THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORT LAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER". 23, 1919.
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WHO ISED THE DAGGER?
R'
,EPPECTING the effort to throw
blame for killing the treaty on
President Wilson, here are some
facta:
Lodge and his group expressed op
position to a League of Nations be
fore the president went to Paris. They
foughnlhe Idea through interviews
in French newspapers while the presi
dent was in the conference at Paris.
They fought the league when the
president rarne back from Paris with
the draft of the first covenant. They
.fought it when the president, after
embodying changes suggested by Mr.
Taft and even by the opposition sen
ators, came back with the second
covenant, and have been fighting it
ever since.
Here are other facts: President Wil
son insists that the Lodge reservations
are not a ratification but a "nullifi
cation" of the treaty. Who is in
better position to know? Holding
that view, was it for him to remain
silent when the Lodge crowd, on the
final vote, was In the act of plunging
the dagger into the heart of the
treaty?
There is high Republican authority
that agrees that the president is right
in holding the Lodge reservations to
be "nullification." Vhrea examples
will be sufficient. Here they arc:
Senator McCumber, Republican of
North Dakota, friend of the league,
said of the Lodge reservation on Shan
tung, that he believed it equivalent to
rejection of the treaty, and he be
lieved it imperilled acceptance by all
the other great powers.
Senator Harding, Republican, who
supported the treaty with tho Lodge
reservations, but whose friendship
for the league is thoroughly Pick
wickian, said that with the reserva
tions there remains "the skeleton of
a league."
Mr. Lodge said of the reservation
on article 10 that "it disposes of arti
cle 10 so far as we are concerned, and
effectively disposes of it."
These opinions are from expres
sions of Republican senators, all mem
bers of the foreign relations commit
tee, where the reservations were
framed. They support what the pres
ident said. They indicate that the
president is still on guard, performing
his constitutional duty as a part of
the treaty making power, and the
main part, for he may submit or with
draw a treaty at will.
He has defended the treaty against '
the Lodge reservations, which in the
opinion of McCumber mean rejection,
In the opinion of Harding make it a
skeleton, and in the opinion of Lodge
dispose of article 10, one of its lead
ing parts.
Federal
managers of the Great
Northern are credited with the op
timistic report that the earnings of
the lino this year will be larger prob-
bly than in other years. If the
ureat rMortnern, with its mountain
haul, its steep grades, its extra costs
for transportation and its extra wear
on equipment, can report such large
earnings under abnormal conditions,
what should be the returns of the
railroads that follow the water grad
of the Columbia? If the revenues
and outlays of the lines that have
served Tuget Sound and ports of. the
Columbia under federal control were
tabulated, the result woultj furnish
the strongest evidence yet educed
for recognition of the Columbia
water grad.
FIRES OF YESTERDAY
r"S an 111 wind that blows nobody
good. The admonition that Port
land must cut coal consumption to
a minimum is a reminder that mil
lions of cords of wood may be found
within comparatively short distances
of Portland and that hundreds of re
turned soldiers who are awaiting per
manent employment would undoubt
edly be glad to aid in meeting the fuel
, emergency, at the same time earning
;. enough to retain that cherished treas-
tire of independence which made them
the soldiers they were.
And, speaking of returned soldiers
and ' their -Employment, does anyone
flow recaljf the breakfasts given other
. fighting men at The Auditorium as
they; left for the front? toothers.
wives and sweethearts gathered there
to render a last service of love be
fore their ; departure. City officials,
business men, fathers and brothers
united In fervid assurance that when
they returned from the trenches vic
torious, nothing for their pleasure or
good would be withheld from them.
Now the boys are back. They are
victorious. They 'have earned the
highest praise and the richest reward.
They are worthy the best offerings
of honor and gratitude.
But there are'more than a thousand
enrolled at Liberty Temple asking .for
work. The number is being constantly
augmented.
Are they unwillingly idle because
we are so willingly forgetful?
Oregon and Ohio are in a race for
first place in the 1919 War Savings
campaign. Today they stand neck
and neck but Oregon will win. Her
record in government financing
stands above that of all other states,
and her loyal citizens whose spon
taneous and whole hearted response
to every appeal of our country won
for her that honor will never per
mit another state to wrest it from
her. But we must not lag. Only a
single month remains in which to
complete our task. The patriotic
Elks lodges of the state have under
taken the task of raining our full
quota and every citizen should
quickly respond to the solicitors.
If in the rush of the closing hours
someone is overlooked by the solici
tors he should phone hia Klks lodge
for a pledge card.
HIS CAR IS JAILED
B'
ECAUSE he has figured in three
recent automobile accidents, one
Portlander cannot drive his car
for the next six months. If he
does drive it he will, under a sen
tence imposed by Judge Rossman yes
terday, go to Jail for 90 days.
Through The Journal recently Judge
Rossman advocated such a penalty.
The proposal was received through
out Portland with many expressions ,
of approval. It is one suggestion
in the present universal discussion
of automobile accidents that has been
agreed to as a most effective means
of bringing drivers back to sanity.
A fine is nothing. We have been
fining drivers for years, only to see
the accidents .mount. The more we
fined, the more the accidents in
creased.
There is more or less of mania in
motoring. There is a great deal more
of ignorance-ignorance of the deadly i
power of a moving car.
