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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28

New York is soon to have the
first Chinese Y. NJ. C. A. building In
the United States.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28
WILL ASK FOR
COYOTE BOUNTY
DECIDE TO ASK RELIEF
FROM THE LEGISLATURE

AcIlon In Line With Decision Reach
ed at Helena 10 Try for Uniform
Coyote Bounty Laws in All Sheep
Raising States-Wm Probably Ask
for a 81 Bounty as Provided Under
the Old Law-Sheepmen Mould
like 10 See County Bounty LAWS
Passed.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28
Entertainment In March.

The same force which moves tor
over a good road will move eight tons
on a railroad or 32 tons on a canal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28

monopolizes all the land reclaimed
by irrigation. Umatilla county will
therefore soon be known as fruit
growing section, as well as producer
of wheat, he thinks.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28
To Sink OIL Well Near Vale.

Claimholders in the Vale oil we'll
district are to sink well at the ex-
pense OF corporation consisting Of
members, now claimholders, accord
ing to a decision reached at the meet
ing OF the la Grande oil claim hold
ers who assembled in the Elks' hall
yesterday afternoon. To appoint a
committee after this step was deter
mined upon, was the principal work
done at the meeting. This commit
tee. consisting of F. S. Ivanhoe, Peter
o'sullivan. David Bay, C. d. Good
enough and Frank Jolly, will probe
the possibilities OF doing this under
finance OF the organization, and re-
port this week II possible.-La
Grande Observer.
L. -
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28
AWGOROUS SERMON
ELEVEN ANEWER FIRST
GALL FOR CONVERTS.

HaudensclIield !Draws Powerful Les
sons From Thence, How Is Il With
Thy soul9"-EHiphasis on Reply
to Objections Against Inquiry Into
Spiritual Welfare of Our People
Damages of Delay in Putting OFF
Decision.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28

The fires were started in the fur
naces of the Eastern Steel Co., at
Pottsville, Pa, Saturday and 1000
men we're put to work today.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-01-28

Mrs. Mary Frances Reilly, who is
said to have been woed by and re-
jected Abraham Lincoln, died at her
home in Sioux City Ia. aged SO.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
PROSPERITY

N ORDER to help the good work of
restoring prosperity to the United
States what is your duty as citi-
zen? If you had large business es-
tablishment, employing hundreds, and
found that with the solitary exception
of the foreman, who protested vehe-
mently, but could do nothing, all the
members of the staff were engaged in
looting your business, would you think
it was the part of common sense to re-
tain the old staff and the old conditions
when you had a chance to make a
change? Owing to great natural ad-
vantages and to unusual conditions,
California has escaped the calamities
which have been visited upon many
eastern states. But our general pros
perity. bright outlook and brisk bus
iness should not make us Indifferent
to other parts of the country, where,
owing in great measure to Republican
rule, conditions have been as different
from those in lucky, fortunate Cali
fornia as climate conditions have been
different. We refer to those vast and
dinner pail is LITERALLY a prime
consideration in determining prosper
ity or non-prosperity. In eastern cities
and throughout the mining and manu-
featuring regions, when times are pros
porous. every morning a great process
sion Of happy workers marches, swing
ing heavy dinner pals. to the scene of
toll.
This condition was so thoroughly un-
derstood by the astute managers of
the campaign which captured the coun-
try for the Republicans and gave them
the long lease of power they have been
enjoying that they selected the dinner
pail as the best possible argument, ap-
peal and illustration, and told the
workers that when a Republican gov
ernment was in control of the coun-
try the dinner pail would always
be well filled. This not only implied
that the worker would always have
enough to eat" but that he would al
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
A MANS A MAN

