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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
FREE SPEECH

TaHE present relation of the United States
to Europe unique ,tionaby represents
the n4blest aspiration that ever moved a
peopN and the most splendid effort ever
msde by just men to establish justice
everywhere. Our course in this war has
been ina ginative and unselfsh and unique
We have attempted to serve all oppressed
peoples equally, and we have not hesi-
tated to suffer and spend arC die endlessly
at the task The principles we hold may
be too big for comprehension by little
minds--too new and too vast. And so we
cialist meeting in Philadelphia wildly cheer.
ing .Bolshevism.
~ The name of Lenine-the hater, The neu-
rotic, the breeder of class passions and
preacher of class self1shness-was wildly
acclaimed.
President Wilson's name was received
with mild APPLAUSE"
There are times when free sreeCh seems
questionable luxury. Brt free speech
justifies itself invariably. 1t often reveals
far more than it is intended to reveal. In
this instance it served to show that the
men who like to call themselves radicals
often have no more imagination, no more
charity, no more vision and no more of a
desire to be fair and decent than he crew
of plunderers that Is now being kicked out
of Europe. 1t is never quite plain whether
they hate the enemy or envy him.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
The Tale of Mons

TN ACCORDANCE with the principles Of
l. both poetic and transcendental justice,
the tragic Belgian town of Mons was cap
tured by King Georges warriors, on the
last complete day of the world conflict.
The piteous, yet soul.stirring, tale Of
British valor has few parallels in war
annals. The retreat of Sir John Moore's
army at Corunna in the Pennsular cam
paign of the Napoleonic era foreshadows
the tale in little. But in that campaign
very small eXpedtionary force was con-
cerned. In the epic of August. 1914, the
flower of the entire British army was Ill
voIved. By Hun computation this daunt.
less body was in numbers petty, yet it, and
armies operating nearby, constituted at
that time the maximum of Britain's mill.
tary effectiveness. Won Kluck's hordes over
whelmed 1t.
The heroic stand of General Sir Horace
Smith.Dorrien. outranged and still out
ranges tributes. The chivalric nobility Of
this episode was SO stupendous that a
flavor Of the mythical was soon associated
with it. The legend of the angels of Mons,
with its narration of the visitation of the
three medieval bowmen. cleaning in gal.
liant armor to inspire the cause of justice,
soon became one of the persistent super.
stitons of the war. 1t matters not that
Arthur Machen some months later con.
fessed the fancy to be the product OF his
imagination. Its spiritual significance
abided. lacF,
Mons. a symbol both Of fairly incon.
ceivable bravery in the face of inseparable
obstacles, became byword In the chroni.
Gle of England's honor. The feeling that
| atonement for the sacrifices made there
was exigent before the whole long grim ad.
venture Of combat could be brought to a
close. doubtless pulsatngly inspired the
troops which rushed the capture Nof the
place just before Germany admitted In
writing the full extent of her. hideous
folly. ..sf'r
AS the curtain fell on the most terrible
struggle in history Mons was redeemed.
| Canadians were the victors. The children
of old England have been supremely worthy
of their sires. Among the epic notes Of
the war there are few that sound with more
of Homeric beauty than those of the tale
OF Mons-zwlth its vivid nuances of both
pathos and triumph,
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THE PRICE WE PAID

yTyHEN the Civil War came to an end it
was devoutly prayed by both factions
that no such terrible toll of American life
would ever be exacted in future conflicts
Up to the present that passionateiy
expressed desire has been fulfilled Our
sacrifices in the world fray in killed,
wounded. missing and prisoners are esti-
mated at 100000.
Without minimizing in the least the
Enormous and energetic contribution Of the
United States to the universal struggle,
without belittling the full measure of devo-
ton which the men who died have given,
Al smay be said with the most reverent
gratitude that this country escaped the full
force OF the most monstrous blow ever
launched at civilization. We were spir-
lttaaliy ready for any sacrifice. The appail-
ing tragic tribute paid by our allies on
the altar OF freedom would have been
poured forth In similar measure by US
also. had 1t been necessary
Counting both sides, our Civil war losses
amounted to 100000 men. A great price
Tor liberty was paid between the years
lx81-s5 That a proportionate repayment
paA nos again demanded must stir faith
eyen Ia the sksptic.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
Justice for the Hun

