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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, T 071 LAUD,. SUNDAY I lONING', JULY 3, 1C1D. THE JOURNAL '----AM IN DETEKDEST NEWSPAPER. " XT.. JACKSON.... ....PsbUttHf I uhllnhid iwf ti1tii ex-pt Bandar) ewv-pnntUr Bomlnf at Th Joarnl BDlld Inz, 'Flab n lmbH (treeta. PortUnd. Of. Entwwl t the pcwtof floe' t -Portland. Or. tr,omIston Uirouga tb mtl u econa-el DlttlfiT. . " ' ' ' TELEPHONES Utln T1T8; Horn. A-0Ol . AH d'prtmiti niiehtd bf tbw minlKrt, Tell the operator whet depmrtmmt Jroa wsat. FOREIGN ADTERTlSINfl BEPKBSEITTATITB. PtiJmtn A Kwitnor Co., Bornawtrti Building, 25 Flfta avenue, Nw lotk; HXrf-08 BX . ,Eul)dli)fc,...Cti.cino.J...,.rJ,r.,- ,. ,,.,..,. -., V ' ' Snhirrlptlon 'i nna br null or to ur addxcta i ta tht Culted Btatet, Cantda or taaxlco: f)4.ILY. - -l CO JHT......;.l&.6o OH CDOBtb... 3j 8DNDAI. ; Oa year 11.80) Ona moot.. I -JS . DAILY AND SUN DAI. . Cut year fT.CO I Oaa month...' f S Let your owa discretion yrur tutor. Shakespeare. AFTER TOMORROW be AT'Hast the colonel has no mo nopoly of the first page. ':. The h gentlemen who are to be prln cipais in the polite affair of tomorrow lave crowded him off the ' first and into an obscure back page Sagamore Hill Is ; in temporary eclipse and Reno is the biggest thing on the map. A huge part of society .looks on in disdain.and another huge 'part reads . of Reno, of Johnson's ; reach and Jeffries biceps with avid ; ity, and. sighs for more. Whether a i1 Nevada hot day. will favor the black fighter, or the : boiler " maker, and whether a punch In the ribs or on the upper works wiu he the best plan of campaign are among the . theories and probabilities discussed . with as much gravity and Interest as the possibilities and prospects in a presidential campaign. Until af ter tomorrow, Reno la the center around which the fighting world re volves and , San Francisco and Los Angeled are mere commonplace cities without possible claim to world dis tlnctlon. v In the meantime, the country, re gardless of its opinion of . pugilism, nsust -wonder at its newspaper gen- Jus.. The touch of the skilled hand of journalism is the biggest fret In 'this affair of Reno. The dispatches sent out 'from the fight headquar ters are evidence of the manner in i which expert writers can transform the commonplace details of the prep aration for a disgusting prize fight into stories of absorbing interest , Perfection f style, elegance of dl tion and even literary "finish contrive together to produce " a news effect that is holding threadino Its embrace. The work of the corre- ' spondents'ls making tomorrow's In cident notable, not, for the question cf, which fighter wlH . win,, but for the " superb ""senior with which American hewepaperdom keeps ts finger, con stantly on the world's pulse and flashes each beat to a waiting pub lic ' V V-T . It , will be objected by fight haters that the facts ought" "not" to be published. Indeed, a bill recently appeared in Congress to prohibit in terstate transmission of prlie ring news. But .the reply to all this is that the reading public demands the facts, and insists on having them. The newspapers preach against the fight game, but "are forced, to, print the newB. The press has led in build ing up a public sentiment that has put. pugilism under the ban of the law of almost every r state in the Union, but it" cannot Ignore or ; re-, fuse the clamor of the public for in formation about what is happening. How the great autocratic public has its way is shown in the fact that every newspaper - In the country is carrying columns and columns from Reno. One wideawake toast paper of high standing appeared the other day with its whole front page filled , with Reno dispatches. . After tomorrow, the interest of to day will give place to another 1m-' pulse. The press will record the sickening details of the encounter, round by round. For the abBorbing detail of yesterday; there will be sub stituted the revulBlon of feeling that comes from the knock out punch and the fallen fighter. It will he Jour nalism's. ' compensatory offering for the fullness and superb genius of Its fight news today. BO LEX AXD LAMBERT IT IS A BRAVE man who arms himself with a big revolver and sallleB out to kill a woman. Port land has Jsad two instance! of the sort within three days.- Wednesday evening S. T. Bolen chased his di vorced wife' into the Portland grill, shot her down in the presence of af frighted diners and then turned t,ke weapon, upon himself. Though he was successful in destroying himself, the woman fortunately will recover. Yesterday, even in a more aggra vated form, the exploit of Bolen was duplicated . by Harvey L. ; Lambert. While' his wife held a 'child to her bosom, Lambert whipped out a huge revolver, shot her three times in the breast, and then killed himself. The weapon was held so close to the child that Its face was powder burned'. The wife is expected to recover and for the sake of the three little Children it Is hoped she may. . There is an easy, simple and sane deliverance for- men of the Bolen LambertTiype. ; A little grain of com mon sense,, a, single tny resort to mere reason, one puny effort at self restraint,, and a peaceful and orderly solution