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February 14. 1Pll!, ..
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A MATTER OF OPINION
E. L. Keen, general manager of the United Press,
with headquarters in London, and William Phillip Simms,
manager of the Paris bureau of the United Press, are
both in Washington, and Saturday gave to the readers of
such papers as use the United Press service, of which the
Capital Journal is one, their ideas of the mutual misun
derstanding of the United States and Europe as to the
position and opinions of the others.
Keen points out that England believes this country is j
staying out of the war for the sole purpose of making
money by supplying the necessities of the allies, and open
ly classes all Americans as "Dollar Chasers." Simms says
the French have the same opinion of us, only being more
tactful they only shrug their shoulders without making
the open charge.
It is difficult to find any reason for our friends across
the water having this opinion of us, for they should un
derstand that the United States has no reason for getting
into the war on either side, and if it had, those reasons
would perhaps force it to take a hand against the allies
as well as Germany, to go to war with both.
If England does not want this country to make money
out of the war she can easily prevent it by refusing to
buy our materials, and France could do the same thing.
Both these countries can thank their stars that this
country is in position to sell them materials and they
would consider it a cause for war, a violation of neutrality
should we refuse to sell to them, yet they object to our
getting a profit out of the business.
According to the writers named, both England and
France think we should get in the row just for the fun
of the thing. Fortunately the president and those in
charge of the affairs of government are not humorists to
the extent of finding anything to laugh at in the situation.
Both Keen and Simms have been away so long that
they are not in touch with the sentiment in this country.
This is shown in their statement as to our position to
ward the warring countries. They say Americans think
the allies want to quit, and are surprised to learn that
they are determined to fight to the end, and that end com
plete victory over all their enemies. That is where both
gentlemen are mistaken. The average American realizes
that this is a war to a finish, and that it will not end until
one side or the other is exhausted and at the end of all
its resources.
That is why all steps toward bringing about peace are
looked upon as futile and foolish. Neither side can first
offer to consent to peace, and unless one consents first the
other naturally can't follow.
America understands this thoroughly, and the fact
that Mr. Keen and Mr. Simms do not, gives rise to the
thought that they may also be mistaken as to the feeling
in England and France toward us.
Colonel Roosevelt rages at President Wilson about al
most everything he has (lone and all that he has not done.
The Colonel poses as the one infallible person who is al
ways right and never makes a mistake. Will he kindly
take a few days off and explain why he was so rabid in
forcing Taft onto the republican party as the one and
only man in America worthy of filling the place made
vacant by the expiration of his own term, ami why, if
this is true, he now repudiates him and says he was not
the right man for the place. The Colonel was either
wrong in forcing his nomination or wrong now in be
littling him. The infallible one shows that for once at
least he was wrong.
Why would not Roosevelt and Bryan make an ideal
combination for the republicans? One is all the other is
not and thus would make a self-adjusting balance of af
fairs. Each is a perennial candidate for the presidency,
one a winner once, and the other a continuous losor. One
is for peace at any price and the other for war on the
same terms. The temple of Janus might be permanently
closed so far as this country is concerned if these two
could be elected on the same ticket.
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LET US REJOICE WITH OUR NEIGHBORS
Tunnel number 4 on the Willamette Pacific Railroad
is nearing completion, it being the last of the nine on the
road unfinished.
When this is completed it will be but a short time
until trains will be running between Eugene and Marsh
field, and Southwestern Oregon will no longer be depend
ent on the sea for communication with the world. It
was expected trains would be running this month, but the
unusually severe weather delayed the work and it will be
March before the last rail is laid. Eugene and Marsh
field are both planning big celebrations, the latter making
three days of it. It is of much more, than passing im
portance to Salem this opening of another Oregon seaport
through which she may send her products out to the
world and receive from it such things as she needs. Salem
should join in the celebration heartily, sending a goodly
delegation to Eugene to take part there, and then on to
Marshfield. This is an opportunity the Cherrians should
not overlook and the Commercial club can do no nicer
or better thing than send a big delegation down to the
new shipping point. We all rejoice in our neighbors get
ting in touch with us and why not show how much we
appreciate the fact? Salem should send a delegation, of
not less than one hundred, and the more the better.
CALL THE BUGS TO THE COLORS
OPEN FORUM
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
THE TRUE PROPHET
According to a Chicago physician the typhoid vaccine
treatment consists of four injections given at five day
intervals. The first one is light containing in round num
bers and not by actual count 500,000,000 bacteria. The
second dose is doubled containing 1,000,000,000 of the
bugs, and the third treatment contains a like number.
The fourth and knock out dose for the disease is again
doubled, 2,000,000,000 of the bugs being squirted under
the patient's epidermis. The full complement it will be
seen contains 4.500,000.000 enemies of the typhoid germs
and it does seem that they ought to be able to lick all of!
them caught loafing around in a fellow's system, it tney
adopted the modern mode of warfare and dug trenches,
put up barbed wire entanglements and threw hand
granades, what a ruction they would create in a fellow's
running gears.
