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. 'Behind Joy and laughter there
may be a temperament coarse,
.hard and callous. But behind
.sorrow there la always sorrow.
r-Oacar Wild.
A NATION WATTS
HE eenatosa and newspapers
fighting -the rivers and tyar
A)ors bill cannot deceive them
selves. ' It cost $75,000 to open a chan
nel through which to deliver rock
for; the Jetty at the mouth or tne
Colombia. Unlet kept In use by
"passing tugs and barges in the con-
imHnn wnrlr thin rhatinpl Will
quickly close. The government ap
propriation . was long ago exhaust-
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by Portland and Astoria has been
.used and work discontinued.
That means that the channel
opened at a cost or i7t,uuu ib al
ready in disuse and that the clos
ing up process has begun. That,
in turn, means that unless the
rivers and harbors bill be passed
before Congress adjourns, another
$75,000 will have to be spent next
year in doing over again the work
that was done this year at a cost
of $75,000. '
: This is but one case. There are
nthora at th month of th Colum
bia. There are others at Celilo.
There are others on every govern-
4'and in their combined total of de
terioration and loss, they will pre
sent a staggering example of na
, tlonal waste.
No senator can afford to be a
party to such a reckless squander
ing of public money. No senator
cam ever satisfactorily explain to
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ui a cuusiuueuiB wujr ug is at
tempting to defeat the rivers and
harbors bill.
; Is the Besslon to adjourn without
i action, and the riot of prodigal
waste to go on for a. whole year?
The nation waits.
AIR CRAFT IN WAR
IT IS too early In the great Eu
ropean war to determine what
part fighting air craft will have
in deciding the result. But al
ready aeroplanes and dirigibles
have demonstrated their worth in
war, not alone as fighting units,
but as scouts, in fixing ranges and
In keeping the actual fighters in
formed as to the movements and
strength of the enemy.
' It Is agreed by experts that the
air fleets will prove their worth In
scout duty, but as to their being
the determining factor in deciding
the war there Ib a difference of
opinion. Air craft are an uncertain
quantity, for in the recent Balkan
wars they figured but little.
The air strength of European na
tions furnishes some Interesting
.comparisons. Germany and Aus
tria have 880 government aero
planes, 23 dirigibles, and 12 pri
vately owned dirigibles available
for gbvernment use. France, Rus
sia and England are credited with
3 uo government aeroplanes, 40
dirigibles and five privately owned
dirigibles available for government
. use. Italy has 200 government
aeroplanes, seven government dirig-
Ibles and four privately owned dir
glbles , available for government
use.
France, Germany and England
have made greater strides in mili
tary aeronautics than the other
powers of Europe. France has the
largest fleet of aeroplanes, while
Germany leads in dirigibles. The
fleets of Russia and Austria will
probably be used for scout duty.
i,lh a recent public statement Sir
Percy Scott of the British navy
said the aeroplane and submarine
, have revolutionized warfare. "No
" fleet can escape the eye of the
, aeroplane,!' said Admiral Scott. The
, same can be . said of an invading
army. v
IS HISTORY REPEALED?
THERE Is strange doctrine in
New York law under which
the appellate court has- de-
ciaea uu a unnsuan" Science
practitioner may practice healing if
he accept no fee, but may not so
practice U he exact a fee.
- There are hundreds of thousands
df. Scientists in . this country. They
have their chosen opinion, respect
ing ailments and healing, an aver
age Intelligence) and standing, they
rank ) well
'with other human
s-ivuya.
There are those who differ with
tnem on the subject of human ail
ments.
But, there will be few who
will agree with this decision that
It is proper for a Science prac
titioner to ; practice healing with
out a. fee, but criminal if he prac-
ties for a ; fee. s Who in fact, - is
willing to assert, that if not paid
for Science! Dealing is permissible,
but not permissible if paid for?
In morals or in justice, can" $2,
make a difference in the principle
of Christian Science healing? Can
a $2 charge make such healing
wrong, and the absence of a $2
charge make it right?
Christian Scientists, are not a
mob. They are net revolutionists.
They are oa the other hand an emi
nently respectable group, of peo
ple, holding large church proper
ties, commanding large Influence
in the business and professional
world and constituting a social ele
ment of enormous potentiality.
Christian! Science tends to de
velop the higher nature, to mellow
the character and unfold the clean
and moral qualities of its followers.
Why should not this Imposing
multitude of our people be per
mitted to follow their convictions
in their own way under the great
doctrine of the rights of man? Why
should others have privileges that
must be denied to them?
Have we; repealed the great his
toric fact that this government is
founded on religious liberty and
freedom of conscience?
THE GREAT CONFMCT
K
ANSAS rejects Senator Btis-
tow as candidate for re-election.
By 15,000 votes he
was beaten for the Republi
can nomination in the Kansas pri
maries just held. Curtis, the Al
drich - Penrose - Cannon candidate,
was the victor
There is no way to misunder
stand the result. A great nation
wide conflict is on between stand
pat Republican leaders and pro
gressive Republican leaders for con
trol of the party and party organ
ization, and the standpats seem
destined to win.
