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s THE OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 19lC t . . ' r-i . p. fv IDrvlAl iThey are . legislation to protect the -? I PIP v .It II J rv I 1 Ai people from befns robbed of the i " a iinr.rvxMXT nkwxpapbk. little that remains of their publie c. jackso ...istuBisr. heritage, and that sets I up barriers .... Htindar. aad to prevent this remnant of lands " ln. Bmadwar Yamhill M.. Portland. Or. fcuinra al tbe utifh at FoftUnd. Or., tor ' traMnituloa tbnrtijfb the mlto aacotd . rlaaa anttor: 'JKUfFHOSKM-Mnlu 7113: noma.. A-m. All itmirtmmfi ru-ail h ttiaae noBkbara. Tell lUbKtU AUVKKTlSINU liBI'KKSBN'fA'l I Vli Benjamin K.ntnoe MS Fifth Aa.. N iork, Ul People im Wl.. CtaW'nan, U or tu auy ( MiMMtfblliM (ft 111. IIVBaI araaa t lb United 8tte or Meilco: ; I DAILY. a M t On fwr......3.00 I On sotb - SUNDAY. i Om ft 2.Jrt On month -A DAILY AND SUNDAY, " One rw $7 SO tne aiotite g: from being grabbed and used to exploit the people. , In the state pamphlet, on pages 4243, 44 and 45, the citizen! can find out all about the proposed. legislation and support or oppose it on its merits, according to the dic tates .ot his own' sober Judgment. THE CITV RECALL T It hath been said that an .unjust peace A to be preferred before Just war. S. Butler. i HERB is no reason. for a re call election in Portland. It is but eight months until a reeular election. That will jjjbe the end of Commissioner Brew- ; feter's present term. If a recall i candidate wants to beat him, that' 'will h th nrnnflr time to trv it. i ' That will be a fit time for those . who desire to do so, to try and re call Mayor Albee and Commissioner Dieck. It can be tried then with out a cent of extra cost for judges and booths and clerks ot election. Meanwhile, it is futile to attempt the recall of any of- them. It can not be done. The recallers will not be able to muster enough rled out or town on ten jvote3 Tne very appropriateness gumshoe trip, and there is a reply ( Qf thfi re.aI1 Biecti6n will arouse to Dr. Smith's offer that perhaps. , overwhelming resentment that TIIAT JOINT DISCUSSION DR. SMITH'S offer, to Chair man Moores to engage with Dir. Withycombe in a joint ilscuBsion of public issues did not meet with an acceptance. Instead, Dr. Withycombe was bur- on a ten days I; marbe. if. provided, thereupon con rnvlalonally. a uvnvfvi,fi" - - ' Uhat is to say, but ; There will be no Joint discus sion. The Portland "advisers" r would no more turn Dr. Withy I combe loose for a joint discussion rthan they would touch a lighted ! match to a powder house. They are convinced that if their candidate "once got the muzzle off and went in Oregon escaping " taxation now. Any determined- and energetic at tempt to tax to an equal degree with the homes of the workers and farmers much. :. of this escaping wealth, would drive capital from the state, cripple industries and pull down a number of important financial Institutions. .Why not admit these facts, and by exempting homes from taxation up to $1500 of the assessed values of the improvements and labor made things, attract wealth to Ore gon to invest in homes, to, supply these homes and to thereby de velop Oregon and her industries? Such a course will make a de mand for land as wejl as the things in and on the land, and thereby en able many small investors to save themselves with their investments in land that now they are finding it difficult to retain, or' to realize upon. 1 The man who t,a ys "I believe in taxing everything, and in exempt ing nothing," is too often exempt ing himself from the lawful tax on some easily concealed or trans ported form of wealth. Why be eln the non-exemntion nlan that nas never Deen ana never can d romm..ni,..tin. t t n,. jnum.i for applied -by jumping onthe Strug- PnDlicu,,n 4n this department ahould be wrlt ,. .7 J-j . 1 ,en on onl' one side of tlie PPer. anould not exceed mo woro la leugtb aDd must oe ac companied by tbe uanie ai addrefc ot toe tender. If the writer doe not desire to have tbe Dune published, be ibould ao state.) assembly before are for -Jthe as- Jj sembly now. 'They have not changed their opinions for the same reason that the leopard can-! not change his fpots. Let no friend of the direct pri mary be beguiled Into forgetful ness by honeyed words or sweet sounding phrases. An excerpt from the preamble in the assembly bill is ample evidence that the fight is on. "Here it is: Discussion, conference, agreement, are a necessary to party success as to successful government. Political gatherings for such purpose, whether under the name of "convention" or any other name, are indispensable to the perpetuity of party, hence Bhquld be combined with and made a part of the primary system. As now ex isting with no plan of harmonizing discordant factions, the primary can not, endure; hence the object of this supplementary law la to preserve try primary. Did anybody ever notice that every movement to destroy the primary and every brigadier who plots its destruction," poses public ly as lord protector and head champion of the primary system? A FEW SMILES PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF "I understand they have a curlew law out there now," he said. "No," his inform ant answered, "they did have one, but they abandoned it. "What was the matter?" ... "Well. the bell rang at 9 o'clock. and almost everyone complained that it woke them up.u I I tlr 11 Kims m 11 r 1 it I W r " -I T I II 1 c ' a mall change The idle brain is advance agent for a busy tongue. Usually: a man Is what he suspects others ot being. I Confession of weakness is the begin ning of strength. a