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A firm faith Is the best
divinity; a good life the best
philosophy; a clear conscience
ths best law; honesty the best
policy, and ' temperance the
best physic", living for both
worlds Is the wisest and best
life. Sir M. Hale.
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YESTERDAY
NO LARRY SULLIVAN sat all
day yesterday at a Portland
polling place, gun In hand.
No body of voters, held at
bay by him, waited all day for a
chance, and finally left the polte
without voting, as UBed to be
done in the old days.
No voters were bought at $1.50
to $5 per head and herded to the
polls in groups of five and ten.
There was no $20,000 of Lotan
money and $15,000 of Simon
money on hand to be used in par
rying the primary.
No Simon supporters broke into
a voting place where Mitchell men
were canvassing the ballots in the
belief that the Mitchell men were
counting out Simon officials. No
bunch of policemen, on orders
from .higher-ups, raided a voting
place where the count was going
on, and after arresting the elec
tion officials On trumped-up
charges, carried off the ballot
boxes, as was once done on the
East Side.
It is dirforcnt now. Riot and
fighting, bribery and lawlessness
on primary day have been super
seded by tranquility, peace, good
order and good manners. Every
voting place in Portland yester
day was as orderly as a church
service. No ward heelers stood
around to buttonhole and bedevil
rotors. Any lady could go to the
polls and deposit her ballot with
as little molestation or embar
rassment as in dropping a letter
in the neighborhood mail box.
Everything was regular, order
ly, dignified and tranquil. There
was so little buzz about them that
in some cases It was difficult to
locate the polling places.
It is a mighty change from Lar
ry Sullivan's day to- yesterday. It
li a long step in civilization. It
4s a splendid purification of the
ballot and a marvelous fumigation
o" politics.
It is a change brought about in
the face of heavy odds. Every
inch of progress from the bribery
and riot of a few years ago to
the tranquility of yesterday was
disputed. It was only by dint of
perseverance by the forces of prog
ress that peace and good order at
Oregon primaries were finally
achieved.
The Journal points to yesterday
with a glow of satisfaction in the
fact that it helped to bring about
such a day.
MELLEN'S COMING EVIDENCE
R
EVELATIONS that will star
tle the country and be a
dreadful Indictment of cer
tain American financiers, are
expected when Charles S. Mellen
returns to testify before the In
terstate Commerce : Commission
next Tuesday.
i His anxiety to testify leads to
I the expectation that he will tell
all. he knows. He has for months
r
been under fire and humiliation
j on account of, the near wrecking
i of the New Haven railroad, and it
is assumed that he will bare all
f the details of the frenzied opera
, .tlons and place the responsibility
where it belongs.
Enough Is already known to
make certain that if Mellen tells
all he knows, modern manlpula
' tlons of some great railroad prop
: erties will receive a. shock that
will shake the whole business
' world to its foundations.
The fall of the New Haven road
from a position ot primacy to
bankruptcy has already amazed
the country. It was one of the
' most splendid properties in the
' s 1 1 esiek A rnM ttur i4As.wt a.
manipulation that Mr. Mellen is
now to tell about, it has sunk to
the level of the lowliest and most
r famished railroad line, and that
9 under the pilotage of J. P. Mor
gan and the Rockefellers.
' One of the things already known
by which the New Haven was
, brought to ruin is the case of the
Westchester road. It is lllumina
. tlve of the process of the looting,
The old Westchester Company,
formed in 1872. went bankrupt In
1875 and did nothing for 29 years.
.Early in 1904 the Westchester
Company received a franchise from
' the New York Board of Alder
men; vetoed by Mayor McClellan
the franchise was again passed
About that time $100,000 in a
aown town isew York bank
changed possessors, and immedi
ateiy after a six-million-dollar con
tract .lor work on the New Haven
was eecured by a Taminany coa-
cern. "
About .this time, the - stock of
the Westchester road had been
bought by the late J. P. Morgan,
William Rockefeller and George
Miller for the New Haven. They
paid more than $5,000,000, though
less than $500,000 had been ex
pended; though the road had slept
29 years; though President Mel
len himself protested in vain that
the Btock .was worth "ten cents a
pound," and the New Haven al
ready too heavily loaded.
As a final act in the transaction,
the Westchester road, which only
coat $22,000,000, went into the
New Haven system at $33,000,000
the difference, as Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty
said, "vanishing Into thin air.
As to how the money vanished !
and where it went, is expected to
be a part of the story of Charles S.
Mellon will tell to the world In
his testimony before the Inter
state Commerce Commission next
week.
in all. 336 subsidiary corpora
tions were joined to the New
Haven before Morgan and Rocke
feller finally accomplished Its ruin.
The financiers seem not to have
luii the New Haven railroad as a I
railroad, but as a bank, a stock J
broker, a trust company, a gas i
works, a steamship line, a trolley
system, and everything else but a
railroad. If all the facts come
out, Mellen's testimony will con
stitute indictment of Big Business
that will outrage decency and add
enormously to the impulse for a
national house cleaning. .
THE REED CONFERENCE
I
T IS a good thine to have con
ferences like that at Reed Col
lege. Its purpose is the uplift and
welfare of mankind. It deals with
issues for forwarding social and
Industrial betterment. It con
cerns itself more with man and
less with property.
