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WOODROW WILSON.
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I have known a vast quan
tity of nonsense talked about
bad men not looking- you In the
face. Don't trust that idea.
Dishonesty will stare honesty
" out of countenance any day in
the week, if there is anything
to be got by it. .Dickens.
TAXATION AND WAR
XV 1T TOT ivn n e oe
Taw and was assessed at: . $26,500
Jn 1906, $26,500 in 1907, $40.
000 in 1908, $50,000 in 1909,
$50,000 in 1910, $56,000 in
1911, $55,000 in 1912. $68,000 in 1913,
$58,000 in 1914, $58,000 in 1915. Listed
and taxes paid under the name of
Swan Island Real Kstate Company.
Offered to the Port of Pdrtland for
$300,000." Journal News Item.
, For one governmental purpose
Swan Island is worth, according
to its owners, whan they are to
pay money to the state, in taxes,
126,500 in 1906, and $58,000 in
1915.
But when wanted for another
, governmental purpose, Swan Island
is, alleged to be worth, according to
Its owners, and when they are to
get money from the state the Im
mense sura of $300,000, fn 1915,
at a time when land values are
ebhing. -
.Where did the alleged value at
tached to Swan Island come from?
Who made It?
Did- the owners of the island or
the wholu people about here make
this value?
Have tbe owners ever-spent any
money for improvements on Swan
Island?
No.
But the United States Govern
ment spent $800,000, round fig-
lireR. at one tim in mnkintr a
, , o
deep channel for ships on the east
.Side of, the island. From this ex
penditure, . aided by the people's
presence here, the greater value
Of j Swan Island grew.
Why should these -few owners
get'" such a large share of the in
crement from Uncle Sam's work in
behalf of his children, the people?
- . Answer: They shouldn't, only
it. Us tho ciiRtnin
" The property owners of Port
: land are, in the main, paying taxes,
on i .both land and improvement
' values, to about -60 cents on the
dollar of cash value, and they are
doing it at great sacrifice and un
der great hardships. In the face
of this, these few Swan Island
owners propose that the Port of
Portland, acting upon the author-
: lty given by the 6tate, take out of
these tax moneys, collected on a
basic value of about 60 cents on
; thu dollar,, and pay to them $300,
000,"" nearly six times the tax value,
for Swan Island, -cold bloodedly
admitting1 that they have been
under valuiag Swan Island for as
sessment purposes, to the tune of
about 3 to 1 in their favor, while
pretending to believe in equitable
taxation, and a willingness to carry
their share of the tax burden. -Since
it is a fact that property
Qf .all. kinds is assessed in Mult
nomah county at approximately 60
cents ; on the dollar -of its true
value and it is Implied that the
owners o Swan Island have acted
in . good faith in the turning ir qf
their tax assessments, t now if the
Port : of Portland acting for the
f, whole people who really made the
values attached to Swan Island .
should "need the island in their
- business", there should be - a way
.-?to- take, it for a public purpose,
without any need of conflict or
Imposition.
- The majority of taxpayers will
testify that the assessment value
now placed upon all forms of prop-
' erty is fully. 50 per centum of
"their property's cash value, and,
this being true, real property
needed by the state cannot be rea
sonably worth more than double
Its assessed values. . '
1 The Journal does not believe
there is a Jury or a court in the
land that .would dare to construe
otherwise, , if the case ia put clear
ly before them and the equities as
.clearly established. " - '
J .Why' should the state collect
taxes oh one "cash value" and pay
the tax money out so gathered,
and :to private . individuals of the
money of other private individuals,
on and for property that was so
taxed , but ; at values fiye and , fix
times tbe value taxed?
And when this is done it is 'rob
bery ,of- the many for the benefit
of the ?few, and nothing else; a
conference" ; of profit, of pelf, of
plunder,-' of power, of privilege,
which are chicken of bad govern
ment that always come home to
roost; and in. doing so make
weaker . and . weaker the supports
under American institutions, while
a so-called free people become
the slaves of appetite, greed, sel
fishness; race hatred and the kin
dred ilia of economic immorality.
(thus writing -their doom in their
own band; writing on the walls,
fo that men who come after them
may read and beware and learn
that getting "something for noth
ing" by unequal taxation is more
destructive than war and but a
forerunner of it ad all its hor
rors! . .
