f HE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 14. 1914.
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By the rude bridge that arched the flood,,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled.
Here once the embattled farmers stood.
And fired the shot heard round the world.
. - '-.Emerson.
T WAS a shot for freedom. It was the flag of liberty. The em
battled farmers, at the end of eight years war, established union
and liberty, one and Inseparable, now and forever.
i Ttia mpsiura ftf Onnmrd xv a a a mesas ce to all mankind. The
shot the embattled farmers fired sent constitutional government
around the world. It wrung from the foblish and weak British mon
arch an honorable peace and the great republic. ?
For 127 years, the flag of the colonists has been in the service
of mankind. Its silken folds have inflamed peoples under every
sun to a desire for self government. It inspired the French, the
on rat .oo i on month...... .$ Germans, the Italians, the Hungarians, the Austrians, and, after many
sundax others, the Chines into longings for liberty and justice.
'''DiiLiiD icmr It has been a glorious service to mankind. Nor has the flag ever
o yaar iT-Mi i om montn symbolized American traditions more man it aoes now. we u&vo
gone down to Mexico," said President Wilson in his tribute or honor
to the sailors who fell at Vera Cruz, "to serve mankind, if we can
find out the way."
In Mexico, the people are living under feudalism. They own
nothing. A few. men own everything.
Seven thousand men own, all the arable land. They are seven
thousand men among seventeen million. v
There are great states In which all the land la practically in the
hands of a dozen proprietors, and the peasant population lives in
semi-slavery. The government is a tyranny. It has been a despot
ism for a generation. Government has been by a dictator. Land that
was once the people's has been taken away from them and bestowed
by ruling despots on Mexican, and alien favorites. The flatterers at
the Mexican court have been showered with mines and oil rights and
franchises and the lands.
It has made the masses of Mexicans trespassers and tenants in
the, land of their birth. There are million-acre estates for which
American and other foreign owners paid less than ten cents an acre.
And there is nothing for the peon. He is robbed of 'the fruits
J , . m t, taZ" "f nis labor- an only hiB raS8 can he hls own- The Madero
Today is Mag Day. iomor- revolution was resistance to the baronial order. It was a struggle
row win do riuueei ,cxj
The procession is in natural
order. The rose represents ine
When You Go Away
Have The Journal sent-to
; your Summer address.
Glory, buitt
On selfish principles, Is shame
v and guilt;
The deeds that men admire as
half divine.
Stark naught, because corrupt
In their design.
Cowper.
Fort Stanwix, now Rome, New j
York, on August 6, 1777. It was
I first carried In battle at a skir
mish at Cooch's Bridge, near Wil
mington, Delaware, September 3,
17 7 7. It was first" recognized by
a foreign - power when the stars
and Stripes, flown by Captain John
Paul-Jones, were saluted by the
French February 14, 1778. It was
also John Paul Jones who : first
saw a British man-of-war strike
her flag to that of the United
i States.
The Flag was not changed until
1795, when two stripes and two
stars were added for Vermont and
Kentucky. Four more states had
been admitted by 1816, and Con
gress decided, April 41818, that
the flag be permanently thirteen
stripes, representing the original
thirteen, colonies, and that a new
star be added for each state as ad
mitted. The plan of placing the
stars in rows was adopted, and
since then a star has been, added
on the Fourth of - July following
the admission of a state to the
Union.
The Flag at the time of the Rev
olution had 13 stars; In the war
of 1812lt had 15; in the Mexican
war, 29; in the Civil war, 35, and
in the Spanish-American war, 45.
Today it has 48 stars, arranged in
six rows of eight Btars each.
Francis Scott ; Key wrote the song.
It tells . Its owns story. It ls a
tribute to the indominitable Ameri
can spirit which refused, to admit
defeat. It is a fitting memorial
to the writer, who; gained inspira
tion through an attempt to assist a
friend." : -'-J 'l:.v- -j. .'
Y
-FOLLOWING THE FLAG
ESTERDAY was Rose Day.
THE FLAG AT VERA CRUZ
for peasant proprietorship. It was a conflict for small farms and
little ' homes for the feudal slaves of Mexico. It was endeavor to
put : families on the land.
