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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING. APRIL 21, 1914.
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Pay goodly heed, all ye who
read.
And beware of say In, 1
cant;
Tie a cowardly word, and apt
to lead
To idleness, folly and want.
Eliza Cook.
OUR QUARREL
OMK senators oppose the preB
ident's plan of directing the
. J resolution against lluerta, in-
slutine that it he made
broader.
Rut why? Huerta Is the govern
ment -at the Mexican capital. He
in the republic. He is all the na
tional institutions. He ia the con
utittitioo. He is the laws.
He is the Mexican congress. He
is the supreme court. He la the
DeoDle. He is the cabinet. He
Is the ballot box.
There was a supreme court, but
Huerta abolished it by edict. There
was a-congress, but Huerta ad
jouroed it with soldiers and bayo
nets, and threw 105 of its members
in prison.
There was a constitution, but
Huerta superseded it with his per
sonal will. There were laws, but
he repealed them 'and made his
personal orders, backed by his ar
iiii ik. i ... '
iiuery, hid law.
Why should the senate deBire
to broaden the resolution to in
clude all Mexico, when it is not
Mexico, but a desperado with
whom they ate dealing?
President Wilson seeks to pro
ceed as to retain; the good will of
the rebels. He wants the resolu
tion so worded that Carranza and
his people will not misconstrue its
.purport and accept it as partly di
rected at them. His plan is to
hold their confidence and let them
solve the great problem of restor
ing constitutional government in
Mexico without armed intervention
by the United States.
Our quarrel in Mexico is not
with the Mexicans. It is with
Huerta and Huertlstas. It is not
with a people, but with a cut
throat and those who follow him
because they fear him.
THE MISSING UNEMPLOYED
N
EW YORK recently had an
"unemployed" demonstration.
In describing it the Call, the
Socialist daily of that city,
says, "It was the greatest rally
for the unemployed ever held in
this city without the presence of
the unemployed."
Of the DeODle present 90 ner
cent, the Call says, were curiosity
seekers. "while the other 10 per
cent were anarchists, I. W. W.-ites,
syndicalists and several other ists
and ites. who felt it their duty to
be there because thev were sun-
posed to face the music, and of
some Socialists who felt it incum-
bent unon themselves to he there
because they had been warned by
the party executive committee to
stay away."
The Call's description of New
York's demonstration would fit
similar events in other cities. It
has been shown that while the un-
employment problem has been is ample opportunity here in Ore
acute, the number of men out of gon for all men who are willing to
work was much smaller than an- get down on the soil and dig. Ore-
nounced estimates. The fact is
that the recruiting agents of radi-
rallsm have done their utmost to
magnify an unfortunate situation
for the sole purpose of further
ing their own propaganda.
It was a good omen that New
York's unemployed were not found
in the rank b of the radicals. Their
program promises nothing' to the
man who is anxious to work.
When the principal Socialist or
xan in America takes a view such
.aa the Call took, it Is evidence
that among the very people the
vnrllrsllata Virtn tn or. Hat .a
" cruits are many who refuse to be
-misled.
CONQUERING THE LAND
PETER NYHOLM 8 story is told
by the Tacoma Ledger. Sev-
ral years ago, with $10 in
casn, 4v cnicxena ana a loon
mortgage, he went upon a piece of
logged-off land. Today he is
worth $15,000 and rides in his
own automobile.
tot, Nvhi-a la i
. ...r,.- , J v-
ant, for it shows what can be done
by a man who determines to con
-quer the soil. He was a maker of
musical instruments, earning a pre
carious living in the city. But be
was a man willing to forego some
. of the comforts that involve a
heavy initial outlay. He went on
the land .determined to stay and
fight it out.
The chickens which he took from
a city lot brought In a small In -
, c6me to'begiii with, and they in -
creased to 200 the second year.
? "That opened the way for us to
stay," said Nyholm. Next camel
a lew pigs, and then a cow was
AN EXPERT AND
L
1KB a prophecy fulfilled, like
diction confirmed, the words of Colls P. Huntington of Feb
ruary 6, 1900, concerning common point rates for Astoria,
strangely reflect the present commercial status ia the. North
west. , -
It is fourteen years, two months and fifteen days since Mr.
Huntington wrote A. B. Hammond of the Columbia river, and of the
future of Portland. He dealt in his letter with the relations of Port
land to Puget Sound cities, set forth the effect of gravity haul upon
the relation. of Portland to the Northwest, announced a' belief .that
Astoria-should have common terminal rateB, end insisted that by
making Astoria Its embarkadero,. Portland could always retain the
financial primacy, of the Northwest. The Huntington letter was
printed in Sunday's Journal, and among other things, it said:.
Mtui cannot change to any considerable extent the works of nature.
The Columbia river can have only one outlet, that of course. Is Astoria.
The watershed of that river is the second largest In the United States, and
substantially all of the immense tonnage coming from it must follow the
gravity line determined by tba course of tba rlvar to its mouth, where it
can be transferred dlractly to the great ships that are hereafter to do the
commerce of the eas.
