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i I 4 J f 5 I; j THE JOURNAL A3f 'INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER. C. 8. J4CK80X.... .Publisher Published mr evening "T,t , buIMl"y L,,?,'?,'! miav mornlne at The r"' ulAJ h ihI Vntuliill street. Portland. Or. .. every Hiind . irijr. nun Entered at the ptwtotrk at Portland, Or., for tranamlMlon tnroiKh the walla aa aecoDd-olaaa tuattcr. TEt.EPHONBS MAIN 7173. HOME. A-WW1. All d.-p.rtm.t. r.-bI br h' unf!! v. Tell the epwator the department JOU want. Eaat Sid office. B-2444; Eaat ' FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE, Vrndaod-Benjamiu Special Artjertlilnf York: 1OU7-08 Bojce Bulldlns. Chicago. Sutwrlptlon Term by mall or to any addrcaa 111 the Uuitrd Statu. Cauada.pr Unlco: DAILY. One year. $300 I One month .50 . SUNDAY". One year v..l2.50 l.One month -25 DAILY AND SUNDAY. On year .$7.60 I Ops month $ ,M T-S W ' WI - .- t aL..;w.f..Ui.fLA IT VJI bees amditertaoih guaranteed by the" Adrtrther't Certiitd Circulation Bine Book j J: I Thit Patter ham orored br mmtituion that the cireulatioa record art kepi with P can ants tae ctrcaiaimn bimico wum wen accuracy that adrertimrt may rely on any aCJtemrflta Of mmu vj mw pvotmncrw mntler the owttenbip.ama management September 1908. r It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived In others, because we first deceived ourselves. Sir Philip Sidney. -a THE PEOPLE AND NEWSPAPERS T HE DALLES OPTIMIST, the one paper of Oregon that openly and boldly urges Statement No. 1 Republicans to violate their : ' pledgee, says that out of 250 news J i papers In Oregon not over twenty are !; partisanly Democratic, and that of ! the other 230 or thereabouts only a I j very few oppose the election of it Chamberlain; and it asks, Why? It i answers that these newspapers "fear ji the, howl of 'the people."' If we it look no further, isn't the answer all j I sufficient? Why should not these ; newspapers Agree with, speak for, 1 1 represent, act In concert with and re- ; spect "the people"? The term "the j ! people" is quoted by the Optimist, j and here and there by some other ' party orgian, disparagingly, scorn- s fully, contemptuously. They con : elder party the main thing, "the peo- j pie" as nothing worth consideration. Curiously, they cannot see that this " is the very point " and principle at Issue: Shall the, people rule? Shall they have their will in their own ;! affairs? No wonder indeed that ?; only a very few" 1 pers dare to set J.? against the people. Republican pa th em selves up i.- The Dalles Optimist and Us edi " tor, who created It, are to be re . spected; they dare to say what they think, and say it plainly. Brother sh Bennett believes that public affairs J should be left to political, machines, ?: party bosses and effective "leaders" f within these lines; and that "the U people" should acquiesce in what- ever these leaders do, and never 4 under any circumstances desert a party or a party's candidate that t is, the Republican party and its can- didates. He believes tfiat rather than not adhere solidly In every pos- slble contingency to party and party leaders, elected men should vloIate their specific, positive pledge to "the" people." We can feel and are free 4 to express some measure of admlra- tion for this frank avowal of Bour ; bonish partylsm, but cannot Indorse S it, or believe that many people in ' these days will agree with :t. After all, what is worth consider ing, a a matter of public or of ficial duty and service, but "the peo ple" the scorned, ridiculed "peo ple"? And if they on full Informa- tlon and after a fair, full campaign have decided in favor of any particu- lar man or measure, shouldn't their ' will be obeyed by those whom they 4 elect to office? And should not this d be so more emphatically, certainly 5 and unquestioningly, when men elected have as a means thereto t promised some particular thing? COLLEGE STUDENTS AXD SOLO MON . 0 N A RECENT Sunday there were eleven churches, with their accompanying Sunday schools and societies, "run- ring in full blast" in Corvallis, but not a saloon was open or In exlst- ence there. This Is a matter for i congratulation, though' probably a combination and concentration of the religious work would give bet i ter results. One of the Sunday 5 schools on this occasion suggested certain questions to students of the Agricultural college that are well worth their consideration, directed V principally to the sacrifices made by ? parents and families in order to jj maintain these students In college, 4 and what repayment they were to 5 make through the aid of the educa- t tlon thus obtained Youth cannot bo. expected to