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FRANCE HOLDING
AS
PARIS, Oct. 24. The American
embassy, under its obligations to rep
resent flormnn nnd Auslrinn inter
ests in France, is looking after about
80,000 persons who are detained as
alien enemies in eleven localities in
Prance. These wcro Germans and
Austrinns living in the country t the
outbreak of the vtlr. ' TheWFiynch
government provided seeiajtrajns
. ... . . . "
going to neuirni irontiors lor two
days after hostilities had begun, and
nil those remaining within France nf
ter thoo days were obliged to report
themselves to the police and go to
those towns in France to which they
wcro assigned.
The state department nt Washing
ton has nttnehed II. lVrcivnl Dodge,
formerly minister to Panama, to the
embassy here as special agent to have
charge of German and Austrian af
fairs. The- third floor of the em
bassy office building is taken entire
ly for this work and a considerable
staff of secretaries and interpreters
are at work.
The reason that Franco holds 80,
000 civilians as prisoners of war np
IK'ars to bo as hostages for the
projwr treatment of French citizens
who are similarly held in Germany
and Austria, nnd to have in hnnd n
means of reprisal sho'tdd there be any
ill-treatment of French soldiers cap
tured by Germnn or Austrian nnnles.
RELIEF WORK IN
TEXAS FLOOD REGION
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Oct. 24.
Relief work among destitute suffer
ers from yesterday's flood along San
Pedro and AInzan creeks, in which
eleven persons were drowned and two
thousand made homeless, was well
under way.
Nearly two hundred houses were
Kwept nwny nnd tho property loss
wns estimated at between $150,000
mid .$200,000. The flood wns con
fined to tho lowlands where the poor
er clnsscs lived. Several persons
were still missing today and it was
feared tho death list might be In
creased. GREAT EXPLOSION
I
ROTTERDAM, via London, Oct.
24, 0:15 a. in. According to a report
from Flushing, published in the
'Nieuvvo G'ournnt, u tremendous ex
plosion was heard nt 7:110 Friday
night on tho Jlelginn coast, followed
by another nt 8. Tho const guards
think that tho pier at Zcobrugo was
blown up.
It is reported hero that the Ger
wans aro preparing to leave Antwerp
and that tho Germnn olfieers' wives
,hvo been ordered to leavo Brussels
within forty-eight hours.
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..'MADJUD, Oct. 21, via Pails, 4 p.
M, 'A win wan born (tils morning U
Qhm Vjdoilu of tfiwiu, The won
mr 1Hhy U (lit) (iupcii' frixili child,
Mw.uiWtf Mm I hit) fculi 14 lid Iwo
80.000
GERMANS
WAR
HOSTAGES
A FITTING EMBLEM
A S a mark of special imperial gratitude, Kaiser AYilholm
lias graciously granted
to wear the skull and erossbones. As the press reports
put it:
Dorlln (via Tlio Hague and London), Oct. 21. Kmnoror William linn
conferred on tlio pioneer compauy of a Lorraine battalion tint right to
wear tlio skull and erossbones on tlio cap which heretofore hits been n dis
tinction monopolized by tlio famous DuutIk DeatliV Mend llURsnrx. The
action of tlio emperor was taken at the Instance of the crown prince, who
reported the valor of the pioneers in bulldlnR bridges and constructing
earthworks under particularly dangerous circumstances,
Iii other words, the right to wear the ancient and awe
some emblem o death has been transformed into a great
honor by our mediaeval twentieth century royalty. To
go into battle decorated like bottles of poison is a special
distinction doubtless inspired by God. To chase si round
like a black flag of the pirates of the sea is almost divine
honor.
Yet what emblem could be more fitting for the civil
zicd occupation of these modern dealers in death? What
label is more appropriate for wholesale and sanguinary
murderers? "What insignia better fits the destroyers of
cities and ravishers of the countryside?
