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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND -.SUNDAY . MORNING. "AUGUST 6. 1916.
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IV
. America tiki nothing for herself but what
afce baa a right to ask for humanity It-elf.
WOODBOW WILSON.
Millions for defenae. but not a eent for
.trtbnte. CHARLES C. 1'INCKN'EY.
Woodr"w Wllaon'a policy ilrxa wtfry
tbe mother of Thp land, ut whne hi-artl.s
no llngolt ir hn placed an empty chair;
It doa aaflaf.T the daughter of lt,i In: I.
fronj whriu Muwter nnrl bra hnvr et,t
loving brother to tbe dlawlutlnn '
crave; It i)r., atlsfy the fathers of Mm
land, and t lie mm of tbla I h i .d . win, uill
ftirbt for (Jir flair and die for our fhiic.
when rea-,n prlmea ?h rifle, w In n hi' .- r
draw the award. ben JnMlce lreiit.e i
lleasll:g on the Mono.inl lln't ii, !,,!. I.
-.Ma, tin II. GI.i in,.
MI. WATSOX'S SPKEDI
M
R. WATSON'S Portland speech
is a bugle call to war. He
said:
If after wo took possession
of Vera ("ruj! ami soaked its streets
wltii American blood we had followed
It up, that would have settle, thu
Mexican question.
So it would. We would have
captured the City of Mexico. We
would have seized and held the
Mexican railways. We would have
overrun and subdued every Mexi
- can state. We would have be
sieged and occupied every Mexican
city.
We would have mnrched overt
every foot of Mexican territory,
deserts and all, sword and rifle in
hand, and backed up by cannon
and machine guns. We would have
fought and conquered the bandits
hidden In the forests and fast
nesses of their most inaccessibly
mountain homes.
The burning sands and the tor-
rid sun', under which hundreds of
American boys were prostrated in
the frightful first marches of the
Pershing punitivo expedition, would
- have been defied, and the rifles,
machine guns and cannon of the
Mexican armies would have been
. met by American soldier bos with
their lives and limbs, without a
murmur. W would have r.lnngh-
tered Mexicans by the tens of thou
sands, and in time, the American
flag would have floated over every
part of our sister republic.
We would have installed a mil
itary government In the City of
Mexico, and through our soldiers,
after we lift 1 made full conquest
of the country, we would be gov
erning the country until such time
, as the spirit of the Mexicans could
have been sufficiently broken to
accept our authority and establish
a governmentof their own.
No accurate estimate can be
given as to how much blood of
American young men would have
, been poured out in the enterprise,
nor of how much Mexican blood
would have been shed. An offi
cial estimate was made by military
. authorities for President Tat't as
. .to what , the carrying out of such
a plan would cost and the figures
: . were placed at an army of Fno,oui
f..men at n cost of a million dollars
a day, to make military interven
- tion an effective reality.
Military men know what the
subjugation 'of the country would
Involve, and'always point out that
" the plan-would require a period of
. years, and that it would be costly
In lives and money. If undertaken
as Mr'. Watson suggests, we should
' till be In Mexico with our troops,
, probably with an army of half a
million men.
We recently had example of
problems that would have faced
us. When it seemed that the two
. republics were on the verge of war
a few weeks ago, all Mexico be
came suddenly united. Every fight
ing man in that country was ready
to Join in resisting American in
7 vaelon. Tens of thousands of
them arc veterans of many battles.
'To them, invasion would have
meant conquest of Mexico wifcii
probable annexation, in whole' or
'in part, of Mexico. A resistance
- YJOuld have been put forward
against our advancing armies, a
' resistance to meet which American
boys would have had to march
. over scorching deserts of sand un
der & flaming Mexican sun, amid
showers from Mexican rifles, ma-
' chine guns and cannon.
- Of course we would win. Of
-course, as Mr. Watson says, "that
-would have settled the Mexican
question." But It would have taken
many times as many guardsmen as
. are now on the Mexican border
' ,to, have flone It. It would have re
' quired -a call for volunteers, per
- haps many, calls for volunteers. It
might' even have required a resort
to the draft, to secure enlistment
of the 500,0d0 soldiers necessaTfV.
Many a son, many a brother,
many a husband, many a father
now pursuing the ways of peace,
now walking In the paths of hap
piness and- home, would have long
ago filled a soldier's grave or have
returned from the war with empty
sleeve, or blind, or maimed or mu
tilated, their lives ruined from in
juries sustained in the hell of war.
The good-bye3, the farewells,
the scenes of parting that we all
witnessed In ; the recent departure
of Oregon guardsmen for the bor
der would be a nothing in compar
ison with the baptism of tears and
grief under which we should have
passed in the realization that it
was the frightful actualities of war
that the departing young manhood
was to writhe under and die under.
Did you ever notice that gentle
men who talk jauntily of settling
the Mexican question by war are
not down on the border in khaki,
but that some other mother's son
is the war sacrifice?
