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New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Cattle People?
game now

District Attorney Swami writes to the
Public Service Commission offering the
hospitality Of his Office to the thought of
prosecuting whoever may be responsible
for the rapid transit conditions in this
city and incidentally therein suggests a
most practical means of relief. The
people, he says, are crowded and swell
tered and treated generally "in man.
ner that would violate the provisions of
the penal code if the same treatment
had been imposed upon CATTLE" Whv
not, therefore, write into the penal code
the prohibition of things that may not be
done to people in transit? Fancy the
dismay of Mr.. Shonts if, for instance.
the law required relatively the same
amount of cubic car space for a person
that is required by law for steer on it's
way to become meat. And is the one
not like the other-a helpless and invol
untary passenger? Or, if this be too
difficult, why not add to the penal code
one phrase, to wit: "And people shall be
considered as cattle in the enforcement
Of this law? The cattle would not mind
and the lot Of people would be much
improved.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
British Labor
Is Political

This furnished topic for Mr.. Hende, son.
who said that industrial and political OBJ
jectives of British labor went side by side.
and that British labor was interested not only
in national but in international questions
arising out of the war. Mr. Gompers made
long speech and so did Mr. Henderson. bu.
when the session adjourned the attitude Of
the congress was unchanged There was
nothing dramatic or startling in the an
nouncements The congress was as calm
and orderly a mothers meeting It pre.
sented gold watch to Mr.. Bowen and two
old silver plates to Mr.. Gompers.
During the presentation Mr. Gompers said
that if British and American labor could not
agree about all war aims they must agree
to disagree. To this Mr.. Henderson replied
that he ventured to say there would be few
points of disagreement by the time of the
interAllied conference in London. fort
night hence.
Both the American delegates repeatedly
expressed the fact that there was unity be-
tween the workers of America and Presi.
dent Wilson. AS British labor also supports
President Wilson this point went home
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Merely as to
Victory's Technique

Mr.. Henderson. who followed Mr. Com,
pers, said that American and British ,.,,,
agreed that Prussian militarism must \,
overthrown, and the only difference. if ther.
was any, was as to methods. British labo,
he declared, intended to see militar;.r
overthrow everywhere. He declared that
British labor was against an economic hov-
colt for the crushing of Germany and anv.
thing which would lead to other wars.
Most of Mr.. Gompers's speech was devoted
to an explanation of the tardiness of Amer.
cas- entry into the war and the position Of.
organized labor in America toward it. Amer-
can workers, he said, were not organized as
idealists, but as wage earners. One of II.
striking sentences he used was. "A blood-rea
line through Europe divided freedom from
OPPRESSION
Once he alluded to the fact that in America
labor separates industrial from political
ends.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Primitive Degrees
And Methods

A resolution calling for the punishment
OF those responsible for the outrages at ses
and an economic boycott of Germany for
five years after the war aroused consider
able amount of spirited debate in which
many delegates participated Mr. Thomas,
OF the railway men; Mr.. Smile. Of the
miners, and Mr.. Wilson, of the seamen, had
several sharp passages at arms and for 8
time the congress was in an uproar.
While practically every speaker unquali-
tiedly condemned the perpetrators OF these
outrages, they differed as to the degree and
methods of punishment A few believed
the boycott satisfactory method. Finally
a card vote was taken and the resolution
shelved by vote of 3s4 800 against 49,3O0.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

visibility and feasibility" of stabilizing
cotton prices brought about severe
reaction in the recent hoop-la perform
ances of cotton on the speculative ex-
changes. At the same time dispatches
from Washington announced that Sena-
tors from the cotton-growng states con-
ferred and decided to protest to Presi-
dent Wilson against any action by the
War Industries Board looking to the
fixing of cotton prices. We have fire.
quently pointed out that at present prices
cotton in free market is selling at
something like four times what might be
called the normal pre-war price, while on
most Northern products, including the
great staples of coal, pig iron, copper and
wheat, the government has fixed prices
which would average perhaps twice the
normal values before the war. This
means that the cotton growers have a
great advantage over the farmers and
manufacturers in other sections of the
rOl1ntrV
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
The Prophets and the People
(Fron LYe)


