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The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09
SECOND CYCLONE.

Morgan City was struck on
Monday forenoon by cyclone
which shook things up considera.
bly for a brief while. This Ia
the second wind storm, 10 visit
that city, in just six days. This
is record worthy Of the best
t ,wn in Kansas
The news reached this place
about two hours after the hap
paning. End eau, ed consde erable
uaeasiEess about The safety of
fir ends and members Of families
who were Ia Morgan City at the
time. For while it was difficult
tU get a message hrongh, bnt ii
was learned that q Thoroughbred
Kansas cyclone passed over Ber-
wick and Morgan City at $50
O'Clock that morning, playing
havoc with property, killing
negro named Escatt Wallace and
injaring from twelve TO fifteen
people, among whom are several
childrcn and women.
The path of about one hundred
and fifty feet was strewn with
wreckage. Buildings 10 the
wake Of the terrifying whiflwind
crumbled Que after another, aud
the escape of people in that sec,
tiOn of city is nothing short Of
miraculous.
An Italian store, in which his
family lived in the rear, was
crushed to the ground and gro
ceries hurled three hundred feet.
A girl and her mother we're bad
ly injured there.
Phs residence of Fred. Tessero
was completely demolished; five
women Ia the house we're un
haI med. Several smallsr houses
went down; Others we're set ont
of line.
| BrOwnell.Drew's Lumber Co. g
fshingle sheds were badly dam
aged. The roof Of q stable OF
that company was carried away,
leaving twenty mules and horses
unharmed
The residence Of Mr.. Plssiani
was cut In two and one section
carried Atty feet. None of the
occupants were injured. The
cyclone continued northeastward,
and was reported that forenoon
as having passed through both
Patterson and OentIeville, but ii
see ms to have lost It's destroying
power before reaching the last
named places.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

The sunshine lOsks "awfuP'
good after the storm has passed.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

white horsee. Take the Ringing
Brothers circus as an instance.
Ii is coming here in New Iberia
Thursday, October IA, and with
it will arrive not one but fifty
clowns And where the lont
comedian of the old days was
obliged to depend upon his hoop
and his wits for applause, these
Ringing funny men have every
thing from ridiculous looking air
ships in which they skim around
the tent top. to big wooden can
mons and dozens other contri
vances that never fail to send
their audiences INTO roaIs OF
laughter. There is much to be
seen on this Sc 4son's program,
such as the gigantic new epecta
Gle of Solomon and the Queen OF
Shcba with it's cast of 1880
characters and ballet of 800
dancing girls; the hundreds OF
marvels Of the arenic program;
the trained animal show and .
menagerle Of more than 1000
Wild ANIMALS. But it is ia Ring.
ling Brothers army of famous
Gowns that the younger genera.
ton will take its greatest de-
light.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09
DEMOCRATIC
PRIMARIES,

January 26tb, 1916, il the date
that has been fixed for the Demo.
cratic primaries for this state.
Candidates for all State Offices
must qualify by the 25th instant.
These are among tho results n.
tsined at q meeting OF the Demo.
cratic State Central Committee,
held ct the Cosmopolitan Hotel
in New Orleans on Tuesday.
John w. Lewis, Of Opel0usas,
and Robert B ButlOr Of Houma,
went to New Orleans to urge the
con vent,on proposition. They
believed convention important, T,
they said, because of the threat
eniBg power of the Pr0gressives.
A set OF resolutions has been
prepared by them for submission
to the control committee, bn,
we're never presented.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09
Majority Of Friends Thought Mr.
Hughes Would Die, But
One Helped Him to
Recovery.

