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The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
NOTICE
Bennington County Savings Bank

The annual meeting of the corpora
tors of the Bennington County Saw
ings bank will be held at tho Office
of said bank in its bank building in
Bennington, VT, on the first Wednes
day 1st day of January. A. d., 1919 at
2 o'clock p. m, for the purpose OF
electing a board Of trustees for the
year ensuing and the transaction oI
any other business found necessary
when met especially to fill vacancies
in the number Of corporators and tC
alter and revise the bylaws.
Charles II. Dewey, Secretary,
Dated at Remington, w., Nov 80
1918.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
COUNTY COURT
Case Of F. 3. Pope VS.. Catherine Ho.
gan May Go 70 Jury Tonlqht.

AT 215 this afternoon the evidence
in the case OF F. r. Pope VS. Gather.
Inc Hogcu, the first jury case Of the
present December term of county
court was concluded The argu.
ments are being delivered and the
case may go to the jury tonight
70 was understood that the next jury
trial would he the case OF j I'D Wal
bridge VS. Fillmore * Slade, a suiI
for damages for lhe alleged turning
OF stream but a posiponemont viii
be necessary because OF the iimcss %
an important witness
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
LEFT SMALL ESTATE
Although as Head Of Mormon Church
Ne Controlled Millions.

Salt Lake City, Dec lO.-Altoueh
he controlled millions of dollars while
president OF the Mormon church,
Joseph Smith left an estate of less
than $4,000. IL became known yester-
day. when petition for letters testa-
mentary were filed. The will was not
fled with the petition. but five exc
cutors were named. all sons of the de-
cedent Forty.seven heirs are men.
toned in the will
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
BIG STRIKE IN HAVANA
Street Car Traffic Ceased After Faiy
ure of Government Arbitration.


Havana, Dec. lo.-Street car traffic
ceased on all lines in this city shortly
after midnight as a result of the fail.
ure OF the government arbitration
commission to settle the conflict be.
tween the Cuban Railway company
and its employees The strike move.
ment begun by the transportation en-
ployes will be followed later today bv
all other union men. according to an.
ncunccment
Apparently the second general
strike in Cuba within month is be.
gun. The union Of linotypists has
voted to Join in the general tie.up.
and II is possible that Havana again
vii be without newspapers tonight
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
FRANK H. CHASE DEAD
Prominent Citizen Of North 5ennInu.
ton Victim of Pneumonia.

ton "lCtin OF pneumonia,
Frank II. Chase OF North Benning-
ton, aged 81 wears, passed away early
Tuesday morning at tie putnam
Memorial hospital after short IN.
ness Of pneumonia Mr. Chase had
many friends and was widely known
as he had been a blacksmith here for
thirty-hve years. moving to this place
from Hoosick Corners.
He is survived by his wife and two
sons, George Of this village and Harry
OF Peoria. ILL.,. also one granddaught-
er, Miss Vina Chase
The funeral services will be held
from the residence, Friday afternoon
at o'clock, Rev w. r. Hamlin. In.
terment will be in Grand View ceme
terry
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
MANsLAUeHrER CHARGE
officials Of Brooklyn Rapid Transit
Company at Hearing.

New York. Dec i1.-Timothy vii.
liams, President of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit Co. and four other Of
iicials and motorman we're held on
the charge OF manslaughter by Mayor
Hylan who acting as police magis.
trate conducted an inquiry In wreck
on companys lines last month which
cost nearly hundred lives.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
CONFERENCE AGAINST HOLLAND
Antwerp Paper Prints Statement to
This Effect.

London Tuesday Dec lO-Bolgium
claims that the peace conference will
be directed not only against Germany
but also against Holland according TO
on Antwerp newspaper which prints a
statement io this clfoct hy the Bel.
alan foreign affairs minister
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
Ex.KlNo OF sAxoNY PENNILEss
Entire Fortune 10 Said to Have Been
Sequestered.

Geneva, Dec 9.-The entire for
tunes OF former King Frederick Au.
gust Of Saxony and his brother,
Prince John George, have been placed
under seQuestration by the new Sax.
on government, according to Swiss
newspapers. The properties and es.
tates Of the former Saxon royal fami-
ly have been conhscated Professionally
while payment Of the civil list has
been stopped
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
cow. SUBDIVISION ENps
VIII Not FIX steel Prices After
December a.

