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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
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battlefield in the future that they have
in the past and the war has been pro
longed up to the present time largely
owing to the shelter of the trenches.
The steady rise in power of the Al
lies and corresponding decline among
the Central Powers Strengthens the
hopes of an early peace; albeit the enc
of the war is not yet in view. Germany
is by no means exhausted to the point
of submission to the well known terms
of the Allies. Nor are the Allies YET
able to deliver decisive military blow
AT the moment their policy appears to
be that of wearing the enemy down;
the relative rise or fall in the strength
of opposing armies being of more sig
nificance for the time being than the
acquisitions of territory which are
geographically trifling. As a war goes
on, talking and planning for peace be.
come more and more definite. Opinion
is divided as to what the effect will
be upon American trade, much depend
ing upon the individual point of view.
Old Conditions Gone.
There is no doubt that peace will neces-
state extensive readjustments. These
will come gradually and will by no
means demand return to old condi-
tions which is impossible. Concerns de-
voted to war business will be obliged
to scrap considerable of their plant or
prepare for other lines of work. War
profits would of course disappear, and
few lines of endeavor would cease en-
tirely. But very important offsets
would quickly appear, The fact that
the world had turned its face from
destruction to reconstruction would at
once set loose great economic forces.
Optimism would promptly succeed des-
pair, and the work of rebuilding and re-
arranging the civilized world would
start with vigor that would soon
overcome all confusion and hesitancy.
Our steel mills would receive no more
war orders, but far better, they would
be pressed with orders for shipbuilding,
for railroads, for buildings and for all
kinds of construction work in all parts
of the world. Our textile mills would
soon recover from loss of war orders
and be fully occupied with both domes-
tic and foreign orders. Our secondary
industries. such as automobiles, type
writers, agricultural implements, ma
chincry, etc, would also be pressed
with orders to make good war losses
in Europe. Our mineral producers
would be equally sure of good markets
and good prices; so, too, would the
American farmer who may rest assured
of good prices for all he can grow for
some years TO come. The truth is war
has impoverished the whole world. The
waste Of life and wealth has been in
conceivable. Millions of lives have
been destroyed or impaired, and the ex-'
penditures for war since 1914 of all na-
tions have been over 800 00,0OO,OOO.
Everything Is Scarce.
Everything grown or made by the hand
of man is scarce. Years will be re-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
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choose. They believe that peace should
rest upon the rights of peoples, not the
rights of governments-the rights Of
peoples great or small, weak or power
full; their equal right to freedom and
security and self-government and to g
participation upon fair terms in the
economic opportunities of the world
the German people, of course, included
if they will accept equality and moi
seek domination.
"The test, therefore, of every plan
of peace is this:
Militarism Must Go.
cit based upon the faith of all the
people involved or merely upon the
word of an ambitious and intriguing
government on the one hand and of q
group of free peoples on the otherY This
is test which goes to the root of the
matter, and it is the test which must be
applied.
"The purposes of the United States
in this war are known to the whole
world-to every people to whom the
truth has been permitted to come. They
do not need to be stated again. We
seek no material advantage of any kind
We believe that the intolerable wrongs
done by this war by furious and brutal
power of the imperial German govern
ment ought to be repaired, but not at
the expense of the sovereignty of any
people-rather a vindication of the SOW
ereignty both of those that are weak
and those that are strong.
No Peace Without Justice.
"Punitive damages, the dismember-
ment of empires, the establishment of
selfish and exclusive economic leagues,
we deem inexpedient and in the end
worse than futile and no proper basis
for peace of any kind, least of all for
an enduring peace. That must be based
upon justice and fairness and the com
mon rights of mankind.
"We cannot take the word of the
present rulers of Germany as a guaran-
tee of anything that is to endure un-
less explicitly supported by such con-
elusive evidence of the will and pur-
pose of the German people themselves
as the other peoples of the world would
be justified in accepting.
"Without such guarantees, treaties
of settlement, agreements for disarma-
ment, covenants to set up arbitration
in the place of force, territorial adjust
ments, restitutions of small nations, if
made with the German government, no
man, no nation could now depend upon.
We must await some new evidence of
the purposes of the great peoples of
the central powers. God grant it may
be given soon and in a way to restore
the confidence of all peoples every
where in the faith Of nations and the
of covenanted peace.
"ROBERT LANSING,
"Secretary of State of the United
States of America. -
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

