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- . THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1921 lie i Issued Dally Except Monday by THE RTATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon (Portland Office, 627 Board of Trade Building. Phone Automatic . - 527-59) MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Fress is exclusively entitled to the use for repub lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited lication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks.. Manager Stephen A. Stone Managing Editor Ralph Glorer Cashier Frank Jaskoskl . , Manager Job Dept. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 583 . Job Department, 583 Society Editor, 10 S Entered at the Postoffice In Salem, Oregon, as second class matter. ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S INTUITION AND LOGIC Editor Statesman : If it is true, as an old Greek writer has said, that "history is philosophy teaching by example," then the study of the Sayings of great men shouldbe one of the most profitable employments of one's time. In this respect the studied speeches and state papers of Abraham Lincoln are a rich gold mine. At the assembly of the 0. A. R. at the State fair on Friday, September 30, some "quotations from Mr. Lincoln's first inaug ural address and his first message to congress were read which will never lose their value to Americans who seek the sources of democratic policies in popular government. ' From the first message, delivered July 5, 1861, at the open ing of the special session of congress, called by the presidential proclamation of April 15, 1861: "Our poputar government has been called an experiment. Two points in it the people have already settled the successful establishing, and the successful administering of it. One still remains its successful mainten ance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets; that when ballots have fairly and constitutionally decided there can be no successful appeal back, to bullets; that there can be no successful appeal except to ballots at succeeding elections. Such will be a great lesson of peace, teaching men that what they cannot take by an election neither can they take by war." i "Much is said about the sovereignty of the states; but ttie word, even,' is not in the national constitution, nor, as is be lieved, in any. of the state constitutions. What is a sovereignty in the political sense of the term! Would it be far wrong to define it as a political community without a political superior? J-l" Tested by this, no one of the states, except Texas, was ever a sovereignty, and even Texas gave up the character on earning into the Union, by which aet she acknowledged the constitution of the United States and the laws and treaties of the United States made in pursuance of the constitution tc be the supreme law of the land. ".The states have their status in the Union, and they have iw other legar status. If they break from this they can only do so against law. and by revolution. The Union and not themselves separately procured their independence and their liberty ,By conquest jor. purchase the .Union gave each of .theiri whatever of independence -and liberty .it.Jjas,,! The Unloi is 6lder than any f the states, and, in fact, it. jcreated them as states.. Originally i some dependent colonies made the Union, and, in turn, the Union threw off their old dependence for them and madelhem states5sueh"as they are; Not one of them ever had a state constitution 'independent of the Union. Having never, been states either in Bubstance or in name outside of the Union, whence this omnipotence of state rights asserting claim pf power to lawfully destroy the Union itself! In his first inaugural address, March 4, 1861, Mr. Lincoln I -t: . j il - : . n . ri:.,i.. v, 1 uisouaseu iue cueaiou wuveiueub ua j.uuuyvs; j. lauuy me i central idea of secession is the essence of anarchy. A majority, held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with the deliberate changes of popular opinion and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free peo ple., Whoever rejects it, does, of necessity, fly to anarchy or despotism. Unanimity is impossible; the rule of the minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting .the majority principle, anarchy, or 'despotism in some form, is all that js left." In the first message he said: "The constitution provides and all the states have accepted the provision, that "The United States shall guarantee to every state's republican form of government' But if a state may lawfully go out of the Union, having done so, it may also dis card .the republican form of government; so that to prevent its 'going out is an indispensable means to the end of maintaining .the guaranty mentioned; and when an end is lawini ana ooug story, the indispensable means to it are also lawful and oblig , story n j This briefly stated principle of constitutional law has never 'been questioned, "and by it Mr. Lincoln justified his action in 'raising within ten weeks an army of 200,000 men, creating a navy, and establishing a blockade of the Atlantic and gulf coasts