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' 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
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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
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chant marine. Hence, Wilson the cow-
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"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
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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.