THE OREGON ' DAILY t JOURNAL, ; PORTLAND, : TUESDAY EVENING, - JULY 14. 1914.
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WHO HURT BUSINESS? '
The good things of life are
not to le had singly-but, come
to us with a mixture; like a
schoolboy's holiday, with a
task affixed to the tall of it.
Charles Lamb. !
TODAY AM) YESTERDAY
HOW different from that of yes
terday, is the public mood
of today. Twenty-five years
ago, only the Populism vis-
ioned such an event as happened
' at Washington yesterday. Ia those
' dsya, railroad magnates would have
' laughed at suggestion of a review
of their acts and of a holding of
..their manipulators to culpability
V'hfr the law. as was done yes-
terday by ' the Interstate Commerce
'.Commission.
. In their time, the Populists ful
, miniated against such things as the
New Haven rascality, 'and the great
body of the people sneered at therm
So gc.oral win the contempt then
' tfr the ideas of the Topulists that
the word "populistlc" has come to
.bo associated in the mind with long
,hair. wild notions and freak people.
When Bryan, twenty years agoi
'foresaw and fought for Biich things
.T LAST, there Is official confirmation by a great non-partisan
body of Tailroad corruption. 0 ' -
. Yesterday's " report by the Interstate Commerce Commission
of crookedness In the New Haven isone' erf the most extraor-
'dinary indictments ever brought forward in this country. Remem
bering that the management of the road cwas by the Morgan and
Rockefeller; group of banks in New, York ; City, the commission's
finding is a -dramatic and significant event" - -i 1 ,
1 i The commission -finds that there was :; a r working alliance with
political corruption- In New ;York City ' which cost tne - new naven
stockholder. $ 1,2 00,000 paid to politicians for..securing Westchester
charter changes." , The New, Haven was made to pay $ll,00Q,000,for,
the Westchester when it was not worth bver $5,000,000.
John Billar'd'was allowed to buy from and then sell back to the
ew. flaven, Boston &- Maine, stock at a profit to himself of $2,700,
000,, and was then rewarded with a directorship in .the ro"ad. The
New Haven was made to pay $20,000,000 for Rhode Island trolleys
admittedly worth no more than $8,000,000.- . .
Dozens, of trolley properties in Connecticut and Massachusetts were
bought for the New Haven at almost any price the owners saw fit
to ask. f One thousand newspapers in New England were ; subsidized,
and hundreds of thousands of dollars spent on, civic bodies, lobby
ists, legislators and" even college professors to Influence public sen
timent in favor of New Haven monopolization of the transportation
affairs of New' England. j-
.."' Large sdms.were paid in five states to lawyers who never partici
pated in any litigation' for the company. The losses to New Haven
stockholders through corruption and maladministration are placed by
the commission at $60,000,000 to $90,000,000. Dummy corporations
were frequently' employed to carry out-the malodorous scheme of
corruption. '
What makes this recital of dishonest manipulation and waste ex
traordinary is the paramount fact of who did it. The road was
managed, not by its president, not by its board of directors, not by
its stockholders, but by certain great . Wall Street . financiers who
were supposed to embody the highest business integrity of" the
country. . -
They were Mr. Morgan, Mr. Rockefeller and' their associates, who
admittedly represented the best there is in Wall Street. Their opin
ions were law in the financial world. Their judgments were regard
ed as' infallible. Wall Street almost deified them. .
Yet look at their work! In their effort to control the transporta
tion of New England, they guided a great railroad system, one of the
best In the world, to plunder and disaster. In their desire to exploit
the people of half a dozen great states, for their own gain, they
squandered $60,000,000 to $90,000,000 of the" money of 'New Haven
stockholders, many of .whom were reduced to bankruptcy.
What is more, these great heads of New York banking houses,
by Interlocking directorates, control many, of the great industrial
and commercial enterprises of America. They and their immediate
associates exercised sway over the great world of industry, finance,
insurance, commerce, banking and transportation. In all these great
fields, "is it not almost certainly probable that they employed the
same corruption, walked in the same devious trails, operated in the
same vicious Thetbods, dealt with the same stealthy politicians, in
ditlged in the same corrupting of government that they have been
found guilty of by the Interstate Commerce Commission In the New
Haven management?
tne death of Lord Strathcona $ne ' c-
tax too one-sixth of the total, li
he had died later the tax would
haye been almost one-fourth.
This Is due to the fact that its fruits j him feel at ease cunt up to him ni
are movable and ran ha transDorted i eia:
fn the light of these criminal transactions by the greatest banking
an the New lUven report, he was ; hrt in thla natlnn vhn wnnld turn Wnndmw Wilson haplr In bin
.'booted and Jeered D.v more than , eyort to mahe theBe things Impossible? Who but special interests
MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE
A FEW SMILfS
A
Pr. Oliver Holmes was small in
stature.- ITpon one occasion : Toe ,wa
present at a. meet-;
1 Ins: which happened!
S a Dlace to erow aDolea "and ! to attemded toy
t, mf f 1 nunaoer o veryi
; large men, thus mai
ley is known all over the civ-
ilized world. V--. ; : '
As a place of delight to the tour-
iBt : its fame ia limited . to a few.
ins bis diminutive
size rather conspicn-l
ous la contrast. One
of these men doubt-l
less wishing to maker
rK
kl . r
abroad but its beautiful scenery
and delightful climate are fixed
and cannot be shipped away. They
cannot go out to the world but the
world-must come to them. -'- j '
" In order for the world to get .to
them they must be made more ac
cessible. When this is possible
Hood River valley will be as well
known for its scenery and climate
as it is for its fruits. I I
It will reap as jrich a financial
return from one as from the other,
if not a greater harvest from its
scenery and climate. I
The yield of fruit may fall but
the yield of scenery and climate lis
certain and! constant. L
The first step. towards capitaliz
ing this enormous asset is the ex
tension of the Columbia highway
In order to connect the, valley with
the outside world. After this lis
don?, roads throughout the valley
and to Mount Hood will naturally
follow. I
"Well, Dr. Holmes. I shouM think
you would feel rather small amon
all these fellows."
