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to be effectually restricted by vig
orous governmental action.
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SAVING THE COUNTItY.
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item of life cost ia the tremendous ( of land hogs are the greatest hand
I
charge the public has to pay In In-
flatea iana vaiues. j.c rammes
every community, and in the ag
gregate Is an appalling, burden on
those who work. Every time an
added million is placed on the land
value in Portland real estate,
workers must begin at once witi.
their hands to create more wealth
with which to meet the increased
drain, , while the landlords run . off
to Europe to enjoy the fruits of
the new values which, came to them
without endeavor and as the com-
High birth in rift of for--tune
which should never chnl-;
lenge esteem toward those who
receive It, since It coats them
neither study nor labor.
Bruyere.
F
THE I1KTTKR WAY
KANe'i FERDINAND played
the game badly.
He was an ardent militar
ist. He applauded the mailed
flat. - j ,
Bosnia and Herzegovina were an
nexed to Austria by Torce. Francis
Ferdinand as a towering figure in
the aged emperor's court, was un
questionably a commanding influ
ence in contriving the annexation.
It was government without the con
sent of the governed, a principle
that people under every sun are
repudiating.
Austria had the power to annex,
but "the rattlesnake had its power
to sting. The lawless bullet of the
nineteen-year-old assassin violated
the laws of society as Austria vio
lated the laws of eternal justice
in the annexation. '
There is a better way to govern
than by the man on horseback.
Humanism and justice are a better
implement for ruling families than
the sword and armed cans p.
Woodrow Wilson's policy with
men and nations is a better pol
icy than that employed by Austria
lA annexing Servian provinces and
Servian peoples. t '
RMSBY McHARG is out
- "save the, country."
The-name is not unfamil
iar Tn Oregon. This same
Ormsby McHarg was in Oregon In
the autumn of 1909 to "save the munltv's free eifL
country." At that time the saving i - OTl Ka rt mutv
process was to induce legislators ,n an community than to Inflate
who had taken Statement .One to vjlloa , wllOT, rWa fa rnn.
violate s their agreement '. with -the tinned riot of it. there follows al-
wuyi u iiu Biamiure most invariably a reaction and a
against Chamberlain who had re- Kuon- of Btagnation. It is al-
ceived the people's indorsement for way8 a costly experience for those
DCJl&lOr o1oniOT TriAana wVr vrora 'Hravrn
i v, savruuv Aunuo w uv v v via "
He failed in that errand. Not alnto the sneculative maelstrom.
legislator was induced to Violate Thev ' bnv on an inflated market.
his pledge, though McHarg used all prices .tumble, stagnation comes.
mo tue6;iii tuu luiiuvuccni and unable to sell, they are forced
known to inside politics. With all to pay taxes and interest on land
wno naa taKen statement une, a that brings them no revenue.
covenant was a covenant, and a The gafe rule for aU guch ,a t0
sacred pu flic promise was more to examine the assessment rolls be-
be regarded than all of McHarg s fore they buy town lots or- other
blandishments. ..nMi, ,.4 tv, ocboo.
Bora' business is to know values.
journeyed over the country in a and .In Multnomah conntv the as-
leap now impeding progress, i It is
suicidal, to the northwest's develop
ment to hold land at abnormally
high prices. Few desirable settlers
buy and fewer are able to pay af
ter .they have! bought. -
Spokane is wise in attempting to
bring the manless land and the
landless man together. One intel
ligent farmer settled upon land
he can pay for Is worth, a dozen
speculative deals in real estate that
remains idle. -
Under the same ownership, the
Oregonian is against prohibition
and the Telegram for prohibition.
While directing its evening edition
to advocate the dry cause, the Ore
gonian stands by the cause of the
wets and exhorts its wet friends to
carry full page liquor ads, one of
which appeared in this morning's
issue of that family journal, illus
trated with a life-sized black bot
tle. Work 'em both ways is the
favorite policy of that newspaper
establishment which schemes to get
a-comin' what it doesn't get a-goin'.
A FEW SMILES
Mr. Brown bad Just bad a telephone
put In connecting bla office and house,
and was very much pleased with It.
I tell, you, th
telephone Is a won
derful thing-. I want
you to dine with ms
this evening, and I
wUl n o 1 1 1 7 Mrs.
Brown to expeoj
you." Speaking
through the phone
"My friend Smith will dine with us
this evening." Then " to his friend,
."Now listen and hear how plain her
reply came back." Mrs. Brown's reply
came back with startling distinctness.
"Ask you friend Smith If he thinks
we keep a hotel, . i ; ,
Jiff
"Look at that foolish Mr. Baker,"
said one man to another, "out on. a
rainy day like this
without an um
brella! Is he crazy T'
"1 guess so," said
his friend, hurriedly.
Jjet s hurry on. I
don't want to meet
him."
"Why not?"
He may recoenlze
It's his."
more disreputable errand. Repudi
ation st the pledge, ; would have
covered these legislators with pub
lic obloquy. It would have driven
sessed value is about seventy-five
per cent of what he considers the
property really worth. From this,
an intending purchaser can 'get a
OUR SORRY FIGURE
them into political and social ob- fairly accurate estimate of truo
nvion. it wouia nave ruined tneir value of any property.
reputations ror irutn ana veracity.
