The Oregon daily journal., November 29, 1908, Page 42, Image 42

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iseri 1 '
IS
An intrepid courage is at',
best but a holiday kind ' of
.virtue, to be aeldonretercised
and never but in cases of ne
cessity; affability, mlldnesB,
terseness and good nature are,
of daily use; they zxd the
bread of mankind and the
staff of life. Dryden.
THE FRUITAGE OF FOLLY
- . WORTHY CITIZEN of Portland
A lies dead In his home. He is
the victim of an assassin's bul-
let. By a murder most foul a
career that promised usefulness to
hia ; state and society i la suddenly
terminated -lif that jraa mold
ing and building for good ofder is
destroyed. A! family - la ' cast 'Into
mourning, a home is shattered and a
city shocked.
The social life Is permeated with
disorders. Among these are mem
bers of the legal profession whose
acts are not modeled by. the plum
met. The power of . such, for . evil,
and the evfi they bring to pass, is
very great. They enter the sanctu
ary of the courts, abort Justice, rei
tard , processes and bring shame to
an honorable profession. They are
one of the worst evils that' infest the
body politic. ;. This -was recognized
by Mr. FJsb.er, whose tragic death
these lines confirm;; and in his ca
pacity as an officer of the' state Bar
association, he was courageous in
proceedings for the disbarment of J.
A, Finch for unprofessional conduct.
It was a laudable enterprise. It
was a move for ,the protection of so
ciety. ! It was in the interest of the
general welfare. It was a provision
for defense . of the courts, the laws
and the social life against unpro
fessional lawyers. . For the act Mr.
Fisher paid the penalty with his life.
For his purpose Finch Invoked the
usual instrument. He employed the
coward's usual tool. He armed him
self with a revolver and went forth
' to assassinate. The weapon made
him bold for his purpose. With
out It the terrible story of this mur
1 der might never have been written.
Is it not time for society to rid it
self , of concealed weapons? What
other .agency, in the social order Is
more deadly or more damning?
it ministers are nfersons afflicted 1 - This is made more emphatically
with tuberculosis,: Such patients J true .by reason of th fact that cer
the association strives to get into a I tain interests in Orekon are now en
sanatorium during the early stages I deayoring to throw the election , of
ot tne disease, ana n instruct peo-1 senator back into' the legislature
pie wltn consumptive tendencies in which means that should it succeed
means and methods -of prevention, there will be more than ever the
and enlists aid for the impecunious, j aeea for the electorate to have fujl
It is a noble work and all purc6aserslpower for constructive legislation
of these stamps will aid in It. I At every two sessions out of three
Lately we bad a tag aay nerei there would be demoralization and
for the benefit of the little children debauehment of legislation, as the
with only a public home, and Fort- J history of Oregon eloquently and
land people showed that once tneiri bitterly testifies.
interest was aroused tney were hd- r . epn(,rllX war ,t ,a -oncerled
eral in giving; so. it is hoped, they that Judge Carey ,a ot am,BS ,n nIs
wui ue in bio w una or oiuer .,, ,,, nora nnrht in h
limitation to the number of meas
ures. There nugnt ue a limitation
to the length of measures. There
ought to be a limit to the number, of
constitutional amendments proposed
at one election. The questions to
be determined are, what are these
limitations to be and how can they
be so made that the initiative will
continue-unimpaired. In this in-
worthy effort.
SEXATOR FI LTOX'S
SION
LATE MIS-
I
T IS not surprising that Senator
Fulton's extraordinary suit was
denied by the president-elect.
The. Oregon senator's request
was of a kind that Mr. Taft could
OREGON TOWNS WAKIXG UP
W
not grant The sense of proprieties teregt the d,BCUS8lons by Judge Carey
in iiui ueau in an me meu wno aiiam i tim,v
w yuvun ymvv, mi i mil aB a ocu-
respecting citizen with a due regard
for personal honor. He is a man
with ta large view of life and in all
men of that sort there is a proper
respect for conscience, even In politi
cal matters. In the very nature of
things Mr. Taft could not accept
Senator Fulton's invitation to ad
vise an honest man to perjure him
self. Men of the Taft standing and
type do not give that sort of advice
Instead of advising perjury that kind
of man counsels all men to be loyal
to honor, conscience and truth.
The other day Mr. Taft declared
that his party must carry out' its
every pledge. Is, it likely that Mr.