We have been interested more
in the conservation of our hogs
than with the conservation of our
people. Ohio recently appropri
ated $25,000 for hog serum and
nothing for diphtheria serum. In
Portland during 1911, we spent
13 cents per capita for protection
of health and $i.!3 for protection
of property from fire. We are,
this year, spending 25 cents for
health and $3.75 for prevention of
lire losses.
We quarantine the state against
diseased sheep. We forbid im
portation of Infected fruit trees.
Our bent has run for so long a
w.i lUo B.uo 01 property
that we have almost forgotten the
hopes and health and needs of
men.
Three million people are sick
each year and their maladies
shorten their lives 15 years. Of
the 1,500,000 who die in the !
Lnited States annually, 630,000
are carried off by diseases that
are preventable.
.ucOC yuiiuuioua iacis raise
questions of proper housing for
the poor. They appeal for wider
public attention to sanitation.
They challenge public interest in
building regulations by which to
safeguard the lives of families j
wnose tacK or intorrnatlon denies The inefficiency of legislatures
to them the knowledge so essen-, will not be tolerated much longer,
tia to perfect life conditions. !A fit executive will not be com
In the present conference, Reed peiled to veto hundreds of ill di
College is radiating all that sci- gested bills and bills with jokers
ence has yet revealed, and science and then be charged with respon
ds revealed much for the protec- I sibility for . excessive taxation
tion and uplift of -human lives. I
Science made the Isthmus of Pana
ma a health resort, and the ren
dezvous of tourists. Panama used
to be a slaughter house of men.
A WOMAN'S EXPERIENCE
H
AS the Reed College Confer
ence heard of the dependent
Chicago woman who. during
-.- 1CI.C1 vni IHNM
than $300 in aid, while $5000
was expended Inquiring into her
condition?
The details of the case are il
luminating. Seventeen charitable
organizations, two court a i
vMoi ft " V; " ""
and thr0a ' " "Di
-vami uyce)1.iiH.iiiim ii ni voiniano
treatment oT her casT Th
were no less than 105 visits an!
interviews regarding it. The facts
were brought out in a legislative
Investigation. It seems incredible
that there could be other cases
like it.. Yet it is common observa
tion that the whole tendency of
institutional charity is to expend
much to do little. ' Overhead ex
pense and red tape eat voraciously
into charitable funds.
Among the institutions of Chi
cago, there Is a United ChnritiA
to co-ordinate the work. It was
through that body that the womaH
'7flrre 10 was given aid. In
i1tCriirali av I. ....
"'r8 lut? various activities j nas no straight-out Republican pa
on the list of its tonics. Reed Onl-1 ner. Ttn imimaiUTn i. tr,
lege conference might emphasize
m a general way the simplifica-
Wl lu processes and an in-
v. ,u me ernciency in all ex-
pendltures of charitable funds
ANOTHER SHRUNKEN FOR
TUNE T BEATS all how fortune.
I
shrink when the tax collector
comes in contact with them.
Take for instance the fortune
of Charles y. Murphy, who
achieved fame by being manager
of a Chicago baseball club. When
he was forced out of the club he
boasted: "I ran a shoestring Into
a million dollars and sold my
rtock in the club for half a mil
lion." Ho is now called upon by
the tax assessor to reconcile his
boast with a schedule he filed
j with the assessor" listing personal
'property to the value of $6650. '
j It is probable that Marphy now
appreciates the virtue of silence.
A TEMPLE
A
T SHEDD next Wednesday,
there Is to be a school rally.
In which several districts
will participate.
It is a splendid purpose when
neighborhoods gather to em
phasize the rural school. The
whole story of the little red
school house has never been told.
Its glory in the service of the re
public is immeasurable.
No Investment is comparable
with the money spent on the com
mon schools. Every school house
Is a fortress for the national de-
fense. The school books ar.e the
artillery and the rifles with which
to defeat foes from without of
within. The classrooms are the
recruiting stations for drilling the
real soldiers of the nation. The
common school teachers are the re
cruiting officers and drill masters
of the grandest army the world
has ever seen.
It was not Bismarck's army so
much as Bismarck's school houses
in Prussia that gathered the little
neighboring kingdoms under the
leadership of Prussia, and created
out of the German speaking peo
ples, one of the greatest nations of
the world.
It was the training in the school
houses that produced German sol
diers who went to the front and
defeated the Austrians in a six
weeks' war and the French in a
six months' conflict, and it was
out of those campaigns that Ger
many was born.
Bleeding Mexico is unanswerable
proof of what neglect of the little
red school house leads to. Of
the Mexicans, "75 per cent, accord
ing to a late report of the minister
of education, are illiterate. It was
because of that illiteracy that an
assassin was able to climb over the
corpse of Madero to a throne, and
able to overthrow the national con
stitution, imprison congress, abol
ish the supreme court and trample
the ballot boxes under foot.
Let us forward the American
school house. It is a temple of
civilization.
WHY TAXES ARE HIGH
T
HE New York Voter's Legis
lative Association has pub
lished a bulletin which brings
out in bold relief the need
, of legislative reform.
