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PORTLANO, SUNDAY, MAY, SI. 114.
TARIFF AVD FOREIGN TRADE.
The Foreign Trade Convention re
cently held in Washington - directs
attention once more to the new phase
on which the tariff question has en
tered. It is no longer purely a ques
tion of preserving our home markets
for home producers; it has become a
question of developing foreign mar
kets for our surplus manufactures
and for the increasing volume of our
finished products. The necessity of
expanding our volume of exports
arises not only from the develop-
ment of our industries to the point
where the United States cannot near
ly consume all it produces and must
find a foreign outlet; it arises also
from the great decrease in the vol
ume of our food exports. Our sales
abroad of grain, meat, cattle, cotton
wool and other raw products former
ly held the balance of trade in our
favor, notwithstanding the relatively
small proportion of manufactures we
exported until recent years, and not
withstanding the large outgo in ocean
freight, in dividends and interest on
foreign investments In this country
and in American tourists' expenses
abroad.
All this has now changed. Our
grain exports are diminishing to the
vanishing point and-we have become
Importers, instead of exporters, of
meat and other animal products.
India and Egypt are making inroads
on our practical control of the mar
ket for raw cotton, and China has
become a dangerous rival in that
field. Probably only the great ex
pansion of our exports of manufac-
tures has prevented the balance from
being already turned against us.
The time has come to decide on a
tariff policy which shall expand our
foreign trade in manufactures, in
order both to keep our factories run
ning to capacity and to compensate
for the shrinkage in our food exports.
The choice is between the Republican
policy of protecting home industry
and of lowering the bars to imports
only when other nations lower their
bars to us, and the Democratic policy
of throwing down the bars in conft
dence that the general decline in cost
of home production will enable us to
Invade foreign markets without any
concessions on the part of other
nations.
We are now trying the Democratic
policy, and its result is the reverse
of that predicted by its advocates
They promised increased exports
which would more than counterbal
ance the increase of imports which
they admitted would follow the pas
sage of their revenue tariff. In fact
exports have diminished and imports
have increased to the point where
the excess of the former over the
latter in the three months ending
April 30 was only $31,000,000,
compared with $129,000,000 In the
same period of last year. Practically
nil our ocean carrying is done by
foreigners and we are still a debtor
Nation as to income on investments,
so that the actual balance is probably
against us. This is indicated by large
exports of gold and by the fact that
In April our banks owed foreign banks
$10,000,000. Just as President Taft
said, the Democrats revised the tariff
with an ax and the country is bleed
ing gold at every wound which , the
ax inflicted.
The Republican party will probably
have an opportunity to set forth its
policy for gaining the same end, a
to foreign trade, with better succes:
when the next Congress meets. It
has a good prospect of gaining con
trol of the House and may win th
Senate also. It can resume the cam
paign for expanded foreign trad
which was begun by McKJnley with
his dying speech. Replying to
friendly critic of the Dingley tariff,
McKinley had said that, having sue
ceeded in holding the home market
for home manufacturers, he now
hoped that they would reach out for
foreign markets. To that end. he ha
plans for reducing duties and makln
' reciprocity agreements. His plans
were thwarted by the assassin an
by the standpat Senators, who pig
conholed his reciprocity treaties.
It is not necessary to take up th
work where McKinley left off, for
public opinion has made great prog
ress since his death. The peopl
would sanction revenue duties or no
duties on food products the protec
tion on which afforded by higher
duties would be illusory, but they
would not sanction slashing the
duties on competing manufactured
goods below the difference in cost of
production. They desire a tariff
which will take up this difference,
scientifically ascertained by an im
partial body, but which shall not ex
ceed it. They desire that reciprocity
agreements be made on the basis of
mutual advantage and without hav
ing to run the gauntlet of a Senate
over-zealous of its prerogatives. They
desire that the initial work of revi
sion be done as it was attempted by
Mr. Taft under the guidance of a
.Tariff Commission as to facts, sched
ule by schedule and that thereafter
the tariff remain unchanged except
by reciprocity agreement or in ac
cordance with changed conditions of
trade to be ascertained by the Com
mission. They desire that logrolling
and ex parte hearings before com
mittees be done away with and that
the contiguous, independent, impar
tial inquiries of the Tariff Commis
sion and the revision by schedule
take the place of these methods,
There are men In the Republican
party capable of putting , in definite
shape and carrying out in detail the
policy here outlined. Those men are
not to be found among the old guard.
