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THIS DAY
TODAY is the 145th anniver
sary of the birth of Napoleon
Bonaparte.
It la the day on which the
, Panama canal la opened to the
ships of the world.
It Is a day on which over the
wbole continent of Europe gleam
balefully the fires of destruction.
Napoleon was the greatest mili
tary genius of all time. Me was
finally overthrown because France
had no more men to give him for
battle.
But a few miles from where Na-
1 1 1 J
poieon was overiuruwu ameu
armies are today contesting with
the German legions for supre
macy In Europe. At St Helena,
Napoleon watched the waves of
the sea roll in and beat against
his island prison, and contem
plated the terrific events which
culminated at Waterloo.
No man of any time had a
greater genius for organization
and concentration of human forces.
It was his organizing power that
enabled him, with France- behind
him, to rock all Europe like a
babe in its cradle, until the blasts
of a Russian winter scattered his
regiments like leaves In a tempest.
It was an organizing power that,
even while his wars were on, gave
France a system of canals and
roads superior to any other in
Europe. It distinguished him as
law giver, and to this day the
Code Napoleon is the foundation of
great systems of Jurisprudence.
Jn" letters, in art and in literature,
the genius of this lafst of the
Ca-esarB led France up the heights
of world distinction.
What if all the organizing genius
of this leveler of thrones had
been dedicated, not to war, but to
the organizing1 In peace of the
forces of construction, production
and conservation? What if, .out
of the ruin of the Revolution, he
had, with his incomparable tajents,
led France through green pas
tures and by still waters to such
Ideals as are typified in the en
during work dedicated this day at
Panama to the peace, welfare and
happiness of man?
If. as he began, Napoleon had
continued a great democrat; if
ambition had not wooed him Into
an endeavor to live endlessly in a
world dynasty of his own found
ing; if, for his dreams of a scep
tered Imperialism he had substi
tuted the vision of a Gorgas.iof a
Goethals and of those who backed
them, St. Helena would have been
less known to fame, and the name
of Napoleon would be radiant with
Imperishable glory.
. What a pity that, with all his
greatness. Napoleon was yet not
igreat enough to- be perfectly can
did about himself. In those five
years of silence and meditation at
Bt. Helena, what a story he might
have written I
What an admonition his confes
sion would now be to the angry
combatants in Europe!
TEACHING SOUND BUSINESS
WALL STREET 'is surely
waking up. When Mr. F.
A. Vanderllp, president of
the National City Bank and
one of the foremost figures in
finance, recently addressed the
New Jersey State Chamber of
Commerce, he took for his theme
the duty of business men to get
into touch with politics and public
opinion. Too many of them, he
declared, have become narrow spe
cialists, unable to detecf the larger
currents of national policies. If
they are misunderstood as a class,
if unwise legislation Viaa
mjLwmtm UQUI
pored their legitimate projects, he
mem mat me fault is theirs.
They have not seen hovnh
walls of their own counting houses
iiur reuoemzea tneir wider respon
sibilities, "it is the duty of busi
ness men." said Mr. Vanderllp "to
iiuiiK aeepiy enough on current
problems so that their conclusions
.111 a a i . .
tui Hiaon me test of open discus
sion." They must help to create
opinion by active participation In
public discussion.
Mr. Vanderllp urges an organ
ized endeavor to educate the pub
lic aa to business conditions and
the great economic principles un
derlying the complex structure of
tnodern industry. In the qhambers
cf commerce he sees machinery to
be used In such a campaign. ' He
would have them get the coopera
tion of men of all classes, espe
cially the representatives of labor
organizations. In molding a con-1
structiTe public opinion. He calls!
upon them to devote their most
unselfish efforts, their beet tal
ents and their truest patriotism to
working out the new ethics of
business demanded by modern con
ditions and the laws which will
enforce them.
Coming from such a source
there is significance in this sum
mons to broader activltea. No
thoughtful person would deny the
value of such public service as the
great leaders of the business world
could give. They must be pre
pared to find the public unrespon
sive at first. It will take time to
break down the distrust created
by their past absorption In selfish
alms. And they must be willing
to learn as well as to teach. They
must realize that the nation Is not
seeking business principles by
which multi-millionaire fortunes
can be created and handed down
but those which will insure equit
able division of wealth, and regu
lar employment under healthful
and humane conditions for the
humblest Worker. Will they put
their genius for organization, their
mastery of rffalrs, their wide ex
perience at the public service for
such aims? If so, their counsels
will be of value.
THE POOR MAN'S BURDEN
"L
AW enforcement is the poor
man's struggle against the
rich and mighty," said Dr.
C. J. Smith, in his speech
at Gold Beach.
. f He is right. Enforcement of
law Is order. Non-enforcement Is
disorder, and in disorder It is the
strong who get the kernel and the
weak who are left the husks of
life and labor.
