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The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10
NEW YORK
DAY BY DAY
BY o. o. MCINTYRE

| Special Correspondent Of The Washington Herald
New York. April 9.-The intriSacies Of
the tariff may seem like a jig-saw puzzle
| to some, but IL proves a fascinating topic
for study and observation for Edward
Henry Gift, who is known In New York
as the Tariff Shark"
Mr.. Cliff Is one of the high officers in
the American Protective Tariff League,
and when he is not studying the tariff
questions he is at his desk in one of the
largest general commission houses In
New York.
Work" says Mr.. Gift, sis one of the
real Joys Of Hving-that Is, II you do not
make labor out of it. am at my office
every morning by o'clock and I rarely
leave until at night Work Is sort OF
hobby with me because / have made It
fascinating pursuit"
When Mr.. Cliff leaves the downtown
/ dry goods district, he goes to the Union
League Club, where he dimes regularly
at 10 o'clock at night. He Is an ardent
enthusiast OF the doctrine of a protective
tariff for American industries and his
strong arguments are given respectful
attention by those who are unable to
agree with him.
Most OF the high-salaried employees were
brought up from Office boys under Mr..
Gifts personal tutelage. He has no pri-
vate ONCE. His desk Is where all can see
him, and around him are grouped his
various department heads ct am never
too busy to see anyone" says the man
who is often described as the busiest
man in New York.
Miss Geraldine Farrar has published a
modest little effort called THE Story of
an American Singer. by Herself" It is
easy to understand, after reading 1t, why
there is q war raging
when the fair Geraldine left Europe the
crowned heads and crown princes could
not hold her hand any more, and, being
put out about 1t, they just started the
awful carnage. ...
There is little doubt that Miss Farrar
has had more than her share of popular
praise from newspaper reporters and
critics. They made her popularity, and
then she barred them at her wedding and
instead invited the moving picture and
phonograph representatives-who had a
$3.50 arrangement on the receipts, 1t is
said.
Whether this is true or not, Miss Far
rar's new book is an unequaled example
OF naive egotism.
H. T. Webster, the cartoonist was din
ing the other evening with Harry Nc
Cure, at Broadway cafe, when a for
mer magazine writer, who had drifted
out OF the New York game, came up
to him and renewed acquaintance.
His frayed trousers and unkempt an
pearance showed plainly that he had been
straying from the primrose path. After
down.
WIN you drink anything?" asked Mr..
Mcclure
ply.
Craig Colt. clubman and related to the
FANNY that makes firearms. came to New
YORK the other day from Babylon. He
fell victim to the new affliction known
as A clubman's sickness"
According to testimony in the Supreme
Court, a Club gentleman's sickness"
does mot differ much from the old
fashioned spree, except that 1t is more
lasting and much more expensive.
Colt went to a sanitariun when the
dread disease attacked him and was there
about three weeks. Mrs. Lottie stanton.
who runs the sanitarium, Is suing for
81, 256. AVG
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-04-10

A curious tree, the berries of which
make excellent candles, Is to be found at
Table Bay. near the Cape Of Good Hope.
Inc vegetable tallow tree also grows in
me Azores. In Sumatra, In Algeria and in
China In the Island Of Chusan large
Quantities Of oil and tallow are extracted
from It's fruit
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
Have We Learned Our Lessonl

The Bee reproduces from the Chicago Tribune
crcumstantial account of some Of the misery
and inconvenience endured by the Fifth Ne
braska regiment at its Texas camp, due to I'M
readiness and incompetence in management of
the War department. Parts Of this were known
before; the regiment left Lincoln without proper
equipment but with the understanding it would
be furnished supplies on arrival in Texas. For
month and half it underwent almost the pr
vations of siege, simply because arrangements
we're totally inadequate, and clothing and bedding
could not be had. We honor the men who have
put up with this treatment in order that they
might be OF service to their country. They have
shown the spirit that makes possible Our great
ness, but what is to be said Of the incompetence
of the system that results in such miserable mis-
management Where would we have been If the
actual war strength of the regiments called out
had responded, let alone the millions needed for
war?
If we have learned the lesson, then the
wretched business of mobilization has not been
in vain. Will we profit by our experience in
Texas?
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
Growth Of the Indian in White Mans Ways.

