East Oregonian : E.O., August 08, 1906, DAILY EVENING EDITION, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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OREGON X EEPS A CONSTITUTION.
Oregon has progressed In everything but her form of constitution.
This old document has been annulled by federal enactments, progress nnd
custom until there Is scarcely enough of it legal and binding today to be rec
ognizable as a constitution.
But if a constitutional convention is called by the legislature for the pur
pose of amending the old document, there Is danger that the" politicians will
control the convention and fasten a number of undesirable changes upon It.
What Is needed is a new constitution, adopted by the people and not by
the politicians.
We have the direct primary, the referendum, popular election of senators
the Initiative, local self-government for cities and other radical reform laws
In effect, and all that is needed to make Oregon the very foremost state in
the union from a legislative standpoint, is a crisp, live, up-to-date constitution,
containing no dead timber nor dry rot. The same people who have adopted
the reform laws are capable of making a new constitution, if they will assert
their prerogative.
But their is danger in the politicians.
High Tariff Increases the
Cost of Living
suitable provision for divorce a nec-1 ?
essary feature of our legislative sys
BANQUET AMID RUINS.
The following account of the banquet of the Merchants' association of San
Francisco. In the midst of the ruins of the elegant St. Francis hotel, shows
forcibly the Indomitable characteristics of the westerner.
The Argonaut says of the banquet:
On Wednesday, July 25th, the Merchants' association held n banquet in
the white and gold room of the St. Francis hotel. Aside from clearing away
the debris and sweeping the floor, the wrecked room was left very much as
It was after the fire. With the exception of brilliant electric lights the ban
queting hall was a ruin. The table equipments were Spartan In their sim
plicity and the banqueters sat on benches.
A significant episode in the banquet was the appearance of Mayor Schmltz.
It Is only a few mnoths but it seems like many years since the mayor elec
trified the Merchants' association by declining to attend their banquet at the
Palace hotel. This event was shortly after the election of last year, when a
number of prominent officials of the Merchants' association campaigned most
vigorously against Mayor Schmitz's re-election.
The mayor believed and said wiih great frankness that they were respon
sible for the numerous personal attacks on him In the press of the city, nnd
that therefore he could not with self-respect sit down to dine with them. The
Incident caused not a little feeling at the time, but like others of our tea-pot
tempests it was all wiped out by the calamitous events of last April.
The mayor was very cordially greeted at last week's banquet, and his
speech was received with much applause. He was introduced by F. J. Sym
mes, the chairman, who touched upon differences in the past between the
executive and the Merchants' association.
But he said that the members and the mayor during the past three months
had become much better acquainted than ever before, and on behalf of the
association he therefore welcomed the mayor as a particular and honored
guest.
The whole tariff Issue turns on
whether the people of the United
States will decide to continue paying
high prices for all they buy and con
tinue to add to the enormous profits
of the protected trusts. There can
he no dispute that the cost of living
has Increased 4 8 per cent since the
present tariff law was enacted.
Every housekeeper knows thlH Is
true from personal experience. It does
not require Dun's index figures to
verify this large Increase In prices.
It Is also now acknowledged that the
trusts sell their products cheaper
abroad than to our own people. It Is
also certain that wages and Incomes
of the worklngmen, small tradesmen,
clerks nnd wngeearncrs generally hnve
not Increased In like proportion to the
Increased cost of living, for whereas
It now takes $1.48 to buy what cost
l In 1897 Incomes hnve only In
creased ot) the average 14 per cent,
so that If a wageearner was getting
In 1897 J15 a week, he now gets
$17.10, If he has received the average
Increase. Tho Increased cost of what
he buys is nearly half as much again,
not Including rent.
How much rent hns Increased can
be settled by each Individual for him
self. In most of the large cities rents
have fully kept pace with the In
creased cost of living and the cost of
building amterlals has followed the
general trend of prices. In some
small cities and in villages rents have
not Increased In the same proportion,
but wages there have also not In
creased as much.
The voters of the T'nited States In
each congressional district will have
to decide, when they vote next fall
which party best represents their In
terests. The republicans stand pat
nnd will not revise the tariff in any
particular. They point to trust high
prices as an evidence of the prosperi
ty the tariff has produced anil they
keep discreetly silent about the much
Jess Increase of salaries and wages
The democrats nrc pledged to revise
the tariff bv greatly reducing the ex
cesslve rates that now- shelter the
trusts. That would result In a re
duction of high trust prices, because
If the trusts did not reduce price:
Importations of foreign goods would
come in and compete with the pro
ducts or the trusts. The reduction In
the cost of living would virtually he
an increase of salaries and wages, be
cause the money earned would buy
more, or it would take less money to
provide for the necessities of a family
or person. New York World.
tern." A similar communication as
that received by Governor Chamber
lain Is being submitted to the differ
ent state executives, In order to ascer
tain the popular sentiment regarding
the movement.