Pomeroyton, Ky.-In interesting ad-
sices from this place, Mr.. A. ]. Hughes
writes as follows: IL was down with
stomach trouble for five (5) years, and
would have sick headache 50 bad, at
lines, that thought surely would die.
tried different treatments, but they
lid not seem to do me any good.
got so bad, could not eat or sleep,
Ind all my friends, except one, thought
would die. He advised me to try
t'hediord's Black Draught, and quit
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09
STOMACH TROUBLE
FOR five YEARS

taking other medicines. decided 70
take his advice. although did not have
any confidence In Il.
have now been taking Black Draneha
for three months, and Il has cured me-
haven't had those awful sick headaches
since began using ii.
am so thankful for what Black.
Draught has done for me-"
Thedford's Black Draught has been
found very valuable medicine for de-
rangements Of the stomach and liver. II
is composed Of pure, vegetable hefhs,
contains no dangerous ingredients, and
acts gently, yet surely. II can be freely
used by young and old, and should b
kept in every family chest
Get package today.
Only a quarter. ~
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09
LATEST WAR NEWS.

81 understand" said the 0ada
bout" that Germany, France,
England and Russia are now all
nfavor OF disarmament. !"
IT'S that So" asked Stupid.
"Yes. Germany is in favor oil
che disarmament Of the other
three, and they are equally in
favor Of disarminR Germany"
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

Rspides parish police jury has
ordered an election for Novem.
Der is, to determine public senti
nent on the question of prohibi-
tion. II the parish prononncea
for prohibition liq1or will be
barred with the close Of 1916.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

In the chill season see that your
liver is active. Any arrangement
in that organ opens the door for
malarial germs. An occasional
dose of HERBINE is all that is ne
cessary to keep the liver in sound
WORKING condition. Price soc.
Sold By ESTORGE DRUG co.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09
A DONATION.

Mrs. Murphy was getting the
supper for the children on Satnr.
day night when young woman
came to the door.
"I'm collector for the d unk
ards Home,u she said. s.Could
you help use"
"Come around tonight and I'll
give you Murphy said the
housewife as she went about leE
work. World. !.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

The Republican party, in New
Orleans, held meetings this
week at the Grunewald Hotel,
where colored men could not en-
ter.
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

This l. prescrip1on prepared especially
for NAL AQlA W CHIllS 4 FEVER.
Rive os ok does will break any case, and
e taken thea = . tonic the Fever will not
return. Il - on the liver better than
CsloL Lel and does not Sripe Of sicken. 25e
The weekly Iberian. (New Iberia, La.) 1894-1946, 1915-10-09

PAID UP STOCK
bearing 5 per cent Interest
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IBERIA BUILDING ASSN
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
JUSTICE AND THE WEAK.

For the weak, inclined to justice by his very
weakness, the defender, who in war may be con-
sidered as the innocent party until the con-
trary is proved, are fundamentally in sympathy
with law. This is why the peace conferences
at The Hague were able without failing in
their double object, juridical and pacific, to
prevent the veto which Utopian ideas, too
hasty, too extreme, were preparing to pro-
nounce against numerous military inventions.
One Introduction only was passed in 1899 by
unanimous vote, only to fail of renewal in 1907
at the hands of six out of eight great powers.
In 1899 the discharge of projectiles from bal
looms was the more readily prohibited by the
pacific. humane and kindly consent of the pow
ers because it was even more effectively pro-
hibited by the resistance of the air to success
full navigation. At that time war had as yet
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

by the appearance Of new engines of destruc-
ton to claim that the old principles of the
law of nations have lost all their authority,
and that war reinforced by new inventions
shall now be emancipated from all rule While
science is constantly extending the domain OF
war, the inadequacy of law based upon
precedents becomes increasingly evident.
At the first peace conference at The Hague,
in 1899, Russia proposed to forbid new types
of cannon and muskets, submarines, rams and
the dropping of projectiles from airships This
proposal naturally rested on two consdera-
tons; that of humanity the desire to reduce
The rigors of war, and that of economy anxious
TO tighten the ever increasing financial burden
of armed peace. But above economy, sparlng
of money, even above humanity sparing of
lives. il is the consideration of national secur-
ity that speaks here with controlling power.
A government would be guilty of criminal
negligence if it did not reserve the right In the
hour of peril to protect itself by the genius of
its inventors, the science of its laboratories,
the resources of its factories, or the strength
of its credit. 1t would be no less than national
suicide for the state to bind itself to refrain
from the defensive application of invention to
war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

