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Defeat may be victory In
dlaguiae the loweat ebb in
the flow of the tide. Henry
W. Longfellow.
NOT A BLATHERSKITE
IN AN Interview with Samuel
Blythe, President Wilson said:
My Weal is an orderly and
righteous government In Mexico;
but my passion la for the sub
Jneiged 85 per cent of the people of
that republic who are now struggling
toward liberty. '
It Is not likely that there Is In
all the United States, one person
who questions the president's state
incut, lie wants to aid the sub
merged people of that haplecs
country, who have been dispos
sessed of their lands, who have
been denied even the rudiments of
education, and who are largely ten
ants and trespassers in the land of
meir uirtn. ino paw us i uneu
land-owners and alien oil barons,
the Mexican people present a pic
ture of pathos that should be an
appeal for Justice to every Ameri
can citizen as it Is to the president
of the American republic.
' It would . have been easy for
. President Wilson to have played
politics In Mexico. Well knowing
that a country is always loyal to
1 war operations. President Wilson
could long ago have led an army
into Mexico and been supported by
public sentiment. If a demagogue
or blatherskite, he would have
made his party safe in the fall
elections by such a move.
War administrations are never
denied approval at the polls. War
presidents always receive the plau
. dlts of the multitude. The presi
dent could easily have created con
ditions to force a war. A less con
scientious president would long
ago have plunged the United States
into hostilities as the easy means
of solving a troublesome situation.
There is no other way in Which.!
he could so easily have secured in
the fall elections a vote of confi
dence in his administration: There
Dlng and selfish president could so
quickly capitalize the war spirit
and patriotism of a devoted coun
try for bis political purposes.
But Woodrow Wilson has done
nothing of this kind. lie Is not a
demagogue. He is not a blather
skite. He is not an exploiter of
the lives and limbs of American
boys in blue for advancement of
his political fortunes.
He is a friend of mankind. His
sympathy goes out to the sub
merged, whether in Michigan or
Mexico. His passion is not to
fight the revolution-bedeviled Mex
icans, but to lift them up, to give
mem noerty, to mane them a part
of mankind.
A DEMOCRATIC PREMIER
THE accession of Count Okuma
to the premiership in Japan
marks a new era in the Land
of the Rising Sun. It is the
ubstltution of constitutional gov
ernment In a true sense for the
rule of the clan.
Ia his statement of policy the
premier Insists upon the necessity
for a constitutional government as
well as on the adoption of a for
eign policy which will maintain
peace in the Far East. The ques
tion of national defense, he says,
must be secured by a complete
agreement between the treasury on
the one "side and the war and
marine office on the other. He
dwells on the need of encour
aging commercial enterprise, re
ducing taxation and maintaining
the financial equilibrium of the
country.
His succession to power is auB
plclous for the preservation of
good relations between Japan and
tbe United States.
Whenever these relations have
been discussed he has always em
phasized that friendship with the
American government 6hould al
ways be a cardinal principle.
Count Okuma ls 75 years of age
and la an interesting personality.
He has but one leg. The other
was blown off by a bomb in 1889.
Illustrative of the change In the
. political sentiment in Japan the
last few years it Is recalled that
"twenty years ago Okuma tried to
maintain a party cabinet, himself
as premier, but he was forced out
of office in a short time by the
clan powers. The recent political
upheaval and navy graft disclos
ures have completely broken the
' hold of the clans and the sage of
Waseda has again accepted the
task , of state.
: For the first time, says the New
:. York Japan Review, the people of
. the Mikado's empire have placed at
V the helm a man who knows the
people's heart and who would sym
pathise with the hod carriers and
; rickshaw mm just as readily as with
nobles and shlnninkan with bril
liar uniforms decorated with nied-
als of the Rising Sun and the Gol- f
den Kite.
THE IjIIIKL INDICTMENTS
1
T
HERE are grand juries and.
grand joiries. Some of them ;
are accused of inactivity. But
no such charge can be made
against tne Portland gran a jury -
wnicn nas. returned vine lioei in
dictments. There is no purpose here to im
pugn the motives or question the
judgment of the members of the
investigating body. Men who take
solemn oaths to properly discharge)
the sacred duties and responsibil
ities in a grand Jury room are, or
should be, contemplated . with, at
least, reasonable ' confidence and
respect.
As to the libel indictments, how
ever, there are extraordinary facts.
The district attorney did not favor
them. Nearly a year elapsed be
fore the indictments were brought,
Grand juries have come and gone,
but it was not until an intimate
and militant friend of Mr. Heus
ner became foreman of a grand
jury that the acts described in the
indictments were returned as libels
on Mr. Heusner.
What is more to the point,
throughout the time the so-called
libels were under consideration,
the foreman or the grand jury was
in daily consultation with t Mr.
Heusner in Mr. Heusner's office.
The path between the grand Jury
room and Mr. Heusner's office was
kept hot. The consultations were
so frequent that it was almost as
if Mr. Heusner were foreman m of
the grand jury-by proxy. Or, as
If the real headquarters of the
grand jury of Multnomah county
were not in the public courthouse,
but in Mr. Heusner's private office.