Governor Chamberlain Is of the
opinion that there exists In the United
States an urgent need of a uniform
marriage and divorce, law, and that
the submission by congress of a con
stitutional amendment directing tha
enactment of such a law Is desired by
the people of Oregon nnd that tho
legislature would eventually ratify
such a measure.
1 Stoves and
I Ranges
Tin; sailors consolation.
One night came on a hurricane.
The sea was mountains rolling,
When Barney ltuntllne turned his
quid,
And said to Hilly Bowline:
"A strong nor-wester's blowing, Bill:
Hark! don't you hear It roar now?
Lord he'p 'em, how I pities all
Unhappy folks on shore now!
"Foolhardy chaps who live In town,
What danger they ure all In,
And now are quaking In their beds.
For fear the roof should fall In;
Poor creatures, how they envies us.
And wishes. I've a notion,
For our gool luck In such a storm,
To be upon the ocean.
"But as for them who're out nil day.
On business from their houses.
And late at night are coming home,
To cheer the babes and spouses;
While you and T, Bill, on the deck,
Are comfortably lying.
My eyes! what tiles nnd chimney-pots
About their heads are flying!
"And very often have we heard
How men are killed and undone,
By overturns of carriages,
By thieves .anil fires in London.
We know what risks nil landsmen
run.
From noblemen to tailors;
Then, Hill, let us thank Providence
That you ami I are sailors!"
William Pitt.
lliliikhur of buying Stove? Well,
then step right In unci I "111 tell you
Home of tho fine points ot my Move
ami ranges, some things that other
moves don't hnve, Tims making a
good Judge of yon lx-fnro you proceed
to buy. I carry the celebrated Jewel,
St, Cl'ili-c, Home Queen and Elite
ranges, at any price front $25.00 Just
think of It, S'J.V.OO up to $00.00. Also
now Stoves ranging In price from $5.00
up to $20.00. Yon Btiind more of a
chance of being sUisfled If you buy
your cooking utensils here, because
the line la largo and the price Binall.
Lewis Hunter
House Furnisher.
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Bingham Springs
THE POPULAR BLUE MOUNTAIN RESORT.
Bingham Springs Hotel, beautifully located in the heart of the
Blue mountains. Tha Umatilla river flows past the hotel, making
an Ideal place for the lover of trout fishing. On all sides rise the
tree-clad mountains, making Bingham Springs one of the coolest and
most restful resorts in Oregon. The Hotel maintains Its own herd of
cows, furnishing an abundnnce of milk and cream for Its guests. Our
garden furnishes an abundance of fresh vegetables for the table.
We spare no pains to add to the comfort or pleasure of our guests.
Our swimming pool is one of our most populnr features. Rates,
$2.00 and $2.50 a day. $15.00 a week for one, or$25.00 for two.
Table board, $8.00 a week to campers. Camping privileges $1.50
each per week. This includes all privileges of the grounds. Including
the use of tho swimming pool. Address, M. E. FOLEY, Bingham
Springs. Gibbon Postofflce, Oregon.
A NEW BAPTISM NEEDED.
The wrecking of banks by ruthless and dishonest plungers, nnd the rob
bery of the poor depositors of hard-earned savings. Is becoming all too fre
quent In the United States.
The desire for wealth overrides every other consideration with a large
number of seemingly responsible and Intelligent business men, and the homely
and rugged honesty upon which the foundations of the government nnd the
commercial supremacy of the nation are laid, Is too often forgotten.
It Is Idle to moralize or preach upon this subject.
Passion that knows no restraint, lust for gold that fears no god nor devil
will scarcely hnrken to empty words.
What is needed Is a new baptism of honesty. Examples should be made
of the rascals who make a business of robbing people In a genteel and "legal"
form.
The foltowine from an address of President J. G. Schurmnnn of Cornell
university. Is applicable to the condition in the United States today:
The idle rich are an excrescence In any properly organized community,
savs Mr. Schurmann. And In a democratic republic, in which every man has
a vote, be assured that the rights which convention grants to property would
be swept away if the propertied classes become idle, luxurious, selfish, hard
hearted and Indifferent to the struggles and tolls of less fortunate citizens.
