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The rose In fairest when tla
budding new.
And hope In brightest when
It dawns from fears;
The rose In sweetest washed
with morning dew.
And love is loveliest 'when
embalmed in tears.
Scott.
YESTKIt DAY'S PARADE
F
iEVV pageants So beautiful as
yesterday's parade are rarely
staged. The horses, the
floats, the decorated vehicles.
the flowers and the allegorical
figures were ( a living picture of
dreamland. It was a vision of
beauty. It was fairyland approxi
mated. Literal millions of flowers were
used in producing the picture. jt
was two miles and a half of blos
soms wrought into a vision of love
liness. Even the spectacular electrical
pageant of other days was not of
more surpassing beauty. .Only the
Rosebud parade of today appeals so
strongly to the artistic sense and
visualizes bo perfectly the handi
work of Hhose who Know how to
please the vision and awaken the
realization of loveliness.
The festival as it unfolds its fea
tures is a real festival. Its spirit
Is the festival spirit. Its purpose
of good will, relaxation and open
house is better realised and better
executed. ..The city is a jollier host
and the guests better entertained
than ever before.
More than ever before, It,
'June time, rose time, good time
rofnt lii accumulation where all In groups of 100 collectively with
sensser of proportion ia lost, where stmt physical examination at a rate
all the harmonies of life are for-j based , on the age : of each, was
gotten, and in which everything, j recommended to employers, v Mu-
even to life, .is sacrificed for the i nlcipal : ownership and operation
sake: of the almighty dollar?
How would it fare with the
world if the end and aim,; of all
mankind were money, money,
money?
.Fit KB TEXT BOOKS
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A TYPICAL CASE
R EE text books In the Tort-
land schools, public and prl
j vate, would present inextri
cable complications.
The system would be "unsanitary.
Rocks used over and over again by
different ' children would be a
nWanV of spreading: disease. " It is
a contingency from which the poor
man's child should be protected as
well ; as the rich man's child. It
would deprive the pupil of the
pleasure . of owning his
books. The consciousness that it
was a public book and not the
child's own book would take away
the pleasure and delicate, senti
ment that attaches to ownership.
The fact that it was an old book
and had been used by others would
lessen the enthusiasm that goes
with; childhood's contemplation i&t
its own possessions.
It would raise up difficulties in
the distribution of books and in
determining when the used "books
should be cast aside that would
be attended with discouragements
to pupils and insuperable complexi
ties for the teachers.. It would con
vert ;the schools intoa riot of pro
tents, complaints, accusations and
disputes.
It i would not be, as some think,
the shifting of the burden of pro
viding the books upon the rich.
It would not be the so-called "tax
payers" who. would pay all the
bills.
On the contrary, the rent payers
rand small homeowners and the av
erage men would come in for a
full share of the burden.
As1 taxes increase through such
enterprises as free text books, the
landlord simply adds tho-sum to
his rents and collects the amount
indirectly from hia 'tenant. The
man in the rented house always
pays the landlord's taxes when he
pays the rent.
- The wealthy have the power and
know the ways of compelling aver
age men to bear a large part of
the cost of government.
Poor people who vote for free
text books will simply vote an
added public burden on themselves
and force upon their children the
use qr books that are disease
breeders.
I yl-ava t4Ai1a,a1 fn Ka nnvkn And
detrimental to the welfare of the
community.
On the subject of industrial
training it was recommended that
special and general training from
the ; elementary to the highest
stages should be a continuing ef
fort as a duty to employes, stock
holders and- the public. It was
also suggested that attendance on
training schools should be within
the employer's and not the em
ploye's time.
The insistence by such a body
that electric lighting should be on
the basis of a monopoly will chal
lenge attention. The acknowledg
ment by the same body that there
schooli 6noul De attendant public regu
lation is significant.
t The two proposals will awaken
in the minds of many a query of
whether or not the program does
not point to ultimate public own
ership.
missionary at Tientsin,
A FEW SMILES
London
says:
Sanitation in unknown. Throughout
the narrow" densely crowded streets ;
ana courts of the city Is a moat, .the) A .traveler on a south, of England
convenient receptacle of all manner j railway recently asked the guard
of abominations, emptied once a year j whether, considering the apeed of the
juv &v luu Kasun wnen mux umm train, . he might ' oe
can do aone ty tne process; me ieim allowed to alight and
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
BMAlali CHANGE
r
WHEN LAW IS AN ASS
A
A STORY that would have sup
plied an excellent plot .for a
Zola was told the other day
before the-United States In
dustrial Commissioners, who are in
vestigating social conditions in New
'York City.
Mrs. Mary Minora, not yet fif
teen years old, clasping a six-
nionths-old child to her-breast, re
lated how she supportsd her hus
band and child by working thirteen
hours a day in her tenement rooms,
doing finishing work on clothing.
Some days she earns as much as
sixty cents.
She. said she had begun to do
finishing work when" she was ten
years old. Her husband and her
father have both been out of work
lor nine months.
The women, of the family sup
port them. Mrs. Minora's mother
earns eighty cents a day.
"We unfit! to jfet more money, over
dollar a- day," said the child wife.
