THE JOURNAL
C. S. JACKSON ,
.Pubuaber.
FiMUIitd IT aranlng ( Bandar) and
! every Sunday mornln at Tb Journal "nlld
nf . "Broadway and yattbM at.. Portlaa. Of.
Kotcrad t the -poataffJc t Portland, Or., tot
UananlMloo tilrotua tha JB1U second
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EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF WILSON
in. that of any other country,' and'
; they have shown themselves prac-
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k tULiAitiAU mat me ,uropeu .jpuuiuui um "'""8"' v -Idinarv deirree
;that render it imnosBible for him .to take part in the pending
campaign for election1 of members of Congress, President Wil-
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The close 'of a? very extraordinary session of "Congress U at hand,
which b, I ventur to say," been mora- fruitful la Important legislation
of permanent uncfulnesa to the country .than any eMlon of, Conrreaa
avittitn thtt m.mnrv - of -th sustivA oublio nta of our' tteratln. A croat
constructive program has been carried through for which the country haa pound, and sutra.r at 71,4 hpnta are
lom walteo. and -been carried through with, tha approval and -.up, ' Bff " '
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PERTINENT COMMENf'AND NEWS IN BRIEF
. ... - ...... AinnrBTi wnnian i niauin
:9 vm.xusu ciuvicutj UJUJ tOBWU 11-1 V....,,. i with a
self in . the establishment of - maxl-i i r i small arty; which
mum war prices for food in Ber- j
litt. , Rye and wheat flour at - 6 V4 1
and 6 cents' a ? pound,! rye and j
wheat bread at 4 . nd 5 cents a t
tfiUAL. CUANGK
TIIE ' ARMORY . BITE
THERE Is off money on hand
now with' whicJv- jMultnomah
county can buy an Armory Bite.
There can be no money for
such purposes until collection of
taxes' begins. There should be no
money on hand for such purposes
until the plan of building an Ar
mory has been cantassed, ; the
needs and requirement systemat
ically, ascertained and the whole
matter made a part of the county
budeet for next year, i
Nor should there be purchase of
a site merely because some reai
estate agent desirea to make a
ale. Nor because any owner of
property Is willing to sell a hold
In. Nor on any other unbusiness
like, haphazard method. Nor
should there be a purchase of such
land for the public at random
prices, three or four times the as
sessed valuation. Nor should " the
purchase bo behind closed doors
and at private sale, but in the
open daylight and .under condem
nation proceedings 'if the price is
several times the assessor's price.
If there is not authority for the
county to brlhg condemnation pro-
AaaA4 In (TB thA 1r2-1fl1a.turA should
VVVU'-UQO, a..v
confer such authority.
Commissioner Holman Is right
In Insisting that county business
should be on a business basis. It
Is the mildewed methods and dry
rot processed so long Jh vogue at
the county courthouse that help
make taxes high.
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; BONDS ARB VALID
rwirt. nf luiiifiniia , ritnn of all Dartles. And. wa have .abundant?: reason to
congratulate ourselves upon the record that has been made during taa busy
seventeen months we have devoted to Durtrreat legislative task. Cer-!-talnly
in ordinary i clrcumstancea. If we were free to disengage ourselves
for the purpose, ;we WOnVi be , warranted," la inow dlwcting our energies-to
a. groat, campaign In support of an appeal .to the country to give us the
encouragement of Its indorsement at tho-autumn-elections. " .
V- We could goj toi-'tha country with a, very ialBcere appeal. In which there
need no pretense or boast of any' kind, .but a plain ' statement of
things ' actually accomplSshed, which ought ttf be, and I think . would be,
entirely convincing. '.. vf .
Haa anybody stopped- to think -what type of man Woodrow Wilson
IsV 'Has anybody seriously considered. - the klnd of ' administrative"
work he has done, and -the kind of legislative work he - has Induced
Congress to do? - , . - - ' '
Did anybody ever hear of an American president who. In so short
a time, has done so much to elicit, the confidence, the admiration,
and the applause of so many of his countrymen? ' - ' . ;
'' What he is to his country and what his country Is to him Is
vAot,cpA in the tlnd of leeislation he i has brought forward .'His
currency Jaw has the j unqualified - approval off all. It Is so excellent
in Its provisions that it received not only the support of the Demo
crats in Congress, but or many Republicans and Progressives. It
solved " a problem that no other .statesman dared try to solve, though
Congress and committees, of Congresses,! arid leaders and groups of
leaders dallied with it and dodged it for a generation.