MOTHERS' PROBLEMS
THE intent of the legislature
which passed the mothers'
pension law was carried into
effect by the decision of the
state supreme court in the Marion
county case handed down last
week.
County Judge Bushey did not
approve tho law and he refused to
iccognize that it had been placed
on the statute books. He refused
all petitions from mothers asking
for the relief intended to be granted
by the law's operation. In some
cases he extended relief under the
pauper's act.
Mrs. Finley, whose husband was
wholly incapable of supporting her
and her young son, brought suit
in the state courts to compel the
county judge .to grant her the re
lief contemplated in the mothers'
pension law. The chief reason as
signed by Judge Bushey for not
granting tho relief was that she
was employed at work which kept
her away from homo much of the
time. The supreme court's opin
ion says:
We are of tho opinion that under
the :irt of 1!i: ;i tnotner w is not re
quind to be with her family nil thu
tirm; if y'.ir kept tliem together in the
home. m;d that she did not forfeit
her riht to a pension by working
Hivsy from the family residence at
some hours of the day if K"im lat.or
were n" ssary to contribute to their
silhsi.sleiire.
In other words, the highest
court in the Ftate holds that a
dependent mother has a right to
work out to help support herself
and children and still be entitled
to a pension. In most cases the
amount of the pension is inade
quate for entire support of the
family, and an attempt to compel
a mother to spend all her time at
home in order to receive the help
ing hand of the county is unrea
sonable. .
An amendment to tho law made
by the 19 15 legislature says:
The relief fUall lie Krnnted only
when in the nhsence if such relief
the mother will lie required to work
regularly away from her homo and
children, and when by means of such
relief slie will he able to remain at
home wi'li her chridrp-i, rxr-.pt that
she may be absent for work a defi
nite number of days ear h week, to be
specified in the court's order, when
sui'h work can be done by her with
out the sa -rifb e of health or tho
nf Kloi t of home and Children.
Under the discretionary power
thereby granted -to the county
courts, underlings of the courts
have driven mothers from badly
needed employment under the pre
text that they should spend all
their time at home with their chil
dren. Social welfare workers re
port that such cases have come to
their attention in Multnomah coun
ty and that they are now endeavor
ing to protect one mother from
losing her pension because she i3
employed away from home time
that would equal three days a
week.
The decision of the supreme
court clarifies the law, and puts
the mothers' pension system of
Oregon, on a practical and sane
basis. It leaves refractory county
functionaries no alternative Vmt to
apply the provisions of the act.
It is a good, decision.
As Mr. Watson, in opening the
Hughes campaign in Oregon says,
we could "have settled the Mexican
question" by subjugating the Mex
icans with American armies." But
what of those who would have the
fighting to do? What of the slain
American boys?
LAUS SCOTIAK
DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON hated
the Scots in theory, thotfgh in
practice his best friend. Bos
well, was one of that breed.
The rugged doctor spoke of Scot
land as the best country In the
world to get away from. He said
London was a sort of heaven to
that forlorn nationality where they
expected to make their fortunes
and at the same time civilize them
selves. Everybody knows that Dr.
Johnson was a creature of preju
dice. The Scots of his own day
never took him very seriously and
those of our day join in laughing
over his absurdities.
Scotland has, as a matter of
fact, done a gtat deal more than
its share to promote the welfare of
the world. We shall not speak of
its theologians, professing as we
do, little knowledge of that esoteric
branch, but its philosophers ws
nave always admired. In fact, it
was the Scotch philosopher Hume
who gave Emanuel Kant that key
to the riddle of human thought
which he applied so successfully
to our deepest problems. The line
of modern philosophy begins with
Descartes, the Frenchman, runs
over to England's Locke, then to
Scotland's Hume, taking In Berke
ley and Spinoza by the way, and
culminates in the German Kant. -Scotland
has held her own won
derfully well in literature and all
the arts and sciences. It is one
of the marvels of history that, witli
a soil not half so fertile as Ire
land's, and no more people, Scot
land has managed to cut a much
larger figure In the affairs of the
world.
The United States owes a heavy
debt to both Scotland and Ireland.
Our Irish immigrants have taken
a powerful hand in politics and
contributed some of our best law
yers and judges. The Scotch, espe
cially the Scotch-Irish, have been
among our most active captains of
industry. The Century Magazine
says that "our first newspaper wai
published by a Scotchman", and
that "the steamboat, telephone, tel
egraph and electric light" were in
vented by men of Scotch descent.
It adds the Interesting item that
our constitution was "framed and
adopted largely by the influence of
two Scotch lawyers." m
When we peruse the splendid
story of Scotland and the Scots
how silly it seems to speak slight
ingly of the small nations.
"If after we took -possession o"
Vera Cruz and soaked its streets
with American blood we had fol
lowed it up, that would have settled
the Mexican question." said Mr.
