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rORTXAXn. 81XDAV, MAY . 1908.
MR. GARKIEIJJ'8 MICKRAKE.
Mr. Oarfleld has used the muckrake
upon the Standard Oil Company to bet
ter purpose than he did upon the Beef
Trust. It is to be hoped that he has not
scattered immunity around too freely
during; the operation. His report shows
that Mr. Rockefeller's company enjoye
discriminations and rebates from the
railroads to an extent even greater than
was commonly supposed. The disregard
for law on both sides has been flagrant,
persistent and almost open. This
throws a beautiful Illumination upon
the assertion of so many railroad
presidents that, there are no more re
bates, and of many Senators, particu
larly Mr. Foraker, to the same purport.
Perhaps these sentlemen were not
aware how extensively the practice was
poing on, and, apraln, perhaps they
were. Of course, Mr. Aldrlch, whose
conduct In the Senate Js so unselfish
and so uniformly directed, by a high
seiipe of public uVuty, knew nothing
about It.
We must not take too much stock In
the statement so commonly made that
tli railroads desire to see the practice.
"f rebating stopped. The railroads are
largely owned by the persons who en
J.y the profits' of the rebates. At any
rate, the practice has not stopped. The
present laws have proved utterly inef
ficient to control or even much diminish
It. It goes on very much, the same as
If there were no law 'at all. This ds re
vealed by Mr. Garfield's report. To
discover his facts, It Is understood, he
has resorted to those' "detective" meth
ods wivcb he so disastrously forbore to
use In the case of the packers. There
Is one and only one method to use with
criminals, whether rich or poor, hlph or
low, and that Is to seek the evidence
for their mivuleeds wherever and how
ever It can be found. A man who will
commit a crime will lie to conceal It, no
matter If he le as rich and pious as Mr.
Rockefeller, and the law must approach
him on the supposition that be will de
ceive If he has a chance.
Mr. Archbold, replying for Mr. Rogers
and for the Standard Oil to Mr. Gar
field's charges, assumes a strange tone.
That he should plead Innocence is nat
uriil all criminals do so when they are
caught. But he does more than this.
il poses as a critic of the motives of
the President of the United States. He
seems to think himself a more import
nnt personage than the first magistrate
of the greatest Nation in the world, and
talks as if some sacrilege had been
committed by accusing him and his
corporation of crime. Undoubtedly the
Immunity which the Standard Oil Com
pany hu enjoyed throughout Its long
course of robbery and corruption has
made Mr. Archbold, Mr. Rogers and all
the rest of its officials feel that they are
exempt from the penalties of the law,
that . they are superior to the courts
and the officers of the Government; but
it is carrying this notion rather far for
Mr. Archbold to assume that he is in a
position to put on lofty, patronising and
critical airs with the President. Pos
sibly, as Mr. Archbold says, the Presi
dent has used the Standard Oil Com
pany for an object-lesson. If that was
his purpose, he could not have chosen
a more terrible one or one which exem
plifies more fearfully the results of en
trusting the lives and fortunes of the
American people to the unrestrained
and lawless greed of corporations.
That the Standard Oil Company has of
late years carried on its predatory op
erations within the limits of the Jaw is
perhaps true, though there is much evi
dence to the contrary, but for him to
speak of fairness, frankness and can
dor, as he does,. In relation to its con
duct Is to insult the intelligence of the
public.
The Standard Oil Company has been
a destructive .and corrupting force in
the Nation from the time of its origin.
Its career has been one long defiance
of common morality. Pitiless, ' uri-
wciupuioua aim utterly treacnerous, us
trail runs through the history of the
;.t generation like a smear of filth on
a picture by Raphael.
Mr. Archbold finds it difficult, he
says, to differentiate, between Mr.
Roosevelt the President and Mr. Roose-.
veil the individual. His problem has
now become still more complex and
difficult, for he Is about to have an ex
perience with Mr. Roosevelt, ex
wutor of the law. The active head of
the Standard OH Company, brought at
last to the bar of justice, takes a light
and jesting- tone as if it were a matter
of little Importance. He rails at the
President, be laujrhs'at the law: tie
uneers at the maesty of the people.
He Is mud with vanity, drunken with
Ui wine of poaver. Great as he Is. the
I.t can reach him. Mighty as the
corporation may be which he controls,
. the law which gave it life can destroy"
it. The American people have made up
their " minds upon- this subject. They
are determined that Standard Oil and
all- the other arrogant combinations of
unscrupulous -wealth shall submit to
the law. Nor will the Nation be satis
fled with that treacherous, wriggling,
slippery submission which Mr. Arch
bold and Mr. Rogers impudently call
frankeiess and fairness. The subjection?
must be open and complete. ' Nothing
else will suffice. . . . ...
Among the people of the country there,
is but one voice concerning Mr. Roose
velt's investigation of Standard Oil
through the Commissioner of Corpora-.
tions. It is heartily approved by every
body, not In -hatred,, malice or envy,'
but In an eager desire for ' justice too
long delayed. The Nation is tired of
being exploited for the benefit of greedy
trusts and it is resolutely bent upon
finding relief. The flippant sophistries
of Mr 'Rogers. and, Mr. Archbold will
not alter this purpose in the least ex
cept to make it more inflexible;, their
sneers at Mr. Roosevelt will have no
effect except to increase the confidence
of the 'Nation in Its chief magistrate.
