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t2 THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLATiTI, APItTL 9, 1916. "ROBIN HOOD" WILL BE PRESENTED AT HEILIG WEEK OF APRIL 17 Celebrated Comic Opera Will Be Rendered by Company of Notable Singers, Including Ivy Scott, Australian Prima Donna Chorus Is of Exceptionally High Order Production Comes From New Amsterdam Theater. iff - . vv. tit A ' -'-V; J:trfi : , i X. K -v s ((- OBIN HOOD," the celebrated -c comic opera by Messrs. De Koven and Smith, will be pre sented at the Heillg- Theater for six days, beginning- Monday, April 17. This opera will be presented by the De Ko ven Opera Company, an organization composed of grand opera singers. In this notable cast of vocal artists first mention should be given Ivy Scott, the charming: young Australian prima don na, who made such a success as Madame Butterfly and as the girl in "The Girl of the Golden West." Miss Scott possesses a remarkable lyric soprano voice of dramatic quality and sings the role of Maid Marian with an artistic beauty worthy of the high est praise. The title role will be sung by Ralph Brainard, whose fine tenor voice is admirably suited to the part. William Schuster will play the part of Friar Tuck. Mr. Schuster's perform ance of the lovable old monk is said to be a classic. Cora Tracy will be the Alan-a-Dale and her rich contralto adds a new beauty to Mr. de Koven's best-known song, "O, Promise Me." Another recruit from grand opera is James Stevens, of the Chicago Opera Company, whose singing of "Brown October Ale" gives a pleasure ' only possible from such a splendid baritone voice. Herbert Waterous, a fine basso, will sing the famous "Armourers' Song. Marie McConncll, Tillie Salinger, Phil Branson and Sol Solomon complete the cast, the excellence of which has never been surpassed, if equaled in comic opera. An exceptional singing chorus carried by the company is of the high est order. Special mention is made of the vocal merit of this company, in Justice to the charm of Reginald de Koven's music. This elaborate production, which is under the direction of Fred E. Walker, is the same as that given at the New Amsterdam Theater, New York, during the long run of "Robin Hood" in that city last year. READERS' VIEWS ON CURRENT EVENTS REPlBlICAjr DEFINES FEALTY Hood River Man Would Vote for Rook. velt If dominated. HOOD RIVKR. April 7. (To the Ed itor.) May I have space for a few thoughts that have suggested them selves to me as I read the letter of Mr. Tate? Mr. Tate expresses the hope that Mr. McLeod's "prejudices may be overcome and he put loyalty to Republican prin ciples above dislike for any individ ual"; yet he eulogizes Mr. Roosevelt for pursuing a course that prevented Republican success four years ago. be cause he, Roosevelt, could not "sup port for temporary chairman a man whom he regarded as the wrong man for the place," and he defends Mr. Roosevelt's refusal to do so on the claim of high moral principle. It is characteristic of the "I am holler than thou" politicians to claim to be governed by high principle and' that those who differ with, them are gov erned by "prejudice." Mr. Roosevelt regarded as the wrong man for one place Mr. Root, who is almost uni versally regarded as one of the brain iest patriots of America, and he is lauded by Mr. Tate for wrecking the chance of Republican success, a suc cess by which then, as emphatically as now, "the best interests of our Na tion would be subserved," and his doing bo is claimed as "purifying and strengthening the Republican party." If. however, Mr. McLeod regards Mr. Roosevelt as the wrong man for an other and more responsible place, this is "prejudice." I fully agree with Mr. Tate that "this is a time for putting aside anything and everything which would in any way prevent the trium phant success of the Republican party, but the same sentiment was aa worthy and the same fact as true four years ago as It U today. I have been criti cised by my friends and ridiculed by my enemies for "extreme fealty to the Republican party," but that fealty Is based on a firm conviction that the policies adhered to by the party are best for the Nation and its people, best for my neighbors and myself; that those policies have drawn to the party the best brains of the country and .what seems to me the best, though not "the only brand, of patriotism; and that the party o manned is the most effi cient one extant. When, however, Mr. Roosevelt and rils followers ask that we reward them for purifying and strengthening the party by leaving it to defeat, and teach a new version of the parable of the prodigal son. "Father thou hast sinned against heaven and in my sight, make me chiefest of thy hired servants with power over all," it is a little strain on my party