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THIS JIOILM.VG OKEGOM4X, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1920
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which republicans at this time deem very gallant soul was his, beyond all its return trip. She took the lumber J
most vital, and as to what is politi- I doubt the soul of a hero. and a gen-' back to Jacksonville, Fla., and made
cally expedient. It avoided the ap- tleman. UB toe last uncomplaining j several inps to ana iro wim it. in ner
pearance of bidding for the pro
German vote of Wisconsin or of sen
atorial dictation, and. it spoiled some
fine democratic campaign thunder.
BAD CONSEQCEN'CES OF DELAY.
Delay of the railroad labor board
in deciding on employes' demands
for higher wages is directly responsi
ble for the renewed strike on the At
lantic coast which has begun again
page of the pitiful diary he had i hold. At last reports there was small
, Those Who Come and Go.
scrawled the Christmas message of
Tiny Tim: "God bless us every one!"
He and his fellow police were carry
ing the holiday mail to the Tukon.
There are far too many stories for
the telling, or for the choosing. One
might fashion a chapter of the nar
rative of Chief Pi-a-pot, .Who pitched
the lodges of his Blackfeet braves
in the path of the Canadian Pacific
railroad construction crews, painted
to block traffic after the heroic ac- i hls men for- war ahd defied eviction.
tion of the Interstate Commerce com-
mlssion'had given some relief. The
earliest date at which a decision is
. e.oo I indicated by the board as possible is
in the first week of July. That will
be more than four months after the
law -establishing the board was en
acted. "
Ultimate responsibility rests with
President Wilson. Pending demands
in -various forms have been before
the government or the railroad com
panies for about a year. Mr. Wil-
3.2." I
.60 1
l.ool
6.00 1
local bank, stamps, coin or currency are I son's promise of efforts to force down
owner's risk. Give postof flee address 1 prices by prosecution of profiteers
:ounty and state. I , - t- hrnlhorhnnHa In nnsrnnnA .
Postage Rates. 1 to 16 pares. 1 cent: I , . ... . ,
38 to 3J pages. 2 cents; 84 to 48 pares. 8 threatened siriKe, out. prices nave
rents; 50 to 64 pages, 4 cents; 66 to 801 risen, not fallen. Action was ae
pages, 6 cents; 82 to 6 pages, 6 cents. J iayed Dy tne railroad administration
Foreign poatage. double rates. I mi t, . m .,----, .,.
. till L..1 JiL n 1 n (.iit:.. . ju. w
Eastern Business Office Verree Conk- I ,, , . r-.
Itn. Brunswick building. New York: Verres aicuon w me laoor ooara. mr. w li
st Conkiin, steger building. Chicago; Ver-1 son again delayed action by not ap-
Zi'&S.'"Aai&viUng the board until more than
k. j. Bidweii. 1 a montn alter tne law Decame ei-
fective. He thus provoked the out-
TBE MATTES WITH THE COUNTRY. 1 law strike, which aggravated the con-
The f ollowinir Quotation from the gestion already prevailing. The board
A m Airvo n T.nrnhorma-i ml m ft 11 Ts w1ia.t I has since consumed - much time in
" is the matter with the United States: I hearings and in consideration of flna-
clyster of tepees, voiced the!
of the government "and were
Two mounted men of the force rode
into the
request of
met with scorn. The Blackfeet were
ready for war. Yet - one of these
youthful riders, while the " other
measured with -steady gaze the rage
of Pi-a-pot, dismounted and non
chantly made his way ' through the
encampment, - kicking:" ... down the
lodges. The Blackfeet moved. On
such episodes are the traditions of
the service founded and maintained.
The visit to the rose festival con
stitutes the first instance in which
the Royal Canadian Northwest
Mounted police have crossed the
border to fraternize in an American
gala day. There is more than or
dinarily happy significance in the
spirit with which the Invitation was
tendered and accepted. Portland
salutes them.
prospects of its being unloaded.
1 "I have been in China, India and
I other places, but I'll tell the world
i that Portland has all the rest beaten,"
j declared H. I. Furlong of Oklahoma
v.iLy, at tne imperial yesteraay. . ine
THE TEARS OF EMMA,
ihnvo tfa riin nf nvlM e IfuBAnsInn
in the turmoil that. is Russia, floats hospitality of the people of Portland the details, appears in the New York
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES
Arrest of Professor of Lsngmgn in
Russia Reads Like Romance.
The following account of he arrest
and examination of an instructor In a
foreign language school, declared to
be authentic by persons familiar with
a softer note of sorrow and regret
To America it Is borne by the cables,
as an item in Europe's gossip. . It is
the weeping of Emma Goldman, ex
iled anarchist, lonely for the land
from which she drove herself. We
do not wish her here again, that
Evening Post, having been translated
from the Russian language paper
Aroerikanskaya Izvestia:
Karnauch, an instructor in a school
conducted by the union of Russian
citizens at Waterbury, Conn., was ar
rested during a local strike. When ne
HARDING'S STAND ON NATIONAL POLICIES
1- H,
The trouble with this country Is that ws
ings, while the brotherhoods have
have adopted too much of the old idea of I striven to restrain, their justly im-
"not crosslna- the bridge until we reach it."
This platitude is .-nisleadlng If taken lit
erally because It ie necessary to know
that the bridge Is there, and second, to
know that it will serve the purpose for
which you want it otherwise no one could
plan ahead. We went to war unprepared.
