Weekly Oregon statesman., November 21, 1905, Page 4, Image 4

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Tb 9t4traia ha been eatablished lot
-early aty-live yean, and it haa aonae snb
' 'itfi ho have received It nearly Utat
"jB. 4 manywh have read ft for a aen
erauon.. Sum of these object t Bavin th
r aper discontinued a the time of expiration
f their eabeerrptioaa.' for the benefit ut
. Tind for other reaeona, we have e.
clodd to diaeontinao enbeeriptiens only when
notified to do ao. All peraooa payine- wr.ca
aubeeriMaf. or paying- ia advance, will ha'
the benefit of the dollar rate. - Bat If they do
''V' Pr tor six aaoatha, the rate will be
1 1.25 a year. Hereafter we will aend the
japer to all responsible persona who order
it, though thoy may not aead the money, win.
the aoderataadina that they are to pay 91.2!
a 'year in eaao they let the aabacriptioa ae
eunt ran. over aiz monthi. In order that
there may bo avo nsWBleratanlinc wo will
kep thia jaotie standing- at thia place ta the
paper. . .
CZ&CULATXOV (SWOJUT) OVEX 4,000.
THE PANAMA CANAL.
Commissioner Wnt. Barclay Parson
of the Panama canal commission has
recently added one other very interesting-
article to the already large amount
of literature referring to the Panama
c&nsl route and it relation to the rent
of the world, k Mr. Parsons ia a very
dfgtinguigbed engineer, having recently
completed the construction of the New
York subway, ami what he says in cer
tainly, worthy of attention in this con
nection. '
One of the arguments that wan put
tip by opponent of the canal for a long
time was . that San Francisco would
flnt itself side-tracked when the canal
was constructed. Thia argument wat
combated by those who wcrtr student
of engineering, un( yet the position
taken by them waa difficult for the
general publie to understand.' Theao
, opponents pf canal construction based
their argument' on tines drawn over a
fiat map from the Sandwich islands and
Australia, China art! -India to Panama,
aud showing' that the same intersected
at or near tho Hawaiian island. From
this result it was mistakenly UHHiinifil,
. . A 1 t 1.1 ' i t 1 1 II
- Bg m f:tu r rmiciM-ti urouicie wen
says, that the port of Honolulu would
become, the key to the Pacific, and
therefore . the trade from Asia would
center .mere anu men taite a iiirwv
line from Honolulu to Panama. Com
missioner Parsons, however, exposes
the worthlcssness of thia mapping out
o? route on an ordinary map by. Know
ing that the results thus obtained aro
very deceptive. s ,
When trans-rae$c routes are stud
ied on a globe jt is found" he Rays,
tbat Hawaii lie's itar only one trade
route, namely that-from San Francisco
. . ...i.i;. H 'Tl. .1iunn.A
IIS lUBl I Alld. . A vT IIIUIVDI ninioiu I
between -any tw Mint' on a sphera i
found by a greal eu-fle and Mr. Par
4na demonstrates, . incouteatably, that
the-great circle connecting Panama
with the Oriental porta passes through
tht (Sarribean sea the Gulf of Mexico,
tialvcstdn, Doaver, strikes the Pacific
nArth of Heat tie and skirts the Aleutian
islands. Thus it will be easily seen
that the navigator of the Pacific will
naturally follow the route nearest to
tMi great cirela that he possibly can,
and will select his route with this in
VJ-W.. 4 Mia Will Hill U I.I M rrl llllll ll
akirt the sonth and west coast Cen
tral America, Mexico and the T'tiited
Htates, and while it will take him with
in three hundred miles of Han Fran
cisco it will still leave him seventeen
hundred miles to the eastward of Hono
lulu. , Han Francisco, Portland and Heattle
will therefor be immediately recg
nizei as Wing on the route which will
be adopled In making a, run from I'an
auia to -what the business world is
pleael to term "the Orient." There
fore what may be of interest in thi
relation to Han Francisco will also scent
to be, of. interest tt. Portland and Se
attle. Thus ships sailing from Panama
1 . m . I 1 . 1. A
Will eitij ft.ur xruiii v wilt-- vi mine titiv'
portal While all hiu may. not call at
San Franciseo or at Portland or-at
the sound ports, it can hardly be doubt
ed that all ships running between Pan
ama and the Orient will make a call
at one or the other of these ports.
