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No Free Sugar

| REPRESENTATIVES, KITCHIN, who Is
~ to succeed Mr.. Underwood as chairman
OF the Ways and Means Committee OF the
House. hints that the duty on sugar may be
retained. A loss Of $50, 900 the year in rev.
enue during period OF special war taxes
is considerably more OF a pill than the De
mocracy can expect the nation to swallow
Mr. Underwood himself, It is well known
was opposed to free sugar. SO was practt-
caly everybody else in the party except the
President Congress yielded but not with
very good grace. Cheapening the morning
cup OF coffee is all right in theory, but the
unfortunate part about It is that the con-
sumer finds that somebody else has taken
the saving before he has a chance.
Sugar. Of course, has always been consid-
cred a splendid revenue producer. The tarin
on il is easily collected and the tax Is so
widely distributed that no class suffers an
unequal burden. But political reasons for the
retention of the duty are more urgent than
the economic ones, from the Democratic
viewpoint. The beet sugar industry has be-
come enormously important in dozen
States. Penalizing Louisiana planters is one
thing and penalizing thousands of voters In
doubtful Commonwealths is another Free
sugar is now scheduled for May /, 1915, on
the very eve of the Presidential campaign.
Sound reason would prompt the Democracy
to get out of a bad hole by using the war
as an excuse for revision Of its program
so far as sugar is concerned
But protection is no more important Tor
sugar than it is for dozens of other things
Mr. Kitchin plans to go few steps on the
way: the electorate is likely TO insist that
protection in its entirety be re-establshed
as the definite policy of the nation.
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For the Honor of France

NOTHING finer has happened in this war
~ than the action of France in sending
back TO Switzerland Eugene Gilbert, the avi-
ator who was forced to land on Swiss soil in
July because of an accident to his motor.
He was interned by the Swiss Government,
and was allowed to go about on his promise
that he would not attempt to escape. He
broke his word few days ago, crossed the
frontier and reported for duty at the War
Office in Paris.
The honor of France as well as the honor
of soldier were involved in his actions, and
France, in order that her honor may he un-
.sullied. has repudiated the action of Gilbert.
The word of a French soldier must be as
good his bond lest the word of France,
when given scrap of paper" be re-
garded as empty promise.
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THE USE OF THE BALLOT

To the Editor Of the Evenin0 Ledger.
Sir-Announcement was made recently that
the Limited Equal Suffrage League and the
Woman Suffrage party of Philadelphia have
asked Governor Brumbaugh to declare himself
in favor Of the adoption of the amendment TO
the State Constitution proposing unrestricted
woman suffrage In this Commonwealth and in
return for his espousal OF the cause" promise
their support. the offer holding an implied
threat.
The office for which the representatives of
woman suffrage Offering TO barter support
for votes is that of Chief Magistrate of the ma
tion, the highest office in our gift The choice or
the people for this high office Is the Representa-
tive. In his administration of the Internal pol-
icies OF the Government of the interests of
30 100000 people. In the councils of the great
powers of the world he stands as the measure
Of our greatness as nation, the political stature
10 which we have attained.
Those advocates Of cause whose political
horizon is so limited by their obsession with the
especial propaganda they desire to further that
they offer 10 barter with possible candidate
for that ONCE reveal lack OF political astute-
ness; for in the eyes of all who estimate Justly
the dignity the large responsibility OF that high
ONCE, a candidate who would consider a prom
osition TO give his support 70 a propaganda in
exchange for votes, would be weighed and
found wanting"
These women reveal IN themselves a low
standard of political morality ana a failure 10
appreciate political values. important qualifca-
tions for the intelligent. the conscientious use
of the ballot. l. W.
Philadelphia, August 29
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The Hamlet Of Oyster Rax

