THE OREGON DAILY-JOURNAL, PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1914.
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DAILY AND SCNDAI
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When You Go Away
Have The Journal sent to :
your Summer address.
El-
tor so you
Brave conqueror:
are,
That war against your own
affections,
And the huge army of the
.world's desires.
.? Shakespeare.
DAYLIGHT GOVERNMENT.
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stocks for .; sale by organizations, taurant proprietor, the prosecution tetesta they withdrew their support
which' hare capitalized the alleged! of . whom failed because there waa
oil discoveries In one of the Canad-lno law prohibiting-him from eeu
lasu provinces. .-. . ... ... ling food: which had been overran
When' all . the ad writers finally by the rodents,
Convince the public that every ad-i The danger of the fly has been
vertisement is an honeBt adver-1 broughtvihto prominence, and ! Mr.
tisement a "far greater value, will j Mickle is serving a good purpose
attach to thA advertiafni? htiainess. I In calling '.attention to the rat.' ft
As the people get increased faith j is not a necessary evil. In no
in the advertisements. ' they will event snouia it De aiiowea to in
be more guided and more' influ-jf est kitchen and pantry which sup-
enced by the advertising. Py large numbers or people witn
It is on this account that adver-j food. The housewife does not tor
Using In an honest newspaper j erate It; neither should the res
which the people know has a con
science, is the best advertising in
the world. .. ' '
The Journal loses thousands of
dollars by its constant effort to
keep, dishonest advertisements out
of its columns, but in the long run
it gives the better service to hon
est advertisers because the public
has faith in its policy of keeping
its- columns free of lying misrepre
sentations in untruthful ads.
taurant proprietor.
alatfaai
TO THE BUILDERS
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from his banks with disastrous con
sequences." 5 ; Hrv. V'-.; : "
To offset this withdrawal there
was reckless banking through - the
acceptance of worthless collateral,
if - there was - not even criminal
banking through the deliberate
misappropriation of .depositors'
money. "'. ; - i
In its comment 'on' the Lorimer
failure the Philadelphia Ledger
says: - - . "
If the eclipse of Loriraer . would
only end Lorimerlsm in Illinois, the
people of! the state could well afford
to reimburse - the innocent depositors
who have lost their savings.
SAVE THE REMNANT
T
F COURSE, Fortianas com
mienion covernment has en
emles. There are gangs and
nnfi who would like to see
the new system in perdition and
th old aldermanic form restorea
There, for instance, are those
who do noi want daylight govern
ment. The wide open proceedings
to be seen by all. of the present
" system do not harmonize with their
mimeses. They prefer government
in the dark as in the old alder
manlo form in which nobody could
find out what was going on at the
city hall. They can profit more
from-, a? Dlan of government in
which one official can hide behind
other officials as in the former sys
jtein, than by the commission-form
In which every man has to stand
up and be counted whenever any
thing is, done.
One . reason why so much fault
finding, is going on now is because
everybody knows exactly what is
being done in city affairs. Liter
ally nothing is. going on at the city
hall that the public doesn't know
all about.' -
We used sunder the aldermanic
form -to have surmises that some
thing was wrong, but there was no
way to uncover it. We knew that
things here and there were not
right, but we "couldn't locate the
blame because every official hid be
hind every other official and be
hind the various boards, and be
hind the many , commissions and
behind the numerous committees,
all of whom had more or less
power. We knew that some coun-
cllmen used to get a graft out of
paving,' but nobody could ever, on
'Recount of the complicated system.
find the roan or locate his loot.
Of course, there are people who
want to go back to the old sys
tem. Indeed, there are, doubtless,
a Jot of honest people who want to
irn hark tn it
But the great body of Portland
people want daylight government.
They want to know just what their
public servants are doing -day by
day, and that, they do know, under
tWe commission system.
N THE death of Cyrus Abda
Dolph, Portland has lost ' one
of her builders. He was a
modest builder and for that
reason an effective one. His life
was devoted to real work and the
compass of it cannot be measured.
Such men are an asset to
the state, as are the timber on
its hills and mountains, the wheat
in its fields, the fruit in its or-
HERE is significance in the chards, the sheep and cattle on Its
new deed by which the Wil- plains and -the gold and silver
lamette locks is transferred under its surface. They see great
to the government. possibilities and tney point tne
This deed recognizes the para- way. They perceive great re
mount right of the public to use Lsources and seek to develop them
of the water for navigation when-(and prevent their waste. They
ever such use becomes necessary, realize the value o education ana
This recognition of the public's unfold plans for perfecting lnstl
sunerior : right on a navigable tutlons of learning,
stream was not admitted by the They are builders and In their
original riepd. and it was on that hearts is no selfishness in the
account that the instrument was re- common acceptance of the word
jected by the attorney general of When their work is ended, "It
the United States. 8 an act ot great piety and nonor-
The skilled lawyers of the Port- able to inter them according to
lan.d Railway, Light & Power Com- their condition and so to give evi-
pany, in the new deed, concede that uence mat we appreciate ana ae-
under the constitution and the law, sire to imitate their virtues tne
a private corporation cannot sue- j memory whereof we should pre-
cessfullv defend in the courts a serve like laurel wreaths and coro-
private title against the claim of nets to incite and encourage to the
the..United States government to a noblest things.'
preeminent and paramount right
to use of the waters of navigable
streams whenever such use is re
quired for the interests of naviga
tion.
