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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. rORTLAND. jlAV 13, 1913. G FOKTLAND, OREGOX. Entered at Portland. Oregon. PoetofKce as second-class matter. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance (RT MAIL) flail Ktinrfav Included. DM VClf I-'? Daily. Sunday Included. six months. J- Daily. Sunday included, three months... Dally. Sunday Incfuded. ona month Dally, without Sunday, ana year - Dally, without Sunday, aim months...... J- Dally, without Sunday, three month.... i j Dally, without Sunday, ona month -" Weekly, ona year i-JJ eunuar, ona year. ... Sunday and Weekly, ona year (BT CARRIER Daily. Sunday Included, ona year Dallr. Sunday Included, ona montn i How la JieniH Send postufflce money or der, express order or personal cneck on your local bank. Stam pa. coin or currency are at sender's risk, aire poetofric- address In full. Includinr county and atata. Feetag Rates Ten to 11 pases. 1 cant. 1 to i pas. S centa; S. to P"!; centa: 40 to pagea. t cant. i-orelgn postage, double ratea Eaaterai Bnaaea Ofrlrea Varrea at CP" tln. ew York. Brunswick, building. t-UI-cago, Steger build Inc. Kan markers. Office R. J. Bldarell Co lt! Market street. European Officer No. Recent (treat 8. W , ijndon. rORTLAND. SVNDAY. MAY II. !' MH A LACE FUR MAYOR. The Oresor.lan will support Mr. H. R. Albee tor Mayor of Portland. It has no hesitation In commending; him to the favorable consideration of the voters of the city, and It will under take from time to time to rive reasons why in the present situation he Is to be preferred to any other candidate !n the field. No consideration but the welfare of Portland ought to influence any citUen or any newspaper In de riding on a candidate for Mayor. On that basis. The Oregonlan is for Mr. Albee. The need of Portland now. more than at any previous time. Is for men of character, stamina and experience in public office. The responsibilities Imposed upon a Mayor by the char ter are large, varied and onerous; and the duty of the people as a whole to bury any minor difference that may exist among themselves In the effort to do the best that may be dono la clear. The merit of Mr. Albee, Judged from his character, his record and his pub lic ridges, it Is impossible for The Oregonlan or any one la Ignore; and the promise his candidacy gives of placing at the helm of the municipal ity for four years a Just, Intelligent and capable pilot is obvious. - Mr. Albee Is a straightforward man, with an admirable private history" and an excellent . public record. He has convictions and he stands by them. He has duties, and he performs them. He has Ideals, and he strives to live up to them. . He has patriotism, and It Inspire and guides him. He has knowledge of public affairs, and he would make it available to the com munity. He has a kern sympathy with his fellow men, atid he wou!d help them. ' ' The development of Mf. Albee from an everyday business man into an im portant force in our municipal affairs has been a not exceptional phenome non In the life of good American citi zens. In a more or less conspicuous way,, he has for several years been Identified with various practical move ments for the social uplift and for political progress. He has not been obtrusive In his opinions nor offen sive In his actions; but he has stead fastly supported the principles which he favored and has been ready to re spond to any appropriate call to pub lic sen-ice. He Is no puritan, no fa natic; but he has had a'keen under standing of the dangers and vicissi tudes which beset young and old In every American city, and he has taken a sensible and wholesome view of the various reforms proposed to alleviate them. He has not at any time ac commodated his opinions to expedi ency or personal profit; and he has not sought desirable ends by impos sible methods, nor Joined in any scheme of Irrational denunciation for mere purposes of agitation and ex ploitation. He has a high and Just conception of the dignity of the law and the necessity of law-ohservance; and he has an abiding aspiration to require the lawless to obey the law and the decency-defying and seml crlmlnal elements to be subjected to rational supervision and control. We are sure that Mr. Albee as Mayor would precipitate no so-called moral crusade without- a practicable and helpful solution for perplexing prob lems or without a plan to fix the responsibility for vice and for social excesses where It belongs and to lighten the burden upon the more or less helpless victims of personal misfortunes or 'of unhappy conditions. He has a sane and sympathetic ap preciation of things as they are. No man or woman who obeys the law need fear him as Mayor; and no one who desires to know and obey it will be turned away by him without kind ness, charity and help. Mr. Albee Is & sound business man. who will have no great difficulty in maintaining himself at the head of a good business administration, and he is enough of a politician of the right sort to understand the bearing and application of correct political prin ciples to the affairs of the city. He has been identified with the Progres sive party; but he has already made it clear that party politics will be given no thought by him as a public offi cer, so that party will not in any way be served or promoted. The com mission charter provides that party designation shall be eliminated in all candidacies under its "terms; and its policy is that the public shall make its selections of Mayor and Commis sioners without reference to party affiliations. . In that spirit Mr. Albee has orfered his