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Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Our Mars Lesson Up to Date.

Mr.. Perciyal Lowell, the recognized
sharp on the planet Mars, tells the
public in the current number of Ma
ture what the telescopes have discov-
cred this summer to add to human
knowledge respecting the markings on
our nearest celestial neighbor. For
months during the period when Mars
was approaching and nearest to the
earth Mr.. Lowell's telescope, the only
large one in this country exclusively
engaged in the Martian field, was train
ed upon the planet with unvarying
regularity. Practically everything re-
ported by Mr.. Lowell has been known
to even elementary students of as
tronomy for a generation. 1t has been
believed that the Canals of Mars
which disappear and return are a phe-
nomenon due to the succession of the
seasons, as the formation and melting
of snow and ice. Mr.. Lowell confirms
this view.
What the canals" on Mars are has
long been a matter of doubt, and this
years observations lead Mr.. Lowell to
reiterate what he has said before-that
they represent narrow belts of vege-
tation made possible by some system
of irrigation. This assumes that Mars
Is inhabited, yet neither at the Arizona
station, where Mr.. Lowell conducted
the observations in person, nor by the
expedition in the Andes, working un-
der Mr.. Lowell's direction, was any
new evidence upon this important point
obtained. The notion has been held
for several years, bat rests upon pure
guesswork- p
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Just when Russia and England ba,

Just when Russia and England have
agreed to keep their hands off, Persia
loses its premier by assassination. Per-
sia is terribly Ill governed. The shah's
exactions are but 1.-THE of those put
upon the people by the governors. This
plucking of the people has destroyed
industry in many regions which other
wise would prosper. Not until the an
cient system of bloodsucking taxes is
done away with can there be any real
progress in Persia Like some of our
own corporations, the rulers of that
land are blind to the truth expressed
in the old saying, Give and let live"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
A Bridge End In the Air.

Astounding because most unusual as
well as presumably impossible was the
calamity to the cantalever bridge on
the st. Lawrence. A bridge of that
kind violates all the laws of gravity
while in course of construction. Seem
ingly it is bound to fall, but never does
fall unless, as in the case at Quebec,
the bulk thrust out over the water with
nothing to rest upon is so heavy that
the links to the land anchorage give
way.
1t requires the incest engineering
skill to plan cantalever bridge and
also rigid inspection of the parts placed
In position and brought under strain
to insure safety. 1t is to defy fate to
carry the construction over the water
without applying the inspectors tests
at every step. The eye might be de-
eetved by rotten steel, but the tests
would bring the fault to light.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

That $1,000 Russians are preparing
to emigrate to Mexico and found a
colony within raiding distance of the
American border is cheering or terrify-
Ing according as Russians are looked
at. We used to suppose that they were
an oxlike and patient people, but the
history they have been writing in their
own country for the last year or so
makes one apprehensive as to the eff
feet of a hot climate and cactus rum
on folks who can be so handy with
their weapons and so ingenious in their
dynamitings and so needless as to little
matters of ownership when they see
something that they want.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

A committee from the Motor Union
of Great Britain and Ireland recently
inquired into the worlds available
fuels for motors and reported that only
one out of six which can be used can
be procured in unlimited quantities
and that one is alcohol. The commit
tee believes that alcohol will necessari-
ly furnish the motor power of the fu-
ture.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Along with their other troubles our
railroads are now confronted with a
cut in transatlantic rates, making the
ocean trip, always desirable in autumn,
more attractive than ever. However,
the ''see America first movement is
gaining ground, and it may be that
few Americans will be able to spare
the time to visit Europe this fall Our
own woods and rivers are beautiful
enough at this time Of the year to
rival anything that Europe can offer to
the intending traveller.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Unless something is done by oul
state department it will be unsafe fol
an American firm or corporation 70
enter Venezuela for the purpose of DO
ing business. This will be in effect
discriminating exclusion of American
capital. Apart from the matter of the
100000 fine, the justice of which Is
seriously questioned, upon an Amer
can corporation, such state of affairs
is fot to be tolerated, especially ID
viSw of the fact that Venezuela today
ofes its territorial integrity to tne
United States.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

A few years ago trip to Europe was
regarded as something of an adven-
ture. 1t is now regarded as common
place performance. The elements Of
risk and discomfort have been prac-
tcally eliminated, and sea trip can
be taken with more safety than a jour
ney by rail across the continent.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

German toymakers have told Hague
conference delegate that they can't
stop making tin soldiers. Evidently
little boys have too general an admira-
ton for Kaiser Wilhelm and President
Roosevelt.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