1 do," replied the doctor.- I feel
like a thra cent piece amonr a lot
or pennies." 1
Letters From the People
As Herbert Corey tells it, he went
to -a dinner once where Andrew Car
negie was a truest.
"After the eating
was and the
speech making; bad
started." said Co
rey. "Mr. Carnegie
reached in his pocket
for something and
pulled out a handful
of small change. A
dime gateway from him and ell oa
the floor and at the first chance Mr.
Carnegie got down under .the table
ana looked for it."
. "Did he find itr asked one of the
audience to whom Corey was- narrat
lng the incident. -
"Did he find Itr echoed Corey:
tie rouna is cents!" Saturday Eve
ning Post.
IIS-!
(Communlcatlona wnt tn Tha Jnnrnal tnr
publication in Utla department should b writ
ten oa ouly one .alda ot the paper. abooM not
exceed 300 words In length aud mtut be o
enmpa&ied Uy tbe came and address of the
sender. If tbe writer does not desire i to
have- tbe name published, be should so ante.)
"Discussion Is the greatest" of all reform
ers. It rationalises everything It totirbes. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws them back on tbelr reasonableness. If
tbe y have no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence end sets up ks
own conclusions ia - tbelr stead." Woodrow
Wilson. -
prohibition is unthinkable, but I dis
agree with him when he says that. pro
hibition can be good for an indvidual
State While natlnn wiria nrnhlhltlnn
I would be , most disastrous.- When.be
! RDVS that natlAn urMa i.-.fcilVi,tA A
i j i " - - - wvv jiuuiwtuuu m m
i i aurerent matter from state wide pro
motion, I am within .my premises in
stating that prohibition, being bad for
the nation, must be bad for individual
states. Let us have sane and righteous
regulation of the manufacture and sale
of spirituous and fermented beverages,
not confiscation by taxation or that
monstrous thing called prohibition.
air. Bail says the corn, wheat, bar-
I
7,000,000 American voters. When r
; La Follette took up the same en-:
xlcavor, attempt was made to read
him out of the Republican party.
Both were looked upon as agi
tators, demagogues and Topulists,
and yet one of the" very things tor
."which they struggled was exactly
what happened yesterday at Wash
ington. Railroad rascality ran long and
.riotously before it was brought to
'Judgment. The New Haven folly
was only different because it Jn
volved larger properties. The
wreck of the Erie by Fiske. far
back in history, is Illustration of
.what .has been gofng on from that
time to the present. Nobody knows,
and nobody will ever find out, the
great, sinister secret of how many
.millions of money have been made
by a few so-called financiers by
"the plundering of stockholders,
false Issues of stock and the piling
Of debt on debt upon railroads.
If, all these years, the railroads
had been legitimately conducted,
would repeal his tariff bill and restore to these groups of great
financiers the power to tax the shelter, food and clothing of all the
people? ' .
Enfranchisement in Illinois. J
Portland, Or., July 14. To the Edi
tor f The Journal I am pleased to
see, sparkling like a jewel among tbe
many slurs and insinuations- against
my personal beliefs jthat appear from
time to time In your, valuable .columns,
that one of my . oldime friends has
presented your readers with' & few
statements of fact. 1 allude to, a
recent letter fromvmy old friend, Cyrus
H. Walker, with whom I cooperated in
the 70s and '80s in the advocacy ! of
true temperance until 'the movement
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
JK aMAL- CHANGB
Only a doctor can repair some type
writers. .
The road to 'ruin
crooked.
la ' broad and
. OREGON SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley.
k-i -w-h.-r. I Tn Pioneer newspaper of Newport
taken steps to hold a market day each nj Taqulna Bay is the Taqulna Bay
It's' a corkin rood Idea to bottle up
your Wrath.
A cat will not look at a kina if there
ia a mouse in sight.'
When trouble aroesi to sleep.' throw
away the alarm clock.
Even when the' worm does turn it
makes little noise In the world.
People who live in class houses
should have rubber proof curtains. '
9
If the' bride has seven gowns' the
honeymoon will last at least week.
If a woman admits that she snores
you can safely believe anything she
says. -
It's a pity that we can't insure our
pipe -dreams before they go up .. in
smoke.
-
An egotist imagines that the world
thinks as much of him as he thinks of
himself.
If a man Is attentive -to his wife In
public she will overlook. lot of pri
vate neglect. .
When a woman attempts to pro
pound a conundrum she forgets either
the question or the answer.
A considerable percentage of those
who attend church can't tell an hour
later what the minister's text was.
a
Over 200 umbrellas were found in
the room of a female kleptomaniac
he believed in laying-, up something
for a rainy day.
e e
At the age of 40 a man Is apt to
feel under everlasting obligations to
the chap who married, the girl he was
spoony on at the age of 20. .
week.
e - -.