" ITH confident expectation the
wv country awaits a declaration
by the Democratic national con-
vention that the man is above the
dollar, that human interests are of
more Importance than financial inter-
ests. Not long ago a Republican
fnancier said: 1--WE might as we'll be
frank about it. We are all after IT."
BY "IT' he meant the dollar, which in
mighty"
The Democratic party will have an
opportunity of putting on record the
statement that America is not a huge
money making machine, that it took
upon itself the responsibility of an in
dependent national existence, not in
order that large number of people
might be engaged in building up prop
erty and fortunes for few people,
but In order that equal opportunities
for life. liberty and the pursuit of
happiness might be guaranteed, as far
as they could be humanity guaranteed,
by the form of government.
Eternal vigilance is the price Of lib
erty, and no doubt there have been
times IN the history of the country
when vigilance has been slack, and
1t is because OF this that great natural
resources which were as truly the
property of the nation as the air 1t
breathes passed into private hands.
Nav nothing ran 1a Ynora cart a in Than
this: II there had been any way of
getting possession of the supply Of air
for number of years to come the air
we breathe would be owned and con-
trolled by an air trust which would
have been represented by a gang of
delegates at the Republican national
convention.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

ways have work and wages and.
therefore. enough to eat. But soup
kitchens, committees of relief and
Salvation Army dinner-baslSet brigades
kept many men. women and children
from being starved to death during
Republican hard times. The old din
ner pail was almost forgotten, and
in every big city was to be seen new
kind OF dinner pail, foreign to the
American temperament, which is not
dependent, but independent, repulsive
to American patriotism, because Amer
fcan patriotism loves to believe that
the pauperism OF Europe is impossible
under the stars and stripes, but abb
solutely needed because of the natural
fact that the American stomach does
not differ from any other in the world
and that 1t is as necessary for the free
and independent citizen to keep his
stomach we'll supplied and in good work.
ing order as it is for the serfs of the
czar. The new kind of dinner pail with
which New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Chicago, Kansas City and many other
eastern cities became familiar was the
CHARITY DINNER PAIL. and many
poor people can say, with The Herald's
correspondent, ''E. S." whose, communi-
cation was printed in the Public Let
ter Box:
For we've souped it, souped 1t, souped 1t,
The whole of Teddys reign,
And II you put Bill Taft in power
Wen coup u yet again.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
REPUBLICAN HUNGER

NEW YORK realizes that what the
Nv Republicans still persist in call
~ ing prosperity has produced
hordes of the greater cities. If these
hungry hordes could be cleaned up and
dressed in nice clothes they would bear
a remarkably close resemblance to the
prosperous Americans whose ire would
be aroused If they were classed as
hordes. But Americans when deprived
Of opportunity to earn a living, and
when jammed, rammed, crammed and
crowded into the thick of the slummiest
slums In what is called sarcastically
"Christendom" become "hordes." A
man in horde" has no individuality.
He is merely constituent part of the
mass, or rather mess, which is so repui-
sive to the blundering dunderheads who
apparently cannot grasp, entertain or
understand the truth that for the con-
ditions exemplified they are responsible.
A clean, high class, well edited weekly
periodical, the Literary Digest, in dis
cussing the gravity of the situation in
the metropolis, quotes as follows from
the New York Globe: when children
actually faint in the schools from lack
of food, and teachers and charity work.
ers begin to forsake their moderate dis
cussions of undertaking and malnu
triton, to proclaim the PRESENCE OF
IMPENDING ST..RvATION. the city
should not be slow to realize the nature
of the facts that confront it." With
full dinner pail administration In power,
and with a prosperous New Yorker at
the head Of 1t, one would have thought
New York was the last place on earth
from which Republice = managers would
have allowed the cry of starvation"
to ring through the country. 1t would
have been worth a little self-sacrifice
on the part of the New York billion
aires who attended the Republican
convention if by such self-sacrifice the
conditions complained of could have
been prevented; and that they could
have been prevented by the New York
Republican billionaires, even without
any help from any one else, is posi-
lively beyond doubt. 1t would be
idiocy to question 1t. The Republican
party is therefore morally and polit-
ically responsible for the starvation of
school children in New York, as well
as for the robbery of two million chill
dren in all parts of the United States
who have been deprived of education
in order to engage in gainful occupa-
nd faf xxrhia hoc
overtaken the poor little New Yorkers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
CLEAR, CRISP AND CLEAN
REVIVAL