Depriving reckless drivers of the
use of their cars as a penalty for
accidents in which they are to blame.
will cure both the mania and the ,
ignorance, insofar as a penalty can !
do it. Along with the educative
agencies now working in Portland,
measures of the kind will make Port
Ian streets as safe as the country
road's. "That is the goal to be aimed
at. Th4 Is what is going to be done
before this drive for safety ends.
Then everybody can have an auto
mobile and be free to drive it with
out fear of being smashed up by some
reckless or ignorant motorist.
We read that San Francisco has
had another earthquake shock, that
a 75-mile gale has sunk shipping
in the bay, interrupted streetcar
service, blown down electric signs,
broken windows and played general
hob. and yet we hear some people
sigh for "Frisco."
NEW HIGHWAY COMMISSIONER
T
HE appointment of E. E. Kiddle
as state highway commissioner
to succeed the late J. N. Burgess
is generally accepted as a good
one.'' Although Mr. Kiddle has not
acquired a state wide identification
with highway development he has;Narv advised in his July speech, is
been prominent locally. His success '.
in the management of private affairs
warrants the confidence that he will
bring to the public service the same
method and independence of action.
There is also reason to be assured
that he will not be governed by local
influences but will always bear in
mind that he represents the whole
of Eastern Oregon instead of a par
ticular section of it.
When the state highway commis-
Sinn was first nnraniod Honht
expressed by some that a non-salaried
' commission could be maintained. Thus
j far it has been proved that there are
j plenty of good men who will serve
j without any other compensation than
j that of the satisfaction derived from
' the discharge of public dutv.
Dr. Eugene Porter, state commis
sioner of foods and markets of New
York, has announced a new dis
covery in science recently made by
him. He says that "hard cider with
a natural kick in it is difficult to
make and more difficult to keep."
JOINT TERMINALS
R. A. J. DAVIDSON, federal man
ager of the Spokane, Portland
A Seattle railway, believes that
the lessons of economy learned
by the railroads of the country under
government control will be retained
when the properties are returned to
private ownership. So do other rail
road men.
In the opinion of Mr. Davidson Joint
terminals ylll be the rule rather than
the exception in the future. It js
probable that joint ticket and freight
offices will also continue in use.
Several months ago Louis J. Hill
expressed the same idea, though he
based his predictions upon definite
ground by saying that the public,
having tasted the advantages of con
solidated ticket offices and terminals
.would insist "by. the pressure oi its
united sentiment upon the retention of
these war time innovations through
out the days of peace." - - !
the public convenience of a com
mon purchasing point for all railroad
transportation as well as of a com
mon point of arrival or departure for
all those returning from or starting
upon journeys has been so fully dem
onstrated since the railroads were
taken under federal control that it
passes without question.
The extra cost and upkeep of separ
ate terminals a ticket agencies Is
part of the reason why many of the
railroads of the country have been
running close to the financial danger
point. It is also one of the under
lying causes for high freight and
passenger rates. To steer away from
any return to the old practices will
I be a step in the direction of economy
and efficiency
When the English house of com
mons refused, by a vote of 169 to
56, to pass a bill under which
Viscount Astor could divest himself
of the title Inherited from his father,
the late William Waldorf Astor, the
astute commoners probably thought
it just as well to keep a little Amer
ican blood and a few American dol
lars circulating through the nobility
just to keep the mixture rich.
SENATOR M'SARY
S'
ENATOR M'NARY of Oregon be
lieves that a compromise will be
reached and the treaty be ratified
some time in December. Such
was his statement through The Jour
nal after arrival in Salem.
Until the final vote, Senator Mc
Nary, as a leader of the mild reserva
tionists, rendered excellent service at
Washington in the treaty fight. He
has all along been a strong appeal to
the 28,005 Oregon people who voted
in The Journal straw ballot for the
league, with but 176 voting against it.
Senator McNary's speech in the sen
ate in favor of the league was ex
haustive and effective. It was deliv-
Pred July 29. and among other things
he said: "The necessity of a cove
nant containing the moral virility of
Article 10 is manifest." He added:
To limit, alter or modify the moral ob
ligation would, in my opinion, operate
as an amendment. We must not forget
that if we attempt by general reserva
tions or amendments to alter the splen
did purposes of the covenant or weaken
it so far as it affects our duties, it
cannot be expected that other nations
will not follow our lead. Having dem- j
onstrated our altruism and usefulness I
in this
war and our overpowering
rather our ideala to ask 8pecla,
privileges when the peace of the world
and the welfare and happiness of man
kind are involved?
Senator McNary's contention was in
complete disagreement vvuu wit : uuus
reservation. Senator Lodge, speaking
on ins reservauuu, aaiu iu uie scuaw
November 10:
I think the people of the country un
derstand very well what this reserva
tion means, that it disposes of Article
10 so far as we are concerned, and ef
fectively disposes of it.
Here is complete disagreement be
tween Senators McNary and Lodge.
The Oregon senator's speccli was a
protest against any such destruction
of Article 10 as Lodge contended for.
It was an appeal against any man
handling of any part of the covenant
to satisfy partisan aims or forward
personal likes or dislikes. Thus, Sen
ator McNary further said:
This occasion is too serious for anger
or recrimination, too big for partisan-
ship, too full of good for personal con- .
sideration.
The treaty Is, as Senator McNary
says, "too serious for anger or re
crimination," and "too big for parti
sanship." Former President Taft says
the same thing. So do Elihu Root
and Judge Hughes, all of whom dis
agree with the Lodge plan, all of
whom want the treaty ratified with
out destructive changes.
