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permitted the hotel company to In-1 which did not figure in the esti-lbera of society. The efficiency of 5
troauce evidence that MorninEStar ! mates of 10 years ago. me social unit Is conditioned more
was a "chronic kicker.
The court of appeals found that
this was error and ordered a new
trial. The principle was laid down
though that an innkeeper is not
obliged to entertain a . guest who
refuses to pay. a lawful charge (or
Indications are that the cost ofjby the physical status of I the in-
government will continue to in- dividual than by any other " one
crease in the United States, al- factor. i
though the rate of increase may be With the establishment of Indus
reduced. The real problem is to trial insurance comes efforts to pre
establish policies which will dis- vent disease. This involves a bet-
tribute the benefits of government torment not only of shop condi-
A FEW SMILES
a special dish. Whether the charge -more equitably. That is the mainltions but also of living conditions.
(is a reasonable one or. not ia for
a Jury lp determine. :
When You Go Away
Have The Journal sent to
, your Summer address.
MRS, CARMAN
w
purpose of the program which Pres-1 The unhygienic home must; be cor
ident Wilson has mapped out andirected and the entire surroundings
is following' in spite of determined j of the individual subjected to care-
opposition. Iful scrutiny.
HENthey contemplate Mrs.
Carman and her pligTit,
women and men out of jail J
must congratulate them
selves.
Whether guilty or not guilty,
Mrs. Carman is in the depths of
travail. She has quickly descended
from the heights of social distinc-1
I
WORDS
N a St. Helen's courtroom ne
other day a lawyer in the midst
of his argument to the jury was
interrupted by one of the jurors
s PRIDE AND PRICES
T
HE United States consul at
Nuremburg, Germany,! reports
the comparative failure of
municipal meat markets in
who asked: "Don't you think we that city! .Nuremburg has 1358,000
have had about enough of this?" I people, who In 1913 ate 46,000,000 j'Why do you ask?"
"Ravenyelp doesn't call on that Rox-
more girl any more."
"How did, they happen to fall out?"
"The last time ha
went to Bee her he
Risked her If she had
the cartoon collect
ing mania."
"Where was the
wrong in that?"
"He didn't intend
any, but he happened
to be looking at the
family album at the time." Magazine
of Fun.
i i .
"Fred, do! you remember where you
were in 1910?" asked the bride of a
few months.
"Why. no dear; 1
don't remember ex
actly," replied the
young husband.
The same question might be pounds of meat. There were 15
tion and the loyalty of powerful asked of a lot of self constituted municipal markets in operation last
friends to a Jail cell, where she is statesmen who argue long and vali-Jyear, but these shops sold only 4.3
"3
E5
O toiling bands Of mortals!
O wearied feet, traveling ye
know not whither! - Little do
ye know your own blessedness;
for to travel hopefully Is a
better thing than to arrive and
the true success is to labor.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
THE NEW YORK REDS
'S3
antly that remedial legislation I per cent of the meat consumed
should be put off to some more They had about 4000 oilt of 90,000
convenient day. I families as customers,
They might profit from the com- The municipal markets were es
ment of the old farmer who was tablished in response to a public
askPri his oninion of the merits of demand and it was figured that
a speech delivered in his neighbor- they woul "lire the public about
husbands. By their conduct, few t hood. "It was a great speech, a 1,000,000 a year, which Bum the
men and few women give way to ! verv ereat speech." said he. "but a People could put In the ; savings
accused of murder.
There is no lot more terrible.
Yet how easy for it to have been
avoided !
Few women Install dictaphones
In a husband '8 office. Few women
act on the idle rumors about their
Why, I was read
ing today in the pa
per that It is said
that in 1910 one per
son In every 800 was in prison."
WE now know what is meant
by the BO-called free, speech
I. W. W.-ism clamors for.
Two samples of it were
given this country at the Union
Square meeting in New York Sat
urday. ' One was by Alexander
Berckraan, an 1. W. W. leader. He
said: ;
As anarchists ; we are now ready to
do anything to gain the points we de
sire; we do not wish to do the things
the police and the press expect us to
do, because that would be too simple,
I predict that the Bocial revolution
will come in the near future and when
It does come the anarchists will be
more daring and more determined than
they haye been before. We are ready
to do anything to gain our demands
and to gain our rights
their suspicions to such an extent
as to make themselves suspects,
when a murder is committed.
Husbands and wive who are
watching the case have, in Mrs.
Carman's unfortunate situation a
powerful stimulus to so live that
there will be no room in ' their
conduct for suspicions, for distrust
or for accusation of murder.
There is no course so safe as that
which runs straight and tests true.
THE WOMAN TEACHER
D
ISAPPEARANCE of women
teachers from rural schools
by 1930 is predicted by Dr.
P. P. Claxton, United States
commissioner of education. He has
a plan for replacing them by men.
Dr. Claxton proposes to provide
the teacher, who shall be a mature
shower of rain would have done banks. Average prices at the muni-
more good."
In one "aspect life is merely a
quest for words.
"There was never word of ours
could say
Our Inmost in the sweetest way.'
cipal markets were three and one- j
half cents below prices t ; the pri
vately owned butcher shops, but
the city's market failed to secure
I the trade.
Chicago recently closed its muni
man. with n. small farm in onnnw.
