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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
History in the Making

more than seated in power than an
other strives for his place. How long
II will take the people to learn not
to be the tools of INSCRIPTIONS lead
ers on both sides is a problem.
Whether they will learn statecraft
faster under a man like the elder
Diaz, strong enough to command re-
spect and obedience, or through the
experiences of civil war, is a prob
lem. Meanwhile, will Europe sit by
and permit it to go on indefinitely? Z?
This is the grave question facing the
administration today.
Similarity of Problems.
The same trait of human nature
which is prominent in the Mexican
situation is also in evidence to a less
er degree in the strike situations in
the United States. Within the past
few weeks it has been necessary to
call out troops in Michigan and in
Colorado to handle strike situations.
The instinct to resort to brute force
to settle complicated questions OF So
cial and political economics is appar-
emily almost as strong in so-called
civilized America as in Mexico. In
these instances, as in the war" in
West Virginia, there is doubtless
blame on both sides. The ambitions
of strike leaders and the avarice of
the owners clash and the unwise
workers permit themselves to be
caught between them. 1t is a paral-
lei case in Mexico. The tyranny of
the government and the ambition of
the would-be rulers clash and the
people at large suffer. Will educa-
ton ffelp? Who knows? Campaigns
of education" are frequently ap-
peals to prejudice. But till the
United States can solve her own
problems should she attempt to solve
those of her neighbor?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
Dependency Due to Indigestion.

1t is not at all surprising that per-
sons who have indigestion become
discouraged and respondent. Here
are a few words of hope and cheer
for them by Mrs. Blanche Bowers,
Indiana, Pa; For years my diges-
tion was so poor that l could only
eat the lightest foods. l tried every
thing that heard of to get relief
but not until about year ago when
l saw Chamberlain's Tablets adver-
tised and got a bottle of them, did
l find the right treatment. soon
began to improve, and since taking a
few bottles of them my digestion is
fine" For sale by all dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

Nature in her silent, beautiful way
teaches many lessons. She does not
force a moral upon us. We may
drink to her loveliness and take or
leave the lesson as we please. A
man must have something of the
child in his heart to feel the splendor
of the horizon, the magnificence of
the stars, the mystery of the woods,
the joyous dignity of fertile sunlit
meadows; and having the child's
heart to feel, he will have the child's
faith to see, and whatever his sor-
row, nature shall heal it, whatever
his perpleXity nature shall solve it.
Men have set their mark upon the
woods and hills. They have divided
the land and have said to the world,
''This farm is mine," "Yonder wood
land is yours" " The babbling brook
and the beach-covered hillside belong
to your neighbor," but the forest
child of nature which chances that
way without a penny in his pocket
may have all the beauty and peace of
this lovely landscape for the look
ing.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
COURAGE THAT COMMANDS RE.
SPECT.

Senator La Toilette is getting a
nice lot of praise from the indepen-
dent press for his stand on the tariff
question. He was the only senator
who claims to be a republican who
had the courage to stand up and be
counted. Without regard to whether
we approve his support of the pres
ent tariff measure, his independent
attitude is assuring. Hundreds of
senators in the past have cast their
vote for party measures in which
they did not believe, and opposed
measures originating with the oppo-
sition party that they secretly ap-
proved, advocating the party meas
ure against their judgment that they
might not become irregular" in
their party policies, and opposing in
the last instance only because of the
credit the opposite party would gain
by reason of its fathering a benefi-
cint measure. We are glad to note
that senators are beginning to base
their action on their judgment rather
than on the dictum of their party.
La Toilette is to be commended be-
cause he had an opinion of his own
and the courage to let it be known.
The administration of government
will be more in harmony with public
need when a majority of both houses
vote their sentiments instead of their
party dictum.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
The Home Circle
thoughts from the Editorial Pen
What Crankiness Costs.

