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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. -THURSDAY EVENING. JUNE 25 1914.
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When You Go Away
Have The Journal sent to
your Bummer addres.
Ha that respects himself is
safe from others;
Ha wears a coai of mall that
, nona can pierce.
' Longfellow.
TUB LAWSON STATEMENT
'4. A.
ITS SOB SQUAD ON PARADE
T
THE standpat clamor for Presi
dent "Wllaon to buck down
from hia anti-trust program
haa its answer In the state
' menta by Thomas W. Lawflon on
this naee. The matter la rrom Mr,
'i Lawson's Interview In last Sunday's
T.inni. It throwa the search
light on conditions with such power
that It la well worth a second
reading. No man knows more
about the Inner cliques and Inside
manipulations of Wall Street. No
man has done more to expose them
to the country. Few men have
been fearless enough to come out
of the deDths of the street and
warn the public of what was going
on In the heart of national finance
and business.
Several years , ago, Mr. Lawson
oubllshed paid advertisements In
the Boston papers predicting that
the New Haven railroad was going
to be wrecked and that the stock
holders would auf f er great losses.
The) stock was then worth $260 a
- share and the property one of the
best railroad holdings in the world.
But it is a shriveled and shrunk
en Investment now, a mighty -.spectacle
of Big Business as conducted
on the Morgan-Rockefeller plan.
Its' securities were inflated, Its re
sources dUslpated, its funds squan
dered in politics, and $11,000,000
' of Ittw money mysteriously dls
poaedr of.
: It if from such business as
ruined the New Haven that there
. comes demand that the' president's
bill for control of railroad securi
ties-be withdrawn. It is from such
' figures of business and their stand
pat .allies in politics that there is
"Vclanior for President Wilson to
back, down from hia purpose to
i;Bend convicted trust brigadiers to
. Jail. It is from the 10,000 and a
few of the 100,000 who Mr. Law
non says, have, by their own pe
" cullar methods, gathered In most
of the fruits of all the people's
toil in this country, that there Is
demand that the president's bill
for supervision of trusts be killed
, In. the senate.
Happily the man In the Ameri
can White' House Is -standing by
his guns. His conscience and his
countrymen are his first concern.
AH the threats and all the calam
ity, howls of what Mr. Lawson calls
"our dollar royalty", and their po
. litical soulmates cannot swerve
Woodrow Wilson from his purpose
to give, so far as he can, every
man, woman and child in America
an equal opportunity before the
law.
HE Oregonian Is running Its private sob squad full capacity
over the administration's alleged neglect of American interests
in Mexico and American- lives In Mexico. Yesterday, - It shed a
barrelful of tears over the case of a "man from the Oregon
country", who recently fled, from Mexico. ,
On general principles, when It doesn't have some ulterior end to
serve how much does the Oregonian care for ' a human life? How
much4 did it care for poor old John H. Mitchell's life?
How much does the Oregonian care In general for the hopes, or
welfare, or happiness of men? How much does it care, for, instance,
for the tears and wounds of the families and friends of the men it
hounds and persecutes? J U ; "'
How much doe's it care for the lives of the 500. 000" American sol
dier boys whom it is trying to goad President Wilson to aend down,
into Mexico to "pacify" the country and "save American lives and
property" with the accent on the "property?' f How much does it
care for the tears of the mothers and sisters and brothers and fath
ers of the 500,000 American boys in blue that it wants sent down to
Mexico to be slain In battle, to be maimed, mutilated and murdered
on the firing line? " ,
' How much does it care for the American property owned by the
folks at home when it wants the people of the United States to pay
in taxes half a billion to a billion dollars for an armed 'invasion of
Mexico, money it would spend with fire and sword and cannon in
the ravaging of fields and Hocks and intbe laying waste of homes
and plantations and in the shooting down of the poor, illiterate, pil
laged and plucked Mexicans in 'luckless Mexico?
There has never been in the United States a more grotesque ab
surdity than the spectacle of the Oregonian with its tears and sobs
on tap over what it terms the administration's neglect of American
lives and American property.
What is President Wilson's pojicy but a transcendent example of
endeavor to BavOs American lives and American property,, not only in
Mexico, but at home?.
Meanwhile, Mexico is not the only place where -Americans are los
ing their lives. Nor is the present administration the only adminis
tration under which American lives, have been lost in Mexico. Thou
sands of them were driven out of Mexico and their property destroyed
in the Madero revolution and subsequent revolutions in Mexico In
President Taft's time. But nobody ever heard the Oregonian peep
about it until ithaa for campaign purposes, worked itself into a
state of jimjams over President Wilson's widely popular and magnifi
cently effective plan of saving American lives and property both
abroad and at home.
proves this by referring "to Zola
who, he claims, wrote best when
he weighed ; moat ; and ; that ; the
quality, of his literary work retro
graded as ' his weight diminished.
Then there was Theophile Gautler,
a great bulk of a man who claimed
that all the great men of his day
were fat.; There was Balzao "more
barrel than man," Dumas "eter
nally fat, forever lolly;" Hugo,
Sainte Beuve and others.
