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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, FRIDAY- EVENING, APRIL 17, 1914.
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THE MEXICAN SALUTE
HUERTA yields, and is to sa
lute the American flag. In
turn, the United States will
acknowledge the formality,
gun for gun. The outcome ends
the present Mexican crisis.
British critics and some Ameri
cans claim that the return salute
by the United States will strength
en Huerta's position. That con
tention is a very inconsequential
matter,
Huerta's survival is not to be de
termined by a pretty ceremonial
between American and Mexican
warships. It is General Villa who
is swiftly determining Huerta's po
sition, in human affairs. Beside
Villa's multiplying victories and
swift destruction of federal regi
ments in Mexico, the firing of a
few blank - cartridges at sea . is as
a summer zephyr to a cyclone. - -
Experience has proven that
'Huerta is not to rise or fall by
diplomacy. lie is a desperado and
with desperadoes diplomacy does
not count. He rose by the sword
and assassination and will fall by
the sword. He knows no diplo
macy but the arbitrament of war
or assassination.
Meanwhile, the flag Incident has
taught both the federals and tbe
rebels In Mexico that there 8 a
limit to American forbearance. The
sudden appearance on the horizon
of an American fleet steaming to
Taraplco to make war if necessary,
but bent on peace if possible, was
a reminder both of the power and
the patience of the Washington
government.
Huerta is a passing tragedy. His
career of usurpation is fading. His
tyranny is doomed.
Villa is solving the Mexican
problem.
ANOTHER PROTEST
THE Oregon Woolgrowers Asso
ciation has written Senator
Chamberlain urging him to
stand firm in his opposition to
repeal of free tolls.
. Nearly all the wool of Oregon'
goes to the Atlantic seaboard. The
railroad charge is so heavy, that
much wool from the Northwest has
been shipped from Portland and
Puget Sound by steamer, thence
across the isthmus of Tehuantepec
by rail, and thence by steamer to
New York and Boston. Now that
the canal is built, it is proposed
by the attempt to repeal free tolls,
to place a tax at the rate of
$1.20 a ton on American wool pass
ing through the canal from the
Northwest to Atlantic ports.
Naturally, Oregon woolgrowers
oppose this tax on their products
and their opposition has been ex
pressed by the Oregon .Woolgrow
ers' Association in a protest Bent to
Senator Chamberlain.
The proposal to repeal the free
tolls act similarly affects every in
dustry of Oregon. It is a proposal
to reverse the forty-yar-old Ameri
can policy of free waterways bv
taxing American ; products passing
through an American waterway at
Panama, a waterway of which John
Hay, who helped to frame the
treaty, said:
The whole theory of the treaty is
that the canal is to be an American
canal. The enormous cost of construct
ing U 1b to bo borne bv the United
States alone. When constructed, It
win do exclusively the property of th
United States, and Is to be managed
controlled, and defended bv It
v Every Oregon industry, in self
protection, is opposed to a tax on
its products passing through the
canal. No Oregon producer can
afford to Invite higher freight rates
on his products en route to gulf
and Atlantic ports. That is whv
so many organizations have passed
resolutions of protest aealnst the
repeal bill, and why not, a single
organization has declared In favor
of it. t
FIRE PREVENTION DAY
ATURDAY will be fire preven
tlon day in Oregon. People
, a 1 are being urged to clean up
their premises, remove rub-
blsh and do everything n their
power to minimize the hazard
destructive conflagrations.
, . Special significance attaches
of
to
the day, for it has been set aside
as a time when public attention
may be centered on the tremen
dous economic losses which fires
cause. If the people of America
should once realize what fires are
costing them there would be
multiplication of prevention days,
The March fire loss in the United
States nd Canada was S25.512
750 which was higher than for
any' month last year, and' the
highest since February, 1912. The
total loss for the first quarter of
1914 'was $70,461,650, compared
with $59,788,850 in the cor
reeponding period of last year and
180,905,650 ia the opening quar
ter of 1912.
The greater part of America's
fire loss, amounting to yearly
250,000,000 a year, is due to
carelessness. Much of this is per
sonal, evidenced by discarded In-
flamable material that is allowed to
collect in dangerous places. . The
average citizen should have im
pressed upon him his individual
responsibility for his share of pre
ventable waste. '
A veteran Chicago fireman died
the other day. During his 37
years' service he saw Chicago's
population grow four times and the
number of fires multiply eighteen
times. , v .
DEMOCRACY'S GUARDIAN
A"
GAIN Dr. C. J. Smith Is an
noying the Oregonian. With
what seems to be most pain
ful and disturbing effect upon
amiable newspaper, he has
that
dared to write letters to Democrats
In various parts of the state in the
Interest of his candidacy for the
Democratic nomination for gover
nor. , .
Of course, others of the candi
dates for governor, both Democrat
ic and Republican, are also writing
similar letters, as candidates have
done through all time. But the
Oregonlan thinks Candidate Smith
should not use the mails for such
purpose, and Smith, with utter
lack of reverenceor that paper, un
feelingly and impudently goes on
writing.
He ought to be enjoined, or be
mandamused, or be squelched. If
the Oregonian doesn't want Dr.