The vice of the age Is that men want wealth without undergoing that toil
by which alone wealth is created. The love of money and the reckless pur
suit f it Is undermining the national character. But the nation, thank God,
Is bf einnlne to Dercelve the fatal danger. The reaction caused by recent reve
lations testifies to a moral awakening.
At heart the nation Is still sound, though Its moral sense has been so long
hypnotized by material prosperity. We must restrain the brutal and predatory
pursuit of wealth by laws for the protection of the weak and for the equauz
ing of opportunity.
Amr.ng the rich and well-to-do business and professional classes "grafting"
has been so common that the very Idea of commercialism has become a by
word and a reproach.
Financiers, capitalists, corporations may be the most conspicuous sinners
but equally guilty is the merchant who cheats his customers, or the lawyer
who shows hi:- client how to circumvent the laws, or the scholar who glorifies
his patron's success in business Irrespective of the methods by which that
stioc-H -..:. achieved, or the preacher who transfigures the ruthless op
pressor and robber of six days Into the exemplary Christian of the seventh,
We are dealing with the virus of a universal Infection. The whole nation
needs a new baptism of the old virtue of honesty. The love of money and
the reckless pursuits of It are undermining the national character.
President Roosevelt makes every
minute count. He Is even busy w neu
Is being shaved. A deft-fingered
cgro brings in towel, soap and razors,
nd waits quietly until the president
s ready. The president comes In from
his office, takes off his glasses and
seats himself in a chair. Very fre-
uently some cabinet officer or favor-
d newspaper correspondent Is shown
during the process, or asked to
stay before it nns negun.
ecretary Loeb may come In from
the adjoining room with a fountain
pen und a document for the president
to sign. For a moment the shaving
suspended and the president, un
disturbed by lather, leans forward to
affix hi& name.
The story is told In Washington of
i governor of one of our insular pos
sessions who, several times, went to
the White House to explain a certain
complicated matter, und each time he
was prevented from so doing because
the president monopolized the con
versation.
Finally the governor happened to
irrlve one day Just at the time the
president was being shaved. The gov
ernor was shown right In, nnd as soon
the manipulations of the razor
gave a momentary opening he seized
t and never let go until he had ex
plained his whole case. The Argonaut.
Summer
Reading
If you -re thinking of going to the
mountains or to the coast to escape
the heat, you will want some light
reading matter.
We have a complete line of paper
covered books, all the leading maga
zlnes, and the best of popular books
of fiction.
We also have the
T'RARD INN LIBRARY.
Ask us about 1L
FRAZIER'S BOOK STORE
T rrr A T UT A Wire Write the East Ore
aUJi7XXu uAiiiw mlan for a free cat
alogoe of them. A fall supply always kept to stock.
ROOSEVELT XEVEI! IDLE.
One night we were together, you nnd
I,
And had unsown Assyria for a lair
Before the walls of Babylrn rose In
air.
Low. languid hills were heaped
against the sky.
And w hite bones marked the walls of
alkali,
WIi-:n sudd'-nly down the lion path
a sound.
The wild man-odor then a crouch.
a bound,
And the frail thing fell quivering with
a cry.
Your yellow eyes burned beautiful
with, light;
The dead man lay there open-eyed
and white;
I roared one triumph over the des
ert wide,
Then stretched out, glad of the
sands anil satisfied;
And through the long,
Assyrian night,
I fe't your body breathing by my
side.
Edwin Markham In August Cos
mopolitan.
Put Wings to Your Work
An electric motor will do mor and
better work than any other power
that you can use. The economy ol
Its - e Is r. demonst a 'd fnct. If you
want good, quick work at a minimum
of cost you want an electric motor.
We will be pleased to give you ou
prices and to furnish complete esti
mate to suit your needs.
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IRRIGATION.
FOR ALL Ut-iLDIN'G PUHPOSES
we can supply either private in
vldunls or regular contractors with
star-stilled any quantity of Lumber of su rlor
quality. We receive frequent consign
ments of the choicest hard Lumb r,
free from knots, warplnrs and Imper
fections, and we have it .ut to desl.
ble and useful lengths ready f the
carpenters to handle. Pr'ecs ru
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KING FOR 15 DAYS.
Scotchmen are celebrating the
fourth centenary of the birth ot
George Buchanan, scholur. historian,
controversallst and the best Latin poet
ot his Hge.
