THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND TUESDAY EVENING. AUGUST 18. 1914.
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; Times of general calamity
end confusion have ever been
productive of ths greatest
rm ml. The purest ore la from
the iwttcKt furnace, and the
tf)rM.i thunderbolt from the
Klarke.it cloud. Colton.
a disgrace
everr important elty in takes a chance.
the country.. It la not the pro-1 Not bo with : the employment
ducera that are to be elven thefagencr which takes a fee from a
benefit of the advance. With their i
heart beating for avarice and
their eyee riveted on the great
combat In Europe, the gluttonous
gamblers trained their artillery on
the buyers and ordered an assault
all along the line.
There is" a Just law of supply
and demand by which the values
of things should be measured.
There are criminal law in the na
tion, states and cities that pro
hibit the arbitrary control of prices
by gamblers in the necessaries of
life, and If there was ever, a time
when these laws should be In
voked for protection of the peoplet
it is now.
Since the food monopolists be
gan hostilities, let the country en
gage in a great war of national
defense.
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THE rivers and harbors bill was
reported to the House Febru
ary 2 4. It passed that body
March 2 G.
There 1b doubt as to whether it
will pass Coiu;reHS at this session.
Such is tho view of the United
States Chamber of Commerce as
expressed in a telegram printed in
yeeterday'8 Journal.
The hold-up of the bill is by a
minority of filibusters. Senator
Burton baa been delivering in in
bailments, a speech which began
the latter part of June and Is not
jet finished. He is aided by other 1 interests
senators who make the point of
no quorum and as a means of
harassing the advocates of the bill
Insist each time upon a yea and
nay vote.
The proceedings are a disgrace
to the Senate. Burton 13 a dis
grace to the Senate in resorting to
such tactics nt a time when Con
gress has been iu session almost
continuously for a year and a half,
when the country is In uncertainty
pending the passage of the anti
trust bills, and when the war in
Europe thrusts new and pressing
problems upon the president, the
cabinet. Congress and the country.
While Senator Burton and bis
factionlstB employ a highwayman's
tactics to kill the Senate's time,
Issues of great moment are kept
unsettled, many senators and con
gressmen are prevented from re
turning to their homes to take
part in their own campaigns for
reelection, and almost every water
way project In the country Is at a
standstill, with a prospect that
each will remain idle for a whole
, year.
There has never been In the
United States Senate, - a more in
defensible, a more ruinous, and a
more unpatriotic spectacle.
Every man who has taken part
In It, ought to be driven from the
Senate.
HARVESTING THE CROPS
T
HE women and children are
harvesting the crops in Ger
many, says a dispatch from
Berlin. It is the same in
Fran.ce. in Russia, in Servia. in
Austria and in Great Britain.
The man marches to where glory
awaits but the woman remains at
home and harvests the crop. The
: part played by her in war is greater
1q - Importance than the part en
acted by the man. She is the pre
serving power. It is her planting
and harvesting of the crops that
sustains the army In the field. It
Is her planting and harvesting of
the crops that enables an lmprls
oned land to raise a ransom of
millions. Ifwas the French peas-
ant woman that enabled France to
pay an Indemnity of over a billion
within a few months.
The sound of the measured
march of millions of men, the
sight of great conflicts on sea
- , and land, the recasting of the
boundaries of nations all fade away
; before the vision of the girls who
will never be wives, the wives who
. ! will never be mothers and the
' mothers who will never be grand
', mothers harvesting the cr6p.
AS OTHERS SEE II LM
ENATOR CHAMBERLAIN'S
power in the senate and his
popularity in the East are the
frequent subject of Eastern
newspaper comment. In a reeent
issue the Clearfield, Pennsylvania,
Public Spirit says:
The people of the East recognize
the great influence of Senator Cham
berlain of Oregon, and are deeply
anxious to see him reelected by his
state constituents. There should be
no opposition to this brainy, patriotic
member of the upper house, and there
would be none If the people of Ore
son were Informed as to the power
he wields in the national halls of
legislation.
Of similar purport is an editorial
from the National Tribune, the
favorite paper of the G. A. R., pub
lished at Washington, D. C. It
says;
Senator Chamberlain has, during his
five years in the senate, justified the
choice of the people of Oregon, and
has shown himself a man of unusual
ability and devotion to the public
He is far from being a
"rubberstamp" -for southern politicians,
as one northern member of congress
proclaimed himself to be. but has
carried his own sovereignty and done
his own thinking under his own hat
In this way he has attained a very
flattering prominence among his col
leagues as a man of light and lead
ing, and whose utterances must be
listened to with careful attention.
This led to his being given assign
ment to the Important committees of
military affairs, agriculture and for
estry, appropriations, commerce, pub
lic lands, and the territories. There
are few senators who have an equal
place on so many committees of the
first rank.
These are views of Chamberlain
by those near or at Washington.
They are disinterested testimonials
to bis influence and standing in
the senate and are bound to carry
weight. They show that Chamber
lain in the senate is a powerful
asset for Oregon.
The same traits of character that
have won him so many friends in
Oregon, win him friends on the
floor of the senate. Of this, there
Is fullness of proof in his high
committee assignments. Rarely does
a senator rise to such positions of
influence In so short a time.
