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1 1. ' ;4 IHDKPtM DEftT WEW8FAPKB. C. JACKSON. ttublltbtd every ear, afteraooa ena siornlnr ' 'Mmt: Sunday alttrsoon), at The Joaraai BalMIng, Broadway sod XemsiU atreeta, Ki-rortleaiy Or. Esffd at the paetoffle at Portland. Or., for O tnuBlMlot-lkmiik tbe naalla aa ascend . eiaee matter. . ,. , .. i " ; : TEI.CPHONM Mhl T173: Bene, A-Oal. : ! All departments reached by tbeea onmbere. , . TU lb efra tor what department joa want r FOREIGN ADVERTISING EEPEEtiKNTATIVS ;V'1lenJeni A Kaatnor Co.. Brenawlck Bid.. IM Ullh AT.. tiuW York.. . ViXM PaosWa i'Oaa Bldg.. Chicago. . JiSubaerlptloa term by mall or to any sear ' . la tba United State or Mexico: '. ) DAILY (MOBNINO OB ATTESKOOIO VjBae rar 5XIOn moot 9 .60 t , imtniT Om aear .S2.00 I One month t .S3 -CrtAit.v tvnsNiKn hi imsNDum AND SUNDAY ; JOiia yer. 17.80 I Ona month t .S3 ' America ak nothing (or berselt bo' what t aha baa a rlgUt to ak for buminltr ltaelf. . WOOUB0W WILSON. ' Vllloes for defense, bat not a cent (or 1 trlbnre. CHARLES C. PINCKNET. 1 hare constantly to remind myself that I -am unt the servant of those wbo wish to enhance the value of their Mexican Invest ments, but that I am tbe servant of Ui rank and (lie of the people of the United State. Woourow WIlsou. j FOR PKRMAXEXT PROSPERITY NEW development of the campaign is the announce ment by Judge It. S. Lovett, head of the Union Pacific . railroad system, that he will sup rport President Wilson for re- ' .election, Judge Lovett disagrees with . . 'jrrebiaeni wiison relative to tne 'manner In which the railroad strike ' waa averted. But he holds that 'the creation of the federal reserve seystem. with its avoidance of Dan- ics and business unrest, and Pres Jldent Wilson's foreign policy are J abundant reason for the president's preelection. Judge Lovett says: We must ba Judged by the average fnt achievements. My firm convic '. Jtlon Is that Wllaon haa more great : achievement' to his credit than most J presidents who have preceded htm. Wilson settled the currency question J and settled It so effectually and ' wisely that his most reckless critics ' Jare silent on the subject. His man . agement of our relations to the Euro pean war situation is the greatest sand moat brilliant page In our dlplo- ) jmatlc history. . ' i When a man of the Lovett type (speaks in this vein. It is meet for . Jthe heads of every big employing institution to weigh his words. President Wilson is no assailant of , 'legitimate business and industry. His legislative program has been signally directed to measures for aiding all legitimate business and industry with a view to creating in t iAmerlca a prosperity that shall .ha pndurlnc j Judge Lovett especially men tions the federal reserve system. ri hough we had panics for 60 years , .. land though each panic was a no . tice to the American people that "Vtheir financial system was rotten, ;no statesman appeared with a - jpower of leadership to correct it. As Judge Lovett says. President . Wilson "settled the currency question-and settled it so wisely and effectually that his most reckless , 'critics are silent on the subject," ' nd that is true. It Is the wise settlement of that question that ;hu caused capital to Invest more 4 reely In America than ever be ( Jfore. It Is willing to Invest now ."because it knows that there Is no longer fear that the country may be In full prosperity today only to wake up tomorrow, as In 1907, to . find that over the breaking of a bank or two. the land has been plunged, into a financial crash with Clearing house certificates as the only medium with which to do - business. Judge Lovett also bases his snp v port of President Wilson upon the t ' manner in which the president haa handled our relations with war , wrecked Europe. Men who think " in straight lines want no war. To . them, peace is a fundamental to prosperity. They know that we could not have had our present prosperity but for the fact that we were kept in peace. Ten million mothers in America . are thinking on peace In the same . fly that Judge Lovett jjthlnka. An upstate paper wastes a big . double column area of its precious pace rebuking The Journal for mentioning the poodle dogs and diamonds of the golden special so ciety leaders who are sending out a tfalnload of speakers to tell Ore gon .women how to vote. It fills us with pride to be rebuked for doing oar duty to the public. WHY IT FELL a B, M'CULLOUGH'S report on ' . . the cause of the Iobs of the L new concrete bridge at In- , dependence makes lnstruc Ut reading.' The bridge, fell down, ; as thereader will recall, almost as soon as it was finished. Mr. ..McCuIlougb.;who Is connested with the engineering department at the Agricultural ' eolleg; ; report ; that mere .was uv uciw;t u win juaoi ji the bridge and that the material was, upon the whole, fairly, good. The bridge was a failure be cause "careless and Incorrect meth ods of construction" were permit ted la building It To 'speak plain ly, the bridge was lost because the work was not properly watched while it was under construction. It seems to have' been nobody's business to see that honest work was done. So the bridge was built shiftlessly 'and, as might have been expected, fell down of Its own weight. It may be some comfort to the Polk county taxpayers to reflect that they have plenty of company in their calamity. Not lODg ago a concrete bridge at Quebec fell into the river before it was quite finished, carrying a number of workmen down to death. Every day or two we read of concrete buildings collapsing, not because concrete is a poor buildng ma tcral but because constructors need more watching than they get. Eternal vigilance is the price of a good many things besides lib erty. One of the reasons why our roads are so bad Is that we have put up with shiftless work for the last fifty years. When a culvert is to be built or a grade constructed the plan Is often