Taft would advise' a party, which has
no soul, to be true and then advise
a man w K f Vaa a rt Immnnnl bahI
to be false? Mr. Taft has a higher u 18 cost,y- but " ay8- Good
view of men and life than that. He etreets aJe gref Rttractton- are
has a higher estimate ot his fellow- of va8t enelit They increase the
m n vn fhm value of abutting property more
swear their plighted word, to befoul tnan tne,r cost and hene l wbolf
thfllr fnmlllfi.. nA i,p!1 their Bm,iH town to a great auiuuni ueBiuea.
because thev hannen to be in nol- Booa water .ayaieui, iu.uwu.us u
itl. Th nrMlHntiert' andJ8I3Ple supply of pure water, is an-
ouer aDsoiute fwHt-uiiai iui u iuwu
ESTERN OREGON towns
are "waking up" as never
before. Never in their his
tory has there been such a
spirit of advancement and develop
ment among them. Never before
have their people been so active in
self-help, in doing things for them
selves instead of waiting for out
siders to come in and do things for
them. And they are discovering
that no sooner do they employ their
own resources In improvement and
development than outsiders take no
tice and begin to come' in and help
the movement along.
Paving is one great help to a town
A WORTHY MOVEMENT
N'
rEXT WEDNESDAY, December
2, the sale of stamps in aid
of the fight against tubercu
losis will begin in Portland,
continuing throughout the month.
This is something new here, but is
a movement that deserves and we
doubt not will meet with liberal sup
port on the part of citizens general1
ly. This stamp sale is devised not
only as a means of raising funds for
this worthy object, but is intended
to be educational also. It will call
the attention of many people to thla
BUDject.
; This movement; not only those
, who buy, but those to whom the
stamps may be sent for while the
stamp will not serve to carry a let
ter or other parcel through the
mails,' any letter -or package will
carry ; it, in addition to the regular
postage, , and so the recipient's as
well . as the sender's attention will
be called to this life-saving work.
Such a movement is beneficially
. . 1nn. ,hn, t IJ- 1 . :
reiFtmciivo mou, vuai. jo, it uenems
'those who become interested In it
and help it along. .It Induces char
ity, sympathy,;! mercy, helpfulness to
the distressed," a humane spirit; for
evermore, it remains true that "it is
more blessed to give than to re
cclve,, and j . that . "the quality of
mercy - ; - ; . blesseth him that
gives and him that takes." Most
people are unsympathetic in the
matter of .this great' ecourge, con
sumption, only because their atten
tion Is not aroused to the extent and'
'misery" of its ravages, because they
do not notice or think about It; and
this stamp sale is calculated to at
tract attention and arbtrse notice,
thought', sympathy anf help. ' . :
T? vlVitln?? mi recti . association.'
v 1 . . 1 .is i:.,.'. I 1 the ' EalC Of
ftrd of mnnlfhnil Id ton hls-h tn nlnco
k Dn .din,. r faiinm,n of considerable size. Next come a
and hvnll mcnnii tcm hlrh to vi good light system and good schools
such a course, even on the invitation and f,rst c,ass BCho1 bulldlngs
of the Oregon senator. la usually best for a city to own iB
" i . n . i j. t m rt
Senator Fulton has misjudged his aier ana llai P"nta-. WCM
man. He is misjudging all men, es- ",a"ascu
peclally the men ot Oregon. ' He tor themselves with the same money
nlaces far too low an estimate nn mat wouia go rb proius iu a vr"
their manhood. He places too cheao owner.
tfmark on their integrity. He has . Two other very important things
underestimated the personal Integ- no. the ''great importance of which
rity and public morality of the pres- people are discovering, are good
ident-elect. or he never would have roads throughout the surrounding
gone to Hot Springs on his late mis- country and electric railroads
ion. He will get no indorsement through well settled districts and to
from Mr. Taft for any plan that other towns. The former, wltn ju-
mars men's repute and violates cpn- dicious and progressive legislation,
science, nflvate or nnblic. Had he are within the reach of almost all
remained at Hot Springs until dooms towns and rural communities; the
day he would not have Induced the latter may require outside capital,
president-elect to counsel pledged but In many cases they can be se
legislators to a course of perjury, cured if local capitalists and prop
That sort of thing Is only advised erty owners generally will try hard
by persons who are senatorially mad enough to obtain them. And good
or dulled in their moral concepts. wagon roads and electric railroads
- . win noon double and in manv cases
.FUDGE CAREY AND THE INITIA- treble the value of adjacent far mi
TIVE property so that the money expended
for them is the best investment that
farmers and business men can make.