As to the merits of the Indict
ments, The Journal hasnothing
to say. That is a matter for
Judges and courts and lawyers and
law. But on the general principle
of having the sacred proceedings of
a grand .jury directed from any-
body's private office, not only The j
Journal but every citizen of Mult- j
nomah county with life, liberty and
property at stake, has something
to .say.
The integrity of every grand
jury must be maintained inviolate.
There must be no proxy foremen i
of grand juries. There must be
no private guidance of grand jur
ors or grand jury foremen by per
sonally interested parties.
RURAL CREDITS
i i-ercentage of the Columbia river
HAT there will be no leglsla- j watershed will be lifted over the Cap
tion relating to rural credits ' cade mountains to go to Puget Sound;
. ,M . : and even that small part will take
at this session of Congress is . that course only for short tlme
indicated. It is probably for for gravitv lines on the land and
T
the best that the matter is to go I
nu o a tv,-o OI. Aitr
opinion to be reconciled. Agrarian j
Interests are not satisfied that the
pending measure is what they
want. - Complaint is made that in
stead of being a measure to au
thorize agriculturists to form and
operate their own cooperative
banks It is a measure to enable
banking interests to lay long time
mortgages upon the lands.
It is understood that President
Wilson condemns some of the pro
visions as paternalistic, holding! a great injustice and in partial re
that the purchase of farm loan se- 1 paratioh, attention should be called
curities by the treasury to the ! to the spreading futurism of mere
amount of $50,000,000 during any !
one year will place the govern-!
ment in the questionable position
of possessing a lierf on a vast I
amount of farm lands in the !
country. !
One of the worst features in j
the bill, in his opiniou, it is said, i
is the provision that the govern- j
ment shall purchase securities j
wnich private investors do not !
want. The postal savings bank
trustees, for example, are required
to invest in the land bonds when
they go below par, a circumstance
which would indicate lack of .confi
dence on the part of the public, it
is contended.
It is furthermore pointed out j what kind of a man you are."
that the government will not be In the West End of London the
called on to subscribe to the stock very latest thing is the cubist pa
of the land banks or to purchase j Jamas, which have squares, oblongs
the bonds unless the public fails j and triangles of white on a black
to absorb the securities. This j ground. Shirts are of the bright
would place the government in a j e6t imaginable colorings. Many of
position of holding the bag in a j them are strewn all over with dice
scheme lacking public confidence. ! on strongly contrasting shades. A
Representative Bulkley of Ohio, i necktie of the brightest violet has
who introduced the bill contends i a pattern of pale emerald and mus
that the plan is not paternalistic tard yellow remindful of serpents
for the reason that the aid of the j in different stages of contortion,
government to agriculture upon j wriggling all over it.
which all society is dependent, is Going back to Paris we find col
no more paternalistic than the nu- ored beards for' men as well as
merous aids given by the govern-; colored wigs for women. A young
ment to trade and commerce. He j poet who was invited to attend a
says the United States is the only j soiree given by a well known
nation in the world pretending to painter created a sensation by ap
encourage agriculture which does pearing with a dark blue mous
not extend financial aid to farmers, tache- Paul Poiret, the dress
Independent of the -views at-j maker, has adopted the new fad
tributed to President Wilson there 1 and announces that he will dye
seems to be objection to the bill I his close cropped beard a bottle
for the reason that It refuses to I green, after the fashions of the
yroviae an actual system of rural
creait ana restricts the farmer to
V, J , .
borrowing money solely upon his
land. The rural credit systems of
Europe permit a farmer to use his
personal credit the same as any
other business man.
A LURING OCCUPATION
T
HE growing Importance of Im
proved rural methods ls re
flected in the demand made
upon the Oregon Agricul
tural College for trained young
men and women.
Since the first of February there
have been calls for fourteen men
skilled In horticulture. Out of
some fifteen seniors who will fin
ish this term In agronomy there
are eight who; will take positions
in farm management or similar
work available for immediate sum-
mer engagement. There are eight
;or ten- permanent positions which
j win begin in September for which
agronomy students have , already
annlied.
The nncltr for Mtor fi.rminz
methods ls an nrgent one and
there un no more inviting
or mdr healthful for th
expert.
THE ASTORIA HANDICAP
I
N ORDER , to familiarize them
selves with the issue, members
of the Portland Rotary club
have postponed for one week
the consideration of a resolution
declaring for common point rates
for Astoria. To aid them in their
study of the question, The Journal
submits for their consideration a
document that it regards of great
importance. It is a letter -written
February 6, i900, to A. B. Ham
mond by Collis P. Huntingdon.
After saying that "substantially all
the tonnage coming from the Co
lumbia basin must follow the
gravity line determined by the
course of the river, Mr. Hunting
ton said:
This result may be prevented for
a time by people who are interested
in real estate tin Portland) but these
people will sometime learn that in
opposing Astoria as the embarkadero
of their region of the country, they
have been making a mistake, although
they may continue to strenuously hold
to their views, until the people living-
on the borders of Puget Sound
shall have had time to so , Increase
and improve their facilities for the
transfer of tonnage between rail
and ship, that the danger and Injury
to Portland shall have become every
where recognized, and it might then
take years or the gravity line to as
sert itself as it is bound to sooner
or later since no other power can
continuously compete with gravity.
