THE OREGON- DAILY,' JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, SATURDAY-s EVENING; JULY -j IV : ISM. ;
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Ttiey that are loudest "In
their threats, are the weakest
in the execution Of them. It
is probable that ' toe , who is 4
killed by lightning bears. -no'
noise; but the thunder-clap
which fo)lows,and which moat
alarm the Ignorant, Is the '
urest proof of their safety.-
Colton. ' ' " .,
titer, towing barges and" carrying
the, products of the great 'inland
grain fields and ranges. The Inti
mate relations will mingle the mil
itant aggressive blood of the colder
North with the more sluggish heart
beats of our -softer climate and
there will be' new and stimulated
Impulse. ,
The contending cities and com
peting commerce Will be new rival
ry for Portland, but ; "
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FASHIONABLE MAXES
Tr IS ordered b that fashionable
SuroDe Is undergoing a period
of hard times. That accounts for
decreased exports other than food
stuff s. We are buying in slightly
inrranaaA volume because , we have
- - - . 1 j -.ikl.. -1 :
the money and also Decause ;.tiu-. uuvmug.
Ton. in order to keep her wheels i But what should be
tnmhr haa TMton mittlnz Drices ! vict's
and 1 forcing sales. i
avowed enemies of society, that
their Individual 1 welfare -la, of lit
tle Importance. Such' people base
their assertions upon vthe supposed
Infallibility o courts. , The : ar
gument Is that; because a man has
been found guilty of a crime he
should be treated as a criminal,'
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
A
IX THE DAY'S NEWS
T ST. LOUIS, Roger Shepard,
his wife and children, four,
six, eight and nine years old,
were evicted from their home
male personal shall wear the for non-payment of 1 6.50 rent.
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SMITH AND. WITHYCOMBE
a FTER his service in tHe 1913
A 1 e g l stature. Representative
A Wtfeks of Marion . roundly ap
proved Dr. C J. Smith's dec
laration in a . Salem address, for
the single item reto.
, The single item "veto is the plan
for giving the governor the right
to- vety one Item or several items
of an appropriation bill without in
validating the whole bill. Dr.
Witbycombe is opposed to the plan.
He 'pays It would be a "two
edged word." In an address be
fore the Civic League at Portland,
June 20, Dr. Withycombe said of
the single item plan: r "
Jn the hands of ' a trustworthy
executive of fair And Impartial mind.
It might work well. But it would
give, room for un executive of oppo
site tendency to work political re-
JEngllsh or form-fitting ; models
4hls Fall and! Winter. ,
A v news dispatch says, jover
coatffwlll have a French back and
be , double breasted. The , Bala
macaan, so popular last season, is
approved, and with slight modifi
cations will, be- worn again this
"Fall. , Coats will be single-breasted;
cut in snugly at the waist line,
Just a trifle shorter than last sea
son with soft rpll lapels and three
buttons. ; , j ,
To make the picture complete
why not adopt; a dunce cap as the
skypiece? And why.' not convert
the trousers into .bloomers, and
hang tassels on the tops of the
shoes?
And why not suspend little tink
ling bells to the coat tails and
cover the.vest front with pink and
lavender rosettes?
And to make the waist line all
it ought to bei why not adopt the
wasp corset, ' and why not cut
everything low enough, to display
the virgin alabaster below the
shoulder blades behind and to the
tcp veBt button, In front?
Since the self constituted direc
tors of male attire are making
clowns of our fashionable male
persons, why not carry to its logic
al conclusion this Fall's program
and make the new model a finished
study In idiocy?
that would prove dangeroua.
vangea
Five days later ajt the Pioneer's
picnic at Brownsville, Dr. Withy
combe reiterated his . opposition to
the plan. Speaking of the single
Item veto, he said: '
Now! that looks splendid, but It
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STOP, LOOK AND LISTEN
N CONNECTION with the "Safety
First" movement the ,Southern
Pacific has instructed its loco
motive engineers to take the
license number of automobiles that
are driven over grade crossings
dangerously near the engine.
The engineer reports the number
to his superintendent who writes
. ...
the con-
treatment when he is- the i
wrong man? .'The opponents of
prison ; reform- say- he should be
.V -M 1 m a 1 -i "
:r7rr."n.: J Th traveler, had Ju.t returned from
a - i-utifc wo uvv.iov.wia aummer outing.
was , a . mistake. , But what about J vtou . had a day
wasted years Oft" magara, I under-
The teacher had riven . the claaa a
talk on nouaeboia
pests. . -
y- "What, now, la the
greateet foe that
housewife has?" aha
asked.
Up wfint one little I
hand. j
"All right. Mary, I
what ia itr
A husband," was the quick reply.
All were hungry and half clothed.
They had not even eaten supper
and had none to eat. The furni
ture was removed to the sidewalk
from the two room home by the
constable. The children clung to
the mother's skirts, and watched
the performance in fright.
It' was almost sunset as the last
piece of furniture was piled in
the street and, the family sat on
the walk and wondered where they
were to spend the night. The land
lord placed the sign, "This house
for Tent" in the window and locked
the door. . A patrolman found; the
family on the street and took the
children to the Detention Home.
A dealer in second hand goods
came along. He had seen evictions
before and knew this one meant a
bargain. He offered a dollar for
the furniture all the earthly be
longings of the family and ' the
husband accepted and took ' the
money.
