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About Lake County examiner. (Lakeview, Lake County, Or.) 1880-1915 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 2, 1905)
it mm iyw ivJv MAGAZINE SECTION. LAKEVIEW, OREGON, TIIURSbAX NOVEMBER 2, 1905. TAGH if i I I 11 11 11 i HOME OF WASHINGTON. ffOrWOJffy PAVED TBB WAT fORRESTORA TION OF NT. VERNON Hittorlc rises Is Now Exactly as It Looked During the Llfctlm of Crest Statesman-General - T heus- twds Visit It Annually. The bell It lolling. th band playing "Nearer My uod to Tbeo" ana the paMeugers know, even before thry nine their ryes to the fair iwwp of Virginia s shore lino, that lbs steamer I pushing Mount Vernon. A pretty rosum -th tolling of the bell and the DlavliiK of the line old hymn. A huah falls on the crowded dock, and on - - r WAHI11NUTON AKD LAFAYETTE, from a I'sinUiig at Mouat Vernon. fwlt the thrill of patriotism stirring the hearti of the people. Hut do the thousands who annually tail down the Potomac to visit the lately home of Geoge Washington know that to a woman's Initiative I due the restoration and preservation of the beautiful Mount Vernon of to-day? Away back in 153 this home waa in a rapidly deteriorating condition. John Augustine Washington, a son of Gen tral Washington's nephew, v.-us the owner of the estate. The descendants of Washington evidently did not Inherit toe clear business arnne of their Illus trious ancestor, for In General Wash ington's time the farm yielded a hand some Income. Now the fields were ly- for future generatktis this home of ueorge w iiington. . In hl connection It Is Interesting " ". . "I"1 "u"nK me tnn-aay annual meet of the Board of Regom in the month of May a banquet Is Riven to the Governor of Virginia, fier the roast Is cnud and the toasts are drank T nsa An 1 1 sa u i . i . . .... .nuii amociauon con nii ft me Gov ernor BllOUt the hniiu nt rh.. that he may know, by personal observe uon, n.ai me pact entered into so long w using liliuruiiy Kept. It Is the custom of the ladles of the iworiaiion to live at Mount Vernon during the yearly session. At this time the old home wears an air of un wonted gaiety. The kitchen fflvM mil the moat appetising odors, and stimu lated to Unusual activity hv talna of th old days, the corp cf Virginia servanu ars auxious to show their fitness for tbs honor or "aervln' de ladles." Even the brick oven, a relic of colonial days, Is called Into UHe, the beautifully browned broad, pica and cakes attest. tog Its superiority. Thirty States Represented. The Mount Vernon Ladle' Associa tion is a most exclusive body. It is compoaod of a regent, who Is president or toe association, and a vice-regent from each of the Stales of the Union. Thirty Elates are now represented. The women are Justly proud of the woik that baa been and la boing accom plished, and so value their places in the council that It has become a cus tom for the ofllce of vice-rtcent to de scend from mother to daughter or otuer near relative. when a vacancy occurs in the Council the Governor of tbe State is invited to nominate some prominent woman; but should tbe name not receive the favorable consid eration of the regent and vice-regents no appointment Is made until one ac ceptable to all Is proposed. Miss Cunningham, tbe first regent, lived st Mount Vernon from 1808 to 1873, when she resigned on account of ill health. Ehe died the following year. The present regent Is Mrs. Jus tine Van Itennsclaer TownBend, of New York. During the Civil War, though in the very midst of tbe conflict. Mount Ver non escaped eerious Injury. This was mainly due to the heroism of Miss Tracy, the secretary of the association, who took up ber anode at Mount ver- STEM INDUSTRIAL CRASH. STANDARD OIL MAGNATE PRE DICTS CRI US AND SUGGESTS PAllA tWE MEASURES. Would Have Nation Begin Work of Vast Internal Iqtcrovementa. C Premier Mellns f France Also Sound Warning. , J, H. SHANNON. That the land Is tbe source of all real wealth, has been said by philoso phers time ont of mind, and now with the urban districts draining from tbe country much of the flower of Us man hood the cry Is going no from tbe IIds of legions of wise men, "Back to the land!" All manner of colonization projects are being devised and tried Tor the purpose of diverting foreign Immigration from the cities to fields and to relieve the pressure of conges tion in the over-grown centers.One F How la whkih WMhlugUin Llvwl. TU Klu h n .a H mi 8did VMn Aso. '!