Dr. Smith said:
It is not mors law that w need,
but strict anforcement of the law
we have. Our statute books are clut
tered; not only with useless laws, but
with many useful laws, Which are
not enforced. Law enforcement is
an Issue in this campaign, and It
cannot be set aside. It is an issue
of the age. It is the poor man's
struggle against the rich and mighty.
I will, if elected governor, lend
every power of my position to see
that the laws are enforced. Lax
law enforcement breeds disrespect for
the law and out of disrespect for
the law come our gunmen, our graft
ing public officials, our wreckers In
high finance, and tha robbery of
widows and orphans.
Truer words cannot be spoken.
Lax law enforcement corrupts offi
cials. A sheriff or district attor
ney or constable or-governor has
no right to set aside a law, no
right to say when law shall or
shall not be applied, no right to
say that one man shall be above
the law and another man be sub
ject to law.
Whenever and wherever officials
exercise such a right, It is the
strong man or strong group that
is permitted to be above the law
and the weaker and less influen
tial people that have to pay the
penalties of the law. In such
cases. It Is the rich and powerful
that go untaxed and the less for
tunate who have to bear the chief
burdens of government.
Lax enforcement, as Dr. Smith
truly says, has for its bitter fruit
"our gunmen, our grafting public
officials, our wreckers in high
finance and the robbery of widows
and orphans." Non-enforcement
of law is the poor man's burden.
PROMOTED LITIGATION
DRASTIC laws prohibiting at
torneys from soliciting per
sonal injury cases are pro
posed ay the ethics commit
tee of the Minnesota State Bar as
sociation. The committee's report
shows a mass of promoted litiga
tion which greatly increases the
cost of maintaining the courts.
One firm of Minneapolis law
yers making a specialty of per
sonal, injury cases has branches in
thirty-two cities. Salaried solicit
ors are employed. Hospitals and
medical staff have been provided
for non-residents while awaitin
trial. When the committee's re
port was prepared five weeks nan
there were pending In Minnesota
courts Bults instituted bv non
residents against railroads with
claimed damages aggregating 16,
358,522. In each of these cases
the plaintiff had a remedy in his
home court.
Personal Injury litigation against
the railroads has long been a
scandal in Minnesota. It has
come to be an established business
in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Trials
of this class of cases have fur
nished several scandals, for some
of the personal injury lawvera unA
their agents leave no stone un
turned to Becure their contingent
fees.
The entire system Is wrong, and
the bar association Beeks to bet
ter it by a law providing disbar
ment and fine for any lawyer who
solicits that sort of business. The
committee's report is significant
mainly because it. is evidence that
lawyers themselves are taking a
stand against promoted litigation.
TO BAKER IN 1915 '
A MOVEMENT hno
w isu Dial
ed in Eastern Oregon to se
cure the routing of a high
way mrougn Baker, Pendle
ton and La Grande to the Colum
bia river. It is proposed to fol
low in the main the old Oregon
trail over which the early emigra
tion came to the state.
Aside from Its sentimental as
pect such a highway would have a
most practical side. Not only
would it connect Eastern Oregon
towns with Idaho but it would be
a link in a transcontinental route,
i On the west it would join with
the Columbia highway and on the
east it would connect with a high-j
way running through ' southern j
Idaho and Northern Utah and j
uniting with the Lincoln highway,
at, Ogden. '
On the north it would tie into
the highway systems of Eastern
Washington and Northern Idaho.
Since Hood River county de
cided to construct its unit in the
Columbia highway the eastern
counties bordering on the river
have manifested much interest in
the extension of the route and it
is probable that some way will be
devised soon to hare a survey
made by the state highway en
gineer. The work of construction
east of Hood River will be com
paratively light and if a concerted
effort is made there is no reason
why there should not be a trunk
road from Portland to Baker next
year.
Its material benefits afe obvious.
It would be a most profitable in
vestment. RINGS AND RIXGS
EVERY campaign, the Ore
gonlan has visions of rings
and rings. There, for in
stance, were its spasms about
a Chamberlain-Bourne-West ring.
West was to help Bourne, Cham
berlain was to help Bourne, Bourne
was to help West, and so on and
so on.
But West isn't' a candidate.
Bourne isn't a candidate. The
far-seeing vision of the Oregonlan
was a fizzle.
Then it discovered the game
commission ring which it believed
was going to seize the government,
blow up the cruiser Boston, shang
hai the Oregonian's private candi
date for senator, declare martial
law and make war on Podunk.
But that great conspiracy fizzled.
Now the great discoverer and ex
poser of "rings' tells a waiting
world that there is a "Democratic"
ring.
Evidently the Oregonlan Is con
fused. The "ring" which it really
has in mind Is the bull ring it has
in the nose of its candidate for
governor to keep him from deliver
ing none but canned speeches on
"A Greater Oregon," duly O. K.-ed
and rubber stamped by "the ad
visers." EUROPE'S WORKSHOP
BELGIUM is called the Work
shop of Europe. It is a
country rich in resources.