It would have brought shame and
humiliation upon their families.
Yet for weeks and months Mc
Harg labored among them, spread
ing hia snares, luring them with
promises, applying his wiles, and
In a suit for $50,000 damages,
brought by J. . E. Daigle against
The Journal and tried oefore Judge
Phelps yesterday, the jury awarded
the plaintiff $1. The law firm of
.Seitz & Clark conducted Daigle's
case, and the presentation was so
weak that The Journal offered
no testimony.- The average suit
against a newspaper for damages
is an attempt to get something for
nothing, and juries are quick to
discover it.
P'
THE MEXICAN PROBLEM
THE firBt step toward peace in
Mexico has been taken, but
the journey will be long.
When the warring factions
lay down their arms,' then will
come the task of straightening out
tangles affecting property rights.
Here is a? specimen.
' - The Isle de Potreros lies in the
-. Gulf r of - Mexico near Tamplco.
Thomas A. Coleman? a Texas raneh
er, bought it to establish a great
truck ranch, and ror more than
forty years it was his undisputed
property. He had undertaken its
development when the Tamplco oil
' wells began gushing.
. The Pearson syndicate found
that' the island would be a cbn-
venient shipping place for oil. The
, syndicate' went to Huerta, got a
"concession" and " proceeded to
build wharves and storage tanks
on the island. Mr. Coleman pro-
tested to Huerta and to our state
J department at Washington, all to
no effect. The Pearsons still have
the island.
': There is said to be no question
that Mr. Coleman bought the island
;from its owners, that he paid
for It and held undisputed posses
sion for forty years. Lawyers say
there is no denying the Texan's
. legal ownership and that if the
law is enforced the Pearsons, in
pite of the fact that they have
spent more than $1,000,000 on the
"Island, will lose their entire lnvest
x lnent.
.This is one of the cases, that
Charge Q'Shaughncssy tried in. Vain
.to have Huerta adjust. There Is
'said to be an almost endless num
ber of other like cases that must
ORTLAND cut a sorry figure
in the Port Conference at
Seattle.
For once, there was brought
striving by every artifice to break home to this city the meaning of
them down and induce them to fal-1 the legislative skullduggery and
sify the truth and abandon their court decisions by whichPthe fore
pledges. It was an attempt to cor- shore at Portland is claimed by
rupt men, to stultify manhood and private owners. San Francisco
assassinate human Integrity. All has port charges on ship cargo of
that McHarg accomplished was to ly one fourth the Portland
induce a few members to protest charges. She has an ideal ter-
against the system at the time they minal system, perfectly co-ordl-
cast their votes for United States nated between water and rail
senator. . ! transportation, and is complete
Meanwhile, the pending ratifica- master of every facility for the
tion by the legislature of the Cham- economical movement of freight
berlain indorsement by the people over her publicly owned docks. .
was a crisis in the movement for Los, Angeles is equally supreme
direct election of senators. If Mc- In he port affairs, and in posi-
Harg had succeeded tin breaking tion to make an alluring bid for
down -enough legislators to have heavy ocean traffic from any part
beaten Chamberlain, the country the world. Vancouver, British
would have concluded that State- J Columbia, is in the same class with
ment One was a failure. It would these California cities, and her
have discouraged those ' who were modernized terminals with. every
striving for direct election of gen-dock under public ownership and
ator in other states. It would have I conducted by the public for the
enormously handicapped the great benefit of the people make her one
direct-election movement oT which of the great competitors for the
Oregon was the acknowledged lead-1 world business to be developed by
er, and would probably have en- the transformation of routes lncl-
cpuraged congress not to submit dent to the final opening of the
the direct-election amendment to Panama canal.
the constitution. That is the way In contrast with these cities,
Ormsby McHarg, whose -history -in I Portland with, her . waterfront un-
Oregon is a wretched and a shame- der railroad and other private own
less attempt to debauch . men . and ership, was a .humiliating spec
politics, was trying to "save the tacle. She was a sight in such a
country" in 1908. conference to arouse the indima-
In 1914, he is writing letters tion of those who see the para-
for the purpose of "bringing for- mount advantages other ports have
mer Republicans back into the obtained by holding to their fore
party." Those in Oregon who re- shore,, just as Portland should
ceive his letters will remember his have done.
infamous scheme in this state in 'There are measures pending be-
1908 and naturally look behind the fore the people of Oregon to res-
scenes for a motive when Ormsby cue the Portland foreshore and
McHarg is out to "save the coun- the . Oregon tidelands from further
fic by absorbing dock charges on com
petitive business, that only 15 per
cent of traffic handled over Portland
docks went to interior points; Portland
was Ignored. No questions . were
asked. Quoth they, 'We came here
for information that would assist us.
You have none to give. Tou have
given away your port properties. You
are not in the running. You belong
to me cave age." Z. B. Z1EGLER.
The letter by J. B. Ziegler rela
tive to the Seattle Port Conference,
on this page, is well worth reading.
It shows something of the disad
vantage under which Portland ia
working in her efforts to develop
as a port.
