THE OREGON ., DAILY i JOURNAL,!, PORTLAND, THURSDAY .EVENING. MAY 21, 1914.
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An r...v...l7.M 1 Oao mantb... tja
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"No;
God ta no longer In
heaven. He has come
down on earth to see
That nothing la wrong with
the world he made; the
wrong la In you and me.
He meant the earth for a gar
den spot, where mill and
factory atand;
Childhood, he meant for grow
ing time but look at
the tolling hand!
Woman waa meant for mother
and mate now look at
thai alavea of lust.
the good folka ahaka
their heads and say.
"We muat pray to God
and trust."
God haa a billion books of out
prayers unopened upon
hla shelves.
For the things we are begging
of blm to do he wanta
ua to do ourselves."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
THE NEW INFAMY
And
for planting, cultivating and mar
kcting their crops.
In the discretion of the state
authorities part of the fund may
be used for household economics,
that the domestic side of farm life
may be benefited.
In short the object of the law
Is broadlyS educational in ? all the
spheres of rural Hfi.
PULLMAN GENEROSITY
1EW HAVEN manipulations in
ll vadd cven tne ,nner sanctu-
ary of the United States Sen
ate, and, according to the
testimony or Mr. Mellen yesterday,
the then Senator Aldrich was .pri
marily instrumental in the sale of
the Rhode island trolley system to
Morgan for the New Haven.
In his testimony before the com
mission, Oaklelgh Thorne referred
to sums approximating $2,000,
000 which went, in the Westches
ter deal, to propitiate New York
politicians who had a "nuisance
value." Mr. Mellen told of the
$1,200,000 of the money New
Haven stockholders spent on Mor
gan's order In acquiring West
chester stock held by Tammany
politicians.
It requires no stretch of the im
agination to understand how these
persons with a "nuisance value"
became possessed of Westchester
stock. It requires no gift of proph
ecy to see that in these transac
tions, the head of the greatest
banking house in America, through
his agents, was actually engaged in
the bribery of officials and in cor
rupting the government of the City
of New York, and that he did- it
as trustee of a great railroad prop
erty, using the funds of the stock
holders for the purpose and with
out their knowledge.
Mr. Morgan was at the head of
banking, railroad, industrial, life
insurance and miscellaneous cor
, porations whose , combined assets,
according to testimony' before the
senate' money trust committee, to
taled nearly $25,000,000,000.
It was a personal dominion of
the financial world in which the
power exercised was greater than
that by any potentate on earth.
It was a power able to subju
gate business and industry in many
branches, and in Mellen's testi
mony, Is laid bare the fact that In
the case of the New Haven,
"these great financiers commanded
shameless corruption, controlled
the properties for their own sordid
purposes, and finally wrecked the
property that was in their hands
as trustees.
Considering the Infamy of It all,
how fortunate it la that a new cur
rency and banking law has been
put Into effect for liberating the
money and credit of the country
from the control of gigantic finan
ciers, whose degradation of finan
cial affairs in the New Haven is
a national scandal.
NSWERING the charge of the
California Railroad Commis
sion, the Pullman Car Com
pany says the assertion that
it pays its employes an average of
only $27.50 a month is "misin
formation,' and that it actually
pays $32.85 per 'month.
An all too critical world should
take note of the company's correc
tion, and spread broadcast the glad
news that the Pullman corporation
munificently endows Its porters
with $32.85 per.
. Per week, it approximates a
magnificent $7.50. Per day, it is
a few cents more than a whole
slmoleon.
Was there ever such boundless
generosity! Ic almost makes
every Pultman porter an uproar
ious captain of finance, rushing
madly into the millionaire class.
If the company keeps on in its
reckless, devil-may-care generosity,
it cannot be long until the porters
will own the great Pullman busi
ness and the present owners be
kicked Into the street.
The California railroad commis
sion ought to be habeas corpused
or be mandamused or be im
peached. It has no right to persecute-
a benevolent corporation
like the Pullman company, which
Is struggling along day by day.
trying to make both ends meet,
while pouring out Its resources to
keep its porters in lavish luxury.
men who . seek election for wrong j of the ; wreck and ruin haa been
! due to the machinations of a few
purposes.
Rut rfia avatAm itRAif. ini th men who managed many corpora
processes that have grown up un-r turns.
A HERO'S DEATH
P
der It, seem to draw members into
expenditures of public money out
of all proportion to their cam
paign promises.
The 1913 session, of course, did
not try to be economical. It went
to Salem more for riot than for
reform.
The log rolling, the lobby, the
Inside committee work, the mid
night conferences and the smooth,
sleek gentlemen who go to Salem
on secret errands are all Influences
that debauch legislatures. They
are among the wheels within
wheels in the make-up of the two
chambers.
The legislative problem is the
big problem in every state. The
difficulty in determining just who
kills good measures and pilots bad
ones through is suggestion of some
things that might be done to rem
edy the system.
If dishonesty has ceased the
provision in the law will not hurt
anybody, for no man will be pun
ished unless he is guilty. Besides
it will serve to restrain any rash
A Uiil 1,1 a AAV fcUQ 1UU1Q w
imitate some of the past exploits
of his predecessors. In addition
to all this it may be observed that
there are more competent men
than positions anyway.
