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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING; MAY . 3, 1808. HOBSON DECLARES JAPAN IS EDGING TOWARD WA't ilse Issue Raised to Humiliate the United States President Roosevelt Narrowly. Averts a Conflict Diplomacy Saved tne Country The avoidance of the rupture v. bv tlia ana-aclty tnd vladsm of - our president, -and-the aban donment of thia particular open ing on account of tba oceur ; renoea In Vancouver,' cannot af feet the only conclusions which , -an patriotic American nan eoa..'. . aider without apprehenalon: ' lt. Japan has prepared and ia continuing 'preparation for ; wir.- .,v '- ''.- v, : 2nd. These preparations are no far completed that Japan baa 1 already triad to force war Upon unprepared America. . 4th. Japan should .-ba . ex pected to selao upon the Drat advantageoue opening: to try again to force war upon Amer ica. 6th.-. The Only possible way1' to avert war Is for America to hasten- defensive preparations, ar,d while these are incomplete b prepared to submit to hu-. mlllatlona. 4 By Captain Richmond P. Hobaon. (Written for The journal.) T hag been pointed out that Japan h.M.e'Mn.stite) her nav.L milt- I having; completed her naval, mill Itary and ; diplomatic preparations for war with America, has recently bean aelging upo. incidents, no mat ter how trivial, to atlr up the masses of Japan .against America. These efforts have been eminently successful. By groaa exaggeration and mlarepresenta- tlona In the Jananeaa nreaa the neonle'a hatred and cupidity have been aroused and this feature of preparation may 'be regarded as completed. The pres cam- paign. in Europe has been equaUy sue- cessrui. y aaroitiy Dulldlog moie- iWIn w. m.n.alnu . U- incidents Japa Hion race hatred against Japan, and is treat ing the subjects of that nation as in teriors, that she has been violating treaty rights, and that a war for rec ognition of a civilized nation would be Justified on the part 'of Japan. The broad, plain fact that the American peo- t fitu i wttg nnasilril r nhsn rr I'Vgm II Jwon IWIJ vilsiiSja V T - night; that as a matter of fact their Admiration of the Japaneae has stead ily grown; that they have a pride in Japan's success, something akin to the pride of a sponsor; that they love the Japanese, and invite and welcome them into the schools and everywhere else, everywhere, all Over the country, these truths count for naught. The impres sion havfen produced In Kurope that there are causes ' that would warrant Japanese reprisals. It Is not surpris ing, therefore, when we remember tnat Japan is ready and America Is not; that the school Incidents In San Fran-clsi-o are seised by Japan to create a crisis and force the American govern ment into war. When our government learned about the inflammatory propaganda in Japan find the pro-Japanese propaganda of flistortion in Europe, it took immediate occasion, to correct the mistakes, and sent a most courteous cablegram to the jHpanese government to the effect that the attitude of love that our peo ple have alwaya held toward the Jap BneH ha- in no wise changed; that we were upholding and would scru pulously uphold all our treaty obliga tions, and would protect the rights of Japanesd in America; that the friction In Man Francisco was purely local, growing largely out of abnormal labor conditions, and that the best offices of the government would be used to have cvfn these local matters adjusted, but. of course, as in all other International Incidents arising within Individual staten, ..iat the regular course required hv our Inst.tutlons would have to be followed, requiring local and etate ad justment before action could be taken hy the general government. A more courteous, conciliator' assurance could not have been conceived. Japan'g Ultimatum. Close upon the heels of this courte ous cablegram, the Japanese ambassa dor In Washington went down to the Tf mi ADC A j a . , a j rv 1 1 r . a . SC. .X X U.... VT? ordinary procedure in th slow methods way across vne tonuntni wn n .r in San Francisco, the press of , ,.h Hininmn. .n viewed in nmrnlnr throuah the cities S . .a" .p rv,0V!; lmJ?Z?H2 injunction to be secured against the" alongTthe route, they sUted and re that America has formed a fierce t,i v.. r ou m,. . .,. ni ,irin mi an n that their Ella Wkeeler rVilcox (Oopyright. JflOS, by Amerleia-Journil-Extmlner) D O colors affect you? 'Are you con scious that certain .shades of color give you pleasurable and happy -sensations, and others irri tate you, and others Incline you to despondency? ' If so, do not consider it an evidence of incipient Insanity or blame yourself for being "queer." Color plays a larger part in the every day world than most of us suspect. Here Is what a noted physician, a graduate of the "old school," although he has gone forward Into more progree slve Ideas, told me. We were talking of the marvelous re sults which have been obtained by medi cal science from the employment or vto- ( IHIBlim IIDIU IIIC VlllIIV7 ,,,-, 1. VI ..V- let and X-rays in curing supposedly In- curable diseases The physician showed me two plaster casts he had removed from the legs of a small boy, who had worn them for years, and who was pronounced In curable by the leading specialists in such maladies; yet, after some months of treatment Mnder the violet and X-ravs. the plaster casts were removed, and the little boy Is roiling his hoop In the street, well snd hsppy. "We are discovering new wonders dally," the doctor said. "In many hos pitals now