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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-01-18
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The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-01-18

Our Christmas Banking Club h
save for Christmas shopping, so W
ments Deposit a small amount ca
time the 1917 tax payment arrives
trouble to make the payments.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
How u. S. Pays Tribute
Pittsburgh Dispatch1

An illustration of what American
business has had to contend with in
the way of foreign competition in the
past, and hint of what may be ex-
pected in the future following the
war, Is contained in the current issue
OF the Americas, the publication of
the National City Bank. Under the
title Paying Unnecessary Tribute to
Foreign Business Combinations" 1t is
shown that foreign interests, notably
the 'cartels" of Germany, have at diff
ferent times sent virtual uitimatums
to American companies which sought
to manufacture articles whose inter
estF largely controlled, declaring the
American companies would be put
out OF business If they went into the
undertaking. Prices were cut to an
impossible level and the market was
hooded with the product as evidence
that the foreign interests meant what
they said and were prepared to make
good their threat.
The Federal Trade Commission has
neen investigating these foreign COM
olnatlons of national and international
extent, and the prediction is made
that from the report of the commits
sion the people of tins country will
now learn how profits and prosperity
that should be distributed among them
have been taken for the benefit of
foreign industry by the force of COM
binatlons, whose power reached right
into our own States and which were
able to compel US to sell cheap, also
to frighten off certain forms of enter
prise that it would be good to have
established here, and we, because our
trust law acted only in one direction
had to stand for it,"
If this condition existed prior to
the war, it may reasonably be expected
1t will exist in greater degree after
the conflict is ended, for every pos
sible pressure, coupled with govern
ment aid, will be brought to bear to
regain the lost trade and oust from
fields once monopolized the competi-
ton the war has made poshible. We
have heard more or less theorizing
about what should be done in the mat
ter of anti-dumping and other regula-
tions, but so far nothing but theoriz-
ing has resulted. If the powers that
be have anything like the interest in
the business of the country they have
been protesting of late. prompt action
would appear to be their part. The
war will be over some day. and we are
likely to find ourselves without hav-
ing profited by the lesson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
Colonel Roosevelt's Division
[Philadelphia Public Ledger.1

Philadelphia Public Ledger.1
II Colonel Roosevelt is out of poll
lcs this summer it will be because he
is nghting in Mexico. He has already
made good his offer to serve his coun
Try IN the field in the event of war.
quietly, without an inkling to the pub
tic OF his intention, he has been re-
crultlng troops. 1t is said that he will
nave no less than twelve thousand
men ready for immediate service. His
OLD Rough Riders will be the nucleus
OF this body of fighters. All the de-
tails have been worked out and the
men are to be fully equipped for i'm
mediate active service. The force will
be especially strong in cavalry, and it
VIII have ample artillery, as we'll as
aeroplanes of the most effective type.
1t Will be otficered largely by veterans,
and the Colonel himself will ask to be
made a major general and put in COM
mand. The Government ought 10
Jump at such a chance of securing
a valuable addition to its too scantv
army. These volunteer soldiers may
need some licking into shape; it would
be too much to expect them to be as
serviceable as regular troops; but they
seem to have been chosen from a class
of men with natural aptitude for the
work, to whom the strict discipline of
the camp will be second nature.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
NOTICE in this mornings paper

I NOTICE in this mornings paper
that Carranza is opening wide the
Jails of Mexico and releasing the
prisoners, placing arms in their hands
with which to fight against an Amer
lean advance. Nothing new about
that. That is what Santa Anna was
doing in the city of Mexico in the
early days of September, 1S47, when
General Scott had generously granted
him an armistice. While this certain
somebody, N. P. Trist, sent to
Mexico as President Polks personal
representative, was passing around
and accomplishing nothing, the Mex
lean dictator gave a release and full
pardon to every robber and murderer
who would promise to line up to fight
the Americans.
The Bloody Battle of MoIino del Rey
General Scott, having terminated
the armisttce on account of Santa
Annals perfidy, promptly prepared to
reduce the remaining strong defenses
of the Mexican capital. The most
conspicuous of these was the hill
Chapultepec. This is a vast porphyri-
tic rock, $50 feet in height, thrown
up in long past ages from the former
margin of a beautiful Mexican lake.
by some vast subterranean upheaval.
Here were located the court and pal
aces of the Montezumas conquested by
CorteZ. Here are still to be seen the
remains of gardens, groves and
grottoes, the lingering remnants
of the magnificence which adorned the
ancient capital of that ill-fated nation.
Here, for centuries, the Spanish vice
roys fixed their residence as they
lorded it over the goodly land of Mex
leo and despoiled its people, 1t is one
of the most historic spots on the west
ern continent going back to a period
centuries before the foot of a white
man had pressed the shore of the
James, or a Pilgrim father had stood
on Plymouth Rock.
But to reach Chapultepee 1t was
necessary first to reduce the strong
defensive works at its foot. The prIn-
cipal of these were Molino del Rey
(The Kings Mid and Casa de Mata.
Both of these were massive, thick
walled stone buildings with large tur-
rets of heavy masonry. The former
was now converted by the Mexicans
into a foundry and was actively en-
gagged in casting cannon for the de-
fense of the city. In and around these
points and back on the hill Chapulte-
pee. Santa Anna had $4,000 men.
These strong positions were stormed
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
Sir Roger Easements Plea