Pioneers OF Nebraska, who met the red man
in his savage state may realize better than others
the tremendous advance suggested by the news
item telling Of shipment of cattle by the train
load by the Indians Most of this change has
come about in the last quarter of a century. AT
the time OF the Pine Ridge outbreak the Indians
of the northwest were still in stage of re-
strained savagery, The government held them
on reservations and fed them, and some very able
men who had close contact with them said the
Indian could no more be domesticated than the
grizzly bear
All this has passed. The long hair and the
blanket are gone, and the Indian sows and reaps
and tends his focks and herds after the fashion
of his white brother He does more than this; he
lives in house, which he frequently builds for
himself and take his share in the communal life
Of the nation as responsible citizen. In word,
he has become not only self-supportng, but self
respecting.
This is reward for patient and intelligent
effort on the part Of the white man, and worthy
enthusiasm Of the red. II was not entirelyachicved
among the younger generation, for braves who
followed the war trail now follow the pillow. The
survivors OF the stone age have taken on the ways
Of the most enlightened within less than gen.
Grafton. The story OF our civilization holds no
greater triumph than this.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
, Wilson and the Tammany Sachems.

Details Of the bargain struck last week be-
tween Vance Mccormick, representing the presi-
dent, and Boss" Murphy, representing Tammany
Hall, are slowly oozng out. II was at first re-
ported that Mr.. Mccormick negotiated to ex-
change Wilson's support of Judge Seabury, TAM
many candidate for governor, for Tammany's aid
in re-electing Wilson, This is now confirmed by
the announcement that Mr.. Wilson will lay aside
his pose Of dignity, give over his seclusion at
Shadow Lawn and go to New York to make po-
litical speeches. Less would not meet the re-
quircments Of Boss Murphy who is known to
be very thorough in his campaign methods
All this must be comforting to those deluded
disciples Of the donkey, who continually hug
memories of how the democratic gangsters of
New York were houted at Denver and Baltimore
The Tammany tiger hasn't changed>its stripes
nor its appetite; it therefore follows that the ar
rangement for the presidents assistance includes
his laying aside his high calling as peoples cham
pion for the time and becoming good fellow"
long enough to earn the support Of practical
people" who dominate the affairs of lower Man
haitian isle.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
Coercion Of Congress.

Messrs Garrctson and Carter OF the railway
brotherhoods have been given good deal OF
notoriety for the success OF their efforts in hold.
ing up congress with the aid of the president and
compelling it to act as they wished. They are
merely imitators. though, for it had been done
before. Claude E. Kitchin and Jimmie" Hay
did It, little more tremendously, perhaps, but
none the less effectively. More over this doughty
pair Of democrats announced in advance that they
would have their way, and they had it. Between
them they killed well considered plans for ma.
tional defense and permitted only the adoption
Of makeshfts. Prescnt-hour boasts of the demo-
Gratis as to how they prepared to defend the coun-
try, to reorganize the army and build new navy
date back to the time last fall when this pair of
southern congressman told the president and the
party caucus they would allow congress to pass
only such measures as had their approval, and
that they did not hold very high opinion of the
president and his military advisers. Messrs.
Kitchin and Hay whipped the entire democratic
organization into line, compelled the endorsement
OF their personal views on preparedness and left
the country without an army and only the hope
of a navy. For this great service Mr.. Hay has
been given federal judgeship, but Mr.. Kitchin's
reward is yet to come
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