fealty to say "Amen!" If Mr. Roosevelt is nominated by the next Republican convention it will be because he has elements of character and stands for policies that are favored by the party now, as those elements of character have repeatedly been honored in the past, and not because he has punished and purified the party by making possible the humiliating spec tacles and experiences of the past three years, so crowded with noteworthy in cidents. It is a slur on Mr. Roosevelt for his supporters to say the 4,000,000 votes cast for him in 1912 were so cast as a. protest against the last Chicago con vention, and not because Mr. Roose velt was their choice for President be cause of what he is, and what he stands for. However, if the American people like what a minority of them were able to get because the majority was needlessly split, they will deserve about what they will get, and will get about what they deserve. We have nothing to bank on but the common sense of the American people, and it appears a part of them can be fooled all the time." What I don't like now Is for those who deserted the ship four years to to come back; and urge the old guard to stand by what they always have stood by and never deserted. If Republicans are willing to forgive, though they cannot forget, what was done four years ago, those who Bull Moosed then should forget where they have nothing to forgive, and be a little, just a little, modest in their claim for having purified and strengthened the party; and they should not say things that make it harder instead of easier for us to vote for Mr. Roosevelt if nom inated. I hope some other good man will be the nominee at Chicago, but it's the policy, not the personality, of the next administration that is Important to all of us, and I shall vote for Republican policies by voting for the man that stands for them. We want and need most of the things Mr. Roosevelt stands for, but he is not the only great American patriot who stands for those things, and he does not stand for as strong a loy alty to the party as we might wish. I would like to have a chance of voting for someone who has not made the mistake he made four years ago, which has , brought about the writing of some pages of history which we re gret and which our children may not be proud to read, but I am for him with a capital "F" if he becomes the choice of our convention at Chicago, because of the policies he stands for; because he is one of many men we have who can and will do the things we want done. R. C. GLANVILLE. BI.IK BUCKET MINE EXPLAINED Grave Found Not Thought One Work ing Early Gold Find. PORTLAND, April 8. (To the Edi tor.) By your special correspondent at Baker, we are told of the relocation of the Blue Bucket mine, known of in Oregon "legend" as containing fabulous riches, and, as your correspondent says, "discovered by a party of Immigrants in 1849." Now It Is true that that was rather an early date In Oregon, but some things happened out here, even before that time. Fifty or 60 years ago, I heard told, by many different persons, the story of the finding of this sup posed mine. I heard it from different members of the immigrant company, who believed they had made such a find. But the date of this discovery as set down by your correspondent is three years too late. Here is what I was told, in substance, from time to time, with minor differences in detail, but to the same effect as to the more important facts: In 1846 the overland immigration to Oregon was overtaken by a mountain man named Steve Meek, who was also on his way to Oregon. He was a brother to Joe Meek, then well and fa vorably known throughout Oregon. Steve Meek told of a route many miles shorter than the trail down Snake River, through Baker and Grand Ronde valleys, and finally down the Columbia to the Willamette Valley, as had been done by all the preceding Immigrants. Meek's route branched off to the south at the mouth of the Malheur River about where Ontario lies, on the Ore gon Short Line. It was supposed to follow up Malheur Valley, cross the John Day and perhaps Crooked rivers, thence across the Deschutes, up the eastern slope of the Cascade Mountains and down the west side to the Wil lamette Valley. Meek offered to become their Moses and lead them out of this real wilder ness. The Immigrants were mostly Missourians and were willing to "be shown." So they hired him as guide. Later this was called "Meek's Cut off." But as Meek had never actually traveled the road' and was really act ing on second-hand information, he could not give his followers such points as they were looking for. Then they began to suspect him of being an im postor, who was trying to lure them to their destruction. So they began to talk of, 'Hanging ' and other disagree able