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Saw year.. . ....-IT.M .t Ona montt .88 Cnxulotion Guarantee TtqCtrtifatthtt UttmnltOom of lit 111 Bent mmJhtdtotm gaanatM hj lh A4mtmr'Crt&t4 drcmltuot Blot Book Tail fapcr as provrd by mmtqtiioa (tat li cwraJatioa ncordi are ifpt '( cat aW (At rwraiatioa atauo? wit aeJb mecmrtf I bat m&rtrUmm may rwly on any r A- a A. I. 1. Statnajca-U o aaow made Br the publaheru sfcr the tvatnatp ao management Jl UtoaUot geptembst 1908. -53 One ot the best rules In conversation is never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish we had left unsaid. Swift. SALE! OP SENATORSHIPS QUITE '.. "CONSTITUTIONAL" FT HERBS IS not a' grain of honest I sincerity in all this argument I that an agreement on the part of members of the legislature to elect for senator the people's choice ia violative of the constitu Hon because it deprives them of vot ing for their personal eholce. . How many, senators elected are the -per eonal, unbiased, honest, pure minded choice of a majority of the leglsla tures that elect them? Is it any worse, is-it any mere unconstitu tional, for a member of the legisla ture to vote for the people's known and ascertained choice than to vote for the choice ot a boss, of a dis penser of patronage, of a briber who pays them cash, of a corrupt, self seeking and unscrupulous ring of political pirates? . dreds of times, and we never heard any uproar about the unconstitu tionality of such elections. Guggen helm was the choice of the last Col orado legislature, for instance, be cause he had bought and owned a majority of the members. He in duced them so to, choose with great amounts of money. He chose him self; they were merely hla tools, his paid puppets. Tet our constitutional objectors to adherence to Statement No. 1 have never been beard to make any objection to this sort of a choice of a senator. This is quite constitutional; nothing more than possibly a moral objection can be made to It, and that Is of no weight; but when, the whole jeople of ...a state, instead of a corrupting Gug genheim, who does not and cannot and does not intend to represent the people at all, instruct the legisla ture to do their will, members must not do so, they mustVote some other way, else they would violate the constitution! To promise to obey the people, and then to keep that promise, is, according to these po litical sophists, an awful crime against the constitution, while it is perfectly constitutional and political ly unobjectionable to sell their votes and so sell out the people, for an office, or for cash. And just this will be done at Salem next winter if the people's wltl as expressed last June is not obeyed. There are many senators thus con stitutionally elected through bribery of one sort or another, by purchase f legislators, who If they had ex ercised an honest, conscientious choice would not have elected these men at all. For a price, they have betrayed the people, quite constitu tionally. Probably half the sena tors now in the office would not have been there except that mem bers of the legislatures sold their prerogative of free choice to some roan or machine whose object was to plunder the people instead of nerving them. But our constitu tional declaimers have nothing to say against that practice. Indeed, they are seeking to reestablish It at Salem. Only thus can any other man than Chamberlain be elected senator. Nobody doubts this. They argue that It will be unconstitutional for members to vote for him becaase he might not be their choice, al though he is the people's choice, and in urging me election or eomeDoay else they in effect urge some mem bers to sell their choice and so sell tne people, toe state, rnia is whaj all this balderdash about unconsti tutionality comes to. If it Is con stitutional, for a legislator ia. sell yotsrf or of fice or cash, it can't iineiitt!riif Innal f ttv Vim mv' the people's choice his choice. At a very private dinner' In New York the other day were Vice-President-elect Sherman. Speaker Can tion, rteprpsentajlyes DaUeli. Mc 'Kliklpy, LouJpnslasrer " and Rvtrl r," tho vbjTf being - to concert J SHALL TAFT ILLIAM H. TAFT has not that was done November 3 was to declare him the popular choice. On that day the people indorsed him for the presi dency by an overwhelming majority, comprising two-thirds of the states. But he is not yet elected. It were elected. Mr. Taft will not be elected until these electors meet and cast their votes for him, as they were instructed to do by the people. The actual election of president rests solely with the elec toral college. Its members are bound by no legal requirements whatever to vote for Mr. Taft. Their pledge and the support of the people given them because of that pledge for Mr. Taft is all that binds them. It is simply a moral obligation, and if any of them should decide to ignore their pledges and the instructions of the people, there is no law under which they can be punished by fine or imprisonment. There is absolutely nothing in the law or con stitution, state or national, to-compel anyone of them to vote lor his party nominee, bach is as