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A KKTHOACTIYF. DECISION.
FEDERAL JUDGE HANFORD,
at Seattle, In Issuing an injunc
tion against a longshoremen's
union, uttered dicta that seem
to Indicate a strong Judicial preju
dice against labor unions in general.
It has come to be not only a rule of
law but a doctrine of reason and
common sense accepted by all rea
sonable men, that unions are legit
imate and that strikes are legitimate,
but that a labor union on strike
must not commit any acts of vio
lence against person or property, and
must not forcibly prevent non-union
men from taking their places. They
may establish peaceablepickets, they
may use all moral suasion possible,
they may reason with other working
men; but they must not use any
force or Indulge in any violence.
These points are now generally
agreed upon.
But Judge Hanford In granting
this Injunction Is reported as saying:
"The facts are to be Judged by what
Xve all know In respect to the usual
course when a strike Is ordered by a
labor union." He goes on to say
that unions inferentlally meaning
all unions Invariably ''not only re
quire their members to cease work
but to prevent others from work
ing"; and he characterizes this as
"union despotism."
But according to many decisions,
and according to Mr. Taft himself in
his acceptance speech, labor unions
have the right to seek to prevent
others from working, providing they
o so by argument, by entreaty, not
by force or threats. Judge Stanford
assumes, however, that unions al
ways resort to unlawful means. He
enunciated the strange, new doctrine
that the facts In a given case were
to be Judged not by what actually oc
curred In this case, but by "the usual
'course" of labor unions. He has
read or heard that labor unions in
thi3 country and particularly in Eng
land resort to unlawful intimidation,
therefore this union must have done
f,o, or will do so, and there is no netul
of inquiring into the fact whether it
did or will do so or not. This is the
cle,fir inference of his language, as
reported.
Judge Hanford goes on to say that
'the system" of labor unions "is
Incompatible with the Declaration ofj
: t -pendence and the laws of the
r-.::od States." Organized violence
or intimidation by threats of vio
li is undoubtedly, "incompatible"
wUh the Declaration and the laws,
but unions and strikes are not; and
It Is not fair or just or reasonable to
assume that all unions on all oc
casions act unlawfully and are or
ganized for that purpose. Boiled
down to its essence. Judge Hanford
holds that a labor union has no right
to exist, that its very existence is un
lawful. We think there are few
judges who will now maintain this
position.
But if labor unions are unlawful
and "incompatible." what
D'
KVKl.O I'M KX'I S In Turkey in
dicate that the Miltan's sudden
proinii Igiii of a constitution
and declaration "of other re
forms vre not a voluntary move
ment on his part, but were made on
compulsion, or through fear that
only thus could he save his crown
and office. The Young Turkey
party has long been conducting a
Mi-ret campaign, one of Its main ef
forts being the winning over to their
cause of the army. In which It was
comiderably successful. And when
Abdul Hamid perceived that In case
ot a conflict he could not rely upon
lils army, he at once took the initia
tive by granting, with an appearance
of voluntariness, the major parts of
the Young Turks' demands. They
sent him word, following the recent
meeting of a division of the army,
that unless he immediately pro
claimed a constitution they would
march on the Sublime Porte and the
Seralglo with a force of 300,000
armed men. They meant what they
said, too, or at least made Abdul be
lieve that they did, and so he has
tened to obey the popular demand,
and while doing so to convey the
news to the world that he was acting
on his own motion and because he
had become a ruler of liberal Ideas.
This is not the first time by 'sev
eral that a sultan has been compelled
to yield to pressure, and sacrifice his
ministers, though usually this has
been the result, of Insurrection and
bloodshed, and the victors were not
the people at large so much as rebel
lious military chiefs. It was less
than 100 years ago that a sultan
capitulated on very humiliating
terms, but his son and successor,
when pressed from similar sources,
turned upon the revolutionists with
fury and almost utterly destroyed
them. That event was historically
"the last of the Janissaries." But
the Young Turks are not Janis
saries; they are very numerous, and
have worked so shrewdly and ener
getically that the whole country is
ready to rise against the sultan nnd
his ministers unless they yield to the
popular demands. The sultan has
yielded, and doubtless will be com
pelled to yield more; but that the
Young Turks will use the liberty and
power gained wisely and well is hot
to be expected. If they can progress
gradually, moderately and systemat
Ically, toward reasonable and prac
ticnl Ideals, they will have won a
great and important victory, all the
more admirable and significant be
cause it was won without war, with
out a battle, without a shot.
