THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. WEDNESDAY EVENING . JUNE ' 17, 1914.
-THE JOURNAL TRYING TO BLOCK THE WILSON PROGRAM
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When You Go Away
: '-llave The Journal sent to
,:your Summer address.
My advlcs Is to consult the
Uvea of other men as we would
-A looking glass, and from
tlienee fetch examples for our
own Imitation.
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VP IV A BALLOON
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i HERB; are desperate efforts to stop President Wilson's legis
lative program. ' .
A Detroit automobile manufacturer sent out letters advising
that newspapers friendly to" the Wilson administration be boy
cotted by advertisers. - Illuminating facts respecting his action are pre
sented in an article from the New York World on this page.
Monday, President Wilson made disclosures on the subject. He
presented copies of letters and telegrams sent out by trusts and
their agents protesting against further progressive legislation. The
recipients were advised ' to wire the president, , the senators, con
gressmen and other figures of government urging adjournment of
Congress without enactment of the anti-trust blllsj A statement in
one letter is significant. It says: ;':- - '
- 'i Granting the petition of the Eastern railroads for a five per cent
Increase in freight rates will do more for 'the prosperity and development
of the country than all legislation against unlawful restraint of trade and
monopoly. - " " -
. ?." The incident recalls La Follette's exposure of the methods used
by the railroads to influence public sentiment in favor of a rate
increase. He presented to the senate letters, telegrams, petitions,
newspaper editorials and news articles covering over 300- pages of
this Congressional Record, all bent on making public sentiment for
the rate increase. They incidentally showed that a mournful propor
tion of the newspapers of the country are under railroad guidance,
or subject to railroad Influence.
There is not, the slightest doubt that an exactly similar propa
ganda is being; directed against President Wilson's legislative
program.
Every influence known to special privilege which has long fat
tened upon governmental favors, is being directed against the presi
dent, ; against members of the senate, house and other officials. It
is a concerted movement aided and abetted by standpat newspapers
and standpat politicians in every part of the country.
President Wilson boldly charges that In their desire to stop .his
legislative program, the big corporations and combines are deliber
ately trying to depress business conditions. In the letters sent out
they advise, correspondents to -harp in their letters to the president
about hard times and to have Congress adjourn so no more men
will be "thrown idle."
The president's exposures- direct attention, to the same kind of a
cry that has been raised by standpat leaders in Oregon. They are
cuckooing here the exact warwhoops raised by the trusts- and privi
leged corporations.
All there is of the president's anti-trust legislation is a bill for
a trade commission which shall have power to investigate the busi
ness of big corporations, make recommendations to the president and
congress, and to make public, instances of lawlessness among them.
Another bill makes guilt personal and provides that for illegiti
mate or unlawful operations by trusts, the officials, upon conviction,
shall be sent to the penitentiary. Still another bill forbids railroadc
S THE Oregontan still balloon-
lag? i
Has it learned yet that the
balloon Springfield with Captain
Donaldson and Mr. Henderson are
safe?
While the Oregonian was selling
on the streets this morning with
out -a word of information from
the missing aeronauts, The Journal
extra was on : the thoroughfares
with the news that the "Spring
field" had landed near Blue Lake
la. the Bull Run reserve, and both
aeronauts were safe.
Tnihnrrnw mornlnff nenrlv twn-
ty-tour hours after The Journal from watering stock issues and directs that the proceeds of stock
appeared with the facts, the pa- ana uoua issues euau lks uptui ivj me ueuem ui iue ruaui ana not
tmn of h Orptrnnian 'will read' for - the . private benefit of dishonest, directors and managers. The
penalty, on conviction, is a jau sentence.
All that ' is proposed in the program is to make all business
operate on the square. It is the kind of legislation for which the
Republican masses and Democratic masses have, been clamoring for
a dozen years. It is the legislation that standpat Republican leaders
denied for a dozen, years, which denial resulted in the rise of the in
surgent Republicans, and contributed largely to the great Republican
Bplit of 1912.
There is no, mistaking the purpose of the present onslaught on
the Wilson program, whether it be in the state of Oregon or in the
city of Washington. It is an assault upon all that Republican in
surgency stood for, an assault upon all that democratic Democrats
have stood for, an assault upon all that the Progressive masses have
stood for,-an assault, upon all the plain people of the country have
watched for and waited for this dozen years. .
It is a deliberate attempt, whether made in tho state of Oregon
or in the city of Washington, to lead the Republican masses back to
Aldricbism, Cannonism and Penroseism. It is a cunning strategy to
But now . sleeping contemporary dupe the Republican masses and put the party back into the political
trr'iSai.on'ofs tt,tfude i912- sp"1" wid penvthtt red"ced u to a rem-
'of the Kansas City Ill's Journey into nant . organization and left its regiments broken, shattered and de-
the wilds, of the Cascade range was moralized. '
! fntativ."ldtaaraf lla - Woodrow Wilson's program is an effort to correct In this nation
If wis exactly oa of that sort! . . au buubcb uuuei mo reiRii jui wmcn me lew nave long
of ;cvifients" of which the best news-j absorbed most or the wealth created by the toil of the many. It Is a
patriotic endeavor, to prevent crimes of cunning by which a few get
much for nothing. It is an aggressive movement to reconstruct the
distribution of wealth so that it will no longer create colossal for
tunes for privilege and no longer add to the ragged regiments of
poverty". '
It is an honest president's struggle to make prosperity, not alone
for the Rockefellers. Morgans. Carneelea. and other renAraiifinimna f
;wnicn tne uest newspaper neats are wealth, but prosperity for all the American people
raaae ny me uregonian,. its
Georgia farmers in 182 years have
accumulated only $580,000,000. '
Wisconsin has "about 2 V4 times
as many cattle as Georgia," but
they are worth six times as much.