"But now we don't eet so much for
niary months. All of a sudden they
tell us they . can't' pay so much and
When we say, 'Why notr they say
never mind, take the work or .leave
it, we 'don't care. Other women' want
it, If we don't. We take it."
Mary and her parents came from
81clly ten years ago. When asked
if she ever went to Coney Island,
Central Park or the country for re
creation, Mary answered:
What do you take me for? I never
fro way from New York. I don't go
out nil day, becaufc 1 must work, and
t nlKht, too, and 1 am too tired
me irimnrrs -nre aone. X es, 1
W-ork all day Sunday.-too.
A dramatic scene was enacted
when the youthful mother was
, tlven her $2 witness fee. ' She
pressed her baby closer to her
breast and smilingly dangled the
money before it eyes. As 6he
left the room a tense silence pre
vailed. The case or Mary Minora is typ
ical of the conditions which the
omnitsKion was authorized by Con
gress to investigate for the pur
pose of determining the underlying
causes of social unrest. It ia a
dazzling example" of tenement
sweat shop work.
TT77
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A SALEM1TE REUNION
ANY thousands of ex-Salem-
ites are now residents of
Portland, and next Satur
day arternoon they are to
fraternize In a basket picnic at the
Oaks.
It is to be a sort of family re
union. From the days of Auld
Lang Syne to the present, an un
usual spirit of kindly relation has
permeated the social atmosphere of
Salem. From generation to gener
ation It survived and radiated and
felicitated, in spite of the pres
ence of-the penitentiary, the insane
asylum and the legislature.
The political conflicts, the local
acerbities, and the divisions of sen
timent incident to all communi
ties never seemed to extin
guish the social friendships and
amiable relations among the. people
ot tne capital city. It has tended
to make- Salemites wherever they
meet or under whatever circum
stances they are grouped, a people
of mutual sympathies and neigh
borly impulses.
The gathering of the' Salem clans
next Saturday afternoon, will be
u uccauion tor an outpourins of
LEGAL technicality is raised
In the circuit court at Oregon
City in the case of the men
who are to be tried for con
ducting the Friars' club.
The technicality is to be used
in case of conviction as a basis
for an appeal to the supreme court.
It is raised on the ground that
Governor West first closed the
place by martial law and then or
dered an investigation. ;
The Incident Illustrates one
phase of why laws so often fail of
enforcement. There is always a
lawyer around with a technicality
to protect such institutions as the
Friar's Club. The technicality is
injected into the case at the psy
chological moment and its effect
Is to often free the guilty.
The process Is easy because in
many courts, more attention Is
paid Mo technicalities and high
precedents than to the facts and
justice. As Charles Carey, a prom
inent Portland lawyer once said
to an assemblage of lawyers:
Under our code an elaborate sys
tem of technical rules of pleading
has grown up. Much time is wasted
upon - demurrers and motiolis which
are filed ln nearly every suit. Tech
nical rules " which confine parties to
definite issues are obstructions to
ultimate Justice. Courts and lawyers
now make justice a secondary con
sideration. They proceed on the
theory that the rules must be ad
hered to, even though the result is to
bring1 victory to the party who ought
not to win, and they have built up
fine theories of the law under which
precedent ' must be followed to 'ab
surd conclusions. .
That is why President Taftsays
"the administration of our criminal
law is a disgrace."
It is because civil authorities
have not effectively dealt with
Friar's clubs and Copperfields that
Governor West used guardsmen.
He did it because lawyers have
often made the law an ass.
pools, whose stench fills the air
during the summer heat; and the
myriads of graves, many of them
with half burled coffins, upon the
neighboring plains these and the
like are the surroundings of a popu
lation among which typhus and other
Infectious diseases : are, of course.
epidemie, but which has never known
anything better.! . ,
Rev. W. P. Chalfant, an Ameri
can missionary, says:
In China, sanitation is simply Ig
nored; what with filthy personal hab
its, the absence of practical sewerage
conditions, open cesspools and lack
of quarantine measures against Infec
tion, the wonder ia that any China
men survive.
When eggs produced under such
conditions .are offered for sale in
Portland, the consumer should be
given a chance to know what he
is buying. The law should bo re
quire, it. The penalty for viola
tions should be a term on the rock-pile.
gather some flowers,
The guard, ; how
ever, had heard It be
fore, and replied that
flowers were not yet
out, it being early In
the year. .
But the passenger
was quite unabashed.
"It's all right, guard." said he; "I've
got a few packets of seeds!"
Bom men are unable to believe a
word they say.
' ' - IV
It takes a very wise woman to lis
ten when she can't talk.
Femininity Is one of the problems
that scientists cannot solve.
A poor workman always considers
himself superior to his Job.
Poverty Is a crime only when It pro
vides one with prison fare.
Women can see through each other
and yet they are not all slender.
Cupid Is wise. lie leads the couple
to the -altar and then quits the game
From the fruit dealer we get our
"What's Alibert do- Jams and from the wet goods dealer
Two men who had formerly lived in
the Eame town met after a number ot
years and entered into conversation.
"Did all your boys
turn out well, Jim?"
askedl one of them.