genuine eiceptic nas lost an laitn in himself. OREGON SIDELIGHTS. IN EARNER DAYSf Letters From the Peopla 1 ; 1 gling worker in city aid country with his little all in plain sight? will defeat any and every recall candidate. The fact that there is no excuse or reason for a recall will beat every candidate of the recall. Port land has not gone crazy. This town will heavily oppose a farcical recall when there is not one rea sonable pretext for a recall. The Journal did not help elect Mayor Albee. It would have done WHY TAXES ARE HIGH NO. 10 s I deavors. , ' , , . . , 1 , J lira CiUlllC LIUUD III a W J UiUClCUl Uhere would be tm",,nindau ! from what Mayor Albee has done ! t works and explosions and aurora bofealises and eruptions that would jine . A , vi reduce Mount Laswn to a mere side- I t believes Mayor Albee is .'tnow 1 honestly and earnestly striving to Before the performance were 8erve this city well, and it believes ,i half over, every -adviser" would!" to be its duty and the people's have St. Vitus dance, palpitation of -duty to sustain him and all other h.,H onrt h. ihrnwme fourteen ! lloneHl otuciais in uieir puuuc en kinda of cat fits. You couldn't jkeep the bunch corralled in a "i forty-acre lot. or nuiet them down 'with a barrel of paregoric. . T, Dr. Smith may as well cut out tall expectation of a joint discus ' Blon of the issues. The' most he .t;an expect is an oner ny ine aa- Rl1i. nf th war in Fintrtnn f vliers" to let Dr. Withycombe : thprp Rai(1 t hA 4n ftnn r 'meet him in a public game of ping ; mans registered as residents. Manv ipong, or pitch a lew rounds at ; of them are British citizens who j horse shoes, or play him a game 1 are fiDdPK their family name a ; of 1 progressive mumblepeg, all of 'great handicap, as they are con course, under a signed agreement U8ed with aliens. To overcome tthat the conversation be strictly the present prejudice against every ; limited to "A Greater Oregon." s. J thing German in England many t NEW MONIIOCRS HE genealogist of the future will encounter the rocks in tracing some family trees. This will be one of the re AMERICAN WASTE w ; are having their names changed by 1 law. Some are anglicizing the un.F. if. nirn dwntinn ' name. others are adopting a new which :came to the United one altogether. States to lodge a formal In Germany it is reported that 5 . " orotest with President Wil- lne same process is going on 'son against alleged German atro- among those who have English cities was unsparing in ita praise names. In Russia and France ;;of American hospitality, it was many business men. with German equally so in its criticism of,Uiimes are topping inem. American waste. Minister del Once in a while there is a man Wlart said : j wno sticks to his colors and will The Americans wastf? enough to 1 not abandon the name- of his fed a nation, in the country wasted j father for business reasons, lands. In the cures wasted men on The courage of uch , t the tre- and plants unifathered food,! . . ... " 0 ; ln the centers of population hungry aumncu iu tuis commercial age. people. If any Kuropean country! ;! were so remiss in Its attention to j ';' the .demands of wise economy Us j v people would starve. j ? Minister van der Velde con-i l.'curred In the views of his asso-1 U.. elate and suggested as a means of I ; ; correcting the worst phase of I I American waste, a plan whereby I BAYONETTED BROTHERS T HAT the passion of war does not altogether destroy the in stinct of- brotherhood is shown by sidelights from the battlefield. ... c,L.t- .u.uu u.u, "mu Chronicle relates instances of recon to send idle men o agricultural; between French and Ger- , districts. "He suggested also a pen man soldiers who lay wounded and ,alty tax on unused and in order. bandoned near th , 6 , to encourage production Blamont. While waiting for death 't, ?2e,COntTt W h cond'tfons ,n,ia Frenchman gave his water bot- Belgium where every foot of tle to a Germin officer who was where even the dogs perform use : fol labors is a striking one, and no i.jCm win deny that the criticism is Jast. Improvidence is a national ''sin that will sooner or later ex- haust natural resources and teach ; economy through the experience of . want. Not only is there waste of '. materials, but there 4s a waste of ' men. . READ THE PAMPHLET HE waterfront amendment would deprive the school fund from . the sale of tklclands and re move nrocertv of err at value from tax rolls, theeby further burdening rich and poor. Oregonian. . Here is a straight out misrepre- i . ' seatatlon of the facts. Let any voter turn to page 44 of the state 1, 'pamphlet .and read the Municipal 1- Docks bill which is an accompany- . ing measure to the amendment. . On that page he will find this lan guage: And to authorise corporate author ities and the state land board to lease any . such lands not needed for ' mu nicipal docks, for the benefit of such .Cities and towna and tlie common ebool fond of , tbe state, leases not to. exceed the term of 25 years, etc. What is the motive for misstat- ' infc the facts? Why resort to mis ; , representation of this bill? j v.; - Does" the Oregonian think, the people cannot " read? Why regard The German sipped a little and then kissed the hand of the man who had been his enemy. Another Frenchman found lying near him a German whom he had known at Paris, who said to him: "It is stupid, this war. You and I were happy when wo were good friends in Paris. Why should we have been made to fight each other?" The German died with his arms around the neck of the French man. Why should we have been made to fight each other? IMS is the Question that la asked on every