Smith to be the Democratic nomi
nee for governor, the Democrats
ought to prevent him from being
nominated, even if they have to
make him get off the earth. How
utterly foolish it would be for the
Democrats not to have the Ore
gonian pick their candidate, since
that paper is always so whole-
souled and- so strenuous in its sup
port of the Democratic nominee for
governor after the primaries!
The Oregonian is one of the most
benevolently philanthropic newspa
pers In tbe world. Its undying in-
trest in the welfare of the Demo
crats is one of the marvels of the
age. Its daily expressions of af
fection for Mr. Bryan, for Presi
dent Wilson and for other Demo
crats, are proof of its unselfish
purpose in trying to name the Dem
ocratic nominee in the Oregon pri
maries..
Meanwhile, Smith ought to -be
stopped from writing his infamous
letters. He should not be per
mitted to further annoy the, great
friend and guardian of the Demo
crats. By the t, ay, since it doesn't want
Smith to be the Democratic nomi
nee, what candidate would it have
the Democrats nominate?
How can the Democrats carry on
their primaries to suit the Oregon
ian, If it doesn't make itself un
derstood?
THE WORD RECALL
THERE is said to be worry
among those interested in the
Word recall.
vvny worry mere will be
a splendid chance to recall Sheriff
Word next November. All the peo
ple will be voting then, and every
thing will be regular.
The effort to dislodge him will
have the added strength that comes
from regularity and good order.
It will also have increased chance
to succeed, in that thej-e will be
no trouble then to get a candidate
to make the race against Mr. Word.
Few men would be willing to
become the candidate against him
n a recall election now. Few
men would undertake to brave the
odium of leading a recall election
with the regular election but six
months away.
Few men would become a candi
date to recall an officer against
whom the charge is that he re
spected his official oath and pre
served order on the publio streets.
THE OLD STORY
FOUR young children are" father
less at Roseburg. Their
mother is suddenly left to be
me oreaa winner.
Their father was shot, while In
the field, by a neighbor yesterday.
The' two men -occupied- adjoining
farms. Both were men of good
standing and well regarded In the
community. They quarreled over a
very small matter and a revolver
did the rest.
A young mother and four chil
dren are in tears and mourning.
A father, his wife and daughter
are in anguish over what may be
the penalty. Relatives of both
lamuies are in sorrow, and the
community is aghast at the homi
cide.
It is the fruit of going armed'.
It is the penalty for carrying a
loaded pistol.
The price of the pistol is or-
, .
punas, wmowa, Diooa, penitent!
aries. penalties, death and tears.
ONE WOMAN'S CLUB
a MONG the organizations In
A Portland is the Woman's Po-
r litical Science Club.
It has a, splendid excuse
for existence. The enfranchise
ment of women threw a new votine
force into the ballot boxes of Ore
gon. It put into the hands of
women the" poweg' to control and
shape the affairs ol the state. It
gives women the balance of voting
strength which they could, by vot
ing , together, use to . absolutely
chart the course of the common
wealth. . It Is a tremendous power for
good or evil. Wise use of the bal
lot by women would yield vast In
fluence for the good of the state.
Unwise uee could exert calamitous
consequences. t
The Political Science Club Is a
training :chool for voting women.
It Is a -place where the concerns
of government are discussed for ed
ucative purposes. ,
The club brings its members in
happy contrast with many un
trained and ignorant male voters
of foreign nativity who know lit
tle of government and less about
political science.
The aims, and purposes of the
Woman's Political Science Club are
highly creditable to its membership.
THE SHRINER
HE reunion in this city of!
Shriners from Spokane, Walla
Walla, Tacoma, Seattle and
Oregon, and from all over the
Northwest, is a reminder of the
growth and strength of this frater
nal order and the character of its
membership, which includes lead
ers in the business and profes
sional world.
The order of the Mystic Shrine
originated in the United States a
few score years ago and it has
spread over the North American
continent and insular possessions
of the American government, ft
has followed the flag. While only
Knights Templar and 3 2d degree
Masons are eligible to its mem
bership it is not based on Masonic
tradition and philosophy. It is
purely a social adjunct. Its sym
bolism is borrowed from the land
of the crescent. Good fellowship
is its creed and at its. altar Christ
ian, Jew, Mohamedan and Hindu
may bow the knee. All that is re
quired is to practice charity by
relieving the needy and tolerating
the opinions of others.
Behind the Oriental costume of
patrol, behind the band of brass,
behind all the childish .play, be
neath the red let of the Shriner,
there is a serious purpose. It is
the purpose of fellowship, the in
stinct of social communion, it has
been well said that grown in the
solitude of his own companionship,
man matures in the weakness of
bis own nature and perishes in the
weakness of his own existence.
But contact with his fellows touch
es the inertness of his being, stirs
him to the accomplishment of life's
purest desires, of ambition's most
laudable objects and strikes a
spark of reality into his hope for
immortality.
AIDING MANKIND
P'
RESIDENT WILSON has writ
ten Senator Chamberlain a
letter approving a resolution
authorizing the appointment
of an officer of the engineering
corps to supervise China's flood
prevention project. There is every
reason why the United , States
should thus assist the Chinese.?
China's need is great. The win
ter inundations from swollen rivers
have resulted In a loss of $2,000,-"
000. . Three years ago, In two prov
inces, the crops were destroyed by
floods for the third time in five
years. In seven provinces 600,000
families were brought to the verge
of starvation.