And after this, as it is written, it came
to pass that three men spake One was
Lord Roberts, and the other two Theodore
Roosevelt and Leonard Wood.
And they said, Prepare ye, for the king
dom Of the Hun is at hand. And no one
needed them.
Then Lord Roberts went about and
preached his strange doctrine, and he was
hooted and scorned by the multitude, and
nobody cared. And he passed away.
Then said Theodore Roosevelt, will raise
q mighty army, and it shall make great
noise. And Leonard Wood said, Unless
something is done quick we shall be con-
founded. And there was nothing doing.
And Henry Ford, the pacifist, builded
ship, and loud was the talk thereof. And
he sent the ship across the waters and al
men marvelled.
Then arose in the land the pacihst and
the pro- German. and ruled with mighty
sway.
And the Lord said. Where are my people.
Master And after twelve months they
needed the cry of the prophets, and mighty
were their deeds.
They builded ships and wrought works %
matchless strength and gathered together
an army the like of which has not been
seen in the world.
And the people said, The Hun shall %
driven out from the land of his forefathesa
and the place thereof shall know him ~
more.
And it was as Lord Roberts and Theodeto
Roosevelt and Leonard Wood had preaches
in the beginning
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Cheer Up!!

N EVERY mile Of the trenches,
Il From Switzerland up to the sea-
We're getting the Boche's measure.
He knows it as well as well
We're learning to play the Boche's game
And play it better than he.
So cheer up, Back There"
English, Scotch and Irish,
Frenchmen and Portuguese,
Yanks, Canucks and Welshmen,
Anzacs and Tonkinese,
Belgans, Sikhs and Arabs,
Men from the Seven Seas.
Are at it, "Out Here"
We're all of us killing Germans
We're getting them two for one.
we Know that with time and patience
wen have the Boche on the run.
AND the world Will be safe forever;
Safe from the Swinish Hun.
SO buck up, Back There
Don't thlnk that the job is easv.
To freeze in trench all night
10 starve in a German prison.
TO fall from a two-mile heobt
~ ioee ieS OF part OF your face
In long range, big gun fight
But all's well "Out Here,
What Of the fellows we've buried
In mud that was up to the knee7
hac OF the children and babes at the
breast
"hove died in the open sea-
mar OF the thousands of cripples
AND those who will never see.
We remember. "Out Here,
Is our work to be all for nothinge
Our sacrifice all in vaino
Snail We swindle the world with prussion
peace?
Nan treaty peace remove the stain
vi rape and robbery, murder and lies
III they're ready to strike again.
Must our children come cont Haron,
No! This is no time for parleys.
For he knows as we'll as We
That in every mile of the trenches.
From Switzerland up to the sea
we've learned to play the Boche's game
And play it better than he.
SO cheer up, Back There,
SltFHEN PELL, Somewhere in France
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Railroads as Drafted

The contract as now drafted" says
the Director General of Railroads. ere
fleets my final view as to these several
matters" meaning the matters in dis
pute between the government and the
owners.
Speaking through the special COM
mittee Of the National Association of
Owners of Railroad Securities, the pro-
prletors of the railroads say the con-
tract is unacceptable, and the Financial
Committee of Seventy will hold a meet
ing to see what can be done about it.
Evidently there is not much to be done.
When the Director General says a thing
is final he means it and goes on to some
thing else. That is both inevitable and
necessary. The owners may take the
contract as it is, or they may leave it
and trust their case to the Court of
Claims.
What appears to be the insurmounta-
BILE point of difference is at the oues
ton: What shall be done with tnat i'm
ponderable asset of railroad which is
called goodwill" Obviously lot of it
is bound to be lost in the unification of
the railways. Prestige of name, tradi-
tions of service, advantage of location.
preference of patrons, habits of busi-
ness--all Of these factors in goodwill
now sink to zero, though in the conduct
of. private business they are of essen
tial value and represent, in fact, an
enormous investment Of time, imagina-
tion and actual money
1t was the contention of the owners
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

