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Evening journal., 1914-11-18

The administration has given Off
cial information as to its intention of
evacuating Vera Cruz on the 23d in
stant.
"The King of France went up the
hill with 10000 men.
The King of France came down the
hill and ne'er went up again"
Why did the administration send
our forces to occupy Vera Cruz?
Why we're the lives of score of
American sailors and marines sacri-
feed and those of more than 100
Mexlcans taken; expenditures of
more than s5,O00,0O0 made in this
expedition, which from start to finish
has in no way enhanced our national
interests in Mexico or aided in bring
ing peace to that republic?
Was this expedition only ordered
10 punish Huertas government for
the arrest of a boats crew who were
quickly released uphurt?
Was that the reason for the bonn
bardment, the assaulting and taking
of tie city Of Vera Cruz, while before
that action scores of American citi-
zens had been murdered In Mexico;
hundreds of American women insul-
ted and humiliated there; thousands
of American citizens compelled to
flee from there, and not a gun fired
by the administration to protect
them?
Is there protection today for
American citizens. for American
lives or property, for American in
terests. or any foreigners life and
property, in Mexico?
Is there respect for the American
flag or the American republic in any
bandit camp in Mexico, or in any
city or district in Mexico
Mexican poems in every part of
Mexico have seen American men
women, and children flying for theiI
lives from the fury of Mexican mobs
They have Witnessed their humili-
alton, their plumber, they have helped
to rob them, to insult them; TO drive
them from their homes to the protec-
tion of foreign consulates and on
board foreign ships.
They have seen them by hundreds
last April, men, women, and children
at TampicO and Manzanillo seeking
the protection of British consuls and
German ships, while not a vessel fly
ing the American flag was there for
their aid, help, or protection.
These poems will now hail the
evacuation Of Vera Cruz as another
triumph over the hated gringo.
These Mexican mobs we're not pun.
Nished for their assaults and outrages
upon our people; they will not be
punished for such deeds, and they
cherish these memories as evidences
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

legislative and economic cycle of this
sort that the country has traversed
since the days of Mr.. .Cleveland's
second administration Mr.. Cleveland
and his party came into power on a
wave of popular revolt against a high
tariff. The work of revising the tariff
was done bunglingly, as was newt
able, and the program was to re-
pair by means of an income tax the
deficiency in Government revenues
that 1t was known would take place.
But the Supreme Court held that the
income tax law that was then enacted
was Unconstitutional. Even if the law
had been left in force the volume of
revenue under it would not have
made good the loss in tariff revenue
that had been affected. Therefore the
Treasury found itself in difficulties,
which were increased by an attempt
to put into practical operation the
free silver ideas championed by Mr..
Bryan. Poular disgust and indig-
nation became very great, and the
Democratic party was hurled from
power.
II would be a great thing If peo-
pies memories were long; but the
fact is that they are very short. The
country is now repeating in a con-
siderable degree its experience of the
first half of the last decade of the
nineteenth century. The Republican
party, learning nothing from the past,
as soon as it was placed in power
after the abolition of the very low
tariffs favored by Mr.. Cleveland, tried
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
The Administration and Mexico
CFrom the Wa shington Postl

of their superiority, their valor, and
they are TO them proofs of the weak
ness of our own people and the cow
ardice of our government or its in
ability to protect its nationals.
II was time to order the evacuation
of Vera Cruz.
The administration can continue TO
watch and wait, and Mexico will
continue to insult, rob. and murder
our citizens who go there, or any
foreigners who remain there.
Our troops should never have been
sent to Vera Cruz, if not sent to pro-
tect our citizens lives and interests
and TO compel respect for our flag
and our nation through the entire do
main of Mexico.
Il was all right to protect the
French nuns and priests in Vera
Cruz.
II was proper and right 10 arrange
for their safety and their transfer,
as their lives were not safe from
those in authority-those we had
permitted TO arm and by those arms
and that permission to obtain con-
troll of that republic.
The administration was justified in
saving these peoples lives; justified
in saving the lives of any foreigners
in that republic; justified as was
| the captain of the German cruiser
Dresden last April, at Tampico. when
/ he landed his sailors and marines at
midnight to save the lives of several
/ hundreds of American men, women
4 and children from the fury of the
! bowling armed mobs of that place
while our own naval vessels were
lolling idle Is miles away at the
mouth of the river.
When asked by our refugees if he
had come by orders to save them, he
answered, "Yes; l am ordered by hu.
manity to do this work"
II is to the credit of the admins.
tration that IL has saved the lives Of
the nuns and priests from the hos
tiles of Mexico.
These helpless men and women are
fortunate to escape; more fortunate
than many Americans during the las
three years. The administration die
right to protect them and take then
out Of the country. If they had beer
killed. as was Benton. their bodies
would have been as impossible to re
cover from the murderers as wa
that of the brave Scotchman wheI
our State Department was flouteC
and frustrated. The administration
was right to order the evacuation o
Vera Cruz
The army and navy are not requr
ed there under its policy.
Why not disperse our forces on thl
Rio Grande.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
Organizing A MIGHTY ARMY.