: His tariff superseded the most infamous tariff in . history - It
received the Congressional support not only of the Democratic, mem
bers, but 61 La Follette and many other progressive Republicans. It
was fought at the. time and is fought now only by standpatters,
cheap politicians and , unfair newspapers ; for pblitical purposes.-, The
vote of such a statesman' as La Follettfer the present tariff shows
the country what kind of men Its critics are. :
The anti-trust legislation the Chamberlain railroad bill. for Alas
ka, the Income tax measure are others of a . program to build up
the country and free business and industry from the autocracy, of
the trusts. What president in American history has done so'jmuch in
so brief, a time . to plaa for a greater national prosperity; a pros
perity to come with unexampled abundance' as soon as there is time
for adjustment and for the handicaps' of a bloody European -war to
pass away. . ' 'J
"It is a kind of legislation and a quantity of legislation never
before accomplished la so brief a time. ! It Is legislative, achieve
ment carrying more relief and protection! for thet people than any
American president ever secured in a whole term. It Is legislation
directed to human welfare and to a wise constructive adjustment of
ihe forces of national life and business j out of "which to bring the
most prosperity to the most people. It Is earnest of the kind of
th'ings Woodrow ' Wilson will-try to secure for his countrymen dur
ing the remaining two and one half yeara of his .term. ,
What Woodrow Wilson brings to his country is evidenced In the
contrast between the tranquility and peace at home and the. fright
ful occurrences over-seas. Only yesterday there! was clamor for
President Wilson to lead the armies of the United States into Me
ico. He was scourged and ridiculed and denounced ajnd excoriated
for his refusal to do so. His policy was called a f "grape juice
policy." It was jeered at as a "spineless" policy. They said It was
a foreign policy that made the United States the "'laughing stock of
Europe." ' . ,i -
While in blood-drenched Europe, 'women weep and men die,"
while children call for sires who can never come back "and mothers
pray for the safety of sons they will never more see, there, is time for
the American people to thank Almighty God for a president of peace,
who pleads with the nations to sheath their swords and be at war
no more. ' , " ,
Included i Mr Cook,
widow of the . fa
mous 'tourist, man
a'ger. s The display
within -.the crster
was unusually fine,
which the Ameri
cans . at - -dinner
prices which, in a country shut off
lrom sources of supply are , mod-' BirJlingly attributed to - tto'e presence
eraie, compannz favorably with
what the American "housewife is
obliged to pay,
.President CampbeU is right.
German thoroughness is an obfect
lfesson for Americans. We should
not emulate the militant spirit.
but the German- method of pre-maw?
paring for trade conquest, for m- Mrs.
or mm. cook. -(. ... .-.
, . After . several moment Of silence
two Englishmen - exclaimed In one
breath: - ,.
"But how "could, they manage that?"
Uttle Gertie Orogan hooking up
from society page)-! Did ypu ever see
dinner dance.
1m
Orogan
dustrial development and for gov- "(smniagiy)" .yaith,
ernmental efficiency; has set the rVt
yace , or Americans. ; shtruck th tabi
wld his fist because
One thine dATnrtntotarl vv I we had ' corn' taafa-
- q -' wav Kf j VUw I eaa
present war Is the' superiority of bbvre ft fnniD' !
me evening - newsDaner over the I v . : . : ' - t
morning edition . as a news , re- I During the. furnace , cleaning opera-
DOrter. It has bep.n nnlt nnHia. tlons in a larte steel works the worR
able that what Important develop-' I
few yards in the air.
v" But -whenever ' Pat
4 hadV to cross he
would do so on his
r hands and knees
The foreman, notic
ing this; went up to
him and said:
Are you frightened of. walking on
this plankr !
No. sir.- repUed Pat: "'tla fright
ened I am of- walkln off It"
ments the censorship has allowed
10 oe made pubuc j have all been i
printed in the afternoon papers for'
the first time. The reports of the
morning papers have simply been
a renash of , what has already been
pubushed the day before.
touches the
' advice 4 who
Many a sermon that
spot, la wordless.
Lots of leeonla rlva
naven t anyj to spare.
Eurone was efficient In avervthlnk
except keeping the peace ?
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Winter la srolna to comnllcat the
war problem before long. i
Nothlnar succeeds like success un
less it Is the way failures fail. .
Truth" Is stranger than either Dante
Or Jules verne ever darea to oe.
U EARLIER DAYS
liy Kred lxckley.
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
-- La Grande Observer: Medford rises
to remark that the short fruit crop in
that section does not affect her finan
cial standing, tor-ahe proudly boasta
that her banks show no shrinkage In
deposits. , - i , '
The Condon Times says It looks like
the real estate business U over the
state had struck bottom. With wheat
brinainar II a bushel, wheat land
around Condon ;ls being offered at 135
an acre - " , . - -.,
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" La Grande now has a revised charter.
Essentials of the ommlsslon-manasjr
zorm are retainea. oui error iu ju r children. flv bovs and five
original documentOiave keen corrected ' " cmiaren. me ooys an. xive
Woodbum's oldest settler is -J- L.
Johnson.. He is 14 years oi'd. and has
lived where Woodburn Is now located
for 63 years.
"X was born In Taswell county, II
llnols, on : November 16,. 1830," said.-'
Mr.' Johnson. "My father was born In
North Car9llna, but was raised In
Kentucky. . My mother was born and
raised In Kentucky. My father was
county Judge for many years In Il
linois, so the running of the farm was
turned over to his sons. " There wers
Letters From the People
lw . ttoM nt to The Journal lor
DUDIleaUOn In this tnrn, .lv,i,M h rtt.
tcn on only one aide of tb paper, ahoold set
ezeeca BOO warda In tnt.,h . H m.fr k. m.
eooipaoled by tha nama aad addreas fit Uta
me writer does not' Oealr to I
umtw vtm naroa nqbualied. be aHould ao a tut a.)
"Dlaeaaaio la th arcateat of all raform-
era it ratlonallaea arerTtntna it touetae. It
iuhmw u au xais aancuty ana
tbrowa them back on their rcaaoombleoaaa; If
tney har no reaaonableueaa. It- ruthieaaly
.The Ragtime Muse
But a giH doesn't mind chapped lips !