Another or tnese samples or i-man with the schoolhouse. This
W. W. free speech was, by KeDecca , farm the teacher ia to cuitivate,
Edelsoun. sne sam:
-When the time comes that we can
with the help of the pupils, who
will thus get valuable agricultural
ltaavAM iitanH th tvrainv it T law
nd canitai. we will revolt, and the training, while the pedagogue will
force of our upward movement will be be able to Increase his Income and
felt throughout the country. The time
has. already come for the workingman
to use dynamite,
Dynamite is the great equalizer of
all men. Dynamite is all powerful.
I advise you to use dynamite when
you have the opportunity and when it
Is In your power to do so.
That is to say, She advises use of
the bomb. She proclaims that dyna
mite be employed to wreck build
ings and blow people to pieces. She
counsels murder and terrorism with
the bomb as a means of overthrow
ing law and establishing anarchy.
These speeches were delivered in
the heart of New York. Red flags,
not the stars and strlpesf floated
over the sneakers' stand. " Most of
the men and women present wore
black hands Btriped with red. Red
save the taxpayers' money through
the sale of his products.
The commissioner of education
is to be commended for an effort
to bring the school and the farm
into closer relation, but he is a
Yet after all, more is said by cipal grocery store, established to
silence than by speech. Mind feels ensure low prices to working peo
mind rather than reads it. What is pie. They failed, to patronize the
said is merely the confirmation of store; it had practically ho trade
what is thought and leit. and was put out of business bv
Taciturn people sometimes put a cost of operation. In Chicago it
great valuation on the gift of fluent was said that people declined to
speaking and fail to recognize their buy at- the municipal store for fear
own worth and gift3 in- other ways, of advertising themselves as near-
the gift, for instance, of knowing paupers. .
when to talk and when to be silent. In Nuremburg there Is much
The world could get along without speculation as to why the municipal
its tamers better than' it could markets failed to secure natrons.
without its listening doers. There One official said the people) may be
have been many .great men who afraid of "cheap" food, although
have never made a speech. They the city did its own killing and
have expressed themselves In ac- guaranteed the meat,
tions. The story of their lives was These two incidents, taken in
In the happiness or ruin they left connection with the experiences of
behind and not in the speeches they many public markets In American
made. f cities, is indication, rather, that
most people, place pride above high
prices.
Here' is one that was told by A. Z.
I Baker, the author, at a social function
tne other evening, when the conversa-
tion turned to the
ways of Wall street.
Some time ago
Smith dined with a
friend named Jones.
Jones rallied around
Wall street and bad
to do with stocks
and bonds, and even
tually the talk be
tween the two traveled In that trend.
"By the way, Jones," remarked
Smith, "I picked up something dirt
cheap the other day. It stood at 83
when I bought it and by the time I got
it home It had touched 89.
"Gee whiz!" exclaimed Jones. "That's
like having a donation party thrust on
you! What was itr
"A newi thesmometer." was the
i
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chuckling rejoinder of Smith.
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OMAXAi CHANGE
Barefaced fibs crow up and become
baldheaded lies.
Other people's troubles bore a man
more than his own.
- -
People who praise themselves al
ways blame others.
Women flatter with their eyes; men
with their tongues.
A fussy person quickly
milk of. human kindness.
sours the
Judge a man's success .by the meth
ods ha used in succeeding.
All I women are born reformers and
they want to begin on some man.
When a wife weeps scalding tears
her husband finds himself In hot
water.
-
Lots of men follow the races be
cause they are unable to get ahead of
them.
When it comas to keeoinr in the
straight and narrow way, the tight
rope waaxer is ail there.
Malaria begins with a chill and ends
wun a lever, iove oegins with a
lever and ends with a chill.
Lots of People would" rather n1 a
dollar to the heathen than give the
foor a. i noma a pleasant lootc
If a ' girl knows she's pretty her
knowledge isn't due to the fact that
some other girl ever told her;
Nature has arranged all things to
some purpose. When a man makes a
fool of himself he provides amusement
for others.
During the courtship a young couple
sit around and hold hands in silence,
but after marriage well, that's an
other story.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Gerald Vols, formerly publisher of
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Vnxl Lockley.
A day or two ago I sat on the rear
platform of a private car with J. K.
th Forest Grove News times and later ' w,"."
of the Dallas Observer ha bought a """""A? ol y. presiaem w
suburban tract near Salem, ana win
henceforth specialise in prunes.
Linn and Benton counties will oper
ate a free ferry across the Willamette
at the old "England" crossing near
Monroe, according to a decision reached
recentw by the county courts in Joint
meeting.
e
The Brownsvlll Times asks, "Do
rattlesnakes climb trees?" and then
proceeds: "W. T. Cochran vouches that
they do climb bushes for he killed one
In a bush on his farm yesterday. It
was a small rattler and was about
four feet from the ground when he
shot it."
"A picnic for ths real widows of
Milton. Freewater and vicinity," an
nounces the Milton' Eagle, "is to be
given on Grandma Klrkland's lawn in
the Corvallls & Eastern railroad. We
wrs oh a tour of inspection or the re
cent Improvements between Corvallls
and Taqulna. New culverts, new
trestles, new bridges, new ties and
heavier steel rails are being put In.
As we crossed and recrossed the pic
turesque St. Marys river, the talk
drifted to the days before the road was
built.
"Why not itart at the very begin
ning and tell me of your boyhood '
days." I suggested.