Along with these forms of devel-
subdlvision of
large into small farms and -more in-
PARTY OF SECONDARY IMPORT
. ' . ANTE ;::; :; f
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N DETERMINING the exact num
ber of words to which an initia
tive ; bill should be limited the opment comes the
lay mind is at a disadvantage. A
trained legal mind, familiar with tt-nsive farming, and especially, the
statutes, could be more accurate in extension of the' fruit and dairy in
estimating to what length such a dustrles, in preference to grain rais-
Din could be limited and yet permitting. This is a matter of vital lm
the initiative to remain a fixed arid portance to the cities of western
unimpaired prerogative of the elec- Oregon, and every business man and
torate. In his article, elsewhere in property owner in them should do
this paper. Judge Charles E. Carey everything in his power to help this
suggests that 300 words with five movement along. It means a great
sections be the maximum length." In y increased population, a far great
any proposed change the principle er volume of products, of more
that should be inevitably maintained valuable kinds, more-taxable prop
Is that there be no impairment; of erty, more home manufactures, more
the ultimate power of the Initiative, business of . all' kinds,r;.a greater
As Judge Carey says, the initiative I state, a better civilization. For
was not designed to supersede - the years The Journal has been speak
legislature, and that is true. Itjs hn on this subject ' and it is im-
also true, however, that the inltia- densely pleased to observe that re-
tive has been proven to be as neces- cently many large farms in the WI1-
sary as an instrumentality of gov- lamette valley and southern Oregon
erument as is the legislature, and have thus been subdivided and sold,
the effectiveness of the popular or put on the market for sale in
method should not in any way be email tracts.- 'But so far only a
hampered. - frt ham been made. There should
Four great measures have been I be ten instances of this kind whejl
adopted by the initiative since that there has been one.,
method became operative. in Oregon. in all these matters the people'of
They are constructive legislation that western Oregon towns are now alert,
lu each case the legislature refused appreciative and active as never be
to enact. These laws are the prl- fore. Eugene is perhaps the most
ruary law, the corporation franchise conspicuous example of progress. It
tax law. the local option law and the has, we believe, some 60 blocks of
corrupt practices law. AH men will paved streets. It. has voted for an
admit that the distinct trend of all ample isupply of good water. Wlth
these measures is In the direction of in eight 5daya It raised 50,000, $5
civic righteousness and human for every man, woman and child in
equity. It is suggested that in the, the city, for a Y. M- C. A. building',
case of the corrupt practices law w -expect to 8ee; It' get;busy
there are provisions that are unduly goon in. aid of a railroad. over to the
stringent and that it is too complex. Siuslawi -r Med ford is ; another shin
Why then did not the legislature, jng ' example .ofiAprogressiveness.
when opportunity was offered, de- Salem is no longer asleep, but is
bate the measure, frame it Into sim- showing . signs of getting into; the
pier form and pass it? , It was tie front rank .of this marcb- of prog-
recreancy of tne legislature In the
premises, its refusal to pass any
measure in that interest that caused
the people to pass the. corrupt prac
tices law, and to the legislature,
more than to the' people,' Is due any
over stringent provisions or, any unr
due compjexlty. The same la trueof
the local option law. The same" is
true.ot the corporation .franchise
law. The same istrue of the pri
mary law. In the light of these
facts it is pertinent to concludehthat
the purpose of the people in' the
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ress,: , wnere n peiuuga. mut"j
beginning, to do. and talk of doing
things that must be fairly startling
to some of the old residents. Cor
ralHs -and Dallas and -Grants Pass
and other cities are being born again
--i'nto a new and larger life., Every
where the moss, la being saked , of f.
If one could go to sleep -and, only
Wake up ten .years hence he;.would
not know these towns, or the sur
rounding country.;; tThe trahsformi
irig spirit bf progress Is nwrtihg In
this Oregon of ours., V, ;' -:- ;
0VERN0R HUGHES of New
York, according v to a report
wTll try during his next term to
secure the passage of laws pro
viding for .the Australian ballot, or
its close approximation as seen in the
Massachusetts law, and for direet
primary Instead of convention nom
(nations of candidates for public of
flee. Against both these measures,
especially the latter, he wilLof
course encounter the utmost possible
opposition of all the machine pol
iticians of his party, and probably of
the other party also, but he will
have the support of the masses of
voters, and with these behind him
the legislature may be forced to en
act these reforms. That New York
has never adopted the Australian
ballot system is itself proof of how
completely that state has been ruled
until Hughes became governor, by
the ring , and machine politicians.