of their .troubles would, ap pear. To Lambert,. for the sake, of his helpless; children this course f10Ji:Mve acl f hat he chot.e another method was the sign of bis unworthiness. There Js no provocation to Justify his altera on his wife's life. There is no provocation to Justify Bny man's attempt 9n his own life. A little re flection, a little application of the philosophy of Hamlet in his famous Boliloquy, and a way will be shown by which to tay the hand. The .world Is big. It contains many women and many men. When men figure it out that they cannot live without ' the companionship of ope certain woman, they are fools. There is aeasy forgetlulness and , a. sane course of action In other scenes and a modicum of : rational endeavor. When they ConcTffdiT that the only ccnreanrlp -get - awkver ;anaBO gtfnnlng for this woman, they reach the limit of human Infamy. If they are determined to Quit this vale of tears, they ought to play the man, and go alone.' IT IS EVOLUTION T HINKINQ men can scarcely fall to recognise "the value of the directs primary, ,. '.The direct nomination Is one of the big facte ." that was scheduled to come Into the world In Its proper t time, Divine right kings resisted consti tutional government, but constitu tional government came. In one form or another It Is now , In use all over the earth. Kings con demned It and potentates denounced it They insisted that people were Incompetent to be governed- through constitutions, just as its opponents now Insist that people are incom petent to nominate under the direct primary system. The direct primary stands today where constitutions Once stood. jOre gon leads the states " la" direct pri maries, as the colonists In 1 789 led the nations in constitutions: The di rect primary Is the product of the same evolution of peoples that gen erated constitutional forms. The op ponents of the one stand exactly where the opponents of the : other stood, and the objections now. of fered to the one are exactly the ob jections that used to be offered to the otherV The ktnga said the peo ple were too ignorant to be trusted, and that is exactly what Oregon .as eemblyltes say." In each case, it was not the ignorance, but the Intelli gence ot the people that is . feared. , The direct primary and direct leg-. islatlon . are education and encour agement for the youth -of ;a state. When political action is by all the people, every young man feels that he has a hand in it, and aTlght to be initiative. , When polltloal action is by a chosen few, young men are eliminated except ; on permission from the political managers. One system brings all people-intd poUti handful Into public affairs. , One sys tem encourages general participation la and general familiarity, with pub lic affairs; the other creates aloof ness by the citlsen, In hla .American. Commonwealth, Bryce correctly says that It 4is the non-participation of the best clti eens .in public affairs that is the chief weakness of the American sys temrrThCJlrectTpriaary"; With' its powers of selection and control Is rapidly teaching Oregon young men the duties and responsibilities ot citi zenship, and enlisting their partici pation in political action. ---r The old generation cannot under stand this evolution in government The managing men who form al liances of business and .politics do not want to understand it' The two groups form a basis of opposition to popular government It is strange, but it is true that there were almost if not Quite, as many torles In revo lutionary, times ' as there were . pa triots." Many of the torles were of the old generation who really doubt ed the advisability . of separation from the British crown. Others of course -r profited personally from grants, concessions - or some other form " of jpartnership of politics Hind business through the crown. . In this lapse of time, It is bard , for us to understand why the two groups op posed the republic. ' Progression and enlightenment since then have been great Progression and enlighten ment are still Kolng on and will con tinue.- The evolution of government and the. purification of states cannot be stopped. In another generation It will be. difficult for those of that time to realize that in our time there was resistance to direct primaries. COLONEL AND GOVERNOR COLONEL ROOSEVELT; Govern or Hughes and president Taft Tegard party assembly as a necessary auxiliary of direct prlmary.-Oregonlan. ' How do you know? Tour tribe tried to get the colonel and. the gov ernor, to Indorse your assembly and couldn't.. Tour failure to do so Is pretty good evidence that both think the lawful direct primary in Oregon is the proper system for Oregon. In any event, neither of them wouldJ approve the holding of a personal and ' privately promoted f assembiy outside the law and contrary, to it. The Tact that your managing men failed to get them to, stand for your assembly - Is ; near proof ; that ' they disapprove ot it ) What Hughes and Roosevelt might favor as a direct primary for New York would mean nothing in Oregon, They bad a New Tork legislature to deal with. They had to-ask for what they stood a chance to get If they had asked for as good a direct pri mary s wef have In Oregon : that legislature would have given them