"Well, to tell you the truth. I didn't
have any boyhood days." said Judge
Weatherford. "I had to go to work
when the boys of today are at play or
at school. I was born on March S,
1850, at Unlonville. Mo. My father
died when I was five year old. and
Milton Tuesday. July SI. beginning at I mother died three years later. There
10 a. m. Those attending are requested were five of us children, rour ioys
to bring baskets, but if any are un- and one girl. My oldest brother was
awe to prepare them they should at- 17. He didn't want us to scatter, so he
tend anyway. was father "and mother to us and kept -
Lebanon Express: J. W. Blshon re- U8 together. He has a 5000 acre wheat
ports a very unpleasant experience
with berry pickers recently. In a
wagon load of berries he took to
the Brownsville cannery 80 pounds of
clods were found In the bottom of the
boxes, and a Brownsville lady, to whom
he delivered a crate of berries reported
that she only got half a crate of good
berries out of it, the boxes being about
half full of rotten berries and trash.
Describing what Is probably the
longest homestead claim in the world,
the North Bend Harbor says: "Archie
Phillins. who has been working out in
the North Lake vicinity, has found a
strip of land about 280 feet In width
and nearly 8tt miles long, which Is not
designated In any of the adjoining
sections, but la the difference la two
United States surveys, and has made
application for entry upon the same."
"WILSON'S RIGHT-HAND MAN"
REGULATORS OF RATES
5
T. PAUL, the northern terminus
of a new barge line which has
reopened the Mississippi river
as a route for traffic, Is anxi
ous to secure a canal between that
poor prophet when he savs the i city and Lake Superior. The rail-
woman teacher will disappear
will not go, for she holds her place I the Dispatch points out their prob
in the school by the best of all able reason for opposition
Letters From the People
(Communication!
publication In this department should be writ
ten OO Only One ld of th nnrr ihAiiM iw
txceed 800 words in length and iouit be nc-
mn nia hv rh. m - m 4L.
She i rads are opposing the project, and jender. It the writer does not desire to
iuc mai puoiunea. Be ifiuuia to Ute.)
tests, fitness for it.
If woman is the equal of man
in anything, it is in caring for
and Inspiring children. It is a
matter of every day observation
that children berert of a father
are more fortunate than those who
lose a mother. The fatherless boy
or girl has. a better chance in the
"Discussion Is the rreateat of ll reform.
T It in r tort m 1 1 l,. I tt. . Ava
The Tall rate between St. Louis robs principles of sU falae sanctity and
PhuI ft rliQtnTiPA r,t 711ft "' a back on tnelr reasonableness. If
.ram, a OlStance OI UUItney hare no reasonableness it. mthleMW
miles. Is 63 cents a hundredweight crnshc" th,em ont ot existence and eu up it
, . . ,,J. 2?.? conclusion la their stead." Woodrow
iui in ist class cumuiuuiueg. i as wuson.
river rate is 40 cents.
Both points
are on the Mississippi river. The
of the present day's conditions, re
gardless of customs, views and ideals
of 2000 to 8000 years ago. I have col
lected scripture passages both for and
against tha wine and strong drink. In
later letters I will quote texts favor
able to moderation and prohibition. At
present I offer passages permitting Or
enjoining the use of wine, as follows
"Give strong drink to him that Is
ready to perish, and wine to those that
be of heavy hearts; let him drink and
forget his . poverty." Deut. 14-26.
"Drink no longer water, but use a llt
Ue jsrine for thy stomach's sake' I
Tim. 6-23. "Go thy way; eat thy bread
with joy, and drink thy wine' with a
merry heart, for God now accepteth
thy works." Eccles. 9-70. "Wine that
maketh glad the heart of man." Ps.
104-15. "They shall plant vineyards,
and drink the wine thereof." Amos 9
14. "Wine which cheereth God and
man." Jud. 9-13. "Destroy It not, for
a blessing It Is. In the holy place
shalt thou cause the strong wine to be
poured unto the Lord for a drink of
fering." Num. 28-73.
One of the most direful calamities
was a wine famine. "Awake, ye drunk
ards, and weep; and howl, all ye drink
ers of wine, for It Is cut off from your
mouth. The drink offering is cut off
from the house of the Lord. The
priests, the Lord's ministers, do mourn.
Gird yourselves and lament, ye priests;
howl, ye ministers of my God, for the
drink offering Is wlthholden from the
house of your God. Joel 16, 9, 13
Noah has been roasted, so I will let
him rest, but when Sodom was de-
Edward G. Lowry In Harper's Weekly.
After Mr. Wilson was elected there
was nothing for It but to offer to
make Mr. Bryan secretary of state,
and President Wilson has never had
a luckier day than the one on which
Mr. Bryan accepted.
Mr. Wilson ia the first man to whom
Mr. Bryan has ever been a loyal sub
ordinate; or Indeed, subordinate at all.
The Peerless Leader has become the
Peerless Lieutenant. He is President
Wilson's political chlef-of-staf f.
Aside from their political and offi
cial relationship. I venture to say that
Mr. Wilson and Mr. Bryan have be
come devoted personal friends. In an
easily discoverable place in Mr.
Bryans house there ia a large framed
photograph of Mr. Wilson bearing this
autographed legend: "From your sin
cere friend and admiring colleague.
