THE Z OREGON DAILY T3U.
.:,D, I.IO:'DAY ir.'IZNING. AUGUST 31. 1314.
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They are spirits of devils
working signs, which go forth
unto the kings of the whole
world, to gather them together
unto the war of the great day
of Ood Almighty. And they
gathered them together Into
the place which le called in
Hebrew "Armageddon." Rer.
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TURN ON THE LIGHT
LONG ago. and many times, The
Journal pointed out that
there was lack of system In
the conduct of Multnomah
county affairs.
Long ago, and many times. The
Journal declared that loss, waste
and extravagance resulted from this
lack of system, to the great cost
and detriment of taxpayers.
. But In the main, these charges
fell on unresponsive ears. The
public was busy with Its private af
fairs. It had no thought of public
affairs.
Now, there is confirmation of all
and more than all The Journal
brought to public attention. An
impartial investigation by two pub
lic bodies finds that there Is lack
of system, that there is duplication,
that there la waste of public
money, that there was purchase of
insect poison at $2 a gallon when
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. 13 teen established beyon-i
cc laictjon tnat tne cnier iaciox;
tLe tremendous growth of arma-
It has fceen virtually proven
tuat men who profit from the man
ufacture of' munitions of war , are
TILL fighting ithe' rivers and harbors bill, the , Oregonian , ;
yesterday; -
But it appears now to be obvlon that sentiment f the -cour.t.
will support a reasonable measure, excluding the cork. The amet ..-
ment of the current bill Is practicable. v ,
If. Senator Lane and Senator Chamberlain will - shift their . sui r ort
of a - bill tainted with pork that cannot pass to a modified measure th.t
ought to pass, they will be commended at home. - -. . ; '
There is no way to misunderstand these words. The Oregon e?n-
atorsare advised to abandon tha pending; bill and go over to Bur-., cMefly responsible for tremendous
ton, Borah and the other flllhnsterers. They are advised to turn expendUm by nations. - These
their backs on the senators who have consented 7 to 'the placing of meQ aro actuated br QO patriotic
the : Columbia jetty on a continuing contract, and make an allowance, mouve They are In the business
of more than 15,000,000 for that work. i It Is advice by a Portland for the money and their business
a, m k ull . Al A at A ik A a Ja,A.a, ... e.al at a " J -a -
vxyci, iu spite m ins more inan )b,vuu,uuv proviaea lor vreeuxi m
the bill, for the Oregon 'senators to scuttle the pending measure and
Join, forces with a minority faction, who are trying to defeat rivers and
narbors legislation, - - $m-S-:
If Chamberlain and Lane should , take such a course all the real
friends of a liberal rivers and harbors policy, would turn against
Oregon. This state would be delivered bodily Into the hands of the
men who are fighting waterways. Does anybody think for one min
ute that Oregon can retain its more than 16,000,000 in the bill if the
Oregon senators join forces with Burton1 who wants' the amended
bill to provide ''but $12,000,000 for the whole country? ' ; : .
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EW SMILES
Her admire -
I will not grow unless there : is use
i for what they manufacture. -:.
But wh blame makers of can
marry C ' J udge. ,
a wallowed bard, pulled
at hi collar,, and
finally made up bla
mind. -.
-Lllllaii,"; ' he ; said
desperately, 'let's ' get
married." - .
Ulllan'a bored i ex-,
presslon vanished. "All
right, but who can you
When Police Constable Ponderoof
entered the police station to dgn off
night . duty he reported the sudden
fall of a chimney on
bis 'beat in the wee
sma' hours. . i ..
-A n y .. idea' what
caused it to- falir'.iln-
- j non more than . manufacturers of . Quired the sergeant. ;
the pistol? That instrument of
death Is a common nuisance lc
times - of, peace. Its manufacture
and sale ' for profit should be pro
hibited at all times. If a nation
needs revolvers in the hands of
soldiers or peace officers, the na-
The Oregonian says It If fighting the bill on the ground that- j tion itself should supply them.
Will the world rid- itself of the
menace of revolvers - and . arma
ments? Mr. Wells has outlined a
large program, but it is a pro-
Letter From the People
there is graft in the measure. What part of the more than $6,000
000 that Oregon is to get is graft? In the bill, as Burton is to
amend it, what Oregon appropriations are to be cut out, and what
reduced? ,
The proposed Burton bill would appropriate $12,000,000 for the J gram ; ivhlch must be carried out
whole country. Oregon could no more get $6,000,000 under such a jsome time if civilization Is to sur-
total aDDroDriation than could Mount Hood be Ditched into the Pa- I vive.
cific. What part of the Oregon allowance then would the Oregonian
eliminate in order to free the bill from what It galls graft? Would
it take It all for Portland, or would it leave some for Celilo, come
for the upper Columbia, some for the Willamette, some for Coos Bay,
and if so, how much? r ' r
The pending bill places the Columbia Jetty on a continuing con
tract and allows $5,100,000 for the purpose. By the arrangement,
United States engineers say the jetty can be completed in three years.
