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Newspaper Page TextG THE - OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, SATURDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1916. . 4 1 H attendan given by Orondah! , Mia Ms The am next mc Miss Ci Rotter, I Womav , Woman' i meeting borne of were 26 ewered Mrs. F. the cent tion of tlon we Km. : Mallett. . . T. U, w : meeting on Thur of Mrs. . Tea wa closed w Clapts member 4 Slsterho, ful lunc 1. D. 3 Cover 1 made at) leaves a low aj4 ,: echeme ' men a. ) lew, of Mr ILJ gave rea en the '.was an Samp St) Mrs, cfi Washing ' KeatC Scott Mc day aft Loivey, -4 there w The p charge read s ' IUustrat II, Ev the plat TTcaton, rmtoa Pulton -v tion hel afterneo Urannon Broth ar? by th e. a cafetei 4 A B if' Hood Asks T ; Vppsr vice 0. Hood : lltver c$ . izatlons through' Journal i secure tl of the Portland lam for,,. ficott ha tlon to tl for the t li. Hegar local slti Hood I The one distance rough rot north of ; will reo.il piling to 18 believe liens art evert a ' accessab) Fire! - Mood 1 River fit V elty :oun -budget at with whl 'fire truo and pumj sections t . preaaure does not i it la pro will ba c rt:,Tba - asked thi for next uldate 1 making J, atadlum v located IV AN llfDEPEMDKMX NEWSPAPER. O. 8. JACKSON Publisher Potftuhed every day, afternooa and morning rwent Sunday afternoon), it tTbe Journal Balldlng. Broadway and Yamhill atreeta, Portland, Or. Entered' t tbe po toffies at Portland. Or., (or transmission through tha mall as second etaae natter. TELEPHONES Main 71T3; Home, A-VXS1. Ail departments reaeheu by tbeae number. Tell the operator what department yoo want. FOUEIQN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE Benjamin A Kentnor Co.. Brunswick Bldg., 22 FUtb Are.. New York. X21S People-a Gti Bldg., Chicago. Subscription terms by mall or to any address In tbe United gtste or Mexico: DAILY (MORNING OR AFTERNOON) One year... 3 .00 I One month.......! JO 8UNDAY i One year $2.60 I One month $ .25 DAILY (MOttNIKO OR AFTERNOON) AND SDNDAX Doe year $7.50 On month t .B3 America siks nothing 'or herself but wbat abt baa a right to aak for humanity Itself. -WOODBOW WILSON. Millions for defenw. bnt not a rent for tribute. ( HARLKS C. PINCKNEY. I think that everyone of na aa Ameri cans would be ssh.inoed If America did not know exactly what the was atKmt and by wbat means oud Instrumentalities aba eras going to act. Woodrowr Wilson. TELL the truth L reasonable conclusion as - to the fJtnation. The Northwestern Electric com pany has secured a large amount of business. It offered lower rates and naturally attracted a large patron age. It also confined its opera tions to thickly settled districts, taking thereby the cream of the business. Change is going on in this world. The car of evolution never stands still. It has no stopping places. It journeys forward by night as well as by day. Among the changes it is making is gradual progress toward con fining profits to legitimate capi talization, and requiring public util ities to operate on a basis of such efficiency as to meet changing conditions. In the closing speech of his third speaking tour, Mr. Hughes renewed his statement of what he would have done when the Lusitania was sunk. Speaking of what he would have done, the Chicago Herald, which, is supporting Mr. Hughes, says: "Now comes Charles E. Hughes, Republican candidate for the presidency in his proper person and unequivocally declares that ho would have severed diplomatic re lations with Germany immediately after the sinking of the Lusitania. But why take a course that would pour out rivers of German blood and American blood when Presi dent Wilson upheld every Ameri can right by successful diplomacy without the firing of a shot or the destruction of one German life or one American life? SEEKING FIT MEN VjT us stick to tbe facts. Let the truth be told In campaign time, the same aa out of cam paign time. Cheap politicians of whatever rarty are not licensed to garble the facts, notwithstanding the large amount of it that is being done. "I think they are getting in i-TUtsn Columbia S4 to 96 per thousand feet more than we are getting for stringers," said E. G. Ames, a prominent lumberman v in an address before tbe West Coast Lumbermen's association at Taco ma September 2 9. With British Columbia lumber men getting $4 to $6 a thousand more fjr their lumber than Wash ington and Oregon lumbermen are getting, how could the Washington and Oregon lumber industry be harmed by British Columbia com petition? E. G. Ames is a well known Re publican, lie was addressing fel low lumbermen In a meeting at which ways and means for aiding their own business was being dis cuBsed. What he said is reported in the October issue of the Oregon Timberman,the official organ of the lumber Industry in the Pacific northwest. Vhat he says about the lumber business la more to be trusted than are the campaign va porlngs of Walter Tooze and his kind of statesmen. Mr. Ames' re marks are to be found on page 27 of tho October Timberman. Hero is a part of Mr. Ames' speech: I tlilnk they are getting In British Columbia $4 to $S per thousand feet mors than we are getting for string era. In British Columbia thsy get $12 for timbers as against our $9. They are getting $27 for flooring as c gainst our $2-. 