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Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-06

Administrator of the estate John johnson
deceased
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1907-12-06

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New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
WHY so BUSY'

familiar not to say hackneycd. note was
sounded by Professor Mathews. of the Cnlver-
sity of Chicago Divinity School. at Chautau-
qua the other day. in speaking of marriage ana
family relations. Most of us. he said, are
so busy that cannot get acquainted with
.'our children He did not. of course. mean I"
he taken with exact and entire literalness But
the suggestion which he did presumably intend
must be regarded rs containing unhappily too
much of truth. 4 large and increasing pro
portion of men-and women, tod" actually
seem 70 be too busy with something clse-busi-
ness. politics society. amusemcnts, reform pro
paCanda or what motto give any great ana
serious measure of Attentions TO the humble ana
homely affairs Of domestic life.
The complaint Of those whom kipling has
c.IIes; ..the sons of Martha is indeed wider
than that Men are too busy 10 read books:
they must have mere abstracts or dlgeSts oil
them in tabloid form. They are too busy To
read the newspapers, excepting the headlines
and IA few articles in which they are personally
interested They are too busy to go 10 church.
or they are so busy for six days that they
really must take absolute rest on the seventh
in playiuc golf They are too busy TO take real
vacations but must have stock quotations by
wireless telegraph on their steam yachts. They
arn foo busy to enjoy rational and artistic on
tertainments but must have merely the froth-
lest of variety shows at which they can snicker
and cuffaw without the exercise OF Thought.
Everything must he condensed FOR quick con
sumntion Everything must be In an inces-
SAINT hurry and rush. There have been stone
Age. a Bronze Age, an Iron Age, Golden
Age This is the Age of Speed
Yet why should rational people be so busy:
logically. this of all ages should be the Age
Of Leisure. Now as never before men have
reduced time and space with mechanical de-
vices Are they Frankensteins to he the
slaves OF their own inventionst a man can
now travel further in hour than his ances-
TORS could in day. and he can make and re-
ceiye communications with distant places in
minutes where they would have required
weeks. These wonderful inventions are the
yeriest m0ckeres Of progress, vanity of yani-
ties if instead of using them rs his servants
to do his work for him more speedily, and thus
IN enable him TO have more leisure man is 10
make himself their slave and keep on toilinc
as hard and as necessarily as did his ances-
tors before him.
We would not decry ambition, industry, en-
ercy and efficient achievement nor countenance
The waste of time But leisure time is not
necessarily wasted time. On the contrary, nc
time is more profitably -employed than the so
called leisure which is given to intellectual de
yelopment to the cultivation of domesticity. to
the advancement of interests not measured Will
the yardstick nor appraised in dollars and
cents and to the practice of the all too neg
Iected art of living The parrot cry of too
busvv' NAV be true, but 1t Is not creditable to
our civilization.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
PERSONAL.

Rsnorts from General George Moore Sihith' "iIo
has been critically i'll at his summer home at New
h,,re state that his condition is greatly improves.
10 is abIe TO sit up and has taken StFe!dl shui
driyes and nis physicians say that ne VIII SoOlI NC
restored TO perfect health
Professor Arthur Fairbanks who was appointed
director Of the Boston Museum of fln@ -rt9 'ii
Hume 9 last has arrived in that city and entered
upon MS duties.
Ry the will of DR.. William Thomson. ophthal-
mologfst and pioneer in the field OF shtlseptic
surgery. which was admitted to probate IN Phlh-
oI,I,is the bulk Of an estate valued By the testA
fCr az 81 500 0GO is bequeathed to the WIDOW 5ilH
civ chtIdren Tne will names the four sons n Ut
T'bo,rson william ti.. Archibald 6. waiter = anu
George {; Thomson. and the Fldenty IrGst toi''-
many as the executors of the estate BesldeS tieSS
Four sons the heirs include two daughters, afO-
son was q brother of the late Frank thomson pres
ident Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Associate Professor Joseph z. kirkwood' for
p,r,h.r Of years head Of the department Of botany
y, syracuse University has resigned and has gone
m NeXfco to do botanical work for commeTcltt
company operating in Mexico. but haNlhS hs''I--
quarters in this city
Edward w Parker. who was the coal expert on
the anthracite coal strike commission has been an
pointed chief Of the division mining and mineral
resources OF the United States Geological survey
He succeeds David r. Day, VINO VIII devote I MN.
sef TO the preparation of report on the petIois"h
resources OF the United States
Louis Costaggini. of Washington, son OF the late
F-ilippo C'ostaEgini. who painted the historical
freze in the rotunda of the Capitol, has been COM
misSiOned to decorate aud execute several muid'
paintings in St. Peters Church, that city.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