THE ARABIC
S TATEMENTS are conflicting,
but the latest information is
that at least two, and pos
sibly three American lives
were lost on the Arabic. The in
formation is, of course, through
British sources, and may be
changed by later reports, but It
Is unlikely that all of the twenty
one Americans on board were for
tunate enough to escape.
There is no way to obscure the
gravity of the situation. The sink
ing of the Arabic is almost like a
German reply to the latest Ameri
can pote. In that note, the United
States solemnly asserted that
"repetition by the commanders of
German - naval vessels of ac3 in
contravention of" the rights of
American citizens at sea "must be
regarded by the government of the
United States, "when they affect
American citizens, as deliberately
unfriendly."
American lives seem to have
been affected by the act of the
German naval commander In the
sinking of the Arabic. There has
been realization by what is supposed
to be the willing and conscious de
termination by Germany on August
20th of the very act that the
United States described in the note
of July 23d as "deliberately un
friendly." .Only a disavowal by
Germany, which seems unlikely,
can remove the sinking of the Ara
bic from the realm of a discourag
ing and very grave situation.
The fact that no warning was
given and no attempt made to safe
guard lives is a most disquieting
factor. It is disquieting, not only
in what has already taken place,
but in the larger and gloomier pos
sibilities of what may yet happen.
It was a very great length for Ber
lin to go after receiving notice that
the United States would be bound
to accept the act as "deliberately
unfriendly."
The country will await further
information with deep anxiety and
will profoundly regret that this
new and serious complication has
been thrust upon the president of
the United States.
THE KANSAS EXPOSE
OUTRAGEOUS plundering of
the public by attorneys and
receivers in receiverships has
been exposed in Kansas.
The huge Bum of $224,000 has
been paid to attorneys and re
ceivers in the receivership of the
Kansas Natural Gas Company, a
bankrupt corporation.. The gover
nor of the state denounced the action-
in a public address in which
he declared that "if our laws are
inadequate to prevent this outrage
ous plundering of the public, they
should be strengthened." The
Kansas City Star, commenting on
the 'case, says:
There were one, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eipht. nine, ten,
eleven privately paid lawyers em
ployed. -Thy were privately paid in
the sense that nominally their fees
were charged against the corporation.
But the people, the gas 'users, have
to foot the bill.
In addition to the lawyers, there
were one, two, three, four, five re
ceivers employed in tfe same busU
ness. They were paid Mn the same
way..
The .lawyer who, as the state at
torney general, was paid $2500 a year
to direct all the state's legal business,
was paid $8325 for what he did for
the receivers as merely a side issue
to hla duties as attorney general.
. What these lawyers received under
the fe. system was more than eight
times what was paid last year for the
entire legal department of the state
of Kansas. Of course the people paid
both bills. " '
It has long been the custom of
many courts to look upon receiver
ships and assignments in bank
ruptcy as dead; horses. For some
Inconceivable reason,- the settle
ment of such cases has been made
the pretext for allowance of fees
beyond all : reason and out of all
proportion to the service rendered.
The moment a concern became
bankrupt, it was swooped down
upon by men who realized that it
offered fine opportunity for fat
fees. There have been cases in
Oregon in which the attorneys, re
ceivers, and assignees got more out
of the property than did the cred
itors. A notable instance was the
receivership of a lumbering com-,
pany and bank in Clatsop county.
The plundering is done under
the law and in the name of 'jus
tice, but it is not legitimate.
Whenever there hf a sacrifice of
the creditors or stockholders' inter
est by pament of inordinate fees,
it is morally dishonest regardless
of the tact that it is done by a
Judge in; a -court of law,, .
The Kansas. case is merely one
among thousands. Some have been
even morei aggravated and some
less. - . '.. ,
The protest of the Kansas gov-
- t '
'ernor is the protest of all honest
S men.' ' ; n , " .-' ' '
THE PASSING SHOW
HE fine care .with Which the
state of .Washington is build'
ing- up a great irreducible
school f und 'tihaHengea admi-
ration. A fifteen million - dollar j
timber land tract is shortly to be;
added to the assets of the fund.