There ought to be a hint in this
deed as to what the public's i-eal
rights are in the tidelands along
the Oregon coast and in the sub
merged lands along the Willam
ette - at Portland and elsewhere.
If the givernment's right to the
waters are. paramount, its right
to submerged land's for the usee of
navigation are equally paramount,
just as was recently decreed by the
Supreme Court of California re
specting the tide and overflowed
lands in that state,
That court held that such lands
Whipping out a revolver as they
drove together along a lonely New
Hampshire road," Mrs. Folsom"-shot
her husband, . a" member , of a Bos
ton law firm, through the .head,
causing Instant death. Five bullets
were sent crashing through his
brain. The explanation is that the
woman was crazy with jealousy.
Why arm the lunatics? Why make
the pistols?
Letters From the Peopls
AN UNSOLVED PROBLEM.
D
URING the thousands of years
that human beings have been
living together gregariously,
they have never arrived at a
satisfactory method of assessing
each individual what his subscrip
tion should be to the common fund
Such is the statement in an ar
ticle from Collier's on this page.
It is true, for in the manner in
which we go about levying taxes
and in the varying forms in which
we apply the plan, we have evolved
what is probably the craziest patch
work system in the world
The owners of real estate, land
and buildings in the United States
are inalienable to the people, and Si bU" Itr"
cannot be legislated awayby legis- m -
iHva hnv h r.J ' J stitutions. Twenty-five per cent,
a California court
(Commnnlcatlona sent to The Journal (or
publication In this department should be writ
ten ob only one side of tbe paper, should not
exceed 300 words In length and must be ac
companied b the name and address of the
sender. If the writer does not desire to
have tbe name published, he should so state.)
"Discussion is the createst of all reform
ers. It rationalizes everything it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctltr end
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they hare no reasonableness, - it rutblesaly
crushes them out ot existence and sets up its
own conclusions In their stead." Woudrow
Wllaon.
A FEW SMILES
"What U one of tho principal prod
ucts of the "West Indies r asked the
teacher.- -:.;:';' . ... ; . .
Tho elan re
mained 'dubiously
silent.
"Oh, come, think a
little! adjured the
teacher, with patient
encour&gem ent.
"Billy, tell the class
where the sugar you
ueo In your home comes from."
Billy pondered bashfully ror a mo
ment, then blushlngly blurted out:
"Sometimes we buy It at tne gro
cer's, but I think we usually borrow
It from, the folks who live next door.
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
Skids We are -off
to spend a nice quiet
holiday in the moun
tains. ..
Skittles Why the
g r a m o p h one ' and
banjo T
Skids Oh. lust to
break th . horrible
stillness of evenings.
That is -why there should ' be
universal support in Oregon next
November of the Tideland amend-
ment and Its accompanying bill by
which it is proposed to save to
the people of the state the rem
nant of their tide and overflowed
lan4s.
BRIDGE BUILDING
A FUNCTION of the State
Highway Commission that is
beginning to be appreciated
is the designing of bridge
.construction- Plans are furnished
the various county courts free of
charge.
Within the next few days bids
Will be opened in several counties
for the construction of bridges
based on the plans of the highway
commission.
. The effect is to secure a stand
ardization of bridges and honest
construction throughout the state.
, It ia a well known fact that
heretofore counties, have.. wasted
large suras of money In bridge
building and have been imposed
on ,by contractors and material
. men. - '
By having Uhe work done ac-
. cording ; to the plans of the high
way commission and under Its su
pervislon a dollar's worth of
bridge may be obtained for every
dollar expended. J
The '.state highway commission
with .its technical knowledge can-
; not. be bo easily fooled by dishon
est contractors.
A GREAT GATHERING
BRITISH EAST AFRICA
at least, of this enormous sum is
Inequitably assessed, and, accord
ingly, $250,000,000lis, by govern
mental authority taken unjustly
from the pockets' of some property
owners for the benefit of other
property owners.
We have accurate standards for
measuring all commodities except
the things we assess. We lay great
stress on efficiency. The great
T
industrial, transportation and com-
HERE is evidence that what mercial institutions pay enormous
happened to the Mexican Deon salaries for trained men who can
under Diaz Is about to happen &et the greatest effectiveness out
to the East African native. OI tne plant ana the employes
The land grabber Is busy, and, as But in general, harmony, regu-
was done in Mexico, he 13 attempt- lanty and effectiveness are all lost
ing to disinherit the man who actu- sight of when we approach taxa-
ally tills the soil. tion. It is the one rleld in which
A labor commission has reDorted we have dismally failed, whether
tne result of Its investigations. m xew xorK city or in Rabbltville
Under existing laws the natives are It is one of the great unsolved
granted land reservations, but the Problems of the age
white men are opposed to these
laws. The whites want the land
ana tney want the labor. They
demand that the natives be dispos
sessed of their lands. There will
be more land for the white man.
and the black man. having no soil
of his own, will have to go to work
for the man who owns the land.
