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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21
ELECTONEERING FOR WAR

(From the New York WORLDLY
"a F. Mr. Hughes remarked Saturday in Nebraska, he not
ID eectoneerng for war, what is he talking about? The
country is at peace but he has said daily for months that
is cowardy peace To assai the administration for its
tralty is TO assai it because il is not at war
Practically every critic Of the president has grievance but
peace. All who agree with Mr. Roosevelt and ex-senator Ed
munds whose letter in reply Mr. Oney this morn
ing inclined to the belief that true neutrality should carry
the defense of Begum All who agree with the
German-Amercan Alliance making ncessan complaints
because regular of business do not refuse to
sell food and munitions to the Entente These policies
Mr. Hughes soliciting the support of the various parties
in this country because all of them hostile to Mr. Wilson,
Jngoes who hate each other ecey they hate the preS
for unity and hone have witnessed than two years
of neutrality and they do like it. If they defeat neutral
ty at the polls month"; they will have taken long step
toward
Fa beloerent in Europe is interested in breaking down
American neutrality Every fighting nation thinks is entitled
American sympathy and assistance All these peoples nave
strong parsans in the United States Mr. HusheS tne can
date the presidency for his they see promise OF
change from neutrality have but one mean
ing That meaning is and they willing to gamble up
on the direction the war may take
does Mr. Hughes Like him. they prepared to take their
chances the American people themselves being the mighty
pans in game desperate ever played his why
and prOBtish attack our neutrality IN concert
R there can be no for the benefit of alien
while the scales of neutrality firmly held at washington
Mr. Hughes eecOneerng for because he IS attempt
ing to turn his hearers against neutrality II ta1
would fall with Mr. Wilson, and every warning nation would so
interpret the result IN the nteregnum OF nearly four months
between the election and the inauguration OF new president
this country would be the and the object OF
and conspiracy and probably of downright aggression
When we repudate neutrality make ready for war; we
war The that Mr. and the strange cobna
op him have not agreed to the nature OF the
does change the situation the least lhey are takhg
"a hav mean war matter what equivocal denals they
find II necessary to present the pacst farmers on the
Nebraska plains
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21
Their INSULT TO LABOR

- OEE newspapers ths'
V sneer and segff At lRbol
during normal tines ara
pusr -rT11g To Etgw what
der friend e labor Is CaEai-
Ea5s Hughes bee8pse he op.
poses -hs gigzr h9Er l2K nd
what n enemy lsbgr has II
President Wilson
Bat 1.e 7isw of labor L eK-
rressed better by Samuel
Cen per 1san bT g1bsiGiZeS
nevgpsperg thst always fight
trades unioniEn. Here i t1e
view n Ey. GompeYs:
II ~ gxye.1e-.s VIII Un1sss1
s.s-ez c,-y-aases 6arrz twe s,lrs
vearr hsre ~ ase- s-T;s3ng Ess
tee fl-e gc8rlt tewsFs l2s@+. t@vss
ne rga1 and wsitsrs - - - r@5f,-
-sa. per7s6frg a. tas srz-csss y -
rrlzen admin iztrs-lo1- Lss1r ~
zeen recogulzsd nelf5er "a ~ s5-f
- difference on the o,s bars n1- y
Datroraze N the 0tne-.
nut the spirit n recogn1tifsa ksi
been the right ore. ths, izaof snD5i9
5s made part Of the national can
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21

els; that its patriotism should be
conceded. and that its knowledge OF
is own needs should give it para
mount voice in legislation directly and
peculiarly affecting its own rights.
ms fundamental right spirit has
guided the Wflson adm nistration TO
wtss ard righteous labor legislation
Bacszss OF that spirit and its results
z definite laws ard policies how can
EbaEty-l1T.1E Americans loyal TO the
republic and its ideals fail TO sustain
Al executive who has done so much
t8r their rszllztion2
SAMUEL GOMPERS,
Pres gent American Federation Of
Lzbo-.
TIE plea Of the tories that
labor should turn against the
president who has shown them
2 fair deal and support a man
who openly fights the eight
hour law On railroads is an in
sglt 70 the intelligence Of the
man who tolls.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21
WHY PENDLETOA Is
FAVORED