If Oregon joins the Burton filibuster and accepts Its pro rata cut
in appropriations, would the Oregonian have the continuing con
tract abandoned, and. permit the original million for the jetty to
stand? Major Mclndoe said with an "allowance of only a million a
year, the jetty cannot be completed in less than six years. In Join
ing with Burton, does the Oregonian Insist on the latter plan?
Does any citizen of Oregon think for one minute that the pending
bill can be cut from $53,000,000 to $12,000,000 without Oregon be
ing forced to make some such surrender as abandonment of the con
tinuing contract for the Columbia Jetty?
The Oregonian claims there is graft in the pending bill. It is
now time for it to specify where the graft is, beginning with Oregon.
The United States engineers have approved .the entire bill as It now
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'The chlrabley was
In a very shaky con
dition - for a - long
time," answered Ponderoof.
: "Was there any heavy trafflo pass
ing along the street at the timer'
"Only roe, sergeant.", '
(OommeolCatlAna Ban n. nm
publication la thla department etxrald be wrtt-
? ?5.'r OD 13 of tba paper, abould awt
azoeed top worda la leocUi and mnat be ac
companied by the name and addresa of tba
r"! me writer does not desire ta
save the name pnbliabed. be abould so auta.
"DfaeneaioB fa tba nvifMt n nfm.
It ratlonaUaea everxtblng It toacnaa. It
frtraiiKi m an iaiaa aancaty ana
thrown tbea back oa their reaaonableneaa. It
""J bare no reaaonableneaa. It rntbleaalr
ercabaa them eat of existence and sets np lta
vw swuGiuatona in ueur ateaa." woocrow
vV luon.
The Hunting Season.
Koseburg. Or.. Aue. 28. To the Rdl-
'w ia journal since the an
nouncement of Governor West's nroe
lamatlon about two weeks ago, declar
ing tne nunung season closed until
arter tne rains have eliminated the ex
treme rire Hazard confronting the tim
. "Ever see any big snowstorm when
you was young, under said the wit
behind tha counter. ,
"Sure I did.- cackled
the old man. "I seen
some whoppers. X re
member one where th'
snow wus six feet
above my head. Yes
sir." "Oh. nonsense, uncle.
That's in possible.
There never was such a snow."
"It's true, I tell you."
"It couldn't have been."
"Yes, 'twas. Six feet above my head.
I guess I ought to know, I wuz down
the cellar at th' timer'
"Now," said the voluble salesman.
"here's . a piece - of
goods that speaks for
itself."
"All right," inter
rupted a weary cus
tomer. ; "Suppose you
keep quiet for a
couple of minutes and
give it a chance!"
If J&J
ber Of the State. I have, Tint in A aAirornl
stands with the exception of two small appropriations totaling $100,- articles in different papers of the state
000. Are the engineers grafters? Is General Kingman, chief of en- I evereiy criticising hla action and set-
glneers, a grafter? Is Major Morrow a grafter? Is Colonel McKin
stry a grafter? Is the Oregonian the only honest institution in the
United States? 4
The pending bill passed the house, at about $48,000,000. Are the
members who passed it by a large majority grafters? All the Ore-
ung rortn claims aa to the small
amount of damage done as a result of
tne nunters carelessness.
.There have been nearly 100 flree in
the timbered districts of Dous-La
ty alone, so far this season, and I
venture to say that the amount of loss
It could be bought for less, that gon representatives voted for it. Are they grafters? Are the mem- J from these fires has been many times
more was bought than necessary,
that no attempt was made to buy
it at a lower figure, and that in
general the whole county system Is
antiquated, ragged, irresponsible,
Ineffective and very costly.
The folly has gone on for years.
Nobody knows how much public
money has- been wasted In the pro
bers of the senate who are patiently striving to pass the measure
grafters?
What is the use of sending men to Washington to struggle for ap
propriations if men and newspapers in Oregon fight appropriations?
Why talk of sending J. N. Teal or any other man, and why send sen
ators and congressmen to strive for waterway appropriations if their
efforts are obstructed by such utterances as those of the Oregonian
at home?
The editorials of the Oregonian are being used by the filibuster-
greater than the value of all the deer
in all of Oregon. I am not decrying
the bunting of game. But I do be
lieve that every man who stops to fig
ure one moment on the value of the
timber to every man, woman and chfTd
In the state, will soon see that it
should not be sacrificed for what sport
and deer meat there are to be got.
The stumpage value of the timber Is
about 60 cents per thousand. It costs
PERTINENT' COMMENT AP NEWS 1N BRIEF
BMALL CHAXGB t
Tha nude truth sometimes needs aa
Immunity bath. .
Whv not ault aeeklnr a nosltlon and
look for a job? - -, - :
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Soma detectives tnr to dlasniisa their
breath with cloves.
When a noet rets ud In tha world ha
moves down from the attic. . .. .
-. . . . . a a . , , .
How particular is a bald man con
cerning the care of his hair! ...
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The man who mart-iea a nrettv rirl
la apt to get thehort end of It It he
An engagement may not be as ol
as marriage from some points of view.
but it la a great deal better from
some ethers.
v - mm - (.
One kind of a boneless fool Is the
chap who poses as a "good fellow"
ana spenas more money on nis inenai
man ne gives to nis wire.