"FTHE time is out OF joint" cries Theodore
4 Roosevelt the Hamlet OF Oyster Bay,
and continues with a slight modification OF
phrase. "oh cursed spitel that never was
chose to set It right"
Until the Plattsburg Incident Mr.. Roose-
welt was constrained TO take out HIS cursed
spite" in rebuking the pacinsts. the China
nors. the Germans and the German Ameri-
cans. We are desperately unprepared for
war" he would cry out. and In the next
breath would assert thai We must so TO war
at once TO redeem our obligation 70 Belgium.
The Secretary OF War very properly refuses
70 borrow Mr. Roosevelts idea that "our
present state Of unpreparedness makes IL de-
sirable to engage In war with four or Ave
other nations" He says '"Tutl Tut" TO the
Colonel and declares the incident closed.
That the Administration should be drawn
Into controversy SO childish and so III
natured on the part Of former President
VIII seem depIorable enough. But neither the
AdminlstratIons loss OF dignity nor Mr..
Hoosevelt's loss Of temper can cloud over the
good which has come Of II. Mr.. Roosevelt's s
points about our unpreparedness are good
roinfs--so good that the country had taken
them 70 heart months before Mr. Roosevelt
<oeke. His assertion that there has been q
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Where Arc the /" smarting MilHons"?

ACCORDING to Frank p. Walsh, the
n chairman of the Federal Commission
on Industrial Relations, who seems to be
the best known agitator in the country just
now. "the basic cause of industrial dissatis-
faction is low wages" He also finds that
t"citizens numbering millions smart under a
sense of injustice and oppression"
Do they? II does not take many millions
to elect President and Congress- whole
people cannot be "smarting" very much or
they would rise in their wrath and terminate
the conditions of which they complain. 1t
is a fact. OF course, that wages in America
are the highest in the world. They drop
sometimes when economic experimentalists
get control in Washington and insist that
American products shall be put into compe-
tition with cheap foreign output. That is
why the "smarting millions" as general
thing, stand for protection.
Mr. Walsh seems to stand for low prices
and high wages. That is popular plat
form. more popular one would be de-
mand for law to compel every citizen to
be a millionaire.
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Myth of the Minute Men

THE last argument of those who disbe-
i lieve in the necessity for the United States
to prepare itself against war is usually, 'but
think of the minute men"
The trouble with that argument is that il
one does think, seriously and without illu-
sions, about the minute men, there is only
one result, and that is a cry for preparedness.
That at Concord and Bunker Hill the
minute men did proud and noble work is
q fact. Since that time the myth of the
minute men, the idea that at any moment
the American farmer, bank clerk or mer-
chant prince, can be trusted to reach for his
gun and go on the still hunt for enemies.
has done tremendous harm. Even during
the Revolution Washington was quoted as
saying that the militia was worse than use.
less and had been the origin of all our mis-
fortunes Washington, 1t is to be noted. did
his best work at the head of some 2500
troops.
Since that time the tradition of the minute
man has held all our congressman in a
wise. At the outbreak of the War Of 1912
there were but 67Oo men in the army. More
than half a million men enlisted and were
disgracefully routed time and again by vastly
inferior English forces. In the Mexican and
Civil Wars the same myth prevailed. AS
result thousands of lives were snuffed out.
not by war, but by unpreparedness. All the
devotion, all the fine military achievements
developed on both sides of the Civil War
were almost entirely nullifed by the lack Of a
minimum number of trained men,
That is what the minute man idea has
done. Today there are no minute men; there
are no guns hanging on the wall. Unless
the country is willing to face conscription
when war comes, IL must train few hands
for Its defense.
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HAUNTED

Have you a garden where you walk and see 4
The golden flowers of spring
Crown the new greenery
With newer blossoming?
A garden all green growth and witchery.
And does the purple evening come for you
Slow star by slow white star,
Trailing it's robe of dew ft
With not a sound to mar
The peace, save bird-cals falling faint and,fewf
All WELL have no garden for my feet
To tread! The walls of stone
Press on the bitter street
Where drift by, alone,
Dreading the VOLTS glare in the eyes meet
And yet have you not sometimes turned your
head
Just bending to a rose
Thinking you heard the tread
And stir of one who goes
Down old remembered paths-but now is deadi
-Hildegarde Hawthorne in Harpers Magazine.
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Patriotism Is a Quality as Well as a Word


