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Evening journal., 1914-10-22
Congress and The Navy
CFrom the Nsw York SUM

by two or four. Early in the year
Admiral Dewey had this to say ABOUT
the work of the body that Secretary
Daniels calls the General Stan oil
the Navy:
"The General Board carefully stu
died the nations commercial aspira-
tions and the strength Of the coun-
tries with which commercial rivalry
was likely to bring us into contact.
II studied the well established ma
tionaI policies, like the Monroe Doc
trine and the restriction OF OrlehIal
Immigration. It worked into posi-
BILE complications over defending the
Panama Canal and maintaining its
neutrality. II became Thoroughly
convinced that these policies couid
not be sustained without an adequate
navy: thai America must nave sucn
a navy or surrender the place thal
it should justly hold among the ma
tons Of the world"
So the General Boards "consis-
tent and continuing programme OF
which Mr.. Daniels seems to speak
with approval. has called for four
battleships a year until an adequate
navy was secured. When the Re
publlcans hau majority III SOueIesS
they authorized two ships. When
the Democrats succeeded them one
shin was voted the first year with
the help of Republicans two ships
we're voted. What we want to point
out is that no passion for economy
or solicitude about the cOuntry's I'm
ances actuates Congress when 1t
rejects the General Boards recon-
mendations. and sometimes even the
Secretary's; the fact is that Congress
has no understanding of the needs
of the navy in relation to the policy
and conceivable peril Of the nation
and refuses to take either informa-
ton or opinions from the naval
specialists. II is this spirit of self
satisfied ignorance and indifference
that Representative Augustus p
Gardner has assailed.
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
In A Nutshell
CFrom The Outlook

and also a conference between Aus
tria and Russia, to secure peace. The
next day, Vienna having refused the
conference with Russia, SaZanof tele-
graphed England that Russia would
leave herself entirely in the hands
of the British government for the
initiation of procedure OF peace. And
on the next two days, July 80 and
81. he telegraphed simultaneously to
Germany, Austria, France, England,
and Italy that, If Austria would con-
sent to stay the march of her ar
mics on Servia, and would allow the
great powers to consider the repara-
ton which Servia should accord 10
the government OF Austria without
injury to her sovereignty and indie
pendence. Russia would cease her
military preparations. The consent
of Austria to this proposal being re-
fused. he finally, on July 81, tele-
graphed England that the only
chance for peace lay in negotiations
at London facilitating for Austria
the necessity of compromise" On
the following day, August 1, Ger
many declared war against Russia
because Russia refused e demoblize
her troops. In this Summary We
have given practically the substance
of all NJ. Zazonofs letters.
Students of history who take tn,
trouble to read the English Whit,
Paper, the German White Book anC
the Russian Orange Paper. which
combined, give the bulk of the dipio
matte correspondence immediatel!
preceding the war. will find no diff
Guilty in reaching the conclusion tina
Austria, who refused ali appeals o
the powers TO submit &c them th'
evidences of her charges against
Servia, and Germany, who refused Z,
cooperate with the powers in asking
Austria to submit her complaint
against Servia to a conference o
the powers. are responsible for tn
/ European war. and that Sir Edward
Grey in England and VI. Sazanof II
Russia did all that II was possible 70
men TO 10 to secure a peaceful ad
justment of the issue
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

