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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, V PORTLAND, WEDNESDAY EVENING. V MAY "5, 1915.
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. Speak; with contempt of no
man. Eveny -one hath a ten
der sense of reputation. And
very man hath a sting which
he may.-sif provoked too far,
dart out at one time or an
other. Burt on. j
CELILO AND AFTUR
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T
HE cities of the Columbia
country resound with rejoic-
lngs. The wave of- enthusi
asm ! over Celilo Is at full
flood at The Dalles today and to-
- night. , f
Jt -Is something that the interior
thus early realizes the Import of an
open Columbia; - Upon the people
will depend the fruition of the
hopes now at high pitch.
The river cannot do It all
Alone, It cannot make the boats
run. It can only offer its broad
bosom as a great highway over
which the traffic can pass at a
' very6 low cost.
The people .must build and op
erate the ! boats. The boats must
have traffic in order to live. And
the. peoplei must supply the traffic
If they do not give the boats
enough, business for survival, Celilo
will rhave been In vain, the open
Columbia jwill bo valueless.
j Boats cannot operate without
cargpes. jThey cannot pay main
tenance, operating cost and other
expenses with enthusiasm. They
, must have products to carry to
' market, oir the great river wllr-
continue ; ja deserted ' waste, the
, habitat mbstly of the kingfisher
and the wild duck.
- But the river with its cleft Celilo
U an empire in the making. Its
banks, so long, deserted, can be
come the busiest kingdom in the
.country. Every mile can be made
a meeting place of products bound
, in and bound out. In time, a
thousand oats and barges can be
required tp rieet the necessities of
the ever Expanding traffic.
' Back from the shore, hard' sur
faced roads can tap the fertile dis
. tricts, and assemble products at
,.t the. boat lan Cings. Electric lines
can be; built, to connect with swift
: river stealers. The stimulus of
' the new 'oirder is the creative im
pulse in the upbuild of the Colom
bia country. . .
The celebrating cities have full
reason f or j their enthusiasm. They
are emphasizing an event that will
write history. Celilo Is a turning
point, The biggest thing In an
Inland region Is transportation. By
transportation, cities are made or
destroyed. H L.y transportation. In
dustry is btalted or accelerated, is
.prostrated or. made to flourish like
a green bsty tree. The open river
Is the cheapest of all transporta
tion, and it is on low cost of trans
portation tjhat cities have their safe
foundations for growth and their
? -sure impulse for expansion and
prosperity. .
Incessantly, throughout Its ca
reer. The Journal has advocated,
and urged and striver for the order
now established ' above Celilo, and
It joins with the celebrating eiti-,
zens in rfejoicing oyer what has"
come to pass. '-. -
BOLD STAND
GOMINfc out boldly for the mid
night resolution, -the Oregon
Ian says: i
It matters little whether the
12.50 per acre charged actual settlers
for the land goes to the railroad or
government; The lahid for the people
Is our need.j The legislators did right,
That, Is to say, "It matters little"
; whether the case is decided for the
'railroad dr- for the people. "It
matters little" Whether Judge Wol
verton is jreversed or affirmed.
That If to say "the legisla
ture did right" in passing the reso
. lution. The resolution- declared:
- Wherears, It Is of jvital Importance
to the development of the entire state
of Oregon jand the several counties in
which Bald grant lands are located,
that such lands should- not be with
drawn . from taxation, but that they
should be (disposed of for .settlement
and development under the terms of
th original Arrant, i -
Under tjhe terms of , the "original
.: grant" th lands were to be sold
by the railroad; and the railroad
"was to pocket the proceeds. That
is to say, 1he legislature which 'did
. right," demanded in its resolution
v that the j-allroad continue to sell
the lands and' continue to pocket
the proceeds, which. In turd,1 meant
- that ; Judge Wolverton's decision
forfeiting jthe . lands to the .people
be reversed. f . ' v ' -
For the Oregonlan to declare
that "the ilegislature did right" in
taking thU bold stand for the rail
road -is extraordinary. : , It is doubt
ful if any other newspaper In the
- United States ever took such a po
sition. . It seems incredible . that
any newspaper would boldly ap
prove the! legislative demand that
$50,000,000 worth of lands be
- taken from the people and be given
back to the railroad. , .
r it was but little .more than, yes
terday that granges all over Oregon
passed , resolutions demanding for
feiture of the grant lands. So did
every public body. , So did the leg
islature.! So did city councils. SO
; did commercial organizations. So
did the newspapers..
:. The i demand for forfeiture was
on every lip. Instead of selling the
land, the railroad was holding It
Nobody could buy an acre at any
price. jMrVHarrlman declared that
his corporation - did not Intend to
sell It.; AV l- - ii'v ' ) ; v. r-"
Public i sentiment for forfeiture
was 'overwhelming. No- voice save
that' -of the railroad was lifted on
the other side.
- r Bat at & A. M. the last night of
the session, without the knowledge
of most i of the members, the
stealthy resolntlor;; with its pur
pose" cunningly concealed, was
slipped through the House. Its real
demand Is that the grant , lands
which, under the . law. Judge Wol
verton has declared forfeited, be
given to the railroad, and the Ore
gonlan says "the legislature did
right."