The dealings with the devil In
connection with the New Haven
will hare one good effect at least.
The administration's anti-trust
measures will be hastened.
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
HIS MONUMENT
Letters From the People
"Miss Ethel." he began, "or Ethel. I
mean I've known you long enough
to drop the M1sb,'
haven't IV
She fixed her
lovely eyes upon
him with a mean
ing gaze. "Yes, 1 1
think you have,"
she said. "What
prefix do you wish
to substitute?"
8MAU change
A man la never too busy to listen
when the lady on the dollar talks.
9 m
Soiled children and foolish parents
are often found in the same house.
Anyway, a man novel alts down on
the floor when he puts on his hosiery.
Some candidates wonder why their
votes were so few; others wonder why
The wife of a wealthy manufacturer I they were no many.
T
ERSONAL stories now coming
from Vera Cruz reveal that
the traditions of the Ameri
can navy are being sustained
and that in their conduct, marines
and sailors have set a standard to
be proud of. There are stories "of
bravery and heroism, stories of re
straint under great provocation
and stories of the absence of loot
ing ana drunkenness, tnougn a
captured city was at their mercy.
A story that toucnes the highest
note of individual heroism is that
of John F. Schumacher of Brook
lyn, a coxswain on the Florida. It
Is told by a surviving comrade as
follows:
8chumacher was known In the
ship for a great kidder. He was al
ways joshing and playing Jokes. He
was in charge of a machine "gun and
as our boys worked up into the city
he kept kidding the others with him.
making fun of the Mexicans and tell
ing the boys not to mind the greas
ers. Well, the first thing you know
lie gets "a bullet slap in tho chest.
Hut that dldn t feaze Schumacher
any. Jie Just laughed and said it
didn't hurt. He was sweeping the
street then with his gun and kept
at it. kidding the boys around him.
Then he got a bullet in the eye and
that laid him low. But It was an
hour and a half before ho died and
all that while he tried to , kid the
boys around him.
Just before he died he whispered
'thehi greasers do grease " their bul
lets, boys, don't they?"
Ana yet tnere are some men
who value their dollars more than
the life of such a man and criti
cise tho administration because it
does not rashly engage in a war
HERE 1b comment in the pa
pers because Cleveland, Ohio,
has not yet raised a suitable
memorial to ex-Mayor Tom
L. Johnson, who died three years
ago on the 10th of last April.
Bronze or marble could add
nothing to his fame. Streetcars in
Cleveland that carry a breadwinner
or a millionaire fifteen miles for
three cents are his enduring mon
ument. The dinner pail army
whose thousands go to the shops,
mills and laundries while the dew
is still on the flowers and return
at eveningtide, every day, raise to
the memory of the dead mayor a
monument in thought that no dull
shaft can rival.
The whole city has a new way
of thinking since. .Tom Johnson
worked out his career. It values
men more for what they are than
for what they have. Instead of a
money-worshipping city it is a
city of ideals.
To have achieved these changes
is a noble memorial to any man.
To do it, cost him his fortune and
cost him several years of savage
conflict with men who had been
his associates and friends arrayed
in a fierce warfare against him.
In the end, it brought him the
tragedy of a life thread cut before
its time. But in the new vision in
Cleveland, In the new Ideals he
gave his townsmen, It was worth
all it cost Tom Johnson.
Had he devoted himself to Mam
mon instead of to mankind, what
a loss to Cleveland and how many
would ever have heard of Cleve
land's greatest mayor?
AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION
GALLED JADE WINCES
s
WAR'S HORROR
T
HE horrors of the Balkan war
are bared in a report made
public Jby the commission of
inquiry" of the Carnegie en
dowment for international peace.
J
(Commonleatlona seat to Tha J on real for
publication ta this department aboold be writ
ten on only one alda of too paper, abould not
exceed 800 word in length and muat be ac
companied by tne name aad addreae cf the
sender. If the writer does not deair to
ha?e the name pnbuahed. be aboold ao a late.)
"Dncaasion la the area teat ef aU reform
era. It rationalises everything tt touches. It
robe principles ef aU falsa sanctity and
throws them back oa their reasonableness. If
they have no reaaonableneas, It ruthlessly
erashea them oat of existence and seta up lta
own coBClusioaa la their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Proposes Labor Program.
Lents, May 20. To the Editor of The
Journal There Is 6n sure remedy for
present woes among the laboring class.
Do we fully understand the entire
meaning of the term. I was, not very
long ago, reading an accepted jury list,
and it was thus: One carpenter, one
baker, two clerks, two machinists, one
engineer, three drivers of grocery wa
gons and two laborers. I was some
time puzzling over the peculiar distinc- !
tion in this collection of Jury talent,
and asked. "Were these men not all
laborers?"" "Oh, yes," was readily an
swered, "but not common laborers."
Why not? "Oh, well," it was argued,
"a clerk who sits in an office and does
office work, an electrical engineer, a
civil engineer, the captain of a ship,
and from the captain on down to the
scullion who assists the cook in the
ship's galley, each and every one,
whether this is called a salary or Just
plain wage are truly servants of those
whom they serve and of whom they re
ceive thls salary or wage; from the
high priced official to the humblest
toiler, all, indeed and in fact, are serv
ants to the money power, -which has
now become the ruling power of this
nation."
