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Be thou like the bird
perched upon Home frail
thin. Although he feels the
branch bending beneath hirn.
yet loudly he sings, knowing
that he has wings. Madam
de Gasparln.
WILHO.V AND CHAMBERLAIN
T
HE splendid tribute to Presi
dent Wlltson was a conspicu
ous feature of Senator Cham
berlain's free tolls speech. He
raid:
1 yield to none in my admiration,
regard and respect for the distin
guished president of the United
Ktutes. I recognize as doea every
nne his magnificent Intellect, lila lofty
purposes und his splendid patriotism.
I thoroughly believe In the integrity
of his purpose when hi advocate the
repeal of tlie exemption clause Of the
1'nnuma canal act, and 1 am convinced
that when he expresses It as his opin
ion that the policy involved in "that
particular clause of the act waa un
wise from an economic standpolunt
and Is in violation of our treaty with
'reat Hi-Main, and asks the ungrudg
ing support of the congress of the
I'nlted Hlates In its repeal, that he
believes sincerely and conscientiously
In I he truth of both his contentions.
No more sweeping; indorsement
cotild be Kiven the president. The
dear ring of sincerity and the
strong tone of admiration are evi
dence of the keen appreciation by
the senator of the gentle but com
manding man in (he White House.
In further explanation of his
position. Senator Chamberlain said:
In what 1 have to Bay, therefore,
I expressly disclaim any purpose or
Intention to say aught In criticism
of the preaident'a integrity of pur
pose, or of hia patriotism, but I claim
the right of a citizen, and particu
larly of those who are called upon to
discharge their high duties as mem
bera of a coordinate branch of the
government, to state my vlewa fairly.
It I with me as It is with the presi
dent, a matter of conviction and con
neb nee. Ho feeling, and so believing,
I shall discharge my duty as God has
given me light to see it
STATU GIVES AID
THE State Highway Commis
sion has decided to appropri
ate from the highway fund
the sum of $8000 for the im
provement of the road between
Ftei and Tlgardvnie.
This stretch of road, nearly sev
en miles in length, is the link con
necting Portland with the valley
counties and for this reason is
more than a local road. It is es
timated that it will require ap
proximately $20,000 to put It into
good condition. Washington coun-,
ty, " through which the road runs
for great part, will expend $4000
In Its repair and a committee of
interested persons has raised
$4000 by private subscription.
This leaves some $4000 to be
raised from private sources. The
state appropriation is conditional
on the full amount being raised.
Another condition attached is that
the work shall bo done under the
supervision of the State Highway
Commission, the grade being put
into shape to receive later a hard
surface. For the present it will
be macadamized.
The road has long been a bug
bear and Its improvement will
bring the producers of Yamhill,
Washington and Marion counties
into closer relations with the Port
land market.
It is understood that one auto
truck company is already figuring
on putting on a Bervice as soon as
conditions will admit. On berries,
it is said, they offer to make a
rate lower than the present rates
charged by the railroads. This is
the natural development that fol
lows highway improvement.
HOME RULE
rflHE announcement that the bill
1 granting Ireland home rule
has passed its final reading
in the House of Commons is
probably the beginning of the final
chapter in an agitation of years.
The next step will be reconcile
ment of the Protestant counties of
Ulster.
From the time Henry the Second
landed on the coast of Ireland,
the tide of Irish discontent has
ceaselessly ebbed and flowed,
mingling with it the sands and
rocks of religious prejudice.
It was not until the issue Was
carried Into the British parliament
and a cohesive Irish party was
organized to play Liberal against
Conservative that the hope of local
government began to assume defi
nite form.
. In 1885 the Liberal party under
the leadership of Gladstone, com
' menced officially to advocate Home
Rule for Ireland. As a result the
party was rent in twain and in
the) elections of 18 86 was hope
lessly defeated.
At the following general elec-
Hon In. 1892 Gladstone made what
'was for him a last effort and suc
ceeded In electing a majority of
forty in the House of Commons.
In the following year, after a long
debate, the r Commons passed a
home rule bill with the aid of the
Irish party, but the bill was re
jected by the House of Lords,
after a few hours' discussion.
In the election of 1895 the Lib
erals were again badly beaten and
did not succeed in retaining power
until 1906 when they were re
turned by the biggest majority in
the history of the party.
During the succeeding years Lib
erals and Irish Nationalists united
and clipped the power of the House
of Lords.
The latter body can now only
reject bill twice. If the same
biH is submitted the third consecu
tive year and again rejected, it is
sent straight to the King for his
signature after which it becomes
a law.
The measure curtailing the au
thority of the House of Lords is
called the Parliament act and was
passed in 1911. In the following
year another home rule bill was
passed by the Commons and re
jected by the Lords. The same
result occurred when the bill was
produced last year.
THE FRIAR'S CLUB.
EVERY added revelation con
cerning what was done there,
makes the Friar's club more
shocking. The story of a 16
year old girl of doings at the place
as told in Sunday's Journal gives
some insight into the shameless
nesa and infamy of the things that
transpired there.