To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger
Sir-Lest we forget just retribution to
the forever hateful. hated. hellish Hun, it Is
only a fair question whether all of the down.
trodden. military oppressed German people
would not have taken American swag and
loot and put it in their pocket If they could
have gotten away with it. just as they did
in Belgium and France.
II they would commit or have committed
murder and robbery, let them take what is
justly coming to them-just retribution for
murder and rapine and robbery.
MAY no nice pretty lady or ladylike man
with maudin sentimentality carry them
flowers as was wont to be done 70 3ail-birds
at Moyamensng. ~
Did the poor down-trodden. military -op-
pressed German people whom we are asked
TO forget and forgive and to be merciful to-
did they celebrate the sinking of the Lusi-
tania the foul deed of drowning helpless
,Vouren and children, our own neighbors?
mia the very school children celebrate the
event? -
was medal struck in it's honor and glcri-
Fed in by the whole German people?
DID any one hear Of any protests or dis
sent by any of the downtrodden, military op-
pressed German people?
In the early war days did / dream 1t or
aid hear It from foretinhe friend-a Ger
man-American upholding the drowning Of
women and children on the LusdtAnia, our
own fins citizens, as a military necessity OF
the great German empire?
Might without honor, is right" seems the
foul creed of all, OF some few here and OF
all of this generation there.
Did officers order crucifying and unman-
ming. or were such foul deeds done by the
poor, ignorant, downtrodden, military sol
diers Of their very own foui rvoiitions
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
DEMOCRACY AND THE NETHERLANDS

TNHE Netherlands as the refuge of
l. despot presents an unconvincing spec
tacle. That the Dutch themselves have
been quick to realize the inconsistency OF
the scene is fast becoming manifest in
the rising tide of uneasiness over the ex-
kaiser's residence in the stanch little land
and in the extremely frank expressions Of
anti-monarchcal sentiments
Peter Troelstra one of the Socialist lead.
ers Of Europe, is pointedly outspoken. The
possibility Of a queenless Hague is dis
cussed. It is supported there by one OF
the noblest of historical bases
For more than two centuries the flame
of democracy was kept alive in the Neither
lands--a cleaning challenge in an era OF
despotism The Dutch republic fought in
turn the sinister absolutism of Philip OF
Spain, the dissolute aristocracy of Charles
II OF Britain and the grandiloquent
tyranny Of Louis XIV of France. It
assisted in freeing England from the
Stuarts 1t was the first of all nations to
salute the American flag a standard deriv-
ing its hues directly from the freedom.
loving Dutch.
When republicanism had appeared ira
duced by the Napoleonic infatuation,
kingdom was for the first time organized
in the gallant lowlands, following the Con
gress of Vienna in 1915 Memories Of the
old glorious past were preserved in the ele'
walton of the line of the Orange Stadt-
holders to the throne. kingship however,
thrived chiefly on sentiment
Dauntess William of Orange was the
guiding star of a brave people, and when
he died the little children cried in the
streets" Queen Wilhelmina, who has ruled
with liberalism and discretion, has been
honored as the descendant of the Wash
ington Of the Lowlands. For more than
a hundred years the nation has furnished
the paradox of a monarchy whose sources
have been affectonately traced to a heroic
republic.
Any governmental transition there no"
would be in strict conformity with logic
and tradition.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

sHORONER KNIGHTS suggestion for
- the cancellation of the skip-stop rule
on trolley lines is justifable and timely
Accidents under the prevailing practice
are Inevitable Twenty.frst street is
congested artery of motor traffic, yet many
of the east and west-bound trolleys cross
1t at high speed because it is one of the
stops now skipped. Mr. Knight has found
in the course of his official routine that
the danger is greater even than was first
anticipated.
The trend of opinion nowadays demands
Improvement in trolley service and a
greater convenience for those who use
street cars rather than the sort OF re
stricted service which the skip-stop repre-.
sents In many localities.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
THE FINANCIAL BURDEN