For years there have been unions.
Engineers of all kinds, machinists,
clerks, bakers, barbers, butchers one
may go on indefinitely in enumeration
of Independent unions, working inde
pendently, and they are separately
working against a nationalized capital
ism with a fragmentary unionism
which, thus far, has yielded prtlfully
meager results. Why, I ask, does not
labor arise In its strength and nation
alize also. The capitalists have shown
us how grand nationalized capitalism
can be. Labor outdoes capital in num
bers, and it surely has the Intelligence.
I have read of a navigator who asked
a passing ship for fresh water, and the
answer was "Dip It up; it is all around
you: you are in the outflow of a
mighty
knit its forces together as thoroughly
as have the forces of capitalism, a
nationalized unionism will soon arise
in irresistible power. When this is
done then, -and not until then, is there
had occasion to call in the help of a
new floor polisher.
"Do you under
stand your busU
ness thoroughly?"
"All I ask, ma
dam, is that you
shall inquire for
yourself at my last
situation. On the
floor of the large
drawing room alone
broke their limbs during last winter.
and a lady slipped down the grand
staircase. It was I who polished the
floor and the stairs.
Pat was going along a road, and.
wanting a match, called at the house
of a farmer. The woman who gave
the match asked
Pat If he wanted
work. The reply
being In the affirm
ative, the woman
brought him into
the house.
"There is a room
full of files, and I
want you to kill
An evening call is productive of
much pleasure If not when you come,
at least when you go.
Many thousands did not do their vot
ing duty, but if they had perhaps bh
results might be the same.
When a man puts both his money
and confidence in the wrong bank he
five persons I subsequently withdraws his Confl
uence.
Perhaps King David revised his
statement that all men were liars af
ter discovering a man who never went
fishing.
The 57 varieties of successful claim
ants to the Winters estate may finally
get a few dollars apiece, but it 's
doubtful.
As a rule, the money a man doesn't
save by remaining a bachelor would
be more than enough to support a wife
and 10 children.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Lincoln County Leader be
lieves Toledo "is as badly in need of
sidewalks as any town in the world,
and perhaps may hold the world's rec
ord." The Coon Bar Business Men's associ
ation of Marshfteid. which has proved
a great success locally, is considering
requests to extend tlve organisation to
include all other joints in the county.
Arrangements are being made for
the Better Baby contest to be held In
connection with the Rose show at Med
ford. May 28 and 29. Several hand
some cups are among the prizes of -
Terea.
At a date In June not yet definitely
named. Albany's new public library
building will be opened. The Democrat
says the building has more than met
the expectations of the people and is
a structure to be proud of.
"A significant thing about tha late
primary in Baker county," says the
Baker Democrat, "was the absence of
?ersonalt ties between candidates, and
his is commendable. Every man ran
on his merits and he has no apologies
to offer or accept."
Salem Statesman: Members of the
Science club recently organized at Wil
lamette university for scientific re
search and investigation, are writing
theses on Important scientific and geo
logical topics dealing with present day
actions of the forces of nature. Only
those of excellent standing in scientific
lines are considered for membership
and the few passing a rigid entrance
test are finally admitted. This is the
only club of its nature on the coast.
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Ixckley.
them."
"Good.'
and coat.
PIRACY IN THE EASTERN SEAS
said Pat, taking off his hat
"Send them out one by one.
organize their power to prohibit votes
for women. I have no fear of the
prohibition craze succeeding in Oregon,
because our free women are opening I the almost forgotten past when pirates
their eyes to the light. One writer I Infested the seas east of the Straits of
From the New Tork Commercial.
Pirates have captured a Chinese
steamer flying the British flag in the
China sea and have secured loot valued
at (30,000. This reads like a story of
well says that Oregon women . travel
more than the pent-up women of Il
linois towns, where fanaticism runs
riot in rural communities and prohibi
tion agitators regularly pass the hat.
Sunda and up the China coast as far
as what is now Russian territory.
When a mistake In receiving a wire
less message thrilled the world with a
false report of the probable loss of the
I feel exceedingly sorry for the self- Siberia a. few rlavs aa-o corresnondents
intoxicated woman who pledges her , Hnnekonr. Nagasaki and Manila re-
little all to pay the charges of perl- I f erred to the possibility of piracy, but
paienc puoiic orators, who appiy me
wrong end of the teleacope of mental
vision to her excited imagination, pil
fering them instead of the liquor traf
flc, which, if driven into hiding here
and there will never be destroyed till
the demand ceases. This demand In
creases naturally, in proportion to the
persecution it meets, the prohibition
agitator to ".e contrary notwithstand
ing. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAx
If and Bat.
the Idea seemed Incredible when we
read it.
" Yet the danger is ever present In the
far east. Thousands of alleged fisher
men, Chinese, Malays, Japanese and
Formosan tribesmen, in those waters
are ready to turn smugglers or pirates
the moment opportunity serves. They
have no more compunction than the
New Tork "gunmen" whose deeds are
again being aired in the Becker trial.
