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Our " es teemed morning contemporary pre sented the public with an .unusu ally bad-tempered piece of anti Daniels vituperation Monday. Read ers of the screed, If they had not considered the source, would have 1 beUeved out navy to be the weak- 'est .in the world and Mr. Daniels "responsible for all its faults. But luckily mdst readers have formed the habit of considering the source, and such outpourings lose much of their intended " effect. . The navy has some faults, but -Mr. Daniels is not responsible for them. He. has cured a great i'Jbiwi e-,W--wag-,ya4 jMoint Swas. passed la, .1890, wheft Benia- quences of 'sickness fa avfln thing IV .. r t V v'-,". rtcft Bands- .fteroopo). t The Joom.i iiriln HArrlson wis President; .'. The i but th' wevehtion of 'sickritess 1st irfoV-fhe boar Mttta-w a1& many and wfll cure many more ; tna program so injurious -to Ore if '. he is permitted to hold hls 'c0n. it held back Oregon devel- ; coarse to the end. Most of the defects are Inherited from former i administrations. Many of tnem : began when the navy began andjtion. it was a severe blow to the have, continued ever since It is i state. It places congress under I iilly- to expect any secretary, how-; ever vauigeni ana capauie, to a.i iend' to all of them in two or three years. It is particularly edi fyfng to remember, while W3 Shrink from the slop pails' of abuse ttiat are emptied out of chamber Windows on Mr. Daniels," that neither McKInley nop Roosevelt . tor Taft did half as much to- make She navy effective as Mr. Wilson , Jnd his pecretary have done. Mr. Daniels is doing too much for' the navy. If he were content sit idle at his desk and let tt rot, .. following the precedent ot ferevioua administrations, all would erwell. . Not a grafter wou.d i -!qr?r' a v?Ut . Joul1 simou B.Biiu8i iiiui " precisely what we might expect. ) The;ijog driven from the trough j is 'prone to squeal. i I Wr. Daniels has committed one Brant land proceeds, congress has J 0t.two crimes which his parasitic the opportunity to give Oregon firitics wUl never forgive. He has;justice Does congress not appre-J abolished the caste system, for fine thing, and -opened a career in tjhe navy to every competent ; American citizen. This is terrible. Is it not? And again, he has put thVIg 'grafters to flight. No :more cheesy armor plate. No more of a previous glorious reign wh chi wvuiu uub Liven. oiiei u cl lift launched. No more lardy navy yards like those which administra tions of sacred memory have scat tered over the country. Can we sironder that Mr. Daniels is un popular among certain gentry? Rid anybody ever hear of a sheriff Who was popular among pica pockets? A - - Has-the- governor: of Oregon no interest, in. creating a twenty-five million-dollar school fund as pro posed In the Chamberlain bill? If lie has such interest, if ho would tessen'the -taxes - to-be collected f&r support of the little red school house and the -big ; red - school house in Oregon, if he would help secure a permanent endowment fprthe benefit of the school chli firea of this state, why. not answer the, telegram of the Ferris com raltiee In which he was asked what Oregon wants done, with the grant lands? - . l4 TRUTH AND FAIR PLAY. "f ECRETARy, M'ADOO of the United States treasury. has J written a letter to . Coricress- T -. map. . Kitchjn to defend him self . Iron, a- mass of inn just criti clsmi ;,The Journal rfhts "today some of the most Important: parts pi the letter and they - make Inter e sting"1 reading " ia r. ;.,if cAdpo- )s one of .the greatest secretaries -of thr? treasury g welikve " ever: had. lyo' impartial person ojiestifm his ability. , or, hia .. statesmanlike.; management-of the national finances.- ; Tnetroubie:titi:ls able -to-suit' his .partisan - critics. . Since ' they can,, find no ' Jitst grounds- tdrf blame the ' abtise- him for, hfa . merits, rrJt would .Ve-'a tappy day, for the country if news i aper'; and '"politicians could rise above this petty spite work. The I tarycAdoos letters that : he 1? v jlelng - ,malignaed because -W-obeys : aaw.ca. iaw,Djtae way wMciij ; Bhenna:f. f j-.-' ' , j r5" In ' lils letter y6 Congressman tftfolil. "t ''Vr J '..V. kibvuiu iui. juuAuiTU anKH liieieir . - . -; ',' -nartfuan 'nnnnnonta kra nnf Utol r , - - . , - 4 - 'to-:lTe him:eithrM but vwe may ! trrt fheAiHericanjs people t6' do f tlijjate Justice to 'an! aTle man f flo w,ern8g,,iaeiniauaiuuy. t - i ." -v& x ; JMU for Itwas introduced tV Joan finer: age earnera t&Wm$:uVVW. - The Salem- Commercial' dab was fcuent at the end of the lonftwork not sXedfthe Ferris commit- day, whon- the';toilera are weary. tee aa, was vernor' .Withycombe, Shorter hoars are an-, admirable In tc etpressfl the trntehea of Oregon sutaiica "-against - tills " 'particular respecfinigr la'nd ; grant legislation. cnse of illness. ; Unlike .the goVernor, it Las wired; With "better pay and more lel-the--committee asking that the 80 sere "Vbrklhg people would soon per r'cenf apportionment' of the ! become Vflf mentally and ' physi Chamberlan plIVJ , be "allowed to - cally. "Disease would afralnlsh arid stand- -" The : Marlon county court the "ml6ery that Hows from It has done the--same - thing.-- They are for "a greater Oregon" school and roadTfund. " rT-r? , . IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE. A1 8 . FINALLY : : agreed - to by - t-the Ferris ' committee, .' the grant land bill gives 30 per cent ; for roads , In ' the grant land coutttjes. 