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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1916.
WON POTS HONOR
LEADERS OF TRAINMEN'S BROTHERHOOD AS THEY APPEARED IN WASHINGTON, D. C, AUGUST 30.
TOLINCOLN'SGENIOS
President Says Humble Birth
place Is at Once Mystery
. and Reassurance.
GIFT TO NATION ACCEPTED
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House '"Within Shrine Interpreted as
Exemplifying American Spirit
by Showing Heights That
. Lowly Slay' attain.
HODGESVILLE, Ky.. Sept. 4. Presi
dent Wilson came to Kentucky today
to pay Homage to the memory of Lin
coln and avoid politics, but a grreat
crowd, gathered from all parts of the
state, cheered him at every appearance
and turned his visit into a campaign
event.
The President accepted for the Fed
eral Government the log cabin in which
Lincoln was born in a speech devoted
to an eulogy of the Civil War Presi
dent. Standing on a temporary plat
form at the foot of a hill topped by
a magnificent granite memorial build
ing housing the Lincoln cabin, he
praised Lincoln as the embodiment of
democracy.
"We are not worthy to stand here
unless we ourselves be in deed and in
truth real Democrats and servants of
mankind, ready to give our very lives
for the freedom and Justice and spirit
ual exaltation of the great Nation
which shelters and nurtures us," he
said.
Programme Kon-Polltica.
The non-political character of the
programme was emphasized by the
mention of the name of Charles E.
Hughes, the Republican nominee, by
one of the speakers In giving the list
of directors of the Lincoln Farm Asso
ciation. But as soon as the formal exercises
were over politics came to the fore.
At the railroad station platform the
President stood for nearly an hour
shaking hands with men and women,
who greeted him as "the next Presi
dent." What was said to be one of the
largest crows ever gathered in this
part of Kentucky came to Lincoln
farm In special trains and automobiles
and on foot. The President and his
party were taken from the station to
the farm in automobiles, accompanied
by a troop of Louisville police. On the
way the President stopped and laid a
wreath on a statue of Lincoln.
Rough Cabin Examined.
At the farm he walked up a long
flight of broad granite stairs lined with
thousands of cheering persons to the
Lincoln memorial building at the top.
Inside he examined silently the one
room cabin made of rough logs and
mud and then wrote his name in the
register.
Ex-Governor Joseph W. Folk, of Mis
souri, president of the Lincoln Farm
Association, presided at the formal
ceremonies. Robert J. Collier, vice
president of the association, gave the
gift of the deed to the farm to Sec
retary Baker, representing the War De
partment. In introducing the President Mr.
Folk spoke of Mr. Wilson as "the suc
cessor of Lincoln in the affections of
the American people."
President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson,
with Secretary Baker. Secretary Tum
ulty and Dr. Grayson, the White
House physician, left here at 2 o'clock
for Washington, where they will ar
rive at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.
Memorial Deeply Significant.
The President's address In full fol
lows: No more significant memorial could have
been presented to the Nation than this.
It expresses so much of what is singular
and noteworthy in the history of the coun
thy; it suggests so many of the things that
we prize most, highly In our life and in
our system of "government How eloquent
, this little house within this shrine is ot the
vigor of democracy! There is nowhere in
the land any home so remote, so humble,
that it may not contain the power of mind
and heart and conscience to which nations
yield and history submits its processes.
Nature pays no tribute to aristocracy, ub-t
scribes to no creed of caste, renders fealty
to no monarch or master of any name or
kind. Genius is no snob. It does not run
after titles or seek by preference the high
circles of society. It affects humble com
pany as well as great. It pays no special
tribute to universities or learned societies
or conventional standards of greatness, but
serenely choose its own comrades, its own
haunts, its own cradle even, and its own
life of adventure and of training.
Here is proof of it. This little hnt was
the cradle of one of the great sons of men
a man of singular, delightful, vital geniusJ
who presently emerged upon the great stage
of the Nation's history, gaunt, shy, un
gainly, but dominant and majestic. ' a
natural ruler of men, himself Inevitably the
central figure of the great plot. No man
ran explain this, but every man can Bee how
It demonstrates the vigor of democracy.
where every door is open. In every hamlet
and countryside, in city and wilderness
alike, for the ruler to emerge when he will
and claim his leadership in the free life.