Under the mothers' pension law the.
Coos county court dispenses aid-to bO
families. There have been 76 appli
cants. - e. ;-;v .
Preparations for the Agate Carnival
at Port Orford on August , 7 and, ,
are moving along nicely and the Tri-
Dune says tne celebration proiuie w
be the biggest event of its kind in the
history of the town.
The navigation of the north fork of
the Nehalem river Is to be improved
by the removal of snags at the head
of tidewater the Tillamook county
court and the' Port of Nehalem Joining
in the appropriation. .
e , . .
Antiquarian note in Cottage Grove
Leader: "James H. Shortridge has a
piece of buckskin which - was tanned
by old Indian John about 30 years
ago, and it la still as soft and flexible
as a piece of broadcloth. Old John
was buried years ago in tbe Walker
cemetery."
'Brownsville Times: Six small boys
from the slums of Portland are having
the time of their lives on the farm of
Professor C. A. Lvons near Lebanon.
They will be riren a two weeks' out
lnsr there by Mr. Lyons, who will then
return them to their homes and bring
rx other- hove to the farm for the
same length of time. Tuesday the
hoys made a 'hike to Sodavllle. and
Thursday mornina they climbed Peter-
Rons Hutte to see tne sun rise over
the Cascades.
Still praising Oregon's climate. Edi
tor Young of the Coqultle Sentinel,
who knows all about eastern condi
tions, savs: "Our neoDle hardly real
ize what an asset they have in their
July and August climate. In the cen
tral west, and even on the Atlantic
const, tens of thousands of people
spend millions of dollars during the
summer to get away from home and
find resorts with -as comfortable- tem
peratures as we enjoy every day, with
out money and without price."
ley and rye now used for the manufac
ture of - whiskey, beer; etc., could be
diverted to more profitable use in the
raising of rattle and hogs. This is
just what the people of Ireland have
been trying to undo, and have suc
ceeded to a large extent, and Lloyd
George is now engaged in a great fight
to cut up the large estate of those
lords of the soil in Great Britain. Mr.
Ball would turn the now honest agri
culturist into a lord of the soil, and
thousands thrown out1 of . employment
would have to seek work In a labor
market already over congested, and the
ox and the hog would supplant the boy
and the man. D. M. O'SULLIVAN.
CRIMES OF HIGH RAILROADING LAID BARE
was switched off into the corruption
Who would repeal the new currency bill which took from these 1 of politics and became a barrier to the
New Haven wreckers their personal dominion over the credit and enfranchisement of women. Replying
money of the country and give that control Into the hands of the pS, "f UvlnS'ln
American people? Who can offer a single sound - reason why the the present political .conflict, I will
president's bill for a trade commission to supervise the trusts should fay that nothing but advancing years
be rejected? Who can put forward one legitimate argument against can prevent me from yielding to the
the president's bill to send to jail a trust brigadier for. such exploita- S'StSZSl
tlon R9 befell th New Haven? ,i : .
- - . -. ..... us. in w it,Ll v 3 s9 LaLn. mnu tr III ill 1 1 1 n
Who that reads the Interstate Commerce Commission's arraign- I to assist them In their efforts to post-
ment of the New Haven management, can offer one single objection ff, th,rettefd "v""011,1, c&n:
. .-. ., . ... . . ,, . , . . , . ventlon which the Prohibitionists Qf
to the presidents bill for regulating railroad issues of stock securi- the uquor traffic and the Prohibition-
ties and tor requiring the proceeds of such securities to be applied Ists of votes for women are urging
to the road instead of to -the benefit of dishonest directors and upon the people. The conditions! in
managers? - jilllnols, where women have recently
They say President. Wilson's policy has "hurt business." Is It fully similar to those existimr in
President Wilson's , policy op the Morgan-Rockefeller method of run- I Washington in territorial days, -when
ning railroads and other great Institutions that has "hurt business?" the territory was on he eve of state-
; I hood. I have only one hope now for
the votes of Illinois, women, and that
Idaho area, four have 59 per cent.
The report says that 1694 timber
owners hold in fee over one twen
tieth of the total land- area of the
United States. In the 900 tim
bered counties Investigated they
they would not now be clamoring "7" ,r "'T;1" V1 VT
' ith .M,h n These 1694 holders own 105.600,-
000 acres, an area four fifths the
size of France or more than 2
for increased rates with which to
make profits and interest on the II-
1 answl f I rr ofa cflnoa rf . f ri " Lr Tl'i t fl
Cui u !i a Krt itimes the area of the six New Eng-
wnlch railroad properties have been k , . . . ... .
j j e ti u tn. t ji . land states. Sixteen holders own 47,
loaded down for the benefit of dis-i0vn ftrt . .. '
Lnt m,.nin,,ionr7 KT , r1 8 00 , 0 0 0 acres, an area ten times
honest manipulators. Nor wculd . . . jpr8PV
they beLso much of a burden on jvlv ,? ew Jersey. .
the people, who must pay in higher! Tbe. Usnres tell the story of
freight rates a colossal sum ahnu- one otJh reat cJ1es of cunning
ally to meet the Interest and prof- .c?mmI"e gamst ne, veol? f
Its rn thouA hllHnna nf atrvV tin. . oiateo. ue iui tJBt wuus
were tne peopie s. ey joaer legis-
tion. v Nor would widow and or
phan holders of railroad stocks
have been plundered and bank
rupted as they-have been for thirty
years. Nor would the' country to
day' be feyerish with unrest and
large business be full of. apprehen
sion, and I. W. W.-ism find here
po fertile a field for the spread of
' its propaganda of terrorism.
