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WAR AND ANTI-WAR POETBY.
War has ever been perhaps the most
powerful stimulus to the poetic imag
ination. The first poets were doubt
less chanters of runes recounting the
glories of the tribe in warfare, or,
more often, the heroic exploits of some
Individual tribesman. These war bal
lads were sung around the campfire
or the hearth, the heroes' achieve
ments growing ever more marvelous
as the song was passed on from mouth
to mouth through the centuries, to be
come the basic literature of the race.
It is told how "Pancho" Villa, the
Mexican rebel leader, by deliberately
fostering" the idea that he bears a
charmed life and by his daring feats
of arms, has become the almost super
natural hero of many a ballad. Some
of these ballads are battle-born, one
of them coming into being while the
troops were resting at night for a
fresh assault on Torrson in the morn
ing. In this simple manner assuredly
sprang into wondrous being all the
heroes of antiquity, of every race and
clime. The Greek and Scandinavian
mythologies surely had their rise in
poetic exaggerations of the deeds of
mortals. The Norwegian and Icelandic
sagas, the poems of Homer, the story
of Kubla Khan, of Bohram, that
irreat hunter." and of the Hiawatha
of our American Indians were all first
told or chanted in the circle of the
campfire. Ireland has her sagas,
through which stalk vast and power
ful supermen. The Finnish epic, the
Kalevala, and the story of the wolf
suckled twins who founded Rome, are
examples of how every primitive peo
ple puts its heroes into song or story.
The Koran and the Old Testament
are composed largely of a record of
military exploits.
Wagner, when he came to do his
magnum opus, took the Teutonic folk
tales and wove them into song and
clothed the song with his mighty and
majestic music.
Through all the songs that have
come down from the hot and heroic
young manhood of the race throbs
the restive rhythm of the war drum.
War is extolled and the warrior is
glorified. Ever there have been battle
songs, like "The Battle Hymn of the
Republic," "Dixie" and "Maryland."
Our own Civil War left many a splen
did poem in its wake, notably Will H
Thompson's "High Tide at Gettys
burg," with pictures of conflict as
powerful as those of the Norse or
Saxon sagas.
Sometimes there has crept into the
songs the wails of the wounded, the
drip-drip of blood, the horror of the
corpses, the sorrow and desolation of
the wives and little children. But
ever and always, like the high shrill
ing of the bugle, the dominant note
has been one of triumph and glory.
It has remained for a youthful mod
ern poet over-civilized, you may say
squarely to reverse the shield and
show in song what is behind all the
pomp and pageantry that attends the
business of wholesale man-killing.
He is Alfred Noyes, or England, and
his poem. "The Wine Press," dealing
with the recent Balkan war, is timely
now when all Europe is "a-slmmer
like a sieve," and the war god seems
about to paint "the bloodiest picture
in the book of time."
Noyes draws a sweet and simple
picture of a young Balkan woodcutter,
Johann, watching the sunset as his
girl-wife hushes their baby to sleep
with a lullaby. Then, when the babe
sleeps, he breaks the news that he
has been keeping from Sonla all day.
Tomorrow he must go to join his regi
ment. He is "not going far," he says,
trying to reassure her.
But before the poet shows this pit
eous scene he tells us how the war
began: "Around a shining table sat
five men in black-tailed coats," each
of whom, Noyes assures us, is "honest
after his way," although there is here
a hint of "armament firms." The
poem proceeds:
One was the friend of a merchant prince.
One waa the foe of a priest.
One had a brother whose heart was set
On a gold star and an epaulette.
And where the rotten carcass Has
The vultures flock to feast.
It Is explained that to these black
coated men blood is only a word, and
"the cost of war, they reckon It In lit
tle disks of gold."
They were cleanly groomed: they were not
to be bought.
And their cigars were good;
But they had nulled so many strings
In the tinseled puppet-show of kings
That, when they talked of war. they
thought
Of sawdust, not of blood.
Also they thought of "forces" and
"balances of power," and "how to set
their bond aside and prove they lied
not when they lied." They thought of
"which was weak and which was
strong, but never which was Just."
Fur they were strong; so might is right.
And reason wins the day.
And. if at the touch of a silver bell.
They plunged three nations Into heU,
The blood of peasants Is not red
A hundred miles away.
Then young Noyes tells us how, it
having been decided that war shall be,
with all its
'blind Immeasurable flood
Of lust and hate and tears and blood,
a secretary struck the silver bell for
the men In black-tailed coats.
We are told how the news of war is
winnowed through a censor and comes
"along a little wire sunk in a deep
sea." And. he implies sarcastically,
why should we. at home In our clubs
and theaters, worry about what is
really going on at the front.
Noyes tells of the mobilization, of
the talk of the men who have been
wrenched from their firesides, some
of whom do not know why they are
going to war. while some blame it all
on the deviltry of the Turk.