the horse laugh. Hughes made sur render after surrender., compromise after compromise and abandoned po sition after position until he was iXftXiawed,4owttX the Cob biit,-nd eren that wa beaten.2 .What use for him to ask a Ne York' legisla ture loriso superb, a measure as the Oregon lawT, What straits Is the as sembly la for argument that it ratjst go so far and get so little to sup port Its pretensions? , As a matter of fact, if Hughes and Roosevelt were in Oregon" and fa miliar wifh conditions in Oregon, they would oppose ' the assembly. "Both are law abiding citizens. " The assembly la not a lawful plan, but a personal plan outside the law. Im agine for one minute men of the Hughes-Roosevelt, type counselling an assembly In violation of law, and for the purpose of setting aside the lawr Either orboth would Instantly 6lafehat no assembly should be held until the question had been sub mitted to the same people who by a vote of 60,6 05 voted the direct .pri mary into existence and did it for the soje and only purpose of ridding the state of "115,000 Simon" and "1 20,000 Lotan" conventions. Either or both, If familiar with the situa tion would insist that no assembly be held on a mere Ukase issued from the tall tower and contrived and jfo moted to-throw the election of ; sen. atorJnto the legislature. . ' Hughes fand Roosevelt are not that kind of men. The failure of the tribe to get , them to Indorse 'the so called Oregon assembly Is proof that they are" not After the tribe failed to get the indorsement and the tower In the face of the refusal It let to herald them as favoring its personal and unlawful assembly, to, what straits are we to understand that the assembly scheme is reduced! ' If ' it muBt ! be bolstered up on false testi mony, what can the assembly be .but false? If false In its arguments, what can it be but false to its promises? A BRITISH-HOBSON ff R. GERARD FEINNES,'- said to be a British naval expert, an ; official r predisposed to great ;7 naval construction. agrees with onr Captain Hobson that there Is to be war between Japan and the United States. The Ameri cans, he says, "are living in a fools' paradise,", and he thinks the Japs can whip us with ease. The Japanese, he says, "are full .of contempt for America. They have a profound dls belief in the war-worthiness of. the American navy and an acute real ization that the strategical situation is overwhelmingly in their favor." This - hitherto unheard of '"Mr. Feinnes .scoffs at the statement that Japan is too poor to go to war with even a big country like the United States, thousands of miles away. The poorer a nation Is, the better it can fight, he argues, which causes a reader to wonder why Mr.'"Fienne.s i'5Lbnimade ,.a peer : of -the realm and appointed lord treasurer of Great Britain. .'. " ; Except in the case of the peren nial war cry of our Captain Hobson, it has been customary for war scares to appear in this country only when a naval appropriation bill Is pending in congress. It has also been ob served that the same gaunt spectre mostly stalks In Europe when the relchstag. parliament orvtha cjiam ber of deputies: is debating naval budgets: Ship-building contractors from St Petersburg to Tokio find it good business method to have the nations see visions of international hostilities. It is also a splendid busi ness conception for naval construc tors, admirals, vice admirals and the like for a nation to enlarge its naval payroll and multiply Its fleets. This 1b the main and about the only men ace 'of war. .. I ,V IN ARKANSAS THE Initiative and referendum is pending for adoption, or rejec tion by ..the voters of Arkansas. ,i It Is a measure that If they re ject now they will adopt later, . It reflects the evolution of enlightened government and in due time will find a place in the polity of most if not all the states. It Is a cure for. the evils and abuses of representative legislation., The infidelity of the rep resentative has been so many times proven that it can no longer be disputed.- The "jack pot" legislation of Illinois for which chosen repre sentatives are now being held amen able, is not an isolated instance.. The bribery charges in the New York leg islature and the conviction of Sen ate, Leader Allds is" merely one of those that happened to be revealed. Similar instances ot legislative be trayal that never came to light and that have happened in many a legis lature are a tale that once told In its entirely would shock the country. There is no infidelity In the co lectlve citlxea body. -Its judgment are sound and its collective honesty complete. ' It has a sober sense, ra tional mental processes and its pur poses are exalted. The whole trend of legislation by the electorate is for social and economic betterment. If a people ' are given the means of control, instead of having , all con trol by proxy, state government will be swiftly purified. . It has been so under direct legislation in Oregon! and It will be so in any jstate that adopts the system. ' More good laws have been , passed , in-Oregon under" eight years of direct legislation than were passed in. 60, years preceding. The legislature rejected a corporation franchise tax law, and the people at once passed it by the initiative. The