Its people are thrifty, pro
gressive, and they enjoy a liberal
measure of self government. The
Belgians have had no burdensome
war tax to pay. In consequence of
which productive enterprises have
had rapid growth and the nation
has taken on both wealth and !
culture.
Rich deposits of coal and iron,
lying close together, account for
great industries. Liege is a cen
ter of firearm manufacture, and
there are hundreds of Belgian
plants where iron and steel imple
ments are made. The manufacture
of glass, pottery and textiles of
wool, cotton and linen has given
employment to many Belgians.
Nearly two-thirds of the coun
try's farms average only five acres
in extent and comprise nearly a
fourth of the cultivated area. The
remainder of the agricultural land
Is divided Into tracts ranging from
25 to 130 acres. IntensK-o moi.
ods of cultivation have been car
ried to a high degree of efficiency.
The country, though one of the
smallest in Europe, is the most
densely populated In the world,
Belgium's inhabitants numbering
approximately 7,000,000.
It Is the misfortune of the Bel
gians that their little nation Is on
the road between the enraged com
batants in the most extraordinary
conflict at arms In the time of
man.
PORTLAND FIREBUGS
SUSPICION has been enter
tained all along that the
Portland dock fires were not
accidental.
The discovery yesterday by Har
bormaster Speier of a layout of
"ismj mtiammaoie material all
prepared for lighting at the Ele
vator dock Is confirmatory of con
victions held by many observers
It ought not to be difficult to
put an end to these fires, If, as is
now widely believed, they are of
incendiary origin. A reasonable
patrol of the docks by competent
and attentive watchmen would
presently result in catching the
firebugs.
And when caught, the arrange
ments could be such that they
would not burn any more docks
for a while.
FOOD PRICE EXTORTIONS
THE gentlemen who are deftly
raising food prices to war
time figures In the United
States are going to encounter
something they never met before.
The whole machinery of the
United States government is al
ready in action to challenge them
in their infamous game. Every
federal district attorney In the
nation la under Instructions to
make aggressive inquiry and In
augurate prosecutions wherever
there are violations of the law.
President Wilson, meanwhll.
has called upon the departments
of justice and commerce to Inves
tigate the situation and report
what legislation, if any. Is required
to prevent the food-price raids
upon the dining tables of the
American people.
Never before in history has the
American - government - been so
completely- and so aggressively an
agency for conserving the welfare,
prosperity and tranquility of. all
the American people.
Letters From the People
(Oomtoanleatioaa seat to Tb Journal for
OUbUeacioa in tai department anoald be writ
ten on 'only one aid of taa paper, ahoald set
exceed 800 word to tenets and mnat bo ae
compaaied by toe name and addroa of tb
sender. If the writer doe not desire to
bst the nam pabUahcd, be should so state.)
"Dlaenoaioe la the great! t of an reform
er. It rationalises everything it touch. It
rob principle of aU falae aanetity and
throw than, back oa their reaaonableneaa. If
they bar do reaaonablenees. It rathleaaly
crcahea them oat of exlatenc and t op It
own conclusions la tblr stead." Wood row
Wilson.
The Foreigner in Campaigns.
Pendleton, Or., Aug. 11. To the Ed
itor of The Journal W. t. Bishop
seems to be taking very much to heart
tha idea of the temperance forces
bringing in speakers from what ha is
pleased to call the foreign lands In-!
dlana, Iowa and other states of the!
TTrtlnn T Hao a, II 1a .nan. rk Aff,n a
bit of consolation.
Perhaps he is a foreigner, or ha
would know that it ia no uncommon
thing for a speaker to go from one
state to another to assist in a cam
paign. '
Many times has the writer been
compelled to endure tha acony of lis
tening to some man from Indiana, Ohio
or Main discuss the threadbare tariff
question, and talk wool up one side
and lumber down tha other. More es
pecially do we get tired if our side is
getting the worst of the argument.
Well do I remember a gentleman
named Bryan, coming all the way from
Nebraska to tell us what was the mat
ter with the body politic, and nobody
dared call him a foreigner. And a
Captain Morgan, from Georgia or
soma other foreign state, was sent out
here by the whiskey people a few years
ago to help tie up tha out of town
voter with tha home rule amendment.
This thing has been going on here for
many years, and If Mr. Bishop remains
here long he will undoubtedly become
accustomed to our ways.
But what about those societies in
Portland and other coast cities that
are composed of people from under
another flag, many that can scarcely
speak a word of English, denouncing
prohibition In their meetings and
standing up candidates? Up in Wash
ington, as reported by the papers, they
are even boycotting those that dare ex
ercise their personal liberty in speech
and action.
But Mr. Bishop asks if anybody ever
heard of the Anti-Saloon league assist
ing to enforce the liquor laws of our
state, which is but another evidence
that he must be a recent arrival from
the "bid country, or he would know
they have been very active in that line
of work. But what about our friend
Bishop? Has he become famous for
his activity in law enforcement? Did
anybody ever see his name signed to
a set of resolutions approving the ac
tion of some officer who had dared do
his duty? DALE HOGAN.
