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The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03
for possible war; what. above all.
has he done for Greater America?-
Oregonian.
NOT "HosTILE" BUT "UN-
EEfENnl w ACTS.

Oregonian: The United States has
Withdrawn from Mexico because 1T is
our sovereign duty as a nation to mind
our own business, and to leave the
Mexicans to mind theirs. That is
the only convenient theory on which we
can Justify our abandonment of Mex
leo to the horrors Of civil war, after
having contributed so great a part to
the overthrow of the only government
Mexico had.
How and why we made war on
Huerta it is well enough now to re-
call On April 1S, 1914, this warlike
message was sent to Huerta by Presi-
dent wilson:
Say TO General Huerta that the
President of the United States
feels great disappointment at his
failure to make prompt and willing
reparation for insult which was Of
fered American sailors at Tam
pico
1t would seem that this govern
ments forbearanee has been mis-
interpreted
You are instructed to inform Gen
erai Huerta that unless he announ-
ces his intention to comply with
Admiral MayOFS QeiHdHu py eiA
Il O'Clock, Sunday. April 10. the presi-
dent will lay the matter before con-
gress on Monday. with view
to taking such action to enforce
the respect due to our nations flag
as may be necessary.
On April 20. 1914, President Wilson
apparently incensed at President
Huerta's failure to comply with ihs
demands. sent a message to congress
saying:
l therefore come to ask your APP
prevail that l should use the armed
forces of the United States in such
way and to such an extent as may
be necessary to obtain from Gen.
eral Huerta and his adherents the
fullest recognition Of the rights
and dignity of the United States
even amidst the disturbing condi-
lions now unhappily obtaining in
Mexico
We have profited by our humiL at
ing experience. Now, II our flag II
insulted by any nation. be 1t Mexican
or Turkish, 1t Is automatically con
strued as ''unfriendly" but not {
hostile" act.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

mankind? The flag, has mot been sa !
luted. There Is no assurance of peace,
Setting out to establish constitution
al government In Mexico we are leav-
Ing Mexico to its own resources at a
time when its internal affairs are more
chaotic than they were when WI In
terfered with them This arHaign-
meDt of the Wilson, Bryan regime for
its inexcusable course in Mexico is
the more severe for the fact that
the World is the leading Democratic
journal of the United States. and has
In the past, on account of its political
bias and unreasoning leaning toward
the administration. even defended its
Mexican policy in opposition to its own
better Judgment and in spite OF tie re-
volt Of its conscience.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

Well the Brethren certainly have no
kick coming with the appointment of
Judge Bulge to the supreme bench
and John ]. Guheen, another of the
Brethren. to take his place as district
judge. So far as we know nobody
questions Judge Budgets ability. and
possibly few who know him doubt his
honesty and manhood. but many doubt
the moral right of an executive to
override the wishes OF a large majority
of the people of the state who are OPP
posed to the elevation to positions of
trust prominent leaders OF the Nor
mon church. The voters turned Judge
Bulge down two years ago for the
man whose shoes he Is now to step
into by executive orders. Had Judge
Bulge been elected to the supreme
bench by a direct vote he would then
have been the choice of the people of
the state and no question of his right
to the position could have justly been
raised. But his appointment under
existing conditions Is an entirely diff
ferent thing. and will undoubtedly tend
to accentuate the opposition to church
domination in politics. throughout the
entire state. and will not help greatly
to improve the standing of the present
state administration now or In a his
toric way
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

The New York World. the stannchest
Democratic journal, and which has been
one of the mainstays of the Wilson ad-
ministration. has reached that point OF
disgust and righteous Indignation with
the government action in the Mexico
matter, where it speaks right out in
meeting. 1t says, among a number of
other pointed things: Sometimes CUES
tioning and doubling. the World has
approved President Wilson's Mexican
policy at every step, because 1t hoped
and believed that the policy was making
powerfully for peace. Its strongest
guarantee of peace was sincerely. Its
next strongest guarantee of peace was
the possession of Vera Cruz After
long months of "watchful waiting" we
have abandoned our sincerity, and we
have abandoned Vera Cruz without ac-
complishing one of our purposes The
withdrawal of our troops from Vera
Cruz is spoken of as AN evacuation
Strictly speaking 1t Is an abandon
ment.' We did not deliver the town
to anybody. We simply marched out
and sailed away. Whatever factional
army is nearest at hand will seize the
place. IL two or more bands of par
tisans chance to be in the neighbour
hood they win fight for It, What
must be the feelings of foreigners in
the City of Mexico who have depend
ed upon us for protection? Assuming
that there ever was a. sufficient rea-
SON for our occupation of the Mexican
seaport. how can it's REIMBURSEMENT
now be explained? We entered Vera
Cruz, as President Wilson has said on
two memorable occasions, to serve
mankind. If we can find out the way
Have we served the Mexican? Have
We served ourselves? Have we served
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