She has 3 times as many dairy
cattle, but -they give six times as
j much .milk, Wisconsin raises and
sells six times as, many, calves ana
cattle, and her annual dairy prod
ucts are eight times more valuable
than Georgia's. The " home-raised
milk supply in Wisconsin amounts
to 196 gallons a year per inhabi
tant; in Georgia it is only 2 9 gal
lons. Butter produced - on the
farms alone amounts to 32 pounds
per inhabitant; In Georgia it is
only 14 pounds a year.
Wisconsin produces eggs amount
ing to 20 dozen a year per inhabi
tant; in Georgia the average Is
only 7.5 " dozen. The annual per
capita production of meat in Wis
consin is 268 pounds; in Georgia
it is 88 pounds. Wisconsin has a
surplus of 270,000,000 pounds to
sell;. Georgia has a deficit of 167,
000,000 pounds.
, Diversified farming accounts for
these startling comparisons. The
Wisconsin farm is a manufacturing
plant, turning off only the fin
ished product wherever It is pos
sible to do so. The Wisconsin
farmer Is v not dependent upon one
crop, the failure of which would
leave him" hungry.
No better argument for diversi
fied farming was ever produced.
The state which expects to reach
its highest prosperity must us Its
land for the production of pedi
greed work stock, big beef cattle,
high bred dairy cows, registered
pigs.
A FEW, SMILES
The lecturer
said- Impressively:
"Every time I see
a young roan com
ing out of a sa
loon, I want to ' go
vp to that young
man and aay: Turn
right around young
man; .you're going
the wrong way."
. Here is on that was told "by Con
gressman William iW. Stacker of Mis
souri the other evening when the con
versation turned to
the wonderful way
of little wifey.
. Some time ago
Brown, who lives In
a suburban burg.
rushed Into the
kitchen where moth-'
er was bossing the
preparation of the evening hash. In
one of father's fists he was holding
his other hand,, while a cussy expres
sion was floating; over his features.
"Where is that antiseptic salvo,
Minnie?' he demanded almost rough
ly. "That infernal parrot of yours has
bitten a chunk out of my hand!"
"What's - that, Jimmy?" exclaimed
little wifey, with a look of great con
cern. "Do you mean to say that he
bit a piece all the way out of your
hand?"
"That's what he did," answered
James. "Clean as a whistle. Where
did you say that Balve was?"
"Oh. Jimmy," returned wifey In a
complaining voice. "I do wish you
would be more careful. You know
very well the bird dealer told me not
to let that parrot taste meat under
any circumstances."
PERTINENT COMM ENT AN D NEWS IN BRIEF
tSMALAi CHANGS
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Spain will seem like the same old
place, now that the . colonel has taken
his departure. ,
All colleges and universities are
hereby exhorted to please confer no
degrees upon the thermometer. .
.
Mr. Led yard having stated that he
waa not afraid of Mr. Morgan, does
Mr. Mellen class him with Alexander
the Great or with Ananias?
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And even If the militants should
scare King George Into suffragisra.
there's Queen Mary to scare him into
something so much worse.
Those who are trying to block the
Wilson program must be afraid it will
get out on the main line when the
wheat trains will be wanting the right
of way.
The look of superiority, not to say
scorn, comes now to the face of the
Oregonian formerly of the east, when
he hears the native Oregonian talking
about the "heat."
If General Carranza would go and
get a shave It might help everybody
whose business it I to decide how
they like the looks of him for presi
dent of Mexico.
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The nicnic season has arrived, and
I with it the joke about the man who
oiks uirv.il im cue leiliutj x?ui BIU.?
people don't take piea to picnics any
more, Where's the joke?
Letters From the People
lor tne nrai lime in tne paper
ja.bo.ut. the landing of. J.ha balloon
and. the safety , of Its . passengers.
'The facts recall, the late grandilor
. ) truenr uoasung ot tne vregonian as
' In ft nWa rvli'. YftAl-flav it.
J Anticipation of an Important event
I n prrparai oi iu repuri 11 are eie
i mextn in journalistic enterprise. "The
, Or-galan - foresaw the likelihood
tlmt .important news '-would develop
J from the balloon . flight . of last
. reHc- For that rason- rt uvnt a staff
J wrTUr with one ot-tUe pHots. There
J were- three othfcf. available places.
Nobody, so far as We are - aWare. en
J deavored to prevent tny , -otner nws-
paper from sending a representative.
. J r no other wa awake ; to the, op-
. vorttinity.
'jsper beafs are male. But such ac-
cldnUi never fall to the luck of the
-fwipper whlrh has no forethought
or is unwilling to undergo the ex
3enHe of inviting them.