TSHE immediate financial effect of the
= armistice is to reduce by six billion
dollars the amount of money which Sec.
retary McAdoo thinks the nation will need
to raise this year. His suggestion to Con.
gress that it reduce by two billion dollars
the amount to be raised by taxation is in
accordance with the plan with which he
started the fiscal year. That was that one.
third of the money needed be raised by
tax and two-thirds by loan.
There naturally follows the conclusion
that instead Of being asked to lend the
Government twelve billion dollars more
before July 1, the country will be asked to
lend only eight billion.
The six billion dollars thus released will
now remain invested in the constructive
work Of peaceful industry instead of in the
arts of destruction.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
The Organ Man

The Organ Man
The organ man is playing
The tunes we used to dance:
20 Boy" and "Tipperary,"
And is it just by chance
He plays the fox trot and the waltz
Till all the children, too,
Catch up their feet and whirI and turn
Just as we used to do?
There's Underneath the stars perha ps
Among the things he plays.
Poor Butterfly" or Egypt"
And now the "Marseillaise."
He plays those tunes so very loud
The ones we used to dance
So happily those months ago
Before you went to France.
BEATRICE WASHBURN.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
Where Did Mckinley Review the Parade?

Where DId MCKINNEY NeVleW the idraoe'
To the Editor Of the Evening Public Ledger:
Sir-May I correct statement in your
issue of November 13, made by Hon. y.
Hampton Moore concerning the Peace Jubilee
of 1898?
President Mckinley did not review the mill
tary parade from the Mayors office, north
side Of City Hall, but from the official STAND
in the beautiful Court of Honor which was
designed by Joseph NJ. Huston, the architect
Referring to the photograph made of that
stand by William H. Rau, see President Nc
Kinley. Mayor Warwick General Ager, Cen
eral Shafter Charles Emory Smith, Henry
Clay, James H. Eckersley, Joseph NJ. Huston,
Secretary Porter, and in the foreground
Frank Thomson, president of the Pennsy-
vania Railroad, and James w. Nagle and
Director Frank Ritter. HlSTORlCUS'
Philadelphia, November 16.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
BRUMBAUCH A WAR HISTORIAN?

THERE is a disquieting color Of veracty
l in the report from Harrisburg that
the Legislature will, so to speak, endow
Governor Brumbaugh after the expiration
of his term and name him war historian
of Pennsylvania. Friends OF the Governor
appear to be fascinated by this idea. A
considerable part Of the States emergency
war fund Is still unexpended. The Legis-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
THE SERGEANT.

WE AID sergeant once, oh lor!
" With voice to wake the dead;
Twas Sort Of 'usky animal roar.
An we couldn't tell what e said.
An one day e was drilling us,
When in a sudden pause,
"A dog barked,
An we all formed fours. 4
f swelled is gills like a turkey cock,
An oh the ripping word! .....
We felt like ptisners in dock,
As we stood at ease an card.
An as e paused in slangin' us,
An our sufferin' ears burned, '
A 'orse neighed. .s
An we all 'bout-turned.
With that e threw a foamin' At
Upon the gravel ard;
e squirmed an writhed an rolled an bit,
An cursed Us by the yard.
An when e failed in utterance,
An shook is nobbly fist,
rook cawed
An we all dismissed.
e chased us with rs swagger-stick,
An is language was a dream!
e formed us up in arr tick
On the banks Of a runnin' stream.
An while e stood an glared at us
Hou could ave card a pin),
A duck quacked,
An we all fell in.
y C. r. N, in The Passing Show.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
CHoWpER.