cnndldacy. and has pledged himself to the public Interests. In that spirit also The Oregonlan sup. ports him and invites all eltizens to Join In the effort to elect him. The man who buys the collection known as Mrs. Lincoln's "bitter let ters" at auction In New York next week will do his country patriotic ser hv burn ins: the lot at' once. They only reveal the worry and suffering. of a hysterical woman. That her rea son was not unsettled permanently was not for lack of cause. At this time, half a century after, her words should be forgotten. VX PREPAREDNESS. Not a soldier must be moved, not a warship maneuvered, not a single war preparation made. The State Depart ment doesn't wish It done, and since the State Department Is playing the leading role in the present controversy with Japan, necessary orders have been Issued by the War and Navy de partments. Nothing even suggestive of a preparatory mote must be made during the negotiations with our some what petulant neighbor across the Pa cific. Evidently the presiding genius of the State Department wishes to main tain Democratic precedent and Demo cratic military ideals to the very end. Unpreparedness seems to be a sort of hobby with the Democrats, and espe cially with the small-navy-dove-of-Deace variety, such as Mr. Bryan. There seems little probability of aJ war with Japan. Still why should the - duty of preparedness be re nounced?. Do the Democrats wish to remain consistent to the end, and in event we are ever attacked leave us hopelessly unfitted to meet the emer gency? Why should we renounce the right to maneuver or mobilize our scattered fleet as a purely precau tionary matter, should we see It? Why should we fail to reinforce the garrisons at Hawaii should it be deemed of strategic expedience? Why should we keep stored in arsenals am munition and equipment manufac tured for use at coast garrisons? Even though we do not anticipate trouble with Japan, it is foolish to an nounce to the world that we will do nothing to improve our pitifully un prepared state. The subject need not have been referred to at all. The fact that It was probably came as a subconscious expression of the Demo cratic policy of un preparedness. ' YAPS IN" OFFICE. We confess that we are unable to accept the reasoning of our progres sive friend In the state of Washington, the Yakima Republic. The Republic predicts that the new charter will re sult in putting the "yaps" on guard in official affairs to some extent "but that the situation will be improved because under the new system public officials will be responsible to the people and it will be easier to get rid of them if they don't suit." The new system, we are told, will not make the people any better, but it will put fear-of the lord Into the hearts of the office holders and will make it easier for the people to change things when they need fixing.- We suspect that a people who will elect a yap to office will be satisfied with a yap administration. If the charter will -not make such people any better they will not try to get rid of him. But If we are mistaken In trjls suspicion we have adopted a cumber some and costly mode of securing ef ficiency In office, according to the Yak ima Idea. If our contemporary's pre diction be fulfilled we are doomed to elect a few unfits, but as soon as they demonstrate their unfitness the people will arise in their might and recall them. Thus two elections will be nec essary and the public will have to suf fer for all the discreditable things the yap may accomplish while In office before we shall have a proper set of Commissioners. Our friend across the lino can put more gloom Into an op timistic article than anybody we can think of at the moment. But perhaps the Republic believes that responsibility will cure a yap of being a yap. If This be true, the public is wasting a great amount of money and endeavor in maintaining a. public school system, in training young men for particular vocations and In paying in private enterprises high salaries to employes who have had special train ing and experience. The short cut to perfect, service Is the placing of re sponsibility on the individual which is far too easy and simple to be true. The flaw.in many propagandas for reform In government is their failure to recognize that the election of crooks to office Is not the only fault that must be corrected or prevented. We may devise a form of government which will cause the dishonest offi cial to be afraid to do wrong, but re sponsibility, publicity, recall provi sions and the like will not cure a dull wit. The real hope of commission government Is that it will enlarge the sense of responsibility of the people also. It concentrates their Interests in the hands of a few men. The people must see that these men are equipped for their duties, else the charter will fall far short of the mark set for It by Its ardent friends. AS OTHER NATIONS SEE IT. Those who are In a glow of enthusi asm over the 100 years of peace be tween the United States and Great Britain, marked by the coming cen tenary of the treaty of Ghent, and who regard this celebration as the harbin ger of universal arbitration, would do well to take sober second thought. They would be wise to consider why the arbitration propaganda is confined to the United States, Great Britain, France and the smaller nations of Eu rope and America, and why the other great military powers are either In different or treat the peace advocates with derfclon. The three chief nations which favor arbitration have about all the territory thev want! None of them desires to seize territory from any other of the three, or for