Woodrow Wilson."
banners waved above their heads, i world, morally and financially, ' dredwelght. There is no
than the child whose mother has
died. Fathers may provide more
money for their offspring, but they
fail, relatively, in stimulating the
chird'a latent capabilities.
A woman tfjacher Is a potential
mother that Is why she is the
proper guardian of dawning intel
ligence and developing characters.
A man can handle a plow better
than a woman, but it does not fol
Solicitous for Personal Liberty.
Portland, July 10. To the Editor of stroyed the; only righteous man to be
found was drunken Lot.
thus: "I have drunk
y milk. Eat, O friends;
Water fr a while. The voters have! begun to ; drink, yea drink abundantly. In the
think more seriouslv nf th tlmior morning ne sang . amturni. song.
miocztinn n v, ki.k ' "Onpn the door to me. my love for my
The rail rate on apples from St. will ensu following hastv farti nn I head is filled with dew. Showing
Louis to Fort Worth, Texas, a dis-1 their part. A campaign of education ; Plainly he had been full of booze the
j Orleans to Houston, Texas, a dis- hlbltlon In Oregon, the coming election, i Solomon sings
jtance of 3(J5 miles, is $1.52 a hun- Is not looking as optimistic as it was nrywine with mj
route between these two cities.
tance of 700 miles, is SI. 05 a him- where truth alone Is used will cause
dredwelght, while between St. Louis "nPr,d.lce1 people to think. Honest
- . . ., , , . . people are not going to arbitrarily vote
and St. Paul the rate is 40 cents, to annihilate a business where millions
although the distance is approxi- are Involved, without due consideration
Thately the same. of consequences. J
I represent a' large body of business
The railroads admit that rates
men In Oregon, and as my work takes
night before.
W. J. GARRISON.
Red flowers were banked behind
the speakers.
ft is amazing that utterances so
Inflammatory are given unchal
lenged play in the country's chief
city. Nothing but evil can result.
Weak minds are carried away by
the false doctrines and martyr at
mosphere of such an occasion and
poor deluded hands set to work to
make bombs and to throw them.
The very occasion Itself was in
fnmmmnrfllAn n f hroo atlarrhia'sl
I.:.-';."::""' ':: ;..' r::0f.,i ... . ? ltwwu DOlnl& seems to lean toward a spirit of far- 1 "uncursed amidst the harpy tribe" he
wno icii vicuu.B 10 uib uieiuaiuroi , aimers give me ; served ny inland waterways are ad- ness. Will the voters of this state I had in mirid. no doubt, the same idea
explosion Of infernal machines they 116 to the statement that brtjte i justed to meet the cost of the vote for a law taking libfrty away!ou have. that many lawyers are
were preparing for the . destruction i strength is the main reauirement i cheaber haul Artiml mil i-ntoo from fellow men. because some noor I "birds of prey." Of course many of
- - : , , k- tuvv-u uv- 1 . , i
The president does not bestow his
commendation lightly. No more re
served, no more cautious, no more
reticent, no man with so much of tha
Scotch quality of canniness, has lived
n the White House In the life-time
of. this generation.
Therefore these words of Mr. WllsOn
about Mr. Bryan must be taken at
their face value:
'Not only have Mr. Bryan's charac
ter, his Justice, his sincerity, his trans
parent Integrity, his Christian princi
ples, made a deep impression upon ail
with whom he has dealt r but his tact
in dealing with men of many sorts,
his capacity for business, his mastery
of the principles of each matter he
has been called upon to deal with.
have cleared away many a difficulty.
. . I cannot say what pleasure
and profit, I, myself, have taken from
close association with Mr. Bryan or
how thoroughly he has seemed to all
of. us who are associated with him
here to deserve not only our conff-
dence but our affectionate admira
tion."
"Bird of Trey.
Hood River. Or., July 11. To the
Editor of The Journal In your ar
ticle of July 10 on "Birds of Prey"
you tell a hard story on the legal
oeiween coast points must be ad- me to all carts of the stat r hav : profession, but you. at least In part.
justed to meet watp.r rnmnotitlnn I madn snprlai pffnr in r iiio nnininn ; voice what has been my sentiment
low that he necessarily ran manasroiThe fisriirp nnntorf M.n J of the clear minded voters ; in everv ! fr years past. When Blackstone ex-
a farm better than she can. Many 1 that rail rates between noint J communUy- The neral "P'on now pressed the desire that h might be
.., - . ' .J . ' "Alto iieeu points t . nirir nf w,. ' "uncursed amidst the harpy tribe" he
of other human beings.
Some day, soon may be, the fruit
of these speeches will be gathered.
The crop will be harvested, and It
will be a harvest of leath. Miser- A hy may need a man to lick hi
in such an occupation
. Any man who ever had a woman
teacher knows that If schools are
to continue she cannot disappear.
m.
but he needs a woman to stimu
late him.
THE COST OP GOVERNMENT
T
OTAL ordinary receipts by the
government, for the fiscal year
ending June 30 were $734,-
6ii,l00. The surplus, not de
able, misguided wretches will adopt
the advice of the woman who coun
seled bomb throwing.
.It was so at Chicago. The Hay-1
market riots were preceded by a
period of reckless talk by the likes
of Berckman and Mrs. Edelsohn.
The echoes of those dreadful days
of terror still reverberate. The shots
and explosions then heard round
the world can never be stilled.
