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THE JOURNAL In ncngygwDgyT kwspape ; a . JACKSON .fhibHatier t-SfctUfctd mvwrj anmlDf teiecirt Semia? and vary Bondaf Aarsinc at The Joornat Balld- ts, Broadway u4 XibUOU. Fortiaod.Or. Eatst-a at tba pmtofftc at fnrtlsod. Or., (or (nDHoMog through tba nails m aacood elaas (natter. XSUCrHONES Mala 1173; Hot. A-606U AH atopaftmota mcM bp ibcse somtwra. Tell . 'tba aparatur wbat dapartavnt ra want. lOKeifiN ADVKUTIglNQ tKf KCVKMIATI VK . Heajamla A KsataflT Ca.. BrsnMart B'o-. t2S riflk At... Ntw York: 121 People . Uaa Bids, Cbleafa. - , Cabaartpttoai tarns by nail or to an aeV Hreea to tba Caltad states or Maslee: DAILY Om mr. ...... $5.00 I Ona anootb.. .....$ .90 SUNDAY Oaa 7Mr.......2M I Ona taocth . DAILY AMD SOMDAT Oaa aar. ....... 17.60 I One BKtB. . . . . -. . When You Go Away - Have The Journal sent to your Summer address. -51 Rumor Is a pipe Blown by surmises. Jealousies, conjecture ; And of no easy and ao plain atop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude. Can play upon It. Shakespeare. THE MIKMING THEY say that. In a deep for est in Eastern Siberia, there" has been found the remains of a balloon on which Sala mon Andree sailed away and never returned. Like the scrawl found inside a bottle in tie sands of the sea beach, like the life buoy or bat tered boat cast up by the surf and on which there is the name of a lost ship, like the found hand kerchief or glove of a Dorothy Ar nold from whom no tidings ever came buck, this possible discovery of the balloon that carried Andree - and his two companions out of civilization, fires the imagination of a world that has waited seven teen years for news from the in trepid explorer. Whether or not the present re port 1b authentic is to be deter mined by investigation. There have been oilier reports, among them the utory in 1910 that the Andree balloon had alighted in the far north in British America, that its occupants had been slain by the natives, and that metal parts of the , great gas bag were in use by the uncivilized residents of the region. After more than four years, there has been no confirma tion of the report, and in the gen eral mind. It has gone into the discard. But some . day, somewhere and in sonip way, in (he great silence of the Northland there will be an unlocking of the Worst of Andree and his mates. . The -mystic North gave up the secret of how Sir John Franklin, with his crews In the Erebus and Terror.- were lost, and after more than fourteen years, even named the day on which the daring Franklin died. The party balled from Liverpool in 18 45, and after many expeditions from l.oth Eng land and America had searched in vain. It was not until 1859 that a searching party sent out by Lady Franklin unlocked the mystery. Articles belonging to the lost ex plorers were found at Ross Cairn and Point Victory. There was even round it record which told of -the clath of Sir John Frankliu, June II. is 17. As r.final climax lu wresting the secret from the icy seas. Lieutenant Sehwatka, an Ore gon man. actually found the bodies or the Frankliu party in the expe dition of 1878-80. To Solve the fate of Franklin and recover the bodies required thirty-five years, and In some sim ilar way there will some time come authentic tidings of what befell t he luck less Andree. THK ltK.1, CAUSE AN EXTRAORDINARY analysis or business conditions was re cently niado by Samuel Un termeyer of New York, extra ordinary in that Mr. I'ntermeycr is a great corporation lawyer and ex traordinary In that he goes to the ' root of thiUKS. ' The difficulty in getting money for railroad and other great in vestments, he Baid, is to be found in the lawlessness and corruption la tbe management of our great corporations and the destruction of the confidence of our home and foreign investors, following the ex posures of a few or tbe many in stances that characterize the con duct of corporate affairs. , Mr. Unterraeyer expanded his diagnosis with unqualified denun elation of the methods of big busi ness as disclosed in the N,ew Haven rase and predicted that If other railroads were investigated the revelations would be as startling. : iThe remedy for all this, he as serted, lay in the restoration of confidence. Legislation which will insure the proper control of cor- . poratlons is needed to quiet public distrust. The only criticism which f he had to. make of pending trust ' bills was that they are not strong - enough. v- A , moat essential part of any comprehensive program for corpor . ate reform he declared to be . the : Mil te require the incorporation of ; stock exchanges 1 tad .to put them : under Federal supervision. Exist Jng legal machinery, he. said, does not assure responsibility and pun COMING BACK A" N EXPONENT of Republicanism The New York Tribune, itself standpat to the core, protests against the nomination of Penrose for senator In Pennsylvania. It eays: ' The Republican party is in a minority. It went two years ago to the most rushing defeat it ever suffered under the leadership of men whose ideas and methods it had. outgrown. More than half it members deserted It because they were tired of bossism and standpatism. What will It benefit the Republican party to recall to power the Incompetents and reactionaries who wrecked the Taft administration? The success of Pen rose in Pennsylvania through the cowardly acquiescence of respectable Republicans, will prompt other exiles to clamor for recognition. There is not the slightest doubt that the forces of reaction will attempt to gather strength from Opposition to the Wilson adminis tration for the purpose of regaining control of Republicanism. In