The issue in Kansas was exactly
the same as in Pennsylvania. In
Pennsylvania, it was a contest be
tween Penrose and a progressive
Republican and Penrose won with
a plurality of more than 16,000.
In Kansas, it was a contest be
tween Bristow, one of the best
known progressive Republicans in
the country, and .Curtis, one of the
most pronounced standDatters in
the country.
In the light of this result in one
of the most progressive states in
the Union, let thero be no mistake
about what is going to happen.
The old standpat exiles who, for
twenty years maintained a . secret
alliance between corrupt politics
and corrupt business, are trying
to come back, and some of them
will succeed.;
They Are going to seize all the
seats they can In Congress. They
are going to seize the party or
ganization and nominate the ticket
In the states, just as they have
aone m Oregon. They are going
to seize and hold the national DartyimolatIon- ' The tourist 4ar a tender
organization. Just as they did in
1912.
In league with the great inter
ests which mix business and poli
tics, they are going to engage in
a gigantic attempt to crush the
great national movement which,
as a result of twenty years of agi
tation, has brought government
close to the people and made It
reflect the wishes and interest of
the people.
All that Republican insurgency
stood for through the past decade
is repudiated in the Kansas pri
maries. All that La FbJlette has.
stood for fs rejected and rebuked.
All that the Progressive party stood
for in 1912 is denounced ia the
nomination of Curtis over Bristow.
All that Wall Street used to
have and still wants, and all that
the fat and sleek manufacturing
millionaires used to have and want
restored to them, is emphatically
approved in the Kansas election.
It is the program that the old
standpat leaders are going to at
tempt to thrust down the throats
of the Republican masses all the
way from Oregon to Maine.
If Oregon Republicans doubt It,
let them study their state ticket
A SUCCESSFUL WARDEN
T
WENTY-ONE years ago Gen
eral Bridges .was appointed
warden of the Massachusetts
state prison at Charlestown.
A few days ago he retired. Be
fore he assumed charge there were
riots and turmoil which the police
of Boston were summoned to quell.
During his administration there
were no riotaj and when he retired
he left a wll; ordered establish
ment and this unfortunates were
sorry to see him go. In these
facts are the highest possible
triDute to bis record which was one
of achievement
General Bridges was an optimist
when he became warden and after-twenty-one
years' association with
convicts retained his optimism.
He believes that there is much
good In.' every one and this belief
is responsible for his successful ad
ministration. He was a strict dis
ciplinarian but svrrmathoHr. am
t just. During; his wardenship old
barbaric forms of punishment were
abolished, day and correspondence
schools established, and prison
stripes gave way to the suit . of
gray. - , -
The ball and chain were elimi
nated. Not long ago he said, "tha
men we have educated or helpedjtectidn within those zones.
j to educate nave never
after they got out."
returned
- H The secret of Warden BridaW
. success was his treatment of tha
prisoners as men whom he urged
to be earnest, rugged, clean and
nonest. He told them, "there is
a lot of good in every one of you
and all I want to do is to bring; class. This means tnat. the pass-1
it sout" 'ing autoistif most " do something
v -- 1 .. . .. 3 ! more than blow his horn and bowl'
LIKE WASHINGTON J
" . i
HE people Of Ihis country have
never had brought home to
, th em BoJorcibly as now
to posing street traffic, and heed-
wiica led Washington to warn the less of the issue of how many ve
yemng naUon to ayoid enUngling hicIea comi from tne four con
alliances. One country after -n-X(,rens. tnrnfaa nM aa
other ':- has 5 been . dragged . into the
maelstrom of war by the jobliga
tidns it assumed in the hope of
avoidingr the clash of arms.
jOn the other hand the meaning
and value of International friend
ship was never more evident. The
people of Italy, in spite of long
stihdlng treaties, refuse to go to
the help of a nation which strove
to! crush their aspirations for nhion
and freedom and may force the
government to come out openly on
thie side of England, the refuge of
Italy's patriots in the days of her
servitude to the Bourbons and
Hapsburgs.
The present administration at
Washington is, not only following
wholeheartedly the policy of keep
ing aloof from dangerous alliances.
but is strengthening the ties of
friendship on every side. History
may reckon this one of ItB greatest
achievements. '
Mexico is being won over from
a deep-seated suspicion of our
aims, the countries of South Ameri
can whose mediation was an cor
dially accepted, will be ready,
should need arise to cooperate
again with us in maintaining peace.
Colombia is coming to regard us
with more friendly eyes. Canada
Is forgettins her lealrma fars.
The Filipinos are realising the hon
orable purpose of our new policy
toward tnem and the bitterness of
their disappointed hopes is dying
out. .
And all this gain in International
good-will has in no way compro
mised our honor or fettered our
independence or fastened a burden
of '.taxation or militarism upon us.
Like Washington, Woodrow Wil
son is charting the . course of this
nation with a decent regard for
the good opinions of mankind.
