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OCTOBER 21, 1914
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THE REAL FOES.
The desperate efforts of the Germans to gain the coast
of the North sea and from there strike England shows the
real feeling lying back of the great war.
As German newspapers come through and German
thought is understood, it is amazing to find how intense
is the German hatred of England. It is equalled only by
the English hatred of Germany.
One of the most remarkable features of the present
conflict is the animosity aroused in the breasts of the Ger
man people against the British nation.
Germany's leaders in philosophy and science, Rudolf
Eucken and Ernst Haeckel, declare that "the whole Ger
man world of letters is today filled with deep indignation
and strong moral wrath at the present behavior of Eng
land in extending the war into a world war."
The great German dramatist, Gerhart Hauptmann,
whose plays have profoundly moved peoples of all lands,
asserts that Germany has and has had no hatred agaist
France or Russia, and that war was forced upon Germany
by England. "Who was it," he asks, "that did conspire to
bring about this war? Who even whistled for the Mon
golian, for the Jap, that he should come to bite viciously
and in cowardly wise at Europe's heels? It is with great
pain and bitterness that I pronounce the word 'England'."
Everywhere throughout Germany, among her citizens,
in her army, the rising indignation over England's par
ticipation in the war has fanned Germany's smouldering
rivalry of Great Britain into a hot blast of consuming
hatred.
The German troops made hurculean efforts to cut off,
capture and annihilate the British army in France, and
it was only by the most desperate efforts that the British
army escaped.
The individual soldiers in the German army feel little
animosity toward the French or the Russian soldiers, ap
parently, but they eagerly desire to meet and to crush in
the field their deeply hated foe, the English.
Who knows but that the real deadly conflict and car
nage are yet to begin, and that England is to be the real
battlefield of the war?
"THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT."
A dozen years or so ago David Starr Jordan wrote a
monograph, "The Blood of the Nations," "A Study of the
Decay of the Nations Through the Survival of the Unfit."
The author takes the position that in every war it is the
strongest and most virile who enter the armies, and if
the war is long and severe, the fit are followed by those
less fit, and these as necessity demands, by the still more
unfit, until those left at home in case of a war to a finish
are the physically deficient and incapable. It is from these
sires, from whom the stronger have been eliminated, the
race must be continued. That the race must deteriorate
under such a system is undeniable. It would seem from
this that it is not high living and idleness that causes the
race to deteriorate, but the destruction of the strong and
virile by their selection to fight their countries' battles.
The evidence of this condition is before us, where the
warring nations are calling first to their colors the very
best of each nation's young blood, followed by the second
grade, and these by the third, and so on until those abso
lutely unable to fight will be left" if the war is continued
long enough. The dispatches Tuesday gave the total kill
ed during the war as about 100,000 and the wounded as
three times that, and this does not include the deaths from
.sickness which will make a larger and still larger pro
portion of the total death list as exposure and hard living
get in their work. The very flower of every one of the
warring nations is being sacrificed and the physical stand
ing of the nation in the future is bound to be lowered
thereby.
What is the use of kicking about that war tax bill,
which, after all, is but the collecting of the running ex
penses of the government from other sources than those it
used to be gathered from. The war tax on Antwerp was
placed by the Germans at $100,000,000, which is only $7,
000,000 leas than that levied on the whole United States.
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SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
The outpouring of the people last night to see and hear ATTACKING THE
Senator Chamberlain was a wonderful tribute to the per- ADCmW WST17M
sonality of the man. In every town in Oregon where he UnEuUn MM till
speaks the crowds are limited only by the capacity of the
hall, and the people go away, after hearing the senator's! ..ZJtu'uL
report of his work in congress, stauncher supporters than I pudiate . ,-atement one. They intend
ever of the man who for nearly twenty years has enjoyed JffiS Zm
their trust and confidence. Dunng all this long term of put the knife i nto each and nil who
nilhhf RPrvipp fJunro-o PhsimVioriniri Viae navav kpcm oom-ic. declare for Statement One.
ed, even by his strongest political opponents and he has
few personal enemies of acquiring a dollar dishonestly
or being concerned in any crooked graft at the expense of
the people. He is still a poor man, dependent on his salary
for a living, but his reward is of vastly greater value than
riches, measured by the esteem in which he is held by his
tellow citizens.