If the right chap is responsible. ; ,
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This looks like a poor year for: pun.
lshing alleged international atrocities.
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As if there were not trouble enough
already , football is starting up again.
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i.'' It takes I a - strong minded man to
admit he la In the wrong when be Is.
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Men who have nothing else to apolo
gise for should apologise for being on
earth. -- t . - " ' ' . .
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Bordeaux : may ba thankful for the
publicity, aunough regretting tne.oc
casion of it.v
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If your heart Drontots vou to do a
good deed, do It immediately, before
you have heart failure.
There Is 'nothing a married woman
enjoys more than helping a spinster
to. get into the same aina or irouDie.
Thoush the straiaht and narrow rath
may be all to the good, you'll find the
bigi-est crowd trotting down the great
white boulevard. '
Thourh the- Germans " are .only one
hour by train from Paris the trains to
Paris are not carrying German pas
sengers Just nosr.
September. !
Now the nights are rather cooL
cave wnentney are extra not,
And the youngsters go to school
Joyfully-r. rather, not!
Comes the oyster. from its lalr
some ioikb eay it s good to eat;
eruahea tbra oat ot cxlatenc and acta np lu I -Jlyo" 2an-have my share
own concluatoua la Uiair stead. " Wodrir
Blind Pigs and ProhibiUon.
Dallas, Or., Sept. 7. To the Editor
of The Journal After reading S. J,
I prefer a slice of tneat.
Actors talk ftf "the legit."
Ana or --contracts. in jnsw x ora.
Now they'd like a little bit
or team play with Knife and fork.
i jraaes tno costly. Panama,
Cotton's artlcla in Baturdav's issu. I vanisned Is the Palm Beach suit.
isaturaays issue, iFeed tna covr your summer straw.
felt constrained to reply to It
. In that article he attempts to prove
that prohibition is a failure in those
sections of our state where the sa
She is such a patient brte!
Baseball's drajtwlng to a close,
j -Furiously now fans the fan.
Witb another comes to blows
loon has been voted out by quoting! iraTuug'h repeated "can't", and "can!'
dipping, from certain county paper, I think, iT coming S
published in those sections. He seems I Heretofore this should be clear
to take for granted that these editorial
cuppings voice ma sentiments of a
majority of the people in those dls
tricta. .
For Instance, .he quotes a clipping
taken-from a Dallas paper. In whloh
In the past it always has.
THE opinion of the Supreme
Court declaring the Hood
River county road bond issue
' 10 valid is lh line with the mod-
rn tnndencv of ludlclal decisions
,ni roth.r thrmaue accesiuie.
.u- i li . 1
Hi veil 11 lUB lUUIUi ncui uii-n,uj
from tourists if scenic points- are
the letter.
.. v' Owing to a minor omission in
not defining a certain point-where
the western end of the road was
to begin and a confusion of words
relating to the retirement of the
bonds a strictly technical decision
might have Invalidated the issue.
It is presumed that the court
had in mind the fact that there
was a great popular sentiment in
favor of the issue, as 1 was shown
In the result of the election which
was about four to one In favor of
bonding the county and for this
. reason was not disposed to insist
on points- that were not vital.
The decision will permit the
early undertaking of the county's
unit of the Columbia River High
way, the contract for which has
-already been let.
through the state it would require
four days to s.make the round trip.
he . has whipped the other fellow
or is knocked out himself. 'The
savage in him gives little thought
to his own hurts or to the sorrows
of his family, He must keep In
ROADS AND BRIDGES
T
Taking an average- of fifteen dol- j thd , fight at "whatever hazard to
lars per day each automobile would himself hi cdst to his dependents.
leave sixty dollars for necessities I a "watching committee" may
alone. If our beaches and moun- not be named, but the suggestion
tains were made accessible weeks J that such a body be appointed is
could be spent . in the state ana j evidence, .that woman, has a fair
the money spent by travelers can understanding of man." .The pro-
only be guessed at.
It is a good. Investment.
DAY- OP PRAYER
T
HE designation of October 4
by President W ilson as a
day of ; nationals prayer for
peace is! most commendable.
At a time when the jseiitiment of
war so strongly possesses the
world anything that "can be done
posal la In line . with woman's eter
nal problem of handling her liegra
lord. She knows both his weak
nesses and his strength.
REQUESTING IXPOKMATIOf
i HERE is a great deal In the
newspapers about the pro
posed detention home for wo
men, for which a site may be
hnirftrit hv th r-itv nt rhraa tlmai
to turn mens its as&essed value.
me'ways ;oi,peace euouiu rewiy
the- encouragement" of all -people.
IHE counties of Oregon have
expended the sum of $18,-
292,042 on roads and bridges
from 1903 to 1913, inclusive.
according to figures gathered by
the state highway commission. The
'figures are not official, however,
: for ' the reason that many of the
County records are Incomplete andj
estimates have been made from the
' test available data.
-This large amount was, spent
under the old patchwork, system
and a great deal has been wasted
Multnomah county leads with an
expenditure of $2,108,264. Clack
amas comes next with $1,310,522.
Lane spent $1,095,864, and JSarion
$1,081,073. ""
: In the year 1918 the total
amount spent In the state was $3,-
l 184,207. An increase of $16,568
over 1912. . . .
