THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL PORTLAND, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY.; 1 1S14.
THE JOURNAL
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Pride hath no other (lass
To show Itself, but pride; for
supple kneea - . i
.Feed arrogance and are the
. proud man's, fees.
Shakespeare. '.
A FUTILE PROGRAM
A"
GAIN criticizing Governor
West because the 1913 legis
lative machine rah state ap
propriations .to ar total of
16,850,996.42, the Oregcaian says:
But governors have a-ry large
part in spending public money. They
don't have to spend it merely because.
It is appropriated. Jl '
How could a governor- stop it?
What could he constitutionally do
beyond exercise of the veto?
' The paying out of appropriated
money is a matter of law. o It is
a solemn legislative enactment.
The secretary of tate issues the
warrants as specified. ; No gover
nor could stop him from doing it.
The warrants go to the'state treas
urer, and the treasurer pays. No
governor could prevent the treas
urer from, paying.
There is not a governor In . the
Vhlted States who could prevent a
secretary of state from issuing
warrants or stop la state treasurer
from paying them. To attempt to
do bo would! be to attempt to set
: aside the 'constitution' etud the law.
It would be Usurpation of authori
ty! It would be grounds for im
peachment. :There 'is, no way for the Ore
gonian to overthrow- history. It
cannot repeal the facts. West "tried
to ? hold i the legislature within
bounds. He used every expedient
given him U the constitution.;
He couldh t have blocked the
. acts of the 1913 legislature with
an army. The houe and senate
machines that control leoTthe body
were crazy. They lost all sense
of their relation to the public and
the state. ,
They were held together bypri
t vat bills. There was the appro-
prlatlon of . $1000 for Detective
Carpenter, introduced by Upton,
pasBed by both houses, vetoed by
, the' governor, and passed by the
machine over the veto with a
whop. There were salary raises.
There were Bwanipland bills, whfchJ
cheated the school, children out of
- thousands. ' - ' '
Not p. governor Irf the world
could have, stopped ' the'' raids.
' Notlhing but a cataclysm of nature
. or an act of Ood could liave inter
fered with the headlong '' and" mad
career of the legislative machine.
Thepresentation of a veto wasthe
signal for the gang to go to fit,
and It invariably went.
It was a Creat frolic, and . no
body, enjoyed it from the distance
better than the Oregdnian. It
: never once protested. It--tackled
every' time the gang scoredr vlt
isneezed every time the machine
took snuffy It chuckled jind
crowea ana cavorted every time
the gang landed on iuyeto. .-
It seeks now to throw, the odium
on WeBt. It has attempted ' many
foolish things, such as the assem
bly, pot never one leo 'hopelessly
futile as thia ' ' .- .
: j '31EXICO I5T J847
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THE possibility of sending a col
umn of American troops from
Vera Cruz to- Mexico City
, ; makes -it 'worth while -to-" re
call the march of General Wlnfield
Scott from the coast to the capi
tal in 1847.
! With 13.000 men he landed hear
Vera Cruz on March 9,, nearly a
"year arter war had. been declared.
Two weeks after landing he cap-
tured the city of Vera Cruz. On
the 8th of April the advance of, hia.
; army under General Twigg began
Ita march Into the interior by way
of i Jalapa. There was no railroad
at ; that time. Three miles from
Plan del Rio on April 18 the bat
tle of Cerro Gordo was fought on
a field covering many miles and
'. . - i- .
, iiroaen oy mountains ana deep
. chasms. It resulted In a disastrous
defeat for the Mexicans at a cost
to General Scott of only sixty-three
, Kiuea., it cleared the whole wax
to Puebla,. 150 miles distant, which
L-Generali Worth" ocennlwri mv u
' The V advance, of General Scott
; ceased - here for'nearly three months
during which time his army wa
in a, poaition that would have been
-fatal in the presence of an aggrea-
, rive r enemy. The expiration of
"charge of 4000 volunteers and, re
. ducedi the effectives to 5000' men.
It mad "it Impossible to keep open
the cdmmunlcations save" by send-
Ih,. V flUlr .t
plfes under the protection of large
detachments. ? . .'
f When , General , Scott - finally
started on . the march to Mexico
". City : In August heleft.' 1200 men
at rueoia, or wnom eoo were un
- able to' march, as a, garrison to
protect 2500 men who were in the
hospital; chiefly .because of dy sen-
teryv i'He -et out " with a trifle of war; the other, the good unarl
over . 10,000 merf and abandoned tan of battlefields. The Post's cor
the whole .route to Vera Cruz and respondent Is of the class of men
his communications - with home, t who welcome calamity In the hope
cutting loose completely from h Is .that It will divert attention from
base. Then : came the battles ol what their greed is doing. .. The
Contreras, Cherubusco, .Mollno del j other man knows that no army Is
Rey and Chapultepec. On Septem-j properly equipped tor war without
ber. 20 the! triumphant army, con- j an adequate supply of coffins. ' He
siderably . depleted,; entered Mexico ! knows that even his greatest skill
City and ended the war. ;' - 'cannot keep the coffins empty. He
No one can forecast whether this knows something about the miser
feat could , be repeated today in ies of war.
a short time or not. If the Mexi-I , At Yale University the other
cani should make a determined evening former i President Taf t
resistance .they could ask for no ! said : "If war should come, it will
better territory in which to fight, not be a trail oKglory it will be
a territory of mountain fastnesses a trail of woe."
where a- few H'aen. can check a. Mr Taft spoke the truth. Take
thousand, a territory where the the glamor off of history and the
beat of the , day is intense and the residuum,1 of - war Is dismally elo
cold of the night severe. ; " quent woe. .. Battlefields testify to
In Connection With the, march Of it- , Rtrl.krl 'homea ar flllArt with
General Scott it is interesting to ;
note that among his officers were
Robert E. Lee, P. G. T. Beauregard,
George B McClellan. Z. B." Tower,
Isaac I. Stevens and J. G. Poster, j
all of whom became distinguished
commanders ' during the Civil war.