The following from one of our
most valued exchanges certainly con-
tains more truth than poetry and is
deserving of place in our Home
Circle department:
An 1S-year-old girl in New York,
back from an adventuresome joy
ride with lad of Is in stolen auto,
to woman reporter who visited her
in the lookup:
''It was just a picnic. We never
thought of it as anything else. l un-
derstand my father says he is going
to have me sent away. l don't care,
/ don't want to go home. The old
man is so cross and cranky he gets
on my nerves"
This girl was once pretty, smil-
ing, promising baby, fathers pet and
mothers joy; baby not foredoomed
to be unloving and wayward. Some
thing between the ages of 2 to 16
happened to explain her change of
character.
Without knowing in detail the fam
lily history, couldn't you pretty safely
hazard guess on the basis of that
one assertion, "The old man is so
cross and cranky?
The proper influence in home is
LOVE-patient, tender, long-suffer-
ing love. 1t is a child's right The
child who is denied it is defrauded.
Just as it takes the warm sunshine to
bring out the beauty of the flower,
so the soul of child, and especially
the soul of the woman-child, must
have the warmth of affection, con-
tinuous and never failing, to develop
the graces which make it clean and
sweet.
We know not what cares, what sor-
rows, what aggravations, made this
''old man cross and cranky" 1t may
be we'd forgive him if we knew him.
In any event, he's profoundly to be
pitied, for clearly his crossness and
his crankiness, robbing the daughter
of the home joys which we're her due,
sent her to the bad.
Amidst the worries, the stress, the
disappointment of life it is often hard
to preserve a sweetened temper al
home. But it is what the parent must
do, or at least try to the limit to do
if the children are to have a fail
chance.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

In this day of cheap literature the
very best of reading matter is within
reach of every family The current
magazines and the best of agricul-
tural papers may be had at trifling
cost, and these should be found in
every farm home. A comfortable
sitting room made warm and light
should invite the children to spend
their evenings by the fireside. I'm
less these things are furnished al
home it is only natural that the
young people should seek them else
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
The Mexican Election.

The farce of an election in Mexico
has not in the slightest changed the
situation, either at home or abroad.
The fact that Huerta has a congress
which will do his bidding will not
cause 2 single rebel to lay down his
arms, nor will it in the slightest af-
feet the intentions of the nations of
the world. Just what action the pow
hers of the world at large will take is
unknown. While the administration
at Washington is reported to have
told the powers to keep hands off, it
seems very unlikely that they will do
so unless satisfied that President
Wilson has some definite policy be-
yond one of drifting. Whatever one
may say of the wisdom of going into
Mexico to protect the lives and prop
erty of citizens who have willingly
accepted the risks of the country be-
cause of the promise of big profits,
it is difficult to see how this n tion
can stand on the Monroe doctrine as
to foreign interference unless it
stands to maintain order in Mexico.
Diaz as a Factor.
The center of interest, outside
Huerta, is at present resting on Gen
eral Felix Diaz. His return to Mexi-
co and his enmity to Huerta are
phases of a situation which is becom-
ing tense. Diaz has resigned his po-
sition as a brigadier in Huertas
army and refuses to go to Mexico
City. That he will be disposed of as
Madero was seems the belief of his
friends, who urge him to leave the
country, but he refuses. Rumors
that the elder Diaz will return to
Mexico are frequent. Many who
thought him merciless dictator are
beginning to realize that thus only
could a shadow of peace and. pros
perity come to the country. Mexico
has a constitution similar to that of
the United States, but it has never
been put fully in force, and many
deny that it could be. The inordi-
nate ambition of hundreds of men,
together with the lawless life of a
large class of the peasantry, makes
the government by anything but
force very difficult
In the Transition State.
Mexico, like the Balkan states,
Cuba and the Philippines, is in the
throes of the struggle of coming up
from tyranny to liberty. 1t is the
strife to establish the government OF
mind over brute force. In Cuba the
result is approaching success. In the
Philippines some progress has beer
made, but in Mexico practically none
at all. There seems little if any more
disinterested patriotism there thar
half a century ago. One leader is M
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
ONE SOUTHERN PLANTERS PRAC.
TICAL SOLUTION FOR THE
RACE PROBLEM.