consider these mat tort, very seriously, yet as' students they are . already considerably re sponsible citiiens,' and , prospective leaders of enlightened citizenship, and as such these questions are de priving ef their , conscientious1! con sideration. Every student ought to kcrnisoilouSIy in mind what he owes .' -I V " . . . ' a ii 1 LC in'conuol 3 to parents, perhaps to brothers and sisters, to the taxpayers, to' the state for the opportunities and advan tages he enjoys. It Is with no depreciation of this thought that we observe that it was rather Incongruously coupled with a recommendation for the study of King Solomon's "home life"; and the choice of his youth that "im mortallzed him." V Solomon was a great character and his reputed writ Ings are worthy of prolonged and recurrent study; but because he was a "Bible character" Is no reason for setting him on a moral pedestal as an exemplar in every respect. He evidently, like many others, did not practice all he preached; and as a consequence, toward the end, he declared that life was vanity and vexation of spirit, and that "vanity of vanities, all Is vanity." This Is rather easily interpreted, but not readily in harmonious association with a model "home life." Finally, however, he Bald: "Hear the con clusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man." Older students ' than those in Cor vallis and those who attend Sunday schools are pondering on this saying and how best how to apply it. TAFT AND THE PHILIPPINE TARIFF NT R. TAFT, according to a re port, has compromised, or is negotiating a compromise, with the sugar and tobacco trusts with respect to Philippine Im portations not that he will have any direct power to abolish or mod ify the present law, but so that he will not oppose such duties as these trusts may dictate to congress. This at first glance does not seem en tirely creditable to Mr. Taft, but he is no doubt "a practical man," and as such, realizing that congress in the case of a contest will stand by the trusts, he prefers making sure of a small fraction of reform and justice, to the slim chance of get ting any unless some prior arrange ment were made. Mr. Taft is undoubtedly sincere In desiring to remedy the injustice and evil of the Philippine tariff, but as a politician will effect a compromise rather than head a probably losing fight for what he believes to be rleht. This is not heroic, but un der all the circumstances it may be best. Str. Taft of course hopes 'and ex pects to be president for eight years, and he feels that he cannot afford to break rudely with the high tariff leaders of his party at the outset. There are indications, however, that he will gradually and diplomatically press tariff reform to some extent, and thus may be able, to accomplish more than a radical reformer would who would set himself up in sharp antagonism to Aldrich, Cannon, et al. Mr. Taft Is a very level headed man and Is likely to do a little more rather than a little less than he has promised or professed along this line of reform and perhaps along others. (HIRCH'8 SIXTIETH DAY BIRTH- A' N AMERICAN city is seldom much If any older, dating from Its earliest beginnings. than Its Methodist church, than the oldest local organization therein of that religious denomination. So the celebration today by Methodists of the sixtieth anniversary of the for mation of their oldest society here would conform closely in point of time to a celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of the birth of this com munity. Since a very early period In our national life the Methodists have been pioneers, religiously and other wise. People of other denominations have been so also, notably the Cath olics, who as a rule pressed for ward first of all. as they did throughout most of the great west, but If not first the Methodists were neer far or long behind, active in ali kinds of pioneer work, and form ing always an important, effective, progressive and mightily helpful por tion of every new community. Perhaps the distinguishing traits of Methodism fitted people of this denomination exceptionally well for the rough and self-sacrificing work they had to do In a new region. No silk stocking or dilettante religion ists or citizens were they; no hard ship was too great for them cheer fully to endure; no privations could check their Bongs of praise and shofits of enthusiasm; no obstacles discouraged them for a moment in their onward march with the ban ner of the cross. Of glorious, sainted memory are many of those old Methodist pio neers of Oregon. Some, though by no means all, were uneducat"d, or rather were devoid of scholarsvaip; but they were animated by a su blime faith, they were moved 1 y a noble purpose. The spirit that moved them to utterance and action seemed fresh and unsullied from the heart of the creator of such a magnificent wilderness as this old Oregon, and to be in harmony with tho region in which it operated. There would be a large void, a great blank, in the history of Oregon if the story of the early Methodists were, left out. . In deed, it would be difficult if not im possible to. imagine an Oregon wl out the work of the Methodists of tb early days and sincer s Other denominations of -earnest Christians bave done their part ...'