That thia will be the greatest traffie
o
tr
' Two years ato my hair, waa
falling oat badly: I purchased ax
bottle of Ayer Hair Vigor, and
soon tny hair stopped coming oat.'
Ml Minnie Hoover, Parts, I1L
Perhaps your mother
had thin hair, but that is
no reason why you must
go through life with half
starved hair, If you want
long, thickf hair, feed it
with. AyerV Hair Vigor,
and make it rich, dark,
and heavy. ,.
Ma -Li .ro wad rro ta
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H. CtC Lowell. Maaa.
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of the canal roteaaaibe.uaaiioneI. mn, Ly the methola' of science. A
The tea and silks, food prodncU the great deal of information has gotten
fibers aad other raw materials f the abroad among the farmers, but it would
east will go this way ; feeling for the be. too moch to say among the farmers
Panama opening s to the; market of generally. ,. X A great multitude nave
Oriental America, and Europe. ' " The " never yetseen the agrieultoral college
manufactured wares of Yankeedom, ma- J and to them the experiment Station ia
ehinery, steel and all the other thou-! an nnknown quantity; the' law of selee
sands of things which go, to make npltion an unknown law; the rotation of
commerce between the eastern part of
tae vn,td fMJttes, northwestern Amer
ica and Asia will pass by our doors on
its way. - .;-" : -t ! - : ...
What this may all mean to the Pa
cific northwest . and the Pacific : west
can be appreciated by , a "few, but it
is not recognized as yet by alL
The Chronicle ia its further discus
sion of the question says that Commis
sioner Parsons compactly - puts in a
single sentence toe major benefit to be
derived by that city when he , says;
" fhese steamers will make San Fran
cisco a great competitive point for
through freight shipments." That the
transcontinental railways expect this is
evident in their preparation to faee the
condition i through the costly improve
ments to tracks and equipment of not
only those roads which have reached
Kan Francisco, but' those which have
reached other points in the west. Also
it is evident through the haste that
other railways are making in extend
ing their line.t to the shores of Ban
Francisco harbor and to other points
on the Pacific coast.
To Oregon and Washington this canal
means , bringing their grain fields six
thousand miles nearer Liverpool, the.
central market of the world for wheat
and Hour. The commissioner says that
it will also bring the iron and coal of
the gulf states, shipped from New Or
leans and Pens.icd.4, ninety-five hun
dred miles nearer, giving to the Gclf
states a new market, and to Han Fran
cisco, and one may b'.re read also Port
land and Heal tie, a cheap supply of
raw materials for manufacture. Our
western ports will no doubt be able
to purchase cotton at their doors as
cheaply as it is delivered in. Liverpool
or Manchester. The mountain chains
of the west contain the coming, power
of the future in tho rushing torrents
which wur down their rocky sides.
Fuel in the west, will never be a ques
tion in the future as it will to the vast
prairies and the countries of the east
today. Klectricity will W gathered at
the foot of the mountains, transported
over the wires to where the salt waves
kiss the Hands at the water fronts of
the thriving cities. Here the cotton
and the iron ore of the south will come
to be made up for the world 's consump
tion. There, is no roason why the opening
of the Panama canal should not de
velop nutnufactUrio industries along
this coast like none now iu existence,
tho spindks and wheels whereof shall
be turned by the power gathered at
the foot of the many waterfalls of the
Cascades ami (toast tjngo of mountains.
Not ouly Han Franeiseo, but Portland
and Heattle, will '.'have an advantage
of many thousands of miles iu their
favor in reaching markets of the Orient
without considering other foreign mar
kets still nearer home and the domestic
demand for Biieh fabrics."
AO HI CULTURAL EDUCATION.
The Han Francisco Chronicle in dis
cussing agricultural education recently
says that ' ' A generation ago there were
few people in America who could see
any posible connection between farm
ing and school keeping. Older and wis
er civilization had long before discov
ered it, but we did not care to learn."
It says we had Virgin soils to rob, and
it requires no intelligence to loot when
the treasury is before us with no police
man fo guard it.
That the peoplo of the west have
robbed diligently and faithfully for the
past half century wilh bo evident to
anyone who sees the farmer of today
harvest twelve and fourteen bushels
of wheat to the acre wondering . why
the acre does not return him fifty and
sixty bushels as it did a few years ago.
