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. , WHY MR. BOOTtl? .;' -
WHY, Mr, Booth, is the theme
of an able presentation . of
- Y political ' Issues by Chair-
man Neuhausen of the Pro
gressive party in Oregon. -,
Mr. Neuhausen resists the con
tention that any Progressive should
vote for Mr. Booth. He points
; out that more than 20,000 of the
Republicans whb voted In the late
primaries, in spite of the fact that
loud appeals were made for . them
to roll up a great vote for Mr.
Booth, refused to vote for - Mr.
Booth at all. I
. As a further Indication of the
drift or things, he cites the. great
vote of 82,500 cast for Mr. Acker
son against Mr. Williams. Both
were candidates for national com
mitteeman, a strictly party office.
Mr. Ackereon was an ex-Progres-
slve. He waB one of the most ag
gressive leaders in the Progressive
party in 1912. He registered as
a Progressive again in 1914. A
month later he registered as a Re
publican, and the next day he
filed as a candidate for Repub
lican national committeeman
can national platform In 1908, and
what .Mr. Taft pronJsed on . the
stump in the national campaign of
1808, He has given the country
the . kind of tariff the Oregonian
has argued for .out of campaign
time for 30 years. In fact, -the
near - free trade editorials' of the
THE TWO E3tEfPTIONS
PEAKING of the present, ex
emption law, the Oregonian
ATclalms:
t nttrtreA the household
exemption to the voters and IP-wed
in the state pamphlet
. - r - - smKj Vt ia """" .
Oregonian for,"' generation made jm its behalf?. Whose plan is w, . "
. . . - . aw - . f the sDonsors was
aemanas lor-a greater measure "Hi1"'-! XIZ., Tv-.t oreon. for
free trade ,than is 'provided .In. the journal has a profound
VAC3 nUVU IvAlaiLa . I EUlTliraUUIl. .
- in all the other policies of his : Why clutch at this strawr . wn
i.A.ti. v. .tw-.laa WI1annt difference, who favored Of OIOUl
auuiiuiDuauuu.;: A vv- . . 1 . . , . . t
has been signally a progressive, favor the present exemption
pushing auietly and without blue- The question is, ; ,
ter the reforms long demanded by posed the measure but what is
x- .ii n,..-r.rl Vitt . iiAmo. Ka measure, ana is it a goww
fmH TtoniAirafii and bv the measure? The discussion is not
masses of the people regardless of about men, but about the prwent
party affiliations. He has moved exemption. knd the proposed 1BOO
forward in' a straight line, paying exemption., -
, Tinn tn thtk hlnster ofl The Journal uoias mo
crooked business, standing firmly emptlon to be the better. The pres-
for the Interests of honest business lent measure exempts an ouu"'
rr.oiri AiTiorii'an White f unitture of every taxpayer, whetn-
House, as it should be, a tribune, er the owner have $20,000 worth
not of a particular section, but of or only $100 worth. By such a
the people of the whole country, plan, the rich man Is favored to
He has paid no heed to the Wall me detriment oi ue iu.
.a i on omntv dinner! There ougnt to De no buuii u
pail, for he knows as the people crimination. Exemption should as
know, that certain dinner pails far as law can make it. apply to
which have been, filled by railroad au anae.
h,,vine and This the $1500 exemption does
stock gambling ought to be emptied It exempts "from every taxpayer's
and are being emptied. That is assessment $1500 of valuation on
why newspapers that are attack- awemng nouse, ouuU4u
ing Mr Wilson, and why standpat ture. livestock, machinery, orchard
t(iila w, r attacklne Mr. trees, vines, bushes, shrubs, nur-
Wilson are inconsistent, and must sery stock, merchandise, buildings
resort to humbug and mlsrepre- ana otner improvements on, m
nftinn. under his or her land."
They are out to fool all the peo- It places before every social atom
Die they carl all the time. But j the opportunity to get an equal ex-
hAv Hirtn't fool Mr. Hobensack. emption with every other
urban" in their source of infection.
Vacation resorts are neld re
sponsible chiefly. While health
and vigor are . to be found
In . the country It 'behooves
the seeker after them to look Into
the water source, milk and other
food supplies as well as the method
of garbage disposal in vogue at the
resort selected.
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
Letters From the People
A HAPPY ENDING
D
EATH was
the case
compassionate
of Grenville
in
C.
social
atom. It gives the millionaire a
$1500 exemption and gives the vil
lage blacksmith with a little home
and a cow and a barn and horse
and buggy a $1500 exemption. It
Rider, the old man who con- ftnowa the non-resident owner of a
ducted a violin shop m tne hUgQ tract of idle land on which
Mount Scott district. there is $1500 worth of Improve-
He had lived four score years. ments a $1500 exemction and al-
The wife with whom he had grown iows tne small ; farmer with his
old had been-called first and he home and wagon and horses and
had been left alone. ' binder and orchard a $1500 ex-
Friends had prepared the wife's emption.
body for burial and were waiting It la true that the $1500 ex
for the husband to come and fol- emDtion will mean more to a man
Speaking of the casein his article, pnw it to the grave. But the hu8-of hnmble sphere than to a timber
Dana came not. un kuiuB iu um haron. The relief from paying
home on the Foster road his lire- taxes on a $1500 valuation is a
less body was found. Iboon to a $15 a week clerk but
A worn out heart had given only a bagatelle to the owner of a
away under its burden of sorrow Portland office building.
and death had answered his prayer, Bat after all. there are likely
"Take me too." to be timber kings and office bulld-
As they had lived side by side ine maeTjates who will see in the
through the years so they will be encouragement the $1500 exemp-
burted siae Dy siae in ouerwouu tlon wlll be to men to own homes
Mr. Neuhausen says:
Mr. Moores caused notices, signed
by himself as state chairman, to be
published in nowepapers all over the
state calllnjcr attention to the fact
that Ackerson recently had been a
I'rogresslve and 'was backed by par
ties hostile to the Republican party.'