50. We have, all we want in the way of business, . and I cannot see why we cannot hold for higher prices. When politicians of the Tooza type run around with the state ments that the lumber industry of Oregon has been harmed by British Columbia competition under the new tariff, they are simply lying. Not a stick of Canadian lumber lias been brought into Oregon in 10 years. It does not come here because, en the statement of Mr. Ames to his fellow lumbermen in their busi ness meeting, northwest lumbermen are selling lumber several dollar", per thouaaad below what Canadian lumbermen are getting for their product. S . The British newspapers are now denouncing jresiaent wuson as unneutral because he did not in terfere with the recent operations ot the German submarines Just off the American coast. The fact that he is denounced first by the allies and next by the central powers as unneutral ls excellent proof of the president's strict neutrality. ITS TROUBLES fN THE discussion of the affairs of the Portland Railway, Light B & Power company, little atten tion has been paid to the effect upon that corporation Incident to competition from the Northwestern Electrie company. Nor has there been mention of the tffect vupon, the rapid transit traffic incident to the wide owner ship and , use of automobiles. Thousands of -men now Journey to and from business in their ma chines, who formerly used the street cars. Doubtless many mora of them travel that way than make the trip to and from business In jitneys. - There are no statistics available, but it may be that ten times aa many , persons pass between their ' homes and - business places in pri vately owned automobiles than do o ia Jitneys. This Is a fact that ' .has to be considered in reaching a derision among the officials,, bnt at length tbe pressure of common sense and ' common honesty from the ontside compelled them to adopt it and Akron now rejoices" in the change, which means lower taxes and better returns for those which are collected. Oakland, California, adopted a modern budget in 1915. It is so prepared, as we learn from the Na tional Municipal Review, that "the story of the city's financial trans actions can be readily understood by lay citizens." "Lay citizens," in the learned language of the review writer, means, citizens who do not hold office. There is still a rem nant of this 6ort even in Oakland. The Municipal Review says of Portland's budget that "it is some what detailed so far as salaries go, but as to other expenses a uniform classification is not followed." In the domain of budgets we are still aliens and strangers. The rest of the world is far ahead of us. Per haps our projected bureau of econ omy and efficiency will help us catch up. The abandonment of Mr. Hughes by the New York Evening Post on account of the disappointing char acter of the speaking campaign he is making is a significant develop ment of the time. The Post speaks of Mr. Hughes as a "woeful disap pointment" and it laments "the depression which the Hughes speeches have caused." LIKE LINCOLN Professor Lowell '- for. some -years contended' that i they were canals dag for Irrigation works. This al ways looked a little fishy since the canals, are necessarily of immense size. Otherwise they.jcould not be detected -even through telescopes. Of late Professor Lowell has al tered his view somewhat. Ha now teaches that the streaks on Mars are Irrigated strips of land rather than canals, but the principle is the same. If thero Is irrigation on our neighbor's surface there must be intelligent beings to carry it on. So it makea not much dif ference whether the streaks are canals or breadth of vegetation watered by canals. There is nothing repugnant to common sense in the theory that Mars and many other heavenly bodies are inhabited. Conditions are doubtless such that the beings dwelling there must differ a great deal from humans in figure and perhaps in their bodily organs. But that la of no conseauence. We are not obliged to suppose that our figure is a model for the whole universe or that other organs than ours would not work quite as well in other planets. It is rather absurd, when one thinks it all over, to imagine that the Almighty was able to make only ob world in which intelligent beings could thrive. Such a limi tation of his ingenuity can hardly be pleasing, to the reverent mind. to) deal with so majiy 'complex ques tions of - Bstlons4 nd International Importance. We are proud of , our president and will stand by him. IHd you notice that silly editorial in tho Oregonian of October 17 headed "Who Kept TJa Out of War," and then nearly a column trying to prove that the kaiser kept us out of war? No wonder such a copperhead could not pass intelligently on that scurril ous cartoon published in tho Oregonian on February 17, 1916. which traduced President Wilson and lowered still further la publlo estimation that re markable sheet which so underesti mates the Intelligence of the jpeople. The people know they have nothing to fear as long as President Wilson Is at the head of this nation. Watch the return when the ballots from the tall timber of Buxton are counted. We are for President Wilson. BUXTON LUMBER JACK. Wilson's Claims Supreme. Waldo, Or., Oct, 1. To the Editor PERTINENT COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE In listing the year's bumper crops let us not overlook the goat crop. Consider the' cranberry merchant. How busy be Is. He is marking up tho price. How can the moose and the ele phajit lie down together, when both are herbivorous 7 m m Should you begin right away to save up for a Thanksgiving turkey, you might be able to buy a chicken. The Chinese are taking to chewing gum. They ought to. A good deal of their, language sounds like vocalized mastication. m m After the war is over those tanks can be used in filling up the trenches and craters thay are now caterplllar- iug across. At all events, there is no section of this great country in whifrh 42 rainless days in succession would do as HttU of Tpe journal Now that the bloom . Q;"a-Ke aa ricnt hero in western Ore' of Wall street (the Golden Special) KOIU . ha.a ennriA smA rnnii T Hnnni, thu Heckle," apparently, has