his opossum had beeI devoured, and
tasted the grease on his lips, said,
Ibid | eat dat 'possum? If | did,
it certainly sets lighter on my stom-
ach than any other 'possum | ever
did eat" If the democrats have
given us the promised reduced cost
of living, it certainly isn't noticeable
in our grocery hills, or in our stom-
achs.
Congress, which has been demos
cratic during Wilson's administration,
has made more extravaganza appro-
priations than any other congres. in
the country, and created more new
offices for hungry democrats than
ever before. Places were exempted
from civil service, to give them JOBS
and looking over the Legislation Will
show thousands of these additional
places. Money has been Appropriated
without limit or justice, and II the
people approve 1t, they ct~n snow IL
by voting for v ilson for another term
of the same extravagant and waste"
full appropriations.
The democrats tell us they have
brought prosperity to e country. but
the only prosperity we have is through
the sale of war equipment and farm
products to the warning nations OF
Europe, the millions of men now in
the armies being consumers, instead
of producers. and must be fed, so
our farm products have great demand
and consequent high prices. The pros
perity is not due to democracy, but
in spite of it. TIL reduction of the
tariff before the war in Europe
demonstrated the act that we would
soon have to isu, bonds to defray
the running expenses of the govern
ment, just as as done in the last
democratic administration, from '9S,
to '97, under President Cleveland. The
war has saved the democracy from
the blame they were deserving.
L. P. PETERSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
National Savings,
New YORK Journal Of Commerce

Practically Mr.. Wilson indicts himself and his
policy in an article contributed by him TO the
current number of the Ladies Home Journal and
headed "The Mexican Question" One is led to
wonder whether the president deludes himself or
whether he hopes to delude the public with ex-
prssjons Of opinion so much at variance with
Ills acts. He may be, as Disrali said Of Glad
stone, 'inebrated with the exuberance OF his own
vcrbosity' so far as to be unable to see that he
convicts himself OF the things he warns the coun-
try against But as we are forced to believe his
intelligence superior to such weak self-decepton,
we are equally forced to conclude that it is the
people he aims at fooling
The major premise OF the article is that our
intermeddng in the affairs Of any Latin-Ameri-
can government must ALLEVIATE not only that gov
eminent but other Latin American governments.
The minor premise Is that, as a strong govern
ment the United States Is under a moral obliga-
ton to deal with small or weak states with as
tnuch consideration as il would show to a strong
one Mr. Hughes, in his address at st. Louis
i few weeks ago. effectively disposed OF the
minor premise, which Mr.. Wilson had that day
ununciated in his acceptance address, by iorcibly
contrasting Mr.. Wilson's precept with his at
tempts 10 control Mexican election, his armed
invasion OF the country to overthrow its dc facto
government, and his recognition and support Of
Francisco Villa as man worth while for the
promotion OF revolution IN Mexico against a
legal administration in that country which Mr..
Wilson did not approve.
W ne major premise remains. ~ IL true tnat
Mexico should be left alone to make this
struggle but Mr.. Wilson has refused to leave
Mexico alone. He has sent one personal repre-
sentative after another into the country, the chief
Of whom, John Lind, was instructed to forbid the
then president Of Mexico from seeking election.
Ii is no less true, as the president has written,
that use OF the power Of this government for pur-
poses Of intervention in Mexico for what he calls
state parasitsm Of big business or for per-
sonal prejudice must revive the gravest sus-
picion throughout all the states Of Ameica." Yet,
as the Globe Democrat has frequently commended
the worst feature Of such arrogance as the in
vasion at Vera Cruz and the sending Of ainbas-
Mexican politics. has already aroused the "gravest
suspicion Of all the states Of America Mr.. Viii
sons departure from international usages and
United States policy in Mexico, has set back
our growing relations with Spanish America to a
point far back Of their previous position
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
Meaning of the Amendment.