,;,Nor would the greatest financial
" figure ever known in America .now
' stand exposed as a common, though
colossal, bunko eteerer. v '
t! The New Haven report of yester
'day drives away every scintilla of
doubt respecting the sanity of Pres- j
ldent Wilson s anti-trust and rail
road securities bills. They are essential-
in protecting Big Business
. , against Itself, essential for protect
ing the people against Big Business,-
and essential in preserving
. the rest and security of the free
'institutions of this republic.
latlon, by thimblerigging and by
the Incompetency of those who con
ducted government, there is pre
sented the sinister and shameless
story of a plundered public domain
as told in the figures above.
INVESTIGATING TOBACCO
TRUST
out bail; the boy is fatherless; I arises from the experience in political
there is a widow, and the supposed craft which the women of Washington
wrong has not been righted. ?' T". B f 3 rE- 1 e IOS, ?
I wii wiu.wia .11 ioo,. it s a. 11 111
The Charitable view is that the vain that I went among them in an-
two women were insane, but swer to their plea for help, crying, as
whether sane or otherwise, whether wltn tne voice of a Jonah. in the wii
their erlevancft was real or fancied derness,"Tet 40 days and Ninevah shall
tneir grievance was real or fancied, De overthrown." Th politicians and
the tragedy la Illustration of the the Prohibitionists , cried. aioud,ac-
utter jutllity of attempting to right cusing tne of being "sold to whiskey."
a wrong with a revolver. There is after whlcn tbey reunited their forces
,.!. i ,, . . ... i tiiiu im iiieo. it ai-itie constitution, leav-
no virtue in a gun, In the case? of lng the women dlsfranchised for 19
these two women it simply piled successive years.
trouble upon trouble and accom- But my letter grows long, and I
plished nothing for its possessors. haYe olUy space to remind my newly
Even the vengeance the sisters "ST T "r??
sought was secured at the price is now making, an effort to prohibit
oi tneir liDerty under charges Of the commercial club of Portland from
deliberate murder. I managing its own business, ia the iden-
- Vn -nr-nna- 0- v, ,vt . , . ticai u. i .aay who, as former
- NO wrong can be righted In SUCh member of the legislature from Tilla-
a manner. Few rights can be de-1 mook county, combined with his fellow
fended by the revolver. It Is use- Prohibitionists to prohibit our enfran
less except as an Instrument of re- eQisenient and compelled us to resort
venge or of criminality. These two Uhrm.v, -hioh .w --k
sisters charged with the murder of I to escape the meshes of political trick-
tneir brother over a few" paltry dril- ery which he ia now trying to compel
lars are - a convincing argument ?ou, 10 let bXm wleld M a whip; though
aealnat tb .ni., tt, BZZZWZ.l he knows, as well aa I do, that all he
against tbe revolver in anybody s can accomplish by it is to assist Ch
Prohibitionists and Divorce.
Buxton, Or., July 14. To the Editor
of The Journal D. M. O'Sullivan, in
a recent letter, says: "If the prohlbi-
tionlst would turn his energy to the
prohibition of divorce, that blighting
and diabolical destroyer of virtue and
the home, he would be in a sane and
righteous cause. Three hundred thou
sand divorces last year; 300,000 homes
broken up this js the crying evil of
today, surpassing beyond all compar
ison the evil of drink. We do not hear
any objections to divorce from the
prohibitionist."
Upon what ground does Mr. O'Sulli
van .base his assertion that prohibi
tionists are blind to. the divorce evllT
He certainly' cannot be a reader of
current prohibition literature or be
would know that the increasing prev
alence of dlvorce oftener the result
than the cause of broken homes-f-la
denounced as one of tne worst results
of the liquor business. For it is cer
tain that a portion, probably more
than half, of all divorces granted re
sult directly from the use of liquor.
Not only is the liquor business the
greatest single cause of divorce, but
it is the cause of many other thou
sands of broken homes where no di
vorces result.
Mr. O'Sullivan further says, "We.
of Oregqn, are only one part of this
country, and still our resources are
unlimited." If it Is true, as he says,
thatour resources are unlimited, ought
we to fear any disastrous resalts from
the abolition of tbe liquor industry?
For my part, I believe that, backed by
Our "unlimited resources," we could
abolish the liquor traffic and not only
suffer no disastrous consequences, but
become a better nation Industrially.
physically and morally thereby.
H. A. BALL.,
The story of the "reckless and prof
ligate" financial operations of the New
Haven Railroad was revealed in part
yesterday by the interstate commerce
commission In a report to the senate.
It told of millions used like stage
money, of corporations as pawns In
a monster game with all New Eng
land's transportatl'n as a prize, which
led the New Haven In ten years from
the height of prosperity to the pqlnt
where a dividend has been passed,
where a dissolution suit Is threaten
ing and where criminal Indictments of
many; of the directors are at least a
possibility. Hampered by unwilling
witnesses, by burned books and. by all
the mazes which lawyers Invented to
cover the trail, the Commission eatl-
mated that in the ' progress toward
monopolization of New England trans
portation the New Haven stockhomers
ave lost between 165,000.000 and 9U.-
000,000, but little of which they, may
recover. In return, that report . said,
they have on their hands properties
which pay no aiviaenas, wnicn eai
into the earnings of the paaent road
and which will be a burden on its ca
pacity for many years to come.