V And the speeches, and the red
banners and the red mouths at the
New York meeting of last Saturday
are planting the mines and adjust
ing the fuses for another Hay
tnarket. . ,
Five thousand unlettered, un
balanced reds cannot listen to the
reckless preachments of the Union
Square meeting without some of
the lunatics being stirred to an
awful and a sinister endea.vor.
' . , f
PAY Oil BE SUED
HOTEL guests who order a spe
cial ash prepared for them
jnust be prepared to pay
. whatever! the proprietor aes
fit to charge or else refer the mat
ter to a jury, according to a decis
ion handed down by the New York
Court of Appeals. '
It was all brought about by Wil
liam . Mornlngstar. who, while
stopping at a Buffalo hotel, sent
out and purchased Jome spareribs I the many rather than the few. That
prediction that a deficit threatened
the country because the Democratio
party had been placed in power was
not fulfilled. Uncle Sam will con
tinue pacing his bills promptly.
But the figures call attention to
the increasing cost of government.
For the 'fiscal year 1912 thtj re
ceipts were $691,778,465; in 1913
they had risen, to $724,111,229,
and 1914 adds more than $10,000,
000 to that amount. Federal gov
ernment is costing the American
people more than $2,000,000 a day.
A few years ago Thomas B. Heed
defended appropriations exceeding
a billion dollars by a single con
gress by saying that the United
nTn .... j . I ignorant sinner has drunk until he ha uur juus mi.-, uui i-unuwa
-. wk UT uepena upon become intoxicated? We nccd more j "d desire to keep up the "dignity" of
wnetnerithe waterways are used I trinvr r.m.i.tincr tu u nr the Drofession make them often bear
wnetner tney are In fact competl- liquors, and officers who will see that ! ln 81ience nal lney w,ln every otner
they are rigidly enforced. ! mmueu yei-suii, vmw umj wim
The Prohibitionists claim that If ! dlssust, or something worse,
Oregon goes dry It will reduce taxes But "birds of prey" are everywhere,
because It will not be necessary to I In all trades and professions. Even
maintain so many public Institutions, ! tne "honest" farmer and tne "rever
and that it will reduce crime. Main Knd' preacher fall from grace end
show that no class is "gooa" or "baa.
but experience tells us the good and
bad are where you sometimes least
look for them.
But how about the difference ln
sexes? Is a woman any better or
worse than a man? I doubt If It can
be proved to the satisfaction of grand
mothers and grandfathers that- the
feminine la any better or worse than
the masculine. I don't c&ll to mind a
single instance where a mother ever
said her girls were any better than
her boys, i
To be sure, we speak of "angel
mothers," hut if it Is a fact that when
a woman dies she becomes an angel. It
seems to me the husband of that worn
an. If she had one, could be admitted
to her "society" In heaven, and there
be an angel himself. But I don't feel
certain about this, as the preachers
have not all agreed on these matters
of the other world.
J. M. BLOSSOM.
tors of the railroads.
There is a pressing demand for
more general use of Inland water
ways. Business IntereBtB of the In
land Empire are be&innine tn rai
i?a that tha rv1T,M . i nag a population oi ana nas
. . . , . , , """" 945 paupers, which gives ah average
gable tributaries are not being util- of 127.3 to every 100.000 Inhabitants,
ized as they should be. The cheap- She also has 730 state prisoners, which
er routes were established by na- makes an average of 98.3. Oregon has
lure, but nature cannot force their VakT. an average IWXTllk
ducting Panama canal expenditures ' . . competition is to at- than half of what there ls.fn Maine,
is J?3 7R4 4fi? Th. X . itain maximum efficiency in regu- and Maine Is absolutely dryj Oregon
is i66,tt4,4bt. Thus the doleful ios, ti- . ?. , rot -t, n,ini. ..huh
'""UJ lirijia I ClLfS llirOUgnOUl tne I cc..- .....v.. mano
Inland Kmnlro rl. v 1 an average ui bo.s lor mo wei siaie.
must UO u o-o n .ln, n t-,.1
Maori I "J "r . v. c j uui
w uen snippers create the da- Oregon's greatest farmers are hop
mand. boats will be 8uppliedJThen 6rowers, and this Industry alone will
the freisrht rat nrnhUn. suffer a loss or Z5.wo,ooo. Every
- -J - - v f V M V TT ill DU1 V XJ
itself.
THE LABORERS CAPITAL
L
ABOR UNIONS and working-
men are coming to realize
more and more that sound
physical health is the only
capital the laborer possesses and
the belief is growing, says the Jour
nal of ' the American Medical asso
ciation, that it is as much the duty
of the state to orot.p.t
States had become a billion dollar J the capital of the laborer as it Is to
country. Now the expenditures of
a single year, are close to three
quarters of a billion.
Government Is costing a lot of
money, and that ia a potent reason
protect the capital of the employer,
Industrial insurance is attracting
much attention in England, Ger
many, Norway and other European
countries. In England, following
which he handed to the chef with
a request that they be cooked in
a certain wayj and he sent to his
room. When1 the ' dish reached
the room it was accompanied by
a check ' for one dollar which
Morningslde was asked- to alga.
lie, refused on the ground .that
the charge: was excessive. At din
ner in the evening he .was: again
asked to sign the check but he
again' declined. . .
why the people should demand: the passage of Llovd-Genra-n'n in.
broad policies which wilj benefit J dustrial insurance bill two years
ago, n.000,000 working men and
women, many of whom were unable
to pay for medical services under
the old plan, were taken out of the
field of private practice and were
provided , with these services largely
at ine expense of, the state.