The Chinese government intends
to spend $20,000,000 on engineer
ing works which will keep the
rivers within their, banks. " The
Red Cros& society lias taken an
active interest in the project, and
is lending its assistance in financ
ing the undertaking. China, now
wants American engineers to solve
technical problems, and thus es
tablish the improvements , on a
par with similar projects In ,the
United States. x
No better illustration of Ameri
ca s attitude toward tne world
could be found. The United States
loaned Colonel Gorgas. who made
the Panama zone sanitary, to South
Africa in Ihe hope that he would
solve the pneumonia problem in
the Rand mining district.
If an army engineer is needed
in China to harness that republic's
riters, he should be sent there. If
there is a solution of China's prob
lem, our engineers can find it.
THE POOR ROOSTER
R
ECENTLY the department of
agriculture announced a plan
for separating the " rooster
and his crow. It was said
that by cutting chanticleer's vocal
cords, a simple process, he could
be rendered as mute as the hen
that has not laid an egg.
Now there is to be further en
croachment upon the rooster's pre
rogatives. The department has is
sued the following announcement:
In. the interest of egg conservation.
poultry experts of the department of
agriculture have started a campaign
for the elimination-, of the rooster
among poultry flocks during the sea
son between May 1 and December 1.
Saturday, May 16, has been set aside
as "rooster day" in Kentucky and Ten
nessee, when poultry dealers have
agreed to pay the same prices for
roosters as they do for hens and pul
lets. ' ' . .,
It is estimated that one third
of the tremendous annual loss of
eggs is due to the rooster. It is
urged that on May 1 all roosters
be either killed, sold or confined
until December 1. All states are
advised . to follow the example of
Kentucky and Tennessee.
Alas! The poor rooster!
Various members of the 1913
legislature are claiming that the
people are to . blame for ' high
taxes. What about the appropria
tion bills the machine gang in the
1913 legislature passed over' the
governor's veto? What about the
bills for raise of salaries of offi
cials In eighteen or twenty coun
ties, i passed by the legislative
machine over the governor's vetoes?
Who but that machine piled up
the more than $6, OOw, 000 for the
people to pay in taxes?
The Journal Is almost constant
ly delayed in publishing its letters
from the people. Most contribu
tions are too long. They occupy
so much space that others are
crowded out and the letters pile up
while awaiting room in the paper
for their appearance. Contribu
tors should be less wordy. An ar
ticle of 250 or 3"00 words will get
many times as many readers as
those of greater length.
The city will request new plans
for the public auditorium. The
vote ordering construction of, the
auditorium was passed by the peo
ple on the 5 th of June, 1911. That
was two .years, nine months, and
twelve days ago. Can Portland
build an auditorium?
While Portlanders ruminate over
the amount of their taxes, how
would it do to have some thought
about what Multnomah county
wanted with $3000 worth of bed
bug poison.
Letters From the People
(Communication tent to The Journal for
publics tlon In this department should be writ
ten on only one side of the paper, should not
exceed 300 words in length and must be ac
companied by the name and. address of the
Bender. If the writer doea not desire to
have the name published, be should so state.)
"Discussion Is 'the greatest of aU reform
ers. It rationalizes everything It touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they hare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up Its
own conclusions In their stead," Woodrow
Wilson.
In Reply to Mrs. Duniway.
Portland, April 16. To the Editor
of The Journal It Is truly kind of
Mrs. Duniway to allow us the right of
free discussion, but her line of rea
soning is not convincing. She says,
"The trouble with our prohibition
friends is that they treat the sale of
liquor as an active, transitive thing,
dependent wholly upon itself for its
existence, ..entirely overlooking the fact
that the consumer is the responsible
factor in the case, without ,whose
agency the liquor could not intoxicate
anyone."
The revolver is not dangerous ex
cept in the hands of some person, but
we do not leave it lying around loose
on evry street - corner for anyone to
use QnJbecomlng angry. Still, it would
be harmless there if left alone.
No, we do not think the liquor traf
fic is an active, transitive thing till
the hands of man take hold of It;
neither is the revolver if left alone.
But if a crazy man takes the revolver
in. his hands it is best that bystanders
hunt for cover, not pausing, either, to
argue with him about self-control, and
all that sentimental rot.
Liquor . poisons a man's brain so be
is insane to a certain extent, and is
not a responsible person. If he hurt
himself 'Only It would not be so bad,
hut every paper tells of someone being
killed in a drunken row, often Innocent
people, bystanders, are . hurt, and
many of the crimes against' woman
hood start in saloons. If the ballot
can't free our nation of such a curse
as the saloons, then I hope they will
disfranchise us women for all time,
for I do not want the responsibility of
the accursed thing at my door, or fret
away my life hoping another time we
may win.
Mrs. Duniway should see to it that
tbe city shall leave it to our moral re
sponsibility to cut the weeds on our
lots, to pay our taxes when we please
and to hunt and fish any time of the
year. What a Jolly time we all would
have. Let everybody decide to carry a
revolver if he chooses; eat, drink and
wear what he chooses, and generally
have a fine time all around. Let a
roan go upon the street not having
sufficient clothing to keep him warm,
and nobody cares if he lives or dies
from exposure, but we have to pay
men to look after the fellows who
drink so much they make us trouble;
still one can iiardly see why we should
do so in the latter case any more than
in the former. Prohibition is to pro
tect us. and to help us financially.