TWO IRISH ARMIES
J
OHN REDMOND has publicly
approved plans of the Irish
Nationalists to take up arms
as an answer to the show of
force which is being made in
Ulster. Some of the Unionists in
..Lord Delamere, who has title to f.f",111??1 w3have ardently sup-
180,000 acres, says that if every VOIunteers at"
native is to be a landowner 171 taCked ht A.Squith eovt be-
landowner of a
sufficient area on which to estab
lish Mmsfilf. thftn tho
obtainlne a fiati5frtr i.. .. mn?- A motion to censure the
..." " J cuy- n,nv
piy win never be settled
cause it had not suppressed the
Isationalist movement in the begin-
Other
owners of East African estates oh
ject to any effort to instruct the
native in the cultivation of his
own soil, since it tends to make
mm independent.
rr- u .
iue commission opposes thoR
demands, but it suggests that the
reserves held for natives may be
too large.
government was lost by a vote of
288 to223. i
The Saturday Evening Post has
gone to the historian Lecky for in
formation as to how legislative
union between Great Britain and
Ireland was established in the first
year of the nineteenth century.
Lecky says:
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"INHERE is an extraordinary
I - gathering at Toronto.
. -four tnousana ad men
, . from every state in this coun
try, from most of the provinces of
Canada,- and a number from foreign!
countries are busied there with the
problems and policies of advertis
ing. .:
' ,They,are men who write adver
tisements and men who hire men
p to write advertisements There are
so many of them that sixteen simultaneous-conferences
are neces
sary -to. serve the purposes of the
- gathering. . . .
, ' The' general aim is to promote
v the giving of full weight and full
i measure ; in advertising. 'It Beems
u to be a part of the general Idea
-that there should - be , honesty- in
business whether In a patent medi-
,.cine advertisement -pr In ;the busi-
' ness of. a trust. . - ':.
I' The professions of the ad-men
are completely out of v harmony
wtn. the glittering advertisements
now current, for instance, of oil
Twenty-eight Irish peeraees wo-ra
IS the old story of feudalism Hsii peerages, and twentv nthrr.
xue seiect tew rail to see that their - p a ranK ln the Peerage-
economic welfare f hn,, mos5. of these honors being bestowed
th woifo , r. . " " v., s,eru.uenl as DrlDes ana re-
t t ,a.i. iney iail to wares ror , services ln nassins the hin
see that while tfiey might profit for !he unlon-, T1? English govern
temporarily by holding the nennla meTLt' onBht outright eighty Irish
in RnhWtf " 5.-,e.P.e0ple boryughs, returning 160 members to
v a louueu anstoc- raniament, and paid 1,200,000 pounds
v.j, melts tciu oe no oermariPTit sterling in cash for them whih
advantage in stolen pronertv risrhts sum- with rare humor- it added to the
Mexico . Is famine i.. 'I 5 ' F"0"' debt Ireland; so that
-O v a a V'.lDUli.
EXTER3IINATE THE RAT.
J.
D. MICKLE. dairy and food
Irishmen have been paying interest
on it ever since.
Members of Parliament who
would not .vote for union were
bribed by offices and honors to
the revenue., was devotnd tn; th
great object of carrying the union.
tuuiuussioner. , annonnrpn in 1 .
his Jnn h,iiwi u v " ,W1U 1U oruer mat tneir places
Hi LhUfln !hat he D.ro- might be filled by those favorable
against the rat. Oreeon h- ZZ L,""1 .Js tnat every
law .excluding th . ". M1"1"? ",.uuu:lW irt 01 the crown.
offered for Zl 7 k" Ju.uJ ln the church., the army, the law.
r uukUDO UI
this fact Mr. Mickle says he may
make a ruling demanding that
all food prepared in a rat-infested
place shall be labeled.
The commissioner .is right ln say
ing that extermination of rats is
a community affair. They migrate
even more than flies, and the vig
ilance of -.any one man, -i however
careful he may be, Will be unequal
to the task without cooperation by
the "entire' city .., - k v. .
.Mr. Mickle says that under pres
ent laws the rat has. as much right
In the kitchen as the cook. It was
so determined ih the case of a res-
Mr. Smith Asks to Be Heard.