The real Infamy : of the scheme
Is J usi, coming to light. ;
SENATOR WEEKS' VIEWS
KNATUH WiSKKS told FOIt
landers thfit there has been
J "too much ; freak legislation,'
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not Interfere with "business."
What part of the Wilson legis
lation is "freak"? What part of
the .Wilson legislation would Sena
tor Weeks repeal? i
Would: he repeal the Underwood
tariff and re-enact the notorious
Payne-AIdrlch tariff?
Would he repeal the Income tax
and return to taxing poverty for
the benefit of wealth?
Would he repeal the Alaska rail
road and the coal land leasing
acts, and restore the Ballinger pol
icy of turning Alaska over to the
Morgan-Gu ggehheim syndicate ?
Would he repeal the Trade Com
mission act for making dishonest
trusts . honest and or protecting
(honest business against, dishonest
ptwsiness? ,
wouia ne repeal the Wilson pro
vision in the Trade Commission act
by which, when they violate the
law, trust magnates will be sent
to tha penitentiary the same as
other offenders?
Would . he repeal . the new bank
lng and currency act, and thereby
take- the control of dnoney and
credit out of-the hands of the gov
ernment, ' and place it back under
the control of Wall Btreet, giving
to the Morgan-Rockefeller group of
financiers their old power of per
sonal domination over the enter
prise and Industry of this country?
Would ; he repeal i the Wilson act
which prohibits interlocking direc
torates, and thereby give back to
a handful of financiers the power
to organize finance, commerce, in
dustry, insurance, banking, trans
portation, ojl and coal Into gigantic
combines by which to tyrannize
over the rest of the country?
We know that Senator Weeks
would repeal the Interstate Com
xnerce law, because he said In his
Portland speech that regulation by
the commission is bad for the rail
roads and express companies. Know
ing this, it is fair to presume that,
if commissioned by the American
people to do so, Senator Weeks and
his co-captains of Penrose Repub
licanism will begin with railroad
regulation and repeal all the great
progressive measures written into
the statutes by Wodrow Wilson
and jthe Sixty-third congress.
That is to say, speaking for his
great political group; Senator Weeks
makes it quite clear that the new
program is, not to have govern
ment regulate business, but to have
business regulate government.
CHARITY SWINDIiERS
JUDICIAL authorities of Paris
have1 finished an investigation
6howlng that of 147 charitable
organizations formed since the
war began 76 are swindles. Thirty-
nve of tnem are reported to be
conducted .by men
leased from prison
after mobilization.
who were re-
just before or
Two of these "Dhilanthronists
attracted particular attention-
While they were destitute when
the war ; beean. thev now nav
handsome town - and country resi
dences, and are hosts at sumntn.
ous "dinners The receipts of their
charities" are said never to have
fallen below $400 a' dav sine thw
began operations in September.
The fraudulent- en ternrisea are
divided into two classes. One is
purely commercial, although oper
ating under the cloak of charity.
The second class sends out cniie-
tors, who are driven ! 30 ner cent, nf
vhat they , get as a commission.
some or. these collectors have
been making $20 to $30 & day.
ine nummest otthe organizations
nets at least $100 dally. A
Prosecution of thes rhu-rUv
swindlers will be begun, j It should
do, ior tneir offense Is a direct
blow at sufferlnr humknitv. Thv
6teal from the poor, and there is
no greater crime.
FEWER IDIiE CARS
PHILADELPHIA dispatch says
A the Pennsylvania railroad is
jf putting its cars and dollars
to work, in the week ending
April 23, that1; one railroad took
idle cars from sidetracks
and placed them in . nse. In the
previous two Weeks more than 5000
mie cars were put at work. In the
month of April the number
idle cars decreased 10,608, or 15.9
per cent. ; ' i ,
The number of idle freight cars
on the Pennsylvania's lines on
April ,23 was 67,637, ? compared
with 78,245 on April 1..' On Janu
ary: 4 the number of idle cars was
86,033. Since that time the idle
equipment has been reduced 18,
396 cars, or 21 per, cent. ' j
Thf s Improvement . in the Penn
sylvanla's territory Is evenly dis
tributed over ; eastern and western
lines. "During the first three weeks
of April 5059 Idle cars, . or 14 per
cent of the total, were put at .work
on eastern .lines, and 5549 or 13
per, cent, on western lines. These
figures indicate that business is
active the f entire distance from
Philadelphia and Chicago.
'There is large significance fn
the Pennsylvania's Idle car, figures
Valuing a car at approximately
$1000, they, mean that, $10,608,000
of this road's capital investment.
.Which has : been earning : nothing,
has been put at" work ; In three
weeks.
WHY, ' MR. MEYER?
JT X-SECRETARY MEYER," who
La was secretary of the navy
m l'-' for four years v in President!
i an s capinec, aisagrees witn
Secretary Daniels' characterization
of the "American navy and deplores
our so-called, unpreparedness.
