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LAUGHING AT OltEGON.
THE laugh went around in the
United States supreme court
at Washington yesterday,
when Oregon's position as re
flected by the late legislature's no
torious land grant resolution was
presented.
Oregon has been called the "fool
of the. family.". The state was
never placed in so foolish a light
before the country as in yesterday's
proceeding, when, by the subter
ranean resolution slipped through
in the dark by a legislative elique,
this state was placed on record
against the people and in favor of
the railroad in the land grant suit.
As time passes, it will be revealed
that only , a very small group of
legislators knew what was going on
when the resolution was put
through. Even Senator Kellaher,
who was constantly on the alert for
Joker legislation, did not discover
the resolution, and did not even
know that any such resolution had
passed.
Senator Langguth eays that he did
not know of it, would have opposed
it had he been aware that such ac
tion, was contemplated, and that he
thinks the grant lands ought to be
forfeited. The fact that it was a
mere resolution, and that resolu
tions are usually of minor impor
tance, and the further fact that the
Joker section was burled deeply in
a wilderness of words, made it easy
for unsuspecting members to be de
ceived. Finally, the measure was pur
posely withheld until the closing
hours of the session, when every
thing was tense, when members
were deeply concerned with billB
for which they had been struggling
for weeks, made it an easy matter
for the knowing and cunning gen
tlemen who were doing the rail
roads' bidding to accomplish their
coup. ..This was particularly true
into the house, where the measure
was passed at 3 o'clock in the morn
ing of the forty-second day, after
the body had been in continuous
session for many weary hours.
The one vote against the meas
ure was by Representative Went
worth, of Multnomah. The ab
sentees in the senate were Miss
Clarke, Day and Garland. In the
house they were Blanchard, Card
well, Forbes, W. O. Smith and
Vawter.
The resolution is a cunning
stratagem. It poses as an effort
to keep the grant lands under taxa
tion. Its effect is to absolutely
make Oregon appear, before the su
preme court, as unfavorable to the
government and on the side of the
railroad. . It gives the supreme
"court the distinct understanding
that there is no sentiment in Ore
gon for the government to win the
suit. It is an excellent play, made
at the psychological moment, when
the case is just going to a hearing
before the supreme court to line
Oregon up on the side of the rail
road. It is -action beyond parallel or
comparison. No legislature in Ore
gon ever went so far in betraying
the people. No legislature in any
state ever suffered itself to be led
by crooked bosses into action so
highhanded.
HIS GREAT FAULT
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY
DANIELS is held up to ridi
cule in the current North
American Review as a totally
Impossible official.
The attempt to belittle the work
of Secretary Daniels is only a phase
of the attack being made upon him
by the navy clique and the advo
cates of ' a big armament. He has
dared to lay hands upon some sa
cred traditions and privileges of
the navy clique, which" is almost a
caste of aristocracy.
On Its social side it is noted for
snobbery. It has looked down upon
- the army because its officers were
educated at Annapolis. Many of the
army officers came from the ranks
and from civil life.
Secretary Daniels would admit
common sailors to the naval acad
emy that they might qualify them
selves for officers. He also believes
in tree competition among con-
THEY'RE ALL GOINC TO READ THE
tractors for the. privilege of supply
ing commissary stores. Th naval
clique would limit it to a few fa
vored dealers. . K : -
By moving against ammunition
and armament combines, by cutting
down the price of projectiles and
by saving $3,000,000 in the cost
of materials for the battleship
Arizona alone, Secretary Daniels
has incurred the resentment of
great interests.
The main trouble with him is
that : he Is neither a big navy
maniac, nor a snob.
MR. CANTIJOS'S OPPORTUNITY
S'
fATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER
BOWLBY was removed be
cause he couldn't agree with
the contractors
As a natural consequence, peo
ple will obviously surmise that the
engineer who has taken his place
was selected to agree with the con
tractors. This tendency is accentu
ated by the Hood River contrac
tor's letter in which he said of
Bowlby:
There is a general revolt among
all the contractors engaged In this
work, and we think we have the skid
under him.
The one man, who can extricate
the state highway department from
the suspicion that rests on it, is
State Highway Engineer Cantine.
It Is easily within his power to re
establish the office of state highway
engineer as an office worthy of the
money the public expends upon it.
The way to do it" is to follow
the course of Engineer Bowlby and
expose bridge graft whenever and
wherever It appears, whether It be
in double prices for steel or in ex
tortionate prices for the work se
cured through juggled specifica
tions. The way to do it is for Mr.
Cantine, out of the consideration
that is due the engineering profes
sion, to stand as the absolute and
resolute representative of the pub
lic in all contracts and defend the
public 'With the same rigid and in
flexible purpose that he would ap
ply were the public work his own
private work.
