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s 10 V THE v OREGON DAILYl JOURNAL? PORTLAND, - TUESDAY; - AUGUST 1; 1916, 1 it . t t H H AIT IlfbgPgWPEWT KtWBPAPIR, C. g. JACKSON. .Pabllsbef t'cHlabed every day. afteraooa and nomine (except Sunday afternoon), at The Journal " fcolldlnf, Broadway gad Tsmhlll itwt, ' : Portland, Or. toured at the postofftce at Portland. Or., for tranamiaatoB t&reage tba gaalls ee earned claw sastter. - TELEPHONES Mala 7173: Horn. A-SU61. All departmeats reached by these Bombers. ' Tall tba peers y?r what department roe want. roacioa ajdvcktisinu bkphkskntatiye ,v' Benjamin at Kanrnor Co.. Brunswick Bide. 3W5 Irifth At., Maw York. 1218 People's ir ka Bklg., Cnktgo. - subscription terms by mall or to any addrsse la the United MtaUs or Mexico: it - DAILY (MORNING OB AFTERNOON) toe J,ear....,..,f3.00 Ona mouth .SO , SUNDAY. reef... $2.60 On month . DAILX. IM0BNINO OR AFTERNOON) AND SCNDAT. Ona -ear.. ......$7.50 t Ona month t .68 Amarlea aaka nothing for beraelf bat wbt 1 litliui right to ask tor humanity Itself. ,i - WOOD ROW WILSON. ' Million for defeiwe, but not cent for tribute. CHARLES C. I'lNCKNEY. J'i ' n . War la tba moat reckless and prodigal wester of time, property, llfe, of tia bapplneaa of families anil fie prosperity of nations, the world hat 1 erf r known. It la fbe destroyer of coinniarre. the hot bad of rice, tba nursery of Intemperance, tba school of profaoeness. the violator of tba Sabbath, the promoter of fcrueltr the pander of Inst, the ruin of .-fioraU tv, the despiser of the Decalogue, iKe contemner of Ood. the wholesale but her of men. tba antagonist of the soajbal, the (rlef of angels, the tor of deTllT It baa d.r.e . mora to make the world or rait Oolgotbs, to unpeople earth and yf-nplr hell, than : any other form of aln Jfnrier which earth baa ever groaned and- auf fered and over iWDIcb angeit ever wpt. sir p. HldniT. TWO AWFUL YEARS T HE great war is two years old today. War on Russia was de clared by Germany August 1. 1914. It had been preceded by the assassination of Archduke Ferdi nand of Austria, June 28, and by an ultimatum sent by Austria to 8erbia, July 23. - August 2 German forces entered ' Luxembourg, ?and Germany de manded tree passage through Bel glum. August 4, Great Britain de manded that Germany observe the neutrality of Belgium. On the same day, Germany rejected the j British ultimatum and attacked Liege. August 5 England an nounced a state of war with Ger- .many. This was the beginning. Two years finds the frightful conflict more ferocious and more deadly than " ever. Twp years of inde scribable welter has settled noth- , lng. The purpose on both sides is as unbending as at the outset. " Millions of dead, other millions Of cripples, and oceans of women's tears, have accomplished nothing. More than 55 billions of money have been spent in the killing with out changing a purpose, altering a plan or modifying a policy of tha warring governments. ' Three times as much monev has '3 been spent ftF-the struggle as all Jv, the railroads of America are worth, Jt- and the end is far; away. The gi t gantlc, incomprehensible money 'I cost is more than five-eighths of f all the wealth accumulated in IJ Great Britain or In Germany h through all the ages. This tre jp mendous money expenditure, which v Is so stupendous that no man can form the faintest idea of its vast- f ness, has decided nothing. K ' Every four days the nations en gaged are spending more money than was spent in building the Panama canal, the vastest engineer ing achievement in human history. 1 The supreme effort of each nation f j Is to kill or mutilate as many hu man beings as possible. All the fury, all the passion, all j i the .ferocity, all the barbarism, all the-murder, all the massacre, all j the rirers of blood, all the ruin of i j beautiful cities, all the human I ; wretchedness, all the intensified 1 : grief, all the horrible elements in this stupendous cockpit in Europe, with agony piled on agony for two terrible years, have settled nothing. How much longer this greatest cataclysm that ever befell the earth will continue is beyond human 5 knowledge. 1 ' And in the end, it will be around : . J. a long table where negotiators will ' I sit and discuss the Issues, that, a J settlement will be reached. J ? Why. did not the madmen who f brought "on this lapse into barbar- I Ism gather around the table and preach; an agreement in the begirt' las; without bringing upon their ; peoples the unmeasurable agonies 4t . .Vi. .1 . - ut luis uusyuHnaoie war 7 What a blessing to the unfortu- vji uau yvvyreo, il tueir rulers uaa been men bent on keeping their I nations in peace! ' - As the third year of t4 great ; 1 war opens, the fighting nations-are r struggling over much the same j -ground .that they contended for in k he beginning. The madness of J men is something lncomprehen i sible. A CALL FOR SOBS ' "' " " " 1 1 HE astute railroads are dis , playing , big advertisements In "the rural press to excite pub- " rHf Artlnttn airalnaf li V. - ened 'hours ' sought by theli em j ployes.