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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY; EVENING, MAY 12, 1914. WE JOURNAL f ' kH INDE.'ENDKNT NEWSPAFEB C 8. JACKSON Publisher t'uMaabert ery evening (xrept Bod17) aed every Sunday morning it The Journal Bulld ln. Broadway and Yamhill ata.. PortUnd.Or, Ustared at th poatofflca at Portland, Or., for - traoamlaalon tbroufb tbe malls as second " rlaaa matter. TELEPHONED Mala 7178; Hon-e. A-051. All department! reached br these numbers. Tall Ui operator what department you want. IORK1UN AOVKKTIHINO REPRESENTATIVE Besiamln As Kantnor Co.. Brunswick Bld.. 22 Fifth Are.. New York taa Bldg., blrago. 121S People s Biibacrlptloo terms by mall or to sny ad draas In the flitted Btatea or Mexico: DAILY One year 19.00 One month -50 SUNDAT Una year $2.60 I One month -23 DAILY AND SCNDAY j 0e year $7.50 One month t -65 -a The Brotherhood of Conse crated Lives admit all who Are worthy; and all who are excluded, exclude themselves. If 'your life is to be a genuine consecration, you must he free.. Only the free man if truthful: only the heart that i free la pure. Elbert Hubbard. E9 WHY IT, FIGHTS D clansmen and made war on the 1 knowledge of its details, men who Duke of Montrose, author of his I pay more attention to the clock misfortunes. Many are the roman-; than to their work, men who do tic stories told around Loch i not use their initiative. Because Katrine and Loch Lomond of his i their fancied great abilities are hairbreadth escapes and of his ! not recognized the whole social generosity to the poor at" the ex- J system Is wrong, pense of the rich. He was the j There Is now, always has been Robin Hood of Scotland. In the ' and always will be room at the top end he became reconciled to the for the man who is on the Job all house of Montrose and was per- J the . time, the man who is willing mitted to die in peace at his home i to begin at the beginning, the man at Balquhldder. j who cultivates his own initiative, After the course of the years j the man who realizes that ail his grave is to be dishonored and! things come from labor and that the braes in which he hid are to ; on him there is a moral obligation be covered with water that his de scendants may live. ATTACKING THE PRESIDENT R ETURXING to its almost dally attack on President Wilson and Secretary Bryan, the Oregonlan devoted two edi torials yesterday to insulting de nunciation of those statesmen. Among other things, it said: The Bryan treaty of apology and Indemnity to Colombia ia not only a to return constructive productive labor to his employer and to so ciety as an equivalent for the labor of others that he has consumed, in short to be always on the job. out rendering value received nor Is there any satisfaction in its hoard. Don't envy the rich man. may not be as happy as you. He A CURE THAT FAILED I CLINGING TO A STRAW D T WILL be recalled that a cer tain Dr. Frledmann came to the United States from Germany claiming that he had a cure for the White Plague. After an un satisfactory showing In America he returned to Germany where his cure was made available. Results are now being received of its un biased use in the land of its origin. The Berlin correspondent of the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that the Frled mann cure Is not only Inefficient but also may be dangerous. After a fair trial the so-called Frledmann cure for tuberculosis Is fully discredited. A FEW SMILES Mrs. Wheeler's family and the new baby were being freely discussed by their next door neigh bor. "Isn't It strange they, didn't name the baby after her rich uncle?" said one. "No; be looked at It and said he'd give them $15,000 not to." One of the strong newspaper men of Eastern Oregon Is James S. Stewart of the Fossil Journal. RIVEN frr4 position . to po nitlon. at Mast the Oregonian confesses. It says: The Oregonlan haa a proper ...nrn ahOlit t h CO VPr HO Tti ll I D "I ih,r the candidate for ih.t exjflterl office shall be Republl riommiat or what-not; and It will' say frwnkly that It Mgwdl Smith I aa a formidable aspirant for the place. In a field contested by several candidate). It appears to the Oregonian that the struggle lies be tween him and Mr. Bennett, and the Oregonian makes no concealment of the fat that It thinks Dr. Smith nugrtt not to le nominated nor elected. As to the nomination of Mr. Bennett, or Mr. Manning, or Mr. Miller, It professes Indifference. There is method, then, in the Oregonian's madness. It fights Smith because it fears Smith. To ime its own language, "it regards Dr. Smith as a, formidable as pirant" for governor. If nominated in the primaries, Dr. Smith, it thinks, has a good t nance of being elected. As to the other Democratic aspirants, it says. "It professes Indifference." It doesn't care whether they are nom inated or not. . Expecting to do all a its power to elect the Republican nominee, ISCREDITED but desperate, disgraced by the exposure of its alliance with McManus, asserting and declaring in utter recklessness as to truth, as- ...... i . "... . T, ,j TITH J V- t - national humiliation; it is a political ; sailing rresiueut He is a courageous and Straight blunder such as only the Democratic Bryan with one breath and Dr. . . . , party could perpetrate. There is 5 JJJJ another clinging to forwar? citizen who etand3 h nis growing impatience of impotent med- Smith wltb anotner. clinging to convlctlons He lg a candidate for dling in Mexico; of tolerating murder. I any straw to help it In its unfair, join(. repre8entatiV for Wheeler, outrage and robbery of American citi- , unjustifiable, unwholesome and un- Giniam and Shprrnari nA lfi moat zens in that republic; of surrender to truthful fieht on Dr Smith, the uuam ana bnerman, and is most England