that -matter from . any other whatever. They have their hands full, and will be content to keep what they have. If they can induce other nations to enter into arbitration treaties, they can feel secure In their possesions, for no tribunal w'ould be likely to question existing titles and take'terrltory from one nation to give It to another. But how will this strike the na tions which have not secured all they would like to have, with' boundaries that are. In their minds, movable? Take Germany for example. A nation of abounding energy and prolific popula tion, she only found herself as a nation a little more than forty years ago. At that time all the Juicy plums of terri tory had already been picked up by one of the great colonizing nations, and the United States warned her away from the American continent with the Monroe doctrine. But Ger many Is growing too big for her clothes. Expansion in Europe is im possible. Only by seizing and colon izing; the waste and barbarous coun tries can she find room for her surplus people, Austria has greedy eyes on the Balkan peninsula, particularly on fhe Adriatic coast and on an outlet to Salonlca. Italy would like to follow up her conquest of Tripoli by attack ing a few of the Aegean Islands. Were not the Austro-German alli ance deemed necessary to her safety, Italy would like to seize Italia Irre denta from Austria, nor has she for given France for taking the Riviera. Russia has never placed a limit to her ambition for more territory; she will take all she can grab. The 3alkaii states have Just begun to feel their strength, and will be content with nothing short of what they can con fitipr .Tartan Ik Drobably only resting and recuperating before taking more of China. Yuan Shi vai may equip the Chinese Republic to re-take Man churia from Russia and Japan, and Mongolia from Russia. As a last resort, there Is but one means by which these nations can gain their desire: that Is war. If the peace loving nations rebuke them for such barbarism, they may reasonably re tort: "How did you get your territory, except by w-ar? You ask us to con firm title to all you hold and to end for ever the game of grab by which you got rich. You propose to play v.. xhonihnv e-ame. 'havers Is keep ers. " These nations which have so far been left out in the game of grab n.iuh tn r-anou.- It at the first favor able opportunity. They regard acqui sition of certain territory as a mat ter of vital interest, gathering under the national flag of all people of their nationality as a point of national honor. Arbitration of all international dis putes Is a beautiful Ideal for the world to set before itself, but it cannot be realized until all nations have got what they want and no nation has what some other nation is determined t.ifA Tn thA meantime wise states men will strive persistently for peace while Keeping reaoy tor war. ALL HOLIDAYS OX MONDAY. A novel proposition has found favor in New York to celebrate all holidays on the Monday nearest the date set by law. Thus, Memorial day would be celebrated on Monday, June 2, instead of Friday, May 30, and Independence day on Monday, July 7, Instead of Fri day, July 4.. The particular objection Is to holidays on .Friday, which are followed by a day or half a day's work on Saturday before an idle Sun day. The Boot & Shoe Recorder puts the argument for the change thus: Some day the aheer common aanaa of thl Idea will compel Its general adoption. Ninety-nine people In a hundred would prefer to have their extra, day of real and recrea tion combined with Sunday'e rest, and. In rase of Saturday noon closing, with the Saturday afternoon added to the contlnn ou period. Thla la particularly true In the cltlea and town where the tendency la very itront toward following- the aenilble English fashion of setting out Into the country or to the seashore for the wek-end. Which does a sleepy man tho most good, eight hours' contlnuoua sleep or sixteen half hours with Intervening half hour of waking? As the custom of taking a Saturday half-holiday la becoming general, this Dronosed change would give two and a half days' clear rest, similar to that which the English take at the week ends when bank holidays occur. This would greatly encourage holiday pic nics and excursions, such as are tne rage in the Old Country" at holiday times. It would promote rational out door enjoyment. We have long been open to the re proach that we are slaves to money making, and do not. allow ourselves time to .enjoy the money we make. The growing prevalence of the Satur day half-holiday has done much to free us from this reproach, but we can well afford to go farther in the same direction by promoting the week end vacation. Then, there may be fewer cases of nervous breakdown through Incessant pursuit ef wealth as an end rather than as a means to an end the enjoyment of life In comfort of mind and body. WHAT IS A MAJORITY? Several persons have heretofore Informed The Oregonlan with alarm that there Is a wicked jokerin the paragraph "h" of section 23 of the commission charter. This paragraph Is in that part of the document which sets forth the preferential plan of vot ing for candidates. It reads as fol lows: (h) When the word majority Is used in thla section It shall mean the smallest num ber In excess of one-half of tha quotient obtained by dividing the total number of first-choice votes for any office by the num ber of otflcea to ba elected thereto. The meaning of this section ought to be clear to the person who reads It carefully. It contains no mare's nest But more as to that later. Here is how an alarmed correspondent inter prets it; Take 