In. spite, of their awful sacrifice of
human blood, the best philosophy
concedes that the Xapoleanlc wars
wore a boon In levelling thrones and
spreading civilization, and the spirit
of them was an unknown Corslcan
j outb.
In nil times, the big thoughts and
the big achievements in the world!
have come from the loins of the
common herd. There Is no royal
load to greatness and the hod car
rier's son Is ns likely to be n mental
mammoth as Is the son of the king.
Clvlllzntlon Is the product of energy,
brains and virtue, and on these the
child of the mnnslon has no monop
oly. The sweetest philosophy In the
world Is to have confidence In the
race, and the record of the ages Jus
tifies mat confidence. 1 ho very
struggle of the humble Is prepara
tion of them for leadership and do
minion. Rome lost her civilization
through the voluptuousness of her
so-called superior men. The safes'
ami sanest of n,ny people once
fdiooled in self-government is thi
multitude..' Give to its integers full
play for that inherent impulse for
Individual ascent to bettor con
ditions, and progress toward n high
er civilization. Instead of b'Mng men
aced, will be mightily propelled. It
is not the impulse of the plebian. but
of the Bourbon mind that Is the real
menace to civilization.
A Sermon for Today
MR. II AKIUM.W AM) OKFGON.
A'
A FALSE PHIIiOSOPHY.
rwIlAT civilization Is to perish
by the ascent of the masses
to better conditions," is the
claim of a French writer,
whose contention Is attracting wide
attention.
After lamenting that it is coming
to he impossible "to distinguish the
master from the servant and the
ruler from the ruled," he says:
"The remedy for tho threatened
collapse of civilization must lie in
the hands of the intellectual and
moral elite of the world. We need
to be on our guard, for the perils
here indicated, are very real, and
they increase from day to day."
There have always been, and now
are, thinkers to contend that a su
perior and an Inferior class are es-Bt-ntlals
to the welfare of society.
Hamilton In his conflict with Jef
ferson was an American exemplar of
this theory. Another instance i3 the
are the - contention here in Oregon that n ma-
BOl'T n year ago The Journnl
published an editorial welcom
ing Mr. Harriinan to Pelican
Lodge, and wishing him a
pleasant vacation. It ventured at
that time, however, to allude to the
railroadless condition of a great part
of Oregon, which looked to him for
relief and which he had practically
under his thumb, and expressed the
falnthopo that within the then com
ing year he would do some railroad
building therein. A venr has
passed, Mr. Harriinan is back in Ore
gon again, atul aside from a strip of
road in Wallowa county- for which
great thanks nothing has been
done. No road through central Ore
Ron; work on the Coos Bay and Til
lamook roads stopped, and even the
work of transferring the traffic on
Fourth street to the cast side held
up. ever since last fall. And all the
railroad talk that Mr. Ilarrlman In
dulges in is of raising freight rates.
Yet we will forget all this during
Mr. Harrlman's vacation, or at least
will have only pleasant words fvir
him, and hope that he will enjoy
himself better than he ever did in
his life before.
Then, though we hoped last year,
as for many years, In vaiu, we will
still hope. Perhaps during the next
year, or the year after, or five years
hence, or 10, or 20 some glad year
Mr. Harriman will begin to help
develop Oregon. And perhaps, if he
doesn't do so soon, the people of
Oregon will find ways and means to
do so themselves.
tainel now. Half a dozen old Re
)iibll an icfcldents of any precinct
can go over the list and spot the
name of any Democrat on It. Tho
tally sheets will show whether he
voted uh well as registered as a Re
publican. Tako say 20 representative pre
cincts, or more, and find out the,
truth about this matter. If thou
sands of , Democrats voted as Repub
licans, that fact ought to be dis
closed. The Journal challenges the
Oregonlan to find hundreds, or even
scores, where It alleges thousands.
That paper will not daro to bring
about such an Investigation, because
It knows that Its assertions are un
true, that there was no such whole
sale voting of Democrats as Repub
licans. And even If that were
proved. It. would still bo absurd to
claim that they all voted for Cake.
PLACES PARTISANSHIP ABOVE
HONOR
or It NAVY.
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LET I S HAVE PROOF.
I
combines of great capitalists? What j chine, a convention or a legislature
are the trusts? What are the ' can better serve certain public ends.