legislature rejected a direct nrlmarv law and the people at once adopted it by a vote of more than three and one half to one. v The legislature re jected a corrupt practices act, .and at th'e next election the electorate adopted it by" a heavy majority. The effect of these and similar Instances of rebuke to the legislature is that the representative .bodv ha bAen taught hariraoea-5e-08jaste- wisely and well, the. electorate, will take the matter into Its own hands, and the result Is a betteit Conducted, more orderly and TtftnerJ legislative. body. The very knowledge that the J power of review, of veto, -and to in itiate Is in the hands of the elector ate, and that it will be used in case the legislature la recreant is the best of all Influences as a corrective of the "abuses and evils of representa tive legislation. " The initiative and referendum is the natural outgrowth of a progres sive country. It is not the many, butahe few, that maks bad govern ment There is in every state a cun ning few who-endeavor" to get into alliance with government and profit from the partnership. A chief means to this alliance Is through legisla tion, and through the processes of corrupt politics. The many are nat urally opposed to this partnership, but until direct legislation and. direct primaries came into existence knew of no way to prevent the partner ship. A- keener Intelligence and a constantly , quickening civic con science U showing the masses' the way and the need of betterment and of this, direct legislation Is the prod uct. Arkansas will have better leg islation, will ? have purer legislative bodies, will be a better ordered com monwealth and will have more ylr. tue and more economy Jtf, public .af fairs if It adopts Jhe hew system. It has proven "to be a splendid Instru ment of government in Oregon, and It is here to stay REMEMBER THE RECORD , 0' NCE MORE, it is pertinent to inquire of the butter board and others , who i oppose the pure milk ordinance if it is their de mand that Portland should have bad milk? ' The record still stands 1 of 76 dead babies in Portland last Au gust, of which 57 were; killed by im pure milk. So far as known it is the worst record ,pf any" city in the United -States. It exceeded the In fant mortality in Chicago, where the intense heat, the congested popula tion and comparatively Inferior wa ter : should have rolled up a i tar heavier death roll than Portland with its pure water, Its temperate climate and its tar smaller population. Chi cago's death percentage was 33,. and Portland's more than 60. The tes timony as to Portland is of official record at the city hall, and can eas ily be confirmed by investigation. When the butter.board and its allies go gunning for Portland's pure milk ordinance, they will have to .bear in mind "that the story of last" August cannot be blotted out, and that to beaKthe ordinance will open the way for writing the , record : of an other and perhaps a more ghastly August When they demand that the homes of Porttaid sbaH hoflave pure milk and that there ahall.not be protection against bad milk, they will assume an attitude that will be mighty-difficult to defend.- ' " The city government has an nounced that it will fight for good milk. It ' sounds the warning that it will defend and uphold the pure milk ordinance, and it has the united, homes and home owners of Portland at its back. Portland still ,remem-' bers the speech of that dairyman who declared that "the dirtiest dregs in the milk, can are the healthiest for children," and remembers how the utterance was applauded to the echo at a dairymen's meeting. When""the dirtiest dregs In the can" were held to be the best food for chlldrehiv It was high .time for a pure milk ordi nance. - - ? - CONVENTIONS AND BALLOTS HE INDORSING season is on," remarks ' the Detroit News. The president is to be indorsed, ot course;-alBO congress, and congressmen severally. Roosevelt will be indorsed frequent ly and , enthusiastically, and Aldrlch and Cannon "will be Indorsed, too. Democrats are not neglected; some of them will get fine Indorsements. In Ohio Governor' Harmon has been Indorsed, and Mayor; Gaynor can et an indorsement any time he wants it Bryan ,: will be repeatedly in dorsed. The principal business of a party convention, besides making a slate ticket, is to Indorse or to de nounce. But in commenting on some recent political conventions, the De troit News remarks: , Thea conventions were supposed to be representative of the majorities be hind them, but representation Is not always a perfect refleotlon of public sentiment. More and more- it la be coming the fashion of our fellow citi zens to think for themselves, to apply their own reaaon to paaalng affairs, and arrive-, at' their of deductions The time' was "when the voice of the con v en. tion was indicative of the. sentiment of the mass, but in these days of inde pendent thought and action It Is the sentiment that is expreesed on a fate ful day In November by the silent bal lot that shows the attitude of the peo ple toward publio men and their poll dee, -v.: f ;-;::y-i - j ,- . This is an Important truth, well stated,; These are days of Independ ent political thought and action. A jjarty," br t a ; public servant, must j'make