Hughes does not preach and . pro
claim as much as Roosevelt, but he
stands by his reform guns- better
and when the test cfpmes does not
surrender to the party bosses.
We hear a great deal these day
in Oregon about the importance of
party, of loyalty to a party, without
reference to whether the party acts
for the whole people's benefit or not,
but Governor Hughes, while by no
means a non-partisan in national
politics, considers the interests of
the party organization as of alight
consequence as compared with the
people's Interests and they are very
often in direct conflict. Replying
to a partisan argument of the New
York Sun, the Detroit News says
that in practice the theory that a
party should be held responsible for
the actions of its-public servants
amounts to nothing, for the party as
a whole is not rebuked at the polls.
for their sins, but given an oppor
tunity by these laws to discriminate,
as the people w)ll often reject in
dividual candidates unworthy of
their votes,. and continues:
There is no mistaking the disposition
of the voters to disregard 'prty lines.
The fact that, they elected a Democratic
assembly and put In a Republican gov
erhor in New York and that they elect
ed a Republican legislature in Oregon
and pledged it to the support of a Dem
ocratic candidate for the United States
senate, are merely two facts In proof.
All the people ask Is that they be well
governed and that their government
shall respect the demands of the ma
jority. It matters little to the individ
ual citizen which party Is tn power, pro
vided the policy Is obediant. But the
politicians are exceeding loath to sur
render the power they have exercised
during the foolish years when voters
clung; to their party, right or wrong.
A political canvass made before an elec
tion of 25 or 30 years ago would show
pretty pear the vote for each candidate
on a party ticket, but today there Is an
astonishing diversity in the voting.
Voters discriminate carefully all the
way through the list of candidates, and
the ballot may as well cut out the party
column, now. as later because party cuts
little figure in the election.
Admit if . you please that on the
whole the Republican party is pref
erable to the Democratic party; the
voters of the nation have lately so
declared; ' but it does not at all fol
low that every Republican candidate
for. office" is preferable to his Demo
cratic opponent. A constantly in
creasing number ot voters are per
ceiving this, and these laws that
Governor Hughes will urge, and
that Oregon and other progressive
states already - have, ' give voters the
opportunity they ought to have to
discriminate as between candidates,
as. well as' between parties, and If
they choose regardless of party. The
importance of party is Indeed great
ly magnified ny partisan newspapers
and by politicians. Good, true, ca
pable, conscientious service of the
people is the main thing; beside this
party la negligible.
to have these growths removed. Dr,
Bermingham said that he and his
assistants treat, over a 1,000 cases
yearat the New York Throat, Nose
and Lung hospital, and that this U
only a small proportion of the
cases. Dr,'. Curtis said that the In
direct consequences of adenoids ; in
hia experience were so dangerous as
to warrant the board of education
in preventing a child from entering
school without an examination for
adenoids. "A child I treated recent
ly , had tecoma : so ungovernable,"
Dr. .Curtis said, , "that several men
were required -to restrain him. - He
has been, docile and self-restrained
ever since the " operation was per
formed." - " t "'
In Hamilton county, including
Cincinnati.y Ohio, Mr. Taft's home
Henry T. Hunt, a Democrat, "was re
cently elected prosecuting attorney,
although Taft carried the cdunty by
many thousand majority. Yet we
have npt heard that any newspapers
or people of Cincinnati are urging
and arguing that because Taft'a vote
showed that the county , was Repub
lican Mr. Hunt should not be , per
mitted to take the office to . which
he was elected.' Only in Oregon, it
seems, are newspapers and men
found to argue that because the
people chose to give a majority to
Taft they are therefore precluded
from electing any officer who is not
a Republican, and that If they do so
their choice is to be held for naught
and, annulled.- To allow such an
absurd theory to prevail might in
deed entitle Oregon to the designa
tion of "the fool of the family." The
same people that are entitled to. a
Republican president are by the
same token of ballots entitled to a
senator, or , any other officer, who
is not a Republican. . Let the peo
ple rule. -
W. . Clemens, a member of the
legislature from this county, ex
presses the correct idea thus "So
far as the senatorshlp is concerned,
take it for granted that matter
was settled in the June election,
Members of the lawmaking body are
now confronted with the important
duty of enacting remedial legisla
tion, and if they attend to this mat
ter properly they will bo too busy to
give any of their time to a wrangle
over the question of organization."