Scattered school sections in .the
national forest reserves in the state
are to be grouped together through
an exchange to be made with the
federal government. To crulse the
timber and complete the exchange,
the late Washington legislature ap
propriated $50,000 to match a sim
ilar sum set aside by the United
States for the purpose, j
When the- arrangement la com
pleted about a year henee a mag
nificent resource will be added to
the already gTeat assets of Wash!
ington'a fund for support of the pub
lic schools. The building up of
that fund has been carried on with
great concern, and wise action in
Washington. 'Already the state
school money totals about $15,
000,000 against' a beggarly $6,000,
000 in Oregon. -More to the point,
Oregon's school lands are prac
tically exhausted, while In Wash
ington only 20 per cent has been
Sold. Washington haa 8 0 per cent
of her school lands left, while Ore
gon has nothing. Washington has
$15,090,000 and from present in
dications, wiH ultimately have
more than $100,000,000, against
Oregon'B pitiful $6,000,000. And
this comes to pass in spite of the
fact that Oregon originally bad 100
acres of school lands for every 65
acres that Washington had. The
contrast shows the difference in
the way public lands were handled
in the two states.
A state school fund Is a great
system of rural credits. When
Washington's ultimate $100,000,
000 of irreducible school fund is
loaned at low rates on long-time
farm mortgages, that state win I
present a rural progress and ac
tivity scarcely approximated in any
other slsate. In addition, the in
terest paid on these mortgages
wil! be a constant stream of gold
pouring into the state treasury
for the- support of the common
sehool fund and it will be a reve
nue of such large proportions that
the maintenance of the schools
will require "but little in the way
of direct taxation.
I Oregon's pathetic six-million-dollar
school fund can be enormously
increased if the men and women of
Oregon will grasp the splendid
truth of what such an increase
would mean, and induce Congress
to make the public's equity in the
railroad grand lands an asset of
the common schools of the state.
A- MISTAKEN FRIEND - .
A MISTAKEN friend -of- The
Journal writes to the paper,
declaring that we publish
the doings of the , theatres,
the dates of. the performances and
the hours thereof, but do not pub
lish the railroad time-tables.
He predicates The Journal's
service to the theatres on the sup
position that we take passes from
them and receive other "favors,
while we are denied these per
quisites by the railroads.
The facts are that The Journal
accepts no passes or favors from
the theatres or the railroads. It
pays full rates for every theatre
ticket it uses, even for those used
by Its critics or reporters, and for
transportation on railroads as well,
Including street railways.
Indeed, The Journal takes pride
In the fact that it took the initia
tive in breaking up the system in
vogue years ago, of accej)-ing fa
vors from those who expected all
kinds of free favors from the
newspapers in return. A few news
papers continue the deplorable, de
grading, and despicable practice
of taking tips, a practice that Iden
tifies such newspapers with the
tipping system, and reduces them
to the mendicant class. The Jour
nal refuses to place itself in the
favor-taking group.
Now, as to time tables. The
Journal has Informed the rail
roads over and over again, that it
is willing to consider time tables
half news and publish them at one
half advertising rates, but the rail
roads do not consider it to their
advantage to expend their money
on such terms for such service,
and there you are.
The Journal is always glad to
have suggestions. In this case a
suggestion showed that the cor
respondent held an unjust opinion,
and there are doubtless many
others who do the paper a similar
wrong. They do not realize that
The Journal is a paper with a
heart and soul, that it is not sat
isfied with itself, and that1 it will
continue to become better and bet
ter.' as. time passes, better in serv
ice, better in vision, and-- better
in performance. ,
If good citizenship is measured
by the value of what one. does for
the state, where is there a man j
who has done more than the Penn- j
svlvania school t teacher who on a
small salary educated " and sent
eight sons out in the world to fill
useful places? ". ',;:
The statement that the gover
nors of all the eastern' states had
visited ' Portland this summer . is
somewhat .:. erroneous. Governor
Brumbaugh, of Pennsylvania, is
yet to come. ,
An airship mail route from New
York to San Francisco Is not such
T
an impossible achievement. There
are yet living in 'Portland people
who made fun of the man who
wrote "That bridge across the Wil
lamette, we will have It yet."
The - business men of Portland
have been lnTlted to go into catnp
,t American utA mut rrfiv
tary instruction. . Here is a chance
for BOme of thos Who' howl about
preparedness for war and clamor
for intervention in Mexico to stow
their good faith. Watch them
amble off to American Lake.
. A New York preacher says kiss
ing is worse than drinking whiskey.
