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The bodies of men, munition
nd. monpy, may Justly be
called the Hinews of war. Sir
Walter Raleigh.
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THK NEW CHAPERONE
OBSERVERS have been inter
ested in the circumstance
that on his trip for the speech
at Astoria, Dr. Withycombe
was not accompanied by Mr. Booth.
The person to whose supervision
. Dr. Withycombe was committed for
the Astoria trip was Wallace Mc
Camant, attorney for Wells-Fargo
and other corporations.
Mr. Booth chaperoned Dr.
Withycombe to Hillsboro on the
occasion of the famous speech at
that place in which Dr. Withy
combe said:
Oh. my friends, think of cmr for
est weslth; on sixth of all the tim
ber in the United States is here, but
" Unatnr HnMti isi 1(1 KDOalC. He WUl
tell you all about that.
The surmise is. that after that
break, Mr. Booth has become skit
tish and doesn't want to be in the
neighborhood any more, when the
doctor is in action.- The under
standing is. in fact, that every
body from the Oregonlan tower
down to the office boy in the
Withycombe headquarters has the
jimjams every time the doctor un
limhers for a talk.
As the doctor 6aid at Ashland,
and elsewhere, "Oregon is a great
state. Its tall trees point to the
heavens and its rivers flow to th
sea."
Indeed, they do. and it's no won
der that taxes are high and Gov
ernor West crazy.
" WATERFRONT MEASURE
THE Interests are quibbling.
Speaking through the Ore
gonlan, they say the water
front amendment, 328 Yes,
would deny Bites to sawmills lo
cated on navigable water in all
rases where tldelarid has not passed
'to private control.
That is not true. The public
docks measure is a companion to
the water amendment, and It amply
provides for sawmill or other igr
dustries requiring direct access to
the waterfront.
' Has anybody noticed that all the
fight -against these measures comes
from corporation lawyers, or from
persona that corporation lawyers
have misled? Has anybody noticed
. that all the arguments advanced by
them are fake arguments, always
capable of disproof?
- The measures disturb no owner
In the possession of tide or sub
merged landg to which he holds
title. They merely declare the
ownership of the people, .which al
ready exists, to such lands on which
title has not been perfected. Then
It Is provided that any such lands
may be leased for iny purposes for
a period of years, half the revenue
from the leases going Into the ir
reducible school fund. This opens
the way for every sawmill and all
other industries requiring booms)
or docks or other access to streams.
Why don't the corporation law
yers in their campaign against
' these measures, explain these things
to the people? Because they are
out to fool the people, so future
legislatures and future -court decis
ions may deprive the people of
the small remnant that is left of
their tide and submerged lands.
A COMMENDABLE ACT
a PRACTICAL expression of
A sympathy for the distressed
"V people of Belgium has been
n made by the employes of the
llonie Telephone Company of this
city. They have unanimously de
cided to deny themselves the pleas
ure of the annual dinner given by
President T"lill and have requested
him to send the money the dinner
iwould have cost to Belgium as
Itheir contribution to the relief
fund
However much the world is di
vided in its sympathies for the
belligerents it is united in its pity
for the industrious little nation
caught between the upper and the
neither millstones of war.
COLD STORAGE BARONS
THE attorney general of New
York has begun proceedings
against an organization call
ing itself the Mercantile Ex
change. It is contended that this
New York Ci'Jy concern Is nothing
more than a combination of big
. dealers for fixing the retail prices
of eggs, butter and cheese. .
It is further alleged that more
.than half the eggs retailed in New
York City are from the cold storage
plants of the Chicago packing
. houses and stock yards companies.
' The claim Is made that a daily
publication known as the Price
Current is merely an authoritative
announcement ' of the price fixers.
, . : This action will be watched with
; keen Interest by consumers every-
f- A . . :".t - e - ' '
where. If New York's attorney i farmeir and business man to se
general Is right, the prices of eggajcure fhe same "business efficiency
and butter have been and are being In stajte affairs that is applied In
fixed in the larger cities, not by
the products of China and New
Zealand, but by the packing house
barons.
' Price fixing agencies are aganist
the law and dangerous to both
producers and consumers. They
are a real menace when made up
of men banded together for the
sole purpose of gouging the public,
THE STUBBS MADNESS
T
HERE is a grave question that
the women of Oregon should
ask themselves.
They were recently given
the ballot. One of the men who
helped them get suffrage Is George
E. Chamberlain. As the youngest
member of the Oregon legislature
away back in 1880, Chamberlain
voted for and urged the passage o
a resolution submitting an amend
ment to give womeb the ballot.
That was 34 yars ago. The
movement was not popular then.
But Mr. Chamberlain was for it
then and he has beeh for it through
the intervening period.
As United States senator he -introduced
in the federal senate the
resolution for national 'woman's
suffrage. He worked for and spoke
for that resolution. It received a
majority of one vote in the senate,
but failed because a two-thirds
vote is required on a constitu
tional amendment.
Because that resolution did not
pass, and because President Wil
son did not come out openly for
national suffrage, certain women
have come out , from Washington,
D. C, for the avowed purpose of
defeating Senator Chamberlain. In
spite of Senator Chamberlain's rec
ord on equal sulfrage, these out
Bide women are here vigorously
carrying on a campaign against
him.
