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The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
OF THE RICH HER FIRST PATIENT
Republicans Now, as Ever, Seek
Prosperity for the Few.
Willing to Let the Manufacturer Rob
the People With an Extortlon-
ate Tariff and Dole Out
Plttance for Labor.

Nationally the Republican party is
like the bronze statue OF Louis XVI
In the Tuileries, without heart or
bowels. Mr.. Taft and Rev. John Wes-
ley Hill are walking backward over
the country Mr.. Taft going from col
lege to college, Rev. Mr.. Hill from
state organization to commercial club,
and each telling their audiences that
the sun may be expected to rise In the
west day after tomorrow.
AS for today, they are deploring and
viewing with alarm. During the early
spring, Jim Watson Of Indiana and
Senator Weeks OF Massachusetts
strolled up and down the continent
deploring the decay of free institu-
lions and promising a return of the
pot pie of the fathers. None of these
gentlemen had anything to offer In
the way of solution for unemployment,
excepting high tariff, which will
let the manufacturer rob the people
with an extortionate tariff and divide
the crumbs from their table with
laDor II any or them saw anything
In the way Of the inequitable distribu'
ton OF our national wealth, he was
silent about 1t. The spectacle did not
disturb him.
To these men and to all the leaders
in the Republican party today. tho
problem of the people is not the dis
tribution of wealth, but its accumula
ton. They are friends first of all
OF the accumulators. The Republican
party as 1t stands today is exhibiting
no vestige OF interest In anything but
the accumulation Of wealth; prosper
ity rather than justice Is the Repub
lican aim. Property is its god. To
own, to control, to have and to hold
these are Republican ideals. To give
to serve, to broaden life and glad
den living-these In the composite
Republican mind are things OF thu
child. They have been put away alont
with the Progressive leadership tina
passed out OF the party in 19l2'-Wil
liam Allen White in the metropolitan
Magazine.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
MAY BE TRACED TO TARIFF
American Manufacturers Who Cheat.
ed on Army Contracts Got the
Habit Under Protective System.

Those American manufacturers who
have been cheating the French gov
eminent on army contracts for shoes,
which by sample were good and on
delivery proved to be rotten, aud for
stockings which we're to be 70 per
cent wool and 80 per cent cotton and
proved to be the other way round,
are taken severely to task by the Dry
Goods Economist They are denounced
as traitors In our own camp" They
have "besmircho the honor Of Made
in U. S. A. merchandise" at time
when every effort is being made to
give the label prestige which will
weigh in all outside markets.
There is justice In this indignation.
There Is also an element Of injus-
tice. What these manufacturers have
been doing to the French army they
have been doing to the American peo
pl, time out of mind. 1t has become
an ingrained habit. They have been
encouraged in this by their own gov
eminent and commonly by majority
of voters. The national power OF tax.
alton has been used to stimulate them
in the hidden substitution of cotton
for wool, pasteboard for leather. shod-
dies for honest material.
This national policy in cultivation Of
manufacturing helpfulness and false
pretension has now been reversed;
yet old habits are hard to shake of.
The Dry Goods Economist is right
ly appalled, by this noisy international
advertisement of the tariff.fostered
shoddy habit at so inopportune a
time But does anybody suppose
American industry is to be rid of 1t
through the restoration of a public
policy which has been responsible2
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
American Girl Tells of Expert
enCe at the "Front."
Compelled to Hold Stretcher-B
to Work, Nurse Has Strenuous
Time Getting Wounded Man
to Surgeons.