On a Mississippi plantation once
lived a white man who didn't share
in a belief held by some folks that
the negro is good only for curses and
cuffs.
He thought the black man a hu-
man being, much like himself, but
not having had an equal chance.
So he set out to see how he could
help to provide the missing chance.
Being a wise as we'll as a kind
man, he knew that he couldn't ex-
pect to perform miracles or lift the
world by his bootstraps or make
much headway by merely giving
bounty away So he did this:
He looked around and discovered
what kind of food the negroes in his
neighborhood we're used to eating.
They were eating the greasiest
kind of "sowbelly" with corn bread
containing little nourishment-a ra-
tion not varied enough to feed a sick
cat.
He opened a model dairy, hiring
negroes to tend it, but first patiently
teaching them why he wanted them
to- be clean. He paid them fairly
for the work they did and let them
buy good dairy food at prices within
their reach.
1t was some time before he could
get them to see the superiority of
cheese and butter and clean sweet
milk to the more familiar "cawn
pone an hog fat" but he was pa
tient; he persevered. In time the re-
suits of better feeding began to show
up in better and steadier work and
a greater capacity for improvement.
BY and by he taught few ele-
mentary lessons in better farming
explaining the reasons for each step
and offering to pay the colored
brother better wage for better work
done in this better way.
Here, again, he found that the
brain of the negro didn't move swift
ly toward new ideas, but it wa'
naturally initiative and responsive t.
kindly and just treatment. In tim,
he had worked quite a revolution il
field methods.
In a similar fashion he took VI
other problems of backward race
For example, he taught the colore'
women why they ought to air ant
sun their bedding daily and shul
closed windows; why it would pa,
them to try to make their little cab
ins as cozy and neat looking as posi-
BILE; and how they could, by improve'
processes of domestic science ant
field work, earn enough more pay t
permit them to buy prettier cloth
ing. He encouraged the black faith
ers and mothers to send the picka
ninnies to school and did what h
could to make such that there wer,
schools to which they could go ant
get an education fitted to their needs
It's a long story and we shan
prOlong il. It's enough to say tha
this particular planter has brigh
and appreciative lot of useful negroe
around him, very little trouble witt
bad behavior among them, and as al
investment his policy pays.
He isn't conscious of race prob
lem until he picks up a newspape
and reads of tragedy somewhere els
tragedy founded on cruelty o
neglect. He doesn't see any reasol
for believing it would be desirabl
thing il the colored race were re
moved from his section; for If
we're he couldn't find labor to till hi
fields.
We suspect that there are lo
more men OF this type in the sout
than the south gets credit for; bu
still not as many as would be goo
for the south and all concerned
its welfare.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

The governor of Iowa has set aside
fire-prevention day. urging that the
citizens discuss conditions and create
a sentiment against forest fires and
other conflagrations.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

Under the provisions of the inter-
state commerce law, dogs cannot be
transported in railway passenger
cars, even in the privacy of COM
partment in a Pullman, but those
who feel that they cannot be separat-
ed from their pets during the journey
may ride with them in the baggage
car.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

A Washington state man, aged 113,
has a son Sc, who has son 81; but
what OF the other three younger gen.
erations that should be in the story?
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

The best business in city today for
sale. Would take as part payment
10 acres of good land anywhere near
a good town. Sickness cause for sell
ing.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

There's hope yet for the down-and-
out man who can sincerely smile and
be sensibly sociable.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06
For Sale
Or Exchange

One of the best business blocks in
Ashland for sale. Might consider
some trade. Good income.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

A large house and lot, suitable for
boarding house. Might take a
small property in part payment. Too
large for small family, reason for
selling.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

Secretary Lane appears to be just
the kind of man long needed at the
head of the interior department.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

$500 will buy the best small bust
ness in city. A fine income.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

You can make home happy by Bit
of kindnesses and little courtesies.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

Have Ashland property to trade
for coast property, near Gold Beach
il possible.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-11-06

For further particulars see me az
63 North Main street.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03

"To keep steady company with q
Protestant fellow, unless you have
good reasons 20 think he may become
a Catholic. Is sinful" says the Pitts
burg Observer In answer TO "a Con.
slant Reader" A woman born and
bred a good Catholic said there was
a sure way for Catholic girls 90 win
Protestant husbands and convert them
10 the Catholic faith THE method she
gave Is equalled only by the state
ments found In the Liguorl Manual
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03
Holy Roman Lies