THE charge-"Nobody but Russia
is giving the dangerous turn TO the
conflict. Nobody but Russia Is TO
blame for the outbreak OF the war
So say Rudolf Eucken and Ernest
Haeckel in their appeal to the uni
yersities Of America.
The facts-Austria charged SerVia
Win oficial completely in the assas-
eination of Austria's crown prince by
t,ro oe Austria's subjects, and gave
sor,,ia as hours to reply to an ulu-
matum. Russia's attltuoe ing
the eight days which INTERVIEWED oS-
tween Austria's accusation on july
"a and the declaration OF wal ny
Germany against Russia On Au s!s.,
Is indicated by the russian ulplO,
matte correspondence now .pupnsueu
In full by the New York Times FROM
This corresponding we give mere
without comment, a summary OF the
letters by NJ. Sazanof, the RUSSIAN
On FRIDAY, July "a. the day whNn
Austria issued her ultimatum TO Ser
via Sazanof asked Austria 10 eNtenu
he term of Servia's reply and TO in
conn, the powers of the evidence in
support of Austria's charge. both
reanests Austria refused. On sun
dsv the 26th Sazanof appealed ia
Gtalv 10 influence her ally, Austria
in favor Of peace. and simultaneously
sent a copy of this request to Ger
many. Austrias other ally. asking
Cermanv's influence in favor OF
peace. The next day SazanOf notified
Eneland that Russia was ready C
accent the English proposal for 4
conference of the powers. or an,
other method which would promise
peace. The following day he twice
telegraphed England, urging her t
exert her influence in Germany II
favor of peace. The next day III
telegraphed Germany that Russian
mobilization was not directed 3gains
( Germany and did not indicate ag
gressiVe measures against Austria
and urged both a conference OF Ger
many, France, England ana Italy
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

Questions asked at the railroad
rate rehearing in Washington in di-
cate that some Of the members of the
Interstate Commerce Commission do
not grasp the problem with which
they are dealing. Their point OF
view seems still to be that of the
railroad batter in the good old times
when railroad batting was supposed
to be a patriotic pastme
Why was the case Of the Eastern
railroads, which had unsuccessfully
appealed for per cent increase IN
freight rates, ordered TO be reopenedl
Manifestly It was because the war in
Europe had made the commissions
decision of August ! look prepos-
ferrous In that decision. handed
down after the stock exchanges of
Europe and America had closed, and
even after Germany had declared
war on Russia, the commission took
IL upon itself TO ignore one OF the
most momentous economic events in
the worlds history. A body of deaf,
dumb and blind men, holding con-
situations in a padlocked sub-base-
ment, could not have been more
oblivious of the worldwide effects Of
the great European conflict.
A decision like that. which talked
peace when there was no peace, could
not be expected to give satisfaction.
Public opinion was almost unanimous
in regarding il as one of the most
inopportune official judgments ever
delivered Even the commission
soon found out that a world war was
on and that. so far as economic re-
suits we're concerned, the United
States was disastrously involved In
IL. The rehearing was granted be
cause the commission realized thai
q new element had been introduced
into the case made in behalf Of tho
railroads. II there was no sucf
element, there was no reason what
ever from the commissions point o.
view for reconsidering decision
only a few weeks old, which ha'
been arrived at after two or thre'
! years Of laborious investigation.
Yet although the commissions be
! lated discovery that a great European
war had broken out waa the Onl.
ineligible ground for granting a re
] argument we find the commissioner
asking questions indicating that tn
extraordinary depression caused b.
the war is I'm their opinion no grOun
for granting the railroads furthe
relief According to one account O
the hearing on Monday, Commission
err Clements asked Mr.. Willard, tn
president of the Baltimore & Obi
Railroad, "if he thought that tn
railroads should be dealt with Il
any other manner than other indus
tries affected by war conditions"
Such a question is little short {
amazing. Other industries are lei
free by the government TO regulat
their own affairs They may rails
their prices as they please withoI
interference from Washington. BI
the railroads have no free ham
Their earning power is limited f
them by the Interstate CommerC
Commissions DEGREES, and they ma
be made TO starve. even IN the mid
of general plenty, if the commissio
thinks II advisable to starve them.
For the last five or SIX years q
commission has advocated pr
gramme OF slow starvation. II HI
been gradually weakening the r
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
BrRLEsON OFFENDs FARMERs.