An American girl who recently vol
unteered for service with Red Cross
ambulance in Belgium sends the fol.
lowing account of her first case:
"The commandant doctor with
whom l was assigned to work had
taken me far up toward the front,
where a Belgian battery was sta
toned. While he attended to some
trifing injuries, there came the sound
of cannonading, and news that the
Germans were attacking the very Sec
ton where we were working.
Suddenly, at what seemed the last
minute of safety, two Belgian stretch
erbearers, without stretcher, rushed
up to me. They said there was a
man badly wounded somewhere up
the road. found a stretcher and
went off with them to look for him.
I'VE went on and on. 1t probably
wasn't more than 500 yards, but 1t
seemed like a very long way; 1t
seemed impossible to find the house.
Then some women came running and
pointed out the place. The stretcher-
bearers hurried off with their stretch
er. followed.
THE man, horribly hurt, with a
wound like a red pit below his shout
dor blades, was brought and laid on
the stretcher. He lay there quietly
on his side, In posture Of utter res
ignation to anguish.
"He was a Belgian peasant, slums'
lily built; he had broad, rather ugly
face, narrowing suddenly as the fringe
of his whiskers became a little strag
Cling beard. But to me he was the
most beautiful man | had ever seen
loved him. He was my first wound
ed man!
81 tried-I still try-to persuade
myself that II l hadn't bullied my
two bearers and repulsed an attempt
to get my stretcher away for some
other patient, he would have beef
left behind in that little house. W.
got him out of the yard all right
and on the paved road. Then, t
my horror, the bearers dumped hin
down on the paving stones. The,
said he was much too heavy. The,
couldn't possibly carry him ur!es
they rested.
Il didn't think 1t was exactly tn
moment for resting and told then
so in several languages. The Gel
mans were likely to come around tn
turn in the road at any time. 70
never know!
But the bearers stood stolidly 1
the middle of the road and moppe
their faces and puffed The situation
began to be as absurd and terribl
as a nightmare. So grabbed on on
end of the stretcher and said woul
carry it myself | said wasn't yer
strong, and perhaps couldn't do 1t, Blu
anyhow, | would try.
They picked it up at once then
and started off at good swinging
trot over the rough paving stones
jolting my poor patient horribly.
suggested that they walk on tn
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
BE KINDER 70 YOURSELF
Women Are often Victims of Nervous
ness Because They Don't Know
How to Relax.

One of the important things to know
in life, especially if you are a woman,
is how to let yourself alone, writes
Mary Carolyn Davies in the Mothers
Magazine. The ability to relax, the
art of being judiciously lazy, the tact
to let herself alone has saved many q
woman from a nervous breakdown.
We all know the housewife who nags
herself into such a state of conscien-
tiousness that she cannot rest. If she
lies down she is continually worrying
herself with thoughts of the work that
she is neglecting.
Much of the blame for this state OF
affairs lies at the doors of the moth
ers. The mistake is in their training
of their children, especially their
daughters. They are taught from ear
Hest infancy to be kind to others, to
bear with them, to forgive them, to
help them; but from birth to death no
one ever tells them to be kind, also,
to themselves.
The woman who nags herself can
make herself more miserable than any
one else possibly could. She can make
her life more of nightmare than any
misfortune could possibly make 1t, II
such women could learn to be kinder
to themselves there is no doubt that
their own lives would be heightened;
and not only that, but the lives Of
those with whom they come in close
contact would be made far more pleas
| ant,
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Medals WRONGLY Distributed.

1t was a clear, warm Sunday, and
Cargo went off Tor a walk to think
things over. He Ret his old friend
Bill Jorkins, whom be had not seen
for months, and they proceeded to a
place where a cool, foamjng mug was
to be had. And they had quite sat
isfactory number and became conf
Dental. "Ow're e gettin' on, nanny
way, Garge?" finally asked Bin Jor-
kins. "Gettin' on? Never 'ad such q
time. Workin' till 'alf-past nine every
night on war work, an we'en l gets
'ome mother goes cryin' hover the sup
per because of the lawful ardships me
two young brothers is sufferin' walkin'
up and down the prom at Morecambe.
tell we, Bill, the wrong chap'll get
the bloomin' medals in this war;
London Tit-Bits.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Says Young Men Only Talk,

Prof. j. l.. Henderson Of Harvard
university recently declared that the
college should free young men from
the tyranny of styles in clothing, that
all should beware of modern fiction
and stuff called literature" nowadays
and that the trouble with our Ameri'
can young is that they cannot con
verse; they can only talk"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Fool Critics Dlsarmed.