.The big part now, as Senator Mc
tn ..ane,,r or recrimination" and
be "too big for partisanship." The
pro-Germans, the Bolshevists, the agi
tators and the other discordant ele
ments, all clamoring against the
treaty, are not the real voice of Amer
ica. Presently the confusion will pass
away, and then all will know that
the treaty meant disarmament, arbi-
tration of international disputes and
permanent pece substituted for the
horror.; and hellishness through which
v... ,.. th iv lope or tne worm, tne t.ung u.ai iouge
i will tnnw whn .em trim friends
' of tho irp.tv anH hn wpp not
- The international institute of ag
riculture announces from Rome that
the world has harvested bumper
crops of corn, potatoes and rice,
which ought to drive dull care aWay
from the colored population, the
Irish and the Chinese.
KITCHEN THRIFT
E day's news contains reports that
Portland's living cost mounted
half of 1 per cent in a month,
a
that half of Idaho's scales under-
weigh and that waste from- American
kitchens continues unabated.
Let the scales be made to weigh
full measure and the frugal spirit
of the French housewife be introduced
into our kitchens and there will be
less groaning over the grocery, meat
and milk bills.
As yet household economy in Uiis
country is more of a boast than a
fact. The garbage can is still a
betrayer of careless culinary habits.
It would be a good plan for house
wives to divide time, equally, at least
between complaining of costs and
practicing the precepts of thrift
The labor members of the Eng
lish parliament who are expressing
dissatisfaction over the size bf their
parliamentary paychecks might
strife for feigner wages an4 force
tbe law mill to shut down until
their demands were . granted with
out the country's Insisting; upon Im
mediate return to maximum production.
THEY SEEK PEACE
T
iHE Danish Baptist general confer
ence of America, which recently
closed Its annual national meet
ing at Viborg, South Dakota,
wants peace and it does not want
universal military training. In sup
port of its position it adopted resolu
tions and instructed its recording sec
retary to forward copies of them to
the various members of the United
States senate and to all of the leading
newspapers of the United States.
The conference in one resolution de
clares itself to be in harmony with
the peace treaty and urges upon all
the members of the senate that they
use the influence of their high office
to secure the early adoption of the
treaty by the senate. In the sister
resolution inveighing against the es
tablishment of universal military
training the conference states that it
desires to voice its sentiment against
the efforts now being made do fix
the practice upon the United States
arguing that "it fosters the spirit of
militarism which has ruined Europe
and brought calamity to the world"
for which reason the conference "can
not but deplore if our nation should
drift in that direction."
The "mild" reservationists ought
to have realized that they could not
Philander with the league without
meeting some hard Knox or expect
ing to Lodge in a hole.
NEW LEADER
DEMANDED
Lodge's Misfitness Demonstrated From
Within Hia Own Party
' From the Chicago Post
Futility! That is the result of
Lodge's fight this session upon the
treaty of peace. Bad leadership has
brought the Republican majority in the
senate to complete nonaecomplishment.
Think of the promises with which the
party made its appeal against Mr. Wil
son's partisanship in the 1918 congres
sional elections. Think of the program'
of constructive effort with which it an
swered the country's vote of confidence.
Think of its definite promises to cut
taxes, force economy in government, es
tablish a budget system, readjust war
tariffs, settle the railroad problem, and
so on.
Not
done.
one of these things has been
All have been neglected for the
fight to get a peace treaty with reser
vation. Now, that has failed, too. And the
net result of the session's work by a
Republican senate in a presidential pri
mary year, is nothing.
The reason is clear. It was clear
from the start. Taft saw it, Root saw
it. Hughes saw it, Hays saw it any
Republican leader whose eyes were not
dimmed with the miasma of Washing
ton's small hatreds saw it and interpret
ed it to Lodge.
Lodge failed because of a lack of
that wise moderation which men call
statesmanship. All the great "nation
als" in his party's high councils advised
him to embody In fair and reasonable
internrctatlve clauses the points which !
he believed essential to the guarding of
America's rights. Root, Taft, and
Hughes even drew the text of such res
ervations. Lodge rejected the advice of men who
are unquestionably bigger and wiser
men than he. He was ignominiously
defeated yesterday on the treaty that he
presented to the senate, simply and
solely because he would not or could
not line up with the moderates known
as the "mild reservationists." He had
the affront of having the very men who
voieu io4 iracauw.!. mm in
ineir iracivs ana vote agnniM liic vil
lainous document which he presented as
the Lodge treaty.
Lodge gave the power over into the
hands of the extremists. He made it
possible for the little knot of irreconcil
ables at either end of the scale to turn
the balance of power. He conciliated
nobody. lie made no votes. He lost
votes for the position which he forced
hia party to take.- He was even out
maneuvered in a parlimentary sense
when Underwood forced him to move
the resolution which placed the tech
nical responsibility for defeating the
treaty on the shoulders of the G. O. P.
...
In the process, too, Lodge did almost
Irreparable injury to the great cause of
world peace and world unity, which dur
ing the war was daily on his own lips,
as well as upon those of Philander
Knox, Medill McCormick, Hiram John
son and the group of Republican sena-
I tors who have since soVn hatred and
! hyphenism with every breath of their
j Xg tT wlcT n" have
; b,, untrue was phrased yesterday by
j General Jan Christum Smuts of South
Africa, in his appeal In behalf of the
once held sacred and now sneers at
'.'I appeal to America." said Smuts,
"not to blast the hopes of the world.