Omaha, Sept. 27.-To the Editor
of The Bee: / asked the attorney
general If to manufacture make with
ones hands) as the amendment reads
would stop one from making his
own wine for his own use, S ould
his grape juice ferment unwittingly
and also If it would be unlawful to let
sweet cider remain too long and be-
come hard cider?
As this amendment is the most
drastic and radical piece of sumptuary
legislation ever foisted on any state
(and it will be seen that the prohibi-
tionists in being too Jealous have over
stepped the marls), it Is therefore no
more than right than that the officers
of the state should be frank with the
voters and help them to intel rently
vote on this question. This, Mr.. Reed
has kindly done for me in the follow
ing reply:
Your inquiry with reference to the
operation of the proposed prohibition
amendment to the constitution, is
rather difficult Of explanation, until
the courts have given an interpreta-
ton of its several provisions.
Undoubtedly one may manufacture
cider from his own apples, and it
would seem to b. rather unreasonable,
II he could not retain the cider in his
possession for his VIZ use, although it
may have become an Intoxicating
beverage. 1t would seem as though
the term manufacture used in the
amendment, should be interpreted to
mean the manufacture for sale,' but
such and similar questions are for flu
ture determination in case the law be-
comes effective. Very truly yours,
Willis E. Reed, attorney general"
GEORGE P. WILKINSON.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
In Omaha Thirty Years Ago.

About twenty couples of the Swedish
society swooped down upon Judge An
derson at his residence, the occasion
being his forty-fourth birthday. Those
present were Misses Cora Johnson,
Anna Nordwal. Mr.. and Mrs. Nordwal,
Mr.. and Mrs. Dahlstrom, Mr. and Mrs.
c. ]. Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs. Leejen-
stople, Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson, Miss
Ebba Lofgren, Miss Peterson, Mr..
Merteen, Prof. Lindquist. Mr.. Sjoberg,
Mr.. Smith. Mr.. Hufsta, Mr.. Olson, Mr..
Brunnell and Master Nordwal
A party of forty young ladies and
gentlemen visited the residence of
Mrs. Honora Carroll Seventeenth and
Paul streets. The occasion was sur
prise and welcome home" to Misses
Annie and Maggie Carroll, daughters
Of the hostess.
Conductor Allen of the Missouri Pa
cific is reinforced by young but am
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
Put Him Out Of Politics.

Omaha, Sept 27.-To the Editor Of
The Bee Mr.. He mon, food COM
missioner, says about the pure GOD
department: Keep it out of poll
tics" and voters VI have chance
to do so next November by making a.
second kaiser out IF him and voting
him into office for six years.
Then he can appoint the balance Of
his family and frien6s to six-year
term on easy street. Fine PROPOSE
ton! Mr.. Harmon says II this meas
ure don't carry he expects to resign.
Well, if that is true, which we very
much doubt, Mr. Han mon is digging
his own grave, for we don't think the
voters are fools nough to support
his one-man-rule measure.
u, r. RIGHT.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

In peace as we'll as throughout Indian wars
the Crows maintained friendly relations with the
government During the critical campaign against
the hostile Sioux in the Big Horn country the
friendly assistance Of Grow couriers saved Gen.
eral Crook and his command from marching into
trap planned by the Sioux, then flushed with
victory over Custer and Terry. Such friend
ship deserved the aid and training in USE
full pursuits which the government bestowed on
THE tribe. The recent sale in Omaha and Chicago
markets Of hfty-one carloads of Grow cattle
proves that the Indians are making good use Of
their opportunities.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

Now and then the new woman throws ham
mer into the machinery OF theological dogma A
member Of the ethical society women OF Indiana
boldly challenged preachers description of the
fire and birthstone constituents of hell at is an
earthly condition. not a future theory" said the
disputant, supporting her definition by her ex-
perience in moving the family belongings to a
Nat before the occupants moved out. Having
had no experience of the kind the preacher con-
ceded there was some merit in the laywomen's
contention.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

A pictured array Of Nebraska governors con-
stitute one Of the rare features Of omahas golden
anniversary decorations. And they are some
features, too infinitely outlining the stall
wart faces which radiated more or less glory
Vi the statehousc. What memories they recall Of
battles fought and won or lost, Of stratagems and
spoils and things. Pause, stranger, and study the
pictures, but remember the exhibit is not beauty
show
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

While Omaha is entertaining the mighty Of
both parties and giving 4 good time to a host Of
lesser sovereisns from near and far, care should
be exercised lest some innprudcnt local guide
point to the Union station as specimen Of
Onaha's enterprise. This is next on the list for
a new move
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

The complaint Of seaboard grain dealers re-
garding car shortage deserves prompt attention.
There is no doubt that some railroads refuse to
move einpties, and hold them at terminals await
ing loads. Some means to stop the practice
should be found and the present congestion re-
lieyef
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
One Year Ago Today in the War.