CAPITALIZE MOUNT HOOD
i
HE plight - of some 300,000
tourists in Europe leads to
the conclusion that one ef
fect of armed strife in the
old world . will be to divert the
American traveler to the surpass
ing; beauty and grandeur of nature
in Shis native land. The "See
America First" movement ought to
become a popular one. . , It should
be iencOuraged by making It pos
sible to "see America." Mountain,
plain, valley, river, lake and ocean
should be made accessible. It is
not! a question of . exploitation so
muiph as it Is one of providing com
fortable transportation and acco in
person rand will not" undergo hard-
snip or discomfort When trans
portation is . nrovided means of
accommodation will soon follow.
Tft Pacific Northwest can be
made one of the greatest play
grounds in the world both for sum
mer and winter use. Within a few
hours' ride of Portland there are
objects of interest greater in num
ber f and variety than in Switzer
land, which is supported by the
revenue it derives from Its capital
ized scenery. .
That travel will come as soon as
meams for caring for It are estab
lished is demonstrated by the
largie number of tourists In British
Columbia, Seatte and Tacoma this
summer. People In this section
are live to the ever-growing yield
of capitalized scenery and are mak
ing theiy beauty spots accessible
by constructing good and perma
nent roads to them.
Every tourist that comes to
Portland 'has heard of Mount Hood
and lis disappointed when he learns
he cannot easily go there.
He has heard of other attractive
and; health-giving spots' within a
short radius of the city but he can
not jget to them in comfort. As a
result he only spends a few hours
and Ihurrtes on. If he could have
reached all the places of which he
has heard, his visit might have
been; of an indefinite length.
California's winter tourist busi
ness amounts to $35,000,000 an
nually. Next year, exposition "year,
it is expected there will be,150,
000 : touring automobiles in the
state. If only 10,000 of these
should come through Oregon , it
would mean the bringing of $3,
000,00 of money into the state.
This ; is a very ' modest estimate.
This ; amount would build not only
a road to Mount Hood but to sev
eral other places.
Thiere is no -crop so profitable as
the tourist crop. The beauty of
it is that it does not cost much to
harvest it,
IN PORTLAND
HERE seems to be" practical
jcommoh sense in chalking, off
la route for pedestrians in
crossing thoroughfares at im
portant street intersections. .
It is a good thing for pedes
trians to keep within these lines.
On the other hand, when they do
bo, it should be distinctly: under
stood; by the authorities and an-
toistsj that they are to have pro-
Portland is out of the village
class.) The growth of cities brings
-inevitable problems In street tran
sit. Pne of them is the respective
rights of pedestrians and vehicle
j traffic
I It twill never be admitted that
j all the privileges belong to one
along without care or thought of
who is In hi war. i
It also mean., that the nedes-
trian has no right to diagonal a
DUsy street intersection, oblivious
by his Qnreasonable act.
There is order in the plan of
chalking off the routes at busy
crossings. Best of all, there Is
safety, and this is and ought to
be a day of safety firstv
Whatever happens It Is safe to
predict that no French general will
f eTiitf V( 1m i . . ....
uuien up m (oe ioruiiea
town of Metz as did Marshal Ba-
zaine in 1870.
Letters From the People
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mmucatioB ia thl department should bo wrtt-
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mmuiB pHQUSQSa, BO SSOUid SO lUtf. )
ououssioo Is the grcatost ot an reform
till "rationalises overthinf it touches. It
robs principles of all false sanctity and
throws tnem back on their reasonableness. If
. " no reasonableness, it ruthlessly
crones tbm out of existence and sets up its
own conclusions in their stead." Woodrow
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Prohibition and Old Parties.
Nawport, Or., Aug. 8. To tha Edi
tor or Tne Journal in all kindness
and with duo respect for our "Plsgah
Mower, i cannot reconcile the firat
paragraph of her letter, dated August
l. with the facta. She aaya: "Since
tha political parties have placed in
their platforms tha nrohthitinr, mnir
the Prohibition party has reached the
aemin. or its glory and accomplished
iU ends." If this be true, wa
succeeded far beyond our moat en
tnuslastio expectations. But is It
true? "The political parties have
placed," she aaya. What parties? It
wen Known that tha two old mr
ties, nationally, have refuaed time aft
er time, to adopt a prohibition planlc
or do the least thing- to favor tem
perance or prohibition. What are the
leaders and leading candidates of
these parties doing la Oregon JuBt
now? They are using their utmost
ability to take the question of prohibi
tion out of politics entirely.
No, the Prohibition party has not
yet "reached the senlth of ita glory,"
or "accomplished its ends." True, "the
multitudes want It." The better ele
ments of all partus want it. The
Prohibition party and the W. C. T. U.
have faithfully kept .up the fight .The
Anti-Saloon league, non-partisan, and
other forces are ably assisting; but
none are ready to fold their pinions
and rest. We will do that only when
there is a Prohibitionist In the presi
dential chair and the last grog shop
is forever closed.
As I finish this letter my flag flies
at half mast, on the demise of Mrs.