That is the meaning of the present revolution. That is the mean
ing of Villa and Carranza and all of the forces that have been bat-
F
bloom of youth, the flag, the vigor
of manhood, and the pioneer, the
ueflinin ut .u u8v. I n. H,0 Tr la o rovnlntlnn . nf th common rteonlft
Itjs ai180,,Klcalr,,thlltnf'onee against despotic privilege. It Is armed resistence to dictatorship that
Day should follow Flag my in for ;decad haa 6y8tematically robbed the common people and be-
their youth and manhood the plo- Btowed cQurt favQrit AmerIcan and otherwise.
? and ovfr mountain When President Taft and President Wilson both in turn refused
7 nee and on its field of blue to recognize Huerta, they made the American flag stand with the
lf JLj .i, t( n.m. Wiish- common people of Mexico against their oppressors. In resisting the
k RESIDENT WILSON in his
New York funeral oration
paid a nation's tribute to the
young men who lost their
lives at Vera Cruz. It was Admiral
Fletcher's privilege to make 'offi
cial record of the achievements of
others who offered their lives 'for
the flag. There is an outstanding
sentence in the admiral's report:
Resourcefulness, courage and devo
tion to duty of all officers of the
landing force was everything . that
FLAG DAY
By Dr. Frank Crane.
June fourteenth Is Flag day.
How should It be Observed T
The flag should be displayed on all
school houses and other public build
ings: also on all homes and at all
places of business. We should ac
custom ourselves to looking at the
flag as a symbol of our whole na
tional life that la, of home and busi
ness and everyday politics, as well as
of war.
Why?
Because the flag Is not only to fight
under, but to live under. It means the
Intelligent, loving cooperation of citi
zens in their daily life.
what reason have we to be proud of
our country?
we should be proud, not because we
have the kind of government the peo
ple want.
Are there not many forms of in
justice, privilege, ; and oppression
among us?
There are. Also in every other na
tion. Our case is' different from the
others- because we are committed to
certain principles which bring Justice
and equal opportunity to all as fast as
we find out what to do and how to do
it. and as fast as the majority wants
the desired results.
For Instance?
First of all, the great working prin
ciple In this country is democracy,
which means that as soon as the people
learn how to organise they .can do
whatever they will.
What other advantages does this na
tion have?
It is the first great nation in history
that is not racial. It is the first to
rest upon' a basis of humanity. We
are composed not of English, French,
German, negro, or- of any other one
blood, but of all races. We are a na
tion of human beings.
The United States of America Is
formed on the principle of federation,
and not of empire. That means we
want no country to join us except by
could be desired and reflected the
!LCr!5i UPD Ur T rvice- the choice of its people. We have dis-
American clamor for recognition or intervention. President Wilson
makes the American flag stand against feudal tyranny and 'for the
downtrodden and oppressed in a torn and bleeding land. In throw
ing the moral support of his administration against the despot and
on the 6ide of those who are struggling for a better order for them
selves and their children, President Wilson hangs the American flag
on the same staff from which it floated when the "embattled farmers
fired the shot beard round the world" at Concord.
It is not justice for 17,000,000 people in Mexico to be landless,
while alien and Mexican owners tell off their land holdings in mil
lions of acres. It is not right fora dozen men to own a great Mexi
can state while millions of the Mexican masses are in peonage. It
would not have been right for a constitutional American president
to have recognized and aided Huerta in firmly establishing himself
in position to continue the feudal despotism that has reduced 17,000,-
000 Mexicans to servitude.
If Abraham Lincoln was right when he Issued the Emancipation
Proclamation, Woodrow Wilson is right in his great moral; effort
to help free Mexican slaves from bondage. If colored slaves in the
United States were worthy of the concern of one American president
. i 1 1 i i . . i . i . i
on began Its march I uuve bmuucu mvea ui ivieiivu me wui iu; ut iis tuutciu ui au
ra Hen nnS hv nn other American president. If we were justified in ,four years of
they are fall ine out of the ranks biocly civil war over American slavery, we are justified in the
and what -was once a radiant rol- moral effort that a noble president is making to strike away the
umn is now shrunken to a strag- shackles of Mexican slavery.