If he was anything, Colis P. Huntington was an expert on trans
portation. The man who could vision the first transcontinental rail
road and sense the tremendous influence it was to exert on the af
fairs of the nation, the man who could peer into the future and read
in it the empire a new line of transportation would build on the
raw prairies, the man who foresaw the possibilities of fortune to
come through linking the Golden State and its chief city by. rail with
the distant east,. knew better than most men know, the forces and
elements that have factorship in ' the making of empires and the
building of commercial emporiums.
His letter reflects his ripe wisdom on the subject, after more
than thirty years of applied experience. That the gravity haul would
be the determining factor in distributing the traffic of the Northwest
was his conclusion. His language is that "substantially all the. ton
nage coming from the Columbia basin must follow the gravity line
determined by the course of the river." He went on to say:
This-result may be prevented for a time by the people who are inter
rated In real estate, but these people will some time learn that in oppos
ing Astoria as the embarkadero of their region of the country, they have
been making a mistake;' although they may continue to strenuously .hold to
their views, until the people living1 on tba borders of Puget Bound shall
hava bad time to so increase and improve their faoUitiee for tba transfer
of tonnage between rail and ahlp, that tba danger and injury to Portland
hall bava beoome everywhere recognised, and it might than take years for
tba gravity line to aasart itaelf aa it is bound to eooner or later since no'
other power can compete continuously with gravity. The time to act for
Portland and 'the great country of which she Is and will no doubt remain
the financial center. Is now, and I have no doubt that the wisdom and jus
tification of my action In declaring in favor of making Astoria a common
point now, will be seen in the comparatively near future by all people of
your part of the country.
In complete fulfillment of the Huntington prophecy, Puget Sound
cities, by Portland's Inaction, have perfected their facilities for trans
ferring traffic from rail to ship, and strengthened their back coun
try connections, until they have imperiled the supremacy of. Port
land. They have been allowed to fix the rail rates to' the interior,
not only" for Washington, but for- Oregon. As is widely known, the
Oregon rates are based on the Washington rates, because Portland
has never protected, but has tamely submitted to the Washington
program.
That is to say, Portland with gravity lines determined by the
course of the Columbia river, has rates based on the over-mountain
haul to Puget Sound. Though cost
of rate making, the railroads exact
of inter-mountain grain and other
charge over the Cascade Range of
ucts to an elevation of 30 OK) feet
than Is charged for the downhill haul
to Astoria.
They have, successfully competed
plication of artificial rules and rates, though Mr. Huntington said
'no other power can compete continuously with gravity."
The contention of this great authority on transportation is ex
actly the same as that made for a
mately man-made .rates and rules
ity and before the inexorable transportation maxim, that traffic will
follow the line of least resistance because cost of haul must ultimate
ly prevail in determining routes. Emphasizing this view, Mr. Hunt
ington says:
If Astoria shall be made the embarkadero of Portland, only a small
percentage of the tonnage of the Columbia river watershed will be lifted
over tba Cascade mountains' to go to Puget Bound j and even that small part
will take that course only for a abort time, for gravity. Unas on tba land
and great ships on the sea, are going to determine tba Una of trade and
tba direction of tonnage hereafter.
In acting along these lines, I may
ests at present, but the future is longer
who recognizes the signs of the times
inevitable.
purchased, the Nyholm family In
the meantime sticking everlasting
ly to the task of making a home.
One trouble with the Pacific
Northwest is that there are too
few Peter Ny holms. The day of
the Pioneer seems to be past. Peo-
Ple 8tick ,n tbe cities, hoping
against hope that some day they
wI11 have money enough to secure
B farm wlth a11 tne trimmings
That time comes to bat few; the
others remain in the city fighting
a 'osmg light. The land Beckons,
but a f6W years' of discomfort,
away from tne movies and electric
gn, repei.
Peter Nyholm's story should fur
nish incentive to 6uch people. The
land is no place for impractical
dreamers or those not equipped
with thrift and industry. But there
gon needs such people on the land;
not in the cities
SHIPPING BY AUTO TRUCK
A
NEWS dispatch from La
Grande says the matter of
the discontinuance of rail
road service between Cove
a,n,d Union Junction is being con-
truck service is taking so much
business from the railroad that the
railroad otficials have threatened
t0 d8Contlnu service unless the
uioicu.uw imui mo lamwau
Mtead of the auto truck service.
which is much faster and consid
erably cheaper.
The dispatch is significant in
that it indicates the entrance of a
new Ttactor in transportation and
presages future development. It
also demonstrates the economic
value or good roacs. An additional
advantage In auto truck transpor-
tation is that products can be
gathered at the point of origin and
delivered direct to the consumer.
-.n,4 . ,
I drayage.
NEW YORK CITY'S BONDS
E
VIDENCE that the financial
situation has become decided
ly easier and that money is
seeking legtimate investment
I was furnished by New York City's
(bond sale last week. Securities
I aggregating $65,000,000, bearing
1 4 per cent interest, were dis-
jposed jof at 101.45. It was the
I best price New York has received
I for its ibonds since March 3, 1909.
The iBBne was oversubscribed by
I more- than $128,000,000.