Wilson, due to over exertion in philan
thropic work. Listen: "Mrs. Wilson
has been greatly interested In the
elimination of the slums here.- Bills
were drafted at her request recently
to eliminate them, but they have been
delayed. Yesterday" (day before her
demise) "Mrs. Wilson requested their
immediate passage, and it was be
lieved, congress" would - act at once."
Can congress turn a deaf ear to this
righteous request?
If Chafin had been elected Instead
of Taft, the closing of Washington's
slums would have been his and the
party's first official act. When they
are closed in every nook and corner,
we will "fold our pinions and rest"
E. W. DURKEB.
Knowles and Primitive Man.
North Bend, Or., Aug. 8. To the Ed
itor of The Journal We read much
about Knowles, nature faker, who
comes from Maine, and in large type
proclaims that he will combat with the
forest wilds for 60 days to prove that
man can outwit nature; that he will
return well and happy; that he will not
forfeit his life, but, if outdone, will re
turn and admit defeat. Now, joe sure
ly would not let primitive man put
anything over on him. Primitive man
never admitted defeat. The very fact
that we are here now, a mighty race,
is evidence that primitive man did
what Joe is doing, ages and ages ago,
without any previous knowledge to aid
him, and he a creature whose brain
power was limited, and he won.
Knowles1 stunt' is rather tame. He has
the knowledge of ages to assist him in
a CO day vacation in the forests of
southern Oregon; the means of procur
ing fire (primitive method) is known
by half of our school children, who
have reached the seventh grade; among
the Boy Scouts can be found many
who can make traps, dead falls and
snares from' what nature provides, and
with no other tools except their hands;
many books, papers and magazines de
vote a page or two to explaining how
Indians, trappers and hunters make
traps and snares from materials sup
plied by the woods alone; our hills
abound with fruit and nuts that will
sustain life. Aside -from the mosquito
bite, which can be avoided more or
less, his vacation should not be marred
In the least.
If Knowles really wants to do some
thing to benefit mankind, let him re
turn to civilization, don the garb of a
working man, and show us how . to
iteep up with the high cost of livins.
We have been trying It quite awhile.
LOU S. ISENBERG.
On the Abuse of Instincts.
Portland, Or Aug. 10. To the Edi
tor of he Journal Addle Steadman
says: "If It were hot for man's Ipve
for woman and woman's love for man.
there would be no neglected love and
no Jealousy, hence no murder and sui
cide caused by these normal senti
ments gone -wrong." To this, W. S.
Hollis objects, and attempts a reductlo
ad adsurdum in the following lan
guage: "Therefore they who do not
commit murder and suicide evidently
do not have this love." And continu
ing, he says that Addle Steadman's
"epitaph" (sic) must be: "I have
love in my heart and am a murderer,
or I do not have love la my heart."
This is a fair sample of prohibi
tion logic Addle Steadman's position
is unassailable. The food-instinct, for
instance, is beneficent, but when
abused it leads to gluttony (intemper
ance in eating), ad gluttony Is often
the "efficient cause" of gout, rheuma
tism, nephritis and other serious phys
ical disorders. - Now, applying Mr.
Hollis logic shall we myt v "There
fore, they who r have not got gout,
rheumatism, nephritis, etc, evidently
do not have-appetites?, :
And has Mr. Hollis never heard of
the Freudian psychology? According
to the. eminent ; alienist, Dr. Freud,
possibly 90 per cent of the nervous
disorders of. the race arise from sup
pressed or "perverted sex Impulses.
Much of the world's crime can be
traced to the same source. Again,
applying Mr. Hollis logic shall we
say. that they who have not nervous
HOd'S H00
By John W. . Carey.
t i f
Who held the glare a few brief
weeks as minister to Greece, and by
his conversation did disturb all Eu
rope's peace?
Who bad not been upon the Job one
week ere he essayed to solve the
problems all which long Ye Powers
had dismayed?
Who told from out the Balkans how
he'd take the well known balk, to do
the trick proceeding then to talk and
talk and talk?
Who spieled with all the freedom of
his days upon the stump until from
Washington came this; "Hi homeward
on the Jump?"
Who sure can talk and at the bar
may be well in the van, but as a dip
lomat shines not? That George Fred
Williams man.
disorders or Impulses to crime evi
dently do not have love, or the sex
instinct?
Some individuals are Intemperate in
the matter of drink. This undoubted
ly leads to many evils. Therefore,
says the prohibitionist, let us prohibit
the manufacture or sale of all alco
holic beverages. But here axe others
who are intemperate in eating, which
also Is productive of much evil In
the world. Go to, then; let us pro
hibit the production of all foodstuffs.
Still others abuse - the sex instinct.
which also leads to pain and suffer
ing. Therefore, "Get thee to a nun
nery," as Hamlet said to Ophelia, or
like the oriental ascetic, "Make your
selves eunuchs for the kingdom of
heaven's sake." If prohibition is the
solution for the problem of evil in
the world, let us carry It to the limit.