- which is responsible for the political
disasters of 1910 and 1912. They are
to he found among tliC hunger gen
eratlon which has come to the front
within the last dozen years. Those
men can devise a tariff which will
protect home Industry without fos
PSYCHOLOGICAL.
President Wilson genially informs
the uninformed world that the stag
nant times throughout the Nation are
purely psychological, and that there
Is no substantial reason for them.
Clearly the President doubts their
reality.
But they are not a purely psychol-
gical figment of an alarmed imagin
ation, as some millions of American
citizens, unemployed and emDloved.
re able to tell him. The empty din
ner bucket is no mere symbol of po
litical agitation; it is no mere scare
crow of. demagogic creation; it is no
sychological theory of whimsical
pedagogical invention. Not at all; not
at all. It is the overwhelming and
injurious fact of our present commer
cial and - industrial depression. It is
hanging in Its empty substance over
the threshold at the poor homes -of
many thousand men out of work; and
it looms uncomfortably on the hori
zon of many thousand -others yet at
work.
The currency act has not given
promised relief. The tariff act has
losed many mills and workshops, and
has directly depressed values in
nearly all our farm and forest prod
ucts. The anti-trust bills are wend-
ng their confused and complicated
way through the maze of Congres-
Ional ignorance. The Mexican em-
broglio has served merely to weaken
further the early confidence in the
firm and intelligent purposes of ' the
Administration. The open contempt
of the President and his Secretary of
State for the dollar diplomacy, and
the sharp delimitation of our broad
foreign policies, have had a discourag
ing reactionary effect upon the ex
panding business of the Nation.
Psychological? Well, perhaps; but
nevertheless actual and substantial
The workman who can get no work;
the merchant who can sell no goods
the farmer who can eke out a bare
living, or even less, from the products
of the soil and of his own hard toll
the professional man who cannot col
lect his bills; the proprietor who finds
his rents cut In two; all these will And
it difficult to believe that the empty
dinner pail and the empty pocket-
book are purely psychological as
sumptions.
But let us cheer up. Everybody
howled for a, change a year or two
ago, and got it; and new the same
every bodies are ready to change
back. We rather look for the sun to
begin to break through the clouds
about the day after the first Tuesday
in next November.
the insane, that of returning fugitives ,n orler not to sit all Summer. The
from Justice, and numerous other futh is that Congress fritters away
matters of vital Importance.
The legatee of the Governor's pe-
uliar ideas of economy and law en
forcement has made a reckless state
ment. It would be becoming for him
ow to enumerate the items that
The awful reality of the Empress
ould properly make up the million- mi,.a ,y,na v.i
dollar saving that might have been were ushered Into eternity. Its ter
made had the item-veto been possi- rlble lesson ia that ,t might have
.Hut we do not think he will. hpp Hnv. rH. tVl-,, ' nt,
ble.
To save $1,000,000 would mean either
state activities would be ita brIef hour upon the mortal staKe.
that vital
attacked
would be pointed out which Governor I Yet madly lives as It he knew it not.
est recommended or which escaped Perhaps it is well that he should
nis veto pen when he could have not act as If he knew. But it is well
vetoed them without a constitutional that he should act. when the sum
amendment ana without endangering I mons comes, as becomes a man who
other appropriations. The Residuary I has ordered his life well and fears
Legatee will not put his patron in I not at aJl what the fates have pre-
a noie. i pared for him.
The administration of Governor 1 It is hard to realize, until a disas-
West has been the most extravagant I ter so overwhelming transpires, how
in the history of the state, not be- I frail and poor are the works of mere
cause of lack of executive power, but human skill. Here was a mighty ship,
Decause of the man. He has showed built with the strength of long and
no desire for economy. He has talked careful labor, sent in almost the
it and bluffed about it, but has not twinkling of an eye through sheer
practiced it. He has made no prac- I mischance into the depths of the en
SAVING A UILUON.
The statement was made the other
day by Dr. C. J. Smith that, had the
item-veto principle been in force in
1913, the Governor might have saved
the state $1,000,000 In appropriations
It is a statement that has been re
ceived with approval by the Demo
cratic press. Moreover, It is assumed
therefrom that, had the veto of items
in appropriation bills been possible.
Governor West not only "might" but
would have saved the state $1,000,000
The Oregonian approves the Item
veto and admits that, had the Gover
nor had power to veto items in ap
propriation bills he "might" have
saved the- state many thousands o
dollars. It is quite confident, how
ever, that he would not have saved
the state much of anything, let alon
$1,000,000, nor that any Governo
who patterns after him would make
such a satisfactory record with the
item-veto In the future.