That's the point; and we hope we win.
H. C.
Land and the Immigrant.
Portland, April 16. To the Editor of
The Journal-When a great and good
citizens' feed is given, and the immi
gration question comes up, how care
fully the rea-l heart of the question
Is evaded and skimmed over as though
it were a fearful thing- to tell the
truth.
All wealth is created by labor ap
plied to the gifts of nature and itt
no other way. Oregon has abundant
natural gifts for all the oppressed of
Europe to make use of who are at all
likely to come here. Why be afraid of
the real reason why the coming of able
and willing labor to Oregon is going to
create hard times, lower' wages and
idle armies of American-born citizens
hunting work?
The cause of hard times Is land mo
nopoly. Why are our great leaders
afraid to say so? Many of them know
it full well. Nine lots out of 10 in
Portland are idle. No man can work
UDon them without first securing con
sent from somebody wlo will demand
to be paid for. getting out of the way
of labor. Foodstuffs could be raised
on the empty lots of Portland suf
ficient to supply the entire city.
The foreign workers expected to
teem In here, next year are told to go
on the land, and as soon as they shall
attempt It the landowners will drive
them back to the cities. They are
driving In the . workers already here,
and our young men are going to Cana
da, and Australia ror lana. The im
migration . question is the land ques
tion, both in "sunny Italy" and "green
clad Oregon." '
What are- we going to do with the
land hog? Other countries are taking
steps to tax him out. We will have
to do so or suffer till we do.
ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
Housing for Public Concerts.
Portland. April 16. To the Editor of
The Journal Allow me space to speak
of the publio concerts In our city dur
ing the coming season, and to call at
tention to an urgent need for improve
ment of tho arrangement which has
been customary ln former years. Our
climate, - however splendid, is not so
disposed as to be constant in habits, so
that it is Impossible to guarantee con
cepts free from rain, and therefore
each season several concerts must be
postponed or discontinued, if rain in
terferes before or ln the midst of a
program. It Is, of course, more at
tractive to attend a concert out of
doors, and our climate is ideal during
A FEW SMILES
The dealer in antiques was showing
an old violin to a probable buyer.
f , - I "Yes," he said.
"that is of Histor
ical Interest; that
Is - the Identical
ftddle Nero played
while Rome was
burning."
"Oh. that Is a
myth."
The dealer agreed, saying: :
"Yes, it Is; and Myth's name was
on it, but it has got worn off."
Mrs. Smith was an ardent worker in
tbe cause of the prevention of cruelty
to animals, and, when
Mrs. Brown came
to tea, told her a pa
thetic tale of a don
key that she had
rescued from a cruel
master the day be
fore. The visitor was
very interested, and
when she rose to go. said:
"I am glad you have told rhe all
those fascinating things about animals,
dear Mrs. Smith. I shall never see a
donkey again without thinking of you."
After aft, the train was only 4 min
utes behind time, so the station master
was perfectly Justified in feeling
pleased with himself,
the railway and the
world in general.
A solitary waiting
passenger was mor
oidly weighing him
self on an automatic
machine, and when
he stepped off It' the
ovial official proceeded to talk to him.
"Wonderful thing the railway' sys
tem, sir!" he chirped. "I do really be
lieve that even the general -publio- is at
last beginning to realize the marvelous
improvements that have taken-place on
this line in recent years!"
That's true," answered the morbid
one. "I know of no line that -has so
many things constantly In the public
eyes as this one."
The station master was delighted.
T am more than glad to hear you say
so, sir," he chuckled, rubbing his hands ;
together. "And would you mind nam-
Ing them?"
The waiting passensrer looked uen-
Eively down the platform. '
"Cinders!" said he.
the late season, but it is also possible
in the early part to hold such con
certs indoors, as the weather would
seem likely to interfere with them
anyway. We have a splendid audi
torium In the Lincoln high school,
within a few steps of the band stand
on the park block, and this auditori
um could not be used ln a better cause,
especially when we observ th -rela
tive gratification received from the use 1
of it, compared with the investment 1 Kate, exclaiming "After us the del
that it represents, and already paid ge!" The youth Turgot observed and
for from the same source that pays ' thought; Be developed a plan of gov-
xor tne concerts, l am certain that !
the use of the Armory could be de- i
pended on for concerts in that vicinity,
and no doubt the people would thereby !
be better served.
C. C. M.
A Labor Point of View.
Astoria. Or.. Anril 18 Tn th.
tor of The ' Journal I am convinced '
that Prohibition is not a safe prcposi-
tlon lo present to a free people as the '
best economic plan. It has been stated
in The Journal, editorially, that pov- ;
erty is "the traaredv of th ate." that it
is the master crime" of civilization."
As society Is desirous of avoiding pov-
erty and crime, the individual seeks to
overcome it. Ther being profit in the ,
manufacture and sale of alcoholic '.
drinks, the government besides deriv- .