Outside their usefulness as scouts in discovering the
position ana strengtn oi tne enemy, tne aeroplane and
the Zeppelin are apparently of little use in war. As ma
chines for attack they have proved failures of the worst
kind. A few bombs dropped, killing a dozen or so women
and children and wrecking a few buildings, is the sum total
ot their warlike achievements. One shot from one of the
kaiser's big siege guns would do more actual damage than
all the airships have done during the whole war.
The Canadian proposal that the new world unite in
a guaranty of peace sounds real sweet, but then it should
not be overlooked that in Europe a few months ago the
principal occupation of the kings and queens was hugging
and kissing each other at family weddings. One cannot
guarantee peace even in the best regulated of families.
The Portland city election ballot is : inches long and
about ten or twelve inches wide. It is said to resemble
an old-fashioned roller towel, but whether the resemblance
is to a fresh towel just hung up and unused, or one some
time after the dinner bell has been rung, is not stated.
In the Seattle market report yesterday, fresh ranch
eggs were quoted at 4852c, and Orientals at 18c. The
dreaded China egg is not proving much of a rival to the
product of the old, reliable American hen.
Senator Reed is mixing in the Missouri campaign and
since his eyes are turned to the west, his half brother, so
far as name is concerned, Reed Smoot, had better keep
his eyes on the Mormon toga.
The war has been used as an excuse for nearly every
thing, and now the weather bureau says it can no longer
make week-end predictions because the war has shut off
its sources of weather knowledge.
Those Canadians who are enlisting for thirty days
service in the European war are not taking very serious
chances. Their term of enlistment would expire before
they reached the other side.
Senator Sherman, of Illinois, now knows how his op
ponent felt when Theodore turned his oratorical guns
loose on him two years ago.
Eggs are getting so scarce and high in Portland that
even the Oregonian editor may soon eat Chinese hen fruit
or go without it for breakfast.
Politeness
THE ROUND-UP
8t;idenls nl tlie linker liih school I kicked nil audit from my porch, but
liave iiiiieeil unanimously to cut out did it o nolitelv. lie handed me n ten-
all i'Iiiks rivalry lis it Involve ilestruc- ,.,., torch, mid unit! I acted rinhtlv.
tion of property and enm'tideis bitter With bows and becks and wreathed
feeluiuH. 1
I
The wind Saturday nilit reached n
velocity of "fi miles nu hour nt ttie
mouth of the Columbia, and there wan
an oxceedinuly rinicji bur.
The Northern Pacific, the bi stcnin
rdi'ip hiiildintf at I'hiladelphia and to be
placed on the run from Klnvel to Hun
Krniiclscu, was launched Saturday at
the ( ramp shipyard. She will have IK"
commoilntioiiM for 7i- pnioieniiors mid a
crew of 2IUI, She in feet limit, IW
feet heam, Ini five ileckH and in driven
by three propellers.
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mil i 1 cm all working
well together. I
Handed him some
forty styles of al
liKator leather,
and he felt hon
ored when he hit
the walk and roll
ed upon it, and
KlitllflTll up his
peddlinK kit, and
went sway, don
Konc it, And thus
a smile will take
the Minn from
eaeh unplcniiiit
action; instead of
iillluitiir In, lit, il,.. .. '.., !..! .....
election iN, i(,u. i, , , .