As a matter of fact, the Item-veto
distinguished from the general
veto, was not necessary to a large
saving in" legislative appropriations,
Somewhere near 35 laws were enact
ed in 1913, each of which carried Its
own appropriation. They were sep
arate item appropriation bills an
their aggregate was nearly $2,500,000
They passed the scrutiny of th
Governor. He could have vetoed
them one at a time "without imperil
ing the fate of other legislation. But
he did not.
Governor West had made numer
ous recommendations for appropria
tions. They included "liberal" appro
priations for the Panama-Pacific Ex
position and the higher educational
institutions, the enactment of a com
pensation law and roads legislation
appropriations for the Columbia
Southern Irrigation project and in
vestigation of water power, the creat
ing of a board of control, a public ac
countant and a refuge home for way
ward girls. These were translated
into law, but, did not include all his
recommendations for laws carrying
appropriations. The appropriations
in enacted laws that he recommend
ed aggregated in round numbers
more than $2,000,000.
In addition the bare maintenance
(not including new buildings or bet
terments) for state Institutions aside
from higher educational Institutions
was nearly $1,250,000. The institu
tions included in these figures are the
schools for the blind and deaf, the
two hospitals for the insane, the pen
itentiary and others of similarly In
dispensable nature.
The statement has frequently been
published that the total of appropria
tions authorized by the 1913 Legis
lature was '$6,416,607. This total.
however, includes numerous contin
uing appropriations made "by preced
ing Legislatures. It also includes the
sums derived from millage taxes and
taxes levied for special purposes. The
appropriations by the tax method are
included in the totals herein given
for the Governor's recommendations
and also in the total of Individual
laws carrying appropriations that
could have been vetoed without the
item-veto authority.
The Governor would have had no
power to veto continuing appropria
tions under the item-veto system.
Their total in the aggregate of appro
priations Is about $400,000. Moreover,
the items appropriated to pay the sal
aries of constitutional officers, offi
cers created by preceding Legisla
tures, the sums necessary to keep the
courts going and the cost of public
printing run up to nearly $ 00.000
Besides these sums, about $130,000
was appropriated for deficiencie:
that Is to pay for services rendered
cr to return money expended in be
half of the state and constituting
valid claims which had to be met.
i Without going Into an. elaborate
that had already ' been located on the map.
In uttering such persiflage are
many hours wasted, yet Congress says
it must shelve important legislation
time like a lot of village gossips at
the country store.
DESTINY.
unit in the struggling mass that frets
tical use of the veto power he already
possesses.
compassing waters, taking with it
more than a thousand precious lives.
In the same day an earthquake or a
railroad wreck, or other calamity,
might have taken another thousand
or many thousands. Where Is safety?
Where is peace? Where is the cer-
classes resolved grimly to struggle to
the last ditch for the possession of
the world. "Law is no more," as the
ancient sage prophesied. The con
testants have forsaken courts and
Juries and taken into their own hands
the weapons with which to decide the
issue of the ages. Among the secrets
of the universe there is some word
so just and' wise that if spoken it
would stay the swelling waves of
hatred and institute peace between
warring classes. "Who will speak it?
We ask, and ask In vain. Our proph-
ts find no vision from the Lord.
Their message wavers. Their eyes
re blind. They have grown old.
The wings of their Imagination are
furled forever. They brood mourn
fully over the past.
It is our young men who shall see
the vision and It will come to them.
If It comes at all, in their college
ears. To the colleges we look for
the man who shall speak the great,
compelling word that will bring
peace aijd brotherhood to the coun
try. To the. colleges we look for the
saving message which shall recall the
vision we have lost and reinstitute
the kingdom whose boundaries are
obliterated, whose towers have fal
len. The famine upon us is not a
famine of bread nor a thirst for
water. It is a famine of ideas. Our
unappeased craving is for truths
deeper than any we have ever heard
for spiritual revelations fresh from
the eternal mysteries. If men and
women come from the colleges telling
us nothing but the stale old platitudes
they might as well never have gradu
ated. The former things are passing
away. They must tell us of the new
heaven and the new earth.
FOB PEACE AND r RF.K TOLLS.