! Th recent (short tpKKlnn nf th
New York legislature resulted- in
the passage of nearly 800 bills of
which the governor vetoed 223
Of those that passed muster many
would probably have been killed
by him had he sufficient time to
examine them more thoroughly.
The legislature was faction ridden
and far from harmonious and It
failed to pass the essential supply
bills, making an extra session
necessary. Yet it put 500 anact-
ments on the statute books.
Is it to be wondered at that
there should be talk of commis
sion government for states, one
house legislatures, the initiative
and referendum, and agitation for
other drastic reform?
A SENSIBLE RESOLVE
T
HE girls of the 1914 gradu
ating class of the La Grande
public schools have decided
that their graduation dresses
shall be limited in cost to $5 each
The La Grande girls are to be
or gooThTrse sense Tun litaSSS
that they have established what
will prove to be a precedent f 6r
the entire state. The theory of
graduation day Is that all are
fstarting out in life on an equal
footing and in keeping with this
1. ?CCi""B 1
imougnc tnere should be a mod
m - ....
01 aress whln the means of
iV i-A"? n b
OI an
The La Grande girls have shown
wisdom by Initiating the reform
tnemselves. Reformat thus begun
are reforms that reform.
CHANGING CONDITIONS
T
HE merger of two large news
papers in Chicago Is not only
significant of the waning
strength of the morning
newspaper but It also indicated the
STn.riua.1 rpvnlntlnn In Amaio
! political conditions. For the first
, time since the Civil War Chicago
.. 0
pendent or oDDortuniat. Onlv
j few years ago every newspaper in
i the city was an organ of the Be
I publican party.
The drift of the Chicago press
is but a reflection of that greater
current of political Independence
among the voters at lage. The
! "f f PaFty orKanIzatlon a
crumbling on every hand and
party prejudice is losing Its force
OTHER EXPLORERS
c
OLONEL ROOSEVELT'S dis
covery of a Brazilian, river Is
rivaled in South America by
the University of Pennsyl
vania museum's Amazon expedi
tion under the leadership of Wil
Ham C. Farrabee. He has reported
the discovery of a dozen unknown
native tribes, the-navigation of a
number of unknown rivers and the
placement on the map. of South
America's new territory In" north
ern Brazil and southern Guiana.
The expedition spent a year in"
the Amazon basin and encoun
tered severe hardships, emerging
from the jangles bareheaded, bare
footed, hungry and fever stricken.
Its experience was similar to that
of the Roosevelt- party. Like Col
onel -Roosevelt. Dr, Farrabee had
a narrow escape ;ln navigating
rapids and falls and like the colo
nel be lost 50 pounds in weight. '
The rivalry of the two expedi
tions will be continued on the lec
ture platform and in : the publica
tion field in the future.
A strong reason for avoiding
war with Mexico Is the protection
of the 15,000,000 gum chewers in
the United States. Chicle the
base of gum Is secured from a
tree in central Mexico and a war
would cause a most distressing
famine.
Letters From the People
(Conomnnleatlons aent to The Journal for
pnbUcatlon In tnia department should be writ
ten on only one side of the paper, abould not
exceed 300 words In length and tnuat b ac
companied by the name a (id addreaa of the
ender. If the writer does not deslra to
have the name publiahed. be should so state.)
"Discussion la the greatest of aU reform
era. It rationalizes everything It tonchea. It
robs principles of all false aanctlty and
thro we them back on their reasonableneea. If
they have do reasonableneea, it rnthlesaly
cruahea them out of existence and Beta np lta
own conclusions In their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Declares Kansas Dry.
Portland, May 15. To the Editor of
Ths Journal Referring to the article
in Wednesday's Journal entitled "A
Kansan on Kansas" by Charles
Schmidt, I wish to correct what might
otherwise be an erroneous Impression.
There may have been many saloons in
the town of his birth; he says there
were 150. If so, we cannot wonder at
thb position he takes on the prohibi
tion question. It was, however, more
than four years ago, as he states, that
Governor Stubbs put the padlock . on
me saloons. Since that time Kansas
has been a dry state.
For many years before that ths nrn-
hlbition law was enforced in the rural
districts of the state. These same pro
hibition people caused laws to be en
acted by which the evil effect of the
use or aiconoi was tausrht in the nubile
schools' of the state. During this time
inousanas of boys grew to manhood
wunout Knowing the taste of intoxi
eating liquors. About the time these
young men were casting their first
ballot Mr. Stubbs became a candidatn
for governor. He made the campaign
pit-use ma; lr eiectea He would drive
tne saloons trom the few remaining
wet cities of the state. These cities
were principally "Wichita. Toneka.
Leavenworth and Kansas City. Most of
tne violations of law were In the latter
two, which border the at that time
totally wet state of Missouri.
U was here doubtless that "Kansan"
was born and reared. Considering his
early environment, we may in charity
excuse the attitude he assumes. When
Governor Stubbs became a candidate
for governor the young men rallied to
his support. Stubbs was elected.