Washington, Dec II Government
supervision over steel industry and
steel price fixing win end December
81 The war industries board so an.
nounced today after conference with
spokesmeu of the industry
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
WEATHER FORECAST

For eastern New York and western
Vermont, rain or snow IN north por
tion tonight Thursday warmer
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
TO JOIN PRESIDENT IN PARIS

Industrial Members Of @War Cabinet
to Be Advisors.
Washington, Dec. l0.-lndustrial
members OF the Presidents war
cabinet" which met at the White
House Wednesdays during the war
will join the President as a unit in
Paris and act as his advisors at the
peace conference on economic indus
trial and reconstruction. problems in
Europe affecting the future peace of
the world
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
UNTITLED ORDERS DECREASE
On Books Of the United States Steel
Corporation on Nov. 30.

New York Dec lO.-Unnned orders
OF the United States Steel corporation
on Nov 80 We're S12i,GG3 tons, ac.
cording to the corporations monthly
statement issued today. This is "a
decrease of 22S63O tons compared
with the orders ON Oct 81.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11

London, Dec. 10.-The ex-Kaiser
has had several interviews at Amer
ongen with two German experts on in
ternational law with whom he dis
cussed his personal position, accord
ing TO an Amsterdam dispatch to The
Express. These experts arrived and
left Amerongen in a rather mysteri-
Gus manner
Il is understood, according to the
dispatch that Herr Hohenzollern is
writing his autobiography and his
tory Of his reign. lie will explain, il
is said. his attitude before and during
the war The book, which viii be
long, is intended for publication, or.
If its author is tried before an inter,
national tribunal 1t may be read as
part Of his defense
The City Council at Spa has docu-
mentary evidence proving that a
Dutch General went to Spa to meet
the former Emperor before his fight
into Holland. 81 ardiTne'e the raris
Matin II would appear. therefore.
that his reception and that Of the
Crown Prince and suite at the Dutch
frontier was "a mere comedy" the
newspapers says.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
PORTUGUESE DELEGATES OFF

Headed by Minister Of Foreign Affairs
They Go 70 Paris
Lisbon, Sunday Dec. S--Four gov.
ernment delegates, headed by the min
ister Of foreign affairs, have left for
France to participate in the discus.
sion preliminary to the peace confer.
encc.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1918-12-11
TO CHANGE MUNITIONS PLANT

N'"PPS W"l OeNotc us Energies to
Arts Of Peace.
Amsterdam, Dec 1.-THE directors
OF krupps have announced their in.
lention Of Transforming a big mum.
tlons plant into factory devoted TO
the arts OF peace, says the Cologne
Gazette
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
LeWis Would Make
Congress a Rubber Stamp

ain the face of these facts, The New
York World,' which shares with Mr..
Hearst's papers the credit of being the
special organs of the national admin
istration, demands a Democratic vic
tory this year so as TO stand by the
President, on the alleged ground that
our allies and Germany would mis-
interpret the election of Republican
House as being a reputation of the
war aims Of this country.
"Democratic Senator Lewis, of Hi
nois, has actually introduced resolu-
tion pledging Congress to abdicate it's
allegiance to the people and to sub
stitute therefor a frankly rubber stamp
attitude of cringing acquiescence in
any reversal of policy by the Admin
istration. What we now need is an
American Congress, Congress of
straght-out Americans, and not Con-
gress of rubber stamps.
The patriotic zeal of the people
was taken advantage of to secure leg
lslatlon for the purpose of dealing with
the work of German spie5 and with
sedltlous conduct in our own country.
The laws thus enacted, however, have
been used far less for their legitimate
purpose than to discourage and penal
ize any truth telling by newspapers or
by private individuals about the Ad-
ministration. Never before in any
war has there been such interference
with freedom of the press and freedom
of speech as in this war
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29

