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THE -SIOBNIXO OREGONIAN. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 11, 1917.
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PORTLAND, TUESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1917.
ANOTHER PRUSSIAN FEACE-ELTEB.
Every suggestion of peace that is
made by Germany before the allies
have won victory may safely be re
garded as a device of the enemy, de
signed to elicit what are the easiest
terms on which the allies can be in
duced to call off their armies and
fleets, or to create division in the allied
ranks. In either case with the hope of
making peace without loss of power to
the ruling classes of the central em
pires. The Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs
and their adherents are only Interested
to save their own political and finan
cial fortunes. As the storm clouds
which hang over them grow darker,
the terms they offer as feelers grow
more liberal on the chance that either
war-weary nations will accept or that
rejection will still the discontent which
is growing among their own people.
For rejection will be distorted to im
ply determination on the part of the
allies to destroy Germany and Austria,
hence to justify a summons to re
newed sacrifice by their suffering peo
ple. In this light chiefly are Germany's
reputed terms important. They leave
the Pan-German dream unrealized, but
they require Britain to pay for the
restoration of Northern France and
Belgium by buying German colonies
which Britain and her allies have con
quered. They would continue the di
vision of nations between independent
and alien states by making Alsace and
Lorraine independent instead of re
uniting them to France and by leaving
the unredeemed parts of Italy, Serbia
and Roumania under Austrian rule.
They would settle by negotiation the
Balkan question, which can only be
nettled finally on the principle of
rights of nationalities for which the
allies fight. They would bind the allies
to accept, from governments which
are bankrupt In honor, pledges of dis
armament and to adopt the definition
- of freedom of the seas which has been
put forward by the nation which prac
tices submarine murder, sinks hospital
ships and bombards hospitals, schools
and undefended towns. (
These terms show that the rulers of
Germany realize victory for them to
be impossible; that ultimate and
(crushing defeat is as certain as any
future event can be, and that defeat
Will be followed by an outburst of
popular wrath which may well sweep
away themselves, their thrones, their
nobility, their military caste and the
entire structure of government found
ed on divine right, .brute force and
Class privilege. But they also show
that the Rrusslan autocracy does not
yet understand, or pretends not to un
derstand, the light in which the world
regards it. More probably they under
stand only too well for their mental
comfort and have taken to heart these
words from President Wilson's reply
to Pope Benedict's peace proposals:
The objeot of this war Is te deliver the
free peoples of the world from the menace
and the actual power of a vast military
establishment controlled by an irresponsible
government which, having secretly planned
to dominate the world, proceeded to carry
the plan out without regard either to the
sacred obligations of treaty or the Ions
established practices and long-cherished
principles of International honor; which
rhose its own time for the war; delivered
Its blow fiercely and suddenly; etopped at
no barrier either of law or of mercy ; swept
a whole continent within the tide of blood
not the blood of soldiers only, but the
blood of Innocent women and children also,
and of the helpless poor and now stands
fcalked. but not defeated, the enemy of
sour-fifths of the world.
The rulers of Germany and Austria
expect other nations to negotiate with
them as though their signature to a
treaty still had binding force; as
though their reputation for respecting
the rights of nations, the principles of
humanity and the obligations of inter
national law were still -' unsullied.
Though Mr. Wilson, in the words quot
ed, has pointed out their error, they
persist In it. Their pledged word hav
ing been proved worthless and moral
restraints being without meaning to
them, no other course remains open to
the civilized world than to treat them
as outlaws whom physical force alone
can restrain. Their peace overtures,
then, appear as no more than the
.whimperings of a cornered criminal,
and they serve only to encourage the
officers of the world's law to persevere
until their power of resistance is gone.
Even taking the reported terms of
peace at their face value, without re
card to the besmirched honor of the
governments which offer them, they
are not enough, for they flatly con
tradict the very principles for which
the allies fight, and they consecrate
the wrongs out of which the war arose.
They leave nations divided, Poland
subject In severed fragments to Prus.
eia, Austria and Russia; Bohemia ua
tier Austrian tyranny; Armenia un
avenged under the heel of the bloody
Turk. Euch a peace would be a bad
peace, of which Premier IJoyd George
Bala a month ago:
War Is a ghastly thing, but not as e-rlm
as a bad peace. There ie an end to the most
lorrible war, but a bad peace goes on and
on, staggering from one war to another.
What do they mean? Do they mean peace
when they talk? The truth Is the Prussian
war lords have not yet abandoned their
ambitions. They rre only discussing the
postponement of the realisation of these
ambitions. There is a feeling among them
that this time the plot has miscarried. Next
time they mean to make sure. . . . Next
time there must be no next time. Far
better, in spite of all the cost, all the sor
row and all the tragedy of It, let us hav
com with it. Do not let us repeat this
aorror.