Watson in opening the Hughes
campaign in Portland. "We want
deeds, not words," said Mr.
Hughes. These are bugle calls to
war.
COLLEGES AND LETTERS
THE old reproach that the col
leges do not prepare people
for' active life is not so apt
now as it was twenty years
ago. Since that time great changes
have taken place both in the col
lege curriculum and the college
spirit. Ancient fetishes are still
worshipped in most of our educa
tional foundations but not so ar
dently as formerly. The modern
ways of looking at things have
crept in in spite of the mossbacks
and a student can hardly go
through the course without some
glimpses of knowledge that will
help him as a worker and a citizen.
The purpose of the old-fashioned
college course was to prepare men.
not women, for the law and the
ministry. These were the two
"learned professions." It was no
disgrace to aim at medicine but
the colleges did not deigno med
dle with that calling. It was too
directly concerned with "material
things." The old time American
college hated nothing so much as
"tho material." Its best loved
haunts were the airy realms of
pure abstraction among the shad
owy specters of theology and law.
Both theology and law were
reckoned as "pure sciences" be
cause they did not concern them
selves with practical affairs. The
ology busied itself with the world
beyond the grave. The law laid
down its rules of conduct without
any reference whatever to justi.e
or human need and defended them t
by abstract logic. The college pro
fessors who "prepared" young men
for these unworldly professions
took great pride in their detach
ment from the gross, material busi
ness of evervdav life. The college
was a cloistered retreat where cur-
rent interests rarely intruded and
when a young man graduated he
was said to "go out into the
world," just as if he were leaving
a monastery.
Commerce, engineering, music,
were even farther below the notice
of the college than medicine was.
We mention these circumstances to
emphasize the change that has
come over our colleges. Now they
proudly offer courses in art, archi
tecture, music and commerce. En
gineering is quite as respectable as
theology and medicine occupies as
much attention as law. The mod
ern college is becoming practical,
but it need not on that account
lose any of its spirituality. Al
though we do not live by bread
alone, still some bread is neces
sary to keep the breath in our
bodies. We must be material be
fore we can be spiritual, as our
college professors are finding out.
Literature has always been a
favorite study in the colleges. Even
in the day when the faculties de
spised modern books they rever
enced trfe ancient. Their notion
was that time made a book great,
no matter if its author had been
a fool. If a poem could only sur
vive long enough it became a work
of genius by the failure of the pros
ecution, as it were. The suppo
sition was that if it had not been
a wonderful work it woull havo
perished long ago. The 6a.ie ar
gument would prove that gce.-r are
the most gifted of fowls since they
live longest.
But the literature studies car
ried on in the colleges have usually
been barren. The ordinary profes
sor used to believe that he was
teaching literature when he dis
sected a book into its sentences
and the sentences into their gram
matical forms. We recall a highly
respected old professor of Latin
who "could only teach Virgil and
Horace with the aid of one partic
ular grammar which unhappily hal
been abandoned everywhere else
and was out of print. So each
year he had the publishers bring
down from the garret and bind up
a few copies of the oldest edition
of this antiquated grammar for his
students. It was thus that he gave
them the living waters of truth.
Many of the greatest writers
never saw the inside of a college.
We doubt if Homer did. Milton
graduated, but he always spoko
contemntuoiislv of his alma mater,
Goldsmith took a college course at
Dublin but Burns, a much greater
poet, learned in sorrow what he
taught in song. When Herodotus
wrote his history colleges had not
been invented. Gibbpn had the ad
vantage of an English university
education but, like Milton, he be
littled what it did for him. Dr.
Samuel Johnson left Oxford before
he had imbibed its full flavor. When
he had earned renown his univer
sity decorated him with a degree
but, it will be noticed, the renown
came before the degree.
Of our American authors since
the year 1800 some have been col
lege graduates, some not. A writer
for the New York Times Magazine
has prepared a list which lets the
cat out of the bag for all of them
worth mentioning. It tells the se
crets of their education, or want
of it. An astonishing circumstance
about those who did graduate 13
their youth when they received
their degrees. Longfellow, Emer
son and 'Hawthorrfe all graduated
at eighteen, the age when the mod
ern young man of leisure is just
getting ready to matriculate. Low
ell, Donald G. Mitchell, Motley and
Charles W. Eliot finished college
at nineteen.
These men either worked harder
than our youths of today or else
they learned less. In any case,
their education seems at least not
to have hindered them from get
ting ahead. It may be that we
spend too much time in school and
colbge now-a-days. Too big a frac
tion of life goes into academic
preparation
Some of the best of I
our American authors both pasf
and present, got all their educa
tion in "the school of hard knocks."
a fairly good school for anybody.
Such were Riley, John Burroughs
and Walt Whitman, who size up
pretty well with the rest. Poe hart
the worst luck of all, for he was
expelled from college.