He does not remember that be has been
taking wheat from this 'soil all that
time, taking out of the soil the in
gredients and elements of productive
ness without returning any of them
to it. He is not a scientist, the wheat
farmer; he knows nothing of the value
of nitrogen, of sulphuric acid, of cal
and the many other things which go
to make up the elementa of fertility
in soil all that he has known was" bow
to plow,, harrow, sow the seed and reap
the harvest. He does not appreciate
that taking the. same crop from the
soil and land year after year means
absolute destruction of the land. He
does not know 'j that anything about
farming can be learned in achooL
Put; the fanner who has been study
ing, practicing what is known as in
tense, farming, or up-to-date farming, if
the reader will, - knows the value of
the agricultural eollfgc, appreciate the
necessity of the farmers eongrese, the
farm institute, realixes the work done
in the agricultural bureau of the gov
ernment to advance and aid the cause
of agriculture ia the country. He be
gins to find it far more profitable to
grow fruits, vegetables, bay and other
thing that require intense cultivation,
than to grow wheat.s: : t -J-
A large number of our farmers,, and
aa the Chronicle aays, perhaps the ' ma
joitj, have finally come ; to recognize
that; agriculture is a science whose
foundation must be laid by scientific
crops to them ia a phrase carrying with
it no idea - or practical thought.
Yet even in the face of this, condi
tions continually change. Every man
who makes use of improved methods
is. bound to bave more or less influence
on his neighbor. In the course of time
every farmer , will fee more . or less a
scientist. He will know more or . less
of - the'yalne of all those things neces
sary today ia scientific farming. When
that time comes the Willamette valley
will see very, few wen farming great
tracts of "land; it will see, on the con
trary, many men industriously working
the soil of small farms of five, ten and
fcftecn acres each. i x : -
The public school, However, will no
doubt make a feature of this agri
cultural educational work, and scien
tific farming may some of these days
he one of the branches of study in the
public school. Home few of the agri-;
cultural organizatio.is have been call
ing for help from the public schools for
some ' time. ' The sttle normal schools
should first take up the subject of agri
culture and every teacher sent out from
the normal athools ebould have some
knowledge of practical agriculture, hor
ticulture, arbor culture, and vitricol
ture. Those of the farmers who bave
been through the, agricultural college
and have . made a constant study of
scientific methods should go to the aid
and assistance of pur normal schools
and public schools to tha point of show
ing, them what the farmers really want
and require, showing them what the
schools can do to alleviate the situation,
what they can do to advance the eauso
of agriculture and to help forward the
country life in general. ,
And right here it is safe to say is
the key to the situation. - Make farm
ing profitable and farm Kving comfort
able and you make country life what
it, in point of fact, should be the hope
of the nation. Frederick C. Howe has
recently written a book in which he
calls the; city the hope of democ
racy; If that is true God save the
mark. The salvation of the eouniry in
general, the future of a republican form
of government, the true hope of de
mocracy lies not in the slums and al
leys of tbot city, but ia our agrarian
population. Let us make for higher
education in our farmiug section. Let
us teach our farmers how to do better
farming, how to do more profitable
farming. In fact, let us make farming
more alluring, more Interesting and the
future of the democracy need worry usj
very little.
THE DBAG PROVES EFFECTIVE.
The "drag" is a simple thing in
road work, but it ia certainly proving
effective wherever! It is being tried.
Some time since Mr. Paul Wallace pre
sented a problem to Secretary Tbiclsen
of the flood Roads Association, which
has been solved by the use of the drag.
It seems that near Sidney a short piece
of road wan in very bad shape, being
soaked with water from the race at
its side, and Mr. Thielsen recommend
ed the use al the, drag, after a slight
fill.
This was finally adopted as the mode
of improvement, and the results are
said to be so satisfactory that it has
induced other farmers in that neigh
borhood to construct "drags " and use
tnem on their roads. The process is so
simple, and so inexpensive, and the re
sults attained so generally satisfactory,
that it would seem that farmers all
over the country would take up the
work. It is so highly recommended by
all who have tried it that irk use should
become general, i
PORTLAND AND OREGON CITY
GATEWAYS.
It is late to suggest it, perhaps, but
the gateway at Oregon City should be
held open to all such railway lines is
must converge there on their way
through the valley. For this reason
the granting of an exclusive franchise
to any One company on Oregon Citya
principal street would not seem to be
to the interests of the public, especial
ly to the Willamette valley in general.
Oregon City should require any com-
any using that street to enter into
rack age arrangements with any other
company waoae lines might converge
there. The salvation of its single bus
iness street would also be brought
about by tbe construction of aa ele
vated road through the city.