America has established a great record
in the war. She has shown herself
capable of the highest altruism. When
human freedom was endangered and ap
pealing hands were stretched out, Amer
ica rose to the height of her great op
portunity, shamed the cynics who be
lieved she was merely bent on money
making and rushed whole-heartedly to
rescue those great human ideals for
which the allies were fighting.
"Her great- act of unselfishness and
moral Idealism in the most critical stage
of the war saved world democracy.
"Will the great leaders hang behind
the ranks t"
The great leaders have not hung be
hind the ranks. But the small leaders
have. The Tafts, Roots and Hughes
have gone steadily forward like patri
otic Americans, seeking the safeguard
ing of their own country, but scrupu
lously holding their honor to the allies
and their unyielding opposition to the
German assault upon civilization.
The small leaders have forsaken
everything of their moral obligation.
Lodge, Knox, Johnson, Borah. McCor
mick, Sherman, Reed, La Follette, Gore
have not only opposed the League of
Nations ; they have also opposed every
thing that America stood for in the
world war.
Again, in behalf of Republicanism.
we demand a new leadership for the
party in the great political arena, of
the United States senate. Henry Cabot
Lodge has led Republicanism into the
ditch. We demand an end of the
"small" leadership ; we call upon the
moderate Republicans in the mild reser-
vationist group to start the next ses
slon of Congress with their hands upon
tne throttle or party power.
They have but to grasp It: Henry
Cabot Lodge has had his hand removed
txhm. it by tba vtas oi bis own party.
Letters From 'the People
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Free Speech and the Laws
Portland. Nov. 27. To the Editor of
The Journal Just what is 100 per cent
American? I ask the question in all
sincerity, for in the present wild wave
of hysteria against radicalism that is
sweeping the country all old standards
seem to have been cast aside and mob
law and rule openly advocated and
practiced. The fundamental principles
of free speech and free press have been
practically annulled and freak laws pro
posed that if enacted and enforced wiU
make it a crime to even propose a change
in the present order of Industry or gov
ernment. Press dispatches of this week
tell of prevention by mobs of meetings
of Socialists, -Non-Partisans and others
throughout tire country, and not a word
of protest from any prominent paper,
so far as I am aware. On the contrary,
there seems to be a concerted effort to
inflame the public mind against all so
called radicals by creating the impres
sion that all are red revolutionists by
fo$ce.
The newly organized legiorl seems to
be lending itself to the idea of action
superior to the law. Lieutenant Colonel
Roosevelt openly advocated this when he
is reported to have said : "Don't argue
with these men, but go after them, and
go after them hard." General Liggett
is also reported to have said: "Just
leave it to the legion boys; they will
attend to these men." or words to that
effect. At the recent Ad club meeting
a member of the legion is reported to
have voiced the same sentiments, and
the Ad club itself seems to be in favor
of this new and strange brand of Amer
icanism. "Now I may be mistaken, but I still
believe in the old fashioned brand and
ideal of American democracy, free
speech, free Dress, and the right of !
every man accused of crime to a fair
and Impartial trial. These funda
mental principles are the very founda
tion stones of our government and of all
all progress toward that broader de
mocracy for which we fought and won
the war.
To my mind the present method of
dealing with radicalism Is altogether
I wrong and un-American. Instead of
suppressing their papers, closing their
meeting places, mobbing their speakers,
etc., they should have been met on their
own ground and their fallacies exposed
in open forum so that the public might
get the real facts in the case. As it is.
owing to the high handed way of dealing
with them, thousands of people in every
state in the union have been driven to
sympathy with their radical views, if not
tc actual membership in their organiza
tions. We have always had plenty of
law and means of dealing with dan
gerous and criminal persons without go
ing to such extremes.
In my opinion, if we were to gather
up and hang every so-called dangerous
Red in the country it would but add to
the present unrest. These things are ef
fects and not causes. The big war tore
the old order of things asunder and the
problem is to adjust
new conditions, but
by destroying the
of liberty and progress,
press and action within just
eous law.
In conclusion, let me say that what
we need just now is fullest and freest
publicity on all questions. Throw open
the auditoriums and schoolhouses in
every part of the land. Invite the I. W.
W. and other radicals there to tell their
story In public Let your business men.
members of the Ad club, Chamber of
Commerce, eta, meet them there and
refute their fallacies in public. Then let
the DaDers Rive a full and truthful ac-
count of what is said and done and 1
will warrant that every Red terror will
disappear like the mist or tne morning,
for I have an abiding faith In the col
lective judgment of the American peo
ple when they know the trnth of the
matter. D. K. LUNSFORD.
False to Their Trust
Portland, Nov. 25. To the Editor of
The Journal The traitorous work of
certain members of the United Slates
senate in fighting the league treaty has
caused America to be termed the one
slacker in the settlement of the peace
question. Contrary to the will of the
great American majority they have cast
contumely and censure upon our be
loved country. After it has given the
life blood of thousands of noble sons,
as well as vast wealth, to fight for the
cause of freedom and peace to all the
nations. It has been stricken by the
policy of Hunism, for the destruction
of all institutions but its own, for the
antichrist Wilhelm Hohenxollern and his
minions of militarism.
