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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
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1t is not at all probable the peace
'i the world will be disturbed thereby

1t is not at all probable the peace
o5 the world will be disturbed thereby
but the national
1t Was No guard officers who
Place For The failed to obey an
Oregon System. unpopular >order
during the manou-
Ners at American lake showed them
selves poorly qualified to train anna
teur soldiers. The first duty of the
soldier is to obey and those who are
not willing to play the game accord
ing to the code had better stay out OF
the national guard 1t should not
matter if there has been hard hiking
with little to eat and not much sleep.
i is no part of the militiaman's duty
tc take orders under advsement and
obey them or disregard them accord
ing to his pleasure. The initiative
and referendum are alright in their
place but they cannot be successfully
applied by a regiment in the field,
whether the war be real or imaginary.
il is better to grin and bear it and
get even in some other way.
~~~Se~>~
Talk about a rich yet unsettled
country! Why, ! travelled two days
and a half without
Two Days seeing a single team
And a Half on the road" said
And no Teams. Governor West at
Vale in describing
his ride across the interior from
Prineville
1t was a remarkable ride the gov
ernor made. across a remarkable coun-
try. It is doubtful if any governor
ever made such a horseback ride be-
fore. It was worth the effort though
if for no other reason than to find
out at first hand that a man can ride
a horse steadily for several days at
time and never meet a team in some
parts Of the interior of Oregon.
As a result of his ride the COVER
nor should be in position to intelli-
gently consider the situation in cen
tral Oregon and to work for de-
velopment. He should be able to talk !
most eloquently of the need Of tran /
sportation. Having crossed the great
range from Prineyille to Burns he
knows the need of irrigation in that
section. Having seen the enormous |
land holdings Of certain concerns he |
knows the baneful effect upon the
country Of the absent landlord and |
the speculator.
&-O.SS~
In this day of state colleges and .
universities the benefits Of collegiate
training are within
College Training reach Of almost |
Within The any able bodied !
Reach of All. young man or
woman and those
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
MORTALITY TABLES.

You can't get away from the man
with a lead pencil VIII owants to fig
ure 1t out for you. Even the ancients
made guesses. at the probable length
OF life, for the purpose of valuing life
estates, leases or annuities. The Eng
lish parliament legislated on the sub
ject in 154O, decreeing that an estate
for a single life should be valued as
a lease for seven years, and in 1871,
John Dewitt, a pensioner of Holland
reported to the government a scale for
annuities on a scientific basis. The
Gotha Bank of Germany, first to in
sure lives on business principle, ad-
opted the Northampton table, compiled
in 1927 by Charles Babboge Mas
sachusetts adopted a new table in
1S43 and many more have been COM
piled the past forty years. Modern
sanitation and modes and conditions
of living are favorable to increased
longevity, but reliable observation Of
these tendencies goes on for years be-
fore winning recognition in mortality
tables.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
NOTHING IL NOT COURTEOUS.

Nick Longworth was saying the
other day that the country is getting
too much overrun with people who
take themselves seriously. And
speaking of folk who take themselves
seriously, Nick related this one:
There was a well known character
in Cincinnati named Dan Kelly, who
worked as conductor on a street car
Among the people who rode on that
line occasionally was a fashionable
woman, the wife of a prominent citi-
zen. She thought her name was one
to conjure with, to say nothing Of
making men kowtOw at the very men
ton of it. One day this woman be-
came greatly peeved because the car
was not stopped at the side of the
street where she desired to get off
She asked the conductor if he would
not have the car backed up so that
she would not need to walk across the
street in the slush. He told her he'd
like to oblige and all that, but it was
against the rules.
Why" exclaimed the woman in
his-should-settle-it tone. Pm Mrs.
So-and-So"
My names Dan Kelly" said the
conductor, lifting his cap politely
I'm glad to meet ou."-New York
Press.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
THE TAFT MYTH IN 'OS.

