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Show ' I I I An Independent Paper Published Under :: the Management of J. T. Goodwin :: EDITORIALS B Y JUDGE C. C. GOOD WIN If Native Land i PEOPLE who are naturally most hopeful have likewise their days of depression and when the depression comes it is liable to cloud all their sky. "We have a friend In that class. Meet- ing him on the street the talk turned to the sit- jf . uation in Mexico, whereupon the friend delivered a little speech which in substance was as fol lows: it "Our government is assuming to direct Mexico t into the paths of peace. Mexico will have the laugh upon us one of these days. The volatile ' Mexicans have kept their country in a turmoil for three years past. They have burned tons and tons of explosives, a good many people have been killed and thousands have been despoiled. 'But what has all that been to what will come to us when our revolutions start and the Anglo-Saxon goes out 'to get even?' If Mon-moth Mon-moth was right when he told Percy that 'two stars keep not their motion in one sphere' what will come when our country contains two nun- IP dred millions of people, all sovereigns? J ' I "Wealth is accumulating at a tremendous pace and as with birds so with men, the hawks and eagles a.re free to prey upon the noncombatant birds and the result must be a sharper and sharper separation into classes and by and by the birds of prey will begin to strive among themselves for mastery and then the reign of '. real anarchy will come and Anally on the wreck I of the republic a monarchy or despotism will rear its throne. As I look around I am glad I r am growing old but I grieve for my children." i We do not take bo gloomy a yiew but by the p signs our belief is that our government should f at once place itself in accord with the republics 4 of South America and put the forces in motion to divert the hosts that annually flock to our 4r country, to the vacant lands there and in those " lands find places for such of the graduates from y our schools as want places to go and help build the roads, the bridges, the cities, to subdue the 1 wild lands and open and work! the mines. It is hard to dam a great flood, but if it can be turned aside and directed into proper chan nels what was a menace becomes in a hundred s ways a blessing. y In the meantime the people ahould not leave A t everything to be done to the government, but I each city and community should see that justice i shall be done at home; the destitute provided for, work given those who want work; the de- "7 praved sought out and restrained and no vrong permitted to fester, until blood poisoning sets " in. When each community Is thus protected, the I work of the general government will be easy. "3 And the one thing that should be most empha- sized should be that ours is the only free land, JL ., the best hope of the world and that it must bo preserved. Indeed, nothing else is so important as to impress upon the people to the fullest extent what our country really stands for, for millions of people are but as parrots when they talk of liberty. The love of it is with them but a subordinate sub-ordinate attribute. With some of them hero worship Is stronger than love of country. Could the vote for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 be analyzed an-alyzed it would be found that fourflfths of it came from the cowboy and rough rider clamor and the rough rider magnetism of the man, and the welfare of the country was not in their thoughts. Then party discipline is another great danger. Quite half of congress today fail to realize that congress is the real law making power and was intended as a check upon executive ambition, and we see the members tumbling over each other to vote as the executive directs. Then while the fathers believed they had eliminated the religious orders from interference with the state, several of them are insidiously encroaching upon the civil government. The fifteen hundred years of sorrow and degradation de-gradation which this caused in Europe counts for nothing with them. The more intense their fanaticism the more anxious are they to have the world saved, which they fondly imagine must be through their particular creed, and when men reach that point It is but one more step for them to want to fight to accomplish their desire. A school of intense patriotism is the greatest need of the republic. Human Inconsistency WHAT an inconsistent old world this is. It seems to be a settled trait in man to hate what he is striving for with all his might, but cannot obtain. A man will ride three hundred miles in a stage, spending three days in the journey, burning burn-ing up by day, freezing by night, tired beyond description, pay twenty-five dollars for the torture tor-ture and never complain. He will at the same time pay forty dollars per ton for carrying his goods over the same route and if he reecives it thirty days after shipment, ship-ment, he will congratulate the teamster on having hav-ing made so quick a trip. But build a railroad over the same route, give the same mnn a drawing room; let him retire re-tire and have a good sleep, let the train start at eight p. m. and land him at his own home in time for an early breakfast next morning and charge him one-half the sum he paid the stage company for the same journey, and so soon as he has his breakfast he will sit down and while smoking his after-breakfast cigar, explain to a passing neighbor, that the railway is a monopoly that should be crushed. When he reaches his place of business and finds' the goods ho shipped three days before all arrived and in good order, the sight of the freight bill with its charge of $7.00 per ton, throws