At the name tithe, Ralph E. Williams
was pointed out as a regular of the
regulars. In spite of Mr. Moores' ap
peal to party pride, 32,500 Republi
cans voted for Ackerson,
Sh48Ioo I cemetery.
regular Mr. Williams got
votes. The lesson to be learned by
Mr. Moores from this Incident Is that
the people don't give a hang for a,
Iparty When -thefr paTty stands for ma
chine polities or machine ' politicians.
The truth is the 32,500 votes for
Mr. Ackerson were extraordinary
votes. Mr. . Ackerson . but a, few
months ago, said more hard things
against the controlling forces of
the Republican party than any oth
er man in the state. He denounced
the national party organization
without mercy. He declared pri
vately and publicly that the party
could never be restored as the
party of Lincoln because of the
likes of Penrose, Barnes and Can
non. He did more. He was one day
this yean a Progressive, and the
next day he was a Republican. And j
. the day after that he was a candi
i date for the pivotal office within
. the organization so far as party
nnllni. In I -
These facts were widely heralded
throughout the state. The state
chairman of the party made a pub
lic and aggressive fight against
Ackerson and for Ralph Williams.
The state chairman graphically re
cited the details of why Mr. Ack
erson was peculiarly objectionable
to the organization.
But Mr. Ackerson got 82,500
votes of registered Republicans!
It was a vote of confidence In
Progressive principles and a vote
of protest against the known stand-
.Af . M OTV a m . . .
liaiiam ui Air. Williams. It la a
clear and indisputable index to the
xact mat tne Republican masses
of Oregon are not standpatters and
; refuse to be led by standpatters.
They are out of harmony with the
Penrose - Barnes - Oregonian - Booth
organization and leadership.
They are, the old Republican In
surgents. They are. where thev
have always been on thn nf
progress. They are La Toilette"
Republicans and Progressive Re
.' publicans or Republican Progres
sives who voted for Mr. Roosevelt
in 191 2.. In short, they are Lin
coln Republicans '.who have not
been dragged from their "ancient
convictions by the Aldriches, .the
Cannons and the Penroses. ! - !
, l r Mr. Neuhausen asks why any of
, these men should support Mr.
Booth for senator. . ; .
And many . a, man I among them
will echo back the reply, "Indeed,
Why Mr. Booth?" ,
and srlve their sunnort to the meaa-
A mournful thougnt often in tne ura because of the benefit It will
minds or aged couples is tne re- De to their country and their
flection that one is uiceiy to out- couutrrmen,
live luo uiuci. '"""b i A nv moaanrA that nr'niira a-aa
vivor a period of unutterable grief nome bulI(1Inf; an1 Dome keeplng
and loneliness. ia nnr( nnlirr. fcomiiBA tba anclinr.
nappy are tney wcea, no 4a vuw of th not,-.- ,9 . ,nTr,M
instance, tne veneraiue ana uevuiuu
couple may journey over the Great!
Divide as they journeyed through
life, side by side and hand In hand.
THE AGE OF MIRACLES
ALL SHOULD WELCOME
P
w
HEN the Titanic sank In mid-
ocean in April, 1912, says
Popular Mechanics, many
thought that the catastro-
M -A.
. MR: HOBENSACK
ESTERDAY in the Oregon
ian, E. D. Hobensack pointed
; out certain Inconsistencies In
that paper. . The . facts are so
. well presented.Mhat the article is
reprinted on this page.- ;
, Though the Oregonian denies It,
Mr. Hobensaik's contentions are
true. The Inconsistencies he points
out are of almest dally occurrence,
. and are the subject. of frequent re
mark In private conversation ,by
the Oregonlan's own friends.
t The f truth Is $hat it is only by
RELIMINARY steps haye been pQe woul(1 put end to thcon.
t.aea 111 dubwu ivi i.u ay- ,f.,Hn- nf lQrl7, .lmlr.
pointment of a receiver tor InBtead however. of abandoning
lUB ew nycu v.u the big ship idea, the great Trans
order that the shareholders may atlanUc Bteamsnlp Une3 nave ever
prosecute aaauuuu vu Au.ue, vuC ux- B,nce been ' Dull(1Ing larger snlps
rectors of the road Xo make restl- tQan before Tne lesgon th drew
tution of millions of dollars. trnm tTia Tlflln tMtroav
In the complaint filed It Is set tha shin wa not too Ms?, w thnt
forth that the directors illegally lt8 construction was faulty and its
usea sioa.uuu.uvw m acquums lifeboat service Inadequate.
uosion es mame auu uw yxupcr- Gn thla theory the- Vaterland
ties ana me reoun w iu suarc wa- ronRtrnted. Tt In 9KO foot
noiaers was a net iua ui Ions and 1flO fet: wMa Tn
000. The anti-trust law permits re8nect it la the lure-eat hi
three fold -recovery so the total Tnen came. tn(S Brltaimlc. the
amoum eueu tor in euo,vuu,vviu. largest . BrlUsh built vessel. 900
Tne wew iaven aireciors snouia feet long. Longer, though smaller,
welcome an inquiry by the courts hg tne Aquitanla, measuring 001
into tneir Biewarusmp. . feet over &U.