Sir Roger Easements statement fol-
lows in full:
My lord and gentlemen of the jury,
L desire to say few words only with
reference to some illusions made by
the prosecution.
knighthood conferred upon me l shall
say one word only. The pension had
earned by service rendered, and it was
assigned by law. The knighthood 1t
was not in my power to refuse.
But there are, in especial, four mis-
statements given in the evidence
against me which I must refute.
First, l never at any time advised
1rishmen to fight with the Turks
against the Russians, or to fight with
the Germans on the western front.
Second, / never asked an Irishman
to fight for Germany. I have always
claimed that he has no right to fight
for any land but Ireland.
Third, the horrible insinuation that
l got my own peoples rations reduced
to the starvation point because they did
not join the Irish Brigade is an abom-
Unable falsehood. The rations were
necessarily reduced throughout Ger
many, owing to the blockade, and they
were reduced for the Irish prisoners at
exactly the same time and to the same
extent as for the German soldiers and
the entire population of Germany
The other suggestion that men were
sent to punishment camps at my in
stance for not joining the Irish Bri-
gade is one that I need hardly pause
to refute. 1t is devoid of all founda-
ton
Fourth, gentlemen, there is the
widespread imputation of German
gold I owe it to those in Ireland who
are assailed with me on this very
ground to nail the lie once and for all .
The words German gold' scribbled
on the sheet of paper in his hand dur
ing the police court proceedings foCm-
ed the body of his speech. AS for
himself, he said he had never sold
himself to amy man or any Govern
ment' and never allowed any Govern
ment to use him. Not a single penny
had he received from a German or
from Germany, though it was offered
him more than once, ''liberally and
Internationally"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30

by General Worth's division, Sep
tember s, 1S47 but with a frightful
loss of life. In proportion to the
number of men engaged, Molino del
Rey. next to Lundy's Lane, was one
of the bloodiest battles recorded In
american history. up to that time.
Nearly one-fourth of Worth's COM
mand were either killed or wounded.
At one point of attack eIeven out of
every fourteen American officers fell
Worth's main attack was apIy second
ed at adjacent points by ouner troops
or the American army, ana soon COM
plete victory crowned their efforts.
Eotb Molino del Rey and Casa de
Mata, the right and left nanking de-
fenses of Chapultepec had fallen,
leaving that hill open to a direct from
tai attack. The American force en-
gagged numbered 3,447. The loss in
killed and wounded was 1877. The
loss of the Mexicans was comparatively
light until, in their retreat the fire of
their own cannon, manned by Amer
lean gunners, was turned upon them
Tho Storning of the Hill Chapultepec
Only frowning Chapultepec now
stood between Scott's victorious little
army OF brave Americans and the CITY
of Mexico. All day long September
IL, 1S47, 1t was subjected to a pitiless
cannonade. The heavy ordnance of
lhS -AluSIICdn army numbered their
point-blank shot through the walls of
the castle which crowned the hill
with amazing force and precision. The
mortars and howitzers belched their
destructive missiles upon every part
of the fortress. Bombs burst in fury
within the works. Every shell tore
up the ramparts. And it was the irony
of fate that a considerable part of
this fiery tempest of death came
from captured Mexican cannon loaded
with captured Mexican ammunition
which the Americans had obtained at
Perote, Contreras, Molino ueI Rey and
other captured storehouses of the
enemy. Some of our readers will re-
call some half dozen captured cannon
of the Mexican war which stood. for
many years, in our Capitol Park, and
are, I believe, now in the Arsenal
grounds, Those who have been fol-
lowing attentively this series of papers
and reading of the vast amount of
Mexican artillery captured in every
battle will not be surprised that at the
end of the war the United States gov
ernment had cannon galore to dis
CONTINUED on Page 81
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
CARRANzIsTIC DIPLOMACY