...'. :.:.:. ... equally well, but few if any were by training, religious bent ar.d methods, and habits' of religious thought and action, so well adapted to conduct a rough and ready pio neer "work in a new region. And while some of 'those early methods have been somewhat modified by friction with a more complex and refined civilization, " and ' while re liglous belief and feeling are not so intense the more cultivated and perhaps more civilized people ot to day owe much, as future generations will, to these hardy, faithful, ener getlc, enthusiastic Methodist pio neers of Oregon. Verily, their works live after them, and shall endure always, . Sixty years carries us back to 1848, when there were indeed but the merest elementary fragments of a civilized community on the ground where Portland now stands. Though there were other considerable settle ments, Portland was yet in the womb of the slowly travailing "time. Yet then a few Methodist Christians and pioneers got together and organized what has since been the Taylor street church. ' What a period of growth it has been; not very rapid, for so long a period, yet viewed as a whole won derful, instructive, inspiring. Out of that infant pioneer organization have Sprung how many MethodiBt churches? And mother and the long line of children have ever played an Important part In the development of the clty state and region, In the advancement of religion, righteous ness and morality, of every good and uplifting work, i So it is well on this orcasion, cn this Sunday, for the buy, bustling, constructing, expanding city to pause an hour and ponder on this cele bration, on ' the beginnings and growth of Methodism here for it is typical of many things and on the character and work of those who here in this splendid, awesome wild erness organized to set up their altar of worship and to declare and prac tice their faith and devote them selves to their religious idwils. HOLY ROLLING) F IVE DEAD and a Blxth dying are the results of the Holy Roller riot at Kansas City. Among the dead are two policemen and a little girl. Several families be reaved. Innocent ones left helpless and a city shocked are the aftermath Three of the Holy Roller leaders in dicted for murder in the first degree Is one sequel to the outbreak. Two of the fanatics have renounced their faith as a result of being brought face to face with the realities of the law and their own outlawry. The apology of some of the lead ers Is that they were directed from heaven to resist the police and com manded to use their revolvers in the process. The spectacle of the Al mighty as an inciter of gun play is a new proposition for both the re ligious and secular world. The claim that, as the good shepherd, he would direct his lambs to kill hu man beings, Is evidence enough of the bogus character of these saints. The appearance of such a sect claim ing such a relation with the Omnipo tent and giving him such a charac terization is one of the anomalies of life. It Is a travesty on the name of religion and a barbarian conception of the Christian faith. It is as vul gar as It is profane. If It is the re sult of human Ignorance and mental weakness it is the by-product of those of larger mental mold who are sometimes over-wont to vaunt their own established relation and famili arity with the supreme being. If it comes from viciousness, the Kansas City courts will ascertain and act ac cordingly. Society is becoming fairly well or dered. Christianity has been a chief means of uplift. Its militancy is the world's best hope. With bar barism went the idea that sins are washed away by holy rolling on the floor and other abuse of the body as a means of serving the master. People who do that and whose mes sage from the Prince of Peace is a bullet from a revolver are as likely to be sinners as saints, and in most Instances are subjects for gentle in vestigation if not restraint. THE AMERICAN-JAPANESE AGREEMENT Iff UCH HAS been said about the recent reaty or agreement made between this country and Japan by Secretary Root and Ambassador Takahira, but a full consideration