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ATHENA PRESS Twice-a-Wekk Tuesday and Fbidav . B. Botd, Publishes. Entered second-class matter, March 1, VMi, at the postofflce at Athena, Oregon, under the Act ot Congress of March 3, 1879. Subscription Kt: i'er year, in advance 12.00 Single oopiei In wrappers, 6c. Advertising Ktss Local reading notices, nrst'lnsenion.lOcper me. Each sabsequent Insertion, 6c. All communications should be addressed to me PRK88 Athena, Oregon ATHENA, JUNE 28, 1904 ROCKEFELLER'S "FILE." The case of Captain Richmond Pear Bon Hobson shows that the war hero does not always have the open Besame to the prize of politics. Young Hobson resigned from the navy a year or two ago, and announced that be intended to seek an election to congress. One of bis objects in congress, as he recently de clared, would have been to work for the construction of a bigger navy for the United Stated than England has. He would give this country the same pre- emjnence on the sea tbat (ireat critian has had foHbe past third of a century, even if this necitated the expenditure, within the next 20 yeatMjfJvi'O ofthree billion dollars. But , Hobson 's war record did not prove to be so powerful an asset as he and some others supposed it would be. He has been beaten by John H. Bankhead, of the Sixth Ala bama district, a very much less pictur esque person, but a person who has had au experience of eighteen years in con gress, and who served in the legislature of his state many years before going to Washington, while Hobson has never had any political service of any sort. Like his companion in arms, Dewey, the hero of the Merrimac has bad bad luck in politics. The sailors in this country have been less fortunate than soldiers. Moreover, the war in which Ilobeon figured was given no political prize to anybody except President Roosevelt. It furnished him thtf governorship of New York, and this led to the presidency. The chances are that it has no more political posts for anybody. The word "yellow" is passing through a transformation. It describes the color of sunshine or of beaten gold, of the buttercup or of the dandelion. But not many years ago one of the sensational newspapers printed a series of colored pictures illustrating the adventures of a "kid" that is what the child was call edwearing a long yellow, garment. The yellow . pictures appeared till Not a big-selling novel in two years, say the publishers. The searchlight is applied in every direction for a possible hidden genius. The typewriters of the land creak and got wheezy with the rapid production of rapid literature. Litterateurs who erstwhile scrapped for existence in Grub street now employ high-priced architects to build them mansions in Easy street. Never was the apparatus for getting literature produc tions before the public so well develop ed. But the books. Walter Wellman wants to kuow what has become ot the writers ot great American novels. They have probably found out that it pays better to write the kind of novels that the groat American public seems to want. ; . . meu began to use the term "yellow journalism" when they desired to de scribe the journalism that was sensation- al, coarse and vulgar. Now we have yellow politics and yellow preaching, yellow base ball and yellow warfare, and it litis got so that when one is told that a woman wore a yellow gown to a party one does not know whether the gown is meant or its extreme vulgarity. Never was there a better illustration of the truth of the saying that a word is known by the company it keeps. "Our administration of the great de partments of the government has been honest and efficient, and wherever wrong has been discovered the republican ad ministration has not hesitated to probe the evil and bring the offender to justice without regard to party or political tioa." This is an extract from the plat form adopted by the republican mitioual convention at Chicago. It is excellent so far as it goes, but would hare been more to the point if it had gone more into det il and shown how many dis honest officials had been "brought into justice." Perhaps the formers of the platform compared the list of convict ions with the list of indictments, and found so few of the former tbat they thought details would be dangerous. While we are living under the protec tion of the most liberal and enlightened government on the globe, the violation and disrespect of law are on the in crease. Obnoxious laws remain on the statute books and their violation is not punished. To inculcate reverence for laws only such statutes should be en acted that tend for righteous govern ment. On the left band corner of invitations to an aristocratic wedding in New York there was printed, "No Children Ex pected." Should be referred to the anti-race suicide society. Exchange. 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