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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
MEXICO ENTERS PROTEST.

Through the Mexican ambassador at Wash
ington the Mexican treasury department makes
a plea which is in the form of an argument
against the restriction of exports from this
country to Mexico. The argument states that
Mexico by the war is almost wholly dependent
on the United States for it's imports. To this
country she exports petroleum, metals and slsal,
all of which are prime necessities to this coun-
try and its allies in the war. Mexico needs
wheat and flour, cotton manufactures, agr1cul-
tural machinery, iron and steel, wire and
cables, railroad material and stock. 1t Is the
belief of the Mexican government that trade be-
tween its nation and our own should be with
out restriction since a curtailment on either
side would greatly embarrass the other; Mexico
is making no c~urtailment and asks that she
suffer from none.
There is perhaps good ground for the state
ment that Mexico has no means of trading with
European nations and thus our embargo so far
as it is designed to prevent goods from reach
ing Germany or aiding our enemies does not ap-
plv to Mexican trade. Nevertheless, in the re-
cent blacklist issued by the government against
South and Central American firms more Of
blacklisted corporations were in Mexico than
in any other nation. It is evident that the gov
eminent has reason to believe that many bust
ness corDorations in Mexico hitherto trading
with our own shippers have been giving aid to
Germany. It will matter little to this govern
ment's campaign against Germany whether
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
WHY BAR POLITICS NOW?

Donnellson Review: Some admin
istration newspapers assert that this
is no time for politics." and that this
is no time to talk about the tariff"
If his is no time for politics, why
has the democratic national commit
tee recently reorganized on the most
systematic campaign basis ever at
tempted by any party committee in
the United States? Why is that COM
mittee issuing partisan publicity mat
ter and maintaining an extensive pub
licity bureau? If this is no time for
politics, why do we have a solidly
democratic cabinet, why are the demo
cratic campaign contributors given
the most powerful positions in our war
organization, and why was the chair
man of the democratic national COM
mittee chosen to go as a representa-
tive of this country to the war confer
ence in Europe?
If this is no time to talk tariff, why
are we maintaining a tariff commits
sion, why was that commission placed
in the control of free traders, and why
is the commission now conducting a
tariff inquiry? Shall the business men
of America keep silent while an Off
cial organization of free traders talk
tariff? Shall men who exercise alert
foresight in their private business
adopt a "~watchful waiting" policy in
public affairs? Shall we postpone pre-
paredness for peace until peace has
come? Shall men be told that they are
nervous and hysterical' when they
urge preparedness for commerce just
as they were when they urged pre-
~paredness for war? Shall men who
believe in America first" leave tariff
legislation to that political party which
in 1913, Iegislated for Europe and Asia
first?
Shall republicans cease to talk poll
tics while all the power of the admin
istration is being used to place demo
Gratis in office? Let the democratic
press answer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

actual goods can be exported to Germany, II
the profits of Mexican business is being used to
further Germany s war resources or to finance
propaganda hardly less inimical to us and our
allies than German war power itself. To Mexi-
co.'s plea a lust answer would seem to be that if
her business is first purged of pro-German ac-
t~ivities and confined to her own national bene-
fit, it will be time to discuss removal of ~restrlc-
lions made by this government as a war
measure.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

It is good to look about the world; but al
wavs there comes a time when the restless
creature. man, having yielded to the call OF
the seas and the stars and gone a-Journeylng,
begins to think of home again-Jullan Street,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