NON-PARTISAN LEAGUES
A.
N'
OW we have the. Non-partisan
League.
It has come into being, it
says, 'to prevehtv tte enact
ment of laws that prohibit the in
vestment of capital in Oregon; to
check the tendency to try out
'freak j" law in this state, and to
investigate the- character and fit
ness of, alj candidates for public
office."
" Nobody 'Will question the right
of the Non-Partisan League to' ex
ercise the functions thus set forth
in- its announcement. As to
whether or not it will have weight
depends on. Its future perform
ances. .
It is confronted withs the, fact
that the Oregon public is sus
picious of organizations of' its kind.
Ever since the days of the Ill
fated - assembly, people Iteve been
on their guard. They have a fear
rf ftAltf flr a m Kim aVtArl r1naS'w n -a' w a
di,nn t r,on0 tho a
guidance.
- The assembly backers assumed
that plain i people did not know
enough to select fit candidates for
office. It assumes that a few gen
tlemen were of superior intelli
gence and the general run inferior.
That suggestion aroused wide re
sentment because it was a fallacy
and the assembly was an unroarl
ous fizzle.
The experience Is of value. ' It
may serve as a lamp 'to the Non
partisan League. It will be a
plain suggestion that not all the
wisdom, patriotism and high , pur
pose of Oregon is confined to as
sociations, leagues and societies,
and that with safety some confi
dence may be had in the plain citi
zen. . , All this means that leagues are
Of value or no value exactly as
their .works are squared with a
broad respect for the collective in
telligence and genuine avoidance
of special interests in conflict with
general welfare. , '
an -a -mi aaaaaaaaaaa
RAILROAD FREIGHT RATES
. '. ' s
A CORPS of civil engineers fhas
made a physical valuation . of
the Lehigh Valley railroad.
These experts, employed by
the company itself, say It would
cost $324,478,300 to reproduce
the property. Edgar H. Boles, 1 the
railroad's j general solicitor, sub
mitted these figures to the Inter
state , Commerce Commission, with
the further statement that the
road's ' capital stock and outstand
ing bond issues, aggregate .$124,-!
000,000.
These figures '-are being used as
evidence that the rafrroads are not
over capitalized, and that they are
entitled to the five per cent In
crease in freight rates which they
as. Many newspapers as well as
railroad officials assert that the
financial fitness of the Lehigh .
Valley -has been proved, that Its !
right to rates which return divi-
dends on- the larger valuation has i
been established. ; j
It may be -that the Lehieh Vallv !
is capably, arid honestly , managed,
and that It is not earning reason-!
able dividends on a fair valuation t
of Its property. Figures submitted -
by the clyi engineers may be cor-!
rect, hut it should be borne in
mind that they were prepared by
men employed by the railroad for
use by the same railroad before the
Interstate Commerce Commission.
If the Lehigh Valley is not.arn-
ing what it Bhouid. earn, because
of inadequate freight raes. thati1 ;-measure -That paper
railroad, unfortunately, is the vie- J A ' .
tim of other rlads which. are not f mer?dfmenf; 1s i opposed to
capably andthonestly managed. As the ?terat of the manwho pays
an offset to this road's showing! Ireft,f- , i
facts disclosed concerning the NewK 0A0n Initia"veit law adopted v in
Haven system are conclusive. It 912 mV all household furni
is unfortunate that th sheep must l"e ?romx t"fttln- ,?nfer that
suffer with the oats 1 - 'law 80X116 Portlan residents whose
, household furniture stood : on the
A TRAIL TO "WOE f-1912 rolls at valuations of $8000
- '-i '-... "..' - -i to $16,000 are not required to pay
THE : New York -Evening Post I -taxes on It. - The proposed amend
"received a letter from a man iment limits their exemption to
passing th: ugh the city. He j $100. Naturally," the man with
. exulted over the outbreak of M00 worth of household furni-
hbstilltles In Mexico, Jeered at
President Wilson, and added: !
Cher jp! We' wont find time dnr-
x72rXlJ".lx?
roidVSo ii' mfgM bTwrr " - 1 ( The Measure is designed to en
, At about the same' time this let-t;ourag "mall home owne. -It
ter was wriUen the president of ', win not benefit the renter of a
the International Surgical Assoc! a-1 ?urnlsbed apartment, : and neither
tioB, in aession ai'Kuw Vnrv .n. t8 benefited by,the present law.
We, who are brought into such closed
contact with the dreadful miseries of 1
this poor human race find it more 1
ana more ailltcult to understand wav
men do not employ their reasonIc
powers to a good end by ceasing this!6111?' inder a law which received
destruction of one another. ,- .
. ue man represented the- ghouls
lt losses in blood and treas-
ure are not all, for while the pub
lic mind is diverted from, problems
affecting human welfare at home,
greed gets a new foothold and the
fight to dislodge it must be started
anew.