moments? It does not cause any suffering in
dependent of the accomplishment of legitimate
military ends. Between the torpedo boat and
the submarine the only difference is that, of
two torpedo bearing vessels one is visible, the
other concealed But at sea, as on land, con-
cealment for attack is not dishonorable the
enemy must protect himself. Furthermore, as
Justly observed by Holland in 1899 in defence
of the submarne-by the Scandinavian powers
in 1899 in defence of the ram and later by
several powers in 1907 in defence of contact
mines (whose total suppression England her
self dared not propose, even in territorial
waters these are naturally the weapons of
the weak rather than the strong, of defence
rather than of attack.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

for over forty years. This, Of course, is one
of those arithmetcal calculations of which
facts as a rule promptly prove the fallacy!
The fact, however, remains, that Germany has
lost on her present population of 6S,OOO,0OO
such a proportion that it is likely in any case
to be some considerable time before she has
any surplus population at all to provide for.
Incidentally | may say here that the facts
concerning the outbreak of the war do not hear
out the contention that it is defensive war on
the part of Germany. They are now so con-
elusive in the contrary sense that no attempt
is made in recent German publications to up
hold a contention so thoroughly preposterous
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

The Longer the War Lasts, He Says.
the More Certain Are the
Allies to Get Just World
Peace From Germany.


ceeded in persuadng them to accept peace on
such terms.
If this is what Herr Dernburg meant by an
honorable peace" for Germany, am afraid
the Allies would not consider it in the present
circumstances as a feasible proposition.
The French who were at first impatient,
have now made up their minds to this war hav-
ing become "guerre d'usure," war of ex-
haustion in which they must economic their
men and organize the industrial forces of the
country with view to a trial of endurance.
With that power of adaptation which is con-
spicuous in French character, they are replac-
ing men by women wherever possible, utilizing
the wounded who are unfit to return to the
fighting line and arranging the whole economy
of the country with view to resumption. in
spite of the war, of its industrial life.
GERMAN BAD FAITH.
The Allies cannot, moreover, be expected
to forego the advantages that are justified in
counting upon without guarantees that war
will not be undertaken against them again
as soon as Germany has recovered. What
these guarantees can be is still problematic.
They will obviously depend on the respective
positions of the parties when negotiations be-
gin. AS regards England, her attitude on the
question of naval ornaments is well known
In the course of several years she has again
and again made overtures to Germany with
reference to an understanding based on the
principle of proportional increase On the
French side the guarantees will have to be
territorial. 1t is premature to discuss what
they may be, but one thing is evident-the
violation by Germany of the neutrality of
Belgium, the tearing up Of the treaties guar
anteeing it and the German conduct toward
an unoffending third party cannot but prove
a very serious complication when terms are
under discussion which are dependent for ex-
ecution and observance on the good faith of
the parties.
On the other hand, the allied powers will
have to bear in mind that the seeds Of the
present war were sown half century ago by
an i'll feeling begotten of ruthless terms OF
peace They are not likely to repeat the err
rors of 1871 Nor will any peace be an hon
orable one for all parties that will expose
Europe again to division into two hostile
camps, exciting hatred against each other and
parayzing confidence in that stability OF
things on which international trade and inter-
course and the prosperity Of industrial ma
tions at the present day depend.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
eGV

