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o O SFNDAY. UAKCn 23, 1910. EDITORIAL PAGE a o o r nArmi w (i T-fl' K I 1M 1 1 A V . M n W 1J T Itf n n U U W fa' U . . Q a a-a -o s ft .a I ... f- i i O o o O When Will the We hear cry eminent and experienced men jn Oregon awl will ocr the nation stoutly claiming we are entering a period of greater prosperity ifnd busine netivity than has ever before.been known to America. . Yet in the fjife of these very statements any man witfi "ordinary peiveption realizes business is remarkably fever ish and the fever shows in; signs of abating. " High prices prevail, but not uniformly high prices. The .-whole, scheme of business is out of adjustment and there does liot seem to be a wrench that will fit the nut. yiieat is high and horses are not worth raising. (Jreat industrial plants that were used to build ships are idle. Sawmills are running on a hit-and-miss cylinder. And now comes the order from Washington that no' more rail road improvement, such as extensions and betterments, will be permitted. Just what it all means no one can determine, but there are Home who urge; carefulness in business' now above all other times, - If the order from Washington is the beginning of a crash, where will it end? for all must admit the railroads ol' the country are ifs arteries. WithonU-xtcnsions and bet terments stagnation will follow, and when our railroads are stagnant all other business reaches a standstill. GOVERNOR OLCOTT'S COURSE (leneral comment on (lovernor Olcolt's course as out lined in last Sunday's Obesrver, is good. That lie should follow (lovcrnor W'itliycombc's policy in most slate matters is assurance that the new governor not only wishes to serve the people; but also that he hold;, a high regard for his predecessor's ideas of government. As for reappointing state employes and heads of de partnuiets, that is not so vital to Oregon as a state, but it does go to show that (iovernor Olcott apparently is.not to lie dominated by the Oswald West influence, which Olcott seems to have very successfully shaken off. Following his outlined course the new governor will find he has good support among all parties and faetionsof panics. i "VAMPING" MARRIED MEN. Anolhcr kind of crime has broken out from small wave lets on the sea of life, which wavelets have always existed, to turbulent billows. This particular kind of crime is "vamping" married men. In Seattle a few days ago a little slip of a girl boldly and deliberately poisoned a man's wife in order to "vamp" the husband. Of course;, the husband is a weakling with out. hack boiie, conscience, pride or ninnhood. tint even so. the girl committed murder to rid herself of the man's law ful wife. And this is but one case. It is spreading. "Vamp ing'' is a new disease- some women have acquired and the are playing it with a terrific boldness. Men ordinarily should not be protected against a foo1 woman, and yet a cotiniving, foxy, designing woman ha the 'world beat, when it comes to criminality.. "The day of the "chicken," as slang has seen fit tti dul the young woman who realizes her gifts bestowed by na ture, has set up a new order of things, and the "chicken" f developing into a ferocious beast, rather than an inol'IVn sive fowl. One has but to read the Seattle story to rcalii how far one of these "chickens" will go in order t "vamp" the man with whom she has cast her lustful love What shield be done with the (larrison girl who pois oned Storr's wife in a Seattle restaurant I Hang her, regardless of tender years. It is the onh way to stop such people, and along with her from the gat low's should swing that weak simpleton of a man who Mrs Storrs once called her husband. ' ,i If protection of the home is to be guaranteed by law that protection must not only punish the deep villiaii witl his waxy black mustache made famous in story and drama but it must also punish the designing "chicken" of tin present day, as well. 'If Secretary Maker thinks he can nullify Senator Cham berlain 's support iii Oregon, he is fully as xvron'g. in tlib conclusion as lie lias been in much of' the war program, liakcrand President Wilson do not realize just howstronj: "Our icorge" is out here in Oregon. Our boys .ire happy on their way home, days and the hours until they will set Ifoiide vallev soil. Let congress meet in May. of some kind to start. unravelim atiou. Calladina lal.oiers.aeted hastily w lien J he v pulled awa from the l-'edeiatinii and they witl see it later. Nt ranee as it may ectu Onion's iMno, i.itic parfv now h& two wings and t it d. uMs if it can flv.' '. ' Have y'c noti.