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KAlIt TOXKiHT
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WEATHER
Maximum yewtenhiy, HI;
.Miiiliiimu today, -II.
Fori v-nix th Year.
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MEDKORH. OHM80X. TUI-lSDAY. (KTOMKK 17. 191(i
NO. 178
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At Conflict's Conclusion, Belligerents
Face Refusal to Pay Debts or Gov
eminent Ownership of Industries,
States Russell on Return From Trip
of Investigation.
Uy CHAltl.KS KDWAIi!) KISS!'.!.!..
XKW YOliK, Oct. 17. Graiul are
ibc lairv tali's vnu get ulioiit war
loans and war financing, but if a book
were to be written about the iiotuul
performance of some of these nations
the only pood title for it would be
"The Jini-Jiiius of Money; or, the
V'ilil-Kvcd Konutnee of thu Kinaneial
Dottv House."
We used to think no nation could
possibly make war unless it had u
money ehest big mid full. That was
.last another childlike mistake of ours.
You don't need any money ehest to
make war. All yon need is u sound,
reliable printing press ami a sublime
faith in this new deity of Muddle
Through.
Modem Kinuncliig.
Here is the way they do il :
First, they eoi'ral all the gold in
the eounlry, partly by issuing bonds
for it and partly by grabbing it from
individuals and banks.
Then they start the printing press
to turn out billow after billow of pa
ver money, alleged by a transparent
i'ietion to bo secured bv this handful
of sold.
This paper money they pay to the
soldiers, to labor and for munitions
and supplies, thus spreading it thickly
ovvr the land.
Then they levy new In.ves and issue
more bonds, gather the paper back
anlo the treasury, pay it mil for
M'ngcs, munitions and supplies, issue
more bonds, collect more taxes and
gather it again.
Meantime, with paper victories,
they fool their people into confidence
in the paper money, or compel them
to take il anyway; or cjsc, all other
money having disappeared, what it
yocs at is called "par."
The jro Id they grubbed at the outset
is used for such supplies as must be
bought abroad, where paper doesn't
go much, except for walls of rooms or
for pantry shelves.
A lleiiiitiFul Process.
l!y this beauliful process, it is true,
these bond issues are piling up like
another Tower of linbel. Who cares
a rap On with the dunce. I-H in
sanity be unconfiued. After us, the
smash-up !
lint some persons not iu a stale for
Hie padded cell have been taking; n
ipiiet survey of the circumambient
asylum and have returned with Hie be
lief that for some, at least, of the na
tions now engaged in treading the
Madman's Delight, there will be bul
one, course open when the war is over.
That w ill be repudiation. Oct rid of
your debts by taking your ready pen
in hand and crossing them out, while
yon tell your creditors to n worry.
Kcpudiution that is perilous bus
iness; as perilous as stalling- an ava
lanche in the mountain. If the war
(Contlnuea on pxge six)
CHICAGO. Oct. 1". President K.
D. t'nilerwonil of the Erie railroad is
for President Wilson's election.
Approving t tie same idea held by
Judge Lovett of the Union Pacific.
Underwood said. In an interview pub
lished today, that the democratic
party had "achieved the seetninsly
impossible and Is worthy of a future
trial."
While opposed to Wilson on the
eight-hour law. Underwood declared
the president had shown honest mo
tives, and he pointed out ttiat the re
publicans also stand for an eight
hour day.
As for the outlook for prosperity.
bs pledged by the republicans. Under
wood said:
"I am not carried away by the
statements and promises that any po
litical party on the outs make."
He expressed himself as not hold
ing the view that Wilson had op
pressed big business.
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REPUDIATION OR
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ALLIED FLEET
LANDS TROOPS
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Following Recognition of Venizelos
Government, Bluejackets Are Land
ed at Athens Entire Greek Navy
Seized Heavy Fighting in Prog
ress Along All War Fronts.
LONDON', O.d. 17. The (ircck sit
uation apparently again has entered
a critical phase.