things. Hearing of this. Meek skipped out, in company with his wife, on the first dark night, and was never seen again by any of the party until they overhauled him many weeks aft erwards on the Tualatin Plains, where lived his brother Joe. I do not remember what route he took, but had the immigrants followed him it would have brought them out as it did Meek. The path Meek had marked out, al though rough and very difficult in places, afterwards proved practicable and is now ueed for a number of routes of travel across the Cascades. It would have proved more favorable than the one they found for themselves after Meek had been virtually driven out of camp. This took them into the Crooked River country, thence north erly down the Deschutes, and finally back to their old immigrant trail" at The Dalles. They had endured great suffering, hardship and hunger and had lost about everything they had started with. After Meek s departure the company seems to have traveled at different times to all points of the compass. have never met one of the survivors who could make me know that he had any well-defined idea as to any par ticular place where they had been, al inougn many or tnem in aiter years put in much time trying to retrace their steps, and if possible, relocate tneir mine. The story, as told me. was that while "wandering and lost" in the wilder ness" like the Children of Israel, one morning while their teams had strayed away, someone saw a bright yellow substance in the dry gulch at camp and called attention to it. Some of the pieces were gathered up, and carried about and finally thrown away or lost. Members of the party who, three years afterwards, visited the California gold mines, said it was very rich quartz, streaked with, gold. The grave mentioned in your dis patch as having been discovered by the parties from Baker and as having a rude headstone marked "Mary E 1849," is Indeed interesting, but when taken with other known facts proves that this Is not the resting place of that poor, tired wayfaring member of that company who fell by the wayside in 1848. A part of this "legend" Is to the ef fect that when this woman of the com pany died they dug her grave, put the body in and after filling the grave partly full they took the tire from a wagon that they were going to leave and set it up on the grave o about one half of it would show above ground. The location of this grave was on a high ridge that is still called "Wagon Tire Mountain." This was the most no ticeable and enduring monument they could have left. Again, this immigrant woman had lain three years in her grave on "Wagon Tire Mountain" before the date carved on the headstone that marks the burial place of "Mary E 1849." The dispatch infers that this loca tion was mined for ' a short time in 1849, and that it had been worked by Immigrants and that they were driven out by the Indians. I was here at that time and venture to say that not one penny's worth of gold had ever been mined in Oregon at that time. The first gold taken out In Oregon was in Southern Oregon. As for the "linchpin wagon, miners' pick, fry ing pan and sluice boxes" found by the Baker party, as long ago as the early "40s, John G. Fremont was in that country and at that time and for 20 years thereafter all Government wagons had "linchpins," and since that time most of the freighting through that country had been done In con demned Government wagons, that had passed Into private ownership. It Is highly probable that many of these wagons carried Just such "picks" and "frying pans" as are mentioned in this dispatch from Baker. As for the "sluice boxes" mentioned, if they were made in "1849" they certainly would be- gin to show their age by this time. xne una - mac mese immigrants made was little thought about for years, and was never called the "Blue Bucket" mine until a party of miners returned from California stopped for a night at the Oregon home of a mem ber of the Meek party. This ramlly had never seen gold. When the miners had shown, some of It to these immi grants they said "Why that is Just what we found when we were lost." After they had told what they had seen, upon being asked how much they had found, the woman of the house said, pointing to a blue water bucket. 