'We signed the armistice unprepared for
pea-re and we have done very little since
then to prepare for readjustment to nor
mal or peace-time conditions, conse
quently we must take the bumps as they
patient members from striking,
These delays tend to discredit the
new railroad law in the eyes of the
public by prolonging and making
worse -the disturbed condition of
business. They weaken the brother
hoods by providing ammunition for
the radicals. They give the latter a
plausible pretext for saying that the
come and some of them will in all prob- I labor adjustment machinery of the
"""" DO " law is ineffective, and that labor
To un preparedness for war we owe must rely on the strike.
the war itself, for It tempted Ger
many to defy us in the hope of de
featlng the allies before we could
prepare. To the same cause we owe
our slowness in beginning to fight
and the excessive cost of the war,
which we still pay and must continue
to pay for many years.
To unpreparedness for peace we
owe the industrial disturbances and
revolutionary agitation which fol
lowed the armistice, also the con
tinued inflation of the currency and
the high taxes which cause the cost
OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
Not even an earthquake can daunt
an American. The "open for bus!
ness" signs already displayed over
the debris of wrecked Tiouses in the
thriving iLos Angeles suburb. Ingle
wood, are symbols of the spirit that
never says die. People even find It in
their hearts to smile with the owners
at the sardonic humor of those pla
cards. "Open for business," after
being cracked wide open by a
of livinir to rise and whirh ohstnipt I temblor, has a double meaning.
increase of nrndnrtlnn. Enterprising Individuals capitalize
Unpreparedness for war seems to their misfortunes while they make
be an incurable national habit, judg- hsht of them- They reap the har-
Ing by the rejection of universal mil- vest of the sightseers' crop, as all
ltarv trainine. with the evidence of California has learned to profit by
its necessity fresh in our minds. But the tourist. But we know now that
unnrenaredness for neace rises from the shekels thus garnered will go to
cannot be surpassed. I have been
attending Shrine conclaves for 15
years and the decorations in Port
land, the spirit of consideration for
the. visitors the prices in the hotels
and restaurants, the courtesy in the
streetcars all place Portland in the
front rank. Then. too. I have been
rampant personality, that bitter lover the wiurauia nignway. 1 tnougnti was broughtlnto the office or tne se
voice, that vehement exhorter of 1 nad 8een most .o...tne. magnificent cret service operatives he noticed all
revolt. Yet Emma In Russia is not . "7k;'';X.. ir.m.. his books and papers lying: on the
the Emma that we knew, those times 4hing - not to be forgotten. The table; - they had been taken in his
she waved the flaming tinder of dis- Shrlners who have been to Portland absence from his rooms by detectives
content. A saddened, chastened, sor- will give Portland more advertising who bad forced the door. ' The chief
rowfur woman is this one-time leader in the next few morflhs than the city offered him a cigar as a sign of sym-
of the "reds." ruing the day she saw could normally receive In five years. pathy. and explained that he had
American shores fade, beyond the cau every . bs
i, r w w nt I a booster for your city of roses.'
"Bruce Dennis is my opponent for
state senator," admitted Walter M.
Pierce, who is at the Imperial. "Bruce,
I understand, won, the republican
nomination by three or four votes.
He will make a dandy campaign, for
there is no better platform man in
wish her here again, but the distant
spectacle of her misery is none the
' less pathetic,
They say that in Petrograd,. where
pten have the freedom of the com
mune and none have . three meals
to the day. Miss Goldman has draped
an American flag in her hotel bedchamber-
When she lies down at
night its folds are there in the dark:
A DARKER PAGE THAN FOE.
Ungoverned hatred is nothing less
than. lunacy. It whirls upon reason
with Irrational ferocity, and a wild
menagerie of maddened Impulses
snap and snarl . in the distraught
mind of the hater. . But seldom is It
manifest in such pitiable, appalling
degree as that evidenced in the litiga
tion of an Oregon divorced couple
over the body of their sailor son, who
died while serving the colors. Those
who possess a penchant for the mor
bid, for a. tone darker than Poe, will
find it in this most singular 6uit. But
normal persons cannot fail to regard
the legal incident as one of nauseat
ing necrophobism, and their reaction
will be the shudder of horror.
Courts were not intended for dis
putes of such character, whatever
the letter of the law may be. That
which is repugnant to good sense and
decency, and which does not consti
tute material issue, should find no
welcome before the bench of jus
tice. Courts are not charnel-houses
where embittered and estranged pa
rents, forgetting the common sorrow
of their bereavement, should be per
mitted to haggle over the disposition
of the broken fabric that once con
tained a soul. There is no test of
parental love in such a quarrel, no
tears worthy of the dead sailor-boy.
The situation is monstrous and unbe
lievable and calls for mediators
whose kindly counsel will be hark
ened to, rather than for a legal
skirmish in court.
her greeting. The colors she heaped
with contumely have grown- strangely
dear to her. Emma, the untamed
tartar tigress of the radicals, has
tested the soviet and found it want-
nothing against him, but was only
carrying out orders given by his su
periors. , V
Karnauch' does not smoke, but be
ing more or less agitated at the time
he would have smpked a rope, bun
denly the chief grabbed abetter from
the. table and. turning -to Karnauch,
the state than Bruce, so the people j asked him: "Did you ever live under
the alias of 'Hon cher amlT
"Hon cher ami," repeated Karnauch.
"No. never."
. "Well, what does this mean?" asked
the detective, pointing to the letter.
' "It means,", answered Karnauch
can expect a lively election in our
district." Senator Pierce leaves to
night for San Francisco with- a
ness, and when she - rises it gives crowd of democrats to attend the na
tional convention. He has been
promised the appointment of alter
nate and this will give him access
to the convention. Although a lead-I -my .dear friend' In French.'
lng democrat in the state, senator i - -That is a lie.'