Twenty-four hours behind with
.the news of the "Springfield! Is a
part of that fine foresight "with
nii?n,I?,InI.cat!?n" ent to T Journal for
publication in this department ahould be wrlt-
lJSS SJf on i,fe f PPer. houl(l not
?ZZ . ,a0? Jrords i length and must be ac
companied by the name and address of the
sender. If the writer does not desire to
nave the name published, he should so state )
- MsniSion is the greatest of all reform
ers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It
robs principles of all falaa sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they bare no reasonableness, It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up Its
own conclusions In their stead." Woodrow
W li&on .
"Well, sonny." said the patient
druggist to the small boy. who had
been hanging aoout
the store for half
an hour, eagerly
eyeing the. candy
counter, "do you
want to buy
some candy?"
"Course I wanter
but I can't mother
sent me ter buy soap.
jreference to The Journal as "the holding the looking glass to her
newspaper which has no fore-
lips "if that her breath will moist
,mougDt wouia nave tar weignuer or staIn the st0ne" reveals fhe
application if the Oregonian had union of father and child in un
deceived the news of the landing divided love
.the "Springfield," as it had am- Cordelia, who loved her father.
; yle opportunity to do, and printed not with honeyed words, but ac-
;the story in this morning's edition, cording to her duty, was the stone
Its failure to do so after its lhat the builders rejected. Hers
blatant boasting places it in a
Very ridiculous position.
' . ' Hereafter, when it goes balloon -lng
about its news service, it
should carry more ballast.
was the loyalty upon which stands
the happy home.
A CHAMBERLAIN BILL
THK LESSON OF LEAR
.HP open air- reproduction of
King Lear by the students of
the University of Oregon is
ft notable achievement In col
lege dramatics. So far as known.
It is the first attempt by college
'actors to render a play rarely in
cluded In the repertoire of the pro
' fesdional actor.
T
HE Chamberlain bill for ex
changing school sections scat
tered througnout the Oregon
forest reserves for equal areas
of forest lands in a group acces
sible to a railroad, has encountered
trouble in the House at Washing
ton. The plan was originated by Gov
ernor West. Through his efforts,
the 1913 legislature authorized the
proposed exchange on the part of
confiscation of personal property
O'Sulllvan's Rejoinder.
Portland, June 15. To the Editor of
The Journal Regarding the so-called
national anthem, "America, I find
my remarks on the same have aroused
the ire of the local Anglo-Saxons.
Well, let's look at the matter another
way. Let us suppose some talented
American wrote a national anthem full
of the sublimest sentiments, to the
tune of "The Wearing rof the Green!"
These very wearers of the Anglo
yoke, under the guise of Americans,
would be the very first to vigorously
protest. But there can be no harm in
chanting the air of "God Save the
King," to express the bouI of true
Americanism. So they believe, foolish
ly.
1 maintain both the words and
music of any country's national anthem
should be the essence of that coun
try's nationality; fancy "Rule Brit'
tanla' sung to the music of some
American - patriotic air w hose words
represent vividly the fall of Britain's
rule And, .exultation ovr that fall.
Think you your loyal Britishers would
yoaei with Anglo fervency?
Moreover, why did" the Anglo-Saxon
propaganda in this country use Its ut
most endeavors to eliminate th third
verse from our national anthem, "The
esiar spangiea Banner?" That such
an attempt was made is common
knowledge. Perhaps they were more
concerned over the words "hireling and
slave- tnan "in God is our trust."
of. all dramas. Its thema is filial
Ingratitude and in all literature
tnere Is no finer commentary on
The Chamberlain bill confers au
thority for the feeerai government
to perform its part in making the
the old c-omtnandment "Hnnnr thv . - ,
, .. . ... .. :r T transfers, xne Dili has tne sane-
e KaiHd y mthaf.the "on of the forestry department.
Rnr hath cnmmanrlorl tha,' that I
h - .,,.. v , w 'a la a desirable arrangement be-
thy' days may be crolortsed and
that it may go" well with thee In
the land which the Lord' thy God
glveth thee." ;;
. Whatever may be the dramatic
value of the story of Lear the les
son It teaches is a timely one in
these days of loosening household
relationships. ' The tragedy of be
ing dependent upon others when
. old Is vividly portrayed. The quar
rel Over property and the division
"of family, is one of every day life.
. There are many Lears. Some
. wait and. watch in charitable insti
tutions, some are driven out in the
v ctorm while, daughters spend their
, substance, some are made to feel
that they are a burden at home
Cause it is constructive, tit is a
plan that will take the scattered
sections out of idleness and put
them into immediate public use.
Governor West is on the way
to Washington to second the ef
forts of the. Oregon delegation in
pushing the measure through the
House.
If . the House should , beat the
bill, it will do a very foolish and
very indefensible thing.
the use of it for purposes injurious
to the public health or morals. If
he had knowledge or notice he can
not complain if, loss ensues when
the law deals with the nuisance
in a way reasonably necessary for
its abatement.
This part of the decision hits
owners of property covered by a
contract of conditional sale. A
Minneapolis concern sought tb save
furniture sold on the installment
plan. But the court held that the
furniture could properly, be con
fiscated by the state, even in the
face cf the' Minneapolis concern's,
plea that when it sold the articles
it had no knowledge of the uses
to which- they would be put.