How much more entitled the modern soldier is to wear
the skull and erossbones than ever pirate that roamed the
main! "What tame sport to loot a rich merchantman at
sea and make the crew walk the plank compared to mining
the water and sending innocent thousands to death with
out warning! Or to hurl death from under the sea or high
up in the air to unsuspecting thousands! How cheap to
burn a looted vessel compared to burning a looted city like
storied Louvain! What poor sport to sink a Jadeii life
boat compared to smashing the cathedral of tfheimsl
Attilla the Hun had nothing on the modern soldier as a
destroyer.
'The skull and erossbones is a most fitting decoration
for the modern warrior but it should not be confined to
a few regiments or a single nation. It should be the uni
versal decoration for the blood-stained soldiers of the
armies of Europe, for every one of them is a representa
tive of death in many awful forms and each earns the
proud right to this royal emblem. But as long as tlio
kaiser has monopolized it, he should at least confer the
privilege of wearing it upon every soldier who has helped
to uusoiaie uiceuing xseigium.
As a matter of justice, the jeweled and tinselled crowns
of the mouarchs of Europe should be sold at public auction
to the highest bidder for the benefit of the widows they
have made, and each ruler forced to wear for a crown a
human skull. Those who have won special merit for un
usual atrocities, like tiie burning of Louvain, should be
elevated to the nobility and decorated with erossbones.
cause of man taxes
A STATEMENT issued by
opolized the republican
arc working in harmony with
izations to make the republican partv. nurcrcd of Uooso
velt and the progressives, the
tory party ol tiie nation, says that state taxes are high
because Oregon has democratic officials.
Oregon has only one democratic state official the gov
ernor. Taxes arc high in spite of the governor and not
because of him. Expenditures are made by the legisla
ture, not by the governor. The legislature is overwhelm
ingly republican. The other
control, which expends the money appropriated by the leg
islature, are republican. The laws forbid any expendi
tures by state otticials in excess of the appropriations.
Therefore the legislature is solely responsible for high
taxes.
These legislative appropriations were made over the
governor's protest. They were passed over his veto. He
did what he could to hold down expenses and saved over
$G00,000 at the first session by vetoes, but the standpat
machine was too strong for him at the last session and
passed the bills over his veto, though he saved several hun
dred thousand dollars by vetoes. The high taxes are neces
sitated to raise the money to pay these legislative appro
priations. The discord and jangle between the governor's office
and the legislature was due solely to the governor's ef
forts to cut down expenses and to prevent measures in
behalf of special interests from becoming laws. Had it not
been for the fight waged by Governor West against legis
lative extravagance, taxation would be much higher.
Dr. Withycombe stands Dlcdcred to a nroorani nf imv.
mony with the legislature. There will be no fight of the
executive aerfliilKr. tlin bin nrmrvmvmfSnv. hilla rni.,.. ...:n
be no gubernatorial onnosition to cornnrnf.inn nrui onnini
interest measures. There will be no vigorous defender of
the people's cause to stand between the people and tho in
terests, to interlere with the
punuiuui win uu vu
" ." ""v.;"? U1 U1U wegonian, it will be "war to the
kniie and knife to the hilt," upon the Oregon system.
And the. taxpayer w ill pay for legislative extravagance
by increased taxation for a "harmony program."
A Dying
(Hy J. Lawrence Hill.)
A stupendous effort has been mado
by tho Spenccrian philosophy through
Lord Uncon's method, added by tho
discoveries and deductions of inves
ligalorri Iil;o Ilueckel and Darwin, to
eliminate from human thought every
thing derived from consciousness or
innate prepossession and limit iiosi
(he conclusions to those thing that
can be demonstrated and explained ju
terms of mutter ad forco, A school
of philosophy, most prominently jep.