It will be observed with satisfac
tion by the people of Oregon that
Senator Lane, after a long search for talnty that the slender thread we
evidence and information, has finally I call life may not be broken at any
become convinced that it is hia na- moment? Nowhere, this side of the
triotic duty to vote against the bill Imperishable stars.
to reneal ranal tnllw aramntfnn n I All has its date below: the fatal hour
. . ., , . , I Was registered In heaven ere time began
Amcui;ail coastwise vessels. XniS We turn to dust and all our mlehttest works
leaves colonel c. E. S. Wood and pos- I di
slbly Colonel William Hanley in . un
disputed leadership of the half dozen A COMMENCEMENT meditation.
or so citizens of Oregon who would O the day of Pentecost not long
sacrifice Oregon's interests to help after the faithful had seen the Savior
the President out of a diplomatic for the last time on earth thev were
hole. I all MthpreH toe-pther" "with one lic
it is proper to welcome Senator cord in one nlace." Some chamber
Lane to the ranks of the majority as at Jerusalem was their meeting place
me return of a lost sheep to the fold, and it could not have been much ex-
His letters, while asserting an open posed to the public, for his followers
mind, had left no doubt as to his were always In Deril from the Jewish
earner inclination. Jiut this incllna- authorities and the mob. Immediate
lion was possibly due to his mlsun- iy after the execution of Jesus those
oerstanomg or tne geographical loca- who loved him had been discour-
uon of the canal and his mlsconcep- aged. The doctrines which he had
tion of recent history as exposed in taught them seemed forever extin-
one or nis communications. Now gulshed. The hopes they had cher-
' ne una oeen set rigni ne is rigni ished of a heavenly kingdom on
and all of us may rejoice over the earth had been blasted on the cross,
triumph of facts, reason and patriot- I But now they were in better cheer.
m. Thp rliscinlps had seen him either in
It is a rather ambitious programme reality or in a vision whose certitude
that Senator Lane offers in conjunc- surpassed reality and the tide of faith
tion with his definite conversion to which hajl ebbed so low beean to
tree tolls. Me is reported as willing, fiow asrain. So it was a confident
in order to clear the way for a set- company that met together on the
tiement or questions witn a more im- day of Pentecost and the contact of
portant country, to "arbitrate our ciir- mind with mind set powerful vibra
ferences with Panama." But before tions of Joy and expectation throb
endorsing this plan we should like bing through the chamber. To some
to Know wnat are our ainerences witn it seemed In their ardor as if
Panama. We confess ignorance even mighty wind were rushing over them
as to tneir existence. PossiDiy tne While their eves, auickened to Dreter-
Senator means Colombia.
Then he would sell the canal and
build another somewhere else, abro
gate the Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
cure an international agreement to
natural keenness, saw tongues of fire
cloven in the air above their heads.
The cloven tongues symbolized the
power and splendor of the mission
which they were going abroad
SIEDIATIOX AND AMMUNITION.
The Administration is looking to
mediation to bring about a full and
thorough settlement of the perennial
and perplexing Mexican problem
Out of a conference which ignores
the most powerful armed force to be
reckoned with in the Republic a new
birth for the stricken country to the
south is forecast by the sanguine Mr.
Bryan. Every effort is being put forth
to make this mediation a success;
nothing is being done that might in
any way embarrass the progress of
this little talkfest.
All the while that vocal oil is being
poured upon the troubled waters the
real volcano of constant upheaval Is
being fed by the. most prolific fuel of
violence and destruction arms and
ammunition. After seizing Vera Cruz
at a grave cost in American lives
so that arms and ammunition might
be kept from the Dictator who de
ties us, and after shutting off the sup
ply of revolutionary fuel from the
rebels, we pause to parley and let
them get a fresh supply of war muni
tions. Machine guns, cannon, small
arms and ammunition are being
landed from both coasts. Munitions
are going to both contending factions.
Stocked up with the implements
of war, the two sides will become
more and more bellicose, for it
physical power, brute force, that is
the final arbiter in Mexico. And
while the Mexicans talk the matter
over with us they restock their supply
of war fuel ,to keep alive the flames
of internal strife or to make more
bitter and galling the struggle against
the invader should we be compelled
to take a firm stand.
pay In proportion to the use of the through the world to preach.
canal and to contribute an annual The iov deepened. The tide of re
sum toward its cost. He would also action from the doom that had over
neutralize the -canal by International powered them swelled in their souls
agreement and sink an tne navies in i untii the company sprang almost a
tne deepest part or tne sea. the same instant to their feet and all
The profound purpose of the pro- began to tell in their various lan
gramme is clear except in one par- guages of the new and brighter faith
tlcular. Why sink the navies? Does that had been born in them. Some
the Senator hope to prevent future spoke Greek, some Aramaic. There
wars dj- destroying modern . nenting were stranjters from Rome who spoke
machines.' barlier wars were, con- Latin, but no Interpreter was needed
ducted without them. Even primitive for lt was plain to all the assembly
man round sometning to ngnt witn u what each Derson was saying. Soul
it was nothing better than his fists communicated directly with soul, as
or a club. There will be future wars, happens in all companies when en
whether we have guns or navies or thusiasm burns clear and bright,
not, so long as groups or nations are gut there were skeptics looking on
determined to nave tneir own way Dy land to them the events were amazing.