IX DEFENSE OF DR. IBAPSKV.
Discussing the case of Dr. Crapsey,
whose trial for heresy has excited a
good deal of interest all over the coun
try, The Jyew York Evening Post
reaches a conclusion with which we
cannot agree. The. Post holds that-if
a minister's "divergence from accepted
doctrine be such that he cannot stand
up and repeat the prescribed creeds
without intellectual stultification and
moral ignominy," then he should resign
his pulpit. He cannot go. on repeating
a creed, The Post declares, when to do
so Is of the essence of falsehood. This,
of course, is undeniable, and it seems
to be precisely the case of Dr. Crapsey.
He has said publicly that he does not
believe In the miraculous conception of
Jesus. Nevertheless the creed of his
church contains the formula, "I believe
in Jesus Christ who was conceived by
the Holy Ghost, born of the -virgin
Mary," and so on; and this creed Dr.
Crapsey recites in concert with his con
gregation week after week. In his
church service he seems to astiert that
he does believe the very thing which
he has said publicly that he does not
believe. The Evening Post thinks that
this is moral stultification and of the
essence of falsehood.
Stated in this way it cannot be de
nied that the case again6t Dr. Crapsey
looks black, and perhaps there is no
other way to state it. We think, how
ever, that It 18 not in reality as black
as it looks. We believe that after can
did reflectioa upon the matter an un
prejudiced mind mu3t admit that Dr.
Crapsey may do all that he is charged
with doing and still remain entirely
clear, both of moral stultification and
of falsehood. To come at once to the
gist of our defence for him, let us sup
pose that an austerely pious spinster
should sit by at bedtime and hear a
mother recite the adventures of Little
Red Riding Hood to her children. The
spinster would be shocked. Grave moral
problems would arise in her mind-.
When the children have said their
prayers and are safely tucked up in
bed, the two ladies return to the parlor
and the spinster begins her reformatory
attack upon the mother's soul. "Do you
believe that story?" she inquires. Cer
tainly not. "Yet you tell it to those
unhappy infants with all the solemnity
and earnestness of absolute belief."
Yes. "Madam," the spinster then ad
jures her in an awful tone, "every time
you recite Little Red Riding Hood to
your children you stultify yourself
morally; you are guilty of falsehood.
You should at once resign your sacred
office of motherhood, and let somebody
take your place who will tell the truth."
In this humble apologue of ours the
mother is Dr. Crapsey and the spinster
is The Evening Post. It "is not lying
Xo recite a fairy tale for the delight of
r-hildren, no matter if one utterly dis
believes it. Why not? There are sev
eral reasons. In the first place it is a
trivial question whether the events nar
rated really took place or not. De
minimis non curat lex. The law pays
no attention to trifles, and this is quite
as true of the moral as of the civil law.
Again, the mother tells the story, in the
full certainty that her children's minds
will presently develop Into a correct
perception of the non-reality of Kittle
Red Riding Hood's adventures, while
their early pleasure in the- tale and
the ethical truth it Involves will remain
with them as a permanent treasure.
Similarly, although Dr. Crapsey denies
the historical reality of the myth about
the birth of Jesus, he may continue to
recite it in all seriousness for the edi
fication of himself and his congregation.
That his purpose in reciting it is not
to deceive is perfectly plain, for he has
declared publicly that .he thinks it a
fiction. When Dr. Crapsey reads that
part of the creed everylsody knows that
he believes -himself to be reading a
fictitious narrative. He is no more
guilty of lying than he would be if he
should read The Pilgrim's Progress, or
Jack and the Bean Stalk to his congre
gation. They perfectly understand that
he is giving it to them as a-fiction and
nothing else, for he has told them so
publicly and Tepeatedly. How then
can The' Evening Post call him a liar?
One might as well call Mr. Aldrlch a
liar when he says he does not represent
a special predatory corporation' In the
Senate. An assertion which is not ex
pected to deceive anybody is not a lie,
no matter how false it may be.
The morality of Dr. Crapsey's posi
tion is unassailable. If he should assert
publicly that he did believe the creed
to be historically true while in his heart
he thought it a myth, we must condemn
him for prevarication. But he does
nothing of the kind. He proclaims
everywhere in the most open manner
that he takes It for a myth; and as a
myth and nothing else he recites It with
his congregation. For this h merits
praise Instead of blame. His case is
one of unbending moral consistency and
frankness. Nothing could be farther
from anything like stultification or de
ception. His conduct is of the very
essence, not of falsehood, but of ver
acity. Dr. Crapsey also merits praise for an
other reason. His courageous accept
ance of the early Christian myths for
what they really aje will be extremely
beneficial to the cause of rational re
ligion. The persistent effort, to force
mankind to accept them as historic
facts has produced a dull disgust which
makes their beauty and religious mean
ing repugnant to the common mind
and destroys all interest in them. The
pertinacious assertion of their literal
truth has obliterated their deep signifi
cance to the soul and annihilated their
emotional value. By abandoning the
arid dogma that the story of the birth
of Jesus is historically true Dr. Crausev
advances It to a worthy place among
the great poetic treasures of the worlds
He destroys it as a fetich for groveling
superstition and endows it with new
life as a thing of joy and beauty. He
slays It as an offence to the intelligence
and resurrects It as a. consolation to the
soul. Shall we not all rejoice when the
stories about Jesus, no longer things to
Wrangle over as to when, they occurred
and where, or whether they occurred at
all. Shall have- become subjects for
peaceful edification and pure delight?