They should be glad of the op- While these three ships stand at
portunny to answer tne arraign- tne head of the list of modern
ment of the interstate commerce skyscrapers of the sea. other steam-
commission as made in its report ! ship companies are building larger
iuey enouiu ue yuma ui aisprove tnan ever before. The vaterland
the charges of Boston & Maine de- has a passenger capacity of 3725
spoiiment, tne inequity or tne and a Crew of 1200. This Is a
Westchester acquisition, the double good sized town. The Aanitania
price paid for the Rhode Island can carry 3230 passengers and the
trolleys, the recklessness In the Britannic 2600. Each has a crew
purchase or Massachusetts and of 1000. The Vaterland and Brltan
vuuuBwiiui, i-iunejr, mo .uuwar- mo are eacn practically - two
rauieu peuuitur9 ot large snips, pne within the other. - The
amounts in educating public opln- inner hull is sufficient to float the
Ion through a venal press, the fic- vessel should the outer nn. k
titious sales of New Haven stock ripped off by collision with an Ice-
to inenaiy parties wun tne design I berg or another vessel.
or boosting tne stocK and unloading It Is predicted that yet larger
on the public at the higher "mar- ships will be constructed and that
ket price," the retention by John the day of the 1000 foot shlD Is
L. Billard of nearlv S3.000.non in -
- - - ' - - i uauu. v.l
ft. tranaaprlnn 1n wMp1i a van-i m A ' . i
.r ' " " r iweBlf years ago when the
va . -x. 7 j ,a,J"a into campanla, 601 feet long and 65
' "If , , , Ul a uo"r. me feet, wide, was launched, it
inaDinty or uaKieign unorne to ac- proclaimed that the limit In shlp-cc-untfor
$M32.000 Entrusted to building had been reached and
jum .iu hjs ui un west- many books: and articles
cueuer regular employ- j written to prove it:
r r 5"u:t ' am Knocle " was also predicted that it was
Island and other states to prevent impossible to talk across the- ocean
them from , becoming active on hv Trir.iOCH Mani,nni, k .
,1 ty - ot. homr r ke sa"
OI V-na"c passage by airship Is a proj
wv,vu ivt vorrupi purposes In ct tfiot la tr.no-A. t .ui.
Lm incredulity 1 o be
ivL;r :r ' rurr Ira- within the range of possibility,
-"o uunauamea increase l tw m TCa m
f.lSom fn?03lonr
000 l! im til filrlL i17,00r hav Packed predictions of sheer
tl1 impossibility; a generation ago, is
- -r .Tl-ri a AffV w now tne accepted fact
aV. - . J a. 3 i - .
auu w uuminauon or all affairs A warning to thosa who' rr iwit
by Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mellen
(Commanlratlona sent to Tba Joarnal for
publication ia tbia dapartmaat abonld be writ
tea m only one aide of the paper, abould not
exceed 300 worda ia lencta aod tnuat be ac
companied by tba name and addreas of tba
aeniier. If tba writer doee not deaire to
bate tba nam pubuabed, be abould ao auta.)
"Diicoaaloa ia the greatest of all reform
era. It ratlonallaea arerythltif it toucbes. It
roba principles of all falae aancUty and
throws them back oa tbelr reasonableneea. If
tbey have bo reaeonableneea, it rntblewly
crnabM them out of cxiatanee and acta op Its
own conclusion, tn their stead." Woo drew
Wilson.
Plsgab Mother on "Confiscation."
Plsgah Home, Ients. July 20. To
the Editor of Th Journal I lika
these ltttl combats we have through
your columns, so long as we can -talk
to each other in a friendly way, and
it seems we all can do ao.
X feel sorry for anyone who loses
anything through the changes that
come. When the pura food bill was
passed there was a lot of stuff that
was lost to the producers. It would
not have been lost had It been pure
and wholesome. If good is to prevail
ratner tnan evil, then the evil or In
ferior must give way. We are not at
tacking people and property. We are
attaching the evils of their system or
rather their systems of evil. The lit
tle sister of the hop field might
throw up her hands In holy horror
should her eon (if she has any) bo
found gambling away their bard earned
dollars in some gambling den, ana
would Insist upon some law to stop it.
But with the things In his lit that
would break down the moral nature
ana eventually make of him a
debauchee, h would only advise him
to be temperate because of those.
broad acres of hops, when It has been
demonstrated by millions of cases that
this moderate drinking causes an ap
petite with which they cannot be mod
erate. One may say. if they have any
will power, or, as some put it, brains
they will be temperate, xnere is
plenty of evidence that even temperate
drinking destroys the will power.
The sister mentions that I solicit
the anti-prohibitionists ia my work.
am "no respecter or persons in
Catherine means to carry on this work.