The time to act for Portland and the
great country of which she Is and,
no doubt, will remain the financial
center, ls now, and I have no doubt
that the wisdom and Justification of
my action in declaring in favor of
making Astoria a common point now,
will be seen in the comparatively
near future by all people of your part
of the country.
It is not likely that this country
Vina nrnrinrprl a man mnrA nrn-
foundly skilled in the science of
transportation than Collis P. Hunt-
ington. His vision of traderoutes
and traffic possibilities is reflected
in the great transportation systeftas
of which he was one of the found
iers. It is doubtful if there is anv-
where an authoritv to which mem-
bers of the Rotary club could turn
for guidance with greater confi
dence. Concluding his letter, Mr.
Huntington said:
If Astoria shall be made the em-
barkadero of Portland, only a small
great ships .on the sea, are going
to determine the line of trade and
the direction of tonnage hereafter.
What further testimony do mem
bers of the Rotary club require in
making up their minds to declare
for common point rates for
Astoria?
MIAN'S APPAREL
T
HE foibles of woman In the
matter of dress have been the
target of ridicule from time
immemorial. This has been
man's attire.
In Paris, the seat of fashion,
there has recently teen organized
an anti-collar league. The aim of
the league is to incite' people to
rebel against the mode of locking
up their Adam's apple in a "prison
of starch." That the league has
strong opposition is indicated -from
protests that come from the Latin
Quarter.
One student writes, "the collar
is an excellent institution and
forces us to carry our heads high."
Another says: "Its various degrees
of cleanliness enable us to size tip
a man. Tell me whether your
collar ls clean and I will tell von
j Kings of Assyria
"First cast the beam out of thine
own eye and then shalt thou see
clearly to pluck the mote out ot
thy brother's eye."
REFORM -IN" TURKEY
T
HE work of reformine the
Turkish army has begun in
earnest. On top of the re
quirement that every sol
dier shall learn to read and write
comes now the edict that he shall
sit up to a table and eat with a
knife and a fork. The faithful
Musselman is not only alarmed at
this adoption of the customs of the
Giaour but is hurt by the reflec
tion that faithful hands used long
before the birth of Mahomet should
be deemed no longer fit for ser
vice. He is not proving an apt pupil
a the use of hla new Instruments
and when his superior Is out of
sight he relapses into the good old
fLflhlonAti WAV tt cntiattfnv rn Yio
flm, 0 . 'T--T vi ZZ ,.
floor and carrying his food to his :
mouth with his fingers. At the ap- I
proach of an officer be scrambles
to his seat at the table and falls!
to wielding his new accessories
with all the skill hes able to
command.
Gradually are the nations of the
world becoming as one family.
Letters From the People
(Coatmanlcatkws sent to Tba Journal tor
publication in thla department should be writ
tea on oaly ooa aid of tba paper. ahoull Bat
exeeed 300 words ia length, aod iuuat b ae
coaapaoled by tbe nam aad addreaa of tba
aender. It the writer docs sot deair to
bare tba oajue published, be abould ao a lata.)
"Dlscnsaion la tbe greateat of all reform
era. It rationalises everything It toadies. It
rob principles of ail false sanctity and
throws them back on tbelr reaaonabtoneas. It
they baa ao reasonableaeaa, it rathJaashr
cruabea them out of existence acd acta op Its
awn conclusions la tbelr stead. " Woodrow
Wilson.
Mr. Hollis' Questions.
Portland. Or., May 22. To the Edi
tor of The Journal We shall venture
a reply to W. S. Hollis, and endeavor
to answer bis three questions, mostly
by referring him to men of high in
tellect and broad experience, who have
spoken or written on the subject.
We assert that the saloon is one of
the most altruistic institutions of
American birth. Bishop Potter, who
urged and advocated temperance and
education, emphasised an oft-repeated
assertion that the saloon was "the
poor man'a club." Rev. C. W. Helt of
Kvanavllle, Ind., at one time a leader
in the Anti-Saloon league, declared that
the saloon had those altruistic quali
ties which appealed to real democatic
minds, and that the drink habit was
larger UiCn the liquor traffic, hence-
the destruction of the saloon would
only change the channel through which
liquor would flow. And he might have
added that the channel was made
crooked and the quality of the flow
impaired, very much to the detriment
of the consumer. Rev. Phillips
Brooks, & noted divine, said: "Law
without obedience is a dead letter,"
and Cardinal Gibbons said: "Prohibi
tion means legislation brought Into
contempt." Prohibition's lack of suc
cess is largely because it violates the
principles of altruism in that It alma
to do away with the saloon an institu
tion demanded by a great number of'
our citizens for their personal con
venience. To Mr. Hollis' second question,
"What is the economic value of the
saloon to the human race?" permit us
to suggest that probably Mr. Hollis
could be answered by several questions
regarding the "economic value" of sev
eral other institutions besides the sa
loon, which aa yet have not been as
sailed by the busy regulator of other
people's lives. We refer him to the
writings of Professor Walter A. Wyck
hoff, famous for nis first hand studies
or social conditions. He says: "The
laboring man out of employment knows
that In most saloons he is Likely to
ima not only temporary relief, but ,
assistance in finding employment." !