The traitorous workings of those sena-
tors has brought shame to us m the eyes
of our noble allies ana an unjust con-
demnation of the only man that almost
sacrificed his life in the discharge of
his duty.
And they were elected by the people
because they thought they were , 100
per cent Americans. Ferish sucn Amer-
icanlsm !
It is the duty of all Americans to de
mand their impeachment and sending
them back to their homes branded as
recreants. OSBORNE YATES.
A Patriot's Wrath
Portland. Nov. TZ. T the Editor of
The Journal I am a laboring man and
an American as well as an Oregonlan,
but I can't go to my work this morn
ing without first venting my feelings
toward a portion of our congressmen.
by whose acts we as a people and as a
nation . have been brought into a classi
fication with the assassins of Germany
and the heathen of China.
We read how we gained our freedom
from tyranny. Again, in itsei, we nad
an experience in the second errort
along the same line and in1916 we again
sacrificed our bovB and our substance
to again regain this same peace and in -
dependence. This was a success so far
as these errons were concernea. ana
at the end we were made to rejoice.
And now, at this late hour, that one
man or tyrant should stand in the
wayi of all humanism and destroy all
. . 1. Aw ainAH ia tnn
1""5"V "" - "
much.
Any man that could not or would not
see that President W ilson had done the
right thing on everything within his
power to bring about early peace, uni
versay democracy and lasting prosper
ity is either politically blinded, dishon
est or a fool, and I think it is due time
for the people to show their hand by
standing together and let just such fel
lows as Lodge know they are not the
whole people.
Give this act of Lodge quiet considera
tion. Think of the disgrace and shame
and trouble brought about by his con
duct. Then let us act.. When such gov
ernment arises as would Impair domes
tic tranquillity let us. arise and abolish
It. Then let us as Oregsn people de
mand of the senate to act favorably
upon the League of Nations.
CITIZEN OP" OREGON.
A Not Improbable Trade Route
From tba Encefta Bacister
At first thought the assertion by Mr.
Williams of La Pine, that many people
of his section of Central Oregon would
buy extensively in Eugene and other
valley cities If there were a good road
over the Willamette pass seems a little
tar latched, fox Central Oregon U a long
very foundation stones ! productive was water, which upon in- , ".faU l" Br'VT capital st to --'"J '""h
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Are you doing your Christmas shop
ping now?
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Oh, say, can you see .through the
dawn's early mist?
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Now that we have been assured again
and again that the United States is pre
pared to act in Mexico, we may expect
nwn. io icain mat ine u. a. nas acted. .
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The Germans are complaining that
the allies are taking everything from
them. And yet the Germans have al
ready found out that there are some
things the allies won't take from anybody.
.
Rather than have their families and
rriends left out in the cold, soldiers are
willing to go into the coal mines. Read
ing that a number of students have also
volunteered to work In the mines, one is
tempted to remark that they should be
well qualified to "dig".
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A well known political writer a few I
weeks ago. listed 28 presidential possi- i
out and get some more horizon
You can follow the farm boy by
watching his1 work, wherever he goes.
1 rinstance. We have just been reading a
bully little editorial in the New York
Sun on the dietetic nntanHai it i rr
brown sugar that couldn't have been
written by anyone save an ex-farm boy
who would now be about io to 60 years i
old. And the best of It Is that this i
old chap doesn't seem to have ever been
anything since that seemed to hit the i
spot like being that same farm boy. I
IMPRESSIONS AND
O-l:
uiiiiiw. as looming above the political Kenzie river, ana ne nas sent worn mai , . exl,osirjo-" .," f.r. V,rt i .JLZ.
horixon; from which It is evident that he has killed one bear and expects to ft1 K ,!r1n. ,".!"rtB fj" ,. ,
either a lot of this looming has got to . hag more. He had killed four in the m ua n prizes -amounting" to
THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
In tlii second and conrlodinc artirle relat
ing to John D. HpnTki-U and liia entrprifM-?.
Mr. Ivocklry report him in a sketch of his work
as a railroad builder in Southern California,
and in hi earlier exploit of t-itabUsliing sii;ar
plantings io Hawaii and itcanuhip linei out of
Sun Francisco. J
The son of a rich man has a heavy
handicap. If he succeeds people are
apt to say he won out because he had a
pull or secured credit because of his
father's wealth. John D. Spreckels, the
sugar magnate, and I were discussing
this same fact recently in his office at
San Diego.
"I was superintendent of my father's
sugar refinery at San Francisco when I
was 22 years old," said Mr. Spreckels.
"I was given the place because 1 had
worked up through the different posi-
tions of responsibility, but naturally the
public thought I had the job because
I was my father's son. This was in
1875, just 44 years ago. I decided to
make good on my own account, so I went
to the Sandwich islands to study the
sugar industry and to analyze the sugar
produced there and determine its value.
"I ran across a large body of unused
land, consisting of 20,000 acres. When
I inquired as to its value I was told
it was of little or no value, as the soil
was too poor to produce sugar cane. I
analyzed it and found the soil rich in
recommending its purchase. He told me
to Investigate the title. I found it was
crown land. There was a question as to
Its actual ownership. The then rt-ign-lng
monarch was not of the direct line
of descent from the royal family. We
hunted up, the heirs of the former ruler
the heirs of royal blood and paid
$10,000 for their equity In the land. This
was 50 cents an acre. To make a long
story short, the Hawaiian legislature
eventually passed a measure confirm-
! ing our title to this land, as they did
not want the whole question of the
ownership of crown lands brought into
court, with the possibility of clouding
the titlj of lands the validity of whose
title deeds had not in the past been
brought into question.