Portland haa another proposition be
fore it in which the valley Is interest
ed an i that is toe use by railway lines
of Front street in that city. Thi Is
the only street, on the west side of the
river over which railways can enter the
city on a level from' the south, and
white various persons' are after the pri
velege tlio interests of the entire val
ley" aheold suggest to the city of Port
land that 'X no such company s'nould
be allqwed to keep others off : tbe
tracks which will go through there.
It should be held as a railroad thor
oughfare for all eomersj Every facil
ity for entrance into the .city ahoull be
given every line knocking at the city's
gat ea, an i-ih is ow-im4i iiUie wonhl
seem to be an added inducement to new
lines to' look toward Portland and the
valley.
In thia same eonneeteiori the Ore-
gonian ef yesterday, nis thjfcfollowing
regarding the. Front street .jfraneaises
; "Yet several things' are certain aa to
thia and all similar applications, name
ly: That no exclusive right Mr .fran
chise ia to be granted, 5 but the line
must be allowed to the use of all, on
equal and reasonable terms; that "the
city shall reeeive proper compensation
for the. use of the street; that freight
trains or ears shall be moved ver the
line only within certain hours after
nightfall, so that ordinary j business
may not lie arreated r interrupted,
that every precaution , shall be taken
to avoid blockade of the approaches to
the bridges, and, finally, that all these
and such other requirements aa the
present aitnation and past experiences
may suggest as necessary for the pro
tection of the public, shall be set out
with such clearness as to leave no
ioubt about he nature of them, or .tue
authority to enforce them."
IS BOOT TO BE ITf
One of foe most important changes
made by the present changeful presi
dent is that of recent 'date whereby
be requires the secretary of state to
take absolute charge of all consular ap-
poinimenis anu aiw ajwioiiuBun "'jb.'ing in a pja wbero he can reacn
the diplomatic service. One thing i the sinner on the one side and God on
this may IeaJ"to is the selection of a
few Americans to replace a lot of for
eigners who 'sold foreign eonsular po
sitions unier our government, for Mr.
Koosivelt may have time, or take' it,
to learn something about the service.
This change of policy, however, is
really significant. The appointment of
officials in the diplomatic and couhu
Jr corps has ever been tbe president'
function and his right only. Tnoiw in
tbe diplomatic corps are at least pre
sumed to be his own personal' repre
sentatives, and therefore, be has used
the power of the appointment as one
purely personal to himself. It has
been the habit of presidents in tne
past to use this power to reward their
own political supporters of to bring
new ones to them.
Now that President Roosevelt abso
lutely .lenies that he will be a candi
date for re-election in 1908, and Hec
retary Elihu B. Root is said to be a
candidate, .the transfer of this great
appointing -power to Secretary Root
may be said to signify something.
Heretofore the general. s impression
nas been that President Roosevelt
would like to see his mantle fall, upon
the secretary of war, the Hon. Wm. H.
Taft; but this change, this turning of
so great a. portion of the political ap
pointing power to his present secret-
ary of state would seem to indicate
that Root is the, president's choice
and that New York is. a pi' ''to present
the next candidate. ,
WHY HAS TT DECREASED?
Just why the assessment roll of
Marion county should show a decreased
valuation of $360,(XK) from that of last
year' is a little bit difficult, to deter
mine. If one knows anything at all
regarding Marion county he knows
there bas been absolutely no shrinkage
of values here within tbe year; on the
contrary, there certainly bas been a
gradual increase of valuation of all real
properties in the county. This kind of
a report is not creditable to this county
ia any way, and leads those who read
about us to feel that we are not pro
gressing, but, on the contrary, are
retrogressing.
Marion county is growing. Every
town within the eounty is growing.
Kvery- farmer is increasing the value
of his farm and of his improvements.
The city of Salem is growing, making
more growth than ever before in its
history, and the' number of new build
ings erected within the past year is
greater than were ever erected in any
previous year in its history. We have
not lost a mile of railway line, nor
bave our railway lines decreased in
value either as to roadbed or equip
ment. We cannot even think of any
single individual who has moved out
of the county, and who might possibly
have taken the shortage with him.
Other counties in the state show in-,
creased assessment, show growth. That
Marion county should show it is not
particularly changed, as a matter of
truth, by the fact that it does not show
it. Another question ' quite pertinent
is why 60 per cent of this deereaae
should be in Salem and school district
No. 24. It would seem that tbe in
crease in thia part of the county should
have been material.
