davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04

portami o postepach statecznych
armii sprzymierzonych rownle W
Belgii jak we Francyi, a o cia--
g1ym odwrocie Niemc6w. Ces.
Wilhelm ma osobiScie przeby--
wac we Francyi, by zagrzac zo1-
merry do tenn intensywniejszeJ
walki, poniewaz Niemcy koniecz-
ME pragna zdobyc linie wybrze-
zy we Francyi - inaczej wyco--
fac sic musza daleko cd morza.
Tymczasem zdaje sic i osobi-
stoSc cesarza ME pomoze, a
wojska jego So w ciaglym od-.
wrocie, choc powolnym i Z walka
uparta prowadzonym. Walka I'd
we Flandryi wclaz powoduJe
przerazajqce ofiary W ludziach-
pada Niemcow dziennie po 20 do
80 tysiecy, liczac rannych i pole
glych: tax przynajmnlej Jeden O.
ficer niemiecki, wziety do niewo-
Ii, oblicza} straty niemieckie, o
czem pisma angielskie donosza.
Niemcy opuscili juz swe pozycye
ma prawym brzegu rzeki User 1
odpadli dalej w kierunku pofno-
cno-wschodnim. SprAymierzeni
maja trzymat oba brzegi rzekl l
pra dalej nieprzyjaciela. Niemcy
sa w poiozeniu fatalnem - grozl
i'm zupe1ne oskrzydlenie przez
woiska sprzymierzone zdaje sic,
re uratowaG ich cd tego moze
zwiniecie kompletne skrzydfa ar
mil flandryjskiej i cofniecie sic z
Francyi i Belgii az ku Manure
wi i Leodyum. Wtedy Niemcy
musieliby oddae zajete miasta o.
stende, Gandawe, Antwerple'
Bruegge, a moze Bruxelle'
Niemcy probowali dostac' sic ku
,yvbrzezom francuskim juz ma po-
Iudnie cd Dixmuide tam uslfo-
wall przerwat linie belgijsko-an-
gielskie, ale i ten ich zamiar ME
powiodl sic, a chwilowe przerwa-
ME walk, jake wczoraj nastspl--
10, zdaje sic zapowiadac nova
zmiane strategii niemieckiej
ME wiadomo juz, ktora rzedu.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Anglia i ROsya
przeciwko Tw-
cyl.

Londyn, 4 hstopada. - Poste'
powanie Turcyi wciaz jest nieja-
sne: kluczy mataczy - niby sic
tl6maczy, ale zadan, podanych
jej W ultimatum sPrzymierzo--
nych ME spelnia, a tymczasem
dziaiania wojenne, juz faktycznie
zaczete i to r6wnie re strony An
gill, jak Rosyi. Donosza o wal
kach ma Morzach Carmen
Czerwonem, ma pograniczu ro-,
syjskiem ma Kaukazie W Ara
bii: Rosya polecila podobno jul
przekroczyc granice wojskom
swym uderzyc na Turcye W o.
kolicach Trebizondy, Anglia
zbombardowala i zajela port
Abakah w Arabii. Turecki amba-
sador opuScii Petrograd, a Rad
rosyjski powiadomil Turcye IL
dalsze ukIady sa niemozliwe.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Z Walk W Polsce.
Nowin malo.

Petrograd, 4 listopada. - Me
wiele nowin z polskiego teatru
wojny przynosza raporty dzisiej-
sze: jedynie ma pograniczu prus--
klein walki goretsze mialy miej-
see Z tym rezultatem, IL Rosya--
ME odparlszy ataki Niemcow M
Bakaiarzewo zajeli pozycye slime
poza granica, ma terytoryum pru-
skiem. Romintowo - posiadlosc
ces. Wilhelma zostala zajeta
przez Rosyan. Ma linii walk W
Krolestwie niema wazniejszych
wydarzeh, poza ruchami wojsk
- Niemcy cofaja sic ma nowe Ii
ME, ma ktorych spodziewac sic
nalezy nastepnej wielkiej bitwy =
linie to cd Kalisza do Czestocho-
wy, wzdiuz rzeki Warty, ale nd
jej brzegu lewym, prawdopodob.
ME przepraw przez Warte beds
Niemcy bronie Rosyanom, ktorzy
w ciaglym naporze naciskaja ME-
przyjaciela ucierajac sic z jegc
tylnemi strazami. LIMA przyszle.
bitwy poza Czestochowe W polu.
dniowym kierunku siegnie "a
pewne az do Krakowa, dajac
Niemcom j Austryakom silne'o.
parcie o te twierdze. w Krolest-
vie wojska rosyjskie So juz ME-
NAL mad Warta, jak wskazuja "a
jete miejscowosci Szadek, Roz-
prza, Radoszyce zaieto juz ro-
wniez iKielce.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
WlOchy maja wre-
ce klucz sytuacyi.