There were years in my life that I
had the tainted Idea that all money
that came from a brewer,, aisuuer or
saloonroan was blood money, the price
of men's souls, and that It represented
the heartaches of mothers and wives
and the soba of little children, and
J would not touch it. Now 1 nave
reached a more practical view and I
think if anyone should help care for
wretched, broken, poverty-stricken hu
manity, it is the men and women who
have helped to produce It. If the
hop fields ' are the cause, no matter
how remote, and you are accumulating
wealth at th expense of all this mis
ery, then should you not be among ine
most active in helping to relieve it?
Thi la the nosition I take when solic
iting an anti-prohlbitlonlst if, in fact,
I take time to think of It at all,
which I seldom do.
How fooUsh we all are. anyway, to
spend thousands of dollars doing am
bulance work In the valley, when Just
a little fence at the top of the preci
pice would stop all the wreckage.
Men who represent large liquor In
terests we have no fight with them.
Tbey are great sufferers from their
own system. Don't think their own
vines and fig trees are exempt from
the curse. How many of them have
escaped the blasting influence in the
case of their own loved onest They
have become bo bound in large cor
porations and business interest that
they cannot break loose. They send
their boy to Keeley cure sanitariums,
and go through to the end of the
chapter with riches and broken hearts.
I saw the sons of one of these men
one day and I thought. "The only dif
ference is, you wear good clothes and
the boys' pay for them."
There are some very good men at
the head of heavy liquor Interests.
They have been educated to look only
at one islde of the question. There
are many good hearted fellows running
saloons and they all go down the same
road eventually. How many have
come to Plsgah Home several who
at one time owned saloons, and their
own whiskey swamped them
PISGAH MOTHER.
The pompous Judge glared sternly
over nis spectacles
at the tattered pris
oner who had been
dragged before the
bar -of Justice on a
charge of vagrancy.
"Have you ever
earned a dollar in
your lifer' he asked
in fine scorn.
"Yes. your honor." was the response.
"I voted for you at the last election."
Willis I am organising a regiment
for service In tnis
war that will make
them sit up and
take notice.
' Gillla Good men,
ehT
Willis Regular
blood curdlers. It
is composed entire-
lv Ar V am
nave been Stung on Maxlr-an mtnlna?
I
schemes. Puck.
Oliver Wendell
lng on the beach one day when he be
cJ?.,tJ.n w,tb lltu atlrl who
" vuuuiuf pyra
mids of sand. His
charm of personal
ity had its effect
and the child soon
slipped her hand in
his and walked with
him. By and by the
little one said she
must return to her
mother.
"Good-bye. my dear." said Mr.
Holmes, "and when mother asks you
where you have been, tell her that
jou nave Deen waiicm? nn th, nufiii
with Oliver Wendell Holmes." Tne following communication
The great name was absolutely tin-Pared in the Oregonian of July
lw. i .... . HPnr
wTi iv mo emia, out ins recog
nized the courtesy in the words of her
stranger friend and was not to be
outdone. His pleasant smile and
bow acquired a quaint gravity as Imi
tated by the child. She replied:
"And when you go home and they
ask you where you have been, tell
them that you were walking on the
beach with Mary Susanna Brown."
SMALL CHANGE . ,
Intelligence is the mother of brevity.
.
A- woman Is seldom' older than' a
man thinks she is. , -
A. spinster has no- love for a widow
who has had three husbands. -
.- e -
Success ia th ona ain aona txtocla
refuse to forgive la' their friends.
e
A man isn't neeassarllv attached to
a baby carriage because be follows it.
Only a woman can entertain unwel
come visitors and make them feel wel
come.. e
After a man has turned down two
or three opportunities they begla to
dodge him.
a
Some people never have any re
spect for gray hairs until they have
acquired a few of their own.
.. e
Switzerland has no navy, and never
will have, but what a name for a war-
snip -Avaiancne - wouia Dei
-
. Tes. Cordelia, the drum major be
longs to the band even it he does
give one the impression the band be-
iongs to mm.
e a
The frankness with which a 1 7-T.nr,
old girl says she's an old maid is only
exceeded by the frankness with which.
ne aeoiea it 10 year later.
a
Aeroplanes In Morooco destroyed "in
accessible mountain atronarholda.'
Hereafter the only safe place for a
caaue is going to be in a coal mine.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS j
Molalla is to have a water system to
coat about 17000. for which bonds
will be issued. The contract ha been
awarded.
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Bandan'a Maticll has voted to take
over and maintain the public library
and that a one-mill tax a-hall be levied
tor maintenance.
Work on new nine lines at Baker
is now in nrogresa, employing a force
or z to 10 men at lirat, wun many
more to b added.
Cottage Grove's firemen will give a
"water fight" July 37. at which a fund
will be raised to buy a fire alarm
whistle, the electrlo alarm system hav
ing proved defective.
a
Beaverton has reached the city park
stage, the Owl believes, and it points
out that one of the finest oak and pine
graves in Washington county lies in
the western part of the town, and
would make the ideal park.
Preparations are being made for
entertaining the 7S or more bankers
from the counties of Umatilla, Union,
Baker. Grant, Malheur and Wallowa,
who will hold their annual convention
at Joseph and Wallowa Lake, July 25.