-from one point ofS view f this Is -encouraging. v It denotes I progress 'since the dear old days !,T wtea tha raIlro4ds maintained a "pablic-be-d d", attitude. And yet we are not Quite certain about It; "Damning" the public may be as wholesome, in tha end, as fool-! lnsr.it. j This "ad," consecrated to the be- fogment of the bucolic intelligence, tells the farmers that they pay three billion dollars a year for transportation. And out of every dollar thus dispensed "44 cents go to the employes." Such Is the substance of the pathetic appeal. It is aimed directly at the hearts of the farmers who are supposed to sweat blood for every penny they pay out to "hired help." Some of them do and some do not. There is a growing feeling among farmers that hired help are entitled to good treatment and de cent pay. Our rural friends are learning that the beat way in the world to distribute wealth fairly and keep money in healthfjul circu lation is to pay it out to those who do the world's work. There is some spectacular beauty in turning everything over to the monkey dinner contingent to spend on poodle dogs and British dukes, but upon the whole it seems better for the country to give a goodly share of it to the workers. Hence the railroads do not scare many by telling us that "a hundred million dollar wage advance in freight and yard service is equiva lent to a 6 per cent advance In freight rates." Their appeal to the rural mind for sympathy may wring tears from the simple but the prudent will examine the wood pile for the "nigger." When you think America should be for "deeds, not words," note the fact that Europe has been at war two years today and that noth ing is settled yet. MR HUGHES' SPEECH T HE conspicuous note in Sir. Hughes' speech of acceptance is a condemnation of Presi dent Wilson's policy toward Europe and Mexico. It insists that the president should have done something that he has not done, but it does not explain what that something is. As the president went to the extreme limit in diplomacy, Mr. Hughes' demand for something more can be accepted only as an appeal to the war spiri of the country. His condemnation of the presi dent's Mexican policy is a condem nation of Abraham Lincoln's Mex ican policy. In trying to make an issue,, Mr. Hughes has deliberately thrown Abraham Lincoln over board and repudiated Lincoln'3 record of resistance to those who clamored for Mexican Intervention. Mr. Hughes chose the issue that will weaken him as a candidate. Whatever his Innermost convic tions, he is the candidate of the war makers, Is backed by the war makers and is making his appeal to 1 the country with the viewpoint of the war makers. He cannot' successfully make a war party out of the Republican party. Lincoln Republicans will not follow him in such a policy, and the great masses of the . Repub licans are still Lincoln Repub licans. With Mr. Hughes attacking President Wilson for keeping this country at peace both with Europe and Mexico, with Mr. Hughes at tacking President Wilson for pur suing the same foreign policy that Lincoln pursued, Lincoln Repub licans will desert Mr. Hughes by regiments and brigades. As a candidate, Mr. Hughes is weaker today than when he was nominated. His speech of accept ance will not strengthen, but will further weaken him before the country. Every four days the fighting na tions of Europe are spending on the war more money than the Pan ama canal cost, and yet there are those who think America ought'to get" into a war. F. C. B. P YTHIANTSM is friendship. It is charity. It Is benevolence. It goes to the bedside to comfort those in pain. It goes to the home of widows and orphans to extend succor and relief. It stands beside the fraternal brother and ministers to his dis tress. It sustains him and his fam ily If he be incapacitated. It holds him up and nourishes him if he is In weakness. It watches over him and his near iin if he is helpless. Pythianlsm is one of the guar dian angels of mankind. It binds together a brotherhood of friend ship. It recruits on its rolls a great army to do charity. It is an army that marches under a beauti ful banner of benevolence. Pythianlsm spreads seeds of kindness broadcast among human atoms. It teaches a gentle phil osophy of good deeds and human brotherhood. It holds aloft a bea con whose radiance shines over the dark places of the earth, reflecting tidings of succor and relief. The world cannot have too much Pythianlsm, or too many Pythians. The gospel of concern for fellow beings is good. Many men can be made to sense it in all its beauty; human society and the world will be an infinitely better place to live in. . "With such tenets and such teach ings, the Knight of Pythias assem bling in their great national gath ering will have nothing' but good will and confidence and a hearty welcome from Portlanders. The big ocean is a cruel force. It carries our commerce, it gives as the cheer of a dip In its bosom. 'but - la sometimes relentless In Its moods. It took a cruel toll when It claimed the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Darld Mosessohn. AFTER THE WAR T HE United States Is the cred itor of the world. More gold is stacked In the bank vaults of the nation than is to be found in all Europe. This country now owes nothing abroad, compar atively speaking, but the nations across the ocean are debtors to the United States in sums that stagger the human mind. Report Just compiled for the fiscal year ending June 30 contain figures which cannot be grasped by the common man. They show that this country on that date had a trade balance of two billion one hundred thirty-six million dollars in favor of the exporters of the na tion. The reports show that the year's exports amounted to four billion three hundred thirty-four million dollars, and 4hat the Im ports for the period were two bil lion one hundred ninety-eight mil lion dollars. The nation's trade balance was double that of last year and four times that of 1914. It is a busi ness transcending anything ever known. The nationj is stupendously pros perous. The east is iiooaea ana glutted with money. Men are drunk with it. The flow of business pervades every line. Great retail and whole sale stores are crowded with buy ers. Mills, not only the munithsn mills, but all mills, are flooded with orders. The war orders are but a small fraction of the tre mendous business. Factories run day and night. All are bidding for workers, and nearly all have ad vanced wages, some of them not once only, but several times. All this in spite of the fact that there are not enough Bhips to carry the International traffic. The great German mer chant ships are all interned. With this vast tonnage withdrawn from the sea there is a huge ship shortage, but in