Following yesterday's advices thai
the entente powers had formally rec
ognized the provisional government
set up by runner Premier Venizelos
and his followers in the island of
Crete, news dispatches from Athens
today report a new note of "an' ex
tremely grave character" handed the
Oreck government bv Vice-Adiniral
Knur-nut, commanding the entente
fleet, causing King Con-tantine to re
turn hurriedly lu the capital.
Coincident with this, the landing
from entente warships of more than
1000 bluejackets who have occupied
the railroad stalions at Athens and
Piraeus and various public buildings,
is reported, together witJ.i the summoning-
of an urgent cabinet council.
Kntli-c Xnvy Seized.
The entente allies have taken over
the Greek battleships Kilkis (former
ly the United States battleship Idaho),
the Lcnmos (formerly the Missis
sippi) ami the Aver-off, says Hunter'
Athens correspondent.
Allied crews were pnt on lion rd Ihe
battleships, the correspondent says,
mid Ihe Greek crews were landed and
seal to Athens.
On October 11, Ihe nllies tookover
ihe entire Greek fleet except the Kil
kis, I.umuos and Averoff. This meas
ure, it was explained unofficially, was
intended to insure the safety of the
tllicd fleet, as fears had been arous
ed of a disturbance at points where
ihe war vessels of the allies were ini-
horcd.
Concerning- the fighting in Greek
Macedonia. Paris reports the repulse
by the Serbians of a Iliilgiiiiiin coiin-
ter-altack in the t'erna river region.
southwest of .Monaslir, and consider
able artillery activity. Only patrol
uclivily has developed in Ihe Struma
sector..
Heavy fighting continues on the
Soninie front, in uorllicrn Prance.
r'rench troops last night again took
the offensive north of the river and
pushed their way farther into the vil
lage of Sailly-Saillisel. on (lie Pcr-
onnc-Mupaumu road, capturing- an
other group of houses and repulsing
a German couuler-attack, according
to Paris.
On (ialician I'lont.
In Galicia, southeast of llaliez, the
Austro-Geminn forces have begun
heavy nllacks on the Ifussian lines.
Petrograd makes this announcement.
instancing Ihe launching of assaults
in the district north of Korytui.a and
in the vicinity of P.olshovlsc. five
miles north of llaliez, after intense
irtillcry lire. The fighting- apparent
ly still is in progress here.
The strong offensive opened by
Teutonic troops near the junction of
Ihe borders of Ituinania, Transylvania
and llnkowina has so far been fruit
less, according to the Petrograd of
ficial bulletin which records the re
pulse by the Iiu--mns of all attacks.
Itucharcst reports that Austro-Gcr-
mnn attacks in Transylvania have
been repulsed by the ltiimanians. The
Rumanians are holding their ositions
west of the frontier.
KtLssUins Defented.
lierlin reports that the Russians
have suffered a heavy defeat iu Oiil
icia. Repeated attacks were repulsed
(Continued on page six)
HOOD RIVER FACES
HOOD KlVKIl, Or.. O.-t. 17. The
most acute labor shortage in the hi--tory
of the flood River apple di-trict
re-ulted today in the circulation of a
petition by grower among local bus
iness hou-es asking that as many of
their clerk- a- possible be allowed to!
take part in the apple harvest. Kilmer-
have also a-ked that the Hood
Kiver high school be elo-ed in order
that Ihe students may help pick apples.
GREEK CAPITA
RECENT BATTLES
E
BLOODIEST YET
Tremendous Assaults Launched by
Allies Fail to Break German Lines
Despite Hall of Steel, Positions
Not Reduced So They Can Be
Stormed Loss of Life Staggering.
liKRl.lN, Oct. 17. 'Detailed re
ports about recent lighting on the
Soiume front show distinctly that the
attacks between October it and Octo
ber 111 are to lie reckoned among the
greatest actions in the whole Soinuie
battle," savs the Overseas News
agency.
"The objectives of these great
French and I.ritish efforts were ,iia
paume ami Pennine. Moreover, nu
merous hostile attacks of violence
were directed against the front from
Courcelctte to St. Pierre Vaast wood,
north of the Somine and between
r'resncs and Mazancouit, and against
Chaiilues, south of the river. Of these
engagements, those north of the
Soninie were most severe.
