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ASTORIA SPECULATION
F
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TRYING TO BLOCK THE WILSON PROGRAM
s
IGNIFICANT among the efforts to tOR Woodrow Wilson In his
' program. Is the action of the. Oregon Bankers,?; Association at
Medford. - . ' -
The body unanimously declares that farther atiou a long :"
displaced Germany in the, Volume
of international commerce. :
The close trade relations between
Canada and the United States are
evidence of the amity that does and
should prevail ; between the two
ary line is no Chinese .wall be
tween us and our amiable neighbor
on the North. '
If President Wilson can succeed
I in his desire to lead the Mexicans
THE BOY MAYOR
anti-trust lines would needlessly disturb business conditions, that no
crisis, exists which demands ''.such, action and calls upon President Wil
son to 4esist. ; r j, . " ' "''':.".', - :''
TnV Oregon bankers who assented to "this resolution do no
want a trade commission created to exercise scrutiny over ttrusts, to
report ;cases of lawlessness to the president, attorney general -and con- jfrom a laridless Into a landed yeo-
greBg, ana w swaa as xne agent mr au inn peupm u yiuwtuus o- manry and start that country on
gitlmate, business-against illegitimate buslhesa long practiced by the a peacefui ascension to the heights
great combinations of capital. v ; nf : order and atabllltv. we shall
. The Oregon bankers who assented to .this resolution do not want I axso have a highly desirable cus-
gullt made personal with a trust magnate as it s witn , an average tomer and excellent neighbor on
man so' that such a magnate can, when he is convicted of violating the Uj South.
anti-trust law, be sent to the penitentiary just as is done with tne
common man. . v- '
'. In passing this resolution, the bankers 'do not.want a law passed
to prevent railroads from watering their stock. One' of the anti
trust bills to which the bankers object provides-that securities can
only ,be Issued by railroad companies under the supervision of "the In
terstate (Commerce Commission, and that the proceeds from ' the sale
of all railroad stocks or bonds shall be applied to the purposes and
benefit of the road and not be diverted to the profit of dishonest
'directors and managers as was done in the New Haven, the Alton,
the San Francisco, the Erie, and hundreds of other roads,
t It is most extraordinary when bankers in this - state . come out
boldly in opposition to such legislation. . Jt is the more 'extraordi
nary because it is accompanied contemporaneously by efforts of stand
pat leaders in Oregon to block the legislative program of the Presi
dent. There never Was In thl3 state stronger evidence of an alli
ance between-politics andi special business to frustrate the efforts of
r
i ROM Portland's experience, As
toria should profit.
Town lot speculation has
become rife in the city by the
Not the citizens', but the spec
ulators are capitalizing lots at Im
possible figures and pushing them
In the markets, not only at Astoria,-
but In Portland and all over the
country.
All theBe sprees of speculation
bring'a subsequent long period of
stagnation. Values are boosted
above the level of economic safety.
They reach notches at which they
.cannot be sustained, and reaction
sets in. That reaction means stag
nation in the labor market, in the
building market and In the finan
cial market.
As has happened in Portland",
'people buy lotB on the installment
-nlun nciiinllv PKIIPCtinZ tO Sell OUt
nt an advance and a profit. House
maids, servants, workers, small
tradesmen and other worthy tollers
ret the fever of speculation and
Invest their savings. When reaction
conies as it always comes in spec
ulation, thousands are caught with
unpaid installments that continue
to be a. drain upon their substance,
a drag upon their toll andv a, har
rowing handicap upon their life
endeavor.
The thrifty promoters, mean
while, Journey to Europe. They
tour the globe and see the sights
.in luxury. Tie spend annually
there more thVn $300,000,000 of
American money, large amounts of
It derived from promotion schemes
)n land through wnich the pro
moters' got huge Bums without giv
ing, anything in return from the un
wary buyers of over-boosted real
state. It Is $25,000,000 a month
"of gold withdrawals from the
United States spent in the luxuries
-Of European travel.
4 There Is a fairly accurate test of
the value of , land. The average
. assessment in Oregon is about fifty
- per cent of the market value. It
, the intending purchaser will as
certain the assessed value and mul
tiply It bytwo, he will get a fairly
accurate idea dtf what the assessor
thinks the property worth.
f It Is a means by which the un
wary can protect themselves against
promoters in Portland, Astoria or
any other town.
T JS community service to throw
aid and comfort to the. boy
mayor activity
Back of the election is the
Newsboys' club house. lt is a
life line to youth. It is a place
of wholesome amusement and in
struetion for boys. It is a counter
influence against the temptations
of the street. It is an attraction
In competition wfh the deadfall and
dens of ruin.
It is the kind of place to main
tain. If there were such an lnsti
a president, who is trying to do after election what the people begged tu, tIn n vt cprner In the city
him to do and What he promised them he would do, before election.
The position of the bankers is the more extraordinary because
their business every day is under the same supervision that President
Wilson is trying to place over the business of the big trusts. Today,
guilt is personal In the case of bankers, and they are sent to jail
when they transgress the law, just as President Wilson proposes to
do with - trust brigadiers when they violate the anti-trust law"
The bankers are today subject to a far more stringent regulation
than is proposed by the Trade commission bill and Just as stringent
a regulation and supervision as is proposed by the railroad securities
bill.