By that course lie can remove'
the suspicion that now rests upon
the office of state highway en
gineer. There is no danger to his
position in the plan. Though En
gineer Bowlby was removed for fol
lowing that course, State Highway
Engineer Cantine would not be re
moved for it, because t$ose who
removed Bowlby know riow that
their act was an irreparable blun
der. Upon Engineer Cantlne's conduct
of his office depends its continu
ance as a public position. The of
fice was created to guard the pub
lic by securing honest bridge .build
ing and honest road construction.
It was created for the purpose of
getting honest bids on honest speci
fications, bids and specifications
open to all and fair for all. The j
office is not maintained at pubic
expferise to enable the North west
Steel company to Impose bridge
steel on county courts at double
prices or to award contracts to
some special bridge conipany on
juggled .specifications.
Engineer Cantine is embarrassed
by the .suspicions that at present
surround his position, but those
suspicions convict him of. nothing.
Not he, but the highway commis
sion, Senator Day and the political
contractors created those suspi
cions. He alone can extricate the
office, and the public should sus
pend judgment ahd give him an op
portunity to prove his reputation
as an engineer and his efficiency
as the people's representative in a
public office.
THE IMMIGRANT
S'
ECRETARY WILSON of the
department of labor says now
Is the time for solution of the
Immigration problem. In an
article In Harper's Weekly he ex
presses the opinion that there will
not be a big influx of immigrants
when the European war ends. The
number of new arrivals is only
about one-third the normal, and
therefore the United States for a
number of years will be in a posi
tion to make headway in. solving
the alien and labor problems.
The secretary insists that it Is
the government's duty to "place"
the immigrant whenever possible.
It should be done not only for the
immigrant's sake, but also- to pre
vent congestion in the cities. The
department of labor, cooperating
with the postoffice and agriculture
departments, is now doing the work
of a national employment agency,
but It should do more.
Secretary Wilson says-American
labor must be protected against
some of the well-known abuses of
unofficial labor exchanges. He
wants all employment agencies en
gaged in interstate dsiness placed
under supervision of his depart
ment. He would have the govern
ment prevent exploitation of the
man who works by the man who
has more cunning and less con
science. The secretary of labor .is espe
cially interested In the European
laborer who can meet the require
ments of our immigration laws and
whose experience In the old .world
has been on the farm rather than
In the factory. These are the im
migrants the - United States needs,
but, as Mr. Wilson ! says, U they
should know ' In advance the real
facts concerning their opportunities
in' America. -c ' ,
Our immigration problem has
been difficult because of mislead
ing statements made by people in
terested either in profits of the Im
migrants transportation or profits
derived from their exploitation
after arrival.
SIXTEEN LOST LIVES.
F
IVE hundred and twenty-nine
chimneys burned out In Port
land last year.
The number in Los Angeles
was thirteen. The year before in
Los Angeles tt was six. The per
centage of burned-out chimneys in
Portland is higher than any other
reported city in the country. ;
Every chimney in which the ac
cumulated soot bursts suddenly
into flames is a menace to property
and life. The sparks light on dry
roofs, or elsewhere, and can at any
moment start a disastrous confla
gration. What Is worse, the super
heat inside the chimney cracks the
mortar, causes it to crumble, atid
may be the never-explained cause
of a future disastrous fire.
The Portland fire department is
engaged in a splendid fire-prevention
movement. But it meets with
only slight encouragement. The
very people who are to be benefit
ed are often hostile to the depart
ment's anti-fire endeavor.
Thus, in some of the theatres
objection is offered to Inspection.
Yet the very announcement that
there is regular fire inspection of
the theatres heightens publio con
fidence in the safety of the play
houses and increases attendance.
In the theatres -the firemen
sometimes found exits blockaded by
paraphernalia, advertising signs.
trunks and other articles. There
was smoking, with inflammable
materials close at hand. Fire ex
tinguishers were found which had
not been tested in several years,
and which were in such condition
that they could not be used.
It Is worth thousands of dollars
to the theatres for the firemen to
keep up the inspection of the play
houses, and It is worth a great deal
more to the Portland public. The
very conditions the firemen have
found, and the very opposition
they have encountered at some of
the playhouses are the very reasons
why the inspection should be con
tinued. Five hundred and twenty-nine
burning chimneys in Portland
against thirteen in Losr Angeles last
year are some indication of the
carelessness of Portland respecting
fires. The sixteen lives that are
the blood roll of Portland fires last
year are other proof of our reck-
lessness.
The anti-fire movement by the I
Portland fire department is timely.