Renorts of his recent addresses in Ohio credit
him with maintaining very stoutly that the
Hepburn rate bill was an unconstitutional, VI
cious and wholly sr1perfuous piece of legislation
That was his original view, and II does not
square any better with party opinion now imam
Ia did when Mr. Foraker first propounded IT, we
have never seen any intimatIon, except in the
foregoing italicized phrase that the ONO Sen
ator has modified or abandoned his former attl-
tude.
Our correspondent indeed. repeats the very
argument made by the Senator to justify the
contention that the Hepburn law has proved
valueless That argument is. in brlef, that III
the notable proceedings against rebate makers
and takers have been brought under the Eikins
law of 1905. and that the law of 1908 which
was partly drawn by Mr.. Foraker and cordlahT
supported by him. is sufficient as Il correcil'e
of the rebating evil The Elkins law did not,
however initiate the rebates Inc
interstate commerce act of 1887. as amended IN
1855 proyided that the officers of 4 corporation
acting AS a common carrier should be liable to
fine and Imprisonment if convicted OF permit
ting unlawful determinations in rates The FL
knS law extended these provisions 10y makihs
the corporation liable as well as the ,lndlVlduai
officers but it also dispensed with Imprisonment
q penalty. leaving only fines TO be levied on
offenders The Hepburn law re-enacted the FL
kInS law ana reSIore1 tue
and if Mr. Foraker prefers the earlier TO the
later transcript OF the penalty clauses it can
only be because of the milder terms of the
earlier transcript.
IT is pointed out that many suits have been
brought under the Elkins law and few or none
under the Hepburn iawS The reason for this is
obvious. Offences committed under the Elkins
law have TO be tried under that law. 1t takes
time 10 work up cases. and those of earlier
date naturally have the preference. Rebating
is doubtless also becoming rarer. for imprlson-
ment has greater terrorS than mere fine can
have But we do not doubt that the Hepburn
law will bp used in cases to which ii can he
applied. 1t does not follow because Mr.. For
aker supported the Elkins law and then voted
against a law strengthening its penalty proVl-
sions that he should be acquitted of antagonlZ-
ing the general attitude of his party on the rate
regulation question. He would. we think. be
himself the last person 10 ask that his antasO-
nism he ohsrured and misinterpreted.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
CE, ,TRAE AMERICAN PEACE.

The present attitude of the Central American
republics toward the question OF permanent
peace among them seems TO be SUBSEQUENTLY
this that they all desire peace, but when 1t
comes TO taking the initiative toward securing
If. TO adapt an old saying. some are AFRAID ana
the others dare not. Each has real or IAN
cied Grievance against another, and fears that
if would compromise its ease or impair Its dlg
nitv if il overlooked that fact and moved for
entirely friendly relations. In practically every
case we fancy, the grievance is either imaginary
mr. is so offset by counter grievances on the other
side that il could safely and should properly be
IGNORED and we are convinced that any OF those
States which should take bold and frank Ini-
tiafiye toward q cancelllng of all old scores ana
the establishment Of permanent peace among
them would not lose but would immeasurably
gain prestige among its immediate nelghbors and
honor I'm all the world.
There are however, we believe, other circum-
stances which initiate against the sure and last
ing establishment of peace, and these are poth
individual and general In each state there are
ambitious politicians who aspire to virtual dc
tatorshps and who too often perceive, as they
think. in foreign embroilments the surest or most
facile means of gaining or retaining the domes-
tic chieftainshp which they covet In each
STATE. TOO. considerable proportion Of the peo-
nle are natural revolutionists and conqulstadors,
nv virtue OF heredity and lifelong training. The
history of Central America has since the days
of Gil d'Ayila been so largely one OF conqueSts
and counter conquests, of revolutions and coun-
ter revolutions, that many of the peope-and
they the aggressive and dominant part Of them
are as prone to such things as are sparks TO
fly upward. Conspiracy is their normal condi-
lion. War talk Is their breath of life.
1t is pointed cut that while there have been
various Gaets for peace among those states. all
have proved Intellectual because they have been
voluntary and not compulsory. The suggestion
Is therefore made that a new treaty OF peace
should be negotiated among them. containing
clause requiring the United States or MEXICO
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
PE4RY'S POSTPONEMENT.