Davenport Democrat: Put the blame
where it belongs-on a people who
let the sMall-bore politicians nominate
themselves for office instead of draft
ing their men Of intelligence and ex
.ecutive ability tt serve them in posts
Of trust and honor and responsibility.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil; Will
America ever awake to the fact that
a German propaganda is working in
this country to retard our progress to-
ward efficiency in waging war?
Davenport Times: For their own
protection and for the protection of
the general public the United States
government ought to require that all
lecturers upon the var who claim to
be telling of their personal expert.
lences shall have federal licenses.
Marion Register: Should the repub-
licans fail to make a campaign in
1880 they would be ridiculed az
towards by the democratic campaign
ers.
Waterloo Times Tribune: Lieu
tenant Governor Moore says he saw
a lot of politics in Camp Cody. A mar
generally finds what he's looking for
Knoxville Express: Another thine
that always puzzles us is that the
more ~blatantly a mar is for whisk!
the keener is his agony because he
thinks prohibition doesn't work.
AIgona Republican: McAdoo is nov
mentioned as a candidate for COVER
nor of New York next year. This Ii
expected to lead up to the presidency
Dubuque Times-Journal: Rabbits
make most delicious Tuesday veget
ables also.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Among UNI
usual incidents that at another time
would have created comment is the
action of the government in closing a
wholesale fruit and vegetable house at
Washington for doing business in the
o~ld-fashioned way.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
IOWA PRESS

Sioux City Journal: BY a mere slip
of the pen a quantity of corn juice at
Camp Upton was labeled corn cure,
and the military police got all excited
about it.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

If worst comes to worst the National and
American league baseball clubs can be turned
over to the federal government for management
for the duration of the war.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22
HISTORY REPEATS.

Discoursing on many things in his entertain
ing way, former Senator Depew recently told at
a gathering in New York City how, when gazing
upon the mummy of old Rameses, the pharoah
of the bible, he wondered how it happened that
he did not get engulfed along with his chariots
and horsemen when the fleeing Israelites We're
followed, injudiciously as the sequel showed, in
to. the opening waters of the sea. Then he re
membered that the phardah was a king by an
other name and the reason he was not engulfed
was plain as a pikestaff. He did not himself
venture along the sea path but remained on the
!hither shore and thus preserved his body for
his own uses for some years thereafter and for
dessication after his death. Perceive, exclaimed
this reflective observer of men and events, the
repetition of history. The millions of German
soldiers are today enveloped in the flood OF
blood and shell fire, but their king and emperor
with his six stalwart sons remain upon the
hither shore that like Rameses they may be pre-
served to posterity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

The campaign for the sale Of war stamps will
be successful, as all of our war efforts which
deal with finance have been. And its success
will mean far more to the country than the put
ting of money into the treasury. 1t will realize
the war to hundreds Of thousands who could not
afford to share in the Liberty loan; and among
many of them it will inculcate the habit of
thrift to which so many Of our people are for
eign. The device is as clever as it will be profit
able.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

In attempting to escape from Siberia Mr..
Romanoff must have been actuated by the ex-
pectation that the quarters now occupied by
himself and family would soon be needed for
the accommodation of bolshevfki.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

New York Sun: The Danube il
not SO blue as some of the people liv.
ing on 1t.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

War conditions have put a stop to Mrs. Neigh
Dor running in to borrow a cupful of sugar.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

The beauty of work depends upon the way we meet it
whether we arm ourselves each morning to attack 1t as an
enemy that must be vanquished before night comes-oi
whether we open our eyes with the sunrise to welcome u
as an approaching friend who will keep US delightful com
pany all day-Lucy Larcom.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

Fifty-ffty sounds equitable. but it isn't, in
charity.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

Among the modern objects of art, or of al
legged art, which General Allenby found in Jeru-
salem was a statue Of the German kaiser repre-
isented as a crusader in armor Of medieval
times, erected as a memorial of his spectacular
visit to the city in 1898. Whether the effigy
shows waxed mustache points fercely erect we
have no information, or whether it is still upon
its pedestal. But it is a safe conjecture that it
will not stand there very long. Jerusalem is a
Jewish city though eight thousand of its He
brew inhabitants-or about one-ffth of them
have died of disease or famine since the war be-
gan. They nave suffered too much at the
hands Of the Turk to have any love for his Prus-
sian ally.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-22