free as his pact with the people and his party, and it there should chance to be enough Judases among them to college to Mr.. Debs, Mr. Debs would be the next president, and no power of the law or the courts could prevent. The only punishment that could be meted out is that theame ot each traitor would be placed beside that of Benedict Arnold, and each be execrated for his treachery to his compact. ' Exactly identical is the situation with respect to the Oregon seh atorship. The people have instructed for Mr. Chamberlain for sen ator, just as the people have instructed for Mr. Taft for president. The election of senatorls to take place in the legislature, just as the election of president is to be accomplished in the electoral college. Legislators;jchosen by the people because of certain pledges to sup port the people's choice are to lect the senator, and are electors in that sense, just-as certain electors chosen on certain pledges are to elect "Mr. Taft. For the more complete guidance, the legislators who are to be (the electors as to senator, received as did the unpledged legislators, a command by a vote of 69,628 to support the popular choice for senator. This command, because of the enormous num ber of people's ballots back of it, showing as it does an overwhelm ing sentiment, is a most authoritative direction to all legislators as to what the people, expect of them. Will one Taft elector repudiate his tacit pledge, to the people and vote for Debs ? Has there in all this hundred years that the system has been in vogue, been one Judas that betrayed with an unspeak able treachery those who trusted him? Is there a pledged legislator who would be guilty of a treachery equally unspeakable? Is there one that would bury himself under a Benedict Arnold execration, that time would not lessen, nor men forget? ways and means to reelect Cannon speaker, and continue past policies. Of these men the New York Ameri can says: "Everyone of these gen tlemen Is the hand-picked selection of the trusts, and goes to congress by trust preference. Every one of them represents not the people but money In the councils of, the nation. Every one of them in his political if not his personal fortunes was cut, basted and stitched by the big cor porations. Also, the ox knoweth his owner and the ass his master's crib." AN UNNOTED RULER A' GAIN IT is reported that both the nominal emperor of China, and also the dowager empress, the real ruler, are dead, or dying, but such reports have proved false heretofore and may be so now, though they seem to be more cred ited than usual, especially as re gards the so-called emperor. Such report must be true some time. China Is a great nation of some 600,000,000 or 800,000,000 people, inhabiting an Immense domain, and yet who, aside from some officials and students who make it their busi ness to know about all rulefrs and prominent officials, knows who or what the emperor of China Is? The world never hears of him perform ing any act of rulershlp, or exercis ing any power, either International or domestic. Even of the dowager empress, who Is supposed" to be an almost absolute ruler, only occa sional mention Is made, -and usual ly what is reported Is probably mostly rumor. The inner circle of the Chinese government is hidden from the world's inquiring eyes as that of no other country is. The nominal emperor, however, chosen by the empress, who herself rose from a humble station, is pop ularly supposed to have been for years a semi-imbecile, or at least in competent to perform any highly Important acts of rulershlp. What would happen If the empress Bhould die suddenly only the Inside circle knows, but provision is doubtless made for all such emergencies. , The Chinese "system of government Is a complicated affair, but it seems to have run smoothly, with few excep tions, through many centuries. To the outside world ihe nominal em peror Is nobody, and very likely he Is but little more, except in form, in China. ' ENCOURAGING INCIDENTS HERE WAS here and there a gratifying result of the late elections, aside from partisan considerations. It is some times said that it Is useless for de cent, moral, high principled voters to struggle in elections against ig norant and vicious voters ana interest-serving- politicians and cor rupt party machines, but some in cidents should encourage the former class of voter to keep trying. The most notable Instances of this sort, u Don which The Journal has "already commehTeaT were" the elec tion of Hughes In New" York and Hadley In Missouri both, as It hap pens, Republicans. -Another, - per haps la less degree, was the election of Marshall over Wajson in Indiana for .despite partisan .reports Mar shall was not !,aa acceptable candi date, to the liquor interests, and can to-rio extent bemused by .them.. ' But .a notable ; case in a smaller field was the I reelection; of .. Judge Ben B. Llndsley in Denver, a , man who has . earned ca. national,". fpputa- BE PRESIDENT ? yet been elected president. All . was the presidential electors that the air, it he chooses to repudiate give a plurality in the electoral tion as Judge of the Juvenile