A few days ago the gaping world
was advised by cables 10 all the dailies
that the pope was deeply shocked at
the assassination OF the king OF
Greece" There isn't anything that
can happen anywhere, hardly. but
what We are promptly posted as "a
whether the pope was deeply shock
ed" or deeply interested" or "deep
ly touched" or deeply affected" OF
whatever his sensations may have
been, or should have been, II he had
had any at all. The next day after
the pope was deeply shocked" by the
death Of the king OF Greece the physi
clans statement concerning the papal
health was issued and the doctors not
knowing what had been sent out for
the consumption OF "the faithful,
stated that the pope had not been told
OF the death Of the king of Greece, as
Il was feared the effect might be ad
verse.
SO. you see. there Is a regular news
agency at the vatican. which employs
itself In making and sending out re
ports for the PURPOSE OF AFFECT
ING THE PUBLIC MIND, REGARD.
LESS OF FACTS.
The papal news bureau simply cal
culates on creating a GOOD IMPRES.
SIoN-it don't care whether Il lies OF
not. The pope was deeply shocked
regarding an event he knew nothing
about! How simple the members OF
~the only true church" look. reading
over these vatican falsehoods. put out
on purpose 20 deceive them, their
hearts throbbing with gratitude to.
wards the pope for his deep inter.
est" In something he never even heard
Of, Its no wonder the hierarchy op
poses public schools-it needs simple.
tons In its business-chumps that
swallow everything put before them,
without argument OF debate.
Give 'em another dose. Right Rever'
end Fathersl
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03

vsts Judsnsnt Ter ths p.rpstuation q
thrns principles 20 UoreTnnrnt iait
town ~ ths iumoftai founders % thir
republic ant Which. f maintaired and
ksrt aacrstiy inriolate. viii insure iifs
liberty ant the pursuit. % happiners
fer eur pcrtsrity. and without hors %
pscuuiary reward % fear % riEhteout
eontsmnaticn us invite the co-opsrA-
uon 81 al patriots ana liberty -ioviur
eitinens wherever they may BE-.
Certainly no one can take any o..
fense az such patriotic principles a.
are herein Get forth. neither couii
any patriot help but be attracted 10
the slogan which appears on all their
literature and reads. FREE PUB
Lie SCHOOLS 80 FREE SPEECH -
FREE PRESS-THE SEPARATION
or CHURCH AND STATE"
n the new order oiends anyone. Of
course the hlt dos win howl, and IN
this way We can easily spot the one
on whose toes the latest PATRIOTS
movement rests most heavily.
Fortunately. the founders OF the
new order have put the price and the
means OF orEaniEation within the
reach OF all patriots In any part Of
the country and We are advised that
they are ready 20 begin work Foi
literature. instructions for orEaniEa
ton or any other information desired
concerning the Knights OF Luther. ad
dress tho sovereign scribe. Otis L
spurEeon. t02 Youngerman Bldg. Dei
Moines. Iowa. The information Il
free. Ask for Il.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03
Roman Losses and Errors

Rev. J. II. Leiper. writing for the
Christian Instructor Omitted Presby'
terian), gives his experience and OBJ
servation as TO Roman Catholic losses
and false claims. He also comments
the Menace and its work
We appreciate the kind words, and
are striving TO merit the approval OF
all patriotic people who love our coun'
try, and are willing 20 sacrifice q little
for the common good. He says:
Enlightened papists are beginning
to exhibit a want OF faith IN the mum
meriss OF their ritualism- They are be-
ginning 20 wonder whether or not the
priest can turn a lamp OF dough into
the body, soul and Divinity OF the Son
OF Cod The better class OF Catholics
are non-committai In regard 10 the
propriety and spiritual profit of the
confessional An intelligent Catholic
said 70 the writer that the use his
church made OF the Virgin Mary as a
mediator was a relic OF the dark ages
and added: Il have no mediator but
Iesus Christ" II II the clergy. whose
living depends on the ignorant devo-
tion of the laity. who are holding them
In bondage 20 superstition Rev. James
A. O'Connor. late editor OF the Con-
verted Catholic, a Protestant maga-
zine. published that In thirty-two
YEAR, he had received At Christs Mis-
sion in New York Teo seeding Ro-
The writer had once the privilege
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03
Papal Satisfaction