Pennsylvania,, Penrose howled, calamity to the manufacturers whose special privileges were cut away by the new tariff. He capitalized their dissatisfaction into support of himself, and defeated the pro gressive Republican, who was his competitor in the Republican" pri maries, by a majority of 160,000. This man against whom the Tribune brings such an Indictment, swept his Progressive competitor, off the map by a vote of three to one. ' By the same tactics Foraker is trying to win the Republican nomination for senator in Ohio, and Cannon the nomination for con gress in his old district in lllinoig. By the same tactics, the exiles la other states are clamoring for return to power, which means that they will capitalize dissatisfaction, unrest, and opposition to Wil son's progressive program as a means of regaining reactionary con trol of the Republican party. It seems Incredible that after the destruction of Taft, standgatism would be so bold and uncompromising. It is, however, only a re manifestation of the reckless courage with which the Barnes-Root-Penrose forces met the Roosevelt issue at and after the Chicago convention in 1912. No bolder game was ever played In the history of American politics. In 1912 the reactionaries of republicanism In the face of the overwhelming verdict in primary states against them, grimly opposed progress! veism among the masses of the party, in utter disregard of the fact that such a course foreshadowed almost certain defeat at the polls. They refused to surrender although the primaries showed that the Republican macses favored progresslveism by two or' three to one. " They looked upon progresslveism as populism.' They still view the aspirations of the people for a voice in government, as. reflected In the Wilson administration, as populistic and an assault upon the rights' and special privileges of select business. If bold then, they will be bolder now, because they know that to a certain extent they can fool people with cheap and deceptive assaults upon the party in power. It means that there is a great struggle going on. not only with in the Republican 'party but between the forces of reaction and pro gresslveism throughout the nation. - , ; Such a conflict in 1912 reduced the Republican party to a rem nant. Its shattered regiments were able to carry but two states, and took only third place at the polls. Men who stood -with the party for a generation broke away and voted the Democratic or Pro gressive tickets. ' v After such a result, it would seem that standpatism would be less aggressive and less compromising. But it is not. The rewards that come to powerful interests through the reactionary txmtroV ef gov ernment are a great stake to play for. It gives reckless courage and undaunted purpose to those who are its beneficiaries. If anybody doubts what its purpose is, there is" Penrose. There is Foraker. There is Cannon. . The grand march of the field marshals of reaction Is on. The brigadiers are coining back from exile. ishment for the misdeeds of big business and the enactment of the pending bills properly strengthened will help accomplish that result. A fraction of the many hundreds of millions which have been con fiscated can still be recovered by the defrauded share-holders if they will band togehter to enforce res titution and protection for the fu ture, he predicted. In the meantime, said he: We can do our share toward reas suring; the civilized world that we are not a nation of freebooters and that we have sufficient capacity for self government left to end the cor ruption and lawlessness of high finance. HINDU IMMIGRATION T HE East India Immigration question is again acute in British Columbia. There re cently arrived at Vancouver five hundred Hindus who have been refused landing by the do minion authorities. Tlu: Hindus demand the right to land as British citizens, and In I lie controversy is involved domin ion and imperial interests. Out of the incident may come a final set tlement of an Issue which has been postponed since 1 1 0 7 when immigration from India began on a large scale- The Indian govern ment undertook to discourage the movement and an Order-in-Counc.il in Canada excluded any newcomer who arrived otherwise than bv a continuous Journey. This was an Indirect way of ex eluding the Hindus as there was no direct steamship communica tion with India. Later this order was annulled by ChTef Justice Hunter as ' "ultra vires" and to secure time for con isideration, Canada temporarily bus pended all labor immigration into British Columbia. Now that the matter has again been brought to an issue it will be interestins to watch its settle ment or evasion. It hardly seems possible, though. that the most rabid imperialist will abandon a policy of Canada for the white man for a theory of empire. NO CITY OF MOURNING w K ARE house cleaning for Rose Festival week. We are repairing the streets for the visitors. What about the for sale signs? What about the for rent cards prominent' on many a Portland res idence? Is it well to give the visitors the impression that most of Portland Is for sale, and the rest for rent? What's the good of a Rose Festival if the coming guests are to get the impression after a ride about-the city that a large part of Portland wants to sell out and go some where else? Portland's for sale signs belie her. She Is a rich, growing and potential city. She Is prosperous and expanding-. She will probably do more general business in 1914 than she ever did before. But her for sale signs depict her as a city of mourning. They adver tise her population as ready to head for Pike's Peak or some other spot just as ' soon as a sale can be effected. With one