of it seems to warrant the conclusion that Its Importance as a definite, binding undertaking by the two nations has been consider ably overestimated, although in its moral effect and in its indirect and incidental consequences it may prove to be effective of far-reaching good. Explained in the briefest terms, it is an expression of the two coun tries, through their highest diplo matic mouthpieces, of commercial amity and fair play in the orient and on the Pacific. It positively and permanently "binds the countries to nothing definite, but does express a broad, general, friendly Intention and purpose, and will have a large and beneficial moral influence and significance. It was timely for Secretary Root to negotiate such a formal declara tion of purpose and Intention. Japan needs peace, for years to come no nation more yet'feels that she must be vigilant and prepared for war; but no responsible persons In Japan have any desire, deslra or notion of war with the United States. There! was in this agreement no suggestion ef present or prospective belliger- ency; rather it was a dignified and sensible protest against Hobsonlsm in both countries. The agreement seems tentative and academical, yet It is significant and important; as one commentator has said, "it makes history." It is a logical sequence, though only fractional result, of the celebrated movement Inaugurated by the late Secretary Hay. The United States is going to maintain its commercial rights in the orient; it re going not only to do justice but to Bee justice done to China; but Japan is sot to be handicapped or harassed in car rying" forward her national destiny by this country. If there is any deeper or more slg' nlflcant and concrete meaning to the treaty, alliance, compact or contract whatever we may call it than this, it is that England, the United States and Japan wilt stand to gether for fair play in the orient and on the Pacific, Japan on its part-to let China work out its own destiny without forceful reprisals on the part of Japan br any other powers. The transportation factor of Pa ciflc commerce will not be and can not be materially affected by such an entente: Japan's commerce in this respect will grow, and whether ours doeB or not will depend large ly upon whether the protected inter ests continue to prevent a reform in our navigation and protection laws PU YI H OW IMPOSSIBLE it is for a people to change old forms customs, ideas and ceremoni als. Indeed they are indls posed to do so. China has been a notedly non-progressive nation, ac cording to our western ideas, and though some reformatory and revo lutionary ideas are sprouting and growing there, they did not affect the ceremo.nial on the occasion of the crowning of Pu Yl, three years old poor little kid as the ruler of per haps 430,000,000 people, inhabiting a domain of 4,250,000 square mtles We at this far distance know this little unfortunate almond-eyed.., boy Blllipiy ttB I'll II, HUU IUUB UCBl&IiaiCU we feel like being friendly with him i i n.. xri A u.. 1" ..J and trying to renew childhood's feel lng again with him for there is a worldwide and race-obliterating de mocracy among "kids"; they all laugh and cry In a universal lan guage, tnink mucn tne same thoughts and act much alike but little, brown, innocent Pu Yi recent ty became not only emperor of the most populous nation on earth, but Son of Heaven, the Great High Priest and the Brother of the Sun and Moon. In his little-great name tatesmen will be exalted and en nobled, or dislodged and degraded and many heads of people who have done no great wrong will be cut off. Governors will commit suicide; am bitlous and influential underlings will grasp minor but effective sceptres; and millions of people will or have by now already per formed all sorts of what we call heathenish devotions, all on account of the ascendency, through a series of incidents, of this child to his place of political destiny. Meanwhile, in his palace, with his 30 nurses and 300 personal attend ants, more or less, young Pu Yl Is thinking tlie thoughts and perform ing the acts and experiencing some of the joys of childhood. He is "mewling and puking" In some nurse's arms, Jf he has the colic; he is prattling Chinese baby lan guage; he is breaking thousands of tads' worth of toys; he doubtless, like a baby in a humble household, dominates "the ranch." Possibly he comes nearer being king today than he will ever be when he Is grown up. But new things are happening in China. Gradually, but perhaps rap Idly, it will become a new China. For 12 years to come this baby will be In tutelage; at the age of 15 what an absurd thing he becomes legally the absolute emperor of