The colored Methodists are doing
well in turning their attention to those
of their race who spend their time in
debauchery, and. gambling. It is safe
to aay that the colored race has the
gambling spirit more inherent than al
most any otherraee, and they are
more difficult for , the 1 law to get. at
than almost any elaas of gamblers for
the reason that they play in epen fields
or anywhere two or three may be gath
ered together. This .has done more to
keep the negro from advancement than
almost anything else, it ia safe to ssy.
r--"'' - A: ':. - -
Governor Chamberlain and General
Odell may be sai.J to be "boas anJ
bona" with the odds largely ia favor
of the generaL ,
EDITORIALS OF
v THE
(Te; SUtesmant Is" pleased to print .
mmnnBieatioBi nDOB topics of eenerall
inteest at any Ume, iTbero is seareely
fi. . ' T 0 I ii
anyliimit to the topies of "general
tereit" It is asked only that eorre-
spondents refrain from personalities
and use ears that nothing b -written
of s libelous nature. Ed.)
To the Editor:
How can I get into the kingdom of
heaven aad be saved from, hell? is a
question that great many people ask
and the many ways in which the ques
t ion ia anaw ered onlv eonfuaea the
questioner. God baa one way and only
one, and there. is no use ior any ma
trying to get into heaven in any other
way. There are no exceptiona to God's
ing plae here in tb? earth, and in and ;
taW, UWtl IMUV UAU
taroogn man uoji iui b
over everything in the earth. "...
Man has the power: to reject God
and not4?t him dwell in him, when any
man floes this he la said to be a sinner
or spiritually dead, lost and outside of
the kingdom of heaven. When a man
is in tnls condition there, is but one
way for vbiai to get back into tl? king
dom, the way is through an intercessor.
An intercessor is one who taltes upon
himself., on one on whom Goil puts, the
sfdritnal condition of the sinner, then.
the other, he pleads with 3od for the
sinner as if he himsell wer. j the sinner
and. God answers bis x,ryer an' le"
livers the sinner and brings him to a
place where he gladly accepts eternal
life.
We need not go back and theorize
about what Jtsus Christ did for the
salvation of ; the worhl, how .God
througtt him was reconciling ta? world
unto Himself, but at the present time
and for all time will the end of time
with man here oa the earth Ood iJn
th chnrch reconciling. tbe world unto
him'.' If. Because of the intercession
of the members of the church God is "j
granting life, eternal life, to the sin
ners for whom intercession is made.
God uses tbe church as the base from
which to extend his kingdom by bring
ing n.uwiu are saved into it. The
life tho f is in the church in that ot
which God takes and imparts to those
who through intercession arc given life
or are regenerated.
To h?ar the preaching of today one
would think that the preacher is trying
simply througn preaching to force sin
ners into the kingdom, but the fact
is, preaching will never get a man into
the kingdom of God until intercession
has been made for him. The Bible is
God's word, study it and see if tuese
things are not so.
Dexter Ffcdd.
Salem, Oregon, November 20, 1903.
For Consumptives.
Editor Statesman:
The great mass of consumptive' suf
ferers seems constantly to increase, and
like a great wave, surges westward to
find relief in climatic surroundings
and atmospheric changes. It will no
doubt be a bit of relief to those thus
afflicted to know that a remedy has
been found for the dread disease (as
was indicated in a former article). Von
Beahring, the famous German patholo
gist, has found a cure for consumption.
Hear what is said aboutl it in the Amer
ican Veterinary Reviewfor November:
" Prof essor Von Beahring has again
startled the world by announcing that
be pas added to his list pf medical tri
umphs a cure for consumption, but he
will not for a year divulge the secret,
wishing to reap financial advantage
from it for that length of time." Like
Prof. Kich his great reputation com
mands the attention and respect of the
.world. "The Review hopes it will not
ahare the fate of Irot. Koch 's famous
announcement before tho London con
gress of 1901," and wttile o much has
been announced I am sure a good deal
of allowance should be mixed with
this good news. If at the end of a
year Prof. Von tlahrmg shall le will
ing on its merits to give to the world
bis remedy and it shall have proven
meritorious, then we may clap our
bands and rejoice in the onward steps
of sciene.?. Very respectfully,
D. D. Kecler, VS.
To the Editor.
J noticed a small item in last Tues
day's Statesman written by "A Patri
otic Citizen." Just what ha, was driv
ing at would be hard to gnessl He per
haps, baa a steady position, and is mak
ing a living and that is good enough for
him, and he i satisfied.
