THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, TPORTLAN D SUNDAY . MORNING, SEPTEMBER U, ' 1919.
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Fsalm 19-1.
TEN GREAT REASONS
PRESIDENT WILSON was present
when the peace treaty was
drafted. He was one of those
who worked over it, word by
word, phrase by phrase, sentence by
sentence, until it was finished and
.signed. He knows what it- means,
what its language Imports. He is a
man of high honor and lofty pur
pose, true to America. He has epito
mized in ten sentences the funda
mental .points upon which it is based
and the principles for which it stands.
No American can be out of harmony
wiui inem, ior iney sianu ror Amer
ica, for humanity, for world peace
and international liberty.
The treaty stands, he says, for
"The destruction of autocratic power
as an instrument of international
control, admitting only self govern
ing nations to the league." Auto
cratic power drenched the world in
blood and spread devastation and
suffering everywhere. What Ameri
can would .contend against its de
struction? "The substitution of publicity, dis
cussion and arbitration for war, using
the boycott rather than arms." This
is the second principle for which
the treaty stands. Hidden diplomacy,
secret and selfish control of nations
and of people, one 'man power and
overheavy armaments have stood as
a menace to world peace since time
began to write its history. What
American but would change the sys
tem, banish futurp war and bring
world- peace?
"Placing the peace of the world
under constant international over
sight in recognition of the principle
that Ihe peace of the' world is the
legitimate immediate interest of every
state." Cain, who wore the brand
of Diely for the first great human
wrong, was the first o plead that
he was not- his brother's keeper.
What American would shirk the duty
he owes his weaker fellowman and
leave him unprotected before the
'menace of autocratic might run mad?
"Disarmament," the president ?ays,
is the fourth cardinal principle of
the treaty. Where Is the American
who would muster great armies,
hoard vast stores of . munitions or
cover the seas with increasing squad
rons of fighting ships, if European
turbulence and uncertainty did not
demand it? Who would not rather
ee the billions spent for'- war ex
pended for Schools, moulded into
ploughshares or cast into the wheels
o'f peaceful industry rather than into
the engines of war forced upon us
by the war mad monarrhs of bar
barism? "The liberation of oppressed peo
ples." President Wilson points to
as the fifth foundation stone of the
treaty. What American would deny
them liberty in the face of America's
-history? What descendant of Valley
Forge would hold back his hand in
selfishness from those now camped
in Valley Forge?
. "The discontinuance of annexation
and the substitution of trusteeship
with responsibility to the opinion
of mankind" in the determination of
the fate of nations and their people
is the sixth principle the president
enunciates. It would have blocked
the wrong of Alsace-Lorra'ne. What
American would not have done his
share to block it then or would
withhold his support from a remedy
against such a future wrong"?
"The invalidation of all secret
treaties," President Wilson gives as
his seventh fundamental. They have
been the curse of international peace
tuu uuu ocu.iiiij. iucy arts LUC
fathers of war. What American
would not -see them swept into the
discard of forgotten evil?
v "The protection of dependent peo-
li-ia, " uai auici luau VUU UOf3 UUI,
-'spring -by instinct to the aid of the
weak and helpless in the moment. o
their, distress? Should the nation
hesitate to do that which-its mdi-
" Vidua 1 Anoa ami a tha national
more adamant than that . of the eom
. mon man?
"High standards of labor under h
' ternatlonal sanction," is the ninth
. point emphasized by the president.
' la there any American, business man
or worker, who would not welcome
international standardization of labor
so that American workers would no
longer be compelled to compete
against the cheap pauper labor of
Europe? .
"The international coordination, of
humane reform and regulation."
Where is the American to protest it?
In the face of Armenia and Us hor
rors is there one who would not
have it written Into the canons of
civilization and the creed of free
nations?
With these as the principles for
which the treaty stands as inter
preted by one who helped its writing
and who knows its language and its
intendments, what American can op
pose them?
Norman M. Mays of Hood River,
who has written the governor In
energetic protest against the high
cost of living and the high coat of
rent In that center of the world's
apple industry, ought to move down
to Portland and get something real
to holler about.
WAITING FOR WATER
THE eyes of Central Oregon farm
ers are on congress. They are
hoping for passage of the Mon
dell land settlement bill.
The measure contains a provision
for federal reclamation. Farmers in
the arid sections of Western America
have proven the practical wealth
producing value of irrigation. Under
irrigation they are producing tons
and tons of alfalfa where only sage
brush grew before.. Deserts have
been transformed into Edens of pro
ductivity. Churches, schools and
farm homesv have risen, and towns,
banks and, industries now thrive on
what used to be barren plains.
