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About The times. (Portland, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 20, 1912)
TH E TIM ES THE TIMES Coining down to recent years, she cruelly and outrageously tres- I passed upon the rights o f Finland, and swallowed that liberty-loving people at a gulp. Already she has seized anti occupied a part o f J Published every Saturday by TH E T IM E S COM PANY, Incorporated at 212 fir s t Street, Portland, Oregon. Phone*: Main 5637; A-2686. Manchuria, and is seeking to gobble up a goodly portion o f Persia. I Young China needs friends among the Western nations, and TH E TIM E S is not responsible for any opinions expressed by correspondents we trust that England may become one o f them. The United States appearing in its columns. is certainly one of them. have a pass to get through the lines. I ’ll ride up ou a tour o f inspection and ask v. hut's the matter. Don't let on you’ ve ever seen me before. I'll do \ tbe rest." "H ow kind you arc!" exclaimed Mol ly in a burst o f gratitude, uud she pro Entered in Poatoflire at Portland, Oregon, as second-class matter. ceeded ou her way, while the aid turn ed lift in another direction to make a A FEABLESS E X PO N E N T OF IN D U S T R IA L PEACE A B A T E TH E SMOKE N U ISA N C E She Sold Butter and i circuit. Wbeu Molly reached the pick et post and, having beeu refused an Eggs, but Carried SUHHCRIPTION HATES— (2.50 per year, in advance. ! exit, was beginning to force tears into <i\V IS TH E TIME for the city to take decisive action in the A D V E R T I S I N G HATES made known upon application. a Revolver her blue eyes the young officer rode matter o f the smoke nuisance. As Portland increases in size, she up, inspected the post, then asked what Saturday, January 19, 1912. 1 must greatly increase the number o f her business blocks and office was the matter with the girl. Having By GEORGE ARNOLD WELSH I buildings. Along with these there must ever come an increasing been informed, he said to the officer In Each man should have the right to earn his way, number o f factories. Factories cannot be conducted without the command o f the post: And each should have for fair d a y’s work a fair d a y ’s pay, .*i<I o f power, and this power comes mostly from steam produced by “ I ’ll take her home and see that she Each man should governed be by Justice's right lu the summer of 18*13. when the is what site represents herself to be. oil, coal or wood fires. The smokestacks discharge soot and smoke, And gain his ends by peaceful means— not dynamite. whie!>. on a damp and murky day. are bound to settle down upon Army o f the Cumberland was at Mur If so I'll leave her there and no barm our handsome buildings to their disfigurement. TH E TIM E S would freesboro. Tenu., preparatory to the done. I'm Captain Bobbins of the not discourage, or attempt to throw in tile way o f manufactories any move ou Tulluhomu. tbe general com general stalT.” That settled the matter, and Molly impediment to their progress, ijuite the contrary. It would earn- muudiug called for volunteers for se istly urge that all factories adopt smoke consumers that w ill relieve cret service. Oue young man who re- went on, Robbins walking his horse the atmosphere o f the black discharges from the tall smokestacks, ported was entirely devoid of a beard beside her. Picket posts ure usunlly placed at points where tile road is visi To be sure, these w ill involve some additional expense, but in the and bad ruddy cheeks and blue eyes, ble for some distance abend, and so interest o f public cleanliness, there should be no hesitancy along "You could go anywhere us a girl.” ! long as they were in sight Captain TH E TIM ES is earnest and outspoken. It advocates laid the general, "aud as long ns your this line. what it believes to be right, and that without fear or favor, Robbins was not so gallant us to give and unencumbered by the shackles of circumstance. TH E TH E TIM E S does not believe that Portland manufacturers al Bex is not suspected you would be the girl his horse, hut when they had safer in skirts than In trousers.” TIM E S w ill not swerve from the path of duty, and it cannot ready here would refuse, or even hesitate, if they were approached i “ My hair is too short,” said the passed over u crest he dismounted and assisted her to his place, which she be purchased or compromised. TH E T IM E S unqualifiedly sub in the proper manner, to do all they could to abate the smoke nuis youngster. accepted with alacrity. For a time he scribes to the great principles of human liberty under the law; ance, which must, the greater the city becomes, greatly increase " I t is long enough to cut square c f equal rights in all fields o f legitimate endeavor, industrial public discomfort. It is probable that they would w illingly assent ! around your neck, aud that’s the way : yiade no mention o f the distance they must (ib to reach her farm, for he had freedom and to the advancement of the great Pacific Coast. to so reasonable a restriction. The encouragement o f an ordinance girls up to eighteen about here wear j taken a desperate fancy to the blue their hair. Would you like to try It?” embodying