Such are the authentic proofs of the validity
and vitality of democracy.
Place Holds Mystery of Dero&racr.
Here, no less, hides the mysrlry of de
mocracy. Who shall guess this secret of
nature and providence and a free polity?
whatever -the vigor ami vitality of the stock
from which he sprang, its mere vigor and
soundness do - not explain where this man
got his great heart that seemed to compre
hend all mankind In its catholio and be
nignant sympathy, the mind that sat en
throned behind those brooding, melancholy
eves, whose vision swept many an horizon
which those about him dreamed not of
that mind that comprehended what it had
never sen. and understood the language ot
REMARKABLE RESULTS
WITH PARAFFINE
FOR CONSTIPATION
The discovery of the meddicinal value
of the use of liquid paraffine as an
Internal lubricant in cases of consti
pation is a recent triumph of medical
science.
This natural oil (Ameroll) enters the
alimentary canal, softens the food con
tents, forms an oily film over the walls
of the intestines, thereby assisting
peristaltic action and facilitating pas
sage, at the same time protecting the
tender surface of the mucous mem
brane. It acts solely as an assistant and
lubricant. It Is not absorbed or assim
ilated by the system, and does not act
upon or Irritate any muscle, nerve or
membrane.
' In addition to its antiseptic proper
ties, the use of Ameroll tends to rid
the intestines of all poisonous toxins,
and thus prevents their absorption by
the system.
Ameroil is a superior product of par
affine oil. It Is highly refined, color
less, odorless, tasteless, easy to take,
agreeable, effective and absolutely
harmless.
Ameroil is sold by all Owl Drug
stores. A full pint bottle for onlv 60
cenrti,. Arlv,
Left to Right Miles M. Dawson, Attorney for the Railroad Brotherhood! W. G. Lee, President of the Railway Trainm ens W. S. Carter, President of Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen and Englnemen; AV. S. Stone, Grand Chief of Brotherhood of Engineer! A. B. Garret son. President Railway Conductors.
affairs with the ready ease of one to the
manor born or that nature which seemed
in its va.ied richness to be the familiar of
men of every way of life. This is the sa
cred myBtery of democracy, that its richest
fruits spring up out of soils which no man
has prepared and in circumstances amidst
which they are the least expected. This is
a place alike of mystery and of reassurance.
It is likely tnat in a society oraereu other
wise than our own Lincoln could not have
found himself or the path of fame and
power upon which he walked serenely to his
death. In this place it is right that we
should remind ourselves of the solid and
striklnsr facta upon which our faith in de
mocracy is founded. Many another man be
sides Lilncoln nas served tne nation in us
highest places of counsel and of action
whose ofiKiiis were as humble as his.
Though the greatest example of the univer
sal energy, richness, stimulation and force
of democracy, he is only one example
among many. The permeating and all
pervasive virtue of the freedom which chal-
engres us in America to make the most or
every gift and power we possess, every page
of our history servers to emphasize and illus
trate. Standlnc here in this place, it seems
almost the whole of the stirring story.
Here Lincoln had his beginnings. Here
the end and consummation of that great
life seem remote and a bit incredible. And
yet there was no break anywhere between
beginning and end, no lack of natural se
quence anywhere. Nothing really incredi
ble happened. Lincoln wasdnaffectedly as
much at home In the "White House as he
was here. Do you share with me the feel
ing, I wonder, that he was permanently at
home nowhere? It seems to me that in the
case of a man I would rather sayof a
spirit like Lincoln the question where he
was is of little significance, that it is always
what he was that really arrests our thought
and takes hold of our imagination.
Exacting Discipline Indispensable.
It is the spirit always that is sovereign.
Lincoln, like the rest of us, was put through
the discipline or tne world a very rough
and exacting discipline for htm. an indis
pensable discipline for every man who
would know what he is about in the midst
of the world's affairs: but his spirit got
only its schooling there. It did not derive
its character or Its vision from the ex
periences which brought it to its full reve
lation. The test of every American must
always be, not where he is. but what lie is.
That, also, is of the essence of democracy,
and is the moral of which this place is
most gravely expressive.
