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T11K OJHXiON STATIMAN: KIU1AV, .JUNK U 1887. METAPHOR AM) FACT. An Interesting Letter from Mrs. Dnniwav. WOMAN SUFFRAGE ARGUMENT. The Fallacy of Prohibition Itombardei in a Swmewhat Novel Stylo Unvarnished Facts. On Train, kear Umatilla, May 28. Editor Statksman: Since 1 last met a representative o your valuable and con htantly improving publication, in the city Portland, about two months ago, I have bwn reminded perhaps fifty times of my promise to pen a few thoughts, now and then, fur its plethoric and npirited columns. Hut the multiplicity of cares attendant upon the complex preparations lor my numranr's campaign rendered a compliance with my promise imjiossible until I was well upon the road. I cannot tell you how delighted I was mith "Mispah V letter from India. Mrs. lkm ham might have remained at home for half a century, and we should all have been kept in ignorance of her rare powers as a writer. Now that she bus liegun a work for which nature has pre eminently fitted her, it is to lie hoied that we may hear from her frequently in the future. lHiar, hospitable, easy going and yet progressive Huleru '. Like Mispah (or does she hi)U it with a z?) I long to meet yorr denizens much more frequent ly than I do. But now that the inter state railway law has curtailed the festive jiaw of the journalist, leaving the merito rious service cf the philanthropic scribe to go unrewarded and unrecognised, it will be even more difficult than heretofore to gratify this, one of the strongest long ings of my heart, except at rare and costly intervals. Hut the Stati:man fills an otherwise aching void, and w hen 1 am at home 1 welcome its daily visits most heartily. It will be a week to-morrow Hiiice 1 left Portland, bound for a summer campaign among the mines, mountains, ranges aud ranches of eastern Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. To leave the humid, welcome, spring time air of the Willamette and "tackle" the arid atmosphere of the bunch-grass country is trying at any time to the web footed inhabitant of the land of rain and red apples ; but isefpecially disagreeable just now, because the first visits of sum mer are on tiie tapis, and the hot sun rages like a conflagration over all the parched ami withering regions of the inland empire, through which the train is rumbling. The good people of Pendle ton, with w hom I have leen sojourning for a few days, have conversed prin cipally concerning the inter state com merce law, the unusually hot weather that is threatening, because of its early visit, to destroy the crops, and uon the prohibition question, wtiich here meets the usual quota of adherents and opio iteiits, the tatter largely in the majority. Although it is well known that I take no stock in prohibition as a method of tem ierance reform, yet 1 am exceedingly glad this agination has come up just in the way it lias. You everywhere meet women and preachers who are wild for prohibition who stood aloof from the tight for woman s ballot in 18h4, their arms akimbo and their noses in the air, because "too pioue to tamper w ith poli ties." The lesson they are leurnitig in this fight will prove a dearly bought one, since exierience is always an exacting teacher ; but. when, on the 8th of Novem ber next, ttiey stand upon the brink of the precipice of defeat, over w hich they have backed their pet hobby horse, be cause they would persist in hitching it heels foremost to their narrow cart, may Vie they'll begin to wish they'd worked for ballots first and issues later on. After women shall have received their full, free and secure enfranchisement, so they can afford to run to extremes when ever the lit seizes them, when they are in no more danger of losing their ballots, or implements of endeavor, than are the men of to-duv who go into extremes, it w ill be quite safe for them to try the ex periroent of prohibition if they like, since untrammelled liberty will always work out its own problems in due time; and women being quick to jicrc.eive, as well as nrompt to act ,lien opportunity oilers will not be slow to learn, when the full power of t he ballot is given them, that "prohibition will not prohibit." Neither will they fail to expose the sham of it w hen it had been before their, in its true lielit. 