The decision is of great moment,
for it establishes, even more
strongly than before, the legal
fact that public morals and health
are superior to rights in property
or the right to extend a legitimate
business into illegitimate channels.
Lakeview now has a weed ordinance
Under which the property of negligent
owners may be cleaned up by the city
and sold for charges. , .
-
Wheeler cittsens hav Just raised a
77-foot flagpole, and from it on July
4 they . will for the first time fly a
flag of dimensions to match the pole.
Colonel Clark Wood of the Weston
Leader, who Is an expert In such mat
ters, says those Alberta, oil wells
"will have to do some tremendous
gushing to keep ahead of the pro
Gold Mill's council has prohibited
firecrackers on the Fourth of July or
any other day, and is protesting the
local telephone company's resolve to
reduce the previous Si-hour service to
one terminating oaiiy at p. m.
The United States commissioner at
Silver Lak last week took fillncs on
tracts aggregating 2441.4 acres, situ
ated near that town. All but one were
either "enlarged homesteads," or "ad
ditional." amounting to the same thing.
Seaside Signal: It is planned to
dedicate the new streets In the various
narta of th cltv on the Fourth. The
company in charge of the street work
ha Instructions to make the surfacing
of Broadway a job to make themselves
and the city proud, and if this is taken
nit iieriouslv bv she comDany as by the
city council an open-air dance will be
given on the new street, with- music
by the seasMe Dana.
TRYING TO STOP THE WILSON PROGRAM
6ay our taxes will only be 92 cents
extra each year if we bond our county
for $860,000 for an automobile boule
vard that we farmers cannot use. nut
for the benefit of the people of Marion
county that have not taken time to
figure it out, I would like to submit
the following figures: interest on
$850,000 at $ per cent is $51,000 per
year. For 20 years It is. $1,020,000.
Interest for 20 years plus the prin
cipal will be the enormous sum of
$1,870,000, besides all the expensive
repairs and ruined farm teams. Our
teams would soon become useless, the
same as your heavy city teams. It
costs but little to build and repair our
rock roads: besides, they last better
than the paved ones.
ONK WOMAN ' THAT IS WIDJE
AWAKE.
From the New York World.
The letter on the subject of auto
mobile advertising written by a De
troit manufacturer attracts attention
partly on account of- its spirit but
chiefly because of the person to whom
it Is addressed.
In this missive it ts delicately hint
ed that newspapers, favorable to the
Wilson administration should be boy
cotted by advertisers. Although the
writer disavows any Intention to "pur
chase or dictate" newspaper policy. It
is plainly his purpose to bully jour
nals that receive their ideas chiefly
from the cash register. There are such
newspapers.
- Strange as it may appear, the letter
was drawn out by a suggestion from
Marshall Cushing, who has acted as a
go-between for business and politics
for many years. It was Cushing who
as secretary of the National Maoufac
turers' association, employed Colonel
Mulhall In 1902-7 for "field work" in
the Interest of the lobby at Washing'
ton. It was under Cushirtg's direction
that Colonel Mulhall went with men
and money into the districts of con
gressmen to defeat those who were
hostile to the interests and to elect
those who were friendly. It was
Cushing who used Colonel Mulhall in
various places as a strikebreaker.
While the bulldoslng letter now at
hand carries the name of an important
manufacturer, it is otherwise char
acteristio of Cushing himself. It con
veys an idea without directly assum
ing responsibility for It. Proof exists
that Cushing did all of his lobbying
at night. H wrote many letters, not
one of which was signed. His Inter
views were all secret. If Colonel Mul
hall had not kept thousands of docu
ments and made many notes, his story
of the lobby's gumshoe processes could
not have been substantiated as it was,
t
Owing to the publicity Inflicted upon
him last summer by The World. Cush
lng was under the painful necesstiy
of removing his finely appointed bu
reau of persuasion and Intimidation
from Washington to New . York. He
has no expectation of returning to the
capital until political conditions under
go a chanp We Infer from the De
troit letter, .hrefore, that the great
work of restoring the lobby and beat
ing Wilson is already under way and
that It la going on in the dark as
usuaL
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
THE NAKED TRUTH ABOUT FINANCE
found in houses abated under the r,:"r 5'
act, the court Bald that an owner j truth, in words, in music, In sentiment,
of property has no vested or con-1 It. will forever remain such, Anglo
stitutional right to use or allow ' A1nfrlcan mf s WU tfve up the
i5uk iu me uuiiea states.
It can't be done. If they had the cour
age of their convictions they would
confess that their hearts are in Britain
and their purses in America. They
may as wen save their money in s.U
tempting tot impress their British na
tionality on this land of the free and
home of the brave, where It's a mat
ter of sublime Indifference to the true
American whether "God eaves the
king" or What he does' with kings. No
Anglo-man can begin "America" with
these words, "My native country;" it
Is not his native country; It is tho
great American nation, built up with
the brains, -blood, muscle and patriot
ism of. all Europe. I also Bay, In
truth, many of us could sing the first
verse of "America" with more sincerity-if
it read:
THE SCHOOL ELECTION
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ABATEMENT LAWS.
