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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, , MAY 13, 1914.
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The) conqueror la regarded
with awe; the wlae man com
mands our respect; but it Is
only the benevolent man that
wine our affection. A-nony-mous.
PENDLETON'S KEPLY
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N THE whole political history
of Oregon, no more dramatic
reply has ever been made to
the calumniations of a news-
paper than was the answer of Pen
dleton citizens last night to the
slanders promoted by McManas and
the Oregonlan.
The one remarkable Incident of
Mayor Matlock, standing on his
cratches throughout the meeting,
constitutes an Indorsement of Dr.
Smith by an oldtime fellow citizen
to which there is no answer. Be
side it, the assertions of the Ore
gonian reiterated day by day on
the authority of McManus, are un
reasonable and unbelievable. Writ
ing of the incident. The Journal's
Pendleton correspondent says:
And towering above all on' the plat
form, tpwerlng because In his crip
pled condition, he could not sit, wa.f
Mayor W. F. Matlock, the man quoted
by the Oregonlan In an Interview,
never given, to the effect that Dr.
Smith, as mayor of Pendleton, had
permitted gambling to flourish. 8up
ported by his crutches, he stood be
hind the gubernatorial candidate
throughout the meeting as evidence
of his loyalty and sympathy for Dr.
Smith, a striking repudiation" o? the
statements credited to him.
There could be no higher tribute
Central figure In the packed the
atre, grizzled and Mattered with the
storms of many winters, rugged in
spirit even while he must depend
on his crutches for support, Mayor
Matlock is an unanswerable indict
ment of those who have slanderel
Dr. Smith aud an irresisMWlu cre
dential as to Dr. Smith's fitness
for high publ!i position.
Scarcely less powerful as an in
dorsement was that of Rev. A. Mc
Kenzie Meldrum, a Christian min
ister of Athena, Umatil'.a county,
lit said:
I have come out of my party for
the time being In order that I tan
cast a ballot for a man who is a
man In all that the word implies. Dr.
Smith is one of the cleanest, one of
the ablest, one of the best afd one
of. the noblest men I have met In
all my life, and how any mu.ii cut
side the doors of the asylum enn
ay anything derogatory uf his char
acter is beyond my comprehension.
Whenever a man of his lofty reason,
high character and warm neari is
maligned as he has been, it is time
for every decent man and woman, re
gardless of party, to rise up in his
support.
One other testimonial 'In the
Pendleton reply was as powerful
as It was picturesque. It came
from Colonel Jim Raley, who, as
a barefoot boy, followed the sur
veyor aa they set the stakes for
the town.
.No name is better
known in Democratic circles in
Oregon. . He said:
When a man, as just, as honest, as
able and as conscientious as I know
Dr. 8mith to be. Is attacked in the
manner In which he has been. It is
time for every loyal frtend to take a
stand behind him. In the early days.
It was considered almost an honor
to be a gambler. I have seen the
time In this city when the doors of
gambling hails were as wide cpen
as are the churches now on the Sab
bath day, and where the floors were
strewn with cards almost ankle deep.
Gambling was a profession that
ranked along with all others in those
frontier clays. The change to the
ban of today could not be accom
plished in a day or a year, but I
say to this audience and to the sta'.o
of Oregon, that Dr. Smith made thrj
first steps toward bettering moral
conditions In the old Pendleton. i
ay it because I knpw it, for I wai
here. He did not cleanse the town I
all its Iniquities, for there is no h
man being that ever lived that couli
I hv accomplished that result, but
r-atd ?do all that one man could do to
ward eradicating tne open vice and
starting a new era of reform.
Such Is the testimony of the
Raleys, the Matlocks, the Mel
drums and others, whose reputa
tions are state-wide and whose
knowledge of the facts absolute.
(i. Again 8t It are the wild, reckless,
y discredited and desperate asser
i tlons of the Oregonlan, now flght
- log Dr. Smith alone of all the six
teen candidates for governor. It
is fighting him on the testimony of
. McManus. It is fighting him alone
in spite1 of the fact that among its
own .party candidates are men
whose reputations are putrid.
The Pendleton reply is complete.
, It ' is ' unanswerable. When ex
"Mayor Murphy moved "it to be the
( tense of the meeting that the cam-
1 palgn made against Dr. Smith Is
slanderous and without founda
tion," the meeting burst into a
roar of ayes. At the call for the
negative vote there was profound
silence, followed In a moment by
thunderous applause.
In this controversy with the
Oregonlan and McManus on one
side and the people of Pendleton
on the other,' Dr. Smith is honored
by the character of his backers as
well aa by the character of his op
ponents.
Nine years Is a long period for
an estate to remain unsettled. It
has been In the 'hands of Judge
Cleeton since 1910. It was an es-jdensome and a change is demand
tate of $4500 in the beginning, ; ed. There are yet In the old Bay
and after nine years, the sister. State fifteen towns who still re-
who Is the only heir, has re-1
celved something over $1600. ;
What Is worse Is that the lawyers '
have been permitted to grab bo ;
much that, she will get little if;
anythlng more. The case Is a
travesty on the name of probate
justice.
