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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
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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
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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-
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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 '
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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
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No day ia long enough to waste any
of it nursing enmity.
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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.
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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. ,
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-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
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