This .happy consummation-. Dr. Crapsey
has brought nearer, by his frankness
and courage. He is not the first man
to be condemned by those who ought to
praise him, nor will he be the last.
r THE NEW TALK.
Douglas. Hyde did not start his cru
sade for revival of Gaelic any too soon.
for, here is one Zemenhof, German, of
course, who twenty years ago invented
a language he was pleased to call
Esperanto. After lying dormant so long
it is taken, up by diplomatic circles in
Europe s the one thing wanted for
intercommunication.- : In making the
'language Zemenhof uses letters with
sounds -common to all tongues, one
sound to a letter and one letter to a
sound. Vowels have the Latin pro
nunciation. Words are not made arbi
trarily, but are drawn from roots com
mon to many languages. "Good" in
Esperanto 1s "bona," while "bad" is
"malbona," by which will be seen the
idea to do away with a multiplicity
of words of a common meaning. This
eliminates synony.me and the wealthy
kleptomaniac is all the same as com
mon thief. Great, isn't it!
Prefixes and suffixes differ from the
English In being consistent. Gender is
masculine, except when the letters "in"
are injected, -which changes the sex.
Just fancy! If "bovine" goes for "cow,"
how eas.y to speak of the gentleman at
the head of the herd as "bove!" Nouns
end in "o," possibly from the Italian;
adjectives in "a," though how to inter
ject necessary profanity is not stated.
Grammar, it will be seen, is so simple
as hardly -to be needed; and there are
no idioms.
This cult is favored by Mr. Bok, of
the ladies' own, and in his latest there
is extended elucidation thereof. But -to
bring it home to Oregonians with a very
hard bump it can be said with great
or less degree of grief thai some of the
faculty up at Eugene are taking it up
for study. Imagine President Campbell
(whose ancestors in the land of the
thistle called themselves "Cawmill")
trying to say "Hoot, mon!" in the jar
gon; or Professor Schmidt holding up
two fingers In desperation after vainly
racking his gray matter for Esperanto
for "zwei lager!" Or Professor Straub
"making a. crack" at it and giving it
up; ur protessor Dunn Oh, gracious!
Stop the deal and send for Dan Mc
Allen. - -
IS MARS INHABITED?;
That the planet Mars is inhabited, and
that it is peopled by a race of h igh intel
ligence and capable of vast engineering
works, are propositions which Walder-1
mar Kaempffert attempts to prove In a
highly interesting article contributed to
the current number of "Munsey's Maga
zine. He writes with confidence, does
not weaken his case by introducing
floubt. fortifies himself with the findings
of modern astronomers, employs the
ories as facts, and reaches the conclu
sion that we have learned enough
through the telescope to warrant the
statement that life as we know it exists
among the Martians.
Concerning the trustworthiness of
evidence on the subject, the writer de
clares that no astronomical skeptic
will deny that Mars has an atmosphere
composed of gases similar to those
which envelop our earth, and that the
planet is well provided with water.
Terrestrial experience has taught us
that life is dependent on these two es
sentials. Against the argument that
the atmosphere is too thin to sustain
life, Mr. Kaempffert offers the fact that
our organisms were designed for this
earth alone, and that tenuity of air is
not conclusive proof against life adapt
ed to conditions of another orb.
. "That -water, the second essential of
life, is not absent on Mars, we- have
abundant proof in the regular melting
and reformation of polar caps, com
posed probably of snow or frost," says
the writer. "Indeed, by far the most
obvious changes which occur on the
pranet are the, gradual increase and de
crease of the white expanses; of the
poles. Two hundred years of observa
tion have made us so familiar with
these expanses that we know more
about Mars than we do about our own
Arctic and Antarctic zones." He quotes
Professor Percival Lowell and Pro
fessor William H. Pickering, of Har
vard, as authority for the statement
that these white expanses are open
polar seas. Thus p the water supply
of the planet set forth:
It happens that water is rather unhappily
distributed on Mara' Only In the frigid
sones Is It found In any appreciable amount.
This Is exactly what should occur on a
planet older thaji the earth by many mil
lion years. - As a world ages its water sup--ply
diminishes. Oceans, lakes and rivers
dry up. Life, therefore, slowly disappears,
and after -millenniums' the planet decays
Into a gigantic dead globe.
If our earth were reduced to the con
dition of Mars, and we were confronted
by the ever imminent water famine, all
human effort would be put to the prob
lem of transporting through ditches or
canals the water yielded by the melting
polar snows to our temperate and tor
rid zones.
And this, according . to Mr. Kaempf
fert, is precisely what the -Martians
have done. The telescopic tens has re
vealed beyond reasonable doubt the ex
istence of greenish and reddish areas
on the surface of Mars. What these
contrasting areas are is only one of the
many enigmas of-an enigmatical planet.