A large number of workingmen in
New Jersey town, having been
promised an increase of wages If
Taft wsb elected, struck because re
fused an increase of from $1.30 to
1.50 a day, and they have had a
conflict with the police and several
were krMed. Their wages amount
to $7.80 a week, or 333.80 a month.
And yet the unreasonable fellows
want more.
That little kid-emperor, Pu Yl,
doesn't know It yet, but if he is per
mitted to grow up and learn, he
will find out that In spite of its ex
clusion law the United States has
been a very good friend of his
country.
pay to economize along t,h!s , line.
The .cUy can " better do- without a
larger police v force than without
more improved and better.-improved
streets. "
- There-Is now a duty of 50 per
cent on razors, but a razor manu
facturer who appeared;; before the
ways and means; committee wants
more, so that he can shave the
American people even closer , than
he does now.. He wants- more of
their skin. ; -
AS
crmon tor lodav
"Is it worth while, to argue these
economic facts?" asks Chairman
Payne. No; give the protected,
predatory interests what they want,
and be done with the farce. They
will get it in the end anyway.
One month of 1908 remains, and
it is a good time now to make a
resolution to buy only Oregon made
productions, as far as possible.
Sentence Sermons.
' By Henry P. Cope.
Love's plan of doubling is to divide,
Strong words often denote a weak ar
gument. .
Llvln for bread is one way of losing
the bread or lire.
Rocks tn our way art Just heaven
saying, "Climb up higher."
-
Cntr hhlta are either our greatest
helps or our saddest hindrances.
Vnn maV iuiw vour sins in the dark.
but they come to harvest in dayiignt.
Tf vn easv to see through the
disguise that omer a Blessings wr.
MMViin. iAr uOTemote difficulties
Detter tnan, aoina immem-" -uwciy
Th. tiA?vinf! conscience Is the one
trampled down by many compromises.
The man who puts all hia faith In
himself usually despairs or the uni
Vnn rnnnnt do much rood for men It
you seek to to do good only to the good.
Thn rleanlna- UD of society usually
has to start where charity is said to
begin.
Mn are to be Indeed by where they
are going rather than by whence they
came.
Ha falls Into nrlde'a Pit. who passes
by on the other side whenever he sees
one who has fallen.
It's not the wrontrs we do him that
worry the great tatner or u an; ivs
the ill we da ourselves.
"When you take therats of business
worry to the church Its not strange
they leave you nothing but chaff. .
1 :
No matter how eloauent you may be
tnlklns- tn villi r father in heaven. It will
not balance a sour disposition to your
ramlly here.
Learning How to Live. '
,lT.,r Ry Henry F. Copo,
itf"hD ,ndf,t.h tWtsdom) flndeth
lire, Proy. vlil., 35. ;
Senator Fulton perhaps realizes
now that senator uourne saw tart
first. Moreover, Taft and Bourne
played golf together.
It is none too early for the coun
cil to consider earnestly the matter
of far more and better street im
provements next year. It doesn't
He "Flagged the Demon Rum."
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
j It; utiau lwvk uio i. ww " I ... , , .. . . .
rled for lust one more round, wnen no K . v,ii.. i,i,,,i ..iv,iu,i.
started home he was in Just about the
same frame of mind that a man Is when
he Insists on stopping to tell you what
thorough gentleman he Is.
Before he had proceeded far he saw
red lantern resting on a pile of earth
t a street corner. He sel-ed the lan
tern as If It had annoyed him and con
tinued on his way.
It happened that before he had gone
another block he came face to race wltn
a member of the police force In plain
clothf-s Chief Kohler hlmNelf.
"What are you. doing with that red
lantern?" Inquired Kohler curiously.
"Taking It home for a shouvler, "( re
plied the other good naturedly. "I Jush
been to a church sociable and had to be
In tableau. Yesslr. I represented tem
p' ranee, shlr. and stood up on the track
with thlsh lantern tryln' to flag the
demon runi as she came down the track.