It seems incredible that men sent
to congress to legislate for the wel
fare of the country could oppose so
wholesome and constructive a system,
but there is a strong effort at Wash
ington to defeat the Mondell bill. It
seems a perversity of human nature
that there could be antagonism to
a process that provides land for the
landless and homes for the homeless.
It seems especially" perverse when
soldiers and sailors returned from the
world war are among the applicants
for lands on which they can rear
homes and settle down to an indus
try that feeds and clothes the human
race.
At the Tumalo project near Bend,
applications for 2000 acres are oa
file. They cannot be satisfied for
the reason that there is already scant
water for the 5000 acres under irri
gation in that project. The manager
of the project says that if there were
sufficient, water, sales of 4000 acres
could be made within 30 days.
While congress dawdles, these
farmers are waiting, watching and
struggling along against odds, to peo
ple and build up a virgin country.
The Benham Falls project would be
put in motion by passage of the
Mondell bill.
There a rock fill and earth dam
would raise the water of the Des
chutes 54.5 feet. It. would back up
the water a distance of 18 miles and
store 440,000 acre feet, of surplus
water that would otherwise flood
wasted and unused back into the
distant sea.
A board of engineers recently in
vestigated the project, and it is cer
tain in advance that the report will
be favorable. The project would
begin5 producing four tons of alfalfa
per year on 19,000 acres on which
there is nothing now. It would sup
ply water to the Tumalo farmers,
who have been waiting wearily but
courageously for 20 years for the
water with which to start their lands
in production.
The cost of the Benham falls pro
ject would be $991,000, including $605,
000 for purchase of the land. Not far
from it is the site for the proposed
Crane Prairie project. Professor
Crosby, of the federal reclamation
service, says that it is the most
perfeot site for a reclamation basin
that he has ever seen. In the heart
of the mountains is a huge basin
whose bottom comprising many square
miles is as level as a floor, forming a
perfect site for a reservoir. A 30-foot
dam would store 110,000 acre feet of
water at a cost of .?152,000. The com
bined area of these and other pro
posed reclamation units in the vi
cinity, would reclaim around 200,000
acres of land now idle and useless
and give occupation and excellent re
turns to hundreds . of land-hungry
people.
The whole power of the state gov
ernment of Oregon, all the influence
of the public bodies -of the state,
and the united weight of the Ore
gon delegation in congress ought to
be brought to bear for the passage
of the Mondell bill. Not to reclaim
the arid areas is treachery to the
republic and a crime against the peo
ple. The director of war loan organiza
tion, in taking over the further sales
of War Savings Stamps, finds that
not only Aid this state lead the na
tion in proportionate distribution of
the thrift securities, but that its sales
cost less than in any other state. This
is another evidence of the patriotism
which gave glorious brilliancy to the
war record of Oregon.
K-R. EVANS MISTAKE
STRICT ATTORNEY EVANS, in
Uan address delivered before the
state convention of county
judges and commissioners the
other day, explained what he con
sidered to be a "joker" in the one
mili'market road bill enacted by the
last legislature and indorsed by the
people at the recent special election.
Under the operation of this joker.
Mr,. Evans explained, while Multno
mah county will annually contribute
some $328,000 or more to the market
road fund on the basis of the last
assessment values, it is limited by
the 10 per cent restriction of the
act to the expenditure of not more
than $98,750, in round numbers, from
the fund upon the county roads.
The fact is that the 10 per cent
restriction, which provides in" brief
that no county may receive in excess
of 10 per cent of the total market
road fund raised by taxation in any
one year, Is not a joker at all but
was written Into the law with the
full knowledge of all members of the
legislature, the Multnomah delega
tion Included, for the purpose of
limiting the amount that Multnomah
county might receive under the law.
The market road bill was enacted
for the benefit of the rural districts
of the state which were not included
in the general state highway plan.
Its framers conceived the idea that
those farmers who did not live
adjacent to the state highways were
entitled to relief, and the law ws
eacted for that purpose. It was
considered that Multnomah county
had been -well cared for, that all
state roads led towards Portland, and
that the big county could well afford
to give the lion's share of its funds
to enable the products of the rural
communities to be hauled to its
markets. For that reason the limi
tation was written into the law, not
as a joker but as a just provision.
INDICTED BY HIMSELF
HERE is an Inspiring utterance on
a current issue:
Nations must unite as men unite
in order to preserve peace and
order. The great nations must be so
united as to be able to say to any
single country, "You must not go to
war ;" and they can say that effec
tively when the country desiring war
knows that the force which the united
nations place behind peace is irre
sistible. We have done something in advanc
ing the settlement by arbitration of
many minor questions which in former
times led to war and reprisals, al
though the points of difference were
essentially insignificant ; but as human
nature is at present constituted and
the world is at present managed, there
are certain questions which no nation
would submit voluntarily to the arbi
tration of any tribunal, and the at
tempt to bring such questions within
the Jurisdiction of an arbitral tribunal
not only fails in its purpose but dis
credits arbitration and the treaties
by which the impossible is attempted.