"groups" described by Senator La J than can the whole party, or
Kollette that
seek to control and
largely do control the output, dis
tribution and price of most of the
necessaries of life' They, we sup
pose, It Is to be Inferred, are very
benevolent and patriotic organiza
tions They, It is presumed, are en-
tlrelv "compatible with the Dec-1
the
whole people. It has, however, re
mained for this French writer to go
to the extraordinary length of con
tending that this failure to maintain
this leadership of the superior class
over an Inferior multitude is to be
the agency by which civilization Is
to become decadent and ultimately
laration. the "Square Deal," and the perish. Possibly the Frenchman ex-
doctrlno rjf equal rights. If a lot of
workir.trmen organize for self-protection
It is anarchy; but when the
great capita'.ists and employers of
labor and monopolists combine, It is
legitimate and laudable.
'KNIFING" CANDIDATES.
I
T HAS hern often reiterated by
the Portland organ of bossism
that the primary law necessarily
resulted In t.he knifing" of the
successful candidates in the pri
inaries, but it never has teen ex
rlained by the losers and their
friends should "knife" the nominees
presses what the o'h'era really feel
I but do not yet avow-.
Harm will not come to civilization
! by the leveling of society. The ed
: ucation and eleva'ion of the multi-
tude Is not a menace. Hit a safe
; guard. Out of the ioins of the
,' masses has come the bes' leadership
I that civilization has known. Fd-
I lson. the wizard of electricity, whose
T HAS been repeatedly nnd in
sistently assorted by the Ore
gonlan that a greal number of
Democrats registered last spring
as Republicans and voted In the Re
publican primaries for Mr. Cake for
senator. The Journal has denied
nnd does deny this, yet the assertion
reappears, the object being to fur
nish an excuse to Statement No. 1
members of the legislature to vio
late their pledge and vote for some
one else than Governor Chamberlain
for senator.
If the assertion that thousands of
Democrats registered and voted In
the primaries as Republicans be
true, it might furnish a sort of an
excuse for a Statement No. 1 Re
publican who was very anxious to
disobey the command of the people
last June and vote for a Republican.
Assuming, for the purpose of argu
ment, that such an excuse would be
entitled to consideration and weight
--which It would not--It becomes
important for the assertion to be
proved, if true.
The fact in the matter can be
pretty accurately ascertainetd. The
Oregonian has the affirmative of- the
proposition, and It devolves upon It
to furnish the proof. Since it keeps
reiterating this assertion. The Jour
nal demands that it get proof of it.
The Oregonian's renders are entitled
to such proof. So Is Senator Fulton.
So are all Republicans. So Indeed
are all hopost voters. The bare, un
supported word of the Oreeonlan
I will not rfn; in such a matter It
amounts to nothing at aM. So far
i one man. a resident of
HEN' the United States nnd
and Japanese fleets line up
to show their strength to
each other at Toklo. will tho
world bo thrilled? Will the Incident
guarantee perpetual peace between
the two nations? The way to secure
peace Is to go armed, has been the
Roosevelt fdogan for a greater navy.
By this new gospel of pence, the
coming incident at Toklo ought to
make the relation between us and
Japan as close and amiable as that
of tho Siamese twins. But if not,
then 10 battleships a year, built by
each for several years, and then an
other show of strength), should
make every Jap and every citizen of
the republic, as brothers.
Unfortunately, when stripped of
Its glamour, the doctrine that the
way to peace is to go heavily armed
is an absurd philosophy. The pos
session of arms, whether revolver or
cannon, whether bowie or battleship,
Is temptation to use them. The na
tion is the collective individuals, and
what is true of one is true of the
other. It is common knowledgo and
notorious thnt thousands of victims
have been slain and scores of nations
have been bullied because men and
nations went unduly armed.
If armament Is the real price of
peace, then it Is the duty of every
nation to arm to the uttermost. If
all carried the principle to its logical
conclusion, at what point and at
what cost would the preparation for
peace end? Wouldn't peace really
be quite as easy, and considerably
cheaper, If none armed? Who more
than the people of the great repub
lic, examplar of free government and
leader in civilization, should bo
preaching an unarmed peace Instead
of an armed truce? Is not a navy
"for coast defense and sufficient to
protect United States cltizsi:
abroad," as proposed in the Denver
platform a most reasonable, If not
liberal armament policy, and a
sounder doctrine than proposed
plans of theatrical world exploitar
tion.
From the Mmlford Trllmn.
TliciH are none ao Ml ml an thoe who
will not life, who will not hear, who
will not learn.