John Brandon and Marian Stilwell
land village when the news comes of
the discovery of gold at Suffers Mill
in the Sacramento valley, in '49. Fill
ed with the gold madness, many peo-
pile of the little village join the wagon
trains of pioneers who cross the con-
tinent from the Atlantic to the Pacific
eneountering untold hardships and al
most unbelievable adventures and per-
lis along the way. When defiling thru
a pass in the Rockies, Indian scouts are
discovered watching the train, and the
white men hasten to put their company
in a state of defense. John Brandon as
sumes leadership and the wagons are
drawn into a circle, the better to pro
test the women and children against
the ruthless savages who descend upon
the luckless band. But the gallant de-
tenders acquit themselves well and
though they lose some of their party,
they succeed in driving off the Indians
and resume their journey to the land
of gold.
Arriving at their destination they
behold the orgy of gold made wicked,
ness in the primitive San Francisco of
the time, and Marian attracts the un-
welcome attentions of an INSCRIPTIONS
Spaniard, Don Enrico. Maddened by
the girl s repulse, Don Enrico abduets
Marian and takes her to his hacienda
in the mountains, where she is held
prisoner at the mercy of her ruthless
captor. John Brandon, who has become
Ne head of the mysterious Vl9llantes
starts in pursuit of the spaniard and
there is battle at the hacienda be-
tween the outlaws and the men who
have sworn that the law shall be main
tanned at any cost Don Enrico is cap
tured and executed in Portsmouth
Square, San Francisco, in the presence
are married amid the rejoicing of their
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
Up To German People.


Washington, Aug. 29.-Peaee rests up
on the decision of the German people
not upon their ruler. The peace door
is swung wide, but the Teutons must
come through it without Kaiser Will
helm as their leader. Else they must
be pounded and pierced until sheer steel
eonvinces them that the kaiser's mil
itaristie program is impossible, either
for themselves or for the safety of the
world.
This emphasizes today President Will
son s answer to the pope's peace prof
fer, probably now in the hands of the
pontiff. His rejection of peace at this
time stands out in diplomatic annals as
one of the most virile state papers of
this war. Yet it is tempered with an
other direct offer to Germany to get
peace by spurning kaiserism with its
horrors and insincerity. The president
realized that it is no mean task to get
the thought into the German people 8
minds, though the germ of democracy
has already been sown there-nOurish-
ed by suffering.
Kaiser Will Suppress 1t.
Germany will doubtless withhold the
message from her press, but it will
nevertheless reach the nation by aero
plane couriers to limited degree. Prep.
aration for this distribution is now un-
der way.
Senators and diplomats hailed Presi.
dent Wilson s message enthusiastically.
All agreed he could do no less than
spurn the pope's proposals, based on
return to the status quo-and its pos
..h of 1nA e.
another outrage against the world.
Diplomats-partieular the Russian
pointed out that the answer is vir-
tually Russia s programme forcible an
nexations; no punitive indemnities free
development of all nations, and no eco
nomic war after the war. This thought
is destined to hearten Russia, to gain
the support of parties throughout the
world who oppose conquest and to cor
respond to some pacifist programs
Even more important, insofar as
peace prospects are concernedis the an
nomcement that the president desires
no dismemberment of empires; that this
is not a war to crush Germany as a ma
ton; but rather to put her on an equal
plane with other nations-minus Will
helm s dreams of world domination.
No Treaty is Binding.
Incidentally the president message
strikes at both postbelum trade wars
onsidered by the Paris conference of al
lies and at proposed AustrO-German
trade conquests.
Clearly and Enthusiastically the presi-
dent reiterates that the United States
seeks no aggrandizement for herself,
that she hopes only for the rights of
free peoples to dwell without the men
ace of German "big Berthas" at their
doors.
He scorned the thought that Germany
with the kaiser controlling-could
write peace pact that would be other
than a "scrap of paper'' and suggest
ed that Immediately Germany would
plot to cheat Russia of her new born
freedom.
His program of no punitive indemni
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