him into a rage and he tells his bookkeeper book-keeper that the people ought to go out and tear up the railroad tracks and rid themselves of the jH soulless monopoly. M There was a congressman who for several years served his district in congress. He was H a bright and able man. M But his hobby was to fight monopolies of all H kinds, to him they were a menace to free gov- H ernment. H But he helped a neighbor get through a pat- H ent for a steam cotton press by which the neigh- H bor proposed to compress two bales of cotton H into the same space that one of the old bales H occupied, and thus to reduce the freight nearly H one-half, for cotton is charged by measurement, H not weight. For his trouble he received Bome H stock in the company and bought more and made H a fortune in a single season, and his voice de- H nouncing monopolies was never more heard. H There was a governor in Texas and a United H States senator from the same state, who vied jH with each other in denouncing monoplies and H especially the ravenous Rockefeller Standard Oil .H Company. They made national fame as stal- 1IH wart fighters for the interests of the common jH people against the unspeakable oppressions of jH the soulless rich. (But one day a man came ,H along, looked over the country, and expressed 'H the belief that with a little financial help he H could find oil in Texas. To help him both the H governor and the senator gave him money and H laughed together over the impossible gamble, H expecting no reward this side of heaven. But jH the man struck the great Beaumont gusher H which suddenly put them in the Rockefeller H class, and since then no denunciations of mon- H opoly have been heard from that part of Texas. Jm The most pronounced hater of all monopolies lH is perhaps Mr. Secretary Bryan. Still, when, a H few days hence, he starts out on his Chautauqua H lecture tour, if a new evangel should appear that H could take the crowd away from him, in his se- H cret soul he would hurl anathemas at the con- H scienceless scoundrel that had "busted" his mon- H opoly. E When will the world understand that the two 9 working forces that make for civilization are H money and brains, that without them men would H like Nebuchadnezzar be eating grass like oxen H and not much above the beasts in comforts or JM intelligence; that both are blessings to be treas- H ured and regulated, but not crushed. H Sound Judgment Vs. Scholarship PROFESSOR David Starr Jordan has been elected president of the highest educational M association in America. 'No one doubts his pro- H found educational equipment, nor the purity of M his life. To those who believe that education K is everything and forget that there were great H men in the world before there were any books, jH Dr. Jordan must be an ideal president. Mark H Twain said that a cauliflower was a cabbage H with a college education; what then if the caull- H flower naturally gravitates to the head of all H the tribes of cabbages? H Dr. Jordan deprecates war, so does every H humane man. But Dr. Jordan goes much further. H We find in a contemorary an article from his H re q mil i i ii i 1 1 ii mm Mini n iinmyrwnrr-i nri m ir mnitu i i i " T?JflH m pen on "The Force of Arms" in which his rea- M soiling is that the claim that "the stability of a Hj nation must rest on compulsion; that Anally j means force of arms" is wrong. Continuing, he m "In America we have thought that in the free M will of a free people there lay a force of union M greater than the power of any army. We have H supposed that the real force behind our insti- M tutlon lay in public opinion, the collective judg- m mcnt of free men." 1 . Giving full force to that argument why, then, B has not Switzerland more influence in the world H than the United States? M Switzerland is free, even as our own country m is; moreover she has an advantage over us, for m she unloads upon us her thieves, her blackhand-H blackhand-H ers and anarchists, so that they can no longer M exert their influence or their own countrymen, fl But does any great power look to Switzerland H for advice or help? Dr. Jordan declares that M "The force of arms, is not a force; it is a fear." m . Woll is not that fear sometimes necessary? M He admits that struggle is inherent where men M have like purposes, like interests and like feel- 1 ing, but insists, "this does not involve force m of arms and wrongs cannot be cured by an H appeal to that force." There is much more of M like reasoning. B 'Doubtless Dr. Jordan has often, in his lee- H tures, explained that the earth is made of atoms; m that it has been demonstrated that suns and m satellites are the same way; that when from 1 floating nebula enough of these atoms gravitate H together to make a planet or satellite they are H rounded into form by the forces employed for H the purpose, and the sentinel angel announces M that a new world has been born; that then this M new world, having been assigned its place iri H space, begins its struggle to so adjust its atoms m that harmony may come and peace and perhaps B become the abode of animal life of higher or M lower degree. H The planet on which we live supplies abund- B ant proof that it was millions of years in making B its adjustments, and that the work is not yet B completed as may be seen around Vesuvius or B Etna or on the cloudy crest of Lassen, or in B; the wreck that is left when a tornado takes up B- its march. B! To work her reforms Nature uses only force. Hi When she wants to clear the atmosphere she Bi sends her cyclones or her electric storms. Even B' her sunbeams sent to ripen the harvest are often B' charged with death. B The creation of a nation is not unlike the B creation of a planet or a