In connection with Mr. Meyer's
latest statement, another" made by
him a short time ago 13 interest
ing: - . : - -i
In the past 15 yeairs we have speht
$1,600,000,000 (on our navy). We have
spent in those 15 years $500,000,000
more than Germany, .which; has passed
us in naval strength, Wei have spent
$600,000,000 more than France, which
Is now but little behind us. At the
end i of . the war We ma find that
she,: too, is ahead of us... We have
not got our mohey's worth. We have
spent: enough money to have the sec
ond . navy in the world, and we ; are
spending enough now to keep it fully
up to that mark.
Who but ex-Secretary Meyer has
been helping spend the money? He
had four years at it. - Whose fault
then, more than Meyer's, is it- if
what he says of tha navy Is true?
How can he condemn Daniels with
out doubly condemning himself?
What a lot of buncombe there is
among the gentlemen who want
every worker in the United States
to have a soldier or a sailor on his
back!
TRIESl1
TALI s demand for Triest as
I the price of continued neutral
Ity has been resisted by Aus-
iria. i ne reason ior mis ae-
nial is explained by the National
Geographic society.
Triest Is Austria's only great
seaport, a powerful commercial
rival of Venice and Genoa, a city
as important to Austrian develop-
men t as is New York to the devel
opment of the United States. It
has been an Austrian possession
more than 500 years and has been;
growing 6teadily in Importance a
an outlet for: the oversea trade of
central land southeastern Europe,
Austria does not Want to relinquish
a port of first Importance.
Triest is a tremendously successful
business town, and largely a modern
one. Its harbor facilities are the best
that modern technique can devise;
and many millions of dollars have
been expended in carrying their un
dertaking to . conclusion. In 1910
nearly 12,100 vessels, representing a
total of about 4,200,000 tonnage, en
tered . and cleared at the Triest har
bor. The value of imports which
these ships brought was about $117,-
000,000. - while they carried exports
amounting to about $102,000,000.
Vienna is 367 miles by rail. Con
nections with southeast Germany
and with Austrian and Hungarian
centers have been much Improved
In recent .years. Together with a
Burrounding area of about 36
square miles, the city of Triest
forms an Austrian crownland. It
Is an immensely : wealthy, life-
crowded port with a population
almost equal that of Portland. Is
It any wonder that Austria, refuses
to surrender tTriest? -
in the day or its fruition, a
mighty lot of people are whooping
It up as if they had always been
fighters and workers for the Celilo
canal. It is wen. But there were
dark days back yonder when the
real workers -;f6r Celilo could ble'
counted on the fingers of two pairs
of hands. Perhaps the enthusiasm
of the present celebration will
make more workers for the great
Improvement yet to be " done fn
canalizing the upper reaches of the
mighty river. '
The Atlantic fleet is, to pass In
review before President Wilson
May 17 in New York harbor.' There
will be 65 - vessels of all classes
In line, from superdreadnaught to
naval tug. It will be an excellent
opportunity for Congressman -Gard
ner to again tell the American
people that their ships could not
fight If they had to..
Freeport, , Illinois, has a newly-
elected woman mayor. The eom-
jtnon council at its first session ro-
ected her appointments, but she
had her way about one thing. The
session was opened with prayer;
and the mayor says all sessions will
be opened that way while she, is
mayor. :- 4 "A .: K.-.- "l:-rr
Senator Day was : for 'the, mid
night " resolution. Senator Moser
was for it. Senator - Perkins was
for it. .The Oregonian now admits
it is for it. And thus the mighty
cause of state "reform" goes
marching on. .
Governor .Whitman of New York
started out : by saying he was de
termined to be a - "constitutional
governor." According to the best
reports ; obtainable, he has been so
excessively "constitutional" that he
has killed himself politically. It
seems that the American people
don't want . a chief executive who
stands so firmly for the constitu
tion -that he: forgets them.
Her captivating physical charms
are one of - Portland's greatest as
sets. But a beauty is not particu
larly attractive in . a soiled -gown
and dirty face. This Is clean-up
week. e-' . i
New York is talking about giv
ing up ' the ' cabaret. Restaurant
proprietors find. this kind of enter
tainment too expensive and declare
they would welcome a law denying
them any kind of an entertainment.
The Philadelphia Ledger says,
"To accept the privileges of citi
zenship and to neglect Its duties
is graft." It is a new use for a
harsh term, but; possibly, a, use
that is justified. . : I
The people of the United States
are spending a quarter of a billion
dollars every year to see motion
pictures. If costing so huge a sum,--what
of the pictures?
There is "a reminder that Tempus
does f uglt " in the v announcement
that It Is only six weeks until har
vest ' time . in Missouri.
NEED OF A FEDERAL
BUDGET SYSTEM
From World's Work. ,
1912 the Democratic party , made
much of Republican extravagance
in national expenditures. Their
criticism's were Justified. Now Re
publicans point to Democratic waste
fulness. Their criticisms are Just
.also. Both parties are right Both
are spendthrifts. Under present con
ditions it Is Idle to listen to economy
talk by either party. Congressman
John J. Fitzgerald is as good a
watchdog of the "treasury as "Uncle
Joe" Cannon and Just as helpless.