IN HERE are cheerful signs of re-
viva1 of Jeffersonian Democracy.
II AS the platform of the state con-
vention put it, there are evidences "of
an awakening against graft and polit-
ical corruption traced to the represen-
tatives of predatory wealth and the
unscrupulous methods by which they
have debauched elections" The true
functions of Democratic government
are "the preservation of the natural
rights and equal opportunities Of the
people, devoid of special privileges.
Every form of monopoly is a wrongful
interference with those rights and op-
portunities and Is essentially a farming
out of the taxing power to favored cor
porations and individuals" Tariff re-
vision, a return to the first principles
of Americanism, and absolute and un-
conditional opposition to child slavery
in any guise or under any excuse, give
the Democracy an opportunity to gov
ern America for the people and not
for the interests. Long suffering in
deed are the citizens who have en-
dured patiently all manner Of distress
and deprivation, hoping against hope
that the dinner pail would yet be
filled and that all would yet be well.
All will yet be well and the dinner
pail will be filled. but not by re-
turn to power Of a party whose char
acter and aims are written and en-
bodied in platform which is without
a redeeming feature. 1t is time optim-
ism was again the ruling "ism" in the
affairs Of the United States and gen.
eral cheerfulness will be aided by the
assurance that there will be a new
deal in Washington and that DEM
ocratic government will engage in a
conscientious effort to restore Ameri-
canism, provide the greatest good for
the greatest number, allay discomfort
and prevent the triumph of Socialism,
which, no doubt, may be a meritorious
philosophy, but applied practically and
politically would be an experiment
which might prove too radical for a
quietly progressive nation.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
TELLS WHY NEEDY MEN
DO NOT ASK POLICE AID

LOS ANGELES, June 2s.-[Editor
Herald: 1t is frequently asked why
hungry or homeless men do not go to
the police station for their meals or
lodgings, whereof they seek the latter
they will be given berth in the YER
min-ridden and germ-reeking tanks;
or-if they seek a meal-where they Will
be directed to the Associated Charities.
/ wish to say, as a student of these
matters, who has been through the
mill personally and learned by bitter
experience, that If man goes to the
police station and confesses he is
broke, he will be fed and sheltered for
few days. But after his confession
Of poverty he becomes an undesirable
citizen whom the public of Los An
geles, it is said by the police. do not
want The eye of the officers is con-
stantly upon him, and on the slightest
pretext he is run out of town-forced
to beat his way or walk out, and hence
given his first impetus toward becom-
ing a professional tramp. knowing
this Gas 1t Is common talk among
those who are jobless) he breads to let
the police know his condition, and SO
begs of private citizens on the street,
as Thomas Bell did, and, like Bell,
scores of honest men are given as
high as thirty-day sentences on the
chain gang-and sometimes sixty days.
But as cure or even as pre-
ventive, it has never worked. and
in spite of legal punishment there are
more beggars every day, more buns,
more idle workingmen and more GRIM
inals. r. c. HEMlNWAY.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
HARBoR DAY


TT ARBOR DAY at San Pedro will be
one of the biggest patriotic cele-
- brations locally of modern times.
1t should attract the attention not only
Of the whole country but of the whole
world. This is to be expected, because
the celebration Is of international i'm
portance. The great transpacific yacht
race will emphasize this fact. From
San Pedro steamships In the near future
will travel not only over the course
which will be followed by the compet-
ing yachts but over routes leading to all
parts of the Orient as well as of the
English speaking countries of the Pa
cif1c, and the Panama canal will bring
from the Atlantic many great vessels
which will make San Pedro a port of
call. All of California is bound TO
share in the increased commercial, mer-
camille and maritime prosperity which
will follow the development of the har-
Dor facilities and the completion of the
canal.
The start of the transpacific yacht
race will be one of the most interesting
features of the celebration, but there
will be many other attractions. For in
stance. landsmen who have read of sea
fights and bombardments of shore forts
by vessels of the navy will have an op-
portunity of gaining an approximately
correct impression of what lombard
ment means. Fortunately there is not
the remotest prospect that the people
of Southern California will ever have
an opportunity of witnessing any but
sham battles. AT the same time it is
of the highest Importance that San
pletely and that the coast should be
protected so thoroughly that danger
from any foreign foe would be unthink-
able.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
INVITES CORRESPONDENT TO
READ ARTICLE TO THE END