turned over to some Incompetent. The work Is not effectively Inspected and the result is a dead loss. The Ameri can public has been paying heavily for its easy indifference in thdse matters. Perhaps some day we shall learn the lesBon that public business will not rwn itself any better than private business will. Fourteen European nations are bleeding to death. But Colonel Roosevelt says "those who, with timid voices and quavering hearts, praise President Wilson for keep ing us out of war are actual heirs of the Tories of 1776." and Mr. Hughes says "if there Is any issae in this campaign which Is real, it la whether we want words or whether we want deeds, whether we want the things that are writ ten and spoken or whether we want American action." There is not a European people now that does not wish over the memory of its hon ored dead that the European rulers had wanted "words" instead of "deeds." CITY AN1T COUNTY 7aN AN address to the realty board I the other day Mr. Barbour, city mirlltnr advocator ttio "unn. A ' -- v--i solldation of city and county committees" for the. sake of econ omy. Is there any reason why our city and county governments should not be completely consolidated? The uplon of the two organiaa. tirms might throw a group of of fice holders out of their jobs, but we can not think of any other mis chief that it would do. When we pay our taxes we must go to a county office. When we pay our frequent assessments on lots we must go to a city office. The city and county police power? overlap so that nobody knows where the one ends and the "Other begins. As we know, the county sheriff may, if he wishes, Invade the city and supersede the city po lice- force. . The simple truth is that the taxpayers are supporting two huge and expensive governmen tal machines, one of which Is su perfluous. If we really wish to economize in public expenditures why not try cutting off the county government? Multnomah county and Portland city should be synonymous expres sions. Over their, golden teacups in their gilded palaces on Fifth ave nue, Ann Morgan, Mrs. Guggen heim and the other New York ladies of fashion are receiving bul letins on the progress of the Golden Special as it Bweeps across the country like a meteor on its lavish errand for electing Mr. Hughes. As it rushes through western Oregon the eons of toll in the fields and the' farmers along the roadside will pause to shade their eyes with their calloused hands as they gaze at the speeding train, thank ful ' that the silken princesses of fashion are so willing to guide them in how to vote. USES OP LIME PROFESSOR SCUDDER might ' have broadened his tribute to the virtues of lime a little at the Lorvallls meeting without missing the mark any. He is re ported to have said that "lime was not a panacea for all poor land, but was a correction of acid ity," which is true as far aa It goes. But lime is a great deal more than a corrective of acidity. one neea out turn to the bulle tins of the state agricultural college to learn that lime not onlv corrects the acidity of the land but plays anotner ana most useful part in the economy of nature. It helna set free the nutritive elements which are locked up in the soil In this way it makes available stores of wealth which caln not be reached by any other practicable means. This is the reason why" lime is eo valuable on soils which ''are mistakenly said to be exhausted Modern research demonstrates that there is hardly any such thing, as an exhausted soil: The elements essential to plant growth are com monly present even in land which has been most' ruthlesslr rdundered of lts,Jennitfbrjt the7 .are not In shape for the rootlets to utll-l ize. They are combined with other substances and thus withheld from the action oi the life force. Lime acts In an amazingly providential manner to release these imprisoned elements and render them useful to the growing plant. It thus happens that lime is fre quently very useful on land which is not acid. We owe our knowledge of these Important truths to the agricultural college bulletins and similar publications where lime i? spoken of aa an "indirect fertilizer." It does not itself contribute much to the growth' of vegetation, but it renders other elements available for that purpose. Of course, if President Wilson had embroiled us in war with Ger many, and If he with a thirst for military glory had proceeded with armed intervention in Mexico, the Jingo newspapers and all the other war makers would have been de lighted. But how about the pros perity of which we are all so proud now? How about the business and the industry that ia on a high tide of activity because we are at peace with all the world? How about the mothers who would have had to furnish the boys to do the fighting? MR. CALDWELL'S CHARGES GEORGE W. CALDWELL makes some grave charges in answer to the order of Mayor Albee removing him as chairman of the Civil Service board. He says, in effect, that his removal has come because he has insisted, at all times, on the full observance both of the letter and the spirit of municipal civil service. He charges In plain terms that certain of the city commissioners have violated civil service, by direct action and by indirection. He charges that he has been removed because he, as chairman of the board, refused to mould the conduct and bend the official decisions of the board to meet the wishes and dictates of the mayor. He charges that Mayor Albee advised Commissioner Dieck that he need not worry about obey ing the orders of the Civil Service board a3 he, the mayor, had dis obeyed Its order and would con tinue to do so. He charges that the mayor has violated the plain terms of the city charter by refus ing to enforce the orders of the Civil Service board and that be cause ofsuch refusal he Is, under the charter, guilty of a misde meanor and therefore subject to fine or imprisonment. These are specific charges, and they are serious