EDWARD ADAMS CANTRELL.
The Grist of the Courts.
Portland. Or., Aug. 10. To the Edi
tor of The Journal The dally grist
ground out In our municipal court is
witness against our criminal and In
sane policy of tolerating the rum traf
fic. In The Journal of August 6, un
der the following heads, I read a few
snore news items significant of the
destructive power of rum. and the
utter lawlessness of those engaged
in its sale: "Liquor causes accident;
six young people injured"; all of them
minors and drunk. "Proprietor is
fined $100 for operating a blind pig
in Portland." "Five are bound over."
etc. saloonkeepers and barkeepers. No
doubt a large majomy of the 1000
drunks arrested in Portland In June
and July were at one time the "re
spectable customers" that Mr. Ruth
says the saloons can reel proud of,
but the usual-end of the saloon cus
tomer Is dally sewn in the finished
product, and when all is said that is
what we have to deal with. Any man
who is a daily customer of the saloon
is gradually going; downward and los
ing his self respect,, and that of the
community. He does not reach bot
tom in a day, but as a good custom
er of the saloon, time must be the
essence of his degradation and de
struction. Mr. Ruth's sophistry must
be apparent to all.
Vote dry, for Mollis, home and the
babies! A. J. MARTIN.
Personal liberty.
Lents. Aug. S. To the Editor of
The Journal The question of personal
liberty seems to be a badly mixed
problem. We are told it is of para
mount importance, that some men are
to be allowed to manufacture, for un
limited beverage purposes, something
that is universally known to be harm
ful to both young and old. The sa
loonkeeper ' must have the personal
liberty tr sell to whoever desires It
and has the coin. But woe betide the
customer - who consumes enough to
make him a disturber of the defenders
of personal liberty. Forthwith he has
no personal liberty. The policeman
maybe pounds him over the head and
drags him before the court; thence he
goes to the rockpile, and often goes
there dazed and pitifully incapa
ble of caring for himself. This
goes on endlessly: Why . not the
strong arm of the law to Interfere
with the man who makes and sells?
Put him on the rockpile and put the
drinking man in a hospital and treat
him for his diseased appetite and re
store him to society a really free man.
Why this distinction between the
weak and sick, and the strong and
selfish?
For It is certainly true that
drunkenness Is a disease and should
be treated as such. Also the habitual
moderate drinker Is continually In
danger of being a drunkard and no
amount of alcohol is good for the body.
PHEBE HAMMER.
This Grief We Knew Not.
From the Chicago Herald.
The eyes of all thinking Americans
the eyes of all humane mn and
women throughout the world have
been fixed on Woodrow Wilson, presi
dent of the United States, In the hope
that be might be able to do something
to ward off or end the greatest calam
ity that has ever befallen the human
race. .
We kfcew he could do little or noth
ing. Yet we hoped he could do some -
thing. We have seen him doinar all
he could. Tet some of us have been
Impatient, perhaps, tbat he did not do
more. Some of us have thrust upon
him advice, even cries and clamor, to
do this or. that
Absorbed In contemplation of a
world calamity fearful lest it might
somehow, hurt us we knew not oi
have forgotten if we knew, what
might B the griefs of -Woodrow Wil
son the Man, as well as the burdens
of Woodrow Wilson the President
- He hid that private, grief as long
as it could be hidden.- With his high
sense of. public duty he avoided ex
posing that grief lest It might seem
that ho put It forward as an excuse
for not doing more for humanity at
large. .
If any of us have found fault with
him, what must now be our shame
when we learn that Woodrow Wil
son's appeal to the warring nations
for peace was written as her sat by
the bedside of his dying wife.
This grief he had we knew not
Knowing it, the hearts of all his peo
ple, go out in sympathy to Woodrow
Wilson to the President who hid his
private grief lest it might seem ' to
hinder him In his pubiio ' duty to
Woodrow Wilson ths Man! , t
PERTINENT COMMENT
QMALIa CHAXGB
Honest labor is the best wheal of
fortune.
Many si man's self-conceit la due to
ignorance.
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Experience would fail as a teacher
in a correspondence school. '
Many - a young man buys flowers
for an heiress as an investment.
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Every man who isn't prominent im
agines that he wUl jt some day
Some men are satisfied with half a
loaf, and some loaf all the time.
A woman may lose out by trying to
sr a
Europe, and especially in the Balkans.
Unless w are willing to admit our
ignorance we can never acquire
Knowledge.
Some candidates lose out because
they are unknown and some because
may axe too wen known.
We often wonder what the Lord
thinks of the loafers who sit around
on empty store boxes and criticise the
weamer.
No doubt you are acauslnted with
i a lot of men who are always on the
raggea eage or doing something won
derful and that's as far as they ever
get
THE TWILIGHT
From the Chicago Tribune.
Before establishing hell on earth the
pietistio kings commend their subjects
to God. Seek the Lord's sanction for
the devil's work.
"And now I commend you to God."
said .the kaiser from his balcony to
the people in the street. "Go to church
and kneel before God and pray for His
help for our gallant army."