But the firemen cannot do all.
Why not everybody join in the
effort and rescue' Portland from its
annual fire waste, a waste from
which could be saved enough to
hard surface 70 miles of roads
every year?
THE POLISH JEWS
S'
EVEN million Poles, of whom
2,000,000 are Jews, are in dire
need of food. This statement,
made in Londpn by 'Herrmann
Laundau, a Jewish philanthropist,
shows conditions bad enough. But
th t 13 not all.
The Jews are even poorer than the
Gentiles because of the boycott
against the Jews in parts of Poland
before the x beginning of the war,
which impoverished thousands who
otherwise would have been able to
provide for their families. Political
and religious prejudice against the
Jews also renders their condition
worse In parts of Poland evacuated
by the Germans many Jews are liv
ing on potato peels ana garoa&e ieii
by the enemy.
The statement is made that the
citizens' committee at Warsaw is
the only large agency for afford
ing relief to refugees. Although
the membership of this committee
consists of four Jews and six Gen
tlleB, it has been impossible to em
ploy workers who would deal fairly
with the Jews.
Common misfortune usually
unites all, people in one brother
hood. But it seems that in devas
tated Poland religious prejudice
and race hatred still flourich. The
starving Jew is not accorded con
sideration due a brute animal,
much less a human. Persecution
still goes on with gaunt famine
stalking through the land.
OX WEARING WHITE.
T
HE Manufacturers' Record,
discussing the shortage of
German dye materials, asks:
"What are the cotton mills
that make colored goods to do?"
The suggestion is that Americans
dress in white.
Cannot the people of this country
make answer by deciding to use only
white goods? It is not a matter of
life and death that one must have red,
green, blue or pink shirts, skirts,
socks, stockings, collars, cuffs, cur
tains, overlids, or ribbons. '
Commenting on this suggestion,
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat ob
serves that white is the emblem of
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peace, and we can make a virtue of
necessity. ,-" :
One hundred million people all at
tired In white should have a wonder
ful nsvchlo effect. I Dress i a more com
polling In the spiritual world than we
may nave realized. , f Hair tne mriu
ence of religious fraternities lies in
their fixed design of garmenture. and
the church has rfecognized this fact
from t the earliest monastic orders to
the Salvation Army:
The Manufacturers Record of
fered its suggestion to safeguard
the manufacturers of fabrics and to
prevent possible deprivation and
suffering by workers in the mills
It has an economic object in view,
whereas the Globe-Democrat adds
the weight of higfher idealism.
It is probable I that the dye sit
nation is not as serious as has been
painted, but should the worst come
to. the worst, a nation in white
would keen the mills going. And
it would also keeR the laundries busy
The work of. reducing the grade
on Broadway, near the east ap
proach to the bridge, is described
in a news article as "preliminary"
to paving the street from the bridge
to Union avenue. "Preliminary"
steps for paving Broadway were first
begun in August, 1905, and with
varying diligence have been contin
ued ever since. The .bridge was two
years old Thursday, the opening
having taken place April 22, 1913,
and it is little-used because all the
"preliminaries" for hard surfacing
the street have not yet been com
pleted.
THE JOURNAL
national! EDITORIAL
THE CASH COST OF WAR
; Br david starr Jordan
Chancellor, Leland Standford Jr. University.
THIS war begai, according to Fro
feBsor Rlchet's calculation, at a
cost of $50,000,000 per day.
Rlchet's calculation in 1912 was an
underestimate as to expenses on the
sea and in the air. These with the
growing scarcity of bread and shrap
nel, the equipment
of automobiles
and the unparal
leled ruin of cities
have raised this
cost to $70,000,000
per day.
This again takes
no count of the
waste of men and
horses, less costly
than the other
material of war
and not necessar
ily to be replaced.
Chancellor Jordan.
All thl
is piled on top of "the end-
Jess caravan of ciphers'
($27,000,000,-
000) which represented the accumulat
ed and unpaid war debt of the nine
teenth century.
Yves Guyot, the French economist,
es,tiniates that the first six months
of war cost western Europe in cash
$5,400,000,000, to which should be
added further destruction estimated at
$ll,600.000,00j, making a total of $17,
000,000,000. Edgar Crammond of Lon
don, another high authority, estimates
the eash cost of a year of war, to
August 1, 1915, at $17,000,000,000,
while other losses will mount up to
make a grand total of $46,000,000,000.
Mr. Crammond estimates that the
cost to Great Britain for a year of
war will reach $3,600,000,000. This
sum is about equivalent to the ac
cumulated war debt of Great Britain
for a hundred years before the war.