.fierce carefully retrained yesteraay i T ii .nth
mnonoKA t - ..j,AnAlthl An., A kA. Ih np.BM.ntial nflmlnatlnll anH WSLS
personal views of human liberty. For " mum a a clam on platform planks, Karnauch has sometimes made lists
wild me cxcflDuun mai no noni lcu i ui lauiuua-iuou v. v
the national platform will not have chief picked up one of these, lists.
a wet plank, any more than it win "Tell me. when and where did you
have one on slavery, -both issues nav- I tt,,m ,, -pf,. -
tends.
the negligence of President Wilson
and of the congress which he con
ironed more absolutely than any
president ever controlled any con
the construction of new and better
buildings. Not a soul has a thought
of giving up the struggle.
We neither run from the cata-
ress. By obstructing restoration of flysms of nature in this country nor
peace and of peace conditions and
vetoing bills which would have
helped to restore normal conditions,
he has continued the evils due to
his neglect after the republican con
gress applied itself to his task.
Relief can come only through the
policy offered - by the republican
" party. Payment of the floating debt
and deflation of the currency will
He still and let them vanquish us
Floods are a stimulus to the build
ing of dams, fires mean better fire
departments and quakes lead to
shock-resistant structures.' Where
the opportunity has been demon
strated to exist the man of enter
prise stays by It. It is a trait that
atones for a lot of vagaries. It Is
one of the reasons why Americans
go far to relieve us of the 50-cent have been ab,e to bui,d UP the sreat-
dollars whirh are the ran. nf lilo-h eBt country in tne worm.
prices and wasteful living. Simple
tax laws, which promptly and cer- OCR GUESTS. THB MOUNTED FOt-IClS.
tainly fix the amount due, will cut In the frontier days of the Canad-
mucn or tne padding out of profits, I ian northwest, when the vast, un
thereby reducing prices, and will lib- formed provinces were holding the
erate surplus income for investment beacons of adventure, profit and
In Increased production. A budget sanctuary to wastrels, rogues and ruf-
system wm promote economy in gov- nans from all points of the compass.
ernment expenses and help to reduce when the Blackfoot warriors were
taxes. Government initiative in vol-1 truculent and their lances tufted
untary arbitration or mediation of with fresh scalos. the Canadian srov-
labor disputes will remove one cause I ernment confronted the stern neces
of industrial disturbance, and strict, sity of carrying justice to regions
the scorned . "capitalism" of the land
she left, perforce, she has this mod
ified opinion: "Any form of gov.
ernment is bad enough, but between
this (bolshevism) and individual cap
italism, the choice lies with, the lat
ter. At least, the individual has a I
chance to express his individuality."
"Where I used to have 3000 or 4000
bushels of peaches, I won't have more
than a couple of bushels this year,
Enforced exile in the barren province atinoUnced I. L. Patterson, state seni
or iantastic tneory, in Jtussia, wnere tor for Polk county, who was in the
the "red" nightmare .came. true, tore 1 city yesterday. "The cold spell of the
the bandages from this woman's I winter Just ruined the peach crop on
eyes. i my place, out aia not auect tna cner-
"Pythagoras?" . ; ' m
"Yes, Pythagoras."
. "You mean, when did I get ac
quainted with him?"
"Yes, when and where?"
"I got acquainted with Pythagoras
In the Central library' lit. New York
about four years ago."
"Dd you know where he Mei l
Communism has not appealed to fies orJappIls: Iy Peacn.trfes are -"V present?"
Miss Goldman and her fellow exiles. ale Lachmund drove i.ie over his
They went to Russia with receptive country a few days ago and the peach I
minds,., thinking to find there the trees looked as though they had been
brilliant burgeoning of iconoclastic swept by fire."
reform. They found what saner Senator Patterson says that he came
members of society had told them to Portland during Shrine week for a
they would discover-famine and the y" morning? for the fir tfm. in
rule or ruin. Emma and her com- vr ho int until 9 n'cioek. where-
rade deportees have vowed a new as his usual hour for starting the day
crusade In Russia, so the dispatches is something before 6 A. M.
assert a vigorous strife against the ' ' . . ..
existing soviet regime. They anticl- , ?" lkto mo,aOU,t bnd,l-
JL . . .if ' sighed M. A. Mayer of Mosier at the
pate prison terms when they have Benson. "I am constitutionally op
spoken to the peasantry. Quite prob- nosed to ettine- un too earlv in the
ably they anticipate death at the morning and this week it has been you get acquainted with him?"
'That is- but what do you mean at
present?"
To you want to answer or not?"
"But let us see "
.TV. . I 1 1. ! .T t' n TIA
"But please : "
"Never mind "please." " "Harboring
crooks." wrote the detective In his
notebook.) "And where did you mee
this Archimedes?"
"Archimedes? I knew about him in
Russia; who does not know of Ar
chimedes? I think every youngster '
"All right, all right- Where di
HE following speech was fle-
vered by Senator Warren G.
vtsarriinsr of Ohio before tne
Home Market club of Boston on May
14, a month before his nomination
for president:
I have been introduced as irom
Ohio, but I am a little reluctant to
say much about Ohio's virtues here,
because, if I lived In" Massachusetts.!
would be for Governor Calvin
Coolidge for president. You know 1
do not take any stock in the main
tenance of sectional lines in Ameri
can politics. A republican from any
state in the union Is good enougn to
be president of the United States.
I am a believer In government
through political parties, and I do
not know but that on tnat accouut..
inasmuch as woman suffrage is idoui
to be effective. 1 ought to address the
ladies who honor us with their
presence. I never speak of suffrage
lay and promot'ng thrift. Sober capi
tal must make appeal to Intoxicated
wealth, and thoughtful labor must -appeal
to the radical who has no
thought of the morrow, to effect the
needed understanding. We ought to
dwell In the heights of good fortune
lor a generation to come, and I pray
that we will, but we need a benedic
tion of wholesome common sense to
give us that assurance.