got Into voting women of Oregon may "pursue la ttr'Vncnt W-tfS tne even tenor or their way. ;ana sRitties." Well, they are both T PEAKING of the tariff com mission at Chicago Thursday, President Wilson said: I want to find men who will make a scientifio inquiry as to the facts and make an absolutely fearless report, and then let us go on those facts and not on our prepossessions. What could be more in harmony with common sense? ' The president further said: That is the object of the tariff commission; to throw light upon what everybody has been confident he knows all about, and very few people have known anything about at all. In promoting a tariff commission. wanted to find a body of men who would look at this thing without car ing which way the facts cut. For more than 100 years this country has been debating the tariff, without stopping to try and find out all about what a tariff Is and what its effects are, or in Just what way it should be used. The etrangest thing in the world is that bo great a nation should never be fore have taken adequate steps to get at the bottom of the thing and settle the question in a busi nessllke way. Above all, it is one of the Strang est things in the world that the tariff should have been allowed to remain so long In politics, to be a political question when, in fact, fundamentally it is nothing but a business question. We did not treat the railroads of the country as we have treated farmera and Industries and work ers, and the many great enterprises. We did not allow the regulation of railroad rates to remain long in politics- or politics to remain long in railroad rate making we cre ated a great Interstate Commerce commission to fix rates on a fun damental business basis. We sur rounded the railroad commission with the best experts in rate mak ing that the world could supply. That is what we ought to have done long ago . with the tariff. President Wilson's explanation of what kind of men he Is seek ing for the tariff commission he Is et to appoint, is splendid assur ance. He wants to get men whose findings will be absolutely correct to the end that the commission's work will be effective, and make of the tariff in this country, aa it has been made a business matter by similar means in Germany and other great European countries. In securing Such a tariff commis sion. President Wilson, by the con fidence and encouragement that plan gives to business and indus try, added another great measure to his big program for creating a permanent prosperity in America. Letters -From the People The city commissioners have cut $255,700 from the mayor's budget estimates. If the commission will cut expenditures to the bone along all lines it will put a solid and en during foundation under commis sion government HOSE OF US WHO ARE OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THE ELECTION OP 1864 AND THE TEMPEST OP VI LL,IFI CATION AND ACCUSATION WHICH BURST UPON THE HEAD OP ABRA HAM LINCOLN DURING THE CAM PAIGN PRECEDING HIS SECOND FLECTION, KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR AT A TIME LIKE THIS. Washington Gladden, distinguished clergyman and author. Dr. Gladden cast his first vote in 1860 for Lincoln, and has voted for every Republican elected to the presidency since. He further said: The moderation and rationality ex-1 hlbited by Mr. Wilson In the conduct of our national affairs were almost universally recognized by our people during the first year of the war. When the election drew near, tho cauldron began to bubble. I wonder If a debate led by emi nent men. In which such a record as Mr. Wilson has made, can be reviewed by his opponents without a generous or appreciative word. If really good politics, I wonder how many wavering voters it has confirmed In their pur pose to vote for Mr. Wilson. This charge that the assaults on President Wilson are turning peo ple to the president, Just as the same tactics helped elect Lincoln in 1864, is a continuation of the parallel men find between the pub lic life of Lincoln and tha publlo life of Wilson. No student of Lincoln's life who is an observer of Wilson's public acts falls to note the similarity in the ideals, purposes and convic tions of the two men. Heroically and sacriflclally, Lin coln strove to avert theCiviI war. His consecration to peace is breathed in his every public utter ance before and after he entered the presidency. His nature with lta deep sympathy for the sub merged man, shrank instinctively from thoughts of the destruction that war, with its murderous weap ons, necessarily entails. For this he was assailed by rabid men in the north. The same epi thets were hurled at him as are now hurled at President WTilson. For his opposition to the war with Mexico he was bitterly denounced by Douglas, Just aa Wilson Is de nounced for the same thing every day by Mr. Hughes. For his leni ency, as president, with the British and with Mexico, Lincoln was ruth lessly attacked, just as President Wilson Is now denounced every day by Mr. Hughes because stronger means than diplomacy were not need toward Germany and Mexico. The great parallel between Lin coln and Wilson is climaxed by the character and conditions of the times in which each had to act. Lin coln in thestormy "times prior to and during a terrible Civil war and Wilson in a time when half the world is aflame and complications and problems thrust upon him from every angle are a final factor in a parallel of two public careers that is turning lifelong Lincoln Repub licans everywhere to the support of President Wilson. BUDGETS T HE National Municipal Review for October gives an encour aging, account of our "cities' progress in the dry but neces sary work of budget making. Re- I'ltorma of this nature seldom