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SONG FOli A CHILD.
Hast thou not seen the quiet
blue 4
That bends from out the quiet
skies.
And watches thee the long day
through? 4
It is thy mother's eves.
Hast thou not seen the tender
sun 4
That lights thy heaven there
above, 4
And sends the stars when day
Is done? 4
It is thy mother's love.
Hast thou not heard each leaf
and tree
Forget the daytime's heat and
noise,
While sleep comes stealing over
thee? 4
4 It is thy mother's voice. 4
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Through that decision in the Johns
paving case the people of Pendleton
won no victory.
Tliat Supreme There is a possibil
Court Decision, ity they have suffer
ed a heavy blow.
.Such will certainly be true if as a re
sult of that decision the city as a whole
should be forced to pay for the pav
ing of Jackson street. That would
mean that the people of the city
vould be forced to pay through tax
ation a debt that should properly be
charged to Mr. Johns and others
owning property on' Jackson street. It
would be a monstrous injustice.
Stripped of all buncombe and pala
ver that Johns suit was a simple at
Umpt to evade payment of a Just
tiebt. He secured the paving and is
now enjoying the benefits of the same.
It is the class of pavement for which
the people of that paving district pe
titioned. In the opinion of the su
preme court it is a good pavement
and the appellant suffered no injus
tice. The city acted in accord with
the letter of the law and in accord
with the spirit. The reversal was be-1
cause of a petty error in a descrip
tion an error that was of no real
consequence since a plat that was filed
showed clearly the property compris
ing the paving district.
If that contract was valid In all its
essential features and especially with
reference to the question of monopoly
then the paving company is in com
mon honesty entitled to its pay. If
the Warren company cannot make
Mr. Johns and others pay for the
pavement an effort will doubtless be
made to force the city to pay the cost.
That is the serious part of the pro
position. Whether such a move by
the company would succeed is a law
question and it would be futile to
guess at the outcome. The fact that
the error made was committed by an
officer of the city, the city engineer,
might work to the benefit of the corn
tuny and against the city.
Under the circumstances it will be
logical for the city to ask for a re
hearing and to show that the techni
cal error in the description of Block
C was of no material consequence.
When that showing is made it will be
astonishing if the opinion of the court
is not modified. Particularly so since
the facts show Justice MeBrlde to be
In error when he says the published
notice does not refer to any map or
plat of the paving district on file. The
official notice published in this news
paper by the city referred to "the plans
and specifications for the improve
ment of said portion of Jackson street,
prepared by Geary Kimbrell, city sur
veyor, and filed with the city record
er on the fourth day of September,
1912, which plans and specifications
are hereby particularly referred to."
Surely the supreme court of Ore
gon in a formal decision concerning
a case involving $ IS, 000 will not let a
hairsplitting technicality outbalance
the real points involved. If so then
law is a peculiar thing in Oregon;
there will be a premium on craftiness
and sharp practice and it will be use
loss for anyone to go before the court
with a case based merely on law and
justice.
Commenting on the new regime
which began in Portland on the first
of the month the
The New Order Journal said:
Hi I-urtlsuiri. The Journal
points with satisfac
tion to the new conditions at the city
hall. It is a status for which this
ntwspaper has striven for the past six
years. The Journal takes especial
pride because it is the only news
piper in Portland that made fight for
the new charter, a fight in which it
wits opposed by most of the other
Portland papers.
Basically, the new system is in line
to be completely successful. It has
already brought u new atmosphere
about the city hall. There are no
skulkers in the new regime as there
always were somewhere in the per
sonnel of the old system, no matter
how excellent the administration.
There is no public distrust of things
going wrong, because of the charac
ter of men in office and because every
public act must now be in the open.
There is no surmise of graft, no sus
picion of skulduggery, but rather a
general atmosphere of confidence that
the men are clean and all's well.
There is wide public faith in the
appointees. Without in the slightest
reflecting on some of the excellent
men in the last administration, it is
a fact that the standard of official
dom is raised by the passing of such
as were unfit.
Mayor Albee was right yesterday
In saying t;-.at a city government
could scarcely begin its work more
auspiciously. Five men never had so
splendid an opportunity. They have
the power. They have every fa
cility In their hands. They have the
confidence, backing and good will of
the people. It is only by the worst
kind 'of blundering that they can fail.
There is a vast work for them to do.
There is, if they have the nwrve, a
splendid leadership for them to exer
cise. There are paving problc :is.
There are street problems. There art
lighting problems. There are vie,
problems. There are problems ol
economy by which employes shall ren
der a dollar's worth of service for
every dollar of salary.
There are problems of public or
der, problems of Portland's poor,
problems of poverty's housing, prob
lems of public progress and problems
of human welfare.
All these things must be intelli
gently met, and the Journal expects
the new men at the city hall to meet
them.