The war debt of Germany (includ
ing Prussia) and also that of Austria
before the war, was about the same,
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No one can have any eonceptlon of
what $. J 000,000,000 may be. It Is
four times all the coin In the world.
If this sum were measured out in
$20 gold pieces and they were
placed side by side on the railway
track, on each rail, they would line
with gold every line from New York
to the Pacific ocean, the two Cana
dian lines included. There would be
enough left to cover each rail of the
Siberian railway, from Vladivostok
to Petrograd. There would still re
main ; sufficient to rehabititate Bel
gium and to buy the whole of Tur
key, at her own valuation, wiping
her finally from the map.
Or we may figure in some other
fashion. The average working man
in America earns $518 per year. It
would take ninety million years' work
to pay the cost of the war; or ninety
million American laborers might pay
i off in one year if all his living
expenses were paid.
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The cost of a year of the great
war 1 a little more than the esti
mated value of all the property of
the United States west of the Mis
sissippi river. It is nearly equal to
the total value of all -the property
in Germany ($48,000,000,000) as es
timated in 190S. The whole Russian
empire ($35,000,000,000) could have
been bought for a less sum before
the war began. It could be had. on
a cash sale, more cheaply now. This
sum would have pai'd for all the
property in Italy ($13,000,000,000);
Japan ($10,000,000,000); Holland ($5,
000.000,000); Belgium ($7,000,000,000);
Spain ($6,000,000,000), and Portugal
($2,500,000,000). It is three times
the entire yearly earnings 4n wages
and salaries of the people of tha
United States ($15,500,000,000).
Taking the net profits of over-seas
trade j as stated by the Hamburg-
TOMORROW AND
American company a year ago, the
strongest In the - world, and estlmat
ing the rest, we have something like
this: During the "dry war"V the net
earnings of the German mercantile
fleet were about one-third the cost
of the navy supposed to protect it.
It would take seventy years of trade.
on the scale of the last year before
the war, to repay Germany's ex
penses for a year of war. To make
good all the war losses of Europe
would require about one hundred and
fifty years of the over-seas trading
profits of the world. War Is there
fore' death to trade, and the com
merce of the World is on of the
main agencies of civilization.
if
, The cost of this war would pay
the national debts of all the nations
in the world at the time tha war
broke out, and this aggregate sum of
$45,000,000,000 for the world was, all
accumnlated in the criminal stupidity
of the wars of the nineteenth century.
If all the farms, farming lands and
factories of the United States were
wiped out of existence, the cost of
tliis war would more than replace
them. If all the personal and real
property of half our nation were de
stroyed, or if an earthquake of in
credible . dimensions should shake
down- every house from the Atlantic
to the Pacific, the waste would be
less than that involved in this war.
And an elemental catastrophe leaves
behind it no costly legacy of hate.
Copyright 1915.
An Amateur Farmer's Joys.
Walter A. Dyer in Suburban Life.
The name Pisgah bothered me a lit
tle with a haunting recollection of
Moses, who went up from the plains of
Moab to the top of Pisgah that is over
against Jericho. And the Lord showed
him all the Promised Land, but he
could not go over thither. Necessity
keeps me still apart from my Promised
Land five eixths of the time, and in
my despondent moments I sometimes
wonder if I shall ever completely pos
sess It, and it possess mo. But I have
at least tasted of its milk and honey,
and know them to be good.
And in my more hopeful moods the
Pride of ownership sweeps over me
with overwhelming force. As I pass
unnoticed and jostled through city
streets, it helps me to hold my head
up to remember that off there to the
northeast there are broad acres that
are mine a white house with a man
sized fireplace; a barn, a horse, a cow,
a heifer calf, and a few hundred downy
chicks apple trees and tasseled corn
stone walls, a trout brook, and a
crystal spring a rounded hill whereon
grow feathery pines elms and ruaples
and stalwart hickories laurel and
shad bush and blue f lag woodchucka.
Chipmunks, and chickadees all mine,,
mine!
Letters From the People
(Communication sent to The Journal for
publication in thin department should be writ
ten on only one side of the paper, should not
exceed 300 words in length aud must be ac
companied by the came and addresa of the
aender. If the writer dx-es not deslra to have
the name published, he should so state.)
"'Dlscusslon is the crertpst of ail reformers.
It rationalizes everything it touches, it robs
principles of all false panctiry and throws -them
back on their reasonabletieHs. If they hare do
reasonableness, it ruthiesalr crushes them oat
of existence and seta up its own cencluslons
In their stead." Wood row Wilaon.
Oregon Building at P. P. I. E.