And many a successful business man
can remember when be was a country
noy ana tils old fashioned: , mother
pinned her apron on him and made him
churn. . ,
It's "Poor Old Tom!" for Linton, to
be sura, but he might be worse off.
He might have come on oyer and won
tne cud and then the war mlKht nave
broken out Just after that, and then
his own people mightn't have cared a
wnoop waetner na a won it or not.
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The -Salem ' Statesman's stt ategtst
gives it as his opinion that tha Ger
mans' took Longwy the short way, ,
'a serifes of aeroplane flights will be
an attraction of the Benton County
fair, to be held at CorvaUis. September
It. it nd v -1 -
Tillamook now has a" curfew ordi
nance, -effective on and after Septem
ber l. The light plant wnisue wm
be sounded at I o'clock p. m, , . i ?
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' The Oatette Times calls for disarm
ament of the Juvenile powers in wr
vnltli it aavs children who own air
guns "fire In any direction regardless
of 0e destruction.-" . '
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Hertniston Herald: This haa been the
dryest season in years all over the
country. Thanks ' to a government
backing with an immense reservoir, wa
have as much water as any year, .
'According to Mlltonlans who are
Cuoted in the Pendleton East Oregon
ian, a clever deaf and dumb magasine
subscription solicitor recently "took
almost $50 out tof Milton In the course
of a day and got away without leav
ing any trace oeiund.
Drewsey News: The Drewsey Recla
mation company at its annual meeting
elected J. L. gits president, I. M. Davis
secretary treasurer. I. H. Holland. S.
S. Williams and J. L. Sits directors.
This company's ditch, nine miles long,
with a tunnel 600 feet long. Is com
pleted and the company is out of debt.
j IN EARLIER DAYS
By; Fred Locklry.
COMMENT ON CONGRESS
everybody would be benefited, that
voted the saloons out of Oregon City
and the law is as well enforced as any
prohibitory law on our statute books.
I defy Mr. Cotton or anyone else to
show one instance where a man spent
his money over the bar and his family
was happier on account of lt I re
cently made a trip over different towns
in Oregon. I saw more drunk men in
one day in a small town where they
had a saloon than I have seen in Ore
gon City since the first of last Jan
uary. It does not help legitimate busi
ness, for even Mr. Cotton knows If a
man spends his money for booze the
merchants do not get it, and the tax
payers have to pay many thousands of
dollars caused by the open saloon.
M. YODER.
about 111 tormt th. ttawn I i.a OI l.t8WW! .r'"",uu" ui
cess. There is no way to find out, ers at Washington to help beat the rivers and harbors bill. The which means that about fio.eo goes I Sole ldea"-' the '-real temper!
But enough has been gained by t"ltlauu UBU""r vummerce nas receivea miormauon irom nu- - wie way oi ance- Bhtt and her league represent.
I thought a word of reply migbt not
be amiss. I am old enough to have
carried a musket through three years
of the Civil war, consequently X know
something of what was meant when It
was said "A question was never set
tled until it was settled right." We
have been trying Mrs. Dunlway's plan
for a good many years, and yet we
are, according to statistics, drinking
more liquor per capita than ever be
fore. Mrs. Duniway says we are obsessed
by this idea of statewide prohibition.
I agree with her, we are; and we are
calllnsr on Mrs. Duniway, with her
league, with all the saloonkeepers, the
brewers, the Democrats, the Repub
licans, the Prohibitionists, the Cath
olics.. the Methodists, the Baptists, the
Congresrationalists, the Presbyterians.
the Friends, the Universallsts and the
other churches of whatever name, the
drunkard, the man who is down and:
out, every man and woman of thia
great state of Oregon, to Join with us
for statewide and nationwide prohibi
tion of the liquor traffic.
And when we have tried that as
long as we have tried the old way, and
find it is as much of a failure, we can
easily slide downhill again to our pres
ent condition.
Now if Mrs. Duniway is not too much
"obsessed" with her own idea, will she
please tell us how much the saloons
and the breweries of the state would
give to have her idea adopted in this
state and every state now arising to
throw off the yoke of the liquor
traffic? F. W. TASKER.
Scouts the "Temperance" FLan.
Portland. Aug. 29. To the Editor of
The Journal Having seen in the col
umns of a Portland evening paper of
Thursday a call to the citizens of Or
egon, over the signature of Mrs. Ab
igail Scott Duniway, to give up the
prohibition or tne
Mark Sullivan In Collier's.
The curse of congress is cheapness,
Inefficiency, buncombe, devotion to
private and local Interests, indiffer
ence to the general public good of the
nation. The intellectual average of
the lower house and of the senate
also has become lew. The quality of
the average congressman is well il
lustrated by a booklet used as a cam
paign document by Congressman
Charles Oordon Edwards of Savannah,
Oa. He Is serving his eighth year in
congress. As congressmen go, he is
not the poorest specimen. Four pic
tures of himself he puts in the book
let. One is entitled "Edwards, the.
man wno Maae it rossioie;" another,
"Congressman Edwards, Pleading for
Harmony." Some of the things he
says about himself, in order to get
himself reelected, are not calculated
to make an American proud of con
gress. He says: "It is in humble
obedience to this duty which I feel I
owe to the people of the first congres
sional district of Georgia" that he is
running for reelection. Bunk I He is
running because he wants the office
and the payl There is this promise in
the metaphor of pork and pie: "There
will be no 'second table' for any coun
ty so far as I am concerned." Mark
this appeal to sectional prejudice: "Has
advocated and favors fair pensions
for worthy Confederate veterans and
their widows." But on another page:
"Opposed Union pensions by his vote
and by a speech on the floor of the
house."