court In that city, and has probably done more than any other man In Amer ica to turn misguided and wayward youth Jnto clean and right paths for he has not only done much of this work directly, In his local field, but his example is being followed In many cities, and the good work he started will' go on, expanding throughout the country, and con tinuing from generation to genera tion, until no man can by any means measure or estimate the amount of good done from the beginning he made. - in Denver tne vicious elements and the party machines of both par ties united to prevent Judge Llnd sley s reelection. Neither party would nominate him, because In his work he would serve no party ma chine or boss, and so he became an Independent candidate, and it is to the credit of the people of Denver, It Is a high tribute to their citizen ship and civic fitness, that he was elected. More of this kind of voting should be done, as to all kinds of candi dates, from constable and council man up to senator and president, ana we believe more such voting win be done. It Is the voters who will thus unite, regardless of party, in spite of party, la support of the better candidates, of cleanliness and uprightness and self-sacrificing pub lic service, of higher ideals and civic righteousness in public life, that are to be the political salt of the country. NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPERS T HE AMERICAN Bvstem is a government by public opinion. The newspapers are a chief fac tor In forming public opinion. This is the view of Mr. Bryce in his excellent American Commonwealth, and It is accurate. A weighty responsibility thus rests on the American newspaper. Its power for weal or woe for the nation is enormous. It can be con structive or destructive. It can be uplifting or degrading. It can ele vate the standard of citizenship, or It can go a long way toward corrupt ing it. Admitting that by an unprin cipled course a newspaper may lose much of Its influence It Is still In position by that course to be Im mensely harmful to the community and to the state. Dr. Hadley. president of Yale, says: "We cannot have responsible and rational government unless we secure a responsible, sober, honest press, and we cannot have such a press unless readers learn to de mand the qualities named and re sent dishonesty, deception, unfair ness, In the 'newspapers they pat ronize." The Chicago Record-Herald, a foremost type of the fair newspaper, approves Dr. Hadley's statement as true. It says also that "the news papers themselves have been grow ing more and more Independent and responsible."- I eays - "ther have educated thousands of readers to de mand fairness and truth, many dis carding blind partisanship to en lightened self-interest and- the desire to extend their field and their in fluence." It says "the number of papers that depend on facts, com mon sense and on the sense of fair play ia rapidly growing," and 4 bet ter and safer public sentiment au guring well for the future is being created.- "', By the field lit occupies, a position of leadership attaches to j : newspa per, , Even Its news columns are a means of advancing that leadership, and are so employed by many jour nals. In cases the news Is colored to serve the personal purposes' of the publishers, but that la despicable resort "and only unprincipled papers employ it. In the interpretation of the news editorially, another func tion ot leadership is Invoked by ail newspapers, and In this dual ca pacity every paper has a following. Thousands of readers are more or less led in forming their personal opinions, and for this stupendously important reason a spirit of fairness, a spirit of honesty and a spirit of truth should always prevail. The very education of youth, the morals of the family circle and the whole standard of citizenship is more or less affected, for good if the newspa per be hopest, for evil if unprin cipled or corrupt. f If it be the teaching of a news paper that the plighted word of a man .1b a mere nothing, to be repu diated at will, youth and age are alike taught to be lax in their no tions of truth and integrity. If an official be elected to a public trust on -a promise maae to nis constitu ents and the people of the state be taught that his promise should be broken and his trust betrayed, yodth and age alike are taught to be treacherous, taught to be untrust worthy and taught infidelity to every obligation public or private ... . v j . Lessons line tnese, spread uroauuaai before youth and age alike, are of infinite harm to society and would seem to be shocking to all who be lieve In honesty, truth and the up right life. Such teachings would seem to call for rebuke from the pul pit, platform, press and public, and it will be strange, in view of the marked example in Oregon, If such a rebuke shall not jet be fortbeom- PROPOSED SCALPsBQUNTY LAW EASTERN OREGON sheepmen are preparing to bring a strong pressure to bear upon the next legislature to enact another scalp bounty law, especially as to coyotes, which have lately become more destructive of sheep than for years past. There" will be protest again from the