~ He Cd Egr-zl senog.
VI buildings 4 WeE9- srs
not 0f nzch Fzl1s-5e-
ing actually worth lszs -zs- = g
site Pendlet0r will donate u
the state If q Normal school L
established here.
But it would rot mater Il
The state had really valuable
buildings at Weston. As z lo-
cation for Normal school
that place Is opposed By edu-
Gators because the number u
grade pupils there is totally
inadequate to provide practice
teaching work for a standard
normal school. They assert
that a normal school should
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21

not be located in q town with
l5ss than 1000 pupils. Weston
lad but 125 grade pupils il
attendance last year.
To give Normal students the
training theE need without
EzT7-r facilities for practice
-zzsts-r world Be impossible
4 vz-a9r ca-zc1 Learn Is teach
z-f.---.-r -sEchzng anyone than
-zn eE- learn how = handle
~ses b- reading 2 book
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21
so WHY DO THEY CON-
PLAIN?

m BSERVING that the Gold
VI en- Special was not re-
ceived by western wom-
en- with overmuch gladness a
New York paper reproachful-
ly remarks:
"The west is not treating the
Butterfly Hughes Campaign
Train as respectfully as the fl
nancial rating of its hackers
might suggest in the case of
anv social entertainment"
That may be true but our
women of the Pacific have
been no more severe in this
matter than would be the Oil
plants, the Morgans, Whit
neys and Vanderbilts were we
to send a special train to Fifth
Avenue to tell the Gotham 400
how to vote.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-10-21
IT WAS NOT BY ACCIDENT

IN Chicago yesterday De-
cember wheat sold at pri-
ces higher than s1.70 per
t1shel-the highest price pre-
Tziling in the Chicago market
Ence the civil war with the
single exception Of the famous
wheat corner in 1898.
Fortunately considerable
northwest wheat is yet in the
hands Of the growers and
therefore the farmers are in
line 80 get the benefit Of this
rising market.
But where would the wheat
pit have been had the great
railroad strike occurred? With
a transportation tie up, last
ing perhaps for months, how
could anyone have sold wheat?
What would wheat be worth
now had not the president
taken hold Of the railroad stu
alton with a firm hand and
saved the country from tur-
mol a few weeks ago?
Do not those who are profit
ing by our great prosperity
owe a debt Of gratitude to
Woodrow Wilson?
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
ROosevelt's Charges Against Wilson
No Good

To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch
l, for one, am not going to be mis-
lead by the mouthings and machiha-
tons of politicians on either SIDE
We've got a good president and we
ought to hang to him. ! hold COM
mon sense and Americanism and
GOOD executive service above party
and partisan fooleries. Wilson has for
some months kept this country from
mixing up in this blood-crazy Euro
pean mess, despite howls from certain
sections of the masses and jeers OF
the Roosevelt sort. Right now the
war issue is the issue and Wilson IS
on the job. That the fool people do
not understand the fine curves Oh
Wilson's diplomacy isn't wilson's
fault.
Who gives now a hang, for instance
whether poor old dead-in-his-graVe
Huerta shot at the flag or not, so
long as Uncle Sam still stands the
only level-headed, non-participant IN
all the senseless fighting now gong
on in the world.
Let me repeat: l I'm for wilson
clean across the board. l liken him &c
Lincoln at that time in the Great
Emancipator's career when he stood
steadfast surrounded by hordes OF de-
tractors.
1 am a deep-dyed-in-the-wool Re
publican and always vote the party
issues. But there comes a time when
The Issue can be bigger than the 1901
cries that go to make up either party,
The old colonial crowd back IN l''o
gave me the right to vote as | pleas
ed, Stick around till next NoVem'
her and watch me cast my ballot tol
wilson, MR.. COMMON SENSE
st. Louis POST Dispatch
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
POLITICS, WHISPERS
AND REFRIGERATION
By MITCHELL WHITE

Democratic ranks. A tariff revision
upward in the st. Louis platform, SC
the Republicans here say, would con-
tinue to proselyte votes for Demo-
crazy.
That the hyhpen in the Hughes
Fairbanks combination is of teutonic
origin is suspected by many in the
East. The independent press and
many neutral Republicans are dis
satisfied with this phase of the ticket.
The wal sympathies in the East are
very pronounced. While many pro-
claim their neutrality, it is merely a
surface showing. Deep in their hearts
they are for the most part ~pro-allies.
The expression Of the German press
favoring the G. o. P. nominees has
naturally antagonized those members
partly not kindly disposed to such ar
alliance. They are talking American
ism and thinking more and more oil
voting the Democratic ticket.
Someone has inquired who put the
'oose in Moose?
1t is remarkable how a little thing
like a presidential nomination viii
make a man break silence.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
Epigrams in Bryan's Speech at the
CITY Club