, - During the present year besides
the $4,000,000 spent by the coun
ty authorities there Is $500,000,
'raised from county bonds, on the
Pacific Highway, in Jackson coun-
' ty, $400,000 on the Columbia High
way" in Clatsop county and $315.-
000 on the Columbia" Highway , in
Columhia county. Multnomah
county will expend on the Colum
- bia Highway the sum of $500,000
and Hood River county a, .bond
Issue- of $75,000. .
7-In; .addition to this the state,
, highway commission has : appropri
.. ated $30,000 for the Biggs Wasco
section of the Central Oregon
Highway and $12,0 00! for the Cap
; Ital Highway, or: Rex-Tigardville
I 1. is estimated that it will re
' quire $10,000,000 'to. develop a
T proper trunk system for the state.
. This will necessitate a ten mill
, ; levy, approximately or If raised by
a bond, issue ' the annual -interest
on . this ' amount at five per cent
would be an annual levy of one
' half mill.- - ' . i . 1
Independent of the . vast- sum
saved. to farmers with -a good sys
tem of roads-. a crop.; of several
millions maj be gathered annually
and "blind pigs" and "bad" whiskey
are the defenses about which the traf
fic finally rallies, . rational men seek
ing truth can only conclude that the
victory shout Is Just at hand for Ore-
the editor proclaims himself a prohlbi- j gon dry, a dry United States, and soon
tionist. while at theame time he a dry world. F. , FRANKLIN,
makes ' the assertion that "There Is
more liquor here than ever before, and
Instead of a few places being the re
posltory ror such, it can be found
most any place."
The "Futility' V of Prohibition.
McMinnville, O?:, Sept; 8. To the
Editor of The Journal I quite often
see correspondence in your paper from
I "lived in Dallas at the time that I prohibitionists in reference to white
statement was published in one of our slavery, 1 gambling, murder, adultery,
local papers. That liquor was sold in aU the ills Vnd vices of mankind, and
Dallas after we voted out the saloon, ,v,- i .
no. one doubts who is familiar wl5 l.!"1 emoloa.al PP1
the condition of things as they ax- J v"1- wn ur evwyiniug,
isted here at that time; but that j India naa thousands .jof Immoral wo
there was more liquor here than when 1 men; also' Turkey, and they don't
by an ordinance which became effective
last Saturday. ?
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The Lincoln County Leader, pub
Itshed at Toledo, .has ordered a lino
type machine from the Merganthaler
company of . New York. The Leader
says the typesetting machine will give
It a chance to publish a better paper,
mora representative of Lincoln county.
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Vancouver people have been warned
by Chief of Police Brotton against
speeding their automobiles during, fair
week. The chief says there has been,
a marked tendency on the part of local
people to ignore the speed ordinance in
going to and from the. Interstate fair.
The editor of sthe Harney - County
News, published at Burns, says he is
fattMilnir on soma corn from the aar-
den of a constituent. The corn Is of
the -variety received last spring by the
Harney County National bank. . Indi
cating that fat editors may have di
rect connection with farms, and even
national banks. ,
.There Is prospect of a new cannery
being opened in the near future at
Canby. The Irrigator says It will fur
nish a market for a large amount of
fruit and vegetables which are now
going to waste. The Irrigator is boost
ing the proposed cannery, and at the
same time callUjg for more farmers to
develop the resources of Clackamas
county. -,
EFFECT OF WAR ON MORALS
a-
From London Correspondent of the '
New lYork Evening Kost.
The raoidltv of the deterioration In
moral -standards, under conditions Of
war was seldom more. strikingly shown
than here and now.. , '
On July 29. a week befora England
entered the war, lr Edward Grey was
moved to Indignation by tha refusal
of the German chancellor to pledge
himself, in the discussions of Eng
land's relations to France that ,Uer-"
many would not In any of the con
tingencies of war, lay hands on the
French colonies. In ess than, a week
after the actual outbreak of war
France and England - united lri the
seizure of the German colony In west
Africa.
we had the saloons remains yet to be
proved. I don't believe it, nor do I
believe the author of that article be
lieyes it. That there would have been
less liquor in the town than there was
drink. The same Is true all through
the orient.
We make laws against -gambling.
murder, theft adultery, because from
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T , i, V . r i. iviumw recognized as natural wrongs. Human
their known duty, I have ample reason
to believe.
What is true, of the Dallas clipping
Ufa and property have always -been
held sacred.' You will also note that
alcoholic liquors have been sanctioned
Incidentally, the public has lit
tle. Infnrmatlnn ' na tn tha nlnna
- There are several reasons why fft, tT,, va whT la ,t nikBaar.v
the United States should Ukethe to have tQlrty acre -o land foy a
lead In this movement, vve navel ; -nruv - mn nn(,i,
stbod for peace , at all times and Required for a woman's detention
have preached the brotherhood 9f hom6? What use. would the city
man as the basis ot progressive ihiTa nf nnn ,n
vmuittuuu. o o fciio huuiS trnxn win. , ,!, . ... ,.vii.v
iVaIi '.t 111 iava a nnmlnaht nttft In I
l ZTJZl" .These are questions that doubt
lTt'::: .C": "r" Z: less occur to many taxpayers, just
o.v n ia'i. - as they, do to The JournaL
basic Christian principle and as we I i - -
turn to Him -who maketh -even f?I' L Culd " adequate site
fi, A;n.iM-'xriM be secured for one fourth or one
tiiv vv 4 cevu Ui . wau yiaiorj - 1UU1 l j --t -
W S3 vail AJVJJJ ivl bAJiCfcft, D Lf AA Aw U
peace without which all the plans
of , diplomats are powerless of exe-1 -
cution. -.' : . -
He has promised:
If my people, which jare called by
my name, shall .humble themselves
and Dray and seek! my face and turn
from their wicked j ways then will I t-tOT";
is oQuouesa true oi ait. me cuppings as early as the Lord's supper. The
by Mr. Cotton. commandments also' speak of these
In order that prohibition may ac- natural wrongs, while they; make no
complish that for which it is de- reference to alcoholic beverages,
signed, two things are. necessary. , August 29 a Dodge City; Kan barber
First, vote the saloons out; second, went on a spree at Bloom and caused
vote dry officials in. Blind pigs never considerable disturbance. The people
thrive where dry officials hold the at Bloom told the sheriff that he had
reins of local government. drunk all the' hair tonic and bay rum.