Letters From the People
try.1
UNCOMFORTABLE THRONES
T
HE assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and his
aggressions by private domination
and private ownership. They are
the tideland amendment and its
accompanying bill. -
Aside from a few who would
make further aggressions unon
Ferdinand wts 1 bitter, booted l"'-'' tie pa, Sap
. ... v. . 0 both these measures bv the
man nothing will be gained by teBt majoritlea tae
his slaying. No permanent good the state '
ever 'can come from assassination. rpv,,, , .
tt. t , Their passage is needed to put
the futility of such killings. W S StSStSKSt
ait,r fBif ,..'. inSf I,- aif.f..i. tIon maP wIth Calif of nla, . British
In the abdication of King Peter of Bd ther reat com
o i- ti. i .. liiwunoanua.
oei viaf . xie tins aoanaonea tne
throne to which he was elevated
through the murder of King Alex
ander in 1903. Peter and the mur
dered .monarch, .belonged to rival
families which had ruled Servla in
turn for 10ft. years. Peter was in
ueneva at tne time, Dut when a
MAKING LAND AVAILABLE
S
POKANE'S chamber , of com
merce arranged an immigra
tion conference which was
held in that city Monday and
Tuesday Of this week. Tho nnrnnsa
t. J....J i x .-I't.j - ' . . . - I -
aujustea aur a government is j Dana, or conspirators assassinated of the conference Is to build un the
set up In Mexico
In view of such facts there is
ro wonder that President Wilson
. stood" firm in his refusal to recog
j size Huerta, t notwithstanding that
' recognition was extended by Eu
ropean governments.
r
THE COCAINE HABIT
rN THE raiding of an Albiba
pharmacy and 4he seizure of
ten ' thousand dollars' worth f
cocaine and ' morphine the pO-
.. lice department believes it has
. broken up a clearing house for
v" death dealing drugs. .
v Of the many drug nabits that of
cocaine is said to be the most en
ticing. " Unlike alcohol it does not J
tirsL eiuiiiw! bu.u ineu stupety, j
'nor like opium 'merely soothe -and?
J lapse into dreams. It stimulates t
: .without stupefying, and after a!
Jose the user finds the world
brighter and more cheerful, feels
that the physical powers are more
( vigorous and the mental faculties
keener.. It Ives the forgetfulness4
that is.- not unconsciousness ? but
r rather a renewal of hope and con
. Jfidence.
i In this does Its : great danger
, lie- It is a habit that is spreading
out from the edge- of the under
e ,world to the fringe of ! the ' upper
world where the two worlds come
' fin contact. ' -
j ; It Is a poison whose manufae
t ture and distribution ought not be
hard to control. - It has but one
i- - . - '
King, Alexander and Queen Draga, Inland EmDire through tho
Peter , returned and was ultimately agemeht of desirable immigration
recognized as king by Europe. and the placing of cheap but eood
Europe sanctioned assassination I lands within easv reach nf lanri.
wnen . tne great . powers recognized I hungry men
riuerta in Mexico- He was no bet- Josenh Jacobs of Seattle rppntiv
ter than the murderer of Francis told-members of the Pacific North-
xuiuduu, auu jci uv was recog- west society of Engineers that
nlzed. 'But Huerta's throne was the state of Washington's need is
uuienaoie, even witn tne support, of state and federal cooperation in the
Europe. develooment of aarricnltn ral Innrl
Thrones will become more com- Mr. Jacobs said:
rortabie wnen royalty ceases to dis- This state is not now nrenared to
criminate between assassins. The I care for any considerable growth of
government that even tacitly ap- - ai PZ??J?XT-500'?00
proves a Huerta or a King Peter ditch m the state, about 150,000 acrls
need -expect little stability itself. are a present unoccupied and ready
ior me immigrant, provided his - finan
cial condition wil permit his taking
up this character of land, practically
an or wnicn is now in private owner-
(Commanlcationa aeot to The Joornal for
publication In thia department ahould ba writ
ten on only ona aid of the paper, ahould not
exceed 900 words in length and muat be ac
companied by the name and addresa of the
sender. - If the writer does not desire to
have the name publiahed. ha should so state.)
"Diseusalon is the greatest of aU reform
era. It rationalises everything; it tonchea. It
robs principles of aU falae aanctlty and
throwa them back on their reasonableness. If
they have no reasonableness, it ruthleasly
crushes them oat of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
Wilson. t
The Pacific Port Conference.
Portland, June 29. To the Editor of
The Journal The port conference at
Seattle brought out a vast mass of in
formation, most remarkable In de
tails, which should have been In the
common possession of the public long
ago.'
For instance, the seawall lots in
San Francisco, though not taxable are
appraised, and the rents are assessed
on a 4 per cent basis of the appraised
value. That makes the value of the
seawall lots rented, and outside the
constructed wharf and terminal sys
tem $2,125,000. The total properties
rented, capitalized at 4 per cent
amounts to $15,000,000. and the est!
mated value of all the public water
front with the constructed terminal
system Is 1250,000.000
The Oregonfan, deploring the loss of
tax. revenue, if the Portland water
front were public, should take note
tbat the actual result of public owner
ship of the San Francisco waterfront
is a lease revenue of $593,000-, a les
sening of port charges on ship and
cargo to one quarter what It is In
Portland,' an Ideal terminal system.
perfectly coordinated and everybody.