"When we acquired this tract I was
ourselves to the j the necessary elements for plant growth. ; - " ra Lrui to compel , "', t a -Zin. "
i . .. AV..nl,t . - t , . ' M :i u.r in, nun nn uf hit ti u ru
we cannot do this i knew mat all it needed to maKe it "' in.i ui - -
, free speech, free vestigation I found could be secured at. wjeir i.nanciai support, ana t) John Herman of Kallspell. Mont, the
and right- a reasonable cost. I wrote my father.;"'1 i was nign ana ary. l ins consideration being 4i!.,000.
employed by the corporation that ! work. I finally convinced the authori
financed the deal to get water on the , ties in Washington that the road was
land, plant it to sugar cane, superintend j essential to our success in transporting
the construction of a sugar refinery, and troops in case of trouble occurring in
build a railroad line to market the Mexico, and they allowed me to pro-
product. When I had done this I de-
cided to go into business for myself as
a dealer and shipper or sugar, i de
cided to pay freight charges to myself,
so I bought the little schooner Rosarlo.
Later I built a vessel which I named
for my father. Soon I had nine ves
sels flying my flag. Then I organized
a steamship company and operated two
steamships from Sin Francisco to Hono
lulu. I now operate the Oceanic line,
my steamers plying from San Francisco
to Honolulu, Samoa and Australia."
"We started this talk by referring to
completion of the San Diego &
Arizona railway, but we got off the
; track and on a branch line. Let's hack
up and get on the main line," I said.
"You wanted to know how long the
road is, what it coat to build, and how
j lonK jt t00k t0 build it." said Mr. Spreck
els ..jt runs from gan Diego to El
Centre in the heart of Imperial valley.
It is 149 miles long. It connects with
the Southern Pacific at Calexlco. It
should have cost about $12,000,000. It
way off. Yet the time is not very far
distant in the past when Eugene ac
tually did draw no little trade from
across the Cascades.
It was quite the common thing only
a few years ago for wagons to cross
the mountains from Central Oregon to
Eugene, traveling this same Willamette
pass, and returning later not only with
a supply of Western Oregon fruit but
with a winter's outfit of supplies pur
chased here. There was a time when
Eugene's relations with Central Oregon
were much closer than they are now.
It is true that in those days there was
1 no railroad in all the great Eastern
; Oregon country, out neuner, ior mat
matter, was there an automomie.
The
railroads have tapped the country across
the Cascades, but at the same time the
automobile has cut down distances' tre-
mendously. When wagons were coming
. . otvx. ...... (I .. ,,v
lV , . T ln rV.nt fXrfl" th city 'or three or four days past,
nlies It was a trip of some moment, for i . . ... , , . . .
it tooj, days to cross the range. Now.
however, the trip would mean little
with a good road across the pass, for
the automobile has made of trips that
once took days a mere matter of hours.
Take 'Em All
From Uia Detroit Sewt
Soviet Russia announces it will take
back all the reds ordered out of America
by Uncle Sam. Thanks, ol' top. and may
we not suggest you also accept, with
our compliments, the chap who thinks
he must tell yon a funny story every
time he sees you, the one who wants to
argue with you about his superior way
of brewingJjie .person in the next flat
who insi8t on playing last year's asz
pieces with a dull needle and the motor
ist woo honks hia horn just to make you
Jump.
It will help a lot.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says:
With the peace treaty held up, the
spectators can reap harvests in the win
ter time. The way statesmen can fuss
around and play politics and -play Sher
man's name for war is surely plumb
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NEWS IN BRIEF
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Lakevlew's postofflce is becoming
seriously cramped for room owing to the
large increase in business during the
past year, the Examiner says. Post
master White states a blockade is likely
to occur during the holidays.
The Antelope, Shaniko, Maupln and
Mosier high schools have been chosen by
E. F. Carlton, assistant state super
intendent ' of public instruction, for
recommendation'' for standardization, fol
lowing a tour of Wasco county schools.
It Is reported that the big bull elk
In the state fair grounds, which was to
have been killed because of the ungov
ernable temper It has recently developed,
may be allowed to live because of the
protests of the Salem lodge No. 336,
B. P. O. E.
Lester Swagart, 17-year-old boy liv
ing south of Spencer's Butte, has added
to his renutation as a bear killer, ac-
cording to the Eugene Register. He and
August Vitus are on a hunt up the M
Nature story from the Orewgey Pio
neer Sun: "Floyd Capps shot a coyote
Friday while hunting wn the hills west
of town. He took Mr. Coyote by the
hind lees and swung him over his shoul
der ana started down the hills for camp.
After traveling a short distance, he said
he felt something pulling his coat tall,
and on throwing the . coyote to the
ground he foutrd he had come to life
again and was trying to get him by the
seat of his pants."
OBSERVATIONS
Lock ley
cost IV7.000.000. This line is 113 mil.
shorter than any other transcontinental
line. I don't have lo tell you what the
completion of the line means in the up
building of San Diego.