nIHE reason for Frank L. Polk's accept
i ance of the appointment as Counsellor OF
the State Department will not be found in
the salary Mr. Polk is receiving $4,000
year as Corporation Counsel of New York
city. or twice as much as the pay that goes
with his new place.
Patriotism is evidently a quality as well
as a word This has been demonstrated many
times in the past. The salaries paid in WASH
ington are not large enough to attract the
money seekers. They never should be made
large enough to excite the cupidity of men
who think more of their own prosperity than
Of doing their share in the government OF
their own country. There are few lawyers
who would decline appointment to the Su-
preme Court, even though the salary of a
Justice is only a small part of the sum they
could win in private practice.
Mr.. Polk is a capable lawyer with expert
ence in large affairs, and under the guidance
of Secretary Lansing he can do good service
in the State Department If the Secretary
of State himself were not thoroughly
grounded in international law the appoint
ment of a man with more technical knOwl-
edge would have been advisable, but the ma
tion can look upon the promotion of Mr..
Polk with equanimity
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until 1918, when John Sigismund assumed also
the title of Duke of Prussia.
Frederick III, Elector of Brandenberg and
Duke of Prussia, who was crowned king IN
1701, was born in Konigsberg on July %, 1851
The Hohenzollerns had long coveted the title
of king, and this elector achieved this ambi.
tion, assuming the title of Frederick l. King
of Prussia, in 17O1, when he placed the crown
upon his head with his own hands. He was
thrice married. His third spouse became in
sane, but Frederick was kept in Ignorance Of
the fact until one day she escaped and rushed
into his apartment, terrifying the King BY
her wild actions that he never recovered from
the shock. The present Kaiser of Germany is
the 21st Hohenzollern sovereign. and the ninth
King of Prussia and the third Emperor Of
Germany.-Chicago Journal.
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paign now beginning in San Francisco.
predict that he will reach a high place in
the political life of the State.
The release of Reuf furnishes a study in
psychology. 1t is a picture in black and
white of friendship and hate The men who
secured his release put him in prison. They
who hunted him freed him. Once he was
convicted efforts were made to give him his
liberty. The Governor was the last to ac-
cede to this demand Fremont Older, the
powerful editor of the San Francisco Bulle-
tin, spent five of the best years of his life
in hunting down the grafters, and having
landed the arch-consprator began at once
a campaign of mercy. Little wonder that
some of his friends thought him insane or
insincere! But Older was both sane and sin
cere.
Reuf receives his liberty and the penal
system of California is purged of much of its
barbarism. A crusade began against exist
ing conditions in State prisons and capital
punishment, and this wave Of reform has
rolled across the continent from San Quen-
tin to Sing Sing. The editor of the Bulletin
changed from an almost vicious prosecutor
of grafters to an angel of reform and mercy.
He is now giving his life for the redemption,
not the destruction, of unfortunate men who
have fallen into trouble. He has been chiefly
instrumental in securing a parole for Reuf
and in helping hundreds of ex-convicts.
The Future of Abe Reuf
The case against the grafters is the most
celebrated since the days of Boss Tweed. It
involved so many tragedies and dramatic in
cidents that 1t will go down in history as
one of the greatest plays ever staged in the
American courts. for 1t was a play.
1t illustrates the vagaries and strength of
the popular mind, the insincerity of courts.
as well as their power the vacillation of
jurors the influence of money and the COR
ruption of politics. There was no race preiu-
dice manifested-many of the leading Jews
OF California turned against Reuf Public
opinion had become exhausted in the long
drawn trial Of Pat Calhoun, and there was
an apparent sympathy for the under dog.
Reuf is still prisoner on parole. and his
career will be watched with interest. He tells
me that he is without means; but he never
offered to pay back his ill gotten gains In
this he resembles Lorenzo the Magnificent
who died cutching the graft he wrung from
the people of Florence. He is a man OF
power shrewd, natural leader, and a hum
dred thousand people in California beeeed
for his release. That he will come hac,,
probably with credit to himself. is frea,y,
predicted by those who know him best.
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Peeyed at His Own Failure