orig inate with city officials who are commonly satisfied to "let well enough alone." As a rule the more obscurity and complexity there ia in the expenditure of municpal funds the better these gentlemen uKe ii, ior obvious reasons- Bud get reforms are usually forced upon tne official family from the out side by non-political organizations of disinterested citizens. We know ow much the Reed college professors have don tn tnr. ther financial progress in Port land's affairs. Akron. Ohio, has attained a good, economical budget ystem by the of fort of a bureau ot municipal research which began Its work by preparing annually an A banquet in which most of the addresses in behalf of the reelec tion of President Wilson were made by Republicans and Progressives is a significant eventuation in the lo cal political .situation. There has not been within memory an occa sion In which party lines went so completely to smash aa in the Wil son dinner at the Portland hotel last night. PEOPLE OP MARS F ROFESSOR PERCIVAL LOW ELL, who lectured last week in Reed college extension course, has made himself con spicuous among astronomers by his belligerent belief that Mars is in habited. That planet, celestially speaking, is a near neighbor of curB. Its orbit lies just outside the earth's and at certain seasons 6f the year,- when we are both on the same side of the sun, it comes bo close that astronomers peering through their telescopes get a good sight of It, They hare detected on Its sur- fac soma streaks rnnnine from unofficial model budget. At first nnrth to ewnth which mar rmasfhlv this was. naturally, an object ofbe the work of intelligent beings. J rauc" S no predi" Communications sent to Tbe Journal for pnblication in this department abould be writ ten on onjv one stde of the paper, should not exceed 30CF words in length, and must be ac companied by tbe name and address of the sender. It tha writer, does not desire to bare th nam published be abould ao state. "Discussion la tha greatest of aU reformers. It rationalises everything It touchee. It robs principles of all false sanctity and throws them back on t'uelr reasonableness. If tbey bare no reasonableness, it ruthlessly crushes them out of existence and sets up ita own conclualona In their stead." Woodrow Wilson. A Wilson Republican. Portland. Oct. 20. To the Editor of The journal So many old-time Re-nnhiir-jins are giving their experiences at this Democratic love feast that the spirit of the dead past arises Deiore me. and savs. 'Shout!" I am a N U son Republican, and don't care wlio knows it I cast my first vote for L S. Grant In 1872. I have been so partisan that had the party put a yellow dog on the ticket in all proba bility I would have voted for the yellow dot. My first vote for a Dem ocrat was for Oswald West. My sec ond was for Voodrow Wrilson- And if I live, my third will be for Wilson. When 1 cast my first vote I thought anyone that voted the Democratic ticket was a traitor or a rebel. I have learned that, though all rebels voted the Democratic ticket, all Democrats were not rebels. The old saying that a wise man may change hia opinion, but a fool never does, applies to me. I got wise. Not long ago I beard a Republican say that President Wilson had done nothing but steal Republican thunder, that every act of this administration was advocated by tne ttepuoiicans That being the case, I wanted to bo lcng to the party wboso president was held in such high esteem that he could sway congress In such noble acts as no other president has ever been able to do. Mr. Hughes Is, as the English would say, making an ass of himself when he says ho will undo all that has been done the past four years. He evidently Is not reckoning on a congress that will keep him within bounds of reason. The reason I am voting for Preat dent Wilson Is that he has fulfilled all the, promises the Republican party has made for years, something they never did. C E. C A Voice From the Forest. Buxton, Or., Oct. 18. To the Editor of The Journal Kindly give us "lum ber Jacks" space In The Journal to express our views on this political play that Is now being pulled off. The presidential campaign Is draw. lng to a close. The people are lining up, and that for rigbt, irrespective of party lines, and th writer has never Been such a change In support of the Wilson administration. Everywhere you go It is Wilson for president, We predict that WiLson will carry Oregon, and the nation by an overwhelming majority. In the beginning the supporters of Hughes have not enlightened the peo ple as to a better plan than that fol lowed by President Wilson. They have found fault and knocked with all kinds of sledge hammers but have utterly failed to make an Impression on the set verdlot of the public, which will be made publlo on election day. The speeches made by the Hughes orators are well framed and their words ut tered under cover, knocking, but not committing themselves or the party to any positive point. The newest addition to the Republi can party is Colonel Roosevelt. Who is ha? Some of us know. He tried to wreck his party four years ago when that party did not nominate him for president. He said bis party was rot ten, so he started a party of his own. and a few faithful lieutenants followed him in good faith and as true men. Roosevelt himself apparently never be lieved in that party. He would not ac cept the nomination this year but tried to shift the burden to the shoulders of Lodge, all the time knowing he would desert the Progressive fold. In the same way he reentered the Repub lican party, and expects to be re warded In 1920. tie says the same fulsome things about Hughes that he said about Taft, and when he can't get the nomination in 1920 he'll turn on Hughes and