There is a poet, a half Greek, In the
ranks, named Michael, and he sings of
liberty, declaring that
This war Is not as other wars.
The night shrinks with all her stars.
And Freedom rides before you
On tho last of the Crusades.
There is a battle. The Balkan troops
creep across a valley through the
browning- wheat. Johann, with four
others, lies in a cottage garden. They
hear a bird call from the eaves and a
clock tick through the door.
Of a sudden "lightnings lash the
sky.'" The Turkish artillery, masked
and using smokeless powder, flays the
allies. Then there comes a charge:
They leapt acroas the lewd fleah
That twisted at their teet.
They leapt across wild shapes that lay
Stark besmeared with blood and clay.
Like the great dead birds with glazed eyes
That the farmer hangs In the wheat.
Johann counts corpses until he is
sick. A spatter of flesh blinds him.
And then the young men of the allies
advance at the double "against the
cold machines." Johann fires across
a heap of fresh, which presently lifts
a sightless, mangled head and whines
like a child in the dark. The thing
catches Johann's rifle barrel and pulls
ana puns me trigger
And so, back and forth, inrougn
more than any fabled hell, the battle
surges.
Michael the poet, blind, goes home
with a message to Sonia from Johann,
in a field hospital, taking her the bul
let that had been cut from Johann's
breast. She kisses it. Michael tells
Sonia that "this war is grand" and
that "the hosts of Christ, the Balkan
states and Greece," have overcome the
Prophet and that soon Byzantium will
be taken.
Johann leaves the tents of death to
face once more the cold machines.
Kiehtinsr. fierhting. the allied army
romes to his own native valley. He
finds his hut in embers and Sonia's de
filed body under the apple tree. Their
mutilated baby lies across its motn-
er's knee.
Noyes closeshis poem with a pow
erful plea for the dreams that are to
remake the world:
Dreams are they? But ye cannot stay them
Or thrust the dawn back for one hour,
Truth, Love and Justice, If slay them,
Return with more than earthly power.
The poet hears "the distant thunder
of rending chains," and proclaims that
It may as well be striven to keep
back the Spring as to check the move
ment for universal peace and brother
hood. The poem was severely criticised in
England by advocates of a strong
army and navy. Noyes will scarcely
be called to the poet laureateship.
DISCORDANT ECHOES FROM MEXICO.
Just at a time when the disciples of
moral suasion were pointing to
"peaceful Mexico" as a splendid ex
ample of the power of gentle patience
and watchful waiting as opposed to
drastic firmness, the Mexican situa
tion emits an unpleasant echo to those
dulcet utterances. The triumphal
entry of the dove of peace to Mexico
City has been abandoned. Carbajal,
the new peace-President, will fight
fight because Carranza, the hope of
the moral suasionists, will not agree
to refrain from a slaughtering bee
among political enemies of the consti
tutionalists. So, once more the clash of arms is
heard in Mexico an insignificant
clash it is in the roar of European
conflict. Tet the Mexicans will do
the best there is in them, and after a
brief lull during which they aroused
the waning hopes of moral suasion
propagandists and, incidentally, caught
their breath for. a fresh melee, they
should be able to conduct the fracas
with renewed fury. It may be that
the strife between Carbajal and Car
ranza will be of short duration.
Neither is very strong. Neither has
very great resources. But when they
have finished, the erstwhile "hope of
civilization," Villa, must be reckoned
with. At present he is mobilizing his
troops in Chihuahua for purposes not
disclosed. But what is the usual pur
pose of a troop concentration by rebels
and cut-throats in Mexico? Plainly
the Mexican muddle is farther than
ever from being settled.
CHAMBERLAIN TO WEST TO SMITH.
The Oregonian approves the single
item veto, and has frequently so ex
pressed itself; but it agrees with Mr.
Wlthycombe's reported remarks that
it may indeed be a "two-edged sword"
and that a Governor "with a spite"
could use ft to "run a Legislature."
He could. It Is an honest and entirely
correct utterance.
The whole purpose of the single
item veto is to give the Governor
greater power over the Legislature.
That Is the reason The 'Oregonian
supports it. That is the reason the
hypercritical and insincere critics of
Mr. Withycombe pretend to support
It. They are forcing themselves into
the wholly indefensible position that
the single-Item plan will not increase
the Governor's power and the equally
absurd contention that a Governor
"with a spite" cannot and will not
seek to "run a Legislature" through
the veto of single appropriations.
The remedy, of course, is to elect
Governors without a spite. Oregon
has not always done it. But it is not
sound to decline to invest a Governor,
or any other executive officer, with
authority through fear that he will
misuse it.