1000 first-choice votes, divide by four and you liave a quotient of 230. Dlvlda thla quotient by two. split It In half, add one whole number and you iav 128, and this 128 conatltutea what the new charter la pleased to call a "majority." and these few votes will elect a Commissioner, regard less of tha second and third-choice votes cast for his opponent. Some candidate might receive 124 first choice votes and 800 second-choice votes, making U2 votes, and still ba defeated by a gangster polling 126 first-choice votes. If you bava any doubts about this statement, read the last paragraph of section 23. Let there ba light. Turn on the calcium. Tell the people where they may locate, tha Senegamblan. Enough of bunk and bam boozle. The trouble encountered by the writer of the foregoing and many oth ers who read a similar meaning into the paragraph is that they do not dis tinguish between the words "votes" and "voters." This correspondent takes 1000 first-choice votes for the basts of his example, and presumably he Is thinking of Commissioners. But there are four. Commissioners to be elected, and every voter is supposed to vote for four. One thousand first choice votes therefore represent the ballots of only 250 voters, and a ma jority of 250 is 126. No candidate could receive 800 second-choice votes, as the correspondent asserts, because only 250 voters cast ballots and no voter can register more than one choice for a single candidate. The hypothetical candidate ,who gets 124 first-choice votes from a total of 250 voters could not possibly receive more than 126 second-choice votes because the 124 who give him their first-choice votes could not give him their second choice votes. There would be only 126 qualified to vote for him on sec ond choice, in the illustration pre sented by the correspondent. Lest the matter still be not clear to some. The Oregonlan will state it in another way. It Is probable that 50,000 men and women will vote in the coming election. If no voters neglect to vote first choice for four Commission ers .there will be cast 200,000 first choice votes. Dividing 200.000 by four 4the number of officers to be elected) gives a quotient of 50,000. The smallest number in excess of one half of 60,000 Is 25,001. If this estimate of the vote to be cast Is correct, no candidate for Commissioner can be elected on first choice unless he receives 25,001 votes. He who receives that number of first choice votes will be the first choice of an actual, not an arbitrary, ma jority of the men and women voting. If four Commissioners do not receive, each, 25,001 or more first-choice votes, then' the second-choice votes will be added to the first-choice votes. Those who then have the highest number I combined votes in excess of 2M01, i any, will be elected. If there-are none, the third-choice votes will be added to first . and second-choice votes. The four who then, have the highest num ber of combined votes over 25,001 will be elected. If still there are none, the four candidates having the highest number of combined, votes in other words the largest pluralities counting first, second and third choice will be the successful ones. ... A MATTER OF DEFINITION. It would be interesting to know ex actly what Dr. Mark A. Matthews, of Seattle, understands by the doctrine of the "deity of Christ," of which he has made so much at the Atlanta Assem bly of the Presbyterian Church. A TTAat IllO n ' TtOnnlfk hplleVft in the di vlnity of the Savior who do not be lieve in his "deity." Others believe in his "deity" who deny that he ever lived on earth. Professor William Wenlamln Smith, the famous author of "Ecce Deus," believes in the deity nf tn lord. but he denies his his toric reality. In his opinion, Jesus was a heathen god, like Jupiter or Osiris, who .never inhabited a material body any more than these mythical persons did. The expression, "deity or ennst has two radically different meanings, both well known in the. learned world. In one sense it means, as we have in dicated, that he was a mere creation of the myth-making faculty. In 'the other It means that he was the sec ond person of the Christian Trinity, "very man and very God." Dr. Mat thews is lamentably vague as to which of these significations he favors. His remarks would have been far more edifying if he had defined his posi tion in' a more scholarly manner. As it stands, he leaves us the full right to suppose that he -takes sides with Professor William Benjamin Smith and holds, with the ancient Gnostic heretics, that Jesus never ap peared on earth, except as a figment of the imrination. Tn that rase of course Dr. Matthews denies the divinity of the Lord. The phrase "divinity of Jesus" has no i-nonnino- unless we acceDt his historic reality and admit that he actually wore human flesh. That sucn is ur. Matthews' position . becomes all the mnra nrnhahle when we read from his Hps that the denial o the deity of Christ is prima racle eviaence mat a man has not been regenerated."' To avnlflin this remark rationally we seem obliged i to assume that Dr. Matthews looks upon "regeneration as part of the ancient ritualistic cere mony connected with a mythical deity. Unless a person accepts that particu lar deity, Osiris. Jupiter, or what not, he would naturally not perform the ritual of his worship. No doubt this tenet is part of the "supernatural equipment" which Dr. Matthews claims to have. ON EARLY MARRIAGE. Pursuing the same trend of thought as in some of his former speeches President Lowell, of Harvard, told tne Chicago Harvard Club not long ago that it was best for men to marry young. He added that as a rule the