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the sionmG oregoxiax. satxtrdat. September 23, 191T. TEH MILLION DEAD DENOUNCE KAISER Gerard Sums Up in Final Arti cle Deeds of Autocracy. Reckoning Is Sure. AMERICA NOW BARS WAY Golden Dream of Conquest Almost Accomplished by Invading Hordes of Prussian Militarism. BI JAMES W. GERARD. American Ambassador to the German Im perial Court July 28, 1913, to February 4. 3917. Copyright. 1917. by the Public Ledger Comajiny. In the reasonable liberalization of Germany, if it comes, Theodore Wolff and his father-in-law, Mosse, will play leading parts. The great newspaper, the Tageblatt, which Mosse owns and tVolff edits, has throughout the war been a beacon light at once of reason and of patriotism. And other great newspapers will take the same enlight ened course. I am truly sorry for George Bernhard, the talented editor of the Vossische Zeltung-, who, a Liberal and a Jew, wears the livery of Junkerdom, I am sure to his frreat distaste. After I left Germany the Vossische Zeintung made the most ridiculous charges against me such as that I is sued American passports to British. The newspaper might as well haye sol emnly charped that I sent notes to the . Foreign Office in sealed envelopes. Having charge of British interests, I ould not issue British passports to British citizens allowed to leave Ger many, but according to universal cus tom in similar cases and the express consent of the imperial Foreign Office, I gave these returning British Ameri- can passports superstamped with the words "British subject." A mare's nest, truly. Hollwec Likened to Cromwell The fall of Von Bethmann-Hollweg was a triumph of kitchen intrigue and of Junkerism. I believe that he is a Liberal at heart, that it was against his best judgment that the ruthless submarine war was resumed, the pledges of the Sussex note broken and Germany involved in war with Amer ica. If he had resigned rather than consented to the resumption of U-boat war. he would have stood out as a great Liberal rallying point and prob ably have returned to a more real power than he ever possessed. But half because of a desire to retain office, half because of a mistaken loyalty to the Emperor, he remained in office at the sacrifice of his opinions, and when he laid down that office no title of Prince, or even Count, waited him as a parting gift. In his retirement he will read the lines of Schiller a favorite quotation in Germany Ter Mohr hat reine Schuldigheit getan, der Mohr kann gehen" ("the Moor has done his work, the Moor can go"), and in his 9ld age he will exclaim, as Shakespeare makes the great Chancellor of Henry VIJI exclaim, "Oh, Cromwell. Crom well! Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, he would not. in mine age, have left me naked to mine enemies." But this god Is not the private war god of the Prus sians, with whom they believe they have a gentleman's working agree ment, but the God of Christianity, of humanity and of all mankind. It would have been easier for Ger many to make peace with Von Bethmann-Hollweg at the helm. The whole world knows him and honors him for his honesty. HelrTerlck to Be Feared. TIelfTerirh remained as Vice-Chancel-lor and Minister of the Interior. A powerful, an agile intellect, a man, I am sure, opposed to miltarism. Rea sonable in his views, one can sit at the council table with him and arrive at compromises and results, but his in tense patriotism and surpassing abil ity make him an opponent to be feared. Kuehlemann has the Foreign Office. Far more wily than Zlmmermann, he will continue to strive to embroil us with Japan and Mexico, but he will not be caught. Second In command in London. . he reported then England would enter the war. The rumors, scat tered broadcast as he took office, to the effect that he was opposed to ruth less U-boat war, were but evidences of a more skillful hand in a campaign to predispose the world in his favor, and. therefore, to assist him in any negotia tions he might have in the carpet. Be ware of the wily Kuehlemann! Halting- the Chancellor Is Sport. Baiting the Chancellor is the favorite sport of German political life. No sooner does the Kaiser Dame a Chancel lor than hundreds of little politicians, Keichstag members, editors, reporters and femate intriguers try to drive him from office. When Von Bethmann Hollweg showed an Inclination toward liberalism and advocated a Juster elec toral system for Prussia, the Junkers, the military and the upholders of the caste system joined their forces to those of the usual intriguers and it was only a question of time until the Chan cellor's official head fell in the basket. His successor is a Prussian bureau crat. No further description, is neces sary. Peace w ImpOMlble. Of course, no nation will permit Itself to be reformed from without. The question of the world in arms with ref erence to Germany Is simply this. It is impossible to make peace with Ger many as at present constituted, because that peace will be but a truce, a short breathing space before the German