The issue over the Governorship is
not Mr. Wlthycombe's position, nor
Dr. Smith's, on the single-item veto.
Not much. It Is whether a candidate
of good sense, good character and
good record, nominated by the Repub
lican party in a free primary, shall be
elected over a hand-picked candidate,
like Dr. Smith, nominated in a con
trolled primary through the machina
tions of Governor West, his news
paper coadjutor, and the little Demo
cratic cabal that has been running
Oregon for some years. Dr. Smith has
publicly announced that he will carry
out the West policies. He was per
sonally selected by Governor West as
his successor. The Democratic ring
which he represents desires through
Dr. Smith, as Governor, to perpetuate
its control. That is the whole
scheme.
Oregon will have had, when the
West term expires, a Democratic Gov.
ernor for 12 years, except during a
brief interregnum following the elec
tion of Governor Chamberlain to be
Senator. If Dr. Smith shall be elect
ed, the period will be extended to six
teen years. It is an inexplicable rec
ord for a Republican state.
The question in Oregon for the vot
ers to decide is whether they are to
perpetuate the succession of Chamber
lain to West to Smith. Governor
Chamberlain names Oswald West to
succeed him. Governor West names
Charles J. Smith. Whom Smith, if
he shall be elected, will name will
transpire In time. But it will be some
member of the democratic royal fam
ily, which deems public office its
special prerogative, and crushes every
temerarious Democrat who has not
the mark of regal favor.
The single-Item veto matter is not
material. But the issue as to whether
no-. hnll have four more years ofit,
West, and whether the state shall
again be handed over to the Chamberlain-West-Smith
machine, is quite
material.
THE SPORT Or KXNGB.
Although the dispatches give us. but
a fleeting glimpse of the German
Crown Prince in action, yet little im
agination is required to fill in the de
tails and give us a graphic picture of
why war is the sport of Kings and
near-Kings. Since earliest youth this
Imperial stripling has shown fire eat-J
ing propensities. He fell under the
compelling military spell early in ll'e
and reached his majority with a fully
developed martial temperament, one
of the sort that craves for the belch-
ng of cannon, the rattle of musketry
and the clatter or accoutremen.s. Me
frankly and openly pined for war it
mattered not who the enemy might
be. He wanted war. His bellicose ut
terances became so pronounced that
his royal father had to call him to task.
Even then the suppression was not
complete, for we hear of him, less
than a year ago, pining for that hour
when he might ride into action at the
head of the Death's Head Hussars
which he chanced to be commanding
at that time.
Now this war-crazed youth has
found the realization of all his dreams.
But we do not find him charging the
enemy, lance poised, at the head of
the Hussars. Rather we hear of him
commanding the German advance
through Belgium; not on the firing
line, of course, but from the position
of a full General, many miles from
the scene of combat. There he is
found surrounded by a capable staff
of German tacticians. Doubtless he
can be entrusted to command a field
army precisely the same way that a
child can be given the throttle of a
locomotive. Guiding hands must di
rect his movements and see that he
does not blunder.
From such a post war must be a
glorious thing from the standpoint of
one who has been seized of the war
lust. Here only the glories of war and
not any of its horrors are met with.
In all probability a special chef at
tends the imperial commander and he
has a comfortable resting place. His
movements are made by automobile
or express train. Even the hubbub
of battle, if it reaches him at all. Is
but a distant rumble. Spread before
him is a great map and the shifting of
colored pins alone indicates the tide of
conflict. The whole thing is but a glo
rious game of outdoor military chess,
with vast excitement, great glory and
no hardships. How different a game
from that which the humble man in
the ranks plays as he forms one of the
flesh-and-blood pawns in the life-and-
death struggle which is merely reriect
ed at the distant rear.
THE WAR OF 1870.
The Franco-Prussian war which
broke out in the Summer of 1870 was
an unbroken series of disasters for the
French from beginning to end. Na
poleon III, with the harty consent of
his people, declared war with Ger
many July 19. Two months later, on
September 19, the German troops In
vested Paris, after a series of extraor
dinary victories which was not marred
by a solitary reverse of any impor
tance. The occasion of the war was
the nomination of the German Prince
Leopold of Hohenzollern to the vacant
throne of Spain. This was naturally
opposed by France, since it seemed to
increase the rapidly-growing power of
Prussia. Prince Leopold was quickly
withdrawn and Spanish affairs ceased
to play a part in Franco-German ri
valry, but events marched forward re
lentlessly toward war.
The real reason for the struggle lay
In Bismarck's ambition to make a
united nation out of the scattered and
inharmonious German states. His pol
icy had already acquired great prestige
Ijy the year 1870. Prussia had driven
Austria ingloriously from participation
in the affairs of North Germany and
had won the undisputed headship of
the divided Teutons.