If Mr. Sherard thinks fat men
are wiser than thin ones let him
do so. There are those who think
differently. For instance, Shake
speare makes Julius Caesar say
that he preferred to have around
him fat men who sleep o'nights. '
Again, it Is unfortunate for- the
theory of Xlr. Sherard that there
have been, men of genius who were
thin and men whose mental power
declined as. their physical weight
increased. .
Jn contrast with Gautler and his
rotund company there was Voltaire
who weighed some 100 pounds,
Pope, Shelly, Byron, Young, Ten
nyson, all were thin. Byron lived
in mortal terror of growing fat
and starved himself half his life.
According to tradition be was liv
ing on a diet of gin and water
when he wrote Don Juan.
Goethe, Tolstoi, Turgenief, Heine.
Carlyle, Dickensr Pee and a host
of others were lean men. '
8hakespeare retired and -ceased
work when his girth was enlarged
and Johnson grew indolent when
he was well fed.
Mr. Sherard's philosophy Is no
doubt comforting to the fat man,
but it will not stand the test.
There will always be great fat men
and great lean men. Obesity can
never , be the measure of genius.
A FEW SMILES
Pet Maher bought & grocery store.
Though h knew nothing about gro
ceries, he . would hot admit his Ignor
ance.-:.-: '
One ra o r n I n g a
lady cams In and
asked for a pack
age o f . spaghetti.
Pat had never heard
of it b e f o r e. He
looked all round.
but could See noth-.
thus labeled. ' i;
.. "Spaghetti, spaghetti," he mur
mured, scratching his head. "Sure an
I had ut In me hand a mlnut ago.
Would y know ut if ye saw ut?"
Llpplncott's. ! -
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF ; IN EARLIER DAYS
' aOIALX, CHAJfGB 4
June Is taking- a long time to make
Op iU mind.- t :
Despite some high- temperature con
gress has been piling up legislative re
sults. . -
Anyway the divining rod was never
so mysterious as the wireless tele-
h' . a .
How can a normal human being
laugh, to use magastn language, "hol
lowly'? In Russia it Is the would-be male
voter that seems to be causing most of
the trouble.
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
By Fred Lockley.
For biting a policeman three times a
xaore nig a
Some of the officials are now do
ing time at McNeil's Island for
their great work, as Mr. Clohessy
says Of living "that others might
prosper."
On the subject, there is no room
for misunderstanding or disagree
ment. Legitimate and honest "real
estate men occupy a useful field in
facilitating exchange of property.
But scrubs get into the business
as they do in every business, and
Instead of looming large, as public
"benefactors" occasionally get Into
the penitentiaries where they be
long. Meanwhile, the assessor is, or
ought to be, the best Informed per
son as to realty values in any city
or county. If any intending buyer
will find out .from the assessment
roll what the proposed property 1b
taxed at and multiply the valua
tion by two, he will get a pretty
accurate idea of what the assessor
thinks it worth. .
A PLEA FOB PAROLE
o:
iod the south decreased its number
unable to read and write by
600884.
Mr. Claxton said that a repre
sentative government such as ours
is menaced by the presence of 60
illiterates in every 1000 of popula
tion. The significance of this aver
age becomes apparent when it is
stated that in Scandinavia, Ger
many and some other European
countries the percentage Is only
three in every 1000.
The fault is not with American
schools. They have faults, but
the schools are doing excellent
work in raising the standard of
education. Increase in the number
of illiterates is due rather to im
migration, which is flooding Amer
ica with people who are unable to
hold their own in Europe.
Some European countries make
little or no effort to school their
working classes. The manufactur
ing interests of New York and New
England have employed millions of
workers drawn, from this class of
immigrants. There has been no in
telligent attempt to educate these
people; they were wanted for inan-
Letters From this People
... - .
"When Dr. Crelghton was bishop of
London," said the present bishop of I Chicagoan was fined .$75,
London, "he rode on a train one day I cost of livings
with a small, meek -
curate r Creiffh- Certain circles hint that the middle
ton an ardent lover Initial in George W. Perkins name
1 tJt!L? 7a atands for -wealth."
of tobacco, soon took
out his cigar case Recent events confirm the soundness
and with a smile, 0f the contention that pontics and fi-
said;
"You don't mind
my smoking, I sup-
ooae?"
"The meek curate bowed and an
swered humbly: i "Not If your iora-
pianist, who to watch us at lunch.
i nance should not be associated.
No decision has yet been rendered as
to whether it is safer to be an enemy
or a friend to General Huerta in Mex
ico City.
ship doesn't mind my being slclt. I Foreign critics say that we Amerl-
- J cans are a nervous, hurried nation.
A young" lady called one day on Foreign critics should not be allowed
Rubinstein, the. great
had consented to lis
Un to her play
ing. "What do you
think I should do
now ? she asked
when she had fin
ished. "Get married,"
was the answer.
Sir Thomas Linton's new yacht is
said to be a freak, but sadly we reflect
that something similar was nald.01 tne
criusa poio leam.