.i , merous Waahincton sanrMs that tha Orocrnnian'a ffirv, ta anrorliKF laoor ana supplies on every 1000 feet
tu uuotuciai .uujsauuu io I A " IV .,7 ".ir"' . " " cut And we ought not to take chances
rant a further Inquiry. , The in
vestlgating bodies were without
power to compel the attendance of
witnesses, and we have the spec
tacle of refusal by the architects
to present Information respecting
the costly changes and other facts
regarding the courthouse. It is a
strange pasa when -the people of a
county are not permitted to know
what has been done with their
money in the building of their
courthouse. It is extraordinary
when the people are required to
foot the bills but are denied the
Information as to what the bills
are for.
it is a gooa time to nave a
house cleaning in Multnomah coun-
ocuaiuio m viuer aiai.es ana alienating mem irom suppon oi uregon on this wealth going ud in smoke.
projects In the MIL . The Oregonian made a bitter attack on a Flor-. I Deer hunting, morover, is better in
Ida project. It was a project which had the approval of the army I IaU than ln he summer. The game
engineers who vinltn1 th nrnnnaori 1 m nrnvom on t anA maria, a iwrgnnol I " in newer pnysical condition. The
inspection.
Sparkman of Florida Is chairman of the rivers and harbors com
mittee of the house and Fletcher of Florida is on the commerce com
mittee of the senate. These men will probably be on the confer
ence committee If the pending bill passes. They have been friendly
to the Columbia river and to the Oregon projects.: But the denunci
ations by the Oregonian of the Florida project have done much to
anger these men. It is one of the handicaps the Oregonian has
thrown upon the Oregon senators in their efforts to do service for
Oregon. Do Portland and Oregon business men think the Oregoni-
an's fight on the rivers and harbors bill is a good thing for this state?
It is almost unthinkable that an Oregon newspaper would take a
course so destructive to the material Interests of Oregon. It seems
Incredible that it would make a fight which must have for its fruit,
if successful, the postponement of the completion of the Columbia
ty. It is a favorable time for the Jetty to a date at least six years hence,
citizen to have full and complete No wonder that all over Portland it is whispered by business
Information. It is -high time for I men that the Oregonian has gone mad In its craze to elect Booth and
some official body with power to I defeat Chamberlain. Men are saying to one another every day that
the Oregonian Is actually trying to beat rivers and harbors legislation
ln order to be able to say afterward that Chamberlain and Lane are
without power in the senate. They are saying every day in this town
tion brought out by the unofficial that the Oregonian is willing to sacrifice all the waterway Interests
committee's investigation? there is of Oregon in a puny and puerile effort to make campaign flapdoodle
abundant proof that the protests for the use of Its private candidate for senator.
made and many times reiterated The Oregonian occasionally throws kisses at the rivers and har-
by The Journal In the past were bors, but they are the kisses of treachery. It throws occasional
authentic and based on disagree- kisses at the state of Oregon, but they are the kisses of betrayal
unscramble the eggs to insert-the
probe.
Out of the Inadequate informa-
reason that the people hunt ln Auarust
is that It is at the beginning of the
season, n is necessary ror them to
get Into the woods at ithat time before
the deer become so wild that the hunt
er cannot get within a mile of them.
If tne opening of the season were post
poned to October, the deer would be
tame, ana when the city man goes out
to bunt he would stand some chance
of getting one. Also, it Is practically
Impossible to hunt any deer success
fully at this time of the year. The
smoke ln the woods precludes the dos-
Biuiiny oi seeing tne deer more than a
few hundred yards.
I think Governor West should be
highly commended for the action he
has taken. Every foot of merchantable
timber means a dollar or two to the
timbermen of the state and $10 to $11
to tne peopie or tne state.
The state appropriates $76,000 averv
two years for maintaining the state
bureau of forestry, whose duty it is
to see tnat these lands are patrolled.
If the state has that much Interest in
It, it ought to have the further Interest
or keeping hunters out of the timber
when there is danger of fire.
A SUBSCRIBER.
the motto, In God We Trust.' be re
stored to the coins from which it was
stricken under the Republican admin
istration. The motto was restored."
Do the people of Georgia really swal
low this sort of thing? Unhappily, it
1s necessary to admit that this sort
of cheap and shallow demagoguery Is
more common among the Democratic
congressmen from the south than elsewhere.
There are pages and pages of nis
record ln getting pie:
"Introduced in the past dozens oi
southern war-claim bills.
"Secured a public building site foi
Statesboro.
"Secured a publlo site for Waynes
boro.
"Has helped to distribute latest and
most improved cotton and other seed.
"Has furnished nearly every rural
school of the district with a large
United States wall map, ln order that
the greatest good from these valuable
maps would result to the greatest
number. Instead of sending them to
the 'favored few'."