Ing an enormous revenue, there is an i
army of men. women and children di-
rectly and indirectly living off the in-
dustry. Any measure creating a 6ud-
den or radical change affecting the con -
sumption or the products of labor
would bring about great Injury to the
workers, even though these products
are deemed to be vicious. Injurious and
wasteful. There are thousands of good
men and women who work and live be-
cause of the extravagance and prodi- ! the enthusiasm of Franklin, was that
gality of others. Are the Prohibition- j 'or which Joseph Fels spent and
ists considering the health and welfare ' toiled until he died from overwork,
of all the people? Are they the Cham- j An this secondly, that Turgot was
pions of the overworked, the underpaid ' n earlier Fels, sympathetic, conslder
and the unemployed? Were they suc-!at0-' democratic, attentive to things
cessful ln this campaign would not the DlS and things little, despising char
... . i m v. itv. reverlnar lustice.
into other industries already over-' The Psalmist counsels us "to num- children of men. without respect of
d r added ?o the wretched 'her our days that we may apply our'p; that Ihe prayer. "Thy will be
of ?dlers? Wha remedy have ' hearts unto wisdom." This Turgot j done on earth.' is for us to answer;
army of ers? What remedy have. cautioned because he 'and that "the acceptable year of the
inese peop.e , o uer
.
a Vinn t "
. . .... . . . - iVir.i
Admitting that the use of alcohol ,
nrtir.iiia.rlv to excess as a beverage. Is.:
particularly to excess as a beverage, is.
productive of a large amount of physl -
cal and mental disease, eiuaj
responsiDie lor muv... - ; borers are few."
erty in our cities and country, never- j Have yQU read the j,fJ of Turgot?
theless I will not admit that pronlbl- , Few people know even the name. You
tion Is a safe or sane method to re- wU, fnd h,a Diography m our li
strain, much less to eliminate. I would . brarlea; the bQ(A Ja generauy ;
discuss a plan, a remedy, but I with- ; (ew peopie caY for such books, but
hold lest I be regarded as a revolu-. lf yoVL read lt you wln unjerstand
tionlst or an undesirable. The work- wbat j would conveys
ers are treated unfairly, unjustly, and ;
we should render assistance rather j Another man's story, an autobiOKra
than injury. There would be tio neces- phy remlnds me of Joseph Fels, "The
sity of such cfendltlons in society were , Book ot Nehemiah," a neglected scrip
wo to follow the teachings of the Naz- tBrc A man in hlgh office, and in
arena; but. alas! men will not heed Of j personal comfort, concerning himself
practice the lesson that would make j with the afflictions of his people,
this world an Eden. i personally, laboriously and at has own
JOHN R. MARTINI. jcharges because of their poverty; in-
i spiring, encouraging, working with his
' Greenbacks for Good Roads. j own hands in rebuilding the walls of
Suver Or- April 14. To the Editor I Jerusalem; at- day labor, at night
of The Journal Many are giving their ; labor; with trowel, with sword; re
views on good roads and the labor j fusing to be diverted to lesser things,
ouestlon. bo I will give mine. I think ; Just as Joseph Fels refused to turn
the best way to settle both questions ; from Justice to charity. "And I sent
i for the government to Issue full le- messengers unto them, saying: 'I am
o-al I tender greenbacks, good for all j doing a great work, so that I cannot
debts both public and private, Just as j come idown; why should the work
Lincoln did In tbe Rebellion; then de- i cease whilst I leave it, and come down
clare war on the roads and make roads j to you?"
thatll furnish work for all that will After Nehemiah secured the physi
work Those who will not work, giv : cal safety of the people, he turned at
.e cold water cure. It seems a mea- once to civil affa rs, reforming the
sure of that kind would put every- land tenures, settling every family
the government It will back in its own land, vineyards, olive
. M mvhaW rr a an1 rrT?
take more horses, more wagons, plows
and road machinery of all kinds. Let
the government set a price, say 42 a
day for single hands, and $4 for man
and' team; let these prices be for com
mon labor, then all parties hiring help
would have to pay this set price or la-
tl;..i the failure was that -any poor peo
in the hands of the county ; Pie who had small sums deposited in
tr3asurers all over the country: Then ; the private bank run by the stores are
let It pass out through the different j likely to lose most of all they had on
county courts. Just-as the road taxdeposjt?
passes out. When the money passes Tijrei 0f theso' depositors were a
through the .bankjrlt has . t?. l0'n I GermaJ, 76 years old; his wife. 72.
out to get It into circulation Then anrnarrled daughter of 50. Al-
that calls tor the Issuing of bonds,
and that is what the banks are work
ing for. Now It is penec nonsense xo
pay Interest on bonds when non-interest
bearing greenbacks are Just as
good. The people are back . of the
greenbacks Just the same as they are
back of the bonds. When the Coxey
good roads bill was Introduced ln con
gress they said It was paternalism
for the government; to build . roads.
That bill was to issue $500,000,000 full
legal tender greenbacks and furnish
work for the unemployed. But now
it is all right with some to issue bonds
and furnish work for the same men.
- . R. B. JORDAN.
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
i-
When May csmes. you "may not reg
ister. !
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"Some people seem. to delight in weed
crops.
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Lack of faith Is the cause of most
failures. a
a
A new trade field Is won easily by
iKt1lna for ft.- . . .
hustling for It.
Sayi Pluve, this is the baseball, not
the football, season.
Hurrah for the school children's
orthographical renaissance.
Nobody kicks at the baseball addi
tion to the high cost of living.
