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GOODWIN'S WEEKLY 3 fl noii-parlisans; Uioy lold the listening voter that they would roprosont all the people; that with them oloction was not a matter of party politics, but of high principlo and lofty patriotism; they were sacrificing thoir porsonal intorost to servo the state; and thoy ropoatedly exprossed the hope that their tongues might cloavo to tho roofs of thoir mouths if thoy would over utter a "yea" or "nay"' that was not tho very sort of "nay" or "yoa" that all the doar people demanded. From their spoochos was carefully oxpunged any reference I to party politics; tho deadliest insult that could 1 bo offored was to refer to them as Democratic 1 candidates. -In tho Sonato is a party line-up on the tariff bill. That bill puts Oregon wool on tho free list. Tho Popublieans and Democrats are so evenly dividod that one or tho other of our ox-non-partisans could dofeat tho freo trade measure. Noithof will volo against it. Both arc stanch party men. Thoy wore non-partisans for elec tioneering purposes only. Tho people of Oregon do not like to bo fooled; I but they are fooled frequently. I My cordial respects to Dick Korrls! Horc's hoping' he'll soon movo to Paris; Ho siundors ills host Wlicm ho gets to the coast From ginks or his kidney Ood sparo us! II. 0. I ANOTHER MANIL'FJSST DESTINY. For some reason thoy all seem afraid to sponk thoir minds about Mexico. Tho only al ternative to this is a not complimentary conclusion. Moxioo should bo taken possession of by tho United States. It is best for all tho Americans excepting those who make murder and graft the BlgBasiness 'of the country "south of the! Rio Grande. It is host for tho grafters themselves once the ordeal is ovor, for there isn't a man of Ihem from Diaz down whoso bloody monoy is safe for a moment. And every one now ong.iged in shamming patriotism can make a safer living by honesty than he can by continuing the pres ent Mexican system. And the present Mexican system has been the present Mexican system from the beginning. Leavo Ihem alono for another four hundred years and tho system will bo just tho same: Barefoot slavory for the masses, blood-bought eminonco for tho classes. People talk about "tho Latin races of Amer ica." They have no more right to the title than ( thoy have to thoir slaves. All that is Latin in ', the equation was expressed whon Madoro, a prisoner, was killed by his kcopors, and all that iis native in tho equation is expressed in the peon who pays tho" bill. This ropublic served notice on all tho world that no. .foreign nation would bo permitted to es tablish its power on tho American continent. And bocauso this ropublic, by good luck and some management, has grown too strong to be ignored, tho nations of tho oarth have for close to a hundred years with ono exception kept hands off. That exception is marked by the gravostono over tho bullet-riddled body of Maximilian. But with that doctrino goes a certain gravo , responsibility. Tf tho United States is going to koop European power out of Amorica, then tho United States In common fairness not to say I common decency will have to preserve order on I ho continent. This world may bo as big as it was in iho days of Ptolomy; but it is easier compassed. There are moro people inclined to traffic, and disposed to travel. They go into Mexico and open mines, make farms, build rail- I roads, establish schools, start factories. Thoy employ help, and spend moro money for pro ductive industry in a fiay than all the Latin blood of Mexico has employed sinco Montezuma vanished. Thoy can't bo protected by their homo governments, because the United States wouldn't permit the armod forco of any eastern nation to land in Mexico, nor tho gunboats of any navy but Switzerland- to anchor in a Mexican harbor. And, sinco the business of the aliens is tho prey of tho Dons, this nation is under obligation to give twentieth century protection to twentieth contury trade. That for tho decent duty to the European. Men of our country have done moro to build up Mexico, to make crops on its land, to got val uos out of its mines, to bring education to its children and civilization to its states than all tho Latin tribe in Mexico has done sinco Hern ando Cortoz set up the fashion which Huorla is following. And men of our country have had just as much protection from Washington as they have had from the bogus Latins who want to do the Cortex business over again. Millions of American money and tens of thousands of American men and women, and children have gone down into Mexico under the mistaken im pression that tho good order the brigand dis plays when- you have the drop on him was the genuine arliclo of civilization. And thoy have boon robbed, imprisoned, burned out, strung up by tho thumbs, chased from chaparrol to Ariz onaand liod about when they apologized to Washington for having moved. And do you think they have told all tin1 truth? Do you supposo tho ravening Latin beasts who cling to the morals of Tarquin havt restrained the Tarquin taste? God is good, and l he civilized man, in escaping from horrors too terrible lor tears, has drawn a veil 