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TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT. Federal Inquiry or Railroad Strike? ... 'n* ^°m conc*uft.or*i engineers, firemen and brakemen «inn non 000 ] U On ' C country an additional burden in transportation costs of $ ( * • ’ hf pr°P°sc that thls waBc problerfo be settled by reference to an impartial Federal tribunal. , ^J-ir *b<.se employes, whose efficient service is acknowledged, the railroads »public body000*"5 1 C°U °Ot considered fairly and decided justly by such Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration I he formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of the controversy is as follows: matt.r.'iimJn'irnLr« ''™on',r'1 cannot harmonize our difference* of opinion and that eventually the matters in controversy must be passed upon by other and disinterested agencies Therefore, we propose that your proposal, and the propo.it«» of th. railway, be d.spo.ed of by one or the other of the following method.: ’ Fe Îof 7' ? SU m’ss’on to Interstate Commerce Commission, the only tribunal which, by reason of its accumulated information bearing on railway conditions and its control of the revenue of the railways, is in a posi- ,O .ar f8* " L'l tL * * ri?’ and equities of all the interests affected, and to provide additional revenue necessary to meet the added cost ot operation in case your proposals are found by the Commission to be ju.t and reasonable , or, in the event the Interstate Commerce Commission cannot, under existing laws, act in the premises, la we join y request ongress to take such action as may be necessary to enable the Commission to consider and promptly dispose of the questions involved; or 2. By arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Federal law” (The Newland. Act). Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote Leaders of the train service brotherhoods, at the joint conference held in Nev ork, June 1-15, refused the offer of the railroads to submit the issue to arbitration or Federal review, and the employes are now voting on the question whethei authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike. 1 he Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons: No other body with such an intimate knowledge of railroad conditions has such an unquestioned posi tion in the public confidence. The rates the railroads may charge the public for transportation are now largely fixed by this Govern ment board. Out of every dollar received by the railroads from the public nearly one-half is paid directly to the em ployes as wages; and the money to pay increased wages can come from no other source than the rates paid by the public. The interstate Commerce Commission, with its con trol over rates, is in a position to make a complete investigation and render such decision as would pro tect the interests of the railroad employes, the owner« of the railroads, and the public. A Question For the Public to Decide The railroads feel that they have no right to grant a wage preferment of $100,000,000 a year to these employes, now highly paid and constituting only one-fifth of all the employes, without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that shall determine the merits of the case after a review of all the facts. The ¡ingle tune before the country is whether this controversy is to be settled by an impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare. National Conference Committee of the Railways ELISHA LEE, Chairman P R ALBRIGHT, C m 7Moxarw. Atlantic Coast Line Ruilroad. L. W . BALDWIN. 6>r$*/ Manat". Centra! of Georgia Railway. C. L. BARDO, Gtn’l Manafr. New o.’k, New Haven ¿t Hartford Railroad. B. H. COAPM AN, Lira President. Southern Railway. S E. COTTER, Gtn’l Manat". Wabaeli Railway. P E CROWLEY. Atst Viet PridJ~‘ New York Central Railway. G. H F.MFRSON, Gtn’l Manat". Great Northern Railway. C. H. EWING. Gtn'l Manat". Philadelphia A Readint Railway. E. W. GRICE, Gtn'l Sn^t. Trans,.. ChcffTpeake A: Ohio Railway A. S. GREIG. Asst. to Rtceivers. St. Louis <5t San Francisco Railroad. C. W. KOUNS, Gtn’l Manager. Atchison. Topeka A Santa Fe Railway. H. W McMASTER. 'lin’l Manaf", U heelin« fit Lake Erie Railroad. Buy Your Season Tickets to Now and Buy Them With a Smile N. D. MÄHER, Vica-President. Norfolk A Western Railway. JAMES RUSSELL, Gen'i Manat" Denver Rio Grande Railroud. A. M. SCHOYER, Resident Vica-Prea.. Pennsylvania Lines West. W. I . SEDDON. Vsce Pres Scsboajd Air Line Railway. A. J. STONE, Viee-President. Erie Railroad G. S. WAID. Viee Pres S Gen’l Mgr. Set>»et Ceatral Linea. S. Flatt Jones is the Chautauqua sparker. He Ignites the enthusiasm on the opening night that gives Chau tauqua things la general a momentum JULY 6. 