WH'iilwl, perhaps, by Kir William
Hamilton, 1ms been dlHmiused with
contempt; and science huw been un
counted the Nolo worthy guide in ho
realms of (lieorelhwl uu cll iu of
jtmdk'Ml liHotvltiljftr,
Lorraine soldiers the right
standpatters who have nioii-
party local organization and
the state and national organ
true party of reaction, the
two members of the board of
reactionary program.
gumu. .narmony win re urn
Planet
Ah to the credibility of n belief in
mi inhabited world as opposed to ono
in which life exists upon only ono in-1
ignuicnni'iiinct nut of unnumbered
millions, science would doubtless ask
that itn evidence nlono bo consid
ered, lint tho mind of man is not ho
constituted, ,,or has his habit been so
ordered. Tho coneention of nvoln.
tion, for example, is an old as Greek
!or.v and philosophy. Tim graded
steps of creation, which sclencii has
with iii'jiiila pains uncovered, wcue
net fnrlli in Cliulileun legends long
before they took furni In which limy
Mwwar In tho book of (Jcnu. Tio
liMory of Inimuu thought iuh hum
Hint of llm peor u,h ,,oi (Jj ,fori
lliu pliyloM hud lu-owd HWU
Assuredly wo onn never get much
higher iu authority than tho judgment
which sth in tho enlightened huiniui
soul. All that wo see may bo but un
truhtworlliy ninnifestations f a uni
verse whose real liniuie may never be
known to u, u lleibeit Spencer sug
gvsls or but a "divniu within a
dreiun," as Poe, with ouual milhority
of gi'iiliw has sung; bill theie it no
proving thN, so that to all intents
and purposes enlightened human con
it'ioiwm4 is the court of last resort.
We mtiv itaeh wrong eonclusions, but
some conclusions or other we ennuoh
avoid, and iu spilo of the impiessive
demonstiiitions of the new nsyehol
jgy pointing to the mnleiial slrue-
luro of the soul no conclusion ot the
mind more- firmly persists Jo this day
than the conviction that the universe
is directed by some omnipotent will,
just, orderly and beneficent, and that
in the scheme of things the human
soul occupies some place of honor as
it holds in the oruiuiic life of our
planet. The pervasiveness of tho
Christian religion, even among biol
ogists, chemists and astronomers, is
an answer to materialism that can
not be set aside. In the democracy
of the intelleeflial life one cannot rule
he multitude. The ruling of the di
rectorate is lh" lawv
Whether mankind hejiives that
there are otherworlds than this,
therefore, is tpiilo as much a matter
of inherent probability as it in of vi
dence brought by the telcsconc. They
who hold that man is nothing more in
the cosmic scheme than the ephenner
idae of an hour's life are hopelessly
overruled by the conviction which
man holds, stubborn! ', against all
comers of materialistic Hcioncei that
ho is part and parcel of tho divine,
and eternal from which ho springs
and to which he is destined to re
turn. Tho chance that the iuhahita
bility of the other worlds has for nc
ceptauco depends ipiite as much on
how- that habitable stato comports
with man's view of his relation to the
universe, largely n priori, as it de
pends on tho photograph of Mars.
Continued thought on this njicstion bv
idculi.sts, psychologists as well as as
tronomers, undoubtedly tends townrd
the conviction that our solar system
at least is in Minte way vitally con
nected with the cosmic plan concern
ing us. It will be impossible for man
kind to believe long in tho fact that
the history of our other planets has
mi important bearing on our own
problems nnd nn instructive lesson
concerning our own destiny, without
n nuickly Kucoetfding conviction that
whatever that significance and lesson
is it will be revealed to us. Ihc mind
instinctively shrinks from the thought
that knowledge of tho solar system's
development hns been uncovered to
us nt to n certain interesting and
pregnant point, only to have tho veil
dropped over the rest of tho way iu
baffling and futilo mystery.
This eager hopo nnd fond desire is
supported by n "part of tho astron
omic world, nhly represented by Mr.
Percivnl Ixnvell in hi recent articles
in tho Atlantic Monthly, and by a
powerful argument from analogy. We
arc apparently justified in supposing
that like causes will produco liko ef
fects uniformly throughout tho solar
system. Throughout tho eight or ten
members of that system wo sco n uni
form process going on, from tho cha
otic original stato now prevailing on
Uranus nnd Neptune, through all
stages of youth, maturity and old ago,
till wo como to tho dead globes of
Moreury and Venus, whoso utmos
phere nnd moisture long havo van
ished, whoso rotury motion has at
length ceased, whoso helpless, inert
mnss presents always tho sniuo life
less, unproductive face to tho sun.