farmers and cattle men and orchardlsts, who conslderl the coyote as A friend rather than a foe because he destroys not only sheep but rabbits, which are de structive of fruit trees, alfalfa fields, grain fields and gardens., The movement for a bounty on coyote scalps will find considerable support now In western Oregon, where thl3 predacious bea6t Is be coming numerous, as he never has been before. But goat and sheep raisers of western and southern Ore gon will also want a big bounty on th scalps of cougars, which in mountain or wooded regions are very destructive of domestic animals, even calves and colts. It is an Important question, and one to be well considered on both sides. There was a scalp bounty l-w for awhile, and it was the source of so much fraud, to say nothing of very heavy expense even If frauds had not been practiced, that it was repealed. Such a law now would entail a heavy cost upon the taxpayers, yet it might be a profitable investment. The Bheepmen of eastern Oregon recognize the fact that they would be especially benefitted, arfd pro pose to pay half the cost; they ask for a bounty of $1.50 on coyote scalps, agreeing to pay 75 cents themselves, the state to pay the rest. This will be an inducement, yet a good many taxpayers who don't suffer from coyotes and. other varmints" are likely to protest that the stock raisers should protect themselves. AN ORGAN'S BAD ADVICE THE ASTORIAN testily complains that although the voters of that city are Republicans in the proportion of about four to one, as tested by the last presidential election, tbey will not tlck to party In city elections, but sometimes elect a Democrat for mayor. It urges the Republicans to stand pat now and vote their party city ticket, as against a "citizens' " ticket and so give the party what belongs to it and so on. This is exactly what the voters of Astoria, nor of any other city, should not do. It may be that the Repub lican nominee for mayor is prefera ble for other than political reasons to the other nominee, and If so it will be well to elect him, otherwise not. But that one Is strictly a party nominee ought to be a handicap to him and give the other candidate an advantage; for a partisan gov ernment of a city is usually a ma chine government, an expensive gov-J ernment, a grafting government, a government whose first business Is to play politics and not to serve the people. What dp jthe .jjeople of Astoria care. Republicans .though most of them be, or why should they care. what Is the politics of the men who attend to their local affairs, so long as they are attended to well That in fac they are independent fn1helr local elections has often been shown and they will do .well to remain thus independent. Sev eral times, Including the last city election, they elected a certain Dem- . t w ' I ocrat' for mayor, and would doubt-Uhose f railroads In the United state An an strain If he would Bfirvsf1 that- with stoss) earn In rs eaual to the because, according; to H reports. U paa Jiad an official eye, single to the Interests of Astoria. He put hla politics aside as to local affairs and worked solely for the good of the city. Now the Astorian wants to change this and elect men to city offices not because they would prob ably, follow this example, but sole ly beeause they are Republicans and would maintain a Republican ma chine. ., . Speaking of the case, and not of the candidates, as individual?, We say this Is very bad advice. City governments ouftat everywhere to be divorced from party politics, as completely as is possible. Wben local official is Intent on serving a party, working with a party ma chine, obeying a party boss, run ning with a party ring, he will not and cannot serve the people Well. THE PRICE OF DISORDER T' HE DASTARDLY attempt on . the life of Prosecutor Heney is the price of disorder. It is the consequence of aid and comfort given by Bo-called business and other interests to the defense. The defendants are criminal to the core, and all the world knows It. , Their offenses constitute a record of kid gloved crimes as shameful as have been known In history. Yet all along there has been in San Fran cisco an element that has frowned on the prosecution, and that has connived with the guilty' in the at tempt to block 'the wheels of Jus tice. K factor in this enterprise of holding up the courts has been the attitude of some of the newspapers. They have assailed Heney In the bit terest terms. They were instru mentalities In the creation of, the very sentiment that Inspired Haas. Men like Haas do not act unless their surroundings give them some sort of encouragement Haas Is a coward as shown from the method of his attack, and cowards do not act in such- matters unless the at mosphere lends them inspiration. When a public Journal assailed the movement for Justice, It filled the mind of Haas with schemes for punishing Heney, thus, In effect, It counseled disorder. The courts, the laws, the officers and the ballot box are the only agencies of order. Efforts to set them aside or interfere with them in proper proceS3 l3 demorallzing to tie body politic. It is a blow at public