In another wit of lookinr at It. a
moving picture film of the wedding
would be just as good as a duly sealed
marriage certificate.
rCdnmtlnlcationa aent to Tbe Journal for
publication la thu department abould be writ
ten on only ooa aide of the paper, should Sot
excead SOO word la lensth and tavmt be ao
companied by the name and addrcM ot the
sender. If the writer doea not desire to
hate the name published, he should ao atate.)
"DIwtlMlon la the rreatftst of all reform
era, it rationalizes Terythlng It touches. It
roba principles of all falsa sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they hare - no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes them oat of existence and Sets up lta
own conclusions ln their stead." Woodrow
Wilson. .
NE of the most moving ap
peals for a . parole that ever
cam from a orison cell was
that made.' without avail, by labor, , not because of their
Abraham Ruef, the former political ability to understand American in-
boss of San Francisco to the board aututlona,
of pardons. Ability to read and write may
Ruef is serving -a term of four-lot be a test of good citizenship:
teen years at San Quentin for but the figures presented by "Mr,
bribery and has completed nearly Claxton . are evidence that unre-
half his sentence. i strictea immigration is rapidly in
That which makes the anneal creasing the number of people in
notable is that It came from a tne United States who are the easy
highly sensitive and intelligent Prey of demagogues and agitators
man who ln eloquent phrases ex-
MR. CLOIIESSY'S LETTER.
pressed the mental suffering he has
undergone and the bitter penalty
he has paid . in full. He did not
ask for a pardon but simply for
the privilege of leaving prison
walls behind
some service
is too late.
Said he:
There is no punishment which can
be added to that I have already en-
aurea
COOPERATION BY FARMERS.
C
ON THIS page, "Mr. Clohessy
pays a tribute to real estate
agents. He does not say so,
but there la Implication in
his remarks that The Journal has
tired on them.
" The Journal has not attacked
honest real estate dealers; nor le
gttlmat real estate dealers. It Is
the unscrupulous and undependable
. artists Irj the business that this
. newspaper nas eriucisea.
' They are a pretty numerous gen-
. try. A sample of their tribe and
their practices were the heads of
the, Oregon Inland. Development
Company, recently convicted and
sentenced in the federal court for
selling arf orchard sites, lands 7600
' feet high in the summit ot the
Blue Mountains, lands Which were
' covered with snow as late as May
15, according to the sworn testl
. mony of forest rangers at the trial,
. The buyers were mainly people
f ' ' from great distances who were en
ticed into Oregon by lying adver-
" tlsements only to find on arrival
. that they were dupes, and had been
. cheated out of their savings by the
- worst kind of swindling.
' ; Of one of these real estate ar
tists, does Mr. Clohessy Insist, as
he says In his article, that "he
.'looms as a public benefactor, and
no more appropriate epitaph could
be selected for his tomb than to
" Inscribe these words that he lived
i that others might prosper?";
There, also are the heads of the
Columbia River Orchard Company
. which skinned Portland people out
i '- of several - hundred thousand dol
. lars by selling five million dollars'
worth of stock "on an : investment
of . less - than $50,000. v In the
'process old people were robbed of
their' homes, kitchen maids duped
; out of their saving and the un
. irary plundered right and left.
OOPERATION by farmers is
proving its worth wherever It
is tried. The latest evidence
him and beine of VL DUCTO cuuies irom ousui
to society blfore It Flem,QS of Edinburgh, who says
mci a at a uuw la agricultural
trading societies in the highlands
and islands of north Scotland.
These societies have been not-
More time, more Imprison-1 ably successful. Afineclallv
ment means merely more physical and I Krn.ti f,.m,M i r.rvit
mental deterioration. small farmers, in promoting the
There comes a time, however, in imeresis OI agriculturists. They
the life of every man long confined I have saved the members monev ln
"I, r'BO is Znt"D "t?B combined purchase of materl-
D K wsa iiiuinvtai aa as givra Via 111V 44 ACL II 11 J f . .
hood, when the consciousness of tha als reauired in farming and in the
good yet within him fades away, when I collective marketing of nroduce. A
tne nope, tne amwtion, even the pos- an educational force, to assist in
' "VT ! the improvement of live stock and
him and he halts even in his faith of Arming methods, the societies ?"tae manias, when he enters the
in God
Extols the Real Estate Man.
Portland, June 25. To the Editor
of The Journal I have read the edi
torial in The Journal of June 19, en
titled "Astoria Speculation," where
the editor seeks to warn the public, by
intimation, to beware of the real es
tate man, and advises as a basis to
.govern investments resort to the as-
sessment roll, and to purchase no real
property at a higher price than double
its assessed value given by the as
sessor. While this advice is Imprac
ticable and arbitrary, yet it would
suit some of us first rate if The
Journal oould furnish buyers for us
for real property of a good character
that we do not ask only 60 per cent
more than, the assessed value, giving
the public the advantage of the other
&o per cent which The Journal is will
lng we should take.