"On October !. 10 "ml 11 Ihe main
centers of combat were north of
Thicpval, north of Courcelctte, near
Sailly-Saillisel, and in Hie vicinity of
the St. Pierre Vaast wood. On Octo
ber 12 a great and well co-ordinated
attack was launched over the whole
front from Courcelctte to Iiouchav
esncs." Speaking of the attacks on October
12, the news agency says:
Artillery Onslnuglit.
''The defenders of the Sonnne front
had thought it impossible that the vio
lence of the artillery fire in the grcnl
attack early in October could he ex
ceeded, hut nevertheless even this was
surpassed. In spile of the terrific
hail of iron, the llrilish and French
did not succeed iu reducing Ihe Ger
man positions lo such an extenl that
they could be stormed, French and
Mritish infantry iu compact waves
charges were made, all failing- eoni-
wcre speedily brought lo a standstill
by the German curtain of fire.
Notwithstanding their heavy
losses, they attempted one attack af
ter another. Near Snillv-Saillisel six
barges were mad, all failing com
pletely, with the heaviest losses for
the enemy. German infantry left
their shelters and. standing in the
open, shot down Ihe enemy columns
with rifles uiid machine guns."
The effect of the German fire on
the French and llrilish, tin- news.
ngeney says, was simply shocking.
The necount continues:
Itffect Shocking.
"The Germans had not lost their
energy and will, notwithstanding days
of heaviest shelling, lack of sleep and
the impossibility of obtaining' suffi-
ienl food on necount of the interrup
tion of conmiuuicutioits. The enemy
displayed remarkable tenacity, but
more remarkable was the bravery id'
the Germans, who mil ottlv had to de
fend positions against superior num
bers, but were culled on to make
counter-attacks and expel the enemy
wherever he succeeded in gaining a
foothold in the German line."
Whole columns of French and lirit-
ish were literally mowed down by the
German fire, Hie news agenev savs,
the places where the fighting
was fieriest, especially before Ihe
French troops. Prisoners speak of
the attack as 'hell on the Somme' and
useless slaughter. The tragedy of the
Sonnne seems near a climax."
SlniARD OIL REFUSES
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BAY ON NIC. X. .1.. Oct. 17 The de
mands of the striking Standard Oil
employes were again refused today
-.vhen a committee representing the
strikers conferred with George llen
ncssy, superintendent of the Standard
O'l company'! nia'n plant. The eom
miitee was appointed yesterday as the
lesnlt of a mass meeting arranged
by the city authorities.
Superintendent Hennery informed
the comniittco, it was reported, that
he would deal with them when they
dropped their wage demands. He
fcnid the company wa ready to grant
or arbitrate the other demands re
garding working conditions and re
arrangement of hours.
ALONG SOMM
IB EMPLOYES AN
WHY I AM FOR WILSON
liv llAliIJ Y (iAUKl KL1)
(President of W'illi.iin.s (illeo;e ami smi ol' former
president.)
UI have decided to support Mr. 'Wilson. His char
acter its a man, his sympathetic understanding of the
problems of the day, his record in office, his unusual
ability, pre-eminently displayed in nieetino- and deal
ing with the three great emergencies of his adminis
tration, and the importance of maintaining tin unin
terrupted policy ttt this juncture in world affairs, lead
me to believe that the best interests of our' eounlry
will he served in keeping the present administration
and its party in office for the present.
Permit me to atld that Ihe sectional issue, raised
by some of out- republican leaders, is repugnant to the
American spirit and the welfare of our institutions.
Under the circumstances it offends the sense of fair
dealing with political opponents, it tends to arouse
old fires of passion, and, if successful, will disunite a
people now united and incidentally destroy the 'party
that fosters so calamitous an issue.
PRICE OF WHEAT
CHICAGO, Oct. 17. Wheat prices
made an excited leap upward today
of 7&c a bushul n the result of the
stampede to buy. It was said export
transactions amounted to 2,500,000
bushclB and that the Ilritlsh govern
ment appeared to be making every
effort to choapen the cost of handling
American wheat notiibly In the dl
roctfon of cutting down freight rules
on the Atlantic.