F. p. Dunno contributes to the Au-
gust American Magazine, in the de-
partment called The Interpreter 5
House" an amazingly interesting
characterization of Taft and Roose-
velt brief extract from which fol-
lows
Several years before the convention
of 1908 Mr.. Roosevelt organized the
Taft boom and for the purpose OF
advancing it he created the Taft
myth of almost superhuman sagacity,
courage, learning, loyalty and patrio-
tism. No doubt he believed every
thing he said at the time.
He pressed everyone he met into
this service, and no president has
ever made it point to meet so many
men of various achievements. We do
not hesitate to discuss his personality
Nobody does. Although he is still one
of the liveiest of living men the world
insists on treating him as if he had
been dead ten thousad years, debating
his probable habitat, his ways of ac-
quiring food, his mental dispositions,
his means Of providing for his young,
and so forth. Thousands of persons
are trying to 'reassemble' him and
show us the real Theodore Roosevelt
That none of the reproductions is
complete is no fault of these paleon-
tologists but is due to the fact seldom
encountered by Investigators that the
subject is still alive and changing.
But certain things we know about
him and one Of them is that no man
Of our time has enjoyed a wider or
more thoughtful range of interests,
no one has found out more accurately
what other men know, and of no one
could it be more truthfully said that
nothing human is foreign to him.
with this characteristic in mind
i. is easy to see why he has been the
center of most amusing gatherings Of
men who had nothing in common with
each other except his understanding
and admiration of their achievements.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30

In this period he would be found
surrounded by cabinet officers su-
preme court justices, generals, sena-
tors, ambassadors, champion tennis
players, Bad Bill, the bowie knife eX-
pert from the Rio Grande, Prof.
Blabb who had just returned from
England where he read his paper on
the Conscious Cerebrations of the
oyster before the Royal Society,
Hirschell ParallaX, who discovered
life on the rings of Saturn before he
cleaned his telescope, Osric Gilfeather
the author of an essay on THE Decay
of the Artichoke in Modern Times,
and many other worthless.
ION each of them Mr.. Roosevelt
impressed the glories of Mr.. Taft
with the most amazing results. Every
body talked There are no excep-
tions. Statesmen, lawyers, judges
may be relief upon, soon or late, to
tell all they know about other peo-
pie. Although they may he restrain
ed by scruples or conventions from
attaching the facts to the name of any
individual. \ secret is something
that nobody even suspects. And of
all people professional writer's are
most prone to loquacity."
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
HOW LAWYERS ARE DIFFERENT.

One dull day in a law office in q
small Kansas town, the lawyer and
his assistant were much surprised to
see entering the door a man with a
badly swollen face tied up in a big
handkerchief. Before saying any
think he sank wearily into chair
Scenting an assault and battery case,
and perhaps damage suit, the law
Yer briskly inquired what he could
do for the weary one, and the ans
wer he received was;
SAY is this the place where you
pull teeth?"
NO replied the lawyer. eve
sometimes help people to cut theiI
teeth, but we never pull them" -
Kansas City star
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30

In this day Of state colleges and
universities the benefits Of collegiate
training are within
College Training reach Of almost
Within The any able bodied
Reach of All. young man or
woman and those
who take advantage Of their oppor-
tunities are wise because they thereby
equip themselves for the work they
will have to do and also get in po-
sition to more truly enjoy the pleas
ures of life.
Collegiate training is not--as some
suppose-a luxury in reach only Of
young men and women whose parents
have good bank accounts at their dis
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
Utterly Wretched
Nervous Prostvation Long Endured
Before Remedy WAS Eoupd

Miss Minerva Reminger, Upper Bern,
Pa, writes: For several years had
nervous prostration, and was utterly
wretched. | lived on bread and beef
tea because my stomach would not re-
tain anything else. took many rem
edies, but obtained no relief until I
took Hoods Sarsapurilla, when began
to gain at once. Am now cured"
Pure. rich blood makes good, strong
nerves, and this is why Hoods Sarsa-
parila, which purilios and enrlches the
blood, cures so many nervous diseases.
Get 1t today in usual liquid form or
rhocolated tablets called SarSatabs,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
\ MESSENGER BOYS HEART.