spite of it, Ameri ca is intoxicated with prosperity. The fact that every industry is in a wild career ' of activity and that the prosperity is not confined alone to munition makers, shows that something else than the war Is an active force in the situation. Economists know what that force is. Currency in America ha3 been set free. Credit is no longer con trolled by the big money bugs in a single street on Manhattan island. Credit has been liberated. At is in the people's hands. It 4s a country-wide Institution and not a mere Wall street Institution. Men who contemplate Investments now know that the currency of the na tion has been made elastic. Pro vision has been made in the cur rency system for a growing volume ! of currency with which to transact tQat business, Before the new federal reserve act went into effect, a growing vclume of business automatically contracted the currency, and con traction is the cause and begin ning of panic. When business-expanded to a given point, it col lapsed, the banks declared a bank holiday and periodically we iiad what we called a panic and did business on clearing hoi.se certifi cates, a scheme unauthorized by law. Now when business expands. commercial paper is used in the reserve banks as the basis of in creasing the volume .of currency And the government, not Wall street, controls the issues. Panics are eliminated, and every business man is given a new confidence in the stability of things. Every sound business knows that no day of contraction can come to wreck perfectly solvent institutions as was formerly done. The new currency system has lib erated business. Men are no longer afraid to invest. Our prosperity is not for today, but for tomor row, and the next day. The end of the war will bring a recession in the manufacture of war material. But Europe hag to be rebuilt. There will then be more ships to carry our products over the seas. The European laborer will have the war debts on his back. He will not be free and un hampered to compete with Ameri can workers. The factories of I Europe will have to mark up their output in order to pay the war taxes. In America, a scientific tariff commission will adjust duties by the rule of Intelligence and not by the spoils of politics. America in the midst of her peace and her newly enacted laws never faced a more roseate future. The .arriving Pythians will find the latch string out on the gates of Portland. Perhaps they will pardon the suggestion that they will also find surcease from the heat wave that is parching the tor rid east. -v RACE SUICIDE T HE silly fiction that war im proves human stamina is not so popular as it was a few months ago. It has had so many disastrous encounters with common sense that very little Beems to be left of its old bravado The arguments which are supposed to support It are astonishingly feeble. The strongest and most capable men go to war. Hence war encourages strength and ca pability. So runs the curious piece of nonsense. Certainly the strongest 'and most capable go to war. But they are also killed or maimed before they come back again. This fact Is diligently- -overlooked by the Jin goes bnt it really has some im portance. A dead man can not usually become the father -of a healthy family. A man maimed on the battlefield can not contribute much to the world's stock of com petence. He may help support him self eren when his arms or legs are shot away, but for the most part he is a public charge. Dr. George W. Crile, who has had some interesting experience abroad in the. European war, has set out a good many of the plain facts of the case in his book en titled "A Mechanistic View of War and Peace." He proves too clearly for anybody except the worst mili tarist to doubt it that war de teriorates the human stock. Sup pose a dairyman should go syste matically through his pasture and slaughter the best animals. Would he grade his herd upward or down ward? Such a systematic slaughter is about what the diplomats, playing ! into the hands of the war lords, achieve every time they stir up a war. And yet they have the im pudence to tell us that they are "invigorating" the human race. Connected with war there are kscores of "hypnotic obsessions," as the psychologists call thfem. We must overcome these bewitchments of the mind before wo can see the truth. Letters From the People rCommanlcatlona sent to Tba Journal for publication In this department should be writ ten on only one glue of the paper, should not exceed 300 words in length, and must be ac companied by the name and address of tha sender. If the writer doea cot desire to bare the name published ba should ao atata.J 'Discussion la the greatest of an re form era. It ratlonallzea ererthlng It touches. It robe principles of all falsa sanctity and throws them back on their reasonableness. If they bare no reasonablenesa, it rutlileaslj crushes tbem oat of existence and sets up Us own conclusions la their stead vtoodrow wuaon. "Wilson the Coward." Bend, Or., July 25. To the Editor of The Journal Besides reading Tha Journal, I have sent for Beveral east- i ern papers. Among these are the Die Irish World, the Brooklyn Eagle, New York Staatszeitung, Die Lllinols Staatszeitung, published at Chicago, Der Milwaukee Herold. Der Wanderer, published at St Paul and Die St. Paul Volks-zeitung. The Gorman papers are mostly Democratic papers. What all of these papers have to say about President Wilson is about as follows: "President Wilson, the Hyphenated. Before the European war Wilson was for England first, because of Eng land's objection to our free coastwise shipping through the Panama canal. Free coastwise shipping was demanded in the Democratic platform of 1912." "Wilson the Coward. Wilson is the only president under whose adminis tration England dared to pull down I rs anl Stripes and hoist the flag on an American ship on .i , v,n,, . o the Stars British ..ftiL fW. Piri i-,,rthrmn.. , 