Whenever you sift, analyze and
bring down to its ultimate conclu
sion any campaign speech in advo
cacy of Mr. Hughes, you are inevi
tably forced to realize that Presi
dent Wilson is being attacked be
cause he has not made war on
Mexico for one thing, and possibly
on Europe, for another thing. What
else does' Mr. Watson's citing, of
President Lincoln's war and Presi
dent McKinley's war mean?
LA FOLLETTE ERRS
yT IS seldom that liberal minded
3 men have occasion to differ
j! with Robert La Follette. His
heart is always right and usu
ally his brain can be trusted to rea
son soundlv. But Mr. La Follette
is human and therefore he some
times errs. We t hink he errs J
when he tries to prove that labor
if, not property. But we wish to
make a reservation. Mr. La Fol
lette errs only in part. A distinc
tion must be drawn. )
We shall draw it in a minute.
i Hut before we do so let us notice
(the facts of the case- In the fa-'
! mous Danbury Hatters decision the
'federal supreme court held that la-
! bor was property. Congress in
cnaeting the Clayton law overruled
tho court and laid down the princi
ple that labor is not property. Now
comes the Massachusetts supreme
court and holds that in this par
ticular the Clayton act is uncon
stitutional and that labor is prop
erty. Mr. La Follette, speaking for
humanity and right, denounces this
Massachusetts decision in his mag
azine. But we think he is partial
ly wrong about it, though we have
precious little sympathy with the
Mammon worshipping Massachu
setts court.
Mr. La Follette is betrayed into
I error by the ambiguity of the word
"labor." In common usage this
word means both "labor power''
and the man who possesses the la
bor power. Now labor power is
indubitably property. It is often
the only property that the laborer
has. He sells his labor power and
with the price it brings him in the
market he feeds himself and sup
ports his family. As a commodity
labor power is subject to the rtiTe
law of supply and demand. When
the market is glutted its price falls.
When the market is hungry its
price rises.- From this terrible
truth there is no escape.
But the Iahorer in whom the
labor power is generated is not
property. He is . a human being
for whom the Savior died, with
constitutional rights and an im
mortal soul. The tragedy of the
case is that the laborer and his
labor power cannot be 'separated.
They are indlssoluably united. So
that when a servile judge decides
that labor, is propert3',he at the
same time decides that the laborer
is also property and in holding that
labor is a commodity to be bought
and sold In the market he holds
at the same time that human flesh
and blood can be bought and sold.
The Massachusetts decision Bets up
a slave market in the United States
and that is why Senator La Fol
lette holds it accursed.
We have 4 0 feet of depth at the
Columbia entrance now. Next we
hall make it 50.
A MIX1 DISEASED
T
HE stories told about R. C.
Grossman of North Plains are
incredible if he is of sound
mind. Why should a wealthy
man, as he is said to be, burn
down a building to obtain a paltry
$700 of insurance? The thing is
absurd. Why should a man in per
fectly comfortable circumstances
..endanger his reputation and liberty
by stealing horses-? Again he is
accused, apparently on good
lerounds. of misusing his wife. His
j past seems to be under all sorts
or ciouns.
We venture to predict that Mr.
Grossman will be found a sufferer
from some mental disorder. S His
reasoning faculties must be in
ruin. If he retained the power
to make rational judgments, to
distinguish right and wrong, to
calculate the consequences of his
deeds, he would never have been
guilty of the conduct which is laid
to his charge. Wre look for inter
esting disclosures as to.his mental
state when competent physicians
come to examine him.
Letters From the People
ICouiraunlcatfcMJB aent to Tbe gournal for
publication In this department should be writ
ten od only one aide of the paper, ebould sot
exceed 3O0 wot da in length, aud mnat be ac
com pa u led by tbe name and addreaa of tbe
fcendtr. If tb"! writer does not desire to hare
tbe umue published be abould so atate. -
'Discimsion la tbe ertest of all reformer.
It ratlonalliea terjthlng It toucbea. It robJ
prim lples of nil faUe sauctity aud tbrows tbeia
back ou their re'aaonableTies. If tbey hare oo
rea-uuu bli-ness, it rutbleaaly crualirs them out
ot exiatence aud aet up itn own conclua'xina to
Ibelr tead." Woodrow W:lon.
Remarks on "Full Protection."
Newport, Or., Aug. 1. To the Editor
of Tho Journal National Chairman
Willcox in assailing Wilson's adminis
tration, dealing with the Mexican
question, as reported In The Journal
of July 28, make this statement:
"The principle of the Republican party
is to insist upon the full protection
of American citizens and American
rights."
The principle is absolutely correct.
Not only the Republican party, but
every party, and our national govern
ment should insist upon the "full-
protection of American citizens, njr
?nI in Mexico- but v'wher an1
in every way.
Loes the Republican party live up
to its principles as declared by its
national chairman?