JIM HOGUE
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HERE is a whole world of re
vealed- trials In the act of
James S. Hogue,' who failed
in his attempt to rob a pas-
senger train near San Francisco, J
and then attempted self tlestruc-1
tion with his own revolver. After-;
wards, he said : I
I am sorry the bullet failed to
reach a vital spot. My wife and j
babies will be worse off than ever
now. Thev are destitute, and neces-
sity drove me to this crime.
When told by a newspaper man
of her husband's act, the wife said:
Why, it can't be true. Jim was the
best husband in ' the world. He
wouldn't leave my two little children
and me to starve. We are destitute.
If Jim has gotten in trouble. It Is
not wholly his fault. He could not
bear to see us in want, and when he
kissed us good bye yesterday morn
ing, he said he would come back with
enough money to put us on our feet.
There can be no justification for
crime. There can be no excuse for
suicide. Jim was -wrong.
But he was under great provo
cation. There was a liungry wife.
There were two little children that
needed Bhoes and clothing
and i
food. Jim looked into their eyes
and at their little faces and
thought of the empty, cupboard.
Jim couldn't get work. He was
turned coldly away at every door
at which he applied. The granite
walls of the great buildings where , a sum for a day's work in the
there was work to do were closed field unheard of in any other coun
against him. In all the great, busy J try in the world. Immigration
human bee hive, there wasn't a ! lingers in the great centers and
niche for Jim. j adds to the difficulty of obtaining
Day after day and night after i employment. A considerable por
night he strove on under the heavy tion of each year's crop is either
load. The doors tba were closed i reduced in quality or altogether
In his face were mockery. The
great world around and about had
nothing for him.
What are the inner thoughts of
a man whose children look into i
his eyes and ask for bread? What '
of the thorn in the bouI of a man ,
when the wife Who says, "he Is ;
the best husband in the world,"
looks with hope for news that he
has found employment and he is
compelled to disappoint her?
Jim Hogue Is a mute but mo
mentous appeal to mankind 4o re
member the Nazarene's message
of "good will on earth." Do the ! able future employment must pro
conscience of men who sit amid j ceed together. Labor must have
millions they cannot use never material to work UDon and labor
prick them when the;- read of the j and material must also be so con
Jim Hogues? '.joined that the sum total shall hn
If the life and teachings of the j an increase of product equal to
man of Galilee mean anything, the j the advancing demands upon it,
gates up there will not swing ajar while at the same time our nat-so-called
to pious gentlemen who j ural resources shall not be ex
revel and roll in their millions hausted.
wuiie iub wives ana cnuaren or i
the Jim Hogues are destitute.
FARM MORTGAGES
F
IRST steps In organizing the i
Farm Mortgage Bankers As- i
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sociation of America were
iaKen at. XNew iorK last week , round numbers ninety-seven million
by delegates from all over the pp1 on three million square miles
country eathered to Heonrp hv - I of land- We 6h0uld be able to sup
country, gainerea to secure Dy co- port one hundred and flfty per.square
operation whatever benefits are to mile as easily as thirty-two.
De aerivea r,y Dorrower and invest-
or from the Federal Reserve act
wuu.ii is exyecieu to wiaen consm- tion of Denmark with one hun
erably the field of dealers in ag-.dred and sixty-seven inhabitants
ncuuurai mortgages. ;
The qualifications for member-i
ship in . the association are: Any j
national 6r state bank, trust com-!
pany. corporation, partnership or'morp attrartivn anfl mn r0m,,nn,'
lndividual, in good standine. hav-
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Ing a paid-in capital stock and
surplus of $50,000 or more and
"U,U1 u Practice or loaning
money on the security of improved
farm lands and publicly offers i
u.,uCD oait-.
Farm mortgages are not yet
fashionable in the great financial i
centers of this country but they
are growing so. Within the last
ten years, two great New. York t
companies have begun to invest in j
farm mortgages and now there are '
not half a dozen large life insur-!
ance companies that are not tak-
Ing them up. Gradually but surely
the tide Is turning towards funda -
meniais in investment and when
the country really wakes up to the
lact that its agricultural lands are
its mainstay and a foundation for i presenting it with a human touch
a security superior even to the ! that is absent in the morning news
government itself, then the borrow- paper it goes to the home in the
ing lacllitles of the American farm-
er will be second to none.
As legislative barriers are re-
moved, as farmers become more
uniformly business like and the
farms more uniformly of known
value as collateral, farmers' credit
win uecome more and more stand-
ardized and less dependent on per-
Bonal discriminatloni
IT IS COMING
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HE crystal of conservatism is
disintegrating in the air of ;
modern progress that is now
enveloping Massachusetts. The
towns of Revere and Attleboro are
seriously considering the question
or abandoning the old time town
meeting government. Revere is i
credited with a population of 20,r'of Lloyd-Georg&There is a large
000 and Attleboro with over 16,-j deficit In the government's finances
uwo-
Attleboro rejected one city char-
ter given it by tne state legisla -
lure ana is now seeking to devise
anotner. in tneory when any inu-
mcipai Dusiness is to be done thtft
whole population meets in general
assembly and does it. In practice
though, only a pan of the citizen -
ship gathers. The antiquated sy:
tem has become intolerably bur -
tain the old town, meeting system.
Some day these towns may
adopt a modern commission govern-
ment and some day we in Port
land will drop our antiquated cus-
torn of levying school taxes
mob fashion.