No arrangement could have been
more complete for the ruin of
young girls. The revels only
reached their climax when all the
rest of the world was asleep. From
midnight to 5 and 6 o'clock in the
morning was the perlcd for the
grand march. When all nature
was still and darkness was at the
full, the drunken orgies became
most abandoned. In the city, the
saloons close at midnight on Sat
urday, but not bo at the Friar's
club.
It was at midnight that the three
girls now in Mrs. Baldwin's care
left Portland for the so-called club.
It was between midnight and morn
ing that one of their visits took
place. Where and how could there
be devices and situations more per
fect for the degradation of the
unwary?
Why did the courts not act? Al
most every statute and moral law
known to man was violated. But,
there was no interference by the
civil authorities.
Why?
BUY AND SHOOT
A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD boy
was shot and killed by his
17-year-old brother at Grants
Pass last . Friday while the
latter was playing with a revolver.
In Milwaukee, Wis., the other
day a man standing on a corner
waiting for a street car was killed
by a stray bullet.
Twice in as many days last week
lives were endangered in St. Louis
by flying bullets.
In Chicago three men riding on
a street car demonstrated that they
were free American citizens by
spitting on the platform. When
remonstrated with, one drew a pis
tol and fired. A passenger In the
car was wounded. Again the man
shot, another passenger was killed.
Thus the record runs. Hardly a
day in the week that does not fur
nish its quota of dead and wound
ed, through the indiscriminate
carrying of guns and pistols.
Buy and shoot is the great un
written law. Little boys have re
volvers for toys and shoot one an
other in play. The "gun men" are
growing in number all the time.
The manufacture of murderous
pistols should be stopped.
THE ANIMALS NEXT
FOR the nonce the health fad
dists are giving human kind a
rest and have turned their at
tention to the animal king
dom. They have taken away from man
the public towel, the common
drinking cup, the general com
munion cup and the finger bowl,
time honored adjuncts of daily life
and now in Philadelphia they are
agitating doing away with the pub
lic troughs which ror generations
have furnished water for the
thirsty horse and dog.- This means
that every horse must have his in
dividual bucket. It also monna a
hardship to his driver who will
nave to take his bucket and hunt
for water instead of driving up to
the common trough In front of the
saloon or along the roadway under
the shade of a tree.
Verily, the wavs of bh
becoming devious and hard to
follow.
THERE'S NOTHING NEW
"A'
NYONE, who calmly reflects
win rind that the war which
you are deliberating is likely
to be a very great one. We
must not flatter ourselves
for one moment that if we do but
ravage their country the war will be
at an end.
"Do not be ashamed of the slow
ness with which they are so fond of
charging you. If you begin the war
in haste you win end it at your
leisure.
"We can afford to wait while oth
ers cannot, because we are strong. If
we allow ourselves to be stung Into
premature action by the reproaches of
our allies and waste their country be
fore we aro ready, we shall involve)
ourselves in more difficulty and dis
grace'. "The misfortune is that in their
haste to go to ' war men begin with
blows and when reverses come have
recourse to words. Let our differ
ences be determined according to ar
bitration and treaty."
Reading the above you would
naturally think that it is , an ex
tract from a speech on the pending
Mexican situation but you would be
greatly mistaken. The quotations
are from the address of Archi
damus, king of the Lacedaemon
ians - on the eve of a war with
Athens,-24 centuries ago.
We are wont to boast of our civil
ization and our advance towards
the light but . It appears after
all that we have, pot made such
great progress. The problems that
we are encountering and trying to
solve were met in the ages that
have gone before.
Solomon became a wise man
when he realized there is nothing
new under the sun.
THE CHIEF ANARCHIST
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER JR.
refused to receive Judge Ben
Lindsey and the owomen from
Colorado who went East in
the hope of inducing, the Rocke
fellers to consent to arbitrate dif
ferences in the strike zone. Rocke
feller says the Denver juvenile
court judge will be received courte
ously and "someone assigned to
hear his story," but under no cir
cumstances will John D. Rocke
feller see him.
In the Rockefeller mind, there is
nothing to arbitrate. Accustomed
to personal dominion over vast re
sources. Rockefeller recognizes no
authority but his personal will.
Exercising governmental control
over numerous counties in Colo
rado, even dominating the civil
and military power of the state,
Mr. Rockefeller has nothing but
contempt for those who seek in
the slightest degree to influence
the course of his purpose or the
direction of his will.
Members oL the Colorado dele
gation were kindly received and
their errand given grave consider
ation by the president of the
United States. The chief magis
trate of a great nation heard with
extreme sympathy the petition
from the citizens of Colorado,
but. bigger than the president, big
ger than the republic, head of an
autocracy of his own, Mr. Rocke
feller kept his palace gates closed
against all petitioners and appeals.
Meanwhile at the inquest after
one of the battles in Rockefeller's
Colorado civil war, William E.
Green testified that "it is not
true that tha company rettled bo
fore the strike the five points
which young Mr. Rockefeller men
tioned to-wit: the eight-hour
work day, semi-monthly pay, check
weighman, regulation of company
stores, and Increased wages."