20. pef. cent to Ore gon schoobs, 4 0 per ent;tp "gen- erar reclapiatlon""andi.10 per cent i to the federal government. It pro poses that Oregon shall have but (.BQ -peY cent of the grant land pro ceeds. Oregon is entitled.to the 80 per cenVof the jgrant, lands asked for in the Chamberlain bill. ; It Is the one way in 'which con- gress can atone for 'past injustices ' n.nn tt to t,o nna n 4 to Oregon. ... It is the one Way In Which rcongre8g - can 1 make repa ration to Oregon for the harm it has helped do this state, , A great body of Oregon land was entrusted to a railroad to sell to settlers at-$2.50 per acre. It was an excellent purpose. It was intended to 'be "a means of peopling ! and developing Oregon. . But the railroad did not seil the ; lands as congress proposed. In spite of the, contract. It raised the price,- It finally . refused to sell the lands . to anybody any where at any prce. The federal government permit- the rallrdad to :ifo on with 'onment. It kept Oreeon' from he- ig adeq,nately peopled. It kept ; laree areas of land out . of Droduc-i obligation to make soma kind -Of reparation. j An' act of congress took great sums from sale of Ore eon rmblic lands out of this state for use in reclamation projects in other , states. Oregon thus contributed' to the. federal t. reclamation fund ; nearly $11,000,000. It--got back Utile mote than , a song. . I "No ' such injustice was visited ! upon ' other reclamation states, j period of land clearing, stump pull Most of them profited from the . ing and soil taming. There is injustice to Oregon. j An -amendment' hv pnnirrnsa Arnva tha .... nPlfrnn' hnn of ev.er gtUng a square deal on ' reclamation: How can congress, j which was; the instrument of these! great injustices, not sense its deep obligation to do something to make at0nement? Tn tK nnnorHonmpnt of th elate the situation? The people and public bodies of Oregon are appealing to "congress to give Oregon 40 per cent of the grant "land: .proceeds, for, a school ln the countle8. Tfley beneflce Nor as &l gratuity. Nor as a fa for. They ask it in the name of justice. cnrery.iaoiiar , secured. . trom tne grant lands for' the Irreducible school fund will reduce the amount to be collected from the taxpayers iur cnooi purposes.. . la mere a taxpayer in uregon wno cannot see that by thus 'building up a fund Mom which" the schools can be partly supported the amount of scnooi taxes to , pe, couecxea wui be lessened? . What, greater con- strocuve policy, coma . do inaugu rated for decreasing the tax de mands? - . 111, V ' ' SICKNESS AKD WAGES T HERE are 30,000,000 wage earners Irv'the United State3. Each one of them loses, on the average, nine d..y s by sickness every year. - It does not take much computation fo t dis cover that, thia.inyolvea.a l06s in wages of more than half a billion dollars. A Sum of this magnitude lost out of "the incomes of those wno nve oy tneir, hands must cause a great oeai or. misery, so - clologlsts say "the greatest bulk of destitution is due to it." . - In the United States 3,000,000 persons are siclc each day of the year arid most of them are wage earners: The rich are not ill so j that sueli is the ,; custom of many much as- the poor . because they 1 bonorabie"-menr. In medical life, have better food arid Shelter canjTheit; . earnings come from those take better general , care . of their bodies 'and can.pay, for better med ical advice. Poverty breaks down, the; health of the workers and de-' prlves them of the meanato re store it. The Germans long, ago made ; provision for Insurance against V IjdTsji" . ..jb'f remploypient through; illness. There is a strong movement on Ifdot .'to da something of the same-sort tin this country. We need "It quite "its . much as the American. . Asso- cfttlojf orfbor. ; Legislation, Is back of the movement. . " vinsuranco, .against the coos-' times fronv-. accident, som from neglect Of .taejr; healta, . SOmetimca l -Some I it. im...., .u uuira lruin uverwiirft. 1 111 jli u T ;T . , ; r, I - mw&u, v uuv u, uii w . " ta & mon Trtnr .n h?i family's ,dally ibread,;. Iixsfructida for tha jnen ind coTersvforr;'da!. freroas machinery 1 hare done a Pet deal tor-improve .matters lately. vAcciaentai ars , mcst jre- would begin to disappear. It Is well rl6 insure 'the- wage earners against sickness. It Is better still to , paya them wage3 ;"enpugh to make health -secure. , The women of Coryallls. have c!rculated. signed and sent to the Ferris .committee, at Washington, a petition asking that the .80 per cent "Apportionment- of the grant lands for Oregon schools and roads be allowed, to stand. A live Cor vallls woman seems to be needed In the governor's office. A VOICE PROM THE HILLS N this" page1 is a letter frflm a "homesteader." " It is. a toice from among u" " "t " . stumps and the . brush piles of a land clearing. It is a message from a man who knows what homestead lag oh the last of the frontier is, because he has tried 1L Jauntily and joyously, the speak ers and writers call for "as "to go Dacf4 .tto , tno ,.lana- "Shtly and confidingly, they tell) us of the pleasures of life on the soil And in some respects, they are right. But in others ' fearfully in e r r.o r. "Homesteader," In a straightforward, way points out Bome of the weak spots in the aver age back-to-the-land oration We all know that there is some thing wrong in the roseate pictures we draw of rural life, for in spite of the pictures, the drift to the city goeB on. It cannot be that the stony streets and trundling cars and coia nar" wans