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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1914-09-01
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Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
Only GIdMPsEs OF THE WAR.

The world outside of the great arena of war in Eu-
rope knows as little of what is really going it
did in the Napoeonic There were no special
newspaper correspondents then following up the ar
mics and the news came only in painfully belated Of
fetal announcements from the generals in the field
Napoleon announced his victories Paris in bulletins
Belgium is only across the channel from England,
and Waterloo is in Belgium, but the news of the re-
suit of the battle brought to England by mess
engers long after the battle and yet in age, with
wireless the cable and telegraph and telephone and
airships and all the wonderful machinery for the
quick transmission of the outside world is no
better informed about the events of the present war
than 1t was during the Napoeonic
1t is true there is daily publication of war news
but nearly all of it from prejudced or rrespon
sbe sources and 1t is violently contradictory The Of
fetal statements are invariably misleading From
Paris Berlin, St Petersburg Vienna and London they
are all the k and get detailed stories by
correspondents who never saw what they detail and
whose stories literary productions. The story
of the battle of the Marne of the greatest in his
tory is yet to be written The present extraordinary
battle must have future historian. There is none
there to report it in detail and the brief official dis
patches which give no details are contradictory.
But when it comes to writing the history of this
war at It's close who will undertake the monumental
task? And who will be free enough from its pref
udices to write an impartial history? Gibbon spent
twenty years gathering the material for his decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire" before he began to
write his work. How will it take the his
torian of this war to get his materials?
But long perspective is needed Contemporaneous
history is worthless There will be histories and his
tories of this publishers can get them
out but they will idle reading. The real history
will be written only when the present generation is
dead after the passions of the have died out
Then Gibbon will arise to give to the world its
greatest war history
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
General SCOTS Cure for the Cholera

Bailey Davenport, whose father was.
practically the founder of the city or
Davenport. Ia. in commemoration OF
which his name was given to it, heard
his father narrate many anecdotes
which had been told to him by Black
Hawk, the Indian chief, whose name
identifies the last great war between
the whites and the Indians in the
Mississippi Valley.
MY father and Black Hawk were
firm friends" said Mr.. Davenport to
Charles Il. Hall, now of New YORK.
at one time of Rock Island. Black
Hawk said at one time when talking
reminiscently: Your great war CHER,
General Scott, l saw often, and l re-
member especially how careful he was
of his own soldiers at the time the
cholera broke out among his troops.
az was being taken as prisoner
to Jefferson Barracks, down the MIS-
sissippi River. when at Rock Island
the boat came to stop because some
body in a rowboat was making signs
to us. But the captain of the steam.
boat would not let any one who nao
been among the soldiers come ABOARD
the steamboat, because he was AFRAID
of cholera. 49,,
THE man who was in the little
boat was General Scott, and | was
very sorry that the captain Would not
allow him to come on the boat.
was near enough to him to see MIN,
and | thought that he looked very
well indeed. was told that, although
the cholera was among the soldlers'
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25

yet this great war chief had no fear
of it himself, but went among his men
doing kind things for the sick and
giving comfort to those who were
dying. He was not afraid of the
cholera.
81 heard afterward that cholera
General Scott, and his regiment had
reached Rock Island. Perhaps ten or
twelve of the soldiers died, but the
war chief was not afraid of the dis
ease. / was afterward told that a
friend of the war chief, whose name
was Colonel Berry, visited General
Scott at his headquarters on Rock
Island. The day was very hot, and
General Scott said to his visitor that
because he was so hot, and because
there was cholera among his troops,
he did not think it a good plan to let
his visitors into the fort. General
Scott said that the medicine the doc
tors had did not cure the cholera
and he. had decided to try different
remedy. He said that he was going
to give brandy to all of his soldiers,
both sick and we'll, and after I got
to Jefferson Barracks they told me
that soon after the great war chief
began to give brandy and water to
his soldiers the cholera was cured
not have the disease was smitten
with it,"
Copyright, 1914, by E. ]. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25

