East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1913-10-03

MAHu WHITE SlaNe act says the Al
lanta Constitution. re-
Chaos For ferring to what it calls
The Niolator. a chaotic law. Does
personal escapade
that overlaps state lines render an in
dividual liable? Or is the individual
immune unless he or she imports or
6eports girl for 'commerciar i'm
moral purposes? Conflicting rulings
by federal courts in California and
Kansas, not to speak of contradictory
positions taken by officials in other
federal jurisdictions, Atlanta incluI-
ed, raises this interesting point and
makes the status of the law decidedly
chaotic"
The Constitution is wrong. The
chaos is not for the law so much as
fer the lawbreaker. 1t seems need
less TO point out that the road to safe
ty in this instance consists in the
straight and narrow path. The fate
OF Digs and Caminetti show what
may result from the other route.
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1t is amusing to note the manner
in which the new congress and the
new administration
The Tories are being assailed by
Change Front. tory papers. The
charge is that the
president has an organization that Is
too compact and effective. The team
work is perfect and the results that
are wanted by the people are ground
out almost with the precision of clock
work. The tories do not express them
selves in just these words but that is
the substance Of what they say.
The change is amusing because for
a generation the time honored COM
plant against the democratic party
was that it was an unwieldy party.
party subject to no discipline and one
that would be unable to accomplish
anything should it be placed in power.
Having been forced to admit the
administration has a perfect working
organization and is getting results the
critics turn about and attack Wilson
and congress on the charge of machine
rule. They assert that Cannonism Is
still being practiced The charge is
not true. The essence of Cannonism
was not machine rule but rule for the
benefit of special privilege. The es-
sence of the new program is rule for
the general public. Even if the old
house rules were still in force, which
they are not, the people would forgive
the men in control. If it was alright,
from a tory standpoint, to have a ma
chine to uphold special privilege, why
should it not be permissible for Presi-
dent Wilson to use those methods in
behalf of the people?
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In view of the charge so often made
that modern newspapers play too
much to sensa-
The Future Life. tionalism and de-
vote scant atten-
tion to really serious subjects the New
York World takes pride in pointing
out an instance where the opposite
tendency was shown:
Why did the New York newspapers
for the most part print from one to
three columns of Sir Oliver Lodges
Birmingham address on Continuity"
devoting more space to the discussion
of a speculative subject by man of
science than to aviation or militant
suffragism? says the World.
The question is submitted to critics
Of newspaper policy who complain Of
"t'oo much Thaw" and find other oc-
casions to censure the daily press for
chronlcling history in the making and
holding the mirror up to nature in all
that concerns human activity. Its
plain answer of course is that anything
said on the subject of the hereafter
by the man who is perhaps the fore
most student Of psychic phenomena in
their relation to the solution Of the
problem of future existence makes a
wide appeal and possesses a cores
ponding news value.
1t is commonly supposed that popu-
lar interest in the question of fu-
ture existence has declined. In fact
1t was never keener in the days Of