Much syrnpatbv will he felt with Commander
peary because of the hndrances which have
kept him from starting northward early as he
had planned TO do He has given more years To
Arctic exploration than any other living man.
He already enjoys the distinction of having
approached nearer To the pole than the most
successful of his predecessors and he was in
tent on beating his own record Notifications
of his policy. suggested by his recent experience
warranted the hope that he would accomplish
more the next time than he did before. The
ship which WAS put Mt his disposal in 1900 has
the stoutest hull and most promising shape of
all the craft ever built for such enterprises,
though it had proved necessary TO equip her
with new boilers. The delay in supplying these
had posfponed the explorers departure several
weeks and rendered il improbable that he
would he able to reach the winter quarters ia
which he had aimed 10 place the Roosevelt this
wear With so fine a prospect before hlm tne
necessity for radical change of programme
must have caused him extreme disappointment
on two or three previous occasions Peary has
found it impossible TO force his snip fuftiler
north than Cape Sabine. in the vicinity of which
the channel along the west coast of Greenland
first begins TO narrow. Under these circum-
stances he has sought the best attanable har-
Dor, landed most of his supplies and during
succeeding months has transported them on
sledges to n base of operations two hundred or
two hundred and fifty miles further north.
From that point-FOrt COnger, on Lady Frank
lin Bay was usually selected for the purpose
fhe all important spring campaign was directed
1t would be feasible 10 pursue the same course
now. when there is little chance of reaching the
northern shore of Grant Land by wafer TINS
season pearv would thus be enabled TO push
out over the Arctic ice pack for the pole III
March or April. 1908. as he had originally
intended But that sort of procedure has beeh
beset with disadvantages. and the present encr-
gency does not make it requisite Peary deems
il preferable therefore. to postpone for year
his next prolonged stay in the north
The wisdom of this decision cannot he
doubted BY starting early next summer the eX
plorer may confidently expect to secure for the
Roosevelt winter quarters as satisfactory as
those she occupied in 1905-0G. With no encour-
agement TO undertake the final stage of his
work next spring Peary doubtless sees that to
spend the preceding winter in the North would
involve a waste of time, money and energy.
Moreover. though the Arctic climate is less
hurtful 10 health than has sometimes been sup
posed. the necessity for keeping small COM
many of men in good spirits imposes on the
leader of an expedition a serious responsibility,
and ought not 20 be assumed when the heed
does not exist Peary will improve the oppor-
;unitv now afforded to deposit at one OF his IA
vorite stopping places in Greenland supply or
fuel for future use. but in deferring his next
attempt TO reach the pole he shows commend
able discretion The wise general knows when
tp wait as well as when 10 advance.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

,ola mart in the elections, il VIII employ molo
strenuous means The registry offices ana poi-
un, nIaces will be raded and the llsts Oh Votes
and rho hallot boxes and their contents VIII pe
DESTROYED In some places, Ito encourage inc
others the electoral assemblies Will be oio"n
I'm with bombs. substantially, il VIII be caih-
paign of violence against the franchise' OIL ooi'o
AGAINST baIIot In this abhorrent enterprise Tue
revoIutionists expect to be aided materlaily ny
the Pan-Russian Union of Railway Empioses'
whose members will all go on strike few daES
before the election. so as TO paraiyze Transports
ton and communication .
We call il an abhorrent enterprise IL Is th"''
i'm nurnose as well as in methods. LII is u hiah-
festotion of that same spirit which did so much
4o discredit the first and second DOumas lt
was the boast of these men that they Woud
bring those assemblies to naught. ana haNihs
twice succeeded-or having twice contriDuted So
largely to that end-they now seek TO prevent
altogether the constitution of a third Douihd'
Such an attempt is inexcusable- 1here Is fea-
son for resentment against the government ior
It's coup d'ttat and arbitrary abrogation OF the
constitution But it is n vile thing for the pro
fessed opponents of the government to play INTO
that governments hands. or to precipitate the
very state of affairs which the most reaction
arv element of the auto-bureaucracy Will most
gladly welcome as q pretext for continuing anu
increasing the repression and denial or popuiar
rights and representative institutions.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
r,E, EOPaEER AND THE RATE Law

