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The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23

Una leggenda ci dice che un re de-
gil antichi tempt mando' una volta ad
un altro re quest ambasciata: "man
dami un porco azzurro con la coda
nera, oppure...,,.
E Palrro rispose: 80 non no que
sto porco, Sc ravessi ..,,.
Questi puntini sospensivi furono,
purtroppo, la causa di un grave equi-
voco che porto per consequence la di-
chiarazione di guerra da ambe lie parti.
Dopo aver sacrifcato numerose Wit
time sparse tanto sangue inutil-
mente sui campo Adi battaglia, con-
chiuso frmato il trattato di pace,
uno chiese all altro: che volevate dire
maesta', col vostro messaggio: imam
dami un porca azzurro con la coda
nera, oppure...?
= Ecco, rispose raltro, 10 voleva
intendere "oppure,, di un altro CO.
lore.
Ma, vol, Sire, che intendevate
dirmi con quelle parole: ''Io non ho
questo porco, Sc ravessi. ...,,?
- Ecco, intendevo dire che, Sc 10
avessi avuto, We Iavrei mandate.
Risero saporitamente 1ue monar-
chi sui sangue del martiri del lOro
equivoco,
Ne questi son casi rari, poiche' la
storia G aperta tutti, e vi 81 pos
sono riscontrare parecchi casi simili
Z la guerra di Crimea 1850 non
ebbe principle pei futile motive della
mancata riparaziOne del tetto della
chiesa del Santo Sepolcro in Gerusa-
lemme? + COST e. di altri casl consi-
mill che tralasciamo per ragione di
brevita'.
Alcuni milionari taluni politici
perorano la causa della pace e spen-
dono milioni per innalzarle tempt;
ma, purtroppo ritengono quelP lPassioma
di politica errata: "Se vuoi la pace,
prepara la guerra.
Ed quest'uopo preparano tutti i
mezzi possibili- di distruZione: dallo
Zeppelin al Bleriot, dial cannone di
15.5, al fucile Mauser, dale bombe
ALA mitraglia, dale lunghe lance ale
corte saette, dalla torpedine al 81
luro, ed altri simili mezzi infernali.
Z tanto arde Podio mel loro cuore,
che vorrebbero distruggersi a vi
cenda
Ne valgono pianti de'vecchi ge-
nitori, memo lie lagrime dele spose
desolate, men che memo lie angoscie
degli orfani. No, non valgono lie Wit
time, cadute da eroi, ne tampoco il
grido di .Pace,, che erompe dall'a-
nina di tutti, poiche' lie nazioni bel
ligeranti han deciso di distruggersi a
Vicenda.
Ecco perche' protestiamo da queste
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23
Venga la Pace Europea


colonne. Lo facciamo, perche' gl
stessi grandi guerrieri e scienziati pro-
testarono
Protesto' "Napoleone,, quardo, esi-
liato, in SAINT Elena, disse: "Quantc
piu' 10 studio, tanto piu mi convince
dell'inefficace brutalita' della guerra,
Protesto il Duca di Wellington, al
lorche' scrivendo Lord SALISBURY,
disse: "La guerra e la cosa piu' de-
testabile. Sc non aveste visto, che I'm
sol giorno'di guerra, vol preghereste
lddio, affinche' mai ne potreste We
Edere un altra,,. -.
Protesto Washington, quando, con
scio dele fatal consequence della
guerra, disse: "E' il milo primo desi-
derio di vedere questa piaga delruma
nita' bandita dalla terra,,.
Protesto' U. Grant che vive ancora
mel suo monumento glorioso a New
York, quando disse: "Sebbene un
able soldato, quantunque sia state
in due guerre, 10 sono state sempre
uomo di pace,,.
Protesto' il Gen. w. [. Sherman,
quandO disse: EsIo confesso senza YER
gogna che sono stance ed ammalato
di guerra. La sua gloria e. un argenteo
raggio di luna che 81 affaccia scom-
pare rapidamente attraverso una mo-
bile nuvoletta. La guerra e L in
ferno,,.
Protesto' Burke. allorche' disse ::
ola guerra sospende lie regole degli
obbhghi moderni, clio che e sospeso
CORE pericOlo di essere totalmente
abrogato,,.
Protesto' Venezia, quando scrisse
sui frontispizio di una dele sue belle
caserme: ''Felice e. quella citta' che
in tempo di pace pensa ALA guerra, ;.
Protesto' Fontanelle, quando scrisse
cola sua penna immortale: ''Io odio
la guerra, perche' royina tutta Par
monia,,
Protesto, altresi' Heine, quando
con Erase scultolia disse: ola guerra
dissipa la grandezza spirituale di un
popolo grande,,. -
Protesto' w. Hooke, allorche' disse:
Sun giorno di battaglia e un giorno
di messe pei diavolo,,.
Protesto, pnre, Swift, quando
scrisse: "La guerra e 1uel pazzo
giuoco che il monde anna di giuocare,,
E, fnalmente, protesto' Monte
squieu, allorche', col suo immortale
verso, profetizzo': ''Se PEuropa do
vesse essere ruinata, cio' sarebbe per
mezzo del suoi guerrieri,,.
Ed queste proteste cost esplicite
uniamo anche le nostre e gridiamo 81
forte, che la nostra voce echeggi nei
campi di battaglia nellie coscienze
del combattenti: "Abbasso la guerra!
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23
A COSsnza
t CatanzarO