battlefield. m It is a question that never can be satisfactorily answered. ' ' The peasant who was called from his home when the grapes were grow ing purple in the August sun, whether in bonny France, or sturdy Germany, can never be fully con vinced that his last ,and highest duty is to bayonet a brother or mutilate a man. O EAGER was the legislative machine to raise salaries at the 1913 session that it passed two bills raising the salary of the same official in one Oregon county. Not only were both bills passed in the regular way, but both were passed over vetoes by Governor West. One of these bills is found on page 770 and the- other on page 773 of the 1913 session laws. The salary was that of. the school superintendent of Columbia county. One bill raised his sal ary to $1300; the other raised it to $1500. When the first bill passed, the' second appeared in the Senate, and attention was called by one of the senators to the fact that such a bill had already passed. But the machine was deter mined. Its members only glared and gritted their teeth for the vote. They promptly passed the second bill over the governor's veto just as they had passed the first over the governor's veto. It is one of the happenings which The Journal is showing in this series of articles from public documents, as explanation, of why taxes are .high in Oregon. In the office of the secretary of state at Salem is a document which is also illuminative. The legislat ive machine, led by the Multnomah delegation, passed a bill through both houses, increasing the number of deputies in the Multnomah county assessor's office, and in creasing the total of their pay to $43,620 per year. It became known that Governor West intended to veto.the bill. In the controversy that, resulted, the Multnomah county assessor, went to the governor, and after a period of negotiation, an agreement was reached in which the assessor pledged himself to lop off $10,000 a year of the deputy hire provided for in the bill. The following agreement was signed by the as sessor, and it is now attached to the bill in the office of the sec retary of state at Salem: In consideration of the approving of House Bill No. 6T, fixing the num ber and salaries of the deputies to be employed by - the assessor of Mult nomah county, and which carries a maximum annual expenditure of $43, 620, I hereby agree and. make faithful promise that the said agreement shall be fulfilled, that the maximum annual cost to the taxpayers for deputy hire under the provisions of the said bill, shall not exceed $33,620. This agreement was signed by the assessor and is in full force and effect. It is an agreement that saves $10,000 a year to the tax payers of Multnomah county. What might not have happened at Salem if Governor West had pledged himself in advance to be "harmonious" with the legislature? "Disoasalon- In tbe greatest of all reform ers. It rciionalizea everything it tonchea. It robs principles of all false sanctity and t brows them back on tbeir reasonableness. If thej bare no reasonableoesa, it ruthlessly erucbes them out of existence and set up Its own conclusions In tbeir stead." Woodrow Wilson. "That was an awful mistake the I surgeon made. " The man he operated on didn't have what he thought he did." "Lidn t nave ap pendicitis at all, ehT "Oh, he had ap pendicitis all right. iut ne aian't have any money. - Ten Wf IBM rati Ex-Governor Geer's Hostility. At a London dinner recently the conversation turned to the various met Mods of working employed by llt- erary geniuses. Among the exam ples cited was that of a well known poet, fcho, it is said, was wont to arouse his wife about 4 o'clock in the morn ing and exclaim: ''Maria, get up: I have tinasht 01 good word:" Whereupon the poet's obedient helpmate would crawl out of bed and make a note of the thought of word. About an hour later, like as not. a new inspiration would seize the bard, whereupon he would again arouse bis wife, saying: "Maria, Maria, get upl I've thought of a better word!" The company In general listened to the story with admiration, but a merry eyed American girl remarked: "Well, if he d' been my husband I The right side of politics is the in side. ; ! Love ia blind; therefore it fails to see the danger signals. 1 If a man has a nagging wife, he knows all about silence that is golden. A rich girl must be awfully homely if a young man would rather work ti;an wed her. PerhapB the young widow wants to marry again so that she can be dis appointed in another. When a man gets what is coming to him he nearly always has to pay thd transportation charges. Though the war correspondent sends "news from the front." you never can tell how ifar he is from the front. - It ts afl very well to mako fun of those foreign names, such as Przemysl and Szouoiwy, an-l the like; but the Poles and Russians .doubtless could have Just as much innocent merriment with New York and Denver and Port land, if they tried to pronouncu them in their alphabet. "My people a?rj to Oregon with the emigration t '. liZ." said Miss Pauline Luoney rrjen 1 interviewed her at her tent t?trte state fair ground recently. "That they came as-far as Dr. Whitman aw tnisaion in 'in and In the spring oC.f 4 came on to the Willamette valteA In the old days the stale fair jjjras a great event among the plonefH. 