To" Professor Lowell, whose views are
plausible, the red markings are deserts,
unvarying in line. Professor Pickering
.suggests that the greenish regions are
fertile lands. - covered with vegetation,
and that this vegetation, verdant in
Summer, naturally becomes russet in
Autumn and eventually withers.
.In that theory Lowell concurs. What
is more, he has advancedarguments- de
claring that these greenish stains and
the polar caps are laced together by
just such an Irrigation system as that
which would be necessary to the pres
ervation of Martian life. Lowell notes
this irrigation system in an intricate
network of lines or stripes which were
first discovered by the Italian astron
omer. Schiaparelii, who called them
canals. Lowell, by far the most assid
uous and Indefatigable observer of
Mars, has succeeded in plotting nearly
400 of these lines. For years after
Schiaparelii had made his discovery
astronomers refused to believe in
"canals." They were put Into the cate
gory of optical illusions; but last year
Mr. Lapland, of the Lowell Observa
tory staff, laid all doubts at rest by ac
tually photographing them the most
remarkable feat ever accomplished by
astronomical photography. The cam
era' has no illusions.
Going into details about the canals,
the writer says:
The very manner 'in which the "canals"
are distributed proclaims their arrificial
origin. They proceed from some point on
the greenish areas to well-defined centers In
the red desert regions. They proceed. 'more-J
over, not In a haphazard way. but by the
stralghtest and shortest path. At that well
defined center they meet other lines simi
larly direct. So narrow are thev that we
see them chiefly because of their great
length, varying as it does from a few hun
dred to several thousand miles. Some of
them would extend from New York to San
Francisco. The meeting of lines in many
poSits Is apparently intentional and cer-(
tainly unnatural; for nearly all of them run
with spoke-like directness to hub-like spots.
Mr. Kaempffert concludes that the
Martians developed large things in en
gineering, that physically they are im
mensely superior to us, much larger
and very much stronger, that heavy
burdens here are light on Mars, because
the force of . gravitation is less and
things weigh correspondingly less, that
one man would probably be as effective
m canal work -as a steam shovel is on
earth, and, despite all our boasted In
tellectual ability and industrial prog
ress, we are several million years be
hind the Martian times.
Admitting the facts and ignoring Mr.
Kaempffert's strange, but interesting
deductions, we on earth must be satis
fled for the present with what we have.
Until a future Knabenshue shall visit
our celestial neighbor in his airship, or
a Marconi, yet to be, establishes wire
less communication through a hundred
million miles of space. Mars and its
people can be only a topic for romantic
speculation.
A feature of missionary work that
appeals to practical people is that which
gathers and sends to out of the way
stations, as those in Alaska, where
there Is school and hospital connection
w ith' church work, magazines, periodi
cals and books for which the owners
have no further use. Such work for
the Alaska mission has for some years
been centralized at St. Luke's Church,
San Francisco, and the annual box
was packed and ready for shipment
when the earthquake and fire came and
church and contents, including' the
book box, were destroyed. An effort
has been inaugurated by the Woman's
Guild of St. David's Church in this city
by which it is hoped to make good this
loss. Collections of books1 and maga
zines for this purpose will begin this
week, and it is expected that a well
stored box will be on the way to good
Bishop Rowe, who is in charge of Epis
copal missions in Alaska, In a few days.
The-- work is one that appeals to -all
who realize the important part that
good reading matter plays in the life
of a convalescent, and the boon that
such matter is to those who live in iso--lated
places.
The longshoreman's strike put an ef
fective embargo on the commerce of
Lakes Michigan and Erie during the
past week. The growth of this com
merce in recent years is shown by the
fact that a fleet of 40 vessels was tied
up at Milwaukee on the first day of the
strike; that 25 ore-carrying vessels were
stopped at Cleveland and that at the
port of Buffalo no vessels were moving,
while a total of nearly 10,000 men went
ashore from the various fleets to await
the outcome of the strike.. When in
dustries dependent upon lake commerce
for supplies are compelled to cease
operations the magnitude of the strike1
will become apparent over a Wide area
including vast manufacturing centers,
especially of steel, iron and copper. The
strike is one of those that nobody can
afford a fact, that is true only In a
lesser degree of all strikes.
According to the American Grocer
the average consumption of alcoholic
beaverages in the United States mounts
higher and higher each year. The in
crease between 1901 and 1905 was 21 3-5
per cent. In cost it.. amounted to one
eighth of the Nation's total expenditure
for food. The increase in population
during the period covered was 6M per
cent. Still the cheerful prohibitionist
reports progress from year to year,
holds political conventions, nominates
candidates, conducts a more or less
vigorous campaign and fervidly calls
upon his brethren to "stand up and be
counted." -His confidence in the ulti
mate triumph of his party on a plat
form that forbids the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating beverages, tells of a
nature that is childlike and bland.