1916. Mexico. Partisan defenders of Mr. Wilson's erratic courage in the past complac ently congratulate the nation upon the circumstances that the issue of peace- or. war rests with the men whom he made ruler of Mexico. They cite this condition as though it were highly creditable to the government ot the United States. Rather would it seein to be degrading that the tran quility of this nation and the lives of thousands of its citizens should be admittedly at the mercy of an irres ponsible, scheming politician, whose power was conferred upon him, as a reckless gamble with fate, by the Washington administration. Those who have the patience and industry to read the five or six col- unins of type embodying the latcst State Department note cannot fail to be convinced that the indictment of Carranza’s duplicity and treacherous hostility is just. But the expressions of pained surprise and petulant re crimination are as misplaced as they are futile. No one save President Wilson and the infatuated supporters of his diplomacy ever expected con ; sistency or honorable dealing trolli the intrigu.ng adventurer who flings insults at the government w b ic ii seated him in power. * * The events of the last three years have ..... .. made the people of that country be lieve that Americans are a race of in competent triflers and cowards; that the American marines were driven out of Vera Cruz by fear; that this nation's courage and efficiency are as bankrupt as its statcsmanslup. And no surer way could have been found to solidify that belief than to employ half measures and reveal indecision in the pursuit of Villa's marauding band. We have been compelled to discuss so often the Ci^imitous record of the administration regarding Mexico that the reiteration has become wearisome The reckless denunciation of Huerta the de facto ruler; the meaningless fatuity of "watchful waiting”; the- secret deals with bandits! the aston ishing invasion at Vera Cruz and the skulking withdrawal; the stern an nouncement that no one would be permitted to interfere with anarchy in Mexico, and the subsequent ulti matum of the factions; the expedition against Villa and the humiliation ne gotiations with Carranza’s tricky lieutenants—the whole story is heed- lessness, aggression, vacillation and compromise is depressingly familiar. But from it all one fact stands out that clouds even the fine spirit and national resolve in the present emer gency— the administration never had a logical, coherent Mexican policy, and there is no reason to hope that it has one now. Treachery and truculence in Mexico distrust throughout Latin-America, and uncertainty, rather than enthus iastic confidence, at home— these are the conditions under which the American people are being commit ted to the subjugation of a people whose government their own officials have arbitrarily made and unmade. Under such circumstances mere partisan citicism would be unwise and unpatriotic. If the evil results of the administration's policy were all in the past, the imperative duty of all loyal citizens would be to forget them and to concentrate upon the problems of the present. But the perturbing fact is that even now the purpose of the government is obscure. No one knows with certainty whether intervention or withdrawal will be the next move. The country is ready, is eager, to obey the familiar and worthy injunction to "stand by the president.” And we have no doubt it will do so, as soon as he comes to a stand himself. Willful Waste of Life. the army, before the Democratic party launched itself on a career of preparedness, was about 97,t>00 uien. 1 lie Hay-Chamberlain bill increased the nominal strength of the army to 175,000 men, but this increase is spread over the next five years. The most that the army can be increased the first year is to 120,000. It was the boost of the orators at St. Louis that President Wilson had “kept tbe country out of war.” 1 hat boast recoils on their own heads in the presence of the facts of the shameful waste of life on Mexican soil. Chicago Shocks Democrats. It is not necessary to read between the lines of the dispatches from St. Louis to know that the managers of the Democratic party are very much dissatisfied with the work accomp lished by the Republicans in Chicago recently. Four weeks ago the leading Democrats were unable to conceal the delight which they felt over the prospective split in the Republican ranks. They felt certain that n would be the 1912 campaign over again and that Woodrow \\ üaon was virtually assured of four more years in the Vi bate House. The grief of «ionie ci the elder statesmen a. non g ¿he Democrats is pathetic. The saddest of thcie is Sv ator Stone of Missouri. He cannot comprehend the idea of a Progressive voting the Republican ticket, not pausing to consider that the' plat- forms of the two parties are almost identical. Also he is in tears because Col. Roosevelt will not promise to run for the presidency. "This.” says Brother Bill, his voice quivering with emotion, "is one of the most pitiful and tragic betrayals ever recorded in American history." One is tempted to feej for the gentleman from Missouri, but really it is impossible to shed any real tears. A harmonious Republican party means a Republican president and a Republican administration at Washington, and that is the best thing possible for the American peo ple. __________ ___ the White House having a proper conception of international duties and national rights, with the firmness to perform the one and to demand tne other? There would have been ho war and no occasion for war. Nor would the difficulty with Germany have been so long drawn out and so irri tating. Mr. Hughes indicates what his course would have been when the warning notices in regard to the Lus itania were published, lie would have issued a warning of his own. Therein is the fruit of the difference between the two men. Hughes would act; Wil son would temporize. Do wc want a man of action, or a man of inaction for our president? As Others Se« It. Commenting on the nomination of Mr. Hughes as Republican candidate for president, the foremost British metropolitan paper, the Tunes utters thes ctvords. "The campaign between Mr. Hughes and President Wilson probably will be the roost important river lhe civil war, for behind the >..milt diate issues involved lies the v.