01 .shamed but self-respecting silonco across the page thai roason knows is there. This nation owes it to common honosty to establish peace in all the borders of Mexico. That at least is the due of nations whose merch ants and whoso men, trusting us for the protec tion they know the Mexicans can noi give, have ventured into that trap of treachery. Wo owe it to our own people who surely have an American right to expect protection whorovor under the shining sun thoy go in good bohavior. And in the sight of that Majesty who has helped tho forward march since man first moved, wo owo it to Mexico. Thoso people have suffered for four hundred years. Thoir agony grows acute as tho summers vanish. They nevor can savo themselves. There never will bo peace nor justice nor order nor law in Mexico until tho United States of America establishes it there. Tho only 'thing to do with Mexico is to take it. WHAT IS AN "AGED MAN?" Much talk is indulgod in bocauso of tho marriage of U. S. Grant, of San Diogo. Tho World says that "tho aged man" did not plan an "immodiato marriage." IIo and Mrs. Will, whom ho made his wifo, wont for an automobile -ride, and when they roturnod to thoir hotel thoy woro man and wifo. "Tho aged bridegroom" told his plans for a wedding tour. After which "the aged bridegroom" and bride had a wedding supper. U. S. Grant is 02 years old, stout, strong of body, not a dozen gray hairs in his head. If it is true that a man is as old as he looks Mr. Grant is about 45. But oven at 02 a man has a right to marry if ho wishes, and it is unnecessary for tho world or any other of tho sensational typo of nowspapers to go to the limit in describ- jl I ing him as "aged", for ho is not aged. U. S. Grant ( 1 at 02 is in tho prime of his life, and may look ' I forward to a scoro and moro of yoars, happier I doubtless bocauso ho has a wife. , I Ghaffeo Grant, son of tho bridegroom, has ' I hired a lawyer, the World says, and purposes to , I take the matter of tho marriage into court. Juat I what ho "purposes" to do then is beyond com- , P prohonsion. This Chaffee .Grant is a precocious , 1 1 youth of about 35 who recently lost himself on a II straight road in a desert and sat down and drank ' jl up his automobile's watorand waited and waited 'I until an Indian went to him and led him up to food and drink. Now York Morning Telegraph. 4 THE MAN BEHIND THE WALL. B Thoro has boon a groat deal of Gettysburg jl talk in tho papers recently, and our frionds, the lato enemy, haven't got any tho worst of it in tho H printed colunjn. I fancy those old fellows bo- H low tho Mason and Dixon lino are filling their H scrap books with clippings complimentary to the H heroes of the Lost Cause. Northern writers have ' H made northern readers thrill at the story .of H Pickett's charge, and wo know moro of the fact- H ors that wont to tho making up of Leo's plan of ,1 campaign than Jeff Davis ever dreamed of. H And that is all right. But thoro is another H side of that story that should not be lost sight H of. The big thing thoso throo days tho big H American quality was born and bred and it cer- H tainly lived in the men behind tho stono wall H against which tho confederates chargod so gal- J lantly. And bocauso t. "o big qualities inspired H them, bocauso by their nature thoy couldn't do M anything else than hold their ground and win tho M battle bocauso of that all of us this day are fl lrionus. we are unuer ono nag, in ono nation. m And above tho common graves of tho Blue and M the Gray rides triumphant tho Spirit of Peace. H Because tho men behind the wall were of that H sort, ovory man, woman and child, .north and M south, is better off today. Bocauso thoso soldiers M fought so woll that thoy boat tho best attack M that ovor was made, tho everlasting truth still m livos that a government of tho people, by tho M peoplo and for tho poople shall not perish from M the earth. M It was bono of thoir bono and flosh of thoir M flesh, that God had planted in this nation, and H that ho wantod to stay. IIo had looked upon it, M and had called it good and tho ovoning and tho H morning wore an ovorlasting day. M Tho charge was heroic, but tho checking of M it was sublime. Tho men in gray woro honost, M but tho boys in blue were right. And it is bo- ! cause of tho character of tho mon behind tho M wall that all froomon ovorywhoro can open their H hoarts to tho brotherhood of American citizen- Hf ship in ovnry section of this land. M Tho week at Gettysburg was moro than a M reunion. It was creation's crown of approval jH on tho army that won. H BY THE mjIUtO ROUTE. H By Jinks, I'm for this Perkins Peak prop- M osition and Iho doleful donkey. I nevor saw the H summit of Perkins ultimate olovation, but the H literature of it is mighty attractive. You go up H the Emigration Canyon by rail, paying half a dol- ffl lar from Mt. Olivet station. Then you go by H burro to tho summit and then you havo the H Wasatch range, tho valloy, the city, and all its M little peoplo with their little schonKS, spread M out boforo you. M Tt looks like tho ono sdrt of an outing T M would take if I had time. It is so much fun to H see solemn people ride a burro. M