N I'D you ever stop to think what great use to the
world the churches are? Have you realized that
they the great schools and spiritual train
ing, and that wickedness. vice and evils Of all kinds
would overflow and destroy mankind but for the
work that the churches doing?
Next Sunday. November % is Everybody go to-
Church-Day. It is intended to help in organizing the
mighty army that is fighting evils in all their destruc-
tive forms. II universal peace reigns upon
boodstained planet, that peace will be battle won
by the mighty armies of the churches Go TO church
somewhere next Sunday, and help in the attempt "a
win that glorious victory of universal peace.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
THE GOLpEY NORTHUMBERLAND.

n T EVER in its history has the Goldey Commercial
IN College in this city been more popular than it is
today Ample proof Of that is found in the annual
commencement exercises OF that institution that
held in The Playhouse last evening The big audi
torium filled with friends of the college They
semhled not only to witness the presentation of di-
plomas to 121 graduates but also to manifest their
interest in and goodwill for big private school that
has been serving the public interests long that by
many persons 1t is looked upon a public insti-
tuition
Professor II. s. Goldey who founded the college,
set for it high ideals which made for success Dur
ing the many years he at the head the insti-
tuition he spared effort to keep it and its affairs
upon plane that did not challenge but actually de-
manded and received public respect When he re-
tired from active participation in the affairs of the
college and new hands took up the administrative
work he had done worthy and so we'll fear was
expressed that under the dspensation, the high
standards by Professor Goldey might be lowered
by twentieth century commercialism. w. e. Douglas
j. e. Fuller and J. r. Phillips. who constituted the
management quickly dispelled all such fears by
showing clearly that the Godey traditions and stan
were safe in their keeping and that the tendency
would be upward. instead of downward in all
branches Of educational endeayor and accomplish
ment
The college is recognized today one of the most
beneficial Institutions possessed by city, our
State and our Peninsula
It has opened the door OF business opportunity to
$4,000 young men and young women
Year after year It has sent into the commercial
and industrial fields many bright intelligent, earnest
and well-equipped graduates play creditabe parts
in the worlds great work of the nineteenth and twen
tieth centuries.
And, beyond all that, It has deemed It to be one Of
its proper functions to out God-fearng and law
abiding citizens While protesting TO be a
school of morals and cyics It has done the work of
such school from the time IL was founded up to the
the institution not only with acute knowledge OF
what they owe the business world, but also with a
broad conception Of what they to themselves and
TO society.
We congratulate Mr. Douglas and his associates
upon having upheld the Godey standards at all times
and under all circumstances and we felicitate the
graduates upon the good fortune that enables them
TO claim Goldey College their alma mater.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
Editorial Opinion
WHAT PROSPECT FOR PEACE