The
HIS PROPHECY
a dream come true, like a pre
of haul is everywhere the basis
90 cents a ton more for carriage
products to Astoria . than they
mountains. They lift heavy prod
and more,' for 90 cents a ton less
by the line of least resistance
with . gravity so far by the ap
long time by The Journal. Ulti
must yield before the law of grav
not be serving my own best inter
than the present, and he does well
and gets out of the way of the
yield of the bonds will be 4.18 per
cent, the lowest the city has had
to pay since 1910, when an issue
of 150,000,000 was disposed of on
a basis of 4.155 per cent. Last
year the income basis of bonds
sold was 4.49 per cent.
This sale of bonds was signifi
cant, coming, as it did, soon after
New York state's disposal of an
other large block of securities.
Both Issues were in great demand,
last week's allotment going to a
syndicate, which will pay the city
a premium of $942,600,by a mar
gin of only 4 mills on $100 over
the figure of 147 other bidders.
RADIUM AND CANCER
A
LL hope of curing cancer by
radium has been abandoned
by some of the foremost .sur
geons and research workers
of the country who declared at a
recent meeting of the American
Society for the Control of Cancer
that the failures of radium out
number the cures 100 to 1.
Nothing, will avail against the
dread disease but the knife, 1b the
opinion of Dr. William H. Mayo.
He held out ,a ray of hope in a
statement that a. change in habits
and customs may reduce the dis
ease to some extent.. It can be
cured, he said, If operated upon In
Its early stages. Operation is thi
only cure, but radium or ray treat
ment is in order as a temporary
palliative where operation is im
possible, according to Dr. Francis O
Wood, director of cancer research
at Columbia University. Another
generation will be required, he
said, to furnish knowledge on the
real cause and . actual nature of
cancer.
The only optimistic note at the
meeting was struck by Dr. J. Col
lins Warren, chairman of the Har
vard. Cancer 'Commission, who.
; ZZ7:Zn. "J .X ' ..fS
C . ,
luo progress in
combatting cancer
has never
seemed eo bright as now. Im
mediate discovery of the causes of
cancer can scarcely be expected but
the scientific commission in re
search work has entered upon a?
field where progress is sure, though
Slow, he declared.
There is one consolation about
those games lost by the BeaverB
to Oakland. A larger field of hos
tilities is monopolizing public at
tention. A Minnesota judge has decided
that a man has the right to in-
sist upon his , wife remaining at
home evenlnga "that he may,, en
jor her society." That ruling
treads on dangerous ground In
these days of .equal rights and re-1
sponsibilities.
Two Chicago editors fought a
bloodless duel the other day, one
of them later explaining that blank
Cartridges were used. Evidently it
was an attempt to make material
for the joke column.
Detroit t has rounded up a batch
of bandits ranging in age from 16
to 21 years. They were armed
with revolvers, furnishing another
Illustration of what the pistol does.
There is talk of running Sulzer
again for governor of New York.
Nobody knows he might come
back. Hi Gill did.
Letters From the People
(Communication sent to The Journal tor
publication in this department abould ba writ
ten on only one aide of the paper, should not
exceed 300 words in length and must ba ac
companied by the name and address of the
sender. If the writer does not dealra to
hare tba aaaaa published, ha abould so atata.)
"Discussion ia the greatest of all reform
ere. It rationalises everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
cruahea them out of existence and eeta op Its
own conclusions Is their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
On th Topic of Conpensation.
Pisgah Home, Lents, April 20. To
the Editor of The Journal Every ar
gument made in favor of the sale of
intoxicating liquor ia a purely com
mercial one. Jndeed, no other argu
ment can be made, because its sale
cannot be defended on moral grounds.
They tell us that $360,000,000 is spent
every year in the manufacture of li
quor, and that the principal part of
this la spent for labor, and that labor
will suffer If prohibition ia brought
about. They fall to tell us, however, that
xz.uoo.oog.ooo a year is spent by the
people or tne united States in the pur
chase of thia liquor. The liquor deal
ers realize that no defense can ba
made for tba sale of liquor on moral
grounds. . ,
In all justice we ask what considera
tion should ba paid to the loss that
will ba sustained by the liquor dealers
lr pronibitlon is auccessful, aa com
pared to the loss that will be sus
tained by the state if it is not success
ful. Ought any more consideration ba
paid to the liquor dealers than was
paid to the southern planter when the
slaves were freed? The slave of the
southern plenter was in a far better con
dition than are liquor slaves and their
families. Everybody knows that nine
tenths of the crimes committed are
directly traceable to liquor, and the
state has to pay the cost of prosecu
tion and the maintenance of the courts.
Again, who can reckon the loss to
the state of the men whose lives have
been wrecked by the use of liquor, or
reckon the price of the misery and
suffering and sorrow of the families of
the drunkard? The state has lost the
services of eminent men and other men
and women who undoubtedly would
hav become eminent but for the use
of intoxicating liquor. This loss haa
been Incalculable; beside It the loss to
the liquor dealer from prohibition
pales into insignificance.