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Buoyancy is the note in an editorial
article in the Astorian from which
this is an extract: "City and county
and port are moving forward steadily;
there is somthing doing every hour,
and whether you see it or not, we give
the assurance from our accurate and
timely knowledge that it is so. Make
the most of this big fact"
IN EARLIER DAYS
By Fred Lockley,
"ARE TIMES GOOD OR ARE THEY BAD?"
ap-
20;
obligation resting upon me to convert
my stomach into a beer vat that X may
help to pile up riches and afford com
fort and luxuries for the hop grower
and brewer and saloon keeper and their
families, to my own injury, physically
and materially, and to the sorrow and
discomfort of my family. If the drink
bill of Oregon were cast into a common
treasury the fund would be great
enough to cover the widows' pension
roll a thousand times over, and would
soon build homes for every poor and
distressed mortal in the commonwealth.
The more I think of It the more I feel
like letting these people shift for them
selves from this time on, as we labor
ers have to do. The drinker has paid for
their hop lands, has erected breweries
and mansions for their dwellings, and
now they are crying that their pen
sions be continued. Has the time not
come when there ought to be a spark
of gratitude in the bop man's bosom
and th brewer's heart? Why not, for
once in their lives, give the other man
a showT I have been in this city five
weeks, and there have been two mur
ders caused by liquor. Saloons are
wide open seven day and nights per.
week. Stores open at 8:10 and close a;
5, but the saloon is always open.
H. 8. HARCOURT.
Letters of Wets and Drys.
Portland, July 21 To the Editor of
The Journal Having read every letter
In The Journal for several months
past, the deductions I draw from them
are these: The wets believe In an al
leged personal liberty to exploit hu
manity, regardless of the woe, sin,
sorrow and degradation perpetuated
Personally. I never knew a
really desirable citizen of any civil
The Committee of One Hundred.
Portland, July si. To the Editor of
The Journal I have read with inter
est the letter headed "Assail Prohi
bitionists," In Saturday's Journal
signed by W. J. Bishop of McMlnnville.
Mr. Bishop was perfectly correot
when he says that prohibition Is a bus
iness proposition pure and simple. The
Committee of One Hundred is com
posed of Oregon business men entirely,
who know that "dry" Oregon would be
of economic advantage to the state.
Mr. Bishop, however, Is guilty of one
or two Inaccuracies.
He asserts that one paid organiza
tion, the Anti-Saloon league. Is back of
the Committee of One Hundred. This
is an error. The Committee of One
Hundred is an entirely Independent or
ganization. It will support no candi-
j date, no party and no other organiza
tion, its worn win do on oenair oz
the prohibition amendment,
Another misstatement Is that onr
publicity man, Orton E. Goodwin, "suc
cessfully carried on the campaign for
the wets' Home Rule association In
1910." Mr. Goodwin at no time car
ried on any work for the Home Rule
association, or any. other wet organi
zation in the state of Oregon or else
where. COMMITTEE OF ONE HUNDRED,
By J. E. WHEELER, Chairman.
l
Portland. July 18. (To the Editor.)
I notice on one side of the Oregonian
you claim that a reduction in the
present high. cost of living under the
Wilson tariff is aiy 'iridescent dream;'
on the ether side you bewail the fact
that butter and eggs are on the down
ward grade because the storage crowd
are unable to protect the "poor farmer
against anticipated importation from
New Zealand and China. On one sin
you show the high cost of meat Is due
to a decreasing production; on 3 the
other side you bewail th fact that
Importations may supply thl deficit.
"On on side of the Oregonian you
tell u that unless some speedy action
is taken in behalf of increased railroad
rates, the country la facing railroad
disasters frightful to contemplate; on
the other side you tell us about a half
dozen railroad . directors that have
stolen millions of dollars of railroad
receipts, facing criminal proceedings
for pilfering the stockholders and, in
directly, suggest that this deficit must
be mad up by a S per cent Increase In
freight rates. In other words the con
sumer must mak up the shortage.
"On one side of th Oregonian you
anticipate a frightful decrease in ex
ports; on the other side you tell us
that bountiful crops here, short crops
In Europe, mean that the next riscal
year will show the largest export trade
in the history of the country.
"On one side of th Oregonian. for
several months, the 'calamity bowler
tells us about th frightful business
conditions throughout th country
under the Wilson administration; on
th other side you tell us that the
orders placed for steel at this season
of the year are something unusual
and you prophesy an Immense tonnage
this autumn at reduced profit to the
manufacturer. In other words, like
butter and eggs, steel is also coming
down, yet only th 'poor farmer suf
fers. What about the "poor storage
man' that stores the surplus to keep
the consumer from benefiting by the
reduction?
"On one side of th Oregonian you
bewail th conditions of th lurnbtr
industry throughout this section, due
to the Wilson tariff; on th other
side you show that 25,000,000 more
feet of lumber were shipped out of tl.e
state of Washington during the pas-
fiscal year than during the prevluua
year.
"On one aide of the Oregonian the
Inference obtain that w have no
strikes under a Democratic adminis
tration for the reason there is nothing
to strike for; on th other side you
tell us about a big railroad strike
brewing in Chicago.
"On on side of the Oregonian you
tell us that panics have featured all
Democratic administrations in the past
(omitting the panics of 187S and
1907); on th other side, in an un
guarded moment, yon tall us that the
Democratic party ha not had a presi
dent and both houses of congress .for
over 60 years.
"I am sitting on the Jury and the
above are only a few of the contradic
tory statements that your attorneys
are using to cloud the minds of the
Juror . and I should be glad to have
you reconcile the discrepancy between
your commercial columns and the edi
torial comments.