At the very tqp of this clasa of blind
nn-n is tho littlw liurnii of Hrpubllctin
innchlnft rlnif politicians wlnmo open
iluflume and contempt for the people
liua pluceil tho parly In th predicament
It In In today. At tho very aeex of thin
pyanild of t tie InniKle.ionie blind Is .Sen
ator Kulton, wIiohu defeat ut the liuml.i
of th people, whose rebuke at the pri
maries, has tauifht nothlnir.
fJimntor Fulton Is personully popular.
People like him becuuse of un atjreeuhle
personality, because he was true to his
frlondB under duress of federal persecu
tion, liorauso ho refused un Immunity
buih and is not afraid ' u fls'ht. Hut
these same people do not trust him, be
ouuse of his distrust of them. He has
no faith in the people, admits It, and
because of pi oven faithlessness to their
cause they will huve none of him.
That .Senator Fulton places partisan
ship above honor Is showrn by his open
advice to Republican legislators to re
pudiate the written pledges upon which
thev were elected. That he Is not true
to himself and Is without honor him
self when tho bauble of office may be
In reach Is proved by Ills own an
nounced willingness to be a candidate
before th legislature, after having
plodded himself before the campaign in
Ills CorvallU speech that If defeated ha
would not bo a candidate before th
legislature.
Henutor Fulton now states: "As far
as my Corvallls speech Is concerned,
nothing that 1 have said then or that
1 Jiavn said at any time would purlin!"
me rrom being a canaiu&iu ir i saw in
to become una.
There Is nothing but the senator's
own public pledge to prevent It, and
nothing but the expressed wltT of the
people to override. Hut what is per
sonal honor and defiance of the people
when an office Is In sight? Nothing to
such men as . Yv. Fulton.
In his Mod ford speech last spring
Mr. Kulton expressed himself In favor
of popular election of nonalors. I
thank God that the old method has
been done away with In Oregon for
ever," he said. Vet here he Is, a few
months later, seeking to restore the old
days of legislative corruption that he
himself may profit by It.
Those legislators who contemplate
repudiating their pledges to the people
had better make the price of their
Judas lscarlotlsni high enough to move
out of the state ufterward, for an in
dignant cnnstlt uoncy will make short
work of them on their return. They
will then have completed the wreck of
the Republican party In Oregon bv de
stroying the faith of the people in Its
promises and pledges, as well iss In its
leaders and Its public servants.
Gooilness.
By Henry P. Cop.
"Who la he that will harm you If y
be followers of that whloh is gooUT"
I. Peter, 111., 13.
dicial system, and he was quite right
In what ho said, but he might have
said much more. Entirely too much
time Is taken up In various ways by
lawvers. Hours are spent over triv
ial technicalities. Cases are enter
tained and consume much time that
should bo disposed of very quickly.
Hours and days in tho course of a
month are spent in totally senseless
quizzing of jurors. And In other
ways the ancient system of operat
ing tho Judicial mill Is wasteful of
time and effort.
Our judges work hard, no doubt,
and do the best they can according
to precedent and custom. Yet they
might work no harder and accom
plish a good deal more. There is too
much litigation. Many cases brought
are without merit, and drag along
for months when they might be dis
posed of in as many minutes. If an
other Judge, or two, should be pro
vided. It would be but a short time
till more were called for. If people
are kept from going to law because
they can not get their cases heard
and decided, some will suffer Injury,
perhaps, but a good many would be
better off.
H
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to K
now
GOVKIJ.N'OR HUGHES'
DIDACV.
CAX-
plead'd guilty. Who are the other
.r..0n.i. i A.fion or IT.fo.O, or one
tenth of the sn.al'er of thee num
bers'' The fact can be pretty easily a-
T SEEMS Incredible that there
should be doubt of the renomina
tion of Governor Hughes In New
York. The high character of his
administration and the reforms ho
has Instituted in state concerns
would seem to be a reason for his
retention at the head of state affairs.
It is. however, his bent for higher
civic ideals and his manifest pur
pose to raise the state affairs of New
I York out of the old-time .putridity,
I that makes desperate and de
I termined foes for his candidacy. He
is In advance of the party leaders of
his state. Men who step to the front
in advocacy of better civic conditions
Invariably meet with dogged oppo
sition. Lincoln Is a notable example.
In his time, no man was more the
subject of bitter opprobrium. Bryan
is another extraordinary case.