st. Louis, June Is. - When the
Democrats were in power | used to
prove that all Republican government
was not perfect, and when the Rep
publicans were in power no proof was
necessary.
81 amt got nothin' against no
body. That's how l feel"
"The idea of Americanism is that
everyone shall do his own thinking
and shall have the courage to stand
on his decision when he has made it."
"a mar can afford to be in the mi
nority, but he can't afford to be
wrong"
citizenship is to find out what is
right, and then not to count and see
who is with you"
q" entered my first convention
through a window, and l nearly came
out Of my last one the same way"
"a man cannot get consolation
WITHOUT, DuC mu5I BeG ~ AlNih "iShih'
A man who takes to heart what is
said about him in the papers will
never be great"
Thought is stronger than artil-
lery fire"
at is only when man believes a
thing, and, believing, is willing to
count the consequences, that he be-
comes great"
"We never can build a permanent
peace on terrorism"
international questions must be
settled by the same common sense
that settles the affairs of a neighbor-
hood"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
Circuit Court News.

In the case of Mrs. Kate Hammond
against Miss Carrie Sproul ct al on a
note the jury returned a verdict for
the plaintiff.
Judge David Harris decided today
that the slot machines such as were
used by Bert Sims, Frank Pimpell
and Amiel Jungbluth, a druggist at
Benton City, were gambling devices
and each was fined fifty dollars and
costs. C. A. Barnes who represented
each of these gentlemen will appeal
the case of Mr.. Pimpell to the Su-
preme Court of Missouri.
Motions for new trials for DIR. j.
A. Wren and John Gentle of Vanda!ia
were refused by the court Saturday
morning.
The Continued case of the State
against Charles Criswell was dismiss
ed on motion of Prosecuting Attorney
Whitson.
In the case of Roy B. Jesse against
the North Missouri Trust Co, guar
dian of Sallie T. johnson, which was
continued from the March term, was
decided by the court in favor of the
plaintiff.
Ben Steele was sentenced to SIX
months in Jail for violating the local
option laws.
The case of Mrs. Kate Hammond
against Carrie Sproul ct al was on
trial Friday.
Reginal Gentle of Vandalia was
fined $500 for violating the local
option law. Mr.. Gentle was later pa
rolled.
In the case of the contested schoo
election for consolidation in the dis
tricts of Farber and parts of Prairie
Mound, Prairie Hill Bear Slough ans
East Lick, which was tried Wednes
day, the election was declared legal
The case will be appealed to the Su
preme Court.
The case of S. v. Fry against S. 5
Roberts on breach of contract wa
before the jury Monday.
Judge E. S. CAN'T is sitting in coui
+b;c xuaak
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
Three New Hardin Teachers.

Three changes in the faculty of the
Conservatory of Music of Hardin Col
lege are announced in the new catalog
of the college which is just off the
press, Miss Florence |. Woodson oil
Washington, D. c., is the new head OF
the voice department. Miss Woodin
has studied in Paris under Sbriglia'
Miss Nora Wilson is to be the new
instructor in piano. Miss Wilson is
a graduate of Hardin College and has
been a teacher in Central College at
Conway, Ark. -,
The third new faculty member will
be Miss Martha Pitcher, who comes
from William Woods College where
she has taught since 1911, Miss Pill
cher will have charge of the classes
in violin, harmony and history OF
music.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
JOSEPHINE WALLACE.
MITTIE PATTERSON
S. P. CUNNINGHAM.
RUTH COOK, Sec'y Audrain
Co. S. s. Assn.
MISSING FOR 4s A

Stoyestown, Pa, June 14.-Isaac
Dibert who left his home here forty
six years ago, has returned. The
owner of property worth close to
81, OOO, OOG, he finds his relatives and
friends dead. Many of the Di5erts
of Johnston are close relatives. The
family is a prominent one. e.
Dibert is 81 years old. At the age
of 10, he went as a drummer boy into
the civil war. He returned home and
~forty-six years ago left for the West.
His mother and sister, left behind,
waited in vain for word from him.
Forty years ago the sister died. Ten
years ago the mother, destitute, APP
piled for a pension which was award
ed by congress. She died a year later.
Dibert's return was unherald-
ed, and he came as one from
the grave. Only a few old residents
knew him, but he quickly found a
few relatives who are living.
Dibert has travelled over the greater
portion of the globe. He railroaded
in the west, later spending nineteen
years in Alaska. His home is in Seat
tie, Wash, where his wife and three
children reside.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
CLASS TO GIVE PLAY