As chairman of the - committee
on millitary affairs, he Is at the
head of one of the most authori
tative committees In the body
That was probably what prevented
the abandonment of the Vancouver
barracks as a military beadquar
ters, a proposition of important
bearing on Portland.
As a member of the committee
on appropriations and of the com
mittee on commerce, he is In posi
tions peculiarly placed to render
great service to Oregon.
It is, in part, because of his high
committee assignments that Sen
ator Chamberlain refuses to leave
the capital and come to Oregon, to
take part in the campaign for his
reelection, notwithstanding the fact
that he has been in almost can
slant attendance on Congress for
nearly eighteen months.
Jobless man, knowing beforehand
that the "men are to be kept
moyng.
THE CORKED CANDIDATE
HERE are governors and4 gov
ernors, and candidates and
candidates.
It is not often that a proud
commonwealth has the distinction
of a gubernatorial candidate whom
the advising politicians" have
corked up so tightly on state issues
that he will not even tell himself
what ho thinks of things.
It Is a perfectly legitimate plan.
and far be it from The Journal to
say one word in derogation of Dr.
Withycombe for running for of
fice, closed up as tightly as a Ya-
quina Bay oyster.
The scheme Is at least to be
commended for Its novelty. Dr.
Withycombe is, of course, per
mitted to tise his well known
speech, "A Greater Oregon; and
wfcan the inquiring voter looks to
the candidate for light on the late
Governor Pennoyer and the Chi
nese, or on the single item veto,
or on the relation of the governor
to the legislature, or on the ap
propriations and the executive ve
toes in the 1913 legislature, or op
some way to lower taxes, or on
other great current Issues, the
candidate thus addresses them;
Oh, my friends; Oregon Is a great
state. Its rivers teem wih fish. - Its
fir-clad mountains are yet untouched,
and onjy the beginning has been made
in agriculture. Boon, oh. my good
friends, the mines will be but holes
in tho ground.
And, ruminating on the holes
to come where the mines now are,
the palpitating voter asks himself.
"what, then, oh, my good, friends;
will become of the watermelons on
the, vine?"
of England and the Csar of Russia.
King Albert of Belgium is a son
of a Hohensollern princess and his
wife was born Duchess Elisabeth
of Bavaria,
Should Greece, Roumania and
Bulgaria be drawn Into the con
flict it would involve other mem
bers of the German family.
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
The lady of the house was explain- j
ins things to the new maid.
"An what's this, .missus?" asked i
the girl. Indicating
a metal bottle.
"That is a bottle
which will keep
things etiher hot or
cold, which ever you
When the history of .ae great lr" "5 tne
a-i uuw involving a wauia conti
nent is finally written, it will be
recorded that it was not peoples
but rulers that brougLt on the con
flict. Could there be a more ter
rific Indictment of our civilization?
There is no longer a Mexican
problem. It was settled without
war. It was settled without war
because, while the Jingo politicians
and Jingo newspapers worked for
war, Woodrow Wilson worked for
peace.
Letters From the Peopla
(Oomroeaieations seat t Tbe Journal for
publication in tai department aboald be writ,
ten oq only ene aide of tbe paper, abould not
exceed 300 words in length and mast bm ac.
compaaled by tb name and addreas of tba
aender. If tba writer doaa not desire to
bare the name published, be should so state.
"DiaenaatOB Is tba greatest of an reform,
era. It rationalises everything it tonchea. It
root principles of all falao aanetitr an"1
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they have no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and sets up its
own conclusion in their stead," Woodrow
Wilson.
"Well, fob the land
sake!" ejaculated the girl,
gwine to know whether
things hot or cold?"
sT
"How Is it
you want
The students of Oxford stand much
upon punctilio in the matter of mak
ing acquaintances, in s eo much that
one will not noia
the least Intercourse
with another unless
the proper formula
of Introduction ha
been gone through.
It Is told as a
quia upon them for
this peculiarity that
a young gentleman who had recently
entered one of the colleges happening
to be seized with a cramp while bath
ing in the Isis and being on the point
of sinking, probably to rise no more, a
youth of older standing who leaned
over a bridge near the scene thus
soliloquized: "Dear me! What a pity
I was not Introduced to that fresh
man perhaps I might have saved
Mm."
USING THE RIVERS
F
EOPLE of the Mississippi val
ley are awakening to the pos
sibilities of that river as a
route for traffic. A steel
barge has Just traversed the stream
from New Orleans 'to St. Paul and
has laid down 1000 tons of freight
at a carrying price under that
charged by the railroads. There
is to be a fleet of these barges,
thus Insuring cheaper rates to a
large class of tonnage.
Another company has inaugur
ated a through line of transpor
tation from the Great Lakes to
the Gulf of Mexico. It has estab
lished a service consisting of
steamers and steel barges for han
dling traffic along modern lines
of water transportation. All-water
rates will be put in, with through
transfer to ocean ports at New Or
leans, thereby affording Inland
Shippers a material reduction in
freight rates and equal privileges
of the Panama canal with shippers
of seaport towns. In spite of the
complicated route, it is estimated
that water rates will be 25 per
cent cheaper than rail rates.