If men will turn from plundering and
Docket rtlckinsr to murder for a slisrht
Estacada, Or., May 20. To the inducement in this city we need not be
Editor of The Journal Prohibition al- I surprised that beach combers become
ways causes distress. If there had I pirates in China whenever they see a
been no prohibition in Paradise. Adam prize in the sh'ape of a vessel in dis-
an'A 17" .- tvi 1 n-V. f hav itavMl th.r. t n I ITeSS.
this day.
rwHERK are thousands of farm
Iers who cannot go to college,
but there is now opened to
them a field for opportunity
and progress through the Smith
Lever law, recently signed by
President Wilson.
The purpose of the law is to es
tablish among the rank and file
of farmers the best metheds and
practices that have been worked
out at experiment stations and ag
ricultural colleges. It Is to make
a practical use of the millions ex
pended yearly by the government
in gathering agricultural knowl
edge!
The measure carries an appro
priation that will ultimately reach
more than five million dollars an
nually for the demonstration of
efficient farming methods in every
agricultural county of the union.
Ot, this fund, which is to be spent
under the v joint direction of the
Department of Agriculture and the
state agricultural colleges, ten thou
sand: dollars will be allotted to
each state every year uncondi
tionally. The remainder will be
distributed among the dates on a
basis of rural population. In order
to- receive its apportionment the
state must appropriate an equal
amount.
These appropriations will lnau
gurate throughout the country' a
system of practical schooling In
.farming. Skilled demonstrators in
every-county ill be at the service.
Of the farmers in solving problems
- c the soil and perfectlngmethods
TRONG confirmation that the
new tariff law is working
well Is found in the words of
Charles E. Leippe, president
of the national association of
hosiery and underwear manufac
turers.
At a recent convention of the
association he said:
Now, when the government sends
its people to you tell them they can
not examine yoflr books. Tell them
mar. wnat your dooks snow is none
of their business. When the now
tariff bill does get in Its effects you
will need no bookkeeper to compute
your profits. This government is
not being run by practical efficient
men but by a lot of theorists. It is
up to you manufacturers to go out
and get Into politics and see $o It
that men who represent you are put
in power.
The association adopted a start
ling resolution demanding that the
government postpone the investi
gations now being made by the
Department of Commerce as to the
cost of manufacture In connection
with present business conditions
as the basis for determining the
defects in the Underwood tariff
bill in its relation to manufactur
ing. Much as they resemble them, the
utterances of President Leippe are
not the words of a soap box orator.
An I. W. W. speaker, fresh from
Southern Europe and. still .unnat
uralized, would not more strongly
advise his followers to be lawless.
Loss of the long partnership
with government from which Pres
ident Leippe and his kind so long
and bo heavily profited, makes
them wrathy at an administration
which has taken all the people into
the partnership.
shall cease to revolve, every hammer
shall lie idle; in a word, all traffic
shall cease, absolutely cease, and the
whole world shall see what has never
before been seen since the dawn ot
commerce.
OLIVE EVELYN M'CORD.
Mrs. Duniway Replies to Critics.
Portland, May 20. To the Editor of
The Journal As I see that my humble,
unaspiring name is still being used by
ey swear they
will never do it.
The awful "if Intervenes and the
deadly "but" butts In. We are sur
rounded by "lfs" and tied down with
"buts." "If signifies uncertainty.
WhOBoever doubts is damned. When
ever we say "if" we are In doubt.
Whenever we say "but" we make an
exception or prohibition that raises up
enemies to confound us. "But lndi-
cates a snake In the grass or a nigger
in the wood pile.
Some latter day saint should arise
and banish mice and moles and gophers
from Oregon. He could probably do
it by introducing snakes. There ought
to be an appropriation of $100,000 to
the agricultural college to endow an
other extension to increase the supply
of serpents. There should be a chair
. of opblology or ophisophy. There
t , ,, y . i.l- 11T1i(. OIIUUIU CL gv, CI II1I1TTIIL ttllU
in dry territory.
If Dr. Withycombe would put, this
in his platform but he won't. If Ella
M. Finney would Join the Prohlbltlon-
1 r 1. V.na.A ,l.lr- I InJI I ' " " " - ' - " - " -
shall have been wronged, the echo ot .., . , D. , j ,
n is a iaie 01 savagery, a iaie 01 """ . .VV.ni Pro'w backwards and unite again
atrocities on defenseless men, wo- " , a " r ," JXr, ,. with the G. o. P. -but th
,., , , , redress. wnai a. icariui Eiieuce
men and children by Turk, Greek i over thls land whi surely follow that
Bulgarian and Servian alike. It call. The signal given, every wheel
is a story of the annihilation of
one entire population of 15,960
persons, of the .burning alive of
men by hundreds, of the violation
of widows, of the hanging of wo
men to trees, of the butchery of
men In groups of 300 or more and
of i the gouging out the eyes of
babes. Outrages committed on
non-combatant Moslems in Mace
donia, surpassed the crimes of the
darkest ages and barbarous re
prisals of Bulgar, Serb and Greek
on one another seem incredible If
they were not supported by con
vincing evidence.
Everywhere the commission
found desolation, wretchedness and
despair.
In commenting on the Bulgarian-Servian
country the commission
says :
The things we have described, hor
rible as they are, are evidence of an
abnormal condition which cannot en-
aurr. j lie consequences of the re
cent war economic, moral and social
arc dreadful enough to Justify any
honest effort by any person or by
any nation to alleviate the really dis
tressing situation.