M"
INNESOTA'S Supreme Court
last Friday declared that
state's injunction and abate
ment law. enacted for thn
and ' their last days are days of suppression of disorderly houses,
trouble. Filial ingratitude not to h constitutional. Th Wisinn
' only, breaks a commandment but has large importance, for it is an
it crushes the spirit of home. Chil- other judicial declaration that a
, idrett whose. parents, are in, the way person may surrender his right in
untwist the strandsof the rope property by permitting it to be
that binds society; Husbands and J used for immoral, purposes.
. wives are divorced in the courts The Minnesota . law . provides for
oa parents ana children are sepa-l the forfeiture and sale of all per
orated .without legal process. Isonal nroDerty used in maintain.
U The abtfse of parents is a com- ing the nuisance, the closing of
f mon one. Lear "upon a wheel of premises in which the nuisance is
Jlre with tears that scald like mol- carried on., and the imposition of
ten lead" Is a too familiar figure, money, ' penalties . against persons
shaking his ' fist'" At the participating in the 'nuisance. The
.etorm clouds is a picture Of the court held that the act is a proper.
,60ul s desolation and sorrow. - Lear I exercise of police power.
rcarrying dead .Cordelia in his arr-el - As to the law'a provision for
NLY 581 persons voted for
free text books. The vote
against was 7209.
It is a . vote that should
prevent free text books from again
becoming an issue in Portland.
The real issue is low-priced text
books. . Low priced text books and
a great free public school system
of definite and purposeful effi
ciency are the program for a
stronger and better citizenry.
The vote for Dr. Alan Welch
Smith was 6181 out of a total of
8116 with three candidates a-field.
It is a vote of confidence highly
complimentary to Dr. Smith.
The school election challenges
"My country, 'tis of thee.
Brave land of liberty,
To thee I sing.
Land of my fathers pride
To whale John Bull's hide,
From every mountain side,
God slam a king." .
T., M. O'SIJIJrjTv'AN.
The Attorney's Fee.
Portland, June 17. To the Editor
of The Journal I am obliged to call
your attention to the fact that the at
torney's fee asked for in foreclosing
the mortgage given by O. A. Ploegstra
and wife to . Carl Schlewe was $120.
not $550; as published. The decree as
presented to the judge called for $120,
and I ask that you publish this letter,
or make some statement of the error.
Mr. Schiewe is certainly not to he
blamed , for foreclosing a mortgage
when he is called upon to pay large
sums for taxes and insurance to pro
tect the property. BEN IRWIN.
In the Schiewe complaint Mr. )Irwln
asked for $550 attorney's fee. After
Colonel Wood had brought the matter
to -- the court's attention and Judge
Cleeton had reduced the fee to $25,
Mr. Irwin changed the amount asked
to $120.
The Restraint of. Dogs.
Portland,-Or.. June 17.. To the Ed
itor of The- Journal- I consider It
absurd to keep dogs chained. Chaining
tends to make them worse. A- dog
likes its freedom the same as the
A RESIARKABLE CONTRAST
commendatory remark on account little liberty he is harder to control,
of the large number of taxnavers i Nothing can be better than the raux-
wno went to the polls and denos-i1 orlnance eniorceo. j.nere ar too
ited thpir hallnta . many nogs in., me cny, anyway, ana
lieu ineir Daiioxa. 1. .hm.M t rnit.t a
dog without a . muzzle, in Sellwood.
snapped, at me and. caught my clothing.-.
It may be fun for the dog, but
the reverse for the wearer. Sup
pose it had been a child's hand who
knows the result? I contend that
the muzzle ordinance Is the best, and
it should be enforced to the last let
ter. ."' -- 'j-
" There should be plenty of drinking
troughs W the streets, especially for
the animals. OSBORNE YATES, r
A'
N ARTICLE in Home and
Farmstead, illuminates the
whole question of diversi
fied farming. The prosperity
of' Wisconsin' is compared with that
of Georgia, and it is stated that
in ninety years Wisconsin farmers
have accumulated - wealth aggre
gating $1,500,000,000, - wh lie
Opposes Road. Bonds. '
Turner. Or., June 18. To the Editor
cf Tbe Journal The Salem Statesman
Criticises School System.
Portland, June 13. To the Editor of
The Joarnal.-T-One would think we
were rearing children In Portland with
sheeps' brains, , that all we can teach
them is How, to grow cabbage, run. in
cubators' and do -steam-fitting.
If the child was or Is normal it
should he able, to peruse and be
taught grammar, mathematics, chem
istry, geology, astronomy and botany.
Knowledge of the above subjects Is
useful if not essential to people In
any or all the walks of life.
If the state should teach the pupil
to run an incubator, -or how to fit
pipe, then "the state Should furnish the
grownup pupil an Incubator to run, or;
pipe to fit.- i
The fact Is there are approximately I
1000 occupations, and whatever one
learns concerning any one is liable to
be forgotten before tbe pupil " finds
someone to furnish employment at that
job, or before he accumulates wealth
to engage in such occupation.
About free text books to private
schools, I am considering about start
ing an academy. Would you vote for
my pupils to have books furnished
them at the state's expense?