The secretary-treasurer of the
United Mine Workers of America
says it is not true, as Mr. Rocke
feller claims, that the question in
contention is the unionizing of the
mines. That has not been, and is
not now the issue.
The employes of the company
have repeatedly asked that they
be permitted to present their
grievances for adjustment through
committees which they might se
lect for this purpose.
Mr. Rockefeller doesn't want to
hear the petitions of hia miners.
His answers to them are the rifle
shots of his hired gunmen who
have enrolled in the militia of Colo
rado. His death roll to date, in
cluding women and children, is
thirty-three, or nearly double the
fatalities in the landing of Ameri
can troops at Vera Cruz.
His reply to the prayer of those
who are helping create his wealth
by toil in his mines, is a war of
extermination on those who oppose
his will.
In the light of their record in
Colorado and their refusal to even
receive peace-making citizens of
Colorado, the Rockefellers, are the
greatest anarchists of the age.
ANOTHER ONE
ACCORDING to a statement
made by the California rail
road commission another
man who did "business with
the devil" was Patrick Calhoun,
former president of the United
Railroad system of San Francisco.
The commission has found that
over a million dollars belonging to
the stockholders of the corporation
were abserbed in one of Calhoun's
land speculations. Of course he fur
nished security for the money. This
security has been appraised to be
worth the sum of $1.
It will be recalled that this is
the same Patrick Calhoun who did
business with Abe Ruef and Mayor
Schmitz a few years ago.
A peculiar coincidence is that
on the same day the statement of
the railroad commission was given
publicity, Ruef's lawyer was before
the state board of prison directors
with an application for a parole
from San Quentin prison.
CHURCH UNION
A STEP has been taken towards
the unification of all Protes
tant churches by the Pres
byterian general assembly by
creating a committee on church
cooperation and union which will
seek to interest other denomina
tions in the appointment of similar
committees.
In the ever increasing volume
of discussion concerning church
union, Seth Low, of New York, has
proposed a plan which appears to
be simple and practical. To over
come disagreements about the tech
nicalities of the Christian ministry
he suggests that every new min
lster, whatever his denomination,
be ordained with the three differ
ent forms in use; that Is to say
every minister would be ordained
by the laying on of bishop's hands,
by representatives of a presbytery
and by congregational authority.
This would help all Christians to
agree to share In a common par-
ticlpation in the sacrament of the
Lord's supper. -
What is, needed, said Mr. Low,
Is the growth not of a spirit of
compromise but of the spirit of
comprehensiveness so that men
without compromising in the slight
est their conceptions as to the na
ture of the church may become
members of a church large enough
to hold men differing from them
evten in these fundamental con
ceptions. '
Many arguments for denomina
tional divisions become absurdities
In the mission field. Chinese and
Koreans who never heard of the
Civil war have great difficulty in
grasping the distinction betwefe
northern and southern Presbyter
ians and northern and southern
Methodists. At a union meeting of
churches in China recently a Chi
nese clergyman pointing in turn to
several missionaries said:
"You are an American Presbyterian
and you can't help it for you were
brought up that way. You are a Can
adian Methodist and you can't help it
for you were brought up that way.
But we are Chinese Christians and we
don't propose to permit you men from
abroad to keep us apart."
Letters From the People
(Communications cent to The Journal for
poolleatkm tB this department should be writ
ten on only one aide of the paper, should not
exceed BOO words In length and most be ac
companied by the Dame and addreaa of the
seeder. If the writer doea not desire to
bare tbe name published, be ahould so state.)
"Discussion la the greatest ot all reform
ere. It rationalises everything It touches. It
robe principle of all fa la sanctity and
throw them back on their reasonableneaa. If
they have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
eraabea tbem oat of existence aad sets up Ita
awn conclusions In their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
Addressed to Mr. Engelke.
Portland, May 23. To the Editor of
The Journal I ask F. J. Engleke of
Bandon, Or., to listen: The greatest
curse and the greatest evil in the world
today (a strong drink, and they who
use it are poor or soon will be poor
in purse, poor in good name, and
slaves. The great sorrow of It all is.
that a stage is reached when the vic
tim must have liquor. He cares more
for strong drink than for his wife and
children, home and friends. He says
he "does not care much for drink."'
But thousands of other men as strong
have asserted that they could drink
and that they could let it alone. They
fell, and they are falling today. Can
we Justify ourselves when we license
such a business 7
At the end of 25 years of retail mer
chandising I made a review of my bad
debts and non-collectible accounts. I
found 95 per cent of them directly the
result of the liquor habit.
A man could not in those days drink
whiskey or beer nor can he today
and pay his bills for the necessaries,
not to upeak of the luxuries, of living.
He may appear to do it, for a time, but
the end is the same.