And so on ad infinitum. He calls
himself "The Plowboy of Tatnall," and
Bays of his opponent: "He can t out
country the plowboy." Finally, he
enumerates as one of the reasons for
reelection that:
"He delivered a speech urging that
There is nothing so hopeless to an
observer of congress as the lack of
publlo information about it There, is
literally no periodical In the United
States which even attempts to give an
account of the-'work of the government
at Washington. In London the "Times"
and one or two other daily papers give
dally . practically a complete steno
graphic report of the work of parlia
ment, and this is read each morning
by some hundreds of thousands of the
people of England. With us congress
does not meet in our largest city. For
the New York newspapera to print an
equally complete account of the work
of congress would Involve prohibitive
telegraph tolls. The same is true of
every other large city. Washington la
a city of only about 300,000, of whom
about half are colored. It has not
enough population to Justify the daily
papers of that city ln printing an ex
tended account of the work of con
gress for local consumption only. Tho
result la that dally papers throughout
the country, quite naturally, expect
their Washington correspondents and
their expensive telegraph bills to give
them primarily that kind of Washing
ton news which is of local Interest
the appointment of postmasters, local
river improvements and the like.
There Is no weekly paper which even"
attempts to record as much as ona
one-hundredth of the important activ.
itles of congress and the government.
To anyone who watches congress
closely this is all very hopeless. The
Congressional Record is, of course, a
stenographic report of the debates
and acts of congress. If it stopped
there, probably it might serve aa a
basis of information to the public But
It is cumbered with speeches that
never were delivered, newspaper clip
pings, partisan documents. As it
stands, probably not 1000 people
. v. . ,.v... a finnntrv rmnA th nf.
flclal record with any regularity. It ""on
,.njraa'1om ia.Knoxville. TeTm, In '
1130." SaS ?A .'.T'naU T.a. u ...
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DCODlft luft'.Taiinaes 4. aw. - t at -
-"vwiiETijia, uo. .
vaTTL chap U or II
years old there was a lot of trouble 1,
71th i?fph 8m,h,and bis followers.- : j
They believed that Independence. Mo, - i
was their Zion. and, as th,. people - '
around there didn't like tb.ir doo-
I tn Mormons out Our men
routs had gone down to Plattsburcto
enter th&ir tansta tk. i
wvimvua, imu- V
men iotas gone, came to our
Place .in the middle of the night and
burned our house and barn. It was
winter.and there was about four Inches '
-Lnw now on tna found. We were
ed.br lhe crackling of the
names. We ran out Just as we were.
ine Mormons told us they were doing
alone. They said if we Interfered any
the Lord's anointed we
would pay for it with our lives. Borne
f,f n,vWere ,n favor ' Putting us
y as warning to the
"lr man ln cnar ald no.
" - watitQ oareroot 12 miles across
h-111!1 to our neret neighbor,
cam P vUv i j . - . ...
,K. " n oia seiner
.,J " ha1 bn n Indian trader
lm . , l,t a tr-"n Pot strong
-i-- -rti My mo,her was in her night
5Tln Z wa" b-footed. I will never
It, L fw ,co1d the Bnow was on my
mVfSf 1 was cold- clr nlh
arUnds.'nW "V"1 1,ke nmm
aiy tamer and tlie other men had
gone to enter their land, while m
uncle. Neal Gilliam, ni most of the V
rest of the men thereabout had gone
with their ox teams to Jim Dixon's
mill on Piatt Run to have their corn
ground. Dixon's" mill was about 10
miles away. They had to camp there
a few days to wait their turn to have
their corn ground. They got back
with their cornmeal about a week after
Wi wer turned out. My uncle. Ncalv- .
Gilliam, had been a preacher. He was
a great belelver in the Old Testament
particularly those places where it
talks about "Vengeance is mine, I will ,
repay, saith the Lord." He always
figured he was especially commission
ed to carry out the Lord's will and
smite iniquity hip and thigh. When
be heard what the Mormons had done
to us ne said: 'As a servant Of the
Lord I will see that those worship- '
ers of Baal are destroyed.' He came
pretty near doing It, too. He gath
ered all the men In the neighborhood,
armed them with guns and scythe
blades, marched to Horn's mill, where ,
a bunch of Mormons were, and at
tacked them. After the fight they
threw the dead Mormons tn a well
and followed them to Dyamon's, where
they had another fight with them.
When you take an oldtime Mlssourian
who would rather fight than eat and
let him think he Is fighting for the. -Lord
and destroying the Almighty's
enemies, you will see some prttty hard
scrapping.
In the spring of 1843 my father.
Pleasant Belieu. with A. J. Jackson
and some others, took some Indian
goods to trade with the Indiana for
furs. They established their trading
post at Conesvllle, near Council
Bluffs. Some government troops under '
Captain Waters were located there."
Joe Robldoux. who had a store and
gristmill on the Missouri river at what
wis called Robldoux" Landing, or St
Joe, being a friend of my father's. In
vited me to spend the winter wttS-v
them. I put In the summer of '43 with
his boy hunting buffalo, and that wln-r- '
ter '43-'44 I caught fish through the
lee and trapped beaver.