Here is a question for the sober
consideration of Oregon women:
Should Senator Chamberlain be
punished by the voting women of
Oregon because he helped them get
the ballot?
If, after working all these years
to help Oregon women get the bal
lot and If Oregon women now
work to secure his defeat, what
encouragement will there be in the
non-suffrage states for men to
help women get the ballot?
If women are going to turn on
their own friends and defeat them
in suffrage states, will that not
keep men from giving women the
ballot in non-suffrage states?
The voting women of Oregon
are on trial on a great issue of
vital importance to the cause
suffrage in these United States.
of
MARKING AN EPOCH
N'
OVEMBER 16 has been set as
the day' when the new re
gional reserve banking sys
tem will begin business. The
announcement of Secretary Mc
Adoo of the treasury department Is
epochal, for it means " that the
United States is to enter upon a
period when the finances, the cred
it and the money of the country
will finally pass completely out of
the control of Wall street and
under the control, of the American
people.
Undoubtedly, the banking and
currency act will stand in history
as a monument to the constructive
leadership of President Wilson and
as a credential to the leelslaHv
work of the Sixty-third Congress.
It is the opinion of the best ex
perts that the knowledge that the
new law .was about to pass into
effect, coupled with the universal
confidence of the country in the
sanity and patriotism of the great
man in the White House, was the
influence that prevented a panic
in the United States at the out
break Of the European war. In
the critical days when the stock
exchanges were closed, when Amer
ican securities held in Europe were
being dumped back upon the
United States in vast volume, when
acute apprehension was shaking the
country and the world to their
deepest foundations, there was
every factor requisite fpr a wide
spread panic, but there was no
panic. The country was saved
from a great financial crash, bank
ruptcies were averted, and all the
horrors and distress incident to
the great panics that not infre
quently happened under the old
banking system were avoided.
Only the bankers and financial
experts of the country knew the
great strain that was upon America
in tnose crucial days. The great
body of the people had no realiza
tion of the great forces of distress
and debt and loss that were im
pending. But the crisis was passed, the
reformed credit system was at
hand, and the land of peace and
plenty is rapidly passing into-an
abounding prosperity, in which
pAnics will be no more. "
DOCTORS AND DOCTORS
T
HE Oregonlan makes a deliber
ate appeal to those who do
not believe in doctors to vote
against, ur. u. j. Smith be
cause ne is a physician.
T .
it wiey cannot vote for rtr
Smith because of his profession
how can they vote forDr. Withy
combe? The only difference Is that
ur. amitn administers his treat
ment to people while Dr. Withy-
cumoe gives nis doses to horses.
Dr. Smith, in public "address
has told the people of the state
that, if elected, he will "leave his
profession brhind" and devote
efforts as widely experienced
private affairs."
Few, if any people, would think
of prohibiting a man from holding
public! office because of his busi
ness or his profession.
The error of the Oregonlan Is
that it does an injustice to those
who ! have other th'an orthodox
yiews on healing by suspecting
phat they would desire to defeat a
man for public office because he
has spent many years in minis
tration in the sick room and in al
leviating the distress of suffering
humanity.
WnO WILL BE GOVERNOR
A'
S THIS campaign nears the
end, a question that thought
ful people must be ask
ing themselves is: "If Dr.
Withycombe should be elected, who
would be the governor?
Would Mr. McCamant; the at
torne.: of Wells-Fargo, who was
Dr. Withycombe's partner on the
Astoria trip, be governor?
WoQld Mr. Fenton, attorney of
the Southern Pacific and author
of the assembly bill, be governor?
Would Mr. Huston, who was Dr.
Withycombe's personal representa
tive and spokesman at a recent
Portland banquet, be governor?
Would Senator Moser, brigadier
of the 1913 legislative machine
and one of the dominant members
of the next senate, be governor?
As a candidate Dr. Withycombe
has not exercised his own free will.
He has made no pretense of con
ducting his own campaign. He
has been almost constantly con
trolled since a week or two after
his nomination, and except on oc
casions, his will has been subordi
nated tothe will of other persons.
Dr. Withycombe began this cam
paign, a pronounced opponent of
the single-item veto. He remained
in that attitude of hostility until
October 11, at Ashland, when he
suddenly found out that he favored
the single-item veto. He remained
in that mood until October 18,
when he discovered that "I was
the first man In Oregon to favor
the single-item veto."
If wont to waver like this In
his viiews, it is no surprise that
Dr. Withycombe, as a candidate,
has permitted other persons to
supersede his purpose with their
purpose and allo.wed them to exer
cise control over himself, his can
didacy and his campaign.
Since Mr. -McCamant Is so con
cerned in Dr. Withycombe's can
didacy that he journeys about with
Dr. Withycombe, making speeches
with him from the same platform,
does lit mean that Mr. McCamant,
an old time war horse of conven
tionism, a brigadier of reaction,
and great corporation lawyer, ex
pects to be governor by proxy?
THE SENATORSHTP
w
HAT is the use of taking
chances on what . will, be
done with the more than
2,000,000 acres of timber In
the Oregon & California land grant
sure to be forfeited to the people
by decision of the federal supreme
court?
That vast timber holding Is In
Oregon. After forfeiture, it ought
not, as was the case with other
forest lands, to become the prey
of great timber barons.
