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New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Rack to a Sane
D Programme

The Republican party must see to ia
that the country gets back to peace
basis on a sane legislative programme
without surrender Of the principles of
representative government. 1t is held
that during the war, and even before,
the country has been rushing toward
state socialism at a terrific pace. "We
must get back to fundamentals" it is as
serted, sgAhha sgAhhateNers thai means. .,and it is
interpreted to mean among other things
that
First-The government must not spend
money for the sole purpose of creating
jobs.
Second-We must not keep on indefinite
ly giving credits to Europe, in order
to keep our factories going, and give
employment.
Thlrd-The railroads must be restored
to private ownership and operation
also the telephones and telegraphs.
fourth-Shipbuilding and shipping con.
ditions must continue on a truly naA
tional scale
= II Hc pIluClpaI OF Jno protective
tariff must re reestablished, and a pros
tective tariff enacted.
SlXth-The navy must be maintained on
at least the present scale Of expansion
Seventh--Encourage of all proiecta
that will make the nation more produc,,
tive and that will tend to widen orrs
portunity for the individual, such aA
harbors and canals, roads and the lana
reclamation projects
Elghth-Encouragement for American
enterprises venturing overseas to thal
end that with the development of a
merchant marine there shall be all thal
necessary accessory financial and cona..
mercial machinery.
NInth-Universal military training IN.
the end that the nation may have Ai
strong manhood and cheap preparesss
ness for another war.
Tenth-Restrictive measures aimed sA
the BolsheViki tendency under what's
ever guise, with view to keeping in,
tact and uncontaminated the best goyc,
ernmental and economic system, ve.a
devised, which makes the greatest dss
mocracy in the world the sanest to-davs
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Me Great Opportunity
Il Waiting

Republicans of vision declare that 10
their party, at the end of the great war
of wars, has come the greatest legislative
opportunity that has ever come to anv
party in America. The nation is in
fluid state. Class lines. such as existed
are gone.
The people have been drawn together
IN The great effort. Tolerance is everv-
where. High ideals are entertained. Pa-
trlotlsm IS deeper and more real than
before. Men have got into the habit OF
sacrificing themselves for the common
good, and for others.
The nation has done big things. ana
thought big things, and will now exuera
constructive craftsmanship from Com.
gress.
This is the great time to enact the res
forms that should be enacted in con-
fornnity with our system of governments.
This is the moment to strike while .he
iron Is hot, but it is also the time for
the real veteran democracy of the Amen.
lean Republic to hold fast against tho
spurious democracy that is being pours5
OUT, ready made, from the half baked
economic schools of soldiers and sa;lor .
committees, and the childish soviets ,hsA
arc trying to establish democracies an
class rule lines.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
But Old-Fashioned Procedure Will
Keep Dominant Party From
Power for a Year

afterward instead of thirteen. as at
present Moreover a new President
would always come into power with a
new Congress in regular session, and it
would not have to depend on his whim
as to calling an extra session, either
then or two years later, as TO whether
the voice of the people must wait more
than year for expression. The Con-
gressional session does now begin on
March 4, but except the President call
special session, legislation does not
begin until the following December.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Wake Up the
W New Voters

Reams have been written about tins
lack of direct sequence between cleo
ions and Congressional terms and ses-
sions, but it has to be emphasized and
written about every so often for the
benefit of new voters, and to refresh
The memory of older ones.
When the Constitution was adopted
responsible party government was
ssalying in England, but it was not un-
deutood, either there or in America.
The makers of the Constitution con-
eeiEed of the Congress as sort of bl-
eameral national council that would
meet, once in every year, at least, and
dispose Of the nations business. Par
ties or responsible government were not
conceived Of.
The idea of Congress rejecting the
RATIONAL will on a great issue and has
'ening to perform accordingly was not
sFasped. Political campaigns of national
Policies were not foreseen. There would
s awmaking to he done, but If Con-
gfess met at least once a year it could
attend to that. There was apparently
20 reason why there should be any
alfry about getting q new Congress
mo power. Elections were to be held
very two years, not to make Congress
. whole responsive, but to make it
uncut for any Congressman to get too
1ong hold on his job.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
N TeSion 70 Learn run