or tne city build. In63 are a lure that steals away its Dest brawn and brain from country "Ie- 11 w reflect, we are forced lo conclude tnat the causes lie more deeply and that beyond the greening meadows and goldea fields there are troubles and em- barrassments and handicaps. ."Homesteader" tells tf sopae of them, and we know that he voices the truth. There is not .capital enough In te hands of theraverage homesteader to survive the long heavy interest to pay if ha at tempts to BUDPly needed caoital bv "borrowing. ThA interest ultimately absorb his earnings, and he falls by the wayside, his work of years lost, his hope of r. homo blasted There could be no argument more impressive 1 for an adequate system of rural credits. When yon make it so the people can survive on the Jand, they will go on the land and., turn It into production and - convert paradise. rural life into a CONGRESSMAN SINNOTT HE JOURNAL has receifed this note from Carl Smith, Its lm partial and unusually accurate Washington correspondent . Land grant . story .March 22 reads unjustly to Sinnott in saying he of fered an amendment giving 40 per cent to reclamation. Snnnnsa .rrnf was due to skeletonizing. Sentence meant to say Sinnott offered an tmm!nt 01 , 9 Jer cent as Oregon. tTUls waa after Lenroot had ( secured naoption or trie amendment o""". y Prr cent xo reclamation, The Journal gladly , Elves Mr I Sinnott tho benefit of Mr. Smith's ; statement, from which, and frOm i other sources, it is convinced that ( Mr. Sinnott . has .grasped the full import of a future twenty-five-mil lion-dbllar school 'fund, and is de voting his energies' ably and ag- ! gressively to help secure Such a fund for Oregon, - The Journal wishes It could say as much of Some other members of the Oregon delegation. . THEIR POOR . PATIENT SURGEON did an operation f bfr a man of ;hn tnble . means, When .the time came for. set tlement. the straightened cir- cumstances . of the patient, whose name We wjll 'say was Smith, were : made known-to the practitioner, Go. . along with ; your work raise-your family-properly, and If you ever have a "surplus, you can brin'gvme-a fed.f said the-surgeon And. to tfceir creaitMt can be said who are ahle to tay, Thirty doIlars ' a: day each ' was recently'., demanded,1 of. the- county by : a number of inedlcal t men for attendant as witnesses in a Port land Insanity hearing. . But thi county . Is , not .the rich patient;. "It- is the poor, "patient. Its "bower .ltd nay - comes from Mha contributions . of the great army of Smftb.8 onVwhom tolls , are - levied to keep government moving. t r a- a Siottalac Not 91 ot U assise. . ,Zaa,.arajs. of the, be aje.al- thA suv-et nneratlVina orrltxf nn thai he- barnn ftuiaa - Knalni to h. . hera de- lstr'bed.j , - -7 --..-.. - H OW 2 would -you like ,a mess - of crowbar honey? - r'- Xlow' would you . like a hunk you could "beat a Mexican to death" with, and -never dent it? ". How'- would 'you JJke an army -of bees' going-' to work in. the .morning and returning- at night . with 4000 pounds of ealt honey? ' v " is Hoi? i would you .like ' to, belong to an , Outfit whlcbl killed all its - male members every -fall to save feeding them during the winter. When there was nothing to do but' loaf? ' And how would you like to hustle with might and main, three to four weeks 'each. "year, so-you could afford to'take it easy 'the other 48? l ' Bid : you - ever i study the lives and ways' of honeyr -bee; and "by it dis cover that. the. o.ueen. bee is the colos sal bigamist of the earth? EVERT MALE BEE HER HUSBAND. Tou have heard of beehives, haven't you? They call them . colonies now, and the queen . bee is the mate of every male' bee !u .the colony over which she presides, and without her aU other bees will just bang .'around all day, apparently indifferent to their fate. They . will make no effort to do business, because the head of the family has departed gone visiting. or. given up the ghost. W. H. Pennington ls president cf the froducers Honey company. Head quarters, of the corporation are at 268 Taylor street. Joe Miller is vice president, H. , E. Crowther, treasurer, and L, S. Bell is secretary and man ager. Mr. Pennington owns 600 colonics of bees at Ontario, Or.. Mr. Mlller'SOO colonies at Oak Point, Wash., Mr. Crowther is 00 colonies in Idaho, and E. F. Atwater, also associated with the company, owns 1200 colonies in Idaho also. So much for the colonies of bees. OPENED HONEY BUSINESS HEBE. a Eastern Oregon and Idaho honey Is said to have a. reputation almost its own. It is claimed to be of a quality superior to that of almost any other section of the country, on account of the high altitude and plethora of honey. Contained in the native bloom and blossoms of the .clover, grease wood and alfalfa, so lavishly grown in that prolific region. A --year ago Mr, Pennington came o Portland to establish - a honey busi ness here, e,nd it is a real little fac tory, so to speak, that he Incubated and which Is in operation at 288 Tay lor street,. Among other" things turnetl out are bars or rolls of honey hard as a rock, almost.. One can pound a board with it without inden tation, and, wrapped in paper, it may be carried In the pocket , for a day without injury. It is white as tal low and. pure as the dew. "Impure honey can not be treated In this way," Mr. Pennington, says. "This is subjected to ISO . degrees of heat, and adulterants of ordinary charafter would not stand this. But if they did, they would "not harden as does the- honey" in cooling off. If