All the matter that comes to the
surface of our globe from the depths
of spneo through which wo fly con
sists of tho Bumc constituent elements
of which our planet is composed. All
the fires that burn in tho sun arc
identified by tho spcolroscopo jib ma
terials in combustion exactly such as
wo havo hero. Tho laws of gravita
tion, gases, liquids, solids, tides, at
mospheres and momentum operate
tho snmo hero as out in spaco as far
as wo can o.bservo their effects.
Therefore, wo concludo that u planet
occupying tho saino stage nn our own
in development from vapor to a fro
zen and lifeless hall, would show tho
same stato of organic and inorganic
liro as ours. Tins stato ot develop
ment applies to hut ono planet iu our
system Murs nnd on Mars tho
stage of development is , somewhat
farther advanced than that of our
own.
Tho inhabitants of Mars, if finch'
inhabitants there aro, and many as
tronomers of highest authority affirm
tlioro nro, have reached a stage to
ward which this planet is' slowly but
surely tending, where tho means of
sustenance nro growing, nearer and
nearer to the point of exhaustion,
when soon all that lives and breathes
mi its steadily drying surfacn and its
steadily failing atmosphere must lie
down and breathe its lust breath iiid
John A. Perl
UNDERTAKE
Ltd tlilKMt
m , wiMum
AlMkAMf AffVAflft
lift its Inst despairing cry to tho un
answering depths of space. Is it nnv
wonder that scientist and dreamer
alike turn with eager giRc to that dy
iug star mid long for hIiuo menus of
transmitting intelligence through the
Inteiveiiing elher, if happily wo uny
gather some lesson of solaeu or wis
dom from its longer experience, some
seoiols U has wrung from the sur
rounding universe, before Its knowl
edge nnd its dreams, its joys mid is
sorrows perish beyond tho possihil'tv
of coiumuiiicutinu to us or to olherf
SWISS SENTENCE
(IKNKVA. via Paris, Oct. 24, 12: 10
a. in. Threo German spied, having
headquarters In Geneva, wero sent
onceil by tho third military tribunal
hero Friday. The three aro Lieuten
ant Colonel Otto IMrlch, ot Merlin:
Dr. Wohlaudor and Herr Kohr, n
chemist. Thoy wero charged with
plotting ngalnitt lliiKlnml and Franco
and thereby violating SuIhs neutral
ity. Colonel IMrlch wa not present,
having gone Into hldliiK, prcHunuihlv
nomewhoro In Switzerland, lto was
sentenced In default to seivo two
years In prlnon ami pay a lino of
1'200 ($1000.) Dr. Wnhlnudcr must
servo threo months and p:i a flno of
40 and Utirr Kohr imitU remain In
prison two months and pay a flue
of 20. All threo wero sontenecit
to expulsion from Switzerland for life
after serving their sentences.
RUSH GERMANS TO THE
FRENCH BOUNDARY
LINE
LONDON. Oct. 24, 15:30 n. in. A
dlspntch to tho Dally Kxprcsn from
tho Ilnguo says a report received
thcro from Antwerp Is to tho effect
that tho Germans nro ovncuatlng the
Uclglan city.
Thu dispatch adds that tho Ger
man garrison left Friday In response
to moat urgent orders.
"I'rnrllcally all the German force
havo evacuated Antwerp and inarch
ed south, apparently (o tnko part in
the ronrllrt," thn Dally Clironlclo
says.
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LONDON, Oct. 21, 1:25 n, in,
Tho oftlrlti) Austrian statement given
out Friday In contained In n dispatch
ftoin Vienna by way of Amsterdam
to ltcutors Telegram company, it
says:
"While yesterday In tho bnttlo
south of 1'rxoniHVI our heavy artil
lery had been severely effectlvo so
vero flghtliiK dovoloped on tho banks
of tho Lower Han whom at several
points wo allowed tho enemy to cron
tho river, Thuso llutmlnn forces
havo now been sovoroly attacked by
our troops, nnd. pressed against tho
river. At .arzecn wo captured over
a thousand UuhMuiih, ,
"Ports of our troops suddonly np.
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