From the Springfield Republican.
Nothing thus far points to a speedy
peace. English naval humiliation,
like Russian triumphs in the field,
points TO a sustained effort to defeat
Germany, and the splendid power
and resOurcefulness of the German
army and the German nation show
that defeating Germany will be a
long as we'll as a colossal task. As
things stand the German outlook is
not very hopeful. yet a day might
bring a Kaleidoscope change. If the
British dreadnoughts should run into
a nest of mines, If the German fleet
should get command of the sea and
modern Internal devices make this a
chance not to be ignored, the situ-
alton would change enormously TO
the disadvantage of the allies. which
would then be most awkwardly situ-
ated BY their mutual isolation. Ger
many does not count on such a con-
tingency. but takes care that her
enemies shall not forget that it is
possible The three months have
shattered the dreams of those who
fanci that the German armies were
irresistible, and they leave but a
gloomy vista Of long and desperate
battling unless some unexpected turn
comes. But they do not show such
a perceptible advantage for either
side as might suggest present OPP
portunity for peace negotiations.
Bitterness over the treatment of Bel
gium would in itself make an early
peace difficult. whichever side should
be first TO gain a marked advantage.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
PUBLIC SYMPATHY FOR ARcHDEAcoN HALL.

TT is a saddening thought that the Rev. George C.
Hall. rector of ST. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church and Archdeacon OF the Diocese of Delaware
fails TO respond TO medical treatment and that his
physical condition is such that little hope is enter
tanned that he will from the illness that has
afflicted him many months.
There is churchman in the State of Delaware
who stands higher in public esteem than does Arch
deacon Hall His popularity as preacher and
extends far beyond the church in which he has been
for many years, such conspicuous worker Every
body who knows him likes him. If public sympathy
and good wishes could prevail in his present extrem-
y hfs restoration TO health and churchly and civic
activity would be accomplished fact
The sympathy of Deawareans quite naturally ex-
tends to Mrs Hall, the devoted wife of the stricken
Archdeacon, and also to the members of ST. Johns
Church. who have grown to love him for his many
splendid qualities rector and man among men.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

At the invitation of the Academy
of Moral and Political Science in
Paris M. Leroy Beaulieu, the veteran
editor of L'EconOmiste Francais, gave
an address upon the resources of the
belligerents, the cost of the war and
the question of economic exhaustion.
First of all, he found that the AL
lies can draw upon a population of
321 millions, or counting India and
the colonies, upon a population of
73S millions. The population of
Germany and Austria-Hungary is
about 116 millions. Thus there is
already a population of about S54
millions, one-half of the human race,
participating i'm the war. But besides
the belligerents there are the neutral
countries which have modified in
order to protect themselves or with
a view to eventual aggression, Italy.
Sweden, Rumania, Holland and Swift
zerland, another sixty millions Of
people who are spreading extraor-
dinary sums on armaments in time
of peace.
Turning to the belligerent nations
In Europe. NJ. Leroy Beaulieu points
out that obligatory service extends in
France to all men of 20 to As years
OF age, and owing to the fact that
in the last twenty years the popula-
tion of France has been fairly sta
tionary while that of Germany has
grown rapidly. the French army is
more nearly equal in size to the Ger
man than the present populations Of
thirty-nine 10 sixty-siX millions would
~. raArtArffnn in
fact, for men OF fighting age is 39
for France against 81 for Germany
say. 100000 against 100000. He
further argues that Russia with III
millions and Great Britain and her
self-governing colonies with 20 mil
lions can increase their forces in the
field to a far greater extent and with
far less sacrifice than Germany and
Austria
NJ. Leroy Beaulieu then asks wheth-
er IL is possible to carry on war witt
the whole adult male population oi
military age in the field. This, ne
SAYS, was done fifty years ago by
Paraguay in war lasting several
years against the Argentine Repub-
lie: Il was accomplished again by th'
Beers in their war against Grea'
Britain in 1892 to 1902; II was ac-
complished again in the two recent
Balkan wars by Servia, Bulgaria
Turkey and Greece, q prodigious et'
fort Thus, he says: Experience
nroves that a war which arms the
whole population Of military age u
possible. and may last long timc
II is more a question OF psychics thai
OF physics. But how can natlor
deprived Of its commerce and OF TN
means Of disposing of its industria
products maintain such war?
is a problem which has seemed IN
soluble to many. Nevertheless, il IL
capable of a practical solution Th'
absolutely indispensable industrie
can be carried on, though Of cours
on a reduced scale. Boys, old mel
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
The Right Tariff
lFrom the Ne W York SUM-