sugar 'Were added the honey would be less solid, so you may be sure that when you buy these honey bars you are getting the purest honey money can procure. HONEY CHOCOLATES. "Why do we treat, honey thus? Be cause hundreds want it that way They are posted. , They know such honey is not impure. Warmed before meals it may be spread on hot bis cuits, hot Cakes or. bread like butter. It Is a delicious luxury, and In great favor. We do not, however, adulter ate our honey. Our label on the pack age is a guarantee of purity, but the public-or some .of , the people do not know this. ' Thousands who have used our products do know, but we have not sold 'to everybody, though we expect we will in time. "Honey chocolate is another de liclous tidbit. It is made of honey from our honey bars. Some call It candied honey, but candied honey often is of a soft nature not nearly so solid. It is - likely the day will come when honey chocolate will be the rage. Bear this in mind. It may hbpeen before, very lorig." v CHARACTERISTICS OF BEES.. Bee culture , is ; surely interesting. Mr. Pennington says bees will not journey more than two or three miles. at most, from their homes, and not more than a mile and a half gather ing honey for storage. His 600 colo nies will go forth in the morning with empty wings and return during the day with ' 3500 to 4000 or more pounds of honey. They, comb ; 'the fields Vadjacent Jo their B hives, losing not- an instant of time. .'And, It is the femals, whlcK do this work. The males never ; work, and In the", fall, because there is no more real use ror thera. they "are dragged out -.or their hives and assassinated as ' criminals. - The queen, bee Is the worker of the family; ' Trie. fsh ooe not go. out fo gather sweetness, and earn a few! aojiars .to help r aerray nousenoid. ex penses, but she lays au tne eggs 'and never discusses b.irth. controljf "All pay her. homage, bat-end here cpmea Jn the ' hard tfeartedness -'ofa Bantu! ""'a couple of. years. df her .strenuous ilfe! and she Is broken down In health,. She, has "lost so much of herVlgor: that the owner of .the colony destroys her and give the Job to', Jrbunk gifrifc so tender she "knows no better than to take up the work, where the late departed left it -off, v f Dr. I TL viIson; - JOT $ Jefflsrson street, after many .hours spen with Mr. Pennington and Mr. Bell, apeak- . ' 1 i . ' i ing. of Ihofley" as human food." Said: f Tff6ney consists - br, approximately. sugar, "$per Cent, frui sugar : and & sUnces pother than sugar -ItU ,ob- talaed brs beeafrom flowers; and rainfall record, but it can t keep at it toiJ W f iceflsj of waxLJldaeyi iSfuch longer. ' agreeable to the taste, which is lm-f form bf nourishment that especially rives strength to, muscles, a.nd its uiavuiK Pta uMLn wrwu, : nui ? htiire by the -bee Is not .rendered iaor- rrtanf li ifiat liVlnV for tha0 aaequateiy punisbeo. Dy oeing re pc.matr as it creates a Wkitg or tno-aulred Hve wltfa tbe nuieroUaj,tra. lopdito? wfch-t is added, t'lt is at Villa. t - natural sweet ' and Is "'a1 ccmcentratcd f Now lm the tlm fi aom. Inaraon ganic by WrUficlal 'means, as is'cansu "" aenwnce oy wsiaaius sugar. Therefore. honey may not only 1 . i - 1 be classed as a very valuable food, ! but It has medicinal value as well. It j ing" "virtue. - ' "Many authorities recommend tho use , of honey, in the preparation of salads. Honey and . lemon juice, go well together us a combination dress ing, especially adapted, to green vege table salads. t f AN OLD MA?TS REMEDY. "A European authority relates ths fact of an "aged gentleman who pre pared his. daily table wine by putting a tablespoonful of jure stralped honey into boiling water and lottlhg. it con tinue to boll for a few minutes,' when his drink waa ready. It made a ! wholesome, strengthening and relish ing beverage, and the old man - de clared ..that 'I owe my health' an vigor ' in my old age to this "honey wine.' . ' . . "Reason and facts should weigh I more heavily with the people than mere opinions, . repetitions and tra ditions. No one old enough to read is too young to learn that water, ex ercise land diet constitute the great health givers, but in selecting the food supply one should not forget that honey should have its place, be- j cause it, is wholesome and the purest sweet known to human kind.". This local honey factory has placed Its products lri nearly all the stores in Portland, and its managor says: "We will pay $100 each for any adul terants found In our goods." The combined products of all mem- bers , of th corporation is 285,000 i pounds a year, and this Is to be j added to this season. Portlandls its headquarters and experiments now i , ,,' a n u.aU8 its output before very long. It need surprise no one If there shall be a j honey products factory in Portland i which will open up a new line of In- dustry entirely, producing confections absolutely pure and free from all adulterants. To ascertain the quality of honey. simply turn the bottle upside down, and the slower the air bubble within moves upward the better Is the grade. Thin honey, made from flowers grow- lnc adjacent to salt water. Is not the best, though not In the least adulterated. The Producers honey sells at whole sale one cent per pound higher than ordinary .honeys, on account of its high grade, but Is retailed at the usual prices. Letters From the People . fOommnnlcatlona aent to Tlae Journal for publication In this department should be writ ten on only oa aid t the paper should not exce4 iHIO worda