1 . v V.I0-V. Bao nrlt kmir a ma n A i r, rr sot- , from England. Furthermore ' v.. American paper was advocating a mer- chant marine, because they claimed ormQr, mr w i German commerce was destroyed and the United States should seek to get the benefit of this by buying or leas ing German interned ships. The North German Lloyd was willing to sell or lease to us some of the ships. England , f,A , j ,,, . . , 1 bona fide sale or lease, and this ended v, ,q,o , ..,Dhii.),n. n, ,.. .!., xj. ,.,,, , 11 I chant marine. Hence, Wilson the cow- I "Wilson the Twister. Wilson, at the I beginning of the war, said war loans! should not be made to any of the war- J lng nations. England and France got 500.000,000 here to pay for munitions of war in this country. Wilson says he doesn't consider this a loan. Wil son further says that an armed mer chant ship is not necessarily a warship and munitions of war are not explo sives." The New Tork World complains that there Is not a paper published In the northern states "in a foreign language, supporting Wilson. I have not received a French paper so far, but I have sent for the French paper Courier de L' Illinois, published at Chicago, which paper I used to read anm Q r a tm nnd it aa -t r ,! Republican in politics. If there is no paper published in a foreign language, supporting Wilson how can you ex pect to reelect Wilson? The Scandinavians always were largely Republicans, and since Wilson so plainly has shown that his sympa thies are with Russia (that great civ ilising country as shown by the Rus sian conduct in Finland), they all will vote for Hughes. The Swiss, the Dutch, the Poles and the German-Russians are all sympathizers of Germany, conse quently anti-Wilson. I have voted the Democratic tlfeket the last 27 years myself, but this year who is to vote for Wilson? Who con stitute Jhe great masses of the people of which you write so much? Please give this space in The Jour nal and comment on same if you like. FRED E. MOSIER. A German-American. Waldo, Or., July 28. To the Editor of The Journal I am a German-American. I can't agree with some of my countrymen who blame Germany bo much for her militarism. Individually, the German people attend to their own business and work and live economi cally; and judging the government by Its people, it is not reasonable that it would waste its resources in a bloody war without at least feeling the neces sity of it. True, the kaiser went to war hast ily, but his hatred of England for her oft repeated tyrannical methods with all of the colonies, burst over its bounds when submission to the British yoke, or war, seemed inevitable to him; he preferred war. Take the case of the German Boers. Twice Efigland hunted them and drove them from their homes in the wilderness, and the third time whipped them and forced them into subnnlBslon for no greater sin than the making of comfortable homes In what turned out to be a rich mining country in the wilds ofouth Africa. England, for pelf, first introduced opium into China, and when China re belled against it she promptly sent her army there and through her mil itary power and greed for gain she fastened the present "peril of China" upon a weaker nation. Recently England shot the Irish pa triots for trying to do What our rev olutionary leaders did in 177, and had we failed in establishing this United States. Washington and ill of the sign ers of the Declaration of Independence would have been shot as common traitors. A great effort is being made by wily politicians and the enemies of good government to induce the German Americans to renounce Wilson at the coming election, when in fact, ha la tha legitimate leader of the one nation that 4a in position to bring about a peace) movo inaurinr no more trench' warfare la thia "world for at leaat av hundred years to come; and by hie love , pf peace and broad philanthropy he has kept us out of. an erratic war that has neither honor nor pride of which to boast, and instead, the best men in our country are alive and our people are prosperous, enabling; ua to help those unfortunate Europeans to re trieve their mistakes.' Wilson la doing; work now that Lin coln did tn; the Civil war, and he is being abused as Lincoln was then. It is true, many who abused Lincoln did not understand him, owing to bitter feeling over the badly managed slavery question; but there is no such excuse no for abusing Wilson, and there is no reason for it outside of politics and the smell of the pie counter. The recent announcement of the daughter of J. P. Morgan, from Paris, shows the way the wind blows. She is out for Charles E. Hughes for pres ident Her brother has Just returned from the war gone, where he loaned 1500,000,000 to the allies in the Inter est of starvation and bloodshed and he is now negotiating another loan of twice as much for the same question able purpose; hence, of course, when we consider the profits of war loans with their accompanying bonuses and the profits of munitions sales brought about by these loans in an effort to prolong the war, they are so much above the profits of legitimate business at home that it la perfectly reasonable that a peace lover and worker like Wilson la not wanted in the White House, and that a change of adminis tration is desired, especially by such men as Morgan and Roosevelt, and I Imagine the latter gentleman's hap piness would be greatly augmented if he could only drag a 10-foot sword around over the grain fields of this prosperous country. It will not heip Mr. Hughes in the fall election to have a war lord like Roosevelt patting him on the back with the hint abroad that. Roosevelt Is to succeed him, for his support now. Sensible people have got enough of modern war, which lacks little of the methods of the savage headhunter of the Jungle, that little being the roast ing of each other's bodies that there might be no shortage of food while the war lasted. The