In differences between individuals the
decision of the court is final, because
In the last resort the entire force of
the community is behind the court
decision. In differences between na
tions which go beyond the limited
range of arbitrable questions, peace
can only be maintained by putting
behind it the force of united nations
determined to Uphold it and prevent
war.
It might be easily said that this Idea,
which is not a new one, is impractica
ble ; but it is better than the idea that
war can be stopped by language, by
speech making, by vain agreements
which no one would carry out when
the stress came, by denunciations of
war and laudations of peace, in which
all men agree, for these methods are
not only impracticable but impossible
and barren of all hope of. real result.
It may seem Utopian at this moment
to suggest a union of civilized nations
in order to put a controlling force be
hind the maintenance of peace and
international order, but it is through
the aspirations for perfection, through
the search for Utopias, that the real
advances have been made. At all
events it is along this path that we
must travel if we, are to attain (in any
measure to the end we all desire of
peace upon earths
The author 6f these words was not
Woodrow Wilson. He was not Wil
liam Howard Taft.
He was Henry Cabot Lodge, pres
ent irreconcilable leader of the oppo
sition to the League of Nations, and
his utterances were made in an ad
dress at Union college in June. 1915,
nearly one year after the great war
broke over the world. Note what he
said:
Nations must unite as men unite in
order to preserve peace and order.
THE GREAT NATIONS MUST BE SO
UNITED AS TO BE ABLE TO SAY
TO ANY SINGLE COUNTRY, "YOU
MUST NOT GO TO WAR."
That is. exactly what the league
covenant undertakes to do. It is the
exact course that the League of Na
tions provides for. It is the exact
thing that in June, 1915, Henry Cabot
Lodge demanded.
Principles do not change. Princi
ples are eternal and everlasting. The
horrors, agonies and destruction of
the world war and the misery, turbu
lence and chaos that have followed it
have confirmed all Mr. Lodge said
at Union college. In his present
course Mr. Lodge stands indicted,
convicted and sentenced by his own
words.
Carranza will under no circum
stances be a candidate for reelection
as president of Mexico, so his sec
retary of the treasury has an
nounced. There could have been
presidents far worse. He had a
stormy people to control. His
capital was all along a stronghold
of ' pro-German conspiracy. With
Villa and banditry and plotters in
America for armed intervention, his
job is one for a superman.'
A GOOD PROGRAM
THE State Chamber of Commerce
has begun a campaign to reach
the farmers of the East and Mid
dle West and to tell them of
the advantages and opportunities
waiting for them inthis state.
The officials (of the State Chamber
of Commerce have in mind the faults
of similar efforts , in the past and
will not be trapped by them. There
is to be no over-exaggeratiorr" of re
sources or conditions,' no overstate
ment of possibilities. . The advertis
ing matter sent out and the inform
mation given by letter or otherwise
is to be based on fact, not fancy.
More than that, ttie officials of th
chamber are to be kept In touch with
Oregon property offered for sale and
are to Investigate and determine its
reasonable, valuer for the protection
of incoming ipvlstors. They are to
avoid humbug and stick to the truth.
Oregon has suffered from illadvised
advertisement in past years. The
State Chamber of Commerce car not
afford to have it suffer from the
same cause again. It is planning
its program so that this will not
happen, and, with the plan in full
working orce, will be doing a great
public service to the state. ,
It looks as if father might have
his Innings, after all. The sugar
shortage hits first at candy-making.
The gasoline shortage, if it becomes
serious, will first restrict the travel
ing radius of the pleasure car.
Where the theatrical strike results
in darkened houses, ticket buying is
suspended. Meantime father gets a
chance to save up money enough to
pay the grocery bill.
THE GREAT CAUSE
TH E anti-league senators have
chosen to make of the presi
dent's speaking tour a near ref
erdum on the peace treaty.
Here are the facts: The provisions
of the treaty have been misrepre
sented in the senate. Trivial and
imaginary objections have been ex
aggerated and roared about, by the
Lodge-Knox crowd. There has been
no adequate statement anywhere of
its real provisions.
Though worn and spent with his
responsibilities and labors, the presi
dent set out to explain to the people
what is in the treaty. Heis the one
man in best position to know and
explain its provisions. To do it is
a duty that he owed the people.
Afraid of the effect of the presi
dent's speaking tour, the anti-league
senators have set up a counter dem
onstration. They hope by their per
formances to destroy the effect of
the president's meetings. In so far.
It has become a near referendum,
with the verdict depending to an
extent upon the spirit of welcome,
the enthusiasm and the numbers at
the demonstrations on the two sides.