Demon rum was fixed up to look like
a railway train big headlight and all
that sort of thinksh. 'But I flagged
her." ,
FAMOUS GEMS OF PRO&E
"TheVolunt-er"Solclier of the Army By Robert- G. Ingersoll
A BANE OF YOUTH
M'
EDICAL MEN have long rec
ognized the demoralizing ef-
; fects of adenoids in the throat
and nose of children. The
adenoids are a growth that limits
the amount of oxygen the child can
get. There results a condition of
great discomfort which makes study
Impossible and leads gradually to
the formation of habits of cruelty
and vice. It is also, claimed that a
considerable lowering of the intel
lectual standard ot the child Is one
of the consequences. . t
That parents .ought , to be com
pelled by law to require the re
moval of adenoids, in their children
was recently urged In New York city
by Superintendent Maxwell, Chief
Surgeon Bermingham and other
leading educators and physicians. At
the same meeting it was contended
that -50 per cent of, the school chil
dren of New York are affected. -"To
this affliction," said Superintendent
Maxwell, "can" be traced In a star
tling number of cases the criminal
tendencies which develop in boys as
they grow up. That depraved and
ungovernable children in a majority
of cases have adenoids or some kin-
dred trouble 18 . known to every
teacher in New " York. It has been
our experience in practically eVery
case that where the adenoid growth
is removed the child immediately
improves in behavior, and ' Intelli
gence.: On the other, hand, when
parents refuse, to permit the chil
dren to be treated, disposition and
morals become worse and worse.".
. Superintendent . Maxwell said thaj
the board of education should have
authority to compel all: parent
whose children have adenoid growth?
(In response to the toast to the vol
unteer soldier at ths Grant banquet,
Palmer house, Chicago, November 13.
1879.)
When the savagery of the lash, the
barbarism of the chain and the Insanity
of secession confronted the civilization
of our country, the question, "Will the
great republic defend itselfr trembled
on the lips of every lover of mankind.
The north,' filled with Intelligence and
wealth children of liberty marshaled
her hosts and asked only for a leader.
From civil life a man, silent, thoughtful
poised and calm, stepped, forth, and with
the lips of victory voiced the nation's
first and last demand: "Unconditional
and Immediate surrender." From that
moment the end was known. That ut
terance was the first real declaration of
real war, and. in accordance with the
dramatic unities of mighty events, the
great soldier who made it received the
final sword of the rebellion.
"The soldiers of the republic were not
seekers after vulgar victory. -They were
not animated by the hope of plunder or
the love of .conquest They fought to
preserve the homestead of liberty and
that their children might have peace.
They were the defenders of humanity,
the destroyers of prejudice, the break
ers of chains, and In the name of the
future they slew the monster of their
time. They flnlshedX what the soldiers
of the revolution commenced. They re
lighted the torch that fell from their
august hands and filled the world again
with light. They blotted from the stat-
fute books laws that had been passed by
hypocrites at the instigation of robbers
and tore with Indignant hands from the
constitution that infamous clause that
made men the catchers of their fellow
men.-. They made it possible tor Judges
to be Just, for statesmen to be humane,
and for politicians to be honest. They
broke the shackles from the limbs of
slaves, from the nouls of masters, and
from the northern brain. They " kept
our country on the map of the world
and our flag In heaven. They rolled .the
atone rrom tne sepuicner ot progress,
and0 found therein two angels clad In
string garments nationality and. lib
erty. , '.-.. ? '
The soldiers we're the saviors of the
nation: they were the liberators of men;
In Writing' the proclamation of emanci
pation, "Lincoln,' greatest of our mighty
dead," whose memory is as gentle as the
summer air when reapers sins amid the
gathered sheaves, copied with the pn
what. Grant and bis brave : comrades
wrote with swords. ' - -'
- Urander than the GreeTc nobler than
thn Roman, the soldiers of the republic,
with 'patriotism as shoreless as the air,
battled fofthe rights of other, for the
nobility tf labor; fought that otlien
might own their babes, that arrogant
Idleness should not scar the back of pa
tient toil, and that our country should
not be a many-headed monster made of
warring states, but a nation, sovereign,
great and free.
Blood was water, money was leaves,
and life was only common air until one
flag floated over a- republic- .without a
master and without a slave ,
And then was asked the question:
"Will a free people tax themselves to
pay a nation's debt?" .