good" to an increasingly in telligent and Independent 'people, Or "there will be a fateful day in No vember" for it, or him. DIAZ AND I ITH THE returns all in, it appears that DIas pulled through with about 98 per cent of the votes of Mexico cast for hIm.';After 81 years of ex alted rule, thlB universal choice of a free people is to be congratulated on his almost unanimous election to an other tx year : term ' At one time,' there were , candidates "down there "who. didn't care, anything about anything or anybody except them selves" and ; came out for office the silence and solitude of solitary confinement pn bread and water they came to realize how vain and fool ish It is to be. sejf-nomlnated 'can didates. The' Mexican plan Is even better than that in Oregon." AVLen not Traded courthouse officials defy the sacred assembly, prized institu tion cf a free people, instead of wast ing time in a newspaper attack, they arrest the, recalcitrants ,and give them time to cool off. Traitors who dissent from "my assembly" and care nothing for nobody or nothing but themselves, Instead of being merely browbeaten jby... the -.head bullyvare taken out Into the woods in the cold gray . dawn, stood up against a blank wall and mercifully shot A close study of the Mexican and ""my" plan shows that,, though the two methods are exceedingly similar, the Dial way is by far the most effective. PORTER CHARLTON THERE IS a prospect that Porter Charlton, the confessed wife ; murderer, . will be released. Tbt . Italian government has not yet applied ; for extradition, and there have been suggestions that if it does diplomatic Issues may be Interposed to prevent, surrender of the prisoner. Meantime;- it is forecasted that the ultimate development.may be an ex amination by alienists as to Charl ton's sanity, and that if pronounced insane he will be sent to an asylum, or If sane, 'he will.be set free. Charlton's safety lies In avoiding, Italy. ' That nation, fortunately,' en tertains old fashioned notions about murder. It punishes something over 70 per cent of ita murderers, 'while In this country . we punish a -little more than 1 per eent Perhaps here irexplanathm of why, when"oneof our compatriots killed wife ! n Italy, he hurried home as fast' as steam could bring him. V He felt that he would be safer' here, and 'the pres ent status indicates how sound was his judgment. '.'- ... Roosevelt needs a sound throat; he is evidently loaded for .much talking yet. " - - Story of Montreal Heralci Catastroplie From Newspaperfora. ' In MontreM on June 1J a fir oc curred in the office of , the Montreal Herald..: The Herald is' an afternon newapaper. Ita main edition 1a put on the street at, 1:30 o'clock in. the after noon. ;Tha fir broke oux ; at 10:g o'clook in .''"the - forenoon. Thirty-two lives were lost.' mostly among1 jfoe em ployes of the job printing, bookbinding and sterotyplng department of the ea tablishmnt. ! V- s - - ; ' The building and : the plant war ompltljrv wrecked, at an. . ttaaUd lois6f"f6yC(,w6(j; fwenty-flv persons were more" or laaa' badly Injured. . And yet at the usual hour of publication four hours from the time the first alarm was given the Herald waa on the street In eight-page form, containing a story of the fir but little Inferior to that Of the rfther afternoon paper Xn Montreal whoe plant had not been Interfered With , "V.1; -J... - a ,,. -. How It waa don Is an intereatlng story as told by Edward Beck, assistant editor of th Herald. i.-'-. It was Juet 10:45 o'clock on 'Monday morning,' June IS. Th day paper waa f fairly tn the making. Th early copy had been sent up to the composing room. The reporters had- received their dally assignments and moat of them wer at work. The linotypes wer -grinding, out slugs with their customary regu larity, i.: Ther wasn't th first premonition of rtroubl in th air. . ., :, ". , ; , : , The Herald runs a column of humor ous paragraphs on its editorial page, and f had Just taken my foot from the lever J of th, pneumatlo tube after pumping th day's contribution for this column to the composing room, and had "seated myself at my desk, chuckling over th last of th funny paragraphs, when a loud crash a of som heavy piece of machinery ; falling in' a near-by room resound ad throughout the building. "It's some dub pressman let fall a form," I thought - - - ' " ' We wer used to noises in the Herald building. , , . "Crack! Ci-r-a-e-hl Ba-ngt" atlll louder. It sounded as " though for variation th pressman might hay left his mal let and planer and hla quoin key on th form and had started to grind them up Today, 47 year ago, July S, 18I; ter minated th battle of Gettysburg, which for thr' days bad waged with tre mndous fury in and about th llttl Pennsylvania town. On th forenoon of July' 4 President tlneoln officially telegraphed as follows: Th president announces to th country that news from th Army of the Potomac, up to 10 p, m. of th td. is such as to cover that army with th highest honor, and to claim th condolence of all for th many gallant fallen, and that for this h specially desire that on this day, h. whose will, not ours, should ever be done, be everywhere remembered and reverenced with prof oundest gratitude." , Th battl of Gettysburg : is .recog nised a the turning point of th Civil war. If was on of th moat terrific ever fought Th northern army bad conalOerabl advantag ovar th aouth rn army In. that it wa fighting on "home grounds," and the federal force considerably outnumbered the Confed erates. Th extant of this bloody con flict Is beat told by - the figurea .Dur ing the three days' battle the federal army lost 07J killed, 14,47 wounded and 6434 captured or missing; the Con federate army, according to official re ports, had 2591 killed. 