What in animal nature is prettier or
cuter than a litter of little pigs?
i
Take larger change than pennies
wnen you go to ctiurcii next Sunday.
e
Why Is the word "rum" usually
'used, when but few drinkers choose
rum?
If there were that manv flies a.1
ready, how many will there be In Au
gust? ,
Now voters can register in the even
ing, after taking in and discussing the
can game.
Now that baseball is on locally.
otner events are comparatively stale,
nai anu unproiitaDie.
Don't worry; all that are elected are
going to fix things so that there 'will
be great improvements and next to no
taxes at all.
t
Young New York "gunmen" and
other toughies should have been some
what impressed by the Monday morn
ing Incident at Os)Ining.
A European surgeon says the mod
ern gun used in war is nearly harm
less, is a "humane weapon." Perhaps
after a while armies will use guns
warranted not to kill or severely
wound anybody.
A Roosevelt Franklin D. is assist
ant secretary of .the navy. It is not
iiKeiy mat he will have the oppor
tunity to win world-wide renown, as
another Roosevelt has done who occu
P'ed the same post in 1898
JOSEPH FELS
Samue Mllllken In Philadelphia North
- American.
In Paris, on May 10, 1727. was born
a child who as a boy seemed less thar
commonplace; oversensitive, awkward
and so slry that he hid from visitors,
his family unconscious of his native
nobility. As he grew he showed
thoughtfulness and benevolence.
FranCe was drifting toward the Ter
ror. The body politic was corrupt.'
aiseasea. King and nobles were profli-
ernment under . which privilege and
poverty, would together depart from
France. He sought office; they gave
him charge of Limoges, perhaps the
most hopeless district in Ffance.
There he spent 13 Industrious years,
reforming where he could, thinking on
government, teaching, encouraging, re-
fatedly 7lslt,nf V16 king plea for
the people and for further reform.
; even as the widow ln the Scriptures
wearied the unjust Judee by continual
coming.
The amiable but weak Louis XVI,
recocnlzine his conspicuous ability- in
1774 made him controller general of
France. Privilege awoke; the weak
King succumbed to pressure; after
only 20 months in office, Turgot was
dismissed, and France we know what
befell France.
Theodore Roosevelt has said that if
Louis JCVI had taken Turgors advice
j H would have been well with France,
Benjamin Franklin, who knew Turgot
i and loved him, declared that his plan
t was unarming mixture or oenevo-
lence and wisdom
j
What h,as this to do with Joseph
i Fels? This, first, that the plan which
i trained the commendation of Roosevelt,
i foiled termly" he said: "The needs
i of the people are enormous; and our
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iamny urn ui gum si bv. in id
Likewise those w
t
iamny aie or gout at ou. in isti
ho
Joseph Fels cautioned him to
i d) eas thaPt hecmlght do more. His
, .n effect this:
"The la-
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INVESTORS NEED EXPERIENCED ADVISORS
' By John M. Oskison.
Some mopths ago a department store
combination failed. An ugly feature of
together they had over $21,000 on de
posit with the stores. They preferred
to leave it there, where they were
promised 4' per cent, rather than put
it in the savings banks regulated by
the state, where the best they could
get was 4 per cent.
In June, 1909. during the period
when so many businesses put out is
sues of, preferred stock, the president
of the stores combination wrote a let
ter to this thrifty German suggesting
that he buy some of the issue of two
millions of preferred' stock the stores
were tb market. In that letter oc
curred -these statements:
- L - "The net profits for ihe past Xivm
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AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
A fishing- tackle sign over a Shantko
hardware store Is a huee trout made
oi tin. the hamuworK or uuy uavia, a .
ciever icierk. i como gave city lots Tree to those wht
. , ' woW build, so father took one of his
hv rluff P,C.fI?W lot8 and bullt tavern. In those days
by the city or-Pendleton- for the an- vnu rni.u , .
nual canine cleanup, having gathered T d f, r th ,cUck of U,e
in the visible supply of the unlicensed. ana n rattle of the oar a good part
has now turned his attention to those or tne time, as there was constant
hidden by owners, for which offense travel on the river by cnoes or bat
arj ordinance provides $5 to $20 fine. ; leaux. During winter of 49-50 they
! . iw,'r' building the 'Lot Whitcomb.'
Aiie manager oi a mining ana mm-
ber company, quoted in the Silver Lake
Leader, states that "while the company
has over 700,000 feet of dry lumber on
hand, the prospects for building the
coming summer are bright enough to
warrant almost a continuous run until
fall.' I
..n i , j , . i
the outside as the liveliest place on the
P., R. & N. line," says the Reporter:
"non-resident property owners who
secured their holding two or. three
vears m en Rre oominir out to look th :
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fcity over, and all are astonished .at the
rapid growth during that time."
Reduction of 10 per cent in the sal
ary of every teacher in the Medford i
public schools, reaching also the Jan- ;
ltorB. has been ordered by the school
board. The cut will be effective next
school year and weans $4050 a year
less in salaries. This policy will also
affect the purchase of supplies for the ;
vear
e
Twenty-two boys and airls of the
uppr grades of the Odell school were
entertained recently at a "David Cop-
ff.tTOi...r "'" CtTT,i:':.Zi
. . t " . r t, . r. Vl i
"David Copperfield." They are study-
ing the book and had gone in a body
to nooa niver toseetne piay.