N~S-O$NS-
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30

4 14-year-Old boy who works as
a messenger in a telegraph office in
certain town recently ayailed him
self Of the privilege Of "deadheading'
night letter to his best girl, who
was in Peoria. Employees Of telegraph
companies as you doubtless know,
are permitted to send personal mes
sages free. The boy wrote his mes
sage on a typewriter thus:
8q5 -- street, Peoria, Illinouise
Well have not got any letter for a
week watt is the matter with you well
If you don't want to write to me you
don't haft to if you don't ant wx to If
you are made at me don't answer this
letter well tn ink Iwell don't think
you care for me if you don't there is
some one blythe name of r. G. she jest
came here about a week ment her at
the band. ! and Russell was together
and ment them was looking for let
ter from you and have written 3 let
ters and a cardgot one and a card
don't think hat is fair | now that
you have time to write to me If you
want 10 my uHlIolH came IHulSudy 10
a peach well CESS l will close for
the las time / hope you are having
a good time up there amgoiming to
have one good time my self that aint
no way to do me is it marie you know
1t your self. don't answer this letter If
you are mad it is o x If you are mad
at me russell introduced me to r. G.
you have to explane to me.
SO there!
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
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THE SONG.

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. complete Z
. Draws nigh. where the tree
. tops rock.
= The wave has cadence Won 4
. drouS sweet Z
. As it beats on the weed Z
= grown rock, I
= There comes no lesson Of grief
. or cheer 4
= Through the forest or by the 4
y shore 4
= In the strains that we love so. 4
. we'll to hear,
= They are music and nothing 4
= more.
= Sometimes from the human Z
. heart will sound 4
= A song with a mystic thrill,
. Like the song from the depths 4
, of the sea profound
. Or the wind on the wooded
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
Sizing Him I'm

Hes either after some office or
he's one o. those literary chaps"
How do you figure it,"
We'll, he looks like a man who
thinks an earthquake is comm an
who doesn't know how to hide from
hurricane. Atlanta Constitution.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30
Too Much,

why did You give your parrot
away? The poor bird meant nothing
by its profanity.
Il could stand its profanity, but it
was learning to initiate my neighbours
rusty lawnmower." Kansas City
Journal.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30

That's funny" mused the Cheerful
Idiot
what is?" asked the Boob.
"Why the government never thought
Of operating a laundry for dirty
money until the republican national
convention was being held"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-07-30

The murders Of italy outnumber
those Of Germany nearly four to one.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH THEM?

William Allen White leaped into national fame by
ccining one clever phrase, whats the matter with
Kansas ?" We are going to extend it to cover all the
suffrage States and countries. What's the matter with
them? Aren't they prosperous? Are they not keeping
step with the rest of the world? When New Zealand
women we're enfranchised in 1893 it was seriously urged
that ii would endanger the finances of the colony. After
the bill had passed both houses nearly half the men,
bers of the upper chamber petitioned the governor TO
withhold his signature on the ground that cit is a bill
OF extraordinarily important nature, as results may
seriously embarrass the finances of the colony" That
year New Zealands exports were valued at $45,O00,000,
S57 per capita. In 1908 they were valued at S105,000,-
900, S110 per capita. During the same period the saw
ings banks deposits of the country increased from an
average of $l36 per capita to one of 1882 per capita.
The railroad mileage increased from 1,948 miles, with
receipts Of S6,000,000 to 2,474 miles, with receipts of
S13,000,000 In those fifteen years the population of
New Zealand increased almost exactly 80 l-3 per cent.
But in everything which, in the ordinary business mean
ing of the term, implies prosperity, ii increased 100 per
cent. The year 1898, when Colorado women got the
vote, was the year that Coxey's army marched to Wash
iugton. Coxey's army started in Colorado. All over
the State mines and smelters were closing, buildings
stood closed and vacant in Denver; no one knew
whether there was going to be any Colorado any more
or not. Colorado has come up out of that slough Of
despondency. She has recovered; she is growing in
wealth and numbers-the baby crop of Denver is over
1000 a year. She is skinning her grafters alive and
hanging their hides on Lindsey's fence. Woman suf-
frage hasn't prevented her from rising out of the awful
business depression that enveloped her in 1893 and keep
ing up with any State In the Union. What's the matter
with woman suffrage?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
Tuesday Evening, October 20, 1912.