sun. There has to be B the overruling mind, but its instruments are all- B compelling ones. Public opinion is a great force B only when backed by the power to enforce its B edicts. B Our people are not all good men and women, B every year upon our shores are washed in from B beyond the sea a million people, a mighty, sin- B ister minority of whom have no clear idea of B enlightened liberty. Not to be prepared to con- jH trol these forces in the interest of peace, justice, jH' advancement and full enlightenment is criminal, MB to say nothing of the need of commanding the H3k respect, and when necessary, the fear of foreign M powers is criminal. B There was once a man in this republic who B was not a scholar. He missed spelling cor- H rectly many simple words. But he had a very M level head and his closing advice to his country- men was: "In time of peace prepare for war!" H In Mexico BECAUSE of the pressure of the armies from the north and west, and the moral pres- m sure of the Niagara commission and our adminis- B1- tration, Huerta finally turned over his presidency Bfr to one of his subordinates, leisurely went to the coast and sailed away in a German warship. With him sailed his war minister who really has been the brains of his administration. Now the pressure of our administration and the commission, commis-sion, will bo to turn over the presidency 'to Car anza without further bloodshed and looting until an election shall be called; the hope being that by bribing through money, or promise of office the other revolutionary bandits may for the present be kept quiet. Wo are told that the Washington authorities are hopeful now of a speedy restoration of peace and order and we will all join in that hope. But none of us can overlook the difficulties that will confront the new administration in Mexico when the attempt is made to clear away the wreck of the three years' war that has wasted that country, or the still harder task of reconciling the stormy passions in the depraved natures of the scoundrels there who for three years past have been engaged in their favorite pastime of murder and pillage. iNor can we forget for-get that when they began they had no pride of ancestry nor any legitimate hope of being sure of their posterity. It is possible to hold such a race in subjection by force, but there are grave doubts about doing so by appeals to patriotism and justice, for the false-pride of the race is stronger than patriotism and the love of justice is not with them half as fervent as the determination to avoid making a livelihood by honest work. The trouble with the mustang is that the better bet-ter he is fed and the more perfectly groomed he is the more anxious he is to kick down his stable. The Gaillaux Trial PARIS is enjoying itself this week. A murder trial more spectacular than the most exciting excit-ing drama is something which the '"many-headed" '"many-headed" in Paris exult over, and if the fair prisoner pris-oner does not over-work her part, we predict that she will win out, at least so far as the jury goes. Up to this writing she has not tried the Phryne climax, but if she, before the trial closes, deems it necessary, we hardly think she would hesitate to imitate the beautiful Thebian. But there is much in this trial to awaken sympathy for the women. Both the man and the woman are thoroughbreds, that is clear though neither was properly bitted when a colt. Both are brilliant and proud, and it is easy to see how the repeated lashings of a great newspaper would sting them. Then all the women did was to kill an editor. What special harm was there in that? Beyond Courts or Treaties TPIAT trouble up in the Straits of Fuca, where the men of British Columbia are opposing the landing of some hundreds of East Indians is a serious one to Great Britain. It is a hundred and fifty-seven years since Great Britain's "far-flung battle line" under Lord Clive began to occupy India. Now a shipload of those people, born under the red cross of England Eng-land seek to better their condition in another colony of that same power under whose standard stand-ard they were born and are refused a landing. India has been exceedingly restless for twenty years past, ever since the closing of the little mints of India, caused the deaths, through famine, fam-ine, of more than a million of her people. What will be the result when the news is carried there that their brethren have been refused admission into a British colony, the greatest need of which is more workers? If the incident was to happen, we are glad that it was upon a Japanese shir r it will serve a vivid notice upon Japan that the men of the west coast of America can never receive the Asiatic races on terms of absolute equality, either on their lands or in their homes. They fear to enter into direct competition with Asiatic " J thrift; they do not want their daughters to sit beside Asiatics in their school houses nor to become be-come the wives of Asiatics. This does not imply that Asiatics are not ,,, their full equals intellectually, but it is the same innate revulsion that keeps water and oil from mixing. I There are questions that cannot be adjusted under the absolute rules of human justice. A o , court decision or a solemn treaty cannot kill an inherent instinct or reconcile an inborn antipathy an-tipathy which the good God has given to man as a weapon of self protection. Then and Now WHO was the old sage who said "TlVero is nothing new under the sun?" Away back in 1838, seventy-six years ago, Daniel Webster, in a speech in congress said: 'T, "There are persons who constantly clamor. They complain of oppression, speculation and the pernicious influences of accumulated wealth. They cry loudly