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New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Storm Breaks When
Funds Are Refused

Commissioner Kingsbury refussi 70
authorize the payment Of city funds 10
the worst of these institutions until
they should raise their stan dards; he
declined to commit to them further
children until such time, and so far a.
was possible he removed from hem
the public charges which they already
had. As soon as he took this action
the storm broke. As has been said,
some, although by no means ell or
even a majority, Of these inferior In
stitutions were under Roman Catholic
auspices. The cry went up that Roman
Catholic institutions were being at
tackled and prosecuted by the Protes-
tant Commissioner and his agents. Ths
Rev. Brother Barnabas was no. only
obliged 70 resign from the committee,
but was deprived Of his pos ten as
superintendent of the In olrdals
School and transferred to q rul rdinats
post In an obscure school ~ nothe.
part Of the state.
At this point the Commissi, laid
the facts before the Mayor the
recommendation that he sugge q, the
Governor that he order an In sst.gs-
ton Of the State Board Of Charities,
with particular reference to IL ,els-
ton 70 and responsibility Tor tni child
caring institutions Of the City o. New
York.
Governor Whitman, following the
Mayors recommendation, spp6lnted
Charles II. Strong, q lawyer sno for.
mer president Of the City Club ot Nsw
York, special commissioner 20 lnvssi
tigate the State Board Of Charities
along the lines suggested. During thk
winter and early spring Of 1915 Cora-
missioner Strong held hearings in Ne "
York City. The evidence presented
tended to confirm the Commissioners
original report of the conditions pre-
vailing in some Of the children's insti-
tutions. Then the cry was raised that
the whole investigation was a yelled
attack upon the Catholic Church and
its institutions. The fact that Deputy
Commissioner Doherty was himself .
Roman Catholic and had been al or
phaned child, brought up In Roman
Catholic institution, was cited as one
Of the reasons why he was an improper
person TO conduct an investigation Of
such institutions.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Convinced of
Criminal Conspiracy

AS the investigation proceeded Com
missioner Kingsbury and his counsel,
William H. Hotchkiss, became con-
vinced that criminal conspiracy was
being developed by Robert W. Heb
berd, the secretary OF the State Board
of Charities; DR.. Daniel c. Potter, the
head of the Private Charities, Inc, and
the Rev. Father Farrell, a Roman Cath
olic priest. Mr.. Hebberd was still
smarting under the defeat OF his ef-
forts to perpetuate the regime Of Mrs.
Dunphy at Randall's Island. DR.. Pot
ter had been discharged from his po-
sition as head of the Ambulance Board
of the city through charges of miscon-
duct in office brought against him by
Commissioner Kingsbury in his cspse-
ity as q member Of that board. He
had since organized and was then man.
aging the Private Charities, Inc, an
association which appeared to exist for
the support of the contention that pri-
vate charitable institutions caring for
city wards had vested right 20 re-
ceive city funds, regardless Of whether
or not they expended them proper" in
the view of the city's agents. Father
Farrell was the champion of the BIZ ck-
listed Catholic institutions.
Commissioner Kingsbury and Ie.
Hotchkiss became convinced that hr
Hebberd was testifying falsely, rat
Dr.. Potter was planning 20 leave he
state and 60 into hiding, so as TO e.
cape testifying at ell, while Fla ior
Farrell had already refused 70 ar. ar
questions on the stand and had op zig
deaed Commissioner Strong, the o'-
ernor and the law Of the state VI 3.r
which the investigation was held.
When the Commissioner and W.
Hotchkiss laid before the Mayor lat
they believed 10 be going on, toge
with their reasons, he, after cons-
the Corporation Counsel, instructed
Police Commissioner TO have the
phone wires of these three men IS
tened in on" 10 discover whether ley
were in fact conspiring TO defeat ~
purposes of the investigation. The vi
dence thus obtained tended TO con rm
the belief Of Commissioner Kings NV
and his counsel that such a conspi icy
existed. The offenders were not, ; ~
ever, indicted and prosecuted, bee. ise
the evidence obtained by the p ice
over the telephone wires was not gal
evidence in the eyes OF the law.
At this time Mr.. Hebberd resigne AS
secretary Of the State Board of Ckay-
ties. Shortly afterward Dr. Potter d,ed.
Father Farrell then sought and secured
the indictment Of Commissioner KinGs-
bury and his counsel, Mr.. Hotchkiss BY
Kings County grand jury in connec-
tion with the overlapping. The crime
with which they were charged was the
obstruction Of public highways" Wnen
the case came up for trial in the sp:ing
Of 1917 IL WAS dismissed.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
We Are Friends of
The German People