Handing sixty cents to the wo
man, he told her good bye, saying
"Guess we might as well lead the
single, life after this."
He walked away, and the woman
stood alone.
his worse than
confinement ? -
Who. can give him back his
eleven years of lost lifer
What can a just Odd think of
such performances?
Letters From the People
stand.'
"Tea. Had . a de
lightful time there,
too."
- "Falls were pretty
fine, h?
"Why er we
didn't see the falls
We spent all our time at the movies."
THE CASE OF A GIRL
H
(Communication! ten t to Tbe Joornal for
publication In tfeia department aboald be writ
tea oa only one aide of tbe paper, abould not
eed BOO worda Ja length and moat ba ae
cnmpaniad by the name and addraa of tbe
aender. It the writer ' doea not desire to
have tbe name published, be abould ao state.)
"DiwuMtott ia the greatest of U reform
er. It ratlonaiizea evertblnc , It touches. It
rob principles of alt falae aanctitr and
throw them back on their reasonableness. If
tnay na no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
cruohes them oat ot existeoee and eta up it
own conclusions ia their stead." Woodrow
Wilson.
sMAU CHAKQB .
If a minister's trousers bag at the
knees no apology la necessary.
Every girl on th Imagines that
aha would make an Ideal wife.
: e .
The average man dislikes a chronic
kicker unless she's in the chorua.
e .
An ounce of get-up-and-get la bet
ter than a pound of "that-tired feel
ing." " e
The world may not love the lover,
but it has to tolerate a multitude of
him.
-
Many a man .who. knowa that thera
ia room at the top aits down.and waits
fqr the elevator.
If men received all they pray for
they would soon ba too lazy to get
out of each other's way.
Most men who wander around the
free lunch circuit daily like to be seen
entering a first class hotel.
It's difficult to ctfhvinee a small boy
per-Ku-
A well known evangelist one aay
.allaA nn Ahrnhm'f.lnnln. After a
! hard day tha president was lying I who is furnishing the motive power for
afrretrViMl out On a S'iuuiuu 1111 turn aooui is IB4r
couch. . play- . . . .
In tha courae of Our Idea of a mean man is one who
the conversation the spends two-thirds of his time In get
evangelist said: ting money and the other third In keep.
"Mr. Lincoln, It lng it.
has always seemed
. remarkable thin ,Manr young man who admires a
f JlTo onUVJi lrl w& 18 "well dresser kicks like
to me that, connid- a mul wn caljed upon to pay the
ub viivuiu- jreijni axier marrying ner.
I stancee and conditions under which you
were brought up, you. never acquired
the drinking habit" .
The president smiled and then lilting
up bne of his long lega and slowly
waving it from side to side, said:
"Heavens, Just think of those things
Personal Liberty..
Portland, July 8.To the Editor of
The Journal The Inconsistency of the
prohibitionist who aeeks to deprive
the other fellow of his personal right j tangled up with whisky!"
of choice as to what he shall eat or
arm, ana lanes care to reserve ror lf plowe. UPi depreciate In value
himself the power to manufacture and 60 per cent She claims 55, 000,000 of
use Intoxicants for "medicinal, me- eastern and foreign money spent in our
chanical or sacramental purposes," is state. I do not know the general 11-
ao glaring as to be self-evident to I quor loss In Washington and Oregon
every unprejudiced watcher on the I Mr. Harcourt says not more than
A man seldom paya a woman com
pliments after marriage because, it
keeps him working overtime paying
her bills.
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When you begin to notice a man's
name in the financial columna of the
newspapers its time to look for the
wife's name in the aociety column.
' OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Bend Bulletin "quote the Cul
ver Tribune aa saying that . the peti
tion to divide Crook county "la being
signed by practically everybody where
it is being circulated," j . '
It required a $15 fee - for - the
mlt for thA M-Mtion of the new
gene high school building. Th per
mit was taken out last Monday by the
board of education. It- calla for the
expenditure of 11 0,000. which la Hie
amount of the bonds, v
" - ' .
Marshfleld's Fourth of July crowd
gave the rest room a teat that reaulted
in the verdict ot O.K. from all
concerned. The regiatratlon book" at
6 o'clock at night showed 11SS names,
while several hundred went away with
out registering.
t Speaking about vacations, the Hood
River News suaarests: "It might be
well to take along those 89 measures
that will appear on the ballot In No
vember. The Oregon voter, male and
female alike, will get no more vaca
tion f rem their political duties this
year mam ao me urea biuiiwu'vii,
Thr t wn r nn rnnharl In tne COun
try surrounding Monmouth. A number
"f the pests are reported In .clover
field coverlnar a, larae acreage. The
Dallas Observer eaya the farmers are
offering In many eaaea zo cenia a neaa
for thoa killed. mnA that Warren Neal,
a veteran of the civil war, trapped
over 350 on the Stump farm, catching
as many aa 12 ana 15 a aay.
Salem Journal: Tha two large syca
more trees on either aide of the cement
walk from the supreme court annex to
the state house are being trimmed to
the trunk to save the trees If possible.
The ground keeper explains that too
many cement walks are shotting out
moisture and many. of the ahallow
rooted treea near the wolka are in dan
ger of dying on the capuoi grounds.
"FOR FAIR TRADE"
IN EARLIER DAYS!