11,701 wounded and 160 capturd or mlaalng. Whan Lee and hi powerful army entered ' Pennsylvania, towards, th end of June, th north was thrown into great consternation. , General ' Mead had but recently bees placed In com mand of th Army Of th Potoxnaa Th opposing f oroe met for th first on Pennsylvania soil , on July 1 ' On this first day of th fight General Reynolds, who led th advance corps of th Union army, was killed. Th first day of the fight - may be said to have been won by th Confederate. The federal army having retreated to Cemetery HUV th morning., of th aeoond day's battle found the two armies concentrating on th two ridge, which wer to be that day's line of battle. Early on the morn ing of the aeoond day began th great artillery contest There was llttl In fantry fighting oh this day. Th coh nonade wajjrf.jwdjhcesi'an'tbtli Sides fought with great . ferocity, and neither could drlv the othp out of position. ' - ' On the third and final day General I moved hla rorce out of th town of Gettysburg, thereby hoping to eAlc the Union army. Into the valley, ?but " July 3 in History Battle of Gettyiturg la the press. . Then a detonation like tl;at ft am a cannon, accompanied or folowed by the sound of running water. I looked up. Twenty yards away the ceiling gaped fearfully. Through an aperture, mo mentarily growing larger, poured a atream of water, broken plaster, dust, lath, beams, brick, machinery. ' Something waa surely happening. Then t itw other member of the edi torial staff making for the front win dow and-1 followed them. Soon we wer --standing "In a row en. the, atone ledge looking oat upon a, sea of tip turned faces. Behind u'a wa the steady pour of the debrla" streaming through the broken ceiling. , The wall seemed to hake. It looked as though the entire building- wereabout to eolapse. , "Get a ladder!" I yelled. The crowd gated fatuously. "We'vi telephoned for one," som one called back And then : they -yelled: Don't Jump;" .. ' . - i . ' It wasn't nice standing thereVwlth the thought that any minute the wall on which we wer perched might crumble and go down. . BUU the June sunshine, as it filtered through .the trea across the square, looked , good. '-, The cool breexe, too, aeeroed cheerful after - the los atmospher of. th of flea ' Z Pretty aoon a fireman cam from be hind nd plucked ma by th sleeve. Z "You can go down th tatrway If you'd rather." he said. . v- '." .1 dropped back Into th editorial room and with my friend went "down th stalra." " - On the .way I atopped to close down the top of my rolltop desk. I changed my office Jacket for a stro coat, don ned my hat and rain coaU - Bom of the others also 1 waited to gather up personal belongings. : It it wa to be a retreat lt It b an orderly on not a rout; v'S 'r'wf- V;'- '. 7 r ". Outsld I mingled with th throng. I, watched th work (of reaou going on in th uppero floor of th building. I got In th way of.th firemen. '.JL was elbowed and -Jostled by tne crowd and Jammed by th police. " - Flames -wer-raatn-out-f rom the upper window and I saw th maimed and wounded Carried away , in . ambu lance., ; Her ' and ther I cama across a survivor of th ruin whom I knew and atopped to exchange congratulation mingled with regret for those .who had been less fortunat. 'v.- !' ' v.-' By and by a thought -cam to me th Hrald. Today's paperi ;i It muat com out as usual. A fir might destroy th material thing but It couldn't de stroy th soul of newspaper. . : ' . . With that thought in mind I ds4 through the crowd and mad my way to th off lo of th Montreal Qasetto, the Herald's morning contemporary. Jam 8. Brler)y, , th prealdent of th Herald company, and th Herald edi tor, was out of th city when the fir started, and I was unable to communi cate with him.- In his abaenc I - mad a temporary arrangement with Bmea don White of the Gasett. for th ua of hla plant to get out th day issue. Then cam ttf Usk of rounding up th acattwed staff. Boon. howvr, thy began J com in editors, reporters, Unotypers. printera It - was - Ilk th reassembllng.of ap army .after a pitched battle, in- whlplr th . army had s been worsted. Bom of the survivors bor th marks of conflict upon them. Som had bandaged hands and arm. ' Som bor wound on their head and faces. Soma were ,coatts,,,hatle8a.4l;iA-. Mot much time was spent In discuss ing th disaster. Some of the men were Herald veterans, who had been through other Herald flrea. "The paper has been burned out four times during .its ex istence These talked of other encount ers with the elements like soldiers' of the Grand Army assembled ln annual reunion. . .. ' Boon everybody was at work.:: Copy began to come In. Th machines began to hum. Order emerged rrom chaos. Form wer made up and sent to th