Including San Francisco shippers,
happy,
Perhaps this has something to do
with the trend of traffic lines to San
Francisco instead of Portland. Per
haps it has something to do with the
establishment of San Francisco as the
financial metropolis of the Pacific
coast.
Los Angeles, which won in the San
Pedro harbor decision retaining its
constitutional title to the foreshore.
owns most of its terminal properties.
There are, however, extensive private
docks, but as Mr. Qordon of the port
board said, "We completely control all
the docks and regulate all the port
business. "We fix maximum arid mini
mum charges and direct the develop
ment of port construction."
The Port of Seattle while having an
immense advantage over Portland, In
that the outer aone of the foreshore.
800 feet wide has been retained and
made Inalienable by the fitate and in
that she has - reacquired by purchaso
beside extensive :- waterfront lots and
has invested $6,500,000 in port docks,
is yet in a subordinate position to the
great " railway systems converging
there, which dominate by the power of
their rail distributive system, their
more extensive terminal properties,
and their overpowering political power.
They have there also, the railway
this umbrella.
PERTINENT COMMENT. AND NEWS IN BRIEF
tfMAlila CHANGE
From a No-License Town.
Portland, June 27. To the Editor of
The Journal The Multnomah county
publicity bureau is In receipt of a com
munication from the mayor of Cam
bridge, Mass., giving facts of Interest
to your readers.
It is well known that Cambridge Is
a commercial and manufacturing cen
ter or importance, as well as an edu
cational center. For 26 years they
have adhered to the no license plan.
Mayor Barry says:
'Our population in 1886 was about
59,000; in 1913 it was estimated at
110,000; valuation in 1885, $59,445,670
in 1913, $117,186,400. In 1886 there was
deposited in the savings banks
$6,506,934; In 191Y about four times !
times as much as in 1886, with
three times the number of deposi
tors. The number of school children i
attending school in 1886 was 9631; in
1913, about 16,000, of whom more than
2000 were In the high school. This
shows a marked increase in the num
ber of children privileged, by reason
of Improved conditions f the homes',
to continue their ; education In the
higher grades.
"Some good people contend that the
no license policy keeps business men
from coming to the city, but figures
compiled in 1912 seem to refute this
argument. During the two years pre
ceding 1912 there have located in this
city over 20new concerns, representing
various industries. It appears these
new concerns employ about 2000 per
sons, with a payroll of over $1,000,000,
and have expended for suitable build
ings to carry on their Industry In this
city over $400,000. j
"We have it from business men who
have recently come, to Cambridge that
one of the principal things that at
tracted them was the fact that Cam
bridge Is well established as a- no-11-cense
city.
"Notwithstanding we are a city bur
dened with exempted property to the
amount of $40,801,905, and that we are
heavily burdened by taxation for
river and maintenance of the same, yet
our tax rate of $20.40 per thousand is
considered reasonable. On the whole,
the people seem contented any happy.
The law Is- enforced, and we are of
opinion that conditions are vastly bet
ter under no-Ucense than under license,
and there does not seem to be any like
lihood that we will return to the open
saloon policy at any time in the near
future."
PUBLICITY BUREAU W. CTT. U.
By Mrs. L. H. Additon.
' War on the cocaine evil calls for no
mediation.
- ,: ;
Unscrambling June weather is an
other Impossibility.
.
Policewomen In "plain clothes"
should have no terrors for evil doers.
The plain - clothes . would distinguish
them.
That hundred years of peace be
tween this country and Britain is so
leasing that another of the same will
e welcome.
Buffrarettes destrnvl n utaHnn nwar
Wrexham. Wales, showing that the
spelling makes no difference when
wreckers are in earnest.
About this time of the year one's
last year's Panama arouses among ob
servers the suspicion that one has
robbed some deserving dray horse.
Any time the scientists produce a
practicable apparatus to disperse fogs
they will be able to do a land office
business with the ship owners.
-
By remaining In the air ' 18 hours
a German aviator has demonstrated
that1 the aeroplane has utilitarian as
well as hippodroming possibilities.
This country uses about 45,000.000,
000 feet of lumber eery year, and the
record will be somrSing to be proud
of when we grow irtannuch timber an
nually as we cut down.
One may assume then, on the au
thority of George W. Perkins, that
the Harvester company directorate
was so good that no admixture what
ever could make it any better. This
constitutes a unique record.
Last year's cotton crop ' proves to
have been a record breaker, but In
view of the fact that the- principal
product Of cotton is (lnhHth nw
awakens no great enthusiasm at the
time or tne summer solstice.
, - OREGON STOELIGHTS
The Drewsey union high school la to
be continued. The News says last term
waa a decided success so far aa the
advancement of the pupils ras con
cerned. - ;
- The new Carnegie library at Klam
ath Falls will be completed through
out and ready for occupancy tn Mix
weeks according to the foreman tt
charge of the work.