Ideal "weather for building still pre
vails in this section, and builders are
pushing their work as rapidly as ma
terial can be secured. Hundreds of resi
dence buildings In this city have been
enclosed during the past month, and on
every hand ground is being broken for
others. Flat building is extending to-w-ard
the suburbs, and' neat, well
finished cottages for rent are taking
the place of unsightly shacks or ap
pearing on lots that have served as cow
pasture for years. The croaker is
abroad sayiing that "building is being
overdone." but the careful man of small
means sees a reasonably certain return
of 6 per cent on his investment in this
line and is satisfied with the outlook.
Louis Blumauer', whose death was
recorded yesterday Showed what in-
Hdustry and thrift in business will ac
complish. With one year's savings he
started a retail drug store, devoted
himself exclusively to .it, succeeded, of
course, and founded a wholesale house
which from small beginnings grew to be
the largest concern in the Pacific North
west. He stood dn this community for
progress and commercial probity.
Now the Governor of Kansas is alleged!
to have kissied his predecessor's wife.
Which is what Old Bill "White in the
Emporia Gazette would call "Hoch the
Kisser!"
"Although the price charged was re
duced from $1.50 to $1.13 per thousand,"
says ex-Representative Baker of New
York, "the people (in New York) found
their gas bills Increasing." Thus we see
that there are others.
If you want to discipline an unruly
dog, you can often save using the stick
by letting the dog see it. England
knows this, and she 'shows her battle
ships to the Sultan of Turkey.
Negatively the San Francisco disaster
conferred one benefit on the newspaper
readers of the country. It put Dowie
Jn eclipse. -
It cost Linn County a dollar for every
vote cast at the recent primary election.
which is less than some candidates used
to pay. . - . -
THE PESSIMIST. .
.The Seattle splrit" does not seem to
be ,very active in baseball circles on
Puget Sound.- It may be that Seattle has
become a back' number.
. It is said that Sarah Bernhardt la the
reincarnation of Adrienne Lecouvreur;
and John Alexander Dowie claims to be
Elijah himself. Without .considering these,
two'iri particular, it is a curious exhibi
tion of human conceit that when one
first assimilates the doctrine of rebirth,
he immediately assumes himself to be
the later coming of some one great. The
chances are that he is. instead, a subse
quent edition of a four-flusher who was
an object of- charity in- some one of the
centuries gone by. .
.
One of the disagreeable , possibilities of
the growing belief in the ideas of the re
turn of the human eoul to earth arises
when one looks at an Egyptian mummy.
He may be gazing at the remains of him
self. -
' ' - ' .
Referring to bulldogs, the editor of Les
lie's Weekly, in the last issue, . writes as
follows:
Ho is always ugly in his physical make
up. - uglier still -In his demfnort and ugliest
of all in his temper. He 1p a' monster of in
gratitude, ar.d will bite the hand that feeds
him as 'readily as he will the foot that kicks
him. He is born with a -vinegary disposition,
a mis-anthrope -by nature, and snaps and
snarls -his way through the world from
puppyhood to the other rnd, and Is a nuis
ance to everyone except the . incomprehensible
creature to whom he ' belongs. ,
Following this diatribe against tlie
large-hearted bullpup is a story . of a
young lady who does all of the .housework
on a dairy farm; takes care of two chil
dren, a vegetable and a flower garden, a
large number of fowls; does an extensive
mail-order business;, contributes .articles
to several newspapers and magazines, and
sends in designs for fancy work Tor the
latter. All of these 'things she can do,
because she eats predigested "Saw Dust"
for breakfast.
After that conies an account of the re
cent horrors in San Francisco, including
a tidal wave that swept over the lower
part of town, the destruction ot the
Cliff House, and a picture of Van Ness
avenue with cable-cars running up , and
down.
The editor of Leslie's certainly needs a
vacation. "
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There is a greater strength-giving ele
ment in the various copyrighted breakfast
foods than one would be led to suppose
from their taste. Now, the other morn
ing I ate a dish of Peptonized Grape Shot,
and all the forenoon I watched a China
man mow the lawn and didn't feel tired
a bit.
I can eat shredded cedar shingles every
day for two days and never make a roaf,.
but when a dyspeptic Eastern editor says
that a bulldog is a misanthrope, he has
made an enemy of me for life. The best
friend I have is a bulldog that belongs to
a family three blocks down the street.
Although he doesn't wear glasses, he
looks like Colonel. Roosevelt, and is .a
gentleman, if ever a dog was one. - When
this particular dog crawls out from under
a heap of six or - seven boys who have
fallen on top of 'him. In order to gef a
baseball which he has grafted, " he
straightens -himself out and says: "If
you fellows think this is fun, I guess I
can stand It;" ' Although "the genial smile
which he .enerliy wears' is, sjlghtly . in-,
congruous with the. contour of his face,
everyone knows that it Ms genuine, and
that it Is prompted, by a feeling of. .iove:
knd kindness toward an mankind. What
has been said of this , dog. is . true of all
bulldogs. They are the kindest," 'truest,'
most friendly and cordial creatures of the
canine race. '
Nevertheless, tlrare are moments when
a bulldog wants to be left alone. .'If, per
chance, he should lie peacefully asleep,
stretched, across the walk, .and feel the
Impact df the foot of some two-legged
-hyena who is too mean to step aside, he
hastily concludes .that something has to
be done. The thoroughness which which
he attends to the matter in hand wins the
admiration of -aft those who see his work.