they ere placing red cur tains about the beds of smallpox pa tient s. It has been- decided that light falling through red curtains prevents the Dlttlna of the patient. There is a chemical- pefterty in red which pro duces tMi is welcome result. Mint an 'In violet:- there are Chemical properties which aid in the cure of other maladies - , "Color is now a recognised factor In the progreeslve medical world. And we are only in the morning of our dis coveries. The world will be astonished in 10 yearsrtime at the revolution which will take place In the science of medi cal thrernpeutlcs. Drugs are fast be coming obeelete; the knife will be less popular, and only m extreme cases, and In accidents will It eventually be used by reputable surgeons. Light haa come to take the place of old, ignorant meth ods." v. - : Then' the "physician took me Into a private room, where sat a young man of 21 years, for three months a patient of the light cure. The mother, of the vouth was present, and told me of the remarkable effect violet and X-ray treat ment had produced on her son. "For six years my boy had been growing steadily worse with Inflamma tory rheumatism, sne nun. ror mm fined to hl bed, unable to move with- out excruciating pain. jne .uesi epw- clallsts In Greater New York assured me he would never leave his bed sava for hls-tomb; yet. In three months time he is able to walk on crutches, and to sit up four hours a day." Let there be light In the old medical school, slnoe such things as these are MnFlme! lets -"tudy color, and real- lie that It haa its place, aside from tne Sc?r?"v.. n. w"i,CImt' e.t. Certain rate of vibration of ll.Tit It. also represents a certain- HULinj V 1 III nllllll. . Ulfiim BVUUUi.miu, -:. ..it. . i i v . . a are all related, then, and all affect tba mental and physical W4U-belng or nu- - . - ments of the "wise men of old." - t nousanosi oi years ao ii was wru- tenano saiq mil eaca mortal nag an "aura.- ,aiul that or its color tne rsrcbl eye could determine the thoughts of another, whether sad or . Long ago the aecrs of the world aald that ft is hard for them to realise that Russians, having absolutely no Palea- . Often' these people are Vefr poor." wrong type of American may produce these Things, and It Is gratifying to find Dickens' descriptions of the slum of tine blood in their veins. Kach year they have arrived with little more than a typof Jew which Is extremely boor- nenl nhvaleal aclenoM enrrohnratinar the state. New York are not true-today. - : . .0.000 lmmla-ranta come Into the dlS- their tl In thole nAck.t miT ran nnlv lah ariil admittedlT vnta-ar I, la thia - . fv- . state department and left a note,-! nave been criticised ror rererrtng to this note s an ultimatum. - It was just mm much an ultimatum .as Rome ever delivered to - an - enemy. When Boms was all ready -for war she used to iasoe an- ultimatum which aha v knew the enemy would' not accept, and then would inaugurate the war .because tha enemy would not comply, A,- .. , . - The ultimatum has been used by aa . greaslve nations ever since, in the effort to justnv themselves or gain moral art- vantage in the eyea of the -world when they proceeded to , break the t world's peace, , ..- The Japanese note says tt effect that the matter of eur instltutlone"-. waa no Concern of theirs, but the question would not D oiaeuseeo. we command right nowhere ana oniy in-ons cuyoui you to put those pupils back In those of the whole land did they exercise the schools. They evidently thought that rlgh far enough to require separata our president would- resent such a de- schools. . ' , mend. Involving, as 'its ' compliance The president realised what- the state would have Involved, the disregard of ment of the foreign minister meant. lie institutions the product of a long eve- tied oniy recently directed the machtn "Tuttony: tha' fundamental law of theery t the courtto be-aet In motion. Ma land. ; ....- - noW'uicWy directed that tlte motion be Supported, as our president would stopped in its last stages, The decision, have been In such a, position, by the was never handed down. It did not mat American people, with the Japanese; ter how Important-the decision would government supported, is It would have have been, we did not dare to let it ba been in ita position, by the .Japanese hanaed down. The great judicial func people, it was expected that a crista .would ba produced from which Japan cul br?" -f ?Jr 'i?0" ..? rurrlna the condemnation of the nubllo opinion 'of the world. Too Wige to F1L ' But our president. Wag too wise to fall into the trap.r, He saw what it meant and realised bow defenselese we were. ; Whatever may have been hie ruMtmanl lntmllv. Ik nnver ihnaul externally. He wlgeiy and. shrewdly espoused the cause Of the Japanese, m, sent & member of bis , cabinet -crrvinr across the continent "to in- ti, nun,, mnmt ,tn. " I " . ' ' extraordinary prooedure when the school beard was only carrying out a law of California that had been In force for many years, lie then wrote that extraordinary essay upon the glories of the Japanese and the in- tamles of the Callfornians, and, taking advantage of his approaching measage to concress. Included the essay In the message and sent it out SO days In ad- vance, so that the papers all over the world. In Kurope and .Japan, had the text and printed it when the message was released. The good people read- Ing this text naturally began to ques- tion the motive behind Japan's per emptory attitude in face of such a conciliatory attitude by our