But .there Is one change in the sit
uation.' When "Uncle Joe" Cannon
and Mr. Tawney, of Minnesota, were
watchdogs of the treasury there was
a general ' Impression that the system
of -aste under which the federal
money Vis ; expended was necessary.
The public5 is rapidly getting into a
mood to demand, if waste cannot be
stopped under, the present system
that the system be changed.'
The system at present.ls somewhat
as follows: The various bureau chiefs
make estimates of the money which
they want for their bureaus and sub
mit them to the secretary of their de
partment. The secretary may know
his department well enough to mould
these special pleas for funds, into a
well-balanced budget, or he may only
be able to add them all together and
pass them on to , congress. But as
each i secretary puts in his recom
mendation without regard to the rec
ommendations of,,4.the. otherdepart-
mentai there Ta little chance thali they
will together form a coordinated, well-,
balanced plan of expenditure. The
fact is, the lack of system leads ' to
a kind of competition between " the
different bureaus and departments to
see which can get the , most money
from congress.' .
When the ; departmental recom
mendations reach the house of repre
sentatives they are divided among
several committees. The appropria
tions - for one department are even di
vided among several of these com
mittees. The committees call before
them. In. secret sessions, not only", the
secretaries - pf the different depart
ments but all sorts of bureau chiefs
and lesser officials, each one pleading
for. his own particular Item In the
appropriation: and quite often dis
agreeing with his superior's recom
mendations. " A this, of course,
would result In the utmost confusion
and waste even If the committees
were free to use their, best judgment
upon-the mass of undigested, conflict
ing testimony which they get But
the members of the committees .are
not free to use their best Judgment
for the"' interest of the nation.' They
are not elected by the nation. They
are; elected by particular congressional
districts. They can get credit in their
own districts by spending money in
their home districts or credit with
their colleagues by spendlng'lt in the
colleagues distrlats a credit to be re
turned in . a : fprm usable sit.' home.
There is a tremendous pressure on
every committeeman' to spend . more
and more money... -Moreover, as there
are several committees,, what one may
save the others are likely to - spend.
And if a conscientious' committee does
recommend economy,, as- likely, as. not
the house will not heed Its recommen
dations. If the house does, it Is by
no means sure ' that' ,the senate; will.
The appropriation measures , which
are not founded on the departmental
estimates, such as the river and har
bor, publio buildings, pension 1 bills.
etc, are i perhaps even more waste
full Every representative who wants
a pension, dam or postoffice building
for his district introduces a bill for
the purpose. All these bills are col
lected by the proper committee, which
then decides what sum it has the con
science, to recommend for expenditure,
and divides that sum more or less
pro rata among the bills present-id.
The more districts their recommenda
tions take care of the more votes their
recommendations, are likely to get, for
few congressmen have p olitical
strength enough to vote against ap- j
proprlations for - their own - districts
ad still' be reelected. . '
-Such is the chaos out of which the
appropriation " bills r. emerge for the
president's signature. If be refuses
to' sign them, there is no money forth
coming to - run - the government If
a . party
. The publio looking on and paying
this is a terribly costly chaos. The
obvious remedy is to find out who w
responsible for the waste and reform
his -habits - or get him out of "office.
But right there comes the rub. No
one admits , that he Is responsible.
The bureau chiefs say that they
have asked for only what . they need,
or if they asked - for more tt was
because that is sometimes the t beat
way of getting what Is needed. The
secretaries can Justly say that .they
are-not responsible, for their recom-s
mendations' are not often followed,
particularly If their recommendations
neglect the districts of the strong
members of the committees. Each
committee In congress lays the blame'
on the departmental recommendations,
or on the other 'appropriating -committees.
The house blames ; the sen
ate, the Senate blames the housed and
the president can blame both of them, i
The public which pays- the bills, '
can't get its hands, on anybody who
Is responsible, unless it la the .whole,
party that happens ' to be in power.
To dismiss that will do no good, be
cause the other tparty, so. far as ex
penditures go. Is the same thing under
another name. ,
There have been some wonderful
combinations of dummy corporations.
operating companies, , holding
panies. etc. concocted in
com
Nthe business world which were so
complicated that only a Philadelphia
lawyer could tell who was responsible
jfor the expenditure of the Btockhold
jers money, but none of these has ever
been as successful in dividing respon
sibility Into! extinction as the present
method of making federal appropria
tions.
The federal appropriations are taken
from money! beloiging to all the peo
ple of the United States. The mem
bers "of the: congressional committees
do not represent all the peoplej of
the United - States. They represent
the citizens of particular districts.
There is only one person who repre
sents all the people of the country.
He Is the president of the United
States. He should be primarily re
sponsible for the expenditure of the
people's money. 1
To make the president responsible
he must be given by law the right
to prepare , and introduce into con
gress, a budget of the government's
expenditures and any new bills neces
sary to raise revenue.
The spokesmen of the administra
tion should be given the right td pre
sent and defend this budget on the
floor of the senate and the house. -
Both Chouses should be forbidden
to add Items to the budget.
