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to the will of th aristocracy al-jimum wafes,' manual training and
most as completely as wag the col- i domestic science.
ored slave of the United States be-; When vital questions come be
fore the Civil war.. J fore the people the Influence of
What we hare done for the; the club woman Is strongly felt
Cubans, we can help do for the! on-the aide of progress and im-
Mexlcans. Instead, of bullets we pfbvement.
can send them books. Our duty to
them is not an army of invasion,
but an army of school teachers.
We shall only be serving ourselves
when we speed them on in clvilixa
tlon and education.
The practical slavery of millions
of Mexicans is the real Mexican
BISHOP SCADDIXG
N THE death of Charles Scad-
ding, Bishop of Oregon, the en
tire state as well as the Epis
conal church has sustained a
distinct loss. In addition to his
olarical AnHoa Rlahnn Km rid In E
problem. Disorders In Mexlcoare opportunity to spread the
1
our menace. Anarchy and intrigue
at our southern doors a a for
midable reason for us to assist In
removing the deep fundamental
causes responsible for them.
It Is such a course that Presi
dent Wilson has charted as his
policy. He Is struggling in aid of ' t Tnl StpV(kll!,ori .
the submerged and against their j Jt l8 not in finished undertakings
oppressors. It is a service, not i that we ought to honor useful labor.
nnlv fnr tho nonnU nf tha TTnitrl A Spirit goes out of the
gospet that in Oregon me is
large.
When a man in the prime of a
useful life is called Into the great
silence 1 there is a feeling of sad
ness but on reflection one can find
consolation in the words of Rob-
In personalities. It requires , time
and trouble to go over, the letters
and eliminate the abusive' matter.
It has become so great a burden in
the office that once again the pa
per la forced to serve notice that
communications on that subject
must be, signed with the real name
T of the writer for publication, that
personalities must be eliminated
and the topic be discussed in the
dignified and reasonable way that
its importance deserves.
-a
. Bigotry lias head, and
cannot think; no he-art. and
cannot feel. When he moves,
it la In wrath; when she pauses
It h amidst ruin; her prayers
are curses her Clod la a demon
her communion is death.
O'Coanell.
1XJOK AT Til Kill U OI1K
T
the
was
0 CONVINCE the public that
consolidation of public ser
vice utilities Into monopoly
ownership la a good thing for
people, a publicity campaign
carried on by the Morgan-
Rockefeller management of the
New Uaven.
Mellen swore In his testimony
that several hundred thousand dol
lars of the stockholders' money
was spent for that purpose. He
Swore that $20,000 was paid a
Harvard professor to give advice
as to reporters for the publicity
campaign. He testified that in
forwarding the campaign. $300,000
was Invested in the Boston Herald.
Mellen testified that Rhode Isl
and trolley lines, worth $8,000,
000, were bought on the order of
Morgan by the New Haven at $20,
' 000.000. Nelson W. Aldrich, then
ay United States senator, being a
party to the negotiations.
- Mellen testified that when It was
bought with the stockholders'
money of the New Haven at $33,-
000.000, the Westchester road
owned real estate worth $4,000,-
00 and $1,000,000 had been spent
on conntructlon. He testified that
In his opinion, the property was
of no value whatever to the New
Haven.
His testimony also set forth that
$1,200,000 of stockholders' money
, was paid Tammany politicians and
that $1 1,000,000 was 6pent by J
' r. Morgan for some unknown pur
pose, and that nobody haB ever
been able to find out what it went
for or who got It.
Here Is a record of corrupted
newspapers, an attempt to purchase
public Hentiment, a traffic with an
educational institution, a secret
and sinister bargaining with Tam
many politicians, a "vanishing into
thin air" of $1 1,000,000 of other
people's money and '.he corrupting.
of government itself by men long
regarded as the best there is in
Wall Street.
Th'-se transactions were by men
whoso opinions were law in the
American financial world. Wall
Street prostrated itself before
them. The American business
structure made them the trustee of
billions and had absolute faith In
the infallibility of their integrity.
Yet. look at their work!
What was it but respectable bur
glary? If these eminent figures of
finance operated In such devious
and sinister ways, what awful
crimes of business have not been
perpetrated , upon the American'
people?
States, but for all submerged mankind.
THE UNUSUAL
0
UT of admiration for his eight
years' service as their mayor,
Marshfield citizens will pre
sent Dr. E. E. Straw with a
home. The money has been sub
scribed, and the residence will be
erecteti on lots owned by the for
mer mayor. !
The Incident is a pleasing
change from the usual. Too often,
retiring mayor Is an object of
obloquy, and a disappointed and
discouraged man. Too often, re
tiring officials, after years of hon'
orable service of the public, go
into private life misunderstood.
and misjudged.
All too frequently, while in of
fice, they are villitied, misrepre
sented and abused, with accusa
tions resting against them that
are unjust, and judgments made of
their motives that are undeserved.
Too often in office, public ser
vants are unjustly harassed and
hounded when honestly and ably
striving to forward the welfare and
material interests of their con
stituents, and when their official
work is laid down it" is with an
inner knowledge that they never
had a chance to be understood or
an opportunity to make service as
effective as If those who hounded
had helped.