move Is now on foot for the APP
pointment of a committee OF military
and naval experts by congress to in
quire into the condition of our army,
navy and national defenses" This, OF
course. does not meet with the APP
probation of Messrs. Bryan and will
son. who seems to think that their
peace at any price" policy should not
be rudely disturbed by expert inter-
ference. The country at large seems to
think otherwise-that preparedness
means simply the rational exercise Of
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

1t might be of interest to the public
II the Caldwell Tribune and Mountain
Home Times would inform their read
ers ahead OF time, just who they con-
template putting in Borahs place in
the United States senate after they
succeed In ''killing him off,"
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

Haines received 5000 more votes this
year than he did two years ago when
he defeated Hawiey' YET Alexander de-
feated him by tn VOTES. This if &C
counted for IN the TACT mat the Pro-
gressve vote which fell Off some 1900
this year from TWO years ago, largely
went TO, ALEXANDER, running his vote
up some ls,coo over that reserved by
Hawley when he ran against Hhines
two years ago.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

The Progressive vote ON governor fell
off over half this year from that cast
two years ago-24. s25 to 10,5S3-yet hav-
ing cast 10 per cent vote they have
retained the legal right to enter the
primary two yeans hence. The Social
lists having failed to get within the 10
per cent limit will have to resort to
the convention system for nominating
their candidates.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

God-given. common sense in arranging
to protect ourselves If we have to and
does not mean that we are seeking
war. or win be drawn into war be-
cause we are prepared.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-12-03

Idaho cast something like $500 more
votes at the .off year. election in
1914 than were cast at the presidential
election two years ago.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-01-02

the use of the Jail for their prisoners,
declaring that he did not know that
the deputies were officers, though at
least one of them was his own deputy.
Then the governor landed in the midst
of the city at the head of a small
squad of soldiers. Remembering
that he had recently been endowed
with the power to remove delinquent
officers, city officials were scared, and
there began to be an air of hustle
about the county Offices.
The city election was held shortly
The Committee of One Hundred was
formed andthey began to look about for
an available candidate. They finally set
tied upon DR.. J. E. Anderson, a soft
voiced, polite hammered, advance
agent of civilization, who treated his
patients with courtesy and osteopathy.
Now, the doctor was not avowedly
dry, but he did believe in law-enforce-
ment. The Committee of One Hun
dred decided that courtesy and osteo-
pathy were exactly the kind of treat
ment which a law-defying whisky
council needed. The doctor con-
scented to run upon platform of law
enforcement, and was elected by a
majority of us.
Mayor VS.. Council.
Then began battle royal between
the osteopathic and the old school
political doctors. The mayor, accord
ing to the charter provisions, named
new city recorder, chief of police
and eight policemen. The council re-
fused to confirm. When the council
had adjourned the mayor again ap-
pointed these officers to serve ad
interim. Council instructed the old
officers to remain on the job and draw
their pay until their successors had
been confirmed by council. The city
had two sets of officers. The mayor,
in turn, refused to sign city warrants.
and there was no money available for
any purpose.
By this time the mayor had dis
covered that the riding of the hurri-
cane deck of bucking bronco was
mere child's play beside the riding of
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-01-02
The DaIles Oregon Has Mayor What is Mayor