Lebanon Express: It was reported a
f-w days asro that a bitr black bear had
bren killed in the vicinity of the Green
Mountain school house. It has since
developed that it was a mother bear
and further search disclosed her den
t'v which were found two cub bears
only a month old. They were easily i liams, now an attorney in "Portland;
captured and are now the property of s came to school that winter. lie could -
Wayne Downing, who shot the mother. .-,. th. K.,r ,i,n Lnnr.J i.Z J
They followed him to school one day 1 1!L? u -r n, Z?Zn C 9
lfst -week, and afforded as much in hoo- he rrullinger children also
amusement to the pupils as did "Mary's ca,ne to c"ool. There was Ellen,
little lamb" of long ago. They are i Angeline, Ann Eliza and Perry; th-m
very docile and are much prized as
pets.
- A TRIBUTE
yards and houses. Nehemiah perceived,
as Joseph Fels perceived, that a "land
less man is an unf ree -man." Eco
nomic slavery was abhorrent to both
of these soldiers of the common good.
There is a modest prayer which
JosepfrFGls might Justly have made, '
me. mv Ood. for eood. u rrnrrt 1 rt c- t n nil
that I have done for this people." If
you will read again the "Book of
Nehemiah" you will understand my
tribute to Joseph Fels.
4
He made his mistakes: all men. do:
he made more mistakes than most
men make, because of the very abuud-
ance of his labors. But he never made
tne auii deadly mistake or being a
respectable worshiper of "things as
they are." One who loved him said: "I
do not like everything that Joseph does.
but, take him all ln all, he Is fine." His
average was high; he kept the Re-
cording Angel busy with the credit
side of his account.
The "single tax" is an unfortunate.
, v, j: . lK , nrui! '
name a handicap to what William ,
Lloyd Garrison the younger called,
"the new abolition, the great moral j
reform with a fiscal name."- For it
Is not a tax at all, but a ground rent
paid to the public. William Penn- so.!
understood it; he said it would put an j
end to taxes and to beggary as well.
And because Joseph Fels believed with
Penn and Turgot, with Franklin.
George and Garrison, that this simple
change of taxation would abolish eco-
nomic slavery and poverty, he made it
the business vf his later years. He
was energetic; he drove hard, persis
tently hard. With him, as with Tur
got. -the public good was not a pas
sion; it was a rage."
It was not his gifts of money wbich
earned for him respect and love in so
many lands; it was the gift of him
self. He had a vision, and was not
disobedient; he became a modern apos
tle to the gentiles. The gentiles were
those who did not realize these truths
that the earth is the Lord's, and that
we are strangers and sojourners with
him; that he hath given It to the
Lord" Is the year 1914.
Joseph Fels did not own a yacht or 1
an automobile; he lived the simple
life, frugal In every way except one;
, ln that he lavished. Other extrava -
gances distressed him, because It
meant so much - less for his loved
ca,iKe Vor that he would do anvthlna
reasonable or unreasonable; in season.
out of season; he would speak, write. I
distribute tracts, give money, take up ,
a collection or get subscriptions to I
"the public."
When
One ot his friends told me:
i wMH uri iwuuuuiou i ei,
he laid out enough work for me to
lpst till next summer." He did not
ceaso his activities even In his last
illness; he fretted over lost time, bu.
dictated daily to a stenographer. Only
a few hours before he was stricken
with pneumonia he gave to a friend to
oo lypewriimn a
entitled "The Working Out of the
Single Tax." It was his last effort;
he was too ill to see it when it re
turned; he himself was "worked out."
To me the chief inspiration 'of
Joseph rels' life is this; that ln him
wasP another fulfillment of Isaiah's
..'.
prophecy:
"The Spirit of the Lord God Is upon
me; because the Lord hath anointed
me to preach Rood tidings onto the
meek; he hath sent me to bind up the
broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to
the captives, and the opening of the
prison to them that are bound; to pro
claim the acceptable year of the Lord."
years (of two of the three stores tolour rw wrongdoings our -lack of
be combined) were $3,307,253, being an j Christian charity, our smuanesa and
average net profit . . . each year
of $GB1,000."
2. "It is confidently estimated that
(h nrofltK rif th thrA store for th
nfirt f!v. r.firn will avnir. .aril v,ir 1
over J1.200.C0O."
Now it'ttie accountants of the dis
trict attorney's office who went over
the books of the stores in this com
bination may be trusted, the five years'
record from 1909 to 1914 shows that
two of the stores were run at a loss,
while the third made a profit of about j
$328,000 a year. There was rank Jug-
gllng of figures throughout. i
Bift the average investor, attracted
to the preferred stock of the stores
combination, could have had no oppor
tunity to find out whether the man
who wrote ' the letter to J the thrifty
German was telling the truth or not.
His only safety lay, under the present
system of financing, in consulting an
expert who could find out the facts.
If that expert couldn't find out the
facts he would have steered the in
vestor away. -
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
Our 6(0 acre claim Joined the cltv
OI iiwaukie." said Mrs. J. K. Wait, i
"sub pioneer oi ib. ir. wnit.