COME of our lawless contributors are
~ threatening to raise the red flag and
appoint committee Of workmen and poets
to run this column unless we treat their
CALCULATIONS with more respect. Rather
than incur any assassinations we will give
the poets the best Of our space today,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
Midnight Lunch


What is so delightful as
An all-night lunch room at midnight?
The shining porcelain counter,
The bright-nickeled tanks of coffee,
With their glass gauges showing the clear
brown liquid,
The pies and puddings keeping ho. in the
steam.chest,
Mince pie, apple, raisin, cocoanut, lemon,
pumpkin
And the fried egg sandwiches and frank.
furters
And the little pots of baked beans
And the corn cakes coming up hot from
the kitchen
With their minute silver plated jugs Of
syrup!
! admire the waiter in a white coat:
And the waitress in a white shirtwaist:
They hustle about on their feet
From p. m until I a. m.
But they are never too tired to do their job
Promptly and humorously
And they please the newspaper men
BY asking to see the bulldog edition of the
morning paper
When it comes off the press Just after mid.
night.
| admire also the little brass speaking tube
that talks
Down to the kitchen
And I can never help thinking what fun
it would be
To pour beaker of hot coffee down it
While the chef was listening
At the other end. DOVE DULCET.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
Taking the low Ont Of LII.

What does the legal profession think of
these crape-hangers who keep on telling
us that Marshal Foch doesn't look like a
soldier at all but more like a lawyer? II
the war hadn't come to triumphant con-
clusion we would say that these reports
were intended TO undermine our morale.
SOCRATES
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Hog Islands ouistconck, which sur
passed her speed requirements on her ex-
perimental trip has been truly tried and not
found vaunting.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Are the guns of a new waterloot CAM
paign omnously audible in the $45.ooo,ooo
plans for revising and extending the hltra-
tion system?
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Lines by the IOra

II is Vik, Vik Vik,
You crushin Russian bombshelI. Bolshevik!
Though my armies worked TO aid you
1t can now be sadly said you
Have the bulge on banished Wilhelm. Boil
sheyikl
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

What more delightful
One with the scene of misery can
Crown Prince Added be imagined than that
of Mr.. Hohenzollern
pacing a chilly railway platform and trying
to light a German cigarette with Swedish
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Consideration of what
A Royal Four Flush America owes John j.
Pershing and the Huns
owe the Kaiser suggests that Germany made
the mistake of not drawing Jack" instead
of King" in her war game.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

The sole remaining Government COM
muniaues are issued from the Weather Bu-
reau. Unlike the battle reports, however. it
10 often impossible to confirm them
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
Not He! +!

If Governor Brum-
Not He! baugh would promise
to tell all he knows
about Pennsylvania politics we might be
willing TO accept him as State historian-at
any salary he might name.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

With the chance of a full-fedged base
ball season next summer now suddenly be-
come bright, the association of allies stands
chance of being considered only minor
league after all
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Seven days of uni
Irreconcilables versal peace and still
of the Millennium not the faintest hint
of the slightest pros
pect of a Princeton Pennsylvania football
game. There are some things not even the
most gigantic of all wars can settle.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
Economic Pronouncements

We believe that the seriousness of after
the'war economic problems has been greatly
exaggerated. IT is our conviction that the
onlyipeople out of job will be the un-
employed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

The Swiss are richly entitled as Ger
many to boast that their fleet is unbeaten.
In both instances there were formidable rea-
sons why the ships could not plow the ocean
waves
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Having failed with the sword, Germany
now takes Richelieu's tip and tries out the
pen. Up to date she holds the underwriting
championship.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Doctor Solf suggests that the task of
feeding Germany be entrusted to "the tried
Mr. Hoover" Tried" is exactly it, as they
who harassed him the most in Belgium must
now be poignantly realizing
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

The ex-Crown Prince, scurrying to cover,
seems to have symbolized the Him of
Haste"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Now that airplanes are actually carry
ing letters on regular schedule, 1t will be
proper to talk of love notes as hot-air mail
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

The German request for Hoover's serv-
ices proves again that crow was never a
nourishing diet.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Even yet the ex-Kaiser's trip to the
Netherlands is incomplete. but the prospects
are still bright not to say ruddy.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

II the Germans aren't careful their big
river will be rechristened as the Whine.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