- :t I It ' il 1 1 l! If p ,r -1 3H U-Wri'----4 nc untlUed and useless, and the house d outbuildings wore showing n the j nsHlng of the years. Tbe glory 01 taat spleudld home was departing. A Woman's Work , To,th Itreat credit of John Augus w Washington It Js related that he mused aUuiutely to conalder proposi ng advunced by private companies d Individuals to purchaso the estate. J He converted later Into a pleasure ?Mfl- Think of the desecration a 'uaeville performsnoe on that magnl nt stretch of lawn, waiters bearing lr burdens of food and drink '"fough thoHe stately halls, the daily proor of irreverent crowds. r nd then earns Miss Ann Pamela tmin(.mra of 8outn cronn,. Bne Jitlted Mouut Veinon In 1863 and was hocked and grieved at the fate In w for the historic spot She con lvd the plun of rousing the women m "'.beloved southland to the true of aftuirg and enlisting their cc i',,on ,u th raising of a fund of I:?-"?'0, the price asked for the house, IJL ulJd,n, wharfage, garden and " two hundred acies of farmlands a she went to work, and It must be "membered that fifty years ago It took niall amount of bravery for a , 0 to Inaugurate and carry on an nartftking of ucli magnitude. Hut ,,'' "v years of effort the whole of !J200'000 lo hand. It was Impracticable to confine the tK,8and to the tSouthern fcttates, so il! ?.Hrtl1 WM Invited to assist, which aid in gunerous measure. t the close of B the Mount Ver o estate vas purchseed and tbe title sd to the Mount Vornon Radios' ft""ocltttion of the Union. freed frnLn Tkiitlnn. . .barter was snciiteit from the Btste v.,rfiPia, Kimc txeiiifptloti from aon. accompanied by only a few serv anu. Miss Cunningham, the regent, was prohibited from crossing the mili tary lines and could not Join her. For four long years Miss Tracy remained at the lonely home, managing the estate aud guarding tiie buildings. The plan of the rehabilitation of Mount Vernon, by returning to Its rooms the original furnishings, or rt . J. D. ROCK.KKELLEK AND HIS NEW W10 fentnre of the ominous flow of people to tbe cities is tbe phenomenal develop ment of manufacture. There - may tiue a time when manufactures will m overtMilmioe agriculture that there will not be enough banlc wealth pro duced to afford a profitable market fur tfie fac-tory-mH(te gomlH. Wlien the IndiiHtrlnl situation shall become m unbslauctrd, a commercial crash of stuieudous uiugultude must ensue. As Helpless Babes. Then the clty-rralned men who know not bow to make bread out of the soil will clumor for work, curse tbe economic condition of the period, denounce the state, threaten tbe re public with all sorts of fautaxtlc theo ries, and there will be scute friction lietweeti the few rich and the multi tude of poor. Gradually men will drift buck to tbe laud and learn to uuike their living with tbe plow and renper and a satisfactory equilibrium between agriculture and manufactures will once more be reached. Before this result Is attained, there will be lntftise suffering. Families that are lu comfortable circumstuuees will know the meaning or. misery, ana families now aflluent Will full tuto beggary. AH this is not a cream. Men of clearest vision see It coming. Rockefeller Prophecy of Panic it Is what Mr. John D. Rockefeller sees when he predicts, as be did u a recent lutervlew "an Industrial crisis of world-wide extent and unprece dented severity." Mr. Rockefeller says tne crisis win be brought on by overproduction in all lines. Tbe Standard Oil magnate ' ) ' ' . - - i OU FASHIONED GARDEM AT MOVNT VERNON. does not stand hne ss a prophet of tuipvndlug evil. Enneutlul!y tbe sauie pntillctlou Is made by Scuntor Jules Mellue, once preuslcr of i'ruuee, and oie. similar to dsjlgn and u aeneially underntood. But every w ' r 0 "..'..m know and remember 7Z UloaVfatriot wonnt Impends will be-IVreclpltatcd by ovef- production or manufactured goods. He says "Consumption must have Its bounds, and so with the consumption or manufactured articles. When la man has filled all his requirements In c'hcs and furniture a mere lowering o prices, which is all that mechanics! 