liquor traffic He had been elected as
mere advocate of law-enforcement
but after he had been run through the
wringer OF experience he came out
dry.
At the same time that he was cleo
ted two dry councilmen had been
elected, one of whom was in the hos
pital with what proved to be his last
illness. This sick dry had been made
chairman OF the committee on public
health. The vets began to introduce
ordinances and to attempt, according
to their custom, to pass them at the
same meeting. The mayor at once
referred them to the committee on
public health, which was in the hos
pital and could not report
Mayor Wins.
A good fighter makes friends The
mayor and the Committee of One
Hundred were growing popular. The
council proposed compromise. The
mayor was agreeable. He compro-
missed as an able-bodied wife COM
promises with her husband-by allow
ing him to compel her to have jusE
what she wants and he to give up ali
he wants. The mayors officers went
in and the council gave the Commit
tee of One Hundred to understand
that if council had not thought Com
mittee's finger. were crossed when
they first presented demands, said
demands would have been handed
across on silver platter
Wet or Dry.
The committee began canvassinR
the city to secure additions to the
membership of the committee which
was law-enforcement body. Law
enforcement always brought up the
liquor question. The reply of the
voter enabled the canvasser to decide
whether voter was wet or dry. The
report showed bare fighting chance
to carry the city dry
September was spent in celebrating
plans. Then suddenly, the first of
October, a petition containing several
times the required number of signers
was filed. The next four weeks went
round so fast the vets never knew
whether they were leading or follow
ing. Election day showed them to be
leading by seventy-fve majority
Thirty-eight votes changed would
have landed The Dalles dry
King Alcohol hangs on, but he
hangs on by his toes and head down.
The whisky council is frantically shap-
ing net of "less saloons, rigid re-
strictions and drastic regulations" for
him to fall on, for fall he must righr
soon they see.
Hats Off.
The result in The Dalles represents
the hiUOect ternnarauca oh opna an 49,
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-01-02

Socially and politically, The Dalles,
Oregon, is standing on its head. This
town, which boosted itself as "the
toughest ever" almost went dry a.
the local option election on Novem-
Der 4, and its morals are beginning to
approach the blue-blooded Puritanism
OF the early Bostonese. The story of
the fight which Dr. Anderson made is
we'll worth telling as an inspiration
TO all America
Aged and Tough.
To begin with, The Dalles is very,
very old. 1t is so old that it can
say to Oregon, Before thou vast, l
am 1t was thriving metropolis of
the red man before Columbus sailed.
Here you can still see the bronco
buck, the Indian buck, and the buck
aroo." With its sage brush setting
and superabundance of males, the
place had a decidedly all-buck at
mosphere, and 'let 'er buck" was their
watchword. It's climate is hotter than
the place where the worm never dieth,
and the "hot times in the old town"
and its general moral atmosphere then
seemed to have been imported from
that very same famous winter resort.
The handful of avowed advocates of
better things were frankly regarded
as the municipal goats, and relegated
to the back alleys to browse.
Under the leadership of the pastors
of the Evangelical Protestant church
es, they began campaign of publicity
concerning the rottenness which the
city harbored. Among other things, it
was pointed out that when the legisla-
ture amended and re-enacted the city
charter no provision was made by
which the council might license sa-
looms, and that therefore all liquor
dealers were operating without Ii
cense. While the matter was sup
posed to be a.state secret, when coun-
Gil had attempted to hold up the Ii
censes of certain vicious places they
had back-pedaled and granted these
licenses along with the others under
the threat that if they did not all the
licenses would be held up because the
charter gave no privilege of licensing.
The attention of the council was
called to the open gambling houses,
the bawdy houses and to the shameful
manner in which they were pushing
their traffic, and the inroads which the
vicious elements were making upon
the youth of both sexes in the city.
Council was defiant; county officers
were evasive. Evidently they consid-
cred that the buckers were stronger
than the cutters"
Ste Tn
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-01-02
Governor Sits In.

