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MONDAY. DECEMBER 3, 1017
THE ULTIMATE.
WHERE is the faliled viboge »f your
youth
Where. in an atinuvpueie peace and •
• rest.
There lived a simple folk who spake the
truth
And knew the little things you loved the
best
The early twilights and the sullen day.
Streaking to safTron on the mountain's
rim
The road of dreams that misty stretched
away
Into a future beautiful but dim?
YX7HERE Is the change? Tou walk the
TV same old road.
Tou note the houses lulled against the
steep.
The tangled riot of .the flowers that
glowed
Long years before you ever learned to
weep.
What I* the change? Where Is the sweet
content
That lapped you softly with a spirit
kind.
The simple trust vou had bef"re you went
That, all unknowing, you have left be
hind?
-Jane McLean
THE RUSSIAN AND FRENCH
' REVOLUTIONS.
Students of histpry frequently
comment on the similarity of the cir
cumstances of the Russian revolution
to the famous French revolution of
1798. In their fundamental aspects
the two revolutions are startingly
alike and this circumstances often
leads to the statement that the eigh
teenth century in France has repeated
itself in Russia in the twentieth.
The history of France under Louis
XIV and Louis XV is a story of tyr
anny, degredation and profligacy at
tributed to the Bourbon monarchB.
Louis XIV and his beautiful young
wife Marie Antoinnette, the victims of
the revolution, were sacrificed for the
villainies of their predecessors, and
not because they themselves were de
serving of their fate. In Russia Nich
olas II, last of the Romanoff dynasty,
was also largely the victim of a sys
tem. He was a man of kindly motives
in spite of the crimes committed in
his name, but the real criminals were
the aristocrats about him who played
upon his weakness to further their
own ends.
The French revolution was pro
foundly influenced by the American
revolution against the British yoke.
'Rousseau’s works on equality and
liberty found a receptive people. When
the nation demanded that the state’s
general be called the dea'th knell of
Bourbonlsm was funded. But the
noblefe and ecclesiastics refused to sit
in the' same room 'Ivtth the commons
and when the distracted king ordered
the third estate to disperse the people
took’Charge of the government. The
defiance of Mirabeau of the monarch’s
command, seconded by Marquis de
Lafayette was the prelude to an orgy
of ahUrchy and bloodshed the like of
which civilization had never known.
There is' a striking parallel to be
found In Russia. The aristocracy,
honeycombed with graft and Corrup
tion and even with treason, made a
serious blunder when It demanded of
the czar that the duma, which was
openly charging the government with
treachery to the people be dissolved.
And the history of 1789 was repeated
when the duma, like the state’s gen
eral! openly defied the ruling autocrat
and took affairs into its own hands.
There is little surprise to be found
in the further fact that hunger was a
mighty Influence In each of these two
unheavals. Poverty-stricken, tax
ridden France rose in arms as did
also the near-serfs of 'Russli. Food
riots in Petrograd set off the' Hist
spaks of internal strlte.
In France the nioderates were first
in control—the Girondists, as they
were known, men of genius, eloquence
and moderation, dreamers and Ideal
ists who opposed exoesses but who
were ready to sacrifice the royal fam
ily If necessary. They played with
forces they could not, coptr?}, a£0>
when the Jacobins and the. revolu
tionary tribunal,—Robespierre, Ma
rat and Denton—the Olron4ists like-.,
wise were sacrificed by the ultra-rad
icals who instituted a reign of terror
and slaughter. V
In Russia the dnma members, the
moderates, correspond somewhat to
the Girondists. They were intellec
tuals, thinkers, dreamers, and it may
be said that the conservative social
ists, led by Kerensky, really belonged
to this group of constitutional demo
crats. But their day was short, as we
know now, and we see the Bolshe
vik!, or Maximalists—the extrenu
radicals-—in control, as the Jacobins
wretsed the reins of rule from the
Girondists. There is a striking dif
ference, however, in the fact that the
awful excesses committed in France
have not as yet been committed in
Russia. There has not been a politi
cal slaughter like that of the days of
the guillotine, and the deposed empe
ror, who 'still enjoys an abbreviated
liberty, has been treated with mark
ed courtesy, considering the circum
stances' of the situation. The world
may well be thankful for the idealism
which has so far causer revolutionary
Russia to shudder at the thought of
personal vengeance.