There is a delightful contrast
In the Marshfield incident. Why
not give the bouquets in life?
Why wait to lay them on a
grave? .
man who
means execution, which outlives the
most untimely ending. All who have
meant good work with their whole
hearts have done good work although
they may die before they have time
to sign It. Every heart that has
beat strong and cheerfully has l"ft
a hopeful impulse behind H in the
world and bettered the tradition of
mankind.
IN ALBANIA
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FOR MANKIND
A'
S A result of his interview
with the president, Samuel
Plythe said the settled pol
icy ot t'resiaent wnson re
garding Mexico will be as follows
i. inn unitea mates, so long as
Mr. Wilson Is president, will not seek
to gain & foot of Mexican territory
in any way or under any pretext.
When we have finished in Mexico
Mexico will be territorially intact.
2. No personal aggrandizement by
American Investors or
HISTORIC WHARF GONE
T
HE remnants of Meiggs Wharf,
one of the few surviving land
marks of early San Francisco,
is to be torn away and a new
wharf is to be tuilt. It was from
Meiggs wharf that incoming and
outgoing vessels through the Gol
den Gate were reported for nearly
half a century.
The wharf was built by Henry
Meiggs in the early fifties for the
lumber trade.
Meiggs had a romantic career.
He engaged in speculation and be
came badly involved. When threat
ened with prosecution he gathered
together all his available wealth,
provisioned a small craft secretly
and sailed away into the Pacific
never to return. He went to Peru
where he became wealthy. He
made restitution to his San Fran
cisco creditors and lived a long
and honorable life in South
America.
The uses to which an automo
bile may be . put are many and
varied. They may be used for
pleasure, they may be used for
business and they may be used for
weapons of offense. In an Indiana
court recently it was decided that
a-, assault and battery may be
committed py hitting another with
an automobile.
The only printer who c,ould read
Horace Greeley's writing is again
dead. With the last survivor of
the charge of the three hundred
at Balaklava, the oldest Mason
the oldest Odd Fellow and the first
child born west of the Rocky
mountains has passed Into the
great silence.
Letters From the People
(Commaolcarions aent to The Journal for
publication jn tbtl department aboold be writ
ten on only one aide of tba paper, aboold not
xceed SOO words In length and tauat be ac
companied by the same and addreas cf the
aender. If tba writer doea not desire to
bare tba name published, be should so state.)
DIensIoo 1 the greatest of all reform
era. It ratlonaliaee everything It touches. It
robe principle of all falsa sanctity and
throws them back on their reasonableness. If
they hare no reasonablenesa, Jt ruthleaal
rruahea them out of existence d eeta up lta
own conclusions In their etead."-i-Woodrow
V ihxm.
A FEW SMILES
PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
Orville Wright, congratulated at a
banquet in Dayton upon a recent
legal battle, saUV
"Now, our law bus
iness ended, we can
go to work on the
business of develop
ing aeroplanes. For.
though the aeroplane
haa passed its in
fancy. It will still
stand Improvement here and there.
"Yes, the aeroplane. I am alad to
SMALL CHANGE
There Is but brief If any Intermis
sion between campaigns.
The saddest of mortals are thoa-3
who can no longer hope.
Nobody should fall to help make the
Hose Festival a success.
The Mexican federals steadily con
tinue to get licked and run away.
'
That An atp&nllhnllllv mAan
aay. Is no longer In its infancy and. j thief who stole) a girl's wedding trout
gentlemen,, it was mixhtv hard to wan.
raise."
An eminent New York artist noted
for the beauty of his etchings tells
one on himselg.
It appears that one summer while
sketching in New
Kngland he made a
study of a farmer's
barn. The farmer
happened to appear
and said he'd like to
have the sketrli "if it
Isn't too expensive,"
be Added cautiously.
"Oh," said the etcher, whose works
bring a stiff price in the metropolitan
market. "I wonit- charge you anything
for the sketch, "but" his ey lighted
on the pigpen Til tell you what.
You can give me one of those nice
little pink pigs playing there."
The farmer frowned. Why, man!"
he exclaimed, "do you know what
those pigs are worth? They're worth
a dollar apiece."
OREGON SIDELIGHTS
Saturday sales
IN EARLIER DAYS t
By Fred LocfcJe.
While a .oldler la the Mexican war.
at the oubllc market .... " ln"
at Grants Pas., the Courier aay. have '"o i-eraine of East Portland.
ket
The Gold Beach Globe statea that
the new cheese factory at Kuohnft
Creek is about ready for business and
cheese making will start as soon as
a cheese maker can be secured.
JACOB R11S
T
Mr. Waybaok Be yew
waiter Yes, suh.
Mr. Way back Dew
ypw know, I've been
wpnderin' all along.
wfiy they called these
places chop houses. I
know now. Will you
please bring -m an
ax? I want tew cut
this steak.
the waiter?
The public schools are a very fine
thing, but possibly they cost more than
they should.
Whatever the. failure existence, some
poopl make a good deal of a hell for
inemselves in this lire. -
Many people have much reason for
wishing ami praying for a saloonless
city, state and country.
Yet many people are utill old fash
ioned enough to think a sermon ought
to be part of a church service.