Wolf Creek, Or., June 21. To the
Editor of The Journal Will you kindly
give the same publicity to a brief
statement from me that you gave on
the first page of today's issue of The
Journal? J. have no desire to burden
you or to preiudlce the courts by a
lengthy statement, but will simply say
that I believe most of my brethren, in
the ministry will "be slow in condem
nation without facts. It is true that
about an hour before I took the train
for Glendale on business and to meet
my wife and daughter returning from
Eugene yesterday, 1 was waited on by
a citizen and Informed that it was the
wish of citizens, expressed at a meet
ing held the night before, that I leave
Wolf Creek and not retum,and while
I expressed to him emphatically that I
expected to assert my right 01 citizen
ship, I infer that some thought that
I had heeded their request for speedy
and permanent departure, for when
half way from my home to the depot,
while no one was ln sight, I was sur
prised by a shower of eggs and rocks
from behind b. woodpile and when one
of the men who the day before blat
antly cufsed me across the fence, while
I was without one word in reply, work
ing -on my home place, and finally
shouted: "Come on, boys, I am not
afraid to go in and get him. We will
ride him out on a rail," when this man
emerged from behind the woodpile and
continued throwing eggs and gathering
rocks, I drew a revolver which I had
for the first time in my life, and' by
an intuition on leaving the house put
into my pocket for protection, and
commanded him to stop and while he
followed me at a distance, he threw no
more. - -
' As I approached the depot, I met a
man and asked him to accompany me,
which he did for a, distance, and seeing
a crowd gathering from behind wood
piles and the depot, approaching threat
eningly, I stepped inside and said to
the agent: "Mr. Miller, ad agent, with
what authority you have, I hope you
will try to allay the spirit- being mani
fested out here," and he replied: "I can
do nothing for you." I then stepped
out and forward, as the train pulled
in, keeping the pistol pointed toward
the threatening crowd until I stepped
on the car, in. the midst of a shower
of eggs and roeks. I was told at Glen
dale, by an officer, that someone
phoned there: "Rev. Smith is being
egged out of Wolf Creek, never to re
turn. Don't let him stop. Keep him
going." I communicated with the sher
iff's office and was told that I would
be met on my return with my family
here at 1:20 p. m. On arrival I saw
the crowd and not the sheriffs party,
and my wife suggested that she and
ray daughter get off and I go on to
Grants Pass, which I did, fearing that
if I did land there would be serious
trouble, as there surely would had the
same insults been offered as were to
my wife and daughter. I returned on
the evening train and was met by my
daughter and the sheriff s chauffeur.
had a brief interview with the deputy
sheriff and prosecuting attorney, who
then left for home and I am now at
6 p. m. safely ln my home with my
family and this morning with my
daughter attended the preaching serv
ice where about half the members of
the Methodist church and congrega
tion present were participants in the
riot of yesterday, and I imagined that
I was about as comfortable as any one
of them.
I am told just now that two of the
most recent arrivals at . Wolf Creek,
and who were said to be among the
more ardent accusers, left town this
morning for parts unknown to my in
former. The immediate cause of the uprising
yesterday was the presence of a busi
ness man from Glendale, who was ex
amining a vacant store building with
a view to opening for business as a
competitor of the one store now here,
and this gentleman told me that the
people almost mobbed him and he could
not understand for several hours how
my name was connected with the af
fair until told that they supposed I
had brought him here and he told them
the truth, namely, that I knew abso
lutely nothing about his coming until
I saw and he hailed me here.
Many things were "supposed about
my Master, and about the Great Apos
tle, which resulted in much harsh
treatment and persecution, and w read
in the Word, which Is my counsel, "If
any man will live godly in Christ Je
sus, he shall suffer persecution."
Let me say in closing that I have
carried no gun since my return home
and I make no announcements for the
future. Very truly yours,
W. O. SMITH.
The Cannon Ball express was crawl
fhg up the Blue Ridge not far above
Warrenton when a: small, yellow dog
dashed snarling out
of a house near the
track and ran after
the train, barking
with great fury.
"Well, sir," ex
claimed the conduct
or, proudly, to
passenger from the
north who stood beside him on the
rear platform, "that's a most amazing
dog. He tears out of that house every
day and chases this train for miles.
He's " ; v .
"Psrdon me. captain," interrupted a
long, solemn. Virginia farmer, the other
occupant of the platform, "but what
do you s'pose he's almln' to do with
the train if he does catch It?" Har
per"s Magazine.
l.r V.-s -y SMAldU CHANGS J" ?. V-.: v.
Well, this as as good a month for
elopements as any.
Queen Mary seems to construe It
that she is herself that "divinity that
doth hedge a king." .
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- Always ' doing, something to attract
tourist. . California-now i trying to
stop the tipping of train porters.
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If the movement for white clothing
for men' succeeds, the street cleaners
will qualify as leaders of xasblon.
' John Bull will find the- nolo our the
cup that cheers, but he must not- be
permitted to capture the yachting cup
now. It might Inebriate.
John D. Rockefeller's automobile re
cently sustained damages to the extent
of $5, but no notice of an advance In
tne price of oil has yet been posted.
- Judge Wurdeman of St. Louis sen
tenced a "gun toter" to a term of two
years in the cenitentlary. Evidently
he did not approve of the ancient ens-
torn.
Criticism of the president by his
unscrupulous enemies Knows no
bounds. Again they are resurrecting:
the fact . that his first name is
"Thomas."
Another step toward the less com pi 1
cated life is the mastless wireless
telegraph. The payless kind, however.
which will simplify matters still more,
ia ji&eiy to De aetayea inaenniieiy.
After taking a strong drink of coffee
out or nis poio cud. John .Bull roar feel
more like facing some of his hard
proDiems with the determined oDtim
istic manner ln which all hard prob
lems snouia De met.
All this agitation in favor of using
the daylight more extensively by ris
ing earlier and retiring earlier is en
tirely out of sympathy with the move
ment for the wider dissemination of
drug store complexions, which very
01 ten enine Dest unaer me electrics.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Th last house is ln nroeess of re
moval from the new Armory's site t
Eugene. The grounds will b ready
for actual building operations the first
of next week.
Tha electrical naradet on Saturday,
tn connection with the Cherry fair,"
says the Salem Statesman, "will be
worth comlnr across tbe state to see.
It will b one or the finest ever seen
anywhere.