war changed the price of sugar and made it necessary that in the in terest of the people the Democratic tariff be changed; in- this case Wilson yielded to the demands of the people. There has never teen a change of administration in this country at a critical time like this, and there is not going to be one now; and the ! Hughes' demand that there shall be a the foreign war question and our rela tions with Mexico is good reason why Mr. Hughes should not be elected pres- ldent of the United States at this time. And the German-Americans, in trie hope of universal peace to come and thus save their home government from further wasting wars, will vote for Woodrow Wilson in November. W. J. WIMER. One Woman's View. Madras, Or.. July 24. To 'the Editor of The Journal In looking through the "Letters From the People"' 1 occasion ally find one which winds up some thing like this: "Like many other Re- Pecans shal vote for nson. For : '"stance- th,6 of A S Black in .The Journal of July 21. I have often wondered why such evident Uemocrats wn'r6d, why ucli f,vl,d'nt mocr should choose to call themselves Re- U",can r hy The Journal it8eif, aIthuh Pm?"at,c-hou'f carry register, "An Independent Newspaper," on Its editorial page. The truth is, you are nothing but Democrats, after all! To be a Republican today and a Demo crat tomorrow or, perhaps, if you are seeking office, an independent in the hopes of rounding up some from each side Heaven save us! T , ,,K,, Ff my self, I am. a Republican couldn't be anything else one of the .. . v.i .. .- , f one ana inseparable, now and for- e,B' 1 yui up "eJu1,ca" t f n vo'e' then "naU . 1 'ose UP mf, Viaiib fMna mir Jlnnpa with rrono anH house, drape my doors with crepe, and let election day go byl vote ror a Democrat? Never! As a newspaper we like The Jour nal; but it is really amusing to read the editorials as election- day draws near. Beginning with something as far from the president any president as the antipodes, about the time you are deeply interested In the dls cusslon of a great subject, the article is finished like-a clever advertisement. "There's a reason" Wilson, of course! Pleas observe that I do not take Issue with you over your political faith rather, your mnfaith; for you ! claim to be that which you are not. v j vi't-, J t Lwuiac, iiaa a. lu Ilia own political convictions, but he should have the courage of his convictions When he is a Democrat, I see no reason why he should look for an excuse to vote for a Democrat for president. PEARL SHERROD, In Reply to Mr. Frank. Culver, Or., July 29. To the Editor of The Journal I note an article by O. E. Frank which begins with the following query: "Isn't it a fact that by certain treaties made in 1908 and again in 1914, our hands have been tied effectively by Great Britain, and we can only protest against Great Britain's violation of our neutral rights?" Mr. Frank then asserts that "W. J. Bryan is supposed to nave fathered these treaties. -will air. tranK Kinaiy inform us hew Mr. Bryan could possibly have fathered a treaty in 1908? If mem ory serves me rightly, Mr. Roosevelt and his cabinet and the Republican senators were doing the treaty mak lng; about -that time. The indefinite reference to the 1914 treaty presumably means the arbitra tion treaty.- "Isn't It a fact" that similar treaty was offered to the Ber lin government? If so, where is there any partiality? Then he asserts: "Wilson col lapsed on the Panama canal question because England protested." "Isn't it a fact" that Germany Joined in that protest? Let's keep the record straight and be consistent, and try to be log! cl in making dedutlons. And speaking of consistency, how can Mr. Penners and others who have indorsed his statements object ' to President Wilson because "he has kicked them so often in their faces and yet proclaims that they are go lng to fight shoulder to shoulder "mit" Roosevelt who has not merely kicked them in their faces, but beat them all over the ropes? C. K. OVERHULSE. The Bird of Freedom. , Portland. July 31. To the Editor of The Journal Let ua hope the law will provide an ordinance which will pro hibit destroying the eagle. We who are American know the eagle's native cry i "Freedom," and should there fore strive to protect him. Those who have seen him circling the moun tain tops near Crown Point know that -the eagle is an added beauty to the Columbia River highway. We should be made to feel it our duty to protect him and to remember that bo belongs to Uncle Sam. PAULA V. FOLSMA. How Abont a "Flax Day"? Enterprise, Or., July 29. To the Ed itor of The journal Since Ores-nn haa Apple day, Salmon day, and others, , why would it not be appropriate for PERTIN ENT COM M ENT SMALL CHANGE With Oregon weather all that mortal could wish, now is a good time to tell the sweltering east about it. Another reason for congratulating the Pythians is their rare judgment in selecting a place for mobilization. Our latest note to London la a sug gestion that the British blacklist should be relegated to the mere scrap of naper class. Br ahootlnar down a British aero plane a German submarine has proved that it can mane war perpendicularly aa well as horizontally. - - 9 Men who have shot at mudhens on the water will appreciate the feellnKS of commanders of British cruiser, that are to hunt the Deutschland. Those American men and women of Kl Paso who invaded Juarez to see a bull fight lend color to the Mexicans' claim that we are not the people to civilise them. Perhaps the time will come when somebody will start a campaign against people who go to band concerts lor tne purpose of smothering the music with vapid conversation. Europe has been reviewing the re sults of two years of warfare, but as yet has not admitted that the chief accomplishment Is millions of maimed and dead, of widows and orphans. Junk men in tie United States col lected $114,000,000 worth of old metal last year, but