for none of which did he have clear statutory authority. Congress subsequently ratified all these acts. Character of the Union Army "So large an army (about 200,000 at the time Mr. L. Spoke) as the government now has on foot was never before known without a soldier in it who has not taken his place there of his own free choice. But more than this; there are many single regi- : ments whose members, one and another, possess full practical knowledge of all the arts, sciences, professions and whatever else whether useful or elegent, is known in the world, and there is scarcely one from which there could not be selected a presi- ; dent, a cabinet, a congress, and perhaps a court, abundantly competent to administer the government itself." m (In the regiments referred to there were then serving five men who after the war became presidents, and many hundreds of others who became governors, members of congress, senators, legislators, judges of local, state and national courts, college and university professors, foreign diplomat, masters of busi- ness, etc.) . ; , Democracy Defined - "This is essentially a people's contest. On the side of the Union it is a struggle to maintain in the world that form and substance of government whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men; to lift artificial weights from all shoulders; to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all; to afford to all a fair chance in the race of life. Yielding to partial and temporary departures, from necessity, this is the leading object of the gov ernment for whose existence we contend. I am most hsppy to '. believe that the plain people understand and appreciate this." H Vlt is worthy of note that while in the government's hour of trial large numbers' of those who have been favored with offices have resigned and proved false to the hand that pam pered them, not one common soldier or common sailor is known to have deserted his flag. Great honor is due to those officers who remained true, despite the example of their treacherous associates; but the greatest honor, and the'most important fac tor of all, is the unanimous firmness of the common soldiers and common sailors. To the last man, so far as is known, they have successfully resisted the traitorous efforts of those whose com mands, but an hour before, they obeyed as absolute law. This U the patriotic instinct of plain people." . - The full meaning of Mr, Lincoln's words will be better understood if we bear in mind the fact that out of a small armyjof some 16,000 men 286 officers resigned to enter the rebellion, and j that 61 others who had held commissions in thej regular army entered hostile ranks; 387 in all, of whom 181 became genera V officers. This does not inctade 322 men Who had held commissions in the U. S. navy, 669 officers in all who proved themself es disployal while the common soldiers and sailors' "to the last man" stood true to their fla. InjVol. II, Battles and Leaders of the War, is an article on the battle of Glendale or Frayser's Farm by General James Longstreet, who is now recognized as the hardest fighter in the confederate army. At the close of his article the writer gives ;his personal estimate of Lee, Stonewall Jackson, and others of his own people, after which he turns entirely aside from his subject and closes his article with the following words : "Without doubt, the greatest man of rebellion times, the one matchless among forty millions for the peculiar difficulties o$ the period, was ABRAHAM LINCOLN." -After fifty-six years of thinking and observation the world applauds these words of an enemy leader. Mr. Lincoln's definition of "a sovereignty" is commended to the attention of those who declare our eourrtry to be "a sovereign nation composed of sovereign states." The U. S. Suprejne Court has: defined it as "an indestructible Union of indestructible states." This merely condenses into a brief phras Mr. Lincoln's argument in his first inaugural address. "State sovereignty' was shot to death by the Union army and was liuried at Appomattox. The sovereign Union still lives and has saved civilization from destruction. Its principles, as defined by Mr. Lincoln, are the aspiration and hope of the world ALBERT LOUGHRIDGE. Congress is wrestling with the question of jtaxes, but about the only sure thing is that we shall be compelled to pay as much in 1922 as ws have paid in 1921. What they need in the Anglo- Irish. controversy is a Babe Iluth who cin hit the ball. prevai There is a crisis in Berlin, but it s nothing to the situation that ed lri November, 1918. I Emperor Toshihito of Japan is reported as seriously ill. And Japan is one of the few nations where! the emperoring business continues to be good. It is understood that the war between the Greeks and the Turks lis to become an annual af fair, with the scene of action shifted in turn from one nation to the other, j ! I England is listening to her col onies how with an air of patience. One of the ; great mistakes of Georgfe III was that he refused to do so' England has regretted it ever since, i i One- of the ways to meet the present condition In. this country ij