Mothers and War.
Hood Elver, Or., Aug. 13. To the
Editor of The Journal In orfe of the
Portland papers recently was an article
saying some mothers were protesting
against war. I should think they
would, and some day they may be able
to so educate their children that war
will not be so popular as It seems to
be today. Anyhow, although poets,
like preachers and lawyers, ara liable
to color the truth sometimes, I like
this sentiment:
"Warriors and statesmen have their
meed of praise ' - .
And what they do or suffer men
record
But the long sacrifice of woman' a days
Passes without a thought -without a
word.
Many a lofty struggle for tha sake of
duty, sternly, faithfully fulfilled.
For which the anxious mind must
watch and wait
And the strong feelings of the heart
be stilled,
Ooes by unheeded as tha summer
wind
And leaves no memory and no trace
behind.
Tet more lofty courage often dwells
In one meek heart which braves an
adverse fate.
Than he whose ardent soul indignant
swells
Warmed by the fight or cheered
through high debate.
The soldier dies surrounded could he
live
Alone to suffer, and alone to strive?"
Perhaps Longfellow was right whet)
he said:
"Were half the power that fills the
world with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on
camps and courts.
Given to redeem the human mind from
error.
There were no need Of arsenals or
forts.
Tha warrior's name would be a name
abhorred!
And every nation that should lift
again
Its hand against a brother, on Its fore
head Would wear forever mora the curse
of Cain."
It may not be true, but it la worth
considering, anyhow.
J. M. BLOSSOM.
Prohibition Views and Crime.
Salem, Aug. 13. To the Editor of
The Journal We hear a great deal
about the amount of Insanity and
crime caused by drink. Prohibition
advocates charge anywhere from 65 to
95 per cent of all crime and insanity
to liquor. They invariably quote some
judge who, himself a prohibitionist,
had no more foundation for his state
ment than his own prejudice. In this
connection an Investigation in our own
penitentiary as to the habits Of its
inmates before conviction develops
that 87.7 per cent were intemperate,
80.5 per cent moderate drinkers and
81.8 per cent total abstainers before
conviction.
That not over 25 per cent of the
adult males of Oregon are total ab
stainers few will dispute. Personally,'
I do not believe that 20 per cent of the
adult males of Oregon are total ab
stainers, but I am placing It at 25 per
cent to be absolutely safe. Therefore,
the total abstainers, comprising 26
per cent of the men of Oregon, furnish
1.8 per cent of our convicts, while, the
75 per cent who drink furnish only
68.2 per cent of the criminals. In
other words, the total abstainers furnish-
about 7 per cent more criminals
than their natural quota, and the men
who drink 7 per cent less.
Nearly all the teetotalers are prohi
bitionists, and in order to believe In
prohibition a man must think he has a
perfect right to dictate to his neigh
bor in any matter. A prohibition mind
must necessarily believe in Ita God
given right to pass final judgment on
what other people may or may not do.
A logical consequence, therefore, la
that a man possessed of this kind of
brain, When crossed will resort to any
means to accomplish his ends. Any
man who believes he has a divine right
to say what his neighbor shall drink
can very easily convince himself that
be has the same rignt to kill that
neighbor over a disputed boundary line,
or any other real or fancied grievance.
I do not contend that a teetotaler la
any worse than a man who takes a
drink, neither can I believe that he is
any better, but I do contend that the
A FEW SMILES
A house hunter, getting off a train
at a suburban Station, said to a boy,
standing near:
'TWy boy, X am
looking for tha cor
poration's new block
of seml-d e t a c b e d
houses. How far ara
they from here?"
"About twenty
minutes' walk." said
tha boy.
"Twenty minutes!"
exclaimed the house hunter. "Non
sense. The advertisement said five."
"Well," replied tha boy, "yer can be
lieve ma or tha advertisement, which
ever yer want. But 1 ain't tryln to
make ho sale."
Chaplain Silver, of the United States
Military academy, tells this story:
. A wind was blowing the sand about
down at tha ma
neuver camp at
Texas City, and a
good deal of It sift
ed into one of the
kitchens. Of oourse,
some got Into the
food.
A lieutenant. In
specting during tha
mess hour, heard one man grumbling;
"Did you enter tha army to serve your
country or to grumble," he demanded,
sternly.
Tha man stood up, saluted, and re
plied: "I enlisted to serve my country,
sir. but not to eat It," Everybody's
Magaaine.
Tha enthusiastic angler was telling
some friends about a proposed fishing
trip to a lake in Colorado, which he had
in contemplation.
"Ara there any
trout out there?"
asked one friend.
"Thousands of
'em!" replied tha an
gler. "Will they bite
easily V asked an
other friend.
"Will they! Why, they're absolutely
vicious. A man haa to hide behind a
tree to bait a hook."
doctrine of prohibition is so contrary
to every principle of Christianity and
o subversive of liberty, that It can
not help giving at least a very Blight
criminal twist to the brain that ac
cept It. E. HOFER.