- Having failed this time, the Prus
sians propose terms which are but
slightly different from that status quo
ante out of which, Mr. Wilson has
said, the war sprang, He Insists that it
shall not be restored, and Lloyd
George, seeing practically eye to eye
with him, says there must be no next
time. That, aside from the folly "of
accepting the word of undefeated
Prussia, is abundant reason why no
such terms offered by the war lords
should lae considered.
IMPERISHABLE.
Sarah Bernhardt at seventy-three
has returned to the stage in New York,
amidst the acclaim of many long
time admirers of real histrionic art
expressed in perfect elocution and
with unrivaled fire, and the wonder of
a public which had assumed that three
score and thirteen. Is a suitable age for
the retirement of any actor or actress.
But not Bernhardt. Maimed by loss
of a leg and weakened by a recent pro
tracted illness, she still responds to the
call of the stage and gives, it is said,
a series of performances which would
be marvelous in an actress more
robust and less gifted.
But it is not Bernhardt In her new
est revelation of histrionism that
amazes the world. It is the indomi
table spirit of the woman that refuses
to accept defeat from either sickness
or age.
Somehow we see In her the rein
carnated France, bleeding, sick, pale
and bruised "bloody but unbowed"
but with the flame of her patriotic
fire burning strong and with her
unshaken will to live not to die
for France still supreme and vic
torious. Hail Bernhardt! Hall France!
The world weeps at your sorrows and
rejoices at your triumphs; but always
it will appraise your unforgettable
heroism as the most beautiful and
most precious treasure of humanity's
martyrdom.
SPINSTER OR WIXNEBt
The Oregonian is, and was, not sure
that the commotion created in Port
land by publication, several months
since, in Collier's Weekly, of a sneer
ing article entitled "Portland, the
Spinster," was really worth while. It
was chiefly a sarcastic drive at our
revered First Families, written by a
smart-aleck penny-a-liner whose name
we have forgotten, but who, we are
told, was handsomely entertained in
our hospitable city, and who then bit
the fair hand, or hands, that fed him.
Tet so far as we ever heard, the
First Families regarded the ungrate
ful pasquinade with dignified silence.
They didn't ask Collier's for repara
tion, and doubtless they promptly for
got it, as was becoming in them and
as the libelous burlesque richly de
served.
The Collier itinerant writer had
made slighting allusions to Portland
as a port, and all- the guardians of
our commercial prestige, professional,
amateur and volunteer, arose en
masse in protest. They fairly flooded
the offending periodical with letters
of correction and reproof;' and now
Collier's has an article "Portland.
the Winner." To us it seems that the
apology is worse than the offense;
for, while admitting that there is a
forty-foot channel at the Columbia's
entrance, and thirty feet all the way
from city to sea, it is asserted that
here is a port without commerce, and
unpleasant and unfair comparisons
with Seattle are made. Then Collier's
rubs it In on the First Families in
this wise:
The superior growth of Seattle In bank
ing and commerce, the long-delayed rail
road extensions Into Central Oregon, the
low, hard fight that others made to get
good roads throughout the Willamette Val-
ey. the dependence of trolley and urban
development on Eastern men and Eastern
capital, the lack of proper support for local
music and other art forms, the failure to
get modern park and street planning for
Oregon cities, an ancient disinclination to
enlarge the state university as the key-
tone of an adequate educational system, all
hese and more make up the record as to
whether the F. F. P.'s (First Families of
Portland) have been leaders or not.
Here is an incongruous jumble of
fact, fancy, assumption and falsehood.
The state is doing well as to roads.
Eastern capital has done as much or
more for Seattle and other Coast cities
as for Portland, the city has a fair
assortment of well-kept parks, there
are two railroads into Central Oregon
where there should be one, there is
here a highly developed and well-established
musical community and the
enemy of the State University has
been the referendum, which is not a
favorite device or frequent resource of
the First Families.
The Oregonian has and has had no
great worry about anything Collier's
may say about Portland, or anything
else. It saw no particular reason to
get all het up because Collier's had
seen fit to make a little fun of the
city by describing It as a spinster
though our own idea of spinsters is
quite complimentary. Why should any
one resent being called a spinster.
when he isn't, which Is quite
obvious? Now Collier's has an article
on Portland as a winner which is
clearly designed to show that it is a
loser. But what of it? It Is not a
loser.
Let us hope now that the Portland-
jabbing scribbler may not be inspired
by local outcries of resentment to
write a third essay on the city and its
supposed creators, owners and wet-
nurses.
FIGHT LNG TUBERCULOSIS.