Governor Stubbs began to fulfill his
campaign pledge by first putting the
padlock on every saloon in Wichita. In
regular order he did the same in To
peka, Leavenworth and Kansas City,
ine worn was quickly done. It only
took a few weeks. The Honor Interests
looked at the beginning of the work at
Wichita as a Joke. At ToDeka the
saloons began to close and hide thair
liquors. At Leavenworth, in their
haste, they hired teams to transport
their wet goods across the state line
Into Missouri, in the- night. Their
stampede was on, to get out of Kansas.
The governor had named Kansas City
as the next point of attack. A more
stubborn resistance was made at this
place, hut the governor kept his pledge,
and the padlock went on every saloon
in Kansas City that did not vacate be
fore his appearance.
It was a glad day for Kansas, but
not for all. Owners of saloon buildings
howled, said their property was ren
dered useless. In a few months, how
ever, the good buildings were filled
with legitimate lines of business. Prop
erty in tnose cities very soon made a
notable advance in values. The un
desirable and criminal class had fol
lowed the saloons across the line Into
Missouri. Bank accounts increased and
taxes decreased perceptibly.
'Kansan" has the audacity to say
that blind pigs and bootleggers took
the place of the law breaking saloon.
This is not true.
I am a Kansan by adoption only, but
I heartily resent the Insult that our
native son has hurled at this progres
sive, independent, sober, hospitable and
prosperous people.
GEO. C. SHEFLER.
Mr. Hollis' Figures Assailed.
Portland, May 15. To the Editor of
The Journal W. S. Hollis must be a
comedian with an awful disposition.
Those who disagree with him are
"maudlin Baalites." and he "would
hang the liquor traffic as high as
naraan meaning, I suppose, all who
engage In its manufacture or sale. As
a comedian, Brother Hollis "put a good
one over" when he said,' "I have lived
in three states at the times they
changed from saloons to prohibition.
and know whereof I apeak." But he
got right away. Couldn't he make a
living? If Oregon should go dry, he'd
proDamy move again. This is not
asked in a spirit of criticism. I'd go
myseir, as I also have a delicate stom
ach that rebels at prohibition whiskey
Mr. Hollis says in his communica
tion to The Journal, dated May 8, that
"ths tax rolls of Kansas are over
$1,000,000,000 larger than tax rolls In
Missouri, while Missouri has twice the
population of Kansas, and in addition
has the largest brewery this side of
Milwaukee." He uses the tax rolls In
this instance as a measure of wealth
and seeks to convey the impression
that Kansas has more wealth than
Missouri. Now, let him take the
World's Almanac for 1914, turn to
page 229 and he will find, by consult
ing the two columns headed "Total
Assessed Valuation" and "Per Cent
Actual Value," that Missouri has prop
erty valued at $4,391,193,475, and Kan
sas has property valued at J2.746.885.
967, or $3,052,073,297, depending on
whether you use 90 or 100 per cent
as the ratio of assessed valuation.
Giving Kansas the benefit of the doubt,
Missouri then has over a billion' and a
third more wealth than Kansap, In
stead of over a billion less, as he stat
ed, or a slight difference of over two
and a third billions "between his asser
tion and the truth. If he Is not sat
isfied with the World's Almanac, let
him consult the latest government sta
tistics on wealth, debt and taxation
and he will find he Is In Just as bad
a coat as by using the World's Al
manac. A. S. RUTH.
Wants a Sunday School.
Sherwood, Or., May 14. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I live In a com-
A FEW SMILES
"India, my boy," said an Irishman
to a friend on his arrival at Calcutta,
Is Just the finest
climate under the
0, sun, but a lot of
young fellows come
out here, and they
dbrink and they eat,
and they dhrtnk and
they die, and then
they write' home to
'.heir friends a Dack
o" lies and say it's th climate as has
killed them." :
Loads of Instances have been told
of the speaker's misinterpreting the
iooa or interest on a hearer's face.
But one of the best
and most recent in
stances of that, in
which the fall of the
speaker's pride and
inspiration was hard
est occurred to John
D. Wells of the Buf
falo News, who does
platform work. Once
at Sherman, N. Y., he was pleased to
notice an old lady who never took her
eyes from his face. Afterward she
said:
"I was mighty Interested "
Yes, I was so glad you seemed to
De enjoying my lecture.
"Oh, sir, it wasn't anything you said.
Dut I was wondering if you were any
relation to the Wellaes In Jamestown."
Woman's World.
"I wish you to understand," he said,
addressing his 10-
year-old son, "that I
am still the boss in
this house."
"All right, dad,
the boy replied, "but
you're a coward to
make the boast be
hind mother's back.'
Two hard citizens were standing In
a secluded spot talking confidentially.
One of them suddenly sneaked away
wniie the other stood try
On fi-llfl rrt flnAn tha l&
first one was seen to
emerge from a win
dow and Join his pal.
"Did yous gtt any
t'ing?" whispered the
one in waiting.
"Naw, de guy what
lives In dere is a
lawyer," growled the other.
"Dat's hard luck," said his pal. "Did
yous lose anything?"
munlty not 25 miles from Portland,
across the river In the hills from a
place called Butteville. Here we livet
on the west side of the Willamette
river. There are no Sunday schools
nearer than from six to nine miles
that I know of. except to cross the
river at- Butteville and pay 15 cents
ferry fare on each child. A poor fam
ily could not do that. We have a nice
schoolhouse. called the West Butte
ville schoolhouse. If only some one
would start a Sunday school here,
there are at least 25 or 80 'children
attending school who are growing to
manhood and womanhood without any
study of the Bible or Christianity.
