1 pack rovm DAILY EAST ORJEGOXIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, J AX UAH Y 27, 1011. EIGHT PAGES IK INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. fotlisBMl Dally, Weekly led Scml-Weakly t "lVndleton. Oregon, by tfi 481 OHKUONUN l'T HLltiHl.NU CO. SLl'.SCKllTIOS HATES. 'tf,il, oae year, by mall 15.00 AUy, all month, by mall 2.40 tally, three month, by mall 1.2S ally, one month, by mail 60 lly, one year, by carrier 7.60 Illy, all muntha, by carrier 8.76 i-ally, three muntha. by carrier 1.93 Dally, one month, hy carrier 03 Weekly, one year. Ey mall 1.50 Veoaly, alx month, by mall 75 ffeekiy, four months, by mall 50 ml-Weekly, one year, by mall 1.50 Kami-Weekly, alx montha, by mall 75 ml-Weekly, (our montha, by mall... .50 the Dally Eaat Orefonlan la kept on aala at the Orecoa Neva Co., 32 Morrlaon street. Portland. Oregon. ortbweet New Co., Portland, Oregoo. Chicago Hureau, 909 Security Building. Washington, D. C, Bureau. 501 Four iMatb street, N. W. Member Tnlted Preaa Association Entered at the poatofflce at Pendleton, Oregon, aa aecond claaa mall flatter. Salepbone Main 1 Official City and Conntv Paper, CUNiON,Jt1LBE THE JOURNEY. Long It seems, the journey, and yet the rest ain't far; In the stormy weather, still we see a star. Still the light is shining back of clouds of gray; We'll get there, where the dreams are, and rest in peace some day. II. Still we find a song there, in the Vale of Night; Even in-the darkness a memory of Light; We fancy, in Life's Winter, we reap the blooms of May, Ob, well get then, where the dreams are, and rest in peace some day. III. Don't you hear the bells a-ring-ing? Don't you see the Journey's end, With the peace which is endur ing with Silence for a friend? The tears of years the crosses that were burdens by the IS IT COMING? The organization of the national progressive republican league has re vived the talk of a possible new po litical party. There are many who see in the formation of the league the first step towards the organization of the progressive party about the time of the next national election. As a matter of fact this country U already divided into two great politi cal contingents the progressives and the standpatters. The old republican-democratic alignment has be come a farce. Its existence is now more nominal than real. The other day the Kansas City 8tar had the following pointed com ment upon the present situation: "Standpatters have pointed with exultation to the fact that you may describe the representative as a pro gressive, and by that description falls to denote whether he is a democrat or a republican. The assumption is that he is neither, and fundamentally that assumption is right. "But to put It another way, you may describe a standpatter fully, and ' by that description you cannot tell whether he is a republican or demo crat, and by the same token you may properly assume that he Is neither. "The important thing is that you cannot describe either a progressive or a standpatter without clearly de noting whether he Is a progressive or a standpatter." That la It exactly. No one knows Just what you mean when you say a man is a derrfocrat or a republican. But you do undestand when you are told that he Is a progressive or that he is a standpatter. Perhaps by the time of the next na tional election the "mills of the gods" will have moved sufficiently that we will see the new political alignment openly announced. Who knows T A lOOK SUBSTITUTE. It begins to look like the good roads measures will meet with trouble in the house. It is reported that the grange and farmers union organiza tions are fighting the measures and have a substitute for the highway commissioner bill. This substitute measure does away with the employ ing of a highway commissioner at ' 14000 per year and leaves the work with the state engineer. He la auth- orlzed to employ a deputy at $150 : per month to assist him. But why should this change be madeT The state engineer Is not a roc builder. He la an Irrigation en gineer. Four fifths of his work or atan Im to 4o with problems per taining to water and to Irrigation. Xr. Lewi was formerly a TJ. 8. re- clamation engineer and a good one. But the East Oregonlan has never heard of his building any highways. Perhaps the substitute measure is a move for economy. If so it is a case of misapplied seal. If Oregon Is going to spend $600,000 a year for good roads surely the state can afford to spend J4000 for a competent man ti direct this expenditure. The move to employ a $150 per month clerk instead of an expert highway engi neer is not good business policy. If a man wished to erect a $600,000 building he would hire a