In Germany, industrial Insurance
has been in force for a number of
years and Its scope has been gradu-
aemana is oeing made in Great
Britain, where the Budget has been
hanging fire in. the hodse of com
mons, i
. Radical opposition is based upon
Increases in the armament allow
ance. . British naval estimates alone
show a rise from $166,500,000 in
190a to $27,500,000 for the com
ting year. The radicals 'fear that if Sally enlarged until in some dis-
inis sort oi tmng continues there jtricts 95 per cent of ihe people are
wiu oe no money ten ior measures i said to be affected by its oper
ations. .. " .
The next morning -breakfast was! designed to benefit the people. This
refused hjm and he brought" suit .fear, is held In spite of the fact that
against the hostelry, v The . Jury
found in favor of the hotel com
pany. The trial Judge, however.
the British budget includes $100,-
000,000 for old age pensions, In
surance and other social reforms
An explanation for the develop
ment of Industrial insurance Is
found " in the interdepedence ' on
each other of the Individual mem
summer nunareas or xamiiies depend i
on picking hops to clothe and feed
their little children, and to buy books
that they may go to school.
If Oregon does go dry It will mean
about half of the people's rights will
be taken from them. i
The right and only way is to teach
temperance in the minds of our feljow
men; It can never be forced jon them,
as It Is against the laws of nature.
L. O. ROARK.
Makes- Comparison of Grills.
Portland, Juy 13. To the -Editor of
The Journal I have beei reading with
a great deal of amusement of the
activity of your worthy mayor and his
secretary, ln . their work against the
different grills. I happened to be in
Richards' the evening It was raided
and during the hour that I jtvas there
I did not see anything that was very
bad. I left after the raid land went
down to my hotel, which Is ine of the
leading ones In town, and the sights
I saw would put even Richards' to
shame,
o'clock
when in town to get my meals at Rich
ards, and to a man up a tree it looks
a little bit like - discrimination.
The people that patro(nlze the north
end joints are already past saving, but
the ones that frequent the better grills
certainly can get a good start on the
downward path. I
Do you not think, that the better
class need a little looking after, too?
,.-. J. II. WOODS. '
The Winefof the Wedding N Feast.
Portland;; Or.. July 13. To -the
Editor of The Journal The mixture
of religion and politics in most of the
letters on prohibition, in The Journal
is sickening. I don't believe that the
annihilation of the liquor business Is
a religious: question. If It had been
would we jftot have been rid of. It long
ago? For are we not a very religious
people? And are not most of us mem
bers of some church? I really think
when it comes to using the Bible as
an argument on tne suDject or tne sa
loon that the wets have the best of It.
But let us i look Into one of the argu
ments they use a great deal. If not
wouia pui even Kicnaras to 1 1 . :i.v , I
They even sold liquors after x , more than any other th making of
a. m. It has beeVi my custom j l l a !weid nS n ow '
Quotes Scripture for- Wets.
this story is going to be used as an
argument for. anti-prohibition. we
should stick to the letter of the text,
and as I read it, the wine was made
out of water. And there Is no quail
f y tng of the statement. Jesus made
wine out' of water, not grapes. Wheta
er the wine he made was fermefnted
or unfermented. makes no difference
It was made out of watejL I will en
gage to drink all the wine anybody
can make Out of water now, or all th
beer that jElla M. Finney can make
j out of waiter Just water, good Bull
McMinnville, Or..- July mi. To the Run water no hops. It Is an astonish
Editor of The Journal I am neither
prohibitionist nor wet. I read on both
sides ot the case, however. The quot
ing of scripture by advocates, on this
side or that, amuses me. It! would be
better to fight the thing out on lines
Ing thing ; that sensible people will
consider a: thing like that an "argu
ment" for the 400 saloons we have in
Portland. - We are - supposed to have
progressed a few thousand years since
Noah lived (if such a person ever
The secretary of state has not made
himself popular at Washington. No
public man for many years occupying
high, important and responsible place
in an administration, has been so de
rided. The town Is flushed with
stories of his gaucheries and of his
blunders and "breaks" made ln Inter
course, offical and social, with the
dlplomatio corps. Most of these
stories are preposterous and Incredi
ble on the face of them, but they are
eagerly caught up and repeated; and.
for the most part, believed.
ranch now ln Gilliam county. Some
years after mother's death, when I
was 14 years old, a man named Morgan
came to our place one day and said
he was going to Oregon lie wanted
to hire roefcto drive one of his teams.
I asked my oldest brother what I
had better do. He satd. 'you must
decide for yourself.' 1 decided to go,
and an hour later I was on my way
to Oregon.
"We left on the last of March, but
when we got to Council Bluffs we
found the grass wasn't strong enough
for the oxen to travel on, so we laid
by for a month waiting for the grass
to grow. We crossed the Missouri
n our 2000 mile trip on May 10. We
stopped at Salt Lake City for a week
to let the oxen rest. We. left the
old Oregon trail there, going north
on a new trail passing through what
Is now pocatello.
"Morgan settled in Washington coun
ty. One after another, three of his
sons were elected to the office of
county clerk of tlftt county. I,t al
most seemed as It' that office was
a family affair.