stereotype room. Plates found their way to th pressroom. .;.:, i : Occasionally a man,. would stop to rspeak a word about on of hla com rades whoa dead body waa in th burn ing building on th other street Every body .epok ;Of Consltt-Consltt, 'th good natured, blithi young fellow who had coma. in a few month before from a little town In Ontario C.onsitt, who mad up the editorial page and who waa unusually obliging, Everybody wa sorry for Consitt 5 s ' . v Th afternoon wore on, and pretty soon I Was reading th complete story of th fir in my own paper and tn that of the rival afternoon papers, and mak ing comparisons. The sens ot personal concern in th matter .was almost wholly lacking. . It seemed as though I bad always been working In the Gasett office, although up to that day I had not stepped Inside th Gasett building. Then a lad cam up and told m that a lady wanted to sea me on the ground floor. Conscience smitten I fled down the three flight of stairs and at th toot my wife rushed into my arma "Why didn't you phono me that you were out of danger?' she asked. : I hadn't even realised that I was In any danger. , this - had no 'effect Finally th Con federat decided upon a harge on Cemetary H11L The federal. troops lay still and -did not return th fir until the. Confederate army waa almost with in reach. When! they oam within mus ket range the federal army opened fir. It wa not long before it wa a hand-to-hand conflict "Every man fought for hlmslf and by himself. ? , Several - at tempts wer mad to tak. th hill, but without success, and it. waa finally de cided to abandon th project v ; It was now General Mead' turn te make an attack. H placed his troop in ordr and charged down th hill and Into the-town. Th Confedrat army had met with fuch terrlbl rvrses, aftar thr day fighting against fear ful odds, that th army was. tired out and, elng that , further Invasion of Pennsylvania would b useless under the oiroumstancos, Le began hi re treat towards th Potomac under cover of th darkness and a heavy rain.' Lee crossed th Potomao on tp night of th mh, without having been attaoked by th pursuing federal army. It was a craahlng defeat that, th Southern army had sustained, but It waa not a rout.' Titer wer many individual in sUnoe of bravery on both side la th conflict. .";. ..... " A northern historian ' thu " pays tribute to th yalor of th Confederate: "Th Impetuous bravery with which th Confederate troop fought la Illustrated by th fact thatvry brigadier on Plokett's division waa killed or wound ed; out of 14 regimental officers, only two escaped; th colonels of five Vir ginia , regiments were killed; th Ninth Virginia went into th fight with 160 men and cam, out with only BS." , On July ' the ddg days begin and end on August 11. It I th dat of the massacre of Wyoming in 1771 on which Washington finally took com mand of. the army at Cambridge in 1T76; on which Lake Champlaln was discovered' by Champlaln in .1103; on which, the branch mint of . the United States was established' in San Fran cisco la 1152; the batU of Sadowa w foughtlalfl-d -h-p'nlsh-leet under Cervera was destroyed Ih 1898, It is th birthday of Samuel Huntlng den, th eminent Connecticut Jurist 173l); John Singleton Copley, the first native-American rtlnt (1739) f of Louis XI, of France (1483); and of David UoC Smith, th inventor li8J. i. Ncwi Forecast of Coining W est Washington, " July" J. For the first time In history, . a . 'noiseless Fourth" will be the" slosanj of the Independence . diy celebrations throughout a , large section of the country on Monday. The movement Uo eliminate dangerous ex plosives which In the past haves, resulted In so many fatalities has gained a strong footholdfespeclally In the large , cities, where old fashioned amusements and historical exercises wllT UaHmlulired " Jn. In accordance with custom the dav will be marked by Innumerable, sport ing and athletic contests , of every variety. Foremost among the events of this nature, ao far as the attention of uie- public la concerned, will be tho fight at Keno between Jamss J. Jeffriea and Jack Johnson for the worldVpugil lstlc championship, " . . 4 . , President .Taft, according' to hla present program, will put In tb busi est Fourth he . has ever experienced. Leaving , his summer; home la Beverly at an arly hour JIonday -h-wil motor -to Revere Beach. and Sommervllle and " later Into Boston, reviewing "safe and sane Fourth, of July-parages" In each . place.? After taking - luncheon ' wlth Presldent Lowell of. Harvard university he will go to th Stadium; to deliver th opening address at the annual conven tion of the National 'Educational ano ciation. -..rr';. --.'V , . Sir vWUfred ' XaurUr, . th Canadian ' premier, aecompanied by other leader of th. Liberal party., will .depart from . Ottawa ,i on an extenslv political speech-making tour of th west Th trip will occupy two months arid will . extend, westward .to tb Paclflo-i ; vTh notable weddings of th week wll . be',- that , of Mlsa Anna CockreU. ' daughter of j x-Senator j , CockreU j of-. Missouri, and L. A. Coromllas, th min ister from Greece to th United States. Th wadding will tak place Wednes-day-at Norwich, Conn,- t 7 Speaker Cannon, of th bouse of rp resentatives, Is scheduled to