The question of what will be
done with the forfeited grant will
be decided in Congress. In the
sober judgment of men and wo
men, is it better to send to the
senate next Tuesday a candidate
who is backed by every big timber
baron in the United States, or to
send a candidate whom all the
timber barons in the United States
are fighting.
Which is the safer man to send
to the senate to pass upon the
great issue of what is to be done
with the forfeited land grant?
What these men will do in pub
He office is to be judged by what
they have done while in public of
fice. As governor, Chamberlain,
throughout his term, made a nota
ble struggle to protect the people
by preserving to them the posses
sion of and the revenues from their
public lands. He raised the price
of the school lands to an average
of $5 per acre, and by the increase,
made a million dollars which went
into the irreducible school fund
for the benefit of the Bchool chil
dren of the state. He fought for
the preservation of the water pow
ers through passage of the water
code under which 99 per cent of
the great water powers of the
state are now owned by the people
and cannot be taken away from
them except by crooked legislation.
While Mr. Booth was state sen
ator, he was under the same ob
ligation that .Governor Chamber
lain was to fight for the preserva
tion of the public lands. He voted
against a bill to bring certain
timber lands under taxation,
though they were lands that were
going untaxed. The company of
which he was manager, acquired
timber lands, the patents to which
the federal courts cancelled be
cause liecured by fraudulent en
tries by Mr. Booth's company, and
while Mr. Booth was a state sen
ator. The- fraud consisted in having
employes of Mr. Booth's company
commit perjury when, in the pres
ence of Henry, Booth, secretary of
the company, and in the presence
of another official of the com
pany, these employes and " others
declared they were filing on the
timber "for their own use and
benefit when in fact they were
I filing
on it for the "use and bene
fit" of the Booth-Kelly Company.
The candidacies of Mr. Booth
and Senator Chamberlain present a
very clear-cut issue, when the
great fact of what is to be done
with the millions of timber in the
forfeited land grant are kept in
mind.
Letters From the People
(Communications nt t Tiu imnni - fnr
publication la tbia department should be writ
ten on only one aide ot the paper.. abould not
exceed 800 words in length and must be ac
companied by the name and addresa of the
lender. If the writer doea not desire to
have the name published, be should ao state.)
"Dlgeussioa is the area test of all reform-
era. It rationalize MerTthlnff It touchps. It
robe principles of all false aanctitv and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they hare do reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crushes them out of existence and Bet uu its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
WUsou.
Argues for Home Exemption.
Logan, Or.. Oct. 29. To the Editor
of The Journal I am in favor of the
$1500 exemption amendment, for the
following reasons: It will be a great
deal nearer approach to justice be
tween the poor, the wealthy and those
between than the present system of
taxation. Land is assessed according I
to advantages of location, while per
sonal property and Improvements are
not, and this works an Injustice be
tween all concerned. Any domestic
animal, machine, implement, merchan
dise of any kind, or any certain im
provement, is assessed practically the
same, whether owned or made by the
city man, the suburban resident, the
well-to-do farmer in the middle dis
trict or the poor rancher of the moun
tains or plains, when such things vary
widely in their service ability and use
fulness, with location. If it were pro
posed to assess all land the same, acre
for acre, the injustice would be read
ily apparent and all would object But
the injustice of assessing the other
class of property cannot be seen with
out overcoming the inertia that resist
change. Land (Is permanent and in
creases in valua. with tax made im
provements, with population and in
dustry, while personal property and
Improvements are temporary and sub
ject to depreciation and ultimate dis
appearance. Exempting personal property and
improvements from taxation would
make the relation between the tax
payers and tax receiver the same as
exists between the taxpayers in pri
vate business. It would be a matter
of fair exchange of value, each would
be given credit for whatever is done
for the other. Taxing according to
ability to pay, Is not the right prin
ciple, and if it were, is not possible
of application, as those with the 'great
est ability to pay, have also the great
est ability to avoid payment and . the
least repugnance to doing so.
O. D. ROBBINS.
Kansas Governor's Testimony.
Portland, Or., Oct 31. To the Editor
of The Journal I read in The Journal,
probably two or three weeks ago, a
statement by a contributor to the ef
fect that a preacher from Kansas had
come here and "let the cat out of the
bag." The article said 140 saloons and
dives were running full blast, with no
interruption, x came from Kansas, and
know something about Kansas. I cut
out the article and sent it to Governor
George H. Hodges, at Topeka, Kan. He
wrote in reply:
"Replying to your favor of recent
date, conaining advertisement of liquor
forces, will say that there is not a
place In the state of Kansas where
liquor is sold with the consent or con
nivance of the state authorities, and
these places are suppressed just as fast
as they show their heads. The prohibi
tion law is! well enforced in Kansas,
and for the second offense they send
the offenders to the penitentiary. That
is one reason so many are in the peni
tentiary. There are two prisons in
Kansas, one federal."
Let that preacher bring on his 140
saloons proof. I am surprised that any
man who calls himself a child of God
would publish such an unfair letter.
He had better get down on his knees
and get right with God. Six hundred
thousand go to their graves each year
on account of liquor.
JOHN A. BRIGHAM.
From a Lincoln Repulican.
Portland, Oct 30. To the Editor of
The Journal What Is the matter with
the Republicans? Why don't they step
one side for awhile and not try to fool
the people for another 60 years? I
was a Republican' for 45 years and
I am ashamed to tell it to anyone.