ROMA, 19.-Un telegram
ma annuncia che la citta' di
Cosenza e dintorni sono stati
squassati da una Violenta
scossa di terremoto.
| damn sarebbero stati piut-
tosto gravi: ma s'ignora Sc vi
siano state vittime.
Telegrafano da Catanzaro
che una violentissima sCossa
ha squasssato stamane all'al-
ba la citta' ed il Circondario,
causando un vivissimo panico
nella popolazione che 81 river
sava all'aperto ed ancora RI
fiuta di rientrare nellie pro-
prie abitazioni.
Non 81 lamentanO vittime.
[ damn sono piuttosto gravi.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23
La QenePOSita' di uR dnOnimO
in FPanCia

ROMA, IS, = Telegrafano qui da
Parigi che il ministro della guerra,
Millerand, ha rIcevuto da un anonimo
la somma di 4 milioni di franchi da
adibirsi nellscquisto di materisle da
guerra.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23
II Terrem0t0 in Italia
ViOlenti SCOSse ne11a Ca1abria

privava di una parte degli utensili.
Una popolana otfriva la sua polacca,
lntine t stata una nuova luminosa
manifestations del gran cuore del po,
polo romano.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23

Da Roma da f.ltre citta' sono gia'
partiti interi trent carichi di legname
per procedere ALA oostruzione di tet-
toie caTannoni.
The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-01-23

ROMA, 10 LIE caratteri.
stiche del terremoto che ha
scosso le terre calabresi ed in
particolare Cosenzo, sono sta.
tie totalmente different da
quello degli Abruzzi.
ST esclude assolutamente
che vi ,siano vittime.
La prima scossa e. stata re-
gistrata allie dodici e trenta
'di notte; ed e. stata fortemen.
te segnalata a Paola, Aman-
tea, Castrovillari, Rossano,
con levi damn: ancora piu'
forte e. stata a San Pietro Va
.lano e Nappi, dove alcune
case sono state lesionate.
La stessa scossa, ma con
minore intensita', e stata av-
vertita nellie Provincie di Po-
tenza, Reggie, Catanzaro e
Lecce.
Una secOnda scossa e. stata
avvertita a Catanzaro Po-
tedza e dintorni, allie 6.35 di
stamane, ma di intensita' in
feriore a quella della notte.
LIE popolazioni tuttavia So
no terrorizZate.
Anche a Napoli, ivri mel
pomeriggio, 81 ebbero alcune
scosse di terremOto.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
NelU jersey Legislature.

The adjournment OF the New Jer-
sey Legislature has come about with
mingled regrets from the Democrats,
and sort of pale satisfaction from
the Republicans. The New York
Sun of Thursday had this to say OF
the trenton Salons:
Just Average
New Jersey is at last rid of its
Legislature, body Republican in both
houses, whose term fell within the
dominance Of Democratic Governor.
Two estimates OF its usefulness come
from Trenton:
''Ihe New Jersey Legislature ad-
journed after session which Cover
nor Fielder characterized in a state
ment as the most tedious and weari-
some, with more promised and less
accomplished, than any he had ever
been through.
"On the other hand, Senate Presi-
dent, Walter E. Edge, asserted that
there had been much constructive
work, and that the Republican ma
jority was sure to be returned next
winter to carry on the work so we'll
begun"
Tedious and wearisome," says the
Democratic Governor; "much con-
structive work" replies the Republi-
can spokesman; "just average" is the
decision of the ordinary citizen.
The great trouble with all State
legislatures is that they meet too
often. Once in five years is often
enough, and then in limited session.
There has been enough new law en-
acted in New Jersey within the past
ten years to govern forty states.
Ninety per cent. of it was unneces-
sary. The trouble with the country
is that it has enough law that is good
and too little that is enforced. All
law is useless that is not enforced
The Wilson Trust regulation laws
were constructive and valuable, yet
an opposing political party ties a
knot in them at first opportunity.
And so it goes. Making law in job
lots to suit the whims of politicians
is tommyrot. If any man wants to
do his state more good than could be
done in any one way, let him make a
five-year, limited session law that will
hold water; law that will make the
extra session an impossibility, except
for one subject, and that only for
extraordinary necessity. That would
be doing something big, something
worth while.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
Russian And Other Dreams.