"Yes. Indeed they
did."
Letters From the People
(Communication aent to The journal for
publication in this department should be writ
ten on only one cld ot the paper, anould not
exceed K00 words in lengab and must be ac
companied by tb name and addrera of the
sender. If the writer doea not desire to
hays the name published, he should so state.)
"Discussion is the greatest of all reform
ers. It rationalises everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on their reasontbleneas. If
they haye no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
ing."
"He's. trying to dis
cover a new germ,"
replied the father.
"And Bob?"
"Oh, Bob Is trying his hand at a
newspaper an' beln editor," was the
old gentleman's reply.
"And Charlie what's he at?"
"He's an actor. All the time talkln'
about elevatln' the stage."
"Andswhat are you doing, Jim. now
that all your boys 'are away?" asked
the old friend.
"Well," answered the old man, "I'm
a-supportin' of AJbert an' Bob, an'
Charlie." National Monthly.
we get our Jlmjams.
Many a man makes a strenuous .ef
fort to recognise his duty so that he
will be in a position to dodge tt.
When an American heiress declines
to tie up with a nobleman It may be
that she considers herself too rich for
his blood.
Better a woman with rosy cheeks
than a men with a rosy nose.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
By FreiJ Ixtckley.
Rnsebura- has taken advanced rrotind
to the cleanup movement, with an ordi
ance to enforce -weed cutting under
penalty of a city Hen on neglected
property."
' Gresham'a hard surface street 1m-
? movements are up in the air, accord -ng
to the Outlook, which says there Is
a strong prortanimy that nothing win
re done tnis year toward improving
them.
Baker Democrat: There was no need
for a Baker county wool sales date
this year. Producer and buyer got
together earlier than the date and the
product was sold at a top notch price.
a
The Albany school board Is consider
ing the adoption of the "Junior hlKh
school plan.' and has decided the high
school building quextion. In favor of a
structure to cost not over 150.000 and
to be completed by September 1, 1915.
'
In comollmeiitary mood, the Kugene
Ouard savs Portland with Its roses "is
this week the cynosure of all loyal
Oregon eyes," and that only the flag
Itself "will be more conspicuous at the
Run Francisco fair than that piece of
Oregon fir."
a
"The new rule adopted by three of
the four banks In this city to close at
noon Saturdays," says the Aatorlan. "Is
an excellent one; it brings the husiness
here to a modern level with the syg
Do you know how the dandelion
came to Oregont
When the pioneers came to the Wil
lamette valley In the early '40s thert
was no red clover or white clover or.
dandelions or many other plants and
weeds and flowers which we now see
on all sides.
Dr. Terry Prettymnn, one of, Port
land's rioneer physicians, is the god
father of the dandelion in Oregon, lie
was born In 1796 In Delaware, and ar- ,
rived on Christmas day, 1S25. to a
native daughter of Delaware. At Bal-'
ttmore there was a medical college
called the Botanic Medical nrhooL
Here he studied medicine and became
a botanical doctor, whose only med
icines were made of herbs and barks
and plants, in 139 he moved to Mis
souri and In the spring of 1S47 he
with his family started for Orecon.
He took tip a donation land claim in
what is now Kast Portland and built
a log cabin at what is now the head
of Hawthorne avenue. He needed
dandelions In the practice of his pro
fession, but was unable to find any.
After a year's unsuccessful search lie
sent back to Missouri and secure-. 1
some seed, which he planted in his
garden and carefully tended. How
X"??" .irS""rt-1". .ey throve Is attested 'by
march Astoria has started.''
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WAR AND THE MASSES
Sees Ruin in Prohibition.
Gervais, Or., June 9. To the Editor
of The Journal The fur is flying up
the country. Every farmer is a raging
lion, and his wife is as mad as a wet
hen. They are awakening to the fact
that lamb-like prohibition is a wolf in
sheep's clothing, seeking whom it may
devour. The people whom the i hop
growers thought Christian are publicly
announcing their plans for destruction.
Some ministers are egging them on.
The same was true of the south. They
say we of the north are to have our
property confiscated as was that
south. Our united north and south
will whip back into line the - seven
southern and two northern prohibition
states that have seceded from our
union. They are sneak thieves, prof
iting by the sale of their wheat, corn
and potatoes for liquor, the same as
other states, locally robbing of reve
nues and establishing lawless blind
pigs. Kansas sells her corn for Bour
bon whiskey, while she slurs Oregon
hopgrowers who sell hops for beer.
Nation wide prohibition is a dreadful
calamity. It Is worse than, war. Weigh
every word I Bay. It undermines the
foundation of existence. It is the worst
robbery the world ever knew. If pro
hibition succeeds it will confiscate
700,000,000 of California property.
Oregon has 2000 hopgrowers, with $25,-
000,000 capital invested, crop value
5,000,000 a year, $55,000,000 of eastern
and foreign money paid to hopgrowers
and to labor and hopplckers. , All this
will be cut off. Oregon's 4000 acres
of loganberries, with its world's record
for fruit, the great eastern Oregon
grain fields, our vast acreage of po
tatoes, 114,500,000 bushels of grain and
44,800,000 gallons of molasses used for
liquor and $2,000,000,000 spent for
i i
loud anl foolish I r 1 I
larks during a I f
t part of thel' ?r II II
. As the train fTVtf
ed Hanwell Lu- fT I
asylum he re-i-.sL 1
For a Dry Oregon.