'We could nave filled that blue bucket." I have no doubt but that some rich nuggets and quartz float was discov ered there. j The route they traveled started on tha Malheur and ended on the Lower Deschutes and must have crossed the John Day country between these two streams. This country has been mined for more than half a century, has yielded tons of gold, and Is still producing. I do not think the indications point to the discovery of the "Blue Bucket" mine. The gravestone tablet left over the grave that seems to have been made In 1849 does not correspond with the marks left at the lonely place of sepulture of 1846. over which bends the arch of an iron wagon tire. w ell. .Meek seems to have made fairly good time, and a good record general ly, for the wilderness" he had gone into and led himself out of was larger than that other wilderness" from which Moses led his followers, and had occupied only about three months of time as against the 40 years taken by the other great leader. EDWARD C. ROSS. T. It. SOT BELIEVED POSSIBLE Charles B. Moore Says Someone "Who Will Sot Stir Factions Needed. PORTLAND. April 6. (To the Edi tor.) Will you permit a "plain Repub lican" who does not wish to engage In any personal controversy, but to treat the question in the abstract, to suggest a few reasons why the nomination of Roosevelt would not be good politics? The most of your correspondents seem to be shooting wide of the mark. It Is doing no good to abuse Republi cans who say that Roosevelt taught them, how to bolt, anid that they will bolt his nomination, or to argue that Roosevelt was all right in 1912 and Taft was all wrong, or vice versa. It will get us nowhere. Taft men are just as sincere, just as honest and Just as determined as are the Roosevelt men. They believe that the record will show that Taft was, in spite of all that has been 'said, one of our greatest and lost really progressive Presidents, and abuse and ridicule and charges of incapacity will not affect their belief. Friends of Roosevelt have constantly declared that they will scratch and fight and bolt if any man prominent ad a Taft supporter is nominated; that they will not submit to a Blan in the face, or permit anybody to crowd such a candidate down their throats, and then they abuse supporters of Taft who snow the same disposition. They seem to forget that the great army or Talt supporters have Just as much human nature as they have and that the flaunting of a red rae in their faces will mean another fight. Is It not aoout time for both factions to realize that the nomination of any man oirensiveiy identified with either fac tion in the fight of 1912 means a reDl- tltion of bitterness and recrimination and defeat? Does any one doubt that the Democratic party Is hoping for the nomination of Roosevelt? Is not everv suggestion of such a step even now, at this early stage, the signal for a heat ed discussion on the streets, or in the public press? Is it not time to cease the diecussing of this question as Taft men or as Roosevelt men, and to di cuss it as plain Republicans? There are a dozen men of Presiden tial size on whom we can all unite. It is time for all of us to take counsel of our cool Judgment Instead of our en thusiasm. Now that the Roosevelt candidacy is a leading topic let us deal with it as a cold, matter of fact proposition, without getting rexclted about It. Vehement support does not mean effective support. It takes votes rather than enthusiasm to win success. The voter with an excess of enthusiasm icounts for no more on election dav than does the man who goes into the booth with his jaws set and says nothing. Roosevelt Is always spectacular. Can didates naturally attract men of their own type and the Roosevelt methods attract the emotional and mercurial and enthusiastic. A campaign of enthusiasm generally promises more than is de veloped In the final count. It is also true that vehement support always generates vehement opposition. No presidential candidate ever had a greater or more enthusiastic following than James G. Blaine, but a mere hand ful of enemies In New York blasted all his presidential hopes. The career of Roosevelt does not in dicate that he was ever a phenomenal vote-getter, even when he was re garded ae the party Idol. When he re turned as the hero of San Juan and ran for Governor of New York his ma jority was only 18,000. If Parker, against whom he ran for President in 1904, had polled the Bryan vote of four years before, Roosevelt's majority over him would have been less than was McKlnley's majority in 1900. Parker polled 1.280,220 votes less than Bryan did four years before, and 1.331,- 193 less than Bryan did in 1908, but in epite of this enormous Democratic slump Roosevelt did not get any more than the normal Republican increase, and polled fewer votes than Taft did in 1908. In 1912 Roosevelt and Taft together did not get as many votes as Taft alone did in 1908. although Wilson polled a smaller percentage of the total vote than any Democrat, except Parker, ever did before. The vote of Roosevelt in 1912 was largely due to various causes not personal to him. The Ca nadian reciprocity treaty caused tre mendous opposition to Taft in all the grain-growing border states. Taft, during his four years' administration, brought 89 suits against leading trusts, a