Under the caption Russia s
Dream" Harper's Weekly says: "To
the Slavic mind the fall of Constan-
tinople will be the greatest military
event in centuries"
Certainly, but the military feature
of control of the Dardanelles doesn't
completely cover Russia's dream, by
a good deal.
Dream of a country whose popu-
lation has increased 80 per cent. in
forty years, whose resources in hu-
man necessities, such as fuel, food
and building material, are hardly ap-
preached by any other country on
earth-dream of such a country
getting a fair chance to compete for
the worlds trade, and you are getting
somewhere near the size of the Rus
sian dream. Hundreds of thousands
of acres of finest timber in one forest
alone; unlimited oil spouting from
mere pricking of the earth's crust;
vast deposits of all sorts of minerals
that have hardly been scratched;
already leading the world in produc-
ton of cereals; labor at Oriental
prices; an army of 100000 fighters
who fight merely because ordered to
do so.
Do you dream of great Russian
commercial fleets sailing the Mediter-
ranean in continuous procession?
Maybe the English so-called "the
nation of traders" are dreaming such
things. Maybe the next mighty
struggle will be between the two
great allies whose gunboats now
have designs on the opposite ends of
that Dardanelles passage. Stranger
things have rappened, and, after all,
Palisadian., 1915-04-24

believes in himself more when, know
ing his subject, he undertakes to de-
liver an opinion than can come in its
best form only when fortified with
that absolute faith born of self
confidence and complete knowledge.
Certainly no public utterance of the
diction, more powerful in force, or
more complete as a finished compost
tion than this America First" speech
of this week. 1t was wonderful in
it's effect, and it is question if those
who heard it can recall in their entire
experience a moment when man had
more complete control, more perfect
mastery over his audience. There
was not a dull moment, not an in
stant's let up in the spell he wove
from the beginning to the end.
From his first word it was seen that
he had message, and when the last
echo of his voice had died out the
world knew that it had been an i'm
portant message. To have delivered
at this time what his understanding
OF neutrality meant was wise act,
because his enemies were beginning
to criticise and misinterpret him with
out any right whatever to do so, be-
cause they did not know. 1t was this
that at time when feeling Of un-
rest existed, feeling of insecurity
had taken hold, that the President
came to the front and disarmed his
critics and his enemies. There is no
longer any doubt how we stand now;
Mr.. Wilson has cleared it all up. He
has brushed away the cobwebs, so
that the vision is clear and the horizon
undimmed.
Those who missed the treat of hear
ing President Wilson's great speech
lost an opportunity to record in their
lives an experience that in the ma
ture of the circumstances surround
ing it, was one of the most remarkable
chmaxes that have ever been record
ed in the annals of our common coun-
try. That he should have risen to
such majestic heights in an hour of
direst need for some one to interpret
the situation, proves him a man of
matchless power, and statesman of
the safest promise. He has COM
mitted the fewest errors, and the as
surance he offered in this latest
triumph piles up mountain high the
songs which America is singing to-
day in his praise. He is in every
way worthy of the highest world
honors.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
trade largely makes up the soul and
conscience of nations.
Pulling Together.

While it is true that few communi
ties have ever existed without fac
tions among it's people of various
kinds, political, social and otherwise,
at the same time there are moments
when factional differences should be
forgotten. Taking sides on all ques-
tions is as natural as breathing.
Nature holds no brief against it,
custom has found no way to pre-
vent it.
But there is difference between
the faction and the open breacn.
Where the latter takes place in conf
munities the time has come when
true leadership is demanded to heal
the gap. In small communities fool
ish, silly littleboylike grudges that
are cherished for years because Of
imaginary causes, are not good for
the public health. They prevent the
spontaneous, get-together spirit that
should prevail; they cause rancor
and unrest; they produce the chill,
the social rlgor that is bad for the
civic patient that wants to be
healthy and active and wideawake.
those who insist upon these petty de-
vices for carrying along spirit Of
strife; unless he be ready to forgive
and forget, he is travelling along the
road to Nowhere. He is at sea in a
shifting winds, so that it becomes diff
ticult to steer a steady course. None
of us wants to be off the right track.
We should all want to serve truth,
than which there is no more certain
goal OF happiness. We should want
to worship at the shrine OF proper
faith, centered in ourselves, where
absolutely unselfsh labor for the COM
munity will speak for itself. The
man who pins the bouquet Of self
adulation upon his own lapel is not
working for the common good. He
is concentrating the limelight upon
himself, and the public finally tires OF
the selfish man.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
Senator ALdrich.