These specific recommendations
forward tentatively two
years ago by Henry L. Btimson. ex
secretary of war. ' While he claimed
no perfection for them it is certain
that they s embody the essential prin
ciples of -a system for making our
government financially responsible to
the voters of the nation, and thereby
stopping ii ium i.i.o .
. . . m wo tranr A
A FEW SMILES
Pete, the hired; man, was known for
his prodigious appetite. One morning
he had eaten a
normal breakfast;
of oatmeal, buck-:
wheat cakes, toast,
fried : potatoes, ham,
eggs, doughnuts,
coffee and the
usual trimmings, and
gone to a neighbor's
,n h.u nHth extra
work.: Pete arrived before the family
had risen from the mornin m,-,A
"Well Pete," hospitably Inquired
the farmer, "had breakfast yet?"
"Aw" drawled Pete In a wheedling
tone, ' "klnda." Everybody's Maga
zine. -I . ' ..- ,
The dealer in antiquities was show
ing an old violin to a probable buyer.
"Yes," he said.
"this -is Of histori
cal Interest; that is
the Identical fiddle
Nero played ' while
Rome was burning"
"Oh, that Is a
myth!"
The dealer agreed,
saying:
"Yes, It Is: and
Myth's name was on it, but lt-ha-s got
worn off." --'
a certain siock DroKer went to a
horse dealer and tried to pick up a
general utility nag.
He explained that
he wanted a nice,
quiet, good looking
animal for himself,
which could , b e
driven by his wife
in a dogcart and
would not on oc
casion object .to be
ing hitched ' up to a lawn mower!
The dealer listened with rapt, at
tention and finally asked, in dulcet
tones: j : -
. "Would you lika him to wait at
table at all, sir T' . ,'.
Letters From the People
- (Commtinieatloua sent to The Journal for
publication in this department should be writ
ten on - only one side of the paper, should aot
exceed 3(X words in length and must be ac
companied by the came and address of the
aender. It the writer dees not desire to -hare
th name published, he should so state.) .
" "Diseossioa ls the greatest of all reformers.
It rationalises ererything; it toochea. i It robs
principles of aU falsa sanctity and throws them
back on their reasonableneas. If they hare do
reasonableness, it rothlecsly crushes them ont
of - existence and sets up its own conclusions
iu their stead." Woodrow Wilson. i
"Equality" Elucidated.'
, Portland, May 6. To the Editor of
The Journal In defense of the truth
contained in the Declaration of Inde
pendence, which is higher and .might
ier 1 than any constitution yet j penned,
please - allow space for this , comment
on the "shallower misunderstandings'
of the kind of equality written-therein.
v.- When . we" take into consideration
the' franchise privilege of the :jeople I
at i the. time the constitution . was
adopted, by no stretch- of imagination-
cajf political equality bel made the sole i T
eauality Intended by those 'who wrote I I
he signs them he becomes
,to the waste. ' ,
V "
that all men were 'created" equal,- and j
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
The older a man gets the less he
knows he knows.
But the man who pays as he goes
can never go broke.
- ., .
A corkscrew Is sometimes used In
opening an -argument .
-' You can always ' have what you
want by wanting only what you have.
If you are dissatisfied with vour lot,
put it In the hand of an auctioneer.
... :
Contentment may be better . than
riches, but. they ought to go togetner.
J A woman may owe - her
gray hairs to chemistry..
Invisible
But a man never overrates him
self when the - tax collector comes
around. .
A woman is more Influenced by
what she suspects than by what' she
IS told.
. , z
The student who takes up medicine
will find it more pleasing than taking
it down. j
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Every time a man makes a fool!, of
himself by acting contrary to his ow.
Judgment he gets mad. . !'
.The average Woman loves ' to go
shopping because, fche thinks there's
something good in store for her.
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It's an easy matter to ! be popular
with your friends. All you have to
do is agree with them in everything.
The poor -but honest brother's wife
can tell you what the wife of the rich
brother .didn!t have before she was
married. , -
THRIFT PLAN OF
By John M. Oskison.
They're known pretty well all sover
the country Eddie Foy, the comedian,
and the seven : little ' Foys. Mrs. Foy
is often with; the act, -too. $o there
are nine Of the funmaking family.
Once in a while zealous officers of
the children's societies arrest . Eddie
Foy for allowing- the youngest of the
seven children to appear, on the
stage. Then the family's system of
caring for the kids is explained anl
the troupe moves on.
In New York the other day a the
atrical crltle wrote about the profit
sharing plahx which the Foy family
follows.
"Every Saturday night," he said,
each one of the Foys receives an
envelope containing one-ninth of the
net profits of the act for the week.
The older boys act as' . agents . and
bankers for the little fellows, and
have the money exchanged for New
York drafts, which are promptly
mailed every Monday morning to
New Roehelle, the Foy family home,
where the various drafts are credited
to the bank accounts of the different
children and the parents. I
were endowed with certain rights that
they could not be aliento.
- If political equality was the one in
tended the practice of. the people, who
so valiantly defended the document
would belie its truths; for not half of
the soldiers who fought the revolution
and none of the women and chattal
slaves Who supported them -.were al
lowed the franchise privilege in the
adoption of the very constitution that
came as a consequence of that declara
tion and war. Nothing is written that
points 'llieil tucquaj.
