Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-20

" dnd are ufGovS READY TO guard ana de-
feHd it-Ddnie1 Webster.
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Montenegro has spunk enough for bigger
country.
There are several able Philadelphia lawyers
still alive.
II would be as easy to mix Bryanism and
patriotism to make q Serb love Bulgar.
Mayor Riddle Of Atlantic City. has been
called so many different names that a new
one does not bother him.
Under Mr. Lansing it probably is a Depart
ment OF State, but 1t was certainly De-
partment OF Statement in May.
AS phrase maker the Colonel is still in
the ring. Fear God and do your own part"
Is more thrilling than TOO proud to fight"
Pierre du Points gift of S750,O00 to Delaware
College suggests that he believes in training
the young idea as we'll as the young soldier
how to shoot.
The true mddleman is the fellow on a SAL
AIRY, with the unions on one side of him and
capital on the other. He gets prosperity, but
he gets it in the neck.
Germany is not ignoring the need OF getting
trade after the a society to foster COM
mercial relations with Latin-America has just
been Termed in Hamburg.
Lord Derby says that the British miners
eager TO enlist II have often noticed"
wrote julius Caesar. that men find II very
easy to believe that which il Is to their in
terest to believe
The cold weather has not frozen any grip
germs. but IL has acted as tonic and put
fight into many person who was about to
succumb- cold wave beats any efficiency
system in the world for business.
Senator Cummins thinks it is wicked for
private companies 10 make money in the
manufacture of war munitions. He would
have the Government get the profit. But
how much less wicked would that be?
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
has telegraphed to Washington that the in
vasion of Mexico by American troops would
be Objectionable to our people" II would
be much more Objectionable TO the Mexican
bandits.
In Its effort to induce economy, the British
Government is considering the prohibition Of
all imports not considered strictly necessary
1t ought not to hurt the United States much
According to the Germans. all we send to
England is a life-saver.
French soldiers prefer Spanish mules to the
Missouri kind reports the EVENING LEpoER's
correspondent at Salonica, because Spanish
mules only kick. while Champ Clark's con-
stituents bite as we'll Perhaps this is why
they keep houn' dawss in Missouri.
Villa must die" is the decree OF Carranza,
but 1t is not news There has not been
time in months when he would not have died
and died quick, il Carranza could have got
knife into him. The question is not what to
do with Villa when he is got; it is to get him
Just what the British Admiralty means
when IL says, through some high authority.
that II will keep the seas clear of German
trading even after peace is declared until
the Asauith terms are fulfilled. is a mystery
about which no one need be unduly worried.
The spectacle OF Senator L.Ippett OF Rhode
Island, dashing on horseback across the Rio
Grande al the head OF his troops to make
Mexico safe for Americans, etc.-New York
Herald
Senator Lippett? Why. there amt no such
animal
penials from Germany that Captain Won
Papen paid any money to Werner Horn, who
blew up a canadian Pacific Railroad bridge
on the Maine border may be regarded as
diplomatic in view of the fact that the
British have Won Papen's check book with
the stub of the Horn check.
II would be great convenience to patrons
II on cloudy mornings trainmen did not wait
until the elevated trains entered the subway
10 turn on the lights In the rush hours hun
dreds of passengers are forced to stand and
are practically prohibited from reading their
papers for want OF light This is just little
service which would cos, The company moth
las, yet i would be greatly appreciated by
thousands of those who ride,
When the British fleet begins real block
ade Of Denmark and the Netherlands these
neutral countries viii be shut on from the
world as completely as though they were
part OF Germany. This ought to make other
neutral countries do some hard thinking
seQuf ihe efficacy OF International law ia time
eI Nas Thes vii haze to conclude that it is
about IS effective Is aiy other Law which
provides no Pe7eisy fer G gisalion
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