R. K. Buchwalter. publisher of the
Paisley Press, has received notice of
ills appointment as Dosimasier at
ley. He. with other applicants for the
position, took the civil service exam
ination before G. D. Brown, supervisor
of the Fremont Zorest, at iaxeview.
Salem Journal: That the lowly spud
makes a fair decoration for a parking
in front of residences Is attested by
several patches along the street ln the
residential district on North Front
street. A good looking potato vine ia
far better to look at than long grass,
declare those who have planted their
parkings.
Grants Pass Courier: The box car
recently purchased in Portland for the
municipal railroad has arrived in the
city over the S. P. tracks. The car was
lettered in Portland, but an error was
made in getting one too many Cs"
on it. It is lettered "C. c & o. cj. Ky.,'
and the first "C" will have to be paint
el over. The name of the road as It
was christened is the California &
Oregon Coast railroad.
Ungentlemanly conduct on the part
of an Albany eouine is thus reported
in the Democrat: "A horse drinking
out of a Dublic sanitary fountain waa
the unusual sight witnessed by a large
number of people on First street. The
horse had been left standing in front
of the First National bank. It spied
the water bubbling out of the fountain
on the corner, then walked up and
calmly took a drink under hard circum
stances. Before its thirst was satis
fied, however, a pedestrian interfered
and Mr. Horse took a back step."
expression from the Chamber of Com
merce, since, as anticipated, they have
attempted to intimidate- your organi
zation from expressing its opinion.
In their attempt to bluff the Cham
REGULATION AND TAXES
From Collier's Weekly.
TWe public service corporation of
New Jersey operates a -system of trol
ley lines, gas works and other public
ber of Commerce" they call attention I utilities in that state. During the
to inauiries about fartnrv it m year 1913 taxes paid amounted to 6
Huhtineton w. v Anunn, o0n ir Per cen- of operating revenue L e
inrmirioa .,n a n.M every time a Jerseyman bought a dol-
of the Anti-Saloon league, who never la,Ts worth f treet car tickets, he
manufactured anything but dissension 5, 6 ceQta taxes. The Standard Gas
Th sav "PmWMUnn , electric and other utility companies.
ment to manufacturers." Thir tat. la ln states west or tne Mis-
men is not borne out by the records. sPPi river, ist year taxes amout
Prohibition Mnlno inproosM In nnnlo. cu "r cent 01 me comDinea in-
tion fmm i Kn tn 19, 1Qi t come of all the subsidiary companies
Connecticut "wet" increased in nonu- a trine nigner man tne ixew Jersey
lation during the same period 145 per
cent. Maine s number of watre earn
rates. Every telephone bill naid by
subscribers receiving service from the
ers in factories increased 167 per cent Bel1 telePhon "vstem (and there are
from 1850 to 1900. Connecticut's wag
earners in factories increased 248.3 per
cent during the same period. In 1900,
several millions of them) is over 6 per
cent taxes that is, you pay a dollar
to the company and a nickel for the
15.9 per cent of Maine's population was government- All these utilities are
employed ln factories; in Connecticut,
23.4 per cent. Maine has more and
better waterpower than Connecticut,
and more natural resources, and only
sumptuary laws have caused that' state
to tall-end the procession of pro eras
in New England
subject to regulation by public serv
ice commissions. Rates must be fixed
high enough to cover operating ex
penses, and taxes are such an expense.
It follows that in fixing the rates to
b charged for gas, electricity, tele
phone messages, trolley rides, etc.. we
are arranging to have these corpora
tions collect taxes from us as users of
these services. The effect is that the
services cost more. How far do we
want to go with thlsT Regulation
gives us absolute power in the matter
ln the long ruiK and there Is nothing
to prevent us from making taxes SO
per cent, say, of operating expenses
Instead of 5 or 6 per cent. The very
proposition suggests what a crazy
patch work taxation Is in the United
States. During; the thousands of years
that human beings have been living
together gregariously they have never
arrived at a satisfactory method of
assessing upon each Individual what
his subscription should be to the com
mon fund.
COOPERATIVE IDEA FROM THE FARM
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lock ley.
By John M. Oskison.
I was told in New Tork not lonr
i ney seen to misieaa your Dody by ao that a Kansas banker wrote to i
Inserting in their ad the statement that man in New York to ask this question
o3.a per cent or tne inmates in our "Where, ln New Tork. can I place a
penitentiary are there on account of note for $10,000. to run for four
? "a n ,per cenl or tne ooys months, signed by a dozen prosperous
" r,, V V . ,. farmeri ln this neighborhood?" .
homes blighted by the use of liquor. T dont kn0w whether the loa.n
This may or may not be true, but the m .
purpose of their ad is to give the im- But , t tt suggestion here for
pression that prohibition would remedy any group of BmaU,"borrower. who
- r.v;,. have legitimate need of money at
Vrr ' ' V:.. V V. " times? Suppose A, B, C, D and E are
au, uu jMium, i, hi., to per ceai .,ehboT. .nvwhr. and ona of
more adult criminals ln proportion to
population than we had in Oregon, an-1
neighbors anywhere, and . one of the
group needs to borrow a reasonable
sum of money. A's note would not be
.3 M Anw Un.- klah . 1
Their statement that last year ""IT ,Y.'.,:,.t' ' "t" ,ri:
Springfield, Or had eight PoUeemen . flnancii affairs, and the time required
62 per cent more Juvenile delinquents.
when, as a matter of fact, they only
had five, is on a par with all of their
other statements.
remarkable ad, and you are threat
ened with "burnt fingers if you de
fend your own interests. You are ad
vised that "the people can take care
of themselves," and in this we agree.
but we cannot agree that the Anti-Sa
to look into them would be too great
and the effort would cost too much to
i . . "n i I money.