Hood River, June 10. To the Editor
of The Journal We vote for a dry
liquor, an estimated $24,000,000,000 j Oregon because we know the "liquor lions from corporations and Individuals
iraiiic" is wrong because we have sub- m order to ngnten tne Durams oi uo
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MONEY, MONEY
it-jiruKAKiLl deserting treat
ment by a specialist for the
cancer in his jaw, a rich New
Yorker has come to Spokane
to fight a divorce suit brought by
a ib wire.
. The- specialist protested, but the
patient was so much concerned
with saving his property that he
Imperils his life in abandoning for
the. time, the radium treatment
from which a cure was hoped for,
The inroads of the disease on his
'Jaw and throat are such that his
voice was husky and his . answers
sometimes Inaudible while civine
testimony. v ' '
A heavy owner of property in
New York and Spokane, what is
the commercialized state of mind
In a man who risks his life to pre
vent the woman who probably
itaared "with him the burdens of
accumulation,', from getting , a por
tion of the property ?
As . men grow richer is 'there a
FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
D
EVBLOPMENTS yesterday at
the biennial session of the
General Federation of Wo
men's Clubs at Chicago In
dicate that the federation will give
an Indorsement to woman suffrage.
This prediction is based on the
fact that a disposition was shown
by a majority of the delegates not
to limit the general discussion of
any topic.
Opposition to .the ballot 'for wo
men comes principally from the
Southern delegates. They are the
only obstacle in the way of the
federation's general indorsement.
They are in the minority, however,
since thirty-four of the States rep
resented hav either arlnntri full
good humor, rollicking fun, flow ! or partial suffrage for women, or
world wide production and labor all
goes down beneath the prohibition
hammer.
Prohibiting hops cripples the cotton.
twine, sulphur, burlap, hop and grain
sack markets.
Our world's production is wisely bal
anced now. Let it alone.
of soul, an unbottling of wit and
tne renewal of friendships a gen
eration oid. There will be a
calling back of the eniaodes anri
recollections of other davs. a
restoration of figures almost for
gotten in the mists of passing time
uu a aengnttul re-baptism of old
associations in a pleasing reunion
of the present with the past.
ELECTRICIAN'S STANDARDS
T
A
ITS convention bi
cently in Philadelphia, the
National Electric Light As
sociation outlined for ft i a
000 members the stand of the as
sociation upon questions of corporation-policy,
general relations
with the employes of the industry
andthe public at large.
, Gratification was exnrpRRAri thot
so little conflict exists between the
views or tne association and those
of the various public service com
missions. In this regard it is reported:
We have held rnn,t.i..ti..
.y, UP . trii en!
have made some advance In that
direction
It is Interesting to recall that
the suffrage question, which prom
ises to be the absorbing issue of
the present convention was rarely
heard of when the federation was
organized twenty-two years ago
The suffragist of that day was an
entirely different person from the
present type. Club women in the
beginning did not care for suf
frage but the clubs have educated
them continually. The woman of
today who is the best suffragist is
a trained club worker.
Twenty-two years ago the feder
ation confined itself to club life
and management. Today it dis
cusses all public activities of in
terest to women.
CHINESE EGGS
I
N NO market place in Portland
Is there a sign announcing that
Chinese eggs are on sale.
It is nevertheless the fact
that Chinese eegs are beina sold
- " ' 3 - v"-vn ivai rii i
,. se eentrai stations is The fact that no dealer offers them
meaning ot th. ZV7 th bst as Chinese eggs is proof that the
oly privately owned and operated T hn t ! consumer is buying them as fresh
nminvin nuKii. ' i . , . . .
American eggs, a reason ior tne
secrecy is that consumers would
not be likely to buy Chinese eggs
at any price. The unsanitary con
ditions under which Chinese eggs
are produced are the chief reason
It is also a reason why no dealer
should be permitted to sell Chinese
eggs without full knowledge on
the part of the consumer as to
what he is buying. , i
It is said that chickens are the
scavengers of China. In the half
closed graves, according to Dr. Den-
Prom the Chicago Record Herald.
Russia has had a series of prosper-
and annoyed I ous years wnicn writers on wona pon
tics are celebrating as if tne. soie od
Ject of production were war. There
has been a remarkable growth in the
ordinary revenues of the country, but
revenue, of course, implies taxation,
and a large part of what is taken out
of production by taxation is going to
the military account. From 1907 to
1913 the military and naval expendi
tures increased by rfearly $170,000.
000. Moreover, It Is said that the an
nual expenditures henceforward should
exceed 100,000,000 pounds, which is
but little less than $500,000,000.