By Fred Lockley.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
The World-Herald is very glad to
matter of personal liberty for all the lone third of our population ever taste acknowledge receipt of a letter from
people, "by no means excluding 1 beer or whiskey. Then why doea he I the American Fair Trade league, an
women." I want prohibition? They claim prohibi- I organization or successful and widely
Aa I have been unable to find the Ition will not hurt our hops, yet their known business men evidently In sym-
name or one "B. R. Carter" in thetplatrorm is ror state and nation, xwo pamy wun me general purpose me
telephone directories, who takes the billion dollars is spent yiearly for 11- anti-trust legislation now undea con-
liberty to attack me in. your columns, quor in the United States; 11,000,000 a alderation at Washington.
I conclude, as I note his confession day in New York. Where does it all The letter, signed in behalf of the
that his mother (a prohibitionist) op- come from if state and national pro- league by Its secretary, Edmond A.
governor power to ao anything .lie
likes, (that any tendency for spite
would be greatly aided. It would af-
"xord Si splendid chance for a man
who had a little spite to make ' It a
aharp jtwo-edged aword by which he
could run the legislature. I am very
akeptlcal about this.
, , Dr. I Smith takes an exactly op
posite I view. In his address at
Salem (Wednesday evening, he urged
the need of a measure giving the
governor authority to veto single
' Items jin -appropriation bills, as a
check j upon the log rolling; that
prevails In every legislature to the
consequent burden of the' taxpay
ers. Representative Weeks," who
-was ah active member at the last
session, and who has been renomi
nated by the Marlon county Repub
licans,! strongly supported Dr.
Bmlth'e view and took Issue with
-Dr. Wthycombe. -He said:
The I general appropriation bill
passed! by the last legislature was
the moat abominable bill I ever voted
. for. I think every man ought to ad
vocate! a law giving the governor
power i to veto alngle items. Under
the present system. Items are sand
wiched; in the general appropriation
bill and we have to vote for them.
In his opposition to the plan,
' Dr. Withycombe shows great faith
In the! legislature. It Is a greater
faith In that body than is generally
entertained.
looks to me like It would give the a letter to the, owner of the auto
mobile calling attention to the oc
currence and inviting cooperation
In lessening the danger from acci
dent. The regulation also acts as a
.check on the locomotive engineer
as it gives the automobillst a
chance to call the railway official's
attention to a failure of an en
gineer to blow his whistle or ring
his bell -at a crossing.
At Grants Pass and Medford the
railroad track divides the cities ap
proximately in half and for two
days a careful check of the travel
across the track was kept. The re
sults were interesting. The' first
day at Grants Pass 2998 pedestrians
crossed. Only 53 of these paid the
slightest attention. On the sec
ond day 2773 persons ' crossed and
only 13,8 looked br listened for an
approaching train. During the two
days 1229 automobiles crossed and
only one driver stopped, to look.
Of the 918 horse dran vehicles
only 151 halted long enough for
the driver to take a glimpse of the
track.
The Southern Pacific estimates
that in Portland the public roads
cross the track in 119 places
Over these some 30,000 trains
pass annually.
In yiew of this heedlessness it
is surprising that the. number of
accidents is not greater.
5
COMPUTING CITIES BUT
A'
AZEL POLLOCK, an educated
and attractive Chicago girl,
stole , hundreds of v dollars
worth of jewelry. She was
a feminine . Raffles; her thefts
were proved and confessed. , But a
grand jury refused to indict her.
Physicians attached to the newly
established psychopathic laboratory
in connection with the municipal
court found that the girl was suf
fering ,from nervous, overstrain,
due, in large part, to a hard strug
gle for aft education. They, re
ported to the grand Jury hat com
mitment of the girl to a penal in
stitution would mean the' probable
destruction of both mind and char
acter. Hazel Pollock, instead of
going to prison, will be cared for
In an effort to give her woman
hood a rebirth.
It this girl again steals, or Is
even suspected of stealing, Bhe will
be cited as Illustration of misplaced
confidence. Peopl-r will say that
sentimentalists saved her from pun
ishment' when she merited it. But
the incident -has value, whatever
may be the future of Hazel Pol
lock, .
It is demonstration of the intel
ligent effort now being made to
get behind the criminal and dis
cover the cause of the crime. It
is illustration of the changed at
titude of society toward many con
victed of crime. Under the old
dispensation punishment of the
criminal was the only objective;
under the new,' punishment is still
a corrective, but there Is a further
earnest effort to get at the crime
Itself and remedy conditions which
may cause It. "
hurt our hops and
Whlttier. and mailed from headquar
ters in New York, is in part as fol
lows:
"Admittedly- the most far-reaching
posed equal suffrage "because," she hibitlon won't
said, "it would kill anything," that he prunes?
must be one of those Imported and I Now that -4he Panama canal Is
hired agitators who have Invaded Ore- I ODened. Oregon should be a manufac
gon from one of the few remaining I turlng as well as a great producing I development in the formulation of anti
prohlbition states, which have sub-1 state. If you want the Pacific trade! trust legislation is the president's ap-
stltuted for the "open saloon" the I vote wet, for temperance and produc- I proval of the incorporation in the fad
-bund piga." "holes in tne wan, tion. klla. m. rinwiait.
"speak eaaies," and "boot legging" they
are now trying to foist upon Oregon.
He reminds me of the fox In one of
the fables of Aesop, which, being d
prived of a prominent part of his
physical anatomy, went among the
neighboring- kennels making stirring
and, presumably, eloquent appeals to
tbe other foxes to accept tbe same pre
dicament for themselves.