"We are told that Wilson Is a
minority president. Again wa are tola
that Independent voter (th minority
crowd) have decided our choice of
president for 25 years. Th average
working man has no tiro to devote to
gathering statistic bearing on many
problems before us, but he ha suffi
cient Intelligence to discern the con
flicting statements that emanate from
the same source, and it seems to me
that it is time now to get in the band
wagon and share in the great mll.en
nlum that is coming by reason of th
fact that we have secured more whole
some legislation in the last IS months
than w have In the last IS yea.
". D. HOBEN8ACK."
QUESTION FROM AN INVESTMENT CLUB
Bands at Vancouver.
Vancouver, Wash, July SO. To the
Editor of The Journal I cannot refrain
from making a few comments in re
gard to the playing of the Italian band
aTTa country who was an exponent of j here Saturday evening at the Cbautau-
"nersonal liberty," wnica -on iwa jato
is the negation of democracy, and excellent and inspiring to those who
V rr unil anarchy' pure and: like loud harmonized noise, but what
wwa 13 ' ' " , J .LI.. T M
t kin found no aeiense on euriinso me uuo. a
""' . . .. ,i ...... 1 1AA tn KOn npnnla thr
the part oi tne "o
saw from
400 to 500 people there, who had paid
75 cents each to hear this foreign
band, when the Twenty-first Infantry
band gives a free concert on Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of
each week from 6 to 7 p. m., and, to
were
am sure the boys notice and feel yie
absence of an audience. If th people
will go to hear them I am sure they
will go away satisfied that they have
heard the best muslo there is; and
besides Its being free, their presence
encourages the boys to nobler and
higher efforts. W. F. PEDDIOORD.
insatiate greed and the anarchistic cry
Of "personal liberty." In consequence
thereof, the letters of the wets I wel
come, as they have turned the scales
The prohibition letters have been i my way of thinking, is far better
rational and convincing, showing noble, 1 music, and they have an audience of
unselfish and profound thought on the 10 or 15 people. It's a shame, and I
subject they discuss. .Having u-aveiea
through prohibition states along com
mercial lines for many years, I can
vouch for the truth of the contention
that sobriety, tnrui ana nappy nme
abound in such states, as a result of
prohibition of the liquor traffic.
Rationalism aenuuius iuo uuuniuu
of all habit' forming drugs and narcot
ics, of which alcohol is ona As opium
was forced on China until demand for
it was created, so the liquor Interests
of the old" world nave xorcea ub ua
accursed brew until a demand was also
created. It rests with the voter of
Oregon whether such supply shall. In
the future, create a demand among our
boys of this and coming generation,
or -whether we will protect them from
its baneful influence. All my travel
ing men in Oregon report to me, either
by letter' or personally, that outside of
Portland the opinion is freely expressed
that Oregon wlU roll nip an overwhelming-majority
for prohibition, .
Vote dry for Mollie, home and th
w a w ar a Tianvvv
babies.
A. J. MARTIN.
M.mA -V..li. , .. . I
- " ououiuio subordination of i i ir - Tina
other members of the board of di- boards of health which says that
rectors to- these two.
no less than 49 per cent of all
The honeBt and efficiently man-the typhoid cases recorded in, Chi
The Drink BI1L
Sacramento. Cal.. July 18. To the
Editor of The Journal: If it be true,
a claimed by bop growers, that their
industry's perpetuation depends upon
Oregon' remaining "Wet," then it is a
fact that they are levying a tax upon
every man and woman consuming their
product, in &UU".V w vw .m5 yu
that levy upon every taxpayer, prohibi
tionist' or anti-prohibitionist, for the
support or the' beer made and whiskey
made paupers and criminals of Oregon.
If because Oregonian shall become
non-consumers of beer and .whiskey the
hop industry of the state must falV it
necessarily . follows that the people'
drink" bill constKutec the hop tnen'
profits. Personally I cannot e ' an
Question of Sale of Lota.
Portland, July 11. To the Editor of
The Journal Please inform me on the
following subject: I it within the
scope of the law to aell town lots in
a subdivision when th boundaries and
blocks only, but not the lots, have been
staked upon the ground by the sur
veyor, yet the recorded plat shows
delineated thereon all blocks and lota:
and in his affidavit the surveyor states
that the recorded map is a true map of
the survey of the premises? It la very
plain that there is an Inconsistency
somewhere and may be something
more serious. Please answer in The
Journal. JAMES W. ALEXANDER.
According to the district attorney
office the sale of lot by block and lot
numbers Is within the law if lot and
blocks are so described on recorded
plats, but If not so designated on re
corded plats they must be described
by metes, and bounds. The sale under
the terms of the letter would be strict
ly legal if so designated.
By John M. Osklson.
From a member of am Investment
club in Chicago I have received a
letter. The writer Is a young man
who had bumped Into a practical diffi
culty in connection with the working
out of an excellent idea.
He wanted to know how the 10 young
men of this club who each week are
setting aside 25 apiece for Investment
are to be assured of the good faith
and capacity of the member chosen to
handle the 250 a week that la turned
In. The 10 men didn't want to incor
porate and choose a bonded treasurer.
They didn't want a formal partnership.
Frankly, I said that I couldn't help;
it was a question for a lawyer familiar
with the statutes, of the state of Illi
nois. As I read th young man letter
I tried to think of some way to avoid
legal counsel and formality when in
vestment club are formed, I couldn't.
Perhaps some one who reads this
knows ofy a simple and effective form
of association. I'd be glad to hear
of it.