that great country. But In that time China will have advanced much and many things will have happened. Even then Pu Yi's young eyes, if he should live, may look out on a land that in many respects would be strange to the late Tsl An, and to his ancestoral Sons of Heaven, Great High Priests and Brothers of the Sun and Moon for thousands of years past. RESTIVE INDIA B' RITISH WOMEN and children are fleeing from India. The fear of a native uprising is tha cause. The latter is fore shadowed in many omens. The bomb has been introduced as an im plement testifying to native dissatis faction with British rule. Its use Is the outward expression of an un rest that has been growing and spreading through a series of years. It has been thrown into railroad coaches carrying Englishmen, it has been Invoked 1n assassination of po lice officers, it has been hurled at authority and at the signs of au thority on many occasions during the past six months. Sedition is spreading throughout the provinces until the British authorities both In India and In England are fearful of the future. - More libera); forms of government with concessions to the natives in a system of so-called home rule and a greater voice in the con duct of affairs has been proposed, bat the advices ' are" that even this Drecautlonary measure hat come too late for effective results in staying the tide of revolution Aa a last re sort the strengthening of the mill-' tary force is being rapidly pushed and there is forecast of the bloody alternative of the bullet and bayonet. Of the 300,000,000 of native pop ulation in' India, 235,000,000 are under the direct, rule , - of .British agents. . The remainder is less dl rectly, but Is still under British au thorlty. The . final authority is in the British foreign secretary for In dla and the British parliament. The visible authority is in the governor general, or viceroy, and his council of five members. The viceroy is appointed by the crown and receives a salary of-$83,500 a year, drawn from the Indian revenues. There is a sort of legislative council of 16 members that can ask questions about the financial budget, but can not move resolutions, nor vote upon measures. A standing army of 215, 000 to 220,00,0 soldiers is main tained, two thirds of whom are na tive. There are 18.000 miles of rail road, so distributed as to be of great strategic value in the disposition of troops in case of an uprising. The desire to provide for Buch a con tingency has been a chief factor in prompting railroad construction. An uprising if spurred on by a consid erable degree of native, enthusiasm would result in the shedding of rivers of blood. The more educated natives dream of a government like that of Canada. Leaders among them hope for abso lute independence. For years thou sands of Hindu students have been studying western education and civ ilization In American and other col leges, and It has been observed that all of these students are violent in their denunciations and bitter in their complaints of British rule. Britain has a grave problem In its hope of continued repression of the Hindu dream of national unity. THE REDUCED DAIRY OUTPUT I T IS a matter of regret that Ore gon's aggregate of dairy products shows a falling off for the cur rent year. The fact was la mented by many a speaker at the annual meeting of the State Dairy association this week at Salem. Tha sale of fancy Oregon cows and their removal to other states was ascribed as the cause. Expressions were uni versal among the dairymen that it is a policy of non-progression and mis fortune. The good cow is the first essential to successful dairying. She Is to tho dairy what the improved harvesting machine is to the wheat grower iand what the locomotive is to civilization. The low grade cow Is in the same class with the discarded grain cradle and the ox yoke. To attempt to utilize her is to turn backward the wheels of progress and deny the truth of ascertained and demon strated facts. Her keep costs as much as that of an animal that trebles or quadruples her yield of butter fat. There Is a dairy farmer In Washington county whose aver age yield per cow last year was 37ft pounds of butter, or about 300 pounds of fat. The average of the 23,265,033 cows In the country is 145 pounds. Naturally the Wash ington county farmer Is In a career of financial success. His cows are a gold mine and their excellence he key to his prosperity. They are a perfect guaranty against failure. They are the standard within the reach of every dairyman who takes the! time and the trouble to reach it, and with that standard, anything else but success is impossible. The average of only 145 pounds for the country