Jacob Kamni rn,m man fr,m
.a oun P" ;i tf
" " u"0,,no a nne mecnamc. was
" crge of Installing her machinery,
Ife boarded with us. I was 13 years
old that winter, and I can remember
bow kind Mr. Kamm used to be to m.
We Charged tll tmnlinl trait tmm
to $2 a meal, and most of our nay i
du,8t- n whU
vL8l.t'n at Lot httoomb's house, one
' the girls showed me several sacks
of Spanish dollars that were under th
hnri Wr wiiitnnK . . i.
' .ii.vt-iiiij nau Uliril Ilium
to pay the men working i.n 1.1 ho
mere were four Kirls in the Whitcomb
family, Mary Jane, Elvira, Olive and
'lhe)mina' though they always called
" Hhelmtna 'Queen.' You have no Idea
how plentiful money was after the
discovery of gold in California. In the!
early fifties, as there were no banka.j
.v.rvnn v,, ' . i,T
VL T "J " ke their money at home,
and I can remember father having; lots!
of beaver gold pieces and eight elded
$50 gold slugs. -"While
father whs running the)'.
mvern mey asKea him to start i
ho1- Mother ran the tavern while
rath
ier tauajht during the winter of '49;
and "60- They built a school house for
j him
At that time they had a uhlntle
mill, a sawmill and a grist mill at
Milwaukie 1 Imil mv flrut KhAAlIn
ln Oregon under mv father at Mll-i.
waukle in the winter of '49. Among
my schoolmates were Aseneth, Rachli
and Jane dueling. Elvira and Olivet
Whitcomb both came to school, as welL
as the Deardoff children. Dirk -Wtl.
i more were Judge Mitchell s step-chtl.
dren, Emma. Linus and Ed Ross. Ex
Oovernor T. T. Oeer married th
daughter of one of these Trulllnger
boys. i
"I was married on December 1L
1854, on my eighteenth birthday. My
husband, John K. Walte, came from
Illinois in 1852. JIe was a carpenter,
though later he took up the study of
law. He was a member of the first
state legislature and he served as pro
bate Judge of Clackamas county.
"In '49 and '50 and '51 Mllwaukl
was a
very live town. Mr. LuelitiK
1 had a Btore there, and his orchard wan
; Jt beginning to bear. He was soon
snipping apples to i aiirornia and gel-
ting immense prices for them. In
ubout 1S60 or 1851 Mr. Trulllnger put
up a Mg warehouse and the ships used
i to come up the river and discharge
! their cargoes at Mil waukle.
I have
; lived in t'ortlaml since 185
The Ragtime Muse
' ,,
j Supreme rests,
There are heroes grand in battle
Who would brave the cannon's roaj
lal,e ra,11 .
On the fields all drenched In gore,
But Jd b,anrh and f j ln panU.
ab they never would from death.
When, with cleverness satanlc.
Some small baby holds its breath!
"
There are men of moral courage
That approaches'the sublime,
Bhtfh,e,1d "rl W. rYJ8'
T're" aVe rnnVho ngt pTes-or.
Trlmumplng o'er force and guile.
But. since they are careful dremiers,
They heed all demands of style:
1
There are spectacled profensors !
With the loftiest of domes.
Scientific InterceKsore
For our human right nd homes:
Men remote, Kuperior, chilly,
Whom v,e daren't approi cli and yet.
They will tumble for some tlly.
Addlepated, ptrt (-oubrettel
Pointed Paragraphs
The Ideal husband exists chiefly In
the minds of women who never rodr
ried. 1
Rich relatives are used by poor men
as objects at which they can point
with pride and expectancy.
" . !
How can we love our neighbor as
ourselves If he declines to praise our
vlrtures or overlook our faults? -
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' hen a female lec urer gets of f that
u,u i
the noblest work of God, every mat.
, in the audience Imagines that he is
blushing.
An Old-Kashionel Conscience. ,
From the San Francisco Bulletin..
J Some people think that the lndlvld-
, u.i conscience went out of fashlonr
wttn ,-rinoline and pomaae, nut mis.
j W,ue sometimes true, ts not so In
; ev?ry. instance. Consciences are ttll
1 10 found ln remote districts,
Kor 19, the dispatches tell oj
a Maryland woman who has written a
! ,etter to tne , ounty oUrk who Issued
. her marrJaKe license In 1887. informing ,
I l.lm that th. llfd about hCT Mt.
When my husband came from tbe
courthouse with the license," she
wrote, "he spoke of kissing tbe Bible.
I felt so unhappy that I wept many
tears of atony. But 1 have fully re
f"le.?' " . "i ,-J.
I"'?";' 1 "ha L J i
, with Gou. At that time I gave my age
pented. It is the only wrong in my
! as 30, but It was really nearer 34.
am now a widow. ;
One might throw John Bach Mc
Maatern aside and read the .history of
this country ln that letterthe land
ing of the Pilgrims, the ris of the
New England hierarchy, tho'conquer
irfg of tbe irontier. the tstcrn revolt
against slavery and all the glories and
all the shames of Puritanism.
The nation still needs the Puritanic
conscience, could it but be rightly di
rected. We Would bo a new JTtnnia tf
our hypocrisy, our gossiping, our hasty,
fooltith judgments of others, our ex
ploitation tof our fellows, our defi
ciencies in social responsibility pur!
sued u as relentlessly as this good
woman Innocent He about her age. V
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