While I am the mother of quite a
large family and do not have time, or
at least don't take time, to try to In
terest anyone, if only some one would
start it and get the parents interested
in sending the children, I think our
community would be much better off.
We ought to have a minister to come
and preach to us at least once or
twice a month. We live close to large
cities, such as Portland, Oregon City
and Salem, yet are far from civiliza
tion. My children are really getting
skeptical on the subject, and I wish
you would print this so others may
unite and advise what to do in a case
of this kind, also how to get a church
or Sunday school started.
This letter is from a mother who
was 'reared in a Methodist church and
would really like to see her children
grow up In the Christian faith.
A SUBSCRIBER.
Kansas Wet or Dry?
Reedville, Or., May 14. If Kansas
Is wet, as Carl Schmidt tells us then
why don't the liquor Interests quit aim
ing their shafts of ridicule at it? If
Kansas Is wet, why Is It that the
liquor Interests dispose of their goods
in a sneaking, under-handed way there?
The argument that prohibition doesn't
prohibit, and that it brings about
"blind pig rule." has been shot to
pieces. The law against the sale of
booze is just as binding on a state as
the law against murder. The great
trouble Is to enforce It. We can see
law meted out to the letter against the
poor, while too often the rich escape.
The liquor business is a mighty busi
ness, and, like the Rockefeller Inter
ests, wants to run the country. They
have become bigger than the law and
the country. When we send these peo
ple to the penitentiary or deport them
out of the country Instead of.lmpos
ing fines, which In the end the people
must i pay anyhow, . we will begin to
get some measure of relief. Kansas,
according to its laws, Is a dry state.
and because of the notorious lawless
ness of tho liquor traffic, Carl Schmidt
is in a position to tell us that Kansas
is wet and always - has been. 'What
would Carl Schmidt have us do? Vote
to perpetuate this notorious outlaw?
Ella M. Finney advances some tre
mendous figures In her argument for
booze. Really, one would think the
financial welfare of the entire coun
try depended upon the existence Of a
business which depends .upon human
weakness and error for support.
O. E. FRANK.
'On Which Side?"
Sherwood, Or., May 14. To the Edi
tor of The Journal The wets and the
drys are very busy trying to prove
they are both on the right side. There
is only one right side, and that Is the
side God is on. We know that God
is on the side of right and against
all sin, so he Is surely against such
an awful sin as the liquor traffic.
There can be no doubt about it.
The temperance cause has come to
stay. God is the father of the thoughts
and works of his people. and he will
never forsake their Just cause against
such an awful monster of sin.
MRS. JANE REISER.
No Sympathy for "Victim."
Portland. May 16. To the Editor of
The Journal "A Victim of a Dishon
est Contractor," in Wednesday's Jour
nal, Is to be pitied, but be got what
was coming to him, all right. The
writer knows, for he Is In position to
know, and be also has been stung. If
"Victim" will think back, he will re
call that the lowest bid of ths respon
slble men who gave him an estimate
was $3000 or $3100, about 10 per cent
higher. This is about the difference
betwaen the class "Vlctom's" contractor
belongs to and the members of the
Builders' Exchange, who .are reeponsi
ble. But just as there. are such con
tractors who beat the owner and the
material man, so there are such peo
ple as "Victim" and ths writer, who
think they can beat the contractor and
get something for nothing, or a better
fin
PERTINENT COMMENT
8MAL1, CHANGS
Selfishness
-another name for self-
love.
The long distance phone makes the
heart throb faster.
If you don't want people to like you
criticize what they do.
All successful candidates are sure
that the best men won.
There's always room at the top and
always a crowd at the bottom.
One of a boy's first ambitions Is to
get all the pie he can eat.
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A bunch of women don't seem to be
having a very good time unless three
or four are talking at once.
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Now the numerous "rallies" are all
over, and many sad candidates will
look back upon them as vain and de
lusive things.
The many automobile wrecks and
consequent injuries and even deaths
seem to have no deterrent effect on
the reckless driver.
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Niagara Falls is a much pleasanter
climate In summer than Vera Cruz;
but ambassadors and soldiers are
quite different persons.
The majority of Mexicans are land
less, ignorant, "downtrodden," prac
tically serfs; who can blame them
much for whatever they do?
The mystery of the "Mona Llse"
smile has at last been solved. The art
ist caught her expression when she
was trying to laugh at one of her hus
band's Jokes.
AN OREGON SENATOR ON OREGON
From Equity. j
It Is quite common for opponents of
the Initiative and referendum move
ment to refer to the experience of
Oregon as a sort of "horrible example,"
of the excessive use of the initiative
and referendum. In varying degrees
of scorn, these critics point to the
Oregon ballot, which carried along with
Uie list of elective officials 32 legis
lative acts or proposals at one election
on which the voters of the state were
expected to express their final verdict.