"Along about May 1, 1844. my
father mil I"n-1 Kent (illllnrn ramat
on their way to Oregon. My father de
cided to stay at Scott's Bluffs on the
Nebraska river, or the Platte river, aa
It Is now called. -
"The American Trading company had
a post at Scott's Bluffs. Three ef
old Joe Robldoux" sons Rastus, Jul
ius and Joseph were in charge of the
They wanted to spend the .
UPS AND DOWNS OF THE "INDEX NUMBER"
able facts.
Turn on the.lightT
NEED OP A WAR TAX
tax is stamped on each article the
people buy. Americans nave ac
customed themselves to paying
their portion of the federal reve
nues r without knowing the exact
a WASHINGTON dispatch says
Uount, and a habit of long stand
tentatively , V,n nbanr,1 '-oHthnn
a crro. rw ,-. n. I " .
uo,c0oujr 1 1 causing some friction.
But it Is the business of congress
to meet the situation frankly and
courageously. If a war tax Is
levied, it "will be the business of
the people to recognize its neces-
ei K vr er1 e1a V. A AT a
Jl"?... ! .reason to beLIeve that Uions abroad will be to blame for
it,
a war tax to provide revenues
necessary for running the govern
ment. Such a tax may not be
popular, but it is evident that it
must come if the European con
fllct continues.
the deficit in revenues from cus
toms collections will be larger than
was estimated at the beginning of
hostilities. Curtailment of Im
ports will continue long after the
war ends, for Europe will need a
considerable time to get back to
a producing and exporting basis
Even should England get
THE DRUG PEDDLERS
T
Sound Stuff In Government.
Portland, Aug. 29. To the Editor of
The Journal As lawmakers of this
state and nation, what is required of
us? The preamble of the constitution,
which la thtt prpnf rnrrtarctna
court has found an attorney guilty government says: "We, the people-of
of the unlawful sale of morphine. thtt United States, In order to form a
A druggist testified to having sold more?ei'ct "nl.on-" Each law lald
ha -Zr,THof TO . . . , down besides this cornerstone either
the convicted man eight bottles of supports it or is a damage to it Are
morpmne ana tne same amount of jwe earnestly putting good solid brick
cocaine. The lawyer says he will around this stone in order to form a
appeal his case, and until the ap- rl erfect, unlon' J. ar! we ach
. . . . . . , group separately, working to get Into
peal is determined popular Judg- the great structures of F government
ment as to his guilt may be BUS- brick that are rotten, chipped and
pended. cracked by our selfish interests?
But the authorities should not L," Jtff1 1 cZVll hL 1m,!
stop with one conviction. It is a the nation will suffer by it It is sc.
comparatively easy matter to pun- easy to make rules we like and make
ish the human vultures who actual- other? 1Iv JP to hem- that we fail to
lv TYoiia u see how bigoted, contemptible and
ly peddle such drugs. The war- narrow we have grown. But we will
fare should be most Vigorous suffer In proportion to the amount of
against men who are behind the malicious, premeditation we lndividu-
traffic. men who, for the sake of I p"t,lnto ,:, nIy. fad part
, . jn . ..lis that this doesn't keep the innocent
rHERE should be no lagging by
Portland authorities in their
pursuit of men and. women
engaged in the drug traffic.
and I if. as has been said, there is an
maintain control of the seas, there- organization engaged in the illegal
by enabling her merchant marine sale of morphine and cocaine. Its
to resume ocean traffic, that fact members should be put out of
win not assure a resumption of business by sending them to jail
Importations by the United States if that is the only effective means,
on a scale which will restore cus- In Cincinnati, New York, Chicago
toms collections. and elsewhere vigorous warfare
Europe is engaged in the busi- has been begun on the Illegal sale
ness of fighting and small atten- and use of habit-forming drugs,
tion will be paid to the arts of Underground systems for the" pur
peace. Production and manufac- chase and distribution of opiates
ture will cease and exports to the! have come to light, and In some
united states drop away even if cities politicians and public offi
ocean lines of travel were opened cials, druggists and physicians have
to tne entire world. been found to be participants In
' .The' Washington administration the Illegal traffic.
has a difficult problem before it The extent to which the drug
The government has enough money I evil exists is appalling. Only those
-.In" its treasury to meet expenses I who come Into personal contact
for a considerable time, but there (with the victims In hospitals, police
is . question wnetner treasury bal-1 courts and prisons know tne wnoie
ances should be drawn upon until truth. It was recently disclosed la
the necessity, for.: levying a war New York that the drug peddlers
tax ' becomes Imperative. Higher 1 had even marked school children
taxes are never popular, and they las the victims of greed.
are especially - unpopular when the A Jury, in Portland's municipal
a few dollars, are willing to
wreck human lives and cause un
told misery.
W
CAN IT BE DONE?
t -
RITINQ from London, H. G.
Wells pleads for the abso
lute prohibition throughout
the world of the manufac
ture of weapons for private gain.
He says:
I would carry this suppression down
eVen to restriction of the manufac
ture and sale of every sort of gun,
pistol and explosive, They should be
made only in government workshops
and sold only In government shops.
There should not be & single rifle or
pistol unregistered, unrecorded and
untracable In the world.
The Detroit Free Press says, that
the end of the European war will
be the . hour for dealing with a
curse to civilization: .