The liquor traffic has robbed, and
murdered, and stolen, and Uenftuched
the government under the protection
of licer.se for over 50 years. The
rational Republican party by its plat
form gave its pledge of support an I
protection to the traffic in exchange
for votes, and thereby sold itself into
bondage to the traffic, more than i'J
years ago.
Kver since that copartnership was
entered into an average of more than
lOO.OOu people per annum hve reeled
into drunkards' graves.
More than 100.000 are annually mur
dered by the protected liquor traffic,
a child of the Republican party.
Is this what Chairman Willcox calls
"full protection to American citizens
and American rights?"
E. W. Pl'RKEE.
Mr. Black Maintains Position.
Madras, Or., Aug. 3. To the EJitor
of The Journal. Your correspondent,
Mrs. Pearl Sherrod, thinks I am ai
evident Democrat" and not a Republi
can, because I intend to vote fOi- Wil
son. I do not concede that none but nlind
partisans of tbe Republican party are
Republicans. Not much intelligence la
necessary in order to vote always1 the
straight party ticket. Any Ignoramus
could do that, and the party whin has
lost Its terrors for all but office seek
ers. Oregon did not cease to be a
Republican state by electing Cham
berlain governor. One who usually
votes for the Republican candidate "or
the presidency, and who hahitually
votes for Republican candidates for
off.ee In preference to Democratic
candidates when the candidates seem
to him equal in other respects, does
not have to mislabel himself Demo
crat in case he prefere Wilson to
Hughes. I am still a Republican who
intends to vote for Wilson, and 'thre
are others." A. S. BLACK.
Real Americans.
Cascade Ixieks. Or.. Aug. 2. To the
Editor of The Journal tit answer to
the letter in yesterday's Journal by
Mrs. Pearl Sherrod. I would say that
the common people of America have
reason to be thankful that the majority
o." voters are capable of doing their
own thinking and can vote any way
trey want to. anil I think when the
vrtes are counted it will be found
that there are more real Americans In
tl is country than anything else.
Walson! that's all.
I. M. RENNET.
America's Greatest Lawyer.
H. H. Hagan in Case and Comment.
Even that tritest of truisms, the
ephemerality of a lawyer's fame, offers
no adequate explanation of the obscur
ity in which sleeps the genius of Wil
liam Pinkney. For Pinkney was not
merely a great lawyer. According to
testimony that leaves no room for
doubt or controversy,- he was. the very
greatest lawyer that this country has
ever produced.
Nor was this all. He served his
country with distinction and success
In the labyrinths of diplomacy, at the
cabinet table, in the balls of congress
and even on the field of battle. Above
all. at a most critical point of our his
tory, when the clamor of contending
sections disturbed the tranquillity of
the Page of Ionticello, "like a fire bell
ringing In the night." to use Jeffer
son's' own expressive phrase, it was
Pinkney who rose to the occasion and
recalled senators to a sense of their
duty and patriotism.
Of him John Marshall said that he
was the greatest man he had ever 6een
in a court of justice. Ofhini Taney
wrote in 1S54: "I have heard almost
all the great advocates of the United
States, both of the past and present
generation, but I have seen none t'jnal
to him." Of him Story remarked: "His
clear and forcible manner of putting
his cases before the court, his power
ful and commanding eloquence, occa
sionally illumined with sparkling:
lights, but always logical and appro
priate, and. above all, his accurate and
discriminating law knowledge, which
he pours out with wonderful prec!8ion,
give him. In my opinion, a great supe
riority over every man whom I i;a,ve
known."
When such a court unanimously con
cura in rendering Judgment, boid in
deed the man who claims an appeal.
Navy League Deplores Peace.
From the San Francisco Bulletin.
Perhaps the most interesting pub
lication in the United States is "The
Seven Seas," the official organ of
the Navy league. In the May num
ber of this truly remarkable journal
is a leading article in which Mr. Ed
ward H. Finley says:
"Where peace prevails during many
decades the nation commences to lose
Its sense of reality; because pain is
the test of reality."
In time of peace. It Is hardly nec
essary to say, there la no such thing;
as pain no sickness no sorrow, no
separation of families, no severe la
bor in steel mill, quarry, mine, fac
tory and farm, no child labor, no bit
ter poverty, no injustice. In peace no
one is crushed down toward reality by
stern economic conditions, and there
are no broken Uvea.
Peace is needlessly pleasant to the
condemned prisoner, to those who lie
THE
Py Elizabeth Barret Browning
OF all the thoughts of God that are
Borne inward unto souls afar.
Among the Psalmist's mulsic deep,
Now tell me if that any is
For gift or grace surpassing t lis
"He giveth his beloved sleep"?
"Sleep soft, beloved!" we sometimes say,
But have no tune to charm away
Sad dreams that through the eyelids creep;
But never doleful dream again
Shall break the happy slumbed when
"He giveth his beloved sleep."
O earth, so full of dreary noise!