The death of ex-senator Nelson W..
Aldrich, who represented Rhode
Island in the United States for thirty
years, removes really big man from
the stage of American activity in
politics. He was one of the most
powerful politicians the country has
ever known. Ernest, able, alert, and
shrewd beyond them all, he was a
leader who carried persuasion through
the force of his personality alone.
Certainly he was not constructive
statesman in so far as that quality
relates to the building up of values
for the masses, because he was never
able to disassociate himself from the
"Interests." He believed in piling up
a tariff that would and that did en-
rich manufacturers, letting the bur-
den fall upon the masses. He knew
none of the laws of economics for
this reason. His theory that the
country was the gamer never worked
out any solution for the pocketbook
of the people who paid the bills. He
knew none of the benefits of proper
gradation of taxation. Whatever put
money into the Golfers of the Trusts,
with the protected industries was his
one idea of successful taxing, re-
gardless of all other factors entering
into the problem. Mr.. Taft knew him
as a wonder-worker in getting things
done, and so relied upon him, though
he finally wrecked the Taft admins
tration. Disregarding the sovreigI.
power of taxation, Adlrich preferred
to centrahge it's benefits in business.
He fought in the open for the most
part, but that same power of leader
ship always asserted itself except in
one thing. He failed in his currency
plan, which Woodrow Wilson has
now made into law as the Reserve
Bank system. Measured as all OF
the great protectionists have been
measured, Aldrich was man of tre
mendous force, because his logic was
of the kind that appealed to the big
interests and they backed him to the
last dollar. Mark Hanna backed him
with the "Interests" millions, hence
the corrupting influence of ready
cash pulled him out of holes that
L.
But the day of the dollar in politics
is numbered-that is, where it may
be handed out at so much per man at
the polls. The genius of Aldrich ap-
piled to more ethical labors would
have left the moral side of his char
acter and reputation a far more en-
during monument than the niche he
will really occupy in history.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
April.
hOnOrS.

April the tickle. The month of
colds and hots, of winds and fogs,
will soon be gone. There are no diff
ferent Aprils. Add them all up for
a century and the average is the same.
Full of contradictions, April brings
snow while the hyacinthes blossom.
Clouds and winds and frost chase each
other in regular order. First it is
an April morning, a June noon, a
May afternoon, then almost a Decem-
ber evening. Like youth April now
sulks in disappointment, now en-
thusiastic with touch of pleasure,
now retiring to a corner to sull1
again only to come forth in radiant
delight. April's promises are as
tickle as coquette's smile. She
wins and even woos you, then retreats
before your advances. She lures you
on only to disappoint you in your ex-
pectations. But with all of her
frowns and smiles, everybody adores
the sight of April. Like a woman, it
is her contradictory nature that
makes men love her.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24

feet enunciation without the frills of
elocution, yet still more than ordin-
arily clear and piercing, all stamp him
as a man far beyond the average big
man. There is not the slightest par
ticle of effort to his delivery. He
never pauses for lack of the exact, fit
and proper word. And there is that
exactitude of thought, the perfect,
thorough mastery of the idea he
wants to convey, and withall such per-
feet precision, that there is no getting
away from his meaning. If | had to
pay his genius the highest compliment
in my power, | would that the power
of wilson rests in his force OF
thought, and his ability to convey
what he thinks IN the most direct and
easily understood language.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
An Impression.