But much still remained to be ac
complished. The various states set
great store by their independence and
their independence meant national
weakness. Bismarck's dream was the
restoration of the old Roman, or Ger
man, Empire, which should combine
the whole Teutonic race under one
overnment. In order to bring it to
pass he understood perfectly that it
was essential to wage a great, victor
ious war in which Prussia should lead
united Germany against the foe. After
that, in the furnace heat of martial
Joy over victories won and a substan
tial indemnity gained, almost anjttiing
might be done with the plastic souls
of the people. With these ambitions
directing his policy. Bismarck waited
for a suitable pretext to wage war on
France, whom he knew perfectly well
to be utterly unprepared. In his al
most superhuman astuteness he re
solved not to begin hostilities, but ma
neuvered to throw the odium of the
declaration of war upon France.
Napoleon III and his imbecile Min
isters played into Bismarck's hands as
skilfully as if they had been in his pay.
The French people also raged and
shouted for war in obedience to the
incitements which the great German
diplomat deftly provided for them.
The French were not satisfied with the
withdrawal of Prince Leopold from
the Spanish candidature. They fool
ishly demanded from King William of
Prussia a categorical promise that he
never again would be a candidate.
When the French Minister presented
this demand the King peremptorily re
fused it and directed Bismarck to
make the best use he could of the
incident.
The wllv strategist published a ver
sion of it which the proud French
construed as an insult and a declara
tion of war followed almost imme
diately in Paris. It was one of the
rasheat moves ever made by a govern
ment. The French War Department
was ignorant of the most elementary
knowledge required by their profes
sion. They did not Know tne sirengin
either of their own army or the Ger
man. The topography of the country
east of the Rhine was a sealed book
to them. Their troops were inade
quately disciplined, poorly equipped
and wretchedly commanded. To cap
the climax, the French army num
bered only some 250.000 effective men,
while the Germans had certainly 800,
000 if we count in reserves fully ready
to move when needed.
Napoleon appointed the beautiful
Empress Eugenie regent of France
and hastened to the field to command
his armies in person. King William
also marched with his troops, but he
had under him some of the best gen
erals ever seen in battle. The oppos
ing armies met beyond the Rhine on
one of the historic battle grounds of
Europe. On August 18 Marshal Ba-
zaine's command was oeieaieu. an me
great and "bloody battle of Gravelotte
and he was driven to take refuge iu
fortress of Metz, where
n e was
,hut up and besieged. Marshal Mac-
Mahon, marching to rescue him, was
defeated and his entire force captured
at Sedan. He was completely outgen
eraled, as Bazaine had been before
him, and the presence of Napoleon
himself at Sedan did not help matters.
He surrendered with the Hoops and
was conveyed to Wilhelmshohe. Long
before the disaster at Sedan tbs en
thusiasm of the French peopie had
subsided. Betrayed and defeated
everywhere, the nation passed from
confidence to despair. Napo'eon's
government had been tottering before
the war osgan. Two days after SedaD
a Republic was proclaimed in Paris
and the national defense taken into
the hands of the people's representa
tives, Jules Favre, Ferry and Gam
betta weie among them. A few days
before this event Bazaine surrendered
Metz with, a great army of 175.000
men to the Prussians. Such fatal in
capacity was never seen before except
in the case of some oriental despot
who relied upon the terror of his
countenance to subdue his foes.
By September 19 the Germans were
before Paris, which had already begun
to pass through the terrible convul
sions that finally produced the enor
mities of the Commune. A popular
election early in February, 1871, made
Thiers President of the republic, and
in March peace was concluded on
terms most humiliating to France.
Part of Lorraine and almost the whole
of Alsace were ceded to the rising em
pire. An indemnity of a billion dol
lars was paid to the victors, and, for
an interval of years, France arepped
to the rank of a third-rate power. But
the war brought some compensation.
From its death and ruin emerged two
great civilizing agencies, the French
republic and the German empire, fiu
manitv will always mourn that they
could not have emerged as friends
instead of foes.
WILLIAM MORRIS.
Lovers of the good in man will be
glad to learn that a new book on Will
lam Morris has been published in this
country. It is by Mr. Clutton-Brock
and the price is 50 cents, which will
DerhaDS secure a wide reading for it.
William Morris was started on the
nath of social philosophy by the ne
cesslty of furnishing an apartment In
London. The articles for sale in the
stores which he visited were so uni
formly ugly that he resolved to design
his own chairs, tables and beds. This
constructive enterprise was the out
growth of his general artistic dis
content.
Nothing in the way of domestic fur
nishinrs. wall papers, household uten
slls and the like pleased his taste and
he began a crusade for something
nore beautiful. From this he was
very naturally led on to social discon
tent. From the planning ot Utopian
kitchens he progressed to Utopian
Dlans for society. His ideas of social
reform were expressed in a novel
"News From Nowhere," which has
profoundly influenced the thought of
the Intelligent world.