If I could offer a prayer tonight
for this republic of ours, I would ask
God Almighty to make us a simple
living people. We are living now like
drunken sailors without a thought of
America, and without-any considera
tion of our problem.
I wish we had the gospel of thrift
preached. 1 pray for sober thinking
in behalf of the future of . America.
No worth-while republic ever went the
I tragic way to destruction which did
not begin the downward course
through luxury of life and extrava
gance of living. More, the r.imple
minded and thrifty people will be the
ioouo, - urst to recover from war'n waste
Rut wAmen are eroinsT to vote,
w.nt n bs v ta these ladies tnat i ao
not want ever to be disappointed that
I voted for suffrage. Politics is the
science of government, and American
politics ought to be just as ciean
are the activities .of church and
school, and if it Is not, you women
must come In and help us to man.
it clean. Come into tne poiuiou
n.rtia and a-at the viewpoint of and
. 111 lit..
association with men. iou wm
It host In
promise you that.' But come Into the
parties and play the part, because it
was the foundation oi tne ii"s
that ours should be a government
through political parties.
Dictation on the League.
You have listened to the full ex
pose by Senator Lenroot on the league
of nations. There would not be any
trouble about the league or nations
if it were not for the personal dela
tion of the president "my will -or
none." I think the sentiment of
America Is largely in favor of a con
siderable co-operation ana prinm
tlon on the part of the United States
in a new international reiationsnip
which shall tend to promote and pre
serve the peace of the world. I would
not have America noia aiooi. nut iui
is quite another thing from the presi
dent's idea of a super-government of
the ' world. I do not believe a nis
torian ought to be a maker of history.
H gets a perverted viewpoint.
In the American constitution was
made the first provision in the world
for the upper house, which was to
stand between the executive and the
representative body in the making
of foreign relations, and that pro
vl.lnn saved the United States of
America, because the president, in his
pursuit of the dream of an
; and all its burdens. Take home this
prediction with you. that Germany,
because of the simple living and thrift
of her people, and despite her heavier
burdens becauc- of war Indemnities,
will probably be the first to make the
recovery.
American Industry Mast Excel.
I believe most cordially In the home
market for the American nrnni-t
witn men. iou iu Ti,. , " r
the republican party. I -mere is no other way to assure our
r"perny. x rejoice In our normal
capacity to consume, our rational,
healthful consumption. I . delight to
think of America as the largest pro
ducer in the world, but ! have a
higher ambition than that, I want
American shops and farms to produce
the best in the world.
If one went out today on the stump
to talk the gospel of protection for
American industries he would have a
scant hearing. Yet" before the year
is past there will be a call for the
good old American protection like
tnat or 1896. There is not any way
in the world for war-worn and bank
rupt nations to restore themselves
except by going to work in produc
tion, and they ought to do it instead
of trying to borrow money from Uncle
Sam. When the world - restores nor
mal production it is going to seek
the American market, and you will
have a new order to face then.
Railroad Law Is Progressive.
I do not favor the putting of the
blighting hand of government owner
ship on any enterprise in this repub
lic. When we handed the. railways
back, the United States senate took
the most forward and progressive
ideal, I step in legislation ever recorded, first
M
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mandate of the -soviet. What strange
patterns fate weaves on the shuttle
of human affairs. Revolt within re
volt as the naked souls of the rest
less strive for the dream of Utopia.
Impossible for me to get my beauty
sleep because of the succession of
concerts which are staged in front of
the hotel. I hadn't the slightest in
tention of seeing the Shrine parade
Tuesday morning, for example, but the
Impartial enforcement of the law
against revolutionists will remove the
main cause.
These measures are not spectacu
lar, but they are in the line of real
progress. They are promised by
the republicans, and experience has was organized.
where the individual was a law unto
himself, and where bad whisky and
worse men were the unfailing sources
of crime and disorder. In response
to this need, in May, 1873, the Canad
ian Royal Northwest Mounted Police
proved that they cannot be expected
from the democrats.
Portland is hostess today, in floral
attire and festival spirit, to a picked
company of these "lean riders of the
plains," emissaries to Oregon who
bear the pledge of the dominion's
firm friendship toward Its ' cousins
across the border. When these trim
THE CONVENTION THAT RAN ITSELF.
The cry of boss and machine dic
tation has become so habitual with
democrats when discussing republi
can nominations that it is incurable and jaunty constables of a most ex-
and would be raised In face of a ceptional police unit passed in re
mountain of contrary facts. It has Tiew ln the rose pageant, those who
been raised against Senator Hardin, save them the tribute of cheers were
but has been met by the facts that rendering a just due to the spirit and
the switch to Harding was started dash anl .courage of men who made
by Iowden's release of his delegates an empire safe for settlement, and
from any obligation to him, that who insure law and order on the dis-
eome of the so-called bosses held tant ranches of the Athabasca, on
out for others of their own choice the shrfis of Lesser Silver lake, and
after' Indisputably unbossed states over an area as great as continental
had turned to the Ohioan and that Europe. Bravos and bad-men and
others were unable to deliver their 8urly savages have long since learned
state delegations on the ninth bal- tnat tne unostentatious vigilance and
lot. When confronted with these de&-ed determination of the mounted
facts, talkers of bossisra discover a
senatorial cabal controlling the con
vention. There they run upon another snag.