A correspondents. whose letter is published IN
another column. expresses the opinion tnat we
were not entirely fair TO Senator Foraker III
our comments on the recent action OF The ohlo
R,.pubIican State Committee indorslng secretary
Taft as o;.os candidate for the Republican Pres
sdenfiaI nomination. We said then as we had
said several times before. that in our view Sen
ssor Foraker had gravely misrepresented the
sentiment of Ohio Republicans and Of the people
of Ohio as a whole in opposing the passage OF
she Hepburn railroad rate regulation Dill lt
will be remembered that the Ohio delesatioh III
the House of Representatives voted solloly ior
that hill and that the Ohio Legislature by
practically unanimous vote requested the two
Senators to support it. Mr.. Foraker chose 10
disregard this request, and as the single Repup-
ljcau Senator to oppose the measure from start
to finish put himself emphaticaily on record as
dIsaqreeing with the practically united senti-
nent of the Republican party This action on
the most important piece OF legislation before
Congress for many years disqualified him, in our
tknion. for effective leadership in Ohio and
fatally handicapped him in any contest with
rival ike Secretary Taft. who better represented
the sentiment Of the party ana the state.
We cid not mean TO 90 Senator Foraker any
Injustice he is entitled 10 his own opinions
and is 10 be respected for battling in defence or
them against great odds. But we do not see
how after raising such an Issue he can logically
assert as he Old in a recent letter to member
OF the state committee, that he had not estranged
himself from the great body OF Republicans
in Ohio by his attitude toward railroad rate
regulation In the letter referred TO Mr.. For
skier said.
To-day there is q wide difference of opinion
among Republicans on a question or the most
vital character. The question refer TO Is not
The regulation Of trusts, railroads and Interstate
commerce. abort Vk'oh re ave all united, but
the tariff question.
When did Senator Foraker unite" with the
ou4k vi the party on tie railroad rate issue:
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

or both Of them to intervene forciDly Tor the
maintenance of peace whenever it may De heces
sary. 1t should be evident to the authors Oh
the scheme that such treaty could not De haue
among the Central American states alone ihe
United States and Mexico would nave 10 De par
ties TO it-in some respects the most interested
and important parties. 1t is not to be doubted
that these two countries earnestly and sincerely
desire the maintenance of peace among thelr
smaller neghbors and are willing to sanction any
reasonable measure for promoting ana securing
it. Neither is it TO be doubted that theysor either
of them would be able to compel those states 10
keep the peace. But we should think there was
grave reason to doubt whether the present pro
posal would be regarded by them as reasohapie'
and whether the United States ana Mexico
would be any more ready TO extend their mill
tary domination over the Central American re-
publics than the latter would be thus to abfo-
gate their sovereignty.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
FINES FOR SPEEDING.