1t is declared to be addicted to senior
ity and log-rolling in making up COM
mittees and distributing the organize
ton plums. So if this man is right the
Republicans in the House will first have
to learn to rule themselves before they
can undertake to rule the land He pre-
diets a bitter clash on this question and
advises more initiative and less docility
on the part Of the rank and file.
The first battle will probably come
over the Speakership.
1t seems now to be generally accepted
that Representative Mann, who is the
nominal Republican floor leader and the
logical candidate for Speaker, will, by
reason Of his long illness, be passed
over. Among the aspirants to the place
ing Republican member of the important
Appropriations Committee; Nicholas
Longworth, of Ohio; Fl. D, Fess, of
Ohio; Madden, of Illinois, and j. Hamp-
ton Moore, of Pennsylvania.
The Democrats will simultaneously
have their own gloomy minority fight
Scott Ferris, of Oklahoma, is reported
to be out to overthrow the leadership
that discredited the party.
On old traditional lines Mr.. Kitchin,
who, as chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, has been virtually the
Democratic floor leader, would cour-
teously surrender that honor to Champ
Clark when he descends from the Speak
er's chair to the floor, and the same little
coterie of Southern Congressman would
continue to rule the party, after having
lost the rule of the country
Mr.. Ferris is reported to consider
that he would be the right sort of lead
er, and that, with his advent to power.
Mr.. Clark, with his capacity for making
vote-losing epigrams such as "a convict
and conscript look alike to me-; Mr..
Kitchin, with his stolid anti-war record,
and Mr.. Dent, with his obstruction Of
military preparations, and some others,
would retire from the spotlight.
AS Mr.. Ferris sees it, this would be
fine way for the Democrats to start put
ting their house in order for 1920.
The Republicans agree, and declare
in principle that they, too, must put
their house in order
If precedent has its way the major
committees will be led in the new House
as follows:
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
By Theodore M. knappen

IN NOVEMBER the American
& people, ,..s: % voted s ',; t.: they S:s: dis;
Congress. But for the next
f0ur months the Congressional control
that the people have weighed in the
balance and found wanting will go on
making the laws Of the country.
And more than that: In the ordinary
course of events the Republicans, with
an emphatic mandate of the people in
their possession to direct legislation,
will not get the faintest chance until
the first Monday in December, 1919,
more than a year after the mandate
was given.
By that time the pepole may be sorry
that they gave the mandate to the Re-
/, pub!cans--it being the privilege Of de-
mueraces, as we'll as of women and
statesmen, to change their minds. But
il they are, they will have to wait an
p.her year before they can effectively
say so, and they will have to'put up with
Republican lawmaking for two years.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

Guardianship of these committees goes
by seniority, in fact, whatever may be
the more modern theory
Some of the big men in the House Of
Representatives feel that in this great
time the chairmanships of the powerful
committees ought to go to the strongest
men on the Republican side Of the
House, no matter whether they are
newly elected or whether they have
served on the particular committees be-
fore or not. But they fear that, unless
there is violent revolution, the Re
publicans Will bow down to custom anG
give the chairmanships to the ranking
Republican members, which may mean
big jobs for little men-eadership for
men who are not leaders.
Discussing this subject, a Republican
House leader remarked that one of the
contributing causes to the recent Demo-
cratic defeat was that slavish follow
ing of seniority gave the Craftsmanship
of the Ways and Means Committee to
AiCSHlli, VI tile MILITARY AudQS COm-
mittee to Dent, and the conrol of all
the committees to 4 handful Of Bour-
bons.
Kitchen and Dent and Speaker
Clark, too-are held to have offset the
Presidents prestige. This leader warns
that unless a better way be found Of
allocating chairmanships the Repub1i-
cans may find themselves in the same
mess of small or narrow men trying to
deal with colossal problems.
1t is q curious and interesting fact
that the present Republican Committee
on Committees which will undertake to
continue it's functions in the next Con-
gress, all of it's members having been re-
elected. is self-constituted committee.
1t gave a banquet to itself, and two or
three other Republican members, and
declared itself the committee Tt was
not elected by the Republican caucus.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