of these FROM EXILE ever sinee the days of Greeley, signs grinning at him as he turns every corner the average Rose Festival visitor is likely to get the creeps and at once vote Portland a dead town. Why send out glittering litera ture inviting the homeseeker to a town that bristles with for sale signs like a graveyard with tomb stones? Why summon the sur rounding people to come to Port land and be happy at the Rose Fes tival when they c;nnot be happy with fofeale posters constantly re minding them of former t great ness, of ghosts, of yesterdays, of morgues, and of dead things? Cannot the for sale and for rent signs on spick and span Port land homes be taken down for one brief week? A BOY'S LIFE 1' F YOU have left your books at home, go back and get them," said Miss Edith Scott, school teacher, Rutherford. New Jersey, to William Holmes, thirteen. The boy trudged back home, walked upstairs to his room. Then his mother heard a shot. She hur ried upstairs and found the boy oead. On the floor lay an old pis tol. The bullet entered the child's right temple and emerged near the right ere. The mother thinks it was an accident. May be it was an accident. May be not. In the mind of the sen sitive, unthinking child, the teach er's words may have aroused an uncontrollable impulse, and a childhood suicide have been the product. Such things have oc curred before and may transpire again. - But whether accident or not, the result is the same. The old pistol was in the room upstairs. It took the boy's life. That was what it was made for. IN THE PHILIPPINES M ANY and great are the changes coming "over the Philippines under American occupation. B. Finley John son, associate justice of the su preme court of the islands, who is on a visit to Portland, 13 quoted as saying: Neyer in the history' of the archi pelago have property -and life been more secure and never has Justice been so equitably administered. When the occupation begin there were from 60,000 to" 80,000 wild mountaineers, but today,, says Mr Johnson, head hunting and tribal wars are practically at an end. It will be recalled that some time ago when the Wilson admin istration succeeded and. Commis sioner Dean C. Worcester was re called the latter made charges that slavery was common among the tribesmen; Five committees were appointed by the Philippine Assembly to in vestigate the charges of the super seded commissioner. ' The reports of these committees do not sustain Mr. Worcester. They assert that most of the names of non-Christians alleged as sold in Mr. Worcester's , report do not exist and those which do exist pre sent no indication of being reared as slates or even peons. , In the regions Inhabited by Moros ' and other non-Christian tribes there have been some cases of sale of human beings, the par ties to which hare been prosecuted. Yet the relation of these alleged slaves, says the report, has In no way been . of such a kind as the African slavery in the United States. . There have been a few domestic servants who served with out pay but were considered as members of the family and often assisted to establish their own homes. " ' . . . American tourists 'spend $108,- 000,000 yearly motoring' and sight seeing In Europe and other foreign lands notwithstanding the most beautiful scenery in the world is In the Pacific - Northwest This will be more generally realized when the Columbia River and the Pacific- Highways are completed. Discovery has been made that the Oregon Workmen's Compensa tion law makes no provision for those who work in beauty shops. Probably the blue sky law would apply. At any rate it is suggested that the hazard comes in not for the employe, but for those who are patrons. Letters From the People 4 Communism Hons tent te Tbe Journal tut pnbUcaUoB la this department aboiild be writ tea OD only OB alda nt tha nam ahtmld nut icced BOO 'word to leoxib and must b ac companied bjr tbe oam and addlv of the eoda. If tb write doe not dealr lo " e name pabljahed. be aboald no atate.) "Discussion fa tbe gmreet et all reform era. it ratlonaUsea every tbing It touches. It rob principles of all false sanctity d tbrowa them back on tbelr reasonableness. It tbey bar do reasonableness. It ruthlessly erasbes tbem cut of existence cd sU bb Ite ewa conclusions la tbelr stead." Woudrew The Bible on Strong Drink. . Portland, May 28. To the Editor of Ths Journal Osborne Yates' Bible Is minus It subject-index and concord ance, or the texts which he quoted in substance only, were resurrected from the memory of some bygone day when he read or heard them. There is one text which a liquor house in Portland used not long ago as an advertisement, causing comment It ia in Paul's first letter to Timothy, chapter 6, verse 23: "Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities." This was before the mod ern brews and distillations were in vented. Christ turned .water into wine at a wedding feast, but no one is fool ish enough to contend that it was. a kind that would cause men to make fools of themselves. The scriptures do distinctly com mand abstinence from wine and strong drink. This is easily found if one will remember that "abstain" is not the only word with a prohibitory meaning. The scriptures are: To the priests in temple service. Lev. 10:9; to the Naz arites, in Num. 6:3; to tbe mother of Samson, in Judges 13:14. and to John the Baptist, in Luke 1:15. Christ, who "never interfered with the laws and customs of his day," according to. Mr Yates, interfered rather strenuously with some customs, but came "not to destroy the law or the prophets." He added to the warnings of those men of God, notably Luke, 21:34. In Isaiah, 5:11-14 and 22, and Proverbs. 