! quired to refill the enormous vacuum,
and the scarcity of men or labor at a
| time when most needed means high
wages, high prices and long period of
industrial activity. OF course, there
will be periods of weakness and de-
preston. There will be grave impover-
ishment of some sections, as well as
the crushing burden of debt upon all.
Difficulties, at present unpereeived,
are likely to develop, and recovery
from war does not mean escape from
all it's losses. But let it distinctly be
kept in mind, peace when it does come
will find the United States elevated to
ia pre-eminence industrially, CONNER
cially and financially that would have
required generation to attain, had it
not been for this cataclysm in Europe.
The war enriched us enormously, be-
cause of the profits obtained in our
foreign trade and the fact that we have
been the least affected of any of the
great nations. We have suddenly be
come world bankers securing posi-
tion that will not be surrendered. Even
should Great Britain recover her lead
ership after the war, we will still be
close second, instead of distant third
or fourth as before the war. Our for
eign trade shows phenomenal growth,
and while a better balance between inn
ports and exports may be necessary,
still we have gained a foothOld in for
eign markets that will not be relin-
quished. The future of American ex-
port trade is exceptionally brilliant.
BY far the most significant result of
the war to Americans will be the re-
storation of the United States to a
fitting position as a maritime power.
To Be a Sea Power.
Our weakness in this respect has long
been a thorn in our national pride. Be
fore the war we ranked close to the
foot of the worlds sea a-gOing tonnage;
but within a couple of years, thanks
to prompt seizure of favorable oppor-
tunity, this country may easily become
a good second to Great Britain as a
maritime nation. The establishment of
a big mercantile marine speaks volumes
for the future of American foreign
commerce. The war brought us two
essentials for international success
banking power and our own shipping.
1t is literally up to our business men
and our statesmen to pursue liberal
and constructive policy for developing
our foreign trade and our merchant
market. This cannot be accomplished
by any system of artificial supports,
reprisals or discrimination. 1t can on
ly be accomplished on sound basis
by bearing in mind that if we want to
sell abroad, we must be equally ready
to buy, since foreign trade in the mass
is nothing more or less than simple
barter. Nor can it be too strongly inn
pressed upon leaders Of industry and
politics that the fewer restraints we
impose upon trade, roeign or domestic,
the quicker and stronger viii be its
growth. Commerce thrives best when
least shackled. Incidentally, it may
be said, the best safeguard against war
is a widely distributed commerce, be-
cause nothing viii do more to preserve
peace than the open door and equal
opportunity to all
HENRY CLEWS.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

Sixteen points along the line of the
Southern Pacific railroad between Eu-
gene and Myrtle point are affected by
an order Of the public service commits
sion yesterday which relieved the com
pany from the fencing statute. The COM
pany asked to be relieved of the neces-
sity of fencing these points because
streams, cuts, and other natural con
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

ditions afforded barriers against en-
croachment ON the right of way. In
making this ruling the commission re-
serves the right to amend or recall it
at any time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
WILL MEET IN NORTH DAKOTA.

Minneapolis, MINI. Aug. 29.-North
Dakota win be the meeting place OF
the Peoples Council, barred by Cover
nor Burnquist from meeting in Mimi
esota, according to Louis p. Lochner,
executive secretary. The city where the
meeting will be held has not been Sc
leeted, though Fargo has been mention
ed. Definite announcement will be made
later.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
KAISER MUST QUIT
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win do about government with which
the allies cannot conclude peace"
The allies will send individual replies
to the vatican.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

friends and the future opens before
them filled with riches and happiness.
Shown at the Liberty theater two
days starting Sunday.
of thousands. Brandon has made a big
strike in the gold diggings as have the
other hardy Argonauts, and the lovers
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
State House News
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1t was reported to the public service
commission yesterday that the ear
shortage in Oregon ON the Southern Pa
cific lines amounted to 1912. The short
age on open cars was 1112 but there
was surplus of closed ears of one
hundred which brought the total down
somewhat.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

Tobogganing will not be a novel
sport for Nicholas Romanof while So
journing in Siberia. He has been on
the tOboggan for some time now.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

Washington suffragettes should real
ize that their soreness win continue 80
long as they continue to picket.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

Lord Grey was born November 2S,
1851, and is no relation to Viseonnt
Grey, former secretary of state for for
eign affairs. He was administrator of
Rhodesia and director of the British
South Africa company prior TO becom-
ing governor general of Canada in 1904.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

President Wilson has taken the bit
out of bituminous.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29
LORD GREY DEAD.

London, Aug. 29.-Lord Grey, former
" Governor general of Canada, died
Eere today. He had been i'll for months.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-08-29

Go without meat and you may make
both ends meet.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06
MANSFIELD SPOKE
TO LARGE AUDIENCE

Another large crowd heard Evangel-
list Mansfield last night at the Church
of Christ. The evangelist said in part:
God Is In the midst of the church and
Will help it but God will not help an
ungodly church. l would rather have
half dozen good, pure christians than
a thousand who live ungodly. If the
church viii live right we can take this
town for Christ. There are three things
that are necessary for a city and also
three things go to make the church.
We must have people, there must be a
boundary line and there must be laws
to control the city. The members are
the people who compose the church.
The conditions of salvation is the boun-
dary line. The New Testament is the
law given to govern the church. The
church is kingdom. Christ is king and
lawmaker He makes all the laws and
interprets all the laws and some day
will enforce the law against sin When
a law is made by the lawmakers the
people must obey the law or become
rebels against the government"
Tonight the evangelist win speak on
six Great Things of the Bible" This
is one OF his special subjects and you
will miss a treat if you fail to hear il.
Come and bring your friends. Song
services win begin at 8 o'clock and win
be led by B. b. Slayton.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06