1t must be confessed that when ona
makes these inquiries of Republican,
members of Congress he is not answered
with much consistency or lucidity. IL
appears that members have been too dos
cile to their superimposed organization
and too docile to the Administration to
have exercised their ability for thought
and reflection. However, hero are soma
of the ideas
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
Spirit of the Time Is Expected to
Change Time-W orn Methods of
Party Rule in Washington

Indian Atfairs-Senator La Toilette
Privileges and Elections-senator
Dillingham; of Vermont.
Public Lands-Senator smoot of
Utah.
Pensions - Senator McCumber of
North Dakota.
Education and Labor-senator Ken
yon Of Iowa.
Rules-senator Knox of Pennsylva-
MIA.
If rising element IN the Republican
party in Congress has its way, however,
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17
FE A TURES WITHIN


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New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

HE Greatest, Most Fruitful
Fact of the Great War Was
the Coming Together of Europe
and America. Old Europe Is
Deadanda a Ne1u Worlds Szou-
~ Emerging.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHUTS.
New-York tribune., 1918-11-17

SHALL Meuer Forget That
Day When You Placed at
My Disposal the Entire Re-
sources of Your Army. To-day
We Haue Gained the Greatest
Battle in History.
-FOCH to PERSHING.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05
WILSON TO ACT ABROAD.
President Attaches No Right To Ar
guments Against His Trip.

New weight is attached by Presi-
dent Wilson to the argument of crit
les of his plans for attending the
peace conference that upon crossing
the sea he loses the right to perform
executive duties and must allow them
to evolve upon the vice president.
It was said officially that the presi-
dent will administer the duties of his
office as completely aboard ship and
from Paris as though he were in the
United States. He holds that there
are no constitutional difficulties and
that wireless and cable communica-
ton solves the physical problem.
Secretary Tumulty, instead of be-
ing a member of the peace party,
will remain in Washington through
out the presidents absence and con-
duct the affairs of White House Of
fee as usual. He will be in con-
slant touch with the executive and
expects to submit by cable and wire
less matters to be acted upon just
as he now submits them personally
or by messenger.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05

the English, do something. And in
the home where I visited this after
noon, there are two lovely daughters
who are working. One as a'nurse and
the other in a munition factory! All
the girls do something and they do it
wonderfully we'll. On the streets you
eesa1most as many women in uniform
as you do men. And they take the
greatest interest in their work. They
don't go in for easy jobs either. One
of these girls this afternoon said that
she was having a good time while
she could, for next week this time she
probably would be scrubbing floors
in some hospital. She has been in
France and been at her work for two
years now. And extremely wealthy
at that!
Tomorrow l am going to another
tennis and tea fight. Am getting real
reckless with tea fights, you see. l
haven't done a thing but work up till
now, so that I think the change will
do me good. The people are very nice,
indeed, to us and I have made some
awfully good friends here. I didn't
like it at all we'll at first, but after
you get to know the people and IN
dersIand their ways and their ideas
you find them very hospitable. AL
most all those 1 know are English
who have century estates here; but
some are Irish. The latter are very
nice, too, though l can't forgive them
for their attitude toward the war.
In fact, | don't think anyone v e
will and that they ruined themselves
for many, many generations. We
have to be very careful what we say
on that score, however, as We can
not afford to get in bad with the
Irish.
The fields about are lovely now and
I know that you would be highly in
terested in them. The staple crops
are wheat, oats, rye, potatoes and
fax. The country is very rolling and
quite unlike anything we have at
home. The soil is extremely fertile
and they use no fertilizer at all.
Everything is bringing fabulous
prices and the people are in good
shape, financially. Unfortunately,
they are ~fearfully lazy and not a bit
clean. 1 am sure that some of them
haven't had a bath in years! Modes
of travel are very primitive and DON
key carts are used more than any
thing else. The people live to ripe
old age, and it is not at all uncom-
mon to see people 100 years old. I
was told this afternoon that there
is a grave in the vicinity of an old
woman who died at the age of 145
years. That, however, sounds a bit
too much.
This is the home of the Irish pota-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05
In Jail On Serious Charge.