Mr. Engelke asks someone to name
a great city that grew up under prohi
bition. There are many towns and
cities all over our land that have shown
their manhood and womanhood by
ignoring the ancient bugaboo that
grass would grow on the streets if sa
loons were voted out. These cities are
making good the claims of the enemies
of the saloon in substantial material,
intellectual and moral growth, the Iobs
In revenue being more than offset in
lessened expenses of government. .
I will mention a town that has never
had a saloon, one of the most prosper
ous in the United States, the center of
an irrigated district whose inhabi
tants are rich in everything that makes
life worth living. If you visited the
town you would not find one idle man.
one unpalnted house or one neglected
yard. This town 1b Greeley, Colo., es
tablished by Horace Greeley when he
gave our nation the slogan, "Go west,
young man, go west," In the early
seventies. It is a greater and more
enduring monument to his name than
the Tribune he loved so well.
EDWARD MLENNON.
The Genie Freed.
Portland. May 23. To the Editor of
The Journal As a wife and mother, I
desire to extend thanks to Mrs. Dunl
way for uncorking the bottle and per
mitting the genie of woman suffrage
to escape, and desire to assure her
that said genie, now fully developed
and self conscious, can never again be
rebottled, as it has a great and grand
worn to perform.
The erstwhile hapless, helpless wo
men of our fair state writhed and suf
fered too long; impotent to act against
me giant evil or the accursed liquor
traffic, that alas! made desolate their
homes and hearths; debauched and de
graded the family breadwinner, their
sons, and daughters as well. But the
end Is at last In sight; the writing is
on the wall; our emancipation from
the tyranny of the devil's brew will
soon be complete.
The writer has of late talked with
many male victims of John Barley
corn, and one and all seem willing and
eager to vote for prohibition of that
which has robbed them of will power;
enslaved and degraded them. As a
matter of fact, the saloon, while grind
ing out drunkards as its grist, has
rapidly been transforming them into'
prohibitionists, it carries the seeds
within of its own -destruction. The
genie is much too big and powerful,
and can never again be rebottled.
MRS. GEORGE H. AYERS.
Fatherly Advice to Republicans.
Portland, May 23. To the Editor of
The Journal Republicans, come let us
reason together. A Democrat who has
not lost faith in his countrymen,
would say to you, that you have the
instincts of good little men and the
tactics of bad little boys, and you have
been misbehaving for more than 20
years past. At the present moment
you have as many elements in your
stewpot party as a cheap plate of
hash. You have your crippled grouches,
your trained roosters, your holy growl
era, your unholy mewls and dirk and
ax -men galore. You have made the
state of Oregon the wailing place of
your party and Multnomah county the
shrine of Judaa. You have no more
poise and dignity than a short fat
woman in a crowded streetcar wildly
grasping for a hanging strap above the
reach of her physical and mental
stature and you are a disgrace to Abra
ham Lincoln and those Imperishable
principles which your party forbears,
lived for, fought for. and lied for. You
will never learn true wisdom until you
have learned to laugh at yourselves.
All this not in malice but Id charitable
disgust.
Upon the Democratic party ' was
thrust the onerous task of cleaning
out the auguean stables the accumu
lation of several decades of political
filth left by Republican, war horses.
The Democratic party has given the
country one of the greatest presidents
that ever guided the nation, who In a
remarkably short space of - time has
led the people out of a wilderness of
misrule and economic and social In
justice unparalleled in modern' politi
cal history. The thlr estate" the
sound common sense of 'the electorate
A FEW; SMILES
"They tell me that your small boy
says some unusually clever things."
"Yes, yes. Did
yon hear his latest r
"Sure."
'Why, you never
met him."
"True. But I've j
met lot of doting
fathers who invar-1
table tell the same
old tales."
Two New York business men were t
one day discussing the purchase by
on of them of a certain mercantile
concern with which
the buyer explained,
had come the "good
will."
"1 hope this 'good
will." said the friend
to the purchaser, "is
greater than that of
the old French farm
er." "I have never heard the story."
"Here it Is; The farmer was dying,
and he sent for the notary to make
out the will. Propped up in bed, he
dictated:
" 'To Jean Marcel, our superb coif
feur, 10.000 francs.
" 'I bequeath 15.000 francs to the
fearless Alphone Bayard, that he may
continue his valuable aeronautical ex
periments. " 'To Pierre Deschamps, chemist, 10,
000 franco as a mark of affection.
" 'To my physician, Monsieur Le
clair, 15,000 francs.
"To our eloquent pastor. 25,0)0
francs, to continue the restoration of '
" 'But, my dear sir interrupted the
notary. 'I don't believe you have all
that money to leave.'
"'I know very well I haven't," said
the farmer, calmly, 'but I want to
show them my good will.' " Youth's
Companion.
of all parties not only believes in the
present administration, but openly and
heartily applauds it and that same
"third estate" may as a matter of
courtesy give your primary nominees
a complimentary vote rather than a
rude and unmannerly hoist in the rear,
yet when it comes down to the point
of strengthening President Wilson's
hand to continue his great work' so
auspiciously begun, they will see to it,
that "I am for Wilson" is not a parti
san shibboleth but a wholesome and
patriotic sentiment of the best Judg
ment of the state of Oregon, represent
ing the majority of the wisdom and
common sense of all its people. This
is a Democratic year In a Democratic
country just now emerging from the
chaos of Republican Incompetency of
which we have had plenty. The Demo
cracy may not agree with all things
its president advocates, but it bows to
the will of the party majority and
maintains party harmony; nationally
the Republican party has its bull
moose and locally its bull calf and a
choice selection of wild hogs. Noth
ing good can come of this, and for
that reason the only hope of the pres
ent and future lies in the support of
the new democracy.