These views are concurred in by such I
men as .Francis Peabody, Charles Eliot 1
of Harvard, Washington Gladden and '
others of equal standing. j
His third question is one that mfght
be asked about a great many of the j
institutions tnat go to make up the '
macninery or our complex civilization. 1
and bet-rays the "cuttle fish" policy of
those who would rob us of the precious
boon of individual Judgment, under the
guise of looking after our moral wel
fare. It is indeed strange that men of the
Hollis type cannot indulge tn a little
introspection. Mr. Hollis, we presume,
is a teetotaler. If sor does it never
occur to him that he became a tee
totaler of his own free will and accord
and without external force? Let him
ask himself if he could have been made
a teetotaler by force and against his
convictions. If he is a man prftltld
10 wais uprignt and eats salt in his
food, he must answer no. Then Isn't
it some egotism to try to force on other t
men a principle that he would not Ter-
miu xurcea upon mm? This question
of prohibition is larger than the saloon.
j c . . . .
larger tnan the drink habit, larger
tuan personal aperty; in its final anal
j cm h id a yuesuuu wnemer a ma-
shil bom JM6 -i country
thr nwTnH !aV?! hroun
best or"
0 v.-. w i uiuuuu tnues to con
trol through governmental machinery
man s every movement, trom the cradle
to the grave,
URSULA MEISTER,
GERTRUDE REG U LA.
Says Prohibition Is Wrong.
Bandon, Or May 18. To the Editor
of The Journal Listen to the drys,
and you Imagine the one supreme evil'
in this world is drink. It ia claimed
that beer and wine are stimulants.
So is tea a stimulant, and coffee. So
is a beefsteak, for those of us who
can buy it: nay. even at times a ser
mon Is. Society has no more right
to tell you what you shall drink than
It has to dictate wnat you shall taink.
Let no one attend to another's busi
ness until he Is hired for that pur
pose. You can vote a town dry, but can
you vote a man dry?
You hear people say frequently that
they can prove anything by the Bible.
That is not true.
They charge that saloons cause 80
per cent of Lie poverty. It is utterly
absurd. If it were true the wets
would be poor and the drys would bo
rich. -If this charge were not falso,
Turkey, where not a drop of liquor Ir
made or sold, would be almost frea
from poverty. It is the poorest na
tion on earth. Before we vote this
state dry, let us get some prohibition
ist to give the name of just one dry
town that ever made a great city,
where prohibition always existed.
Crime Is due to greed, jealousy, lust
and revenge, and these passions exit
In dry8 as well as in wets.
They also ask. "Would you want a
saloon next door to your home?" No;
nor a boiler factory, a steel mill or a
packing plant.
I am. against prohibition, finally,
because it Is the enemy -of liberty,
and I believe in liberty to take a
drink. I do not care mucj for rlrink
myself, but I do care for the right,
whether I exercise It or not. People
who are despotic enough to tell me
what I shall drink today, would tell
me tomorrow what I shall think.
F. J. ENGELKE.
Additional Figures.
Gervais, Or., May 20. To the Editor
of The Journal Declaring that state
wide prohibition- would cost the growers-
of California $160,000,000, the Los
Angeles Chamber oX Commerce went on
record against it. Taken from The
Oregon Journal" and vouched for by
Rev. Mr. Harris, a Prohibitionist 170,
00 acres in wine grapes is reported
from the state board of vitlcultural
commissioners f California and Mrs,
L. H. Additon,. & Portland Prohibition
ist, and 730 wineries thrown out of
business. The United States commis
sioner of internal revenue gives the
A FEW SMILES
Judge Hanirigton. when leader of the
opposition in the' New Brunswick
legislature; representing the county
of Weitraor eland.
was once delivering
a vigorous address
in the house against
some measure 'of the
government, then led
by Mr. Blair.
"Oh, that my con
stituents in West
moreland could hear
I me now!" exclaimed the opposition
i leader in violent tones.
Sir. Blair motioned to an attendant.
'"Open the windows," he said.
A farmer was going through an art
institution where ar number of models
of ancient Greek sculpture were ex
hibited. He noticed
that on one hung a
placard saying,
"Hands Off."
"Whafn thunder
do they have to tell
ye every time that
the hands ls off?" he
exclaimed at last.
"Do they reckon we
can't see lt? An' why don't they never
say nothing 'bout the arms and legs
bein' off. too?"
Pat one day bought a sack of flour
and was proceeding on his homeward
Journey with the flour on his back
when he resolved to
take the car. When
he got up on the car
he still retained the
flour on his back.
standing up all the
while. A stout old
lady, being the only
other occupant of the
car, asked:
Why don't you put your flour
down on the floor. Pat?"
"Woll," says Pat, "the poor old horse
has enough to pull wld the likes of
you and me, so I'll hold the flour me-
self."
year's use of grain for liquor at 144,
497.878 bushels. This is taken from a
Prohibition letter. . Let them deny any
of it if they dare. Besides, we have
millions of acres in hops and fruit in
our three Pacific states, The industry
is so great that the month of SeDtem
ber has changed its name to Hoppick
ijpr. Count all the hops, fruit and po
tatoes 'grown in 25 other states and
the manufacturies, breweries, saloons
and all the labor, multiply by 12 times
the size of the United States and you
have a small average, for other coun
tries raise far more fruit and hops and
grain than we. Then throw in a few
more ciphers and you will be apt to
hit the nation-wide prohibition loss.