, Enough vituperation has been
i heaped upon him to have burled a
man of less cflibre and character In
i oblivion. Until Mr. Roosevelt as
president espoused and advocated
the Commoner's policies a vast sec
tion of the American people, as well
as many thousands in his own party,,
were his bitter critics. Governor
It; ghs has his opponents for similar
reasons. For similar reasons, re
form everywhere meets with re
sistance. There are those who cling
to old customs and refuse to give
them up because they have never J
seen other methods. The world saw!
governments without constitutions!
'for many centuries. Every mote-
ment toward tionular eovern merit I
TaCOma. IUqc left n trail nf Vilnnrt In A o , i
and In Oregon, movements for morel
power and rights for the people en
counter the most bitter resistance.!
I' has always been so, and It will al-
ways ne so.
The disclosure made by Fire Chief
Campbell regarding the lack of hy
drants In several districts of the city
Is one that calls for immediate atten
tion and prompt action. This Is not
a case In which conflicting city au
thorities can afford to toss the re
sponsibility back and forth, but In
which they should get together,
crime to some decision, and provide
'he necessary hydrantB at once. It
"would be very poor economy Indeed
for the city authorities to refuse or
neglect to provide all parts of the
city with adequate means for fight
ing fire.
Psalm XV.
I'nrnphrnse by George Sandys.
George Sandys (York, Kngland, 1677-
irglnla lb44), was the son of Edwin,
archbishop of 1 ork, one of the trunsla
tors of the Hlshop's iilble. The son
eume to Virginia in lG.'l and became
well known for his enterprise. Ha Is
said to have built the first shin the
first watermlll, and the first iron works
in the colony. He made a number of
paraphrases of biblical passages, and
his rendition of the fifteenth Psalm. Is
generally conceded to be the best by
any writer.)
Who shall in Thv tent abldeT
On Thy holy hill reside?
He that's Just and Innocent;
Tells the" truth of hla intent;
Slanders none with venom's tongue;
Fears to do his neighbor wrong;
Fosters not base Infamies;
Vice beholds with scornful eyes;
Honors those who fear tho Lord;
Keeps, though to his loss, his word;
Takes no bribes for wicked ends,
Nor to use his money lends.
Who by these directions guide
Their pure stjjps, shall never slide.
Welcome Mr. Harriinan.
From the East Oregonlan.
Mr. Harrtman, the railroad magnate.
Is coming to Oregon. The press dis
patches announce lie Is coming like a
caged criminal, inaccessible to the pub
lic, secluded, Isolated, hidden away in
the recesses of a private train, not to
be seen or heard or Interviewed.
But let him come. He Is welcome
and he isn't welcome; we like him and
we don't, like him; he is both a bene
factor and curse to Oregon; he has done
some of the worst and best things for
the state; he has made it forge ahead
and has smothered out its Industrial
life; he has blessed and blighted Ore
gon; he has planted industrial seed
and he has kept entire counties In deso
lation; with one hand lie has been a
charitable empire builder, with the
other a miserly blood-sucker; one of
his Janus faces looks out on the green
fields which his Industry has created,
the other looks on desolate waste
which his financial tyranny and selflsh-
hav
sion
. Some men hop to become rood by
goln to church Just as others hop to
become wis by sleeping In a college
dormitory.
Goodness B an acquisition, but It Is
not an Imposition; It Is gained, but It Is
not laid on any one. Saints are not
inada by sleeping In sanctified places
any more than beauty may be gained by
sleeping near some great painting
The trouble with many people who
think they want to be good Is that
they would be good If they could be
good without Its making any real dif
ference to them. Goodness seems to
be a matter of disposition or of acci
dent, highly desirable us a gift but
not sufficiently worth while to pay s
good price for.
of course, thero are many who would
neither buy goodness at any price nor
tuke It as a gift. To them it Is wholly
ness
is a paradox
e created and perpetuated
a contradiction; a auiu
he
Railroad men are usually liberal
and broad-minded in small matters,
In accommodating the public in es
pecial ways, but occasionally there Is
an exception to this rule. A conspic
uous case of this kind Is their re
fusal to grant the same reduced
rates to Lincoln on the occasion of
the Bryan notification ceremonies
that they granted to Cincinnati when
Mr. Taft was notified. Everybody
knows that the big railroad moguls
are against Bryan, but It is surpris
ing that they would descend to such
a petty meanness as Is displayed in
this discrimination in order to show
their hatred of him. It is not even
politic on their part.