When will the politicians of this
country understand that what the
United States needs in an economic
sense, and also what will please the
electorate more than anything else.
is not a high tariff nor a low tariff
but a moderately protective tariff?
For a long time. when the country
was in the infant industry state, a
high protective tariff answered the
purpose exactly, and nearly every
body was delighted with il. But it
was found as the country grew more
prosperous that a high tariff policy
was the breeder Of jobs. scandals
and iniqrities; that IL was apt to
favor one section Of the country more
than another and certain individuals
in the country more than others, and
was productive of social unrest.
On the other hand. whenever a low
tariff policy or anything approximat-
ing d free trade principle was tried
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

It was found that this also was some
thing that would not work in a land
where the standards of living and the
wages paid to laboring men were so
much in advance OF those in competi-
tive nations across the Atlantic.
To come down at leap from high
protective customs duties TO almost
no customs duties at all brought on
a host of difficulties. The Government
revenues fell short, and a high scale
of internal revenue duties, including
veXaiious and inquisitorial income
taxes, had TO be substituted in their
place. IL was also found usually that
this substitution was in itself ineili-
cient The new income taxes were
generally so clumsily drawn that they
were either faulty from a legal point
of view or that the amount OF money
derived from them was far less than
II was expected TO be.
Many of our citizens remember the
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
A WISE DECISION
From the Elkton Whig.


Automobile Commissioner Roe has
not only revoked a number of licen-
ses of chauffeurs who were operating
machines while intoxicated, but ne
has announced that operators of ma
chimes must cut out the booze or lose
their licenses. It is a wise and alto
gether desirable decision. II is to be
hoped that the Commissioner will
use every possible effort to secure
its enforcement. An automobile, on
public streets and highways, is
fraught with the greatest danger to
the public as well as to its own oc-
cupants. It is appalling to think of
so dangerous a machine being Oper-
ated by anyone in an intoxicated con-
dition. II is a fearful menace to the
occupants Of the machine as well as
to users of the public highways. The
public should cooperate with the
Commissioner in his efforts to pre-
vent such persons from holding a IL
cense.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
Peoples Column

A FAIR-TO-ALL NEWSPAPER.
To the Editor of THE EVENING
JOURNAL.
Sir:-After reading your editorial
on the Ministerial Unions controversy
with Pastor Russell. of the Interna-
tional Bible Students, l feel compelled
to express my approval of your stand
in this matter.
The citizens of Wilmington should
feel proud Of fair-to-all newspaper.
based on principles of equity and jus
tice.
Sincerely.
PAUL F. THOMPSON.
No. 1915 West Eighteenth street,
Wilmington, Del, Nov. IA. 1914.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

Pickpockets and shor-change artists who attempt to
operate in this city need look for clemency from
our courts. That shown clearly Monday when
a pickpocket sent 10 the County Workhouse for
three years and sentenced TO receive twenty ashes,
and a short-change swinder committed to that in
stitution for year II is well for such gentry to
be given understand that when they seek operate
here they working upon dangerous ground
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
Spirit of the Delmarvia Press

Corn taking prizes at the county
shows will be expected to appear also
at the state show although this is
not required. BY exhibiting at tho
Sussex County show, growers who
have never before prepared corn for
exhibition will have chance to try
their hand, and they should then be
in better position to show at the
state exhibition.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

DR.. Anna Howard Shaw has demonstrated once more
that she is clever woman politician. Despite the
efforts Of certain OF her suffrage to de-
feat her in the Louisville national convention she
reelected head Of the suffrage movement in the United
States. In addition, she to it that the whole ad-
mnisraton ticket carried TO victory Even those
who do not sympathize with the political aims OF
Dr. Shaw instinctvey admire her effective fighting
qualities
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
E X / NJ!

From the Dover State Sentinel.
The two Mr. Saulsburys. the one
who was in charge of the State cam
paign, and the other of the City
campaign, appear. since the election,
TO dave realized the meaning of Pre-
sident Cleveland's remark about be-
ing confronted by a condition. and
not a theory; and to have retired
into a state of "innocuous desuetude''
since the election.
1t is Welll
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
A READER.