As an illustration of this I am quot
ing a portion of a letter I received
from a young man on Easter Sunday.
who was at one time a member of our ,
" L, ..,.. .
eapabla of holding positions of trust
ajrd-- nonor with banics, newspapers,
courts and law offices if it were not
for the use of liquor. He has proved
this by holding positions for a while
and being forced to leave them, to the
regret of his employer. Tha following
la an excerpt from the letter:
"Notwithstanding my own many
backBlidings, I know the influence of
your wonderfully upbuilding work for
the many who without home or friends
face suicide or the penitentiary, and
who-find in Pisgah a haven of refuge
from the storms and stress of an un
certain life."
This man's life has been wrecked by
V" i?VKn5"J?0A "d
Ufa is worth more than all the money
that the liquor dealers will lose by
prohibition.
This Is only one of the many cases
which hava coma to our notice In thia
work. We have met railroad men, tel
egraph operators, newspaper men and
lawyers whose' lives have been wrecked
by liquor, and who would have made
useful citlsans but for the uae of it.
What is the loss to the liquor dealer as
compared to the loss of these lives?
One writer has referred to the loss
labor would sustain . in the hop fieUs
SSiiSr.W.biI!
dollars spent In the manufacture of
,-rr-T".""' 7 ' ,.oaJ
every hundred dollars spent in' the
manufacture of malted liquors labor 1
receives $5, and out of every hundred
dollars spent in the manufacture of
distilled liquors labor receives $1. La
bor Will be far better off if prohibi
tion la successful.
PISOAH MOTHER.
Alaskan's Tribute to Pinchot.
Fairbanks, Alaska, March 23. To
the Editor of Tha Journal I cannot
resist the desire to express my pleas
ure at reading, last night in our local
evenlng paper, tha Fairbanks News
Miner, an article copied from The
Journal, in which you give great credit
to Gifford Pinchot for balking the gi
gantie scheme to gobble up the re
sources of Alaska and making it pos
sible for us. to have our railroad, and
our "empire In tha making" developed.
Your paper ia tha only great newspaper
I recollect. having read which gives Mr.
Pinchot hia just due. Further, Seattle
Is telling the world that Hi Gill's town
will. Immediately after her Alaska rail
o.aj ..l.kMtmn ..t
Wt-r mZtoTln such mat!
tmrm tn knm iiirfnH pin.hf u ,
Well, what do you but that Seattle
spirit Is a wonder; inconsistency mat
ters not witn Seattle: wear it say:
"Alaska is the crowning Jewel in
Seattle's diadem" (whatever that
means), "and proudly she wears it!"
Zounda!
Gifford Pinchot, whether he wins the
eenatorsbip away from Penrose or not
(and we earnestly hope the great pub
lio benefactor succeeds In all he under
takes), will surely come into his own.
We do worry! AN ALASKAN.
Self-Regulation and IJqnor.
rteedvllle, Or ..April 20. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Let Mrs. Finney
answer this question: , Why has not
the liquor traffio. made some move to
cieanse Its own business? ( Why do
they ask us to reform and regulate
their bnsiness? It is their business.
Why. don't they see to it? If Mr.
Brown kills a man the state doesn't
regulate Mr.' .Brown, but does some
thing else -to- Mm. The trouble with
Mr. Brown Is, he should have regulated
himself. So it la with tha liquor men.
It has been up to them these many
years to work a. change in the conduct
of their business Instead of letting It
becom the tjtional scandal It-la to.
A FEW SMILES- f
The teacher was telling the children
a long, highly embellished atory about
Hanta Claus, and Wil"
lie Jones began gig
gling with mirth.
which finally got be
yond his control.
"Willie! What did
I whip you for yes
terday?" asked the
teacher aeverely.
"Fer lyln'-" he promptly answered.
"My husband sees, pink elephants
when he drlnas. .
"Mine has a worse
delusion than that.
He sees green dogs,
It's very expensive,
too."
"How's that."
"Why. he goes
and buys license
for 'em."
Recently, in a Justice court in the
state of Kansas, some wheat in the
stack had been attached, and it be
came necessary,
through an order of
the court, to have
the same threshed.
One of the work
men among the
threshers put in a
voucher for $11.00,
which seemed en
tirely too high, to the ETAOiNSHRUL
court.
The court questioned the workman
concerning his labor, and asked htm
how much he charged per day. He
replied: "Three dollars."
The court then asked him how-many
days he worked, and the workman re
plied: "Two days."
The court then asked the laborer
how he figured the bill at $11, sine
he only worked two days at $3 per
day.
The witness replied: "I didn't fig
ure it; I just decided on it."
day. Liquor has trailed Its way into
office and home. Itsimoney has made
it conspicuous, in politics. It has cor
rupted and degraded man. It has put
an added burden upon the shoulders of
taxpayers. If Mrs. Finney can show
me where tha revenue of liquor is
enough to carry the wreckage it cra-
atea I will vote wet with her next
fall. Bible sayings are poor argu
ments unless we are broad minded
enough to grasp the meaning of all it
has to give on this subject. But why
quibble over the question, . when there
remains scarcely any redeeming feat
ure about the liquor traffic?