And don't forget the ships upon the
waters. Why, the robbery ls so great
that compared with it Jesse James'
robbery was but an atom. Grow every
thing in grain, cattle and hogs to feed
the poor. They would starve, because
the profit would be below the" price of
production and could not be grown or
manufactured. Without profitable ag
riculture the city can not live. Drunk-
ards' wives, miy we stamp on the In-
side or your nusDanas tnumos a tiny
whisky bottle, to save him for you and
from himself, and woe be to anyone
who dares to sell him liquor. Let no
man kick you around like a clod. Don't
want to spoil his pretty hand? Thefl
he must quit drinking to excess. A
mother once told me that the unborn
child would be just like the one the
mother hated. Let Prohibition moth
ers beware, or their children may all
be born saloon keepers and hopgrow-
ers. vote wet, for enforced law, order
and temperance. ELLA M. FINNEY,
Rural Problems.
Heppner, Or., May 20. To, the Edl
tor of The Journal Many papers and
magazines are crying, "Back to the
farm," and telling what a happy and
prosperous life the farmer enjoys.
The farmer has the hardest life of
them all, and to speak of the farm-
rJa anna anil dauarhters. about 90 nr
fcent of them never get Inside a the
atre or show, or a museum of any
k'nd:,i. say nothing of the longing of
! the little tots just to take one ride in
inn uiir rors iuhi i ( I lhkr nnn nn in
an auto, as they see them go flying
by. One will often hear the remark
from some little boy, "Papa, why don't
you go to town to live, so we can have
an auto to ride In? When I get big I'm
j going to town t0 ltve and j expect
! lave me an automobile, too." These
remarks are often heard and the tfeslre
is ever growing.
Now, if the state and government
would take a hand in this rural life In'
stead of yelling all the time, it might
make things some a little different
after a while. In most parts of the
country the roads are not what they
might be made. Of course we can't
expect all the roads paved, but there
are roads that get little or no atten
tion, when they are all the time In
use, and under such circumstances Jhe
farmer ls compelled to use four
horses to do the work that one should
do on the road.
The rural schools usually run, where
there is any school at all, from three
to eight months, and many patrons
have to keep two or three saddle horses
all the winter for their children to ride
three or four miles to get to school
Such a family. It frequently happens,
desires to move to town, to make It
easier; or the children get no school
Jng. Now, if we could cut out some
of our high salaried parasites and use
the money for- the Improvement of
roads and schools, we would have
better satisfied people.
We have 18 or 20 legal holidays and
pay all teachers, clerks, etc.. S3 to S10
each for each of the days, when we
know they are not entitled to a cent.
What we are thus paying would pay
the wtdow's pensions and probably
have money left. Or we could use it
to good advantage In road building, or
to improve the rural school system.
Let the state of Oregon be ruled by
the people, for the people, not by a few
crazy representatives that don't care
a rao for the will of the people.
W. P. HILL.
Construction and Destruction,
Hood River. Or., May 22. To th
Editor of The Journal What right
have we to change the nature Of our
farm products from "the constructive
to the destructive, and bring" all kinds
of suffering upon our , fellow man,
simply to rratify our own aelftnh
ends? People who do this thing are
placing themselves in a position of re
sponsibility in the sight of God. Can
we find anything constructive in
whiskey, beer, tobacco, or coffee?' Ask
any well posted person. ; No wonder
aeatn ana destruction hound many
tracKs day Dy aay.
War ls the culmination - of
things of a destructive nature,
ish we are to suppose that
edicts can be set aside by votes.
many
Fool
God's
"Woe
to htm who putteth tba cup to his
neignDors nps.
To the voter in Oregon I would say
"Are you a Christian and trying to
build up a kingdom of harmony and
brotherhood upon the earth as ' It Is
done in heaven," and are you arao
working band in hand with the de
structive principle on the tnateria
plane, by giving aid and' influence to
1 A I l I
PERTINENT COMMENT
8MA1X CHANGE
It's easv to find money in a dic
tionary.
m
Many a broadcloth man owea it to
his calico wife.
While the fool is askinar advic th
wise guy gets busy.
A four-flusher is a man who drinks
beer from a champagne bottle.
a
Nothing destroys- a mean man'a.
memory like doing him a favor.
a
Race prejudice keeou manv a dol
lar out of the bookmaker's hands.
When a rlrl begins to talk she mav
be a speakiolr likeness of her mother.
A man's talk of old flames is ant
to heat his wife's temper to the boil
ing point.
And occasionally a man has monev
In a bank because he doesn't own an
automobile.
At the ace of ten they called him
Archie; 40 years later they changed
it to Archibald.
The income tax law rrants a mar
ried man $1000 additional exemption
a consolation prize?
You may be able to convince your
self that contentment is better than
great riches if you have both.
If a woman still laughs at her hus
band's jokes five years after the wed
ding bells have jingled the divorce
lawyers get discouraged.
FROM THE HEART
From the Detroit News.