1 remember bow 16 young ladleaipf whom 1 was one competed for t!e$l)0 prise saddle Just about 60 ytskia ago here on the 1 UlatA t 1 1 i 1- vMllflBkll 1 U.K.. V. . Jones, is editor and publisher 1 sorry to win it, some of the other girls wanted it j jUadly and I already had a good saddlJ It Is hard tte fealite- how times h-.e changed dusirfg the past 60 years. As an instance JHCthe change of con dttions my fa thir.1 Jesse loney. paid Creswell merchants have adopted an earlier closing hour, changing from 7 o'clock p. m. to 6 o'clock, A municipal woodpile, at which ho boes may earn food and shelter, ia one of the institutions at Ashland. A call for bids has been posted at Molalla fur 24 50 square feet ot side walk and J62 feet of curbing. Mean while the city's new water system Is almost ready for the turning on of the water. ' B. or the Mount Angel Times, a new four-page, seven-column weekly,' all home print and uncommonly good print at that. The paper Is to be in dependent in all reflects. Condon Times: John Dyart has been soliciting subscriptions this week phans in Kuroprf He has been quite ! H mn named Briflf 50u for two hivea successful ana has collected nearly ! t Dees wnicn no lima brought up from $100 around town so far. Editor Leonard, who announced some weeks aeo that the name of his then recent purcnae, me canuy imjaior, , A ,, ,. did not nlea.w him and that he would ' llad. m"de u" Wjiotlc. tte had OC California in hbts'wa&on. "1 remember li1 jhe oUties they held War time Salem in BushSwigrove had made us pkitiotlc. ' ' ' 'J flea SWT Hill, Btl.l 11"" .... . v...'. , . . , , . - -. change it. has now selected "Herald ' sanlztd a milltT-conipany consisting as more suitable, and the Canby Hei-f 120 young -4ain.. We rode In the ld 4t is henceforth to be. procession in h Wliimn of twos. Thert When the walks to the elevator ap proach at Oregon City are completed, the Courier says, there will be afford ed the finest possible viewpoint In Oregon City and it will be a most pop ular promenade. The elevator referred to ip that -.vhich gives transport up and down the bluff between the up per and the lower town. THE EUROPEAN WAR PROGRAM Portland, Or., Oct. 6. To the Editor should have replied: 'Alpheus, get up of The Journal Ex-Governor deer, in yourself; I've thought of a bad a speech recently delivered in Portland. WOrd!'" reveals the fact that he is making a -desperate effort to bring up something to prejudice the people against benator the territory was on the eve or state Chamberlain. "Why,'' says Mr. Geer hood. These men, of all parties, Pro "you couldn't tell by looking at the hibltionists included, combined to shut window cards of Senator Chamberlain down the iron gates of a state consti that he is a Democrat." Probably not, tution, in 1887, leaying women dis nelther could one tell by merely look- franchised on the outside. The same ing at Mr. Geer that he is a standpat- combination is scheming to repeat the ter and a machine politician of the Bame attempt in thestate of Washing old school. But the people of, Oregon ton t0(jayt and for the same reason, know what he is, just the same. Whole counties of Washington men Therefore, his speeches have no in- Haimlnir vr since 1810. fluence whatever over the progressive that they wore deceived into voting element of even his own party. This f th DrODOsed amendment. No. 6. was clearly demonstrated by the re- ReiatinK t( tne. Qualifications of suits of our last primary election, when he was badly beaten in the race for-, the Republican nomination for governor. .It is not what George E. Chamberlain puts on his advertising lrX '-they destroy the tnovement .in U. he has accomplished in the interest or .. AZi ..f- Lilt? ycuuic o wvsu, " 1 , . . .a .amam discharge Of his duties as a public ff ato irap are servant, instead of using the power 01 J"""'"--1 r voters," never imagining that they were voting for votes for women. The mother of the suffrage movement In the Pacific northwest implored the women not to make the fire too hot. Prom the Detroit News. It is a growing conviction that, the great war having begun, it must con tinue until It has settled something. Diplomacy it least the European brand seems to have failed, and seems always to have been based on tbe possibility of war, anyway. There has seemed to be in Europe no spirit of conciliation, no intention to do Justice, regardless of national pride, no disposition to admit that the con quests of the sword are sometimes dishonest conquests. So that, aside from the war, farseeing men who truly love peace, are coming more and more to the conviction that this war must either be decisive of the map of Europe for centuries to come, or else go down in history as the most horrible abortion human passion ever produced. It is felt that if the larger .military establishments be suf ficiently smashed, the people who have erected and maintained them at sore cost, and at last gave their fathers and sons and brothers to ex periment with the great Juggernauts they had erected, will never consent to be taxed for the erectiort of any more such gigantic, cruel, bloodthirsty en gines of death. Hlumn of twos. Ther were (JO .