Why don't the Republicans select fair
and square men for their candidates?
It looks as if there were not any in
their ranks Think of their putting
up such a man as Booth against George
E. Chamberlain, and Withycombe
against such & man as Dr. C. J. Smith.
It seems the Republicans don't pay
much attention to what Abe Lincoln
said that a wise man would change
his mind, but a fool never would. The
voters of Oregon want to be careful
and vote the Democratic ticket right
down the. line to enable our second
Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, to
carry out his administration for the
people, as he has started out All the
Republican leaders want is to get back
into power, and unraval all of Presi
dent Wilson's good Work, and have
laws to bring on panics and make a
lot more millionaires and keep the
working class begging, as the theory
of the Republican party is the rich
richer and the poor poorer. J. I
The Primary Delegate Bill.
Portland, Oct 30. To the Editor of
The Journal The "Primary delegate
election bill" provides for a primary
election to elect delegates to a "con
vention" to nominate candidates to be
voted for at the primary election to be
voted on later at the general election.
It must have been a tremendous men
tal strain, upon the clever individuals
who evolved this wonderful idea. And
the fine thing about It is, it opens up
a wonderful and limitless field for
reform of the direct primary law.
Just as soon, no doubt, as these
people recover from their mental ex
haustion they will set to and evolve
an amendment to their law calling
for a primary election to elect dele
gates to a convention to select dele
gates to be voted for at the -delegate
primary election to select delegates to
hold a convention to select candidates
to be voted for at the primary elec
tion to be voted on later at the gen
eral election and so on ad libitum.
It is wonderful, and, as Mr. Dooly
would say, I can't see how they could
do it . , . ,
And mind you these are absolutely
unselfish and interested citizens,
for besides sebn after section of
provisions and provisos to preserve
the direct primary law, they como
right out and say that the purpose
of their law is to preserve the direct
primary law. And it will it will
pickle it
These mental heavyweights who are
dead sure that the people haven't
sense enough to select their own can
didates for office, do not explain what
reason there would be for holding a
primary election to vote for candidates
already nominated by a convention,
but they will likely make that clear
at the next legislature.- ,
And they do not explain why the
A FEW SMILES
4.
The following-Anecdote is illustra
tive of eviction days In Ireland. Fat
had served part of his time as a
bricklayer in the "old
counthry." On arrival
in America, he "was
watching soma brick
layers at work, when
the foreman observed
to him:
"Can they do it as
quick as that in Ire
land, Pat?"
"They can, indeed, and
twice aa
quick," answered Pat
"Do you know." said the foreman,
''that we start a house here in the
morning and it's finished and a tenant
in it before evening?"
"That's all you can do, is it? Well."
said Pat "in Ireland, we start a house
in the morning, and the landlord is
evicting the tenant for back rent be
fore evening."
In a
which '
change
small South American state
had recently undergone a
of . administration the new
potentate summoned
an artist and ordered
new designs for all
the official uni
forms. "I wish showy uni
forms very showy,"
he said, "for people
are impressed v by
them. I have here some sketches that
I myself have made. Look them over
and be guided by these ideas as far
as possible."
The artist examined the sketches
carefully. "This." he said, turning the
pages, "is evidently for the navy and
this is for the army; but, if you please,
what is this a long plume on a three
cornered hat, yellow dress coat
trimmed with purple, and "
"That," replied the chief of state,
gravely, "is the secret police." Every
body's Magazine.
expense of their primary delegate elec
tion added to the expense of the present
primary election which they complain
of as too expensive would make them
feel any better. But it would, and I'll
suggest & reason or two why it would.
In the first place, you can "get to"
and handle a convention, but you can't
"get to" the individual voter. Then
thev know that about one voter out
of five would take the trouble to vote
at their "primary delegate election,'
and they would have no trouble in se
lecting their delegates to the conven
tion, and could nominate whom they
wanted. Then they wouldn't give a
whoop who elected them.
Now here comes in the most cunning
part of all. The ridiculous spectacle
of holding a primary delegate election
to elect delegates to a convention to
select candidates to be voted on at
another primary election, to be voted
on later at the general election would
soon so disgust the public with the
whole thing that they would lose In
terest and before they were aware
they would be back to the old conven
tion with the boss and corruption and
all that it stands for.
Only a while ago they were on the
other extreme and tried to initiate a
law doing away with nominating peti
tions so that all anyone had to do was
to file notice of their candidacy to
have his name on the ballots. They
were not sincere in tbis but were
merely following their policy to annoy
and bedevil the people in every pos
sible way, hoping sometime to do
away with their primary law.
Speaking of fool laws, if you want
to read one of the most consummate
ly fool laws ever invented Just turn
to page 88 of the official pamphlet
and read the "Primary delegate elec
tion bill." J. W. CREW.
If the Saloon Were Not.
Portland, Oct. 29. To the Editor of
The Journal What a calamity it
would have been to humanity if the
liquor traffic had never been put into
operation. Some of the wet writers in
The Journal would mane us oeueve
that the liquor business la the balanpe
wheel of mankind and without It hu
manity would perish from overproduc
tion of the things that sustain man in
life.