Barges of light draft will be
used on the Drainage and the Illi
nois and Michigan canals, for han
dling freight between Chicago and
La Salle. From La Salle, head
of navigation on the Illinois river,
to New Orleans a through line of
steamers and barges will be used.
The company will arrange for
dockage and wharfage at all points
along the route. There will be a
terminal and warehouses at La
Salle, equipped with modern ma
chinery for handling freight.
The Mississippi river has been
practically closed to through traf
fio for 25 years. Railroads have
done the carrying while the river
remained unused.
A CRUEL PRACTICE
I
Recreation League Camp.
Portland, Aug. 15. To the Editor of
The Journal. I wish through your col
umns to draw tho attention of the pub
llo spirited people of Portland to th
great good being done by the Recrea
tion League CarriD. located ahrmf Kft
miles from Portland on the bank of
tbe Columbia river. The camp is
most beautifully situated. It 1b about
180 feet from the station of Cascades,
on the S. P. & g. railroad, and about
800 feet from Moffett's Landing. I
have Just returned from a trip to this
camp. As a father who has placed his
son In tills camp, I cordially indocse
the management, and testify most
grateruny to the skillful care and at
tention given to the boys. There are
four roomy, well ventilated tents. In
each of which six boys may be accom
modated, In double-decked sanitary
steel cots and In each tent there is a
leader a student of Reed coUpcr whn
understands boys and Is responsible
for their conduct and welfare. The
boys make their own beds and share
the work of the camp, In squads.
Games of all kinds are Dlaved and
about half a mile away is Jiagle lake.
wnere tne Doys are allowed to fish
and swim, always under the careful
supervision of their leaders.
Mr. Arthur Evans Wood, who is in
charge of the camp, together with his
efficient assistants, has redueed the
friction of management to a minimum.
Mr. Wood needs $600 to continue the
camp until school Opens. If this can
not .be raised he will be compelled to
close down much earlier. The charge
of S3. 50 a week pays only tho bare
expenses when there are 25 boys la
camp.
Will not many of the Portland peo
ple contribute to this camp, especially
as all the money is spent for the
welfare of the kiddles and none is used
for clerk hire and office management?
If you cannot send some money, per
haps you can. send some boys and
In this way show" your appreciation.
Checks should be sent and made pay
able to Ray Small. Lewis building,
Portland. I shall be pleased to give
detailed information to any who call
on me at 774 Hoyt street. Home phone
A-3340. A. a NEWELL.
A young man dining in a restaurant
one day ordered some noodle soup,
and while eating it came across a
needle. Immediately
upon the discovery
he called the waiter
over and said: "Look
here, waiter, I found
this here needle in
my soup."
The waiter, with
a s u r p r 1 sed look,
glanced at the needle and then picked
up tho menu card, looked up and down
the printed columns a moment, then
a broad smile crept over bis face and
ho exclaimed, "you see, sah dat dat
am Jest a typographical error 4at
dat should am bin a noodle." Na
tional Foed Magaslne.
fJMALL CHANGE ,
A true martyr doesn't advertise.
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Most family hotels have all the dis
comforts of a home.
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Many a good story has been spoiled
by sticking to facts.
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An agreeable prson is the one who
talks to you of yourself.
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The easiest way nut to settle a dis
pute Is to go to law about It.
If forced to eat their words, more
men would have Indigestion.
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Beware of people who are easily
convinced; they are dangerous.
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What some villages need is fewer
street fairs and more fair streets.
Necessity knows no law. and it is
usually too poor to interest a lawyer,
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When a man aauanira 1 1 .
rlage lloeuae, heisbuylnff troubje.
,.LJvAa ?f f"et men oft remind us
that the book agent hi still on the Job.
Most DCODla talk t
always because they have something
m a
Man was made to mourn, and woman
was made to see that he keeps ever
lastingly at it
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Don't Imagine that because a man is
short in stature it was brought up on
condensed milk.
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Jou may break, you may shatter the
old tien if you will, but the landlady
serves it aS spring chicken still.
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And some women wouldn't enjoy liv
ing In a heavenly mansion unlens they
could clean house at least once a
month.
OREGON' SIDELIGHTS
IN EARLIER DAYS
tty Fred Lockley.
To keep pae with Albany s growing! At Morrison street you wUl .
telephone needs, $6000 has been ap- ' se sn which reads, "Alexis Malrct, .
proprlated to put in additional equip
ment and local extensions.
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It is practically pertain, in the opin
ion of the Kxanilner, that a state rih
hatchery will be stabliahed in the vi
cinity of Lakevlew in the very near
future.
Swiss Watchmaker." A day or .two
ago I spent an interesting hour witn
Mr. Malret.