Rzym, 4 listoPada. - | sPrzy-
mierzeni Turcya staraja sic 0
pozyskanie sympathy neutralno-
sci W}och. Turcya jakoby zapew-
Mia Wlochy, re jej propaganda
,,wojny Swietej" wszystkich ma
hometan przeciw chrzeScijanom
- ME obejmuje Trypolisu, ze
wiec Wlochy moga bye spokojne
o swe posiadloSci. Tymczasem
Wlochy zawariy Scis}a konwen--
eye Anglia ma obrone wspolna
interesow kolonialnych w Airy
ce polnocnej. Mimo wszystkie
zabiegi - zdaje sic, re wdanie
sic Wloch do wojny, oraz panstw
balkanskich jest nieuniknione.
Teheran, Persya, listopada.
- Urzedowo zawiadomiono mo-
carstwa, re Persya wobec kon--
fliktu Turcyi Z Anglia i Rosyq
pozostanie neutralna, a wszelkie
informacye o rzekomem przy--
mierzu persko-tureckiem So bez-
DodStaWne.
z Beludzystanu, lennego
kraju angielskiego Azyi dono-,
sza, re odbylo sic tam nader licz-
ne = masowe zebranie najwybit-
niejszych krajowcow = mahome-
tanow, ktorzy uchwalili rezolu--
eye, przeslane rzadowi angiels--
kiemu, zapewniajace go wierno-
Sci i lojalnoSci niezachwianej Be-
ludzystanu.
Bombardacya Dardanellow.
Londyn, 4 listopada. = Made
sziy tn doniesienia, re okrety wo-
jenne angielskie j francuskie roz-
poczely juz bombardowac forty
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Krdl Albert i pre-
EVIDENT Poincare.

Paryz, 4 listopada. - Prezy--
dent Poincare odwiedzil po raz
drugi w niediugim czasie front
bojowy wojsk sprzymierzonych,
a tym razem udal sic i do Flan--
dryi, by osobiScie zfozyc wizyte
bawiacemu tam ma czele wojsk
belgijskich krolowi lAlbertowi.
Krol przyjaf prezydenta w Fur
mes, gdzie razem z MIN odwaznie
przebywa dzielna jego malzonka.
krolowa Ellbieta. Prezydentowi
towarzyszyli: minister wojny
Millerand i glowno-dowodzacy
francuski gen. Joffre. Prezydent
wyrazii krolowi uwielbienie dla
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
KONSEKWENCYE Ma
TEATRE WOJNY
SWIAT0WEJ..
Strsty Aagliklv IA N'rIa.
Walk ma Zachodzie Europy.
Niemcy opuscili Yser- cofajq sic.
WALK w POISCE.
przomvsI 7achwianv
Przemy$l zachwiany.
Z MEXYKU.

wojska. Minerva" SLIME uSzko-
dzila zabudowania portowe / O.
degnaia nieprzyjacie'a wglab Ia
du ma znaczna odlegloSc, naste-
pnie zolnierze angielscy zniszczy-
Ii spalili baraki wojskowe. w
Egipcie ogioszono stan wojenny.
Petrograd, 4 listopada. - Po-
sci turecki Fereddin Bey opuScii
stolice rosyjska. Z pogranicza tu-
reckiego ma Kaukazie donosza, ze
przyszio tam juz do pierwszych
stare. Podobno wojska rosyjskie
juz przekroczyly granice i daza
ma Trebizonde mad Morzem
Carmen.
Konstantynopol, 4 listopada. -
Wojska tureckie zgromadzone
poza Trebizonda W liczbie 30O,--
900 zoinierza - odparly pierwszy
atak rosyjski zadaly straty ME
przyjacielowi, wypierajac go. z
powrotem "a granice CD. Bitwa
miaia sic odbyc W poblizu mia
sta Erzerum.
Rzym, 4 listopada. = Nadesz-
10 tn doniesienie, re okrety an
gielskie zatopily diva krazowniki
tureckie w poblizu Smyrny, por-
tu malo-azyatyckiego (?). Przez
pomyike miano r0wniez zatopit
kol wyspy Tenedos jeden torpe-
dowiec grecki = biorac go "a sta
tex turecki. -. (0.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Pierwsze kroki wo-
jenne.