greater number than had been brought before In the whole history of the Sherman law. and more than twice as many as were brought In the whole seven and one-half years of the Roose velt administration. George W. Per kins, who was a defendant stockholder in the steel and harvester trusts, and others Involved, denounced the prose cutions as drastic and unjust, and hun dreds of thousands of dollars were con tributed by them to defeat Taft. Besides being fought by the greatest newspapers of the country, nearly all the great magazines of the country op posed Taft, because, as his friends claimed, his administration had raised magazine postage rates to equal the cost of transportation. In Illinois the burning issue was the expulsion of Lorimer from the Senate, and Roose velt, in stumping that state, declared that support of Taft meant the triumph of Liorimerism, although it developed after the campaign that Taft had writ ten Roosevelt urging him to use his influence in favor of Lorimer's ex pulsion from the Senate. In Pennsylvania the battle was large ly a battle between the two bosses, Fllnn and Penrose, and a fight on the part of Pinchot. who had been removed from the Forestry Service by Taft. The Canadian reciprocity treaty, the trust prosecutions, Lorimerism. in Illinois, and factional warfare in Pensylvania lost Taft hundreds of thousands of votes, that were largely cast for Roose velt simply because 'he was Taft's op ponent, and there was no other Repub lican in the running. We near fre quently that Taft received only eight electoral votes. It Is small politics to state the case in that way. , The facts are that Taft beat Roosevelt in 20 states and 13 of these are now really Republican. 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Outside of Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and South Dakota Roosevelt had fewer votes than Taft. Half of Roosevelt's majority over Taft came from the states of California and South Dakota, in both of which states Taft was refused a place on the ballot and Republicans were disfranchised. The other half of the Roosevelt majority, not to mention various other localities, resulted from the Fltnn-Plnchot-Penrose factional war In Pennsylvania and the irrevelant Lorlmer issue in Illinois. If Roosevelt was not a phenomenal vote-getter when he was the acknowl edged party idol, how can he poll a winning: vote under present conditions? The most popular slogan of the Wilson Administration is. "He has kept us out of the war."' It is pure bunk, but it is a vote-fretting slogan. The horrors of the European war have made it so. Aprainst any rf'war lord" candidate it would be disastrous. The vote of Henry Ford in Michigan is a straw. In the Middle West It Is an unfor tunate fact that the sentiment for pre paredness is not as strong as it should be. An extremist candidate would Im peril rather than promote the cause of preparedness, -and it is well to note that neither on this, nor any other issue. Is there any dissension in the Democratic party that indicates Wilson will not get practically every Democratic vote, especially against Roosevelt. We have made political capital out of Wilson's repudiation of his single term pledge. We must drop that If we nominate a man who declared he would never, "under any circumstances." be come a candidate for a third term. 'We have been making political capital over the enormously increased number of business failures in the last three years and the fact that nothing but the Re publican Aldrich-Vreeland law saved us from a disastrous panic. What becomes of that If we nominate the man who was President at the time of the 1907 panic, the only panic we have ever had that could not be traced directly to the Democratic party? Finally we come to the question of German disaffection. The man who undertakes to minimize this is utterly blind to existing condi tions. There Is no man in the country for whom the average German voter entertains a greater dislike than Roose velt, not even Wilson, for while Wilson has been diplomatically objec tionable Roosevelt has bluntly de nounced the Germans aa pirates and murderers, and declared that the United States is bound by International treaty to drive the German invaders from Belgian soil. Our German citizens are not all hy phenated Americans. The great ma jority are thoroughly loyal American citizens, but they bitterly resent what they regard as unjust critlolsm of the iatherland. Let us assume that they re utterly wrong. Right or wrong they hold "about 2,000.000 votes and it is estimated that about 80 per cent of them are Republicans. We have about 9.000,000 people of German descent. We have 2,500,000 who were born In Ger many. Of our CJerman-born population there are 450,000 In New York, 300,000 In Illinois, 