LOS ANGELES, June 2S.-[Editor
Herald: The statements made by Mr.
BRYAN in the Steffens interview alluded
to by your correspondent, Mr.. Waiter
son, are doubtless very good, but II ne
will look to. the end of the article ne
will see that Steffens expresses himser
as much dissatisfied with the attitude
of all the political leadere he has inter-
viewed. He says: "Our leaders are all
looxipg backward for our future"
In the same number of Everybody's s
are two other stories; one '"The Tene-
ments of Trinity Church." by Charles
Edward Russell, showing the enormous
properties of that corporation in New
York, and the Infamous conditions un-
der which it's tenants live. and the other
"The Last of the Troubadours," the
theme Of which is how a cattle king
proposed 10 eject a poor old sheepinan.
MIR. Watterson, who evidently follows
current literature which Is always mo
mirror of the times-doubtless mas
noted that these are becoming more and
more the themes of our most noted
writers.
Summed up briefly the gist of all
their stories is the contrast between the
omilipotert king and the ppwerless
peasant; that this man has got all the
forests, or the mines, or the land oil
which the city stands, or what not, and
that the other fellow Is helpless slave.
How to put an end and "muy pronto"
to this most undesirable state of things
is the question that all these writings
raise, and they foreshadow the real
storm that is looming. up. All these
gooiy-goody talks to the poor OF how
they should be temperate have nothing
" w OBSERVER,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
oUR MODE OF CELEBRATING
FOURTH MOST uNcIvlLizED

HIGHLAND PARK. June 2S.--[Edi-
tor Herald: I presume that our pre-
tests will be entirely useless, but can
not refrain from writing TO indo. Sc the
sentiments of your Hollywood corres-.
pondent published in The Herald OF
June "a. 1t was my 1ortune to be a
nurse for many years In one OF the
largest New York hospitals. and the
tragedies have seen in connection with
our insane way of celebrating the
Fourth OF July are such as ! never can
forget.
suppose it is vain to protest. be-
cause there are so many persons who
make large profits out OF the sale OF
fireworks, and so many parents who
cannot resist the pleadings of their ad-
vertisements and of their own children.
1t also appears to me that our people
have become crazy with the mania for
warlike weapons, and that there are
mothers who seem to think It a manly
thing for their boys to flourish firearms
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
WRITER GROWS SARCASTIC
REFERRING TO TOM BELL

LOS ANGELES. June 2s.-IEditor
Herald: Oh. yes; I know. 1t is a fact
that we are very cruel toward dogs,
but Tom Bell, who went three days
without a morsel of food and then
begged for 10 cents (the villainD. is on
the chain gang. And morning, noon
and night the papers are writing high
iv dramatic heads of man hunts; STIR
ring. modern editions of Eliza being
chased across the ice with blood
hounds But now It is deputies armed
with revolvers and shotguns and the
fugitive is some poor devil who has
nerved himself up to the task Of hold
ing up another, that he may keep body
and soul together.
Have you ever seen man hunt! l
have, and the fellow who shot down
the flying human rabbit triumphantly
explained: II let him have It,"
p H
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
THANKS HERALD FOR FAIR
TREATMENT OF THE PUBLIC

PASADENA, June 2s. = IEditor
Herald: In the name of humanity
Sunday on Tom Bell, entitled "The
Crime of Hunger" 1t was classic !
and should be preserved by all who
love justice, which seems to be 90
outraged in this vicinity. The people
of this community are fortunatefto
have such courageous and fair paper
as The Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
MORALITY

M ANY churches yesterday put
WI themselves on record in favor
49, of an ordinance regulating
dance halls. One of the ministers who
voiced the general sentiment said the
church would utter an emphatic protest
against the removal of the restriction
which requires that all children under
fourteen years of age must be accom-
panied by parents or guardians when
they visit a public place of amusement.
Churches also indorse the ordinance
providing for a rigorous restriction of
the public dance halls. There is no
doubt that the influence and atmos-
phere of some dance halls are thor
oughly demoralizing, and have a de-
grading effect on the young and sus-
ceptible. Nothing is of more import
ance to a community than the protec-
ton of it's young people, and especially
of its girls. The history of every big
city has shown that a neglect of public
duty in this important regard is fol-
lowed inevitably and invariably by
prone to err, and therefore the COM
munity which either encourages or
fails to repress demoralizing influences
must always share in tie blame for the
evil results of the influences it has re-
fused to discourage. AS far as dance
halls, ETC., are concerned the fight of
the churches is the fight of the people.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