PROHIBITING TIPS
A
LONG suffering public will
heartily commend the Cali
fornia Railroad Commission
for Its order directing abol
ishment of tips In Pullman cars. '
The , order Is to take effect In
thirty days. The commission ' says
In Its report that, "it' certainly is
a commentary on modern business
methods ; that a company as rich
and powerful as this one should
stoop to: the' disreputable practice
to which ft resorts."
. The report is a scathing indict
ment of the company . Among
other, things, the commission 'de
clares the company forces its em
ployes to depend upon the charity
of the traveling public for living
wage. Pullman officials were criti
cized for testifying that $27.50 Is
an adequate-wage .for"a sleeping
car porter
The Pullman company is one of
!the richest corporations in Ameri
itable. . In forcing its employes 'to
depend for living pay. -upon public
generosity, it debauches manhood
and adds to the great army of
mendicants. No practice so under-mines-Hhe
self respect of men as
does tip taking.?;
The prohibition of tipping on the
Pullman system ought to come
from the federal government under
Interstate commerce provisions.
VANCOUVER'S WATERFRONT
V
ANCOUVER, British Colum
bia, is anxious to develop its
waterfront property. .,. The
port commissioners are tak
ing up the matter with dominian
authorities at Ottawa and ' the
Question to be decided s whether
the waterfront shall bef Bold out
right or leased for a terfa of years.
Strong pressure is belig brought
to bear in favor of actual sale, on
the theory that . such ay program
will insure improvements5; of a per
manent and more expensive nature.
The Sun takes issue with people
who are urging absolute alienation
of the public's title, admitting that
such a program might bring 'env
porary advantages, but saying:
We have to consider the position
the city would be in when its great
stretch on the front of the harbor
has been alienated for all time from
public' ownership. With the growth
of the city !rr population and cont
merclal activity, all this property will
eventually be of incalculable value;
and regarding tha alienation of the
waterfront from that point of view
We can scarcely, rid ourselves of . the
conviction that by its sale we should
be robbing the generations to follow
us of their proper heritage. Surely
we should not be justified in dispos
ing of it regardless of the interests!
of the citizens of thefuture any more
than of those of "the present.
The Sun is right. Portland is
hating experience, with alienated
waterfront. The p'eople's property,
given into private ' hands . Ostensibly
for development in the Interest of
commerce. Is now a 'paramount
Prooiem. private ownership of the
waterfront has not materially ''aided
commerce, and now when Portland
wishes to use its 'great waterway
the eItJr Is required to purchase, at
exorbitant prices, property which
tne courts say once belonged to
tne People 'and was disposed of for
notl"ng.
CLOUDING THE ISSUE
r
N THE. interest 6f fairness It is
proper to say that the- Oregon
Jan is attempting to. cloud the
issue ' governing the !$1500 ex-
ture is opposedlfo a measure which
gives him no advantage over the
man with only- $1500 worth of he
longings la his. home. . ;
11 wl11 not ihjure the average
home owner, for the" exemptions it
provides will be Iareelv offset bv
! . - . . '-
property which is no,W ex-
the united support' of the very peo-
i pie who now oppose this measure.
One trouble with our ; tax laws
Is that they are 100 per cent effi
cient against the average man arid
woefully deficient in reaching the
man ,of means. The latter finds
no difficulty in securing -exempt
ttons, while ; all thej average man
has Is 'in plain view of the .asses
sors. i:C i' -
We have- had ond millionaire
wedding without days' and days of;
newspaper exploitation of the epi
sode. In the simDllcltv of his nun- .
tlals, as well as in some , other f "Who knows r be finished up. This
things, young Yincent Astor has dear chiW may one day become er
givenv , gUmpes . oft' an intelll- ? aHngptiin! uttf2
gence usually -missing in the sons , BlbU tbt may one 4y become an
w iae laie incn. Both. roT the lat
ier sua, ior tne escape, from a
truckling exploitation of the details
of . an ostentatious ' wedding, wp'
may be thankful. -
lCn,J?on,5,ton- "ent The Journal tot
PObUcatlon In tnis department abould be writ
" 5 SSy on 'ds of the paper, abould not
exceed 300 word in length and moat be ac
companied -by tbe name and addceaa of the
aender. It the writer doe .not deaire to
bare the name j pubUabed. he should ao etate.)
- "Dtacaaalcui ta 'the Kreateat of all reform'
Jt ratlonUea eTerythlng lt toachea. It
robe prlnclplea of all false eanctity and
throws Uwaa back on their reasonableneaa. II
they bar no reaaonableneaa. It ratbleaalr
cnuhea them out of ezlatence and seta up lta
own eoncluaiona in theic atead." Woodrow
WUaon. - I . -.. ;
liquor Defenses Challenged.
Shedds, Or, April 29. To the Elditor
of The Journal I was reared In - a
section of our country that Is noted
for its chivalry toward women. . I
dislike to sharply disagree with wom
en, but there are two - who write to
your columns that are so different
from what we expect of . woman, and
Who write things so out of place, that
cannot refrain from saying some
things entirely opposite. I refer to
MrS. Duniway and Ella M. Finney.
Both are advocating the use of intoxi
cating liquor, I suspect that' if either
would see a i drunken husband or son
come . reeling home and with abusive,
language and vile oaths berate them,
and with some punitive instrument
inflict upon them- injury, they would
at least desist from publicly advocat
ing the pernicious traffic. They aeem
to favor teaching and training for
temperance. That is what the public
schools and I religious schools have
been doing for a number."" of years.
thanks to the W. C. T. U-, which, more
than any other Institution,. has put into
the school curriculum textbooks teach-1
ing the effects of Intoxicants on the
human system, with the result that
boys and girls so taught, are now be
ing voters, see the only way to keep
drunkenness away is to take away the
drunk producing' agent.