I wonder if our Patriotic Citizen
has not Jniaconstrued the meaning of
the word patriotic Does be not know
that it has been resolved for past cen
turies that the man who contemplates
is greater than the man who enjovsf
Why, if people had all been like him
five hundred years ago, and each man
sat down and folded his arms and said:
"This is good enough -for me," we
would at the present time Le ruled by
chiefs and kings, and would be plow
ing with a crooked stick.
The growth and prosperity of any
city depends largely upon ' outside
or newcomers.
When you cease to, swell the popu
lation of your town or city, that town
or city will eeaae to prosper ; business
becomes dull, merchants all complain,
proierty depreciates in value. Stores
closes up, houses are vacated, ami your
town is dead. On the other hand, let
us welcome enterprise of , all kinds, en-!
tie manufacturers to come to our town. '
give any kind of a franchise to trans-!
ifse to trans -
freight rates
ew roads be-
ur (own and i
Iiuriaunn companies, that
may be reduced. When new
gin to build to and from our town, and
freight rates are reduced, then will tbe
great wheels of progress begin to torn,
factories of various kinds will be built,
cunEsmii au else tm
Best Coueh Synip. Tastes Cood.
lias la time. Sold by Sniectata.
ta?tw?7JAIr .r.1
I .
PEOPLE
' - THIS DATE IN- HISTOBY. " -j
November 21. j
1699-"Treatv of alliance signed ; be
'tween Peter of Russia and Augustus II
1 of Poland.
j r l777 American congTess recalled
V Silas Deane from Paris and appointed
j0hB Adams.
1789 Nort
Carolina ratified the
eonatitulion of th.- United HtaU
f' 1S06 Napoleon issued a deer
UUr- thel hritlAl Mom in t
United Htatea.
leeree de-
ate of
. Wk ....
i!oK:uit in TS-anf as In re-
establishment of the empire. j
1S62 Geberal Hutnaer demandel the
mmiilpr nf Frederic ka rnirc. Va. ' ' I
1873-lEncyeIieaI letter issue-1 by
Pitts IX against Old Catholics.
1866Charles Fraucis Adams did.-
1891 Jose Salvaxlor, anarchist, threw
. . . "p. i k .1.. . I hiui
bomb ta Barcelona theatre and kulel
many persons; garroted.
1899 Garret A. Honart, vice presi-
dent of the Unit-d Htatea, died
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Fair, rising temperature. . ijmnic statements thtrein vh.ie.i nr..
m "' "false.".! t;rh a at.-iteni-iit, w:t,...;t
Yes, dear trnderfot, this is wintet recific nllignmrnt, measure up t",.
in Oregon. Ratier, it is our winter stan iard ot the average street gamin,
utmua. ; on rontrovf r.iia:,pointn. ilw vi-r littl.-
' you may know of legal jur prtid.n,
rAfter the motor line per;oI i. fairly . you r-rtuiuy .know tluit uu algati.M
on us, there will be plenty ot people chnilenging proof must be ieifir. ( t
saying what they coulJ have lKught f old satd in hi haste "ail nun am
sucn and such a piece of real estate' liars." and no one has felt called upon
for, and bewailing the fact. that they to attempt the di-proval ,f tUv rtui,--did
not buv. There is iroine to be a mer.t. I have to request that vmi tj4.te
I mild boom, an ! it will not stop for ten
I or twenty years to come, . -
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The propose.1 ordinance for the mot
or line franchise comes up in the city
council this evening. Pass it. Make
it unanimous. The people behind tae
proposition propose to spend some mil-
Jions of .lollars lor our uenent, an.i
incidentally, of course, for 'their own
benefit. Let them siend it. Don't
put a thing In their wayt Nor a mo
ment's delav.
Here is a piece of m tropolitan jour
nalism. This is a news item in the
Portland Telegram of la"t fvening.