Londyn, 4 listopada. = Rzad
angielski oglosh stan wojenny pc
miedzy Anglia, a Turcya, zaEna,
czaiac, re nj ma WHO'S ME odstapi
cd swego zadania, by Turcya roz'
broila okrety niemieckie, ,Przez
sic zajete oddalila niemieckicf
oficerow. Donosza tn, ze okret
wojenny angielsIi minerva" M
Morzu Czerwonem zbombardo-
wal port miasto Akabah W Ara
BIZ, skad przygotowywali Turcy
atak ma Egypt gdzie zbieralt
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
tureckie ma Dardanellach, bronia-
ce przejazdu cieSninami ma
Morze Marmara i MorZe Czarne.
Poraiki Anglikow
ma MOrzu.

Valparaiso, Chile, 4 listopada,
- Przybyi tn admiral V. Snee,
dowodzca eskadry niemleckiej ma
Pacyfiku i podal szczegoly o
walce stoczonej przez Jego eS--
kadre czterema wojennymi sta
tkami angielSkimi - w ostatnlq
niedziele wieczorem; W walce teJ
angielski krazownik Mammoth"
zostaf zatopiony GAIA zaioga,
krazownik Good Hope" miaf ex-
plozye ma pok4adzie wskutek
strza1u niemieckiego i zapallf sic
- los jego ME wiadomy, diva in
ne statki wojenne Glasgow"
Ontario" rowniez zoStafy usz--
kodzone. Niemieckie statki zad-
nei szkody ME poniosiy W tel BIZ
twie. Podobno statki Glasgow"
i Ontario" pochroniiy sic do
portow chiliiskich z bardzo po-
waznemi uszkodzeniami.
Londyn, 4 listopada. - Dono--
sza, re 1odz podwodna ,,B.-V." "a
tonefa ma Morzu Pofnocnem, Sci
gaiac niemiecki krazownik, ktory
wyrzuci1 w odwrocie wielka licz-
be min: ma jedna natkneia sic
16dz owa zatonefa wraz z zalo-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04

bohaterstwa Belgow, poczem
wszyscy panowie z}ozyli wizyts
krolowej. w czasie tel wizyty "a
eroplan niemiecki ukazai sic mac
kwatera kr6lewska i cisnai pare
pociskow, ale mic ME sprawiwszy
odlecial, zwlaszcza gdy don pod
lecialo pare francuskich aeropla.
now. Pc tych odwiedzinach pre-
zydent Poincare udai sic do Dun
kirku, gdzie zlozyl wizyte mini
strowi wojny angielskiemu, ba-
wiacemu z armia angielska na
ziemi francuskiej, lordowi HI.
tcheneroWi.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04

Nisz, 4 listopada. : Serbia ma
skorzystac okazyi wojny Anglii
i Rosyi Turcya wypowiada
Porcie wojne, razem ze sprzy--
mierzonymi. Stosunki DIPLOMA
tyczne serbsko-tureckie juz ger
wane. Me jest to wiadomost u
rzedowa, ale informacya praso-
wa-podobno pewna.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Walk we Francyi.

Paryz, 4 listopada. Tym-
czasem wzmogli Niemcy atak ma
kilku innych punktach wydiuzo-
nei linii bojowej. Miedzy inne--
mi wznowiono wczoraj bombar-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Kronprync raplony

Geneva, Szwajcarya, 4 listo--
pada. - Pisma szwajcarskie po-
daia wiadomoSc, IL kronprync ME
miecki w walkach w okolicy Nam
cy zosta1 bardzo ciezko, choc ME
smiertelnie raniony i dlatego od-
transportowano go do szpitala W
Sztrasburgu, dokad don wezwa--
no wybitnych specyalistow Ber-
lima,
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
w przededniu wal
nej bitwy NOR
kiej.