the desired change would establish a precedent that all eyed beauty and was pleased at being TO TH E E M P L O Y E R - TH E TIM E S w ill ever be open to ” 1 wouldn't miud, general.” future nianufaetiireres coming to Portland would be compelled to iu her company. But after the vedettes the employer of labor, that he may have, through its columns, I “ Well. I want you to go down to follow. were passed and lie was in debatable an opportunity to place the truth before the public regarding Tullahoma and learu what you can. territory he began to think that he The time to make this change is NOW . Portland should bene the business conditions which govern him and his environ Bring me back a statement o f tbe de fit by the example o f Chicago, which allowed ttye matter to run so fenses, the guns on them, their caliber might come upon some bluejackets ments. The co-operation of the employer and the employe are and lie was not safe He asked Molly long that it became, a matter of extreme difficu lty to correct the and the number and condition of the substantial proofs of what has made the Pacific Coast evil, but it was finally corrected, and the result is that Chicago is Bragg's army encamped in aud about if her home was not near, and she re what it is today. Their interests are identical, are inseparable. plied that It was Just beyond the next a much cleaner city than it used to be. the town." The mutual experience, foresight and confidence between the turn In the road. When they reached The next morning u Tennessee coun It is always the custom, whenever a change like the one sug business man and the wage-earner have made and are making the turn she told him it was just over gested is made, to find a few bitter opponents. W e trust that this try girl left the Union picket line at the next crest. When they were de- for success. The investments of the one coupled with the efforts Murfreesboro with a basket on her may not be the case in this instance, in case our City T.-thers shall i scendlng from the crest she pointed of both are solid bulwarks of present prosperity and the assur arm, taking the direct turnpike to Tu l ahead, telling him that he might see think well enough o f it to pass such an ordinance. ances o f the future. Minus these, advancement along the lines lahoma. Stopping at a farm, she I an cave o f her home just above a clump of industrial and commercial progress o f the Pacific Coast is bought a supply o f eggs and butter, ; o f trees. While he was peering to dls impossible. Without this hearty co-operation, a continuance of which she put into her basket, and on ! rover It Molly reined In her horse so COLLEGE A T H L E T E S D E IF IE D the highest possible development of our agricultural, horticult X T IIE OLD D A Y S o f nnr forefathers the standard o f excel reaching the vedettes o f the Confed | as to drop a little behind him. Sud ural, timberal, mineral and other resources is out of the ques lence fo r students in great collegiate institutions was their erate army told them that she came denly he heard a click. To a soldier tion, and we must retrograde and decay. proficiency in the course o f studies prescribed by the curriculum. from a farm up the road and was go in wartime a click means a good deal. ing into Tullahoma to make a little TO TH E E M P L O Y E — The columns o f TH E TIM E S will In these degenerate days, alas! the most brilliant achievements o f money by supplying the soldiers with Tlie officer turned and saw Molly point ing a revolver at him. always be open to the employe, whether he may be an inde mind are forced to take a hack seat. Xow the question is not how her farm produce. “ Wh-a-a-t do you mean?" be stam pendent toiler or claim affiliation with a trade organization. great a student’s attainments may he in the realm of science, of Molly Atkins—this was the name the mered. puzzled. T H E TIM E S hopes that by thus affording a medium for the mathematics, o f Greek or Latin, hut their proficiency in football farm girl gave herself—had no diffi “ Face about and move on!” interchange of opinions and by untrammeled discussion of la or their ability at the oar. Athletics have their proper field, and culty passing into Tullahoma. What The voice, which had been skillfully bor questions in its columns, that a better understanding w ill troubled her was that so eager were are w orthy o f cultivation, hut they should not be made to occupy modulated, had now the hoarseness of be brought about between the employer of labor and the man so much o f flic student’s time and attention as they do nowadays. the soldiers on the picket line to buy a man's. It Hashed across Robbins who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. TH E TIM E S The popular theory o f our great institutions o f learning is that her goods that the supply was ex that he had been sold. He started to believes that by this method the rights of both w ill be con put a hand to hts hip. but was deter there, under expert professors, the student may prepare himself hausted before she entered the town. However, she had plenty o f money served and advanced. and arm himself with a better equipment mentally, through the aud went about among