We are always glad 20 report items
that give pleasure 10 anyone-even TO
the hierarchy-we would much rather
be tho carrier OF pleasure than pain.
II is, therefore. with great salts
faction that we report that the au.
thority OF ]. Card Gibbons has been
recognized. Even so powerful a gov
eminent as England has been obliged
10 get down upon It's knees and beg OF
that gentleman that he send mission.
1ries into the rubber districts OF Pc.
ru. II Beemn that In Peru. a Catholic
country, that tho natives are being
worked on the old Columbus basis
that is. as slaves, and are forced into
labor that kills them by It's severity
In a short time. In addition. Il Is stat
ed that their hands and feet are cut
of. aud they are otherwise tortured
IN real Inquisition style. II they do not
'ulfill the impossible tasks set for
them 10 do.
One would think that Peru. being
Catholic. would naturally take the
lead In looking into the matter. But
Peru did not. On the contrary, when
Eogland, aroused by the reports OF
the atrocities. desired TO send IN
Protestant missionaries, that country
promptly reported that "the Constitu.
ton of Peru BARRED EVERYTHING
BUT CATHOLICS" The story OF
RELIGIOUS TOLERATIoN is amply
told In the dispatch below:
London.-The Peruvian government
Will not permit Protestant mission
10 80 60 Purumayo 90 investigate the
alleged atrocities reported by Sir
Roger Easement. on behalf OF the
British government. to have been per-
petratcd on the Indians
At the request OF an association
Shich has been raising funds here for
that purpose, the British minister az
Lima. Charles l. DesGras was In
Etructed TO ascertain what facilities
would be granted 20 Protestant mis-
zion by the Peruvian government In
reply the British minister cnbied that
the Peruvian foreign minister had in
formed him. after a consultation with
the president. that any mission other
than Roman Catholic would be barred
by the Peruvian constitution
Washington.-Cardin Gibbons has
been, appealed 20 by Alfred Mitchell
Innes. charge dahnirs OF the British
embassy. to start n movement In this
country for sending Roman Catholic
missionaries into the Purumayo rub
Der district OF Peru. Collection OF
funds for such a purpose has been
started In England
sir. Innes also has written to the
state department suggesting that q
lend a hand In the mission work. The
state department Is considering the
suggestion OF Mr. Innes but has not
yet communicated with Cardinal Glib
bons.
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03

ssyisna Great sooti the numher IL
too small Seventy thousand bachelor
priesis-tvo hundred and eighty-dve
orphanarea What ryStcm on this
green earth needn, 30 many places Of
refuge for dependehtnf What system
under the sun ia responsible for %
much that unhta IL subjects and ham.
pers them from rising % that position
of independence and uelf-oonhdencei
rca. Mr.. Boston Pilot. you may be
proud 10 give us theao statistics. bu,
they are exceedingly pregnant with
EuGgostiveneas which does not re-
dound 70 the credit of that system IN.
der which you have your existence
The menace. [volume] (Aurora, Mo.) 1911-1920, 1913-05-03
The Footprints Of the JeSuitS

Of freedom among Prutsstants ana
arm ourselves with Gods Word and
truth aa well a. with the information
that our religious ancestry has handed
down 70 US through generations. Let
Us watch Rome's every move on her
march upon America. Her treachsry
and cunning wo viii meet with the
hrmness and the fearless courage of
Luther. inspired OF love for our Mas
ter's cause and real for the salvation
OF every human being including the
deluded horde OF slaves OF the pope.
As a means to that end permit me
10 recommend the book whose title
appears over this article. 70 ell pa
triotic readers.
IL is q scholarly written book, whoso
author is the exsecretary OF the u.
s. Navy. r. W. Thompson. and Is pub
llshed by Eaton and Mains, New York.
and by Jennings and Graham. cinein-
natl.
For sale by The Menace, prios Si.oo
II traces the movement OF the Jes-
uits from the days Of Ignatius LoyoIA
until their cloven footprints are seen
In Columbia's free soil.
Buy this book. own II, read H.
From the Lutheran Herald.