20:1. and 31:3-7, the prophet and the king sketch the evils o strong drink. Paul, who, before the scientists discovered that alcohol is a narcotic poison, ad vised young Timothy as I have quotej, gave some good advice to the Romans in Romans, 13:13, to some Greeks In Kphesians, 6:18, and in other letters condemned drunkenness. Two good examples of abstinence are found in Jer. ST., ajid Daniel, 1:8-17. The teachings of Christ are mani fest in accord with the two greatest commandments MUt. 22:36-40). and who but a booze advocate will attempt to twist these into the Justification of the present day saloon and the devil ish power behind it! If Mr." Yates went to -Sunday school last Sunday and studied the uniform lesson of the In ternational association, he read in Luke, 17:1: "And he (Christ) said unto his disciples: "It is Impossible, but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe untd him, through whom they come." Then read the fol lowing verse.. Compare this with what Paul says in Romans, 14:21. In the face of the' record of the ages as to the effect of alcoholic drink, there is not a living person who can Inject boose into his or her system, or advo cate such, and truthfully contend that he or she is not living the "stumbling block life." Liquor may become neces sary to the sot, but woe to the oni who Invites the man of tomorrow to follow in his footsteps. Finally, to the dispenser: llabakkuk, 2:15, "Woe unto him that glveth his neighboridrlnk, to thee that addest thy vendnJ. and maketh him drunken also that thou mayest look on thetr nakedness." There are two kinds of nakedness that of the brothel, a child of the liquor traffic, and that of the fallen man of strength and his out raged family. These scripture quotations are from the American Standard Version. R. M. SPEELMAN. Takes Drink, but Is Pro-Dry. Portland. May 27. To the Editor of The Journal I have no scruples against taking a drink, and I do so when I- feel like it Liquor has never hurt me personally, perhaps because I am one of thOBe "strong willed" fel lows Mrs. Duniway lauds; but If any slight self denial on my part will make t;ie life of a single little child bright er, then I'm, glad to make the denial, and that's why I'm going to help vote Oregon dry. The fact Is, it will not be one Oregon child that will be made happier,, but thousands of them. 'Any woman who advocates the present day saloon' system is either at variance with her sex or she lives on some JilM top and' has no realization of the mi asma in the valley. Let her go out for awhile and study social conditions, and If she has a heart and a con science she will soon know there is only one way to apply the golden rule in, t.iis matter, and. that Is by voting dry. There is only one argument against prohibition worthy of consideration. and that is tnat it may work a hard ship financially upon some people. Why don't the wets come out! frankly and say uiat tney value a dollar mora than they do a home? Wets can prate all they want to about more booe being sold in dry, territory. If 'that were true, they would all want the double benefit of increased consump tion ana no license fee. My business has caused me to roam about the dry towns of Oregon a bit and I never could find a stray glass of beer. "Personal liberty!" Yes, we will all' be manacled -.slaves if we cun't get a drink when we want it. '.I've never felt like rushing Into print because I can't get a dose of cocaine without a doctor's permit nop- because I can't emoke and spit on the street car. . . -$- - A FEW SMILES The conversation i was about the bright saying of the rising genera tion, and Congressman George F. Bur- gees of Texas was re- " I minded of an incident that happened in a public school. One day the teach er was instructing a class of youngsters In geography, and. to this end she told them to close their books while- she asked a few questions about the lesson. . "Johnny." said she. beginning with a bright faced youngster, "what is the i name of the principal river in Egypt?" "The. Nile." was the easy reJolnert of Johnny That's right." returned the teacher, encouragingly. "Now. please give me me name oi me rsues smaller iriou- taries." "Juveniles." Miss Mary," answered Johnny. i . . Mr. Black swore off Mrs. Black- (and poor Mrs. Brown lis heartbroken. Mrs flrea-n. Or- (clous sakes! Why? r-4o .wo wl.j i pons of a mahogany I buffet Puck "My son's got a fine, job." said old , Bill Smith. "He's saving money fast ' "What is he doing?" "He's a night printer sir," Bill an swered. "Oh, a fine Job. He work at night yid saves his lodgin'srand then he sleeps, all day and saves his food." Someone says they will be making us men stop smoking next. Well, if any one will show me that tobacco makes a man kick hia wife and children out into the rain to sleep. I'll vote to have that prohibited if I get a chance. I've a neighbor who makes a practice of KiCKing his family out. rain or shine. every payday, because he has a Jag on as regular as the pay caeck comes. "By their fruits ye shall know them," is a pretty good rule to apply in testing a thing. When I apply this test to the well seasoned product that . r.1) i ix r rr I rat s&T i I 1 I n.o oaiuvuKeeper turns out it doesn't hopes, undoubtedly, are the same which look good to me I encouraged us to undertake the work vote dry, Ella M. Finney, M-f lof international sympathy born of the Duniway and Mr. Saloonkeeper, an 1 desire that civilization in America be give the hungry, care-old children and j not interrupted by war." heartbroken wives of your state a while the incidents of the day are cjance, even though it may flatten belne discussed. While arguments are