What folly! There are four things
required to sustain man in this world,
nnmftiv? Food, clothing, shelter and
education. When anyone works at 'any
thing that does not help to snpply the
wants of man his laDor is iosi Decause
they give nothing in ieturn that is of
real benefit to man. Put the labor
that is engaged in the liquor and the
tobacco traffic to work at an industry
that produces necessaries of life, and
you will have solved about 75 per cent
of labor troubles.
Remove the causes of troubles and
the troubles will of necessity dis
appear. D. NUNEMAKER.
Kansas Conditions. 4
Portland, Or.. Oct 29. To the Edi
tor of ;The Journal I have talked
with many people from Kansas, who
eay the law is well enforced; that
thousands of young people have never
seen a drunken man, and that the
moraJ. conditions are far better than
ever before. The social evil Is al
most unknown. Kansas Is prosper
ous, despite a severe drouth a year
ago. ' Saloonkeepers and brewers go
into other business that employs more
men than the old business. Conditions
ere infinitely better without the aw
ful waste due to consumption of liquor.
Men can collect their bills as they
could not before. Many saloonksepers
are glad of the change.
I hear that many liquor men in
this state have their eyes open to
the evils Incident to their business,
and will gladly vote dry, and prepare
to take up some other and better busi
ness. -' S. I. LTMAN.
Prohibition's Enforcement.
Salem, Or, Oct 26. To the Editor
of The Journal One of the most ab
surd arguments against prohibition is
the assumption that it rafthpt be en
forced. In general terms it amounts
to this: If criminals persist in crime,
then that crime must be tolerated. This
furnishes as good a reason for tolerat
ing theft, by imposing "high license''
upon thieves, as it does for the still
more abominable business of drunkard
making by imposing a "high license"
upon saloonkeepers. Law does not au
tomatically enforce itself. Wc elect
men to office whose sworn duty .is to
enforce the laws, and none should bfe
elected who are not known to be ready
to bring all the power of their office
for the enforcement of law.
Indications are strong that the
amendment will carry, and when th
splendid results of such an enactment
are manifest, the wonder, even of those
who now oppose, will be that we have
so long tolerated and licensed such a
nuisance in our midst
A. J. COOK.
Eugene Fapers and the Governor.
From the Salem Journal.
The Eugene papers are Just now en
gaged in a vindicative fight on Gover
nor West and yet he is the best
friend that city ever had in the exe
cutive chair. of the state. During the
troublous times through which the
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE
It's up t, the tramp steamer to
dodge police boats.
Despair is the undertaker who carts
off our dead hopes.
Praise men and flatter women and
you'll have many friends.
In tellinar a man of his fault um a
long distance telephone.
People ppeak the truth when they
talk in their sleep.
Aeroplanes are safer than automo
biles if you are crossing & street
Then man who has a system for
beating the races seldom has anything
else.
It only costs a nickel to board a
street oar, but you canit board an
auto for that
Many a man who hopes to wake up
and find himself famous forgets to set
the alarm clock,
The females of the species are wear
ing smaller hats this season, but the
bills are just as large. '
It flatters a girt almost as much if
a man proposes to her as it doeel if
he had sent her a dollar box of candy.
COLONEL WOOD AND
From the Ashland Record
Col. C. E. S. Wood pf Portland was
in Southern Oregon ' last Thursday
evening running' Bill Hanley for the
United States senate on the Bull
Moose ticket Starting at the city hall
In Ashland he took Bill in flights of
oratory on a personaly conducted tour
clear up to the pearly gates which is
conceded, by those who are familiar
with the city hall, to be one of the
very longest flights to be had any
where. Just for comparison now and
then he dipped down into the bottom
less pit and let Bill stand alongside
of Charnberlain and Booth for a few
minutes. He certainly was eloquent
It was hard on the faithful Demo
crats and Republicans assembled, but
they bore up nobly. When he spoke
of Booth there were crumbs of com
fort for the Democrats, and wheu he
spoke of Chamberlain there were
crumbs of comfort for the Republi
cans. The Democrats got a few the
most crumbs . because the colonel
scathed Booth on his record In the
courts as a timber grabber, while his
chief complaint of Chamberlain was
that George had failed to boost him
politically. When the colonel spoke of
his friend Bill, everything else looked
yellow and rocky and whang-basted
and there were no crumbs for anyone
who didn't belong to the Corbett-Wood
element in Oregon politics.
Sometimes when the colonel shook
his luxuriant iron grey mane and burst
forth in vitriolic denunciation you
thought it was "Bill himself, twisting
the tails of a bunch of steers to make
them get into the car. And then you
would notice the elegant diction and
realize that it was Colonel Wood
speaking, and thathe really looks
more like Frederick A. Douglass, the
great negro orator, than he does like
Bill. One thing we can assure our
readers is that if Bill should go
away and leave us, any picturesque
ness of which he deprives the state
will be made, up by Colonel Wood
with interest.
In order that you may jtnow what
it's all about, we will state that the
C'ori?etts and Colonel Wood andj Bill
are'all tied up together in a big ranc'i
over in .Eastern Oregon. They haven't
any representative in the United
States senate and" they want one.
Colonel Wood is a fine corporation
lawyer and a brilliant speaker and
would make them, a crackerjack of a
senator, but he can't get away to go
to Washington; the voters won't 'let
him. The Corbetts can't go, as they
are all too busy counting their money.
So among them they have decided to
send Bill.
Katurally the Corbetts are supposed
to furnish the money though they
are apparently letting go of it slowly
as the colonel says he and Bill have
no campaign fund with which to buy
space in the dirty newspapers. Col
onel Wood has already furnished the
brains and, as Bill can't talk for sour
apples, the colonel is now furnishing
the oratory. Bill is supposed to look
picturesque and receptive and wait
for the train.
The rest will be easy. Colonel Wood
demonstrates this by reference to
Bill's platform which he knows by
heart and can recite offhand back
wards or forwards without a mistake.
Why shouldn't he? He wrote it. He
knows more about it and what's in it
and what it means and doen't mean,
in a minute than Bill doe in two
thousand centuries. The only part he
didn't recite here was where it says
"I do ot favor prohibition." Other
wise the colonel took 'up this splendid
Wood structure, plank by plank, and
showed how Bili will go down to
Washington in his best red necktie
and exhibit the platform and look the
senate over and ask the president a
J'LAN FOR THE
By John M. Oskison.
Twenty-five years ago, in Brook
lyn, an institution ,was founded to
help the thrifty acquire homes. It
has grown to have a capital and sur
plus of $750,000. It has done excel
lent work for home builders at a rea
sonable cost to them and at a modest
profit for itself.
Its -plan is good. It is this:
"Suppose the case of a man occupy
ing a house in Brooklyn for which he
pays a rental of $360 a year, or $30 a
month. The price is $4000, of which
amount he is able to pay $800, and
obtains $3200 from tbis institution. If
the advance be gnted for the 12
year term, his payments will be $31.81
a month or $381.72 a year.
"In addition to this he would, of
course, have to pay the taxes and in
surance. The cost of the taxes and
Insurance would be about $65 a year,
making a total yearly payment of
about $446, or $37.16 a month that is,
by the payment of arout $7 a month
more than he now pays fpr rent, with
in 12 years, if the instalments be
regularly p$id, he becomes the, abso
lute owner of the house."
It is, as you have no doubt under
stood, the old and tried ..building and
state university his passed in the
last four years the governor has stood"
firmly by the state university, be
cause he is a strong believer in edu
cational institutions, and more to his
Influence than anything was the pass
age of the university appropriations
at the special referendum election a
year ago.
The governor's reward for his stand
sems to be only a personal attack on
his motives in supporting Chamberlain
and Smith irt the present campaign.
Everything in the university town, so
far as its newspapers are concerned,
is subordinated to the effort to elect
Booth to the United States senate,
and hose opposed to his ambitions
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHT?
A bakery and. candy kitchen is the
latest established enterprise' at Canby.
'
Dallas Observer: The registration In
the nine Dallas precincts is 1485. rA.
remarkable Increase in - population is
shown by the figures as presented, ac
cording to those who know conditions.
Newport is to be well amused this
winter, if plans under way are carried
out. The Newport Dramatic aoeiety,
organized last winter, and tfie ;Owi
;dub, a recent organization, eipact ta
put on several dramatic entertainments
during the season, and 'the Newport
Amateur Athletic club will hold a mirhV
ber of smokers. v
The Macksburg correspondent of the
Aurora Observer notes a new phase of
thrift in that locality, observing that,
"What, with the drying house and the
cider press, the old-time practice of al
lowing quantities of early fruit, to' Ke
rotting on the ground seems likely I
disappear." ' ,
A railroad being already In operalioj
to Molalla. and an electric line .just
building through, the Pioneer exults
"We are no longer a Country cross
roads. Our new conditions makes many
demands upon us. It is difficult to
keep pce with the rapid growth. Hit
looks now as if nothing could tiv4rt
the tide of business advancement from
us."
HIS FRIEND HAN-LEY
few questions and the next day we
will get back $8,000,000 of which we
were robbed by the reclamation bill.
That will be about the first Monday
after the Saturday that Bill arrives
on. Sunday he will locate the capitol
building. Tuesday he will unpack his
trunk. On Wednesday he will tie up
Oregon's resources so j that nobody
outside the state van'fmonkey with
them. Thursday ivbiyifag bright and
early he will arrange to irrigate the
waste places of the state and make
homes" for the surplus population of
the congested universe. In- the after
noon he will build highways all over
the state and a railroad to the
Southern Oregon coast, where he will
dig a port While he is at it he will
also dig some ports at Portland and
Astoria-
Friday Bill will fix the labor ques-
question, capital, corporations, trusts.
commerce, mining and woman suf
rrage wnue the rest of the senate
looks at him through pieces of
smoked glass, or hides in the cyclone
cellar out behind the White House.
In case anything else should need
fixing, Colonel. Wood will tell Bill
what it is and how to fix it Satur
day Bill will adjourn congress and
come home. Colonel Wood expressed
surprise that Senator Chamberlain
has failed to attend to these trivial
matters which a 'man ot Bill's, genius
could easily get away with in a week
at the most, by simply makln'g the
rest of the United States stop running
ror a rew days.
The oratory of Colonel Wood not
only convinced many that Bill wlil
carry out this program with one hand
tied behind his back, but also that his
discovery in the quiet atmosphere of
Burns is becond only to the great
discovery which Columbus is said to
have made in 1402 or that which Dr.