modern college holds Its students too long, sending them out into active life sometimes years after they ought to i.avA hoon at wnrk with families about them. "It is well neither for a young man nor for the community,- saia n,- T-11 . "that he be forced to wait until he is 28 years or more of age before he can think of marriage. Present college requirements impose this condition in too many cases. The "thnrniich nrerjaration" has substituted education for life and has drained students of much of their ini tiative before they take their places among men. Dr. Loweu opines wiai 17 l-i about right for en tering college. Beginning later than that a youth finds his course encroacn ing upon the years which he ought to use to establish himself in business or a profession. The president of Harvard adds the curious statement that a man "who is sent to college at 40 will go to the dogs." This provokes comment knowing, as TnBLTiv H n cases of men in advanced life who have entered college and made brilliant records. In fact mere are good grounds for challenging Dr. Lowell's further statement that "the younger a man begins the better stu dent he makes." It might be argued Kof a oortaln maturltv helps a per son to understand the university branches. Knowledge or tne woria ronimntoa ttio inasterv of strong books. The more ample the "apperceptive nidus" in a student s Drain tne mure easily he will acquire new knowledge. But "it is not our purpose to discuss these topics at present. We prefer to make a few comments upon Dr. Low ir. a;ivirA tn vniine men to marry early. It was addressed to persons In easy circumstances, who are not mteiy to be harassed by the question of bread-winning and who when they marry need not confront thesposslbil lty of plunging a beloved wife into misery" and bringing children into a wretched environmnt. Too fre quently distinguished thinkers of a philanthropic turn likeDr. Lowell di late upon marriage as if It concerned nobody but the husband. His ad vantage and happiness are enlarged upon, his prospects are canvassed upon all (Sides, his welfare is magnified without much regard to other deeply Interested persons. This is natural enough In men whose habits of life almost necessarily make them think and speak as If the world contained no iit -m.als and as If the family con- sisted of the father alone, tne wire -hiiron helner mere phantoms and wavering about in a fanciful back ground. Dr. Lowell has never lectured to anyl rbody but men. His books, which e extremely learned, are aaaressea statesmen. When he thinks of a col to lege it is as a collection of young men. j-iuM his wife Is more or less real No to him, but of women in general his notions are probably nebulous. He has learned from the poets that such creatures exist, but he classes them with Calypso and the Sirens, or with mer rmalds as half fabulous at least- The truth of the matter is that mar other individuals nuite r iage .ttoii.,- a a thA vniinfi- man. There as is the wife to be thought of and there are the children, unless we are so extremely modern and French that we can omit the latter altogether. Before advising a youth to commit matrimony soon as his physical development makes !S it practlcaDle it is weu to asK how it will affect the other persons who must share his fate Beyond question the happiest marriages, as a rule le, are those contracted inen pom parties es are in . the bloom or youtn. monv Vinnrtv ones are contracted SU11 in later life. Every homily upon this pert plexing subject ougnt to contain , -n-nrnlne that no man should per- th su ade a woman to marry him unless I he has a reasonable prospect or sup- porting her and their children in de cent comfort. Thi AnM not mean, of course, that a nnnr vonne man should never take a wife. If he has good health and a good trade or profession he should marrr forthwith and take the conse quences.. The risks are those which a brave man feels called upon to run. We must" not be too cowardly in the face of the whips and scorns of time, but neither should we be recklessly imnmrtpnt. There is a middle course. Dr. Lowell's, students are almost in variably well-to-do . or at any rate Into the world thoroughly equipped for their struggle. Their circumstances are radically aniereni from those of a young man without nv -Winltn training for life and with no bread-winning equipment to de pend upon. No doubt the question oi early marriage reduces itself finally to that of sensible schooling. Make a youth a capable bread winner and by that very fact he is made a. good husband and father; x The fear of "dragging a beautiful and tender woman into the struggle of life" is overworked. A true woman nrefPTi to helD her husband win his way, as Brieux teaches In his "Femme Seul." He makes the lovable heroine Imnlore the cowardly hero to wed her In spite of poverty and let her share the battle with him. The Dest way for men to defend themselves against woman's industrial competition is to marry them and give them homes to live In. But the latter clause is vital. TTni... o i-fli hnmA Is sriven the mar riage is predestined to failure. It Is woman" naturally shuns exertion. She does nothinir of the kind. Women love effort as ardently as men. Se clusion and a pampered life are as innQtii..! fnr thpm a for the other sex. The deep need of their being urges them to exert their faculties and If this need cannot be gratified in one orav it will he in another. What is essential for the welfare of women is a home to which they can retreat for the duties of motherhood. Unless a man, young or old, feels confident that he can supply this prime requisite he is