Most extraordinary are the notions of John A.
Matthews as represented by his conception of what
constitutes aid Governor Fielder and his policies
and the unfolding of the hands of President Wilson.
To the minds of most thinking the best and
only to render service to Governor Fielder
would be to elect Democratic senators and Democratic
assembymen. Mr. Fielder being Democrat the
chief executive of the state and the leader of the
Democratic party in New Jersey.
To the mental view of young Mr. Matthews, the
way to strengthen the Governors position is to de-
feat Democratic senator's and to surround Mr. Fielder
with as many Republican legislators possible.
BY entering the contest for senator under the des-
gnaton Democratic the petition plan, and after
having evaded clash in the open primaries, Mat
hews will be large contributor toward the defeat
Richard Stockton the regular Democratic candidate
for State senator, and automatically correspondngly
big factor toward the of Austen Colgate, Re-
publican candidate for senator from Essex county
There can be no question to this contention.
II is not debatabe.
Matthews voluntarily becomes a powerful ally of
the Republican forces in the election of the
Republican senatorial candidate, Colgate, and men
to the Democratic candidate Stockton whose pros
poets otherwise of decidedly hopeful nature.
This is the situation Matthews has been lavish
in the use of the Governors name and has paraded
constantly the friend of President Wilson and as
special exponent of his ideas
It is but fair to both the Governor and to the
President to assume that Matthews does not reflect
their personal political sentiments in his present
incomprehensible attitude. On the contrary, he
doubtless embarrasses them.
Mr. Fielder should be particularly interested, as
Matthews has unquestionably put it to the Gov
ernor" making 1t impossible for the Democratic
partys State leader remain neutral quiescent.
He will be called upon to intervene, matter not at
all his taste he has interfered in party diff
ferences, except in where the partys interests
called for his Intervention.
At Sea Grit Essex County Day, the Governor
came out dat-footed in declaration concerning fights
within the party ranks and his feelings towards post
primary candidates. the petition and so-called in
dependent plan.
He made 1t plain that he would not take sides in
fractional disputes before the primaries urged that all
differences be fought out and settled in the primaries
and was scathng in his expression of depreciation of
the policy of placing petition candidates in the field
aEter the primaries.
Matthews at Sea Girt on that particular day
counting encouragement from the Governor to run
for the senatorship the petition plan He did not
get the encouragement sought Others who were at
the camp-ground with similar purposes up their
sleeves received cold comfort.
Now the questions are, What will the Governor
do about It? Who is backing Matthews in his new
move? BY what authority does he use Mr.. Fielder's
name SO freely in this particular connection?
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25

renominaed and they naturally feel that it is more inn
portant the nation that their services should be
tanned for two than that Congress should
remain In session.
Besides it is vitality necessary that administration
policies should either be Endorsed rebuked In the
coming elections the argument will turn upon admin
istration policies and the Republicans have already
prepared long indictment comparing the platform
pledges of 1912 with the administration performances
On the points presented in the indictment there is
much to be said both sides, and we may expect a
strenuous debate the stump during the campaign.
OF fact the Republican leaders are conscious,
and that is the fact that the European war and its
effect in this country constitute big asset for the
present administration The disposition of the people
in time like this is against any change in the gov
eminent on the principle of let well enough alone
The attitude of strict neutrality taken by our gov
eminent has the strong approval of the nation and
the feeling will be that adverse verdict in the cleo
ton might be interpreted rebuke for that policy
This feeling will influence many Republican voters
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25

the general arrangement of business.
1.-THE total African production of
new gold for the, first half of 1914
was in round numbers 96500, 000,
against s107,000,OOO for the correspond
ing period of last year, a decrease of
$10,000,000, a showing of no especial
significance. During the first six
months of 1914 the Transvaal pro-
duced $84, 900; Rhodesia, 1922, 900,
and West Africa, 100000. Austral-
asia produced s24,500, 000a and British
India $6.000,000. Mexico, an important
mining field, has nearly ceased pro-
duction, and resumption there may be
slow. The Russian mining region may
be affected by the withdrawal of men.
The United States and Canada will,
of course, continue production, but
no new producing districts of any i'm
portance have been opened during the
year
Gold is as necessary for war as
blood. Both are spilled 1t Is a Gu
rious thing that the great banks of
Germany, Austria, France, Russia
and England began to increase their
stocks of gold before the world in
general saw that the shadow of war
was on earth. They seemed to have
shifted the battle from afar or to have
had inside information from their
governments.
"A story has been current in i'm
portant financial circles that when
Germany and France appeared to be
near the brink of war because Of
the Morocco incident the emperor of
Germany put the question to tho
German bankers, Are you prepared
for WARP The answer was that the
financial situation was not then in
proper shape. The story went that
he told the bankers to put the situa-
ton in shape. Since the Morocco af-
fair in 1911 the Bank of Germany in
creased its gold reserve by more than
one hundred million dollars, and a
| large part of this increase reserve
was locked up in the vaults of Span
dau Castle, in company with the
gold there as a part of the indemnity
taken from France at the close of the
| Franco Prussian war. The Bank of
France. since the Balkan war, has
added to its gold reserve $170, 900,
la large part of which was imported
| from the United States and the I'M
| perial Bank of Russia increased its
gold holdings by s15o,O000o0.
"The Imperial Bank of Germany
began its active campaign for gold by
maintaining a high discount rate and
by bidding high in the London gold
auctions for the gold which arrived
weekly from South Africa. Certain
| pieces of financial legislation were put
| through to help the work of accumu-
lating gold.
THE Imperial Bank of Russia piled
up a gold reserve by withdrawing
the large balances which she had kept
in German, French and English
i banks. and France in a year and a
| half Increased her gold holdings from
| s66S, 900, 900 to 1892 100000. The banks
| of several of the European powers
suspended gold payments and put out
issues of notes for small denomina-
lions which would be legal tender in
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25