r you were told by the railroad agent that you
ought to stay at home and save your money when
you presented yourself the window to buy ticket
for your summer vacation trip, what would you
think?
You would doubtless feel just about as the people
large regard the present system false economy in
the Postonco Department by which they are denied
more rural routes and generally improved postal
service
Good postal service is something that affects every
citizen and he IS willing to pay for it, just as you arc
willing TO pay for your summer vacation II the
present economy plan of Postmaster General Burleson
by which the farmers Of the country are denied addi-
ona rural routes is practical, then it would only be
consistent with that theory to abolish the rural free
delivery system altogether Buresons policy Is mere
~ to economic by refusing 70 give rural free delivery
service to several millions Of farmers who are en-
titled to am they ask willing to their share
Of the added cost
The present inadequate rural free delivery service
costs many millions of dollars, but has any taxpayer
been heard TO object to the cost? II the present rural
free delivery service is regarded worth the price
by those whom it serves why should not other farm
ing communities have equal accommodation if they
are willing TO pay for It?
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
THURSDAY OCT. %. 1914



ID EDUCED to its essence the Democratic mass /
N meeting held in The Playhouse Tuesday even /
ing merely laborcd appeal to the voters OF this
state to stand by the Wilson administration That it !
had any material effect upon the anu-Wilson feeling
that pervades all three counties is doubted The i'm
furious effect of the policies Of the Wilson admins |
stration upon the commercial industrial, agricultural
and wage-earnng interests I'm Delaware so clearly
apparent to the people that Democratic eoQuence cam
blind the voters to what they see so clearly all
about them
Senator James Of Kentucky came to Delaware TO
assist IN the campaign for the reelection of Franklin
Brockson Congress. He merely succeeded in placing
both himself and Mr. Brockson in ludicrous light
before the public That through laudation by
Senator James the Presidents stand the Panama
canal free tolls repeater Wholly unconscious of the
fact that Congressman Brockson had both spoken and
voted against the Presidents bill the Kentucky orator
proceeded praise the President and to automatically
condemn Mr. Broclson. 1t was not until after he
had concluded his speech that he became of the
serious and at the same time oughablo break he had
made with Mr. Brockson the platform beside him
1t calls for no stretch of the imagination for anyone
to realize the unpleasanness of the situation in which
Mr. Brockson found himself in his meeting
In discussing the peace policy OF President Wilson,
Senator James declared that had IT been for that
policy the United States, instead of being at peace
win all the world, would be holding Mexico with 50O
coo men. We reply TO that better than by
calling attention speech delivered recently by for
speech asserted that President Wilson need
claim no special credit for this country being at
with all the world IL at peace with all
the world when his Republican predecessor viii
liam Howard Taft turned it to him. In other
words by maintaining peaceful relations with all the
world, President Wilson merely has been pursuing a
Republican policy that has in effect for years.
Nor did Senator James make much Of an impress
sion upon the Delaware mind by his discussion OF
free sugar There one in the audience who was
not personally and painfully aware that under the
Wilson administration and within the last three months
sugar has been higher under Democratic free trade
than It was under Republican protection.
The climax of the meeting came when Congressman
Brockson In a short speech called upon Delaware
voters to "sand by the Wilson administration" some
thing he himself had not done in at least one note
worthy instance
with a few more meetings like the one under discus
ion what is left MT Brocksons hopes will be shat
tered beyond repair.
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