225.000 In Wisconsin, over 200,000 in Pennsylvania and 200.000 In Ohio. Including all those of German descent there are probably 6,000.000 Germans In these five great states that have 149 electoral votes. If Roosevelt were nominated what would happen in New York, which he lost in 1912. or In Illinois with a large German defection and a large defection of regular Re publicans? What would happen In Taft's state of Ohio, where the normal Republican majority is only about 50, 000 and where a defection of 30,000 would swing the state- against us? What would happen In Indiana? What would happen in Wisconsin, the home of La Follette, who bitterly charges' Roosevelt with betraying him in 1912, and where Taft beat Roosevelt by a vote of more than 2 to 1? Would the Democratic press constantly flaunt In our faces all the bitter things that were said In 1912 on both sides, or would it not? Would It constantly re mind the German voters of all the bit ter things that Roosevelt has said of them, or would it not? Would hun dreds of thousands of Taft's friends show their resentment by bolting him, or would they not? It is not a ques tion of what they ought to do. What would they do? What kind of an olive branch are you oferlng when you slap them squarely In the face? Is that the kind of an o'lve branch that the friends of Roosevelt would ac cept? Shall we meet half way. make mutual concessions, have a reunited party and select any one of a dozen men upon whom we can all agree, or shall we deliberately reopen the breach and enact the tragedv of 1912? CHAltLKS H. MOORES. LIRE OF ORECO.V IS DESCRIBED Pictures Drawn of Ileauty Spots That Attract Tourists. NEWPORT, Or., April 6. (To the Editor.) Permit me to address the citizen of Oregon was has been too busy to become acquainted with the beauties and resources of his own state. If you have a few moments to free your mind from the burdens of life and the many problems that confrot you in the everyday scramble for bread, wealth, health and fame, and will go for a few minutes to see the movies, showing some of Oregon's scenic beau ties and her wonderful resources. It may cure you of the blues and make you satisfied and thankful to the Almighty that you are permitted to live in one of the most beautiful, healthful and rich est countries in natural resources un der God's shining sun. Again we rest on beds of moss and ferns in the odor of the fir and the hemlock, when the shadows of evening are casting dark spots o'er the ever green pines, and the purple rays of the Summer sun are painting myriads of colors on the rugged shores of old Cape Foulweather. A flame of gold shines over Otter Rock. The sad sea waves moan and seethe on a full-moon tide. Their white, creamy foam bathes the red walls of the "Devil's Punch Bowl." The white-winged gulls and the black plumed shags are winging their flight to Rock Island to seek their young and cover them from the dewy night. The sea lions' roar is heard as they swim and dive and sport outside the white surf line, after they have made their evening meal on the silverside and Chinook. Then the reel begins to move and we get a glimpse of some of the beauty sfots of Oregon's 300 miles of coast line that the Almighty has fashioned and indented with numerous rivers and bays. .See how he has framed the hills and alluvial valleys and fenced them in with millions of acres of green for ests backed with high mountains, snow-crowned and rock-ribbed and un derlaid with precious minerals, rich er than King Solomon'B Temple. The reel moves, another picture is on the curtain. Portland, the beautiful rose city, the sweet perfume from a billion blooming roses, mingled with the odor from the distant "primeval forest, the murmuring pine and the hemlock." Six hundred billion feet of timber waving and green, basking In God's pure sunlight, untouched by the woodman's ax, reminding us that Ore gon has the largest body of woodland In America. Just a glimpse is given of a few of the hundreds of enchanting beauty spots that mark the course of the mighty old Columbia, whose scenic beauty is not rivaled in all the known world. The ruins of the great Bridge of the Gods, that in the dim and misty past for ages formed the rocky chain that bound Columbia's shores together to let the dusky savage pass; then fell with a mighty crash and quake that shook the adjoining mountains and sent a great tidal wave rolling down the Columbia, forming the beautiful Cascades, that man's Ingenuity and Uncle Sam's money have fashioned and hewn a channel through, that the com merce of a mighty empire may float down to the sea. The reel next shows mountains. Some tall, ghostly and white, rising nearly to the dome of heaven, silent sentinels guarding the gateway of the rich inland empire, where waving