When tye and the thing that kicked him
are pried apart, seme one is always heard
earnestly vowing that he will never kick
a dog again.
A business man known by the name
of Arthur- Richard .Rose in the locality
where he makes . him home, has been
thinking of his' future life. He has
published a volume which he calls "A
Common-Sense Hell." The gentleman
is inclined to orthodoxy; but, not be
lieving in the conventional hell of
brimstone, he has constructed a hell
to suit' himself. Arthur exhibits his
common sense by carefully avoiding
the annoying question, "Is Hell a con
dition or a place?" He doesn't care;
it's a h bad enough prospect which
ever it is. One's existence in this is
not forever; yet - the hell itself is
eternal, as there always will be sin
ners who need It. Mr. -Rose's spokes
man, who Is an Imaginary si.insv in the
nether regions. Is deprived of all hjs
physical .atrlbutes, . yet he can think
and suffer. He says:
We know not even where We are in rela
tion to other . part- of the universe. There
Is no sun, aor moon, nor stars, nor locality'
for us. We know not whether hell is. a
place or a mere- stage of existence. For us
it has no metea nor, bounds. For us It is
Sfl wide as the universe Itself. We simply
know thac we exist in company with one an
other and we can communicate our thoughts
to one another, but as to our future, we
know no. mora for -certain, than we did when
we were on earth."
It is really quite a sensible hell.
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Answers to Correspondents.
BENEDICT "What shall I do to my
wife to make her stop annoying me
the way She does? Every tir.ie I run
up a window-sha'de to get a little more
light, she pulls.it down again."' You
wil do nothing If you are wise. Be
patient, Benedict. She'? does . that in
obedience to the "higher, law" the
law that rules the feminine world. She
is- not thinking of you at all, dear
friends She is thinking that it would
"look so from, the' outside." "What
would p'eople . say ?"' is the supreme
question that ' the ''dear, sweet things
ask, as they move gently along from
day to day, -Those who "say" have
decreed that ' all-window-shades shall
be kept half-ay down, and so it will
be until something else is said. Light
the gas, Benedict, if the room is dark,
and let your -wife be happy in the as
surance that, the strangers, who walk
by, will look at the shades and have
nothing to say. '
.
PHILO "What is tHfc meaning of the
phrase, "pernicious verbosities,' when
used in reference to the works of Her
bert Spencer?" It Indicates that Her
bert bad so much to say, and so little
time to think, that he occasionally
ma ' mistake.
. M. B. WELLS.
U. S. SUPREME COURT ON DIVORCE
Careful Analysis of a Recent Important Decision The) South Dakota -Method
I Now Under the Ban How All Divorce Litigants Are Affected
The Supreme Court of the TTnlted States,
at Washington. r. C. on the 15th day of
April, 1906. handed down a decision in the
case of Haddock vs. Haddock which, in
the space of. three weeks, has become as
famous as the Dred Scott decision, and in
the mind of the dissenting Justices it will
have as momentous effect, as the famous
ante-bellum decision With reference to a
different, though not less important, form
of liberty. - . . .
By .way of preface it may be premised
that on June 4. 1S6S. John W. Haddock
and Harriet Haddock were married in the
City, of New York, and separated upon
the same day, without consummation of
the marriage, and have, never lived to
gether since. A short while after the
wedding, the husband left the State of
New York., and, after some wandering,
finally settled in the Slate of Connecticut
in 1877. where, in 1S81. he obtained a di
vorce from his wife, Harriet HaddocK, on
the. ground of desertion. In the Superior
Court of Litchfield County. Connecticut.
He remarried the following year :in Con
necticut. Thirty-one years after the orig
inal marriage,, to wit. in June. m3, the
original wife. Harriet Haddock, com
menced an action for a separation in the
Supreme Court of the City and State of
New .York, after the fashion approved by
the late act of the- Oregon Legislature
with reference to forcing a husband to
support his. wife while they are separate
and apart. Mrs. Haddock In this pro
ceeding -obtained personal service upon
the husband. That is to say, the husband
was at that time within the City and
State of New York. The husband set up
in his answer as a defense the Connecti
cut divorce of 1881, but upon the trial the
New York court refused to recognize the
Connecticut divorce upon the ground and
for the reason that, while domiciled In
Litchfield County, Connecticut, the hus
band had not obtained personal service
upon the wife, who was then domiciled in
New York, and who had ever since the
original marriage in 1868 been domiciled
in the last-named place. ,is view is
now sustained by the Supreme Court- of
the United Stales. The theory of the
New York court was that since it recog
nized only one ground of divorce, to wit,
adultery, and. as to its citizens living
there, one spouse could sue the other only
for that ground, and neither of them
could seek another domicile or place of
residence and by a weaker and 'more eas
ily proven ground of divorce obtain a sep
aration and divorce for a cause or reason
which would not have been recognized In
the original state. As Justice White, of
the United States Supreme Court, aptly
says, to assume this state of the ktw to
be correct, it v would make New York,
which recognizes but one ground of di
vorce, adopt the laws of the State of
Connecticut, or of the State of Washing
ton, which allows divorces upon the hazy
and gossamer complaint of divorce known
as incompatibility of temper: a cause
which Is good or trivial according to the
view of the particular Judge who hears
the case. Carrying this theory to Its full
est extent, that state which made" it eas
iest to obtain a divorce -would, by forcing
other states to accept Its decrees of
vorce, legislate for those states, notwith
standing the fact that citizens of the lat
ter states domiciled therein would be re
fused divorce on the very grounds allowed
by the liberal commonwealths.