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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
An Autumn Revere
written for The Catholic Bulletin by
DR.. James Henderson,

Oh, the simmer of the leaves
AS they futter down the caves
Tipt with many flash of sunlight in
their fall,
AS if 'twere mothers kisses
On the gallant knight she misses,
Sent and in the battle fallen, that is
ALL
Many vagrant now must slumber,
No one yet has tried to number
All the leaves that come to nestle on
thy breast;
Many crested cavalier,
Many Red Cross knight is here
In their red and gold, and crimson,
gaily drest.
From the jousts and lists discovered,
From the blasts they nobly weathered:
With broken blades and shivered he'll
NETS. @nao.f So, otis a. sot
Clanking steeds go past.
From the summer wood careening,
And the lone trees intervening,
In a grand rout gay and gorgeous,
Down to mother earth at last
And when while SHOWS overspreading,
Give the gallants all bedding
Where MOSES and the brown earth
hug
Serenely to their breast,
We shall dream thro' winters gloam-
ing
They have found old Natures homing,
To rise again in beauty when the
south-winds find the west.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20

A London Tablet correspondent
dlscloses a secret campaign which
was begun by certain English
Freemasons last June to exclude
the Pope from any peace confer
ence. Twenty years ago the gov
ernments of Europe entered into
an agreement to exclude the rep
resentative of the Pope from the
Hague conference. The result was
perfectly satisfactory to them at
the time. They have learned a
few things since then-and most
of them have since the beginning
of the present war sent special
representatives to the Holy See.
But there are some persons who
cannot learn. Others would pre-
fer a devastated Europe to a peace
made by the Pope.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
JEWS AND VATICAN
HEBREW RABBI CALLS PAPAL
MESSAGE AN INSPIRING
EPlSTLE.

The peace message of Pope Bene-
dict XIV was referred to by Rabbi
Julius Silberfeld in a sermon last
month on ''The Birthday of the
World" given in Temple B'nai Abra-
ham, Newark, n. j., as an inspiring
epistle," which even Jews must hail
with delight. He said.
Only pow, after three years of
agony and bloodshed, has the Church
made an attempt to retrieve it's shat
tered influence through the lofty ap-
peal for peace issued by the Pope to
the belligerent nations Although be.
longing to different religious denomi-
nation, we cannot but hail with de-
light this inspiring epistle, by which
the head of the most powerful re-
ligious organization hopes to rehabili.
tate the waning power of religion.
There is no doubt that if the Jews
today had an ecclesiastical authority
like the high priest of ancient times,
he would have taken the lead and fol-
lowed the illustrious example of the
first high priest, Aaron, who was "a
lover of peace and pursuer of peace;
but alas! our ancient glory has
dwindled away, and we have no man
in our midst to occupy position cor
responding with the position of the
occupant of the throne of st. Peter,
and therefore we must bear in mind
the declaration of our sages: BE
ready to accept the truth from what.
ever source it may fow,'' and we wei.
come on our New Years eve this first
sign of the reawakening of humanity
from the stupor into which it has
sunk
Let us pray on this New Year that
these praiseworthy efforts, so auspi
ciously inaugurated by the Pope, may
lead to a permanent peace, never
again to be disturbed by such a dis.
graceful conflict.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
LYING AS AN ART.