In one world politics article we are
told of a growing estrangement be-
will show that they realize that there tween Russia and Germany and there
must be a constant educational, policy is a long dissertation on the relative
carried out in order to maintain their strength of the two countries. Why
business. In our great cities the they should fight each other is not
policy of trade expansion that has been made clear, but there Is a painful ef
carried out by the breweries has con- fort to explain. The writer elaborates
sisted largely in a campaign of mis- on the . following: "The Russians
education of the immigrant and the could make excellent usa of the east
boys and girls. em provinces of Germany, and of the
We don't need to constantly educate harbors of Koenigsberg and Dantzlg.
people in orde to maintain the desire Germany, on the other hand, woald not
for bread, meat or other necessaries, desire to acquire part of Russian Po-
That is only true in the case of some- land, for she has already more Poles
In a Great Western railway car
riage, on the way up to London, a
youth had disturbed
tne other passengers
by
rem
grea
journey.
pass
natic
marked:
"I often think how
nice the asylum looks
from the railway."
"Some day," growled an old gentle-
i man, "you .will probably have occa
sion to remark bow nice the railway
looks from the asylum."
who own them. He does not Bee how
the citizens of the conquering notion
are benefited by the extension of their
country's boundaries. They do not
take the lands and the conquered peo
ple do not become their slaves. But
it seems that there is a diplomacy
which stands behind the exporter of
capital and "the struggle for a balance
of power lias its motive and its im
petus largely In this singular modern
'relationship between the state and fi
nance." War, then, is an agency for the pro
motion of the export o'f capital. The
Industrial classes pay taxes In hun
dreds of millions In order that finan
cial speculations may be made by the
promoters and gambling syndicates,
with the backing of big armies and
navies. This may not be far from the
truth, but there is no apparent reason
why it should arouse the taxpayers
to a frenzy of enthusiasm.
than she wants. On the other hand,
she could, no doubt, make excellent
use of the Baltic provinces of Russia."
But what is meant by "the Russians"
In the firBt case and by "Germany" in
the second?
thing for which there is no natural de
mand. Alcoholic drinks come in this
class.
Professor Partridge, Ph. D. (Yale),
made extensive lnvestigaticms of ths
habits and conditions of alcoholics. H
investigated hundreds of cases In
prisons and hospitals for Inebriates. I Another authority on world politics
The great majority testified that as questions the gain to be derived from
soon as they were put under conditions seising occupied lands and the people
where they knew they could not get
liquor the appetite left them. But as
soon as .they were released and saw
saloons it returned. This makes
psychologists believe that the alco
holic appetite is pyschic rather than
physical. J. K. NEAL,
The hard working people of one In
dustrial nation have 'more in common
with their brethren of another Indus
trial nation than they have with the
promoters and the syndicates and the
diplomatists. They could not displace
their brethren if they would by a
shifting of boundaries. And their In
cidental gains by capitalistic ventures
among inferior races in thinly popu
lated countries are negligible by com
parison with their war burdens.
Where do the masses come in on
this war game? How is it to their in
terest that the nations should always
millions 6f their smiling golden faces
seen in every lawn and vacant lot. ev
ery country lun.; and woodland path
throughout the valley.
In talking with his son. H. W. Preat
tyman, a day or two ago. he told me
many interesting facts about his
father.
"I have been In Oregon for the past
7 years," said Mr. Prettyman. "I
was 8 years old when we started for
Oretron in the .spring of 1847.
"There were nearly 6000 Immigrants
on the rond in 1 & 4 7. so grass was
short. Our wagon train stopped at
Waillatpu to rest a few days, and
whfle wo were there Dr. Whitman
hired some of our number to stay and'
work for him. Among others were
MIms Bewley and her brother, Crock
ett Bewley. He was o help at car
penter work and Miss Bewley was to
teach. Yon know what happened with
in a few weeks. Dr. and Mrs. Whit
man and many of the others with
them were murdered. Miss Bewley
was taken to the lodge of Five Crows,
where she stayed till ransomed by
Peter Skeen Ogdeu. the chief factor of
the Hudson's Bay company, who rescued-
all of the survivors of the Whit
man party and brought them down
the Columbia In batteaux to Van
couver. Several years later I atood
beside Miss Bewley at Oregon City and
watched SheriTf Joe Meek hang five
of the murderers Tilonkaikt, Tama
has, Klokamas. Isaiacholakis and Kla
masumpkin. "When we got to Oregon In the fall
of 1847 father started to look the
country over for a good location. Il
went up tb the Puget sound country,
but aTter looking the whole country
over for nearly two years he selected
Portland, as he thought It was apt to
ACTUAL SHIFTING OF COUNTRY'S WEALTH
By John M. Oskison.
In this country we do not merely
talk about taking from the rich -and
giving it to the less fortunate; we
actually do It.
For Instance, through recent Income
tax laws we have taken some & mil
stantial proof that most of the wretch
edness experienced by the people can
be traced to the licensed grogshop.
What makes the arraignment against
prohibition so lame is the fact that our
enemies are continually ignoring the
If all the world were a saloon, pro- re&l objects for which we are striving.
hibition Is worse. The law is to blame,
and not the saloon! Vote wet, for en
forced law, order and temperance-.
ELLA M. FINNEY.
The Scriptures and Drink.