good archi tect, not a cheap boy, to draw his plans. If we are to have state aid in the construction of roads lot us have it upon a business basis. It would be better to defeat the good roads pro poganda entirely than to butcher the scheme in the manner proposed. IT 15 EACH ES THE SPOT. In his annual report President Kerr of the agricultural college shows that SS.000 people residing within this state have been direct beneficiares of the work carried on during the past year by the college and the experi ment station council. The student enrollment at O. A. C. this year will be between 1S0U and 1900. This is a Substantial gain over past years and shows the growing popularity of the I agricultural college. Nor Is it difficult to understand why the agricultural college is popu I lar and is Bteadily growing n favor. The school Is prospering because it does work that "reaches the spot." r. provides technical training and that of a thorough sort. It fits stu dents for work in such lines as agri culture, horticulture, mining, civil, mechanical and electrical engineer ing, pharmacy, business, and house hold science. The school does not con. fine itself to purely cultural instruc tion and so "waste Its sweetness on the desert air." The agricultural col lege gets down to business and pre pares students for active life by fit ting them for the fundamental duty of earning a living. The theory back of the agricultur al colleges is that schools should first look to fitting sfudents for the work they have to do and that cultural studies should be secondary to the utilitarian. The idea Is that If a stu dent can be trained so that he will prosper in a material way he will fare well socially. The converse of the proposition is that it avails nothing if a man is cultured if he cannot earn a good livlihood. The agricultural college is "here to stay." S1IOW HIM THE PROJECT. While Col Roosevelt Is in the west it would be very fitting to Invite him to come to Pendleton and while here to visit the Umatilla project. Dur ing his first term as president the colonel did valiant work for the pas sage of the reclamation act and he has ever been a staunch friend of governmental reclamation. So per haps he would like to see what a good government project looks like at this time. Incidentally he might be per suaded to give an address of some sort while here. Why cannot the people of Pendleton and Hermiston unite in extending the ex-president an invi tation? If the legislature really wants to do something In the way of pruning expenses why not place the stats printer on a flat salary? It Is a no torious fact that the state printer ha the greatest snap in the state and if reports are true the annual earnings of the printer at times exceed the salary of the president of the United States. That there are more crazy people in the east than one would suppose is shown by the fact that In New York some sapheads have formed an association that upholds the Inter marrying of all the races of the earth. JOLTIXG THE EAST. A Kansas senator was In this city at shad time, and his political friends in Philadelphia invited him to a mon strous dinner down the Delaware. The senator had a beautiful time. But he refused to admit that Pennsylvania, as a state, was superior to his be loved Kansas, or that the products of the east could surpass those of the west. When the planked shad was served the senator eyed it in admiration. That's a beautiful fish," he said. "H'm," murmured the Philadelphia politician, who was his principal host, "I guess you don't have fish like that In Kansas, do you?" The senator shook his head, "No," he admitted. "No we don't have fish like that In Kansas. We don't need 'em. The Lord knows where to send brain food." Philadelphia Times. An Optical Illusion, "I 'specs Mlstah 'Rastus Plnkley Id In trouble," said Miss Miami Brown. "Las' evenln' I saw de tear drops streamln' down his face." "Dem warn't teardrops," replied Miss Cleopatra Jackson. "He des got hlsself a little splattered up flllln' his Christmas gift fountain pen." Wash ington Star. The next bond Issue of the Penn sylvania will be $100,009,000. THE PATH TO YESTERDAY. There's a path that leads to Yesterday you know it; A rambling path of blossoms and perfume. You remember how the wild grapes overgrow It To the house upon the hilltop deep in gloom. There's a path that leads to Yester day through flowers. Where the wood thrush is a voice of magic, song; Where the crlokot snaps its fairy whip for hours And a barefoot boy goes whistling all day long. There's a path that leads to Yester day through dingles Of forest, where the wood pool is an eye. And the sunbeam is a twinkle soft rttat