Europe's junk men ought to be able to eclipse that salvage fig ure when the present business over there is finished. JOURNAL 92-Ashland's Ashland is one Oregon city that is making itself known as a tourist cen ter. It believes in publicity and It practices it. And it is constantly engaged in constructive enterprises that add to its natural attractions and glves.it more than empty words to use in boasting. "Tha Carlsbad of America. Is one expression that has been attached to it it a direct result of clever 'pub-J llcity. "The city beautiful" is a triter phrase also definitely used in con nection with Ashland. Ashland is located in southernmost Oregon in the' Rogue River valley and on the Southern Pacific railroad. It has a population of approximately 6000 and under the high standards of municipal beautlflcation -tlirf ar. parks and park-like streets and homes that harmonize. Ashland has mineral springs. There are forty or more in and about the city. There are lithla, soda and sul phur springs controlled by the city, and efficient in treatment of stomach and blood disorders. But there are more than mineral springs. Ashland creek brings from the mountain tops pure, cold water of quality like that of Portland's famous Bull Run supply. Scenlrally Ash!anTl attracts. The environment is mountainous. Between THE DANISH George B. Catlin In Detroit News. The purchase by the United States of the Danish West Indies is the cul mination of the third attempt to buy the islands. Denmark fared rather badly aa a winner of colonies, her dependencies being " Iceland and Greenland In the Arctic region and the Islands of St. Thomas, St. Croix and St. John which lie northejast of Porto Rico and but a short distance away. St. Croix has an area of 74 square miles and about one-third of the pop-' ulation, numbering In the neighbor hood of 20,000. is white. St. Thomas has an area of IS square miles and has about 15,000 Inhabitants. St. Jchn contains about 21 square miles and has about,. 1000 population. St. Thomas and St. John are very hilly and little cultivated. St. Croix is gently rolling -and is a large pro ducer of eugar, rum and molasses, most of which finds its market in the United States. Since the emancipation of the slaves the islands have been an economic burden to the Danish government, the cost of governing them exceeding the government revenues by about V00. 000 each year and sometimes much more than that. The value of the islands to the United States is purely strategic. The harbor of Charlotte Amalle, port of the Island of St. Thomas, is the best and most acces sible in the West Indies. This la a free port and therefore, the most com mon port of call in the West Indies in spite of the insignificance of the island and its commerce. Here ships of all nations put in to coal and obtain water and the principal industry of the island is coaling and repairing damaged ship ping. Except for the privileged con dition as a free port the people would be starved out of the island. Our first negotiations were begun under William -H. Sewards administra tion of the department pf state. Mr. Seward happened to be- a statesman as much in advance of his time as the legislative bodies of congress were behind the times. He accomplished the purchase of Alaska from the Rus sian government in the face of strong opposition in the senate. He began negotiations for the annexation of the republic of Santo Domingo, for which the Dominicans voted almost unani mously, and executed a treaty but lhat brilliant opportunity waa; lost after Mr. Seward had retired ;frorn office, chiefly through the opposition of Senator Charles Summer, who was piqued because he thought he had not been sufficiently consulted with re gard to the negotiations. The Seward project for the purchase of the Danish Indies contemplated a purchase price of $7,500,000 for the' islands of St. Thomas and St. John. Denmark agreed to throw in the island of St. Croix if France would give consent. But about that time Napo leon III was royally displeased with the United States in general and Mr. Seward in particular because a brief note from Mr. Seward had made him see the advisability of withdrawing his French army from the republio of Mexico. This chattered his Na poleonic dream f establishing a mon archy on American soil In place of a republic and it hurt his pride, so con sent of France was withheld. The sale was left by Denmark to the Governor Withycombe at this time,, while the dove of peace is hovering over the state house and lining its neat with flax fibre of the finest quality, to issue a proclamation setting aside a "Flax day" for Oregon? I would sug gest as a part of the program, a parade headed by the governor on "Loretta," and the band playing "Haa Anyone Her Seen Cady?" or "With All His Faults I Love Him Still." As a taxpayer, I am not Just what you would call an enthusiast on the state flax industry, but I think we all want to see our governor as a leader, and. about the only place he has led has been in some parade, riding "Loretta." TAXPAYER. AN D NEWS IN BRIEF OREGON SIDEUUUT8 The Gresham Outlook hospitably proposes: "When we get our "principal street hard surfacted it would be fit ting to organise nowujr, dh -...,. club to greet viBilora and make them ien at nouie. The monthly saleaday at Albany, which waa esablishd two yeara ago, has amply proved its merits, accoroiug to the Democrat, which says; "It la a clearing house for things the farmer lias to sell, and a good one." Encouraged by the compliment of a vlbltor who catd that Condon was the busiest town for its sue that he had seen for some time, the Globe exhorts Condonltes "'to mukg it not only . the busiest, but the beet and cleanest town of its size in the state." Baker county's fa'ir, the Democrat says with assurance, is KOtnt W ecllpae . . .. . . . 1 . .. i.i.j Trauma ers and stockmen are generally taking .,,,..,,. ini.uai in lt nurreaa and UllVlOUU-l . . . . V. . UDl ..v - from an exhibit standpoint, it im atatetl, a.Li - . 