Portland, June 9. To the Editor of
The Journal While Mr. GolJapp In his
letter In The Journal, June 4, takes
exceptions to some of my scripture
There is nothing which prohibits bet
ter than prohibition and with the
necessary weapons placed in the hands
of its friends the law will be enforced.
One writer says if prohibition is right
w'e would have had it long ago. We
whose Incomes were smaller; reduction
In tariff ' rates has helped to redis
tribute this burden.
Again, the parcel post law has
turned over to the people millions of
profit, formerly earned by the express
companies and paid out in dividends
to owners of their stock.
Through state laws, the public serv
ice corporations, street railways, gas
and electric lighting companies, wa
ter and power companies have been
compelled to reduce rates and thus di
vert from stock and bona noiaers
agitation which preceded the abolition
of slavery. The Louisiana lottery flour
ished for years before it was subdued,
and so with all great evils.
must be conceded I made no Btatement would vote for the exie?mi-
, u UU1"""" W4 l"c ' nation of the saloon not one would
of abstinence that were commanded , liye for 24 hour8. The church ha8 been
be examined, and dare say that others
have not forgotten the long period of earnings which they used to count on
These earnings mount Into the millions
every year.
Since the Interstate commerce torn-
ha arraved aealnst one another aa if
they were angry dogs spoiling for a ! be tne hea.l or navigation on tne river.
flsht? He took up a donation land claim
three miles back trom tne river on m?
east side. He cut a trail from Uncle
Jimmy Stevens' ferry to his claim.
He died on March 27, 1S72. and m.v
mother died, about two years later, on
Dec. 26, 1874. There were 10 children
In our family, but when mother died
only four were alive. Father sold part
of his place for $:r0 an acre. The rest
was divided at mother's death be- '
tween the four of us. My brothers
sold their shares oT the .C6tatt when
the value had pone up to $500 n acre.
1 kept mine 1 had , scree, wnicli 1
mission was given the power, in 1906,
to fix rates on the railroads there has
been a shrinkage of over three bil
lions In the market value of railroad
securities. As one railroad operator
points out, this shrinkage amount
td more than the assessed valuation
of real and personal property, lnclud
inr public service corporations. In the
! ."Tr: C0am"-Bi" kept arm I have sold most of It at a
ana, x 1 ' 1 1 1 1 (i, uruiia biiu ouuiii uiru- ,
Una combined. This shrinkage, due. the I
railroad people say, to the govern-
ii'tm s control over raiea, inn lin-aui 1 ... ... 1 ., ,.....-, r tv.l u-
loss principally to moneyed Investors. ! in I Ka.-ha.-l undcrvott of loU
Shippers and passengers have been the;counl-
1 Hjriui
good price. 1 still own rour acres 01
the orielnal claim at Kast Fifty-fifth
nowadays have it easief
than my father did. 1 have known mm
to ride clear down 1 to Roseburg on
horseback to attend a patient.""
The Ragtime Miise
references hearing on drunkenness it
crclse control of an Inherent right of
the people.
TVint t o n v attemnt on. th nart of
I expected the references to , sieeping but now js waking up to its the state to convey title would only act
great power. If 40 years ago it had I as a revocable permit, good oniy until
Mr. Goldapp the scripture facta that
he mentions.
My remarks about and references to
abstinence were directly in reply to
Mr. Yates, refuting his assertion that
the Bible 'nowhere" commanded It.
who did so found just as readily 'as did j ha(1 the Bplr'lt of progression that has repealed. And yet we have newspa-
actuated the W. C. T. U. there would pers and courts, gravely stating that
not have been so much need of that "undisputed title held by upland claim
great organization which has grown to ants for 60 years cannot now be dla
b a power in the country and will turbed." x
continue to be until we have a genera- t think you err In quoting the act of
i Lion or cican ana Dure citizens, xi re-1,07.1 n.v ...... , v.
The references to abstinence were not ; quires years to repair religious as well Btate hall Bubmerged land, on the
tZTlXri ..,,! vw, m, t I as P""ci" D'uu"t . Willamette," without also quoting with
-....t.li r, in. a jl j vv e una uuaer 1.11c rulings 01 uui ou-
disagree with some of Mr. Goldapp's preme court that the saloon has no
Inherent right to live, because it 4s an
institution which defies and destroys
- . . . 1 . 1. 1 I "
ana renaers inoo who ..aB . nun18 constitutional law Is Inalienable
state cannot abdicate it. It
statements and submit proof and comment.
His contention that the Bible "never
In a single instance condemns drink
ing" cannot be sustained, as Is shown
ly two of my references. Proverbs mane influence.
31:4-5 reads: "It is not for kings to"
drink wine, nor for princes strong
drink: lest they drink, and forget the
law, and pervert the Judgment of any
of the afflicted." Isaiah 6:22, 23 (R.
V.) reads: "Woe unto them that are
to do with it in the matter of its sup
port, indifferent as to moral and hu-
JULIA A. HUNT.
Waterfront Acts Examined.
Banks, Or., June 10. To the Editor
of The Journal I am glad to see that
y?u "I givillS,due ?wbU5,1,t!r!? able to defeat the public's Just and le-
gal claims, as they have been secured
it the subjection to publio use for com
merce and navigation as decided by
our courts (the recent dock decision
excepted), and which by American con-
The
can give
an adjacent owner title good against
other private users, bat not good
Lgalnst the public.