O. E. FRANK.
From Dr. Marie D. Equi
Philadelphia, Pa., April 16. To the
Editor of The Journal I have read
with some Interest til neat little write
up given me in the Evening Telegram
of April 10.
If the Telegram staff cares to read
an article which "fairly scintillates
with fact and fancy," I refer them and
its reading public to the Telegram's
issue of July 17, 1913.
Five months later, on November t,
1913, I was reading that scurrilous
article at Sixth and Morrison streets,
and was arrested while reading it, and
charged with disorderly conduct. And
quite right, too, for the article was a
most disorderly one.
That article of July 17. 1913, will
verify any seemingly fanciful remarks
attributed to me in my interview with
the New Tork World.
I might add, too, that the report?
ZrMthV"M7ZiZe&ton
portland papers in regard to my ax-
i eat and the threats made to deprive
me of my personal liberty and my
professional life. MARIE D. EQUI.
Portland's Pawnshops.
Portland, April 21. To the Editor of
The Journal Speaking about needed
reform, how about those genteel ban
dits who have money to loan on "any
thing of value," and whose lair ia
every other store for one linear mile
on either side, of Third street?
Does it need a stranger to call your
attention to the fact - that you have
neither legislation to govern nor so
cieties to interest themselves in the
".T:",
'man c "borrow money Tn almost an?
eastern city at the rate of 1 cent a
month for every dollar borrowed, and
that the law demands a strict account
ing of pawnbrokers?
Are you aware that no pawnshop in
Portland will lend you a dollar with
out forcing you topay from' 20 to 50
cents at the end of 30 day for the
use of that dollar? And do you know
that in spite of a lonely little law that
provides for your property being kept
60 days they will confiscate it in 30
days if you do not pay up?
distress, even though improV-
L, k inAt- . it U
It is not dishonorable to be hungry
'human nature to seek the sunshiny
side of life and to turn our heads away
from that place where lies the dark
ness. Nevertheless, it is my painful
duty to remind the basker in the sun
that if he should unfortunately be
called upon to pawn hia wife's wedding
ring (as I did) for 3, the principal
and interest at any pawnshop in Port
land will not be less than $9. Also
he will pay the interest every 30 days
or lose his wife's wedding ring.
You are strong here in Portland on
social, mental and every other kind of
uplift. You are anti-thls, and you are'
antl-that. The city is infested, o to
speak, with clubs, societies, fraterni-
! tles antj organizations of which the
, oh1pct is the making of Portland into
a model city. ,
Why, then, is such a flagrant abuse
as your pawnshop system unworthy of
legislation? Is it because your legis
lators dislike to create precedent?
Discussion is Indeed a great reform
er, but it needs two people on equal
terms to make effective discussion. No
amount of discussion can rationalize
brazen theft. Thousands of-needy peo-
muK8t SUbmit teH7 '
nawnshops or go hungry.; I respect-
! submit to you that thia ta a case
where publicity alone can effect Jus
tice, and that Just one half of the in
terest that is being bestowed on "fly
swatting campaigns" would quickly
set the wheels of justice in motion.
a O. AKED.
Plan for Exterminating Flies.
Silverton. Or April 20. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I would like to
suggest a method by which, if properly
carried out, all flies could be extermi
nated. Kvery housewife knows what
pest a the egg laying flies are in spring,
and how they lay eggs in every place
of meat they can get to. Now, take
advantage of that fact. Place piecea
of tainted meat liver would ba beat,
as tha cavities in It weuld make Ideal
egg neats for the flies expose it
where the flies will get to it and let
them .lay as many eggs as they like.
All there la left to do then Is to col
lect the meat after it is filled with
eggs and burn it.
HENRI SCHMIDBAUER.
If a man dodges when hia .wife
throws the coffee pot. It's a aura sign
that ha haa been married only a abort
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALXi CHAXGK
' An eight hour working day law won't
work in some cases; that of farmers,
for example.
a a
It is very difficult for the average
man who hae once held office ever to
realise that be baa become a has-been.
.
After long deliberation, a New Hamp
shire judge haa rendered a decision in
the Thaw case, but it is said that it
amounts to nothing, and leaves Thaw
in -statu quo.
An hour each week, and that on the
weekly holiday, is not much time to
spend in attending a good place, a
church, and obtaining spiritual and
moral aliment.
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In Curry county two men who killed
two other men, alleging that they mis
took them for deer, hav been indicted
for manslaughter. Soma convictions
on this account are overdue.
There can be no monopoly of or up
on that great highway of nature, the
sea. And to carry passengers and
freight thereon requires no right of
way, no roadbed and rails, no capital
for upkeep and betterments.
Grafting, corrupt political bosses of
New Jersey, sentenced to only short
terms, nave been let out or prison
soon after incarceration, by which act
the pardon, court givea encouragement
to the commission of like detestable
crimes.
EFFECTS OF CANAL ON COAST COMMERCE
Theodora P. Shonts, Chairman of the j
Second Isthmian Canal Commission,
in World's Work.
Though the Panama canal is for the
benefit of the entire world, and though
the purpose of the United States la to
permit its use upon equal terms by all
nations, the underlying Idea in ita con
struction was not enireiy philanthropic.