A few days ago- Mrs. Duniway said
in one of her communications, "Lib
erty is the Cure fdr all evil." If that
is true she would be a great, benefac
tor At she Would get the keys to the
penitentiaries, jails and asylums, un-
iocr. meir ooors- -a.no. turn loose to
personal liberty" all the inmates. I
fancy her delight in coWirte the
phrase would be lessened when she
saw ail these people, turned loose .
tsua M. Finney must think she has
hit upon a happy, logical sentence
when she Winds up her letters by
saying, vote wet, for order, law en
rorcement and , temperance." Whv I
doesn't "She answer , my request some
time ago by giving us when, where
and' by whom such an. p.nri v,i
achieved because a wet regime ruled?
tier expression makes fne think of a
parrot, which, having learned to Imi
tate a sound, repeats It over andjver,
whether or not it Has any meaning or
sense. No, a I wet regime is as far
from order, Jaw enforcement and tem
perance as sin-la from riehteonsn
and purity. The llauor traffic
doomed, anch should be.
As to ."property rights." thet-n is no
vested property right in the liquor
traffic, only a licensed privilege, to be
taken away at any time it is abused.
C Mi F.
V - ' ' j
The Perpetual Assembly.
Portland. April 80. To the ICditni nt
The Journal A neroetual sAmhiv
has been formed by some patriotic gen
tlemen who are going to tell the com
mon mut ,just who to vote for and
what measures to affirm. How kind
and thoughtful these patriots are I
Just, go to sleep, fellow citizens; we
will do the rest. When i election day
comes round simply take, a copy of the
sample ballot . we will mark for you.
and vote accordingly. . -: .
Assuming that Ihis bunch, of Datrinta
in the Northwest Bank "building know
all that is to be known and. are ndt
swayed by personal, vested or special
interests, how lon will they h, that
way? Will it not be necessary, before
many moons, for some other patriotic
body to form to inves.tlgate them?
a body of patriots assembled four
years ago and proceeded to tell us
"Just where' to head in at." Did we
head? Af,k Jay Bowerman and a few
others.
At one time several patriotic organ
izations warned us against passing
the employers' liability act, but if car
ried in every precinct in the state.
Now , we are to have a perpetual as
sembly always On the Job. - Who pays
the rent? Why should anybody pay
it? What measures giving better' and
more democratic government In Oregon
havo any of, the members of ', this ,
letters from the people
" v ...wu M advocated ror tne weirare or the
Jni yUW72 , irUeoP1f0reSon- It is bad enough for
them as to-a man or a measure? If v Mu.nm w
T O rnfirU g i a CIQ om r I V nAAn a a cirri I
iney can -oeiiver tne goods- tusy now '
, . , i
as Tammany and as tiherou- a, a i
as Aammany and as ireacnerous as a i
Perpetual t assemblies in
quarters telling the Oregon citizen
what to do with his ballot! Fall in
V,r,rTr
line, all "you , who do not use your
brains a minute a' year. v f
ALFRED D. CRlDGE,
Scripture Quoted Against , Drink.' '
Boring; Or., April 29. To the Eidtor
of The Journal Ella M. Finney .says
prohibition should not be taught in
general church or school. When- we
place ourselves with the you ugr at the
opening of life, deep concern fills us.
Words of earnest argument and warn
ing counsel rather than of ' congratula
tion rise to our llpsv - Thera: is many
a poor Creature now crawling through
life, miserable himself and the bauqe
of sorrows to others, who might 'have
lifted up his head and. prospered, had
he known that liquor has contributed
more to the moral, intellectual - and
material deterioration , of the people'
and, has brought more misery' to de-jaa
fenseless women and children than any
ether .agency In the history of man
kind, I know that the grave -swallows
daily, -iy; scores." drunkards, everyone
of whom though lie was safe. while
he was : forming ; his appetite. It vls
the part of prudence and wise trustee
Chip , to 'protect life against evea the
possibility of any further deterioration
where alcohol may be responsible for
it. v' - U. - r
So many glaring errors, are .made
in the use of quotations that it is well
for us to quote ' the words of Paul.
A FEW SMILES
With a great sense of awe and Im
portance the young- couple1 atopd In
front "of the parson,: the new; bafcy
comlortaDiy iiumper
in in It mother's
arms." , '
Evidently with an
Idea of improving
the occasion,, the new
curate ;saw vflt to
launch Into a genUe
homily n tbcnHaai
w
mistrtnii nta.tlfrman.
- The ' little mother's eyea had gradu
ally grown rounder and rounder.
"What name did you aayr said the
par5oiw;--'".--'?'?i'"'.-!' i ' f '-. - ,
4Jb a timid whisper came the apolo
getic reply: . L- -Jemim
Ann,ssirlw 1
A railroad -engineer . was boasting
abou t tbe speed of his engine. '.
"Why," he said,
"once when I had a
new fireman with me
on run 88 he asked
me in a 3 surprised
way if that wasn't a
rather Jong white
fence beside the line,
"'White fence!'
says I with a roar of laughter. That's
no White fence. That's milestones."
Holding a glass of -clear honey in
his - right hand, father observed im
pressively: "
"It cost the little
bees many a weary
trip to fill this with
sweetness from the
flowers."
Little Laura, who
p- J had been listening j
closely, exclaimed
with great earnest
ness:
"Wouldn't it have been too bad if
one of them had dropped the glass I"
Judge.'