A certain writer in recent
publication inveighs bitterly
against those whom he styles pa
triotic liars. He says: "We are
spending millions and offering
hundreds of thousands of our
young men to make the world safe
for democracy. When doing so
we might also try to make the
world safe for the truth. =
One difference between the pre-
varicator and the thief is that the
thief when apprehended can be
sentenced to Jail the liar, OH the
other hand, usually escapes such
punishment. The evil Of lying is
one OF the commonest and at the
same time one of the most per-
nlclous and vitally destructive
forms of harm that can be perpe-
trated IN a community. The liar
is essentially a coward: to some
extent he is in the same class with
the suicide and the murderer,
both OF whom owe their evil repu-
tatlon to the basest form Of moral
cowardice. AS there are many
degrees in theft, so also does the
sin of lying comprise a complete
scale.
In the first place, there is the
obstreperous liar. Conscious Of
inferiority or of personal guilt, he
seeks to lie his way through the
clouds Of suspicion that frequently
gather about his head Usually,
as regards others, he is in the
harmless class; for his lies center
about himself, his imaginary
achievements, his assumed inno-
cence, or his hope Of reward. AS
a rule, his boisterous display is a
sure indication of the weakness Of
his cause He deceives but few,
and often only gains ridicule for
his pains.
Then there is the timid, mousy,
gentle little liar who usually
labels his presentations, white.
Generally speaking, he confines
his lies to small matters. He says
yes, when the answer should be
no: or vice versa. This form of
artful deception is practiced fire.
quently by the gentler sex, not by
all, but by those who are given to
any form Of prevarication.
Then there is what might be
styled the camoufiage artist, the
lone who practices lying not SO
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
Americans and Jeanne dare
PERSHING VISITS BIRTHPLACE
OF JEANNE .D'ARc - INSPIRA-
TON OF MAID is HoNoRED.

Explain as we may the voices and
the visions which led the little peas
ant maid Jeanne to go forth from
the village of Domremy and save
France, the fact that she achieved
her object when Orleans fell and the
Dauphin was crowned king at Rheims
is not to be disputed. And it is in
evitab1e, in such perils as France has
now passed through, that her name
should have it's old inspiration to her
countrymen, observes the Philadelphia
Ledger.
The visit of General Pershing and
his staff to Domremy was not die
tated by curiosity, nor even by senti-
ment 1t was graceful recognition
of the spirit of France herself, which
flames out in her people today as it
did when Jeanne dare gave her sol
diers the promise and the fulfillment
of victory. There are few in the
village, and no ceremonies marked
the coming of the Americans But
there was no need of ceremonies.
Our allies will understand without
them the motive of the visit. For
Jeanne, whose life save for few
months was so obscure, who died
with none to stretch out a saving
hand, has left a shrine at which
every generous heart is glad to wor-
ship Her memory is token, SYM
sbol, Of the France that can never be
destroyed
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20

much Tor self-protectlon or
through timidity, but with the di-
rect and deliberate intention Of
deceiving others for his own gain.
He is accustomed to throw out the
poisonous gas of deception in or
der to conceal the reality or to
make things appear what they are
not. His chief field Of operations
is the commercial world. In buy
ing and selling he can easily out
do David Harum himself. He
calls his receptions, business lies,
and he feels thoroughly justified
IN making use of such methods on
the ground, as he claims, that such
things are common in the business
| world.
There is another species who
styles himself diplomat: moral
ity terms him a plain liar. He
has reduced the principles of de
ception to a fine art. On the Con-
tinent of Europe there is a we'll
known city whose inhabitants are
said to blush furiously whenever,
through inadyertence, they acct
dentally happen to tell the truth.
Rlghtfully or wrongly, they are
famed as the greatest liars in
Europe. Our diplomat-we are
not speaking of statesmen or off
cial diplomats belongs in soul to
that particular class: he bushes
when caught telling the truth,
though that is not often. He has
cultivated such an inveterate
habit Of lying that he fears not to
deceive even those to whom he
owes the greatest confidence. He
will lie to his wife, his children,
his closest friend, his pastor, to
anyone and to everyone. His plea
invariably is that. he is helping or
lettering some cause usually this
cause is his own vanity, or self
interest, or pride. The father of
lies also worked on the same prin-
ciple: he was also advancing a
cause, the cause of the fallen
angels.
From time to time writer's and
preachers discuss the permissible
| ity of telling lies on certain occa-
sions. In spite Of worldly ethics
it is always and everywhere and
under all conditions, morally
wrong to tell a lie. There is no
possible justification in the Chris
tian code of morality that will
permit man to lie even when
the object thereof is good. For
a lie is morally sinful; and, what
ever may be said to the contrary
it is never permitted to do evil
that good may ensue: for the end
does not, cannot, justify the
means, when the means in itself
is bad.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
prowess, athletics, or social ac-
complishments, a child has small
chance to be educated.
To Extend Columbus Day
AN EFFORT MADE BY CONGRESS-
MAN GRIFFIN. TO INSTITUTE
LEGAL HOLIDAY IN DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA.