DRET HARTS description of the
ID Heather Chinee," whose ways
are dark and tricks are vain,
might have been written of Mexican
diplomacy. Carranza has freed the
Carrizal prisoners, and has thereby
Slightly lessened the tension along the
border and in this country. But this
latest move will hear very careful
watching and it is the earnest hope
of the people of this country, who are
following every move of the adminis-
tration at this critical juncture, that
hothing be done which will play us
Into the hands of the willy administra-
tor that Venustiano Carranza has
proven himself to be.
On the face of it, his release of the
American prisoners seems to intimate
a willingness to soften the rising anger
of the United States. How far can
ave trust Carranza? Shall we allow
ourselves to be deluded into the belief
that his act is an expression of a de-
sire to placate this country, or is it a
ruse to have us withdraw our troops
or at least slow up in our preparations
until he has time to carry out what
ever plans he may be contemplating
1t is possible for followers of events in
Mexico to form. almost any opinion of
the present leader of the de facto
government. Frederick Munson, ex-
plorer. scientist, surveyor and traveller,
who was in Harrisburg recently, gave
it as his belief that war would be in
evitable once this country sent troops
to Mexico.
Munson has known Villa and Car
rama personally and has very little
faith in either
Only a match is required to set
ablaze the combustibles along the bor-
der. state of war may very likely
exist in the near future without an
actual declaration by Congress, as was
: he case in 1916.
The President has sown the wind
in Mexico, and he will be fortunate,
indeed If he does not reap the whirl-
wind. He is in a sorry plight. If
a break occurs he will have failed to
make good his chief claim for re-
election-that "he has kept the coun-
try out of war''-and if he leaves
hands off in Mexico we must face a
prolonged period of border patroling
with our volunteers doing police duty
along the Rio Grande and conditions
in Mexico going steadily from bad to
worse.
e. The outlook is not bright, either for
the President and his campaign plans
or for the country at large in it's hopes
for peace and early return of its citi-
zen soldiery to their homes.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
PoeittcA Il.
Pe~~e4GSo~io
BY the Ex-Committecmnn

William Finn, Pennsylvania leader
or the third party revolt in 1912, and.
until the party formally dissolves at a
meeting to be held shortly, Pennsyi-
Vania member of the Progressive Ma
tional Committee, says he is a Repub-
lican again and will support Hughes
and Fairbanks and the Republican
ticket in November.
The Washington party-as the Pro-
gressives operated in this State-will
go out of business, Finn intimated, at
state conference to be called in the
near future. He said to-day:
Il am for Hughes. He is a first
class candidate-the best the Repub-
lican party could have offered. I be-
lIeve. He is running on the platform
Roosevelt would have run on IL he
had been the nominee. Roosevelt is
Tor Hughes, and, believe, he will get
the votes of 80 per cent. of the Pro-
gressives of Pennsylvania"
BY the unanimous vote of his COL
leagues, Michael Liebel, Jr., represen-
tat1ve from Erie, was elected to mem
oership in the Democratic National
congressional Campaign Committee.
rms was cited as evidence of the har-
plony brought about between the Old
Guard and the re-organizers in the
democratic party in Pennsylvania,
but as matter of fact, there are only
SIX Democratic members in the Penn
syiVan1a delegation and none has been
allied very actively with the reorgan-
izers.
Mr.. Liebel, following his election as
FehhsylVania's member on the Cam
palsh committee, said that he intend
eu 10 confer at once with Representa-
i've Doremus, of Michigan, the chair
man.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
a Bill Itemized

An old church in Belgium decided to
repair its property, and employed an
artist to touch up an old painting.
Upon presenting his bill of expense,
the Church Property committee, being
a very conscientious one, refused to
O. K. the bill for payment, until the
said artist presented an itemized state
ment, whereupon the artist presented
the following bill:
To correcting the Ten Com
mandments .:....:....... $5.13
Embellishing Pontius Plate and
putting new ribbons on his
hat ................. 500
Putting new tail on the rooster
of st. Peter and mending his
comb ......:........... 2.2O
Replumtng and gliding left wing
of the Guardian Angel 49,. 5.12
Washing the servant of the High
Priest and putting carmine on
his cheeks BOZ
Renewing Heaven, adjusting the
stars and cleaning the moon. 714
Touching up Purgatory and re-
storing lost souls, Frightening
up the Flames of He'll" put
ting a new tail on the Devil,
mending his left hoof and do
ing several odd jobs for the
damned .:.......... III
Rebordering the robes of Herod
and adjusting his wig .... 400
Taking the spots off the Son
of Tobias ................. 1.3O
Putting new stone in Davids
sling, enlarging the head of
Goliath and extending SauPs
legs ...,....:............ 6.13
Putting earrings In Sarah's ears. Iii
Decorating Noahs ark and put
ting head on Shem .... 4.31
Mending the shirt of the Prodi-
gal Son and cleaning his ear. 3.S9
Total ................. $5S.7O
-Bruno's Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
LITTLE MILITARY
TALKS
[By CAPT. GEORGE F. LUNIBJ
HNHE first thing taught a soldier is
By Capt. Geo. F. Lunb