Let 8 do him the Justice to clothe
his thought in his own worUal "Be
riot drunk;with. wine, wherein is excess;
but be filled with the spirit; speak
ing to yourselves in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs, singing
and making melody your heart to
the Lord."
This same Paul preached, "Touch
not, taste not, handle not." It is writ
ten. "Be not among wine bibbers."
"Woe to them that drink wine in
bo wis." -"'Can a bird fall in a snare
where, no gin- is?" "Neither be idol
aters, as were some of them; as it is
written, The people sat down to eat
and arink, and rose up to play." "Ye
have planted vineyards, but ye shall
not drink wine of them. And in all vine
yards shall be wailing for I will pass
through them, saith the Lord."
MAY GILTNER.
, Ancient Wine, Modern Booze.
' Elgin, Or., April 29. To the Editor
of The Journal I " have read the com
ments of "Subscriber" on the excerpts
recently published Over my. signature
in your paper, and they are but a
repetition of the twaddle pf the anti
prohibitionists. It fires with Jiorror
the hearts of these people to so much
as mention drunkenness. Yet', who is
,... tj ,..! , . t
pferate" citizen who "took a little wine
for his stomach's sake?" And how
frdely these people, without regard' for
bis teachings, quote Jesus and the
Bible; but they never explain that the
wine of biblical times was free from
tha ilicimi(9la anA fljliiltoratfAna fit th. .
debauching concoctions of today. These ,
..... - . . . I
wrttpra n tlpmnt to tiATocr th, mlnrt nr.
the reader by reference to -the fluid
our Savior - served .at the wedding
feast, which was the creation of his
own pure and tender heart.
I wish our anti-prohibition friends
would tell us of a few of the benefits
Intoxicants have bestowed upon hu
manity. What community has been
benefited " by liquor? Whose family
has been made happier because one or
moro of Its members is a drunkard, or
even a "moderate" drinker? What re-
spectable citizen proudly boasts of '
IS
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membership in a settlement of "booz- the difficulties of the other. The army
ers?" Who is made better, wiser or i knows and admits that the public has
more prosperous by the consumption ' a right to know what the1 troops are
of liquor In either small or excessive i doing. The newspapers know apd ad
quantities? Who wins greater aff ec- I mit that -there may be times when th
tion, or genuine love because he drinks
intoxicants?
Occasionally a man will tell me that
"a drink does not hurt me." but that
is not the question. Does It do him
good? Is lie fetter prepared to solve
the world's problem's and fight Its bat
tles because he drinks liquor? Truth
is, alcohol dwarfs the Intellect, cooks
the brain, shrivels the heart, disrupts
families, ' assassinates . character,
breeds pauperism, feeds the prisons,
destroys .virtue, fattens corruption and
is the minion of Satan.
As I -travel over this state I hear
the doom of the saloon-, pronounced
by the lips of earnest men and women
everywhere!. An I am not ashamed to
write my. name, and to say I will do
all I can to end its life.
H. S. HARCOURT.
From the Circulator's Standpoint.
Portland, May 1. To the Editor of
The JournaVWhen 'a man like Jona-"
than Bourne announces himself- op
posed to petitions being, circulated he
turns turtle upon the very nrinclDlea
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When candidates for governor and at
when candidates for governor and at
torn 8. respectively, com, -out
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work, free, it is high time to call a
halt.
Thei writer has been informed that
petitions are being circulated for the
above named offices, and that two or
three favorite picked circulators are
out getting the cream, while a score
or more who follow the same business
in Portland are froze out. :
- It .does seem as if there was an or
ganized effort being made to kill the
business. The organization, if there
be such,, la composed of office-seeking
politicians 'who evidently do not care
Whether we are able to eat and pay
rent or not" However, I will say, as
an experienced circulator, ? that ' . no
measure has ever been submitted to the
people of thfs state and f doubt if any
other) where such measure was success
fully launched upon a free basis. You
may say this is a knock,, but it is not
k intended as such, but in reality Is
meant to boost for the circulators who
a class of workera'are as much en
titled- to pay for their services as any
other class of toilers. : ; .
Of course, big interests are against
petitions, as the measures are all cal
culated to make better laws for our
state. The Initiative, referendum and
recall are all a part of the Oregon sys
tem: and are educational Jo the voters.
This 'very -system puts Oregon to-the
front as one of the most, progressive
states in the Union, So let us live and
let live, and not be killed off by a few
selfish exploiting - and office-seeking
politicians, - - A BOYCOTTED.
PERTINENT COMMENT
KHALI CUANGB
Whv tiot Rooaevelt fnr nsM,nl (vf
Mexico?: ; . -
The 'Red Cross Is always readv to
perform Us noble work. , .
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iVor once Vera Crux is behaving it
self, like civilized town. , -
INow th campaign - will wax warm
and the political pot will bile furiously.
sLoolc it that registration total and
for one thing be ashamed of Oregon.
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5 Oregon can boast of many things.
nflt tint irvf- ita vnt oit-b Mt.t..tAM .. 1 1
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4 iWhateVer-else ta not done, keep that
Alaska steamship line going and well
supported.. .
5 . - fi- :: a o - i -
iWhat 'a crushing disappointment it
would be to many if there would be
no war, after all - - . -
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1A man whose profession is war can
not be expected to - sympathize' much
with efforts for universal interna
tional peace. Nb one hopes for the
extinction of his occupation.
. v ; .