a
prominent citizens of Mexico
q part in the play, "The Dis
&hool" to be given under the
b of Mrs. Charles Rodgers
Il School class of the Methodist
+ at the Lyric theatre, Tuesday
Nth.
i Maude Wallace has charge Of
i parations of the play.
Games Culbertson is to be the
haster and DR.. Harrison, ]. w.
b Willard Potts are members
@chool committee. Mrs. Russell
b will play the part of Mrs.
buckle and Mr.. L. B. Hawthorn
Of Mr., Honeysuckle.
! play is arranged in two scenes,
fst showing the regular class
znd the second the last day OF
Il when the school committee
annual visit.
hded theatrical company also
g appearance in the last scene
les the pupils a taste of grand
Norton Nelson will play the
q the bashful girl, Mrs. Stoltz
ggling girl and Mrs. r.. &
Pc romantic girl.
les Campbell plays the cut VI
p Rev. j. o. Edmonston is the
Rpil of the reading class, while
n. A b. Culbertson is he pro
i child who plays the violin. All
b there are more than fifty
east.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
M. w. A. TO HANNIBAL

Thirteen members of local camp
No. 2050 of the Modern Woodmen
of America motored to Hannibal
Thursday afternoon to witness the
initiation of five new members by the
Hannibal Camp. Those who made
the trip were B. E. Sims, W. J. SAN
nebeck, E. L. Worner, Z. M. Beameri
Clarence Hudson, John Keaswurnt
Brown Owens, Ed Pratt, Wayne Viii
lard, A. C. Bartell, D. F. Atkins Cecil
Alexander and E. A. Shannon.
They made the trip through Louis
lana and returned by way of Center
and New London. Hannibal has one
of the best camps in the country and
are considered to have an especially
good degree staff. The members OF
the local camp who made the TRIP
speak very highly of the hospitality
of the Hannibal Woodmen,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
Southampton, L. l., June ID.

Southampton, L. l., June ID.
The Eastern P~rogressives in many
instances, allege the trailing arbutus
that Grapes the cryptic countenance
of the Republican candidate is in
truth poison ivy.
They are not joyous over T. KS
sudden modesty and are talking Will
son in no tender tones. After a
glance at the situation on its face
It certainly points to the Democrats
polling the entire barber vote Of the
United States. When l was in WASH
Iington, | visited the National Museum
and saw all the mounted specimens
T. R. brought from his African hunt
His other contributions were all there
with the exception Of the River d
Doubt and the bird with whiskers
Perhaps the fact he has never done
any hunting in the Arctics is the rea-
son he gave up stalking Hughes and
Fairbanks, they're enough to give a
man cold feet anyhow. Be that as 1t
NAV, his withdrawal from politics
has thrown a large number OF his
| followers in this section into the
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22

Southampton, L. l., June 8.
In New York the other night, l wit
messed one Of the first performances
of Thomas H. Ince's Civilization"
1t is supposed to surpass any moving
picture production yet screened and
is truly wonderful. The prices range
from $3.50 to SOC and the picture is
presented with the added features of
a thirty piece orchestra, a large
chorus, soloist and a company of
actors.
After the preliminary u
ment Of the producer is thrown upon
the screen, the curtain rises and the
stage is shown, representing a pastor
al scene. It is Balesco like in detail
and electrical effect-in fact a mast
erpiece Of stagecraft. Here r shown
the rustic lovers, the children seek
ing the nightingale in the trees to
show the bent and aged grandparents
All is content an happiness, just as
the Angelus sounds its call and every
head is bowed, the sound of firing
startles the rcverent group and in a
second the stage is wrent with a shell
and strewn with dead and dying.
For an istant the stage is darkened
as the prologue ends and the screen
story begins.
Civilization" is dedicated to that
vast pitiful army whose tears have
girdled the universe-the Mothers Of
the Dead. 1t is an argument agains'
giving one mar the power Of life ant
death over man, women and children
There is almost an invisible threat
of a love story in its fabric but for tn
most part it is visualized argumen
for peace. It's methods are overwhel
ming in their awfulness. Its attrac
ton to detail in emphasizing the crue
ty and heartlessness of war, show
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
Say Losses Total Over 10000 Tons:

Berlin, via wireless to Sayville,
June Is The losses of the British
navy during the war are placed by
German newspapers at more than
100000 tons.
Cup to the time of the recent great
battle in the North Sea-" says the
Overseas news agency, "the British
lost eleven battleships, fifteen armor-
ed cruisers and eleven other
cruisers. To this muct be added
thirty torpedo boats, twenty gunboats
twenty submarines and other vessels
with an aggregate tonnage of 100000.
These losses were increased as a re-
suit of the Skagerrak battle to more
than 1870 units with a total tonnage
exceeding 100000"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
j. S. TROOPS STAY
IN MEX|CO.,THREAT
TO Be IGNORED
Ledger Special

Washington, June 49, President
Wilson has refused to withdraw the
American troops from Mexico. The
recent threat of Carranza that any
movement of the troops save towards
the border will be regarded as a hos
tile act will be ignored. Ell PasO is
making preparations to repel attack II
is feared will be made upon it by the
Mexican troops.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
TO HIS MOTHER
A Poem by John Masfield in salt
Water Ballads" (Macmillan
Company

In the dark womb where l began,
NV mothers life made me a man.
Through all the months of human
birth
Her beauty fed my common earth
I cannot see, nor breathe, nor STIR,
But through the death Of some Of her
Down in the darkness Of the grave
She cannot see the life she gave
For all her love she cannot tell,
Whether l used it ill or well,
Nor knock at dusty doors to find
Her beauty dusty in the mind.
If the graves gates could be undone'
She would not know her little son,
7 am so grown. If we should meet
She would pass by me in the street
Unless my souls face let her see
NV sense of what she did for me-
What have | done to keep in MIND
NV debt of her and womankind?
What woman's happier life repays
Her for those months of wretched
day?
For all my mouthlcss body leeched'
Ere births releasing hell was
reached?
What have | done, or tried, or said
, In thanks to that dear womand dea'
Men triumph over women still,
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
R TO o MARSHALL

ph ~ BOODl
PRISON City, June 16.-Several
sernor Majors boosters who re-
/ from the Democratic National
ftiOn last week expressed their
! that he mad not landed the
htlon for Vice President, but
that nothing else could have
! Expected when it became known
delegates that the president IA
the denomination of Marshall
Governor himself expressed the
n two months ago that if the
Hent had any choice it would be
4 for any other candidate to
At that time, and up to last
ne was of the opinion that the
9ient would not express a prefer
Fhough he has been more or less
FIVE politics for 25 or 80 years
governor never failed in the past
his party nomination for any
ne went after. His friends say
a good loser" and will take al
Il part in the campaign.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
O grave, keep shut lest 1 be shamed!

Woman has a right to vote 1t Is
too late in the day to contest and con-
tradict that There is no male ana
female when it comes to human
rights. Man has %interposed hereto
fore insurmountable walls between
his sister and his wife and their
rights but it was rot so at the first
and it will not remain so forever
Central Christian Advocate.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-06-22
THE MOVIES IN NEW YORK
By MITCHELL WHITE.

the remarkable artistry of Ince. 1t
is as great a picture as 'The Birth of
a Nation" and in many places it sur
passes it. 1t eventually shows the
ruler of the nation brought to a real
ization Of what his ambition has
caused by the appeal of an army Of
women.
Women play an important part in
Dixon's "The Fall of A Nation"
which opened in New York this weec.
With an organization similar to the
Klu Klux Khan of his other picture,
they wrest America for the grasp Of
its Teutonic invaders. Photographic
ally it is a great picture, but crit
les say the story is weak and as an
argument for preparedness partical-
ly a fare.
The moving pictures Of New YORK
surpass in elegance and complete
ness of detail those presenting regu-
lar theatrical attractions. The best
of contemporary composers are sup
plying music for the films and cleo
trical experts furnishing lighting eff
fects to heighten the atmosphere Of
the celluloid drama.
An interesting story anne to light
when it was asked why Mr.. Griffith's
new picture, "Mother and the Law"
was not read before the "Fall of q
Nation" Mr.. Griffith had the picture
complete with the exception of on'
scene. For this scene an entire city
was built, and the scene was t.
show the burning Of the city. Whel
they were about ready to begin tn
Los Angeles authorities refused Il
/ give permission to the burning. I
had not been taken up to a fe7
= weeks ago, and whether Mr. Griffith
| will have to rebuild his city on
J prairie remains to be seen.