In. length. :Ud. moat ac sempaated by the r name -ano adoreaa of the endec . If tne writer does not oeaire to nave the name published, ha should so state. T)lrngslon la the- createet ot aU raXormera. It rationalizes eTerTtliine it toucbei. it rob principles ot all false sanctity and throws them back-oa -their reasonableness. . It they hare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly- crushes them eat of existence and Beta up its own conclusions in thelx stead.'' Woodroff Wilson. A Homesteader's Difficulties. Rye Valley, March 20. To the Edi tor of The journal: I am a home steader, of a 20 acre, tract. I -want to make people think or tne narasnips of taking up land which the govern ment makes .you a present of, but which costs you more than if you were to buy an improved ranch. I would rather buy .'an Improved ranch, for then, I, can go right to work and make a living from the start, but on the other hand, I would have to go In debt, and If I-courd not meet my bills promptly they would call me dishonest. We hear a great deal about rural credits, hut .nothing has been done yet and we are paying 10 per cent! for -money, also a big commission for getting it, .and it is breaking us.' up to. pay it. Other icountries are help ing their land-hungry people o the land. Why cannot the United States? We have the richest country on, earth, we boast, but other countries are Of fering so much better opportunities to get land that 100,000 .farmers left the United States in one year. ' - The first year I located I had to fence and build, a barn and house, 'which Jtgok all my money, and I had to work out to make money to live on during the winter. The first win- ions .in, on the snow, when U was crusted-and we were without neigh bors and. did not see anyone for three months, as there were n roads. The second winter .-was much the same. only we got Pur provisions, in Derore the know came, but my little boy .took sick and ! had lo go , out to a small town., seven, miles distant, for medi cine ' The third, winter ,1 sept my children to Baker to school -and in trying to bring my little- boy bona in February we, .were caught In a blbv sard and ' came very- near . to peri su ing within sight of the house. I don't wish to be looked upon as a knocker. but " this is actual, experi ence and intended .oniv to show what ?rv1tRri?J:v m a United; States gives-him a farm .free. na hae " to contend -With when the The assessor comes along, -assesses ' your . land at J25 an . acre . and you. are. of f ering it at $ 16- and cannot get a taker. -Tns hardware "man -saya ha will-have to have that money for that 1 mower; rake;. and binder, or ns will nave to sue you. ine groceryman we same, and -there you are. They call lyou;- a scrook- and you cannot borrow any rauuey uu ,wr By, aim. j- 26;; 1S90,- excluding -the i gold reserve discouraged!. and. leavexand-take what tunJ 0fr iiqq-OOO.OOO, was "8S,439,678.12. you can feet for the-plaoe. whftAl la t . Th. :,Us,t W' JalV's. -1 W. tb "gs nufuJt 1S3 L fund baUnce, in the treaaury. ex w,tweA.-j!i- aKei Koh t eluding the gold, Reserve fund bf 3100, with, andJBiakes. a aucceSaV -Probably . eofljOOn -wa-ivliSlllatiSOeD s f " v: s h'la so better; bnsmees mkn han the i00 first. Inly be 'had a .Wtler mosey, ? i j.??1. gl&;5'",." m- tTr. -.rnadian rovaraoiint. Jxis i j'ood i'ystem:- Australia, has; what, is considered Ahi ..beat system in the I B9wI A fsrhaoahV an i.mm saiAH vaamln the land and j then if thev' think the land Is worth the outlay. , they buIW thv Mttiar . hnnaa am. harti ivt him .iand, seed it and give hint 3? years' to pay for it in. with only a small outlay on bis part '- . - A HOMESTEADER. i smallchange t J. When they catch him. VUla might jfood at figures to show-how a pen- scores. v vtA w WUiTf94 VVr v, VUf r wa That woman wh sHva.lo fli In Jail for taking poison -possibly es- jn back to Turk.v'.tni Mmnuiion to become his successor la not expected The Klamath Falls police, quite crop erly prevented a woinart -editor from horsewhipping her man competitor. He wasn't her husband,- : !.-( . ershlng : predicts ' a long campaign In Mexico. Swlvel-cbalr pa triots may have to invent-some long excuses for not enlisting. . An Oklahoma Republican- is reported near death from injuries received at a state committee meeting. It was probably a harmony affair.. v Repubncanrenators'' insist they are not intentional-trouble makers. Why j not give them the benefit of the doubt ana ascnoe everything to aownwrigbt uica i intelligencer- At any rate, thoa responsible - for the escape of 13 prisoners from Kelly Butte can be thankful it was not 13. for then the affair would have been unlucky ror somebody. .. McADOORlH 7,t7 f T1? iSf'XSS' Iran Kltcbln. DraHwcrmtl toador lav tb DOOM. baa anawercd crUlca ha t ana lied the aetary' official tteaanry atatemeatav tm extracts that follpw present the . easential pumu oi Mr. . jicaooo a jraiuiauoa.j There has been so much unfair crlti-tism- and partisan misrepresentation of pie. daily, statement of the .United States treasury which was put Into ef- fect October l,;18is, that for the sake of the truth and fair play I beg to present to you the actual facts, with the hop that they may be inserted In the Congressional Record and pub lished to fne countrjr", Qur Republican opponents complain bitterly because have, included as . a part of the general fund of the. treas ury the deposits made by national bankj fo retirement ef their cir culating notes. One would suppose, from their violent denunciations, 'that am guilty of a crime because I have. done this, and yet, I have merely .obeyed the law passed July 14, 1890, by a congress controlled in both branches by the Republican party and approved by a Republican president, hft lat Benjamin Harrison. This law of the treasury to do exactly what I have .done. I have no discretion in the premises. If I have committed a wrong, the Republican party is re sponsible for it. and if there is virtue in my action the Republican party-Is entftled to the credit of it, . . e , A distinguished Rep ubl loan states man, John Sherman, who had been sec retaryof the treasury himself, intro duced this bill, and you will find in the Congressional Record of May 7. 