force if need be. Some thought the people had gone
If Senator Lane could convert mad. Some said they were "full of
everybody to the same pliability of new -n, ine." it fell to Peter to ex
mina mat ne nas exnionea on tne plain what was happening. ' He re
tolls question he would do more for minded the critics of one of the
peace than by scuttling the navies of pr0phet Joel's saying that when God
tne wona.
pours out his spirit upon the people
the old men shall dream dreams and
WHERE 18 PROSPERITY? I the young men shall see visions. '1 ne
Within the dull pages of the cur-1"" v"! and all han
rent Congressional Record is the full understand them. The followers of
text of a speech by Smoot Senator jesus, though he was vanished from
omoot, oi Litan, wno nas oio-iasnioneo the earth, were seeing visions and
ideas about the tariff, and protection, dreaming dreams on that memorable
and the full dinner pail, and the like, day of Pentecost and the energy of
and still preaches them. A year or their inner sight was prophetic of
two ago they were not popular, but the deeds thev were to do in the com-
Just now there is a reawakened be- inff years. They would build the
lief that after all they mean some- kingdom though their Lord had left
thing to the workaday individual, them. The vision they saw was of
who has been a little misled by fine I the unborn world that Jesus had lived
ideals about free trade and the super- and died for. It gave them life and
lor rights or the ultimate consumer courage. The company of the faith
over the primary producer. fui could not perish as long as they
Senator Smoot presented facts and aii had this ereat purpose for which
figures to show that the balance of to live.' Had -the vision not returned
trade is being swung rapidly against to them the beginnings of Christian-
the United fctates, and cnaiienged any itv wouid have expired and the com
Senator to say that a tariff which in- munity of the believers would have
creased imports ana decreased ex- dissolved. Where there is no vision
ports is beneficial. The Senator savs the ancient proverb, the people
showed that there had been various perish
increases in imports in tne &pnng i Each recurring Commencement
months of this year. Probably the day is, after a manner, a .day of
people of Oregon will be able to see Pentecost when the multitude of
that the following quotation from the those who have been faithful to the
Senator's address has some bearing on great saving ideals of mankind meet
the industries or tnis state: together for a last communion of
On leather and tannned skins there is an mlnH nnA nirlt before thev Ren.
anncrUe Vf4rrt,0 "oT.a?P! arate upon their mission through the
parel an increase of only 3 2 per cent, on I world, i ney speak in various tongues.
German in one land, French in an
other. English in ours, but their
dress goods an Increase of 227 per cent, on
all other manufactures of wool an Increase
of 707 Der cent. The total average increase
of poods ready for consumption during; the
month of March this year over March. 1U13,
ia 71.9 per cent.
Then people wonder why so many of our
mills are closed. People are asking why so
many of our laboring people are out of em
ployment. These figures tell the story. Mr.
President. Instead of our laboring men mak
ing our goods they are made by foreigners
and shipped into this country.
If the ultimate consumer, about
whom President Wilson is so tenderly
considerate, buys more and more
abroad, and less and less at home,
what becomes of the home producer,
who is the foundation of all industry
and the keystone of all prosperity?
What then becomes also of the ulti
mate consumer?
AVhile the country is impatiently
waiting for legislation on trusts, farm
ers" banks and the public land, Sen
ators Reed and Warren indulged in a
colloquy about prairie dogs. An ap
propriation of $125,000 was proposed
for experiments in destroying wolves,
prairie dogs and other noxious ani
mals. Mr. Warren supported it, giv
ing Secretary Houston a testimonial
and accusing the Government of
breeding wolves in National forests.
Mr. Reed opposed it and cast reXlec-
thought is the same everywhere and
all are understood of the rest. Some
times the splendor of their inspira
tion looks like madness to observing
skeptics. Sometimes their message
sounds like the raving of a drunkard
but the raving is in the ears that hear
and not In the voice that speaks. It
is the mission of Commencement day
to lead us back to the vision that we
have lost, because for the lack of it
the people are perishing.