We would like to think of men like Lin
coln and Washington as typical Americans,
nut no man can be typical who is so un
usual as these great men were. It was
typical of American life that it should
produce such men with supreme Indiffer
ence as to the manner in which it pro
duced them, and as readily here in this hut
as amidst the little circle of cultivated
gentlemen to whom Virginia owed so much
in leadership and example. And Lincoln
and Washington were typical Americans la
me use tney made or their genius. iJut
there will be few such men at best, and we
will not look into the mystery of how and
why they como. We will only keep the
door open for them always, and a hearty
welcome after we have reoognlzed them.
I have read many biographies of Lincoln:
I have sought out with the greatest inter
est the many Intimate stories that are told
of him, the narratives of ,nearby friends,
the sketches at close quarters, in which
tnose wno liaa tne privilege of helnsr as
sociated with him have tried to depict for
us the very man himself "in his habit as
no uvea;'- but I have nowhere found a real
intimate of Lincoln's. I nowhere get the
impression In any narrative of reminiscence
that the writer had in fact penetrated to
the heart of his mystery, or that any man
could penetrate to the heart of It. That
brooding spirit had no real familiars. I
get the impression that It never spoke out
in complete self-revelation, and that it
could not reveal Itself completely to anyone.
n was a very lonely spirit tnat looked out
from underneath those shaggy brows and
comprehended men without fully communing
with them, as if. la spite of all Its genial
efforts at comradeship, it dwelt apart, saw
its visions or auty where no man looked
on. There Is a very hoiv and verv tei-rihie
isolation for the conscience of every man
who seeks to reed the destiny in affairs for
others as well as for himself, for a nation
as well as for Individuals. That privacy no
man can Intrude upon. That lonely search
of the spirit fox the right, perhaps no man
oMisi. inis strange cniid ot tne cabin
kept company with invisible rhfnc wa
born Into no Intimacy but that of its own
silently assembling and deploying thoughts.
Meaning of Gift Interpreted.
I have come here today, not to utter a'
eulogy on Lincoln; he stands In need or
none, but to endeavor to interpret the
meaning of this gift to the nation of the
place of his birth and origin. Is not this
an altar upon which we may forever keep
alive the vestal fire of democracy as upon
a shrine at which some of the deepest and
most sacred hopes of mankind may from
age to age be rekindled? For these hopes
must constantly be rekindled,, and only
those who live can rekindle them. The onlv
stuff that can retain the life-giving heat
Is the stuff of living hearts. And the
hopes of mankind cannot be kept alive by
words merely, by constitutions and doctrines
of right and codes of liberty. The ouject
of democracy Is to transmute these into the
life ad action of society, the self-denial
and self-sacrifice of heroia men and women
w-illing to make their lives an embodiment
ot right ana service and enlightened pur
pose. The commands of democracy are as im
perative as its privileges and opportunities
are wide and generous. Its compulsion Is
upon us. It will be great and lift a great
light for the guidance of the nations only
if we are great and carry that light high
for the guidance of our own feet. We are
not worthy to stand here unless we our
selves be In deed and in truth real demo
crats and servants of mankind, ready to
give our very lives for the freedom and
Justice and spiritual exaltation of the great
nation wnicn snelters and nurtures us.
Montana Democrats Confident.
CHICAGO, Sept. 4. J. Bruce Kremer,
Democratic National committeeman
from Montana, assumed charge of the
speaker's bureau at Western Democrat
ic National campaign headquarters to
day. He has Just completed a trip
through Montana and declares that, in
his opinion. President Wilson will carry
that state by a plurality of 15,000.
The Government health sen-Ice has dis
covered a new and cheap dialnfecUkOt. It
1 bulMl Irom via oil
MR. WILSON LAUDED
Samuel Gompers, in Speech,
Praises President.
TRAINMEN ARE DEFENDED
Labor Xjeader Praises Sir. Wilson
lor Efforts to Settle Railway
Controversy and Declares
Against Arbitration Law.
fiEWISTON. Me., Sept. 4. In a Labor
day address here Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, praised President Wilson's
Administration for its achievement In
the Interest of the labor movement and
denounced the decisions of the Supreme
Court In the Danbury Hatters and Ari
zona Anti-Aiien Law cases, which he
pointed out were participated in by
Charles E. Hughes, the Republican
Presidential nominee.
In a lengthy discussion of the threat
ened railway strike he defended the
attitude of the brotherhoods and. while
he praised President Wilson for his
efforts to settle the controversy, he un
qualifiedly denounced any attempt at
legislation to compel arbitration.