FOR NATIONAL ROADS.
The National Old Trails Road As
sociation is a department of the Na
tional Highways Association. The lat
ter body is working for the system
atization of public roads throughout
the country. The particular business
which the Old Trails department has
taken uo concerns a National road
from Washington to San Francisco
following with some exactness the
lines of pioneer travel. For example,
throueh Maryland the proposed road
runs closely with the old route of the
emie-rants into the Ohio Valley.
Across Missouri to Kansas City it
takes the common line of the three
great historic trails to the West. From
Kansas City it clings to the southern
route, coinciding with the old Santa
Fe Trail.
Much of this highway is still little
more than a dream. The pictures
Dubllshed in the society's pamphlet
show long sections where the going
must be something rrlghtrui. aucn
places are found in Maryland, In
diana, Missouri, in fact all the way
along, but there are other stretches
where the road is comparatively good
and a motor would run pleasantly.
The Old Trails project is but part
of the extensive plan of the National
Highways Association, which aims at
nothing less than the redemption of
all our wagon roads from mud, dust
and ruts, steep grades and foolish
engineering. More desirable, perhaps,
than the mere improvement of grades
and road surfaces is the systematiza
tion of the roads in each state. Maps
are published showing the miserable
lack of plan in local road-ouuoing up
to the present time. Pieces have been
beirun and finished hit or miss like
an old-fashioned rag carpet, starting
anywhere and leading nowhere, plung
ing into being like a fit of the gout
and terminating like a rescue from
sudden death. The National Associa
tion has already done a great deal
toward uniting these scattered bits
and fragments of highways into a
connected whole. It publishes a "be
fore and after" map of Wyoming
which is highly instructive in this
narticular. The "before," condition or
the roads in that state resembles fly
tracks on a sheet of paper. The re
formed "after" condition snows a ra
tional, systematic scheme of commu
nication far more serviceable to the
people than the fragmentary, dislo
cated strips, and coating a great deal
less to maintain.
LITTLE RISK, MICH GAIN.
Although the trade of the whole
world will necessarily be disturbed by
the European war, that or the pa
cific Coast will suffer little risk of
capture of ships and cargoes' at sea.
Under the latest revisions of interna
tional law relating to contraband of
war, none of the ships of belligerent
nations engaged in the carrying traae
of this coast would be subject to seiz
ure as prizes unless loaded with con
traband. The Pacific States, not be
ing engaged in the manufacture and
export of arms and munitions, can
export their products without hin
drance, provided those products are
not consigned to a Government de
partment of one of the belligerents.
This Is in substance the interpretation
of the international law given by
Charles H. Carey, who has made a
lifelong study of that subject
The only difficulty in the way is
the procuring of ships, for the bellig
erent nations are requisitioning every
ship necessary for war service. There
is also some trepidation among ship
owners lest the rules above described
should be violated by some of the bel
ligerents. The bill now before Con
gress admitting foreign-built ships to
American register without restriction
except that they must be owned by
Americans will overcome this diffi
culty. European ship-owners will
probably be glad to escape danger of
loss through seizure by selling their
vessels to Americans, and the latter
should be eager to pick up .such bar
gains at a time when freights are
high. By this means the United
States may acquire at moderart cost
ample tonnage to carry its commerce:
both ships and cargo will be rendered
immune from war risks so long as
their owners reriain fiom carrying or
shipping contraband; and a large pro
portion 'of the ocean freight money
will be paid to Americans Instead of
to foreigners. It is estimated that
the total amount paid for ocean
freight by the United Staes is $300.
000.000 a year. When a large pro
portion of this sum is diverted from
European to American ship-owners, it
will greatly increase the balance of
trade in our favor and will go far to
bring back to this country the gold
we have been shipping to Europe in
payment for American securities
dumped on the market by panic
stricken foreign owners.
When the shipping bill now in the
Senate has been signed by the Presi
dent the way will be open for Port
land merchants to export their goods
in their own ships and for Portland
to become a great ship-owning port.
LONDON'S LOSS OF PEOPLE.
An extremely suggestive current
phenomenon Is the decrease in the
population of London. From the
heart .of the city a million people
have been lost in the last ten years,
according to a letter in the New York
Evening Post. But it would be hasty
to conclude that London will presently
disappear from the map. The inhabi
tants who leave tho center of the
business section do not go to the
country, at any rate not to the real
country. Nor do they go to foreign
lands. They merely move their habi
tations to the suburbs and the word
"suburbs" continually acquires a more
extensive significance with every im
provement in transportation. The
great city Incessantly swallows up its
surroundings, but on the other hand
these surroundings spread day by day
over a wider area. At the busiest
point in London, a street-crossing in
Piccadilly, 331,335 vehicles pass every
twelve hours and two-thirds of them
are driven by motors. From this con
dition of extreme congestion the traf
fic thins out to the silence and seclu
sion of the suburbs.