Since the present war scare began
self-constituted critics have insisted
that the navy department should have
a system of control like the general
staff of the army or the admiralty of
the British navy so that the alleged
demoralizing activity of the secretary
might be minimized. Now behold!
The secretary has Just established
ouch a staff, or advisory council, and
that fine old standpatter. the New
York Sun, is moved to declare that
this plan of reorganization is regard
ed as the most important step yet
taken by the United States naval au'
thorities to establish Its navy on a
modern basis 1t tends to insure the
adoption of an intelligent building pro-
gram and an increase in the efficiency
of the fighting units of the service"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Interesting to Physicians.


One of the interesting places for Wis
itors, especially medical men, is the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re-
search at Sixty-sixth street and Ave-
nue. A, New York. The Rockefeller
institute is similar in the scope Of
its work to the Pasteur institute in
Paris. 1t Is under the direction Of
DR.. Simon Flexner, formerly of the
University of Pennsylvania. He is an
authority in pathology and bacteriol-
ogy, and has published the results Of
his extensive researches into snake
venom. bubonic plague, cerebro-spinal
meningitis, bacillary dysentery, in
fantile paralysis and other diseases.
The establishment aims to be more ef-
fective than general hospitals for the
successful demonstration Of new
forms OF treatment. Here the STAFF
may apply and treat under careful
servation such new methods or dis
coveries as have proved worthy of a
thought trial on human beings aftiict
ed with diseases not yielding to pres
ent modes of treatment.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
A Jonah.

There's a storm coming up" said
the captain of the yacht, land the
boat is too heavily loaded. Well have
to tighten the ship somehow"
THAT will be all right, captain re-
piled one of the gay party on board.
You have our permission to throw
the chaperon overheard"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
The lest.

DO you think Mr.. Spooner's inten.
lions are serious?' asked the girls
mother.
81 don't know yet, mamma" replied
the girl. "I'm going down to the jew
eler's this afternoon to have his ring
appraised"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Hostess-Sh! that's my neighbours
dog. Be careful what you say about
that woman
Fair Guest-Why that's silly. Dogs
can't understand.
Hostess-No, but they carry tails
Philadelphia Record.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Revised.

SIS that futurist music you're play.
ing?" inquired hubby as his wife
pumped the pianola.
mo, dear; it's Home, Sweet Home
but think Bobby has been using 1t
as a target for his air rife"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Broke.

Come on, Bill Join us in a little
game Of poker"
Sorry boys, but can't"
why not? Your wife is in the
country"
Eyes, and so is my salary"
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Davis Esaccson arrived at Atlanta
Federal prison alone to begin serving
a sentence Of year and day. After
he had been convicted in New York
Of Irregularities in connection with
his position as president Of the Kales
Manufacturing Company, federal Of
ficers decided to allow him to make
the trip unguarded.
+ + +
Two dead and six severely injured,
one probably MORALLY, was the toll of
riots at the Standard Oil and Tide
water plants in Bayonne, N. j., in one
days fight as the result Of two at
lacks on the inside on deputies guard
ing the property.
After reading an account of the at
tempt on the life of Leo NJ. Frank,
Mike Dittinger, in Jail at Reading, Pa
slashed the throat of Frank Swavely
fellow prisoner, killing him. He then
killed himself.
+ + +
Denouncing the "one-sided enforce
ment" of the law in imprisoning hun
dreds of former strikers, while those
responsible for the Ludlow massacre
go unpublished, A. NJ. Stevenson, form
er Republican national committeeman,
has asked Governor Carlson of Colo
RADIO to call off the prosecution OF the
thousand indicted men.
r. + +
Fifty cities of West Virginia have
reported to the state department of
prohibition on the comparative num-
Der of arrests for the last two years,
the first "wet" year, the last dry
year. The record shows the total
number of arrests in 1894 in fifty
towns was 1871 and in 1914-15, the
states first dry" year, it was 1858.
f. + +
The P. Lorillard Tobacco Company
of Jersey City, N. j., has announced
that it has signed contract for 400
million cigarettes to be manufactured
and delivered on or before September
l. These cigarettes are for the troops
OF the Allies.
+ + r
The discovery Of bombs on several
ships that have left New York in the
last few months has resulted in un
usual precautions in slowing freight
At one pier an X-ray machine is useC
to examine bales of cloth and cottor
for possible concealed bombs.
r. r +
The last Of the idle steel mills in thu
Wheeling, w. Va, district has beel
placed in operation by the employment
of the force at the Riverside plant o
the National Tube Company. Tw'
weeks will be required to get all de
partments going and give work to tn
five thousand men who have been idl
fourteen months.
+ + r
Five deaths and scores of prostra
lions from the heat occurred in NeN
York one day recently. One Of tn
heat victims was overcome and die
while watching baseball game at tn
Polo Grounds. While the temperatur
did not exceed 81 degrees, the perceI
tage of humidity reached 70.
| a. L.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Growth of American Merchant Marine