Let the manufacture and sale of
the pistol be prohibited by Interna
tlonal agreement It can be dona.
But. will lt.be doner .i1:;:
Mr. Wells says a .world council
for the regulation of armaments as
a natural outcome of the, war de
pends upon the courage and hon
esty of men. He Insists that trade
ones from suffering, too. The "of"
and "by" and "for" applies to all tha
people.
Every measure suggested to be im
posed upon this great state as a law
should be put into the public mortar
of honest reasoning, ground fine and
sifted, of all malice, vindictiveness and
class prejudice, then sent to the cruci
ble of a loyal, law making body, be It
a legislature or the voting booth, to
burn out any possible dross that might
still be hid and turn the pure stuff
out into honest bricks to build up this
wonny state or ours.
R. T. HUGHES,
The Blind Pigs Sales. -Oregon
City, Aug. 28. -To the Editor
of The Journal In an article-, signed
in Tfte journan or Aug. zs, s. J. Cot
ton says prohibition does not lessen
drinking. Then why do men that man
ufacture it spend thousands of dollars
to fight prohibition? He says there
is not one Instance .where prohibition
has benefited one man or community
by keeping men 'sober. I know of
scores of men that spent their money
ln the saloon, but when the saloon
was Closed they went home sober and
bought necessaries of life or their
families. . " ;s.
JJr. .Cotton ..says' when the saloon
goes out the blind pig . comes in. My
observation Is that there is more liquor
sold Illegally in licensed towns than In
dry towns. It was the business Inter
ests, with those 'people who believed
The Blind Pig Question.
St. Helens, Aug. 28. To the Editor
of The Journal S. J. Cotton, whose
letter was printed in your issue of
August 26, evidently takes it for
granted that the readers of The Jour
nal will accept as truth all he says
without attempting to verify his
statements. He seems to believe that
the blind pig exists in dry territory
and not in wet territory, and that as
much liquor la consumed in dry terri
tory as in wet. Now if Mr. Cotton
wants to believe that he is at liberty
to do so, but if be wants the readers
of The Journal to believe it why
doesn't he give proofs? If it is true
that blind pigs are not found in wet
territory, why is it that Denver, with
483 licensed saloons has a list of
1020 retail dealers who pay the retail
liquor dealer's federal tax? Counting
out the drugstores paying federal li
quor tax there are still as many blind
pigs as licensed saloons ln that wet
city. One of the Denver papers pub
lished a list of the addresses of 103
of these blind pigs.
If Mr. Cotton wants people to be
lieve - that Salem. Oregon, uses as
much liquor now as when wet why
doesn't he back up his statements
with reports from express and freight
companies- of the amounts of iiquot
shipped in tbere when wet and when
dry. If as much liquor is used ln
dry territory, then it would be reason
able 'to expect as much drunkenness
ln dry Eugene as ln wet Eugene, or ln
dry- Springfield as in wet Springfield.
Why not quote the reports of ar
rests in such places to prove that
there is as much liquor consumed
without the saloon s with it
Mr. Cotton states that blind pig
operators have no respect for the
Jaw. I would not question such a
statement but would aak where there
is a saloon having respect for law.
E. T. LUTHER.
Coffee and Intoxicants.
- Ballston, Or, Aug. 29. To the Edi
tor of The Journal All your corre
spondents, both prohibitionists and
anti-prohibitionists, have overlooked
the greatest and most harmful drink
to humanity, and that is coffee. In
1913 there was imported Into the
United 8tates 852.629,493 pounds of
coffee, which would furnish about 10
pounds to every man, woman and
This treraen
By John M. Osklson.
The big commercial agencies keep
track of the prices of those commod
ities which are in common use in
this country, and they issue from
time to time what is called an "index
number," showing whether the cost of
Uvlng is rising or falling. From a
spring issue of Dun's Review, this
explanation is taken:
"It is a well known fact that there
is no better basis for a study of the
commercial situation than a compara
tive record of commodities. Tempo
rary influences, such as short crops,
war, financial or political disturbances
may exert some effect for a time, but
ln the long run the course of prices
must be determined by the action of
the law of supply and demand.
Then the method used ln compiling
the "index number" is explained:
"Quotations of all the necessaries or
life are taken, and ln each case the
price ia multiplied by the annual per
capita consumption, which precludes
any one commodity naving more inan
Its proper weight in the aggre
gate. m m
"For convenience or comparison uu
economy of space, the prices are
grouped Into seven classes: ureaa
tuffs Include quotations of wheat
corn, oats, rye, barley, beans and peas;
meats Include live hogs, beef, sheep
ni manv orovislons. lara. taiiow. etc..
dairy and garden products embrace
eggs, vegetables, mux. irun, ouuer,
rh!UL etc: other food includes fish.
liquors, condiments, sugar, rice also
tobacco, etc; clothing covers the raw
material of each Industry, as well as
quotations for woolen, cotton, silk and
,hhr roods also hides, leather and
boots and shoes; metals include vari
ous quotations for pig Iron and par
tially manufactured and finished prod
r.cts. as well as the minor metals, tin,
lead, oopper. etc., and coal and petro
leum; miscellaneous Includes many
grades of hard and soft lumber, lath,
brick, lime, glass, turpentine, bemp,
linseed oil, paints, f ertlllaers and
drugs."