Of course the street railways in
their various forms have played a
great part in emptying London's con
gested centers, but the automobile has
been even more active aj far as the
comfortable classes are concerned. A
man who does business in the city
must always live within easy reach of
his work. Mr. Spenlow, of Spenlow
& Jorkins, in "David Copperfield,"
rode horseback to his office every
morning. Gentlemen of his station In
life now own automobiles and they
can therefore dwell much farther out
in the country than the lovely Dora's
father could. Naturally the regions
where literary and business men for
merly dwelt are now undergoing
changes.
Commerce transforms the old struc
tures and often sacrifices their beauty
or historic charm to profits. Ruskin's
house, for instance, is in the hands of
wreckers, who will make of it some
thing quite unlike the retreat of a
man of letters. The automobile has
built up many a roadside hotel both
in England and America, but it has
also injured some resorts. At Henley,
In England, famed for the annual re
gatta, the boarding-houses were al
ways thronged for a week while the
races were on. All Is different now.
The spectators come In their motors
and at nightfall they silently steal
away, leaving the landlords and the
boarding mistresses to their sad medi
tations. The owner of an automobile
is master of distance up to at least a
hundred miles if the roads are good,
and in England they are usually good.
REAPING THE WHIRLWIND.
Arthur Sears Henning, correspondent
of the Chicago Tribune at Washing
ton, says on high authority, for which
that careful newspaper vouches, that
"a widespread and formidable insur
rection against American authority is
on the point of breaking out." He
says mat, oissauBiieu "
vagueness of Democratic promises oi
Independence and aided by the relax
ation of surveillance resulting from
the present policy, the old insurgent
leaders have perfected a pian ( to
attack Americans on a prearranged
date in all parts of the islands." The
nlan is to land arms, Imported prin
cipally from Japan, at points in Lu
zon remote from American garrisons;
to cut the cable on the eve of the
Insurrection; and at the hour of the
concert on the L,uneta in .uanna or
at midnight to assassinate all Amer
leans in that city and in otner parts
of the islands.
Mr. Henninir says the Filipinos be
came so worked up over the idea of
immediate independence because or
the promises of Democratic orators
that, when it did not come at once
there were serious revolts in several
parts of the islands. These revolts
were nut down because tne Army nau
advance Information from the secret
service, but the news was suppressed
lest it should inflame the sentiment
for independence. At one point tnere
wo. a serious flght and sixty-five In
leaders were arrested, but
were not prosecuted lest a general up
rlslner result.
The change In the Philippine
government has greatly lessened the
means of taking precautions against
an uprising. The system of surveii-
on nvpr the natives which was
maintained by the Army secret serv
Ice, by which native leaders were
closely watched and wnicn enaoiea
the Army to stamp out revolt in its
inception, has been abolished by the
Filipinos, who now control ootn tne
Commission and tne Assemoiy.
Through the Influence of the Ad
ministration the Army secret serv
ice has been reduced to almost noth
ing. The plot is said to have been
hatched by leaders of the Katipunan.
the secret society which organized
the insurrection in 1899, and Agui
naldo is said to be deeply involved.
The present conspiracy is said to
be the result of disappointment that
Governor Harrison did not announce,
on taking office, the date on which
independence would be given, ine
radicals immediately began a propa
ganda throughout the islands, saying
the United States did not intend to
give them their freedom and that it
could be obtained' only by revolt.
Meetings at every town have adopted
resolutions for independence. As the
Filipinos now control both houses of
the Legislature, the revenue Is at
their disposal and can be secretly
used by the local native officials in
the purchase of arms and in cutting
the cable. '
Secretary of War Garrison and
General Frank Mclntyre, chief of the
Insular Bureau, deny knowledge of a
plot, but Mr. Henning says his in
formation Is confirmed "by officials
close to those in charge of island af
fairs" and is given credence by Army
officers and Republican Senatois and
Representatives in close touch with
Philippine affairs, who say the War
Department' knows less about what Is
going od In the Philippines now than
ever before.
The alarming facts related by Mr.
Henning are only what might have
been expected from the Administra
tion's persistent ignoring of the Ori
ental character of the situation in the
Philippines. Among the Orientals mild
ness is construed as weakness, yielding
as due to fear. Cunning and treachery
are characteristics at the Filipino pol
iticians. This has been abundantly
proved from the inception of our con
nection with the Islands. The Insur
gents sought our aid against the
Spaniards with the purpose, , ex
pressed by Agulnaldo, to turn against
us the arms we supplied to them.