Knights of Columbus will be glad to
know that an earnest effort is being
made by Congressman Daniel J.
Griffin, of Brooklyn, N. Y, to make
October IL of each and every ear a
legal holiday in the District of Column
bia. Already many states have passed
legislation which makes this day a
holiday.
Congressman Griffin has been de-
layed in crystallizing sentiment for
this meritorious legislation because of
pending war measures and the agree
ment of the Democratic caucus to take
up only matters relating to the pres.
ent war.
In the short session beginning in
December, drive will be made for
the passage of the Griffin Columbus
Day Bill for the District of Columbia.
All Knights of Columbus should inter
est residents of their sections and
have them communicate with their
own Congressman and the District of
Columbia Committee, at the House
Office Building, Washington, D. c., of
which committee Ben Johnson, of
Kentucky, is chairman.
Representative Griffin, the author OF
the Columbus Day bill, is past State
Deputy of New York, and was mem.
Der of the Supreme Board of Directors
for six years.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
A NovELlsT's OPINION.

1t is a dark and difficult problem,
but one thing / see clearly, namely,
that drink is the greatest and most
baneful hypnotist on the earth at
present, and that it's influence is
more awful than any plague, more
devastating than any war. Looking
back from more than middle life,
can hardly remember a case of
wreck and ruin that has not been
directly or indirectly the result of
drink. 1t is a terrible roll call my
memory goes through of men of
even good and brilliant opportunities
who are dead or worse than dead, at
the hands of the great hypnotist.
Against that record I cannot recall
single case of a man who, free
from the tyranny of drink, has been
utterly destroyed by misfortune.
The hardest blows of fate seem
poWerless to slay the man whom the
great hypnotist cannot subdue. And
though think intemperance is often
as much a consequence as cause, I
truly believe that If drink could be
utterly wiped out of the world to-
night, humanity would awake in the
morning with more than half its sor-
rows and sufferings gone.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
Per Cent

In other words, Massachusetts, dur
ing this period, was forced to expend
large sums of money to care for per-
sons suffering from mental disease
within it's borders, and during these
years from seventeen to twenty-five
per cent of the patients cared for were
brought to the hospitals because of
alcohol. In New York, where a
greater effort has been made to sift
out alcohol as fundamental cause
rather than as a contributing cause,
the per cent runs about twelve.
Where alcohol as a contributing factor
is taken into consideration, the per
cents are somewhat larger than those
in Massachusetts, running from
twenty-five to thirty per cent
Hospitals in general agree at about
the figure of twenty per cent. In
other words, twenty per cent of the
patients under public care in our hos
pitfalls for the insane are there be-
cause of alcohol. In considering the
social and economic side of the
problem, these figures are important
and are reliable
American issue.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1917-10-20
A NEW DEPARTURE
NOTRE DAME UNIVERSITY OPENS
RESTAURANT.

A seventy-fye-year-old tradition was
broken at the University of Notre
Dame last week with the opening of
a restaurant on the college campus.
For three-quarters of century all
students have dined in the college re-
factories without exception. The new
plan of boarding at the restaurant,
which is optional for the students, is
in keeping with general plan of
progress at Notre Dame. The restau,
rant is in Badin Hall, new residence
dormitory just completed and named
after the first priest ordained in
America. 1t is located on the west
side of the second campus quadrangle
alongside the new $250,000 library.