ABSOLUTELY NoN-PARTlsAN

Manv persons believe that because the Progressive
party Endorsed political equality for women in its ma
tional platform this year that therefore the suffrage or
PLANTATIONS have gone over bodily to that party. Moth.
Ing could be more untrue.
Individual sufragists, like others, have their politica!
preferences and affiliations, and, since they are human,
ere apt to incline towards those who have given them
recognition. But the suffrage associations, national,
State and independent, stand where they always have,
absolutely non. partisan, without affliation with any po-
lpical party whatever. This is not the first time that
a political party has Endorsed votes for women. The
Socialist and Prohibitionist parties have had votes for
women in their platforms for many years, and the pres
sure from both TO secure Endorsement and utilization
from the sufragists has at times been strong. The Re-
publicans have Endorsed suffrage in one national plat
form years ago and in many State platforms since.
Suffrage was given in the six Western States where
women vote before the Progressive party came into ex-
istence, and when the Socialist and Prohibitionist par
ties were both negligible factors. II was therefore given
nv the old parties. The Democratic party has Endorsed
opr cause in various State platforms, but is the only
rarity which never mentioned votes for women in a ma
tional platform.
the North are less liberal on this subject than others,
but that a heavy percentage of the strength of Democracy
lies in the South, and the South is about fifty years be-
hind the rest of the country on the question of equal
suffrage
The suffrage organizations of the country are and
must forever be non partisan, for the simple reason that
they have friends, members and synpathizers in all
parties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
s' "" NO irfRAGEs ron WOMEN

new curriculum is moi asked for. |
have ascertained by extended inquiry
among g-entlewomen that, with true
feminine instinct, they either entirely
mistrust or else look with downright
d~isfayor on so wild an innovation and
interference with the best traditions
of their SEX"
Voting Is not u sex function. The
mother has persisted through the
changed conditions of the higher edu-
cation and new Industrial and pro-
fessional life. And that brings us TO
our second answer.
The mother persists in the states
where women vote. 1t is not neces-
sary TO make loud assertions on this
matter. These states are not in the
other side of the world. Many East
ern residents travel in them, and find
them filled with a very good quality
of American homes and mothers.
tits true that women will meet
temptations and perils in political life
of a variety somewhat different than
they have met before. No adult has
any right to claim a tried and proved
character until he has met tempta-
tions. We protect children from
these, because children have not the
sense or the knowledge to protect
themselves. But women are not chill
dren. At least, If they are, We had
better find it out definitely and send
them back to the harem.-Ed.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
IN ROME FIRST
ny ARTHUR v. TAYLOR,
of Newark.

| believe that wome should pos
sess the full powers and responsible
ties of citizenship.
ID Because there is no sound reason
why they, as a class, should be de-
prived of them.
The belief that woman is untitled
for the exercise Of the civic rights
which man has arrogated to himself
is a survival of the notion trans
mitted from the old order. In this
connection, however. it Is interesting
to note that the women of remote
times were often FESTIVE under the
regime which limited their activities
to their home walls.
In carly Rome women took an act
i've part in the literary and religious
life of the time; they entered the
medical profession and had a part,
small though 1t was, in the practise
of law. Women of wealth and stand
Ing often engaged in industries Or
ganized on a large scale. 1t Is a
that n woma of distinguished fam
lily, Domitia Lucilla. and herN daugh-
ter a control of the leading brick
business in Rome for half a century!
1t was a Roman woman who first
proclaimed the principle. mo taxa
ton without representation, when in
43 Il. G. the Second Triumvirate. hard
pressed for funds. attempted 10 tax
1,40O OF the richest women In Rome.