Cook made some years later. To prove
that Bill is a wonder, the colonel cites
what a great attraction he was on the
"Governor's Special" which toured tha
east a couple of years ago. He declares
the story that Bill was taken along as
a mascot just as so roe parties of high
rollers take along a -goat or a hunch
back or a bald eagle is a base canard
and he would like to see the color of
the man's hair that started it.
The colonel states that those papers
which are not lying about Bill are in
a "conspiracy of silence" which re
fuses to be broken unless Bill's cam
paign committee coughs up. He said
this in face of the fact that the Hon.
Bert Greer, chairman of the meeting,
is editor of a paper that fought val
iantly for the progressive party only
two years ago and the further fact
that another editor present devoted
half a column of space to Hill's can
didacy free of charge two weeks ago.
The colonel says the people have been
"betrayed" by every paper that didn't
print Bill's platform. He thinks it is
a newspaper man's business to furnish
a free mouthpiece for every dub who
imagines he is a statesman. Great
guns, colonel why, at that rate each
copy of a country newspaper in Oregon
would be as big as a Carnegie library
and it would cost approximately two
million dollars a week to send it out
by freight.
The colonel is unkind and Inconsid
erate but with that broad .human
charity for which the country editor
is noted, we forgive him. We efcjoyed
his speech. Such speeches add to the
gaiety of nations and help to make
life worth living for the masses who
are ground down by the iron heel of
oppression and can'tafford to go to
vaudeville. We "hope he will .come
again before the campaign ends and
run Bill another heat In this commu
nity. Bill was raised hereabouts and.
as the colonel suggests, every man
who was born some place should have
the undivided support of that commu
nity for the United States senate.
HOME BUILDER
loan idea. The institution 1s Incor
porated and subject to the supervision
of the New York state banking de
partment Its loans are made on the
individual bonds , of the borrower, se
cured by a first mortgage on im
proved property (homes), and the
debt is decreased by monthly pay
ments. This Institution will lend up to 80
per cent of the value of homes; it
charges 6 per cent Interest. If you
borrow $1000. to be repaid In five
years by this method, your monthly
payment will-be $13.79; the same loan
to be repaid in 10 years will call for
the repayment of $11,33 a month; re
paid in 12 yr-ai thfS loan costs $9.94
amonth.
Besides its loan feature, the Insti
tution encourage saving and invent
ing. If you will pay in to It II
month for 10 years (a total of $120),
you may then draw out $156; $10 a
month paid in,' of course, would yield
$1560 in 10 years.
There ought to be sueh an institu
tion convenient to every money earn
er in this country, and every money
earner ought to be reminded of its
location and advantages at least once
a month-
are branded as dishonest and untruth
ful. Evidently the papers there have
a substantial reason for holding one
man's ambitions higher than any oth
er interestof the community, although3
the good "logic of the sition taken
is not apparent to those who feel that
a community like Kugene, which has
so often appealed for outside assist
ance in its time of need, owes some
what of a debt of gratitude to those
who have responded to such appealb.
Governor West certainly has reason to
feel that his friendship for the Insti
tution at Eugt-ne and the community in
which it is located has not been ap
preciated by those who were its
beneficiaries. j
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IN EARLIER; pAYS
Fred JLoc
In the winter f 112-4.3 Senator
Linn of Missouri introiced a bill in
tne united states -seitie giving to
the head of each famtl- settling in
Oregon 640 acres ef landjknd 160 acres
for each child. Pioneerjjamtlies were
large. It. was a poor 1 family indeed
that could not muster )Erom 6 to 1$
children. If a man h!ad eight chil
dren it meant tnat he Mould take up A.
three sections of landjime for him
self and eight quarter siEytionsor his
eg-ni cniraren. a larmjigr nearly zooo
acres, was, the lure that'sstarted niiy
a family westward. T.e law . was
amended, before passl;j)r, giving a
single man 320 acres, xt a man and
wife 6400. ii
Pioneers ;.pf the emigration of 1843.
the first emigration to! bring their
wagons clear through, aine getting few
and far between today, &iid yet during
a recent trip throueh Yamhill. Polk.
Washington, Linn andjfeenton coun
ties it WAR mv orrmA fnilnn, f rnt
a number of the pioneeif of the early
tori, srj
A4-5id-ependence I sa-SW. D. Elkins. r
AiFMtayette I met T. K Nelson, who
camgn '44, as well ai Joel Jordan
HefMree, the son of ilCaptain A. J. .
kima Indlan""ar of U55-66. J. J.
Hembree was born irij . Lafayette In
1849. At Philomath Ifmet Reuben
Gant. 97 years old, a p)neer of 1845.
At McMinnvllle I metjrSVaman Clark
Hembree, born in 1829,n Tennessee,
and an emigrant of 1848 At Newberg
I iet LJncle Si" Wljon. 87 years
old, a pganeer o.f 1844. i?mlssed James
Hembree and Mrs. Hejibbree, pioneers
of 1343, at Lafayette, as? they were in
Portland on a visit -.'i
While at McMlnnvlllelvlsiting with
W. C. Hembree ,he toldl:;ne about the
trip across the plainsin 1843 with
Peter Burnett, Nesmithind Jesse Ap
plegate. Something wag said about
the generosity and hospitality of the
old pioneers. "I have tivjo letters that
I have saved from those: old days, one
of which bears on thai subject and
shows that though the Ploneers had :
but little themselves thjy were will
ing to share that little Jwith others,"
said Mr. Hembree. -
Going to his desk' he brought out
two creased and much J folded docu
ments. Both of them 'sjitjre written on
blue foolscap paper, "his will give
you an idea , is to whrji was in this
county in the late fortfes and ' early
fifties." said Mr. Hemblee.