PORTLAND, Oct. t". Wheat
prices broke all records on the local
market today, spot bids advancing
from two to four cents per bushel.
Spot blucsteni bids wore quoted nt
$1.41 as against fltl'ie a year ago.
five thousand hushols of November
bluestcm were sold at $1.42, a record
lor the present year.
POHTI.ANI), Oct. 17. -He'tauso of
the sharp advance In whoat prlcos,
the price of flour will be increased,
here either 20 rents or 40 cunts a
barrel tomorrow morning, millers an
nounced today. A 20-cent advance
would place putents at $7.20 tier bar
rel, equaling the record of February
0. 191."), while a 40-cent advance
would break all records.
XKW YOliK, Oct. 17. Four llclg-
ians anil one man claiming to be an
American were removed from the
Holland-American liner liyudaiu by
llritisii aiilhorilics at 'Kirkwall and
Kahnouth, according lo officers of the
ship on her arrival here today from
K'.dterdani. The American nns-emrer
was Krnest Vouic.'. I'asport iricu
larilies were alleged hv the llritisli.
Wireless advice- that submarines
had been active near the American
coast were received by t'apliiiii Krol
of the Ityudutn soon after leaving l-'al-mouth
and at ni'jht all lights were
kept burning, iiiclmliun name and na
tionality in clcclric letters- three feet
high nlona the rail on each side of
the vessel.
Xothing wa- ,-ihlcd, the ofticcr
reportcd. BKKMN, Oct. 17. ntimanlan
troops in TranRylvania are makin-; a
stand In the frontier passes againH
the Teutonic armies, German head
quarters announced today. No notable
change In the situation Is reported
In the statement, whl'h follows:
"The Rumanian" are offering re
sistance on the toads through the
parses on the eat-tern front I (Trans
ylvania). South and west of Kron
stadt the position generally Is un
changed. "South of Donia-Walra (Southern
Carpathians) our troops won some
heights east of the Nt-gra stream."
nmiiii
TARIFF HUGHES'
Tf
.MITCIIKI.I,, S. I).. Oct. 17. -('has.
I'.vans Hughes Inday assailed Ihe ad
ministration for Ihe I'ndcnvood tariff,
which he declared lo be inadcipiale
for the agricultural interests of the
nation. Mr. Hughes spoke before a
crowd of farmers, many of whom had
come from miles around lo hear him
in the corn palace here.
"Our opponents reaffirm in. their
platform Ihe principle of tariff for
revenue only and indorse the I'ndcr
wood net," Mr. Hughes snid. The
nominee read the democratic platform
plank in this connection, (pioting- the
phrase applying lo the tariff as "pro
viding sufficient revenue for econom
ical ndininistralion."
"Xow, let ns look at Ihe figures
I of imports and' of revenue," Mr.
Hughes continued. "Iu the fiscal vein-
ending June ilh, llli:i, under Ihe
I'ayne-Aldiii h tariff, our imports
were .tl,K(MI,llllll,(lllll and our tariff
revenue was $:I1II,II(I0,IIIMI in the fis
cal year ending June 110, llllti, Under
Ihe I'liilei-wooil tariff nnr imports
hud increased lo $'J,1!I7,IM1II.(MI(I, hut
our tariff revenues had fallen lo
.f'JI-IM!0,MI(l.
"Think of thai ! A vast increase in
imports and a vas( decrease in rev
enue. Our opponents furnished
neither i nomical adiuinislralton nor
revenue for the economical adminis
tration. "Wc must bine atlctpiuic g-ovcrn-mcntal
policies for maintaining- con
trol and insuring the advantage of our
own uiarkcls. Wc inu-t have protec
tion of American agricullura! inlcr
csls. Otherwise, our plans of depart
uiciifal regulation will be mere bar
ren forms."
STEAMER TRUST 10
T NORT
HKATTLK, Oct. 1 7. Thu Shuttle
Times says tliiit Ij, C". Oilman, presi
dcnl of the Crcat Xortltern I'm-ific
Steamship coin ny, arrived in St.