improvident to think of marriage. CARL 8CHT7RZ' MONUMENT. The monument to Carl Schurz, which has Just been dedicated in New York, stands on Mornlngside Drive, not far from the building of Columbia University and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. It commemorates one of tho most devoted and useful men who ever came from Europe to the United States. Carl Schurz was exiled from Germany with many other friends of humanity In the revolution ary days of 1848. After some time spent in France and England vainly seeking those free conditions which were denied him in his own country, he came to America, arriving in 1852, when the excitement was fiercest over the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the apparent ascendancy of the Southern slave oligarchy in the coun sels of the Nation. Born with an in vincible love of liberty, Carl Schurz could see no reason for granting It to men of one color and denying it to those of another. In a letter to one of his friends in the old country he ex pressed his astonishment at finding in the United States "a party that calls itself Democratic and is at the same time the main prop of the Institution of slavery." But this was not the only circumstance that made him wonder. He was quite as much astonished to see the anti-slavery party "basing all Its arguments on the authority of the Bible." This, to Carl Schurz' mind. Indicated "an Incredible state of men tal dependence." He and the Euro pean spirits who thought and acted with him had theoretical notions of liberty far beyond anything actually realized at that time in the United States. They dreamed of the com plete emancipation of the mind as well as the body. Freedom In religion was as dear to them as in politics. "Can this be my ideal?" he wrote when he had seen the contradictions in our Na tional life and dwelt upon the infu sions of baseness which marred the practice of liberty. In the end he be came reconciled to the imperfections which he saw in the United States. He reasoned sensibly that liberty must bring out the bad qualities of man as well as the good, and that it is folly to expect perfect Institutions anywhere as long as human nature ltseir is faulty. "The ideal is not relized," he wrote, "but it would be foolish to force the Ideal In spite of the people. All forces, all weaknesses, all the good, all th bad, are seen In full operation. The struggle of principles goes on apace. External liberty reveals the foes that must be conquered before Inner liberty is secured." Into this struggle Carl Schurz threw himself with all his energy. He fought In the war on the side of the North won Lincoln's friendship and com manded the right wing of the Union troops on the first day at Gettysburg. When the war was over he took a hand in politics and was one of the ablest of the opponents of public cor ruption In the dark days when It al most seemed as if victory had de moralized the whole Nation. He was honored even by his enemies, but his best friends regarded him as somewhat impractical. His standards were high and -he preferred to fall rather tnan lower them. The doctrine that politics is a series of compromises found .no disciple in Carl Schurz. He was one of the few men who gain considerable worldly success without concession to evil in any form. It cannot be said of him that he ever sacrificed his principles for- his own sake or any body else's and yet he made himself a power In the government of the country for many years, tils mam po. lltical support came from the West where his fellow exiles from Germany had settled with thousands of their less ardent countrymen. These im migrants were highly intelligent and well educated. They brought from Germany the best traditions of life and thought and Impressed them upon the commonwealths where they took up their residence. Wisconsin, Mis souri. HUnots and other states of the West owe to these German immigrants the strongest of their impulses which have directed their development to ward democratic institutions, free higher education and liberal ideas in religion. They .contributed many sol diers to the cause of 'the Union and have sent many a sound statesman to Washington in the course of the last half century. But none of the other German immigrants or their children have quite measured up to the great ness of Carl Schurz. They themselves confess it proudly, for he was one of the world's foremost men. His best service to the United States lay in resolute loyalty to his ideals. When many statesmen were inclined to trade principle for partisan ad vantage he set principle first and sac rificed everything else for its sake. When public offices were looked upon as the fitting rewards of partisan fa naticism he enlisted in the campaign for civil service reform and fought for it devotedly until the victory was won. When there were comparatively few men in public life who held the wel fare of the country above the success of their party Carl Schurz forsook Viis party and staked his career upon the right of political revolt. We think of him as one of that sturdy race which includes such men as Luther, John Bunyan and Benjamin Franklin. They valued their freedom of thought and . action above everything else and were ready to forego all earthly ad vantages rather han submit to in tellectual chains. , As times grow perilous and the country turns to the past for worthy examples to guide its future action the figure of Carl Schurz impresses us by its moral grandeur and teaches the highest lessons of patriotism. His great abilities were given unreservedly to the service of the people. His con science was as