We are, let me say again, the sincere
friends Of the German people, and shall
desire nothing so much as the early re-
establishment Of intimate relations of
mutual advantage between us, however
hard il may be for them for the time
being to believe that this Is spoken
from our hearts. We have borne with
their present government through all
these bitter months because Of that
friendship, exercising a patience and
fOrbearance which would otherwise
have been impossible.
We shall happily still have an Op-
portunity to prove that friendship in
our daily attitude and actions toward
the millions Of men and women of Ger
man birth and native sympathy who
live among us and share our life, and
we shall be proud to prove ii toward
all who are i'm fact loyal to their neigh
bors and to the government in the hour
of test.
They are most of them as true and
loyal Americans as If they had never
known any other fealty or allegiance
They will be prompt to stand with us
In rebuking and restraining the few
who may be of a different mind and
purpose. IL there should be disloyalty
it will be dealt with with a firm hand
Of stern repression; but if IL lifts its
head at all, II will lift it only here and
there and without countcnance except
from lawless and malignant few.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Months of Fiery Trial
Ahead of u. S.

Ii is a distressing and oppressive
duty. gentlemen of the Congress. which
] have performed in thus addressing
you. There are Ii may be- many months
OF fiery trial and sacrifice ahead of US.
II Is fearful thing To lead this great,
peaceful people into war, in the most
terrible and disastrous of all wars,
civilization itself seeming TO be in the
balance.
But the right is more precious than
peace. and We shall fight for the things
which We have always carried nearest
our hearts-fOr democracy, for the
right of those who submit To authority
to have voice In their own govern
ments, for the rights and liberties Of
small nations. for universal dominion
of right by such q concert of free
people as shall bring peace and safety
to all nations and make the world it.
self at last free.
To such task we can dedicate our
lives and our fortunes, everything that
We are and everything that We have.
with the pride Of those who know that
the day has come when America In
privileged To spend her blood and her
might for the principles that gave her
birth and happiness and the peace
which she has treasured.
God helping her. she can do no othsr.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
A Degree of Restraint
Was Observed

That had seemed to be the object OF
the German submarine warfare carrier
in the war, but since April OF last year
the imperial government had somewhat
restrained the commanders of its un-
dersea craft, in conformity with its
promise, then given to us, that passen-
GER boats should not be sunk, ana that
due warning would be gwen TO all
,;her vessels which Its SUBMARINES
might seek to destroy. when no re-
sistance was offered or escape a.-
tempted, and care taken that tneir
crews were given at least falr chahee
10 save their lives in their open ooats'
The precautions taken were meagre
and haphazard enough, as was proved
in distressing instance after instance
in the progress of the cruel and rn-
manly business, but certain oegree
of restraint was observed.
The new policy has swept every re-
striction aside. Vessels OF every KIND
whatever their flag, their character,
their cargo. their destination thei'
,rrand. have been ruthiessly sent 20
the bottom without warning and win
cut thought of help or mercy for those
ON hoard. the vessels OF friendly neu-
trails along with those OF belligerents.
Even hospital ships and ships carrying
relief TO the sorely bereaved ana
stricken people of Belgium, though the
latter were provided with safe conduct
through the prescribed areas by the
German government itself and were
distinguished by unmlstakable marks
of identity, have been sunk with the
yame reckless lack of compassion or
Of principle. 1T,
I was for little while unable TO
believe that such things would in tacl
be done by any government that had
hitherto subscribed TO the humane
practices of civilized nations. Inter
national law had its origin in the at,
tempt to set up some law which would
be respected and observed upon the
seas, where no nation had right OF
dominion and where las the free high-
WAYS of the world. By painful! stage
after stage has that law been built up
with meagro enough results. indeed.
after all was accomplished that could
be accomplished. but always with a
clear view. at least, of what the heart
and conscience of mankind demanded
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
1t Means to Stir Up
Enemies Against Us