abuse him as he did Taft or as he would any other candidate that may beat him. And Hughes ap plauds him. Roosevelt has never had a good word for President Wilson during his ad ministration. At every opportunity he knocked Wilson and his good works. He cried "war every time some -for, eign problem arose, and denounced the administration for not plunging Into blood and waste. Why don't these leaders tell us what they would tiave done and wbat would have been better for the country? They can t do it; mat s why. They can knock, in their blind fashion, but they can't fooi the people. The records prove that Hughes has not voted since 1910, showing that he takes a deep "interest" in public af fairs. No one knows where he stands or what he stands toy But the New rorlc money magnates wno are put ting millions into the campaign for his success, the people know have an axe to grind. During the Wilson adminis tration these magnates have had no look-in and have not been able to con trol or dictate to the Wilson adminls tration. They want control of the government machinery; we can all see that, ' I President Wilson tias accomplished ever had Is it not a .fact that sticking to party ties since the Civil war. which good, at that. Will the Laaeua to TTriforc Pmm hftVA ttl m. affftitt K. w. tVi.fr poisoned men's minds with bitterness papa and mamma have in their league and prejudice, is what made slaves lp enforce celibacy upon daughter and and fools of our people 40 year, and I "! oa,ou voxm m.an or nerB7 produced men of progressive minds BltW" lcvVy,"lrAill who organized side parties in an ef-, much money, I am going to retire and fort to get relief from the barnacles niy Ilfe'-' Bu here's begging pity that cling to every ship of state so much moneV (though I know t will The greenback party tried to loosen never be permitted to get that much). the hold of such men as Plerpont 1 uJ"S0t"Vn'D?n.51 . - .. . .. . . . "s VA t ""'orj uiej VUIIUUn Morgan. The 16 to 1 sllverites (of ably, and pay my bills some time, If whom I was one) tried it. And now , "ot on the first of the month, and v.. CnM.lt.t. PmmmtvM tint I enJOy life. in vain until Woodrow Wilson. Noth-1 ing could be done to free the' people from the money bags. No wonder Wall street is mad at WilBon. Now that Wilson is giving the country the relief Bought by all worthy effort, the voters should sus tain him. A socialist who writes me says: "I never did vote the Republican OREGON SIDELIGHTS TV,. P.nrtistnn Kaat Oregonian says Jf rain does not come soon it may by necessary to provide the sheep witn canteens. Always tha champion of the Oregon farmer, the Woodburn Independent says: "There seeme Uttle doubt that Oregon wUl have a state-owned lime Plant and furnish irrroers wita rae at cost. This subject will come up before the next legislature in roper form and- any - rnemoer oppw nar It will ba unon tbe very unpopular side of the fence." The Condon papers continue to give Impetus to the back-to-the-land move mant. The Times has this: "Hans West was in town on business on Wednesday and he has certainly made a killing with his bluestem wheat this year. The crop actually has mads more money than the fee simple price of the land." Oregon Is pre-eminently the land of late autumnal festivities held out ot doors. The Roseburg Review records this: "More than 76 teachers in at tendance at the annual Institute in his city gathered at Wlmberly park Monday evening, when they held an informal acquaintance party and re caption, which took the form of weinle roast around a large camp fire. Various stunts were performed tor the entertainment of the visitors by the teachers In the local schools A dainty refreshment course followed.' The "Misfits'' man of the Albany Democrat mourns In this manner "We'll be glad when election Is over so we can manufacture our misfits out of something else than nolltics. Every thing we start on something else runs Into the same channel, try as we will to prevent it. Not a politician, or caring much for politics, and owing no political debts, it's Rtranae how our type keep getting into the prevailing cnannei everyooay is swimming in. I To this caiamsi alt Madsrs are Invited to tontrlboia or lull iory. in Terse Of la pbllosopbi .insiug quotarions, . trot MwiuuiwM et aeantloaal aw for, at tb editor's appraiaat.J TUOCOH it doesn't proceed ' war. ,-, Yet surely 'twill be arref xuai we siory nelow u a Vt vary avou story iadV,v It la told, la manner and far aeram, la tbe ooiutnnt OI rntsburi Leader, by the Tl 1st of that waUnuOit Jjoema 'Under tha llahta of tba auto ocnoa a man wnom all Xai He lingered In trout of tbe And he chuckled aud guggld WHAT A MEXICAN WAR WOULD MEAN United 8tatee Senator (Robert M. I Folletta in L Foliette'a Magazine for August. 1816. Back of all modern war is practical ly one policy. It Is financial Imperial ism, it is the scheme of nslng the ticket, and can't vote the Democratlo ! ""Tins wealth wrong unlawfully from ticket again." Psopie or a country by tn xinan- The brightest men in this nation clai interests tbat dominate that conn- are now convinced that with Villa in , try, and the nave of that surplus wealth Mexico and Roosevelt in the United , tarough Investmeuts in the weaker. States the election of Hughes means , Tu.deirelOT.ad r vnTie a war or conquest wltn Mexico, inw would mean that every able-bodied citizen of the United States would be subject to shoulder a gun end fight. It Is far more sensible to Join in tho reelection of a peace-loving president and avoid the horrors of war. When in the past I have been in doubt as to how to vote, I have de cided the matter by voting 1 against everything wanted by self-seeking men, with very satisfactory results. W. J. W1MER. Six Months' Residence