J. HENNESSY MURPHY.
Anti-Prohibition.
Portland. May 25. To the EdTtor
of The Journal I am pleased to read
the able arguments against prohibi
tion written by Messrs, Addis, Nick
erson and Engelke and Mrs. Duniway,
Ursula Meister and Gertrude Kegula.
First of all, prohibition does not nor
can prohibit. Na government has the
right to say what a man shall eat or
drink; that is his inalienable right.
He is free to enjoy the fruits of the
Creator, Who gave hlm'tfce Intelligence
to make such use as he will for him
self or others.
More than that. He, endowed man
with the creative power also. Wines
and other beverages have been made
and drunk for thousands of years, and
the laws, even in those primitive days,
were to the effect, "Be temperate In
ay things," and nowhere does it say
"abstain;" only, "abstain from the ap
pearance of all evil." Christ in his
teachings, and those are the laws we
are taught by the churches to follow
never interfered with the laws and
customs of his day, for He says,
"Render unto fCaesar the things that
are Ceasar's, and unto God the things
that are God's." He distinctly taught
"temperance in all things," and the
Golden Rule, "Do unto others as ye
would they should do to you." But
he never taught that we had a right
to defraud others of their liberty.
That is the natural law of creation,
liberty, but no; to do evil. He never
said, "you shall not eat this, nor drink
that," and to make laws to prohibit
is insanity of the worst type.
What prohibition should do is to
fight adulterations that have crept
into every species of manufacture, es
pecially the food and ' grocery lines.
and ae that nothing but pure and
wholesome wines and liquors are put
on the market, and see also that
weights and measures are up to the
standard, as in other countries.
OSBORNE YATES.
Sample and Other Bailout.
Portland, May 23. To the Editor of
The Journal I am pleased to see that
"Voter" and C. F. Miller write about
voting, as It is of great Importance,
and so few persons care about publio
affairs. Too indolent to think and act,
satisfied to make money, they often
call our active persons "knockers," not
knowing that such are often our best
citizens, who perform their duties best
and therefore want others to do like
wise and they have a right to demand
that. I voted in the last primaries,
but admit I got somewhat bewildered,
voted for only five or six candidates
and left the booth. I believe it is al
most Impossible to vote the ballot in
full and vote right, if you have not
beforehand picked your candidates and
vote by the numbers on a sample bal
lot taken to the booth. But I did not
know how to get a 6ample ballot be
forehand, at least & day before elec
tion, take It home and pick my candi
dates. To get the sample ballot at
the voting place la too late. Now I
know that I can get sample ballots at
the courthouse for state and county
elections and tor city elections at the
city hall. But how many know about
this? This should be told of In the
newspapers and every voter asked to
get one and pick hia candidates. Then
voting would be plain and very few
voting places needed. Let ua have re
form. The ballot is too great a thing
to be misused. Those who do not vote
are not good citizens.
MRS. ANNIE HOLMES.
Instead of Prohibition.
Sherwood. Or., May 23. To the Ed
itor of The Journal There have been
from the advocate of the liquor traf
fic many expressions with regard to
making It better and more law abid
ing, and of protecting th homes, but
In no Instance has a plan been sug
gested. Now I have a plan that they
might try or at leaat advocate In or
der to quell this wild fanaticism of
the prohibitionists. Let everyone wjo
wishes to retain his personal liberty
to drink, take out a license, the same
as' those who retain ; their personal
liberty to fish or hunt Let him be
21 years of age and of good moral
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMAJU CHANGS
A woman is a bundle of nerves
until the string breaks.
Every man with common sense
misses a lot of alleged fun.
It pays to be honest, but sometimes
pay day is late In showing up.
If you have a skeleton In your
closet, that's the place for it.
e
A man who never argues with a
woman has the germs of wisdom,
e
Some men attract no more atten
tion than a thermometer on a pleasant
day.
e e
And much of the charity that begins
at home is too feeble to cross the
street.
e
The best years of the average man's
life are spent in trying to obtain the
unattainable.
e
If a -man has a habit of getting
hot under the collar he should quit
wearing collars.
Make floral offerings to your friends
before they reach the point where they
are unable to sniff their fragrance.
This would be a grand old world If
people could purchase experience on
trial, with the privilege of returning it
if not satisfactory.
MELLEN'S
From the Detroit News.
It is all coming out in the wash.
Some cities in the United States have
learned It through bitter experience
Detroit among them but all cities
may now learn from the testimony of
Charles S. Mellen how public service
corporations juggle with franchises
and how the people pay the fiddler in
the end.