The report .deals with the manage
ment of the New Haven under ex
President Charles S. Mellen, and of
the present- directing head. Chairman
Howard Elliott. Walker D. HInes, spe
cial counsel, says "thejiVave coop
erated with the commission and ren"
dered it substantial assistance
throughout this Investigation."
The combination reared try tne nanas
of Mr, Mellen and approved by the late
3. Plerpont Morgan and William Rock
efeller, the commission finds to be
clearly in violation of the Sherman
anti-trust act and a monopoly in prac
tical control of transportation or five
states.
The commission's report Is unusual
In the manner In which the directors
Of the New Haven are scored for their
deeds. It speaks of criminal malad
ministration and negligence, asserts
with posltiveneas that the directors
knew they were- perfecting an illegal
combination and says that the dream
of a transportation monopoly was un
sound and mischievous.
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VAST LAND HOLDINGS
FIGURES showing concentration
of i land ownership are con
. talned in a . report submitted
to President Wilson by the
. Bureau, of Corporations. Bare facts
contained in the report are evidence
that our public land policy has not
fulfilled expectations in placing
granted land in the hands of set
tiers. M'.. :ff ;: : 'Jvv'V ;;
J Concentration Vcjf timber, owner
ship is Illustrated by, maps of 68,-
000 square miles in Oregon, Cali
fornia, Washington, Idaho and Lou
isiana. ' The mapped, : areas con-
tain .755,000,000,000 feet of tim
ber, or, one third of Nill ' privately
owned timber in -continental United
States," exclusive of 'Alaska. ,
- In - the. : Southwestern, Washing
s-ton map area two' holders have49
per cent ' of - the, - timber; in the
NE of the most complete in
vestigations of the tobacco
Industry ever made by the
United States is now under
way. It is expected that it will
require six months to corxrplete. it.
The purpose of the investigation
is threefold. In the first place it
is intended to discover whether
the tobacco companies have been
guilty of violating the Supreme
Court's decree of dissolution of the
tobacco trust. In the second place
it Is sought to be determined
whether the decree has been &uf
ficient to carry out the purpose of
the -court by reestablishing com
petitive conditions in the tobacco
business.
And, thirdly, the government is
desirous of knowing whether there
are any companies existing today
in violation of the law. . '
.The scope of the Investigation
includes everything from the plant
ing of the "weed to the manufacture
of licorice, tinfoil and boxes..
hands.
ACCORDING TO HIS LIGHT
men as himself to prohibit the enfran
chisement of women in adjoining
states. ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAY.
T
HE will of the late James
Personal Liberty.
Portland. Or.. Jul It Tn tho WMt.
Campbell, of St. Louis who tor of The Journal With due respect'
1 .. AnA X - . A A AAA I. H . T-l..K4n.h.. .V T 11. .
icii. o.u co ta to ui tlii,UUU',UUU I iuio. uumwajr, i sun impeueu to sug-
in trust for St, Louis nni- K ,t r I MneIlt or yunser red-
versity for the purpose of establish- ""rt 1::
ing a hospital and a college for the be enjoyed by the solitary Inhabitant
teaching of medieine and surgery, of a desert; island. But where there
has opened- up a field for discus- aTft otner People's toes to be stepped
. upon by. a too complete exercise of
a compromise. - I
Is that the university will not re- Th Pickled passenger with, the phos-
celve the money, until after the ex- JT Y? OI vronx m-
Unction Of the life Of the last POS- ndisanee u amv othr srhnsr TV.
Sible offspring of the testator's only personal liberty, in a flask often dan
v. ii- . . . . . . I j v. j , ... I --"
uausuver. iub trust is projectea t v " lne. ast i Journal says that since Christ .come
RIGHTING A WRONG
WO swomen living near Dixon,
Illinois, thought their brother
"was trying . to beat them ' out
of their share of the father's
property. Arming themselves with
a revolver, last Wednesday," the
sisters sought out the brother, find-
ins him In a hasfleld with his son.
, One sister opened fire," two shots
tftlHnc - f frt Ti . wpa-nnn vat
Western Oregon area, five have 3 6 then handed to the other woman,
per cent; in the.. North western Cal-, who . also fired two shots into her
brother's body. The brother l is
dead: the two sisters are in Jail.
bound over to tbe .grapd ury with
ifornla area, six. have" 70 per cent;
in the redwood area, ten have mere
than half, and in the North Central
v "r: -t ; '- - v," .
More Pro-Wet Scripture.
McMlnnvUle, Or.. July 14. To the
Editor of The Journal Continuing the
topic of my last letter,printed Mon
day In The Journal, permit me to
marshal additional biblical citations
on the Wet side of the Prohibition
case.
God commanded Jeremiah to tempt
with wine. Those who abstained from
Its use, saying, "Go onto the house of
the Rechabites and speak with them,
and bring them into the house of the
Lord, into one of the chambers, and
give them wine to drink," Jer. 36-23.
Again, "John the Bapist came neither
eating bread, nor drinking wine. The
Son of Man is come, eating and drink
ing, and ye say, behold a glutonous
man and a wine bibber." Luke 7:33-
2A. , v
When King David made a feast .in
honor to the Lord for helping him
kill off an army, he gave to every
man and woman a flagon of wine.