Pray that a farmer dragged from a
Saxon field shall be speedier with a
bayonet thrust than a .winemaker taken
from his vines in the Aube; that a
Berlin lawyer shall be steadier with
the rifle than a Moscow merchant;
that a machine gun manned by Heidel
berg students shall not Jam and that
one worked by Paris carpenters shalL
Pray that a Bavarian hop grower,
armed in a quarrel in which he has no
heart, shall outmarch a wheat grower
from Poltava; that Cossacks from the
Don shall be lured into barbed wire
entanglements and caught by masked
guns; that an Innkeeper of Salzburg
shall blow the head off a baker from
ths Loire.
"Go to church and pray for help"
that the hell shall be hotter in inno
cent Ardennes than it is in equally in
nocent Hessen; that it shall be hot
ter In Innocent Kovno than In equally
Innocent Posen.
And ths pletlstic csar commends his
subjcts to God that they may have
strength of arm in a quarrel they do
not understand; that they may inflict
more sufferings than they are required
to endure and the name of Romanoff
AMERICAN TRADE
By "John M. Oskison.
This Isn't another 1907, so far as the
banks of the country are concerned.
A panic of prices has come, but not a
bank panic
Beginning with the small business
man in any one of the thousands of
American cities and towns, he is not
apt to conclude that, because the big
powers of. Europe are spitting and
snarling, or even tearing fur out of
each others backs, his own business
will be ruined unless he immediately
takes all of his deposits out of the
bank and arranges to borrow all be
can to protect his business.
Next, the "country bank" (which
means the -small bank) will not have
to hustle to call in cash to pay import
ant depositors. They will not have to
ask borrowers on "demand" to raise at
once Or work themselves gray to raise
cash on gilt-edge paper not yet due.
They will not call upon the banks in
the "reserve" cities to send on what
they have on deposit with their bigger
brothers.
So far as the big banks in the re
serve centers are concerned, they will
limit their loans only to those whose
business has an International char
acter. They will want to know more
about the credit of any European mer
La Grande Observer: The Prohi
bitionists of Oregon should cheer up,
for they really lost nothing in U'Ren's
refusing to accept their nomination.
Prohibition did not get very far as a
political Unit In most cases where
it has . been adopted state-wide it had
been a vehicle on which some ambi
tious candidate staked his poUttcal
future and won, but as we read his
tory the candidate has never been the
nominee of the Prohibition party.
Oregon City Enterprise: The race
for governor narrows down to a con-
-j test between Smith and Withycombe,
now that tTRen. the local aspirant
has proved to be a traitor to the Pro
hibitionists and has lost a large part
of the small following he once pos
sessed. Mr. U'Ren went through the
not altogether pleasant experience of
being caught in his own trap. The
plan of TTRen to secure double rep-
resentation on the ballot, which would
seem contrary to such noble ideas
as are expressed in his favored dream,
proportional representation, failed to
work, and now that he was forced to
make a choice between Prohibition and
Independency, ha naturally offended
half of his followers. The feelings of
, the drys are well expressed in recent
I interview which have been obtained
1 from th leaders in that party. U'Ren
thought that by being the leader of
two factions, the Independents and the
Prohibitionists, he could secure an ad
vantage over his rivals which would
mean much. In the winter he an
nounced his Intention of running as
an Independent He withdrew from
the Republicans because he said that
no party as then organized could ex
press th scops of his own views. He
struck out alone and was Independent
until the Prohibition convention, when
he received the honor of heading the
ticket of that party, only a short time
after he said that no political organ
ization could take in the breadth of
bis ideas. He made a speech of ac
ceptance and .thanked the convention
for ths nomination. Now, a few weeks.
before the election, he deserts the
nomination which he bad accepted and
turns down the party which he bad
chosen to honor him. .
Roseburg News: "TTRen, the erst
while candidate oa . the. Prohibition
ticket for governor of this state, in
trying to hit two birds with one stone
has apparently missed both, for it is
announced from beaaijuarters of that
party that they are under no partic
ular obligation to throw any influ
i, ,
1 COMMENT ON U'REN
ence his way sine be deserted th
AND NEWS IN BRIEF 1 1
OREGON SIDELIGHTS I
Indiana people residing at or about
Newberg have organised a society more
than 100 strong and will noia a grand
picnic August 31. at the city park in
Newberg. 4 .
The Business Men's club of Canny
has completed all plans for a ferry
across the Willamette river and bought
a boat, which will be in operation in a
few weeks.
Dallas Observer: Many people In
th Willamette valley do not know
they re living In paradise. They are
Just beginning to learn it from people
wno visit tnem irom tne east.
The Bonania Bulletin, published by
J. O. Hammaker, has suspended publi
cation. The fire that visited the town
last January deprived it of living sup
port, and its demise is now recorded.