The great cause of America and
the world covenanted to end war
and live in everlasting peace is there
fore suspended on the issue of how
strongly- and aggressively its sup
porters will make their wishes known
to the president as he passes through
the country.
"Dodger and tool." In such terms
Senator Borah referred to President
Wilson in a speech at Omaha. It is
a poor reward for a president whose
offending is that he has sought to
end war, to bring about disarma
ment of the nations, to make secure
what was won in bloody Argonne,
and to so organize and settle the
world that American parents will
never have to give up their boys
again to fight in Europe.
CHARLES V. GALLOWAY
TIE state service lost a valuable
man when Charles V. Galloway
handed his resignation to the
board of state tax commission
ers and severed his long connection
with that department.
Mr. Galloway has long been
recognized as one of the leading
taxation experts of the country. He
has taken a leading part year after
year in the national councils and
conventions of the recognized leaders
of taxation legislation and administra
tion, and during all of that time he
was given a compensation not at
all commensurate with his ability
or his worth to the state.
He has been a valuable asset of
state government. His place will be
difficult to fill.
THE PRESIDENT'S EXPLANATION
ARTICLE 10 of the peace treaty
has been made a bugaboo by
senators who oppose the treaty.
They have charged that its oper
ation would draw the United States,
impotent to resist, into world turmoil
and foreign wars. The truth of
this charge is a vital point with
the American people who want to
know whether it be true or false.
President Wilson has answered,
clearly and finally, and the charge
stands disprven, leaving the objec
tions to Article 10 futile and invalid.
"Article 10," the president told the
people of North Dakota, "has no
operative force in it unless we vote
that it shall operate." Where, then,
is the danger of America's entangle
ment in foreign controversy against
her consent?
The' article provides that every
member of the league shall under
take to protect and preserve the
territorial integrity of every other
member against outside aggression
and to sustain the political inde
pendence of its fellow members. It
provides that in case of rfecessity
the eouncil of the league shall take
such steps as may be necessary, by
force or otherwise, to carry out the
obligations of the conference, but
and here is the point it also -provides
that this action must be taken
by unanimous vote of all members
of the council, of which America is
a member, or not at all. In other
words, America holds the veto power
over any action against her judg
ment or .derogatory to her interest.
That is what the people of America
have been wanting to know They
have been wondering, in the face of
all the idle senatorial debate,
whether, under Article 10, America
would be a free agent in world
affairs or a .bound servant. They
have the answers America is free.
That ought to'be and doubtless will
be, sufficient for tt true Americans.
PORTLAND LEADS
COAST CITIES
Fire Losses Decreased As Result of
Vigilance and Efficiency.
By Ward A. Irvine.
Less than $118,000 was the total loss
from fires in Portland last year.
Three lives was the entire toll of the
flames for the twelvemonth. Nine per
sons were injured at fires.
Portland ranks first in the small num
ber of fire alarms per fDO.000 population
for coast cities. The average last year
was 657 to Portland's 401.
Local fire insurance rates on all
classes of property except residences
were reduced 10 per cent in 1918, and on
fireproof and semi-fireproof buildings,
23 per eent. 1
In 386 building fires, only14 spread to
the adjoining structure, and but two be
yond. It is the story of fire prevention and
Its efficacy, and of the Portland depart
ment and its efficiency, told in fhe an
nual report of Fire Marshal Edward
Grenfell to Commissioner Bigelow. It
is the record for 1918, a year in which
the per capita cost for fires was only
$1.34, In spite of the increased popula
tion, congested housing conditions,
speeded industrial activity, and loss of
experienced firemen by the Portland de
partment. Building Inspection, fire prevention
propaganda, carried to schools, .theaters,
shipyards and other industrial plants
by able speakers, the individual liability
law, and the general efficiency of the
local department are reasons for the low
fire losses and insurance costs.
More than 5400 buildings were inspect
er by the fire marshal during the year,
10,000 hazards removed and 101 dilapi
dated buildings torn down. It is all a
part of the activity of the fire marshal's
office in a campaign of prevention
rather than a cure, as instituted in Port
land under Jay Sv. Stevens several
years ago, since when, in spite of added
population, Portland's losses have been
cut to less than half former figures.
Following a fire, a thorough investi
gation of its causes and course Is
instituted by the department, and reme
dial measures taken to prevent recur
rence. Twenty-five arrests were. made
for violation of prevention ordinances
last year and fines of $50 imposed.
One arson fiend was convicted and
sentenced one to three years in the
penitentiary- Frequent arrests and
prosecutions have resulted -this year
for violations of ordinances relative
to fire.
Buildings valued at $756,000 were
caught by the flames last year, and
their contents were estimated as worth
$2,084,974. Losses on the buildings
amounted to $260,383 and the contents
were damaged to the extent of $157,391.