gllng band, the sound of whose ur attitude in Mexico is a message of hope to the submerged in
tramping feet is growing ever every land. Our flag as it floats over Vera Cruz signals encourage
fainter. One in the forefront of ment and confidence to the burdened .and oppressed who are ground
the procession says: down by the iron-neeiea ana rutniess dictators or Mexico, it is tld-
As I look down the long aisles of ings to them that a strong nation sympathizes with them amid their
memory the mists clear away from burdens, commiserates with them in their sorrows, pleads for them
!n"ew.eTLUn?h ln theIr Povejty and is making herself known around the world as
beginning, the flags, and I hear the tneir iriena.
lngton and Idaho
In their declining years they sit
' under the protecting shade of the
flag and view their work in the
cofisclousneBs that it ia good.
Under the flag,, what deeds of
valor they have performed. What
noiseless charities they have be
stowed. What seir denial they
have practiced. In their adjust-,
ment of means to ends, what an
Industrial victory they have won
from the wilderness.
They began to follow the flag
with elastic step and Joyous face.
The air was warm because of their
smiles which were lighted by the
fires of youth, fires of perfect com
bustion which give off no foul
gas to tainfHhe air.
' The process!
three score years ago. One by
What aim, what purpose, what mission could be nobler? It Is a,Jan wno saw him?
trumpets, the Joyous songs and the
EnV'the path' baVhed" V sunUght PIir t Perfe rmony with the life and traditions of the Ameri-'
and ablaze with hope. There is the can people, a poucy mai aeeps me nag 01 our iatners unDiemisnea
march through the hot noonday, no and ! unscarred, a policy that baptizes the Star Spangled Banner the
afternoon wrougn me long world around aa the emblem of purity, peace, liberty and justice,
Then comes the bivouac under the
stars, the music of the birds grows deftly cut out a five pointed star
still and the night wind sweeping up ' , , ,
from the depths of the sea makes of for Washington and other members
the mighty firs a harp upon which Df the committee who were bo well
l JSn'u:11 come Ped with It that they at once
whimpers of another Oregon in the accepted the change,
great beyond, another land of golden hpn made a flag
mountains, green forests, clear Mrs- KOSS -Jtnen maQe a Ilas
Streams, beautiful flowers and sunlit which was approved by congress,
fields filled with the love songs of it was raised at once in Philadel-
Three Officers were picked for carded the program of conquest.
eminent and conspicuous service J Our flag is a menace to no other
in battle," and, others were praised land Dnt stands for friendship to
individually. While the report i. ,v U
commends the entire personnel, a ity to ail people. Every man is not
numner or men were mentioned for I prosperous and happy, but every man
conspicuous acts. Here is the typi- haiLa cnance-
cal record of H. N. Nickerson. 1 rLi.". casie system, no nerea-
boatswains mate of the battleship Our flag means freedom of speech.
Utah: , la free press, freedom to express one's
Was slightly -wounded three times I opinion, freedom of orderly asembly.
during the afternoon of April 21 and 11 means that no one shall be dis
aster first aid bandages had been ap- criminated against on account of his
plied he took charge of a squad that religion.
built an advanced barricade under It means thousands and thousands
fire. I of happy homes and contented workers.
He then occupied a dangerous cosi- I It means that the child of the poor
tion .at the corner of Zaragoza and I and Ignorant can secure an education
San Miguel streets. Here he was I In the public schools.
egaln wounded three times, two shots I It means that the way to success.
snattering his left leg above and to honors, and office is open to everv
below the knee. He was then carried I human being. ;
to the rear and has since had his leg I It means that we are not under the
amputated close to the hip. I curse of militarism, and that every
His grit after having been wounded I young man does not have to eiv two
three times and the courage he dis-1 or three of the best years of his llf a
Played . when his later wounds made I to army service.
it necessary to carry him to the rear I It means a growing public eon
were an inspiration to all who saw I science, which more and more Is caus-
, ng men of wealth to realise their
What a record for any man to I civic responsibility,
win! Bosun's Mate Nickerson I It means a nation of people bound-
fought with four wounds and would I lng toward wea"h' Pwer' ana inteiu-
not leave until a fifth and a sixth tioZ y
bullet having shattered his leg It means women treated with rev
above and below the knee, he was rnc and increasing justice, children
carried from the field. Is there f"6? J". ralDea- w"kfr" fre.e
j ... , . to organize and to improve their condi-
any wonder that-such grit and tion, and altogether a strong, .virile.
tuuiagB proveu an inspiration to amDitious people.