military autocrats again send the sons of Germany to death in the trenches for the advancement of the system and the personal glory and advancement of stuffy old generals and prancing princes. - The world does not believe that a free Germany will needlessly make war, be lieve in war for war's sake, or take up the profession of arms as a national in dustry. The choice lies with the German peo ple. And how admirably has our great i'resident shown that people that we war not with them, but with the autoc racy which has led them into the sham bles of dishonor. America Thoaaht Blafflag. I was credited by the Germans with having hoodwinked and jollied the Foreign Office and the government into refraining for two years from using illegally their most effective weapon. This, of course, is not so. I always told the Foreign Office the plain, sim ple truth, and the event showed that I correctly predicted the attitude of America. Our American National game, poker, has given us abroad an unfair repu tation. We are always supposed to be bluffing. A book was published In Germany about the President, called "President Bluff." I only regret that those high In authority in Germany should have pre ferred to listen to pro-German corre spondenta who posed as amateur super ambassadors, rather than to the author ised representatives of America. I left Germany with a clear conscience and the knowledge that I had done every thing possible to keep the peace. An Ambassador, of course, does not determine the policy of his own coun try. One of his principal duties, if not the principal one, is to keep his own country informed to know beforehand what the country to which he is ac credited will do. and I think that I managed to give the State Department advance information of the moves of the rulers of Germany. I had the support of a loyal and de voted staff of competent secretaries and assistants, and both Secretaries Bryan and Lansing were most kind in the backing given by their very ably organized department. I sent Secretary Lansing a confiden tial letter every week, and. of course, received most valuable hints from him. Secretary Lansing was very successful in his tactful handling of the American Ambassadors abroad and in getting them to work together as cheerful members of the same team. Reckoning Will Come. When I returned to America after living two and one-half .years in the center of this world calamity every thing seemed petty and small. I was surprised that people could seek little advantages, still be actuated by little jealousies and revenges. Freed from the round of daily work, I felt for the first time the utter horror and useless ness of all the misery these Prussian military autocrats had brought upon the world, and what a reckoning there will be in Germany some day when the plain people realize the truth; when they learn what base motive actuated their rulers in condemning a whole generation of the earth to war and death! Germany Has Mneh to Answer For. Is it not a shame that the world should have been so disturbed: that peaceful men are compelled to lie out in the mud and filth in the depth of raw Winter, shot at and stormed at and shelled, waiting for a chance to murder some other inoffensive fellow creature? Why must the people in old Poland die of hunger, not finding dogs enough to eat in the streets of Lem berg? The long lines of broken peas ants in Serbia and in Roumanla; the population of Belgium and Northern France torn from their homes to work as slaves for the Germans; the poor prisoners of war starving in their huts or working in factories and mines; the cries of the old and the children, wounded by bombs from Zeppelins; the wails of the mothers for their sons; the very rustling of the air as the souls of the 10.000.000 dead sweep away to another world why must all these horrors come upon a fair green earth where we believed that love and help and friendship, genius nd science and commerce and religion and civilization once ruled? K Peace With Avtoeraer. The very bodies of those 10.000.000 killed, if placed end to end in two lines, would reach from New York to San Francisco. Think of traveling this distance between a double line of star ing corpses. It is because in the dark, cold north ern plains of Germany there exists an autocracy, deceiving a great people, poisoning their minds from one genera tion to another and preaching the vir tue and necessity of war. And until that autocracy is either wiped out or made powerless there can be no peace on earth. The golden dream of conquest was almost accomplished. A little more ad vance, a few more wagonloads of am munition and there would have been no battle of the Marne, no Joffre. a modern Martel to hammer back, the invading hordes of barbarism. America Bars the Way. I have always stated that Germany is possessed yet of immense military power, and in order to win. the nations opposed to Germany must learn to think In a military way. The mere entrance of even a great Nation like our own into the war means nothing in a military