Some years ago the county 4n which some three quarts. Which goes to
I was i born and raised. In southern show that the small percentage of in-
Kentucky, voted the saloons out; but temperate people even ' in Kansas can.
left wet officials in "Authority. The not bo helped by prohibition. In the
bUnd pig that gives' the Wets o much Southern states, according to Right
concern soop took up 'his abode in the Rev.- H, C. . Brant; Episcopal bishop of
county seat. ' The officials saw to it Manila, 'where prohibition, has almost
that the pestiferous animal was not become universal, the Increase in the
disturbed. The people finally became sales of drugs per capita, is greater
aisgustea, not- oniy witn tne pig, out 1 man tne increase in. population
; The loudest and most constant as
surance In the London press has been
that there Is no hoscility here to Ger-'
many and the German people, but that
the war is solely against the German
autocracy and militarism. 'A week af
ter' war was declared a piece by
Strauss was replaced on the program
of the first promenade concert of the
season by something of Tchaikovsky's;
the usual iWagner concert was re
placed the next day by a Franco
Russian program, and it Was stated
that all the works of" living German
and Austrian composers would bs ban
ished for the ' future. This was to
propitiate popular sentiment.
"The patriotio feelings of th enor
mous audience,", we were assured, had
musio might provoke such manifesta
tions as would embarrass the police.
A writer In one of the newspapers
ventures the Ironical comment that "it
would be Interesting to know whether
It. Is also ! high treason in Germany
now to be Caught reading Shakespeare
and MJlton."
War" Is the caption for a column In
a leading liberal newspaperlhls morn
ing,' and essentially the a a ram appears
In the other papers. "Millions to Be
Won," "Plana for Conquest of German
Markets," "British Traders' Opportun
ity to Capture Commerce" such are the
bristling headlines. "No such golden
chance has ever been offered to Brit
lsh Industry and commerce as is af
forded by the conditions arising from
the present European war," proclaims
the British Empire Industrial league.
and it gloats over the chances for!
Britain's capture of the 1632,000 annu
al volume of export trade till yester
lay in the hands of "our most unscru
pulous competitors." "
One writer urges the annihilation not
only of Germany's navy, but of her
entire mercantile fleet aa well. If
this were- done. "England would have
such a booming trade as we have never
before dreamed of." Even the colonial
secretary and the torelgn secretary
and the board of trade, are cooperat
ing officially to collect and circulate
the data which : will rouse English
traders to the good fortune offered
them by Germany's misfortune. "The
complete paralysis of Germany's ex
port trade which Ysas followed the
sweeping of the 'seas by t the British
navy," says the Daily News, the or
gan of liberalism, "has presented our
traders with a wonderful opportunity,
and they are grimly alive to the situa
tion." ,. . .... w.
On August 5 this was a war on Eng
land's part: for the neutrality of Bel
glum, the rights of small nations, and
tne sanctity of treaties. The surges
tion of any: sordid or selfish considera
tion was anathema. A, fortnight later
Belgium neutrality claims less space
In the newspapers than the capture
of German markets. "World Trade
One -cannot help wondering how all
this will read in "selfish, envious and
bigoted Berlin."; Will , she "grimly"
venture the suspicion that the elo
quent and mighty altruism of a fort
night ago was not tne dominant thing
in the. British compound?-- She could,
like everybody else, make too sweep
ing deductions from things like these.
They-do not represent In any" sense
the majority or dominant sentiment
of, the English public today. But. as
we see in every war, these, are the
sentiments which rapidly develop as
the war Itself develops, until public
opinion in the : warring nations be
comes inebriate, and selfishness and
passion entirety usurp the throne.
Deep Pocketbooks Among Warring Powers
with the pig protectors also, and voted
in officials who soon broke Into the
sty, confiscated the source of his pros
perity and placed the blind pigger
where be was no longer a nuisance
and a .menace to publlo morals.
What was done In this Instance
could be done in any town in Oregon,
GERMAN. THOROUGHNESS
P
RESIDENT CAMPBELL of the
University of Oregon ! has
called - attention to German
thoroughness -In preparation
.commercial, conquest, -i- The
hear from heaven! arul win forgive j GerrnlanB . -are highly trained for
their sin and will heal their land. I . . , L " ' m, .-
Dyouat ymyuoco. & jrvruitui
Prohibition) and the Taxpayer.