"Chief McLean of the Albany olice ive eonniiitee, of 19i:;, upon the pi,M.t
force, has notifiei Ciiief Gritzniaeher J Hubinitted relative to my work. And
that two unknown boys,. II or 12 years ' do you approve of the action of i!.,.
old, ran away from hom -and are sup- J legislative commiile of I'.iu.', in jM ,t
pod to be headed for Portland. "Two suppiemed ny written statement, ami
unknown boys ran awav from home nl J'my written and verbal protect a -,i not
All any" is good. Ralbttville corres- .the propriety of the acting tlijiiiiii:iu
pondent please copy. ! Kail coiinnitlee participating m the
fiii.ltigv of the omiiiittee, for the rciv
The Brayton syndicate, which is con- on that he was a party iu interest .
ducting the Statesman' subscription J Yoit further a.iv. "It mav not be .,n
contest, contracted t.i recure for this J-,.rop.r fur m? to nv t., vou t...,t
paper 700 new subscribers for the tliive ,04.. jargely " 'n-spoiisible for a
Daily. The content has this week nu l j condition which has compelled the ,t;,i,.
next to run, and the guarantee has al- J of Oregon to aefund many thos u, , of
ready been, exceeded. It is now 7S2, dollars out of t.ie prim -ip',1 and int. rest
In other words, their .are now nearly I tf the school fund to compei sale iho,e
800 new subscribers on the lists of the j who titles were founded on allege I
Daily Statesman, fecund dnce the con- ! mineral base furivihed by you." Oo.
test began, September 11. Besides eruor. this is Intend, d as a plav to t he
these, there are many new subribers ; galleries for politcal etr.ct. wh. n von
that have come in regardless of the eon- ! know that it ia not true.. Kv. rv .l.il.ir
test. They are in addition, to tae 2;,that the state of tlregon has len r.rll
mentioned, There will probaldy be 300 . c ; l;j,.,u to refund, w-is first pai.I in l.v
to 400 more new ones brought in by tbe ! ica.s.,11 of my work, and if it
contest. Now it wlll be "up to" the ', wrongfully paid in, it lid not properly
Statesman force to keep them. In no
former contest has the Yi?t decreased
after the special work was over. Kv-
cry effort will be made to keep up this
recor.t. mere win be losses or course,
but attempts will be made to have th-
cr new ones to take their places. The
keen advertiser will recognise t lie fart I
that the Daily Statesman is a much '
more valuable medium than it was be-1
fore September 11. T.ic rate. however j
have not Wen increased. They will
not W, for the present, though good
advertisers, who use a great deal of.
newspa;er space, will admit that the ;
"' 'e waiiy oiaiesman are com -
paratively very low.
Dr. McCracken, one time a football
star on the University of Pennsylvania
If football players generallv would go
into the foreign mission fields the ques
tion of the treatment of our mission
aries would solve itself.
V.
Norway has at last appointed a king
to rule over her. Let us hope that the
new little kingdom feels letter now
that she can go on the streets and yell
"Vive le Roi."
King George of . Greece, it is said,
buys his wife a new frock every .da-.
The poor queen must spend the great
er part of her time in getting into and
out of her clothes.
It would be foolish for any preieher
in Indiana to try to win that 12,000
farm offered by a minister of the Chris
tian denomination for - proof that
sprinkling is scriptural baptism. When
a man gets set in "aim views on bap
tism, it would be easier to convince
bim that the shape of the world is a
letter X than to change bim.
Beware of the man who comes into
your office and begins by saying: "I
see you are busy and ro will take only
a moment of your time.'
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A Connersville (Indiana) man wants!
a divorce, alleging that his wife broke
his collar bone with a ,tick of stove
wood, an 1 on another occasion bis nose
with a ftarrel hoop and that a taird
time she chased him from the house
with a butcher knife. Wonder if this
fellow remembers any of fhe endearing
terms be used to apply to! his wife be-
rAPA vltatr saA wmm
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m,3T w" rom nt u? lots and
hui1'1 homes, all the vacant houses will
b ',te,l Kxl prices. Merchants
.:n ---....I .1
will report a big increase in business,'
anu projerty will increase in value.
I am an American citizen, bom ami
raised here, and so were my forefathers
for four generations. As long as I obey
the laws of our nation. I will make
any place my home that I see fit under
, the Stars and Stripes, and by that God
given privilege (free s;eech) that has
brought nations out of darkness lata
. light, will I help my brother and fel-
1 low - man, weherever and whenever I
can. An Impartial Citizen. i
Salem, N.v. 18.
HE COLIES BACK
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GBNEBAX. ODELZ. POUBS AN-
OTHEE BBOADSXDE INTO GOV.
, C5IAMEEBLAIN,S WARSHIP.
Demands That' Governor Specify
I
Wherein Odali' Falaifies and Charges
Hij Excellency .With Playng to the
Galleries and Having Swell Head.
t
W Uncial 8am a pitofnce clerks placed
kmong tne mail matter intended for tin-
Lr,I(ml 1 of ' Governor Chamberlaiu on
f , . , . ,
'Indav the following epistle fnwn ( en.