guish in the city spread beneath it under
mantle of protecting darkness? How, finally,
even by day, can Zeppelins and aeroplanes con-
form to the rules of notification of lombard
ment. when by this very notification they would
awaken the forces of the adversary and bring
upon themselves certain destruction? Conse-
duenty by the invention of the dirigibles 1t
results that the old humanitarian rules Of war
which had been unanimously accepted are
shaken in their principles! And the violation
of the rights Of war by aircraft threatens to
extend also to terrestrial warfare, for when
an qeroplane assumes the right to lombard
Notre Dame de Paris, why should artillery
show itself more scrupulous in regard to the
Cathedral at Rheims?
SUBMARINE.
Finally, it was one of the best-established
iuridical principles of maritime war that the
property of the enemy, or even Of neutrals,
might be captured, but not destroyed; too
commercial to renounce willingly the profits
of capture and too well aware of the value
of wealth to destroy unnecessarily the product
of human labor, the states agreed not to sink
hostile prizes without absolute necessity, ac-
ternationa Law at Oxford, in 1913 manual
of Maritime Laws, 1910, and not to sink neu-
trail prizes in any case, according to American
Jurisprudence, nor in any case except perhaps
the sudden appearance of danger, according TO
the more liberal but much discussed formula
of the unratfed Declaration Of London, Feb
ruary 26, 1909 ARTICLES 4S and 49,. Even
where the property may be destroyed the lives
of non-cOmbatants, civil or neutral, must be
respected. The Hague Conference had declared
it (Artcle of Convention vi the Declara-
ton of London states it also article SOY the
Oxford Manual repeats it: Before such de-
struction the persons on board must be trans
ferred TO a place of safety" But the subma-
rines have not room enough to carry the men
necessary to conduct the prize to port tor
judgment Moreover they have not the space
necessary to receive the crew and passengers.
Thus, from the necessary nature OF the suoma-
rlne they are obliged TO sink their prizes with
out taking off the men; and as 1t would be
more than criminal TO proceed thus without
warning, on the 4th of February, 1915, Ger
many. under the pretext of reprisals, outlines
war zone in which after the 18th, its subma-
rine activity is to be developed without dis
.inction of flag, of merchandise or of lives,
hostile or neutral.
On land as on the sea, the most funda-
mental rules are endangered.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

no wings; free or captive balloons suitable at
best for reconnaissance could not rain down
up land and sea the projectiles, foreseen by
Frederick the Great, desired by Rospotchine,
and imagined by the novelists-Verne and
Wells. Thus, in the presence of the practical
impossibiity of dropping missiles from air.
craft the agreement was entered into by all
the powers ambitious or not, mitarlst or
pacifcist. But by way of precaution the agree
ment was to last but five years. Seven years
later, at the second peace conference, when the
nations were again asked by Belgium to renew
their former compact, six of the great powers
and several of the others refused; for at that
moment, when the aeropane was near to sue
cess, the military dirigible "Patrie" was al
ready in effective operation in France. Ac-
cepted with enthusiasm when the dubious and
distant nature of the invention rendered it
academic, the Introduction failed as soon as the
invention became practical instead of chimeri-
cal, imminent instead of remote.
Grotius had laid down the great principle of
the freedom of the high seas, which for CEN
turtles had seemed the firmest doctrine OF IN
ternational law. Germany at The Hague IN
1907 claimed the right to place mines on the
high seas without any other guarantee, accord
ing to the somewhat naughty declaration of her
first delegate, Baron Marschal Won Bieber-
stein, than the humanity of her officers. Some
what later in October, 1914, using-and abus-
ing-every variety of mine, privilege which
The Hague law allowed her for floating mines
only and for but one hour after releasing them,
Germany scattered mines Unfortunately in
the open sea on the main route from America
to Liverpool via the North Of Ireland. Peaceful
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25

as that France, Russia and Great Britain were
so prepared for war against Germany that
she was forced into it. The evidence of the
utter want of preparation on the part of the
Entente powers and the happy-go-lucky conf
dence with which they assumed that an era
of peace was in sight and there was no neces-
sity to be ready for war is now too glazing for
contradiction.
With these facts before them as basis for
the consideration of peace suggestions, the
powers have to balance against each other
evils rather than advantages.
The chief capital of any country is the pro-
ductive ability of its citizens. The first point,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
Sir Thomas Barclay, the Man Who
Helped Hing Edward Make the
Entente, Discusses the Posi-
bile Basis for Peace.

