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The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Entered as mcoihI-1m matter September 8. IS, at the pott office mt onmout h. Oregon, under the Act of erchS. 1ST. ISSl'KP KVKKY VKIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months - II 50 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, APRIL. 11 1913. COXGRESSAT WORK Congress is convened in ex traordinary session. Tlie dem ocrats having the president, and control of the house and senate are now in the saddle, and their riding will be watched with in terest, as they now have the opportunity sought, for lo! these many years. Tariff will be the principal topic for some time to come, and its advocates will be grouped according to the different branches of industry likely to be effected by a change of rate, and the natural bent from a self in terested standpoint is, that wool raisers will want a good per cent on wool, goat-raisers will want mohair protected, lemon producers will want lemons pro vided for, lumbermen will still want lumber protected, and steel, iron and other industries will feel their need of protection, so that when you get around, and sum up the whole matter, the idea of protection, generally speaking, is to get something for nothing and to hold an ad vantage over some other party. The boy's idea of getting rich was, that everybody should give every other body a nickel. He was only summing up what he would receive with no thought of giving it away again, and tariff devotees when they can get protection sufficient for their own purposes, care little for the other fellow's interests. Tariff is a convenient way of raising revenue, and has a direct tax beaten to a frazzle. If memory serves us right, it was Lord Pitt, of England, who, when the English goverment was considering direct tax for revenue, opposed it and said: "There is a way by which you can tax the last shirt off a man's back and he will grumble at the high prices and not know what the trouble is." During the last half century protection has been a strong aid in bringing about the un equal distribution of wealth which exists at present, but it is doubtful if any revision will have much of a corrective force, as the great monied concerns have advanced in ways and means whereby competition is destroyed and their ends ac complished. The government has been in the dissolving business for some time now, but there has been no preceptible change in prices, for the better, so far as the common people are concerned, and though the tariff maybe changed, we believe that those who now control commerce will still be able, under their peculiar management, to control prices and keep conditions very much like they are. Abstracts promptly made by Brown & Sibley, attorneys and abstracters. A Djing Empire Thirty-live years ago the Turkish Empire had territory in three continents amounting to 1,700,000 square miles, and a population of 42,000,000. In this short period she has grown rapidly and beautifully less. Her African domain has gone. It was her largest. England has Egypt, and Italy, this present year, sliced off Tripoli with its 1,100 miles of shore line. A serious loss this, with S7.",000 square miles and 8,000,0l0 sub jects. The carving off her European possessions is finishing swiftly, in which the losses foot up 151, 000 square miles and 11,000,000 people. The old Asiastic home remains with about 700,000 square miles and 23,000,000 subjects. The symptoms of the si(k man of Constantinople are very encouraging. The world will breathe freer when this ghastly, brutal and savage nation is no more. She never knew the ap peal of reason, or conscience, or humanity. Glorifying lust and war, she has been the long terror and loathing of the na tions. There are no mourners as she heads to doom. Just seven centuries ago her virile progenitors came out of Persia and located in Asia Minor. They embraced Mo hammedanism, whose crescent, sword and torch were congenial to native ferocity. Speedily they hewed and burnt their way to national organization, and in three hundred years, theirs was the mightiest power on earth. Europe's strongest nations feared and courted them. The new empire occupied one of the most favored regions in the temperate zone. It was an absolute des potism. Government was an armed camp, ruled by an irre sponsible chief. Conquered ter ritories were pinned together with bavonets. It was trium phant barbarism. Civilization and the arts of peace there were none. The nerves of the civilized world have long been familiar with the shock of its horrors. In every part of that groaning empire, there have been sickening butcheries, sav age massacres, and fiendish cruelties. And now the nations hasten their war vessels, to pro tect helpless infancy and old age against the senseless fury of the heathen Turk. The gigantic- old assassin responds only to the argument of force. The wrath of the twentieth century burns