Growth of American Merchant Marine.
The tonnage increase of the Amer
lean merchant marine up to May l
of the fiscal year 1915 amounted to
1913 vessels of 6S0.155 cross tons. &C
cording to a report made recently by
the bureau of navigation. department
of commerce This is a greater in
crease than has been recorded for any
previous year In 1907. 596.70S gross
tons we're added to the American reg
istry. and previous to that the record
had been held by the year 1855. when
an Increase of 5S6,1O1 gross tons were
recorded.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Foreign.

Formation of new ministry of mum.
lions with power to mobilize all indus
tries in the service of the government
will be authorized in a bill soon to be
submitted to the Russian .Duma. The
department will be organized along
the same lines as the English war mu-
nitions ministry under Lloyd-George.
+ r +
The body of Herbert S. Stone, an
American who was Lusitania victim,
has come ashore at Ballybunnion,
small town at the mouth Of the River
Shannon on the west coast of Ireland,
about $50 miles from the point where
the Lusitania was sunk.
+ + f.
Reports from all parts Of France
indicate that there has been a general
and enthusiastic response to the re-
quest Of Minister of Finance Ribot for
deposits of gold to add to the coun-
try's reserve. The municipal govern
ment of Paris deposited in one day
100000
n II n
General Won Kissing, governor gen.
eral of Belgium, has promulgated an
order for the punishment of any Bel
gian between the ages of 16 and 40
who leaves the state to serve in any
capacity for country at war with
Germany. The penalty provided is a
fine of $500 or five years impriSon-
ment or both.
Two important officers Of the Chi
nese government, both vice ministers
of the cabinet, have been dismissed
summarily. President Yuan Shi Kai
charges wholesale speculation against
Chang HUI, vice minister of finance.
+ r. +
A new vote of credit of three-quar-
ter billion dollars has been introduced
in the British House of Commons.
This second supplementary vote will
bring the sum actually appropriated
by Parliament this year for war ex-
penditures to the total of three and
one-quarter billion dollars.
r r n
Dispatches from the City Of Mexico
announce that Zapata forces reoccu-
pied the capital Sunday after the
evacuation by the Carranza army I'M
der General Gonzalez.
+ + +
New is current that Emperor Will
liam has telegraphed to his sister, the
Queen of Greece, to the effect that
he has paralyzed Russia for at least
six months to come and is on the eve
of delivering coup on the western
front that will make all Europe trem-
ble."
+ + f.
Carranza troops that captured Naco,
Sonora, while engaged in removing IL
quor from an American saloon, found
an American flag, carried 1t to within
a few feet of the international border
line and trampled it into ribbons.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
The Reason.