The New Haven, under Mellen's
management, coveted the Westchester
Trolley company's franchise. That
was a peculiar failing of the New
Haven it wanted all the city car
lines and all the suburban electric
lines in the territory. The Westches
ter was one of these. The line was
worth nothing, the stock was worth
nothing, but the New Haven was
willing to give $1,500,000 in cash
for the franchise stipulating only
that the holders of the franchise get
it amended in some i3 particulars.
In telling the story of this transac
tion, Mr. Mellen throws a light on
conditions in New York not only, but
on franchise conditions all over the
country. When the 13 changes In the
franchise of the Westchester were
made. It was done, of course, by the
proper public bodies of New York.
Mr. Mellen states that to get these
changes made he was compelled to
"reach" someone, and his tool in
franchise amendment happened to be
Chief of Police Byrnes of New York
city. Ponder that. Mr. Mellen put It
plainly to Mr. Byrnes that the New
Haven had $1,500,000 spend in re
deeming worthless Westchester shares
if he (Mr. Byrnes) could bring the
proper influence to bear to get the
franchise amended. Under this finan
cial stimulus the amendments were
very speedily made. Then Mr. Mellen
gave due bills to all holders of the
stock gave them to Mr. Byrnes to be
passed among the stockholders and
awaited the result.
The people who presented the due
bills, he says, looked to him like
cheap politicians from the east side.
He didn't inquire their names, he
said, because he didn't want to know
them. But once when his curiosity
got the better of him in this 'matter
and he made inquiries, he, in his own
OFFICIAL FROM INVESTMENT BANKERS
By John M. Osklson.
"The Investment Bankers' associa
tion Is whole heartedly in sympathv
twith the aim of the so-called blue sky
laws."
That is the gist of an official state
ment recently sent out by the presi
dent; in the statement Is explained
why the association has gone into 'the
courts to kill blue sky legislation in
Michigan and other states where the
Kansas type of regulative law was
! passed.
In effect, the explanation Is that
the Kansas law was made to apply
with the same force and effect in the
case of responsible dealers in good
securities as to the peddlers of "wilJ
cat" stocks. On the reputable dealer
the law imposes delays, expenses an J
details of supervision which seemed
Intolerable.
In only three states, said the presi
dent of the Investment Bankers' as
sociation, were regulative laws passed
whici were found capable of enforce
ment; so drastic were they In other
states that state officials tried to
waive enforcement of various provis
ions wherever reputable dealers were
concerned.
character. Let those dependent on him
for support make affidavit that he ts
supplying them with the necessaries
of life, and that they give their full
consent. Let no one be allowed to sell
liquor to anyone unless he shows his
license and signs a statement that it
is for his own personal use. If he is
found drun'K or qullty of disorderly
conduct or remiss in providing for his
family, let his license be revoked. If
the saloonkeeper sells or gives to any
one without the record required, let
his license be revoked and let him be
fined.
The above law ought to please the
"model" saloonkeeper and protect his
business from these horrid attacks
that are being made upon It. It ought
to please the hop grower, and brewer,
because they can go mer.rily on. It
ought to please those who desire the
beat service in responsible places, be
cause If a man held such a license
they could find out by the records
and turn htm down when he wanted
a job. It ought to please the lawyer.
Judges and police, because it would
make lots of business for them. It
ought to please the taxpayer, for It
would increase tie revenue.
By all means, let's please every
body! DORA M. CROSBY.
Good Work on Roads.
Vancouver, Wash., May 23. To the
Editor of The Journal The residents
of Walnut Grove, Clarke county. Wash.,
turned out In a body on good roads
day and we think we have done more
than any other place in the county for
the number of men. We had the kind
assistance of friends from Jaggy and
HonuB, who came with teams and did
a fine day's work.
We took out 3( big stumps, besides
plowing the road. A SUBSCRIBER.
The Great Man Understood.
Chen aj Is, Wash., May 13. To the
Editor of The Journal "If a great
man could make us understand him w
should hang him."
This quotation, attributed to Oscar
Wilde, had always seemed to the writer
to be a picturesque exaggeration, un
til the recent expose of New Haves
railroad, financiering and the honerte
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The hospital recently opened at !
Brookings is the firat in Curry county. ;
The building was erected especially for l
the Institution. I
' i
Baker's business men are ' agitated
over the cluster light question. They
want the latest type installed, and are
fighting & makeshift that is proposed
because the fund la low.
The rejuvenation of t'matllla is to
be immensely forwarded by the con
struction of a water syatsm. for which
bonds- have Just been sold and a con
tract awarded. Completion by Sep
tember 1 is promised.
Ik E. Howard, publisher of the Tarn
hill Record, has confided to Publisher
Wllley of the Kafayette Visitor who
at once betrays confidence that the
Record is making him money "hand
over fist."
"The fame of the Hubbard band."
says the Enterprise, "has enabled
them to land the job of furnishing the
music for the occasion of the Port
land Motorboat club races, which are
to be held at Butteville on May 30-31.''
