rv;i: two THK ONT.MUO ARGUS, ONT.MUO. OREGON, Till HSII.W, KKRRUARY 1.1. Il" THE ONTARIO ARGUS (Established 1896) GEO. K. Mhl.N. I '.In-1 and fubll I.. . Published Thursdays at Ontario, Oregon and entered at the Ontario post office for distribution as 2nd class matter One year Six Months SUBSCRIPTIONS: 1.50 Three Months !.() Single copies $ .60 .05 NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS: All copy for display Advertising should he at this office, by Wednesday noon. To insure position copy should be ft this office on Tuesday. BLOCKING THE HIGHWAYS. There is i lot of sound philosophy In the adage, "it i!' ! ii. renci whose hull is gored." This is being impressed on the minds of Am. ricans these daj ii-- the German unlimited submarine warfare created a virtual blockade of American port s.i long as the United Rtatei was able to continue business with the i utciitc allies in constantly men ing volume little attention wai paid to the blowing up of ships. What did we can If ;i few thousand in nocent women and children were sen! to watery gravel so long as we could sell our wheal and Hour and ammunitions, ami thus famish high prices for the tanner and prosperity for the workers, of sea board manufacturers i Under such conditions our consciences were satis Bed with verbal platitudes variously expressed In continued stories sent from the state department Their is a diffenmet1 now. The American people an in iiiuiii" to note thai trans-oceanic business means something. Freedom of the seas is being trans lat .1 t'i ii a im i piuase t i in active principle. The realisation of thai eonditioi u cans eoutinued pro ipei itv. while a continuation i I the blockade which ha. existed mince February 1 -pells ruin i" our present illllati il irOHM' !: . 'I'll, i i i . f of the middle west and the horse raie er oi i , ' , In i urn In nalie that it means m. ' 111 to I uble to peneii t lie w i 'i hi mat al change in opinion. !'.s (IlipUieutH mid in. more room Ixmig uvuilahle for tb' torngi' ol tin manufactured kinkIh one o! two things must oeeur. lilt her tile -i- i Mill I. Ill nf the I' lilted Stale, lull -I pi'. eeed in pint. it niir shipping or our factories lllllt close down ami the farmers of the middle weal and the .attle raisers of this region must he ruiil.nl ti. do business outside of Europe. If this latter condition is that which will Anally prevail an economic panie. greater than any in the his tory of the country will result. But peal as the loss would he in dollars and cents it would he insignificant compared with the loss of national honor, self-respect and prestige in world affairs. Expensive ami dangerous as is the condition Which has brought the American people face to face with the problem of whether or not they will permit the ruler of another nation to dictate conditions un der which tin ma live and do husiucs it will he worth while it it thoroughly Impresses upon the minds of the American people living in the middle west and i in -tales the direct and essential bciic- ici unic liu-incss ti. their material welfare. E0R1 FOR PEACE ; l i lie ugital ion for ti re I lion of upholding the honor and prestige oi the American people there must exist in the minds of i in li.i ihai representative government Or Sellf idiotic el - fed propagandas of than 1 heir William Ji 1 .in. In eoiniectiou with Mr. By ran 's efforts to niote peace it i Interesting to reineinher that as a raw Soilage youth William JeuningS won fame as a col lege orator with an oration entitled. Christ or i Caesar," which concluded with the usual sophonioric . peroration OH the "Brotherhood of Man." But that ( was before be became fanoua as. "the Boy Orator of the Platte," or had emitted his famous, "Cross of Gold and Crown of Thorns" commandment. Two years after that famous Chicago convention episode, while the marital spirit of the United States was at. its height in the Spanish American war, the same William Jennings delivered an appeal to arms, Voicing the sentiment that the time was not yet ripe to turn the swords into plough shares, for until the human hearts of all the peoples of the earth could he Idled with the spirit of the brotherhood of man and he cleansed of hate, avarice and other taints, it would still he necessary to appeal to the force of arms. At thai time, just before he becsinc a Colonel in the volunteers he matched Hie spirit of the pie, he was following their lead and voicing the popular Sentiments, He was then the avowed leader of De- mocracy, and realized the political possibilities ' ; "war hero." What has transpired in the past i! Mars to cause so radical a change in Mr. Divan's opinion in the righteousness of appeals to arms 1 Have the hearts of mankind been reformed lias the milcnium arrived I Or has the redoubtable William Snail) come to realize that he can not longer make political capital of a cry to arms ! While at the present time, with . Icriuaiiy hen lined in h the British fleet, and our munition factories on a war footing supph Ing a demand for arms, the I'nit ed States could without jeopard) refer the matter of war or peace to a popular referendum, what would have happened had such i problem been put before the nation by (lermuny in May 1914 f What would have happened Lei Belgium testify. It. is the essence of foolishness to propose that PH million people scattered over a territory so vast as the United States endeavor to conduct their affairs after the manner of the Athenian democracy. Such a proposition could only come from a brain drunk with its own 1 1 nan is. EMBARRASSING THE GOVERNMENT. Enough is now known concerning the last pffort of Cermany to discuss "means of avi idillg war." to be morallj certain thai it resulted iv a tip given the German government by a convspondeni who believed that combl I with the peace pmaganda it would help Pinbarra i Pn id ul Wd - divei t the minds of l he America 1 1 people from the ovi rt actsol the Klihuia i ine warfare. Win ii l their act f. fact in pie t i 1 1 1 become subscrvieul to the wisln reign power the are potential enemies of their own country. Indeed they are a greater menace man mi avowed i in in.i for their work undermines the imi t of feeling and action SO Ueceaaarj to the peace and well being of airj nation. CHURCH NEWS. OM.nKOATIO.NAL (HIWH. How about the "Inelde of the Cup.' 'The part that mattera. Why be ao .-ruuky about the little forma and stipulation when .wry day we dla regurtl IhS ureal thlnga of Christ .;,,!,.!. Jn ii.-.-, mercy mid faith? Why "hi mill at tin- fuut and awullow the camel? Why go Into rapture ov .r I Im msl-diuiuond ami neglect to notice the HunHet? W'hut Ik the profit In hi'iiiK a whlled aepulchre r-ort of a chrUtlanT The mlnlater al the Con- Kri'Kaii.'ii.il liurcli In going It talk .t.T.-.l All ilcpurlinriitH an- n.oiiug upward. TI,., pastor will be at Maker next Sunday In the nild-wlnter AkhouiIiI) and Mlnlatera' Keir.-nt Hev. W. II Swuru, will occupy the pulpit al both hour. We heapoak for him a good hearing 1). E. HAKKK. I'aator MITIiODINT 4 III K. II lie Kurl llanua and f:iiml. the new paalor of the cMtlinilthl church are now well heltl.-.l iin.l ar. for all lin.'H of . lnir.li aciiviilea aa they may present IhOuaelVM Th follow in k ar- 1 1- r ul. u which nil al.- conllall Invited Sun ah. mi thoaa qumUom Santa) noti .'a Befcool II . M 1 1 o'eloel I p in tot. i ' "" v I .'in-.- fur In.-. I .lay will i . . . . . i .I incident ul i in hi i-i in atlei for inta mi won. 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