- e. i
t W. II. tklell rtt reply to the letter whi. i,
bis excellency wrote a I-w days 'ago.
as-j.ublrhe1 in Thursday Ht:it-s!ti
to :
. Salem, Oregon, Nov. 17, I5i.".
Hon. Geo. K. ChambeVlain, -.
, Governor of Oregon, '
S.a l.-rit, Oregon.
Iear Jir: I am in receipt of your
favor of the Hth fast, by y"t .;..,
ma'!. 1 note, among other things, t b r
you sav "I note that ott have -ta.i.:.'
xpeeifieally the statements that you
t claim v be false, and if I lint th,.,.
j or any t.ne or more or them, ti I e u)t
, I, will-hold iny.ulf ieady to 'make due
acknowledgment, and so far a I nuiV
. le able make the ammde honorable.
1 I note aiso that, in referring ti the
J nation of the commit tec appointed lv
j i:m- leg. mature to examine the oih.-e .
tho state land agents, yim .say, "Th
legislative committee, thougb Impiil.li-
cau. was not ufrai.i to criticise titon-i.f
its own party -who failed to come up tu
the stan lard of faitht'til piildie m rv
anU." "This is to it credit,"
Will you kindly inform iv.v !ii i. r vmi
npprovo of 'toe- fin.iings of the li-gio'iat.
j belong to. the w. ho.d fund, conHe.iu.-m.v
T . . . . . . .
the paying out was no los to the Hri.o.V
fun I. If my work was legitimate an.
1
d
proer, it ought to be upheld by tie-
great chef exc-utive of the Mate, but
if wrong, hs conteiole i bv vou. then
you well 'kBow, it is noj i ho d funds
that the state is refunding but ill o(
ten gain, which ought to be rcfun l-.1.
a,,prr(.iate your desire to be . on
t,i,Wal, of , an,, j M n r ... i t i. . v, t in
vi.w of the i.Lar,,, eri,iM." :1, v,..i
,,ut iu that enn,ilU r:it j.,,, a....wl I " 1
waiVed, ani on are at lilertv to "L.v
on McDuff " n meinl-ring t hal infirm'
: it e r f n5e.i "i..i,ii.
cal I-es" sometimes sup. rno'iH-c
swelled heads in .middle aged pernoiM.
yon favor tne with a spe. tic reply
I rusting that, at vour .convenience,
to the foregoing, I remain,
Very reHp.'.'tfullv,
W. H. OHKIJ..
DEMOCRATIC INSPIRATION.
The Governor Is Evidently Anxiout to
Mako an Appointment to
the Bench.
The following from Friday evening's
Telegram forms a piece of polticnl news
of some intercut:
Governor Chamberlain think that
President Roosevelt will name the kuc-
ciMor to Judge C. It.' Bellinger, of the
Tnited States Circuit urt, very so.n
after the arrival of Senator I'uJton in
Washington, and that' Chief Jirlice of
the Supreme Court C. E. Wolverton, wdl
get the place. It ia quite likely' thai
Judge T. G. Hailey, f Pendleton, will
be the Governor 's choice to till the un
expired term of JuJge Wolverton.
The governor's prediction may be re
lied on, as it has in lirect corrolM.rat ion
from another and -e-iually authoritative
source. f,
Tbe beliet that Judge Hailcy wlj be
raised to the state bench ia founded on
a quiet tip from an authority which
close to the governor; but the latter
would neither aflirm nor Jeny the
story.
Governor Chamberlain ! f sme down
from Salem yesterday aftcrnixai, to re
main over Sun.iay, anH to wefliis aged
mother off for her home in Mississippi,
after an extended visit to her son in
Portland When jicke.l bis opinion si
-l-- t.. ll,in ai,tu,i..tloellt.
the governor said:
. "I have no doubt the president will
name Judge Wolverton."
. m t.iat eveni. wnoin win y.ni
. . , . , !,...
i " .
' not prepared as yet to an-
tWer that 1u',"l"n' w" hl P1
"How about the rumor that you arc
." in-''"'! to favor Judge Hailey, of Pen-
"tonf"
"Well, I have always looke 1 upon
Judge Hailey as t capable man, for the
place, and there are others who may
le just as capable and are candidates e
for tho nositmn. but 1 am not'iioliing
out anv encouragement to any of
them.
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