Bankers today cannot inflate their capital, because the govern
ment would send them to jail 'if they attempted to Inject water Into
it. , They cannot issue shares of bank stock and apply the proceeds to
private and personal profit without being sent to the penitentiary, if
caught and convicted before they reach Canada.
Regulation has brought no ruin to the bankers of the United
States. Protection of the people against dishonest bankers has
brought no calamity upon honest bankers. - From generation to gener
ation, the honest bankers have thrived, profited and prospered under
the supervision and regulation of the restraining hand of national
and state governments.
The supervision that President Wilson is trying to apply to the
trusts will bring no harm to honest business. If a law making guilt a sheet anchor and mooring ground
personal be passed, it will be the illegitimate and not the legitimate they would be to growing youth!
trust magnate' who will be sent to the penitentiary. In the legislation
with which President Wilson is striving to protect the people against
dishonest trusts, no honest trust will suffer. - In the measures the
President Is urging and which the bankers, and Oregon standpatters
are opposing, it is not honest business, but crooked business, with
which the laws will deal.
A FEW SMILES
They were talking- about their hus
bands over tb tea, tblnss. Husbands
and the weather supply the .same
: vacuum ; between
' the rales of rosstp.
. TheophJlus, you
know. Is very ab
sent -minded, and
bo -wrapped up In
his new study of
photography that
that's all he thinks
of. Tou can't Imagine the time 1
have with him.- ;
She papeed a, moment to' Imagine It
herself, while her listener found an
ldl interest in creasing: the lace
ends with her finrers.
"Oh, this Is what I was 'rotnr to
tell you! Theophllus came out of' the
dark room the other evening- Just as
dinner was set. I says to him, 'The
ophllus, what are you standing- up
there rolling that pfate of soup around
like that forr 'Just a minute,' he
ays to me 'just a minute. It's de
veloping nicely. : See that high light
coming upr "High light nothing!' I
says ; "that's a cracker. Sitdownl'"
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
: of Portland, they would be a God
send to the boys and an honor, to
the community. They would sal
vage many a fine lad who now
goes to wreck and degradation
The boy election is the means
of gathering sustenance for the
Newsboys' home. The cost ' of the
institution is $1200 a year-- The
voting at a cent a vote is the
means of raising the money.
Then, there are the clvio Ideals
awakened in boys by the incidents
and processes of the boy election
and the junior government. The
play plants big thoughts In the
minds of youth. Jt widens the
viewpoint and broadens the hori-
son. Itv ought to be an appeal to
the good impulses of everybody in
Portland.
If Instead of one, there were a
dozen such institutions as the News
boys' club house in Portland, what
There were! wails and a loud call
for help. ;-';
Passer- Byw
What's the fuss ,1
the school yard,
boy?
The Boy Why,
the doctor has Just
been around exam
ining us an' one of
the deficient boys
is knockin' the everlasting etuffin's
our or a perfect kid!
IS
tSMALU CHANGE - - '
President Wilson has shown that the
steadtaat pressure of moral force will
win even in politics.
June always witnesses the' revival of
the feud between the girl who tans and
the girl who freckles.
As General Villa Is not -doing any
thing spectacular. It is likely that he
is going to do It pretty soon.
-
One often wonders whether George
v takes more seriously the Job of be
ing king of England or that, of being
husband of Mary.
Western states are calling for hands
to harvest the wheat, but the potential
help lingering in the cities mum to
want a larger or at least a longer loaf.
Possibly the historic painter of a
later age will depict that memorable
scene enactea in ii4. "The Discovery
of the United States by the United
Discovery of a new counterfeit bill
In circulation dispose of the stand-
fiat contention that the country im go
ng to the dogs. .Our money la still
good enough to counterfeit.
Fewer persons are injured In polo
than in football because there are only
four players to a side in nolo and thev
I are disabled In the first game, and It
a year 10 get in em in repair
again.
e e
Ordinarily the business of a state
supreme court seems to be to declare
laws unconstitutional, yet the various
supreme courts have recently upset
precedent by giving laws their earnest
approval.
The head of a certain Washington
family was recently approached by his
son. Just nearing his majority. "Fath
er, said he. "1 want
to have a talk with
you concerning my
future. ,1 have de
cided to become an
artist. Have you any
objections?"
The old man
scratched his head
leiieuuvely and replied: x
Well. no. eon provided, of course.
that you don't draw on me."
Letters From the People
(Communication! tent to The Journal for
publication in tnis department anould be writ
ten on only one tide of tbe paper, ahould not
..A.n (Mtfk 1 J 1 - 1 . -
The attitude of the bankers in their Medford resolution, is abso- mVnied br Z name .nd addreT. of the
lutelv aniazine. It is exactly the attitude of Pnros in Ppnri'&vlvnTila. ?enler: If tbe .writer doea not; desire to
it is the attitude of the standpat regime 'that
split the Re
publican party wide open at Chicago in 1912. It is the attitude
of the Detroit automobile millionaire whose secret letter against the
Wilson administration waB discovered and exposed. It is the atti
tude of the trusts as exposed by President Wilson to Washington
newspaper men last Monday. Regardless of party, three fourths of
the masses of the people of the United States want the President to
do exactly what he is trying to do. In the case of the anti
trust bins, ne is doing exactly the thing he promised the people he
would ao Jieis doing exactly .the thing the Republican insurgents.
have the name published, be ahould ae state.)