highly thought of in France to-day as
are the American generals
"The~ feeling was SO strong that
President Wilson speedily grew to
realize it. Germany answered him by
an acceptance of his terms, phrased in
the very words he had used. There
remained for him then only two courses
of action. He was compelled either to
fulfil the plain obligation Of his note
by entering into negotiations with
kaiserism, which meant the sacrifice of
America and humanity. and which
would have also certainly meant the
repudiation of his action by the Amer
lean people, or else he was himself
obliged to respond in such fashion as
to stultify his own diplomacy and re-
pudiate his own implied offer. l am
thankful that he chose the latter
course; he served our people and
humanity by so doing; but it was a
service rendered only because he had
received the sternest warning, by the
voice of the nation, that this people
would ratify no compromise and would
tolerate no such parley as that upon
which he had entered; and inasmuch
as he was the spokesman for the
nation, it was not a pleasant thing for
Americans that he should have put
himself, and the nation behind him,
IN the position of inviting a PROPOSE
ton which when accepted he repudi-
ated
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Army Would Hove
Esen Equipped Earlier

IF the Administration had used with
moderate e.uclency the results of the
lavish generosity of Congress our
armies and the Allied armies would
have been doing last March what thew
actually are doing now in October.
we should accept no peace not
based on the unconditional surrender
of Germany and her vassal allies. Aus-
trla and Turkey, and upon the freeing
OF the subject races of Austria and
Turkey from the yoke of the Austrian
the Magyar and the Turk Therefore
IT is ineXcusable in US, and is re.
f1ecton upon our good faith. to have
renamed SO long without declaring war
on Turkey, for it is mere hypocrisy to
talk Of making the world safe for
democracy so long as we are not at
war with Turkey and nave not Insisted
upon putting the Turk out of Eurone
and freeing the Armenian and the SvrI-
ans of all creeds from his yoke ana
giving Palestine to be made a Jewlsa
state.
Il would not subject the German or
the Magyar to the dominion of any one
else. But neither would | permit .hen,
TO lord 1t over any one else. The true
way to put stop to Germany's ability
again to convulse the world by an ct
fort to secure world dominion is to
give, not autonomy, but freedom to all
the nations that now cower under the
tyranny of Germany and her allies Bel
gum, OF course, must be restored and
| amply indemnitied; and all the gold
that Germany has cannot repay Bel
gium for the frightful wrongs so wan
tonly committed against her by Ger
many during the last four years. France
must receive back Alsace and Lorraine,
no 70 l.
broken promise to the Danes of North
Schleswig. All of Poland must be q
separate commonwealth, with a seafront
on the Baltic; Finand. the Baltic
provinces, Lithuania and Ukrainia must
be made as absolutely independent of
Germany as of Russia; the Czecho-Slo-
vaks and the Jugo- -Slavs must be made
INTO independent commouwealths: the
Rumanlans in East Hungary restored to
Rumania; the Italians of Southwestern
Austria joined to Italy; the Greeks
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29

For about ten or fifteen minutes
there was n jollificatior, With playful
hantering and good natured heckling'
intermingled with applause over re-
partee between the platform and the
galleries. :. ,
Rub it in, Teddy; rub 1T in,,'
shouted chap in the gallery, and
Colonel Roosevelt didn't seem dis
pleased at the suggestion:
Then "The Star-Spangled Banner
got every one standing and TINS gave
the Colonel cue. He said:
Ladies and gentlemen. | 6 hoid M Inat
any man who stands UP 1or ne o.a ,
Spangled Banner with his heart full
II hold that man is entitled to vote in
this country, and to vote for any party
he plcases."
That was the signal for again charg-
ing the air with cheering.
"Our business" resumed the Colonel,
as soon as he could be heard, "ls to
end the war now. and to end it by only
one peace--the peace of unconditlona'
surrender. The thing we must do over
here is to cheer for the men and to
see that the blood of those who have
died shall not have been shed in vain
shall see peace { ollow this war
this war over again
"People have been coming to me and
saying-they even came to mo to-day
and said, 4 hope you won't be ex-
treme.'"
Here the Colonel waited for the au-
dience to enjoy hearty laugh, and
then he added:
1.-The trouble is, my extremes one
year are some one else's moderation
four years afterward. In what | say
tonight am sure you will understand
me. There will not need to be any
key to my address. Five or SIX weeks
! from now | shall not be under the
necessity of saying that my remarks
have been cruelty misapprehended.
"If the President of the United States
is right in the appeal he has just made
to the voters, then YOU and ], my hear
ers, have no right to vote at this cleo
tion or to discuss public questions while
| the war lasts
From the very beginning the Colonel
had the closest attention of his hearers.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech follows:
81 come to this meeting as an Ameri
can, and only as an American. In this
crisis I do not consider politics at all
whenever doing so conflicts in the
slightest degree with the great cause
| of Americanism or with our immediate
purpose Of winning the war and of Sc
curing the peace of unconditional sur
render by Germany. ] will support no
disloyal man or any ticket and no man
who is rot heartily in favor of winning
the war and Of the peace of overwhelm-
ing victory. I make my appeal to all
good Americans, in the name of Ameri
canism, and ! make it just as much to
all Independents and to all farsi sighted,
patriotic Democrats who are awake to
the real needs Of the situation as | do
to Republicans. Americanism means
that in this country there is to be 10y
atty to only one fag-the American flag
and that we will permit no ffty-ffty
loyalty, no loyalty to any foreign flag
and no loyalty either to the red flag OF
anarchy or to the black flag of interna-
tional or Germanized socialism.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Wilson, Has at Last
Cast OFF the Mask