Nine iron buildings were visited by
flames, 18 concrete, 745 frame and
148 brick, in addition to 310 fires other
than in buildings, making a total of
1230 in all.
The heavy losses occurred during,
the summer months. June experienced
53 fires incurring losses, 33 in July. 34
in August and 42 in September. There
were 19 in December. On six days in
September no alarms were sounded,
and four days in August and October
were free from calls.
It was for such a record snd ruch
insurance rates that The Journal, dur
ing Jay Stevens' Incumbency and
since, fought for fire prevention and
fire elimination.
Letters From the People
(Communication sent to The Journal for
nubUtation in this department should be written
on only one side of the paper, should not exceed
BOO words in length, and must be signed by the
writer, whose mail address in full must accom
pany the contribution.
Some Questions
Portland, Sept. 9. To the Editor of
the Journal : A few "liquor bottle babies"
have made such a fuss with their ri
diculous nonsense and brainstorm false
hoods in these columns that I had in
tended to "come back" with a punch
as soon as I find time. But JUst now
I have something far more important
on my mind, though less amusing, and
that Is the little matter of closing The
Auditorium to the debate on the Irish
question last Friday night, after the
meeting had been advertised. It ap
pears that the council is radically at
variance with the federal administration
in its attitude, and furthermore, one
of the august bodies- of statesmen must
be at variance with American principles.
The use of The Auditorium was refused
for a discussion where both America
and South Ireland were to be repre
sentedon what grounds, I know not,
as I can't read all the "news" papers
and don't know If any printed that se
cret or made a comment, although the
public Is entitled to an explanation, and
self-respecting citizens demand one.
On the other hand, while we were at
war, and ever since, American citizens
and officials have been boldly active
here and abroad promoting a revolution
in the British empire and dogging our
president's steps in behalf of the desire
of portion of Ireland to secede, and
representatives of the would-be Irish
state have been also given incredibly
strange liberty here, while Hindus here
who advocate independence for India
J are arrested under the espionage act
for propaganda in America andare sent
back to India to be shot. One such man,
Taragnath vDas. an American citizen,
faces proceedings to have his citizenship
revoked, with deportation ,to India and
the British firing squad.
Now can you tell us where Is hope for
peace' when there is no justice in of
ficialdom, and very few care? And would
The Auditorium be open to the South
Irish president as Is the nation?
C. A. REICHAN.
The Better Monument
McMinnville, Sept8.To the Editor
of The Journal I ave just been read
ing the letter from F. B. Wood, pulo
llshed in The Journal, and I would sug
gest to him to have that letter published
in every leading paper and magazine irq
the United States and awaken the people
to their foolishness in donating $5,000,-1
000 to build a monument to the mem
ory of Theodore RooBevelt, A thousand
times better take that money and buy
shoes and school books for the poor
children so they can go to school during
these times of high cost of living, and
give these children a chance for an edu
cation and thus make better American
citizens, than to sink it in a pile of stone
over anyone's grave.
If . Roosevelt was trul a great man
the people do not need a reminder of that
kind to make them remember his great
ness. Neither would he Want them to
do so. MRS. G. A. D.
Packers and Producers
Washougal. Wash., Sept 6. To the
Editor of The Journal Referring to the
Chamberlain and Swift letters concern
ing the packers, recently published in
The Journal, does not the whole thing
show that the packers are not playing
any game of chance, and always reap
their fixed percentage on every head of
livestock bought, and naturally the more
they sell the more , they make? It is
to their Interest to increase consumption
by decreasing price within certain limits,
but they are farsighted enough to see
that they 'must maintain their supply of
raw material by paying the producer as
little a3 he will accept and continue to
produce, so he is at their mercy. And
th packer Industry is at. (h pre
THE LEADER
By James Russell Lowell
HIS was the impartial vision of the great
Who see not as they wish, but as they find.
He saw the dangers of defeat, nor less
The incomputable perils of success;
The sacred past thrown by, an empty rind;
The future, cloud-land, snare of prophets blind;
The waste of war, the Ignominy of peace;
On either hand a suilen rear of woes. 1
Whose garnered lightnings none couid guess,
Piling its thunder-heads and muttering "Cease!"
Yet drew not back his hand,,
A noble choice and of Immortal seed!
Nor deem that! acts heroic wait on chance
Or easy were as in a boy's romance;
The man's whole life preludes the single deed
That shall decide if his inheritance
Be with the sifted few of matchless breed.
Our race's sap and sustenance,
8r with the unmotived herd that only sleep and feed,
hoice seems a thing indifferent; thus or so,
What matters it? The Fates with mocking face t
Look on inexorable, nor seem to know
Where the lot tturks that gives life's foremost place.
Yet Duty's leaden casket holds it still.