open th congressional campaign Jn Ohio with an address at the Urbana Chautauqua assembly-Thursday, 5 -( . ; v .i ' Other vents that will furnish -naws ot the week will Include the unveiling Of statues of, Henry Clay In Lexington'' and Paducah,. the annual meeting of -the Catholic Educational association in Detroit th Opening of the Elks' nation al "Convention 4n th same clty.'th as sembling of th. Pan-American confar- ence in-Buenos Ayres, the proceedings ; oft the a International Railway congress -In Berne, an international congress of th Swedenborg church In London, and the Royal Henley regatta, .in . which Canadian oarsmen will contest ; ' for honor against th best men of England and the continent- ; r.'v,-' . -- - "The Fool of the Familr." From the Medford Malfc-Tribun. -- -Th Portland Oregonian la still dis-' playing', its patriotism by . publishing long screeds proclaiming Oregon as ; I'thaifoolf 1 th vfamUy'ii. among th -sisterhood of atatea . v.vw .$ I' ' In brief, Oregon is maligned a the fool because ot the adoption of the di rect primary and th Initiative and ref erendum, because Oregon", has led the way In popular government and direct jetisiafjeifci ', v ys-'ra;' ii.'.'? " j'i1,', h" Th people of Oregon have the right" to initiate and make laws Outside" th legislature; When the legislator ignore, tbe wishes of their constituencies, and refuse, . either from corporate control, partisanship corruption," prejudlc or, other reasons, to make needed laws, th -people can Initiate and pass th laws themselves. Therefore, because tb peo-' pi can do this, Oregon la the "fool of th family. '..:; ;; sli'h ' When legislatures, from any cause. Taes an objectionable law, the people can , invoke : the referendum, and the measure does not beoom a law until approved by th majority of tb next ' general - election. Because the people are given the power, Oregon 1s ma ligned as the "fool of the family." Under th direct primary law, : the majority of the people in any , party 1 can name th ticket at th primary elec tion, instead of having to vote for a ticket selected for them by a few pro fessional politicians, "usually financed by th corporations. Because the people have th right, Oregon Is, of course, the 'tool of th family." Tb people of Oregon, alone among the states of the Union, can elect a United State senator. This is accom plished through Statement No. 1, which legislative- candidates subscribe , to, pledging , themselves to vote for the candidate . receiving popular Indorse ment, regardless of party. , This la the worst folly of aiL ln th eyes of the Oregonian, as It prevents wholesale leg islative bribery,, deadlock sessions and other scandals of ' th old- system henc Oregon is the "fool of th fam-. lly," ;ls But other 'fools" are -Joining Oregon, and the .entire Union promises to be come "foolish. 1 Nearly every sut has a direct primary and; popular election of senators agitation, and some of them have pasaed laws to this effect, while the initiative and referendum is making rapid progress throughout th land. . If leading- the way of progressive government, for asserting the right ot the people to rule and providing a way for thl rule, is folly, then Oregon wears th crown. Because machine pol. , itlclans and corporate Influences can not control her, she Is in their eyes th fool of the family," but only in their eyes and In those of their prejudiced partisan newspaper organ like th Ore gonian. 3:;" sr''F:t":'--ii- . "' The Prosperity of France." From Zion's Hrald. . ' Although the national debt of Franc has assumed - very formidable propor tions, ther Is a bright side to th finan cial condition of the re publio, and It te even claimed that Franc has for, sev eral years' past practically become th banker of the world. - Th total rvnue of th capital pos sessed by the French' Is estimated at 14,400,000,000 , and is Increasing every year by -more than $400,000,000. The amount of savings bank deposits, which in 1878 amounted to 230,000,000 rose., on January 1, 1908, to more than four times that sum,- distributed among'U.r 847,60 bank books. ; Th atock of gold, which Is an ler ment of defense of primary Importance in the event of war, has In 1010 exceed ed. tb figure of..f 1,100,000,000 the Sold kept at th Bank of Franc alon repre senting : more than ' 8000,000,000,- while th sllvw stock amounted to 1176,000, qoo.; ;, ....v!; - . Th Frnch rentes are nearly at par, and th credit, of the nation 1 of the ( beeti Jn 1869, before the war with Gar- many1 broke out, the deposits of savings amounted to $142,200,000, in 1890 to $682,400,000, in 1900 to $662,800,000, and In 1908 to $900,00,000 ahowlng It Is claimed, that th treasure contained fn ' the national bas de liUne, or long stock ing, has septupled, in 40. years. - Boycott the Boycott. From the Spokane Spokesman-Review. Portland's liquor dealers threaten to boycott 'all business men and business interest that in any way participate In h--Tro-poe4 -trad"iOf " tti TfohlbJi"" tlonlsts.- :;-: o-: V vMlllef, 6. D has only on loe. man, and he refuses to sell ice to the saloons. Sauce for the gander la sauce for the tOose. It's a poor re that won't Work both ways. But the Wisest way of all is .t.o boycott th boycott ' , :' . :. ' 1"