Kv. if E. Wilson of London, On
tario, who has been engaged in evan
gelistic work In Oregon for some time
has accepted a call to the pastorate of
the First Baptist church of Browns-
. ...
Mart of the Wlllarolna Times
has leased that newspaper to Henry T.
win.v fnrmriv in on arce or tne tjti-
fayette Visitor, owned by Mr. Hart
Hu nntr fWunntinued. Mr. Hart will
devote himself exclusively to farming.
Hermlston Herald: Wner to spend
the hot weather periotl has certainly
r-aiiMMt no concern this year about Her
mlston. One could net ask for a more
ideal summer climate than we are en-
Joying, e
Dramatic note in Newberg Enter
prise: "If Harriet Beecher Stowe could
have looked into that tent Saturday
nisrht when -tJneie Toms uaoin- was
teinsr nresented to a Newberg audience
so large that many additional seats
had to be erected, with still many per
sons left standing, he would have
been surprised, and probably amased.
if not astonished ana aiscouragea.
Latest boost for the Oreg6n Climate,
frnm Krfitor Younsr of the Coauille
SentlneL formerly of Kansas: "Our
Kansas friends, who have recently
been sweltering at a temperature of
10S desrrees. will be Interested in learn
in a- that we kent our heating stove
running all last Sunday because we
needed It; though It was bright sun
shine out or aoore ana not at u un
comfortable there."
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
MONTEZUMA'S PROPHECY
From the Omaha World-Herald. I
Was Lew Wallace inspired when he
wrote the prophecy of Monteiuma In
the "Fair God"? Those familiar with
the tory will remember that Monte
zuma was a prisoner In the hands of
Cortes, whose intention was to bring
him before the people to order them
to open the . market and forbid the
war. The captive monarch had just
received through his daughter mes
sage from Guatamosin and the Aztec
chieftains asking him to die that
Anahuac might live and the prophecy
is Included in his reply asking Ouata-
raozin to shoot him when he appeared
before the people In obedience to the
command of Cortes.
The prophecy reads in part:
"To the world I have bid farewell.
A shadow creeps upon me, darkening
all without,, but brightening all with
in; and in the brightness lo, my peo
ple and their future. .'
"The long, lonar cycles--two. four.
eight pass away, and I see the tribes
newly risen, like the trodden grass,
and In their midst a priesthood and a
cross. An age of battles move, and
lo! the cross but not the priests; in
their stead freedom and God.
"I know, the children of the Aztec,
crushed now, will live and move after
ages of wrong suffered by them, and
will rise up and take their place a
place of splendor amongst the 'death
less nations of the earth. Cherish tne
words, O Tula; repeat them often;
make them an utterance of the peo
ple, a sacred tradition; let them go
down with the generations, one of
which will, at last, rightly Interpret
the meaning of the words freedom and
God,. '-now dark to my understanding;
and then, not till then, will be the new
birth and new career."
t : ' . '
This tradition Is prevalent among
the peons to this day, they believing
that when Montezuma comes again
Mexico will be free. Just as the tradi
tion has been prevalent among the
Greeks for centuries that when Con
stantino and Sophia sit upon the
throne of Greece the Christian flag
will fly over the great church of St.
Sophia Constantino and Sophia are
now the rulers of- Greece and the rest
of the tradition Is in a fair way to be
verified. '
Consider the superior economic con
dition of the Aztecs, with its efficient
cultivation of. the soil and the beauty
of Us gardens rivaling those of Baby
lon; Its great forests ruthlessly de
stroyed and their young emperor hung
like a dog on a trumped up charge
in the gloomy wilderness of Honduras
by Cortes, with their poetry still rank
ing In our classics, robbed of their
lands, reduced to slavery and hopeless
ignorance by their conquerors and
the savage laws they left- One can
scarcely conceive that the wretched
peon Is a descendant of this gifted peo
ple. Yet George Bancroft, the histo
rian, before both houses of congress
in 1866, In his memorial address on
the "Life and Character of Abraham
Lincoln," predicted "Mexico will rise
again" and another Montezuma will
come to restore to his people the bless
ing of education, prosperity and lib
erty, where, under the inspiration of
freedom and God, they will take a
place of splendor amongst the death
less nations of the earth.
All the evidences are pointing to
the nearby coming of the days of the
regeneration when the Jew and thu
Hellene, and mayhap . the Aztec, re
lieved of the oppression of thotr con
querors, will rank among the lead
ers of the world.
WOMEN NEED TO LEARN ABOUT FINANCE
THE COST , OF INFLATION
E
VERY time more water Is In- ship, and therefore not available for
jectea into the capital Of a Purchase at low prices or easy terms,
trust, the people 'have to pay Chairman Inslnger of the Spok
interest and profits on the ane Chamber of Commerce says the
water. Every time a million or ADIana empire needs more people
two otfnew capital stock on a rail- wno wil1 make small tracts of land
road is.created out of thin air, the more Productive. The purpose Is
people in higher freight rates have to attract , homeseekers that have
to pay interest and profits on the been Soing to, Canada in the past
air. ' ' . few years. Mr. Inslnger says: -
Everv time inflation i adder! hv ' These' people are not -going to pay
every time mnauon is aaaed by fancy prJcea for .hlgh ..prIced land. we
speculative promoters to the value want them to know that when all
of land, the landlord gets interest things are considered they can get
and profit on the fiction and the la.nd ln tb.' Inland Empire just as
tenant, and through the tenant, the country" .ln,'"T otoBrt.t th?