One noteworthy contrast is to oe
found in the fact that the Russian
revolution has produced no great
leaders. Kerensky was the most con
servative and promising, but he can
no longer be called Russia’s man of
the hour. The French upheaval pro
duced leadership—not always of the
most desirable kind—but leadership.
It is not Improbable of course, that
some genius will rise in Russia to
meet the crisis and when he comes
he will be given a hearing, for there
is said to be a passion for order In
Russia, even in its present state of
turmoil.
Will Russia, like France, unite
against a foreign fo-j? Revolutionary
France furnished Napoleon who brot
it quickly from a state of anarchy
and poverty to the most powerful na
tion in Europe. The twentieth cen
tury is awaiting a Napoleon to take
charge of the affairs of state in Rus
sia and bring it to a state of triumph
and sanity to a place among the na
tions of the world.
AFTER reading of the enemy ped
dling germ-laden sticking plaster we
now know who put the germ in Ger
man.
THE vast amount of money sent out j
of Valdez for various purposes the|
past few months is painfully appar- j
ent when a collector makes the'
rounds. This should prove a good ar-J
gument about trading at home.
MANY old timers are dropping off!
this winter and soon they will be but
a memory. But their work will stand
as a monument for their deeds to the
end of time. -
I
IT IS unfortunate that General i
Frederick Stanley Maude, who has j
just died in Mesopotamia, could not I
live to enjoy the fruits of his cam- j
palgn. Thanks to his wonderful or
ganization and. administrative ability
as well ^as to his generalship, Jth.e
Mesopotamia campaign was made an
important factor in the. war at a time
when it was flagging into a condition
of doubt and uncertainty. At the
present time the British are within
Striking distance of Jerusalem, and
the Berlin press says that if that City,
famous in Biblical history, should fall
into the hapds'of the enemy, Ger
many’s whole policy in the Orient
would be seriously menaced. The
progress of the British against the
Truks gives rise to the beljef that
Jerusalem, which has been in the
hands of the Moslems since before the
Crusades, will be in possession of the
British within a few days. General
Maude's great campaign approaches
its climax just as taps are sounded
for him.
Austrians Under Arrest
CHICAGO, • Dec. 3.—Arpad Egon
von Dlllmont, claimed by the govern
ment to be a reserve officer in the
Austrian army, and Nicholas Hooh
inan, also an Austrian, ar being held
today by the dpartmnt of justice on
the departmept of justice on the
Charge that they fraudulently enter
ed the United States. Previously to
his coming to Chicago von Dlllmont
waB in San Francisco, where he gave
advice on the retalalng of the ex
position building as a permanent ex
position. ,
' Big sho w attfe Empress tomorrow.
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CAN CHINA BE INDEPENDENT?
■ntraiws trio Grsgt World War la
.. vJrs* An*"- k
Hack division of opinion exists la
Japan regarding China's declaration
of war against Germany, says the
East and West News. Japan took the
final step for two reasons: First the
Anglo-Japanese alliance, and, second,
a deep-founded belief In the necessity
for solidarity of the far eastern pow
ers. The Osaka Asahl la strongly op
posed to China's participation In the
world’s war. It says: “China decided
to take the step, on the arrival of
Vice-President Feng Kno-chang at Pe
kin. Nothing could be more regret
table than for an Independent nation
to be forced by others to do anything
It doesn't went to do. Tbs national
existence of any nation that yields to
coercion or undue persuasion Is im
periled ! Some people regarded Japan’s
declaration.-of war against Germany
merely from the viewpoint sf the alli
ance with England, but we favored
Japan’s dominance* In this part of the
Padllc.”
The editor of tbo inhl wants to
know what Feng Koo-cbang meant
when bo favored a declaration of war
by China against Germany, - hot ob
jected strenuously to joining the en
tente powers. “Does he. mean that,
like the Unite*] States, China’s declara
tion of war shall be s separate actf"
asks the Asshl. “The grave fact Is
that her present course was forced
upon her. Whether she Joins the en
tente or not matters little for the
present. The serious question is, can
China be independent from now on
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“GESUNDHEIF - THEN WOE
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Citizen of German Origin, Patriotic to
Last Ditch, Makes n Disastrous
Bluntfsr.
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Tills little story, which appears to be
an orphan, Is now going around:
“I'm going to the patAgtlc meeting
this evening,” said the dtlsen of Ger
man origin.
“No," snid the wife, “you musn’t go.
Yen’ll get Into trouble, sure.”