Passing oyer the question of how
he knows, did this parson ever
experience those Well remembered
pains of the "morning after?"
THE WAKING OF A
FINANCIAL GIANT
FrowV tbe Sew "Cork Times.
HEKiS ought to be a monument
I to commemorate the discovery
of this country's financial and
economic independence in the period
between' July 21, 1914, and . August
1, 1915.. It should be dedicated to
circumstances. A year ago Wall
street had its shutters up and busi
ness was advised to dig- itself in
and prepare to stand siege. We bad
the largest stock of idle ATQld that
one country ever had, and. yet eminent
bankers were eo afraid of Europe's
power to command it that they de
sired Wall street to repudiate its ob
ligation to pay foreign debts in gold
on demand. As the only neutral coun
try able ; industrially and financially
to supply Europe with enormous
quantities of the goods consumed in
war, the United States (everybody
afterward could see It) was a good
place to have money, perhaps the only
safe place In the world to make in
vestments, and yet the New Tork
Stock Exchange' and. In its example,
all the exchanges of -the country, had
closed. The interior exchanges closed
because New York did. and New York
oia Because it xearea an avaiancne
or ioreign nqruiuation. iror many
weeks this was the great financial
bugaboo. The existence h) Wall street
vaults of a billion dollars' worth of
American securities belonging to for
eigners. all anxious to sell out, was
asserted and solemnly discussed.
The government, proposed to do a
great many things, -for example, mag
ically to produce a merchant marine
by the enactment of a law American
ships to carry American goods to Ku
rope. That was 'before international
commerce bad recovered from the
first . paralyzing shock. Out of pat
riotism was formed a pool to raise
$100,000,000 at 6 per cent for New
York city. It had a loan coming due
abroad and was in a desperate dl
lemma. Another pool of $100,000,000
was formed to maintain American
.credit, abroad in ''terms of SOMT -OBly
$10,000,600 of that fund-" was ever
U5ed. Another pool of $135,000,009
was formed to carry the unsalable
cotton crop, (or . such of it as north
era i patriots were Unwilling or un
able to . carry in their parlors), but
it turned out that no such assistance
was - necessary.
The cotton crop, with the regular
assistance of the banks, carried Itself;
the foreign exchange situation cor
rected itself, and . the necessity of
creating a merchant marine out of
credit and desire without recourse to
shipyards suddenly disappeared, all
because Europe urgently required
enormous quantities of goods we had
in surplus and sent ships to earry
them in.
' On July 80, 191, the last day of
trading before the Stock exchange
closed, United States Steel common,
which was then paying 5 per cent..
sold at 60. On July 30, 1915, the
same stock, though the dividend had
in the meantime been discontinued,
sold at 68, not as an investment
but as a speculation on the future.
In the intervening year our sales of
goods to Europe had exceeded our
purchases by more than a billion dol
lars; we had loaned several hundred
millions of credit direct to countries
in Europe,' North and South America,
belligerent and neutral; the Stock
exchange, which nobody thought
would open during the life of the
war, had become the only open mar
ket in the whole, world for securities;
New York city had sold 44 per cent
securities at a higher price than in
1913, and the problem of how we
should pay our obligations in Europe
and get along without our customary
supplies of European capital had been
altogether inverted; it had become a
problem of how Europe should pay
us for goods 'contracted for and how
much capital we should be Justified
in exporting to other countries.
A more astonishing discovery has
never been made in the world. The
United States, always a borrowing na
tion, always dependent on European
finance, transacting its foreign busi
ness in pounds sterling instead of
dollars, hardly out of its swaddling
clothes, is all at once the only country
in the world that , has capital and
credit and goods to ' lend; And the
amount it is able to lend is poten-
tlally so great that it cannot even be
afely estimated. A Wall street man
has lately been heard to say
"I would ' be' much more sanguine
as to the future but for something I
fear, It is that when the war is
over we shall have so much of the
world's , sold and so many "of the
world's unredeemed promises to pay
in gold that our position will not be
safe. The envy of Europe might
unite , against us."