Bhows the odds against which many dairymen are contending. To offset the yields of which the Washington county man's 379 pounds of butter is the type and bring the general average down to 145 pounds of fat, the average on many a dairy farm must be 100 or below. Perhaps there are such in Oregon. If so. there is an awful handicap to the industry. Dairying with such cattle is plowing like the Chinese with a sharpened stick. When such animals are thrown into the scrap heap and the standard set by the I FAMOUS GEMS OF PROSE The asnington Monument (From an oration at the laying of the corner stone of the Washington monu ment, in Washington. D. C, In the pres ence of President Polk and three future presidents, Buchanan, Lincoln and John son, July 4, 1848.) Fellow citizens, let us seiee tnis occa- lon to renew to each other our vow of allegiance and devotion to the Ameri can Union, and let us recognize in our common title to the name and fame of Washington, and In our veneration for his example and advice, the all-sufficient centripetal power which shall hold the thick-clustering stars of our confed eracy In one glorious constellation for ever. Let the column we are about to construct be at once ft pledge and an emblem of perpetual union. Let the foundations be laid, let the superstruc ture be built up and cemented, let each" stono be raised and riveted, in a spirit of national brotherhood. And may the earliest rays of the rising sun, till that sun shall set to rls no more, draw forth from It dally, as from the fabled statue of antiquity, a strain of national harmony which shall s.trtke a responsive chord in every heart throughout the re public. ' . 4 - Proceed, then, fellow citizens, with; the work for which you have assembled. Lay the corner stone of a monument which shaH adequately bespeak.the grat itude of the whole American people to the illustrious Father of His Country. Build It to the skies, you cannot reach the loftiness of his principles, ' Found It upon the massive and eternal roct you cannot make it .m&re enduring than his fame. Construct it of. the peerless '.: VTA. Av,:-tiV: Washington county man is estab lished, dairying will flourish and the Oregon aggregate or dairy pro ducts will be raulMpllea. , It is a gospel to be preached from the housetops, for dairying la as es sentially a destined Industry of west ern Oregon as that the grave is the common lot, and instead of falling off, the output of the industry snouia annually increasei - There is a '"wholesome directness .k.t tha iTiAnner In '. Which the granges handle the question Involved in the coming election of. United stareR senator. To them there is but one issue and that is whether legislators, the servants of the peo- nle. shall keep the pledges wnicn they made before election. And we have yet to hear of a grange which is not unanimously in favor of the affirmative. . , llDton Sinclair made a row about a charge of 25 centB for a Dreama!. of Bhredded wheat at a first class hntPl in San FranciBCO. Where has he stopped hitherto on his travels? To manv neoDle who have eaten In San Francisco hotels the shock would have been from so smau a charge for the cheapest thing, on tne bill of fare. It is reported that Secretary Cor- telyou will become the president of a big trust company of New York at a very large salary. This Is what the office of secretary of the treas ury is for; to fit men thoroughly for presidents of Wall street financial institution. Uncle Sam Is very kind to Wall street. According to Rockefeller and Arcnbold, the great monopolies are great philanthropies. But is it the government's province to maintain such philanthropies, especially when there Is no compulsory power of division? A Poem for Today Prayer. By Richard C. Trench." (Richard Chenevtx Trench, born at Dublin, Ireland. September 9. 1807, wai a celebrated minister of tho English church, serving as dean of Westminster and afterwards as archbishop of Dublin. His fame, however, rests on Ms work as a linguist and a poet. His poems were published In 1865.) Lord, what a change within us ojie short hour Spent in thy presence will prevail to What heavy burdens from our bosoms What parched grounds revive as with a We kneel, and all around us seems to lo wr - We rise, and all. the dlBtant and the Stands forth a sunny outline brave and clear. , . . We kneel, how weak! We rise, how full of power! , , Why, therefore, should we do ourselves this wrong, Or others, that we are not always ait rstn a ' That we are ever overborne with care; That we should ever weak or heartless be Anxious or troubled, when with us Is prayer, And Joy, and strength, and courage arc with thee! This Date in History. 