In its investigation the commis
sion has performed a lasting ser
vice in the cause of universal
peace and has called upon the civ
ilized world to set a good example
to those less advanced by seeking J out them
a judicial settlement of interna
tional disputes.
From time immemorial piracy has
been the chief occupation of the sav
age coast dwellers of those regions.
They have always been Ishmaelltes,
at war with the rest of the world, and
they regard the loot of vessels in dis
tress ot weakly manned as their
proper perquisite. In this they are
not singular, for It Is not so long ago
that even on the coast of England ves
sels were lured on the rocks by false
lights, a crime no less foul than out
right piracy. This world wide ten
dency to robbery on the high seas
called for the most extraordinary
measures of repression and the inter
national laws against piracy are today
exceptional In severity and In the man
ner of enforcement. Commanders of
all warships have jurisdiction and war
against piracy is waged without quar
ter.
Steam sounded the death knell of
piracy on the high scaa, where once
the black flag with its skull and cross
bones flew in every quarter of the
globe. In the old days of sailing ves
sels the pirates had some chance, be
cause they could go ashore anywher
for water and they could provision
their ships by capturing others or by
taking small, undefended coast towns.
But they cannot get steamships fast
enough to escape pursuit by cruisers
and gunboats. Even if they could get
a fast steamer they could not coal it
without entering regular ports. That
Is why the black flag has disappearel
from the high seas. Potential pirates
are plentiful enough, but their occupa
tion is gone.
Macao, a Portuguese settlement near
Canton, has been the clearing house
for pirates' loot and other illegitimate
trade for centuries. Tn this moral pest
hole of the far east Chinese pirates
can buy arms and sell plunder, and the
great powers have never been able to
get Portugal to reform these condi
tions. The most degenerate class of
Europeans have had control of its
Iniquitous traffic for four centuries
and Macao stands today a witness to
the truth that honesty is the best pol
icy. For centuries the Portuguese held
the only trading posts open to Euro
peans In the far east and they would
have become centers of world-wide
commerce, such as Hongkong and Sing
apore now are. hadathoae in control
known enough to encourage legitimate
trade instead of acting as "fences" for
pirates. Since Great Britain took
Hongkong the guns of its cruisers have
closed Macao to pirate vessels of large
size, but the trade In loot still goes on
there. ,
Previous sporadic outbreaks of pi
racy along the China coast have been
suppressed by the Joint action of
Great Britain and France. China is
unaDie o Clean up ner cnsi ai pieseni i
"After reaching New Orleans .on our
way to Mexico," said Alonso Perkins,
a Mexican war veteran living in Kaat
Portland, "we went into camp awalt-
I ing orders.
-ur captain, t. i... Dickey; w ho had
failed to secure command of the reg
iment, lost interest In the company and
turned, the command over to First
Lieutenant E. S. Holbrook. At first
he was very popular, but lie txion had
few friends In the company, as he did
not look out for our Interest as did
the other company commanders.
"To me New Orleans was a wonder
fully fascinating and Interesting city
I explored It thoroughly. On one of
my Jaunts I har.pend to arrive at the
public Rlave ati tion while some slaves
were being sold. This was the flrt
time 1 had seen men and women sold
so I stayed there until all the hIbvps
had been sold. There were quite a
number sold One. I remember, was a
comelv looklm- i.
nursing a baby that s.-emed undis
turbed by the fart that his mother and
uimaeir were ( hanging ownerK.
"One incident of the sale I will never
forget. The auctlonr put up a beau
tiful young plrl. apparently white. If
she had lived in my state. Illinois, no
one would have t-uspe.-ted she had
negro blood in her veins. A man near
me, faultlessly dressed and looking
well-to-do and prosperous, was very,
very uneasy. The bidding for the fine
looking young slave girl lagged. He
eyed the bidders anxiously and finally
said: Tt is a damned shame! My own
flesh and blood Is being haggled over
like that." I could hardly believe my
ears, though I heard him say it. After
the auction I asked one of the officials
of the auction if It were true. He said:
'Yes. she is his child by an octoroon, so
that she is his daughter as well as his
slave. Ho was on his way to Texas
with his family, his household goods
and his slaves. He got Into a crooked
game, the Kamhlers got all his money,
and as he is stranded he had to let his
Slaves go on the block."
"To a New Yorker like myself who -'
had been taught to revere Wendell
Phillips. William Lloyd Garrison and
men of that type, selling oiip'b own
flesh and blood didn't hx.k good.
"Orders came at last for ua to go
aboard the transports for l.a Vara. All
the transports were sailing vessels ex
cept one steamer, the J. M. White.
Each sailing vessel took two com
panies, and this crowded them pretty
wen. company k and my company
l.ad been the last to march from camp.
Company K was commanded by Cap
tain Moore and our company by Lieu
tenant Holbrook.