morals whether it be in at tempts to resist justice in California or overturn the will of the people in Oregon, Conscience is as much of an essential in public affairs as in private affairs. If all the news papers In California bad, as some of them have, been, guided by con science, and If Interests In that city that ought to have been decent had been decent, the hand of Haas would not have been lifted and California would have escaped the torrent of odium that she cannot now avoid. Justice is justice, and right is right. Public men must not recommend a course of dishonor without expect ing unfortunate consequences. The effort to overturn the verdict of the ballot box In Oregon Is kin dred to the effort In California to defeat the process of the law. Both are disorder, and what California got was the attempt on Heney's life. Now the morning paper, with ref erence to the senatorial question, Is THE RESULT OF WAY From the New York American. Octo ber 15. Now that the elections are almost out of the way, railroad men are organiz ing "for a vigorous campaign to force an advance of freight rates. Their ar gument Is that, unless this be done, wages will have to be reduced. It Is said they stand ready to discharge thousands of employes to make a bad situation worse, If the public refuses to countenance their extravagant de mand for higher rates. Responsible rail road managers ars acting like a lot of cry-babies. They are pretending that they have been abused more than any other class of business men, when every body knows perfectly well that their claim is absurd. Railroads are not doing so much busi ness as in the past, but tbat la not for the reason that they have been abused, but because there has been a panic, and It might also be said that It cannot cause one, either, for panics are a nat ural development of growth. . They are to the business world what growing pains are to children. The panic which has caused all the suffering will be over in a year, and business is already on the move. The really Important railroad men know this perfectly well, but under cover of a pretended belief that something must be done to save the railroads, they are attempting to fasten on the public a schedule of rates that will justify the enormous prices to which railroad securities have been manipulated. If the, United States occupied all the North American continent, this matter might adjust Itself and the disaster caused by such an advance might be only temporary. But the Canadian rail ways are standing ready to snatch from the American roads-rhe cream of east 1 and west transportation business, and once they get it they will keep It. The supremacy of New York city as a cen ter of commerce can - perhaps never be destroyed, but it-will fee-serleusly Im paired if this scheme for higher freight rates Is successful. . It must be remembered (hat the earth Is round like a ball, and that any' rail road In Canada has a shorter haul from the -Atlantic- to the Pacifle than any railroad in the United States: This alone is enough to slve the Canadians a tre mendous advantage, but. In addition to that, the principal roads of .the Do minion have been promoted In such a way aa not to overburden them with millions of stocks4 and bonds for which no value cam to 'the property.' Their llXfll -llM. I irR aBVI BU III U I. a I I IIBIICI 1 1 1 CI II fixed charges are so' much smaller than try, they can and lay Up a nnl coming out strong again on Repub lican party "principles." It is a fine, large word, this "principles," but what they are Is not stated. - The chief 'principle," however, is a very high protective tariff, which Is eoon to be revised upward again, and to which that paper is opposed. ADoyt nine tenths of the time It argues against the main "principle" of the party, and then in order to ioibt. a corporation senator upon Oregojn It shouts "principles." It has again . been demonstrated In a new way, that Heney is a very hard-headed fellow. A Poem for Today . , , , i T ' . At the , Door. By Harriet Beeoher Stowe. rrrk ..lonttAna fvtm V4 ra Htrvtre a poem aro interesting-, ' apart from- their ft........... oa ahniartnir tha lOUTCa of one of the 'best known hymns. One how much finer 18 the original than the 1 .J.iiL.tlnn 1 . Knocking, knocking ever knocking? . wno i merei . , , 'Tis a pilgrim, strange and kingly. Never uch wu een before. Ah, sweet soul, for such a wonder. Undo the door. No that door Is hard to open; Hinges rusty, latoh 1 broken; ' Bid him go. Scare the sleep from one .so weary? oay.mni uu. Knocking, knocking, ever knocking? , What! Btlll there? O sweet soul, but once behold him, tin... . V. nlnr.. rr nnv r, h H I f ' rt i ill iiia bivi v.. ...... --' - And those eyes, so strange and tender, waning m is, Open! Open! Once behold him, Him so lair. Knocking! knocking! What? Still knock ing; He atlll there? What's the hour? The night In waning In my heart a drear complaining. And a chilly, ead unrest Aft, this knocking! It disturbs me! Scares my sleep with dreams unblest! Olve me rest, Rest-ah, rest! Rest, dear soul, he longs to give thee; Thou hut only dreamed of pleasure. Dreamed of gifts