and apology to Coiom-, IU b;a'np excellent material for the position. bia. e Unless the unexpected &"" h" 11 r-i- should happen, the epitaph of the McManus was editing in 1898 a3 Wilson administration will be : "Died ; authority on which to base Its Letters rfOm the People or an overaose oi grape ju.cr ""; reckless and completely discredited . . , it i assertions about Dr Smith. (Commuoloetloiis sent to The Journal for In the house recently one mem- ! as&eruons auout. ui. oiiiilii. publication In thla department should be writ- hor Innnlred on the floor who naid I It almost seems as if the Ore- ten on only oneslde of the paper, should not hiiio An-'gonian has political rabies. Does Bishop Rowe of South. Dakota was upon a certain occasion obliged to start out afoot to reach a church in an eastern state. The August day was close and hot. and the road was dusty, so that after an hour's pe destrianism the rev erend gentleman was well pleased when a man drew along In a spring wagon and offered a lift. Hie reverence wore no clerical garb, and the state of his apparel after the tramping gave small Indication of his calling. The team jogged into a deep wood. The churchman deemed the time and place fit for the broaching of spiritual things. Accordingly, he opened the subject. rather abruptly, he confesses. "Young man," he demanded solemn ly, "are you prepared to die?" "Do you know." the bishop Inno cently explained afterward, "the fellow gave a whoop, dropped the reins, jumped off the seat and before I could say a word he had gone crashing through the woods: Now, why do you Buppose he did that?" exceed 800 words In length and must be ac companies oy tne nam and address or the We object to having our lives, our ap petites, our amusements, our worship, directed by statutory mandate, the. at tempted enforcement of which breeds v. afj v,o f- TJ-on'a It foreet that McManus pleaded sender. If the writer does not dealr to hypocrisy and undermines govern Other suggested that Mr. Bryan 8 n lorgei luil ivicjucmuB I bar. the name pubUshed .he should so state.) ment. Prohibitorv laws that woul coat Rho.ilrl hear the. British coat I guilty to gambling nt armour "on onnlher reforrAfJ to i fined for It in and was what he termed "the president s recent sell-out to the English gov ernment." Such utterances go to the depths of newspaper and legislative ruf fianism. They are an evil growth. They are the reckless expressions that stir a Guitteau or a Czolgosz to action. Those who. like the Oregonian, want war In Mexico ought to be made to go down there and fight. Aside from ambitious national tho firnt tnnnth I Discussion Is the greatest of all reform tne nrst montn er lt ratlon.u.e. .rvthine it touches, it Smith's administration? I rob principles of all false sanctity and , . , , 111 , rt , i iiiivwi ueu dici on ineir reasonaDieness. 1 1 ment. Prohibitory laws that would control our appetites, would also cal for fundamental laws concerning smok ing, profanity and a species of eugenics that would do away with the imper of Dr uoesni it recau tuai iu mc ei.u- haTe tetK)DllbleDels9t u rutblely f - bat)ie " nd flnoiv no bab es at all der it hired McManus to send down crnahes them out of existence and sets np its pf Dll8Sr nnaU5,t no baDies at all aer it mreu aitiauus tu bcuu uuu i wn qq, th u stead." Woodrow Such is the nWemperate preachnient oi irom fenaieion, jvicivianus quoieu wtiaon Mayor Matlock as criticizing Dr. PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN. BRIEF SHALli CHANGE It's neither war nor peace for a long time. Evidently the roses strong will be ready. multi-million How dellclously fragrant is the early- morning breath of May. Starting something good enough; it must be kept going. Isn't After the 16th many will have lost most of their Interest in the campaign. a The late C. W. Post had a great business head, but one badly unbal anced. m 9 Let lt be hoped that the nominees will take, and allow, a rest during the summer. Many a popularly demanded appro priation is condemned when taxes have to be paid. Get readv to look and be unusually pleasant; the Rose Festival will soon be on hand. a Yet It is too much to expect that the. fly will become locally extinct this summer. Constant abuse of the national ad ministration is not a very good exhi bition of patriotism. The returning colonel uses no soft speech in declaring his opposition to tne repeal of the non-tolls law With pronpect of the greatest and most valuable crops ever grown, the Pacific northwest has no occasion grumble. Of course the mediators must pro ceed very slowly; they do not nave to endure that Mexican gulf summer climate. Old Mount Etna Is pouring out deati and desolation again, but people will continue to live and die within reach of Its crater s deadly outpouring. OREGON SIDELIGHTS IN EARLIER DAYS 17 Fred LocUey. 'Ua i . . -1 ..Vf A waterworks bond Isbus of "13.500 , " . .. , has been authorized by the city coun- ! " Bryant at iuaiatin. cil of Ooquille. sited him up. His eyee were blight. . . , , ... I his face was ruddy, his answers wara Women and girls seeking amploy-1 ... , . . ment at Marshfield can get Into th 1"' na i tne point i was more Record's classified columns free, not than holding his own In our verbal as a -harlty but in plain Justice, th fenclng. so I said: "You are about Record declares. "Hardv Cook came in from Foots Creek Tuesday," says the Gold Hill News, "toting over iZOO in clear? dust and small nuggets as the result of a recent ciean-up on placer property In mat. district. a a , A movement for a countv llbrsrv has. been started by the city library board nd the school authorities of Eugene. The library, if established, will be sup- 5, but if you would cut your hair shorter and shave off your long, heavy beard you wouldn't look that old." His , eyes twinkled as he an swered : "Sixty-five! My. but you are some guesser! Sixty-five! Why. I ' have lived on my farm at Tualatin for over 60 years, and I had a wife and two ported by an appropriation to be made children when I moved on the place. dv tne county court under a law passed oy tne iasr legislature. v a Mayor Simpson, of North Bend, who is author of the plan to erect a Coos county building at the San Francisco fair, refuses to give it up. despite con trary reports. He says he has infor mation that a 100 by 100 site has been conceded and that the plans are com ing up. Sixty-five! You will have to guess again. 