It seems to me that the Investment
club ought to b organised In con
formity to th law. I shouldn't think
that th cost of organization was
wasted. On th contrary, th members
will more readily understand the ne
cessity for such an ' investigation of
Investments a will assure them of
the legality of th securities Into which
they put their money.
Tbey ought to form anv organization,
choose a finance commit tee to Investi
gate possible investments, and once a
month they ought to come together to
hear the report of the committee. Every
member ought to Insist upon under
standing all about every security rec
ommended by the committee. What If
a lot of time Is spent in explaining!
In forming Investment clubs, don't
Imagine that the Investment of money
is something that can be attended to
during the lunch hour by some on
who happens to know a broker 1 Qo
into the business in a business-like
way. Realize that the Investment sci
ence is one full of technical terms,
and one In which carelessness (in pro
cedure or language) Is apt to prove far
more costly than good counsel ta th
beginning.
The Pay Check and the Saloon.
Lenta, July 20. "To. the Editor of
Th Journal I would like to bear of
the good that liquor can do, being the
mother of three boys and one girl., two
under T years and two where liquor
can never reach them. I always have
trouble when pay day comes. My hus
band work next door to two saloons,
and It is so easy . to get drink n
credit,, and than the -check has to be
cashed there, and the bill -has to be
paid, but there always ha to be a
balance on the grocers dui. ii every
man came home first with his pay,
with a level head on, I am sure some
good would be done, but when the sa
loon man gets rirst. no wonaer rrouoie
comes. There snouia do a iaw paaseu;
"No credit; no checks. C. J.
Greece and Turkey,
From the Montreal Star.
The islands of Mltylene and Chios,
which the Greeks have Just formally
annexed, lie off the entrance to the
Gulf of Smyrna. Smyrna is the most
Important Turkish port in all of Asia
Minor, and one of the most important
in the empire. The Turks will never
surrender them except under compul
sion; and the Greeks will insist upon
setting them, for they are peopled by
the Greek race. It is almost inevitable
that there shall some time be war over
this question, unless one or the other of
the parties to the dispute 1 absolute
ly prostrate.
Turkey was understood at the na
dir of her fortunes to be willing to
surrender all the Aegean Islands, with
the exception of those which command
the entrance to the Boephorus. And
the powers were pretty generally ready
to support this setlement. But Italy
still holds the islands which ah oc
cupied during the Trlpolltaa war; and
she further complicates th situation
by comfortlnr Turkey In her claim
not to be despoiled of all the rest.
Italy Is distinctly Jealou of Greece
as a maritime power in the eastern
Mediterranean; and no on need he
surprised to see Italy giving a left
handed support to Turkey In this mat
ter. In return. Turkey seems to have
consented not to raise the question of
the continued Italian occupation of
Rhodes and Its sister Islands.
The plucky Greeks propose the so
lution of Instant war. They will not
endure the exile of Greek dweller
from Turkish territory; and they want
this Mitylene-Chio question - settled
now, while they are strong at sea and
before the new Turkish dreadnought
arrives. That Js what has precipi
tated th present erisls. . Whether it
leads to war er not will depend very
largely upon tn what tat Of readi
ness the Turkish government believe
themselves to be. Something also de
pends upon th action of. Roumanla.
Servia and Bulgaria will probably off
set each other; but Roumanla could
throw Itself decisively Into either
scale.
Mount Lassen as an Attraction.
From the Oakland Tribune.
At first looked upon as an exagger
ated geyser the Mt. Lessen crater
appears to be showing all the char
acteristics of a genuine volcano and
its activities are arpuslng interest li
over the state, nation and world. Pho
tographs taken at point of vantage
show th peak in a Stat of eruption
calculated to impress the beholder, and
it Is evident the forces of nature at
work are more than those of a mere
boiling spring and a close approach to
conditions that characterized the
mountain ages ago when Mother Earth
was rent and torn by convulsions,
magnitude being the only exception
It Is not expected that thl marvel
ous phenomenon will increase. in such
Intensity as to become a menace to
property located at a reasonable dis
tance from the scene of its activities.
Of course there is alway a possibil
ity for violent action in disturbances
of this sort, but'it is not at all likely
that Mt. Lassen will develop into a
Vesuvius to the danger of the modern
Pompeils in Its neighborhood..
On the contrary. California Is al
ready claiming It is an attraction In
stead of calamity. Tba state press,
with that buoyancy of spirit that
prompts it to "always aaa th dough
nut and not the hole In it, is exploit
ing It for all that it is worth, and
reading the comments made one is led
to infer that there is a deaire existing
that Mt Lassan will eontinu to erupt
In present form for soma time In order
that those who have never seen vol
canoes may eome here and witness the
spectacle.
This state has many natural won
ders, if has stupendous canyons and
gorges, great breaks -In mountain
chains, plunging rivers, immense, nat
ural parks, mighty vista of valley
and mountain, hot springs, mineral
springs and th like, but to date it has
lacked a volcano. Mt. Lassen, like
the new paper in th country town, ap
pears to b filling "a long felt want."
... . . -:"-InJ13
the total commerce of France
broke all records, both as to valuation
nd volume.. . . V" . - .
"Our ranen wa located oa a small -stream
which flowed into the South
Umpqua." said P. u Will!., one of
t-or Hand's w pioneer attorneys, t "We
X-mpqua and about a mil and a half
?t!f "2m 1C M roth.in-Uw.