The suggestion is good one. It merits the atten-
ton of women who engaged in uplift work among
young and girls and also that of mothers who
have daughters.
AS we view IL, of the first duties of a mother
Is to teach her daughter the art good housekeeping
including cooking Such education equips a girl
TO livelihood in time of stress and also for the
proper discharge of important wfeiy duty in event
of marriage mother who fails to teach her daugh-
ter how to cook and keep house is remiss in the dis
charge OF her maternal duty.
Passing from mothers TO those women who
through organizations Of various sorts, attempt to
play the motherly part toward young women and
girls think they would perform an exceedingly
laudabe work they to start in this city school
of housekeeping and cooking for the education OF
young and girls who have suffered maternal
neglect in those respects. The fact that, in the in
stance cited above, fourteen girls applied for two
positions in a household and that only two of them
knew anything practical about housekeeping and cook
ing shows concusvey what broad educational field
is open in city for those who eager
to equip young and girls to decent and
lucrative livings. Such educational work might lead
to results practical and beneficial than other
lines of endeavor in which such en-
gagged
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
AN EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY.

Il ROM of readers who for years has suf-
fered embarrassment and inconvenience in the
matter OF obtaining efficient household help we have
received the following letter;
To the Editor Of THE EVENING JOURNAL
Sir-I advertised I'm your paper recently for a cook
and a chambermad. While obtained two good girls
through the advertisement there we're more than a
dozen applicants who called who ignorant OF the
hrs principles of cooking general housework They
had worked In factories stores This impels me TO
offer suggestion. Why some of our good
women, who have the interest OF the working girl at
heart, open school Of instruction along this liner
Yours truly
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
From the Middletown Transcript.

From the Middletown Transcript.
How our small-fry conspirators
chuckled over their eleventh hour
libel on Commissioner Fouracre's
candidacy, hashed up by Martin e.
Smith out of his exposed and ex-
ploded liesl
Now they are grinning on the
wrong side of their mouths, for the
thing proved a bad boomerang that
came back to rap their own heads.
We heard a we'll known Democrat
say, that it made so votes for Com
missioner FouTacrei
The Transcript feels therefore that
IL owes the Every Evening whose big
brain conceived the mighty coup, that
doughty bosslet, Chauncey p. Hol-
comb. repudiated and walloped by
the Democrats in his own bailiwick.
who fathcrcd it-and finally the few
local soreheads who went around
peddling the stuff-a vote of thanks,
and IL is herewith extended.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

II war news fakirs continue nhict serious wounds
upon the Grown Prince of Germany he soon will be so
fun Of imaginary that it will be psychoogcaly
difficult to recognize him
Evening journal., 1914-11-18

MUST SUBMIT TO MAJORITY.
From the Newark Ledger.
The verdict of the people has been
given and must be accepted as final
Whenever the voters demand a
change the result is known. Della
ware has again swung into the Re-
publican column. and the people must
submit to the majority.
Evening journal., 1914-11-18
A SUSSEX COUNTY CORN SHOW

FTOm the Laurel Leader.
In the belief that the organization
of corn show in each of the three
counties of Delaware would go far
toward encouraging the selection of
good corn for seed, and that such a
show would bring out much excellent
corn that could later be exhibited at
the State Corn Show in Wilmington
in January. the executive committee
of the State Corn Growers Associ-
alton will offer prizes for the best
corn presented at the county shows.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1914-05-27
Flies Breed in fifth.

IF at first you don't succeed,
swat swat again"
A mild winter and spring pres
age the early arrival of our Bit
terest enemies-flies-in vastly
increased numbers, Immediate.
well directed efforts must be put
forth if the threatening dangera
are to be minimized. The time
to fight flies is before they be-
come fiies-when in the egg or
when they are magnets.
The problem of elimination of
filth. No filth, no flies.
Flies breed in filth, play on
filth, eat filth and distribute filth
the filthiest kind of filth, too.
If we do away with the breeding
places of flies there will be no
flies.
Therefore the way to swat flies
now is to clean up the fly-breed-
ing filth.
/, Clean up. keep clean and see
that your neighbors keep like
wise, and you will have few, if
any, flies to contend with. Of
course have your swatter ready
for the first arrivals.