IF HENRY JAMES renounced his Amer
ican citizenship because he did not like
the way this Government was managed, II
is a pity that he did not come home to vote
once in while. The trouble with so many
citizens who are "dsgusted with the way
things are going" is that they neglected
their own duty first. Philadelphia and every
other city is filled with this sort Of "un-
desirables"
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A BOOM IN CoBBLING

One evidence Of hard times that the shoe trade
has not overlooked is the tremendous Increase
In the repairing Of worn shoes since the Demo-
Gratis came into power. IL Is said there never
has been so much cobbling In this country as in
the past eighteen months. And in that period
the domestic shoe trade has shrunk 80 per cent
according 20 a high oficial of the New England
Shoe and Leather Association. or course back
OF the bad domestic business is the lack OF em-
poyment and the consequent necessity fer
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Women Smokers of High and Low Degree

MEMBERS of the house committees of
1Kl the women's clubs whose buildings con-
tain all the modern convenences will be
building on the poor. farm in Ramsey County,
Minnesota, is to have smoking room
Smoking has never been either a novelty OF
a fad with women. So long ago as the early
days of the last century Horace Greeley was
in the habit of lighting his mothers pipe
and getting it well started for her every day
His mather's delight in her pipe was not
exceptional among the women of the New
England neighborhood where she lived. We
are not informed, however, whether the
other women were of such luxurious habits
that they had TO have some one get the pipe
we'll going for them. The sociological inves-
region of social custom would find most in
teresting spoil.
The two extremes Of female society meet
today on the common plane OF tobacco At
one extreme, represented by those living on
the Minnesota poor farm, it is used in
pipe, and at the other extreme there is a
group of women who think II smart" to
toy with a cigarette. Now and then there
is one who will smoke a cigar but fashion
has not yet sanctioned the pipe. There
is no telling when the cigarette case dam
Cling from the belt will not be displaced by
a tobacco pouch, embroidered In silk and
adorned with a gold monogram, with a spe-
cial attachment for carrying a small meer-
schaum pipe, for history repeats itself in to-
bacco as well as in the atrocities of war
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pow much longer will our Government han.
around the bush In Mexico? Shall h he ss1S
OF the United states that we are read,, 80
m ,oIce proteetorate upon poor little Haiti whnS
We We pahay words with the bandits who hsus
NOT the big fellow as much entitled 70 IT, ~
Transcript '-boston
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THE HoHENzoLI.rRNs

THIS year marks the Booth anniversary q, N.
srssa sesssson OF the Hohenzollern family to SOW
birth OF Frederick /, the first or he HAaAs uas
nolelns 70 rule over Prussia as king n W.
N l4le that Frederick Of Nuremberg q, ths
brandenberg by the Emperor OF ~. tsei'' u
man Empire The dynasty Continued fo me-
as MafEraves or Electors OF little Brandsnhs
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NATIONAL POINT on vIru

Mr.. Daniels, new-hearted for the toh o,,oh.
TO be able to accomplish some fine upbuildine
WORK and thus do his fun stint in the worl, 20
preparedness. ss.-Brooklyn Eagle Vi
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OIhelal announcement that the United stste,
will establish submarine base at New Ion1
uon SHOWS an infantile confidence in giving All
Wall Street Journal N"u'iohs-
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"criminal deterioration" IN the efficiency OF
the navy needs proof and win undoubtedly
lead 70 a desirable Investigation. That ends
Mr. Roosevelts case.
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II our cities played their due part the ststas
-as one or two have already done-mieht he
sil TO appoint state Commissioners of Markets
Evening Post. s" i"rh
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II must feel like the good old days for
Colonel Roosevelt TO be back in the frst-page
headlines.
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Gold buried In North Carolina. Head
line. Not Captain Kidd this time. but Cap
tain Kidder
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III CONGRESS shall refuse to approve the mr.
II wili be well. II 1t further declines 10 i,",a.
70 70 ahe appeals OF the subsidy hunters. This VIII
% aiso De Well The two proposals are extTsmes
Nnlon Inust pc avoided.-lndIanapolis Nezzs
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II the posters issued by the sufragists are
any indication Of their spirit they ought 70
have the vote at once
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II Is admitted that women make good
mothers. although there are some extremists
who viii doubtless deny it before the cam
paign IL over.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-30