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DEMOCRACY'S GUARDIAN
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FTER the nominations are
made, is it the Oregonlan
that will make the fight to
elect the Democratic nominee
for governor?
Is It the Oregonlan that the Dem
ocrats must rely on to bear the,
heat and brunt of the campaign
for electing the Democratic noml-
nee to be selected next Friday?
If tQ Democrata are Bure lney
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can depend on the Oregonlan to
elect a Democratic governor, it
might be a good thing for them to
listen to the advice of the Ore
gonian about what candidate to
nominate, or not ! to nominate.
A BIG QUESTION
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HO will feed the one hun
dred and thirty-eight mil
lion people who will in
habit the United States in
les than twenty years? Who will
find sustenance for a population of
two hundred million by the middle
of the century?
These questions are asked by
James J. Hill, the Empire builder,
who sees the grim face of that
specter which confronts the unera-
J ployed tramping hateful streets in
the hope of food and shelter. The
farms stretch out their hands in
vain. They offer the lazy tramp
lost by reason of the impossibility
of getting labor to handle It prop
erly. Discouraged small farmers
are selling their land to large pro
prietors who can profitably sub-
stitute machinery for men.
No nation in history, continues
Mr. Hill, was ever confronted with
a sterner question. What are we
to do with our brother whose keep
er "we are? How are we to provide
our own children with shelter and
daily bread?
rtauonai consideration of our
potential resources and of avail
ty cni tv, tA x
I Hill urges the study of the soil,
to prevent its being carried away
; to the sea and to restore to it the
t,emenis iaKen Irom He savs:
vv ,at we must come to 13 tnc
smaller farm with a more intensive
agriculture. We support tody m
Even then we should havA rmr a
fraction of the density of popula-
ner sflnarA miu nr Unlink with
fonr hundred and f m-tv-i , t
Mr. Hill finds a ray of comfort
in th rpfWHnn that farm HfQ
tv. 5 , ,
hhtc niuu cici uciuic, is uegiiJiiiug
to bP Rnn?ht for it w k t
telllgence is being applied to farm-
ing '.as it has been to mechanics,
discovering an evon lnrr
more delightful field for its range
,and a rewaru as ample
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AFTERNOON NEWSPAPERS
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F THE rapid growth of the af
ternoon newspaper were noted
only in isolated cases it might
be ascribed to local conditions
but when it is uniformly dis
tributed, it leads to the conclusion
j that it is the afternoon edition
' that makes the larger appeal to
: he home circle
j Conaining as it does the news of
; the world the day it happens and
i evening when everyone has time to
1 read it.
i The advertiser is not moved bv
any consideration of sentiment,
' He ' employs th-e medium that
! brings the best results. While he
reaches a certain clientele through
j.the morning newspaper he finds a
larger response through the af-
ternoon paper. For this there is
a reason and that is that the house
hold has come to find tbe after
noon newspaper an indispensable
factor in its daily . entertainment
LLOYD-GEORGE AGAIN
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NGLAND and Scotland have
something nearer home to
think about than the Irish
questlonV in the recent budget
i and the Chancellor of the Ex
j chequer has in the frankest manner
! possible applied; to the wealthy
I class once more
The first Lloyd-George budget
saved the eovernment and oushed
the House of Lords to the brink of
1 the precipice. Can he "do the
1 trick" a second time? His task
1 In his new bud eat he Droooses a
grant to a national tuberculosis
insurance s c h e m e, educational
grants to poor districts, grants for
better roads, poor law relief, help
for embarrassed municipalities and
an . increase In maternity benefits.
The pressure for imperial defen?e
has not slackened his zeal for so
cial uplift. He is willing for the
nation to have a better navy but
it shall not be at the expense of
the poor man.
Mr. George has the faculty of
seeking gold where it may be found
in largest quantities. He has now
gone after the man who has an
income of $5000 a year and more.
This includes not only the large
landowners but takes in a lot of
other people whose income arises
from trade, Industry, finance and
what may be called the activities
of modern life.
The Morning Post pays the bud
get the compliment of calling it a
"cleverly drafted electioneering
document." That means that the
Post believes it will be popular
with a majority of. the voters.
Letters From the People
(Com mnnlcatlona aent to 'The Journal for
publication tn tola department abonld be writ
ten on only one aide of the Daoer. abonld not
exceed 300 worda In length and must be ac
companies dt me name ana aaareaa ct tne
aender. If the writer doea not dealr to
bare toe name published, be abould ao state. )
"Discussion la the zreatest of an reform
era. It rationalizes everything It toncbea. It
robs principles of all falae sanctity and
tnrowa them back on tbeir reasonableness, it
they have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and acts up Its
own conclusions In their stead." Wood row
ilsoo.
Ella M. Finney's Figures.
Gervais. Or, May 11. To the Editor
of The Journal Here Is a crude anti-
Prohibition problem; a copy of 1
should be Bent to every voter in Ore
gon, and every one should figure on it.