It is only by what appears to be a
conspiracy to suppress this side of the
law, that Oregon claimants nave been
of 1878 repealing the alleged water-
mighty to drink wine, and men of ! wfbnt grant of 1874. I have been ding
strength to mingle strong drink; that; ing that repeal Into the ears of legls
Justify the wicked for a bribe, and j lators. courts, state and city officials
take away the righteousness of the j and the public now for two years,
righteous from him!" I w.hiie bv others It has been Ignored.
These texts say "drink," not "drunk- j in my brief flied with the legislative
MllMiH." Is tha.t rlp.lr? T Vl a rA lu 1 1. P la., cA.alAn havlnv
think It will be argued that drunken-j the matter in charge, and with the su- W. and the imuienaDuuy or tne states
nesa is implied, since no king, prince i preme court and published in The u,e n navigable waters up to ordin
or court of ficial .that had been drink- j journal, I gave seven reasons why the high water mark, the repeal of 18, S
In other states Including; California, and
Washington.
The act of 1874 having been repealed,
and the courts having unanimously, up
to 1913. held that there is no land in
Portland harbor to which It could ap-
ber.eficiaries.
Investors who go on the theory that
the rich are in control and that their
Investments will always be safe
guarded by the controlling rich would
do well to study the history of stocks
and bonds of the companies affected
bv 1Hsl!it. nn An a nntlon wr am
surposed to worship the dollar, but In It IKiesn't Kem Right.
practice our lawmakers respect It less It r(.any la very droll;
than anything else ! Ten miles of roadway smooth and
1 flat
Beneath our flying car may roll,
and a good husband, but he does not I N() wor)j r praise; at last, a hole
make much money. He hasn't the ed-i Aha: Oho! We notice that!
ucation she has, so she helps, and by !
so doing her children can have a few I Through fifty years of married Ufa
of the pleasures of life, such as music, j A pair may live without a "pat;
whlrh ,ha wa Henlori Hoe mnnov nil scarcely IOOK Hi "
goes to buy a home and for the up
keep of that horn.
I know two single women who
teach and when school closes they have
not a cent. It is all spent for dresa
and theatres. They never go to school
to learn how to be better teachers or
to progress In their calling. Which
uses the money to the best advantage
the mother trying to rear two good
citizens, or the frivolous girls?
In conclusion. I believe a mother
comes as near knowing the child-heart
and child-need as some single women,
A MOTHER.
Ing sufficiently to become -drunken act of 1874 was invalid.
would be physically able to sit In judg-! 1. it was an amendment to the act
ment. it is made plain that wine and I for the sale of swamp and tide lands.
strong arink
responsibility.
ment, relieve mm of his conscience tide nor swamp lands.
and cloud his sense of right doing. 2. The alleged grant not contained
In the second quotation strong men in the title to the act.
and mighty men are specified. Will 1 3. The alleged gTant. applying to
the Taw, while the acts or 1874-6 are
killed utterly, and can not be reenacted
will disqualify a man forlour courts have already correctly held the supreme court and the adjacent
. destroy his good judg- j that the shores of the harbor ar, not owners claim ot title died with those
11 1JUUUC Property to render
service, it must be regu
lated by some public authority. Anv
effort to establish or continue an un
regulated monopoly would not be in
accord with the trend of, public opin
ion. I Monopoly in public service can
only be justified on the ground that
some advantages accrue therefrom to
the public
The necessity of fair rates and
satisfactory service to the public
is 'emphasized.
With regard to regulation and
control of public service companies
by statute the association went on
it-vuiu at, nrm m the belief that if nis, a Chinese missionary, they
such companies are to be con- have access to dead human bodies,
trolled they are entitled to look, to They feed from open cesspools in
the state for protection from com- which is the filth from the human
petition. jbody and from all other-sources of
Industrial insurance of employes, ' pollution. Rev. Jonathan Lees,
someone contend that the weak are
exempted from the effect of strong
drink? The result Is just as far
reaching. Let the strong and the
mighty, either in mind or body, place
strong drink among their habits and
they will be weakened in the practice
in addition to laying themselves liable
to an ultimate life of drunkenness,
' R. M. SPEKLMON.
The Appetite' for Liquor.
Buena Vista, Or., June J.--To the
Editor of The Journal Another word
In regard to the "demand and supply"
contention: Even though it is ad
mitted that there Is no "inherent"" de
sire in humanity for intoxicants, It
may be said that anyhow we find many
people today with the appetite, re
gardless of how they acquired it, and
that prohibition will not work because
Ot this fact in other words, tht the
present demand calls for a supply. 'Mr,
Newman in hia letter distinctly im
plied that the saloons exist today, be
cause there Is a demand for liquors.
Even- this is only partly true. An ex
amination of the utterances of those
at the head of the great distillery and
brewery organizations in this country
certain rivers only. Is dlacrlmatory and
class legislation In that'll seeks to con
fer special favora upon arbitrarily se
lected beneficiaries.