against him. The spirit of tri umphant democracy pushes him off the globe. An aroused, long- slumbering divine justice is pay ing arrearages to the arch crim inal. So mote it be. With the sudden spring of a tiger, the Balkan peoples have struck their old oppressor. The rapidity and brilliancy of their victories bring gladness and as tonishment to the minds of men Calamity thickens and multi plies into an inferno, as the Turk reels and staggers out of Europe. The volume of human distress, pain and anguish is terrible, indescribable, heart rending. Such is the frightfu cost of expelling the demon that has cursed Southwestern Europe for five hundred years. W. R. L. Smith, Chapel Hill, N. C, in Biblical Recorder. Miss Sylvia Pankhurst as She Looked In London Jail Cell (, S s"l J ' 1 I k i i . ill . -i I vj:jvr'sVf ,i.,..- fif as. I - i,i't j t .. II ft ? v I , A v . A I i 0. lSv . , i :i , , ; ht . n Photo by Amerloma Vrrtt Auoclatloa. ENULIsy uBrtgette b no tnor fr of prtauo etUu thn th trrr ce aumll bo; baa of tkatlug ou tbln Ice. 8ucb "Totrt for women" patriots a Mlaa Sylvia I'ankburat, for example. Junt dote on Jail Here you bow aim looks when looked up and wearing prison Riirb Keceutl.v she wa HrreHted sod sentenced to three month Id prison. She did not threHteu to "atrlke " Her sister. MIhs Cbrlstsbel I'ankburat, Is not so fund of cell life, for ahe baa remained In France eer since the London bobbles wsnted her for vh -e a year ago Their mother, Mrs Emmellne Psnkbumt. . .. .ii in,- iirin. imii ! i:r ia like Mlaa Sylvia and has been arrested often. C. G. GRIFFA, Plumber and Steam Fitter. Carries In Stook Bath Tubs, Toilet Fixtures, and all kinds of Plumb ers' Supplies, nickel-plated or otherwise. All orders attended to promptly and work guaranteed. MONMOUTH. OREGON Wood Sawed to Order W. l. PHILLIPS Your wood sawed for you just as you order it done Have placed an order book at Johnson's Woody ard; leave orders there Herald and Pacific Monthly one year, . . . Herald and Pacific Homestead one year. Herald and Weekly Oregonian one year. Herald and Daily Telegram one year, ... Herald and The Weekly Blade one year. T !U1 Without Salvage Five thousand btirrels of whis key in the Ohio river. Just think of it! What a greater deluge of talk than all inundations of water combined that ever cotnpasied the earth' was thus engulfed to bob recklessly and aimlessly along in the waste of waters! What a gorge and swirl of barreled ambitions, of tinseled dreams, of madness, of melan choly, of incentive to brutality and vice and crime; what pent up possibilities of hunger and nakedness and misery and heart aches went dancing down the flood waters of the Ohio! It is perhaps the most notable instance ou record of old John Barleycorn adrift, and of some moral consequence as it is a physical illustration of the man ner in which he sends men down the swirling tides of folly, pas sion and humiliation, without even the prospect of salvage that obtains in this case. Portland Telegram. ;.w mn $1.75 1.75 2.00 5.00 1.35 Poniss of Iceland, Icelandic ponies, which are being impressed into the service ol tlie Swing army, arouncd the admiration of the great traveler, Mme. Ida Pfeiffer. In unite of scanty food, she wrote, "they have marvelous powers of endurance. I hey can travel from thirty-five to forty miles per diem for several consecu tive days. They know by instinct the dangerous spots in the stony wastes and in the moors and swamps. On spproaching tltese places thev bend their heads to ward the earth and look sharply round on all sides. If they cannot discover a firm resting place far their feet they stop at once and cannot be urged forward without many blows. How He Made Good. "Women," said the impassioned sociological orator, "prefer the cave man. There was much confusion in the hall and some hisning. Then a lady of problematical years arose and faced the speaker. "1 should like," she severely said, "to ask the age of the women to whom you have just alluded. The speaker realized that he was on thin ice, but his nerve did not desert him. He hesitated just a moment. "The stone age!" he roared and went on with his lecture. change. Professional Cards Dr. Laura Colby Price. Oilicc and Rcsidonce Norlli- west corner Main and College streets, one block west of thu Liberal store. Telephone 56. B. F. SWOPE, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Home Phone: Ollico, No. I32H, Residence, No. II" 12. Office In Cooper buiUInu, Independence, Oregon Dr. J. O. Matthit Physician and Surgeon Office in PostofTice Building CallB answered promptly both day and night. Both Phones. Dr. J. B. Grider DENTIST Office over Post Office Monmouth, Orkgon V. O. BOOTS Fire, Life and Casualty INSURANCE Losses Promptly Paid Church Directory. Evangelical Church W. A. (Juekkroy, I'ahtor. Morning service at 11:00 o'clock Evening service at 7:30 o'clock Sunday School at 10:00 a. m. Y. P. 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