way unless backed up by military power. And there must be no Germa?v twum The old regime left in control of Ger many, of Bulgaria, of Turkey, would only seek a favorable moment to re new the war. to strive again for the mastery of the world. Fortunately America bars the way America led by a fighting President, who will allow no compromise with brutal autocracy. (The end. MB. GERARD IS COMING IVTITATIOS OF ROTARY CLUB TO SPEAK HERB ACCEPTED. Ex-Ambasaador Will Arrive la Port land September SO for Banquet at Arlington Club. J. W. Gerard. United States ex-Ambassador to Germany, whose story of conditions leading up to the great European war and thence until the United States became Involved Is com pleted in The Oregonlan today, will be here September 30 and October 1. In a telegram to the Rotary Club, received yesterday. Mr. Gerard accepted an invitation for an address, acknowl edging it as follows: "Very glad to meet your club at lunch or noon meeting Monday, Octo ber 1. Have been also asked by your Chamber of Commerce and Ad Club and am notifying them I am accepting your invitation, as I can make only one ad dress." The Rotary Club named Charles K. Cochran, president of the organization, with F. W. Robinson and W. D. Skin ner, as a special committee to proceed either to Spokane or Seattle to meet Mr. Gerard and escort him here, and it is expected there will be similar com mittees from other organizations in the city, so the delegation will be a large one. The probabilities are that the lunch eon October 1 will be served in the a-sembly-room of the Multnomah Hotel, and if a meeting can be arranged for that night it will be held at the Audi torium, which Mayor Baker has placed at the disposal of Mr. Gerard through the Rotary Club. Mr. Gerard is expected to arrive Sep tember 30. as he has accepted the in vitation of the Arlington Club to be guest of honor at a banquet given that evening. BANKER ' IS CONVICTED Henry O. Shney Unlaw fully Declares Dividend, a Misdemeanor. SEATTLE, Wash.. Sept. II. Henry O. Shuey, a private banker, has been convicted in Superior Court of having declared unlawfully a dividend while president and a director in the Equita ble Building A Loan Investment Com pany. The offense is a misdemeanor. Shuey and W. S. Bell, secretary of the company, were charged Jointly with in ducing the other directors to declare a 3 per cent semi-annual dividend on all stock for the period from January 1 to July 1. 1916. when the corporation had not acquired any net earnings. Bell's case is pending. Medical Unit Goes East. ABERDEEN. Wah.. Sept. II. (Spe cial.) The Tacoma medical unit, of which 55 Grays Harbor boys are mem bers, has left Fort Lawson for some Eastern city to continue training, ac cording to advices received here. The men have had, five weeks of training to data, SDIT BROUGHT TO PUT RATES DOWN Tariffs on Sumpter Valley Road to Be Considered by Commission. TESTIMONY BEING TAKEN Problems Raised Complicated and Difficult in Extreme and Important Interests Are Concerned. Shall freight rates be lowered on the Sumpter Valley Railway Company's line and the differential be lifted and the tributary country thereto, of which the great Whitman National Forest is a part, be "uncorked,' are questions to be settled by the Interstate Commerce Commission, after the taking of testi mony here is completed by C. R. Mar shall, its attorney-examiner. This is an action brought by the United States Government, which put on its case yes terday afternoon, with Blackburn Esterline, special assistant to the Attorney-General, In charge. Resump tion will be had this morning, when H. A Scandrett, of Chicago, and J. L. Rand will defend the suit, which is directed against. the Union Pacific sys tem, as well as the smaller company named. The suit against the Sumpter Valley Railway Company was taken up at the afternoon session, which is being held In the Federal building, the case of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's Asso ciation against the Southern Pacific, Northern Pacific and other roads for discrimination in rates having been completed during the forenoon. It in volves differences between the com panies which they were unable to set tle, hence the Interstate Commission has been asked to decide. In both instances the testimony and exhibits will be sent to Washington for consideration by members of the Com mission. Intervenora In the Sumpter Valley suit were represented by William C. McCollough. He will also put in con siderable testimony this morning he said at the close of yesterday's hear ing. The case will be completed, how ever, this forenoon, it was planned, as other matters are demanding attention at the hands of Mr. Marshall. The purpose of the Government, which it is contended by its counsel and witnesses, would be of immense value not only to it but to the state of Oregon and many individuals as well, is to bring about the removal of the differential of 7 cents per 100 pounds for "green" lumber or lumber materials from Austin to Baker, and 10 cents for other