Seriously, my beloved sister voters.
to secure whose enfranchisement I
have spent over 40 years o strenuous
endeavor; in the hope to obtain for you
the surcease of servitude without .sal
ary which falls to the lot of the aver
age wife and mother of the average
working man, cw't you see that the
average hired prohibition agitator isn't
really caring a rap for your personal
and financial liberty eo long as he,
or she, can preach prohibition and
pass the hat? Do, please, remember
the fate of equal rights for women In
Washington In territorial" days, when
a propaganda of prohibition swept the
ballot from women's grasp, and is now
threatening the state with the cry that
its present possession Is "unconstitu
tional." and will be so declared unless
both Oregon and . Washington retain
sufficient local , control of their own
affairs to manage their own business
and provide for the weak and wicked
victims of. their own folly, inebriety,
poverty and wretchedness within their
When With a Lady or Ladies.
Portland, July 11. To the Editor of
The Journal I quite disagree with the
answer to "A Common Question" by
'A Man Creature." in last Sunday's
Journal, namely
on the outside or between his compan
ions when escorting two ladies V My
experience la that it is better to walk
between, as when passing a crowd you
simply step back of : the lady on the
right and allow the second lady to
step behind you. In so doing you pro
tect them both.
Likewise, with one lady, always keep
the lady to your right and in passing
anyone you simply slow down a paco
or two, stepping behind the lady, thus
affording her better; protection than
to have her on tbe left side and either
forcing her to jump ahead of you or
drop behind, and - possibly allowing
someone to get between, thus putting
her in an awkward position and run
ning chances of getting lost entirely
in a crowd, while by keeping the lady
eral trade commission bill, of provi
sions declaring 'unfair competition to
be 'unlawful, and prescribing that the
commission is hereby empowered and
directed to prevent .corporations from
using unfair methods of competition
in commerce.' The commission, under
Does a man wlk these new sections of the Mil. la fa
ther empowered to calL upon tbe fed
eral courts to enforce Its order, in the
event of disobedience.
"Senator Newlands, chairman of the
interstate commerce committee, has re
ported the bill to the senate, thus
amended. This legislation, now as
sured by this agreement between the
executive and the legislative leaders
of the' majority party, will be an ad
mission by congress of the evils which
are the cause of the country-wide sup
port of the Stevens bill to prevent dis
crimination in priees and to- provide
for publicity of prices to dealers and to
the public This new turn of
affairs at Washington has, reaulted
from constant pressure by consumers
and small business men' for laws which
will really penetrate to the roots of
Henry B. Joy, president -Packard
Motor Car company.
W. K. Kellogg, president Kellogg
Toasted Corn Flake company.
-Alfred Lucking, counael Ford Motor
Car company, and a number ot othera
of similar high standing.
And on the advisory committee ap
pear the names of officers of such well
known corporations as the Glaatenbury
Knitting company, the Contooc.ook
Mills corporation, the Kryptok compa
ny, -the Interwoven Stocking company.
the Globe-Wernicke company, and a
great many othera.
These business men want fair trade.
regulated and honest competition pre
cisely what President Wilson and a
Democratic congress are striving to
promote. They want to make it pos
sible for -men to do business In this
country without fear of being crushed
by trusts and monopolies which Is
what the Democratic party baa been
demanding for these many years. They
are not asking that legislation to this
end be delayed or defeated; they are
asking that It .be passed. They realise
that such legislation will -interfere.'
not with honest and legitimate bus!
ness, but with business that Is neither
and that Is now interfering witn dubi
ness that is both. They are urging
the country to support the president
and congress In paaslng laws that will
stop the Interference with business
that Is making prosperity- lop-sided,
that has made trustified and monopo
lized business all-powerful, and that
has all but closed the gates to inde
pendent and genuinely competitive en-terprlae.
to the right all you have to do is toj10""' business practices
step behind the lady aa the occasion
demands. In so doing the lady need
not lose step. Supposing, of course.
tbat every Doay Keeps to the right &
rule, however, which is very poorly
enforced in Portland, it "
ED BOARDMAN.
own states.
ABIGAIL
SCOTT DUNIWAY.
Taxation and Prohibition.
The letter quotes approvingly an edi
torial from a St Paul newspaper, the
News, which declares that the pub of
tbe legislation" now before congress is
this: "Declaring unfair competition in
open commerce unlawful, and creating
a commission to drag it into tbe open.'
"That's all there Is." declares the edi
torial Incorporated Into this letter of
the Fair Trade league, "to this awful
-Kansas and Oregon- Compared
tvnori ?iii 11 Tn t'h Traitor nf main issue before the primary election
The Journal In an open letter to the h"as the reduction of taxes and more
Mist, Or., July 10. To the Editor of -T- 7,v . i" : X
ty."
IN THE BOXD
STORL., after, completion of
the CeHlo canal, will un
doubtedly operate a boat line
to , Pasco and intermediate
points..
It la her way to get common
point rates. It is her way to get
better- than common point rates.
In (that day, tons and tons of
wheat;' and flour will pass . the
mouth; of the Willamette without
coming to Portland. A big appro
priation Is already asked of Con
gress for a dredge to deepen the
Columbia between - Vancouver and
the mbuth of the Willamette. It
Is a step for deep sea, shipping.