public Jhas to pay the Increaise. The - land question . is of para-
One great secret of the high cost mount Importance int the Pacific
ofj living is the great charge -the northwest. It is imperative that
people are paying on inflated se- fertile acres be made available to
curitiesJ It amounts -to a billion the men who will uee them?; Spec
dollars a year. An even greater ulative prices based upon the greed
absorption of dock charges question
in its acute stages as well as many
other harassing questions at points of
contact between- the development of
the public and private terminal sys
tems. Commissioner Bridges, the most ar
dent advocate of the public side of the
contention on the board is kept in a
state of nervous tension by these
counter currents, and It really seems
that the development of ports should
be allowed to proceed on public lines,
unrestricted by private control of pub
lic easements. . -
The factors, of optimism ln the con
ference were the men from San Fran
Cisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver, B.
C They derided Seattle and Portland
as having no control of their ports and
wanting to fix uniform charges with
those ports in public control. They
said they were willing to do It for the
ceneral benefit accruing to tne coast
commerce, but that as Mr. McLeay of
the port board of Vancouver put it,
You. gentlemen, have no port, xou
don't own your properties nor control
the charges. Tou want to make uni
form charges with us, and talk of a
free port. How would you maintain a
free port? (Free port meaning ne
charges against the ship). We are ln
a position td maintain a free port, but
do not believe ln that alluring fiction.
We own 90 miles of waterfront. Every
foot of that frontage used below high
water line is leased to users at 1 cent
per square foot, at three quarters of
a cent and some at lower rates, No
ship leaves our harbor except with
clearance . papers, showing she has
paid all dues, etc
Af ter M r. Hegard t's paper Was- read
telling "off our' new docks, their size.
that we paid over -one half of an
available $2,600,000 fund for two sites,
that we had difficulty getting neces
sary rail connections, that the - rail
roads owned half our waterfront, that
they controlled the movement of traf
Equal Suffrage versus. Prohibition
Portland, June 30. To the Editor of
The Journal It seems to me an as
tounding proposition . which Mrs. Dun
lway makes to her sisters or daugh
ters, as she terms them that they
should vote to perpetuate the saloon
evil in Oregon, as an Inducement for
men ln other states to vote for equal
suffrage. In all past campaigns for
equal suffrage, who have been more
faithful and consistent in its support
than the temperance elemenf? The
liquor Interests have steadily opposed
It and will continue to do so. Every
well Informed person knows that
women, as a class, in thia country are
opposed to the saloon and its influence,
and what assurance will the good
women of Oregon have that tbey will
not alienate more votes than they will
gain, by stultifying themselves and
voting wet? The liquor men- are too
shrewd to be caught by such a sub
terfuge, and after prohibition is beat
en the suffrage cause will have gained
nothing, and the saloon men will turn
around and laugh in the faces of the
innocents, thus affording another dem
onstration of the truth of the master's
saying that "the I children of thia
world are wiser ln their generation
than the children of light."
- In the meantime It might be Inter
esting to know who some of these
good suffragists are who are bringing
pressure to bear upon Mrs. Duniway co
stop the temperance agitation in Ore
gon. In the absence of such knowl
edge I would suggest that she have
printed a stock form of answer to all
such. Informing them tbat only a
pestiferous "minority" of the women
with "one idea" are engaged in thia
agitation, and that' after all, there
is really no danger of prohibition's
being adopted In thia state. .
J. G. GARRETSON.
v8,
you. t
y jonn At. oslson.
If you take the word of the few in
telligent women who have become in
terested . in banking, what the aver
age woman needs to know about fi
nance are the very, rudiments of It.
She needs to be taught to write a
check, balance a bankbook, and keep
a record of the money she spends.
Countless generations of women who
took no thought at all of the problems
of finance stand behind the average
woman. Her mind must grope to get
straight the simplest facts concern
ing the laws of finance. Men, long
trained to meet the financial demands
of the family and of the community,
find it hard to explain to the average
woman what they know about money
and Its uses and possibilities. The
man doesn't often try, and when he
does try, he is -often discouraged be
fore he succeeds.
I read the other day the experiences
,of one woman who is now in charge
of the woman s department of a city
bank. She said:
"In my own case. It took me a long
time to understand the nature of se
curities, for example. It was my
brother who Instructed me in stocks
and bonds. At first he was Impatient
because I couldn't comprehend. 'But
I'v already told you that!' he would
protest. I know you did.' I would
answer, 'and now you'll have to tell
me again. Maybe you'll have to tell
me again after that.'
"What my brother told me seemed
clear enough at the time he said it.
but when be got away and I tried to
remember it or reason it out, I was
in a fog. But be was patient; he did
repeat over and over, with the clear
est explanations he could use, the
matters I was confused about!
"When he saw that at last I was
getting a grip on the facts he went
on willingly; he became proud of my
capacity for understanding what lies
behind finance ln principle and practice-Learning
to use money (whether ln
banka or ln Investments) with intelli
gence la the next atep for women.