-ouples$f! us on our prancing horses. Sis' WiEilo was captain and 1 was marshal. ijNi'e-wore blue skirts, white waists uijtfyred sashes. As "Sis' Waldo carried tplflag at tbe head of the procession 5 Jft'e were cheered ail along the line. speaking of flags re- -. minds me thatSjairs. Horace Harden, my mother andifnV sister .Susan, ma-le the first flag kn Oregon. The red stripes were mMe from red handker- ! chiefs, the whitj:Was from some white i goods my mother had at the house stores the integrity of nations, subju- i na lne "lue ctn tney uougnt at tne gates no one, and permits lasting re lief from the waste and tension of armaments under which we have suf fered so long." . That is a program which comes as near spelling peace as this present sorry mess of world affairs wilLjer mit. It aims at removing causPs of war, and therefore at removing heavy preparations for war; and this, in the end, will mean the removal of war itself as a moans of arbitrating the differences between peoples. Any man might be willing to die if he knew that his death would wipe out war's sources for centuries to come; If he knew that his son would never have to answer the midnight tocsin, and his family never be driven lief ore an in vading army. But. as Lord Churchill points .out, this peace can never come by subjuga tion. It can neveo) come by "Britain over all the world." or "France -over all the world," or Germany over al the world." It must come only by the nations living their own lives store. They presented it to the Ore gon rangers t. the first Fourth of July celebrattojftjfver held In Oregon. That was on Jutyjl, 1846. at Salem. A celebration wasilso held the name day at Oregon Cltvi'i 'The flag was pre sented to the 1 0regon rangers com manded by Cap?Hln Bennett, who was later killed bfihr Indians near Walla Walla. W. tq.ff'Vault delivered the oration. Aftetj:;bl talk a barbecue and. public diiffjf was held and th;s was followed rji h sermon by Rev. Harvey ClarkejHfl The Oregon Rangers, of Salem,. com--manded by Captain Bennett, to which Miss Looney rifwrs. Is often spoken of as the first Afierlcan military compa ny organised jjHf'Jold Oregon. This Is a mistake, jiqwever. There was a company orgaited a year or two prior to its formated- 1 the spring of 1844 at Oregor jfty, there was a camp of Molalla Inns on the west side of the Willanfjtte from Oregon City. They were re,fiy a wandering branch of the Cay u?4 tribe, called Molallas from the MoHjla district where they his office to further his own interests, bles, and are causing them to repeat j more in as is the case with many who fill pub- the lady s question. Did she (the especiaU This view is coming into wider anjl lie office. itense expression everywhere, mother) mean to say that their right 1 1 worid. Winston Churchill, first lord of .the British admiralty, gave an In terview to Glornale d'ltalia, of Rome, in whtith he presented this view suc cinctly! w . "We want this war to settle the map of Europe on national lines and ac- Mr. Geer also attempted to deprive to vote depended on their voting as sotnr rvinmvriam of the credit men dictated or aesirea r one ougui justly due him for pushing through to to know, without telling, that votes completion the Alaskan railroad bill, for women are, as yet, like a tender i savin? "Wffsiev Jones, a Renub- sadine. v against which, if a heavy lfean senator from the state of Wash- storm should beat, it would destroy ington, introduced an Alaskan railroad them in their infancy. My appeal t? j cording to the true wishes of the peo- bill three years before the Chamber- women voters- is to guard cautiously j pie -wno dwell in the disputed areas, lain bill was brought up." If so, then the budding free of liberty till it 1 After all the blood that is being shed. whv w.s the bill not passed? The 1 grows Into a strong and great ana we want a natural and harmonious Republican party was then In full con- mighty mast, as a department of our , settlement which liberates races, re trol of national affairs, t would line national ship of state, against wnicn to have Mr. Geer explain why it was tne Wjnaa of opposition will then beat not put through then. 11 it was a ln vain. good bill and satisfactory to the peo- ABIGAIL SCOTT DUNIWAT. pie. Was it because tne KepuDiican quietly, enjoying their own posses- made their hofitu Cockstock, a Molalla sions while resnectine those of others. Indian, had u.i cheated by a negro and each confiding in the others' joint J named Wlnslf Cockmoek took the civilization. The nations must become I negro's horsej'Kb get even. A negro neighbor-nations, not ruler-nations. I named KouleHj&jC4orted the matter to And the rulers who sit in chairs of state must be men of works and arts, and not men of the sword. The sword was never a wise ruler; it has some times been a useful servant. If we Elijah White i.tlie Indian agent. Dr. White offere'ia reward of 1100 for Cockstock. .The Molalla Indian heard that a rewarf1?Wd been offered for his capture, so herjressed ln his war paint TIME WHEN CREDIT BECOMES A CURSE By John M. Osklson. Talking about the New Haven rail road and Its historic fall, a financial senator, who Mr. ueer claims rirst in- Waterfront Investors. iroouceu me dm., ic-u wi ,iCvo, .. Tn tno Kditor of nvar.iittrA shiiitv nr waji n nou crn r 1 naim, -. off? But in either case there could The Journal Mr. Coovert haa not , ert t00k occa8ion to compare its be no credit aue nim. eo on wnat answerea my quenuon. rei.u.o v recent record with that of the Erie. grounds is the Washington senator repeal of the acta or 1874-b. aiiegea - entitled to any credit whatever for the to grant away the public right in the As ou know Erie had Ita tyn of passage of the Alaskan railroad bill banks of navigable atreams to upland j extraordinary prosperity, its extra va- None in the least, and Mr. Geer knows owners, and how the pending measure sant use of credit, and its turn in the 4. t t n-- y,oa H,,t a waii trv to u ,irfrnnt invostnn to ! bankruptcy courts more than a genera- check' the flow of the Columbia river the Washington side, when the state tion ago. It is onjy within the last with hi two hands as to try to ure- Lf Washington haa already in it con- lew years say since 1909 that Erie has made a place for itself as a money with his two hands as to try to pre- nf Washington haa already in it con vent the reelection of Senator Cham- etitution reserved inalienable public berlain on November