the work of
Colonel Gorgas lies in his practical
demonstration 'that regions of the
earth hitherto closed to the white man
can be made as habitable as any por
tion of our own country.. Any section
of the earth can now be made open to
civilization. Nor can civilized man
now recede to his own position of
fatalism, resignation, or indifference to
the ravages of epidemic disease.
This, then, has been the career of
Oojonel Gorgas. It is characteristic
of f?e man and of both the professions
of healing and of soldiery which he so
nobly represents that no reward in
the form of great wealth has ever been
his, nor would It have ever been con
sidered or accepted. The satisfaction
of work well done for the good of hu
manity Is the modest distinction wor
thy of him and of his monumental
work.
There should, finally, he "a depart
ment of public health In Washington,
with aj secretary of public health In
the president's cabinet. Ninety mil
lion, nf nsnnla wmiM ha vaatlv hone-
fited, in the most vital relations of ! to , ep"atort, bfiPart'a f-ftll
Hf bv th amjolntment. with hla ac- i Profit. They allow hlm Just enough
ceptance, of Brigadier General Gorgas f that he wilVkeepJon in the produe
to this preeminence.- f business. The pr5ducer cannot sell
carefully built mej-ketlng machine.
I where the mlddlematt: has his ack un
! der the spout. lie takes the profK on
the transaction andells the producer
'It's hard ;3uck, but I thlnn
market will be better next year."
charges rose from 40 per cent to 90 i And the producer, tSrjrir fool, hopes If
man who trades all tge time with those
who markets his gyods once a year.
The producer Is toid he has a- fair
market. As a matter of fact he goes
Irrigating the property $121,000,000 of blandly:
''water" had been poured over It; fixed I the mar
per cent, and the lnevi tablet "protective
committees" (one organized In the In
terests of the bondholders, and another
on behalf of the stockholders) are ad
vertising their plans as I write.
The Rock Island sowing- of the finan
cial wind was a peculiarly bold opera-
will and never feels i&H! skinning knife.
"The water Is theflcl earing house of
trade and transportation. That Is why
a line of boats to Alaska will help
solve the problem. .
"The man who Judges people by the
standard of dress has a pretty narrow
tlon vou will rjrobablv learn from th i foot rule to measur with. It's what
current news within the next few we ire and what wetdo that counts in
months Just what was done. Learning j the long run. ;jJL
that story, you will be able better "Life Is made ntfof putting the
to understand the hesitation displayed ' earth's natural resources together. We
by the Interstate commerce commission "tart with so rhuoh nd we don't put
In permitting the railroads to raise any more into the-trorld; we merely
their rates in order to better their ! change its form. W talk about what
credit. Said George Gould recently:-- jwe have produced, but after all it waa
"We cannot sell securities on a large j11 hre to tart wltl,' What we want
scale abroad until investors over there ' to change our system to help people
feel certain of the futur of our rail- scatter out on me icie iana. aan
roads,
That Is ,a true statement; and h
might have added that American in
vestors are also getting shy. Over
here, too, we should really like to get
some authoritative assurance that an
other Rock Island episode Is not await
ing us when we put our dollars Into
railroad securities.
commerce that will flow between the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts with the
opening of the Panama canal, as well
i Mhcr directions which are but
ot secondary Importance at this time..
Action only will accompiisn results.
By reason of my activities In this di
rection Portland has become a point
of Interest to the whole shipping com
munity of the United States, from San
Francisco and every shipping center of
the. Atlantic coast, the newspapers
are stating and commenting on what
Portland's intentions are in this direc
tion and I am receiving more letters
asking what the opportunities are
for men in mercantile and commercial
pursuit, than I have
answer Can It be realized that it re
qXs a strategist and a diplomat to
Snrwer truthfully most of the queries?
As wi example, I Will quote from a
letter of two brothers from Sochester,
New York, wishing to come to Port
land to engage in the mercantile bro
kerage business, etatlng they have ex
nnnActlona throughout several
states with heavy consumers of every
thing the state oi urcsuu i""
hides, hops, wool, barley for brewing
purposes and white oats, our choicest
nroducts.