charges. Civil service in Portland is not a play thing to be used at pleasure and disregarded or discarded at will. It Is a fundamental law of the city of Portland in approbation and sup port of which the voters of the municipality have spoke in no uncertain terms upon two occa sions when adverse interests at tempted to hamstring Its effective ness. It is from the spoken will of the people, far superior to the desires of their elected servants, that civil service Is a fundamental law of the city. It is the twice spoken will of the municipal elec torate that it be observed and en forced as It is written. Public officers are hired men. They serve by suffrance of their employers, the electorate. There are no kings or crowns in America Men who are elected to office in municipality, or state or nation, contract with thlr employers, to ob serve, and enforce, the rules and regulations that their employers have framed for the conduct of the public business. it matters not to them, is none of their of ficial concern, that these regula tions do not meet their desire. It is their duty, oathbound, to obey and enforce the law, not to frac ture or evade it- Those who fail and refuse to perform this duty do bo at the sacrifice of their oath and to the tarnlshment of the trus teeship given them by the people The people have established civil service. They do demand, and they will 'continue to demand, that it be observed and enforced by those who are entrusted with tem porary authority. The charges made by Mr, Caldwell are not trivial. If they are well founded the city commissioners should see that the practices complained, of are brought to an end. It would be an interesting de velopment If there should be con firmation of the report that Ger many has asked President Wilson to propose, an armistice and 'nego tiations fdfe. peace to the allies. TUB DIFFERENCE fUDGE NORTONI was candid I enough to admit in his Port I land speech that the Demo y cratlo party, like the Repub lican, contains a reactionary ele ment, or faction. The difference between the two big -parties Is not by any manner of , mean that the one is all sainta and the other all sinners. There are sainta and far too many sinners In both, of them The difference is that In Presi dent Wilson's party the progres sives control while In Mr. Hughes' party the reactionaries control. If Mr. Hughes should become presi dent the government would be de livered over to Reed Smoot, Pen rose of Pennsylvania, Galllnger o Vermont and their associates of the old guard, the most sinister; band of political pirates who ever flew the Jolly Roger at the mast head. If Mr. Wilson is reelected presi dent we know who will control the government. It will be Mr. Wilson just as it has been for the last four years. And his control will be exercised for the good of the whole country just as it has been in the past. So while we admit with Judge 'Norton! that both parties contain reactionaries, we must add that those in Mr. Wil son's party have lost their fangs. Letters From the People Commanicatlona aent to Tba Journal nx publication in tbia deartaaeot ebould be writ ten on ooljr one aide of the paper, abonld not exceeil 1U0 words In length, and must be ac compared by tne Dame fend addreaa oi the sender, if tba writer diea not desire to bare tba name published be should eo tste.J 'Discussion la tba ereatent of all reformer It rationaliaea erervtbiiia It touches. It rohi principles of aU false eauctity ami throws them back on their rcaaouebleness, if they bae nu feaaonablenesa. It ruthlessly crushes tbem ooi o existence and sets up Its own conclusions lu Ibeur stead. " Woodrow WUaoa. The Golden Special's Sponsors. Portland. Oct. 6. To the Editor of The Journal The Orceonian in it3 de crepit state is attempting a new role. In its issue pf October 4, apologizing for the importation of the representa tives of Wall street's millionaires, now en route to the Pacific coast in a train de luxe, popularly known aa the "Gold en Special," it says: "The Journal ia pursuing a policy of persistent mis representations in the present cam paign." The idea of the Orcsonian accusing The Journal, or any other newspaper, of "misrepresenting" is indeed laugh able. Since the present campaign opened it has not printed the proceed ings of a Democratic meeting wltnout misrepresenting the facts. Not an is sue has come from its press since Mr. Wilson was elected president that has not misrepresented him and his admin istration. It has misrepresented in the faco of facts about his policy with Mexico and his policy with Germany. In fact, it has misrepresented every measure that Mr. Wilson has advo cated. I have read many bitter parti san papers, but none eo unfair ai)d abusive as the Oregonian. Its statements in regard to the Golden Special," which 13 Intended to fill the women of the west with awe and trepidation, are intended to mis lead. It publishes the names or the hired professional women writers, speakers and campaign workers who are In the train but doeo not publish the names of the wealthy, arietocraUo women who initiated the scheme and who are paying for the luxurious train, Its transportation over the country and the salaries of the "educators" who are to Instruct the benighted women how t-j vote. The whole scheme is a direct insult to the women of the country and doubly so to the women who hive been given the franchise. Of course, the wives and daughters of the rich men In the cities and towns through which the train passes will receive the oceupants with open arms, and those who in humble walks of life are always pleased to be patronized by the rich will be on hand to bow and smile, but the independent. Intelligent women of the communities will give them a wide berth. Look over the list ol the reception committee for the en tertainment here next Saturday and see if you can find the name of a work ing man's wife, or tho name of a wom an that does not belong to