We expect something from him In
one breath and wo expect nothing from
him the next moment; we have his
nromlse In words and his refusal in
actions: we listen in rapture to hls
unuoairauie, it is synonymous with
weakness, ' often with cant and hypoc
risy. Yet the life of goodness Is sim
ply the life that sets the good above
goods, tho life that seeks the things
that aro supioniely good, not for itself
alone but for all.
Goodness Is not a weak, sentimental
fooling that conies over one when cer
tain hymns are being sung or when
the music of the organ rolls through
the dim aisles of the a-rent ilh.rfl
Neither is goodness simply the nm.
tlon of evil. A Knod man ( lnfini.i
bettor than a statue, thouirh ha maw
have some bad habits whlU th
certainly has none.
Goodness Is the determined soaron of
the life for the highest good. Good
ness is the power In character which
is like health in the hodv: th r.u
ot rignt nutrition, proper labor, exer
cise and high thinking. It Is seen In
strength anil not In weakness, In posi
tive elements rather than In negative;
it makes more of a man and not less.
Goodness Is manifest In the qualities
of healthfulness of the Inner life, . In
tastes that crave the good and loath
tho evil, that love, truth that make
themselves known In a thousand llttl
ways rather than In single acts and In
attitudes of professed piety.
Yon cannot hide the goodness of th
good man any more than you can cover
up the badness of the bad. Character
Is a light that sets itself up where ail
may see It. What you are always pro
claims Itself so much more loudly and
clearly than what you want folks to
think you are that there la little chance
of mistake.
liut if one would find this life of
goodness, how' shall it be had? It la
had as the physical goodness which w
call health is to be had. by right liv
ing, rlsht habits, right nutrition. Every
act done because we know It is the
good thing to do from the high motive
of its moral aiid spiritual values Is a
contribution to tho life of goodness.
Steadily choosing the best in all things
in the way to tho possession of th
best always. ,
The irood life Is ns much a matter
of habit, as the bad one. Every act
determines habit. It Is no use siarhlns
for the life of goodness while nerslat-
lng In the deeds of darkness. Neither
may we find that life while cherishing
the thoughts of evil; you cannot b
hosts to devils within and hope to
shine as an angel of light without
The life of goodness is not for th
pious prig. The man' who thinks that
he only Is good and all others are hope
lessly bad Is about the only hopeless
case the moral physician meets. One
has to believo In the good In others
to find, the good In himself. We ar
never any better In ourselves than we
believe others may be. '
Life's highest prizes have rich prices,
yet they are Its greatest bargains. No
possession is so well worth the gaining
as this of goodness, the clean heart, th
clever eye. the keen taste for the right
and true, the high delight in that which
Is best, the love of the things that have
como down to us as the great heritage
of our past, the labor for the futur
that glows before.
After all, this right life may be the
most that any one can give to hl
" , - , . . . - i i".i iii.il twi uiio can give to nis
flattering phrases and we hate him for w,ir!d. Tho grandest contribution to the
"Throughout his term of offlcecon
gress has been hostile to the presi
dent," remarks the Oregonlan. And
if Taft should imitate Roosevelt, a
Republican congress would be bos
tile to him, too, wouldn't it? And if
Taft and congress should agree, as
in all probability they would, what
becomes of the Roosevelt policies?
The Sultan of Turkey was at
tacked by a palace officer armed
with a knife, and his life was prob
ably saved by Ms coat-of-mall,
which he always wears. There is
many a nicer and better Job In the
world than being a ruler who has to
protect himself constantly in this
fashion.
Thaw has declared hlmselt a bank
rupt, and it Is said that his defense
has cost him $400.000 and the
wonder is that, though not con
victed, he Is still In Jail. A poor
young man would have been serving
a life sentence long ago.
intributlocs to science have been a curtained, though the work Involved
foremost factor In the advancement
of civilization was a child of the
commonality. From the log cabin
in the wilderness came the rail
Frlitt'T whose leadership was a
prlmr.l factor In the banishment of
cf primary election any more than slave hold.ng from the great r pub
is nominee of a boss-controlled. 1 He James J. Hill, whose genius a
might cost a little money If there
I Is ar.v truth In the assertion, the
money would be f ort hcot ' i g quick
ly enough. No douht the rational
c nimlttee would cladly sp nd a few
thourand dollars 'o show up such s
case of wholesale ballot box stuf
fing " It ph'-t: Id b d me
MORE JlTKiES WANTED.