riot to exaggerate the evils or spread a contagion of dismay. Whole-souled efforts, to -improve conditions are the proper thing. the rate will approximate the average rate of ' the two classes of notes. The total amount now outstanding is about four and a quarter billion, of which about one-fifth bear interest at Z per cent, and the balance at 4 per cent. Tne treasury will not be able to meet those obligation? out of-current receipts, and a re funding operation must be re sorted to. It is fortunate that the new issue of securities will not put a heavier interest burden on the government than it now bears. French. The Portuguese have no daily In Chicago. Neither have they one in New York, for thai matter, and New York is supposed to have more foreign publications than any other city in the world. There are etill 20,000.000 dwe'.l eryi in Amrira who road their newspapers in an alien tongue. A RACK OF DEAD OSES. wares and products which made France the wonder of the wotld. Exchange. The fact is, France is supply ing a part of her foreign trade with goods manufactured in Ger many made there cheaper than she can make them. The same thing Is being done by English manufacturers and dealers And it is actually being done by American manufacturers and dealers. No wonder there is practically no unemployment in Germany. The workmen are busy there, woking long hours and overtime, and working at very low wages almost negligible wages, when counted in marks at the exchange rates with the money of other countries. Working almost as one man, under the direction of the in dustrial and financial colossus of that country, Hugo Stinnes. in dustrial Germany has ail the lead ers of other nations guessing; has many of them scared. It is a high crime that the new tariff law of the Uaited States has been held up so long. Con gress should have acted prompt ly; and that body ought to be In position to act again and again, and promptly, on an item at a time, or a schedule at a time. whenever conditions arise mak ing changes necessary or advisable. One of the professors in the University of Chicago says that the imagination of America is bo coming dulled. There is nothing much in the way of either tears or laughter. The rising genera tion is sophisticated and unemo tional. It doeen't laugh when it reads Joe Miller's joke book and Jt doesn't cry when its toenails are stepped on. Even our litera ture seems to be shorn of its inspiration. Altogether we seem to be in a bad way. The profes sor doesn't say it, but he leaves the impression that It takes some thing more than half of 1 per cent to keep the Imagination of America at concert pitch. Wo can jazz a little, but there is noth ing else. limitation crusades Ireland will perhaps be persuaded to build one less battleship. SOUNDS FISHY That woman who was suing the Roosevelt estate for $70. 000 alleged to be loaned to fin ance the coloned's campaign now thinks that it wasn't Roosevelt that signed the note. Somebody was masquerading ! in his steal. That doesn't sound very pood, cither. While the colonel was alive nobody would hate nerve enough to try and impersonate him, and after he was dead they couldn't. COXVICT-OPERATKU GAME FARM JUDGMENT OF CONGRESSMEN' Now that the days are getting shorter one recalls the old saw Douglas Fairbanks once got off when he was on. the legitimate stage. "Why, he's a congressman and as honest as the day is long," said a friend. "Dut remember the days get shorter when con gress meets." replied Doug. But that was before these summer sessions. Arkansaw Thomas Cat. THE FOREIGN PRESS. There are 40 daily newspapers nublished in Chicago. Of these a dozen are in English and six la German. The rest are in the various tongues of Middle Eu rope, but, strange to say, there The state of Washington main tains the only game farm in the world which is operated by con victs, according to an article in Popular Mechanics Magazine for October. Great numbers of pheasants are raised by trusties on the penitentiary grounds for distribution throughout the state. The men work as freely as though they were not under confinement. SMOKE UP. The British cartoonists always fhow Uncle Sam as smoking a big. long cigar. Is this supposed to te a puff? STILL GOING UP. Average food prices In the United States rose more than 10 per cent during the month of August, according to the govern ment statisticians. And this at a time when people were getting used to food! There are always a few lions in the path. THE WRONG KILL. Dispatches from Germany an nounce the death of King WiN Hani. Unfortunately, however, this is not oar ancient grouch, the kaiser but plain William of. Wuerttemburg. II may; have, been a bad Bill, but nol to bad as his Trussian namesake. ' ' ..I EARLY RISERS. The mikado has decorated Gen., Leonard AVood with tha Order of the Rising Sun. In the Philip-1 pines ho bad the rrgalK of the Farly Bird. Bring on your worsts The general doesn't need an alarm clock. Exchange. '.. ? A French artist Is making a picture , of President Harding. That should give the photograph ers a little rest. ? School Lunches Prices reasonable ( , THE UTTLK LADY'S STORE 1090 