mingles With a gladness of a girl who dances by. There's a path that leads to Yester day, a glimmer With the pearl and purple footsteps of a dusk, Where the first star leaps and flashes like a swimmer, On the violet verge of twilight washed with musk. There's a path that leads to Yester day that's haunted With the shadows of old memories of bliss And the ghosts of loves that roamed there once, who counted Every moment by a heartbeat or a kiss. Oh, the path that leads to Yester day! It's calling! Don't you hear it? How It calls through many things! Through its roses, like the memo ries now falling. And the dreamlike nestwarcl flut tering of wings. On the path that leads to Yesterday we've started; Hear it calling with the majiy whippoorwills, Like voices of old happiness departed. Through the darkness where the moon rests on the hills. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. LINCOLN' : .MAX A XI) AMERICAN. In his liftime Lincoln was malign ed and traduced, but detraction dur ing a man's life time affords no test of his life's value and offers no fore cast of history's verdict. It would al most seem as if the glory of immor tality were anticipated in the life of the great by detraction and denial while he lives. When a Lincoln-like man arises, let us recognize and fitly honor him. There could be no poorer way of honoring the memory of Lin coln than to assume, as we sometimes do, that the race of Lincolns has per ished from the earth, and that we shall not look upon his like again. One way to ensure the passing of the Lincolns, is ' to asume that another Lincoln can never arise. Would we find Lincoln today, we must not seek him in the guise of a rail-splitter nor as a wlelder of the axe of the back woodsman, but as a mighty smiter of wrong in high places and low. The first word spoken after the death of Lincoln is truest and best, the word of Secretary of War Stanton standing by the side of that scene of peace, "Now he belongs to the ages." It was verdict and prophecy, for he Is not America's, he is the world's; he belongs not to our age, but to the ages, and yet, though he belongs to all time, and to all peoples, he Is ours, for he was an American. Stephen S. Wise, In Pacific Monthly. ALMOST LOST WEST. The people of Oregon do not know how nsar they came to losing their new governor. Oswald West was on the list for appointment to the In terstate Commerce Commission. He refused to consider the matter, say ing that his duty was to serve the people of Oregon for four years as governor. However, his achievements as State Land Agent and State Rail road Commlssoner had attracted at tention the country over, and, In asmuch as Commissioner Cockrell, of Mlssorui, a democrat, was not to be reappointed. Mr. West could have had the position, had he consented to accept it. The rtirement of Chairman Knapp from the Interstate Commerce Com mission gave Joy to the shippers and consumers of the nation. During No vember, In the middle of the week, when Louis D. Brandeis and other at torneys and eminent engineers were presenting the shipper's and consum er's protest -against proposed increas es In freight rates. Chairman Knapp spoke at the annual dinner In New York, given by business men who sell supplies to the railroads. Chairman Knapp, was at the time, n'jrAng in a judicial-capacity, ns chairman of the commission, to pass on the Increases In rates; and yet he declared his mind already made up, and stamped him self as an undesirable member of the commission, in the opinion of the shippers. They are saying that In his new position on the Court of Com merce he will be lmmerced in an at mosphere of "Innocuous desuetude." John E. Lathrop, in Pacific Month- Beautiful women are seldom dis satisfied with their nex. Health Assured There is nothing makes one feel so good as to realize that he possesses a strong stomach and enjoys robust health and such an experience can be yours sickly folks if you'll only take a short course of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters Thousands owe their continued good health to Its use. Why not try the plan today? It la for Indigestion, DyapepMla, Poor Appetite, Belching, Headache, Cnrtlveneea, Bllllonsnem, Colds and Grippe. "Yon are aa well m your stomach HOSTETTBR. 