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SONGS OF COUNTRY AND OF FLAG
AMERICA.
My country? 'tis of thee.
Sweet land of liberty!
or thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died.
Land of the Pilgrim's pride.
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
My native country! thee.
Land of the noble free,
Thy name I love.
I love thy rocks and rills.
Thy woods and templed hills:
My heart with rapture thrills,
Llks that above.
Our fathers God! To thee.
Author of liberty!
To thee we sing.
Long may our land be bright
With freedom's holy light!
Protect us by thy might,
Great God. our King.
nrisnt piumaea oiras. wnere tne hl d the desIgI1 was Immedi
dawns, the noons, the sunsets and 1 . , , . . . .
the light of the stars are all merged ateiy copiea Dy patriots everj-
in the dazzling splendor of eternal I where.
day. I th7"Kt Var.tuMrv anA Vormnnt
were admitted into the union in
1794 the stars and stripes were
It means that every day the sun
What was Bosun's Mate Nicker- Tr?SL"f a J.;
son's inspiration? He was follow- in justice. '
ing the flag. He was determined Our flag stands for the country that
that , since the stars and stripes 18 J16 Btar of nPe ln th ky of the
had been carried into Vera Crnz JL s.na11 "V on nnl the
.. ... . i tn t f t m viNiim r i a vaqiivai .
nis f!n rnea ft n ii hnrlad them In r.. .ii -1. . , I . - w Kuu
- - -"" iwi a ucnuite yui pose ne, mmseii, i "
their faded gray uniforms.
"all men's good
Bishop Fallows Is one of those 1 to accomplish that purpose.
would do everything in his power ?f.eafLmanl8, JJle an? I universal peace representatives in congress will be
0,Annlnii.i, v, I Jle Uke a shaft of light across the - ; ...v. .
STORY OF THE FLAG
F
lLAQ day is one of the young- each increased to 15 but in 1818
est of our national anniver- congress voted to restore the orig-
saries but it is fast receiving inal 13 stripes and to add a new
a general observance. star on the Fourth of July follow-
The day was first recognized lug the admission of each new
when the governor v of New York state.
ordered that the stars and stripes In presenting the original de"
be raised on all public buildings ln sign to congress the committee ex-
the state June 14, 1897, the 117th plained its symbolism as follows:
"anniversary Of the adoption by The stars of the f las represent the
congress of the present national constellation of states rising In the
vt. west. The idea is taken from the
' emoiem. great constellation of Lyra which In
mis aciiQQ was lanen Dy me the hand of Orpheus signifies har-
governor at the request of the mony. The blue ln the field Is bor-
! Sons Of the Revolution On th rowed from the edges of the cove-
cons or tne Revolution. On tH8 nanters' banner In Scotland, significant
same date the day was also fitting- of the league covenant of the United
ly observed in Philadelphia under States against oppression . and lncl-
: the auspices of the Colonial Dames dent11 invoking the virtues of vigl-
of AmflriM v lance, perseverance and Justice.
.T 1 ' . . iL . The stars are disposed ln a circle
In the early days of the Ameri- symbolizing the - perpetuity of the
can revolution there was no gen- union, the ring like the serpent of the
eral standard for the colonies but Egyptians signifying j eternity. The
tttt .v, 13 stripes show with the stars the
in 1777 the continental congress number of the united colonies and de
appointed a committee to consider note the subordination of the states
and report on the subject. to the union. The whole is the blend
On June 14 of that vear rm, lng of the various flags of the army
tin aune 14 or mat year, con- and the white onea of tne floaUng
. gress passed a resolution that the batteries. The red color which in the
flag Of the United States be 13 Roman days was the signal of de
: Stripes, alternately white and red an;e denotes daring and the white
who early "forgave and forgot."
The flag, to him, did not demand
the nursing of rancor; it did not
stimulate a desire to humiliate; it
did not even suggest that a bat
tered remnant of boys in gray
should be ostracised by men no
better than they, even though con
quered in a tremendous struggle.