The Lord has sent a famine upon
the land, not a famine of bread, as
the wise prophet Amos described it.
nor a thirst for water, but a hunger
of the soul. We have gathered har
vests of grain and piled, up moun
tains of money, but through all our
massing wealth there has been
night upon us and its 'gloom has been
deepening from .year to year. Porten
tous events have come to pass under
the folds of the Stars and Stripes
We have seen men arrayed against
one another in civil war in more than
one state. People said fifty years ago
that we had seen the last of interne
cine strife in the United States, but
now it is breaking out again. Men
are arraying themselves In hostile
Oregon Verse.
course he was fanatically hated and
feared in England.
The orthodox British imagination
erected Parnell into a figure of hor
ror who occupied a seat beside Satan
and Cromwell, a little blacker than
either of them. At the first excuse
he was arrested under the Coercion
Act and thrown into Kilmainham jail.
Nothing could have been happier for
his policy. The Irjsh who had re-
pected his ability before now began
passionately - to worship him. His
release was effected by a "treaty"
with Gladstone which had almost the
ignity of an international agree
ment. The two high contracting par
ties differed somewhat about tho
terms of the "Kilmainham Treaty."
Gladstone declared that Parnell had
promised to abandon the "no rent"
programme and discourage outrages,
but Parnell himself gave a- much
more moderate version. There is no
reason to believe that he ever prom
ised to stop agrarian outrages inas
much as they provided him with his
main arguments for British concession.
Wrhlle he was in Kilmainham jail
Parnell carried on a lively, though
surreptitious correspondence with
Mrs. O'Shea, and her husband. Cap
tain O'Shea, knew all about it with
out making a sign of disapproval
Like many another powerful genius
Parnell was the slave of his passion
It dominated every other purpose in
his mind, blinded him to conse
quences and finally ruined him. The
Tories believed they had throttled
the giant whom they so feared and
hated when The Times charged him
with complicity in the Phoenix Park
murders which were perpetrated in
May, 1882. The charge was based
upon a letter produced by the noto
rious Richard Pigott, signed appar
ently but not written by Parnell, in
which he excused one of the murders.
Tory rejoicings immediately went be
yond all bounds. At last they had
their most dangerous enemy on the
hip, as they supposed. But they were
doomed to disappointments. In the
parliamentary investigation which
followed it was shown that the Times
had slandered Parnell. The alleged
signature to Pigott s letter was
proved to be a forgery and the Irish
champion came through the ordeal
stronger than ever.
It was then that Captain O'Shea
struck the blow that ruined Parnell.
His wife's aberrations had been go
ing on for ten years without disturb
ing him, but just at that moment
he woke to a keen realization of his
wrongs and sued for a divorce. The
scandal smelled sweeter than Sabaean
odors to the Tories. The "Noncon
formist conscience" was properly I We've censured, criticised and blamed;
A SPRI.VG LESSON.
Such pleasant sensation!
Joy! Springtime is here.
My day's occupation
Seems no longer drear. I
Life's once more a pleasure.
My bosom expands
To hold in full measure
All nature's demands.
Joy! Summer is coming.
I feel it is near.
I hear the bees humming;
The sweet atmosphere
Brings all into action. '
There's abundance of life).
All earth holds attraction.
There's contest and strife.
The sweet, little flowers.
Some modest, some gay.
Have come amid Ehowers,
They dare not delay
Their mission fulfilling.
Make glad every heart.
Their perfume be spilling,
Their message Impart.
"We do but our duty.
Our lives are so brief.
Our fragrance, our beauty
Should lessen the grief
That sin brought to mankind;
There's life after this.
With beauty and sunshine
And heavenly bliss."
In artful homemaking.
From birds In the tree,
1 I'm free lessons taking.
You take them from me;
Such quaint architecture.
Such wonderful plan.
It's more than a lecture.
It's study for man.
Such comfort and safety
They plan for their young.
Through love and no envy
Their efforts grow strong;
With great perseverance
Their work they perform
And brave interference
From boys and the storm.
They've no time for fussing
While cheerful at work;
No useless discussing.
No duties they shirk;
The nest must be finished.
Then with one accord
And joy undiminished
They sing, "Praise the Lord!"
A lesson to mankind
All nature should teach;
But often man's great mind
Is far beyond reach.
He's small in his greatness
Who leaves nature's school.
Though boasting and fearless.
As entering, a fool.
ANNA F.
APPRECIATION.
His working days .are
the times," we've
We'-e said:
o er;
He's way behind
claimed;
"The plans he makes are new
more."