In protest they stormed the tribunal
of the rulers whose acts no man had
dared to question. and through their
spokeswoman. Hortensia, uttered
their defiance; why should we pay
taxes. when We nave no part in the
honors and the control of statecraft
for which you contend?"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
FINANCE h CAUSE

The fight for the ballot is worth all il is costing
women in time and hard work in the education it is CIV
ing them. 1t is Just as much a part of suffrage work
to finance the cause as TO do any other service in a
great movement for popular rights. Women have got to
finance their own movement. We have no offices to
promise our workers, no corporation barrel to tap. No
one will ever contribute to our cause those large sums
which come from expectation Of personal gain. 1t must
he financed from the mites OF the millions. Women
r,ust give fairs and teas and concerts for it. They have
done il for other things. They have helped raise the min
listers salaries that way for some centuries past. They
have worked in that way for missions and charities and
all kinds of public welfare enterprises. Men have been
very keen to see and utilize their services in this direc-
tion for the causes in which they themselves were in
terested. Now let women use these methods in which
they are so proficient to finance their own cause.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
ABSURD A~NACHRoNISM
BY NORMAN HAPGOOD,
Edltnr of Cnnler's.

The wisdom Of having women vote
has passed beyond the stage of
reasoning on general principles to the
stage of practical demonstration, ard
in this respect voting is but n
aspect of a generally larger share IN.
public affairs. The question is not
merely academic. what might or
might not be best in the old military
civilizations. or in civilizations of
separate homes in which all the prin-
cipal industries were in the hands
of women and public affairs we're
practically limited to plans for ag-
gression and defense. Every year
now sees a growing relative impor-
lance in the public aspect of those
things which used to be privately
conducted and were especially in the
hands of women, such as food, CLOTH
ing, domestic economy, health, the
training of the young and all the
moral and political questions relat-
ing TO these subjects.
To deprive women of a voice IN
these matters. which are most close
ly connected with interests in which
they have always had a leading part,
is an an~achronism Of absurd com-
pletencss. In most American States
women are furnishing leaders u the
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
KEEP YOUR EYE ON ARIZONA

The most anxious politician in these last strenuous
days of the campaign cannot find his thoughts dwelling
on election day with more painful intensity than the
s~uifragists of the country. In Ave States the men will
vote on equal suffrage November 5, Wisconsin, Mich
igsn, Kansas, Oregon and Arizona. The role of political
prophet is a risky one, and the Suffrage Star is too
Young and innocent a child to play it. But-keep your
eye on Arizona. All the parties have Endorsed the suf-
frage amendment in Arizona. So they did when we
won in Colorado, Utah and Idaho. Arizona is one more
Of that Group Of Rocky Mountain States which led the
world in enfranchisng their women. If only one State
should come in, we put our money on Arizona. If an
oiker comes il will probably be either Oregon or Kansas.
We are afraid Wisconsin and Michigan are too far East
lis year. The suffrage germ has never jumped that
fai YET. II ve ac able to sow Just one more star OH
TIC suffrage ass November 6 the s~ufragists Of this
country will rot ask sor any other Christmas present.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29
lula Ward Howe
Work for Suffrage
BY Her Daughter, Florence Howe Hall, of High
Bridge, N. j., Honorary President of the
New Jersey State Suffrage Assn.

Editors Note-Few words of the pen
live beyond the day that gave them birth.
When they survive their own generation and
last over into another, it becomes possible
that they have Joined that small and glorious
company of immortal productions which echo
on through the centuries. Few. indeed, have
been the American writings in this class. The
Civil War period gave us hree-Lincoln's inn
mortal speech at Gettysburg. Harriet Beecher
Stoves Uncle Toms Cabin and Julia Ward
Howe's Battle Hymn of the Republic" The
authors of all three were suffragists.
To those privileged to know Mrs. Howe
personally, the Battle Hymn of the Republic
was only a little drop in the full flood of her
life's benehcence. A lifetime of service. first
TO free the slaves. then in every form of social
uplift was the offering she made to her day
and generation. MANY who know her other
services arc unaware that she was a suffragist.
AT a recent. meeting in Newark one man
quoted her as an example of the great women
who were opposed to equal rights. 1t was for
this reason that her daughter was asked to