Paul today to Htihmit to the direttoiK
of hin company the offer of the AUik
k a Ktea ins h i t co m pa ny to b u y th e
passenRer liners. Great Northern and
Northern Pacific. The hid wrh given
to President Oilman In Portland by
It. W. Itaxter, general manager of the
Alaska Steamship company, w hich le
Hlres to use the boats in PmhoI Sotind-
California service.
POKTLAND. U,, Oct. IT. Ten
; million feet of lumber will be ex
ported to foreign parts from Port
land and other lower Columbia points
j during the next week or two. accord
ing lo the announef nieiitH of lumber
nii: here today.
Tnj? is the most extensive olMiore
lu.'iber trade recorded here In many
months. The shipments Include
Vitio.noo r,!,'t I" t' l'nited King
dom, 2.rpHi(Ofto to Halboa and 4 .MOO,-'
ou feet to Hawaii and Australia.
GREAT INTERESTS PROSPERITY OF
ING CHANGE
Shall Foreign Policy Be Changed? If
So, How? Asks Lahur Advocate
Who Wants a Change? The Far
mer, Toiler, Lover of His Country
or Interests Seeking More Money?
BY CLAHKNTG DAK now
CHICAGO, Oct. 17 President Wil
son has shown u broad and deep sym
pathy for his fellow man. lie Is hu
man. He talks less of markets than
of men. Trade and industry are not
his first concern. With Hughes, we
hear about the tariff, about business,
about the strict rules of law, about an
Inundation of foreign "goods. Iu short,
about money and his desire to save
the country by being elected presi
dent. Few men iu hUh places have evor
been moved by such sympathies s
Wilson, and at the same time had the
wide vision, historical knowledge and
good judgment to know what could be
accomplished.
What Change Impends?
If Hughes Is to bu electet there
should be some reason for present
dissatisfaction and some hope in a
change. Shall Mr. Wilson's foreign
policy be changed? If so, how? It
is dishonest for Mr. Hughes or Mr.
Itoosevelt to criticise Wilson's policy
without showing what they would do.
They dare not announce a policy of
their own different rrom the one that
Mr. Wilson has followed with rare
patience, fine Judgment and self-control.
Would Mi. Koosevelt use his big
stick on Germany, or England, or
Mexico, or all of these nt once? Those
who are to furnish the blood and
treasure ought to know. lias the
interference with a letter, or oven the
sinking of a ship, been grave enough
to make us plunge deliberately lulo
the red maelstrom? Ho our men and
women believe they should furnish
the life and treasure for this mad
carnage
War Advocates,
All who want war are against Wil
son. War on whom and how much?
With U. S. stock selling a third higher
than in all Its history, with this com
pany earning more than r0 per cent
on the common Htock for the current
year, shall we give them more?
Are we to take a greater tribute
from the consumer for the steel trust
and other trusts, whose stocks are
now soaring at the mero hope of
Hughes and a wild carnival of greed?
Do we want more tariff on steel? Do
wo want more on woolen goods? Do
wc want more on sugar? If we do
not want more on these, on what?
Pray, what do we want? Does the
working man or the farmer want a
higher tariff In this carnival are
they to be the sheiirers, or the sheep?
After-. he-War Conditions,
If we are to be Inundated with
goods after the war, I want to he
present at the Inundation, for I can
use the goods. Hut why should we,
in our strength and greatness( borrow
trouble over the competition of our
afflicted fellow men? Wages will be
higher in Kurope than ever after the
war. Wages are regulated bthe law
of supply and demand, lu Kurope,
1 after the war, there will be more
work to do and fewer to do it. Immi
gration will turn the other way to
i build up her ruined cities and her
blood soaked land.
Is Mr. Hughes against an eight-
hour day? He says not. He Is only
(Continued on page three)
PRESIDENT OFF FOR
I.ONti I'.IJANl ll. X. .1.. (i, t. 17. -I'll
idem Wilson will leave here to
nionovv ut II a. in. for ( hiciigo,
where on Thiir-diiv be will -peak
I three times, lie plan- to return here
ai iniouigui r riiiay. I lie iirt .loiiincv
will be made by way o Alio. uy and
Itoffalo. and the return trip liv way o'
Pittsburg. Mr-. Wil and Sccic-!
tary Tumulty will accompany him.