1 know ot more than one erewhile prohibitionist of my sex in Salem who now abjures it, because sue sees inrougn the "drug store vaneering" ami "At. u manipulation" which it seeks to monopo lize at a necuuiary nrofit. Give women votes, men and brethren,. The exited ence that accompanies the use of the ballot will broaden their understanding and enable them to comprehend, as they cannot now, the motive power that moves the genus crank, who continually urges them to make bricks without straw, and laws without votes. Never fear but thev'il tie wise enough to cease beating the bush that men alone may gather per Simmons, when the fruit is tree to all alike and there are none to hinder them from gathering the fruit themselves. Dropping metaphors, which, like Jo siah Allen's wile. I can always find with out "searchin' creation," let us conic now to unvarnished facts, most of Winch have been so faithfully garnered by your ht.ill and corps of corresiondent8 that little is left to glean. 1 want to say wi.u i n lieve the misuse of that word "lin-ns. is, because it conveys a wholly err..neis meaning to most women anu prem-ni i " , the very worst stumbling block Hint to day retards the temperance reform, li to merely withhold a "license" would stop Vioth the demand and supply, the cry against "governmental patronage of the traflic" would I in order, lint, since experience proves that withholding "license," under guise of "prohibition," lessens the expenses of the tratlic, and in degree changes its channels of trade, without lessening the trallic itself, it be comes apparent at once that the term is a misnomer. The projier signification is tax, which if righlly used would have lieen correctly understood from the verv tioginning. rormanv years I have be- ieved that the final solution of the drink problem could only Vie worked out under conditions of the utmost freedom frmn both "tax" (or "license") and "prohibi tion, ar espionage. In this great, billowy bunch-crass re gion through which I am now journeying, there are to be found occasional pools of alkali water, of w hich cattle, if usually fenced away from it, will, when they reach it in unguarded moments, partake to their great injury, and often to their death. Hut give them free access to it continually, with plenty of good, pure water at hand, and they will as instinct ively shun the alkali pools as the average prohibitionist would shun intoxicants, provided nasty puddles of them were everywhere lying about loose. I have known injudicious and over- stingy parents to keep sugar, preserves and molasses locked away from their hildren to keep the little ones from "eating too much" and "making them selves sick." A Viand of these children of an ardent prohibitionist used to come to school at my house away back in the sixties; and so hungry for saccharine substances were thev that thev often made excuses to remain with mv chil- lren during the noon hour, so they could get svrup for luncheon, and I cured them of undue fondness for sweets, not bv 'prohibition," but by gorging. I cave each child a cup of syrup and a spoon, and it wasn t a week till they were so sated with it that their apjietites became normal. Years after I told their mother of my experiments hich resulted in their cure. If her children, who are now prone to drunkenness, were under my care, I'd break them of both drunken ness and the tobacco habit on the same principle. That little "apple transaction" between our first parents ought to convince every ( hristian that prohibition don t pro hibit." (io'l Himself (and 1 say it rev erently) couldn't make it work. Hut here I am, at the top of the 20th page, which I had prescribed as my let ter's limit, and I've scarcely touched the theme I thought when I began to scribble a descriptive theme in which scenery had the foremost place, and will require another letter to elaborate it now. Abigail Scott 1i:siway. A FAMOUS MASONIC LODGE. The records of Fredericksburg Lodge show that tieorge "Washington was ini tiated on the 4th of November, 1752, passed Fellow Craft March 3, 1753, and was raised to the degree of Master Mason August 4, 1753. lie was initiated before he was twenty-one years of age. This may have occurred from the fact tli.it Daniel Campbell, master of the lodge, recorded grand master, and exercising the prerogatives of grand master, as the lodge afterward jierformed the functions ol a grand lodge in chartering lodges, granted a Rpecial dispensation. But 1 axt Grand Master B. B. French, of the Dis- trict of Columbia, in an address in 1851, said that no one stopped to inquire ash ington's age when his petition was pre sented. He was appointed Burveyorof Culpeper county, v lrginia, at the age of seventeen years. At the age of nineteen he was appointed adjutant general, with the rank of major, in the Virginia militia, and at the ape of twenty he