Londyn, 4 listopada. = Krazy
pogfoska, IL nareszcie flota ME
miecka odwazyia sic wychylit
kanaiu zatoki kilonskiej - JAZZ
by w gotowosci do stoczenia bit
wy morskiej z flotani Anglii
Francyi. =.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04

]. B. Pallasch wypozycza pienia-
DE ma realnose, sprzedaje karty o.
kretowe realnosci. 1146 Noble ul.
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1914-11-04
Walk ma Zacho-
DIE Europy.

Londyn-Paryz, 4 istopada. =
Malo Jest dis doniesieh znamien
nych poza og6lnikowymi ra-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24

right / bet he could, though, If he'd
just try. I've never seen my Aun;
Molly"
Anne felt hot tears sting her eye.
lids. He was so conscious Of the
tragedy of life in strange home
that not even the promise Of stories
could make him forget
Tom was staring out Of the win
dow where the dun-colored plains
stretched away to meet the sky line
tenderly.
81 can go back home when I get
a stepmother If she likes me-" He
faced her, sadness in his eyes. MIR.
MCGOWAN, he's the man that runs
daddys ranch, told me so. But if
IF my stepmother don't want me I'll
have to stay at Aunt Molly's forever,
l guess.
Anne gulped down the lump in her
throat.
Come over here and sit in Miss
Anne's lap so that you can hear all
about the little boy who was sick and
couldn't go to the circus, so the cir
Gus came to him."
!, Tom was ready then for her wait
ing arms Inconsistencies was steal
ing over him, and he wanted to be
held close against that evil day when
daddy would leave him with Aunt
Molly and go back to Texas alone.
Tell a story about fairies, Miss
Anne" he urged when she had fin
ished the circus story. 'Will the
fairies who bring dreams under their
wings and shake them down on my
pillow at night know about me NOV
ing to Aunt Molly's and bring 'em on
there just the same?"
Yes, indeed. The fairies know all
about where boys live, for they bring
all the lovely things that come to
U.s."
Gould they bring me a nice STEP
mother?' questioned Tom.
"Yes," said Anne, comfortingly.
"Of course they can, and I am sure
that they WILL too"
Tell story about fairy STEP
mother"
Anne began her story:
Once upon a time there lived a
young princess with her queen mother
in a palace high in the mountains.
One day, as the princess sat in the
old apple tree sweet with delicate
pink blossoms, she looked over the
garden wall and saw boy riding by
on white horse. He was riding
slowly, so the princess broke spray
Of the apple bloom and tossed it over
the wall. The boy caught the bios
SONS and, refining his horse, looked
up in the tree and saw the beautiful
princess. He asked if she were a
fairy, and she laughed and told him
that she was just live, healthy girl,
who lived in the palace. TNen the
boy told her his name was Michael
and that he was the son Of the mas
ter artist who painted wonderful pic
lures high on the mountain.
Michael and the princess Elaine
grew to love each other as the days
went by, and they met, again and
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and daddy and the fairy stepm other
will live happily forever and ever
just as it happened to little Michael
/ in the story"
Toms face suddenly grew radiant
MAY I have Miss Anne for M fairy
stepmother, daddy?" he crieC to a
tall, broad shouldered young fellow in
the aisle.
Anne flushed and looked UP to find
the sweetheart, the Michael of her
own lost girlhood, smiling down at
her.
"Anne," he said, sitting Town be.
side her, dear, dear Anne! I stopped
just back Of you and he ard your
story. Won't you make it come true
for my boy?"
""Your boy!" Anne had cen weav
ing magic story out Of the threads
of her own desire. II d dn't know
you had son."
MAY have her, daddy; my beauti-
full Miss Amer" begged Tom.
81 married." said big Tom, his eyes
misty with tears over his own lost
dreams, hoping to find some sort Of
happiness I might have known that
I could never be happy - giving an
other woman so much less than | had
always given to you. She died two
years ago and left me Tom
Daddy. daddy" Interrupted little
Tom, please say yes. l want Miss
Anne"
80 do ], son. / think that must
have always wanted her Won't you
make your story come true for my
boy and for me, Anne dear?"
Anne saw her home in the noun
tains. She seemed to sit once again
in the big apple tree, quivering with
it's pink blossoms, and to look down
in the brown eyes of boy who rode
white horse. The long, empty years
passed in review and then she was
conscious Of the warm, throbbing lit
tie boy on her breast. 1#
| Don't stay but a little while with
Aunt Molly" she whispered to the
boy. 81 cant do without you very
long,
| Big Toms hand closed over hers
where it held one of little Toms
Even in this workaday world Of
facts, dreams can come true, my
princess" he said.
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Daddy; sBedtine
~ The Witch
1101V- And the
Cedar Chest.