"Ten, 1 have been in Portland quit
a while," he cal For 33 years 1 had
; my place in the St. Charles hotel,
which in its day waa Portland's lead
The Raele. colntlnir with pride to lPg hot.cl- 1 . wa" born in NeuchateU
Milton's city tax levy, says: "A 4-mlli j -Switzerland, 74 years ago. Our coun'
tax is the lwiut tins city has paid for try will .defeml its neutrality In th
20 y-ars, and the smallest of any city great upheaval in Kuroj-e. We have
in the county, with th possible excep- aylng that a handful of Swiss, on our
tion of fccho. ,own 8oil Sit)d among our on moun-
"The dry wefither thin summer." says lil"s-can defeat an heading army."
the Ashland Tidings, "is causing many!&n1 lh saying is a true una, ws are
a farmer who lust year looked askance j an M country and we have much to
upon tne piaiiB tor irrigation projects c proud or. Six hundred and sixty-
h.thllt I1? hacl "u BUtnmarlly six years ago Rudolf of !at.aburg was
turned down the promoters. There is Dorn in our ,.,mfrv n. ..
little doubt that many land-owners , ;" coun,tcy-1 became a
would sicn up today who would not a Kencrtt'' and late' ln emperor
year ao."
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Bandon Recorder: The Bandon beach
and city park are regular cities of
tent, tiiere beini? rows of them along
the beach extending from Tupjier rock
to Dennett's beach, about three miles.
There are people from as far north as
of Uermany and the founder of a royal
una.
"After the battle of Waterloo, niv
canton, Keuchatel, with Geneva and
Valois, sent delegates to the congreas
of Vienna to becoui a part of 8witr-
iand in faot as well aa in heart. On
Grays Harbor, Washington, to as far ' March 16, 1816, thy granted our re
quest, and it was then agreed that In
all future wars In Europe the neutral
ity of Switzerland should b reapected.
Our canton had belonged to the Jiaba
bur:a up to J70T, whon it was taken
by Prussia and became a Prussian
province. In 1S31 a revolution oc
curred to secure complete independence
from Prussia, which still Claimed to
ue our overlord. Moat of ihnu uih.i
sou tii as Stockton, California, and from
tne interior of Washington, Oregon
and California.
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The Condon Times, in an article on
grasshoppers, Bays: "Does anyone re
member the year the crickets took
every green thing in sight along the
John Pay river, soma 22 years ago?
Talk about the little visitation of
prasshoppers this year! They are not
10 ue mouKm
those crickets
ui poa vine, iney lasted about six
weeKH, then disappeared, and have
never come back, to our knowledge
They were very plenty in the Cow. ic
this county enough to fatten hogs."
of in comparison with I rose T were VmV.i V, , . . V. .
Kverythlm? went hut t?, ,,T . ". ,U"od a,Hi Put to-death,
They lasted about six ' ' ut ' '""-! .'S-l-'oiuls, itu Inaur-
FOOD SUPPLY MUST BE PROTECTED
many other such examples. Of course,
in some cases they were not found
guilty. That did cost the county some J have been declared in Europe, in tha
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The supremtv duty of the govern
ment, in pursuit of its well recognized
powers of regulation, is to prevent
any starvation of this people. If spec
ulators attempt It. Our storehouses
are bursting with harvests. There is
no scarcity, but great abundance.
In practically every other country in
the world the ordinary nrocesaes of
business have stopped. Moratoriums
APPEAL TO POLAND
AN AMERICAN WAR
W
AR has been declared on tbe
American people.
In some aspects, the
struggle is aa fierce and 1 Gi0nars
the eliect as terrible as the de
vastating conflict over the 6ea.
It is a war by the food gamblers
' whose attacks are directed against
' thA dlniner tardea nt thn TTnttnri
1 States. Hostilities began with the
. boosting of food prices at the mo
, ment when all the power of the
t government and all the energies
of Congrees aa well aa the unsel
' fish endeavors of many great prl
- I vate interests were bent to provide
a way for transporting our great
surplus of products to the hun-
gering peoples of Europe.
In an hour when ocean trans
i j portatlon is paralyzed and the
" whole Influence of the American
republic is moving . heaven and
: i earth to restore transportation and
prevent our products from rotting
t In the warehouses, food gamblers
" : commission their admirals and call
" out their generals to begin a war
6f piracy upon the whole American
if people.
: - It was not by accident thatfood
T WAS charged that a Portland
employment agency offered to
"split fees" with an employing
contractor, . at a hearing before
the city council Friday.
C. A. Duncan, a contractor, made
affidavit that the agency made a
proposition to him to "keep the
men moving, , one band going and
one band coming," all. the time,
and split the fee charged for the
job, as the agency had plenty of
men.
James Harbick, a sub-contractor
on the Columbia Highway, made
affidavit that tho agency offered
to buy him a $40 suit of clothes
and 'make ther presents it. he
would keep his men moving, as
the agency had plenty of men.
There was testimony in rebuttal,
but on a tie vote the city commis-
refueed to renew the
agency's license to continue in
business.
Of course, there are honest em
ployment agencies; But they are
in danger. The unquestioned
abuses practiced by dishonest agen
cies is rapidly creating a sentiment
for substituting publio for private
employment bureaus.
Here was sworn testimony at a
publio hearing, in which there was
statement that the agency wanted
the men kept moving. It wanted
employed men discharged by the
contractor so the agency could
have more fees for supplying more
men, and in order to make the
plan successful was willing to di
vide the fees with the contractor.
What a cruel process! What a
brutal program, to take the fee
and then by collusion with the
contractor, get the men discharged
so other fees' could be extorted
from jobless men!