A "Palisadian" representative had
the pleasure of hearing President
wilson's great speech at the Asso-
ciated Press luncheon last Tuesday
afternoon. Impressions of Mr.. Wilson
are an interesting subject to those
who see and hear him for the first
time. l had formed many mental
pictures of him, but would have
recognized him from the moving pic
tules and other portraits that have
been published of him. His attitude
is very interesting. When he en-
tered the banquet hall at the Waldorf
he was roundly applauded for sew
eral minutes, and he stood there and
bowed for several minutes. He has
wonderfully fascinating smile, and
Roosevelt has nothing on him in the
teeth line. Wilson's mouth is thor
oughly refined, but he smiles only
when it is appropriate and necessary.
He is not obtrusive or demonstra
tive with his smile as many people
do who have an attractive mouth. l
should say, though, that as between
Wilson's mouth and his remarkable
eye, it is toss up. Both are features
that dominate his expression, and
each is particularly powerful.
Mr.. Wilson is good eater. He
partook of everything served at the
luncheon with evident relish. He did
not touch the white wine that was
offered him. The waiter poured his
glass about one third full before he
was stopped, but even that little re-
mained. He drank only water, and
slipped his demi tasse without sugar,
using the spoon all the time till he
almost emptied the cup, then he
drained it all from the cup itself. He
did the same with his boullion. Mr..
Wilson is fond of bread, but ate no
butter. He breaks the bread in small
pieces and passes it to his mouth with
his hand He never bites the roll!
All in all, the Presidents table man
ners are perfect. He eats like
human being, however, and is no cad.
Cutting his broiled chicken he used
the fork in his left hand to pass the
food to his lips. At the table he was
graciousness itself with President
Noyes, of the Associated Press, on his
left, and Melville E. Stone to his right.
There were many agreeable things
said during the luncheon, and evil
IDENTIFY some wit, as the President
laughed heartily several times while
he dined.
When the moment came for him to
speak, Mr.. Wilson arose, and looked
the part of an everyday man. He is
so very natural, so very democratic,
that in crowd where he was un-
known he would be picked as a per-
son of education and refinement, but
not as great ruler of more than
1OO,OO0,000 people. Just an ordinary
citizen, a gentleman of culture, that's
all.
But when he speaks, it is then that
the mans extraordinary power
evinces itself. He is wonder. His
poise, his exact vocabulary, his per-
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
DOESN'T OFTEN HAVE
GOOD DINNER

Several ladies sat after card party
a few mornings ago discussing the
virtues of their husbands. "Mr. Bing-
leton," said one of them referring to
her partner, "never drinks and never
swears-indeed he has no bad habits. .
"Does he ever smoker" some one
asked.
eyes, he likes a cigar after he has
eaten a good meal. But, l suppose
on an average, he doesn't smoke more
than once a month";
Chicago Journal.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
THE UNCROWNED

To write some earnest verse or line,
Which seeking not the praise of art,
Shall make a clearer faith and man.
hood shine
In the untutOred heart.
He who doth this in verse or prose
May be forgotten in his day,
But surely shall be crowned at last
with those
Who live and speak for aye.
james Russell Lowell.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
''America First

The felicitous speech delivered by
President Wilson on Tuesday last at
the Waldorf before the members of
the Associated Press and their guests
was one of the most timely and elo-
ouent he has ever uttered. 1t bore
all of the earmarks of an impromptu
effort, and, in fact, had been an
nounced as such. Perhaps Mr.. Wilson
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
THE SATISFACTION

1t is difficult to be always true to our
selves, to be always what we wish to
be, what we feel we ought to be. AS
long as we feel that, as long as we
do not surrender the ideal of our life,
all is right. Our aspirations repre-
sent the true nature of our soul much
more than our everyday ife.-Max
Muller.
Palisadian., 1915-04-24
SUNSHINE

A laugh is just like sunshine.
1t freshens all the day,
1t tips the peak of life with light,
And drives the clouds away.
The soul grows glad that hears it,
And feels it's courage strong;
A laugh is just like sunshine
For cheering folks along.
Anon.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-03-16
ASKS UNCLE SAM ITO TAKE
STEPS AGAINST EITEL
One OF the Frye's Owners Declares
Thht German WarShip Should
be Treated as Pirate

Long Beach, Cal, March 11.-Samuel
w. Sewall, of Bath, Me-, one Of the
owners of the schooner William P.
Frye, sunk by the Prinz Eitel Fried
rich, said today he had appealed to
the United States to proceed against
tie German warssip as a sea rover
and her crew as pirates. He mas asked
also that vigorous representations be
made to Germany.
teThe Frye" he said, carried car
go that was marked fnon-contraband'
by the Federal insurance bureau.
There was nothing but wheat aboard
the ship"
Mr.. sewell said E:e vessel was worth
s175,0OO and the cargo of wheat, ship
ped at Seattle last November, was val
ued at 100000.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1915-03-16

possible for the United States to con
template longer with patience
Conditions have become intolerable
and can no longer be endured. The
government of the United States there
fore desires Gen. Obregon and Gen.
-arranza to know that it mas, ter
mature consideration, determined that
if, as result Of the situation for
which t ey are responsible, Americans
will suffer by reason of the conduct Of
the Constitutionalist forces in the City
of Mexico or because they fail to pro-
vide means of protection to life and
property, it will hold Gen. Obregon and
Gen. Carranza personally responsible.
There ore, having reached this de-
termination, the government of the
United States will take sucn measures
as are expedient to bring to account
those personally responsible for what
may occur"