Portland's 400." This ought to eonvteoe the women voters that It is a scheme of the rich to catch votes for their pledged candidate. In no previous campaign for the presidency have the millionaires of Wall street, the bankers of the coun try and the captains of Industry and finance used money in such Quantities to mislead the people -and secure the election of their candidates. The great masses do not seem to realize the dan ger that hangs over them. If Mr. Wll con Is defeated, and the Invisible gov ernment regains control of the country through the election of Mr. Hughes. It will so entrench itself that nothing short of a revolution will remove it; The common people are fighting one of "the world's decisive battles." AN AMERICAN. The Golden Special's Passengers. Portland. Oct. 9. To the Editor of The Journal The "Golden Special," or rather the "Special Interests" special! And think of them sending Mary An tin to tell us womerf of the west how we shall vote. Someone has urely blundered, for do you think in the west we possess little ancestry that we spring up like mushrooms, or, like Topsy, "Just .grow"? Do you think Mary Antln, whom I heard speak not so long ago 1ft Portland, and who spoke with such an accent one could under stand her with difficulty, can tell me. an American woman with ancestry dat ing in America as far back as colonial days, whose people have fought and died for America's freedom, whose an cestors nave been conspicuous figures in the upbuilding or tne country how to use my suffrage? She Is a paid talker, and the women of Oregon know this. We are not like those who vote for anything that carries a party name. We place Americanism above any par ty. Am a reading, thinking woman, I regard Mr. Wilson as the greatest statesman of the age. He embodies everything- that goes to make a true American. Hl great soul has under stood what the people wanted and he ha given them four years of legisla tlon that the Republican leaders could not think of In 26 years. The wives and daughters of the mil lionalresj of Wall street who equipped this train de luxe and are paying for it and the salaries of the professional writers, speakers and campaigners could better have used the $500,000 it is cowing tnem in feeding and cloth Ing the hungry and naked of New York city. There are heathen nearer nome. jahe HYATT. Opposes Brewery Measure. Portland. Oct. 9. To the Editor of The Journal In my mail box I find a little pamphlet entitled, "Do You Want the Truth V From Its wording, it apparently comes from the brewery trurt, under the guise of the Equal Rights to Home Industry committee. They ask why deprive the barley and hop rateer of a local market and force the boose consumers to pay added shipping charges for their drinks. Here ia my answer; Hops and bar ley are selling for more today than they have ,many seasons when the breweries were all in full swing, and more than 80 times as much money was sent outclde of the state the last year of the wide open saloon and brew eries for booze as there is this year. with no beer made In Oregon. Out of the hundreds of buildings in this city that were occupied by saloons, less than to are now vacant, and Jt is only nine months since the saloon vacated. Those buildings In most cases are stocked with merchandise that gives the buyer aometning for hi money. Especially, the consumers of boose that are poor are wearing better clothes. they are paying the store debt where they did not pay in day of booze. They are having their social evenings with their families at the picture shows.whre they all learn something that la a healthier diet than boose. The- best friend I ever had la addicted to the boose habit. X am willing; to go without it for my friend's sake, who la not getting any booze now. livery honest man and woman In this stale should bear in mind the poor fellows who cannot resist the brewery product. The brewery plants can be turned to better use, with a (tood ptoflt. The people of Oregon fchould rebuke those who hold prominent publio posi tions in and around thin city and have signed up with the brewery In terests," as the Equal Rights to Home Industry committee, and' are trying to open the breweries for beer Instead of better business. Got out and vote no on No. 315. S. W. GREENWOOD. Haa Hope and Charity. Hood River, Or., Oct. 9. To the Edi tor of The Journal I don't think we ought to be too hard on the editor of the Oregonian. t knew an editor of a paper onoe that wg almost as bad and he reformed beforo he died and became a very fair citizen, and I think if we will all pray for the editor of the Ore- gonian he misht reform and maybe so to neaven. he loves those million- t'""" mn set almost as many nena a re women that are coming out west nlses out of a slate as he wants to. ,,t flf 8 ?0T ,lTor'Ung rellows- tut let us hope he will get over that " uo Keis oiuer. i. j. aixviSAr. The ew Age. 1 McMinnvUlu, Or.. Oct. S. To tho 1 i:-.ior of The Journal -The new aj that for years has beenMiawning, Pro- iessor benooonmaker tells. Is a revolt against the past If people would only start thinking in greater num bers! "There is nothing good or bad but thinking makes it so." "Subtle vibrations m your editorial, '-'Life Everlasting." would make us ask our selves If we are verging on undiscov ered ways. Modern sensational sermons would do well to uncover real conditions of greed and false standards, and discard trite righteousness. I trust Bishop Franklin will arouse a large following to write for the new human. am. It was advanced thought when the young most men have a certain refrain, a cer political speaker that I heard paid, tain note often struck, a kind of inter- "Every chjld.must be accorded respect- pretive chord. As I have listened to ability." ,AVe need a fairer dlstrlbu- Mr. Wilson, It' seems to me that this tion of nature's gifts, and not the least refrain appears with exceeding clear is the land. ness. I also find it