The Socialists and the War.
Portland, Aug. 16. To the Editor of
The Journal Dr. Aked's veiled sugges
tion of nihilism for the ending of wars
Is impracticable. It is as far from
giving a practical solution as it is for
him to suppose that church leaders
and promoters desire to follow the
teaching of Christ, in that which pro
motes wars. Neither the masses nor
the church people want war. The pro
moters of church, dominated by the
money power through the system of
profit making, do want war, and that
is why war is perpetuated. They have
no other way by which exploitation
of the people can be continued. Were
it not so we should have long since
beaten "our swords Into plowshares
and our spears into pruning hooks."
His question as to the Socialists of
Germany resisting the program of the
kaiser is fooltsh. Can a man save
himself from a flood that has already
engulfed him? Must he not first
reach the headgate, or the source of
the flood, the seat of military power
In government?
International Socialism has been
drawn Into this war on the defensive.
Socialists will not war on the offen
sive. War Is war a dominant force
in possession of our being, without any
alternative. We shall learn, when the
military censorship of this exploded
war sentiment haa cleared away, .that
the Socialists In Germany have not
acquiesced in this war.
International Socialism will be heard
from at the close of this titanlo strug
gle as never before in history. The
will of the people expressed along
lines marked out by International So
cialism will be felt aa never before.
The Socialist plan for an Internation
al congress made up of proportionate
representatives from all nations, and
an international armament of like
construction, to enforce its demands.
with no individual national war prep-
aratlons permitted or allowed except
that which is contributed to tha inter
national armament, will end all wars.
Socialists hope the beginning of the
end is here. C W. BARZEE.
The Kaiser.
Portland, Aug. 15. To the Editor of
The Journal In an article pertaining
to the kaiser on August 12, Mr. Hafner
In The Journal reminds many of us
that we are inclined to Judge without
knowledge, and that the average
American is unable to understand this
remarkable man. Open up the atlas
at once and let us see what Ger
many's colonial possessions consist
of. England. France and Russia
among them, have not left much on
the map that is worth having. Long
since they ate the apple and all that
m
is left for Germany is thaecore. The James J. Hill says that the rail
German possessions are of little value I roads will need about 84,700,000 a
when compared with those of the for- 1 day during the same time,
mer countries. That territory the kai-. A neat little sum this for us to
eer must have for his rapidly grow- J flnd an(1 iend to the pubiio utility
ing population (to be brief with it) ; corporations of this country! Do you
this Is where his war bluffing begins. wonder th4t the railroads are fighting
In tha Philippines in 1898 he tried desperately to secure the right to in
to bluff Dewey, but It didn't work. creaM their rates so that thoy may
He tried another stunt in eneauela mak) a gooa 8h0wing of earnings?
and the same thing happened. He bul- Qn tnelP ming power depends their
lied the Chinese and forced them to bong power. Do you wonder that
cede Klao Chow. In 1905 he told the electric light and trolley
Franco that the affair, of Morocco. companie8 ar, famntr ,nto the con.
a country In which he ha. only the ! trol of 8tr0nser stronger groups
vaguest interest must be .bmitted ; of capltBj,sts whose flnanlcal co.
IZ 01?- I tions extend to all the money markets
then gave to France a choice, by an - , . . -.,, v,
ultimatum, to dismiss Foreign Minis- ' nmLPle'bZ
tar Delcass. or go to war. Delcasse j c &B term8' tnan
was compelled to resign. Late In 1908 sraTt f ,,f v. v., -
cam. the Casablanca incident, a .or- I In the eiec' iC "ht . 1m
j?. .. .i ... , , ; ." , i per cent of the more than two bil-
by Germany as a chance again to hu-
mlllate France. Again France be
lieved herself in danger, but this time
she relied on the power of England
behind her, called the kaiser's bluff
and the diplomats arranged ah honor
able lettlement.
Not very long ago the same kaiser
made another war threat When Aus
tria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina,
the war lord said if Russia objected
he would land a powerful army across
the Russian border to enforce hi. de
mands. MICHAEL KENNY.
More About Chemical "Whiskey.
Portland. Aug. 16. To the Editor oC
The Journal Permit an ex-saloon
keeper to answer Charles H. King's
letter in The Journal of August 12,
under the heading, "Chemical Whi.ky."
A policeman In Duluth, Minn.. Informed
me that two saloon, on hi. neat, to
' his personal knowledge, had not pur
! chased 81 worth of whisky In 18 years,
but manufactured It from plug to-
bacco, water and alcohol, and Duluth
i is a strong whisky town. The chem
! leal whisky Mr. King mentions is sold
in saloons In Portland, to mdVe thor-
oughly rob and degrade mankind. I
Isold it myself when I was In the ac
cursed business. ,
Under prohibition Mr. King assures
PERTINENT COMMENT
fJMALL CHANGS ,
Too much corn juice makes a man's
voice husky.
Lucky is the fool man who manages
to get a sensible wife.