Whoever fancied that Justice IrIax $ decision
on the question of filming automoplle SpeedeiS
in New York City would be welcomed rs a Siid
delivery from thradom by the united autohio-
billing world has simply confessed hlmse1 10 De
a member of the humble straphansing fraternity
It is impossible TO suppose that automobile own
ers can be pleased to learn that the Supreme
Court Justice has established the supremacy OF
the city ordinance over the states motor vehicle
law thereby making $40 fine the maximum
penalty for exceeding the speed limit in this city
and enabling an offending motor car driver 10
20 ut once TO police court, pay his paitry me
and go his way. What automobile owner WIN
experience could exc any pleasure out OF thlS
prospect:
The present city ordinance puts the tho'sdhuS
of Iaw-abiding. reasonable automobiliSts IN sew
eral different ways mt the mercy of that wen
known animal the 'mucker. Every chauffeur
getting salary thrice as valuable as his ser
vices every opulent saloonkeeper, every ornate
and ostracized social impossblity whose idea OF
a good time calls for sizzling blend of excite
ment danger notoriety and expense, Is Already
planning. doubt, To turn the city avenues
into bowling alleys in which the pms ihe pc
destrfans set themselves up again automatically,
when not struck too violently. If speeding IS
so cheap ii sport, why shouldn't every cheap
"snort" indulge in il? Automobile owners who
thenl-must now await with philosophical calm
ness the following msfortunes: Missing their
car on Monday morning because the dear chauf-
fpIIr who took his best girl out for Sunday
evening spin. could not pay his fine; having
10 pay the chauffeur's fine ten times oftehef
than formerly: having to endure the scowls ana
growls of nelghbors who have been forced 1"
develop their dOdging muscles. and finally
seeing Il thoroughly aroused public force the
enactment of an excessively stringent speeding
ORDINANCE.
Justice Truax's decision being technically
sound the Board of Aldermen should pass ut
once an ordinance which will protect not only
the lives and limbs OF ordinary folks but also
the purses the comfort and the reputation OF
the large class of sane and respectable automo-
blistS The present law is an open invitation to
murder and Il subtle device for bringing auto
mobilists into dsrepute.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
THE RUSSIAN RED PROGRAMME.

1t was q regrettable thing that the Russian
government saw fit, or felt constrained. to alter
arbitrarily the electoral law so as to disquaiify
a vast proportion of the Russian people from par
ticipaton in the polling for the third Douma.
II was also a regrettable thing, even in the face
of so great a encouragement and provocation,
that so large a proportion of those who were
still permitted, by the grace of the auto-bureau-
cracv TO exercise the suffrage determined to re-
frain from doing SO and TO boycott the election.
II is a still worse thing. omnous III most
disouIeting degree. that considerable part of
The Russian people have decided upon not merely
passive boycott of the election, but an
.actiye boycott meaning widespread resort
ta violence TO prevent the holding of the cleo
tions or TO prevent the determination and an
nouncement of their result.
The Social Revolutionist party has adopted
tbis plan. Wherever its spirit so widely pre-
walls that practically all the people will refrain
frou, voting. it will be content with the passive
hoycott" But elsewhere. wherever any consid-
erable number Of people show disposition to
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
Ar,p:1nrk Dailp Ga-ibn,ts.
MONDAY. AUGUST II. 1907.

This newspaper as 0lrRed and published By
Tic TriUXnc Association, q NctC York corpora
lion; office and principal place OJ business, ITtO-
unc Building, No. lJ4 Nassau street, AeW lork;
ogden uiHs president; Nathaniel TUttle. sec
sofary and treasurer The address OF the Of
7icers is fEc Office OF this newspaper.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

nc desire 70 remind our readers tcho are
oi,ve 10 feauc fhe city that The TRIBUNE 'ciH
b. scnf In a5aaH TO any address ga This country
or abroad aud address changed Gs often as de-
siyed Subscriptions may DC gtren to y0nr reg
UIar dealer before Tearing. or, If more cohUen-
cent hand them iR al THE TRIBUNE OTice
See oppasifc pace for Subscription rates.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

Rv encircling the core of a cannon with coils
of steel wire il is possible to combine strength
and lightness TO a remarkable degree For guns
having a caiibre of six inches or less the merits
of the system were pretty effectualiy demon
strated a dozen or fifteen years ago It's SUIT
ability for larger ordnance is apparently sun
do,bted. but the fresh study about TO be given
70 the subject by officers of the army and navy
NAV put an end to all uncertainty.
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12

Police Commissioner Bingham might help
materially in checking mob hysteria and insane
sensationasm if he would permit Patrolman
Bean to claim the rewards offered last Saturday
for the discovery OF "a kidnapped or murdered
child" The little victim had as matter of
fact disappeared from home and parents be-
New-York tribune., 1907-08-12
1musements.


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