\ERbY, England, Sept e.-~Tbers
little excitement yesterday at tho ..-
sion of the Trades Union Cona-s ss-
MI Bowen, president of the Brjcklsnee'.
Union; Samuel Gompers and Artbur :,
derson held the centre of the STAGE A'g''- g,
stead OF the lively discussion Of tbo
aims expected, the session proved az w.
quil as a midsummer day.
Having registered their views on ~.
the British delegates settled back and H..
ened attentively and politely to the A..
can representative. There was no en.hn.:
asm for Mr.. Gompers's political views h'.
when he said that Americans and ds...,
ants Of the Pilgrims had come to FOB.
the side of Englishmen the stata,o'' -
aroused great cheers
1t seemed clear that Mr.. Gomnor.
been impressed by the position British ,.h.4
took yesterday and had no ntertio.
entering the discussion regarding na.ce
Mr.. Bowen, who spoke first, said tbo. -
American viewpoint must not he cons;d.,
a reflection on anything British 1abor ~,
done or intended to do. He said that o.,
ing would turn aside American labor !, -
determination to see the war throu,, :.
victorious finish
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Russia Reemerging

While Berlin and the Bolshevist gov
ernment at Moscow are signing treaties
confirming and extending Germany's
spoliations the real Russia is moving
rapidly toward deliverance. The shad-
owy authority of the Soviet regime is
melting into thin air. Dispatches re-
ceived in Zurich yesterday said that
Czecho-Slovak forces had appeared on
the outskirts of Nijni-Novgorod. This
ancient town is in the heart of Great
Russia-only about 260 miles northeast
of Moscow.
If the Czecho -Slovaks have reached
MIMI -Novgorod, they have advanced
west about $50 miles from their former
north th-and-south base on the Volga
River. For couple of months past
they had been holding the Volga line
from Kasan, on the north, through Sim
birsk to Samara. Lenine and Trotzky
sent troops to drive the Czecho-Slovaks
back from this line toward the Urals
But as Trotzky, the high commissioner
of the Soviet armies, sadly admitted,
these troops showed a prudent disinch-
nation to fight the Czecho- -Sovaks
The Soviet government seems now
to have lost control Of the whole
Nolga region. The Volga makes a turn
at right angles at Kasan, its upper
course stretching west past Nijni-Nov-
gorod. From the latter place there are
direct railroad connections with Mos
COW and indirect connections with
Vologda, the objective of the Allied ex-
pedition moving south from Archangel.
The Czecho -Slovaks, cooperating with
anti Bolshevist Russians, are making far
more rapid progress toward the Vologda
junction than the Northern Allied army
is Maybe they will be in Moscow be-
fore the Archangel expedition gets to
Vologda.
The State Department in Washington
has also received word from Picking
that the Czecho- -Slovaks, marching east
from Lake Baikal, have captured Chita.
the capital of Transbaikaia and the
chief Red Guard base in that province.
This means that Transbaikalia is al
ready nearly cleared of Bolshevist
northeast from Chta, following the
Amur branch of the Siberian railroad
system into the Amur province There
they will be isolated and trapped. For
the Japanese and other Allied troops,
operating north from Vladvostok. are
pushing down the Ussuri Valley toward
the Amur and will eventually seize
from the east the line of the Amur
River and the railroad which paral-
lels it.
The Allied intervention in Russia has
thus tn, already pro1uced amazing results.
The whole fabric of Teutonized Boil
shevlsm was rotten and ready to top
pie. All that was needed to tip it over
and to replace it with a friendly anti
German government was an energetic
demonstration of the intention of the
Allies to rescue the real Russia and set
it on its feet
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

Senator Sherman, of Illinois, Repub-
lican, is one of those emotional ine-
briates who inhabit Congress to it's
great discredit. At the summit of his
latest ecstasy he exclaimed Il denounce
a political autocracy covertly engaged.
when the nation is in the stress of war.
in undermining institutional civil liber
ty Then he went on to denounce
Colonel House as one who "almost sim
gle handed" had elected Mr.. Wilson:
Secretary Baker as one who "savs
Washington's soldiers at VALLEY Force
were drunkards and chicken thieves"
and others at random in like manner.
My reward" he said, "will be the men,
dacious charge that l am embarrassing
the Administration in the conduct of
the war" SO far as the Administration
is concerned it has only to wish that
this shall be widely read as a Republi-
can speech. 1t isn't that. But it will
pass as such, and the effect will be not
only to hurt the Republican party, but
to reconcile, people to the fact that in
proportion as the power of government
becomes centralized in the executive
arm the Importance of the legislative
arm Declines The Senator from Illinois
is at least as wrong about the Admins
tration as he was about the war when
he referred to it as "a BANKRUPT con-
Germ"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

