Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-09-30

DAY AT
EUGENE
Courthouse Crowded With
Delegates and Many La
dies are Present

Eugene, Sept 3o.-The first day Of
the Development Convention was sue.
cessfully carried out according to
program. " Delayed trains kept down
the attendance until about $3.50, when
the court house was crowded with del.
egates, a number Of ladies being pres
ent at the opening session.
Progress by Cooperation.
Charles Grissen discussed progress by
cooperation. He made humorous ref.
erenees to marriage and his insurance
company, the Oregon Fire Relief Asso.
citation, which has $4,000 policy hold
ers, with 800 100000 insured. He de-
fined individualism, the progress into
tribes, into nations, into the modern
trusts, all the process Of differentiation.
The failure Of cooperation were the
footmarks Of progress. He traced
the results of competition in the
factory system, as regarding wages,
causing strikes, etc. The result was la
Dor organizations and trusts combining
various industries Necessity was the
best teacher Of man. There was an in.
dependent, middle class-in whom the
hope Of the republic existed. But were
trusts and labor unions the ultimate
result of evolutionism9 Were panics
and depressions inevitable7 They were
iuescapable with cooperation in its
broadest sense. The necessity for sue
cessful cooperation could not be de-
MED. As the result Of cooperation in
the moral and religious field there were
the Salvation Army, the Christian En-
deavor Society and charitable under
taldngs, the fraternal organizations
Cooperation would end in the aestab-
lishment Of a higher order Of morality.
Greatest Of all, was he who died with
the name of public benefactor Mr..
Grissen was repeatedly applauded in
the course Of his remarks.
Stephen A. Lowell, Of Pendleton, was
next introduced. He was received with
great applause, and opened with sever
al good stories that put all in good feel
ing. He said he appeared here as a
representative of the proud citizenship
of rich commonwealth. This state
was in the zone Of power. The state
l.. In -. Anr
ers, forests and an honest, industrious
people He expressed the hope that
the commonwealth might move for
ward into her place in the proud gal
axy Of states What were the defects
that held Oregon baek1 First was
clannish sectionalism, due TO the di.
vision Of the state. Next was alien
ownership Of our lands. Third was for
eign ownership Of our railroads He
spoke Of the need Of cementing all
parts Of the state in more harmonious
union. God speed the time when the
people Of all parts Of the state could
join in one great refrain, "oregon, Or
egon." The narrowness Of vision that
held section against section was to
blame for much Of our non-develop-
ment. He condemned the free pass sys-
TEN, the election of members of the
legislature to the United States senate
in direct violation Of the Oregon con-
stitution. He spoke on landlordism as
curse. At ono place a firm owned
the land along the banks Of go miles
of one river. One man owned the water
Of two counties. A Californian owned
so much land that he could travel from
his state through Oregon, Idaho, Mon
tana and Washington and sleep every
night on his own land. This land
would double and treble by the time
our children were grown. In conelu'
sion Mr.. Lowell discussed the necessity |
of railroad development, the wants OF
our growing state. His appeals for
justice and development were loudly |
applauded.