AS berries fade from our tables mel
ons continue to stay there, and pretty
soon it will be grapes, which are toll
erably good fodder. Then just as the
small boy is getting his tears ready
because the grapes are disappearing
the buckwheat flapjacks will come on,
swimming in maple sirup. Thus the
great law of compensation keeps on
working.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Colonel Bryan finds fault with Sec
retary Taft because, the colonel says,
he straddles, but platform plank has
to be pretty broad for the secretary
not to stick out over both sides of 1t.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

In the London Academy, afiournal
which is noted for its lackFof love of
things American, a writer speaks of
"the horrible body of death, decay and
wickedness which Is called the United
States of America" Dear me-! We
knew we were getting to be- pretty
bad, but, as Artemus Ward used to
say, ''this is 2, 2 mutch." PerhapsIn the
writer, who says many other hard things
about America, were to come overland
take another good, square look at US
he might find that things are not so
bad after all. He ought to remember
that despite our recent enormous i'm
migration most of our institutions as
well as our language are based ON
those of Mother England"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

The head Of the government printing
Office at Washington has made a rule
whereby the employees must stop u.s.
ing familiar addresses and call one an
other Mr." "Mrs." or Miss" before
the surname, as the case may be. The
Hello, Billw and "Ah, there, Susier'
style of salutation will after this go
permanently out of commission.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

In thirty-two centuries, asserts uni
versity professor who holds down the
freak" chair, man will revert to can
nibalism. After that it ought to be
easier to decide what should be done
with trust magnates who try the peo-
pies patience.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Partisan shopkeepers are reported to
be coming money out of fluffy ruff
fles," new wrinkle in feminine fash
ions that is also guaranteed to put
some additional crimps in masculine
pocketbooks
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

A member of the cabinet is at dis
advantage as compared with a United
States senator through being compelled
by ethical considerations to deliver his
lectures free of charge.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19
Apurely social Problem.

"A Purely SOClaA
Who shall guide the stream of immi-
grafton coming to America and dis
trihute II for the best interests of all
and how the distribution shall be ac.
complished are questions now to the
fore Recently a cabin passenger on a
steamer from Europe made speech to
several hundred immigrants on board,
essaving to give them advice as to
where TO 90 after they landed. Twen-
ty Years ago he was Il steerage pas
senger himself, as ignorant and be-
wildered in the face of the new world
rs any of his hearers. He told them
70 shun cities and head for the farm
lands of the middle vest
For those who were ready for it the
advice of the man who had been there
himself was good. But one can i'm
agine that few scores or hundreds of
his hearers would have been glad for
4 heart to heart talk and q little more
detail. He spoke just as a capitalist
interested in cheap labor in his section
might speak. and politician wishing
to boom the voting population of his
state would have said amen to that
As factors, then, in guiding distribu-
ton the capitalists and politicians have
are not always for the good of the inn
migrant or for the community which is
to receive him. The capitalist will not
care what the immigrant does with his
money after he gets it or what manner
of life he takes up. The same with the
politician. With one a boom in immi-
grafton means a little more muscle,
with the other a few more votes.
But the society to be affected by the
influx of a foreign element is vitally
interested in what the newcomers do
with their money and how they de-
mean themselves Thus the question
becomes one in which the agents of a
clean civilization and a healthy civic
progress are vitally Interested The
minister, the teacher, the editor and ev-
cry father and mother of growing fam
lies has a duty to perform before an
ignorant and misinformed contingent
swoops down upon the community A
writer in the current Atlantic under
takes to sketch roughly three classes
of immigrants now seeking America.
The most common class is those who
do not intend to work. Next largest
is the class "who look for high wages
and easy work. and the smallest class
comprises those who have been driven
to this haven by poverty or oppression
and will do any work" that comes to
hand. In the first class this writer
cites the case of two girls who came
over expecting to find gold in the
streets. They positively refused to
work, although they We're nearly starv-
ing.
No community not smitten with the
census making craze would want to re-
classes named above. Their kind are
too numerous in America already. And
the only way by which a community
can recruit from the third class is for
the lovers of good order and decent
citizenship to intercept them some-
where on their blind pilgrimage and
guide them where they are wanted-and
where they will find helping hands.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Although Walter Wellman expects to
make the trip to the pole in three days,
his balloon will carry 1,43S pounds Of
provisions. Evidently he does not ex-
pect the excitement of the trip to take
away his appetite.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Lots of city men are returning to the
wearing of vests after a long summer
of vestless comfort or discomfort. ac-
cording to their respective rotundities.
And the city girl is beginning to give
up the alluring peekaboo waist. She
can look forward, however, to the
opening of the ball season.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