everywhere recur- I find this on war and poverty: I rent in what he has written. In one "They that be slain with the sword of his books, containing especially his are better than they that be slain with more recent utterances, I have noted hunger." Lamentations of Jeremiah, and underlined one word or its equiva- iv:10-ll. 4 lents which constantly appear. It "The rich man' wealth is his strong 8eem to be a key word with him, not city; the destruction of the poor is only In his personal attitude toward their poverty." M. A. B. LINDEN. j llt but hls vlew of tne attitude of The Farmer's Freedom ' th natlon toward its problems. This Portland, Oct. 10. To the Editor of word l' , ?he, ldea ?f utJ' the The Journal The present admlnistra- duty f the president, the duty of con tion has won real freedom for the "ress. the duty of the Democratic par farmer, and at the same time secured ty. th duty of the nation, loom large unlimited prosperity. Thl admlnis- In everything that Mr. Wilson says or tratlon Is the first one that ever dared does. He talk indeed about rights also, to make the farmer an Independent as he ha talked about the rights of the creature when it comes to the usurer, Mexicans to control their own affairs, the faker and other human pests who but when he think of America he seek the fruits of his labors. It has seems to think first of our duties, aft freed (him from the domination of the erward of. our rights. Mr. Wilson is favored few the extortioners and the Scotch Presbyterian In his origin, and like. Our president placed the farmer I fancy that this point of view, more on an equal basis with the business or leas unconscious, is deeply Ingrained man. Psever berore has the farmer enjoyed such prosperity as under vvii son, and this alone should reelect him. MARTIN HOFF. v Hnsb.es' "Woman Friends. Portland. . Oct. 9. To the Edl- tor of The Journal Last Saturday night at Sixth and Alder streets I heard some ladie speaking of national woman suffrage. Their argument, in effect, was something like the follow- ing: We are not partisan and do not advocate any particular party. We are agains the Democratic party because tney niiea iu yasa me Dusau o. a - thony Intendment at th last session of corigress." This is regardless of the fact that said amendment ha been before Re- i, not a word about the rights of publican congresses for many years. ; Americans or of the American nation, The Democrats are their enemies. but an expression in the highest and they eay, and ' the Republican party mo8t B0-emn language of the "proper will be their friend. They say they performance of our duty a the one hold the national woman suffrage is- nation at peace." sue above everything else. This m . means that peace or war pales Into In- In his attitude toward Mexico he Ja significance in comparison. As Mr. ! also constantly impressing on Amer Hughes stated in his acceptance ; lea its duty, its duty, Its duty the speech, he will stand by his party i duty of the strong toward the weak platform and will go no farther. And he has shown Impatience only These speeches can only mean that with those Americans whose insistence they are used as a political attempt to upon their rights as investors in Mex draw the woman vofre away from the ico has blinded them to any sense of nli tooii. to slMt Mr Hnehe and the larger duty of the nation. Con- Hefeat the best Dresldent sine Lin - coin. It can't be done. A WILSON SUPPORTER. Postal Surplus and Deficit. Crane, Or., Oct. 3. To the Editor of The Journal For the benefit of a skeptical Hughes supporter, would ican citizens whose lives and vital ln you be good enough to republish th terests are daily affected by the dis figures of the postoffice financial re- tressing conditions which now obtain port for the years during Wilson's ad- beyond the southern border, a a a ministration? Also how long haa it -yve shall yet prove to the Mexican peo been since this department showed a pie that we know how to serve them surplus, previous to this time? without first thinking how we shall READIER. serve ourselves. It wa our During the four fiscal years, 1905-8, , duty, at least, to volunteer our good Roosevelt's second term, the postal offices. It wa our duty to deficit was $48,789,639.34. During 1909- 0ffer our active assistance. It 1 now 12, Taft's term, the postal deficit wa our auty to Bhow what tru neutrality $24,937,657.41 The net surplus this wm do to enable the people of Mexico to year, under Postmaster General Burle son, is 35.742.445J Houses of Glass. Portland, Or., Oct-3. To the Editor of The Journal In reading over Mr. Roosevelt's speech in this morning's , l.shment of a perfect system as last as Oregonian, I noticed he had much to I the administration difficulties will per say about the way Mr. Wilson has 1 mit. and the conspicuous ability shown y ... ..... . . . . ' . . 90 Aat Wins' changed his mina ' in regard 10 laoor and other matters. I would like to know how he can criticise Mr. Wilson for this. People who live in glass houses should not throw atone. A READER. After Only Nine Months. The following article la by C. R. Kegley. master of tbe Washington atata grange, and U reprinted from tbe PennsjlTanla Urang News In the Farmer Open Forum, pan lUbcd by tb Farmer' Nonpartisan league and affiliated .organlaztiomv It took 60 years for monopoly to rise to tne semm ui i V"""'. -vine- thlng more than a few month Is need- ed for even a perfectly progressive ad ministration backed by a progressive congress and entirely free from harass ing of monopoly interests, fighting every inch for the retention of spe cial privileges, to restore to the people the prosperity of which they have been robbed. Progresslve farmers are first of all fair and open minded, and the question , carnpaIen, by Joining In the gen for every fair minded citizen in con-1 eraJ bombardment of Candidate sidering the work of the Wilson admin- HuKnea in no uncertain terms, Sena lstratlon 