some pocketbooks a little. ( De)ng developed around new hints and 11. R. DAVIS. i suggestions and various questions of ' detail, U Is Imperative that we should The Saloon and Altruism. keep this great dorumatlng thought in Oregon City, May 28. To the Editor j mind. If evy- there was a case in of The Journal There are many let- ' which the methods of pettifoging al ters in Th Journal anln.t nrnhihi I to'rneys were a nauseating offense this ters in me Journal against prohibi- - j ,8 Rea, difficulties must tion, and every one of them has one or j be m'et nothing that Is fundamental more weak spots. I cannot but be- 1 can possibly be ignored, but a cackling lieve that nearly every one Is written over difficulties and an insistence on by self-interested parties, or by par- ; the impossibility of solving certain ties paid for their services by the sa- problems is not proof of shrewd prac loon interests. In the Journal of Mav ' ticabtlity and superior common sense. 22 one letter says: "We assert that It introduces a wholly- false note. It the saloon is one of the most altruistic Is false to the practical purpose of the institutions of American birth." Think conference as well as to its spirit of it: "Altruistic" (devotion to others or to humanity, the opposite of selfish- Pile anomaly upon anomaly, logic ness). How can any s&ne person that j upon logic, and the overshadowing ln has ever been around saloons maka fluenee is that of an inspiring inter- such an assertion? s A person is very : soon snubbed If he even sits around in ' hearts and stir the imagination oi men a saloon, unless h patronises the- bar. j as few things have in the world's his and let a man that has been drinking i tory. If the situation is unprece and has lost all his money come Into a dented, so much the better. History is saloon, and if there is no hope of get- full of bad precedents as regards the vr.ti win ' retationa between nations and the es- soon se how much friendship is shown to him. He will get kicked out. I once knew a man that had spent a small fortune In the saloons, and after v. n u.. a v.- w.j haustcd his credit, he told me he met on the sidewalk one day the saloon keeper that he had spent the most of his money with, and the saloonkeeper, richly clad and gold 'headed cane, and with head in the air, and he would nat look at his old cus tomer but passed hlni by like a dosr. This man said to me, "This made me think what a fool 1 had been, to allow a business of that kind to rob me of ull m r mmiev " A nrl tben when it wa t too late, he said I never will drink another drop of liatior." And he did not. "The saloon, the most altruist!" institution in the wo world!" Think of it! K HIC1NBOTHAM. UKORGK I liusual : Views on Liquor. Portland, May 27 To the Editor of The Journal Concerning the Question of prohibition I wmjld say that patri otic citizens are willing to sacrifice their lives for their country". Citizens who believe liquors are a detriment to the nation will vote dry, even though their lives are cut short on account of not being able to procure it when reeded es medicine. For if the good of the individual stands In the way of the good of the nation, so much the worse for the individual. This talk of personal liberty is all bunk. An individual has no liberties; that interfere with the public rights, and every man ia his brother's keeper. and what anybody does, is everybody's business. Personally, I would either have pro hibition, or take the internal revenue off and let all make and sell it who wished. We should either get on the sea or shore: the great danger lies where the sea and the snore meet. . I believe if liquor were running in thestreet gutters the people would not drink so much as they do now, and tn clearly an accomplice witn iawneu It would certainly kill the treating ' ness. - K- t"KANK habit. : P. W. BR1TTS. I Says Traffic Is Lawless. Reedville. Or., May 27. To tbe Ed itor of The Journal The liquor traf fic not only tries to put to nought the prohibitory law in dry territory, but it tramples upon the laws regulating it in the wet territory. What would A. S. Ruth do repeal those laws and let the liquor men run the country? In a town In Nebraska they passed an ordinance compelling saloons to re move curtains from their window.. They removed tiem, but in placa of the curtains tbey put In a false par tition to bar the view. Clearly an evasion of the spirit of - th law. Legitimate business needs no con cealment from the : public eye,. Any thing carried on as a business be hind darkened windows is not Just right. A mother and a wife pleading with a saloonkeeper not to sell a son or husband any liquor generally is told to mind her own affairs, as the saloonkeeper pays license and will seH to whomever he pleases. When a busi ness is conducted Jn such, a manner that it becomes a public offence it Is high time, to kill It out. When a business begdna to place the burden of sorrow and suffering upon defense less women and children. It is high! tune for American manhood and wom anhood to assert themselves with suf ficient force to throttle the business. Prohibition, or no prohibition, the liquor traffic always is found violat ing laws. If a person through the use of liquor commits .crime, we hav la right to forbid him to ak it If I the liquor traffic does not live within I th bounds of decency and the law, we - - . ! - PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGS Xo bft bappy 8aUsfactorily, be and do good. a And not a bie wool man utterly I "mined" yet ! There will be a great abundance oi rcees as usual. Biessfuf, approaching June; not an election in it X7A . . I V. A. . Dm,....), a,....,,. in' inZ auaiences. How much, can Roosevelt revive the F regressive party? Very young things are the chief Joy of 8ms old Peop'e. . Make Uie Columbia highway a fine one, while aoout it. . Few would object to some warm ra,ns before Festival week. If all the Smiths vote for Smith they will help considerably. The objectors to taxes are not all persons who pay -more than they sr.OUId. There could be but one Rose Fes- lt,vaI ouepn. though all the contestants queen, th fully fit. were I The June brides will if possible be f" i than ever: may there be more of them, and all be happy ev.er after. The stores, shops and saloons may not ne aulte as busy as at some times. but the reason is a good one; ride out. In the country and notice how busy tn rural workers are. Perhaps the newly nominated mem bers ot the . legislature are beginning to think that reducing taxes will not oe so easy as tney seemed to con- siaer before tne primaries. The infinitely numerous members of the animal kingdom have their Phy sical feelings, or course; but may they not also have their prejudices and passions, loves and hates, retrograda iionar and reforms, even their religions, much the same as we humans? AN INSPIRING INTERNATIONAL DRAMA Fr'omHhe Chicago Record-Herald. " Your "hopes," said Ambassador Da n.m. 1m vf oi1ilaa n-f wclrnm, tr the representatives of Mexico and the united States at Niagara Falls, "your national drama that should warm the tablishment of a new one such as is j now outlined would .bring a tra n of many blessings. The twists of logic, j the fear of Inconsistencies w 11 amount 1 to nomine if the objoct indicated can i be attained, since that is of surpass- WHEN "MONEY IS EASY, BUT CREDIT NOT" By John M. Oskison. Does it seem a contradiction to Vou when a prominent financier says that "money is easy, but credit is not?" I confess that at first I did not see the logic of such a statement a state ment made to describe conditions ! Which have marked the first quarter of n, v, 1914 I This man meant that throughout tne 1 country there was plenty of money ! available lor investment and short- time lOiins, but that the owners or tne money have been extra careful In let tin H iro on loans, and timid about exchanging It for securities except of the higheAt grade. Merchants who wanted loans to en large their business have; been fre quently disappointed; big corporations that needed money to extend their operations have not been abl to get nearlv ss much aa they wanted; new companies have had to wait for a more optimistic spirit to come upon money owners before starting in; and the banks have tightened their P"rs, strings against borrowers who couldn t show unquestioned soundness in the matter of assets, or who seemed to want to borrow more than their state ments warranted. Meanwhile, of course, the great Vol ume of dividends and Interest pgy- have a Hgtit to crush It Tie people still rule, and if a majority of the peo- ' nt vntn liquor out or Oregon ha i November it will be put out and any j person knowing of any violation i .such law who does not report the ract Inhibition, or Prohibition. Tortland, May 2.-To the F.dltor of The Journal The merits and demerits of prohibition are being arranged, spelling school fashion, until one side or the other is spelled down. The word itself implies force or compul sion, which always stirs up a rebel lious instinct, and naturally so, as force is not the'element best calculated to bring forth the highest phases of human cha'fecter and is subversive of individuality. Did man understand that there is a way of living that knows no regret, no pain of remorse, no sting of sensed degradation, no loss of power, of abil ity, of respectability, he would seek that way. If he knew that by sustain ing his health, by maintaining Integ rity of habits, by living every bour. as he really does, in the sight of men and women from whom he cannot hide any act or deed, who are morally because spiritually capable of Judging his ex act value as a cosmic factor; if be knew he was simply prolonging and intensifying his unhapptness and de creasing his efficiency, adding misery to this life, extending the time ana multiplying tbe difficulties attendant upon, development In spirit life, he would not be found in the ranks of those whom a class 6f would-be re formess seek to force under the yoke of prohibition that cannot accomplish the real reformation that these ideal ists suppose it capable of. The trials ot prohibition have proved its inadequacy to prohibit. This - Is because of its unnaturalness. It ls of AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS -Ph. annual flatskanie rOS ShOW will be given, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Ladies aio. ra urday. June 13. w Randnn'a Commercial club is distrib uting 5000 copies of a 12 page folder illustrative of Bandon and th sur rounding country. w The Fort Rock correspondent of the 8llver Lake Leader says settlers are raDtdlv taktnor ud the lands recently opened la that district and in a short time very mtie oi any miia wm ot left Investigation of Condon hotels hav ing shown inadequate fire protection, IMstriet Attorney Weinke has ordered the proprietors to equip each room with l half inch matiila rope with knots a foot apart, and that it must reach from the room to the ground. Newport correspondence Toledo Leader: Some complaint is made about the people destroying the beautfrul rhododendron bushes that are so at tractive to the people who come to the sea shore. To prevent this wanton de struction - of the bushes the Newport Commercial club appointed a commit tee to prevent, if possible, this destruc tion. The lfallas Observer thus describes a rare