Tillamook hold a special
' " ",, r. ' "", ; fne-you-ll make a new one hourly, if
"!'": !I ,"f r"1, 1 "b7 ' "' " '' "No." ibrn P ly
o t he KIM. voter, ot the cty went to ,,,, l)urlVi jt junt as e-v, when
' " Kuv eniuos 'round, your home to bor-
", ," ;r to Kf'ot him with a tvviiiMiu eve,
I'oitliiinl m olliciul Imllol in .l.i indies ami answer, "To my sorrow, old Dob
and resembles an old-fashioned bin has a festered eur, and also vnller
mile,' towel. Ijnud'Ts, and he has symptoms, too, I
j fear ol ehiekenpoj and planders. Twould
(wis County shipped, Monday, 2U please me to accommodate, and let von
limes of fruits, grains and grasses to have mv thinner, ( ,e were fit to pull
Sun I'lanciscii for exhibit nt the expo- his fre'iuht just nsk tne sometliiiiH
, . , ;hir,.,.r." And tlieu he'll leave you
'feel inn "nd, and av yon are a iliindv;
A women s auxiliary to the Mamath I know he'd help me if he could " he'll
Kails Chamber of Commerce is the hit- tell his wife, Miisndv. '
est Inn to be put forward by that - "1
ornanirntion. , rnM. iih w f 'jftN ,
I ' "! N"-lir ferrt. ( JJr I K UTt.
The Sisters correspondent of the' 1
Item! Hiilletiu writes: "Those who be Th houithold htlperi your
fore the fair in spcukiiiK of it would wift nMf ean J,, foud quick-
i,ln il nu utir l.'ial,.' ii..ii ..I. .ml, . ...
it as 'Our Fair' and
ninn what tliey will
,a;e'Z,:!;";inr,',r'' Jnal Want
tin next year. 1
Astoria lluduet: Astoria has the city that thillaa has ever hail anil
Inline famine. Hundreds of people are money could not be better expended
seeking Humes and apartments. Not tlmii in its maintenance. "
a desirable business location in the:
city is available, Mr. Iliiilder, nppor-1 Tli" m (Irainle Observer iirnes the
Utility is knociilnn nt your dtior. If iidoption of new Ideas resi.liiiK the
yen love your city answer the call. I'm, mi enmity fair. The Observer siiii
" I nests the elimination of the "bmknnio
.overs of baud music nt Pallas are rouuht stuff," leaving; that to towns
workiiiK out a plan for the supmrt of whie'i tan put It uu on I rnud stale,
the Dallas I laud by a city tax. The ami the workinn up of "raeinu and
Iteniirer armies that llie hand is "one other nttractions in the .v ,n' l.iuh.
of the lnt mediums of advertising clnss entertainment."
This was the iiroelnmntlon issued bv
the l'ortlund Oreouinn four years ago,
when an attempt was made, through
the assembly, to restore the convention
and destroy the Oregon system. As
the Oregonian announced, it was "war
to the knife and knife to the hilt"
against popular government.
Oregon was loudly and persistently
knocked as the "fool of the family''
of states for haviag thrown off control
by political horses by the Oregoaiiin.
t was described as a frenk state, be
cause, the rank ami file had a say in
the aaming of candidates and the mnk
ing of laws.
Bepenteil rebuffs and consecutive de
feats have altered the method of nt
tack, but not the intent of the t.ttack
r. The sumo forces that four ycnr
since openly sought the undoing of pop
ular government, still seek it. The
clandestine attack has replaced the open
attack the stub in the buck, the fron
tal svvngger.
This opposition to the direct primnrv,
this wish to "modify it," as Dr. Wi
thycombe puts it, comes from the cho
sen few the "Lord's nnnointed"
who believe they should be permitted
to select the public officers and make
the laws for the state of Oregon. For
years, under the leadership of the l'ort
lund Oregonian and its corporation
partners, tliey had been permitted to do
this. But the Oregon system, with its
direct primary and its initiative and
referendum, cut out their prerogatives,
took away the scepter and overturned
the thrones.
Captained by the Oregnnlnn, these
self-appointed guardians of the people
and self-nnointed rulers uf tne com
monwealth, four years ago named a
complete slutc of tifficinls in their "as
sembly." Among the orators who spoke
in the assembly anil for the nssemblv
was .Inmes Withyeomhe. Among the
candidates seeking assembly nomination
was James Withyeomhe.