S. wharf areas wherever needed. Do you know why Mr. Geer and the The Oregonian has. however, an- est of the standpatters of his party aWered mv statement that public reve- are so anxious for the election of R. 1 ,,uer derived from-public operation or A D.wvtVi T )r WUhvnmha arA C "V I . , . - V . . n , xwm, - . ..j wv ....... w - - 1 lease wouia j.ar cjccccci tuijf jcocuv McA7? Simpiy' became tiey all rnurderiveoi f rom tax".' as rov ! bankers round no t rouble in raising as favor the overthrow of the present 5 tB ,tat of California. It re- Oregon system, and the reestablish- ltera?es the iORs in taxes and calls mem or machine ruie. iei us not oe .t,o mnasnr a lpnpr deceived, for this is undouhteaiy their T add flnother Question: What scheme, aitnougn tney are enaeavc-ring taxe8 do these bank owners on the , to conceal it from the public. When our esteemed friend Mr. Geer was elected governor a number of years ago it was by the aid of the old po litical macmne. wnicn was men in - j tn t fc? (gee gun Dua operation. , Consequently his Political Coovert w&s an THE ASSEMBLY BILL T i I EXEMPTIOX8 T IS-impossible to tax all wealth. The beneficiaries of self-exemptions of taxation on many forms of easily 'concealed and quickly transferred and transnnrt. them , as a dull, sodden herd who 1 ed wealth know this very well, and can. be made to believe any- and 'every kind of flapdoodle and blath- !.erkite? ., -The amendment and, bill prevent any future legislature or court de- cision from giving away to rich in ' terests the small remnant that is ' left of the people's tide and sub ; merged lands. They provide that ' ; where these lands of the people are not required for public docks, they .' may . be leased .to private 1 person half the revenue from '?th lease's to go la the; cities and towns "and tbe other half to., the common schoor fund. to their profit. When a man demands that all property be taxed alik,e he is de manding the impossible. Oregon is one of the few civilized states left where it is demanded by law. The law i3 -impossible to enforce and never has been enforced. The various county : assessors from time to time shift and modify their regulations and instructions, out so tar as complying with the law, is concerned every attempt to do so. has been a miserable failure. There are millions of dollars of wealth belonging to a few people HE opponents of the primary system always . approach its friends with an olive branch in one hand And a cocked re volver in the other. That is why the people should be on the lookout for the assembly bill. That bill attempts the over throw of the primary. Its ulti mate effect would be to supersede the primary with the. convention. It is the same old plan aff that of 1910. It is the same old as- semblyism that the people had to fight before. There is the same old election of delegates and the same old plan for an assembly of high-brows to tell the people what candidates are fit for them to se lect. A danger lurks in the skillful arguments which its proponents ad vance. Their words about the ori mary system , are honeyed. They say their desire is, not to destroy, but to preserve the primary sys tem. Their affection is strone and their love 4 enduring for the pri mary. ...-.- It is the same old talk and the same-old palaver that we had in 1910. Every assemblyite in that time professed to adore the pri mary, just as every 'old galvanized reactionary today lays his hand on his throbbing heart and avows his undying, affection for the primary. Bat back: of their oily words and sweet smiles .is a purpose. Under their bouquets .there is a long knife that they intend to plunge into the vitals, of the primary, system. . The brigadiers 'who were for the Cf.rning railroad. During the years of Erie's adversity, New Haven was at the top. It was supposed to be one of the solidest among the railroad systems, and its Columbia pay the state on lands be low ordinary high water mark, when they repudiate ownership, and refuse to pay purchase money on any lands honors were a machine product. And his influence in politics ceased when the machine was destroyed. P. BRADFORD. attorney ln that case, denying for his client such ownership, perhaps he can. answer. J. B. ZIEGLER. The Committee of Fifty. The Censorship. k rrn , T rV Cift Ti 111, Portland Oct. 5.-To the . Editor of of The Jou'rnal-What is the The Journal Quite a number of writ ers In the people's column of The condition for the prolonging of this war, in which the flower of the pop JouJi;Ha.1 .have ?.uotef the. "Committee ulat'ion of EuVoPe is being sacrificed? should tell something about that corn- Censorship. Why can a few men cause all thisi much Imoney as was deemed necessary to carry out the plana of its directors. Millions and hundreds of - millions were borrowed and spent prodigally. Meanwhile Erie was saved and re- gene' ated to a large extent by a system future use. have one cause for thankfulness in ! and on Mardt l-l 84 4. paraded throuuh the United States t is that we do not j the main struts of Oregon City. He elect men of the sword to our highest 1 was unmoles$d and went across the office Whenever we have been led j river. Soon ?W returned with several away by military glory to try this ; other Indiant.The white men decldej dangerous expedient, it has happily j to capture hrVS ;and secure the reward, failed. No spurs Jangle in the Peo- 1 in the melees feockstock was killed and pie's House ln Washington; no swords George W. 45BrPton. who had been are laid down on our council tables. 