A wife or husband tiring .of the other
spouse i,n the State of New York, which
allows divorce on one ground, and, by
following the lines of least resistance, so
journing -for a sufficient length , of time,
to wit, 90 days, six months or a year, in
Connecticut. South Dakota or the State
of Washington, may obtain, a divorce
upon the elastic ground of nonsupport in
South Dakota, incompatibility of temper.
e.8--ia- Connecticut; or-,ust simply because
the ijudge: thought - they - could not , live
happ'ib together and should be divorced,
as- hi the State of Washington, - ,
: Fhw State of New York has consistently
maintained its-position, fer a-number of,
years past, -and to lawyers. weU versed in
matters of divorce, separation and prop
erty rights of husband and wife, the Had
dock decisi'on is by no means a surprise
so far as it concerns the State of New
York. ' . '
In 1901 (67 App. Dlv.. 437, Starbuck
vs. Starbuck), . the Supreme Count of
New York went so far as to hold that
where a man and woman were. married
in the State of Massachusetts, or which
state the woman was then a resident,
move to the- State of New York, and
the wife subsequently leaves the hus
band and returns to the State of Mas
sachusetts, and after remaining there
six years, obtains in that state a decree
of .divorce from her husband on the
ground of cruelty (a ground not recog
nized in New York), such decree of
divorce would not deprive the wife of
a right to dower in the property situ
ated in the State of New York; all this,
notwithstanding the husband had, sup
posing the Massachusetts divorce to be
effective, in that state, subsequently
contracted a second . marriage in the
State of Pennsylvania. It will be
noted that the New York courts hold
steadfastly to the view that no other
state can grant a divorce against a
citizen of New York upon any other
ground not recognized by the :State of
New York.. The Supreme Court of the
IN THE OREGON COUNTRY.
Sunday Baseball. '
The Dalles Chronicle.
There is always- something doing with
the young people, and there are worse
things'" they might be doing than playing
baseball or going on an excursion on Sun
day. These are things the Sabbatarian
should think over and be as charitable as
possible, remembering that the temper
and the spirit -will be reflected. Youth
looks not upon the world through - the
glasses of the gray, and his soul's salva
tion worries him not. Bring the boy lup
broad of shoulder and broad of mind, and
he will work out his own salvation with
credit to humanity and glory to divinity.
Stick a Pin There Some Day.
Central Point Herald.
It has sometimes been -said of Central
Point in the past thak the place is not
even on the map. THaVs nothing. There
was a time "In the past when Chicago
was not oh the map. but a few enterpris
ing, wide-awake people got together there
and proceeded to put it on the map in big,
red letters. Let's ge: together, neighbors.
and put Central Point on the map. It will
help the looks of the map, and will not
hurt Central Point a bit.
. Prophecy by I-MIosofical Flagg.
St.; Helens Mist.
We still have on hand for free distribu
tion a number of packages of Govern
ment garden seeds with the frank'of that
sterling Democrat and good citizen, John
M. Gearin. Better get some and pre
serve the frank, as they are positively the
last Mr. Gearin will send out.
Put Him Out of Misery. .
r Walla Walla Union.
It wa most appropriate that a humane
officer should killed Outlaw Smith.
: Wise Fido. '
Washington D. C.) Star. -I
heard ray Polly's mother say to her
"I don't see where your memory can be,
The things I say to you go In one ear -
And out the other one. It seems to ma."
And so when Polly talks to me I lift
1 One ear to hear my mistress speak, and
; then
I- always leave the other hanging down
' To keep the words from slipping out again.
; United States, however, takes the view.
-( in the Haddock case, that no' other
i stte can determine the marital status
j of a citizen of the State of New York
I residing therein. a
j In a proceeding of. divorce under t;ii
I decision, brought by the plaintiff who
j leaves that state and obtains a resr-
dence In a foreign state for the purpose
of obtaining a divorce, it is not aliso
i lute so far as the defendant alone Is
j concerned unless. one or a combination:
i of one or more of three conditions
arise:
Flint I aliens the defendant la prr
i aoanlly served wlthla the state -la
which the plaintiff hsi rrmavH ,r re
aide. Hnd In which the actios la begun.
Second L'nlrsa the defendant ap
pears by attorney la (be last-named
state.
Third I'slm Ithla la m srenaary
naaunifitlon. sa a reault of the Haddock,
case I the cause, of salt arises la the
last-anmed atate.