. Roosevelt Wants peace only if it Is
a -"righteous" peace. But each side al
ways claims to be righteous, while the
. other is wicked. An umpire, to decide,
IS: needed. .,
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What ; a terribJe disappointment to
many aspiring and gallant souls it will
be If the swords and guns are not need
ed, and ttiey are sent back to ply the
homely implements of peace..
The saying that where the American
flag is once raised there It must and
shall remain perpetually may sound
well for Fourth of July buncomb, but
there is no sense in it. The flag came
down in Cuba and probably will, after
Having served its purpose, in Mexico.
UNCLE SAM'S MILITARY CENSORSHIP
From the New Tork Evening , Post.
There are many things about the
army of the United States in better
shape today than they were 16 years
ago, when hostilities with Spain made
popular the word "preparedness" as
the lack of that quality caused so
much talk about its desirability 'n tim
of war. ,
The business of moving troops has
been learned, partly from . tho lesson
of the transport blunders incidental
to getting to Cuba at the outset of the
war of 1898, principally from the o
lng and coming of many regiments to
and from the Philippines in the course
of the 16 intervening years. The art
of keeping those troops well under all
sorts of climatic and foreign-service
conditions has been so far perfected
that the disease scourge of the Spanish
war camps seems now to have been a
thing of the middle ages, not of 1898.
And another improvement, of pri
mary importance to the public and the
army alike, has 'been, made in the ar,
rangements whereby the millions who
stay at home may know what the thou,
sands at the front are accomplishing,
or failing to accomplish.
In 1898 the status of the war' cor
respondent was poorly defined. There
was no carefully worked out censor
ship system anS no adequate control
by the army governing the character
,and the qualifications of the men sent
to report its movements. Besides the
regularly accredited newspaper1 and
press service representatives, ' there
were. In every camp, at every head
quarters, the freelance adventurers
and news tipsters, responsible to no
body, always a nuisance, and some
times a menace to the men in the
field. One commanding general was
slapped on the face by a' "correspond
ent" who did not approve of his meth
od of conducting sncampalgn. . Another
journalist" used the seat of war as
he osi effectively sensational scene
T rtt- Vila f.u..H.." n-f n a
"rescue" of a heroine from a
papier-mache .Spanish dungeon as an
exclusive bit of heroics for his paper.
There Is no likelihood of things like
this happening In Mexico, should the
censorship rules now In force Jtre put
to the test of a war 1n that country.
These rules were worked out long be
fore any Buch war was contemplated,
and have the approval of the army and
the press. They were formulated by
army men and newspaper men, co
operating in a spirit of give and take.
each group recognizing the rights and
affairs of the army cannot be made
public without danger to . Itself and aid
to tbe enemy. That sums up all there
is to any need of a censorship at alL
SIZING UP SOUTH AMERICAN INVESTMENTS
By John M. Oskison.
The other day I suggested that the
investor who, wants to find out about
chances to put' his money to work In
South America would do well to write
to the state department at Washington
and ask questions.
A better source, and! one I should
have mentioned at that time, is the
Pan-American Union with headquar
ters in Washington, lta director gen
eral is John Barrett, an American who
knows more than any other American
I can name about-, South America. He
is directly aria deeply interested in
making the moneyed citizens . of the
two Americas better known to one an
other. Letters sent to theFan-Amer-
ican Union, , Washington, will get., in-
: -,Vl,i
As an example, from the section of
commerce of the foreign affairs de
partment of Chill, in the letter was ex-
pressed the desire to aid North Ameri-
can Investors in any possible way to
: r,nA nivi nnnnrhmirin. i rvin
Pointed Paragraphs
Life is nearly all desire and regret.
It takes a sensible woman to gen
erate silence; 1
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A man may ; marry for money, and
woman for alimony.
Many a man puts hie foot In tt when
he asks a woman' for ber han
It Is sometimes easier for a poor
man .to be good than contented. .-
It Is easier , to hear a lot than it
Is to raise the money to pay for one.
If a. man' has a good digestion he
attributes it to bis good sense in eat
ing.,, : .- -. . - '
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Retribution is something: "t we feel
sure will eventually overtake . our
neighbors,
We say just as mean things about
other aa they, do about bs, but, of
course, that la altogether different,
A 'woman's: matrimonial "experience
seldom causes her ' to advise - her
daughter to marry a map patterned
after her father., . . "
ANp tEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SlDELlGUfS.'
The little but lively city of Flor
ence is soon to begin the hardsurfao
ine 'of its cnnciDal streets, and ex
perimenting is now in progress, '.v.
Rev. A. S. Donat of CadlUae, Mictw
has accepted the call of the Riverside
Congregational church of Hood River
and i. expected to arrive about -May
IS. v. - - r-.-
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Before the city council of Klamath
Falls there Is a resolution to provide
for recasting the city's street nomen
clature. Among other changes, Taddy
street is to become Roosevelt street.
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i "The Coos Bay cities, says' the
Marshfield Record, "are not booming,
but they are enjoying a healthy
growth. We are . having no business
failures here and the cities are being
built up in a substantial manner." i
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To quench the thirst of the Eugene
Coffee club patrons during the past
11-months more than 2,240 pounds of
coffee have been used, and this re
duced to liquid form has made 123,000
cups. of the steaming brew. And this
la but, one of the many staples in the
club's bill of fare.
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"Thes are some times in Josephine
county," says the Grant's Pass Cour
ier, "with the railroad bond case final
lyy determined in favor of the city.