If the rice famine should call for out
side assistance japan can depend upon
it that this country will harbor no i'll
will because Of the crude and i'll advis-
ed demonstrations of the oriental lingo.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

The empress dowager of China is
said to have given an order to a Pacific
coast trapper for two grizzly bears and
four wildcats. She means to be pre-
pared to welcome the coming or to
speed the parting guest
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

English newspapers, metaphoricalis
holding up their hands in horror al
the iniquity of San Francisco's anu
japanese demonstrations and remaln'
ing conspicuously silent concerning tne
Vancouver riots, prove that the old Ia
BILE of the gored OK is as true now as
it was In 1Esop's day.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

In spite of their advanced views on
government and sociology the New
Zealanders are still In the open fire.
place age in the matter of heating
homes, Offices and meeting rooms.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

As the battleships will burn up 1885,
900 tens Of coal on the voyage to the
Pacific, no wonder there are people
who view the proposition coldly.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

For the net results of the Algeciras
conference and The Hague peace con-
gress ask the buzzards who have been
living high around Casablanca, Mo-
rocco.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Tobacco dealers throughout the coun-
try would no doubt be glad to have
Uncle Joe Cannon stand pat on forty
cigars day as well as on the tariff
question.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Now that the baseball season is
drawing to a close, the office boy
whose "granmudder" died in May OF
June is wondering whose alleged fuI
neral will enable him to get off to 81
the opening football game.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Japan seems to be doing everything
she can to warrant an attack onhina
before China wakes up.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

The Provincetown celebration wrest-
ed away the oratorical laurels that
once belonged to the Jamestown expo.
sition,
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

An earthquake, lost for a week, mas
been located in the Aleutian islanus'
Earthquakes are things which nlign'
well be left lost.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

The prosecution of the leather tIst
will disclose whether or not it Jas
been conducting skin game.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Louis Glass, one of the San Francs
CO bribe givers, made strong plea iV-
immunity, but the jury saw tnro"e'
him.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1907-09-19

Football Is on the way, andxe sur
geons may as well turn their
sleeves.
The new age., 1907-02-09
"POWER OFF,"

Perhaps the high water had some
thing to do with the power for the
street cars being "off" more than
usual this week, but if it had not
been high water it would have been
something else. Any little old thing
will stop the cars, or delay them so
that people cannot travel as they
wish. Early Wednesday evening
for instance, many ladies were wait
ing alone Morrison street for long
time, but no cars came, and finally
they walked home or went down to
Washington street, where just at
that time the service was not quite
so completely knocked out. But on
either street, or on any other, high
water or low water, nobody is sure
about being able to get down town
in the morning, or home in the even
ing, by means of a car. And if he
can, the chances are that he will do
so only after delays that would rem
der walking rapid mode of travel
by comparison. What the company
ought to do is to have large num-
Der of men travelling along the princi-
pal streets and by-crossings advising
people waiting as to what time, with
in an hour or so, car might be ex-
pected along-but, of course, the
can't afford to hire anybody
to do this, for it can't afford to hire
enough men to do the work absolute
ly necessary to be done, or pay decent
wages to those it does hire.
The legislature is being urged to
revoke the franchise of the gas COM
pany on the ground that it has not
treated the people fairly, and if this
be a sufficient reason the franchise
Of the railway company ought to be
revoked too, or some means taken to
compel it to give the people decent
service.
The new age., 1907-02-09

enough more for the purpose, is far
preferable to the original bill. 1t is
unlikely that the 100000 provided
for would have been nearly enough,
and the state might have had to. ap-
propriate as much more before get
ting the locks, which would be alto
gether too much for the benefits to
be derived, which are. after all, not
likely to be nearly as much as is rep
resented by some newspapers.
But what the state and govern
ment, if they can undertake the job
by a joint appropriation, ought to
do, is to calculate on digging new
locks on the east side of the river,
for there is no likelihood that the
General Electric company will sell
its locks for anything like their real
value unless it knows that otherwise
"
new locks will be built, and it will
take some chances that they will not
be built. 1t sets it's price at $780,
600, which is probably about three
times what ought to be paid. If un-
der condemnation proceedings the
locks can be had for half a million
or less, it might pay to buy them.
but the electric company will try to
get double their value, at least, and
so new and competing locks would
be best, and then let the electric
company keep its locks and get what
it could out of them.
1t would serve the company lust
right to render the locks compare
lively valueless to them for it's ex-
actions of these many years, and its
hoggishness in asking three prices
for the property
The new age., 1907-02-09
SHOULD BE CAREFUL.