The flag never fails in Its ap
peal to men of the Bishop Fallows
standard. It lead him into war
as chaplain of a Wisconsin regi
ment. He became a fighting par
son, receiving appointment as lieu
tenant colonel of the Fortieth Wis
consin infantry. It was responsible
for his brevetted rank of brigadier
general for meritorious services on
the field of battle. It was ahead
of him when he was honorably
mustered out of the service at the
close of the war. It has been his
guide ever since, even while he
was saying the last rites over his
old foes, but foes no longer.
The Illinois department, Grand
Army of the Republic, has honored
itself by ' honoring this author,
preacher, citizen
trained in military discipline. But Throughll the circle of the, golden
year."
tneir patriotism surety was not
greater than feality to the flag
which may reasonably be expected
of men at home. Grit and cour
V Datue". rOmmnnlc.tl0n. Mnt to The Journal for
field. The flas- needa ftchtora st I publication In thla denartmant iluaiM K writ.
hnm aa woll 9 a at r-- I ten 5 "Wo of tbe paper, abould not
aome as weu as at vera Cruz. exceed soo.worda in lenath nri mtt k ...
and that the unipn be represented
by 13 white stars on a blue field.
i There is a striking resemblance
between the design and the coat of
arms of the Washington family,
which consisted of three stars in
the upper portion and three bars
denotes purity.
BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS
B
tSHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS
was chosen commander of the
Illinois department. Grand
Array of the Republic, last
T
, running across the escutcheon. It week. His election as official lead
: Is believed by many that the Amer- er of the Illinois boys in blue has
lean flag was derived from this especial significance,
heraldic , design; ' Bishop Fallows was at one time
According to tradition General chaplain for a small and pathetic
Washington, who , was a member "post" of Confederate veterans in
; of the committee appointed bj con- Chicago. He is a ..Union veteran,
, gres, took a rough sketch of the with a long record of distinguished
proposed design to a Mrs. John achievements both in civil and
; Ross, an upholsterer noted for her military life. He fought .for the
v neatness as : a seamstress. , The flag j on battlefield and in forum,
story runs that the stars In the but no greater thing can be said of
; design had six joints but Mrs. Rosg this distinguished-churchman than
preferred stars with five poinU. I that, even before the wounds of
With a' clip of her scissors she war had hea,led, he watched over
SOME FLAG FACTS
HE Flag has an interesting
history. The first striped
flag was raised -at Washing
ton's headquarters at Cam
bridge, Massachusetts, January 2,
1776. At about the same time
John Paul Jones hoisted it over the
"Alfred," Commodore Hopkins'
flagship.
In 1777 Congress appointed
L committee "to designate a suit
able flag for the nation." This
committee conferred with Betsy
Ross and afterward recommended
a flag in which the stripes were
retained, but in which the crosses,
symbolic of British authority, gave
place to stars. It was on June 14
1777, 1 that Congress in old Inde
pendence Hall, Philadelphia, adopt
ed the following resolution:
Resolved, That the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen
stripes, alternate, red and white; that
the union be thirteen stars, white In
a blue field, representing a new con
stellatlon. The stars to be arranged
In a-- circle., .'i'-.vs-
Thus the Star Spangled Banner
was born. The Flag was first
used ln actual military service at
The men at Vera Cruz
land.
were I And life a lane of beams athwart th
NEWS FORECAST FOR
THE COMING WEEK
The Republican, Democratic and So
cialist parties in Maine will engage In
a general primary Monday for the
nomination of candidates for state,
congressional and county offices. Gov
ernor Haines and all of the present
Letters From the Peopl9
o
companled by tbe name and addreaa of the
Bender. If ths writer Hr nn ilMlr. n
I har tbe name publiahed. be aboal'd bo state.)