Fort Mill, Dec. 2.-Sam Johnson,
a young negro living in the country
a few miles from Fort Mill, was ar
rested Saturday night, charged with
attempted assault on a young white
girl and hurried to the York county
jail by sheriff's deputies. 1t was
found on investigation that the ne
gro waylaid the girl as she was re-
turning from a neighbor's house to
her home a few miles from here and
felled her with a blow, but she was
not rendered unconscious and her
outcry frightened the negro, who
made away. There was a good deal
of excitement in town when the affair
became known here, but nc effort was
made to hinder the officers in the
performance of their duty.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05

to. They cultivate it almost as ex-
enormous fields of it, and when in
bloom, it is a very pretty sight.
Strange to say, though, we hardly
ever get new potatoes. !. is always
the bagged variety that We get. Then,
too, they grow a great many turnips.
These are used for winter feed for
cattle of which there are great many.
Despite this, however, you never get
any cream and butter is fearfully
high. 1 suppose this is because fats
are in great demand in England and
everything is sold there at very fancy
prices.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05
Writes of Ireland.

Mr.. J. D. Copeland has recently re-
ceived an interesting letter from his
son, Lieut.. Comdr. D. G. Copeland,
who is with the naval air service now
stationed in Ireland. Lieutenant
Copeland writes of the domestic life
of the British and Irish and his letter
is full of interesting facts. The let
ter, dated August Is, reads as fol-
lows:
Everything is about the same with
me. Am still hanging on to my old
job and have about given up all. hope
of getting away before December.
My first assistant, the man who was
to have taken over the job here, is
still laid up with his broken leg and I
hardly see how he car be able to get
about for at least another month and
then it will take some time before he
can pick up all the loose ends of the
job. 1t was a very heavy blow, but
/ suppose it's all in the days work
and therefore have %reconciled myself
to it.
] haven't been on the road for a
week now and it is a great relief to
rest a bit. l wrote ma last week
about the trip which took me prac-
tically all over Ireland. Have been,
resting On my laurels this week, so
to speak; but. suppose that will have
to get under way again next week.
The stations are about finished now,
but there always remains much to do,
however we'll you plan. and however
well you manage to fix them up. No
sooner than you turn your back that
something else turns up that requires
your attention.
This afternoon l took a little re-
taxation in the form of tennis and
tea at Castle Mary, a wonderful old
English home about four miles away.
The people were charming and gave
us a wonderfully pleasant afternoon.
I went with Lieutenant Curtis of the
reserves and it was a great pleasure
to see how he enjoyed it. He is quite
a wonderful old gentleman from Bos-
ton. A man of 60, a millionaire, who
turned his yacht over to the govern
ment at the outbreak of the var for
81 a month and offered his services
and the services Of his crew to the
navy. He, his two sons, his son-in-
law and his daughter all Joined the
navy-he is a lieutenant, his sons and
son-in-law as ensigns and his daugh-
ter as a stenographer. l think it is
about the finest spirit l have ever
known. A retired banker, extremely
wealthy, leaving his home at the age
of 62 to do his bit. We all think him
very wonderful, don't you?
Most everybody YER here that is
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05
Bamberg Mills and Embree.

Bamberg Mills-Sunday-school,
10 o'clock every Sunday morning;
preaching, II a.. m. and $3.50 p. M,
first and third Sundays.
Misunderstanding, 1880 a. m.
and 7 p. m., every second and fourth
and z p. m. each second and fourth
Pastor.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1918-12-05

Because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA.
TIVE BROMO CU1NINE 10 better than ordinary
Ouinine and does not cause nervousness nor
rinpiur in head. Remember the full name and
look for the signature of e. W. GROVE. 3oc.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-02
Hotel Moscow Arrivals.