It must be plain, . therefore,: that Jn4
du atrial and economic equality was th
accepted equation by those that passed
upon the contents of that document.
. Moreover were equal ,i Opportunity
economically and - industrially ; - now
aivea to the people ' little attention
WnnU h r,nA tn nnlttin.n.1 nfrancb
lBemen This statement is vermeq
when a purely political election .is
held, such as our primary elections af
ford. On these occasions not nearly
all vote who -are. entitled to-do so.
The plain statement that all men
are created "equal," embodied in that
document, is unqualifiedly defined to
be equal opportunity to pursue hap
piness in life with liberty to acquire
it. Since the time or tne aaopuon oi
our constitution this inequality has
brought about a Civil war to adjust
the matter of chattel slavery. It re
quired and requires repeated and con
tinued changes by legislation to give
equality in numerous other things that
pivot altogether on legislation and not
at all on- political enfranchisement. . in
these latter years the pursuit of life.
liberty and happiness has i been so in-'
tensified by Improved machinery the
development of the tool -and by pri
vate) title to the publio domain land
that these' two issues cover the entire
horizon of equality and lie continually
across our path in quest -of human
happiness.
We are now passing through a crisis
that la tearlne- at the very vitala Of
civil government because of the laok'l
of equal opportunity in these two
phases of life. Retribution haa: over-
Llaken us and will make manifest every
blunder we - make In . economlo lire.
There is always a forfeit to be paid
for being ; untrue to those words In
that Immortal document.
C. W. BARZEE.
Carfare. . .
Portland. May 6. To the Editor of
The Journal I have read the article
on page four of The Journal of April
SO, entitled "Reduction Sought In Rates
Charged by P. R., 1 & P. Co."
. From time to time publio attention
has been called to suggestions," prop
ositlons and mention of "reduction of
rate. If " present competitive condi
tions Justify a reduction of rate, con
ditions prior to introduction or "com
petition" Justified a greater reduo
tion of rate.
Should the citizens of Portland unlte
BIG COPPER SALES;
ORDERS BY RAILWAYS
' New York, April 80. Advices Te-r
celved here ! today from; Calumet,
Mich., were 'to the effect that the
Calumet and Hecla company had
sold over 45,000,000 pounds of cop
per at prices ranging from 18c to
20o per pound for delivery as late
as September. Leading producers
reported sale of electrolytic cop
per today at 19c. " : j
" .Figures compiled .$y the depart
ment of commerce show that ex
ports of copper .from ' the United
States for March totaled 66.S83.3S0
lbs as followsi- Pig Ingot bars, 59.
677.711: plates and sheets, 1,995,350;
rods and wire, 4,646,867; all other, t
263,422. ; - ;-' ., --
An order has been placed by the
"Soo" line for -400 box and 100 auto
mobile cars, with th Ameri
can Car and Foundry company, Thet
S't. Paul has ordered seven sleeping
cars from the Pullman company,
and the Pennsylvania; lines west
have placed an order for ISO steel
underframes with the Ralston Steel
Car company and the Greenville
Steel Car company. - "
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OREGON SIDELIGHTS
The Paisley: Press has been en
larged, to eight pages, three of them
home print.. I
( " . .,-
Except corner ioles necessary to
cross Depot street, all electric light
and telephone poles on FTeeweter s
main street have been moved to the
alleys. - - - ' - ' , ...
J. m! Bledsoe haa purchased the
Wallowa Sun t from Tjulu ,V. McNees
and Roy R. McNees. Mr. Bledsoe an
nounces; "Although a change may
come in the party politics of the paper,
yet in, no way will politics . interfere
with Justice and community Improve
ments," : ? .- i
Prosperity," says the E9tacada
Progress, "seems to be coming the
way of Eastern Clackamas, for with
the outlook for a big fruit crop, new
road building in country and city
and a big new store to be opened by
June X, it shows money being spent
now,"-- 1 -, i
Illllsboro Independent:: Portland
had its regular fire : of mysteriousd
being damaged to the extent of $140,
000. Looks as though the only way
the metropolis is to end- this series of
disastrous conflagrations, will - be a
good old-fashioned , .vigilance com
mittee. I . : . ,, - . .
,Woodburn Independent: The cities
of ' Oregon are getting busy, doing
needed work and givlrfg men employ
ment who prefer work to charity.
Portland will have 80 miles more of
hard-surface roads,- at Oregon City
there will be $300,000 expenditure on
the locks, and other cities are doing
or preparing to do something and
probably Woodburn will decide to have
that new high school building con
structed this summer. - - ,
EDDIE FOY'S FAMILY
In fact, the whole act is fot the
financial benefit of tha Foy children,
and Mr. Foy only allows himself a
salary equal to that of every on of
the children, V '
I "As a result, each' of the Foy
family has built up a . considerable
bunk account during the past two sea
sons, and if the children never " work
again on the stage each of tnem has a
fine capital to start . business with
when the time comes for them to make
their living Independently of their
parents." 5
j Here Is a fin study In family
economics? A , fine and helpful plan
for building up in children a sense of
financial responsibility! "Few families
could follow in detail the plan as the
Foys have perfected It, but Jn every
fp-mily where children are growing up
some modification
is possible.