:':
v But only a year., ago Wall , street
talked ildly of a European raid up
on American gold. ' and some of its
wise men favored stopping gold pay
menu abroad. ;Th pessimism wi
overdone. . , Our feeling of patlonal
helplessness at the beg-innlnr of the
war was ludicrous. It Im possible also
to overdo optimism; indeed, that is
a sio much more common in this
country than the other, but it is tbe
Sin of a riant in adolescence, whose
boasts-' belittle his powers. ',-
Tonce Over
BY 3UE.X I-Piy MLAJg
XZ BANK COULTER makes fiddl
for a' living and philosophises-
because he's built that way.
---and he couldn't help doing either
one it he tried.
and he builds a lot of philosophy
into his fiddles and a lot of muelo
into his Philosophy. ,
vHAnd Frank lives out at Biverdale
on the hill overlooking Dorr Kea
sey's boathouse and the Waverley golf
links.,
which reminds me that Jordan
Zan has put his vow into moth-balls
and has brought a new set of sticks
and resumed summer golf.
JAnd the other day needing a bar
rei Tan!s had one sent out.
and it had been a glucose barrel
in us last incarnation.
and like a vase in which roses
had onoe been distilled it smelled
of the sweet stuff with which it was
filled.
that is had been filled.
17 And some of the glucose stuck to
the barrel's insides and melted and
ran" down.
until on the -bottom there was a
halfrinch of glucose.
which is sweeter than love's
young dream.
JAnd the bees and bumblebees
and yellow-jackets and flies and big
Diacic ants all discovered It.
and started to work.
JAnd so did the glucose.
and in a few day s- there was a.1
co nol in it.
TAnd the Coulters have Joined the
see-America-first movement this sum
mer. '
that is they're eleeping on their
sleeping porch.
J And the yellow-jackets had a nest
on the porch.
and were a mighty happy colony,
T And one morning after the glu
cose came Mrs. Coulter awakened
ana put up ner nana to brush away
the yellow-jacket crawling on her
face as usual.
and it wasn't there.
. f And she looked and the happy
nome was deserted.
except for a few dead yellow
Jackets around it.
JAnd she told Frank and he held
an autopsy.
and suspected the glucose barrel.
with its free boose.
JAnd he went and looked.
and there they were little and
big mothers and fathers cousins and
aunts -the members of the best
Lymenoptera families in . Biverdale.
J There they were all loaded with
glucose vodna.
in all stages from the first drink
to ready for the undertaker,
T And a yellow-jacket and a honey
bee walked wins and wing.
talking about the war in Europe,
and the misery it is bringing to
the women and children over there
--and . never noticing' the misery
right there in that glucose barrel.
JAnd some were fighting.
and a big bumblebee was doing
the one step with a slim yellow-
jacket.
J And Frank stood and looked and
looked.
and pretty soon he turned to Mrs,
coulter ana said;
j "LISTEN, my dear The more I
look at those poor foolish Insects
the more they remind me of men and
women."
Letters From the People
(Communications sent to The Xonrivi
liuDuuuua in ima department snould be writ.
iku on ami one mue or ids DHDer. ihnn rl
exceed 300 words in length and mutt ba
compsnied by tbe name and sddress of tbe
sender, if tbe writer does ot desire to bare
ui, uui imuuaucu, u, aouia so state.)
Discussion Is tbe ere a tent of all
It rationalises everrtbinz It tourhe. i,
principles of sU false sanctity and throws them
back on their reasonableness. If the, hava da
inrawuKUEw, . . u iui.mij cruuieg Lbem out
of existence and sets op its own- conclusions
la their stead." Woodrow Wilson.
Rockefeller's System.
Hillsboro, Or., Aug. 15. To the Ed
itor of The Journal The life and acts
of John D. Rockefeller are a theme
which editorial writers and others
seiae upon on all occasions whenever
present day economics are under dis
cussion. Most of those who delight
in this subject take the stand that he
has wronged bis fellow men to the ex
tent of several hundred millions of
dollars. ,
I am not writing to paint Bocke
feller as any better or any worse than
the average man, but Would like to
take up the question, whom has Bock
efeller wronged? In the early days of
nis career numerous speculators who
locked horns with him in the oil bus!
ness got the worst of it, but they
would have done the same by him if
they had been shrewd enough. Bo
why waste sympathy on them?