When he thrusts a pistol in the
face of a belated pedestrian and de-
0
UT of the European war may
come a partial atonement for
one of the greatest wrongs
in history, the destruction of
the Polish empire.
In hla extremity the Czar of
Russia has promised to grant to his
Polish subjects a boon for which
they have struggled for genera
tions. Not only to Russian Poland but
to Austrian Poland and to German
Poland he has proclaimed that if
they will come to his assistance he
will restore the ancient kingdom of
Poland and give it an autonomous
government. The fire at Polish
altars will be- rekindled and the
tongue of the mother will be heard
on the streets as well as at the
hearthstone.
Whether the Poles will accept
the Russian monarch's proclama
tion as a sincere one or not re
mains to be developed. If it is
so taken and all Poland unites it
will have been a master stroke on
the part of Nicholas and it will
have a decisive effect on the result
of the war.
To paraphrase a familiar quota
tion, Sarmatia, which fell unwept
without a crime may find a gen
erous friend, a pitying foe, strength
in her arms and mercy in her woe.
Revenue Prom Liquor Traffic.
Newport, Or., Aug. 15. To the Ed
itor of The Journal Not long ago W.
S. Hollls propounded three very fair
questions to be solved by the wets.
On August 6 W. J. Bishop undertook
the Job. On August 8 Ella M. Finney
evidently thought she could do bet
ter.
To Mr. Hollls' third question, "If
the saloon Is such a good thing, why
charge a tax to allow It to operate?"
Mr, Bishop replied, "The main reason
Is to get revenue enough to run the
government," which is the popular
opinion of many, and always advanced
by the saloon element.
Ella M. Finney replied to the ques
tion thus: "The tax is too heavy. It
is an imposition on the man who han
dles our produoe. Our new saloon
will be as attractive as a drug store,
have pure liquor, better laws, no druitk
ards, lower taxes and greater respect."
.What a blessing her new saloon will
be. To obtain this wonderful bless
ing she tells us to "vote wet." Every
saloon man and every drunkard sings,
"Vote wet." In conclusion she says.
"We, the producing people of Oregon,
demand it, and It will have to come."
Will the honest farmers of Oregon re
buke this demand at the polls or will
they line up with her and the alums?
According to the report of the com
missioner of internal revenue for 1912,
Uncle Sam received from the liquor
traffic 1213.042,840. This is tha rev
enue Mr. Bishop says wa get to run
the government, and the commissioner
of Internal revenue said, "Witheut it
the wheels of th govrnment could
not go." These are false statements.
for they fall to tell us that the traf
fic robs the people of more than 10
per cent of which gets into Uncle
Sam's treasury as revenue, which Is
the price- of protection. In other
words, we are paying out more than
t2. 100, 000,000 to collect $212,043,340.
an annual loss of revenue of $1,S87,-
957,660.
National prohibition would save it.
Vote dry. E. W. DURKEE.
money.
He still raises that old cry that
Oregon going dry will ruin Oregon's
hopyards. Not one liquor advocate,
so far as I have seen, has ever at
tempted to deny that not over 2 per
cent of Oregon - raised hops is used
in Oregon. Then how will t per cent
of "destruction" kill a business when
50 per cent loss of grain, vegetables,
fruit, etc., does not destroy those in
dustries? Any business that cannot
stand a 2 per oent decline is, to say
the least, on a small margin.
Then, as to the xetarding of Ore
gon's development for 50 years by th
hop destruction, that is nothing but
buncombe. There is no foundation for
any such talk.
Let both sides stick to the truth.
Truth will prevail, and when truth
prevails such evils as the saloon and
the brothel will be done away with.
F. M. CANFIELD.
Treaties of Little Value.
Redmond, Or., Aug. 13. To the
Editor of The Journal Your editorial
in Wednesday's Journal entitled
"Laughing Stock" is surely laughable.
You say, "What If they" (Bryan's
arbitration treaties) "had been in ef
fect at the time Germany was ne
gotiating with Russia?" Well, suppos
ing they had have been In effect Do
you think any more attention would
have been paid- to said treaties than
was paid to the treaties guaranteeing
the neutrality of Belgium? If you do.
will you kindly explain why you think
so? As
of Belglt
treaties, duly signed, sealed, witnessed
and acknowledged, sworn to by both
Germany and England. But what did
the treaties amount to when con
fronted with the exigencies of war?
And I opine that would be the fate of
Bryan's treaties in case of war.
Treaties are all right and look nice on
paper and help us to advertise our
selves as a "most Christian nation,"
and all that, but under the stress of
war, either existing or in contempla
tion, they amount to but little.
J. A. WILLCOX.
Belgium is a little nation of 7,000,
000 population. The Wilson-Bryan ar
bitration treaties, if engaged in by all
the big nations with all tha big na
tions, would have been observed, and
there would have been no wax.
Editor.
orient, and in South America. The
United States has become the granary
of the world.' It can ask and get al
most any price, in gold, for its food
stuffs. This abnormal foreign de
mand, there is reason to suspect, is
being usod to lift domestic prices, to
euchre Americans out of their heri
tage, to make them pay tribute.