Having this in mind when recently
the writer met Senator Chamberlain of
Oregon In Washington, the question
was put to him frankly as to how he
and the people of Oregon now look at
the matter. And this is what the sena
tor from Oregon had to say:
"In the tirst place, even the presen
tation of that large ballot, which- has
caused the unfavorable comment to
which you refer, came along with the
flood of Ideas natura.ly c onnected with
the transition from the old to the new
system. This meant a tremendous
amount of study on the port of the
people about public needs and public
remedies. If vou' could have seen, as
I did during that campaign, thousands
of people spending their evenings and
spare time in study groups, with the
list of propositions before them, read
ing the pamphlet explaining the prop
osition and formulating their opinions
on the questions submitted, you would
never have doubted the tremendous
educational value of that referendum
campaign to the electorate of Oregon.
"From that point of view alone it
was worlh all the cost. But anyone
who Imagines that the adoption of the
initiative and" referendum is going to
mean the continuous and extensive use
of that process upon a large and In
DON'T INVEST ON
By John M. Osklnson,
First, here is a quotation from a
thrift preacher:
Many fortunes have been made.
and many more wHl be made, through
wise Investments. Many fortunes are
lost, too, through unwise Investments."
But thrifty habits and consulting with
experienced persons like conservative
bankers will give one the wisdom nec
essary to handle money wisely.
Second,' I set down a quotation from
the advertisement of a wise and con
servative investment banker:
"In loaning or Investing money, all
possible care should be taken to guard
against hasty or Impulsive decision
Every endeavor should be made to as
semble such reliable information as
will permit of the exercise of intelli
gent judgment. The man who assumes
this attitude toward all Investment
propositions comes to have an Increas
ing regard for the element of conser
vatism, and Is ordinarily the first man
to seek the cooperation of Investment
experts."
Job for less than It Is worth, and they
get soaked, though only once In a
while one of them will have the nerve
to "holler."
The very moment the contractor
hedged on a bond. "Victim" should
have dropped him, or at least asked
him to show his card as a member
of the Builders' Exchange, when he
would have had some assurance that
he was on the square.
Of course, there are many good
contractors who are not members of
the exchange, but how does the aver
age 'victim" know they are "good"?
While a member has something worth
while In the way of a guarantee, and
he can be got at without "consulting
the district attorney."
Any man who attempts to build a
home or a housa or any other build
ing without a responsible architect
and a responsible contractor in a
city where the architects are as fine
a class of men as can be found, and
where there Is a strong Builders' Ex
change that only responsible contract
ors can join, ahd getting harder to
pass examination for admittance? all
the time, deserves to get let down,
ahd his futile wail against the "dis
honest contractor" and the "law and
its administrators" who have "robbed
him" is as music to the honest, reli
able contractor whose bid was only
10 per cent higher.
O. G. HUGHSON.
Secretary Builders' Exchange.
Newspaper Vilification.
Portland, May 16. To the Editor of
The Journal I am only a private in
the ranks, but I am a full blooded
American, and my father helped pre
serve this Union. Therefore my blood
has been made to boil when reading
some of the editorials in the Oregon
lan. 0 I have always been a Republican,
but not the Oregonlan stripe. The
Oregonlan is for everything against
the United States government and
common decency. It has been saying
alt manner of things against our pres
ident and Secretary of State Bryan,
and If that Is not aranrchy then I
don't know what the. word means. I
was never of Bryan's political faith,
but I lived within about four, blocks
of him for eight years and I can truth
fully affirm that there Is not a cleaner
or more conscientious man in the
United States Ths Oregonlan would
do well to take some lessons of a man
as good. I also have found our pres
ident has a record above reproach. But
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Sentinel claims that CtxjuirU's
per capita of automobiles still remains
the highest of any town in Oregon of
no greater population.
Tb Weston Leader is "glad to ob- '
serve from the Democratic registration
that there are at least 2360 intelligent
voters in Umatilla county."
A meeting of the Klamath Falls
chamber of commerce at which, the
question of disbanding was to be con
sidered was turned into a rovival meet
ing, and a campaign of rejuvenation is
now in progress.
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By recent order of mayor end coun
cil, members of Hood River's volun
teer fire department are to be paid $3
per fire at which water is thrown, and i
also to be reimbursed for hospital or
physician s Dills as a result or any in
juries received while fighting fire. 1
Citizens of Metolius and farmers of
the vicinity have installed telephones
and formed a company known as the
Metolius & Farmers Telephone Co.
They will have free service to Madras,
Frineville and Laments.
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Canyon City Eagle: This spring has
seen a revival in government land lo
cations. The Bear valley country Is
attracting attention. From present In
dications It Is a safe prediction that
during the next two years practically
every foot of the open lands in the
county will be taken up.
"Two young women from the east.
"ne a mrmer aienosrapner in aunneap-
oils." says the Enterprise Record
Chieftain, "have just finished building
a barn on their homestead In the
Three Lakes district. The homestead
is in th name of Lucile Parent, ahd
her sister Rosa formerly operated a
typewriter. The girls constructed the
entire building without help.
creasing number cf public questions
each year is entirely mistaken. W In
Oregon know that the number of ques
tions submitted at that election was
due to the fact that the legislature had
failed to respond to the progressive
demands ot the people. We know that
a majority of the legislature was still
in the hands of the corporate and
predatory Interests.