San Francisco, April 19. To the Ed
itor of The Jotirnal. Some time ago I
read in one of the Portland papers a
criticism about the interior arrange
ment of the Oregon building. Exposi
tion officials are more than ordinarily
busy men, but after reading this criti
cism I took the opportunity of paying
a visit to the Oregon building to see
for myself the work that had been done
by the Oregon commission. As a re
sult of careful investigation I am able
to say that he trust reposed in the
commission has been well placed. The
problem of filling so large a space has
been successfully worked out The
building and its exhibits attract a great
number of visitors, and I made it my
business to ask a number how they
were impressed by what they had seen.
Without exception the answers were
favorable.
The exhibits of photographs, the
moving picture display of Oregon ac
tivities and resources, and the entire
arrangement of the building constitutes
a splendid advertisement for the state
of Oregon.
The balance sheets showing how the
money has been expended demonstrate
that the commission hn hon o a
nomical as possible. As far as I airt
concerned, knowing the extraordinary
cost of everything connected with an
exposition, the results accomplished in
the Oregon building for the amount
of money are little short of marvel
ous. The luncheons being served by the
home economic class of the college of
agriculture attract numerous visitors
and have won for the college and the
Oregon building many expressions of
praise.
The officials and attendants in
charge are always present and are
eager and willing to show visitors
about. D. O. LIVELY,
Chief of Department of Livestock.
irrannHnar
The Ragtime Muse
. Weak Woman.
This morning when I left for town.
My wife announced that she'd come
down
To match some fabric for a gown
But she was feeling badly, so
She'd take me with her, if I'd go.
"I'll go," I said, and did not doubt
That she was right in going out
And I am getting rather stout.
My wife, you see, is weak and frail.
And she's been looking very pale.
She seemed so delicate that I
Set out with her resolved to try
To help her find what she would buy;
I fondly hoped I would not meet
My business friend upon the street.
We went to many shops; I stood
While she compared the poor and good
Until my feet seemed made of wood;
With hpr I limped through miles of
aisles
While women gazed at me with smiles.
At last I paused with aching head,
Turned to my wife and weakly said:
"Have mercy, dear, I'm nearly dead!"
'Oh, very well," she said, "my pet;
Just go on home I'm not through
yet!"
ENJOY IT. ARE YOU
PERTINENT COMMENT
SMALL CHANGE!
After a lie has prevailed some men
call it the truth.
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A mr.n may be old mough to know
better, but too old to do It.
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Noah played a great game. He draw
pairs and got a full house.
Matrimonially speaking, a baseball
catcher isn't always a catch..
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It requires lots of nerve to tell a
man things he ought to know.
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If you are fixed for life the insur
ance agent will fix you for death,
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The best evening ties are thoi that
keep married men a home af trr dark.
A man always feels contemptible
when he lets a girl kiss him gainst
his will.
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"In union there is strength" -so a
meek and lowly man with a strenuous
wife says.
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Never do a thing gratis today that
someone is likely to pay you to do
tomorrow.
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Women grow old for the want of
somebody to tell them they look as
young as ever. , -
am tha -norie who work
with a will after doctors go ahead anjJ
prepare the way.
If a man doesn't repeat the cute
things his baby says its a sign that
ite has no baby.
If you' want a large bill for small
change all you have to do isconsult
a doctor.
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On trouble with most of our 'bril
liant thoughts Is that they were origi
nal with the ancient thinkers.
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A woman always saves her husband
a err eat -deal of money by not buying
still more things that she doesn't need.
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Great ancestors always shou'd strive
to leave something for male descend
ants to live on. Their wives may not
be strong enough to get out -ana earn a
living.
IGNOBLE
Fmm th Mertford Mail-Tribune.
The telegraphic news from the capi
tal of the nation tell us that the of
ficials of the department of Justice are
a little shocked at the appearance in
Washington of the attorney general of
Oregon, armed with a resolution or
the Oregon legislature directing him to
intervene in the suit of the govern
ment against the Oregon & California
Railroad company in the Interest of
the railroad.
The fact that these officials are sur
prised goes to prove they are unac
quainted with our governor, our legis
lature or Senator Day or Senator Lair
Thompson. The people of Oregon will
doubtless be shocked, too, at the news
but if the election should be held again
tomorrow, would doubtless reelect the
tsame bunch if they would ask It.
The people of Oregon have , for so
long a time been betrayed and sold out
by their officials that it has become
almost a fixed habit with them to
elect those that they know will prove
treacherous. If by accident they elect
an honest man, they afterwards show
their repentance by succeeding him
with a grafter or a jackass.
Many dirty stunts have been perpe
trated by the legislatures of this state
in the past, in relation to. the state
lands and state finances, but there was
some plausible excuse, but this last
piece of chicanery la the cap sheaf of
political thievery and mendacity.