"1 didn't come through to Portland,
but stopped at the old town of Ia
Grande, where I got work driving an
ox team for a man named Lleusllen
from Umatilla county. 1 drove a
freight wagon from ' Umatilla Landing
to Boise. After making a number of
trips 1 had saved $50, so I decided to
finish niy Journey to ths Willamette
valley. I took the boat at Umatilla
Landing, and, after several changes. 1
readied Portland. Then I took the
Albany. From Albany I
A lint of Mr. Bryan's callers through
any week and an adequate summary
of their conversations with the secre
tary of state would reveal to the dull- I boat for
est understanding how and why and I walked out to Brownsville to look for
in what degree Mr. Bryan is and has; a Job. The morning after I got tnere
been the largest slnglefactor other
than Mr. Wilson In the accepted and
commonly recognised success of this
Democratic administration.
Mr. Bryan has not sought honor or
glory or praise or reward for his share
ln the work. He has effaced himself.
He has followed the president's lead
and in doing It he has astonished
Washington.
Mr. Bryan was Indispensable to Mr.
Wilson in the making of the tariff
bill and the currency bill. Everybody
has remarked about the currency bill
that the wonder was, not that so much
that was good was put into It but
that so much that was bad was kept
out of it. Much of the keeping out
was Mr. Bryan's work.
Just how many people there are In
the United States who are heart and t
soul for the present administration
because Mr. Bryan is a part of it and
because Mr. Bryan has publicly ap
proved of what Mr. Wilson has done.
It would be almost Impossible to ssy;
but there are enough of them to make
a difference, and the word has gone
out to them from Mr. Bryan that
"Wilson la all right."
EFFECT OF ONE BIG WHEAT CROP
By John M. Osikson
Ttvl th time this is nrlnted the
wtntir wheat crop will be harvested,
and the spring wheat will be "made";
It seems certain that this year our
production of wheat will turn out to
be the greatest ln our history.
From one end of the country to tne
other, business men. railroad men,
and bankers are busily predicting that
the wheat crop is going to show the
way I to an era of prosperity. Some
of these men say that the president Is
riant ln declaring that the trouble or
business Is psychological. They fore
see a clearing away of pessimism ana
doubt as to the future when It Is cer
tainly known that we have a Dumper
wheat ,crop to market.
This reaction will not De long de
layed said the head of the biggest
banK ouisiae oi i" ivi.
lng to Mr. Reynolds It will came this
way:
"When the nrst harvesting snows
that the yield Is up to expectations,
the country banks will be calling for
money to help move the crop;' the
elevators will befln to tane on me;
and there will be demand upon; the
railroads for cars. There arc ao many
ramifications to be followed down that
It is impossible, of course, to say Just
how soon after harvest th big wheat
crop will have Its effect on all lines
of business."
Investors know that their prosperity
must depend upon the buying pow
er of. the ultimate producers. If you
own railroad stocks or bonds, their
value is going to he affected by th
power of the producers to buy trans
portation; If you own stl stocks or
bonds, their price will go up or down,
according to the power of merchants
and manufacturers and railroads to
buy steel products and these buyers
get their money by selling things to
the farmers.
Farming, lumbering, and mining
(Iron, copper, and the precious 'ores),
form our sources of productive
wealth. If you are a wise Investor
you will watch the 'figures showing
what Is coming out of. the farms, the
forests, and the mines.
Our cities, our railroads, our great
manufacturing industries are para
sites upon the land, the mines, and
the forests. When these yield largely
the parasites fatten and the securi
ties ba!ed on them rise In value.
lived), and still we have people or
supposed Intelligence telling us that
because Noah got drunk, that is an
argument for the licensed liquor traf
fic of today.
MRS. E- W. FREEMAN.
By the River to the' Sea. .
Pasco; Wash., July 10. To the El
ltor of The Journal Tour editorial,
"Who's Who," ln Thursday's Journal,
hits the nail on the head. Seattle. Ta
coma and the railroads do not object
to terminal rates to Bellingham or
Grays Harbor, although they are
nearer the ocean than the cities named
and require longer hauls by rhe rail
roads. But they realize tnai wun
terminal rates for Astoria-the cheap
water level haul from the Portland
empire would overcome the handicap
of ship navigation to Portland, which
has been exploited to the limit against
the Columbia river by the cities on
Puget sound.
I have not followed the. reports of
the Evidence In the case very care
fullyT but it seems to me that Port
land "is not taking as active an Interest
In the matter as she should. With
terminal rates to Astoria, and the
bar deepened as proposed, the largest
ships that float would enter the river.
It Is an axiom that ocean carriers al
ways go as far Inland as possible with
safety and economy, to discharge and
receive cargoes. ,
The fact that the larger ships do
not reach Portland is more a matter of
pride than 'good business. You have
no terminal facilities where large
ships can discharge or. load without
slopping all over the river. Let them
have terminal rates at Astoria- or
rMegler or Frankfort; Portland will be
the head office where the business is
done. And this is not a matter of In
terest to Portland or Oregon alone;
with terminal rates to the mouth of
the Columbia the O.-W. R. A N will
run a branch from heir Puget sound
branch to Megler, where harbor facil
ities are as good as at KlaveL The
Northern Pacific has a line Already
surveyed from near Wlnlock to Frank
fort, on Grays Harbor, where at a
comparatively small expense for
dredging a pood terminal Is secured.