Thi- will lie the president's third
Irip into the middle m-t since thi'
campaign started. He has one mori
on bis speaking program - to Cincin
nati ou ictnbcr oj.
SEEK
SAYS DARROW
NATION DUETO
IGULTURE
President of National Farmers' Con
gress Asserts That American Far
mer Has Never Seen So General or
Widespread a Period of Agricul
tural Prosperity.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. J7 I'ros
icrit, ircmrcilncss unil conditions
ncluilimr the Ailunison cinlit-liour lnw,
were union; tlic subjects discussed by
II. K. Storkbriilsic of Atlanta. On.,
president of tlic Kiinners' Xiitionnl
congress, ut tlic oH'iiin session of
the thirt.v-si.xtli unniinl meeting here
todny. In pint he suid:
"The Amcriciin fnriner bus never
seen so j;cnernl or widespread a per
iod of agricultural prosperity as that
of the present year. TIioukIi the far
mer may still fail to receive his fair
share of the consumer's dollar, the
milli producers of New York, the
wheat growers of .Minnesota, the hojr
raisers of the corn belt and the cot
ton fironers of the south are too busy
count in.!.' profits to w orry much Over
the oilier fact.
Cause of Prosperity.
''We are told by misinformed par
tics that the farmer is a mere inci
dental beneficiary from the fti'm'rnl
prosperity resulting from the foreifiii
war demand for American products,
t'lircful study, however, shows no
justification for such an assertion.
"It is primarily the products of our
soil which Imvi! miiilc profits for "our
merchants und have overburdened our
transportation facilities. Those who
have arffiicd lo Hie contrary linvc
simply mistuUen effect for cause."
lie declared that the Kuropean war
hud shown that successful wiirfnrc,
offensive or defensive, depends ureal- ,'
ly on the decree of indiistriul prepar
edness, lie continued :
''I'rcparedness.bi'ini,' merely nil
other Icriu for efficiency, we come to
n consideration of that indispcnsilile
form of efficiency iu which we lire
most directly interested agricultural
prepn redness.
Farm .Mnimu,emcilt Kfflcieilt.
"The present prosperous condition
of American agriculture is the best
possible proof of a decree of efficient
iuana!cinent on American farms."
Referring to the recent railroad
strike sit nut ion, ,r. Stockbride said
the funnel's must be considered as
employers of labor and economically .
the farmer is not a lu boring man.
"I believe that there is no industrial
or commercial disuirrecnient which
niay not be eipiitiihly settled by arbi
tralion. 1 believe that provision' for
enforced uibitratioii should be made
for such disputes us cannot be adju
dicated by mutual agreement. 1 urge
this body to nicmoi'aliM' Ihe federal
congress to enact laws toward this
end, with provision for eliminating
the objectionable delays allowed un
der the similar law of I'linuda."
liNDON, (Id. 7. According to
the Vossischc Zrilnng, says a Uculer
dispatch from Amsterdam today, the
commander of the second (ionium
army corps ha- forbidden the publica
tion of the I'oinmcr-chc Tagespost for
printing an article entitled, "ltcstmc
tion of the itrcmcn," the (jcrman com
mercial submarine. After thi' article
appeared the iicw-pnper received a
warning for violating the censorship
regulations.
It is now e-lablished, it is added.
t Ii ii t the new- of the destruction of the
lo'cmim was incorrect.
XKW YOltK. Oct. 17. The new
suiier-dreailnaiiKlit Ari.-.onH. nullt nt
the Xew York navy yard, will bo
placed In cnmmisidon there this after
noon with the customary ceremonies.
Sl;p. will he commanded by Captain
John 1). McDoiihIiI. formerly chief of
Btntf to Hoar A 'I in I in I Kletclicr. llor
main armament consiHtH of lj-luch
Riinj In four turrem. She 1 (108 teet
long and displaces 31,iUU tons.
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