America is giving practical aid to
France by sending to that country a
commission of physicians who will or.
ganize a campaign for the prevention
of the spread of tuberculosis. This
serves as a reminder that it was the
French scientist, Pasteur, who made
the discovery upon which our war
against the white plague is based, and
that at the same time Americans have
far outstripped the French in concert
ed action by which the people have
been able to avail themselves of the
knowledge necessary to preserve their
lives. Pasteur's work was highly im
portant, but not more so than that
which our own physicians are about to
do.
The governing principle of all ef
forts to reduce the occurrence of tu
berculosis and to cure it in its early
stages is community co-operation. It
is In this that Americans have ex
celled. No country in the world has
so many voluntary organizations hav
ing for their purpose the dissemina
tion of propaganda in the interest of
good health. Social workers are gom-
pieting me worK ox me discoverers.
and- they are found to be quite as im
portant. Pasteur only showed - the
way; it remained for the great body
of the people to travel over it.
So, having made great progress in
the awakening of civic consciousness
in the United States to the duty of the
community in stamping out disease,
we are now going back to France to
teach the lesson there. The duty of
our physicians will be more largely
executive than academic. We shall
not contribute much that is new as
to the theory of bactericidal disease.
but we conceivably may show how to
awaken people to its dangers and how
to build sanatoria and support them
out of community funds, We may be
able to overcome prejudices that now
lead to concealment, and instil en
lightened interest which makes the
patient and his family see that their
welfare and that of their neighbors'
run parallel. .With the solving of the
mystery that formerly surrounded
tuberculosis, much of the dread has
vanished. The problem now is not
so much to effect the cure in indivi
dual cases, as to inform the public of
its possibilities and of the importance
of prevention.
Our training as a business nation
is standing us in good stead. The 150,
000 Frenchmen who are reported to
have become consumptive since the
war began constitute a factor pregnant
with future possibilities. American
administrative talent and capacity for
seeing things in perspective is quite
likely to be the ' salvation of France.
PARASITES.
There are parasites everywhere and
it takes constant watching to keep
down their ravages. The human para
sites are the worst of all, because the
most Inexcusable.
The New York police have un
covered a new parasitic industry that
illustrates the point. A group of small
clothing merchants in the vicinity of
cantonments and Navy-yards have
been doing a thriving business in the
renting of civilian clothing to soldiers
and sailors who cannot procure liquor
in saloons while in uniform. - Prices
usually are "what the traffic will
bear," and they are high enough.
The crime is a petty one, but it has
the essential ingredients of atrocity.
The Government is taking much pains
to make the lives and morals of its
men safe against both disease and
temptation. The petty conspirators
against good order and discipline are
actuated only by motives of greed.
They will do anything for a dollar
or less than a dollar. They do not
care what becomes of the soldier
afterward.
These offenders have been escaping
with light fines, which is an Indica
tion that we have not been awakened
to the dangers of anti-patriotism.
Renting a suit of clothes to a soldier
seems a small offense in itself, but
considering the motive behind it and
its total absence of the spirit of co
operation in the effort to win the war,
it betrays the potential enemy. Whilo
we are busy making the world safe
for democracy, it would pot be a bad
plan to 'slap on a few penalties that
will be really felt by every man who
in any way knowingly hampers us in
our task.
FRIEITOIx- SNAKES.
Possibilities for the destruction of
moles and gophers that now are a
serious annoyance to farmers will be
seen in the suggestion of a writer in
the Scientific American that we should
adopt measures for the protection of
our harmless snakes. Thousands of
these snakes are killed every year
by thoughtless boys, he says, in
the face of the Department of Agri
culture's estimate that rodents annual
ly destroy $100,000,000 worth of ce
reals alone. On the same principle
that we protect certain birds in order
to keep down insects, he would en
courage the presence of such vermin-
destroying reptiles as the kiug snake,
bull snake, garter snake, black snake
and its allies, milk snake and blue
racer. He avers that these snakes
ari the natural enemies of rats, mice.
weasels and other pests and that even
the smaller varieties of snakes are
highly useful because they destroy
young rodents before they have made
serious inroads on the crops.
The writer, R. W. Shufeldt, of Wash
ington, aroused criticism by his state
ment that the farmer who would es
tablish 125 blue racers on his farm
would be reasonably sure to have BOO
snakes before the year was out, and
that each of these could be counted on
to eat a. field mouse a day. Professor
W. H. McClellan, S. J., of Woodstock
College, says that the number of field
mice thus to be consumed is much
overestimated, but he does not deny
that the blue racer would accomplish
a deal of good. He believes, however.
that the harmless variety of so-called
garter snake would not amount to
much as a farmer's aid. He Insists
that there is no evidence that the gar
ter snake eats any variety of warm
blooded food.
There are, however, a good many
ottier snakes that do eat young rats
and mice, and probably would relish a
diet of moles, and that are harmless in
other ways. Mr. Shufeldt holds a brief
for the chicken snake, which he says
is a much-maligned reptile. It does not
destroy chickens, but enters the poultry-house
only in quest of young mice.