"Our company, with Company A.
had been assigned to a tin ec. masted
brig, the Held officers an'l many of
t lie commissioner officers were on the
steamer. Captain Moore did not think
the men should be crowded, as they
would be with two companies to the
boat. As we stood there noucl Har
din come down the gangplank from the
steamer nnd. walking up to captain
Moore, said In a stern voire: 'Captain
Moore, l command you to march your
men aboard the transport at one
Captain Moore looked Ht him roolly
and said: 'I'll be damned if I do.' Col
onel Hardin made a tjujck move to
ward Captain Moore, caught his sword
by the hilt and took it from its scab
bard. He turned to our company and
said; 'Lieutenant Holbrook. detail two
of your men to arrest Captain Moot
and take him aboard the J. M. White'
He then turned to Lieutenant Elliott of
Company A and said "Lieutenant,
march your men aboard the transport.'
"Company A man-hed aboard and
piracy will be known and may en
courage other "fishermen" to take up
their ancestral trade again.
WHAT DIVIDENDS ON PUBLIC UTILITIES?
By John M. Osklson.
One xt the problems state commis
sions for the regulation ot public
utility corporations street railways,
lighting plants, etc. have to tackle
I don't know how to fix It unless wn I is to determine a fair rate of earn-
call a constitutional convention to re
form the language and regulate eon-
my prohibition rrienas in tneir many versatlon by banishing "If and "but"
labored efforts to ovenooa tne tact ; from the dictionary and prohibiting
anyone from using them except when
that the demand for intoxicating bev
erages is the cause of the supply, I
wish to call their attention, briefly, to
this important factor in the case,
vvhich they studiously ignore. One of
my prohibition friends thinks it in
conceivable that a temperance advo
cate cannot view the situation from !
the reverse end of his telescope, and J
innocently wonders why. He talks
ings on the stock. Naturally, the com
panies as well as Investors are deep
ly interested.
More and more the state commis
sions are tending to fix six per cent
as a fair rate. They argue that be-
prescrlbed by a physician. There is
no use to swat flies and at the samel cause the state takes a hand in run
time allow such dangerous words aslnlng the companies, fixing rates to
these to be used indiscriminately by lr- I be charged consumers, insuring the
responsible parties. That swats the I companies against destructive com
matter. J, L JONES. I Detition. and supervising their Issues
of Btocks and bonds to prevent "wa-
Vinan3 Good Roads Invention. I tering," the securities put out by
. 11 i rui nana, avi my l. 10 ine sailor or t l"c" hob oiauu-.ui
vermin as weU as VcohoT which no- The Jdrnal-I " writing you ..per that the Investor ought to be willing to
Vermin, as well as K.UUUi, " " 1 l u "u i ,.. , . J . I ,.-n r.lurn nf at Y nor een on hi
1 1.. cni U ha nvsrlnnka hi'uu' itviucoi iu uic maiL.T OI vv lnans iv " .-
. J
fact that the survival or tne fittest is
... . i .ill 1 1 v nri era niv u 1 r n .rt.t v 1 1 1 i : 1 1 i 1 1 i nni , 1 1 j n v i.iiiiiiioniu'-a ub
ui even a. iuiuvw i i,. WH. , , . . , . . . I ,,1 4c nnthr Tt 4. thai
FEDERAL CONTROL
T
HE disclosures being made in
the affairs of the New Haven
railroad give timely interest
to the Ray burn bill for fed
eral control of railroad stock and
bond issues, which has been re
ported favorably by the House In
terstate Commerce Committee.
new road construction invention, which money when he exchanges it for pub-
rh U of nature: and if everybody, i BlmP consists or rooring the roaj "cu.uu
. 1... ,i, i entirely, preferably with corruerated in contrast to
"firV . "Trr"i':' "e ; galvanized iron on iron frame, to in- ual view, there is another.
these creatfons of Mtur. lt would be ! Bure salnst fire and for durability, the average public utility has to go
as impossible to proMbit them by ; t will readily b seen that by roofing through a growing stage when earn
votes as it is now .impossible, for the the road and keeping it dry winter ings amount to very little, when divl-
eame reason, to prohiDit alcohol. He i a,,u summer, ine roao can oe cneapiy u us "i ;." -v -i -
overlooks the fact that nodoby wants I bul,t of any kind of dirt, and by oiling very low rate. The head of one of
bedbugs when he compares their pro- 11 t ake a permanent first class the big groups of public service cor-
.i-i,it4,., 4 it,. r-nhihitirn nf .ixnhni road much better for travel than hard porations said the other day that he
But the two cases are not parallel. Let surfaced roads and much cheaper, as thought eight per cent ught to be
us reason together and see why. The j 'n rooring Kept painted will last anowea. .
herihnff on rattlesnake are not am oner more than 50 years. Not only will this 1 In making out his case, this man
the elements of the universe. Unlike 1 roof be useful for preserving the road-
alcohol, the universe would exist with- nea, Dut.it wui airord comfortable onest in brlnzible, den I shange my
out them: nence it is possime to ex- i 'ener irora ram, snow ana not sun. mind for I dink Dr. Smit must be a
terminate them, though it is not pos- All telephone and electric light wires werry goot man. Lots of my friends
sible to accomplish this feat with can be can-led in it overhead, makinsr Li m rfinir Heohle vaa not like
votes, no matter how willing the paid them much easier to keep in order. Tho der vas ven I gomes to dis goundry
prohibition orator might be to attempt j roadway need ndt be more than 24 yen gomes id been Demograd and
it. The ballot, rightly used, is not a j feet in width, saving much valuable Republican. Now id been onest man
weapon of destruction. Intelligently land for right of way. My Invention vor office more as anyding else und
appnea to tne neeas oi naroanuy, it is win entirely ao away witn ail mac- j dink it vas bedder.