Our motives were not wholly distiner
ested.. because We believed that the
operation of the new waterway not only
would more than double the efficiency
of our navy, but would especially stim
ulate American industries. It is not
possible to forecast with any degree
of certainty the effect that a shorter
route between the Atlantic and the Pa
cific will have upon the commerce of
tba world, but aa experience has shown
that an Increase in transportation fa
cilities such as the canal will bring
about Invariably tends to rapid devel
opment of traffio, it is only reasonable
to assume that existing trade condi
tions in various quarters of the globe
will undergo more or less important
changes.
It ia difficult to foresee how the
United States can preserve to itself the
economic advantages which the Pan
ama canal holds out to the world, if
our promise that the new waterway
shall be available to vessels of all
nations upon exactly , the same terms
and conditions is fulfilled. However,
as the United States is so much nearer
than countries of Europe to 'ports on
the Pacific ocean whose commerce will
be affected by the opening of the canal.
there is no reason why the merchants
of our country may not successfully
compete for this traffic with the ad
vantage of lower freights and quicker
transit, f
As to which of our competitive cen
ters of trade in the United States are
most likely to be affected by the
opening of the canal, that is problem
atical. On the Piciflc side. San Fran
cisco unquestionably will become more
of a distributing center than at pres
ent, because of the lower rates its
merchants will pay on traffic that goes
by way of the canal, for under the
new conditions a vessel will be loaded
on the Atlantic coast and unloaded on
the Pacific, and vice versa, Instead of
having its freight transhipped by rail
across the Isthmus of Panama or the
Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Other ports
on the Pacific, such as San Diego, Los
Angeles, Portland, Seattle and Tacoma,
will derive a similar advantage from
tha opening of the canal a service
with no transhipments that will be
almost If not quite as rapid by even a
16-knot ship as that now given by the
transcontinental railroads. On the At
lantic side, New York is now and al
ways has been the principal port for
cargoes moving to and from the Pa
cific coast, but the opening of the
canal will undoubtedly result in an in
crease of that traffic between other
Atlantic ports and ports of the Qulf of
Mexico. Indeed. Boston, Philadelphia,
Baltimore. Norfolk, Newport News,
Wilmington, Charleston, Savannah,
WHEN THE RAILROADS PROSPER
By John M. Oskison.
Says a banker who Is also a writer:
"Let this bitterness against tha
railroads cease. There is nothing in
all this warfare for you or for me.
Give the railroads a chance to prosper
and we prosper with them; starve them
and we starve .with them."
As a matter of fact, do you prosper
when the railroads are on Kasy street?
Thia banker-author correctly pictures
the roads as sellers of but one thing
service and the buyers of many
things. They buy labor in greater
quantity, perhaps, than any other bus
iness; their purchases of equipment
make up the greatest bulk of the or
ders received by many huge manufac
turing eoncerns. Tha roads say that
thev need a Vast quantity of . new
equipment, they need to build feeders
and branches, new lines and terminals;
they need to readjust their financing
burdens so that they will not continue
to be twtndicapped indefinitely by high
interest charges.
With the government standing over
them, say the railroad managers, and
dictating rates the price of the only
thing they have to sell money own
ers don't care to advance loans oa rail
road Droperty except at exorbitant
rates. Under the circumstances, the
Rational, After All.
Senator John K. Shields of Tennes
see, smiled when the talk turned to the
rather strange stunts essayed by some
men. He said ha waa reminded of .
party named Brown.
One afternoon Brown was standing
on the corner when he was approached
by a friend. Friend noticed that the
flap of one of his coat pockets was
pinned down by a blanket alaed safety
pin. Greatly the friend wondered.
"What's the matter. Brown?" queried
the friend, pointing to the pin. " 'Fraij
of being robbed?"
"No," answered Brown, languidly, "I
put It there tor ray own protection."
"Come again," returned the perplexed
friend. rYou haye got ma to guess
ing." "Hole in tha pocket,", explained
Brown. ?"Blg enough to drop a loco
motive through."
Smashing the Record.
?Sbe broke the trotting record," said
he, "all clean and slick.
Say, talk about your steppers!
"She made tha rest of look sick."
What 3orsa waa that?" I asked him.
"My daughter 'twas," said he.!
'She broke the record lately.
"For the turkey trot, .did aba."
Furs are worn by lady beavers dur-
lac the summer, i
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
dKGON SIDELIGHTS
By an entertainment at Enterprise,
a group of public spirited ladies have
netted $121. 5a for the library book
fund.
Silverton has just voted down, for
the socond tlme.'a $20,000 school build
ing bond issue. It Is stated that the
objection is to the plans, and not to the
project.
Milton's $18,000 20-year, S per cant
bond issue, voted by the taxpayers re
cently for the extension and improve
ment of the light and water systems,
has been sold at par to Spokane in
vestors. m
In the last 60 days the membership
of the Farmers' union at Myrtle Point,
which had been on the point of dis
banding, has grown from 14 to 111,
according to the Coquille Sentinel,
which says further additions are in
uicated. Wheeler Reporter: Nehalem City
now has a newspaper edited and pub
lished by Sam Cotton, formerly of Bay
Oity. It ia known as the Nehalem
Times. In the natural course of events
three is bound to bo a little contention
between the respective pencil pushers.