Moccasin snakes are also recommend
ed for farm pets as being easy to tame
and costing nothing to keep, at the
same time being valiant destroyers of
the farmer's enemies.
It is possible that we have been un
just to the snake in the past, or at
least undiscriminating. The sins of the
venomous varieties have been visited
upon the whole tribe. The practice of
scotching a snake whenever and wher
ever one sees it may have cost us more
than we realize. But the careful farm
er will be slow to introduce any new
snakes on his land. If it had not been
for this the snake cure for moles
would have been tried long ago. It is
not always easy to forecast what a
radical experiment will come to. The
men who introduced the rabbit into
Australia and the dandelion in the
western part of the United States stand
as a perpetual warning against im
petuous action. Still, there probably is
no harm in teaching that our indige
nous, harmless snakes do 'much good
and that they should be spared for
that reason. We would not then run
in danger of raising up a more serious
pest than the rodents which we were
seeking to destroy.
TURKEY AT THE PEACE TABLE.
It would be a mistake, while we are
looking upon this war as a war to
overthrow the Prussian autocracy, to
overlook the fact that when the time
comes for the settlement of peace
terms an accounting should be de
manded from Turkey. It is not neces
sary that indemnities or reparation
should enter Into the calculation, but
it must be recognized that Turkey has
demonstrated her Incapacity to rule.
Someone has aptly said of the Turkish
government that "its only limits are
the limits of human endurance," and
David Starr Jordan, for all his pa
cifism, was once stirred to a suffi
cient pitch of indignation to make him
say that the rule of the Turk is al
ways inefficient, and that the race has
always failed In civil administration,
It is not a mere coincidence that, as
the world had progressed steadily to
ward liberty, the hold of the Turk has
been slipping. He has lost Hungary,
the Caucasus, all of. Northern Africa,
the Egean Islands, Cyprus and Arabia,
and now the British have the upper
hand In Mesopotamia,' The last Bal
kan wars saw Turkey almost crowded
out of Europe. Little but Constanti
nople remains to her west of the Dar
danelles, but this has been sufficient
to constitute an administrative center
that has been a menace to the good
order of the world.
The fate of Turkey at the council
table, when peace is being discussed.
Is of especial interest to the United
States because serious consideration is
already being given to a proposal that.
ii the allies win, there shall be an
international government of Constan
tinople and the straits. This would
be a decided improvement over the
former status there, and would give
Russia her desired outlet to the warm
sea without involving her in respon
sibilities which it is not now certain
she is capable of carrying out.
Despite our aloofness from the Eu
ropean quarrels of the past, it is quite
certain that we have gone too far to
refuse to take part in a common ar
rangement for the settlement of the
Turkish question. The prime issue of
the war is the defeat of Prussianism,
but there are many millions of people
who are vitally concerned with the
defeat of Turkish power to misrule.
No people over whom the Turk held
sway ever profited by the relationship.
The Turk is not constructive, he is
without vision, is as incapable as a
Prussian autocrat of seeing that others
have rights besides himself, and has
both distaste and incapacity for civil
government.
The principle of consent of the gov
erned will not be invoked in the case
of Constantinople to the disadvantage
of the plan for international control.
There were in Constantinople before
the war fewer than 600,000 Turks,
who thus constituted less than half
the population. There were 300,000
Greeks, 140,000 Armenians, 50,000
Jews, and 150,000 other foreign sub
jects. And it is a grave question
whether the body of the Turks them
selves would not welcome such a stable
government as the more civilized na
tions could supply, if their voice could
be heard. Turkish acceptance of Eu
ropean rule in the countries which
the Porte has lost has been quite gen
eral. There should be no temporizing with
the Sultan's government when terms
are made, no opportunity for repeti
tion of the Armenian massacres, no
chance for such a situation as only a
few years ago made Turkey a by-word
in all the Balkans. Kindness to the
Turks would dictate a policy that
would save them from themselves.
On paper, the shark leather industry
is one of our most promising infants
and one which every buyer of leather
will devoutly hope to see succeed. The
enthusiastic promoters of a shark-fish
ing industry call attention to the fact
that the leather value of a shark is as
great as that of a steer, while the cost
of catching it is much less than the
cost of raising the steer, but he over,
looks the meat value of the four-footed
animal. But any addition to the leather
supply will be welcomed, with shoes
and saddles and other indispensables
at present prices, and it is comforting
to known that there are ten varieties
of sharks that are useful commer
cially, one of them attaining a length
of forty-five feet and having a hide of
surpassing toughness. The cost of tan
ning is no greater than in the case of
other leather, and prejudice, if any
exists, will be easily overcome by re
duced prices.