-cd the extra cent ltu Mit No you will demand I 'tu i May appointment is a good one. No one'ean .v;;--;.. ........... .. .1 . lemvi n urn cumr lor Thi 'livcyuun. virile . -musty of Wallowa nuy 'lit "the, V ay t good loads Vor i'nion it'Uiiiv... e UcfTliKSin t hi long of spring house -leaning, foiflist precedes the LTniu Sftiek show ' e9 ' 0.ow,(9'(0 can soi fie Fever Subside? Now count I h foot on (irand We need a May lav parf 1 the present complex situ- i gallon n vmir oud rfi.-els.,, nils ol I Ida I yet. yet point 3 IV K'Jt ill 1 1 -r-"-M.ir -z. . c . v - i it i i i i i Rhode Island Voiried Over Prohibition. Rhode Island, which was the last of thirteen original states to ratify the constitution of the United Stales migws a characteristic lack of taste ...rl .nl'm.,;Uln. .i i U I.. amendment to the constitution. She is!'"'""1 a new leaf, that last pijnehowj it cun also accumulate 18 i- . . . , ... . nsposeil 10 question us vuiimiy. A, resolution is pending in the state lcg- " "'. anynow, x.om islattire which, if approved, will cllithe '.' ; hl' ' Jk'"B thc filce-' upon the attorney general to bring i""'" f''m had a big success in uit on behalf of Rhode Island before i the supreme court of the United States, asking to have the prohibition imendment declared unconstitutional. """ " ""i""- ."""y. uut ncn i. ,n re.useu io ".. u.e .ru , i i u iii palls at last on grown-ups.. It is bet- dinner party he showed that he wish That amendment has already been!' , , . , ., , i j n: .... , , ,. ,. . .. iter to eat pies and throw somethng'et to avod entangling alliances.- nliried by more than the requisite , r , "'' ifnia t,,,ui ,i T,ii,n number of states, and has-been form-1 is- ueen iorm- , r -Hy de-jlared a part of the organic I mv of the nation. This seems to crc tlc the odd situation of questioning ho constitutionality of the constitu tion itself. This view, however, really ieg the 'question, which' -1s ' whether ho amendment has any right to bo in ho constitution. The Rhode Island legislators object hat congress had no right to submit" -.uch an amendment to the states, he- nuse it is of a nature tending to alter ; '.ho established system of government Hint ne act in question is an un- wnrranm! invasion by the federal gov ernment of the police powers of the United States. The supreme court presumably has 'lower to cast out the' amendment if Miese jrroiinds of critirinni lire proved. If Rhode l.sbind decides to press the,' nutter it will make a law case of rare n teres t. Few citizens, however, will 'in awnkc nights worrying over the j M'tcome. So far as n layman can see, t is a foregone conclusion that the intendment will stand. 1 It is all very well to continue quot ng (icmge Washington: "Kurope has set of primary interests which to us iave no, or a very remote, relation Mence she must . be engaged in f i e liient controversies, the causrs o? .vhicb nre esent ially foreign to ou mucrns." 1 tut here we are with an inny In France! Times have changed. The foreign foe i quelled, but there is a domestic foe still wiiJi us. men ncing our safety at our own firesides. Needless to stiy, we refer to 'Musni nomosticn,' more rol!'.niui:jly knowr ;i j the common only too romrhon house fly.. Swat him, or bere -espe-oinlly herearly and ofteji. The I 'ortland .lour.nni V vote on l eague of Nation; as eutlimd by I'r ident Wilson, leminds (ne of the old style Used by tandulate.i who pub-, lUhcd a " pbpulnrity. .t raw" vote t, boost their Kngbind an.1 France are going to furnish work for returning soldiers by iggiiiK a tunnel under the Kng!i-h Channel. We don't need any MR'h tun nels; but why not d.g a few canals.' That dove of peace liegius to hick like mi eaie-b!!!. Which same fowl. e.-pocialljr of the haM-hrudcu breed. wr.u!d-make a good symbol for the L. of N, " ' L fc WViU i. 3 ... . . , MH-umi n puMigfroiuJantoemiMMamrsuv peri the immigration questho. Jimn iVcrved the g' to ovn it at any time. 0 62 f'W"' a r' " l0.uie m pntei to get lf woman- ,u,',"v" rou.nge0Bmi r convic-V.in will come Oter. Spring A ctivities Begin p The Films Are Im proving. "Movie art is improving. Charlie Chaplin,, confidentially. '' haven't thrown a pic for a yean' jcago Daily News. - If the lugubrious and acrobatic) Charlie means to intimate that he ha. Let the League of Nations start out. litiiiv iM-rume iiiSLurii-. ir prrn in hp- ' ' s )I. . JOU su' pu8e : ,n J"P'""iJle velocity, but they turn out to be '"0W1"K cus"ira Ples never wa considered very high art. The opera cibvi ui uiayuc ii. is uetLer 10 tnrow . . . nothing at all, but to depend on his trionic methods of a more subtle sort. rp. . 