It was not a formal address. He
had not written it ln the quiet of his
study and typed it on his machine as
he .does his state pronouncements. He
went with the rest of the people in
the funeral cortege, and wrhea the
time came to speak the words of me
morial he rose and said what was in
his heart. It was a president's faith
and a president's feeling voicing them
selves ln words coined then and there
in a mind of sincere sympathy, and
lifted up that the light of a nation's
vision might shine upon them.
The president spoke of the lads who
had done their duty duty which is
always so common, yet always so
noble. lie spoke of them as not hav
ing died a dishonorable 'death in a
war of aggression, but as having won
the -nation a everlasting remembrance
for having died to serve a nation
which did not know it was being
served, lhe president showed a deep
sense of the immortality of honor;
there was" not wanting In his speech
that profound sense of the immortal
ity of spirits who take their flight
through death in honor; and he ut
tered that which will set man a-
pondering the deeper meaning of it
all when he said "I know that the
way is clearer for the future, for they
have shown us the way."
There was one paragraph that will
live amongst the great words of the
presidents, and one sentence that will
shine when the occasion for it shall
Itself have grown dim "War is only
a sort of dramatic representation, a
symbol of a thousand forms of duty."
We who are in the heat andsdust of
the temporary aspects of public ques
tions do not always glimpse their
rldeal and eternal implications. War
is a sacrament of the sheddlsg of
blood on tbe altar of an ideal. When
all Its lesser1 qualities drop away, war
ls revealed as the awful Calvary up
which the nations toil, at the summit
of which waits the higher vision. The
"symbol of a thousand forms of duty"
ls not lightly to be taken down for
use we are learning that, we of the
age of peace but as such symbol It
must ever remain, its uses to become
more holy as man's eyes are opened to
its terrible Siolatlc significance.
The president spoke for the dead,,
and this always involves speaking to
the living. Once more he had to tell
the people the principle behind all the
A WOMAN'S EARNINGS
By John M. Oskison.
A woman teacher went to a small
farm to rest during a vacation, tak
ing her mother along. She wasn't sat
isfied with the rooms and board they
had, and she began to look for another
place.
Next to the farm she found another;
on it was a small house; Its 10 acres
were much neglected; and she found
that the place was for sale at a low
cost. Both the teacher and her mother
liked the location; they rented It, with
an option to buy within a year. Afjer
repairing 'the house somewhat and
clearing up the yard, the two women
liked the place so well that they ex
ercised their option very soon.
Once in their ownership, the place
soon became transformed, and the
changes did not cost a lot, for they
were made largely by the labor of the
teacher, herself.
During the next summer the teacher
sold the renovated house and five of
her 10 acres for $500 more than the
whole farm cost her. Then to her re
maining five acre .she removed another
old house she bought for a trifle; this
a business that is destructive in its
nature and antagonistic to the king
dom you profess to pray for? "Ya
cannot serve two masters." Many
evils grow out of the use of strong
drink and drugs, and the love of the
money obtained from the traffic is the
root of all evil. "Love your neighbor"
is the key to the kingdom. The tlma
has come to line up. Which side ar
you on constructive or destructive?
, JOHN B. POLK.
Rest Room at Nye Beach.
Newport, Or., May 18. To the Ed
itor of The Journal The people of
Newport should be congratulated for
their enterprise ln building a commo
dious rest room for the comfort of the
public at Nye Beach. It stands out
about 100 feet farther than any other
building on a solid bulkhead and 20
feet higher than summer tide. It has
full glass front 60 feet in length, a
fireplace for four foot wood, electric
lights, ladles' and. gentlemen's dress
ing rooms, all modern for comfort, and
has a view of the ocean that cannot be
surpassed. There are writing tables,
also a register. Eighty people can be
accommodated at one time.
A VISITOR.
A North Dakotan's Testimony.
Oregon City, Or., May 20. To the
Editor of The Journal As I was
reared In the prohibition state of
forth Dakota, I would like to give my
views on the subject When our "wef
friends boldly assert that prohibition
does not prohibit. I think It Is their
wish, and not a fact, they tell us. It
is strange what arguments the liquor
interests will dish up. They tell us
prohibition will ruin the state. Why
has it not ruined the other dry statna?
II "ever heard anyone In North Dakota
complain of high taxes. They cer-
AND, NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Stone for the postoffice building at
Albany has arrived and is being chis
eled preparatory to placing in the
foundation.
A statute de non expectorandum has
been enacted by the Brownsville coun
cil, with a unanimous vote. An ordi
nance to keep farmers' dogs out of
the town has been tabled.
-
The Reporter boasts that the P. R.
4 N. agent at Wheeler reports a 33 1-3
per cent increase in the business of
Ms company at that point compared
with a year ago.
A small rattlesnake was Wiled In
Cottage Grove last Friday, the first
reptile Of this species sen near that
a denTf rartferred Yo-asTln" I !
rock ledge in Weft Cottage Grove.
Sherwood News-Sheet: The work of
moving the old hotel was begun last
Saturday, preparatory to the ereotlng
of the new hotel and bank building
on that corner. The old building is
now comfortably settled and excava
tion in progress for tbe new.
The new St. Elizabeth hospital, at
Baker, after much delay in construc
tion ls to be rushed to completion and
occupancy by early fall. The Demo
crat says it will be one of the largest
and best equipped hospitals in the
northwest.