Necessary. Portland, Oct. 19. To the Editor of The Journal Please advise if I can vote at the coming election. I ana reg istered at Seattle and moved to this city August 10. I am married. JAMES WEAVER. Mexico: 1846.1916. Baker, Or., Oct. 18. To the Editor of The Journal In reading General Grant's Memoirs, dedicated by him "To the American Soldier and Sailor" a few weeks prior to that great man's death, I find on page 63, volume 1. the following comment on the Mexican war: "Generally the officers of tha army were indifferent whether the an nexation (of Texas) was consummated or not; but not so all of them. For my self, I' was bitterly opposed to the measure, and to this day regard the war, which resulted, as one of the most unjust ever waged by a stronger against a weaker nation. It was an in stance of a republio following tbe bad example of European monarchies. In not considering Justice in their deslne to aoqulre additional territory." And again, on pages 64 and 65, vol ume 1: "The occupation separation and annexation (of Texas) were, from tne inception or tne movement to its final consummation, a conspiracy to acquire territory out' of which slave states might be formed for the Ameri can union. Even if the annexation it self could be Justified, the manner in which the subsequent war Was forced field against Great Britain was put unon Mexico cannot." - I at th head of that government. There And again, at page 169. volume 1, were some English officials retained General Grant says: "The Mexican I there, but they did not last very long. war of 1846-1848 would be an impos- The Boer head of the government ar restee every ji,rhgiisnman ranuecim with the government, loaded them on to a train one midnight, and shipped them to England with orders that they This policy lies back of the present great military program, not only In this country but in the other countries of the world. It Is behind the present war in Europe: it is th underlying cause of that which has converted al most all of Europe Into a human slaughter pen. "fhose who are eager for Interven tion and war with Mexico should re member that England entered upon the conquering of the Transvaal with the assurance of the military party of Great Britain that it would not take six months, that It would cost but $50,000,000. that the armies of Great Britain would eat their Christmas tur key in Pretoria if they were only given orders to march. , Let the people of the United States who want war with Mexico consider the striking parallel as made by Nor man Angell: The people of Mexico In habit a mountainous country; the Boers live in much such a country as that- The people of Mexico are the best horsemen - on this hemisphere. They may not be the best ehots, but they are the best horsemen. There are 16,000,000 of them; I think there were about 400,000 of the Boers. England undertook to subjugate the Boers and to conquer the Transvaal. The mil itary party In England stated that It would cost $50,000,000 and take a few monlhs; it cost $1,250,000,000; it took three years; It took 400,000 soldiers; and then they discovered that they had conquered the Transvaal, but had not conquered the Boers. They found that the only way to keep the Transvaal "conquered" was to maintain a stand ing army of 600,000 English soldiers there all the while; and Great Britain gave it up. Wbat did they do? They established a eort of colonial government that en abled the Boers to govern themselves, nominally under the foreign office of the British empire, but the man who had led the forces of the Boers In the siblllty in this generation." It Is well known to most people that Grant was a lieutenant in the Fourth Infantry at the breaking out of the Mexican war and that he served i should be deposited on the sidewalk in throughout that war. being at first London. That was dona Parliament with General Taylor and later and ordered an investigation, and the for at the close with General Scott. Grant el8n secretary was called before par died in July, H86, and he completed lament and questioned. He was asked his memoirs only a few weeks prior " to what had become of all the ex to his death, and at his passing both Penditur. ot money all the North end South vied wttbeach T other of to conquer the Transvaal. The in doing reverence to his memory. It foreign secretary iUedftt WV2! strikes me that th. farther away we they could P the Trans get from that great and good man's 1 vaal conquered without maintaining day and generation, the more weight i ' should be given his words and coun- I eistence has been that these same re sel. Today the American people so far publics are our friends and neighbors as Mexico is concerned, are confronted and that the great republic of the north with something like the sama condi. , Ik anxious to take all of them Into full tlons as in Grant's time. Just change copartnership In the adjustment of Rag -Tag'an&4 Stories From Everl 'And wben a lot of people wH.ft tv.a 4h. wi.lt.. &-tK ered around bun aad ska J' was laughing at, ba sale " 'I'm laughing because tha tht T ne I can cross tbe aisle aad anil' I - ( AX perpetually a standing army there, and that, therefore. It had been considered wise to give them a form of self-gov ernment, and to put the general who had been commander of all tbe Boer forces against Great Britain at the head of that government. He advised that they had better accept the sltua tion Just as it was, unless they wanted to start another affair with the Trans vaal. And Great Britain accepted it. The Boer war, which lasted three years, cost Great Britain $1,160,000,000 And it did not accomplish anything! Keep that in mind when some of the gentlemen who are speaking for Amer loan Investments in Mexico clamor for war with