1890, the following statement made by him in support of it: "Mr. President, under the existing flaw, as senators' no doubt are all. aware, when a national bank chooses to retire its circulation It may deposit an equiv alent . amount of lawful .money, or United States notes, in the, treasury of the U.ntted States, and. by the. existing law those United States notes or other lawful money must be . heldL, in the treasury to redeem the : outstanding bank circulation as it comes in.. It so happens, on account of recent events which I need not recall, that the na tTonal banks are rapidly 'retiring their circulation, and . the , result has been that. at one time there was, over one hundred million dollars lying idle in the .treasury to await , redemption. of na tional bank notes which were not 'pre sented in due course In one, two, three, or four 'years, and at the present time there are about sixty-five or seventy" million dollars lying in . the .treasury held to . redeem outstanding bank notes which do not come in, thus to that extent contracting the currency, of the country unduly and with, great injury. . The - section I proppse an amendment - pimply, .proposes to allow the money . thus deposited for the deremptlon. of . national bank, notes to . be paid put, . and the. treasury will as these, bank notes come in pay them out of the funds In the treasury .composed, of this, money and other money in the treasury. In other words, the effect Will be to tin lock about ixty-flve or seventy million dollars of circulation. I suppose there can be no objection to the amendment. In o'f der to get a clear understand. ing of this matter, It should be stated that there are two, national bank re demption funds: First, what may be called the "One hundred, per , cent redemption fund, which is a fund deposited by national banks that have failed or gone into liquidation, or desire to reduce their circulation. This fund is equal to the par value of tho outstanding national bank notes to be retired; nd ; ,. Seoond. the "five, per cent, redemp tion' fund, -which is a tund deposited by going national. banks for the pu Pose of taking care of the current re- demptions'Of their outstanding clrcula tloq, 1 Xhls f und has always been treat ed as a trust fund and 4s not included in the general fund balance of the treasury. It is the "one hundred per cent re demption fund" which the act of July 14, 1890, directs to be covered into the treasury as a part of the miscellaneous receipts, and it is the identical redemp tion fund which every secretary of the 'treasury, .whether Republican or Demo cratic, .has, for the 26 years since the passage of that act,, treated as a part of the general fund of the treasury ex cept for the brief period from. July 1, 151?, to September so,, iyia,-wnen, for reasoni . herelnatte-ratated. t Included thta fnnL1 the liabilities on the treaa- this fund, in tha liabilities on the treas ury statement and consequently elimi nated it. from the, general fund bai- ancevi-i-i-'-i' -K-v :' ' A Republican secretary of the treas- ury, :Willfarn-; Wlndom,.."puf this law into, operation on July 26, 1890.; The miinwine- wee th ff eirt orodnceA: j The general fund balance on July ! pni-eo uia uiara icanaiw. oi.iue inatat , ban credemptton,-',fund. fIm1"Il, . J . V ZZ ' . 11 -lu-'i aiauiUUW UU VaT3 -aviaktu , W - lub KDIUUU fund balance. This amount was, how- ver, decreased; .that ytey Ik S.470.. ' 603.18. "being the - net difference" 'be- tween bef sxceaa off totals disburse I meats over total receipts, thus making 1 the net -increase in tne surplus fupd of the treasury, July. 26, 1890, over TnoBuWnesa MeaaMoeW' tion. dormant since last July,, has been revived and is working energetically for the'tair to be held next fall. Sie city" commission of Baker is in invest! aations in line with pro vision for cluster lights for the streets, following the developing or additional power at the city lighting plane It. is worth. while,", says the East Oregoniatv- "for . Pendleton to have a reputation as om of the cleanest small cities in the country; we should hold fast to that compliment apd live up to v t? - 01d Put7 .'has nothing on an Oregon farmer whose exploit i , thus recorded in the Condon Globe; "Arabid coyote was killed on, the Schilling place east ot town Sunday. vJack Haaiey saw the animal enter the barn and he went out and shut, the barn door, climbed in the window and killed the coyote with a Club - ;J J ... iV -'- ''As betweeri renilng'farm land and owning it," the iWoodbum Independent gives this- opinion! '-'Not a few men Believe it -more profitable to rent than to .own farms. They will have a dif ferent opinion-when, (he rate of interest nomas. iwn. aitit aurelv Will When the proposed etate rural credits gets Into full operation.. . - Th 'tirn Trlhnne contains this tes timonial to the Burns spirits. '-The Harney County Booster jClua. ba start ed out in a-way that spells -for suc cess. Ths spirit of enthusiasm shewn v t. m.mWi' hsiai roused ithe entire city to more or less activity, and much can te acoompiisoea w ro ;" spirit towards getUng resulU, that this July 16.1890, $47,917,IT2-8V See daily statements of lluly 35 and .26, 1890. Republican statesmanship achieved this extraordinary galp in the revenues of the government '.tover night" by the slmole t expedient of transferring br Jw- 64,888.475.7S liability into the general fund balance.' This is -the first recorded Instance in -th. treasury de partment of what our Republics oppo nents have been so generous. Jn de nouncing as "flnanciaV legerdemain. "padding figures.'