No cloud without its silver lining.
The government raid on slackers de-
veloped this fact: that the number of
slackers, at least those that could he
found, was astonishingly and gratify
ingly few. For if $4,000 agents oper-
ating with an irritating assiduousness
that was more creditable to their zeal
than agreeable to their victims could
comb out only a possible 1000 or 500
out of the tens of thousands that werc
rounded up, there seems reasonable as
surance that the number of those who
attempted to evade duty to the nation
was most engagingly small. The total
number of men so far registered for the
draft runs over 100000 ,OOO-to be accn-
rate, 1O,301,0O0 Even 10000 s]ackers
would be only one tenth of / per cent
That would be patriotism 99.9 per cent
pure. Where in the world is there 6ner
stuff?
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

The announcement by Chairman Ber-
nard M. Baruch that committee would
soda be appointed, with the approval of
the President, to inquire into the "ad-
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Give Them What Thev Want

tfrom The Ne,o York Chronicle In. s,c.,s,,
The Allies want victory. The Germans
want peace Both wishes shall be fulfilled.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
Two, at Least

From The Kansas City Journdp
The statement that Germany has no
friends is not quite accurate There is Tur
key and the devil.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
A Month of Victory
By Frank II. Simonds

ygh 1918 by The Tribune (Nec York Tribne)
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

Y-u purchase merchandise advertised In The
TRIBUNE with absolute safetor II dissatisfaction re-
suits any The TRIBUNE guarantees to pay ysur
money back request. No red tape No aulbbnp
Ne make good promptly II the advertiser does not
New-York tribune., 1918-09-07
G0n1pers at DERBY
ne Wrestles With British
Labor and Scores a
Strong Point at
the End
By Arthur S. Draper

Especial Gable to The Tribune)
',opynsht 1913, by The Tribune As,,.,.
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New-York tribune., 1918-09-07

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ior republication OK all dispatches credited to It
Of otherwise credited in this and also the local
- spontaneous origin published herein.
AL rights cf republication of all other matter herein
are also reserved
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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
THE TOBACCO SLUMP.

II looks like a German spy had
slipped something into the tobacco
market. Suddenly and without warn
ing or reason prices went OH three
dollars on the hundred. One re
markable feature about il is that no
body knew why. The buyers even did
not know. They We're just paying
less without rhyme or reason. There
was perhaps some difficulty in get
ting cars for shipment. but the real
reason probably was that tobacco
was coming to market so freely under
the stimulant OF high prices that
the buyers thought they could make
more money by paying less for it, and
proceeded 10 do so. Not only did the
price on the loose leaf floors go low
or but tho purchasers OF the pooled
tobacco seemed TO have decided tina.
their contracts were but scraps OF
paper. and attempted to run the
price down by grading II lower. All
The receiving houses for the pooled
tobacco except those at NarrOws,
Hawesville, Hartford and Sacrament
to have closed.
But the farmers hold the whip
hand IL they have backbone enough
to use it. They have the tobacco and
the buyers must have it. The farm
ors have only to hold it till the buy
ers get anxious, and few weeks will
bring them to terms. With this adj
vantage if the farmers lose they
ought 10 lose The final remedy Is
20 wholly withdraw their patronage
from the loose leaf houses and pool
the entire crop and then wait FOR the,
buyers TO come after il.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
THE NiCCAISEES.

In view of the fact that n special
invitation is ~ lie sent to every mem
her Of the local tent of Maccabees TO
be present at the next review of the
tent on January II, | felt that i
would be of interest 10 call attention
10 letter have just received from
Sir Knight Elkin in which he says
the.r is only one tent in Kentucky
ahead of the Hartford tent in the
matter of increase in membership in
the Markey-Silver Anniversary con
test.
feel that If the membership of the
tent find this out a more vigorous
effort will be made to put Hartford
tent No. 80 "Ovor the top" and tina;
is the purpose | have in view in
writing this little article.
A. ID. KIRK.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
MIXING ROOD sCRyEy.