az am glad that Mr.. Wilson has now
cast off the mask. His appeal is now
to pure partisanship. By his actions
(since he announced that politics
were adjourned he had already repu-
dated his words; for he had already
interfered for purely politica! reasons
i'm the election contests in Wisconsin,
Illinois, Michigan and many other
states. Now he openly by formal an
nouncement repudiates all pretence of
putting the public welfare above party.
Now he declares that this is a party
war, and that the Republicans, al
though he admits that they have been
unquestionably pro-war,' are to be ex-
~luded from any share in controlling
Me war.
Contrast with this the position of
days of the Civil War Lincoln de-
clined outright to make any party az
peal or to apply any party test or any
test save that of loyalty in the prose
cution of the war and loyalty to the
Union and to liberty
Lincoln made no party test. He ap-
pealed to all loyal men Of all parties
He asked that the test of fitness fol
Congress be not adherence to his per
sonal Administration but unconditional
support of the war. Mr.. Wilson ap-
plies the most rigid party test. lie eX-
plicity repudiates loyalty to the wa,
as test. He demands the success OF
the Democratic party and asks the de-
feat of all pro-war men if they have
been administration. He asks
for the defeat of pro-war Republicans
He does not ask for the defeat Of anti
war Democrats. On the contrary, he
supports such men if although anti war
they are pro-Administration He does
not ask for loyalty to the nation He
asks only for support of himself There
Is not the slightest suggestion that he
dtlsapproyes of ,disloyalty to the ma
ton. do not doubt that he does feel
some disapproval of such disloyalty;
but apparently this feeling on his part
is SO tepid that it slips from his mind
when he contemplates what he regards
as the far greater sin of failure in
adherence to himself
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Editors Are Prevented
From Printing Vie,us

81 know personally, from conversa-
tion after conversation with editors
of dailies, weeklies and monthlies, of
the apprehension felt by the best
papers in the land of telling the truth
lest they be crippled financially by
some act of the Administration. Take
what was done by the Administration
in suppressing the report of the air
plane scandal. This was report by
a committee Of the United States SEN
ate, made by Democrats and Republ-
cans alike. 1t was printed in Canadian
and other outside papers, so that our
allies and our enemies were certain
to know every fact it contained; yet,
on the plea of restraining daily pa
pers and magazines from giving in
formation to the enemy, tens of thou
sands Of copies-probably many hun
dreds of thousands of copies-were
seized and deleted or withdrawn from
circulation and great financial loss
utable papers. Within q fortnight
have been told by two editors that
they were afraid to publish any fur
ther comments on the airplane scandal
at all lest the government should take
further action against them.
"Our enemies know all about it. our
allies know all about it; the only
people kept in ignorance are the people
of the United States.
The Democratic slogan OF 1916,
"He kept US out of war;" is now known
to every intelligent person to have been
political camoufage. Vital inform a.
tion was withheld from the public to
make the slogan effective. Ambassador
Gerard's disclosures and other evil
dences Of Prussian intrigue and inso.
lence, subsequently given to the public
show the true facts of our relations
with Germany as far back as the sink.
ing of the Lusitania. This coaceal-
ment of facts showing the fixed and
sinister purposes of Germany and the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Next Congress Deals
With Reconstruction