saturday, NOVEMBER oU, 1918.
Jas. Rice, Lewiston; H. A. Larson
A. Ofstedal, Denver; Mrs. Cora Lind
strom, F. A. Watt, Chas. H. Ennis; O
M. Snyder, Spokane; P. w. Mitchell
Nez Perce; L. M. Costley, lola; Eugene
|ONeill, Lewiston; VIM. Wagner, Gotten
wood; NJ H. Pager, Nez Perce; P. W.
Kitthall, Mrs. P. E. Harrington, lola
H. N. Colman, Pullman F. " Morri-
son, L. w. Fernands, Moscow; Jacob
Breid, Lapwai; NJ w. Ebel, Moscow
E. B. Spungstren, San Francisco; J. H.
Kayler, Peck; A. E. Lawrence Seattle
A. M. Cameron, D. E. Nichols, Moscow.
Sunday, December l, 1918.
J. w. johnson, Portland; Raymond
Graves, Filler; F. Silene; J: M. Bartlett,
Orofino; Thos B. Braton, E. NJ. Tandy,
Lapwai; w. G. Hamon and wife,
Grangeville; E. P. Atchison, Kendrick !;
w. w. Caldwell; c. W. McClain, Boise \
Eugene A. Cox, Lewiston; M H. Was
son, J. w. Jorgins, Spokane; F. " Roth !
Pullman; A. T. West, Davenport; J. FL
Cur1ey, C. S. Montee, N. P. Ry.
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-02
CHRISTMAS TRADE
CONDITIONS NORMAL
BAN ON CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
HAS BEEN LIFTED-FORMER
CONDITIONS RETURN

The local council of defense has re-
ceived the following selfexplanatory tele-
gram regarding the restoration of normal
conditions for holiday shopping, which
will be of interest to all The telegram
follows:N
Before the armistice the council of
national defense composed of the secre-
taries of war, navy, interior, agriculture,
commerce and labor entered into an
agreement with Representatives of lead
ing industries and retail interests to the
effect that the sale of Christmas goods
should undergo certain restriction with
regard to the employment of labor dur
ing the Christmas season, and the con-
servation and transportation and delivery
facilities. Certain other agreements were
likewise entered into.
"The council of national defense now
believes that as one of the steps essential
to the rapid establishment Of normal
after the war conditions it should and it
hereby does, lift its ban in connection
with holiday buying in the desire to give
a natural impetus to, the unemployment
of those normally engaged in the pro
duction of holiday material and in the
holiday trade The council is further
impe1led to this decision by reason of
the necessity now confronting us to get
our military forces ard munition factory
workers back to the ordinary pursuits of
life with the least possible shock in max
ing the change.
"GOVERNOR B. GARRISON,
acting Diector of Council of
National Defense"
The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1918-12-02
GERMAN PLOTTERS
IN BEUN0s AIRES
ALLIED NATIONS MAY BOYCOTT
THIS ARGENTINE PORT BE-
CAUSE OF OUTRAGES

BUENOS AIRES.=Continued bomb
outrages, fires and collisions for the de-
struction of allied shipping in Buenos
Aires have resulted in a movement set on
| foot here to have the allied governments
refrain from sending ships to the port of
Buenos Aires until steps are taken to
prevent this destruction by German-paid
agents, according to well-informed men
in allied shipping circles of this city.
Orders sent to German agents to or
ganize explosions on board ships which
we're sailing to enemy lands, and to pro-
woke delays and confusion in the load
ing, sailing and unloading of these ships,
have been carried out efficiently in
Buenos Aires The confusion and delay
is attributed by allied shipping men to
the federation of marine laborers The
power behind the recent bomb explo-
sions and fire on board allied ships either
while in Buenos Aires or just after de-
parting has not yet been identified
Shipping men have almost despaired
of combating the federation of marine
laborers. The federation practically con-
trolls maritime commerce in Buenos
Aires It is asserted that it dictates to
employers who shall load unload, scale,
pant, uiyioSh dlu dttclld ~ tic iiuiiui GU
and one necessities of ship in port,
sending Germans, Austrians or Turks on
board allied vessels in the port of Buenos
Aires. The employers are powerless to
refuse to allow doubtful person aboard
the ships for fear of an instant and gen
eral strike, as has occurred on more than
one occasion in which employers attempt
ed to keep CONSPICUOUS characters away
from allied vessels
Allied shipping men believe the power
If. this federation could be broken by
boycott which would prevent allied yes
'els from touching at the port of Buenos
Aires, as it is believed the Argentine
government would realize then the neces-
ity of dealing firmly with this organiza-
ion-Correspondent of the Associated
Press