1 not whether it ha as yet ator La Follette denounces the had any marked effect in reducing theiHunes charge that the eight-hour cost of living or in readjusting prices, : law for railway trainmen was a "force but whether it is truly representative bJ1L jn a signed statement Senator of the people, economically sound In rurnmin has exposed the utter false- its policies, ana moving sieaaiiy to the abolition of special privilege. If so. it is bound to bring about an in crease In the prosperity of the people that will be positive and permanent. Tbe most rabid standpatter, if fair at all, must give the Wilson adminis tration credit for some fio table achieve-, ment. Our ' standard is what the farmers stand for, and measured by this standard these first nine months of th present administration stand out in my opinion in securing results from the federal government of what the farmer . want, equal perhaps to any nine months In the nation's his tory. ' The response' of th administration la carrying' Into efefct th recommen dations of the progressive granges for the improvement'of the parcel post ser- PERTINENT COMMENT SMALL CHANGE Russia has established a new town aRd Ice-free port on the Arctic that is to be called Murman. There is a lot in a nam tha.t can be pronounced. Just about one month from today the mn who writes the headlines will begin lo put in "claims" at six letters and 'concedes" at eight, without count ing them. This talk of the high cost of paper causing recourse to tne old fashioned blate lor e-kool work aay, ian't there a slate trust? or If there Isn't wouldn't there be one in about a minute? That last escape from the state penl tentiry was like the pigs used to get through some of those old lashioned lail fences tack east, whore the rails were so crooked the pigs came through on the same sldo they started from. 'And, speaking of slates: Though they are horrioly non-sanitarv, th?y have few rivals aa the basis of clan destine school-time eutertsunment. And a deft kid with a lontr. shnrn sluts The menu of an epicure can be filled at this day with things not 'long ago utstPieu. for instance: xireaxxavst bacon was once ore of the stigmata of lowest poverty under the poor name of i mue meat. Ana nam and eggs tnree times a aay was derided alone witn prunes. And now look at 'em. "The average heckler will never be requested to bequeath his brains to a medical museum," sneers a standpat exchange, it having in mind the ex perience of the Golden Special women patters mobilize their own hecklers. If ni unicago. But why don t the stand they feel so bad about It? Nobody ceres. WILSON Ray Stannard Baker In Collier's, One who listens alertly will find that in his very nature Durlng the first half of his adminis tration, in urging '.be Democratic party j to get together, it was the note of col lective obligation to keep its promises to the people which was signuicani above everything else, with the result that no administration in years has placad upon the statute books such a notable body of progressive legislation, When the European war broke out, however much others might think of the rights of Americans and Mr. Wll- son ha not neglected that aspect of : tne prooiem, as nis puoiic papcia aiiow his first strong desire wa that America should do its duty. In his first arreat utterance, in August. 1914, there . eider, for example, th president's message to congress in August, 1914, "I deem it my duty to speak very frankly of what this government has cione and should 6eek to do in fulfill ment of its obligation to Mexico Itself, as a friend and neighbor, and to Amer set their affair In order.. vice. Is all that could b desired, and the declared policy of the postmaster n.mi to nush forward to the estab- Dy the department ow " this great service ana 10 piwiiui Its rapid expansion, is conclusive evi dence that we have a postmaster gen eral end a departmental staff loyal to the farmers' Interests. When we add to these things of which we have spoken, the efforts of the president and the secretary of state toward speeding forward the movement for universal peace, the masterly handling of the Mexican sit uation, the expose of corrupt lobby work and the money trust, the sincer ity with which pre-eieciion promiscn -- , . th. .vM.nt nave oeen , i i loyalty to puono wt"m, -that we have a great man and a peo- pie's president in the White House. Standpat Charge Exploded. United States Senators Robert M. L Follette of Wisconsin and Albert t1 rnmmina of Iowa, both Repub- ,.' . fmihed the sensation of ness and partisan unfairness of the re cent Republican attacks upon the child labor law. In La Foliette's Magazine for Oc tober, the Wisconsin senator charges that millions of dollars were expended by the railroads, during the pendency of their negotiations with the train men, in an effort to Influence public sentiment against the demands of their trainmen for an eight-hour day. "These millions did not come from the profits of the railroad managers or tbe railroad owners." says Senator La Follette. "They cam' from the fund of the treasuries of the rail road. This campaign was conducted with money that really belonged to the people." "This eight-hour law has been called a 'force bill.', enacted under , the de- 1 AND NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDELIGHTS The Klamath Commercial club Is cumpalgnlt.g in the interest of a plan to finance the club by means of a county-wide quarter-mill tax. "Further inquiries are coming for Hermiaton country produce," says the Herald. "And It Is all traceable to the display Ct Pendleton. We have the op portunity here to reap a plemild re ward for that work if It is properly followed up." The annual butfget of the police de partment of Astoria, the Budget says, will be cut down next year approx imately $500. Chief Houghton is do ing his own clerical work besides over seeing the work of tho department. The budget for the year