Brotherhoods' Demands Explained.
"The demand of the railroad brother
hoods is a clear-cut Issue," said he.
"They now make the simple demand that
their lives and their physical well
being shall be protected and that they
shall be required to work only such a
reasonable period of time as industrial
experience has shown to be expedient.
For the eight-hour principle has been
universally accepted by society. The
eight-hour workman is a better, a more
resourceful, a more productive worker
than the one who labors long hours.
"The railroad brotherhoods have not
refused to accept arbitration. They
have declared that the eight-hour work
day involves a principle of human wel
fare that cannot be disputed and there
fore cannot be arbitrated. They are
willing to submit all other Issues, all
of which are arbitrable, to a mutually
satisfactory tribunal.
Fight Waged on Merita.
"The railroad men presented their
demands and made their fight in a
simple, direct manner. They have re
lied entirely upon their economic or
ganization. They have not sought any
special privilege, any legal protection.
or endeavored to utilize any Govern
mental agency to establish their just
demands. They have secured atten
tion and won favor to their cause be
cause back of their contentions was an
organization that represented power
and service.
"Compulsory arbitration, or so-called
investigation, is simply a way to re
strain free necessary action on the
part of the wage-earners and to make
them more easily dominated by em
ployers. It only makes the striker a
criminal and gives authority for Jail
ing workers who quit work.
"Employers appreciate the importance
of the shorter workday; they know
that It means more Independent work
men, workmen not so readily held in
submission. It Is necessary for the pro
tection and the best interests of the
workers to whom the law will apply,
as well as to all the workers of the
state, that every man shall do his best.
that every woman in Maine shall aid to
secure the approval of this act."
100 FIGHT FANS HURT
BLEACHER SEATS AT THE WELCH
WHITE CONTEST COLLAPSE.
Xo Injuries Regarded An Fatal
ligation to Be Made to Find If
, Precautions Were Taken.
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.. Sept-
The collapse of a portion of the bleacher
seats at the Welsh-White lightweight
I championship fight today-precipitated
200 spectators to the ground and in
Jured at least 100, several seriously. At
the various hospitals here tonight It
was stated that all of the 60 persons
taken there Immediately after the ac
cident would recover. Many later were
released after having their Injuries
dressed.
The crash came before the larger part
of the crowd had arrived. Policemen,
aided bjr members of the fire depart
ment and special officers, quickly placed
the injured in automobiles and com
j?ar a. U veil: llttls cooXgaioa - resulted.
The boxing programme was not de
laVed. Announcement was made from the
ringside that the stands had been care
fully inspected before the crowd was
admitted and that no reason could be
ascribed for the collapse of the seats.
D. J. Johnson, commissioner of public
saraety, said as far as he knows no in-
spection had been made by the city
engineer's office and he added that a
thorough Investigation would be made
In an effort to fix the responsibility.
LOCAL COMMITTEE NAMED
Position on Farm Loan Bank to Be
Presented to Board.
At the meeting of the committee In
charge of Portland's campaign at the
Chamber of Commerce yesterday the
following tentative list of witnesses to
present evidence in support of Port
land's position before the board was
prepared:
Governor Wlthycombe, Dr. W. J. Kerr,
of the Agricultural College; J. D. Brown,
president of the Farmers' Union; C. E.
Spence, master of the State Grange;
Dr. Hector MacPherson, of Oregon Ag
ricultural College; O. M. Clark, presi
dent of Chamber logged-off land; F. S.
Myers, postmaster, location with refer
ence to mail service and possibilities
of postal savings on investment of
bonds of this character; W. E. Coman,
transportation; John 11. Lewis, water
resources and Irrigation; E. G. Hopson,
Federal reclamation work; Thomas ICay.
demands for loans as shown by school
fund: Carl Haberlack. of Tillamook, on
co-operative dairying; J. D. Mickle,
State Food and Dairy Commissioner;
Captain P. Weyrauch, fruit industry
of Northwest, chairman of fruit coun
cil; IL F. Davidson, of Hood River; C
L. Hawley. of McCoy, livestock needs;
C. C. Colt, livestock industry needs
and development; W. M. Pierce, of La
Grande, H. W. Gard. Madras, and J. N.
13. Gerking, of Tumalo, homesteaders
viewpoint; George M. Cornwall, timber
and lumber situation; Dr. C J. Smith.