For-the frequenrt-intervals that this
subject has been touched upon by
The Journal, It most unquestionably
has a tendency to reflect discredit
upon and lack of confidence ln the
well meaning and Intelligent real ea
tate man or men. and for that reason
It should call forth a reply from some
person in def enser of this agency. It
ought to be admitted that the enter
prising, energeticr-reai estate man has
some part In the upbuilding of the
community ih which he resides; for
time has not yet demonstrated that
every real estate man is a horsethief,
neither Is every horsethief a real es
tate man. f
'Notwithstanding the prejudicial
mind of many people against the real
estate man as a whole, every wide
awake city's development is due in a
larger degree to the efforts and en
terprise f the real estate men than
to any. other one agency outside "of
the railroads, and the real estate roan
Is the forerunner of the railroads, as I
ue uuues me . iraii, as it were.
in lean years and fat years, the
real estate man has given unt?rudtln?
ly of his time and money to advertise
his neighbor's property and through
his agency people who have followed
other pursuits have gone alone unin
terruptedly without giving any time
or attention to their Investments and
depended upon the real estate man as
tne medium to reap profit for them
in a legitimate way without any act
of , theirs. Statistics will show that
no matter how much money a real
assured that he will never become a
drunkard? Talk with the young fel- rrom Thomas Lawson's Interview in
low, and see. v The Sunday Journal.
It is easier to see where Mr. Yates' About It or 15 years ago the peo
interests are than it is to settle the 99 began to realise that something
liquor Question by such a means. Mis waa ra,diCally wrong: that the ninety
idea is simply an expression of the -.- Mniinn. ttina-a smaiisr
I?urW-",lfi"hnrr has CStAU and smaller share of the results of
!in" & h-ff.Si:r,.J atlon' tremendous prosperity.
d hir M "? knJ ffJ and that the favored million was get-
K iv brSth2r rLt" tfrm thS ting more and more. It was at this
daur'cr'r. as ss19
Let me not be misunderstood. I am 7h. " m. it f trat
a prohibitionist, but have not advanced mon te the conditions. At first
this as a prohibition argument. My big business made light of his attack,
int. ... tt mtMM -vi-h,. !.,...... at first the muckraker made only a
........ -v. ,uv..oo . , . .,
the world s misery V You can brand V" .7 7
man easier than you can inquire ot national life, but the tiny circle
reason the cause of his fault. i oegan ever increasing umn tvc.
i .t net a Dimu ir4tiTv.sf t.... I the whole land from Canada to the
try" stand as legitimate which causes gulf, and from Boston to the Pacific
or depends upon human misery, wheth- The net result of the people's work
er It be of the fruits of the saloon or the work of the ninety-nine million,
the sweatshop whether it be th al- for this year is going to be a tre
lied -interests of the liquor traffic or mendous , surplus more than enough
the allied interests of big business de. to satisfy everyone, and to keep pros
spoiling a nation. ' Y. C. KLFORD. perlty hurdling through the land If
this surplus should he fairly and equl-
The Advice to King Lemuel. tably distributed among those who pro
Portland, Or., June it. To the Edl- dueed it, among those who, by every
tnr At Th .Tmirftai t rA Ts.oi. law of nature, are entitled to It, This
day's Journal a most remarkable it- was the message that the muckraker
1 - .
The school board of Wheeler will! -"Tf, the wiiiam
soon award a contract for a four room ,f 'J"' , V -yuse war in
school house. , . tu of Hit l went to California
- to the gold mines," said Sol Uurbln
Bums' latest school census shows of Salem, "I spent a couple of years at
321 children of school aga Nine teach- the gold diggings, mlnina an,i rriht. .
era are employed. I lng and In the fall of mo I cams back
to the Willajnftti n,v i v. - -
Tha Palls City council has awarded I hnt nt r-.tti. ...n '
. i mnes oeiow tne present town of Gold"1
A Fourth of July feature at Qresh-1 H'1L That ferry was a regular gold V.-
am will be a flower show, with rules 1 mine. I got 60 cents for a man on "
and prizes, all to be in cnarge ox tne I norseDack; 50 cents for his pack horse;
woman's committee. I 25 cents apiece for all loo, atn. it '
. .v4 a . 2;80'or wagon and 50 cents a yoke
The Times says that Condon "Is slm- I for the team. I started a. stora which
nlv chock-full of automobiles. and I aia i .
complains that few pay the slightest tiiin w. ZZl. il . '
attention to the U mile speed limit. I P'freTom10
Gardiner Courier: Marshall and Bpye X'tS?1
have been engaged to take care of the tco",bur n.d Scott Bar.
lines and hooks that are to be used in in the winter of 1SS3 I sold out and
catching the seals that infest the river; came back to Mission Bottom. On '
also to make preparations to dynamite March 9, 1864. X married Sophia Elgin,
them on the sand spits. A good deal w moved to Salem, where I went into -of
interest is being shown a. to the re- Uvery b.fnm' f stayed There tor
u . a 31 years. In the record breaking winter '
The Fossil Journal s Winlock eor- f,.J," A 5n bl p,"n,lL Ied
respondent writes: "We are certainly with 1 horses strung out, which was
forging to the front. The day of the about the record number. -Along about T
sheep and-cattle man Is past, and the 1173 I sold out, and went to Antelope,
country is rilling with good, honest, tn eastern Oregon, where I raised
hard working settlers, who in a few horses, cattle and shn I ran m
Slave's MjuVenaU tb W"U lnmL.iJ&.
places. 9 1700 hAd of my cattu to LlnK u
Supporting Eugene's new dog orfli- "ln head orvthm- 1
nance the Register says: "Every city in turned my ranch over, with the horses
Oregon that has endeavored to restrain and sheep, to the boys. I went back
the does has stirred up a hornets' nest, to the Willamette valley, but did not
Nevertheless the council's action will stay long.. I. soon returned to Rock
receive the approval of a large num- Creek. In Oilliam . eountv hn r -per
of people-l-particularly If the unex- b0uLh't i iaea M n? T-11 .hi
pected happens and the ordinance that b. p10' My rsnc wm at the
- .i.ht ta .nfi,.i - bead of Alkali canyon. The town of
WAS mvuuaj - ww - ... . - .