81 say, why did you name that dog
of yours Gossip"
because he's such backbiter."
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The most stupendous military cam
paign of the present war not only
threatens the capture of Warsaw, but
contemplates the development of Rus
sia's chief field armies under the per-
sonal command of the Grand Duke
Nicholas
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Political circles in Berlin take the
view that the success of the German
drive on Warsaw not only may mean
a separate peace with Russia, but will
remove the possibility Of any of the
Balkan states entering the war on the
side of the Allies.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The American consul at Warsaw,
Russia, has cabled the State Depart
ment that the Belgian consul had left
Warsaw and that the American con-
sulate had taken charge of the affairs
of both Belgium and Servia there.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30
Washington.

Suits are about to be brought by the
government against American citizens,
who, though apparently able to do so,
refuse to repay money expended for
their relief when they were stranded
in Europe at the outbreak of the war.
Many of those aided have reimbursed
the government.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

A special train loaded with French
prisoners of war, permanently dis
abled, on their way home from Ger
many, passes in Geneva, Switzerland.
every night another special filled with
crippled Germans who are returning
from France.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Since the withdrawal of German di-
visions from Galicia. the Austrians
have made no perceptible gains in
their attacks against the Russian po-
sitions. Though greatly outnumbered
at several portions of the southeast
ern front, the Russian troops have had
no difficulty in beating back Austrian
attacks.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The seemingly irresistible march of
the Austro-German armies is winning
for them town after town in Russian
Poland and in other territory through
which stretches the 1,000-mile battle
front in the East.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

n II n
Trains are now being operated on a
regular schedule between Vera Cruz
and the City ofiMexico for both pas
senger and freight traffic, according
to dispatch received here from Vera
Cruz by the Carranza agency.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Carranza troops that captured Naco,
Sonora, while engaged in removing IL
quor from an American saloon, found
an American flag, carried 1t to within
a few feet of the international border
line and trampled it into ribbons.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The discovery Of bombs on several
ships that have left New York in the
last few months has resulted in un
usual precautions in slowing freight
At one pier an X-ray machine is useC
to examine bales of cloth and cottor
for possible concealed bombs.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

President Wilson was told recently
by Miss Jane Adams, representing
the womens peace conference, which
recently met at The Hague, that she
saw no possibility for peace in Europe
in the immediate future.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

After eight weeks of war, the ltal-
ians have been unable to advance be-
yond the first defenses of the Aus
TRANS. The situation has become so
serious that the Roman government
has ceased to issue official reports OF
proceedings in the war zones. No cas-
ualty lists have been published, al
though sources outside Italy estimate
the Italian losses at 100000.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The German submarine attack on
the Cunard liner Orduna has been
formally brought to the attention of
the American government by William
o. Thompson, counsel for the Indus.
trial Relations Commission, who was
a passenger on the ship.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The American vice-consul at Bel.
grade, Servia, has reported that the
typhus epidemic in Servia and Monte
negro is under control and that chol.
era towns gradually are being cleaned.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Letters of reproof, written by Secre-
tary Redfield, have been sent to the
Cleveland Automatic Machinery Com
pany of Cleveland, o., and the Amer
lean Machinist, New York trade
magazine, dealing with the publication
of an advertisement of poisonous,
acid-loaded shells
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

Brigadier General Devol, general
manager of the American Red Cross,
has returned from the Texas border
with the announcement that attempts
to relieve famine and suffering among
non-combatants in Mexico we're hope
less under present conditions.
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The P. Lorllard Tobacco Company
of Jersey City, N. j., has announced
that it has signed a contract for 400
million cigarettes to be manufactured
and delivered on or before September
l. These cigarettes are for the troops
Of the Allies
The Liberal democrat. [volume] (Liberal, Kan.) 1911-1924, 1915-07-30

The body of Herbert S. Stone, al
American who was a Lusitania victim
has come ashore at Ballybunnion, ;
small town at the mouth of the Rive
Shannon on the west coast of Ireland
about $50 miles from the point wher,
the Lusitania was sunk.