The fact Is that it was passed in the
closing hours of the session, and the
vast majority of those who voted for
it did not know its purport. Granted
that it is a valid excuse, what about
the grafters, rogues and thieve who
pressed It for passage after its defeat?
Who peddled the information that the
attorney general wanted it passed?
Every member of the legislature that
voted for the resolution ought at once
to petition the governor for an extra
session of the legislature in order that
the resolution might be repealed and
the perpetrators of this infamous pro
ceeding discovered and exposed.
Nothing less should satisfy those
numbers who have been Imposed upon,
and nothing less will satisfy the peo
ple of the state.
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The government undertook this suit
against the railroad at the Instance of
the people of this state. The legisla
ture of 1907 passed a memorial asking
the federal government to take action.
It was a political-issue in the state.
And now as the case is about to be
submitted the attorney general of Ore
gon is virtually Instructed to inter
vene in beTialf of the railroad.
No wonde.r mcia.ls at Washing-
lon are snocaea. xne language is ae-
ficient in words to express the- honest
disgust any rational man would feel
at such an attitude. The excuse of the
resolution is that the lands will not be
ALPHABET OF
By John M. Oskison.
The energetic head of the school
savings bank movement in this coun
try (Mrs. S. L. Oberholtzer, 2113 Tioga
street, Philadelphia) has compiled a
cluster of maxims well worth having.
It is arranged aipnaDeticaiiy, Degin
ninjr with "A crooked stick will have
a crooked hadow" and ending with
"Zeal without knowledge is lire with
out light."
On the eight pages of the attrac
tively printed leaflet are many old
friends of the thrift preachers, and
many new ones. New to me, that is;
and I am elad to have tha collection.
We like to get a meaning crowded
into a few worda We instinctively
hate the diffuse and long winded.
Manv a loud - commencement sermon
has contained no more wisdom than
is' summed up in half a dozen short
maxims:
-A handful of common sense ; Is
worth a bushel of learning"; "a man
know no more to any purpose than
he practice"; "a rolling stone gather
no moss"; "a small sum may serve a
great purpose"; "a whole bushel of
wheat i made up of single grains";
"a wise man will make more opportu
nities than he. finds." .
All these out of the "A" section of
this little collection! And so it goes
"by ignorance we make mistakes and
by mistakes we learn"; "charity well
regulated begins at home"; "deed are
fruit, words are leaves"; "early to bed,
early to rise, makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise"; "fortune help
them that help themselves"; "God will
AMONG THEM?
AND NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Ashland's council .has ordered the
renovation of the city's street sign
system, by the restoring or -replacing
of all defaced or obliterated signs.
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The merchants of Cotiag Grove
hav signed an agreement to close up
on Thursday afternoons of each week
so everyone can go to the ball game.
Washington county great spelling
contest will take place at illllaboro Sat
urday, May 1. It is expected that at
least 1000 pupils will be present. May
Day exercises will be given by the
Hillsboro schools.
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Grants Pass Courier: Grants Pass
Is just now entertaining the delegates
from the southern Oregon counties to
the Presbytery. This community Is
e-a.tntnar asima. filattnctlon aa a Dlace for
conventions. encampments. district
meeting!, etc., and the people here
should miss no opportunity to make
our guest glad they came and anxious
to oome again.
Vancouver Columbian: Multnomah
county poor farm under the direction
of the Oregon Agricultural college, is
now self -supporting, caring for 303 in
mates. Registered: stock of all kinds
has been substituted for the scrubs
formerly kept, with a corresponding
Increase in the output of milk, butter,
eggs and meat. .The value of scientific
farming la becoming yearly more ap
parent. ' y
In headlines ih Spokesman says
Redmond is "clean as a hound' tooth."
and in the story particularizes as fol
lows: "The result of this campaign
can easily, be seen in the clean up
pearance of all parts of Redmond in
the business section, the 'residence sec
tion and the outskirts of the city as
well and now Redmond citizen can
point with pride to their town as the
cleanest looking city in central Ore
gon, if not in the whole state."
Indignant warning posted by the
Moro Observer: "The management of
the Observer has succeeded this week
in- having moved from th common
dumping- hole back of this office a
mess of filthy rubbish dumped against
the back of our building. We give
warning now, without further parlev,
that If the marshal and city authori
ties allow such a thing to again hap
pen we will call in the state board of
health and close it up by legal pro
cess." PERFIDY
subject to taxation If the government
wins.
- Any excuse Is good enough for the
railroad company, but the claim that
the people would loss if th govern
ment wins, because th lands might be
exempt from taxation, 1 fallacious.