Wholesale prices are taken, since
retail prices vary too widely to be of
i . . m -a t V- v than .n auiuiiier uui Hi in me uuimio, iu iney
s a book of reference rather than one , my father y chArw
tO De reaa. I r,t tha Intin, rt U'h,n lh,v Pirn,
I back from their big buffalo hunt my
1 father took some goods to trade for
'furs and went up on the headwaters
of the Columbia. We heard that he
died on that trip, so he never got to7'
Oregon. 1 went on with my uncle,
Neal Ollliam, to Oregon." .. '
use ln comparison, so as "Index num
ber" cannot be taken as a guide to
th .-ultimate cost of living, except
that generally speaking retail prices
do roughly and in time follow whole
sale prices up and down.
In the light of these explanations
let us make soma comparisons of liv
ing costs based on the "index num
ber": On May 1. 1912, the per capita cost
at wholesale of the commodities re
ferred to above totaled S128.98; on
the same date this year the cost was
down to 8118.23, which was 11 cents
cheaper than on May 1, 1913.
On July 1, 1912. the. figure was
$122.27; a year later it was $116.33,
and on July 1 this year it was 8119.71.
From these figures you see that living
costs reached .the high point in this
country about" the end of April, 1912,
more than two years ago.
Now let us compare the quotations
of wholesale prices of some of the
commodities used to make up the "In
dex number" during the week ended
August 15 this year and the same
week last year.
This year, apples were 81.25 a bar
rel, against 81 last year; beans were
85.10 a hundred pounds, against 84;
building materials were unchanged, ex
cept laths, which were 4 'a thousand,
instead of 85, and lime, which was 92
cents Instead of 90 cents a barrel; thla
year, coffee at 8H cents a pound com
pared with last year's price of
cents; cotton goods were slightly high
er this year; ordinary good butter was
cheaper; eggs were a little higher;
prunes were cheaper, but nearly all
other dried fruits were about 2 cents
a pound higher; winter wheat flour
was 84.90 a barrel, lnsteaa of 95.40,
last year's figure; lumber was gener
al I
live beef was up from 87 to 87.15 a
hundred pounds, and live bogs from
87.70 to 89 a hundred pounds.
Here are enough examples to show
that the next "index number" will
record an advance over the last one I
have received, the 8119.71 for July 1,
this year. Yet the Increases do not
seem startling, and many of them will
be only temporary.
HOO'S H00
By John W. Carey.
Who sent an ultimatum to his
majesty the czar, and when he failed
to toe the mark let loose the ilogs of
war?
Who got the bug 'twould be great
sport to make all Europe prance, and
so stirred up another row with nest
door neighbor, France?
Who tired of life's monotony and
yawned and said, "Oh, hum." and
sent his troops across the line to
scrap with Belgium?
Who kicked the British lion in the
y cheaper; metals were cheaper; j ribs and pulled his tail and roused J
caffetannate of caffeine and potas
sium enough deadly poison to kill
every man, woman and child in the
United States.
According to the analysis ln the
Encyclopedia' Brltannlca (pages 112
113, one pound of coffee contains
over three-fourths of an ounce Of caf
feine, caffetannate of caffeine and
potassium. The medical dose (find
out from your doctor) is one-fifth of
a grain of caffeine. 1 is so strong
that this small dose is all that is
tequlred. Then figure it out Tou
wiU find that three-fourths of . an
ounce lust equals 1800 one-fifth grains,
the contents Of caffeine, caffetannate
of caffeiene and potassium ln one
pound of coffee. - Just imagine what
this means 1800 one-fifth grains of
a virulent narcotic drug, in one pound
of coffee, and the average family's
supply for a week, ln 10 pounds of
dous mountain of eof fee contained I coffee, each person's share of what
ever 60,000,000 pounds of caffeine, J they orank last year, contained nearly
47 one-fifth grains dafly of a known
deadly poison.
Prohibition advocates, ministers, de
vout church going people, and millions
of others who decry and work against,
the excesses of others, must have their
coffee, and even ' parents are such
slaves to the habit that they will see
their children addicted to the use of
it without remonstrance. The drunk
ard. when sober, will offer the most
abject apology for his condition when
drunk,' while an opium fiend will ad
vise strongly against the use of It;
while a coffee drinker will urge every
one to drink.
W. C. T. U. women unthinkingly and
unknowingly will make strenuous ef
forts to keep people from drinking
beer or wine, and offer Instead a
far deadlier drink, coffee; and many
would fight for their coffee harder
than an anti-prohlbltloniat for his
beer or wine. C. A. BALL.
Bull In dudgeon high to hit his bloom
ing trail?
Wbo undertook, ln other words,
"tome Job" to tie the can. abaft the.
well known world-at-large? That
Kaiser Wilhelm man.
On the Trail.
Kansas City Stsr.
"Do you see that man going along
with fats head in the air, sniffing with
his nose?"
"Yes; I know him."
"I, suppose be believes In taking In
the good, pure osoneT'
"No; he's hunting for a motor
garage, I believe."
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