The Food Commission is making.
through judge John B. Wilson. a food
survey OF the merchants stocks OF
Ohio county. There are about lGO
merchants in the county who handle
food and Iced stuirs, and each al
these is bc!ng required to file with
Judge Wilson statement OF both
the Volume and value of all such
stuff on hand. The survey has not
yet been completed. and We are uG-
able 10 state results. A similar in
voice of all such stun throughout the
country is being taken and when
completed will give the Food Com
mission a comprehensive knowledge
of the food and feed stocks of the
country.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
CHANGES IN CONGRESS.
j;av Give The Republicans Major.
ity .lfter Elections are Eeld.

1t the beginning of the present
.,on gress the Democrats had PA
members and the Republicans 212
md eight Independents. Ii was not
perhaps at that time impossible for
he Republicans TO have organized
the House, but with the great respon-
ibility OF the war on the shoulders
If the administration it was thought
we'll enough to give the party in pow
n full rein, and no effort was made
oy the Republicans to limit its an
.hority. In the last few weeks death
and designations have reduced the
Democratic strength to 21l. There
ire now number of vacancies, and
il is reported that four Democratic
members from New York will soon
-osign to enter the army, and since
recent special elections have gone
mostly TO the Republicans it seems
now probable that before Con-
greas adjourns in the fallthe Repub-
leans will have decided majority
in the lower house. However. it is
lot expected that the Republicans. il
given a majority would, reorganizc
The house at the present session, but
.t'would give them a decisive voice
in legislation.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
WHO OWNS JAIL LOT.

The lot of ground upon which the
Jail and jailer's residence are located
was the subject OF conference be-
tween Mayor Bean and the Fiscal
Court yesterday morning. The Mayor
fled with the court copy OF the
deed to tho Ion which shows tina, IN
1893 Gabriel Madison, of JessaySne
county. dee ied To the Justices OF
ohio county four acres of ground,
embracing me Jail lot; and specific
ally Qualifying tha, The lot should
f.,--.ycr Pee forthe usr and benefit OF
The town o. Hartford. But m'l815
when a new jail was 10 be buiit The
Fl3cai court PROCEEDED TO erect It on
;ho p.opo. y o. the town and later
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
L.. =. SUBMARINE FLEET
TO ECLIPSE GERNIANY'S

st. Louis, Jan. S.-Chairman Pad
sett. OF the House Naval Committee.
who came here to make several adj
dresses, said to-day that within-a
rear the United States would have a
ubmarine feet as good as that of
Germany or better.
The number of submarines now
under construction is a naval secret.
re said, 'and all that cen be said is
hat the 1888 which are being built
ader the authorization of the pro-
FAMINE of August, 1916, are only a
art OF the whole number"
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11

medicine for Woman's ailraents ] ever
saw. Mrs. SARA SHAW, Il. Ne. /,
Portsmouth, Ohio.
.~Irs. Shaw proved the merit of this
medicine and wrote this letter in order
that other suffering women may find
relies as she did
Women who are suffering as she was
should not drag along from dey 10 day
without giving this famous root ard
herb remedy, Lydia r. pinkham's Vecc-
table Compound, a trial. For special
advice in regard 10 such ailments write
toLytia y Pmkham Medicine Co. Lynn,
Mass. The result of its forty years
experience is at your service.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11
FIRST TO
RATIEY DRY" Bill

Jackson, Miss, Jan s-Fifteen
minutes after the subject was pre-
scented in Gov. BilbO's message to tn.
state Legislature both Houses today
ratified the proposed prohibition
to the Federal Constitu-
tion. Only eight. dissenting votes
were cast. Tho Mississippi assembly
is the first TO act ON the proposed
q mendment
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1918-01-11

That the British Premier's state
ment of peace terms brings the end
Of the war nearer, is the belief Of
many newspapers in both this coun-
Try and Europe. While contendins
Tor the general principles for which
he allies have been lighting, the
Premier's statement is the most lib
aral one yet made for ending the
war. There is no longer any qucs-
ti0n but that the German Emperor
knows he is beaten and that he is
anxious to end the war before he
loses his imperial scalp, and the Brit
ish Premier's peace terms, moderated
by the world-weariness OF war. Of
ters him a chance to escape posi-
bly, with his crown. The effect Of
tie British statement upon the CEN
rial powers will be watched with
interest all over the world.