Landseeker note in Sliver Lake
homestead near town." came in from
Portland Monday. He reports that il-
though much lias been said to dis
courage prospective settlers, there will
be a large immigration into the Silver
Lake valley this summer."
0E THE PRESIDENT
uncertainty of the times. "We have small field where a gray haired old
gone down to Mexico to serve mankind negro woman wan hoeing some vege
if we can find the way." Tremendous-j tables. A middle aged, husky, looking
ly human and yet loftily noble that ! man was sitting on the fence. One ot
word "if we can find the way." Peo-j our boys called out, 'What are you
pie have not understood that presl- fcing, mister?' He turned aroul
dents and cabinets are made up of I slowly, pointed at the old woman at
fallible men beset with doubts and dif-iwork in the garden and said gravely:
ficulties which often render the find- 'I am overseeing my Blave. sa!i.' You
ing of the way a Gethscmane of sor- should have heard the shout of de-
row, ii is now as it was with Abra-
ham Lincoln in the crisis of the Civil
war when he said he was not so
anxious to know that Almighty God
was on his side as he was to know
whether he was on the side of Almighty
God. The White House where our
president spends his busy days and
harassed nights has known a long suc
cession of men who have wrestled with
time and fate to "find the way," and
about that old building a loyal natron's
prayers have gathered like a light that
presidents might be vouchsafed a
vision of the right way and the cour
age to walk in it.
fr
it was a sign of the president's
profound sense of the duty snd re
sponsibility that has been laid upon
him that he spoke at the last of him
self. The men at Vera Crus died.
Their country has suffered great un
certainty. But it has been a trinity
of suffering the president in his
White House has suffered, too. "I
never was in battle, but I fancy It is
just as hard to do your duty when
men are Bneering at you, for when
they shoot at you they take your
natural life and wljn they sneer at
you they wound your heart." Across
the mystic barrier which separates
the seen from the unseen the dead of
Vera Cruz might well have hailed the
thief who spoke these words as a war
rior with themselves a man who also
tried to do his duty ln his place, tak
ing the stings that came thereby. The
penalties of duty differ with the place
uuiy. out ne is a true soldier who
takes his duty, be Its accompaniment T am told you have a petition' signed
physical death or mental torture. In b the members of the company re
h i Woodrow Wilson has que8ting my resignation. Give It to
-m u w u.n( lumieri Dtsrum,, t Kid: 'I have such a petition
and a soldier's courage.
It ls for us far from the scene of
these high ceremonies to be soldiers In
our places, and hold out helping hands
u7 '" an nauon s
weight, men who bravely address them-
Wlve.' e, service or an oppressed
uym iiuBo oppression nas nenumbed
them, to the kindly, healing touch of the
nana that would help them.
FROM LITTLE FARMS
she modernized at a cost of a few hun- : men began an active campaign to be
dred dollars, and then It, with the five j elected captain. We roiniTimiinwl tha
acres, went for $2000. matter by electing II. M. T'renti'-e, a
After that, the teacher bought six , lieute nant in the 'Quirwy Rifles '
acres of farm and a big tumbledown i "At regimental drill on the follow -house
for $800; to modernize it and 1 i"K Saturday goloncl Hardin said U
put the place in excellent order, she i men not on guard duty could go to
spent another $1200. Within a year I town the day following, which waa
she gbt $5000 for the place. Sunday. Next morning at roll call
Half a dozen times after that this Lieutenant Holbrook read an order
teacher acquired at low prices small , from Captain Dickey forbidding any of
places which had gone to ruin, and the company to go to town without s
tackled with vigor the problem of mak- j special permit. The men met anl
ing them attractive and then selling i picked me out as spokesman. I went
them. , I to the colonel's tent and told him of
It is something which almost any
woman with sena and taste may do.
This teacher operated In New Enaland:
she stuck to places near poatofflces,
owwv.q tnc. xaer pur-
chasers were mainly city people, who
wanted to buy small farms attractively
situated for summer homes. To such
buyers she found that modern plumb
.ng ana neawng aevices mane strong
Bvfm. one luuaa inn sucn DUren
like their "nests" ready made.
Near every city exists a like oppor
tunity. talnly do in Oregon. The liquor busi
ness is a humbug business from begin-
ning to end, and people now begin to
see it as it is. -We have fattened the
brewers and kept the saloonkeepers in
luxury long enough. It is high time
they were thrown out and tbe poor
people given a chance. '
Ella M. Finney tells us to teach tem
perance, not prohibition. But how
about her hop industry. If everybody
should become temperate? No, that
won't do. Better encourage every-
noay (especially young people), to
drink beer and thereby raise the price ' adopted George Francis Train's recom
of hops. She always closes her letters mendatlon and has gone extensively
with the advice to "vote wet," For ! into the salmon canning industry,
my part, I would never be under the . which Is one of the greatest food pro
leadership of saloonkeepers and their j ducers of the country. On lhe North
crowd. Vote dryT and help yourself I Atfantle coast, where the remnants of
and others.
JOHN MOSTUL.
The Ragtime Muse
Sheep and Goat.
Perhaps It ls immoral
And sin's reward I'll reap
With that I shall not quarrel
I would not be a sheep!