People might live a little longer
and a little happier if they took a
Saturday half holiday, as some advo
cate. The evidence that Poary reached the
Pole is not very convincing to many,
but it seems to have fnore weight than
Cook's pretensions.
.o more free seeds for congress
men's farmer constituents, votes tlie
senate a long-deferred if not a very
great piece of reform.
Colonel Wood is always interesting
when he writes or speaks, but there
are occasions when the majority of
people cannot agree, with him.
hown a stead'y increase. The' mar- "1 become lost while out hunting and
et la Open also on W ednesdays. i was captured by tha Cnmanot, Tin. a
Tf J"'?1 frlenfy. however, sad
furbished me food and a boat. Wnlle a
endeavoring to rejoin my command by
Zt, by rn,n on the bank. Ha t
motioned for me to pull in to the shore
where he was sUndinr. Seeing- that hs
was a priest and that he evidently,
meant me no harm, I rowed to where) r5
he was standing on the river bank
'7. "urPrl8- he said in Kng'llsh...
woat brings rou her" vr. ."
While no definite arrangements have
been made, the Fourth of July celebra
tion at Lakevlew, the Kxaniiner says,
will probably be In charge of the la
dies' auxiliary of the Antler club.
In view of the fine growth of recent
plantings of shade trees, the Standard
predicts that in a few years Stanfleld
"will be one of the most conspicuous
cities of the northwest by reason of
her natural beauties and adornments."
The committee appointed to carry
on a fly extermination campaign in
Dallas has sent 300 circular letters to
housewives throughout the city. In
which cooperation Is asked. A con
siderable number of traps are In use.
Good roads note in Sumpter Ameri
can: "Grant county is setting a good
example to Baker county in the matter
of road improvement. Grant county
bids fair to nave its end of the Granite
road completed before the work is
started on this side of the dta'lde."
The Port Umpqua Courier, published
at Gardiner, reports cheefily as fol
lows: "Kverybody seems to be busy
these fine days. The farmers are too
busy to come to town, and telephone
In their orders to the merchants. The
railroad crews are being Increased and
new camps are being established all
vilong the right-of-way. Not so many
transients are to be seen coming and
going as formerly, the crews staying
with their jobs better than they were.
THE BENEFITS OF BEING CONQUERED
HE difficulty that will attend
the attempt to preserve the
government of Albania Ib in
dicated by the recent revolt
of Eased Pasha. Uneasy Is the
head of Prince William of Wied
who now wears the crown of the
King of Albania.
The only Jaw the Albanians have
ever known is the law of reprisal,
the law of the vendetta. No gov
ernment has ever htld in check the
northern part of the country. The
Turks wasted thousands of sol
dlers in a vain attempt to conquer
the nomad population of highland
trilies and then gave over the task.
They kept a garrison at Scutari
but the hill men were so little
cowed that they came armed into
the Btreets of the city and openly
defied the Turkish officials.
Where the Turks failed with
their ruthless methods It will not
be easy for the divided European
powers to succeed.
In the southern part there is a
demand to be affiliated with the
Greek nation, with whose people
the southern Albanians are closely
related.
The Greeks would be more than
human not to sympathize with
thern and encourage them to re
volt. Considering all these elements
it looks as though the powers will
have fnuch trouble in maintaining
the government established to
reconcile their jealousies.
HE standard by which success
in life is measured is service
to the social whole.
Measured by this standard.
the life of Jacob RUs was a suc
cess. When Cornelius, a centurion of
the Italian band, had seen a vision
and had been assured that his
prayers and alms had come up as
a memorial before God. he, in
obedience to the command of the
angel sent to Jappa for Simon,
whose surname was Peter. When
Peter came and it was made known
to him that those assembled de-j
sired him to speak, he did so
briefly but with great force. He
told "how God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and
with power, who went: about doing
good."
In these words "went about do
ing good" may be summed up the
lives of such men as Jacob Riis.
They go about doing good, ren
dering unselfish service, consecrat
ing their service to humanity,
teaching love, mercy and truth and
purity of. living, healing tfie sick
and miniBtering to the suffering.
There is no human law com
pelling them to do these things.
If they were to cease to go about
doing good they would violate no
human statute. The law which
they acknowledges and yield obedi
ence to.Js the divine law of duty
and service to fellow man.
On the monuments erected to
the memories of these men there
could be no more eloquent epi
taph than:
"He went about doing good."
. WOMEN'S CONVENTION
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or capitalists or exploitation of that
country will be .permitted. Legiti
mate business Interests that seek to
develop rather than exploit will be
encouraged.
j j 3. A settlement of the agrarian
land question by constitutional means
j such as' that followed in New Zeal
and, for example will be insisted on.
1 . It is a lofty purpose. We helped
Cuba. We brought order out of
chaos on that island. We taught
the people sanitation. We drove
I" out- their .oppressors. We helped
' them to stable government: They
are on the road to a higher civil-
, , ization.
We can do something better for
the Mexicans than to make war
i on them.- - Eighty-five, per cnt of
f them are submerged. Their farms
t were taken away. By coercion, ab-
- Sorption and by other methods of
1 fdrce, the" landed aristocracy, much
i , of It lnr absentee ownership, took
away from the small farmers most
of their properties.