And but two ways are offered to our will,
Toil with rare triumph, ease with safe disgrace.
The problem still for us and all of human race.
He chose, as men choose, where most danger showed.
Nor ever faltered 'neath the load
Of petty cares, that gall great hearts the most.
But kept right on the strenuous up-hill road,
.Strong to the end, above complaint or boast:
The popular tempest an his rock-mailed coast
Wasted its wind-borne spray,
The noisy marvel of a day;
His soul sat still in its tnstormed abode.
IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley ,
Prom notes of a notable meeting In Portland
in 1911. Mr. Lockley recreates a scene in which
Woodrow Wilson was the central figure, and in
which, while then disagreeing as to a certain '
detail, ne indorsed the Oregon system In respect
of the spirit that pervades it. An interesting
souvenir of that occasion is incorporated by Mr.
Lockley in this excellent article, descriptive of
a most memorable local event.
On the table before me Is the menu
card of the complimentary luncheon ten
dered by the Oregon advocates of better
government to Woodrow Wilson, gov
ernor of New Jersey, at the Y. M. C. A.
auditorium in Portland on Friday, May
19. 1911.
I was a guest at that luncheon and
had the pleasure of meeting Woodrow
Wilson. At that time I was manager of
the Pacific Monthly and Lute Pease was
editor. We went together, ' and Lute,
who is very skillful with a pen or pencil,
drew a clever sketch of Governor Wilson
on my luncheon menu : so that is how
I happened to save it.
On the committee in charge of the
luncheon were Ben Selling, W. M. Iadd,
C. E. Spence, H. W. Stone. W. S. URen,
A. C. Smith. B. Lee Paget, C. E. S.
Wood, A. L. Mills and Will Daly.
W. S. TJ'Ren introduced Governor Wil
son, and in Introducing him spoke in
advocacy of the recall of judges. . I
noticed Governor Wilson's eyes gleam
and his . face harden, and I understood
why he jokingly referred to himself
as "obstinate and obdurate. ' When
Governor Wilson was introduced there
was prolonged applause. He stood : at
his place at the table, but at repeated
cries from his fellow guests he mounted
the platform. Putting his hand on the
pulpit, he said :
"1 feel rather out of place here. I did
not come here to preach to you nor' to
Instruct you, but to learn about Oregon
and the Oregon system. This Is my ftrst
trip to Oregon.. I have never . visited
the Pacific coast before, but I have
been hearing a great deal about you
and the Oregon system."
Turning to Mr. U'Ren, he said :
"I may be considered obstinate and
obdurate, hut I do not agree with you
that we should recall our judges. As
a people, we are impatient. We do not
always wait to do things in the orderly
and ordained way, and if we can recall
our judges in case there Is an unpopular
decision we will change our Judges in
place of changing the law."
Someone called out from one of the
tables :
"If the people can elect the judges
they should be able to recall them.
What you say is not logical."
Governor Wilson faced the man who
had interrupted him. His eyes snapped
and with a forceful and emphatic gesture
he said, "I don't care a peppercorn for
logic. It may not be logic5, but it's
good sen Re."
I wrote down his expression at the
time, and I have never forgotten It, As
a matter of fact, though this lunch
eon was held more than . eight
years ago. and though I have met
many thousands of people since then,
I can still see, as plainly as though
it were yesterday, Woodrow Wilson
leaning forward and with snapping
eyes and earnest expression driving
home his points. I can still see C. E. S.
Wood leaning back in his chair with his
eyes half closed, while W. P. Olds, A.
D. Cridge nd Ben Selling were leaning
forward to listen. Governor West's lips
were tightly shut, as though his mouth
was a steel trap whose jaws had sprung
shut. Judge Cleeton and Will Daly
were paying close attention as Governor
Wilson talked.
W. S. U'Ren had introduced Governor
Wilson as the greatest constructive
statesman of the century. If not of the
world, and looking around I -could
see on some faces a smile pf tolerance,
almost of derision. I heard someone
whisper, "a good talker, but a dreamer,
a college professor, a theorist."
'We choose our judges to administer
the law as it is, not as we thtnk it
should be," said Mr. Wilson. "Enforce
the law strictly, and If it is harsh and
unjust it will be repealed. Recall, your
administrative officers if you will, but
not your judges. No government is bet
ter than we make it. I congratulate
Oregon on having so large a group of
men who are determined to secure
better government."
t
Governor Wilson spoke at a dinner
given at the University club. He spoke
at the Armory and also at a banquet
at the Commercial club. I did not attend
the meeting at the Armory nor was I
at the University club, but at the dinner
at the Commercial club he made a very
forceful talk. He brought a laugh when
he spoke of Oregon having two legisla
tures one which met at Salem, and one
held under W. S. U'Ren's hat.