the shops buy- red by an order: “ Stop that! nnnds up!” In the field o f labor TH E T IM E S w ill champion the prin accumulated knowledge o f the ages, for tin* battle ; life. I o iln jng suc|, supplies as farmers needed It was plain from the tone In which ciple of "eq u ality of opportunity,” with all that it means to this ho must have a strong mind an I a sturdy body Mens sano in Which they could not raise themselves. the words were spoken that any fur independent labor and to the average good citizen. This paper sano corpore— a sound mind in a sound body. Athletics were in Having refilled her basket, she cast ther movement tn the direction o f the will be the staunch and undeviating friend of all honest toilers, about for a place to lodge, for she had revolver would be met with a bill lei.' tended as a means toward an end. not the supreme end itself. no idea o f leaving Tullahoma for sev of all unshackled, law-abiding, sincere workers; and while Jut is this true? A glanee at the news columns o f any daily before the weapon could be reached never denying the right of workmen to organize lawfully, this paper any day in the week w ill prove that it is not so. It is unrea eral days. Passing a house occupied Robbins desisted, raising his hands for General Bragg's headquarters, it paper w ill be the unyielding foe of lawless, proscriptive, above his shoulders. sonable. unjust and absurd that athletics should he given more im occurred no her that i f she could find monopolistic and exclusive labor organizations, because they “ Now you face about and march portance in universities than class standing. There is something a lodging near It she might elicit in are the selfish enemies of their own class, and the common dan leeieedly wrong when a professor, who needs must be a man of formation by keeping an eye on what mighty quick!” came a second order. There wns nothing for it but to ger o f the industrial world. Our position in this matter is un superior mind and of exceptional learning, works for a beggarly was going on there. So she knocked oliey. Molly had drawn him to a mistakable, and will be maintained. salary, while at the same time, in tin* same college, a football coach, at the doors of several houses on the point well beyond the Confederate TH E TIM ES w ill at all times stand for the conservation of or a limited service, receives as much or more pay than the hard- opposite side o f the street till she found picket line, and there wns no assist human life and energy and character, with all their tremendous worked professor can earn in a year. The realm of mind is vastly a fam ily who was willing to take in a ance to lie expected They were on a potentialities; for the preservation o f the community and the superior to the realm o f physical attainment. Some day. we hope, country girl for a few days who had strip o f territory free from either ar come to town to make some purchases. my. Inhabited by Confederate sympa nation; for the protection of property; for the flag and its the teacher will he paid what he or she is worth. She was giveu a room in ,th e third glorious traditions; for the national life and honor with their An illustration o f our thought is found in a recent occurrence story, on rather, the peak o f the roof, thizers and roving hands of guerrillas, pregnant possibilities; for the continuance of a brave, virtuous at the University o f Washington. Coach Gilmonr Dobie was en from which she could look right down who usunlly sympathized with the southern side. Therefore the danger and patriotic citizenship, v ithout which no nation can be either gaged to coach the University football team fo r three months at j on General Bragg's headquarters. wns far greater to the Federal than truly great or really good. ,+ tOOO a month, three hours daily, while professors are expected to Officers and messengers were corn- the Confederate soldier, and the pen lie grateful if they receive .j*].r>00 for nine months’ work at from ing and going, citizens wore applying alty i f captured was infinitely more twelve to fifteen hours per day. College athletics have been placed for passes, while a sentinel paced back terrible to the former than to the lat Upon a pedestal and deified. Let us hope for some record» o f an<* forth before the house, every few ter. Ills landing within the Union C H IN A , N E W A N D OLD. minutes stopping and facing to salute lines would be humiliating, but noth •holarship and better pay for the professors. an officer passing in or out. Molly ing more than serving a term as pris couldn't sec anything to be derived Tin* rapidity o f change made manifest in China is unique. There A better proof o f the titter degeneracy to which the eoeaine from this, so she sallied forth to visit oner of war. Rut If Molly were cap tured—a Federal soldier in disguise Inis never been anything like it known in all the era o f recorded his habit will lead one need not he found than that furnished in the the camps and the defenses o f the tory. Yesterday, at it were. China, old in a civilization that had the case o f Harry Johnson, alias Frank Redfem , veggtnan, arrested town. Having picked up all the infor with information of the