govern ment. This checkmated the Japanese for the time. The president then di rected the school question to be laid before the United States court In Call fornta. Tne facts were agreed upon and handed up to the court. The court considered them and prepared Its de cision. It was evident to those who followed the case that the decision would sustain, the Callfornians. It was Cali fornia's schools; California had the right to decide who could and who could nnt Attend tliAm. ThprA ' e u unthinv In the treaty with Japan that granted the right of attendance, and there could be no such grant of right. The case was an application of the old principle of the right of local self government. Looked for Decision. e Just before the decision of the' court waa expected to be handed down, the Japanese foreign minister appeared be fore the Jananese narilament and served IUIB l MO F,lUre W II minimi "HU SerVCU notice to the world that the decision of the court would determine the attitude (If America and therefore the attitude of Japan. The president saw that this decision would be seized upon to have the world believe that the American na tion had dennitely decided to turn the Japanese pupils out of, school. As a matter of fact. San Francisco proposed to supply these pupils with schools as good as the other schools, and give them a free education, a prli-- ilege denied Japanese pupils in Austra- lia, a privilege for which America re- Celves no equivalent In Jspan. Fur- T7T7T7 nrT ZT T . T - , . iatj m i lxr frlad, gloomy or hopeful, angry or lov ng. In London a year or two ago a sclen- ttnc corroboration or this theory was produced by a chemically prepared soreen, which brought out the colors surrounding the heal of any one sitting in rront or it, and. oddly enough, the mental states of each person corre sponded with the colors the wise people thousands of years Ago had declared such thoughts would produce; the brown "aura" despondency, the pink, love. Let us open the windows of our souls and minds to all the. glorious new dis coveries. They are coming; thick and fast In the next decade. And by and by, after a century or J,." f??" -A VlI . IE! psychic eye and be enabled to "see the thoughts of one another. Since many such people exist today . V r--.- ,', .J all about us. It behrfpvea us. to cultivate 'nlnk aura" bv loving thoughts: and to avoid anger and evil passions, which display themselves in sullen red rays: or despondency, which clothes Itself In muddy brown. The pink aura, by 11 means! A Dwr White and Deaf. ' ' From the New Tork Sun. Speaking of blindness, deafness and dumbness among cats and dogs. Dr. H. D. Gill, the veterinary surgeon and horseman, told lncidentally-of a remark able wild animal, a deer, that was once encountered bv two friends of his own who were hunting near Moosehead lake In Maine. Out with a guide, the hunters came to .nn from which thev ronlri nee within , , NEW YORK'S REAL EAST SIDE-Not a District of Crime and Vice as in the 'Day a 'of Old ' 'Five Points Ike Most Congested District in the World By E. Stags Whltln. (Special Service from Charities and the Commons Press Bureau.) (The Impression that most readers get from popular magaxlnes and Sun day newspaper stories seems to be that the Bast Side of New York is a hot bed df vice and crime. Mr. Whltin'a article, based on several years' residence in the heart of the congested district, will do away with that Impression. The "slummer," that is the vice, hunting "slummer," will be disappointed in the East Side. His field lies in themore popular and more comfortable 'tender- um. F IFTY yeara have wrought great changes In New York, and Five Points, the center of the old "slum district," Is no- more. -A Keaiitlful nark with Its baths anil playgrounds occupies the site and makes many happy. . The same la true or like districts in Boston and pther cities. in the popular mind . the thoughts of alum, and slummlne- have taken' such a. . A.tAiA VinM nrtA r u huh r,lo,Mvwt aA T?" r-'. -" -"-. yiviajy oy 'J" iTL ?: pno lomDnEn wnnvicu waii uur iwopri. New- York - Is not atatlc it la everjrlct each year 8,000 so-called Amerl- in ms " "- t - m m msi,m,ni- v. .""T ,If; " vul lying oiaincxs .oming or in- dnstrial localities. -Its people are dl- Tided among many races, each having a thermore, the schools of Lea Angeles and all tne otner cities or v aurorma. the 'sehoo.s of Oregon and Washington and all the. other states of the Union invite and welcome Japanese pupils right in the midst of the American pu- pUs. - .Yet the Japanese government chose to have a decision of a court as to the" rights of American eltisena, ds . t.rmtne the attitude of the nation, while these rights were exercised In only on city In the whole land and the nation's attitude was really Just the opposite. "The cordiality and generosity of this atutud wouTd in reality only have been ' Proven the more uonoluslvely by the decision. ' Whila the people everywhere had the right to' deny to Japanese on pile free education, they exercised this tion or the government naa to oe sua- Upended. i. . ')! VtiAent hurriedly Jelegraphed to the aovernor of California not to allow me Japanese question .ia ttm vim cusaed in the legislature of. California and the : governor prevailed upon the legislature to drop, the Question.' We had come to such a pasa that a. legis lature of a great American common wealth did not dare even to discuss a Vital question of pressing importance. They had to surrender the right of freedom of speech ana to siop ns