The soldiers went home to u watt
ing wives, to their glad children and to
'the girls they loved they went back
to the fields, the shops and mines. They
had not been demoralized. . They had
been ennobled. ; They were as honest
In peace as they had been brave in war.
Mocking at poverty, laughing at re
verses, they made a friend of toll. They
said: "We saved the nation's life, and
what is life without honor?" They
worked and wrought with all of labor's
royal sons that every pUdg the nation
gave might be redeemed. And their
great leader, having put a shining band
of friendship a girdle of clasped and
happy hands around the globe, comes
home and finds that every promise made
In war has now the. ring and gleam of
gold.- ,..'' "- ,' " -
There Is another question still: "Will
all the wounds of . war be healed"? I
answer, yes. The southern people must
submit not to the dictation of the
north, but to the nation's wHI, and to
tne verdict or mankind. They were
wrong, and the time will come when
they will say that they are Victors who
have been vanquished ' by' the right.
Freedom conquered them, and freedom
will cultivate their fields, educate their
children, weave for them the robes of
wealth,, execute their. laws, and fill their
land with happy homes. t ,
The soldiers of the union saved the
south as well as tHS north. They made
us a nation. "Their victory ma-le us free
and. rendered - tyranny In evrv otlmr
land as ft secure as snow upon volcanoes'
UPS... : . T -'.! . ; -'-: ... . :
, And now let US drink to the volunteers
to those who sleep in unknown, sunk
en graves,' wnose names are only v in
the hearts of those they loved and left
of " those who only,hear-in happy
dreams, the footsteps of return. . Let, us
drink to those Who died where- llpless
famine mocked , at want;: to, all the
maimed whose scars . give modesty a
tongue; to alt who dared and gave, to
chance "the care and keeping' bf their
lives; to all the living ana to all the.
dead to: Sherman, to Shelrldan, and to
Grant, thei laureled soldier bf the world,
and last,.,to Lincoln. ;WhosA loving life.
IIKe a bow or peace, spans snrt arches
all the clouds 06 war. t I . - ,u v
F YOU desire to have your boy be
come a skilled engineer you send
him toV school where he may be
trained as an engineer: but If vnn
. . desire to have him keen to the dif
ference between right and wrong, if
desire to have hlra become a mart
or high character, you are quite likely
to taks chances on his picking up such
dlflicult attainments. ,
There li no difftcultv In lipnv.rlnir
?iLe"5,ts and means, oy which one may
" muKO a good living, nut
If one . would learn th rreit,., ne
fda1? wrthy life, that Is a differ
ent matter, apparently one of less 1m-
Hctu I1 ""Sens to be generally as
sumed that VOll havk tn f.,c1.
quatntance of the natural sciences by
educational processes, but the -greatest
acchi t 8 nd cionce get by
Character, th fnih,n. k- ,k. .
life, the crown of all is the last thing
considered In education. A child learns
to play the piano by persistent prac
ticing. Painful to himself an nnl
SO to Others, but the nrartlr. nf t-li-tiia
no one knows how that Is gained; it
-u?posei - yu mnBt wait until the
lightning of . goodness hannwns tn strike
you. , , , ) " .
Can Character b ilavninnaj t nfiina-
Uonal methods? We can train doirs and
cats and pigs to whatever habits we
wish: can we train mn ,m.nt n;.
know how to produce expert machinists,
bookkeepers, and handlers of Iron and
wood; do ws' know how to produce good
citizens, worthv . Barents, lust .mninv.
ers, diligent workmen, kindly neighbors?
' Ar goodness and uprightness the re
sult -oftntent. or the fruitage of acci
dent? It is worth while to make up our
minds as to this. If soma are good
and some are bad and no one knows
Just why, then we are In a most la
mentable situation. If the good can he
developed and perfected and the evil
eliminated. If rUrhtness of lif- -Is sub
ject to processes In our contrbl, the de
velopment and training of such Tight
ness Is the largest business we have in
nana at any time.
We need definitely to test all our edu
cational, our cultural arencles. schnnlst
colleges, churches, press, srt galleries,
clubs by this: Are they training these
whom they reach to fullness of living,
to right social adjustments, to such a
life as makes one me nosaeesor .of all
his high heritages and the servant of ail
his ereat omiortunlttea. a whole man
doing all a man's service for men?