O rnen, with wailing in your voicel
O delved gold the wailers heap!
O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall!
God strikes a silence through you all.
And "giveth his beloved sleep."
His dews drop mutely on the hill,
His cloud above it saileth still,
Though on its slope men sow and rear;
More softly than the dew is shed,
Or cloud is floated overhead.
"Ire giveth his beloved sleep."
For me, my heart, that erst did go
Most like a tired child at a show.
That sees through tears the mummers leap,
Would now its wearied vision close,
Would childlike on His love repose,
Who "giveth his beloved sleep."
PROPOSING A FEDERATION OF NATIONS
By J. E. Simmons.
In view of the spirit of .unrest that
appears to have settled over the world
since the outbreak of hostilities be
tween the different nations of Europe
and the widespread fear of entangle
ments that may bring other nations
into the conflict, the question sug
gests Itself whether it is not possi
ble at this stage of civilization's
progress to prevent wars througn the
substitution of the arbitrament of rea
son for the arbitrament of arms. Has
the human race, or that portion of it
credited with' the greatest enlighten
ment, reached the plane where differ
ence can be settled through brain
ratfier than brawn? Is it still neces
sary to settle all disputes with shrap
nel and shell, and must the law-abid-ig
and peace-loving nations of the
world suffer- the disturbances of in
dustrial and commercial equilibrium in
silence?
War today is needless. War Is ex
pensive. War rights no wrongs that
could not be more economically, more
humanely and more effectively righted
by reason. If the issue of a war is
the triumph of right, the cost is
enormous. If wrong prevails, it only
emphasizes the importance" of justice
when force is made the arbiter of the
conflict. To my mind the time has
arrived for a radical and even drastic
action by the more civilized and en
lightened nations of the world, even
at the expense of shattering time
honored tenets of diplomacy and gener
ally accepted theories of interna
national law, for the conservation of
universal peace. The day will come,
as has long been predicted, when
bloody wars will be no more, and the
present conflict in Europe will beyond
any doubt hasten the day. The very
fact that there appears to be general
apprehension that other powers may
be drawn into the European mlxup em
phasizes the demand for some solu
tion of the war problem.
To my mind, a simple solution of
this perplexing problem may be found
in the history of the past, of all rep
resentative governments. As the peo
ple of the United States are an off
spring of -all the different nations of
the world, it is plain to be teen that
we have all the different bioods, lan
guages and teachings of the entire
world within our own government, to
contend with, that an international
government would have, and wfe never
have any trouble, so that, from a
practical standpoint, our own govern
ment furnishes the best example. As
the cordial relations existing between
the states of this union are maintained
without the sacrifice of state rights
through a federal government, in which
each state has a voice, so might peace
he maintained between the nations of
the world tfirough the establishment
of an international government. Civ
ilization demands that bloody wars
should cease. The laws of God and
man declare that man shall not kill.
Under those conditions, to live up to
the law of God and government, we
must create an international govern
ment, and legislate to cover the lines
between the different nations of the
world, which are much broader than
the lines between the different states.
We must all remember that there Is
twice as much water as land. And
yet, we liavei't any' law on the water.
Let the United States government set
the pace by appointing two represen
tatives to organize an international
government; then let the United
States government grant the proposed
international government a right to
Issue 5 per cent of the assessed val
uation of the United States in the form
of a medium of exchange for Inter
national money, to be issued in a
form that would not create a national
dying in charity hospitals, to gaunt
hungry men who beg for the chance
to do the hardest kind of manual la
bor and are denied It, to women in
great cities who must see their babies
die for lack of the care which cannot
be had without money. Yes, peace is
altogether too rtleasant, too enervat
ing. Tha country needs a Navy league
to preach the necessity of making
God's earth a little more like hell and
not quite so much like heaven.
When Great Men Hatch Plans.
"Girard" in Philadelphia Ledger.
An Ameriean writer who saw Gen
eral Joffre at the front says he often
goes fishing. Military plana for 3,
000,000 troops are evolved in this
way.
The head of the grand army of the
French resembles Oyama and Grant.
In the war with Russia the supreme
commander of the Japanese often
went off in solitude to fish. His
subordinates interpreted that as a
good sign.
General Horace Porter, who was on
Grant's staff during the last year of
the Civil war, said that tha Union
chieftain di 1 a lot of whittling in the
Wilderness campaign. When he whit
tled he was thinking.
Bismarck said he could tell In 1S70
when all was well with the Germau
army by watching Von Moltke. If
the chief of staff accepted the first
cigar offered him things were serious,
but if he carefully selected one he
knew that Von Moltke's mind was
free.
Is Rag-Time Dylnj; Out?
From tbe Detroit News.
According to figures compiled by a
large manufacturer of player pianos.
In the past 20 years three times as
much standard music has been pur-
GIFT
debt when put into circulation, and to
be used for international purposes
only.