Rut he went, despite her remon
strance. Just before midnight, on'the
last street car, he stumbled Into his
domicile. The good wife was sitting
up for him.
When he appeared bis eyes were
black and blue, his face was scratched
and puffed, his collar had been torn
from his shirt and he looked as though
he had been rolled In the dirt.
“Ah," said the wife, “I told you not :
to go to that meeting, that something i
would happen to you.” !
“It was not at the meeting,” ex
plained the husband. “The meeting >
was all right. There were three
speeches, and, like everybody else. 1 j
applauded everyone of them. The
hand played the “Star-Spangled Ban
ner.” Everybody stood up. So did I. ]
"It was after the meeting. I was )
coming home on the street car. The ,
car was crowded. Then a woman on j
the car sneezed und I said ‘Gesund- i
belt!’ Thep everything happened.”
Five Great Men in Hictory.
In the generation Unit saw the birth
and the earlier years of the republic !
five then stand out—George Washing
ton, Benjamin Franklin. Thomas Jef- ]
ferson, Alexander Hamilton and John
Marshall, says Janies Bryce In the :
Youth's Companion. Whether or uot
the last four of them were great men |
In the full sense of the word Is a ques
tion on which, people were pot agreed ;
In the, lifetime of those four and are
not agreed today; hut everyone felt ,
then as everyone feels now that Wash- i
Ington was' great. He is a world fig
ure. In mere Intellectual power he was j
not sti|ierior to the qffyer four. Hejind
less originality gud a l,esp. wide rqnge \
of capacity than Franklin,. lesg xwih-.
tile activity of mln0. than Jefferson,
less brill Inn} gift? for .constructive ,pol
Icy .and' lhe exposition thereof, jhan
Hamilton, less logical grqap'jind pene
tration of thought than Marshall; but
he rose superior to "the'in all in a cer
tain, massive strength of character. In I
stately ill giiity. In a calm firmness of j
purpose that neither, the goalies ppr; the i
frowns of fortune could divert from j
the course his Judgment had approved. |
So his primacy was undisputed then '
and has remained undisputed, ever I
since.
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Japan . la Exparting Pulp,
^J« pa next; Imports of pulp bash, en
countered obstacles,, but, according to
the Japdn Chronicte,' It. Is believed that
the stocks Held by paper manufactnr
ers generally are'Sufficient to last un
til the edd bit fhls year/ while th# do
mestic manufacture of pulp, stimulated
by Import difficulties, has appreciably
developed. As a result, efforts are
how ,be(ng made,.by soma merchants
to export Tfionie-made pplp. .
The Chronicle states that this Is
not to ne the disadvantage of those
paper manufacturers who are anffer
ing froro thy scarcity of Imported pulp,
for what they! essentially want'it not.
yet producible In thla,country. It finds
that,, there, Is no excessive domestic
pulp tint is exported*
Our Army of Civil War.
war
rose
vol
MtsdKA Aprfr 15,1861, was for T5.000
menfbr three monfeA' It the begin
of lafig '^be uhmbsrhf volumeera
in the field was about 880000.«Pwihf
the next three yeerajfjfa* i&pWOWr t
000. At the close of th*W*r,the t^nlon,
army numbered l/WfcOOD.BUfa, the to
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TWO KILLKI) as train
CLASHKS with auto bvs
WALLA WALLA, Dec. 3.—Two
men were killed instantly, one prob
ably fatally injured and twelve more
or less seriously murt when an Ore
gon-Washington Railroad & Naviga
tion train, backing over a crossing
near College Place, a suburb two
miles west of here, hit an auto bus
loaded with children being taken to
the school in that place.
The driver, Philip Ochs, did noj
see or hear the train, and the train
crew failed to note the approach of
the bus, which was struck squarely.
Willie Green, aged 12, and Frank
Swegle, aged 11, were the boya killed,
their bodies being horribly mangled.
Rdward Walters, aged. 14, had a leg
and arm torn off a<id probably will
not recover. The others, it is believed
will live.
LIHCCM TEAM DEFEATED
BV CONGREGATIONA1j8
The Congregational team Satur
day night, won a victory over the Fort
LIbcuiu five in a match gam a of -bas
ketball, poth teams played;good haH,
btft the Congregational* gained a.
lead in the first half which could not
be overcome by the Post boys.
The second game between the Sig
nal Corps and Moose teams was hot
ly contested. The Moose team came
out victorious with a score of 37 to
34.
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