The Medford Sun chides local build
ing materia interests for lack of dili
gence in relation to the new federal
building, which will soon be the sub
ject of bids. The Sun avers that the
brick and stone should be furnished by
Jackson county.
CONFESSION
words, "ran up against a stone wall."
The last man he paid came to him In
March, this year. He had a red nose
and a due bill for $10,000. Mr. Mellen
paid him $10,000 on demand.
"Where are those due bills now?"
asked former Governor Folk.
"God only knows," replied Mr. Mel
len. "You did not consider the Westches
ter stock worth anything, then?" asked
Mr. Folk In surprise.
"I thought It was worth about 10
cents a pound," replied Mr. Mellen.
Mr. Mellen afterward confessed that
on receipt of each due bill, he "tore
them into small pieces and threw
them in the sewer, so that they would
leave no trace."
So much for the Westchester trans
action. The question arises. Where
did that $1,500,000 come from? From
the profits made out of the patrons of
the New Haven. And to whom is
that $1,500,000 now charged? To every
person who uses a car operated by
the New Haven or its subsidiary in
terests. And how Is such a badger
game made possible? It is made pos
sible by the people permitting the
award of a franchise to politicians,
who take that free gift and sell it for
$1,500,000, which sum is to be col
lected again, with interest, from the
very people who freely gave the fran
chise. Fortunately, we of Detroit are at
the end of all franchise folly. How
long New York will be In. arriving at
the same happy condition is not
known. There are still a good many
nests to be lined in New York, castles
in Ireland to be built, and more police
inspectors to be retired as million
aires. Imagine a situation where a
police chief deals between a railroad
and a metropolis for a purse of
$1,500,000. which is distributed in $10,
000 lots to the ward heelers of the
East Side!
Fortunately for Detroit, SO years'
experience has taught her what a
franchise really la, what a shackle It
is on the people's purse and progress,
and now in this city at least one form
of franchise is so dead that it is
ready to be deposited In the curio di
vision of the Art Museum as a relic
of the bad old times. .
So the association, said the presi
dent's statement, "whose first object
it was to further effective 'action
against fraud, was compelled to take
the lead In attacking the chief laws
that had been enacted with this os
tensible object."
As for what the association wants
In the way of regulative laws, tlie
statement says':
"We want laws to prevent fraud In
the purchase or sale of securities, laws
requiring registration of dealers, pub
licity of offerings, with full powers
of investigation and prosecution and
effective penalties even against an at
tempt to defraud. Against get-rich-quick
dealers w-e want restrictions al
most to the point of prohibition upon
the public offerings or the distribu
tion of securities promising extrava
gant returns. Such offerings are
rarely legitimate."
The president's statement says that
the association lawyers are working
out model laws which the organized
Investment bankers will be glad to
advocate; the whole announcement In
a definite and hopeful pledge which
will be welcomed by investors all over
the country.
tactics of a late reverend king of
finance In connection therewith.
The quotation now sparkles, lumin
ous as a gem, and radiates a perfect
stream of pure, white, light with the
penetrative qualities of radium.
v A. W. NEALE.
The Roses of Portland.
By J. A. Clemenson.
The roses that grow in the city of
roses.
Are roses Indeed worth the price of
the show?
You may pluck them by millions and
millions, and millions,
And still count the millions and mil
lions that grow.
There are roses to strew on the day of
our soldiers, .
And roses for altars wherever you go
Yet the riot of bloom keeps a steady
profusion.
With billions to spare for the Port
land Rose Show.
You may pluck them and wear them in
myriads of posies.
Or give them to sister or brother or
beau, ,
Yet a billion of roses will still be
found blooming
To garnish the pageants of Port
land's Rose "Show.
Old Wine In New Bottles.
From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Remember the old story about the
man who raised enormous quantities
of peaches, and when he was asked
what fie ffid with them, said: "We eat
what we can, and what we can't we
can." Of course you do. It is one ef
the oldest of all the stories it was
canned long ago. But there is another
one that reminds ua of it.
A traveling man explained his busi
ness this way:
"We sell an order when we can sell
it, and when we can't sell it, 'we can
cel it."
It amounts to about the same thing.
"Fishermen," says the Brownsville
Times, "are taking some nice catches
of trout . from . the Calapoola above
town: They report myriads of. small
trout In the river, probably some plant
ed In the stream last summer by the
Rod and Gun club."
IN EARLIER DAYS
Hy Fred Lockley.
"Sowbelly and hardtack get rather.'
monotonous times," said Alonao
Perkins of this city in speaking of hie
experience, as a soidlet in th Mexican
war. "And particularly so when you
can Bee herds of antelope and deer
on all aides as you inarch along. Our
regiment, the First Illinois, unier com
mand of General John Wool." waa
inarching from San Antonio. Texas, to
Chihuahua, Mexico. The troopers were
having ail tuo venison and antelope
they could eat, while the fixt .boldlere
were going without. My 'bunkle' and
I decided wo wanted some d-er meat!
so wc went to our captain and at-ked
him if we could ko hunting next day.