against all banks and corporations corpora-tions and all means by which small capitals be-come be-come united in order to produce important and beneficial results. They carry on mad hostility against all established institutions. They would choke the fountain of industry and choke all the streams. In a country of unbounded liberty they clamor against oppression. In a country of perfect equality they would move heaven and earth against privilege and monopoly. In a country where property is more evenly divided than anywhere else, they rend . the air shouting Agrarian doctrines. In a country coun-try where wages are high beyond parallel, they would teach the laborer that he is but an oppressed op-pressed slave." When Webster spoke those words if a poor man sent a letter through the post office it cost him for postage twenty-five cents. If he sent his child to a common school he had to pay its tuition. If 'he worked on a farm for wages he received $10 a month for eight months in the year. The other four months he had to rustle for himself. Splendid girls to the manor born, fine cooks and housekeepers were paid $1.50 per week. Men and women worked sixteen hours out of the twenty-four. But they celebrated the Fourth of July with fervor and hoped they might sometime fight England. We have the same old complaints now but those complaining are dreaming dream-ing of overthrowing this government. There is nothing new under the sun. A Bit Sarcastic SOME never before published manuscripts, stories, poems, etc., by Bret Harte, have been discovered. His new improved Aesop for intelligent intelli-gent modern children, contains the fable of "The tty Wolf and the Lamb." It reads as though it might have a local application, as follows: A wolf one day, drinking from a running stream, observed a lamb also drinking from the same stream at some distance from him. "I have yet to learn," said the wolf, addressing address-ing the lamb with dignifled severity, "what right you have to muddy the stream from which I am drinking." "Your premises are incorrect," replied the lamb, with bland politeness, "for if you will take the trouble to examine the current critically you will observe that it flows from you to me, and that any disturbance of sediment hero would be, so far as you were concerned, entirely local." "Possibly you are right," returned the wolf, "but if I am not mistaken you are the person who, two years ago, used some influence against me at the primaries." "Impossible," replied the lamb; "two years ago, I was not born." "Ah, well," replied the wolf, composedly, "I am wrong again. But it must convince every in- telligent person who has listened to this conversation con-versation that I am altogether insane, and consequently con-sequently not responsible for my actions." With this remark he at once dispatched the lamb, and was triumphantly acquitted. Moral. This fable teaches us how erroneous may be' the popular impression in regard to the distribution of alluvium and the formation of t& river deltas. Difference In Merchants THE New York Sun says: "Fifty-three years ago John Wanamaker pushed a cart load of merchandise up Market street, Philadelphia. Today To-day the delivery system and sales people of John Wanamaker carry his goods to millions of buyers in all parts of the world." Fifty five years ago the delivery system and sales people of the great government of the United States, pushed the sale of their goods to hundreds of millions of people in all partB of the world. Today they have hardly a push cart 4' on the sea and half that they get for the goods they sell to foreign countries goes to the delivery deliv-ery systems of such nations as have the genius to keep their push carts going on the sea. Uncle Sam would be a bigger merchant than John Wanamaker Wan-amaker if he had old John's common sense. THE number of nominations given the Progressive Pro-gressive amalgamated candidates at the recent re-cent convention is an indication that the hard-headed hard-headed Democrats in that convention were repeating repeat-ing Fallstaff's Boliloquy on his army: "I'll not march through 'Coventry with them, that's Cat;" however, "Food for powder, food for powder; they'll All a pit as well as better." THAT was a splendid act of the little Miss Smith who saved from drowning the baby that had fallen Into deep water in the lake of Liberty park, and should have substantial recog-, recog-, , nition. By the way there is one advantage in modern society dressing. Ladies do not have to disrobe dis-robe very much when an emergency compels them to take to deep water. THE Arkansas woman met the justice of the peace and said to him: Say! That Bill Sykes that you married me to a month ago has escaped." That is what Brother Goshen is saying about the amalgamated Democratic-Progressive convention. conven-tion. That, too, after he had just prayed for the cusses. But was it not funny, the doctor was beaten because he was a clergyman, by men every mother son of whom is an elder, licensed to preach? WHEN the Dutchman showed the photograph of his wife to a friend ho explained that "Greschen was not so d d pretty for nice, but :& vas bully for strong." Is it not funny that so many people thought of that when they saw the pictures of the Democratic-Progressive candidates candi-dates in last Sunday morning papers? THE finding of a great mine in Aurora, Nevada, Ne-vada, will cause a re-examination of many an old district in that state. Many millions were taken from the Aurora mines years ago; repeated efforts to find new orehodles were made and the camp was practically prac-tically abandoned. But a new mine, or at least orebody has been found, and the camp once fi, more appears upon the map. |