Declaring that statewide Prohibition
would cost growers of California lbO,-
000,000 a year, the Los Angeles Cham
ber of Commerce went on record
against It. For a fruit and hop grow
ing estimate, multiply that three times
for the Pacific states, three times for
the Atlantic states and three times for
the central states. Corn, potatoes.
hops, berries and fruits, multiply by
12 times the size of the United States
We have the world loss $16,200,000,000
Add the cost of labor, as all but one
fourth, and we have $12,150,000,000
more, or $28,350,000,000 loss for liquor
purposes. The United States commls
sioner of Internal revenue gives the
yearly use of grain for liquor at 114,
497,878 bushels. Multiply that 12 times,
multiply by $1 a bushel, and we have
$137,397,453,600 loss and a loss to labor
is one-third off. Labor loss added
makes it $228,995,755,000 grain loss for
liquor purposes. Add those two great
losses and we have a world Prohibition
robbery to growers of fruit, hops, pota
toes and grain, used for liquor pur
poses, $257,345,755,000. Add to that an
enormous manufacturing loss. Loss to
commerce and labor surely must be
half as much more. We get none too
much for our wheat, cattle and hogs
now. What would we get if everyone
raised nothing but wheat, cattle and
hogs? There would be too much supply
and no demand. God knew that in 1914
Prohibition would try to destroy his
world's production. He took wine, ma
terially, as his most sacred gift, and
said, "Do this in commemoration of
me," teaching temperance, not Prohi
bition. "Hopgrower's Wife," writing against
hopgrowing, is like a minister's wife
tearing down her husband's church
perfectly ridiculous. Governors and
others who Will .not vote wet to save
the country are too narrow minded to
guide the ship of state. Fruit and hop
growers and Othece who want pros
perity must not stand around like a
lot of bawling calves but should send
a wet ticket to every voter in Oregon,
and do it quick. Everybody should
vote wet, for enforced law, order and
temperance. ELLA M. FINNEY.
Fair Warning. to Fido.
Portland. May 12. To the Editor
of The Journal. Dog days are coming
on apace and the subject, very natur
ally, turns to dogs. Much can he said
for and against dogs. There are good
and bad dogsf sheep-killing dogs, suck
egg dogs, and just plain good-for-noth
ing" dogs. These last are in the major
ity and very much In evidence. Every
man has the inalienable right to keep
a dog if he pays the dog tax. But the
question is, has any man the right to
pasture his dog at large? Does pay
ment of the dog tax license the dog to
demolish flower gardens and lawns
and roam the land without let or
hindrance? In the event of damage to
property, could one recover from the
owner of the dog, or must he sue the
dog? As matters now stand it would
seem that dogs are a privileged class
of animals. They take more liberty
with other people's property than do
men, women and children. If a man
went into a jrrocery store and took the
liberty allowed common curs he would
bring up In jail in 10 minutes; yet
the grocer endures the dog's conduct
without a word of protest.
Now, I'm not looking for an argu
ment. I have nothing against dogs.
They are all right In their places, but
I cannot believe my premises any
place. for another man's dog. Nor do I
believe another man's garden should
be invaded by my dog. And surely a
dog should not be allowed tn a store
or market where foodstuffs are sold.
But what is to be done? Must we
continue to suffer from the depreda
tions of visiting dogs or shall we hunt
up the owner and demand satisfac
tion? For my part I want no lawsuits
no dog Judgments. I have no means
of knowing what man s dog damages
my garden, but all signs point to dogs.
I am then forced back to first princi
pies, must protect my property, and 1
propose to take the law Into my own
hands. Patience has ceased to be
virtue, and the next dog I catch prowl
ing in my yard will receive a dose of
"high life" that will make him tuck his
tail between hia'f lea-bitten hinder legs
and flee to the mountains of Heps
adam.
Yes, indeed, he will.
ROBERT G. DUNCAN.
The Oregonian Ticket.
Portland. Or.. May 13. To the Editor
of The Journal. On the eve of the
primaries those who are interested in
the outcome of the political cauldron
may for a brief moment stop and
consider. There are so many seeking
ttiice whom we, tne voters, must ellm
inate. For whom ought we to vote,
and who cast out? To determine this
we must get down to bedrock. Let us
specialize. The Oregonian has alway
epposed reform, reform measures and
leform candidates. It was the Oregon
lan that fought recall, referendum and
initiative. It was the Oregonlan that
wished, and advocated, plunging the
knife to the hilt in Statement No.
It was the Oregonian that got up th
assembly to kill the initiative and
Statement No. 1.
Are not most of the Oregonlan ticket.
members of that assembly? Are not
they the same old crowd who wished
and intended to knife the Initiative?
A FEW SMILES
Walking from Hope to Hayfield by
a path over the moors, write a cor
respondent of the Manchester Guard
ian. I found tne nuia
covered with snow. .
A f r tilng east
wind made things
anything but pleas
ant. At one point I
had to admit that I
had lost my way, and
it was with relief that
found a signpost. The inscription
was blotted out with frozen snow.
I climbed ' the post and with great
difficulty and personal discomfort
thawed the snow off with my already
half frozen hand and succeeded In de
ciphering the Inscription. It said:
"Keep to the path."
Mrs. Brown had Just registered and
was a'bout to turn away when the
clerk asked:
"Beg pardon, but
what is your name?"
"Jfame," echoed
the indignant lady.
"Don't you see my
signature there on the
register?"
"T Aft." returned the
clerk calmly. "That is what arousen
my curiosity."
"Paca. vou remember the pretty lit
tie plant 1 naa in my
window r
"Yea, dear," replied
the Darent.
"You know, I usea
-
to sing to it every
morning."
"Yes."
"Well. It's dead."