t-SUSttim teTegraphed o the mayor and gchool board of Ban Francisco to come aoross tha continent to see him. They eame and a remsrk- ibUi chanre came over' them. - . i. minds were already made up, that titers was no use of taking the long trip, that they did It out of courtesy to the president, but that they were de- termined, in this vital questio to stand for their rights first, last and all the time. When they left the conference at the-White House they hastened back to Ban Francisco and "put those pupils back' in thoae schools." This "was not done because the law required it, for the law waa on the other side; it was not done because the principle Involved was right, ror the principle o intimately mingling two different races in large numbers Is wrong; It was not done because the people of San Francisco wished It, for they emphatically did not wish it. It was done to comply with the ulti matum of Japan and Jt had to be done because we were utterly unprepared. No free nation in the history of the world hay ever suffered such deep, real humiliation as we have suffered at the hands of Japan. Every department of our government has been compelled to turn aside from its orderly procedure, "xeeutlve, Judicial. legislative. and finally an American city has been compelled to surrender the right of local self-government Time to Pause. lt ia time for Americans to paus and take account of where we have drifted. The right of local self-government Is the principle fof which our forefathers died; it Is the principle for which Anglo-Saxons have died for a thousand years; U is the very corner- stone upon wmcn tne aauiee or numun " . , l...il n .V.n.k. I ; I I W I L l.in IFTTVII Ultll . , J. ' UVI J. are our people in their Individual af- fulra, ;t is a question whether we are wnrthv to he intrusted with the holv rnuKe of liberty. uur rorerainers oi the revolution prized liberty a Dove life, and In Its cause when less than ,l,'?uu,u'o in pUrillB'IUM IIIWJ uwiici m. mistress of the seua.. Their immediate sons, receiving the cause as a aacred trust, realised that America la the ex- nonent and ciiamnlon of human liberty fn the World. When still lees than-10,- uuO.000 population they decreed that ven the neople In dlatant South America and the people of the whole hootl1rlaJanc.oHrara or tne rour oeina wnna, an siuinu. i m- hunters fired and shot two of the. deer of natural color, the third one at the report of the guns springing away to safetv, while the white deer remained stock still. The wind was toward the hunters and they had not been heard or scented, and apparently the white deer had not heard the report of the guns. But In a moment it turned Its head and then It bounded away after the other surviving deer. It seemed clear to the a-ulde and hun ters that the white deer was stone deaf. Hid HU Gold Too Well. From the St. Paul Pioneer Press. After a three months secret search John Dahl, r rescldent of this 'place. finally has uncovered a pot of gold coin that he hart saved and burled under his cabin more thsn two years ago ' IMhl Is one of the men who refuse to frnt hunks when he hid his savings he thought he had marked-the spot se- curely, hut n. number of months ago wl,n ha went to loolr he WA linaole to ," .:. Ir K.Tn. - lOCHie III' rilOIlC.T. lllCll UUU, a mall over thn rrnnml where he ihAiirhl b o-nlrt was loc.teil and un- i v! , unn. n lmnn, existence of the treasure, lest he be robbed, he set about digging-- In the '" "i-'" "' ; V" I evening bv candle light. After long toil his search finally was rewarded ana he emerged from his cabin with the coin. Xew Mother Goose. Jack Spratt Could fry no fat. Which they were quick to note. And therefore when He ran again He didn't poll a vote. Washington Herald. distinct center and some of these di- vlded strain into native village com munltles. There are also districts like the Bowery and the Tenderloin, where vice reigns, a vice which Is as much the , result nf misused Wealth- as of poverty. , These districts are the real slums op New York and the sensational writers who apply the term "alum" to the foreign districts of the city simply show how out of touch they are with the real lives of the people who dwell in them. The district which lies east of the side gangs, well typified by "Monk Msiman ana tne resi. nonx ana nis kind are "up state." their gangs are no more, . Iri and displaced ally all the East has come the Irishman in practice Side. I say the Jew as it nH.we.ra a n iniUvirtiiai tvnn .hut h. la nor- ha la ' . made tin of a doxen races speaging a oo"" oiaiects i ana wun, uniertm. ui - Turn ann inn unni aoma even ui Dun . "" go iiuv anu Kaucr meniwiw orrr "uiiying uisincis oi rruwnmuw and Harlem, wnere a new type is oetng formed. As Mr- Watcnom. commission- ar of immigration for New York, will Bowery and below Fourteenth street not go elsewhere, but because they do overcome a prejudice of the great un- . i ... , . i i i . . 'wner used to lie the habitation of the Irish, not want to go elsewhere. They come known Christian land, which lies be- lli., the needs of th in their less prosperous days when they1 to join their friends In communities hind New York. Thrift Is the Word, and 5af;,!!.K , I5,ftrd 9 immigran were the Immigrant class. Today -they which are grouped around a synagogue as "ng as rws retains ma Hebrew rights '" ,T" ,jk , , ' have gone up town to "better things." which has been transplanted directly and rellgidua consciousness, no money ..,.7., , fj1 18., ,yf r V , ..k.11. u... h.t.t.j . i v. i i , i .. . i . , , ' 0 i n.iHa .... ...v.