The process created feudal es
; tates. Incredible as it may seem,
the program had the '.support of
the government.
:i The product is the peon.- He has
no land. He is a trespasser In the
country of j his birth. . He must
- work for the wage fixed for him
r by; the land barons. A few cents
- J. per day is the price of his service.
. He la tied, and bound and chained
NE of the features of the Bi
ennial Convention of thej
General Federation of Wo
men's Clubs, to be held in
adventurers. J Chicago early in June, will be the
WHY?
T
HE Presbyterian General As
sembly has recommended ; the
establishment of a minimum
wage of $1000 for ministers
A few days ago we read that
Lightweight Ritchie had been
promised $50,000 for a bout with
Welsh and that the money would
be posted in New York before he
sailed for London.
When men who christen babes,
who join for better or worse, and
"who sit beside the bed of the dy
ing and console with the thought
of that house, not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens, can only get
a few hundred dollars a year on
which to live, while a cauliflower
eared cave man can make a small
fortune by uppercutting and jab
bing another cave man in an
eighteen foot enclosure, the eter
nal fitness of things seems to be
taking a vacation.
What is the psychology of it?
Why 4a the lover of the fight game
more liberal than the church man?
Why should a man with sporting
blood in his veins pay liberally
for a transient pleasure while a
man whose thoughts run in a
higher groove be so economical in
rewarding his spiritual director?
report on the $100,000 endow
ment fund which is being' raised
by the federation. The report will
show that the fund Is fast nearing
completion.
It is to be used in carrying on
the work of the federation's de
partments of which there are
eleven.
The General Federation of Wo
men's Clubs has been in existence
for a quarter of a century and in
cludes clubs In China, the Philip
pines. Mexico, Porto Rico, Cuba,
Swedes, England, India, West Aus
tralia, South America, New South
Wales. Canada, Alaska and the
Canal' Zone.
Since the initial meeting in 1899
the work of the general federation
has continuously broadened. The
first object of women's clubs
seemea to do sen cuuure but as The outlook for a speedy con
thls self improvement work was elusion of the Mexican neeotia-
Self Restraint.
Portland, May 26. To the Editor of
The Journal Self restraint, according
to Mrs. Duniway In a recent argument
against prohibition, is the one panacea
for every 111. Therefore, we must use
It and try no other, -
ielf restraint is an admirable thing,
no one has disputed that. But it is a
remedy for individual, not public, ills.
Alcohol is a pubTfc ill, and we as a
publU- have a right -to destroy it. If
the venerable lady does not believe
that alcohol Is a pjbllc ill, let her con
skier the case of the excessive drinker.
There are many of them. This man is
incapable of self restraint. If he were.
he would exercise it. Be that as it
may, the public has a right to consider
him as he is. He is an offense to the
public's sense of decency. He becomes
quarrelsome, often furiously angry,
murderously Insane. He commits
crimes while In that condition. He is
dishonest. He spends all his own
rr.oney. He steals money from his em
ployer. He beats his wife and children.
He occupies' space in our expensive
Jails. He eats food that sober men
have produced. We hire policemen to
watch him and arrest him, and buy
automobiles to gather him in. AVe pay
for judges to condemn him. He is a
useless expense to the public.
Must the public put up with this
while Mrs. Ouniway applies to him her
mild remedy of self restraint? Not
much! He is a public nuisance, and j
the pub Ho has a right to deal with
him as best It can.
We do Jail him, as Mrs. Punlway ad- j
visep. , We condemn him and send him
to the rockpile, and countless Mrs.
DunlwayB have preached to him the
doctrine of self restraint. Has that
done any good? Mrs. Duniway will
tell us it has. In spite of our vener
able friend's picture of a future uni
verse filled with hfippy people, every
one or whom Is exercising self re
straint, we have the drunkard now. He
exists notwithstanding innumerable
schemes of Duutwaylan moral suasion.
Has the public, right to deal with
piesent conditions"? It has. How?
Considering the wrongs committed by
the drunken man and the means by
which he gets drunk, we have the right
to destroy the thing that puts him In
that condition. Alcohol, instead of be
ing a universal necessity as Mrs.
Duniway Insists, is a public menace.
It Inflicts wrongs on the public and
for that reason the public haa the right
to destroy it.
it will not avail tho Duniwaylan to
say: "I have the right to do as I
please. It is my right to get beastly
drunk if I want to. I can lie in the
gutter, covered with filth and It Is no
one's business except the driver of the
drunk wagon who gathers me In. I
have the right to drink champagne at
fashionable gatherings. I can thrust
the glittering stuff on Innocent girls
and growing boys. I can become
flushed in the face, make obscene and
Idiotic remarks and no one shall say
me nay. I am a free citizen of the
universe where alcohol is a necessity.
I am a Dunlwayian. The law of supply
and demand was ordained for me. The
supply that my demand creates is
mine: no one Ehall take it from me. I
am a l5uniwaylan and have the right
to do as I please!"
No man has the right to do as he
pleases. Our civilization Is baeed on
tiie fundamental right of the many to
restrain the few for the public good
Without that right there would be
chaos. Man would have destroyed him
self before he learned to exercise self-
restraint.