1 was 8? yeara old on the 28th of last March. I was born In west ern New York in 1827. In the spring of 1853 I took the boat to Detroit, and from there 1 went by rail to Chicago. There was only one railroad at Chi- 'cago in those days. I went to La I Salle, on the Illinois river, and from Substantial development of the't,lere 1 went by boat to St. Louis. We homestead country to the southeast ' changed boats there and went to Ksn- called Kansas rsnltal ' ' i j . i iicic v. o n uuu m 1 iron, ft atuumi on the homesteads Is becoming larger ; Westport, so tho packers and eml- eacn monin. well drilling and th i grants maae 11 tneir headquarters. Installation of Pumping nlsnts. for Now Kansas fitv has overflowed one. sas City had a hotel, a blacksmith shop, two or three stores and less than a dozen houses. I had brought my wagon with me. I believe, lt was one of the best., if not tho best, wagon ever brought acros the plains. I was a mechanic, so I It BeJ?d. con,tlnues- The Bulletin s: s sas City. Our starting point was . tfeVs TaVfn'gVp lands, but the Investment of capital ;'ty- Tnere KOOd rng a on ine nomesteads Is becoming larger' Alport, ho mo pain each month. Well drilling and th i grants made it their Installation of pumping plants, for Now Kansas City h raising water for irrigating, are ac-j Westport and they are lively in progress. . .., those aay8 yKan8 Tillamook Herald: Roekaway as sumed a very sa r.ftimoti ious (?) air this week, foiir Presbyterian preachers havins pathererl for the purpose of building a temple. We understand that the preachers have agreed that when- h.ttA" M -;,,.;, -seated th7ma'teri..a are to immediately whistle two strain I Br,d built the wagon myself. The of Yankee Doodle. We exoect" th.- ! spokes were of hickory. th running nrethren wl'l hu be (rood whistlers by ine time tne job is completed Smith and that Mayor Matlock at once denounced the statement as untrue and declared himself In favor of Smith's candidacy? Does it forget its hired oper- Penal Records Compared. Portland, May J.0. To the Editor of The Journal Permit me through your columns to thank A. S. Ruth for call ing my attention to an error I re cently made in an address on prohibi tion before the Oregon Civic league. I of all "John Stones." Thev are the fanatics, the pagans, and our sense of true motherhood and wifely duty has prompted us to organize and protest apainst the abuse of our recent ad mission to the electorate, by those who, we contend, are endeavoring to use our sex to gain prestige for po litical preachers. URSULA MEISTER. ative at Pendleton Btated in the Oregonian that eighteen women In made the statement that during 1910 President Woman's Liberal League. th Pendleton Women's rlnh hart there wre "37 prisoners committed to GERTRUDE NEGULA. I thA ctata nanitantlarv rAfnrmotAriaa I KAtvAt a r TX7AmAm' T K.nl T An.,., guarusmen ana a lew oiners, uui ; " " "" oupyun. oiunu county jails, city jails, etc., in Kansa one of the jingoes would expose i and thaW the women of the club I was inadvertently in error. I had his own precious carcass to Mexi- immediately wired the Oregonian been making a study of census bulletin It frankly admits that it is afraid sorne of them were widow's sons. All were mere youths. The oldest was 36 and the youngest 19. Thir- was represented in the nineteen I false," and defied John P. Mc- dcad to whom the nation paid homage at New York yesterday of Dr. Smith as the Democratic nominee. Nothing could be plainer. No. 121, and In hurriedly copying my rough notes for my Civic league ad dress I copied my figures for Kansas Man us to name one member wno from the wrong series of computations, had ouit Dr. Smith. lying loose upon my desk. i-i t. v r I air. nuin is correct, in nia eiaiemein auuui. iu wicsuuiau ic"'0 of the prison population of the several tnat tne people understand flic- states mentioned, on January 1. 1910. Comparisons as to Liquor Salem. Or.. May 8. To the Editor of The Journal In an article entitled 'Licensed Against Prohibition States," G. A. M. gives some wonderful figures. If we- are to believe him we are hap piest when we are miserable; most prosperous when we are spending our suDstance in riotous living; increasing our savings when we hand them to Manus and understand the Oregonl- I" view of the suspicion that perhaps the saloon keeDer: most intelligent teen were 22. They answered to an? Doesn't it realize that when naturally obtains between Prohibition- when the father spends his time in the DO VOl It Dl'TY IN THK average, primaries, scarce ly half the registered voters go to the polls. It Is unfortunate, but it is the fact. ' The responsibility for lata and tVia. tnfaraatfl tiat Mr TTntW it turned away from its regular reDresents. I cannot at all blame him correspondent and hired McManus for questioning my motives in using They have answered to their ! the people know lt had a dirty job the figures as I appeared to do laut mil cr 11 nni tho iincmoa n hn ' a n v,o t tr inn. a Howfvfr, my computation was cor- Irish, German, Italian, French, British and American names. i m frn V T