?. VJugglery,, etc., and those Illustrious Republican statesmen, Benjamin Harrison, Jobir Sherman and William Wiadora are our exemplars: ',--.-' e - Our opponents ,hiave also, criticised the -new form of daily treasury state ment because the . amounts to . the credit of - disbursing .officers are no longer charged as money actually dis bursed, but are included in the general fund balance, with the express state ment, however, that the full amount to rtbe credit of disbursing officers is in cluded in such balance. To understand this, matter clearly, it should be borne in mind that the treas urer of the United States is, from time to time, authorised by the secretary, of the treasury to credit disbursing offi cers of the government with certain amounts against which such disbursing officers are permitted to draw checks upon the, treasurer. The actual moneys to cover these credits are in the treas ury and are not-withdrawn from the treasury sometimes for many months and sometimes .lor many years. The laws of the United States re quire that no money shall be paid out of the treasury except on warrants signed by the secretary of the treas ury and countersigned by the comp troller of the . treasury. It la physi cally impossible, and would greatly de lay the government's business even if possible, for the secretary's office to attempt to issue warrants for every disbursement, and, in order to facili tate the payment .of the government's bills, the secretary, by a warrant, i gives a credit to disbursing officers. This is purely a bookkeeping arrange ment, and is necessary oecause or. tne vastness of the government's business. Disbursing Officers' runas in tne hands of the treasurer of the United States are as much a part of the funds of "the government rs is the balance remaining in th.Wtreasurer'e nanas bud ject to the check of the secretary of the'treasury. As the net balance Should represent the funds' In the treasury available for paying the current obliga tions of the government, the amount placed on ' the books to the credit of disbursing officers should be included therein. Our opponents argue from false premises when they try to draw con clusions that disbursing officers' bal ances are mortgaged y appropriations. From that standpoint it would be proper to say that all the funds of the government, and much more, are always mortgaged by appropriations, and If that be true, then there has never been a balance in. the general fund of the treasury. The purpose of the balance is to pay current obliga tions; it is not Intended to cover all the money which congress has appro priated at any One time. Some' of our opponents have criti cised .the treasury statement on the floor of the house because-there is in cluded in the. general fund balance or among the assets of the treasury "sub sidiary stiver and other minor coin." I em at a loss to understand the basis bf .such captious and foolish criticism. Every Republican and every Demo cratic secretary bf the, treasury has included subsidiary silver coin and minor coin. as. well as 'silver bullion and. .fraetioijat .currency,, as a part, of tne general iunu Daiance in ,ine .treas ury ever singe the daily treasury state ment has been, issued. How could the secretary do otherwise if he. is to make a true, statement of the condition of the treasury? Subsidiary silver coin and 'minor coin are just as essential to our fiscal operations as large de nominations bf money and" are. of course, an actual' asset of the treas ury. ':' ., . . : Permit me to add One more obser vation. Our opponents are constantly harping on the dally net balance in tho general fend of the - treasury, compar ing it .with the condition of the treas ury., under the Payne-Aid rich -act and magnifying thiu aUegedj. deficit In the treasury by basing their conclusions wholly upon , the excess .pf .dally or monthly disbursements over dally or monthly 'receipts. This is an utterly Jallarfous line "Of reasoning, - because the dally., and. monthly receipts ot tbe treasury a published since the passage of the; Upderwoed-Simrnons tariff act do not include the amount which the government is accumulating daily In the form ot corporatlos and, personal income taxes, which., .taxes, as . you know, are paid but once a year, name ly, a vun oi eacn year, ai ium taxes have,; in 'thV past,, produced, Pj, proximately . 