'secretary offjjfe Wolf meeting when the provisional government was or ganized, was'ii jwpunded with an arrow, so also was kian named Rogers. Both died, presumably from the poison on of close economics of operation, of cut-j the arrow pqjits. ting off dividends or any hope of thm. I A public fleeting was called at and by being unable to borrow more j Champoeg toJ Srganize a military com than a small sum on other than pro- , pany. The mltjng took place on March hibitlve terms. 19, 1R44. at aai Chapelle's house. W. While New Haven was being wrecked i H. Wilson ti chosen chairman and by too much credit Erie was being i T. D. KaiseJ-iffpeeretary. A company rescued by the denial of credit. I was formed ihd christened "The Ore- In business and financial circles gon Ranget-s. T. L. Kaiser Was throughout the United States the les- 1 elected captUh, J. ,U. Morrison first son of the New Haven and the Erie lieutenant.- Ajij K. L. Cason ensign, may be learned. At this time the man j The following ;;Ssigned the roll as prl with no pressing need for credit is vates: 'Chaiflfes P. Matt. Ira C. Hutch--sleeping more soundly than the one '; ins, R. H. l!4kln, Peter Bralnard, Na who has been used to using much j than Sutton William Delaney, James credit. 1 r. Pattersor,!John Edmonds, Nlnevah Every now and then we Americans 1 ford W. J . lirtln, Jim Martin, Web have to learn to curb our desire to , iev Hauxhufitt i John Anderson. Joel rush into bigger and more glorious Turnham, JJIM Garrison, Joseph Hoi ored dead alone. May the time soon come when this terrible curse will be relegated. The dishonesty, selfishness and criminality practiced continually in their ranks is opening the minds of the voters and I believe their com mon sense will tell them not to join the wets In this campaign for a bet ter Oregon, JULIA A. HUNT. nnnee. air. n ue wanton waste and murder? It is be , . . ...fT . Ilk cause they can wield the weapon of veals that they were a self-constituted . ancient history, it would take more room than is possible to give to it With the advent of the aeroplane and wireless and their uses in war, hnlk cllu ton ,a.nnnAll.. on. The protest against the report of this ana and Uo of self-consUtuted committee, passed .by thc. avt.rmari far k,," .Jl enterprises on other people's money. I Mni John K?i-d. K. Pickett, John B. We have to learn the lesson which the ; Kaiser, W. Wj Grav, Lindsey Apple managers of Erie were taught. - If we Ra(e ni1 Waldo. Commissions ere Issued Stb 'the officers by Gale and .'B-ers. the execul ittee of tlj Jirovisidnal gov No need fof the services of Can't save ourselves at such times we' Issued the officers by L. Hill, can at least store up the wisdoi for, . ui,.ru th xcntiv com mittee of tlf provisional government. for the services of the corn- rows will follow, and the fear of over- ! pany of ran srV occurring, they ceased production nil! be a thing of the past, j to meet. IniOl spring of 184 a meet- This Is far better sense than the wets ! ,n cai, at tne nome 01 uhi advocat lng of i far better sense than the wets ,n was cum m n... - - fo .h. ii.-h j,ii, i Waldo and sw company was organ- te, when they lncluneT.ne drink- . . ,L-' . . u , . , v - .i . . , ' u , " led to takei tfgs place of the dlfcbandea the booze in their plan. Charltfgennett, later a discover- whole world from knowing the awful the report of the sub-committee on the physiological aspect of this prob-1 trutn lem win convince njr liiieuigeiii, un biased student that it contains a mass of unfair and unsound conclusions. If some power with a good stock of determination would equip to get the war news irrespective of the censors, For instance, comparisons . were made the'n pubfish the neI broadcast even between scientific principles of the ,h.,.h v, . , r . ! fKSHZ frfP8 -tter iheTiterature f clouds taken more than a Quarter of a cen tury ago. news of the war as it really is, its if The 'committee had examined the 'ff'lS0 to date, instead of older ones, their dductions would have been somewhat hope of soaring millions of lives, savins countless millions of dollars of property from changed One interesting fact cnn. u" ,. , v: CV"""S iurtner ,SAd- ,r"e ?J?.h.--: ntW m,8ery- nd that 1. holish th tinnc" fa Hi a t tho "Rpn v nf the fnm. I J. . mum oi x- ii ij, wiui every nixuaa- . , t i . tion proved groundless, was issued Denounces the Liquor Interests and was so convincing that if was tooa Kiver, or., Oct. 5. To the printed as a government dbcumentj taitor cr ine Journal Inasmuch as Senate Document No. 171). Another! lI'e "quor men cannot advance om interesting item, is that this reply was o"U argument m iavor or their bus! submitted to a special committee rep- ness, they must scheme to bring L.in resenting 11 states, was approved also i coins name as an influence bearing by large numbers of prorrnsent and I against pronioitiorr. iney have tried thoroughly reliable authorities, and ! to work this scheme or something sim appoved by ail. Best or an, one of Uar beiore. , several years ago an the most noted members of this com- article' appeared in' a prominent paper mittee has since come out publicly for Indicating that Lincoln was a saloon entire prohibition. ' man and not a 'total abstainer. Tbe There is no lack of up-to-date lnfor- writer being almost a worshipper of mation n the alcoholic problem, in- Lincoln, was intensely indignant, and disputable and sound, and no one need lost no time in writing In defense of dig; np ancient history, the great emancipator. Tha article L. H. APDITON. ' was published and caught the eye of ? : . r-" . ' Mr. Merwln. a lifelong friend of L,in- Mr. Dnniway Ttciteratefi. coin. The writer received in due time Portland,. Or., Oct. 6. To th Editor a very , appreciative