Irrigation seemingly taking definite
shape, the mines returning a volume
of wealth and the Almeda disbursing
120.000 to Its creditors."
The work Of removing all the cot
tages at the fair grounds at Salem
i from the grove to the new camp
K rounds to tne soutn has Deen started
by the fair association. A number
of those who have cottages are choos
Ing new locations and others are pre
paring ro Duua on tne new ground a.
But every reputable newspaper in the
country recognizes the fact that thai
Is ample and is willing to act accord
ingly. )
Whatever? the papers and their rep
resentatives! in the field may lose in
the way of liberty to do as they please
is more than offset by the better stand.
ing the correspondents will have with
the army, by the greater facilitiej
there will be for transmitting reliablu
news over the wires, and by the saving
or the public from the distortion of
facts for th sake of sensations.
Every correspondent must be an ef
ficiftnt, rSptable working member of
his i profession, vouched for by his
paper, a4dj ithat voucher must be
backed by? ft bond for S2000 which wUl
be forfait;!? the correspondent violates
the rules of the censor or misbehaves
in any other way. After that prelim
tnary the correspondent must take the
military oath of loyalty, and then he
will get his pass, which entitles him
to all the privileges of an officer of
the army, including- transportation.
tentage, radons, medical care, and the
use or a horse.
He must wear clothes of the renula
tion olive-drab of the army officer's
uniform and wear a white arm band
with a red letter C to indicate his
status at a glance to every man in the
army. Furthermore, he must carry a
pass signed by the secretary of war
and tbe general commanding, the arrry
,u iuo xibiu mm aiso Deanng njs own
signature and photograph.
Although the censorship is primarily
intended to stop untrue or dangerous
ana unapproved matter from going to
the press, it will be in force, if need
be, against evepr private letter, every
photographio plate or film, sent from
within the lines of the army.
The correspondent may carry a small
hand camera, but ho professional pho
tographers or men with motlon-picr
ture machines will be allowed within
the lines. Official Photogranhera be
longing to Ahe army will do the trig
picture taklfeg,5 and copies 'of their
work will beNsold.-No code words, no
words or groups of words suggesting a
aouoie meaning, tiii be allowed in any
letter or dlspattSh, whether for the
press or an individual. ' Should such
words be found fy the army officer
acting, as a cehsor he will suppress the
communication altogether, no matter
how harmless and innocent it may be,
or letthe would-be sender rewrite IL
So if any homesick, young lovers or
miaoie-aged dads ind themselves fol
lowing tha United States flag into
tbe Mexican country, let them be pre
pared to forego the usual indulgence
of such in the use of code words of
the heart and family fireside, and to
send (Some their declarations of af
rections and longing to get back in
terms of the plainest English.
go into lumbering, since Chili has
77.000 square miles of virgin forest
within 126 miles of the eea coast; good
farm lands sell for from $3 to $30 an
acije; the letter pointed anut that Chill
Js tbe California of South America n
far as fruit raising is concerned; some
big modern hotels are needed in the
cities of Chili and capital is sought to
develop the" country's hydraulic nower
("for lighting and other purposes..
imo aouot, by the time tho Panama
canal is ready, the Pan-American Union
Mill be equipped to answer most any
question me snrewd investor is likely
to -ask. hef ore, actually putting his
money into a South American enter
prise. .
This is my opportunity to utter an
emphatic warning: Don't give up your
money to the promoter of any South
American company before-' consulting
the most conservative and hardest-
headed banker you can find!
Also, ask the. Pan-American Union
about the chances for profit in - tbe
country and in the business the com.
pany proposes to undertake!
The Ragtime Muse
Divided Destinies.
"I loved vou aces and aires aaro
And you were my heart's one desire,
But we were not a plane you know,"
Said Thomas unto Maria.
"Though I Was a cat and you were a
- cat.
My love for you vainly I nursed.
For you. In your third life, knew very
wen mat
I then was but having my first!
"J. loved you long and I loved you well.
. I loved you to desperation.
So Into a cistern I hopefully fell
. To gain one reincarnation.
My sul:iie i-aln my will did not gain,
Alas, that ao cruel Is fate!
You were swifter than I. as I learned
to my pain; i
' 'To my second life) then you had
v ; eignt."
"I am gaining at last! You yet may be
- mine; . -. ;
Z Five lives I have lived since X met
-- you; .". -But
you woe is met are on No.
-And sadly I fear I won't get youl f'
On. will you 5 cot wait till 1 catch up,
my dear? . . .
- Each life I'm a little bit nigher;
If you will. I wilt shuffle off one lit.
- ' right here!" . -
Said a nomas unto Maria.
IN EARLIER DAYS
i By edrLockley.
"If th old time prospectors and
miners had thought there was gold at
the North Pole it. would bav beeu
discovered ;long ago," said Dr.: C. ,H.
Raffferty of East Portland.. i . .