11 - tu ,. .. , """"' """"Mint those insisting on war will get a.iccuon, 10 mo renei o: aiscriminat nig patrons. - : : 'ii ', ; .' - i V.'i-fi j Police" -Ko act "hastily ana w without judgment become pests to any com-1 munity. Baker is having trouble with, such a police force. An anti-saloon officials maintains I Hint a man mav become intoxicated bv i drinking 3 per cent beer. At present prices'' Portland proudly announces two days of sunshine. Goodfor Portland. . " . . Mow thut peace conference is haunt- ed by the ghosts of see'ret treaties! j " ' ' " ,!-' ray as you go" would mvt havo fought a very big war, would it? Not long until Uie Fifth lean. Are you ready for it? liberty PRESS COMMENT In the senate It's the league of ful munitions. Newark News. Merlin press looks" upon the league with' disfnvor, which is some reconv tions will be considered equivalent to jiiendation. Wall Street Journal. election. As the league will require ' a notional nnthem, we will award e Mr. Jams Heck of New York saysipme for the best one submitted n that lOO.onO.OOO stand aghast nt the prize of a long-stemmed clay pipe and thought of a League of Nations. Fvi-ja bowl of soapsuds. Chicago Tri dent!' M;. Heck counted 'em white he Ibune. EARLY DAY SMALLPOX SCARE The repor of a ease of small .were provided with n complete out La VliMnde -.1 matter rim I fit of new clothes and tho discarded In Lu vliMndc -.1 matter rim I Is scarcely of suff!cbut Impnrtanco i ,to be used as .a nevs l.otu these . days-- brines ineuioib-s cf the tiin whi n (iiniHle tiau a snt;:ll pox scare that was a scare. , It was nt the time when the first iictual attempt to put in a water sjseni In La Grange was beuu In 1S12. twenty-seven yeais ago. A man named Palfrey came from Ta coma to work on the Job. .and a shoit time after his arrival ho was taken lck "a;;d tho trouble proved tocbe fctnall pox. The tovn was frantic. Many f .un ilies nunol out in lh hills and no one would rci rear the Sommer hvtol til which the sir man first showen sym:itom of the disease. K. ;,Ve3, at one ttmo mayor was the hotel pnrietor nr.d he hid aeeum- ubued a rood sum In the hotel bus- inessjn the proceeding years. He iosi nenriy an iiib tvmiiB" tm . , k..-i. It . p bf1. mny0xk would Uliuk of Btyin(E a he hotel, and the I proprietor simply iad to quit andiprietor. wd, paid '-ft- of bunlnew. The putlent movfd tin thai kin the eastern part townlthe kind ft l.a Grar.de ever had ,,, ,,,. ha, b,re,v ,m. , ,., , .,, m. p... - 1(f.iP.nt u.i r,nrry when the Wik was burned, Qfitlv all who w-?T9 near Palfrey was standing before a multiplying mir ror. Chicago Daily News. : I lie world is in a rair way to fret tKether and abolish war, if the United ii. .. ,i. t t,,r, it rhl - " Globe-Democrat. Some of the speeches against the LeaKue 0f Nations indicate high-muE duds.-Manchester Union. If the League of Nations cannot I'l Weill, (vol, ii. van ai icabi gutii.uivcc all they want.Des Moines Register. -.Senator Borah: -'seemingly would copy everything from thc farewell od- dross except News, the farewell. Newark Tho League of Nations may be all right, but how arc you going to keep Baker and Daniels from coming out or , say nothing of Burleson! .muiunapons amr. It looks to. us as though some of ll,n inli-i...;.) Eannlnrc u-kni firrhl- inst the u of N. wi be e. tilled to wound-chevrons before they turnM. mpw York Tribune. . The League of Nations will prob ably run along with a fair degree of smoothness nt least until the proTecf of international prohibition comes be fore it. Syracuse Herald. Mr. Taft wants a League of Nations with "teeth" in it. Well, it seems tn I -us that the American and British fleets constitute a pretty good set or eeth. Charleston News and Courier. Unless objection be made, the nom ination of Woodrow Wilson to be Grand -Idealist of the League of Na- apparel w:i burned. .Dr. Molitor. then, a young physi cian just making his start in La (raule, was paid 4u0 for medical servicos. D. C. Kelly, a well known titizon of thai tim?, was tie oniy man who could ha prevailed upon Ui.ko and stay with the man as nurs aiid he was paid (200 for the job. An asststaut. named Morrow, later tnduccd to join Ko'ley was paid $100. Thee ity was c.Hled on to joy $500 for the burned shaVk -and this and some of tho other ex reus- a growing out cl tho small pox ease reaching tf towards $2000. caused row. Thtj counctlmen were blam ed fw entering Into such sxtruv tcft.nt .rontraAs and mutual recrin- lnations followed the auditing of the bills hoth In the8 "city council and among the people la peneral. The ifst of bills showed $t50 SO paM to Or. Reeves for he deyruction oi tho furniture in thv 'toom" iho small pox patient' occupied for or Tucht. c. S Punphey rug storr pj:o f i;t4.S5 f, vac- It was easily riREfst s.i of ,nd , th! Mlue ,S.,e the Miter nrss of feeing lyura .afterward that (prc'V. tiled for PROLETARIATS AND POETS" . . 