" Even without ocean shipping
Vancouver, through an . Astoria
boat line, may become Independent
of Portland. With established mill
lng industries, she could make As
toria her embarkadero and- be
come the distributing point for an
immense and very rich region. She
is, in fact.-today almost as avail
able so far ae natural . location is
- concerned for" becoming a trade
. center! tor large portions of Wash
ington as are Puget Sound points.
In, fact, if Vancouver saves the
remnant of her waterfront and se
. cures j dredging for a tit channel,
, It Is easily . within' her reach : to
OUR DECREASED EXPORTS
E
T
HE Portland franchise of the
Pacific Telephone &
than two-thirds of those seeking nom
inations advocated reduction of taxes.
Since the election the main Issue ap-
Now If we
chamber of commerce several days ago
Curtis P. Coe used 00 worda to avoid
olmHilnir that t i ft VirtTi f mn rf
gon brings into this Btate over 15,- Pfa to be prohibition.
000.000 each year, and to assert that
the entire crop goes to England. , He
has - found a text book that does not
give any value to the hop crop of Ore
gon; tula he thinks may be an error.
but he says, The authorities are
supposedly excellent1
close down one industry that pays
comparatively more taxes than any
other, I fall to aee how that will re
duce the taxes for the other taxpayers.
And I cannot see where prohibition
will reduce the running expenses of
the state government For example,
On June 15 he had' a letter pub-
Tele-' Ushea in The Journal showing, the
vwuu,.u, iiiuYiuc ". 1 penal Institutions to be over $2,000.
The letter to the World-Herald from
this organisation of business men con
cludes in this wise: "A word from you
will help every honest merchant and
every consumer in the country Will
you say it?"
We will, cheerfully. And we have.
repeatedly. And we will furthermore
call to the attention of our readers
the standing of some of- these Amer
ican business men who, rather than
throw stones at a Democratic presi
finds it open or doing business after den .and. COD.re" for "lnterfermg
S hours. The proprietor is ar- DUaa are lnQ'JVf J . OI
FPORT Is being made" to dis
credit the new tariff law be
cause of a decrease in exports.
Figures do not Justify ad
verse crtticis"m, for while exports
decreased ?143,703,640 during the
first eight months of the new tariff
system, foreign1' manufacturers
shipped in Just , 8. 8 per cent more
of their finished products than
they did under j high tariff duties.
The figures are evidence' that
American manufacturers have no
ground for fear that they will be
driven from business by the tariff.
The large decrease in exports is
no evidence that American indus
try Is handicapped by the new en
actment.', ; i
' Secretary Redfield points " out
that of the total decrease In exports
more than $128,000,000 was In
foodstuffs and manufactures for
further use in manufacturing. Ex
ports' of foodstuffs decreased $97,
572,558. a fact, says Mr. Redfield,
sufficiently explained by our not
having the foodstuffs to sell. Ex
ports of manufactures for further
use In manufacturing', decreased
JU.6b3,377, reflecting .the.: de-
a two-wire rive-party service
be supplied patrons at $1.50 per
month. ' I
Such a service was formerly t
given, but on t account of its com
plicated character, according to the
company, it was abandoned-several
years ago.
closing
rested and fined $50 and costs,
In his letter to the chamber of e?nse ? taxpayer.
No
to set honest business
000.
commerce he says the sam Institu-
their efforts
free.
The president of the .league is
Charles H Ingersoll, manufacturer of
The vice
It also happens once in a while that
tiona cost yreson over ii.ouo.ooo. ! -"" ' tha famous "dollar watch.
contends that from one-halt to five- -I,. ". Z I nrpsldpnt is Dr. Lee Galloway, tiro.
.irth. nr thia ,Ti.n l ran . wiiero ua suiBi iiquor. ins .
the liquor traffic, -and that prohibition seller is fined perhaps $100 and costs,
would remedy this condition. ' Again, no burden on the taxpayer
Tr. 1019 It r-rvt nrnhhltnn V.n... I "U "e 'er uauu. uuuer pronioiuon
$0,239 for. each man. woman and child meone reports to the authorities that
in that state, to take care of Its crim- thr are signs of Maur at a certain
The present steps by the -city inas; it cost Oregon $0,217 per capita Jlaoe- Two or three detecUves on high
. m rr- mi mm ariRH strri bkiil ub i hi m. i l nn nnv
j Of i ior me same penoa nese ngures are - "r. - V " Z Packing company.
Sfc ciiutuvvi rt uivu vcaa,w cs. 11IVU bi-' VI I
commission to restore a service
some kind for which the patrons
may pay but $1.50, ought to suc
ceed. It Is a part of the contract
by which - the telephone company ;
fessor of commerce and industry In
New York university. On the execu
tlve committee list appear such names
as these:
J. P. Archibald, ex-president . Na
tlonal Retail Jewelers' association.
Bartlett Arkell. president Beech-Nut
based on appropriations for that pur-
J. E. Baum, president Supples Hard-
. . I mm" rhn TJrhAti ail i m r.,v Viay.
pose m Kansas, ano ngures given Tor I ' 7. V,, . v,r, ....... of Philadelphia
Oregon by Mr.' Coe in hta letter of
June 15
tors, -and more than likely someone Is
Fririk R. Connollv. vice resident
National Retail Grocers' association
streets, and the terms should be
faithfully kept - by the "mainten
ance of the cheaper service. i
It Is a status in which the' com
pany would seem to have little
choice. There Is a demand amone
people of humble means for i the
$1.50 service. The company agreed
to give it. . .