IH'A v n ' n n ri A m nxtnn (1f M Hi, A. 1 public conditions rests on the peo- ,',' 7e',l,uni' Plpa 01 gumy 10 gamunng m li Tbov rn make, them eood. 8ldie mean a firmer cinch on j Dr. Smith's administration exposes Mexlcans have been plundered. j gonian's fight on Dr. Smith. ine noniesi policy or resident! How In the name of common in- saloon while the mother takes In wash. ing and the children roam the streets with no one to care for them. Here are some figures from Dr tidwm Locke, of Topeka. Kan., not from a prohibition paper: Of the lnr counties in the state of Kansas 53 hsva lint a atnc-la Inmot. In V.a They ' want his long criminal record, including institutions, exclusive of juvenile de- jans: 65 have no criminals )n the state own land and mines and oil in where to eet it done? The verv a .v, iq,a t- . - - I 'Uva i rau iiiak aui 1 1 iaiipao Mexico are not satisfied with the ; fact of turning to McManus with committed 3388 prisoners to her penal blood already shed. linquents. This Information may be penal institutions; many of the coun found in that part of table 1 of bulle tin 121, bearing upon Kansas, begin ning on page 38. If Nebraska had committed the same rate per population that Kansas did she would have imprisoned only 2387. Wilson Is his effort to give the j telligence is it that the Oregonian As a matter of fact she imprisoned a r i x i . Mexicans a t-taoie government ana ; doesn't realize that Its alliance a home-owning peasant class with-i wuh McManus has made It the ob- uui resort to ar.niery ana carnage . lftf.t 0f rlfriRion aH over Oreeon? If it Is a "grape Juice" policy it vy doesn't somebody explain to is an exaitea noncy or sd end a iit thot t ica itcif t.j iti, LuaL i l. uiobi avcu i Lor it. i i o icu- humanism. M I ited its whole attack and opened I the eyes of everybody to its meth ods, when lt hired to slander Dr. R. VANDERLIP. a New York!Sm,th' the man who honZht a re' B LAMING THE FARMER or they can make them bad. The way to make them bad is to stay at home on primary and election day, and let tbe politicians run things. There is complaint about high taxes. There is indignation because lawc are not enforced. TheTe is the confessed fact that many -people do not take the laws terlously. There waa. for instance, an archy at Copperfleld. Law was suspended. Gambling was wide open. Bos of fourteen were made drunk in the saloons. There has txien more than one Connerfleld. Sheriffs In many a on the county have winked at lawlessness, farmer might retort that if Mr. I " oat.a. number should have been only 184.634 District attorneys have, by their Vanderiip is dissatisfied with the 11 is on Information supplied by If the prison rate of the nation had nonnnai win Bimnoniiixi tho lnua a-av in nhicH tho farmnn i t t such a man that the Oreeonlan bpen tne same as the rate in Kansas. ' , ' , . 7 V! " 'wuiug ... . fVlQ 313.153 of these prisoners would have Ther is a way to end the set- him. he is at perfect liberty to go . "k" tne Publlc - disbelieve the been free men anld women. performing tins asirte or law py tne nat or dhck to tne land and run the farm i lCBUluuuJ as - amnu uy lug their normal duties in society. district attorneys and sheriffs. The according to his own notion. j honorable men and women of Pen- In closing, the figures for Oregon !dleton. and to npcent as true the may be of special interest. In 1910 w 'iS iTac- j . . . ' - there were committed to tl election uay are ine time, anu ineiiicea Dy an iarmers it will make i d-,u'uuj v-".". voters must be the compelling 1 production less expensive. The ex-i God save tne mark- force. 1 pense of reaching the consumer is banker, attributes a great share of the high cost of liv- i volver, loaded lt deliberately, fol lowed Robert Estes into the back 57o6. Colorado's proportion at the Kansas rate would have been 1600 Colorado Imprisoned 4874 (page 14) Iowa should have imprisoned only 4454; she Imprisoned 13.022 (page 84), Missouri should have .had only 6695; she imprisoned 15,868 (page 66). South Dakota should have Imprisoned 1164; she Imprisoned 1596 (page 880) The deduction for juvenile delinquents may be found as the last Item under the tabulation for each state. in tne united states there- wern 497,787 prisoners committed in 1910 n- to the lack nt 0ffiM0n;f a saloon, and then, without glv- to the various penal institutions, ex- nar ot ! the i farmer ' ln5 EsteB one Blne chance for sive of Juvenile delinquents (page part oi tne rarmer. The vi,- 8- According to the Kansas rate th penitentiary, workhouses. the Oregon city JaiH, ues nave not. naa a jury to try crim mai cases in 10 years; 87 counties have no insane and 54 no feeble? minded Under date of May 2. 1914. I. W. V. Deacon, state registrar of vital sta- iiNiics iur tne state or Kansas, says the suicide rate in Kansas was onlv in. 9 for each lno.OOO of . nonulatlon As it is much higher than this In the I nl ted States as a whole he suggests prnir.ition as a possible reason J-iere is an item which may interest Oregon taxpayers: The tax rate per 11000 of assessed valuation in Kansas in 1910 was J1.20; In Nebraska lt was $6.50 We know Oregon is having perfected a very good school system, but it cer tainiy is in no wise -due to beer dri'ik ing. I think our school men are most ly total abstainers I spent many years in Iowa, which though having a mulct law, i8 most'.y proniDiuon territory. From them T went to Missouri, a license state. then spent some time in Kansas, and iouno tnem tne brightest and breezies peopje ever, especially in the rural districts. It has long been the! slogan: "A school house on every hill ana no saloon in the valley." They eucuuruse an innocent .amusements, ine moral atmosphere is clean From the Milton Eagle of March 13. Times really have