On growing fleece for others
I should not fondly dote; '
Believe me, friends and brothers,
I'd rather be a goat.
The William goat Is frisky.
He's cynical and wise;
His life is far less risky.
Less frequently be dies
Than sheep do, for his raiment
Is neither fine nor neat:
His shearing brings small payment,
He isn't good to eat.
Not lamblike to the slaughter
Is William meeklv led:
Sometimes the creature's shot or
He's beaten till he's dead.
But as a usual thing he
Lives on year after yearr
He is so tough and strinfT
That death he need not fear -
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
"If we hate war with Mexico it wilT
be a very different affair than one
war with that country nearly 70 years
f '" ,a.ld Aloni Pkina of Portland.
" in uje central army under uen
eral Wool. Our transports from Nevr
Orleans landed us at Tort Lavaca and
we marched to San Antonio. We had
no army wagons, and no wo hired
mules, oxen and half broken Texaj
horses and anything in the shape ofc-a
wagon to transport our supplies.
"As far as the eye could ae not a
tree was In sight. The whnle'cnuntry
was one vast rolling prairie, covered
wlth 8r"B ln B hi" "
a man. We started out in a norther"
as they call tiieir cold waves in Texas.
Soon the ground was flooded by from
two or three inches to a foot of water
and as we marched through the shoul
der high gruss we were soaking wet.
For 20 miles we marched through tlii
rain, water and tall grass and wh"ii
we camped that night at Guaialoupo
river we were tired, bedraggled, fooi
sore and hungry.
"Next day we traveled over a beau
tiful rolling country iiiterperstd with
small groves of timber. Icer wouM
run from in front of our column and
stop a. few hundred yards distant with
their ears pointed forward tn curi-
!.osit - v passed the at.andon.-d town
! wl,ere Colonel James W. Fannin of
If .. j.... . .
icAUB w nil A aeiiicuine.ni. ui ir tups Uk
the Republic of Texas surrendered in
1836 to the Mexican General Urrea
under promise of fafe catntlu: t, and
after his surrender and after turning
over the arms of his men he ami lit.
367 noldiers were shot In cold blood.
"Just beyond Goliad we DHS.d
rislon and laughter that went up from
the troops.
"When we entered San Antonio you
could see the stiffening of the boya'
backs as we passed the Alamo wher
10 years before Santa Anna with
nearly 2000 Mexicans besieged the old
stone building with 140 Texans for
two weeks and finally took it when
only Mx of its defenders were anil un-
wounded. The "Viy remembered how
David Crockett ami the others lid
been butchered when the Alamo wai
captured.
"Some men have the faculty of get
ting along with their fellow men;
others always stroke the fur tha
wrong way. While we wcie camped
at San Antonio our captain made a
rule that all complaints must be made
to the corporal and through him to the
j sergeant and thus to himself. This
didn't look like democratic simplicity
nor equality and we resented il. A
petition was drawn up asking the cap
tain to resign. Seventy-five out of
80 men in the company signed it and
it was given to me to present. The
committee told me to hold it tor th
present and I did so. One night jufet
at midnight the orderly sergeant cams
to my tent, gave me a Rhake to awaken
me and said: 'The captain sent tiie to
bring you to his tent and ma'.te you
give him the petition asking him to re--sign.
Don't you give it up; keep it.'
"The sergeant took me by the arm
as though I were a prisoner and wa
entered Captain Dickey's tent.' Hi
and lieutenant W. II. L. Wallace were
there r-nfuin Dlckev ssid: 'Corporal.
but I will not give it to anyone until
ordered to do so by those who placed
it In my keeping.' 'Consider yourself
j under arrest. Go to your tent. I will
, aispose Df yoUr case later,' he said
..My tent mate had passed the word
! around from tent to tent, bo the men
were up and assembled around my
tent. We held a meeting nnd tha
committee decided to have mo nand
the captain the petition, which I did.
The captain resigned, his resignation
to take effect as soon as we rtarte.J
for Mexico. At once a dozen of the
the reversal of his order. He said:
Corporal, go hack to your company.
tell the men that all those not on
I guard duty desiring to go to town may
i (jo ao. Inform them mat i am in com
mand of this regiment and my orders
go: ,
"I delivered the colonels meBsR
and most of us started for town. a
; had not bf.n ihere, ,on)r when the aer
,.n, e ,r, ,,rH with 10 men i am
with orders to arrest every member of
I company. As we were being arrested
Adjutant B. M. Prentice, our captain
elect, rode by on his way to General
Wool's tent. He asked what waa the
i trouble
The sergeant of the guard
i told him of Captain Dickey s orders.
! He said: 'Sergeant, release the men
and dismiss your guard All of you
can stay in town." aptam Dickey
quit at once. Ben Prentice becama
our captain and our lieutenant, W. H,
L. Wallace, was made, adjutant."
Canning Whale.
From the MemphU Newa-Sclmltar.
After laughing at him for years and
rMliilinor Vilm th wet flmlU
the old whaling Industry yet linger.
they have begun canning the flesh of
the whale, which is said to be a very
nutritious as well as a very palatable
article of food. The world Is just -be-gintiinK
to learn a great many valu
able lessons that it has overlooked for
a long time.
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