Harrison Rice. lived about a mil north
It 1 ar 'rom u wa. a camp
fall o! X2.ttan"' TnU w" 10
rail of ms. They were rr,endlr u th
7... Dr'Uy lnoften.lva In
inV Roue Rlvr and Cow Creek
Indians, who Were on the warpath,
were at enmity with them because tbey
refused to make war on the white. A
party of white men. who were 'bad
men and desperate Indian fighters till
it came to fighting, caw a chance to
make good on some of their Idle boast
ing by attacking theue reaceful In
dians. They surprised them and killed
uumoer, the rest escaping and hid
ing in the nearby hills. My father
7w" , out and KOt hold of i. one of
the Indians who had escaped, and told
him to gather his people up and bring
them back and the white settlers would
protect them He toid him that it wa
a body of Irresponsible white men who
nad killed his people and it would hot
occur again. Bam agreed to bring his
scattered people in. As he started on
his mission he saw smoke up the can
yon. He came back and warned Ulce.
my brother-in-law, that the hoetlle In
dians, probably the Cow Creeks, were
approaching. -Rice's house as well as
ours wa barricaded, so he prepared to
defend it from the hostile Indiana.
Our house was barricaded with ln ..t
on end. Rice had put up two-inch
planks with heavy doors. barred
ine own or tne stockade and got his
guns ready for lnxtant use. Sylvester
Rice, then about l; years old, later
county Judge of Multnomah county,
asked if he could go and warn us, it
was only a mile away, so his father-
iivuni no wouia neve plenty of time
to get to our place before the Indians,
came. Austin Rice. Harrison's brother.
leald. 'Don't let him go and scare the
prmtghbors with a false alarm. There
lsn t one chance in a hundred that hos
tile Indians are In the country.' lie
was so anxious to go that his father
let him mn.
"The barred door in the stockade was
opened for him and as he started
across the yard the Indians, who were
bidden In the brush near the stable,
fired at him and ran out to head him '
off. He ran like a deer. The people
within the stockade heard the Indians
Bhoot again and give a yell after be had
passed out of sight, so they supposed
he was killed. Sylvester ran into the
brush and threw off his shoes so he
could run better and made a record
breaking run to our place.
"Father soon had our home barri
caded and ready for-at tack. Meanwhile
at Rice's place the Indians had taken
all his stock away and set fir to the
barns. Mr. Rice was at one corner of
the barricade and he saw an Indian
creeping through the garden with ' a
torch to burn the house. He fired and
when the heavy black smoke had
cleared away the Indian had disap
peared. There was a wide trail where
two Indians had rushed out and
dragged him through the garden .and
across the creek. They found hi.
body next day hidden under some brush
near the creek.
"We had become very anxious to
know how the Rices were getting along
so my brother Albert saddled his riding
horse and rode toward Rice's to see if
they were still holding the fort. Rice
saw him coming and warned him. to
run bax-k for his life, as th Indians
I . k. 1 . . V. . n W.- Bt.
, 1 k V. - 1.1... Ullla.1 Uvl.
vaster. Albert called back that Syl
vester was safe and at our bouse.
"He turned and started for home. He
passed Austin Hire's place and saw
lh. hnnsa wa a In flump Th Indiana
caught sight r' him and chased him
almost to our nome. They kept shoot.
Ing at him, but he bent low over hi
horse and all the harm ne received was
a bullet through his hat brim.
"Next day about 20 of the settlers
followed the Cow Creek Indians, sur
prised them on Ten Mile creek, wound
ed some of them, chased them out of
the country and recaptured ail of the
stolen stock. -
"Early the following spring, or to
h. .T.rt In ThVhrun.rv. 18SC. my tWO
brothers and myself enlisted, to fight
the Indians. I was in Pleas C. No
land's company. We came up jrith the '
Indians on the Big Meadows and nad
quite a fight. Two of our neighbor
were killed. Bill Dooley and Tom Gage,
and quite a few of the Indians were
killed.
"Theoretically our company was
mounted, but actually we were afoot
most of the tima You don't know till
you experience it how unhealthy a bul
let sounds as it whizzes and sings over
your head particularly when you see
some of those same wickedly singing
bullets hitting your neighbors. No.
none of them hit me, but a lot of them
sounded as if they were going to. As
a matter of fact, they probably missed
ma several yards, but they sounded a
If It was only a matter of Inches.
"The Indians were driven to the
mouth of th Rogue river, where they
surrendered. We were mustered out
in June, 185. The Indians were taken
to the Grande Ronde reservation, where
we met some of them some year,
later."
The Ragtime Muse
Vacation.
I long for the song of the PlfS
And I pine for the surge ol the sea.
But let me drop that.
For here In my flat '
Are Joys in abundance for me.
For the wood and the mountain' and
AndPth2 sea from New Zealand
to Noma, ,
I have seen now and then, .
But not ever when "
Tbey had anything on my bom.
Wherever 1 happened to be,
Where freezes a fellow, or melts, -
One wish I have had
I felt I'd be glad , '
If I could Just be somewhere elsela
And so It Is now. In my dream
Still distance enchanteth the view.
But I know 'tis the naze
Of distance that lays
Over far hills that mantle of blue.
Therefore, in my flat Ttl abide.
Contented, for nothing 1 lack;
And wherever I'd be
On land or on sea, -I'd
wish I were (here 1 am!) back!
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