"Dlscnaalon la the area teat of an reform
ers. It rationalizes ererything it touches. It
robs principles of ail falae sanctity and
throws them back on their reasontbleness. If
they hare no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
RIGHTS OF THE UNBORN
T TlSCONSIN'S Supreme Court,
lAf ,n R decision handed down
Y y Wednesday, says that state's
eugenics law regulating
marriages is constitutional. - It Is
a decision in the line of progress;
It Is a judicial declaration that the
unborn have a right to enter the
.world untainted by the excesses of
parents.
The Wisconsin law, even more
stringent than the Oregon enact
ment, provides that before a mar
riage license can be issued to a
man he must pass some recognized
laboratory test as to his freedom
from certain diseases which may
bo inherited. The act was fought
on the ground that the Wasserman
test is the only one recognized by
science and that while the law al
lows a fee of $5 to physicians and
Wasserman test cannot be secured
under $15 or $20.
The court swept this contention
aside, holding that the Wasserman
tout Is not specified. What the
justices really meant is probably
that even though the ruling fee is
greater than the legal fee, it la uo
to , the prospective bridegroom to
dicker with his doctor "on the
side." In any event, the court held
that a eugenics law safeguarding
the unborn is iiot unconstitutional
because it discourages matrimony
by the unnt.
i '
A HEADLESS NATION
IBOT 'was premier of France
Kone day before he was forced
to resign. Rene Vivian! has
been asked by President
, Polncare to form a new cabinet.
If VivianI succeeds in his initial
. task, Vill he last longer than his
Immediate "predecessor? .
; France presents the curiqus spec
tacle or a republic that is essen
ctlally monarchial in spirit and at
me same urae ieanut oi a mon
archy. It is a headless nation
" Reeking ,to occupy a commanding
position among ,the nations of the
world, yet holding its chief execu
j tlye practically powerless, -
President Polncare may receive
Considers Dr. Trimble Inconsistent.
Portland. Or., June 18. To the Edi
tor of The Journal Permit . me to
point out what I deem a glaring lncon-
the democratic Democrats and all progressive minded masses lone I eistency - in the sermon preached by
clamored for. ' the Kev. Delmer H. Trimble on free
. ... ... . . . ' . text books, as reported in the press
no in uuiug mo lumjs lUB national rtepUDUQan pianorms ana I Tun. IK Mr. Trlmhl Wlar him-
natlonal Democratic platforms have often promised. He is keeping self strongly opposed to paying public
his covenants with the people Of the United States, and everv attar.lr 1 money for text books used in Roman
made upon him is an attack upon the very things for which the peo- Vino"c '"loer pa.roca.au BCnw. e
.... . . . - . I demands the reDeal of thai starte law
which makes this possible. Thus far
his contention is sound enough. But
immediately after expressing his op
position to the use of public funds for
helping the private schools of Catho
lics he repudiates his principles en-
plehave for years petitioned and appealed.
The Medford resolution is a sign of the great conflict that is on
in this country. It is a struggle of the Titans. On the one side are
those who demand that there shall be one kind of law for the trusts
and another kind of law for the people, arid on the other side is
Woodrow Wilson demanding that there shall be the same kind of tirely and demands Bible reading in
aw for a trust brieafiier aa fnr the hnmhUar wni-vinr mar. the public schools. What does this
An ttw ono 11. a-A hn v,. ,v v.'-,. v. demand amount to but that his par
jnieneieuce wnij illegitimate Business ana crooKed trusts, and on the other man's, shall be promoted by the
other side is the President demanding that American prosperity shall I state? Mr. Trimble argues speciously
De, so rar as law can mane it, prosperity for all the American DeoDle tnat 8UCn reaain " ne p8 woulQ
that the method he suggests has the
OREGON SIDELIGHTS r
Eugene proposes to surpass all of
herprevioiis records by hiring four
bands to make music for her Independ
ence Day celebration. y
'
Hlllsboro offers, as an sttraetlea
on tbe Fourth of July, a danring Plat
form tOO feet square, which will be
free all day on the Fourth,
Testimonial from the Le Grande Ob
server: "Let It re at thaC Fvrtl4
ays her Hoe shww wu tt bt er.
What else was there o mmrT'
On June IS Park Range Hanrsr
reported at Klamath f'aiie tW J
vlaltors had rVarhed Ct I km prk.
compared with five at tbe a date
last year.
and 111 miiak rats tratibod in Vatu-iJ
county durlnar the araun vf hfowwuiijwr
1. to February 21. 11. 1 U
returns totaled tt.6l.