"It is a subscription! yst of those
ttrtlrt BiiVianr-1 hrt 'tr. hrfnwRrnfhr T r -
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Carty out from MissoutU Better copy
the list, as most dlk those who
signed the list were iMf-ll known to
all the pioneers, and ther children and t
grandchildren are scattered ' all over .
Oregon and the west." ij ?,. v
The list is as follbws: William
Toney, J1.50. Thomas fFaulkner, 50
(feats; A. Faulkner, $2;i?ferry Morgan.
$2; Jacob Hampton, -i'p 1 0 : Melinda '
Paine, J5; O. P. Turnff, $10; J. J.
Hembree, $5; D. Westjerfield. 2.50;
A. Campbell. Jl; Doc Erinbree. $1; Mil
ton Lacy, $10; J. -Rowland, $10; W. C.
Hembree, $5; J, Cark $6;4.S. F.
Stagg, $5; R. C Kinnejd $10 (paid in
flour); J. Wisecarver,iii$2.50; W. F
Newby, $20; J. G. Bakejl $5, and J.pJ,;
Hembree. $50 (payable ftreeabacksK
When I liad copied tlijeS list Mr. Hem
bree handed me the oUi-r blue' paper.
It had been folded to jSbout the sile
of a letter and sealed 1th red wax.
It was addressed, "Mri; Joel J. Hem
bree, Lafayette, Oregon Territory."
"That letter is to my jfatlier and is
from his brother CnntaSn A. J. Hem
bree, or "Uncle Ab,' as wjp used to call
him," said Mr. Hemtir4. ''His boy.
Joel J. Hembree, hmed jjfor my father
and bom in Lafayetten 1849, lives
in Lafayette yet. Loolahlm up when
you go there. This! letter was the last
letter written by him alufl was written
a few days before his 5ath." ,
Here, is an exact copj of th letter,
spelling.Scapitallzation j and all:
"Camp Yackamau, Apj2. IHhG. Dear
Brother, I take this jpportunlty to
let you no what we areiloolrig in this
godforsaken Country. Ve. have bin
living for the past 15 iys oh Horse
Beef. Our horses all faery week and
many of them given ouS and left. We
are laying by at presen'iko recrute our
horses and to git provisions. We have
bin cross Snake River and all threw
the Peluce country. Tfif Indians fled.
We have run them aUj out of ther
country. Wg struck across from the
Peluce to ('ollumbia foiypwlng a large
Boddy of fnflians a dlf tance of 80
miles they took good cafe to keep out
of our way. We follred till our
horses got to much wfire down that
we herl to lve up th chase. We
then corne down Collunibla to the
mouth of Yakamau Rier 5 compa
nies -swiun our Horses: ncros the Cot
lumbia in oiriqr to go dkjwn the TaKa
man country. We wiHSfitart as soon
as we git supplyes, and;jwe have gone
threw that country 'e will have
done all we can taklhjt every thing--Into
consideration and .t'ave drove the
Indians frpm thfr coitry. Waman
and Lafayette are both well end are
with me. - Your stepson j Is also well.
Give my lovo tcr famleyj.5? In Hast I rf
main yours A. J. HerflHree."
"Th Waman he speam of was me."
said Mr. Hembree. UjtAle Ab wasn't
much on spelling, but M wa all there
when it came to fighting."
Sunrise Sonjtete.
I. ;i
O Chanticleer of bran veice and
proud 'i? -f
That dost" awake ppewhen the
dawn's first glafeee .
Falls modestly upo my legless
pants . ' ;
That listlessly recline. and -half en- ;
shroud H
The chair beside my tied, art thou
endowed "
With some fell spirit of Inane ro-
. mance s ;
That thou dost voiee?ucn wild ex
uberance? S
Thyrusty crow's intolerably loud.
Has thou a mission to Jfhe world re
deem, ik
To make the laggard leap- from
slothful rf-nt, .
To warn that time is passing like a
4 dream .hi
(Oh, would it were!s and morning i
hours are best, m
Or dost thou merely strive to make it
plain .-' lis
That 1 should rise to eatch my early
tra,B? t t 1
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Presumptuous bird, jwfiat impudence
is thine! - ;I
Thy fate awaits ghe with a
sharpened axe; ig
At thee would I withiJoy take sun
dry whacks if
E'en now, were not titis lengthened
frame of mine if
So pro" to linger, dijawsy ana su
pine, ?l A
F ,ated and ex-ieding lax!
A3i, me! why is th$morhing will
Why doth the mldnighjjstimulate like
wine? .
Yes, I remember that, fien but a lad,
I used to ball the foster's morn
ing call . Jsl
And wonder why my Slightly peevish
dad r-i
Would shont, 'You sfnp, shut up
your fiendish bjavl!"
Ah,, welt I doze-hdifaz-ze-besh-of-"
men. " . ' n r.
j Great Scott! I've missed that .early
I train araln! - i." -' :
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The Ragtime ilMuse
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