. a i mi muum oi uie can
yon. They changed the name; Alkali to
Arllrfgton. After five or six years I
gave this ranch to my daughter and -
drove mv HftO hll r r linnn t. V .
a few of the million had taken from iuia, rrom whjch point I ghipped them
them without giving any quid pro quo to Billings. Mont. I went back east,
for the uncountable wealth which had where I bought some Percheron. Clyde. -
come from the effort of all the people. Cleveland bay and Shire stallions II
So this Is the cause of It; this is the in all. I turned these out with my -
reason for the unrest the awakening band of horses on the Crow reserva-
of the people to the fact that they are tlon. 1 did mighty well, with my band
being short-changed and not getting a of horses, shipping them to the middle
square deal. The ninety-nine million west. I finally sold them all off with
have awakened to the fact that there the exception of about 618 head, which
is nothing the matter with the nation; I sold. Including the II stallions, at
that there is nothing the matter with the rate of 165 a head,
the way people are handling th na- ."For the last good many years I
tlon's wonderful resources: but there have lived at Salem not far from where
Is everything the matter with the way ( I first settled 70 years ago."
a favored few favored in the sense
that they have contrived to compel
the people and the nation to favor
them, have found a way by trick and
chicanery and crime yes, red, raw
crime to take from the people's hon
estly produced wealth whatever por
tion they decide to take, even If It la
all of it.
AMERICA'S DOLLAR ROYALTY
The Ragtime Muse
tr fmm Mil xc vtnnv in ch I In always simple, though often lurid
displays a wonderful ignorance of the wording, got before the American peo-
Bible ln her efforts to use It to win P1. nd h followed it up by point-
wet votes. First she is guilty of quot- ln. here the accumulated wealth,
lng only half a statement, thus disool- whjch "htmld have gone to the people,
oringlt. Then, too, her quotation from bad really gone to the m'W'on, Jn-
Proverbs xxxi:6-7. Is not quoting what t,ad oC tha "iny-nino nion.
the Bible teaches concerning "prohl- . TZ . . .
biUon." but merely the words of King A" matter of fact, be showed how
Lemuel's mother (vers. 1), in what the bulk of it had gone to the one bun
might be termed omrworldly-wue d' L'L SU1thl. .
advice to her son. The complete quo- how. bout ten houIIVa ftl11"
tatlon Includes verses 4 and -It is hundred thousand had shrewdly gotten
R. , J!! ? ,an? . most of It. The muckrakers began to
kTnVa to drVnV w;" nor fo? prince. " ' S"
T.nn i t it' m I enlna people the methods and tne
VtSSSt tricks by which the ten thousand and
or any or the arnicted." As much
as to say: "Lemuel, those who have
Use for a clear mind and memory, and
who desire that the -downtrodden get
justice, should leave wine and strong
drink alone; but those who feel hope
lessly crushed, let them further bru
Assisted Patriotism.
If you have tilled the stubborn glebe
In barren clayey lands.
Behind a mule
That was a fool
With chilblains on your fiends;
The American people have at last If J:0" have milked a brindle cow
awakened to the faot that there has A Antf 'aIfd wlth bcr ul,
grown up in this country a favored w.n'eVrTy Thourh
class favored far more than any mon- H-r root plated in the pall,
archlcal or royal class in the old
world. The American people have at If you've jot up at four o'clock
last discovered andhave begun to re- . Lpon a frosty morn
allze that we have class and mass here i rkers9 iretd
in the United States; they hav. begun Al& UVok the froon corn;
to realise that they are ln one class. If vou've drawn water from a well
and th few who have robbed them are When cold cut ltke a knife.
In another class; they have begun to And sawed the wood,
realise that-we have oome to class dls- Then know you hould
tinctions notwithstanding our' proud Th rrni han'1 n'err 1,fe
boast of equality and freedom. We a merry life of toil snd groans
have our ruling class here ln America. From four to lialf-past nine, ,
t i la immaterial what rnn call it. Then heavv sleen
whether you give it the name of the Why should 1 1 jn
..i. k., -i.. h.ih nu Miil These comforts, lend o mineT
"-"'""-" "I ' i so in tne navy i enlist:
It "dollar royalty." The people today j Jov. my country, yes,
fully understand that there is a class I put that's not why .
which has ruled them in - tne past 1 1 gare to oi
years, is undertaking to rule them at
present, and presumes to rule mem in
the future.