"We know that this Is only a tem
porary condition, and that in a few
years at the most it won't be necessary
to use the initiative and referendum at
all, or very seldom. In our state, for
the legislature will have become re
sponsive to the needs of the people.
The Initiative and referendum are not
Intended for constant use nor for use
at all so long as the law making repre
sentatives do their duty. They simply
stand in reserve as the weapons with
wuicn to express or enforce the re
served rights of the people.
"But there are no regrets over tho
adoption or the use of these Instru
ments in my state. See the great steps
in progress they have given us, such I colunrbus, the Conquest of Peru and
as the direct primary, the corrupt prac- j Conquest of Mexico. 1 was fas
tices acts, workers' compensation and I clnatcd by the story of Texas. Texas
many acts for the improvement and
extension of the public service."
And even though the use which Ore
gon has made seems to some to have
been excessive, yet the referred meas
ures have been inconsequential as com
pared with the total number of bills.
resolutions etc., passed by the legis
lature; and the Initiated measures have
numbered only
a small percentage of
er of bills, resolutions.
Into th leeislatur for
the total number
off. tntrnilllf-ewl Intn th. lotHclatnr. fn,
consideration. As these facts are
squarely faced, it Is evident that the ; P7 1 'ed1 in
use which Oregon has made of these ,,'1 """f of "6 a',d b'a," -Instrument
hL not ben excsslv. dependent republic On April 21, lias.
SNAP JUDGMENT
Conservatism In Investment means, ; Eight or ten years later, or, to l
first of all, keeping the principal sum t-exact, in December, 1845. Texas was
safe. What profits It to get 7 or 8 annexed to the United States,
per cent a year on your money for ! "About a month before the anncxa
three or four years If at the end of . tion of Texas President 1'olk had sent
that time misfortune of any sort over- John Slldell of Louisiana as Unite. I
takes the company you invested in j States minister to Mexico with In
to such an extent that you would find I structlons to try to buy California,
what you have paid $100 for Is only j President Herrera of Mexico had been
worth $75? And when you leave the deposed and the new president re
road of conservatism in putting your j fused to receive Slldell. President
money out to work this Is exactly the I Polk ordered General Zachary TVyMr
experience you are likely to have. j to occupy the disputed territory.
Better keej your money In the sav- Taylor's forces, while caoipari on tli-j
ings bank, where it will earn about 4 1 Rio Grande river, near Matamoraiv
per cent, and where If you wish Inter- 1 were attacked on April 23,. 1846, JkV
est will be compounded, until you are ! Arista, in command of Uie Mexfcau
positively certain of the soundness of j army. Meanwhile General 'Ktepnii
the investment advice you receive. ; W. Kearni-y conquered Nejir Mexico.
Adding to the saved sum in a savings ', winning the battle of Kan I'asqual
bank, too, is a mighty good way to fas- .and establishing a provisions! govern-
ten tne tnrirt namt upon yourself,
Choose as your first adviser in invest'
ment some one who has selected in
vestments for the savings bank. From
him learn what the elements of sound
Investment are. Go slow!
the Oregonlan has vllllfled him and
made all manner of evil remarks about
him.
Coming down to our own stats, see
how the Oregonlan has censured our
governor, all because he wanted to en
force the laws of the state and make
it a fit place for respectable people to
live in. The OregonUm, In my estlma
tion, and also In that of a great many
others that I know of. Is the little end
of nothing whittled down some, and I.
with others, think if they can't be
loyal to the old Stars and Stripes and
to our president It would be better for
our country If they would leave It
A PRIVATE.
Concerning the Rose Festival.
Portland, May 15. To the Editor of
The Journal I suggest that the Rose
Festival management set the time for
the show in April, Instead of October,
because they might not be so apt to
miss the prime of the rose season a
half a month or more. It looks now
as If they may find It expedient this
season to send to Alaska for a cargo
01 roses tor tn snow or else confine
the exhibit mainly to rose-petal beads.
A LOOKER-ON.
The Ragtime Muse
,
Perils in Plenty.
I have heard the Mausers whine
Their curt messages malign.
I have heard the Maxims snarling on
the hill;
And the barking of the Krags
'Neath the bullet-riddled flags.
And theburden of each utterance was
I have faced a watery grave
On the sad and salty wave.
In a lug sailed tub as wieldy as an ark;
And sought what men called "sport'1
In a semi-tropic port
That was playground for ths ever hun
gry shark.
I have' leaped and fled afax
From the honlcinsr motor car.
In a cyclone I have turned a trifle pale.
For an office I have run
And esteemed It merely fun.
I have even braved a Monday bargain
sale!
But these dangers are all time.
To the fateful parlor game
where the sexes meet In desperate,
deadly strife:
For If one has not a care
One will be entangled there
Sure! Marriage is the only happy life!
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Locklej.
Alonso Perkins, a Mexican war vet
ran, living at SIS Morris street, has1
led an adventurous life. The story1
of his adventures In ths Mexican war'
and on the frontier ara irks an atdio,
from the past, and are as interesting;
a tne pages of any best seller or
historical novel.
When I had been introduced to Mrs.