Perhaps, but still
PARNELffl LOVE LETTERS.
Charles Stewart Parnell's widow
who was once Mrs. Kitty O'Shea, has
probably neither injured nor benefit
ed his memory by publishing the love
letters that he wrote to her. What
ever facts the letters seem to disclose
were known before. The terrific pas
sion which they betray was charac
terlstic of Parnell in all his actions.
Under a cold, forbidding 'demeano
he concealed a volcanic nature which
no crime daunted and no law, either
human or divine, controlled. Par
nell's relations with Mrs. O'Shea must
have begun as early as 1879, whe
Michael Davitt was organizing the
Land League with his approval an
assistance. Ireland .was then in
dreadful condition. Everywhere th
peasants were ground down in hope
less misery. They could not have
paid their rents to the landlords had
they desired to do it and few of them
had any such desire. It had sunk
deep into their minds that absentee
ownership of the land was a crime
worse than arson or murder and they
carried their belief into action when
ever they could. Evictions went on
all over the country accompanied by
countless cruelties. The Land League
was organized to fight the devil with
fire, and, in the long run, it won the
battle.
To Davitt's Land League the Brit
ish government replied with the Co
ercion Act, which gave the local au
thorities power to arrest any person
arbitrarily and cast him into prison.
Thus violence met violence and hate
opposed hate in blind fury- Parnell
was the first Irishman to devise a
well-considered scheme of parliamen
tary tactics which should substitute
intelligent strategy for brute rage.
His policy was to avoid any con
firmed alliance with either of the
traditional English parties but to use
both of them to further his one great
purpose. When the Tories were will
ing and able to advance the cause of
Irish liberty Parnell was a Tory
When Gladstone consented to serve
his ends he was a Liberal. His
weapon for daily use was obstruc
tion. No doubt parliamentary "fili
bustering" has been employed ever
since there, were parliaments, but
Parnell reduced it to a fine art and
directed it with terrific effect against
his opponents. It finally came to a
pass under his management when
the British Parliament found itself
unable to act or vote. The' Satanic
intelligence of one determined man
had paralyzed the governmental ma
chinery of' a great empire without in
fringing the law.
Early In Parnell's career the Irish
party was divided into two factions,
the moderates and the extremists.
Very soon after his genius began to
exert itself upon the course of events
the moderates disappeared. Without
openly countenancing outrages, Par
nell did not by any means discour
age them. By his "no rent" mani
festo he showed that he would stop
at nothing which might further his
purpose. In Parliament his motto
was "no conciliation and no com
promise." He feared nothing and
respected nothing. Probably without
any real religious belief, he was born
and bred a Protestant, though the
Irish Catholics owe more to him than
to any other ' man. By heredity a
rebel, he did more to bring peace and
prosperity to Ireland than all the
conciliators who have ever mis
handled its affairs. He was the first
statesman who had the courage to
apply radical treatment to a disease
which had defied all palliatives. Of
horrified at it. Parnell's power tot
tered for a moment and then solidi
fied again, for the Irish party with
acute common sense had resolved to
stand by him. In their opinion, they
said, Parnell's private love affairs
had nothins: to do with his fitness
for a party leader. Thus all might When in his prime, he did his best;
still have gone well had It not been
for the ponderously stupid scruples
of Gladstone. He issued a manifesto
announcing that he could not con
scientiously work with such a sinner
and forthwithv the Irish party was
destroyed as an efficient weapon.
Parnell married Mrs. O'Shea as soon
as the divorce was granted, but his
life was virtually ended. His death
in October, 1891, was but idle seem
ing. He had really died months be
fore when Gladstone's unpardonable
letter was published.
. no
No work too hard; he knew no rest:
In methods, plans, he blazed the trail;
He never knew the sound of Kail.
And now he's ill. f .
He's lying low, his eye is dim;
No more the fight and fray for him.
Send him a rose, a line or two;
Give him his praise where praise is
due.
He's climbed the hill.
The small number of women and
children saved is in marked contrast
with the Titanic record. But perhaps
those in control of the Empress of
Ireland had insufficient time in which
to gain the upper hand.'
He's made mistakes, some small, some
grave;
But to his work his life he srave;
Oh, wait not till he's gone to tell
He did his work, and did it well.
And now. he's 111.
HORACK WILLIAM M'KEAL.
546 East Nineteenth street. North.-
A NIGHT IN SLABTOUX.
Declining day on sunlit wings
Leaves this our mortal scene.