Buchanan was a tutor of Mary
Queen ot Scots and to her son James,
afterwards James I of Knglund. One
day he caused himself to be made
king of Scotland, and this was the
way of It: Having observed In James
tendency to too. ready acquiescence,
he drew up a paper for the royal pu
pil to sign. James did so at once
without having read It. The document
happened to be a transfer of the royal
authority to Buchanan for 15 days.
and no sooner had the poet got It
into his possession than he began to
play the monarch, even before the
king himself.
James thought the man a lunatic
until the Instrument was produced by
which he had signed away his sover
eignty. This Incident was used iy tne
worthy preceptor to Illustrate the
day's lesson on the responsibilities of
monarch?.
I am Irrigation bright waterfall.
Far In a canyon they build me a wall.
Out of the still lakes, wonderful, deep.
Thillling with life forces eager I leap.
Kings and philosophers know my
commnnd;
The footsteps of children I print In tht
land.
I am the solver of mysteries old.
As over the desert my flowers unfold.
I am tho keeper that turneth the key.
Bidding the people of sorrows go free;
Who runneth with me to the ends of
the earth.
He runneth with Plenty and Beauty
nnd Mirth.
I nm the finder of valleys unknown
Of springs In the desert, forgotten nnd
lone;
From snow peak and pines to the
Plains of the Sun,
I finish the work that the Maker be
gun!
Selected.
FOR UNIFORM DIVORCE LAW.
Oregon Lumber Yard
NEAR COURT HOUSE.
'Plume Main 8. Pendleton, Oregon.
Insure with companies that pay dollar for dollar.
All of our companies are doing It.
Frank B. Clopton & Co.
Represent the following comDanla
London & Lanccthlre Fire Inrarse C
North British a Mercantile tt. jioa C-
Royal Insurance Co.
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Alliance Assurance Co.
THE SOLACE.
Change of Business
A proposal for an amendment to the
state constitution for the ennctment
of a uniform marriage and divorce
law has reached Governor Chamber
lain, says the Salem Journal.
The ned of such a1 law seems to be
generally recognized throughout the
country, hut there appears to be two
methods by which this purpose can
be attained. One is by amendment
to the federal constitution, and the
other by the ennctment of the same
law by the different states.
John Gibson Hale, a Chicago law
yer, who Is agitating this movement,
favors the former method, which, he
believes the more feasible, as ratifica
tion hy three-fourths of the states only
would be required, while by the other
method each state would have to en
act the same law, which seems almost
an Impossibility.
He sas: "I do not favor divorce
except In extreme cases, but I realize
that our social conditions make a rea-
Love made himself a garden
Of flowers his fancy chose
The Illy and the Inrkspur,
The poppy nnd the rose.
But when each fragrant beauty
Had blossomed for a day,
Time took the withered petals
And flung them far away.
The summer passed, nnd lonely
Whe-e once their perfume crept,
Within his empty garden
Love laid him down nnd slept.
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Then, In tho drowsy silence,
Another blossom grew.
And budded Into sweetness
'Twlxt darkness and the dew.
And love awoke nnd marveled
In glad surprise, to see
Held fast within his keeping
A sprig of rosemary!
Charlotte Becker.
C. E. BOWLSBY, HAS PURCHASED THE BUSINESS OF 3.
1IAHDWICK, PAWNBROKER AND MONEY IjOANER.
He would like to have all Ids friends call and see him in the
Bowman bnildlng, 119 Railroad street.
Musical Instruments, bicycles, gnns and all kinds of second
hand Instruments bought and sold. Diamonds a specialty. ,
Money loaned on all articles of value.
C. . BOWLSBY
A San Francisco writer tells this In
cident of the fire: "I happened upon
one of the victims of tho fire sitting
near the site of his old home, his hnt
pulled over his eyes, loafing nnd look
ing down over the miles of ghastly
ruin where in spots the fire still
smouldered. The horror was hardly
more than a week old, yet presently
this man fetched a dep yawn, stretch
ing his arms ahrond. 'Gee whiz.!' he
complained, 'I wish something would
huppen. This Is getting tedious.' "
Byers Best Flour
Is made from the choicest wheat that grows. Oood bread Is as
sured w' cn 3TURB' BEST FLOUR Is used. Bran, Shorts, Steam
Rolled Barley always on hand.
PENDLETON ROLLER MILLS
W, a BYER8, Prorrletor.
The Negro Young People's Christian
and Educational congress has Just ad
journed at Washington, D, C. It was
attended by 6000 delegates.
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