just closed was reduced fully 11600. Round-Up testimonial In Pendleton East Oregonian: "Kev. O. H. Holmes Kuys the Round-Un Is rough in many ways, but clean; Vila view is compli mentary to our show and to one minis ter's manliness, if the Round-Up did not truly measure up to the standard It would not continue to draw the crowds that it does." ' Why not put the poetic into weather reports, as the Ashiand Tidings does? -T-like this: "September was an. almost ideal month for Ashland. Only faBr days were cloudy In the entire month, although five others were partly cloudy. The rain was rar Deiow tne average for September rainfall, but came earlv in the month When It would do the most good. The month was lack ing in extremely warm weather, the maximum being 92 degrees on the four teenth. Tee minimum was 15, there being no frosts. Slxty-ftve was the lowest daily maximum. The report of Observer Dodge appears elsewhere In this issue." And after that who wants to read Observer Dodge's report or needs to? We shall triumph as Mexico's friends sooner than we could triumph a her enemies and how much more hand somely, with how much higher and finer satisfaction of conscience and of honor 1" Duty is here niacfe the keynote of our national policy; and without a sense of this keynote, the essence of rhe thing to which Mr. Wilson is bend ing all his great power, one cannot understand, in all its bigness and Its vision, the end which he seeks. These instances and references could be indefinitely multiplied, and anyone can so multiply tnem by ex amining Mr. Wilson's utterances and studying his acta It 1 by this disci pline of duty that he brought the torn Democratic party together and made it an efficient legislative tool, and it is his high sense of the duty of Amer ica as the one great and powerful na tion at peace that ha dictated his policies toward Europe and toward Mexico. One other impression of meeting and te.lking with Mr. Wilson must also be chronicled. Here Is a heavily bur dened man after all, a human being, though a president having to meet fierce and often unreasoning attacks No president certainly since Lincoln has been confronted with such moun tains of perplexities, and none since Lincoln has been so violently attacked bcth for what he has done and what he has failed to do. None has worked harder or more faithfully. And yet under both tho turden of his problems and' the attacks upon him one finds him patient and serene. For he Is se rene, and the atmosphere of the White House Is one of quiet confidence. A man less well fortified within would give, far different Impression! It la a time when event loom large and leaders look small. In all the countries in Europe no man seems big enough for the problem presented, and the cry Is for supermen when there are no supermen, but only hard-working, hard-thinking human beings. All leaders have been under furious attack, cabinets have fallen, and ministers have been -superseded. It is so easy In times of stress to stand aside and blame the leader for everythingl What Is impressive In Mr. Wilson 1 that he is still so strongly master of the situ ation, still so sure of himself. I was greatly pleased when I heard that Wordsworth's "Happy Warrior" was Mr. Wilson's favorite poem! For it seem to me that here Is truly a "gen erous spirit a a whose law Is rea eon; who depends upon, that law as on the best of friends, who when he rose "to station of command" rose "by open means," and who, when called upon to face Seme awfnl room eat to wblcb hesren haa joined Oieat isaues, good or bad for human kind keeps with steadiness and serenity the law la rahnnesa mafia, and aeaa what be foreaiw; Or If an on expected call succeed. Come when It will, la equal to tba need. With many of the people of this country Mr. Wilson ha won about the highest prize that any leader can win in a democracy higher than personal fame, higher than popular enthusiasm for millions of people trust him. mand of organised railroad train men," continue Senator La Follette. "This ia not true. Congress, disinter ested, under law bound to consider only the public good, was forced to act in the public's interest. It was not forced to act because of any demands upon congress by the worklngmen or by the railroads, but because the pub lic Interest demanded Immediate ac tion. "Congress acted. It passed what Is known as the eight-hour law for men in the employment of railroads in Interstate commerce, engaged In mov ing trains. Every Wisconsin repre sentative present voted for the bill, which became a law and averted the strike. I believe they did right," Senator Cummins riddles the prepos terous claims of both Mr. Hughe and his campaign managers and declares the child labor law as enacted by con gress and signed by President Wilson is certain to "effectuate the humane purposes toward which the friends of child labor legislation have for a long time been striving." Senator Cummins atatement Is not only a complete answer to these at tacks, but is a timely and stern re buke to those responsible for giving them publicity. His views are set forth In a letter to Owen R. Lovejoy, general secretary of th national child labor committee, written September 23. "If Republicans are making any such charge against th law in order to discredit the administration," Sena tor Cummins says, "the effort 1 die reputable and must react upon those who are foolish enough to give cur rency to the charge." Missouri Taste In Carpets. From the St Louis Star. Archie Roosevelt 1 going to male carpets at 36 a week. In every house there are carpets that look a though Archie might have made them. "issue in the Next Campaign. From the Chicago Herald. - Republican speaker refer so often and so severely to President Wilson's rhetoric that it wouldn't be surprising to je the next national convention adopt a straight-out plank against un usually go d diction, , - - Rag Tag and Boltail Stories From Everywhere (To this column all retdera of The loarnal are Inrtted to eootrlbate original matter I aiorjr, tn efee or In philosophical obeerratioo or etrlking quotations, from any aoaree. OoatflbtiUoM of exceptional merit wUl ba paid ' tor, at tba editor' a annralal. Foiled Again. HORATIO SPARKPLUG, "the Napol eonic Jltneur of the Hawthorn Una was regaling his passengers on the trip this morning with a story of the medieval steam roller tactics ot the streetcar company. "Why, I was just traveling ahead of a car the other morning," h said, "when a bunch of school kids started across the street ahead of me. I had to stop or run over them, so 1 Hopped. But the motorman rhehlnl didn't stop. He Just bumped me and nearly "scared a couple of my lady passengers into fits. I got out and went back. The mu- darV 1 my car, torinati was scowling. Lome out here If you yelled at him. 