Then I don't wonder."
Beware of "the hand of Esau but the
voice of Jacob." Look out. That
ticket of the Oregonlan has a deceitful
lure. While there are good men per
haps all are I say vote against the
whole ticket. It is an Oregonlan ticket.
That settles it.
By the way, is S. B. Hewston my old
friend from Washington county he
who ran against Tom Tongue for state
senator? He then ran and was elected
as a Democrat, and I tried to give him
and did give him, some aid. If the
same, how is it he is now yoked up
with the Oregonian bunch? Has he
changed his spots? Whether the same
or not, I feel instinctively opposed to
him as well as to the entire bunch
or Immaculate Oregonian ticket. "Be
ware of the ides of March. I say
beware of the Ides of May next Fri
clay that the Oregonian don't get one
over us.' J. B. DILLE1 .
Examples at Pisgah Home.
Pisgah Horn, Lents, May 9. To th
Editor of The Journal Election day i
drawing near. I wonder how many of
our sister citizens citizens, do you
ear? are giving it any heed. Are
those who are thinking on the subject
hinklng more of taxes than of the
far more important moral questions of
he day? We are so. ready for the
commercial interests;, so indifferent to
the questions that affect welfare of
piritual and moral life. Could the
sifter citizens of Oregon spend a few
days In our Pisgah home at times, and
see the devastation in the lives of men
nd women, wrought by the drink de
mon; could they see the men who have
been educated in our colleges and uni-
ersities some of the brighest minds
-walking- about picking Imaginary
ravelings from their clothing, brushing
off cobwebs and spiders where there
re none, crawling under chairs to get
away from wild animals In our peace
ful parlor, trembling, shaking quiver
ing with fear and horror; if they could
see a once beautiful little girl little
Nell educated In a convent, cultured,
refined, beautiful in cnaracter, but un
der the curse of wine; could you see
her -follow up the wall and with one
oath after another pop the dishes at
the imaginary creeping things she sees
there with her fiery eyes; could you
only for a little while stop and think
hat this might have been your little
Nell, or that poor miserable wretch, 20
years from now your bright, beautiful
boy, you would forget for a little while
our high taxes, business and commer
cialism, and clean our hearthstones of
this awful curse to our homes, our
children and all our loved ones.
Vote, vote, every woman, every man!
Vote it out of existence. Vote now. If
prohibition is not sufficient, make it
sufficient. It is the nearest to it.
anyway, and we will enforce our laws.
We, the sister citizens, wiH bring it to
pass, under God, to clear our beautiful
land of this blackest of all curses, the
liquor traffic. No more jails for
drunkards, no more Pisgah homes for
the poor. It is this thing that clothes
a man with rags, vote, every sister;
vote, every brother; vote for prohibi
tion. MRS. HATTIE B. LAWRENCE,
Pisgah Mother
Martial Law.
Reedville, Or., May 12. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Once more the
Oregonian's peaceful slumber is dis
turbed by the awful clash of arms.
Again we behold lynch law stalking
abroad. Governor West, tired of
waiting for oir attorney general's due
process of law. is making preparations
to clean up another den of vice with
the military forces. It Is the same
old story of officials who have be
come blind to their duty, who lack
backbone to enforce the law. Of
course, Governor West should have
held a council of war with the Ore
gonian before proceeding with the in
vestment of "the Friars' club at Mil
waukle, but he evidently forgot to do
so, and we shudder to think of the
explosion which no doubt will rock
t'ae Oregonian's tall tower. This Fri
ars' club came under martial law once
before. It is the oft repeated story
of debauchery. It is another point
against the liquor traffic because
liquor is forever associated with vice
conditions. How much longer will
state and nation tolerate this legalized
outlaw: crush out this recruiting
station tor an tnat is evil. Down with
the liquor traffic. Vote dry for en
forced law and order. Vote dry to pro
tect mar. priceless jewel, virtue.
O. E. FRANK.
A Kansan on Kansas.
Portland, May 12. To the Editor of
The Journal I have read with much
satisfaction and amusement the letters
in The Journal, from time to time re
garding so-called prohibition Kansas,
my native state.
The statistics quoted are, I am proud
to say, in the main true, which is a
splendid argument against prohibition
for Kansas is a wet state just as we
as any other state in the union, and
wnat is more, Kansas never was any
thing but a wet state.
There is a musty old clause in the
constitution of the state that is only
enforced on some community or county
that had the audacity to oppose the
governor when he was runninar for of
fice. In the city in which I was born
and reared In so-called dry Kansas, we
had until about four years ago 150
wide open saloons, two breweries, one
distillery, several wineries, besides
local warehouses of all Milwaukee. St
Louis and Kansas City, Mo., breweries.
saying nothing of the saloons In the
county, which easily numbered 100
more. All this In dry . Kansas. But
the people of this community. and also
of a neighboring city had opposed a
certain governor when he was aspir-
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PERTINENT' COMMENT
aUIALli CHANGE
Villa talks well, but he may need
watching.
Som men don't need money in order
to spend It.
All things seem sticky to those who
art stuck.
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The hi eh orice of eggs has done
much to reduce stage fright.
Old hens are not absent-minded, vet
their eggs are often mislaid.
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Many too many voters of Oregon
don't care who s nominated.
The race Isn't always to the swift;
it often depends on the JocHey up.