Even in checking these things and
trying to extirpate them we have sought
to put the most generous Interpretation
possible upon them, because We knew
that their source lay not In any hostile
feeling or purpose of the German peO.
pie toward us (who were, no doubt, as
ignorant of them as we ourselves
were), but only in the selfish designs
OF government that did what IL
pleased and told its people nothing. But
they have played their part in serving
to convince us at last that that gov
ernment entertains no real friendship
Tor us and means to act against our
peace and security at its convenience.
That IL means to stir up enemies
against US at our very doors the inter-
cepted note TO the German Minister at
Mexico City is eloquent evidence.
We are accepting this challenge Of
hostile purpose because We know that
in such government, following such
methods. We can never have a friend.
and that in the presence of its organ
lied power, always lying in wait to ac-
complish We know not what purpose
there can be no assured security for
the democratic governments of the
world.
We are now about to accept the gage
Of battle with the natural foe 10 lib.
erty, end shall, If necessary, spend the
whole force Of the nation TO check and
nulllfy its pretensions and it's power.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

X ENTLEMEN OF THE CON
GRESS: have called the Con-
gress into extraordinary ses-
sion because there are serious. very
serious, choice Of policy to be made
and made Immediately, which it is
neither right nor constitutionally per-
missible that | should assume the re-
sponsibility of making.
On the Sd February last | officially
laid before you the extraordinary an
uouncement of the imperial German
government that, on and after the 1st
day of February, it was its purpose to
nut aside all restraints of law or OF
humanity and use its submarines to sink
every vessel that sought TO approach
either the ports of Great Britain and
ireland or the western coasts OF
Europe, or any Of the ports controlled
by the enemies of Germany within the
Mediterranean.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
World Must Be Made
Safe for Democracy

We are glad, now that We see the
facts with no veil Of false pretence
about them, 10 fight thus for the uItl-
mate peace OF the world and for the
liberation Of its peoples. the German
peoples included; for the rights Of ma
tions, great and small. and the priyi-
lege Of men everywhere TO choose their
way Of life and Of obedience.
The world must be made safe for
democracy. Its peace must be planted
upon the Tested foundations Of political
liberty. We have no unselfsh ends 20
serve. We desire no conquests, no do.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
German Government Distorts
Wilson's 'sSpeech toDupePeople
Feared Influence Of Unabridged Text Of Presidents War
Message Popuace Of Fatherand Suppressed Passages
Which Showed Why America Could No Longer Avoid
Entering Conflict.


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black indicating whHh suppressed By the Wolff Bureau
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
We Must Put
Excited Feelings Away

The challenge is TO all mankind.
Zach nation must decide for itself how
81 will meet II. The choice We make
for ourselves must be made with q
moderation Of counsel and a temperate
ress % judgment betting our charac-
ter and our motives a. nation. We
must put excited feeling away. Our
motive will not be revenge or the vic
torious assertion Of the physical might
Of the nation, but only the vindication
Of right, Of human right, OF which we
are only a single champion.
when ] addressed the Congress on
the 2sth Of February last thought Il
would suffice 20 assert our neutral
l rights with arms, our right to use the
seas against unlawful interference, our
right 10 keep our people safe against
unlawful violence. But armed neutral
ity, IL nov appears, is imprac,icable.
Because submarines are In effect out
laws, when used as the German subma-
rines have been used against merchant
shipping, 10 II impossible 20 defend
ships against their attacks, as the law
Of nations has assumed that merchant
men would defend themselves against
prfyafecrs or cruisers. visible craft Civ
Ing chase upon the open sea. IL Is com
mon prudence In such circumstances
grim necessity indeed, 20 endeayor 10
sbeir own Intention. they must be
dealt with upon sight, " dealt with
at all.
There IL One Choice
We Cannot Make
IT c.~., ..-v~xn,n.rt fsytes fbe
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