Republican senators and the national
committee wanted Senator Lenroot
as Harding's running mate, and Sen
ator McCormlck named him. But
the Oregon delegation had instinctive
aversion for a Wisconsin man or a
man without a clean war record, and
resolved on the initiative In favor of
a man whose character and record
were above question. It picked Gov
ernor Coolidge. After relating the
presentation of Lenroot, C. W. Bar
ron in'the Boston News Bureau tells
what happened in these words:
But a smaller, clearer voice from Ore
gon, way down In the corner of the hall,
spoke a few masterly words for Coolidge
ana tne nan rang wnn spontaneous ap-,
plaue for the governor of Massachusetts.
Kepresentatlves of twelve states jumped
to tneir leet to .second tne nomination..
State after state cast its votes for
Coolidge and in a few minutes he
was nominated. Lenroot did not
. even '"have a look in." Mr. Barron
calls this the one spontaneous act
of the convention, thus distinguish
ing it from the nomination of Hard
lng, which was a compromise made
necefisary by a deadlock.
This was a most unorthodox way
lor a bossed convention to act. Ac
cording to the Hoyle of democratic
politicians, it should have meekly
accepted the selection of the bosses
or of the senatorial' cabal. Instead
It smashed the alleged slate of the
men who, the democrats assert, were
running it, picked Its own. man and
ran Itself.
There is no doubt that the con
vention was guided by a true in
: stinct as to who is a representative
. republican, who etands for the things
police bring . every criminal, in his
time, to the swift justice of the Ca
nadian courts. The streets of New
York and London are no more safe
than the trader's lonely camp in the
distant north.
The Canadian Royal Northwest
Mounted police was a project dear to
the heart of the late Sir John A.
Macdonald, who was premier at the
time of its authorization. It com
prised 300 men at the outset and,
despite the vast territory patroled by
its members, has at no time greatly
exceeded an enlistment of 1000. The
erroneous belief was once current
that the force was almost entirely
composed of "remittance men" and
"younger sons," in family exile from
the motherland. While the service
of the mounted police doubtless did
attract many of these. It is equally
true that its impartial appeal waB to
men whose blood mounted a. notch
higher under the stimulus of ad
venture, and who by nature dearly
loved a hazard In which life might
be staked. Strict choice was exer
cised In the acceptance of recruits.
but the essential nature of the service
itself was a surety that the men who
sought it would bej picked men
youthful and hardy and game.
The annals of the mounted police
are replete with simple, unaffected
heroism in the performance of duty.
Inspector Fitzgerald, who died on a
Christmas of long ago, his body
racked and winnowed by starvation,
somewhere on the continental ridge
between the Mackenzie and Yukon
rivers, traced a daily diary with a
burnt twig on birchbark. The search
ers found him and his quiet com
rades, in frosen and eternal sleep
beside the ashes of their campftre,
with its kettle of mposemda stew. A
WHAT HARDING STANDS FOR.
If any doubt existed that Senator
Harding Is a man of conviction, of
ideas, a man with capacity for
forcible and original expression, it
should be removed - by reading the
speech which is published in another
column. The strongest impression
that he leaves is one of refreshment
at the plain truths which he tells
after the Wilsonlan excursions in
service to mankind, to which may
reasonably be traced a large part of
the disasters from which mankind
now suffers.
We have been led to believe that
no man is qualified for president of
the United States unless he be able
to - form felicitous phrases which
stir the emotions, or express lofty
ideals that embrace all nations and
enlist the American people in their
service. Mr.' Harding believes that
"a republican from any state in the
union is good enough to be presi
dent." -
It is assumed by Mr. Wilson that
any party except Mr. Wilson's party
is a thing of evil and that all others
should practice that peculiar species
of non-partisanship which consists in
supporting whatever Mr. Wilson
does. But Mr. Harding frankly
avows that he is "a believer in gov
ernment through political parties"
not one party surrounded by a host
of non-partisans who blindly stand
by the president, but parties.
In. opposition to the "personal
dictation of the president "my will
or none" " he sets the constitution,
especially that provision which di
vides responsibility for foreign rela
tions between president and senate.
As an alternative to watchful
waiting for Mexico to cease murder
and robbery of Americans as inci
dents to working - its problems of
government, he proposes this notice
to Mexico:
All we want with you is an understand
lng about the protection of American lives
and property in your republic, and then,
by the eternal, you keep that understand
ing.
As a substitute for all the crazy
remedies offered for high prices and
profiteering, he presents the simple
truth that '"no people ever recovered
from the distressing waste of war ex
cept through work and denial," that
we must "steady down, get squarely
on our feet, make sure of the right
path." -
He believes in "the home market
first for. the American product'
that the return of the railroads to
private operation was "the most
forward and progressive step in
legislation ever recorded"; that we
need "a preachment on the real val
ue of the American constitution" and
must teach the immigrant "the
ideals of American citizenship"; that
we "have come nearer to establish
lng dependable popular government
than any people In the world," and
that we should "cling to the things
that made us what we are."
Some will call this reaction, but it
is by these principles that the re
public has grown from a struggling
nation of 3,000,000 to a great, pros
perous nation of 110,000,000 and has
become the envy of all other nations.
How better could we make progress
than by continuing to travel the road
we have traveled rather than by try
ing the theories of those whose envy
we have aroused?
And all the while, nearer and nearer, parade passed my window and after
tnrougn tne forward march of the about 20 bands had gone Dy. eacn
established social order, the lanrt f playing for all It was worth, I re-
heart's desire approaches.
Pitiful Emma Goldman, standing
in the debris of her dreams, militant
against the ideals she once glorified,
saying "to the interviewer: "I'm go
ing back there some day, for I love
America as I love no other land."
gretfully dragged myself from bed
and went to the window and saw the
show. It was a great sight, but I
never would have seen It if the bands
hadn't been so abundant."