Nehalem, Or., Sept t. To the Editor
of The Journal -Mr. Yoder wants to
know whether I can. show an instance
where a man spent his money over
even In Tillamook, the county seat ef th bar and his family iwas happier.
the county in, which the gentleman J " xamiiy neeas tne money he
from Nehalem resides. ' spends, it does not benefit them in
M. B. YOUNG. ' the least and it matters' not whether
i V. Kn. via ( L 1 Uf.OAA jw l.JLli.
'War and the Uquor Traffic. district. I want to ask Mr. Yodr or
Albany, Or., Sept. 7 To the Editor I Mr. Luther if It -rellevea the anguish
of The- Journal -The best European j of the. wife t know her husband got
statisticians figure the direct and In-j drunk in a prohibitory blind pig? Does
direct cost -of th present war in Eu-1 It stay the pangs of hunger, of the
rope at $55,000,000 a day. This vast child that its father spent his money
sum, amounting to $20,000,000,000 a In a speak-easy? Does it make the
year. Is probably less ' than the annual mother happier to know thai her boy
cost of the liquor traxiia to Hiurope I or girl got dru.nk In- a prohibitory rum
and America. .It Is less than the I shop? You. talk as though it makes a
financial cost of the liquor trafflo to j difference ;iaovr, show where.'
the. United States alone everyfive I . They refer to Oregon City and Salem
years. The terrible conomio waste j as models. ' People visiting Salem say
of war is admitted by aiL . they can get booze when sthey want it
But, eurely, we are .all wrong in I Things may not be aa loose, as in most
thinking of war as waste. War is a
A WATCHING C03iIITTEB
A
salesman has, devoted painstaking
years! to preparation for his work;
BUDAPEST; woman, Mrs. jit Is; thoroughness that has made
. Roslka i Schwlmmer, wants a j modeirn industrial Germany.
watching committee" named ! , ,Tne purpose of President Camp-
, to urge mediation in ' Europe. i bell was' to' show the advantage
She has come to America to urge of ..the right sort . of ' education in
President Wilson, to take the preparation fox American trade ex-
initiative, n ' - - ,1 nansion. . He - could have selected
This woman's plan is novel and i so better text 'than Germany, .for
characteristic! of her sex. She pro that ; country, haa- given definite
poseji the creation of an . interna-1 meaning to the - word "efficiency
tional body, made up of. repre-Jused ; connection with, commer
Bntatives from nations whose neu-jclal and industrial enterprises. -In'
trallty Is disinterested. This com-1 the , kaiser's empire efficiency is
mittee's duty would be to urge 1 the iivatchword " of the nation, and
mediation upon the warring powers lit Is '-used in ' every - undertaking
dally. No single refusal or dozen I upon which the Germans enter:
refusals would keep the committee J - Raymond E. Swing, Berlin cor-
from the task of attempting to end j respondent , of the Chicago NewB
the conflict. , ! I has told how ' Germany prepared
Mrs. Schwlmmer has evidently I herself for the heavy burdens of
studied man-nature.; The virtue of i war. fc, The German .' army is the
her" plan, he says.i lles- in .the'imosti efficient organlxatlon. for Its
fact that' it .would permit men wag-3 purpose to be found in the world.
Ing the war to accept rather than I But .German mahagement was not
ask. for mediation.. I confined to the mobilization of
There -,, is a large idea in the I troops. - It was shown in financial
plan. ' It is based upon male stub-1 and ; economic mobilization to .an
bornness,- too often ! supposed' by J equally t remarkable degree. Uni
the sox to be grit or courage." A I versity men are more of a factor
man In a fight will-not quit until Jin the public life, of Germany than
W. J. BISHOP.
By John M. Oskison.
God Is on the side of the heaviest
artillery; and the makers of big guns
and ammunition deliver first to those
nations that have full pocketbooks out
of which to pay. And in the final
analysis the thrifty workers of a na
tion are the ones who pay fhe bills,
r. So let us take a glance at the sav
ings bank deposits of the powers en
gaged In war. Consider first those of
Germany and Austria-Hungary.
Austria has In her communal' and
private savings banks a little more
than a billion and a quarter of dollars,
and enough more in the postal savings
banks to raise the total to $1,363,600.-
000,' while Hungary has in the classes
of banks named some $178,000,000,
Germany!- Xa - by .far-v tna thriftiest
power engaged in the wait judged by
the bulk of her people's savings. Near,
ly 23,000,000 - German subjects have
about $4,500,000,000 in the private and
corporate savings banks in the empire.
So, between these allies, there exists a
chest containing something Ilk. $,
4i;000.000. It is a huge sum; how
does it compare with the savings of
Russia,. France, Belgium-; (also em
broiled en j the side of the triple en
tente X, and the United Kingdom?
great business. Perhaps no. other
makes such a call for labor. Peace
advocates are merely foolish senti
mentalists .who are blinded by the
fact that a mere fraction of the men
employed in war are killed therein.