AVU dlO llm IU no Jirw, ill luia I , . , , .
of the five the lender would feel pret
ty safe, and as B. C, D and E live next
door to A and can find out without
trouble Just what security he can of
fer for the loan they could decide
loon league are "the people," or have 5M1" ' . ... "1 It
they the right to dictate to either the IorQ to inar.e
Chamber of Commerce, the hop men
or hotelmen, who represent millions of I buggy this week. I asked him what he
dollars in property which prohibition would do about it. He said he would
would seriously affect, if not destroy. I go home and pay some more taxes to
Neither can we see where it is your I build automobile roads with, so the
duty or ours to "lie low," without I autoist can smash up somebody else.
calling attention to the deception. He said we are in It when it comes to
We respectfully submit tne aoove naylntr for the roads, out wnen we try
for your consideration and again ear 1 to get over them we are cleaned out
nestly request you to vote "no." I Our local authorities ln The Dalles
Yours truly. I do nothing. Is there any other autnor-
HOP GROWERS' AND DEALERS' AS- ity to appeal to?
In the office or factory cooperative
borrowing ought to result ln bringing
down the rate of interest paid on such
loans; it ought to become one of the
effective weapons against the salary
loan shark.
People ought to borrow only when
there is a legitimate need any other
practice leads to bankruptcy and ruin.
To his close neighbors and friends, a
would be borrower ought to be able
to show most easily and clearly not
only the need but the security.
As the security for a loan Increases
the rate of interest charged decreases.
That Is one of the axioms of the busi
ness. A's unsupported note might call
for an interest rate of 8 per cent; but
indorsed by B, C, D and E, who are re
sponsible citizens of the community,
it ought to be sold to a lender content
to get 8 per cent and safety.
Now that the banking laws permit
national banks to lend money on farm
mortgages, this particular form of co
operative borrowing ought to have a
particular appeal to farmers. To In
vestors generally, such cooperatively
secured notes will be offered and
they should have careful consideration.
After returnlnar from ttt rivnu
was. I worked all summer on our farm
at Mission Bottom," said 8ot Durbin, -Indian
, War veteran. f Fortv-Nini.r.
freighter aud stockman, and who is
still hale and , hearty. In spite of his
& strenuously spent years.. "After
helping with the harvest in the fall of
1841, John Martin, Bill Earl. Sam Ev
ans. Isaiah Matheny. Ira Brown. Jesse
vawrge. my Brother-in-law. and my.
f. w,th om othr. started for
California. We went on hor.ha-k
earrylng our tools and grub on pack
horses, w, got to the -oiri rtio 1 -
In October, '48. We tried, our luck
first on Feather river. From there we
mined around Hana-tnwn .1
went to the middl fork r .
lean river. W struck rich riii...
But the snow got so deep we were
afraid we tsould not get out. and would '
have to stay all winter without provi
sions, so we struck out for Sacramen
to. From there we went to San Fran- '
Cisco. Which waa a .mall '
adobe houses and board shacks. . '
j-ear. t, san Francisco was a
hummer; but ln the fall of '4 it was
not much of a place. Aout 75 or
more of us engaged passage on board
or a sailing boat to come to Portland.
Two weeks later we waited outside the
bar at Astoria. It was so rough the
captain wouldn't come In. That night
a big storm blew up, and we drove be- -fore
the storm with bare poles. When,
the storm was over we saw the en
trance to the harbor and started in.
The captain and the majority of us
thought It was tbe Columbia river bar.
but our boat bumped two or three
times going in. and then he said 'he
thought it was Shoal water Bay. A
big dispute arose among the passen
gers, and finally they took sides and
got up a pool and bet U000 on wheth
er It was the Columbia river bar or
Slioalwater Bay. Pretty soon an In
dian came out In a canoe. We asked
hlnv He said it was Shoalwater Bay. -So
the fellows who bet It was the Co
lumbia river bar lost their gold dust.
Some of the passengers got ashore at
Soalwater Bay. while others stayed
with the boat to go down the coast
and go over the Columbia river bar
to Astoria. I got off at Shoalwater
Bay and hired an Indian to take roe in
his canoe. By pushing the canoe
about a half mile over the snow, where
Shoalwater Bay approaches Baker's
Bfcy. we reached Baker's Bay and he
paddled me to Astoria. I hired anoth
er Indian to row me up to Oregon City,
and from there I hooted It to my home
at Mission Bottom.
"Next spring the spring of 1141
I got a team and wagon and traveled
through to Sacramento with a load of f.
flour and bacon. I took It up the
American river, where I sold it to the
miners at $1 a pound. When I re
turned to California ln th spring of
'49, I found that a lot of Boston and
New York men had come In by boat,
and that Sacramento was a big clty
mainly of tents. I found all tbe work
I could do at teaming from Sacramen
to to Bear river. Feather river. Horse
Shoe bar and tbe different camps. I
ot 25 cents a pound for all the freight
i nanaiea. i made 8100 or more a day.