~ daddy about little girl
She pretty
III yellow and had
jolly and laughed a great deal
mother daddy had both died when she
anddaddy She happy
little with the time the evenings before
she'd with the fairies playing games with
fairies do *
I'm the attic Of her home great many strange and quaint old things
hold anything
with Gretchen dared look in the
inside.
Gretchen
looking
looking lid
wnked She black
black hat head
witch she soft
tat all imagined she
sound old
happy, When
fairies Tonight
the old cedar chest
Of that would make sad
looked
but she kept promise and did not try to the top
which
wrnked face
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-24

Newspaper correspondents from
Washington have been making the
statement for sometime now that "The
south is in the saddle; that the presi-
dent is southerner by birth and in
clination, that half of the cabinet men,
bers are southerners, that the chair
men and majorities Of nearly all i'm
portant committees are southerners
and that the speaker of the house and
leader of the democratic majority are
from the south. If anything was need
ed to add proof of the fact, it was
furnished yesterday in the fist fight
between Representative Johnson of
Kentucky, and Washington, D. c.,
lawyer. The southerner. unable to &C.
complish his purpose with the weapons
nature had given him, secured pistol
and threatened the life Of his northern
opponent His action will remind
many of the older citizens of the days
before the war. The congressman Sc
cured gun" returned to the COM
mittee meeting, and upon learning that
Attorney Shields had left. he abused
the clerks and spectators for interfer-
ing with the fight he started.
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again. under the old apple tree that
leaned over the garden wall When
they were old enough to marry,
Michael asked the queen mother for
Elaine, but the queen mother said
that he could not have her daughter,
because she was pledged to a very,
very rich old prince who lived far
away. Michael begged Elaine to run
away with him, but she would not
grieve her mother, so Michael left
the mountains and went to another
country to begin life over again, he
said. The queen mother died before
the very rich old prince came, so
when he did get to the palace Elaine
told him that she did not love him
and sent him home again. She
waited and waited for Michael"
Didn't he come back to see his
beautiful princess?" questioned Ton,
eagerly. please let him come, Miss
Anne!"
"Then one day." went on Anne, "a:
Elaine sat in her garden, a little BIO.
came in through the open gate. Hts
hair was in brown curls all over ht'
head and his brown eyes were s''
much like Michael's that Elaine rail
to him and gathered him up in her
arms. Often after that the littl ,
stranger came to visit the princes
Elaine; and when he begged her to 60
and see his father who was sic]t,
Elaine went with him to the big
house on the mountain whel e
Michaers father had lived. Thee
sitting by window she saw Micha Ell
himself.
give found my fairy stepmothe', y
the boy called to Michael.
"Then Michael told the prince IS
that he had believed she married the
very rich old prince, so he tried to
love somebody else. Little MichanIs
mother died and always the little 1,oy
had been searching for a beaut full
lstepmother.
"The Princess Elaine mar led
Michael and the young dreams OF
her life came true after all. They
| lived together in the. palace on the
mountain forever and ever. So one
Of these days." said Anne, HOLDING
little Tom close, you'll find your
beautiful stepmother, too, and you
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A fact that the taxpayers of the city
will do we'll not overlook at this time
Is that in the opinion of engineers, the
dams which are now furnishing the
water for the waterworks plant.
will have to be rebuilt in the
immediate future. The present dams
are made Of wood and besides
being so leaky that they do not furnish
sufficient power to pump the citys
water at all times. they are in danger
of going out at any time and not only
putting the water power plant out or
commission, but of cutting off the
city's water supply as well. This lat
ter condition would become a fact II
the water fell below the level of the
intake pipe up the river.
The replacing of the dams will cost
in the neighborhood of 100000 to $780,
900 according to various estimates
That would probably mena an addi-
tional levy that would add to taxes.
The waterworks trustees however
present plan under which they offer
to put in the new dams and instead OF
increasing taxes to actually reduce
them by lighting the city's streets
with excess power from the rehabili-
tated power plant and thereby saving
the taxpayers the amounts they are
now paying out in the form of light
levy.
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Newspaper Syndicate.)
"Daddy's smokin' and I'm lone
some. Won't you please talk to me?"
Anne Trayner had just established
herself in her section of the Pullman
and opened a magazine when she
heard the question. She looked 1T
the small boy, steadying himself
against the arm of her seat waiting
for her answer.
"Of course l will talk to you. I
expect know stories about elephants
and bears that you would like to
hear" She held out her arms in.
vitingly, but Tom scrambled up on
the seat opposite her.
81 don't sit in laps less I'm
sleepy" he said alphabetically. "Any-
way, I'm heavy. I guess I weigh
about a hundred pounds"
Dear me! You are big boy,
aren't your ~
"Yes'm, and I'm going way off to
live with my Aunt Molly don't
want to leave home cause my dogs
there and pet donkey that eats out
of my hand without biting me. But
daddy says he can't bring me up
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revolutionizing in general to the south