1 . n,til w t rw than aVr. in speed oontesi.s. n is fxpieu . Ilittll 11 ClVn. 1 CVWI V awa av - - A boost that Ban3on will value is this, in the Coquille Sentinel "Victor Murdock told the people of Bandon at the Chautauqua there that they bad tne finest beach he had ever seen except that of the Jersey coast in France, and that was no finer. Having seen only beaches In the western hemisphere, tne Sentinel writer makes no exceptions and unhesitatingly affirms that the Bandon beach is away ahead of any he has ever seen anywhere. That city is bound to. become one of the great summer resorts 01 me rn,:wu JOURNEYS Attractions Ashland and Medford to the north la the fine hard surfaced mountain bou levard built by Jackson county. The Rogue river U always a lure to fish ermen. The valley floor Is succeeded by rolling foothills and sky search ing summits. In the canyons are streams that ripple for the . pleasure of anglers for trout who also are drawn by nature's charms. The lands are fruitful. The climate is equable, there is much sunshine, an average rainfall of 21 inches a year, and the nights are always cool. a To develop the mineral springs to the greatest advantage the city has bonded Itself. The municipality has built a "llthia fountain." Just now there is an Ashland cam paign to secure money with which to Improve the automobile road to Lake of the Woods, up Anne Creek canyon. The lake is at the base of Mount McLoughltn and the road is in good condition to the beundary of the forest reserve, beyond which thtet county', funds are not available for road con struction. Ashland Is one of the gateways for trips to Crater Luke, the caves of Josephine and other famous southern Oregon scenic resorts. Taken all in all, it seems to the compiler of Journal Journeys that Ashland Is a good city to become bet ter acquainted with. WEST INDIES choice of the people of the Islands and their vote was 1244 for the sale and 22 against It. The opponents were the Danish official class and the Danish clergy. King Christian signed the treaty and the Danish riksdag unanimously rat ified it on February 1,-1867, but when the deal came before the Iron-headed United States senate the opportunity was flung away. a In 1898. following tho Spanish-American war, a Danish adventurer named Christmas came to Washington for the purpose of promoting a transfer of the Danish West Indies to the United States. The United States, having gained possession of Porto Rico and certain coaling and harbor privileges in Cuba, cut down Its former offer. Secretary Hay proposed a price of 3, 240,000. The negotiations with Den mark were made a special mission and Horace White, then secretary of our legation in London, was sent to Copen hagen to confer with the Danish Ad miral N. F. Rayn who was minister of marine In the Danl3h cabinet and also provisional minister of foreign af fairs. The admiral was very courteous toward Mr. White but he lgnoreu Christmas, who accompanied him, de claring the promoter an unauthorized and irresponsible, person and, turning him out of his office. y Christmas demanded a fee from the Danish government and, being refused, returned to the United States and be gan working among the senators who were opposed to the purchase. He-declared that the purchase was a rotten deal which certain officials of the Danish government had planned to put over on the United States by splitting the price with certain senators who would vote for the purchase. The deal dragged along but waa expected o go through in spite of Christmas and the objections of the Danish official class. But suddenly the opposition in Den mark became more conspicuous and energetic. It was whispered in di plomatic circles that Germany had in timated to the Danish government her disapproval of the sale. When the deal came to a vote in the Danish parlia ment it was defeated by carrying into the house on stretchers two super annuated and honorary members who had long been bedridden, and recording their votes against the sale. Denmark is prat-Ucally free from continental influences at the present moment. Perhaps the preoccupation of the greater powers In the war has impelled her to make a n.w offer for the sale. The world has shrunk perceptibly since 1867. Our Isolation was once re garded as our best defense against foreign aggression, but in this day of fast ocean liner, battle cruier, battle ships, undersea craft of all sorts, ar tillery of huge calibers and shells of tremendous explosives it aeenTs more arfd more desirable to safeguard our own coasts by the purchase- of strategic harbors and nuval strongholds from powers that are too weak to hold them against any great naval power. Such a naval power might take ad vantage of our preoccupation In some international affair and lake possession of the Danish Indies suddenly without asking our lave. Thus by leaving them open to seizure we seem to be inviting the erection of a possible en emy atronghold right before our door. ghat's What They All Think. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. :'What is an academic pacifist?" in quires a reader. Weil, for example, a bachelor believes firmly that if he were a married man Jie nefer would say one cross word to his wife or pro voke on from her. Stark Realism. From the Chicago Herald. Mother (entertnar the nursery) Children, why do you sit about look ing so solemn and unhappy? Why sot play a game of some sort? ' One of 'Em We are playing. We're grown-up ladies making a calL Sioiri9r o. When Work Is Vacation." LET8 have a name that means hs same. thing as work, but doesn't convey the same idea, for the thJngf we do when on vacation. pawaUd West, while governor of Oregon, built him a retreat from official worries) at Cannon Beach. Habit still takes) him there occasionally. He was saying: "Just as soon ua I can, I'm going down there on a vacation. Thie rear, I think, I will have a talking machine (the former governor has Visitors enough, Just out of politeness, to keep it tgoing without bothering Mm to crank -it); last year I -didn't. i - "The first day of my last year's va cation I Just sat. My wife would, every once in a while, tell me of some thing to do. I wouldn't make the ef fojt necessary to open my mouth. I'd, rnjrely shake my head in a" gentle gative. The second day, along in the meddle of the afternoon, I walked around tne place. "Tha third day I walked around the house. 