When we refused to reeognlxe their
aham republic, they plotted a whole
sale massacre of all Americans in
Manila and made a sudden attack on
our forces as the first step to carry
It out. Instead of being the deliverer,
Agulnaldo's army was the oppressor
of the people, robbing, torturing and
murdering them. The clamorers for
independence are the half-foreign
mestizos, who desire independence for
themselves to oppress the mass of the
people, not for the whole people that
they may establish a genuine democ
racy. The desire of the mestizos Is
the removal of every American from
the islands, if not by murder, then by
removal from office.
Now that they control the Legts
lature, the mestizos are already put
ting their wish into effect. Within
four months they have removed from
the Philippine civil service nearly 600
American veterans of the UWUfrM
tlon, who have appealed to Congress
for redress. These men remained In
the Islands and entered the Govern
ment service in the belief that the
United States Government would deal
Justly by them. Many of them have
taken their families to the Inlands
and erected homes there. Opportuni
ties for other employment are laii
Ing and many of them are past the
prime of life. They have given their
best years to the service In the Phil
ippines, but are now thrown on the
scrap-heap for political purposes.
Senator Chamberlain has caused to !e
Injected Into the Conaretslonal Recorrts
clippings from various Oregon newspapers
showing that this year the price of wool
was higher than ever before. Then he Im
mediately sets that made into an extra
and malls it. without any postage charge
to him, to every voter in the state. n
dleton Tribune.
Was the Senator wrong when he
thought 16 per cent about the right
duty for raw wool ? Or la he right
when he says free trade In wool Is all
right? Or will he explain that as a
non-partisan he stood for 16 per cent
and as a Democrat for free trade?
According to the Belgians, the Ger
mans before Liege crawled up like
weasels In making their attack. Natu
rally. Did the Belgians expect the
Germans to march up In massed col
umns in upright position? The only
possible tactics for the Germans con
sisted in advancing by rushes, taking
advantage of every bit of natural
cover and augmenting this by hastily
prepared rifle pits scalloped out with
bayonets and entrenching tools.
Italy disproves the fallacy that
governments fully control war. The
Italian government admits that It is
powerless to join the Triple Alliance
with the people in sympathy with the
Triple Entente.
We are becoming so engrossed In
the sayings and doings of William,
Nicholas, George, Francis Joseph and
other notables that we are In danger
of forgetting the very existence of our
own Theodore.
Mobilized is pronounced with a long
"o" unless referring to an American
troop concentration, when it would be
quite proper to use the short "o" with
emphatic emphasis on the nrst syna
ble. i
The Canal Is ready for business this
week. We hope none of the belliger
ents will need it in their business.
Otherwise they might unceremonious
ly take It.-
After a campaign In France the
Ulster Army ought to be seasoned up
to a point where it will be able to
cope with the English Army.
A local judge would flog parents
who flay their children If he had the
authority. The one regret is that his
powers are not broader.
Despite their efforts to muzzle the
world's press, the Powers now find It
the most powerful factor for mould
ing world sentiment.
Residents along the English coast
who hear continuous heavy cannon
ading are sufferers from auditory
hallucinations.
Portugal has declared for Great
Britain. The world, with bated
breath, now awaits word from Para
guay. With dollar wheat In sight and a
bumper crop, the American farmer
wears the smile that won't come off.
Carranza must fight Carbajal, and
the victor must flght Villa. The Mex
ican muddle merely grows worse.
Nevertheless the French i. Eng
lish seem inclined to hold back and
let the Belgians do the work.
Despite the sentimentalist the
world-as-it-Is continues to be, more or
less of a force in the world.
If German contact mines keep
spreading, control of the high seas
will devolve upon no one.
The French are rushing up their
colored troops from Africa. The
black guard, so to speak.
The dreamers who thought the Mex
ican tangle had been straightened out
shouted too soon.
However, the Kaiser will admit that
he has at least stubbed his military
toe at Liege.
Villa favors a Mexican exhibit at the
1915 Fair. Mexico might stage a revol
ution there.
From the grandstand the war is a
horrible debauch of insane hatred.
Russian regrets to reportsky are be
ginning to pour in already.
Meanwhile the American tennis
tourney rages furiously.
Gleams Through the Mist
Br Deaa Collins.
The ( ruler of Pes.
The sun was shining on the sea,
Shining with all Its might:
It did Its very best to make
The billows smooth and bright;
And proudly sailed the Piffle ship
Unto the scans of fight.
The Piffle ploughed with plunging keel
Through clinging clumps of kotp;
And round the European shores
Was heard the war dogs' yelp.
"Make haste." remarked the Commo
dore. "We ought to go and help."
"We ought to go and help." he said.
"If there la any way
To calm these warring natlona down.
Avert the fearful fray.