I
I The Bryan managers want a cam
paign fund of $500,000. This is a
' very modest sum as compared with
the millions variously estimated at
I from $7,000,000 to $15.000,000
that Hanna raised to beat Bryan In
1 sec.
the verv emptiness of his phrases; he
Is the biggest and the narrowest, tho
shallowest and the deepest character be
fore the public.
We ure glad he Is coming and again
we don't care; It will mean something
for the state and yet we know It will
mean absolutely nothing; we will look
ahead to his coming with pride and
hate ourselves for It, after his sump
tuous train has passed and he lias
pulled down his window blind and for
gotten us.
Mr. Taft's Good Advice.
From the Seattle Times.
The Times Is In favor of turning out
the ReDublican nartv from the halls of
congress and the gubernatorial cnair in
this state, and its authority for so be
lieving and so desiring Is no less a per
sonage no less a statesman ana no less
nolltlcal oh osoDher than William
Howard Taft the candidate of the Re
publican party today for the highest of
fice In the gift of the people.
Mr. Taft told the people of Virginia
the other day, when congratulating
them upon the evenness of their po
litical parties, that It was a bad thing
for one party to continue overwhelm
ingly in power for a long time.
Logical conclusion: The Republican
partv will have been in power on March
4, 1909, 12 mortal years, without a
break and with the exception of four
years, when Cleveland was president for
a second term, will have been in power
20 years or a full generation.
If, therefore. It's a good thing for the
people of Virginia to let one political
party win at one election, nnd the other
at another In order to prevent corrup
tion, especially if the party in power
has been continuoa overwneimingiy,
then no one can gainsay the proposition
that It Is a mighty sight better thing
for tho nation ut large, which has 4a
other states In the union besides Vir
ginia, to change its political administration.
pnysieni won neing or the race is to
be well and strong yourself. The fin
est contribution to the moral and spir
itual wealth of our times Is to culti
vate this life of normal soul health. He
who thus Is. strong gives strength and
is fit to give good service to all.
Sentence Sermons
rty Henry F. Cope.
Self-denial is self-discovery.
Faith In God does not Involve ferocity
to men.
Iive does not stop at the boundaries
of liking.
.
It's easy to get tangled up in truth's
castoff clothes.
He has no force with men who has
no faith In them.
People who are true blue never suf
fer much from the blues.
Your use of leisure throws a light on
the whole of your life.
Relf-reallzatlon comes through ser
vice for social redemption.
Whether life shall be desert depends
on the springs In your heart.
When a wan brags of his square deal
ing look out for his sharp edges.
Proving the crookedness of Other
lives will not straighten your own.
There's one unfailing our for
blues; brighten some other life.
th
No man can ever be
r.Jt willing than many
little of him.
HaU-tnaklni' convention. Indeed,
there it less reason for such action In
the former case than In the latter.
Liefest ed aspirant roar veil com
plaln wfcen tte bosses wipe their
tames off a slate, but they bare no
good occasion to do so when a ma
jority or plurality of the rotem of
their party select the nominee. The
f ;x-ika Spokesman-Review take
t: View ct the ca, aaylng:
Kc4.'r.( party caoCldst la past 2o
a constructive railroad giant and de- ; la almost every precinct every
veloper of the northwest and whose 'voter l knivn personally hv savers!
policies In their Influence have been
powerful factors In promoting civli
ImlIIob, was In his youth a poor clerk
1 in a freight office It li bv men
risen from the ranka that the presi
dencies and general managerships of
, Tat railroad are manned,
those) of so-called superior birth be
ing, elbowed 'oat ot tb way when
brains becam th teat ot nrrir&L
others They have krnn him. In
most case, for ears, and know his
politics. The rerltration book are
an open public re-nrd. Scarcely a
Democrat In altnott any precinct
could have rethv.ered as a Repub
lican atid voted in the Republican
primaries without this having ben
known to come of his neigh bora. Or
It sot notice! thjn, itcaa bt ascer-
T IS SAID that business In the cir
cuit court of this district is con
gested, that the judpe are far
behind with their work, and that
therefore more Judges are needed
The Journal doubt? whether more
judceg are the test remedy Almont
universal eiperler.ee tea.-hes that the
more officials there are the 1om
work they each do. and the ttate of
the business in hand remain about
the same More judges would be a
considerable added expense, not only
for them but for clerka. bailiff and
stenographer!, and would tend to en
courage rather than discouraa-e) liti
gation. Mr. Tift last week dlM-awed come
Bftallifaftory phase of onr Ji-
Animals Their Own Ioctor.