became ex ecutor of the large estate of his deceased brother, Law rence Washington. As these things showed he was ef mature age, no inquirvlwas made. It is almost certain that Washington remained a member of No. 4 until the day of his death. Among the many other distinguished men w hose names appear on the rolls of tins lodge are George weedon, Washing ton's adjutant general; General Hugh Mercer, w ho fell at the battle of Tnnce ton; Jacob von ftraatn, Washington's instructor in sword-fencing ; fielding I-wis, Washington's brother-in-law. The Hlbic ''m whs used in this lodge at the time Washington was made a Mason, is still in possession of the lodge. I he Hi hi.' is over two hundred years old, and is in an excellent state of preservation. 1 ball. more Sun. WIT AXlTjIlMOIi. Wherein are a policeman and a rain bow alike! Both are tokens of peace, and usually appear after a storm. Atttie bull Grace (whispering; Wlia. lovely boots your partner has got, Mary! Mary (ditto) Yes, unfortunately he shines at the wrong end. Texas Sitt ings. "Ah ! good evening, Mrs. Brown. Is your card full !" "No, Mr. Smythe, but my escort is, and if you w ould kindly take me home I would be so much oblig ed." Life. "What can Vie worse," said an exas jierated husband in the middle of the night, ' than a teething baby?" "Y'ou are, John, when you have the toothache," resiioiided his wife. A supper of sheep's heads is served. One gentleman enthusiastic on the ex cellence of the dish, throws down his knife and fork and exclaims: "Well, sheep's head for ever, say 1 !" Jerrold "There's egotism !" A sufficient reason Miss B. Why is it, Mr. A., that whenever you refer to a Boston friend you invariably use the word "fellow?" New Yorker Oh, because he belongs around the Hub, of course. Bos ton Budget. A young lady with an aptitude for pun ning" was asked why she had rejected the "suit" of an elderly lover. "Oh, you ste," she replied, "1 learned that it had been pressed several times and feared that it might be worn threadbare." A man show.ed a lawyer a five-shilling piece and asked him whether he thought it was good one. The lawyer said that it was, put it in his ocket, said his usual fee for advice was tin tid, and would the inquirer please to send the balance of Is Sri round to his office at his earliest con venience. HE MADE USE OF 1IIS FATHER. "Humph! but you are wearing your father's hat!" he said, as he looked over the fence at the other boy. "I know it!" was the reply. 1 ley ! but you are ashamed !" (tV.vt tnti..!. I uin'tl A fulW u-lin u I.i,. ..I i.t. (ui',..r l,.i,ln't ,.,! can't make use of his father naUn t oiter have one I J 'etroil r ree ress. KltiH T SMART NEBRASKA HOY. "1 want to tell yon a little story aliout my boy out in Nohniskey," said an old farmer in the smoking car to the party of drummers who had been telling him Fome pretty tall yarns. "My boy is a good deal of a genius in his way, lemme tell yon, and none of 'em gets ahead of him. T'other day he rigged up a kite. It was the biggest kite I'd ever set my eyes on. it was about six teet wide, an twice as long, an' on the ton of it my boy placed a few green branches which he'd cut from a cottonwood tree. 'What s them fer?' I inquired. 'Never you mind, dad,' says he; 'I know what I'm about.' And, bv cosh, he did. He flew that kite up in the air an' stood watohin' of it fer a long time, when I says to him : 'You'd better pull that thing down, now, an' pet to your work.' 'limine alone, dad,' he replied, '1 'IT get that yet.' And, by gosh, he did. The next time I took a look, at him he was a-hauling in on the kite line, with a smile on his face as broad as a furrer. When the kite came down near the ground I saw what he was a smilin' at, an' it was enough to make a body smile, too. Any you fellers want to guess what was on that kite?" None of the drummers wanted to guess, and the old man continued 11 is story. "Wall, sir, a-sittin' on the top o' that kite was eleven o' the purtiest wild geese ve ever saw. Yes, sir, eleven on 'em. Yon see, the geese was flyin north puriy thick, and my bov had got up this scheme to catch em. lher ain t many trees out our way, an after a fat goose has bees flyin' purty steady all day he gits kind o' tired an' looks around for a place to sit down an' rest. That's just what my boy was conntin' on when he built that kit. Ky offerin' the geese a place to stop an' rest, an' by smearin' the top o' the kite with tar so their feet would stick so fast that they couldn't get away, he did the business. By gosh! but it was fun to pull them geese in. Just as fast as we could