And nifrht her cloak of silence brines
oo iryan iniuatea meuia.iiuu. usms Her mysteries and dreams.
the A. B. C. trio as a catspaw. we
is playing with fire in his efforts to Dreams that flit from twilight glooms
make good the boast that there shall mat peep irom moonlit cowers,
be no war durine his incumbency. Here memory guards her fairy blooms.
Lift's tender fadeless flowers.
The strongest influence we know of one by one the quiet stars
for the continuance of mediation is Appear in fleeting gleams.
Senor Rabasa's four daughters. They The starlight of the vanished years
express a desire to put in the Summer On lite s uncertain stream.
.. . Vlura iralli I
. u iiii a u , ,, ma Duitjj ilia i iuvvcu
Th nnnl In nthpr ,1 ve
Official wrath has been aroused ve see attain the eyes we loved
over posters of the girls in a coming Peep from the twilight gray,
show. This savors of the subtle hand
of the crafty press agent.
If Mellen had been a true financier
he would have written his full con
fession for a popular magazine at,
say, fifteen cents a word.
Lloyds will Insure entries for the
trans-Atlantic aerial race. The pem-
ium should be not less than 99.9 to
make It a safe risk.
Shades of those whom childhood knew
On life's unruffled sea,
A youthful. Joyous, smiling crew
Come romping o'er' the lea.
Thus we muse with fond regret,
Resistless on our way.
Marking time as each sunset
Speeds out another day.
GEORGE H. SANDS.
Heat and a hard march held no ter.
rors for the old boys of '63. They
are feeble In body only. The old
spirit never dies.
Funds to carry on a moral crusade
have been denied the Governor. Too
much like spending money for per
sonal publicity.
i;o.
I saw her eyes shine bright like stars.
I heard her voice ring low.
I felt their coldness pierce like bars
Of triple frozen snow.
One word' from her if it be love
Would make the red blood flow;
But when her lips began to move
She only muttered "Go."
Like a bolt of lightning from on high.
Like the breath of death from hell.
Like the curse of God through a strick
en sky.
Her acid accent fell.
My hopes were rent in every part
Like an old and shattered shell;
And the pain that tore my poor fond
heart
No tongue or pen can tell.
Cole Blease having lost out. It is
apparent once more that the political I O. that peace might come again
njctonfl0 iarH fnnr-flnshers rlon't To this fevered brain of mine;
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MOW. 1 P , J
Willi i , i ,n WWWVTTI ' - w 1 .
lTnr all tha hnnps that love had brOUCht
Bryan snouiu use nis guuu uunca To a breast bv Dasalon stirred:
to let Lipton lift the cup, and thus . .n& all the castles fancy wrought
Even If you haven't the spirit to
grow roses you should at least chop
down the weeds in your yard for Fes
tival week.
promote further International amity.
The list of notables missing in the
wreck emphasizes the fact that Death
is no respecter of persons.
Were sunk in that one word.
CIDB OUCT.
Tillamook, Or.
Minister Doesn't Need Auto.
HOOD RIVER, May 30. (To the Ed-
Now that he isn't wanted. Carranza I Itor.) Friday's item in regard to me
is tearing his hair in an effort to -nn.anan uiumi i-"
break into mediation.
Hood River church for the use of the
musical director contains the sugges
tion that the minister has to walk.
Congress, in Its rush to get through, t a true that the church has not
will meet at 11 A. M. hereafter. How yet bought the minister a machine, but
strenuous! I probably this wideawake cnurcn win
i include tnis among its many miereei-
Becker's impending fate is another ' ?S V.7., toi.
token of the changed order of things. minl.ter has several church members
who own automobiles, and he has run
or is now privileged to rtin all of them.
He has exerted so strange an influ
ence over these good-hearted men that
he boldly steps up to an owner with a
certain inquisitive look in his eye or a
hint from his lips, and chug, chug!
away he goes to visit the "sick." Oh,
Just the sort of weather we want Joy! M- A- 41 u ,,AV . '
Another week without a real Mexi
can crisis. Something's wrong.
Can't ABC mediation activities be
broadened to include Ulster?
for the Rose Festival.
The dead lived again In the fond
memory of the living.
Huerta has finally
and gone to fleeing.
quit resigning
Hear the call of the sea?
This is real Summer.
Changes In Congressman.
Washington D. C.) Star.
"So you think a member of Congress
ouKht to have more salary 7" "les,
sir." said the plain person. "Time was
when all he had to do was to shake
hands, send around garden seeds, atid
tell funny stories. .ow ne s got to Bit
down and study and try to understand
things."