It is a case of the survival of the fit
test, however, and nothing short of
miracle will prevent an occasional tilt,
even though our lntentiona may b
ever so good.
New Orleans, Mobile, Galveston. Pen
gacola, and many smaller cities on the
Atlantic and Uulf coasts are prepar
ing for new trade possibilities when
the short water route shall be acces
sible. The more southerly Atlantic
ports and the Gulf, ports should bene
fit by the traffic moving from the
middle west to Pacific ports, because
they are from 600 to 800 miles nearer
the canal, although in order to secure
any considerable portion of thia traf
fic these southern ports must be fur
nished with a regular and dependable
steamship service.
The impetus which the Panama
canal will give to American coal In
terests will be of particular Import
ance. Vessela in our own and in the
European trade that use the Isthmian
route will find it to their commercial
advantages to buy coal supplies at
Pacific ports north and south of the
canal and at the great coaling station
in h. ..thHh t ih Atlantic .d
to be established at the Atlantic end
of the new waterway. The cheapness
of American coal, with the vast quan
tities of it mined at points which will
be much nearer those porta than any
ether of equal quality, will enable
the United States to dispose of large
quantities Of It from these centers.
The water route between 8an Fran
cisco and New York by way of the
Panama canal ia almost 8000 miles
shorter than by the old method of
travel through the Straits of Magellan.
Nevertheless, I do not hold what seems
to be the popular view, that tha open
ing of the canal will have a serloua ef
fect upon the business of the trans
continental railroads of -the United
States; on the contrary. I am inclined
to Deiieve mil n wju oa io xneir aa- i nese rive companies, to cheapen op
vantage so soon as trade conditions . era tion, combined into one company
adjust themselves. The traffio of the called the Northern Navigation corn
transcontinental railroads that will pany.
be most aeriously affected is that1 "Navigation on the Yukon opens
which originates at Atlantic coast usually between June 15 and July 5.
points, destined to porta on uie -acmc
and vice versa. With thia traffic the
steamers that operate by way of the
canal will come Into direct competi-
and the time taken in transit approx- ,
imately the same aa is now taken by
the railroads diversion of business is
t,atr-.n tn h. n.otd.
The tonnage actually handled from I operating a steamer on the Yukon is
coast to coast is not. however, as im-i about flve Umen more than on the.
portant as that which originates at in- j Columbia
terior points and is brought to the; .... fra ,4 t , , .
h r th- the trip from St. Michaels to
rates quoted by competitors of the T, . , - . ..
transcontinental railroads. But thls parson The fare fluctuates from $u0
competition will be limited to the
movement of traffic only where the
railroad rate for the haul from Interior
points to the seaboard, plus the ocean
rate, is lower than the rate charged
by the transcontinental railroads from
interior points to destination. The case 01 sr nemigence or rareiess
railroads may possibly lose some of ness, nothing is said to him when ac
their cheaper tonnage, but this will j cident occurs.
be more than made up to them by the! "When the new diggings in the Idlt
inevitable increase in higher class traf- arod country were discovered I. was
fic that w411 be brought about by the) pushing a barge loaded with supplies
development of the territory they j up the river. Flour was worth 140
serve. barrel; bacon B0 cents a pound; sugar
new enninment I. not hon-hr th
folr.., ... K.,,w .v,.
terminals are put off, the operating
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forces of the roads, are reduced to the
smallest possible number. Idleness of
many folks, or reduced earnings do
they affect you personally? Figure it
out for yourself.
if t wara .n . . Kaiiawi
that the roads were being unjustly
treated by the government there arei&&" rr,11PS lrom wnare n jmns me m
two things I should do: ' kon. ana 1 took hn,tt la,,t Kason
First I should pick out the bonds 1 tnr 700 ni"'" " th Tapana, to the
of some of those roads whose finan- ; 'hina diggings.
cial history has been soundest and put ' "There are wonderful trade oppor
Into them all the spare cash I had. itunitks tn southeastern Alaska for
Second- I ahould ask the aacretarlea Portland. We have only touched the
of the roadS. In which I had invested fringe of that country yet.
to give me in aa great detail as pos-! "0t- September 17, 1879, I married
sible the facts conoemlng earnings In ! Miss Grace Howard, the daughter of
the last few years; I'd digest the facts. ! General O. O. Howard, at Vancouver.
anrl then eet into touch with mv rnn.
gressman and let him have the facts.
It is dead certain that congress,
whose creature the Interstate Com
merce Commission Is, won't go on
andbaging railroads long after they
find out the facts. So, If you can
show that your prosperity is suffer
ing because the railroads are not get
ting a square deal you can do a great
deal to better yourself. Cursing tha
roads won't heli.
The Ragtime Muse
School of Kxperience.
Experience, as a teacher.
Maintains an iron rule.
I like not her,
But would prefer
A kindlier sort of school.