products shipped from the valley. Mr. Esterline put on expert wit nesses, chief of whom was D. F. Seerey, for many years connected with lumber ing operations and at present con nected with the forestry service, to prove that the present rates are pro hibitive and should be amended, so as to put points on the Sumpter Valley line on a parity with the so-called Baker rate, thus permitting competi tion and at the sun time opening up the vast resources of the Whitman Na tional Forest. The taking of testimony for the de fense will begin at 9 o'clock: this morn ing. LIVESTOCK MEN SEEK CHANGES Interstate Commerce Commission Gets Petition for Revisions. WASHINGTON, Sept. II Revision of rates, rules and regulations covering the transportation of livestock from points of production to markets throughout the country is sought in a petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission by the National Livestock Exchange. 'Of Chicago, and associated exchanges representing virtually all livestock shippers and receivers throughout the cauntry. The rules deal mostly with transpor tation of cars containing mixed car loads of livestock. YOUNG USHER ARRESTED SERIOUS CHARGE PREFERRED BY 18-YEAR-OLD GIRL. Deputy District Attorney to Coafcr With. Jadxe Taswell Re garding Caae. Following the arrest of a young usher In a downtown theater on charges pre ferred by a 16-year-old girl. Deputy District Attorney Dempsey yesterday arranged with Juvenile Judge Taswell for a conference to be held at 10 o'clock this morning, when "evidence in the hands of the District Attorney's office, involving several girls in similar cases, will be considered. The young man who was last arrested has admitted his guilt and will be held for further ex amination. The conference will be held in the chambers of Judge Taswell. It will be attended by representatives of the District Attorney's office. Juvenile Court officers and the managers of several amusement houses who have offered to co-operate in any plan that may be de cided upon for guaranteeing unescorted girls protection from young men em ployed in theaters. Mose Schulman. one of the lads under arrest, will be brought before the con ference and. will tell of his part in escapades with which be is accused by a 15-year-old girL FRUIT BOX SHORTAGE BIG J. B. Knapp Appoints C. A. Pratt and E. 1. Rowley Assistants. BEND. Or., Sept. 20. (Special.) J. B. Knapp. who has received orders from Food Director Hoover to mobilize the box Industry, hsr eomnleted his L Deliriously Good! preliminary survey of the industry and finds that there is a shortage this season of approximately 5.000.000 fruit boxes. Mr. Knapp says It la the duty of every consumer of boxes in the fruit producing sections to place his orders as soon as possible, that Intelligent action may be taken to supply the nec essary containers for the fruit. Mr. Knapp haa appointed E. D. Rowley, secretary of the Western Pine Box Manufacturers Association, of Spokane, and C. A. Pratt, of the Pacific Box Company, as assistants. BALLOT TITLE PREPARED Attorney-General Arranges Caption for Antl-Seinlng BiU. SALEM, Or., Sept. 22. (Special.) The following ballot title has been pre pared by Attorney -General Brown to cover the first initiative petition to go before the people for signatures and to come up for vote at the general elec tion in isovember next year: Initiative bill, proposed by Initiative peti tion. Initiated by Charles C. Babcoclc, 1314 Washington street. Oregon City. Or.: Bill protecting; salmon by forbidding" flah- wneel, trap and seine fishing. Purpose To protect salmon by prohibiting fishing for salmon in the waters of the state of Oregon, or in the waters over which the state of Oregon has concurrent jurisdiction. Dy means or seines, traps or ilshwneels. Any person violating the provisions of the act shall be punished by fine of not less than $100, nor more than $1000, or by imprison ment In the County Jail not less than 60 days, nor more than one year, or by both sucn line ana imprisonment. YEGG SUSPECTS ARRESTED Woodburn Marshals Nab Suspicions Men Around Bank. WOODBURN. Or.. Sept. 21. Spe- cial.)- John Burns, of Portland, and Thomas Johnson, of Salem, were ar rested here today by Marshals Kelsey and Olsen on suspicion of being re sponsible for robberies at Aurora. Brooks and other points near here. Their actions around a local bank led to their arrest. A diagram of the bank 8 interior was found on one, and their suitcases, left at the depot, con tained skeleton keys, a revolver, two flashlights, press drill for boring safes, nve drills, xuse and dynamite caps. Hums and Johnson gave their occu pations as cooks. They have been coming to Woodburn at intervals all Summer, and have been closely watched by Marshal Burns. They were taken to Salem tonight. MORRIS BROTHERS SUED Astoria Bank Says It Cannot Get Sight Draft Paid. ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 21. (Special.) The Astoria! Savings Bank, seeking to reccter $3750 and interest on a sight draft, has filed suit in ' the Circuit Wffl 1 North The proper way tomurderr"accordingto-a German nobleman in the diplomatic 6ervice, is to do it "without leaving a trace." This noble character represented William Hj (more or less accurately) at the capital of Argentina, and his message td Berlin telling' them how to do their own speciality, as some think it, was part of'.a dispatch cooHyj advising Germany to submarine steamers of tbe'neutral nations that harbored him as a guest. -"The present disclosure, remarks the Harrisburg- Patriot, "ought to be- the means of lining' up the Argentine with the other South AmericanRepublics against the Germans as further evidence that the Western Hemisphere is united against the things for which Germany stands'.- In THE LITERARY dTgEST for September 22d, there is-a very illuminating article which covers from every angle the recent diplomatic clash involving Germany and Sweden' against Argentina. There are a number of other striking articlescoveringthe,news,of ..the world in this, nnmberof the," Digest." . Some ofthesearej; Kerensky Emerges from Russian Revolution Stronger than Every) Korniloff, by. His Blood and Iron Methods, Might Hare Been Able to Give Russia Law and Order, and Snccess at the Front Kerensky Will Do Both and Abo Preserve the Gains of the Revolution,: Newspapers in the Enemy Tongue Distilleries Interned for the War A Greater Servia to Come Selling Titles in England Counterfeit Daylight The Firefly's Lighting Plant Shakespeare's Macbeth a Parallel to the Present War Japan's "Sincerest Flattery w Our -Tyranny Over the Negro Raiding the. "Rough Necks of the World" An Unusually, Attractive Don't be satisfied with hearing only one side, and that in all probability garbled, of the news of the day. Hear all the evidence, exactly as pre sented by the different parties and schools of thought., without coloring or distortion, and then weigh the facts, as given, and make your decision. This is the only way-in which you can arrive at September Boys Shop, Second Court against Morris Brothers, Inc., the bond buyers. The complaint avers that on August 15 of this year the defendants repre sentative gave the Port of Astoria a draft on the United States National Bank, of Portland, in the sum named. Loiter the Port Commission assigned the draft to the plaintiff for collection, but when the draft was presented the Port land bank declined to honor it- Union County Seeks Honors. LA GRANDE, Or., Sept. 21. (Spe cial.) Union County, winner of honors at the State Fair last year, is out after more glory. Paul Spillman. County Agriculturist, is on his way German and South Form Your Judgment 22d Nuinberon .SaleTo aSf Tfo, The TP FUNK & WAGNALLS .COMPANY (Publishers A New Suit on Saturday! HERE fathers, mothers are stacks of nobby suits for active, eager boys of all ages. Here are suits of tweed, suits of cheviot, suits of novelty weaves all in a wide range of colors. Boys' Norfolk Suits with two pairs of "knicks." Sturdy, cleverly tailored and full-lined, these suits will stay right with the boys through the very hardest sort of service. Your entire satisfaction is guaranteed. $5, $6.50, $8.50, $10, $12.50 $15, $16.50, $18.50, $20 enoenm Morrison at with a fine exhibit for the fair and numerous fancy horse breeders, for which the county is famous, have al ready shipped out. The exhibit will probably be better than that of last season. FIRE SUGGESTIONS MADE Marshal Wells Makes Report of In-vestigati-ns at Astoria. SALEM, Or.. Sept. 21. (Special.) Fire Marshal Wells' report on Astoria recommends enclosing space under neath buildings, fire escapes for build- u letrigue Unite America Germany's New Peace Minister German Trade a Peac.e Condition' When Our Soldiers Speak French An Artist's Work in War Surgery paving Our Supply of Tin When the Movies Injure Health; The Future of Reims How the Red Cross Money. Goes' When Tommy Atkins Prays Personal GKmpses Investment and Finance Collection pf Illustration 6n All the Evidence a fair knowledge of what .is, going on. in thp world' in all lines of endeavon By reading- THE LITERARY DIGEST each weekwhichyou can do easily in a couple, of hours, you can arrive at this fesult and will knbw'e the' facts before you form your conclusions. Think of what this will- mean to 'you jp breadth of vision and clearness of view. - day - r All News-dealers olthp famous NEW Standard Dictionary). NEW YORK 9 Ewrfli ingrs of three stories or more, number ing of buildings, and that all pipes be covered to a depth sufficient to prevent freezing. It also recommends night in spection of hotels and rooming-houses . and carries suggestions covering the non-obstruction of theater exits 4 aisles. Mr. Wells suggests that all openings of the subway be enclosed and that it be barred to those who do not first ob tain a permit from the fire chief. The. . subway is declared an extra hazard. It is further suggested that the fire alarm system's serviceability be inves tigated, as most of the fires are re-i ported by telephone. ; Read The Oregonlan classified ads. in p : ili' t V lO- Ceuts a War