1 ipro;9?ie) I- generally mean nowa- aaya, can Do longer attract blm. Therefore, -when the output Is not re stradned Uie market necessarllr be comes COOKCO." Mr. Rockefeller Is epcclflc at to the time when tbe crash Is to occur. It is likely that he errs in this, because pre options as to periods or depression and readjustment are seldom fulfilled as to dates. Crises as a rule come on expected and tbe Immediate reaftqn Is most apt to be due to over-expansion of credit, and overproduction of secur ities than to actual overproduction of goods; but when to the cause of over- expanded credits Is added overproduc tion of manufactures and a lop-sided industrial system. recoverins- from the crash Is more difficult Day of Distress Near. The richest man in America Is Dosi- five, however, thst tbe crash will come bout 1907 year after next and so sure Is he that the trouble Is on its way, that be Is already weaving a plan to provide work for those who will be thrown out of emolovment. end thus ameliorate tbe panic. He Is certain that the number of men who will neea help will be about 7.000. Don and when is added to those men tbe number of dependents, the total is ap palling. Mr. 'Rockefeller thinks this vsst army of unemployed should be set o -work by tbe government on in ternal improvements, the bulldlns- of new roads. Improvement of old dredging of streams. Irrigating land, etc. He savs: Vast Plan of Construction. There is enongb labor today needed on the public highways to employ all the idle or surplus labor for a century. The Improvement of tbe roads, tbe dredging streams, and especially of tbe Mississippi, where annually mill Ions of damage is done by tbe over flow, the irrigation of arid lands, tbe preservation of forests and the drain age of tbe swamps are tbe great pub lic problem that should be occupying the public mind. Municipal, state and uauonai taws snouid be enacted now ror tne building of roads, so that when the industrial storm comes it wiu not re too late to breast it" THE TARIFF PROBLEM. REVISIOX AND A NTI-RE VISION SENTIMENTS IN WASHINGTON. Speaker Cannon bwtween Two fires Question to be a Lire One During the Next Session of Congress. It Is rather amusing to those who are on the Inside of the political arena In Washington to observe the manner la which discussions of the- tariff are conducted throughout the country. In an academic way the theories of the tariff are talked over. But to the men on whom tbe real work of revising the tannr would devolve mere are very dif ferent considerations to Influence then They openly declare that the tariff ought to be revised, but thev ear tbe danger to business interests would be so great that thev fear undertakinjr it They insist that a struggle over the scneduies would last six months, and that during that time the business In terests would be suffering stnirnation that would afflict the country very soreiy. This Tlew Is scouted by the revision ists as one that has no standing with men who believe In doing things. They claim that If such considerations are to prevail there never could be a re vision of tbe tariff. So Easy To Revise. Not long ago the difficulties In agreeing upon changes in tbe Uingley j over the revf on of the tar1.. ". I . cl d that It would be an 1- As tl.r.ple as Can t . "What won!4 yoa . tariff?" he was asked. "W-hy," he r. Med, "it's M i can be. All yoa have to do H 1 1 i the tariff on woolen goods at 1 1 a big reduction in tbe shoe t Practically that would sit' -one, and If you did no mere t try would J-a pleased." The Illinois representaX . ) -formed that re bad been r a member wra aiassach thought that aJ that would 1 aary would !te to put coal, L wool on the free list "Hides oa the free list!" er " the Illinois speaker. "Not w have the strescth to stay here to . If s "Now yo see what an easy tl Is to revise the tariff," said . speaker. "If I was God." again remarked t speaker In bis quaint style, "I won,, a make some changes in tiie Tar.