5 " r" THREATEN ED "REVOLUTION THAT IS A GRffiVTER MENACE TO THE MIDDLE CLASSES WAN TO THE itlCH. . (From Ed Howe Monthly.) . The nroletarians are doing the rioting, and the intellectuals (as poets I proudly call themselves) are furnish ing the propaganda. The intellectuals include almost' every writer of im portance in this and other countries; ninety-seven of every hundred of them are with the proletarians' in the pres- lent movement, and have long Dcen; before the time of Jean Jacques Ros- seau the popular leaders advocated the cause of the proletarians, right or wrong; Christ was an extreme socialist; and, before His time, the proletarians and poets were united. I do not recall a' prominent intellectual in ancient or I modern history who did ont lean too much toward the proletarian cause, 'and who was not unfair with the plain men who perform the world's import ant tasks. It has always been history that the plain, practical, necessary affairs of .life have been ridiculed and misrepre sented by the intellectuals; they havi always had impossible and foolish -idials; they have despised real intel ;ligence and human experience. Tol i stoy the greatest intellectual of his time, was an aristocrat and rich, but always preached rank Socialism; he is probably more responsible for th present reipn of terror than any of the old line of Keifs who have dis placed human intelligence from thv beginning. It seems impossible for anyone to write for a laree audience. 0r talk to a lartre assembly of people, .without driveling about the wrongs o the proletarians, which have, always been as greatly exaggerated ns havo the crimes of the industrious. And I respectfully ask the bour geosie (which means seven-tenths of tile American people, of consequence or value to thesr several communities) to remember that the revolution of the proletarians and poets is spreading westward to an extent so alarming: that President Wilson recommends that our governmlnt appropriate t hundred million dollars to overcome it; as late as January 18, thc Associated Press, represents the president as say ing: 'Bolshevism is steadily spread ing westward. It cannot be stop ped by force; and unless the tide of anarchism is stopped, it may not be possible to find definite governments with which to con clude peace." President Wilson is a poor phil osopher; force is the only thing thaft will effectually stem the steady march of anarchy westward. The presidcnt'ti remedy of appropriating money for thc purpose is wrong; Mr. Wilson hait always had too much confidence in the power of money collected from tho people. Force must he exercisedl money will only palliate and apolo gize it admits a state of things that doesnof exist. And the only force necessary is that honest and intelli gent men asset themselves. They have the power and may easily exer cise it. They must exercise it, or be confronted with the necessity of en gaging in civil war. Itolshevikism means war on tho rich man; that is the reason it is pop ular; But it also means war on the farmei who owns a quarter section of land, which he has earned after many yearn of hard toil and saving; it-means wai on every home owner; war on ever owner of a shop or store. Mtixim Corky admit.- it; our intel lectuals admit it, and approve; an English labor leader admits it. A enblegram from London printed in al" the papers early in February, says: "'"The present strikes in Great liritnin nre the first step toward socialization of all industries, and establishment of revolutionary' committees like those in Kussia, William Z. Watyon. member of the shop stewards' national adminis trative council, declared today. Watson frankly admitted thc shop .stewards' sympathies with Bol shevist philosophy, and declared they hope, to participate in the in ternational revolutionary congress to be called by Premier Lenine. 'The shop stewatds hxpc to es tablish revolutionary committees like those in Russia, '.said Watson. ' The present strikes nre the first step toward socialization of Brit ish industries and their control by the workers. ' We sympathize with Bolshevist philosophy, and hope to enter the international revolutionary congiess to he call ed by Lenine. We already repre sent o0 per cent . of the English, laborers. The shop stewards are behind practically all the present strikes. We are direct actionists as opfn'sed to the regular union isfs, who are const Nationalists. We are against the boa: jreoisie. We hope they wjll submit to the . WktV Ow Ncishbor!. A'lutralla ha n-.r!e wr ben bnrinp romp-.ilsorr. Every one of the UTitiph countries Is Mill biyr Ice. d France Frarw- with ber tuAstno laid www. her (arms dev astated, her land, hell blown. 