Well! Well! Here Is Collier's, of all
publications now alive, blaming the
first families of Portland for the long
delay in building railroads to Central
Oregon. Next to the lamented Hamp
ton's, Collier's put more obstacles in
the way of railroad building to Central
Oregon than any other agency. That
weekly, afflicted with Plnchotitis, pro
tested the sacrifice of waterpower and
irrigation potentialities in the Des
chutes it thought the Government was
making to aid two soulless corpora
tions. Its references to ex-Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger usually men
tioned the Crime of the Deschutes in
capital letters. Yet there was no practi
cable way to build a railroad from
Portland to Central Oregon except by
way of the Deschutes. First Family
fiddlesticks!
Reports that Australia is overrun
by strikes and worse, the I. W. W.,
must be taken on allowance. Aus
tralia is bigger than it, appears as an
island on the map. It sizes pretty
well with the United States. One can
not imagine this country in the throes
of the widespread trouble of strikes.
It cannot happen. Neither can it hap
pen that way in Australia.
The Italian widow who possesses all
the qualifications for citizenship ex
cept that of speaking English and
who has given three sons to this coun
try's service, should be admitted by
bending the naturalization laws. Such
act will not establish a precedent, as
a similar case is unlikely. Laws are
not made to cover foolishness.
Automobiles continue to be stolen
and abandoned in damaged condition.
The man who steals anything else in
the grand larceny class goes to the
penitentiary, but theft of a car seems
to be held as not a serious crime by
anybody but the owner.
Oregonians of a generation ago have
pleasant memories of "Uncle" George
Webb, then State Treasurer. Mr. Webb
celebrated his 93d birthday a week
ago and is in the best of health. ,
If Switzerland is to expel aliens of
military age, she will confer a favor
by sending all Americans to head
quarters in France, where they will
find uniforms and equipment.
Wilson has been given the humani
tarian cult's gold medal for 1916 for
being the greatest humanitarian of
that year. Just so. That's the year
he kept us out of war.
If there were a 6-cent coin, Port
land might take more kindly to a 6
cent fare, but Portland has little use
for the necessary bronze cent.
Peace proposals from Germany
should be put to an international
referendum at which women can vote.
Now is the time to "register the
kick" on your assessment, unless you
are a good wartime sport.
Friends cheered, but the skies wept
when the Battery boys departed yes
terday. Fall styles in umbrellas show little
change,
i
- Wonderful how. it rains in Oregon.
Gleams Through the Mist.
By Oesa Collins.
THE PLOWMAN.
Hid in the clouds I hear them cry.
The wild geese out of the north
again.
And the long brown carpets of stubble
lie
Glistening under the Autumn rain;
To and fro with my plow I go
Weaving the woof of the new brown
field.
Alone, alona must I plow and sow.
Alone must I harvest at ' last the
yield.
Weary, weary the marching for
The feet forbidden to go to war.
Refrain:
My brother is over the seas and gone.
In uniform natty and trim and
bright
Gone where the genuine deeds are done.
Gone were a man may know the
fight;
While I while I the flat fields lie
Silent and harmless where I go by
While I must follow the furrows, for
This is my service in ths war.
They gave him a feast when he went
away.
"Hero." my brother was dubbed with
pride;
I'd have given my hopes of Heaven
that day
To have stood in khaki by his side;
But some must battle and some must
bide
And keep the. fields at their duty
still
I leaned, on my plow and watched him
rido
Over the bridge and up the- hill.
Weary, weary the marching for
The feet forbidden to go to war.
Refrain:
My younger brother to war has gone.
10 take his place on the fighting
line,
The place where the actual deeds are
done
And I'd give my heart if that place
were mine. v
"Forget: forget it!'' the nnll hnofi a-r
Tramping heavily over the clay.
ee mat tne furrows are straight
ones for
That is your service in the war!"
My arms are so strong and my muscles
tougn
Toss off lightly the hardest toll:
Surely, surely I am the stuff
They're needing elsewhere than on
the soil!
But two could not g-o, and one must
bide.
And these are the words that I was
told:
'Serve yon the war in the farm lands
them bring forth an hundred
fold!"
Weary, weary the marching for
The feet forbidden to go to war.
Refrain:
My brother marches behind the flag;
I march all day in the furrows brown;
Neither his step nor mine must lag.
Though fain would I lay this service
down
And Join my brother across the sea;
But the dull hoofs trampling say to me:
"Win in the field of furrows, for
This Is your service in the war!"
Comes no medal to such as I,
No cross of honor, nor victor's crown.
What though we let our heart's wish
die
And turn It under the furrows brown.
And yet as straight as the plow I hold
Let me follow my duty and never
swerve.
Follow the words that I was told:
"Here is the field you best can
serve!"
But weary, weary the marching for
The feet forbidden to go to war.