The solution hinges on whether he
has wronged society in general the
laborer and the consumer. Socialistic
writers take the stand that because be
controls millions of wealth every dol
lar he is worth over a few hundreds
has been gained by robbing the labor
er; that if the laborer had been paid
his just dues the vast wealth of Rock
efeller would have been paid out day by
day in greatly increased - wages and
the riches that he acumulated would
thus have been distributed among his
employes. - If, our government were
purely socialistic .cannot these people
see that these huge wages could never
be paid to any one class of workers?
Rockefeller" vast plans and opera
tions have largely taken over the func
tions of government. While he is a
great roaster, he is also a great ser
vant. His money has gone out as fast
as it haseome In. It has built great
Institutions which should be continued
for the advancement of humanity. In
the erecting of these institutions thou
sands found employment and a liveli
hood. Hundreds-of others now get
their ; living through employment in
them, All men cannot work in the oil
industry. So what would these other
multitudes do if oil workers had been
given all the earnings of Rockefeller?
at is no doubt galling to many to find
one man controlling so muca wealth,
but it Is my opinion that - when 'these
envious ones get the lines In . their
hands they will find that their Uto
pian ideals have become a will-o-the-
wisp. When the government" , aoes
everything it win sun nave to employ
clear headed, brainy men as stewards
to take charge of the various depart-
PERT1N ENT CO M MENT AN D NEWS IN BR1 EF
SMAXb CHANGE
Detroit News: The Pan-Americans
sat in session to pan Mexico. ,.'
' Omaha World Herald: As we near
tbe end of tbe far-side stop, we wonder
how far. the near-side stop will go.
lx)s Angeles Times: Why not refer
the whole diplomatic question to the
international correspondence school?
. . '
Atlanta Journal: College graduates
who haven't yet. made good should
know that cotton pickers are beginning
to be in demand.'
Philadelphia Ledger: If Uncle Sam
ever gets out a rival to the Allies' and
Teuton's state papers, it will doubt
less ba called a' Neutral Tint book.
Pittsburg Press: According- to recent
reports, the heavy rains have made
the historic laUghling waters of Min
nehaha at Minneapolis almost hyster
ical. -
St. Louis Star: The Bussian press
says the country will fight to a. fin
ish. That ia what they all say, but the
identity of the finished is not yet es
tablished, Oklahoman: We have' not always
agreed with Captain Hobaon in his
Srophecies, but we'll shake hands with
im on his prognostication that Wood
row Wilson will be the next president
of the United States if he cares to
stand for re-election.
m
Los Angeles Express: Nor does
grand old Texas endear Itself to the
sisterhood of states to any appreciable
extent by permitting a mob to burn a
helpless negro to death in a public
square and in the presence of thou
sands of spectators.
Boston Globe: The Japanese govern
ment has just deposited 5000 sealed
bottles in the Soutlf Pacific in an ef
fort to see how-far they will be car
ried by the ocean' currents, and offers
$5 for the recovery of each bottle. Mr.
Hobson might say that this plan is
devised to see how far 5000 mines
would float.
ON THE LYNCHING OF LEO FRANK
SEATTLE FOSTISrTEI.lVIOENCEB:
Though the murder of Frank is the
crime -of the few, the whole state
will suffer by It, and the. effect will
unquestionably be felt in a material
way. Georgia officials owe to civili
zation the prompt punishment of the
men who have thus offended against
the law, and there is room -for believ
ing that this will follow. With the
state rests the obligation of demon
strating to the world that the final
disposition of justice In Georgia Is
not with the mob.
TACOMA UDOEBl If the state
of Georgia does not employ all the
instrumentalities at its command to
catch and punish the murderers of
Leo M. Frank, the conclusion will be
justified that savagery is connived
at by the authorities. The state is
disgraced by the conduct of the blood
thirsty mob, and if law-abiding citi
sens as well as officials do not as
sert themselves and move with un
swerving resolution to punish the
murderers, the conclusion will be fair
that popular sentiment sustains the
mob.
OAXXAJTS TBIBT7KEI The taklnjzl
of Frank from the state prison canT
not be compared to the overpowering
of a sheriff or county Jailer and, two
or three deputies in a small county
prison. There was on duty, or should
have been, an armed force sufficient
to keep 2000 men inside walls and
they could not keep 25- men on the
outside Every man whose -duty it
was to preserve the. life f the - pris
oner is guilty of murder.