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY
i
kr o . i - a ... I inspuroioo la tbe rrMtnt of all rofnrra.
v ocpteuiuer x next It Will era. It rationalizes efewthln. it toarhea. It
be 100 years since Francis rsb Prlelpies or an taiae sanctity and
nflftii t- . . . . , i .... - .mcu, in vu lutfir rHwniDiewra. 1 1
. uwbt. xvcjr wiuib ma 1111 mortal I iney nare no reasonableness. It ruthlessly
ennz Tho Rtai" Snan trior! ta I crnes tbcrn out of existence and Beta up Its
song, ine Star bpangied Ban- own conclusions In their atead." Woodrow
ner. The battle of Fort McHenrv. wtiaon.
whicb Inspired the song, Is a mat- Questions MrrcSullivan's View,
ter of history, but the songwriter's Wallowa, Or.. June 9. To the Editor
reason for being there is well of The Journal That the Daughters
worth recounting. $f the American Revolution have re-
After the sack of Washington "fL" i"!"
the people of Baltimore fortified seems to have caused D. M. 'o'Suiiivan
Fort McHenry and prepared to no little consternation. Judging by his
make a stubborn resistance to the tetter to The Journal of June 2.
British invaders. On their way "v" "e""
back from Washington three Brit- canlsm." Is Mr. O'Suiiivan sure he
ish soldiers were made prisoners I means Americanism? Why did he
by Dr. William Beanes. One es- raise an obJection to tw ". any-
caped, and. finding his way to Z&r
The charge that it does not repre
sent Americanism" is crude indeed.
HUBERT S, WARREN.
THE FLAG GOES BY.
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
Blue, and crimson, and white it shines.
Over the steel-tipped, ordered lines,
Hats off I
The colors before us fly;
But more than the flag Is passing by.
Sea fights and land fights, grim and
great.
Fought to make and to save the state;
weary marches ana sinning snips;
Cheers of victory on dying lips;
Days of plenty, and years of peace.
March of a strong land's Increase;
Equal Justice, right, and law.
Stately honor and reverend awe;
Sign of a Nation, great and strong.
To ward her people from foreign
wrong;
Pride, and glory, and honor, all
Live ln the colors to stand or falL
Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums;
And loyal hearts are beating high.
Hats off!
Tbe flag Is passing byi
RELIGION, POLITICS
body of the British, he guided
them back to the doctor's resi
dence. Dr. Beanes was made a
prisoner, and Key secured permis
sion from President Madison to 'at
tempt his friend's release.
Good Cider.
Newberg, Or., June 13. To the Ed-
He visited Admiral Cockbum. if you would supply, through. The
Whose fleet was then In th Phpun. I Journal, a recipe for making good apple
now ... ti - j , , i i.iuci . n. x. ai
i u.n.c, uu. wo tuuiuieu Wills HIS I r(lrln 11 n aanA unlink anr.1. .n
friend and John S. Skinner on the I press out the juice. That is all there
Ship Surprise. The '.British fleet 1 18 ln making cider. To keep It sweet,
moved up the Chesapeake, disem- ring the JXrJL sVf"
barked the military forces for a .vimmi it thoro.isrhiv ani
land attack and prepared for their I enough sugar to give It a pleasant
next bonfire. The . three Ameri-1 taste; then, while hot, put it into glazed
cans were put .aboard their own Jugs or glM frult 3ar and MaL1
vessel under a guard. twh, . school Fiction,
ni i t . . .1 "
iUW uumuai ument Degan. DUt i TrtlT, .Tuns B To th. Wltnr of
Fort McHenry did not fall. Six- The Journal: Considerable difference
teen frijfftes centered their fire on ot opinion exists as to who is entitled
the fortification all day long, and Jf te "s Bi?f1??
me lulus ws nept up inrougnout may vote; others that only those who
the night. The land attack was pay taxes on real property' have the
repulsed;- the fleet moved nearer right to vote; othera that those who
amT redoubled Ita fire. But Fort K" ndly
jtuctienry ma noi iau. iDiy through The Journal?
ilhe next mcrnintr. Senta.mhpr 11- - H. N. MOUNT.
1814, "by the. dawn's early light," k.lw7n "nxn.euT!,
ms uuw Auiwiuiuj mw iuai tne i journal, on page 48, column l.j
nag wag sun there." The British
fleet withdrew, and Baltimore was! An-automoblle as fireproof and col-
Baved v - . 1 usion proor as pouaiuio iu mui 11 nas
uu iub uacft vi uu uiu envelope j about New York,
renominated without opposition
Minnesota will hold general pri
maries Tuesday for the nomination of
candidates for state, congressional and
county offices. Governor Eberhart is
a candidate for renominatlon on the
Republican ticket' and Is opposed by
William Lee of Long Prairie. Con
gressman Wlnfield S. Hammond and
Daniel W." Lawler of St. Paul are the
opposing candidates of the Democratic
nomination for governor. The Pro
gressive, Prohibition and Socialist
parties have selected state tickets
which will be named without opposi
tion. There are contests for congress
in nearly every district.