within the areas OF the sea which il
has prescribed even in the defence Of
rights which no modern publicist has
ever before questioned their right 20
defend. The intimation IS conveyed that
the armed guards which we have
placed on our merchant ships viii be
treated as beyond the pale Of law and
subject 10 be dealt with as pirates
would be.
Armed neutrality is Intellectual
enough at best; III such circumstances
and in the face OF such pretensions Il
IL worse than Intellectual: it is likely
only 10 produce what il YVES meant TO
prevent; II is practically certain to
draw us into war without either the
rights or the effectiveness of belliger-
ents. There is one choice We cannot
make, We are incapable of making: We
will not choose the path of submission
and suffer the most sacred rights OF
our nation and our people to be ig-
nored or violated.
The wrongs against which We now
array ourselves are no common wrongs;
they cut to the very roots of human
life
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
RandaIl's Island Transformed
Into Clean Home for City Waits

idiots, etc, not only on the first, but
on the second and third floors, with
leaky open gas Jets in every room as
the only means of lighting, and with
many patients Of pyromaniac propensi-
ties, constitute a fire risk with danger
to helpless human life that is almost
incredible. No such condition would
be tolerated for day in factory or
business building where able-bodied,
normal people are housed"
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Set Criminal Intrigue
Afoot Everywhere

One of the things that have served
to convince us that the Prussian au-
tocracy was not and could never be our
friend Is that from the very outset OF
the present war II has filled our un-
suspecting communities, and even our
offices of government, with spies and
set criminal intrigues everywhere
afoot against our national unity of
counsel, our peace within and without,
our industries and our commerce. In
deed. IL is now evident that It's spies
were here even before the war began,
and il is unhappily not matter of con-
lecture, but fact proven in our courts
of justice, that the intrigues which
have more than once come perilously
near to disturbing the peace and dis
locating the Industries of the country
have been carried on at the instigation,
With the support and even under the
personal directions Of official agents of
the imperial government accredited to
the government of the United States.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

sweeping through the institutions. And
even the worst Of these places bsld
certificates from the State Boari Of
Charities certifying to their wor.hiuess
and authorizing them to receive funds
from the city.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Advised Putting Country
In State Of Defence

With a profound sense of the solemn
and even tragical character of the step
am taking and of the grave response
bilities which il involves, but IN un-
hesitating obedience to what | deem
my constitutional duty. | advise that
the Congress declare the recent course
of the imperial German government
10 be in fact nothing less than war
against the government and people Of
the United States; that it formally ac-
cept the status of belligerent which
has thus been thrust upon il, and that
it take immediate steps not only TO
put the country in more thorough
state Of defence, but also to exert all
its power and employ all its resources
TO bring the government of the German
Empire to terms and end the war.
What this will involve is clear. 1t
will involve the utmost practicable CO.
operation in counsel ard action with
the governments now at war with Ger
many, and, as inciden. to that, the ex-
tension TO those governments Of the
most liberal financial credits, in order
:hat our resources may so far IS pos
sible he added 70 theirs.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Waits NowWell Treated
In City's Institutions

Wards of Department of Charities Re-
ceive Expert Medical Attention and Good
Nursing Care in Sanitary Buildings
Twenty-six Homes Formerly Below
Standard Reported Greatly Improved
Burden of incompetence Lifted From
Children
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
By Lyman Beecher Stowe

BY Lyman Beecher Stowe
VIHEN Mayor Mitchell, at the din.
w ner rendered him by the Fu-
sion Committee which had
nominated him, gave an account Of his
stewardship during the frst two years
Of his administration, he said, In COM
menting on the Department Of Public
Charities, "This department has been
the storm centre Of this administra-
ton" Why was this so7
When q public official comes into Of
Ace he has before him three courses'
He may follow the line OF least
resistance by merely performing his
routine duties and undertaking nothing
new or different; he may ally himself
with tho sinister political forces In the
expectation of Illicit rewards OF one
kind or another, or he may attempt to
introduce new and different methods.
Tho latter course means an almost con-
slant fight because he will inevitably
array against him not only tho evil
forces which naturally resist better
ment, but the forces Of inertia, which
are very strong In any governmental
organization and which resent changes
almost il not quite as much as the
forces Of evil.
It was the third course which
John A. Kingsbury chose when Mayor
Mitchell, in 1914, appointed him Com
missioner Of Public Charities. Com
missioner Kingsbury woke up all the
sleeping dogs in his Official path. This
he dared do because he could count on
the unfinching support Of his chief
the Mayor.
The City Of New York maintains no
institutions for the care # normal
children. Such children when public
charges have always been placed in
private institutions subsidized on q
per capita basis by the city. Through
the Commissioner Of Public Charities
in his capacity as Superintendent OF
the Poor tho city annually eypends in
such subsidies upward Of three million
dollars. Commissioner Kingsbury dis
covered that he was approving as
matter Of official routine the payment
Of hundreds Of thousands Of dollars
to private institutions for the care Of
the city's child wards without the least
direct knowledge Of the adequacy or
inadequacy Of the care and training
which they were receiving.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Only Free People
Can Hold Their Purpose