-hole problem of the future atti'ud - of the United States toward the cst questions of interna.lc.ial polity . ' I ne. 1 iines is right. Never in its history has this ccun- u_> had such moinentious issues awaiting decision. And never in its historv has the need ot a strong man at ths tic.m been so obvioui. The present Democratic administra tion has emphasized that rued. i he limes may well speculate as to the effect the result ot the election will have upon international affairs. For tour years wc have b.een the cat’s-paw of the nations—their ' fool m the middle ’—their sport and laugh inc; stock. 1 he Wilton administration has dis credited tis in the eyes of the world and has earned for itself lhe reputa tion of cowardice and faint-hearted ness. But the slate is about to be wiped clean. A new chapter is to be written in American histofy and it will be in a firm bold hand—that all the world may read. Mr. Hughes may be depended upon The Colonel Comes Home. to defend American rights and privi Col. Roosevelt has returned to the leges everywhere and to uphold our Republican party and announced that constitutional principles. he will "strongly support Hughes. ' T he logic of events left him nothing else to do. It he had chosen any other course he would have justified the insinuations of his enemies when the Progressive National Committee issued its statement in January, w hen he gave out his interview at Trinidad and when he sent his telegram to ex Senator Jackson while the two con Harp Soloist Carries Valuable ventions were at Chicago. His accep tance of the Republican platform and Instrument. recommendation of the chairman of the Platform Committee (or president made the final declaration for Hughes Elizabeth de Barrie GUI, hnrpbit en- inevitable. In fact, when the nomina i tion of Hughes became a political tertainer, is one of the Chautauqua’s certainty, (t was easy to predict the most unique offerlug«. Inimitably pre senting, as she does, n splendid vocal Colonel s course. The colonel’s statement to the Pro mid Instrumental con ert, delightfully . gressive National Committee does interspersed and comb’ued with de- not give all the reason w'hy Hughes lertahle character stories noil imper- should be elected. It was not so in «onatlous. tended. The supreme issue, in cur Mr-. Gill Is wonderfully proficient on opinion preparedness against the the harp, mid the $1.000 gold iiistr'.l- economic conditions at the end of the meat which she plays b a nut let - great war, was barely mentioned. I Whether our mills, factories and mines shall close and thousands of cmploves be thrown out of employ ment, while the millions of gold that have been flowing into this country since the war began flowback to Eu rope, is the great issue.for November. But the colonel's statement does cut the ground out from under all in dividuals who declare that his elec tion as president meant the salvation of the country. I here is nobody who really believe that who can consis tently refuse to support Mr. Hughes. T he only Progressives who can stand out against the colonel’s advice are those in the South, who sought to give Southerners a chance to vptc their views on current national prob- lenis without violence fo their civil wzr prejudices. Elsewhere the Pro gressive movement was not a perty at all, but a protest against incidents and conditions that have passed away. The colonel will feel at home again in the Republican party, which Rave him all his opportunities for service. CARRIES HARP VALUED There is time when plain speaking is a relief to the soul, but it is impos sible to express in words the grief, anger and humiliation of patriotic citizens when they read accounts of such a slaughter of our soldiers as that which occurred at Carrizal, when two troops of the Tenth Cavalry were ■ ■■■■ 1 —fr practically annihilated. Their loss is directly due to the stupidity, blind ness and perversity of an administra tion that would not recognize the necessity of making adequate prep arations to deal with any emergency Hughes and Wilson. that might apse in our relations with I •< Mexico—until the emergency arrived. It should now be quite evident, to Our relation with Mexico have beeq Trio of Soloists to Present Strong Musical Program delicate ever since Mr. Wilson be those who have questioned it, that at Chautauqua came president. We have had ample Mr. Hughes has definite and positive ____________________________________________________________________________ time in which to raise, train and