Her course ia very difficult
And at its end you're vexed;
She deals out blows.
But never shows
What pupils should do next.
"A burnt child dreads the fire"
She touches you with flame;
But she will frown
Because you drown
That was not in the gamal
(She teachea you the folly
Of buying gilded bricka,
But not tha names
Of other games
In Satan's bag of tricks,
i
To learn her bitter lessons
Requires a nature strong;
You have to fall
For one and all
To find out which la wrong.
Idmited Promise.
From the Chicago Dally News.
Reggy I thought you'd forgiven
what I said and promised to forget it?
Peggy But I didn't promlae to let
you forget I'd forgiven it,
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred LockJey.
"My father. Dr. W. HI Gray, like
moat of the pioneers, hadbut little
money to spend in advancing the tn-
rels of r"on'M' said Captain Jamea
T Gray. "He ali fflre; ht, tlma ari(1
energy, however, toward the upbuild
ing of our etate. My father and hia
aon-m-law. Jacob Kamra. went with
Secretary W. h. Seward to Alaaka. on
the steamer Geo. S. Wright. Father
came home a great believer in Alaska
and a thorough expansionist. .
He thought th United States made
a great mistake in relinquishing to
"ret Britain the territory south of
ii'M ani maWnf 9 degrees our
northern boundary.
rjV11' brount b'h to Portland from
..J . Y. Alask cedar logs, the first
1PJ ? at? of Alaska timber to be
Lr'.. ThJ" wood J no only very
aromatic but it is free from gum and
makes splendid cedar chests
T8 ,b."rn " c,a,sP I'lains, Au-
the line of work that was most da- -strable
seemed working on the river.
When I was 17 v . r. T . .
Job on the V. R. Grant at the mouth
or the Columbia. loiter I went to
W.K ontn 'Varuna owned by my
brother. Captain J. II. l. Gray The
varuna' only drew nine or ten foe:
au, WM Vry lHnt- We P8 between
Astoria and the government . forts,
taking auppliea to them and also tow
ing ships over the. Columbia bar. I
was appointed a captain before I was
zi- My license was signed by Captain
George H. Flavell and Captain George
II. Handera. 1 had piloted vessela
across the har before I was of age,
b.it on my twenty-first birthday a
state pilot s branch was Issued to me.
J'2 came to Portland and
worked on the Willamette river as
well as ti,e Columbia. I waa on the
Carrie, the 'Vancouver. 'Onward.'
Dixie Thompson,' 'urllne," 'Undine '
and 'Bailey tiatzert."
"In I89g I went to British Colum
bia to superintend the construction of
tha steamer Nahline, which was to
run on tha Stlklne river.
"In 1899 I went to Alaska to take
charge of the steamer 'Robert Kerr.
I found Alaska waa a place where a
man could not be Judged by his dress,
aa I had men in greasy overalls and
torn junipera working as deckhands or
firemen, who in the states ware doc-
membf 7h 7" , " ,""D
E,6"1" -.f tho Earned professions
lawyers, civil enatneers and
ine uonatke rush was a great leveler
and you soon saw the real stuff that
was in a man.
The company I worked for was
called the K. M. T. Sc T. company, or.
to give its full title. 'The Klondike
Mining, Trading and Transportation
Corporation of London, England. Ltd.
We brought out on one trip $2,700,000
In gold dust.
"By 1901 ther were five principal
companies operating on the river. They
were the Alaska Commercial com
pany, the North American Trading and
Transportation company, the Empire
Transportation company, tha Blue Star
Transportation . company and the 8e-
attle & Yftkon Transportation company.
, There are 120 riava of onen water or
this time the boats are actually mov
ing about 60 days. Tha rest of th"
time is accounted for by the boat be
ing tied up on dark or stormy nights
toward the end of the season or by
"f ""dM "' . Th ,arB '"
of llt necessitates laying up for from
u v av i - i m w v i j iuiii uay t'
clean out the boilers. The coat 'of
to $100 for the trip.
"On the Columbia If a pilot injures
a boat to the extent of a few hundred
dollars he would lose his job, but up
there It is so hard to get a pilot
t trained to know the river that except
! about the same. My 200 tons of cargo
was worth over $100,000. I struck a
submerged snag. The barge sank and
nearly pulled the steamer under also.
, 1 had to raise the barge and patch it
up under water. The flour, sugar
and supplies were a total loss.
"I took the surveying party up the
, Por. uplna river in northeastern Alaska
m lh Lhv
, Wn ovcr 300 mllc9 UP ths
pi,.lt' . . . . ...
I have taken a steamer from the
mouth of the Koyukuk river to Bettles,
! wasn.
It's a poor mule that has no kick
coming.
The man whose credit is good need
not trust to luck.
One drop of guile may make a quart
of goodness ferment.
We must either give up our
grouches or our friends. . .
Lots of things and men seem easy
until one tries to do them.
4
Many a victor la sorry he won the
battle after counting the cost.
It may not be good for man to live
alone, but his wife may prefer the
alimony.
Something should be done to dis
courage the belief that comfortable
clothes are never stylish.
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