Some men waste a lot of their time
looking for words of encouragement.
But will all the defeated ones "fail
in line" and "stand shoulder to shout
derr
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If moat of the reDOrts about Huerta
are true, the man must be simply
crazy.
When a man is cornered he Im
agines that he did not get a square
deal.
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rnmnlolD nartv harmonv is some
thing often mentioned, but seldom if
ever realized.
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It isn't reallv essential thst the
members of a legislature be all mem
bers of one party.
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Congress will have to do more work
In proportion to its talk if it maintains
its last year's good record.
"Business prospects good," says a
prominent bank's circular. Evidently
the bank is not sending out anti-administration
dope for political effect.
GENERAL BLISS, COMMANDER ON BORDER
By Herbert Corey.
General Tasker Harmon Bliss Is in
command of the United States troops
along the Texas border. Every one
hopes that there will be no conflict
there between the American soldiers
and the Mexicans. But If there should
be a conflict those who know General
Bliss are fairly easy in their minds.
He is regarded as one of the most thor
oughly competent soldiers in the army.
And as a fighter he's simply grand.
But his especially long suit is in feed
ing the brutes.
"A well fed soldier," says Bliss,
"can march farther and stay awake
longer and shoot straighter than the
other sort."
Some one told the other day a story
of the Spanish war. Bliss was in
command or a company stauonea near
village, which was held by an over
whelming force of Spaniards. Bliss'
orders were to keep his eye peeled like
n onion. If he saw anything if he
heard anything if he just had a
telepathic hunch of anything he was
to gather his men and fall back as
far as he could and as fast as he could.
Bliss heard the orders and saluted.
No one. to look at Bliss, would dream
that he had anything in mina except
an immediate and infuriated falling
back. Instead of which he tied his
sword on a mule, so it wouldn't trip
him, and chased the loathsome Span
iard out of that village with whoop and
hallo. Next day headquarters happened
along to find Bliss sitting in front of
the village hotel, wearing a smug and
satisfied smile. Headquarters issued a
hard call.
'Why did you attack this village,"
asked headquarters, "when you knew
you were largely outnumbered?"
"Shucks," said Bliss except that he
used the regular army substitute for
shucks, which isn't a West Point word
"shucks, I didn't attack this dog-
town. My men have been living for
four days on half a cracker and a swal
low of water. And last night the
wind was just right, and some squaw
over here started to fry onions "
Bliss was born In Pennsylvania in
1853. Those who know anything about
that state know that It Just reeks with
pies, doughnuts, beans, raised biscuits
and other things that keep the inner
man happy. He graduated from West
Point in 1875 and was assigned to the
artillery as a second lieutenant. He
made his mark there and then that
Pennsylvania sentiment for food came
MONEY FOR THE
By John M. Oskison.
There Is general belief, founded on
a great deal of evidence, in the theory
that when the man with an idea goes
to the man with the dollars for as
sistance in carrying out his idea he
loses his idea and gets no money.
That is one charge brought against
Wall Street."
About 20 years ago, according to a
story that is generally believed, Edi
son sought financial backing from"a
very rich and influential banker of
New York;' he wanted money to push
his inventions and develop others which
were in his mind. That banker ad
vised Edison to forget it and leave
the matter of financing to people who
understood it.
But Edison didn't take the advice.
He found capital elsewhere than in
Wall street, and his inventions and
developments continued to grow in
number and increase In importance
until the total amount involved in
companies exploiting Edison processes
had risen to an estimated two billions.
Edison's personal fortune, In spite of
his lavish expenditures on research
ing for office, and as a result the
musty old weapon of revenge was
brought 'from its resting place and
with one fell stroke this hypocritical
governor transformed those 150 sa
loons into 300 dirty blind pigs and
robbed the city of its revenues. Blind
pigs flourish in restaurants, barber
shops, drug stores, private rooms in
hotel and clubs of fraternal orders. In
pool rooms, livery stables and private
residences blind pigs can be found, and
it is not considered out of order for
some respectable family to do the
liquor dispensing for the neighborhood.
The conditions in this city are illus
trative of what goes on in all other
cities in Kansas. The liquor whole
salers in neighboring states wax fat
cn Kansas. The state of Kansas will
have open saloons as soon as she gets
the initiative and referendum. Until
that time the blind pig will flourish
and the people will drink liquor, just
as they have always done, and are
doing right at this minute in every
city in the state.
I repeat, that all statistics favoring
Kansas are merely substantiating the
argument against prohibition, for
Kansas Is a wet state decidedly so
in spite of the musty old constitutional
clause. CARL SCHMIDT,
124 Fourteenth Street.
Indorsing Mr. Crawford.
Milwaukke. Or May 9. To the Edi
tor of The Journal The voters of
Oregon have it in their power to re
ward Attorney General A. M. Craw
ford for establishing the validity of
the initiative and referendum before
the state courts and the supreme court
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Coauille's policeman will in future
be required to do white wings duty.
Dy oraer oi tne mayor ana council.
Bandon merchants have ae-reed to
close their places of business at 6
o'clock every evening except Satur-
oay.
Willamina is to have a two days'
celebration of Independence Day. Tic
first day will be given over to the
ftuit growers' picnic.