BY CAPT. GEORGE r. LUMB1
TINE first thing taught a soldier is
how to stand at Attention"
- The purpose is two fold, first to
teach him perfect control of the body
by the exercise of the will until it be-
comes an unconscious habit, and sec
ond having formed the habit, to di-
rect the undivided attention to what
may be taking place before him. One
who has learned to stand at "Atten-
ton" has had the first lesson of the
soldier and taken a first step in poise
and self-restraint. We should to-day
have a million young men learning
the simple rudiments of the military
game because, If the call for volun-
teers does come how much better it
is to go with the confidence that
knowledge gives, and If the call does
not come we are better mentally, NOR
ally and physically for having de-
poolrooms, bowling alleys and bars
for the fields and roads where real
men have always spent their leisure
since history began.
To stand at attention.
Heels on the same line, and as near
together as the conformation of the
man permits.
Feet turned out equally, and form
ing with each other an angle of about
so degrees.
Knees straight without stiffness.
Body erect on the hips, inclining a
little forward; shoulders square and
falling equally.
Arms and hands hanging naturally,
backs of the hands outward; little
fingers opposite the seams of the
trousers; elbows near the body.
Head erect and square to the front:
chin slightly drawn in, without con-
straint; eyes straight to the front.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30

The last grand jury made a strong
Indictment against the present impos-
sible Court House and it would appear
that the day is not far distant when
either the present structure must be
remodeled and enlarged or an entirely
new building shall take its place.
Manifestly the court chambers should
be on the upper floor. and IL the pres
ent building can be increased to the
height of an additional floor or two 1t
might be possible to produce build
ing that would be suitable for city and
county purposes. However. whatever
is done should be with an eye single
to the comfort and convenience of the
city and county officials, and 1t is not
too socn to begin tentative plans which
may eventually lead to the proper hous-
ing of our public servants.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
Trooper of the Tenth

Though dark his skin, and lowIy is
his station,
His hero heart is tried and true as
steel;
His brawn is bravely given to the ma
ton,
His life devoted to the common
veal;
Where danger turks to try the bold
est spirit,
There he with heart and hand is
sure to be
To meet the Hydra headed brute and
scar it
trooper of the fighting Tenth is he.
He fiinched not when the treacher-
GUS foe assailed him,
Red-hot on tanks and front with
hidden guns;
His great, courageous spirit never fall
ed him
Though trapped by Montezuma' s
murderous sons;
He fought with valor led by Boyd
and Morey.
Till back to back beleaguered with
his pal,
He won his way into the ranks of
glory
The trooper of the Tenth at Carri-
gal! BY Louis NJ. Grice.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
TELL US, PLEASE

TNHE Republican platform declares
"The Underwood tariff is a COM
plete failure in every respect. ."
That raises a direct issue that permits
OF no quibbling over definitions. If
the Democrats think it is not a COM
plete failure, let them come on with
their specifications showing wherein it
has succeeded. 1t proposed to reduce
the cost of living. and it failed in that.
IT proposed to raise revenue, and it
failed in that. In what respect did it
accomplish anything the American
people wanted accomplished?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
TELEGRAPH PERISCOPE

Isn't 1t time for Special Ambassa-
dor Lind to come to the defense of
Carranza?
ALI seems well-President Wilson
may now write note of thanks to
Mexico for not killing the Carrizal
prisoners.
What has become of that one-time
popular air, '1 Did Not Raise My Boy
to Be a SOLDIER"
How jealous old vesuvius must
be after the Verdun racket
In the excitement the fiy-swatting
appears to have been lost
to sight.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 80.

The best things are nearest breath in
gour noStriIS, light in your eyes, fo,oerS
at your feet, duties at your hand, the
path Of God Just before you. Then do
not grasp at the stars, but do Hfe'S
plain common t0orb as it comes, certain
that daily duties and daily bread are
the SUeeteSt things of life. - LORD
HoUGHToN.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-06-30
A BUNGLING ADMINISTRATIONS

LNACT upon fact is accommodating to
prove that President Wilson and
his counselors are responsible
for the present dilemma on the Mexi-
can border. Until recently many we'll
meaning people had been accepting as
gospel truth the stereotyped formula
that the President had kept us out of
war with Mexico; that his policies had