Portland is a cheerful village. Saturday the sun shone
according to the Oregonian, for ten hours and l: minutes,
and everybody was smiling. As an offset to six weeks of
snow, sleet and discomfort, a community that can forget
its troubles in ten hours of sunshine is optimistic and
cheerful enough to win out over any and all conditions
and setbacks.
To the Editor: In a speech of 1WI
he naiil, "I see in the near future a
crisis approaching that unnerves me
mi. I makes me tremble for the safety
of my country. As a result of t'.ie war
corporations have been enthroned and
an era of corruption in high pi ice
will follow, anil the money power of the
country will endeavor to prolong its
reijjn by working on the prejudices of
the people until all the wealth is ay
Ki'CKHted into a tew hands and the re
public is destroyed."
He also said in his first regular mes
sage to congress, December, lHtil, that,
"Labor is prior to .mil independent of
capital. Capital is only the fruits of
labor nnd could never have existed if
labor had not first existed. Labor is
superior of capital and deserves much
the higher consideration."
He reiterates in an .tddress to the
Rcpublicim Workingmen 's association,
of New York, March 21, IS(i4, the same
language. And on other occasions no
repeatedly maintained that "The ef
fort to place capital on .in eipial foot
ing with or above labor means the re
turn of despotism."
During this period of preparedness
agitation, and since "The money pow
er '' has entrenched behind this feder
al reserve blinking system which has
literally "Aggregated .ill the wealth of
tae nation into a few hands," it is well
for us, the common people, to pause on
this l-th day of February and consid
er what Abraham Lincoln has said
about this present capitalistic .unl econ
omic system. There can be no better
way of honoring this good man's life
than by heeding his warnings and act
ing on his advice. This is the most
critical period of our national existence
since tiie civil war, and our country
') Needs every man's unselfish devo
tion .is Jingoosts say. (lod knows we
ueed every man's unselfish devotion;
at least we need their nits.
What Lincoln feared most was that
the money power would corrupt the
"High places"; while at the same
time playing us against each other by
working on our prejudices. He being
of plain folks, realized the stupidity
of the people and coutiiiu illy warned
us of our worst enemies; a few of which
are: Hacinl prejudices, religious preju
dices, national prejudices (patriotism),
class prejudices. No, not class prejudic
es, for to him there was only one real
class in all the world, the working class.
And to prove his international scope of
vision will ipiote from .mother speech,
"Let the workers beware of prejudices
working divisions ami hostilities among
themselves, for the strongest bonds of
human sympathy, outside the family re
lations, should be one uniting all work
ing people of all nations and kindreds
and tongues. '-
We who believe, in socialism hold Lin
coln in high esteem, and with him we
infinitum that, the in in who does not
want all that he earns is a fool, and
that the man who wants more than lie
produces is dishonest. The method of
procedure as given in the quotation be
low is worthy of every honest man's
consideration. He s.iys, " I uasmiicli as
most good things are produced by labor
it follows that all such things of right
belong to those whose labor produced
them, but it has so happened in all the
ages of the world that some have labor
ed and otners without labor have en
joyed a gve.it proportion of the fruits.
This is wrong and should not continue.
To secure to each worker the whole
produce of his labor, or as nearly as
possible, is a worthy object of any good
government." In fact no government
is good that does not "Secure to cadi
worker the whole social product of his
labor," or "As nearly as possible,"
nnd .ilso an opportunity to labor.
These things, the capitalists. "The
money powers" of this country and all
other countries will not stand for. They
have established "Capital on an e(iial
footing ami above labor." That is they
tun he money e.irn, or rather, they have
us believing it earns.
Honest money can only be a medium
of exchange, nnd in that form is as
necessary as flour and bacon anil beans
to our daily life. Hut when the law?
i 11 f our government reinforce the as
j sumption that monev of itself has an
Oh, "Money to Loan" is a common sign: it everywhere iV;,r1,,i,'lt J'ow''r-,hat is, '"i"!"'-a',"!
... J T '. ., . ; ital stock an, I watered stock and bonds
greets these eyes of mine. In twenty stairways, m this; and securities and houses, lands .md i-
4L
t JAN'S ability to shorten
I V 11 the minutes between
JL il milestones marks the
progress of civilization.
WESTERN UNION
Day Letters and
Night Letters
eliminate the miles and put extra
hours in every business day.
Full particular! at any Western Union Office.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH CO.
(lod is not mocked for whatsoever .1
man soweth that shall he also reap."
Kvery gun and every sword we make
makes the birth pangs of the New
World hist that much more 1'iiin fill.
Aih.iiiy and other towns. The girls
gu c a benefit last fall ut the Oregon
but tomorrow evening will put on the
entire program. Tile moving picture
reels will show camp fire girls lit ISe-
lleineuiher lsiiotil. If we had iiad allago lake, Maine, giving an idea of
Seattle complains to the inter-state commerce com
mission that the railroads charge $5.60 more for tickets
east from Seattle via San Francisco, than they do from
Portland. As $5.60 is the fare from Seattle to Portland
why should not the railroads make the charge? or failing,
be compelled to do so?