domestic transactions. This was for
the purpose of outstanding the gold
stock against runs and keeping 1t as
a guarantee fund for national SOL
vency
sit was this mad scramble for gold
which caused in the United States
the July panic in foreign exchange.
Europe began calling back its Amer
lean credit balances, and this started
the high bidding for drafts on Eu-
rope. This all came on top of actual
and insistent gold engagements for
Europe. Then began the work of
throwing on the American market
American securities, bought during a
long series of years in order to get
more gold. The drain on Americas
gold threatened immense proportions.
and it is fact that. within ten days
after Austria's declaration of war
against Servia, $45, 100000 of American
gold was engaged for export to Eu-
rope.
81 have seen that the great central
banks of the nations at war had on
hand, at the beginning of hostilities.
little less than $4,000, ZOO. 900 in gold.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
NEwARK,s GREAT ASSET IN THE MEADOWS.

1t is gratifying to know that the city has made
markable progress In the work of meadow and harbor
improvement. 1t is stated in report by the engi-
neerng department of the Board of Works that by
the end of next year development costing two mil
lion dollars will be completed OF this amount 1885,
324 10 will have been paid for the acquisition of $50
acres of land having bay frontage of 1000 feet and
depth of 1900 feet
In this great improvement the city is getting new
assets the value of which hardly be apprec-
ated On the municipal land redeemed will stand
hundreds of large factories paying tribute to the city
and the bay frontage will yield large income from
rentals. But the incidental benefits will be much
greater. There will be large and ever-increasing
valuation labor will find many opportunities
for employment the population will be enlarged and
the cty's business interests will be benefited.
Newark made splendid bargain when it used
$6 900 of its bonds for the purchase of the Pc
quannock supply system, which, costing nothing
except for subsequent enlargements and improve
ments has of immense benefit to the city In many
ways But this enterprise promises to take second
place to that of harbor and meadow development
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
Noted Women Whose Birthday Is Yours
SEPTEMBER IS
Mercy Otis Warren
copyrighted 1914
copyrighted 1914.
BY MARY MARSHALL


Erect in person. vivacious and full
Of spirit, though dignified at all times,
dressed in a steel-colored gown, with
short sleeves and a very long waist,
the black silk skirt in front being pro-
tected by long apron. she wore a
mob cap. and gloves covered her arms
to the elbow. cut off at the fingers"
This is a pen picture of Mercy War
rem when she was eighty years old
still as loyal patriot as ever lived
to call herself an American. Mercy
Otis Warren was born on September
25, 1928, and passed her girlhood
quietly at her home in BarnstaDle,
Mass. At the age of twenty-one she
was married to a prosperous merchant
at Plymouth. With the beginning Oh
activities that led up to the American
Revolution Mercy Warren's brother.
Colonel Otis, was one of the promin-
ent public figures. Mercy's dearest
woman friend was Abigail Adams,
also deeply interested in the irn-
pending struggle.
Mrs. Warren had always possessed
a remarkably fluent gift of writing,
and at the beginning of the war she
kept a record of all the events of the
great struggle. She studied the stu
alton, and from the seclusion of her
home she thought about 1t, and soon
her opinion came to be regarded as
worthy Of needing. She was drawn
into correspondence with such promi-
nent men at the time as Samuel and
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25