Five German, army corps ordered
from east to west front.
Paris reported fresh gains by
French troops east of Souchez and in
Champagne.
In the east Germans gained control
of the railway triangle, Ida OIL
kowysk- B.; tonowitscha, endangering
Russian rear guard.
England warned Bulgaria an allied
army would attack her If she showed
an aggressive attitude in favor of Ger
manic powers
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

Remember that the only vote cast for the
wage increase force bill in the senate. besides the
votes OF the democrats lined up by the president,
was the vote Of Senator La Toilette. It goes
without saying that The Wisconsin senator under
those conditions must either admit he made a
mistake or stand by his record
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

Car famine is unavoidable when top-notch
grain market creates an extraordinary rush Of
shipments. The main task for railroad managers
IN the present emergency is an equitable distribu-
lion OF available facilities.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

The discovery and translation Of an ancient
account Of the deluge and what happened i'm
mediatcly after, is peculiarly timely. Il enables
democrats to appreciate what Is coming and pre-
pare for the worst.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
-IODAY
Thoueht Nugget for the DAY.

Those that give up essential liberty
to obtain little temporary safety de-
serve neither liberty or safety.-Ben-
jamin Franklin.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

Since the big push began in June the Anglo
French forces have captured about eighty square
miles OF territory from the Gernans. This area
seems ample for the cemetery needs Of the oc-
:asion
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

Assuming that misery loves company the
glad hand Of New York will welcome Greece
into the mess Greece is about to strike
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

AS means Of throwing light on the higher
cost OF living the lowered cost Of electricity will
help some
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28

President Wilson invoked "pitiless publicity"
to serve party ends The same weapon in re-
publican hands serves national needs
Omaha daily bee., 1916-09-28
Pinchot ON Wilson

Hughes, ana snail WORK ana vote TOT nlf1l-
Statement of Clifford Pnchot.
That puts the case in a nutshell Setting
partisanshp aside and Judging the two men on
their records and their characters, any man Of
independent thought must come unerringly to
the same conclusion.
More than in any great campaign of recent
years, the issue this year is at bottom personal
one. The democratic party with its flexible OPP
portunism has adopted all republican policies
which seemed likely to enlist popular support.
Many OF these it has translated into laws-laws
more or less crude or i'll judged in details, but
based on foundations laid broad and deep in re-
publican administrations, 1t has no principles
il will not abandon, if abandonment will serve
to keep 1t in power,
1t was natural, therefore, for Mr.. Pinchot a
man without party, an idealist, to cast up ac-
counts Of the two candidates, their personalities
and individual tendencies and to base his decision
on the results of the comparisons. Thus it has
been left for the great conservationist to indict
Mr.. Wilson personally in perhaps the severest
terms yet uttered by any public man.
And the net result OF his consideration is
stated in such bitter, albeit perfectly true, words
as these:
I'm the end came to see that President
Wilson has greater power than any other
man in public life to say one thing but do
another, and get away with IT.
with war on every side OF us. we all
heard him solemnly assure the country that
= we had not been negligent of national de-
tense. It was not true.
I'VE have all heard him ridicule the idea
OF greater navy, then declare for the great
est navy in the world, and then go back on
that
we have seen him elected on platform
which pledged him to single term as presi-
dent and then become candidate for an
other term.
What Mr.. Wilson says is no sign of what
he has done or what he will do. The one
thing his record shows is that what he stands
for now, he is not likely to stand for long"
On the other hand, even the most casual re-
view Of Mr.. Hughes public record demonstrates
that he is the complete antithesis of Mr.. Viii
son in his trustworthiness in his devotion to
principle, in his sincerity, in his inaexbility for
what Is right.