Can the voters of Oregon destroy
alcohol in. Oregon with votes? They
thrive the right and the power to dt so,
and they will. M BjWELLS
John Thompson was a good hus
band, butane possessed a weakness for
teasing his witeaoout
dress. One day he
fotind.Tier sitting by
the window.
" "W a t h c h. i ng the
styles. Km my'.'" he
asked.
"Now. John, give
me credit for having
thoughts hig-her than dresses now and
then." she answered.
"Then you must be thinkin' of a
new hat," he retorted. Iippincott's
Jack London in Collier's Weekly.
To the amazement of tho Mexicans
there was no general slaughter against
blank walls. Instead of turning the
prisoners loose, their numbers were
added to. Kvei'y riotous and disorderly
citizen, every sneak thief and petty of
fender, was marched to the city prison
the moment he displayed activity. The
American conquerors bid for the old
order that had obtained in the city,
and began the bidding by putting the
petty offenders to sweeping the
streets.
No property was confiscated. Any
thing commandeered for the use of
j the' army was paid for, and well paid
for. Men who owned horses, mulea.
1 cars and automobiles competed with
' one another to have tlx-ir property
commandeered. The graft which all
! business men suffered at the hands
! of their own officials immediately
hibitive laws to be as effective as
they should' be has been the absence of
a national law to protect their opera
tion. The Webb-Kenyon law now sup
plies this need. It is a well recognized
fact that like other criminal laws the ; property been so safe and so profit
prohibition law may jbe broken if the , ahle. Incidentally the diseases that
criminal can evade observation or , staik at the heels of war did not
purchase official Indulgences. AVhat j taik. on the contrary. Vera Cruz
surprises me is that a man who par- waa cieaned and disinfected as it had
ades as a "law -abiding citizen" will ! n,ver been in aU lt8 history.
it. Mr. "Fair Play" can at least be a
good loser, even If he does have his
occasional drink, which he "can take
or leave alone," and if after a fair
trial the law is found to be more of a
failure fhan the laws against theft,
arson, assault or murder, there Is
periodical access to the ballot, whereby
his opinion may be registered.
That alcohol is a stimulant is only
groundless assertion. An eminent
physician of Portland, who about a
year ago delivered an address here on
this subject, said that In the medical
science alcohol is classed along with
opiate drugs as a narcotic poison.
R. M. SPERLMON.
children surrounded the building and
battled over the old shoes, shattered
fuVnltuqe and discarded clothes. It
was the women who fought fiercest
and most vociferously, and, to the fcS
compantnaent of much hair pulling,
many a pair of linen trousers had its
legs irrevocably separated. They
struggled and squabbled and ?ran
hither and thither like ants about a
honey pot. For once war was kind to
them, and, instead of being looted,
they were themselves tasting the Joye
of looting. And alas! I saw the ruined
pretties rain down amid the mortar
dust from my lady's boudoir and the
two red, high heeled Spanish slippers
borne, off in opposite directions by
gleeful Indian women.
In short, American occupation gave
Vera" Cruz a bull market in health, or-
! der and business. Mexican paper
I money appreciated. Prices rose. Prof
i Its soared. Verily,, the Vera Cruzans
' will long rmeiiib-r this being con
quered by the Americans, and yearn
for th" blissful day when thc Amer
icans will conquer them again. They
would not mind thus being conquered
to the end of time
An exciting sigtit was the cleaning
up of the Naval school, which had
heen so disorganized the- firet day by
the five minutes of shell fire from the
Chester. Immediately the city had been
turned over to th-army by the navy,
The Indifferent Voter. j th first battalion of the Fourth in-
Hood River. May 2&. To the Kditor i Bnlr' , r , ' "t
of The Journal The writer believes it i oescennea up .n
tl, oV.nt n- o-hr . in V,,ir, Ho- itrlce every winnow was vominn; xurin
As I Write this, beneath my window,
with a great clattering of hoofs on
the asphalt, is passing a long column
of mountain batteries, all carried on
the backs of our big government
mules. And as 1 look down at our
sun bronzed troopers in their ollv
drab, my mind reverts to the review 1
the other day of our soldiers and I
of Mexico could all have been brought
down to witness what manner of sol
diers and equipment was ours, there
would have been such a rush for the
brush that 10 years would not have
seen tho last of them dug out of their I
hiding places.
And yet this is hot fair. The peon
soldier is not a coward. Stupid he well
is, just as he is illy-trained and Sillily
officered; but he Is too much of a
fatalist as well as a savage to. be
Pnintu. a
unirorm ana jun, he said, 'Are yon"
a deserterr
"I told him I was on my wav to the
ford over the river, where I intended
to wait until the troops arrived so r
could rejoin my command. He- told
..r me iora was six miles below, and -.
that the advance division of vl'ool'4
army had crossed the day before and"
had hurried on to the Interior. He had V
ta ked with some of the officers, who
told him the second division would be
along in two or three days. I wanted
to hurry on and overtake mv onmnanf
but he said I would undoubtedly be.
captured by the Mexicans if I went n
alone. He told me that, being a priest,
he was a non-combatant, and was kept
w ..... ...... ui,. v . .ruin
the Americana and the Mexicans, liar
invited me to be his guest until thu
second division of our armv arrived. I
was glad to accept his invitation.