1 love this farm work lexs!
1 Business to enhance the value of his
he con
tinues a long period of time he is
Droke and his neighbor Is the benefi
ciary of his labors. No more appro
priate epitaph could .be selected for
his tomb than to Inscribe these words
that he lived . that others might
prosper. . M. J. CLOHESSY.
have done important work and f:.to n5a.n.c6 fva2
Tt ,m.,t hav VtaATt r. I Vo, - .... ! - vopofi, vnai n
a auuv v wvvi uau a kuv I uaTO jJICUaiCU LUQ W It Jf XsJl & Sllll
board of pardons to have resisted further advance in rural economics.
such an appeal hut It doubtless The total trade of these associa
had In mind that though his pun- tions In 1913 was about $888,000,
isnment was great nis offense I an increase of $428,000 over that
against society was also great. I of 1912. In cooperative dairying-.
The board probably thought also I producers of milk obtained an ln-
that the prisoner should have con- creased price without increasing the
sfdered all these things when at the I cost to the consumer, a result due
neigm oi pouueat power ne sola to a system of milk depots which
the franchises of a stricken city largely prevents losses through
for his own enrichment. , periodical oversuDDly and fluctn.
Looking at the matter though I ating demand, since the deDota
from a distance It does seem as I make profitable use of the surplus
though Ruef has been most severe-1 milk.
ly punished. In his extenuation It 1 In the poultry Industry, increases
might be said that there are others! in the price of eggs were secured
REASONABLE RETURN, AND THEN WHAT?
Pointed Paragraphs
Man sets up the drinks
upset the man.
-then drinks
By John M". Oskison. -One
of the best written bond adver
tisements I've read undertakes to tell
talis themselves : If they will." Now, the Investor what he has a right to ex
we believe that the true American is a pact in addition to a reasonable inter
prince da facto, it not de Jure; whether est return on his bonds,
he lives ln mansion or shack. His Assurance of ample security behind
vote counts as much as the governor's, his bonds the assurance of an expert
and he needs as much judgment In should be the Investor's.
using It, Those who believe ln the Regular and prompt payments, at
American prince, let them vote dry, the stipulated rate of interest due on
according to the advice of King Lem- the bonds should he made to the In-
uel's mother. T if tor.
THEODORE MAYNARD. I If the Investor holds ths bonds until
they become due, he has a rignt to ex
pect that they will be paid In full: he
Dry Territory.
Oregon City. Or. June 34 To the uid,n',, S!,.'0 im
Editor of the Journal If the enfran- ?ndh.olf e" , .EU,cAIveK I0?"1!!.
chlsement of women was not to better I .B i . . , . i . . . "l ; "
VI Ufc UVUiU .... - t ...y
cured against default.
A fair market, says the expert.
Conditions, we had better go back to
the olden times, where woman was
merely allowed to sit ln public with ,J , it for ,h. hin ,
Mv. t.h nv. th. I should always exist for the bonds
covered head and obey th. master-. I ,1,1
The great hue and cry of the sa
loon element has been the financial
ought to be able to sell them at cost
any time ths necessity arises.
To the Investor in bonds should be
property securing the bonds, as well as
m Mimitnliantln r,nnrt nnnn Ih, nhvit.
cal and financial condition of the than dosenood ones.
property upon which the bonds are
based.
If the bonds are backed by a public
service corporation, the Investor should
know that the corporation's franchises
are legal and that it has legal au
thority to make the mortgage against
avlVW eV at, Ka-an A m a a. I m aaai A A
The Investor should know that the th rnt thao 11 fo.r lha tnant
company is, and nas oeen .earning a
reasonable margin above the sum re
quired to pay bond Interest and pro
vides for redemption of the bonds.
Always the investor should know
that there is a reasonable margin be
tween ths bonded Indebtedness and the
actual value of the property. This Is
very Important ln the case of bonds
having a long time to run.
Sometimes a poor excuse Is better
As a cure for'lov the lack of faith
beats the faith cure.
About the time the average man
learns how to live he quits the game.
It's easier for the landlord to raise
Every woman shows bravery when
she has a mouse In a trap.
a
Even If a man does lift his lid when
he meets a woman he msy not be ber
Inferior. "
a a
The public trusts many a man with
an office whom the grocer wouldn't
Suffrage and Brands. '
Portland, June 25. To the Editor of
The Journal Replying to Mrs. Dunl
way's and Mr. Yates' letters ln The
Journal; of - June 22, will say: The
writer supported Mrs. Daniway's pet
measure of equal suffrage for. 30
years, having one object in . view,
namely, to assist womankind to purge
their homes of the curse of the rum
demon, and I assure this worthy lady
that 89 per cent of the male. popula
a. guilty who went unwhipped of through better grading and collect - TT. "J1"
Justice. He was but-a product of marketing. In the purchase of j But, as everyone knows, equal, suf
a period when bribery flourished I fertilisers, collective hnvinir v.wlfrage was. and is. bitterly fought by
and corporations were "ready to many societies resulted last year i UJ0'' nteresfts as it knows only
do hnslnfisa with Tni t. In rrWW th a . L "t too well that, once granted, a Nemesis
- ' " a "' --- yor iuu.;will be on Its trai
self, . s - I Lower quotations were also rh.