SFOKAJTB SPOKESMAN REVIEW t
As far' as the Frank case is con
cerned its last chapter has been writ
ten, but thee should never be an
other case like it if human power
can prevent a repetition. There is a
chance now for a big man of un
limited courage to score a victory for
the abstract principles of justice in
a community where the sense of Jus
tice is considerably, warped.
TACOMA TRXBtTXTSl The lynching
of Leo Frank is the foulest blot on
the history of Georgia. It Is an out
rage that will stamp the state with
dishonor and shame.' Only by, the
thoroughest investigation and the se
verest penalties against the perpe
trators of this outrageous deed can
Georgia convince the world that she
does not officially approve of ' the
action.
-
BBLLIITOEaU AMESXOAXT-
Throughout the trial and conviction
of Leo M. Frank there -is little to
show to the credit of the better think
ing class of the people of Georgia In
the' last chapter of this unfortunate
young man's life is written that which
will take the great southern 'common
wealth many years to wipe out.
SEATTXE SUV I The state of
Georgia- has suffered in its good
name an irreparable loss and will be
reaping the results of this sowing
for many years to come. Try hard
as we may to be charitable, such of
fenses are utterly unjustifiable.
8AOBAKS1TTO BEE I .The entire
history of this case is a shameful
reflection upon a sister state. And
Georgia will not have redeemed her
self unti the murderers of Leo Jfrank
are swinging from the gibbet.
ments. Like Joseph, In the days of
Pharaoh, these stewards will no doubt
wear good clothes, and some of them
will undoubtedly ride in automobiles.
I am not discussing the ethics of
INDEX OF ADVANCING
TIDE OF PROSPERITY
From the Chicago Post.
The American farmer will have
more money to pend this year
than .ever before in the history
of the country. If he spends it as
'freely as is his wont American
commercial and manufacturing
interests are in for one of the
greatest eras of activity ever
known. In any event, whether
the farmerboards or saves, his
immense gran crops will have to
be sent to market, and this means
ihit th western -' railroads will
. have a large volume of freight f
to carry, ana are oeBiujiiHg w ew t
their way out or im siouga ox
despond in which they found
themselves at the outbreak of the
European war.
These were- sentiments ex
pressed today by Chicago business
men, bankers and railroad Jtt
clals in commenting oh the gov
ernment crop report issued yester
day forecasting the greatest wheat
and oat, crops ever known, a corn
crop approaching the record, and
cropp of all other grains far above
the average. This year all grains
are bringing war prices and not
selling at the low level usually
accompanying bountiful crops.
OREGON SIDELIGHT
"The first mile ' of hard surfaced
road in Coos county," says the Salem
Statesman, "is to be built in the next
30 days. " The idea is spreading. It
will continue. It means more for Ore
gon than any other one thing.'
High class prosperity testimony in
Baker Democrat: "There is a keen de
mand . for. small bungalow and cot
tages by renters. Many have been
built this season, and find eccuoanoy
as soon as completed. Others under,
way, nave, oeen leased in advance."
.
The Eugene Begister turns a knock
into a boost just like -this: "An Iowa
man says that anyone who sells land
in the middle west and goes to the
coast to look for something better air
way gets fooled. That is a fact. Those
who do it find tbe coast even better
than they had expected,"
'
Tillamook Herald: With the comple
tion of the Sourgrass road, which we
understand will be completed and
Jroperly surfaced by the first of peat
uly, the auto tourist travel will be
greatly increased. This new road, over
the mountains will mean a longer re
sort season for Tillamook county, for
it will be possible for autos to come
and go earlier and later la the season.
Indorsing the proposition laid down
by the Coos Bay Harbor, that "if the
people would unite in an effort to
make a town of 5000 of North Bend in
stead of 60.000, as many of our visionary-inclined
would have It, we would
be better off." the Eugene Guard says:
"A small good town is two to one bet
ter than an overgrown, boomed, false
bottom big townV '
Grants Pass Courier: Tbe eitlsens of
Grants Pass have recognised tbe wis
dom of makimr this a pleasant place
for the people of Grants Pass to live
In. When we can make it pleasant for
the fellow who is . already here, the
other fellow 'Will want to come. That
ithe reason why bathhouses are built,
narks are maintained, the auto tourist
Is shown a good time when- he arrives,
and the pleasure and the comfort of
the general public is given the right
of way. '
ETTOEITB - OUABDi The truth of
the matter is that the people of Geor
gia marked Leo M. Frank to hang
when he was arrested for the murder
of Mary Phagan. Executive clemen
cy or the Innocence of the man had
no place in the consideration of the
mob which bad decreed that if he
did not die at the hands of the law
he would die in spite of the law. And
shame be on the heads of the peope
of - Georgia and the officials of the
state who,- knowing all these things,
did not protect the man from the fate
which all the people of Georgia knew
would be meted out to him wheq the
first opportunity was offered I
PTUDLETOK EAST OKXTOOJTXAZr I
The civilization of the south is dis
graced by the lynching of Leo Frank
an unjust and' cowardly act. It dis
regarded the. constitutional rights
guaranteed to every citisen the right
of trial by Jury and the right of ap
peal for executive clemency. It was
dangerous business 'and there was
nothing manly or courageous about it.