- tne district, and will tend n r ui . lulls itiirr iiv ucuiiiu infill nuiu iiorir nurilil or i Oi 1311 noilien, .... , liutuillK J , . . " their dregs which are known from the and they refuse to go out Into the in the frivolity of the theatre or dance- ,2. JL nrodueiu",. t m i popular irtounis oi ine roving east sirange, neamen lana as tney reel a '" v ' , , , , western hemisphere shall r ha ice for self-government. are now, numbering 80,000.000 of pop lation. stretching across the continent with wealth unlimited, only are we Unable to and yet not guarantee the chance for liberty to the people of i liBiipiiOT asm V. HrVv-KlCJaMDrT)' Vf JUT"-" vtK&my have a Here we Souih America, not only are we unable lished our bases and adequately ex to guarantee the chance for liberty to panded our navy! Japan would not the helpless peoples of ' our outlying :ow be strangling our commerce In possessions, but we are actually unable Korea, Manchuria. China, and be plot to guarantee the principles of liberty ting for the abolition of the open door In the mainland of Amnios Itself. Y have negligently drifted to the point where we must disturb the functions of our government and, must compel an American cny q eurrenaer ine ll , V. !,l . . . " . " . , . i . . . . j . 1. 1- . a., ihv 'ITU ttitlona of liberty at the dictation of a power across the Pacific ocean-a power of an alien race, an oriental absolutism jusi emerging irom lueaiaevaiism. , Folly to Refuse Furthermore we must keep on rendering, no matter what demand la made upon us. It would be the part of folly to refuse and fall Into the very traps laid for us and open the way for national disaster and worse humilia tion in the end. The whole thing is Girl .merican s By Mrs. John A. Logan. (Onpyright. 1SKS, by w. It. Hert.) 0" hte, i. o,.,, , k.arin. NE is so accustomed to hearing severe criticism of American glrla by foreigners, and. I am sorry to .... k.. ,,i- .j say, by their brother and sister Americans, that one may be said to possess courage who comes to her rescue and undertakes to defend against their maligners. In the first place, there are as many varieties of gtrls In America as there are of flowers in a garden: the differ- ences are analogous to those of the beauties of nature Borne are frail. delicate, modest, tin. ..,; .. iiZtA a beautiful, while others are atronger, are aironaer. v. ... ... m" h" "' ,,u?,;rr . Th. v:.. . . -.-i... . . 0TnVnhPv' ,hev rn tir,J .lone h,,t P? n: J. ,bii -' V. v -v,... v.. wnom they ,.,,rlA "iruggie or aggressive, Some are lnt mrht llu.n nervous and impatient. i. 2nfr i iv.rv Z.AiitX?E2Z lv. .m JLiIL'., i?i. ' . rm uJ5 .' . tlJL, r ..u,uii.i Tl- . innocent 2i..ar2.J iTi? all mmodes ty or obtru- slveness, simply because their tempera- ment has developed Qualities that rartake of disregard for diffidence and modesty. This class of young women is never accused of being stupid, but have the credit generally of being intellectual and Independent, while the Jenny Wren type are spoken of as "dear little- souls," and they are de- surely besr testimony, these immigrants ire not cr rolnal nor vicious nor ills- eased, nor the scum of Russia but fu gitives from a land of terrorism where they have received a good education and learned the art of thrift to a degree the Anglo-Saxon might well Imitate. Even in their Ideals, crude as their re ligloua conceptions and notions are. they have a ruggedness which stands agnast st at the "high type civilisation'' which they come. into These refugees are crowded torether on the East Side, not because thev could Christian -country to be. T m . . , . " ? "i..T" "T.1!:,. ""Ti suspenders, with. their long beards and "Peculiar clothea. you little guess that (they have received a Talmud training .'., . ,iv voiiudio.ui mill i miu ouum. aivviuiiiK iu I , i . niainifi i l ill- tneriv oi inn n.-nucaiinnRi Alliance, in . - . . . . - years or our law acnooj courses, e w nu.in ' find work In those lines In which their inenua ana relatives can neip tnem- mat is. in most cases, tailoring, wnicn is conducted sometimes In the blgtal- lorlng establlahment. sometimes in a loft under the synggejrue. sometimes life Stll'othese more th womn America with the consent satisfy the me. niu oiners are more aT. Bnnrnv.l nt Amerle.n mn ... ni. uriL-reimni anu inaepenarni. T, ,.nnot h Hlr,l lk. In. mi,A le other's arrimpulTve."h.: JSf'V LlJ?. 1 b f "f. ih. palpably wrong. It Is sinful and wicked. This nation, with so much de pending upon her, must not continue like a weakling, unable to make goud. How different it Would all be if we had done our duty and promptly estab- policy there; she would not be looking with Covetous eyes upon our outlying possessions; she would not be selxlng every llt'ie trivial incident that occurs in i'n w hit up unimusny u- (wear, tV.a imin noi.nlM' alia BnuM nn ' " " f . , . v. u . " " v be seeking- war; there would have been no . Anglo-Japanese alliance, with Its menace to our very life as a nation. mu wo wuuiu ni imj compel ibu io sup- ntlt in abject humiliation to surrender What Is more sacred than lire Itseir, the trust committed to us by our fore-sur- fathers. On the contrary, we would then be on a aolf-respectliig, solid basis for close friendship with Japan, and would be able to fulfill our dutv to the, cause of liberty and the cause of peace in the . I'aclfiq ocean and In th0 world at large, Japan was loath to drop the school pendent upon somebody for protection, brains and ability to take care