The Oregonian thinks the protest of little Salvador
against the treaty with Nicaragua will receive little at
tention from President Wilson, simply because she is
little. Has not our big contemporary become a trifle
mixed on the presidents? Is it not Roosevelt of whom
it is thinking.
RippHngRlu)TRQS
MONEY TO LOAN
greater fighting cquipiucut then our
cause would hue been just that much
hinder to win, because it was mostly all
bet raved into the hands of the enemy
bv president Ituchannn, and
repeats itself. And am onlv restrained
from still further disagreeable compar
isons, because the leading republicans,
the most progressive republicans, are
iiiiitiv times worse.
.v'nat the eastern people are doing for
iiieir girls 111 the way ot camping out.
Fancy dancing, group singing and so
los will be included in the tirocrain .A
history; .Mrs. O. H. Gingrich is guardian of tlnf1
camp anil is (trilling the girls. Those
who will take pnrt in the program are
Amelia Uabeock. Alice McCMIan, lid
dys Hcynohls, Florence Shafer, Ferrol
i.iiiaugh, thelma Lnbaugh, Rutn Men-
Annabelle
lie who supports this military pre-, delsohn. Edna Ackermau
paredness and those otner underlying! Golden and lsabelle George.
economic causes that so surely niakej i
for "despotism." he who supports these j NEW BOOKS AT PUBLIC LIBRARY
things, either by voice or ballot or si-
lent consent, is traitor to all humanitv,!
is traitor to that true freedom which j ennett, The Old Adam; Kosher,
wis ordained and established by the T,"" House of Happiness; Chester, The
blood of our fathers. Enemy; Coulter, Co-operation Among
So let us. in all sincerity, again with Farmers; Cyclopedia of American Clov
Liucnlii, "liosolvo, that this tuition j eminent, ed. by A. C. McLaughlin and
shall, under God, have a new birth of A. 1!. Hart; Esenwein, Writing the
fredom, and that government of the; I'hotnplny; Famol, Beltane the Smith;
people, by the people, and for the j Hall, Educational Problems; Kreisler,
people, shall not pcrisn from the earth.") Pour Weeks in the Trenches; Martin,
pnrba
T. .T. SHU'LEU.
Campfire Girls to
Entertain Tomorrow
The Chinig Chinik camp fire girls
will give u vaudeville and moving pic
ture show at the Opera house tomorrow
evening and are planning to give it at
Selinn; Monroe. Cyclopedia of Educa
tion; Woman's Who's Who in America.
Juvenile Bacon, Operas Every Child
Should Know; liiicou, Pictures Every
Child Should Know; Doubleday, .Birds
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who need it most!
tiiX'S' A uo up
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ask the gent you will find up there, to lend
you a buck to relieve despair. You will hit . the walk,
when he throws you down, so hard you'll rattle the
drowsy town. There's money to loan if you're cutting
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rouble or yen or buck if peradventure you're out of luck.
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THE EYES OF LINCOLN
By Walt Mason
I Sad eyes, that were patient and tender, sad eyes, that
! were steadfast and true, and warm with the unchanging
splendor of courage no ills could subdue' Eyes dark with
: the dread of the morrow, and woe for the day that was
gone, the sleepless companions of sorrow, the watchers
, that witnessed the dawn. Eyes tired from the clamor and
1 goading, and dim from the stress of the years, and hol
lowed by pain and foreboding, and strained by repression
of tears. Sad eyes that were wearied and blighted, by
. visions of sieges and wars, now watch o'er a country
' united fr.om the luminous slopes of the stars!
I'otism. Because labor, in anv
I self, and create a suriilns eoual to t h
sum total in interest that is forever be
ing compounded on all these tiiines and
I that is the least demand the capitalists
j will make.
Lincoln clearlv saw these truths anil
being courageous, he, like Moses, the
piohpets and Jesus, and Mar., rolled
up his sleeves and layed the ax to the
mult nt' thi titl'itriinl mm,.,.- a,.m.
Whd'e the "Loan" Sign thus beastly economic system that en
thrones Mammon and deturones God. It
has made a few absolute rulers of the
world, .md of labor is made the goat
who carries the load of the world.
Yes indeed, he was n true prophet in
warning us of "A crisis approaching
that unnerves him." And if this crisis
is not "approaching" let us ask yon
why Woodrow Wilson anil the capital
ists behind him want such n vnst army
and luvyf Be not deceived, it's not the
Germans or Austrinns, English or Jap
anese that they want this lighting ma
chine for, for in the president's recent
Manhattan speech he snvs that we Am-
rienns were in no danger tioni anv
quarter whatever.
The truth is, the social point of view'
n.is nlready taken possession of the;
people of the nation, the same as in I
Germany, and Wilson and Lansing, the
armament trust, and the money trust,
are not one whit better than Kaiser
William nnd the crown prince, the Im
perial Chancellor Von llethnun Hull
weg. the Krnpp Armament company nnd
the ret of the corrupt capitalists.
The truth is they determine to de
fend toeir hold on an illgotten world:
and straightway, like all the greatest
scoundrels of the ages, they fortify
themselves behind patriotism and preju
dices. It is written, "He not deceixed,
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