1t is safe to forecast that Peter Troel-
stra is not the man to plug any cracks in
the Dutch royalty dixie
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

The Russian Bolsheviki seem relatively
well of for food. Are we to assume that
they are eating the capitalists?
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Cabbages and kings are about equally
scarce in certain European countries
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

There seems to be some doubt as to
whether the Germans are really well red.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
A Portrait

Light as the angel shapes that bless
An infants dream, yet not the less
Rich in all woman's loveliness
With eyes so pure that from their ray
Dark vice would turn abashed away,
Blinded like serpents when they gaze
Upon the emerald's virgin blaze.
Yet filled with all youths sweet desires
Mingling the meek and vestal fires
OF other worlds, with all the bliss,
The fond weak tenderness. of this.
A soul too more than half divine
Where through some shades of earthly
feeling
Religions softened glories shine
Like light through summer foliage steal
ing,
Shedding a glow Of such mild hue,
So warm, and yet so shadowy, too,
AS makes the very darkness there
More beautiful than light elsewhere.
MEREDITH JANVIER.
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Lads Of the Khaki Returning

man. kti1es u IL acsion %uOuss "HS'i 49, isis Is west
You tell me the war is now over
That Hunland has crumbled down,
And peace in triumphant advances
Has won through each flaming town
greet you, rejoicer with gladness
Yet mine is the harder fate,
For peace with her banners and bugles
Has come to me too late.
In a grave on the Lorraine sector
Where | cannot know even the place,
Lies quiet a torn young body,
My lad of the shining face.
He rose in the hour Of our anguish
With his eyes on the ultimate star;
Now never again may L greet him,
He has wandered so far
Q honor and beauty and splendor
Of manhood as clean as the wind,
o hands tina. were hearty to welcome,
o Roland whose trumpet was thinned,
Who blew in the beleaguered passes
The horn of our desperate chance,
Whose faith and whose body were white as
The lilies of France.
The lads of the khaki returning
March down the long lanes of the dag,
And some of their coat sleeves are empty,
And some are on crutches that drag:
They age back to the home cf their father
They have stormed the battaIions,...,5
Hate, W.
Yet one face of gay laughter is absent N
Peace, you are late, you are late!
PVT. WILLARD WATTLES.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

DIR. Edward Muybridge, Of the Univer.
sity of Pennsylvania. invented the movies
when he began to study and photograph
the motions of walking, trotting and run
ming horses, thirty years ago.
If be found the gait or horses curious
and worth study, we wonder what he
would have thought Of the gait of Charley
Chaplin?
1t is amusing to recall that the first
movie theatres erected by Docto. Muy-
bridge in Chicago in 1893 was called a
Zoopraxographical Hall.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18
when War
Was Heaven

to the various camps by Governor Brum-
baugh cost the State almost 500 each. The
money was spent for expenses by the vart-
Gus commissioners Obviously must have
a few men in Pennsylvania who had reason
to feel that every war cloud has a silver
lining.
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.Answert 10 saturday's Quiz

:" Se's1""S y 'Se'N
/. Peter TroeIstra Is one OF the leaders Of the
Socialist party IN the Netherlands.
g Arthur Henderson H. one Of the chiefs Of the
british Labor party.
8. Queen Wilhelrnlna Of the Netherlands is3 q
member of the house of Eassau-OFanke.
4. The white HOUSE, was burned 10 1914 In the
Standardization of President Madison, when
the British under General Ross. captured
Washington.
g. Echs,cr is u fo,n,a.,cn, Of troeuH In pcrrre,
divisions. each with its front clear Of that
In advance. The word IL derived from the
French "echeile." meaning ladder. -
Of the Romen Bscehus. --
I. The planet Saturn has eight moons.
., Dccidnous trees are those which shsd their
= leaves. 4t s.ft =
o. Bamboc Is the taiIest Of ali Erassss
10. Edward VII 81 tireat BFitsln wny larselx -.
7P0nsiple Tor afhe formation Of the AnElor
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-11-18

Some of the soldiers
votes obtained by
PENNSYLVANIA ballot
commissioners detailed