He suid, 'Yea, if you will be back by
sundown, and if you will send Home of
the moat to my cook.' He warned us
not to get lout, which seemed unnec
essary, as we didn't think it would be
hard to locate an army of several
thoiiHand nit-h.
"We gat away from camp next morn
ing about sunup. We planned to go
in the general direction the troops
would march, so hs to be able to rejoin
them In the evening. When we had
gone a mile or two my bunkle sug
gested that we separate, he going, to.
the left and I to the right. We planned
to keep In touch with each other, but
If we became separated we agreed to
rejoin the troops late- in the afternoon.
I was 20 years old. Jones, my bunkle.
was a good hunter and several years
older than I waa. As he had proposed
the plan, I did not like to rfer any
objection to it, though I would have
preferred that we stay toRrther, as
that part of Tcxa was a favorite hunt
ing ground of t he fomanches and Mea
cnlaro Apache, ami 1 hadn't lost any
Indians und didn't want to find any.
Jones had made a trip or two with the
Santa Fe traders and understood wood
craft, but I didn't
"1 Boon kot into a distrkt of high
Frass. The stains wi re thU-k ami tough
land i he walking difficult. In
places it was tir hiKh as my h-ad. I
would be goine along and Would sud
denly be startled by a ll il.-er Jump
ing up and dashlnu off. 1 aw plenty
of deer and antelope, lint I decided to
wa.lt till later to shoot Hunt, so I
wouldn't have so far to cat ry the meat.
I didn't have any wuti h, but presently
the dumb dinner bell of hunger told
me it must he noon I found a com-
j paratively smooth nide hill, where I
sat down to tat iny lun-h. 1 was
j fagged out traveling tlrrougli the, high
Krass. and bo I lay back to trrt a few
moments.
"My few moments must , have run
into several hours, for 1 f-l 'aspep. I
was awakened oy having what seemed
I like a bucket of cold water thrown on
my face. I sprang up and discovered it
I was more than a bm-ketfnl-.it was a
I whole cloudful. It had been extremely
I warm, but now it wax cold and a driv
! ing rain was drenching me to the skin
land chilling me. The nun was ob
scured and I didn't know whether It
was 2 o'clock or 6 o'clock. I couldn't,
see anything that looked familiar, I
didn't remember w hich way I had come
and I had no idea of the direction To go
! to rejoin the troops. 1 knew the Texas
; northers usually came from the north
j or northwest. I decided to face the
I storm, so I wouldn't travel in a circle
land Keep going In that direction till
I croased the trail made by the troops,
! and thus locate myself,
i "For two hours or more I struggled
on into the face of the driving rain
j through the wet grass. I finally rania
j to a small stream. I follow! this
I stream, know ing it must empty Into the
Rto Grande. Presently I came to a
; high rock bluff, the stream had cut
; the softer rock away at Its base, leav
ing a shelf like cave. I crawled under
the overhanging rock to get out of the
storm, and finding some dry drift
wood, I took iny butcher knife and
i whittled some shavings. With my
! flint and some gunpowder In the pan
j of my musket, I soon had a Tire going,
i Presently it began to growlark, aid I
I realized that night was coming on. I
j knew it would be folly to try to make
: my way through a wild country at
night, no I gathered a good supply of
willow, pecan and live -oak driftwood
and prepared to spend the night in the
cave. 1 lay down by the fire and went
to sleep.
j "I was awakened by a hard Jolt in
I the ribs. Were you ever so frightened
you couldn't speak? I n you remember
how you have an all-gone feeling in
the pit of your stomach as though you
: were seasick, and your spine seems to
have a chill and your scalp tickles as
j the hair rises? I looked up. The light
(from the driftwood fire lit up the
somber, impassive faces and the shln
I ing, wet skins of a party of Co-
rnanches."
The Ragtime Muse
Mark the Difference.
A man may spend his millions.
Pile steel and concrete high
In some great world metropolis.
Yet, though It touc'j the Sky,
He wins a far less measure
Of notice and renown
Than he who builds a dog house in
A small ftize town!
I A man may do big business
And boast about his sales.
And heap up wealth beside the which
The wealth of Croesus pales;
Yet will he lack the wide regard
Communities outpour
On him who sells tobacco In
A small town store!
What profit piles of stone on gold
Or many thousand men?
Build sealing walls about the towns
Whose Is the vantage then?
You can't grow food on asphalt trees.
But get your money down
Where lots are growing gardens la
The small size town!
Tater-inK to All.
From the New York Times.
A Boston merchant tells of an old
grocer in Massachusetts who was
about as "stick" an article as one
would care to meet,
"One day," says the Bostonlan. "I
stopped before his shop and looked
curiously at a long line of barrels of
apples, some marked with an 'A,' some
marked with a
" "What Is the meaning or these
markings?' I asked. "The barrels seem
to contain the same kind of apples.'
" They are the same kind, son,' the
old gentleman replied, "but some cus
tomers want a barrel opened ac the top
and some at the bottom.' "
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