an instrument oi peace, plenty ana auain or otner nara surrace ma
prosperity. Its use by the mother-half I terial with its attendant high
of humanity is tne vital neea or the ' cost and short term of use
times; but Its use must come to them ! fulness and disagreeable and harm-
through freedom, the very opposite of I f ul solidity. The roofing will not cost
nd the great powers will do It for her J our " t'-noweo. we were Kreauv
if . the situation Is serious. News ' ow.Ied, Water for our 1 So men was
spreads in a mysterious wav n the 2lpp- 'P from the mouth of the river
far east and this successful act of I an,i placed in newly made cypres bar-
reis. 1 Tie waier coniamen ine. sewer
age of every town along the Missis
sippi and its tributaries. The heat of
the sun seemed to rot It so that by the
second day you had to bold your nose
to be able to take a drink. It smelled
so terribly. Nowadays people would
die of tvnhoid If they drank such
cited the company which operates water, but we didn't know anything of
rapid transit tunnels under the Hud- l typhoid then, and so It didn't hurt us.
son river between New York City aqd "That trip was a trying one. Below
a number of New Jersey cities. Of decks was like a furnace, ami on deck
these, tunnels he said: we had no shelter from the blazing
"They have done wonderful things mid-summer sun. For 3S hours we
for New Jersey. Their erection was . were hei-almed; the sails hung limp
a great public service. Yet It took ! and listless and the water was an
millions to build the tunnels, and smooth as a. mlllpond. We nearly
Elnce their erection investors have melted away, we sweat so. We could
been having decidedly lean years, with ; hardly stand It to drink the stinking
a prospect of more "lean years ahead I water, but we couldn't stand not to.
We crossed the gull, lannen on i exan
six per cent will
be
soil and started on our march for San
Antonio de Hezas."
The Ragtime Muse
before even
reached."
Mr. McCarter, from whom this quo
tation Is made, thinks that legisla
tion limiting the returns on public
utilities stock to six per cent may
drive Investors away from such
stocks, and so retard development. He
Points out mat tne two commissions i A tnp wfrid Is full of chatter;
which control public utilities In New i Morning, midday, eenlng. night.
i orK state spena .s,uuu,uuo a year : Words that make a iroiny oaiter
(five per cent on 60,n00,000) ; if the
net result of their work Is to retard
development, the cost of supporting
them is too great.
As I understand the commission
control idea. Investors will not vote
for Its removal. Commissions may
slow down the financial and physical
development of the big companies;
but for the average Investpr that
would he regarded as a safeguard of
his Interests. Made safe, such stock
Is a good Investment when It pays
six per cent.
Getting Results.
Pour upon us. lert and rigni.
Each man m tongue will go on i lacking
Almost to his latest breath;
Meanwhile Instances are la-k1na
Where one thinks one's self to death.
Thus in i liaos do we dabble.
Hut W c Ret no good result :
Out of all the ceusele-s babble
'omeH no lastina thought or iiH.
Knch man builds about his ego
One prodigious, wordy fence;
On submersed in gossip we go
At the cost of common sene.
Somedimes I say someding' mor
Qoust now I quid.
ZACHARIAH SWACKLbHKlMBK.
The story of the ( more than half as much per mile and
'Work for Work's Sake."
The Dalles, Or., May 1. To the
Editor of The Journal Again must I
BROKEN PROMISES
T
HE Salem Statesman savs:
We will, have a legislature
committed to economy. . We
have had them before, within
the memory of many who do
not consider themselves old. And
failed to get economy or anything
more than a false article.
The statement is true., So many
pledges have been broken that
confidence is lost. The legislative
body is distrusted.
Sometimes, it is to be doubted
if it is always the fault of the men.
Of course, most sessions include
which is force,
Pisgah mother, recently related In will last ten times as lone as well an
your columns, is a pitiful one; and If ; beinsr a oerfect Drotection for travel.
prohibition were its cure, nobody could trs against weather's Inclemency and a differ with you on a few points in one
I nKI t Tlnl 1 1 1 a nnt lha eur fialf. i i . . , I . , I'n'A.I.
t . , . . t u n jv, - - .v ... "- . , wiivt-iiicii'. rz lur uuubiiik transmission i ot your kuuu eunwiuiw, "via v
iu tue report. preparea Dy preservation is Its only remedy; and If , wires. Work - Sake. " In a recent issue. Don't
cnairman Adamson It 1b declared j the afflicted ones are not willing to I Yours for new good roads at little you think it rather s. inching It to
that the personal punishment pro-' app,y tilJs renledy ,tne.y 8!oy1?Lbe kept cost- WILSON ROSS WINANS. class as "work." or even as labor," the
vided Is tho nnlv wav tn Haul wWK ?. -, 1 . . I ' natural causes of the planets motion,
. . . . ' . tnemseives wining to conquer tneir Follows Political Tina th- kk. now. of the tides, the
Culver. Or., May 18. Mr. Nusebaper coursing of the waters, the sprouting
Man I subbose I haf bo much ride to of the seeds? If that la work, man
say someding in der nusebaper as does his share In growing and continu-
udder beoble vat sticks ub by der ton- I ine his species,
stitdution. I been in dis sroundrv I Work can be performed only by ani
dlrty-dree year. Somedimes I been a 1 mals, or by tools, the creation of the
Rebubligan und somedimes I been a I animal man. Natural functions are
Demograd. Ven a goot man gomes I not "work," as the word is ordinarily
"W'e will talk ourselves to glory.