zoological specimen: "Mrs. James Mayors is the possessor of a snow white squirrel, captured in the woods near Rock Creek by Mr. Mayors, and is the only specimen of its kind ever seen in this locality, and probably in the state. The animal is slightly larger than a chipmuck, and has pink eyes that are pronounced pretty. ' Hopeful view expressed by the Her mlston Herald: "If anyone doubts our getting just as good railroad service after the cut-off is built as now. Just watch the trains for a week. See the great quantity of freight handled every ilav. Notice the large amount of ex press both incoming and outgoing. Count the passengers that get off or on. No company is going to overlook such a volume of business. Railroad men have said all Hermiston will lose is the through trains, which never stop here anyway." lng Importance. Let us have an ami cable settlement with pacification and there will be a "definite triumph of civilization over war in this hemis phere, not a fleeting triumph but. tri umph for all time. That is the ideal that this conference at Niagara Falls may make a reality. The mediators from Brazil, Argenti na and Chile personily three powerful. progressive- nations that have had the'r baptism of blood and that are now de veloping as it Is hoped Mexico may develop. Manifestly they are deeply Impressed by their mission, are pre pared to go far beyond the precedents, are heartened by splendid visions. They are not meeting .to divide the spoils of conquest after a devastating war, as has been done so often, but they are meeting to repel war, to es tablish both domestic peace and Inter national peace upon everlasting foun- dations. The countries thev represent and the United States and Mexico may give an example of arbitration that will set a new standard for the world. Out of this conference may come a policy that will release two continents from the menace of war and greatly reduce its burdens. As the quibblers. the logicians who crvllt hairs the exnerts in technicali ties, revel in their complications if' should be the will of the two conti nents that whatever has been said and whatever has been dono "the work of international sympathy born of the de - sire that civilization In America be not interrupted by war" shall be carried through to Just such a glorious conclu- elon. For all the-nations concerned Ambassador Da Gama has spoken the fitting word. ments have continuf-d month after month; the savings banks are full of money; and. In New York, borrowers of money f"r use from day to day, who offer first class security, have been paying anywhere from 2 percent to 4 per cent they have found money "eay." ' For the Investor a time like tlila .. J.riM. . ...... T f , 1.1,., 0nt t Ui I ri o a 'til ill! rj l linn' ... v v ,.. . , . . . list of the sound corporations which f was produced they would are in n-ed of further financing ami Wltl'"1' hirmli.il anyone. Mr. which are "living from hand .!'""!'" th-m he would have mouth." He will find that their se- I aklast prepaid lor them but m, curities (stocks and bonds) ere sell- ! ,8j no nioi.ey. as he uev er kept any st t liiitiii m d c-ikii it I air t 1 1 at ii n kiA I t Is1 (iin lng at a price under their normal value. You see, the price of a corps-ration's stock depends a good deal on the out look for the future as well an upon the statement It Is able to make at the time. In a period when credit Is difficult and operations are curtailed .... .. .' many stockholders get discouraged and sell; the price of stock goes down. irn credit becomes -mv" Hia outlook for the business Is brighter. buyers are attracted, and the price of the stock goes up again. , Such movements are logical and Inevitable; you may profit by taking advantage of them. But confine your study absolutely to the sound busi nesses. the genus of obstructive activities known as "the antagonisms of blind force." What then shall be done? Develop the highest and best. Lead rather than coerce. Disdain the cultivation of the evil by constantly harping upon It. Increase the good by emphasizing It; enlarge opportunities for doing and being good; cultivate association, the nobler with the lesser; try the real things of life: draw out the best; help those beggared In heart and in under standing; be a brother's keeper, not to compel, but to draw out; offer human sympathy instead of Pharisai cal condemnation, tjeek tie ral ideal ism; the old one of force has too long been in practice. So Phall a true re form come that will Inhibit Instead of prohibit, for all good must come from within. MARY ALICE CONG DON. The Ragtime Muse- It's Always the Way. Mary Kniith and Johnny Jones, in a country town remote. Vowed with soulful sighs and moans, Kach did on the other dote. Went to church on Sunday morn. Then strolled through the cemetery. Danced, were giddy, gay, forlorn. - Till John up and married Mary. Reginald De Puyster Hcadds bought fair Susie Bullion's heart; Both of them had wealthy dads. So they both went in for art, Art's a splendid subfrfuge For young folks with love's dream woozy. Opportunities are hug Reggie up and married Susie. Jjoesn't matter where you are. Doesn't matter what you do Politics or trade or war. Art and all the others, too; Everything has but one use. Kach one burden has to carry; Life is Just a lam excuse For young folks to up and marry. IN EARLIER DAYS Bjr Fred Locfcler. "Some people could travel around -the world and never have anything happen. Others can hardly go ft day's iS Journey without meeting an adven ture," said Alonso Perkins, who, with I his wife, Samantha Jenkins Perkins, lives In Karit Portland. "I don't Know r that 1 have ever hunted adventures, but adventures have seemed to hunt me. "While a soldier in the Mexican war I became lost from my command whils cut hunting, and was taken In by a Catholic priest. While his ' guest 1 was out fishing on a lake nearby and rescued a young woman from drown-7 lng. 1 baled out the boat, and we started for her home at the other,end of .he lake. Soon we came lit- sight of one of the old style southern man sions, located in a grove of live oak and pecan trees. Inez Consoles, the younn woman I had rescued from drowning, said as we approached tbe shore: Here comes father." 