Mexico. There Is a moment ous lesson In the efforts of the repre sentatlves of two nations to arrive at an understanding and avert the conse quences of war. But If there should come some flaming up of passions, If there should come some opportunity for the representatives of those who have bought Mexico with American money and want to rule it want In terventlon then let us all remember what happened to England In an -ef fort to subjugate the Boers. If we ever enter upon the conques of Mexico and the office of prophecy is a somewhat hazardous one let m say that in a hundred years we will not conquer Mexico; we will malntai for a hundred years a standing army of a million men In Mexico; we will place the burden of that on the Amer ican people. If the time ever comes when we shall attempt to invade Mexico, It will be because American capital has gone dowu there and Invested. They who owa Mexico are the ones who want war. m So far as preserving order Is con cerned, we can patrol the border, wo can keep an army there, with soldiers to cover every foot of It better and at a cost far letss than we can carry on a war with Mexico. Such a war would last beyond the life of everybody now living. The Mexican people will fight to the last man for their rights, as they see them. They may not be their rights Just as we see them; they may not have the kind of government which w think they ought to have; but it Is their country and their government, and the intrusion of American capital ists la It for the purpose of maklar money does sot give us any right to go in there and change the form of their government. It may be the kind of government best suited to people of that type. m War with Mexico would be a crimi nal war. It would be a prolonged and costly war. It would be a shameful misuse of our national power. It would mean a yielding to the covert, sinister, treasonable conspiracy that Is being carried on by financial interests in this country who hold Mexican proper ties. It would be sacrifice of the blood of our soldier boys not for national defense, not for national honor, not for "humaaltarlaa purposes, " but only foa one tiling I Tne profits of foreign speculators. Let there be no such terrible calam ity! And Utelr blamed old hot And doa't bare to Jump out 'And a lot of other people cars and have to cross fi Wood street and Ubttty at tba quiet cara and latfr' A Resourceful Prcl A southern lady who B financial reverses recent: the country in order tJ She engaged a little coll the neighborhood to aaslsj times about the house. p story la told by the Ledger, was so much his employment that he to become a permanent m little household. "Mis' Alice," he begoI,T; "don't you -all ever git bm big house. Jus' by yourself "Why. yes. Sam." the laE -i "it Is lonely at times. I of having some one abo husband has to go away." "well." ventured Sara thought you might like l ae a candidate fo' de poi tector in case you shou employ some one." "Why, bam," asked the Ing, "what could you do tK robbers happened to br dark night?" Sam was pussled for a presently he had an lnsp "Well. Mis' Alice." be "dab's one thing dat I cou you was visited by unwel era, I could light da lante-i, you-all which way to ruA'j After the Banc An alert ear arises front tho sound of the latchkey's, The clock on the mantel r$ In the distance, writea 11 " bayton In Cartoons A; heard the grinding hupa ow "Is that you, John? Wl a time did you have?" "Rotten! The most aw "Did your speech go v. "If I do say It, Lottie saved the dinner." "What did you have to J John tosses out the rated menu and turns up Lottie studies It with Interest. "It looks like good dinner." f "They all look good In . "Men certainly do have! sighs Lottie wistfully. "Good time," snorts Job think 1 went, for a good tly, No man really knows . to a banquet. )4 Utc words above quoted to read: "A conspiracy to war on Mexico to further the interests of munitions plants and capital invested in Mexico for specula tion, all claiming the American Union bh their base," and what General Grant then said Is Just as applicable toaay as it was to the Mexican sltua their differences and in helping them to more stable conditions. J. B. MESSTCK, "Old Man Oregon." Portland, Or., Oct 17. To the Editor of The Journal I have before me a "masterrjiece" which appeared on the tion in 1846. If a nation sows to the front page of the Oregonian of Octo- Sr , ' " "ureiy an tne lndi- ber jr entitled "Shot Full of Holes. V2?j!"J?i2!Z There Is something rotten in we are reaping what we In 1845 sowed in the suspicion, not only of Mexico but ot ail tne Latin-American rniihiis. state of Denmark. Alas. I, too, have the a feeling akin to that the United States is yet Inclined i that depicted in that cartoon on the to follow "the bad example of Eu- I face of "Old Man Oregon," for 1 am a rcpean monarchies." in its dealings I consumer and have Just glanced over with these countries to the south of 1 the market reports for the day. us, a just suspicion for a long time. ereauy auayea. nowever, by the con duct of our government under Lincoln and Grant, and more than ever allayed by Wilson In his diplomacy, whose In- WLy I Am for Wil son By Thomas A. Ed"i ison Perhaps the free trade gun was loaded with small white beans at 10 cents, or potatoes at $1.80, or ham at 24 cents. Perhaps with wheat at $1.42 or eggs St 42 cents If Oregon were not dry I would aus-1 pect that "Old Man Oregon" had been out with the boys trying to work off a little of the surplus. Honestly, 1 believe the originate of . . i . V, . . frlAnd of Mr I'm for Woodrow Wilson. When it'n '.7 v,. America that's at stake men have got I ha- adroitly worked the drawing In on to vote aa im.ri. . . . f ti' r ..n ! iT "rr. . the oregonian. -v .u juji uue; ' Dig tning after an other with Wilson. Wilson has won vlc- c. w. c. important to man kind than any vic tories that we could have won by war. They say Wilson has blundered. Pef haps he has. Bu: I notice that he usu ally blunders for ward. . Mr. Wilson has now had about four years of experience, and I think that he has earned faith and trust, I do not think it a logical or sensible thing to change t an inex perienced and untried man lust for the sake of change. -- J Presidents and Wars. Banks, Or., Oct. 17. To the Editor . , . ti ,t., T V, n . ' ... tones by diplomacy , ml .bout Pres. mat are rar 010;''""' . ... laeni wusuij , . which I don't think he has done, for we Have at least had a few skirm ishes and you compare him with good old Abraham Lincoln, and remark on how he fought to keep out of war, .and that the Civil war was forced on the country. Is it not a fact that the Civil war was forced on Lincoln by the South tthey at least fired the first gun) the same solid south President Wilson bas to depend on for his reelection? . CHARLES J. HERB. In Behalf of Mr, Estabrook. Portland, Oct. It. To the Editor of The Journal It Is strange how. In the beat of a political campaign, the words used by a publlo speaker can he de liberately diatorted or at least misun derstood. I am glad to hear that Mr. J. D. Nellan did not say what he was reported to have said concerning Mary An tin, and I know that aome people hare acquired a totally wrong concep tion of what Henry D. Estabrook Bald, because I heard hla speech myself. Mr. Estabrook did not call President Wilson a "bob-tailed fox," aa one of your correspoudonts oays he did. bThe nearest he came to this language was in speaking of the Adam son law. when he declared that the president 1 id down two houses to a bob-tailed flush. Your correspondent evidently nas never played tbe game of poker, and therefore was unable to appre ciate what the audience considered as a very good joke. Also, Mr. Estabrook did not say any thing which could be construed aa an argument agalnat woman suffrage. What he said was that woman is not in a fit mind to vote until she has dropped the 'M" from motherhood, and Jearned to put aside the primal Instinct of protecting one's own, when reason demands that "otherhood" should be given equal consideration. The guarding of her offspring from physical danger, he said, is normally uppermost in a mother's mind. This was but the statement of a natural law with which wa are all familiar. The majority of us who went out froml here as volunteers in 88 would have stayed at home if we had listened to our mothers, and the same is true of those who a few months ago re sponded to another call to arms. There can be no doubt about that. Every mother's son of us knows it. It was young, vigorous, manly spirit which triumphed over the maternal Instinct. Whatever has been eald or done In this country, and whatever may be the result of the presidential election, it 4a to be hoped that this spirit Is not dying out in the land. A nation that depends In time of peril upon her citizen soldiery cannot be without It, and where there la no real patriotism conscription is an inevitable neces sity. Thus it is that those who now cry for peace when there Is no peace are but laying the foundation for a future militarism, and succeeding gen e rations must pay the price ot duty basely left undone by those who went before. ROBERT J. O'NKIL. Would Make Any Bill Why feeling so Jill I waa Juat dow and saw a frog croaking, ,'hy should that makei J "I m glad It was tlfcp croaked and not me." The Brotherhood o As she stood outside tl, ry Inn two great tears innocent eyes, tears so la Chicago News, that the p saw them. Beauty in distress causey, mount and ask if he eou, assistance "I'm afraid not, thank "i the damsel, sorrowfully, a lo an automatic chocolate I ached to the wnli of Ui Just put a poniiy In tb nothing has come out." "That's Hoon remedied young man, confidently. He slipped a coin into then another. After t muttered angrily, raised pedaled wildly away. J.! As he disappeared a I . .... .1 . L. , . ? ar r -- vj, "Any luck?" asked the g. Of. M "Oh. yea, ma!" replie J damsel, gaily. "That's tbgt netted 60 cents since dinrl Needed a GatUing?' "Bill had charge of the t, said the old circus man, Philadelphia Ledger, "anM . - , . . 1 peta was a leopard, tbe , had with the show, and c. too. This leopard gave ui Ue than all the rest of tlfi put together. It was certfH brute. vveui, ana u., wneu w j ing downatate, I had 00 m to arrange about aome a " peas. I waa eating my d' hote! when a telegram wi me. It was from Bill, nn5i leopard has escaped. J'rt ' town. What shall I do?" "That was Just like Dili K have explicit direction , X , m , a. n v 1 l!r. this Tl . f to make a mistake. i"j "I immediately wired Hl 'Shoot him on the spot,' f, any more about H untlf V l.oura later, when I rece telegram from eoneolentl Bill, anking 'Which spotl A Youthfol Ske Bobby had reached thd age and like a rapid fire a. who made the dog. the cH cow, the kittens and thep shut off the ceaseless fire i in natural history, his t,,i "Now, listen, God makes that runs around." Bobby answer and for a moment and then he Bald: "Oh, n make everything that ninsL didn't make our lence. around our lot, and X sa Ray making thatr v ' Betwixt and Bert "Madame!." said the dW mother, "you should eem to'iui country ior aTirstn summer," , v "I am torry to say. doc turned, "that we are not tor thatT" J "Then," suggested thef "have her sent by the frea "Oh doctor." exclaimed "we are not poor enough.! ,1 ' rnrlM J tilt Snow Nick Turlocking has fig that lend in' money on unln is most like buyin' Villa jf for speculation. He . wann on a farm 'sides - hot , makes any more loans.