The Medford Mall-Tribune Jocularly
says a number of the members of the
Seventh comoanv imaclne tney win te
railed to Fort Stevens to protect the
Paciflo coast from an imaginary at
tack by a couple of German cruisers
who happen to be sojourning in west
ern Mexican waters, v
Woodburn Independent: Many Ore
gonians may disoose or tneir Oregon
holdings, but few will leave the state.
If one is successful in selling at a
good figure, he looks around for a bar
ruin or aroea to a town for a Well
earned rest. If it were not for these
two reasons there, would not be many
farms, especially in the Willamette
valley, for saie.
OF THE KINGS
be greater than the name of Ho hen
sollern, that it may be greater than
the name of Hapsburg, that its terri
tories shall be wider and the terri
tories of Hohenzollern and the terri
tories of Hapsburg less.
The pletlstic emperor of Austria
commends his subjects to God, to saeit
divine assistance to crush the peasants
of Servia. -dragged from the wBeat
field when It was ready for the scythe,
and given to the scythe themselves.
This Is. we think, the last call of
monarchy upon divinity when Asmod
eus walks in armor. The kings wor
ship Baal and call it God,-but out of
the sacrifice will come, we think,
resolution firmly taken to have no
more wheat growers and growers of
corn, makers of wine, miners and fish
ers, artisans and traders, sailors and
storekeepers offered up with prayer to
the Almighty in a feudal slaughtr.
armed against each other without hate
and without cause they know, or, if
they knew, would give a penny which
way it was determined.
This is the twilight of the kings.
Western Europe of the peojpe may be
caugnt in mis aeoacie, out never again.
Eastern Europe of the kings will be re
made and the name of God shall not
give grace to a hundred square miles
of broken bodies.
If Divinity enters here it comes with
a. sword to deliver the people from the
sword.
It is the twilight of the kings. The
republic marches east in Europe.
AT THIS CRISIS
chant who buys and sends to America
a bill of exchange. They will wan
less stock and bond securities as col
lateral for loans.
So the logical effect will be, if thi
program Is followed out. to make th
supply of usable money in America
larger, rather than smaller. And thi
increase will come at a very fortunate
time. It will be needed to help move
the extraordinary crops; the excess
will flow back to the small towns, to
the small banks, which are the financial
backbone of the country.
That American bankers are quick to
see the real significance of a situation
such as confronts the world is a trl
but to their sense and sound educa
tion. They have learned through their
experience In financing international
trade that they have a big and Import
ant part in the world of finance. They
are not likely to lose their heads now.
Some bankers regret that the new
reserve bank system is not In opera
tion yet They think that it would do
a great deal to Insure the steadiness
of credit in case a panic of fear should
descend upon America,
At this time, however, there dees
not seem to be any cause for alarm so
far as the banks of the country are in
volved. party to run a an Independent. In
making the choice as to how he would
be enrolled on the ballot, TTRen cov
ertly threw out the suggestion that
the Prohibitionists leave the nomina
tion of a candidate for governor blank,
and the party vote be .cast for him.
but this does not meet the views of
the leaders and they are showing him
the cold shoulder. intimating that
their cause cannot be used as a cats
paw to pull out U'Ren's political chest
nuts, or to further his ambition in any
direction.
Salem Statesmani TTRen turns
down the Prohibition nomination for
governor, choosing to run independent.
This kills his chances of election or
rather it would kill his chances if he
had any.
Eugene Register: Those who have
suspected that Mr. TTRen'a sudden fer
vor for the cause of prohibition was
dictated by political expediency rather
than personal conviction have had
their suspicions confirmed. So long
as the sage of Oregon City could
make the Prohibition party a tail to
his Independent-single tax kite, he
was a bitter and uncompromising en
emy of the Demon Rum. He shouted
that th cause of prohibition was the
greatest question that confronts Ore
gon, and thundered at the other candi
dates for governor to Join him in a
hand-to-hand struggle with the liquor
interests. So long as he could be at
the same time an Independent candi
date and the candidate of the Prohi
bition party Friend TTRen was the
white-plumed knight of the water
wagon. He uttered in clarion tones
his conviction that in comparison with
a dry Oregon all other questions paled
into insignificance. He dedicated him
self to the high and holy cadse of
driving the saloon and all its hangers
on across the borders of our fair state,
and he branded all other candidates as
traitors to the public welfare. But
when it became a question of choos
ing between the Prohibition party and
an Independent candidacy, he turned
hi 'back on his Prohibition friends. It
is on of the great pitie that the
cause of prohibition is made the foot
ball of every charlatan who, like
U'Ren, is willing to use it as long
as It may be of personal advantage
to him but is ready to drop It as
soon as It becomes an embarrassment
Too True.
Pearson's Weekly,
As part of a holiday treat a little
boy wa taken recently to St Paul's
cathedral. When he returned, home
some well meaning persons proceeded
to worry him as to what he bad seen
in the cathedral.
"And did you see ths tombs of all
OUTDOING FICTlONl"
From the Detroit News.
"Extree, extreet All about ths bis?