Confederate weight o f centuries behind tier, today, new-born and already rapidly hv the local authorities. Tuesday morning when taken from the (nation available in this way. she re forces on her person—the inevitable advancing along tin* highway o f modern idea. \Ve arc presented the city ja il for arraignment before .Judge Tazwell. he attempted to turned to her lodging and. gathering result would lie a hanging. Only the keenest watchfulness and other day with tin* spectacle o f the Dowager Empress weeping tin* make his escape. Detective Captain Maty. Detectives Royle and j ul> her purchnses, went over to head a cool head enabled her to drive her hitter tears of sorrow because Fate had decreed that the Manchii dyn Pat Moloney and Frank Parker, a prisoner, who prevented his | quarters to ask for a pass to leave captive over the considerable distunce asty must end forever, aftcrasty must end forever, after having been i scape, each received jabs with a venshee needle (used in eookitig Tull«bomn. An ald-de-camp, a young that lay between her and the Federal in power for three centuries. To step down from high position into a " p i l l ” fo r the opium pipe). The yeggman is wanted at Salem | ma“ ab" ,,t twenty-two years old. was lines. Once she saw half a dozen horsemen ahead, and since they looked which they had been horn, is a hitter pill for tin* princes o f the reign for the thefts o f valuable silks. He will now be charged with and! s" X g ° a pretty'Tdr, come in“ ™ ing house to swallow. In retiring from tin* throne a parallel is pre assault with attempt to kill. There are severe restrictions against qnlte l)es(de hlmself with lldmlratlon. brown rather than blue she knew they sented to tin* end of the Saracenic dynasty in Spain, when bv the tin* sale o f pernicious drugs, spasmodically enforced on occasion. ( xtolly showed him the articles she had were not Union troops. She drove the marriage o f Ferdinand and Isabella and the union of Castile and A ra The war against unscrupulous dealers should hi* constant and tin- purchased, telling him that they had man tn front o f her Into a wood and waited till the routing men had pass gon. tin* power of Spanish arms drove out the Moors to Africa. Who relenting. As fo r Johnson, he deserves the fullest limit o f the law. ¡been bought with money derived from ed Again she saw a house ahead, ■ the sale o f butter and eggs He was around which several persons were has not read the beautiful description of Washington Irving, ‘ 'T h e , convinced that she was what she rep loitering. She made a detour, but In Last Sigh o f tin* M o or?" The sun was setting. Itefore the royal tent i Other witnesses were C. J resented herself to he. but he had ex- doing so was ohllgi*d to leave her o f tile conquerors sat Ferdinand and Isabella. Itoahdil. the last king; I trucker. <>! Jordan Station. • hi- I pllcit orders from his general that lie horse. o f the Spanish Moors, was compelled to pass them, and to hen*I his tario. .'ind J. C. Childer*-. of Pitts should grant no passes to persons going Being now on foot, she disarmed knee ill token ol subjection, ere he took his departure to Africa to I i...... .....i e .. northward, and he dare not disobey. Robbins and had two revolvers instead him a foreign shore. Ascending a hill to perform this last act o f ,, 1 ‘ Molly a|»|»eared disappointed, and when of one. Rut It was not weapons she humility, he east his eyes down into the valley below, where stood the I shop < oust met in g • unpany, the aid looked at her sympathetically needed: it was to escape wayfarers. Alhambra palace of his forefathers, which even now. in its ruins w hich ••bruts to have su ffer» d j cast her blue eyes down at the floor. Now and again she would stop to lis- is an imposing pile As In* saw tin* setting sun gilding tin* minarets j “ How far beyond the picket line do teu. The distant creaking o f a w ag IN D IA N A P O L IS . Imi.. Three j over the country, | you live?" asked the aid. and (lollies and ll<* realized that lie and Ins people Were leaving the explosions in Wisconsin, alleged j on. the thud o f horses' hoofs, would "N ot very far." Molly replied. beautilul Andalusian laud forever, a sigh o f rygret escaped him. I drive her. she still driving her captive, to he a part of a widespread dvii- " I tell you what you do. Meet me stoic though lie was. The Spaniard, mindful of the poetical signifi- into cover. A t last she heard a dis j Just within the picket post on the Mur tant shot. A soldier in that country caiice of limi sigh, at once christened the spot El sttspiro del Moro__ amile conspiracy, were nivesti- | freesboro road tomorrow morning at at that time knew a picket shot by In tlu* Last Sigh *d' the Moor. So with the end of the Manchu dynasty gated by the Federal Grand Jury, ! 