"It is a fact that stockmen haven't
made the cost of production for the
past three years," announced O. B.
Robertson of Condon at the Imperial
yesterday. This statement was agreed
to by W. M. Pierce of Pendleton and
I. L.. Patterson of Eola. Mr. Patter
son says that he. used to sell hogs for
mucn
Declining purchasing power of the
dollar , and Its temptations to reck
lessness of expenditure ought to sug
gest to the thrlftv-minrieri a Hmthu
incentive in so-i-lnc . i.. i ..... I 22 cents, but he has to pay as mucl
.-h-vi. h... ' . ,.J. for pork now, when he is receiving 15
, .. . conditions will cents a pound. a8 he dld when he was
continue indefinitely and there is receiving 22 cents. Walter Lvnn. rep-
certain to come a time, in the or- resentative-elect from Multnomah,
derly progress of events, when the contributed to the debate by asserting
dollar now laid by will buy consid- that it may be true that the growers
erably more than it does at present are not Belting as much as formerly.
The significance of this will be ap- but that he" P"ona.Uy. has to pay
.. more fnr m.al nnw than ever hefore.
it means tnat self-denial while 1 For seven years Dr. Harper Wright
prices are inordinately high will be of Grandfield, Okla., has been a
rewarded perhaps two-fold in possi-1 brother in law of Representative P.
bilities of indulgence in three or four J- Gallagher of Ontario, but had never
years surely an argument that
ought to appeal to the self-interest
i met his law-making relative by mar
riage until yesterday, when the two
, i , j i i. inww.. . .. T : l
of all who measure their dollars by Dr. Wright is in Portland as a Shriner
that which they will procure rather and is lavish ln his eulogies of Port-
than by the unsatisfactory standard land and the state in general. . "I'm so
of the number of cents that they 1 interested in thle section that I have
contain. - . I Ken a year s suDscription to ine
Oregonian," says the doctor, "in order
X, , . . I lu .cop ta luuvu wain cunuiliunft nere.
Judge Rossman yesterday gave The main idea , that t hope some
dip a year in jail and he miarht I time m enmn in Pnrtianii t aM
have added another for the '"raw" --
work. Portland is not . honored hv Mayor Gill ef Vancouver, B. C, is
the presence of anything less than registered at the Multnomah. The
i nrtist 1 mayor was Invited to see the excite
ment here this week by B. V. Mauser
-TAAl.An XT . 1 1 1 1.1 lilt! III , 1LH11UI1 wa H U I- ' ( ! I -1 1 . iow
Rochester, N. Y., has passed Port-I v. nni .. .,,)... .......
land In population. We congratulate missed the fun for any stated amount.
tne people or Rochester and ten And. surprisingly enough, while here.
years from now will expect them to I th mayor discovered that a very
congratulate us.
The. Red Coats are the "raneer
service" of the north, more showy but
none tne less effective. Their abiding
principle is the same--never give up
your gun.
Early estimates that there were
8400 bands in Portland durinir the
Shrine convention will have to be
revised. Still short by a ciDher.
large percentage of his fellow towns
men of Vancouver are here on a mis
sion similar to his own.
MEN THINK THEY RUN THINGS
Rut It's the Mothers Who Rule the
World, Says Writer.
MEDFORD, Or., June 23. (To the
Editor.) Poor Mr. G. M. I'd hate to
be such a grouch, when I lived in
such a delightful state. Who among
"T was 14 years old, and it was in
Odessa, but Archimedes himself "
: "Very well, and what can you say
about this here Oedipus?"
"Oedipus? You mean the one who
killed his - father and married his
own mother".
"Is that it? These crooks who come
here to boss us around!' They ought
to be shot like dogs!"
"But. please, what are you talking
about?"
"Shut up, you scoundrel!"
-"Oh. allow me "
"Allow you nothing!"
"But they all died long ago."
"What! All your comrades died long
ago? That's Interesting. They all
lived together and died of influenza,
I suppose?"
"No, they died long ago."
"Don't lie to me. traitor. Where is
Pythagoras?"
"In Syracuse."
"Archimedes?" ,.
"In Alexandria."
"Anax Inlander?"
"In Troy."
"Anaxagoras?"
"I don't .remember." -"Liar,
you know better than that."
"I think somewhere in southern
Greece."
"Never mind that Greece stuff! You
must say New York. New Jersey, o.r
wherever they are now." .
. "In New York," answered the scared
Karnauch.
"On what street?"
"On One Hundred and Tenth street."
"You should have said so before.
What number?"
"One Hundred and Twenty-three."
"Demosthenes?"
"Delancey street 31S, in the base
ment."
"Diogenes?"
"On the Bowery he had no home.
"A tramp, was he?"
"He liked to live ln a barrel."
At this stage Karnauch was over
come by the cigar and grew sick.
He was taken out for a rest. An hour
later he was told to leave town im
mediately or he would be arrested and
sent to jail. . Karnauch obeyed and
came to New York.
Once upon a time it was the sa
way in Russia. During the raids
made upon 'the students of Kiev, in
1903, a Latin textbook was discovered
by the police. It was entitled "The
Plot of Catiline'" and gave Cicero's
After all, it rains at the rieht time I asks. Why, man, there are hundreds,
in Portland and not otherwise for nay millions, who are and they all
what is a floral parade without a K by the 8ame name" "Mohter."
shower! witnout a who lnstalls tne thoughts, charac-
ier ana Drain &nu ouav ui Lite unourn
Bryan says he won't be the candi-l Who teaches him the foundation for
date for a third party. No, he's too his greatness? Mother.
busy being the party of the first I Who. despite every obstacle, have
part. I brought the world to the present
stage? Mothers.
