Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-05-13

Madam said Mr. Calhoun, I'VE
can not spare you yet"
She flashed upon him a keen look
1T is a young country" said she, but
1t raises statesmen. You foolish, dear
Americans, One could have loved you
ALL
Eth, what?" said Dr. Ward. turn
ing to her. "My dear lady, two of us
are too old for that; and as for the
other
He did not know how hard this
chance remark might smite, but as
usual Helena Won Ritz was brave and
smiling.
you are men," she said, such as
we do not have In our courts of Eu-
| rope. Men and women-that is what
this country produces"
Madam said Calhoun, "I myself
am a very poor sort of man. I am
old, and 1 fail from. month to month.
I cannot live long, at best What you
see in me is simply purpose-a pur-
pose to accomplish something for my
country-a purpose which my country
itself does not desire to see fulfilled.
Republics do not reward us. What
you say shall be our chief reward l
have asked you here also to accept
| the thanks of all of us who know the
| intricacies of the events which have
gone forward. Madam, we owe you
| Texasi Twas not yonder lady, but
yourself, who first advised of the dan
ger that threatened u.s. Hers was,
after all, simpler task than yours,
because she only matched faiths with
| Van Zandt, representative of Texas,
who had faith in neither men, women
nor nations. Had all gone well, we
might perhaps have owed you yet
more, for Oregon
would you like Oregon" she
| asked, looking at him with a full
glance of her dark eyes
More than my life! More than
| all my fortune!" His voice rang
clear and keen as that of youth.
"All of Oregon" she asked.
"Al1? We do not own all, Perhaps
| we do not deserve it. Surely we could
| not expect it. Why, if we got one
half of what that fellow Polk is claim
ing, we should do well enough-that
is more than we deserve or could ex
pect. With our army already at wal
on the southwest, England, as we al
know, is planning to take advantage
of our helplessness in Oregon
Without further answer, she held
ance /, at least, recognized.
81 am but woman" she said, ''but
it chances that have been able to dc
this country perhaps something of {
favor Your assistant, Mr.. Trist, has
done me in turn a favor This much
1 will ask permission to do for him.
Calhouns long and trembling fin
gers were nervous1y opening the doc
ument He turned to her with eyes
blazing with eagerness- ct is Ore
gon," He dropped back into his chair
Yes said Helena Won Ritz, slowly
TT is Oregon. 1t is bought and paid
for. 1t is yoursi"
So now they all went over that doc
ument, signed by none less thar
Pakenham himself, minister plenipo
Tertiary for Great Britain That docu
ment exists to-day somewhere in oul
archives, but do not feel empowered
to make known it's full text. 1 would
had never need to set down, as
| have, the cost of it These other.
never knew that cost, and now they
never can know, for long years since
both Calhoun, and DIR. Ward have beer
dead and gone. 1 turned aside a.
they examined the document which
within the next few weeks was to be
come public property. The red wafer.
which mended it-and which she
smilingly explained at Calhoun's de
mand-were, as 1 knew, not less thar
red drops of blood.
In brief, 1 may say that this pape,
stated that, in case the United States
felt disposed to reopen discussion,
which Mr.. Polk peremptorily HAD
closed, Great Britain might be able tt
listen to a compromise on the line o
the forty-ninth parallel. This compro
mise had three times been offered he
by diplomacy of United States unde
earlier administrations. Great Brit
ain stated that in view of her deel
and abiding love for peace and he
deep and abiding admiration TO
America, she would resign her CLAIM
of all of Oregon down to the Colum
bia; and more. she would accept tn
forty-ninth parallel; provided sh
might have free navigation right
upon the Columbia In fact, this wa
precisely the memorandum of agree
ment which eventually establishe
the lines of the treaty as to Oregol
between Great Britain and the Unite
States.
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