LOAN BOARD TO TAKE REST
Two Says Will Bo Spent In Park on
Way to Portland.
SPOKANE. Sept. 4. The Federal
Farm Loan Board, which is here today
for a hearing on the location of a
land bank, will depart tonight for Ta
coma. Two days will be spent at the
Rainier National Park before the Port
land hearing is held September 7.
The remainder of the itinerary of the
board, so far as it is completed, fol
lows: Sacramento, Cal.. September 9;
San Francisco, September 10 and II;
Reno. Nev.. September 12; Salt Lake
City, September 18; Cheyenne, Septem
ber 15. and Denver. September lo.
Hearings will be held at all stops ex
cept at San Francisco.
&LftUIL
the Standard Oil for Motor Cars
Sold by dealers everywhere and
at all Service Stations of the
Standard Oil Company
(Cslifornis)
Portland
STRIKE CAUSES RIOT
Streetcars at El Paso Are At
tacked by Wild Mobs.
FIST-FIGHT STARTS CLASH
, 1
Police and Texas Rangers Unable
to Quell Disturbance for Honrs,
but Show f of Force Final
ly Controls Situation.
EL PASO. Tex.. Sept. 4. Rioting, an
outgrowth of a strike of street railway
trainmen in progress here, followed a
Labor day parade today. The rioters
attacked several streetcars being oper
ated by strikebreakers in the down
town streets, wrecked the cars and
beat the trainmen. A dozen persons
were arrested on charges of inciting
riot and It Is estimated that at least
50 persons were injured in the street
lighting.
Ill feeling between strikers and oper
atives who took their places when the
strike was called two months ago,
manifested on several occasions re
cently, reached a climax today In a
fistnght on a downtown street between
a striker and an employe of the street
railway company. The general dis
turbance followed.
For a time It seemed as though the
municipal police, reinforced by a de
tachment of Texas rangers, would be
powerless to quell the mobs. inally,
however, after several hours of dis
turbance in which rioting took place
on almost all of the business streets
and street railway traffic had been
suspended, the mobs dispersed. When
traffic was resumed a policeman armed
with a pistol and a shotgun and ordered
to shoot anyone interfering with the
cars, was detailed to protect each crew.
Meanwhile all saloons In the city
were closed until further notice and
military authorities ordered all soldiers
stationed in this district to their
camps.
Tonight the provost guard patrolling
the streets was strengthened and sev
eral companies of Infantry were kept
in reserve to prevent any unfSward
incidents which might tend- to compli
cate the International situation. To
night the authorites expressed the be
lief that the situation was under con
trol.
Compensation BUI Ready for Pen.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 4. All differ
ences between the House and Senate
versions of the workmen's compens-
Correct
Lubrication
Charts, Free
We have prepared charts
showing thecorreci lu
brication of the various
makes of automobiles
a separate chart for each
car. Ask your dealer, or
write us for chart for
yur car.
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OFFER TODAY THE FOLLOWING
EXCEPTIONAL SALES IN THE
FOURTH
BIRTHDAY SALE
New Trimmed Hats to $10 for $5.00
$6 to$I 5 New Regaliste Corsets $3.95
Newest Laces to $2 the Yard for 89c
Irish Linen Table Cloths Less Than Cost
Novelty Silk Stockings to $ 1 .50 for 69c
Fur Trimmed Fall Suits Only $24.75
$2 1 .50 Velour Autumn Coats $ 6.75
$3.50 New Frilled Voile Blouses $2.25
Imported Silk Lamp Shades Half Price
Selling Regularly From $2.25 to $35.00
$3.25 Philippine Env. Chemise $2.35
Boys New Fall Suits to $8 for $3.95
In Sizes From 2 to 8 Years
New 50c to 60c Cretonnes for 33 c Yard
$3.75 Union Taffeta Umbrellas $2.95
$4 New Fall Hand Bags Only $2.35
25c to50c Madeira-Like Kerchiefs 1 5c
$2.50 Novelty Stand Picture Frames for $1.29
75c and $ I Large Cape Collars at 59c
$1.25 Novelty Drape Lace Veils at 50c
$20t000 BLACK SILK SALE
With Extraordinary Prices
tlon bill were smoothed out today with
the Senate's acceptance of the confer-
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