in general to the south
of us.
A touch Of incongruity has been add
ed to the war in Mexico by the news
that General Villa has arranged with
"a moving picture company to share
with 1t the profits to be derived from
photographs of real battles.
TO be useful partner in this bust
ness, General Villa will have to do
more than let the camera men get
what they can; he must see to it that
the really interesting charges are
made when the light is good and that
a satisfactory part of the killing and
dying is done in focus. All this might
be expected to interfere with military
operations conducted in theory for
other purposes.
No doubt the films thus secured
would command the attention and the
money of multitudes, but even the
most morbid seeker for horrors might
be shocked, if not by the sight Of car
mage, at least by the thought that it
had been commercialized in this par
ticularly cynical way.
The world has been frequently and
fervently Informed that the war in
Mexico is for the benefit Of CONNER.
cial interests. Now that it is shown
to be mere posing before the camera,
at good pay for participants, one may
see what diplomacy is up against.
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MINORITY ADMINISTRATION.

The people of the country are en-
loving what may be called minority
government.
President Wilson himself received
fewer votes in 1912 than were cast for
BRYAN in 1908. Wilson did not receive
a majority of the votes cast. AS
matter of fact 2,450,5O4 votes more
were cast for other candidates Tor
president than were cast for wilson.
The president represents decided
minority.
An analysis of the vote for congress-
men in many cases will show that they
were elected by minorities in the same
way. due. of course, to the split ana
scattering votes of the majority.
Apparently not content that 1t IS
party that has gained power as tne
representative of the minority, the
democrats have resorted to practice
with the approval Of the president,
which gives an even smaller minority
absolute control over things.
There has developed the system OF
formulating legislation by means Oh
party caucuses.
Now 1t happens that majority or
one in a party caucus can bind all
loyal party members of the house or
senate to support measure that the
majority of the dominant party may
decide upon-that Is to say, mere
majority Of the minority government
may control.
In brief. 20 senators can force a
measure through the senate Where
there are SO members-a minority
rules the senate.
Also. 146 members of the house can
force a bill through the house where
there are 435 members-agaln MINOR
ity rule with a vengeance. r. g..
THE same system prevails In COM
mittee work. A majority or one
among the democratic members OF a
committee usually forces all the demo-
cratic members of that committee 10
support the party bill when the re-
publican members Of the commlttee
are invited in to see what has been
done. and sometimes the democrats
do not even take the trouble OF both
ering with the formality of asking the
republican members to attend even
the final committee meeting. Only re-
Gently a democratic chairman con.
fessed in debate that he did not call
in the republicans because he did not
want the committee meeting to be
talk fest
Car Reed, Uncle Joe and all the
rest OF the awful men couldn't hold
candle to the men who are in control OF
things at Washington now when 1t
comes to making minority vote toe
the mark at the command of a few
leaders.
How long the people will put up
with this system of minority govern
ment remains to be seen..