Lapine Intermountain: As a proof
of the confidence our own farmers I
brought in a 20 horse power tractor i
yesterday and took it to his farm
south of here. It is planned to use I
the new machine for clearing land as ;
well, as for plowing.
Pendleton East Oregonian: Joe
Maye, who works for Stanfield broth
ers, is rearing a new breed of dogs,
a cross between a sheep dog and a
coyote. Witft half of their parental
Instincts being to guard the fold and
ujb oilier iiu.il 10 yiKy upun n inu
dog will probably lead a Jekyl-Hyde
existence
"With Main street lighted by mod
ern cluster lights," says the Baker
Democrat, "the principal thoroughfare
will look like that of a real metropo
lis. The present streamers are all
right in tii-ir way, but they are soon
to be discontinued. Other streets in
the business section will also be like
wise improved."
rrnrmVanTndepnM
asleep by any means, the lnaepen
drnt lists the following: "Woodburn
Is not asleep by any means. The city
ball is to be erected at once, tho
Carnegie library is to be built, the
Moose will give a three days' street
carnival in May, the glorious Fourth
will be celebrated here and there are
a few other things on the carpet."
over him. He saw an opening in the
commissary department and he knew
that the soldiers were not being as well
or as promptly fed as they might be
and he hopped right into the opening.
Than he went right up the line. He
knows all about rations, how many of
them a man needs, and how few of
them he can get along on if the merry
to the Spanish American war he was
military attache at Madrid.
The Spanish war gave him his first
chance to make good in a conspicuous
way. He knew Spanish as well as he
does English he knows most of the
continental tongues, by the way and
had specialized in coast defense plans.
He became chief of the customs serv
ice and secretary of finance in Porto
Rico. Five years ago he won the war
game in Massachusetts, being in com
mand of the Red forces. Perhaps
civilians didn't know it, but the war
game attracted International attention.
and Bliss won more praise on the
omer siae ot tne water, pernaps, man
he did here. It was held by the visit-
ing attaches that he displayed a real
genius for war and that the measures
he took for provisioning his men under
modern conditions in a populated coun
tryside were worth studying.
Perhaps no officer is more thor
oughly familiar with our coast defense
system than Bliss, nor is there a better
linguist in the army. As a strategist,
as has been said, he is ranked very
high by foreign experts. And in the
months that have prefaced the actual
breaking out of hostilities in Mexico navy, he was employed to mount the
he has been of infinite assistance in cannon at Fort Stevens. lien Holladay
planning to defeat hunger and cold ; place I him in charge of his whf on
as well as snipers and bandits when the Portland waterfront. Mr. Moun
our men cross the border. He never , tain was next employed by the Oregon
1qss sight of . the first base of any 1 Steam Navigation company, and later
army its digestive apparatus. He by the O. R. & N., with which company
isn't a gourmand, but one would cer-; he stayed until the fall of 1903,' when
tainly call him a "good feeder." Some ' at the age of 81 years lie retired on a
one told him the story of the Klon- pension.
dyke miner who came back with nug- j Captain Mountain married Margaret
gets in every pocket and headed for , F. Bairy in New York city In 1S.',
Delmonico's. land is the father of 12 children.
He had heard of a $40 dinner served i Few men in Oregon have had more
in that person's restaurant, and he pictm t sqiie. and Interesting lives than
had determined to eat one. But when CaptRirf .Mountain. His history In Ore
he looked over the French menu card ; gun spans the stretch from before tho
he couldn't find the dinner. provisional government to today. " a
"Oh, hell." said the miner, in dis- period of 72 years. ;
gust, "bring me 840 worth of ham and ' .
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Well," said Bliss, "well, what's the
joke?"
MAN WITH AN IDEA
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(his laboratory takes about $200,000 ,
a year out of his private pocket, ac- J
cording to report) is said to be great. !
Edison has built his great business ,
and his private fortune without rely- !
ing upon the professional financiers;'
he has proved that the man with tho '
idea can find backing (provided the
idea la sound and the man la reallv In
earnest in seeking backing) from
money owners who will not insist upon
taking the control f the idea out of I
his hands.
For the comfort of the ambitious
American the truth about the power!
of organized wealth represented by the
term Wall Street ought to be
known. That power is real and it is
Lgreat, but it is not great enough to
conuui me ue&imy ui n. eui;ie uiui-
vidual in this country who has the , ' he who 'gainst it strives!
, . . , j , i For who of men has peace?
brains and the nerve to go ahead inde- . Qr naU say thp)r ,v,.g
pendently of It. Allow them no surcease? -'
There is plenty of money waiting to
help the man with the Idea; it is For who of men has peace?
owned by the people next door in a New feather, cloth and fur.
dozen blocks surrounding him, on a Allow therri no surcease
score of farms near by, can be found . " tney be trifd ot "1er' -backing
to start any man with a real i xew feather, cloth and fur.
Idea. What might ba brave array,
I If they be tried of her
of the Uilted States, and incidentally I
collecting over $60,000 disputed taxes
in this case. ' j
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Mr. Crawford has shown himself to,
be on the side of the people, and his !
advancement to the governorship
should follow as a matter of public
approval for the good work he has done
for the people of this state.
S. V. LEWELLINO,
Fresident Oregon Direct Legislation
League.
The Ragtime Muse
Lay of the Languid Lover.
The sky is blue above you,
the grass is green below.