1 beached the boat and helped Ines out. Her father was evidently greatly surprised to see his daughter dripping wet and a stranger In the uniform of the United States equally wet. -He turned to his daughter and said. 'Daughter, what has happened?1 "She introduced nie to her father and explained how I had happened to be on band so opportunely when her boat, overturned. 1 explained that 1 was ' waiting for the arrival at the ford across the Ttio Grand of the second detachment or General Wool's army, so I could rejoin the troops. Mr. Con- . sales inslstea that I make my home with them until the arrival of the troops. tie as a man of striking appearance. He had gray hair, a strong face and was possibly 60 years old. He was one of the most affable and courteous men I ever met. As a matter of form I declined the Invita tion, but my refusal was a haif-heartad one. and when Inez added, her Invita tion to that of her father, 1 accepted their hospitality. "Ines was taken in charge by the housekeeper, while her father took me to the guest room and opening a closet told m to make my own choice of clothes to replace my wet uniform. I soon rejoined Mr. Consoles. He told ni briefly about himself and daugh ter. He was of Spanish blood and bad been raised in New Orleans. His wife had been dead for some years, ines was hia only child. He had come to Texas some years before and purchased 2000 acres of land, on whleh h was raising corn, cotton, onions,' cattle and sheep. He employed an overseer and the labor on the place was dons by peons. He had a splendid team and a carriage of English make, so every day Inez and myself explored trie country round her home. "She had no use for the Mexicans, and as she had no companions, she was wild to go to New Orleans, Baltimore Or some other American city. One evening Mr. Oonzoles told me he would move If he could dispose of his prop erty, as conditions were so unsettled' he fell it unsafe to remain where they .were, lie ld the country wus overrun by bands of guerillas, who' pillaged, ravished and murdered the defenselens settler st "I had been there about 10 days when word came to Mr. Oonzoles that the second column of Wool's army would be at the crossing of the Klo Grande within two days While 1 was anxious to lejoin the army, I did not welcome the thought of leaving Inez. It seemed as If .ill the rest f the world didn't amount to much without ilier. and 1 hat, -I to look forward, to. not seeing her nni being with her. 1 told j her I would have to ko nrxt day. 1 askd her if she cared if I went. Hllc oidn't sny much, but sh.- didn't nee-i j to. i knew from the way she looked she cared a great d-:il. 1 left next day, but in a manner wholly unexpected. Next morning ss we were at breakfast we heard the clatter of hoofs and a body of 60 or 80 horsemen galloped up the roadway and halted in front of the house. The lead er called out in Hpanisli for the master of the house. Without a tn-inor of fear, Mr. Oonzoles stcped out.' Inez slaved near the open loor out of sight and repeated In ICngllsh to me the con versation, which ws In mlsh. The leader said they wanted t'Ueir bresk- ! fast, and after that if a liberal sum j V" '. ...., jditlon of the country. The servants were told to prepare breaklast, which they did. After they had eaten the leader said: M'tilcss you produce 11000 we will take you along and hold you for ransom.' "Mr. Oonzoles toj them he hsd no ' ..r....... u t Knn. a At -j lm,al frnm Iha " - . , , "der. his turn seued Mr Oonzoles ; und myself, tied our hands tightly behind our backs and stood with guns ready to shoot If we attempted to realist. lneK begged me not to offer any resistance. The guerillas -sent through the house thoroughly, taking all of the silverware and Jewelry and as much provisions as they could carry. Then thev went to the stable flnd picked out six of the best horses and two saddles. "My last glimpse of Inei was see ing two of the servants carrying her jn. hhe had fainted when she saw us led out to be taken away. With cur arms tied behind us and a rope fastened around our necks, ws were lied Hay by the horsemen. We trav eled all day. About sunset, we cams to a cluster of adobe huts surrounded by a thbk wall about six feet high with a wldo entrance having a heavy ate. We entered and our arms, which had long been numb, were untied. i wan so completely exhausted that I refused the food brought me and threw myself on the floor and -was soon asle.'-p. Might Help Some. . . In an Arkansas hotel in one of the smaller towns a new colored cla-rk stood behind the desk. A traveling man entered and registered. '.Sam. give tne a call for o'clock," lie ordered. The clerk ran his eye down the call sheet and saw that all the spares In that column were taken. "Ah is sure sorry, boss," he explained, "but all ds o'clock calls done been taken. Ah can glv. you ft! a call for 7 o'clock.- The Sunday Journal The Great Home Newspaper, consists ot Five news sections replete witn illustrated feature!. ' Illustrated magazine of quality. Woman's section of tire merit. Pictorial news supplement Superb comic section. 5 Cents the Copy