Then let the United States govern
ment turn over for its value to the
international government, its rights to
Porto Rico, as it is a central location
and surroonded by water, and a very
appropriate place for a world-government,
and all other nations joining said
international government shall do the
same as the United States did appoint
two representatives to send to the in
ternational government, with the
power to convey to the international
government the right to issue 6 per
cent of the assessed valuation of their
nation in International money, the
home of said government, army and
navy and everything in general, as said
government may acquire, to be paid for
out of said money, and the balance to
be used for international exchange
only.
w m
Und:r all the above conditions.-'
there are six good reasons why we
should have an international govern
ment. 1. Because we need International
laws as a safeguard between all tho
different nations of the entire world.
2. Because we have twice as much
water as land, and on the water, boats
are afloat from all over the world
without any laws to protect them.
3. Because the laws of God and
man declare that man shall not kill.
Therefore, we should legislate to re
move he cause of wars, and do busi
ness with brains instead of bayonets.
4. Because we ned International
money with which to do business be
tween ttie different nations of the
world and to remove all Individual
brokerage between the different
moneys of the world and have the
brokerage go to the international gov
ernment straight for the maintenance
of said government. Thereby, one
nation's prices would not conflict with
the prices of any other .nation in the
case of Importing or exporting.
5. Because we could do away with
7,r per cent of the standing armies
which belong to the different nations
of the world, by having a superior
government. Then create a small
navy and standing army, to be owned
and controlled by the international
government, for the purpose of being
able to enforce all Its mandates and
the, maintenance of peace between the
different nations of the world. Then
place the control of the remaining 25
per cent of tbe standing armies of
the world in the hands of the inter
national government, which will re
main at their own national post, ex
cept at such time as the international
government might need them.
6. Because we need an interna
tional custom, a system to maintain
the prices between the different na
tions so that one nation's prices will
not conflict with the prices of any
other nation in any manner or form
and it will also do away with all In
dividual speculation between the na
tions of the world, which always has
been one of the factors or creating:
wars between the different nations.
The representatives of such a govern
ment should be elected by a vote Of
the. people or chosen by elective offi
cers such as president and prime
ministers. Each power should have
an equal voice, and the will of the
majority should be law. Such a gov
ernment as I have mapped out, com
posed of the ripest statesmen of the
leading nations, would sound the
Oath knell of unrighteous wars and
signal the dawn of an era of univer
sal peace and prosperity. Such a gov
ernment would make It possible, to
convert armies of fighters into armies
of Industry, armored cruisers Into car
riers, of rommerce and bayonets Into
steel bridges.
Portland. August 4.
chased In this country as "popular"
selections. The cheering information
Is given out that the public's taste
for ragtime is being displaced by a de
sire for better things.
Students of asthetlcs should not be
come over optimistic because of this
report. The sort of music purchased
by owners of expensive instruments is
not the criterion by which general In
clination can be Judged, if the 10-cent
ditties were -to be tabulated, the caba
ret outpourings catalogued, the hurdy
gurdy programs classified', ragtime
would still be found firm in Its place,
wlthVaccharine ballads a close sec
ond and' Hawaiian melodies perhaps
third.
It may be that too much ragtime
will bring a reaction against tt, yet
this nervous, percussive music seems
to adapt itself to the temperament of
Americans In the street, -at play and
packed into apartment houses.
Sternly Rebuked.
A large firm in Aberdeen, saya
Pearson's Weekly, recently engaged as
office boy a raw country youth. It
was part of his duties to attend to the
telephone in his master's absence.
When first called upon to answer th
bell. In reply to the usual query, "Are
you there?" he nodded assent. Again
the question came, and still again, and
each time the boy gave the answering
nod. When the question came lor the
fourth time, however, the boy, losing
his temper, roared through the. tele
phone: '-v.
"Man, a' ye blind? I've been noddlh"
me head off for the last half hour!"
Most Are Not.
From the. Atchison Globe.
It is possibly true that every man
has his price, but many of them are
not Worth It,
Whan I comidr thy heavena," the work
i' "J fingera. the moon and the lUrt,
which thou taut ordained; wnat la man
that thou art mindful of aim ! Paaun 8:
3-1,
THE OTHER NIGHT out at cfak
Grove 1 looked up at the stars--and
wondered.
just as I have looked and won
dered many times before.
and Just as men forever I sup
pose have loor:ij and wondered.
flAnd I thought of David the
psalmist the hign-hearted king.
who in his time so many cen
turies ago looked upon the stars in
their beauty.
and the hills in their pride.
and listened to the voices of
waters.
and saw the winds how they
blow up and down the earth.
and in it all beheld a mightier
Hand than his.
workir.g without pause or hur
ry toward some unimagined end.
beyonr. the understanding of men.
flAnd David marveled.
J And he made sunns in praise of
the power thiit nwnuj, the stars.
and made tke waters to sing. "
and the green to come to tho
hills.