E4ch nation in Europe Is protecting
its food supply. We may be com
pelled to do likewise. Before we feed
others we must feed ourselves. Of
that right we are deprived if in any
manner tha, catastrophe in Europe ia
used to lessen the purchasing power
of a dollar in the foodstuff markets.
Before our abundance is sold abroad
at an extravagant profit, there must
be assurance that the supply at home
Shall not be sold for a fictitious price.
In quantity and in price, our own
market must be assured.
Bxport duties will not remedy the
situation. Those who suggest them
forget the provision of the constitu
tion that "no tax or duty shall be laid
on articles exported from any state."
The emergency, on the otbr hand,
endows the government with ample
powers to protect itself. It at one
time went so far aa to put a general
embargo into effect. Its functions
broaden in crises and the fundamental
law is automatically stretched to
clothe with large remedial authority
the federal government. It cannot
exorcise powers specifically denied It,
but Its competency by Implication be
comes complete.
It has been sugRebted if the com
mon law is not sufficient t prevent
an outrageous attempt to saddle our
citizens with the burden of the great
war. if public opinion due not suffice,
to deter it, that the president be em
lowered, within his Judgment, to pro
htiit exportations of any foodstuffs
when such exportation: will reduce
the domestic supply below the normal
consumption in this country. That
would be extraordinary legislation, of
a kind only expected under martial
law, and would not be Justified unless
the emergency were' vastly greater
than it now threatens to be.
There is no reason to becom ex
cited. The lack of carriers may spned-
(1,7 rnniri rii iri.wii In 1 1 r a that th.v i , n
not base prices on the European de- i i(Ml,
viand. The difficulty of exportation
may Itself be a depressant sufficient
to assure a reasonable market. It is
evident, too, that publio opinion may
be effective. The country is already
making itself heard. But It la well
that speculators should understand
that the nation is not without means
of self defense. A permanent holdup
of the country is not possible; it la
even inconceivable.
ioc lion occurred mul I m iru..Un
eagle was haul..! down and replared
by the Swiss fla. ,v t!lu nftXt feW
years there wan much plotting by tho
royalists to regain NfiiclmtM for tha
Jiohenjolleriia. in l S52 the royalists
made an unsuccessful attempt to re
store it to I'rUntiian rule. In IMS thai
royalists took the chateau of Neuoha
tel and ruptured tiie ttate council.
The republicans recaptured the cha
teau, taking over 000 royalist prison
ers, all of whom were released but
less than 30. Prussia made ready to
Invade Neuchatol. AU Switzerland
prepared for war with Prussia. Hwlna
in other countries leturned to right
for their country. Boon we had 30,00'J
men guarding our frontier, while our
women were at home taking care of
the crops and makinc line n !u twin a-M
' to drons the wound!.
"Oeiieral Dulour became commander-in-chief
and all H v.-l tzerland rang with
"ltufst du, mcin Vat. Hand ?'
"NnpolroPi III became mediator, ami
in May. 1m;o. in l-arls, a mity wun
iKned releainB Neucl.aiel from all al
legiance to Prtisxia.
"When i ai a liy I went to tha
hospital at Ponla-ir-Mnrt-l and gt"
the body of my oijcr brother, who had
been killed in defejisc ..f the neutral
ity of his country.
"We have nern many changes In our
canton, but nowhere I tin re. more pa
triotism iMid loyalty than anion;; th
people of Nc'ichatel. As we did In tha
Franco-Prussian war, so we will do
arm and fight to tl.e death, if
need be. to maintain our neutialitv."
HOO'S H00
Iy John W. Carey.
NEW ALLY IN BIG THRIFT CAMPAIGN
By John M. Osklson.
Now the Y. M. a A. is going to
take up thrift boosting! Hera and
there among the more than 2000 as
sociations in this country, with their
f understood it, the neutrality i membership of more than 500,000 men,
dm was guaranteed by solemn the thrift idea is getting Into clrcula-
tion, and the men responsime ior out
lining the big campaigps this organ
ization undertakes are trying to for
mulate plans for making this one
broad and appealing.
From "what some of the Y. M. C. A.
officials have said to me, I should
Judge thawac somebody has a fine op
portunity. It is to come forward with
such a plan as will catch ths atten
tion of thoss who work for wages
and then show them how to translate
the impulse to save Jnto effective
action.
If the Y. M. C A. proves half as
enterprising in going after the sav
ings of working Americans as the
saloons have been, it will make a
record to be proud of.
Think over what I said. Remember
that the Y. M. C. A.'s of this country
C
THE SAME FAJIILY
ONSIDERED as a conflict be
tween rulers merely the Eu
ropean war is literally a fam
ily row, exclnding the French,
It is a quarrel of a big German
family. The British royal house
ia German and the Romanoffs of
Russia have intermarried with the
Hohenollerns for two centuries to
so large an extent that Czar Nich
olas 1$ more German that Frahi
Joseph.
The - King of England and the
Emperor of Germany are first
Suggesting a Rapprochement.
Portland, Or., Aug. J6. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. The members of
the A. O. H. are formally to open
their new hall In the near future.