changed. Not many years ago. before the Portland Oregonian had any real competition, its utterances on all questions had to be taken by the great mass of voters as gospel truth. However, since the advent of The Journal In Oregon's me tropolis, the great only has had to re cede from its position on many occa sions. With no one to answer in re buttal any of its charges, the voters relied upon It almost entirely for their actions at election time. Just recently, however the Oregonian was again taken to task by Its contemporary, which seems possessed of a wonderful memory regarding the big paper's past performances. The Journal last week made reply to the following Oregonian editorial : 'The state must be extricated from the tax bog in which lt has been plunged by too liberal expenditures of public, money. The Oregonian does not at all say that Governor West is solely responsible for present condi tions. Everybody is responsible. Oregonian." None more than the Oregnlan, replies The Journal. It aplauded the senate and house machine, organized in secret to ride rough shod over West's vetoes of appropriaion bills at the 1913 session. The ambition of the gang was to override every veto, no matter what the merit of the measure. It was suf ficient that a proposal for economy emanated from the governor's office down with It was the slogan of the senate and house machines, and with lt was the voice of the Oregonian. The Oregonian laughed when the gang laughed. It wept when the gang wept. It was glad when the gang was glad Any state gets exactly the kind an Important Item as is also the of government lt votes for. In loss suffered from producing too the ultimate. It Is the man with much of one crop and not enough; the ballot in his hand who can of another. j effectively dominate conditions. The fact that we all try to live But he cannot do It by staying too high has Infinitely more to do TWO IMPORTANT PRINCIPLES 2 P' ERHAPS the most important iwtiyiea j e i etmuiisueu prevail in prohibition Kansas, 5087 under the administration of I more of our citizens in 1910 would the local ontion law in Ore- have enjoyed full freedom, than did i v, ,. , xi, I enjoy lt under our license dbnditions. miv from thonnlln Ho m.i.r Im. with tho ot t ,; uiuu&iii. iu issauc ill luc I r-Trr n Prwnrt t. nress his desire on' affairs hv en- shortcoming tho f ' ' Second Judicial District. ine to the Drimaries and denosit- It is to he honed tht'th mA ne of tnese as down by John Stone's Views Controverted. ing his ballot. of living will nevr be lowered by ! tbe 8UPreme court. l that social To vote on primary day is Just a reduction in the price received by clubS that disPense drlnks are as important as to vote on election the farmer for hi nroH,,ct ! transgression of the local option I v " ' i rr-i ...U a il.i i v There are rasen In which It V.vcn if Bcfanttfi, o.m n. law. me Bwomi i mai urewer - -- . - i - - vivuini v, ac I Uliue mdn.es la far more important. I it possible for a man to raise county jails, etc., exclusive of juvenile I and refreshing ' deliquents. 6431 men and women (page Now it is Oregon, and tho..rh t iv. According to the Kansas rate, Oreeon T must tu ,i . Oregon should have Imprisoned only phere is much more like Missouri than iot-r. wumo, ii vicuna pup- mat or either lowa or Kansas But ulation had the same conditions that it is iirmrovinsr nn after iou t i. w-vv. a. kT J. -W A. Portland, May 11. To the Kditor of The Journal In Friday's Journal a man signing nimseir "John stone,' a it will compare favorably with either, M. A. COOPER. Phases of Liquor Question. Portland, May 8. To the RHttr The Journal F. J. R.'s statement that more people suffer from excessive eating man rrom overindulgence 1 oivuhuih; nuuurs mav contain onm i truth, since men, women and children The direct primary is the best greater crops on the same land and system of nominating yet devised, with the same labor he is entitled But the direct primary cannot do to the greatest portion of the ad it all. If the citizen remains away ditional revenue. If any reduc from the polls the direct primary tlon must come from the farmer it can easily fail. should be through a system that All the men and women In Ore- makes It possible for him to mar- gon should do ther duty next Frl- ket his crops with less expense as day. They know what that duty Is. well as to inform .him as to the probable demand for all classes of ies can be forced to surrender their charters in case they violate E!IS2 i"8,m v?,f ln,d'v,tduals as . I prooably dares in his efforts to escj tne law. A name which appears in the current city must eat, and drunkards are chiefly v.rfw d ui, no- continea to adult males. It would be equany aDsura to argue that prevent sessment roll at all. DROWNING OF ROMANCE ventures as near he escape the editorial blue pencil or waste bas- Both principles were established ket- The gratuitous sneering which he able diseases should not be curbed be cause more people died from other causes. Delicacy forbids my discussing the by. George M. Brown, district at- ?"u'f" j twar? ,th wifIhoo? a"d sacred topic of conception, but can F torney of the Second District, and o the women's Liberal league has tne decisions in tne lower court, by been anticipated by our body, now Judge Lawrence T. Harris. numbering over 500 women of this city, ine nusDanas ox wnom are, in It w-as able and self sacrificing work by which Mr. Brown man- J. R. name anything more vll. mora utterly revolting than a drunken OiiiUruUB XlUSDcUia - Anotner question: Why doea tha government prohibit the sale of llqupr IrnilA vhlnh ".Tnhn Rtnno" anrf ht. f.n.t. .7. u u . buui a gooo. . .. .... , in,nl. Trr rria i t r . , the majority, not identified with the to farm produce. Let the farmer have