1776 General Lee of the American armv urprlBed and taken prisoner by a British patrol In New Jersey. 1S03 Francis Lewis, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independ ence, died. , 1836 Phillips Brooks, Episcopal bishop of Massachusetts and famous as a pulpit orator, born in Boston. Died there Jan. 23, 1893. 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg. Va., ended in a victory for the confederates. 18S4 Attempt to dynamite London bridge. 18!8 Lord Strathcona endower the Royal Victoria College for Women at Montreal with $1,000,000. 1904 yoint congressional committee agreed on subsidy bill providing for payment of $60,000,000 to American ships for the first year. 1905 First elections held In the Prov ince of Saskatchewan. John Fraser's Birthday. John Kraser, auditor general for Canada, was born December 13, 1852. at i-ioch Uarry, County or oiengarry. un turlo. His father was James Fraser, a successful merchant and farmer, long Identified with public matters in Glen garry. After being educated at the public schools at Loch Garry at the age of 17 he became clerk In a mercantile establishment. In 1875 he entered the finance department of the government at Ottawa under Sir Richard Cart- wright. By hard work and faithful service he advanced step by step tnrougn the various ranKs until in moz has was appointed chief clerk account ant and dominion bookkeeper. On Aug ust l, lut, tie was appointed to the high office of auditor general for Canada. ' By Robert C. tnthrop Parian marble you cannot make It purer than his life. Exhaust upon it the rules and principles of ancient and modern art you cannot make it more proportionate than his character. But let not your homage to his mem ory end here. Think not to transfer to a tablet or a column the tribute which Is due from yourselves. Just honor to Washington can only be rendered by ob serving his precepts and Imitating his example. He has built his own monu ment. We, and those who come after us in successive generations, are its ap pointed, privileged guardians. The widespread republic is the true monument to Washington. Maintain Us Independence, uphold its constitution, preserve its union, defend Its liberty. Let it stand before the world in all its original strength and beauty, securing peace, order, equality and freedom to all within its boundaries, and shedding light and hope and joy upon the path way of human liberty 'throughout the world, and Washington needs no other monument. Other structures may fitly test our veneration for him; this, this alone can adequately illustrate his ser vices to mankind. Nor does he need even this. The republic may perish, the wide arch of our ranged union may fall, star by star its glories may expire) stone byt stone Its columns and Its cap ital may crumble; all other names which adorn Its annals may be forgotten, but, as long as human hearts shall anywhere pant, or human tongues shall anywhere plead for a true, rational, constitutional liberty, those hearts shall enshrine the imemory, anoT those tongues prplong the rame r George Washington. crmpn for Today ( Faith and Formula. , rr. .l- . Ry Henry F. Cope. that doeth good is of God." M John, 11. . i - , . . 0' NE reason that religion means so little to many is that we have for a long time been accustomed to thinking of it from .the wrong . - nd ; ' we have worried ourselves oyer its forms Instead of using Its sim ple racts; we hgve substituted its phH Sn?Ph7 Practice; we have ac quired the habit of thinking of faith fonsT 9 matter creed nd opin io those days whon the reason feared to trust Itself, when ignorance made the many slaves to the few who sought to keep a monopoly of knowledge, men W.er willing to accept the authoritative statements f the religious specialists that they must give personal unques tioning assent to those pnilosophlcal S-mB!?.UuI,repare1 bv be Institutions upon which those teachers lived. Once men gave the same blind allegl t2? to the doctrines of religion that they also gave to feudal overlords: they uw. M5tit. a" what the quarrel was about, but, being told that they must ?hfen2 y,9aJth. or be eternally damned they defended the faith, they paid their dues, and counted that they had per formed the r duties for religion. BUt Opinion la no mnn pollirlnn k.n a Ku$? book a Journey, if you had a million copies of) even so practical a code as the ten commandments there would be less religion In the whole pile than In one little kindly deed done by one for another. We seem to think still that you can make a, man religious by gettlnsr him to r,lta nhn.. opinion. y 1 V.ew. ar no meal In cook book. Health is not the same thing as a doc tors book. You