All agreements, Including those
entered Into by telephone com
panies, ought to be kept. sv
If not, why have agreements?
become- one of the great points In pressed : condition of industries In
the Columbia river district.
- rew clues, have so excellent a
prospect. Few cities have so great
a natural opportunity to' rise to
pqwer and opulence. v'S x4'3--
'All these are things fundamental.
They fare going to happen. ' The
work let- Celilo and the -Cascades
will be duplicated fartherup the
river, j except : that - there will be
simultaneous developmelat of hydro
electric energy for. lighting and
, powert water, : made 'available : for
' irrigation -and Improvement ot tho
river for , navigation all i in" the
same; project and under the same
appropriation.- , 1 J .
- .All .this will come to pass because
i frirotrm Aiifiti-taa
a. I TVl AM n M V, n n . If.tll . . .
uu mvu a .iuiuig Oil in
our, export trade, and the reason Is
Quite apparent. Severe - depression
has' attacked industries abroad.
Reports from . British Industrial
centers snow that many plants
have i been shut, down because of
the large , shrinkage In . trade and
reduction in home consumption.
The problem of the unemployed Is
acute ; !n spite of our new tariff
law, which apostles - of : prohibitive
duties say - has .opened up the
United States to ! invasion by the
products of cheap foreign labor.
In France the situation Is much
worse,, and jn 'Germany there Is
'" , . . VIIImI or hurt What wmiM h th I auonai iteiail wrocentr association.
Kan?a?..n,"uar?1',L0- ha Sua. '?ttTZlik&L?xi Abraham Erianger. president the "B,
v3 y, uxcu . me teiepuone company j "-" "5 brtsone for aus ot thls crimt Prohibition. Who Abranam eriar
secured the right to use of the for an theawsuits ana other V- WT.
The condition that has been as well
aa the condition the Democratic party
atrlvlng to estabUah, are well de
scribed in an editorial in tha Indian-
apolis News, which says: -
"A ' treat and in some respects a
wonderful system had been built up
largely on privilege tariff and other.
Through enormous contributions to
campaign funds the great trusts and
railroads purchased favors from ths
government. A few men, with a direct
and selfish Interest in the matter, de-
lded what our taxes should be. It
was a veritable feudal system based.
not on birth, but on wealth and usurped
power. It Is afeainst this system that
the national administration, backed by
the people, haa arrayed itself. We are
seeking some measure of democracy
in trade and commerce, aa we have it
in politics. We have today and may
we continue to -laave a government
that la at least stronger than the stee;
truat. And with It we shall have a
more widely diffused prosperity and a
greater command of the good things
of life than we have ever had. The
people have resolved that this country
shall be what it waa meant to be tha
country of the average man. What
ever suffering there is la due to the
fact that the evils were allowed to
grow to such enormous proportions as
to make their eradication extraordi
narily difficult. The blame must rest,
not on those who are now trying t
right the wrongs, but on those who sal
still and allowed them to reach thei?
present proportions."
In talking tO tha nlnnur, vnn will ,
find that a large majority of them
came from Kentucky, Tennessee, Vir
ginia or worth Carolina; that la. If
wey tuemselvee were not born there,
their parents war and came west by '
aay stages flrat to Illinois or Ohio'
and then on to Missouri, which waa
me jumping off place from which the
emigranta atarted for Oregon.
n talking with Charlea Bolda, one
of the veterana of the Cayuaa Indian ,
war, ne eaid: "Next year I will have
been In Oregon 70 yeare. I waa going V
on my twenty-fourth' year when I
crossed the plains ln 1845. I was born
in Kentucky February 27, 1522. jjy
father's name waa Raphael Bolda. and C
my mother's maiden name waa Ruth
Brown. They were both hom in
tucky. When I was 18 yeara old that
waa In J 840 I moved to St. Clair coun
ty. Mo. There was a lot of talk in
those days about coming to Oregon, ao
ln the spring of 1S4 5 I hired out to
John Potter to drive one of his teams
10 uregon. when I got to the forks of
the road near Fort Hall, where one
trail led southward to California Tot
ter deelded to go to California. He
wanted me to atay with him and go'
un inrougn to Calirorhla, but I told
him that I had started for Oregon and
that was where I was going, so we.
parted at the parting of the ways.
- "After PotU-r left I hired out to Bill
Ingalls, who came on through to Ore
gon and settled on Mola.Ha prairie, a
mile or two south of Molalla Corners.
We had some pretty good people !n our
train people who have left their In
fluence in Oregon; people like Bollver
Walker and his brother. Claiborne
Walker, and other men of that type.
We took up a donation land claim ln
the forka of Beaver crek, a few
miles south of Oregon City, not far
rrom what Is now the town of New
Era.