They can get help from the average
banker If they will but ask for it.
The Day of Decision.
Trfnta. June . 27. To the Editor of
The Journal The question before the
people is very short and simple Just
Booze or Bread. I have got in touch
with a good many homes and I know
that wherever a nickel or a dime goes
into the saloonkeeper's till from a
workingman's wage it means the wife
and children have not enough Jto eat.
Pleas for personal . liberty, the poor
shop man and the impoverished sa
loonkeeper will not make anybody vote
wet. w
The Democratic party has the chance
of its life to be the party of the
people and give them-good,' clean law
enforcing government. Let the Ore
gonian be the paper to . decide for
booze instead ' of bread but why don't
the others stand for bread?
. Oregon is. going dry so let all hurry
up and decide whether they are going
to vote ior Dreaa not oooze.
PHKBE HAMMER.
The Scientific ! Boneyard.
Tillamook, Or., June 29. -Td"; the
Editor of The Journal -The- fltp-
Dant tone adopted i by thee-writer of
the editorial in Friday's Oregonian- en
titled -j"The Scientific Boneyard" Is
hardly ln keeping with the dignity
one might expect of a newspaper of
standing when discussing such a sub
ject. It Is such sneering at science
that is responsible for the confusion
and skepticism of the public regarding
subjects of vital importance to them.
and which paves the way for fakers
of all sorts who deny the facts estab
lished by scientific research. The
reading public gets most of Its in
formation concerning such matters
from the public press and it is much
to be regretted that this Information
should be presented to them ln a way
calculated to Inspire contempt for
scientific truths rather than the re
spect which they deserve. M. D.
Applauds Wilson.
Waldo, Or., June 25. To the Editor
of The Journal Your editorial in The
Journal of June 23, "The Crisis," is
correct, and should give courage to
the spirit which justified the Ameri
can revolution.-
This same crisis as you describe it,
led President McKlnley around by the
nose, bluffed Roosevelt from his stand
for the people and made a bag of
cheese of Taft; but Wilson is of dif
ferent material, comes at a different
time and la backed by a stronger and
more determined public sentiment.
A READER.
Tr& Portland Way.
From the Coeur d'Alene (Idaho) Pressv
"When going to the fair, come
through Oregon, and see the big state,
not the big city," is-the way Port
land has of putting It. How differ
ent from some other cities located ln
eastern Washington laying claim .to
three states as "their territory." in
cluding aU industries within a radius
of 309 miles. That Is not the only
thing ln which Portland shows her
bigness .and -spirit of fairness. It Is
found among -her business men, espe
cially the jobbers of machinery and
mercnanaise. -. They furnish a high
grade of goods and sell at prices that
more than compete with other citle3
much nearer the inland empire's ter
northern Idaho, Washington and Ore
gon with their goods and selling them
for less money than closer competi
tors and It is becoming common to
see Portland goods on the shelves .f
merchants ln this section. It will be
a great benefit to not only the home
merchant, but the consumer, when
they are free from the domination of
a jobbers' trust which takes all the
profit and keeps its victims unJer Its
power. Portland offers a market
which will' give relief and the mer
chants ought to take advantage of the
opportunity to trade In that city.
They can save money and be Independent.
Organized Labor's Case.
From The Public.
Prejudice against labor organizations
Is by no means confined to monopo
listic quarters. Even many workers
for social justice, who realize that ex
isting conditions are unfair, withhold
their sympathy. They find cause for
this In the mslconduct of individuals
connected with trade unions and In en
forcement by the organization of un
just and tyr&nlcal regulations. Tbat
such evils ezlst is undeniable, but
their existence ia more an Indictment
of the system that forces laborers to
organize for self-protection than of
the labor organizations. So long as
the number of jobs is lers than the
number of men anxious to fill them, so
long must It be to the Interest of la
borers to organize. To make such an
organization even partially effective,
some If not all of the apparently ab
surd and certainly oppressive rules are
necessary. Industrial warfare is
incapable of refinement as military
warfare. Labor organizations can be
rendered unnecessary for the protec
tion of labor only through abolition of
monopoly of natural opportunities If
that were done there wsuld be joba
open to all and laborers could get their
entire product without organisation.
fAa long as monopoly of nature's re
sources is suiowra iu e&iei tmuvrvim
will be driven to organize and to do
much that is unethical in sejf defense
These facts must be borne in mind In
Whether It is Mrs. Brbwn'a chicken :
plea or Salmon Brown's reminiscences . -
that are the attraction it would ba '
hard to say, but certain it la X always 5
looked forward with great pleasure to
my occasional visits to the - Brown ,
home. .1 met Salmon Brown, first at
Salem more than 20 years ago. For
aome years past he has been living at
Montavllla. -,
Salmon Brown is the last surviving- ;
son of John Brown, whose body Ilea
"a-moulderlng in the grave," but -
whose soul "goes marching on." Sal- -
mon Brown is much like the pictures
of his father, John Brow of Har
njtra Verrv. "Mv ,mih ink.
j . - . 1.