What answer is to be made to these
men? Can I tell them that the only
method we now have of transporting
our products seaward is via Seattle or
San Francisco? We have no direct
means, and the extra transfer costs
$1.50 per ton.' i simpiy it
equivocal replies ajid endeavor to drop
the correspondence.
RICHARD CHILCOTT.
ger of ' society "Is burif hing up. Bunch
them up, and people degenerate. Grow ..
too many potatoes lnoo small a space
and they beco.m. small potatoes and
few In a hill. People today, in the'
cities pay folks- to lo their thinking
for them. They rea what somebody
says and they all follow along In the
same rut without .stopping to think
and 1-tvestlgate andijform their own
nr1ita!ons if?
they furnished was the asphalt 'The!- "No, I don't read many of the books
county paid for every other bit of labor written today. If I feel the need of read
and material. The asphalt In that two, g j pick up some cd he old fellowa
men wearing sunace wouia cost aDout j wu naj a message. iiTney naa ome
13 cents, at the outside; that is high i thing to say and thejj' said it. There
per square yard. The department of ' jH some meat In th3r books. Today
agriculture is laying a two Inch bltum- 0ur writers Interpret what someone
lnous concrete macadam wearing stir-; eiPe thinks or thlnk he thinks, and t
face for 48 cents per square yard. ' you can read and ret'd and you never''
complete. Why should not the Peo- et arywhere, and widen you have read
pie of this county profit by the expe-' n you wonder what IE Is all about,
rlence and experiments of the national j "We need to get oift on the land, do
good roads bureau. ! our own thinking asd do something .
And In conclusion I would like to j that will add to the world's welfare
as wueincr a main who is act in a; wiin- ; and htppmess. ,3-
the people,?
TOST S vTEENE Y,
The American Passion.
From the Seattle Sun. -V
In an Interview published In the
New York Tiroes a few days ago. Henri
Spring Higng.
We did not have to Have a light
Whn w sat down toi tea last night
Beresofi. the French nhllo.iopher. took whtrh is a slan t ha pretty soon
occasion to express his belief that a f"It will be Aptil, Mtr and June.
1he Ragtiirr Muse
great future is In store for American
philosophy.
Another thing I notldfcd too
This morn.ng when Ahe breezes blew
Questions Concerning Paving.
Portland, March' 30. To the Editor
of The Journal I would like to know
whether the newspaper of this city
are going to allow the county com
missioners to give to the Warren Bros,
company, a Boston corporation,. $250,
000 of the people's money without a
murmur. The Warren a have offered
to the county for 88 cents a square
yard practically tha game "thing they
offered to lay In the city complete for
50 cents last year; '1 Are the county
commissioners working for the paving
trust, or zor tne peopieT
j C"pytght. 19,1
The Warrens got 55 cents from the
county on the Llnnton road, and all American passion.
"He holds," says the Interview, "that ,nt mv room thev a fled' so nice
the American mind has a peculiar trait , They seemed to be chiick full of aplce.
which enables It to make the greatest j
contribution to the solution bf philo-'And all the pavements on our street
i ..tj.. ,t. ' i Where once was onljs snow ana sleet
sophlcal problems the American mind,; a thgbrJck- ar. !ooM
namely, approaches facts without any . That ipit at you andsoil your shoes,
leady made theory. It is willing to;
let facta tell their own story. It haa So I am sure that pjtty soon - '
no bias, but keenly observes what la , I'm going to hear thj robin's tune
going on. It Is, therefore, less subject ! And V"? I ' way
to the dancer ahf tpln misled bv mere .A ,'Jf.-rl. . . k . sfZ. n. .
words, which are so often the only
content of rationalistic philosophies,
and Is moro likely to get at the truth
which can be revealed only by observa
tion and experience." .
The trait which Professor Bergson
speaks of has long been recognized,
though sometimes under other names,
as American. We have been charged
with materialism and lack of reverence
because we have been unable to accept
any dogmas, or even any principles,
that we had not ourselves proved by
our own observation and experience.
The charges have worried us, but we
could not change our psychology.
There Is nothing the average Ameri
can so deeply desires in his heart of
hearts as to be clear sighted, open
minded, and unhampered by cut and
dried theories. Professor Bergson has I
put his finger unerringly on the real!
b T. A. Daly.)
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