'When the news of Whitman's mas
sacre came down to Oregon City there
w an instant .response when volun
teers were called for. Everybody felt
so strongly about It that even the girls
at Oregon City wouldn't go with a
young fellow who refused to enlist. I
joined Captain Maion'a company, but .
later 1 went with Captain Philip
Thompson's company. Colonel Gilliam
was our colonel. We went up Into the
Walla Walla country to try to capture
tne murderers who had taken part In
the Whitman massacre. We fooled .
away a lot of time with peace talks
with the Indians trying to get thera
to bring In lh murderers. Finally
Colonel Gilliam derided to give the In
diana a peacf talk with our guns that
would keep iheni peaceful for awhile,
so we struck out after them. We over
took them on the Tukannon. The In
dians came out with a whit,pg tied
to a stick. We wanted Co fire at them,
but Colonel Gilliam said. "Boys, theae
are I'alouse Indians; them are peace
ful. We do not want to kill the wron
Indians.' The Indians we were after
seemed to have got away, no Gilliam
said to uk, "Gather up all the stork
you can get hold of-and we will .tart
back to Whitman Mission.' Then
peaceful Indians that came out to ua
with a white rag on a stirk, when they
saw we were Koing to take the horses
and cattle, began to follow us, (shoot
ing at us from back of the hruuli and
rocks. ANe kept up a running fight all
day.
"It wag a naty night cold and dis
agreeable and we hadn't had anything
to eat all of the preceding day. That
night we cooked some horse meat over
our camp fires by cutting It up In
strips and toasting It on the ramrods
over the fire. Karly In the morning
the Indiana started ln on um again, eo
Colonel Gilliam gave orders to turn th
stock loose no the Indians would quit
bothering ua. , After Colonel Gilliam
had been shot through the head an-l
killed by accident, the governor ap
pointed H. A. G. Le colonel. When
he came up into the Walla Walli
country, where Lieutenant Colonel Wa
ters was acting as colonel, Lee turned
over his commission to Waters and be
came lieutenant colonel."
The World-Herald is rejoiced to have
the evidence that many f the fore
most business men of the country
business men who do business by add
ing to the national wealth rather than
by gambling ln and Juggling with the
wealth others have produced under
stand and are in sympathy with the
purposes of the Democratic party.
had on the sam day 59.S -prisoners for exPeB8e? connect'd wlttt UT Tn 8tate'
.. . . ... . l anrt that mAna th. Iitiuvm,
eacn iuu.ouu 01 population, un janu- - t I T, .i . ... ,
THE WRONG MAN
ary 1, 191 0' Kansas had In Institutions
ror juvenile delinquents Z5.6 prisoners
for each 100,000 of population, and
Oregon only 16.9. Kansas had 52 per
cent more,. In proportion to population.
My basic figures may be found' on
pages S6, 82 and 130, bulletin 121,
Tilirear- or p,nsti. ' ' -
-
If we sacrifice $900,000 revenue, anal
crime' should increase 28 per cent,- or
td the Kansas standard,- and ' Juvenile
delinquency 52 per cent to equal Kan
sas, what would Oregon gain in mor
als, and wouldn't the "taxpayer have to
dig up about $1,250,000 more In taxes T
C . i A. S. RUTH. .
RESIDENT WIlJSON the other
day signed an order- which
opened the doorfe of Leaven
worth prison to Samuel Col-
trane. The released man was do
ing a life sentence for ; a murder
committed by anotherT; Coltrane
had been confined more than eleven J
years for , a crime which a jury
decided last September was com
mitted by .Thomas Watson, now ' in
the Oklahoma penitentiary. ; Wat
son has confessed the killing.:
I Coltrane had been in Leaven
worth -r since Feb ruary, 1907, but
he was In Jail four, years awaiting
trial. : After the . - confession ' and
conviction of Watson, he remained
ln jprison untiV by- chance, it was
discovered that two, men were ' be
ing punished for .one crime. ! . :
, There are people who ay that
convicts-i should be ; treated vas
- . . a ... - . , - '' '--
Ella M Finney's Statistics. 5
Gervals, 'or., July 10. To the" Editor
of The Journal H. S. Harcourt . says
the liquor beast should be throttled
and killed; if I understand, he ia go
ing to turn it loose in foreign coun
tries to save our hops and prunes.; Be
cause he doesn't want theJbeast, should
he give it to hU neighbors? The claim
of $700,000,000 confiscation should pro
hibition succeed, la on file with the
secretary of state in California. Mr.
Harcourt tells us the claim is in 11
quor producing lands and products. He
also gives In exact figures about. $3
000,0.00 in revenue loea. for a United
States government loss. Will you, mul
tiply that 48 times, ror states? ?For a
state loss sjfld $3,000,000 to $700,000,-
000. . California's grape industry claim a
that 150,000 persons win be financially
injured. - Hop - growers of Tacoma
claim that If the drys win JS.000 men
will be thrown out of employment and
a $2,000,000 industry menaced-':
- Oregon ; raises nearly half the hops
in the Unted States,, and' claims ruin of
a $23,000,000 investment, and a yearly
$5,000,000 .bop.crop'ThaL hop land,
What I would advise is that all the
candidates nominated on the strength
of reduction of taxes turn out and
fight prohibition to the last ditch.'
WHEW THE, PEOPLE TACKLE ECONOMICS
- By John M. Oskiton. s
Financial, railroad, and business ex-
That would prove that they v really perts are alarmed at -certain sugges
mean to reduce taxes to., the best of tlons and laws, by definite restrictions
their ability. ANDREW NELSON. upon activity,- which are coming from
the president and congress and the
Complains of Sanitarium. 1 state legislatures.