A petition presented to the r9eet
Grove council, to remntdr frmr
action in requiring all dosa to Ue ehiWt
orr tne streets, ana to uiiitute a ta
and muscles for the summer, haa
Indeflnltelv tabled, and Fido must re
main at home, unless led by his ruaa-
ter.
t
An extraordinary type of consecra
tion ceremonial Is indicated" by this
item, in the Coqullle. Hentlnel of June
12: "Rev. G. LKoy Hall will dedicate
a bir barn at the Joe laat ranch iust
above Myrtle Point next Sunday. This
will make the fourth barn he has dedi
cated. Religious services and bunday
aciiooi will be followed by a big pic
nic feast."
VANDEFfLIP AND WILSOM
JOHN BULL'S EGYPT
IVom tbe Chicago Herald.
Incorporation. of Egypt and' tbe Su
dan Into the British empire Is fore
seen In domestic and foreign diplo
matic circles as a natural outgrowth
of recent developments In Anglo-Egyp-tiea
affairs. In the light of recent
disclosures unusual significance la be
log attached te the appointment four
years ago of trd Kitchener, admit
tadly England's greatest soldier and
mo l able administrator, to the rela
tively subordinate office of Brttixh
Mulnieter pienipoUetlary at Cairo.
L regarded aa inevitable in every
cH4aJ im aSwrope, It is believed that
te AUe l now arrived for the trans
twaativu v tbe Und of the Nile from
a yal alaU t-f the Ottoman empire
a J1 fXxed Britlah dependency.
It is el-4jreJiy considered that it was
for he vwrpoae ef dlacuseing the pro
xavb4 iowrporatlon ef the Nile coun
try Into tl hriumh empire that Kir
reward irey, the serrtury of sUte
fvr - foreign affairs, accompanied
IOg Kdaard and Queen Mary on the
Kaio thir recent visit to the
French capital.
hlbition states that have seceded from
our Union. She calls them sneaks and
thieves. I should be sorry to think
that Oregon's abundance 6f fruit and
grain was all manufactured into liquor,
and that Oregon people lived on booze.
A few hop yards are not all that
count in beautiful Oregon. It is an
earthly paradise, and surely the wives
and mothers yes, and the fathers and
sons will say, when November elec
tion comes, "We will rid this beautiful
land; it shall be a clean state so far
aa liquor goes." Ella M. Finnev and
Mrs. Dunlway are maklne drv votes.
" ucu wiai. wieir HKnt
From the Omaha World-Herald.
Newspapers and Republican politi
cians of the standpat persuasion that
ridiculed President Wilson's ass-rtlon
(hat what depression In business still
remains is "largely psychological" are
unanimously silent when the same
statement comes from Frank A. Van
derlip, president of the New York City
National bank. Mr. . ' Vanderllp
does not speak as an admirer or po
litical supporter of President Wilson.
He Is In no sense a Wllsva partisan.
Indeed, a few weeks ago he was de
nounced by friends of President Wil
son, as the leader of a "conspiracy"
to discredit the administration. He
is the head of the Standard OH bank
and a financier of the first magnitude.
Probably no man in the country would
be more generally recognised as a'
fitting spokesman for Wall street than
he, and there are few whose judgment
on business conditions carries more
weight among' bankers and business
men. Here Is what he said in bis
speech before the New York Bankers'
against prohibition is like the fight
the Orearonlan mut.. .nintPth. I
- " Ml IllClf
the Democrats nominated for governor
and senator. We want to se whom
the Oregonian kicks; then we know he
is the one to vote tor'.
The Bible tells us not to cast our
pearls before swine, lest they turn
and rend us. If the saloon people
think we should educate the people not
to drink, why don't they educate their
people not to sell to our boys? The
gain is their aim, and mothers' boys
and girls their victims.
Vote dry, and save the boys and
girls and weeping mothers and wives.
MARY J. TILLMAN.
The National Ajithem.
Portland. June 19. To the Editor of
The Journal. I have been ' puzxling i obstacles in the way of business re
"I believe that the lack of enthu
siasm about the future, the state of
pessimism that surrounds many phases
of business, the disposition toward
extreme conservatism, the lack of new
plana for capital expenditure for rail
way Improvement and extension, for
new industrial conquest, all have their
roots in a state of mind, rather than
in the statistics of actual business
data."
This is only another wording for
precisely the same thought that Pres
ident Wilson expressed. Mr. v ander
lip went further, however, and - de
clared he was "not certain that this
state of .mind is grounded in un
founded fears," or that it is "engen
dered by baseless apprehension con.
cernlng legislative tendencies and the
trend or public opinion. "s nil the
such a decade of exposure and de
nunciation as haa passed, unearthing
scandalous dishonesty in the world of
high finance and a. corrupt and cor
rupting partnership between big busi
ness and "practical politics," it was
Inevitable that publio opinion should
be affected. It was Inevitable that
remedial legislation should be de
manded and applied. It was Inevitable,
too, that some measures should be
proposed as obnoxious and dangerous
as the disease It was sought to cure.
The people grew angry -and distrustful
of big business, and big business, made
at laat to realize the people's power.
became afraid of the people.