of fhem Belvea. It Is quite true that the men of America are to a great extent respon- Bl0'e ror tne independence and extrava- " which some womn inuuige, Si,n ath... hn without exception ' Indulgent to their daughters, who know nothing whatever of the reserve and parsimony of Euro- ,. e.th.r. ah hi.........., i can men who have succeeded in life " no"? "r f mal.'' n"rrow aea" tnem it Is not surprising that young women And the only answer is: I am some brought tin under the smiles and ten- thins that loves: at first. It seems. drne" ' 1(v1Uih P"fen.u hould feel Jeli- tasTes' and washes Tn a1 'hlngs without expecting any restraint from Bn' hrd ot creation. .IV . "!TT' ."'" American girls who travel In Europe nave sowed tne seeds or discontent innr uumpnn siaiers, ana ii is flalnned that foreign women no longer accept tne coia indifference and some- accent me coia indifference and some i'H?8 "'"loyalty of their husbands and 'ahers as they once did, because they to Uimor init excuse nrodla-alitv In h.r 8on- Po'haps It Is well that this Is so- or otherwise sons snd daughters wouId "J"1 vry difficult to contend w11h the sorrows and troubles that overtake them, sometimes through their nwn misdeeds and sometimes throu-rh ,v.i "ZZJZl Rame Old 8tirj ' From Judge. Beaver I see the market Is plckln' up. Weaver Tou bet. Picked up all I had last week. "sweated" work In their very homes, rhe Jew Is a true buslneas man, and If he can save a few pennies each day, even by the use of most of his family In this work, he soon digs his way out to an Independence which Is well shown hy the records of the Hebrew charities. He is not alone In his struggles either. roup. of men connected with the ayn- S.sue or charitable societies are ever tr ina to relieve his wants and put htm on a basis of independence, and the In- dust rial Removal soctety will place him in the west as soon as he can in a job The danger to the conntrv from the Kast Hide-Js not that from a neat of crime stid vice. Thou danger .Ja too i mean AmerlcanliaUon nf th. wrnno VZ iio To a l greatplay center K I public school and you will see that rapia Amerii-anizaiio or tfieir peopii ...n-, anri h. k.n v. v. . i yv.,.,t j i ... uvui.v.j jni WUUIU U1B lor lllfi nag, Hn(l are extremely fond of play- ing mat tney are doing so. But the t,niiAnv i mil .ik w . . type which has broken too rapidly from tne rigor im "ineir oioi rattn ana the strict coniinement or tne . Kusslan pale," that reacts Into the radical an- archtst. and Socialist whichever way their radicalism leads them! - nave wunpixfin in, iinerri. ,nmvM nv ii-itra umt mt From Plunging Into a Fight ."vVitK Mikado Nation Incident even after the tuinlls had been put bnck In the schools. Some time afer thia action a general meeting of the chamber of enrnmerce of the principal cities of Japan was called a'nd the united chombers of com- merce adopted resolutions condemning treatment of Japanese children irr Amer- lea that refusid them educational ad- vantages, and calling upon the chambers of commerce of America to jjse their aood offices in seeurtnr Justlee to these -niaren and avert the grave conse quences that might otherwise arise. Simply Foolish. The resolutions were simply ridicu lous -J Americans who knew that at the moment they were adopted nrt only all ..-a other schools In America, but a!so the scnools of Han Francisco them- selves, ure open to Japanese pupils on absolutely the same basis as American rope and in Jsoan was to nullify the effect produced bv the previous an nouncement of 'the restoration of the pupils to the schools of Sail V'ranclsco, and to leave the permanent Impression .it injustice to Japanese children la the regular practice In America. Similar action was taken to make permanent the impression In the world that America Is unduly stringent In trie question of Japanese Immigration, and semi-official announcement! were made of changes Japan would demand when tne reuewKof the misting treaty with America came up. The time for this renewal was years off ano America could not understand why the question was advanced by the Japanese government when it posed before the world as being so solicitous ot "preserving the friendly relations that have always existed between the two countries. ' This semi-official announcement was so couched as to be a defiance of the known oetermination of the people of the Pacific elope to have some aub stantlal restriction placed upon Jap anese immigration, which was fast be coming a mengce to their Industrial equilibrium and the purpose was not only to produce the impression in Japan and in Kurope that we were maltreating the Japanese and treating tnem with indignities incompatible with their self-respect SS a civilised nation, but also to precipitate exclu sion legislation In America that would play into Japan s hands as she sought her pretext of war. This aensttlveness on the subject of exclusion In America seems ridiculous when we remember that the "Indigni ties' of reatrictlon are drastically en forced in Australia and other British colonies. But the world does not know this. It hss never been pro claimed from the Japanese house top. Bo the semi-official announcement nad this desired effect upon the world and upon the people of Japan. This fact, however, was soon sub jected to the jolt that came with the outbreak In Vancouver. The British snd Japanese press were quick to at tribute thia outbreak to the "Influence and Instigation of Americans." but It Decomes generally anown. the efforts at eoncealmen-t