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Fourscore and seven years ago
our fathers brought forth in this
continent, a new nation, con
ceived In Liberty, and dedicated
to the proposition that all men
are created equal. Xow we are
engaged In u great civil war,
testing whether that nation, or
uny so conceived and so dedi
cated, can long endure. We are
met on a great battleflied of that
war. We have come to dedicate
a portion of that field as a final
resting place for those who here
gave their lives that that na
tion might live. It is altogether
fitting and proper that we should
do this. But, in a larger sense,
we . cannot dedicate we can
not consecrate we cannot hal
low this ground. The brave
men, living and dead, who strug
gled here, have consecrated it,
far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little
note, nor long remember what
we say here, but It can never
forget what they did here. It Is
for us, the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished
work which they who fought
here have thus far so nobly ad
vanced. It Is rather for us to
be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us that
from these honored dead we
take increased devotion to that
Cause' for whreh they gave the
last full measure of devotion
that We here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died
In vain that this nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of
freedom and that government
of the people, by the people, for
the people, shall not perish from
the earth. Uncon's Gettysburg
address..
ished by a fine not less than $100 nor
more than $500, or by imprisonment
In the county jail not less than 30
days nor more than one year."
It goes without saying that any
movement directed against coramer-,
clallzed vice that overlooked the
owners of houses would be lacking at
the most essential point. The owners
constitute the trunk of the tree, the
bawdy house mistresses are the
branches and the unfortunate Inmates
merely the leaves that live for a sea
son and die.
In his crusade Rgainst organized
vice In the state of Oregon Governor
West Is making a clean sweep and If
those who profit by vice don't like It
let them try to recall him,
M'RKYXOLDS' BLUNDER,
In notifying owners of bawdy
house property that they must no
longer permit their prop
U forcing erty to be used for such
The Iaiw. purposes the district at
torney has acted in ac
cord with the law and his oath of of
fice. Under the law the owner or
lessee of a house of ill fame is equally
Mable with the inmate. Section 20S9
." the code provides as follows:
"Vny person who shall keep, or set
up. " suffer or permit to be kept or
set u; either in a house, boat, ship or
vessel, .i 'louse of illfame, brothel or
bawdy ho-'-", for the purpose of pros
titution, to "Ication, or lewdness, in
any house, n n, or shop or other
building whatsoever, or any boat,
booth or other place of which he is
the owner, lessor, lessee, or to the
possession of which he is entitled,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and
upon conviction thereof shall be pun-
We have no doubt that there is a
large measure of cheap politics In the
so-called "white slave scandal" In
which Attorney General McReynolds
has Involved the Wilson administration.
The case Itself bears no relation to
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the "white slave" traffic that the fed-! happened to suit the purposes of the
eral statue was enacted to punish. Two administration.
girls eloped with two married men
and accompanied them from Califor
nia to Nevada. To all Intents and
purposes, this Is a local crime pun
ishable under state laws. The na
tional government has nothing to do
with It. except as the Mann "White
We can conceive of no more dan
gerous system for destroying the ad
ministration of justice and making it
a personal or a political proceeding.
That is why the action of the attor
ney general in the California cases Is
Indefensible. If Woodrow Wilson
Slave" act Is perverted to cover any'doea nothlng more than stop this ty
violation of the seventh command- rannlcal practice of the department of
ment in which the parties cross a justice, as he has so promptly and de
state line. I cislvely done in the present case, his
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intervention was a great Diunaer ror
which there is no excuse. If he had
stopped the prosecution on the ground
that It was the duty of California to
punish her own scoundrels, he could
readily have justified his position.
But to postpone a criminal trial mere
ly to accommodate a defendant's fath
er who happens to be a federal office-holder
Is a grave abuse of offi
cial power. To be sure, republican at
torney generals have done this sort of
thing times without number, but the
democracy was not put In charge of,
the government to Imitate republican j
methods of dispensing privilege.
Mr. McReynolds merely followed
the policy of his Immediate succes
sors, but It is a pernicious policy, be
gun under Mr. Roosevelt and design
ed to centralize in Washington all the!
machinery for the enforcement of the!
federal laws. During the last twelve j
years the attorneys general have been ;
making themselves universal judges,
juries and prosecuting attorneys. Theyj
have ordered convictions. They have j
ordered cases discontinued. They j
have ordered cases advanced. In many
Instances the enforcement of thej
laws of the United States has been:
made a political procedlng In which
the grand Jury took orders from the(
attorney general, who took orders!
from the president, and the power ofi
the national government was swung ll
for or against the defendant as It j
New York World.
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prison," said the judge, severely.
"Well. Judge," replied Ploddia
Pete, "I know you are doing this to
humiliate me. But I want to remind
you that some very wealthy and some
very talented people have been going
to prison lately." Washington Star.
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