Then Governor Oswald West took
a hand. His special agents uncovered
evidence a plenty. Special officers, in
GLIDING the pastors, were sworn in and
a late Saturday night raid was made.
City and council authorities threw
every obstacle in the way of these
deputies. The sheriff refused them
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
SCRAMBLE ON FOR
MANY ARE SEEKING THE COIERNORSHIP
OFFICES IN TEXAS

TT CUSTOM, Texas, Jan. lot is
expected that the next few
weeks will produce a crop Of
candidates far in excess Of any past.
Especially do indications point this as
true in the gubernatOrial line, which
now may boast Of more than one as
pirant from every section Of the com
mOnwealth, with the unlucky number
passed and the figures gradually
climbing toward "23" Announcing
for governor has become a habit, ir-
resistible in some quarters.
Nor will the highest office within
the state be the only plum scrambled
Tor. Robert l. Henry, our Bob" as
constituents are wont to call him at
Il distance. Robert" as his close
friends address him, and Mr.. Henrv.'
as applied when service is upDermOst
was in Texas during the HOLIDAYS He
slipped into Galveston to study the
army camp conditions, and incidental
ly TO meet political friends. And
then he stepped into a big Houston ho-
tel, pushed out his gladdest handshake
and said few things. Thev were
commendatory to president Wilson
ana secretary Bryan, naturally
The import Of congressman Henry's
visit to Texas was to put into repair
his political fences. And when thew
are all InlsheO- complete in detail
congressman Bob will suddenfv he
come an aspirant to the United States
senate Senator CuIberson is in Texas,
100 building up his health-and per-
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

maps also making ready to repair some
fences, and he is improving, too.
New Candidate for Governor.
James Z. Ferguson, banker, rner-
chant, farmer, from the black county
OF Ben, seeking gubernatOrial honors
as business mems candidate" is
the latest to spring into the politicaI
4lmellgnI. He came to Houston to do
II and as one of his friends nut if.
the political clearing house" Of the
people really want a business admins
traJlon-goodness knows they need
tt am the man to give it to them"
thus spoke the new aspirant as he
squared himself and smiled
Ferguson is an attorney He was a
boy ABOUT town in Bolton until well
into his teens. Then he suddenly de-
termined to read Blackstone. eraIU-
ated from a local law office and
started out to carve a career IT was
not long until he was selected as dis
trict attorney. He kept climbing nm
til he got to be plantation owner
president OF bank, railroad prOmot-
er and merchant-au in the short enan
Of 10 or u years.
Old time. companions still call him
Jimmie ferguson, and he is Young
ana active and alert though perhaps
across the 4Oth straw in the age rec
ord. He's originally from the farm
and central Texans go to him for adj
vice, whether it be about hest cotton
seed for planting or the proper route
Continued on next page. column -
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
PRETTY, BUT
HAS TROUBLE
I'M CRUSADE
Lady Glentworth Finds Ger
many Uncharitable and
Paris Too Frisky.
WILL CONE NEXT
TO UNITED STATES
By La RaeOnteuse.

n ARTS France, Jan. 10.-After q
crusade to stir up interest in votes
for women extending over more
than half of Europe, Lady Lillian
GlentWOrth, whom newspapers politely
describe as "a most beautiful woman,
with an April face whatever that may
mean, has come to France and is busiIy
engaged in bribing chivalrOus deputies
and senators to give their signatures
TO her petition in exchange for her
roses, viOlets and smiles. Lady Lillian
admits that the name under which she
operates is not her real one, but, be-
yOnd limiting that she is closely re-
lated to the highest English aristOc-
racy, she shrouds herself In mystery,
and not one of all our smart society
reporters have been able to discover
her identity.
She readily permits herself to be in
terVieWed and even writes about her
self and her mission in excellent
French and this is in short what she
has to say about herself:
Tells Of Her. Troubles.
"Unhappily married and miserable, I
realized that English law is shame
fully unjust to women and how neces-
sary it is that we should have the
vote. Determined though 1 am to win,
I have always been disguised with the
tactics of Mrs. PankhurSt and her fol-
lowers. who, OdiOus and destitute of
feminine grace as they are, have done
the cause an unreasonable amount OF
harm. My idea is to win sympathizers
by gentleness and the first goal of my
ambition is to return to England with
a million signatures attached to a pc
tition which. I intend to lay before the
English house Of commoIis.
Treated Badly in Germany.
so far I have been immensely sue
cessful, for I have already obtained
nearly 10000 signatures and behind
each stands a man who is more or less
known to the public. Everywhere
have been treated with consideration
and politeness except in Germany,
where several newspapers said had
been arrested and told their readers
that I am 40 years though anyone can
see of course that / am at least 10
years younger than that Here in
Paris I have stood on the boulevards
my flowers in return for sig
natures. I have occasionally been
kidded and leased by boulevardiers
and cameIats. but Ost people have been
and kind to me, though one
elderly dandv tried to kiss me and
another signed himself ~ our ducky
darling" but the latter was either
English or American
When / have got the signatures Of
President Poincare. Messieurs Fall
Heres, ClemenceaU- and Edmond ROs-
tand I intend to go to America for the
of Mr.. Roosevelt, president
wilson and Mr.. Bryan, before I return
to England and hand in my petition
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10
FAMOUS MEN
SMUGGLE OLD
MASTERPIECES
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Sir
Robert Walpole and Gavin
Hamilton Implicated.
DISCLOSURES MAKE
GREAT SENSATION
ONDON. Eng.. "a. 1O.-Astonish-