"We walked back from the river forT
about half a mile, when we -ceme la
sight Of a ftmill ih irK ...l.i. ui. i -v. . r
house near by. An old Mexican women""
came out at his call, and while we sar.-,
ana talked she prepared supper.
"After supper I told him how I had
become separated from my command,
and he told me about hlmeelf. H wan'1
a Spaniard, He had been educated tot'',
the prieethood in Bpain. and when
young man sent out to Baltimore, MA."
There he had charge of a church ami'
learned to apeak English. After a few:
years In Baltimore he had been pent tv
Mexico as a missionary. He had but1
little sympathy for the Mexican gov-
ernment, which was in a chaotic condi
tion through frequent revolutions. Ha'
blamed Mexico for eecedlng fromj-'
Spain, and said she waa reaping her
Just deserts.
"The priest was glad of my com
pany, and did everything to make myn
stay pleasant. I rambled around, keen-'
Ing within two or thre miles of th
priest's house. In my rambles I dla- y
covered a very beautiful lake about
half a mile wide and not less than two
miles long. I spoke of It at supper
that night to the priest. He told mi.
the name of the lake, and said he had
often enjoyed fine sport there, aa the
lake was full of fish and they bit well.
I could hardly wait for morning to g
there and try my luck, as I am very
fond of fishing. His servant fixed me
a lunch, and the priest provided me
with his fishing outfit and I started
grosslv afraid of death
bends to the mailed fist of power, but
never breaks. Ilke the fellah of
Kgypt, he patiently endures through
the centuries and watches his rulers
come and go. ,
changes of government mean to the
for the lake next morning.
"Hardly had my hook hit the water
when a pickerel crabbed It. and for the1
. . - . - i
next hour I was keDt busv nulling out.'
rish. I concluded I had all I could
carry, so I began winding up my line.''
I looked out over the lake, and waa '
surprised to see a rowboat rounding a.
point of land nearby. I was going to
quietly make my getaway, when I
discovered the person In the boat was '
a woman. A I watched, a sudden
water Mhn rirew In the nln and'
leaned over to get her hat. The rock-
t r-i , i, ....... . nn.A . s . . fln.l '
fi. u, i p uu. i iiiati in. 1 1 a t i i i n
. . CI 1 , - I 3 - . . t
could reach, and over went the boat.
inrew on mv coat, jumnen in mnn,i
feat to the temperance forces next No
vember. If the people of thl.- state
listen to the frail arguments used by
the saloon advocates they are surely
not nearly so wise as the women In the
lural districts of llltnbis. Mrs. Duni-
way's assertion notwithstanding. The
appeal that Is being made for the
drinking man by them in the event of j
a lry Oregoa is not well taken. Many
a degraded man would be glad to have
thp, temptation removed. While they
are in such close sympathy apparently
with this class of people, they forget
the children the wrong that is being
done even to unborn generations in
the event of the perpetuity of the li
cense system.
And again. If prohibttiofi does not
prohibit, as the friends of the "traffic"
are fo fond of declaring, why are they
so alarmed when wet goods can be
furnished so easily under a dry at
mosphere?
What a fallacy to suppose boys and
girls must have that which leads to
so much that may eventually' ruin
their lives. It Is the welfare of the
children we as prohibitionists are de
manding. Will bright children crave
comething that la abnormal? A nat
ural fondness for intoxicants Is 'the
sin of antecedents and need not be
gratified.
the debris that clogged thc interior.
And then was fought the second bat
tle of the Naval school. Thousands
of poor Mexicans men, women and
PASTOR ON "RESPONSIBLE PEOPLE"
By John M. Oskion.
Recently, as the woild knows, a
group Of radicals have attempted to
"haze" young Mr. Rockefeller for his
attitude toward tiie t'oloiado coal mine
strikers. One of their happy thougnts
was to invarl the Friday evening mcct
Int; of the New York church which the
Rockefellers attend and propose a reso
lution condemning the rich. man
course.
After the meeting, the pastor of the
church, Mr. Woeilkin, made certain
comments which smcii to me typical
of the American attitude toward the
mere disturber who generalizes about
the oppression of the worker by the
capitalist. Mr. W'oelfkin said:
"I have a friend who employs a
large number of men and women. He
told me that it Is his custom to take
from the wages of his workmen who
are the hea.ls of families $2.Fi0 a werk.
ry ...in .. " : nnrl when this davine amounts to
w t nikui cu niu I inr
and call us blessed If these passions
are withheld. So it lies entirely with
the adult population whether we have
gent-rations of sober, high-minded cit
izens or not.
We have no need to be discouraged.
With prophetic vision I see the dawn
ing of a better day. when every Chris
tion man and woman will demand the
abolition erf the liquor evil. The feel
ing against the open saloon, was never
more Intense, and. like .xfrican slavery.
It will be brought to an end sooner or
later. JULIA A. HUNT.
hp sells them a house and lot worm
J1500. The saved $500 Is paid toward
the purciia.se. and the employer takes
a mortgage for the reat.