in spite of that thou- sands of the best citizens of the city and a number of British soldiers, whu could not possibly have been "Insti gated" took part in the demonstration and that the whole Japanese quarter was wrecked and a Japanese subject killed, compared ito which all the Inci dents In San Francisco were as naught. In addition the whole structure of Japanese-English .plans was rudely shaken when the mayor of the city proclaimed emphatically that the city would pot pay a dollar for damages, and the mem bers of the Dominion parliament from British Columbia publicly announced that the people of his province , would forcibly resist anv attempt on the part of the crown to force Japaneae immi gration upon them. Swallows Vancouver. Japan today stands out ridiculous In the eyes of the world as straining hard at the gnat in San Francisco and ewal- t 1 V . I I L . .. a tr..n.....n iu wins wiiuie nits i-Kiiiri u.1 n ntuuvri . No wonder she has abandoned thl, path. No wonder we now hear of measures to restrict emigration and tnen to remove the cause of friction. No wonder the, DEEfv LKJ I lUUtv J W IN Jl IN TERESTS -By Count Leo Tolstoy Y OIT life that is. you are born, grow, mature, grow old. and then you die. Is It possible that the aim of your life can be In your self? Certainly not. How then? man asks himself. What then am I? something loving only Itself, but ono M flnlr llva lltt,e and think a N"1" to see that to love the self which passes through Ufa and dies, Is impossible1 "and Purpoeeiesa. i fP-i that I ought to love, and I love. myself. But. loving myself. I mvself. But. lovina- myself, I cannoc ou' but feel that the object of my love la un worthy of It: yet not to love is im pot possible for me. In love Is life. What Is to happen? lo love others ones neighbors, friends and-tnose wno first it seems tnat wui k.,, iS Dill ail demands of love, are In the first place im ev d?e change, ami, .wee 1 f.nve nil love the source of love, love God. Love, not for the sak of the loved one. nor for one s self, but for love's sake. It Is only necessary to understand this, and at once all the evil of life dlsaDDears. and its meanlna becomes clear ana joyrui 'Ves," people say. "that would be well. What could be better? It would be wen to love arid live for love. If all would live so. But how can I live for mv a'll "to otVw " while I? "JSt 1" &$Sll ' ' thm,iir, for ,htv ' " god to use frame hives, a rei themsolves, for their n,,,!,,, farmer or beekeeper will experl- love, and give others live for bodies? The congestion of the East Side is an acknowledged fact, several of the Hi. triets being the most densely populated In the world. .Yet, this fact is more easily explained when we know the his tory of the Jewish Ghettos which have formed part of the history of every great city of Europe and have become a tradition among; these people. No matter what the wealth of the first generation of Russian Jews In this country. It Is well nigh impossible to "'i Y5im.- vJlJf i"?i.Vf.V,;0.n" nd -",.! ".Ti1 Dourlna lnta Vnldlv rapidly itlon to r bitnv boys today who are longing to go to the south and I know southern com munities where the rich southern Jew would welcome them and train them to a -higher cltlaenshtp. It is $ustahle work that tne great Jewish institutions like the Educational alliance are con- n.Ml line lh.i, . An a--pw a m .1 MMv-,a I, h centratlng their energy and wealth u l,uii. The reduction in the pressure - . , . , , , VL" .Vi ,Ki UTJ5 ill. Z " .tit .. j i Vir .-A tend to reduce rent and the demand for better .tene- may solved by a study of the Im- Klred by a study of the Im- and John.i. ht. Peter a t . -problem joined with the ed. probsblv 2, peoole. and Its m I lines above auggested. and to distinction, aside from t , r be solved by cur-tig -the been th birthplace ef fmoi i- c migration ucsliooai will never place as a red f lag. " - '-v -slum" or 'by pwlngfur'the Jananese foreign minister Unties studied pronouncement to try to huh the whole matter uli. We heard no iticti pronouncements before the Vancouver, Incident. This foreign- minister the honeyed Words Kulay, when hntieyed worda are not needed, is the same.ror- elgn minister of the ultimatum and the same foreign mlnleter &f the decluijtlon concerning; the pending; decision of the California. court.-. ..fca.wonder.thU fur- fa mn"ir rfi-r,, .-"' V'" his pronouncement -would prevent fur ther misrepresentation and finally re sult In discrediting those who are con stantly circulating ifeUe and harmful reports." He must now seek some other source from which to manufacture a fretex-t-for war and In the. meanwhile he victim must'be lulled back to sleep, lest she detect In the San Francisco in cidents, now abandoned,, the true ettl-. UHlf, Japan procm(i accordingly to take precautionary measure that would make Japan s task more difficult, chlnee Diiturbtnce. ' ' It seems now that the source for the next effort Is to be Chinese disturb aiices. which Japan is planning to pre cipitate early next year. How; long K will lake Japan to get her pretext and force war upon us cannot now be fore-j told, but to offset the possible increase", of our navy by the two large battles ships authorised by the last congress. Japan has- how ordered two' more "dreadnaughta" in gddlilon to thoea F ready building,-one f the new ones 't be built at Falrchllds in England, the other to be built In Japan-, both of which will be completed before our", and Japan's stupendous preparations for ww$ continue with feverish activity. , It