P. W. B.
The Last of the Barons.
From the Omaha World Herald.
J. Pierpont Morgan is in his grave.
With all the outcry that had been
raised against him he died respected
and respectable. Now, when it is im
possible for him to protect himself
against the truth, the truth Is coming
out to play bavoo with his fame and
name. Even were he alive, however,
and in the zenith of his power, the
chances are strong that he would be
powerless to prevent the truth coming
to light. Mortal hands, no more than
dead hands, can stop the mills of the
gods.
The lesson, be sure, will not be with
out its effect on those who would fol
low in the Morgan footsteps. There
Is not a financier In New York or In
the country; there Is not a banker or
speculator who has been mismanaging
a railroad "for what there, was in it for
himself or for his gang, but will be
troubled by the picture of Mellen on
the witness stand. Mellen was one of
the ablest and most successful of prac
tical railroad men, become an under
ling and weak tool Jn the hands or his
banker board of directors. Just as he
has refused to keep silent and take
upon his own shoulders the whole bur
den of shame and punishment, so
might other men : similarly circum
stanced be expected to do. And the
scrutiny of the public, the scrutiny of
boards and commissions, the scrutiny
of departments of justice, into the de
tails of railroad management is De-
coming Increasingly more penetrating
and Intelligent. ; xne tnings mat a
Morgan could do In comparative se
curity and with ' serene mind, only a
few years ago, no Morgan could do to
day without taking desperate chances.
There is more than one Wall street
board of directors, we Imagine, sadly
resolving that the Jig is up. and that
It would be foolhardy to risk the crea
tion of another Mellen- in tneir own
households.
The sun of railroad piracy Is set-
tine:. The sun of honest management
and of a technically as well as finan
cially-efficient management under a
real public supervision .is rising.
Rich Prison 'Fare.
From the Baltimore Star.
These are days when "the prisoner
pent" is being cheered up and ca
tered to In a way that leaves out
of consideration entirely the "purpose
all sublime of making the punishment
fit the crime." If New York's ex
ample is followed by other cities in
the matter of Jail accommodations, 39
days or even six months behind the
bars may come to be regarded by those
who are careless about minding the
statutes, as only a temporary seclusion
from the stress and worry of a. too
strenuous existence.
New York's main Jail palace, mis
called the Tombs, ! now supplies to
the incarcerated, who have a cash re
serve to .their credit, "all the luxuries
of a Broadway lobster palace."- The
quotation is from the headlines of a
New York newspaper and the descrip
tion of the "brand new white enameled
kitchen," and of the luxurious bill of
fare from which those In durance may
By John M. Osklnson.
Lately, twot men whose words are
worth listening to have spoken of the
public's attitude toward bankers, big
business and finance. One is Eugene
L. Richards, New York state superin
tendent of banks, and the other Is
Judge Gary, head of the steel trust
Mr. Richards also quoted a third com
mentator, Frank A. Vanderlip, presi
dent of the country's biggest bank.
"A hysteria of criticism" is what
both Mr. Vanderlip and Mr. Richards
call the volume of news and comment
which Is carried In the newspapers and
urged upon state legislatures and con
gress by the people's representatives.
"Sham" Is Mr. Richards' word; he ap
plied it to the vices ana alarms ex
posed In the papers, as well as to the
"radicals." "socialists" ana - reiorm
ers" who are preaching- against big
business and finance.
Mr. Gary was far more temperate
and hopeful. He was able to see a
well defined sentiment to give busi
ness, even big business, a fair chance.'
He thought that the candidate for of
fice who would rise and utter such
sentiments Just now would be support
ed by the people.
A significant thing was said by Mr.
Richards In his talk to the savings
bank men of New. York state:
"If every banker within the sound of
my voice would make a personal effort
during the next year ts give the real
facts and methods of finance to the
journalists of his acquaintance, a sur
prising change could be effected In
publicity. If such organised effort Is
continued for a few years both men
and things will h clad in truth, naked
and unashamed." '
The "naked truth' about finance Is
something which you and I would
dearly love to see adopted as a cos
tume by big business and finance. No
newspaper in the country of real In
fluence would reject the truth about
these matters in favor of sensational
lies, if only they could get the truth!
What big business and finance have
not yet realised Is that you and I are
coming to have closer and closer re
lations with them as workers and In
vestors. Our newspapers know this,
and our representatives In congress
?nd the legislatures know It The
time has passed when the wrecking of
a railroad concerns only a small group
of rich men.
We don't want to be "hysterical" in
talking about big business 1 and
finance; yet we shall continue to seem
so until we learn how to get at the
unclothed truth. It rests largely with
the leaders of. business and finance
themselves to step out of the class of
the dark -woman with the mysterious
past
choose, bears out the declaration of
the headline. There are seven differ
ent kinds of fish, 17 varieties of meat
and poultry, five salads, 11 soups and
a menu card of fruits, pastries, deserts
and other things, including choice
brands of cigars, that constitute the
Tombs restaurant one among the best
In all Gotham town. .
Those who may prefer to regard
themselves as guesta of the town will
be given somewhat humbler fare, but
plenty of It. With the inauguration
of the swell restaurant service, no
prisoner will be permitted to receive
food from outside. Food from, outside
sometimes contains such Impurities as
saws and files. It is proposed that ho
such adulterants shall get Into the
foods prepared in the new sanitary res
taurant. Useless Court Decisions.