The other millions -get their wages oo:
of It and great industries thrive in the
production of ' war supplies. ' Is thq
reader weary of the" lame logic of this
paragraph? It Is merely parody , of
lamer logics with, which would be
thinkers are seeking to save the day
for drinK ana annx revenues. ,
Economic defense of the drink traf
fic is an utter impossibility; It is: no
longer merely. , a fraction of -drinkers'
known as drunkards whose fate Is the
condemnation of the traffic Science
is demonstrating in 4 the .university
laboratories of the Whole world that
every drinker is, to a measurable, de
gree, a drunkard,' or-an Intoxicated
person. ' - ' ;
It - follows that when the ' saloon
takes money from any man for drink.
there is no more real 'business in the
transaction than in ainy other success
ful bunco game or holdup. Tne high
wayman is usually kinder to his vic
tim, than, are the "poisoners general,
Ignorance and appetite, and sup
posed financial Interest will continue
to struggle In every conceivable -com
bination in defense of the liquor traf
tie. - The key to much, of what, is
printed in these words of Macauley:
"If there were any large pecuniary -in
terests concerned in denying the Ja
of gravitation, that Jaw would noT,be
acknowledged to thii dav ". I . '
When- so -called "personal liberty"
...We' find the United Kingdom (Eng
land, Ireland, Scotland and Wales)
with a total of $1,148,000,000 in the
postal and trustee savings banks
France has In private and postal sav
ings banks about $1,083,000,000; Rus
sia's savings amount to $715,000,000;
and those of , Belgium- $211,009,000.
Here's a grand total of $3,212,000,000;
It's a, little more -than half of th
total owned by the two powers at war
with them.
Take another sort of test th sav
ings per capita; Austria shows $47.72
saved for each' inhabitant: Hungary
has saved $22.85 each; ana the Ger
mans have $65.83 each.
Among the war rivals of these two
powers, the record Is this: France
has savings of $27.36 to each unit efl
population; the United Kingdom.
$25.14; Russia, $4.79; and Belgium.
1 izs.oo.' :
ao. roaae tnese iigures a mne more
significant, compare , them with our
own record of total ' savings of a lit
tie more than -$5,000,000,000 tf nearly
11,600,000 depositors, and a per capita
saving of ss.7.
Can you' wonder that Germany and
Austria-Hungary have felt confident of
the sufficiency f their "rolls'?
girls.
"Thomas J. Farnham; had "his. office ?
with my father, and he ttold me so
rrvoh about Oregon that I wanted to .
go out to that wonderful 'region; t I
read 'Fremont's Travels in Oregon and -California.'
which enthused me still
more. I used to spend hours listen
ing to Mr. Farnham tell of his experi
ences In Oregon. He organlxed i a
party In the spring of 1839 to go to
Oregon. They called it the Peoria
party, and, as we lived 12 miles from
where the party WHs organised, we
of its preparation.
"Mr. Farnham organised the party
and was its leader. There were 13 in
the party beside Mr. Farnham. - Joseph
Holman was one of th party. He got
work with the Methodist Mission at
Salem. In 1841 he married Miss Al
mlra Phelps. He built the State House
at Salem. He was an Englishman, and
had been In the United States about
three years when he joined Mr. Farn
ham' party. Amos Cook, late of Port
land, was another of the party. Kid
ney gmlth, whq was th cause of the
party breaking up, was another. When
he got to Oregon, they named Mm
Blubber-Mouth' Smith. Fletcher. Kll
borne. Wood, Blair, Oakley and Jordan
were others In the party.
"All the neighborhood was at the
courthouse at Peoria, to give them a
send off when they left for Oregon,
about the 1st of May, In 1839. They
went to Independence, Mo., and from
there started out on the regular fur
traders' trail for Sante Fe. Smith
was quarrelsome, and was a1 born
trouble-maker, so when he shot him
self acoldentally most of the party
wanted him to go back and- not con
tinue the Journey and be a care and
trouble to them. Farnham would not
consent to this, so the party broke up.
Farnham resigned the command, and
when they arrived at Bent's Fort, thy
split up. Joe Holman, Amos Cook, R.
L. Kllborne and Franclst Fletcher
started northward and wintered with
a party of . trappers In the Rocky
mountains. They reached Fort Van
couver overland on the same day and
at the same hour that the ship Lau
sanne, with Jason Lee's new mission
aries did.
"Farnham. with Blair, Wood, Kelly,
Oakley and Smith, the cause of all
trouble, started on for Oregon. On the
head waters of Green river Kelly quit,
and Oakley and Wood decided to go
back to Illinois. Farnham, Blair and
Smith went on to Fort Hall, and
thence to the Hudson Bay post kept
by Payette, called Fort Boise. From
there they went by way of Burnt river,
Powder river. Grand Ronde valliyjind
on across the 'Blue mountains to th
Umatilla valley. The party agafn sep
arated, Farnham going to Dr. Marcus
Whitman's mission and Smith and
Blair going to Fort Walla Walla, now
called Wallula. Here Smith and Blair
separated. Blair sroinar to Snaldina'a
to the Willamette valley, and got a
job with Ewlng Young. Farnham went
on to The Dalles, and. with Jason
Lee's nephew, Daniel Lee, Went to -Fort
Vancouver. Hs stayed as a .guest
of Dr. McLoughlin for a week or 10
days, and then traveled to the Method
ist mission, at Salem. He went on a
Hudson's Bay boat to the Sandwich
Islands, and from there he caught a
ship around the Horn for the Atlantic
coast He spent a good deal of time
after his return writing books about
Oregon and his travels across -the
plains. -
"When gold was dlscoveed In Cali
fornia, we decided to coma out to the
coast, but it was the spring of 1851
before we were able to get under way.
We started from New London, about
18 miles from Burlington, la, , John L.
Starkey and -Dr. John McCully, a
brother of David McCulley. came with
us. Dave and Asa McCully had left
in '49 for California. They went back
to Illinois, and IA 1852 they came out
to Oregon. We settled here where
Woodburn inow is ' located, r Father
bought a squatter's right Jack sox
and Ell Cooley were our neighbors.