I did not have any hay nor grain to
reea my teams, so I Just grassed them.
I was making so much money I boua-ht
another team four yokes of oxen and
a wagon and put my brother to work.
Ha and I freighted until along in July.
'49, when I sold one of the teams and
wagons to a New York company for
81800. My brother, after the team was
sold, went back to Oregon. I kept on
with the freighting, makicr bis mon
ey, until the fall of 1S50. when I sold
my five yoke of oxen, the wagon and
the whip for $1100, and got 840 for an
extra ox with a lame shoulder."
SOCIATION OF OREGON.
By H. D. Hart, secretary.
THB OREGON STATE liOTELi AS
SOCIATION.
By M. C Dickinson, president.
An Open Letter.
PETER GOTFREY.
T
WILL XOT MIX. -
HAT politics and business will
not mix has been again aad
again proven by the failure
of the Lo rimer group of banks
in Chicago.
Primarily " Lbrimer was a poli
tician and incidentally s a banker.
He used his political Influence to
get business but when he lost his
political potency he lost his busi
ness. ; When he was "no longer use
ful to the lumber and railroad in-
An Open Letter.
: Portland, June 23. To the Portland
Chamber of Commerce Gentlemen:
Monday's Oregonian carried a four col
limn ad in which R. P. Hutton, import
ed paid worker of the Anti-Saloon
league, says: "The wets are asking
the Portland Chamber of Commerce to
help them boss Oregon." ; ,
We are trying to protect the "indus
tries of Oregon. You are vitally In
terested in them. -
Is it not a startling manifestation of
gall for a man having no interests in
Oregon to assail your body for Indicat
ing that you : were willing to go on
record On the" prohibition , question?
Must the men vitally interested in the
welfare of Oregon refrain from taking
part in questions of public concern, or
be lambasted by men who make helr
living by stirring up dissension? Evi
dently the Anti-Saloon league fears an
An Unsettled Question.
Salem. Or., June 23. To the Editor
of The Journal I sympathize with c,
L. Johnson's quandary. If I bad no
Oreron City. Or.. June 22. Dr. James otner source oi "'"''"V "YY 1 .
- m -v i- ei.. I lTf flrH. X .TT1 H.1 1 B1U X
- ame nredlcament
Are you in lavor oi main nu iiauumu . - , tv,.. i.
prohibition of the manufacture and About the only Purpose ' nJh'
sala of intoxicating liquors? Your ters. as I see it i to if
speech last night at the Methodist nouh in the voters to invest! gate
church in this city was very interest- nr ' y,'vm
i j.j .v. ...... la natent to everyone, vve have Deen
stand on this question. Perhaps this was trying "license" and 7ujation since
an oversight, because you told us you tne Deginning --
had caused the discharge of one of kestiqn is , .far from
vour subordinates in the state's serv-I a ever it wa
promised to enforce the laws if you the prohibitory states I have Just
The only place where
lmatelv settled Is in
i k .a -f
are elected.
If you are In favor of state and na
tlonal prohibition, will you join with
been reading a work on prohibition by
E. J. Wheeler, which gives facts as
to the working or liquor laws as em
s-itn i . - ,.j w .ho
Dr. Smith of the Democrats, Mr. Gill "ed by a commimion "'.1,
of the Progressives and myself of the governor general ui "
t..i.ikuiui. 11 : j . I ma ia thlsl SUDieCI in lo Uli""
for governor, in publicly advocating It U very pertinent 1 fact that we
the. Oregon dry amendment and na- have never been able to get sucn a
tional prohibition? The Issue cannot commission appoimea m u.
wo ' civ.v.v ... v....i'u..p, ... outU I , . CrtTWtt-
t.i,. is.,, ... i. .. 1 ,n,. aur-h a commission will be ap-
san politics in this state and very pointed, and it will lead to
greatly Increase the majority for the such as iouowea tne i..u"6
adoption of the Oregon dry amendment vice commission In Portland, or tne
ln November. You re to be con- commission appointed by RocKereuer
e-ratuiatMi nn iairitiv th i... hu ulaverv. In the meantime
to render so great ; a public service, prohibition has been merely the loot-
Slncerely yours, : W. S. U'REN. ball of designing pouwvw.-. -
be until the people taae n
On tht Antomnhtln Ttlo-fi
To the
fathers; 239, or 400 per cent, were ad
dicted to the use of alcohol before
reaching the age of 15; 311, or 52.5
per cent, habitually drank to excess".
384, or 64.9 per cent, spent their even
ings In saloons, at cheap shows, or on
the streets. Of these three attrac
tions the saloon was the best drawing
card.
And yet there are those who would
retain the saloons, because, they claim,
"there Is money in it for me."