'You've lilt now come and hit me.' But he didn't como down. Thai looked at the street car's fender. 11 was bent and twisted. When 1 looked at my Jitney, I discovered it wasn't even scratched. There you are.' I yelled at th motorman again, "lake your little cat over to the shop. You ought to had more sense than to try to smash a flivver.' " Ever Try This Ono? Macklln was once lecturing on "Lit erature and the Stage." and(in discus sing the education of memory, boasted that he could repeat aiiy formula of: words after hearing It.4 Samuel Footc, the rardonlc comedian. who was one of Mucklln's auditors. wrote out and Bent to the platform the. rlgamarole that has ever since been fr-.mous. "So she went into the garden to out a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie. At the same time a great nheUcar, coming up the street, pops its head Uito the shop. " 'What! No aoapr "So he died, and she very Impudently married the barber; and there were present the Pickaninnies, the Jobllillea and the Gayrulles. and the Grand Pan jandrum himself, with the little round button at the tip; and they all foil to playing the game of catch-an-catch-oaii till the gunpowder ran out of the heels ot their boots." Macklln failed, and so does every body that tries orally to repoaf the confusing arrangement of words. The First Snow. From the Enterprise Record-Chieftain, As a reminder of the shortncfn of life comes the flret snow of autumn. There will be many, many dreamy, beautiful days before winter sets In, but the wariUriK lias been served; sum. nier is over. And the winter in nature, as in life, will be much what you make it. if you have prepared a comfortable houfie with fuel and food for all the short, cold days, vlnter will have no terror, for within doors there wlU be Eood cheer and Joy. If your Ufa ha been devoted to things worth while, your declining years will be brlgh.Ued with pleasant memories and. mada cheerful by activities of aervlce to jour fellow man. An Ideal Wife. From the Washington Star. Miss Marion Pomoroy Sftiilth, the Cape Cod heiress who has Jut won a legal contest for tho control of her huge fortune, believes In women's rights. "There will be fewer divorces," M, caid to a reporter, "wben men treat women as their equals. " 'Do you know the kind of wife jny Ideal Is?" a married man once said to me. " 'Of course I do.' said I. Tour ideal wife Is the kind that's tickled to death over a birthday present of a beg of flour.' " The Lure. Pastor F. R. Sibley of the Little Stone Church, In Joseph Herald. The trustees at a recent meeting arranged for the purchase of lu. tons of coal and a carload of slabwood. This will be of Interest to all churchgoer, as It Insures a nlco warm clrurch when the winter's winds blow cold; Tind It wHl probably help to lure many uon (J urrhgoerg from their homes to divine worship. Well, Htart the Reel. From the Weakly Bulldogger. We herewith suggest "Killdeer" as a fit and proper title for Bill Mc Klnney and our suggontlon has noth ing whatever to do with his prowess as a bagger of ducks. Anyone Inter ested In the origin of the title might secure information -from BUI. M he refuses to supply it, we refer our read ers to Jim Bowler, Brooke Dickson or John Vaughan. If they are bound by oath to withhold the story, maybe Dep uty Warden Georare Tonkin can be in duced to tell about It. A Pleasant Time Was Had. From the Qresham Outlook. On- Friday evening last, Mrs. E. K. Welling gave a con roasting party to the neighbors. The evening w spent by the older people In social chat, while th younger one played games and 'roasted corn around a bias ing bonfire. Incidentally a straw vote was taken for president, resulting in 1C for Wilson, 3 for Hughes and 1 for Hanly. Ilee Haw! . From the Albany Democrat. Th mule, which was being brought up from the rear to the front to take part In the Republican parade Thurs day night. Instead of being a Joke on the Democrats proved to be a Joke on the Republicans. A number of ardent young Republicans were trying to bring the mule up to take part lu the parade as a burlesque on the Wilson supporters, , but Mr, Mure would not budge and refused to mix with the other crowd. He was finally abandoned and the parade was held without htm. The Very Place for a Snake! From the Heppner Gazette Time. V. Gentry was displaying a small rattlesnake In town Wednesday. He had the serpent, which he caught on the Neville place above townln a bottle. The enake was a young one, having only one rattle and a button, Not Even Bent.. : From the Gardiner Courier. Lawrence Derrin was run over by a speeder-near 8wissbome a few days ago. Six men were on th car and otherswere pushing it to a-et it In motion when Derrin slipped and fell In front of th car, on wheel passing over his leg near th ankle, but did not break his leg. This was consid ered very fortunate for the car weighed 1300 pounds and six men also, were on it. . . But In Oregon, Neither. From th stV Paul Pioneer Press.' -Indian aummefM that happy period when th consumer patronises the Ice ft and tna Aal maM am ik. mmmkM.