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ATHENA, AUGUST
1,1905
Hearst 'a Chicago American of a re
cent issue contained the following
editorial, which has created no little
WUMUIKUlt UU IUU JJUIfa Vi Haw
generally because of the fact that it
shows a spirit of fairness which does
net always characterize the Ameri
can's editorials. It says:
"It wonld be a misfortune to the
country if the few big papers in the
big cities should interfere seriously
with the publication of the valuable
and intelligent local newspapers for
upon these local newspapers the wel
fare of the country very largely de
pends. The metropolitan daily cannot
possibly know the needs of the various
localities and small cities. Only the
local newspapers can protect local
needs and iuilucnco local opinion. Of
course we are very glad to have as
many people as possible read the
Chicago American in the big cities
and the little cities. But we hope
that in every small towu and every
village there will be enough intelli
gence and public spirit on the part of
the local inhabitants to support earn
estly and enthusiastically tbe best
local nowspaper, giving encouraging
approbation and a good living to the
local editor, who alone can represeut
and defend justice and pnblio spirit
among his neighbors. The man is
nufortuimto who cannot afford to take
two newspapers at today's prices. . He
who can afford only one newspaper,
in our opinion shold display his souse
of duty to his locality by taking the
local newspaper."
News columns of eastern papers
give evidence of considerable atten
tion being paid to the exposure' of
blackmail methods that- have beeu
3 i -vr it , "i; j m '
pursnca iu .mow iora viiy ior some
time by certain notorious and noxious
publications of that city, and sur
prise is expressed that prominent busi
ness and social men should submit to
tbe terms laid down by such publica
tions. And yet the very same meth
od of blackmail has Iweu practiced iu
Washington at the beginning of every
congress for the past ten years or
moro, and there hag beeu no outcry
from a single victim or intended vic
tim. United States senators, rather
than run the risk of being roasted or
shown up, have gone into their pook -ets
for anywhere from 100 to 1000
every two years, at the diotatioii of as
bold and villainous scoundrels as ever
worked a flim-flam in that city. At
the beginning of every congress these
bunco artists appear in the capitol,
Icet Me at
Yon oau always safely say this when you come to towu,
and wiHU to muke shopping appointments with a friend.
We've got a sort of comfort rooom for your convenience,
and you have a standing invitation to uso it whenever you
like. It's a good place to clean up, if you have had a long
ride. It's a good plaoe to rest, if you feel like resting. It's
a good plaoe to wait, if you are waiting. There is general
ly something to read, if you feel like reading. Good place
to leave you bundles, too, if you don't feel like carrying
them around with you. Our store has been enlarged and
our stocks are larger and better than ever before and we
want yon to come and look around whether buying or not
Sort of make the store your headquarters, for you are
surely welcome when you come.
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WALLA WALLA, -!- WASH.
call on tbe various senators, represent
that they are going to issue gome book
on the lives of all senators. Each
senator is asked to furnish his portrait
"which the company will publish' free
of oost if you have a copper plate en
graving." Of course no senator has a
copper plate, so it costs him anywhere
from $50 to $500 for the plate. Some
thing extra is thrown in for writing
up a creditable biography. But there
is not alone one holdup artist of this
sort ; there are usually three or four
at the opening of every congress, and
it is' a graft that is worked as regular
ly as congress convenes.
Life insurance costs too much by far
in America. This is the great lesson
of the Equitable scandal. Tbe public
may demand that state or nation run
the insurance business. In . Germany
tbe government's industrial insurance
is run at a cost for administration of
only 7 per cent, of the receipts, In
England the oost is only 9 per cent of
receipts in the government 's ordinary
life insurance, but in the average
American company it is 84 per cent.
Out of every dollar paid for life in
surance in this country 84 cents goes
for expenses, while government insur
ance in England is run nt one-fourth
this expense. America may well
take a lesson in life insurance from
Germany and England. It is - too
sacred an institution to be allowed to
continue without suitable regulations
in the intorest of the insured.
THK PLKA OF THK PIRATES.
(Oregonian. )
Had Governor La Follette made the
same remark a few years ago which
he made at Galesburg the other, day,
he would have beeu numbered thence
forth among incendary anarchists. "I
should like," said the governor, "to
have a hand iu hanging Stuyvesant
Fish." The nation does not shudder;
it merely wonders why Mr. La Fol
lette should limit bis sanguinary im
pulse to Stuyvesant Fish out of tbe
great multitude who are ripe for the
halter. Indeed, a very audible sigh
of regret ascends from the American
people that the bolligerant reformer
cannot proceed from the wish to its
fulfillment. Nevertheless, Stuyvesant
Fish is a great man and Mrs. Stuy
vesant Fish is something more than a
great lady. He is president of the
Illinois Central railroad, and she has
declined to be the wife of the presi
dent of the United States. To be sure,
she declined without being asked, but
it is the feeling of the heart, we must
remember, that counts, not the ex
ternal circumstances.