From the Chicago Record-Herald.
John Baesett Moore, professor and
authority on International law, has
been lecturing on uniformity In legis
lation and judicial decisions. His ar
raignment of the present chaotic con
dition of affairs was as scathing as
that of eminent practitioners who have
daily experience with the case system.
What we must face in this country
is "a legal chaos buttressed with
shapeless mass of digest and index."
The reporting of cases is thoroughly
commercialized, and "day by day.
month by month, there is poured forth
jipon a gurgling, sputtering bar a tur
gid stream of Judicial decisions.
Petty cases, local cases, cases .Involv
ing no new question, decisions on the
way to reversal everything is report
ed without rhyme or reason, discrim
ination or mental profit Why. asks
Moore, rely on volumes of unassimil
ated cases, instead of on principles as
illustrated and aDDlied in a few really
important and well reasoned opinions?
Why Indeed? What magic Js there
In reports? After alt somewhere, some
time, the dust covered lawyers must
strike an opinion In which there is
original thinking, the application of a
principle. Why not.Tgnore tbe hun
dreds of obscure cases and peal at
once to the one that stands Out and
shines as a light in the darkness? The.
bar is enslaved and debauched oy cases
and a movement back to simplicity, to
principle, to Independent thinking is a
crying necessity.
Blake Bad Memory Jailable.
Frbra the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
. Burned books figure prominently In
the collapsn of the New Haven railroad.
Oakleigh Thorne testified that the of.
flclal records of an $8,000,000 stock
transfer were destroyed two years ago.
In the general shuffle of getting two
trolley lines shifted front one owner to
another $1,032,000 disappeared entirely
Mr. Thorne, who acted as agent, cannot
recall what became of this money,
The fact that only $1,000,000 had
been spent on one of the two. trolley
roads and tbe fact that the other was
virtually nothing . but
proves that $8,900,000 was a tidy prlc
for the New Haven to pay. Mr. Thorne
suggests that Tammany politicians
were "interested" in the trolley roads
and bad to be "seen."
Mislaying $1,000,000 so that It can
not be found ought to be impossible In
any corporation. Mr. Prouty has said
that $12,000,000 of New Haven cash ap
pears to have gone Into thin air.
Who got this money?'
Certainly not the unfortunate stock
holders of New Haven, whose shares
are worth today but a third of their
former value. But somebody got It.
and the courts must find out who and
lay a finger upon that man or set of
men.
Forgetting $1,000,000 here and there
in the management of a corporation
ought to be made a crime that leads
straight to a cell. Nearly every great
railroad collapse In the past 16 years
has been due to personal greed of a
very few men snd out of which they
made fortunes while the other bond
and share owners got oothlnjg but a
heavy loss.
The way to stop this is to make it a
crime to forget $1,000,000, as It has
been forgotten In the New Haven case.
Few pioneers are better known than
Ezra Meeker. I have Just returned
from a trln with him
falls, Thors heights and Gordon falls
and it is hard to biiev that a man .
who has the go in him that ..Ezra V
Meeker has is 84 years old. In climb-
lng up a steep trait I offered htm a
helping hand. "Don't you worry about
Aie. ht M "hAln imKsw.. la -
old and needs help. I am a heap sight
tKMi am TS
T " j wu s to a a jvu ajc-cvA ,
sanw kaU Itlai 1a m. W.a I-
" fc a U0 V IC SI C S IIV VT . '
During a few moments of leisure
Mr. Meeker told me of his trip by o
tenm hatlr nv., th. 1 A t ra I Ka k ,4
first seen C2 -ears ago.
When I came lw 1852." said Mr.
Meeker, "I had been married soms-
.uiuk over a year, we started when
our baby was a few weeks old. Fifty
two was the big year. It seemed as if
all the world was on the move. be
lieve you could travel from the Mis
souri river westward for 500 mile an
never be out of sight of an emigrant
wagon. Hundreds of teams were
stretched out7 in line, the teams and
tne loose stock kicking up the flour
like dust which, seen from some near
by hilltop, looked like a moving cloud
and experienced from the midst of the
cioua seemed like a choking fog.
1 fl M Wat, wa nn1ll.4 .kl.h
iuo kvuic u i vnuiera ipai leu
w many (raves on the plains that
year. Grass was short, which necessi
tated herding the oxen a mnnlileraMa
distance from camp. Soon the owners
or the overloaded wagons began to
throw the heavier furniture away. As
their cattle got gaunt from the long
forced marches they threw feath
er beds, extra blankets and pro
visions away. I have s.en sacks of
flour and big piles of sides of bacon
stacked np at the side of the road.
Often a family with two wagons would
lose some of their oxen. They would
then sort over the loads of the two
wagons and save bnt one wagon load,
leaving their extra wagon.
"About 200 miles to the westward
of the Missouri river my brother
got overheated chasing buffalo snd
upon drinking some stagnant water he
became seriously 111. Every one
thought he had cholera. Our little
party of four wagons stayed with him
ror four days till he was able to travel.