the conclusion of peace. AS regards war on the
Italian side, events have not yet matured to a
point from which we can forecast the trend of
hoStilities. On the other hand, Germany
seems to have achieved the maximum effect of
her better organization and greater prepared
ness for war. For nearly ten months, that is,
since the battle of the Marine the belligerents
on the western line Of hostilities have remained
for all practical purposes stationary. On the
eastern frontier time and numbers are favor
able to the Russians, and the invasion of the
western provinces of the great Slav empire
is not likely to tempt the German commanders
to follow the example of the Grande Armee.
SO far, then, as hostilities on land are con-
cerned there is practically a deadlock. The
chances of change admittedly now ques-
ton of the greater speed with which the re-
spective belligerents can be provided with am
munition and shells. Here, again, the COM
mand of the sea gives the Allies an advantage
over Germany and Austria-Hungary, who are
now so encircled by enemies that, to all intents
and purposes, they are dependent on their
home production, while their opponents can
occupy the whole world in the furnishing of
their supplies.
The third point which must be borne in mind
is the enormous slaughter which has taken
place down to now. The British Prime Minister
recently stated that the British losses in killed
were over $4,000. When one thinks that $4,000
men in the prime of life means the destruction
of the productive ability of a community of
100000 souls, one realizes what such carnage
means, and yet this is merely small item in
the total terrific carnage of the present war.
The French have lost over 900 killed, that
is to say, eight times many as the British,
which means the annihiation of the pro-
ductive ability of a community Of 100000
souls. Appalling as are these figures, how
ever, they are quite overshadowed by the
German losses, which are 200 900 killed, rep
resenting the productive capacity of a COM
munity of 100000 equal to the whole pro-
ductve ability of Scotland. When one reflects
that the whole population of Bavaria is
100000, of Wirtemberg 100000, of Baden
100000, and of Alsace long way under
100000, the reader may well ask if it was
worth while to destroy on such a scale for
the purpose of being able to acquire colonies
abroad for surplus population which has long
since been completely wiped out. At the
present rate Of emigration Oess than 10000
annually Germany would have no surplus
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
MERE WASTE IN SUFFERING.

Every device liable to cause unnecessary suf-
fering. such as "dumdum" bullets, deserves to
be strictly forbidden. 1t is the uselessness'
however slight, of the suffering-not the eX-
tent. however great, of the Decentralization
constitutes the test of prescription. What if
a submarine destroys a dreadnought in few
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-25
COMPARTMENTS.

capped such disaster only by sheer good luck.
COMMANDMENTS.
This procedure directly assais the freedom
of the seas, fundamental principle of the law
of nations
More than that, by convention which received
at The Hague not only the signature in 1899,
but the ratification of all the powers now at
war, and which is therefore incontestaby IN
effect at the present time (although certain
events might cause one to doubt it, three prln-
ciples must be universally observed in lombard
ments. First, that undefended cities must not
be bombarded; second, that every lombard
ment, even that of defended city, must be
preceded by notice which will allow the civil
population time to seek safety; third, that in
every bombardment edifices dedicated to wor
ship, to the arts, to the sciences, to works of
charity, to the care of the sick and wounded
should be spared as far as possible. Although
Incorporated both in the first edition (l899)
and in the second edition $500 of the rules
of The Hague Convention on land warfare
ARTICLES %, &c, 27), these principles of hu-
mainly which ought, it seems, to govern all war
fare suddenly became uncertain, menaced by
the unexpected appearance of the engine of
aerial warfare. The Zeppelin is heavy air
ship easily loaded with bombs. How can it
resist the temptation to spread panic in an I'M
defended town? Unable to fly by day without
danger over a defended place, and consequently
compelled to confne its murderous flight to the
night, how can it respect those buildings of
public charity which it can no longer dlstin-