Refrain:
Brother of mine, to you 'tis given
To offer your blood in Freedom's
fight;
To me, that the plow be stralghtly
driven
And the fields be held to bring forth
aright.
Serve you well then, and let my heart
Give me the courage to do my part
The dull, dull task in the furrows, for
This is my service in the war.
"Sir," said the Courteous Office Boy,
producing a roll of manuscript.
"Yes, my boy," I encouraged.
"Now that the Germans are getting
active on the Eastern front again, I
think you may be Interested in this
little thing I dashed off one time when
Hindenburg was chasing the Russians
out of Poland.''
"Does your pome offer any aid or
comfort to the enemy?" I asked stern
ly, preparing to call up Clarence
Rearc.es at the slightest suspicious
move on his part.
"No," said the C. O. B.
"Read then," I said.
And he read:
WAR-SAW.
We saw the war see-saw
Round Warsaw; that's what we saw;
The war saw we see-saw, see-saw;
Round Warsaw, war saw we see-saw.
Warsaw saw war see-saw;
Warsaw saw war as we saw;
"See-saw, see-saw" the war we saw;
Warsaw saw war we saw see-saw.
"See-saw," Warsaw saw war,
Warsaw saw see-saw war "
But before he could go further. I
raided him and reduced him to silence
with a few well-directed blows of my
swagger-stick.
e
ADIOS.
(A little song we happened to think of
Just now.)
"What! Do I hear you weeping?
Do I hear you a-weeplng, dear?"
" 'Tla but the wee waves creeping.
Sobbing about the pier!
For why should I weep for my hero.
Sailing away to the war?
See how I smile, I smile I smile
But France is so far, so far!"
"How the mist from the sea comes
flowing,
Till dimly the whole scene lies!"
"'Tis the mist, 'tis the salt mist grow
ing. From salt tears filling your eyes.
Laugh, O my love, and kiss me.
Ere you sail away to the war!"
"See I am smiling, dear heart, dear
heart
But France is so far, so far!''
At Every Turn.
Pathfinder.
"Don't you find It hard these times
to meet expenses?"
- "Hard? Man alive, Z meet expenses
at every turn," - . -
ACTION AGAINST TRAITORS BEING URGED
Colonel Roosevelt Heads Appeal Which Ie aligned fcy Pros
Varied Racial ana National Origins.
NEW YORK!, Sept. 6. (To the
Editor.) Colonel Roosevelt re
cently asked a number of gen
tlemen to sign the enclosed ap
peal. The first to sign it were
those whose names are appended
' to the appeal. Colonel Roosevelt
would be very glad if you could
publish this appeal in full, with
the names of the signers.
J. M. STRICKER. Secretary.
WE AMERICANS are the children
of the crucible. It has been our
boast that out of the crucible,
the melting pot of life in this free land,
all the men andwomen of all the na
tions who come hither emerge as Amer
icans and as nothing else; Americans
who proudly challenge as a right, not
as a favor, that they "belong" Just
exactly as much as any other Ameri
cans and that they stand on a full and
complete equality with them; Ameri
cans, therefore, who must, even more
strongly, insist that they have re
nounced completely and without re
serve all alleglanc to the lands from
which they or their forefathers came,
and that it is a binding duty on every
citizen of this country in every im
portant crisis to act solidly with all his
fellow Americans, having regard only
to the honor and interest of America
and treating every other nation purely
on its conduct In that crisis, without
reference to his ancestral predilections
or antipathies. If he does not so act,
he is false to the teachings and the
lives of Washington and Lincoln, ho Is
not entitled to any part or lot in our
country and he should be sent out of
it- If he does not act purely as an
American, he shows that in his case
the crucible has failed to do its work.
?'he crucible must melt all who are cast
n it; it must turn them out in one
American mould; and this must be the
mould shaped 140 years ago by the
men who under Washington founded
this as a free Nation, separate from
all others Even at that time true
Americans were of many different race
strains; Paul Revere and Charles Car
roll, Marion and Herkimer, Sullivan,
Schuyler and Muhlenberg, stood on an
equality of service and achieved re
spect with Llghthorse Harry Lee and
Israel Putnam. But the majority of
the leaders and of their followers were
of English blood. They did not, be
cause of this, hesitate to resist and an
tagonize Great Britain when Great
Britain wronged this Nation; they stood
for liberty and for the eternal rule of
right and Justice and they stood as
Americans and as nothing else.
All Americans of other race origin
must act towards the countries from
which their ancestors severally sprang
as Washington and his associates in
their day acted. Otherwise they are
traitors to America. This applies es
pecially today to all Americans of Ger
man blood who directly or indirectly
in any manner support Germany as
against the United States and the allies
of the United States; it applies no less
specifically to all American citizens of
Irish blood who are led into following
the same course, not by their love of
Germany, but by their hatred of Eng
land. One motive is as inexcusable as
the other; and in each case the action
is treasonable to the United States.