"He has found that when his cm
ployes become responsible for the pay-
carrled on the desire to help others
grew and the work became more
altruistic In its aims.
The individual woman, always
the national housekeeper, began
Co Jfeel that the collective woman
should be the municipal house
keeper. Bettering the condition of wo
men and children began. The
tlons at Niagara Is not hopeful.
The daughters of one of the repre
sentatives of Huerta'a government
are learning "-the hesitation and
the tango . and are unwilling to
leave.
The Journal is put to great in
convenience in the discussion pro
1 and con of the prohibition- issue.
clubs have been potent In securing I Contributors are overv bitter in
cnua laoor ana factory laws, min-lthelr comments, and are Indulging
Prohibition's Permanence.
Portland, May 28. To the Editor
of The Journal No clear thinking
person who keeps In touch with the
events of the day can truthfully deny
that the liquor traffic and .the saloon
or "cafe," are corrupt, nor that they
corrupt everything they .touch. This is
the thing that lias insulted the Ameri
can nation, and with true American
courage and determination the people
are rising and demanding its aboli
tion. It is the right, the privilege and
the .duty of the American people to
abolish the thing that is a menace to
its welfare, always has been and al
ways will be. ;
There .were Several mtlflon people
in 1861 who upheld African slavery,
giving the best lives of the southern
confederacy to support their denial of
the right of the government to legis
late against its existence. I lived in
the south 20 years and have yet to
hear anyone propose to re-establish
slavery. The same spirit of progress
that demanded the abolition of Slavery
insists that-the liquor traffic and the
institutions that thrH'e because of it
shall be destroyed. The day In which
this national feat will be accomplished
la not far off. Once freed from this
curse, there will be no desire, except
on the part - Of the unscrupulous, to
return "to the old conditions. It Is a
noteworthy fact that seven, of the
nine prohibition states are south of
the- Mason-Dixon .line, where African
slavery thrived.
It may be true that a man cannot
be voted dry. He may drink as long
as he can procure the liquor. One of
I the chief cauaes of the failure of pro-
Public Market Testimony.
Portland, May 26. To the Editor of
The Journal Portland has long felt
the need of a public market. We have
cne started, although just in its in
fancy. It Ig up to the people to make
It or break it. There Is no reason in
the world why the producer and con
fcumer should not get together and
make It a grand success, and by so
f'olng reduce the cost of living. I have
often heard it said a satisfied custo
tr work. I sometime ago placed an ad
in your papf-r. giving a man a chance
to get a home in the country, where
he would have free rent, wood and
water and a place to raise most of his
living with very small effort on his
part. But It seems as if people would
;uther be where tiie bright lights at
tract. The offer is still open to one who
wants to work a little.
A. II. GREIMEK.
master His harsh treatment na ti,, m ,ii n. . .- rmm
poorly rewaraeu toil are ever in Th moman n. nnibrrprl hv her
.. .-. . . i ,....!. n rri n ir no V, a BflTl inn Ut. I J 1 . . 1 . . . .
n 1 1 1 1 n . Mt ' " '-.- " HirHlfl I U I J I 'I I1UI KTl 1 ' I I IT" I HfLUlQ
. : It. (a Kn i- a r imlm-nl if . . ?
i I:,.. t I. , U . ill rlAil i ... - ... .. . .. . .!.-
the law of existence. i caught her by the arm, and, telling'
wr I IH han T sw th Ua r aAfin r
took it And tola hr to nans on to tner
gunwale while ami puwhei th
boat to th shof
1 UVMI lr -WH-fw wiipuiri v tui uriicw k
in love e.t rirat signt i uiun t up 10
then. Bhe certainly wa one of the
moat beautiful young women I evef
aaw. Her hair was dark and had ceme
looae and was hanging over her shoul
ders. Her eyes were dark and large
with long black lashes; her face wa
oval and olive tinted I carried her
up the bank a little way and laid her
nnwn tn mm inn. nnr nann i hdou m
any as yet. except witn ner eyes, mo i y
nodded, and asked 'Who ire you; you.
A -.. 1 1 ' 1 -1 B... h Anil tfiifl
avwu nij ii i ... . . v j .... -
ner wno l was. ana now- n nivuinra-1
wit there. She said It was two mile.'
to her home, and with her clothes soak
ing wet It would be hard to walk along;
the shore of tlve'Hke. Bhe asked mn
to bail her boat out so she could rowt
haoir t torn ner i won a row ner oacjt. n
inA )! av ma a verv graterui looi't
and thanked me. In. the next hour Wt'l
' j- .
got very well aeoucintea. 'n
Tj t,ttr vi r onnfji m .was - m-v
Bnaniard. flha had been born anO'l
k,mihi nn in New Orleans. was
. .tnna-ar- than T waa S
KVUVIfc .-" J - - - -
naina mil Tiui ll. l iviu uc j "
glad I bad gotten lost from the army,
an r meant It. When she faund I
v -j.t.ritM ah was rlad..too. andlt
we both hoped the second division
would be as slow as it could in con!
ment of the mortgajfe debt .they con
tinue to go about their work and do
Kucceed in paying the mortgage.