better mar ket facilities and better means of : Isprudence of Oregon getting to market, but don't at tempt to lower the high cost of to sell his or through necessity, aged to fight his cases and secure ical ilk desire to destroy. Like all of pVCnlt ve than the foreler wSS judicial interpretations by which Ms type he seeks to convey satire to is suddenly transplanted intour own . . . x , it a the minds of his readers and shows a .v,ti,,i . i, ur OWI RUTHLESSLY the present builds upon the grave of the past. The land of romance i a - InvfiHaH orA thA wn n , I 1 . Thisjs the order of life. th,ni1rv The sad news cornea that the need of Glasgo'w for an adequate water supply makes it necessary to deepen the Lochs Volland Dolne some forty feet and that in doing this the famous braes of Balquhid der are to be destroyed and the T ALWAYS OS THE JOB HAT there are still opportuni ties for young men is demon strated in the case of James these principles enter into the jur-Unowiedre of Rihn.i in exhilarating American atmosphere an There could I once places him in the category of paid critics with whom we very clear HIGH TAXES gear or ash, the body of elm. it was as good when we landed In Oregon aa the day we started, and I never had to do a lick of work on It clear across. I had my wife and two little folk j with me. "I took up 320 acres In the fall of 1833 at the head of Oswego lake. We ! brought two children with us and wi i have had seven more on our farm. I Whenever West vetoed an appropri- ! ation bill and the machine crowd ' passed lt over the veto, the Oregonian pointed to the result with pride. It patted the gang on the back. It en- I looked around for red clover to get couraged the bandits to new endeav- some seed. The old settlers told me It ors. It called the state to witness : was too wet in the Willamette valley how the patriotic legislators were j that clover wouldn't grow here. I showing the "foolish governor" his became curious, so I asked and In place. quired and I could find no one who ine Oregonian simpered and smiled I knew of any red clover in th Willam when the gang passed the notorious . ette valley. I sent back to my father thousand-dollar Carpenter approprla- ' In New York state for some see,d. J. tlon over the governor's veto. It was ! L. Parrlsh succeeded In making white complacent when the conspirators ' clover thrive, so I knew red clover passed 19 bills raising officials' salar : would grow. in 12 counties over the governor's veto. , "The seed had to come around the It applauded when the machine i Horn, so I didn't get It till the fall of pasHert the $1,250,000 general appro- ; lR.ri4. . I planted U In the spring of priation' bill over the veto in which , 1855. Grow? Why, Oregon Is the there was nearly $200. 000 of items of ; natural home of red clover and th" foreign appropriations to which the J dairy cow. O course It grew, and it governor bitterly objected. It approved ; has been growing there ever since, when the gang put the emergency ' "Being a millwright, I wanted to clause on the vetoed bill so the people keep my hand in and earn a little couldn't reach It with the referendum, money, so I helped build the mill st The total appropriations for the two j Palem I worked for the government years as a result of the gang's auda- i for quite a spell, putting np milla clous operations are $6,850,996.42. That ! the Indian agencies at Warm Springs, Is the sum the taxpayers must dig Umatilla. Yakima and Simcoe. Also, up for 1913 and 1914. j shortly after I carue here. I repaired History cannot he repealed. It Is 1 Dr. John Mclaughlin's mill at Oregon but a year since the facts herein de- , rity. Mclaughlin was a very kindly, scribed transpired. The Oregonian friendly man. When 1 presented mt was a part of the conspiracy in the last bill for work, he paid me in gold coin, legislature. It was the publicity me. His mill was washed away by tha dium. It backed the gang. It spon-; high water of 1861." sored the program. It bossed the , bosses. It lubricated the machine. War. .Jlaul ah0'.'.t,.h Js about! Frorn Harp-s weekly. the high taxes It helped to make. j rtiny plays a momentous psrt in human affairs. The wisdom and fore- Tt is sincerely hoped by this paper that the foregoing will remain as fresh In the memory of the voters this fall, as it is now when they have to It was for putting the governor pungle up the "high taxes" which are "in a hole" whenever the gang was for putting the governor "in a hole." entirely due to the state taxes being greater than ever before. GOOD TESTS OF A FARM MORTGAGE . By John M. Oskison. In the recent discussion of the gov ernment's duty of providing cheaper money for farmers the question of security for loans on farm mortgages has naturally been taken up. It would be useful to the investor who cares for farm mortgages to keep track of the bills proposed in congress. lie could find out what the best authori ties regard as good security. For Instance, in a bill which would make the government itself the lender to the farmer occurs this paragraph: "It must be shown by the applicant for A loan that the title to the prop erty offered as security is valid; trjat the money is to be used In a practica1 manner for the improvement of the property and to aid In increased pro duction of the soil; that the applicant Is honest, thrifty and capable of con ducting the business of farming; that market, soil and climate conditions are such as will not interpose serious obstacles to the success of the appli cant." A further provision of this bill is that not more than 60 per cent of th? value of the farm property mortgaged shall be loaned to the applicant. Here you have, rather concisely stated, about all of the necessary con ditions surrounding a sound farni