is easy for the foreign minister to insinuate that the efforts to arouse the. American people to a sense pf our dan ger are explicable "only upon the ground of a financial nature,' "d to refer to the facta presented as '-fals'i ., and harmful reports," but he cannot controvert those facts, nor trpthfully . deny them. . - Let me warn my" countrymen who are reading these papers, not to drink the soothing syrup proffered by one who it biililln- a sword In bee hand. We alts 1 neacefui. trustlnar urotue ana our ,ui- herent weakness and danger is 10 as- , iim that haeailKa we 4u hot Wish t4 atl,ck any other nation, no other na tion wishes to attack- us, ana mus m false security to neglect the only prep arations which could avert such an af- . tack. Iet me add that J have been dlll-s rent and scrupulously careful in gather ng the facta, a task made difficult hy Japanese secret tveneas, and have only drawn the conclusion warranted by the facts, stating these conclusions without mincing words, as duty dictates they should be stated. After the suocaasful war with Russia, when everv aource of aggression has been removed, far away, with no possl- , ble chance of aggression oh the sea. vr behoUt Japan making stupendous, hur ried preparations for war, naval, mili tary and diploma t ie preparations de simed to gain control of the sea, which will be ths vital (mention In case of war with America, and when thes orep- uratlnnN ir, fmr iiiuinf ail 1 hhoM ths Japanese prea stlrrlnr up the Japanese masses to animosity aralnat America, we bhold the allied press of Europe justifying Japan In undertaking- serious measures for "redreaa" against Amer ica, and when the slightest opening oc curs, however unjustifiable, however trivial, compared with the wide open lngs for closing similar "redress." from the British, we behold Japan issuing an ultimatum to America that requires ah ject humiliation or a ;unture. " 11 '' . O . il.m, ! . L" .J.H . Veteran ttobblera of reiinsylvanla." From the Pittsburg Dispatch. 'y Independence, a vllage In the western part of Washington county, boasts of the oldest trio of shoemakers in the country, all of whom art working at their trade. ' - ' - f James Westlake, who has been mend- iiik wiv Bulla VI HIP rvviuTiiiB vi mm nlnety.nrf blrthdny recently at 'his home. He had. as hla guests the.other ahnamelfasa t rtViaei Tto lr ek . Varli r v" " y 1 1 i1.1" l -ilirTJ,1 1 MJ11 celebrated 'his sventy-seyeath btrthdaj on 't nurroay, April a. an tnree are member of pioneer families. "What will become of me. and not of me alone, but of my family, and tlies 1 love and canno.t help loving? Lov-i has long been talked about, but no on follows this advice, and it is Impossible to follow It. To yield one's life to love would only then be possible, if all men suddenly, hy some miracle. changed their worldly, bodf.y life for a spiritual, divine life. But the miracle does not occur, and therefore It Is all', unprac tical talk." So say those who soothe themselves In their false accustomed ways of life. i ney say mis, our in tne aepms oi men' souls they know they are wrong. They know these reflections- to be untrue. They are untrue, because only for thn advantage of our worldly, bodily lifi Is It .necessary that people should all suddenly change' their life, but not for the spiritual llfe-the love of God and man. The loving man. alone does-not nerls'i non-loving, or. if he perishes amon ,. Chr!- n.I.VA ? then his death is joyful to himself and important for others, not despalrjng an! insignificant, as la the death of worldl people. . -f . 8o the excuse that 1 do nbt 'yield my. self to love, because not every one doo the same, and I should be left- alone. Is both Incorrect and Bad. It i is though a man who ought to work -to feed -himself and his children were nnt to begin because others were not word ing. One cannot know whether ahythiri is good or bad, unless on tests it Ii life. If a farmer Is told tffet U Js gool ment to find out whether what he ha been told Is true, and he will 'folio or not follow the advice, according w the degree to which his experiment suc ceeds. So it is with the whole business of life. To know surely in how far tr.i doctrtne of live is applicable--try It. Make the experiment and you will t"v how, instead of a surly, angry and ri--pressed condition, vou will be bright. merry and joyous: .if Woman Makes Pet of Wildcat. "From the St. Louts Republic. Mrs. G. J. Grommet, one Of Alton's best known society ladies, has & Mexican le-opard wildcat for a pet. . . It is a gift from ber husband, who I" In Mexico The leopard cat. which is mixture of leonard and wildcat; Is mw kxiiM h taken. Mra rtrnmmet la exhibiting the lltt'e P o her guests, but says she will t careful to have a chain or. something else to the artfmaj when it grows u, fearing it mav sometime answer th call of the wild. - . . - ' Starting Minnesota) Oorernora, -. Froni the Washington Post. "If Goyernop Johnson should beco-m president of the Vnited Slates th tow - ... . . . ' . . . . , , . , , ... of St. Peter. Minnesota, whr iJuIiuk., was born and ' raised, would of twin become famous, but even now it 1... -state reputation, for being tne incoui. ot noted men," said John Yoerg, a if Mtate man of St. Paul four of Mlnnesota'a governor, wer t Iwift, Auntlfi, n. and Johnw.rf. n 'e fact that one f the 1 To leave' con- The TnllTtBoV. nothing M-1 'O elsewhere The eaptlvity. The mother Of this ttlten :Us o7 the- south and another was killed that the youm- . . . . .1.1 .Mil , ! I,!" H I