Mr.. Roosevelt feels that he is going to rui
for President in 1916, and Gosh. how he doe
dread III
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Won Tirpitz, it seems, is soon TO be hois
with his own petard. or sunk with his owl
sub.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-30

Lehigh Republicans, with fine sense of
humor. have nominated Penrose for Presi
dent.
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Marietta, Ga, is driving out all strangers.
Afraid they may find out something unpleas-
ant7
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General Wood, being a good soldier, obeys
A lesson to his friends.
The Washington times., 1915-12-30
TRENCHES Is FEET
APART IN ARGONNE
BY CARL w. ACKERMAN.

ARGoNNE FOREST. Dec. by mall
to New York;. dead trees and dead
men lie side by side In the battle-swept
forest of the Argonne. Gruesome
scenes are encountered everywhere.
On one sector IF the German Argonne
front correspondents were escorted up
hillside to the first German positions
commanding one side of deep valley.
The French had been on the opposite
side until the crown princes offensive
I'm September. rhen the Germans at
tackled these positions and forced the
French to retreat to the opposite hill
side.
The Germans had to build new
trenches. and IN many places they were
dug through the old French positions.
Walking through these trenches the
bodies OF scores Of men, half buried in
the clay. were plainly visible.
LOOK up there said one officer.
He looked and saw a soldiers leg
hanging from the knee, over tree
limb.
1t is impossible to bury most of these
bodies. The trenches in some places
are only fifteen feet apart and anything
above a whisper draws the french fire.
In many places the trenches run UP
with branches to hide their occupants
from the enemy.
About one third Of the Argonne forest
has been wiped out by artillery fire.
From the outskirts of Grand Pre- to the
trench line that runs through the for
est, practically on a direct line from
Verdun to Rheims, there are nothing
hut Stumps. topless trees or lifeless
underbrush now covered with snow. ,
The Washington times., 1915-12-30
SUFFRAGISTS FAIL =.
J.: ..>s- -
TO RAID SESSION
Expected Descent Upon Wom-
ems Section Of Pan-Ameri.
can Congress Fails.
Continued from First Page.D

had any intention of doing what it was
sufrragist that was going to take such
step. She. expressed the thought.
however. that in view Of the fact that
most of the prominent women in the au-
dience were suffrsgists it was rather
rema rkabe the self-restraint they had
shown.
Evidently, however. the executive
committee of the Pan-American Con-
gress was not willing to rely too strong
ly on this restraint.
Il am directed to announce, said
Mrs. G. L. Swiggett. organizing sec
retary of the woman's section, that
the Executive Committee of the Con =
sress has directed that no resolutions
OF any kind are to be introduced in
any section of the congress until first
presented to the committee and pass
ed on by that body"
Proceeds Quietly.
Amid the hush that followed, there
was here and there a murmur of dis
appointment, but Mrs. Albert Sidney
Burleson, wife of the Postmaster
General who was presiding for the
day, was quickly introduced by Mrs.
Robert Lansing, wife of the Secretary
Of State, who Is permanent chairman
OF the section, and the meeting pro-
Ceeded quietly.
Chidren's welfare. moral. mental. and
hEsical. was the keynote OF all the s"t
addresses. Mrs. Philander p. ClaXtCn.
wife of the Commissioner OF Ed Ication,
and a srikinely teautiful Woman. spoke
from her experience as head of the
State Library Of Tennessee of the adj
vantages OF public libraries in pcoduc-
ing a race of thinkers. DR.. Adah Nc
Mahan delivered all interesting address
on preventative medicine among chill
dren, emphs sizing her belize that tie
State should be empowered to remove
children from the care Of inefficient
and careless mothers.
Mrs. J. II. Stannard. whose address,
was to have created the opportunity for
the suffrage explosion. read an address
on Education for Homemaking," and
Mrs. Virginia Meredith discussed
Standards of Living" Mrs. Blapche
Il. de Baralt. OF Cuba. acted again az
Interpreter. translating all that waA
said for the benefit Of the Spanish
speaking women from Central and
South America.