and- golden treasure, Dreamed of Jewels In thy keeping, Waked to weariness of weeping Open to thy noul's one Lover, And thy night of dreams Is ovr The true gifts he brings have seeming More than all thy faded dreaming! Charles M. Dickinson's Birthday. rv.Ai. unrnA TIK'lHnunn well known In dlplomatlo and consular cir cles, was born In Lowvllle, N. Y., No vember tt. 1842. He -received a good elementary and preparatory education and then took up the study of law. He was aamiitea 10 m ur n m.,,. N. Y., In November 1866. He practiced law In Pennsylvania, Blnsliamion ana New York City until 1878, when he re ti....i anonunt nf hi health. He be came editor and proprietor of the..Blng hamton Republican. Ho was a prssl- lenuai eiecior in 100, un"B , ..j l. a D.nnMlnan ifnlfAt nnn 111 nri iru uii me 1 vi j;.. ui ... . , . . ... September, lsav; was oppoininu -Bill-general at Constantinople. For sev eral years he also acted as diplomatic agent to Bulgaria. He was appointed consiil-generaltt-large In May, 190, and detailed to prepare rules and regu lations under the consular reorganiza tion act of June, 1904. This Date in History. 1708 William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was born. Died May II. 1778. 1787 Richard Henry Dana, author, was born In Cambridge, Mass. Died in Boston. February 2, 1879. 1794 John Wltherspoon of New Jer sey, a signer of the Declaration of In dependence, died. 1828 The Cayuga and Seneca canal In New York was completed. 1849 Many lives were lost by the ex- Lloslon ofa boiler on the steamboat lOulslank at New Orleans. 1860 The Prince of Wales reached Plymouth on hla return home from his American visit. 1863 -The national cemetery at Get tyysburg. Pa, was dedicated. 1896 Electrical power generated at Niagara Falls was transmitted to Buf falo. 1906 A suit to dissolve the Standard Oil romblrfe was filed in the United States circuit court at 'St. Louis. 1907 The German emperor received the Oxford honorary degree of D. C. h from Lord Curson. INCREASED RAIL RATES The only way for the American rail roads to save the rich trade of the northwest is for them to reduce divi dends and handle the situation In a sen sible, businesslike manner. Instead of wasting their time crying like babies and shedding tears that they know are not justified. The Canadian government has backed a transcontinental line that will cost all told,' $340,000,000 or more than the Panama canal. Many persons consider the project a wild one and predict fail ure, but when finished, as it will be in about seven years, the Grand Trunk Pa cific will have a roadbed equal to the Pennsylvania from ocean to ooean and a haul hundreds of milea shorter. Even now the Canadian has a line from Bos ton to the Pacific coast ISO milea shorter than the shortest American route, and, counting the lower grades that prevail. It should be considered In effective mileage at least 600 miles shorter. Owing to the tremendous rail road energy displayed In Canada there are, now four main lines west of Lake Superior in Canada and only one around Lake Superior. This one line is over whelmed with traffic, and the despised Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic, which lies on the south shore of the lake and Is owned by the Canadian Pacific, Is now to be used to handle the overflow. The short route from Boston to the Pa cific lies over this South Shore 'division, and plans are already under way for making it a part of the main track of the Canadian Paclfio system. With all this advantage of distance, grades and capitalization, the Canadian railroads are perfectly satisfied with present freight rates, and they view with delight the efforts of the cry-baby league of American, railroad presi dents to advance rates. ' An advance Will drive millions of dollars' - worth of com merce from New York Cttx.to Montreal. It will drive tens Of thousands of pros perous farmer from the United States into the Cermalamwrthweati U IH In jure the northwertern part of the United States and will transfer the entire Alaskan business- from Seattle, to Chi cago. V It will disarrange business ma terially and retard ttie wave' of prosper ity which is now at about Its lowest and ready to advance swiftly if no obstacles are placed In the way. An advance of rates would give Canada the first fruits of the new prosperity. These are stubborn facts and cannot be controverted by any railroad presi dent, -no -matter-though. He bt prodded by the necessity for earning enough money to pay dividends on watered stock and squandered bonds. The law of supply and demand ia like the an cient laVs of'-the" Medea-and Persians, and the earth is Just aa round as when Galileo died. i ' . -"1 The Eternal Will. By Henry P. Cope, , ."Thy will be done on earth as it Is in heaven." Matt vi, 10. v IB that the prayer of craven submis sion? It might be but for the first sentence of the petition. , He who talks to his Father and knows the affection of that Infinite;. fatherhood will know that there can e nothing higher or better for him than that Fa ther's will: that this will may be per fectly done will be more than a peti tion, it will become the