He kept plenty for himself, and so
merry did his- heart become that he
"danced before the Lord with all his
might," and Marlon, his wife, caUed
him "one of the vain fellows."
One of the letter writers in Tbe
intn tho . cnapters -ox'a trageay.
will permit.. It may be a hundred ouestion . answered bv an- wrtt trf
years- before the estate is available j terested in the liquor cause: Except
for the university. -V . J for the gross receipts, accruing -to a
rrt,, . .-. . comparauveijr email group or peonle.
'galu,D .BUDjeCT, OI from . tttim1aotnr
much criticism by those who advo- toxicating liquors, wherein is aocietv
cate that estates should be divided I benefited. .' financially, physically ! of
among the heirs and not placed in mora"y. oy, me uquor trarric?
a trim Avon fre art a-ratfaA 1 " -."', H. I WILET.
thropy. This,- it Is clamed,, is an ' Rtjit rii Aatirifini irr.iHui-
evaeion oi zae law against entail. V Portland., July 11. To the Editor of
It is held that it Should not be The Journal In Wednesday's Journal
permissible for corporations. rti-l H.- A, Ball criticises my letter of last
flcial entitles, to hold and adminis- f,Ti&& m which I stated that rohibi-
tersuch estates and that It were He say. that so also was the iman-
Detier ior a man s reiauves to let I cipaUon of . the slaves confiscation,
them have his property even if they I This comparison is unsound and un-
Rnnendevr 1r truiT. tn hir- le naA - venaoie xor tne reason mat tne slave
in other hands while they draw the of X Tglin! Mr.rnn
luoremenu ,t v ' -l:- i says nation wide prohibition la a some.
The time is coming, the critics I rat different matter from prohibition
soaort whan -oata , L . At t inaiTOWU states., li, as MT. Hall
tributed on the death of their ac- Uidual states may be a bad thing for
cumulators as they are In " France I the nation, he surely has so ground to
and when there will be death duties 8tana on. for the reason that, what is
as beavv a thr- nnnn"silth in Booo ioron memDer ot tne DOdy sure-
to the world . strong drink has been
entirely- dispensed with, but he is much
mistaken. Christ's first act was to
manufacture wine at a wedding feast.
His last recorded act was a benedic
tion, upon the. wine cup.
Also, In Acts of the Apostles. 8:13-18
is this passage: "And when certain
men of different languages heard the
apostles preach in their ' different
tongues they said, 'These men 'are full
of wine." But Peter said, "Hearken
to my words. These men are not
drunken, seeing It 'is but the third;
hour of the day. The Insinuation aa
to the third hour Infers that later In
the day they had been in the habit
of - eettimr full of wine."
." It- would . be far more modern for
both wets and drys to fight out this
liquor, question in keeping with t the
wants ana civilization : ox tne aay. .
W. J. GARRISON.
England where in - the instance of
ly must be good for the whole body. - I
agree with Mr. Ball that nation wide
: . Unlimited Speed.
Portland.- July" il.-VTp the Editor of
The, Journal It looks to the spectator
as If . the police can harvest a fin
large crop of speed f lends. on East
Fiftieth street between Hawthorne and
Division, if they go about It discreet
Jy. ,' There are hundreds' of machines
of various dimemsions passing daily
and , not afew of .them, open their
The New Haven, tbe commission
says, employed dummy directors, ma
nipulated accounts, used questionable
methods In increasing its own stocx,
paid dividends of subsidiaries to make
a showing . and used many other de
vices to deceive the stockholders and
the public. It dipped Into politics.
iM a factor in nvisibje govern
ment," made large campaign contri
butions to tne two dominant political
parties, bought officials and tried to
distort public opinion. All this it did.
the commission says, "to carry out a
scheme of private transportation mo
nopoly. Imperial In Its scope. , -
"If these directors, who were faith
less to' their stewardship, were, held
responsible In the courts ana at the
bar of public opinion for their failure
News. The history'of ita fnuadlnsr is
an unusual one in the annals of news
paperdom. -. ; ,' , t -
While William Matthews, Its owner '
and publisher, and myself were walk-'
lng up the beach between Newport
and Jumpoff Joe recently he told me
iue eiory or tne rounding of his paper.
"My father. John H Matthews, was
from the north of Ireland," said Mr.
Matthew. "He was ent to the s-ov- '
eminent college to become a naval of
ficer- After being graduated he "was
made navigating ofneer and was as- -signed
to the African coast to hels
iu mc suppression or the slave traffic
To his disgust the navy department
maae a regulation that the navigating
Officers of the shipn must not take
part in any action. To be m a fight
and not take- a hand in the scrimmage
doesn't set well with an Irishman
when It came to fighting my father
was all Irish, so he quit the navy in
disgust and signed on with the Four
teenth Buckinghamshire Regiment,
where the fighting was good and like
wise plenty.
"The Fourteenth regiment was well
nigh- wiped out In the Crimean war.
Father came out of the trenches of
Sebastopol with a nasty bayonet
wound, a sword cut and a neatly
drilled bullet hole. Dayonet' wounds
and sword tuts mean hand to hand
fighting. He was given the cross .
of St. George for bravery and also
two medals which, with his three
scars served as mementoes of " Se
bastopol. "After long service In the British
army In which he got plenty of what
he was looking for good fighting
in India and elsewhere, he retired. He
was captain of the Korty-flrnt West
India Infantry when he retired.