Is the motto of the da ;
Not a verv likelv MorV
(jlnrv doesn't come that way.
Order ami concerted a tion.
Though the babbb is s' of f and balk.
Yet will come but thmugh the frac
tion Of mankind tliat does not talk.
Pointed Paragraphs
Patient e may
only virtue.
the laiy
lire industrious from
malefactors and those who use the i bad habits. Intemperance, like mur
power of their positions as di-1 der adultery, theft, robbery, arson,
rectors to wreck cornoratlon for S- hypocrisy, gluttony, greed, slan
i . !. . , corporations lor ( der ishIie8S and tyranny, is a crea
individual gain. i tUre of human perversity, controllable
The director or officer who will by human will. If a man cannot re-
swindle innocent Investors by un- J1,11 "?m ufmg nimseir ana otners
loading on them worthless stocks . ki kt w rMtin u im Yr loom
and bonds is deserving of the most ! enacted through the aid of votes. But oud for office on der Demograd dicket understood and used. Man's creative
severe punishment.
The bill also contains a provis
ion prohibiting common or inter
locking directorates or manage
ments. This is in response to an al
most universal demand. While it
may be that railroad men are no
longer dishonest and that it is a
matter of convenience for the same
i we cannot vote to prohibit all men
from living because some men' commit
murder, nor can we prohibit the exis
tence of sex because some people are
prone to break the laws of chastity.
This fact applies to .every species of
Intemperance herein enumerated, the
abuse of ardent spirits among the rest.
AH the early years of my public ad
vocacy of woman's enfranchisement
were embittered by the attempts of
present-day prohibitionists to prohibit
freedom for th mothers of the race.
men to handle various enterprises J My later years are rendered anxious
without having to consult so many tTbSJSSSTirS
people, tne fact remains that most I .re arousing ballot armed voter to
I been a Demograd, und if dere don't actions become work when used to a
been a good man on der Demograd greater extent than is necessary to sat
dicket, and der vas a gootman on der isfy the natural 'desires or needs of
Rebubligan den J been a Rebubligan. the individual performing them. No
Now I quid dot kind of foolishness, domesticated animal works for man
I reat der Oregonian and ven a man from choice; the only excepting exam
gomes oud for office und der Oregom pie, perhaps, being the dog, and even
lan-fights him und say someding bad he is not prone to overdo it.
vor him, den I vodes for such a man For instance, one would not call
begause I now he vas a goot man. Der man's eating or sleeping work, not
Oregonian haf no use vor such a man. even his preparing his meal or bed.
as likes to stick- ub vor everydlng dot But the moment he does that for anoth
vas goot und onest. er tt t price. It. becomes work.
In dis election I dink I shall vode The piston rod of progress has been
for Mr. Bennett vor nomination to been the great inherent desire in man to
governor, but ven der Oregonian say get as much' pleasure and comfort out
Dr. Smlt vas no goot and he don't been of life with the least expenditure of
effort. And this Is the cause of all
useful Inventions.
No normal person can be satisfied
with being compelled to do a thing and
to continue doing It for too many hours
at a time. Besides, he feels In
stinctively that he Is not working to
satisfy his own needs, but merely to
load up the marKet, seldom enjoying
even a fraction of the fruits of hla toil.
And thus will It continue till society
establishes means whereby each In
dividual may find his proper place in
this great workshop of ours. Each
will then perform that which is dear
to him, not merely to produce but for
actual social use and no more. Then
what we call work will become pleas
ure. Care and worry will sneak to their
graves. Wrinkles and gray hairs. If
they come at all, will come 'in their
Mm. " ThA ...III V 1. . . .
......... . .. jvfu.it, niu oo a. ...lainic life s sure tilings.
to play, the old to rest, and all to live
happy, and what you term "marvelous- i Woman'? crowning glory
ly strange," will die a natural death. 1 looks It in the early morn.
Nor Is this a mere dream. Kor look ,
and you'll see that the hill posters of; But the man who restricts his Jov
to borrow trouble is
Most men
r.ecesMty .
An easv way
to lent money.
Woman is better at ilrlvln- ba--gains
than nails.
The uncertainty of lovev is one of
seld'm
that great day are here already.
WILBY HEARD.
To the West Butteville Lady.
Portland. May 21,-To the Editor of
The Journal If the lady at West
Butteville. who desires tne establish- '
ing of a Sunday school and preaching
service will address a communication
to Joseph .Brock, Sixty-third avenue 1
and Seventy-first street, southeast. -Portland,
Or., giving name and post-
office address, an appointment will
be arranged. JOSEPH BROCK.
riding to street cars doesn't have to
worry about punctures.
An Obvious Answer.
From the Baltimore American.
"My theory is that men arc what :
they eat, so we should be careful to !
select appropriate diet."
"I'm so glad to hear that, Mr. Softy
Wt have calf's brains for dinner.
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