The way out Is for the business
world, the financial world, and the
people of the United States as a whole,
to reach an understanding of each
other. The business world has pretty
well reached already one very essen
tial understanding. It la that the laws
on the statute . booka are going to be
enforced, and that such laws as are
recessary to supplement them .are go
ing to be enacted and enforced alsd:
The day of special privilege and mo
nopoly exaction is passing. Business
hereafter must be honestly competi
tive, and It must keep within the let
ter and spirit of the law.
Ftvr years age English power and
prestige at their very loweet ebb
o Egypt ewicg to the lamentable
weakneae and incompetency of Sir
Eldon Gorat, former British minister
plenipotentiary at Cairo. Matters had
reached such a paas that English ad
vice was spurned, English authority
derided and any expression of the
views of King Qeorge's government
treated with contempt.
.The instlgatora of the aasassinatlon
of the premier. Boutros Pasha, who
had -been murdered because of his
loyal deference to the recommendations
of Great Britain, remained unpun-
lanea. 'in nationalists publicly
clamored for the emulsion of tha
British army of occupation and were
treated with marked favor by the khe
dlve and the members of his family,
while lawlessness and particularly na
tive attacks upon English people and
other foreigners became unpleasantly
rrequent.
Lord Kitchener was selected as the
one man who fulfilled the conditions
and he was appointed to Cairo In the
summer of 110. Lord Kitchener Im
mediately set about to re-establish
the British power and prestige In tbe
land of the Nile, employing the asm
methodical, deliberate, carefully cal
culated methods he had employed in
preparing the way to the reconqueet
of the Sudan from ta Dervishes in
1898. '
Very quietly .and without any dis
play of force, he has suppressed every
anti-English political movement with
an iron hand, until today the national
ist party, so noisy and so powerful
under the regime of glr Eldon Gorat.
has virtually ceased to exist.
ambassadors; he may entertain
visitors; he may invite this or that
man to form "a cabinet. But there
his power ends. The life of any
French cabinet depends upon the
ability of its head to guide his
course safely between the rocks
of nine or ten conflicting "groups"
in the house of deputies-
France Is an anomaly in mod
ern government. A great and pow
erful nation stands in danger of
defaulting on salary payments to
publio officials. The tenure of a
cabinet Is bo Insecure that the
ablest man may fall at any time, a
victim of the whim of a small
group in parliament.
President Poincare says the time
must come when France will have
a head the same as other great
countries.. An effort is being made
to organize strong political par
ties, such as exist in the United
States and in Great Britain. Re
cent, events bear evidence that
France's need of political stabil
ity is great.
shown by the manner in which the support In this city of none but the
fifty-four elective members of the Protestant clergy
nnn.. hniioak n tv.ii, Another reason he advances is that
upper house-of, parliament are BJble readlng 8h0Uid be had tn the
cnosen. They, are named by an public schools on the score of ethics,
electoral college, a third of whose is not Mr. Trimble aware of -the fact
delegates represent the largest tax- that BOUnd morality can be taught, and
Davers of thA-pnnntrv rtiri.fo taught, without Injecting any re-
X. 1 , unry Ql3tCts, an- itgioUS elements whatever? The sys-
Otner third the big taxpayers Of te.m f secular ethical inatructlon as
I cities, and the remaining third the worked out for the British government
rest of the community. Two thirds by r- J- ouia ror instance, ia saus-
of the coHpo-a rn7,1 , woiw factory for all the practical purposes
or tne college represent the wealthy of this life. Further than that 'the
classes, and as they work In uni- state, under our American system of
son. the working classes have been complete separation from the church,
virtually excluded from a voice In ha" no business to go. if Mr. Trimble
th aAlcorlftn r " ' ; wishes to inculcate a different system
tne selection of members Of the of ethics, he and his friends are of
upper house. course at liberty to do so by private
The Conservative party, holding arr'1ement and at tneir own not
control because of the' system of PUThre jno logical stopping . place
election, is fighting the bill much between complete secularism in gov-
in the same manner that Conserva- ernment and complete domination of
. v,. .v. uiuu. iuv uue8 are 0f tne two. If Mr. Trimble believes
loyal to their king, but it is a safe he can Justify any other attitude, the
conjecture that unless the upper Portland Rationalist society will be
house is dissolved, aa has been glad to canvass his claims in a public
. . - ' " " , uec" discussion between him and a represen-
demanded, even royalty Itself may tative 0f ur society, h. a UTHOFF.
iail. ., ! ' I Secretary Portland Rationalist Society.
SUFFRAGE IN DEN3IARK
D
ENMARK Is furnishing illus
tration of the fight which
privilege always makes
against any attempt to
abridge its . power. A constitu
tional amendment bill' enlareine
popular participation in'-- govern
ment passed the folkething last
week and is now being held up in
the upper house Of narHament.
where the Conservatives rule. Thev
are blocking the" measure by ab
senting themselves from sessions of
parliament.