4nd her homes dvuwid France la U.? abort term bfl1a at de w.yss: anon term m-il at oe- 1 creased rats 01 interest in small amouirv but great Dumbera.0 regime, but if they are. obstrep erous, we intend" to be firm. Per- . Boaally, I would not be surprised to see violence in England, but I , . hope ft won't come. I presume it , may be necessary to control- the London newspapers. We do not intend to touch the telegraph lines. We intend to use the present con trollers of industry as managers under it when they are good fel-;. lows. As further evidence that the revr lution of the proletarians and poets in Russia is opposed to thff bourgeosiu or middle class, and that the middlo class people are being murdered quito, as freely as the rich, I quote a cable gram from Reval appearing in tno pa.-; . pares of January 25, which says: ., "The Keds (jointly, tne proie- .. tarians and poets are known as , the Reds) killed the bourgeoisie. who remained inj'larva, and also the entire population of surround ing villages, owing to the inability of the people to pay the heavy taxes imposed on them." There is no doubt that the middle class is threatened by the revolutior of the proletarians and poets. An other cablegram from Omsk, Central Siberia, reads: Death stalked the streets of Perm until the city was captured by General Gaida, according to the official report of an investigator who has just return ed from the Ural front. So ternblo were conditions under the Bolshevist regime that the few pedestrians en countered there were emaciated, with livid lips and a constant nervous trem bling. There were no children less than a year old in Perm, all having died, says the report, which adds that in three months the whole population would- have perished. The report states that the Bolsheviki regarded all bourgeoise of the city, even the ruined and dying, outside the law. When the jail was overcrowded, thc inmates who had been imprisoned longest were shot to make room for the newcomers. There were well authenticated cases of torture; some of the condemned were compelled to dig their own grav,..and rehearsals of executions were staged during the hours tho doomed people were put to death. Men were plunged into water until nearly drowned, and were then revived, so that their torture could continue, whilo some prisoners were burned alive, and others were mutilated. Women were"' forced1 to dig trenches, often flogged : and sometimes killed." I only ask that the plain, ordinary, average man realize what the revolu tion of the proletarians and pocta means. Many will say Bolshevikism can never affect this country; that our plain common sense will save us, etc. Bolshevikism has reached this coun try and is gaining rapidly; it is oper-, ating today in thousands of our com munities. And you know it and are uncomfort able because of the knowledge, if vnn have ordinary intelligence and decency ror centuries the fools, the lazy, the intemperate, the vicious have heen exasderatinq; their wrongs, and ac cusing the reasonably' industrious and decent of robbing them. All of us have encouraged them n little, and now we have a revolution on our hands; we must finally decide what common sense is. SIDE BY SIDE. Jack Smith belonged to the Y M C. A., ' ' Pat Mehan to the K. of C; Both marched away 'ncath thc Flag ' one day To fight for the Land of the Free. ' Jack bowed his head as he said a prayer; Pat knelt with his parish priest; Then they stood up square to go "over ' ' there," To grapple the Hunnish beast. Now, their altar rails were not the same, Though they messed in the same old shack, ' But just the same, 'twas the same Great Name They worshipped, -.both Pat and Jack. While Jack stood straight as he hum bly prayed, Pat knelt at a candled shrine; But .the same (Jod heard each whis pered word That hearkens to yours and min. They didn't agree, d;d Pat and Jack On methods of worship true. But what of that? They wtnt to the mat ' . . ' ' For the old Bed. Whit, and Blue. -They knelt apart, bat 'tttas sWU' bv sMt "They fought for tfctir liom r.d right; s Ami the blood-red tid of trie i-ei'i riiia) i Hif l;tled day and nht. 7 ,. ' So, "over the top" (o the Glory side. Where ntver is war nor tr. j Where the otrue and trieci in GTs ' love abide. 0 iVith ljothing of doubts rfor fears. And : o3l tjy met as they.entered 8 , ij, Whtte the iIsQof all men are . . v, o si iree. ro w f'" f3" "'Hrv v n. And the fcd of Pat s K. of C. o Wm. Maupjii Y6rV)Dmocrt. O o O O O O ' oo O o0 o 0 O 3 O. O 9 oo A O 0