The patriarchs of the assemblr only
await return to power to sink the
"knife to the hilt " in the direct pr,
mary ami the Oregon system. Financed
by big business, their ticket led on the
one hand by the pious partner nl" the
Weyerlmuscrs mid the Southern l'acific.
whose record us a rearttnnnry Is wlln
out a progressive blemish, mid on the
other hand by nil assembly fnvorite
who openly expresses n desire to doctor
the primary as he formerly doctored
horses, with the painted Jezebel of
journalism shrilly shrieking the war
cry, with assembly managers and ns
sembly orators, jupccss at . thn polls
means nothing more nor less than a re:
storntion of the assembly mid n return
of the spoilsmen to power.
The primary was n much-needed and
lnng-deferreil reform. No one claims
that the best men will always no select
ed. Milt the judgment of all trie pc
pie is nt least eipinl to the judgment
of a few bosses and healers.' The op
position to it is sordid sad selfish, the
sordidncss of bundle and graft, the sel
fishness of favoritism anil persona,
vanity.
Hut the attack upon the primary is
not confined to the control of the re
publican candidates. It Includes also
a measure upon the ballot to restore
the convention, fathered bv David M.
Dunn, drawn by Attorney V. I). Fen
tun of the Southern Pacific, both of
whom were prominent in the assemble
numbered on the ballot as ,15-1 and Mil.
This is using the Initiative to kill the
direct primnry and restore the political
machine.
The direct primary needs neither doc
tors nor horse doctors. It m emanci
pated the people nnd thev Intend to
stay emancipated.
CHAPLAIN STUBBS
DESERTS REPUBLICANS
(Tacotna Daily Tribune)
In a letter, uuiipie and must unusual
in the stress and strain of a political
campaign, Chnpbiin It. N. Htulibs, writes
to Charles Drury, democratic candidate
for congress from the third district, de
clares that he. will cast his ballot for
the democratic candidate, to strengthen
the ti ii t it) in 1 administration, and vindi
cate President Wilson in his nntlrliiff
endeavor for peace. Chaplain Hluldis
declares he is not a democrat. For SI
years he has voted the republican ticket.
The letter in full, follows:
Tiicnma, Oct. 1.1, I.
Mr. Charles Drury Dear Sir: Not
only for what our president, Honorable
Woodrow Wilson, tins done, ami is do
ing, but fur what he is, and what he is
entitled to from us citir.ens of the
I'lincu runes, i nun myseir power
fully convicted, of (tod I believe, to do
nil thai lies in my power to insure for
him, and thus Indirectly, for his pence
policy, the solid hacking ami cooper
ation of congress,
Itellcving in your Integrity, your
patriotism, and your democratic iovaltv,
and trusting that your election will til
strength to the administration forces in
this crucial hour, nnd that your voice
and vol pi will vindicate the wide spread
convict Ions, and demand of your fellow
cltlf.ens for the support of President
Wilson's peace polity, 1 propose to
labor and vote for your elect loa to
congress,
In this, the 02nd year of my llfo, de
ploring the existence of the' war now
prevalent in Kiiropcs In this, the Hist
year of my eitisenship In these I'lilted
States, and realizing the sacredncss of
that relationship, and as a minister of
the "Prince of Peace, the Iord Jesus
Christ," 1 ask the earnest lovers of
peace to give our beloved president the
fullest of their votes in this exigency.
I am not a democrat. ( have but oiie
motive, vis., to honor Ood and to hasten
the world-wide triumphs of peace and
righteousness. Kepectfullv,
CHAPLAIN It, 8. HTl lillS.
The Dental Trust, with all its powerful po
litical organization, is moving heaven and
earth to defeat the dental reform bill.
In every town and city members of the
Trust are out working against the bill.
The Medical Trust is helping the Dental
Trust by forcing nurses and druggists, un
der threat of boycott, to work against den
tal reform.
All kinds of campaign lies are being circu
lated to deceive the voters. Don't let the
Trust scare you.
The Trust made the present dental law.
Under this law it controls the State Board
of Dental Examiners every member of
that board is a member of the trust.
In this way competent dentists are kept out
of Oregon, and the Trust prevents competi
tion and keeps up prices.
VOTE X YES 340
And Bust the Dental Trust
-PAINLESS PARKER.
Dentist.
6th and Washington Sts.,
Portland, Oregon.
(Paid Adv.)
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