Extension of suffrage was the
dominant issue in Denmark's last
election, and the bill is an attempt
to carry out the will of the people
as expressed at the. polls: It pro
vides for the abolition of property
qualifications for electors of mem
bers of the' upper house and gives
the ballot to women. v If deprives
the crown of the right- to name
twelve members of the upper body
and withdraws special privileges by
which the remainlne 1 fiftv-fonr
members . are - elected. .
.The . hold which privilege has
upon the people of Denmark is
my brain over the meaning of the last
lour lines of D. M. O'Sullivans
suggested improvement of the first
verse of "America"
Land of my father's pride.
To whale John Bull's hide
From every mountain aide,
God slam a king.
I have gone overit carefully, apply
ing the rules of analysis as taught me
in my school days, but the thing won't
analyze.
Any Englishman today will admit
that the English government was In
the wrong in 1775. Every student of
history knows the mass of the English
people of that day opposed the policy
of George III. Fox espoused the cause
of the revolutionists, aihd who that haa
reaa can rorget the great Lord Chat
ham's speech in the house of commons
beginning. "I cannot, I will not, my
lords. Join In congratulations on mis
fortune and disgrace." An Anglopho
bias, of course, naturally forgets, and
an Ignorant person probably doesn't
know, that In 1775 England was at
war wjth Krance and Holland as well
as with America, and that Russia, Swe
den and Denmark were preserving an
armed neutrality, which - neutrality
would have been broken instantly could
they have attacked the British Hon
with any chance of success. A good
many who are rabid in their dislike
of England today would find if they
traced back the record that some of
their own ancestors were Inhabitants
of that country in the revolutionary
period. They might even find, perhaps,
that a great-great-grandfather had
surrendered with Cornwallis at York
town, i A. V. CLARK.
covery may be truly described as psy
chological, he said, they might still be
"a manifestation of sound business
sense In apprehending the true mean
ing of the political-economic situa
tion." This is a succinct statement of the
whole truth. Business, especially big
business, is ."apprehensive concerning
the trend of public opinion" as reflect
ed in "legislative tendencies." After
One thing else must be understood.
It is that business la willing and
ready to accept tbe new dispensation
Mr. Vanderllp hit the nail squarely on
the head when he said:
"Legislation in accordance with
sound economic principles, formulated
with Justice and sincere human sym
pathy, is what we should all be striv
ing for. . . . The conduct of business
la vastly more ethical than the public
believes It to be. Our task is to in
form the public of the truth, ajid when
that is done I, for one, will trust the
public to reach an honest conclusion;
but If We are to have a pukllo truly
informed about business mutters, bus
iness' men must make united efforts
toward that end."
This is the basis of the understand
ing that must be ha-L that is being
rapidly arrived at. and that, in the
proportion it is reached, releases the
springs of prosperity and renewed ac
tivity in every field of Industry. This
Is the kind of understanding that
President Wilson has hoped for and
worked for and repeatedly urged busi
ness men to help him bring about.
MERE SAVING CANT BE CALLED THRIFT
TRADE WITH CANADA
B
.The Fate of the Trafficker.
Portland, dr., June 19. To the Edi
tors of The Journal A Lents corre-
RITISH business men are con-1 spondent seems to think he has all the
templatlng a trade campaign prohibitionists daunted because, he
i r.n,j,. . n,.:jU aays, they have not answered his ques-
in Canada. The Canadian tlon as to wnat wouid o,,,, ot the
Chamber of Commerce in hdpgrowera and others directly-or in-
London Is urging afl exhibition directly connected with the liquor traf-
traln of British goods, the train flc lncas prohibition should carry.
t 4 JTi! . . In the face of the onward march
tObe British, made. While , the ex- f -.vlllsatlon anrl raflnem.nt. lf thoaa
hibit Will; be examples of English people can't read the signs of the
goods by one or two representa- times and get into a more permanent
tive firms in each branch of man- and bonorabie business, then the pro
. . r hibltionists are in no way responsible
uiacture. . If. at the last moment, they wake
John G. Foster, American consul up to the fact they are out of employ
general at. Ottawa, in a. recent re- roeTV the liquor traffic la a machine
port gave a table showing the vol- eminently destructive, no reasonable
ume of Canadian trade . with the person will deny. That to allow the
United "States and with Great Brit- machine to go on in operation will be
ain and other countries.":. Last year !ar mV dfatrucv than to stop it,
... "r " TZ. . 7. Is another thing no reasonable person
we soia to anaaa a4-i,iod,30 will deny. Then why should men
worth of our products and bought I under the pretense of a love for human
goods valued at only S19 3.35 1.619. 1 Interests, talk or vote for that which
Great Britain sold to Canada $139,
311,893 worth ; of goods and
bought $224,485,045 ' ' ...
. Canada 'is our second best cus
tomer, and we have not had to
fight for her trade. In spite of a
is most destructive? : .. .
y. W. GRAB EEL.
: A Criticism. "
Portland, Or.. June 19. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I ask; space " to
comment on the article by Ella M.