It was many men against an un
armed and helpless individual Sand
whatever tbe real facts may bw4 in
"v .
evrs. . miui , ir ""a
to the horror.
e -
SCESrOBO. SOTTi Like the war in
Europe the . lynching of Leo Frank
shocks us into a reluatant realization
of the superficiality of our modern
civilization, it was not a aesire for
justice then that led the mob to
snatch this unfortunate young man,
just recovering . from a brutal attack
made upon him by a fellow prisoner,
from the Jail and hang him to a tree,
it was a mad unreasoning lust for
blood. It was the bestial mob spirit
of the jungle that won't be robbed of
Its prey.
SAZ.EM JOT7BITAI, j The state of
Georgia should be denied represent
tion in congress and barred from hav
Ing- a voice in the national govern
ment until such a time as its people
show themselves capable of self-
government. The decree of the mob
Is the supreme law of the state and
judges and public officials are forced
to yield to the fury of an unreason
Ing rabble. Georgia and Haiti are
about on a -par so far as orderly
government is concerned.
AI.BAZnr SEMOCBATl The lynch
ing ofsjeo Frank casts a black cloud
over the state of Georgia, one .that
It will be difficult to efface. It Is
disgrace not alone because of the un
doubted Innocence of Frank; but
well because of the lack of effort
to stop the cold blooded murder. The
guards, hired to protect those under
them stood and allowed the infamous
deed. It looks some as if they were
partners in the crime.
BA3CEB HTB A T.T I The lynching of
Leo Frank is a blot on Georgia that
cannot be wiped out for years. Such
acts sometimes cause a revulsion of
feeling that causes the pendulum to
swing to reform. It is hoped that
this will be the case- in Georgia, for
Georgia surely needs it.
GBABTS PASS COTBIBB I Already
the dispatches from Georgia show
that publio sentiment 1 outraged at
the lynching of Leo M. Frank, The
raiders evidently expected to be up
held by a great wave of popular en
thusiasm, wnicn naa not matenauzea.
rmr nresent economic system. The
loaves and fishes are all that I have
in sight. Great fortunes like Bocke
f eller's are becoming less easy to mass,
but it never has been made clear to
. i MonVfm.l will iiA vain, whn
l izie) vint.fc " -.
I individuality Is quenched and the hu
man race merged into a commune.
. B. ELLSWORTH.
A Soliloquy,
Portland, Aug. 18. To tha Editor of
The Journal At the courthouse, while
awaiting me- arrival o u' ",uv""
of the school board, on an arternoon
of recent date, our wandering eyes
rested on the steeple of the old and
once sacred Taylor Street M. E. church.
The thought came of the turbulence
the sight of It brings to mind. First
our eyes were riveted on the base;
then.-following up the tapering shaft
to the extreme top, we said la silence,
"That spire was want to bring holy
and heavenly thoughts; but now stand f
a mute reminder' of what man's ambi
tion in a few short years can undo.''
And as we gazed at the structure, rep
resenting so many days, and weeks and
years of weary toll that was given and
consecrated by prayerful hearts that
have since been stilled by the great
reaper, we wondered, Wno Will sug
gest a plan to convert this waste Into
a real service for tne elevation of our
great orotnernooa.
- MRS. JOSEPHINE R. BHABP.
Between the Two. :.: .
Portland. Aug.-To the Editor of
The Joumal-r-Don't. aay that women
haven't" any :; humor when one old
woman remarked that it "looked as If
the Almighty and Mr. Benson must
have made" Oregon," M. ' A. B.
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