active in public life as his intellect. Perhaps the best pre cept we can draw frbm his noble ca reer is that the same principles of truth and rectitude which make a man a loyal friend and good citizen in pri vate life make him a safe counsellor and a sound statesman In public life. The long years of success which at tended Carl Schurz and the potent influence he wielded prove that a man may be of the highest usefulness to his country without pandering either to the ignorant poor or the unprin cipled rich. The Pine Islers are chafing at Cuban domination. They -ay there are over 4000 of them Americans and that their -numbers increase every , month, while there are only about 1000 Cu bans, many of th-m negroes. They reply to the taunt that they are ex empt from taxation by saying they have no part in the government, though they own 90 per cent of the land, and -when they want roads and bridges they build them. They also support schools by voluntary contribu tions. But life under Cuban rule on Pine Isle must have attractions for Americans, or so many would not go there and stay there. Governor Sulzer is fighting the Barnes and Murphy machines at all points. He has Instigated Indictment of some of their underlings in connec tion with scandals in the prison and Tiighway departments. ' He is starting a backfire on opponents of the direct primary bill by stirring up their con stituents to send telegrams denouncing their course. He also matches the list of men who refused to confirm John Mitchell as State Labor Commissioner with the list of those who indorsed his choice. There will be the liveliest po litical war in New York State this year and the Governor will enjoy himself swatting the machines. Henry Watterson has been tripped up as wanting in that peculiarly Ken tucklan quality gallantry to a woman. Challenged to debate woman suffrage with Mrs. Philip Snowden, he replied In the Courier-Journal: I can tmajrlne no greater waste of time than a battered old man and a silly old woman bandying words across a broom stick. The Louisville Herald thereupon re. minded him that Mrs. Snowden was generally regarded as a singularly gifted woman and had not yet reached her 30th year. Now what has the Colonel to say for himself? New York City feels safer, now that four of its principal guardians of the peace have been sentenced to jail. Were the whole police force ' behind prison bars, the Gothamites might feel so secure that they would not even lock their doors at night. What a topsy-turvy government It Is -which hires men to rob the people on the pretext of guarding them against rob bers. "Philadelphia Is the Nation's best shop ping place." according to the Public Ledger. Can an Alderman be bought at a greater bargain in the Quarker City than a legisla tor at- Harrisburg? Louisville Courier Journal. That sort of thing Is not done in Pennsylvania; the Keystone State has gone to Armageddon to battle for the Lord. "Sixty ways to cook mutton" are noted in -a booklet just issued by the Department of Agriculture. Congress has also given a little demonstration in how to do the wool industry to a nice brown turn. The method of scoring ball games may be changed. We trust some sys tem will be hit on that will enable the Portland team to score a bit more conspicuously. The Pall Mall Gazette Is right In assuming the white race will be a unit In the event of hostilities; but there will not be hostilities. Japan knows her foe before she picks It. Still, it might be that aside from the merits of the case, Japan is look ing for trouble. Well, we always were a more or less accommodating people. Anything on the subject of weather is threadbare, to be sure; yet these gently falling showers now assure roses in plenty when they are wanted. It is possible, of course, that the warship and cannon trust is endeav oring to drum up a little business. ' But just reflect. We are getting it all now, and are certain of no bad weather at Rose Festival time. No wonder we are reluctant in rec ognizing Mexico's present government. It is beaten beyond recognition. Are Mr. Bryan's efforts really for the benefit of mankind or has he an eye on a Xobel prize? London's ineligibles to suffrage are causing far more trduble tnan our in eligibles to citizenship. A Cuban aviator having flown from Cuba" to Florida, man takes rank as a migratory bird. With the wheat supply cornered we may learn anon that bread has gone bi-planing. Cincinnati ' escaped from the tor nadoes only to fall into the maws of he strike. And now the French are irritated by our tariff. Hava we a friend left in the world? Vice-President Marshall ruled that he was out of order. So that's what alls him. New York Is to have the largest church in the world. New York needs it, Topical Verse Tho Loafer. You kin always tell a loafer. If there's loaf In' the crew; You kin always tell a loafer 'cause ha has so much to do; When the men are In the maintop he la IU8K1I1 Wn J'". On the drive ne's alwaya looking lor a cnance away m mnu, In tha woods the smallest timber Is tha tinU'tri UK Will liliu, In the yard the twelve-by-twenty Is tha Klnu ne uitihhu. . He will fuss an- ho will fiddle huntln" up tne soiifoi. . Life Is one eternal treadmill fer tha. take-lt- easv cnai.- Yea, It takes a lot of trouble sklppln labor. uay by day: Fer a fellah has to figger how to dodga It On the"diVve eVm the timber. In the. mill er IB the yard. . You kin always tell a loafer 'causa ha - u-.