Many an Impressionable man falls m
love with a work of art and marries It.
The moth hasn't much use for a man
who possesses only one suit of clothes.
Real estate dealers wax fat at the
expense of men who want tha earth.
Time waits for no man, but men
waata a lot of time waiting for women.
Every tima a widower looks twice at
a woman the gossips hav something
to interest them.
When a man gets into trouble he
finds that his friends are always lib-
itu mm aayice.
Every candidate for village consta
ble imaelnes that tha mnntrv tii
t ta tVi Antra i..j "
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Those marooned European tourists
probably wouldn't mind it so much if
they could only get post cards made
showing them in the act of belnjf
marooned.
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Maybe Senator Bristow's defeat sig
nifies that when a statesman under
takes to reform a party from the inside
he does well to select a party that Is
rexormable.
LIEGE IS BELGIUM'S PITTSBURG
From the Philadelphia North Amer
ican. Strateslc points in the importance
of Liege, the fortified Belgian city,
are numerous.
Principally it is the most strongly
fortified obstacle to the supposed plan
of the Germans to cut across the low
er half of Belgium into French terri
tory, but in addition to this, the city
is of itself a prize in many ways.
In Us surroundings It is the Pitts
burg of- Belgium. For miles to the
southwest of the city, along the banks
of tha river Meuse, there are scores
of blast furnaces, puddling furnaces,
rolling mills and forges. It is the
site of the famous Cockerell works.
Bald to be the largest manufactory of
machinery in the world. The lion,
erected aa a monument on the field
of Waterloo, some sixty miles dis
tant, was made here.
Liege proper, with a population of
168,000, lies at the Junction of the
Meuse and the Ourthe, In a basin mar
gined by hilla. Many handsome build
ings and gardens strive to keep them
selves handsome against the tremen
dous odds of coal dust.
All afound the city Is a wealth of
coal and Iron oar. The mines extend
even under the city and river. These
natural riches. In connection with the
favorable situation of the city at tho
Junction of two navigable rivers, have
given rise to the extensive manufac
turing industry in the city itself.
The products are varied, but the
principal one, and that which would
make Liege a valuable prize of war.
is that of firearms. More than 20,000
persons in and around the city are
employed In the manufacture of guns,
ranging from small arms to the larg
est of modern weapons. There is a
royal cannon factory and a small-arm
factory also In the suburb of St. Leon
ard. In the wars of the last century
Liege has played only a small part,
but with prospects of a siege now, the
city finds itself well defended with
modern fortifications. Its strength,
it is said. Is far greater than has gen
erally been appreciated by military
strategists.
In 1888 the Belgium authorities de
cided adequately to fortify both Liege
and Namur, the two Important points
on the Meuse. At each place many de
taohed forts were constructed along
a perimeter drawn a distance vary
ing from within four to six miles of
the city. At Liege twelve of these
forts were constructed, six on the right
bank and six on the left side of the
river.
All of these forts have been kept
fairly well up to date. The heavy
guns. In their concrete casemate are
raised and lowered automatically. The
names of the forts on the right bank
of the river are Barchon, Evegnee,
i Fleron, Chaudfontaine, Embourg and
Boncelles. The average distance be
tween the forts Is four miles, but Fle
ron and Chaudfontaine are separated
by little over a mile in a direct line,
as they defend the main line of the
railway from Germany.
The six forts on the left bank, also
commencing at the north, around a
INVESTMENT DEMANDS OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
By John M. Osklson.
Expert, say. that in the next five
years the companies supplying gas,
electric light and power and traction
facilities for the tTnitArf states will
need new capital to the amount of
$4,000,000 a dav for overy working
; day.
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been put out by holding companies;
us thl. brand will be .old "In livery
barns, under bridges, in alleys and
freight sheds." And probably in cess
pool, and sewers, and this Is Just the
kind of an outlaw we'll make of the
liquor traffic next November in Ore
gon, and then we will camp on Its
trail and scourge it to death by rigid
enforcement of law.
Aa to destroying Oregon's hop In
dustry, why, that Is all bunko! For
eign markets will buy all the hops we
raise, and Mr King know, this Just
as well as I do.
I know the stuff sold over the sa
loon bar, and all about the whisky
ring, a. I wa. in the booze business
over five years. I. I. BRACKETT.
Our Daily Duty.
Portland, Or, Aug. 15. To the Ed
itor of The Journal For months past
the enemies of Senator Chamberlain
have been busy marshaling their
force, and laying secret political
mine, for the sole purpose of bring
ing about his defeat In the pendins
campaign. c
During all this time Senator Cham
berlain has been at his post of duty
In Washington, answering rvnr roll
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Kansans and Nebraskans of New
berg and vicinity will hold their an
nual picnic in the city park at New
berg next Tueaday.