The child mind
is quick to compre
hend the idea of value; and as James
Jj. Hill put it, "Thrift ought to be
taught as part of , th alphabet of
virtue." - ' . ' ' . -.. . !
t Hats off to the Eddie Foy system bt
thrift teaching! p
i
r . r ; - t
support of one electri-o light sys
tem, one telephone system : and 'one
public transportation system, probably
a condition would be created that
would "Justify a general reduction of
rate and an. extension of service to' all
parts of the city, including the thinly
populated remote distrlcts.Uhereby ac
commodating all citizens. ( '
i I have Implicit confidence Jn our pub
lic officials and am confident our rail
road commission would be pleased with.
an opportunity to cause a! general re
duction of rate In all lines of public
utility.' service. . , ',::;':. ,, .. ,'.;
Opposition,' or so-called "competi
tion"" in the publio Ulity -business cre
ates a duplication of investment and
division of revenue and thereby neces
sarily Justifies an Increase of charge
for service. : ' ' '
The phrase "competition, common
lyused in. reference to publio' utilities,
became practically, obsolete at the time
federal, and state' law were ' enacted
providing that rates for public utility
service shall not be higher nor lower
than necessary to pay a falr.net dlvir
dend on the valuation of the property
in addition to 'the cost of operation
and maintenance. ED. WORD.
Married Workers' Association.
Par Hand, -May L To the Editor of
The Journal Believing that you stand
for progression and mutual advance
ment of mankind, I feel sure that you
will welcome a letter from the! Married
Workers' association of Portland,
whose membership has reached! the one
thousand mark and is .increasing in in
terest -and numbers. . j
That our organization . Is a 'popular
and usefulpne is shown by the Interest
taken in It by the officials of the city
and nearly all employers of labor which,
when called upon for an opportunity to
be employed, refer Inquirers - to our
association aa a distributing. center of
labor in all Its skilled op unskilled
branches. Hundreds of people are re
ceiving employment, and many at sub
stantial wages. The aim of our asso
ciation is to improve the standard of
living in every way, whereby our chil
dren or dependents may have, along
with ourselves, the opportunity to en
Joy all the rights and privileges grant
ed and -set forth In our constitution of
liberty-loving and supposedly . free
people. , . . : - .- " i
The association's headquarters Is
112 V4 Washington street. . :
J. A. CHAPMAN.
.War Dates.- 4 " " :
Hillsboro, Or.'. May I. To the Edi
tor of The Journal On wbat date were
Prince Ferdinand of Austria' and his
wife assassinated? On what dates were
declarations of war' made by the dif
ferent nations now at war? J. D.
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his
wife, were assassinated on June - 26,
1914. at Sarajevo, capital of the Aus
trian province of Bosnia, Austria de
clared war. on Servla July 28; Germany
on. ' Russia, August 1; Germany on
France and France on Germany, Au
gust 3; Great Britain on Germany, Au
gust- 4; Austria on Russia, August 6;
France on Austria. Auirust'lOi Great
Britain on: Austria, August 12; Japan
on Germany, August 13 i Turkey on al
lies and allies on Turkey, October 81.
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Statement by George Zu Baker.
Portland, Or., May 4 To the Editor
of The Journal Please permit me,
througb The Journal, to say to my,
friends without qualifiatlon that in my
pending , campaign for city commis
sioner II have no campaign manager. I
Any reports to the contrary are whol
ly unfounded. No paid worker Is In
the field in my behalf, and Z have
authorized no person whatsoever to
conduct -. or direct my campaign, nor ,
shall I do o. I am before the voters
on my merits and my request for their
support is being made frankly and di- 1
rectly to them, GEORGE I BAKER.
Portland's Population.
Sherwood, Or., May 4. To the Editor
of The Journal Please state the popu
lation Of Portland, through your valu
able paper, A. X WEST.
By the census of 1910 it was 207,-
214; by a recent estimate, 370,000.
G
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W JEAEtY sari'
By Frad icki.y. Sp.oUl Itif Writar '
' ' ' ,T!s lourasi. " I
''I was 4 years
ohf when we came
across the plains toj-Oregon," said Cap
tain John T. Appenson at his home at
Park Place near Oregon City 'a day or
so ago. "That was jmore than 67 yeara
ago. Yes.' I will be SO years old on
my next birthday, j I was borit on De
cember 24. 1834, in.'northera Kentucky.
My father, Beverly jApptrson. was born
in 1803 near Jamestown Virginia. My
mother, wlion maiden name was Jane
Gilbert Tubbs, wasi born ln Tennessee.
My father and. mother- were married
the day before Christmas in 1824. .