4. The land held conveyed Is nav
igable water needed for commerce and
navigation, consequently Inalienable
under federal law and the state consti
tution.
acts.
You concede too much-by admitting
that private title has been perfected
under these dead acts to any part of
our harbor. The court's decision may
be supreme on the application of an
existing act, but it certainly can not
enact a law nor reenact a repealed and
mummified one. J. B. ZIEGLER.
A Mother Writes of Teachers.
Portland. June 10. To the Editor
of The Journal Why all this .discus-
6 The state a title is only as sorer- sion regaruing in eiuyvyuicHi. ui mr-
eign trustee for the people. It has no rd teachers in our schools? Do the
fee aimple title to convey. schools exist for the pupils, or for, the
6. The act was repealed in 1878. teachers?- Must we retain single
probacy in consistence with the In- WOmL. h0WeV,1 nJ5 V"-'
ferpretaVn of the law by the Oregon rrytenrernale:7oVa,,Atrue
courts.
7. Contrary to public policy to make
a free grant of public property which
can be beneficially used by the pub
lic. In the dock decision of last sum
mer reversing the Oregon law as es
tablished up to that time, . the court
teachers, whether married or single?
Why can't we adopt a broad policy, as
many eastern cities have, and get tha
nes t and noblest teachers.
I know a aingle teacher who boasts
that there ia no God, and ridicules ail
religions, yet she teaches year after
year. How many mothers want tneir
quotes the Chicago water front cases, J children under such teachers?
very analogous to our own, but omits one teacher wrote that married
to quote that decision that a re- teachers, teach only for "pin morwy."
epeal of a similar legislative grant Now that is unjust and untrue, about
in Iillinois was upheld by the some, at least, whom I know. One of
United States supreme court as a my friends who ia a teacher, is the no-valid-
exercise of a ; sovereign and blest, truest of women, and does her
Inalienable duty of the state, to ex-'work well. Sh haa two little children
Alcohol and Crime.
Nchalem, Or., June 8. To the Editor
of Th Journal If those who are as
serting that alcohol causes murder
want to find the real cause for this
crime against society let them stop
guessing and get down to the real
facts. Let them follow their dally
paper, clip out the first hundred mur
ders reported and list the causes, and
they will find that no more than two
per cent or the murders are due to
alcohol in any shape, and one of those
two will have been committed In dry
territory.
I have tried this for a long time;
examined a few more than 900 mur
ders so report-d and have never found
more than two per cent. The rela
tions between man and woman, loye
and Jealousy, have caused more than
57 per cent and a good percentage of
the others are due to similar causes
In. which liquor has no part. The
same will apply to cases of suicide.
The percentage In divorces Is some
greater, but the state of Maine shows
a ereatr-r percentage of divorces for
Intoxication tha any license atate In
the Union.
A little investigation for oneself In
these matters will put a quietus upon
the rabid and groundless assertions of
those who are blindly seeking to force
others into tbelr narrow conception of
morality by legislation.
SAM J. COTTON.
But let there show a shade of strife
Aha! Oho! We notice that!
Our neighbor drudges day by d ay
At evening stnoxes within Ma rial.
He's but a dismal dog. we say;
He has a fight and rtina away
Aha! Oho! We notice thatl
Now let some diamond artist pound
The pill .300 with hia bat
Or swing a winning homer round,
Sav once a week oh. Joyful sound.
Aha! Oho! We notice that!
In Vaseball one good.
PJn
clever play
r the mat;
Ti,.. t, in life'' Oh. nav!
We boost the Jinx the livelong day
Aha! Oho! We notle that.
Major Albee'a "Ticket."
Astoria, Or., June 9. To the Editor
of The Journal On what ticket was
Mayor Albee elected mayor of Port
land? Kindly answer through The
Journal. A. GRESHAM.
Under the preferential system em
ployed in that election, the names Of
all candidates for mayor were printed
In one list, with no designation what
ever to Indicate partisanship.
Under the New Law.
From the Christian Register.
"Miss Frocks haa bought a blrdlesa
hat." said Mrs; Cuinso.
"It might be called an audobonnet,
might U notr' asked Mrs. Cawkar. y .
Khudou of Twl light.
Bv Delia Kmerald Jewell.
Sweet shadows of twilight! How ca'yi
your repose! -How
bl.st to the toiler thla hour f
release.
While the dewdmp fall soft in the
h.-art of the rose
And -vesper Is heard, with Its whla-
pT of pfure.
As round us the many hued halo is
shed.
The . bright, fleeting momenta lend
tribute to this.
How dear are the living! How neat
are the dead!
Earth seems like a bower In the
Harden of Bliss.
We look through Ihe twilight for thoae
we have lost;
Praro broods In all heart as day
changes to night:
And happy in all of life's battles wa'va
crossed.
Sweet peace comes at last, with her
garland of while. y
Sweet shadows of twilight! How dear
la your thrill!
What tee:it!f'il thoughts you have
brought us untold;
When the shadows have turned, and
the evening grows still.
There is youth in our hearts which
can never grow old.
Grants Pass. Or.. June . 1J14. . '
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