The Democrat notes uncommon quiet
ude in criminal circles in Baaer and
the county, neither sheriff nor city
police having had anything in partic
ular ta do for many days past.
a
"Let's whoop up the county fair,
eyen if we are thinkng of something
else," sanely and boon t fully exclaims
the Baker Herald, evidently with the
European war excitement in mind.
on account of a charter obstacle
pointed out by Mayor Curl, the Albany
i-uuiicu nas deemed to aerer accept
ance of the donated Bryant park, pend
ing procedure necessary to forestall
i mure legal complications.
The Pendleton East Oregonlan ad
ministers what comfort it un h uv
ing: "Pendleton people who groan at
the present high price of sugar may
find consolation in the fact that,
whereas it is now bringing eight cents
a pound. 50 years ago in this locality
dealera were getting 45 and 60 cente
e
Port Orford Tribune: Frands Nord
berg, who is mining on the Harris
beach about a mile north of Brook
ings, is making excellent wage and
has enough pay dirt In sight to last
him all summer. The heavy surf of
last winter washed out an old drift
pile and left this deposit exposed.
western curve, are Pontlsse, Llers,
Lantin, Loncln, Hollogne and Flemalle!
It has been estimated by military
authorities that 28.000 men would be
necessary for an adequate defense of
these fortifications today.
Liege was made to figure largely In
Sir Walter Scott's novel "Quentln
Durward." in which Scott made a not
able blunder by speaking of the peo
ple of Liege as talking Flemlah. The
city is, in fact, the center of the
Walloon country.
The Walloons are Romanised Gauls,
In a much truer sense than their
Flemish neighbors, and speak the
French language.
The city first appears in history in
the sixth century, at which time a
town grew up around the original
chapel founded there by St. Monulph,
bishop of Tongres. In the tenth cen
tury the episcopate of Notger. which
had Succeeded the early line, was
marked by large territorial acquisi
tions and the see became recognised
aa an independent principality of the
French empire.
There were many popular risings
for freedom from the exactions of the
episcopal sovereigns, who were also
occupied in preserving neutralltv In
the various wars and preserving their
territory irom being raided by lnvad
ing armies.
They were only In part successful.
Liege was taken by Marlborough In
1702, and the fortress was garrisoned
by the Dutch until 1718. The French
revolutionary armies overran the prin
cipality in 172, and from 1794 to the
rail of Napoleon It was annexed to
France, and was known as -the depart
ment or tne uurthe.
The congress of Vienna In 1818 de
creed that Liege, with the other prov
inces or tne southern Netherlanda
should form part of the new kingdom
of the Netherlands, under the rule of
V ill lam I, of the house of Oranee.
The city of Liege took an active nart
in the Belgian revolt of 1880. and since
that date the ancient principality has
been incorporated into tha kingdom of
Belgium.
The principal point of Interest to the
tourists in Liege haa been the great
cathedral or church of St. Paul, found
ed in the tenth century and rebuilt in
the thirteenth century. The university,
founded in 1817, is one of the largest
In the country and enjoys a high repu
tation for education in the art of min
ing and manufacturing.
There are many beautiful gardens,
and the rivers are spanned by splendid
bridges, but the larger portion of the
city has a crowded aspect of narrow,
crooked streets.
The railway lines through Liege are
the direct routes from Cologne to
Paris, and from Luxemburg to Brus
sels, the possesion of either of which
would be valuable to the German
army.
Waterloo, the place which everybody
knows as the scene of the downfall of
Napoleon at the hands of the allies on
the 18th of June, 1815, is not on a di
rect line from L,Iege, but lies some 60
miles from it In an airline south from
Brussels.
in the gas business the proportion is
66 per cent of the 81.320,000,000;
and in the traction business it Is 81.4
per cent of the total of $4,043,663,000.
It Is the holding company, with
control of utility companies in many
and widely separated communities,
that appeal, to you to buy Its bonds
and stocks. To a previous financial
generation belongs the process of
combining the railroads, though It Is
still true that small lines are being
absorbed by the big systems.
Those who have the financial man
agement of the companies which
serve the public say that they must
have this $8,000,000 and mere a day
of new capital If the companies are
to meet the pubiio demands for bet
ter service. In every possible way
they are going to try to show you
that It will be to your profit to ad
vance a part of that sum.
There Is need for caution. Tou have
seen, that in their days of most ac
tive consolidation the railroad sys
tems took over burden, of debt which
later brought many of them to
bankruptcy. Tou as a patron of
a public service company may de
mand expenditures which will ruin
you as ap Investor in its securities.
call, working early and late for thosel
great measures of such vast Interest
to Oregon and our country, and there
he will remain, staunch and trua, un
til the trenches of standpati.m and
delay have been overcome, and vic
tory for legislation In the Interest or
our people has become an accom
plished fact
In the meantime what are the peo
ple of Oregon doing toward, paving
the way for the return of its brave
soldier who has ben so valiantly
fighting in its behalf? Are the men
and women of Oregon going to wait
until the last moment for their ab
sent leader, or wllj they now,, day by
day, begin the task and lay strong
and sure the foundation, and erect
the breastworks behind which an easy
victory for him la assured?
I contend Oregon owe. It to itself.