"One of the principal differences be
tween these two, as I see it," he saW,
"is that you know where to find Mr.
ducers' mercy if they can organize In
such a way as to control the sale of
their livestock. But there is not much
chance of their becoming so organized
soon.
It would seem that In the eyes of
Louis F. Swift Senator Chamberlain is
playing the role of Dr. Stockmann In
Ibsen's drama, "An Enemy of Society
But is ' he ? It behooves the farmer
throughout the country to read the fed
eral trade commission's report on the
packers ajidV in, th light of It, digest
Pen drawing of Woodrow Wilson drawn by
Lute Pease, former Portland artist and news
paperman, at T. M. C. A. luncheon in Port
land. May. 19 1911.
U'Ren, and that's more than you can
say of the one that meets at Salem.
Let's get down to facts ; for I am less
interested in theoeries than In facts.
You are distrustful of your legislature.
You are suspicious of it. You may not
say so, yet you think It is dangerous.
All this Is proved by the fact that you
let It meet only every other year, and
you limit it to a 40-days' session. Why
are you distrustful of your legislature?
Shall I tell you? It is because you don't
know who originates the measures they
pass, because many of the bills that be
come laws transfer the rights of all of
the people to a favored few. You sus
pect, and rightly so, that most of the
bills are drawn up In the offices of cor
poration lawyers who are hired to take
away your rights and to protect those
who pay them their salaries In the ex
ercise of privileges they have no right
to exercise. You have come to realize
that these corporation lawyers resent
private citizens interfering with their
prerogative of directing legislation. The
result is, you have adopted the Initiative
and referendum so as to win back to
all the people the right of governing
themselves and making their own laws.
You no longer are willing to have 'or
ganized business interests' spend the
producers' money for the benefit of a
few of the citizens. You want leader
ship someone who will ' represent the
people, not the interests. You are un
able to determine who is running the
legislature from the Inside, so you want
to help direct legislation from the out
side. You want a responsible source of
power. It is yours to secure the result.
You are securing It here in Oregon. You
all of you are helping In the making
of your laws. It is the right of the
people to rule. Public opinion must
make its representatives , truly represent
them."
This, of course. Is not the exact lan
guage of Woodrow Wilson, but It rep
resents the spirit of what he said and
what he Bald then is just as true today.
The people are the ones to decide what
course shall be taken by our govern
ment. We cannot go far wrong if we
trust to the good sense, the sober re
flection tf d the high Ideals of the people
of America. . If a referendum of all the
people were taken it would be found
that America Is overwhelmingly for the
league, to secure and insure peace.
the information contained in the adver
tisements which the packers are placing
before the people throughout the coun
try at enormous expense to the people.
A FARMER.
"Round Goes the Wheel"
From tlx Detroit News
, Manager Well, Where's the money
we saved by hiring two efficiency ex
perts? Secretary Oh, that went to pay the
salary C the two expert
Xh News in Paragraphs
World Happenings Briefed for Benefit
of Journal Readers
OREGON NOTES -
After being cut off for several days, -aiem
gas consumers are again is
ceiving normal service. .
. wbiB ceIebrtion of armistice day
will he staged by the American Legion '
tn Albany November 11.
Hood River fishermen have been mak- I
mg phenomenal catches of Chinook sal- -mon
since the fall season opened.
Jl!,,.HA!,lfer A'e Vinegar com- '
pany is building an addition to its plant
that will cost approximately $60,000. 1 -
Jbilc !ieftth nursing will be demon- '
strated at the Linn county fair at Scio U
by the local chapter of yie Red Cross. "
After a four-day layoff on account
of heavy rains, work of paving the
Salem-Turner highway has been re
sumed. There is no scarcity of migar In Salem,
according to the merchants, but id , T
pounds only are being sold to each
customer.
The Linn county road bond Issue haa
been approved and plans are being '
completed for the sale of the rirst block
of $ 100,000.
Contractors are now pouring in the
cement for the foundation walln of the
woman's building at the University of
Oregon. t
All contracts for the Elks' four-story
temple at Pendleton have been signed '
and work Is well under way on the ex-
cavatlon. lrt
Four new labor unions were formed
in Klamath Kalis last werk ami two '
others will complete their organization
In another week.
Mrs. Jessie HaddocR, who lives on a "
ranch near Whitney, killed a coyote on
hatusday which it Is thought was affect- "
ed with hydrophobia. '
The Eugene Aero company has filed .
articles of incorporation. The first
plane has arrived and will be piloted by
Cecil Wooley, a local boy.
Miss I the! B. Gibson, graduate of the
Northwestern college, Napervllle, 111.,
has been secured as librarian for the
Grants Pass public library.