9 I IS A iEAON LIGHT I2": you In the year 1626 PETER HINUIT bought the whole island on which New. York City now worth four thousand million dollars is built. He paid $24 for the island. Had he put out that $24 at 4 per cent compound interest in 1626 it would now amount to as much as the present value of New York City. Make OUR Bank YOUR Bank. We pay 4 per cent interest on Time Deposits, compounded semi-annually. THE American National Bank Pendleton. Oregon UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY DIAZ, STATESMAN? There are some $900,000,000 of .American capital Invested In Mexico; or those are the figures recently giv en by our Consul-General there, Mr. Shankiia. While this is divided am ong thousands of Americans, most of it is centered in Wall Street. The Morgan group of financiers, the Standard Oil group, the Harrlman group, the Guggenheims, and other such "big" Wall Street people if there are any others are heavily In terested In Mexico. The opinion of a few of these men goes a long way with the press and the politicians, and through them, with the public. The American Investors in Mexico are usually boosters for. Diaz because they know that their special privileges come from him and depend upon his whim. If they are interested in a stock-selling scheme, or a land-promotion scheme, their sales depend largely upon the confidence of the prospective buyer in the stability of the existing regime. Therefore they are strongly Inclined to feel that It Is up to them to deny the reports of barbarous conditions In the country and to praise Diaz to the skies. This is natural. It Is natural for "business" to dread a change of any You Cannot Do Better 17 ROOM HOUSE On South Main, $1500 on ly requires $500 cash to buy. 12 ROOM nOUSE On South Main, will trade for wheat or alfalfa land. Would pay $5000 to $7000 difference on Rood wheat ranch. BEAUTIFUL NEW BUN GALOW fine location, worth $5000 price today only $4000, $1500 cash, balance easy terms. 7 ROOM HOUSE On West Court, worth $1500 but ii sold at once ?1050 cash will buy it LEE TEUTSCH Phone Main 5 550 Main Street The Real Estate and Insurance Man Byers' Best Flour t.i., ."iJ: 1 mi sort. In " defending Mexico" as they call It, they are, doubtless, acting in accoalance with the immediate in terests of their pocket-books. But they are not acting In accordance with their ultimate interests. They should know that no one man, how ever strong, can rule forever. They should know that despotism cannot last and that when It falls it falls with a crash. They know that, while they may sell their stock now, to morrow their property and their lives may be in Jeopardy, for there can be no despotism that Is not clouded with the threat of revolu tion. John Kenneth Turner, in Pa cific Monthly. . PITTING HIS FOOT IX IT. Mrs. de Bride was entertaining cal lers. After they left she remarked to her husband: "I hope they didn't see my walking shoes lying there. They would think me very untidy If they did." "Oh, If they saw them they prob ably thought they were mine," ans wered her husband In a consoling tone. And she hasn't spoken to him since. Do you read the East Oregonlan T 6 ROOM HOUSE On Union street, partly fur nished, worth $900, price $650, 1-2 cash, balance monthly payments. $2500 nOUSE in Payette, Idaho, to trade for Pendleton property. Fine new bungalow in Portland to trade for Pen dleton home. NICE 5 ROOM IJTOUSE On Ann street, worth $1650, $1250 cash will handle it Lot 66x100. Splendid Bhade trees and lawn. 10 ACRE TRACT in Walla Walla to trade for Pendleton property. la made from the choicest whf that Tows. Good bread is assured when BYERS' BEST FLOUR is need. Bran, Shorte, Steam Rolled Barley always on hand. Pendleton Roller Mills Pendleton, Oxegoa. Headquarters For Toilet Goods We are Bole Manufacturer a ad Dlatrlnntor of the OMmM TOILET CREAM COLD CREAM TOOTH POWDRR and MT. HOOD CREAM Tallman & Co. Leading Druggists of Easierr Oregaa. J I' THE fe PENDLETON DRUG CO. ItOEII.il MHM-I0I f0ISi Detroit Engines 2 to SO H. P. TJsea common Kerosene (lamp oil) for fuel, also gasoline, nsptha or dis tillate. No change in equipment la necessary to change from one fuel to the others. For prices aee J. W. Klra brell, agent, Pendleton, Ore. Phone Main 180. Sample engine at Long Brothers 114 A 116 E. Webb St. Phone Main 74 You Make a Bad Mistake When yon pat off buying your Co 9 until Fsll purchase It NOW and secure the heat Roak Spring coal the mined produce at price considerably lower thaa those prevailing in Fst and Whiter. By stocking op now yo avoid Alii danger of being aa able to secure It when sold weather arrives. Henry Kopittke Phone Main ITS. Fresh Fish Meats and Sausage EVERY DAT. W handle only th pwt f lard, kams and bacon. Empire Meat Co. Phone Main IS. FRESH MEATS SAUSAGES, FISH AND LARD. Always pur and delivered promptly, If you phone the Central Meat Market 108 E. Alta gk. Phone Main SS. mm r.lilno Transfer Phone Main 63 ffT CALLS PROMPTLY AN8 Ml, WERBD FOR ALL BAOOAOB TRANSFERRINO. piano and ruRNrnmi MOVING AND HRAVT TRUCK INQ A SPECIALTY. Oregonlan ny mm