But the task of the next Congress
Will De to deal not only with war and
peace and international relations; it
Will also have to deal with the vital
work Of the reconstruction of our in
dustrial system at home At the pres
ent moment it is our duty to speed up
production to the limit. This means
that there must be some interference
with the private rights Of individuals.
Such interference must be equitable.
The farmer must not have the price
OF his products cut down when the
price Of what he gets is not cut down
and when other products of farmers
IN other sections are left without price
fixing at all. There must be no war
prohteering, but there must be a legiti-
mate reward for the money invested
and the risk taken, or the great work
necessary to be done will not be done.
When this legitimate reward is passed
the heaviest kind of progressive taxa
tion on the surplus should be enforced
Our aim should be to encourage
business efficiency by guaranteeing it
an ample reward, but also to supervise
1T in such fashion as to insure its use
fulness to the community and to pre-
vent the reward from becoming ex-
cesslve and disproportionate to the SER
vice rendered.
Labor has the same right to col
lective action, including collective bar
gaming, that capital has. We should
insist upon the guaranteeing of the
safety of each right, and we should
Furthermore insist that neither rioht
be abused and that the government act
fearlessly when either is abused We
should guarantee to the hard working
man who tolls with his hands the right
to safety and comfort while working
and during his old age, and therefore
we should insist upon proper forms of
old age insurance and insurance against
accident, disease and unemployment,
and no business should receive any
tavors unless the living and working
conditions of labor are properly cared
for.
"The foundation of our permanent
civilization rests on the farmer, and by
farmer | mean not the man who owns
land which others till, but the man who
himself tills or helps till the ground,
part of which ne himself owns
Normally, in farming regions, where
the land is agricultural land, tenancy
should be recognized only as transi-
tional and temporary phase. and nor
mally the working farmer should him
self be the land owrer, and legislation
to secure this should at once be
enacted. Of course, I recognize fully
that the needs are widely different in
different sections, and must be met in
different ways.
FINALLY, we should make it our
prime duty, coming ahead of all other
duties, to care for the soldier, and the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Houe No Right to Vote,
According to Wilson

"This meeting is held under peculiar
circums stances. If the President OF
the United States is right ir the ap-
peal he has just made to the voters,
then you and |, my hearers, have no
right to vote at this election or to DIS
cuss public questions while the war
lasts. II his appeal is justified, only
that faction of the Democratic party
which accepts toward the President
the rubber stamp attitude of complete
servility is entitled to control Con-
gress; and no man who is Repuo-
lican, and no man whether a Repub-
lican or not who puts loyalty to the
people ahead of loyalty TO the servant
of the people is to have a voice i'll
determining the greatest questions
ever brought before this nation,
"Th!s is an extraordinary document.
1t is an emphatic reputation and re-
versal OF the Presidents announce
ment Of few months back that poll
tics is adjourned 1t casts the gray
est doubt on the sincerity of that an
nouncement; and indeed for the last
few months the Democratic party or
ganizatiOn, acting with the support
and direction of the President S
closest advisers, such as Messrs. Bur
Lesson and Creel, has been working
with naked eagerness for partisan sue
cess, and has displayed a greedy un-
scrupulousness as to methods and q
complete subordination of national in
terest to partisan welfare never be-
fore known in our history during a
great war. When this war broke out
I, and all those who believed as l did
cast all thought of politics aside anc
put ourselves unreservedly at the ser.
vice of the President. OF course, il
Mr.. Wilson had really meant to dis
regard politics he would at once have
constructed a coalition. partisan
Cabinet, calling the best men Of ths
nation to the highest and most i'm
portant offices under him, without re
gard to politics. He did nothing O.
the kind.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-29
Striking Points in Roosevelt Speech

FOLLOWING from Colonel Roeves speech that dre'
Z applause from Carnegie Hall gahering
Wilson has off the mask His
parisanship Nor is this ALL he makes
his appeal careful to
loyalty the
party principles ahead of their adherence to
the The he imposes loyalty to
himself"
days declined outright to
apply party test test
Of the loyalty the Union
and to liberty"
says Republicans good
this good enough
to die for the Republic in the and the navy
Mr Wilson that this is time for divided counses Yet the
the United States that he with the
OF the United States"
Democratic Congressman has resigned his
Republican
into the and already one of these has died.