It owe. it to the nation. It owe. it
a. a friend of peace, happiness and
prosperity, to return Senator Cham
berlain by an overwhelming major
ity, and that It should be the daily
duty of every well disposed citizen to
do his part in the work necessary to
bring about that most Important task.
A CITIZEN.
IN EARLIER DAYS
By KrexJ Locklry.
"There seems to be nothing but war.
news in th papers nowadays," said
Salmon Brown, the last aucviving eon
of John Brown of Harper. Ferry.
x3iU.rh ',ml,Jr hav don M"
Part in the way of flghtinr. My
WM. to back up his
opinion, with his life, and an were
ml -U WMn t vory long after
SLJr-l 7" executed unUl the
slavery question came up for final
settlement and the long and bitterly
contested Civil war was on. I am ?
year. old DUt , wU, never b f(K
to be interested In is what is going oa
in the world. It looka as if Europe '
was going to be drenched with blood
before tney are through with this
"PdJI ever tell you how it was
tnat I did not serve In the Civil wart
I put in two years in the border war
fare during -66 and '66. fighting the
hell-born slave laws, and I was anx
ious to continue the work of fighting
for human liberty when the Civil war
was on. I had been married four
years, and while it was a wrench to
leave my wife and babies, I felt my
""i mj my country wa. above all
other obligations.
Colonel Farman wa. raisins- a rerlj
ment near Plattaburr. N. Y. Ha ukni
me to recruit a company in my nelgh-
""'"wo n me Adirondack, to be
known as company K. He told me Z
would receive a lieutenant', oommls-
ion in tne company I raised. Thl.
was In February. 1882. February.'
188Z. was an extremely cold month.
The snow lay four feet deep on a
level around North Elba. Mr. Hlnkley,
my wife's brother, and myself traveled
all through that part of the Adiron
dack mountains securing recruits We
reported at Plattsburg with our men,
and the soldiers gave us an ovation,
for they were anxious to go to Albany
to be mustered in and get away to
the front.
"In those days I had flaming red
hair and a red beard. I was over six
feet high, and I had never met the
man who could throw me. I wa. able
to hold my own in a rough and tumble
fight. I will never forget how the
Midler, picked ma up and carried me
on their shoulders when I reported
with my men. They were proud to
have a son of John Brown In thai
regiment.
"Colonel Farman called me to one
side and asked me If I had received
his letter. I told him I had received
no letter, as I had been so busy get
ting the company raised I had hardly
taken time to eat or sleep. He told
me the officers in the regiment had
circulated a petition which had been
signed by most of the officers, re
questing him to rescind my commis
sion as an officer, as the fact of a
son of John Brown being an officer
In the regiment would become known
throughout (he south, and would make
this regiment the peculiar mark for
the attacks of the rebels.' He said
the officer, felt that it wa. exposing
them to a needless and extraordinary
risk to serve in a regiment with a
man so bitterly hated by all the south
as the son of John Brown. Colonel
Farman told me he would not ask me
to resign my commission, aa I had
earned it, not only by my past experi
ence, in fighting, but also by raising
company K. He said: 'If you do not
resign, most of the other officers will
resign, and we will be delayed still
longer In getting mustered Into the
service.' He said tha officers had told
him they wouldn't serve with me,
nor under him if he allowed me to
continue an officer in the regiment.
I asked him what I had better do.
He said: 'I will not ask you to re
sign, but If you should do so, you
would be doing good service to your
country, as our regiment could be mus
tered In without friction or further
delay.' I resigned, and It was one
of the hardest things I ever did. I
felt I had been treated more than
unfairly. Though they were willing
to sing 'John Brown's body lies mold
ering in the grave, but his soul goes
marching on,' yt they were unwilling
to serve with a son of that same John
Brown, on account of- the additional
risk of getting killed. I was not
wanted in the army. I had been told
tne best service I could render my
country was not to serve It. I decided
then and there to go west, the further
the better; so I began making prep
arations to go by wagon to California.
1 discovered I was no safer from tha
hatred of men on the plains than I
v.-as in the Adlrondacks, and our
whole family narrowly escaped being
shot down. We escaped by a mere
scratch through the speed of our
teams and by traveling by night,"
HOO'S H00
Ky John W. Carey.
NoWVVC
Got it .
WHAX'CTL
Who's president of Mexico and wel
come to his Job? (We'll peg along
without the fame and puf.f in peace
our cob.)
Who answered to the 8. O. S. and
touched his cap "Aye, aye!" when
one Vic Huerta said. "I want an A-l
autumn guy?"
Who watched aforesaid Vlo act sail
serenely In hi. bark and toldhlm
self that he must b some kin to
E. Z. Mark?
Who find, himself wished up
against a wire, both live and hot,
h.-cl gladly drop ere reb. essay to
fill him fuU of shot?
Who hopes for better luck than had
Madero, Max. et aL? (X. B. Tht.
Rhyme not guaranteed.) Francisco
Carbajal.
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