mortgage loan. It In true that the gen eral investor who lives in the city may not have the chance to find out at first hand about the standing of the farmer who borrows or about the location of his land or the conditions of his mar kets. But the general investor wiio gets his farm mortgage from a re sponsible dealer can and should ask the dealer to supply such facts about the farmer, his land and the prospects sight possessed by the ablest of us Is so little that we deal largely in uncer tainties We can only have courage and derlicate what vision we have to good purposes. Nobody has morn wis dom and courage than the preslri -iit. Nobody could have dealt with the Mex ican situation on higher, more ad VHncerl and more disinterested grounds or with a greater wisdom. War today has few of the nobler elements lt pos sessed when lt was often a struggle for survival, calling out patriotism of the true sort. Today it Is an anachronism, usually caused by greed, disapproved of by the intelligence, of the time, Interest ing and exciting only the cheaper sides of our natures. The world has not yet thought out a way of avoiding It alto gether. The better elements in civi lized countries, however, seek to avoid lt up to the last moment and to mini mize Its harm when It comes. That Is all we have gained but that Is much. Another Truth Stretcher. From the Ctreen Book. Lew Ijockstader, the minstrel, was of success of the borrower as are In- ' introduced recently to a man who dlcated to be important in the sen- owned a place in New Hampshire, tences I have quoted. j "I,ots of good fishing up your way?" I know that most reputable dealers asked Dockstader. "I hear you owrj in farm, mortgages find out these a farm up the White Mountain way." facts; they confine their loans to 60 "fiood fishing!" cried the other., eti per cent (some to 5J per cent) of the thuslastically. "WI1. Mr. Dockstader, actual value of the mortgaged farm, j I went out one morning recently and It would be an additional factor of so-; brought back 17 tiout for breakfast, curlty to the buyer of the mortgage Got 'em in a half hour's time, too. We If he got from the dealer a letter cov ! had guests at the cottage and they ering the poit.ls heie brought out. 1 thought that quite remarkable." 'Glad I met you. sir," said Dockstad- ! er, holding out his hand with a look 1 of admiration. "I'm a professional my ' self." ' "A professional:" exclaimed tht i other. "What, fisherman?" i "No." was the answer, "no er nar- open lt so that the people could file a host of animals, but none with ra wlthout having to make application , bies. How is he regarded in the eye and have to go through so much red j of the law who brings into market tape. W7e have gone over and exam- i the carcass of a diseased anlmai? How lned a great deal of this land and -about selling the milk or butter of dis- i V. . . 1 ttla 1 .1 nil that oisr nsr.tilrt i u,l , . . . i- u Ta tliot a vanntahla hnel- 4.411 u u i nine i.i'.ii i "in " - - . .. ... V,...- -. i ' ....uv a au . ....... ; rfltoT be good for forest, and none that is ness? !oes the law permit lt? What ; good for forest at present. We find i of a proposition to permit the sale of this to be all hill hand, with benches j these diseased foods for a money ocn that are very fertile, and we believe j sideration say $1000 annually, paid the most of the hillsides could be used into the public treasury? Who would to good advantage. vote for such a law? Mrs. Duniway's We have each selected a piece of second blunder is her "cura for the land which we Intend making appli-1 present prohibition craze." She tmag ines herself In the liquor business, then she, "with the ample means The Ragtime Muse he no hieher testimonial to his flt- e r. ottT-r, w nsr.i on ofMcoUy understand we must contend in the HUUliig O'-. ' J VVHUVliU 11U 111" for which candidate. Mr. Brown is now a THERE'S A REASON Ing to nlm In our devotion to true Christianity, to a conception of vir- ... nV-V-nn X j. malignity, as an Individual, would !hoih!S thf Th" W,,th 1,quor have no oomlzane. from ni. On,. I polished, the other two would dlmin- Butnuuuu me, no i a wnii more sus ceptible to alcohol than our own alert. high-strung "clean-collar" brigade. Who Is the "man behind" in like those of Evelyn Thaw, Ida Pear ring and scorea of less notorious ones? Liquor, it la the father of luet and I have no cognizance from us. Once. however, be gains an avenue of pub licity and by Innuendo seeks to com- lsh amazingly.. Liquor has never done anvona. out side of those engaged In its manufac ture and sale, a mite of good. It has Keeley. a Chica go Hwsnncr. southwestern highlands are to be man who has become owner of two ; diseased bodies and minds marrea. it is reared mat engineer- big newspaper plants representing Ing operations will gp so far even an Investment of five million dol- as to disturb the grave of Rob Roy. lars. The secret of his success ia lt was among the braes of Bal- that as an employe he was always quhidder that the Gaelic "Red Rob- on the Job, stepping from one pro- ert" lived as a grazier with his motion to another. One of the wife. Succeeding to the chieftain most general complaints in Ameri- ship of the clan MacGregor he es- can life Is the scarcity of men poused the cause of the Jacobites, who are always on the iob Ther In .1712 his lands were- seized, are plenty of men who want, to t i hn made contented hv monev and hla house plundered and bis wife something for nothing, who want 1 that alone. While there may be a N THE self inflicted death of C. W. Post of postum fame there pare those within our affiliation as 1 J lIT.. I .r. n Ae Vi TT....l- 1 niilred wealth rioe not brine reveals his Inverted mind in making Tf , ,., " f. ullmn quired weaitn aoes