Secretary Daniels Is not ingenious
when he discusses the relations of
the General Board of the Navy to
his Department and 20 Congress. 1t
is true, as Mr.. Daniels says, that the
General Board since 1906 has fur
nished a consistent and continuing
programme" but the reason why the
Secretary has cut down the recon-
mendations of the General Board and
why Congress has Often made a fur
Their cut is not to be found in the
frugality of either the Secretary or
of Congress. Mr. Daniels puts it
this way:
Because of his intimate knowledge
of the policy of the Administration,
demands of other departments of the
Government, and the condition of the
country's finances, it has not been
possible for the Secretary Of the
Navy to adopt in toto the General
Boards recommendations, nor has it
been possible for Congress to provide
always the vessels which the Secre-
tary has recommended"
The implication is that while the
Secretary might like to follow the
recommendations of the General
Board and Congress IS not hostile to
them, the question is one of sparing
the money; whereas the fact is that
every time the Secretary'c modifca-
/ ton Of the General Boards pro-
gramme is presented to Congress the
members at once get by the ears
over the question whether the United
/ States navy would not be strong
enough for all possible contingencies
if only one battleshlp were author
lied. Economy plays but a minoi
part in its debates. AS for the
/ General Board, Congress consider:
that it suffers from professional
megalOmania and wants to commi
the country to an uneuding flee
rivalry with Great Britain. Con
gress SCOTS at the General Board
and thinks the proper thing to d,
is to divide its list of ships neede
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
Aid the Christmas Ship
From the vii Transport sun.

the troubled and unfortunate. This
is the Christmas spirit-this is
Christianity.
The best ground for Tie belief that
this country has not Weakened up to
the enormity of the present crisis in
the affairs of humanity is the slow
ness with which appeals for the
various projects for aid have been
responded TO. Calamities heretofore
from the remotest part OF the globe,
in suffering and loss of l.fe involving
but the thousandth part of those of
week Of war, have had q quick APP
peal and an instant response both to
national and especially local charity,
but as yet the Red Cross funds and
other similar projects 10 aid of the
war suffering are unaccOuntably
languishing. Hence the decision of
the Clio civic department to take up
4 the Christmas ship project is truly
/ timely, creditable, and n worthy work
to devote a part of its energies to-
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
4 sPLENnIn cOrNTY TICkET.

RIOTERS In New Castle county fortunate in the
fac. that the Republicans have nominated splen-
cid county ticket
It Is made up of men who will give 10 the people
business administration Of the several Offices to
which they aspire.
There is no any branch of the ticket who
is not deserving Of public confidence and support.
From all quarters assurances that that sup
port wifi not be withheld November 8.
New Castle county taxpayers know that they would
have nothing to hope for from Democratic admin
istraton of county affairs
Never. in tho past have the affairs Of our county
been entrusted to Democratic hands that the conf
dence of the people has not been shameully abused.
Incompetency, extravaganza and downright dishon-
esy have been Distinguishing features of such Demo-
cratic administrations.
The taxpayers know that only wen and that fact
iusuhes the prediction that the Republican county
ticket will be victorious November g.
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
GEMS OF THOUGHT
Whatever advice you give be short-Horace

Whatever advice you give, be short.-Horace
:-.-.-.
Great men they who that spiritual is stronger
than any material force that thoughts rule the world
Emerson
:-:-.-.
He that giveth unto tho poor shall lack but he
that hideth his eyes shall have many curse
Proverbs.
.-.-.-s
The greatest friend truth Is time. her greatest
enemy prejudice and her constant companion is HUI
milty-Coton.
t-.-.-.
II a man be gracious to strangers it shows he is
citizen the world and that his heart is island cut
of from the other lands, but continent that joins
them.-B0con.
The fundamental characteristic of social progress is
the continuous weakening of sehshness and the con-
tnuous strengthening of sympathy.-John Fiske
.-.-.-.
A mans character as like his shadow which some
times follows and sometimes precedes him. and which
occasionally longer occasionally shorter than he is
From the French
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

It requires but a slight play OF
the imagination TO bring a Relation
that while the women enc children
will not be involved in the physical
suffering Of those on the battlefield,
nevertheless it will not be much less
acute because IL consists OF the mem
tai agony that comes with the loss
of loved ones, or is the result OF pri-
walton and the lack Of necessities or
comforts TO which previous condi-
tons have permitted them to become
accustomed. Under any develop
ments that can now come about
Christmas throughout all the Euro
pean countries will be enc of ex-
ceeding darkness, and ii will add a
most welcome touch Of cheer If the
clouds can be broken through, If but
for an instant. by a thoughtful re-
minder that civilization elsewhere,
fortunately enjoying the peace that
is denied the rest of the world, has
a remembrance and a message for
Evening journal., 1914-10-22
With The Photographers