send the kite up and pull her down again we got from ten to a dozen geese, an' in four days we captured six car loads, an' I'm takin' 'em to Chi cago now to sell. None o yon smart, story tellin' fellers don't happen to knov what wild geese is wuth now in the ,ii -cago market, do ye?" Chicago Hera. I. LONDON'S UNDERGROUND ROAD. Rapid progress is being made in the new underground railway from the Mon ument to the Elephant and Castle, con necting the city with the south of Lon don. Two independent tunnels, it should be explained, are being constructed for the new cable subway. The first passes right under the river and already extends aliout two hundred feet under the Bor ough road, while the construction of the second has progressed considerably be yond the middle of the river. The work thus far accomplished lias been done since October laBt. It will be remem bered that the Thames tunnel took about eighteen years to complete; much the same work lias now been accomplished in little more than eighteen weeks. The company have recently obtained from a select committee powers for an extension of the line, as originally contemplated, from the Elephant anil Castle to the 8wan at Stock well.thus providing through transit from the heart of the city to close toClapham Common. Doubtless when the line is completed, which, it is un derstood, will be toward the end of the year, there will be a great relief of the traffic over London bridge and along the busy streets beneath which the sub way runs. Official returns of the traffic over London bridge show that 37,CKJO,0U0 foot passengers and 7,000,000 cabs and other vehicles annually pass over it. while the tramways converging at St. George's church borough, convey about 6,000,000 passengers a year. The three miles of this new line are being wade for about600,000, which is about one fifth of the cost of the underground rail way. At each end of the line, it should lie added, there will be hydraulic lifts, so that passengers may ascend and descend without trouble. HE WANTED TO GO TO THE CITY. Farmer's son "Pap 1 want to go to Cincinnati to live." Pap "What for, Samuel!" " 'Cause I read in a jiajier jist now that men there are makin' thousands of dol lars jist by wateriu' stock, and here I've been waterin' stock every winter fur half a do.en years or more anil haint made a cent. What's the sense in me workin' for nothin' when I kin go to the city and git rich by waterin' stock." "Samuel, you ain't got no sense. You don't know no difference between a four legged stock and a railroad stock. I feel like whalin' you, as big as you are." Samuel was too frightened to ask for an explanation just then. Kentucky State Journal. A JOKE ON DISRAELI. In a newly published life of the first Lord I.ytton's wife there is an account of a joke made by Rogers, the poet, at the exiH'iise of Disraeli, the younger: Mrs. Bulwer was sitting by the side of Rogers in the drawing-room after a dinner party, when Disraeli, who had been lounging in a cane-seated chair, crossed the room, with his coot-tails, as usual, over each arm, leaving his dark-green velvet adora cles, w ith the marks of the chair on them, fully visible. Rogers asked: "Who is that?" "Oh, young Disraeli, the Jew," answered Mrs. Bulwer. "Rather the Wandering Jew, with the brand of 'Cane' on him," said Rogers. NOTHING TO 00 WILD OVER. "What do you think of that?" asked Simpson enthusiastically as he gave his city friend Gibson a fresh draught from his new spring in the meadow. "Just tell me what you thjnk of that for water!" "That's not at all bad," answered Gib son rather coldly, "for water." N. Y. Mail and Kx press. ONK (iKKAT MKJilT Of that Heautitier of the l i-eth, SO.ODONT, is that it elleet upon the uiimth is refreshing whilc Ma ,,, i eieaumug the teeth, aud improving the breath, it aland aloDe "FOR THE CROUPIER." A week ago the German minister gave a handsome dinner party in honor of tho nineteenth birthday of Kaiser William." The occasion, of course, was replete with incidents of the long and eventful career of this wonderful man. One of the most interesting anecdotes related bv a coun tryman of the emjieror was in regard to his early youth, and which seems to be little known. Since public gambling has been forbidden by law in Germany the votaries of fortune from all Europe, who used to fill the hotels at Kins, Baden, etc., have flocked to Monaco. The story runs that Kaiser William, while he was still Crown Prince and a dashing young officer, entered the Knrsaal at Kms wear ing an overcoat which concealed his brilliant uniform, and, approaching the