Most of the lands In controversy
are In the southern part of Douglas
county and In Josephine and Jackson
counties and lie almost wholly In a
mineral belt. Mining in this section
in almost at a standstill-because of the
ownership by the railroad of every
alternate section.
It needs no argument to convince
one that mining is next to impossible
where the miner is surrounded- on four
sides of every square mile by land he
cannot acquire title to Or an easement
across. That is the situation in the
mineral belt. Far better to have the
mineral lands In a forest reserve than
to have each section surrounded on
four sides by the Southern Pacific
company.
There is a goodly portion of lands
along the railroad that can, of course,
be thrown open for settlement or sale,
and such would support many families
who would Improve lands that .are now
withheld from settlement or improve
ment, i
The tax question was not raised by
the people affected, but has been in
vented undoubtedly by some Bollcltoys
railroad attache. That this contempti
ble scheme was Imposed upon the leg
islature make one profoundly wish
that every resolution as well as every
law was subject to the referendum.
Better a freak state than a rotten
borough, manipulated by corporation
corruptionists. The governor of, this
state had no veto power over the reso
lution, but as chief executive he can.
now that the dishonest methods used
to pass It and the dishonesty of its
purpose have been exposed, call the
legislature together and give them an
opportunity fo repudiate It. If he will
not do this, the people should appeal
to the attorney general to disregard
the resolution and assist the govern
ment In the principal suit.
According to the assistant attorney
general, the hand was that of the tax
payer, but the voice Is that of the
Southern Pacific. Mr. Van Winkle
say the resolution was drawn at the
request of Senator Day. This shows
that the resolution was Introduced and
intended for the purpose of aiding the
Southern Pacific.
What Is $500,000 tax money dis
tributed among 18 counties compared
to the release of the mineral and agri
cultural land from railroad ownership?
Even if the amount was $5,000,000, the
people would gladly give it to learn
that a giant corporation is not above
the law and the courts.
THRIFT MAXIMS
provide, but a good bundle of straw
will not be amiss."
Tablet wisdom for the thrifty what
is gathered in the pamphlet is meant
to appeal especially to boys and girls.
Young people like little bullets . of
truth that hit hard and quickly. They
help to set a standard of efficiency in
statement that Is worth establishing.
"We've got into the habit, as we
have grown older, of dismissing
maxims as 'chestnuts,' old laws, end
mildewed wisdom. Thrift maxim
have gone into th discard with the
rest. Since "Poor Richard" we have
drifted into a chaos of talk and prac
tice concerning personal finance.
Send for the collection of Mrs. Ober
holtzer. It will give you a fresh view
of the power of the few right word
fitly spoken.
His Preference.
From Judge.
"I may hurt your feelings, but I am
going to tell you the plain truth and
"Good day!" Interrupted J. Fuller
Gloom. "I never listen to anything
but compliments." -
Oratorical Assistance.
From Washington Star.
-Lady,'' said Plodding Pet, "do you
want any wood chopped?"
"Yes." " ..-
"Well, if you'll gimme my dinner,
I'll hang around an' give yer husband
an' yer two grown sons an eloquent dis
course oh how wrong It- 1 of 'em not
to turn in an' do delr duty."
5 CENTS
THE COPY
"TV 1
IM CAJttT DATS"
By Fre Lookler. SpaotaJ Staff Wrltaa ei
"' " ; Tha Journal. ...
The first boat to turn a wheel on
the upper Columbia was the Colonel
Wright. The Colonel Wright ws built
at the mouth of tho Deschutes river by
ft. ft. Thompson and K. F. Coe and was
launched. October S. tS68. Thompson
Coe had a government contract to
carry government supplies to Fort
Walla Walla.
The rate from Celilo to Walla Walk
was $100 per ton. " When the steamer
was launched ,they reduced the rate
to $80 a ton and made three trips a
week .between Celilo and Waliula. Her
first trip was mad in April, 1S9. and
a passenger from Walla Walla, could
make the trip to Portland in 30 hoiirs
by making immediate connections with
the steamers in the middle and lower
rivers.
In May of that year the Colonel
Wright made a trip up the Snake
river, going about 50 miles above its
mouth. Captain Leonard White was
in command. Ha was paid 500 a month,
as he had proved wonderfully success
ful in taking his boat into unknown
and untraveled waters.
When Captain White began' hU ca
reer on the Willamette river, Albany
was the head of steamboat navigation
Captain White became the popular
hero of Corvallls by takii.er his boat
there. II was given n oiflcUl wel
come by the city officials and pre
sented with block of land. Not only
was Captain White the flria man to
take a Bteamboat to Corvallls. but In
1855, whlje in command of the Phoenix,
he went as far up the Willamette us
Ilarrisbuig. Later ho took the Clinton
out on, her maiden voyage and .cele
brated the ev-nt by going still farther
upstream to Kugene. Captain White
was the first man to take a steamer
to Lewlston. Captain K. W. itaua-h-
tnau was pilot on the Colonel. Wright
and he Is to share the honors with
Captain W. P. Gray .at the formal
opening of the Colilo canal.