Perkins she excused herself to finish
ths dinner dishes, and Mr. rerklns
and myself settled down for an after
noon talk.
"Some folks feel sort of proud over
celebrating their golden wedding."
said Mr. Perkins. "My wife and I
celebrated ours 15 years ago. Ws
were married in 1a Salle county. 111.,
SeDt- 22 184. Her maiden name
Samantha Jenkins. 1 was born in ths
village of Waterloo In tb staU of
New York on August 11. 182, John
Qulncy Adams then being president
of the United Htates. There were 13
children in our family. I was about
the middle of the crop, and though
there were as many younger ss older
than myself, 1 am the only one of
the 13 left.
"What iiave I done? Well. I served
In the Mexican war; 1 have fortcd
up against Indians; I was a membr
of the territorial legislature of
Nebraska back in 1857; 1 was deputy
United States marshal, county Judge
and mayor..
"Somehow or other it doesn't seem
as If I am S8. When 1 was vounsrer.
v in ,, . . -
2? "K wh.cn 1 WM P
viuimnS ou, ji Bcenitx to me that a
man or 88 was an old man.
"Seventy-five years ago when I
was a boy all water wheels were
made of wood and all the work was
done by hand. It was just about 75
years ago that I went to work with
my father to learn his trade, that of
rtill-WriKht. I Worked with him nntll
il was 18, when I went out west.
1 There were no railroads west of
Buffalo. N. Y.. In the early forties;
so I took a boat on the Krle canal
to Buffalo, where I took passaxe on
; a steamer for Chicago. Chicago was
a pretty good sized place for a west
ern town. It had about 009 people, f
should Judge. From Chicago 1 went
about 100 miles to the southwest to
Ottawa, the county seat of La Salle
county. One of my older brothers
lived near Ottawa. He was a mill
wright like myself. I worked with
him for 1844 to 1846.
"In those days there was constant
discussion about Mexico and Texan.
At first the United States claimed
that Texas was a part of the terri
tory she had bought In the Louisiana
purchase. She gave up that claim
along about I8J6. at the instance of
opsin, wnich owned Mexico. A couDle
! ' years later, in the spring of 182:.
our country recognized the Independ
ence or Mexico. I was, when a boy
and am yet, for Oat matter, a great
reader. I read history and travel
mostly. I read of the voyases of
nd oanulla, as you probably know
were together made one of tho north
ern states of Mexico In 1827.
"An American, Moses Austin, set
tled In what is now Texas In 1820,
and started a colony of Americans.
In 1833 Texas had about 2(1,000 set
tlers, who adopted a constitution
which the Central Mexican s-ovm.
! T ? 1 1 TecoKniz- Tw V
! 1n2a,.ht,M' pre8ldent
I elco. abolished the states of Mex-
s
f
I t
1 . "ni -made tnem departments lr-
cam Houston with about 700 Ameri
can residents of Texas, defeated
Santa Anna with his army of 160.)
men. General Sam Houston became
president of the Republic of Texas.
i n ent at Santa Ke. He went on to
California and sent Colonel Alexander
Doniphan to Join General Wool at
Chihuahua.
"On May 8, 1846, while Genert!
Taylor, with 2300 troops, was marcb-
I ing from Point Isabel to Matamoras
' to go to th hf;,p of Major Brown, he
encounierea me Mexican generals.
Arista and Ampadia with 1000 Mexi
cans. After fighting all afternoon
the Mexicans were defeated and re
tired to Resaca de la Palma. Next
day General Taylor attacked him.
i CaPt&in May ot Taylor's dragoons
charged the Mexican battery and
silenced it. The Mexicans fell back,
leaving their baggage, guns and am
munition and supplies In the hands of
! v, im.Hn t.,r,
j "Today, with our ' telegraphs, wire
less, and railroads, we know things
as soon ss they happen, and when
our troops capture Vera Cruz we
learn of It before the surgetfns have
finished bandaging the wounded. But'
68 years ago It was a different story.
The story of the fighting an ths
result of the battles were sent to
President Polk by a courier on horse
back.
"Congress, which was in session.
Immediately upon receipt of news of
the battles, authorized President Polk
to call for volunteers. Illinois wss
assigned three regiments of infantry.
! The governor of our state notified
the officers of the militia to enroll
volunteers for service. Word cam
to me that C. R. Potter, a rpilltU
officer at Ottawa, 12 miles' out, ha.i
Issued a call for volunteers and set
certain day fo them to assemble. I
was 20 years bid, my parents were
in New iork, too far away to do any
objecting, and I was as a boy rath -r
fond of adventure and romance. rto
it was a foregone conclusion bhat I
would enlist to go to Mexico.
"I walked in to Ottawa. Every
where was excitement; the town
was full of farmers and every hitch
ing rack was full. I heard a fife and
drum," and, hurrying forward, I saw
about 40 men following the music; I
fell in line and we were marched to
the recruiting office, where I signed
the muster roll and was duly en
listed. Pointed Paragraphs
Many a man who has that tirad feel
ing did not acquire it legitimately.
A bully Is a man who Is always
wanting to fight some other man half
his size. -
However, the woman who marries a-'
preacher doesn't have to nag hint in
order to get him to go to ehureh. ' ,