-. . l would rut -them Into effect before a"" body knew what they were to be Then there would be no unflcttllng of business and at least some people would be happy." " Question an Absorbing One. What alarms so many prominent protectionists is what tbey claim is the danger of unsettling tbe business conditions of the country. The the oretical adjustment of the tariff ao cording to the principles cf protection JULES MELjyE. It makes no difference whether Mr. Rockefeller be right or wrong in bis forecast of a gathering storm, bis plan for the employment of surplus labor Is a practical aud profitable one and bis enumeration of road building, riv er improvement irrigation, forest pres ervation and swump draining, as the truly great national problems Is phil osophic. Tbe work needs to be done, and eventually It must be done, if the United States is to progress. Waste Is national loss waste by flood and drought as well as waste by fire. Every acre of land should be made to pay. Tbe government promotes re search and experimentation in agri culture, with a view to Increasing tbe effectiveness of tillages there is no reason why It should not give counte nance snd support to reclamation of land and the enchancement of the fer tility of land already under culture. It Is tbe laud-the farm, which Is the pedestal of tiie republic. There should be no effort to mini mise the worth of manufactures processes that work np tbe raw prod ucts f the earth Into serviceable forma. The ores from which are ob tained tbe metals of commerce are as much a product of tbe laud as corn, wheat aud cotton -not as primarily Important, but quite as necessary to una in bis present highly organised social state. It is difficult to draw the Hue between some of tbe basic manufactures and agriculture, for the Iron furuaces aud st4 mills build the railroads snd bridges which give farmers a short-cut to markets, Trench Statesman Also Predict Panic. But the point la, that where inanu factutvs develop out of proportion to tbe growth of agriculture, the world is being turued wrong adds up. Mr. Mrilne in declaring that tbe overpro duction of manufactures will 1m?. to uu industrial crush, says; "Thole la lvotu for evcryoue under the sun, but on couditiou of sharing the ioxkI rromaMWashlngton?ont "Ordinarily my ixderienct has been that bears tver met p-reatl fist. rud when I suddenly cams upon th4m."Theodort Roeuvtlt in Scrib- ner s jor uerooer. t schedules were .illustrated by rep- esentatlves who called on Speaker gsfnnon. It happened that'-oue day a prominent - Massachusetts member called to Impress the speaker with the easy manner In which the tariff might be revised. You see." declared the Massachu setts member, "we all make too much over the dltflcultles In revising tbe tariff. It would really be very sim ple. We would only have to put hides. wool snd coal on the tree list and tne country would le practically satisfied. We might do more, but that would really be enough. There could be no difficulty In coming to an agreement on that merely a matter of a few weeks. Tbe speaker listened1 Intently as be always does listen to advice. Put trailing on tbe heels of the Massacau setts member came a representative from Illinois who also wanted to re vise the tariff. He started in the same as his predecessor, lie thought there Is having very little effect on then. In fact the- protectionists do not evea care to dlscuas that phase of tbe ques tion. A revision of the tariff with the declared purpose to ttiii)tly lower t!i schedules they say would have the same effect on the country thai; they clnim would follow an attach n the tariff principles by the free-trud-ers. Tbey claim that merchant! woula . not buy goods when lower tariff rate might still further reduce the price they would have to pay. That condi tions lasting six t'nonUis thev fear would upset all business conditions. They say it might poan panic. But they are lilitly to have tfcel views very forcibly couteted by iha tariff revslonl8t8 next winter. The re vlHlonlrtts and the men who believe In the principles of reciprocity are band ing together to give batilo in tbe balls of Congress. The citadel U now dis tinctly in the control of the staad pat ters snd it Is to bt seen what power the revisionists wl.i c .velop la c-tact- was altogether too much fuss made lug their ascendancy. Every reader of this paper should havs this loo!:. 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