fields of golden grain ready for the harvest thrill the heart of the toiling farmer; where the shepherd's flocks and the cowboy's cattle roam the bunchgrass hills that stretch away to the pineclad slopes of the Blue Mountains. The reel moves on and we see Mount Hood snow-crowned, sun-kissed, gleam ing cold and gray In the distance, keep ing guard over the entrance of the mighty Columbia and covering vast bodies of minerals that are richer than all the lands and possessions that the warring nations of the earth are fight ing over. The scene changes and we peep Jnto Crater Lake, and as we stand on the mighty precipice and look down 6000 feet Into Its crystal water it seems no larger than a pocket mirror encased In Its towering walls, which have been carved and cWaeled fay, tha band ot time. Looking down into the seem ingly fathomless depths of Crater Lake one Is reminded of the orthodox de scription of hell, for It is easy to im agine that this great crater was once ' a seething molten mass of hellfire and that it "burned for countless ages, its sulphur fumes poisoning the air until, like all things, it came to an end and hell burned out, leaving its ruins a mile deep and six miles lonp. These fires scarred, seamed and maimed its perpendicular walls Into a thousand fantastic forms, but finally the pit became a beautiful lake, dotted with rocky islands; while around its shores great forests have grown and beauti ful ferns and wild flowers and mosses have covered and healed .many of the scars and seams that once marred its beauty. B. F. JONES. RtSSIA Ol'R OM.Y FRIEND" All Other Europeans Aided Confed eracy, Says C. E. C'lfue. PORTLAND. April 8. (To the Edi tor.) It Is well that we have a clear understanding- of a few facts at the present time noted by those Involved in them as they transpired. . When this country was in the throes of civil war and at vast cost had shut the Southern Confederacy from the sea and the belligerent had no resources within Its territory by which It could put a ship on the ocean, England allowed confederate officers to camp on her soli, organize her labor, employ her machinery, use her ports, occupy her colonial stations and that con tinuously, systematically, defiantly. British ports, domestic and colonial, were open to the coming and going of piratical ships, where they were not only furnished coal, provisions and repairs, but prisoners were received and held patriotic men taken from United States vessels and held in dungeons while their captors patrolled the sea for more. England's whole procedure In our days of anguish was In utter disregard of International obligation, the out growth of a malignant neutrality. Nor was that of Germany much bet ter. Before a single battle was fought Germany hurried to recognize the belligerency of the Confederate states and clapped her hands over every re verse of the Northern Armies. When Great Brltian made on Mr. Lincoln her demand for Mason and Slldell In the "Trent" affair, Germany said openly to England, "sic 'em, chew "em up and spit 'em out." France recognized the belligerency of the Southern Confederacy, making an emphatic demonstration In the Invasion of Mexico, for the purpose of converting that republio Into an empire, the success of which would have been fatal to all that Is cherished by the United States and all we hope to achieve. The very moment this Republlo was hampered and embarrassed by Internal dissension, all Europe acqulsced in an aggression as wanton and hellish as imperial hatred could devise. Only Russia was our friend God bless her! Off New York harbor in our darkest days one morning appeared a number of black Russian warships, unasked and unheralded, but there nevertheless, saying by their very pres ence to all Europe hating us, "Hands off!" In the war now raging there is neither providence, necessity nor, as some men whose heads are softer than their hearts, say: The fulfillment of scripture prophecy. It's the Jealousy of greed. During our Civil War there was In the foreign policy of all that whole European bunch towards the United States, intense and outspoken hostility. Nor can they be, any ot them, trusted. Now nor in time to come, ur only safety is in being able tcr take care of ourselves in any emer gency, and particularly so as some of them will have another rod or two in pickle for the United States when their troubles are over and. If occasion arises, every European now taking shelter and getting his bread under the American flag should be made to fish, cut bait or speedily leave the creek. C. E. CLINTS. LarRe Returns. Birmingham Age Herald. "Dobbleworth Is a facetious fellow." "In what respect?" "Announcing the arrival of twins at his house, he said love had declared, a dividend on both, common and. pre- ferred, stock."