Robert Copley and myself are the only
ones ieft'who lived here In 1I5L"-
HOO'S H00
By John W. Carey, j
places, but -these cities are ' young in
prohibition.:-- Give them time and ydTi
will hear the same cry as from every
prohibitory r district in our nation. Just
give them time. They have never
failed to come: through ini spite of hon
est efforts of officials K "'
Mr. Yffder . wants i to know why the
saloon men ; fight, prohibition. The
question is 'foolish enough.- Any man,
with the least ia.bility, will flgh.t to pro
tect the unjust - destruction of his
property, and destruction without com
pensation. His assertion that prohibi
tion has sent; men noma sober- has
never been proved In a single instance.
and I. defy him to show one. But Mr.
Yoder and alt.th rest engaged on his
side of the controversy seem to place
the stigma ana disgrace or tne liquor
business upon the, working man. There
are working men who. drink Just the
same a there are ricti men who drink,
but Mr. Yoder and the rest will find
the working man , Just as sober and
capable of taking' care of himself ' as
anyone- else... .-; . -., i: ...
I want Mr. xoderrto point to one In
stance where prohibiten has relieved
the burden of the. taxpayer. Just one.
8.' J. COTTON.
- Answer to a . Booze Pester, .
McMinnvllle, TOr Sept . 8. To the
Editor of The Journal Everywhere I
have gone In the Interests of my con
gressional candidacy . I have been' con
fronted with the flaming red posters
of the liquor- traf flc, filled -with mis
representation and falsehood. ' Permit
ma- space' to .answer ooei of. th- asier
tlons made - in ; such posters; "Nine
hundred thousand dollars lost 'In reve-.
nue if we j vote Oregon dry."
The Impression is that Oregon re
ceives, $900,000 revenue - from; the
liquor traffic; whereas Oregon: does
not. receive one cent of- revenue from
the liquor interests that would be lost
if the state went dry.
It i true that the liquor' interests
are supposed to pay license to the wet
cities, but if there be a benefit to any
taxpayer of the state in that revenue,
none of It .goes to any farmer or any
resident in; dry. territory, but only tb
kwet1 towns land cities. ? ' -
This revenue -is used, and usually
much more must be added, to support
the police department of the city re
ceiving it, and none, as Is commonly
declared, goes to build sidewalks or
pave streets? Every property owner
knows that be pays the full contract
price for all such improvements in
fr.ont'of his -property.
The poorj the oppressed, the down-'
trodden, are: further robbed that those
who own - property may evade more
taxes, whereas; an addition of only
one mill to the tax rate in Oregon
would raise more than the whole reve
nue of the liquor business, -, and th
burden would rest where it belongs
on the ' owner of property, . and - not
on the weak and overborne.
; There is one other phase of the
question. The presence of the liquor
business in Oregon is accountable more
than all other causes for the necessity
of raising over $1,000,000 a year Just
to . maintain tho . state institutions
alone, and this fund must bo paid by
farmers, dwellers :l v dry cities -and
towns, ; and i every .owner of - a foot of
property ini the- state oC Oregon.'
"a Fine business. that: 'Voe 232 ' X
Yes, for protection of home, lower
taxes, ana tne : burden that must be.
borne to rest on the. shoulders of the
property owners and not on the poor.
downtrodden, weak and oppressed.
h CURTIS P. COQ '
Has Interviewed the Women. '
Portland, Sept . To .'the Editor of
The Journal I .have just -completed a
tout made la the interests of the Pro
hibition party and th dry amend
ment During my trip I was la eight
of . the eastern Oregon counties. Mudh
to my satisfaction I'found tb woman
-very.vready to" respond to theall of
prohibition. Mere so, in fact, than th
meO. And this Is as it should be.. far
th liquor traffic; as Everybody mag
" 1 - . rACcH rAV
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- - !
Who's holding down today a Job ;foi
R. Poincare & .Co., in whiclr N. -Bona
part "won fam a hundred years agol
Who leads the mighty-j host oi
Franc in Europe's merry scrap, wltlj
eye all set on Germany to wipe it off
th map?""'. 1 -
.. Who hopes to bring the bacon ton
at least Alsace-Lorraine and other
wise with Europe's map to raise sobm
urn ram? - - -,-..
.Who's out to Jolt those Germans is
the well-known-Jugular for what the J
.K. gave th Frenchmen in th Franco.
woman in th horn more than it 4os 2t!i?' Tiw-;r'w-i
anyone else. Not only did th women 1 .Whf d "how h Franc a
readiS! oar; pledges, but they eon- VAISlS1 TffineraiPJoffr
tributed liberally also, i In on pUc at Waterloo?, TaOeneral Jcf f r man
nine women assisted wnii oniy two
or threi men responded. 5 -s --
I did considerable platform work.
hut had' an" opportunity; to Interview j
many, women -In their homea ; While t
1 have been . in th .home where th i
wlf and th husband will vote wet in !
otmtrs where th wlf and tb husband
will vot dry. In some where th hus
band will vot wet and the wife dry,
I have never been In any home wher
th husband will yot dry and th wlf
wet ' ' , 4
If any of the wet follower think
that th majority of women willj not
vote dry.' let him interview tham day
after day as I have done and I am sure t
1 will change his mirwi. i
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