10 o’clock, and I'll see what I can do stinct. This one must be from a Fed ««tiles the tears of the reigning house. i Two men of Portage. Wis.. said to for you. .1 can't write you a pass, for eral musket. The northern picket line I that's contrary to orders, but I may was not far distant. If given the proper opportunity, voting China, awakening from I lie relatives of Ortie E. MeMan- be able to get you horn»*. You see. I the sleep o f the centuries. keenly appreciative o f the benefits of The last scare Molly had was when, : ignl were examined in connection | might go with you and satisfy myself crossing a road, she saw on her flank Western civilization, will graft the new upon the old. rejecting all with the transportation of explo SAN FRANCISCO. — Black j that you are what you pur|«»rt to be. a cloud o f dust. Not stopping to satis that is inharmonious aud stride forward to her destiny. Hut there is a possibility that this plan may not work out at once, without sives from Chicago to ponits in t\v»*s inni hrokcn head* ami tlirct* that you wouldn't carry Information fv herself who enused It. she pushed j and all that in this case it wouldn't travail and sorrow. Let her beware tin* stealthy creep o f the Russian , Wisconsin. The explosions were men under arrost ami out on bail [ be any harm for me to lt*ave you at her prisoner on. A ridge was iu fm n t • f tier, which she recnenized as one hear For China to develop into a modern nation as lias Japan, at Green Bay, November 21 1!M)9; becanst* o f ti tight between thè home, and I wouldn't be acting con favorable for a picket line. Then from would not suit Adam Zad at all. Russia never sleeps. Sin*, too. has trary to my orders." Superior. August 2. 1910, and M i poli»*»* and a strei*t meeting in- a Held iiefore it came: her dreams o f empire, and will never relinquish them without a Molly tintnked the youug man, look “ Halt there!” lwaukee. March 1t>. 1011. | Industriai NVorkers o f tlu* World. ing very demure and modest, and w ith struggle. Sin* desires to grab all the Chinese territory sin* can for | Molly cheerfully obeyed the order, Du his way to do the Milwau drew. Tile following morning on dress her own aggrandizement. Only a certain distance can sin* go. be H. W. Wright. thè speaker at for she knew that the man who halted lag she examined a revolver she had fore sin* will encounter tin* British lion, ever watchful, ever vigilant, j kee job which resulted in lam- the meeting, face* a rbarge o f re her was no southerner, since be spoke rnTried strapped to her waist under her with a German accent If Young China is not caught between the two and literally torn age to an unloading bridge and She told her sisi ing an offieer. H i» head is skirts, and. since she would very likely «tory. the man called for the officer limb from limb, it will be a miracle. a steamer near the dock VeMan- have need for it. she tried to think of Tin* I iiitcd States ol America trusts that the Russian Bear max U'.aI says In* carried four quarts cnt from a policeman’s club, he a place on her person where it would » f the picket, and the gonl was won. “ Cnptaln." she said as soon as the he for* oil hack into Ids lair. It trusts that high-minded British of nitroglycerine in a suitcase says. and bis elothing is in had be concealed and yet be easily grasped statesmanship may he strong enough to maintain the integrity of from Chicago and fontii six shape. Ilis companions. Frank Fortunately in these days there was ne'e was finished, “ it has been a ques tion o f capture for you or a rope for the new Chinese Republic. This country can present tin armed inter quarts awaitmg Ititi) iti Milwatt- | Swiski and Conrad Waage. wcri* usually a pocket in a woman's dress, me.” fercnct* in China against Russia or Great Britain, hut it can offer I kec As only four quarts v. c, re- arrcsted for refusine to move on. ami Molly, having made a search, dis The captain made no reply. its friendly office* to prevent dismemberment, should such become .«rr . d to destroy the prop. i-M lie All wero baile«! out by mcmlw-rs covered one. She slipped her revolver Molly went, dressed as she waa. to Into It. the general's headquarters, reported imminent. left the remainder in Milwaukee o f the organization to which thry Shortly before 10 o'clock she started the success o f her mission and furnish But Russia is cruel and unjust. She is cruel to her own subjects, j for future u-.< In whose •>ti*tedv belone. up toward the picket post. Hearing fd the Information she had been sent a m i there is no country in the world where there is so little patriotism he left it and how some of the W right was talking on a down the sound of horse's hoofs behind her Internecine troubles may some day disrupt the oligarchy and the I < xphisive happened t« he there town Street corner when the po- she did not look around, but presently to get The next morning commenced that movement which, though com house o f Rom anoff g o down into oblivion Russia is cruel to tli awaiti: g him. are supposed f> he liee ordered him to get off a box heard the aid hid her good morning paratively bloodless, was one of the Jews, to her own peasantry Regardless o f treaty obligations, play, some >f the points inquired into on which he stood. Wright re "Go to the picket post." he said “ and most trying o f the war the Tullahoma pretend you didn't know you must campaign. mg the bully, she took part in the .wicked partition o f Poland by the grand jury. sisted and the fight began. OUR P L A TF ORM WISCONSIN JOBS OF DYNAMITERS PROBED BY JURY "WON TWORKS AT SAN FRANCISCO MIX WITH COPS Molly