Although the building record for
June is not equal to that Of last year,
yet it compares favorably with records
in other cities. and If we had not be-
come accustomed to record breakers
would think it was we'll worth Growing
over. The steady growth and un-
equaled prosperity of Los Angeles are
still among the marvels of the United
States.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

Los Angeles school teachers have
started on a trip which will take them
across the Atlantic and through
the continent of Europe. THE
email in modern times. The experience
is good for him and good for the COM
munity. Schoolmasters cannot know
too much and the more experience they
have the better for the young people
who figuratively sit at their feet. Same
remark. of course, applies to school
ma ans.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
CHAIN GANG SENTENCE IS
SEVERE ON HUNGRY MAN

LOS ANGELES, June -2s.-L Editor
Herald: Your statement In The Her.
aid Saturday morning that Thomas
Bell was sent to the city jail to serve
thirty days because he begged 10 cents
with which to buy breakfast after go
ing hungry for three days is astonish-
ing. Under the system here the court
sends the prisoner to jail and the jailer
puts him on the chain gang, which un-
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29
LOVES pwELLINo PLACE

Now hast thou come to set within my soul
Like lamps. che cleaning moments OF deiights
So. still IN darkness. may seek Alright
The way that leadeth to thy heart. my goal.
And lo the barge of life, past rock ana shoai'
A crimson petal f1oats across the night.
yaf aver onward tossed to glorious light.
Come thou whose lips shall kiss ana make me
whole,
r,aar eve divina1v guarded and at peace.
Ana wifi thou bring this dawn upon the sea-
NY eyes are strainipg for the sun-kissed sand
Whers, like & Joyous bird, may release
--Arsher N. Huntington in Eyerybody's
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

Mrs. George Gould will go on the
stage again. She will appear in pri-
vate theatricals at which King Edward
and Queen Alexandra will be the prin-
cipal part of the audience. AS the per-
formance will be given on Sunday, Ed
ward may expect to be publicly CEN
sured once more. But he is used to
that. AS long as he can draw his pay
he doesn't care how many resolutions
are leYeled at him
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

Los Angeles will be represented at
the international art teachers confer
ence to be held in London, England. in
the middle of August. Professor Will
liam Lees Judson, dean of the college
of fine arts, University of Southern
California, will be the delegate.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

Next annual meeting Of the police
chiefs of the United States will be held
in Los Angeles. Chief Kern confesses
his ideas have been expanded by his
trip east. He will make another effort
to have a new building 'erected for the
city Jail, and will ask the police COM
mission to give him at least one hun
dred more men.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

For the first time in history dia-
monds are being changed into books.
Mrs. Jane L. Stanford's jewels We're
sold for $5Oo,0OO, which will be invested
in bonds. and the interest, $4,000 per
annum, used to buy books.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

Professor James Main Dixon is at
work on his Kailyaird dictionary,
which he thinks will I'LL a long felt
want and revive the popularity of Ian
Maclaren and other Scots worthless
When the dictionary is issued people
will read the books all over again in
order to find out-wfth the aid of Pro-
fessor Dixon-exactly what they were so
enthusiastic over at the first reading.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

doubtedly is severe penalty for a
man like Bell, who simply did what
10000 others were doing the day before
which was Tag day-or, In other
words, he was asking for crumb Of
charity.
!. saw Bell Saturday with ball and
chain on his foot as he went out with
the chain gang. I think The Herald
should advocate reform in the law
man to thirty days at hard labor
merely because he asked for the price
of a breakfast.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

California this year will produce a
banner crop of English walnuts. Re
ports from every section where walnuts
are grown say this is walnut season,
and that even the most prolific trees
are breaking all records. The walnut
industry is growing apace, and good
or lucky year always attracts many
more walnut growers.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-29

An evening lamp. a mellow open IRE,
book, bottle and good old briar; little
wife who doesn't mind the smoke, and doesn't
tsIk-could Paradise come nigher?-Boston
Globe.
II she didn't talk beside the open fire. and
didn't kick against the good old briar. we sort
OF thnk-and this is not a Joke--that Paradise
could certainly come nigh 'er.-Houston Post.