equip opinions and that he does not seek + an adequate force to deal with Mexi for softly padded words in which to can hostility. The administration was express them. His message of accept warned over and over again that an I ance of the nomination indicated a adequate army could not be conjured belief that language is made to reveal out of nothing at a moment’s notice. thought, not to conceal it, and his In response the president talked airly communication to the Progressives is about an "armed citizenry,” and was made up of plain words that say what ably abetted in his folly by Mr. Bryan they are meant to say. No man can with his picture of "a million men misunderstand them. There are no springing to arms between sunrise rhetorical fights that dazzle the eye and tunset.” » » * While a brave and leave the mind bewildered Sonic effort was made to fool the country of the Democratic papers have Lem into the belief that the Hay-Cham- saying that Hughes is a mar. of the bcrlain army reorganization bill rep same type as Wilson, so why change.'’ resented a genuine advance in the di Nothing could be further from rection of preparedness, events have truth, Theirs is the difference marched so rapidly that its exposure tween strength and weakness, as a hollow sham is already in pro tween decision and indecision, gress. No longer ago than two weeks, tween courage and timidity, the day the troopers of the Tenth Hughes has shown by his entire Cavalry were lured to their deaths, career that he will decide what is tbe army appropriation bill was under right to be done, and then do it, MP.3. GILL. discussion in the House. Chairman promptly. Mr. Wilson has ■howl Hay, under the cross-examination of neither the power of decision or ci i pie 'C Representative Gardner and ether action. lyric depth and tone lesonaBce ot «ur- "The Republican members, acknowledged then that no item had been placed in present pn-'rln't power «i d sweetnexa. Mr*. the bill for machine guns for the mili ered,” says Mr. Hughes in his mes Gill bns n peli •■onfrolts voire and, tia, or for increasing the number for sage to the progressives, "have been hinging to her own «’•oomp.inliueiit on 3. PLATT JONE3. the regular army, although Gen. due to its own weakness and incerti the harp, affords «n idqnl combination. that whirls nf top speed until the last Crozier had asked for $3,000,000 for tude.” That is the conviction of all . Fhe features Engll If. Irish. S'otcb mid Americans whose minds are not night, when the Hawaiian« play and that purpose. This refusal is all the more amaz swayed by partisan bias. And Mr. nrtfTo folk eoiig«, wliicb the 'fcoulni sLng “Aloha" ("Farewell and Love—to of uurr ur of tM in-!'runieut prove i meat You"). Who la Jones? What is hel ing because Chairman Hay admitted Hughes points out the evidence in efle- five in the same debate that the armv had that "weakness ind incertitude" Tens of thousands of Chautauqua en- tn a rene: on>. repertoire of hatp I l only about 700 machine guns. But it the long list of outrages against ert eusemble, rresez ting a repertoire of instrti- tbucla«ts have heard him end hear was no more amazing than the fact America and A ncrican; cited in thr nolo« e-peclnlty picas ng oa the great HE Gullotta Trio, con< i sound the qui lity keynote of tbe musical him at every possible opportunity. that Chairman Hay and the members I note to M’-v.i •> of June 20, a series of lyre. au.il a« the od plantation melo mental and vocal number«. ’ ~ • . •-• ^. They know what Jones Ls, but not one of his own party could not agree on crimes extendir g „ over three years, to u..«:....!.» Thl. u their se. ond ond ’western we.’e.n Chautauqua «l’es ni: 1 "Tiie Mlavre.c ’ from ”11 portton of the Chautauqua. Thia is tneir seconu ----- . nation Tiovatoro.1 Mr« Gill'« rendition ot no self-respecting •cooled them last year rend« Ing a return engage»ent 1^ of them could descril>e him nny more the number of men actually provided which tour, the ovations acc~----------------------- That should submit for a moment *n considered by Chautauqua than they would attempt to devribe for in his bill for the regular armv. "The Rosary” in n distili t »•<•« •ompflsh- Iterative. Each member of this trio alone ha« I m » Eddie Foy or Harry Lauder. He Is He insisted that provision be made scries has reached the height of dia- I tuent, lu this number s.'.a i ileuioti- patrons a star attraction. The combination Is Itn men*. of Carrizal, just P. Platt Jones. That’s enough. (or an army of 105.000 men, while holism in the massacre 1 «trntei the nipr'-me rank of the hmp It was of Vinceno Gullotta. the violinist, tha t tlie famous Mary Andernon To say anything more a!<out 1dm would other» said that the Phillipoine scouts and still we arc temporizing Is it Us, h tl’-li».- Ill iiiMHUDvIlt »bell p.aywl wrote; "I shall never forget your most wonder! ul playing- With the Ionian conceivable that we would have been would have to be deducted from this sea before ue and the roses of Taormina around us, your playing wu a dream be ••much too much " total, leasing the actual strength of in our present position, with a man in I by an ar.fat. •f beauty." J Gullotta Trio to Appear In Concert T I