with whom do sympathize in the pending war9'
asks n correspondent. Wen answer that With the
German, French. Belgian and English boys who man
the trenches. With the German, French English and
Belgian boys who crowd the hospitals. With the
mothers who bore these boys. With the fathers who
them grow to manhood and loved them as they
grew. With the women who welded to these
boys With the children they elit when they marched
to the front With the poor peasant woman who
struggles against the press OF war-engendered power
y With those who in the cities cry out for food
With the men who fight for fatherland hatingN war
IN their hearts. With the great artists like Kresler
who must turn their marveously melody producing
myers TO works OF destruction. With the people who
must live out their days with lives blighted
by this war. With the innocent whose fields have
been uamplod under foot by marching armies. With
all the host of those who under the press OF a mis-
taken patriotism must offer up their lives These are
the with whom sympathize-Johnstown Demo-
crat
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

The Democratic campaign text book attempts to
claim the adoption OF the constitutional amendment
for direct election of United States Senators as
Democratic achievement The fact is that this amend
ment was achieved by the efforts of Senators Borah
of Idaho and Brisow of Kansas over stubborn oppo-
sition from Southern Senators and Representatives
who we're bent resurrecting the ancient and dis
credited doctrine of states" rights
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

Turkey and Roumania have become exceedingly dis
turbing elements in the European situation The Sc
lection of new commander-in-ehief for the Turkish
army who is not pro-German and the seizure by
Roumana OF munitions Of war consigned by the Ger
mans to Turks interesting developments of the
week in the Eastern theatre Of war i'm Europe They
would indicate that the leaven of anti-German
diplomatic work is making itself felt in high places in
both connirlea
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

General villa makes it clearer every day that he is
for peace provided the do not conflict with his
views OF position ne is TO occupy in the future
of Mexico The fact that General Carranza has sent
the members Of his family to point within stones
throw Of the American border shows that he does not
take much stock in Villas pacific utterances And
yet scarcely be expected that Mexico, tempera
mentally inclined to revolution and counter-reyou
ton can pass through an important period of recon
structon without attendant scenes Of violence. One
great trouble below the Rio Grande is that every mill
tary leader also is a politician of greater or lesser
magnitude and naturally wishes TO know what he
is going to receive as result of the dspensation.
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

In view of what is going to happen in this State
on November 3, it may pay CONGRESSMAN Brockson
Democratic candidate for reelection TO have heart
to-heart talk with that Massachusetts who, over
taken by landslide buried forty-eght hours and
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

Colonel Harvey and Marse Henry watterson now are
casting about for graceful and painless way in
which to withdraw their points from the official
body Of President Wilson leading factor in the recent
negotiation OF the Treaty Of Washington
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

No sentence short Of that Of death is 100 severe
to be inflicted upon that most despcable offender
against the law and society who is known the
white SLAYER.
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

No discriminating voter I'M New Castle county who
has passed through period Of Democratic control Of
Levy Court will vote for restoration OF such con-
troll It's invariabe Accomplishments have been incom-
potency and extravaganza
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

Between the "Yelow Peril" and the "Rum Demon "
Congressman Hobson almost experiences all the sem
sations Of nebriate bordering upon an attack Of
delirium tremens
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

one of the gratifying results Of the is that Mrs
Emmalne Pankhurst has been crowded out OF tho
spotlight
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

In the minds Of sensation-ovng and morbid New
Workers. the Carman murder trial with its salacous de-
tails now ranks i'm Importance with the European
news
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

Germany has invited the Belgians to return to Bel.
GUM The invitation probably inspired by the
Dutch Who at the present time are sheltering and
feeding l5O0OOO0 Of the panic-stricken subjects Of
King Albert
Evening journal., 1914-10-22

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