During the four, days that we were
pulled out to the side of the road we
counted over 1S00 wagons that pasM
us. We estimated that about 8000 peo
ple were in the 1600 wagons and about
35,000 head of storK. counting the ox
teams and droves of loose stock.
"No one will ever know the num
ber of deaths from cholera during the
emigration of 1852. We met if wagons
going back to Iowa and Illinois in
which there were no men, all of them
having died of cholera. We passed
hundreds of newly-mad graves. II is
conservatively estimated that no less
than 6000 people dud during the big
emigration of 1802.
"I arrived in Portland on October
1, 1853. I soon moved up to the Puget
sound country. I -cured 500 acres of
land and started the town of Puysllup.
We planted hops, increasing the acre
age earh year till we had over 600
acres In hops. At that time we were
the largest hop growers and the largest
hop exporters In the Cnited Ktates. At
one time I had three trainloads on
the road en route to Ivondnn. D1J you
get that? Not three carloads, hut three
trainloads of hop. In addition to
shipping our owu crops we bought; hops
from all our neighbors for ' shipment.
I bought one year the i rop of almoit
that entire district, paying 11 cents a
fnw It At t)i (im. 1 fnnt mrtvf
the hops I advanced oiio-bnif tt- mon
ey, or 5 ',4 cents a pound. Along came
the hop louao that ear and ruined the
crop. I had more than 8&0.000 paid
out on hop contracts. It wiped Tne out.
The sheriff ilosed me out snd I lt
my big ranch. To recoup my fortune
I went to Dawson, soing in 'on the
Dyea trail. All I came out with was
the experience.
"les, that was a wonderful trip to
me, rtvtsltlng the old' Oregon trail. 1
located more than a thousand section
line ' crossings. I helped erect 27
markers In the form of monuments on
the old trail. Now there are more than
40. I traveled at times on the old trail
where It had been worn down by th
thousand of emiK?ant wagons tilt It
was 16 feet deep. That sounds like sn
exaggeration, but It Is an actual fact.
The loose sand hid been blown out
and succeeding wagons would wear it
down till it was a deep cut tike a
railroad grade.
"The state authorities of Waahlng
ton have engaged me to go Into the
state building st the Panama-Pacll w
exposition to advertise our state. In
cidentally in tny lecture I show over
a thousand feet of Portland's Rose
Festival film which will give a lot .of
publicity to your beautiful Rose Fes
tival. We are all a part of the orig
inal Oregon country and what helps
one state will help the oth-r. for Ore
gon and Washington are one In th.r
interests."
The Origin of "Gringo.'
From tbe Chicago Post
Since Interest turned to Mexico there
has been much newspaper discussion as
to the origin of the word "Oringo,"
used by the Mexicans in speaking of
the foreigner. The most frequently ad
vanced theory is tbat It was derived
from the first two words of tbe old
song. 'Ureen Grow the Rushes, O!" that
is said to have been a popular vocal ex
ercise with American soldiers In the
Mexicain war. Others have attempted
to see in it a Mexican adaptation of
"Yankee" surely a far-fetched Idea.
But a correspondent of the New York
Sun offers an explanation that seems
to us to dispose of all others snd to
remove the question from ths realm of
debate. He says "Qringo" Is Castilllan
Spanish, a variation of the word
"Grlego," meaning Greek. It Is used In
the literature of Spain in reference to
unknown tongues, the speech of for
eigners, or as a synonym for that
which is unintelligible. The writer
quotes from Antonio Flores and Breton
de los Herrercs, Spanish authors, in
support of this view. But tho most
convincing evidence Is furnished by tbe
dictionary of tbe Royal Spanish acad
emy, where ths word is thus defined:
"Oiingo, noun, masculine; Grlego (or
Greek): In popular or familiar phrase,
'hablar en Gringo to talk Greek, to
speak In an unintelligible language."
That ought to settle It. But how did
the word "Greaser" originate as applied
to Mexicans?
The Ragtime Muse
Kfeping Sweet.
High up on that ol' dead tree.
Smack ag'ln that thunderhead
Eits a limp wing crow, and he
Croaks "I wan, I'm nearly dead ;
Croaks and croaks and 'pears to say,
"It's too mortal hot to live.
If I could change it some Ol way.
I dunno scurctly what I'd give. '
Down here, 'roun each fiowerirr limb,
Zums and dps a hunimin' bird.
Act In' as if heat to him
Was the unbeknownext word.
If he thinks o' heat st all,
I'll Jes' bet he thinks It's made
For to grow trees big and tall
With flowers bloom in' In the shade.
Course you'll say that crows is- crows.
Ant caln't be nothin' elo instead,
Mebbe so; but me 1 grow
TUtnkln' brains inside my head.
And I take my choice right now
HUmmin' bird is what I'd be;
Comes the days, no matter how,.
, Beln' glad's the job for me!
Cholly When I was a boy, yoo,
kqow, the doctor said if I didn't. stop
smoking cigarettes I would becoms
feeble-mlndfd. ,
Miss Keen Well, why didnt you
stop?
Honest.
First Visitor (during debate in the
house of representatives) -What do
you think of the currency question? -
Second Visitor Blest If I know any
mors about It thsn those fellows down
franchise on the floor! -. . -
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