Republicans of the state of Wash
ington will hold a convention ln Ta
coma Thursday to adopt a platform and
make other arrangements for the com
ing campaign. Another political con
vention of the week will be that of the
Progressive party of Louisana, which
will meet Thursday in New Orleans.
President Wilson has promised to
go to Valley Forge, Pa., on Friday to
dedicate the nation's memorial to the
patriots who suffered there in a winter
campaign under Washington for the
Independence of the" American colonies.
The official investigation on the
Empress of Ireland disaster Is to be
begun ln Montreal Tuesday, with Lord
Mersey as chairman of the committee
of Inquiry.
A notable wedding of the week wilt
be that of Miss Madeleine Edison,
daughter of the famous Inventor and
Mrs. Thomas A. Edison, and John
Eyre Sloane, which is to take placa
Wednesday at the Edison home near
Orange. N. J.
Colonel Roosevelt, who is on his way
from Madrid, is to deliver an address
Tuesday before the Royal Geographi
cal Society In London. Other events
of the week abroad will be the presi
dential election ln Santo Domingo, an
International conference on the sup
pression of the opium traffic, which
will be at The Hague, and an interna
tional conference which wilt meet ln
Christiana to decide the status of
Among the conventions of the week
will be the general convention of the
Northern Baptists, in Boston; the con
ventlon of the national society of the
Daughters of the Revolution, In Min
neapolis: the Upper Mississippi River
Improvement association, at still-
water. Minn.; the National Wholesale
Grocers' association. In Minneapolis;
the Southern Wholesale Grocers' asso
ciation, ln Charleston, 8. C, and the
triennial meeting of the bead camp
of Modern Woodmen of America, at
Toledo.
Commencement exercises . will be
held during the week at Tale. Harvard,
Princeton, Cornell. Pennsylvania,
Brown. Ohio State University. Unlver
eity of Illinois and many other leading
colleges and universities In all parts of
tbe country.
Portland's annual school board elec
tion occurs Monday when one mem'
ber will be elected to succeed R. L.
Sab In. There are three - candidates,
The Ragtime Muse
What to Do.
A rolling stone may get no moss.
A rolling stone may wear away.
But many joys it runs across
It s life Is reasonably gay.
Rnt nn the other well known hand.
Th mossv Ktone that stays at home
Acquires merit in tne lana
But then it always warns 10 rosun
The married man to fortune glvea
Dear hostages ana musi oe goou,
w. mnof hf careful how he lives
And seldom does the thines he WOulV
The bachelor, a lonely wigni.
Regrets, too late, nis earner pian.
And groans amid his wild delight:
"I would I were a married man!"
in4 mn i rome to mv advice
Now mark it well, on. neeaiess youin:
I think you'll find It rather nice
And ko vou'll follow it. forsooth;
rir what vou think Is best to do:
1 nuuKII vtri y linn Biuiift wm wo.
Remember there are otners, too
And, anyway, you can t blame mei
The Heal Argument for Religion.
From Collier's Weekly.
For generations theologians have
written learned treatises to prove the
existence of God. Each generation has
overthrown the contentions of its pre
decessor, and forced a restatement of
the arguments. Tel through it all the
faith of -men has gloriously persisted.
with- small regard for the theologies.
natural and dogmatic. One reason fo
this is compactly stated by that in
corrlgble idealist, Rudolf Eucken, in
his newly translated "Knowledge and
Life.":
"The peace of mind end the full
ness of hope which religion brings to
the souls of men have undoubtedly
meant far more than all the efforts
of theologians and philosophers to
iound religion upon a scientific basis.
. It is because religion Is no mere
theory of divine things, but the In
auguration of a -new life, that it can
not possibly doubt the real presence
of a Divine Being within the human
soul."