. . . A II. . I . 1 V.
M xxri, ... I Ull you ever sec lauui , icii wiih
r. Wilson's party pins its hone hih
of salvation on Tennessee, but that is Did you 'ever see one left with a
us wimmin are equal to Lincoln,
Washington, Addison and Marconi? he sreat speech, charging the senator
with plotting the overthrow of the
not salvation it's salvage.
Police orders against "bathing
girl' were not needed. - The tem
perature attended to that.
father who did as well
It took a woman to start every
reform for betterment that the world
has ever known, and not only that.
she was o suck about It that she
brought up a lot of fool men to think
state. The Russian police decided
that this was an extremely dangerous
book and an order was issued "to
arrest Catiline at once.'
A London wine house has received
a considerable stock oi wine irom
Belgium under what are described
as extraordinary circumstances. In
the first two years of the war, the
chronicler says, the Germans did not
requisition much of the Belgian wine
except at certain points. But they
made inventory of all there was In
sight or of which they learned and
as time wore on they grabbed it. One
Two examples will show the ex
tent of the delay in shipments caused
by freight congestion on the rail
roads and strikes in New York
harbor. A carload of southern pine
lumber started north with no robins
in sight, but on the journey a pair
made their nest, hatched and fledged
their young, leaving only the shells
as evidence of their presence. A
Clyde line steamer took 250,000 feet
of southern pine to New York, but
the freight handlers strike prevented
its discharge Detore the passenger
schedule required th -vessel to start
Mr.' Schuyleman has taken his
troubles to San Francisco
they will be rubbed in.
they did it. Mr. G. M., did you know family near Liege had a large quan
the hand that rocks the cradle is
where the hand that rules the world"?
MKS. JLiUUX Jrl. i-KJA..
By tomorrow the fez will rise be
fore us in a dream, but a mighty
pleasant one.
Casnra Bark. Taken.'
CLATSKANIE. Or.. June 23. (To
the Editor.) Can a land owner prose
cute any one causrnt stealing cnitiam
bark from his land it he nas not naa light to an ice tactory.
tity of fine vintage Burgundy and the
owner decided to take a desperate
chance. It sometimes is wise to do
openly what would be perilous to" do
secretly, so he cased up his wine,
loaded it on trucks and carted
through the streets in broad day
He expected
The first candidate for the hang- notices put up to that effect, and it every moment he would be halted an
man restored made Mis entry near n how does he proceed?
Hood River. I 1 Can a dealer who buys such stolen
chittam bark be prosecuted mo name
There must be n Qt . . as a second-hand dealer wno ouys
.. - i .., ....-? .top: bowers.
of bands in other parts of this coun
try.
If the Shriners enjoyed it as much
as Portland did. it's unanimous.
Cleaning house after company, but
It's worth the labor.
In a Thousand cities there will be
but one Portland.
Summed up, everything worked out
right.
Tonight's repeat is for homefolk.
The person who gathers chittam
bark without permission of the owner.
is possibly technically guilty of theft
called to military headquarters, bu
he was - ot. He got his treasure to
the ice house and hid it away so well
that it remained undiscovered until
after the close of the war. Then,
when he was impoverished otherwise,
he dug it up, sold It a glorious
and trespass; but the practice is so j price and now Londoners are smack-
general and so rarely encounters ob
jection from wlldSland owners that
criminal prosecution likely would not
be successful. Recovery of the value
of the bark and .of the damage to
trees, if any, might be had civilly.
The same general rule would apply
to the dealer who buys chittam
gathered without the owner's permis
sion. If you want to proceed in the
j matter consult a lawyer.
lng their lips and blessing him for his
cleverness,
"Pa. what's meant by a sign of the
times?" '
""Just at present, my son. a sign
of the times is a horny handed son
of toil, wearing a Bilk ehirt, a JjOO
suit, $18 shoes and a big diamond on
his finger, traveling about the coun
try for his health." Birmingham
Age-Herald.
when he was thinking more or air.
Wilson's page in history than of the
good of the United States, proposed
to merge us in a super-government.
Then he came back and told the
senate that if ' it did not accept, it
would break the heart or tne worm.
I'm a terribly sympathetic man my
self, but I would rather break the
heart of the world than destroy the
soul of the United States of Ameri
ca. You owe it to the dominant group
in the senate that you have American
independence tonight. When the
Shantung provision came to the senate
T voted to send It back and correct
It. When the provision came to give
Great Britain six votes to one for the
United States, I voted to send that
hfW and correct it. I did this, not
because I am an irreconcilable, but
because the league of nations will
never amount to the paper it is
written on until It is correct. I have
no antipathies to Great Britain; let
her have her six votes, but give
something to the United States.
Protect Americans Abroasl.
I do not want to discuss foreign
relations.. If we . are insistent on
spending our time on foreign rela
tions, w can rind- someming to en
gage our attention right here at home.
There Is Mexico, ior example.
hink anH believe that maybe right
eousness is asserting itself in Mexico,
but whether it does or not. 1 wouia
rather light the torch of American
ighteousness to point tne way m
that unfortunate people, man risK
contamination for this republic in the
affairs of the old world. 1 think we
ought to have an understanding wun
Mexico. I don't want to live In a
renublic that does not protect lis
citizenship. I should think an American
president could go to mexico aim
say: IjOOK nere. neignuur. i
neighbors. Do you want American
capital, American genius. American
management. American industry, to
help you to develop your boundless
ndustries? We are neignDors ana
friends. All we want with you n an
understanding about the protection of
American lives and property in your
republic, and then, by the eternal, you
keep that understanding!" There
would not be any war. but it would
need more watchfulness and less
waiting.