letter, concerning of The Journjil -Replying to the ques- the false statement, tions of Mrs. Hannah McCorkle of The. brewers have also used the Vancouver, recalls the repeal of votes name of Frances E. Wlllard ln a false for women in Washington territory by lights It appears the brewers, and the -political schemes of men when 1 distillers cannot even leave the bon-jinc. Veterans Protest Portland, Oct. 6. To tke Editor' of The Journal Considerable interest has been aroused "among the comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic in this city and state by an advertise ment, published in the city papers on the 2d Inst., purporting to .give the sentiments of Abraham Lincoln con cerning prohibition of the liquor traf fic, said advertising emanating from an organization called "The . Wage Turners' and Taxpayers' league." The ms to quote the president, but fails speech or written document of Mr. Lincoln the passage occurs. Some of us have been rattier close students of the life and work of our great leader, but have failed to discover anything even remotely ap proaching the alleged statement. Without entering Into the question at issue between the wet and dry forces, the old comrades protest most emphatically -against any "league" or other organization, dragging the hon ored j name of our immortal leader into the public prints for purely partisan and selfish purposes, and putting Into his imduth words which cannot be found in any spoken or written work of his, and, which anyone at all fa miliir with his style can see at once werj not spoken by him. It is sincerely hoped that the 'league" and other similar institutions will refrain from further dishonoring the name of the peerless leader, . the great American. C. A. WILLIAMS. Ella M. Finney need not fear over production. The people who go hun gry now because of money spent, by themselves or by those on whom they depend, for booze, will take care of the extra grain Just as soon as the booze is wiped out of existence and they have a chance to eat their fill. Even one extra pig on each farm would take care of the 144.500,000 bushels of grain. Mrs. Finney lauds personal liberty, but in the same article speaks of "branding him an enforced gentleman." Advocates of personal liberty, have no right to Insist on anyone being a gen tleman, nor any right to brand one for any act oa crime. The real mean lng of "personal liberty" is anarchy. VULQ dJ. 1KB, JV nuci JM. nuc, child and business man to live a clean life unpolluted by boose. CUSTIS P. OE. er or gold jnt Marshall's millrace, at Sutter milliiwas made captain. A. A. Robinson M as first lieutenant, Isaac Hutchins J-cond lieutenant, Hiram English thtJ lieutenant, Thomas Holt orderly serftajnt, Thomas Howell sec ond sergej. S. C. Morris third ser geant, WiUj'tjjri Herring fourth ser geant, P. C.jj falser first corporal, Rob ert Walker!: Wecond corporal. B. Frost third corpo- il, iJohn Rowe fourth cor poral, and 31 were enrolled as pri vates. It fwas' this latter company, also knowrf as Oregon Rangers, to whom the flag was presented. The Ragtime Muse HOO'S H00 By ' jphn W. Carey. For Over Production. McMinnville, Or., Oct. 5, To the Ed itor jof The Journal Tuesday night In thisclty Mrs. Armour of Georgia gave an excellent method for the "regula tion; and maintenance of production," which Ella M. Finney thinks so neces sary to our general welfare. It is this. Let every brewery, distillery and winery run at present rate of produc tion; and let- every man; woman and child who now patronizes the saloon continue to purchase liquor, bat in stead of drinking it let them pour it out Unto the gutter. . By such a means the Premutation and maintenance of product ?,tn'' will be provided, none will be t-runken, none yacltateu for : duty, - ; crunken It Makes a Difference. Pa sez I oughta learn to take To thinkin' things clean through. Bo a I'd nrtt be so apt to make Mistakes th' way I do. He sez I oughta pause awhile, Consld'rln' awful slow An' think before I act, 'cause I'll Be surer then to know. When I do somethin' he don't like He gits to tellin' 'bout Consid'rin' bein' jest a dike That keeps impulses out. He sez. "Young man. you'd better keep In mind th' things I say: Be cautious: look before you leap. Or you'll regret some day.' But he don't always seem so scared O' things a-goin' wrong; He acts aCs if he never fared. Sometimes. Tout thinkin' long; If I sh'u'd answer back right then, "Pa, I'm consid'rin' " Gee! He' wouldn't be so cautious when lie wuz consid'rin' me! It ain't no use! When parunts scold A kid don't git to wait. An' if he'd do like he's been told Thev'd spank him sure as fate? I'd try what good consid'rin' brings 'Fore I'd git up an' dress. But when it's gittin' up time things Is dlffrunt then. I guess. Still We Flatters Get Alone. "The Waltons live in a flat, don't they?" ."They occupy a flat, my dear; It's absurd to talk about V.r'.rg in one. " .1 ' Yi LEAGUES v-, John W. Carey. Who's orjeJ of baseball's eld time stars of $j!?years -ago ' who still can make the jjfyjk sheets every little while or so? . jj .-' - ' : ' Who shews at shortstop for New York wheM;TIernati chased the files and ConnSrjjhit the hurtling sphere right squerej between the eyes? Who kryewp the tricks from A to 'Z of so-callyt ilnside ball and thus be came the-(Nemesis of ancient bone heads all) " m Who tofc<o law when Charley -horse made piniijipd fltngers lame, but ever' kept bis JdrleKther eye upon .the only, game?- . ' jh'? : Who's taping now those wily Feds the big- leusues to bombard as Brook lyn's bu(4?.ne- manager? -That Johd . Montgomft-yf Ward. ' . " ,' , - -tl k - - - , h' 4