rnnrint knv mlaHn.i a book store. Nourishment, health, wis dom are all the product of vital pro cesses. They come through life. You may define ail these in words, you may describe them In books, but the things themselves you can neither put into such forms nor get out of them. Religion Is not the Bible, nor the creed, nor the church. These are but Its symbols. Its descriptions, and guide books. It takes a good dnal more than faith in Baedeker to take a man to Italy; it takes something more than be lieving the Bible to make a man relig ious. - You can nevftr mak n knn. that two and two are four by repeating that formula to him; he must some how In his experience put this two and that two together. Then miriiunn h comes simple, delightful (because help ful), practical. The gravest difficulty in neiping people to the religious life Is that we are insisting on putting the formula before the experience. Let 'he definitions, the descriptions, the symbols of religion take care of themselves. Let every man express his views in his own wav. Hi n ( some form of expression Identical with all others; his need Is to find by the actual test of living, by practical ex perience, that the religious way of llfo Is tho best, the most satisfactory, the most serviceable. Do not worrv nvr th Tnrm. ...... bols that others use. Get the fact, the great fact, that life has in it higher values than those of the beast and the burden bearer, that man Is more than dust, that living for the good of all Is the secret of finding all tho good In llfp. Steadily , reach out for the best In Ufa and your religion will formulate Itself through experience. When men are Kick thv An r,nt pathological definitions they need the "" me. nnen mis world Is wrong, Wtn .we f,Iid ourselves In conflict with the order of righteousness, we need the fresh, (nvlmntin. , , , - r, ......... CAuri itiilo of living for the things that are high We can all grasp religion In the con crete. We all believe in good lives. We have no skepticism as to sincere service for sacrifice; we all agree on the creed of character We can all take hold of religion at the end of duty, of high liv ing, of clean cltisenshlp, of social ser vice, of every day goodness, kindness, and love. Doing the things that are right, fol lowing the light of high Ideals, whv Tret and quarrel or even give ourselves special concern over descriptions, defl- right life, enjoy Its experience, and let the logic of such a life give its own ac count of our faith. Sentence S ermons By Henry F. Cope. True blue never leaks Indigo. . Lov. "ver recognlxes hardships In The carefree are never free from care for others. It takes a well developed pride to boast of humility. Too many of us want the glory with out tho school of grace. It's a frail faith that fears to have Its foundations examined. No raptures last that do not relate themselves to realities. The next unit nfirt blnitnm thit farthest reaching creed. He who lives only In future Joys will know many present pains. You can be happy in any work in which you Invest your heart. To save your faith from formalism translate every article Into an act. Highways of happiness are never cut through with pain and tears. There is a world of difference be tween willing a deed and simply being willing to do. No religion has much power over in that docs not make some great appeal to us. The saddest sight In this world Is the man who can sin without any sense of sorrow. Cherishing the memory of slights aiM injuries is like filling the pillow with thorns. Credulity as to the guilt of others is often due to the word of conscience within courselves. They who wear the garments of re ligion all the week can feel ptous on Sunday without a frock coat. It's a good deal easier to believe that the angels love many sinners than that they love all the saints. If you really want to know the world you will do more than Investigate lt shadows and sample its garbage cans. When you are able to set your re ligion In a compartment of your life, life Itself comes along and locks up tho file. You may know how much a. man is reaily worth by seeing how much lie puts In after singing, "Here, Lord, I give myself away. ' Didn't Want the Job. During a recent examination of ap plicants for the position of mail car rier, a colored boy appeared before the civil service commission. "How far is it front this earth to the moon?" was the first question asked him. "How fah am it from de earf to de moonf' he repeated as he began to reach for hi hat, ."Bay, boss, if you's gwlne tb put' me on dat route, I doesn't want de Job"; and with, that he left as though he were escaping, from some, ca lamity. M . I'-.. ' . . .. v ,AS.