37,000,000 per tnoptn,; tne true condition of the treasury rol the United States today should Include the amount of these taxes earned to date!.but iot;ryb.la!nntiI,auna,tnt rror .examnie: r or tne euni monuiii which have elapsed from July 1915. L . ' . . . A W'. T . . Vta to March la 1316. ,4orpdraUdi,and.;er.. aonal Income - taxes . bay accrued, in favefr df ttie; governments amounting to approximately "J86.0D0.008.V The treasury statement cooldyVery properly how that these taxes. have been earned up to date and that they are "a 'tangible treasury asset although not narable into the treasury until June, 1916, iceCverl Mtti JOHN KEiDRICK f BANCS-- .dean of American " humorists- " and solemnest man lh America is 'in . am midst. ,., r. '--'' ntj- JPAnd "he' lectured at th TJnnoln " high' school last night - JAnd today at noonha win he" tt-.e guest of the Ad club at runcheort. " "JAnd just when he gets Interested : ll-"" ,TS -1 iu ujeiaa gulp. DO' lltely,; , , . . ,,; --and pretend that he. is wininr hie chJu.; - .r If Mr. Bangs Is the best after-dinner-' and between-oouree gulper in the United States. If not in the known world, because Americans are leaders- at the modern art of speaking while you eat. JAnd Mr. Bangs as he lectures along across the country waiting for time tide and tralna -but always getting there some howwhich gives him faith In Prov idence seldom has to pay for a meal. although many times he'd much rather. ' .JAnd the reason that he pretends to wipe off his chin which doesn't . need it Is to give him a chance, the mouthful -to gulp that he had Just taken , when the chairman Introduced him. JAnd, he uses the napkin as a sort of screen for the calisthenics- of tils Adam's aj?ple. ' ' JAnd' it's no secret among our best gulpers that that's what makes them look so . soulful and earnest just before' they start to speak. ."J They've got to get that bite down. JAnd they know it. JBut as I was sayisg Mr. Banus Is the,. dean, of American humorists. which means that lie wt-ars much longer and much better than any of the others, JAnd the reason that Mr. BartKS is the solemnest-looking man In Amer ica is that he knows all the jokes ancient and modern In the whole world, JAnd. the latter class he says Is included in the former. because . there isn't anything in the way of a Joke on paper that isn't found on the cuneiform bricks of Assyria and the Egyptian papyri. JAnd so there isn't much fun for Mr. Bangs in going to shows. J Because when the comedian starts to lay his foundation to build a Joke poor Mr. Bangs ha a vision of all the ancestors of that Joke, back into antiquity. JAnd all Its relatives of the pres ent day to the 57th cousin. JAnd that's why lie looks so solemn. JHe knows there is nothing new under the sun. and that all Is vanity. particularly If it's musical com edy. JAnd speaking of the sadness and solemnity of Mr. Bangs' life: . JOnce upon a time when he was writing "The House-Boat on the Styx5 he went to an undertakers' conven tion V to get local color. And they were just going to elect officers. - 1T And 'as Mr. Bangs came in the nominating committee was going out ... 9.111 . m. ,, - . . JAnd they saw him and V- changed' quick glances and nodded their heads. JAnd ' they grabbed him and hustled him up to the platform. and turned him around so the audience could see him and then J LISTEN They elected hfrd presi dent of their association for the en suing year by acclamation. Heralds of Spring. The swallows have come to town. Other signs may fall, but not the swallows. The almanaa .goes back on us and the weather man at Portland gets things mixed; hut when the swallow says spring has come it is here. Al bany Herald. Charley Gllbanks reports that one day last week , he killed a rattletmake at his homestead on Lightning creek, 20 miles north east of Joseph. He says there are doodjes of grasshoppers out there also which proves that a little of everything can be raised In that tropical climate. Joseph Herald. Row Many Oaa Tou Answert From the School Bulletin. How tuany eoncreasloiial dlatrlcta in Ore SOB? What district 6o too e In" Hour many square miles included In Port land ? . How many high acboois in Portland .What -la the newest -rnntj lo Oregon? What la,nrlddle ntoj? What count la located In each corner of Oregon 1 la 4he Deschute rirer unique? What ia tbe beat raj' to go te Crater Iikt - -. Why sboald , ell people or. roruasa aee ine Columbia hisbwarf StreetTowrt -i r-H Ijh Roche Can Go Some. , DETERMINED to get into shape that he may be physically fit foe any thingeven war, if necessary W. P. a .Roche, Portland's, genial city, at torney, is .working out every day in theMultnomah club gymnasium. It'a getting so that now young men fsesh from the college football field are easy licilnia for tbe. city attorney. . His last victim was Stanley Myera, denutV citv attorney. The game thay played' was "squash." It might havav I been "piimpfcln" as fsr as the result was concerned, for Stanley Myers didn't get a look In on the soore. The game,' -. was . so fsst that La Roche bumped into the walls of the court rnany times. Twice be hit the wait with aucto .iorce tnat ne was momen tarily stunned, Now his face and body, "have bruises and lacerations galore but they do not worry the ath letic city attorney. ji We'tl. lie Got Pay for It T HROUCiHOUT the morning, Attor- I J.. -wc . 1. .. t...ii rtimAlTim with the jury for the benefit of M client. - All the evidence had. bean In troduced, ao aU , that was naceasarr now was toflx It sd the Jury would know what tbe evidence was all about; 1 wno naa Deen iiiusx m I 1 . . .,U.ltw: .M th. iiaok of th room finally - yawned and walked out" As be sauntered dowa the .corridor, .he waa roet .by ;Publlc Berv'ice Commissioner Clyde B, Altehi-aon-wr asked him; .-f.y.'. "Has Davis finished - bis argument 'yetr i- '' - ' T . answered the stranger 1 "Ha finished It an hour ago, but he' still talking." 1 'e