Finney ot Thursday. June 11. She savs
preferential' tariff in favor of the the fur Is flying, and every man Is a
..a .- . . a I s-j eH - llAm' ea rA fctl as Wr4an lea aa J aa aa
moioer couairy. tanaaa s . iraae -maU va. wau , vuj dcosuu 04 ma year
with the United States jumped last "T?, TSZJLl m ZZVLJlZ
A. t.VVw. I." . " . . 1 I. -".... v.. ni.,vu. vj
ji, -"" uciuwi r seven soumern ua two nonnern pro-1 tne way, it occasionally laya its eggs
"Hard Times."
'Portland. Or., June 19. To the Edi
tor of The Journal In The Journal
last evening I read a letter headed
"Hard Times." and stating that the
writer had counted 800 automobiles
passing a certain point within a cer
tain time. Hard times. Indeed! Br van
andWilson, eta, to blame? No, Indeed.
xseitner Wilson nor Bryan is to blame.
No man ever tried to do more for the
country than President Wilson. But
hard times we certainly have, and the
solution is at our doors, the ailment
being caused by ourselves. Just this
array or automobiles has caused the
present deplorable conditions all over
the country. Gasoltne,oy rides, brok
en homes, prostitution, prison sentence!
when will we wake uo and Day our
honest debts, such as for the bread we
eat and the shoes we wear, and re
member the purity of pur mothers and
tne dignity ox our fathers?
; ONLOOKER. .
Uncle, Sam and the Boll Bat,
From the Chicago Post.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston
has sent broadcast aplea for the pro
tection of the bull bat. The secretary
is a southerner and that la why he
calls the bird a bull bat. Northerner 4
call It a night hawk, but as it la
neither a bat nor a hawk, the north
has nothing in knowledge ba the south
nor the south on tbe norths
There Is a federal law nrotw.ttn
bull bat, and now a federal plea for
protection haa gotfe -out . to back up
the law. Years ago pleas were the
only things used tn the attempt to save
the birds. Finally the laws were im
proved, but now the law itself is
found weak' in the service, and so
moral suasion is .being used for
strengthening ; purposes. The two
ought to succeed.
, The bull bat, r night hawk, is the
bird which at this season of the year
By John M. Oskison.
Carl Schmidt doesn't measure up to
my Idea of a thrifty man.
At the age ox. 78 Schmidt was taken
the other day from a, Bowery lodging
house in New York city to the city
hospital; he wii 111 and worn out. For
years he had slept In that cheap lodg
ing house, paying 10 cents a night for
a cot. Every morning he had gone
away to work at 8 o'clock, and he re
turned in the evening Just in time to
fold his dingy coat under his pillow
and go to sleep.
Worn out a-nd 111. Carl Schmidt was
taken to the city hospital. A doctor's
stethoscope bumped against a lump
In the old maara coat; an Investiga
tion disclosed that the lump was 12
one hundred dollar bills sewn in the
lining of his coat. Other lumps
yielded 8J180 In bills, and bank books
showing deposits of $50,000. Said old
Carl: .
"I have no friends and no relatives
In this country. 1 came from Ger
many BO years ago; my people are the
best of Germany. I have worked too
hard, and now I am sick. I don't
even know how much money I have
saved."
It waa thought that Schmidt was
a soldier in the Civil war and that he
has been drawing a pension. Prob
ably he didn't spend more than 30
cents a day, and somehow ho man
aged to pile up moneyx ten times as
fast as he spent it
"What foollahnesal" You and 1
eay that when we "read about Carl
Schmidt; and what a narrow, child
ish view of thrift he had! Yet he
had tpade one partial step In advance
of the miser he had found his way
to the savings bank. But he had never
opened the door - upon a whole wide
world of possibilities which bis thrirty
instinct might have unlocked.
Mere hoarding of money Is as fool
ish as the hoarding of pieces of
string. Schmidt and the Jackdaw are
equally thrifty. Mere piling up
of deposits in a bank la foolish; there
are so many demands for money to
use In legitimate ways that the hoard,
er is 'robbing the world. The savings
bank Is not snxious to receive- more
than a modest sum from each thrifty
person: it expects the depositor to
find out for himself how to use Intel
ligently any surplus beyond that.
Carl SChmidt didn't use Intelligence
In hamling his money. The genuine
ly thrifty 'saver does.
Lord Kitchener's personal popularity
among the natives of every class Is due
to the fact that he ta accessible to all.
from the wealthiest pasha to tha low
et i r Copt; that he can talk to
them tn their language,. even. In
their . a dialect; that, with an unri
valed experience and knowledge of na
tive Ideas, views, alms and prejudices,
he Is able to determine the character
of their complaints and of their peti
tions; that he Is quick to decide; that
bis fairness is never impugned, and.
above all. that he makes a point of
providing for the Immediate execution
of all his- decisions.
It Is regarded as an absolute cer
tainty that on tbe day that England
formally annexes Egypt not only the
letters government bonds but ail other
foreign Investments in the khedivlate
will nearly double In value. That th
khedTVe will be eliminated alao Is re
garded as certain, and It Is doubtful
whether hla subjects will maste much
grief over his fate.