Happily that period Is passing tained by bulking the orders for
and la being succeeded by the day seeds. Manufacturers and whole
of an aroused public conscience in sale dealers make special efforts
a nation whose chief has a con- to get the trade of the societies,
Bcience. ior tney generallv nav mRh ihara.
by securing concessions in kHm
OUR ILLITERATE ADUITS. CooperaUon is eainln? m,r,V tr.
the United States. It will become
W
ITH more than 5,500.000 rr,:," t,:
T ,,f V to' terests are identical
literacy is Hteaaiiy increas
will be on its trail to wipe It out of
existence.
"To Mr. Yates I say: We refuse to
put the brand of Cain on the wretched
outcast product of the liquor traffic.
but instead we will rescue him as a
brand from the burning and forever
put the seal of disapproval on the ac
cursed traffic that has blasted so
many otherwise noble lives.
Vote dry for home, Molly and the
babies. . A. J. MARTIN.
side of - the problem, and nothing I ...C.:: VT;
thA linhiiildinsr of tha turn, "IRoie-
restraint" is all riarht as far a it I supposed to. Any man or set of men
goes, but how ; many are endowed PnJy advocating minority rule, as
with the will power to resist tempta- I wee men are aoing, snouia oe looaea
tifjn when it Is placed beside them for at tpr.
davs and months and veara? I As to which would be the better
.The saloon has been eliminated I Ior tne people as a wnoie,ioe smgie
from two-thirds of tha a-aaarranh:at 1 tax law or the law as It now Is. X am
area of the United Statea The pro- trongly inclined to think the former
niDition uaai wave was checked be-lw"ulu " Aua 9 "
tween the years 1907 and 1913 by the Know to give a iriau cui
partial nullification of the state no 11- to condemn without trial any proposed
cense laws by the use of the Interstate law In addition pass another un
commerce law for shipping- liquor American law, which would take a
from wet into dry territory, but the two-thirds majority to change our tax
Webb law was passed, and it was ac- Uon system, is unreasonable,
knowledged by the liquor men that if - Now word to. the man who has
held constitutional It would destroy at Ws mtl home in the city or owns his
least one-tnird or their business in 1 11-18 aome m m cuumry, comnuui
this country. From 600 saloons in the OI 4U- ew or v acres, it
National capltol the number was re- not this class of people that are de
duced to 300. On July 1, 1913, all the mandlng : the eVerlasting future defeat
saloons rn the Panama Canal zone of -the single tax proposition. But it
numbering ss, were aboiishecr by the I c"I'e" irwiD wuu ww"
Isthmian Canal . Commission. In con- acres near the business section of
gress ln 1913 a committee refused toIm TOod Incorporated city, or those
report the bill to return the canteen to I wno count weir country acreage or
the army. Yet ln spite of thla sent!-Ith thousands or tba tens of thousands
ment a few that , are capable leaders I Ma T" 19 assessor u
in the woman's cause wield all their I raln' lan3 r stump land, worth
Influence' tor the saloon. I about S per.and at the same time
Paraphrasing Ella M". Finney's I ' on go to purchase) a raw acres
slogan I say. vote dry, for law and the will ask you from 850 to 1200
order and temperance. I Pr acre, according to location. This
MRS. R. M. C BROWN : I the class of taxpayers that are op-
So the careful, intelligent Investor truBt with a cake of soap,
has a good deal to learn if his choice
falls upon bonds. It takes patience
nd close attention to be sure of learn
ing the real truth as to these Items,
but the effort Is worth making.
An old bachelor says that too many
of the roses that bloom on feminine
cheeks are culled from corner drug
stores. i
ing. P. P. Claxton, United States
commissioner of education, startled
a New York audience the other day
with the figures.
He said that while 2,250,000 of
these adult Illiterates are colored
THE FAT AND THE LEAN.
T
HE fat man has at last found
a champion in Robert Sher
ard, author : of "M o d e r n
Paris, who declares that obes-
persons, the area in which the evil jity Is a sign of genius.
Is spreading fastest is New York Those who view with alarm , the
and New England, where 750,000 expansion ot the waist line may
grown illiterates live. Thla repre- find comfort also in hlg assertion
eenta an increase of. 313.000 in ten that a man when fleshy doea bet-
year, while during; th same) per- tex work than when lean. He
Brands and Branding. '
Portland, Or., June 25.To the Ed
itor of The Journal. The article writ-
ten by Osborne Yates on branding
drunkards is surely a good ona Hew.
ever. X want to ask a few questions. Is
not the drunkard already branded?
Does not nature brand him on the
nose, on the cheeks, in the eyes, the
voice? -. In fact, docs not his whole ap
pearance proclaim his degradation?
Are we to understand God marked Cain
by i, employing dirrerent means : from
what be now uses on the inebriate? I
se no reason why it should be neces
saryi Further, can Mr. Yates believe
branding a drunkard will atop the
making- ot drunkards? Does- not the
young; man. taking his first glasa-feel
when such real dangers as this "paved"
street confront us?