crowded table, placed thereon a coin of small value, about a dollar. With a con temptuous gesture the banker tossed the coin upon the floor, with the remark : "For the croupier." Again the unknown gentlemen threw down a coin and lost, the banker repeating his action anil word, to the amusement of the other players. It was then, as now, the custom of ihe banks to set aside a certain sum eac.i day, and put up a notice of the amount beyond which they could not play. If the losses amounted to this sum the bank must close. William glanced at the notice 2J0, 000 francs quietly remarking that he would play for the whole bank. "Who are you?" exclaimed the dealer, with sudden respect. For reply the future emperor of Germany then opened his coat, displaying; the imperial star upon his breast, Th cards were dealt, the prince won, and the bank was broken. Taking up the enormous sum, he delib erately dashed it on the floor, exclaiming, "For the croupier!" then turning on his heel, left the apartment. Baltimore American. HOW SHE KNEW. "Y'ou are not so strong as you used to be, John," said a fond wife to her hus band ; "I think it is about time you were getting some insurance on your life." "Insurance on my life! What are you talking about? I am as healthy as I ever was. Insurance, indeed!" "Well, my dear, I only mentioned it, you know, out of respect for yourself. 1 thought you were failing." "And what in the world put it into your head that I am failing? Me failing? Why, I am as strong as a horse, and can run up three flights of stairs without taking a breath." "Well, it may be so. But I am afraid you are deceiving yourself." "Deceiving myself! Goodness gracious, woman, what do vou mean?" "Ikm't be so impatient. What makes me think vou are failing, is this: When you were courting me you could hold me on your lap lor three hours. Now, you cannot hold the baby on your lap three minuteB!" HIS OBJECTIONS. "Naturally you don't think much of the interstate commerce law," said a traveling man to a Dakota editor. "Think much of it ! Why, sir, I con sider it the most damnable, yes, sir, I say damnable, outrage ever known in this country !" "Takes away your pass I suppose." " Yes, but I don't care for that." "Does it raise freights to this point ?' "Er yes, I b'lieve so but I never get anything by freight." "Why do you object to it so strongly then?" "Why do I object, hey? W'y I under stand that it is going to cause every cir cus that used to come out to this country to disband! les. sir, cut us on from circuses and I've been in the habit of having six complimentary tickets every season for the last twenty years." BIOGRAPHY OF A PLUTOCRAT. Reporter (interviewing rich man) Y'ou began life barefooted, and worked for $1 a week, I believe? "No, sir; I didn't." "ell, that will have to go in. any way. They nil do, and if we should make an exception in your case our readers would complain." Burlington rree Press. "1 have used SimmonH Liver Kegiiiiitur for many years, having made it my only Family medicine. My mother before me nan verv Tiartial to it. It ia a safe. eiKd and reliable medicine for any disorder of the system, aud if uh'J in time is a great preventive of sickness. 1 often rec umineud it to my friends, and shall con tinue to do so. KKV. JAMES M. ROLLINS pastor M. E. Church, So., Fairiield, Va. T I R 1 1 : A IN' I I X CTO I S ' 1 5 1 LI.S SAVEO by always keeping-Simmons l-dver Jtegiihifoi' in the house. "I have found Simiifiis Liver Regula tor the best family in' divine 1 ever lined fur anything that noiy happen, have used it in JndiKestiou.i 'nli-,liitrrhira. Kilioua ness, and found k to relieve immediate ly. A fter eating a hearty sopjHT, if. on goiuK to bed. I lake about a teaspoouftii, I never fti'i ilie etfeets of the nipper eat en. OV1IJ O. WPAKKS. Kx Mayor Macon, Oa. Has our 7. stamp on front of wrapper. J. II. ZE1LIX i CO., SOLE lWBIETORS, I'KK'K $1. I'HII.ADKI.l'HIA, FA -1 1 1 LI.I N K R Y A K D I) K E SS M A K I S ( i .-TO T H E Al ladies: Just reeelved a new stoek of Mill inery and fanr.y goods. Am prepared to suit ladies in point uf quality and priee. Kxpensea light, henre van sell lower thau any other house. Please call and examine stoek. Mra. M. K. Smith, Marion street, between Wiuter aud bummer. 'i-31 dw Faultless Family Medicine BROWN, FULLKR1M& Co. DEALKKH 1N- Hardware. Stoves . rare. Iron and Stool Knad Scrapers, f arm niiU'ttiiiery, ana ve hicles, Hefting-, Oils, Hinder Twine, Anil machine auppliea of all kinds. Sole agent (or AXl) RANGES. Superior stoves 232, 234, 23(i. 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