Portland. July 11. To the Editor of "They're so unaound!" cry these ex-
The Journal--Th Journal of Wed nee- 1 Prts. and they, wonder when the
day contained a story about a crazy agitation for their passage will cease.
man who escaped from the Morning-!
aide Sanitarium and terrorised the !
neighborhood. I- think there should
be some way to compel that institution
to keep guards over its patients, and
not allow them off the grounds. They
are allowed to run errands and walk
about without attendants, . and have ,
been seen over a, mile; away selling old
papers and magazines. One day last
summer one was on Villa avenue act
ing very strangely, j and a neighbor
Most of the experts talk as if the
movement for the regulation of capital
and big .bualneea waa new and due to
email groupa of radicals.
Not altogether, however. The other
day-1 read the report of Frank A. Van
derllp's speech to the New York bank
ers. In it the . head of the country's
biggest bank agreed with the experts
that the new laws and the new theory
of stricter control were largely respon
sible for the bualnesa . and financial
chased him away with a dog. The depression J but he also saldi
wanderer slept, that night in a station
on tbe Mount Hood electric liner
, Must we wait until some family is
murdered., as the Hilla were, or soma
lone woman is attacked, or shall we
run into the house and wait until the
sheriff cornea?
1.' for one, would like to see some
thing done;. , M.-A.
x no rsaivie vry-: rcwwui,
Do not deceive yourselves that the
pressing flood of new legislation is
the accorripiishment alone of a strong
willed executive, or the work . of a
radically minded congress. The cause
is back of that.. Da not hopelessly be
lieve, either, that the cause of the
present legislative movement la to be
laid wholly to a public opinion gone
wrong, to a majority with its mind
set on plundering the successful.
"The real, roots of this., political
movement, with which business Is so
vitally concerned, are atill deeper
and happily so. .
"If I thought those roots were In
perverted human nature, in a growing
distaste for work and thrift, and in a
determination to reach prosperity and
equality by legislation' Instead of by
the" homely virtues; or if I thought
that this pontics! movement had its
roots only in the muddled brains of
demagogues playing: for votes. I
should be peeaimletic'indeed."
Mr. Vanderllp advised the bankers
to read history and aee that modern
industrialism must have a profound
unsettling effect upon the social order,
muat excite unrest and produce legis
lative changes not wall thought out.
Another sensible suggestion was In
Mr. Vanderlip'e speech. Let business
men and bankers not only understand
but also get into the game of politics,
where their training, and. judgment
may count. - Reverse the old belief
that it isn't good to mix bualnesa and
politics! -- -
hands on to bolster up their cause.
"Voting wet, and shouting the battle
Portland. July 8. To-the Editor of I cry of freedom1 sounds like blasphemy
the. Journal Ella M. Finney Is inter- The battle cry of freedom did not rig-
esting. if nothing more. I wonder what inate In defense of a beer barrel, and
connection the sacrament of bread and tne enthualaara Ella M. Finney and
wine Instituted by our Savior has with Mrs. Dunlway will stir up will come
the booze Joints we are trying to put from the whiskey traffic-
out of commission in - Oregdn. .The , ; V , LEVI JOHNSON.
wets must d m oaa snape ior -argu
ment when they drag tn everything 1 f An otist la a man who expects a
sacred and holy they can possibly lay woman to marry him for himaelf alone.
A Clash of -Creeds.
A genUeraan,,l"ruahing from his din
ingv room into the hall and sniffing
disgustedly, demanded of Jeames. the
footman, whence arose the outrageous
odor that was pervading the whole
house. To Which Jeames replied:-
"Ton aee, -air, today's a saint' a day,
and the butler. e' 'lgh church, and ia
burning hlnceneee. and the cook, ahe'a
low - church.' : and la burning brown
paper to bobvlate the hincenae." j
The Ragtime Muse
Signs.
Ratncrow hollerln' In de tree.
'8 ef he wus In rain:
He's Je.i prayln' yesalrree'
uiammenn ler rain!
Tree frog croakin' on de limb.
hays hits twin ter nhower.
Ef yo' listen now ter him.
itain come in a bour:
Chickens hunt de ahade an' squawk
Doodle buas come out.
Martens fight de sparrer hak.
itain? wen. suh, nit moutr
got iwlnges In my lalgn,
Dey is hurtln' sho'!
Feets feel lak a pair o kales.
I kaln t awing no hoe:
Yslrr hlt'll rain fo' lonr.
tiean nai oie win awinn
go ketch some fish!
" Foe of. Crazy Iind IVjom.
. From the Astorlan.
The Morr.ing Aatorian is In th
black books, end look, of certain real
estate people hereabout Just now. be
cause of Its courageous xtand agalnnt
the creation of a era ry land boom in
Astoria or one chargeable to the good
name of..Astoria. Happily for us that
stand La commended on all sidea by
men of standing, heavy property lntar
eats and Impeccable repute, as friends
and buildera of Astoria iri every legiti
mate line of progress; and since our
own interests in this particular direc
tion are upon a plane of Importance
which utterly exempts us from any
charge of seeking to impede or belittle
tbe realty concerns of thia city, we
stand pat and wait upon time for the
Justification denied us by the few at
this moment.
1 11
Twm Gentle Spring.
Philadelphia Public Ledger,
niello, cedral! Gib me Bill dree b
dide."
Who died?"
"Do, I said Bill dree neved d!de. .
"What did" he die ofT". . -"Do,
do! Not bill. Bill delaphone.
Bill " L.
"Say, what's the batter wig you? ;
The same to you." -"I've
got an awful colb ln my head.'
"Oh, now I understand, you "want
Mill 379; Just a minute, please.. .
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