"Boss" Shepherd's Libel Suit.
From the Chicago Post
Clarence R. Wilson United States at-
I have consulted an attorney rela-1 tnrn.v tor tha District of Columbia.
tlve to seeking damages for the accl- I ,i,,nui nut y,tm iVk the other dav and
dent but he informs me It will take found an Indictment returned 39 years
13 years to carry my case through all tgo by a federal grand Jury against
the courts, as he feels confident the Whltelaw Reld and Charles A. Iana
paving company will blame the city, tOT the criminal libel of Alexander
the city will blame the real estate com- shepherd, otherwise known as "Boss"
pany that promoted the district, and ghepherd. Mr. Wilson took the ancient
rea' company win Diame n .snsr to Judta Barnard of the district
for driving over ml miles an hour.
can you suggest wnat to do.
E. J. ROSEN.
court and asked that the Indictment be
nolle-prossed.
Alexander Shepherd has been called
the most abused man of bis generation.
No one has ever denied that he earned
Direct Primary; Single Tax.
Portland, Or:, June 24. To the Edl,
tor of Tha Journal I have read, in
last Sunday s oregonian, the state
ment that soon there will be ln circu
lation petitions to kill the direct pri
posed to single tax.
J. 8.
, Street Is Unsafe.
Portland. Or.. June 25: To' the Ed
itor of The Journal. Why is it that
Ladd avenue is so badly out of repair
and permitted to remain so? While
raary law.- and also the single tax drivln. ovp 11 Saturday night one of
agitation in Oregon, which should ti I T children, a boy of , was thrown
agitation in Oregon, which should call
lerth the protest ot au voting- and tax.
paying citizens. I do not know either
from my auto and badly bruised. I
was gojng at IS' miles. Fortunately
of the men mentioned as being Instru- Wld 'uJn deep, bl T4her
mental In this movemeaV David Dunn tl3 I5vem, bf completely disap
ut.a wir. Harm, but will P"d, and beyond some bruises and
.- .- I lacerations that will fade out in a
1T-JSS .TJ' f-l-l"1"?- i m lured. The shock of the accident com-
mrT xor pletely prostrated my wife. It is
I,":,:.;?."- .- ;,.", mn? hasardous to drive over Ladd -avenue
. . . . a , eat. uiuiti iuovii av uiiiia e iivur uuiirsiai
of the voters are. 1 deem It the only I you hav. daylight for it and a
-j rvv van i neavy car.
have any voice In the nomination off I da-not want' to appear Imperil
canaiuat.es. .- . . nent or unduly curious, but may I tn-
Of tha petition to kill the single J quire who is to blame for this street's
Ha wiuluoh. i, ior vam. uuna it a i present bottomless condition? Why
downright Insult to every American I talk about oaVinar country roads, abol.
cltlxen who Prides himself en living la I lahlng the death penalty, giving the
The Pioneers.
Portland. June 25. To the Editor of I .n daaerved the title of -Boss" He
The Journal While attending the Pi- was the governor of the District of Co-
oneers' reunion of recent date Jn Port- lumbla before the commission system
land the thought came to me what a of rule was adopted. He undertook
privilege to see those grand old Pil- th work of beautlfvlns- Washington.
lars of the state of Oregon and to hear 1 of straightening its streets and of ez
tbem tell of their struggle to get to I tending Its broad avenues. The people
ims country, and or the unceasing I said he was ruthless, that he had no
struggle to maintain here a home. I regard for property rlghta that If he
How many obstacles they had to over-l were allowed to continue his course he
come by sheer courage, with no en- j would -ruin -the capital and all Its resl-
couragemenft ln sight for many years. I dents. ,
And when I see the present generation I Today In front of the Municipal
some of whom never give a thought to building in the city of Washington
the privations that were the forerun- there stands a monument of "Boss"
ners of these peaceful associations. Shepherd. When It was unveiled a few
blessed by plenty of everything, and years ago the sons of men who had
are flippant oftimes. It stirs me to ln- denounced him were there to praise
dignatlon. the work of the "Boss." , Shepherd
In man win tha nlonaera - war I Carried things with a high hand, but
fighting against odds which our crave I "ttle by little the people of Washing-
soldiers Of the Revolution did not I wa came m rc.u wi ruiniCTJ vno
have to contend with. The cunning I benefactor. Tha money to pay for
rrf thm Tnrftur, ha4 tn Ka rMkonad with I the monument for the "BOSS" Bit
their diabolical schemes to outwit j raised quickly by publle subscription,
which none but the Indian mind
could, or would concelva.
. X consider the parents of the pres
ent generation have a wonderful priv
ilege that should be taken advantage
of, since the child mind may be Im
pressed by learning history from the
lips of those who will soon have
passed Into the great beyond. What
a chance for -the school children to
spend an hour visiting the grandslrts
of this wonderful country. And X am
tore the sight of the bright faces of
the school children would cheer In
memory many hours of the ensuing
year. ; i
It Is a wonderful privilege te have
met and heard the late F. X. Mathieu.
Ezra Meeker. Mra . Abigail Scott Dun
Iway and many othera. ------ .
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