' "While 1 was at Oroflno Nathan No-
land and ': myself grubstaked 'Poker
Woods of Hillsboro t "go Into a newly
nincoTena -aistricr. . ana. siaae ciainja
for us. He staked four of the richest
Claims ;bn Lost Gulch for ua .-; When
the news of the discovery of . the new:
camp afterwards called Florence came
to Oroflno it cleaned the town like a
devastating- plague. Everybody started
for the new diggings. Winter ' had
set in. -The stampeders to the new
diggings gathered at a ' place called
White Bird, , 16 j miles from the new
strike. Of this distance tilne miles
was a steady, grinding climb up . the
mountains.:- The" snow on the upper
range was over 20 feet deep. All.
horses and mules ' had . to be left -at
White Bird. The men went! in afoot
on snow, shoes. 1 The - saloonkeepers
paid fabulous prices to have their "wet
goods" carried In, Gamblers; and bar
keepers,' miners and storekeepers went
over the , range ore .snow shoes, .Pro
Visions were scare, and flour aold for
a dollar a pound with other supplies
in proportion. , . -r .: ,1'-
"By spring Florence bad a popuja
tion of over , 10.000 men and .one lone
woman. As soon as the trails opened
there was a rush of the feminine con
tingent for the new camp. Noiand,
or 'Spiffy as he was always called,
'Poker Woods and myself had win
tered In the Willamette valley. ;W'e
left Hillsboro as soon as spring opened
up and went to our claims on Lost
Gluch. Wsj found upon our arrival
they had been jumped and over $70;
000 In gold had already been c levied
up-from them. There was nothing to
do but to make the best of it, which
we did. - - . t -
"Florence lives more vividly in the
memory of most of the old-time miners
than almost any other western mining
camp. Men lived with more abandon
there, and with less restraint than in
almost any other camp. Shortly after
our arrival I went into a saloon.' kept
In a. large tent. Th bar was in the
corner and the sides of the tent and
the other three corners were ocipied
by various games. As I walked to
ward, the bar suddenly two men dis
agreeing over a game sprang up and
began emptying their guns 4 at each
other. The minute the guns began to
talk we all remembered urgent errands
elsewhere. No one waited' to ,; go
utruusii ine aour, a score or dowio
knives and dirks were pulled and with
qtrslash we went through the walls of
the ..tent as though theyf were paper.
I passed that tent next morning and
it certainly didn't lack for ventilation;.
It ''was cut into ribbons. - .'
"At Florence I became acquainted
with a powerful halfbreel Indian
named William . Black. He always
carried in his belt a heavy butcher's
cleaver. It was the wickedest weapon
you ever saw. He. used it to cut trails
and he always -kept it sharp.--.He
referred to It facetiously as his sword,"
We went into a tent saloon and gam
Ming house one evening and j Bill de
cided he would try his luck at.'Chuck-a-luck.''
Bill had a buckBklni poke of
gold dust. He laid it on a jcard and
said, '1 11 bet luvlf a dollar.' He won
and the .dealer threw him 4 60 -Cent
piece. A dispute arose and the dealer
said, 'Hand back that money.' Bill
said 'I won it. I'll keep it.' The dealer
drew a long, razor bladed Idlrk and
made a lunge for Bill. It Just missed
me and Bill dodged or. Ije wiuld have
been cut open. Without a quiver of
nervousness Bill raised hiif - cleaver
and said, 'Put up your dirk or I'll
eplif you wide open.' The dealer saw
that a second's delay would Jmean his
death so he dropped his dtrk. Bill
laid down his butcher's cleaver on the .
table where he eould get it Instantly
and said, 'Start upyour game. I'm
Turkey Bill, from old YamhiitT never
worked and I never will. - Come on, ,
boys, put down your dust, the more
you put down the less you'll take,
up. Chuck-a-luck. The game went,
on. -
"A few mornings later I passed the
'dead house' and saw the bodies of
four men there. I stopped and ex
amined them. They all had soft
white hands and were well dressed.
They were gamblers who "Had been shot
during, the night for running a crooked
game. The miners killing the : gam
blers were arrested and tried..' Tne
Jury consisted of over a thousand
miners who had knocked off work to
see fair play. They brought In a ver
dict of 'Justifiable homicide' and the
miners were turned loose.
"A miner 'and a gambler got In a
dispute and the miner knocked the
gambler down. The saloon men and
gamblers bad a pretty, strongs-pull
with the officials, .so they arrested the
miner and threw him In Jail; A dele
gation of about a hundred miners cams
to where a number of us Oregon mea
were camped: They asked for volun
teers to break the. jail door down and
rescue the miner.7 A friend ; of mlnn,
J. Band Sanburn, said, 'I'll, do it. You
fellows come along with your ' guns
ready. I'll take a crowbar 'and an
ax and pry the Jail door oft If anybody-
interferes with me shoot hirm
dead.' We carried out the program,
liberated the miner and) then to clean
up the job in good ehaee we went te
the saloon- where the gambler was
employed, put a rope around -his neck,
took him to the edge of town and
gave him 10 minutes, to get out of
range of our guns. He was still run
ning the last we, sew, of him.
"My uncle had come pr to Florence.
Shortly after his arrival a. VtieW dis
covery was reported, o be "urged me
to go and investigate it and If good
stake claims for both of us. We hud
three horses and a mule. I left the
horses with my uncle and loading my
docile friend who had no hope-of pos
terity'! started for Buffalo , Hump,
the scene of the new strike." !
. Interesting. '.
From the YoungstOwn Telegram.
When Johnny-had finished residing
his Sunday school leaflet he said to
father: ; I
"Isn't it too bad it was so long ago
that Jonah was swallowed by . the
whaler' . j
'"Why is that, my son?" queried the
father. '
"Oh. If it would happen" now, the
son replied, "everybody csuld-See it is
the movies." . ' i . 1
The Sunday Journal
Tbe Great Home Newspaper, -
. - consists of .
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Five news sections . deplete with
Illustrated featufei.
"- .".' .'' ...... t . .. -.
Illustrated "magazine of quality.
Woman's section of rare, merit. -Pictorial
news supplement. ? ,
Superb comic sectfoa. " ' - -
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