The writer of this article assumes a
fourth ground, to-wit: That where both
1 parties are married and domiciled ill
the state where the mnrrlagre i con
summated, and where both-the plain
tiff and the defendant leave that state
for separate and different states and
the marriage domicile is broken then
xiiu in iiiiii ' t, j , nie niuiici i put hi
large and either party may maintain a
suit for- any ground allowed in the
state of their domicile or place of res
idence. In the case of Haddock vs. Haddock,
the Supreme Court of the Wnlted States
does not annul the divorce obtained by
the action in the State of Connecticut,
but simply holds that If Haddock's ap
pearance In the State of New York sub
jects him to the laws of that state with
reference to being liable to the support
of the wife whom he deserted in that
state, his divorce In Connecticut pro
tects him as against any criminal act
in remarrying, and If he owns prop-,
erty only In the State of Connecticut
and never leaves that state or aroes
Inrn anv Btla hut- 1, a Klnl. .
York, his property and personal rlg-ht
are protected under and by virtue of
his divorce decree in Connecticut.
The ultimate analysis of this decision of
the Haddock case simply holds that a
state may, as was held by the Supreme
Court of the United States in the famous
case of Pennoyer vs. Neff, determine th
status of its own citizens, whether or not
they are married or single. , As for ex
ample, the State of Oregon has a right
to say that A. .Is an unmarried woman
as to any rights she may have in the
State of Oregon, and as to any criminal
charges against her if she- should remar
ry, but that as against her husband, who
lives in the State of New York. It Is for
the New York courts to say whether or
not in New York her marriage In Oregon
Is to be recognized as Valid or not. to the
extent as to whether or not it compiled
with the laws of New York aa to the
grounds of divorce, and as to whether or
not the defendant husband was personally
served in the State of Oregon, or appeared
by attorney therein. In short, the law Is
that the divorce is correct and proper and
lawful as to the plaintiff In Oregon, but
may or may not be as to the defendant in
New York, according as to whether or not
he was personally served, appeared by at
torney on - the one hand, or was served
only by publication of summons on the
other.
The Haddock decision does not in any
way annul the divorce so far as the poFl-
tion of the spouse Is concerned m th
state where the divorce was taken, nor
does it bastardize any children by reason
of a subsequent marria'ge. The trouble.
If any trouble arises, will come when the"
question of the division of property arises
In the state where the defendant lives or
lived. r-:In fine, parties are admonished II
they .cleslre to obtain a decree of divorce
hot ;ohly with, reference to the criminal
point5", of view, but a3 to the property
rights', that they should obtain, personal
service upon the defendant, or cause him
to make appearance by attorney or stipu
lation' in the case. " It puts the quietus
upon the hurried sojourn to accommodat
ing states like South Dakota, or Connec
ticut, but in no wise curtails the rights
of an injured party from obtaining a -decree
of divorce ' against a wrongdoing
marital partner.
In particular it puts a stop to the dis
satisfied wife or husband leaving the
"home state," adopting a temporary resi
dence in South Dakota. Vvashlngton- or
some convenient commonwealth, obtain
ing a divorce upon an equally convenient
cause of suit by service upon the defend
ant by publication, and then returning to
the home state, with expectation that the
home state will give fu- faith and credit
to the. divorce obtained in the foreign
jurisdiction upon a grourfd not recognized
at home. While the divorcee remains in
the place where the divorce Is obtained,
or goes into some state other than
the domicile of the defendant, the divorce
will be considered good as to any remar
riage, birth of children or property right
In any state except w..ere the defendant
Is domiciled, or state holding as New
York does. This seerps to be the general
result of the case of Haddock vs. Had
dock.' JOHN F. 'LOGAN.
CONTRAST OF DIAY AND CASTRO
Brooklyn ' Standard-Union.
It would be the greatest of misfortunes
if President Diaz were to terminate his
long and distinguished service as chief
magistrate of Mexico. He found his coun
try in ruins. He has built up a nation.
He found his country incapable of self-government.-
For a whole generation he
has striven with the devotion of a true
patriot and the wisdom of a great states
man to fit the people for self-government,
never relaxing for a moment the reins of
the benevolent despotism which has made
a continuity in this course possible.
The Mexican people have been edu
cated, have been raised to a higher stand
ard of living, have been urged to assimi late
whatever Was seemed best for them
In our civilization, and have been trained
in the forms of representative govern
ment. Diaz will never resign. He wilt
never be defeated at the polls. Th
longer he lives the better will the people
of Mexico be fitted to, carry on as their
own business the business of the Repub
lic. And Diaz is a pure-blooded Mexican
Indian.
Castro's despotism appears to have had
Castro as the chief object of its benevo
lence. Like many another South Amer
ican President, he came, into power
through revolution, and personal aggran
dizement seems to have been the motive
of his rule rather than the aggrandize
ment of Venezuela. He has involved his
country in many useless disputes with
foreign powers. He has failed to ad
vance her material interests at home or
abroad, and now retires rather than face
a conflict with France. discredit Ad.
wealthy, and, if the cables are to be be
lieved, with the purpose of resuming
power when the storm shall have blown
over. Should this retirement become per
manent, there will be no regret in the
family of nations, and possibly not In
Venezuela either, except among his ad
herents and supporters.
The Poor Orphan.
Terrell Love in L.ipIncott'.
He's never known a mother's care.
He's had no one to love him.
No shelter from the stormy air, .
No Pa to push and nhove him;
No lofty, grand old family tree
To make his heart-throb quicken
Oh, pity, pity such n he.
The incubator chicken.