"It Is only those people who navel
no responsibility who go about making
trouble. A person who has gained
possession of $1600, or even leas, feels
responsibility, and he Is usually to
he found at work; he is never seen
idling or trying to cause a disturb
ance." I don't mean to pass judgment on the
(iisturbers. I merely want to point
out h-ie that the "Instance cited by
Mr. Woelfkln is typical of a (rowing
class iif empioyers and workers. When
the two classes can come together on
a definite plan tn provide homes fof
the fa.nllles of the men who labor for
pay, the time for argument is past.
This employer's plan puts a man la
his own home (when he ceases to paj
rent) after four years; in another seven
years he has paid for the home. The
only question involved la, "Can the
worker afford to give up$2.60,a week
out of his pay for that time In ex
change for a home of his own?"
I believe the average worker can,
and should.
Vintlitttting Join Ilarrett.
From the Colkmbus (Ohio) Dispatch.
The chances are that, if John Bar
rett's proposition for a Pan-American
settlement of the Mexican troubles,
made during the. Taft administration.
mer is your best advertisement. Satis- had been accepted, instead of rejected
faction was In evidence, at the public i with anger at his presumption, ivc
market last week." I was on the mar- 'should not now be on the verge ot' war.
ket every day but one, with butter, ' Mr. Barrett then nuggested that the
eggs, gooseberries and strawberries. I ! United States, instead of trying to deal
made & good, liberal cleanup each day, ; single handed with the difficulty
before the hour of closing, with a bet- i should invite the cooperation of- Ar;en-
ter profit than I could have got If I
had sold to the trade. I know my
customers were well pleased with the
prices they paid and the quality of
goods they got. Some of them told
tina, Brazil, Ctiile and perhaps otjier
American republics. As secretary of
the Pan-American union, he knew the
ambition of the strong South American
1 1 n o u vi .1 hft Irn.u thp nrAiildiCA with
me eo, and came again the second time . I wnil.n the i-nitd states was regarded
11. .-..v wr. ln Mexico. n knew wnat he was talk-
baskets and whopping, bags and come : . v, , . , . tv. , ...
to Portland's, pMUJiP market. The time ; in about and pointed out the pat of
is at hand to laTnupplieS in case ! fty; " Sc,Cr5ta?, kU?fi
lota, for pickle, preserves and jellies 8la,f. dPrtmeiit. bnstled with offend-
for the winter. By so doing they will u'8'l- -'i
k tHT,r fr.h .tivii iiif i nettle this affair itself, Mr. Barrett
had to worse until now the very thing
that John Barrett suggested has begun
to materialize, and millions Of people
in this country are hoping that It la
not yet too late.
Cure for Grief.
From Lippincott's.
Two men were talking of the hard
times.
"Does your wife ever grieve because
she threw over a wealthy man In order
to marry you?" queried Hall.
"Well, she started to once," was the
reply, "but I cured her of it without
deiay."
"1 wish you would tell mo how," said
Hall.
"I started right in grieving with
her." replied the other, "and I grieved
harder and longer than she did:"
The Ragtime Muse
Pointed Paragraphs
gardens. Just as cheap and in many
cases cheaper, than ln Uie past. Tho
nrodueer wil also realize a better
profit than In the past, and in time thai
puDiic miTKei win oe -appreciated by
all. I. A. PIERCE.
Distrusts Pleas of Unemployed.
Cape Horn, Wash., May 2$. To the
Editor of The Journal I have read In
your paper very often of people out
of work and asking for assistance
from the "public. Xow I think th
greater part of thee people don't want
was informed, and there were bints of
personal official disaster if he did not
subside. MrBarrett subsided, and the
state department continued its ineffec
tual policy.
Perhaps It would have been different
If President Wilson had not come Into
office with a deternri nation to exam'
lne into the moral quality ot revolu
tionary governments. Lacking that.
HUerta .might have been recognized
and helped to ride roigh-shod over
the rebel factions. But he was not rec
ognized and. things have gone from
Glory Wanted.
Bravely in gold and purple.
And the gorgeous trappings of kings,
I would lead my nation i3t
Against creation
And do any number of things!.
But they ask of men things that are
lowly;
There are no great crises now.
I scorn simple toiling
And striving and moiling.
,.My hands, are too sort tor me. plough:
I long for the call of the bugle.
That shall summon my soul afar.
And send me-'farlng
To deeds of daring
Amid the thunders of war.
But the whistle summons to labor,
.Simple and dull and slow.
With meagre payment.
And rommon raiment.
And I shall refuse to go!
I wail for the call of glory!
For a life of wondr and chana,
Whl a sordid county ,
Gives me Its bounty.
Out here on tho pauper -farm T
If you would mane a ivot m
select a dull one.
Drinking to his health never pro
longed anybody s lire
a
Borne people are never happy unless
they can find faujt.
Most women who claim to be man
haters are unableto prove lu
C3nma mnA nMIOlt 1lldr thft VAlUA Ol 1
a picture by tn beauty 01 tne rrame.
1 Occasionally a locomotive engineer
tanks ud and makes his own head
light.
a
A student of human nature says that
only women ever return borrowed um
brella.
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