"When E. H. Harriman was at the
head of the Southern Pacific I was
asked to announce my Intention to build
a railroad from San Diego to Yuma. The
Southern Pacific company knew that if
it was thought I was back of the road
I would be able to secure rights of way,
terminal sites and land which they
would have difficulty in securing. In
1910 E. H. Harriman came out to see
me and told me to go ahead and he
j and his company would take the road
over as soon as it was completed and
j would make good on every expense and
. fulfill every promise I made. I knew
, Harriman s word was' good, so I put
lot of money into it. Like a bolt out
of the blue came the news of Mr. Har
riman's death. His successor did not
care to redeem the pledge made by Mr.
Harriman. I had to take it over on
my own account and finance it. It has
taken 12 years to complete the road
years of nerve-racking strain.
"I finally arranged to dispose of J10..
"0.000 of bonds to Kngllsh capitalists.
i DPIOre lne aeai was completed Hucrta
I refused to salute our flag and we sent
, ?ne
First had been the death of K.
H. Harrlm!. then the panic of 1907.
and then this expedition to Vera Cruz.
That blew over, and once -nore 1 had tho
money in sight when Villa came across
the border. We sent Pershing into Mex
ico to get him, alive or dead. The re
sult was. the marketing of the bonds
again fell through and the whole project
was considered dead and ready tn bury
even If Pancho Villa wasn't. After a
lot of negotiations the Southern Pacific
finally agreed to get the money for me.
Just as I was ready to le' the contracts
the 4th of August. 1914, occurred, and
the whole world was plunged into war.
That was more than 'check.' It looked
like 'checkma'.e.' Soon we were in, too,
and the government had taken over the
railroads. We were told to stop all
ceed.
"You know what happened, and how
the prices of materials and labor went
sky high. We had to drive 21 tunnels,
and it turned out that 17 out of the 21
had to be drilled through solid granite.
If you want to know something of the
engineering problems we met and mas
tered just go down and take a look at
Carriso gorge. Well, next Saturday,
November 15, we drive the golden spike ;
to commemorate the completion of the:
road. As president and builder of the .
road, I am to make a few remarks. I
: am hoping I will, but I don't know. The
; nearer the time comes the more scarnd
I am at the thought of it. Maybe I will
speak. I don't know. If I don't, the
completed road will speak for itself and
for those who helped to build it. This
one thing I will say, if ! do speak, and
tlia- is that I doubt if any of us realizes
what its completion will mean to the
upbuilding and development of San
Diego and the country through which
the road passes."
Olden Oregon
Karly Plan of Voluntary Taxation Did
Not Work at All Well.
When the provisional government was
established in the Oregon territory It
was planned to carry on the expense of
administration by voluntary subscrip
tion, so strong was the sentiment
against the levying of a tax. It was
provided that a subscriber might with
draw his name from the subscription
list at any time, after paying up all ar
rearages. The plan did not work very
well, and In 1844 the legislative commit
tee passed a law levying a light tax.
Anyone refusing to pay the! tax was
disqualified as a voter.
Ilope In the Silver Lake Section
From the Rand Praaa
F. M. Chrlsman. proprietor of the
Silver Lake, stage line, who has been
reports business good in his section, and
states that prospects for development
were never better. Irrigation Interests
are looking up and the northern part of
Lake county is coming into prominence
as a stock and farming country, the
tatter of course depending largely upon
the fruition of Irrigation hopes, which"
seem about to be realised. Newcomers
are looking over the country nearly
very day and considerable property
has changed hands during the present
year. The people of that section have
faith that the Strahorn railroad will be
completed within the next two years and
Silver Lake will be on the main line.
Astronomical
From tbe Wwton Leader
Karly risers are delighted with the
brilliant spectacle presented by the
planets Venus and Jupiter appearing in
the .norning sky. At night the dazzling
constellation Orion fascinates all be
holders, being in the center of the galaxy
that marches 1n procession across the
winter skies. Its arrival announces that
the outdoor season is past, that winter
landscapes will soon prevail and that
the period of closed easements and slm
muring Ceahpots is at band.
The Oregon Country
KorUiweet Bappralnaa ta Briaf form igc tba
uJ fiaadat.
OREGON NOTES
Five blocks on Main street in Hermls
ton are being graded and graveled.
"Aunt" Jane Veatch. who had mads
her home at Cottage Grove since 1853,
died in that city Thursday.
A permit has been issued at Pendle- '
to V. K. Cary for the erection of a
l.iO.000 apartment house. It will con
tain 15 apartments.
An election will be held in Enterprise
early In December to vote on the tu
ance of ,170,000 worth of bonds for
public imprdvemehts. !
. E. A. Feraruaon. in Pxnrlen,Ml mil.
lor, announces that he will begin' tmtne
iiiairiy me construction oi a 60 ba,
nouring mill at Ontario.
Jesse Strong, a 1-t-year-old boy, was
arrested at Newport charged with steal
ing $120 from the residence of Otto
II lgate. The money was found on the
lad.
My "winning first place for O. A
KHrmers under the Ochooo Irria-utlon
project have rtecldc-d to pool their or
ders for approximately 80o) pounds of
alfalfa seed to be sown on pcojeet lands
next year.
A proposed constitutional amendment
emending the highway indebtedness
limitation Iroin to 4 per cent will b
filed in the office of the secretary of
Mate next week.
A new college telephone exchange has
been established at Oregon Agricultural
eollge. It includes I'.l phones and ex
tensions connecting up all the offices in
the college plant. '
O. H. fteeder han been elected presi
dent and John K. lletr Ciishlet of the
new Athena Slate b;ink. which will open
for buslnesH as soon as Uie safe and
equipment arrive.