1 "The fourth day I spotted out Some things that needed changing, fixing or improving. Then I went back In the house and sat down again.' ""The fifth day I got busy." From then on, without leaving the property. I toiled like a slave. When the time I had allotted for vacation, waa over and I was to go hack to town, I found myself saying, "Gosh, how I do hate to go back to work!'" Dollars Pour Out of Socks. WHILE he was approaching his apeeoh introducing JE. G. Craw ford, president of the Lumbermen National bank, aa peak8r"of the day before the Ad club last , Wednesday. Postmaster Frank S. Myers, as chair man of the club's seealon, frankly d.'s cussed the value of advertising, es pecially free advertising, to the poatal savings department of the poatoffice. "Every time we can Induce the news papers to print an item telling bow much postal savings deposits increased this month over laat month er the corresponding month of last year, the next day'a bustnses shows an increase. "There was printed, for instance, in one 'of the afternoon papers the fact that our deposits for July were 18'J. 000 more than for June, and that Port land is one of the eight cities of tb nation whose postal savinga dtpoatt have passed the million dollar mark. The very next day there waa offered at the poetal savings window 800 stocking atalned dollars. Nothtnr, let me repeat, so helps our business and briaga tnoney out of hiding so well aa the stories telTlng how our business la increasing." A True Sport's , Regret. CLEAR out of calling distance. It" wae up to Wayne Berry, to run or fight when he found two burglars in his grandmother's home , near Speed, where he had gone from his father's to spend the night Wayne In 17 years old and husky, and when he heard" the burgh. rs he nrmed himself with chair and carried the fight to them. After laying out one of them with a chair. Berry tried to light a lamp. As ho took the i-hlinney In hi hand, ft shot shattered It. flinching with his adversary in the d'aik. he disarmed Mm. The other burglar by this time recovered. ttelKe1 the nun and fired t our hero, cutting a lock from his heal and : ailing it Into the door Jamh with a bullet. With the opportunity to es cape, the burglars then fled. Berry, being a true sport, has only one regret that he hit one of the burglars be low the belt. Kansas City Star. Good Idea; I' no Htirse Hense. TT 18 not a gtod thing for the city's :A reputation to lie too strict with au i tolsts from out-of-town relative to I traffic rules or to keep cans lighted I that are standing near the curb. Many i of these outsiders know nothing of Our city refjulatloiiH. but have no desire to violate them when they know that cer tain restrict loriM exist'.' Let's hope that the police otflreraf will not be too exacting on this matter, s-nd use good horse sense, for the city's reputation may suffer tar more than Its ex chequer. M c M I n n l 1 1 e News- Report er. "When You Have ad to Love Me." When you have conned to love ma, lo not weep; Oh, do not pity tne whose passionate pridp lias never known the comfort of noft tears; When you me Kotic, know that I shall not creep Into the gray wd silences to hide, Hut set tny face towards, the un known yelltM. When you have ceaed to love,' do not re c ret Kor niy aake wtmt "Is tny eternal caln ; Mine is the trensiire. yours -the withered loss; My day Ih deathless, though your sun must s"t ; Mine in the exaltation of proud pain I never wore my sorrows aa a cross. When you have eeaed to love me, go your ways Seeking Tor love from, other Hp than mine; Tlio fresh lips shall seem stale with memories Mine the infinites of these unshadowed days. I am the temple I am Love's holy shrine ! Men shall find always laughter Jn rnv eyes. Irene Rutherford McLeod ln""8ong to Save a Boul." (lluebsch.) fata. Rre'r Torm-Cat's ol' an' one eye Min', An' 'is brick lamed lalg hangs down hehln' ; But h'd take '1s life, brickbats an' all. For dem 'venturous nights on Its gyarden wall. An' you ain't by yo'self, ol' Torm, In dat No, you aJn't by yo'self in dat. Sis' Pusay-Cat looks so sleek an' enti When she purrs content on de flreslda rug Dat w-e makes pertend she earns "er keep. An' we buys 'er cream an' lets Vr sleep. An she ain't by 'eraelf in ease like dat No. she ain't by 'erself In dat Ruth McEnery Stuart in the Century Magazine. A Surprise for Dad. Bowdrlam broke out et Roekswar bearh Tues day night when a crowd of OTcr-etithnsUstle celebrsters imagined tkst It was Halloween aej atsrted to tare things kraae la geaersl. Tbef succeeded: mighty - well, sad wben osorolng dawned 00 Wednesday there waa hardly a bual nea bona at the resort that did not Sbfw some effect of tlie miscreants' work. The Kearirw bona stood the blunt of the at tack, and when Dad Oray got op to llsbt bis Doornlng fire be found bis front steps covered with ao aaaortioaat of lea era am containers, plsnks, chairs snl benches, oilsed together with a few signs, g little later Dad found bla fsToritc rocking chair reposing peanefallf on tba roof of tb depot and another chair aet- t;ng aumgaiue toe iraca 1 or ine eoneen ef the frsigbt crew. Bay City Examiner. The Limit. A fisherman down in New Guinea Went angling for specimens 'fulaea Biit he only brought in A few lies that were thia Aa himself and Se whist ha was skuinea. To Daly in Philadelphia Evening Ledger.