"He removed from our home in the
orth of Ireland, : where 1 was born,
to Canada, From Canada he went to
western Kansas, where 1 was raised.
1 spent my boyhood and young man
hood in the saddle, for In the earlv
days of western Kansas raising rattle
was .the one great industry. ,1 was a
cowboy and I loved the work. I could
ride and shoot with the best of them.
Many are tbe anu-lope I have dropped
at 700 yards. When the Civil war
was on my father wrote to the war
office from Canada, wanting to have
a hand in the ficluing, but they
turned him down. When the Spanish
war was on 1 enlisted and the regular '
army officer who txamlned me turnd
me down, claiming my eyes were not
normal. I told him 1 could drop an
antelope at 700 yards, but he said we
werii't hunting anlelopi-s and that they
worn only taking men. physically per
fect, bo 1 didn't get to go.
"To get back to father. He never
win contented in Kansas. He wanted
to smell tall water. ; He wanted to
hear the dull roar of the surf. Finally
helonscd for the sound of the st-a so
much he sold out and came to the
coast. We settled In Newport- in
1893.. All I could do was to ride and
shoot, no I took the first job that 1
could get, which wan that of foreman
on the ro'k gang on the government
Jetty work.
"There was no newipater published
here In those days, no father thought
it . would be a good thing to Tun a"
newspaper. He sent to Portland and
bought an army press and some. typo.
He was going to do the writing. Home
how he had overlooked the fact that
he would have to have the type set
and the papr run off. ff figured
that an I was engaged In ruechantc"al
work homing the dumping "f the rock
on the . Jetty I ougrht' t D able to
help him out of his mechanical diffl-
were representatives of the Pennsyl- cultles. He had announced he wm
vania railroad, the New York Central, going to pnbllsn a paper ann l knew
the United ftates Steel corporation, we had to make good or ne ine laugn-
to do those things they should have
done, thecssons to directors who do
not 'direct would be very salutary,"
says the report,
"pirectors should be made Individ-,
ually liable to civil and criminal laws
for the manner In which they dis
charge their trust. A corporation can
be no better or worse than those who
operate it. It should be Just as grave
a trims to plunder a railroad corpora
tion as it Is personally to rob an Individual."
Of all the millions lost- to New
Haven stockholders, the commission
estimates that possibly $8,000,000 may
be recovered by prorpr action. Kvi
dence in Its possession tending tn
show violations of the laws of New
York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island
has been turned over to the proper
executives in those states. .
The department of Justice has been
furnished with a complete record of
the testimony obtained by the com ml k
sion,'. but there Is no federal statute
under which the government can aid
the stockholders In recovering any of
their losses. . A .suggestion is made
that, any expenditures in violation of
the -anti-trust act were beyond the
powers of the directors, and raises
the question of whether the directors
may not be held personally responsible
to- satisfy any losses which resulted.
The commission found that the New
Haven had 3.16 subsidiary corporations.
many of which served no purpose
cept-"an evil one." The report,. point
ing out that on the New Haven boa id
the Standard OH company, the Pull
man company and many Interests, aays
that interlocking directorates of this
sort cannot be "too strongly con
The insuring of honesty through
the management of the great railroads
of the country is a- most Important
question before the American people
today." says. the report in conclusion,
and only when through the exposure
of wrongdoing and awakened public
conscience, coupled with effective
laws, results are produced, may rail
roading be placed on the high level
that It should occupy." .
, Evidence that agents of the commis
sion did not have an. easy time secur
ing information It desired was con
tained In an appendix filed with the
report. On 'July 9. D. K. Brown, ac
countant of tbe commission, wrote to
Commissioner McChord.t who bss di
rected the Investigation, that his ef
forts to get at facts about the New
Haven had not been met In a friendly
spirit by J. P. Morgan eV Co. Brown
wrote that full access to the Morgan
records bad not been granted him. ii
had been promised; said he was unable
to say whether be bad been allowed
to. Inspect all New Haven transactions,
on their books, and was given only
such correspondence as the firm submitted.
LESSON IN CONVERTIBLE BONDS
By- John M. Oakison. -The
element of speculation In con
vertible" bonds was recently' illustrat
ed with great difiniteness and clear
ness by R. S. Lovett, chairman of the
Union Pacific railroad. He was reply
ing to a body of criticism of his com
pany's actions; one of them was that
of permitting the conversion of bonds
paying 4 per cent, into stock paying
10 per cent. - . ' 1 .
Unexplained, this would seem to- be
grossly unfair; but
"Tbe bonds were dated and issued
May V 1901 ' ' convertible at
option of the. bolder on or prior to
May 1, 1908, Into tbe common stock of
the company dollar for dollar
"Ton will recall that at that date
(May 1. 101) the Union Pacific had
but recently emerged from a receiver
Ship and reorganisation. It . bad paid
no dividends at all upon its. common
stock until the year before -100--wben
It paid 3tt per cent, and In 101,
1902. 1903 and 1904 it paid only 4 per
cent per annum; in iaoMt paid 4 u
per cent; for the fiscal year I90S. lt
paid only 8 per cent, and It1 did not
begin the payment of dividends at the
rate of 10 per cent .until October,
190. ..: '.TV. C !