A. Arllr.ger and .1. Arlinger. brother,
injured In the boiler explosion at the
1'Hrrnalee sawmill near Taft. have dlctt
from their Injuries, making a total q
fivu deaths from the disaster.
The condemnation units growing out
of the state highway commission sur
veying a road through the dairy farm
of T. H. Moore at Tillamook linve been
settled by arbll ration, the commission
paying Moore 13400.
It Is reported thut a movement will
be initiated at the next session 'Of the
legislature to cut from Clackamas and
annex to Multnomah county a lrg
slice of thickly populated territory north
of the Clackamas river.
WASHINGTON
Pift v-ttiree r.iiM nf amnllnAT ara iinw
j der quarantine at Spokane, and 29 casea)
of diphtheria.
i Sheriff David Yates seized 2! barreln
I "f wine, with five Italian owners, at
a;"alla ""
The car famine on Grays Harbor in
the most acute in years, only five earn
being received at Aberdeen the past
week.
A special session of the superior court
for Clarke county Is to he called soon
to try the I. W. W. suspects held in tho
county Jail.
Tn a drive by the Wnjla Walla Com
mercial club for membership. 400 new
names were added, making the total en
rollnient 7M.
Tie Good Government league at Yaki
ma is planning the recall of Mayor IL
The distinction of organizing the first
community Y. M. C. A. In the Northwest
goes to (..entralla. the organisation be
ing now prncltciilly completed.
Mrs. M. C. Keyset- was fatally In
jured at Aberdeen Thursday when an
automobile in which le wan riding
turned over on the street, pinning her
underneath.
Jackson Draper was arrested at Wajla
Walla Thursdsy night on s charge of
floating a big strlug of worthless checks.
He had several checks -In hia poossea
slon when arrested.
The laying of two keels for Ilia big
8800-ton tankers being built by th
Standifer corporation at Vancouver has
been completed, and work on the frames
will begin immediately.
Herbert W. Davles, a mall carrier of
Seattle, is under arrest charged with
withholding from the mails a letter
containing a money order which had
been given him for delivery.
M. Slocu'm, a prominent fruit grower"
of Monitor, and his 1 7-year-old sou
Cecil, were Instantly killed Thursday
when a passenger train slrn-k an auto
mobile ill which they were riding.
IDAHO
Enrollment In the Boine high school
has pasned the lOtM) mark.
W. H. Stober. yardmaster of th
Camas Prairie railroad. Is under arrest
at Lcwlhion, charged with criminal
syndicalism.
Inirlmr the past rIx months 121 pris
oners have been incarcerated In the)
,.-.,..,,. nt ..a st,,iit.ln lhi tmrrlK
of uny J,,rf.vlou8 lx months.
reining for apple.- on a nas.
,rl.k .-., i u,.,w ;,-v. i -olrf n
j ,,r r rt. McCoy of Twin Kalis, fell under
j the wheels and was tnstanily killed.
i .tames Delanev was arretted at Cald
well this week, charged with' being Im-
plicated In the robbery of J1000 worth
of furs from a Vale, Or., business
house.
The Boise chapter of the Ked Cross
has begun a aeries of lessons In first
Id. To date 27 have enrolled for th
course, among them--several employes of
the cjty.
Moscow's three banks have on de
posit $3,386,000, the lwrge.st on record,
despite one of the driest seanonn and
the shortest crop in the history of the
county.
Idaho will contribute f toftp to a $40,-
y 000 fund to be. raised by the U western
states for the purpose or plH lng belora
congress the needs of the Went In re
gard to Irrigation projects and money
loans to finance them.
GEN Kit AT.
Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett,
commander of the first American army
in France, has added hl rmrne to San .
Francisco post American legion.
A new sleeping reiord was estab
lished at New York Friday by Mrs..
Ilora Mints, whose long periods of un
consclousneK now total 01 days.
The lnter-llied commission has
topped hoHtilltles between the Lithuan
ian and the (lermsns and Russians by
directing the combatants to "retire to
the demarcation Hue of October 80.
Curious Bits of Information
For the Curious
Gleaned From Curious Place
Benarea. "the city of 2000 temples," IsT
also the city of holy wells. Only the f
devout Indian pilgrim would care k
drink of the sacred wells, for custom
says that flowers must be flung Into
most of them as peace offerings, and
these decayed floral offerings tend to ,
make tjie water unfit for drinking.
The most holy of the wells Ih tne WeU.
of Knowledge, which stunl near'
Benares' moat sacred shrine, (i.e Golden
. C.
. I 111 tne stork mriirlnir content t tit.. I lu.
Temple, and Is said to be the dwelling ,,
place of a very Important god. Tbeb
most mysterious Is the Well of Fate.!"
Amy one who looks into the Well of.
Fate exacUy at noon and falls to sea
bis shadow is said to be doomed to die)
within six months.
In another well a snake cod Uvea,
and still another Is dedicated to the
spirit of healing. Pilgrims not only
drink of the water of this well, but also
bathe In it to make aura of the water's
p&war being transferred to them. Half
a million pilgrims tour the boiy wells
of Benares every year and drink enough ,
of the water to stock up their systems
with tha germs of every disease knows
to India, - , - '".' - v.,.
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