H. S. HARCOURT.
The Dalles, Or., June 23.-
Editor of The Journal Is there any
Education Against Liquor.
authority in the state that can help Sacramento, Cal., June -21. To tho
tne peopie or mis county as against Editor of The Journal inn copicmwi
the speed mania who Is turned loose that men and women "must be educat-
6n tho county roads with automobiles ed to not 'abuse' Intoxicants by their
and motorcycles, when the local au- intemperate use," Is too silly and ab--
thorftles Ignore the evil? They tell ua surd to require contradiction. wny
It Is no use arresting anybody on the are not all punishments abolished and
road for breaking the speed limit and human beings "educated" not to lie.
smashing wagons and buarcies. for nn t teal not to commit burglary.
they are all doing 1C I live on the to abstain from all illicit relations to
main county road from The Dalles to be always decent, kind, humane and
Dayton. It averages about 10 auto mo- honest citizens? As a matter of fact,
biles per hour, : most of them with iiouor is the father of most of these
throttle wide open and no horn sounded offenses, therefore its abolition might
at turns In the road.. It will average form the. basis for an excuse for the
from one to three or four wagons or dispensation of laws against these
buggies smashed a day, ana women crimes.
and children dragged or thrown out. Dr. Rock 81eyster. prison physician
They will come and borrow a wagon I at Waupun. Wis., publishes these f Ig
or naca to-pick , up ;wnat is left, and I u res, taken from the lives or ea m-
go nome ana notning is said about it-1 mates: Of this number, an. or a si
I helped one man tie up a broken 1 eer ' cent, were the sons of drunken
Address by Mrs. Dunlway.
Portland, June 22. To the Editor of
The Journal During the meeting: of
the pioneers at the recent banquet, so
graphically described in The Journal
tbe following day, I was met by hun
dreds of women voters who "urged me
to offer an appeal to the press, not
one of whom was displaying the little
knot of white ribbon, insignia of pro
hibition, to which the majority of men
object, as was proved to unsuccessful
candidates for office at the late pri
mary election.
If my enfranchised daughters bad
been consulted, as I have been for
more than 40 years, by women suffer
ing from the inequalities of the laws
of barbaric ages; if they had been com-i
pelled to learn from many hundreds of
such sources, the primal need of the
law making power for all women, they
would surely turn their attention to
the needs of women who seek the bal
lot in sister states. Then, by permit
tine: men to fight their own battles
over their own shortcomings, they
could help, in womanly and quiet ways,
to place the comparatively few drunk
ards' wives of Oregon and elsewhere
above the service without salary, that
todav affects every toil worn wife and
mother in the land whom the census
now classes as "having no occupation:
ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY.
From a Friend of Mr. Bryan.
Elwood. Or.. June 23. To the Edi
tor of The Journal I notice Congress
man Humphrey of Washington has
Introduced a bill to keep Mr. Bryan
off the Chautauqua platferm. As this
bill wiil soon be up for action I should
like to suggest an amendment. If
vou will name a congressman that will
Introduce It. I will write him. It is
this:
"Any congressman or senator, dur
ing his term of office, that handles
trust securities for private gain that
would influence legislation shall be
tanelled from office. '
I made the acquaintance oz ur.
Bryan when ' he first entered public
life, and have yet to hear of his first
act of perfidy. Senator Root says the
office of secretary of state cannot
be kept up with the dignity It should
be on lees than 375,000 per year.
I C. UNGER.
A Universe of Energy.
From the, Kansas City Star.
Throughout the universe, energy.
We do not know what matter Is, but
the physicists suspect It Is energy. We
do not know what personality is, but
there again is a manifestation of
energy. Wherever we turn our gaze,
to the world within or the world with
out, through the microscope to the
minutest forms of organic matter, or
through the telescope to the enormous
masses . of the stars, to the plant that
turns toward the sun. or to the lover
who turns toward the adored one
everywhere Is energy.
What does It mean, this energy'
which Bergson has dramatised In the
plcturetqu phrase, "elan vital." "vital
impulse?" It often has been dis
cussed, but there Is a particularly
fresh and Interesting popular interpre
tation In the current Issue of the At
lantic by Henry Dwight Sedgwick, the
easaylst.
"What can we infer." he Inquires,
"of this energy which drives the stars
headlong, which heaves the ocean.
which pushes tbe sap from branch to
twig, and determines the subtle move
ments In the cortex of the cerebrum.
but that it Is working to change what
Is into something higher? All this
turmoil, this commotion of earth and
heavens. Is a discontent and a struggle.
May we not see in this endeavor to
supplant the lower by the higher, a
Holy Spirit at work?"
Then he goes on In words that re
call "Creative Evolution." to suggest
an Imprisoned power "struggling to
detach itself, from base Ingredients,
Mrlving to dominate some hindering
medium, aspiring to make the universe
new." This energy, at Its best and
noblest expression, seems to be found
ln the unselfish lives of fine men and
women. It may .seem presumptuous to
use this human yardstick, but there Is
no other within our grasp.
Is it not. Mr. Sedgwick asks, when
mystics have suddenly become sens!
tive to the meaning of cosmic pro
cesses that their souls have cried out,
Do, God Is here! "Is not that whlcS
we call prayer," be Inquires, "the un
conscious bending ourselves to 'act IS
concord with this universal energyi al
heliotrope plants turn to the lightr
Professor W. H. Carruth, long of Chi
University of Kansas, put the samj
Ideas In poetic language years sg4
when be wrote:
A fire mist and a planet.
A crystal and a cell. .
A Jellyfish and saurian, ' ' .
And a cave where the cave men
dwell: r
Then a sense of law and beauty,
A face turned from the clod- ' '
Some call it evolution.
And others call It God.
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