T ONDON, Eng, Jan 10.-Astonish-
ing light is thrown today on
- the manner in which old masters
were Struggled out Of Italy, The dis
closure involves some famous names.
notably sir Joshua Reynolds.
For close on to 20 years there have
lain in a volume at the British mu-
scum a considerable number of letters
by sir Joshua Reynolds, apparently
unknown to any OF the artists biOg-
raphers, for they are not referred to
in the books about him or his work.
They afford intimate glimpseg Of the
methods employed to acquire from
Italy the masterpieces whose con
tinued deportation to America and the
continent is so much deplOred today in
England.
There was no scrupIe at breaking
the italian law, which forbade the
eign lands without the sanction Of the
authorities.
COWper Struggles a Madonna.
Lord COWper, when British minister
at Florence, carried out Of the Tucson
city RaphaePs beautiful painting
known as the ''NiccOlini Madonna"
which he hid in the lining Of his car
rage The picture is now in the Ma
tional loan exhibition at the GrOsvenOr
gallery, and its companion the smell
er COWper. Madonna" doubtless snug
gled to England in a somewhat SINH
lar fashion, has been sold recently for
an enormous sum.
ArOuses the Pope.
This traffic in old masters aroused
the indignation Of the papeI govern
ment, and it tried every expedient to
prevent the deSpO1latiOn- But the Pa
pei government failed in the effort
The British agents, aided and abetted
BY native owners and men like SIR
Joshua Reynolds, James BEres and
Gavin Hamilton, upset all their plans
by tricks as peculiar as those Of Bret
Harte's- Heather Chinee"
Here is an important example Of the
means commonly employed to deceive,
not only the government and the pub
lie, but willfully to produce copies
that may hang today in the galleries
Of Europe and America as original
paintings. Sir Joshua was implicated
IN this particular coup, the conse-
quence of which lady Spencer said ''is
now death to attempt sending pic
lures out Rome without being first
examined This transaction in ques-
ton was the purchase at the Bonapa-
dull palace at Rome of a series of pic
lures OF the Seven Sacraments,"
painted by Nicholas POussin, for the
CSvaliore del Posze in 1886.
WalpOle Implicated.
At one time sir Robert WalpoIe pur-
chased the paintings. but he was not
allowed to remove them TO England
and in 1717 James Bryes sent q let
ter TO the duke of Rutland (then mar
Quis of Brandy who was anxious to
acquire the seven Sacraments," init
mating that he had failed to secure
them.
Eight years passed. and on June 10,
$50, Byres wrote that he had uneX-
pectedly- succeeded in obtaining the
CONTINUED on next page, column -
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-01-10

merchants are absolutely indefatirabIe in
ascertaining Information all over the conn
try. They send their travellers into fbe
interior, not for trade, but to see what the
possibilities are, and to compare the diff
1erent conditions in one part Of China with
those in another.
-Four years ago, in Yunnanfu the only
merchants doing any business at all were
French and one or two Greeks British
merchants IN Hong Kong the nearest Brit
ish port and only about eight DAYS distant
by sea and rail from the capital Of Yum
nan province, did practically nothing. and
the British goods going into Yunnan were
brought on the backs Of man and beast
over the hazardous trade route from Fba-
mo. in British Burma, IS days away.
Now Americans Germans and JaDanese
are exploiting the province, and in a few
tude we shall have lost the trade We
have"