The five great central European banks
had cash holdings, according to the
reports early in August, of $2.7o0.000.-
600 actual gold and silver in their
vaults. $317 100000 in the Bank OF
England, $95S, 100000 in the Bank of
France, $3.50, 100000 in the Bank of
Germany, $s05. 900 in the Bank of
Austria Hungary and $500 100000 in
the Imperial Bank of Russia. -
From all this ii is easy to~see
what determined 1ife-andI death
struggle Great Britain, Russia, France
Germany and Austria have entered
on. They will spend treasure by the
hundreds of million. The war is a
little over a month old. August 4
the British ministry asked a war
credit of 525.000.0o0, and the House of
Commons enthusiastically voted that
sum in five minutes, and two DAYS
later added $500, 100000 in another up
roar of patriotism. Canada added it's
share, s50,000.0 900. France was allow
ed a war fund of s7B0. 1000, 900 and the
Reichstag has handed the emperor
81. $50, 100000. It Is a war that stag
gers humanity"
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
Thirty Billions a Year.

FROM the oprlnKneiu htpuuiiSdh
Thirty billions of dollars in one
year is the estimate of the money
cost of the war offered by Chairman
Gary. of the United States Steel Cor
poration. He has seen other esti-
mates, and he has put his own higher
than any OF them. Fifty millions of
dollars a day, or $4,000, 900, 900 a year,
seems to him much too low. Let 1T
be assumed that his figures are ap-
proximately correct
The armed peace was expensive. In
twenty-five years the great powers
of Europe spent $685. 600, 900, 900 on their
ornaments. The race had become so
intense that in 1918 alone, according
to a French economist. the six powers
in the two alliances spent $4,000, 900
on their armies and navies. For 1914
1916, 1t was estimated that Russia.
Germany, France and England would
spend on these guarantees of peace"
a billion and half.
Comparing military cost of peace in
Europe with Judge Garys estimate
of the military cost of the war, one
finds that in a year war costs about
fifteen times as much as peace. This
form of calculation does not consider
the indirect and remoter costs of the
present struggle. The question how
long Europe can endure the strain of
expenditure fifteen times greater than
the expenditure OF the armed peace
now becomes uppermost.
Two of the belligerents, France
and Austria Hungary, showed signs
of tax exhaustion in a few years i'm
mediately preceding this conflict.
Even In Germany and Great Britain
the increase in the percentage of ex-
penditure on ornaments since 1875
had exceeded the percentage of in
crease in average incomes. 1t was
only question of time, as things
were going. assuming that armed
peace had been permanent, when all
the powers would have reached the
point of exhaustion, Notwithstanding
the annual increase In the production
OF wealth.
The cost TO Europe of the Napo-
leonic wars in 1S06-1S0S, according to
Napoleon's budgets, averaged about
$50, 000, 900 a year. The net cost OF
TWENTY-FIVE years fightipg against
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-25
MIR. Bachman
Voices Indignation

To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
1 am not soured by defeat: but the
statement of Robert Emmett Mitchell
in last evenings News leads me TO
say a few words.
Aside from Mondays statement by
John L. Armitage, of the Wilson
, League. which was untrue, and if
made with knowledge of its untruth
was lie, there was introduced in
the campaign the religious issue. OF
the senatorial candidates, Mr.. Ross
bach and Mr.. McDermit, are Catho-
lies.
The anti-Catholic paper, issued in
East Orange. contained Mr.. Stock
toms name without his knowledge or
consent. AS a large percentage OF
the Democratic vote in Essex county
is Catholic, the circulation of this
paper aroused indignation. 1t is
well-known that l am Presbyte-
rian and the anger of the Catholics
cooled down somewhat: but i'll the
early Mondays mail copies OF II
We're again sent to the voters and
there was bred a spirit of retaliation,
which was not at all unnatural
fomented by those interested in
profiting by the defeat of Mr.. Stock
ton and myself, which swept through
ward with intensity.
With organization one can throttle
such a state of affairs through the
committeeman and the workers, but
being without an organization
could not chase the matter fast
enough to overcome its effect and
the result was heavy cutting OF
me by Catholics everywhere.
My only sorrow is that anyone
should think me a narrow7minded
bigot, when my reputation is Just the
contrary. 1t suits some people, both
Catholics and those not SO, to bring
out this religious issue every cam
paign, and with all Christian denomi-
nations having identically the same
creed, it is astonishing that this SIX
teenth century recrudescence should
be tolerated for a moment.
A. z. BACHMAN.
September 25, 1914.
So great was the indignation above
referred to that at one of the places
for speech making at the end of the
campaign, preparations had been
made to receive some of the candi-
dates with seasoned eggs. b.