Oregon cannot afford at this time
to enact any drastic anti-railroad leg
islation. The railroads are doing a
good deal just now, and that with
out any threat or compulsion, to de-
velop Oregon, and if let alone will
do great deal more. They are
building into Wallowa valley, over
to Coos Bay, to Tillamook, and will
build extensively in other parts of
Oregon. and, of course, in their own
interests will supply all the necessary
equipment possible, and as fast as
possible. 1t is very foolish under
such circumstances to pass a law
that will discourage the railroad
builders and investors, and very like
ly will prevent them from going
ahead with contemplated enterprises.
Except for the car shortage, which
the roads will remedy on their own
motion as soon as possible, the peo-
pie of Oregon have but little COM
plant to make. A few cases of
freight overcharges, if they exist.
are but very slight evil compared
with that which the railroad owners
could infiict upon the state if thew
are burdened and harassed unrea-
sonably with hostile legislation. To
antagonize the railroads now would
be a great calamity to Oregon. and
the legislature ought therefore to
be very careful of the measures it
enacts.
We do not mean that the railroads
should not be subject to any control
or supervision whatever, or that the
people should take no measures TO |
remedy any grievous abuses. but in |
going too far and making laws that
will prove disastrous to the railroads |
the disaster will inevitably react on
the state itself, which needs above
almost anything else to encourage
railroad building as the chief means
of developing the state.
The new age., 1907-02-09
AN ERRONEOUS VIEW.

Why do not the people who, be-
cause negroes occasionally commit
crimes, feel like lynching and ex-
terminating them stop to think how
really few crimes, in proportion to
population, conditions and all cir
cumstances, negroes of the country
really commit? Instead of accusing,
abusing and matchmaking the
whole race on account of the crimes
of a few, why not look at the other
side and consider how many, what
a vast majority, are not heard of in
this way, but go on through life pur-
suing a peaceable, quiet and COM
mendable way, injuring nobody and
benefting some? Do these people
ever stop to think that there are
some 100000 colored people in this
country, about one-ninth of the total
population, and that only AZ years
ago they emerged from slavery, un-
taught, unframed in self-reliance or
self-restraint, or in self-support, ig-
norant, and almost helpless? Con-
sidering these things, would it be
strange if negroes were more in
clined to commit offenses against the
law than whites? And yet it does
not appear that they are. 1t has
been repeatedly shown that accusa-
tions against negroes of assaults on
women in the South were false or
improved, and aside from these cases
wherein do the negroes show up as
being more criminal than white peo-
pie? Accounts of their crimes are
noticed more, and as rule given
more prominence in the papers, but
The new age., 1907-02-09

r. A. Preston, whom the voters of
the First ward honored with an cleo
tion to the city council two years
ago, will not, we understand, be a
candidate for reelection this spring.
Mr.. Preston has probably had his
ear to the ground and heard things
that were not encouraging to his
future political aspirations. The vot-
ers of the First ward should get to-
gether and induce some one of the
numerous old and popular residents
to stand as a candidate for the pri-
mary nomination on the Republican
ticket. At any rate, they want no
more of Preston.
The new age., 1907-02-09

Councilman H. A. Belding, the
popular representative in the city
council from the Sixth ward, has the
reputation of being one of the most
vigilant members of that body. Mr..
Belding has made a splendid coun-
Gilman and the people appreciate his
efforts to serve them well and faith
fully.
The new age., 1907-02-09

we are not aware that the recor,i is
so black against them as some peo-
pie seem to suppose A fair-minded
broad-viewed man will concede that
under all the circumstances the col
ored people have in these AZ years
done remarkably well, and will he
encouraged by the progress they
have made. and ready with friendly
feeling for their further enlighten-
ment and advancement as citizens
of the great free republic.
The new age., 1907-02-09

supt. Gardner, of the Boys and
Girls Aid society, has been down to
Salem, presumably in the interest of
an appropriation for his institution.
Mr.. Gardner secured some $4,000
from the session of 1906 to make
certain improvements and extensions.
The people would like to know
whether these improvements have
been made or not, and if not what
has become of this money.
The new age., 1907-02-09

If some of the legislators had to
run railroad up along the Columbia
these days they might not think it
quite so easy and cheap a job as
they had imagined.