The professional pacifists have, dur
ing the last three years, proved them
selves the evil enemies of their country.
They now advocate an inconclusive
peace. In so doing they have -shown
themselves te be the spiritual heirs
of the Tories who in the name of peace
opposed Washington, and of the Cop
perheads who in the name of peace op
posed Lincoln. We regard these men
and women as traitors to the Repub
lic; we regard them as traitors to the
great canse of justice and humanity.
This war is a war for the vital inter
ests of America. When we fight for
America abroad we save our children
from fighting for America at home
beside their own ruined hearthstones.
We believe that the large majority
of Americans are proudly ready to
fight to the last for the overthrow of
the brutal German militarism which
threatens America no less than every
other civilized .nation. We believe that
it would be an act of baseness and in
In Other Days.
Twenty-nve Tears Ago.
From The Oreconlan of Sept. 11, 1892.
Washington. Bids for the construc
tion of a drydock at Port Orchard, on
Puget Sound, were opened today at the
bureau of yards and docks. Navy De
partment, Amesbury, Mass. The remains of the
departed poet, John Greenleaf Whit
tier, encased in a casket surrounded
with beautiful floral tributes, lay in
state in the parlor of the home of the
late poet today, f-uneral services were
held in the garden in the rear of the
home. There was a large attendance
and the Quaker service was used.
Budapest. Louis Kossuth will be 90
years old next Saturday, and all Hun
gary prepares to do him honor.
The electric railroad recently com
pleted to Milwaukle has been extended
to Oak Grove, two miles and a half
beyond, and the track Is laid a mile
farther. The road will soon reach Ore
gon City.
On Friday evening next, at the medi
cal college of the State University,
corner Twenty-third and Lovejoy
streets, will take place the graduation
exercises of the first class of nurses
from the training school of the Good
Samaritan Hospital. This is the first
training school of the Northwest, and
was established two years ago.
Half a Century Age.
From The Oreconlan of Sept. 11, 1867.
The Paris Jury came near acquitting
the Polish exile who tried to shoot
the Czar. A warning to Emperors to
keep away from Paris.
St. ' Louis. The demonstration In
honor of General Sheridan was the
largest ever seen in St. Louis. The
torchlight procession was over two
miles long, consisting of over 20 posts
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and a large number of colored organi
zations. New Tork. The servant girls held a
monster meeting Friday night protest
ing against further demands of money
for the Fenians. Resolutions were
adopted questioning the honesty of
previous expenditures and the pro
priety of attempting to liberate Ireland
by subjugating Canada.
The improvement of Alder street,
west of FirBt, was commenced yester
day. This thoroughfare has long been
an eyesore to all who had occasion to
pass it.
On last Saturday Mr. Barnes, resid
ing five miles west of this city, suc
ceeded in capturing and killing a large
black bear weighing over 400 pounds.
Validity of Divorce.
RAINIER. Or., Sept. 9. (To the Ed
itor.) A. applied for a divorce and B.
agreed and signed the paper, but when
the divorce proceedings came up in
court neither A. nor B appeared, but
A-'s attorney appeared for A. and the
divorce was granted to A.
Was the divorce legal?
A SUBSCRIBER.
. : Under the statement of the case given
tlnent Men of
famy,, an act of unworthy cowardice
and a betrayal of this country and of
mankind to accept any peace except
the peace of overwhelming victory, a
peace based on the complete overthrow
ef the Prussianized Germany of the
Hohenzollerns.
We hold that the true test of loyal
Americanism today is effective service
against Germany. We should exert as
speedily as possible every particle of
our vast lazy strength to win the tri
umph over Germany. Therefore we
should demand that the Government
act at once with unrelenting severity
against the traitors here at home,
whether their treasonable activity take
the form of editing and publishing
newspapers, of uttering speeches, or of
intrigue and conspiracy.
We must have but one flag. We must
also have but one language. That must
be the language of the Declaration of
Independence, of Washington's farewell
address, of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech
and second inaugural. We cannot toler
ate any attempt to oppose or supplant
the language and culture that has come
down to use from the builders of this
Republic with the language and culture
of any European country. The great
ness of this Nation depends on the
swift assimilation of the aliens she
welcomes to her shores. Any force
which attempts to retard that assim
ilative process is a force hostile to the
highest interest of our country. It is a
force which, if allowed to develop, will,
for the benefit of this group or that,
undermine our National institutions
and pervert our National ideals. What
ever may have been our judgment in
normal times, we are convinced that
today our most dangerous foe is the
foreign language press and every sim
ilar agency, such as the German-American
Alliance, which holds the alien to
his former associations and through
them to his former allegiance. We call
upon all loyal and unadulterated Amer
icans to man the trenches against this
enemy without our gates.