not Dnng ,-,.,.,,, nf onnbl rfv t It is shortening the lives and sapping happiness. Dollars will not cure remetrius m the ancient nast with the ?entamy of he . The possession or everything that money can buy will not dis solve the cloud of morbidness that enshrouds him who can not digest and assimilate his food. So if we have a good digestion there is a reason for us to be. hap py and not to envy the rich man who has not. Men have never uu tuuuicu iuiubu aurui in iuiq- i to lane over tne management nt wlnt?r Ja business before they have Berved Rob Roy then gathered his J an apprenticeship In acquiring a temporary gratification in its pos session, there is no permanent pleasure in Its acquirement with- a comparison or applause given to " " ," ,,. " r ' . . nmig Demetrius ip the ancient past with Tl' ' "t, l"e S1 r,owr or that accorded to Roosevelt on a more our A!"?rlcan manhood. There is not recent occasion, we are impelled to tn 8"Sbtest excuse for its existence, i,. , n.nHn. -in . I and it must go. h4.ei. t.n hi hi. - 1 Let us consign It to the nethermost that our conception of duty'and devo-1 ?fth" of v.UIlon lonWa tha other tlon is on a plane so far above his T1 t,.Z . . VJifZZJ'r L mauer mental concentlon that we never ex- " W"'A lounu. v.a r rfAm a f n TV"r.tf wtth Him fn " . " I af-l at. jm t . . a v this or the world to come. I m r errsi reserves, Our homes, our home life, our chil- I Heceta, Or., May 7. To the Editor dren, their health and welfare are, or 1 of The Journal We, the undersigned. should be. Inviolate. We have the j have been In the country described by humane instincts which prompt us to I Lorenzo E. Dole In his letter under desire well for our friends and fratpr-5. date of March 25, which appeared in We oppose intemperance, a condition j The Oregon Jonrnal a few days later. caused more largely in tnis woraday I and we rind tnat there Is an abund world by the use of speech and wrltte-i I ance of land there that we believe word, such ca "John Stone" Indulges I could be cleared and farmed to advan In. than all of tha beverage creations. I tage, provided the government would cation for, and, should we be success ful In securing this land, we wili bring our families and return to this country, where we expect to make our future homes. - L. D. BRAYLES. KLYIE ATTEBKRY. CHARLES HARTLEY, Winona, Wash. He Wants a Change. Mv country may not need me, Rut I'm sroinc to enlist. and! So you might as well "godapeed ma ti The call I can t resist. " . ' They can get along without me Organize Against Mrs. Duniway. Portland, May 11. To the Editor of Tha Journal Allow me to call the at tention of Mra. Abigail Scott Duniway to two mistakes in her last letter. She says, "Since God Is the author of human nature and of alcohol, we can not successfully prohibit the use of either." The first member of this compound sentence is a' contradiction of the inspired declaration. "God made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions" (Ecc. vii:29). The condition of our sinful nature is not the result of divine creation, -but is directly traced. In the Inspired record, to Satan, tha father of lies. (See Gene sis, chapter ill.) Mrs. Duniway's mls take in, the second member Is equally glaring. Webstar defines alcohol as "The intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors extracted from fer mented vegetable juices." In other words, alcohol Is the product of decay rot. Did God ever make any rotten thing? This poor, sinful world abounds! in rotten things, but their condition cannot be traced to the hand of the Creator. He is not the author of sin or any of its products. Ha has made its disposal for cleaning up its dusi- Trl ,h r,ttet,t kind of war. ness, "would demand for every wife ; But the nation do not doubt me and mother such a degree of economic : Isn't what I'm going for. tnH.n.nH.nfi. oat ur,lllrl mfllrA her ' atja I free to nrntect her home and furnilv Oh, VCS, I love the nation; ... . . - - i t - it from the ravages of the drunkard's j disease as he Is now free to impover- ; lsh his home and hers by his own In- duigence." That is. after "giving the, drunkard manufacturer state license to tempt her husband to his fall, and making a madman of him, ahe would set the wife up In finances and civil rights equal to that of her drunken husband and let them fight lt out if j it took a fifetime. But aa the "pro hibition craze" would interfere with the "personal liberty" both drunkard and drunkard-maker, that Is all wrong! This is the logical se quence of Mrs. Duniway's line of ar gument. She can- get away from the conclusion only by renouncing her premises. J. H. LEIPER. For it I'd bleed and die And fight the whole creation. If there were a reason why; But I'm asking aa a favor In fighting to engage. And I'll gladly sign a waiver To my military wage. I hear tha bugles calling And I want to go away. And quit this ceaseless stalling For three square meals a day. I'll march away right gayly And sustain the battle'a shock rM ju"i io ftefp xrom wa te n jrijr unity .av Hv unt uv wau- (a,ai-n A Query aa to a Motive. Portland. May 9. To the Kditor of The Journal I am much interested In reading the letters of the people espe cially on the subject of prohibition. For the benefit of your readers will you piea.e inform us as to how much Mrs Abigail 8cott Duniway and her immediate family will be affected ( financially by state wide prohibi tion"? Ate they directly Interested in the revenues from the sale of liquors? H. M. MOODY, 335 Sherman street. The Sunday Journal The Great Home Newspaper, consist of Five news sections replete with Illustrated features. Illustrated magazine of Quality. Woman's section of rare merit. Pictorial news supplement. Superb comic section. 5 Cents the Copy