"The convertible privilege was in
corporated to help the sal,e-of the
bonds by holding out to thetpur-
AM f., ).. AAV W . 1 . - -
to eonVert Into Tstock if the -ue.-of ' s,na'- 'Kted a ewi
ACOn'" :.!fSS?V.??l "We took over the Signal when he
ing stock of tlie whole Yaquina P.ay
country. 1 threw up my lob on the
Jetty and went to work on the prob
lem of ge.ttlng out a papor. 1- gut tbe
cases set up, taut how to place the
type in the case was a facer. I got
hold of a hook called "The Young Job
Printer" and studied It day and nlgbU
In three weeks I had laid the cases
and dfclded we could g:t out the pa
per. Father wrote the editorials and
news, but It took me three weeks to '
set up and run off the first edition. I
never worked so hard In my life. Rop
ing a steer, throwing the diamond
bitch., riding a bilking broncho or
dumping hundreds- of tons of rock' on
the Jetty didn't seem to be the proper
preparation Tor finding the "j" box
or Justifying a lino of type. Dumping
my stick on the galley, lockuis up the
forms, setting tbe Impression screws
and a huhdnd ojher problems tseemed
almost too difficult to solve. People -UMd
to come In and offer advice and
ask me If we were going to get out a
monthly paper or was it to be a semi
annual. -Well, It took us six weekJ
(U SCI UUl lll.b lOBUC, M tui " ' "
never missed one since.
"Colonel Van Oleve's paper "The
Yaqulna .Post." was the first paper
on the- bay. The Newport News was
next. It was published by J. 11. Al
diich. It soon suspended and the
Post. moved to Toledo. Then Phelps'
started ths Newport Republic, which
was soon taken over by W. L. Lavis.
Davis couldn't make it go, so he
rr-oved to Silver ton and took the plant
with him. No one els! was willing to
tackle it so father started our paper.
Our paper -was the only one here for
the next 10 years. Then came John .
Fleming Wilson with the Newport
quit; A. B. Clark of Toledo came next.
He continued the name-of Wilson's pa
per the Siebal. He sold out to II. O.
Guild of Sheridan, Who soon sold to
T.rr". Kershaw of Ashland, who sold t
A. V. Averill of Lebanon."
the company should establish the
value of the stock above that of the
bonds." ' . . .
As it turned out. the value of the
stock was. higher before the date of
expirstion of ths conversion privi
lege; and In October, 1904, the com
pany put out another Issue of con
vertible 4 per cent bonds, but this
time stipulated that they should be'
converted lnn stock mt SITE a .i... .
a price above the normal va'lue of the ' Love and Learning,
stock -saying dividends of 10 -per cent.! I love a lass oh, she Is wondrous fair,
. Convertible bonds well .chosen are! With Venus' form and Juno's stately
Zt" T&S"!?! biaSYeOus eyes-.nd wealth of
: .7 . . .. " : " - mr a ; eolden hair
The Ragtime Muss
considerable time and who will look
carefully into the possibilities of the
company which issues them.- X think
that the men who bought that Issue
of Union Pacific 4s of .101 were fairly
confident that the new management
of the road .was likely to make it a
good earner.
As a straight investment, convert
ible bonds are too costlv: he who hnn
f them ought to look Into them with
extra care. ' . - . -
throttles and mufflers as soon as they
get out of tbe sight-line of Hawthorne
or iMvision and:ineir speea ror me tne liquor barons anI their ..---
blocks is little short or a 60-mi,. ,, , . '
ten
rate,: and with a noise well-nigh like
a full grown thunder storm.
Alcohol and Use Bible's Spirit.
Hullt. Or- July To tbs Editor
of The Journalr In - the . controversy
over prohibition and the relation of , edible.
and thoroughly furnished unto all good
works." I can see no consolation for
tbe wets, only reproof.
God made man perfect, but he sought
out many inventions by which som of
the products . of the soil have been
converted into curses. 'Alcohol should
be hedged with nearly the same re
strictions as opium, cocaine and mor
phine. An alcoholic beverage Is not an
the Bibl thereto. L for one, stand by - God's law. Is written in our hearts.
tbe Bible. - t is ootn judge -and jury, ; God made no foot We are free moral
and eannot be bribed, t "All Scripture
Is given by Inspiration and Is . profit
able for doctrine, for reproof, for cor
rection, for instruction In righteousness-that
God's people may be perfect,
agents . and responsible - for our acts.
Each is his brother's keeper. , "Inas
much'as y-did it unto.the least of
these, . my brethren, re , did It onto
me.-. ... -a, .L. BATES.
What tare I thaf she always says
"I seen"!
Her eyes like Gemini, the twin stars
Her cheek, from artful aid is ever
free.
She is a paragon, a peach, although
Her nouns and verbs forever dis
agree. ,
She Is unlettered, she can scarcely read.
It pains her lovely head to try to -;
think, ' , -, a-
But, Just the same, she is a prise rn-
flood ' '
Her pulchritude puts learning on ths
blink! '
I met her one warm evening in - ths
park
Where 1 bad gone a thesis to think
out;
We took a car and rode out for a lark.
That's where I showed soma class,
beyond a doubt! -.
Right merrily in .saltatorial round '
We footed It, in tango, turkey trot;
I lost my head. but. better far, 1 found
1 bad s heart not given to dry rotl
I'll make her mine believe me. sbVemn
- cook!- - '-;"'
- To love and labor- she Is nothing
. loath. - - s:' - . '
And wife of mine need never read a
v ' bodk - - - -' - .
Ot learning's Junk I have enough for
. ' . -. both! -. --- -- -' . .
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