one at Oklahoma City. The field hos.
pital at Oklahoma City and the ambu.
lance company at Tulsa. All Gf these
organizations are practically filled up
to war strength and will be called into
federal service August 5.
Or. j. w. Duke Of the state public
health service. working in conjunction
with General carp has appointed vol
unteer medical examining surgeon in
each city and town in Oklahoma. These
volunteer surgeons will make the phys
ical examinations for men enlisting in
the Oklahoma national guard. This
plan has been adopted so that the state
will not lose the money expended on
transportation of recruits from their
homes to the national guard recruiting
stations. About fifty per cent of the
men examined are rejected on account
Of physical disabilities and to send men
to the stations without some qualified
surgeon examining them means a great
loss to the state. General carp has
been paying the transportation from
any town in Oklahoma to the nearest
recruiting stations.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06
REGISTRATION DOESN'T
HALT ENLISTMENTS

Oklahoma City. Okla, June 6.-Vol-
registration yesterday. as was generally
reported a few days ago. Adjutant Cen
eral carp received the following letter
from the war department.
"The secretary Of war directs me to
inform you that no order stopping vol
untary enlistments on June 5. is CON
templated, and that persons registered
as required by the selective service law
may continue to enlist voluntarily until
they have been actually drafted for SER
vice under the selective service law.
General carp will keep up his drive"
for recruits. He believes that registra-
tion will not affect enlistments. Men
between the ages of Is and As years
are accepted in the national guard, and
as registration is required Of those be-
tween the ages of 21 and 81 that many
outside of these ages will volunteer.
The Oklahoma national guard is filling
up rapidly, the ranks are now filled
to peace strength and from the number
coming in war strength will be reached
before July /.
The organizations not yet in the fed
eral service are four troops Of cavalry,
three companies Of engineers, the field
hospital and ambulance company. The
cavalry troops are located A at Oke-
nah, b at Oklahoma City, c at Meal.
ester and d at Pawhuska One engineer
company at Tulsa one at Ardmore and
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06
For Forty Years Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound has Relieved
the Sufferings of Women.

1t hardly seems possible that there is woman in this
country who continues to suffer without giving Lydia E.
Pinkhams Vegetable Compound trial after all the ev-
dence that continually being published proving beyond
contradiction that this grand old medicine has relieved
more suffering among women than any other medicine in
the world
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06
MEXICAN LAND OWNERS MUST
ALLOW PEOPLE TO TILL SOIL
Carranza Issues Orders to All Governors
10 Cnmnel 0hedience.

Mexico City, June 6.-President Car
rama has sent an order to governors
OF all states instructing them to compel
land owners to allow the people to
cultivate any land now not under cul.
tivatlon The presidents intention is
to utilize all available ground to insure
sufficient food supply for the nation.
Notice also has been given that Mex.
leans who return from the United
States on account of the European war
will be allowed free transportation to
the interior and given work on farms
United States Ambassador Fletcher
has recommended to the American state
department that the two coast guard
cutters bought by the Mexican govern.
ment in the United States, the delivery
Of which has been held up, be delivered
to the government.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-06
EXPLORER IN CROCKERI4AND
SENDS CALL FOR FOOD
Has Only Enough Supplies to Last
Until August.

Until August.
New York June 6.-First detailed
news from Donald B. Mcmillan. head
Of the so-called Crockerland expedition.
came in the form OF message announc-
ing that ne and his companions had only
enough supplies to last them untl Au.
gust OF this year and urging that an
other relief ship be sent to them, has
been received here by DR. Henry Fair.
field Osborn. president OF the American
Museum OF Natural History and chair.
man Of the Crockerland expedition
II was said that the steam sailing
vessel Neptune, chartered recently by
the committee probably would sail with
supplies about July from Nova Scotia.
under command OF Captain Robert a.
Bartlett. for Etah.
Although the expedition has been
one Of the costlest on record. II was
said that from a scientific view the
results have fully justified the expcnd,.
ture The Mcmillan expedition discov.
cred six new islands. mapped and ex.
plored Finley island and gathered geo.
graphical, botanical archaeological and
chronological material OF great import.
ance
The message from Explorer Mcmillan
which was written about the middle of
February was transmitted through tha
American minister az Copenhagen hy
Dr Harrison j. Hunt Of Bangor Maine.
surgeon of the expedition. who left tlrn
NcMi.lain party and reached Godhaveu.
In the Farce Islands. In company with
W. Elmer Ekblaw, the expeditions geol.
orist and representative OF the Uni.
yctsity Of Illinois.