Krnm the Kansas City Post.
When you see P'R wallowing in
mud r birds taking a dust bath.
1 r. i should marvel." said a nt" tu
j dent "for the creatures are then doc-
t rtnr thtiselvs tny are K'uim nu
rf rarsstte. -' .
Woes 'dor lw his appetite he
p rrVrnt off and eats rieg grass "
This brlf htm srour.d at once Cats
In like rifc, .mstanreg go to est grass'
i nwi and saeep take eertsln me.iiclnal
her.
'Monkevs hare een known to ore's
m4iHliJsim ltr.lli rut off n
act's snt"nne. at) other snts came and
cover the hurt prt with a hesllns
fluid secreted tn their iT.O'Jths It i
even sW that birds here roen known
t t thir tmrn hroke. less.
"fertairty setmsle knew all about
frrr. Feyer-strtrke. they ith la
cold water till the litif mt lire fslls
tB tA normal. AnS in antmsl with a
I almost m.4 heroically
Friendly to the Stars and Stripes.
Press Buletin by the A. B. C. F. M.
Not long ago a Chinese merchant,
who had a large consignment of coin
for a neighboring province, came to one
of the American board missionaries and
begged the loan of his flag for the jour
nev. He said he felt sure that the
monev would be transported more safe
ly if protected by tho stars and stripes.
A similar Incident Is reported by Rev
J. H. Pettee of Okayama. Japnn He
was asked to lend his flag to decorate
a hall In which the Japanese were as
sembled to org'.nlie a Frlen!-of-America
Society Another significant epi
sode was the appearance In the Philip
pines rerertlv of eight Fikhs from
northern India, fine specimens of physi
cal manhood over six feet tall. Thev
harl r-earl of a hpw flag and a new
country w here men hae a better i uMmntelv drowned
chance, and came to see if the report despond.
was true. 1 ney wanted io nn i om
how we teach our scaools. and sanltlie
our cltleg end organize our police They
hail traveled 6.000 miles for this pur
pose, quite eclipsing the Queen of Ph
ba's famous visit to the court of Solo
mon. Such are some of the by-products
of American missions In foreign
lnnds. For it Is primarily the mission
aries who have etirre-1 the orient to de
sire hotter thlrgs for themselves and
their country.
This world is always godforsaken to
those who have forsaken the good.
The most slngihir thing about a man
of genius Is his estimate of himself.
Dreams of golden streets will not
pass in place of deeds of the golden rUl.
Religion Is a moral trigonometry
worked out on a base line touching two
worlds.
great who 1
should think
icte th awputaUv with It 0ih. f iffurv in AJrica pontic.
Bryan'- Personality.
From tho Doston Congrr rfctionallst.
Mr Rrvan we have Imiwn fir the
II veara of his domination of the Pem-o-rtlc
party We f.k last week cf
tits rrource of powr and charm. He
has added to our knowledge ef M
character by his implet control of
he penver convitton. His enemies
Vsve been mthsfslv suppressed. He
Ta cersonslly conducted the platform
msking Th delegates have stepped
t his .home to pajr th1r homage on
their way to Denver. He and" he cmly
must be h14 repnnnlbi for all the
arts of the convention Whatever trib
ute a thousand lgate sfld their st-i
tndpt frtends ewuJd par ha te his
nirinn mi a ane.ct tn maaierrui
The more a liar gains in self-confidence
the greater his losses In public
confidence.
He who runs awsy from all sorrow Is
In the slough of
Ton will find nothing of the dtvln
If you refuse to obey the voice of ev
prvdav dutj'.
Folks who sit up nights worrying
over their crowns are asleep In the day
when crowns ere earned.
Everv one knows the color of th
ermon that corres when a blue preacher
takes up a yellow subject.
H
I is a good dal esser to talk of
brotherly love then U ' to treat yov.r
washerwoman with atsterly thoughtfnl-ncss.
If an honst man Is the noblest work
of fiod It is easv to understand how
o-re have lost their faith In the ex
istence et the Creator. .
Klamath Indians have been snjoytrc
erlcket feasts. fwnm of larg browa
Insects have teoo croealDg tbe reserva
tion, ami, In many eectlona th antlr
Indian popo'st'0" 'ha been e-u t eat ch
in w them. They r waldTd a ear
deltorf by tle Indian and ar eok4
la various war Iirg feast ar bid
J t dvur th Insect.
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