The Colonel Wright was 110 feet
long, 21 feet beam and had a five foot
hold. She made her laxt trip In 1865,
That summer she was broken up and
hr engines put in a steamer owned by
Joseph Kellogg. The Colonel Wright
made a fortune for her owners.
On March 27, 1862, she took in -$2625
for passenger tickets on the uprlver
trip. On her next up trip, two days
later, she took In $2446. On April. 11.
186a, the Okanogan took ih for uprlvr
fares, $3540; April 25, $3630; May 11.
$2145; May 17, $2265,' Muy 26, $6616.
The Tenino, also owned by the O. ST N.
company, took In on Us uprlver trip
on April 22. $3232; April 27, $32S;
April 29. $2596; May 5, $6780; May
13, $10,945. In addition to this there
was the very large profit from freight,
meals, staterooms and drinks, besides
the down river business, which amount
ed, for passenger fares alone, to from
$1600 to $4000 a trip. On one trip
during this season the Tenino took In
over $18,000 for freight In addition to
the passenger business. ' -
It in interesting In this connection
to glance back at the very beginning
of the steamboat nus!nenH. A year
after Fulton had launched his first
steamer, Claremont, oh the IIudKOti
river in 1808, Nicholas RooHovelt,
granduncle of Theodore -Koosevelt, d
cided to put, steamboats on tho inland
rivers, lie was a member of the firm
of Fulton, Livingstone and Itoosavelt,
of New York city. He moved to I'ltt-
burg. Pa., where he. built the steam
boat New Orleans. It ; was 116 fet
long with a 20 foot beam and its-cylinder
had a diameter of 34 Inches. Hhm
was schooner shaped, Iter prow beinf
long and narrow. Tito wheel was
astern. In addition to steam power
she carried two masts and had' a bow
sprit. She had two cabins, the forward
one for men and the one abaft for
women. Its portholes were square and
the vessel was painted robin's egg blue.
She started from Pittsburg on October
30, 1811. Nicholas Roosevelt was. mar
ried shortly beforo the vessel Was
launched and in spite of the protects 4
of his friends "on the danger, of such
a foolhardy undertaking, Tie took
charge of the boat, acting an its pilot.
His brldo went along and was bade a
tearful farewell by her- relatives anl
friends, who never expected to see her
again. -
Cincinnati was reached In two days.
At Louisville, Ky., the people heard
the hiss of the steam and saw the glar
of the fire in the boiler, room and fled
to the hills, many believing the cornet
then appearing, to the consternation of
the superstitious, had dropped into the
Ohio. u
The next day Mr. Rooaevclt and his
bride were tendered a reception. The
boat reached New Orleans on the day
before Christmas. 1811. She started
on her regular run from New Orleans
to Natchez. Her schedule was one trip
each three weeks between New Or
leans and Natchez. She cost $38.00.)
to build and the first year's profits
amounted to over $20,000. She was
wrecked on July 13, 1814, on a snag
two miles below Baton Rouge.
Th first steamship to crows the At
lantic was the Savannah.. The Savan
nah was 100 feet long, 350 tdns bur
den and was built by Francis Pickett
In New York city In 1818. She was
a full-rigged ship and was fitted with
Ide paddle wheels which were un
shipped and fastened on de.ck when
ever the weather - was rough. Kho
salted from Savannah on May 20, 1819.
In command of Captain Steven Rogers.
he reached Liverpool on June 20. She
used her paddles 16 days out of the 30.
She was overtaken In midocean by the
British cutter "Kite," who, seeing the
smoke from her stack, supposed she
was on fire and -came to rescue her
passenger. She visited St. Peters
burg. Copenhagen' and Stockholm,
where she created tremendous Interest.
People would look at her but could not
be induced to tempt fat by taking
passage on her, so her engines were
removed and she was converted Into a
sailing packet and plied between Sa
vannah and New York city.
Wanted It JMled On.
From London Opinion.
"Why didn't you enjoy th party,
Harry? Didn't you hava enough to
eat?"
Young Hopeful: "Oh, yes; but there'
no fun in having Just enough." .
Proving an Alibi.
- From the Philadelphia Ledger.
"Who killed Cock Robin V asked the
Coroner.
"Not I," said the Sparrow. "I haven't
had my auto for nearly a week."
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