We believe that they can most effect
ively do this through some organiza
tion. The Vigilantes, a nonpartisan,
militant, anti-pacifist group of writ
ers, artists and other patriotic children
of the crucible, who, from their head
quarters in New York have for months
been conducting a vigorous pro-America
campaign in the newspapers of the
country, offer exactly such an organ
ization. We ask that good Americans
address themselves at once to The
Vigilantes. We ask. moreover, that,
whether through this organisation or
Independently, they uphold the hands
of the Government at every point effi
ciently and resolutely against our for
eign and domestic foes, and that they
constantly spur the Government to
speedier and more effective action. Fur
thermore, we ask that where Govern
mental action cannot be taken, they
arouse an effective and Indignant pub
lic opinion against the enemies of our
country, whether these enemies mas
querade as pacifists or proclaim them
selves the enemies or our allies or act
through organizations, such as the I.
W. W. and Socialist party machine, or
appear nakedly as the champion of
Germany. Above all, we ask that they
teach our people to spurn any peace
save the peace of overwhelming victory
in the war to which we have set our
hands.
Of us who sign some are Protestants,
some are Catholics, some are Jews. Most
of us were born in this country of par
ents born in various countries of the
old world in Germany, France, Eng
land, Ireland, Italy, the Slavonic and
the Scandinavian lands; some of us
were born abroad; some of us are of
Revolutionary stock. All of us are
Americans, and nothing but Americans
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Theodore Roosevelt
Oscar S. Straus
John Qulnn
Henry L. Slobodln
eorfta von L-enserke
Meyer
Michael I. Pupln
Owen Wister
William Lneb, Jr.
Anthony Fiala
Henry Reuterdahl
Julius Kahn
Guy T. Vlskniakk!
Harvey T. O'HIgKins
Nathaniel A. Elsberg
Guzlon BorKlum
John D. Crimmins
Harry Olson
Isaac Adler
A. W. Erlckson
Karl H. Behr
Oustavus Ohltng-er
Jesoe Jsidor Straus
Elnar Barfod
John J. I.ea.ry, Jr.
eo Wiener
James M. Beck
Charles J. Rosebault
Antonio Steella
F. WellinRton
Ruckstuhl
Roger M. Straus
Cornelius Rubner
Porter Emerson
Browns
Philip Zoercher
Klnar Hansen
Edwin Carty Ruck
Lionel S. Marks
A. Toxen "Worm
Frederick Hellman
Hermann Hagedorn
by the correspondent the divorce is
illegal, and may be set aside at any
time. Probably, however, the plaintiff
had prior to the trial appeared before
a referee appointed by the court and
the court accepted the evidence thus
given. In that event the divorce is
valid.
WHY JAPAN SENDS NO ARMY
Difficulties ef Transport Are Ob
stacle to Helping Russia.
PORTLAND. Sept. 10. (To the Edi
tor.) Is there any truth in the story
that Japan offered to put a million of
her veteran troops into the field
against Germany, but that England
would not permit her? Why does
Japan not send over some of her troops
now, as she has declared war against
Germany? As you say In this morn
ing's editorial, "What couldn't a quarter-million
Japs do there Just now!"
AN INQUIRER.
There have been rumors to the effect
described, but they have not been con
firmed. A Japanese army could only
reach the Russian front by way of the
Trans-Siberian Railroad, which has
been unable to transport supplies
shipped across the Pacific Ocean to
Vladivostok for the Russian army, and
which certainly could not also move a
Japanese army, not to speak of its sup
plies. Russia does not need more men,
having already more than she can arm
and feed. She needs arms and muni
tions, which Japan has provided in
great quantities, but more especially
discipline. A Japanese army could
only reach the western front by a long
voyage, using many ships which are
Borely needed for other service, and
after it got there ships would still be
needed to supply it. What the West
ern allies need is not so much men as
artillery, ammunition, food and par
ticularly aircraft. If some Japanese
troops could have been at hand to fill
the gaps in the Russian line when it
broke in July, they might have done
good service, but their presence might
have done more harm than good by
causing further dissension.
Getting; Book Copyrighted.
HOQUIAM, Wash., Sept. 9. (To the
Editor.) Please give the present proce
dure for getting a copyright on a book
in the U. S. and foreign countries.
ALBERT ANDERSON.
Affidavit and application blanks may
bo secured by writing to the copyright
office, Library of Congress. Washington,
D. C. Publish the book with copyright
notice and send two copies to the copy
right office with affidavit and applica
tion and a money order for Jl. Copy
right in foreign countries is secured
only by complying with the legislation
of such countries.
Victim of First Aid.
London Opinion.
Doctor Have you been the victim of
an assault?
Patient No, sir. I simply fainted and
was brought to by a member of the
First Aid to the Injured Society.