JArd he chose words of strength
and sweetnesis so that they might be
sung.
J And poets always have done
like David.
and have sought, to know man's
place among all the wonders cf the-
universe.
because in their singing hearts
they knew that man all men
should live In harmony with all
things.
including each other.
JAnd I locked on the Circa I Rcur
, twinging his uiJiestli' circle.
and ull the host of stars that
make a glory f the summer night.
each star each grmip of stars
moving in peace and beauty through
the heavens.
tj And 1 did not say like David:
"Whjt is man that thou art
mindful of . tin?"
J But 1 said:
" "Surely t lie power or the mind
or the lo e-.-that set the fckles l-i
order and keeps t lie Htars In place-
"singing toget her as ancient
poets believed
"surely that Something whom
David sddrersed as (Jorl has also In
its keeping the destiny of man.
"and Intends him for harmony
and beauty.
"like the stars."
f And as I watched a meteor
i leaped out.
I and flaming- swept across the
I north.
j JAnd the firs died.
' and the meteor fell - half glow-
! ing down the purple east.
I - and into darkness.
j J And I sa id :
I J "There goes discord -becoming
I harmony.
"and the vanity "I" human wishes
j flarir.g up--and dying down.
I "toward pence and understanding."
JAnd 1 lay for long and wttchrd
the st sirs.
- and thought of my, life ajid Hie
lives of others.
JAnd somehow--ns I watched
faith came, to mi'.
f And a little wee stir - way dow n
I In the west began twinkling vlo
i tently.
i -as though it were laughing ;tt
I me and
J LISTEN -I got up ami went it
the house nnrl told Veil. a that i ery
' thing was all right.
j What Color ABE Yonr Eyep, Capt.
Koer.l??
From thp Hoaton
1 n Ul lh. oi 1
HrrHl,l : r-'in
The ejen, rutlir-r i"..p. H', lt, wu r.. ,
et, are l,iu. iii:d ih" r till- ,.i :t ho,.,vT
far-e atxiut thfin II,,. 'rmuMcr In tnm
rr-1
. f
-,d
deep with trip w rink!. rmrlrd ut tl,
m, r, r
r- d i n ' ii if
I f rrfid nature r.r ntiicti futi nrtnkl-a. Fa
I arjulntlug at tl,e fiiii Jen .
lt-1.
Belter Wt irh Out.
Parties who go to the swimming
place on Wlllownook Km m had better
be anllttle carefu about disarranging
the wires on the fences or they will
be forbidden to come upon thi prem
ises Burns News.
The Outdoor Christian.
God. forgtTH me for an l imlnrt
That 1 d not p!nl for a-rar-,
Nor bank with ptirrliucin ulaen
In the radiance of Thy farr.
1 Rtu ko himy llring, Ioid.
And lriTln, nlpht and dar.
I cannot lw5 'tnd the tlrr,
To kneel mtt down and pray.
God forjrlre me for a Binler
That I cannot tune my rMtne
To tbe lit, them and vn chaitiy
Of the drey Rahhath tUne.
I know thy word f ea and kr.
The note of dell and noe.k.
But cannot aeem to eaten the air
Of olden altar-book.
God. forelre m for a TrtfW
That I will not bUght my narli
With the worry nnrl 'ha wondor
Of Thy fbld nfla-fit and wrath.
My heart la anrb a Joyoua pliee.
So glad with aap and flame,
I cannot leera to wilt before
The terror of Thy naa..
God. forjlre methat I lore Thaa
Aa the fliwera loe the llKht,
With a aeetblne. allent rapture.
With a dear but dumb delight.
You bred my faltu ao ataanrb and trronf.
My creed an blare and ay.
I dure ti lore and pralae The in
Mlna vnu unti a mmeli"! way!
Elanr,r Hollowcll Abbott.
Uncle Jeff Know Hays:
The boys on the Mexican line are
making good milch better'n some of
these preparedness parade patriots are.
It's one thing to march a few blocks
to show your lofty sentiments, and
another to march off to war.
StoriGr oc
Isn't It the Truth?
"T HERE'S grass growing In Port-
land streets," said R. L. Yoke to
a friend of his the other day. "You're
Just one of these Portland knockers."
returned the friend. "Whenever I go
down street I hear some one saying
that we're all wrong because our bank
ers don't lend the money os they
should, because our business men don't
pull together, because we don't go
after Industries, because we don't
work, for neighboring towns and trlbu
tary territory because we don't have
ship lines, because our railroads
work for our competitors, because ,"
the friend paused for breath.
All this time Yoke had been guiding
the talker to the northeast corner of
Park and Alder street.
"Look," he exclaimed triumphantly.
From a tiny crack under the steel,
rlrr. of the concrete curbing, a tiny
sprig of clover bravely hid thrust K
head into the unfriendly world of as
phalt and cement and even had brought
I Into being one small blossom. -
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