Their fellow countrymen in Ireland,
after centuries of active and passive
resistance to English rule, have in
this hour of dire peril to England
decided to withdraw this resistance,
extend the hand of friendship to
their former oppressor and offer even
their lives if necessary to uphold the
honor of England's flag In the present
conflict In order to follow in soma
measure this splendid example of pa-
have nearly 8800 general secretarlea
and other paid officials, and that they
spent last year over 113.180,000 ' in
the big tak of trying1 to make men
more effective as citizens of this coun
try. This organization wants to find a
plan for encouraging thrift. It wants
to put the subject before the youns
men so graphically that not one can
tail to see that thrift is worth while.
And In thinking about any plan to
submit to the Y. M. C. A. nearest you.
don't make the mistake of thinking
that it must be a sermon. Probably
a motion picture, a map, or a diagram
(better still a mechanical device) for
showing the actual results of thrift
practice would be preferred.
This thrift movement in the United
States is pne of the fine new actuall-
ties we have in charge you and I.
Unless we back it up with help and !
counsel, unless we are willing to pass I
along what we find out about It, it !
will cease to Interest people. j
Haven't you, a suggestion to make
to the Y. M. C. A-?
1 PLftTVoRrA,
J tr-i HERVARlQtJS fpRM 3 I,
era. Worse will befall all lines of
business If the nation's liquor pro
i.otton is changed into what is al
ready too much of otner products;.
163,194,700 of eastern and roretgn
money for our Oregon hops, and our
own local millions, is the cornerstone
of our hop industry. Add to this
a hoavy percentage, imported and lo
cal, for our fruit, grain and potatoes,
liquors. Shall we retrograde, or shall
we make the valley black with the
loganberry and golden with hops?
The folly of the drunkard Is dis
gusting. The folly of prohibition is
i n..rkr in its rirst acr n ia
triotlsm and forgiveness, it might betion. in jtg. final completion it de-
stroys tus runaameniai pnuipiua
existence.
Vote wet for prosperity, for lower
taxes, pure politics and good fat pock
Jt7.ook ELLA M. FINN Ex .
suggested that the A. O. II., as the
most representative and important
Irish organization in the city. Invite
the kindred British organizations to
participate in the ceremonies Incident
to the opening of the new hall, have
British Cop8ul Erskine, leading Brit
ish subject in Portland, as president
of the day, and in the scheme of
decoration have the English flag take
preoedence over ' all flags, except, of
course, the Stars and Stripes. This
will show the world that the Irish
men of Portland who in the past
have contributed so generously to
help win Ireland's lpng battle for
In Reply to air. King.
Shedds, Or., Aug. 14. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. Tn Tha Innmol i
of Auirust 12. Charles H. K"tn , v ! Justice, are as willing to forgive anrt
that if Orecon soes drv mnnnshin. forget as their countrymen at the
whiskey will be made on every other I otner
ranch in the state. This la a state
ment without any foundation what-1 , ,
ever. Such a condition exists no. Whiskey as 8 Core.
where and it is a reflection upon the 1 Gervals, Or Aug. 14. To tha Edl
Bide of
tha
P.
Atlantio.
J. SCANNELL.
iarmers that should be resented by
eevry man and woman In the state,
by voice and vote.
I am well aware that some strong
statements are mad by temperance
roias, perhaps too strong sometimes,
tor of The Journal Addle. Steadman
is right. Love, and not whiskey, was
responsible for the young man's
shooting himself. If Mr. Hollls had
ever been a rejected lover, he . would
know, tha heartache seemed unendur-
but I never saw anything that equalled I able. He needed some ona to care
that statement, j for him, and to rest tbe mind give
Mr. King also stated that under such j him heavy doses ef whiskey. Whiskey,
a condition many arrests would be i rightfully administered, would have
made and the taxpayers would have
to foot the billa. Now, Mr. King must
know that tha fines of guilty parties
far exceed the cost, therefore money
is put into the treasury instead of
taken out. was a resident of a dry
city some years ago where a man
sold five bottles of whiskey.- The
trial on tha first one cost the county
about S100. The fine was S500. He
confessed In the other four cases. Here
was quit a balance in favor of the
county, l was in another dry town
where the deposed saloonkeepers un
dertook to "blind ig it." , Their fines
were over $2000 and the costs about
$500. Here was a balance of about
$1500 for the county. X could give
saved his life. The world's greatest
crimes, and its greatest number of
crimes, are sober.
Answering- Curtis P. Cos. the church
is a dependent, not a producing ele
ment. It depends on prosperity; pros
perity depend on production; produc
tion consists of food and drink; both
are necessary for financial success.
Many churches induce many people to
hear the word of God. Teach them
temperance. The same Is true of tho
home and the school, Tell them thai
since their foundation, and since the
beginning of time, we hava always
voted wet
It was overproduction that eauaed
I the financial ruin of some hopgrow-
Wives Collect the Pay Checks.
Dakota from the Bismarck Com
mercial club. Both of these articles
ably pointed out the vast benefits .
and urgent needs of the early pass-;
age of the pending rivers and liar- ,
bors bill, but why was the telegram i
from the Bismarck Commercial -club
only printed in part? Why was it
thus censored? Because It pointed
cut the man whose record as a
standpatter and obstructionist is fast
paving the way for his retirement ;
the man who has been first and fore- 1
most in delaying tbe passage of ih :
rivers and harbors bill Senator If ir
ton of Ohio. It Is such men and
their delaying tactics that have pre-
vented the passage of the rivers and
harbors bill, and other measisreH of ;
By John W. Carey.