A steadfast concert for peace can
never be maintained except by a part
nership of democratic nations. No
autocratic government could be trusted
to keep faith within ii or observe its
covenants. IL must be a league of
honor, a partnership of opinion. In
triCue would eat its vitals away; the
plOttings of inner circles who could
plan what they would. and render &C.
count to no one, would be a corruption
seated at its very heart. Only free
people can hold their purpose and their
honor steady TO common end, and
prefer the interests of mankind to any
narrow interest of their own.
Does not every American feel that
assurance has been added TO our hope
for the future peace of the world by the
wonderful and heartening things that
have been happening within the last
few weeks in Russia? Russia was
known by those who knew her hest to
have been always in fact democratic at
heart in all the vital habits of her
thought. in all the intimate relation
ships of her people that spoke their
natural instinct, their habitual atti-
tude toward life. The autOcracy that
crowned the summit of her political
structure, long as IL had stood and ter
rible as was the reality of its power,
was not In fact Russian in origin, char
acter or purpose. and now II has been
shaken on and the great, generous Rus
sian people have been added, in all their
native majesty and might, TO the forces
that are fighting for freedom In the
world. for justice and for peace. Here
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New-York tribune., 1917-11-04

ards Of conduct and OF responsibility
for wrong done shall be observed
ar,ong nations and their governments
that are observed among the individual
citizens Of civilized states.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
Have No Quarrel
With German People

We have no quarrel with the German
people. We have no feeling toward
them but one of sympathy and friend
ship. II was not upon their impulse
that their government acted in enter
ing the war II was not with their
previous knowledge or approval. 1t
was war determined upon as wars
used to be determined upon in the
old unhappy days when peoples were
nowhere consulted by their rulers and
wars were provoked and waged in the
interest Of dynasties or Of little groups
of ambitious men who were accustomed
TO use their fellow men as pawns and
tools.
Self-governed nations do not fill
their neighbor states with spies or set
the course nf intrigue To bring about
some critical posture of affairs which
will give them an opportunity to strike
and make conquest. Such designs can
he successfully worked out only under
cover and where no one has the right
TO ask questions. Cunningly cOntrived
plans of deception or aggression, car
ried, ii may be, from generation to
generation, can be worked out and kept
from the light only within the privacy
Of courts or behind the carefully
guarded condolences of a narrow and
privileged class. They are happily i'm
possible where public opinion COM
nnands and insists upon full informa-
ton concerning all the nations affairs.
New-York tribune., 1917-11-04
There IL One Choice
We Cannot Make

The German government denies the
right Of nsutrsls 70 ass arms at al
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-11-06

The names of the freeholders re-
siding upon the legal subdivis-
ions OF said lands, and the names
and post Office addresses of all
OF the owners and mOrtgagees of
the above described land are as
follows, so far as known:
Name Address
Surname written first)
AIR, Il. ID. Terrell, Idaho.
Ashby, L. B. Mcleod, Alta, Cana
da.
Allen, Albert B. st. Joe. Idaho
Anderson, Albert (MOrtgagee)
Champion, Alta, Canada.
Aldrick, d. C. FernwOod, Idaho.
The record. [volume] (St. Maries, Idaho) 1913-1918, 1917-11-06

That so far as is known TO YOUR
petitioners all of the freeholders
residing upon the legal subdi-
visions Of the said lands, and the
names and addresses of AM Of
the owners and mortgagees with
in the said proposed drainage dis
trlct are as follows: Lands To-
Gated on Occur d'Alene and Chat
eolet Lakes and on the ST. Maries
and st. Joe Rivers, and ali other
lakes and streams tributary
thereto in