supreme pas sion in life. This is not the cry of one who says: "Let God's will be done because it Is Inevitable; be is almighty, I am impo tent before him,", but the ory of one who says: "Let his will be dons be cause it la best" Not In submission but In aspiration does one thus pray who has caught the spirit of this- great prayer. . There seemed something noble and admirable in rebellion against the will of. the deity so long as we thought of him as a person who.Th arbitrary fash ion, decided what we must do, as one who used his omnipotence for our sub jugation, while he seemed to be a cow ard who bowed his neck in tame sub mission to decree and obligations Im posed upon him by one who sat in foreign splendor in another world. Even heaven appeared dull and unin teresting aa long as it was pictured as the place where people neither would nor could do any other than the divine decrees. Law-abiding communities ara attractive, but there" would seem to be little morality or merit where the laws were mechanically obeyed without the possibility of infraction. But if we think of the will of this Father as being the Infinite law that runs through all the universe, as that which the least atom and the vast plan ets obey, as that law of harmony which means fullness and beauty of life, tien the constant hope of every heart and en deavor of every right life Is to do that will, to be In tune with that universal harmony. The will of heaven is not written on tables of stone, nor can it be set down In books nor compassed In prescriptions and regulations. The infinite, "divine will is not subject to the Interpreta tion of every passing regulator of the conduct of others. It la the mighty In tent which runs through the ages of all the universe; it is the handwriting of the Infinite on the pages of eternity, It Is a dreary and .Irksome business trvlns- in rln the rifvlna will Kiv dis covering directions for the specifio du ties and problems of every "day. It 1st a childish way of living. It creates prigs and bigots, We need to catch some broad principles of living; we need, most of all, some high. Impelling vision that shall lead the life on. dlrec un faltering, through every difficulty. doubt and fear, to a wnrttiv h.nvaniv goal. The will of the Father is not this or that or the other detail. We do his will not by the scrupulous observance of any round or routine of ritual or du ties. He Is doing the will of God who Is limning mc aunt me servant or the divine, who is setting the soul al-ove the sod, who Is bringing the kingdom and rule of the spiritual to this world. Here is the determinative, dominating principle, that ever the life shall live toward the things higher, holiest. The will of the divine Is that, since we are his children, we shall nil come ' more and more to the family llkene;? and tq the freedom and fullness of the-' atvme life; It is the splritua'lilnj?. making heavenly and divine all our life. We who pray that prayer must pay Its price, we must set character, the heav-f enly likeness, before any other subject ' Or desire. Such a prayer subdues our Individual desires to its high purposes. It teaches" us to see in pain the perfecting of the life for the purposes of divine affec tion; It sees In losses the cutting away of that which might load the life down and prevent Its moving In harmony with all developing life Into the heav enly glory of character. Sentence Sermons By Henry F. Cope. It takes more than good living to make the good life. , It takes a lot of piety to stand ur against prosperity. He is a foe to truth who would try to defend It with error. a a There's no growth in grace without growth in gentiehess. No man ever pushed himself down by boosting another up. The holy life is the one that Is healthy all the way through ' a No day ia long enough to waste any of it nursing enmity. a The unanswered prayer finds its fruit., age in the disciplined heart. a a The man who Is going to heaven never tries to take up all the road. a a Do heaven's business and heavenly beauty will take care of itself. a a There's little of the water of life in works on religious hydrostatics. a a There's a lot of difference between the tongue of fire and a fiery tongue, a a No man Is as good, as he might he who does not try to be better than he can be. . a a No man n?d our pity more than he who Is Indifferent to the sorrows of others. ' It's always safe to deny the authority of an opportunity that thrusts Itself in on a duty. . ... .1 v. .... a a-- The step downward are so many and so small that men seldom recognize the grade. a a There's some moral dtseas present when the sight of another's. happiness give us pain. , , . It Is often worth while to do an ap parently fruitless act for 'the sake of acquiring a helpful habit, , ' When people are hungry for4he living bread ' It s folly feeding them lectures u agriculture . . - 1 Where there is ' much advertising of the golden rule there ia usually some. orooKeanes 10 conceal. , . . ..- ..e . .. . , , , -too many or us make the mistake of thinking that the more load we can carry the more life we' will live. - A Sermon for Today ' A , " S