Megler and Frankfort are tn the state
of Washington. Eastern Washington
Is divided from east to west by the
Snake and from North to south by the
Columbia, and its products ars tribu
tary' to thorn rivers, and when th
Celllo canal Is completed, why should
those products he trundled over moun
tains when they can be floated on
navigable waters or hauled over water
level grades to ocean terminals In our
own state? W. P. GRAT.
Mingle Tax in Alberta.
Edmonton Special to Calgary News
Telegram: Single tax Is now in force practi
cal throughout the province of Al
berta, which claims. the distinction of
being the only single tax province in
the Dominion. With one or two. minor
exceptions all taxes but those on land
values have been abolished and there
Is little or no desire to .revert to th
old system of taxing Improvements.
"The fact that this province has
gone so far ln the elimination of tax
ation on personal property and Im
provements is causing a widespread
Interest. says John Perrle, deputy
minister of municipalities for Alberta.
In the annual report of the department,
"and I have received queries In regard
to our system of taxation from prac
tically all parts of the world.
"An important change is going on
In Alberta In regard to rural self
government. This . Is being brought
about by the gradual change of local
improvement districts into rural mu
nicipalities with their larger powers
of local administration. Under the
rural municipalities act, passed at the
beginning of 191J. rural districts are
organizing Into rural municipalities
and at the present time the numixr
of rural municipalities now approaches
the number of local improvement dis
tricts. -The fear that organization on
the new basis would result In in
creased, taxation has not been re
alized." '
I went to the woolen mill and struck
the owner. Tom Kay for a Job. He
put me at work .drawing warp. After
four years I had become assistant loom
boss. I had no education and I began
to realize my need for one, so I quit
work and went to Corvallls to go to
school to the Methodist South collece
that had Just been started. 11 was
called the OrvallU college.
"Abraham Lincoln on July 2, 1882,
approved an act granting to each state
Su.ouo acres for each iintor or repre
sentative in congress as shown by the
census of 1860. Oregon hud three rep
resentatives at Washington. so we
were given 90000 acres, and on Octo
ber 9. 1862. the Oregon legislature ac
cepted the rift. In 1868 three com
missioners were appointed to select .
the land. Ths act required that the
students in the college receiving the
land grant should receive military drill
and that agriculture and the mwehanl
cal arts should be taucht. As thr
nn Hint rollcKC In Oregon, the
legislature gave the funds arising from
the cale of this school land to the Cor
vatlis college, owned by the Methodist
Episcopal church South, ln 1885 th
church decided to discontinue their
college, so It was turned over to the
state and become the Oregon Agricul
tural college.
"I spent four years at college, work
ing In the harvest field each summer
to earn money to go on with my col
lege work. 1 hatched, so I was able
to live very cheaply while at rollege.
There were five In my graduating
clans in 1872 T. C. Alexander. John
Erlin. A. J. Irfke and Hose Jacob,
now Mrs. Selling. I put fh that sum
mer In the harvest field, and that fsl!
Tom Kay pnt me In charge of hli store
at Brownsville. I held that Job for
two years, putting in all my epsre
time studying law. ln 1874 I wss
elected county school superintendent
and moved to Albany. I served two
years, continuing my study of law.
'I wss admitted to the ba'r'in 187
and went Into partnership with Judge
riper. Iater 1 became a partner of
Judge Blackburn. He was appointed
attorney general, so in 1891 (leorga
Chamberlain and myself became part
ners. We were partners for four
years. I was elected state senator
and was offered the position of attor
ney general. I did not want the of
fice, but suggested that my partner.
George Chamberlain might. It was
offered to him nd he accepted. H
was reelected. When his term was up
be went to Portland and became district
attorney for Multnomah county, then
governor and later United States sen
ator. He in an able lawyer and a good
politician.
"On February 10. 1878, I was mar
ried to Annette Cottle. Ws hav two
bovs. Th older lsr running my farm
' near Harrlsburg and the younger is
In the office with me.
"In 18xr I wan appointed on the
board of rr-Kents of the Oregon Agri
cultural rollege. I have been presi
dent of the board for 1 yarn. Cap
tain J. T. Apperion and I went on the
board at the same time, and nexi year
will make 30 years of continuous serv
ice on the board for both of us. We'
have seen the struggling little college
grow to one of the b-t agricultural
colleges In the United States and we
have seen It become a mighty 'aetor ln
th upbuilding of the state."
The Ragtime Muse
Midsummer Yearnings.
Not wild am I for earthly fame,
I seek not wealth nor powers
To win a great and honored name
I sigh not, ln this hour.
For human love I do rfot care,
I fear not human malice.
I want to be a bit? white bear,
Yep. polar! Boiealia! J
I'd sU beneath the old north slsr. -
Far off from thronns pert-piring.
Where lasting realms of ice there are.
Enough fur heart's desiring.
And there I d bask upon the snow.
If I could have my wishes.
Attended by an Eskimo.
And eating frozen fishes!
Td watch the northern lights at play.
And in the north winds cavern
I'd spend th six months arctic day
Twould be my summer tavern.
Lt others sigh for future Miss ,
Within this svstem olar. .
But my ambition, now, la this,
To be an ursus polar; . .
"I haven't seen Peggy since she left
college. Did she succeed .in 'getting a
good position?" .
"Better! She succeeded in getting a
husband with a good position." . .