And give the dove of peace a chance
To build a neat and lay."
"Oh. William J. ! " the crew exclaimed
Unto the Commodore.
"What If the Piffle peddlee peace
Along all Europe's shore.
Do you suppose that well be heard
Above the battle'a roar"
"If," said the Commodore, "w preach.
And if they stop to bear
The lnfty thougnta I offer them.
Will they not see It clear?"
"I doubt It," softly aald the crew.
And ahed a bitter tear.
"At first we'll start It mild," then said
The Commodore, "and thin.
And on tho smaller ones at flrat
Weil atart to rub It In.
And by and by, If all goea well.
The bigger onea we'll win.
"Supposing Iceland we prrauad
To shun the general fray.
And Portugal from warlike work
We Influence to atay,
May we not finally work up
To Swltrcrlnnd ome day?
"And if the Swiss will promise us
To koup their navy out.
We may congratulate ourselvea
And give a Joyoua shout,
For we will then have made a good
Beginning, without doubt."
"But, Commodore," riplled the crew,
"While w are thus engaged.
What If. In other lands, the war
Juat wont right on and raged.
How Ions: do you suppose 'twould be
Before things were assuaged?"
The Commodore replied with pride:
"The world must surely know
How watchfully I waited peace
In poor old Mexico:
And can't a pica for A I C
Be tried out here a!o?
"And though the while our watchful
wait
On Europe la addressed.
The whole established state of things
In turmoil should le messed,
tf we restrain the Swiss navee
At leaat we've done our beat.
"Roar on. wflil war! Oh, savage Mara.
Strike with your Iron glove!
Though Europu tremble in the storm
And grim clouds roll above
I beg you all to witness here
That I Indorao the dove."
And as the Piffle on the sea
The oil of concord poured.
The Commodore hla words again
Unto the natlona roared:
"Roar on, wild war! " ha thua be
gan And It went on and roared.
"Sir." said the courteous office boy.
"speaking of occupational paradoxes
"Yea, whatever that may be.'- I en
couraged, "It muat be an awful emotional etratn
to be a French horn player In the
Kaiaer'a military batid these daya."
"Very good, my son." 1 comnionded.
"Oh yea. and I have another wheese."
modestly continued the C O. B.. "which
I Indorse and commend as an Incon
trovertible hummer."
"Mobilise thla hunk of humor." I
ordered.
"No matter what may happen to the
reat of the Kaiaer'a navy, he will al
ways have at leaat one Kiel that they
can't tow away from hla ahorea."
Whereupon, with a deep cry or rage.
I sprang upon him, dragged him to the
freight elevator and aeked the Janitor
o run down to the basement ana loose
the dogs of war.
a
Pnaalna; It Om.
Man wants but little hare below.
And vet he freta and freta.
He wants but little, and we know
TIs little that he geta. ,
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Man want but little here below.
Yet thinks he wanta a lot;
And, In the bean, aome men don't know
How little they have got.
Indianapolis rUar
Man wants but little here below.
But Fate hi wlahee taunts.
He geta It. but 'tie not. wc Know,
The little that he want.
e
Kef lection of Iff Nltta.
Now that war hae broke out. I'm
plumb surprlaed at the number of peo
ple I meeta who rememoera oin
prophealed It yeara ago.
But 1 'lOWS that a gooa many oi aasssai
muBt have prophealed It aort of aotto
vocy like.
t also am aort of viewln wun ami
the varieties of ways that there Is of
pronouncln' some of them European
words.
Approximate llletory.
K00.000 B. C. (?) Antedeluvlana de-
clare that the question ot property
rights In the productive clam beds and
berry patches can be etiiea oniy or -policy
of blood and flint.
l x n. A certain Naierene car
penter pasaee through Paleetlne and ex
pounds a doctrine or aaji saaail pw
1(11 A. D. Kntire civiuseu on
verbally Indorsee the doctrine aet forth
in 31 A. D.
1914 A. V. But the policy ot vvv.vvv
B. C. remains In practical force.
As Autamorphosls.
Ju,1"-
Shs was once a sweet, romancing -
maidenhood ininiram,
Furtive eyes so shyly (lancing under aye
lids downward cast.
Dreams of love could then elate ner now
he uses an Inflator;
Tender though! could animate her now
he scorches hot and fast.
Once so softly sympathetic, so demure and
so poetic:
Now aggresslvoly athlatto. tanned with ex
erclse and heat.
Once devouring verae and fiction, aow aba a
versed In auto diction.
And her hoot Is an affliction to the passers
in the street.
Over hearts ah thn rod glorious ever
bodies now victorious;
And her voice Is now aproarou that was
then so low and wt.
And the limit of her earing ar for ear and
hub and bearing.
Skidding, puncturing, repairing, tire and
cylinder and Beat.
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