And. heart o' mine, I love you
Er so!
The dickey birds are singing
Sweet carols in the trees;
The radiant warmth is bringing
Ouch! fleas!
Here, on the lawn beside you.
I sit and hold your hand;
Yoa are rny bonnie bride, you
Understand?
Long for us have had tarried.
But then, at last he came;
Ten years have we been married
Dad blame i
You know that I adore you,
I know you know, but then.
With love songs I must bore you
Again.
Aa honey of Hymettus
You are as bland and sweet.
And now, my dear one, let ua
Go eat!
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred l-ockley.
Captain Thomas Mountain lies "Tf
low at the home of his daughter at ,
714 Overton street. He had a cerebral
hemorrhage recently and his physician
doubts whether he will recover.
Captain Mountain is one of Oregon's
pioneers. He. was born at Gosport,
on Portsmouth harbor, in England; on
April 1. 1822. His father followed the
sea, being a fisherman on the NeW-
foundland tank, and later a tar in the
British navy. His son Tom, when 13
years old, ran away from home, sailing
for Newfoundland. He got work as a
cabin bo' on a ehlP bound for Salem,
Mass. He joined the United States
navy 78 years ago, enlisting as a naval
apprentice on the United States frigate
Ohio,
a 74 gun ship, on January 1,
1836.
In 1838 he was transferred to the
sloop of war Peacock, which was one
of the vessels placed under the com
mand of Commodore Charles Wilkes
to conduct an exploring expedition for
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thf, nltei States, which expedition
sailed around the world between 1835
and 1842. Commodore Wilkes visited
Oregon, being a guest of A. F. Waller
at Oregon City. Dr. McLoughlln at Van
couver, Father Blanchet at the Cathollq
mission on French Prairie, Governor
Abernathy, Jason Lee and many others.
Mr. Mountain was assigned to the Pea
cock, under the command of Captain
William L. Hudson, with which vessel
Ha romolna.1 until 1, wis WMu'lmA at
Ut ,
juiy 10, jioii. j vessel was purcnaseu
at Vancouver and was renamed the
Oregon. This was used in place of tho
Peacock, and in 1842 Mr. Mountain,
aboard the Oregon, returned to New
York city.
For the next three years he worked
in the Brooklyn navy yard. At the
time of the anticipated difficulty with
Mexico he was assigned to tho brig
Sampson, which, as a supply Bhlp, went
'.o Point Isabella. General Zachary
Taylor on May 7, 1847, started from
Point Isabella to the relief of Fort
Brown, unl was accompanied by some
of the marines from the Brig Sampson.
Mr. Mountain was assigned to Captain
Duncan s battery. The following- day
the battle of Palo Alto took place. The
XfVi.'n ,,-., 1 .. l.ur.r..t T,, in. 1...,
' 'down the
gunners us they served their guns.
A Mexican cavalryman slashed Mr.
Mountain in the hand with fits salr',
necessitating his being sent to the hos
pital at I'ensacola.
At the close of his enlistment in
the navy Mr. Mountain became a boat
swain on the Sea Serpent, a clipper
ship bound from New York to Han
Francisco. At San Francisco he joined
the Tonquin and came up to Portland.
At Portland he Secured a berth a s.m -
ond mate aboard the clipper ship l'ly-yf
ing Cloud for Cnina. , r
Coming back to Portland, he worked j
on board the Multnomah and the Bx-
press on the Columbia, ami later ho
signed on the Bteanur Columbia.
; Jn ls59 he went to PuK(.t sun(, m
the steamer Julia. While on the sound
j running between Olympia, Steilacom
and Port Townsend, he took toin
forcernents to Captain Pickett, then a
United Slates army . officer atSan
Jupn island, and later the distinguished
Confederate general who made the fa
mous charge at Gettysburg.
In lhGl, Captain Mountain brought
the Julia back to th Columbia river.
He was captain. In turn, of the Cow
litz, the Wilson G. Hunt and the New
World. . -
On account of his service in th
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The fashions come and go
As seasons go and come;
wnat might long
favor know
Is yet a dreary sum.
As ffasons go and come.
hat yesterday was new
i3 yet a dreary sum
Is now a dull review,
t?&lY""A nW, h
Is now a dull revTew
A food for mould and moth,
In feather, fur and cloth
Ail things at last must he
A food for mould and moth -
Ror Time must have Ms fee.
All things at last must be
Turned back to earth again;
'or Time must have his fee!
lle works new things for men.
TurnPd baf.k' to earth aKttln
(Fooi ho wtlo gainst it strives!)
works new things for men
; Or shall we say, their wives?
Can please for but a day.
Whit might be brave array,
rnlht 'Z1 faVor 'Kno'
Can please for but a day
Tne fashions come and go.
i. IU"v. Mr. Sunday' Success.
From the Memphis Nf Scimitar.
Billy Sunday gets the money and
goes about with his pockets bulging j
I out, while ordinary clergymen arfc
' going from one lean year to another. ;
Here is a sample of the argument
which Billy uses when he wants to;
make the boys cough up: "David; i
looked at Goliath and aoked Who this ,
bl; stiff was. Then -he hit him b- ;
tween the lamps, chopped of his block, ;
i and the rest of the gang be-at it." .
I When a soul-saver car? handle the ;
king's English in this manner, he is
sure to get the money.
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