Brown's second wife," said halmon ,
Brown on a recent Sunday afternoon. -"My
father was a good deal like these
old patriarchs of Biblej times and he
had a patriarchal family. My mother
had U children, while father's first
wife bad seven, so J am one of John -Brown's
20 children. I was born on
October i, 1834, at Hudson. Ohio.
"The first recollection I have was
when I was about ,2H years old.
Mother was heating water lh a big
brass kettle. . It was cold outdoors '
and' the steam had collected on the.: -wlndowa
I was rubbing my finger
along the glass and was delighted"
with the squeaking noise it made.
Father came in and heard roe say
something of which he did not ap- :
prove. Turning e me he said in a
very stern voice: 'What did you eayr :f
It frightened me so that I not only
forgot what I had said, but I waa too
frightened to speak. He asked me
again, and as I only shook my head.
we etni Drotner Jason to the swamp to
cut aome basket willow switches. Bv
that time I had thought of the word
and gotten my voice back, so t told
him. but I got my whipping neverthe
less. I remember that my sister Ruth :
stroked the welts that had been made
on my back and legs with the switch,
and tried to comfort me. Father was
a believer in the Bible, and while he
was a loving father, yet he waa a just '
one, and did not believe ln sparing the
rod lest he spoil the child.
"When I was three years old . w
moved from Hudson to Franklin. The
Ohio and Pennsylvania canal had Just
been finished. My mother was very
much worried for fear some of the ,
children would fall in the canal and be
drowned,' so father told Jason, who
was 13 years older than myself, to .'
taxe us-an down to the canal and teach,
ua to swim. Our tannery waa a quar- '
ter of a mile from the canal. Jason'
took Watson, who waa about a year
older than myself, and threw him into
tne canal, professedly to teach him '
to swim, but really to scare him ao ha
would not go near the canaL Watson,
Instead of striking out for the shore,
sank and did not come up. Jason In
stantly dove off the bank and got him' "
out. For some reason It greatly
amuaed me ao I laughed. Jason said,
'We wil see If you are a better swim
mer than Watson.' so he threw me in. ;
I was about three- years old. and X can
remember how terrified I was when I
struck the water. It seemed to me mm
If I would never atop sinking. My
eyea were wide open, and aa I tried t
cry out a long stream of beautiful
bubbles began rising from my mouth "
to the surface. Frightened as I was
I was fascinated by those bubbles. I
do not remember how I got out. but
suppose Jason must have jumped In
and brought me out- In any event, this
rough but effective treatment kept -Watson
- and myself away from the
canal.
"It is strange the things that will
stay in a child's mind. My father lost
his property through dividing up the
old Haymaker farm into small tracts.
Being unable to make the payments as "
agreed, he assigned his property to his
creditors.
'We moved to Richfield, south of
Cleveland, where father ran some
farms for Captain Oviatt. There waa
a tannery near there, and on Saturda
night they used to draw the water from
the pond near the tannery. TCe had
to economise In every way, so we used
to get the turtles from the pond when
the water was drawn off, and for the v
next day or two we lived on turtles.
"Little things that seemed of no lm- -
portance at the time, for some un
known reason, will stand out In one'a
memory all the rest of one's life. When
I was about four years old I waa pass-
ing by 'Minor's stable, when the stable
man caught me up and puf me on a big
spirited stallion's back, and I can re-
member ray feelings of mixed fear and '
pleasure. -
'After running Captain Oviatt S
farms for a year or two, father became
a partner of Colonel Simon Perkins, of
Akron, Ohio. Perkins, who knew fathee
well, wanted him to run tha place foe
him. Father offered to put in his own
work and that of his three grown aona .
for 1628 a year; or. he would work for
half the Increase of the stock. Colonel
Perkins decided to accept the lattes.
proposition, and father's share the first
year amounted to more than flbOO.
They ran a fine grade of Saxony sheep, .
also blooded Merlnon. I remember they
sold one of their lambs to William B.
Ladd, the president of the Agricultural
society of Ohio, for $100. lather waa .
a natural genius with sheep.
"They say a good Collie dog can tell
every she-p in his master's flock. My
father had this same sixth sense, ao ha
could Instantly tell one of hia own
sheep. To most people all sheep looM
alike, but to father 'every sheep had
Its own peculiar characteristics.; in
those days the wool buyers had It all
their own way and paid whatever they
pleased to the farmers for their wool. '
Father conceived the idea of organizing
a wool warehouse. Wool at that tlmeT"-'
In particular the fine Saxony wool,
brought a good price. In the spring of
184 my father sold his assorted wool ,
at from 24 cents to fl.20 for the best
grades. .
"In 1848 my father, with Cofonel
Simon Perkins, became a cemmlialon.
wool merchant at Springfield, Maeat. 4
They not only graded the wool, but
they ezported it. They charged two
cents a pound for sorting, grading and
selling. The trouble had been In the
past that the wool growers, like Jhelt
sheep. . had been fleeced by the wool -buyers,
who paid them for their best
grades at the price of the lowr grades.
The wool buyer then stted the wool .
and made the profit which should have '
belonged to the wool grower ;
ritory. Portland jobbers are invading judging the labor unions' case.
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