What of the educational Influence of
the church? Is It doing any more -than
making children In the Sunday schools
walking warehouses of biblical Informs J
tlon? Is it training its men and women
to take their places, and do their com
mon work in the world? Has It any
high, clear, prophetic messatrs for our
day? Is It stirring the souls of men.
msDlrinr them wltn visions so Men
that they never find content until they
have poured out their lives seeking to
realize them? Surely thla Is its edu
cational work.
If any great things are to be dons
they must do done by training men and
women to ao mem, oy inspiring mem
with the high visions, by teaching them
to tnirac sooeriy, cieany, oy leading
them into efficiency in the realisation
of their high visions. Not the schools
alone, but the churches, the press, and
every Interest and power that touches
nd determines lives must cooperate to
these ends. ,
We need to set before ourselves tne
task of learning to live, and we owe it
to our children and to the future to
sea that, with all tnelr getting they
get wisdom, that they be not crammed
with learning and yet Ignorant of life,
that thev shall learn to live-" not- as
f machines
born to hlarh spiritual possibilities.
There Is a danger that in the rush
of our modern life we lose sight of th
thtngs that ought to corns first. We
ought to know that this life of ours Is
not for the building ot cities, nor for
the heaping up of fortunes, but all ttns
are only that we may produce the glo
ries of .character, we inay raise men
and women of high living.
What shall all our learning, all our
boasted educational advantages, be worth
tn us if we miss the great prize of life.
if we full to come Into that fullnes of
livfns- which tulnnrs to us as children
of the- Infinite? Let neither learning
nor making a living stand in the wav
of the chief thing, which is simplv
llvin- living aright and finding the
larger life.
A Poem for Today
A Grammarian's Funer.J.
fRobert . Browning, born in London,
1112. was doubtless the greatest relig
ions poet of England In the last cen
turv. "A Grammarian's Funeral," from
which a selection Is here given is an
example of the obscurity of which he Is
often accused. Yet, read carefully, one
easily catches the thought of the life
with alms so lofty it Is not appreciated
by the lesser lives.
That low man seeks a little thing to do,
K... ft ami does It:
This high man, with a great ; thing to
nnpBliA '
i DIms rra he knows it.
That low man goes on . adding one to
one, v
His hundred's soon hit:
This high man. aiming at a million.
- Misses an unit. . ...
That, has the world here shouldhs
need tne next, . . .
It thn world mind him!
This, throws himself on God, and un-
perplexeu
Seeking shall find him.
Well.
here's ths
here's the platform,
proper place:
Hail to your nullieus,
All ye highfliers' of the feathered race,
Buvllnwa and curlewsl
Here's the top peak; the multitude be
low
T.l v. for they can. there.
This man decided not to live but know
Bury this man here?
Hero here's his place, where meteors
shot, ciouas rorm.. '
Lightnings are loosened.
Stars come and go! Let Joy break with
the storm.
Peace let ths dew send!
Lofty designs must close In like effects;
Lofty lying.
Leave him still loftier than ths world
- suspects. . . . - ,
Xiiving ana uyinif.
, v By Robert Browning.
- 1 ", . '
Iron" Passes Million Ton 'Mark.
From the Iron Trade Review.
For the first time .since curtailment
of pig Iron production began. November
last year with suddenness, our Diast
furnace figures for October show that
the non-merchant or steelmaklng Irons
have reached and passed once more the
1,000.000-ton mark. The total produc
tion for all stacks in the country for
October was . 1,673,824 tons. ? To this
grand total the son-merchant production
contributed 1,004.632 tons; the merchant,
556.968 tons; splcgei. 8.071 tons. , and
ferro. 3.625 tons. - Ths total-production
for Oi-tsijer shows , a gain of 157.572
tons, or 18 per cent. over, that of Sep
tember. . The mrcbant iron gained 8ft.
607 tons or J 8 ae'r cent In. October over
8cptember,.whne the non-nurchnt yy-8teel-mktng"
b-on gained only- 7,1f3S
tons or 7.2. - per cent In October over
September, ' Compared with October's 10
pr cent gain In total production over
the immediately preceding month', the "
gain made by September over August
seems small, 3.6 per cent, but It. shows
graphically , the strides forward that "
the pl Iron-Industry , of thn country
Is making. As compared with the low
point of production reached In January
of this year following last fall's panlo.
last month's .production has Increased '
50.8 per cent. On the other hand Jan-
tinry s prodiicryin wasbnly 47.5 per cent
or mm or tne. same month one year