Albany's post of the American Legion
has been named Babcock in honor of
Alfred F. Babcock. an Albany young
man who lost his life In France.
On his way to Portland Lieutenant
Colonel Roosevelt will visit Roseburg
Tuesday evening and expects to re
main there until Wednesday morning.
Being unable to secure a complet
t(ill I'll I tin- fnfrn 4Ua rin..n. LIW 1 1
may be discontinued and the pupils
transferred to the Cottage Grove school.
J. E.' Rohrbaugh, working In a mine
at Takllma. was buried alive a few
days ago by a slide of serpentine rock.
Companions dug him out and he will
recover.
The Y. M. C. A. building In Eugene
has been closed for a number of months
and a campaign is now on to raise $ao,00 ,
to finance the proposition arid reopen
the building.
George Stoppels, a hero of the Franco
Prussian war and for many years hold
ing an honorable position In the gov
ernment service at Washington, Is dead
at Cottage Grove, aged 83 years.
WASHINGTON
Pioneer days events in Walla Walla
Friday drew a crowd of 20,000 people.
Two cents a quart was added to the
retail price of milk in Yakima Saturday.
Two cars of structural steel have ar
rived for the new Christian Science
church at Yakima.
Carpenters employed by the Seattle
school board quit their jobs Saturday,
demanding $10 a day.
A. W. Nailes was badly burned Sat
urday at Toppenlsh when a gasoline
tank he was repairing exploded.
Forty-eight foreigners, with their
wives, eight of whom are enemy allenH,
were examined for citizenship at Seattle
Friday.
Word Is received from Admiral Rod
man that six destroyers will be an
chored in the Columbia at Vancouver
during the prune festival
Pacific avenue in Tacoma, leading to
the road to Rainier national park, will
be paved at once, the council authoriz
ing paving to cost $138,000.
Without a dissenting vote. Pierce
county teachers at the annual Institute
Friday decided to form what Is known
as the Pierce County Teachers' league.
Thomas Tomalskt, confessed slayer of
Mr. and Mrs. Magnus Grove, was ac
quitted of their murder by a jury at
Spokane Friday on the grounds of In
sanity. The cost of running the Toppenlsh
schools this year will be nearly $65,000.
as against $35,000 last year. The now '
budget calls for a salary increase of 34
per cent.
At a meeting of the Washington Stale
Medical association at Spokane Dr. A.
E. Burns of Seattle was elected presi
dent, and Tacoma chosen as next year's
meeting place.
J, Schoenburg. who some time ago
purchased a fruit ranch near Wapato
for $19,000, expects to sell from it this
season fruit that will amount to twic
the sum paid for the ranch.
GENERAL
A balance of $263,000,000 Is due Hi
United States from France as a result
of cooperative war activities.
A cache of aigrettes valued at $2.1,000
was found at San Francisco Friday
aboard the steamer San Antonio.
California needs 46,000 cars to handle
the crop of raisin and table grapes.
There are only 25,000 in sight.
Two schooners went down at Cat Is
land, Bahama group, with all on bonrd
during the hurricane several days ago.
A dispatch from Moscow claims tlx
capture of nearly 12.000 prisoners from
Admiral Kolchak's forces in southern
Russia.
Killing his wife with a shot In thd
head and another In the body, E. .1.
Ballard, 88 years old, then fired two
shots into his own body at Salt Luke
Friday night.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
Some fellers'll work fer notiiin' most
as well as If they was paid fer it. I've
heerd name mighty fine sermon
preached by ministers that made their
own livin' farmin' and preached fer th
love of It. The devil "las workers, too
at the same price, or less. Which nilud
me I'm plum tired of tryin' to foller ihm
antics of some of our big statesmen
that's a-buckin' of the Iariie. of Na
tions. If Germany ,wan busted and
I didn't know somethln' of the vanities
and weaknesses of man, I mtuht thlnlc
them Huns had a propagandy fund hi
enough to tempt a U. S. senator from,
the beaten path. t
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Places
A woman member of the Cumberland
and Westmoreland Antiquarian society of
England has discovered what is believed
to be a Roman bloomery, or ancient
smelting furnace. Her attention waJ
drawn to the place by the work of moles,
which recently exposed some of the re
mains, and again later by the burning
of the whins formerly concealing the
hearth and other features of the bloom
ery. near Forest How.
By some exploration with a spade,
fche traced the foundations of a large
hearth. 12 yards In diameter, and a num
ber of heaps of cinders, slag and ore ;
and she also turned up specimens o
Roman tiles, with pottery, slag and hem
atite. The size of the hearth of ths
Forest How bloomery marks It as quit
different from the ordinary north coun
try mediaeval Iron furnaces, which run
from seven to nine or JO feet in diam
eter, for the ons just found is 12 yard
across, , a' -;'," , .. . . , , -
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