"When I was a' ljittle chap les than
a year old my people moved to 'Mis-'
eouri. Father' -was a farmer.- but no
matter how hard
he worked raising
corn and hpgs and
cattle he didn't get
ahead much on account of "the low
prices of farm products, so he decided
to go to a new country. . The chance
to .get a square mile of land for noth
ing in Oregon appealed to him arid
then, too, I think, the pioneers thought
that a place so fa away and so hard
to get to-must be a good country,
''Before leaving j for Oregon I had
been to, school two, terms of three
months, which was more schooling
than' manyiof the I children , had! . The
boys learned many things in thou
days that the boys don't get in their
school books .today. I knew -woodcraft
and could go out and kill all the
meat we needed. Deer meat and -wild
turkey was what he ate jnp&yy- In
the early forties Missouri was a won
derful game country. My father waa
a great hunter anil lie unod to go out
after bear and defer, turkoys, pralii'i
chickens and wild pigeons. With a
neighbor or two niy father would ro
out: at -night to ri pigeon roost and
with a pitch pine torch to confuse tlm
birds they Would kill! with their c-Juuh
a wagonjoad of carrier pigeons ami
aupply all the neighbors with all tlu
birds they could eu&. I have seen the
sky dark i with pUeonn. They would
fly to tbelr rootint place in the woodM
in a long line a mile or more long and
hundreds of yards wide.-Thty lookod
like a. dark cloud Unainbt the blue of
the sky. The only i thing I ever nw
that corrspared Itf. numbers to th
clouds of pla;eons were tha herds of
buffalo on tlie Kouth Matte in 1847.
I have seen hands of buffalo worhliu:'
nerth in May. '1841, that looked from
a distance Ulte a Kreat plowed field
against the green pt the prulrlo. An
you came nearer you saw that the yaHt
dark brown field was alive and irr mo
tion. Even at 'the distance of a utifir
ter of a mil it looked llko a Mollrt
mass. There were tens of thousand
In a single herd. j
"We startedi fom. Oregon In' the
spring' of .'47. - My oldest sister's hus
band, Richard Johnson, bad come out
to the Willamette valley the year be
fore to look around and locate claim
for- ua. "'"-'
"We crossed the Kaw river near the
present town of Kansas City and on
the Little Blue the party organized.
There were about 100 waaona in our
Iparty, but before long the party split
jiitu many . rragmenta. We had two
wagons. The llglrter one had two yoke
of oxen. The family rode in this, ona
and I drove It, as I was the olAont
boy. My father drove the larfter
wagon, which had eight yoka of ox.-n.-There
was quite a.fanilly of us. The
oldeHt boy. Who wae born oh Chrint
mas day, 1825, had( died In -"Missouri.
Sarah Arnn, my oIdpst jsiHter, was 20.
She had ,two children. Her .husband
l'd gone to Oregon the year before.
Matilda Jahe.'lny nnxt sister was 17.
Harriet Rebecca was IB, l was 13.
Donna Elviras the slater Just younger
titan I, was 10. Albert Jefferson was
8, Suwan Hannah was 6, Jacob was 4
and Milton, tlie baby, was only year,
old. - . ,
"We drank from the stagnant pools
along the I'latje and father took the'
mountain fever as typhoid, was
called in thosedays. He died on Jul v
21 at Hani's Fork. Three young men
named Falrchild had Joined our jparty
and these three' brothers took the bed
of our smalt wagonj made a coffin and
burled father on the west side. of the
stream by the aide of the road. They
found a stone to put at the head of
the grave. ,
V We abandoned the running gear of
tne small wagon an went on with one
wagon,: : which I -drove. I got along
pretty well until I
tains. The Barlow
got In the mbun-
trall had Just been
opened and it was a bad one. We had
to tie a tree to the back of the wagon
to act bi a brake coming down some
of the hills. In places, for. example,
on Daurel ' hill and on a short pitch
over the Zig Zag divide, coming down
toward the Sandy, jwe had to let the
wagon down by fastening a rope to a
tree end easing It down.
, "We camped at what is now Clacka
mas station for a while, and tlaen ut
a trail through tine brush to where
Mllwaukie now is. iWe passed through
what! is now East Portland and.
stopped and became acquainted with
the only settler on jthe east side of, tlie,
rlver, Jimmy Stephens. We went on
through Columbia slough to near the
mouth of the Sandy, the present town
of Troutdale, wherie we built a shak
and spent the winter. , . ,
"My" work was to keep the family In
meat; Deer was plentltful, ma xv al
ways had deer meat, ducks or geese,
and sometimes' fish, for I was a -pretty
successful! fisherman. We
didn't have flour nor the means to buy
any, but we traded for some wheat
and mother always had a-ki ttle of
wheat over the fire, boiling. -
"My cousin, Milton M.- Apperson,
married my sister.! lit wag a -tanner
and got a Job at jD. W. Ivownsda.'as
tannery, which was in what la now
4outh Portland. The penitentiary wan
afterwards built -Where .the tannery
was located. Wo moved near the tan
nery and I started to learn the tanning
business. I helped tan the 6.000 pounds
of hemlock-tanned harnens leather
that Lownsdale traded to Pettygrov
for his half interest Jn the townsite of
POrtland.1 Leather p was wofth $1 a
pound here, but Peitygrove took it tn
San Francisco in the winter of 'iS-Wi
and sold it at a high price to the
mlners'who were earning from all over
the world to the gold fields." '
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