Maximum Production the Cue.
Nothing is more vital to this repub
lic today than clear and intelligent
understanding. Men must understand
one another, and government and men
must understand each other. There
can be no dlguising truth. Speak it
plainly. No people ever recovered
from the distressing waste or war ex
cept through work and denial. There
is no other way. We shall make no
recovery ln seeking how little men
can do: our restoration lies in doing
the most which is reasonably possible
for individuals to do. Under-produc
tion and hateful profiteering are both
morally criminal, and must be com
bated. America cannot be content
with minimums of production today.
The crying need is maximums. If we
may have maximums of production
we shall have minimums of cost, and
profiteering will be speeded to Its de
served punishment. Humanity needs
renewed consecrations to what we
call fellow citizenship.
One of the Inevitable inheritances
of the war is high wages. I think
they are going to abide, and shall re
joice that they do, but only on the
condition that the American wage
earner gives -high efficiency for the
high wages paid. Out of the supreme
tragedy must come a new order and
a higher order, and I gladly acclaim
It. But war has not abtjlished work.
has not established the processes of
seizure or the rule of physical might, j
There Is no new appraisal for the su- 1
premacy of law. That is a thing sur
passing and eternal.
Get Back Into Our Normal Stride.
My best judgment of America's
needs is to steady down, to get
squarely on our feet, to make sure of
the right path. Let's get out of the
fevered delirium of war, with the
liallucination that all the money in
.I. e world is to be made in the mad
ness of war and the wildness of its
aftermath. Let us stop to consider
that tranquillity at home is more
precious than peace abroad, and that
both our good fortune and our emi
nence are dependent on the normal
forward stride of all the American
people. Nothing is so imperative to
day as efficient production and effi
cient transportation, to adjust the
balances in our own transactions and
to bold our high place In the activi
ties of the world. It is utter fotly to
talk about reduced cost of living
without restored and , increased effi
ciency of production on the one hand
and more prudent consumption on the
other.
There must be the conse'ence of
capital In curbing profiteering; there
must be the conscience of labor In
efficiently producing; there must be
a public conscience in restricting out-
by putting a limitation on capital
issue, so that there could no longer
be exploitation in financing putting
a limitation on the amounts capital
could earn, and then a limitation on
the sums the railroads could charge
for services. Then, though It is not a
law, the senate had the courage to
establish a government agency for
fixing wages, because wages are the
chief cost of operation. It did not
prevent collective bargaining; it
facilitated it. I would rather con
tribute to the industrial peace of the
United States of America than be
sponsor for international peace
throughout the world.
Preach the American Uoapel.
We need in America at this Instant
a preachment on the real value of the
American constitution. We talk about
Americanism and the menace to this
republic from the foreigner. No, my
countrymen, not that. Let us not
blame the foreigner. Let us look-at
ourselves in the glass and see where
we have been remiss. You captains
of industry have your responsibility,
because in the eagerness . for man
power you have - called the eons . of
the old world into American activities,
and have thought of them only as a
part of the great American machine
of industry, without due concern for
their relation to citizenship, and you
do not extend the hand of fellowship,
and do not take them into your fra
ternity. You have left them to the
agitator and disturber, to the anar
chist and radical socialist. Don't
you think that' in this republic, with
all Its inheritance, we ought to teach
the ideals of American citizenship?
All you need to do to combat radi
cal tendencies Is to preach t'.ie gos
pel of the American constitution and
teach what comes through American
citizenship.
I like to think that we in th United
Htates of America have come nearer
to establishing dependable popular
government than any people in the
world. Let us cling to the things
which made us what we are. We are
eminent in the world, and self-respecting
as no other people are. Yet
America has just begun. It is only
m'ornlng ln our national life. I be
lieve there is a destiny for this re
public; that we are called to the In- I .. -
herltance, and are going on to its ful- '
fillment. Let uw have our faces to S.
the front. Let us cling fast to the '
inheritance.which is ours, never fear-
wl.
ing the enemy from without, but
watching the enemies from within
and move on to the fulfillment of a
splendid destiny.
In Other Days.
I
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Orego-nlsn of June 25, 1805.
Bids were opened yesterday on
Portland's $200,000 of bridge bonds
and they were old to Cushman.
Fisher & Co.. Boston, at a premium of
$31,300.
Portland Christian -Endeavorers
held a big mass meeting last night,
at which plans were laid to land the
international Endeavor sessions for
next year.
The list of teachers for next year
was selected at a meeting of the
school board last night, and I. W.
Pratt Is retained as superintendent.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of June 25. 1870.
New York. James Boyd, one of the
largest operators, has notified the
president of the stock exchange that
he cannot meet his obligations,
amounting to about $1,000,000.
Fire which started in a small ten
ement house on Yamhill street yes
terday' destroyed four houses, entail
ing a loss of perhaps $3000.
At a meeting of those interested
in the Oregon Central railroad there
was discussion of the provision that
people of the state put the first 25
miles In shape for track-laying at
a cost of about $50,000.
The Willamette Baptist association
commenced its 22d annual meeting
In the First Baptist church yesterday.
Statue "Moved"' in Might.
American Legion Weekly.
The destroyer Sharkey, which ar
rived in New York harbor some days
ago. dropped anchor rear the statue
of Liberty on the starboard side, but
diirine- the night the tide shifted it
about to the port side.
This transformation was most per
plexing to a rookie gob, who finally
confided his problem to a C. P. O.
"Well, you see, it's like this," the
old-timer informed him. "New York
and Brooklyn both claim the statue,
so to stop the argument the govern
ment lets New York have it one day
and then moves it over to tne Brook
lyn side the next."
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