War! ' The newsbov'a chant hia th
same tone and rhythm he would use
for a railroad wreck. He la busy, her
is excited, he Is totally, uncompre-
bending. He knows that the powers -are
at each other's throats. That bars ':
xact we all know, and yet the wisest t
and most perceptive has but little ad-H
vantage over the newsboy In compre-;:
handing.
We are bombarded hv nwa that
shocks and stuns without penetrating.
Strongly imaginative fiction writers. ,
rvipnng. Wells. London, Verne and
others, have let themselves loose in -times
past on the effort to visualize
warfare such as now Imnpmt Wa -
have thrilled to some of these stories,
nn tne submerged certitude that they "
were fabrication. Now the cables pour
upon us more stories, and w struggle
against tne conviction tbat it cannot
be.
"The unspeakable crime of the cen
turies" Is one rharacterizatlon of the
thing now being done. It also is the
unthinkable crime, the Impossible, the
unbelievable crime.
We try to Picture battleships in
hundreds, skulking, unltghted. through
roreign seas; we try to conceive what
will happen when fleet meets fleet,
but it Is as though we mere reading
an entertaining magazine tale. The
historians of the next generation, of
the next century, will have the first
true version of what we now behold.
Ten million armed men. we hear,
are on the march. Ten million is easy
to say or to write. The wires spit out
the words glibly, type takes thera up.
our eye snatches at them. But tea
million far surpass human capacity
for understanding. As the distance
to the sun is not, in our minds, a mat
ter or miles, but of figures, so the da
tails of what la happening- oversea can
be assimilated only in skotchy outline.
The largest cities of the world are
in -turmoil, dispatches Inform us. Com.,
merce is panic-stricken and the shad
ow of famine is cast where a week ago
was luxurious plenty. Conflict by land
or sea or air may rage at this mo
ment We on this side the AUantio have s
better picture, probably, than is af-
forded those In the swelter of alarms, ,
yet when we alt soberly to Question
the possibilities of the next day or
the next week, our imaginations grope
feebly and surrender.
The civilization that has brought
forth the dreadnaught- and the dirigible.
the wireless aud the submarines,
trembles as this century's science,
threatens to become the tool of hide-,
ous catastrophe. History's long list
of wars has nothing to help us meas
ure the horrors with which the next
hour may be pregnant
Militarism as Well as Absolutism,
From the Chicago Post
It is well to blame the war on th
absolute power of the European mon
arch s.
But absolutism alone cannot account
for this sudden sweeping away of all
the guards of civil government, all the
aspirations and embodiments of dem
ocracy. The ruthless power of kings cannot
explain the sudden substitution of
soldiers for the carefully built power
of the state.
Back of absolutism Is . militarism,
Back of the throne Is the standing
army.
The simple existence of the great
armies of Europe has been an influ
ence toward war that must teach the
world as clear a lesson as that which
it will gam from this glaring proof
of the evils of monarchism.
Ever since William I established the
system of compulsory eulistment In
Prussia, Germany has been building
up Its army. France was not far be
hind. Austria followed in self-defense.
For years' on years these great en
gines of war have been building. Their
growth has not been checked by the
peace propaganda or by tlie incursion
Into government of the industrial
masses.
On the contrary, the last twelve
month has seen both France and Oer
many Increase the term of -enlistment.
Think of the lure of these perfect
military machines waiting to be used.
The artless dispatch from England in
the brief preliminaries reveals this
unmistakably. "Winston Churchill,
it said, "though first lord of the ad
miralty, has never seen an English
fleet In action. He Is extremely in
terested in doing so."
Take it out of terms of war. Think
of the simple human eagerness to "try"
any bit of machinery developed for
any particular purpose. Henry Ford.
the young odd-Jobs man, could not
even wait to experiment with his first
little automobile until he had it per
fected. For years the great silent pressure
of armaments must have borne al
most Irresistibly upon the kings in
trusted with their command.
It was a double pressure. Aside
from the lure, there must have been
a growing fear by the monarchs that
militarism would topple over of Its
own weight Although the popular re
volt against it has had little effect,
yet such monarchical proposals as the
"year's truce" In navy building show
that even the war lords were uneasy
at the overgrowth of their own handi
work. To draw from this dreadful spec
tacle a deepened abhorrence for th ir
responsible sway of kings is wel--
But the power of kings could not
have brought on war had It not rested
upon the power of great armies. How
can an unorganized people offer effec
tive resistance to an army?
When our vision begins to clear suf
ficiently to -e the meaning of this
confused and unreasoning conflict we
must give tp the common people of
Europe our sentimental support not
only against royal autocracy but also
against militarism.
For 60 rears the people have paid
for militarism with toil and money.
Now they are paying for It with life,
the brave soldiers?" was one ques
tion. "Yes," said Willie, with enthusiasm.
"And Isn't it. fine to think of all th
great deeds they did?" the well mean
ing person continued. !
"I s'pose so," Willie admitted grudg
ingly. "But on their tombstones it
Just said they'd defeated the French:
an' they couldn't have defeated them
very much, 'cos they're all dead an"
the French are still alive."
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