-tt-ir. n Moomln' hard. Douglas .Malloch. in American Lumber man. Simplified Simplicity. My wife and me ain't never even tasted of champagne; I never seen no forty-dollar hat on bairy Jane; , . ' ' 1 never do no shavln', but Just let ray whiskers grow. And we alwaya walk to meetln . rain or shine or mud or mow; The wife she does our cookln' and we never make no fuss; ' Fer simplicity I wundcr If . the Wilsons can Our daughters make their dresses and they use but little silk; Ain't one of them that .powders; now and then they help to milk; . They've not been ott to college wastln time at big expense And they don't need no assistance when they have to climb a fence; I always shine at Kaster In my -weddln- Btoveptpe hat; Fer simplicity I wonder If the Wilsons can beat that? There 'ain't a single feller round about these parts. I'll bet.. That wouldn't like to marry in our little fam'ly set; ....... I have got a thousand acres of the rlnest land In sight. And the banks are .always ready to cash any checks I write; My knife. I don't mind saying, comes In handy 'when I eat; Fer simplicity I wonder if the Wilsons have us beat? Klser. In Chicago . Record-Herald. The Little Sod Shanty. The. little sod shanty that stood on th plain . . Has gone with the prairie dog's vanished domain. Is gone with the antelope's light-footed traad, ' And peasant-bull houses have risen In stead. ' The biting wind strayed through the shanty's one room. And one glassless window brought light to Its gloom. '.vi. The water dtipped-drlpped, when it hap pened to rain, Through the little sod shanty that stood on the plain. But the country-bred men In those days, I am told. To whom life meant more than a passion for goldj .. They were roiiKh. they were tough, they were sometimes profane " But they didn't rate manhood by barter and gain. . And how they stood on their own feet In alT hell's despite. And they died In their boots If they thought they were right! There were women who lived In those davs, I am told, Who suffered privation and hunger ana Along wlth.' their husbands, because they believed In the dream that the . next generation achieved So. though It haa vanished, it rose not 'n The liVt'e sod shanty that stood on the plain. Kansas City. Star. The Tempter. When you're strlvln' to remember All the resolutions fine ... .- That you mat! w-hen old December,. r- Waa Jes' stepplll' out o' line. When the first of January Made yu talk reforms- anew ... An' tho first of February Made you try an extra few .v.,.. Along comes a May day a-peekln thrown tht fence . . A-sayin', "It's a play-day an' the sport IS , sure immense." When with serious Intentions To the future you give thought And you ponder on conventions An' tho things the platforms tsught. When you inako a f iereo endeavor From all folly to refrain And declare you'll never, never Waste a precious hour again ., Along comes a May day a-slngln' of a "Oh. life Is In Its hcydey au' you d better stroll along." . , . Chlesao Record-Herald. Away From the Tag-er. With hopeful hint the farmer's boy Leaned on his hoe and said; The fish Is bltln' fiercest klnd. Down by tho mill pond's head. "Don't be afeerd." the farmer said. Dropping a seed or two. Jen keep on klverln' "taters. son, N' the fish they won't bite you! New York Sua. The Lure of Sap-Time. I Join in the throng of the crowded streeti We are slaves In search of pelf; I am sorry for the fettered gang, I am sorry for myself. Just Because I know a place up-country. ' In God's great out-of-doors.. A quiet sheltered corner On which the springtime pours The wine of warmth and magic. And well I know the sun Haa kissed the grove of maples. And sap begins to run. There are sounds and sights that niones bring. They are good to hear and to see, But they're city siuhts and city sounds, And right now they've no charm for me Just , Because I want to see the biuehlrds And watch a sap-snow fall. To see the pussy willows. And hear the robin's rail; To see the frisky chipmunks, As oft before I've done, I w-ant to be up-country Whon the sap begins to run. I sit' in the seats of the mighty. And rather my share of the nest. "r wlary of toll that brings treasure, Kttll, now 1 am filled with unrest. Just Because I want to see tlie P:,b""hm.k. And smell the woort-flre smok e. To watch the boiling kf les. And see the old home folk. I'm hungry for hot . And 'the !lmple. home.y fun That's sure to be up-eonntry AriT.n the san begins to run. When the sap commercial. Wind o' the South. wind o' the South, come whisper now The , "ell that shakes the blossom-bough. The Sell that wakes the waiting leaves until they dance In wondrous weaves o? Jewel-green against the blue. And show to us a world mada new. wind o' the South, come now and call The vines upon the crumbling, wall t-ntil they pulse with spring's own blood And open many a swelling hud And fill e.ch gray and empty spsee With restful strands of curving grace. wind o" the South, come breathe again Above the earth's old wintry stain. Until he eager blades of grass Leap up to greet us as we puss. . 1 et Spring's rich carpet be outrolled. Starred with the dandelion's gold. Wind o' the South, come o'er -.the miles With promise of the Summer whiles; Come wake the silent, sleeping trees. And blow reveille for the be.s. And waft to us the rare perfume Caught. from soinu regal, rose In bloom. Wind o' the South, come bring your son For which we harken overlong. Come singing gently, singing low. . The dreaming strains our hearts would know. Until the vibrant world shall be Attuned to your glad m'g9 Totu Belinda. Belinda's waist is small; . Belinda's form ts neat; , . And oh. the fine Krench clock that shows Above Belinda's feet! But oh, Belinda's face! I do not mean to mock. Yet if you saw It you would swear Twouid surely stop a clock! Exchange,