Later, and at a Chautauqua As
sembly, too, where incendiary utter
ances must fall on the timidly correct
congregation, one would suppose, like
a band of pirates upon a nunnery,
Mr. La Follette violently denounced
that pillar of the church, the college
and society, John D. Rockefeller. It
is added iu the account that what he
said was applauded. Trifling iu them
selves, such facts as these are far from
trival when they must be taken as
symptoms of a profound ethical revo
lution iu the nation. They are the
surface wavelets which tell something
of a deep disturbance iu the ocean of
society. It is not unlikely that the
American people are feeling just now
tbe initial stirrings of a tremendous
revival,. Not a revival of ecclesia
sticism, but of vital and efficient
righteousness. That this is coming
there are many signs. The enduring
popularity of Theodore Roosevelt,
who is a righteous man iu the sense
of Matthew Arnold and the Hebrew,
prophets, is one sign. It is another,
most omiuous for evildoers in high
places, that the wrath of tbe people
against them does not burn itself out
The public does not weary of the
continuous flood of exposure and de-
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nnnciation in the. newspapers. As
people wake to the meaning "of it,
they are fascinated '" and enraged.
They are stricken with the whole
some, old fashioned conviction of sin,
not in the grafters only, but in them
selves. A whole nation is crying
"Lord, be merciful unto us miserable
sinters." The belief is coming home
to all of us that if Diogenes were to
set out with his candle today toflnd
an honest man, be would be still 'less
successful than he was in Athens two
thousand years ago. Tbe nation sick
ens of its moral filth. ;
How will it fare with pillars of
society like Fish and Rockefeller in
that day of wrath which seems to be
at hand? No sane person looks for a
bloody, and, possibly, richly deserved,
retribution upon these men ; but there
is going to be a fearful coming to
judgment of some sort What can
they say in their defense? They can
say, for one thing, that they are
symptoms, rather than causes, of the
national disease. Rockefeller can
successfully plead in reply to Miss
Tarbell, for example, "who indicts him
again in the August MoClure's, that
he has not made the nation dishonest
but, rather, that the dishonesty of the
nation gave him his opportunity to
achieve his bad eminence in piracy.
He was born into corruption, and,
like the larvae of certain insects, he
found it uniquely adapted to his
nature, and throve in it Not one of
his 8ohen.es could have been manned
or executed in a community of sound
moral ideas. All of them must have
failed in a country where adequate
laws were faithfully enforced. Mr.
Rockefeller found the law neither
adequate to cover the conditions of
modern commerce, nor ; enforced
when its antiquated rules did apply.
For every principle of law be found a
method of evasion with as good or
better standing in the courts. He has
used the law as an apparatus for plun
der ; but he found law and lawyers
ready to his hand. He created neither
of them.' Nor has he ever failed to
find plenty of helpers in all his pre
datory undertakings. .
With the soul of a miser and the in
tellect of a Bacon, Mr. Rockefeller
was born at a time when lax morals
and inadequate laws invited avarice
to plunder. He aocepted the invita
tion with determined seal, and for
many years he spent all his energy in
devouring his abundant and easy prey.
A student of the evolution of Mr.
Rockefeller would naturally call this
the larva, or grub, period of his life.
The student would also expect to see
him emerg from this lowly estate, as
all grabs do, and soar above the
earth as a winged creature. Mr.
Rockefeller, and all his genius,, try
very hard to complete their evolution
and show themselves as something of
a finer nature than mere devourers.
No one enjoys the hatred of bis kind.
In these men the hunger for approba
tion even overcomes their avarice,
and, without forsaking their .evil
ways, they pay enormous sums to
buy the praise, or at least, the silence,
of those who lead public opinion.
They find both the praise and the
silence for sale; but they find also that
in this matter public opinion will
not be led. It moves more and more
strongly toward condemnation and
beigns to repudiate tbe leaders who
would, as it thinks, mislead. These
criminals, who have so long defied the
law and despised the rules of manly
fair dealing, and who now wish to
pose as philanthropists and benefac
tors of humanity, hear nothing from
the great publio but sneers and satire.
They may ultimately hear something
worse, for the American" people are
growing impatient of hypocrisy. But,
whatever may fail, they are entitled
to plead that the nation which now
condemns them tempted them to com
mit their misdeeds by its own inade
quate laws, pliant judiciary and lax
morals.
WHIT1 WATER IS THE OCEAX.
Wls. at
laterraaa l Mb
' leal It
Ot the many tight wHneeeed In the
ocean of the globe, one of the most
curious and most weird la that de
scribed by saltan as "the milky sea,'
ships being surrounded for several
hoars by water that appears to be a
snowy whiteness. Compiled from ex
perienees recorded during the last 70
years, an interesting account of the
phenomenon la gWen on the Xorth At
lantic and Mediterranean Pilot Tr1.
The spectacle is restricted to the dark
ness of night and rare rerninon, and,
while it is limited mainly ro the warm-'
er waters of the tropical belt, it ap-.
pears to be more common in the In--dian
ocean than in the Atlantic and
Pacific. From the white water the
light is so strong that ordinary news
paper print can be read on board ship,
bnt the acen all around is of an awe
inspiring description. The horiion is
blotted out, sea and sky seem to be
come one in a sort of universal lumi
nous fog, which, like a London fog.
robe the observer of the sense of dis
tance and direction, the deck being lit
p with a ghastly, shadowless light.
Last June off the west coast of South
America a bucket of the white water
emptied back into the sea resembled
molten ... This curious sight has
interested scientific inrestigatora, Dar
win among them; but while it is, no
doubt, related to the many phosphor
escent displays common at sea, there
is no difficult explanation forthcom
ing of this particular manifestation or
of the singular atmospheric effect re
sulting from it
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