More and more we Incline to think
that one who has had no experience of
religious power cannot, after all, be
argued into accepting the Divinity and
His religion by any intellectual per
suasion. Tfce person who has experi
enced the saving power of religion
needs no proof of its validity. It is
real to him as love Is to the mothered
child. -
Still Keeping It.
From the Houston Post.
I wish my wife was less firm ln
keeping her New Year resolution.
"What was It?"
"She resolved that X would quit
smoking."
From the Philadelphia North Ameri
can. About the time a young lawyer
named Lincoln was waiting for hi,
first clients out In Sangamon county,
Illinois, nearly 80 years ago, an Eng
lish thinker and leader uttered thee
words:
"Politics have been separated from
household ties and affection, from art
and science and literature. While they
belong to parties, they hsve no con
nection with what Is human and uni
versal; when they become politics for
the people, they are found to take In
a very large field: whatever concerns
man as a social being must be. included
in them.
"Politics have been separated from
Christianity; religious men have sup
posed that their only business was
with the world to come; political men
have declared that the present worll
is governed on entirely different prin
ciples than that. Rut politics for the
people cannot be separated from re
ligion.
"The world is governed by God: this
is the rich man's warning, this Is the
poor man's comfort this Is the real
hope ia the consideration of all ques
tions, let them be as hard of solution
as they may; this Is the pledge that
liberty, fraternity, unity, under some
conditions or other, are Intended for
every people under heaven."
When Frederick I). Maurice SDoke
thus he was not referring to snv union
of church and state. He was enough
of a prophet to see approaching a day
of humanitarianlstn in government; of
social service in the church.
Thus the Chartist movement in Ens-
land paved the way to our present
"Christian-social" movement. And as
the service of society Is the Ideal of
pure politics, the emphasis now nut
upon social service by many of the
churches indicate the manner In
which politics and religion are ap- -proachlng
a A.ommon workina around
and the extent of this cooperation.
At me last national conference of
charities and corrections Dr. Graham
Taylor, the president of that nota'ble
gathering, said there Is a growing con
viction that the church cannot suc
ceed if the community falls snd that
the community cannot succeed if tbe
church fails.
"The citizen." said he, "Is feeling his
need of religion In 'fcfng all that is
disagreeable and problematic in democ
racy, concealing nothing, blinking noth
ing away, and at the same time keep
ing his will -strong and temperate, so
that its edge will never turn For the
citlen 'to meet all his social obliga
tions properly, to pay all his political
debts joyously; never to throw a glance
ever his shoulder to the monastery
tnis is a mighty day s work.' "
Of course, there never can be In this
nation of ours any, union of church and
state. Those who fear such a thing
evidence their ignorance of the basle
principle upon which our government
tests freedom to worship God ln the
way one desires. Tet every day sees
a closer relationship developing be
tween politics and religion.
Every day, as Dr. Taylor suggests,
the state Is becoming more a school
master than the church, which once -did
all the teaching; more of "a care
taker of those who are aged and af
flicted; more of a humanitarian Insti
tution. -
Progresslvism Is preaching that vir
tue is vital to the upbuilding of pollti- "
cal government, just as It Is to tbe "
rearing of the human structure. Lib- "
eral minded churchmen constantly are
emphasizing the need for more atten
tion on the part of religion to the- po
litical needs of the people. The slogan
of spirituality no longer Is sounded
solely la, the pulpit, nor that of eco- .
uomic and social justice solely In tbe
forum.
We see on every side Increasing evi
dence of this marked change. As a re
cent writer says: &.'
"Democracy is a religion or nothing,
with its doctrine. Its forms. Its ritual.
Its ceremonies,' its government as a
church above all. Its organized sacrt- '
fice of the altar, the sacrifice of self.
Democracy .must get rid of the natural
man, of each, for himself, and have a.
r.ew birth Into the spiritual man, the
ideal self of each for all.. Without re
ligion, how Is man, the essentially re-
I ligious animal, to face the roost tre-
viz Dr. Alan Welch 8mith, Thad W.
Vreeland and Dr. L. Victoria Hampton.
The annual inspection of Portland
public school cardena is acherfnled for I mendous of all problems social Jus-
Friday. .:;.. I lice 7 '