Who finds in nature's festal halls
that wonderful outdoor more Joy
than iu palatial homes of kings and
emperors?
Who, too, prefers the birds and bees
for steady coni any to dukes and earls
and ladiex grand of IiIkU society?
Who hoards not all th hupplneas he
finds in tthr.dy nooks, but shares the
tamo with fellow men In leafy iadeo
books?
Who, Incidentally, forsooth, is utrong
for one T. R. whene'er on nature fak
rl he declares a cruel war?
Who's narlng now his four score
mark? (M.iv skies cerulean be his
for years and years to come!) Good
old John Burroughs man.
The Ragtime Muse
Sylvia's Way.
Mylvia is of charming losses
Quite the heel o( any.
But her thoughts are of "the masses"
And ahe. chiIh me "Henny"!
i-hi is an alarming srir I,
Although Mia in pretty
Ke-ps rny senses In a wfilrl.
For she ttiinkd she's witty!
relief favored by President Wilson,
and It is due to such men that this j n with her I ask to go
session of congress has been pr- j To some siiow or other,
longed, making the presence of Sen- ! Sylvia hiug'?' and fay. Oh, no!
utr.r f'hnmherlaln In Wpshinston ner. s- . J"1 " l. lJ "'-' . n,JU't'
. . ..... f I I . a. ia.
... x . vi i i I s Pi lu , i v iTiii v. 'J iatrai
oflBary lo "Je """Ke "l.r.. II. ' ::?. Socialistic Mrlctures.
rui uaiiu, uB. - . I lalion. AiN i l-oiib 1 nit-i iu.-si.-Jt,
latest ining "in
Th a Journal i tie
comes to me regarding discrimination ,
of employers against men wnw ;"
is that of an employer on the Portland
docks For some time he has refused
to employ men who drink but has re
cently made an exception in the case
of a few men who have large families,
making a condition that the wives
shall collect the ' checks. I suggest
that Ella M. Finney make a point or
visiting this office about the time the
Wives come to receive the checka for
their husbands' work. It might occur
to them to make an estimate of the
lumber of men who are kept out of
employment because of drink ana a
comparison of this number with those
whom they so pathetically plead will
be put out of employment when Ore
gon saloons and breweries close.
" By the way, is it not amusing and
also illuminating as to the character
of those engaged in the rum traffic,
to hear so much from their own
friends of the manner ia which law
Will be violated when the state goes
dry. Does it occur to them that this
is a sad confession?
ADA WALLACE UNRUIt
Kun alorii-r now, that's a dear.
l To t!i moving pictures:"
6 Standpat Obstructionists.
Portland, Or.. Aug, 15. To the Edi
tor of The Journal. I notice on
nage 14609 of the Congressional Rec
ord of August 7 two remarkable
documents. One is a verbatim copy
of the editorial contained In the
Sunday edition of your paper of Au
gust 2, entitled: "Underlined With
Oold;" the other, a -part of a tele
gram to . Senator tsronfta of North
'--' - f
, - Sylvia aasuines that she
Portland. Aug. 14. To the Lditor of ' ln ,(J mi3 HUrK.rir.
The Journal I hope that the next . Tl.is iw what nil 'says to me:
time I come to Oregon your editorial i "Vou' u fine exterior!"
in this evening's paper regarding Ye. h knows more than I do.
Mount Hood mn v have acconiDlIshed . "(i she earns more money;
tt nurnn.. T h.v. ririvn ii from '. "". W you
California br way of Crater Lake, and
thought that I had experienced every
thing one could -experience by way of
bad roads. But yesterday I tried to !
drive to Mount Hood to find that the
spike-studded fragments of shattered ,
plank which alternate with the dirt- j
filled chasms on that road made a
Well. now. what's so funny?
About 3'e.twms.
A. C. Cooper of Denver, blind, has
made brooms for 60 years in spite
of his affliction.
Gcorgo Taylor, laborer, of Cottage
Grov. Oregon, has fallen heir to 2$0,.
brand new experience in auto torture S 000 by the deatli of hia father in Chi-
posslble for the most hardened tour- ! cago.
1st. I endured it for a few miles be- j John It. McVey, a bachelor who died
yond Brightwodd. and then gave up. ; In Newcastle. Pa,, bequeathed to a
Of course, it was possible to go on. j nephew $300 to be used for baseball
but the discomfort of the struggle, as education in cae he should decide to
well as a regard for the car, made it make a profession of that iport.
more of an effort than it would be
worth. F. C. FISHEP.. I
A Letter of Thanks. i
Portland. Aug. 15. To the Editor olj
The Journal I wish to take this ,
means of thanking you and letting you
know that I appreciate your edit
orial of a few days ago relative to
Christian Science practice.
It certainly was a good article and
to the point and I want you to know
that not only myself but a large ma
jority of people1 ho believe as I do
appreciate your efforts in defending
what we believe is right.
Again thanking you very kindly and
wishing you success, I am yours very
truly, T: W. WATERS.
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