The United States will lose Its ca
pitulations In Egypt when the annex
ation takes place. That will incur a
saving of expenses and responsibility.
and any therretlcal impairment of
rights In this connection will be more
than compensated by the enhanced
value of interests and Investments In
the Nile valley.
and rears its young. Tnis Dira in some
sections of the country where there
are an observing and thankful people
Is called the mosquito hawk, for It eats
thousands of the stinging pests eery
week of Its life. It is, perhaps, the
most useful bird known to the Ameri
can fields, and yet It has been .fijiot
wantonly for years, not because 11 is
good to eat nor for any other economic
reason, but simply because It ia a big
bird and tempts the gunner with lt
rapidly changing flight to try his skill.
rinwn in Texas they -have learnea
that the bull bat is the determined foe
of the boll weevil. The Texaa legisla
ture; nursed a law not long ago making
the killing of the birds a serious of
fense. It tools tne rexans a jo
many years to know" their friend.
Thousands of bull bats are shot yearly
In pure wanton oesa. Uncle Sam is out
to save them. He has the power snd
if he has the will he can do the -Job.
One of the birds I worth 9 times aa
much to the world as tne sportsman
degenerate who makes Its shooting a
pastime. . ,
The Native of New York.
'. From the New TTork Evening Post. .
How sacred are the rights of even
the smallest minorities in this country
is evidenced by the organization of a
society of natives of this city, hjpr
decades the New England society, the
Southern society, the Indiana society,
the California society, to say nothing
of the scores of foreign societies, have
had their annual dinners, at which they
have dwelt upon the'charme of their
native heaths, and spoken patronizing
ly of tha. man who was so unfortunate
as to be born withte" the pala ot the
city whose opportunities had drawu
them hither. During all this time the
nativ Naw Yorker has had the numn
latlon of reading statistics snowing
how few naUvo 2ew xoraers awamea
distlnction In the city of their birth
Nor could compensation be sought 1n
the reflection that the Pittsburg, Chi
cago and San Francisco newspapers
were forced to record the doings of
their respective New York clubs, and
to print statistics showing how few
of their natives became prominent In
their own cities. New York had the
unique position of treating the stranger
better than the son. This sad oondl
tlon. will be relieved somewhat by the
organization of the New York society
of New York, even If It ahould have to
go outside its own membership for
local- speakers of the widest reputa
tlon. I
Mexican War Survivor.
From the Tacoma News.
"Where are the surviving veterans
of the Mexican War of 1MS.48T This
Is the call from Chicago, where only
two men remain. In 1910 the Western
Association of Mexican War Veterans
was disbanded. A year later only two
Chicago men, bent and gray with years,
held their last official ram pf I re and
reunion. September 7. 1910. the last
national meeting of the Mexican War
veterans was 1 held in Indlanapoli
when the national association was dis
banded.
There were 28 members of tha asso
ciation then. Nine were Chicagoana.
In a hushed and tearful silence the 28
grizzled heroes listened to the words of
the secretary: "It now becomes tny
sacred:' duty to adjourn the National
Association of Mexican War Veterans,
to meet again on the beautiful shore.
ask you to. arise and declare the na
tional association adjourned forever.
One by one they parted, perhaps never
to meet again on earth. The youngest
then was 71 years old. Since then the
ranks have thinned rapidly. . .- ,
The annexation will have the effect
of adding 400.000 aquare miles and
10,000,000 of population In Egypt alone
to the Britlah empire, and nearly a
million square mllen. with a popula
tion -oughly estimated at 4,000.000 in
tie S-idan.
It ia understood that Ixrd Kitchener
Is planning to visit England much ear
lier than usual this summer in order
to confer with the Aaqulth adminis
tration aboul the plana by which he
hopes to bring about In the tiear fu
ture the annexation of the North Afri
can dependency.
As a consequence it Is regarded as
not merely probable, but rather as al
most certain, that before the end of
the year the Turkish as well as the
khedtvlat flag, will' have disappeared
from the entire valley of the Nile,
leaving the Union Jack to fly In sole
sad undisputed sovereignty.
The Ragtime Muse
Kal VnrHng.
Farewell, farewell. dar wife of mine!
Tia beat that you ahould go away;
But, oh drop ene a Utile line . i
Ka h day or every otner aay.
Yes 1 shall tend the rubber plant
And fed the :lo:k and wind tbe cat:
When lonely I'll call on your aunt
Yes, i 11 taae good care 01 tne uau
Oh, yes, of course. 111 lonely be.
But you must nave your summer
Joys,
And then, nometlme. I'll have wrth me
Joe Jenkins and the other bore.
There, there! Of tours 1 did but Jest:
'1 hone rowdies neve; anaii come ntari
Oo. and enjoy a perfect reat
I U manage to get yn, my aear.
Wed better go aild catch a ar;
It fills my heart with grief and palp.
But then. It Isn't very far
For heaven's salt, don't miss that
train!
Good -by, my love, a farewell kiaa.
There! - Bhe la gone! Oh. heart, bo
atrong! -
My loved one's presence I shall miss;
But, say, I think I'll get along.
Hie Position. ' '
"What position does Jones hold In
the matrimonial firm since the baby
"I Imagine from the hints he drops
that he Is floorwalker."
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