Center SL, corner 12th ON THE SMALL TIME. They ' are only going to give each senator an hour for debate on the German treaty. Is time as scarce as all that?: An hour is a long time in a horse race, but it isn't a span in a senate debate. It would take Senator Borah longer than that to collect his thoughts. Exchange. AX OPEN FIELD. The League of Nations is to next year consider proposals from the various countries as to the reduction of armaments. This will give the Washington con ference the right Of way for the time being. Between the two Now Making Friends Instead b. Profits Fall Suits $30 to $60 Yes we've cut the prices to the bone. We've deter mined to show the men of this city that we're paving the way to lower prices. j . . ' , , v . We've got the values and the prices will prove we're doing it. You won't find their equal anywhere, . . A visit to our store will prove most convincing Scotch Wooleki Mills 426 State Street . Salem, Oregon1 If Hugo Stinnes, the Rockefel ler of; Germany, goes in for pro ducing motion pictures, as re ported, hcj will show American backers of the film game some thing and the money won't all go to the stars, either. Exchange. 1 Uncle Sam ha3 informed John Bull that he would like to have a slice of the millions due from Great Britain on account of loans during the war. John would rather pay; at the rate ot a dol lar! down and a dollar a year. A lot of folks are leaving the Bay City On account of the high taxes land I that peculiar form of sleeping sickness that the post office department calls San Fran-claco.-t Los Angeles Times. ( How those California cities do love one another!) V I case The defense in the Arbuckle villi be handled by San Francisco attorneys. In view of the! peculiar feeling existing be tweenj Los Angeles and the Bay city jhat should have been the course In (he frst instance. L03 Angeles Times. ir Ernest Cassel, the noted wealthiest dead, but financier, one of the men In the world. Is he jhad no wife and children and in (hik lifetime he did not dis guise; the fact that in spite of his moher, he was poor Indeed. Money is hot everything in th'3 Tale of tears Why hot have a Buyers' week, which means a week of intensive campaigning by wholesalers, fol lowed by week of similar activ ityj at a later date among retail ers; the purposes being to move goods! and thus give more work to jthe factories? Confidence must be increased and purchasing stim ulated. Los Angeles Times. TO TAKE CUE FROM CHINA The Chinese delegation to the armaments conference is the first to arrive in the United ' States. It is apparent from the Inter views already given out by the Chinese envoys that their chief concern at the conference will be to resist the demands of Japan. In their position they hope to have the support of the United States representatives, as well as those of the other nations attend ing the meeting. The first busi ness of the conference will be the consideration of Far Eastern questions, and the feature of that subject will be the relations be tween China and Japan. It is not too much to say that a satisfac tory outcome of the armaments conference depends on the settle ment of Japanese problems. With them out of the way, an agree ment on a limitation of arma ments ought to be reached with out great difficulty, but if the insistence of Japan on what she conceives to be her rights in China, and her attitude toward the United States, preclude a sat isfactory arrangement with her. the matter of armaments may not be reached at all. COLLEGE BRED. THE FRENCH IMPORTS. jTb Imports ot raw materials In J France for the first seven months of! this year are reported as being but 5.000,000,000 francs as against 15,000.000.000 francs for the same period last year. Thjs is not good for Francis nor the rest of the world. It shows that jFrance Is rebuilding; herself wih her own materials, but at tb same time is not -keeping up with her : foreign trade In the U FUTURE 0ATES nir 3t. Jl d 83 Ifuloa faaa t ,Tri; Xutitut. , : - , . The young men of America are going after college education as they never did before. There may be nearly 5,000,000 of men out of employment, but the col leges and higher educational in stitutions are filling up with young men who expect to get a diploma before they undertake the serious business of life. Many are going on their own initiative nnd at their own expense,, in spite of the calm superiority In dicated by a lot of self-made Na poleons In business the college bred youth Is going to be the most extensive ice-cutter of the generation. VICTORY NOTE REDEMPTION. It Is apparent that it will cost the government virtually nothing to refund such of the Victory notes as are outstanding when they mature on May 15, 1923. The treasury Is now borrowing money on short term certificates at 5 per cent, and there is a tre mendous demand for the securi ties. As successive issues are of fered It Is probable that further reductions in the interest rate will be made, and in 19 months. when the Victory notes mature. "Tike Tonic Jkfi Jiued Smbl" 0 ARsd(!sssShoe rw Trade I I Mark THEY ARE HERE!!! 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